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Southern Trip, 2018

Eight people standing in a line in front of a red painted house. The grass they are standing on and the plants at the base of the house in the background are green.

The WPAMC Experience: 5 from 5 in 5

Craft in Asheville, North Carolina

A photograph of an armchair displayed in the Dianne H. Furr Moravian Decorative Arts Gallery at the Frank L. Horton Museum Center. The armchair has dark wooden arms, legs, and front chair rail. The leather on the seat appears dark and worn. The leather on the backrest appears lighter in color than that on the seat. Small brass tacks hold the leather to the wood.

Leather as a By-Product: Moravian Edition

Standing on the back steps of the main building of Aiken-Rhett House, one looks into a courtyard of trees framed by two neutral-colored dependency buildings. On the left stands the two-level dependency containing a coach house, and on the right stands the two-level dependency containing quarters for the enslaved individuals working at the house in the antebellum period.

Interpreting & Preserving Lives of the Enslaved in Antebellum Charleston

A close-up view shows an intricately carved wooden crown molding with heavily worn blue-green paint.

Empty Rooms and Layers of Paint: The Beauty of Preserve-As-Found

In a landscape of several tall pines and a dirt track between grass are four buildings in the distance. On the left are a church and dwelling with a porch, while on the right is a dwelling with a porch and a cabin without a porch. All buildings are painted white with rusting, white-painted metal roofs. Brick chimneys are visible on the two dwellings on the right.

Between the Waters: A Northerner’s Epiphany About Sense of Place

Of Bridges and Valleys and Taking the Road More Traveled

Looking up from the ground floor through the center of a oblong-shaped spiral staircase to the third floor, showing a medallion on the ceiling of the top floor.

Lunchtime Reflections from the Nathaniel Russell House

image of Shady Grove Methodist Campground. At least 13 concrete and wooden cabins on the right, extending into the distance

Camp Meetings: A Continued Tradition

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