1962 Miss Asheville Victoria Greene

 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...

1928: The Doll Sanatorium, Part 4

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...

1962 Maria Fletcher’s Parade

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...
1928: The Doll Sanatorium, part 3

1928: The Doll Sanatorium, part 3

“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...
1984: Coming home to Asheville

1984: Coming home to Asheville

You know you belong to a time and a place when your name is printed in a book. For my mother and I, the place was Asheville and the book was the Genealogical Study of James Brittain of Buncombe County. This hefty volume is filled with thousands of descendants, though...