Security Blanket
SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM PAYS TRIBUTE TO A LEGENDARY LOCAL MANUFACTURER WNC MagazineSeptember/October 2019 WRITER: Jon Elliston (Left) A classic beacon blanket; (Right) Entrance to Beacon Village In 2002, the Beacon Manufacturing …
Beacon Is Woven Into Swannanoa Valley History
July 26, 2019 by Rachel Pressley, Asheville Made To coincide with the release of Rebecca Williams’ documentary Blanket Town, about the Beacon Blankets Mill in Black Mountain, the Swannanoa Valley Museum …
Tuberculosis in ‘The Land of the Sky’ shaped the history of Moore General Hospital
Gillian Cobb, Special to Black Mountain News Published 8:27 a.m. ET May 15, 2019 Asheville and the surrounding areas of North Carolina have long been referred to as “The Land …
Beacon Blankets exhibit spotlights May Day
Special to Black Mountain News,Published 1:11 p.m. ET April 24, 2019 In honor of May Day, known around the world as International Workers’ Day, the Swannanoa Valley Museum will officially …
Asheville Archives: The rapid growth of Swannanoa
Published in the Mountain XpressApril 16, 2019 by Thomas Calder This week’s column is an accompaniment to the preview article on Swannanoa Valley Museum & History Center’s upcoming exhibit, Beacon Blankets: The …
Swannanoa Valley Museum honors Beacon blankets
published in the Mountain XpressApril 11, 2019 by Thomas Calder Rebecca Williams was asleep inside her Grovemont home, unaware of the conflagration that illuminated the early morning sky. Her husband, Jerry Pope, woke her …
Museum kicks off 30th season
by Fred McCormick, Black Mountain NewsApril 10, 2019 The history of the Swannanoa Valley can be traced back 12,000 years, when the first known inhabitants hunted and fished its rugged …
Martin Music
By Anne Chesky Smith In the midst of the Great Depression, Marcus Lafayette Martin moved his family east to Swannanoa, North Carolina, where he was able to find work in …
