“Reb Circular”

When the Battery Park Hotel opened in downtown Asheville in July of 1886 the youngest Civil War veterans were just … More

Staying in the Land of the Sky: Tourism in Asheville in the 1920s

Tomorrow – 2pm at the Reuter Center on UNC Asheville’s campus – sponsored by the Western North Carolina Historical Association … More

Quite by accident the other day Kris and I stumbled upon a fantastic surprise – a closed off portion of … More

I’ve been thinking a lot about tourism in Asheville in the 1920s in preparation for my lecture at UNC Asheville … More

The other night my husband wanted to take me out to celebrate the release of Historic Inns of Asheville, which was … More

Every once in a while I still volunteer at the Smith McDowell House, Asheville’s first mansion and oldest surviving house, … More

Corbin, Kentucky’s claim to fame is the Colonel Sanders Museum and Cafe, the birthplace of KFC. But is it? What … More

I’m just going to keep running with the “Old Stone Wall” theme because I walked past another one last night, … More

If you’ve driven down East Chestnut Street to get to Greenlife or the new Harris Teeter, you’ve no doubt noticed … More

Started in June 2013, the Asheville Free Walking Tour meets at the Vance Monument Weekdays at 11am, and all you … More

In late February 1827 a sulphur spring was discovered in West Asheville on land owned by Robert Henry, either by … More

Somehow I had made it decades through life and across the United States and never ridden on a train. I … More