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What Good is Rivercane?
"Once a wide-ranging species, rivercane provides important wildlife habitat and holds cultural significance to many Indigenous peoples."
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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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Written & Spoken Word
Thomas Wolfe Short Story Discussion - "Three O'Clock"
Led by Ellen Brown
"Something happened suddenly, filling that quiet street with instant menace, injecting terror in the calm pulse of the boy."
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Start
Date:
March 13, 2025
End Date:
when:
7:00-8:00 PM
where:
Thomas Wolfe Memorial and via Zoom
Thomas Wolfe writing in Oteen cabin
Social Justice
An evening of Cherokee storytelling
featuring Nancy Pheasant
A Mountain Strong event
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Date:
April 3, 2025
End Date:
when:
7:00 - 8:30 PM
where:
Weaverville Community Center, 60 Lakeshore Drive, Weaverville NC 28787
Flyer for Nancy Pheasant 4-3-2025
Social Justice
PARTY !!
Wilma Dykeman's 105th Birthday Anniversary
GET READY TO PARTY IN LATE MAY
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Date:
May 15, 2025
End Date:
March 31, 2025
when:
where:
TBD
Tall Woman and French Broad River on stilts
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Confronting the Silence
A Holocaust Survivor's Search for God
By Walter Ziffer
*$21.35
*no international shipping
No Work in the Grave
Life in the Toe River Valley
By Jo Ann Thomas Croom
$32.05
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Environmental Integrity
Walnut leaves
Tree Discovery Guide - Part Two
from Asheville GreenWorks
"Please use this guide to help you fully engage in a walk around the block...and remind yourself...there is life all around you!"
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Social Justice
Social Justice
Old Fort Finishing Plant
My Story - Ashley McGhee Whittle - Part Four
Part Four
"Norfolk Southern is one of the few places here in the South that has unions. Just as soon as Daddy was eligible to join, he did."
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Written & Spoken Word
Written & Spoken Word
Crystal Cauley
Crystal Cauley - Part One
"The Talking Walls"
"I heard a voice whisper 'look up' and the wall held this beautiful Ghanaian carving of a woman kneeling down with a child on her back."
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