Abstract:
"At the Folk Art Center just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, artisans share the language of Appalachian craft with younger generations." A repository for Appalachian craft, the Folk Art Center in addition to being a museum, houses a bookstore, library, auditorium and the Southern Highland Craft Guild's Allanstand Craft Shop. established in 1895, it's the oldest shop of its king in America.