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The Hills O' Ca'liny
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A.W. Spalding

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Cover, A.W. Spalding. The Hills O' Ca'liny,
D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNC Asheville
Title The Hills O' Ca'liny
Identifier http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/spalding_a_w/default_spalding_a_w.htm
Creator A.W. Spalding [Arthur W. Spaulding]
Subject Keyword Western North Carolina ; Asheville, NC ; religion ; Southern Appalachians ; churches ; schools ; Dorland Bell school ; Dorland Institute, NC ; Farm School, Swannanoa, NC ; "mountain whites" ; "mountaineers"  ; Civil War ; War Between the States ; preaching ; preachers ; Burnsville Academy, NC ; Laura Sunderland Memorial ; Marshall Academy ; Jarrold's Valley, WV ; Flag Pond, NC ; Hyden Academy, KY ; Industrial Home, KY.
Subject LCSH Spalding, A.W.
Asheville (N.C.) -- History -- Pictorial works
North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
Appalachians (People)
North Carolina -- Social conditions
North Carolina -- Description and travel
Asheville (N.C.) -- Description and travel
Date Date of object: 1921 ; Date digital:  2007-12-30
Publisher [Publisher] Literature Department, Presbyterian Home Missions, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1906 ; [Digital Publisher] D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Contributor

 

Type Source type: text ;illustrations
Format image/jpeg/text ; 192 p. : ill., plates ; 20 cm
Source SpecColl  
Language English
Relation E.M. Ball Photographic Collection, UNCA ;
Coverage 1921 ; western North Carolina
Rights Any display, publication or public use must credit D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Copyright retained by the authors of certain items in the collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Donor Special Collections purchase 
Description  
Acquisition n/a
Citation Spalding, A.W. The Hills O' Ca'liny,  D. H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804
Processed by Special Collections staff,  2007
Last update 2007-12-30
Biography A.W. Spalding
  [Cover]

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Frontispiece:

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  Forward:

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  Title page

The Hills O' Cal'iny, By Arthur W. Spalding,  Review and Herald Publishing Association, Takoma Park, Washington, D.C., Peekskill, N.Y. ; South Bend, Ind.

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  Contents [by chapter]     spal0006 copy.jpg (183283 bytes)
  7 Among Mine Own People
  27 The Land of the Sky
  43 The State of Religion
  67 The Path to Pisgah
  91 The House of Rest
  109 Christy, Kith and Kin
  133 The Summer People
  149 The Lake Country
  177 Children of the Rechabites
  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS    
    Looking Down from Mt. Mitchell. [U. & U, N.Y.] p. 2 Opposite Title page spal0003 copy.jpg (237732 bytes)
    Old Man Douglas: " A brave old man, though a garrulous, and a good old man withal." [Photo: "?? Lofer [?], 1913 by R. H.[enry] Scadin, 1913] p. 6
 
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    The Old Spinning Wheel [Photo: Eugene J. Hall] p. 18 spal0008 copy.jpg (246783 bytes)
    Autumn: "The trees, released from the summer's campaign, were hastening to doff their uniforms of green." [Photo: Eugene J. Hall] p. 26  
    A Waterfall in  "Cal'iny" : "It is a land of springs, of flowing water." [Photo: Henry Scadin, 'Whitewater Falls']
p. 32
 
    The Mill : "How the little cascades tumble down from the mountains!" [Photo: unknown] p. 36  
    Asheville, North Carolina: "Standing on the public square at Asheville, you cannot fail, almost any day , of being entertained." [Photo: Herbert W. Pelton]
p. 42
 
    Primitive but Comfortable: "A log home in the hills o' Ca'liny." [Photo: unknown]
p. 58
 
    Mt. Pisgah : "A beautiful, dome-shaped mass, Mt. Pisgah is approached on the east along the ridge of Little Pisgah, which because of its rodent-like appearance from Asheville, has received the nickname, 'The Rat.'" [Photo: Herbert W. Pelton]
p. 66
 
    Beth-shan : "But one place there is which I have named 'The House of Rest.'" [Photo: unknown]
p.90
 
    Mountain Freighters : "Stretching in trains along the roads are seen the whit-topped prairie schooners." [Photo: unknown]
p.100
 
    In and Out Among the Trees: "I fell to noting the leaves that carpeted the trail." [Photo: unknown]
p. 104
 
    Off to Market : "This is not Christy, but one of Christy's kin or kith." [Photo: Henry Scadin - "Going to Market"] p. 108  
    Out in the Pasture: "'You take that there young Molly! he said; 'she won't kick as long as she's eating!'" [Photo: unknown] p. 114  
    A Mountain Shepherd : "Little enough have I said of Christy's kin. I would have told you of Richard; of Pete, dark browed under the frown of Forge Mountain." [Photo: unknown] p. 124  
    Nature in Her Glory : "It is a beautiful country up there under the shadow of Bearwallow Mountain." [Photo: unknown.] p.132  
    Beauty, Beauty, Everywhere! "Water in plenty there is in the mountains, from bubbling springs to garden plots of white water lilies and cattails." [Photo: Boston Photo News Co. p. 148  
    Mt. Toxaway : "Far out over the crowded heights and through their gaps, we gazed." [Photo: unknown] p. 158  
    Lake Fairfield : "The last of the trio of lakes, Fairfield, lies a thousand feet above Sapphire." [Photo: unknown] p. 166  
    "Home, Sweet Home" : "A little mountain farm, with a cabin home, was their all. "[Photo: unknown] p.176  
    The School They Found : "They prayed and worked their way into the opportunity for an education." [Photo: unknown] p. 184  
    From the Brow of Lookout : "Dear children of the mountains, I pray for you all a deeper knowledge, a broader experience, a fairer success, than you even yet have known." [Photo: U. & U., N.Y.] p. 189