Record #:

37617

Author(s):

Williams, Heidi Coryell

Abstract:

Many residents of a community known today as Junaluska are descendants of those who made life vibrant in this historically black neighborhood. The referenced Affrilachian life, now recognized in neighborhoods such as Junaluska, long proved challenging to document because of factors that rendered blacks and whites from the region invisible.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 82 Issue 9, February 2015, p37-38, 40, 42 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Appalachia; Affrilachians; Horton, Ronda; Boone Mennonite Brethren Church ; Appalachian State University--W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection; Junaluska; Boone ; Councill, Jordan; Watauga County; Junaluska Heritage Association

Record #:

41327

Author(s):

Gerard, Philip

Abstract:

Blizzards in early 1960 left a part of North Carolina more than drifts up to ten feet. Fortunately, communities across the state moved to help were a boon to mountain towns immobilized by the weather winter anomaly.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 87 Issue 9, February 2020, p132-134, 136, 138-139 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Snow storms; Snow storms--North Carolina, Western; Boone ; Hodges, Luther Hartwell, 1898-1974; Red Cross--aid--snowstorms ; Winter storms--North Carolina, Western; Appalachian State Teachers College--see also Appalachian State University

Record #:

43848

Author(s):

Kelly, Susan Stafford

Abstract:

"Since moving to the High Country in the early 1970s, one woman has proudly advocated for nearly every cause in her Watauga County town." Bettie Bond is the current president of the Watauga County Historical Society.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 91 Issue 4, September 2023, p58-60, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Cultural promoters--Watauga County--Bettie Bond; Watuaga County--NC; Boone