Remembering the Kenhurst lodge North Carolina Room Friend Cliff Lively is the current resident of the stately home on Elk … More
Tag: tourism
Update on Arden: Some Notes on Enslaved Labor in Buncombe County
We’re posting an addendum to our Instagram post on Arden thanks to the really insightful question posed by local writer … More
Local Hand Crafts Also Made the Market as Souvenirs
The North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library currently has on exhibit through September, four exhibit cases highlighting Asheville Tourism Souvenirs. … More
Appalachian Rustic Souvenirs
The Appalachians have long been noted for the rugged individualism of their inhabitants. The terrain was and is difficult, limiting … More
Tourist Court Expedition Taken by Library Staff
Fearing that tourist courts were fast disappearing, Library Director Ed Sheary and North Carolina Room staff Ann Wright, Zoe Rhine, and Peggy … More
Tourists’ Camps
Who were the early tourist pioneers and where did they stay? Before there were tourists’ courts, there were automobile tourists’ … More
Miss Price’s Guest House
As I began to create a record for this postcard purchased recently on eBay, I got that funny sensation that … More
