Women who make a difference
This month I urge you to read my book, Soldiers in Petticoats: Appalachian Educators, which should be ...
Sharing a Poem or Two
April was launched as National Poetry Month in 1996 to celebrate poetry and its role in American culture ...
A Promise to Gromer Luther
Scrounging around in a seldom used drawer, I discovered an ancient autograph book with a leather cover ...
Mary J. Rankin: Missionary
Was Mary Rankin aware that the mountaineers she ...
From the Tomato Field to the Mission Field
Attending William Jennings Bryan College brought many ...
Mary Lyon founder of Mount Holyoke college
Born on February 28, 1797, in Buckland, Massachusetts, Mary Mason Lyon founded ...
Sequoyah the son of a Virginian
In the capitol building in Washington, D.C. bronze statue of a Cherokee man named Sequoyah is on ...
Homeland Invasion!
World War II marched into East Flat Rock, North Carolina, following the Spartanburg Highway south out ...