An Avery County resident discovered through a 1970s recording that her grandfather had worked on Tweetsie, a narrow-gauge railroad that once operated in the area. Leslie Laws said she was unaware of his employment at the railroad until hearing the tape.
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A tape from the 1970s. Leslie Laws heard her grandfather's voice on it and learned for the first time that he had worked on Tweetsie, the narrow-gauge railroad that ran through Avery County. Nobody in the family knew. The recording held a fact about their own lives that had somehow slipped away until the tape brought it back.
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