Sept 12 6pm Keynote Address Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson Sept 13, 10am – 5pm “Addressing the Challenges for Cherokee Women” Susan Abram “Inspiring Stories of Asheville’s Jewish Women” Sharon Fahrer “Edith Vanderbilt” Winnie Titchener-Coyle & Meghan Forest “Lillian Clement, Leah Chiles & Women’s Sovereignty” Catherine Amos & Katherine Calhoun Cutshall “Desegregation and Race Politics at […]

Join us and welcome Dale Neal and his new novel “Appalachian Book of the Dead” The novel is a metaphysical thriller, a meditation on recovery and reincarnation, marriage and betrayal, death and rebirth, an exploration of how our fears give flesh to our hungry ghosts.

Free tours for North Carolina residents. …she gave to Luck's Lad the title of Eugene, a name which, beautifully, means "well born," but which, as any one will be able to testify, does not mean, has never meant, "well bred."

We will be closed Thursday and Friday. Open our regular hours on Saturday Nov. 30th 9am to 5pm.

Saturday December 14th is our annual holiday open house. Join us for a tour of the historic house, crafts and treats in our visitor center. Children admitted free.

We will be discussing "No Door," originally published in two installments in Scribner's Magazine in 1933 and 1934, and later become part of Wolfe's full-length book Of Time and the River.

Join us in a discussion of “The Four Lost Men,” originally published as a short story of seven thousand words in Scribner's Magazine in 1934 and later abridged by one thousand words for republication in Wolfe's 1935 anthology From Death to Morning.  

For February and the Year of the Women we are remembering one of the most memorable women in American literature–Eliza Gant or Thomas Wolfe’s mother Julia. “She pursed her lips, shook her head, a slight, abrupt movement, and smiled presently, looking at me with mischievously shining eyes.”  

Closing at Noon Thursday, Friday opening may be delayed due to ice.

In recognition of Asheville’s annual Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Day join us for a look at the events surrounding her tragic death.