 Photo courtesy David Hooks Photography |
The late Mead Parce was a newspaper editor with a lifelong interest in history and the mountain people of the Southern Appalachians. A graduate of Utica College of Syracuse University, he lived in such diverse places as Texas, Utah, Florida, Central New York, New England, and Hawaii before settling in Hendersonville, North Carolina. There he was the editor of the community’s daily newspaper, the Hendersonville Times-News, for a number of years. In addition to editing the paper, he wrote six columns a week, many involving regional history.
|