Synopsis
Recipient of the NorthCarolina Society of Historians History Book Award, 2002, and the American Association of State and Local History Award, 2005.
About the Author
Randolph Preston Shaffner, a native of Winston-Salem, N.C., lives and works in Highlands where he established and managed for thirty years Cyrano's Bookshop. Having attended Davidson College, he earned his doctorate in Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As an educator, he has taught for the U.S. Peace Corps in Thailand, St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Fairfield University in Connecticut, and Western Carolina University at Cullowhee. As an author, he has published, apart from poems and articles, The Apprenticeship Novel, a seminal study of the "Bildungsroman," Good Reading Material, Mostly Bound and New, a history of the Hudson Library in Highlands to benefit the library, an Arcadia Images of America book on Highlands, and The Father of Virginia Military Institute, a biography of Colonel J.T.L. Preston, CSA. Under the name Faraway Publishing, he has published the first and second editions of his Heart of the Blue Ridge, Angie Jenkins' Highlands, North Carolina . . . The Early Years, Jim Green's Satulah, the Mountain, and the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust's First Creation, a history of the oldest Land Trust in North Carolina. He currently serves as archivist for the Highlands Historical Society.
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