Spring Creek Community Center
I helped renovate this site from top to bottom, utilizing my skills in website management (Wordpress), graphic design (Canva and Adobe Illustrator), writing and collaborating with a team of volunteers to make this digital space into a valuable resource for the Spring Creek Community.
At Dancing Sun Cabins, I lead the storytelling, content creation, and digital presence to reflect the soulful beauty of this Western North Carolina mountain retreat. My work includes writing engaging website and social media content, developing seasonal marketing campaigns, and creating SEO-optimized descriptions that capture the essence of romantic mountain getaways.
I blend hospitality, creativity, and a deep appreciation for nature to help guests feel connected even before they arrive. Whether through a peaceful meditation video, a heartfelt reel caption, or a poetic cabin description, I aim to convey the magic and intimacy of this special place.
Appalachian Memory Project
Million Memory Project
Re-imagining publishing as a community-driven experience.
Archives are the footprints of time, and books are the voices that bring them to life.
Million Memory Project (MMP) is a publishing company creating a new approach to publishing and distributing books and digital archives.
We believe that books and archives thrive when created collectively. Our publishing process is a community-driven effort, where storytelling, memory preservation, and book creation become shared experiences. By engaging communities in every step—from composition to publication—we ensure that each book is a true reflection of the voices, histories, and cultures that shape it. In our book publishing process we create supplemental full-length oral histories, as well as image, transcript and document archives. We are working with institutions of different types to make these digital archives available to the public now and into the future.
We want to make it easier for books to tell stories that would otherwise not be told and leverage the creation process as a community experience. We are currently working on projects focused on local community memories, musical legacy and professional and industry oral histories.
Karen Karper Fredette – Author & Voice of the Southern Highlands
Karen Karper Fredette is an award-winning author living on Trust Mountain in Madison County, NC, near the Great Smoky Mountains. A native of Kent, Ohio, she shares her mountain home with her husband, Paul, and their pets.
With over 100 published articles and short stories and seven books in print, Karen celebrates the enduring Scots-Irish culture of Southern Appalachia—its dialect, music, and traditions preserved through thirteen generations. Her fiction/fantasy trilogy Legend of Lovada Branch (The Cove, Panther Gap, Woolyshot Ridge) is set in the very region she calls home.
Her short fiction has earned two Gold Medals and a Silver Medal in the NC Silver Arts competition, with Little ’Un and Destiny (In Memory of Annie) recognized as Screencraft Cinematic Short Story finalists.
Website design and content by Anna F. Robas, whose work brings Karen’s storytelling to life online, connecting readers to the heart of the Southern Highlands.
