Booklist

Cabins & Castles

Douglas Swaim

Cabins & Castles Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-54-X
$30.00

This classic work reveals the rich architectural history of Asheville and Buncombe County, with a historical overview and an up-close look at the historical architecture of this beautiful area. This long-sought-after reprint is sure to please both native and tourist alike.

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John Henry Moss: Baseball’s Miracle Man

Bob Terrell

John Henry Moss Paperback, 184 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-53-1
$16.00

Jump into a celebration of minor league baseball, a history of the South Atlantic League, and a biography of the league's founder and fifty-year president, John Henry Moss. Rich in baseball history and stories of the SAL's players, managers, and umpires, this book is a sure bet for any fan of America's favorite national pastime.

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Littlejim

Gloria Houston

Littlejim Paperback, 176 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-52-3
$7.00

With a vivid depiction of Appalachian mountain life in the early 1900s and a cast of lovingly portrayed characters, Littlejim explores the values and spirit of immigrant Americans through the unforgettable eyes of a boy seeking his father’s approval.

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Vegetarian Medicines

Clarence Meyer

Vegetarian Medicines Paperback, 102 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-49-3
$9.00

A medicine cabinet full of fruits and vegetables! Clarence Meyer’s Vegetarian Medicines contains remedies and preventive prescriptions collected for generations in North America and Europe.

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This Violent Land

Robert Johnson

This Violent Land Paperback, 400 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-45-0
$24.00

This Violent Land tells the story of South Carolina Freedmen’s Bureau agent Major William Stone, a Civil War veteran struggling to uphold new civil rights legislation for freed slaves amidst pressures for a return to the antebellum South.

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Asheville: Mountain Majesty

Lou Harshaw

Asheville: Mountain Majesty Paperback, 368 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-35-3
$29.00

Asheville: Mountain Majesty is an illustrated history documenting the evolution of one of the most interesting cities in the United States, from remote mountain village to modern cultural destination. Lifelong resident and historian Lou Harshaw offers a firsthand look at this magnificent city’s history.

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Potato Branch

Joe Richard Morgan

Potato Branch Paperback, 186 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-50-7
$16.00

In this collection of poignant and richly detailed stories, Joe Morgan reveals the wonders and realities of growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1930s and ’40s. With neighbors and family so well characterized you’d think they were your own, Joe shows us the heart of Appalachian life — in a place called Potato Branch.

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Into the Chilling Water

Joe Richard Morgan

Into the Chilling Water Paperback, 136 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-51-5
$15.00

Like Joe Morgan’s Potato Branch, this collection of richly detailed stories reveals more of the wonders and realities of growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in the 1930s and ’40s. We meet again some old friends, along with new folks so well characterized you’d think they were your own friends and family in the heart of Appalachia.

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The Book of Corn Cookery

Mary L. Wade

The Book of Corn Cookery Paperback, 118 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-48-5
$7.00

In The Book of Corn Cookery, Mary Wade provides 150 recipes using corn and corn meal to prepare nourishing and delicious dishes economically.

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The Carolina Mountains

Margaret W. Morley

The Carolina Mountains Paperback, 384 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-11-6
$24.00

In The Carolina Mountains, Margaret Morley’s lyric descriptions paint a vivid, somewhat romantic picture of this region at the beginning of the 20th century. With previously unpublished photography by Morley, this edition is not to be missed.

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Rustic Construction

W. Ben Hunt

Rustic Construction Paperback, 88 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-47-7
$9.00

Rustic Construction offers solid, how-to advice on making furniture, fixtures, and outdoor structures using bark, branches, slab lumber, and other natural materials found in the wild.

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Roadside Revenants

Michael Renegar

Roadside Revenants Paperback, 176 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-46-9
$12.00

Phantom trains, blood-stained walls, headless horses, and nonexistent hitchhikers are the stuff of Renegar’s legendary ghost stories.

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Growing & Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal & Other Woodland Medicinals

W. Scott Persons and Jeanine M. Davis

Growing & Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal & Other Woodland Medicinals 2008 Updated Edition
Paperback, 496 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-42-6
$25.00

Expanded from Dr. Persons’ book, American Ginseng: Green Gold, this comprehensive book covers the recommended methods of growing and marketing ginseng, goldenseal, ramps, black cohosh, pinkroot, wild indigo, and other native woodland medicinals.

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James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

James Mooney

James Mooney’s History Paperback, 768 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-19-1
$22.50

Ethnologist James Mooney’s exhaustive research on Cherokee culture, as preserved in two U.S. Bureau of Ethnology reports in the late 19th century, is fully reproduced in this edition, along with an exclusive biography written by Western North Carolina author George Ellison.

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Herk: Hero of the Skies

Joseph Earl Dabney

Herk: Hero of the Skies Hardcover, 496 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-40-X
$29.95

This is the fascinating story of the C-130 Hercules aircraft and its involvement in military, scientific, and humanitarian missions around the world. From its development through its many heroic missions, the C-130 captures the imagination.

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Mountain Spirits

Joseph Earl Dabney

Mountain Spirits Paperback, 288 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-02-7
$12.95

Mountain Spirits presents a scholarly, yet entertaining, look into the folklore of moonshine whiskey and the characters who made and sold it, as well as those men whose mission was to find and arrest moonshiners.

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More Mountain Spirits

Joseph Earl Dabney

More Mountain Spirits Paperback, 208 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-03-5
$11.95

An extension of Mountain Spirits, this book includes many recipes for all kinds of spirits and continues the chronicle of those who made, transported, and sold them, as well as the revenuers working to enforce federal laws.

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Mountain Fever

Tom Alexander

Mountain Fever Hardcover, 176 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-26-4
$29.95

Mountain Fever chronicles Tom Alexander’s early adventures as a ranger and forester, as well as his later contributions to the development of tourism in Western North Carolina, including the Cataloochee Ranch, still one of the Southeast’s renowned resorts and ski lodges.

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My Journey to Appalachia

Eleanor Lambert Wilson

My Journey to Appalachia Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-31-0
$20.00

In 1941, Vassar College graduate Ellie Lambert arrived in Brasstown, North Carolina, to join the staff at the John C. Campbell Folk School, an experiment in adult education modeled on Scandinavian folk schools. Her memoir of that year is a slice of North Carolina history.

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Up This Hill and Down

Lee Ann Woods

Up This Hill and Down Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-33-7
$15.00

Lee Ann Woods’ diverse selection of radio commentaries originally aired on the NPR affiliate WNCW in Spindale, North Carolina, and features topics ranging from food, family, and nature to economic justice, regional prejudice, and activism.

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Edge of Heaven

Eva McCall

Edge of Heaven Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-27-2
$14.95

Eva McCall relates her grandmother’s story of turn-of-the-century life in rural North Georgia, when as an eighteen year old she suddenly has thirteen children thrust into her care.

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Children of the Mountain

Eva McCall

Children of the Mountain Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-21-3
$14.95

In Eva McCall’s sequel to Edge of Heaven, uncertainties arise over Lucy’s home and future. The grown children return to Carpenter Mountain and now have their own stories to tell.

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Lucy’s Recipes for Mountain Living

Eva McCall and Emma Edsall

Lucy’s Recipes for Mountain Living Paperback, 96 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-39-6
$9.00

Eva McCall and Emma Edsall are granddaughters of the real Lucy Davenport. Together, they have put in writing their recollections of Lucy’s daily activities in the garden and kitchen, keeping her large family fed.

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Mountain Elegance

Junior League of Asheville

Mountain Elegance Paperback, 320 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-17-5
$14.95

With simple instructions and tasty fare, the Junior League of Asheville’s popular cookbook has firmly established itself as a classic.

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Let’s Make Country Wine

Sylvia Fisher

Let’s Make Country Wine Paperback, 96 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-06-X
$7.95

This easy-to-follow guide shows that making wine at home from apples, pears, berries, and even rhubarb can be easy and fun.

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Trains, Trestles & Tunnels

Lou Harshaw

Trains, Trestles & Tunnels Paperback, 96 pages
ISBN: 0-9623532-0-5
$12.95

This history of railroading in the Southern Appalachians features such famous engines as Tweetsie, Spot, and the Clinchfield Railroad’s Santa Claus Special. The economic impact of the coming of the railroads on the logging and tourism industries is also discussed.

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Railroad Through the "Back of Beyond"

Mead Parce

Railroad Through the "Back of Beyond" Paperback, 128 pages
ISBN: 0-9657461-1-9
$8.95

This is the story of the historic Murphy Branch, now known as the Great Smoky Mountains Railway. The Murphy Branch opened the frontier of Western North Carolina in the 1890s, long after the east and west coasts were joined by rails across the western plains.

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Twice-told True Tales of the Blue Ridge & Great Smokies

Mead Parce

Twice-told True Tales Paperback, 128 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-37-X
$12.00

Storytelling survives and flourishes in the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. Parce’s selection of stories provide some historical perspective on the people and culture of the southern highlands.

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The Legend of Nance Dude

Maurice Stanley

The Legend of Nance Dude Paperback, 264 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-43-4
$12.00

Stanley fleshes out the Haywood County folklore surrounding the grizzly murder of two-year-old Roberta Putnam and the arrest, trial, and subsequent conviction of her grandmother, Nancy Ann Kerley, also known as Nance Dude, in the early 1900s.

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Presumed Dead

Howard Eugene Alley

Presumed Dead Paperback, 256 pages, illustrated
ISBN: 0-914875-36-1
$16.00

Col. John Alley’s great-grandson merges family legend with historical fact in this speculative account of a Civil War skirmish and its aftermath, which led to Cornelia Norton’s mysterious disappearance in the Cashiers Valley of Western North Carolina in the winter of 1865.

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Your Affectionate Daughter, Isabella

Ann Williams

Your Affectionate Daughter, Isabella Paperback, 256 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-34-5
$18.00

Personal letters, legal documents, and financial records ranging from the 1700s until after the Civil War shed light on the everyday life of a cotton plantation in Mecklenburg County.

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Two on the Square

Bill Moore

Two on the Square Hardcover, 208 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-13-2
$14.95

Bill Moore created two unforgettable characters in Lonzo and The Pundit for his Asheville Citizen-Times column, where they provided readers with satirical humor for many years. Dianne Cable’s sketches add to the fun.

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The Witch Doctor’s Dance

J. B. Wofford, M.D.

The Witch Doctor’s Dance Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-32-9
$25.00

The experiences of both doctors and patients from coal-mining towns in Kentucky to sophisticated Southern urban medical centers provide an inside look at the practice of medicine before insurance and Medicare changed its face dramatically.

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Disorder in the Court!

Bob Terrell and Marcellus "Buck" Buchanan

Disorder in the Court! Paperback, 216 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-44-2
$12.00

A collection of humorous tales, legends, and happenings about people in and around the courts of North Carolina.

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Fun Is Where You Find It!

Bob Terrell

Fun Is Where You Find It! Paperback, 224 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-00-0
$8.95

The consummate humorist, Bob Terrell presents short, funny anecdotes with an understanding of the challenges facing the people of Western North Carolina in this collection of columns originally published in the Asheville Citizen-Times.

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A Touch of Terrell

Bob Terrell

A Touch of Terrell Hardcover, 244 pages
(No ISBN)
$6.95

Writer and public speaker Bob Terrell shows his gentle, humorous touch with this compilation of stories from his Asheville Citizen-Times column. These stories range from the hilarious to the unusual, but they are all equally human — and equally enjoyable.

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Southern Talk

Ray Cunningham

Southern Talk Paperback, 192 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-22-1
$11.00

Cunningham’s appreciation for his native dialect comes from "a lifetime listening to the old timey talk" in all areas of the South, cataloging the terms and phrases of his youth.

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My Pants Are Wet, But I Didn't Do It!

George Wilkins

My Pants Are Wet But I Didn't Do It! Paperback, 128 pages
ISBN: 0-914875-30-2
$7.95

The children of a small primary school in Hendersonville, North Carolina, offered these hilarious excuses for absences and general observations on life to their principal, George Wilkins.

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