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.
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.
"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.