November Volunteer of the Month Our Volunteer of the Month, Chad Ledford, was born and raised in Black Mountain and has worked for JHA healthcare management group for about 20 years. Chad provides a secondary market for books we are unable to sell in our bookstore. He furnishes these books to residents of health care…
Melisa Pressley Wins NCLA Award Black Mountain’s own Melisa Pressley was recently presented with the North Carolina Library Association’s prestigious Leadership Institute Award. This competitive award, announced at the 65th NCLA Biennial Conference, recognized her work developing a program to start a new library association that will represent the western district of our state. In Melisa’s…
Business Sponsorship Opportunities The Black Mountain Friends of the Library plays a crucial role in supporting and enhancing the programs and services offered by our library, providing funds in areas not budgeted by the county. In the past year, FOL has supported many programs including a wonderful reading at the library with the North Carolina…
NaNoWriMo Come Write-In! November is National Novel Writing Month! What does that entail exactly? The challenge is to write 50,000 words of a novel during the thirty days of November. The Black Mountain Library is here to keep away writer’s block! We will open our Community Room for all interested writers and we’ll have a…
NC Poet Laureate Visits Black Mountain Library The Black Mountain Library was honored to welcome Jaki Shelton Green, the North Carolina Poet Laureate, on Tuesday, October 4 for an evening of reading and conversation. Community members gathered to listen to her powerful poetry contextualized with her reminiscences and stories. Over an hour-long program, Ms. Green…
A Stitch in Crime – New Tuesday Afternoon Program in October Calling all yarn artists and True Crime fans. Grab your knitting needles, crochet hooks, and embroidery needles and join us at the Black Mountain Library! We’ll listen to a True Crime podcast and work on our yarn projects. This is not intended to be an…
An Evening with Jaki Shelton Green, Oct 3 at 6pm Don’t miss a reading and conversation with Jaki Shelton Green, Poet Laureate of North Carolina on Tuesday, October 3 from 6-7:30pm in the Black Mountain Library’s Community Room. This special event is sponsored by the Friends of the Library and is free and open to…
Local History Program focuses on the RAIL Project
Diving Deeper: A Reading List to Accompany At the River documentary If you would like to learn more about the topics and discussions covered in the At The River project the library has resources for you. Recommended reads in the Cardinal system available through the Buncombe County Libraries to accompany the At The River project. Joel Alvis: Religion and Race (1994)David Chappell: A Stone…
It Takes a Village (of Volunteers) If you’ve visited Lake Tomahawk recently you’ve probably noticed the new ‘Story Stations’ located along the pathway encircling the lake. On June 10th the ‘Greenways Read Out Loud Walking (GROW) Trail’ was dedicated at a joyous celebration with over 100 in attendance. GROW showcases what will become a rotating…