<< Back 5/26/04 Cold Mountain novelist to be honored by town SMN A date has been chosen for Franklin’s “Charles Frazier Day” — Sept. 18. The day will be host to festivities celebrating the best-selling author of Cold Mountain, a novel about a Civil War deserter and his quest to return to his home and to his love, Ada. Though the novel’s landscape namesake is located in Haywood County, Frazier is a 1969 graduate of Franklin High School. Charles Frazier Day will kick off at 11 a.m. with a performance by the FHS marching band, followed by a brief biography of Frazier’s life and work. Musical group Wild Mountain Thyme will play two selections from the “Cold Mountain” movie soundtrack and then Frazier will be presented with a key to the town.