Nine years (and over 40 posts) ago, at the outset of my work on this blog, I hoped to show how the history of a city (Asheville) and of ordinary …
Read moreMaking It at Asheville Junction, 1900-1960
Enka and Women’s Culture: Sorters, Jolly Farmerettes and Female Couples
Enka Voice, December 1931, p. 13
Read moreSpinning, Twisting, Reeling, Marketing and Basketball: Women Workers at American Enka
NOTE TO READERS: A version of this post I mistakenly sent out on July 11 was incomplete. I hit “Publish” when I meant to hit “Preview.” I apologize that several…
Read moreToday’s Serendipitous Find: Islam on WWNC in Asheville, 1929
In case you have ever (or never) pondered how much cross-cultural tolerance there may have been in Asheville in 1929, ponder this Sunday Citizen item from June 9, p. 18.…
Read moreWomen’s History Month: Pictorial Preview of Upcoming Post on Women Workers at Enka
These images suggest some of the key topics and issues addressed in my upcoming post on the thousands of women who worked at American Enka from the 1930s onward: recruitment…
Read moreThe Enka Voice in White and (Rarely) Black
A Quick Take Beginning in April 1930 and continuing for some 40 years, the Enka Voice carried regular news of employee engagements and marriages, newborn babies, children’s schooling, fishing…
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