Month: January 2015

Here is the link to their timeline:   https://theworldwar.org/explore/interactive-wwi-timeline   Read more →

My girlfriend and I drove around frosty Asheville on Saturday morning, coffees in hands, past some of the older areas of town, and stopped at Overlook Castle.  The house was built by Fred Seely, Jr., who in 1912 worked with Edwin Wiley Grove to build the Grove Park Inn, here in Asheville, North Carolina.  Conversely, the castle at Overlook was… Read more →

    “Valley of the Shadow” Pros: Homepage is simple: allows users to distill information without feeling overwhelmed, virtual blueprint helps create spatial familiarity, simplicity of design to access well-employed empirical data Cons: Statistics could benefit from highlighting of important information, it seems slightly anti-Southern, almost no interaction (Hospitality?) Takeaways: It feels like walking through a cold, dusty house.  … Read more →

Hello, world. I am the ‘colleague.’  Ashley did a great job explaining what we have done towards the project so far.  I will echo her thoughts on Gene, our school’s archivist.  He and Colin in the UNCA Special Collections couldn’t be more accommodating and eager to provide support with our research.  I can see a network starting to take shape:… Read more →

Well, hello.  My name is Benjamin and I am a history major at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.  I have lived in the Lowcountry of South Carolina, on Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas, in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco, but my home has always been North Carolina.  It is such a unique state: from the sea oats… Read more →