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A new #52weeks52communities post is on the way! This time we're taking a look at Dillingham, a small but legendary community near Barnardsville! Stay tuned for more. #asheville #ashevillehistory #localhistory #wnc #828isgreat @buncombecounty @pack.memorial.library

On the blog this week: Democrat and Dillingham. What do you know about these two NW Buncombe County communities? Check for updates on Heard tell, the official blog of the NC Room @ @pack.memorial.library all week! #52weeks52communities #localhistory #asheville #AVL #avlhistory #archivesofinstagram

It just keeps going and going and going and... Do you LOVE @ashevillecommunitytheatre ??? So do we! The ACT collection is one of our ever-growing collections. We have photo albums of ALL of ACT's productions dating back to 2000! And even more photos and documents related to Tanglewood Children's Theater and playbills going back decades! Come take a peek. We're working through this collection, and soon you'll be able to see a listing of each album in our online catalog by searching for "MS310"

*BREAKING NEWS* from the North Carolina Room! We wrote a book! "The Hidden History of Asheville" is set to hit bookstore and library shelves in June! We can't can't wait to tell you more! #Asheville #AVL #AVLHistory #AVLNews #LibrariesofInstagram @pack.memorial.library @buncombecounty

Do you read our blog? HeardTell is the official blog of the North Carolina Collection at Pack Memorial Library. You can explore and learn all kinds of information about the North Carolina Room and catch up on our #52weeks52Communities series there. You can see photos featured in our last three blog posts about Burton Street Community, Candler, and Cane Creek above. Since HeardTell has been live, its garnered nearly 400K views! It has been so successful, and we've enjoyed posting so much, in fact, that we've decided to do something radical. Tune in to our Instagram and Facebook page tomorrow at 10:30 am to find out what that is... . . . #Asheville #AshevilleHistory #AVL #AVLToday #LocalHistory #LibrariesofInstagram #ArchivesofInstagram #WEHAVEBIGBIGNEWS @buncombecounty @pack.memorial.library

As #WomensHistoryMonth comes to an end, we’re taking today to remember Dr. Sprinza Weizenblatt, Asheville’s first optometrist! Dr. Weizenblatt immigrated from Austria as a young woman, and set out with her own practice in Asheville, something very few women at the time had ever done. Dr. Weizenblatt wanted to make sure she treated everyone who needed it, so she was known to pay the bills of her patients who could not afford their treatment. An avid hiker and lover of the outdoors, she was a member of the Carolina Mountain Club and collected orchids. Far from home, she found friends near Asheville when the Black Mountain College opened and new German Jewish immigrants like Josef and Annie Albers arrived in Buncombe County. Her home, still standing near Beaver Lake in North Asheville, is a testament to these relationships. Built in the Bauhaus style, the design was created by Marcel Breuer with help from Bauhaus school founder Walter Gropius, the supervising architect was her friend and Library Board member Tony Lord. At the end of her life, Dr. Weizenblatt continued to live generously and donated large sums of her personal estate to schools across western North Carolina including UNC Asheville, Warren Wilson College, and Mars Hill University. If she still living Dr. Weizenblatt would have be 124 on April 1. . . . . #Asheville #AVLHistory #AVLToday #AVL @marshillu @ramseylibrary @unc_asheville @warrenwilsoncollege @pack.memorial.library @buncombecounty #Librariesofinstagram #ArchivesofInstagram @bmcmuseum @blackmountaincollege

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