IN THE SPIRIT OF GHOULS AND GOBLINS: A BLOG OF LEVITY HAPPY HALLOWEEN! ASHEVILLE CITIZEN 10/28/1899 IN 1899 HALLOWEEN WAS A TIME FOR STORIES HALLOWEEN SCROOGE? BILLY BORNE COMIC: ASHEVILLE CITIZEN 10/31/1908 THE ROARING TWENTIES’ APPROACH TO HALLOWEEN… MASQUERADE BALL AND CANDY! LAW ENFORCEMENT PUT A DAMPER ON ALL HALLOWS EVE IN 1932…BOO… SPOOKY PREVAILS IN
If you’ve visited Pack Library Children’s Room, you’ve probably seen the dollhouse that began “living” there around 1985. Parents who enjoyed the house as children now share it with their own little ones. House and furnishings were built by library staff member Betsy Murray for her own children. Over the years boys and girls of all
PHILENA DICKEY: LIBRARIAN EXTRAORDINAIRE! D. Hiden Ramsey, in a statement honoring Dickey’s life, said “Miss Dickey accomplished the task in such a way as to win the unstinted admiration of trained librarians.” Philena Dickey began cataloguing what would be known as the Sondley Reference Library in 1931. She continued to organize, care for, and make accessible the collection
Joe Newman lives on Soco Street in Asheville’s historic Montford neighborhood. He is the editor of the Montford Newsletter. He sent us these photographs and note: “This beautiful crane is off his migratory course. He’s been in Montford for a couple of days now. I first spotted him on Ross and Trudy Terry’s roof yesterday, but it was
Rolling through the microfilm one day I came across a small notice in the Asheville Daily Citizen of July 26, 1894 which said: ”Chinatown’s inhabitants are delighted over the return of Hop Wo, the laundryman, after an absence of several years. Hop Wo has been, since leaving here, in New York, Chicago and Cincinnati and
There are enough interesting manuscript collections, maps, and images here in the North Carolina Room to keep me entertained for years to come. Having the privilege to archive some new collections or perform patron requested searches, I inevitably find some interesting tidbit jotted down on the back of a photo, or an intriguing newspaper headline,