Sharyn McCrumb's award-winning Ghost Riders about the Civil War in the mountains is being adapted for the stage by the Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville, NC. It will run from June 7-21. We will keep you posted as things progress.

Nora Bonesteel is Back!
A Christmas novella titled Nora Bonesteel's Christmas Past will be published in September 2014 by Abingdon Press of Tennessee.

The Rosewood Casket - New Edition
The Rosewood Casket is now available in a new edition from St. Martin's Press. This requiem for the mountain land lost to development and environmental problems is also a moving account of four grown sons, who have returned to the family farm to build a coffin for their dying father.

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George Washington's Continental Army was losing the war in the north, and the victory of the Overmountain Men renewed the colonist's optimism for the cause. Thomas Jefferson called it the turning point of the war.

The battle of King's Mountain is a Who's Who of the colonial frontier. The Overmountain Men included: John Sevier, first governor of Tennessee; Isaac Shelby, first governor of Kentucky; William Campbell, brother-in-law of Virginia governor Patrick Henry; John Crockett, father of frontiersman Davy Crockett; David Vance, grandfather of NC's Civil War governor Zebulon B. Vance; and Jonathan Tipton, the 7-times great-grandfather of author Sharyn McCrumb.

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The Ballad of Frankie Silver
The Ballad of Frankie Silver is now available in a new edition by St. Martins Press. The novel, a New York Times best-seller, tells the moving story of the 18-year old mountain girl who became the first woman hanged for murder in the state of North Carolina (1833.)

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