
Transylvania County New Year Across the Decades
For this week’s Picturing the Past we are looking back at what was being reported after the New Year in Transylvania County across a few different decades. The big news
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For this week’s Picturing the Past we are looking back at what was being reported after the New Year in Transylvania County across a few different decades. The big news
On October 10, 1946, an ad appeared in the Transylvania Times announcing the opening of The Chatterbox, across the street from Brevard High School, offering Drive-In service from 11:00 am-11:15
Nancy Barnum Clarke, a great-granddaughter of P.T. Barnum, was born on February 6, 1889 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Soon her family moved to Eastover, South Carolina and lived at the “Goodwill
The Transylvania County Library is the home of an interesting work of art with a storied past. The mural “Good News” hangs in the Rowell Bosse North Carolina Room (on
An iconic part of Transylvania County history is Varner’s Drug Store, which opened in December 1940 in the building that was at that time the Waltermire Hotel. Many now know
While researching an unrelated topic, my colleague pulled up the May 18, 1917, edition of the “Brevard News.” She showed it to me, and we were both immediately very curious.
The last in the Mary C. Jenkins Cultural and Community Center historical artifacts in this series is the painting “Facing the Rising Sun” by C.R. Riddle. Clarence Ralph Riddle, who friends
Another interesting feature of the new Mary C. Jenkins Community and Cultural Center is a podium with a rich historical background. The podium was found on the third story of
With their new construction, the Mary C. Jenkins Community and Cultural Center commissioned the creation of a beautiful Sweetgum wood conference table that now graces the larger conference room in
The Mary C. Jenkins Community and Cultural Center has opened, and there is much to share about the rich symbolism and history tied to its construction. As plans were being
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