by Dale Wayne Slusser – January 2026 The urgent need for more housing for veterans returning home at the close of World War II was both a national and local crisis. In February of 1946, President Harry Truman gained bipartisan approval from Congress for what... 
by Dale Wayne Slusser December 9, 2025 O, give back Swannanoa The joys of yesterday That wrought a mystic aura About your winding way. -Mary Finch Hurricane Helene and its resultant catastrophic flooding wreaked havoc along the banks of the Swannanoa River in... 
by Dale Wayne Slusser Asheville, North Carolina, founded in the 1790’s in the mountains of Western North Carolina, remained remote and rather inaccessible well into the latter half of the nineteenth-century. And although promoted as a “health resort”, beginning in... 
by Dale Wayne Slusser And smiling fields of golden corn, The mountains and the vales adorn, And fruits and beauteous flowers grow, Upon the banks of Swannano! –W.[1] The site of the Cloisters Condominiums along the north bank of the Swannanoa River, and parts... 
by Dale Wayne Slusser “Governor -elect Locke Craig within the next few weeks, will begin the erection of a modern country home on his property on the Swannanoa River.” -Asheville Citizen-Times, January 9, 1913. In 1949, North Carolina erected a historical marker... 
by Dale Wayne Slusser Swannanoa, nymph of beauty, I would woo thee in my rhyme; Wildest, brightest, loveliest river, Of sunny Southern clime! Over... 
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