History of the settling of Tuckasegee, North Carolina. One-hundred-year-old Jane Shook Chastain tells a great story about mountain life in Tuckasegee, "back in the day" before the flood of 1940. She talks about how she bought the family land by…
Herewith is the story of a young boy growing up in the mountains, and then traveling all over the world. Amy interviews Jim Sellers from Montieth Branch in Sylva, who gives us this glance of his childhood and tells of sneaking his first taste of…
Come, go with us out to the cow pasture to pick some blackberries…but wait, there’s some things you need to know before crossing the barbwire fence! Joy Phillips Hoyle shares now how she first gets ready, and then advises how to pick blackberries in…
Stories of the Cherokee with interviewer Robert Jumper: (Reprisal from November 2013) Robert’s guest is Kathi Littlejohn, a storyteller and an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who talks about her family's holiday…
Here is a man who was blessed to grow up and live in an area that revealed and magnified God's creation at its best, the mountains of western North Carolina. His appreciation magnified itself in rhyme, which is now set to pages in a book entitled…
Owner of Livingston’s Photo (Main Street, Sylva, NC), Livingston Kelly shares his 45 years of history in the historic mountain Town of Sylva. He talks about the changes and lack of changes he has seen in his time on Main Street, including the Mead…
I still can see the red tar paper that wrapped around the sinister-looking house in which we lived—no electricity, no plumbing, no running water…but here is where my siblings and me, ages 7, 9 and 10, were to make memories lasting a lifetime.…
I still can see the red tar paper that wrapped around the sinister-looking house in which we lived—no electricity, no plumbing, no running water…but here is where my siblings and me, ages 7, 9 and 10, were to make memories lasting a lifetime.…
Matthew Baker is a Macon County, NC author and rural mail carrier. Put them together, and you have a couple of great books… “My Mountain Granny” and “My Mountain Heroes.” When he is traveling throughout the mountains delivering mail, he meets and…
Listen to the soothing sounds of Nita’s voice as she shares precious memories of the life of a mountain girl who didn’t know her family was poor. A childhood with parents who taught core values gave Nita a solid foundation, assisting her as she…