https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog daily 0.75 2016-08-16 https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1 daily 0.75 2025-12-11 https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2025/12/11/wchs-announces-loretta-guy-clawson-as-2025-inductee-to-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2025-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/298c66f1-7f53-4c05-9ac4-ab758944c840/Loretta.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Loretta Guy Clawson as 2025 Inductee to WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Loretta Guy Clawson, image courtesy of the Town of Boone. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2025/11/21/wchs-announces-joe-miller-as-2025-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/a5c748f8-fdde-4978-90d5-acc70f3eec11/Joe+Miller%2C+1957+Laurel.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Joe Miller as 2025 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Joe “Cecil” Miller, 1957 Laurel (Appalachian High School Yearbook). Image courtesy of DigitalNC.org. It’s unclear why Miller listed “Cecil” as his yearbook nickname, although it was his father’s name. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2025/3/13/from-the-intern-brianna-anctil-on-tourism-in-watauga-county-1 monthly 0.5 2025-03-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/84460935-0a4d-47f8-b7bc-d9c8e78cadde/Eri-Pla-02-040.jpg Blog - From the Intern: Brianna Anctil on Tourism in Watauga County - Make it stand out Tourists gather in front of a bus belonging to Tauck Vacation Tours, circa 1938. Image courtesy of the Eric Plaag Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/8638a7e6-5c3d-498b-a234-ddeff409d630/Eri-Pla-02-001-A.jpg Blog - From the Intern: Brianna Anctil on Tourism in Watauga County - Make it stand out Colored, linen postcard for the Highwood Inn, a tourist hotspot that used to be in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. This postcard likely dates to the 1940s and appears courtesy of the Eric Plaag Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/a3f7ad22-0cb9-4ff7-af95-a577fcec3e1a/Eri-Pla-02-005-a.jpg Blog - From the Intern: Brianna Anctil on Tourism in Watauga County - Make it stand out This 1940s-era, colored, linen postcard shows Bass Lake at the Cone Estate in Blowing Rock. The building at left center was the boathouse, the foundation of which still survives on the edge of the lake. The house at right beyond the bridge was demolished later in the 20th century. Image courtesy of the Eric Plaag Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/73e8ec4a-bb1a-45dd-8794-883ef5d082a0/Eri-Pla-02-007-a%2C+small.jpg Blog - From the Intern: Brianna Anctil on Tourism in Watauga County - Make it stand out D. W. Cook, a Boone resident, weaves for tourists at the Cone Memorial Park. Image courtesy of the Eric Plaag Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2024/12/24/wchs-announces-billy-ralph-winkler-as-2024-inductee-to-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2024-12-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/54418cc3-7d33-4f32-a637-65c3268706d8/Billy+Ralph%2C+SAHA.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Billy Ralph Winkler as 2024 Inductee to WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Billy Ralph Winkler marches in a recent Fourth of July parade. Image courtesy of the Southern Appalachian Historical Association. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/d3ead82c-b50f-461a-baf0-24656639463a/Undecideds%2C+WD%2C+5-9-1968.png Blog - WCHS Announces Billy Ralph Winkler as 2024 Inductee to WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Billy Ralph Winkler (far right) as a member of The Undecided in 1968. Future Watauga County Sheriff L. D. Hagaman is behind Winkler. Image courtesy of the Watauga Democrat and DigitalNC.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/c41da30b-3fdc-4390-a623-3b8ba5ff3e04/Billy+Ralph+Conducts+Band%2C+WD.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Billy Ralph Winkler as 2024 Inductee to WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Billy Ralph Winkler conducts the Watauga County Band at the Boone Mall, circa 2022. Image courtesy of the Watauga Democrat. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2024/12/9/wchs-announces-kathryn-staley-as-2024-inductee-to-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2025-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/6af8ee29-4f06-42b8-9b77-058531aa2746/Screen+Shot+2024-12-09+at+4.03.36+PM.png Blog - WCHS Announces Kathryn Staley as 2024 Inductee to WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out First page from Kathryn Lynn Staley’s article on LGBTQ history at Appalachian State University, Appalachian Journal, 39:1 and 2 (Fall 2011/Winter 2012): 72-91. Image courtesy of JSTOR. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/de269912-f5a6-4e26-bb63-b8b023469cc8/ThesisTitlePage.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Kathryn Staley as 2024 Inductee to WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Title page from Kathryn Lynn Staley’s second Master’s degree thesis. Image courtesy of Appalachian State University Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/495f91c1-88d6-445a-a596-958ea4d30f4c/597B40ED-81E3-4695-9BF6-BFF537E1091F_1_105_c.jpeg Blog - WCHS Announces Kathryn Staley as 2024 Inductee to WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Image showing Box 1 of the Appalachian Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Oral History Project at the Special Collections Research Center at ASU’s Belk Library. Image courtesy of the Appalachian State University Library. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2024/11/5/wchs-announces-agnes-jeter-as-2024-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2024-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/e59c676c-7513-4450-8edb-89619ba15db5/Pal-Bla-03-773--Aug+1955.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Agnes Jeter as 2024 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Agnes Jeter, right, consults with two young campers in August 1955. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/ff141aa6-78ea-4fe4-bc7f-90d88dba27e0/Pal-Bla-03-748--June+1953.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Agnes Jeter as 2024 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Group shot of Camp Yonahlossee campers inside a camp building, June 17, 1953. Jeter is seated at far left in the front, while camp founders Margaret Kephart and Dr. Adam Perry Kephart can be seen in the front row at far right. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/8496c586-aa2e-4902-bd5d-ef75065016d7/Pal-Bla-03-729--Jeter+with+Peaches--June+1953.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Agnes Jeter as 2024 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Agnes Jeter with Peaches, while campers look on, June 1953. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2024/4/9/exploring-the-collections-with-gramm-coffman monthly 0.5 2024-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/fc776cd0-9dad-4879-9f81-c75d73b69624/Bet-Col-06-115.jpg Blog - Exploring the Collections with Gramm Coffman - Make it stand out Dorothy Farthing (far right) with one of her classes in the 1950s or early 1960s. Image courtesy of the Bethel Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1130b454-ae71-4781-81dd-259f65dfc7ad/Bet-Col-10-142.jpg Blog - Exploring the Collections with Gramm Coffman - Make it stand out One of several tintype images found in the Bethel Collection, showing an unidentified woman and likely taken between 1880 and 1910. Image courtesy of the Bethel Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/bd20fc19-8a15-4727-a263-91dab20cdeef/His-Boo-01-040.jpg Blog - Exploring the Collections with Gramm Coffman - Make it stand out This image from the Historic Boone Collection helped Gramm make important connections between the original Echoes of the Blue Ridge vignette performances and the subsequent production of Horn in the West. Image courtesy of the Historic Boone Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/f73d8ad6-c715-49b5-9836-ba801dfcbd95/His-Boo-01-113.jpg Blog - Exploring the Collections with Gramm Coffman - Make it stand out Constance Shoun Stallings (1904-1982) is visible seated at left in this early 1950s image of various figures associated with the Horn in the West production. Seated to Stallings’s left is Samuel Sheldon. Standing, left to right, are Robert Edward Agle (1911-1981), playwright Kermit Hunter (1910-2001), Dr. Isaac Garfield Greer (1881-1967), and Dr. Daniel Jay Whitener (1898-1964). Image courtesy of the Historic Boone Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2024/1/3/wchs-announces-arthel-lane-doc-watson-as-2023-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2024-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/e11ab3f6-1aab-4d50-8133-d1a51a386662/Arm-Cof-010.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson (left) with Chet Atkins during a 1992 concert in Boone, NC. Image courtesy of the Paul Armfield Coffey Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1260d69d-e812-4068-b155-0f6460f06473/Par-Wes-04-092.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out September 18, 1943, handbill promoting Doc Watson as part of the Hillbilly Jamboree on WDRS at the Appalachian Theatre. Image courtesy of the Paul and Ruby Weston Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/7976359d-0571-4f8c-bc99-7098ab03b429/Pal-Bla-03-262.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out L to R, Jack Williams, Charles Osborne, and Doc Watson in October 1954. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/2f2fd65d-cc20-407c-9f1b-b118418c0900/187.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Chancellor Herbert Wey (left) and Dr. Rogers Whitener are seen here awarding an honorary degree from Appalachian State University to Doc Watson (right) in 1973. Image courtesy of the George Flowers Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2023/12/30/wchs-announces-palmer-sligh-blair-as-2023-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2023-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/bc1c1740-1ac3-40a0-a047-d6b166d92edf/Pal-Bla-08-003%2C+1947.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Palmer Sligh Blair as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Palmer Sligh Blair self-portrait, circa 1947. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/7a5cc698-7ad7-46a8-8f91-8d231a5cc1a7/Pal-Bla-04-105%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Palmer Sligh Blair as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Palmer Blair’s studio in the ground floor space of the Linney Law Office, circa 1952. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/f5f97496-c25a-40ca-aac0-0bbcc43fef3b/Pal-Bla-12-375%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Palmer Sligh Blair as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out In this image from Palmer Blair’s 1952 “Workers of Boone” series, 79-year-old James Lyons hawks his wares from his hollowed-out bus shell doubling as a farmstand at the southwest corner of Appalachian and King Streets, now the site of Jimmy Johns. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/bccbbbde-3f40-459e-8c82-24d3ddec907b/Pal-Bla-04-106%2C+1953%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Palmer Sligh Blair as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out In this 1953 self-portrait, Palmer Blair also photographs an infant in his studio. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2023/12/23/wchs-announces-virginia-ginny-stevens-as-2023-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2023-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/516961d8-e88e-4d42-b8a5-38bebcaf9bfd/Screen+Shot+2023-12-23+at+10.46.51+AM.png Blog - WCHS Announces Virginia "Ginny" Stevens as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Virginia and Dave Stevens on June 21, 2008. Image courtesy of the Blowing Rock Historical Society Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/499d9d5d-f107-45ba-aa22-dbfd46c27af6/Blo-Rhs-003-005%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Virginia "Ginny" Stevens as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out The Edgewood Cottage before restoration. Image courtesy of the Blowing Rock Historical Society Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/071b4752-1e10-48d9-b858-f4f3b33a1f6b/Screen+Shot+2023-12-23+at+11.01.05+AM.png Blog - WCHS Announces Virginia "Ginny" Stevens as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out The Green Park Hotel, circa 1964. Image courtesy of the Bobby Brendell Postcard Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/bbeb5e8e-8e46-4184-8e48-9fee79bdeb91/Screen+Shot+2023-12-23+at+11.06.42+AM.png Blog - WCHS Announces Virginia "Ginny" Stevens as 2023 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Doug Pegram, Virginia Stevens, and Lowell Thomas at the Edgewood Cottage, May 29, 2008. Image courtesy of the Blowing Rock Historical Society Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2023/5/6/from-our-intern-the-jimmy-and-margaret-lail-johnson-collection monthly 0.5 2023-05-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/3c92d149-8c12-40b2-adec-fa5787089cef/Screen+Shot+2023-05-15+at+5.41.31+PM.png Blog - From Our Intern: The Jimmy and Margaret Lail Johnson Collection - Make it stand out An early twentieth century portrait of the Teams family. Image from the Jimmy and Margaret Lail Johnson Collection, Digital Watauga Project (Jim-Lai-01-011-a). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/f01ec69e-6bc9-4d95-b029-b3ef1263e058/Screen+Shot+2023-05-15+at+5.42.51+PM.png Blog - From Our Intern: The Jimmy and Margaret Lail Johnson Collection - Make it stand out Genealogical tracking sheet on William Fred Teams, from the Jimmy and Margaret Lail Johnson Collection, Digital Watauga Project (Jim-Lai-01-066). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/07cc2eba-d54a-4d65-8bba-0e49714ac6bb/Screen+Shot+2023-05-15+at+5.41.52+PM.png Blog - From Our Intern: The Jimmy and Margaret Lail Johnson Collection - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/5a5b727f-2245-4533-8a28-298b8030ad27/Screen+Shot+2023-05-15+at+5.42.11+PM.png Blog - From Our Intern: The Jimmy and Margaret Lail Johnson Collection - Make it stand out Class Roll, Boone High School, 1930. Image from the Jimmy and Margaret Lail Johnson Collection, Digital Watauga Project (Jim-Lai-01-009-a & d). https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2023/3/2/wchs-awards-honorary-hall-of-fame-spot-to-dr-eric-plaag monthly 0.5 2023-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/77f9a78c-47c1-4b84-ade6-fffdae5a6e5b/63f3f5ba9190b.image.jpg Blog - WCHS Awards Honorary Hall of Fame Spot to Dr. Eric Plaag - Make it stand out Dr. Eric Plaag signed copies of Remembering Boone at the Mast General Store in Boone in 2021. Image by Teresa Plaag. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/12/28/wchs-announces-velma-rose-combs-burnley-as-final-2022-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/82e06794-7bec-4ceb-9518-1a95cee57654/Pal-Bla-12-134.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Velma Rose Combs Burnley as Final 2022 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Velma Burnley is seen here working at the Northwestern Bank in 1952. Image courtesy of Sarah Lynn Spencer and the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/c10b1b00-7e83-4b29-bcc4-78750fcbf9b0/Von-Hag-01-019%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Velma Rose Combs Burnley as Final 2022 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Burnley was one of more than a dozen nominees for Centennial Queen during the 1949 Watauga County Centennial festivities. She is standing fifth from right in this image by Palmer Blair showing the various Centennial Queen nominees. Image courtesy of the Von and Mickey Hagaman Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/99d5cb6f-6a44-487e-985d-cdad7470ede7/His-Boo-04-260%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Velma Rose Combs Burnley as Final 2022 Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Burnley can be seen at the center of this image by Jamey Fletcher as she is sworn in with Clyde Greene and Jim Smith at the Boone Council Chambers by Judge Charles Lamm, likely in the late 1980s. Image courtesy of the Historic Boone Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/12/15/wchs-announces-gertrude-tolbert-folk-as-next-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-12-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/94b7bbcf-1e1a-40b6-b52e-40b85e8258be/Gertrude+Folk.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Gertrude Tolbert Folk as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Image of Gertrude Tolbert Folk (1892-1974) from Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community, courtesy of Lynn Patterson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/99b5c66b-278b-403c-a0b9-ae5f3cbcc4bc/IMG_1250+copy.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Gertrude Tolbert Folk as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Gertrude Folk originally taught in a one-room school building located nearby, but she later taught in this building on Church Street, the Watauga Consolidated School, which was constructed in 1937 with WPA funds and community contributions. It was converted into a duplex after construction of the new Watauga Consolidated School on Wyn Way in 1967. Image from January 2021, courtesy of Eric Plaag. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/b4589668-41e0-4115-a5f0-730351617911/Kids+by+school.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Gertrude Tolbert Folk as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Junaluska schoolchildren stand next to the first Watauga Consolidated School for Black students (right), located on Church Street. Image courtesy of the Junaluska Heritage Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/11/8/whats-the-backstory-on-that-ghost-ad monthly 0.5 2022-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/a168b47c-068b-495b-bc5a-0b11a74e67ec/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+9.17.30+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Image of a “ghost ad” on the west wall of the J. Walter Jones Building (now Mast Store), taken by Eric Plaag on September 16, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/94d11b62-763a-498a-a697-9d8f32f077ed/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+8.36.31+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Detail crop of the 1928 Sanborn Fire Insurance Company map of Boone showing (L to R on the northeast corner of King and Depot) the Boone Garage (1922), the J. Walter Jones Building (1922), and the W. R. Winkler Building (1927). The latter building should not be confused with the W. R. Winkler Tire Company Building, constructed immediately west of the Boone Garage in 1929, after completion of this map. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/f2341338-d00c-4564-bc97-f4199b900bb8/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+8.29.53+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Screenshot from the 1936 H. Lee Waters film of Boone showing the Boone Garage, occupied by the Hodges Tire Company, with its south facade aligned with the south facade of the Jones Building to the east. Image courtesy of the Pilar Fotta Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/76fc0825-7bab-46f1-947b-be79c38cf101/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+8.31.15+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Screenshot from the 1936 H. Lee Waters film of Boone showing the west and south elevations of the W. R. Winkler Tire Company Building at left, with the west wall of the Boone Garage at right. Image courtesy of the Pilar Fotta Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/99e48d14-5d58-461b-8eb1-620e27d52fe2/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+8.44.22+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Hodges Tire Company advertisement image, Watauga Democrat, July 7, 1938, with the Winkler Tire Company building at left and the cut-back Boone Garage with its new stone veneer at right. Image courtesy of DigitalNC.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/59de0fa2-8c38-4110-a1aa-fb905aca3251/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+9.05.50+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Detail crop from an image showing children marching in the 1952 Boone Clean-Up Parade. Image courtesy of the Constance Stallings Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/83234a92-d146-47c6-ba1b-0c52bf29fb6b/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+9.06.26+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Detail crop from image of King Street looking east in 1953. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/8ff7cdc1-110d-41ed-bd32-b89c7d5942eb/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+9.05.22+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Detail crop from a slide image looking east on King Street from the Water Street intersection, circa early 1950s. Image courtesy of the E. T. Glenn and Lorena Lawrence Glenn Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/c5ddf0fc-2908-4e82-a8be-94478a77ff1a/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+9.07.18+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Detail crop from a circa 1960-62 image taken around Christmas showing the installation of a brick veneer wall on the Boone Garage remnant and the west wall of the Jones Building. Image courtesy of the Paul Armfield Coffey Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/cd8d027f-a3ca-40b3-aba5-433917428425/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+9.04.26+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out March 1960 image taken during the 1960 Blizzard (with a March 1960 processing date). We initially thought this image showed the brick veneer installed on the west wall of the Jones Building and the south elevation of the Boone Garage remnant, but we now believe this represents a painting over or re-application of stucco on both buildings. Image courtesy of the John Ward Family Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/34165e86-307b-482a-b18b-82369ae52992/Screen+Shot+2022-11-09+at+6.45.38+AM+copy.jpg Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out This image of the July 1963 Wagon Train parade shows the Boone Garage remnant and the west wall of the Jones Building following installation of the brick veneer. Image courtesy of the Historic Boone Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/62b79faa-3059-4cce-ac18-fb8cfe75c247/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+2.10.42+PM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out The “Shell” lettering at the top of the west wall of the Jones Building can be seen in this detail crop of flooding on King Street during the August 1940 flood. Image courtesy of the David P. Wyke Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/8cbde968-f3aa-4c74-9428-e449d5d164c8/Screen+Shot+2022-11-08+at+9.59.29+AM.png Blog - What's the Backstory on that Ghost Ad? - Make it stand out Kelly Springfield Tires advertisement from the April 11, 1938, issue of Life magazine. Image courtesy of Google Books. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/11/7/wchs-announces-alfred-thomas-adams-as-next-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame-1 monthly 0.5 2022-11-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/63809af9-32df-4afd-89ef-d8daeeeaef16/Screen+Shot+2022-11-07+at+5.28.56+PM+copy.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Alfred Thomas Adams as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Yearbook image of Alfred T. Adams, 1937 Mars Hill College Laurel. Image courtesy of DigitalNC.org. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/5e324ac0-842e-4ddf-ae84-d80c1b1ad3c3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-07+at+6.52.59+PM+copy.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Alfred Thomas Adams as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out This image shows a new car being awarded to Mrs. Lou Hopkins by the Boone Merchants Association on January 16, 1953, in front of the Mountain Burley Tobacco Warehouse No. 1 (present site of the Watauga County Library). Left to right are W. H. Gragg, Mr. Caudill, Mrs. Hopkins, Joe E. Coleman, and Alfred T. Adams. Image by Palmer Blair and courtesy of the Alfred and Daisy Adams Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/8b45f907-5877-4d91-b6e1-77d3cd8fe1a3/Screen+Shot+2022-11-07+at+6.54.26+PM+copy.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Alfred Thomas Adams as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Left to right are Alfred Adams, Carolyn Austin (behind door), Bernard Dougherty, and James Marsh standing in front of the teller door at the Northwestern Bank (now Farmer’s Hardware) at the southwest corner of Depot and West King Streets in January 1956. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/f49b9bd0-6337-43b8-b812-fa695d626a90/Screen+Shot+2022-11-07+at+6.55.23+PM+copy.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Alfred Thomas Adams as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Left to right are Dr. William Howard Plemmons, Glenn Andrews, Alfred Adams, Dempsey Wilcox, Jerry Coe, Stanley Harris, Watt Gragg, and Herman Wilcox. The men were standing on a hill just south of present-day Rivers Street with downtown Boone and Howard’s Knob visible behind them, circa 1960. Image courtesy of the Alfred and Daisy Adams Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/9/27/wchs-announces-sandra-marie-hagler-as-next-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/2e7ccd76-93be-4b7d-8d49-1f432978e845/Sandra_Hagler.jpeg Blog - WCHS Announces Sandra Marie Hagler as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Sandra Marie Hagler, circa 2020. Image courtesy of Roberta Hagler Jackson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/400aae38-5e7a-41c0-88c3-2456f6e16cef/Hagler+Family+Portrait%2C+JHA+Collection.jpg Blog - WCHS Announces Sandra Marie Hagler as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Hagler Family Portrait, L to R: Roberta Hagler Jackson, Mary Ann Hagler, Sandra Marie Hagler, Kathryn Margaret Wilson Hagler, Robert Hagler, Jr., and Louise Hagler, circa 1990s. Image courtesy of the Junaluska Heritage Association Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/8/26/wchs-announces-blanford-barnard-dougherty-as-next-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/d7e0bac4-14b6-40a8-a42d-8532df14d03a/B.+B.+Dougherty%2C+circa+1900%2C+Historic+Boone+Collection.png Blog - WCHS Announces Blanford Barnard Dougherty as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Blanford Barnard Dougherty portrait, circa 1900. Image courtesy of the Historic Boone Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/4153710b-aa63-43a2-bed8-77c4f6f7a08b/B.+B.+Dougherty%2C+circa+1950%2C+Historic+Boone+Collection.png Blog - WCHS Announces Blanford Barnard Dougherty as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Blanford Barnard Dougherty seated at his desk, circa 1950. Image courtesy of the Historic Boone Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/7/23/watauga-county-historical-society-announces-rachel-rivers-coffey-as-next-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/c87de8a4-32d6-4a6d-91b9-18dd141b810e/Rivers+Family+Christmas%2C+1971%2C+Jon-Hou-03-008%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces Rachel Rivers-Coffey as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Left to right are Rachel Ann Rivers-Coffey and her sister Lucinda Jane Rivers, December 1971, in front of the R. L. Clay House fireplace. Image courtesy of the Jones House Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/f8708d30-ec1e-49fe-97ac-41d5efa87427/Rivers+Family+Christmas%2C+ca+1951%2C+Jon-Hou-02-001%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces Rachel Rivers-Coffey as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Left to right are Bonnie Jean Lewis Rivers, Robert C. Rivers, Jr., Rachel Ann Rivers, and her sister Lucinda Jane Rivers, circa 1951, in the R. L. Clay House on Rivers Street. Image courtesy of the Jones House Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/7/1/watauga-county-historical-society-announces-the-lyons-brothers-as-next-inductees-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-07-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/ce0815e0-e19f-4d05-b9b6-7dd184f9b55b/Bob-Bre-01-004+copy.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces the Lyons Brothers As Next Inductees to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Cove Creek High School in Sugar Grove was a major project of the Lyons Brothers, completed in 1941. Image courtesy of the Bobby Brendell Postcard Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/5ce0608b-b53e-4fea-b762-e28a5127a4dd/089.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces the Lyons Brothers As Next Inductees to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out The US Post Office in downtown Boone, completed in 1939-40, was another major stone project by the Lyons Brothers. Image courtesy of the Constance Stallings Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/3059d02a-6b17-4bc0-8e30-469aa08f5039/054.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces the Lyons Brothers As Next Inductees to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out The cut stone garage and massive chimneys of the Watauga Handicrafts Building, a WPA project completed in 1938, were the work of the Lyons Brothers. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/bf0d268f-225b-4e7d-b6f8-ff4b8b170686/070.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces the Lyons Brothers As Next Inductees to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out The Boone Bus Depot, completed in 1946 by contractor W. G. Hartzog, featured native stone masonry completed by the Lyons Brothers. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/c88935a7-af18-4060-b0f2-93e1e569ee4e/060.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces the Lyons Brothers As Next Inductees to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Stone and brick work on numerous other buildings in Watauga County, such as the ASTC Faculty Houses, seen here about 1940, is suspected to be the work of the Lyons Brothers. Image courtesy of the Historic Boone Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/5/31/watauga-county-historical-society-announces-constance-stallings-as-next-inductee-to-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-06-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/7fa1e069-a4e0-4d4a-9769-2b468d69a034/Constance+Stallings%2C+CS+Collection%2C+DW.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces Constance Stallings as Next Inductee to WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Constance Stallings reviews paperwork in the Stallings Jewelry Store circa 1952. Image courtesy of the Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/4/27/watauga-county-historical-society-announces-john-and-faye-cooper-as-next-inductees-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-04-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/25d681fb-7744-449e-922e-733f8ca51ef3/Faye+and+John+Cooper%2C+1980%2C+WW+Mast+Family+Collection.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces John and Faye Cooper as Next Inductees to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Faye and John Cooper are seen here on a bench in front of the original Mast General Store in Valle Crucis, circa 1980. Unidentified clipping courtesy of the W. W. Mast Family Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/3/29/watauga-county-historical-society-announces-roberta-jackson-as-next-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/21891070-a143-4fd5-8766-8ead5c6fc454/roberta_marker%281%29.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces Roberta Jackson as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Roberta Jackson stands with the Junaluska Community historical marker unveiled by the Town of Boone in June 2021. Image courtesy of Sai Estep and the Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/2/20/watauga-county-historical-society-announces-reverend-ronda-horton-as-next-inductee-to-the-wchs-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/714e9aac-b002-4722-ba62-3e5a00ff5e1d/Screen+Shot+2022-02-20+at+5.39.20+PM.png Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces Reverend Ronda Horton as Next Inductee to the WCHS Hall of Fame - Make it stand out The Reverend Ronda David Horton, circa 1965. Image courtesy of the Historic Boone Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2022/1/31/watauga-county-historical-society-announces-elizabeth-bettie-bond-as-first-inductee-to-the-watauga-county-historical-society-hall-of-fame monthly 0.5 2022-01-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/a1b251c0-8281-4039-b17a-8b5a3552cbfe/IMG_8033.jpg Blog - Watauga County Historical Society Announces Elizabeth "Bettie" Bond as First Inductee to the Watauga County Historical Society Hall of Fame - Make it stand out Bettie Bond with her cat Sven, January 2022. Photo by Sai Estep. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2021/6/20/commemorating-junaluska-on-juneteenth-text-of-remarks-delivered-by-the-boone-hpc-chair monthly 0.5 2021-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1624219560719-KQVTOBFMD1G2FYJFS8AC/Roberta+Jackson+and+Marker%2C+6-19-2021%2C+by+Sai+Estep.jpg Blog - Commemorating Junaluska on Juneteenth: Text of Remarks Delivered by the Boone HPC Chair - Make it stand out Roberta Jackson, facilitator for the Junaluska Heritage Association, stands next to the newly unveiled Junaluska Community historical marker on June 19, 2021. Photo by Sai Estep. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2020/3/29/lessons-from-a-pandemic-the-spanish-influenza-of-1918 monthly 0.5 2020-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1585503579561-FH96HSS1P8WK9ZBML7F1/Jam-Mas-1-057A%2C+corrected.jpg Blog - Lessons from a Pandemic: The Spanish Influenza of 1918 This image of Thomas Sims Mast was taken around 1916 prior to his enlistment. Handwritten on the back is the note, “To Lizzie from Tom, something to keep the ‘Boogers’ away C!” The image appears in Series 1 of the James B. Mast, Jr., Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1585504067741-FPN6IIVLO5GB4QQZSS34/Screen+Shot+2020-03-29+at+1.47.20+PM.png Blog - Lessons from a Pandemic: The Spanish Influenza of 1918 This is the second page of a letter dated June 9, 1918, written by Thomas Sims Mast to Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Mast. The letter, which appears in Series 2 of the James B. Mast, Jr., Collection, details the activities from the first week at Fort Thomas in Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1585505482894-BYLD93HLQNVYV7S76KQR/Screen+Shot+2020-03-29+at+2.10.13+PM.png Blog - Lessons from a Pandemic: The Spanish Influenza of 1918 Page three of Thomas Sims Mast’s letter of July 1, 1918, clearly mentions the quarantine at Camp Crane, as well as Mast’s frustration with the limitation on his movements and his hope that it would be lifted soon. Like many soldiers and civilians, Mast found ways around the local quarantine during the summer, only to face a second wave of influenza in the fall of 1918. The letter appears in Series 2 of the James B. Mast, Jr., Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1585506892191-MJ63IWP2WW5SXXFIPA5K/Screen+Shot+2020-03-29+at+2.34.36+PM.png Blog - Lessons from a Pandemic: The Spanish Influenza of 1918 This image shows page four of a letter written November 17, 1918, from Charles Boyd to Mrs. N. L. Mast. The letter remembers Thomas Sims Mast fondly while also describing his final days with Spanish Flu. The letter appears in Series 2 of the James B. Mast, Jr., Collection. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2019/6/25/new-collection-the-valle-crucis-conference-center-collection monthly 0.5 2019-06-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1561847624832-MXZYY4IR4KU7EX08Y89S/Val-Cru-2-010.jpg Blog - Confronting the Tragedies of 1919: The Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection Excerpt from the June 5, 1919 issue of the Watauga Democrat with article (“Watauga’s Greatest Tragedy”) describing the devastating fire that destroyed Auxiliary Hall. Image from the Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection (Val-Cru-2-010). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1561848161043-D0A7MBKXC205OGIUEOFI/Val-Cru-2-011a.jpg Blog - Confronting the Tragedies of 1919: The Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection First page of typescript of statement by Mary E. Horner, principal of the Valle Crucis Industrial School, describing details of the fire that destroyed Auxiliary Hall. Image from the Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection (Val-Cru-2-011a). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1561848361442-D8Y7KMCS5BHS54Q3WPPP/Val-Cru-2-011b.jpg Blog - Confronting the Tragedies of 1919: The Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection Remainder of typescript of statement by Mary E. Horner, principal of the Valle Crucis Industrial School, describing details of the fire that destroyed Auxiliary Hall. Image from the Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection (Val-Cru-2-011b). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1561848767013-R3ZCA2HCDS54SE26SB0B/Val-Cru-2-027.jpg Blog - Confronting the Tragedies of 1919: The Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection Image taken in 1916 showing Adeline Miller, who perished in the 1919 Auxiliary Hall fire. Image from the Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection (Val-Cru-2-027). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1561849133473-Q8DGLADKAB7H1UPCMIUD/Val-Cru-2-053a.jpg Blog - Confronting the Tragedies of 1919: The Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection Portrait of Reverend Lee Frontis Anthony, priest-in-charge at Holy Cross Episcopal Church, taken shortly before his death in January 1919. Image from the Valle Crucis Conference Center Collection (Val-Cru-2-053a). https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2019/1/17/setting-the-stage-for-high-country-commerce-a-preview-of-the-downtown-boone-development-association-collection monthly 0.5 2019-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1547759390989-1XK2N7FI0EYGC5PWFJ4D/Dow-Boo-1-013.jpg Blog - Setting the Stage for High Country Commerce: A Preview of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection A woman walks east on West King Street toward the intersection with Appalachian Street during the 1990s. Image courtesy of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection (Dow-Boo-1-013), Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1547759567751-CS6JLS2SZ8OJ8KF7SSFY/Dow-Boo-1-001.jpg Blog - Setting the Stage for High Country Commerce: A Preview of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection Seen here in the 1990s is the present-day Boone Saloon Building, originally known as the Carolina Pharmacy #2 Building. Image courtesy of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection (Dow-Boo-1-001), Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1547759674544-VQDFKT1ZNKM4CCZWVHAZ/Dow-Boo-1-010.jpg Blog - Setting the Stage for High Country Commerce: A Preview of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection Originally known as the Hamby and Winkler Building (1937), this building on West King Street housed the Our Daily Bread Delicatessen in the 1990s, its present tenant today. Image courtesy of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection (Dow-Boo-1-010), Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1547760060318-QB1LJYN3G9OPZ89NW20B/Dow-Boo-1-007.jpg Blog - Setting the Stage for High Country Commerce: A Preview of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection The former W. R. Winkler Warehouse/Masonic Hall (1949) is seen in this image as the Heilig-Meyers Warehouse during the 1990s. Most folks might think this building is gone, but in fact its walls served as the structure for the present Watauga County Administration Building. Image courtesy of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection (Dow-Boo-1-007), Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1547760418499-1CBQLYCBU2FY3QQIXOH3/Dow-Boo-1-058.jpg Blog - Setting the Stage for High Country Commerce: A Preview of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection The W. R. Winkler Building (1927) endured the indignity of having its brick painted and an ill-suited, cable-hung awning applied during the middle period of its architectural history. Seen here in the 1990s, the building originally had a double-entrance configuration. Mast General Store later reconfigured the two entrances into one, removed the paint from the brick, and removed the cable-hung awning. Image courtesy of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection (Dow-Boo-1-058), Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1547761019503-FR47F0C3Y69ZGP9HLT2D/Dow-Boo-1-070.jpg Blog - Setting the Stage for High Country Commerce: A Preview of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection Visible at left in the 1990s is the building on the north side of Howard Street originally known as the Boone Tire and Bargain Store Warehouse (1944), followed to the east by the building originally known as the Baker-Commack Hosiery Mills Building (1944). The latter building is presently home to The Local restaurant and features a massive wooden porch structure on its south elevation. Image courtesy of the Downtown Boone Development Association Collection (Dow-Boo-1-070), Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2018/7/9/north-carolina-community-foundation-awards-2500-grant-for-digital-watauga-project monthly 0.5 2018-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1531133599041-VSH2G25XNZP6RHSORG3I/Screen+Shot+2018-07-09+at+6.52.41+AM.png Blog - NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDS $2,500 GRANT FOR DIGITAL WATAUGA PROJECT Grant funds will help purchase this full-depth standard museum cabinet (#STD532) from Gaylord Archival. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2017/12/13/the-1949-watauga-county-centennial-a-look-at-the-von-and-mickey-hagaman-collection-1 monthly 0.5 2017-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1513204820216-YN7XPAN5YDQWZ3MBO53D/Von-Hag-1-020%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - The 1949 Watauga County Centennial: A Look at the Von and Mickey Hagaman Collection Costumed participants (and a chicken!) from the 1949 Watauga County Centennial posed for this image by local photographer Palmer Blair. Mickey McGuire is at far left with a pumpkin on her knee. Image courtesy of the Digital Watauga Project, Von and Mickey Hagaman Collection (Von-Hag-1-020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1513202408982-OZ0J1H7SCO39KJ79003W/Von-Hag-1-013%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - The 1949 Watauga County Centennial: A Look at the Von and Mickey Hagaman Collection Woody Richardson donned this recreation of a Civil War military uniform as part of the 1949 Watauga County Centennial festivities. Image courtesy of the Digital Watauga Project, Von and Mickey Hagaman Collection (Von-Hag-1-013). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1513202497870-HO7XHNQVP8OS9DMSNS5A/Von-Hag-1-001%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - The 1949 Watauga County Centennial: A Look at the Von and Mickey Hagaman Collection Mickey McGuire posed in her Queen of the Centennial costume for Palmer Blair, a local photographer who shot many of the commemorative photos of the 1949 Watauga County Centennial. Image courtesy of the Digital Watauga Project, Von and Mickey Hagaman Collection (Von-Hag-1-001). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1513202621642-AHGLUOXXCJ9ZYKZE9RU4/Von-Hag-1-030%2C+cropped.jpg Blog - The 1949 Watauga County Centennial: A Look at the Von and Mickey Hagaman Collection Local photographer Palmer Blair also shot this image of the 1949 Watauga County Centennial Parade color guard marching down West King Street from west to east. Von Hagaman is visible as the second man from the right. The 1875 Watauga County Courthouse with its unusual corner entrance on the first floor is visible at right in the distance. Image courtesy of the Digital Watauga Project, Von and Mickey Hagaman Collection (Von-Hag-1-030). https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2017/7/31/new-website-documents-the-theater-history-of-watauga-county monthly 0.5 2017-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1501513692210-VYMY58F45G31WVAE37Z3/image-asset.png Blog - New Website Documents the Theater History of Watauga County First advertisement for the American Theatre at Shulls Mills, March 21, 1918, Watauga Democrat. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2017/3/1/historic-film-footage-of-boone-and-watauga-county monthly 0.5 2017-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1488469443088-W2OGTLOMYT415CZVVZ1D/image-asset.jpeg Blog - The Clarence A. Price Home Movie Collection Screenshot from the Clarence A. Price Home Movies showing young girls carrying live cats in the 1949 Watauga County Centennial Parade as they pass in front of the Jones House on West King Street in Boone, NC. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2016/11/4/senator-and-mrs-kefauver-visit-blowing-rock-nc-in-august-1956-a-peek-inside-the-palmer-blair-collection monthly 0.5 2016-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1478261858222-ZAWQHBMHPTAIDJF77O5M/Pal-Bla-1-1000.jpg Blog - Senator and Mrs. Kefauver Visit Blowing Rock, NC, in August 1956: A Peek Inside the Palmer Blair Collection Senator Estes Kefauver (D-TN) and his wife Nancy vacation at Mayview Manor in Blowing Rock, NC, in August 1956. This image was shot by Palmer Blair and appears in the forthcoming Palmer Blair Collection of the Digital Watauga Project, which will be available online beginning next week. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1478261815562-FPB5SJMAUHE39X0352ZB/Pal-Bla-1-1005.jpg Blog - Senator and Mrs. Kefauver Visit Blowing Rock, NC, in August 1956: A Peek Inside the Palmer Blair Collection Reporters interview Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) at Mayview Manor in Blowing Rock, NC, in August 1956. This image was shot by Palmer Blair and is part of the forthcoming Palmer Blair Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1478261764795-ISW191WLI2TTAXIRBLJW/Pal-Bla-1-997.jpg Blog - Senator and Mrs. Kefauver Visit Blowing Rock, NC, in August 1956: A Peek Inside the Palmer Blair Collection Mayview Manor as it appeared in August 1956. This image was shot by Palmer Blair and is part of the forthcoming Palmer Blair Collection of the Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2016/10/30/digital-watauga-has-moved monthly 0.5 2016-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1477852326691-7FECU8PYCG314VBBYFRH/image-asset.png Blog - Digital Watauga Has Moved! The Boone Fork Lumber Company Commissary at Shulls Mills, NC, from the forthcoming Lowery-Whiting Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1477853149566-4ESZMYH7G055WFE2DJDI/image-asset.png Blog - Digital Watauga Has Moved! A police officer on the streets of Boone searches a box of jars with clear liquid found in the trunk of a car licensed in Tennessee (date unknown, but probably early 1957). The Dacus Radio Shop is visible in the background. 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L. and Gladys Coffey Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1476741121463-GGVKNFAIFE0NDRHQECQC/image-asset.png Blog - Digital Watauga Tracks Down Boone's Early History Description of the July 4, 1919, parade from the July 10, 1919, Watauga Democrat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1476741962885-B5IWZHDBDNTKZX6WW20R/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Digital Watauga Tracks Down Boone's Early History West King Street (then known as "Main Street"), looking west, during the July 4, 1919, parade. The trees at the Jones House are on the far right, which the J. D. "Crack" and Emma Councill House can be seen at right center, near the first telephone pole on the right. Image courtesy of the H. L. and Gladys Coffey Collection, Digital Watauga Project. https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2016/9/27/identifying-the-people-and-places-in-h-lee-waterss-1936-film-of-boone monthly 0.5 2017-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1474992483502-F3IYTNGFS0DUC055YV95/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Identifying the People and Places in H. Lee Waters's 1936 Film of Boone The building in this image, from the 0:31 mark in our version (0:18 in the ASU/YouTube version) has completely stumped us. Some of us think it may have been located on the west end of King/Main Street, opposite the 1904 Courthouse. Others aren't so sure. Do you know what it is and where it was? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1474999002644-RNH05SJE59EB5WFMNCYQ/image-asset.png Blog - Identifying the People and Places in H. Lee Waters's 1936 Film of Boone Article in the October 29, 1936, edition of the Watauga Democrat advertising the H. 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Lee Waters's 1936 Film of Boone Pastime Theatre ad from the Watauga Democrat, October 29, 1936 https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2016/8/17/some-links-to-online-resources-about-watauga-county-history monthly 0.5 2016-08-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1471520498317-HJFDH85F7NG6PE5OG2WV/image-asset.png Blog - Some Links to Online Resources about Watauga County History Boone from the Northwest, ca. 1915, from John Preston Arthur's History of Watauga County (1915) https://www.wataugacountyhistoricalsociety.org/blog-1/2016/8/17/special-event-h-lee-waters-1936-film-of-boone-and-cove-creek monthly 0.5 2016-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57b35a842e69cf4ee87a75cb/1471448585556-HV7B7JE2DVGNU9QX1IJA/image-asset.jpeg Blog - SPECIAL EVENT: The H. Lee Waters 1936 Film of Boone and Cove Creek Screenshot from the 1936 H. Lee Waters Film of Boone and Cove Creek. We're still trying to identify that building behind these gentlemen, which we think was in Boone. Any idea what this is? 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