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book table at black mountain college conference
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the black mountain college and the southern highland craft guild panel, featuring christopher benfey, andrew glasgow, and jerry israel
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three bookshelves of sustainability/agriculture/livestock books at malaprop's bookstore in asheville
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reception at black mountain college museum and art center
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black mountain college museum and art center
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a slide from katie lee koven's talk
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outline for my talk "molly gregory raises the roof"
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ruth asawa's egg basket, 1947-48 - a slide from Jason Andrew's talk "Ruth Asawa and the Transcendence of Craft"
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black mountain college brain trust- alice sebrell, heather south, mary emma harris, and brian butler
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me, heather south, mary emma harris, and brian butler sitting on a bench that molly gregory made at black mountain college
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on the porch of the lee building on the blue ridge campus of black mountain college
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mary emma harris gives a tour of lee hall and the blue ridge campus
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leigh maher, GM of lake eden events, met us at the farm and gave a tour of its farm structures
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the farm tour begins
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i began the tour with a brief history of the farm at black mountain college using documents from the BMC archives
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about to tour the barn
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at each stop of the farm tour, i shared maps, documents, and stories gleaned from the BMC archives
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inside the barn at black mountain college
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i asked if there was a poet in the barn and alice sebrell volunteered julia connor, the poet laureate of sacramento
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julia connor reading david weinrib's poem, "the farm," in the barn at black mountain college
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poet (and life-long protégée of potter, poet, and black mountain college professor MC richards) julia connor
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me showing theodoros stamos's (BMC faculty of painting and drawing, summer 1950) “the emperor ploughs the fields," the only known painting of the farm at black mountain college
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giving a tour of the farm at black mountain college
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the wonderful christopher benfey reading a passage by michael rumaker about working in the silo at black mountain college
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end of the farm tour
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back in the BMC archives
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andaluna and laura, being silly
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beautiful print on homemade paper by john dancy-jones based on anni albers' "red meander" (distributed for free by john at the BMC conference)
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corn silos at black mountain college: 1947-50 and yesterday
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each time i think i've seen all photos of the farm at black mountain college, i find gems like this
