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Those of you who, like Shannon McCluney, have entrusted artifacts of your family heritage to the now closed Appalachian Cultural Museum should not despair that your choices are to take them back home or leave them to a most uncertain fate is some out-of-sight storeroom at the University.
There are potential homes for them brighter than the one they most recently inhabited. That is, in large measure, because these homes are dedicated to the preservation of the culture of the people and maintained by people committed to that end. A look at their web sites I have listed below will, I believe, give one a feeling that, although they may be a few miles more to travel, they will culturally feel much closer to home. I encourage you to consider them.
http://www.averymuseum.com/
From their web site:
“The Avery County Historical Museum is housed in the old Avery County Jail, built in 1912 and set aside as a museum by the County Commissioners in 1976.”
http://www.caldwellheritagemuseum.org/
From their web site:
…last remaining Davenport College building…
The school board agreed to lease the building to the building to the historical society for $1.00 per year…
http://porter.appstate.edu/1904ashecourthouse/
From their web site:
“Today, our irreplaceable 1904 Courthouse is conservatively valued at $500,000. It has occupied a place on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979.”
Ashe County leased the courthouse property for $1 a year for 99 years to the CPO
It is clear that Appalachian University has assigned a priority for preservation of the culture that spawned it well behind its priorities for economic and academic growth. As such, it has no business being in the museum business and ought to “spin off” the Appalachian Cultural Museum. Based on its behavior in this matter it appears that that is exactly what it has attempted to do and found no takers.
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