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Saturday, June 06, 2015 / Published in Events, Local History

Jon Elliston, Asheville 100 Years Ago: Back by popular demand!

If you missed hearing Jon Elliston back in March for the kick-off to our Brown Bag Lunch series, here’s your chance. Lots of people who couldn’t make it at lunchtime, thought we should schedule an evening event. The Brown Bag lunch was actually Jon’s idea, of a way to present to a small group in an informal
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Friday, March 27, 2015 / Published in Events, Local History, Photograph Collection, Post Card Collection

“Hungry for History” Brown Bag Lunch Series Has Great Kick-off with Jon Elliston’s Look at Asheville 100 Years Ago!

Jon Elliston opened his “Asheville in 1915” talk by appearing in period costume dressed as a “newsie” with a newspaper delivery bag slung over his shoulder, and walked up the aisle hollering out the news headlines of the day while passing out copies of a 1915 Asheville Citizen front page. All one hundred and fifty enthralled attendees were suddenly transported to
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Friday, March 20, 2015 / Published in Events, Local History

“HUNGRY FOR HISTORY” BROWN BAG LUNCH SERIES: KICK-OFF WITH JON ELLISTON

The Friends of the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library will present a brown bag lunch series on local history, Hungry For History. Bring your own brown bag lunch and enjoy some local history. All events are free and open to the public. Jon Elliston will kick-off the series with his presentation “Asheville 100
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Saturday, January 17, 2015 / Published in Buildings, Local History, Manuscript Collection, Photograph Collection

North Carolina Room and a Recent Donation Gets Media Coverage

The story goes like this: The North Carolina Room’s very own Friends of the North Carolina Room board member, Jon Elliston, published an article Thursday January 15th on Carolina Public Press about a 1904 photograph album that was sent to the NC Room by a woman in Albany, New York. She had found the album in a box of Albany
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