Community-Based Archives & Projects
Growing up in Buncombe County, I was introduced to Thomas Wolfe at an early age. I remember no fewer than three field trips to the “Old Kentucky Home” throughout my school years, and it was instilled in me and my classmates that the Look Homeward, Angel author was our claim to literary fame. No one else was ever mentioned, so it seemed to me that Wolfe
It’s hard to believe that it has been a little over six months since Tropical Storm Helene hit our mountains. Since late January, the Buncombe County Special Collections team alongside a trusty crew of friends and volunteers have been working hard to preserve our memories of this disaster. The Come Hell or High Water digital
MS338 The North Carolina Room staff joined with North Asheville Branch Library to begin our first community-drive history project based through a Buncombe County Library Branch. Classes were held at Pack Library to instruct interested volunteers on how to interview. To date, 43 oral interviews have been taken and all transcriptions of the interviews can
MS362.004 Zoe Rhine, North Carolina Room librarian, began researching the faculty of Stephens-Lee High School in 2017 with the goal of gathering more information about the faculty’s educational attainments, what and how they were able to continue master’s degree programs, what schools they attended, as well as what happened to the teachers after the integration
MS362.002 Following the North Carolina Room’s Roundtable Discussion on May 18, 2017 at the Wesley Grant Center (described below), oral interviews began taking place with various residents of Asheville’s black communities. The focus is on present or past residents of Southside neighborhood, but also includes residents of other neighborhoods, such as Shiloh, Stumptown, Montford and
MS326 The North Carolina Room staff joined with Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College History instructor David Dry to begin a project for A-B Tech students to interview gay community members in Asheville. Mr. Dry included oral history projects in the curriculum, but the subjects were usually limited to family members. Looking for a way to give