If you are traveling on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, it will be worth your while to pull in at Milepost 382 and visit the Folk Art Center. The Folk Art Center is home to the Southern Highland Craft Guild, which has another smaller Blue Ridge Parkway location at Milepost 294. The Folk Art Center is a joint undertaking...

The Swannanoa Museum & History Center is very clear about its mission as a local museum that serves the western North Carolina community as Buncombe County’s primary museum of general, local history. But there is also an appeal for the visitor as well. This is a real people’s museum about real people … the people of Black Mountain and the Swannanoa...