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Packing a bagpipe and tin whistles, Henry and Fran Frantz will head for the mountains this summer. With their children Becca and Hank, the Decatur, Ga., couple will be making music at the Swannanoa Gathering held at WARREN WILSON COLLEGE in Asheville, N.C. From July 9 through Aug. 5, the campus plays host to six one-week workshops led by fiddlers, pipers, guitarists, step dancers and folklorists from around the world. Three of the workshops--Celtic Week, Sing Swing and String Week and Old-Time Music Week--welcome adults and children...
...Swannanoa...
...word came from-North Carolina's Buncombe County. There, on a mountainside near the village of Black Mountain, they rented for the college year a Y. M. C. A. summer-conference hotel, a huge white-columned building with a magnificent view of the Craggy Mountains across the Swannanoa Valley. First year, Black Mountain's teachers drew no pay. To help support the college, teachers and students ran a farm, did their own housework (except cooking and dishwashing...
...great wall from Pennsylvania to Georgia, was sure to catch the prevailing winds and turn them upward into precisely the sort of currents that keep sailplanes aloft for hours. To test his theory Dick du Pont invited the pilots, as his guests, to an informal meet centering at the Swannanoa Country Club near Waynesboro, atop the Blue Ridge in western Virginia. Last week this meet got under way. Besides Pilot du Pont in his new Bowlus sailplane Albatross there were August C. ("Gus") Haller of Pittsburgh, builder of Hatter-Hawks; Haller's pupil, Emerson Mehlhose of Wyandotte, Mich., Warren...
...first time a Republican President had ever made a visit of any duration in Virginia. Crowds cheered the Coolidge progress through Staunton and Waynesboro to the Swannanoa Country Club, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Thanksgiving gifts poured up the mountain-a monster fruit cake, a dozen quail, a juicy Virginia ham, six boxes of apples, a monster turkey...