Warren Wilson College

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Im thinking of going there for a religous studies degree...does anyone know anything ?

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

i had a couple friends from high school that went there and liked it A LOT. so much so that i think they still live in the area. don't know much about it besides that, though.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

Brian Wilson college would be much groovier.

― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Warren Wilson College is pretty hippy already, tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 04:57 (twenty years ago)

I know a dude who got a MFA from there by mail or something. Which seemed a little odd, but apparently it's well respected.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

Asheville is a pretty fantastic little town - culturally, there's a lot going on (music/movies/arts/etc.) and the mountains are absolutely beautiful. Good restaurants, too. I was very envious of people living in Asheville (I used to live about an hour away, across the Tennessee border.) They get a surprisingly good number of indie-type shows - for example, I noticed that within the span of ten days last year, Tortoise, the Fall, Squarepusher, and Death Cab for Cutie all played there (all at the The Orange Peel!) Not shabby for a town with a population of 70,000.

I have a friend who went to Warren Wilson for a few years and loved it (he had to leave due to circumstances beyond his control), although I don't know specifics about the college other than that it is very hippie, as hstencil said. The town is pretty hippie, in the kind of educated earthy liberal natural foods way.

The free weekly paper there is the Mountain Xpress, to give you an idea of what's going on in town: http://www.mountainx.com/

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

i went thru asheville on tour in 2003. nice but watch out for the state troopers.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 05:52 (twenty years ago)

The parents of a very good friend of mine are on faculty there (or at least one is, the other might be retired, I'm not sure). I visited them a few years ago. I love that whole kind of Appalachian bohemia there in Western N.C. -- Asheville, Black Mountain, Hot Springs, etc. -- and Warren Wilson seems like it's part of that. It's a whole work-study thing, right? The students I met didn't seem overly hippie -- some of that, but also a lot of fresh-faced hiking/outdoorsy types. Plus every summer they have the Swannanoa Gathering there.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

(And there is a ton of great music in the area, for sure. Especially if you like the trad/folk stuff, but even beyond that Asheville is a great music town. I know a guy who books shows there and in several larger cities, and he can sell out things in Asheville that only draw half-houses in bigger markets. It's a very arts-centric population.)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

fresh-faced hiking/outdoorsy types = hippies

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

Not really. There's overlap, sure, but the outdoorsy types I mean are the ones who were on the track team in high school, don't smoke pot (or anything), and are getting doctorates in biology. That kind of fresh-faced outdoorsy type.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

I haven't travelled that much or anything, but Asheville is my absolute favourite place that I have ever been.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 07:40 (twenty years ago)

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