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Seeking former teachers at Asheville-Biltmore College

Seeking former teachers at Asheville-Biltmore CollegeClark Adams, a member of the English faculty at Randolph Community College in Asheboro, is seeking information on the following list of faculty who are still living and may have taught when the college was "on the mountain" at Seely's Castle during the years 1949 - 1961.  The college operated under that name from 1936 to 1969, when it was consolidated into the state university system.  See UNCA Ramsey Library Special Collections'…See More
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A nostalgic walk through 1930s Haw Creekby Rob NeufeldPHOTO CAPTION: The Haw Creek School that replaced Bell’s church-funded school in the 1920s.             I took a walk down Haw Creek Road the other day—in the year 1936—and I got to hear some folks talking.            I wasn’t sure of my way around, so I…See More
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"Aftermath of the Civil War" A lecture in WNCHA's Civil War Series at Reuter Center at UNCA

June 15, 2013 from 2pm to 3:30pm
Dr. Gordon McKinney and Dr. Steve Nash will describe and analyze the attempt to recreate the social, political and economic world after the Civil War in western North Carolina.  Special emphasis will be placed on racial adjustment, improving transportation and the development of the Appalachian stereotype.  Sponsored by the Western North Carolina Historical Association and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.  Open to the public, admission to members of WNCHA and OLLI is free.  $5.00 for…See More
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"Taking A Leap: An Evening of Connie's Stories" and a Workshop at Hawk and Ivy Bed and Breakfast

June 30, 2013 from 3pm to 9pm
 Connie Regan-Blake, renowned Appalachian storyteller, will perform “Taking a Leap: An Evening of Connie’s Stories” on Sunday June 30 at 7:30 p.m. at Hawk and Ivy Bed and Breakfast in Barnardsville, NC, twenty minutes north of Asheville. Persons interested in learning or developing the craft of storytelling can also attend a workshop entitled “Opening Doors: A Storytelling Workshop Exploring Memories” at 3:00-5:30. Workshop fee is $40 before June 21 and $55 after. Fee includes both events.…See More
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Julia Nunnally Duncan Book Signing and Reception at St. John's Episcopal Parish House

June 23, 2013 from 11:30am to 12:30pm
St. John's Episcopal Church Women in Marion will host a book signing and reception in celebration of Julia Nunnally Duncan's new book Barefoot in the Snow. The event will be held at St. John's Parish House in the great hall during Coffee Hour (approximately 11:30 a.m.) on Sunday, June 23,and the public is cordially invited. See More
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"Asheville" by W. Cotten Dowing

[The following poem is the last written by the able pen of our deceased friend and former countryman, Mr. W. Cotten Downing. It was first published in the Asheville Evening Journal Feb., 28 [1890], and finding, as all his writings did, such a warm reception from the people, it was called back and appeared again the next day in the same paper. We do not produce it as an average specimen of the poetical talent of this true Southern gentleman who loved the Sunny South, but who now lies cold in…See More
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History of North Carolina.
Favorites:
* A History of Buncombe County, North Carolina, F. A. Sondley (1930)
* A Pictorial History of Buncombe County, Asheville Citizen Times (1993)
* Abstracted Wills of Buncombe County, North Carolina 1831-1872, Frances Terry Ingmire, Compiler (1984
* Around Biltmore Village, Bill Alexander (2008)
* Asheville and Buncombe County, F. A. Sondley (1922)
* Asheville Mountain Majesty, Lou Harshaw (2007)
* Asheville's River Arts District, Rob Neufeld and Henry Neufeld (2008)
* Asheville: A History, Nan K. Chase (2007)
* Asheville: A Postcard History, Volume I, Sue Greenberg and Jan Kahn (1997)
* Asheville: A Postcard History, Volume II, Sue Greenberg and Jan Kahn (1997)
* Biographical History of North Carolina: From Colonial times to the Present, Samuel A. Ashe, Stephen B. Weeks, Charles L. Van Noppen, Editors, Volume VII (1908)
* Black Mountain and the Swannanoa Valley, Swannanoa Valley Museum (2004)
* Buncombe Bob: The Life and Times of Robert Rice Reynolds, Julian M. Pleasants (2000)
* Cabins & Castles: The History & Architecture of Buncombe County, North Carolina, Douglas Swaim (1981)
* Chronology of North Carolina, D. K. Bennett (1858) [containing sketches of Buncombe County men]
* Cyclopedia of Eminent and Representative Men of the Carolinas of the Nineteenth Century, Volume II, Edward Mc Crady, Samuel A’Court Ashe (1892)
* Early Tourism in Western North Carolina, Stephen C. Compton (2004)
* Family and Descendents of William Wallace McDowell & Sarah Lucinda Smith McDowell, Frances Arthur McDowell, Compiler and Editor (undated but after 1997)
* Family History of Western North Carolina, Joyce Justus Parris (1998)
* Fashionable Asheville, Volumes I and II, David Coleman Bailey (2004)
* Genesis of Buncombe County, Theodore F. Davidson (1922)
* Historic Asheville, Bob Terrell (1997)
* In Buncombe County, Maria Louise Pool (1986)
* Look Homeward Asheville, Peter Olevnik (2008)
* Marriage and Death Notices from Extant Asheville, N.C. Newspapers 1840-1870, An Index Robert M. Topkins, Compiler and Editor (1977)
* Sketches of North Carolina, Reverend William Henry Foote (1846)
* The French Broad, Wilma Dykeman (1955)
* The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War, John C. Inscoe and Gordon B. McKinney (2000)
* The History of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College, North Carolina, Joyce Justus Parris (1996)
* The Smith-McDowell House: A History, Dr. Richard W. Iobst (undated, but after 1998)
* The Standard Guide to Asheville and Western North Carolina, Published by Fred L. Jacobs, Asheville, N.C. (1887)
* Thomas Wolfe of North Carolina, H. G. Jones, Editor (1982)
* Western North Carolina: A History from 1730-1913, John Preston Arthur (1914)
* Western North Carolina: A Visual Journey Through Stereo Views and Photographs, Stephen E. Massengill (1999)
* Western North Carolina: Its Mountains and Its People to 1880, Ora Blackmun (1977)
* “Reminiscences of Western North Carolina,” Colonel Allen T. Davidson. Published in The Lycemu, a monthly Asheville newspaper that had a short life (May 1890 until some time in 1892)
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"Asheville" by W. Cotten Dowing

[The following poem is the last written by the able pen of our deceased friend and former countryman, Mr. W. Cotten Downing. It was first published in the Asheville Evening Journal Feb., 28 [1890], and finding, as all his writings did, such a warm reception from the people, it was called back and appeared again the next day in the same paper. We do not produce it as an average specimen of the poetical talent of this true Southern gentleman who loved the Sunny South, but who now lies cold in…

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