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Western Carolinian Volume 43 Number 06

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  • PAGE 8/THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN/SEPTEMBER 29, 1977 Mountain Heritage Something for everyone... something to remember WCU Saturday presented its 1977 Mountain Heritage Award to the Cherokee Historical Association for helping "us to discover anew those commitments to the brotherhood of man that have always been dear to the Cherokee people." The award presentation climaxed WCU's Mountain Heritage Day, a day full of music, crafts, exhibits, dancing, and "food and fun." The day included a food fair, with everything from richly-concocted homemade pies and cakes to natural- grain breads and nut-and-fruit combinations. Off in the distance, the boom of muzzle-loaders and shotguns punctuated the air at a black-powder shot. From a balcony in wcu's Belk Music Building, the antique sounds of plucked Appalachian dulcimers drifted over thousands of persons from throughout Western Carolina drawn to the day-long celebration of yesteryear. At the base of a natural amphitheatre shaped by the slope ol the lawn belling Belk building. Marc Pruett and his New Day Country Hand struck up the lively mountain toe-tapping tunes that have come down the years from generation to generation. And some of them weren't so old that university students and youngsters from everywhere didn't stick around. They stayed the day, dancing and clapping. From up north of Wcavcrville, Harold Garrison with a stove-pipe hat towered above nearly everyone as he showed his hand-carved wooden flowers and made his wood figure dancers cavort on their paddles. Folks came from all the hills and coves in WNC and some drifted in from South Carolina, Georgia and even Lousiana. By all odds, it was Western's biggest Mountain Heritage Dav. On hand was last year's Heritage Award winner, John 1'arris. and Mrs. Parris. The university took the occasion to present Parris with a framed version of the citation he received last year. The citation given him was hand-lettered on parchment by Bob Barnes of Candler and included on the certificate were drawings of Mr. and Mrs. Parris' farm in Laurel Cove. One of the region's best-loved | achieved recognition throughout thew keep alive mountain ways also came I, Mrs. Leona Hayes of Asheville, »-j husband, Hubert, in cooperation « Javcees, sponsored the Mountain Yo years, was a special guest. In presenting the Mountain Herita Cherokee Historical Association l)r WCU chancellor, said that the "| outdoor Indian drama sponsored by CI tanding of the and has for I he j development of the Cherokee people.' But, Robison said, "in a larger saj the founders and perpetuaters ot the A understand—we recognize and ho Cherokee people themselves. "The great chiefs of the Cherokee beginnings of our heritage have strive nation of the Cherokee, and that trad today by Chief John Crowe ami the Tribal Council. "Our salute to the Association." I with full and equal tribute to our Indiai this university, resting upon lands named, we take special, ciulurin relationship with the Cherokee people. In the formal citation, accepted on Frank H. Brown Jr. of Cullowhee. association, the university said, in part "The heritage we hold dear has he enriched bv the Cherokee Historical millions of our citizens would never history and culture of the Cherokt without its efforts. "Through the establishment and | most popular outdoor drama in <\mei Hills', in the re-creation of a living lnc 200 years ago. known as the Oconoluf DAVID ILLS PHOTO DREW CLARK PHOTO
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