Gift From the Hills: Miss Lucy Morgan's Story of Her Unique Penland School by Lucy Morgan, LeGette Blythe; 1958/2005. Softcover. (CO-NC)

Reprint edition with historic photographs from the Penland School Archive.

Miss Lucy went to the North Carolina mountains in 1920 as an apprentice teacher, but she soon discovered that the kind of teaching that she wanted to do was not in the fields in which she was trained. What interested her most was already there among the mountain people--the ancient arts of hand-weaving and vegetable dyeing. Her campaign to revive interest in these native crafts has resulted in the internationally respected Penland School of Handicrafts.