Ken Abbott received his MFA in photography from Yale University in 1987, and received a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Award for his photography at Hickory Nut Gap Farm, in 2006. Prior to moving to Asheville he was the Chief Photographer for the University of Colorado at Boulder. His work has been published and exhibited widely, and is in many collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He lives in Asheville with his wife and two children. Today we share his series, Useful Work. Hickory Nut Gap Farm, sits perched near the top of the eastern Continental Divide, in Western North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. It was once known as Sherrill’s Inn, and in the late 1800s it was a busy stagecoach stop on an old trade route out of the southern Appalachian Mountains. In 1916 a young couple in the area on their honeymoon, Elizabeth and Jim McClure, fell in love with the house and surrounding land, and bought it from the old innkeeper and …
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