Editor’s note: This resumes a series on Haywood County centenarians and their remarkable lives.
Many people in Canton and western North Carolina may still remember Peter G. Thomson as the founder of Champion Papers.
Last week, our history feature recounted the lives of two Haywood County women who not only lived beyond a century but were revolutionary in t…
Women who live to be 100 seem to have several things in common: minds that remain keen until their last years, active lifestyles, and — in the…
Second in a series on Haywood County centenarians
It was a Halloween night like no other in Haywood County, that evening in 1967 when Junaluska School went up in flames.
Waynesville is on the verge of a spectacular color show, a century-old legacy from an unknown donor or donors who, late in the 19th century, p…
To varying degrees, most Baptist Churches in Haywood County — and there are many — can trace their roots back to preacher/missionary Humphrey …
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…
Scientists believe the Appalachians formed by the slow collision of continents some 270 million years ago, make them some of the oldest and mo…
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…
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…
