Culture
Appalachian Trail Through Hikers
A hiker follows the Appalachian Trail across Max Patch Bald in Haywood County, NC. The Appalachian Trail extends 2,160 miles from Springer Mountain in North Georgia to Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. “Through Hiker” is the name given to those who hike the...
Mountain Feist
Mountain Feist and puppy. Courtesy of Becky Moran Photography. A Mountain Feist is a type of small hunting dog. Like the many others varieties of feists, it is not a specific breed. The ancestral homeland of the Mountain Feist is the Southern Appalachian and Ozark...
Economy
Appalachian Trail Through Hikers
A hiker follows the Appalachian Trail across Max Patch Bald in Haywood County, NC. The Appalachian Trail extends 2,160 miles from Springer Mountain in North Georgia to Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. “Through Hiker” is the name given to those who hike the...
Land Trusts
Sunset over Hall Mountain, Macon County, NC. Photograph by Ralph Preston, courtesy of Mainspring Conservation Trust. Some of Appalachia’s most special places are protected through land trusts. These non-profit organizations work with private landowners...
Land
Appalachian Trail Through Hikers
A hiker follows the Appalachian Trail across Max Patch Bald in Haywood County, NC. The Appalachian Trail extends 2,160 miles from Springer Mountain in North Georgia to Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. “Through Hiker” is the name given to those who hike the...
Land Trusts
Sunset over Hall Mountain, Macon County, NC. Photograph by Ralph Preston, courtesy of Mainspring Conservation Trust. Some of Appalachia’s most special places are protected through land trusts. These non-profit organizations work with private landowners...
People
Appalachian Trail Through Hikers
A hiker follows the Appalachian Trail across Max Patch Bald in Haywood County, NC. The Appalachian Trail extends 2,160 miles from Springer Mountain in North Georgia to Mount Katahdin in northern Maine. “Through Hiker” is the name given to those who hike the...
Lady Bird Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson at the dedication of the new library wing at Western Carolina University On March 14, 1967, Lady Bird Johnson, wife of President Lyndon B. Johnson, arrived in Jackson County, North Carolina. She had come to visit the Canada community...
Institutions
Facejugs
Daniel D. Davies, native of Wales and member of the Noble Nine, Western Carolina University’s first Board of Trustees. Face jugs, a form of folk art, are so-called because human faces are shaped on them. Because the faces usually have exaggerated humorous or...
Cradle of Forestry
In the early 20th century, the Appalachian forest was subjected to devastating large-scale commercial exploitation for the first time. At the same time, pioneering conservationists were devising reforms for forest management. In 1889, George Vanderbilt hired a young...