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Tag:  World War II

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The war years: A Jew in Asheville

Posted on May 28, 2023May 27, 2023 by Jerry Sternberg

“I rushed to the window in time to see one of my classmates from school throw a trash can through our front door, shouting ‘Jew! Jew! Jew!’”

6.2 K views+CommentaryOpinion

Letter: Branyon channels revisionis­t history

Posted on May 27, 2023May 27, 2023 by Letters

“The bottom line is that it takes a very amateur historian to assert that the ‘merchants of death’ are the cause of war.”

2.7 K views4LettersOpinion

Around Town: Oak Street Gallery exhibit highlights a year of powerful images

Posted on April 19, 2022April 20, 2022 by Justin McGuire

First Congregational UCC’s Oak Street Gallery features an exhibit of newspaper collages. Also, a local author spotlights a little-known World War II story, high school students tackle gun violence and Citizen Vinyl and Asheville Music School hold a silent auction.

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Hey, Grandpa: The Gospel According to Jerry

Posted on December 5, 2021December 3, 2021 by Jerry Sternberg

“They’re just trying to teach us the truth about America and our local history.”

4.9 K views2CommentaryOpinion

Around Town: Refraction Holiday Art Market returns to River Arts District

Posted on November 30, 2021December 3, 2021 by Justin McGuire

Refraction Holiday Art Market returns to the River Arts District on Sunday, Dec. 5, noon-6 p.m. Also: Historic Johnson Farm celebrates Christmas with a number of tours; the Krüger Brothers join the Blue Ridge Orchestra; and more!

4.5 K views+Art NewsArts

Adventure stories: Readers and writers share their tales

Posted on August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 by Xpress Contributor

Xpress readers and writers share their own true tales of adventure — from unexpected encounters with nature to wild career rides and more.

3.4 K views+CommentaryOpinion

Asheville Archives: Air raid warnings sound in WNC, 1942

Posted on November 29, 2020November 23, 2020 by Thomas Calder

Starting in the summer of 1942, residents across Western North Carolina participated in a series of emergency blackout drills to prepare for potential air raids from the Axis Power.

5.4 K views1HistoryNews

Letter: Confederat­e monuments remind us of our history

Posted on July 1, 2020June 30, 2020 by Letters

“Their existence represents a teachable moment to future generations of the evil of slavery. However, these statues are not really all about slavery, they are about the history of our nation.”

11.2 K views43LettersOpinion

Letter: Lessons from a local patriot

Posted on February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 by Letters

“He added, ‘Patriotism is doing right by your neighbors. Join the PTA, volunteer to help others, support your community, your place of worship.'”

2.4 K views+LettersOpinion

Swannanoa Valley Museum honors Beacon blankets

Posted on April 11, 2019April 4, 2019 by Thomas Calder

“Beacon was Swannanoa,” says Anne Chesky Smith, director of Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center. “Everything that was in Swannanoa was entangled in Beacon,

6.2 K views1HistoryNews

Asheville Archives: High schools students participat­e in World War II efforts

Posted on February 19, 2019February 1, 2019 by Thomas Calder

Asheville and Buncombe County high school students got actively involved in various war-time efforts upon America’s entry into World War II.

4.5 K views2HistoryNews

Letter: Are we complicit in ICE roundups?

Posted on December 30, 2018December 30, 2018 by Letters

“The word ‘collaborationist’ has lost its meaning in these eight decades since World War II, but our collective and collaborative silence and passivity is as damning as those who turned in their neighbors in Europe because they had been declared ‘different than us.'”

5.8 K views39LettersOpinion

Charles George VA Medical Center celebrates its centennial

Posted on October 22, 2018October 23, 2018 by Thomas Calder

On Friday, Oct. 26, the Charles George VA will celebrate its centennial at its grand reopening of building No. 9, known today as the Hope and Recovery Center.

9.6 K views3HistoryNews

A class act: The Gospel According to Jerry

Posted on September 17, 2018September 17, 2018 by Jerry Sternberg

“When the members of this class were born, the nation and the entire world were in a panic — not because these particular little babies happened to arrive then, but because the Great Depression had begun.”

5.2 K views1CommentaryOpinion

Letter: For many, Confederat­e flag means ‘I’m a Southerner’

Posted on March 5, 2018March 4, 2018 by Letters

“I still cannot stand to see a swastika, which to me is ugly and hateful. Why pointedly display a symbol that you know will upset some people unless that is your aim in the first place?”

8.3 K views19LettersOpinion

Thank God it’s over!: The Gospel According to Jerry

Posted on November 9, 2017November 8, 2017 by Jerry Sternberg

“Heroic young men and women who’d stepped up to defeat our dreadful enemies returned to us, many arriving at the same train station on Depot Street from which they’d departed.”

3.9 K views+CommentaryOpinion

Kingdom at war: The Gospel According to Jerry

Posted on September 10, 2017September 8, 2017 by Jerry Sternberg

“It seemed that the whole world was at war, and the tiny river kingdom of Asheville was neither exempt from the traumatic effects nor absent in playing an important integral part in its prosecution.”

4.7 K views2CommentaryOpinion

Blue Ridge Honor Flight brings veterans home: The Gospel According to Jerry

Posted on July 6, 2017July 5, 2017 by Jerry Sternberg

“Grown men don’t cry, but it was hard to keep a dry eye as we walked through these profoundly evocative memorials, knowing the gut-wrenching agony of the families of all these thousands of men and women who, had they survived, might have been on the bus with us this very day.”

4.7 K views2CommentaryOpinion

The Gospel According to Jerry: Cataclysmi­c change

Posted on May 13, 2017May 13, 2017 by Jerry Sternberg

“The scene at the depot was a depressing beehive as these raw recruits, many no more than young boys, had their last meal with their families at the Atlantic Quick Lunch and then walked across the street to board a train.”

4.0 K views+CommentaryOpinion

Yancey County man was among those lost at Pearl Harbor

Posted on December 7, 2016December 7, 2016 by Xpress Contributor

“On Dec. 8, 1941, after hearing the news about Pearl Harbor, childhood friend Elsie Edwards wrote a two-page, heartbreaking letter to Burlison, hoping that he was safe and alive.”

6.3 K views4CommentaryOpinion

Christmas Eve, 1944: A day to remember

Posted on December 24, 2015December 24, 2015 by Xpress Contributor

“We never knew for sure where the mission would be for that day. They would wake us up around 3:30 in the morning, and the sergeant from operations would tap me on the toe, saying, ‘Get up, lieutenant, and go act like a hero.’”

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