“Tourism was a primary justification for this environmental preservation movement [circa 1900]. Thus Asheville, the most important resort of the Blue Ridge region, was the birthplace of municipal sanitation campaigns, modern forestry conservation and the movement to create a national park in southern Appalachia…. “On the Tennessee side of the mountains, however, there was much […]
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Tenn. just wasn’t that into preserving mountains
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged asheville, c brenden martin, tourism in the mountain south on April 28, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Confederate colonel’s fame shrinks even further
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged Ansley Herring Wegner, asheville, gen. stephen lee, john boyle, nc historical markers on August 5, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“Question: Conspicuously missing from the corner of Tunnel Road and Chunns Cove Road [in Asheville] is a state highway historical marker titled, ‘Lee’s School, 1846-1879.’ The silver and black aluminum sign commemorated a school for boys conducted by Stephen Lee, a West Point graduate and Confederate colonel…. Has it been removed for maintenance, replacement or retirement? “Answer: […]
Arthur Murray’s Asheville, sweet and sour
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged arthur murray, asheville, battery park hotel, biltmore house, cornelia vanderbilt, dancing lessons, kathryn murray, lulu-fado, mrs. george vanderbilt on February 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“At summer’s end [of 1914], Arthur went from Marblehead [Mass.] to the Battery Park Hotel, a sprawling resort sitting on its own 40-acre hill in the middle of Asheville. “Almost at once he became the favorite dancing partner of Mrs. George Vanderbilt. At nearby Biltmore he taught young Cornelia Vanderbilt the currently popular Lulu-Fado. “The […]
Occupy Wall Street movement spreads to link dump
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged asheville, chang and eng, ken burns, moog, nc civil war sesquicentennial, prohibition, siamese twins, uss north carolina, wilmington nc on October 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
— “Yes, Dear, a Battleship; No, Dear, I’m Cold-Sober” — Ken Burns missed quite a scene at the Eureka Saloon. — $30 for a year’s worth of “Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory.” — Memphis, Gibson. Nashville, Fender. Asheville, Moog. — “We wish to negotiate with you about the Bodys of the twins….”
Link dump’s research untouched by decline effect
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged antique auctions, asheville, bishopville sc, clinton nc, decline effect, dollhouses, durham nc, esp, greensboro nc, greenville nc, j b rhine, old salem toy museum, pearl fryar, rutherford platt hayes, topiary, woolworth's lunch counter on January 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
— If Western North Carolina was so big on Unionism, why weren’t its legislators? — 18th century “stone” dollhouse from defunct Old Salem Toy Museum blows away auction estimate. — I hadn’t realized that Pearl Fryar, the topiary wizard (and movie star) of Bishopville, S.C., had such extensive roots in Clinton and Durham. And he’s […]
‘Imperishable symbol’ of U.S.-German friendship?
Posted in On This Day, tagged asheville, f.w. von prittwitz, riverside cemetery, typhoid, world war i on November 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
On this day in 1932: At Asheville’s Riverside Cemetery, F.W. Von Prittwitz, German ambassador to the United States, dedicates a monument to 18 German sailors who died of typhoid while imprisoned nearby during World War I. “Germany is happy to find herself in the same line with the United States when she advocates disarmament. . […]
Link dump: Which way to CROATOAN, buddy row?
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged asheville, bear hunting, black sheep, buddy row, civil war graves, croatoan, geneaology, lost colony, richmond county nc, vollis simpson, whirligigs, wilson nc on October 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
— Looking for the Lost Colony in all the wrong places? — “Bear hunting highlights Asheville’s cultural divide” — Who you calling “Buddy row“? — How a Confederate veteran did right by five Union dead in Richmond County. — Neogenealogists eager to shepherd black sheep. — Can Vollis Simpson “put Wilson on the map”?
Lucky Strike Means… Fine Public Schools?
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged asheville, cigarettes, smoking on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“At the Asheville, N.C., City College last fortnight Dean Henry Dexter Learned gave students, including girls, permission to smoke in the college building between classes. An outraged Board of Education planned to oust Dr. Learned…. The Dean calmly explained: ‘If nobody smoked cigarets what would happen to the public school system of North Carolina? This […]
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