Hattie Kitchen, dressed for the 1961 Centennial Although it looks like it could be from more than a century ago, this portrait of Hattie Kitchen

  Scrapbook page showing ephemera from a 1955 Mathatasian Club fundraiser  The E.O.T (Every Other Thursday) Book Club was organized in September 1915 with sixteen

Gravemarker for Claud Dunn (1906-1923)  Gravemarkers, also called gravestones or tombstones, can reveal much more about history than many people realize. Most gravemarkers will have

Rupert “Henry” Scadin, self-portrait Rupert “Henry” Scadin was a western regional photographer well-known at the turn of the 20th century. Although he called himself a landscape

  Eugene C. Sawyer (2nd from left) and friends, July 4, 1895 There has been a long history of biking in the mountains of Transylvania

Hume Hotel ruins with James “Perry” Cantrell, Hettie M. Raxter Cantrell, and Walter Cantrell One of the greatest parts about looking into history is seeing

On August 5, 1914, Mr. J.A. Miller’s property on North Country Club Road and home to Mr. E.F. Moffitt and 36 boarders, went up in

Last week’s “Picturing the Past”, Transylvanians Organize in the Fight Against Polio, Part I, recounted the fight against polio and the fundraising efforts and search

This article is the first in a two-part “Picturing the Past” series on Transylvania County’s fight against polio in the first half of the 20th century.  

Picture of James Morris- Courtesy of Mary Galyon We cannot dismiss the value of the oral history that still fills these mountains, if we dare