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...

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

"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...

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,...

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