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Summer + Vacation = Souvenir

Who can go on vacation and return home without some sort of souvenir? Not me: though I’m happy with a free shard of wave-tossed sea glass, better yet I like to make a special purchase of something-or-other to commemorate a trip. When I was a five-year-old, on a summer visit to Cherokee, someone bought me
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Let’s Do Lunch!

  PLEASE JOIN US THIS WEDNESDAY FOR ANOTHER HUNGRY FOR HISTORY EVENT
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One of Asheville’s Firsts–You Probably Don’t Know About

The 1915 Asheville Board of Trade’s yearly booklet titled, Asheville North Carolina, America’s Beauty Spot, “Land of the Sky” boasts that “Asheville was the first city in the country–June, 1898–to pass an ordinance prohibiting expectoration on the streets, in street cars and public buildings. This ordinance has been copied by cities throughout the world.”  
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Hiram Lindsey, Grocer–1901

  Hiram Lindsey’s General Store was on the east side of South Main Street, (#450 then, later #458), now Biltmore Avenue, near Victoria Road.  Mr. Lindsey standing in front. Note advertising placards for Ivory Soap and Toasted Corn Flakes. Hiram, born in 1876, moved to Asheville with his mother, Sarah and at least two of his younger siblings
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Asheville Photographer Tim Barnwell Speaking at Pack Memorial Library

Please join us for this very special event! Tim will discuss how his 5 year effort of photographing and researching these vistas culminated into his beautiful and insightful new book. “It’s a human characteristic to want to know where we are in time and place. Mr. Barnwell’s book satisfies this natural curiosity and brilliantly connects us
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THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME

*  Some eye-catching advertisements from a stack of old Asheville newspapers I happened across. * * * We’ve always been foodies. * * * Oh how we love our spirits…even if we don’t have a “stomachic.” * * * Water seems to always be an issue. And look…”wind-mills!” Sustainable energy source pre-solar panels. * * *
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