For dairy and beef cattle farm families, late summer and early fall is corn chopping time, filled with noise from tractors and choppers, the s…
Kathy Ross
When the Haywood County School Board met in closed session on July 15 to address a Facebook post by Superintendent Bill Nolte, its members una…
Mountaintop picnics, baseball games, wolf-whistling, bean-picking, fireworks, twice-round parades and sermons: Haywood County people have cele…
I remember the first time I heard the term “Internet.”
Farming is key to Haywood County’s culture and heritage, but that doesn’t mean it is stagnant. What strikes me when looking at hundreds of old…
For a brief time, less than two months, Charles Prince brought services involving snake handling to Haywood County in 1985, an effort cut shor…
I wasn’t living in Haywood County in 1985, wouldn’t arrive until the next summer, but I do remember how Charles Prince’s efforts to bring Chri…
In July 1985, Charles Prince, owner of a fish-bait store in Canton, posted a sign announcing a type of event closely tied to Appalachia but al…
The things we do to make our readers happy, especially the reader who is also my mama.
Haywood County has been home to two men who, thanks to their longevity and the timing of their births, lived across three centuries.