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In Praise of the Undazed Life: a personal recollection of my Dad
"Our practice field was a baked dirt lot on the edge of a Mexican American neighborhood in our small West Texas town."
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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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Environmental Integrity
2025 Hot Springs Teacher Institute
July 13-18, 2025
Top-notch professional development for high school and middle school teachers - for more information, scroll up and click on What We Do, then on HSTI.
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Date:
July 13, 2025
End Date:
July 18, 2025
when:
where:
Hot Springs, North Carolina
Spring Creek study
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
My Story - Cecil Willis discussing his memoir
Hillbilly Odyssey: Resilience in a Small Mountain Mill Town
"My decision to write my memoir is not based on having either fame or infamy, but on a desire to counter the dominant image of Southern Appalachia."
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Date:
September 11, 2025
End Date:
September 11, 2025
when:
7:00 - 8:00 PM
where:
West Asheville Public Library and via Zoom (register for link)
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Confronting the Silence
A Holocaust Survivor's Search for God
By Walter Ziffer
$ 21.35 USD
(amount includes tax and shipping)
*no international shipping
No Work in the Grave
Life in the Toe River Valley
By Jo Ann Thomas Croom
$ 32.05 USD
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*no international shipping
Of Words and Water
The Story of Wilma Dykeman
By Shannon Hitchcock
$ 10.65 USD
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*no international shipping
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Environmental Integrity
Nuclear plant in poor neighborhood
The Environmental Justice Movement - Part Two
Natural Resources Defense Council
"Three-quarters of the hazardous waste landfill sites in 8 southeastern states were located in primarily low-income, Black, and Latine communities."
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Social Justice
Social Justice
Wilma Dykeman and James Stokely
A Place in the Sun
A call for Southern, national, and global justice
"In a moment when logic seems to be playing hide-and-seek, emotions seem also to have run amuck and grown more calloused."
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Written & Spoken Word
Written & Spoken Word
Patsy and Moe Walker - 1959
My Story: Patsy Walker
Part One
“It’s not been an easy life, but it’s been a good life.”
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