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Art Museum | Asheville-Buncombe
Library | UNC
Asheville |
YMI
Cultural Center
Appalachian
State University |Appalachian
Cultural Museum |Southern
Highland Craft Guild
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"Occasionally the thick clouds would lighten, but only to crowd closer
together again, until at last, seeing they could not utterly prevent our
progress, they gave it up as we neared the new waters; and with some
feelings of gratitude we came upon Lake Sapphire and its village. For
Sapphire shares with the lower Kanuga the distinction of being a club lake
with neat cottages upon its banks and an outpost of civilization in the
form of a crossroads store. (1921, Spalding, p. 164)
"The lake itself, though viewed under a somewhat favoring sky, was disappointing. Narrow and winding, it looked like a great blue serpent lying there, and to my view (biased perhaps, by the untoward circum- stances of the day) it needed all the boasts of its friends to give it rank among its fellows. But one crown of beauty it did have. Hidden away in an inlet, around the bend of a high bank, lay anchored out in the very center, a fleet of snow-white lilies. I blessed the little lake for the joy of its one beauty, and took up with Lars the journey that meant more drenchings." (1921, Spalding, A.W. The Hills O' Ca'liny, p. 165) |
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