How to Go Skiing in Beech Mountain, North Carolina
Boasting the highest skiing trails in the Eastern part of the United States, Beech Mountain is a skier's paradise. Located in the Western mountains of North Carolina, Beech Mountain has a wide range of activities, such as snowboarding, ice ... [... more]
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Mountain Echoes: Beech Mountain, North Carolina
 Author: Dosi Elaine Cook Stanberry Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 975.6009734 EAN: 9781933251158 ISBN: 1933251158 Number Of Pages: 268 Publication Date: 2005-08-01 Release Date: 2005-08-01 [... more]
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The Last Chivaree: The Hicks Family Of Beech Mountain
This work creates a portrait of Appalachian mountain life in the first half of the 20th century, before power lines and paved roads opened the way to change. The author's profile of the Hicks family pays tribute to the mountain traditions of music making [... more]
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Mountain Echoes: Beech Mountain, North Carolina
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Road Cycling the Blue Ridge High Country
Four years ago, discouraged and depleted from his illness, Lance Armstrong traveled to Boone, North Carolina, in a last-ditch effort to get his cycling career back on track. Through fog and chilly rains, Armstrong attacked the rugged hills of the High [... more]
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Ray Hicks: Master Storyteller of the Blue Ridge
Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where [... more]
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Avery County
Established in 1911, Avery County is the youngest North Carolina county. Despite its recent formation, Avery has an intriguing history and rich Appalachian culture. Over the years, photographers have been eager to capture Grandfather Mountain, majestic [... more]
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West Virginia Logging Railroads
Exellent and rather concise treatment of a somewhat obscure: This book contans pictures, text and maps showing the location of and the trains that worked the logging railroads that penetrated the vast stands of hardwood lumber in the eastern part of the [... more]
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Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales ...
A core sample of American oral folktelling: I use this excellent documentary source with success in a storytelling class I've taught periodically over the past 10 years. Jack tales are a rarified regional tradition as well as a type of folk hero tale [... more]
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The Cold Dark Heart of the World
Twin Peaks on steroids: This book was recommended to me as a "summer read". Something to read while lying out at the beach. Well that's something I never do. So I can't say if this is good your summer reading list. BUT, if you're the kind of [... more]
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The Last Chivaree: The Hicks Family of Beech Mountain
Look into hardship and come away uplifted and humbled.: As a lover of the NC mountains, this book speaks of people and places of my childhood. The story of this family is one of music, heritage, honor, humor and heartache. The isolation of the rugged [... more]
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W.R. Trivett, Appalachian Pictureman: Photographs of a ...
W.R. Trivett (1884-1966), a farmer born in Watauga County, North Carolina, was also a self-taught professional photographer who left behind an invaluable collection of over 400 glass plate negatives taken between 1907 and the late 1940s in the Beech [... more]
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