Press release from the the North Carolina Room:
Title: “‘Mountain Scenery’–Discovering WNC from the 1850s, Asheville, Ancestors, and Immortality”
Speaker: Elizabeth “Liz” Colton
Date: Wednesday, April 26th
Time: 6:00 to 7:00 PM
Pack Memorial Library, Lord Auditorium, lower level
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Friends of the North Carolina Room
Elizabeth (Liz) Colton, Ph.D. will talk about the book, Mountain Scenery: The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina written by Henry E. Colton and published in 1859. No one could better present this fascinating book than Liz Colton, as she has visited every site in Western NC visited by her ancestor Henry E. Colton.
“Asheville is finely situated in what might be termed a valley, through which flows the French Broad River, it having just received upon its bosom the Swannanoa.” Henry E. Colton
Liz Colton grew up in Asheville, NC. She lived and worked around the world as a journalist, diplomat, educator. Now through her EO Colton & Associates Global Collaboration consulting firm based in Asheville and Washington, Dr. Colton speaks and advises globally on diplomacy, politics, education, journalism & the media. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, a university professor, a UN development planner, a Peace Corps Volunteer, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, and a Foreign Service Officer. Liz has an undergraduate BA from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and MAs from Vanderbilt University and holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics & Political Science. Currently, Dr. Elizabeth Colton is serving as Diplomat in Residence at Lenoir-Rhyne University-Asheville Center and also as UNITAR trainer/moderator in Diplomacy courses.
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