Ralph Fickel's Mountain Notes, Book 3
Ralph Fickel's journal while hiking and rock climbing along the Appalachian Trail in the Smoky Mountains.
<a title="Guide to the AC.490 Ralph Fickel Papers" href="http://collections.library.appstate.edu/findingaids/ac490" target="_blank">AC.490 Ralph Fickel Papers, 1970-2010</a>
6/19/1971-9/22/1973
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Interview with Phil Templeton [November 12, 1975]
Real estate developers
Rural development--North Carolina--Watauga County
Rural development--North Carolina--Ashe County
Templeton, Phil
Phil Templeton, a real estate developer, talks about the development happening in High Country over his lifetime. He attributes the development to the growth of the university, the skiing industry, and tourism in general. He is a proponent of the development, even if it means the loss of traditional mountain culture, because it provides a higher standard of living for people. He says: "Utopia would be that everything would remain in its natural state and everyone could enjoy it, but that's not how it works."
Young, Janice
Efird, Jane
Templeton, Phil
<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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