![As undeveloped land shrank in the East, the desire to preserve a wilderness experience intensified. In 1925 a forester, Benton […]](https://digitalheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/800px-Appalachian_Trail_Heading_to_Double_Springs_Gap_From_Clingmans_Dome-e1291067109800-115x115.jpg "Appalachian Trail")
![Essay By Timothy N. Osment History, M.A. WCU 2008 The Blue Ridge Parkway, stretching 469 miles between the Shenandoah […]](https://digitalheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/800px-Blue_Ridge_Parkway-27527-2-e1300304260399-115x115.jpg "Blue Ridge Parkway")
![Many people in the mountains of Appalachia vividly remember September, 2004. During that month, the rains and winds of Hurricanes […]](https://digitalheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/1940_Flood_Cullowhee1-115x115.jpg "Floods of 1916 and 1940")
![America’s first National Parks were created out West. By the early 20th century, Easterners who feared the loss of nature […]](https://digitalheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Main_Entrance_to_the_Great_Smoky_Mountains_National_Park_from_Gatlinburg_Tennessee-115x115.jpg "Great Smoky Mountains National Park")
Mountain Feist
March 21st, 2018
A Mountain Feist is a type of small hunting dog. Like the many others varieties of feists, it is not a specific breed. The ancestral [...]
About The Digital Heritage Project
DigitalHeritage.org includes essays, video interviews, and other materials created by the students of Western Carolina University. It also includes regional lesson plans created by teachers participating in the Adventure of the American Mind project sponsored by the Library of Congress. Radio spots created by WCU faculty and students may be heard on stations WKSF-FM, WMXF-AM, WPEK-AM, WWCU-FM, and WWNC-AM. A print version is available each month in the Laurel of Asheville.
Tonya Carroll (B.A., 2007 M.A., 2009) with Bruce Frazier (Carol Grotnes Belk Endowed Professor in Commercial & Electronic Music) in the recording studio.
