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 …
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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 moreEvery marriage is two marriages: his and hers. Jessie Bernard, The Future of Marriage (1973)((See also Jessie Bernard.)) After a short train ride north from Asheville in late August 1934,…
Read moreI used to think that well, maybe, someday I could still go, you know. I thought well, maybe down the road somewhere I could still go. Mary Neal Rudisill Whisnant,…
Read moreThis post is lovingly and admiringly dedicated to my father-in-law Frank Joseph Mitchell (February 12, 1927 – July 25, 2017). Lifelong student, prodigious reader, indefatigable writer, fearless preacher and unforgettable…
Read moreThe nearly two dozen posts I have published so far have focused on the Whisnant family, the first of whom entered the North Carolina Piedmont in the 1750s. My Whisnant grandparents,…
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