Our July, 2018 podcast begins a series of five podcasts featuring Aletha Watson Barker, 97 years old. Her grandfather was the original owner of Roper Mountain in upstate South Carolina. Born in 1921, Aletha tells her own story with the drama…
The history of America can be seen in the history of quilts: in the rich heritage left us by those thrifty, self-sufficient women who helped settle this land. Continuing this legacy is a group of quilt makers—Cowee Quilters in Macon County,…
Here are some really great stories from Irene Bishop Hooper from Cullowhee. She tells some heart warming Christmas memories from her childhood in the 1934 era.
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…
Herewith is storyteller Amy Ammons Garza, who shares a story of her family's Christmas in 1952. Set in a cove a couple of miles from the Tuckasegee River in Jackson County, three young children...Amy, sister Doreyl and brother David...worked to make…
Betty Collins Brown is the third child in a Virginia family of eleven children. Like Loretta Lynn, she grew up in a coal-mining town, with all the trials, troubles and tribulations. However, there was the joy of living a simple life with brothers…
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…
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…
Here Amy and Doreyl speak about their many years of notable efforts to serve the important need for heritage to be preserved, and to instill confidence and purpose into our youth. Amy Ammons Garza is a storyteller who tells tales of growing up in the…
Amy Ammons tells the story “Footsteps in the Shadows.” Doreyl Ammons interviews Dr. Ray Menze about Gallery One in Sylva. Amy interviews fiddler Amanda Dills Stewart from Cullowhee about how she learned to fiddle and became one of the Fiddling Dills…