Booklist
Cabins & Castles
Douglas Swaim
Paperback, 224 pagesISBN: 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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Bob Terrell
Paperback, 184 pagesISBN: 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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Gloria Houston
Paperback, 176 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topVegetarian Medicines
Clarence Meyer
Paperback, 102 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topThis Violent Land
Robert Johnson
Paperback, 400 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topAsheville: Mountain Majesty
Lou Harshaw
Paperback, 368 pagesISBN: 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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Joe Richard Morgan
Paperback, 186 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topInto the Chilling Water
Joe Richard Morgan
Paperback, 136 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topThe Book of Corn Cookery
Mary L. Wade
Paperback, 118 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topThe Carolina Mountains
Margaret W. Morley
Paperback, 384 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topRustic Construction
W. Ben Hunt
Paperback, 88 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topRoadside Revenants
Michael Renegar
Paperback, 176 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topGrowing & Marketing Ginseng, Goldenseal & Other Woodland Medicinals
W. Scott Persons and Jeanine M. Davis
2008 Updated EditionPaperback, 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
Paperback, 768 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topHerk: Hero of the Skies
Joseph Earl Dabney
Hardcover, 496 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topMountain Spirits
Joseph Earl Dabney
Paperback, 288 pagesISBN: 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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Joseph Earl Dabney
Paperback, 208 pagesISBN: 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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Tom Alexander
Hardcover, 176 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topMy Journey to Appalachia
Eleanor Lambert Wilson
Paperback, 192 pagesISBN: 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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Lee Ann Woods
Paperback, 192 pagesISBN: 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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Eva McCall
Paperback, 256 pagesISBN: 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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Eva McCall
Paperback, 224 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topLucy’s Recipes for Mountain Living
Eva McCall and Emma Edsall
Paperback, 96 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topMountain Elegance
Junior League of Asheville
Paperback, 320 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topLet’s Make Country Wine
Sylvia Fisher
Paperback, 96 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topTrains, Trestles & Tunnels
Lou Harshaw
Paperback, 96 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topRailroad Through the "Back of Beyond"
Mead Parce
Paperback, 128 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topTwice-told True Tales of the Blue Ridge & Great Smokies
Mead Parce
Paperback, 128 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topThe Legend of Nance Dude
Maurice Stanley
Paperback, 264 pagesISBN: 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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Howard Eugene Alley
Paperback, 256 pages, illustratedISBN: 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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Ann Williams
Paperback, 256 pagesISBN: 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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Bill Moore
Hardcover, 208 pagesISBN: 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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J. B. Wofford, M.D.
Hardcover, 224 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topDisorder in the Court!
Bob Terrell and Marcellus "Buck" Buchanan
Paperback, 216 pagesISBN: 0-914875-44-2
$12.00
A collection of humorous tales, legends, and happenings about people in and around the courts of North Carolina.
Read more... Back to topFun Is Where You Find It!
Bob Terrell
Paperback, 224 pagesISBN: 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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Bob 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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Ray Cunningham
Paperback, 192 pagesISBN: 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.
Read more... Back to topMy Pants Are Wet, But I Didn't Do It!
George Wilkins
Paperback, 128 pagesISBN: 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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