For His Cause A Little House: A Hundred Year History of Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church
Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church (Blowing Rock, N.C.)--History
Blowing Rock (N.C.)--Church history
<span>Through text and photographs, Donald Saunders explores the history of the Rumple Presbyterian Church in Blowing Rock, NC, as well as its members from the Blowing Rock community.</span><br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jtBn2tDFvcYE5p2_dePnRXeUkcxmH_YP" target="_blank">Download EPub<br /><br /></a><a title="UNC Press Link" href="https://www.uncpress.org/book/9781469642017/for-his-cause-a-little-house" target="_blank">UNC Press Print on Demand</a>
Saunders, Donald B.
<a title="UA 76 Appalachian Consortium records" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> UA 76 Appalachian Consortium records </a>
Appalachian Consortium Press
1988
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Blowing Rock (N.C.)
Interview with J.F. Parker
Appalachians (People)--North Carolina--Marion County
Appalachians (People)--North Carolina--McDowell County
Appalachians (People)--North Carolina--Rowan County
Marion County (N.C.)--Social life and customs
McDowell County (N.C.)--Social life and customs
Rowan County (N.C.)--Social life and customs
Parker, J. F.
J.F. Parker talks about his experience as a teacher with the mountain people living in Old Fort. Although he had never finished high school, he got a job as a teacher. He said: "He was going to send me on to teach school whether I knew anything or not." He talks about the hardships living up there, how school attendance was often very low and the kids brought snakes to the schoolhouse. He says the mountain people were a different breed of folk and they understood that "it takes a certain amount of failure in life to make a person what they should be." They were hardened, but strong and firm.
Parker, J.F.
<a title="Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989" href="https://appstate-speccoll.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/195" target="_blank">Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews, 1965-1989</a>
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