Mountain Heritage Award Winners

Mountain Heritage Award Winners

  John Parris 1976 John Parris received the 1976 Mountain Heritage Award Cherokee Historical Association 1977 Recipients of the Cherokee Historical Association receiving the Mountain Heritage award, 1977. Leona T. Hayes 1978 Leona T. Hayes receiving the Mountain...
Folk Festivals

Folk Festivals

Folk festivals occur regularly in western North Carolina. Their origins go back to the 1920s. Asheville’s Mountain Dance and Folk Festival was one of the first. Their popularity has grown as our constantly-changing modern society fears losing touch with its cultural roots. . .