Vance was born near Asheville in 1830. He was serving in the Confederate Army when North Carolina seceded from the U.S. in 1861 and was elected to his first term as governor the following year.
Construction of the Vance Monument began in 1897, roughly three years after he died at the age of 63, and it was formally dedicated a year later during a ceremony held on Confederate Memorial Day.
Floyd, a Black man, died last May while being restrained by a White officer with the Minneapolis Police Department in Minnesota, setting off a series of nationwide protests.
The Asheville City Council passed a resolution last June that created a task force to determine what to do with the Vance Monument. Its members ultimately voted to take it down.
As a side note, I served on a committee in 2015 that received public input and decided what to put in the capsule, a stainless steel box specially made to fit in the spot under the monument s base. The capsule was maybe the size of a shoebox, so it s not like you could put a six-pack of Highland Ale and an Asheville Tourists bat in there.
Plus, I drank the six-pack and lost the bat. I kid.
The 2115 Asheville Buncombe Time Capsule replaced one work crews found in 2015 while repairing the monument.
That original capsule, placed by the North Carolina Grand Lodge of Masons, dated to 1897 and contained a Bible, coins, a rare copy of an African American newspaper, The Colored Enterprise; a copper box, other local newspapers (including the Asheville Daily), an honor roll from local schools, Masonic documents and a muster roll from Governor Vance s Civil War company. The capsule had been compromised after a century-plus under the monument, and some of the items had water damage.
Fabiola Patricio wants everyone to succeed in school.
For that to happen, The Nesbitt Discovery Academy junior said, more students need to speak up about the educational experience they re having. And more adults need to listen. The education system that we have is the education system we are taught by, she said. We are the future of this country, so I really feel that for us to succeed not that we can t with what we have right now we need to make the best out of it and ensure that we have an education system that is best at what it does, and that is really pushing students to graduate, to have a career.
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