Published in 1983, Recollections of the Catawba Valley is a selection of family stories, local history, and mountain folklore chosen by Alexander Mull and Gordon Boger who were longtime citizens of the valley in North Carolina. The Mull family was one of the earliest settlers in the region, and Boger, although born elsewhere, was considered a native of the valley. Some of the stories in this volume were originally published in The News Herald of Morganton, as both authors were longtime contributors to the paper. W. H. Plemmons, second President of Appalachian State University, wrote the foreward
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Oral traditional narratives, whether in the guise of prose or literary epics, have continued to play...
This 73-acre tract 293 in Cataloochee was owned by Elijah M. Messer. While, in general, the Great Sm...
Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River—Cutshin and Greasy creeks—folklorist Leonard Rob...
Manley Wade Wellman (1903-1986) was a North Carolina writer most widely known for prolific work in s...
This photograph of the Catawba Falls on the headwaters of the Catawba River has on the back the labe...
In the words of the author, Great Recollections from Aggieland: A Human Interest Account of the Dev...
The author has recounted interesting bits of historical fact and fiction about South Carolina's own ...
Prefatory matter: Memoir of the author, by J.S. Fowler.--North Carolina in the colonial period, by D...
This 93-page manuscript is titled “Interview with Wylce McGaha.” The 1973 interview is recalls life ...
This 111-page manuscript is a series of three “Interview(s) with Lloyd Caldwell.” The 1973 interview...
This 50-acre tract 292 in Cataloochee was owned by J. L. Carson Messer. The Messer family barn, buil...
This 431-page manuscript is titled “Joe Hall tapes” and covers a series of interviews made by Joseph...
Typescript of an unpublished manuscript for a novel titled “The Eye of the Storm.” Kenneth John McCu...
Written in Robert Leeper’s student days at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and later...
This paper explores the ballad singing tradition of the Southern Appalachian mountains, with a parti...
Oral traditional narratives, whether in the guise of prose or literary epics, have continued to play...
This 73-acre tract 293 in Cataloochee was owned by Elijah M. Messer. While, in general, the Great Sm...
Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River—Cutshin and Greasy creeks—folklorist Leonard Rob...