NOTE TO READERS: This is the fourth in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, where it…
Read moreEngineer by Mail: John Whisnant’s Early Years at American Enka, 1933-1941
Enka Builds a Labor Force: The Magic of Native-Born Mountain Workers
NOTE TO READERS: This is the third in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, and its…
Read more“The Best and Most Prosperous City”: American Enka and the Imagined Transformation of Asheville
NOTE TO READERS: This is the second in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, and its…
Read moreA New Vision for Old Hominy Valley: The Coming of the Enka Plant (Part 1)
NOTE TO READERS: This is the first in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, and its…
Read moreCotton Mill Colic vs. the Land of the Sky: From Gastonia to Asheville
The nearly two dozen posts I have published so far have focused on the Whisnant family, the first of whom entered the North Carolina Piedmont in the 1750s. My Whisnant grandparents,…
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