Museum displays

Here a couple are ready for bed, wearing the Beacon bathrobes.

These blankets were made differently...and were certainly soft and warm!

It's summertime outside the museum doors...

The planters along State Street are at their prettiest.

The Valley in the Alley

The alley between the Dripolator building and the Swanannoa Valley History Museum, has some special bricks.

Not just a pet friendly dish of water...

 Ummm, folks, there are some big white blocks in the middle of the valley of bricks...just looks pretty confusing at this point in time...not exactly the ridgeline, yet.

 Looking north from the parking lot towards State Street.

My favorite hairdresser, the Cutting Crew, is located behind the picket fence ramp at the back of the building the Dripolator Coffee House is in.  Joe is the owner of the building, and just had the whole thing repainted as the Drip celebrated its 20th anniversary.

Building the railroad

I've copied some of these photos below so you can see them in more detail.

The Andrews Geyser is still there, not with the hotel however. It is gravity fed, by a switch that opens a gate for the stream to go through from a higher elevation.

Beacon Blanket Mill

I may have mentioned that I'm being a docent a couple of times a month at the Swanannoa History Museum, and their big display this year is about the beacon Blanket Mil in Swanannoa. Swanannoa in an unincorporated village between Black Mountain and Asheville, NC.

The Beacon display has many interesting details. I'll share a bit with you.

The story boards tell almost everything you might want to know about the factory, and the results of beautiful blankets and bathrobes.

It took about half an hour to read them all, and take photos of them.

There are also 3 videos.  I hope you get a chance to visit.