“Tannery Owner Adam Hickman built this Carpenter Gothic House as a wedding present for his daughter. The house has three steeply pitched front gables of varying sizes have bargeboards dripping with wooden icicles. Along with a large leaded bay window and a wraparound porch with sawn balustrades and custom columns, the house sports enough ornate …
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The Human Face of White Top
For a century, from 1833 through 1933, White Top attracted an array of unique visitors, beginning with the reclusive Wilburn Waters and culminating in the appearance of the anything but reclusive First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. In between there were Naturalists like Asa Gray and Anna Murray Vail, entrepreneurs like Luther Hassinger and Douglas Robinson, picnickers …
How the Lumber Boom and the Chestnut Blight Changed the Face of Whitetop
As Doug Ogle pointed out in his study of–or perhaps a paean to–Whitetop, The Great Meadow Mountain, mountains present different aspects to different people. Mountains provide solace to some; to others they can be menacing. They can present challenges and opportunities. We can approach them with awe and wonder or with avarice. We can learn from them …
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