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Christmases of Old: Gifts and Traditions

          Happy Holidays from the staff of the North Carolina Room.
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Montford Community Scrapbooks: A Glimpse of a Forgotten Multiracial Neighborhood

The North Carolina Room recently received a new donation of Montford materials, including photographs, newspaper clippings and early newsletters. In the mid 1970’s Montford and Montford Hill residents rallied together to clean up the neighborhood and to work at renovating houses in need of repair. Work was organized through the Montford Community Club and the Montford Hills Community Club.
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Third Grade Class at Isaac Dickson Elementary Visits the North Carolina Room

It was a momentous day. Tuesday, November 24, 2015 the staff of the North Carolina Room joined with the staff of the Youth Services Department, Pack Memorial Library and invited the third grade class at Isaac Dickson Elementary to visit the North Carolina Room. Our hope was to show the students a little bit about what
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Americanization Classes at the Grove Park Inn–1920s

The Buncombe County Community (Night) School’s literacy program was a forerunner in the state to help teach literacy to adults. We wrote about it in a post two years ago, which covered rural Buncombe County citizens being taught to read and write. A not-as-well-known part of the Community School’s program was the Americanization Classes that were held to
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AN ABUNDANCE OF AMOSES AND THE MANY STACKHOUSES FROM STACKHOUSE

I’ve driven by this house many times over the past 15 years or so on my way to a hike in Hot Springs or to a swim in the Laurel River. Sitting majestically on top of the hill with the green and white sign proclaiming “STACKHOUSE,” it always made me wonder what stories it had
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Camp Dellwood

“A lovely spot among the hills, A sky of blue above, And trees that bend in graceful form, These make the camp I love.”  -Mary Mitchell Westall Camp Dellwood was established in the 1920s to afford girls aged 9-19 a summer filled with outdoor sports, arts and crafts, socializing, and fun.  Under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. George Mason
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