On April 2, 1931 Horace Kephart was killed in an automobile accident near Ela, NC along with fellow author Fiswoode Tarelton. Kephart (1862-1931) was a travel writer and librarian who published hundreds of articles during his lifetime, but became especially renowned for his classic works ‘Our Southern Highlanders’ and ‘Camping and Woodcraft.’ In one of [...]
0 commentsKephart: “People up North, and in the lowlands of the South as well, have a notion that there is little or nothing going on in these mountains except feuds and moonshining. They think that a stranger traveling here alone is in danger of being potted by a bullet from almost any laurel thicket that he [...]
2 commentsPlease welcome guest blogger Beth Kephart. Kephart is an award-winning author of what is now ten books—memoir,poetry,corporate, fable, history, and literary novels for young adults—who is currently at work on a novel for adults. He must have been short, my brother tells me. I saw a portrait of his face, full on, he says, for [...]
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