Blue Ridge Assembly Post Card Collection

Links:

Updated: May 29, 2008

YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly:
www.blueridgeassembly.org
www.blueridgeevents.org
YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Centennial Celebration 1906-2006:
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/centennial.html
YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly: Map of the Grounds (pdf)

YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Staff Alumni:
Attend the 2008 Alumni Staff Reunion (July 4-6, 2008 or stay an extra day July 4-7, 2008):
          (info in the 2008 Alumni Newsletter below)

To be an Alumni, you have to work there first (so why not apply):
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/employ.html
If you are an Alumni:
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/alumni.html
Looking for Alumni? Search the Alumni database:
          http://www.blueridgeevents.org/events/alumni/display.cfm
          (if you don't find your own name, add / update your info so you will be included in future mailings)
Lost contact? Get added to the Alumni mailing list:
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/alumni_join.html
Update your info in the Alumni database: 
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/alumni_update.html

Alumni Newsletters:
-Spring 2008 Newsletter: click here (pdf) OR
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/Spring 2008 Newsletter.pdf
-Spring 2007 Newsletter: click here (pdf) OR
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/Spring 2007 Newsletter alumni.pdf
- Spring 2006 Newsletter: click here (pdf) OR
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/Alumni 2006 Newsletter.pdf (pdf)
- Spring 2005 Newsletter: click here (pdf) OR
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/Spring2005 Newsletter.pdf (pdf)
- Summer 2004 Alumni Reunion Photos: click here (pdf) OR
          http://www.blueridgeassembly.org/Reunion 2004 Photo page.pdf (pdf)
- Spring 2004 Newsletter: click here (pdf) OR
          http://www.blueridgeevents.org/events/alumni/newsletter/Alumni Newsletter 2004.htm
- Spring 2003 Newsletter: click here (pdf) OR
          http://www.blueridgeevents.org/events/alumni/newsletter/BRANewsl.htm

Cliff Smith YMCA Postcard Collection at Springfield College:
http://ymcapostcards.spfldcol.edu

University of North Carolina at Asheville, DH Ramsey Library, Special Collections/University Archives:  "Community Life in Western North Carolina" by Southern Railway
http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/books/booklets/community_life/default.htm
(must have DjVu Browser Plug-in installed to view enlarged scans: http://www.lizardtech.com/download)

LOUIS: The Louisiana Library Network, Louisiana Digital Library Collections Online:
LOUIS Homepage: http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/
     to find pictures of Blue Ridge do an Advanced Search: in the Exact Phrase box enter: Blue Ridge N.C. (be sure to include the periods in N.C.)

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary, Asheville NC:
Blue Ridge Assembly Historic District page

"Race Reform in the Early Twentieth Century South: The Life and Work of Willis Duke Weatherford," a thesis presented to the faculty of the Department of History, East Tennessee State University by Sara Trowbridge Combs, December 2004
     This thesis covers the work of WD Weatherford in the area of race relations which includes historical conferences at Blue Ridge Assembly.
Title page / abstract:
          http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1105104-232647/
Thesis: click here (pdf) OR
          http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1105104-232647/unrestricted/CombsS111604f.pdf (pdf)

"Blue Ridge Assembly celebrates centennial," Barrs Postcard News, August 7, 2006
     Article with postcards by Patrick Enfinger.
     Article pdf
     more info on Barrs Postcard News


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