John Cram Saw Something In Asheville, Then Committed His Life to Showing Everybody Else - a podcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio - BPR Arts & Performance

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Deborah Lewis-Smith grew up in Asheville, and the first thought she had upon meeting John Cram, in 1971, was he wasn't going to stay in town very long. "John was bigger than Asheville," Lewis-Stein recalled. "It was like, 'Oh, he's going to get bored and leave.' Instead, he brought the party to Asheville." That party is continuing strong in the wake of Cram's death Monday after a long battle with Parkinson's Disease. He was 72. A year after moving to Asheville from Wisconsin, Cram opened New

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