Record #:

8976

Author(s):

Conway, Bob

Abstract:

Northwest Ashe High School in Warrensville was the first public school in North Carolina to have its own indoor swimming pool. Students and teachers raised the $60,000 necessary to build the pool, and, with some help from the community, built the pool themselves. It opened in 1975, and, for a fee, can be used by the public at night.\r\n

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 48 Issue 6, Nov 1980, p7, il

Subject(s):

Public schools--Ashe County; Swimming pools

Record #:

9031

Author(s):

Conway, Bob

Abstract:

The Village of Yesteryear at the State Fair first appeared in 1951 led by Mary Cornwell. Each year, a group of mountain craftsman travel to the fair to showcase their handcrafts. The artists have received recognition at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and have been invited to national demonstrations held there. A former home economics teacher, Cornwell now serves at chairman of the Museum of North Carolina Handicrafts in Waynesville.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 46 Issue 4, Sept 1978, p12-13, il, por

Subject(s):

North Carolina State Fair (Raleigh)

Record #:

9862

Author(s):

Conway, Bob

Abstract:

Conway discusses the work of three giants of North Carolina mountain pottery--Oscar Louis Bachelder and Walter B. Stephen (Buncombe County) and Ernest A. Hilton (McDowell County). Each had worked at his craft fifty years or more.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 43 Issue 5, Oct 1975, p8-10, il, por

Subject(s):

Potters--North Carolina, Mountains; Bachelder, Oscar Louis, 1852-1935; Stephen, Walter B., d. 1961; Hilton, Ernest A., 1948-