Author and domestic culinary expert with over 80 years of experience, Eloise is a mother, a grandmother, and a great-grandmother who lives in the Blue Ridge mountains. Born in Mulberry Gap, Tennessee, and raised in nearby Rose Hill, Virginia, she met her husband Ron at Berea College and they raised their own family in Kingsport, Tennessee. They lived in Kansas City and Greensboro, North Carolina, before retiring and moving to Ron’s boyhood home in Alleghany County, North Carolina.
Imaging Specialists, Inc. is happy to contribute to the 2024 Saturday Afternoon Social, benefit for the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society, Inc. Our “Golden Ticket” basket includes 10 books and 2 sets of note cards. Come to the fundraiser on the 17th and try to win the basket. But, if you don’t, you can order all these titles (and many more) at starroutebooks.com
Trails Through Time, by Steve Sudderth Brinegar Cabin, An Historic Resouce Recipes That Raised Us, Vol. 1 Recipes That Raised Us, Vol. 2 Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County Virginia, by B.F. Nuckolls The Life Experience of MGySgt. John Ulus Irwin, Jr. USMC (Ret.) Foot Prints… on the Sands of Time, by Dr. A.B. Cox Stories I Grew Up With, by Lonnie C. Jones Paths & Passages, by Jeff Halsey Sacred Spaces, Special Places, by Jeff Halsey 2 (different) sets of 10 note cards with Regional Photography, 5″ x 7″, with envelopes
This summer, Star Route Books published a three-volume treasury of stories, poems, and illustrations from the pen and imagination of the iconic naturalist, artist and author, Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919), about life in her beloved, southern Appalachian mountains:
Miles was a wife and mother whose poems and short stories appeared in national magazines in the early 1900s. She sold her first poem to Harper’s Monthly in 1904, but was probably best known for the book The Spirit of the Mountains, that she published a year later.
Her adult life was filled with poverty and health issues. She endured a troubled marriage. She was interested in women’s rights and suffrage. Her work reflects those themes, but through her writing, she also asserts great and positive and complex ideas- both, in her descriptions of interpersonal situations and of the natural world.
Mrs. Miles passed away at the age of just 39 from tuberculosis. Her last effort, the book, Our Southern Birds, was published posthumously in 1922. It was adopted as a textbook by the State of Kentucky, and later by Tennessee.
Star Route Books is proud to be able to help make available, once again, the timeless writings from this great author. For more information, and to purchase, visit www.starroutebooks.com.
The Stratford Oaks Tales is a series of stories about the good life for the animals at Stratford Oaks Farm. This book features Bella, a wild mustang from the rugged mountains of southeastern Nevada and her journey to a new home in the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina.
The Tale of Bella features full-color images and a delightful narrative that describes the entire adoption process through the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Program.
Stories I Grew Up With is an autobiographical collection by Ashe County native, Lonnie Jones, who relates stories told by his parents and of his own years spent growing up in the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia.
In this edition, Lonnie has included a very special series of poems by his granddaughter, Maci Jones, who is inspired by her grandfather’s stories.
Softcover, 190 pgs., Crown Quarto Format: 7.44” x 9.68″ Order at starroutebooks.com.
The gift shop at the Museum of Ashe County History has recently received copies of the Ashe County Historical Society’s newest publication: Architectural Survey of Ashe County, North Carolina.
In the early 1970s, the State of North Carolina, through the Office of Archives and History began promoting Architectural Surveys across the state in cooperation with the National Park Service. Later on, an effort to complete an Ashe County survey was started in the late 1990s. The final report was 110 pages long, and contained a detailed history of Ashe County and its various communities and towns. This report included as much information as was available for 590 properties, and features photographs, descriptions of architectural features, and brief histories of the buildings.
In 2018, several members of the Ashe County Historical Society started working to publish the final report so that the public could obtain a copy of this useful research. This book is the result of that effort!
Swing by and pick up your copy this week! The gift shop is open during regular Museum hours, 10-4. For more information, give them a call at (336) 846-1904. Or, order online, at starroutebooks.com.