Thursday, December 28, 2017 / Published in Local History, Post Card Collection

New Year’s Greetings for 2018

  In the early years of the twentieth century postcards were at their peak of popularity. Postcard publishers printed cards  for any and every occasion including Easter, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and the New Year. John Winsch, an important postcard publisher in  Stapleton, New York (from 1907 to 1915) copyrighted this one in 1910. He
Friday, December 27, 2013 / Published in Events, Local History, Photograph Collection

Happy New Year from the North Carolina Room, Pack Memorial Library

It is said that in the olden days in Asheville, you didn’t need a holiday to throw a big party. So imagine what this 1914 New Year’s Eve ball and dinner party, hosted by Mrs. Alice Thomas Connally in the ballroom of the Manor must have been like!   Mistletoe hangs from the ceiling above the arches of