Craft – Page 2 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Dave Sturgill

When Dave Sturgill was young, he would visit his grandfather's cousin, Fid Sturgill, a fiddler...

Emma Taylor was widely recognized as an especially gifted and productive basket maker in the...

For well over half a century, Elsie Trivette practiced and perfected handicrafts that she learned...

In 1915, Eleanor P. Vance and Charlotte L. Yale opened Tryon Toymakers Shop in Tryon....

Edd Presnell was raised in a musical family and community near Beech Mountain. The area...

Tom Dooley might never have become a household name outside of Northwest North Carolina had...

"I was about six or seven when I started doing pottery," Louise Bigmeat Maney said....

Wilma Hatchett McNabb was a native of Cherokee County, North Carolina, and a master of...

Ossie Clark Phillips was a weaver most of her life. She was born in 1915,...

Stanley Hicks was born in 1911 in Watauga County, and raised on Spice Creek along...

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have nurtured many great folk musicians over the...

Whitetop, Virginia native Albert Hash was a masterful mechanic who built fiddles and other instruments,...