Sökt på: Sökresultat
totalt 30 träffar
The Trees of Ashe County, North Carolina
Everyone loves trees whether they know it or not. There are millions of native trees foresting in the wild of Ashe County and tens of thousands more planted in the domestic …
Owsley County, Kentucky, and the Perpetuation of Poverty
This scholarly study identifies several reasons behind Owsley County's ongoing struggle with poverty, including the county's lack of natural resources, a poor transportation …
Appalachian Fiddler Albert Hash
World-class luthier and renowned guitarist Wayne Henderson calls Albert Hash "a real folk hero." A virtuoso fiddler from the Blue Ridge, Hash built more than 300 fiddles in his …
New Art of Willard Gayheart
This is a portfolio of 87 drawings by the Appalachian pencil artist dating from the early 1970s to the present. The book features information about each drawing taken from …
Dwight Diller
Dwight Hamilton Diller is a musician from West Virginia devoted to traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo music, and a seminary-trained minister steeped in local Christian …
The Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot
"This volume relates author's one-of-a-kind back packing trip along 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway, most visited National Park Service unit. Also covers twelve years spent working as …
Melungeon Portraits
At a time when concepts of racial and ethnic identity increasingly define how we see ourselves and others, the ancestry of Melungeons—a Central Appalachian multi-racial group …
From the Front Lines of the Appalachian Addiction Crisis
Stories from doctors, nurses, and therapists dealing on a daily basis with the opioid crisis in Appalachia should be heartbreaking. Yet those told here also inspire with practical …
The Brown Mountain Lights
What are the Brown Mountain Lights? Geologist Ed Speer investigates North Carolina's most famous ghost story-the 120-year-old legend of mysterious nighttime lights reportedly seen …
The Ravenscroft School in Asheville
The Ravenscroft School, a 19th-century Episcopal boarding school in Asheville, North Carolina, from 1856 to 1901, had three distinct phases. It was first a ""Classical and …
Boone Before Boone
Native Americans have occupied the mountains of northwestern North Carolina for around 14,000 years. This book tells the story of their lives, adaptations, responses to climate …