Asheville Citizen-Times Publishing Co., 1981
Recipient of the Mountain Heritage Award 1981. Citizen-Times Wins Heritage Award Bryson City: Smoky Mtn. Times 10/1/81 Western Carolina University gave its 1981 Mountain Heritage Award Saturday to the Asheville Citizen-Times Publishing Company as the “greatest...Amanda Swimmer, 2009
Cherokee pottery-maker Amanda Swimmer was honored at WCU’s Mountain Heritage Day festival on Saturday as the individual recipient of the university’s Mountain Heritage Award. Swimmer has demonstrated pottery making at Oconaluftee Indian Village in Cherokee for...Joe Parker Rhinehart, 1990
Rhinehart Receives Heritage Award Joe Rhinehart received Western Carolina University’s 1990 Mountain Heritage Award for his work in preserving the history of the old Jackson county town of Webster, where he lives. Rhinehart grew up in Webster,...Mary Jane Queen and the Queen Family, 1999
Mary jane queen and the queen family Receive 1999 Mountain Heritage Award CULLOWHEE — Mary Jane Queen and the Queen Family, performers who have played a major role in helping maintain the folk music traditions of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, are the 1999...
Tonya Carroll (B.A., 2007 M.A., 2009) with Bruce Frazier (Carol Grotnes Belk Endowed Professor in Commercial & Electronic Music) in the recording studio.