Wednesday, May 08, 2024 / Published in Arts, Carolina Record Shop, Treasures: Very Special Items

Spotlight on Scrapbooks with Eric William Carroll

BCSC's 2024 artist resident, photographer Eric William Carroll, recently opened a new exhibition in our reading room highlighting the rich range of scrapbooks in our public library collections. This blog post showcases favorite examples and shares his findings about the scrapbooks he encountered during the residency.
Tuesday, May 14, 2019 / Published in 52 Weeks 52 Communities, Architecture, Buildings, Houses, Local History, Manuscript Collection, Treasures: Very Special Items

A Trip to the Store in Democrat, 1876: 52 Weeks, 52 Communities

If you were taking a trip to Burnsville from Asheville between 1847 and 1890 there was, for the most part, only one way to get there. Along the road, there would be a few choice places to stop, but the most famous was Carter’s. It was, like most other Stock Stands along the various turnpike