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Sneak peek! 🤩 Our #popup exhibit #OUT is going up at @banksavebar TOMORROW and will be up through Sunday night. Make plans to walk through this look at the #lgbtq🌈 history of #Asheville from the 1970s through the early 21st century and learn how you can lend or donate your items to our archive. Many thanks to @blueridgepride and @butchout for their funding and support! #AVLToday #avlhistory #avl #librariesareforeveryone #historymatters #ArchivesofInstagram #LibrariesofInstagram @buncombecounty @pack.memorial.library

Before and after! As you may know, the NC Room suffered from some flooding last week after a hot water heater burst here at Pack. However, we're back in business with very little damage done to collections. We're very happy to report that nothing was a total loss. 💓 Thanks to our friends from other archives, museums, and libraries who came to the rescue to help us clean up our mess, and to many of our Friends of the North Carolina Room who pitched in for a work day yesterday. Come on in, the water's fine! 🤭😉 @buncombecounty #avl #asheville #AVLToday #avlnews #avlhistory

There are so many opportunities to get outside and celebrate different parts of our community this weekend! Head on over to Montford for the #Asheville #Greek Festival today until Sunday. Here's a photo from our collection of some young Greek-American children representing their immigrant community in traditional costume, ca.1937-38. (L to R): Pete Parthenos, Miss Stamatia Mimides, and James N. (son of Nick G.) Karambelas. Second row (R to L): Miss Helen Apostolou, Miss Kiki Mimides, Miss Maria Mimides, Miss Anbromache Peterson, and Chrysanthe Peterson. #LibrariesofInstagram #ArchivesofInstagram #828isgreat #immigrants #communityhistory #avlhistory #AVLToday #avl @pack.memorial.library @buncombecounty

We <3 our interns! We're super proud of our latest University of North Carolina Asheville History Department intern, Sagan, for completing his 140+ hours of work with us here in the NC Room. 🥳 He processed the latest additions to the Western North Carolina Citizens Ending Institutional Bigotry collection, (MS246). @pack.memorial.library @unc_asheville @buncombecounty #internsrock #AVLToday #avl #asheville #LibrariesofInstagram #ArchivesofInstagram

Save the date! On 11/9 and 11/23 The North Carolina Room is continuing our #communitydriven #archives work by working with the @buncombecounty Community Engagement Team to host our first ever series of #historyharvest events. The NC Room is already home to several collections that document the history of African Americans in #Asheville and Buncombe County but we can do more! But to accomplish our goals, we need your help! What can you do? 1. Reach out to your friends, family members, and community elders and let them know about the history harvest events. 2. Gather up photos, scrapbooks, business documents, and anything else that documents Black Asheville (or Buncombe County!) that you think should be preserved 3. Bring yourself, your materials and other people to @pack.memorial.library 11/9 and 11/23 from 1-2 for an "Ask your elders" Community Round Table and from 2-5 for a digitization event. We'll scan or take photos of your material so they can be preserved in our collection for public enjoyment and research, and give them back to you! Let's work together to document black #avlhistory! #LibrariesofInstagram #ArchivesofInstagram #communityhistory #blackasheville #828isgreat

We are just so darn #Proud 🌈 We found out this morning that @blueridgepride has approved a grant for the Friends of the North Carolina Room to help staff continue to process, display, and promote our #lgbtq🌈 archives! We're planning a really amazing pop up exhibit at @banksavebar in October, (more on that later) but in the meantime, come visit us at @pack.memorial.library and check out some of the amazing material from tee shirts to newspapers we have on display in the NC Room. #keepavlqueer #avltoday #avl #asheville #AshevilleHistory #historymatters #librariesareforeveryone #ArchivesofInstagram #LibrariesofInstagram #blueridgepride @butchout1 @queerappalachia @buncombecounty

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