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 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…
Read moreThe American Enka Corporation Was a Dutch Company: Did It Matter, and If So, How? Part I
My initial intention for this post (one in a series on Enka) was to investigate the presence of Black workers at the Dutch-owned American Enka plant in Buncombe County’s Hominy…
Read more“The Best and Most Prosperous City”: American Enka and the Imagined Transformation of Asheville
NOTE TO READERS: This is the second in a series of posts on the coming of the American Enka Corporation plant to Buncombe County’s Hominy Valley in 1928, and its…
Read moreA New Vision for Old Hominy Valley: The Coming of the Enka Plant
The news on a late September Sunday morning in 1928 that the American Enka Corporation was going to build a $10 million plant in Buncombe County pleased virtually everyone.…
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