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 … More

Canned Victuals

What’s in your pantry these days? I freely admit to having more canned food in my pantry than ever before. … More

How often have you driven on Hendersonville Road and wondered what this or that site used to look like before … More

In Part One we focused on Stephens’s work as a principal and teacher in the Asheville City Schools and as … More

A few months ago some questions arose about a couple photographs in the North Carolina Room’s Special Collection. They show … More

This post begins the two-part story of Edward Stephens and his work in Asheville and other cities. Although Stephens wasn’t … More

This installment offers a look at the life and career of the fifth of the five original teachers at Asheville’s … More

The Woodfin community, like many other Buncombe County communities is named for a man who enslaved human beings. If you’ve … More

I remember “worst” Asheville. It’s the neighborhood where my Grandfather was born in a house with dirt floors, where I … More