A Hospital for Ashe County ─ Four Generations of Appalachian Community Health Care

Janet C. Pittard presents readers with an examination of the history of Ashe County Memorial Hospital and the donors, doctors, emergency personnel, and nurses who planned, built, and opened the hospital between the end of the Great Depression and the start of World War II. She goes on to trace the history of the hospital and regional health care in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina over eighteen chapters, relying on interviews and archived documents and photographs. The author is a freelance journalist in North Carolina. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Janet C. Pittard is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Our State and Signature magazines and who has written for UNC-TV’s Our State program. She lives in Raleigh and West Jefferson.