Your Buncombe County library card gives you access to a myriad of digital resources, and there are numerous other helpful…
866 Hendersonville Road
How often have you driven on Hendersonville Road and wondered what this or that site used to look like before…
A Most Exceptional Man: The Conclusion of the Edward S. Stephens Story
The first two posts in this series traced Edward Stephens’s career from St. Louis to Asheville to Topeka. We saw…
A Most Exceptional Man: The Edward S. Stephens Story (Part Two)
In Part One we focused on Stephens’s work as a principal and teacher in the Asheville City Schools and as…
Correcting the Record.
A few months ago some questions arose about a couple photographs in the North Carolina Room’s Special Collection. They show…
A Most Exceptional Man: Edward S. Stephens (Part One)
This post begins the two-part story of Edward Stephens and his work in Asheville and other cities. Although Stephens wasn’t…
Casa Loma
The Asheville Art Museum opened its doors (finally!) late last year. On the left is the old Pack Library building…
Asheville’s First City Schools for Black Students, Part Four: Builders of Black Schools (concluded)
This installment offers a look at the life and career of the fifth of the five original teachers at Asheville’s…
Confronting the Legacy of N.W. Woodfin: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities
The Woodfin community, like many other Buncombe County communities is named for a man who enslaved human beings. If you’ve…
