About Elizabeth Powers Books
Elizabeth Dixon Powers was a writer, conservator, and Asheville native whose work reflected a deep connection to the Southern Appalachian landscape. Educated at Wellesley College and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, she published essays including "Cataloochee--A Sense of Place" and authored several unpublished novels. She lived in both South Carolina's Lowcountry and Western North Carolina, where she passed away in 2007.Mark E. Hannah was born in the Cataloochee Valley in 1906. He married Verda Messer and they raised a family of seven children in their beloved Cataloochee. Mark Hannah was the perfect choice to return to Cataloochee as a ranger after the park was created, to protect the land he loved, and to be a voice of reason to all who still cherished the valley as much as he did.
