Louise Howe Bailey

Louise Howe Bailey was an award-winning local author, storyteller and historian and lifelong resident of Henderson County. For forty-two years, she wrote the column Along the Ridges for the Hendersonville Times-News. Bailey authored nine books, gave nearly five hundred talks on local history and heritage and led countless tours of her home church, St. John in the Wilderness in Flat Rock. Bailey's awards include the Western North Carolina Historian of the Year Award, the North Carolina Society...See more

Louise Howe Bailey was an award-winning local author, storyteller and historian and lifelong resident of Henderson County. For forty-two years, she wrote the column Along the Ridges for the Hendersonville Times-News. Bailey authored nine books, gave nearly five hundred talks on local history and heritage and led countless tours of her home church, St. John in the Wilderness in Flat Rock. Bailey's awards include the Western North Carolina Historian of the Year Award, the North Carolina Society of Historians Religious Book Award and the Order of the Longleaf Pine--the highest honor bestowed by the State of North Carolina. See less