Last month, thanks to DST, we added a little more daylight to our spring workday. Whether Daylight Saving Time is your friend or foe, it is an irreversible part of […]
As far as we can tell from here at the end of March, Cashiers Historical Society’s plans for a busy 2020 season remain in place. At this time, Zachary-Tolbert House […]
Many generations back in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina, people were outnumbered by the wild animals of the forests. Several times a year, every homesteader had to […]
In the late 1870s Highlands was still struggling to get a solid footing on the Plateau. But in 1878 a powerhouse came roaring up the mountain from Horse Cove in […]
If you’ve been to the Cashiers Farmers Market at the Village Green during the summer, chances are you’ve seen a band of good ol’ country folk filling the air with […]
The Cashiers Historical Society’s October 2019 Cemetery Ramble started inside the Church of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church with a lecture on the history of the church presented by Carol […]
Well over a century ago Elder F. M. Jordan wrote: “There is a fine valley at the head of the Tennessee River, a fine farming country, thickly settled. The Baptists […]
The people of the Norton Community of Hamburg were busy having festive dinner parties to celebrate Christmas in 1912 according to the news posted in the social gossip column ran […]
My aunt lived in Social Circle, Georgia. It used to be way, far-away from Atlanta. Now it’s practically a suburb. There was a drug store, a couple of churches (one […]
December, the month when Mother Nature provides us with the quiet and welcoming embrace of near silence, offering a chance to step into her welcoming arms and escape the hustle […]
