Fighting for the forgotten: Confronting the legacy of slavery
Volume
26
/ Issue 12
Cover Design Credit:
Scott SouthwickCover Photography Credit:
Joe Pellegrino
In the coming weeks, a number of local individuals and organizations will mark the anniversary of the landing of the first enslaved Africans in what’s now the U.S. — ranging from work to preserve the South Asheville Cemetery, a former slave burial ground, to a five- day interdisciplinary series hosted by UNCA, 400 Years of African American Resilience.
arts
Author Daniel Wallace will keynote Literacy Council fundraiser
A longtime resident of Chapel Hill, Daniel Wallace (who penned Big Fish: A Novel of Epic Proportions, which director Tim Burton made into a 2003 movie of the same name)…Smart Bets: The Headless Hessian of Sleepy Hollow
Immediate Theatre Project's annual autumn show returns to Isis on Oct. 23.Bold Mama Elle premieres her one-woman show
Combining dance, speaking and singing (to pre-recorded music), the one-woman show is “designed to push the edge of personal and collective freedom,” performer Elle Swan explains.Josh Fox releases a new video and discusses his plant songs
“I don’t know many other flowers that will push up through concrete,” Fox says. “To know the dandelion is to embody earth-strength.”Smart Bets: The Shady Recruits
The Greenville, S.C.-based funk/jazz collective plays Asheville Music Hall on Oct. 19.German ‘techno marching band’ MEUTE plays The Orange Peel
The 11-piece band reworsk dance tracks with brass, woodwinds and percussion.Smart Bets: It Didn’t Happen
Judy Calabrese’s Asheville Fringe hit heads to the Tina McGuire Theatre, Oct. 18-19 and 25-26.Smart Bets: Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands
The Southern Highland Craft Guild's 72nd annual event returns to the U.S. Cellular Center, Oct. 17-20.food
Local food delivery drivers rely on tips to make a sustainable income
Service industry workers who bring food to customers' doors do far more than merely drive, yet their efforts are inconsistently rewarded with the standard 20% gratuity.Asheville breweries make a splash at this year’s Great American Beer Festival
Several local breweries traveled to Denver, Colo., for the 33rd annual event, with three bringing home top honors.Small bites: Cooking with Food Waste
In her upcoming class Meredith Leigh teaches ways to eliminate food waste. Also: Blue Cheese Festival launches; Ciao Asheville hosts pasta making class; Thanksgiving pre-orders arrive; and plenty more in…living
Apples and pumpkins are ripe for picking at Hendersonville farms
Stepp's Hillcrest Orchard and other area U-pick farms celebrate harvest season.movies
Screen Scene: Local film news
Asheville Pizza & Brewing announces a new video contest, Kevin Patrick Murphy leads a free discussion on the business of acting and more.news
Asheville Archives: Slavery in WNC
The 1860 census records show that Buncombe County had 1,907 slaves and 283 slave owners. Yet even today, some local historians say people are unaware that slavery existed in WNC.Unwelcome Guests
ASHEVILLE, N.C.Duke deploys herbicide helicopters in WNC
Since Duke first began using the practice in WNC in 2016, said company spokesperson Jeff Brooks, helicopters under the utility’s direction have deployed herbicides across more than 500 acres. That…Why so Anti-Biotic?
ASHEVILLE, N.C.News in brief: Number of cost-burdened renters on the rise
Hendersonville neighborhood to receive free trees through local program The Hendersonville Tree Board’s NeighborWoods program will provide free trees to homeowners in the Green Meadows neighborhood in Hendersonville on Saturday,…Missing state data clouds ACS disparity analysis
Huge spreadsheets containing academic testing results for each public school district and individual school for the 2018-19 school year became available online in the first week of October. But when…Asheville reflects on the legacy of slavery
Across Asheville, community members are honoring and reflecting on the 400th anniversary of the landing of the first enslaved Africans in England's North American colonies in 1619.Statewide symposium spotlights narrative health care
“Medicine Beyond Medication,” North Carolina’s first statewide symposium on narrative health care, will take place at the Mountain Area Health Education Center’s Hendersonville Road campus on Friday and Saturday, Oct.…Dogwood Health Trust CEO Chiang makes Buncombe debut
Antony Chiang, the new leader of the $1.5 billion foundation resulting from the sale of Mission Health to HCA Healthcare, shared details on the nonprofit's plans to support partner organizations…opinion
Letter: Lawmakers must adequately fund mental health care
"I urge our lawmakers to adequately fund life-changing mental health care for the good of our society, economy and future."Letter: Take time to advocate for our planet
"If we continue to destroy the Earth, we destroy ourselves. Now is the time to try to effect change."Letter: Why is sound inconsistent at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium?
"It is time we had an honest discussion about the sound system at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium: It is horrible."Letter: In defense of McHenry
"All that we will accomplish by passing new gun legislation will be to tie the hands of law-abiding citizens while giving criminals free rein."Letter: Smarten up and dumb it down
"Whether it is a good song, positive conversation, such as the ones Blades & Crystal have each morning, or the good deeds of others, my emotional well-being is better suited…It’s no longer a throwaway world: The Gospel According to Jerry
"It’s difficult to change our ways. For instance, almost no one worried about gas guzzlers when gas cost 19 cents a gallon."