From a Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center press release:
Images of Black Mountain College the Western Regional Archives: A Presentation by Heather South, Archivist
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville presents Images of Black Mountain College from the Western Regional Archives with WRA archivist Heather South on Thursday, March 5, at 7:30 p.m. Heather South, along with Anne Chesky Smith, recently authored and edited a book for the “Images of America” publication series, entitled Black Mountain College. This 128-page publication contains hundreds of rarely seen images of BMC. Copies will be available to purchase after the presentation. This presentation is free and open to the public.
The Western Regional Archives
The Western Regional Archives (WRA), the western headquarters for the State Archives of North Carolina, opening in August 2013. Located in the newly restored former Veteran’s Administration Hospital minority nurses’ dormitory in Asheville, the WRA continues to work to fulfill its mission of collecting, preserving and making accessible the documentary heritage of the western region of North Carolina. Through ongoing collection acquisition, a public search room and continued outreach and education programs, the WRA is becoming a well-known hub for archival research and preservation information.
The Black Mountain College material, the Blue Ridge Parkway construction photographs and a ciphering text from 1828 are just some of the collections currently available at the facility that attracts scholars from around the world to the Asheville location. The archives are full of documentary treasures that are waiting to be discovered. Western North Carolina is known for its mountains, and at the Western Regional Archives, history has a view.
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