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 Maura Lin | Mar 13, 2024 | Timeline Stories
The black cat summoned me — and hastened my departure months afterwards. I was weary and thirsty that late September day in 1928 as I trudged up Main Street. I passed the attractive Gray Rock Inn, but I knew it was beyond my means. However, just north of the inn, I...
by Diana Brittain Thompson | Feb 23, 2024 | Timeline Stories
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...
by John Senechal | Feb 19, 2024 | Timeline Stories
The sun was hot on the back of her hands as Betsy Teague pushed her 9-month-old daughter in a pram in the city square by the Vance Monument. A wide brimmed hat kept her face shaded in the midsummer heat. Her 6-year-old son Paul was beside her, hoping for a hot dog...
