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Nature-Based Solutions for Water - Part One
Water resource management remains dependent on human-built ('grey') infrastructure. Nature-based solutions support green growth or the green economy.
Our Mission
The Wilma Dykeman Legacy is a non-profit organization that develops and sponsors diverse and inclusive talks, workshops, events, books, and other programs, products and services to sustain the core values for which Wilma Dykeman stood: environmental integrity, social justice, and the power of the written and spoken word.
Written & Spoken Word
My Story: 4 Great WNC Memoirs
4 hybrid (in-person and Zoom) talks + 4 follow-up book discussions: September through December
Register for Zoom at MyStory@wilmadykemanlegacy.org
Start
Date:
September 14, 2023
End Date:
December 20, 2023
when:
7:00 - 8:00 PM
where:
West Asheville Public Library and Zoom
My Story flyer image - cropped to fit
Written & Spoken Word
My Story: Janet Hurley discussing her memoir
Glove Shy: A Sister's Reckoning
"I was eleven the first time I went with my parents to see Brian fight."
Start
Date:
October 19, 2023
End Date:
October 19, 2023
when:
7:00 - 8:00 Pm
where:
West Asheville Public Library and Zoom
Janet Hurley - head shot
Written & Spoken Word
My Story: Mary Othella Burnette discussing her memoir
Lige of the Black Walnut Tree: Growing Up Black in Southern Appalachia
"That's where Miss Emmaline, wonderfully African, old Miss Emmaline lived."
Start
Date:
November 9, 2023
End Date:
when:
7:00-8:00 PM
where:
West Asheville Public Library and Zoom
Mary Othella Burnette on Zoom
Confronting the Silence
A Holocaust Survivor's Search for God
By Walter Ziffer
*$21.35
*no international shipping
No Work in the Grave
Life in the Toe River Valley
By Jo Ann Thomas Croom
$32.05
*no international shipping
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Written & Spoken Word