Helene recovery and affordable housing funding take center stage in this Radio Asheville 103.7 recap of the September 15, 2026, Buncombe County Commission meeting. A proposed 203-unit affordable housing development on Coxe Avenue faces a $15 million funding gap, while funding awards will support 60 new affordable apartments at Crescent Place in Arden. This update…
OKEH RECORD SESSIONS 9.1.1925 100 years ago today, a group of college boys who were spending their summer playing for dances on the rooftop garden ballroom at The George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, NC, stepped into the makeshift studio of OKeh Records to record 2 songs. Ralph Peer and OKeh Records came to Asheville to…
Rafael Guastavino Sr.’s work on the Basilica of Saint Lawrence in Asheville culminated in an engineering and artistic feat: its vast tile-built dome, reputed to be the largest freestanding elliptical dome in North America and one of the most distinctive masonry domes in the United States. Rafael Guastavino Sr., already celebrated for his tile vaulting…
Olive Dame Campbell, who established the John C. Campbell Folk School, came up with the idea for the Guild. Campbell and other co-founders connected through the Southern Mountain Workers Conference, which began in 1900 in Knoxville. At the 1926 conference, Campbell proposed creating a formal crafts organization. In 1928 and 1929, planning meetings were held…
Appalachian Hand Weaving in our Working Museum Crossnore Weavers Studio Step back in time at Crossnore’s Weaving Room, where a century-old tradition of Appalachian craftsmanship lives on. In this cozy stone cottage, now a National Historic Site, local women once spun yarn that wound up in the White House and homes across the country. Today,…
