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Black and White photo of two women holding a banner saying Buncombe County Extension Homemakers during the 1970s.

Buncombe County Cooperative Extension : The 1970s

The 1970s was a decade marked by turbulent changes in the political world, anti-Vietnam War protests, gas shortages, and economic inflation. At the beginning of 1970, Richard Nixon was president of…

Home Demonstration Agent Mamie Sue Evans hosts a food canning class for a group of women in 1941.

Buncombe County Cooperative Extension: The 1940s

"I've never known a group of people more independent. They lived off the land and asked nothing of anyone. I have never known a finer group. I would put the women of the mountains--the families of…