‘The great divide’
Glenn Johnson
Avery County is a great place to live.
Those that grew up here usually don’t desire to leave. Many have come here from other places for a variety of reasons. I hear many “locals” talk with disdain about our summer residents, our tourists, our skiers, etc., but where would we as “locals” be without them? This is a good time to pose the question: “Who is local or native?” Webster defines native as “being the place or environment in which a person was born.” Another definition is “one of the people indigenous to a place, especially as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.”
To read the complete story, please pick up a copy of your hometown newspaper, The Avery Journal-Times, available at almost 100 locations in Newland, Banner Elk, Crossnore, Spruce Pine and Roan Mountain, Tenn. To subscribe to The Avery Journal-Times, please call (828) 733-0401 or click to https://ssl.jonesmedia.biz/circ/index.php?db=avery.
Those that grew up here usually don’t desire to leave. Many have come here from other places for a variety of reasons. I hear many “locals” talk with disdain about our summer residents, our tourists, our skiers, etc., but where would we as “locals” be without them? This is a good time to pose the question: “Who is local or native?” Webster defines native as “being the place or environment in which a person was born.” Another definition is “one of the people indigenous to a place, especially as distinguished from strangers, foreigners, colonizers, etc.”
To read the complete story, please pick up a copy of your hometown newspaper, The Avery Journal-Times, available at almost 100 locations in Newland, Banner Elk, Crossnore, Spruce Pine and Roan Mountain, Tenn. To subscribe to The Avery Journal-Times, please call (828) 733-0401 or click to https://ssl.jonesmedia.biz/circ/index.php?db=avery.
