Experience WNC History From Home

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Thu, Jul 9, 2020
2020-07-09T00:00:00-04:00
2020-07-10T00:00:00-04:00
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online
Free
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Smith McDowell House Museum
(828) 253-9231
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Douglas Ellington: Asheville’s Boomtown Architect presents a look at his iconic Asheville creations along with other buildings he completed throughout his career in other cities.
Hillbilly Land explores the power, prevalence, and persistence of the hillbilly stereotype from the days of its beginnings in the late 19th century to the present day.
In 1918 vs 2020, we take an in-depth look at the 1918 influenza epidemic in Western North Carolina through newspaper clippings, advertisements, ephemera, photographs, and oral history and place the events of 1918 into context with our present-day response to the coronavirus pandemic.