“A captured German cannon was gifted to the city [of Asheville] by returning soldiers at the end of World War I. At first, residents couldn’t agree on where to display the weapon. For a time it was unceremoniously stashed in the rear of the former courthouse yard before veterans won approval to move it to […]
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‘I am made of iron… and Uncle Sam needs me’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged asheville nc, hidden history of asheville, laura gaskin, mountain xpress, pack square, thomas calder, zoe rhine on January 30, 2020 | Leave a Comment »
New in the collection: chitterling strut poster
Posted in Memorabilia Moment, tagged asheville nc, chitlin strut, chitlins, chitterlings, dance steps, salley sc, yanceyville nc on February 26, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Chitterlings/chitlins, a notoriously pungent exemplar of Southern cuisine, are seldom seen (or sniffed) these days. (None too soon, my mother would’ve said. Not my father, who took advantage of her absences to boil up a bucket of hog intestines and have his pals over to share.) One early reference to the chitterling strut, as a […]
In Asheville, Eleanor Roosevelt held her tongue
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged asheville nc, eleanor roosevelt, nc segregation on November 10, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“I was asked if I was open to political questions and said ‘yes.’ But I did not know until I heard the question if I would answer it or not. One of the first was, ‘Would I consider that the Administration had done all that it could to give leadership in the question of desegregation.’ […]
‘Successive thrills’ for audience at ‘The Birth of a Nation’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged amy louise wood, asheville nc, charlotte nc, lynching and spectacle, the birth of a nation on October 7, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“Although [‘The Birth of a Nation’] played only in larger cities, by one estimate 90 percent of Southerners had seen the film by 1930….The Charlotte Observer reported that the local theater had received mail and telephone orders from towns as far away as 75 miles…. “These audiences consumed the picture actively….In Asheville, the ‘large crowd […]
When is it libelous to misidentify someone’s race?
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged asheville nc, city directories, gilbert thomas stephenson, henry pearson, race distinctions in american law, racial libel on August 17, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“Although there are many decisions to the effect that it is actionable per se to call a white person a Negro, not one can be found deciding whether it would be so to call a Negro a white person. [But] one event looks, in a measure, in this direction. “The city of Asheville, North Carolina, […]
Grove Park Inn: Court’s nuclear retreat (with golf course!)
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged asheville nc, CONELRAD, grove park inn, nuclear war, us supreme court on July 25, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“In mid-1955, the Supreme Court set about identifying its own relocation facility [in the event of nuclear war] and sent clerk Harold Willey to hunt for a spot. Willey surveyed several properties in North Carolina and reported back that ‘Because all large cities are considered to be prospective enemy targets, a hotel in a secluded […]
Fame, it is fleeting (but obscurity can be, too)
Posted in History, tagged asheville nc, nc historical markers, stephen lee on June 16, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Remember Stephen Lee, the Confederate colonel and headmaster whose historical significance was found — on second thought — not worthy of the state highway marker that had stood for 65 years in Asheville? Now, thanks to some persuasive research by his great-great-granddaughter, the marker review committee has decided — on third thought — to restore […]
E. W. Grove: You can rest here, but you can’t be sick
Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged asheville nc, c brenden martin, e w grove, grove park inn, tourism in the mountain south, tuberculosis on April 22, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“After moving to Asheville in 1898, [patent medicine magnate E. W. Grove] decided that, if the city were ever to fulfill its potential as a pleasure resort, it would have to to shed its image as a health retreat…. “First, Grove quietly purchased a number of Asheville’s tuberculosis sanitariums and rooming houses that catered to […]
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