1. When there was no electric lights on Nantahala, and you had to get your school homework by kerosene lamps.

2. Lee Duvall taught most of the kids how to swim and was also the community undertaker.

3.On a quiet afternoon if the air was traveling right you could hear the train whistle and choo-choo sound as it pulled up the Topton Mountain.

4. If you can remember when Aunt Tine Rowland, Aunt Lizzie Bateman and Aunt Hat Wright were the oldest citizens in the community.

5. When we had Decoration Day there truly was dinner on the ground and the singing and preaching lasted until late afternoon.

6. When Charlie Evans always referred him-self as”Evans from the rock”.

7. If you can remember when all the boys (including myself) wanted to go fishing on the Nantahala Dam as that was where Luther and Eunice Jacobs lived along with their seven pretty girls.

8. When Carl Moses was principal of Otter Creek and Miss Lolita Dean was Principal at the Kyle School.

9. When all roads and driveways on Nantahala were gravel and the prisoners worked the roads.

10. When cokes and candy bars were a nickel and everyone was upset when cokes went to six cents.

11. When most men worked at Jess Crouser’s saw mill and shortly afterward Neil Kitchens put one up in Aquone.

12. When Arthur Woods sold snake bite medicine and was never caught.

13. When Vick Denny ran a community Taxi service and got good buisness as most of the vehicles in the community were log trucks.

14. When you went to school smelling like a cow but it was OK as most everyone else did too.

15. When there was no such thing as ISS in school because you received a board across the back side if you got in trouble.

16. If you can remember Eckle Rowlands floating store.

17. If you can remember when Myrtle Hall and Jim Neal had the only telephones because they were Forest Service phones and if you had to use a phone you had to go to the Power House and talk on one outside the gate,also there was a phone at Luther Jacobs’ on the Dam.

18. You might be an Old Timer if remember when the only roads that connected us to the outside world was the Winding Stairs or the Wayah Rd and it took all day to go to town and back.

Also…

SAM WATERS HAD SEVERAL LOGGING CAMPS AND WORKED AS MANY AS 65 MEN AT ONE TIME .

FLOYD DEWEESE RODE THE CHILDREN AROUND ON HIS HORSE.

UNCLE PAT SOLESBEE STAYED DOWN ON THE ROAD A LOT TO INQUIRE OF THE PASSING NEIGHBORS WHERE THEY WERE GOING.

WILLIAM DEWESE LIVED ON GOLD PIT AND WAS SEEN CARRYING A SACK OF CORN QUITE OFTEN TO UNCLE LUTHER ROWLANDS CORN MILL

CLEVE HEMBREE WOULD BE SEEN WALKING TOWARD BURNINGTOWN GAP ON HIS WAY TO FRANKLIN TO BUY HIS MONTHLY SUPPLIES
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CLAUDE PENDERGRASS WAS THE KYLE BARBER AND CHARGED 10 CENTS FOR A HAIRCUT.

FRANK SHIELDS, GRADEY COPE AND RAY SHIELDS WERE THE STATES ROAD CREW WITH CLINT MAY SUPERVISING THEM.

WARREN AND LIL WATERS DROVE A WILLIS JEEP AND LOADED ALL THE CHILDREN THEY COULD GET INTO IT AND TOOK THEM TO THE MOVIES AT ANDREWS ON SATURDAY NIGHT.

JIM NEAL WAS THE LOCAL FIRE WARDEN AND WARREN OWENBY STAYED ON THE WESSER BALD TOWER TO WATCH FOR FIRES
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HOLLICE CLARK AND FAMILY LIVED IN THE OLD HALL HOUSE WHERE THE BRYANT’S LIVED LATER AND YOU COULD SEE ALL THE CLARK CHILDREN WALKING TOWARD THE OLD KYLE SCHOOL.

SAM PASSMORE AND DOROTHY RAN THE LAKES INN CAMP GROUND AND UNCLE CHARLIE EVANS WAS USUALLY CLOSE BY

ALL THE LOCAL SCHOOL TEACHERS STAYED AT MYRTLE HALLS WHITE OAK LODGE.

ESTER SEAY TAUGHT SEVERAL OF THE LOCAL STUDENTS TO PLAY THE PIANO ALTO SHE COULDN’T PLAY

THE NANTAHALA BALL TEAM PLAYED AT THE OLD WOODEN GYM AT OTTER CREEK SCHOOL AND THEY HAD TO THROW ALL LOW PASSES AS ANY THING ABOVE FIFTEEN FEET WOULD HIT THE RAFTERS AND IF THE BALL WENT OUT THE DOOR IT TOOK SOME TIME TO FIND IT.

HARRY THOMAS WAS THE COUNTY SHERIFF AND WE SAW HIM ABOUT EVERY SIX MONTHS.

PREACHER PRINCES SNAKE HANDLING SERVICE WAS ONE OF OUR MAIN ATTRATIONS.

MARVIN WILSON WAS KNOWN AS THE BEST TROUT FISHERMAN IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY.

HAMP AND MAYBERL OWENBY RAN THE STORE AT THE BOTTOM OF ROWLAND HILL AND IT WAS A LOCAL HANGOUT FOR THE TEENS AND MANY OF US DRUNK OUR FIRST MOUNTAIN DEW THERE(SODA).

JIM NEAL HAD A PAIR OF WORK STEERS AND EVERYONE ENJOYED WATCHING THEM WORK.

IF YOU WANTED GASOLINE YOU HAD TO GO WEAVER CHOCRANS STORE AND PUMP IT UP INTO THE GLASS MEASUREING CONTAINER AND GIVE HIM ONE OF YOUR RATIONING STAMPS.