The Presbyterian Heritage Center Blog
You’re visiting Montreat this summer and you’re looking for a place to cool off from the summer heat and spend an hour or two relaxing… Well visit the Presbyterian Heritage Center! Not only are we equipped with air conditioning, we are also stock-full of facts and history to peak your curious mind. Here are five… Continue reading Five Things To Do at the PHC This Summer (2022)
“Treasures from the Attic” is a show-and-tell session – in-person at the Presbyterian Heritage Center or via Zoom meeting. The PHC will host four (4) such sessions over the next few weeks. The Show-and-tell will be on Wednesdays, 10:30 – 11:30 am on May 19th, 26th. June 9th and June 23rd. You can just watch… Continue reading Treasures From the Attic
Collecting For Church Covid-19 Archive We are living in a perilous times, as did the American people during October 1918. That month, the second wave of the misnamed Spanish Flu closed churches, businesses and indeed, all of society. With uncanny similarities to the 1918 pandemic, the 2020 Covid-19 led the historians at the Presbyterian Heritage… Continue reading Behind The Scenes – Part 3
Do you ever wonder what we do at the Presbyterian Heritage Center, while temporarily closed to the public due to the covid-19 virus threat? On Sunday night we held a Zoom cast of a presentation & hymn sing on “C.S. Lewis & Hymns” by Austin Theological Seminary Professor & Musician Eric Wall. Eric played in… Continue reading Behind-the-Scenes – 2
Dorothy Sayers' Recipe Book for The Mustard Club, c. 1926. Dorothy L. Sayers was a writer extraordinaire – a friend to C.S. Lewis – but who reaped success in many endeavors well ahead of Lewis and the other Oxford Inklings. Before Sayers took up a highly successful career in mystery crime novel writing, playwriting, film… Continue reading The Vicar’s Daughter & The Mustard Club
Montreat and its forest primeval is the description often used; except it isn’t true. In the 1890s, a sheep farm occupied the cove where Montreat was eventually created. The valley trees had been previously logged, since trees and sheep don’t work well together. Logging in the Swannanoa Valley had been occurring since the 1870s on… Continue reading Trains, Timbers & Tourists
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