Through Mountain Mists

We have looked at Appalachian Values as specified by Loyal Jones in his book, Appalachian Values (Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994) and listed...

Senior scholar, Loyal Jones, a native of nearby Cherokee County, North Carolina, and for many years director of Appalachian Studies at Berea...

Union County, Georgia can be justifiably proud of one of her native sons, Congressman Edgar Lanier Jenkins. He grew up in the county, was ...

December 7, 1941 was, as then-president Franklin Delano Roosevelt stated in addressing the nation, “a day of infamy.” Those still living w...

Through the past two columns, I have shared memories of attending and teaching my first year in the same country school. I hope this journey...

Choestoe School in Union County, Georgia, 1936 through 1943 has a special place in my memory, in things I love, and in who I became in life....

The Unicoi Turnpike was an old road that played prominently in the early days of settlement of Union and Towns Counties, and, indeed, as a t...

Last week we looked at “A Dream Deferred,” how Hix and Caroline Burgess Souther moved to Union County, Georgia from North Carolina about 184...

Now we say “back in the olden days.” That can be a long, long time ago or when we ourselves were children. In those days, work on the farm h...

The surname Self has a long history, going back at least to the time of the Vikings, who in their ships made ocean voyages and explored land...

Rev. Grover Duffie Jones October 5, 1925 – January 26, 2011 Early on Wednesday morning, January 26, 2011, my beloved husband of sixty-one y...

Francis Jasper "Bud" Collins (1855-1941) Owner of Collins Country Store The country store was a part of my growing up years, for m...

“Autumn leaves were falling Down in Adams Park We sat and watched the river ‘Til it was almost dark And there were children playing They nev...