Southern Highland Craft Guild, 2000
Southern Highland Craft Guild Receives WCU’S Mountain Heritage Award 2000 CULLOWHEE — The Southern Highland Craft Guild, a nonprofit organization founded in 1930 to bring together the crafts and craftspeople of the Southern Highlands for the benefit of shared...Jackson County Historical Association, 1987
WCU’s Mountain Heritage Award Presented To Historical Association The Sylva Herald Oct. 1 1987 The 1987 Mountain Heritage Award Saturday, September 26, was given to the Jackson County Historical Association for its new book, “The History of Jackson County,”...German Settlers in the Appalachians
People of German descent are one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States. They came to be known by the misnomer “Dutch” because Germans refer to themselves as Deutsch. Germans’ persistent and hardworking nature allowed them to thrive in backcountry...
Dinner on the Ground
Dinner on the Ground in the Upland South from Appalachia to the Ozarks, is an outdoor picnic held at Decoration Day events. The term originally referred to eating in a churchyard or cemetery with a picnic blanket spread on the ground. Nowadays, long tables and...
Tonya Carroll (B.A., 2007 M.A., 2009) with Bruce Frazier (Carol Grotnes Belk Endowed Professor in Commercial & Electronic Music) in the recording studio.