A proposed welcome mural would cover decades-old advertisements on a historic building. A decision has been delayed until November.
Asheville plans to rebuild historic brick sidewalks, replace trees and improve pedestrian safety as Helene recovery continues
Scottish botanist John Lyon traveled the Appalachian wilderness collecting plants. His journey didn’t end with his death in 1814.
From Asheville’s historic landmarks to mountain trails, old cemeteries and Appalachian folklore, explore the ghost stories and mysterious places that have become part of Western North Carolina’s history.
F. Scott Fitzgerald visited Thomas Wolfe’s mother, Zelda stayed at her boardinghouse, and the mountains attracted generations of literary legends
Nora Mae Gilliam ran a 12-by-12-foot Buncombe County library where books crowded the shelves and children exchanged them through school-bus windows
Behind an iron fence at St. John in the Wilderness rest a French aristocratic family, a son who helped shape Hendersonville and the English governess they buried as one of their own.
Near Brevard, a roadside marker remembers the lost Cherokee settlement of Kanasta. More than a century ago, a researcher recorded a strange story about what happened to its people.
The Asheville lawyer, folklorist and festival organizer spent decades preserving Western North Carolina’s songs, dances and mountain traditions.
Following the April premiere of “A Life Reimagined: The George Masa Story,” a documentary about Appalachian Trail photographer George Masa, filmmaker Paul Bonesteel will be taking his movie to Japan, Masa’s home country, for a four-stop tour.