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9:00 Coffee, muffins and mingling
9:30 Welcome to UNCA and Leadership Asheville Seniors
James H. Mullen, Jr., chancellor, University of North Carolina
at Asheville
9:45 Who's the Answer Introductions
10:15 What To Expect from LAS
Denise Snodgrass, director, Leadership Asheville Seniors and
assistant director
North Carolina Center for Creative Retirement
10:30 Table Task Group Activity
11:15 Creative Retirement, Older Learners and Social Change
Ronald J. Manheimer, Executive Director, North Carolina Center
for Creative Retirement
11:45 Lunch and Conversation
1:00 Connecting with the History of Asheville/Buncombe County
John and Sandra Wright, Angela Baisley (LAS XV), Lettie Polite
(LAS X)
1:15 Social History
Dan Pierce, assistant professor of history, University of
North Carolina at Asheville
2:00 Break
2:15 Conversation: The African American Experience
Lettie Polite and Bob Smith, executive director,
Asheville/Buncombe Commuity Relations Council
Moderator: John Wright
3:00 Dismiss
Suggested activities:
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Urban Trail Walk into History, Sept. 28
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Smith McDowell House, 283 Victoria Road (10-4 T-S, 1-4 Sun)
$3.50 (seniors)
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Vance Homestead, Reems Creek Road, Weaverville (9-5 M-S, 1-5
Sun) Free
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Thomas Wolfe House Memorial, 52 N. Market St. (9-5 M-S, 1-5
Sun) (Winter: closed M, 10-4 T-S, 1-4 Sun)
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Building Bridges Program, 253-0749 (New Mount Olive Baptist
Church)
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Pack Memorial Library, Carolina Collection photographs
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Biltmore Village Historic Museum (1-4:30 M-S)
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Grove Park Inn (old photographs in Sammons Wing)
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YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St.
Special thanks to:
John and Sandra Wright, AngelBaisley (LAS XV), Lettie Polite (LAS X)
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