Black Mountain
Britishnoun
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Born Roberta Cleopatra Flack on Feb. 10, 1937, in tiny Black Mountain, N.C., she was the daughter of Laron LeRoy, a draftsman who played piano, and Irene Flack, a church choir organist.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2025
The water that flows into the North Fork Reservoir, which serves Asheville and the towns of Black Mountain and Swannanoa, always ran clear and clean from its headwaters high in Pisgah National Forest.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2024
Both are involved with the Black Mountain Shared Space group.
From BBC • Jan. 28, 2023
When some artist friends told her about a new art school in the hills of North Carolina, Black Mountain College, she enrolled in 1946.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2022
Was she going to be a schoolteacher or a librarian or maybe open a beauty parlor down there on Black Mountain Road?
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
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