Thursday, July 8, 1982, Volume SO, Number 27 Member of the NCPA 25'
Patriotic celebration draws crowds
Fourth of July activities in Montreat
and Black Mountain drew large crowds
of participants throughout the long
holiday weekend. Hie annual Montreat
Fourth of July parade, led off by wailing
sirens of emergency vehicles, included
many imaginative homemade floats and
costumes, Chimnev Rock bagpipers,
plaid banners and kilts. The parade
began about 11 a.m., winding its way
among hundreds of cheering onlookers
for about 40 minutes.
A flag raising ceremony followed the
parade, as did swimming in the
Montreat pool, fishing and boating on
Lake Susan, games and contests at
Moore Center and an old-timers’ soft
ball game.
In Black Mountain, activities center
ed around Cherry Street Saturday
afternoon where Spring Creek enter
tained with mountain music. A radio
program was broadcast by an Asheville
station from Cherry Street from 4-7
p.m.
Street dances were the order of the
evening with Carolina Bluegrass on
Cherry Street and the Stoney Creek
Boys in Montreat. The Spivey Mountain
Cloggers led the dancers on Cherry
Street.
The Big Wise Sound Factory provided
music until 1 a.m. for a dance at Lake
Tomahawk sponsored by the Chamber
of Commerce Economic Development
Committee. About 50 attended.
Fireworks at Lake Tomahawk Sunday
night were viewed by an enthusiastic
crowd. Estimates of its size vary from
several hundred to over a thousand. The
30 minute display drew applause from
the audience, young and old.
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This young man
(above) had the best seat
in the house foe watch
ing a Fburth of July
paraM and anittle flag
waving on the side.
(More photos on page 2)
The Spivey Mountain doggers led the dancing Saturday night on Cherry
Street. (Photo by Bill Studenc)
Storm brings wind
gusts over 70 mph
The skies darkened shortly before 5
p.m. with a storm that brought wind
gusts over 70 miles per hour to the area
but little rain.
Trees were reported down in many
areas of the county. Blade Mountain
firemen and Carolina Power and Light
crews were called to Vance Avenue,
North Foric Road, Blue Ridge Road,
Blue Ridge Assembly, N.C. 9 near
Christmount, Assembly Drive in Mon
treat, Dougherty Street and Connally
Street to remove trees which had fallen
on power lines.
Several areas experienced power
outages as a result of the storm. George
Venturella of CP&L reported that
Montreat, Montreat Road and other
areas on the west side of town, the Blue
Ridge Assembly area, Vance Avenue,
Lytle Cove down to Swannanoa and up
Hydrants
tested
II you notice some sediment in your
drinking water in the next couple weeks
it’s nothing to worry about, according to
Black Mountain Fire Chief Gary Bart
lett. Firemen will be testing fire
hydrants which may stir up some
sediment.
Tiie hydrants will be tested late at
night to allow settling by morning,
Chief Bartlett said. North Carolina law
requires that the hydrants be tested
once a year.
David Nache to judge Art
League photography contest
by Priscilla Hopkins
Ihe Swannanoa Valley Art League
announced that David Nache, profes
sional photographer, will be the judge
. of its 1982 photographic competition.
Nache first came to the Swannanoa
Valley in 1941 when he was a patient at
Moore General Hospital. During his
convalescence he met Gray Stephens
and became interested in photography,
in 1945 he left the hospital with a
professional skill and a wife, the former
Elsie Keriee who had been working
there as a medical secretary.
They relocated in Silver Spring,
Maryland, where he opened a photo
graphic studio that was to become most
successful. Among his subjects for
photographic portraits were Presidents
Kennedy and Nixon, Allan Dulles, Perle
Mesta, Marjorie Meriweather Post, and
Prince Ali Khan.
He also photographed then Prince
Juan Carlos of Spain when he arrived
at Annapolis as a midshipman on a
sailing ship. With a wry smile, Nache
suggested that perhaps he got the job of
photographing the prince at a number
of official functions at the naval acad
emy because he was the only area
professional photographer who spoke
Spanish!
He photographed many of the univer
sities in the area; among them Catholic
University, George Washington and his
favorite, Caludet College,, a special
school for the deaf and dumb.
After 14 years, he gave up his studio
and went to work for the Department of
Agriculture in Washington, D.C. Sever
al years after that he was transferred to
that agency’s Asheville office where he
did aerial photography.
When that facility was combined with
an already existing one in Salt Lake
City, he transferred again. While the
family resided there, his wife taught
school.
In 1980 he retired from government
service and returned to the Swannanoa
Valley and property off the North Fork
Road. There he is busy clearing areas
that are going to be suitable back
grounds for the outdoor photographic
studio he plans to open next spring. He
is a man full of energy and his eyes
sparkle with enthusiasm for this new
venture.
Nache and his wife have five children
who attended Valley schools.
Any amateur photographer is eligible
to enter the contest. The entry date is
this Friday, July 9, between 10 a.m. and
6 p.m. Judging will be done on
Saturday. The exhibit will be open to
the public during regular library hours
from Monday, July 12-Sunday, July 24.
Eh try forms with complete details are
still available at the check-out desk of
the Black Mountain Public Library
where entries should be submitted.
David Nache touches up the frame for “The Actor,”
which will be on exhibit in the photography show.
to the Beacon plant and the Broad River
area were without electricity for several
hours. All lines were back in service by
2 a.m., he said.
Two line trucks, two service trucks,
two M.B. Haynes crews and two tree
crews worked on the downed lines.
“We had out about everything we could
find,” Venturella reported. He said the
trees that fell were unusually large trees
requiring an hour to two hours to
remove.
Hie storm briefly interrupted the
Fourth of July celebration in Black
Mountain and Montreat.
Chamber
concert
Saturday
It will be the 13th season for the
Swannanoa Chamber Flayers when they
open their 15-concert season
with an 8 p.m. Saturday concert at
Warren Wilson College. Hie series will
end August 8.
Major works to be performed are: the
Brahms Quintet for clarinet and strings,
the Beethoven Quintet for clarinet and
strings, and the Beethoven Quintet for
piano and winds.
Other composers included in the
program include Bach, Bartok, Bridge,
Caravan, Dvorak, Haydn, Hummel,
Mozart, Schubert, Spohr, Stravinsky,
Telemann and Villa-Lobos.
An added attraction for the Saturday
night Warren Wilson College concerts,
the “Bach’s suppers,” have a new
wrinkle this year. Hie “BYOP” (Bring
Your Own Picnic) occasion will begin" at
6:30 p.m. in the Tryon Amphitheatre
adjacent to the Kittredge Arts Center
Auditorium on the campus.
Guest artists this year will be Craig
M. Brown and Carol Feuer. Brown, who
plays double bass, is the principal bass
of the Northwood Symphonette, He is
also section bass with the N.C. Sym
phony and studied at the University of
Michigan. Feuer, violinist, is the con
cert mistress of the Suffolk Symphony.
A member of the Orchestra de Camera
and I Solisti da Camera, she is a
graduate of the Julliard School Pre
College Division and Bennington Col
lege.
Season tickets are $20; individual
tickets are $5. Pre-concert courses in
chamber music appreciation are offered
at Warren Wilson College. For details
call the college, 298-3325, ext. 228.
The same concerts are also played at
Blue Ridge Technical College in Hen
dersonville and at the United Methodist
Church in Spruce Pine.
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CP&L crews worked until 2
a.m. cleaning up fallen trees on
Connally (above), Vance (right)
and several other areas. (Fhotos
by Bill Studenc, Dennis Harris)