The Skyland Post (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
661 issues from 1935 to 1947, published in West Jefferson, North Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
Nancy Ruth Reeves (1904-1958) published the first issue of the Skyland Post in her hometown of West Jefferson, North Carolina, in 1931. Reeves had recently returned to North Carolina from Danville, Virginia, where she had resigned from teaching at Averett College. The daughter of a physician active in state and local politics, Reeves used the Post to back the Democratic Party. She had help from her cousin John Frank Reeves, Jr. (1905-1984) in running the business side of the Post.
In 1932, Ruth Reeves bought and then ceased publication of the Ashe County Journal, also based in West Jefferson. With closure of the Journal, the Post became the sole newspaper in Ashe County, the mountainous western part of North Carolina and home to lumber operations as well as dairy and truck farming.
In 1937, Reeves married and settled with her husband in Danville. She leased the Post to Ed Moore Anderson (1905-1958), who had worked as editor of the Leaksville News for three years and then briefly at the Bee of Danville, Virginia. Anderson eventually bought the newspaper and held the titles of editor and publisher.
Stella Anderson (1902-1988) worked with her husband at the Post, having written for the Charlotte Observer and the Greensboro Record prior to their marriage. Listed as “Mrs. Ed Anderson” and with the title of assistant editor, Stella first appeared on the masthead with the Post‘s February 20, 1941 issue. Five years later, in March 1946, Stella assumed the editorship, while Ed…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- West Jefferson, North Carolina, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress