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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.
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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.
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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
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Start
Date:
September 14, 2023
End Date:
December 20, 2023
when:
7:00 - 8:00 PM
where:
West Asheville Public Library and Zoom
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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."
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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."
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Date:
November 9, 2023
End Date:
when:
7:00-8:00 PM
where:
West Asheville Public Library and Zoom
Mary Othella Burnette on Zoom
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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
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Environmental Integrity
Report cover
Partnerships and Cooperation for Water
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2023
The three planetary crises of (1) climate change, (2) nature (biodiversity) loss, and (3) pollution are central to the UN's environmental strategy.
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Social Justice
Social Justice
Paul Brigmon and kindergarten graduate Ashley McGhee Whittle
My Story - Ashley McGhee Whittle
Part One
"Paul Brigmon. He was born in 1938. I called him Daddy; he was my grandfather. When I was growing up..."
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Written & Spoken Word
Written & Spoken Word
Title page of Moby Dick
Moby Dick - Chapter Three
As read by Rick Kisner
"...and an exasperated whale proposing to spring clean over the craft as in the enormous act of impaling himself upon the three mastheads."
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