Asheville

Freelance writer Nan K. Chase lives in Asheville, North Carolina. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Our State and Southern Living among others.

• Table of ContentsIntroduction      PART I1. “The glowing summer-heart of the woods”            2. The Livestock Years      3. The Asheville Style      4. The Vanderbilt Years: Asheville’s Gold Standard      5. Fever      PART II6. “Lion in a cage”: Asheville’s Great Depression      7. Sticks and Stones: Race and Architecture in Asheville      8. The Spreading Malaise      PART III9. Lumbering Phoenix      10. Hoppin’ ’n’ Poppin’      11. The Day After Tomorrow      PART IVAppendix A: Early Asheville Newspaper Sources      Appendix B: Cherokee Recipes      Appendix C: All Souls Episcopal Church      Appendix D: Buildings Designed by Richard Sharp Smith      Appendix E: Riverside Cemetery      Appendix F: Biltmore Industries      Appendix G: Grovemont-on-Swannanoa      Appendix H: Land and Forest Reclamation      Appendix I: Buildings Designed by Douglas D. Ellington      Appendix J: Tuberculosis and Sanitation Concerns      Appendix K: Official Schedule of Events of the Seventh AnnualRhododendron Festival, June 11–15, 1934      Appendix L: Rayon Production at Enka      Appendix M: Impressions of the Program, Negro Music Festival, July 1934      Appendix N: From the Julian Price Papers      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

“addictive, fascinating, solidly researched, comprehensible organized, and very, very difficult to leave behind before you’ve finished it”—Carolina Mountain Life; “essential...impressive...remarkably comprehensive text”—WNC Magazine; “comprehensive...insightful”—Western North Carolina Heritage; “the first comprehensive, illustrated history of the city in a generation”—ASJA:Member News; “fascinating”—Greensboro Libraries; “Chase punctuates her history with detail, anecdote, quotes, contemporary newspaper accounts...loads of photos...make this book the best kind of history”—High Country Press.