Lots of exclamation points here. Must be important. Press release:
ASHEVILLE, NC — The Asheville Art Museum invites you to have the most enjoyable holiday shopping trip yet at the Holiday Shopping Extravaganza in Pack Place Community Gallery Tuesday – Sunday, November 17 – 22, 2009 during regular Museum hours.
Come discover the perfect place to find unique gifts for the holidays! The Asheville Art Museum is holding its annual Holiday Shopping Extravaganza in the Pack Place Community Gallery. Browse through work by local artists, jewelry, children’s books and games and more.
What’s new this year?
More works by local artists! Find stocking stuffers, functional gifts and fine art.
A gift wrapping station! Get your holiday gifts wrapped free of cost by the artsy Museum volunteers (donations will be accepted).
A book sale! This is the largest book sale in Asheville Art Museum history with 20% off all books, including children’s books, art books, art history books, artist biographies and much, much more. Give the gift of a great read to the bookworm on your list — or just find the perfect book for you!
Book signings by local authors! Tim Barnwell will sign books on Friday, November 20 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., Anna Fariello will sign books on Saturday, November 21 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. and Andrea Clark will sign books on Sunday, November 22 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Crafts + Cocktails! Join us on Friday, November 20 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. for holiday cocktails and crafts with Sue Millions!
Find a fantastic gift for everyone on your list as you enjoy complimentary cookies and hot cider. Get in the holiday spirit and support local artists and your Asheville Art Museum as you shop in style!
The Museum will offer 20% off all sales for our Members Friday, November 20. Remember, the gift of art is always appreciated! Museum Memberships are available at several levels. Members enjoy parties, opening receptions, admission to the Museum, films, lectures and more.
Be sure to visit the Museum’s exciting new exhibitions while you are here.
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Look into the politics of the I-40 corridor.
There are some aspects of I-40 that would have prevented the recurrent failures in the "Gorge". I-40 was originally scheduled to follow the path of 25-70 and in doing so would have been a path far less costly and certainly less dangerous in the years that followed the 1968 opening of the final section.
Back in the 1960’s W. Curtis Russ was the wealthy owner of the Mountaineer Newspaper and as I recall the stories from older residents of the county, Mr. Russ was either a member of the the DOT board or was in some was heavily connected to the decision makers of the day. Seeing the incredible value in having a section of coast to coast interstate running through the county was incentive enough for political pressures to be applied in the right places and viola interstate through a rock-pile.
The story continues that geologists studying the strata through the gorge section felt strongly that the road should be built on the south side of the pigeon river due to the fact that doing this would create a self supporting rock face based again on the strata of the rock formations.
I was young when the interstate opened in 1968 and all of what I have related here is based on the recollection of my parents and their friends told over the years that followed as accidents and slides kept occurring and memories fresh.
I later became an emergency responder, responding to emergencies in the Gorge. I was there in the 1980’s when a slide collapsed a portion of one of the tunnels and have been there for countless other slide related emergencies. Although the slides miraculously haven’t resulted in death, there have been many smaller slides and large rocks that have killed people.
In the end what I have said here is meaningless and most of those involved in the political decisions related to bad planning, bad construction and failed engineering are now dead
Perhaps in an abstract way it serves as an "I told you so" on behalf of wiser minds of that time, the engineers that tried to warn politicians of their folly. Hundreds of millions and many lives would have been saved if a safer roadway had been built.