Editing Haywood County, North Carolina (section)

==Culture==
===Tuscola–Pisgah rivalry===
{{Main|Tuscola–Pisgah rivalry}}
Two county high schools' football teams, the [[Tuscola High School]] Mountaineers of Waynesville and [[Pisgah High School (North Carolina)|Pisgah High School]] Black Bears of Canton, have maintained [[List of sports rivalries|a rivalry]] dating back to the school teams' predecessors' first game in 1922.<ref name= auffhammer>{{cite news| last = Auffhammer| first = Tyler| title = A great American rivalry continues| newspaper = The Mountaineer| date = October 13, 2022| url = https://www.themountaineer.com/100-years-of-football/a-great-american-rivalry-continues/article_0824df44-3392-11ed-9783-97eb3b9ebab6.html| access-date = May 28, 2023}}</ref> Annual football games between the two teams are popular events for locals and sometimes attract over 10,000 spectators.<ref name= auffhammer/><ref>{{cite news| last = Thompson| first = David| title = Planning a rivalry: Behind the scenes of how the Pisgah-Tuscola game comes together| newspaper = Asheville Citizen-Times| date = September 5, 2019| url = https://www.citizen-times.com/story/sports/high-school/hshuddle/2019/09/05/planning-rivalry-pisgah-tuscola-football-game-depends-community/2142030001/| access-date = May 28, 2023}}</ref>

===Festivals===
Since the 1930s, Haywood County has hosted an annual ramp (''[[Allium tricoccum]]'') convention.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.ncpedia.org/ramps| title = Ramps| last = Tetterton| first = Beverly| date = 2006| website = NCPedia| publisher = North Carolina Government & Heritage Library| access-date = April 22, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.bpr.org/news/2018-05-14/ramps-cuisine-meets-culture-in-the-mountains-of-western-north-carolina| title = Ramps: Cuisine Meets Culture In The Mountains Of Western North Carolina| last = Vaillancourt| first = Cory| date = May 14, 2018| publisher = Blue Ridge Public Radio| access-date = April 22, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| last = Harrell| first = Shelby| title = Get ready for Ramps| newspaper = The Mountaineer| date = April 28, 2021| url = https://www.themountaineer.com/life/get-ready-for-ramps/article_7a514388-a6cf-11eb-a3ac-ab28ebf483df.html| access-date = April 22, 2024}}</ref>

[[Folkmoot USA]] is an international [[folk festival]] held since 1984 in [[Waynesville, North Carolina]] and surrounding communities. During its history, the two-week event has featured around 200 groups from approximately 100 countries. The [[Southeast Tourism Society]] has named Folkmoot USA one of its top twenty events for 20 years. The [[North Carolina General Assembly]] declared Folkmoot USA to be the state's official international folk festival in 2003.<ref name=Beadle>{{cite news|url=http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/07_07/07_18_07/fm_world_diff.html|title=A World of Difference|last=Beadle|first=Michael|work=Smoky Mountain News|date=July 18, 2007|access-date=June 17, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716231347/http://www.smokymountainnews.com/issues/07_07/07_18_07/fm_world_diff.html|archive-date=July 16, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="romantic">{{cite web |date=June 17, 2010 |title=Folkmoot USA International Festival |url=http://www.romanticasheville.com/folkmoot.htm |access-date=June 17, 2010 |website=www.romanticasheville.com}}</ref><ref name="festival">{{cite web |date=June 17, 2010 |title=Folkmoot USA&mdash;The State International Festival of North Carolina |url=http://www.folkmootusa.org/ |access-date=June 17, 2010 |website=www.folkmoot.org}}</ref>