Love Above All: Sixty Years in the Theatre and Beyond
Beverly Ohler is the author of five books, several of which are for sale at the Warren Wilson Campus Store. Those that are available for purchase online are linked below:
Remembering: Stories from My Life – not available online
They Faithfully Led the Way (2010)
Remembering those who came before and helped create Warren Wilson College, with writing by Frederick & Beverly Ohler.
Turning Education Inside-Out: WWC Students and Incarcerated Students Share Courses at the Swannanoa Correctional Center for Women
Navigating the Metaphorical Dark: Dialogue Across Difference
Free Speech & Inclusion on Campus: A Discussion Guide Guide for a group deliberative dialogue from The Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University, used for the January 2018 Deliberative Dialogue held at Warren Wilson College.
Watch as we recognize Alma Shippy, the first African-American student admitted to Warren Wilson College. It was a historic event occurring prior to the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954.
Spirits in the Absence of Stones: Restoring Western North Carolina’s Oldest Public African American Cemetery
Google Earth & GIS Map To use the Global Information Systems (GIS) map that students and alumni created, you will need to read the instructions, download the linked KML file, and also download and install Google Earth. See details at the website linked above. To use the map at the cemetery, you will need to install Google Earth on your mobile device and download the KML file as well.
Stories Beneath: Uncovering the South Asheville Cemetery Documentary film produced by Nadia Marti ’16 and Gabrielle Holodnak ’17 for the Documentary Film course with Professors Heather Stewart Harvey and Jeffrey Keith. Interviews included: George Gibson & George Taylor, Olivia Metz, Ellen Pearson.
Reenactment of the Slave Narative of Sarah Gudger Sarah Gudger was born into slavery in Buncombe County. Freed after the Civil War, there are conflicting records of her death. She may be buried in the South Asheville Cemetery in an unmarked grave (she lived at the time of her death on Dalton Street), or she may be buried in Swannanoa (where her former owners lived). Sarah Gudger’s Narrative was transcribed by the Federal Writers Project Slave Narratives of 1937. This audio reenactment features actress Becky Stone. The original 1937 transcript can be found here.
Forever Free: Slave Ownership Records for Buncombe County In recent years, the Buncombe County Register of Deeds has undergone a massive initiative to digitize the slave deed records kept by the county. “The Register of Deeds Office presents these records in an effort to help remember our past so we will never again repeat it.”
South Asheville Cemetery Association This website for the association was created by Warren Wilson College students in the 2014 Appalachian Semester. On it, you can find more information, history, maps, videos, articles, and many other resources.
For the Forgotten African-American Dead This New York Times article by Brian Palmer mentions the South Asheville Cemetery as one of the rare “success stories.”