This 2024 Second Edition of the 2010 Legacy of Bear Mountain, Volume 1, has been updated and changed to reflect additional information. Fictional names have been replaced, more pictures have been added and chapter headings have been reorganized. However, Granny's original recipes remain. She cooked and baked these delicious country foods for decades on her 1910 wood-fired kitchen stove. Back in 2010, the author, Janie Mae Jones McKinley, did not envision future editions of what became the Legacy Series. However, the opportunity to write a local history column for six years in the Hendersonville, NC, Times-News required more stories. Those articles became the focus of Volumes 2 and 3 . However, the original (now updated) Legacy of Bear Mountain, Volume 1, remains the foundation for later stories. In it, Granny's Baptist faith and my grandparents' gratefulness for simple mountain living is shown in stories about God's provision. They truly felt that wildlife (limited by today's standards) was placed in the forest by God to supplement vegetables grown in their garden. They were thankful for the 'possum baked with sweet 'taters on Thanksgiving, and for the wild rabbit that hopped across the yard during April planting time. Both those stories are included in this year-long season of recollections of life with Granny and Grandpa. Although Bear Mountain was so secluded that a road and electricity did not become available until 1975 (decades past Grandpa's lifetime) my grandparents lived well and were quite content in their 1895 farmhouse. In fact, Granny's favorite saying was, "We live right well on the mountain." A first-generation college graduate, Janie Mae holds degrees from Mars Hill and Western Carolina Universities and has donated her grandparents' antiques to Mountain Heritage Center of the campus of Western Carolina University. Denied proper schooling back in the 1800s, Granny and Grandpa highly valued education. They would be amazed that their everyday farm items are being kept for posterity and are being used to teach modern generations about the skills and resilience of past Appalachian generations.