Type: In Memoriam

Growing up in the Smoky Mountains in the 1930s and '40s, autoharp player Gene Reed...

Frank Buchanan was born in the mountains near Spruce Pine in Mitchell County. At the...

Margaret Woody came from a chair-making family. When she retired from a furniture plant in...

Lawrence Wiseman grew up in the Spear Community in Avery County in a musical family,...

Arval Woody lived in Spruce Pine all of his life, and he worked as a...

Max Woody was born and raised in McDowell County, and worked as a sixth generation...

Born in Vonore, Tennessee, not far from his later North Carolina home in Robbinsville, Gilford...

Jimmy Wiseman grew up in a musical family in Avery County, and he played in...

Kay Wilkins was born and raised in the Plumtree community of Avery County, and she...

Born and raised in Crossnore, Jennie Vance grew up in a large hard-working and music-loving...

Drake Walsh started playing banjo when he was about six or seven years old, and...