The Fairy Trail

By: Dan Gibbs Fairies first appeared in the written record around 700 B.C. in Theogony by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. Theogony was a poem about the genealogies of the gods. He wrote about two types of nymphs- okeanides who were nymphs of fresh water spring, streams, and meadows and the meliai who were mountain […]

Oakdale Cemetery

By: Dan Gibbs Oakdale Cemetery in Hendersonville, the city’s first municipal cemetery, was laid out in 1885. What was then known as Shaw’s Creek Road, now US 64, borders the cemetery on the north and south. It has well over 5,000 burials on 22 acres of land. In 1885, there were two sections of the […]

The Bee Mural

By: Dan Gibbs The Bee Mural in downtown Hendersonville, a project that first got off the ground in 2019, was finally completed and debuted in mid-May 2021. This is six years after Hendersonville became designated a Bee City USA affiliate. Bee City USA is based out of Asheville, NC and according to the Bee City […]