The uplift [serial] . much on the arttreasures it contains. This FrenchRenaissance chateau, with its tape-stries, paintings, ancient furnitureand hundieds of other museum piecesof interest to artist and layman alike,was open to the public March 15, 1930as a result of the efforts on behalfof the Asheville Chamber of Com-merce. Asheville is not only a vacation •esort, it also is an ideal place inwhich to live and to work. The citysaverage elevation of 2,350 feet keepsits summers cool while the surround-ing mountains protect it from severewinter weather. Among the 84,720residents of the metropoli
The uplift [serial] . much on the arttreasures it contains. This FrenchRenaissance chateau, with its tape-stries, paintings, ancient furnitureand hundieds of other museum piecesof interest to artist and layman alike,was open to the public March 15, 1930as a result of the efforts on behalfof the Asheville Chamber of Com-merce. Asheville is not only a vacation •esort, it also is an ideal place inwhich to live and to work. The citysaverage elevation of 2,350 feet keepsits summers cool while the surround-ing mountains protect it from severewinter weather. Among the 84,720residents of the metropolitan areaare natives of every section of Ameri-ca. Ashevilles business and industrialopportunities have as much to do withbringing them here as does thissections facilities for play. Thousandsof the residents of Asheville camefirst as visitors and liked it so wellthat they returned to make theirhomes. Western North Carolinas mount-ains are bound together with a net-work of safe, hard-surfaced highways. THE UPLIFT 11. GRAGGY RHODODENDRON GARDENS—15 miles from Asheville and a milein the sky. God made this garden said a visitor when for the first time liesaw the top of Craggy Mountain with its 600 acres, natural growth, of purplerhododendron in bloom. Over ridges, through gaps and coves,beside lakes and rushing rivers andin one case actually under a water-fall, they spread through The Landof the Sky. Asheville, through whichrun five major federal highways, isthe meeting point of the scenic routebetween the north and the south andthe most direct route between theMid-West and Florida. Literally millions traverse thesehighways, many going back deep intothe coves and valleys, indicating thetremendous appeal of the indescrib-able beauty of these mountainscovered with virgin forests. As gorgeous scenery as the worldaffords is found in the Great SmokyMountains National Park—an area square miles which is withintwo days drive of more than half thepopulation of the country. A m
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