This week the West Asheville MDS site was bustling with the addition of the North Carolina Bridges group of 11 men along with the 10 men and women serving with the West Asheville MDS group. One of the yearlong volunteers, Mary Joyce Wise, has...
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The RSAA building that we are renovating was built in 1921, so when carpet was removed from a back staircase to reveal 100-year-old wood stairs, the hope was that they could be restored to their former glory. The task was a bit daunting with the...
The week started out with a major setback when it was discovered during an inspection that all the wiring for the newly finished HVAC system needed to be replaced in order to pass inspection. By midweek, the ceilings were once again opened and wiring...
This week we celebrated Carl and Laura Dube’s 4 months of service in West Asheville and tried to absorb in 2 days all that they had learned and initiated in 4 months! The changes in the physical building since May are profound as are the many...
Shady Grove The first time I heard the song “Shady Grove” was on a Doc Watson vinyl record, back in the early 1970’s. The song is one of those traditional mountain music melodies that have no record of who wrote it. It seems to have always...
In 2016 Carrie Newcomer released the album “The Beautiful Not Yet” which contained the song “You Can Do This Hard Thing.” By that time Newcomer was a well established poet – singer – songwriter whose words and music carried a...
I have camped under the stars in a lot of places over my 76 years, from the banks of the Guadalupe River in Texas, to the shores of Lake Guri in Venezuela and up near timberline in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains of Colorado. When waking up outdoors...
I am partial to songs that originate in Texas, but I admit that many great songs come from other places. Will Kimbrough, born in southern Alabama, growing up with the traffic and ideas flowing along US 90, the Gulf Coast Highway, has written songs...
This week’s work was driveway and road repair for several families. The crews are experienced road builders and they worked hard completing projects. Work involved digging out and installing new culverts, grading roads and cleaning up debris...