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My Story: Patsy Walker
"Leslie Street was a mixture of good and bad: a few middle-class people, a lot of poor folks, and then there were the bootleggers."
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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.
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SAVE THE DATE: May 21, 2026 – Wilma Dykeman Birthday Anniversary Celebration
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Social Justice
An Evening with Nancy Pheasant
Building and Rebuilding Community
Think rebuilding community after Helene is hard? How about rebuilding Cherokee community in North Carolina and Oklahoma after the Trail of Tears?
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Date:
August 7, 2025
End Date:
when:
7:00 - 8:30 PM
where:
Weaverville Community Center, 60 Lakeshore Drive, 28787
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Written & Spoken Word
2025 Thomas Wolfe Short Story Book Club
at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial in downtown Asheville, North Carolina
Reserve the 2nd Thursday in January, February and March for discussions of three great short stories by Thomas Wolfe
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Date:
January 8, 2026
End Date:
March 12, 2026
when:
7:00-8:00 PM
where:
Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site, 52 North Market Street, Asheville NC 28801
Credit: Carl Van Vechten collection in the Library of Congress
Social Justice
Weaverville's Black Community
Past, Present and Future
If you want to know the real meaning of community, now is your chance to learn.
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Date:
April 23, 2026
End Date:
when:
7:00 - 8:30 PM
where:
Weaverville Community Center, 60 Lakeshore Drive, Weaverville NC 28787
Hillside Community Center
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Confronting the Silence
A Holocaust Survivor's Search for God
By Walter Ziffer
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No Work in the Grave
Life in the Toe River Valley
By Jo Ann Thomas Croom
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Of Words and Water
The Story of Wilma Dykeman
By Shannon Hitchcock
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Environmental Integrity
A pocket neighborhood designed for connection
Environment as Home and Neighborhood
The Basics
The home / neighborhood environment "significantly affects physical and mental health, social well-being, and even educational outcomes."
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Social Justice
Social Justice
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Traces of the Trade
A documentary film about the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history
"I soon learned that the DeWolfs were just the tip of the iceberg of this huge pattern of Northern economic complicity in slavery."
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Written & Spoken Word
Written & Spoken Word
Woot, Pat, and June Roberts
My Story: Patsy Walker - Part Three
Part Three
"All five sisters slept in the same bedroom until Uncle Jesse enclosed the back porch and built a room for June and me."
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