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Asheville

(ăsh`vəl, –vĭl), city (1990 pop. 61,607), seat of Buncombe co., W N.C., on the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers and on a plateau in the Blue Ridge Mts.; inc. 1797. Near Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Pisgah National Forest, Asheville is a popular resort, convention, and tourist center. The city is also a financial, transportation, and retail center for W North Carolina. Tobacco is processed and marketed; textiles, electronic equipment, paper, food, auto parts, and glass products are made. The Vanderbilt estate, Biltmore ("America's largest house"), is among numerous recreational and scenic attractions. The home of writer Thomas WolfeWolfe, Thomas Clayton,
1900–1938, American novelist, b. Asheville, N.C., grad. Univ. of North Carolina, 1920, M.A. Harvard, 1922. An important 20th-century American novelist, Wolfe wrote four mammoth novels, which, while highly autobiographical, present a sweeping picture
..... Click the link for more information. and the Univ. of North Carolina at Asheville are in the city, and the Eastern Cherokee reservation lies to the west.

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Performers of all persuasions keep the rhythm going in Asheville. Rooted in old-time mountain tunes, ancestral Cherokee traditions, and the jigs of Scots-Irish settlers who took refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the local music scene is timeless--and always spinning in new directions.

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We are angry that, even with all the efforts to improve relationships between the police and the community, even with an improved use of force policy, this could still happen here.  And we are furious that no one thought that we - Asheville's elected leaders - needed to know about this incident."

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For the past 15 years he has served as Operations Manager for Asheville along with Program Director of WKSF.

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Foxwell's section on Wolfe in Chapel Hill (128-31) is almost as long as the Asheville section.