Hayden Hensley and Bonnie Logan Hensley carving on front porch

Hayden Hensley and Bonnie Logan Hensley carving on front porch

Artisans

Brasstown Carvers

John C. Campbell Folk School

Wood-carving -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Woodwork -- Appalachian Region, Southern

Hayden Hensley and wife, Bonnie Logan Hensley, were some of the first students and woodcarvers at the John C. Campbell Folk School. They sold their work through the school's woodcarving cooperative that became known as the Brasstown Carvers. This photograph shows them in later years, around 1960, carving on the porch of their home. Carving provided them enough supplemental income to be able to purchase this home, which they referred to as "the house that carving built."

Unknown

Historical Photograph Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1960

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photographs

StillImage

14893

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2008-02-12

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Cherokee County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

3" x 5"(dimension)

Craft Revival