by Alli Marshall | Feb 13, 2023 | Timeline Stories
The city of Asheville’s story includes a number of historic residential hotels, such as the Gray Rock Inn and Old Kentucky Home (the boarding house run by Julia Wolfe, mother of the novelist Thomas Wolfe). One especially interesting and storied building is that of the...
by Kelly Kelbel | Feb 5, 2023 | Timeline Stories
The broom closet’s singular light bulb, with a handheld mirror, was enough for Joey to apply her muted black mascara and vermilion lipstick, a shade she never dared allow her Mama to see spread across her lips. She scrunched her short curls even though...
by Alli Marshall | Jan 8, 2023 | Timeline Stories
The Gray Rock Inn Writing Project seeks submissions. Authors, journalists, and writers are invited to craft short stories based on the Inn’s history. The stories can be works of fiction or creative nonfiction but must use historic details of both Asheville and the Inn...
by Alli Marshall | Dec 19, 2022 | Timeline Stories
Businessman Morris Meyers built the inn at 100 Biltmore Ave. (then called Main Street) in 1911 and opened it in 1912. But when it came to the day-to-day operations, he hired Flora McDonald Sorrell to run the inn. The place quickly became known as Flora Sorrell’s...
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...
by Hannah Epperson | Oct 29, 2022 | Timeline Stories
Glory Hancock and wounded soldiers As it happened, Madelon was home on leave April 6, 1917, the day the US entered the Great War. She wondered about the reaction of her fellow nurses in the field hospital just behind the front lines in Belgium. Elation, perhaps, at...
