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My Story: Michael Totten - Part Two
"Sam and I froze in our tracks. We were staring down the barrel of a magnum revolver."
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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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Social Justice
An Evening with Nancy Pheasant
Building and Rebuilding Community
Think rebuilding community after Helene is hard? How about rebuilding Cherokee community in North Carolina and Oklahoma after the Trail of Tears?
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Date:
August 7, 2025
End Date:
when:
7:00 - 8:30 PM
where:
Weaverville Community Center, 60 Lakeshore Drive, 28787
Nancy Pheasant head shot
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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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 memor
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
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No Work in the Grave
Life in the Toe River Valley
By Jo Ann Thomas Croom
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Of Words and Water
The Story of Wilma Dykeman
By Shannon Hitchcock
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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
Totten family - early 1950s
My Story - Michael Totten - Part One
Part One
"Your dad wants you to collect all your things and move out," she sobbed.
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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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