BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Asheville Museum of History - ECPv6.1.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Asheville Museum of History X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://wnchistory.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Asheville Museum of History REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220113T190000 DTSTAMP:20240328T174500 CREATED:20211124T163053Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211130T210219Z UID:9647-1642096800-1642100400@wnchistory.org SUMMARY:WNCHA History Hour: African American Music Traditions in WNC DESCRIPTION:Dr. William Turner and Dr. Ted Olson discuss African American musical contributions to WNC in this live Zoom webinar.\n\n\nJoin the Western North Carolina Historical Association (WNCHA) Thursday\, January 13 at 6PM as we kick off our 2022 lineup of programming. This event airs live via Zoom. \nThe mountains of WNC and Appalachia are home to rich\, ongoing musical traditions\, most commonly thought of as Scots-Irish in origin. Yet\, African Americans have played a largely unrecognized role in creating and expanding the musical landscape of the region\, introducing or shaping instruments\, songs\, and genres. From fiddle\, banjo\, and guitar tunes\, the work songs of the incarcerated laborers who built the WNC Railroad\, to the more famous Roberta Flack and Nina Simone\, our special guest will discuss the musical contributions of African Americans in the mountains. \nAbout the Speakers: \nWilliam H. Turner\, PhD\, the fifth of ten children\, was born in 1946 in the coal town of Lynch\, Kentucky\, in Harlan County. His grandfathers\, father\, four uncles and older brother were coal miners. \nBill has spent his professional career studying and working on behalf of marginalized communities\, helping them create opportunities in the larger world while not abandoning their important cultural ties. He is best-known for his ground-breaking research on African-American communities in Appalachia\, but Bill’s work is universal. As an academic and a consultant\, he has studied economic systems and social structures in the urban South and burgeoning Latino communities in the Southwest. What he strives for on behalf of his clients and their communities is what we all want: prosperity\, understanding and respect. \nDr. Turner co-edited the seminal 1985 anthology Blacks in Appalachia and recently published The Harlan Renaissance: A Memoir of Black Lives in Appalachian Coal Towns. He is also the co-host of Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music – a podcast featuring himself and Dr. Ted Olson. \nDr. Ted Olson is a professor of Appalachian Studies and Bluegrass\, Old-Time and Country Music Studies at East Tennessee State University. \nOlson has received a range of recognition for his work as a music historian\, including seven Grammy nominations. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Southern studies and has produced and curated a number of documentary albums of Appalachian music\, including four boxed sets for Germany’s acclaimed Bear Family Records label (complete recordings from the 1927-1928 Bristol Sessions\, from the 1928-1929 Johnson City Sessions\, and from the 1929-1930 Knoxville Sessions\, as well as a compilation of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s early recordings); four albums for the Gatlinburg-based Great Smoky Mountains Association; Rhino Records’ 50th anniversary edition of a seminal Elektra/Folkways 1960s-era folk music anthology; and a forthcoming retrospective collection of Doc Watson’s greatest recordings. \nAdditionally\, Olson has written or edited numerous books centered around Appalachian music and folklore\, along with numerous articles\, essays\, encyclopedia entries\, reviews\, poems\, creative nonfiction pieces\, and oral histories. He was also music section editor for the “Encyclopedia of Appalachia\,” and has served as book series editor for the Charles K. Wolfe Music Series (University of Tennessee Press) since 2008. He is presently co-producer and co-host of the six-part podcast series for the Great Smoky Mountain Association\, “Sepia Tones: Exploring Black Appalachian Music.” \n\n  \n\nTickets: $5 for WNCHA members/ $10 for General Admission. We also have no-cost\, community-funded tickets available. We want our events to be accessible to as many people as possible. If you are able please consider making a donation along with your ticket purchase. These donations are placed in our Community Fund\, which allows us to offer tickets at no cost to those who would not be able to attend otherwise. \nViewing: Registrants will receive a Zoom link with which to view the program. It will also be recorded and later available on our website. \nWestern North Carolina Historical Association received an American Rescue Plan Humanities Grant from North Carolina Humanities\, www.nchumanities.org. Funding for this grant was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act economic stabilization plan. Any views\, findings\, conclusions\, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of North Carolina Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities. URL:https://wnchistory.org/event/wncha-presents-dr-william-turner-on-african-american-music-traditions-in-wnc/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wnchistory.org/wp-content/uploads/Logo-5.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220120T200000 DTSTAMP:20240328T174500 CREATED:20220106T174122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220111T193959Z UID:10366-1642701600-1642708800@wnchistory.org SUMMARY:WNCHA Presents: Vaccines and Public Health in WNC - Past and Present DESCRIPTION:Join the Western North Carolina Historical Association (WNCHA) Thursday January 20 from 6:30-8PM as we bring you this special event. This free program airs live via Zoom and will be recorded. \nThree historians will discuss past pandemics and public health crises—including smallpox\, polio\, and the 1918 flu— in WNC and Appalachia. They are joined by two immunologists and professors of biology who will address Covid-19\, vaccines\, and our current pandemic response. They will answer audience questions in a moderated session afterward. \nThis event is brought to you with special support from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UNC-Asheville. \nTickets: This event is free and open to the public – donations are accepted. Registration is required. Participants will receive a Zoom link via email to join. \nContact: For questions or more information\, please email education@wnchistory.org \n  \nOur Speakers: \nDavid Cockrell is an instructor of history at Guilford Technical Community College. His research and publications include “’A Blessing in Disguise’: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and North Carolina’s Medical and Public Health Communities” published in the North Carolina Historical Review. He will discuss the similarities between the 1918 flu and the current Covid-19 pandemic. \nPatricia Bernard Ezzell serves as a Senior Program Manager in TVA’s Human Resources & Communications organization. Ms. Ezzell serves as the agency’s expert regarding the history of TVA and is the primary contact person for information pertaining to TVA’s past.  She maintains and curates TVA’s Historic Photograph Collection and provides input to questions of historical significance. Her presentation is entitled: “A Shot in the Arm: TVA’s Investment in Disease Prevention.” She is the author of several articles as well as two books on TVA history: TVA Photography: Thirty Years of Life in the Tennessee Valley and TVA Photography\, 1963-2008: Challenges and Changes in the Tennessee Valley\, both published by the University Press of Mississippi. She served as historical consultant on the documentary film\, Built for the People: The Story of TVA and has contributed to other media specials\, most recently the WBIR history on the building of Norris Dam\, For the Greater Good. \nRichard Eller is a historian deeply interested in the events that shaped western North Carolina. As a writer and documentarian\, he has covered the subjects of the 1944 Polio Epidemic\, as well as one of NC’s most famous homegrown companies\, Piedmont Airlines. Currently\, he is producing/directing a documentary on an African-American high school football team\, known as the Untouchables for their shutout season of 1964\, and a comprehensive history of the western North Carolina furniture industry. He was named the 2021 Historian of the Year by the NC Society of Historians and currently serves as director of Redhawk Publications\, a unique initiative of Catawba Valley Community College that offers an outlet for artisans in the region. He also oversees CVCC’s “HandsOnHistory” project which leads student learning in history by taking students to pivotal sites which have included Selma\, Alabama\, Gettysburg\, Pennsylvania\, Philadelphia and the American Southwest. \nDr. Maryam Ahmed is a Professor of Biology at Appalachian State University. She received her Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology at Wake Forest School of Medicine in the area of Molecular Virology\, and her postdoctoral training at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Viral Pathogenesis. She joined the faculty at Appalachian State University in 2010 and has a research program focused on developing oncolytic viruses as anti-cancer agents and investigating the mechanisms by which viruses interact with cancer and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. Dr. Ahmed’s presentation will concentrate on concepts of viral variant emergence and what scientists expect for the evolution of SARS-CoV-2. \nDr. Michael Opata is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Appalachian State University. He trained as an immunologist at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and did a postdoctoral fellowship in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston\, Texas. His research program at App state focuses on understanding how moderate malnutrition influence mucosal immunity\, and the development of memory CD4 T cells during malaria infection. Together with a team of undergraduates and graduate students\, he has established a neonatal mouse model\, which is essential in understanding malaria pathogenesis in young children\, who are most vulnerable to malarial disease. Dr. Opata’s presentation will focus on how vaccines work to protect people against infectious diseases. He will also include data on how the first batch of COVID-19 vaccination efforts averted high death rates between January to May 2020. \n\n\n\n\n(Images: Highland Hospital nurse and patient\, 1940\, and Dr. John Kerr making a house call in the 1950s\, courtesy Buncombe County Special Collections; Modern vaccination\, 2021\, Photo courtesy of Western Carolina University) \n  \n  \nWestern North Carolina Historical Association received an American Rescue Plan Humanities Grant from North Carolina Humanities\, www.nchumanities.org. Funding for this grant was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act economic stabilization plan. Any views\, findings\, conclusions\, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of North Carolina Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities. \n \n  URL:https://wnchistory.org/event/wncha-presents-vaccines-and-public-health-in-wnc-past-and-present/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Webinar ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://wnchistory.org/wp-content/uploads/Vaccine-Flyer.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR