Haunted trail in Big Ivy Te Big Ivy Community Club will present a haunted trail from 7


pm to 11 pm on Friday (Oct. 22) and Saturday (Oct. 23) as well as Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 at the community center on Dillingham Road in Barnardsville. Admission is $8 and proceeds go toward the 2011 Independence Day fireworks display.


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By Nancy Dillingham Te Big Ivy Book Club will meet


at 10 am on Saturday (Oct. 23) at the Big Ivy Community Center at 540 Dillingham Road to discuss prolific North Carolina author Lee Smith’s novel “Te Devil’s Dream.” Smith says, “I have been romanti-


cally dedicated to the idea of ‘being a writer’ ever since I can remember.” She says she began “telling stories” as soon as she could talk. She wrote her first novel when she was eight on her mother’s stationery and began selling her stories to neighbors in the coal town of Grundy, Virginia, and the “hollers” nearby. First published in 1968, she is still


writing. “Narrative is as necessary to me as breathing, as air,” she says. Smith dedicates “Te Devil’s


Dream” (pub. 1992) to “all the real country artists, living and dead, whose music I have loved so long.”


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6 THE TRIBUNE/LEADER - October 21 - October 27, 2010 Asheville, NC 28804 Lauren Propst returns a serve.


By Matt Tate Win or lose this weekend in the NCHSAA


regionals, the North Buncombe girls’ tennis team has already made history. For the first time in the history of the pro-


gram, all six girls qualified for the regional matches that will begin Friday (Oct. 22) in Morganton. Lauren Propst and Julia Lindholm were


singles qualifiers, and Alison Fox, Allison Quinn, Emily Litton and Ilex Mcleod were doubles qualifiers. Coach Wanda Tompson said the team’s


overall depth and unity helped this team reach its record heights. “I think [depth and unity] is how this team


distinguished themselves from years past,” she said. Five seniors led this unusually large team


of 15, and Tompson said the seniors’ ability to guide the younger players, and the younger players’ willingness to learn brought the team together. Quinn and Fox, undefeated as partners the


past two years, concurred about the team’s ability to gel. “I love this team,” Fox added. Even with the record success so far, the


BlackHawks are not content to rest on their laurels. “It’s our senior year,” Litton said of she and


her partner Mcleod. “We’re just going to give it our best so we can move forward.”


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Te story, appropriately, begins at Christmas-time at the Opryland Ho- tel where Katie Cocker and her clan have gathered to record an historic album. Not surprisingly, then, that one critic calls this story “a very loose re-telling of the story of the Carter family.” Smith relates her story with mul-


tiple narrators in different genera- tions of the family. Te saga begins with Moses Bailey (destined to be- come Preacher Bailey) bringing his


15-year-old bride Kate Malone to Grassy Branch. Te chapters of the tale, beginning


with the first one in dialect, some- times read like long short stories, and it is a challenge, at times, to keep up with the many characters in the gen- erations of the family. But, along the way, Smith tells the story with com- passion and wit, giving the reader a generous helping of the traditions of Appalachia and a history of how bluegrass and country music began.


Book preview Big Ivy poet Nancy Dillingham’s newest book of poetry entitled


“Home” has just been published by March Steet Press. Te book pays homage to Big Ivy, its history and its people. Te cover is a photo of Big Ivy taken from the Blue Ridge Parkway by Teresa Dillingham. Te book honors the legacy of Absalom and Rebecca Dillingham. She will preview her book at the Big Ivy Book Club on Saturday


(Oct. 23) and will donate a copy to Big Ivy Community Center’s li- brary.


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