North Carolina Room staff and volunteers are coming to North Branch Library Saturday, September 9th from 11 am to 4 pm to scan your photographs. Your photographs will be digitally archived and added to the North Carolina Room’s Photograph Collection, AND become a permanent part of Asheville’s history. The North Asheville History Project 2017 presently contains over
Drive out (walk or ride the bus) to the North Asheville Branch Library for an entertaining presentation on North Asheville as perhaps you’ve never seen it on August 23 In conjunction with The North Asheville Neighborhood History Project, Terry Taylor will present a thoroughly revised version of his Greetings From Asheville program. If you missed
Thursday, May 18, 2017 6:00–7:30 North Asheville Branch Library Refreshments will be served North Asheville residents are invited to talk with each other about what it was like growing up and living in North Asheville. Celebrate the history of your community by coming together to share personal stories and remembrances. Or sit and listen to
“My parent’s favorite spot for dinner and dancing was Margaret’s Supper Club on the Weaverville Highway.” After a recent North Asheville History Project oral interview, Ed Sheary, who grew up at 37 Melrose Avenue, was talking about brown bagging prior to 1979 when Asheville enacted the liquor-by-the-drink law. People would take their liquor to a restaurant (which