by Alli Marshall | Aug 1, 2023 | Timeline Stories
The makeshift recording studio on the roof of the Vanderbilt Hotel was hot as blazes. It was already steamy enough outside, hot even for August, and being up on the roof got us that much closer to the sun, as I figured it. Walt and I had traveled by foot, wagon, and...
by Alli Marshall | May 29, 2023 | Timeline Stories
It was the eve of Christmas Eve, so a kind of nothing day. Almost a holiday, but really an in-between day. A day for people who cared about Christmas and holidays to rush around buying last-minute gifts. Decorating, wrapping, baking. That’s what was going on at my...
by Alli Marshall | Apr 30, 2023 | Timeline Stories
The day the LaSalle Phaeton arrived was one of those perfect spring days. May 9, 1927. The pink dogwoods and cherry trees had dropped their blossoms, but the azaleas were in full bloom. Everywhere in Woolsey was a riot of reds and purples and the fresh green of new...
by Alli Marshall | Apr 23, 2023 | Timeline Stories
tLike so many others at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Katherine Cutshall needed something to occupy her time while quarantining at home. Perhaps not surprisingly, Cutshall — the collections manager at Buncombe County Special Collections — began going through...
by Alli Marshall | Dec 18, 2022 | Timeline Stories
Overlook — located on Sunset Mountain (and visible in winter from the Tunnel Road Ingles parking lot) — was constructed by Fred Seely beginning in 1914. It “took a decade to complete, though he, his wife, and five children moved in by about 1916, when it was still a...
