Jeremy B. Jones, Author at Our State

Jeremy B. Jones

Jeremy B Jones is the author of two nonfiction books: Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries (Blair, 2025) and Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland (Blair, 2014). Born and raised in Henderson County, he serves as a professor of English Studies at Western Carolina University, where he teaches creative writing and directs the annual Spring Literary Festival.

Features

Baker Barber Photo Collection Captures Anonymous Images of the Past

In Henderson County, volunteer sleuths are trying to identify some 75,000 photographs spanning a century of everyday life in western North Carolina.

by Jeremy B. Jones

Features

Southern Sweet Talk

Honey. Sugar. Sweetie. Spend enough time in North Carolina, and you’ll notice our language is syrupy, the words saccharine, and your mood sanguine.

by Jeremy B. Jones

Restaurants

Hendersonville’s Postero is a Treasury of Tastes

When Postero restaurant set up shop in a former bank in Hendersonville, the merging of past and present yielded a menu that’s familiar, yet full of surprises.

by Jeremy B. Jones

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