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Fonta Flora Brewery | NC Weekend | UNC-TV
Fonta Flora is a microbrewery dedicated to the local resources and community of Morganton, North Carolina. The name comes from the forgotten share-cropping village of Fonta Flora, which was flooded in 1916 to bring electricity to North Carolina's Catawba Valley. Fonta Flora's selection of locally brewed craft beers gives customers a unique, homegrown taste, and their facility provides the communal atmosphere of a hometown pub.
Beer City: How Asheville Became Beer City
Tony Kiss, the beer reporter, has been following the local craft brew scene since 1994. He traces the history of Asheville craft beer from the launch of Highland Brewing Company through this year's announcements that both New Belgium Brewing and Sierra Nevada Brewing will build east coast expansion breweries here and Oskar Blues Brewing will build an operation in Brevard. With 10 craft breweries already operating in Buncombe County, and smaller nano breweries continuing to come on line, Asheville is poised to become the east coast craft beer center of the United States.
Exploring Asheville | 100 Days: Drinks, Dishes & Destinations | KQED
Just outside the city of Asheville, North Carolina, lies an American landmark — The Biltmore. The Vanderbilt family built their sprawling estate in the late 1800s. Not only is this magnificent property reminiscent of Downton Abby, it houses the most visited winery in the country. Next, Leslie Sbroccp heads downtown to sample Asheville's vibrant and growing beer brewing industry. Combined with North Carolina’s BBQ pork, it’s a winning combination. Leslie hikes off the calories in the area’s stunning state parks where movies like The Hunger Games and Dirty Dancing were filmed.
Episode 106: Asheville, North Carolina
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Pack your bags and join Leslie Sbrocco, beloved host of Check Please! for 100 days of cultural and culinary adventures around the globe.
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Black Teas of India
Andrew Snavely, the owner of Dobrá Tea in downtown Asheville presents and leads a discussion on the tea cultures of India drawing from his experiences of travelling through various parts of India. The talk is followed by a tea tasting opportunity.
Trail of History - Local Baseball
History of local baseball
Revitalizing Syracuse: Community Strategies to Create Wealth
Joe Minicozzi of Urban3, a consulting firm based in Asheville, NC, addressed how public investments in the built environment affect local business decisions and the fiscal health of government. Minicozzi is a native of Upstate New York. Panelists included Andrew Fish of CenterState CEO and Honora Spillane of the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency. This event was co-sponsored by the Syracuse Downtown Committee and the New York State Association of REALTORS.
10/03/17 Metro Council Meeting
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William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position in which he served until a month before his death.
Taft was born in Cincinnati in 1857. His father, Alphonso Taft, was a U.S. Attorney General and Secretary of War. Taft attended Yale and, like his father, was a member of Skull and Bones. After becoming a lawyer, he was appointed a judge while still in his twenties. He continued a rapid rise, being named Solicitor General and as a judge of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 1901, President William McKinley appointed Taft civilian governor of the Philippines. In 1904, Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and he became Roosevelt's hand-picked successor. Despite his personal ambition to become chief justice, Taft declined repeated offers of appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States, believing his political work to be more important.
With Roosevelt's help, Taft had little opposition for the Republican nomination for president in 1908 and easily defeated William Jennings Bryan for the presidency that November. In the White House, he focused on East Asia more than European affairs and repeatedly intervened to prop up or remove Latin American governments. Taft sought reductions to trade tariffs, then a major source of governmental income, but the resulting bill was heavily influenced by special interests. His administration was filled with conflict between the conservative wing of the Republican Party, with which Taft often sympathized, and the progressive wing, toward which Roosevelt moved more and more. Controversies over conservation and antitrust cases filed by the Taft administration served to further separate the two men. Roosevelt challenged Taft for renomination in 1912. Taft used his control of the party machinery to gain a bare majority of delegates and Roosevelt bolted the party. The split left Taft with little chance of re-election and he took only Utah and Vermont in Wilson's victory.
After leaving office, Taft returned to Yale as a professor, continuing his political activity and working against war through the League to Enforce Peace. In 1921, President Harding appointed Taft as chief justice, an office he had long sought. Chief Justice Taft was a conservative on business issues and under him there were advances in individual rights. In poor health, he resigned in February 1930. After his death the next month, he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, the first president and first Supreme Court justice to be interred there. Taft is generally listed near the middle in historians' rankings of U.S. presidents.
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