Product Description: Based on extensive archival research & oral history, Michael Ann Williams traces the parallel careers of the creators of the Renfro Valley Barn Dance & the National Folk Festival.

Product Description: Challenging many of the methods and preconceptions of conventional folk-architecture studies, Homeplace examines traditional houses in the mountains of Appalachia from the perspective offered by oral histories. Michael Ann Williams bases much of her study on interviews with some of the people most intimately familiar with her subject: more than fifty individuals born and raised in southwestern North Carolina in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Comeau, Raymond F.

Product Description: The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events, including the Cherokee Removal of the 1830s and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park a century later...read more