Canton, Cold Mountain, Lake Logan, Balsam

From the living relatives of Inman, the protagonist of Charles Frazier’s best-selling novel Cold Mountain, to trout twining the streams frequented by North Carolina Poet Laureate Fred Chappell to the rugged landscape that inspired so many Cherokee myths, the towns of Canton, Cold Mountain, Lake Logan and Balsam have given birth to some of our state’s greatest stories and storytellers.

Writers with a connection to this area: Fred Chappell, Donald Davis, Charles Frazier and Kaye Gibbons.