L. McKay Whatley

Mac Whatley is an attorney in private practice in Asheboro. He resides in the Town of Franklinville where he served as Mayor or Commissioner for 20 years.  A native of Asheboro, North Carolina, he graduated from Harvard University 1977. His undergraduate training was in art and architectural history, and he has worked in Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina as an architectural historian and archaeologist. Whatley is an author of several magazine and journal articles on the history of decorative arts such as pottery and furniture. He is also the author of The Architectural History of Randolph County, North Carolina (1985) and Randolph County (2011), a volume in the Images of America series. Whatley is a member of the Randolph County Landmarks Preservation Commission. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA, where he serves as the museum’s Adjunct Curator of Machinery and is responsible for the museum’s study collection of antique textile machinery which is stored in North Carolina. Whatley is a licensed foster parent and the father of two teenage boys, Roman and Vladimir. Visit Whatley’s blogs on the history of Randolph County, Deep River, Quakers, the Underground Railroad, textile and industrial history and anything else that interests him at http://randolphhistory.wordpress.com .

Hear Whatley discuss his connection to the Civil War in Randolph County. (Part of WUNC 91.5's North Carolina Voices -- The Civil War series.)