Whitemont Lodge

05/24/2026

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05/24/2026

Genevieve Lawler and Ruth Lionberger, who built the Associate Arts Studio camp in Swannanoa in 1938 were later called to Castroville, TX to help restore this little German village in the late 1940's. They remained there, where they were most active in this community, for the remainer of their lives.

05/24/2026

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05/12/2026

It's spring!

05/03/2026

Genevieve Lawler and Ruth Lionberger, of the Associate Arts Studio Camp (later and presently "Whitemont Lodge") taught arts and crafts to WWII Veterans returning from war with PTSD as therapy. They utilized this building on Hwy. 70, near Haw Creek, to conduct these classes. Genevieve had been Director of Arts and Crafts education for the WPA before building and operating the AASC in Swannanoa, NC.

04/27/2026

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04/12/2026

This is a young North Carolina family in 1939 in front of their home near Chapel Hill.

They were sharecroppers. That home, and the land around it, weren't theirs - it belonged to their landlord. If they didn't pay the onerous rent, and debts incurred from growing, they'd be kicked out and made homeless.

This is much closer to the reality of life in North Carolina back in the "old days." It wasn't even remotely close to the internet meme of a man going off to a secure, high-paying factory job while a happy housewife raised their kids at home, with a car in the garage and family vacations - it was tenuous, and uncertain, and poor.

Life back in the old days was hard. And this family was white, meaning they had basic civil rights in the North Carolina of 1939. Black ones did not, and their lot was often much worse.

Don't misunderstand: there was a lot of good back in those days too. A huge amount of human spirit, hard work, faith and grit. A lot we can learn from today.

But nostalgia is a powerful psychological force on humans, and has a tendency to erase the bad and just leave the good. Things weren't great back then. People are freer, richer, and much better educated today - and that's a good thing.

03/31/2026

I love to revisit this brief documentary about the Asheville Farm School (now Warren Wilson College). Great Uncle Corbett appears twice in the film, once on a hay ride! I continue to learn more and more about the close connections my family had with the Farm School. Both my mother's side of the family (Fortunes) and my father's side (Davidsons and Alexanders) provided the first 450 acres of property on which the school was originally built, later provided more acreage, finally providing the last 302 acres of the 1100 acres in 1956, upon my great grandfather's death. The last portion had been part of Alexander Farms, where my Great Uncle Corbett, Great Aunt Edith and Grandfather Perry were raised. Corbett and Perry attended the Farm School in the 19-tens. They lived just across the Swannanoa River on the Southern portion of (future) WWC's land, and either used the footbridge to cross or forded the river on horseback. Whitemont Lodge was built on the portion of Alexander Farms on the hill just behind the red barn and brick silo.

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