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The Grove Park Inn
While teaching at Sherman College in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Marty and I decided to take a ride up to Asheville and have lunch at the historic Grove Park Inn. The drive itself was familiar to us. When we were students at Sherman, we enjoyed making the trip from Spartanburg into the mountains of western North […]
Hezekiah Alexander Homesite
While visiting the Charlotte Museum of History, we walked the grounds and came across the Hezekiah Alexander House, a remarkable survivor from Charlotte’s earliest years. The stone house was built around 1774 by Hezekiah Alexander and is the oldest surviving house in Mecklenburg County. Alexander, born in Pennsylvania in 1722, eventually settled in North Carolina, […]
Thomas Wolfe Home
Wandering through the quiet rooms of the Thomas Wolfe Memorial in Asheville, North Carolina. Marty and I stepped back into an era when Asheville was not yet a bustling arts town, but rather a sanctuary for healing and a mountain refuge for those seeking relief from tuberculosis. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Asheville became known […]
