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Hendersonville Life

City invites public input on Clear Creek Greenway Tuesday

The city of Hendersonville is hosting a public input meeting on the proposed Clear Creek Greenway from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 16, in the City Operations Center, 305 Williams Street.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

David Rhode is on a roll as student president of WCU

Answering a call on his cell phone from his hometown newspaper editor, David Rhode declared that “my head’s spinning 3,000 miles an hour.”   Read Story »

Henderson County Life

'A dream come true': Commissioners unanimously endorse greenway plan

One county commissioner called the potential for countywide greenways "a dream come true" to enhance quality of life and serve children. Another marveled at the broad support across business, education and recreation. A third described a countywide greenway network as potentially as important a development as Jackson Park and Blue Ridge Community College.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

Governor reappoints Eisenhauer to N.C. cancer committee

Pardee UNC Health Care surgeon Thomas Eisenhauer has been reappointed by Gov. Roy Cooper to the North Carolina Advisory Committee on Cancer Coordination and Control.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning (208)

Don't miss this week's Hendersonville Lightning.   Read Story »

Flat Rock Life

New kids on the Rock

FLAR ROCK — The first goat kids of the season, triplet Toggenburg bucks, were born at Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site on Tuesday. They were originally due on March 17, so Irish themed names — Brennan, Brady, and Breck —  were chosen for them. Following the tradition of how Mrs. Sandburg named her goats, offspring names start with the first letter of the mom’s name. These triplets were born to Babs, a Toggenburg doe. Visitors are welcome to see the new kids at the barn, which is open 7 days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is just the start of kidding season at Connemara Farms. Four more does are due between now and May 9. For parking options when you arrive, please visit www.nps.gov/carl/planyourvisit/parking.htm. Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site is a unit of the National Park Service. The park is located three miles south of Hendersonville off U.S. 225 on Little River Road, and is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., daily except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day. For further information please telephone 828-693-4178, or visit our website at:   Read Story »

Flat Rock Life

Flat Rock Park Foundation hires new fundraiser

The Flat Rock Park & Recreation Foundation has hired Tracey Daniels as its new director of development, replacing Maurean Adams.   Read Story »

Hendersonville Life

Inez Norman, longest serving city police employee, dies at 88

Inez Norman, who started her career as a jail matron in 1965 and continued working for the Hendersonville Police Department for 53 years, died Tuesday at age 88, the police department said.   Read Story »

Flat Rock Life

Ask Matt ... about Dylan's visit with Sandburg

 Q. I heard that Bob Dylan once came to Flat Rock to meet Carl Sandburg. Is there any truth in that? Absolutely. Two years ago Thomas Crowe wrote about that meeting in the Smoky Mountain News. His source was Sandburg’s housekeeper at Connemara who some 37 years ago shared details of the event with Crowe. It was February of 1964, when Bob Dylan had just released his second album titled The Times They Are A-Changin’. He was on an unannounced mission to Flat Rock to meet the man that had inspired his own poetry and songwriting. Dylan appeared at the Sandburg home with a copy of the new album under his arm and asked to speak with Mr. Sandburg. “I am a poet; my name is Robert Dylan,” said the visitor. Crowe recounts that the two sat in chairs on Sandburg’s front porch and Dylan told the 89-year-old Sandburg how he admired his work and what an influence he had been. “Sandburg listened quietly and acknowledged Dylan’s praise and accepted the gift of the album and told Dylan that he had much work to do that day and had to get back to it, sending Dylan on his way.” There are a few related pieces that I found in a 1972 Rolling Stone biographical piece on Dylan by Anthony Scaduto. He chronicles the road trip Dylan and three others made from New York City to Flat Rock and thereafter points south and west. “The drive down had been uneventful, which is surprising considering that they were all stoned,” relates Scaduto. After spending the first night in Charlottesville, Virginia, they headed for Flat Rock and arrived late in the afternoon. Dylan got directions to Sandburg’s home from a mountain man at a gas station. There was some confusion because the man only knew Sandburg as a goat farmer, not a poet in residence. The meeting was brief, probably just ten minutes. Dylan was miffed that Sandburg never heard of him so when he got back to the car Dylan took a puff from a joint. After Flat Rock, Dylan’s entourage made more stops in the South and ended the sojourn in San Francisco. Ron Partin, who volunteers at the Sandburg Home, said that he occasionally shares the story with visitors, particularly if they ask about Sandburg the song writer. Officials at the Home said the Dylan album was not in their inventory. Maybe someone can contact Dylan and have him autograph another for the collection.  * * * * * Send questions to askmattm@gmail.com.         Read Story »

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