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Thursday, June 28, 2018 / Published in Asheville History, Forgotten People, Local History, Manuscript Collection, Photograph Collection

Edith Clarke Moore and Her Friend Gutzon Borglum

  Edith Clarke Moore (1875-1952) was a native of Texas and married Matthew Van Moore in 1892. They moved from Knoxville to Asheville in 1895. Mr. M. V. Moore was the founder and operator of the M.V. Moore and company in Asheville. The clothing store on Patton Avenue was known of as the Men’s Outfitters.
Asheville HistoryEdith Clarke MooreGutzon BorglumPauline MoorePauline Moore BourneVance Statuary CommissionZebulon Vance
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Thursday, May 10, 2018 / Published in African Americans, Asheville History, Buncombe County History, Local History, Manuscript Collection

Program: “Confederate Monuments in the Jim Crow South”  with Karen L. Cox, History Professor UNC Charlotte

Saturday May 19, 2018 from 2:00 to 3:30 Karen L. Cox Program Title: “Confederate Monuments in the Jim Crow South” Author of Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture Pack Memorial Library, Lord Auditorium, lower level Sponsored by the Friends of the North Carolina Room With support from Mountain
Confederate MonumentsKaren L. CoxUnited Daughters of the Confederacy
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Tuesday, February 13, 2018 / Published in African Americans, Local History, Manuscript Collection, New Donations

Incredible New Collections for the North Carolina Room

We’ve been so busy processing special collections, we haven’t been very good at letting you know what is new in the North Carolina Room. Donations are the life-blood of our collection, and we are so appreciative to our donors and to those who help push collections our way. And the variety of these new collections
Asheville Needle ExchangeConnie BosticEliada OrphanageHazel RobinsonHhillcrest BandHillcrest Enrichment ProgramJohn Brooks and Marjorie DendyJohn HayesMichael HarneyMontford Park PlayersPatton/Parker FamilyTench and Sarah Potter Coxe
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 / Published in Buildings, Local History, Manuscript Collection, New Donations, Photograph Collection

G. O. Shepherd Sr., Mover and Shaker

Gaylord Oscar (G.O.) Shepherd Sr. settled in Asheville in 1919. At age 24, his arrival was well timed as the city began a decade of rapid growth, ripe for the energies of a young man with ambition. Through hard work  he became, according to the Asheville Citizen, “one of the leading advertising agents in the state.”  Yet advertising was
AshevilleAsheville HistoryAsheville's Business Club's Saxopone BandConquest of CanaanFontainebleauGaylord Oscar Shepherd Sr.KenilworthKenilworth LakeThomas MeighanTom MixW.W.N.C.
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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,
Allen CenterAshevilleAsheville in the 1980sCaring for ChildrenDick GilbertMary GilbertStone SoupUnited Methodist Church
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Friday, June 10, 2016 / Published in Local History, Manuscript Collection, New Donations

Social Activism Matters

In 1988 concerned residents, mostly from Black Mountain, noticed mass areas of clear-cutting at the Asheville North Fork watershed. The Asheville-Buncombe Water Authority on a split vote had awarded a contract to remove trees on 51 acres at the reservoir. The panorama of the Asheville watershed provided one of the most majestic scenes from the Blue Ridge Parkway before
AshevilleAsheville WatershedBob GaleBuncombe CountyCitizens Against ClearcuttingClear-cuttingCuCut The ClearcuttingMonroe GilmourMountainTrueWNCAlliance
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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
AshevilleAsheville in the 1980sMAGICMountain Area Gardeners in CommunitySocial ActivismSocial Agencies
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Monday, May 23, 2016 / Published in Buildings, Events, Local History, Manuscript Collection, Photograph Collection

Who Stayed Downtown?

The Asheville Mall opened in 1972 pulling the large department stores with it. When the mall was in the works, the mall developer wrote letters to all of the merchants in Asheville inviting them to consider locating in the new mall. Sears opened first in 1972, with other stores following in late 1973-74: Belk’s, Ivey’s,
Ambiance InteriorsAposdolopoulos familyAshevilleAsheville BusinessesAsheville HistoryDancer's PlaceFinklestein's Pawn ShopMeditrraneqan RestaurantNorth Carolina RoomParadise Chinese RestaurantResnikoff familySchochet familySluder FurnitureStar StoreT.S. Morrison's HardwareThe Bargain CenterThe BooteryTops For ShoesWick & Green Jewlers
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016 / Published in Architecture, Buildings, Events, Local Heroes and Heroines, Local History, Manuscript Collection, Photograph Collection

The Fight to Save 11 Acres of Downtown

 The North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library presents a six part series Asheville in the 1980s:  A  Formative Decade Told by Those Who Shaped It The first program of the series kicks off Wednesday April 27, 2016 from 6:00 to 7:30 in the Lord Auditorium, lower level. All events are free and open to the public.
AshevilleAsheville HistoryAsheville's Historic ArchitectureHistoric PreservationSave Downtown AshevilleStrouse Greenberg Co. Mall ProposalWrap
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