Around Bakersville - (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) by Bruce Koran & Sandy Grisham (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Mountains, streams, and strong families are the characteristics of Bakersville and the small towns that surround it in northern Mitchell County. For much of human history, people lived in small, rural trade centers where they knew everyone and helped each other, and families were the most important part of life. Bakersville was no exception. Fast-forward to the 21st century, and such places have faded from view. There may be an empty store, post office, or school, but there is little else in evidence of the vitality and lives of earlier citizens. Kona, Clarissa, Hawk, Tipton Hill, Buladean, Ledger, Bandana, and others had few economic opportunities left. Tobacco farming dissolved, factories moved abroad, mines closed, and most of the World War II generation and its descendants left for the military, college, and greener pastures. With smaller populations, all those public places were consolidated with others. It is those who settled and remained that are honored here.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Title: Asheville's Rob Neufeld on a new Charles Frazier novel and the value of state archives <br>Author: Rob Neufeld <br>Publisher: Asheville Citizen-Times <br>Date: 8/5/2011 <p><br>The advance reader s copy of Charles Frazier s much-anticipated new novel, Nightwoods, has gone out to reviewers. The finished product arrives in stores Oct. 4. <p><br>Frazier, author of Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons, has moved his spotlight from the Civil War and Cherokee Removal to 1960s Western North Carolina. Strange twins become the focus of a murderous stalker in a former resort town. <p><br> Luce s new stranger children, the novel begins, referring to the adopted twins, were small and beautiful and violent. She learned early that it wasn t smart to leave them unattended in the yard with the chickens. <p><br>Literary lights <br>While Frazier s literary light waits on the horizon, a troupe of local historians takes advantage of Arcadia Publishing s interest in turning photo and information archives into commercial books. <p><br>Bookstores create special shelf displays for the Arcadia series, primarily Images of America. In every community, you ll find several titles on regional towns and themes. <br>The publisher has developed the practice of finding local experts rather than depending on a stable of authors. The results are mixed, ranging from postcard and family-and-friends albums to truly valuable local histories. <p><br> Around Bakersville, written and compiled by Bruce Koran and Sandy Grisham, is the latter. <p><br>The authors, members of the Bakersville Historical Society, not only provide apt photos, covering a wide range of topics, but they also include brief historical surveys of Mitchell County and 22 communities from Bandana to Buladean. <p><br>In the Ledger section, the Decoration Day photo, received by the authors from an individual, is one of the best I ve seen as is the same contributor s photo of the entrance to the Chestnut Flat feldspar mine. <p><br>The town name Bandana, it is explained in the Bandana and Kona chapter, may have come from the practice of having a bandana tied to a pole if folks wanted the train to stop. <p><br>Part of the deal with Arcadia is that authors do their own local promotion. Keisa Kay and Elaine McAlister Dellinger, authors of the new Images of America volume, Yancey County, have scheduled an extensive tour nine book signings in two weeks. (See box.) <p><br>Archives and history <br>I remember stopping in local communities 20 years ago, reading and collecting all of the books about each place. <p><br>That would not be doable today. <p><br>Scholarship has become a welcome sensation, as bookshelves show. More than half the books I see from local authors are local histories, memoirs or historical fiction. <p><br>Yet, for more than 100 years through depressions and booms the N.C. Office of Archives and History has provided the backbone of public scholarship. <p><br>Its publication department has produced the authoritative sets The Colonial Records of North Carolina and North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865: A Roster, as well as the quarterly journal, North Carolina Historical Review and school-friendly books such as Richard Walser s North Carolina Legends and Hugh Rankin s The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina. "<br>
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