Janet Pittard: 2 books
Stephen Shoemaker
The Paintings and Their Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
North Carolina artist Stephen Shoemaker and writer Janet Pittard have teamed up to present a selection of Shoemaker’s paintings and drawings and the stories behind them. Known for his dramatic railroad paintings and scenes of life in the Blue Ridge mountains, Shoemaker shares the thought processes...
A Hospital for Ashe County
Four Generations of Appalachian Community Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
When Ashe County Memorial Hospital opened in November 1941, it was the realization of a dream for the poor, sparsely populated county in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina. Building a hospital is a major undertaking for any community at any time. Accomplishing this in the waning days of...