Near the very end of the 19th century a young man graduated high school in Rhode Island and got his first job as a reporter with the Providence Evening and
At around 7 a.m. on Aug. 25, 1909, the fire alarm in Brevard sounded rousing the all-volunteer fire department and probably the rest of town as well. In 1903 Fire
For this week’s Picturing the Past we are looking back at what was being reported after the New Year in Transylvania County across a few different decades.
On Oct. 10, 1946, an ad appeared in The Transylvania Times announcing the opening of The Chatterbox across the street from Brevard High School, offering drive-in service from 11 a.m.
While researching an unrelated topic, my colleague pulled up the May 18, 1917, edition of the “Brevard News.” She showed it to me, and we were both immediately very curious.