Saturday, August 22, 2009

Warning: Ashiville will capture your heart...

Do you know there are still some people who do not know that Ashvill, N.C., is where the biggest private home in America is?
Knock your socks off; well mine also. I visited this city while travelling over-the-road, driver of a big rig (as I am today). Be certain of this, you have never, ever been to a city like Ashiville before.
So I did some research on Ashville (http://www.washingtonpost.com/). Here's an example of what you'll find.
In Ashville music is everywhere. From church bells and buskers to pipe organs and drum circles, the city's pulse is music. On a warm summer night, you'll hear drums from blocks away, hands slapping djembes, the ching-ca-ching of tambourines, the dong-dong of a cowbell, plus the sound of many hands clapping. It's all part of the eight-year old Friday night drum circle that takes place in Pritchard Park, a little landscape triangle in the middle of this western North Carolina city.
On brick steps and boulders ringing the park, silver-haired matrons in preppy knits, young Rastafarians in dreadlocks, also elderly Asian ladies sat. Such a gatherilng is like a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In the center of the park, you'll see drummers on huge kettle drums, and others sharring congas or passing around beaded gourds, wooden blocks and bells. And there's more, you'll see dancers twirling, swaying and bouncing in the warm summer breeze.
Most visitors to Ashville; aren't there for the music. Long and short of it, roughly half of the city's 2 million yearly visitors come to see the biggest private home in America, George Vanderbilt's palatial Biltmore estate.
The 1895 mansion and grounds are part of the Vanderbilt family's fortune. Architect Richard Morris Hunt and Fredrick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect whose design of Central Park in New York, transformed 125,000 acre of N.C. countryside into lush gardens and managed forest, 8,000 acres of which are still Biltmore property. The house alone---with 250 rooms, including 34 bedrooms and 43 bathrooms--- has four acres of floor space, much of which is open to the public for a hefty admission price ($55). Kporchhaulling.
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