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Social Justice
The Trail of Tears - Part Two
Forced Removal of the Cherokee Nation
Cherokee culture thrived for thousands of years in the southeastern United States before European contact.
Environmental Integrity
The Economic Value of Wilderness - Part Two
Andrew Postlewaite's Dual Preference Model of Valuation
What are deep preferences and reduced-form preferences?
Social Justice
The Trail of Tears - Part One
Forced Removal of the Cherokee Nation from their Homeland
The caravan was ready to move out. One witness reported that "there was a silence and stillness of the voice that betrayed the sadness of the heart."
Written & Spoken Word
What Good are Novels?
Peter Brooks' book Seduced by Story
I go through alternating phases of preferring fiction to non-fiction and vice versa.
Written & Spoken Word
Alice in Wonderland: Chapter One
Down the Rabbit-Hole read by Lorraine Montgomery
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do...
Environmental Integrity
The Economic Value of Wilderness - Part One
John Krutilla's 4 values: recreation, existence, option, bequest
Prior to the 1960s, economic analysis of natural resource use was oriented towards efficient production of energy sources and material goods.
Social Justice
Debate over Race Relations
Resolved: Asheville has disenfranchised its African-American population
On November 13, 2015 the Wilma Dykeman Legacy and the Asheville High / SILSA Speech and Debate Team sponsored a debate between community leaders.
Written & Spoken Word
Writing Out of Pain: Forgetting the Former Things
Brain Injury's Invitation to Vulnerability and Faith
55-minute video talk featuring co-authors Tamara Puffer and Joyce Hollyday
Written & Spoken Word
Neither Black Nor White
by Bruce Mulkey
On August 1, 2021, the Asheville Citizen Times published an opinion piece by Bruce Mulkey...
Environmental Integrity
"Without nature, we have nothing."
UN chief sounds alarm at key UN biodiversity event
On December 6, 2022, UN Secretary-General António Guterres pulled no punches as he opened the UN Biodiversity Conference – COP15.
Environmental Integrity
Black Bears
in the Great Smokies
American black bears (Ursus americanus) are the most common and widely distributed species of bears in North America.
Written & Spoken Word
Introducing Thomas Wolfe
by Tom Muir, Site Manager, Thomas Wolfe National Historic Site
Considered to be one of the giants of 20th-century American literature, Thomas Clayton Wolfe was born in Asheville on October 3rd, 1900...
