Adelaide Silversteen was 17 years old when she spoke up and submitted her editorial on “the flapper” to the Brevard News, a precursor of the Transylvania Times.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, World War I formally ended. One year later President Woodrow Wilson commemorated that first anniversary of
The Godfrey-Barnette House, which has at times been called Linden Tree Manor, was built in 1918 on land that belonged to George McCoy Hixson. The house was constructed in the
While there is much about the beginnings of Epworth School (which later became Brevard Institute), the lives of its founders, Fitch and Sarah Taylor, are also noteworthy. Their passion and
Pandemics have happened throughout human history and lessons learned from the influenza pandemic over 100 years ago led to great health advances and public reform in rural North Carolina.