Highlands

Images of America: North Carolina

by Randolph P. Shaffner (writing as), Randolph Preston Shaffner

Perched on the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains and founded in 1875 as a health and summer resort, the town of Highlands in Western North Carolina enjoys a northern climate in a southern setting. Its people originate from across the nation, giving an otherwise provincial village a cosmopolitan worldview, and its natural surroundings have attracted professionals in the arts and sciences as well as laborers, tradesmen, and craftsmen. The photographs in this volume attest to the extraordinary variety of characters that inhabited the Highlands plateau at the town's founding and during the first half-century of its growth and development.

128 pages, Paperback

First published July 23, 2008

Reviews

[Michele Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

*Disclaimer I borrowed this book from the library thinking it was not a North Carolina book

Personally, setting aside my accidental mistake of the town I was reading about, I cannot say that this was a good read for an "outsider." The town dates back to the 1800s and so not much still stands. My biggest criticism of the book is that the images are extremely small and do not always go with the text in the ebook format. The images cannot be adjusted in ebook format.