Author’s note: I am a grandson of Reuben B. Robertson Sr. and a son of Reuben B. Robertson Jr., each of whom headed Champion Paper. This is an…
Growing up on Queen’s Farm, with two parents as teachers, Sara Queen knew early on she would teach.
“There is no great genius without a touch of madness.” – Aristotle
By-Paths in the Mountains, published by Harper’s New Monthly Magazine in 1880, may have given Americans a glimpse into the lives of Appalachia…
Last week, Doyle Justice visited an old friend: the Haywood Community College (HCC) moon tree.
The company I worked for had more than 150 engineers traveling around the world at any one time, starting up new petroleum refineries and petr…
Note: Unless otherwise stated, all quotes are taken from By-paths in the Mountains by Rebecca Harding Davis.
Sometimes, when you’re writing history stories, you need to pause and clean up loose ends.
His body lies in an unmarked grave above Bald Creek in Upper Crabtree, the hand-engraved tombstone removed years ago to allow mowing in the hayfield.
Hannah Jewett Powell, Haywood’s first woman minister, wrote many letters and reports that were published in her Universalist Church’s newslett…
This is the second of two stories on Haywood County’s first woman preacher.
Hannah Jewett Powell, the first woman preacher in Haywood County – and possibly the first woman preacher to be recognized by the state of Nort…
Writer’s note: Kathy N. Ross worked closely with Bruce Briggs for almost four years as one of the writers for Haywood County: Portrait of a Mo…
One quality that many centenarians have shared through the years is that they just don’t back away from an active lifestyle.
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
They were hunters, soldiers, lawyers, farmers, teachers – lots of teachers. One was a convicted killer; most were deeply faithful and God-fearing.
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?
