Through the years, I’ve come across anecdotes about churches that, for those of us who are Christian believers, should make us laugh and weep,…
Growing up in Saunook, Louise McClure assumed she would marry and move away from the close-knit community just below the Balsam range. Instead…
What does it take for an orchard to survive more than a century, through multiple owners and a surge from horse and buggy days to the digital age?
Labor Day is a big deal — a BIG deal — in Canton, which claims the longest ongoing Labor Day festival in the Southeast. So having to cancel fe…
What do you do when a relative dies and leaves you a stack of old photographs, unlabeled and unknown? Rather than discard them, Donna Sherrill…
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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…
Fireworks, music, wacky parades and prayer — for almost 100 years, Lake Junaluska has been the most consistent provider of Fourth of July cele…
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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…
