Horace Kephart—author, naturalist, librarian—is a renowned authority on the cultural and natural history of southern Appalachia. His two most famous books, Camping and Woodcraft (1917) and Our Southern Highlanders (1922),...
Dan Tompkins was born in Webster, NC in 1890. He graduated from high schoolin Waynesville and studied law at Wake Forest College. The Jackson County Journalstarted up in 1906, and Tompkins became its editor in chief in 1912. He...
This transcription was created from the original manuscript of Emily Weigle’s letter to Dan Tompkins on June 16, 1924. In the letter, Emily comments on some of the events around Dan’s hometown, Sylva, NC, as observed from her...
This edition is created from the manuscript of Emily Weigle’s letter to Daniel “Dan” Tompkins on March 20th, 1927. This letter is one of number of others that the two wrote back and forth to each another while Weigle lived in...
This form letter was written by Britain’s King George V to the enlisted American soldiers upon the arrival of United States troops on Europe. King George had declared war on Germany four years earlier, helping set the stage for...
Within the Samuel Owens Collection, we have several letters to Samuel Owens, the ninth child of Mrs. Frances Elvira Alexander Owens (Mar. 28, 1879- Jan. 7, 1965) while he is in active service during WWII. As with any mother,...
As indicated by the envelope, the letter was sent by Mrs. S.J. Owens (also addressed as Mrs. Steven J. Owens, Frances Elvira Owens or Frances Elvira Alexander Owens) from Webster, North Carolina to S.R. Owens (also addressed as...
The following is a letter from Frances Elvira Alexander Owens (1879–1965) of Webster, NC, to her son, Samuel Owens (1918–1995), who was then serving in the U.S. Navy. At the time of the letter’s original posting, Samuel Owens...
This letter was sent January 26, 1942 from Frances Elivra Owens to her son, Samuel Robert Owens. The letter was sent back to her by the Navy, because there were serious attacks happening during this time in the Philippines....
Harry Davison Gault, Jr. worked with Samuel Owens on a submarine tended by the Canopus as a Torpedo’s Mate First Classman during the ship’s time in Mariveles Bay from December 29, 1941 until the surrender of the Bataan on April...
