Nominate Your Asheville Saint
For our current project, we will be selecting 32 local individuals to memorialize in paint on the insides of the conrete pillars on our Lexington Gateway Mural. Nominees may be contemporary or historical. Who has helped shape this community, who has initiated significant change and galvanized collaborative community action? Who would you like to see? We understand that there are thousands of amazing people who have contributed to the local community throughout Asheville's long history, and it will not be easy choosing so few, but we are excited to consider all of your suggestions. Please write a paragraph about your suggested individual, about who they are, what they have done, and why you think it is important for them to be recognised.
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Daniel Meyer
www.ashevillesymphony.org/about/conductor
Daniel Meyer, the conductor of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, is not only enriching our lives and community with classical music, he is manifesting full blown multimedia experiences -- take this collaboration with local pupeteers from the red herring co. http://www.redherringpuppets.com/theat_petrushka.htm -- as well as raising the quality of our local orchestra with a steady hand, and humble yet dignified leadership -- best exemplified in his performance of the concerto for toy piano by john cage, review: http://www.cvnc.org/reviews/2006/092006/AshevilleSO.html .
Yancey Antillon
Yancey Antillon is a transplant in classic Asheville fashion. In his few years here he has helped countless individuals through several local multimedia projects and has helped promote community and social awareness through an ever-growing local website he maintains (AshChat.net). His story and spirit embody everything Asheville is and should be known for.
Walter Ashe
I nominated my father, Walter Ashe. I just visited Asheville and visited his Memorial Exhibit at the City Hall and remember what a huge impact he had on Asheville.
Would appreciate any contact from you as you find the time.
Thank you.
Maralyn Ashe Wilson
Kitty Love
Kitty Love is the reason that many of these artistic community projects exist! In the short time I have known Kitty, she has been friendly, welcoming, & proves that she can get things done! A wall without Kitty Love on it, would be no wall of Asheville Saints at all!
Spyce
Jen Bowen
Nominating Jen Bowen for her amazing community work & support. Jen is also doing Faces of Asheville, where has has taken over 300 portraits of local Asheville community. It is only right that she too should be immortalized as a part of the Asheville history. Jen Bowen is my Asheville hero, & deserves to be regarded as a Saint!
Spyce
Francine Delany
Hi, I am nominating Francine Delany, an African-American educator and administrator who died of cancer in 1990 (I think). I worked with her at the Asheville Alternative School in the late 1980s, when she was principal there. She was committed to educating children to be world citizens, and was a gracious, dedicated, funny and inspiring individual.
Others can fill in information that I do not have about her history and impact on the Asheville community before I knew her. She was well loved, and missed.
There is actually a very rich history of educators in the A-A community, and many of those individuals are still alive.
Thanks!
Cathy Scott
Lenny Bernstein
I would enthusiastically nominate Mr. Lenny Bernstein for the “Asheville Saints” section. Lenny’s work over the better part of three decades has been focused on climate change. His approach to all of this work is passionate and thoughtful. He is a recent Nobel Prize winner. Truly a righteous individual focused on addressing a meaningful cause and leaving behind what will be guideposts for generation to come.
Peace,
Brent Skidmore
micky mahaffey john hayes
micky mahaffey
john hayes (naacp/wres)
saint nomination
john payne
Suggested Individual
There once was a man whom people called YA YA who was a beggar in downtown asheville. His final winter he had been given a bright blue jacket and bright blue cap. Over his heart he had a tattoo which said a word which meant house of god, I believe it was Kaaba, but I am not certain. Besides being a beggar, he was a very spiritual person. He spread a message of peace, and said peace be with you to everyone he spoke to, including those people who treated him inhumanely. Whenever he would pass someone by, he seemed to be aware of their character, though he did not judge them for it. He lived in low income housing right off of South French Broad, and was very respected there. Even people who carried around guns feared him, due to his strong spirituality. He was a "true saint of asheville." I have a picture of him, if you are interested though it isn't the clearest, it is a polaroid at night with him pointing up. His real name was John, but I can't seem to recall his last name, he passed away last summer shortly after being discharged from Mission Hospital.