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PAGE 8 IN THE SPOTLIGHT Who will represent Western North Carolina in U.S. House District 11? The upcoming election pits Henderson County resident Madison Cawthorn, 25, a Republican, against Morris “Moe” Davis, 62, a Democrat from Asheville — and the differences between the two candidates couldn’t be more stark.

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Be aware of what your meat purchase supports I was happy to see Renee Dunaway’s letter in support of the Farm System Reform Act [“Take Action for Agriculture,” Aug. 19, Xpress]. In addition to poor treatment of workers and animals, concentrated animal feeding operations have substantial links to the origin and spread of diseases. A July 14 Facebook post by Esquire calls the food-processing industry the Typhoid Mary of the pandemic. It referenced the July 20 issue of The New Yorker, which examines Mountaire Farms and its owner, Ronald Cameron.

Political scientist Chris Cooper of Western Carolina University mentioned Ronald Cameron and his donation to the District 119 race in his July 23 interview with Matt Bush of BPR. Per The New Yorker, “Mountaire has operations in five states. Because it is owned almost entirely by Cameron — and because it supplies poultry to other companies that put their own labels on the meat — the company’s public profile is virtually nonexistent.”

We do know that he donated $3 million to Trump’s 2016 campaign and that despite record-breaking exports, food-processing industry workers were judged to be essential, turning “the plants into biowarfare labs.”

Many who avoid clothing made in sweatshops and who buy Equal Exchange coffee and chocolate may be unaware what they are supporting

when they purchase meat. Please read the Esquire Facebook post before you make your next purchase.

And check your candidates’ donations before you vote.

— Lynda Cozart Asheville

We can talk about HIV and prevent it with PrEP I’ve been an advocate for HIV treatment and prevention for a number of years. I’m especially passionate about PrEP, a once-a-day pill to prevent HIV. Let’s talk about it! HIV needs to be brought back to the forefront because the media and broader community don’t give it the attention it needs.

In 2012, the FDA approved PrEP (preexposure prophylaxis) for HIV. Folks who do not have HIV can take PrEP to prevent HIV acquisition.

PrEP protects the person from contracting HIV but does not cover other sexually transmitted infections , so we still push the use of condoms.

We have providers of this medication all over the state, especially here in Asheville, where you can contact WNCAP (Western NC AIDS Project).

I live in Cherokee, and we have one provider at the IHS (Indian Health Service) that can get people started.

If we’re going to end the epidemic, we are all going to have to pull together, talk about HIV, talk about PrEP for protection and talk about sex. It’s not a taboo subject anymore; it’s on the table now and needs to be

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— Jeffrey Long WNCAP Community Advisory Board co-chairman and NC AIDS Action Network advocate Cherokee

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Hannah Guffey committed suicide in the Buncombe County jail because she couldn’t afford to make bail!

Why didn’t someone help her make bail? I thought Asheville has a bail reform group that helps people in jail make bail.

And I thought both society in general, as well as the criminal justice system, recently decided that no one belongs in jail just because they can’t make bail. There must be a good reason to keep someone in jail!

In this country, a person is innocent until proven guilty. And Hannah Guffey wasn’t proven guilty of anything!

And because there is some indication that the woman biker swerved into Hannah’s car’s path, making striking the woman biker unavoidable, had the case gone to trial, the prosecutor could not have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Hannah Guffey struck the woman biker rather than the other way around, so the jury would have had to acquit.

Consequently, Hannah Guffey kept her good name in life. And Hannah Guffey retains her good, good name in death. Hannah, your family and fiancé and friends are going to miss you. Sleep well!

— Richard D. Pope Hendersonville Editor’s note: The Citizen Times reported that Guffey was charged with DUI, driving while license revoked, felony hit-and-run, and careless and reckless driving in the July 18 death of cyclist Jane Norton Beach, who was hit from behind on Brevard Road. A Highway Patrol report of the accident says Beach made a right turn onto Brevard Road before she was struck. Guffey died July 28 in the Buncombe County Detention Center of an apparent suicide, according to the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department, the Citizen Times reported the following day. She had been in custody under a $10,100 bond.

How welcoming is Asheville to people of less means?

I don’t mean in any way to disparage the young couple, Janet and Roy Parvin, illustrated in the Aug. 12 Mountain Xpress section COVID Conversations, “Why We Moved to Asheville in the Middle of the Pandemic.” I don’t blame them for “trying to escape California,” San Francisco in particular. I’ve met other former California residents, now living in Fletcher and Henderson County, who have shared their stories about California life. How one said to friends still in California: “Get out of there.”

Enough said.

They look like a very nice couple, and we in Western North Carolina, as I believe throughout the U.S., are welcoming people. Their story is most interesting. Driving 2,600 miles cross-country in their packed SUV. Then finding a “house waiting for us that we’d never set foot in. ...

We bought it off the internet, sight unseen, forking well over half a million dollars, the real estate version of running with scissors.”

It’s a fun story. However, I couldn’t help wondering how our “native” population, of all races, who are struggling with gentrification, unaffordable housing, nonliving wages and income inequality might be feeling when they hear that story. That this new couple to our city paid “well over half a million dollars” for their new home.

I lived in North Asheville and then on Town Mountain from 1987 to 2014, when I moved to Fletcher. Our Town Mountain Homeowners Association had a conversation with one local government official one evening about affordable housing in Asheville. I posited that Asheville’s land is too expensive to build truly affordable housing.

Nevertheless, our government officials promise to address this need at every election cycle.

I welcome this nice couple to our city. However, I don’t know how welcoming our city is to folks of far less means.

— Dennis Kabasan Fletcher

Correction A photo taken at Creasman Farms that accompanied the article “Take Your Pick: WNC Apple Orchards Have Plenty of Fruit and Distancing Space for Healthy Outdoor Fun” in our Aug. 19 issue should have been credited to Erin Adams.

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NEWS

State of play

Race for WNC congressional seat could be competitive this year

BY MARK BARRETT markbarrett@charter.net The contest to represent Western North Carolina in the U.S. House features candidates from different generations with different backgrounds and very different ideas about what needs to happen next in Washington.

The main thing Republican Madison Cawthorn and Democrat Morris “Moe” Davis might have in common is their experience with the national spotlight, albeit for very different reasons.

Cawthorn is a 25-year-old Henderson County resident whose age and compelling story of surviving a nearly fatal auto accident — he was partially paralyzed and uses a wheelchair — led the GOP to give him four minutes of speaking time during the Republican National Convention on Aug. 26.

Davis, 62, is a retired Air Force colonel from Asheville and former chief prosecutor of alleged terrorists held at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. His 2007 resignation from that job over his concerns that political pressures and the use of torture would make trials unfair got national headlines.

Cawthorn would be the youngest member of the House in decades and says he hopes to “represent the new generation of the Republican Party.” He is generous in his praise for President Donald Trump and quick to criticize “radical liberal ideology” in the Democratic Party that he also calls “neo-Marxism.” Several of his own positions are well to the right of the mainstream, and some are not.

Davis is often stridently critical of Republicans on social media, although his positions on issues place him in the moderate wing of the Democratic Party.

His hope is that voters are “exhausted from 3 1/2 years of constant chaos” caused by Trump and now “want experience, somebody they can trust, an even hand on the wheel.”

Republicans have the upper hand in the 11th Congressional District Cawthorn and Davis hope to represent. But changes to its boundaries last year that put all of Buncombe County back in the 11th, and the absence of an incumbent on the ballot — the 11th’s House seat has been vacant since then-Rep. Mark Meadows became Trump’s chief of staff in March — mean a GOP victory is no longer an almost foregone conclusion, as it has been in other elections this decade.

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HEAD TO HEAD: New lines drawn just in time for the 2020 election tilted the formerly heavily Republican-leaning 11th Congressional District closer to neutral. But Republican Madison Cawthorn, left, still enjoys an advantage — in terms of registered voters — over Democrat Moe Davis, right. Photos courtesy of the candidates

’A FIGHTER’

Cawthorn’s recovery from the 2014 auto accident is the centerpiece of his campaign. His campaign website urges voters to “Send a Fighter to Congress.”

Cawthorn was in the front passenger seat on a leisure trip to Florida that April when the driver, a high school friend, nodded off. The vehicle slammed into a concrete barrier and caught fire.

Cawthorn’s friend pulled him from the wreckage.

Cawthorn, then a high school senior, suffered extensive injuries, spent five weeks in the hospital and still more time in a rehabilitation facility. He said in an Aug. 25 interview that at one point he wrote out a lengthy list of the pros and cons of living, ultimately deciding “that God saved my life for a reason.”

After the accident, Cawthorn worked for about a year as a staff assistant in Meadows’ Hendersonville office. Next was a year at Patrick Henry College, a small liberal arts school in northern Virginia that seeks to propel conservative Christians into positions of influence.

Cawthorn dropped out. He says his grades were mostly Ds, attributing his performance to heartbreak after his then-fiancée broke off their engagement and his doubts about the relevance of his

classes to his future. “I didn’t really apply myself,” he says.

He lists his occupations now as CEO of a real estate investment company and motivational speaker.

Cawthorn finished second among 12 candidates in the first round of voting for the GOP House nomination, then pulled off a major upset in the June 23 runoff, beating a candidate Meadows and Trump had endorsed by nearly a 2-1 majority.

The political world took notice.

Cawthorn was interviewed on several TV news shows, and he and his new fiancee visited Trump in the White House.

A SEXUAL AGGRESSOR?

Not all of the attention has been positive. Media accounts have questioned Cawthorn’s relations with women, biographical descriptions and alleged affinity for white nationalist symbols.

Cawthorn and his campaign have dismissed most of the criticisms as false or half-truths that are part of Democratic efforts to harm his candidacy. However, an extensively documented examination of his incidents with women appeared in Asheville-based World magazine, a conservative publication that says its reporting is “grounded in facts and biblical truth.”

Cawthorn was home-schooled and sometimes speaks at church events.

Two young women who were in the same social circle of home-schooled local Christians told World Cawthorn tried to force them to kiss him when he was 19.

Another said Cawthorn put his hand on her thigh under her skirt against her will in the dining room at Patrick Henry.

In his interview with Xpress, Cawthorn said he has “no recollection” of the alleged college incident and “I’ve never tried to force myself onto somebody. … If my advances made someone feel uncomfortable, that’s something I really feel bad for.”

Cawthorn’s campaign advertising also says Meadows nominated him to attend the U.S. Naval Academy but his accident “derailed his plans.” Unmentioned is that the academy rejected Cawthorn’s nomination — a fact he acknowledged in litigation related to the accident.

On Aug. 25, Cawthorn said the word “derailed” refers to his plans to serve in the military. He said he contacted Meadows’ office after the Naval Academy notified him that he had not been admited, about a week before his car accident, and Meadows “had his staff working on it.” Cawthorn said he believes he would have ultimately been admitted but for his injuries.

MONEY MATTERS

A required financial disclosure form Cawthorn filed in March contains no mention of his real estate firm, SPQR Holdings, or income from motivational speaking but says he had between $1.5 million and $6.6 million in stocks, bonds and similar assets.

The real estate firm was incorporated in August 2019. Cawthorn says it has

only one holding, property southwest of Atlanta purchased last October for $20,000, although he has another real estate project in the works in Henderson County. He says his motivational speaking has mostly consisted of talks to church and youth groups.

Legal records indicate Cawthorn was covered by health insurance at the time of the car accident and that he obtained $6 million in settlements following the crash, minus attorney fees. He is still suing for additional compensation.

GOP GOES MILLENNIAL

Cawthorn has been criticized for his enthusiastic reaction on social media to visiting Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest retreat and use of symbols sometimes employed by right-wing extremists. But he calls white nationalists “the most narrow-minded, idiotic people I’ve ever heard of.”

Eagle’s Nest attracts thousands of tourists annually who have no affinity for Hitler’s ideas, Cawthorn notes, and his Instagram post called Hitler a “supreme evil.” He adds that his fiancée, Cristina Bayardelle, is biracial.

A researcher at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism dismissed concerns over other symbols in comments to CNN, saying the Betsy Ross flag visible in many of Cawthorn’s videos and the acronym SPQR — a symbol of the Roman republic and part of Cawthorn’s company name — are often used by people with no ill intent.

Cawthorn says his youth should be no bar to him serving in the House, noting in his convention speech that some of America’s early leaders were also young.

However, he incorrectly said in his remarks that James Madison signed the

Declaration of Independence when he was 25; Madison was not a signatory.

Cawthorn says Republicans sometimes sound as if they are “almost anti-conserving the environment” and he would offer a different message. He says his journey following the car wreck gives him more empathy for others facing obstacles and he supports health care reform involving less regulation and more competition.

Republicans have made a mistake by focusing on some social issues, he says, but Cawthorn also says he is strongly anti-abortion and declined for now to name any social issues where he breaks with GOP orthodoxy.

During his remarks to the Republican convention, he urged viewers to “be a radical for freedom, be a radical for liberty.”

Before the June runoff, he told Murphy radio station WKRK, “Our education system in America has become nothing more than … indoctrination camps.”

Asked about gun rights, Cawthorn showed the WKRK interviewer a pistol, saying, “I’ve got my Glock on me at all times, ready to defend myself and my constitutional rights.” He decried what he called a “gradual decline” in gun rights, complained about restrictions on silencers and automatic rifles and said he

supports repealing many existing laws governing firearms.

DAVIS CHOSES LAW

A ban on alcohol sales in Watauga County helped launch a 35-year career for Davis that saw him leave two jobs over matters of conscience or free speech.

Davis grew up in the Shelby area and attended Appalachian State University in Boone in the late 1980s. A family friend who was a bail bondsman frequently got calls from ASU students who were arrested on drunken driving charges on their way back to school after imbibing elsewhere.

“Most college kids at 2 in the morning didn’t have $500 to get bonded out,” Davis said in an interview.

The friend invited Davis to handle the cases, so his part-time college job was as a bail bondsman. That experience contributed to his decision to major in criminal justice, and after graduation he got a law degree at N.C. Central University in Durham.

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Cawthorn and Davis meet for first debates Sept. 4-5 Madison Cawthorn and Moe Davis will join a diverse panel of guests for the candidates’ first public debates at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 4, and Saturday, Sept. 5.

The first event, to be held at Western Carolina University’s Biltmore Park instructional site, will feature questions by Aisha Adams, Lenoir-Rhyne University Equity and Diversity Institute developer; Mark Barrett, former Asheville Citizen Times political reporter and current Mountain Xpress contributor; and Pete Kaliner, longtime North Carolina political reporter, radio host and podcaster. Topics will include international, national, state and urban issues.

The second event, to be held at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, will include Chris Cooper, WCU political science and public affairs department chair; Edward Lopez, WCU professor of economics and director of WCU’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise; and Principal Chief Richard G. Sneed of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Topics will include rural issues, native issues and education.

Due to venue capacity limits currently in place, events will not be open to the public but will be livestreamed at facebook.com/blueridgepublic. The event is presented

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MILITARY MINDSET

Davis joined the Air Force as a military lawyer, partly as a tribute to his father, a disabled Army veteran who died around the time he passed the bar exam, and partly because he says the choice put him in a courtroom right away.

He’d planned to only serve four years, but says, “I just kept getting jobs that were interesting, that I enjoyed, and next thing I knew it was 25 years later.” Those jobs included responsibility for legal matters at several Air Force bases, preparing briefs in cases affecting the Air Force before the U.S. Supreme Court and heading the investigation of sexual assault and related issues at the Air Force Academy in the early 2000s.

Davis was appointed in 2005 to be the chief prosecutor of suspected terrorists held at a U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Davis says he took the job because he thought it was important that detainees got a trial that was not only fair to both sides but also was seen by the world as fair.

He worked on legislation that authorized the military tribunals to handle the cases and for a time was a fierce defender of the process. He says he had instructed his team not to use evidence obtained via torture. “Torture is a great tool to make people talk. It’s a lousy tool to make them tell the truth,” Davis says.

But in the fall of 2007, the administration of President George W. Bush changed the command structure for the tribunals. Among other problems, Davis says, the move placed him and the entire process under people he says “had no qualms about torture” and were pushing for quick, high-profile convictions for political reasons.

That, he says, ended chances that proceedings would be impartial, and Davis resigned.

One of Davis’ superiors and the target of some of his accusations, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, wrote that “the process offers unprecedented rights to alleged war criminals.” One of Davis’ previous supervisors said his criticisms were not whistleblowing but “a whine.” A military judge, however, later removed Hartmann from one case — in which Davis testified for the defense — saying the general had used undue influence.

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Davis joined the Congressional Research Service in 2008, overseeing analysis of defense, foreign policy and trade issues for the congressional agency.

He was fired in 2009 when The Wall Street Journal published his op-ed criticizing a decision by the Obama administration to prosecute some of 10

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the Guantanamo detainees in federal court and others via military commission. Davis argued the policy would give some of the accused more rights than others and “perpetuate the perception that Guantanamo and justice are mutually exclusive.”

The American Civil Liberties Union took up his case, saying the firing violated Davis’ right to free speech, and Davis eventually won a $100,000 settlement. After stints as a law professor and administrative judge at the federal Department of Labor, Davis and his wife moved to Asheville last year. The couple have an adult daughter who lives outside Washington.

’RESTORING ETHICS’

Some criticize Davis as a newcomer to the 11th District. He says that after serving his country for more than 30 years, “I feel like I’ve got too much invested to let it go down the drain” under Trump and his GOP allies.

Davis says his first priority would be “restoring ethics, integrity and honesty in government.”

He opposes repeal of the Affordable Care Act and favors establishment of a public option whereby people could get insurance from the government or stick with a private plan. He supports several measures to reform law enforcement but also attended a “Back the Blue” pro-police rally earlier this summer.

Davis says he is a gun owner and supports Second Amendment rights but also favors universal background checks for gun buyers and “red flag” laws to prevent some sales. He backs nationwide legalization of marijuana.

He calls Cawthorn “charismatic” but says his opponent is much too far to the right and lacks qualifications to serve in the House.

“When you’re picking folks for an assignment, you look at who’s got the education, experience and training to get the job done,” Davis says.

Cawthorn says Davis’ actions regarding Guantanamo detainees put him “to the left of Obama.”

“His biggest defining factor is that he champions the rights of terrorists, which I think is ridiculous,” Cawthorn says.

MORE TO COME

Also on the November ballot will be Tracey DeBruhl, a perennial candidate from Reynolds who is the Libertarian Party nominee, and Green Party candidate Tamara Zwinak from Franklin.

Neither has mounted an active campaign.

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BUNCOMBE BEAT

Campbell outlines process to ‘reimagine’ policing Patience was the word of the evening as City Manager Debra Campbell updated members of Asheville City Council on her plan for community conversations regarding the future of public safety. “We know that expectations are extremely high and that you want us to move very, very quickly. But we are being extremely cautious, very deliberate, and we hope that you will bear with us and participate,” she said at Council’s Aug. 25 meeting.

For the past three months, community members have repeatedly called on Council to defund the Asheville Police Department by at least 50% and invest in Asheville’s Black communities, many times taking to the streets in protest of current approaches to policing. But during her presentation to Council, Campbell laid out an official avenue for community participation on the topic.

Starting next week, the city will hold virtual public meetings through the city’s Public Input platform to discuss what Campbell preferred to call “reimagining” the APD. Concurrently, paid facilitators

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DEFUND AND INVEST: For months, community members have repeatedly asked members of Asheville City Council to defund the Asheville Police Department by 50% and invest in Black communities. Photo by Molly Horak from outside the city will hold small in-person meetings to talk directly with “the most impacted groups and communities,” Campbell said. City staff will share surveys, questionnaires and blogs on all available platforms.

Two facilitator teams were selected to lead the process: Shemekka Ebony Coleman of Raleigh will head some discussions, and the Charlotte-based Amplify Community Consulting team of Glenn Thomas and Christine Edwards will lead the others. Costs for all facilitation services will not exceed $10,000, Campbell said.

Facilitators will also compensate a limited number of people representing the

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most impacted groups for their participation, Campbell added. Specifically targeted communities include Black residents, those living in public housing, victims of crime and people without housing.

The update comes less than a month before Council plans to vote on a budget amendment that would distribute funds to city departments, including the APD, for the remainder of the 2020-21 fiscal year. On July 30, Council voted to allocate just three months of funding for essential services, having previously passed an interim budget in an effort to allow more time for community engagement.

A recommendation based on community conversations will go before

Council on Tuesday, Sept. 22. Members are expected to hear public comment and vote on an amendment at the same meeting.

“People are experiencing and expressing valid feelings of sadness and anger, fear and uncertainty,” Campbell said.

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“Blackness and being poor is not a monolith,” Smith said. “Everyone has a different experience and everyone has

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When the COVID-19 pandemic began, Cary, who works for the Buncombe County Reentry Council, was thrilled she could work virtually from home. But as everything shifted online, she began getting daily calls from recently incarcerated clients who needed a computer to access Zoom meetings and digital classes.

“Does anyone have a used laptop they’re not using?” Cary asked her Facebook network in late March.

Within an hour, donors had pledged four computers.

The first laptop went to a client named Rodney on July 30. After wiping the computer’s hard drive and installing a fresh copy of Windows 10, Cary reset the system with Rodney’s own username. When he turned the laptop on and saw his name on the login screen, Cary remembers, Rodney had the biggest smile on his face.

“He had never had a computer before,” she recalls. “It was amazing.

People are just so grateful to have a tool that’s going to help them be successful in returning and reentering into the community.”

Five months later, Cary has received 15 laptops and is launching a new nonprofit, Reconnecting: Laptops for Reentry. Four local agencies — Goodwill Project Reentry, Upskill WNC, Homeward Bound and Sunrise Community for Recovery and Wellness — will each refer one person to receive a laptop every month. The recipient must have a valid need for a computer, she says, such as attending online classes, 12-step recovery meetings or virtual medical appointments.

Cary eventually hopes to expand the program to include people in recovery and offer basic computer training classes for laptop recipients. “Everyone seems to think this is a really big need, and everybody wants to help in some way,” she says. “It’s been really, really awesome to see.”

This article is part of COVID Conversations, a series of short features based on interviews with members of our community during the coronavirus pandemic in Western North Carolina. If you or someone you know has a unique story you think should be featured in a future issue of Xpress, please let us know at news@mountainx.com.

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‘Unbeknownst to the general public’ In the early spring of 1942 — shortly after the United States entered World War II — the State Department leased the Grove Park Inn to use its facilities as an internment camp for Axis diplomats as well as their family members and servants.

“The state department said the date of the arrival of the internees would not be announced,” The Asheville Citizen reported on March 30, 1942. “While staying at Grove Park inn, the interned aliens will be completely cut off from the outside world.”

The group quietly arrived on April 3 with little reaction from local community members. “Indeed, the arrangements made by the State Department were so efficient and so nearly secret that the transfer of the internees was effected almost unbeknownst to the general public,” The Asheville Citizen reported in the following day’s paper.

“All of this is strictly in accordance with international law,” the article continued. “While the Italians, Bulgarians and Rumanians are here they will be isolated from the community and protected from the curious. Hence their presence is an entirely negative quantity — neither beneficial nor detrimental — in our normal affairs.”

The article further noted: “Many American diplomats abroad have been interned under the same circumstances. Diplomatic courtesy of a sort transcends the hostile intercourse of nations when they are at war with one another. By according enemy diplomats the same treatment we would wish our own representatives to be given in enemy countries we make certain that no reprisals will be visited in violation of international usage. Until peace comes or

NO PHOTOS, PLEASE: On May 6, 1942, over 200 foreign diplomats left the Grove Park Inn after a monthlong confinement. “As was true when the diplomats arrived here, newspaper or other photographs were barred at the station yesterday,” The Asheville Citizen reported in the following day’s paper. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville an exchange is made possible each group serves the subtle function of hostage for the other.”

By design, local papers did not feature additional reporting on the group’s monthlong imprisonment. “The Citizen and The Times have agreed not to publish anything whatsoever concerning these aliens so long as they

are in Asheville,” The Sunday Citizen explained in an April 19, 1942, article. “This agreement was made at the request of the state department in Washington.”

Subsequent information arrived only after the group’s departure on May 6. In the following day’s paper, The Asheville Citizen reported that the 221 prisoners

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(the first official number provided to residents) departed for their homelands in exchange for U.S. diplomats held abroad.

According to the article, the foreign diplomats had paid for their stay at the Grove Park Inn. Meanwhile, 28 State Department officials and 48 guards were housed at the resort, as well. “Shuffleboard, lawn bowling, badminton, and bridge were reported to have been the chief amusement” during the group’s confinement, the paper reported.

At least 400 additional people — including women and children — were interned at the Grove Park Inn between May and October 1942. As with the first arrivals, local newspapers did not report on these prisoners until after their departures. Even then, few details emerged beyond the size of each group and their nationalities.

However, a June 11, 1942, article does offer a glimpse into the dynamic between prisoners and guards. “Ninetyfour Japanese and 20 Germans, interned at Grove Park inn for several weeks, left by special train yesterday afternoon,” The Asheville Citizen reported.

The article continues: “Neither Germans nor the Japanese appeared greatly interested in their leave-taking. Two middle-aged Japanese men, however, waved vigorously from one of the Pullmans as the train pulled out. The group of spectators and law enforcement officers, numbering possibly 20, stood grim-faced and none returned the parting gesture.”

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MUSIC & DANCE StarTribe Ecstatic Dance Donations benefit the Prama Institute.

FR (9/4), 6pm, Pack Square Park, 121 College St The Jupiter String Quartet & Pianist Michael Brown Presented by Asheville Chamber Music Series.

FR (9/4), 7:30pm, Registration required, By donation, avl.mx/80a Turning Jewels in Water Electronic world music performance presented

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TH (9/10), 1pm, Free, avl.mx/848 Posey Piano Hour Jazz and swing performance.

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ART Raku Pottery Demonstration

By Lynn Jenkins.

FR (9/4), 10am, Free, Southern Highlands Craft Guild, Milepost 382, Blue Ridge Pkwy

Opening reception with artists Kevin Calhoun and Bryce Hauser.

TH (9/10), 5pm, Free, avl.mx/849 Think Big Prints Printmaking exhibit opening.

FR (9/11), 10:30am, Free, TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine Slow Art Friday: Three-Dimensional Art Discussion led by master docent Lin Andrews at Asheville Art Museum.

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LITERARY Haywood Library: Book Chat Open conversation with staff.

WE (9/2), 6pm, Free, avl.mx/7kq Malaprop's Book Launch Jennie Liu presents Like Spilled Water.

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First Friday Art Walk Open galleries.

FR (9/4), 5pm, Free, Biltmore Ave/College St

Firestorm Visionary Readers Group Cindy Milstein's Deciding for Ourselves: The Promise of Direct Democracy, part 1.

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Slow Art Friday: Labor of Love Discussion led by master docent Sarah Reincke at Asheville Art Museum.

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Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance: Reader Meet Writer Daniel Nayeri, author of Everything Sad is Untrue.

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TRAC: Beyond Prison Artist Alliance Exhibition Discussion with artists Sarah Rose Lejeune and Daniel Beck.

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Malaprop's Author Discussion Carlos Fonseca in conversation with translator Robert Croll.

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Discussion Bound Reading Group A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History & Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama & Trump

by Lonnie G. Bunch III. TU (9/8), 12pm, Registration required, $10, avl.mx/847 Yadkin Arts Council: A Collaborative Experience

Malaprop's Book Launch Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle presents Even as We Breathe.

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TU (9/8), 6pm, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/82i West Asheville Library: Exploring & Settling the American West Lecture by Victoria Barker on Elizabeth Madox Roberts’ The Great Meadow.

Malaprop's Book Launch Allan Wolf presents The Snow Fell Three Graves Deep.

WE (9/9), 6pm, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/838 Stay Home & Write(rs) Group Community writing session with Firestorm.

WE (9/9), 7pm, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/83c Malaprop's Author Discussion Gábor T. Szántó and Paul Olchváry discuss the anthology And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again.

TH (9/10), 12pm, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/839 WNC Historical Society: Lit Cafe Wilma Dykeman's The French Broad presented

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TH (9/10), 2:30pm, Registration required, $5-$15, wnchistory.org Outdoor Book Launch & Signing Featuring Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, author of Even as We Breathe.

TH (9/10), 6pm, Free, City Lights Bookstore, 3 E Jackson St, Sylva

THEATER & FILM Grail Pop-up Movie Night: Rear Window Tickets: avl.mx/82h.

SA (9/5), 8pm, $10, pleb urban winery, 289 Lyman St NC Stage: Blood Done Sign My Name One-man show performed by Mike Wiley.

TH (9/10), 7:30pm, $20, avl.mx/82k Cider Cinema: Dirty Dancing Outdoor screening.

FR (9/11), 6:30pm, Bold Rock Hard Cider, 72 School House Rd, Mills River

CIVICS & ACTIVISM Care4Carolina Forum COVID-19 and the health insurance coverage gap in WNC. WE (9/2), 11:30am, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/81m Asheville Affordable Housing Advisory Committee General meeting.

TH (9/3), 9:30am, avl.mx/80w Creating Advocates of Change: Racial Justice & Equity Part II

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TH (9/3), 12pm, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/84b Asheville Civil Service Board General meeting.

TH (9/3), 2:30pm, avl.mx/843 Folkmoot Cultural Crash Course: 2020 Election Lecture by Dr. Chris Cooper.

TH (9/3), 6pm, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/7qn League of Women Voters: Voter Registration How to register or request an absentee ballot. Forms provided.

FR (9/4), 11am, Free, Hendersonville Community Co-Op, 60 S Charleston Ln, Hendersonville Asheville Women in Black Monthly peace vigil.

FR (9/4), 5pm, Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square Drive-in Voting Information Forms provided.

SA (9/5), 10am, Buncombe Democrats, 951 Old Fairview Rd Asheville City Council Formal meeting with public hearings.

TU (9/8), 5pm, avl.mx/83l PAHC: Informed Progressive Series Election talk featuring Sailor Jones, campaign director of Democracy North Carolina.

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY Explore Asheville: How to Handle Anti-Mask Guests Five-step action plan presented by attorney Andria Lure Ryan.

WE (9/2), 10am, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/83x Incredible Towns Business Network General meeting.

WE (9/2), 11am, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/7g8 UNC Asheville Economics Webinar Series I Featuring Heather Boushey, president and CEO of Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

TH (9/3), 12pm, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/845 How to Start a Business Seminar by Haywood Small Business Center.

TH (9/3), 4pm, Registration required, Free, avl.mx/80i Using Shopify to Build an Online Business

BRCC webinar with Aaron Wesley Means.

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CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS Blue Ridge Pride: Generation Plus Program for WNC's LGBTQ+ community 50 and older.

WE (9/2), 12pm, Free, avl.mx/82w Spanish Conversation Group For adults.

TH (9/3), 5pm, Free, avl.mx/7c6 Hendersonville Woman's Club General meeting.

TU (9/8), 10am, 310 Freeman St, Hendersonville Say His Name: Healing from Collective Trauma in the Age of George Floyd Session 2 of 5: Establishing Trust & Respect Across Differences w/ Dr. Dana Patterson.

TU (9/8), 6pm, $25, avl.mx/7qo City of Asheville: 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony Presentation of colors, invocation and remarks by fire chief Scott Burnette.

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3-6pm, Pleb Urban Winery, 289 Lyman St • Locally Grown on the Green. 3-6pm, 35 Hwy 64, Cashiers • Jackson County Farmers Market.

3:30-6:30pm, Innovation Station, 40 Depot St, Dillsboro Thursdays • ASAP Farmers Market at A-B Tech. 9am-12pm, 340 Victoria Rd • Flat Rock Farmers Market. 3-6pm, 1790 Greenville Hwy, Hendersonville • Enka-Candler Tailgate Market. 3:30-6:30pm, 70 Pisgah Hwy, Candler Fridays • Marion Tailgate Market. 10am-3pm, 67 W Henderson St, Marion Saturdays • North Asheville Tailgate Market.

8am-12pm, UNC Asheville, Lot C • Hendersonville Farmers Market.

8am-1pm, 650 Maple St, Hendersonville • Yancey County Farmers Market.

8:30am-12:30pm,10 S Main St, Burnsville • ASAP Farmers Market at A-B Tech. 9am-12pm, 340 Victoria Rd • Black Mountain Tailgate Market.

9am-12pm, 130 Montreat Rd, Black Mountain • Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market.

9am-12pm, 250 Pigeon St, Waynesville

FOOD & BEER Circle L Farms Grand Opening New pick-your-own Asian pear orchard.

FR (9/4), 9am, 865 Pilot Mountain Rd, Hendersonville

Free Vegan Community Meal Hosted by the Holistic Triage.

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MANNA Express Free grocery items for neighbors in need.

FR (9/4), 12pm, Beacon of Hope, 120 Cavalry Dr, Marshall Cantonese Food Pop-up

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FR (9/4), 4pm, pleb urban winery, 289 Lyman St

Wednesdays • Asheville City Market South. 12-3pm, Biltmore Park Town Square

Haywood Library: DIY El Salvadoran Treats How to make pupusas,

TU (9/8), 2pm, Firestorm Bookstore Co-op, 610 Haywood Rd

ECO & OUTDOOR

Intro to Medicare: Understanding the Puzzle How to avoid penalties and save money.

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Environmental Injustice: Race, Class & Climate Change Talk by William Barber III of The Climate Reality Project.

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First Contact Ministries Recovery support meeting.

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FESTIVALS & FAIRS Crafts After Dark: Night Market Handmade items from local crafters.

WE (9/2), 5-10pm, Fleetwood's, 496 Haywood Rd Festival at the Farm Apple picking, food trucks and craft vendors all weekend.

FR (9/4), 9am-6pm, Creasman Farms, 280 Bent Arrow Ln, Hendersonville Junk in the Trunk Outdoor Vintage Sale Antiques, furnishings and crafts.

SA (9/5), 8am-5pm, 244 W Main St, Brevard

Apple Breakfast in a Bag Giveaway Provided by Kiwanis Hendersonville.

SA (9/5), 9am-3pm, Free, 400 Block, Downtown Hendersonville

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4-7pm, 563 N Country Club Dr, Cullowhee

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Mini Apple Fest Local vendors, food and live music.

SA (9/5), 12-6pm, Guidon Brewing, 415 8th Ave E, Hendersonville Poelico Arts & Music Festival Exhibits, vendors and performances.

SA (9/5), 2pm-2am, $10, Hominy Creek River Park, 194 Hominy Creek Rd

Haywood Library: Storytime w/ Ms. Deanna Ages 2-6.

TH (9/3), 9am, Free, avl.mx/83t SVM History Explorers: Butterflies & Pollination Outdoor crafts and activities on the life cycle of the butterfly.

SA (9/5), 10am, $5, Black Mountain UMC, 101 Church St, Black Mountain Miss Malaprop's Storytime Ages 3-9.

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FR (9/11), 9am, Free, avl.mx/83v

SPIRITUALITY Jewish Power Hour Hosted by Rabbi Susskind.

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WE (9/9), 3pm, Free, Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville

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Outdoor Challenge Scavenger hunt and obstacle course.

WE (9/2), 9am, Free, Canton Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave, Canton

Community Garden Workday Pruning, mulching and weeding.

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Gyms are still closed. Weights are hard to find. Indoor cycling, CrossFit and Zumba classes feel like a relic of a bygone era.

As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, running is making a resurgence.

From people who found running as a way to get out of the house and stay active to die-hard marathoners who were training for a spring race when stay-at-home orders went in place, the pandemic is prompting people to reevaluate their relationship with running.

It’s exciting to see the sport take off, says Mark Driscoll, the track and cross-country coach at Carolina Day School and a leader of the Asheville Running Collective racing team.

“A lot of people have rediscovered or taken up running — I’ve seen it,” Driscoll says. “Each person is totally different, and it’s been interesting to see how people are shifting around priorities, but the reactions are so positive.”

PHYSICAL, MENTAL BENEFITS

The health benefits of running could fill an entire book, says Aubri Rote, chair of UNC Asheville’s Department of Health and Wellness.

Running improves the health of the mitochondria, organelles frequently remembered from science classes as the “powerhouse of the cell,” Rote says. Aside from producing the vast majority of the body’s energy, healthy mitochondria are linked to a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Despite a lack of data on how physical activity improves immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, there is evidence that regular physical exercise can lead to lower rates of acute respiratory illness and a shorter duration and intensity of symptoms, according to a July article published in Clinical and Experimental Medicine.

Over and over, Rote says, running and other forms of endurance exercise have been shown to improve people’s self-reported mental health.

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PANDEMIC PACESETTERS: Members of the Highland Brewing Co. Run Club returned to their regular Wednesday evening runs at the end of June. Members run at their own pace from the brewery before enjoying a socially distant post-workout beer. Photo by Joanne Wilcox, courtesy of the Highland Brewing Co. Run Club boost mood and help reduce feelings of depression and anxiety.

Personally, Rote adds, running gives her a few moments during the day to take for herself.

“You get the chance to just be, and you are forced to be more present or else you might trip!” she says. “For those folks who run with a buddy, this can be a great way to get quality time with someone you care about.”

NEW RUNNERS JOIN IN

There’s been a noticeable uptick in the number of customers at Jus’ Running, says store manager Luke Paulson. He groups new runners into two categories: the former gymgoers who are turning to outdoor running in lieu of group fitness classes and weights, and former runners with free time on their hands to get back into the sport.

“As an everyday runner, you get to know a lot of familiar faces out there,” Paulson notes. “But during COVID, I’ve seen a lot of new people running through my neighborhood or running on my way to work.”

Scott Socha, owner of Foot RX in South Asheville, is seeing more people looking for new shoes, socks and orthotics. At its core, running is an individual sport, he says — with an abundance of trails and parks, anyone can lace up their shoes and find a new hobby.

“The most exciting part for me is seeing this paradigm shift where people are putting themselves first and their wellness first,” Socha says.

“Mathematically, I think most people will come in contact with COVID-19 at some point in their life, so people are trying to be superprepared so that your body is at the best immune system and you’re the healthiest you can be.”

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Before COVID-19, members of the Asheville Running Collective would meet at the Wedge Brewing Co. every Thursday night for a group run. In March, the group paused the weekly meetups for the first time since its creation in 2012, Driscoll explains.

With races and weekly meetups canceled for the foreseeable future, the Asheville Running Collective wanted to do something to add value to the local running community, Driscoll says. Enter the Ghost Race Grand Prix, a six-week virtual run challenge where members were tasked with running a specific segment of a route around town. Those who submitted proof of their run was entered into a raffle; winners received prizes from local businesses.

“It was a really fun way to put our energy into something positive when everything shifted,” Driscoll says.

The Maggots, Jus’ Running’s track workout group, has been on pause since March, Paulson says. However, the store’s pub run, which generally attracts a smaller crowd, started

meeting at Archetype Brewing for socially distant runs in early August.

So far, turnout is lower, he says, but a number of new runners have joined the group.

Jerad Crave hasn’t run with a group since March. He’s a member of the Asheville Running Collective and a local cycling club, but right now, he’s staying connected with the running community by moderating the Asheville Running Facebook group.

With more than 2,000 members, the group helps runners feel as if they’re still part of a larger community — even if they’re running solo every day, he explains.

Crave misses the camaraderie of joining friends for a run. But running helps keep the pandemic in perspective. It gives him control over something and a chance to be outside.

“Running or walking or just being outside is so vital to our well-being,” Crave says. “Hopefully, it’s not just a temporary change for the people using that outlet. Maybe it’ll be a lifestyle change that will help transform our society into a healthier, more mentally strong society that will progress forward.” X

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Proposed regional network could energize greenway efforts

BY DANIEL WALTON dwalton@mountainx.com To say that construction on Buncombe County’s greenway system has proceeded at a snail’s pace does a disservice to snails.

Since Buncombe adopted its 102mile Greenway and Trails Master Plan in 2012, just half a mile of greenway has actually gone on the ground.

Sammy, the winner of the 2019 World Snail Racing Championships in Congham, England, covered a 13-inch course in 2 minutes and 38 seconds.

If racing were Sammy’s full-time job, the snail would’ve traveled nearly 75 miles since 2012.

Josh O’Conner, recreation services director for Buncombe County, acknowledges that greenway work has been challenging in recent years.

The area’s complex topography, difficulties with piecing together funding sources and budget woes within the N.C. Department of Transportation, he says, have all conspired to keep the vast majority of the county’s plan from making it off the page.

But the county is now participating in a project that O’Conner hopes will bring renewed vigor — and additional funding — to greenways in Buncombe County and across Western North Carolina. As proposed by the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Hellbender Regional Trail would create a web of WNC greenways stretching roughly 150 miles.

From Mars Hill in the north to Rosman in the south, from Black Mountain in the east to Maggie Valley

ON THE TRAIL: This concept rendering shows the proposed Woodfin Greenway, a part of the main north-south route in the Hellbender Regional Trail. Graphic courtesy of Buncombe County in the west, the system would link the region’s major municipalities through paths devoted to bicyclists and pedestrians. While most of those miles have already been identified on local greenway plans such as Buncombe’s, O’Conner explains, the Hellbender clearly outlines how those local plans could coalesce into a greater whole.

“This is the most excited I’ve seen people about greenways in a really long time,” says O’Conner. “I think it’s advanced the thinking to a new level in terms of showing a much larger picture than what’s previously been shown.”

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That raising of consciousness around greenways began several years ago, says Tristan Winkler, director of the French Broad River MPO, when his staff noticed how many area governments were working on similar bike-ped efforts. Those planned trails, such as Buncombe County’s French Broad River Greenway and Lake Julian Greenway, often led to a county’s edges, but local maps didn’t note the many places where the paths linked up across borders.

“We started to see a de facto regional network being planned that no one was really talking about or focusing on,” Winkler recalls, and in 2019, he convened a workgroup to look at those connections. The resulting Hellbender plan stitches together existing networks and identifies a few missing links to outline one continuous trail system throughout the MPO’s jurisdiction: Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania counties.

Such a backbone of greenways would not only provide arteries of transportation between counties, Winkler says, but also make local trails significantly more useful. “The Hellbender is really more of the vision for the bike-ped interstate. But having

an interstate without other surface streets isn’t really a direction you want to go,” he explains. “Those other connections are important to bike-ped users and connect people to destinations across the region.”

Autumn Radcliff, planning director for Henderson County and a member of the MPO workgroup, says her county’s greenway efforts will follow that philosophy. Major corridors such as the north-south Oklawaha Greenway and east-west Ecusta Trail would be prioritized as part of the Hellbender, while “destination greenways” would spur off the network to locations such as Edneyville and the Green River Game Lands.

“Continuing to work with FBRMPO staff on this plan will help Henderson County focus their greenway efforts and gain legitimacy necessary for potential funding sources,” Radcliff notes.

PATH FORWARD?

More consistent funding is critical for the success of the Hellbender and other area greenway efforts. At today’s levels of support, Winkler says, a “very optimistic timeline” for finishing all trails identified in the network would be 50 years. “There

aren’t a ton of funds lying around for bicycle and pedestrian projects with current policies,” he admits.

WNC has lagged behind other parts of the country on greenway funding, says O’Conner with Buncombe County, due to a dearth of large private donors. Karla Furnari, the county’s greenway planner, notes that the 22-mile Swamp Rabbit Trail in Greenville, S.C., received major support from Prisma Health; she says previous conversations on greenways between the county and Mission Health, the area’s largest private employer, “didn’t work out.”

O’Conner suggests that the Hellbender could help shift the dialogue with area funders and make them more likely to open their pockets. Instead of pitching a greenway segment as “just a 2-mile trail to go and walk on,” he explains, local governments could show how any given path would be part of a system that creates long-distance connectivity for residents and a draw for visitors.

Coordination between governments through the MPO and the Hellbender plan, O’Conner adds, would present a more united front of funding requests.

“Funders aren’t getting hit by everybody trying to do a small project, but getting hit once with that same larger-scale vision,” he says.

The Hellbender could also bring additional support from the state.

The NCDOT recently launched the Great Trails State Plan, an initiative to link all 100 North Carolina counties through greenways and other bikeped infrastructure. Winkler says state officials view the Hellbender as having accomplished “a lot of the legwork” for WNC. “Trail corridors included in the plan will now be of statewide significance, and that will hopefully provide communities with more resources to develop their trail projects,” says Katie Trout, a spokesperson for the NCDOT. “A key component of our plan implementation strategy is to provide assistance for municipalities and regions to develop their local trail networks.”

MILES TO GO

Whatever the source, the Hellbender will need substantial new money to

become a reality. According to the MPO, about 30 miles of the plan’s greenways are already built or potentially funded; roughly 53 miles are being engineered or studied, while the remaining 67 miles exist only as lines on a map.

O’Conner says that Buncombe County’s low-end estimate for constructing paved, 10-foot greenways compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act — a requirement to receive federal funding — is $2 million per mile. Using that figure, constructing the unfunded portion of the Hellbender trails would cost at least $240 million; Winkler says it’s too early to assess additional costs for signage, maps and other infrastructure that would be layered on top of the network.

Nevertheless, Winkler says the MPO is committed to following through with the Hellbender. The group will continue to push for the plan’s greenways as part of its work on other regional transportation projects: Upgrades to Swannanoa River Road, for example, coincide with the path outlined by the city of Asheville for the Swannanoa River Greenway.

“To us, that’s a key connection for the Hellbender, but that’s also a key component to making [Swannanoa River Road] a successful roadway project,” Winkler explains.

The MPO is also stepping up with its own funding decisions. (The planning organization manages roughly $4.5 million annually in federal transportation block grants.) On Aug. 27, the organization’s board voted to allocate more than $5 million over the next five years to Henderson County’s Ecusta Trail, as well as $1 million for Asheville’s North RAD Greenway and $960,000 for the Riverwalk Greenway in Black Mountain.

But sustained progress on the Hellbender, emphasizes O’Conner, will require ongoing community support, especially as local governments reassess their priorities in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. “People need to continue communicating their desires for greenways, or any recreational asset that they want, to their elected officials,” he says. “That allows us to confirm as a department that this is the direction the taxpayers want that money spent.” X

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BY KAY WEST kwest@mountainx.com Since 1894, when it became an official federal holiday recognizing America’s workforce, Labor Day has given many Americans the first Monday of September off, creating a bit of an oxymoron and a three-day weekend. Unofficially, it marks the end of summer, adding a whiff of wistfulness to the celebration. (Cue John Prine’s “Summer’s End.”) Tradition calls for Americans to hit the road for season-finale trips to the beach, the lake, the mountains; to gather family and friends, fire up the grill and send summer off with burgers and dogs, potato salad, corn on the cob, home-grown tomatoes and slices of cold watermelon.

COVID be damned, Labor Day weekend offers one last chance to claim some normalcy from the Lost Summer of 2020.

So let’s declare Labor Day a politics-free zone and debate more immediate concerns: gas versus charcoal and what to throw on your grill.

Casey McKissick, owner of Foothills Butcher Bar in Black Mountain and West Asheville, is Team Charcoal — with a little flourish. “We grill a couple times a week, and we are charcoal and wood grillers,” he says. “I start with charcoal and then throw on some oak or hickory wood to add that nice flavor.”

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For Labor Day, he has two crowd-pleasing recommendations spanning low- and high-brow. Foothills beef-and-pork blend hot dogs are made in house weekly and sold by the four-pack. “In the restaurant, we cook them on the flattop, but they are best on a charcoal grill,” McKissick explains. “They take about 20 minutes on a very low heat, which activates the fat and the flavors and produces that nice, tight skin.”

For a fun wiener party trick, McKissick recommends putting the dog on a kebab skewer then, using a paring knife, cutting into it in a spiral to resemble a corkscrew. Pull it off the skewer and voila: “It increases the length by about 4 inches and the surface area for that nice char, and it looks good.”

He also points to a lesser-known cut of beef that can cross rare and well-done party lines is the tri-tip, sourced from AH&W Farm in Wilkes County.

Boneless, the boomerang-shaped cut can be 3 inches thick in the center and thins out on either end. “You end up a little less cooked in the center and more on the ends so when you carve it up, there’s something to please everyone.”

When it comes to beef, pork or chicken on the grill, McKissick says, “A meat thermometer is your best friend. I use one every time I grill.”

Kat Hundertmark, manager of Mother Ocean Market, the fresh seafood

store that opened on Merrimon Avenue on March 3, is a cast-iron skillet guy, but he says that for grilling seafood, gas is probably the way to go. “That charcoal flavor is great for meat but not always what you’re looking for with fish,” he points out. “Plus, gas offers better temperature control.”

Acknowledging that even experienced burger flippers can be wary grilling of more delicate seafood, he has some advice. First, stick with what he calls “easy, thick fishes” like grouper, salmon, swordfish and tuna. “They’re kind of hard to mess up,” he says. “The mistake people make is wanting to treat them like steak and throwing them around. You can’t manhandle fish.”

He suggests a cut with skin on one side; spread with oil, season with salt and pepper, put flesh side down on a hot grill and leave it there one to three minutes depending on the thickness of the fish. Flip it once, close the grill and let it take the heat through the skin until it is cooked. More flavor, such as a mango-habanero sauce, can be brushed on the flesh side before shutting the grill top.

Whole fish can be stuffed with lemons and herbs, then wrapped in foil to grill.

Even oysters can benefit from some heat. Hundertmark, a professional and competitive shucker, says amateurs can avoid punching a hole through their hand by putting unshucked oysters directly on the grill. “They steam in their own seawater and open up enough so you can stick a butter knife in to pop the top.”

Rebecca Rice raises sheep on Swannanoa’s Everbear Farm with partner Bradley Jones and sells at the River Arts District Farmers Market on Wednesdays. She says lamb chops — or mutton chops (a sheep is a lamb until it’s 24 months old, she explains, then it’s mutton) — lend themselves well to the grill. “Some people prefer lamb, but they taste the same to me,” she says, adding that mutton cuts are meatier and cost slightly less than lamb.

Rice offers three types of chops — leg, loin and rib — and suggests loin chops for the grill. Racks of ribs are suited to smokers. Ground lamb or mutton can be made into burgers, though she offers a warning. “I would tell someone who doesn’t eat lamb very often that it has a strong and distinct flavor. If you pull one off the grill and expect it to taste like a hamburger, you’re going to be surprised.” X

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south slope Mon-Thurs: 2-8pm Fri-Sat. 2-10pm Sun: 2-8pm Masks & Social Distancing Required MARKET VALUE: Shoppers who use their SNAP cards at tailgate markets participating in ASAP’s Double SNAP initiative receive double tokens for every one purchased. Photo courtesy ASAP With over 100 farmers and tailgate markets across the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s Appalachian Grown region, consumers have many opportunities to purchase fresh produce and locally raised and made products. But accessibility doesn’t necessarily translate to affordability.

In an effort to help customers who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program get more for their money, ASAP, an Asheville-based nonprofit, launched the Double SNAP initiative at the Asheville City Market in early 2019. The program, explains communications coordinator Sarah Hart, allows the market to make a 100% match on dollars spent through SNAP. “People swipe their SNAP card for $5 and get $10 in tokens to shop the market,” she says.

With COVID-19 hitting farmers, tailgate markets and family budgets hard, ASAP has continued the program at the Saturday morning Asheville

City Market (which has temporarily relocated to A-B Tech) and expanded it to seven additional markets: the East Asheville, Enka-Candler, North Asheville and West Asheville tailgate markets in Buncombe County as well as the Hendersonville, Mills River and Transylvania markets. (Details about participating markets can be found at avl.mx/81x.)

ASAP’s 18th annual Local Food Guide also took a coronavirus punch in March. “We were ready to go to the printer, but none of the information was correct once COVID hit, so we opted to delay publication,” says Hart.

An abridged 2020 guide with updated listings and stories is now available at tailgate markets and other food-focused sites in the area. Details and a digital version of the guide are available at avl.mx/81y.

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Several years ago, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle sat inside the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva with one thing on her mind — a bone. “I had given myself a prompt to write as long as I could about the most basic object I could think of,” she explains. “So I chose a clean bone.

And I kind of joke that I wrote about it long enough to write a novel.”

On Tuesday, Sept. 8, Saunooke Clapsaddle will celebrate Even as We Breathe, her debut novel that started out as a bare bone writing prompt, with a virtual release party hosted by Malaprop’s at 6 p.m. A work of historical fiction, the book itself is also historic: Upon its debut, Saunooke Clapsaddle will become the first enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to publish a novel.

The achievement means several different things to the author. In one respect, her breakthrough emphasizes the lack of representation of Eastern Band of Cherokee voices in the publishing world. In another sense, the honor creates an added responsibility for Saunooke Clapsaddle to authentically represent the Qualla Boundary.

At the same time, the author hopes her debut provides a greater understanding of her community to a broader audience. But above all, the book is a celebration of and nod to her fellow Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

“I’ve had so much support from my tribe throughout this process,” she

NEW VOICE IN FICTION: Author Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle hopes her debut novel “dispels some stereotypes and myths about Cherokee people,” she says.

“But I also hope it highlights the complexity of citizenship and identity in this country.” Author photo by Terri Clark Photography explains. “I hope [the story] rings true for them and that they see themselves in it.”

TALE OF TWO CITIES

Even as We Breathe is a retrospective, coming-of-age tale replete with youthful romance, family secrets, murder and prisoners of war. In it, Cowney Sequoyah, the novel’s nar-

rator and protagonist, reflects on the summer of 1942, when he and fellow enrolled member (and love interest) Essie Stamper leave the Qualla Boundary to join the staff at the Grove Park Inn. “Cherokee was not the Cherokee of today,” Cowney, now an old man, remembers early on in the book.

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rows jutting across rare unwooded land at the end of roughly carved dirt roads — half washed away in the spring and summer and impassable with snow in the winter.”

Like his hometown, the historic inn also looked quite different back then. Instead of entertaining summer tourists, the resort was used as an internment camp for Axis diplomats, following the United States’ entry into the Second World War. (For more, see “Asheville Archives: Foreign Diplomats Held Hostage at the Grove Park Inn” Xpress, pg. 16) “There seemed to be many secrets in this town, far more than I considered the Boundary to have,” Cowney states. “But, of course, Asheville townies likely felt quite the same about Cherokee. So, during our time in Asheville, we would pass one another with both curiosity and secret-keeper confidence in our eyes.”

SPIRIT ABOVE ALL ELSE

Within her book’s rich plotlines, Saunooke Clapsaddle raises deep questions about the country’s history, the role of citizenship and the concept of patriotism.

Cowney, who is 19 years old in 1942, is of age to serve in the military.

However, a birth defect with his foot leaves him unable to enlist. Despite his apparent disability, Cowney’s absence from the battlefield elicits criticism from fellow employees at the Grove Park — indelible remarks that continue to infuriate the narrator decades later. “Odd how people were so concerned about me risking my life for a country that wouldn’t even let me vote,” he reflects.

Similar hypocrisies are observed throughout the novel. Saunooke Clapsaddle says she wanted to explore how the criteria and view of citizenship has and continues to change over time. And by extension, the author adds, she strives to challenge readers on the superficial ways in which we categorize and limit our understanding of people based on an individual’s bloodline or the color of their skin.

“I hope I make the argument that the spirit of the human being is more important than any of those things,” she says.

VIRTUAL BENEFITS

Despite limitations imposed by COVID-19, Saunooke Clapsaddle says her own spirit remains high about her

book’s upcoming release. “When you dream about your debut novel, you think about going to events at bookstores and meeting readers,” she says.

“That’s not happening right now.”

However, she continues, there are benefits to virtual events. “There’s no way I could have done the same number of live events that I’m scheduled to do virtually over the next couple of months,” she says.

Further, the pandemic has created a deeper bond within the Western North Carolina writing network. “There is a real communal sense of supporting each other during this time,” she says. As an example, she notes how acclaimed novelist David Joy has worked with City Lights Bookstore in Sylva to promote her debut, alongside his own latest book (see “Wildfires Spread in David Joy’s Latest Novel,” Xpress, Aug. 12) and fellow WNC author Leah Hampton’s recent short story collection (see “Author Leah Hampton Examines Modern Life in Appalachia,” Xpress, July 7) as a bundle of noteworthy new releases.

“That wouldn’t have happened prior to COVID,” she explains. “I think we’ve had to be more creative in our approach during the pandemic.”

TRUTH AND PEACE

Saunooke Clapsaddle’s reflections on the challenges and opportunities created by the coronavirus provide insight into her broader understanding of the world. There is always more, never less, to unpack, consider and hopefully understand.

Not surprisingly, this concept is a central theme in Even as We Breathe.

In the book’s prologue, Cowney recalls discovering a bone outside the Grove Park, signaling to readers the story’s intention of excavating the past.

“I was immediately spellbound by this calcified opportunity to embrace a remnant of a life’s existence in one hand,” Cowney proclaims. “Dry it.

Dust it. Preserve it, and listen. Buried by a story, and I was the only one on this earth privileged to hear it.”

But near the novel’s end, the dangers of Cowney’s quest for answers — about the bone, his family, his country and himself — become evident. “Sometimes you have to decide if you want truth or peace,” a fellow character tells the 19-year-old boy.

Fearless and unflinching, Cowney replies, “I want both.”

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Locally produced short film debuts at two festivals

Asheville-based filmmaker Jeff Corpening’s original short com•pas•sion will have its premiere as part of the 12th annual Burbank International Film Festival, which has pivoted to an online presentation. The three-part anthology movie, which the writer/director describes as “focused on redefining compassion to include taking action,” is part of BIFF’s Short Film Block 6, which becomes available Friday, Sept. 11. Tickets are available at avl.mx/83q.

The film will then screen during the eighth annual Raleigh Film and Art Festival, Friday, Oct. 2-Sunday, Oct. 4, likewise online. The North Carolina festival is free to virtually attend, though registration is required at avl.mx/83r.

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PHOTO SYNTHESIS: com•pas•sion writer/director Jeff Corpening, left, and director of photography Brad Hoover, center, collaborate on the film’s set. The short work will debut at a pair of virtual film festivals over the next month. Photo by Soren Candell says. “‘Compassion’ should be a word of action — action taken based on one’s empathy, which results from the knowledge of suffering. It needs to be an act of kindness and caring, and I hope to help redefine the word so we can raise our expectations.” com•pas•sion was filmed in Asheville, Brevard, Arden and Bryson City from 2018-20. The movie stars Lavin Cuddihee, Camila Escobar, Victor Hough, Emily Tynan McDaniel, Alina Strauss and additional regional talent. corpeningmedia.com

Bunny business

Rabbit Rabbit is operational as of Aug. 27. The open-air event space, a joint venture between Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. (whose Coxe Avenue location is next door) and The Orange Peel, was set to debut in early June with shows featuring Andrew Bird and Iron & Wine and Calexico (June 10) and Vampire Weekend (June 12), but had its opening delayed due to pandemic-related restrictions. The lone major concert on the schedule is Australian rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard on Oct. 25, 2021, but outdoor movie screenings and small evening concerts will be announced over the next week or two.

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For the time being, parties are limited to no more than six people, and masks must be worn to enter and kept on at all times when not seated at one’s table, which customers are encouraged to reserve via the Open Table platform. Limited walk-up spaces are also available. rabbitrabbitavl. com

Quantitative impact

The Asheville Area Arts Council’s Buncombe County Arts Business Impact Survey finds that arts businesses in Asheville, Black Mountain, Weaverville and in between have experienced an $18.7 million loss in revenue since March. Over 100 of the estimated 500-plus arts entities that existed in the county prior to the pandemic participated in the survey, with 69.5% of responses coming from for-profit businesses and 30.5% from nonprofit arts organizations.

Other findings from the survey include that out of 806 jobs, 70% have been lost or furloughed; 16.2% of businesses have yet to open in any capacity; and 17.1% are still unable to bring in any revenue.

In addition, 24.7% have received aid from Paycheck Protection Program loans and 22.1% were awarded Buncombe County Tourism Jobs Recovery Fund grants. Of

those that have reopened, 77.4% report having little to no trouble with patrons wearing masks and social distancing. Full findings are available at ashevillearts.com.

Prolific profiler

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, local drummer Jon Lauterer has been profiling notable artists from the WNC music scene via his podcast, “The Asheville Sound.” Each week, he publishes multiple in-depth phone interviews, discussing “current events, adapting to a new way of life, streaming live concerts, the creative process” and concludes the conversations with “the showcasing of choice original tunes.”

Guests have thus far included Mike Savino (Tall Tall Trees), Claude Coleman Jr. (Ween), Ashley Heath, Seth Kaufman (Floating Action), Andrew Scotchie, The Moon and You, Shane Parish, Daniel Shearin (River Whyless), CaroMia Tiller, Amanda Anne Platt, Lo Wolf, The Get Right Band, Jamar Woods (The Fritz) and Molly Rose Reed. Episodes are available on Spotify, Anchor.fm and Apple Podcasts. WPMV 103.7 also broadcasts episodes each Wednesday at 5 p.m. anchor.fm/the-asheville-sound

Auxiliary tunes

While many of the Asheville-area musicians featured on “The Asheville Sound” have released new albums during quarantine, numerous other artists also continue to share fresh collections.

Among those with recent material out in the world are Taino/Cherokee musician Akitchitay, whose full-length We Are Calling features log drums made by the Indigenous artist; The Maggie Valley Band with its latest “dark Appalachian” work, the EP Something New Vol. 1; and guitarist/vocalist Ryan Sullivan, who describes his album Finally as “full of variety with lots of references to today’s political environment.”

Also in the mix are folk rock singer/ songwriter Jim Swayzee, whose Paddle to the Moon features fellow locals Debrissa McKinney (backing vocals) and Taylor Pierson (keys), and is summed up by its creator as “mostly ballads produced to convey a dreamlike state.” And A Country of the Mind by Poor Horse, the one-man project of Waynesville-based Speedy Greenawalt, who plays guitar, keyboards and percussion on the album.

In his words, he also sings about “themes of domesticity and restlessness, love and anxiety, and freedom and confinement, while pulling on a wide array of influences, including Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Wilco, The Beatles and Pavement.” X

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BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (jazz), 6pm

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THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Mr Jimmy (blues), 6pm

THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show w/ MoonFish 2 (classic hits), 7pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Gunslinging Parrots (Phish tribute), 8pm BALSAM FALLS BREWING CO. Open Mic Night, 8pm BEN’S TUNE UP Modelface Comedy presents Sean Patton & Friends, 8pm

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ROCK THE BOAT: Charleston-based country-rock project SUSTO thrives in flux. Anchored by singer-songwriter Justin Osborne, center, and shaped by various collaborators, the ever-changing group received acclaim for its 2019 album, Ever Since I Lost My Mind. Chronicling Osborne’s travels, the album evokes both the coast and the country with folksy vocals and mellow, Latin-splashed rock riffs. SUSTO will play a patio show at The Grey Eagle Wednesday, Sept. 9, 7 p.m. $15 advance/$18 day of show. avl.mx/823. Photo courtesy of the band THE SOCIAL Karaoke Show w/ Billy Masters, 10pm

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SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Sliding Rockers (Americana, classic rock), 7pm

ISIS MUSIC HALL The Kruger Brothers (Americana, bluegrass), 6:30pm

THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show w/ Oliver Padgett (indie), 7pm TRISKELION BREWERY Mojomatic (rock, funk, blues), 8pm GUIDON BREWING Outdoor Dance Party w/ Phoenix DJ, 8pm WILD WING CAFE Karaoke Night, 9:30pm

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Mr. Soul! HHHHS DIRECTORS: Melissa Haizlip and Sam Pollard PLAYERS: Ellis Haizlip, Sidney Poitier, Blair Underwood DOCUMENTARY NOT RATED Mr. Soul!, a documentary about a cable access show that put a spotlight on Black culture in the national nadir of the late 1960s and early ’70s, is a spiritual balm for these times. Not just because it shows the breadth of Black imagination and intelligence, but because it shows our current national tumult is not unique or insurmountable. As writer James Baldwin tells poet Nikki Giovanni in the film, “[Black people] have survived the roughest game in the world … and if we can get this far, we can get further.”

“Soul!” was a New York City-based PBS show centered on the fullness of Black American life: dance, poetry, literature, music, religion, politics — which co-creator and host Ellis Haizlip referred to as “undiluted Blackness.”

This was, literally, a radical move when the show started in 1968.

“Soul!” unveiled itself in the shadow of the Vietnam War and in the wake of the murders of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. In a TV landscape that largely had no place for African Americans who weren’t servants or buffoons, “Soul!” celebrated Black culture. As Haizlip says, in narration performed by actor Blair Underwood, 28

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“We are as proud of our militants as we are of the religious element, and the ‘Soul!’ show will reflect that pride.”

Written, directed and produced by Haizlip’s niece Melissa Haizlip (Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop), the documentary doesn’t break any ground in presenting the story of this groundbreaking show. We get talking heads, photos, clips, talking heads, more clips.

But, wow — those clips! They’re extraordinary, especially the live performances by powerful artists like Patti LaBelle, Al Green, The Last Poets, Alvin Ailey dancers and a married songwriting couple, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson, who had never sung in a public venue and never planned to until tapped by Ellis Haizlip. Ashford died in 2011, but as Ashford & Simpson, the Motown power duo wrote and/or produced all but one of the late-’60s singles by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, including “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing.”

Ashford & Simpson say that no one would have heard of them without Haizlip’s belief that they could not only write but also perform. He did that for hundreds of people, and as a result, the show was a cultural feast. And Haizlip’s production staff comprised mostly women at a time when women, especially Black women, were sidelined in most workplaces.

Haizlip wasn’t Johnny Carson. He was there to spotlight Black culture,

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not be a star. And this commitment may be why the documentary’s storytelling falls short in a significant area: There’s not enough “mister” in Mr. Soul!

Granted, “Soul!” wasn’t about Haizlip, but this film should have been more so. We do get some of his background: He was one of four siblings growing up in Washington, D.C., with a loving mother and a sternly religious father who would not, according to Haizlip’s cousin Harold, accept that Ellis was gay.

But we don’t see what Haizlip’s life was like away from the set or why he didn’t fight harder to keep the show from being canceled in 1973, when President Nixon set his sights on hobbling PBS. “How do we get at this without saying we’re trying to kick Bill Moyers and some Black off the damn air?” Nixon says to Cabinet members in office recordings.

Haizlip, who died in 1991 at age 61, simply let “Soul!” go gently into that good night. Even as others desperately wanted to hold fast, he was frustratingly content to move on. “Although it’s over, it’s not the end,” he says in the final show. “Black seeds keep on growing.”

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Bill and Ted Face the Music HHHH DIRECTOR: Dean Parisot PLAYERS: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal COMEDY RATED PG-13 Nearly 30 years have passed since audiences last embarked on a bogus journey with everyone’s favorite rocker dudes, Bill and Ted. Now, after more than a decade of fan speculation regarding a third film in the beloved series, Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves return to the roles that launched their careers — alongside the first two films’ writing duo, Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson — in Bill & Ted Face the Music. The result is a wonderfully nostalgic and inventive final chapter.

The story focuses on the titular lead members of the rock band Wyld Stallyns as they face their most daunting obstacle yet: middle age. Now in their 50s, Bill and Ted are struggling

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to keep their marriages afloat, struggling to be strong role models for their daughters and still struggling to write the song that will unite the world as prophesied in the two previous installments. Tensions rise when a message from the future informs them that they have just over an hour to complete the mission, or else humanity will cease to exist. This revelation plunges our main dudes into a fast-paced, 90-minute adventure full of great comedic setpieces and a surprising amount of heart.

Face the Music does, however, get off to a somewhat rocky start. The initial reintroduction of the iconic duo certainly put a smile on my face, but whereas Winter seems to have slipped back into the role of Bill with ease, Reeves appears to be playing Ted much more stoically, as if the actor is still in John Wick mode. Luckily, as the plot kicks into high gear and our characters become less jaded after the first 20 minutes or so, Reeves feels much more comfortable leaning into his classic surfer dude persona, and the iconic comedic chemistry between Bill and Ted comes roaring back.

New to the series are Bill’s and Ted’s daughters, Thea Preston (played by the fantastic Samara Weaving from Ready or Not) and Billie Logan (Brigette Lundy-Paine, The Glass Castle). Both of these characters are welcome additions to the saga, and their subplot recalls the best elements from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure without ripping it off entirely.

The supporting cast is also incredibly fun, with the always hilarious Kristen Schaal (HBO’s “Flight of the Conchords”) playing the daughter of Rufus — the late, great George Carlin’s character from the original films.

Alongside her is Anthony Carrigan (HBO’s “Barry”) as a scene-stealing killer robot, musician Kid Cudi as himself, plus a fantastic performance from William Sadler, reprising arguably his best role: Death from Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.

The combination of all these elements makes for a silly, brisk comedy adventure that’s undoubtedly full of plot holes and flimsy time travel logic — but, come on ... this is a Bill & Ted movie we’re talking about! I wouldn’t want it any other way. And while Face the Music lacks some of the anarchic sensibilities of the first two films (especially compared with

Bogus Journey, which is wonderfully bonkers), in its place is a delightfully surprising amount of emotional depth.

With the state of the world feeling so uncertain right now, there’s no better time to watch a cheerful, family-friendly movie that reminds us to be excellent to each other.

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DIRECTOR: Jethro Waters PLAYERS: Burk Uzzle, Theophilus Newkirk DOCUMENTARY NOT RATED Renowned photographer Burk Uzzle is as equally adept with words as he is with a camera. In the new documentary F11 and Be There, the North Carolina native spins philosophical yarns about the power of photography, the importance of art and his commitment to equality while walking us through some of his most famous pictures and projects. Where many documentaries might have taken a bland “point A to point B” approach, F11 and Be There instead weaves nonlinearly through the life and work of the highly regarded — but lesser-known — artist using his own words, clever animation and a stunning soundscape.

In place of standard documentary props like childhood photos and talking heads extolling a virtuous, saintly life, we encounter musically accented vignettes showing Uzzle interacting with his subjects while delivering voice-over analysis of his personal views on race, tolerance and culture.

The closest we get to a backstory is an intense retelling of a rookie Life magazine assignment photographing a 1960s Klan rally in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Neither Uzzle nor director Jethro Waters (a former Asheville resident) seems especially interested in specifics about craft or technique either, each opting for a more conceptual and abstract approach to the discussion of art and photography.

Uzzle is a pleasure to listen to as we watch him do what he does best.

Now in his 80s, the consummate professional is keenly aware of how his photographs — especially those from the 1960s and ’70s — helped shape perceptions of unrest in U.S. cities and the devastating effects of our foreign policy. He reflects on his art with profound sadness due to the horrors and

injustices he witnessed but maintains an appreciation for the beauty found within the humanity of his subjects.

From Woodstock to Cambodian refugee camps to roadside oddities, Uzzle captures hidden art wherever he goes, reflecting, “The veneer of civilization is razor thin.”

Whether you’ve heard Burk Uzzle’s name before or not, it’s likely you’ve seen his photographs — and won’t soon forget them. F11 and Be There isn’t just about the artist and his pictures, though. It’s about how art can be used to empower and to heal, and how one man has made it his life’s work to help in the best way he knows how. True to his philosophical outlook, Uzzle insists that it’s the artist’s job to create and reflect the momentum necessary for a truly just and kind world. “The artist must make the world better,” he says, and then makes us believe it’s possible.

haunts look like today is interesting but doesn’t correspond to the voiceover.

Perhaps if you’re well-versed in the biography, philosophy and artistic evolution of Monet, this Exhibition on Screen installment could offer you some fresh angles. But unlike most of the films in this series, there’s no actual exhibition to anchor the proceedings and no curators to provide expert analysis and historical context. It’s really just a series of spectacular paintings viewed while a man complains incessantly about his life.

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DIRECTOR: Werner Herzog PLAYERS: Bruce Chatwin, Werner Herzog, Karin Eberhard DOCUMENTARY NOT RATED

I, Claude Monet HH DIRECTOR: Phil Grabsky PLAYERS: Henry Goodman DOCUMENTARY NOT RATED The full title of this documentary about the French Impressionist painter could have been, I, Claude Monet, Ask You for Money. The film pieces together excerpts from Monet’s letters, from his 20s into his 80s, to recount the story of his life and works. Problem is, either Monet didn’t write much about how he came to be in each successive situation, much less about the thought process behind his work, or else the director, Phil Grabsky, chose passages that are curiously unilluminating.

Instead, the first-person narration is mostly pleas for cash. (Actor Henry Goodman does an admirable job providing Monet’s voice.)

Why isn’t Monet able to sell the paintings he churns out four at a time?

How does he get from Paris to London to Argenteuil (where many of his most famous works were created)? What was his relationship with his fellow artists who came to be known as the Impressionists — other than asking for handouts? Don’t expect any answers.

A deep dive into correspondence isn’t a terrible idea for approaching an artist, but Monet’s letters seem pedestrian and without self-reflection. So as both masterpieces and lesser-known paintings parade past, one after another (identified by title and date), we learn nothing new about any of them. The crisp, colorful footage of what Monet’s

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Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin HHHH

to learn about the people of those regions and the natural phenomena that surrounded them.

Filming those places from high above with drones gives the audience a view that Chatwin couldn’t have had physically. But the soaring perspectives provide an idea of what Chatwin saw in his mind and how he connected with the terrain on foot.

The gorgeous scenery and lingering views (which include the Welsh countryside that Chatwin so loved), accompanied by a hypnotic score, create a near-spiritual experience for the viewer, something Herzog surely intended.

The film would no doubt look great on a theatrical screen.

Nomad may not be a comprehensive biography of Chatwin, but he comes alive through this personal, heartfelt portrait of a creative life.

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With over 50 years of features and documentaries to his name, no filmmaker has a more fascinating body of work than Werner Herzog. His filmography is fueled by an insatiable curiosity about different times and cultures but also by the obsessions that drive men to embark upon often impossible quests.

Herzog spotted that same curiosity in novelist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin, in whose works he found a creative brother. Likewise, the writer felt a shared interest with Herzog through such films as Signs of Life and Fitzcarraldo.

“Chatwin was a writer like no other,” Herzog says. “He would craft mythical tales into voyages of the mind. In this respect, we found out we were kindred spirits. He as a writer, I as a filmmaker.”

With his latest documentary, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin, Herzog pays tribute to his fellow wandering soul. Rather than craft a biography of Chatwin, who died in 1989, at age 49, from complications related to AIDS, Herzog opts to show his deep admiration by going to the places that inspired the writer.

Chatwin was enthralled with foreign lands and cultures since childhood, beginning with a piece of animal skin that his grandmother claimed belonged to a brontosaurus. Finding where that artifact came from compelled Chatwin to write his first book, In Patagonia.

The writer continued that quest for knowledge, traveling to East and West Africa, Australia and southern England

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it’s modeled of baling wire and acne.

More commonly it wheezes and tips over.” Those words were written by Aries author Marge Piercy, who has been a fount of good new ideas in the course of her career. I regard her as an expert in generating wheezy, fragile breakthroughs and ultimately turning them into shiny, solid beacons of revelation. Your assignment in the coming weeks, Aries, is to do as Piercy has done so well.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Every day I discover even more beautiful things,” said painter Claude Monet. “It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all. My head is bursting.” That might seem like an extreme state to many of us. But Monet was a specialist in the art of seeing. He trained himself to be alert for exquisite sights. So his receptivity to the constant flow of loveliness came naturally to him. I bring this to your attention, Taurus, because I think that in the coming weeks, you could rise closer to a Monet-like level of sensitivity to beauty. Would that be interesting to you? If so, unleash yourself! Make it a priority to look for charm, elegance, grace, delight, and dazzlement.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Renata Adler describes a time in her life when she began to notice blue triangles on her feet. She was wracked with fear that they were a symptom of leukemia. But after a period of intense anxiety, she realized one fine day that they had a different cause. She writes: “Whenever I, walking barefoot, put out the garbage on the landing, I held the apartment door open, bending over from the rear. The door would cross a bit over the tops of my feet” — leaving triangular bruises. Upon realizing this very good news, she says, “I took a celebrational nap.” From what I can tell, Gemini, you’re due for a series of celebrational naps — both because of worries that turn out to be unfounded and because you need a concentrated period of recharging your energy reserves.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak,” proclaimed Cancerian author Lillian Hellman. I feel the same way. So often people have nothing interesting or important to say, but say it anyway. I’ve done that myself! The uninteresting and unimportant words I have uttered are too numerous to count. The good news for me and all of my fellow Cancerians is that in the coming weeks we are far more likely than usual to not speak until we are ready to speak. According to my analysis of the astrological potentials, we are poised to express ourselves with clarity, authenticity and maximum impact.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Of all the mournful impacts the pandemic has had, one of the most devastating is that it has diminished our opportunities to touch and be touched by other humans. Many of us are starved of the routine, regular contact we had previously taken for granted. I look forward to the time when we can again feel uninhibited about shaking hands, hugging and patting friends on the arm or shoulder. In the meantime, how can you cope? This issue is extra crucial for you Leos to meditate on right now. Can you massage yourself? Seek extra tactile contact with animals? Hug trees? Figure out how to physically connect with people while wearing hazmat suits, gloves, masks and face shields? What else?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible,” says singer-songwriter Holly Near. “It requires training as well as magic.” How are you doing on that score, Virgo? Now is a favorable time to intensify your long-term art project of creating the healthiest, smartest version of yourself. I think it will feel quite natural and not-at-all impossible.

In the coming weeks, you’ll have a finely tuned intuitive sense of how to proceed with flair.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I propose we resurrect the old English word “museful.” First used in the 17th century but then forgotten, it meant “deeply thoughtful; pensive.” In our newly coined use, it refers to a condition wherein a person is abundantly inspired by the presence of the muse. I further suggest that we invoke this term to apply to you Libras in the coming weeks. You potentially have a high likelihood of intense communion with your muses. There’s also a good chance you’ll engage with a new muse or two. What will you do with all of this illumination and stimulation?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Each of us has a “soul’s code”: a metaphorical blueprint of the beautiful person we could become by fulfilling our destiny. If our soul’s code remains largely dormant, it will agitate and disorient us. If, on the other hand, we perfectly actualize our soul’s code, we will feel at home in the world; all our experiences will feel meaningful. The practical fact is that most of us have made some progress in manifesting our soul’s code, but still have a way to go before we fully actualize it. Here’s the good news: You Scorpios are in a phase of your cycle when you could make dramatic advances in this glorious work.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules,” observes Sagittarian author Ashleigh Brilliant. According to my research, you have made excellent progress in this quest during the last few weeks — and will continue your good work in the next six weeks. Give yourself an award! Buy yourself a trophy! You have discovered at least two rules that were previously unknown to you, and you have also ripened your understanding of another rule that had previously been barely comprehensible. Be alert for more breakthroughs.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer,” said rambunctious activist and author John Perry Barlow. Adding to his formulation, I’ll say that if you want to be a successful explorer, it’s crucial to get lost on some occasions. And according to my analysis, now is just such a time for you Capricorns. The new territory you have been brave enough to reconnoiter should be richly unfamiliar. The possibilities you have been daring enough to consider should be provocatively unpredictable. Keep going, my dear! That’s the best way to become un-lost.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you,” said psychic Sylvia Browne. She was referring to the mysterious stories that unfold in our minds as we sleep. I agree with her assessment of dreams’ power to show us who we really are all the way down to the core of our souls. What Browne didn’t mention, however, is that it takes knowledge and training to become proficient in deciphering dreams’ revelations.

Their mode of communication is unique — and unlike every other source of teaching. I bring this up, Aquarius, because the coming months will be a favorable time for you to become more skilled in understanding your dreams.

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Time to file is limited. Call Now! 844-896-8216 (AAN CAN) NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, MADISON COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Lora D. Cody, dated August 28, 2009, recorded on August 31, 2009 in Book 487, Page 493 of the Madison County Public Registry conveying certain real property in Madison County to MTNBK, LTD, Trustee, for the benefit of Carolina First Bank.

Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on September 8, 2020, at 12:00 PM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Madison County, North Carolina, to wit: LYING AND BEING in No. 3 Township, Madison County, North Carolina adjoining the right of way of Highway 213 and being more particularly described as follows: BEGINNING on an iron pipe set (no. 5 rebar) in the southeastern edge of the right of way of Highway 213 and in a common corner of property now or formerly owned

by John O. Tilson as described in a deed recorded in the Madison County, North Carolina Registry in Deed Book 119, Page 435, said iron pipe is located N 58 07 59 E. 4.75 feet from a State Right of Way Monument, and run thence from the beginning point herein established and with the southeastern edge of the right of way of Highway 213, N 58 07 59 E 308.92 feet to an iron pipe set in the southeastern edge of said right of way of Highway 213 and in a common corner of property now or formerly owned

by Simon E. Lipsky and wife, Carol K. Lipsky, as described in a deed recorded in the Madison County, North Carolina Registry in Deed Book 172, Page 725, which said iron pipe is located S 58 07 59 W 248.29 feet from a State Right of Way Monument; thence leaving the right of way of said Highway 213 and running with the line of said property now or formerly owned

by Lipsky, S 28 53 56 E 21.86 feet to a point in the center of small branch; thence leaving said branch and continuing with the line of said property now or formerly owned by Lipsky as follows: S 50 15 00 E 21.83

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feet to an existing 3/4 inch iron pipe with pinched top; S 50 15 00 E 81.45 feet to an existing 1/2 inch iron pipe with pinched top; S 26 03 00 E 96.07 feet to an existing 1/2 inch iron pipe with pinched top; S 02 50 00 W 92.83 feet to an existing 1/2 inch iron pipe with pinched top; S 03 02 00 E 141.96 feet to an existing 1/2 inch iron pipe with pinched top; S 35 30 00 E 120.79 feet to an existing 1/2 inch iron pipe with pinched top; S 69 48 00 E 255.60 feet to an existing 3/4 inch iron pipe with pinched top at dry spring; N 59 28 00 E 68.04 feet to an existing 3/4 inch iron pipe with pinched top 4 poles above said spring; thence continuing with the line of said property now or formerly owned

by Lipsky, S 09 20 00 E 393.33 feet to an existing 3/4 inch iron pipe with pinched top in a common corner of property now or formerly owned

by Arthur Thomason as described in a deed recorded in the Madison County, North Carolina Registry in Deed Book 93, Page1, which said iron pipe is located S 69 43 09 W 159.87 feet from an existing 3/4 inch iron pipe with pinched top; thence running with the line of said property now or formerly owned by Thomason and with a fence, S 24 06 04 W 483.28 feet to an existing 3/4 inch iron water pipe in a common corner of property now or formerly owned by Harry H. Ledford as described in deed recorded in the Madison County, North Carolina Registry in Deed Book 124, Page 682, said iron water pipe being located at the terminus of the 4th call described in said deed recorded in said Registry in Deed Book 124, Page 682; thence running with the line of said property now or formerly owned by Ledford and with a fence, N 42 57 38 W 326.50 feet to an iron pipe set (No. 5 Rebar) in common corner of property now or formerly owned by John O. Tilson as described in said deed recorded in the Madison County, North Carolina Registry in Deed

9 Things finished with handshakes 14 Specifically 15 Certain craft beer, for short Book 119, Page 435; thence running with the line of said property now or formerly owned by Tilson and with a fence as follows: N 18 37 38 W 755.92 feet to a 36-inch dead white oak; N 32 04 49 W 317.37 feet crossing said small branch to the point of BEGINNING, containing 10.917 acres, more or less. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 10.91 Acres Cascade Street Off Highway 213, Mars Hill, NC 28754; Parcel ID: 9747-54-0192 A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, payable to Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, PLLC, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing.

Third party purchasers must pay the excise tax and THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to any and all superior liens, including taxes and special assessments. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Lora D. Cody. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.29, in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale,

46 Things often found near 16 Something that is cloverleafs bid 47 Cause of ruin 17 Animal known scientifically as 48 Post-___ (some Alces alces hosp. patients) terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination [N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16(b)(2)].

Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Bell Carrington & Price, PLLC, Substitute Trustee ___ _______________________________ , Attorney Aaron Seagroves, NCSB No. 50979 W. Harris, NCSB No. 48633 5550 77 Center Drive, Suite 100 Charlotte, NC 28217 PHONE: 980-201-3840 File No.: 19-42983 RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH LUNG CANCER AND 60+ YEARS OLD? Call now! You and your family may be entitled to a SIGNIFICANT CASH AWARD. Call 844-269-1881 today. Free Consultation. No Risk. (AAN CAN)

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