Crafts and the Rivers

Folk Art Center and French Broad River Park

October 4, 1995

Optional Day

"It is extremely powerful for people to learn from their own experience of failure"
- Ronald Heifetz

8:10        Meet at UNCA (gravel lot next to North Asheville Baptist Church, 822 Broadway and Division Street) for van ride to Folk Art Center

8:30        Coffee and Muffins

8:40         Welcome/Announcements

8:45         Welcome to the Folk Art Center
                  Tom Bailey, Acting Director, Folk Art Center

9:00        Crafts in Western North Carolina and HandMade in America
                  Becky Anderson, Director, HandMade in America

10:00       Explore the Folk Arts Center

10:15       Travel by van to Homespun Shops

10:45       Tour of Biltmore Homespun Shops
                  Robert and Susan Leville, Directors, Homespun Shops

11:45       Travel by van to French Broad River Park, Amboy Road

12:15       Lunch in the Park

1:00         What's New with the River
                  Karen Cragnolin, Director, RiverLink, Inc.

2:00        Van ride back to car at UNCA or to Bent Creek

2:30        Raft Float Trip from Bent Creek to Hominy Creek ($12 fee)
                  David Donnell, Southern Waterways

5:00        Refreshments and van ride back to car at UNCA

Suggested Activities:

           John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown 704/837-2775

           Penland School of Crafts, Penland 704/765-2359

Special thanks to Edith Conrad (LAS VII) and Marylyn Seyler (LAS VIII)