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Cathy Smith Bowers, Poet Laureate of North Carolina reads Language: A Sentimental Education
Old Fort, Chimney Rock, Lake Lure, Tryon
Writers with a connection to this area: Margaret Culkin Banning, Freddy Bradburn, Lilian Jackson Braun, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Wilma Dykeman, Tony Earley, John Ehle, Payne Erskine, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Gillette, Ernest Hemingway, Sidney Lanier, William G. Lord, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, Robert Morgan, Margaret Morley, Peggy Payne, Donald Culross Peattie, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Nina Simone, Bob Terrell, Jules Verne and Phyllis A. Whitney.
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