Bethel Writers and Media Contributors

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Ginger Kowal

  • To Keep and Preserve: The Farmland Preservation Efforts of the Bethel Rural Community Organization, taken from an ethnography for research in Anthropology at the University of North Carolina – Asheville – 2007.

John Parris

  • These Storied Mountains includes the following interviews:
    “There’s an Art to Bleaching Apples – Pigeon Valley” – an interview conducted in the home of Rosa Trull and Lucy West of Nell Church, Mable Hall, Mrs. Willie Holtzclaw, Mable Hall, Ethel Rickards, Rosa Trull, and Lucy West
    “Grandms’s Homemade Broom - Sunburst” – an interview with broom maker, Lena Pressley, and husband, Coy Pressley
    “Ramps Ain’t for Weaklings – Cruso” – an interview with unnamed interviewee, referencing Maggie Lewis, longtime ramp advocate.

Elizabeth Hunter

  • Blue Ridge Country:"Hunting Pinkney Inman"

Gerald Ledford and Ron Sullivan

  • If Rails Could Talk...Logging the North Carolina Great Balsams, Volume 2, Sunburst and Champion Fibre
  • If Rails Could Talk...Logging in the North Carolina Great Balsams, Volume 1, (Crestmont), Volume 3 (Quinlantown),Volume 4, (Waynesville and Suncrest) Volume 5 (Ravensford and Smokemont) are other volumes about Haywood County rail history that do not involve Bethel.

Loralee Kendell Iglesias

  • Colonel Joseph Cathey of Haywood County, North Carolina: Nineteenth Century Merchant, Entrepreneur, and Community Leader. A senior thesis at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, NC, 2003

B. G. McDowell (Editor Walter Clark)

  • Sixty-Second Regiment in Histories of the Several Regiments and Barralions from North Carolina in the Great War 1861-65

Ron Matson

  • The Ancestry of Bart Welch

W. Clark Medford

  • The Early History of Haywood County
  • Fiis and Farewell
  • Great Smoky Mountain Stories
  • Haywood's Heritage and Finest Hour
  • Land of the Sky History - Stories - Sketches
  • Middle History of Haywood County
  • Mountain People - Mountain Times
  • R. A. Sentelle - Educator, Preacher, Public Servant

Rob Neufeld

"Asheville Citizen Times." Neufeld was a feature writer whose "Portrait of the Past" and "Visiting our Past" columns included articles and Bethel people and Bethel history.

  • WNC Historical Associations's Outstanding Achievement Award
  • Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society Service Award
  • Old North State Award

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Duane Oliver (co-author Betsy Farlow)

  • Haywood Homes and History

Kathy Ross

  • “The Mountaineer.” Ross has composed dozens of articles that reference Bethel history in her role as local history writer.

Phyllis Gordon Womble

  • NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction – “Beyond the Battle: The Inman Brothers of the 62nd Regiment”
  • NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction - “The Cold Mountain Men: The Inman Brothers Civil War Story”

Becky Johnson

  • Smoky Mountain News,"The Real Cold Mountain," 2023

Scott McLeod

  • Smoky Mountain News,"The Real Cold Mountain," 2023

Robert and Connie Medford, Editors

  • The Families of Haywood County Based on the Haywood County Census Records

Larry Mull

  • The Sunburst Story

Duane Oliver

  • Mountain Gables: A Historyof Haywood County Architecture

Annie Maxwell Outlaw

  • Tar Heel Universalist,"Reminiscences on Miss Hannah Jewett Powell"

Haywood County Genealogical Society

  • Haywood County Heritage, North Carolina

Bob Terrell

  • Asheville Citizen-Times."Two Magnificent Forest Giants are in Danger of Death"

Walter R. Turner

  • William Stewart Terrell's Life and Heritage.

John E. Williams

  • A History of Universalism in North Carolina

Dawn Wilson

  • The Mountaineer. "Life in the Town of Sunburst"