06.03.08

Sidewalk tours of Asheville

Posted in attractions, books at 6:01 pm by admin

My granddaughter always looks through the free brochures and pamphlets when she goes anywhere. Last week, she ate at Shoney’s with her Mom and brought me home some brochures on Asheville she picked up. One of them was on a sidewalk tour I thought might be interesting for a tourist to take. Its called a moving sidewalk tour. You ride standing up on a glider called a Segway with LeanSteer technology, its not a bike. Anyway, the tour is of Downtown Asheville and starts at the Visitor’s center. The tour takes about 2 to 2 and a half hours. It sure beats walking.

05.06.08

Book Review of Unredeemed Captive

Posted in books at 9:41 pm by admin

I had to read this book for a Native American History class I took at UNCA here in Asheville NC this past semester so I thought I’d share some of my essays with my readers.

The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos was about Eunice Williams’ captivity and the ordeal her family went through to try and get her to return home. Eunice was captured together with her family and over 100 other town residents in the Deerfield raid of 1704. Demos accurately described the Deerfield raid, the captives’ trek to Canada and some individual’s captivity experience. He gave reasons for the raid and why it was successful. In addition, he described the Kahnawake Indian village where Eunice lived, their society, customs and so forth. Since very little is known about Eunice, Demos attempted to describe how he thought her life would have been like by relating life in the Kahnawake village. To read more, see Book Review

10.10.07

An Endless Tapestry

Posted in books at 8:18 pm by admin

Here’s a brief description: An Endless Tapestry is Julia Nunnally Duncan’s 59 pp. poetry collection that explores the lives of the working class–both past and present–in a western NC textile town.  NC Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer says of An Endless Tapestry:  Julia Nunnally Duncan’s gifts as a fiction writer energize these poems with the narrative flow and coherence that make them live in our imaginations…. 

03.07.07

13 moons by Charles Frazier

Posted in books at 8:28 pm by admin

Recently, I bought the audio cd version of 13 moons for my parents. The story takes place in Cherokee and the Pigeon River area in the North Carolina mountains. (Asheville use to be the Cherokee hunting grounds.) The main character, Will, runs a trading post near the Cherokee Nation in the early 1800s. The time frame covers the trail of tears.  Its based on a true story. The narrative is well done and held my interest. Charles Frazier wrote Cold Mountain too. I would recommend both books to anyone.

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