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Under Construction: Carlton Haney Exhibit
Jul 6, 2015

Currently under construction is an exhibit on Bluegrass and Country music promoter Carlton Haney. Featured items will include photographs and posters ...

Roan Mountain Hilltoppers
May 18, 2015

The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers were featured in an earlier post highlighting the photographs of Bill and Joe Birchfield contained in AC.850: Jack Jeffe...

Katuah Journal
Apr 14, 2015

Katuah Journal (1983-1993) was a quarterly publication devoted to the bioregion of former Cherokee land in Appalachia. AC.870: Katuah Journal Records ...

Carlton Haney
Feb 23, 2015

Carlton Haney (September 19,1928, Reidsville, Carolina- March 16, 2011, Greensboro, North Carolina) was a noted festival organizer, promoter, and mana...

Carlton Haney
Feb 23, 2015

Carlton Haney (September 19,1928, Reidsville, Carolina- March 16, 2011, Greensboro, North Carolina) was a noted festival organizer, promoter, and mana...

Snow From Not So Long Ago
Feb 2, 2015

In honor of the snowy day outside here in Boone, we are featuring selected photographs from the Great Blizzard of '93, a weather event that caused rec...

In A Nutshell
Dec 9, 2014

The two-year grant project funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to processthe backlog of the W.L. Eury Appalachian Co...

The Two [West] Virginias
Nov 11, 2014

From the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, the State of Virginia existed as two separate entities: the Confederate allied government in Richmond and...

Old Seldom and Doubly Dear
Nov 6, 2014

Dr. Fred Delp was a dentist and illustrator from Rural Retreat, Virginia. Delp and his wife, Dorothy, used the medium of charcoal to preserve and crea...

You Can't Go Home Again (At least not with these matches. . .)
Oct 22, 2014

Matchbox advertising the Braden-Hatchett Thomas Wolfe Collection found in AC.1098: John Idol, Jr. Papers. Originally located in Memphis, Tennessee, th...