Looking Back: This week in history

• May 27, 2020

70 years ago - May 25, 1950

A ‘young’ holiday with some very old traditions in Jackson

• May 20, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history

• May 20, 2020

70 years ago - May 18, 1950

Looking Back: This week in local history

• May 13, 2020

70 years ago - May 11, 1950

An end to one round of horror, with another ahead

• May 6, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history

• May 6, 2020

70 years ago - May 4, 1950

Five who survived: The crash on Locust Creek

• Apr 29, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history

• Apr 29, 2020

70 years ago - April 27, 1950

Breaking records on mountain routes

• Apr 22, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back – This week in local history

• Apr 22, 2020

70 years ago - April 20, 1950

Looking Back – This week in local history

• Apr 15, 2020

70 years ago - April 13, 1950

‘Miracle’ cures an old standard in America

• Apr 15, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Ramps: An odiferous rite of spring

• Apr 8, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back — This week in local history

• Apr 8, 2020

70 years ago - April 6, 1950

A quiet end to an era of sacrifice in Jackson County

• Apr 1, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back – This week in local history

• Apr 1, 2020

70 years ago - April 6, 1950

Remembering the Plowboys

• Mar 25, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back -- this week in local history

• Mar 25, 2020

70 years ago - March 30, 1950

A bottleneck in the moo juice pipeline

• Mar 18, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

How did Jackson lose its (love for) marbles?

• Mar 11, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history

• Mar 11, 2020

70 years ago - March 9, 1950

A lonesome peak in the Southern Appalachians finally obtains a name

• Mar 4, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Schulman was downtown merchant and civic leader for decades in Jackson

• Mar 4, 2020

Editor’s Note: Except as otherwise indicated, information in this installment comes from Sylva Herald articles published Nov. 13, 2003; Nov. 7, 2002; and March 21, 2002.

Looking Back – This week in local history

• Mar 4, 2020

70 years ago - March 2, 1950

‘Then and Now’ program March 12

• Mar 4, 2020

The next Jackson County Genealogical Society program is titled “Main Street Then and Now,” and will offer a photographic tour of Sylva’s downtown through the years. Nick Breedlove and Lynn Hotaling, authors of “Jackson County Then and Now,” will present the program at the group’s next meetin…

‘Crumbling schools’ wasn’t just a turn of a phrase in Sylva circa 1948

• Feb 26, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history

• Feb 26, 2020

70 years ago - Feb. 23, 1950

On the road (rage) again

• Feb 19, 2020

By Jim Buchanan 

Looking Back – This week in local history

• Feb 19, 2020

70 years ago - Feb. 16, 1950

A hereditary connection to early midwifery in Appalachia

• Feb 12, 2020

Around a century ago, in the steep slopes of the Appalachian Mountains, health care was a foreign luxury. People relied on the elements, local apothecaries who made salves and other makeshift medicines out of plants and other materials that could be cultivated from the earth, and wives’ tale…

A chill for the record books: 1940 dawned with deep freeze

• Feb 5, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history

• Feb 5, 2020

70 years ago - Feb. 2, 1950

Fresh memories of a chemical nightmare helped stave off a repeat in WWII

• Jan 29, 2020

 

Looking Back: This week in local history:

• Jan 29, 2020

70 years ago - Jan. 26, 1950

Hobos started a fire, but warmed at least one heart

• Jan 22, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history:

• Jan 22, 2020

70 years ago - Jan. 10, 1950

Red Cross turned to an army of youth in WWII

• Jan 15, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history

• Jan 15, 2020

70 years ago - Jan. 12, 1950

Red Cross continues to provide vital services in Jackson

• Jan 15, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

The sound and the screen: Sylva makes way for ‘talkies’

• Jan 8, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history:

• Jan 8, 2020

70 years ago - Jan. 12, 1950

1950s dawned with a rabies scare in Jackson

• Jan 1, 2020

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history

• Jan 1, 2020

70 years ago - Jan. 5, 1950

The war on Superman

• Dec 25, 2019

By Jim Buchanan

Remembering the Townhouse

• Dec 25, 2019

By Geoff Cantrell

A good idea then, and now: Buy local

• Dec 18, 2019

By Jim Buchanan

Looking Back: This week in local history

• Dec 18, 2019

70 years ago - Dec. 15, 1949

The rise and fall of Jackson’s copper industry

• Dec 11, 2019

The History of Jackson County Sesquicentennial Edition notes that copper mining has the oldest recorded history in the county, going back to Welshman David Davies.

Women’s museum celebrates old-timey Christmas

• Dec 11, 2019

By Beth Lawrence

One man’s vision, 50 years on

• Dec 4, 2019

By Steve Ham