Haywood County natives Charles Miller and Earl Lanning have roots firmly entrenched in Smoky Mountain soil. Both men can trace their family tr…
By July 1942, only seven months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had successfully occupied Wake Island, Guam, the Philippines, Burma, Borneo, …
Once again, we called upon the Facebook group Nostalgic Haywood County to share memories of the bookmobile. They responded with enthusiasm:
More than eight decades after it made the first Haywood County rounds, can we grasp how exciting it was, to have a bookmobile deliver books to…
Fireworks, fun and games and food are traditionally included in Independence Day celebrations with fireworks displays appearing as the most do…
Introduction
Before every family had an automobile or truck, country people in Haywood County welcomed the sight of the Grady Honeycutt’s “rolling store.”
In recent generations of high divorce rates and unwed parents, it seems there have never been so many young people struggling to find someone …
While the first hospital in the western portion of Haywood County was opened just in time to meet a deadly Spanish flu crisis, the first hospi…
There are people who still refer to the recently vacated Board of Education building on North Main Street as “the old hospital.”
Few young men may have been so eager to get into World War I as Baxter Franklin, and few may have suffered as he did over the three years that…
Memorial Day marks the start of summer for so many people, though its purpose, when established, was to honor those who had sacrificed all fut…
The Shook-Smathers House in Clyde is known for many things — as the oldest frame building in Haywood County and perhaps Western North Carolina…
(Editor’s note. This is the second of two stories on early Haywood County postcards.)
For the century before cell phones became popular, postcards were the cheap and easy way to communicate with those far away, particularly in t…
When guests walk into the Smokey Shadows Lodge in Maggie Valley, they become like family. At least, that’s the tradition that owner Ginger Shi…
In his lifetime, J.B. Ivey, the son of a Methodist minister, built a small business empire of six department stores which, after his death, ex…
With spring comes the joy of new growth and the frustrations of new growth gone rogue.
This year is not the first time Haywood County citizens have faced decisions about trying a new vaccine. Sixty-five years ago, another vaccine…
Thirty years ago, in 1991, the USSR suddenly collapsed, and 15 new countries emerged from the former Soviet Union. What led the planet’s secon…
All of us living in these beautiful western North Carolina mountains are aware of the huge pulp and paper mill located in Canton. It is an ent…
(Editor’s note: This is the final story in the series on aircraft crashes in Haywood County).
(Editor’s note: This is the first of two stories dedicated to the history of flying in Western North Carolina.)
Waynesville is such an interesting place. I hope you will join me as I stroll down Main Street and reminisce about the history of our delightf…
(Editor’s note: History buffs Ann Melton and Alex McKay teamed up to look at Waynesville’s Main Street and offer photos of how the buildings u…
Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first successful airplane flight near North Carolina’s coastal Kitty Hawk in December 1903, and it didn’t t…
