Asheville Archives: Billy Borne’s 1926 cartoons

We are looking back exactly 100 years to see the local and national issues cartoonist Billy Borne parodied and satirized in The Asheville Citizen.

Topics featured in Borne’s 1926 collection include concerns about inflated real-estate prices, tourism, the authorization of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, city expansion, traffic woes and financial distress.

Some things just don’t change, do they?

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