Notes on Fickel's experience rock climbing in the Southern Appalachians.

Ralph Fickel's notes about hiking and climbing in Pisgah National Forest in the early 1970s.

Ralph Fickel's journal while hiking and rock climbing along the Appalachian Trail in the Smoky Mountains.

Leo Finkelstein provides an account of his family's past, starting in 1799 in Lithuania and ending with his life in Asheville.

Finkelstein explains his family's past, beginning in Lithuania and ending in Asheville, North Carolina.

Finkelstein describes his family's past, beginning in 1799 in Lithuania and ending with his life in Asheville, North Carolina, as well as some of the history of the Jewish community in Asheville.

Leo Finkelstein's handwritten diary providing an account of when he served in World War II. He gives lively, humorous, and detailed descriptions of his feelings and the places and people he met. His diary includes a lot of poetry as well as prose.