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My Story: Patsy Walker
"After World War Two ended, a lot of Southern people went to Detroit to work in the auto industry...for higher wages and more benefits."
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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
Wonders and Wanders with Wilma
The French Broad
Sip and discuss acclaimed Asheville writer Wilma Dykeman's The French Broad (no pressure to read!), followed by a walk on the Wilma Dykeman Greenway
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Start
Date:
September 7, 2025
End Date:
when:
3:00-5:00 PM
where:
Hi-Wire Brewing RAD (284 Lyman Street)
Flyer for Wonders and Wanders with Wilma # 1
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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Start
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)
Hillbilly Odyssey - book cover
Written & Spoken Word
My Story - Priscilla Ndiaye Robinson discussing her memoir
A Mother's Cry: he's still my child
"In 1997, Priscilla Robinson helped police arrest her then 15-year-old son, Clarence. Today, Clarence credits his mother with saving his life."
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Date:
October 9, 2025
End Date:
October 9, 2025
when:
7:00 - 8:00 PM
where:
West Asheville Public Library and via Zoom
Priscilla Ndiaye Robinson - headshot
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Confronting the Silence
A Holocaust Survivor's Search for God
By Walter Ziffer
$ 21.35 USD
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*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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Of Words and Water
The Story of Wilma Dykeman
By Shannon Hitchcock
$ 10.65 USD
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Articles & Resources
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Environmental Integrity
Opening ceremony of First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit - 1991
The Environmental Justice Movement - Part Three
Natural Resources Defense Council
"What began in the streets of Warren County [North Carolina] had made it to the White House."
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Social Justice
Social Justice
Michael Totten head shot
My Story - Michael Totten - Part Two
Part Two
"Sam and I froze in our tracks. We were staring down the barrel of a magnum revolver."
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Written & Spoken Word
Written & Spoken Word
Glen Sehested and his son Ken - circa 1952
In Praise of the Undazed Life
Ken Sehested
"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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