“Tweetsie,” the narrow gauge railroad that served Upper East Tennessee and Western North Carolina so well for so many years, has a firm place in...

"Blessed and harassed by family stories, Allen Speer writes like an angel, and the devils he wrestles with are real: issues of family, self,...
By: Allen Paul Speer

From humble beginnings in North Carolina, James B. Gargan quickly became a premier authority on fire and trench rescue within the emergency-services...
By: James B. Gargan

This book is the fourth in a series about the Smoky Mountain “west-of-the-Ridge” section of Western North Carolina—its history, people, customs and...
By: W. Clark Medford

A beautiful young woman dies from a fall in Ashevilles greatest hotel . . . and the Pink Lady is said to still wander the massive halls of the Grove...
By: Joshua P. Warren

In this work, the most comprehensive of its kind, the author examines in engaging narrative and wonderful photography the development of the area’s...
By: Cary Franklin Poole