This week in local history:
The Western North Carolina Historical Association is now accepting nominations for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. The Award is a partnership between WNCHA and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Advisory Committee and has been presented by WNCHA since 1955. The award comes with a $2,500 cas…
“Unearthing Our Forgotten Past: Fort San Juan” is now on display at the Mountain Heritage Center gallery in Hunter Library at Western Carolina University.
It was a lousy draw.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
The Western North Carolina Historical Association is now accepting nominations for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. The Award is a partnership between WNCHA and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Advisory Committee and has been presented by WNCHA since 1955. The award comes with a $2,500 cas…
“Unearthing Our Forgotten Past: Fort San Juan” is now on display at the Mountain Heritage Center gallery in Hunter Library at Western Carolina University.
It was a lousy draw.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
This week in local history:
Ninety years ago today, the Jackson County Journal was in a celebratory mood as it announced the opening of the Sylva Country Club.
Wednesday, June 05, 2019
Seventy-five years ago, Jackson County was holding its breath, as was the entire nation.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
Seventy years ago, the public was buzzing over Gov. Kerr Scott’s “Go Forward” campaign, and in particular over two referendums on the June ballot, one to increase funding for public schools, the other to increase funding for roads.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Memorial Day 2019 comes 100 years after the return of American soldiers from the battlefields of World War I, providing a fitting moment to focus on one Jackson County boy who did not return, William Elsie Dillard.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Part one of two
Reader Jan Woodard Boyer of Sylva brought an interesting piece of historical trivia to the Herald office recently. Shown is a newspaper photo of her brother, Lee Roy Woodard, known as “Poker,” as an infant, pictured with his mother, Murriel. The photo is believed to have come from a newspape…
This week in local history:
Kelli Brown will officially take the helm of Western Carolina University as its 12th chancellor on July 1.
Wednesday, May 08, 2019
This week in local history:
There simply isn’t a lot of crime in Sylva’s past.
Wednesday, May 01, 2019
Known as the fiddling ballad woman of the mountains, Samantha Biddix Bumgarner was born on Halloween in 1878 and died on Christmas Eve in 1960.
Fifty years ago, Harvey Powell blew up a dam.
This week in local history:
The Jackson County Genealogical Society will learn about the cemeteries on the north shore of Fontana Lake that are now located inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park during its next program, set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, May 9, in the Jackson County Library’s Community Room.
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
The story of E.L. McKee’s contribution to Jackson County is inextricably linked to that of two other notables written about in recent weeks: his wife, Gertrude Dills McKee, North Carolina’s first woman state senator; and his frequent business associate, C.J. Harris.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
North Carolina’s 9th congressional district cozies up to a long stretch of the South Carolina border, running from the Charlotte area to near Fayetteville.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
On this day in 1945, the Sylva Herald’s April 11 edition hit the streets.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, April 03, 2019
By Lynn Hotaling
In April of 1944 The Herald gave a report from Sylva’s Jack C. Allison, who served on the submarine USS Halibut, regarding his adventures. As news from combat zones was heavily censored, Allison wasn’t able to provide many details, but due to actions that had been previously reported was abl…
The Jackson County Genealogical Society will hear from a group of Western Carolina University history students during its next program, set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in the Jackson County Library’s Community Room.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
By Jim Buchanan
By Lynn Hotaling
70 years ago - March 24, 1949
Historian Steve Miller will visit City Lights Bookstore at 3 p.m. Saturday to present his book, “North Carolina Unionists and the Fight Over Secession.”
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Sometimes all it takes is being in the right place at the right time to become part of an area’s history.
Many folks are still likely working to get their biological clocks readjusted following the recent arrival of Daylight Saving Time, when we rolled our clocks forward and lost an hour of sleep.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
For years in these hills, the fallout from the damage wrought by the Civil War was felt. One aspect of that damage that is often overlooked is the toll it took on literacy.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, March 06, 2019
Sometimes, what isn’t in the paper can be an indicator of the gravity of the stories that were.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
Intro by Jim Buchanan
This week in local history:
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Many of the boys from Jackson County who served in World War I were trained at Camp Sevier in Greenville, S.C. The camp was named in honor of John Sevier, a Revolutionary War hero who fought at Kings Mountain and later went on to become Tennessee’s first governor.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Here in February 2019 there’s talk of the troops on the U.S.-Mexico border.
This week in local history:
Wednesday, February 06, 2019
“It’s not the people who vote that count. It’s the people who count the votes.”
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