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Art of Library Staff Decorates Dollhouse

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
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THANK YOU, PHILENA DICKEY!

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
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Rustic Furniture Set Against a Modern Gas Stove Demonstration, Asheville, N.C. 1905

Several years ago while researching Appalachian rustic for a lecture and exhibition at the Asheville Art Museum I came across two intriguing photos in the NC Collection.  They are from the Caldwell collection of glass plate negatives given to the library in 1944.  John D. Caldwell came to Asheville in 1903 to take the position
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Great Blue Heron Visiting Montford

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
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The Sad Story of Hop Wo: The Chinese Laundryman

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
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Tempy Avery 1823? – 1917

We depend on our patrons for donations. This 1897 J. M. McCanless portrait of a black nurse midwife was loaned for scanning by Dianna Hays. We also receive valuable information from patrons. Ms. Hays told us that the baby was her grandmother Pauline Moore Bourne, daughter of clothing store owner M. V. Moore, and that Pauline
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