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This is a picture of Toxaway Falls Stand, just adjacent to Toxaway Falls at Lake Toxaway, NC. This little business was started in 1947 by Vincent Owen, my husband Jack Owen’s father. Jack runs the store now, with help from yours truly.

In it you will find all kinds of things, from boiled peanuts and soft drinks, to coon tailed hats. These hats are very popular Davy Crockett style headgear. The hat is fake fur, but the tail is the real thing. They sell for around $8.00. We have Amish chairs, birdhouses, jams, jellies, pickles, eggs, butter, honey, and etc., etc., etc. Don’t miss this fun place. Lord willing, we will be open late April or early May.

We also offer quality giclee prints of my paintings, as well as inexpensive lithographs. We will have for sale a new item this spring – a vocal CD of old fashioned hymns I have been working on for some time. If you like this kind of music I think you will enjoy it. It is called: How Sweet The Sound, Sacred Songs From Long Ago.

My novella of historical fiction entitled Humpy Jack Fisher and the Toxaway Flood is available at the store. This is an action story about a heretofore unsung hero from the era of the Toxaway Flood of 1916. This book is the retelling of a true story told me by my mother.

And, here is a photo of the two storage cages at Toxaway Falls Stand. Jack saw something like this in Frostproof, and nothing would do until he had one for himself. The flag is made of soft drink cans, painted on the bottom, stuck through the holes in the chain link. Yours truly did most of the flag, but a little girl did the lettering for “God Bless the USA.” She did a great job, don’t you think?