Asheville Citizen-Times from Asheville, North Carolina • Page D1

reenville loves Broadway. That much is certain. Following up on a banner season of Broadway shows, Peace Center has scheduled an unprecedented nine musicals next year seven shows as a part of its egular series, plus two special return engagements. is the Peace biggest eason said Megan Riegel, president and CEO of the Peace Center. Peace Center turns 25 this ear, and rewarding to know our Broadway audiences have grown to the point that they can sustain this level of she said.

Among the highlights of the 2015-16 eason are two recent Broadway hits with an emphasis on youthful gumption: and he The season reflects a wide spectrum Broadway shows: from newer mu- BROADWAY BLOCKBUSTERS Peace 2015-16 lineup i ncludes and nine shows i all BY PAUL HYDE Want to see a show? Tickets for the TD Stage vents are now on sale by calling 800-888-7768 or visiting the box office or www.peacecenter.org. For more information about the Peace Center and its upcoming events, visit www.peacecenter.org. A dditional shows will be announced at a later date. JOAN TO C-T At top, the Jackson Five is emembered in the DEEN VAN TO THE CITIZEN-TIMES Newsies stars Dan Deluca, Steve Blanchard, Stephanie Styles, Angela Grovey, Jacob Kemp, Zachary Sayle, Anthony Rosenthal, Vincent Crocilla a nd Matthew J. Schechter are among those taking the stage.The North A merican tour premiere is Oct.

30 in Philadelphia. ootleg whiskey and golf are undermining religion, B. Frank White, a traveling preacher, told a harlotte audience on June 2, 1926. The sermon was reported in the Asheville Citizen the next day. The trouble with your White said, that you have too many azy old worthless drones trying to bluff their way into heaven They go to church on Sunday morning and look anctimonious for half an hour, and then they go out to chase a golf ball or a ottle of That stung.

Asheville was in the idst of a golf golden age. Donald Ross, amed designer of Pinehurst No. 2 and the Biltmore Country Club golf course, was at work on the Asheville Municipal Golf Course and the course at the Count ry Club of Asheville. He had also been enlisted to build fairways for a new subdivision in Bent Creek called Stradley Mountain Park. the Stradley developers declaimed, dividing the Age of Man into classifications such as tone Age, Fire Age, might well designate the present century as the olf Captains of industry and commerce confer and recuperate on greens, the ad advised, and Man of requires his field of dreams nearby.

he poetic developer was Laurel Park Estates, the Florida group that ould soon abandon construction of the leetwood Hotel in Hendersonville when the Depression hit Florida early, leaving as a memorial 13 stories of steel framework on Jumpoff Mountain. A 1926. Enthusiasm was high in Asheville in the late spring of 1926, as several developments Royal Pines, Malvern Hills, ake View Park, Beverly Hills, Mountain Meadows, Grovemont, Hollywood (in Fairview) and Fontainebleu (in Ken ilworth) were selling land to beat the band. June 1, Edwin Wiley Grove sold 500 acres adjoining the Asheville Country Club to Arthur M. Griffing of Miami or $1million.

Griffing also bought a whole block in Beaver Lake for his A sheville residence and 14,000 acres south of Hendersonville for Pinnacle ark Estates (which did not materi- a lize). north Asheville development, which spread from the corner of Kimberly Avenue and Beaverdam oad up to Patton Mountain, was graced with the name Miami Heights. A full-page ad announced sales in the Asheville Citizen on June 2. oosters tied the home-buying impulse to every strong sentiment and belief at hand. Between 1865 and an Asheville Citizen editorial reflected on May 2 9, 1926, million Southern-born whites migrated from their beloved Southland, hard hit by the Civil War, i nto the North and West and Texas in search of bigger opportunity and swift- One week in Asheville in 1926 reveals highs and lows ROB NEUFELD VISITING OUR PAST 6,2015 LIVING Family history: City directories valuable.

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