Free event at Saluda Historic Depot and Museum Professional photographer Jeffery Stoner will present “Photography and Trains.” Light refreshments will be available. “Jeffery Stoner has had a lifelong passion for photography, but only became a professional photographer when he began selling his images in 2004. He is especially known for his Goats of Roan and Steam Locomotive images and his images have been featured in international, national, and regional publications. His latest book, Taproots of Tennessee, was published in 2019 by the University of Tennessee Press and illustrates stories about the Tennessee state-owned historic sites.   In 2016 his images were featured in a book of Poetry by K.S. Hardy titled Natural History. In 2013 Shanti Arts published Current Essays on the Passing of Time in the Woods in which fifty-five of his images illustrate the short stories of Robert McGowan. Mr. Stoner is represented by galleries in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.  He speaks to groups throughout the southeast on topics including, The History of Train Photography which is the topic of his discussion at the Saluda Historic Depot on Friday, July 19 at 7:00 PM.  All are welcomed and doors will open at...

Free event at Saluda Historic Depot and Museum Speaker Tom Perry will discuss the “Dinky Railroad” a narrow gauge railroad that ran from Mount Airy, NC to Kibler Valley, VA. Light refreshments will be available.

Free event at Saluda Historic Depot and Museum on April 19 at 7pm. Light refreshments will be available. “The sounds of growing up along the Saluda Grade” presented by Pearlie Mae Suber Harris. Pearlie Mae Suber Harris will be the featured guest speaker of the Saluda Historic Depot’s April Train Tales. Harris moved with her family to Saluda in 1940 and grew up near the railroad tracks. She describes life in the town of Saluda well before the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Education was a powerful theme throughout Pearlie’s life. She graduated high school in 1953 and left Saluda to find work in Greenville. At that time, she was given the opportunity by Mrs. Simpson (of the Belks-Simpson department store chain) to attend Barber-Scotia College. Pearlie would go on to become a beloved teacher in the community for the next 39 years. She earned her Masters degree from Furman University, where she also later receive an honorary doctorate. In 2020, Pearlie was also honored as the subject of a large-scale mural in downtown Greenville, celebrating diversity and education. Join us at the Saluda Historic Depot on April 19 at 7:00 PM to hear Pearlie Mae Suber Harris share her story about “The sounds of Growing Up Along the Saluda...

Free event at Saluda Historic Depot and Museum Speaker John Pezzano will discuss “Railroad Depot Agents in the 19th Century.” Light refreshments will be available.