The halted hands of a pocket watch in a library rsquo s archives at the University of North Carolina tell a harrowing tale They mark the exact moment and seconds the watch rsquo s owner Elisha Mitchell slipped and fell to his death at a waterfall in the Appalachian Mountains on the morning of June Mitchell a professor at the university was gathering data to defend his correct claim that the peak he was on mdash which now bears his name Mount Mitchell mdash was the highest one east of the Mississippi His grave is located at the mountain rsquo [... more]