The Caudill Cabin at Basin Creek in Doughton Park

Have you always wanted to see Basin Cove and the Caudill Cabin up close but weren’t able to make the (8.2 miles round trip) trek ?
Well, here is an excellent way to see the park, courtesy of Lenny and Phil Caudill. The Historical Society didn’t help with this project, (but we sure wish we had!)
These videos are narrated by Lenny and Phill, great-grandsons of Alford Martin and Jannie Blevins Caudill. The historical information and cultural background presented is a result of decades of research and service work within Doughton Park and Basin Creek.

CAUDILL CABIN, Doughton Park, Basin Creek:
PART 1: Historical Sketch of a Cultural Landscape
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Delta Peterson’s Nutcracker Collection

What’s that? You want to see MORE for Christmas?

Well, here are just four of many in a collection of nutcrackers donated to Alleghany Historical Museum this fall by Delta Peterson. We are grateful and very happy to be able to display Mrs. Peterson’s collection of decorative, holiday nutcrackers and incense “smoker” figures.

In 1997, Steinbach nutcrackers premiered a new series to honor the beloved tale, “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens. These four design production-runs were limited to just 7,500 pieces, each.

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Part of Alleghany Historical Museum’s 2023 Exhibit, “Ghosts of Christmas Past”

Piney Creek Methodist Church Children’s Choir

Here’s one you might like- a photo of the Children’s Choir, ready for Christmas, at the old Piney Creek Methodist Church…

I can see Sara (Halsey) McMillan (right end, front row) and
Lenna (Halsey Edwards) Hobson (left end, front row) and their mother,
Sarah Parsons Halsey right end, back row)
This building was built in 1910. Construction on the new church began in 1959 and the building was dedicated Feb. 9, 1964.

Christmas Card Basket: a Home Demonstration Club Project

More for Christmas…

Beginning before 1911, Home Demonstration Clubs were a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Cooperative Extension Service.

From the North Carolina State University Libraries website:“Home demonstration clubs throughout the state had for many years provided farm women with instruction on topics such as canning, cooking, house beautification, sewing, and more.

“These clubs were an outgrowth of agricultural extension and outreach programs that later became known as North Carolina Cooperative Extension, which today is operated jointly by the state’s land-grant institutions: NC State University and NC A&T State University.”

The New Hope Club was the first one organized in Alleghany County, with Sparta, Vox, Laurel Springs, Whitehead, Roaring Gap, Piney Creek and others following in succession.

This Christmas Card holder was a project made by Clara Lyons Halsey who was a member at New Hope.

Festive Christmas card holder, cut and stitched by hand. – on loan for the Holiday display by the Halsey family.
This editor would recognize that stitching anywhere, as he has retreated under layers of Mrs. Halsey’s handwork for over 6 decades.
–Clipping from the November 27, 1941, Alleghany News.
–From the May 8, 1941, edition of the Alleghany Star Times
— News of help in January 29, 1942 edition of the Alleghany News.

That Time of Year

Photo from Milly Richardson’s family of a traditional, annual event in the mountains each winter: Time to kill hogs.

Though it benefited everyone- yielding delicious hams, roasts, ribs, bacon, sausage, pork chops and tenderloin- it, perhaps, wasn’t a job for the faint of heart.

My own Grandfather made my (married) mother and aunts wait in the house when they were killing and cleaning, but the entire family helped with the butchering, the sausage grinding, the canning, etc. that came next.

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