Your Buncombe County library card gives you access to a myriad of digital resources, and there are numerous other helpful…
Camp Laurel
Above are two views of Mount Pisgah and the Rat with floral gardens in the foreground. One is from Lake…
New Research Reveals New Information:
Asheville’s First Public Schools For Blacks For more than a year, I have collected every newspaper article on the Beaumont…
Canned Victuals
What’s in your pantry these days? I freely admit to having more canned food in my pantry than ever before.…
Elsie’s Story – Hidden Stories in Oral Histories
Working in local history archives at UNCA Ramsey Library and at Pack Library’s North Carolina Room, I thought often about…
Join us for “Zoom with the NC Room” virtual programming!
Do you miss the library and all of the programs we have to offer? So do WE! So we’ve done…
Strolling Through History (virtually)
One of the in-person programs NC Room staff were really excited about was our second annual series of “Strolling Through…
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…
