Stories, quotes and anecdotes from Appalachia. 1880s-1950s era.

Category: North Carolina

Time to gather the crops against the coming winter

In bygone days, as the sun shone across sere fields of fall, serious preparation for winter’s coming lean, mean times commenced.

Little Switzerland was much the same til the 1960s, when William Cessna purchased The Switzerland Inn, razed it, and started fresh.

She came up with the name after hearing his description of a recent trip to Switzerland; the terrain here resembled the European country.

This recent private commission by cut paper collage artist Alice Feagan depicts the small town of Saluda in the mountains of western NC.

Ron Rash’s Serena follows the fortunes of the eponymous central character and her husband as they create a timber barony in 1930’s America.

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