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Leicester Poet Jim Wayne Miller, Community Memory, and Cultural Identity

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
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BCSC News: July-August 2026 Events

New month, new BCSC event roundup! This summer, come see exhibitions about North Carolina's role in the American Revolution and Asheville street art and murals at Pack Memorial Library, several Leicester History Project events taking place at Leicester Public Library, and more.
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Picture Perfect: Asheville’s Postcard Past

Postcards are defined by their small size, but recently, some have taken on a new scale. New interior wall murals at Pack Memorial Library bring these pocket-sized scenes to larger-than-life dimensions. Buncombe County Special Collections holds several thousand postcards depicting scenes of Asheville, Buncombe County, and Western North Carolina. For muralist Max Dowdle, they provided
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BCSC News: May-June 2026 Events

Join Special Collections for events in May and June to preserve and celebrate the history of Leicester, learn and reflect on local history through One Book, One Buncombe community read, and discover more about the photographers whose work shaped our region.
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Asheville’s Weirdest Facts and Fictions, Part III: Counterculture Curiosities

Welcome to the third installment of our series of blog posts about our region’s weirdest history! If you missed the first two, check out Part I (about some persistent local myths) and Part II (strange animal stories). This series is inspired in part by storyteller and author Liz Z. Pardue, who will be at Pack
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Asheville’s Weirdest Facts and Fictions, Part II: True Tales of Eccentric Animals 

On March 31, storyteller and author Liz Z. Pardue presents Keep NC Weird! The Strange & Macabre History of Our State at Pack Memorial Library, a one-hour journey through the strangest history, most eccentric characters, and darkest folklore of the Old North State. In anticipation, we’re rifling through some of the weird tales we happen to know
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