Many thanks to Zoe Rhine for her excellent opinion piece in the Dec. 11 Mountain Xpress, titled “Of Time and the River: Should the River Arts District Be Rebuilt?”. A generation ago, the original driver for a redesigned River Arts District (RAD) was Karen Cragnolin, executive director of a then-new organization called RiverLink. The idea was to celebrate a thriving arts community along the riverfront and to keep tourists in Asheville one day longer.