Asheville Daily Planet November 2016

Public weighs in on I-26 widening

Fun, dance-happy ‘Beehive’ scores hit — See REVIEW, Pg. B1

Wolfe angel gets a cleaning

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Trump, Kaine, Pence make visits

Kaine compares Clinton, Trump during UNCA rally

‘Your companies won’t be leaving NC,’ Trump vows

From Staff Reports

By JOHN NORTH

john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com

FLETCHER — For the second time in two weeks, the Trump campaign held a major campaign event — this rally featured GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump — in this small rural North Carolina town.

Trump on Oct. 21 told about 3,100 supporters that his economic plan is “jobs, jobs, job. They’ve been taken away from us. At the center of my jobs plan will be fixing our terrible trade deals.”

Since the North American Free Trade Agreement was implemented during Bill Clinton’s presidency, Trump said it has been a “one-way highway into Mexico for our jobs, our cash. We get the drugs — they get the jobs and the cash.”

Trump said he was place a 3.5 percent tariff on goods made overseas by companies that have shipped jobs outside the country.

“There will be consequences,” he said.

“We’re not going to have companies go to Mexico or some other country. Guess what’s going to happen? They’re not going to leave anymore because, all of a sudden, it won’t work. If they do, we’re going to make a lot of money when they ship them across the border.”

While Trump’s Sept. 12 rally at the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville, where several clashes broke out between protesters and Trump supporters, the Fletcher rally was peaceful and drew only five protesters who stayed within a chained-off area designated for them.

See TRUMP, Page A11

Aisle always love you

Q: -- My boyfriend and I have been together for a year and a half, and we really love each other. His parents adore me and are thrilled that he might not die alone.

After his mom saw us being all cuddly in the supermarket, she warned him that we may be getting in people’s way or annoying them by “hanging all over each other.” (We aren’t doing anything dirty or gross -- just hand-holding, play wrestling, quick kisses.)

She wondered whether we do this because one of us is insecure. I felt sort of offended.

We’re just affectionate. Most people who see us smile.

— Lovey-Dovey

Candidate’s’website photo

Donald J. Trump

Candidate’s’website photo

Tim Kaine

Special photo by FREMONT V. BROWN III

Mike Spence

Pence stays loyal to Trump

From Staff Reports

FLETCHER —After the release of a video containing lewd comments about women made by GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Trump’s vice presidential candidate, expressed his forgiveness of — and loyalty to — Trump during a rally of

about 400 people on Oct. 10 at the WNC Agricultural Center’s Virginia Boone Building.

The crowd — jammed together standing in a cordoned off area — was loud, excited and rowdy, as the Rolling Stones’ 1969 recording, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” (a Ttump favorite), played periodically.

See PENCE, Page A10

Where’s Hillary? A WNC no-show Hillary Clinton

From Staff Reports Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, is the only major candidate in the general election on Nov. 8 who has not campaigned in the Asheville-Western

The Advice Goddess Amy Alkon

A: There’s being cuddly at the supermarket, and then there’s being cuddly in a way that says, “We usually do this with whipped cream.”

Even if what you’re publicly displaying is affection, not foreplay, there are a number of reasons it may make onlookers uncomfortable: It’s them. (They were raised to think PDA is not okay.) It’s their relationship. (The more warm, cuddly, and adorbs you two are the more you remind them that their relationship temperature is about 3 degrees above “bitter divorce.”) It’s the wrong time and place.

See ADVICE GODDESS, Page A14

North Carolina area this fall.

However, Chelsea Clinton did speak on her mother’s behalf in a campaign stop Sept. 28 during a Clean Energy Roundtable in downtown Asheville.

Unlike her Republican presidential rival Donald J. Trump, Democrat Hillary Clinton will work on critically important issues, ranging from education to climate change, Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine told a crowd of about 500 people during an outdoor rally on UNC Asheville’s A.C. Reynolds Green on Oct. 19.

Kaine, a Virginia senator who was making his second Asheville campaign stop, described the sharp differences on the issues between his running mate and Trump. (He also campaigned in Asheville in August.)

Kaine began by urging the crowd at UNCA to vote early starting that very day, and noted just how important North Carolina is to the presidential election. Indeed, he called North Carolina a "checkmate" state, adding that without the swing state, Trump would not be able to clinch the election.

"If we win North Carolina, there is zero path for Donald Trump to be president of the United States," Kaine said.

He also urged those present to vote for Democrats up and down the ticket, including for governor and the U.S. Senate.

He also told the crowd not to take a Clinton victory for granted — or let Trump get close enough to victory that he can blame a defeat on anyone else.

See KAINE, Page A10

Feminism, Islam top threats, alt-right provocateur claims

By JOHN NORTH

john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com

CULLOWHEE — Security was tight as Breitbart News Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos, a self-proclaimed cultural libertarian, free speech fundamentalist and one of the top online leaders and provocateurs of the alt-right movement, spoke to a room packed with more than 175 students and others Oct. 12 at Western Carolina University’s A.K. Hinds University Union.

In a rapid-fire 45-minute

address titled “Feminism and Islam: The Unholy Alliance,” Yiannopoulos, who is British, presented his case for how Islam and feminism have come together to form a strange, unholy alliance in the current year.

He called Islam a “kill-joy religion,” adding that feminism and Islam constitute the two biggest threats to America today — and share a number of similarities, including in what he termed their quests to stifle free speech.

See PROVOCATEUR, Page A8 Milo Yiannopoulos

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Wolfe angel gets cleaned, re-evaluated

From Staff Reports HENDERSONVILLE — The angel that inspired the title of Asheville-born author Thomas Wolfe’s classic coming-ofage novel “Look Homeward, Angel” was cleaned and assessed for repairs on Oct. 24.

Conservator Kara Warren said multiple previous repairs on the statue will likely have to be redone, according an Oct. 25 report in the Hendersonville Times-News.

The angel, located atop the headstone of Margaret Johnson (1832-1905) at Oakdale Cemetery off N.C. 64 in Hendsersonville, has undergone numerous repairs over the more than 100 years it has stood in the cemetery.

Warren told the HT-N that the epoxy used to make those repairs — along each of the statues wings, its wrist, finger and the star atop its forehead — is letting in moisture without allowing it to evaporate, accelerating the statue’s degradation.

The date the last repairs were made is unknown and the timeline for redoing those repairs has not been determined, Emily Sisler, Hendersonville city planner and historic preservation coordinator, told the HT-N. Warren cleaned the statue and evaluated the extent of the damage on Oct. 24.

She sampled the epoxy to determine what should be used to removed it.

The epoxy also is not blending aesthetically with the statue, Warren told the HT-N. She used water and a mild detergent to clean the statue — and a mild biocide for the mold on its surface.

“Look Homeward, Angel,” published

The marble angel statue immortalized by Thomas Wolfe in his novel “Look Homeward Angel,” stands at Oakdale Cemetery in Hendersonville. in 1929 and considered to be largely autobiographical, was considered Wolfe’s masterpiece and drew the wrath of many Asheville residents when it was published because they felt Wolfe thinly disguised his generally negative depictions of them.

Wolfe’s father, W.O. Wolfe, ran a funeral monument shop on Pack Square in downtown and kept a marble angel in the window as an advertisement.

Wolfe described the angel in great detail, first in a short story and later in the novel.

Answer Man John Boyle noted in his column in the April 13 edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times the following: “It’s long been thought the angel in Oak-

dale is the one that Thomas Wolfe talked about in ‘Look Homeward, Angel,’” said Steve Hill, who was the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Historic Site manager for 34 years before retiring in 2011, “It turns out W.O. Wolfe had more than one over the years, and a number of them were sold. There’s one in Old Fort and another one in Bryson City,” Hill said.

In 1906, W.O. Wolfe sold one of the angels to the Johnson family in Hendersonville, and the angel has been in Oakdale Cemetery in that city for over a century.

In addition, Boyle reported, “Myra Champion, a Pack Memorial Library reference department employee and Wolfe historian, determined in 1949 that the Hendersonville angel is the one the famous author referenced.”

On Nov. 20, 1949, the AC-T carried an article about Champion’s work, with the headline, “Hendersonville Monument Identified as Thomas Wolfe’s ‘Angel.’” Boyle added that “the story noted great debate had raged for 20 years in the mountains about which angel was the real deal.”

Champion “has followed every clue, talked to every person who might know anything, and run down every possible angel in Western North Carolina,” the article’s author, Virginia T. Lathrop, wrote.

“She has established definitely that there was not just one angel which stood on the marble shop porch, but several.

“And of this collection, only one answers the description given by Thomas Wolfe in ‘An Angel on the Porch.’ That one is in Oakdale Cemetery in Hendersonville, marking the grave of Mrs. Margaret Bates Johnson, wife of the late Dr. H.F. Johnson, a minister and former president of Whitworth College in Brookhaven, Mississippi.” Wolfe later incorporated that short story into “Look Homeward, Angel.”

Boyle also wrote the following: “In the 1980s, the late Citizen-Times columnist Bob Terrell wrote an entertaining piece about the Old Fort angel, which

is similar in style and height, at nine feet, to the Oakdale angel. Terrell noted that Wolfe secured multiple angels — apparently eight of them — from an importer in Pennsylvania who bought them from the famed marble works in Carrara, Italy.

“One of these he lost to S.A. “Mac” McCanless in a poker game. McCanless had been an Asheville photographer at the turn of the last century and occasionally gambled with ‘Old Man Wolfe’ downtown.

“Terrell interviewed McCanless’ niece, Daintry Allison, who told the columnist that in 1911 she overheard a discussion between McCanless and his second wife, Geneva, about the elaborate angel he’d “bought” for his first wife. Geneva was complaining that her husband didn’t love her as much as his first wife, Hattie, because he’d never buy her such an expensive grave marker.

“I didn’t buy that tombstone,” McCanless told his wife. “I won it in a poker game.”

Hattie McCanless died Nov. 7, 1901, of a ruptured appendix, Terrell noted.

“She lies beneath the angel in Old Fort Cemetery,” Terrell wrote.

Boyle added that “Champion determined the one in Hendersonville is the real McCoy because it closely fits Wolfe’s description: ‘... it had come from Carrara, in Italy, and it held a stone lily delicately in one hand. The other hand was lifted in benediction; it was poised delicately upon the ball of one phthisic foot...’”

Thos. Wolfe gets a beer From Staff Reports

Legendary Asheville author Thomas Wolfe died in 1938, but he remains a proud part of the local scene — and on Sept. 29, he finally got his own local brew.

Catawba Brewing released Wolfeman Kolsch, a golden, clear German-style brew, at its taprooms on the South Slope, Biltmore Village and Morganton, to honor Wolfe.

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I-26 widening? Public urges action

From Staff Reports

ARDEN – A public hearing Oct.13 on state plans to widen Interstate 26 to six and eight lanes prompted several area residents to attend and voice their desire for relief from traffic congestion on the highway as soon as possible.

Stoney Baker said that he favor the project in southern Buncombe County and through the heart of Henderson County even though the wider road will “cut right through my house” on the south side of Fletcher.

Baker added that he is tired of hearing invasive traffic noise and the crunch of frequent accidents on I-26 near his home.

What’s more, he said, there is just too much traffic on the

four-lane highway.

Because a wreck near the Buncombe-Henderson line backed up I-26 traffic that very afternoon, Baker said it took him 45 minutes to drive the 21 miles from his job in Flat Rock to the meeting at Biltmore Baptist Church. “I’d say the more lanes the better,” he said.

The state Department of Transportation is proposing to widen I-26 to eight lanes from the I-26/I-40/I-240 interchange on the west side of Asheville south to the U.S. 25 interchange, Exit 44, on the south side of Fletcher.

In addtion, DOT would make I-26 six lanes from Exit 44 to Exit 54 in Flat Rock, where U.S. 25 heads southwest toward Greenville, S.C.

Construction of the eight-lane part of the project would begin in 2020. However, there is no money available for DOT’s long-range plan, which runs through 2025, for widening the remaining section from Fletcher to Flat Rock.

The construction dates remain uncertain. Total cost of the entire project is estimated at $454.7 million.

DOT has said its preferred “hybrid” option — eight lanes for the northern half of the project, six lanes on the south side — would best serve the amount of traffic with the size of the road.

DOT also has studied widening all 22 miles of the stretch of I-26 affected to eight lanes, widening the entire section to six lanes or taking no action.

Election on Nov. 8 features races, 3 referenda

From Staff Reports

A general election will be held Nov. 8 that will feature the presidential race between Democrat Hillary Clinton, Republican Donald J. Trump and others.

Besides races between candidates, the ballots will ask three referenda questions on whether the City of Asheville should borrow up to $74 million, including $32 million for transportation, $17 million for parks and $25 million for affordable housing. Voters can choose all three, two, one or none.

If approved, money from the bond package would be spread across the city with amounts ranging from $252,000 for road and sidewalk improvements in Five Points to $6.6 million for multiple projects dotted throughout West Asheville.

A poll conducted on behalf of the city on June 29 and July1 showed 67 percent support for the transportation and housing measures and 60 percent for parks.

A strong promotional campaign could push support to as much as 80 percent, according to pollster Tige Watts, with Campaign & Strategy Inc. of Columbia, S.C. Meanwhile, Buncombe County Election Services said it wants the public to know the following “four important details” about the upcoming Nov. 8 general elections: • Early voting which began Oct. 20, will end at 5 p.m. Nov. 5.

• To vote absentee for the November election, one must fill out an absentee ballot request form (even for those who filled one out for the primary elections). The form is due at Election Services on Nov. 1.

• To check out what the sample ballot looks like, visit the NC Public Voter Information Site. “While you’re there, you may want to check that your voter information is up-to-date (name, address, etc.),” the BCES noted.

On Election Day (Nov. 8), “You must vote at your designated voting location.”

Voting hours will be 6:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Those who are in line at 7:30 that evening still will be eligible to vote.

Among the other races and main candidates, are the following: • U.S. Senate — Republican incumbent Richard Burr vs. Democrat challenger Deborah Ross.

• U.S. House 10th District — Republican incumbent Patrick McHenry vs. Democratic challenger Andy Millard.

• U.S. House 11th District — Republican incumbent Mark Meadows vs. Democratic challenger Frederick

Bryson.

• North Carolina governor — Republican incumbent Pat McCrory vs. Democratic challenger Roy Cooper.

• N.C. lieutenant governor — Republican incumbent Dan Forrest vs. Democratic challenger Linda Coleman.

• N.C. attorney general — Republican Buck Newton vs. Democrat Josh Stein.

• N.C. District 115 — Republican

challenger Frank Moretz vs. Democratic incumbent John Ager.

• N.C. District 48 — Republican Chuck Edwards vs. Democrat Norm Bossert.

Buncombe County Board of Commissioners’ chair — Republican Chuck Archerd vs. Democrat Brownie Newman.

• Buncombe Board of Commissioners, District 2 — Republican incumbent Mike Fryar vs. Nancy Nehls Nelson.

• Buncombe Board of Commissioners, District 3 — Republican incumbent Joe Belcher vs. Democrat challenger David King.

• Buncombe Board of Commissioners, District 3 — Republican Robert Pressley vs.Democratic challenger Ed Hay. .• Buncombe register of deeds — Republican challenger Patricia “Pat” Cothran vs. Democratic incumbent Drew Reisinger.

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Nat Geo touts Asheville as ‘experimental epicenter’

‘We are a place for everyone,’ mayor says in annual address

From Staff Reports

Asheville artists are showcased in a recent National Geographic travel article, and the city itself was praised as “an experimental epicenter” of “visual arts, cool crafts, funky music, theater (and) film.”

The article begins by introducing local potter Josh Copus’ unearthing his own wild clay at sunrise. Then the story shifts to other icons in the River Arts District, including blacksmith Zachary Noble, painter Daniel McClendon and clothing designer Anna Toth of Bow and Arrow Apparel.

“Reinventing the rules is an Asheville tradition,” wrote author Andrew Evans, before mentioning Black Mountain College, its legendary alumni and museum.

The Asheville Art Museum houses a “brilliant array of North Carolina folk art, portraits, photography and sculpture,” he wrote.

And the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design “supports the work of the region’s up-andcoming artists (and is) filled with provocative pieces by some of the world’s leading innovators in today’s maker movement.”

Even Asheville souvenirs get kudos, and the author directs visitors to downtown’s Horse and Hero, Mora Collection and the

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Cast members from the recently released and locally made movie “Masterminds” discuss their experiences during the filming on the streets of funky downtown Asheville during an appearance on ABC-TV’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in September.

From left are Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig and Kimmell.

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For interesting architecture and “other art deco splendors,” visit Douglas Ellington’s First Baptist Church, City Hall or the Asheville Citizen-Times, the article says.

The story wraps up with Asheville’s mostfamous attraction, the Biltmore Estate, which houses the Vanderbilts’ private art collection.

“Asheville remains a city that draws in some of the most creative people in the United States,” Evans wrote.

Coincidentally, Asheville’s fun and funkiness was extolled by three actors from the locally produced and recently released film “Masterminds” during their appearance on

ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” show.

“Asheville is a great town; I loved it,” actor Zach Galifianakis told Kimmel.

Actress Kristen Wiig added, “I feel like that the majority of people that followed the (Grateful) Dead around — when that stopped, they went like, ‘Oh, well, we should go to Asheville.’

“I feel like they just all followed each other, and now they live there... There’s, like, drum circles in the center of town every Friday night....”

“For real?” Kimmel interrupted.

“For real,” Wiig responded.

From Staff Reports Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer voiced concern over national tensions of race and government in her annual State of the City address on Oct. 4.

Despite state roadblocks, including HB2, she said the city is more focused on equity as an issue, Manheimer said during the address at the U.S. Cellular Center. The full banquet hall included most City Council members, state House Rep. John Ager and Police Chief Tammy Hooper.

The speech was made almost a year after the council chose equity and diversity as key issues and three months after the deadly police shooting of a black man resulted in racial animosity in Asheville. That was followed by the fatal shooting of a black man by police in Charlotte that led to widespread protests.

“We, as a city, value our people. We are a place for everyone, from all walks of life. Our community shares a goal of ‘cultural diversity and social and economic equity,’” Manheimer said, referencing the strategic vision worked out by council in January.

The city has been making attempts at addressing diversity, but now has bigger efforts underway, she said. Manheimer also used the speech and equity themes to pitch for voter passage of referenda for $74 million in construction bonds in the Nov. 8 general election.

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Fiery speaker fields hot question, keeps his cool

By JOHN NORTH

john@AshevilleDailyPlanet.com

CULLOWHEE — While most of the questions were friendly, one was especially confrontational, but Milo Yiannopoulos, the speaker during a program at Western Carolina University on Oct. 12, kept his cool and responded politely but firmly.

In the hottest question of the night, a black woman, who identified herself as “Tinae,” president of the local NAACP chapter, questioned him about the origins of third-wave feminism and the mistreatment of the black race.

“During your entire presentation I noticed that you failed to ever mention that feminism is the belief that men and women are equal. So do you not think this?

“And then also, I noticed when you talked about how great America is... You failed to mention that our nation was built on the power of white men without the acknowledgement of black people, the Indians — women at least. So do you not think men and women are equal? Do you not acknowledge the problems that we have here in America? That does, in fact, not make America great.”

As the largely conservative crowd murmured in opposition, Yiannopoulos asked those in attendance to be silent and “that it was a perfectly reasonable, respectful question….

“On the first part of you question, women don’t believe in feminism. Fewer than one in five women in America describe themselves as feminists — even though over 85 percent of them believe in the equality of the sexes … because they realize feminism has become something else,” Yiannopoulos replied. “It has very little to do with the equality of the

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Special photos courtesy of Cory Vaillancourt

Audience members fired a number of questions at Milo Yiannopoulos, following his speech at Western Carolina University. sexes — and a lot to do with man-hating.

“The way you know that is women are abandoning it (feminism) by the millions.

Women don’t want feminism any more.

They have rejected your version of feminism completely. Just 7 percent of women in the UK believe in feminism… despite the fact that 92 percent of women in the U.K. agree in the equality of the sexes…

Women know the primary duty of feminism today isn’t to promote equality — it’s to beat down on men.”

Yiannopoulos stressed that he believes in the equality of the sexes — he just does not believe in feminism. “As I said very clearly during my speech, I love women — and that I care about them…. But this sleight of hand feminists play... These lies about wage gap, about campus rape culture ... and then turn around and then play the victim and say feminism is just about equality —

Continued from Page A1 His comments and analysis — and his nonstop mocking of political correctness — triggered frequent cheers and applause from the overwhelmingly supportive, college-age audience.

Following his address, Yiannopoulos spent about 30 minutes fielding questions from the audience members, including only a few who challenged him and his views.

After the speech and Q&A, Yiannopoulos stayed to pose for selfie photos with a long line of admirers.

Yiannopoulos also spoke strongly against the Black Lives Matters movement in particular, and liberals in general.

What’s more, Yiannopoulos, who is gay and a practicing Roman Catholic, confirmed that he is an ardent supporter of Republican nominee Donald J. Trump’s candidacy for the presidency of the United States.

The prominent police presence and high-level security included around 12 officers, a bomb-sniffing dog and a wand to detect weapons on those seeking entry to Yiannopoulos’ talk. A police officer at the event said the heavy presence of security was for “potential threat of protests” by students against Yiannopoulos coming to campus, according to The Western Carolina Journalist, an online newspaper run byWCU’s Communication Department.

Meanwhile, “Answer Woman” columnist Casey Blake fielded a question from a WCU student in the Oct. 7 edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times, headlined, “Hate speaker at WCU?” questioning the lack of coverage “or public outrage” over the then-forthcoming appearance of “a neo-Nazi, misogynist hate-monger… obviously with the blessing of this public university.”

Blake confirmed through WCU spokesman Bill Studenc that Yiannopoulos would be speaking at the university, but not exactly with the school’s “blessing.” Studenc emphasized that WCU neither would be funding the speaker’s fees, nor “sponsoring” the event, but that it, indeed, would be held on campus with the university’s permission.

Despite an outcry from some faculty, staff and students, Studenc told Blake that, “As an institution of higher learning that values free speech, WCU would not take action to prevent a speaker from expressing his or her views.

The university does not screen the content of speakers or performers who appear on the campus.”

give me a break!” (The crowd cheered.)

“As to the second part of your question, I agree with you … that there are structural, historical problems in America. I agree with you that black people have been treated like hell by both political parties. I believe if black people wanted to improve their situation, they would to start voting for Republicans.”

He lamented the trend of liberals in power of “replacing the black dad with the state, which is what the Democrats have tried to do for your people — for generations.

“Black Lives Matters isn’t responding that ‘we’re going to start voting for the other guy.’ They haven’t responded by saying ‘40 years of this hasn’t worked.’ They don’t do that. They cause a fuss. And they burn their own towns down.

“See, I agree with you on that (the issues that blacks face.) We just have very differ-

Blake also wrote that “Yiannopoulos is perhaps bestknown for headlines he made earlier this year when Twitter suspended his account after actress Leslie Jones claimed she was inundated with a barrage of racist images from thousands of users spurred by him.” While Twitter spokesmen told the Associated Press that Yiannopoulos led the trolling campaign. “He has stood behind the harassment, referring to himself as a ‘virtuous troll’ and saying he was doing’ ‘God’s work’ through his hate speech.” (Yiannopoulos has denied being racist in his dealings with Jones.)

In lambasting Yiannopoulos, Blake asserted, “Among his other virtues, Yiannopoulos refers to feminism as ‘a cancer,’ support the alt-right’s various iterations of white nationalism and anti-Semitism, is fervently anti-Muslim and has sponsored a scholarship only for white men, and you get the picture….”

His visit, sponsored by the WCU College Republicans, was part of “The Dangerous Faggot Tour,” a nationwide tour of college campuses in which Yiannopoulos is speaking out against political correctness in society today. His WCU visit was his 10th visit in the second leg of his nationwide tour. As with his previous shows, it was — officially — sold out via online preregistration, although there were a few vacant seats. His tour is scheduled to reach 26 college campuses this fall.

“My goal is to ignite a free speech revolution across college campuses because I think free speech is being extinguished by the progressive left, by feminism and by Black Lives Matter,” he said regarding the purpose of his tour, adding, “It’s working.”

However, Yiannopoulos’ speech planned Nov. 17 at New York University, was canceled Oct. 15 by the university, which cited safety concerns in the wake of violent incidents elsewhere sparked by his controversial viewpoints.

The NYU College Republicans are planning to speak to the NYU administration about the possibility of having Yiannopoulos speak on campus. He is scheduled to speak at 14 other high education institutions across the nation between Oct. 16 and his now-canceled visit to NYU. WCU College Republicans President Benjamin Snedegar introduced Yiannopoulos, noting that “one of the best things about WCU is that the students are very respectful.” He added,

ent prescriptions” on how to solve the problem.

On another matter, Yiannopoulos’ fatshaming drew praise from one student, Matthew DeWolf of Charlotte, who said he drove three hours to hear Yiannopoulos speak at WCU — and he praised his rhetoric. He credited Yiannopoulos for his 40-50 pounds of weight loss.

One male questioner said he is from Israel and has been “a victim of anti-Semitism.” He then asked what advice Yiannopoulos might have for Jews.

“Well, stop voting for Democrats,” Yiannopoulos replied. “As you know, lots of Jews vote for progressive Democrats.

Stop voting for people who are for wiping Israel off the map. You know, progressives are against every kind of bigotry, except anti-Semitism… I would say just as blacks in America keep voting for Demorats and getting the same results, Jews needs to stop voting for Democrats.”

A male student asked for an elaboration on why Muslim immigrants pose a threat.

“People often say Britain is made up of immigrants,” Yiannopoulos replied. “What’s happened through history is the people who have come to Britain have had shared values. The one group that has not shared those values are the Muslims. And successive waves of Muslims have more extreme views than their parents do. They try to keep their views from their parents, who are horrified.

“With the unique structure of Islam, it is by far the most prescriptive religion out there…

Muslims should seek — as a sort of moral duty — to turn any country they move to into Muslim… It cannot assimilate in other cultures — and that does seem to hold everywhere.”

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“I think it was important to bring him here for students to understand that you don’t have to agree with somebody to tolerate them expressing their opinions.”

Snedegar later in the evening told the Daily Planet that there had been no organized protests at WCU against Yiannopoulos’ speech, although “some members of the campus community have expressed upset.” Indeed, the College Republicans chief said the high police presence was the byproduct of a credible bomb threat at Florida Atlantic University that was investigated by the FBI — and resulted in the cancelation of Yiannopoulos’s performance at FAU. Snedegar’s introduced YianMilo Yiannopoulos nopoulos as “a cultural libertarian,” a “free-speech activist,” an “anti-liberal” and an “anti-feminist,” after which a video was shown to the audience on a large screen, showing him in action as both an incindiary provocateur and dealing politely and successfully with angry questioners.

As the short video ended, the youthful-appearing, handsome Yiannopoulos bounded onto the stage, appearing dapper in a tailored dark-green suit coat, stylish blue jeans, a T-shirt — and sunglasses. He smiled and looked confident and energized, as the audience stood and cheered.

Yiannopoulos spoke quickly, displaying wit, and stammering a bit like actor Hugh Grant, with his British accent.

Among his most memorable zingers were: • “Feminism is cancer.”

• “Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy.”

• “In what universe does fat shaming not work?”

While Yiannopoulos is openly gay, he said he does not believe in lesbians. In previous interviews, he has characterized lesbians as fat, dungaree-wearing and “lacking options” in relationships.

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Questions Continued from Page A8 A male student said, “Milo, you literally have been an influence in my life. Thank you so much. I took a picture of your bus.”

The crowd laughed when, in response, Yiannopoulos quipped, “I don’t think the word ‘faggot’ has been written that big in history.”

The aforementioned student then noted that at Duke University, “the Duke Men’s Project was launched this month (October) by the Women’s Center.” It offers a nineweek program for male-identified students, and it covers “pornography, machismo” and other topics.

“My thoughts?” Yiannopoulos asked, rhetorically. “The best thing to do is don’t show up. The good news is most of you are too sensible to take any of this too seriously... I’m trying as hard as I can to fight this on American college campuses....

“On one college campus, you can choose your own pronoun. You don’t want to identify as a man or a woman, so I’m an attack helicopter. One student asked professors (and others) to address him as ‘Her majesty.’” (The audience laughed.)

Again, Yiannopoulos urged his fellow conservatives, “We decline to be as miserable as they are… Don’t show up, but if you do show up, mercilessly ridicule them.”

Another male student asked about “the bullying of the left — what would you say to quell those concerns?”

“Well, I don’t want everyone to be like me,” Yiannopoulos replied. “But let’s be honest — high-minded conservatism didn’t work.” As an example of that genre of conservatism, he cited Ben Shapiro. “It got us (President Barrack) Obama and it will get

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us Hillary (Clinton) … I think this country is at a crossroads on a number of levels….

You seem to require a reminder of how brave you (Americans) are.”

Yiannopoulos said that, while he is hoping Trump wins the presidency, if he fails, “a couple of years of robust irreverence from the right will be a good thing” for the conservative movement — and the country.

A woman asked, “Do you think Sufi Islam is the way to treat the problem with mainstream Islam?”

“It’s mostly Sunni Islam that is responsible for the creation of problems in the West,” Yiannopoulos said. “I know the

majority of terrorism is Sunni. I don’t see Sufi” as an answer. “We need to embrace free expression in the modern world, “ He added, “Islam teaches that God is not subject to logic and reason,” resulting in the “complete subjugation to the whimsy of an authoritarian God. Islam is the final unalterable perfect word of God. You can’t change it now. You can’t evolve it. Christianity has evolved. In fact, capitalism has taken off, thanks to Christianity evolving,” Yiannopoulos said.

Following the question-and-answer session, Yiannopoulos received a standing ovation from the crowd.

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Pence

Continued from Page A1 At that point, Pence praised North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory for his efforts in managing the state during the storm — and the efforts of the state’s first-responders.

The crowd cheered when Pence said, “We’re just 28 days away from a great victory.

“I’ve got to say I’d join this campaign in a heartbeat. Because you’ve nominated a man who never quits, never backs down... and in 28 short days he will be the 45th president of the United States.

“Donald Trump is willing to fight every day for what he believes in ... and he’s going to fight all the way to the White House for the American people.

“You certainly saw that last night. Pacing around the ring — Donald Trump won that debate. Donald Trump’s vision won that debate,” Pence said, as the crowd cheered.

“I was very moved by last night. It takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong. To express remorse and to apoplogize. And Donald Trump showed last night that he’s a big man.

“I was on TV this morning. One of the commentators said, ‘I’d heard that you’re a Christian.’” I said, “That’s a relief.” As an aside, Pence praised his wife Karen Pence — and said the only bigger decision was when he came to know and trust Jesus Christ..

Pence said the TV commentator asked him “‘how you, as a Christian, can go forward...’

I told him that I believe in grace, I believe in forgiveness. In fact, I’m called to forgive as I’m forgiven.” The crowd cheered.

“Last night, my running mate showed” his humility. “I’m proud of what he brought on the national stage last night.

“This election is not just between two choices, but between two futures, a more prosperous America, a more....” The crowd cheered.

“North Carolina, I’ve got a favor to ask.

Can you make sure that Hillary Clinton is never elected president of the United States?”

Besides cheering, the crowd erupted into its frequent “Lock her up” chant.

“The stakes are more than what the media is focused on during any given day... It’s about security, it’s about prosperity, it’s about the Surpreme Court of the U.S. and it’s about integrity in public life.

“The truth is the world is more dangerous today than the day Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton took over.

“For the world to be safe, America needs to be strong — and Donald Trump will lead from the world stage with American strength.

“We’ve achieved peace in America and the world through strength... Today, we stand with the smallest army in 40 years, the weakest navy since 1916... The average age of our aircraft is 27 years old — older than most of the men and women who fly them for us.”

Pence added, “We have to return to the principle that there’s only peace through strength.

When Donald Trump is elected president....”

As a result of poor foreign policy by President Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton, “An emboldened Russia has overrun Crimea ... We see China building islands and building installations in the South China Sea... We see weapons tested by an increasingly... North Korea.”

Pence said that “Obama’s leading from behind” is a failed policy, along with “feigning resets with Russia — or paying ransoms to terrorist-sponsored states.”

Further, he asserted, “Hillary Clinton’s record is something specifically that we need to talk about.

“She negotiated the status of forces agreement. In 2009, Iraq was basically stable. From the surge in 2007, the American soldier won the peace.... at a great cost.

“ISIS has literally overrun parts of Iraq. So the American soldier will be called back in.”

At that point, Pence asked for servicemen and women to raise their hands — and many did. He thanked them for their service and crowd cheered.

“This administration made a deal with the mullahs for $150 million. The leading state sponsor of terror will have the most powerful weapons in the world.

“Hillary Clinton left the four people in Bengazai... When she was confronted by a congressional committee, ‘What difference, at this point, does it make?”

The crowd booed the mention of Clinton, and again chanted “Lock her up! Lock her up!”

Pence said, “Anybody who said that and anybody that did that, should not be alowed to be president of the United States.

“You don’t do that. You don’t leave Americans in harm’s way... The call came and it wasn’t 3 in the morning. It was in late afternoon,” Pence stressed.

“For the world and our people to be safe, America needs to be strong with strong leadership. Donald Trump as president. The days of American weakness are over. “ The crowd cheered.

2 Dem leaders call on Pence to reject Trump From Staff Reports

North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Patsy Keever made the following statement Oct. 10 prior to — and regarding — Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence’s visit to Fletcher that evening , addressing GOP presidential candidate Donald J. Trump’s behavior toward women: "I agree wholeheartedly with Governor Pence. The language used by Donald Trump to describe women in the recently released video is offensive and inexcusable.

“Throughout this campaign and his life, Donald Trump has exhibited a repugnant tendency to harass and demean women.

“This November, the people of North Carolina will come together to ensure that Donald Trump gets nowhere near the White House — and they will affirm that Hillary Clinton, who has spent her decades of public service standing up for the rights and dignity of all people, is the person who represents North Carolina's best values.

“I call on Governor Pence to join scores of fellow Republican leaders in doing what is best for our country and rejecting Donald Trump," Keever said.

Earlier Oct. 10, Keever and N.C. Senator Terry Van Duyn, also a Democrat, held a press conference to discuss Pence’s visit

Kaine

Continued from Page A1 Just a few hours before the final debate between Clinton and Trump, Kaine contrasted his analysis of the difference in the personas of the two candidates, saying that what struck him during the first debate was Clinton’s presidential stature.

A protester in the crowd then shouted “Hillary for prison!”

In response, Kaine quipped, “This guy’s had a bad last couple of weeks, you’ve got to have some sympathy for him, right?”

Regarding issues that he and Clinton support that Trump does not, Kaine cited a belief in climate science, that women should get paid equally for equal work and that women should be able to make their own health decisions.

He also said that he and Clinton will work to raise the minimum wage, while Trump will not.

He said the Clinton administration would work to invest in research in clean energy, in infrastructure and manufacturing.

The minimum wage needs to be raised, Kaine said, because someone with a dependent remains below the poverty line working full-time at minimum wage.

“We will focus on where jobs come from,” he said, pointing out that two-thirds of new jobs in the country come from small businesses.

Conversely, Trump’s focus is on tax cuts for the wealthiest, Kaine charged, “and he’s even said American wages are too high... American wages aren’t too high, they’re too low.”

Regarding the cost of college, Kaine said college debt has surpassed credit card debt in the country, with the average student owing $30,000.

He and Clinton have set a bold goal, he said, to make debt-free college, something other nations with less resources already do. And for households making under $125,000 per year, college should be tuition-free.

New ways to refinance student loan debt are also a necessity, he said.

“It is easier to refinance a loan on Donald Trump’s jet than it is to refinance a student loan debt,” Kaine said, adding that it is bizarre and outrageous.

Contrasting Trump’s position with Clintton’s on education, he said Trump is known for one thing in education: Trump Univer-

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sity, adding that Trump only sees education as a way to make “a whole lot of money.”

Kained added, “So he set up a non-accredited institution with a lot of slick marketing material. And he taught the, quote, ‘teachers’ to extract as much as they could out of the students’ pockets,” even going after veterans and the spouses of deceased veterans’ GI Bill benefits.

As for climate change, Kaine said it is not “a tomorrow issue, it’s a today issue.”

He also said Hurricane Matthew shows that sextreme storm events are occurring more frequently.

Again contrasting Trump’s position with Clinton’s, Kaine noted that Trump has called climate change “a hoax invented by the Chinese” and that Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, says climate change is a myth.

“Hillary and I believe in the science and we want to move forward,” he said, and the country cannot afford to have “an antiscience president.

“We think details matter,” Kaine said.

“If it’s about your life, it’s not a detail, it’s a big deal, right? If it’s about our country; it’s not a detail, it’s a big deal.”

Instead of focusing on details, Kaines said Trump’s campaign has been about division from the very first day. He added that Trump’s campaign has been “one insult after another during the entire campaign against virtually every group in this country.

“Donald Trump is now perpetuaing the lie that, ‘Oh, the election is all set against.

We know what’s going on. he’s losing.”

He added, “Donald Trump has never been willing to take responsibility for anything, so it’s not like he’s going to stand up an say, ‘Well, I lost. I guess I must have run a divisive campaign... If he loses, it’s going to be somebody else’s fault, and so he’s going around saying the election’s set against him.””

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Continued from Page A1 Among the protesters, Luis Rodriguez, a representing the progressive group Progress NC Action, told reporters that Trump “has emboldened and empowered an undercurrent of hate, misogyny, xenophobia, anti-Muslim ... He’s taking (America) back to a time that was horrific.”

Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, spoke Oct. 10 at a smaller venue at the WNC Agricultural Center — just across N.C. 191 (Brevard Road) from the Asheville Regional Airport.

In Trump’s only other campaign stop in the area — he spoke Sept. 12 to a crowd of 7,000 people inside the U.S. Cellular Center in downtown Asheville — clashes erupted between protesters and Trump supporters resulting in five arrests and national media attention on two related assaults.

In a 41-minute speech in Fletcher, Trump promised supporters from the mountains of Western North Carolina that, if elected, he not only will back bring jobs to the state, but that he also will keep the jobs that are already here.

“Your companies won’t be leaving North Carolina under a Trump administration,” he told the crowd in the Davis Event Center.

Trump said he would renegotiate NAFTA an consolidate management of trade policy into one office call the “American Desk.” In contrast, he said that under current policies “we are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world.

“We are going to start making things in America again. We are going to start making things in North Carolina again.”

Trump’s speech— set to start at noon but starting 40 minutes late — was his first of four in battleground states planned for that day. His followers did not appear fazed by his unexplained tardiness. It was his second stop in North Carolina – a must-win state for him – in a week.

“Win, lose or draw ... I never want to look back and say, ‘If only I did one more rally, I would have carried North Carolina,’” he told the crowd.

Trump then asked his supporters to match his hard work between now and Election Day by voting early and getting all their friends to the polls.

Besides job losses due to foreign trade, Trump touched on familiar themes including building a wall along the Mexican border and restoring the nation’s world Donald J. Trump respect.

He also promised ethics reforms that would “drain the swamp” in Washington.

The reforms would include making White House and congressional officials wait five years after leaving their government jobs before becoming lobbyists, establishing a lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign governments and pushing a constitutional amendment to put term limits on members of Congress.

Trump chose not to address whether he would support the results of the election if he loses Nov 8. His refusal at the final presidential debate Oct. 19 to agree to abide by the vote prompted controversy.

Trump continued his current line of attack Dagainst emocratic rival Hillary Clinton by alleging that she received a primary season debate question in advance from Donna Brazile, who was a CNN contributor.

Brazile, interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, has suggested the leaked email containing the allegation was forged, Politico reported.

Trump said if he had received a question

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in advance, the news media would have punished him with “a more sinister version of the electric chair.”

He cited Charles Van Doren from the 1950s, who had been given questions in advance on the then-popular quiz show “Twenty One.” “His life was ruined,” Trump said. “Can you imagine if I got the questions and they found out?”

He accused Clinton of being the most corrupt person to seek the presidency. In response, the crowd erupted with a chant of “Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!”

Trump, who has threatened to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton if he becomes president, said he has to win first. Then, he told his supporters that he and they can “explore ... options.”

The Brazile allegation came from a WikiLeaks release of emails from Clinton’s campaign chief, John Podesta.

“Boy we love WikiLeaks,” Trump said.

He said the Podesta emails also showed Clinton has “great hostility towards Catholics, towards evangelicals.”

Earlier in the rally, U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, the only current GOP member of Congress to show up, greeted the crowd – “Hello, deplorables!” – by alluding to Hillary Clinton’s much-criticized description of “half” of Trump supporters.

The Fletcher crowd, which was predominantly white, cheered when Trump said he would “fix” the inner cities, which he described as a virtual war zone resulting in the violent death of many AfricanAmericans.

Recorded warm-up music that was played over the sound system included Trump’s favorite British Invasion tracks, including The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and “Time Is on My Side,” along with Elton John’s “Rocket Man”

2 women officials criticize Trump as desperate to win, disgusting, unfit

From Staff Reports In advance of Republican presidential candidate Donald J. Trump’s campaign rally Oct. 21 in Fletcher, Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer and N.C. Senator Terry Van Duyn, both Democrats, expressed vigorous crticism of the candidate in a statement.

“What we heard on the debate stage on Oct. 19 should deeply trouble all Americans,” Manheimer asserted. “After spending months attacking different ethnic and religious groups, Donald Trump, in an act of desperation, has now attacked the very legitimacy of this election.

“I’m proud to stand with Americans from across the political spectrum, including the Republican Party of North Carolina, in condemning this unprecedented attack on a pillar of our democracy.”

Van Duyn addded, “The events of the past few days have shed further light onto the man that Donald Trump is.

“Instead of apologizing for his disgusting behavior, Donald Trump has doubled down, further proving that he is categorically unfit to be president.

“With tens of thousands of women now casting ballots each day during early vote in North Carolina, we have an opportunity to make our voices heard right now and decisively reject his appalling behavior and attitude towards women,” Van Duyn noted.

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Asheville area proves to be big political draw

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sheville is not a particularly large city in comparison to many others in the United States, but it certainly is the political, business, communications and cultural hub of Western North Carolina — and it has been amazing how it has drawn top candidates in the United States’ presidential race to the city and a few surrounding communities.

The general election will be held Nov. 8, pitting Democrat Hillary Clinton against Republican Donald J. Trump, along with a number of third-party hopefuls.

Among those visiting Asheville (pop. 87,236) and the area — all visiting twice — have been Trump, GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence and Democratic nominee Tim Kaine. The only major candidate not to visit here to campaign has been Clinton, although her daughter Chelsea did put in an appearance. Trump’s son, Donald Jr., also has visited.

Of course, North Carolina is considered a key swing state in the election — and Western North Carolina features ultra-liberal and solidly Democratic Asheville along with more conservative and Republican-leaning adjoining mountain counties, so it is an area that could be considered a toss-up, politically, thereby drawing the prolific campaign visits.

We are pleased that Asheville and the area are getting the attention of potential future leaders of the country — not to mention free publicity for the city from the news media that often is very complimentary .

Could Democrats benefit from a Trump win?

CHAPEL HILL — Most Democrats are happy that Donald Trump’s campaign is stumbling.

But some, looking at the long term, might think that a Trump win this month would be a good thing. Not for the country, they would explain, but for the future of the Democratic Party.

Just like Barack Obama’s win in 2008 hurt Democrats in elections later on, Trump’s victory would be terrible for the Republicans in future elections. Obama’s victory seemed to be the prelude to a long period of Democratic dominance and control of the House and Senate. But it did not last long because Obama’s victory provoked a powerful Tea Party-like response from an angry segment of the public.

These motivated crowds marched to the polls in 2010 and reversed Democratic gains, retook control of Congress, and gained control of the state legislature in North Carolina.

Control of state government, sealed in 2010, enabled Republicans in North Carolina to redraw congressional and state legislative districts to insure their party’s long-term dominance.

The same thing happened in other states.

Most Democrats hope that a Trump loss in North Carolina would help Democrats gain in the U.S. Senate and state legislative races. Still, nobody thinks control of the North Carolina legislature can be returned to Democrats this election.

But, if Trump were to win and become president, he would provoke anti-Trump and anti-Republican voters in the 2018 and 2020 elections, which would be monumental, surpassing even the anti-Obama reaction in 2010.

A little history from the midterm elections shows how the party of the incumbent president fares in those elections.

In the 1994 elections, two years after Bill Clinton won the presidency, Democrats lost 54 seats and control of the House. They lost nine seats and control of the U.S. Senate.

In 2006, two years after George W. Bush won reelection, Republicans lost 32 seats and control of the U.S. House. They lost six seats and control of the U.S. Senate.

In 2010, two years after Barack Obama won the presidency, Democrats lost 64 seats and control of the House. They lost

D.G. Martin five seats in the Senate and kept control only by a two-vote margin.

In 2014, two years after Barack Obama won reelection, Democrats lost 13 House seats. They also lost nine seats and control of the U.S. Senate.

Arguably then, a Trump win in 2016 would assure Democratic victories in 2018 and beyond.

On the other hand, if Trump continues his downward spiral and Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, history shows what could happen in 2020. No party in recent political history, except the Democrats’ run of five straight presidential election victories with Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, has been able to win four presidential elections in a row. After two or three terms of one party in the White House, the electorate wants a change.

Therefore, in 2020, a President Hillary Clinton running for re-election would face angry voters rising up again against the establishment and demanding change.

Assuming Republicans nominate a reasonably sane candidate, their enthusiasm and the anger of the Clinton haters would make their nominee the overwhelming favorite to beat Mrs. Clinton’s bid for reelection.

With the wave of enthusiasm that could bring their 2020 presidential victory, Republicans would have a good chance to sweep the state legislative races as they did in 2010, opening the door for another round of gerrymandered redistricting that would ensure their control of the U.S. House and state legislatures for many more years to come.

It is just one more reason why loyal Republicans, with an eye on the future of their party, might hope for a big Democratic victory thist month.

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Letters to the Editor

HB2 termed a distraction from more important issues

Election season always brings on some crazy events and issues. North Carolina is experiencing one of those election seasons this year.

We all thought this election, especially the governor’s race, was going to be about which candidate has the best record and vision for the future of North Carolina.

What we found is that Roy Cooper and his liberal allies know they cannot beat Gov. Pat McCrory’s record on jobs, education and transportation.

So what did they do?

They created an issue called HB2.

Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts and the Charlotte City Council injected an issue that no one was talking about.

Why? Because Roy Cooper and the liberals told them to. We should be talking more important issues, and that is why I support Gov. McCrory.

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the fact that in much of Asheville, it is still illegal to build a desperately needed home without a place to park that superfluous, polluting luxury known as an automobile, even though that parking prevents the density needed to support bus service or walkability.

The fact that they have let these parking requirements persist this long in the face of popular cries for more housing with fewer cars shows their talk of sustainable and affordable housing is pure lip service practiced with total deceit by every recent city councilor.

City Council isn’t just neglecting affordable housing or sustainability, they are actively prohibiting both.

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Don’t let the nonsense get you down

“But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

— 2 Timothy 3:13

The problem

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y the time you read this, America will have elected a new president.

We’re in trouble no matter who wins. This election necessitated that we all vote beneath our sensibilities.

Or did we? The really scary thing is we just got what we earned. If our leaders are incompetent fools, liars or cheats it’s because fools, liars or cheats put them there. Whoops.

If that be the case, and the world is going to get even crazier, what’s a patriotic, value-driven, realistic and responsible adult supposed to do? Glad you asked. Here’s 10 suggestions.

Stay positive

Please note that no matter how foolish our world gets, the good far outweighs the bad.

Nowhere is that more true than in America.

Without conscious effort, we’re thus prone to take the good for granted and concentrate on the bad. Thinking bad makes you feel bad even when you’re living good.

Most people in America are living very good.

Watch out for fear and worry

Did you know these are the two most referenced sins in the Bible? That’s because God knew we’d be faced with these two temptresses more than all others combined.

Fear and worry are “backdoor sins.” When the forces of darkness can’t capture us through the seven deadlies, they sneak up behind us Fear and worry are an easy sale – and

Carl Mumpower highly addictive. That’s because fear and worry provide an artificial sense of control.

That’s the psychological equivalent of making a wish as you toss a coin in a fountain. Soothing is different than helpful.

Fact is we have very little control in this world. Our best shot is to concentrating on growing and controlling ourselves and giving the rest to God. The more we focus on selfcontrol, the less we worry about the rest.

Resist victimization and entitlement

Our current crop of politicians knows the key to our hearts and minds – the promise of something for nothing. Every party thrives on that seductive message and we reliably vote accordingly.

Nothing says something for nothing better than painting people as a victim, entitled, or both. The Clintons represent the perfected state of this art. Listen to every speech they give – regardless of the audience – and they sell both of these deceptions every time.

A sad case is point is what we’re doing with our veterans. Bless them all for their sacrifices, but have you noticed how many are playing the victim and entitlement cards? When our warriors start behaving like camouflaged welfare mothers our culture is in trouble.

See CANDID CONSERVATIVE, Page A18

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Commentary

N.C. has descended into the Third World

“T

hird World” was originally used to describe countries that weren’t rich democracies and not Soviet bloc – mostly countries that had widespread poverty, ramshackle infrastructure, rich elites – and dictatorship.

Today, the phrase “Third World” gathers these sad characteristics that are often seen in these countries (now called “developing nations”). So you might hear, “The stadium was magnificent, but most of the city is Third World.”

This is where North Carolina has gone under our Republican state government: eroding infrastructure (schools, roads, health care, social safety nets, environmental protection), lagging economy, rich elites – and, yes, dictatorship.

The blog enoughrope.info, written by a retired foreign service officer, talks about dictatorships he’s seen in the world – and notice how his words scream: “North Carolina General Assembly!” He writes: “In most countries (that are not rich democracies), the primary occupation and preoccupation of the leader is staying in power….It is a strain of myopia to believe or pretend that most rulers in the world care about anything but continuing to rule….The importance the ruler places on remaining in office over any other priority is sometimes demonstrated by actions that twist or abandon his prior goals or aspirations. On many occasions, a country’s

Lee Ballard leader does something counterintuitive or unorthodox that momentarily astounds precisely because it doesn’t seem to fit a narrative or context that had defined his previously expressed identity or deliberate actions. Every single time this kind of thing happens, the leader is making the unusual decision or taking the unexpected step for the simple reason that he believes it’s good for him. He is never loyal to a party, ideology, set of laws, current allies, or his people.

He is certainly not to be constrained by commonly-understood concepts of right and wrong. What is right is remaining in power. That’s all there is to it.”

Dead on your General Assembly, isn’t it?

I remember these guys when Democrats controlled state government. They appeared as people of principle. They constantly petitioned for power-sharing with Democrats. They believed in small government and local control. And they touted themselves as Christians.

Then came Nov. 2, 2010 – the Great Ambush, when Republicans took control of the General Assembly. And, oh, what a difference power makes!

Power-sharing? Pshaw. With new

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census figures in hand, they outsourced redistricting to the Republican National Committee’s computer programs. Slice it, dice it – half our 100 counties and even precincts were split in order to shove Democrats into a small minority of legislative and congressional districts.

In the first election under this redistricting, 1,484,000 Republicans voted, and 2,007,000 Democrats voted (Democracy North Carolina data) – a half-million more Democrats. The outcome? Our erstwhile power-sharing Republicans, 34 seats in the state Senate to 16 Democrats, 74 seats in the state House to 45 Democrats.

And oh, did I say that these Christian lawmakers were holding public hearings around the state ostensibly to get input on redistricting – at the same time the RNC computers were doing their work? Followed by a stream of lies that would make Donald Trump tip his hat.

Then with Democrats snug in their ghettos and the Supreme Court’s easing of the Voting Rights Act in June, 2013, the GOP moved to suppress Democrat voting with their “voting reform” legislation. It was so blatant that the U.S. Appeals Court said in striking down much of it: “The totality of the circumstances… cumulatively and unmistakably reveal that the General Assembly used [the law] to entrench itself.”

Ah, did you notice the word they used?

Entrench. Republicans did exactly what

enoughrope.info described for countries that have dictatorships!

We’re not a “developing” state. We’re a state that used to be developed but lost it.

No, North Carolina is Third World.

Republicans will be turned out when the Supreme Court draws rules for gerrymandering and elections are fair. Until then, fellow WNCers, we’ve got to weed out the perps who’ve swapped in our wonderful state for their own job security.

• Lee Ballard lives in Mars Hill. For more of his work, readers may visit his blog at mountainsnail.com.

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Continued from Page A1 (They’re watching you do huggy headlocks at Granny’s funeral.)

You’re actually onto something by being so physically demonstrative. Charles Darwin observed that expressing the physical side of an emotion — that is, “the outward signs,” like the yelling that goes with rage — amps up the emotion. Modern research finds that he was right.

For example, clinical psychologist Joan Kellerman and her colleagues had total strangers do something lovers do — gaze deeply into each other’s eyes. Subjects who did this for just two minutes “reported significantly more feelings of attraction, interest, warmth, etc. for each other” than subjects in the “control” condition (who spent the two minutes looking down at each other’s hands). Research on touch has found similar effects. The upshot?

Act cuddly-wuddly and cuddly-wuddly feelings should follow.

Maybe you can science his mom into feeling better by explaining this. Consider that she may just be worried that you two are going to burn yourselves out. If you think that’s part of it, you might clue her in on what the greeting cards don’t tell you: Love is also a biochemical process, and a year and a half in, you’re surely out of the hormonal hurricane stage.

You also might dial it down a little around her (not because you’re doing anything wrong but because it’s nice to avoid worrying Mumsy if you can). The reality is, we all sometimes get in other people’s way when we’re trying to find something at the supermarket — organic Broccolini…grape kombucha…precancerous polyp in the girlfriend’s throat.

Florist Gump

I love my girlfriend, but the other night on the phone, I said something that really hurt her feelings. I was out with my guy friends, and one said, “Get her flowers.

Girls love that stuff.” I ran around in the middle of the night looking for them. Obviously, there were no florists open. I had to hit a slew of 7-Elevens. I came home with a rose and told her about my treasure hunt to find it. She loved it, and all was forgiven.

For a flower? I don’t get it.

— Temporary Jerk It is a little crazy that when you love a woman, you’re supposed to express it with a handful of useless weeds — that is, “Say it with flowers” and not something nice and practical, a la “Say it with a repeating stapler.”

“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,” wrote Gertrude Stein. Sorry, Gertie. It’s actually not.

A rose can also be a form of information — one that anthropologists call a “costly signal.” A costly signal is a message that’s more than just words — meaning it involves an investment of time, effort, risk, and/or money, which tells the recipient that it’s more likely to be sincere.

So, the pointless extravagance of buying a woman flowers is exactly the point. To be willing to burn money on something so intrinsically useless suggests you’re either a natural-born idiot or so in love that it makes you droolingly dim.

But — as you might argue — you only spent a few bucks on that rose. Well, context counts. Research by evolutionary social psychologist Yohsuke Ohtsubo and his colleagues points out that buying just one flower will make you look cheap— but only when “a more costly option (is) available” (like if you’re at a florist). Otherwise, effort counts. In other words, if you only bring your woman a single rose, casually mention that you got it by crawling over broken glass to 7-Eleven while dodging gunfire from the Albanian mob. (Or that you at least tried Rite Aid, CVS, and 12 other 7-Elevens first.)

Talk dirt-cheap to me My husband of a year is very tight with

cash. It’s always save, save, save. I recently traded in my car, and I needed $1,000 more for the new one, but he never offered to give it to me. My parents ended up paying it. I make my own money, but not a lot, and I’m wondering what kind of financial arrangement makes sense in a marriage.

— Confused Your husband comes into the living room, and there you are — sitting on the floor with a Starbucks cup and a cardboard sign that says, “Anything helps. God bless.”

Unfortunately, the passive-aggressiveness of the wife-as-panhandler approach is toxic in the long run. However, the theatrics would get your message across better than the nonverbal forms of communication you’ve probably been using — pouting and closing cabinet doors a little more forcefully than usual.

Like a lot of women, you may assume that whatever subtle emotional cues you can read, men can also read. However, research by social psychologist Judith A. Hall finds that women are far better than men at spotting and decoding nonverbal signals in facial expressions and body language. Women’s having evolved greater aptitude for this makes sense, as newborn infants generally aren’t in the habit of expressing their needs with, “Hey, momlady…would you grab me a pack of smokes and a beer?”

So, yes, if you want something from your husband, you do have to put that out there in spoken-word form. But beyond that, you two need to sit down and hammer out a fiscal policy for your relationship — where the lines get drawn on “yours”/“mine”/“ours” and “what if one of us has a financial crisis and needs an alternative to, oh, stealing a mule to get to work every day?”

In coming up with this policy, it’s important to go beyond the cold dollars-and-cents view and discuss each other’s attitudes surrounding money, especially any issues and fears. Then, when there’s a conflict, each of you can maybe start with a little compassion for the other’s point of view.

It also might help to understand that our views about money are influenced by genetics and what behavioral ecologists call our “life history strategy” — a term that relates to whether our upbringing was stable and “safe” or risky and unpredictable. Child development researcher Jay Belsky and his colleagues find that a stable childhood environment tends to lead to a more future-oriented approach (saving, for example), whereas, say, growing up ducking gunfire or just having divorced parents and getting moved around a lot tends to lead to a more now-oriented approach (spendorama!).

Whatever your past, going off into the sunset being chased by creditors can be a marriage killer. Family studies researcher Jeffrey Dew finds that married couples with a bunch of “consumer debt” (owing on credit cards, loans for consumer goods, and past-due bills) fight more about everything — from sex to chores to in-laws. And research by sociologist Carolyn Vogler, among others, finds that couples who pool their money (like their money got married, too!) tend to be happier. I would guess that the spirit in this is important -- going all in financially…“us against the world!” instead of, “If you lose your job and can’t pay your share of the rent, don’t worry, baby. I’ll help you pitch your tent on the front lawn.”

• (c.) 2016, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved.

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NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING NOVEMBER 10 FOR THE PROPOSED WIDENING OF U.S. 64 FROM BLYTHE STREET (S.R. 1180)

TO WHITE PINE DRIVE (S.R. 1173)/DANIEL DRIVE (S.R. 1186) TIP PROJECT NO. U-5783 The N. C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting in November regarding the proposed project to widen U.S. 64 from Blythe Street to White Pine Drive/ Daniel Drive in Hendersonville.

The meeting will take place on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at Hendersonville City Hall located at 145 Fifth Avenue East from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Interested citizens may attend at any time during the meeting hours. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and listen to comments regarding the project. Please note that no formal presentation will be made. Citizens will also have the opportunity to submit comments and questions in writing. Comments received will be taken into consideration as the project develops.

The public can view maps displaying the location and design of the project as they become available online at http://www.ncdot.gov/projects/publicmeetings.

Anyone desiring additional information may contact Wanda Austin, NCDOT Division 14, Project Manager; 253 Webster Road, Sylva, NC 28779 by phone; (828) 631-1146 or via email; whaustin@ncdot.gov. All comments should be received no later than November 24, 2016.

NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this meeting. Anyone requiring special services should contact; Diane Wilson via e-mail at pdwilson1@ncdot.gov or by phone (919) 707-6073 as early as possible so that arrangements can be made.

Persons who speak Spanish and do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494.

Aquellas personas que hablan español y no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, hablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes de la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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Wednesday, Nov. 4

WORKSHOP, 12:30 p.m., Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Author Suzanne Giesemann will present a two-day workshop on “Your Emerging Soul” through Nov. 5. A retired U.S. Navy Commander, Giesemann is the author of 11 books, a metaphysical teacher and an evidential medium who “brings hope, healing and comfort through her work,” according to Unity. Her story is told in a memoir, “Messages of Hope,” and in a documentary by the same name.

SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVIE, 7 p.m., Sanford Hall, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place, Asheville. A movie — with the name to be announced — will be screened, followed by a discussion. Admission is free.

Thursday, Nov. 5

CHANTING AS SACRED PRACTICE, 9:30 a.m.4:30 p.m., Episcopal Church of Holy Spirit, 433 Bone Camp Road, Marshall. Chanting as a sacred practice will be expored through contemplative chanting through guided group practice. The practice is billed as freeing body, mind and emotions from habitual blocked energies and conditioned attitudes. To register, which costs $60 (and scholarships are available), contact Jeanine Siler Jones at 712-6632 or visit jsilerjones@gmail.com.

Friday, Nov. 6

DINNER/CONCERT, 7 p.m., The Billy Graham Training Center at The Cove, 1 Porters Cove Road, Asheville. Following a buffet dinner, Fernando Ortega will perform in concert. For tickets, which are $55, visit http://thecove.org.

Saturday, Nov. 7

PRE-ELECTION PRAYER SERVICE, 12:15 or 6 p.m., First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 201 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain. A nonpartisan pre-election prayer service, sponsored by the Black Mountain Ministerial Association, will be held, focus-

Kirsten Buxten will discuss her book, “I Married a Mystic,” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Nov. 13 at Unity of the Blue Ridge in Mills River. ing on reflection and prayer for the well-being of the United States, prior to the Nov. 8 general election.

Friday, Nov. 11

CRAFT BAZAAR, noon to 6 p.m., Weaverville United Methodist Church, 90 N. Main St., Weaverville. The 23rd annual craft bazaar will be held. The bazaar will continue from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 12.

Items will be offered for sale by local artists and crafters, also photos will be shot with Santa and food will be sold by Missions Café. Proceeds will benefit WNC Charities.

Fall Music Fest/Chili Feast, 6-9 p.m., Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. A Fall Music Fest and Chili Feast will be held, with proceeds benefiting Unity’s 2017 Spiritual Summit, Be The B.R.I.D.G.E.: A Global Heart Connection. The event will feature a lineup of amazing musicians, including Eddie Watkins Jr., Jane Kramer, Pat Cardwell, Darlene Strickland, Pete Latrella, Don Mercer and David Washington — with a special guest appearance by Kat Williams. An all-inclusive meal will be offered from 6 to 7 p.m., with a chili feast, beverage and dessert, for $20. The cost for the music fest (7-9 p.m.) only is $15. For tickets, visit: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/2699187.

Sunday, Nov. 13

“I MARRIED A MYSTIC” BOOK TOUR, 4:30-6:30 a.m., Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. The “I Married a Mystic” Book Tour will feature Kirsten Buxten. She is a modern-day mystic, spiritual teacher and author who became devoted to awakening after a revelatory experience of such intense love that she realized nothing else mattered. In 2004, she was guided into a devotional practice of the modern-day spiritual text “A Course In Miracles.” Shortly after this, she met mystic David Hoffmeister and joined him in the U.S.,

travelling and living in service to Christ. One of her many spirit-led adventures involved learning to play the guitar, writing her first song with two chords and then putting out an album — all in one year. Buxten lives in a spiritual community devoted to peace of mind and forgiveness. She loves sharing and shining about the fruits of the mind training “A Course In Miracles” advocates through songs, gatherings and movies. She has just published her first book, “I Married a Mystic,” which is an intimate account of her own journey of transformation. This experiential and inspiring presentation is offered for a $20 suggested donation.

Wednesday, Nov. 30

TIBETAN SOUND HEALING PROGRAM, 6:30-8:30 a.m., Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. A program on “Tibetan Sound Healing: Healing with Voice and Visualization” will be led by Karen Patrick. An inspirational speaker, meditation teacher and seminar leader, Patrick will offer what is billed as an experiencial evening of Tibetan sound healing. “Using voice, intention and sacred anatomy, attendees will become aware of their vibrant, luminous true nature,” Unity noted .

“A natural confidence arises beyond regrets, fears, hopes, and accomplishments. By bringing our problems into this awareness, we experience a shift in consciousness. We rest in the silence of being.

We become more aware of peace, love and joy effortlessly occurring in our daily lives. Once learned, this

this simple and powerful practicei s available to us moment to moment, so we may live in joyful open, clear expression.” The optional text “Tibetan Sound Healing” by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche will be used. A suggested love offering of $15 will be taken.

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Candid Conservative Continued from Page A12 Nature doesn’t buy the victim and entitlement scam. Her message is that life is hard, you get what you earn, and you have to conquer your hardships. Listen to her.

Feed and protect your own

If we’re to be a contributing part of the human experience, building a bunker and crawling in is not an option. Being realistic about the fragile state of the human condition and preparing for challenging possibilities might be. That mission begins with establishing the means to protecting and feeding you and yours.

Grandad’s old hunting guns were made for rabbits and squirrels, not people. They’ll work, but if our world gets frantic it’s best to be armed with modern options. That means high-capacity pistols, shotguns or rifles – or, better yet, all three. These resources should be rounded out with adequate ammunition and training on how to put them to proper use.

There are lots of arguments on how much food one should keep on hand and it’s mostly an individual call. As a minimum, a threemonth supply adequate to the nutritional needs of everyone under your charge makes sense. If you’ve got the cash for more, give it some thought. The local grocery will hollow out quickly if anything interrupts our food chain and real hunger is no fun.

Boycott the bad guys

There are a lot of self-deceiving people operating in today’s America. The sensibility of HB-2 unveiled a parade of antagonists willing to use blackmail to achieve their idea of positive social change. When did having male parts in female bathrooms become anyone’s idea of making the world a better place?

Counteraction is appropriate. Somewhere between being a lazy Facebook warrior and joining a black ops militia group lies prudence. Boycotting activities, businesses, manufacturers and entertainment resources that insist on things contrary to your core values represents a mature point of action.

Hollywood, Wall Street, colleges and universities, politicians and most charities are dependent on the monies of conservative minded individuals. If you want to get their attention – and impair the progressive-liberalsocialist takeover of America — stop giving them your money.

Ignore the chatter and hysteria In 21st century America, everyone’s got an opinion and everyone thinks they deserve an audience. You need not participate.

Here are a few simple filters for what to absorb and what to discard. Anything being sold as cheap, easy and plentiful is a lie. Anything built on robbing Peter to pay Paul is a scam.

Anything that suggests opportunity without responsibility is a deception. Anything that sidesteps the laws of nature and touts the things of man is a Ponzi scheme. Anything that calls on you to grow, learn, step-up, look up, or live with courage and conviction is good.

Count for something

The number one agenda of an increasing number of Americans is looking out for number one. That’s a problem in too many ways to count — including the inevitable corruption of mind, body, heart and spirit that develops out of self-absorption.

Our Founding Fathers created a system of governance requiring a citizenry devoted to something bigger than filling their own rice bowl. Too many have lost sight of that vision, and – minus a corrective disaster – that trend does not seem reversible.

As individuals we remain free to stand for something. We should chose that something carefully. If you do, note your connection to the firefly – the darker the night, the brighter its light.

Remember who’s in charge

Speaking of corrective disaster, take heart in knowing we live on a self-corrective planet.

Bad guys, bad things, bad events and bad times will come along, but they do not get to stay for long.

God created nature and nature is relentless in re-establishing balance. If you doubt it, skip mowing your grass for a season and watch how quickly the seeds of a new forest take root.

As regards the political scene, extremes breed extremes and the liberal extremists of today are facing a reality check of their own making.

The left is self-destructing

Having relied on the promise of something for nothing to secure political power, they have created expectations that can never be fulfilled. Watch how quickly their minion’s loyalties fade when the promises fall flat.

It’s called a hostile-dependency relationship and the end game is unquenchably angry and destructive participants. On their way over the cliff they will pull others along. Do what you can to make sure you’re not on the list.

Remember Solomon

The smartest man in history believed in the K.I.S.S. formula. His take was that in a hard world it was wise to live in God’s will as a protection from man’s nonsense. His simple plan – concentrate on the 4 L’s of loving, learning, laboring and celebrating the gift of life.

It’s in these four that we find the best insulations from a world going bad. We can’t hide from the darkness; we can be so busy generating light that the darkness loses its power.

Anything else?

May I offer one more piece of advice?

Instead of bemoaning the fact the world is getting nuttier – work to make sure you’re not. Then celebrate the courage, character, and conviction that come with that noble mission....

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‘Beehive’ buzzing with fun

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FLAT RACK — “Beehive: the ‘60s Musical,” a dance-happy tribute to the female singers of that iconic decade, sparkled with fun and talent during an Oct. 15 sold-out performance at its 506-seat mainstage.

The vibrant, high-energy trip down memory lane provided a dazzling showcase for its cast of six talented singers. At times, they provided near-celestial six-part harmony, as well as some terrific leads.

Featuring parts or all of nearly 40 songs, the musical was performed Oct. 13-30.

The singers included Shaleah Adkisson, Galen Crawley, Danyel Fulton, Merrill Peiffer, Alexis Sims and Nicole Winter.

The show also dazzled with its top-notch choreography and costumes. The choreSpecial photos courtesy of FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE ographer was Amy Jones and the costume Three members of the “Beehive” cast, attired as Diana Ross & The designer, LeeAnne Lola Deaver.

Supremes, perform a few numbers, while below is the show’s tribute to In addition, the six-piece orchestra, led Tina Turner and her backup singers. on piano by music director Alex Shields, was stellar. The other band members included Daniel Iannucci, bass; Bill Altman, guitar; Paul Babelay, drums; Wes Parker, saxophone; and Chris Mhoff, trumpet.

The plot involves the coming-of-age of a teenage woman in the 1960s (played by Adkisson), stretching from the innocent songs of Lesley Gore and others, transitioning to the tumult of the civil rights movement, to the shock of John Kennedy’s assassination to the televised carnage of the Vietnam War. Many of the popular songs of those years darkly reflect unease and protest.

“We start in 1960 and go straight through to 1969, hitting all the great girl bands along the way,” said director Lisa K. Bryant. “It’s a really entertaining two hours.”

Written and compiled by Larry Gallagher, the musical revue featured big hits of the past like “It’s My Party,” “Proud Mary,” “My Boyfriend’s Back,” “Where the Boys Are” and “Respect.”

Among the show’s features were salutes to Tina Turner, Connie Francis, The Shirelles, Leslie Gore, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes and Janis Joplin. Another highlight was the sight of the knee-high, white go-go boots and the mini-skirts — worn by deadly serious young women singing a stirring rendition of “The Beat Goes On.” See ‘BEEHIVE,’ Page B7

Dead cell sets off years of mayhem

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ou’ve all probably seen Stephen King’s mini-series “Rose Red.” It was about an extremely haunted house located where several disappearances of family and high-profile individuals occurred, as well as several murders.

Over the years, it went dormant. That is, until one gifted little girl walked in and woke everything up.

You might say I’m that little girl all grown up.

I’m sure Stephen King coined the term “dead cell” because it’s not something easily referenced, but it’s a real phenomenon.

I first became aware of this when I moved into a haunted former tuberculosis sanitorium. I knew about the tuberculosis. Not about the ghosts. Not until I actually moved in.

Would you believe I moved in on “a dark and stormy night?”

It was wintertime in Asheville and high up on Sunset Mountain. The wind whipped around and the rain came down. You could see it through the flashes of lightning.

I was unpacking boxes in my kitchen. I had nice, long, wide countertops and set up my coffeemaker and microwave oven. Unfortunately, I didn’t know that I shouldn’t plug them into the same outlet. Out went the lights.

I located my flashlight and realized I would have to go out the front door and walk around to the side of the house to get to the basement. “Isn’t this how all the horror movies start?” I asked myself.

The sanitorium was the old Sunset Drive Annex and the property was dotted with bungalows. I had the whole bottom floor of the first bungalow you came to as you drove up a really long, lonely driveway with the creepiest See WRIGHT, Page B7

Fleetwood Mac’s glory days celebrated in fiery tribute show

By JOHN NORTH

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HENDERSONVILLE — A tribute show, “The Music of Fleetwood Mac,” recreated the rock band’s legendary persona and its youthful glory from 1975 to 1987 during an Oct. 1 performance at Flat Rock Playhouse’s downtown Hendersonville venue.

Selling more than 70 million albums to date, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band Fleetwood Mac is one of the bestselling groups of all time.

Featuring the hits “Go Your Own Way,” “Dreams” and “Landslide,” the tribute show rockets the audience back in time to experience the legendary music loved for more than 40 years. The show ran Sept. 29 through Oct. 9.

The band was good, but it invited audience members to dance on the dance floor in front of the band. In the aftermath, some audience members complained to this reviewer about dancers blocking their view of the band. Either the band should be elevated or the dance floor lowered. “I might as well be at home listening to an album if I can’t see the band,” one attendee said.

This flashback in music history was performed by vocalists Dustin Brayley, Meredith Patterson, Katie Ciluffo and Ryan Guerra. In addition, Brayley and Gueerra also played guitars.

The backup band included Mike Edney on bass, David Gaines on sythesizer and Jim Black on drums.

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The four vocalists in the Flat Rock Playhouse’s “The Music of Fleetwood Mac” tribute band included (from left) Ryan Guerra, Dustin Brayley, Meredith Patterson and Katie Cilluffo.

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Friday, Nov. 4

“FIDDLER ON THE ROOF” SHOW, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. The Overlook Theatre Company will present the Broadway musical classic “Fiddler

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SHANGHAI NIGHTS PERFORMANCE, 7 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. Shanghai Nights will feature the thrill of watching trampoline artists and aerial acrobats fly through the air with the greatest of ease, while jugglers, contortionists and martial artists demonstrate the exacting precision of their skills. For tickets, call (423) 638-1679 or visit boxoffice@ npacgreeneville.com LECTURE, 7 p.m., third-floor lecture hall, Jensen Humanities and Social Science Building, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa. “Hillary’s Foremothers: 19th-Century American Women in Politics” will be addressed by Paula Garrett, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college. Admission is free and open to the public.

WORLD AFFAIRS LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “Pirates, Anarchists and Cowboys” will be addressed by Donald Puchala, Byrnes Professor Emeritus of International Studies at the University of South Carolina. Puchala will examine the growth and strength of ISIS. Admission is $10 for the public and free for member of the WNC World Affairs Council and UNCA students.

SPEAKER, 7:30 p.m., Broyhill Chapel, Mars Hill University, Mars Hill. Carolyn Lunsford Mears, whose son was at the Columbine High School in Colorado during a mass shooting in 1999, will speak about recovery in the aftermath of lifethreatening events and tragedy. Mears is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and teaches at the University of Denver’s Morgridge College of Education. She is an author and is known internationally for her work in support of communities, schools and families devastated by traumatic events. Admission is free and open to the public.

Thursday, Nov. 3

HITCHCOCK PRODUCTION, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Flat Rock Playhouse downtown venue, downtown Hendersonville. “Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play” will be performed through Nov. 6.

Showtimes are 8 p.m. Nov. 4, 2 and 8 p.m. Nov. 5 and 2 p.m. Nov. 6. For tickets, which are $15 to $40, call the box office at 693-0731 or visit www. flatrockplayhouse.org.

POSTER ART PROGRAM, 7 p.m., Humanities Lecture Hall, UNC Asheville. “Poster Art and the National Parks” will be addressed by Joel Anderson, a nationally recognized Nashville, Tenn., artist and designer. Anderson will talk about his

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on the Roof.” The show also will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 5, 11 and 12. “Rich in historical and ethnic detail, ‘Fiddler on the Roof’s’ universal theme of tradition cuts across barriers of race, class, nationality and religion, leaving audiences crying tears of laughter, joy and sadness,” an SMCPA promotion noted. For tickets, which are $17 for adults and $12 for students, visit greatmountainmusic.com.

interest in the poster art of the New Deal’s WPA and his current series of national park posters that mirror the style of these classics from the 1930s.

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Friday, Nov. 4

BALSAM RANGE CONCERT 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, 12 Biltmore Avenue, Pack Place, downtown Asheville. Balsam Range, a bluegrass and acoustic music group, will perform in concert.

Saturday, Nov. 5

ASHEVILLE TAP FESTIVAL, 5-8 p.m., U.S. Cellular Center, downtown Asheville. The Asheville on Tap Festival will feature 100-plus tap beers from more than 50 breweries. The event is dedicated to showcasing specialty beers and craft breweries from around the country, while also delivering authentic, craft beer-focused experiences filled with live music, vendors and local food. Lyric will be the featured band. For tickets, which are $45 until Nov. 4, visit AmericaOnTap.com/asheville-nc.

Tickets increase to $55 on day-of-event.

PAGEANT, 7:30 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, 12 Biltmore Avenue, downtown Asheville. The ninth annual Miss Gay Latina Asheville pageant wll be held as part of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs Sept. 15-Oct. 15. Advance tickets, which are $22, are available by calling (704) 779-4500.

Monday, Nov. 7

SOCIAL JUSTICE LECTURE, 7 p.m., The Grotto, Highsmith University Union, UNC Asheville.

“Public Lands, Private Profit” will be addressed by climate activist and Peaceful Uprising founder Tim DeChristopher. He will discuss the role of public lands and national parks as battlegrounds between private profit and public good, sharing stories of some of his own fight with the fossil fuel industry over the fate of western lands near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks. He will be joined by singer/songwriter Bryan Cahall, with songs inspired by struggles for justice. Admission is free and open to the public.

Thursday, Nov. 10

AUTHOR’S READING, noon, Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall, UNC Asheville. Leigh Ann Henion, author of “Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurers Guide to the Natural World,” will read from her work. Henion’s “Phenomenal” was a best-seller, and her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Charlotte Observer, The Smithsonian, Orion and multiple editions of The Best American Travel Writing. Henion’s reading will be hosted by best-selling novelist Wiley Cash, writer-inresidence this year at his alma mater. Both Cash and Henion are year-2000 graduates of UNCA. Admission is free and open to the public.

Friday, Nov. 11

GIBSON BROTHERS CONCERT, 7 p.m., The Foundation Performing Arts Center, Isothermal Community College, Spindale. The Gibson Brothers, a bluegrass band, will perform a Veteran’s Day celebration. For tickets, which are $20 and $25 and free for veterans, visit www.FoundationShows.org, or call 286-9990.

JACKIE TOHN CONCERT 8 p.m., Diana Wortham Theatre, 12 Biltmore Avenue, downtown Asheville. billed as “a semifinalist from the best ‘American Idol’ season ever,” will perform in concert.

Saturday, Nov. 12

3 DOORS DOWN CONCERT, 7 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. The band 3 Doors Down will perform in concert benefiting The Better Life Foundation. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.com or call (800) 745-3000.

TRAVIS TRITT CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. Travis Tritt will perform in concert. For tickets, call (423) 638-1679 or visit boxoffice@ npacgreeneville.com BOB DYLAN CONCERT, 8 p.m., Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, downtown Asheville. The mostly folk legend Bob Dylan will perform in concert.

Dylan, now 75, is on the road fresh after releasing his 37th studio album, “Fallen Angels,” in May. The album follows in the jazzy direction of his other, most recent work, 2015’s “Shadows in the Night,” and, like “Shadows,” this album is a vocal improvement over 2012’s “Tempest.”

Tickets, which start at $59.50 for balcony seating and $89.50 for floor seats, as well as $127.50 for limited seats in the first three rows, may be purchased — if still available — by visiting uscellularcenterasheville.com, bobdylan.com or ticketmaster.com.

JACKIE TOHN CONCERT, 8 p.m., Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon. Jackie Tohn, billed as “a semifinalist from the best ‘American Idol’ season ever,” will perform in concert. For tickets, visit tryonarts.org, or call 859-8322.

Thursday, Nov. 17

GARTH BROOKS/TRISHA YEARWOOD CONCERT, 7 p.m., Bon Secours Wellness Arena, 650 N. Academy St., Greenville, S.C. . Country western star Garth Brooks, along with his wife and fellow performer Trisha Yearwood, will perform at 7 p.m. Nov. 17-20. Among Brooks’ hits are “Friends in Low Places” and “Thunder Rolls.”

Tickets, at $74.98 after tax and fees, are available at ticketmaster.com/garthbrooks, or by calling (800) 745-3000.

“A CHRISTMAS CAROL” PRODUCTION, 7:30 p.m., Flat Rock Playhouse mainstage, Flat Rock.

“A Christmas Carol” will be performed through Dec. 17. Showtimes vary. For tickets, call the box office at 693-0731 or visit www.flatrockplayhouse.org.

Saturday, Nov. 19

BRET MICHAELS CONCERT, 7 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. Bret Michaels will perform in concert, with special guests Warrant and FireHouse. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.

BRIAN CULBERTSON CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center, Greeneville, Tenn. Brian Culbertson will perform in concert.

For tickets, call (423) 638-1679 or visit boxoffice@npacgreeneville.com

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CHRISTMAS CONCERT, 9 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. Celtic Woman: Home for Christmas — The Symphony Tour will be perform in concert. For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.

Saturday, Dec. 10

CHRISTMAS JAM, 6:45 p.m., U.S. Cellular Center, downtown Asheville. The 28th Annual Warren Haynes Christmas Jam will feature a lineup including Gov’t Mule, Jamey Johnson, Bob Weir, Alison Krauss, and The Last Waltz Band, featuring Haynes, Michael McDonald, Don Was, Jamey Johnson, John Medeski and Terrence Higgins.

Special guests will include Branford Marsalis, George Porter Jr., Steve Kimock, Marcus King, Kevn Kinney, Audley Freed, Bob Margolin and Mike Barnes. The seven-plus hour musical event

will benefit the Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity. For the 18th year in a row, proceeds from the show will go toward constructing energy-efficient new houses (33 houses have been built so far with 25 more on the way), as well as purchasing and developing land for entire Habitat subdivisions.

For tickets, visit www.xmasjam.com.

Friday, Dec. 16

NUTCRACKER BALLET, 7 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. The Nutcracker Ballet will be performed by A Family of Friends Productions in conjunction with Betsy’s School of Dance. The production also will be performed at 2 and 7 p.m. Dec. 17. For tickets, which are $12, visit greatmountainmusic.com.

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Saturday, Nov. 26

CHRISTMAS CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin.

Mountain Faith will celebrate the sounds of the season with a live DVD taping on the SMCPA stage. Attendees will be invited to sing along with traditional and sacred Christmas classics and experience a few new surprises. For tickets, which are $18, visit greatmountainmusic.com.

Tuesday, Nov. 29

LECTURE, 7 p.m., third-floor lecture hall, Jensen Humanities and Social Science Building, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa. “Impressions From Germany: Immigrant Women and the Legacy of National Socialism, a Welcoming Culture for Refugees and the Anti-Refugee Movement PEGIDA” will be addressed by Christine Nugent, director of the college’s Pew Learning Center and Elisson Library. Admission is free and open to the public.

Tuesday, Dec. 1

WORLD AFFAIRS LECTURE, 7:30 p.m., Reuter Center, UNC Asheville. “International Human Rights: At What Cost to the Rest of International Law?” will be addressed by Ingrid Wuerth, the Helen Strong Curry chair in international law and director of the International Legal Studies Program at Vanderbilt Law School. Wuerth will discuss the impact of “responsibility to protect” — the global political commitment endorsed by all United Nations members. Admission is $10 for the public — and free for member of the WNC World Affairs Council and UNCA students.

Friday, Dec. 9

CHRISTMAS CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin.

“Christmas in My Hometown” will feature a musical celebration of family and traditions. For tickets, which are $15, visit greatmountainmusic.com.

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Sciatica is a result of damage to the sciatic nerves, often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling going down one or both legs. This damage is commonly caused by compression of the sciatic nerve in the lower back.

As you can see in the illustration, the nerves become damaged in the lower spine. The nerve compression causes the sciatic nerve damage and leg pain.

The main problem is that your doctor may have told you to just live with the problem, try drugs, injections or surgery, which may not help. There is now a facility right here in Asheville that offers you hope without taking those endless drugs, injections or having surgery. (See the special sciatica severity examination at the end of this article.)

The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover varies from person to person and can only be determined after a detailed neurological orthopedic evaluation. As long as you have not lost reflexes or significant strength your condition can be treated.

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3. How much treament will your condition require?

Edward Reilly, DC at Asheville Neuropathy and Class 4 Laser Center will do a sciatica severity examination to determine the extent of the sciatic nerve damage for only $70 (or your contracted copay). The sciatica severity examination will consist of a detailed sensory evaluation, orthopedic, range of motion and computerized postural assessment and a detailed analysis of the findings of your sciatica. Dr. Reilly will be offering this sciatica severity examination until limited appointments are filled. Call to make an appointment with Dr. Reilly to determine if your sciatica can be treated.

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Continued from Page B3

Friday, Jan. 13

AIR SUPPLY CONCERT, 9 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee. The Australian soft rock duo Air Supply will perform in concert. The duo had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight Top 10 hits in the United States in the early 1980s. Among the group’s top hits are “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” (1983), “All Out of Love” (1980), and Lost in Love” (1979).

For tickets, visit www.ticketmaster.

Saturday, Jan. 28 Special photo by DEBBIE DELL

Zombies!

Tribute

Asheville’s 11th annual Zombie Walk was a sight to see on Oct. 9 as gruesome-looking creatures lurched along from Aston Park for 10 to 12 blocks en route to Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville.

Continued from Page B1 The show’s production manager was Adam Goodrum, while the music director was Alex Shields. Handling lights was C.J. Barnwell, while Kurt Conway was in charge of sound.

One of the biggest flaws of the show was the emphasis on musical quality at the expense of making enough effort to convinc-

ingly present the two female singers to at least resemble the iconic look of Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie. Just a little more effort on outfits and hairstyles would have made the tribute band so much more credible.

Along with the superb renditions of Fleetwood Mac’s hits, a strong spot of the show was the occasional history lessons and trivia about the band and its music that was shared

JAMEY JOHNSON CONCERT, 7:30 p.m., Event Center, Harrah’s Cherokee Casino, Cherokee.

County music crooner Jamey Johnson will perform in a concert limited to those ages 21 and older. “Jamey Johnson is one of the fortunate individuals to have counted the late Merle Haggard among his friends, and his honest, sympathetic approach to songs about working-class life makes him one of the country legend’s closest modern analogs,” Rolling Stone magazine wrote. For tickets, which are $45-$95, visit www.ticketmaster.

by the performers between songs.

For instance, it was noted that Lindsey Buckingham was singing his rendition of “California Dreamin’” one evening, when Nicks, who was just 17 years old at the time, unexpectedly joined him on stage and sang with him in perfect harmony. They decided to form the band Fleetwood Mac. The regular show ended with “You Can Go Your Own Way,” but the crowd cheered for an encore, upon which the tribute band finished with Fleetwood Mac’s joyful classic, “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow.”

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‘Beehive’

Continued from Page B1 “Beehive” started with a brief-butrousing overture by the orchestra, beginning with “Where the Boys Are” and rather whimsically connecting other key songs that would be performed later with vocals.

After a rendition of “Let’s Rock,” “Beehive,” with its vocalists front and center, immediately went for audience participation, asking various show attendees to sing a few lyrics from the 1964 hit “The Name Game”

by Shirley Ellis. The effect energized, loosened up and greatly amused the audience.

Adkisson noted that their “tale” (“Beehive”) began in 1960, when “everyone was doing The Twist” and rock ‘n’ roll idol Elvis Presley was released from the U.S. Army to return to singing and playing guitar. However, Askisson added that “the women of rock ‘n’ roll were my favorites.”

The show then featured amusingly innocent renditions of several early to mid1960s hits performed by The Angels’ “My Boyfriend’s Back” (1963); The Chiffons’ “Sweet Talkin’ Guy” 1966) and “One Fine Day” (1963); and, funniest of all, “I Sold My Heart to the Junkman” (1963) by Patti Labelle and the Bluebelles. FRP’s Labelle part was sung admirably by Fulton.

Then, the loveliest rendition of the first act was performed — “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” — in classic Carole King heart-felt style.

Later, the three African-American vocalists of the cast appeared as Diana Ross & The Supremes, performing songs such as “Where Did Our Love Go?” “Come See About Me” and “I Hear a Symphony.”

Other first-act highlights included renditions of “It’s My Party,” “I’m Sorry,” “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “You Don’t Own Me” and “Where the Boys Are.” The second set took a decided turn toward the serious, with a driving rendition of Sonny & Cher’s 1967 classic “The Beat Goes On.” The trio — in miniskirts and white knee-high go-go boots — included Adkisson, Sims and Fulton.

In mentioning Martin Luther King Jr.’s march in Birmingham, Adkisson asked, rhetorically, “How can people object so much to people’s basic civil rights?”

Adkisson then raised the issue of the British Invasion (the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Dave Clark Five, the Hollies

Wright

Continued from Page B1 I walked down the steep stone stairwell to the basement. The wind caught at my hair and clothing as I reached for the doorknob.

It opened easily enough and I stepped down into a musty room with a dirt floor and dirtpacked walls.

I looked around and located an unopened box of fuses and something to stand on so I could reach the fuse box. I climbed up and opened up the ancient metal box, balancing carefully as I unscrewed the spent fuses.

I screwed in the new ones, noting that they sparked when I touched them. Lovely. I closed everything back up, jumped down and made my way to the door. I closed it tight and walked back up the stone stairs to the landing and into the still raging storm.

Once back inside, I got the lights back on and unpacked a few more boxes.

Later on that night, I locked up tight and turned out all lights, shutting my bedroom door behind me. The main switch was located right beside the door, far from my bed. The closet wall blocked my view of the door.

As soon as I climbed into bed, I started hearing noises. I heard conversations and the clattering of utensils on plates. It sounded like a dinner party was going on in my living room!

I knew I had shut off the TV before I went to bed, but I got up just to be sure. As soon as

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Janis Joplin was played by Nicole Winter (above), complete with feathers in her hair and covered in macramé.

and many others), noting that many women had a favorite member of the Beatles — and her crush was on Paul McCartney.

“After that, no one cared about the girl groups,” she asserted. But she then added that Great Britain had terrific female singers in that era, including Dusty Springfield, Petula Clark and Lulu.

British Invasion songs that followed were “Downtown,” “To Sir With Love,” “Wishin’ and Hopin’” and “Don’t Sleep in the Subway.”

Then came the show’s highlight, several renditions of Tina Turner songs (without her then-husband Ike), including “River Deep, Mountain High” and “Proud Mary,” sung terrifically by Fulton.

Next, Aretha Franklin was saluted with inspiring renditions of her hits, “Respect” and “Natural Woman,” performed by Fulton.

The show then plunged into the psychedlic era, featuring rock-blues singer Janis Joplin (played by Winter), in tie-dyed, hippie styling, singing “Try (Just a Little Bit Hard,” “Me and Bobby McGee” and “Ball and Chain.”

The show ended by countering its more serious second act, though, with a Mama Cass Elliot feel-good hit, “Make Your Own Kind of Music.”

I opened my bedroom door, all noises ceased.

No sounds were coming from outside, either, because it was February and all the windows were closed.

As soon I closed my bedroom door and shut off the light, I climbed back into bed.

The dinner party started up again. “Hmm,” I thought, as I drifted off to sleep. “I wonder if this place is haunted?”

A couple of weeks later, I met one of my upstairs neighbors, a student at Warren Wilson College. “Nothing ever happened around here until you moved in,” he said accusingly.

“You move in and suddenly we start hearing someone walking around your apartment and walking into walls. We know you’re not home. We know you’ve already gone to work. But we look out the window anyway, and your car is always gone.”

And that was the start of 10 years of almost daily activity in my apartment and all over the property.

• Shelley Wright, an Asheville native, is a paranormal investigator. She owns and runs Nevermore Mystical Arts shop and works at Wright’s Coin Shop, both in Asheville. Wright also is a weekly participant in the “Speaking of Strange” radio show from 9 p.m. to midnight on most Saturdays on Asheville’s WWNC-AM (570).

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