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This is a website about Asheville. It will change as the photographer prowls the city and grinds forth thoughts. There are about eight commercial spots available. Contact us if you'd like one. Or two.
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Asheville is a beautiful city. It is beautiful because it's eclectic. The coffee houses of 1960's Greenwich Village seem to have moved here without disturbing clients at their tables... |  |
| ...The customers still sit and study or sit and stare through windows, watching the curiosities and the conforming as the stream of life goes by. |
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Asheville offers more than a little whimsy in its layout; hilly streets offer sudden and intriguing alleyways or courtyards. |  |
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Old brick buildings, distorted and twisted by time are beautifully reflected and abstracted in the expansive windows and shining metal of the new. |
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The aged wooden window frames and doors of storefronts now proclaim a brave new world of colour combinations painted over their chipped and layered history, while the pedestrians who gaze into the windows may be bald, grey, dreadlocked, shaved, spiked, tattooed, pierced or plain, rich or poor. |  |
| The city is surrounded by the Blue Ridge mountains, with the Great Smoky mountains lying to the west. Tennessee is about thirty miles west: Virginia about one hundred miles northeast: Kentucky, a hundred miles northwest: South Carolina, thirty miles to the south: Georgia, sixty-five miles southwest. |  |
| Some history: Before the Revolutionary War, King George the Third of England had declared the land to the west of the Appalachian mountains as the domain of the Cherokee and forbidden to Europeans... |
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...However, after a series of wars between the Cherokee and those who would "settle" the land; the Revolutionary War, most of the Cherokee were forcibly moved to Oklahoma in 1838 and 1839. |
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| A small Cherokee reservation lies to the west of Asheville, at the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Revolutionary War also eliminated in North America the availability of some really good English candy and those cool, red, double-decker buses; Asheville has one but it doesn't move and people drink coffee in it. |
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Built at the confluence of the French Broad and Swannanoa
rivers, at an elevation of 2,250 feet, Asheville was incorporated in
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