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Asheville’s First Public Schools For Blacks For more than a year, I have collected every newspaper article on the Beaumont … More

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 … More

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

Henry Robinson wrote in 1992 about his childhood community of Southside–a mournful eulogy really, to a place that no longer … More

Who was Walter H. Page? Did you ever wonder who Page Avenue was named for? E.W. Grove named the street … More