Mountain Lore – Page 2 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Mary Jane Queen

Mary Jane Queen lived in the Caney Fork section of Jackson County near where she...

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

"'Old Counce' was certainly the kind of man about whom unforgettable tales are told," writes...

Ray Hicks, one of North Carolina most renowned storytellers, lived atop Beech Mountain in Watauga...

Known as "a singer among singers," Jane Hicks Gentry had an amazing repertoire of songs,...

Cherokee tribal elder Robert Henry Bushyhead called his native Kituhwa dialect a gift of the...

Growing up in the Mountain Creek section of Rutherford County, Floyd Sims worked hard as...

Randy Vess grew up in McDowell County, in a family that kept alive many traditional...

"I've always been interested in stories," recalls Doyle Pace. "My uncles and father told stories....

Internationally recognized storyteller Connie Regan-Blake has lived in Asheville for over thirty years. A native...

Sisters Joan and Irene Moser follow in the footsteps of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, and of...

Donald Davis's life has carried him far from his native mountains, but his storytelling draws...