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Due
to popular demand we've added another raft to the trip on Saturday,
July 30th. Cool down on this mid-summer Daycation, a rafting trip down
the French Broad River. There will be a guide in each raft and rapids
will range from Class I - III.
Pack
List: Bring your lunch, water, a hat, river shoes, sunscreen, and
holders to secure your eyeglasses. Also, bring a change of clothes and a
towel, and wear a bathing suit or clothing you don’ t mind getting wet.
Our guides will provide dry bags to keep all your things dry on the
river.
Meet:
Parking lot of Black Mountain Savings Bank, 200 E. State St. at 8:30 am
to carpool to the site in Madison County. Return will be around 3:30
pm.
Cost: $45 for Museum members; $60 for non-members.
Registration: Reservations are required
as there are only 4 spots left in the boats. Please call 669-9566 or
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 | Civil War 150th Anniversary Exhibit Opens
Saturday, July 30th.
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Our
Museums In Partnership themed exhibit for 2011 is part of a national
commemoration of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. Many men
from the Valley served in the war, and we have uniforms, weapons, flags,
stories, music, and letters from them and their families as part
of the exhibit. Come see the new exhibit when it opens to the public on
Saturday, July 30th!
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| Riceville Tailgate Market held every Friday from 4 - 7 pm
Come
to the Riceville Tailgate Market (now held at Groce United Methodist
Church in East Asheville on Tunnel Road) every Friday from 4:00pm to
7:00pm. Tailgate markets help keep our local farmers in business and,
thus, keep our historically-significant agricultural land from being
developed.
And
on Friday, July 29th, Anne Chesky, the director of the Swannanoa Valley
Museum, will have her DVD on the History of the Riceville Valley for
sale for the last time. DVDs cost $5.00 and will only be availble
at the tailgate market this Friday. |
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Our Sponsor
Since
the days when the buffalo and elk roamed the age-old migration routes
between the piedmont and mountains of North Carolina, our Valley has
been celebrated for its broad, fertile river plain, incredible
geographic beauty and yes, a rich history of wildlife. In fact, before
our earliest settlers crossed the Eastern Continental Divide in the
1780s, the Swannanoa Valley with its abundant wildlife was a prized
hunting ground used by the Cherokees and neighboring Catawba tribes.
Later,
near the end of the eighteenth century, many of the world′s leading
botanists and geographers traveled to our Valley and surrounding
mountains. They declared the environment to be home to the most unique
and diverse flora and fauna that they had ever studied.
Well,
today those of us who reside here can easily understand what was in the
hearts and minds of those earliest inhabitants, explorers, and
pioneers. We are so fortunate to call the upper Swannanoa Valley and the
encircling Swannanoa Rim our home.
As
Black Mountain′s oldest continuing business (since 1908) and its only
locally owned community bank, we are very proud to be the sponsor of the
Swannanoa Valley Museum′s e-newsletter.
Cheers!
M. Wendell Begley,
President Black Mountain Savings Bank
As many people pointed out after my last e-newsletter this flower is a Turk's Cap Lily.
Thanks for reading the entire newsletter to those who corrected me!
Black Mountain Savings Bank, 200 E. State Street, Black Mountain, NC
28711/Phone (828) 669-7991/Fax (828) 669-6974, Email:
mwb_bmsb@bellsouth.net Equal Housing Lender/Member FDIC
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Special thanks also to our Gold Level Corporate Sponsor:
To find out how to become a Corporate Sponsor please click here.
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mission of the Swannanoa Valley Museum is to preserve and interpret the
social, cultural and natural history of the Swannanoa Valley, a pathway
to Western North Carolina, by developing dynamic programs and engaging
exhibitions for the education and enrichment of the community, its
children and future generations.
P.O. Box 306, Black Mountain, NC 28711 • 828-669-9566
www.swannanoavalleymuseum.org • swannanoavalleym@bellsouth.net |
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