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...
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...
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...
Cullowhee Idea
The Oscar School in Cullowhee In 1885, when Robert Lee Madison arrived in western North Carolina to teach school, he was dismayed by how rudimentary the region’s schools were. A few years later he transferred to nearby Cullowhee. There he became the...
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...
Tonya Carroll (B.A., 2007 M.A., 2009) with Bruce Frazier (Carol Grotnes Belk Endowed Professor in Commercial & Electronic Music) in the recording studio.