Property developer Raveen Enterprise initiated demolition of the car wash at 680 Haywood Road (in West Asheville) in January 2021.  

Questions concerning the future of the property circulated on social media — where a 17-year-old article from Mountain Xpress “Rising from the Grave” — was posted.  

This article highlighted the research done by the Painter family on the existence of an old chapel and colored cemetery in West Asheville.  

Local neighbors had shared rumors of the existence of the chapel that once stood near Haywood Road.  

During one of Conda Painter’s interviews, a neighbor shared a rare photo of Wilson’s Chapel.  From the topography in the photo, Painter was able to place the chapel between Virginia Avenue and Nevada Avenue — adjacent to Haywood Road.  

Though some of the tombstones were moved to Green Hill Cemetery, she believed not all the bodies were relocated.

During the first investigation in 2006, no evidence of grave tracts were discovered.

Recently, Asheville City Council took interest after being told Conda’s research claimed the existence of a colored cemetery.

Council stopped Raveen Enterprise from development and reopened the investigation on the site’s history.

The archeological dig commenced in April (thiw year). Nearly two months had passed and council was ready to conclude the investigation — until June 17, 2023.  

Evidence of existing burial plots was confirmed that day at the southeast corner of the old car wash.  

A sincere appreciation is given to the archeologist, Tasha Benyshek, for believing in Conda’s research and leading the dig.

Why does rainbow flag get more respect than flag? 

Regarding the raising of the rainbow flag... I understand that now, if you salute or display the U.S flag, you are now considered a bigoted racist.

And all this time, I thought I had nothing in common with liberals.

Here is another one I’ve thought of...

The gear logo in the River Arts (Gov’t) District is missing something... a swastika.

So the River Arts District is in sympathy with the German Workers Front, Germany’s 

official labor union in the 1930s.

New special hospital? Will it be like ‘One Flew Over Cuckoo’s Nest?’

I read (in the Daily Planet) about Asheville’s new behavioral health hospital on Sweeten Creek Road — and it sounds like (the novel by Ken Kesey and the film starring Jack Nicholson) “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

And its new chief operating officer, Melina Arrowood, sounds like Nurse Ratched.

Psychiatric drugs and psychiatric injections and ECT will still be used for punitive punishment and torture!

And the whole hospital is designed to crush the human spirit — and to keep the mental patients under chemical restraint and social control.

Again, Asheville is operating a mental health hospital that is a real-life version of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”