As we think about the lush evergreen Christmas trees that are grown on our mountains, consider what almost happened to many of them years ago.
Though his influence upon the community is still felt today, many of the details of Frank Allen’s life and death remain cloaked in mystery.
The Glenville High School is still remembered with affection and a healthy dose of community pride.
The Brothers Marett may have a lesson for us about conducting business in an upright fashion, but this article goes off the rails about half-way down.
Nathaniel Macon, for whom Macon County was named, was a nonconformist states-rights advocate/legislator who had no use for a strong central government, taxation, and infringement on personal freedoms. Sound familiar? […]
Several times during this summer of 2020 there have been articles in the Crossroads Chronicle newspaper about future development planned on the site of the Wormy Chestnut on US 64, […]
Accommodating tourists was always paramount in the minds of the local citizens of the highest elevations of the Blue Ridge Mountains, from Highlands to Toxaway. Running boarding houses quickly […]
If you’ve seen The Princess Bride, you’re bound to remember how the big, big Fezzik is appointed to The Brute Squad to impose order on the Thieve’s Forest. Well, that […]
“What’s a poor boy to do in times like these?” Those lyrics were floating through my head as I drove onto the grounds of the historic Zachary-Tolbert house in […]
There have been articles in The Laurel about how Cashiers and Glenville got their names and now it’s time to discuss how Jackson County got its name. The earliest settlers […]
