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Carolina Mountain Breezes
by
Eloise Buckner Ebbs

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Cover, Eloise Buckner Ebbs, Carolina Mountain Breezes
D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNC Asheville

To the members of the North Carolina and the Tennessee Park Commissions, men who have given their time, money, and energy unstintingly, and to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose most liberal donation has made the Great Smoky Mountain National Park a possibility, this book is respect­fully dedicated, by the author.

Preface:
Very many books and articles have been written about the people who inhabit the Southern Mountains, yet the average picture in the mind of the public to-day is far from a true picture of the mountain people. Writers generally have made predominant but one type of character, and that is the feudist and illicit distiller, the man with the long rifle and the preemptory challenge. This mountain country, however, is also inhab­ited by a class of people who have a degree of culture that is comparable to that of the North­ern farmers. And this class it is whom writers have overlooked.

I have endeavored herein to give the moun­taineer's viewpoint. If the little book shall serve to place in the mind of the public a clearer pic­ture of this glorious mountain country and its true and honest people, and to answer a question which is often asked by those who come among us, "How do people live, and what work can they find to do in these mountains?", its mission will have been completed.

Copyright, 1929, By Eloise Buckner Ebbs

Carolina Mountain Breezes
By Eloise Buckner Ebbs

This book was written by one born and reared in the heart of the Carolina Mountains, and gives a true picture of the home life and work of the best type of the southern mountaineers.
The Miller Press, Inc. Asheville, N. C.

Western Carolina

Oh Western Carolina, "Fair Land of the Sky."
Where verdant hued mountains rear lofty heads high,
And the birds and the bees ever sing their glad song:,
To cheer and encourage the whole summer long.

Where the sweet cooling breezes from mountains and streams
Softly blow day and night, and make pleasant our dreams,
And the beautiful flowers and the gay butterfly,
Brightly paint every vista that greets the tired eye.

Where health-giving springs from green mountain-sides pour
In melodious welcome, as though to implore
Those wearly and' ill with flushed lips parched and dry,
To come and drink health in "The Land of the Sky."

Where in autumn the fruits shower down on the ground,
And the corn and the pumpkins, and wheat fields abound,
And old mother earth unlocks storehouses rare,
And spreads here a feast with which none can compare.

Our mountains supply all man's needs:  rain or shine,
From milk for the babe, to his last bed of pine, .
Then here would we live, and oh here let us die,
In Western Carolina, "Fair Land of the Sky.'"

—E. B.  E.