by mcncdmin | Dec 27, 2019 | Heritage, People
You felt safe and loved in this place. But sadly, that small-town charm diminishes when you grow up and move on. As anything else, things looked grand and bigger than life, as it did for me back in the late-1950s. Growing up in Spruce Pine was the best years of my...
by mcncdmin | Oct 16, 2018 | Heritage, History, People, Uncategorized
In 2015 Joy Jarvits, who lives near Chapel Hill, called fellow quilter Jean Biddix Buchanan about a project she began in 2001 to collect a quilt block from all 100 counties of North Carolina. The blocks would be used to make a quilt celebrating the opening of the...
by Rhonda Gunter | Jan 12, 2018 | Heritage, People
In the Tipton Hill Community Cemetery rests a Union soldier whose company helped kill “the best man in the Southern Confederacy,” General John Hunt Morgan. The phrase comes from one of Morgan’s Captains, Henry B. Clay, who was present at the killing and is quoted in...
by Rhonda Gunter | Jan 4, 2018 | Heritage, Icons
The modest, but well-constructed building known by various names, beginning with “the Blevins Building,” has served the Town of Bakersville and its people for decades. The name by which locals often call the structure comes from original owner Ed Blevins, who grew up...
by mcncdmin | Nov 5, 2017 | Heritage, People
The July 21, 1955 edition of the Tri-County News featured this photo taken in 1905 at Roan Mountain in front of the bowling alley of the old Cloudland Hotel. These fox hunters are posing with their dogs. They are (left to right): Reverend Molt Buchanan, Bergin Gouge,...
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