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Rural Electrification in the South

Books

Abrams, Douglas Carl. Conservative Constraints: North Carolina and the New Deal. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992.

Brown, Clayton D. Rural Electrification in the South, 1920-1955. Los Angeles, 1970.

Brown, Clayton D. Electricity for Rural America: the Fight of the REA. Connecticut:Greenwood Press, 1980.

Childs, Marquis W.Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: The Farmer Takes a Hand. Washington, D.C.: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 1980.

Wilson, Charles Reagan and William Ferris, eds. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

Articles

ěSouth Building Factories,î Business Week, December 5, 1936.

ěSouth Gains Industries,î Business Week, October 24, 1936.

Rural Electrification in the Appalachia

Books

Bail, Raymond. Mist Over the Mountains: Appalachia and Its People. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997.

Clark, Lillie McDevitt. Appalachian Memories: A Simpler Time. Weaverville: Reems Creek Valley Homemakers Club, 1984.

Kaplan, Berton H., Ph.D. Blue Ridge An Appalachian Community in Transition. Morgantown: Office of Research and Development, Appalachian Center, West Virginia University, 1971.

Pierce, Daniel S. The Great Smokies: From Habitat to National Park. The University of Tennessee Press/Knoxville, 2000

Smith, George David. From Monopoly to Competition: the Transformationof Alcoa, 1888-1986. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Websites

Your Friends and Neighbors, online.

http://www.carolinacountry.com/features.
YourFriendsNeighbors/PansyDillards/RuralElectrification.htm
.

Newspaper Articles

Carolina Mountaineer and Waynesville Courier (Waynesville, NC): Oct. 11,1917-Dec.25, 1919; Jan.6, 1921-Mrch 25, 1925.

Cherokee Scout (Murphy, NC): 1890-1917; 1923-1950; 1952-1956; 1960; 1963-1964; 1976; Feb. 25, 1980-April 5, 1988.

ěNew Nantahala Company Picks Officials.î The Franklin Press, 8 (August 929): A-1

ěProgress Made on Nantahala Project.î The Franklin Press, 7 (November 929): A-1

ěProgress Seen for the County.î The Franklin Press, 26 (December 1929): A-1

Rural Electrification in America

Books

Brown, D. Clayton. Electricity for Rural America: The Fight for the REA. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1980.

Haines, Alfred Cope. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Supreme Court. Boston: Heath, 1952.

McCloskey, Robert G. The American Supreme Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1960.

Nye, David E.Electrifying America: Social Meaning of a New Technology, 1880-1940. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1990.

Slattery, Harry. Rural America Lights up. Washington, DC: National Home Library Foundation, 1940.

Tobey, Ronald C.Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.

Articles

Arsenault, Raymond. ěThe End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture.î The Journal of Southern History 50 (November 1984): 596-628.

Campbell, Dan. ěWhen the lights cam on.î Rural Cooperatives 67 (July/August 2000) Database online. Available from Academic Search Elit 3653555.

D. Devine, Warren, Jr.ěFrom Shafts to Wires: Historical Perspective on Electrification. The Journal of Economic History 43 (June, 1983): 347-372.

Mamer, Louisan. ěBringing light to rural America.î Rural Cooperatives 65 (March/April 1998).

ěBringing Light to Rural America.î Rural Cooperatives, March/April98, Vol. 65 Issue 2, p33

Economics

Books

Blair, John P. Local Economic Development. Sage Publications, Inc., 1995.

Tobey, Ronald C.Technology as Freedom: The New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home. University of California Press: 1996.

Articles

ěThe Supreme Courtís Shift to Liberalism,î The Literary Digest (June 13, 1931).

Local Heritage

Books

Billings, Dwight ed., Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes. Lexington Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

Cochran, Weimer. Nantahala People and Events.Berea, KY: Berea College Appalachian Center, 1987.

Collins, Hunter, and Foxfire Students, eds. Foxfire 11. New York, NY: Random House, Inc, 1999.

Flynt, Wayne, Poor but Proud: Alabamaís Poor Whites.Tuscaloosa and London: The University of Alabama Press 1989.

Hall, Joseph S. Smoky Mountain Folks and Their Lore. Asheville, North Carolina: Gilbert Printing Company, 1969.

Hall, McRae, and Hall, eds.The Heritage of Macon County, North Carolina. Volume II. Franklin, NC: Macon County Historical Society, in cooperation with The History Division of Hunter Pub. Co., 1998.

Jackson County Centennial Celebration Executive Committee, Panorama of Progress: Jackson County Centennial Sylva, North Carolina September 2-8 1951. Jackson County Centennial Celebration Executive committee, 1951.

Jackson County Genealogical Society. Jackson County Heritage, North Carolina Vol. I, 1992. Cullowhee: The Jackson County Genealogical Society, 1992.

Sutton, Jessie. The Heritage of Macon County, North Carolina. Franklin, N.C.: Macon County Historical Society, 1987.

Williams, Max R. The History of Jackson County. Jackson County Historical Society 1987.

Articles

Woody, Robert, ěCataloochee Homecoming,î The South Atlantic Quarterly 49 (1950), 8.

Newspaper Articles

Jackson County Journal, May 4, 1906 ń October 14, 1943.

Sylva Herald Ruralite, August 4, 1943 ń 1950.

Websites

Hotaling, Lynn. 2002. The Sylva Herald Ruralite CafČ: Tiny Power Plant Fueled Development. [04/04/02]. Available from World Wide Web: ( http://www.thesylvaherald.com/ruralite040402.htm )

Hydroelectric Facilities

Books

Carr, Charles C. ALCOA: An American Enterprise. New York: Rinehart Company, Inc., 1952.

Creese, Walter L. TVAís Public Planning: The Vision, The Reality. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Droze, Wilmon Henry. High Dams and Slack Waters: TVA Rebuilds a River. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1965.

Johnsen, Julia E., ed. Government Ownership of Electric Utilities. New York, H.W. Wilson Company, 1936.

McGuigan, Dermot. Harnessing Water Power for Home Energy. Charlotte, Vt.: Garden Way Publishing Company, 1978.

Morgan, Arthur D.The Making of the TVA (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books and London: Pemberton Books, 1974).

Riddel Frank S. ed., Appalachia: Itís People, Heritage, and Problems (Dubuque Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1974).

Tennessee Valley Authority, The Fontana Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Fontana Project. Washington, United States Government Printing Press, 1950.

Articles

Carr, Charles C. ALCOA: An American Enterprise. New York: Rinehart Company, Inc., 1952.

Creese, Walter L. TVAís Public Planning: The Vision, The Reality. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

Knox, Crawford. ěCoal, Oil, and Water Power as Fuels.î Economic Geography, v25, I2 (Apr. 1949): 113-117.

Pendergast, John. ěFishy Business,î Civil Engineering (Nov. 1994): 61-63.

Poff, N. LeRoy. ěThe Natural Flow Regime.î Bioscience vol. 47, 11 (1997) 769.

Smith, Roff. ěNew Riverís Deep Soul.î National Geographic vol. 195, 6 (1999) 120.

ěTVA Canít Stop,î Business Week, June 30, 1934.

Tennessee Valley Authority, The Fontana Project: A Comprehensive Report on the Planning, Design, Construction, and Initial Operations of the Fontana Project.

Washington, United States Government Printing Press, 1950.

Varlind, Kjell-Erik.  ěOil-free operation: GE Hydro has developed technology to reduce or eliminate oil from inside Kaplan runner hubs.î  International Water Power and Dam Construction v54, i3 (March 2003): 32-35 [database on-line]; available from NCLIVE, Article A85463414.

Websites

ěNantahala Power and Light History Page.î http://www.nantahala.com/history.html.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, online.  http://nc-es.fws.gov/hydro/fercnc.html

Duke Energe

Books

Wee, Heesun.  ěDukeís Light Glows A Little Brighter.î  Business Week Onine, 5/30/2002.

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