I spent a lovely three weeks teaching sculpture at Penland School of Crafts
which was somewhere in the same vicinity.  All I remember was that, between
the Baptists and the moonshiners they kept the county "dry" and, as a result
out of fear of running out of liquor someone was always making a run to the
county line to pick up a few bottles.  Summer school art students and
faculty being as they are I cannot recall a more besotted three weeks in my
life.  I think this proves the law of unintended consequences.

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: John Horton <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
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Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Black Stump Mountain Diner, Anyone?


>Yup. Black Mountain is right down I-40 a few miles east of Asheville. (I'm
>about 25 miles south of Asheville). For you students of art history, it is
>also where the campus of the famous Black Mountain College was located (now
>a summer camp, though most of the buildings still stand as a NR district).
>
>John Horton
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike Devonshire <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 11:17 PM
>Subject: Re: Black Stump Mountain Diner, Anyone?
>
>
>> I helped build a timber frame barn several years ago at Black Mountain -
>anywhere near ya?
>>
>> Blue Ridge Twybil