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🌱 How a Black Mountain native is turning family memories into online history

Black Mountain, North Carolina Patch AM: a 3 min read

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  • How a Black Mountain native is turning family memories into online history

Also on today's calendar: Esaze: David LaMotte & Chinobay and 3 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the Doctor ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: An afternoon t-storm; humid, with a high of 81 and low of 66 degrees.
  • Friday: Humid; an afternoon t-storm, temps: high: 81, low: 65.
  • Saturday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-storm, with a high of 84 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Black Mountain native using social media to preserve family legacy (blackmountainnews.com) — A Black Mountain native is using TikTok, YouTube, and book projects to preserve the stories, dialect, and everyday traditions she learned growing up here with her great-grandparents. Now known online as Iva of Appalachia, she’s turning family memories, regional history, and folklore into digital archives and hopes to help others safeguard their own cultural roots too.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Update: Pet Reunited
    Smeagol, a cat who went missing in Black Mountain, NC, has been safely reunited with their family after 19 hours, 42 minutes. Message from Owner: … (Nextdoor Broad River)
  • My new neighbors!???
    https://nextdoor.com/p/zgSWMJLrLJH4?utm_source=share&extras=MTAwMjEyNTY5&share_platform=10&utm_campaign=1785902969590&share_action_id=e0cb2f96-82ed… (Nextdoor West Black Mountain)
  • Elior North America posted a job opening for Dishwasher in Black Mountain. Apply here.
  • Circle K Stores, Inc. posted a job opening for Customer Service Representative in Black Mountain. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Black Mountain here.

🗞 Nearby News

Swannanoa

  • Valley Rewind: WNC swimming holes (blackmountainnews.com)
  • Rep. Chuck Edwards faces political fallout after House Ethics report recommends censure (wlos.com)
  • Reed Turchi Releases New Blues Single JUNIOR'S BOOGIE (broadwayworld.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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