_________________________________________________________________________ Last Wednesday David and I went over to the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva and did a program on the history of the Plott hounds and their people. A lot of the people there didn’t know that the Plott hound is the state dog of North Carolina so we were able to tell [...]
Let me show you around a little more of the exhibit. We talked about how we came over here from Germany and how Henry Plott came to Haywood County in 1800. Back then it wasn’t known as Haywood County but was still called Buncombe County. It didn’t become Haywood County until 1808. Settlers actually started [...]
Alright, I’m going to take you on a tour of the new exhibit which talks about humans and dogs called Plotts. We’ll go through the gallery together and look at the panels, pictures and cool things that people have loaned us to better tell the story of how we came to this great country. I [...]
We overheard somebody talking about “those vicious hunting dogs” the other day. Now here’s a picture of Waylon with Mr. Junior’s grandson Tristan. If you were a bear, boar or coon you probably wouldn’t want to look behind and see Waylon running after you or if you were trying to steal something from Mr. Junior [...]
I thought I would show you kind of what Mr. Bob’s camp at Mountain Heritage Day would be like. This is the cover of his book (see how we have the same last name!) This is part of an illustration by Mr. David Wright and Mr. Earl has the original at his house. If you [...]