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Film asks lessons from the 1916 flood in Western North Carolina
The piece recalls forebears fleeing to high ground during the Brights Creek flood threat in Polk County and a Bat Cave survey describing landslides that stripped trees and carried buildings away. It notes the NC Archives exhibit So Great the Devastation and a new documentary by David Weintraub based on oral histories. It warns that lessons from 1916 and other big storms remain elusive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Jones Giles
Bright’s Creek
Polk County
Drew Brannon
French Broad River
Bat Cave
W.S. Fallis
State Highway Commission
N.C. Division of Archives and History
David Weintraub
Weintraub