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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
Ann Von BrockAshevilleAsheville in the 1980sDeborah MilesEllen ClarkeGaylen EhrlichmanJeff FobesJim BarrettNCSocial ActivismSocial Agencies
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Friday, August 28, 2015 / Published in Exhibits, Local History, Post Card Collection

A Cherokee Cloth Doll

The North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library currently has on exhibit through September, four exhibit cases highlighting Asheville and Western North Carolina Tourism Souvenirs. Of course, the exhibit set us on a research binge, trying to find out all that we could about the local souvenir trade and how it developed. This is the sixth of
CherokeeCherokee Indian SouvenirsCloth DollsNCRag DollsTourism Souvenirs
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015 / Published in Exhibits, Local History

Summer + Vacation = Souvenir

Who can go on vacation and return home without some sort of souvenir? Not me: though I’m happy with a free shard of wave-tossed sea glass, better yet I like to make a special purchase of something-or-other to commemorate a trip. When I was a five-year-old, on a summer visit to Cherokee, someone bought me
AshevilleAsheville Tourism SouvenirsCherokee Indian SouvenirsInc.Mountaineer Crafts ShopNCThree MountaineersTreasure ChestWater Wheel Craft Shop
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Monday, October 20, 2014 / Published in Local Heroes and Heroines, Photograph Collection, Woo-Woo Moments

Beacon Manufacturing Co., Baseball Team Starring Wade Martin

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the Swannanoa native Wade Martin, who was known nationally for his woodcarving abilities. Click here if you haven’t read it. While I was writing about Wade Martin, I was surprised to read that he was also known of as a great baseball player. Because I was staying focused on Wade’s
Beacon Manufacturing Co. Baseball TeamNCNorth Carolina Industrial League Baseball TeamsSwannanoaTar Heel League All-Star Baseball TeamWade Martin

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