by Victoria Greene Maddux | Dec 8, 2024 | Timeline Stories
By Victoria Greene Maddux Miss Asheville 1962 The summer of 1962 was a magical interlude between my first and second years in college, a season full of amazing surprises. In 1962 I was known as Vicki Greene. I was nineteen years old and home from my...
by Hannah Epperson | Nov 10, 2024 | Timeline Stories
Wouldn’t it be a shame, Flora thought, the box of True American Diamond Matches rattling in her hand, wouldn’t it be a shame if the old place burned down? The cool night air tugged at Flora’s apron, somewhere down the way a dog barked. Biltmore Ave. was deserted...
by Melanie McGee Bianchi | Sep 15, 2024 | Timeline Stories
The year 1928 was momentous for Asheville and surrounding areas. Asheville High School was being built, Beaucatcher Tunnel was being blasted into the city’s downtown mountain, and an hour and more further west, the first phases of the Great Smoky Mountains National...
by John Senechal | Sep 14, 2024 | Timeline Stories
Lilly and Tommy Lilly Scanlon’s mother should have been there by now. The parade was starting to come into the square already, excitement buzzing in the air as people of all ages lined the sidewalks, eager to...
by Melanie McGee Bianchi | Jul 28, 2024 | Timeline Stories
“Fate Creek” is the third chapter in the novella-in-progress The Doll Sanatorium. In the summer of 1928, with a tunnel being blasted into Beaucatcher Mountain three blocks away and Asheville High School under construction just down the road, teenager Catesby Eleanor...
by Alli Marshall | Jun 9, 2024 | Timeline Stories
The writer had come to the Inn for a number of reasons, some more reasonable than others. His wife was receiving electroshock therapy a few miles away. In fact, from the back of the inn, which overlooked a sprawling golf course, he could nearly see the hospital where...
