This is Michael Beadle's third Images of America book. A touring writer-in-residence and award-winning poet living in Canton, North Carolina, Beadle coauthored the bicentennial retrospective Haywood County: Portrait of a Mountain Community and has published hundreds of newspaper articles on the history, arts, and culture of Haywood County. A majority of the images within the pages of Canton have been culled from the photographic collections of the Canton Historical Museum.