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Billy Graham confidential: New Nixon political memos released
Will it ever stop? Years after his death, President Richard Nixon’s secrets keep rising from the archives—as the latest batch did just last week. illustration by V.C. Rogers With the release of each classified memo and secretly recorded tape, more is learned about the inner workings of the Nixon White House—and of the people who […]
What’s eating you?
The other day, a young mother from the Midwest called the Tick-Borne Infections Council of North Carolina. She had just visited North Carolina, had gone hiking, and upon her return home had found a tick embedded in her skin. She couldn’t identify what kind it was, but when a circular, growing rash developed around the […]
Up from poverty
Since relocating to Asheville several years ago, I’ve been struck by how often I hear it said that Asheville is a unique place. It’s a great place to live for many reasons—the beautiful environment, the small-town atmosphere, the friendly people who live here, and all the great music, art and local businesses. But one thing […]
Take another look at Pisgah View
I live in Pisgah View Apartments, along with my wife and three daughters. During my seven years here, I have seen some horrible things; I have also seen some absolutely wonderful things that give me great hope for the future of Asheville and humanity. But I have seen so much emphasis and media coverage of […]
Prisoner of Starbucks?
I moved to Asheville recently and was delighted to find so many “healthy” restaurants serving organic local produce. By contrast however, I was sad to run into so little consciousness regarding water. An iced-tea hound, I visited local coffeehouses. The usual reply to my “Is your water filtered?” question was: “Yes, we run it through […]
The other side of the interstate
I read so quickly that I practically devoured the article “Who’s Thirsty: West Asheville Poised for a Pub Explosion” [Xpress, July 5]. I was on the edge of my seat, hoping to hear news of a pub—or even better, a coffee shop—coming to my West Asheville neighborhood. But I got my hopes up for nothing. […]
We’re not over the hill yet
I appreciated the recent opinion piece on Richmond Hill Park [“An Exceptional Treasure: Richmond Hill Park Is No Place for an Armory,” June 20]. I share the concern of the writer—that the ecological, cultural and educational value of this exceptional property far outweighs the supposition that the plan for a National Guard armory development at […]
Good shows at fair prices
This is in response to the “Pumpkins Smumpkins” letter printed in the July 5 issue of the Mountain Xpress. It is unfortunate that there were not enough tickets to go around for the Smashing Pumpkins shows, but that was a matter of logistics—and continued grousing over not being able to get tickets is pure sour […]
Especially for book lovers
If you haven’t purchased the final book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, or if you need another, Malaprop’s Bookstore is donating 10 percent of each copy sold ahead of the release date (July 20) to the Friends of Buncombe County Libraries. I encourage you to support the library with your purchase, and keep Asheville […]
We need to keep our research stations
What if there was a bill in the N.C. Senate, introduced the day before the Senate voted, that would offer for sale to the highest bidder Mt. Mitchell State Park, the new Chimney Rock State Park, Pilot Mountain State Park or any of the other state parks in North Carolina? Would there not be a […]
We’ll be staying put
Our country will not be leaving Iraq when, as expected, the surge is pronounced a huge success, nor when Mr. Bush leaves the White House, nor when a new president takes office or a new Congress is sworn in. Matter of fact, we won’t be leaving for a very long time. Now that Halliburton has […]
Give Him a chance
My favorite Martin Luther King Jr. attribution is that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Two recent anti-Israeli letters have been published in our local daily newspaper (Asheville Citizen-Times). The first was recognition of the anniversary of the tragic USS Liberty attack during the Six-Day War. The letter writer was vehement in saying this was an unprovoked attack […]
The farm at the bottom of the lake
I’ve lived in cities for more than half my life, but I grew up in a cove in west Buncombe, at the top of a horseshoe-shaped dirt road. We had a couple of acres, mostly wooded, with a small fruit orchard, a large garden and a million-dollar view of Mount Pisgah. When the wind blew […]
Loving Food Resources
Loving Food Resources is an all-volunteer, nonprofit food pantry located on the campus of Kenilworth Presbyterian Church in Asheville. LFR is dedicated to providing nutritional food and personal care items to neighbors in our community living with HIV/AIDS or in home Hospice care. Begun in 1991, LFR serves an average of 50 clients each […]
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The soft bulletin
Patterson Hood rarely looks in his rear-view mirror. As the ever-unapologetic Drive-By Truckers retread after the departure of important member Jason Isbell, the band’s swaggering, whiskey-bent fountainhead displayed his forward-thinking disposition in a recent talk with Xpress. “It kind of got to the point where, in my opinion, [Jason] outgrew being one-fifth of this thing,” […]
Care and feeding of the nation’s favorite trail
My husband I maintain a 4.9-mile piece of the Appalachian Trail from Rice Gap to Devils Fork Gap along the Tennessee border. We clip brush that’s obstructing the trail, pick up garbage, weed-whack the sides of the trail and refresh the white blazes. When we run into something we can’t handle, we go up a […]
The patron saint of gardeners
Walking through gardens, you’ll often find a sculpture of St. Francis, a pious-looking man wearing a cloak. Still, I always dismissed St. Francis out of hand as the patron saint of gardening: Tradition, I figured, would demand that any saint accorded that honor would have to have been buried alive, mauled by a pair of […]
The Asheville niceness factor
I had to go to the FedEx office off Patton Avenue the other day. (Anyone who’s ever successfully navigated this stretch knows that once you get off the expressway—assuming you’re headed in the correct direction—you just keep bearing right until you get there.) Once again, my insurance company had changed its name (buyout after buyout), […]
Mountain trees, mountain miracles
“What is a tree?” my elementary-school teacher asked so many years ago. I don’t recall my own answer, but I do remember one of my classmates, Billy, describing them as “big plants with a stick up the middle.” I knew then that Billy would go on to college or do something great. Another student, asked […]