Local Interest

June 18, 2007

Bluets & Wilma Dykeman



bluets_sm.jpg  Held upstairs in our Special Collections department are copies of Bluets, an unusually rich student literary magazine published between 1929 and 1962 by UNC Asheville's predecessor institutions Biltmore College and Asheville-Biltmore College.


Wilma Dykeman, Biltmore College student and Bluets' most famous contributor, was honored recently by the NC Arts Council. Read her contributions to the following issues of Bluets online:

January 1937, May 1937, January 1938, May1938

View the 2007 Wilma Dykeman Memorial Edition (PDF)


March 25, 2007

Women's History in Asheville: photographs

February 26, 2007

Black History in Asheville: photographs

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