Twice-told True Tales

of the Blue Ridge & Great Smokies

Mead Parce


Twice-Told True Tales Click to Enlarge
Historical Images
Paperback, 128 pages
Illustrated
ISBN: 0-914875-37-X
$12.00

Years ago in southern highland homes, farmhouses, and cabins, the fireplace hearth was the focal point of family life. When chores were done, the hearth was the backdrop for social life and entertainment — banjo and fiddle music, songs, dancing, and storytelling. Over the years, twice-told tales have become thrice-told tales — embellished and polished by storytellers in the mountains.

 

The Author

Mead Parce


Mead Parce Courtesy of David Hooks Photography Click to Enlarge
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.


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