“Positively no dogs of any size, value, color or ugliness allowed….Guests who attempt to smuggle them in in vanity boxes or suit cases will be asked to vacate their rooms.” – From a 1920 brochure for the Grove Park Inn in Asheville
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Grove Park Inn: Dog smugglers, we’re on to you
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged asheville nc, dog bans, grove park inn on October 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Asheville boom was bust for Henry Miller
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged asheville nc, d h lawrence, henry miller, june miller on March 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“[At age 34, Henry Miller] persuaded [his wife June] to accompany him to Asheville, North Carolina, in the spring of 1926. He wanted to go there as a stopping-off place, to take advantage of its reputed real estate boom, and then continue on to Taos, New Mexico, to be near D. H. Lawrence, whose novels [...]
Edison liked nature but thought ‘Man is a fool’
Posted in On This Day, tagged asheville nc, grove park inn, harvey firestone, henry ford, john burroughs, thomas edison, weaverville nc on August 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1918: Concluding a rustic road trip that began nine days ago in Pittsburgh, inventor Thomas Edison, automaker Henry Ford, tiremaker Harvey Firestone and naturalist John Burroughs check into Asheville’s Grove Park Inn. The celebrity nature-seekers, who camped in tents by the mountain roads, were delayed along the way by crowds of [...]
Link dump shrugs off Iowa straw poll, heads to N.H.
Posted in History, Literature, New Books, Tar Heelia, tagged asheville nc, civil war flags, colored agricultural fair, david mccullough, mitch easter, new bern nc, nitrate negatives, wilmington nc on August 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
– Captured battle flags returning to N.C. coast (and not everybody is happy about it). – Tidbits of Tar Heelia tucked in David McCullough’s latest. – For Colored Agricultural Fair, “The whole city participated, just like Bele Chere.” – Nitrate negatives yield a (slow-loading) gallery of “Old Wilmington Mystery Photos.” – Who would steal Mitch [...]
‘Faculty of generalizing’ trumps mountain reality
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged appalachian sterotypes, asheville nc, harding davis, jeff biggers, lippincott's magazine, the yares of black mountain, travel writing, united states of appalachia on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“At precisely the same moment that Southern Appalachia was being irrevocably altered by widespread industrialization and immigration, social reformers and travel writers insisted on depicting the region as a remote outpost inhabited only by rawboned and coon-capped Anglo-Saxon Celtic (today’s Scotch-Irish) mountaineers. “Harding Davis published a short story in 1875 in Lippincott’s Magazine that excoriated [...]
A last legacy of Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic
Posted in Tar Heelia, tagged asheville nc, e w grove, grove park inn, grove's tasteless chill tonic, grovemont nc, planned communities on April 14, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Though the most celebrated, the Grove Park Inn wasn’t the final project of quinine magnate E. W. Grove. In Swannanoa he created Grovement, a planned community ‘where people of moderate means can secure large lots at reasonable prices.’ ” According to this oral history, Grove envisioned “a neighborhood as close to his grandparents’ town in [...]
A link dump even more instructive than usual
Posted in History, Tar Heelia, tagged asheville nc, charlotte nc, covered wagons, eagles, flash mobs, garner nc, lexington nc, moonshine, new washington indiana, pawn stars, pillow fights, rowan county nc, slim jim sausage on February 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
– How Charlotte got to be CHARLOTTE (while somehow retaining an amazing microhabitat or two). – How Asheville came to host its first flash mob pillow fight (while still honoring its more traditional pastimes). – How a covered wagon from Rowan County ended up on the second floor of a restaurant in New Washington, Indiana. [...]
President’s daughter seeks lost voice in Asheville
Posted in On This Day, tagged asheville nc, carolina special, gen john j pershing, influenza quarantine, margaret wilson, oteen hospital, woodrow wilson on February 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1920: Nearing the end of a national tour, Gen. John J. Pershing, commander of the U.S. Army during World War I, arrives in Asheville. Despite an influenza quarantine, hundreds are on hand to see Pershing’s private rail car, attached to the Carolina Special, pull into Biltmore station. During his three-hour stay [...]
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