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Massive chandeliers, neon tumbleweed and a gardenscape of glass are part of this new Biltmore exhibit.
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A portion of the proceeds from “A Hard Silence” will benefit the Western North Carolina AIDS Project.
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Musician Laura Blackley visits the home of blues guitarist and singer Etta Baker.
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BPR hosted a table at WCU's Mini-Mountain Heritage to collect and share the stories of Appalachian women.
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Jackson County author David Joy’s new book combines his Southern Gothic Noir and the classic whodunit style to explore the complex intersection of race, friendship and history in “Those We Thought We Knew."
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This summer, Folkmoot will host a one-day festival as well as a Summer Fundraising Soiree. The Board of Directors also recently accepted the resignation of its executive director.
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Appalachian Writer Barbara Kingsolver Wins Pulitzer Prize, first fiction winner in region since 1958Barbara Kingsolver, a writer who grew up in Kentucky and lives in Southwestern Virginia, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction this week. The Appalachian novelist is the first in the region to receive the prestigious award since 1958.
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A homebody and a magpie: Artist Carly Owens Weiss discusses her work at John C. Campbell Folk SchoolCarly Owens Weiss is a multidisciplinary artist currently in residence at the John C. Campbell Folk school in Brasstown. She grew up in the Asheville area but is now based in Boulder, Colorado.
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A new partnership between BPR and the Foxfire Museum is collecting oral histories about the experiences of Appalachian women. The partnership is in conjunction with a new book – “The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South.”Foxfire Museum curator and director of education Kami Ahrens edited the book. The final chapter features Kaye Carver Collins, a resident of Rabun County, Georgia whom Ahrens said is emblematic of Foxfire.
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Blue Ridge Public Radio is partnering with Foxfire Mountain Heritage Museum to launch a campaign to collect oral histories about women in Appalachia. The effort coincides with the release of a new book, "The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South."
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Ada Limón is the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and first Latina to hold the title. She visits UNC Asheville campus for an evening of poetry on Monday.BPR’s Helen Chickering caught up with her by phone last week at her home in Lexington.
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BPR's Laura Blackley catches up with celebrated singer/songwriter Tom Rush before his WNC concert.