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  • Collection: "Lift Every Voice": African-American History in Haywood County

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An easy guide to understand the exact definition of the AME Zion Church in general. AME Zion Churches exist all across the United States, South America, Africa and the West Indies and numbers over a million members in America, establishing itself as…

Original Johns Creek Baptist Church
This was the original Johns Creek Baptist Church before it moved down the road.

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These hand woven lunch napkins were produced between 1925 and 1942 by an unidentified weaver for sale through the Spinning Wheel shop in Asheville, N.C. The items are decorated with rural African American figures using a laid in technique called…

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Today Amy talks about the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, its history and scenery. She ends her segment by reading Kilmer’s poem “Trees.” (Background music: “Appalachian Sunrise”). On Creative Corner, Doreyl talks with Katie Gaddis, a student at NC…

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The show begins with Amy’s story “Headlights on the Wall” about her early married life. The background music is “My Heart Will Go On” played on guitar. On Creative Corner, Doreyl spends time with poet Thomas Rain Crowe. They talk about Thomas Berry…

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Nat the Cat in his DJ booth at WWIT.

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Al Forney (on Left) being interviewed.

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• Noting a “lack of supervised activities and the absence of a place to facilitate those activities,” the Pigeon Community Development Club presented the Haywood County Board of Commissioners with a proposal to create a “unified community club” at…