Annual College Review
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Channel: WLOS News 13 · 2014 · News & Politics
BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. -- Scholars from around the world visit the mountains to celebrate the legacy of a local school. It is the sixth annual Reviewing Black Mountain College Conference. The school closed in the 50's but was a famous academic hub for innovative thinkers-and-artists. The event focused on influential writers associated with the college and their ongoing impact. Brian Butler, conference founder, "a grand total in the last evening of a couple hundred people, which is great when it comes to a conference on something like the writers of Black Mountain College, who were always a small boutique group of people, but their influence is getting larger every day." The weekend conference ended with a staged reading of the Tony award-winning play Red. _______________ Follow WLOS on social media: WLOS ABC 13 News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/News13/ WLOS ABC 13 News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WLOS_13 WLOS ABC 13 News on Instagram: https://instagram.com/wlos_13 Subscribe to WLOS on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ABC13Channel/?sub_confirmation=1 Listen to AnchorMOMS, the Podcast: https://wlos.com/news/anchormoms/anchormoms-the-podcast Watch more top local news stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk8Ge6UXHJs&list=PLkVbaoT-aYbIvnEpR0Ct5QQQqYaORUSUH For all of the day’s top local and national news, visit http://www.wlos.com Watch our live newscasts and other live video at https://wlos.com/watch Have a news tip? Send it directly to us: Email us: [email protected] Call the Newsroom: 828.684.1340 WLOS ABC 13 News serves the Asheville, NC area and the rest of western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. We keep our audience informed through local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of community events, sports and entertainment programming since 1954.
