A Story of the Buried Life - The Thomas Wolfe Memorial
Considered by many to be one of the giants of 20th-century American literature, Thomas Wolfe immortalized his childhood home in his epic autobiographical novel, Look Homeward, Angel. Functioning as a state historic site, the Old Kentucky Home is a memorial to the life of Thomas Wolfe. For more information on the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, visit
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C2CC Thomas Wolfe Memorial 15 Years Later
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Recorded Thursday, July 25, 2015
In July 1998, the Thomas Wolfe Memorial in Asheville, NC, suffered a devastating fire at the hands of an arsonist. Nearly 15 years later, the organization serves as a fantastic case study in a cultural institution's recovery after a disaster. Martha Battle Jackson, chief curator for North Carolina's Division of State Historic Sites and Properties, discussed the lessons that can be learned from this disaster and the organization's six-year road to recovery.
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Thomas Wolfe Birthday
ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Visitors to the Thomas Wolfe house in Asheville joined a special celebration Friday.
The state historic site celebrated the birthday of the internationally acclaimed writer, who would have been 114 years old!
Visitors enjoyed a birthday cake and were invited to make a card. They also got free admission into his home.
Wolfe was considered one of the giants of 20th century American literature.
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Hotel Indigo Asheville Downtown in Asheville NC
Prices: . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. Hotel Indigo Asheville Downtown 151 Haywood Street Asheville NC 28801 Steps from historic downtown Asheville, North Carolina and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, this hotel offers contemporary guestrooms with free wireless internet access and an on-site restaurant. Hotel Indigo Asheville Downtown features a 24-hour fitness center and an on-site business center. Guests can also enjoy breakfast and dinner at the hotel's Phi Bistro and Bar. Guestrooms at the Downtown Asheville Indigo offer views of the Blue Ridge Mountains and downtown Asheville. Guests will also appreciate 32-inch flat-screen TVs, hardwood floors and MP3 docking stations at this completely non-smoking hotel.
Hotel Indigo Asheville Downtown - Asheville Hotels, North Carolina
Hotel Indigo Asheville Downtown4Asheville,North Carolina Within US Travel Directory One of our bestsellers in Asheville! This hotel, located in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, offers easy access to Interstate 240.
The hotel has an on-site restaurant and bar, as well as a newly renovated fitness center.
Rooms at Hotel Indigo Asheville Downtown have flat-screen TVs with cable and free Wi-Fi.
The décor is modern and all rooms have hardwood floors.
They also include a seating area and are furnished with a work desk.
The Asheville Hotel Indigo’s restaurant, 151 Boutique Bar and Kitchen, serves organic dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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40 guests positively reviewed the available diningHotel Indigo Asheville has a 24-hour front desk.
There a business centre that offers fax, print, and copy services, and meeting space is available upon request.
Dry cleaning and valet parking are offered as well.
69 guests positively reviewed the services availableThe Montford Area Historic District is a mile from Hotel Indigo Asheville Downtown.
The Thomas Wolfe House and Memorial is only 3 minutes away.
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Pack Memorial Library
Pack Memorial Library is located in downtown Asheville, and is the main library in the Buncombe County Public Library System. The first Pack Library was built and named for George Willis Pack in 1911. The new, 56,000 sq. ft. Pack was built in 1978 and renovated in 2012. It has over 150,000 items available for perusal and free check out, including books, periodicals, CDs, DVDs, and research materials. Internet access, free Wi-Fi, word processing, and photocopy services are also available. They are also home to the Bookends Used Book Store, the North Carolina Room, Lord Auditorium, and the Thomas Wolfe Collection.
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Hampton Inn Asheville – Biltmore Area, Asheville (North Carolina), USA, HD
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Hampton Inn Asheville - Biltmore Area offers free WiFi, a full hot breakfast daily, and a complimentary local transfer service. The North Carolina hotel is located just 1,641 feet from the shopping venues at Asheville Outlets.
A 32-inch flat-screen TV and work desk are included in each Hampton Inn room. A microwave, small refrigerator, and tea- and coffee-making facilities are also provided.
The hotel features an indoor heated pool, hot tub, and fitness centre for guests to enjoy. A business centre, luggage storage, and vending machine are on site for convenience.
Biltmore Estate is 9 minutes' drive away, and The North Carolina Arboretum is 3.5 miles from the Asheville Hampton Inn. Thomas Wolfe Memorial House and Museum is 10 minutes' drive away from the hotel.
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O Lost! UNC-Chapel Hill, Thomas Wolfe and the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
April 4, 6-8 p.m.
The Louis Round Wilson Library Special Collections
This event featured an exhibition of rare materials from the UNC Libraries’ North Carolina Collection, including items from the Thomas Wolfe Collection, the University Archives and the Health Sciences Library.
Guest speakers highlighted the impact the 1918 flu had at UNC, and how the pandemic influenced the life and literature of UNC alumnus Thomas Wolfe, author of 'Look Homeward, Angel.'
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Welcome: Elaine Westbrooks, MILS, Vice Provost of University Libraries and University Librarian, UNC-Chapel Hill
Host and Moderator: Robert A. Blouin, PharmD, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Bryson Distinguished Professor, School of Pharmacy, UNC-Chapel Hill
Impact of the 1918 Flu at UNC-Chapel Hill
Howard E. Covington Jr., Historian and Biographer; author of more than 25 works of history and biography, including a biography of former governer and U.S. Senator Terry Sanford (Duke University Press, 1999)
Impact of 1918 Flu in the Life and Literature of UNC Alumnus Thomas Wolfe, author of 'Look Homeward, Angel'
Paula Gallant Eckard, PhD, Director of American Studies, Associate Professor, English, UNC-Charlotte; Editor, Thomas Wolfe Review; Past-President, Thomas Wolfe Society; author of Thomas Wolfe and Lost Children in Southern Literature (2016)
The Ravenscroft Reserve
The History of the Collier Woods and its connections to the Ravenscroft School, Thomas Wolfe and the North State Fitting School, until the demolition of Buxton Hill, with Dale Slusser, Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County.
The Automotive History of Coxe Ave. and its Surrounding Auto Businesses, with Heath Towson an avid amateur automotive historian.
The Ecological Significance of the Majestic Trees on the 11 Collier Avenue Property, with Monty Wooton, consulting forester.
History of the Effort to Save the Collier Wood Since 2015 & A Glimpse Into a Vision for the Property, Inge and Imke Durre.
Hampton Inn Asheville – Biltmore Area - Asheville Hotels, North Carolina
Hampton Inn Asheville – Biltmore Area4Asheville,North Carolina Within US Travel Directory Hampton Inn Asheville - Biltmore Area offers free WiFi, a full hot breakfast daily, and a complimentary local transfer service.
The North Carolina hotel is located just 500 m from the shopping venues at Asheville Outlets.
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Biltmore Estate is 9 minutes' drive away, and The North Carolina Arboretum is 5.
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Thomas Wolfe Memorial House and Museum is 10 minutes' drive away from the hotel.
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Exploring Asheville: The Biltmore, the Music, and the Blue Ridge Parkway
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The Writings of Thomas Wolfe
A presentation on the writings of Thomas Wolfe from the 2016 Blue Ridge Bookfest from Tom Muir, Manager of the Thomas Wolfe State Historic Site.
Luke: A Tribute to Fred (1979 documentary about Thomas Wolfe's brother, Fred Wolfe)
NOTE: This video begins with a 4-minute interview of me at age 19, followed by the 24 minute documentary. Total run time is 28:06. The film begins at 3:59...
I got started in film work in 1973 at age 13, through my then-best friend whose father was the Dean of Humanities at Converse College in Spartanburg, SC. His father began a regional film festival at Converse, FilmSouth, which sparked the filmmaking fire in lots of young filmmakers in the area.
Not long after the passing of Fred's wife, Mary, I was recruited by him (Fred and Mary lived two doors away from my parent's house) to be his driver as he had recently lost his driver's license due to his age. A neighbor who just happened to be the older brother and only living relative of noted American author Thomas Wolfe.
For those familiar with the works of Thomas Wolfe, it doesn't take long to realize that Wolfe drew heavily upon his real life and experiences to create his literary works. In particular, his moving novel Look Homeward, Angel is based on real events and real people and was essentially an autobiography with just the names changed. Fred Wolfe became Luke Gant in that novel.
I began the project in 1976 at age 16 and continued to work on the it as I could afford to and had the time. As the project grew I really needed help and approached the South Carolina Arts Commission which, combined with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, funded what grew to be a $7000 budget and allowed me to complete the film which was released in late 1979. Along with enthusiastic support and belief in the project provided by Stan Woodward, filmmaker-in-residence with the SC Arts Commission, combined to provide fertile ground for this young filmmaker to take on a project like this.
One of the film's initial showing was for an enthusiastic crowd at an annual meeting of The Thomas Wolfe Society, which presented me with its first ever Citation of Merit. I only recently learned that the Citation award was created because of my film and has been awarded every year since, which is humbling to me considering the company I'm included in among those who received that award.
The film caught the eye of other filmmakers in the area and I was able to freelance in 16mm and video production for about 3 or 4 more years. I was hired by the Appalachian Film Workshop (AppalShop) in Whitesburg, Kentucky as film editor and associate producer for a documentary film there, then worked for about a year as assistant film editor and assistant cameraman for Ross Spears, an academy-award nominated documentary filmmaker based in Charlottesville, Virginia. By the early 1980s, however, the available public funding for filmmaking began to dry up and it became increasingly difficult to finance films which even on a modest budget, were quite expensive for a young 20-something year old trying to make his way in the world. The general rule of thumb in those days was to budget $1,000 for each minute of completed film.
Copies of the film are housed in various collections, including the SC State Archives, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Thomas Wolfe Collection. The film was entered in the various film festivals and received judge's merit at Sinking Creek Film Celebration in Nashville, 1980, and was shown at Global Village, New York, 1982. Then, as with most niche films like this, it faded into oblivion.
The film was shot and rough edited in Super 8 then enlarged to 16mm for the fine cut, sound mix and negative cutting for release prints. Flash forward 36 years later to now. Film does not last forever, especially when it's not stored in the best of conditions. I was down to only three prints remaining which showed signs of severe color fade and other issues. I recently found in a box of old film work I was digging through, a 3/4 Umatic video of an interview with me from November 14, 1979 on Columbia Cable TV in Columbia, SC, done just after the film was released, which included a decent copy of the film. I was 19 years old when this interview was made.
Because the remaining 16mm prints and the videotape are nearly 40 years old I realized I needed to act quickly before this was lost forever. I just had the film and videotape converted to a digital format I can post to YouTube and share with the world.
Included here is the brief interview I gave followed by the 24-minute film. I had actually been production director of Columbia Cable TV at the time I was editing this film (another way I helped finance the film) and returned to my old place of work for this interview. That was my old boss interviewing me.
Here it is, for your enjoyment, my film, Luke: A Tribute to Fred.
And oh yeah, that's me playing banjo in the film. When you hear the brief clip of Old Joe Clark ... that's me after about 2 years of playing banjo (I picked up banjo in 1977).
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2018 NC Award Winner for Literature: Michael McFee
Michael McFee is an institution in the UNC-Chapel Hill English Department, where he has taught since 1990. The author of 16 books, McFee has published 11 volumes of poetry and two essay collections, and is the editor of several anthologies of North Carolina literature. McFee is a distinguished writer and poet, whose celebrated works include “Vanishing Acts” and “We Were Once Here.” His honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South, the R. Hunt Parker Memorial Award for Literary Achievement and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. McFee is a devoted teacher, mentor and dedicated champion of the literary culture of North Carolina.
Mountaineer Inn Fire
A fire breaks out at a historic Tunnel Road motel Monday night. Firefighters say the attic of Mountaineer Inn caught fire just after 7 p.m. Several rooms were damaged, but no injuries were reported. When fire crews arrived on scene they witnessed a lot of smoke coming from the attic of the building. Guests staying at the motel say not only could they see the smoke, they also saw fire coming from the roof of the building. Guests were evacuated, but the flames only affected three unoccupied rooms. Guests staying in other buildings were allowed to go back to their rooms.Officials say the cause of the fire is still under investigation. Follow Megan on Twitter @mschieringWLOS
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Quality Inn & Suites Biltmore East - Asheville Hotels, North Carolina
Quality Inn & Suites Biltmore East 2 Stars Hotel in Asheville,North Carolina Within US Travel Directory The Quality Inn & Suites Biltmore East is located just minutes from downtown Asheville and Biltmore, America's largest home, offering gardens, a winery and outdoor activities.
Tickets to Biltmore are available at the hotel.
The Asheville Mall, Biltmore Village and restaurant row are only four miles from the hotel.
The magnificent Antler Hill Village at the Biltmore is eight miles from the hotel.
The Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove is within walking distance of the hotel.
This hotel is at a prime location near the Charles George VA Medical Center, the shopping district, Warren Wilson College, the University of North Carolina at Asheville and Mission Hospital.
The vivid fall colors of the Blue Ridge Parkway are only one-half mile away.
The VA Medical Center and Interstate 40 are also less than one-alf mile from the hotel.
Hotel combines the charm of a mountain lodge with the luxury and service of a boutique hotel.
Guests will enjoy full-service, family-friendly amenities like a free full hot breakfast buffet, featuring sausage, eggs, biscuits, gravy, grits, hot waffles, pastries, fresh fruit and much more.
Additional amenities include a free business center, free wireless high-speed Internet access, free local calls, free newspaper and free cookies, hot chocolate, coffee and tea.
Guests will enjoy working out in the fitness center, which includes cardio equipment and weights, or relaxing in the seasonal outdoor pool and gazebo.
Business travelers will appreciate conveniences like spacious work desks with laptop Internet access and power hook-ups, voice mail and access to copy services.
All guest rooms at this 100 percent non-smoking hotel come equipped with microwaves, refrigerators, coffee makers, irons, ironing boards, hair dryers and cable television.
All rooms also include 40-inch flat-screen televisions with over 40 high-definition channels, including sports, news and movies.
Mountain view rooms and whirlpool suites are offered.
Be sure to ask about the hotel's pet-friendly rooms.
Coin-operated laundry facilities are located on the property.
Free toothbrushes, toothpaste, razors, combs, lotion and shower caps are available in the lobby for added convenience.
The Asheville Regional Airport is just 19.
3 km away.
Additional points of interest include the Asheville Civic Center, Flat Rock Playhouse, McCormick Field, Lake Lure, the Smith-McDowell House Museum and the Thomas Wolfe Memorial.
Golf courses and tennis courts are within five miles of the hotel.
A 24-hour restaurant is adjacent to the hotel.
Visitors will enjoy outdoor recreational activities like white water rafting, horseback riding, kayaking and fishing.
Pisgah National Forest is nearby for hiking.
Skiing is available at Wolf Ridge Ski Resort, just 40.
2 km away.
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