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Night 1
Asheville. The Flat Iron Hotel.
Welcome dinner together. The gathering begins. Breakfast on the hotel roof each morning.
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Day 2
Asheville.
Scheduled lunch together. Choose your afternoon: the Asheville Art Museum, the Botanical Gardens, or the evening serenity walk. Dinner on your own, we will send you where to go.
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Day 3
Black Mountain.
Black Mountain College tour together. Lunch in Black Mountain. Afternoon free. Dinner on your own.
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Day 4
West Jefferson. The Historic Old Hotel.
Morning drive from Asheville. Arrive, check in, lunch together. Free afternoon, walk the town, find the light, rest. Dinner on your own or in small groups.
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Day 5
The Frescoes.
St. Mary's Episcopal in West Jefferson and Holy Trinity Episcopal in Glendale Springs. The whole day, unhurried, together. Evening: dinner with a topic. A question worth sitting with after what you have seen.
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Day 6
Charlotte.
The Bank of America Corporate Center, the secular fresco permanent in the wall of one of America's largest financial institutions. Farewell lunch. Departures.
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Day 7
Blowing Rock.
Rumple Memorial Presbyterian Church. The Good Shepherd and Psalm 23. The town of Blowing Rock, where Ben Long and Tony Griffin spent summers together making art.
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Day 8
Montreat and Crossnore.
Chapel of the Prodigal at Montreat College. Return of the Prodigal. Then Crossnore School. Suffer the Little Children. Two of the most moving works on the trail.
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Day 9
Wilkesboro.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church. St. Paul's Conversion and St. Paul Writing His Epistles.
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Day 10
Charlotte and Statesville. Full day.
The Bank of America Corporate Center. The Statesville Civic Center. The Charlotte churches. The complete secular and civic arc of what Ben Long built beyond the mountains. Farewell dinner. Departures.