History Hounds

Photo Credit: Lauren May

This was an exciting week at Vance! Leading tours and PUPPIES!!!

On Thursday, I lead my first guided tour site!!! My first tour was the 11 o'clock tour which is the first of the day and I took out Lauren and a young family of three who have just moved to the area. The couple had an adorable daughter of about five. She was very interested in the artifacts in the house, so I played to that. I got down on her level, and directed that section of the tour at her. I was very nervous leading the tour, but Lauren said in our chat afterwords that I had done well. Because of nerves there were a few things I left out, like the Buncombe Turnpike, but Lauren said that not a big deal and that with every tour I would remember the information I had forgotten in the last one. She was right. She also thought that nervousness could have been because she was there watching, so she let me take the next one out by myself, and again she was right. The second tour went even better! It felt so amazing to be living my dream of being an interpreter of history. I couldn't stop smiling for the rest of the day!

Lauren & Whitle

On Saturday, we had our History Hounds adoption event with Brother Wolf Animal rescue from 10am - 1pm. The ladies of BWAR brought with them:

Hemley, a 2 year old Beagle.

Mooncake, an 8 month old Beagle.

Whistle, is a 6 years 2 months old Shepherd mix.

Skeeter, a 7 years 2 months old Yorkie mix.

Lisa, (Pictured above), a 3 years 5 months old Hound.

And Hailey, a 5 year old Dachshund mix.

By the ended of the event Whistle had a possible forever home, Hemley went home with a lovely couple new to the Asheville area, and I'm currently trying to convince my parents in to letting me adopt Hailey! So please stay tuned!

Puppy Love
Prior to the event, Lauren and I knew that we would fall in love with one or more of the dogs. We just couldn't help it, but Timothy, who told me he wasn't that excited about the dogs, got sucked in! Here he is pictured with Skeeter and Hailey. All morning Hailey barked her little head off when she saw Timothy, but the minute he sat down, she was okay!

Lauren fell in love with Hemley, but her apartment building won't let her have a dog, so she had to let him go. She did however, come up with the best line of the day in reference to Hemley. "He's a little chubby, and needs to loose his balls, but he's a good dog!"

While all this cuteness was going on, I also gave the 11 o'clock tour to a small group visiting from Hersey, PA. They are here for a wedding. They saw the Vance birthplace Historic Site sign in Weaverville and decided to check us out. Overall it was a great week at Vance!

If anyone is interested in adopting one of these amazing dogs, or any of the countless other animals at BWAR, then head to the adoption page on Brother Wolf's website. https://www.bwar.org/

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  1. UPDATE: My family and I adopted Hailey the dachshund mix on Monday!

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