Join RiverLink the RiverLink performance and Sculpture Plaza on Saturday, the 8th September at 14:0

Join RiverLink the RiverLink performance and Sculpture Plaza on Saturday, the 8th September at 14:00 to help celebrate the life of Wilma Dykeman, books and legacy. The event is free and open to the public. Speakers include James Stokley, the son of Wilma Dykeman Stokley, Sharon Farr, chairman of history at hand and Karen Cragnolin, executive director of RiverLink for guests with musical performances by well-loved local musician and singer Laura Boothsinger. Bring a chair and enjoy an afternoon by the river and help us celebrate the installation of three permanent informational panels depicting the life and legacy of books Wilma Dykeman. They also come to learn about the new effort led by the authors family has been designed to extend Wilma's view of the world.
Wilma Dykeman was born in buncombe county, and published his seminal book, French Broad, in 1955. She fought to include a chapter called "Who Killed the French Broad" that informed the national interest of the pollution of rivers in America seven years before Rachel Carson wrote "Silent Spring" and 17 years before the first federal legislation, the Clean Water Act, was passing Congress.
Wilma attended Biltmore Junior College (now the University

of North Carolina at Asheville), graduating in 1938, and Northwestern University, where he was elected to membership

in Phi Beta Kappa and graduated in 1940 with a major in speech.
In August 1940 shortly after her graduation from Northwestern, she was introduced to her future bahan taslan husband, James R. Stokely, Jr., and Mabel Wolfe, sister of Asheville writer Thomas Wolfe. Stokely, from Newport, Tennessee, was the son of the president Stokely Brothers Canning Company (which was bought in 1933 to become a Stokely Van Camp-Van bahan taslan Camp Inc. Stokely brand canned food brand is now Seneca Foods and Van Camps brand ConAgra

Inc.) The couple married just two months after they met. They had two sons, Dykeman Stokely and James R. "Rory" Stokely III. Couple maintains homes in Asheville bahan taslan and Newport, and Dykeman still divide their time in both chambers bahan taslan after Stokely died 1977th Dykeman and Stokely has written several books together.
After Dykeman died in 2006, the Appalachian bahan taslan writer Jeff Daniel Marion pairs called marriage "a partnership in every sense of the word," describing Dykeman and Stokely as "partners in writing, partners in marriage and partners have a similar point of view." bahan taslan
In addition, in honor of Wilma Dykeman who strongly advocated for the link between economic bahan taslan development and economic protection along the French Broad River, and that the City of Asheville buncombe county in Western North Carolina have adopted the Wilma Dykeman Riverway Plan - 17 - mile Greenway & Park system that intends to revitalize sustainable economic growth with the French broad and Swannanoa River.
Dykeman died on 22 December 2006 after suffering complications from hip fracture and subsequent hip surgery. She was buried in Beaverdam Baptist Church Cemetery in Asheville, near his childhood home in
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