For over 30 years Ashevile has hosted a weekend-long, free fesitval of arts, music and food called Bele Chere. Some locals have come to dislike the intrusion, other make piles of dough, and hundreds of thousands just have a good time, me included.
Next year, last weekend in July, try it out.
The Xpress commissioned some cartoons (link) for their web site
SAM and I attended all 3 days, parking close in by getting there early. We finished up yesterday afternoon at Magnolia’s and listening to (and sketching) Reverend Billy Wirtz – sort of a potty-mouth Victor Borge playing boogie-woogie blues and smoking a cigar.
We had just finished a very nice visit with friends Kathy and Jon who drove down from Washington.