The Ramsey Center, named after four-time speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, Liston B. Ramsey, is located on the main floor of Renfro Library on the Mars Hill College campus. It houses archival resources for teaching and scholarship in its Southern Appalachian Archives and Appalachian Reading Room. The Ramsey Center is central to the college’s regional studies emphasis, and it offers a venue in which the surrounding community and the faculty and students of the college come together for a range of regionally-oriented programs and events. Our extensive holdings—photographs, manuscripts, sound recordings, and artifacts—document aspects of mountain life and culture of interest to scholars here and abroad, holdings that have been called some of the finest in the southeastern region of the United States. These impressive materials have been and continue to be collected by mountain people dedicated to the preservation of local culture. The Ramsey Center is also a place where this local culture comes alive in the rich music, art, and cultural life on display in our diverse yearly events and exhibits, and in the ongoing work of dedicated scholars, teachers, students, and community members.