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Tuesday, July 26, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History, Photograph Collection

Program: Asheville in the 1980s/A Look at the Arts, Wednesday July 27th 6:00 to 7:30 pm

ASHEVILLE SYMPHONY MATURES IN 1980s The Asheville Symphony Orchestra began in Asheville in 1927 under the direction of the famous flutist Lamar Stringfield. He was a former member of the New York Philharmonic and founder of the North Carolina Symphony. Their first performance was a program of classical favorites at the old Plaza Theater. In August
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History, Photograph Collection

Program: Asheville in the 1980s/ A Look at the Arts

THEATRE – If you look in a thick enough dictionary, you’ll find the fifth or sixth definition is “A place of action.” Theatre is not just the staging of dramatic works or the place where plays, music, dance, and movies are presented.  There also is the theatre of war, where battles are staged, and in
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Thursday, July 14, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History, Photograph Collection

Highwater Center: The Other River Arts District and the Arts in the 1980s

In 2016 we think the arts activity in Asheville is in the River Arts District or in downtown. But at the beginning of the 1980s Highwater Center opened an exhibit space on the OTHER river—the Swannanoa. Several years before the exhibit space opened, however, fourteen artists in the mid-1970s established an artists’ co-operative in an
ArtsAshevilleAsheville in the 1980sBob GurskyBrian McCarthyCultureGail McCarthyHighwater CenterHighwater Clay
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Thursday, July 07, 2016 / Published in Events, Exhibits, Local History, Photograph Collection, Post Card Collection

Program at Pack, The Unforgettable Rampage: Remembering the Flood of 1916

On Sunday morning July 16, 1916 Edith Vanderbilt was notified of the rising water and the dangerous conditions at Biltmore Village. “Without warning at 4:00 the Swannanoa River overflowed the village. Men plunged into the stream carrying their wives and children. Horses turned loose plunged madly through the flooded streets in the darkness. In an
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Friday, July 01, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History, New Donations

Social Activism & Social Services: Lives Built Around Serving Others

  Left to right: Ellen Clarke, Co-Director ABCCM to bring adult education opportunities to inmates in jail, founder Women at Risk, Executive Director at Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice. Jim Barrett, Executive Director of Pisgah Legal Services, and on staff for more than 30 years. Deborah Miles, Director of Center for Diversity, a founder Stone
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History, Manuscript Collection

Stone Soup: An Entirely Different Approach to Social Services

One would have had to live in Asheville before July 1994 to have had a chance to eat at Stone Soup.  That’s when they closed, after a seventeen year run. Twenty-two years later, many people still mourn its closure. Their loss is as strong a memory as something long-gone from childhood. The cheddar potato chowder was my favorite. My spouse,
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Friday, June 17, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History

1980’s Asheville: In Those Days There Were Lots of Issues To Care About–As Is Still True Today

Just about everything I know about social activism and social agencies in Asheville during the 1980s I learned in the last six months from Ann Von Brock and Ellen Clarke while we met to plan the series ”Asheville in the 1980s: A Formative Decade Told By Those Who Shaped It.” Ann Von Brock and Ellen
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Friday, June 03, 2016 / Published in Events, Manuscript Collection

1980s Social Activism & Social Agencies in Asheville

Behind every nonprofit, there is a story. Perhaps it is the story of a regional healthcare agency that started with two lawn chairs and a card table. Or maybe it’s the story of a few people, banding together to halt mining in the Pisgah and Nantahala forests, who spearheaded an organization dedicated to preserving the
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Friday, May 27, 2016 / Published in Events, Local History

1980s Business Owners Speak

Rob Pulleyn, former owner of Fiberarts Magazine and Lark Books moderated a panel of 1980s business owners in “Businesses & Restaurants” part 2 of a 6 part series, “Asheville in the 1980’s: A Formative Decade Told By Those Who Shaped it.” Pack Memorial Library, Lord Auditorium, May 25. 2016. Bob Carr of Tops for Shoes, Pete Apostolopoulos
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