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Blue Ridge Bookfest
April 25, 2014 at 1:30pm to April 26, 2014 at 3pm – Blue Ridge Community College
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Sonja Condit’s Tale of a Haunted House
April 25, 2014 at 6:30pm to April 26, 2014 at 8pm – City Lights Bookstore
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Terra Incognita: An Annotated Bibliography of the Great Smoky Mountains
Started by Rob Neufeld in Folklore Subjects Mar 21.
Stories from Southside from before urban renewal
Started by Rob Neufeld in Local History Aug 2, 2013.
Q&A about Asheville water system and the current state initiative
Started by Rob Neufeld in Local History Jun 9, 2013.
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Rob Neufeld posted a blog postBobby Norfolk starts storytelling, June 28
Bobby Norfolk Throws First Pitch for Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Diversityat Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch 2014from press release June 28 eventBobby Norfolk, three-time Emmy Award-winner is the lead storyteller for the fifth season of Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch--Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Diversity, June 28 in the Rhino Courtyard of Pack Place. The stories begin at 10:30 a.m., rain or shine, and are free to the public. Entrances to the Rhino Courtyard are from Biltmore Avenue under…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionInez and Annie Daugherty and African American history
The Daughertys of Black Mountain spanned racial historyby Rob Neufeld “The children in Cragmont (an African American neighborhood in Black Mountain) and High Top Colony, where my family lived, walked to school in groups,” Daugherty recalled about her 1920s childhood in a talk she had with me in 2005. “White children rode the bus,” she revealed. “They sometimes threw things at us and called us ugly names, but my mother told me, ‘You know who you are. Those names do not…See More
Sue Diehl posted an eventMONTREAT COLLEGE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY LUNCHEON at Montreat College, Gaither Fellowship Hall, Montreat, NC
June 21, 2014 from 12pm to 2:30pm
Pamela Duncan, author of Moon Women, Plant Life, and The Big Beautiful, will be the speaker at the Montreat College Friends of the Library Annual Luncheon on Saturday, June 21, 2014, in the Gaither Fellowship Hall.See More
Rose Senehi posted eventsBOOK SIGNING & Meet & Greet Author Rose Senehi
May 3, 2014 from 12pm to 2pmBOOK SIGNING & Meet & Greet the Author
May 2, 2014 from 1pm to 3pm
Jerald Pope posted an eventIt ain’t for wimps: readings on aging at Monte Vista Hotel
April 17, 2014 from 6pm to 7pm
Increased life expectancy brings with it increased opportunities, problems, and responsibilities. Both the aged and the pre-aged will find much to ponder at the Black Mountain Authors Guild’s reading at the Monte Vista this Thursday at 6 pm. Four local writers will share their thinking on the subject: Danielle Laverty will read her essay on aging that won the Black Mt. Public Library contest, Nancy Werking Poling will read from her current and published fiction, and James and Cannan Hyde will…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionAsheville Wordfest May 2-4, 2014
Asheville Wordfest 2014(Photo top right, Laurey Masterton from Asheville Chamber of Commerce; 2nd photo, Laura Hope-Gill from www.thehealingseed.com) A webpage in progress!Asheville Wordfest, an annual…See More
Rob Neufeld posted a discussionFiddler of the Mountains by Eva Nell Mull Wike
Fiddler and His FamilyFiddler of the Mountains: Attuned to the Life and Times of Johnny Mull by Eva Nell Mull Wike (Donning Company hardcover, Nov. 2013, 96 pages, $25)See other new WNC books Wike, author of the…See More
William Roy Pipes posted a blog postFour Novels Are Now Available
I now have four Novels in print. A fifth Novel, True Love, is finished, but to date not yet published. The four available on-line are: Darby, my bestselling Appalachian novel; Hanging Dog, An Appalachian Community, is a sequel to Darby, Doodlebug, Doodlebug, Your House is on Fire, an Appalachian novel beginning in 1940; and a novelette, Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, a murder mystery full of intrigue, danger, and espionage. All four novels are available on Amazon.com and wherever books are…See More
Bill Ramsey posted a blog postBrain Injury Recovery
Brain injury recovery is difficult and anything but certain. When I met Angela Leigh Tucker in late 2008, she was only four months into her battle. A sudden truck-on-car crash had killed her young husband and left her hanging on to life by a thread.For the next three years I researched the topic of traumatic brain injury or TBI. Angela and I travelled together to meeting of brain injury survivors and conferences on the subject. I interviewed countless doctors, therapists, co-workers, family…See More
Malaprop's Bookstore Cafe posted eventsTAMASIN NOYES READING & SIGNING
May 21, 2014 from 7pm to 9pmINDIE’S FIRST: CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK EDITION
May 17, 2014 from 10am to 12pmWOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES SERIES
May 14, 2014 from 7pm to 9pm
Laura Hope-Gill posted an event
Asheville Wordfest May 2, 3, 4: Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, more! at Asheville Lenoir-Rhyne University
May 2, 2014 at 5pm to May 4, 2014 at 5pm
Asheville Wordfest reaches its seventh year (lucky lucky!) with an expansion to include fiction, poetry, storytelling, songwriting, community conversation, poetry animation, and creative nonfiction. Coming of age with the help of North Carolina Arts Council, Katuah Market, Fine Arts Theater, Malaprops Bookstore/Cafe, and more than thirty writers, poets, musicians, and songwriters, Wordfest continues its commitment the Asheville and WNC communities, representing as many of our communities as the…See More
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