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I’m glad to have seen your fine spring of water, Lydia McQueen

Wilma Dykeman authored more than 20 non-fiction books and three widely acclaimed novels. She championed the people and land of Appalachia.

The ‘Harding Bee Hive’ from Harding Junior High School in Steubenville, OH gives us the love story of Jimmy and Virginia.

Ellsworth Milton Statler, virtually without benefit of formal education, climbed to the pinnacle of the hotel business.

From April – June 1914 Emma Bell Miles wrote “Fountain Square Conversations” weekly for The Chattanooga News.

If you’re a lover of classical chamber music living in Asheville, you can thank the efforts of Jeanette & Joe Vanderwart for making it happen.