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…
I shed tears the day Charlie’s Restaurant (later DuVall’s) was torn down.
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.)
A few months ago, I researched and wrote an article for The Mountaineer about George Vanderbilt’s Buck Spring Lodge, which was once located de…
(Reporter’s note: I made a request to the Facebook group Nostalgic Haywood County, asking for memories of the 1993 blizzard and received more …
(Editor’s note: This is part two of the Storm of the Century story that appeared last week, Jan. 17. Due to the overwhelming response from rea…
A storm prompting a weather watch on Wednesday afternoon in 1993 barreled into Haywood County that weekend as the “Storm of the Century,” taxi…
A storm prompting a weather watch on Wednesday afternoon in 1993 barreled into Haywood County that weekend as the “Storm of the Century,” taxi…
Haywood County has been “blessed” with two full-scale blizzards in the last 100 years. And while the “Storm of the Century” in 1993 was an adv…
Here is a resolution for you, one that ties the New Year to our past and preserves it for the future. Encourage, request, even beg your older …
I came across a photo a little while back of “Aunt” Texie Teague Hunter, who lived much of her childhood and all of her adult life in the remo…
On Dec. 8, the Waynesville Board of Aldermen designated the house at 53 Walnut St., a Dutch colonial revival-style house, as a Local Historic …
(This is the second in a two-part series on books set in Haywood County.)
(This is one of a two-part story on books set in the county.)
What stories do an old house contain, a house with cracked pillars, peeling plaster and loads of debt, a house the Town of Waynesville is prep…
There may be no one left who remembers a time when automobiles were rare sights on Haywood County highways.
There has never been a presidential election like that of 2020. But, then again, no two presidential elections have ever been alike. Throughou…
