ZELDA FITZGERALD: Her Lifelong Love of and Visits to Asheville

JOIN US AT AMERIHEALTH CARITAS for this Evening Event: Friday, March 8th; 6-7PM.

The Asheville community and visitors, will have an opportunity to learn more about Zelda’s life (and those of her contemporaries) by attending the 2024 Zelda Fitzgerald Events, happening March 7 - 10th.

ZELDA FITZGERALD: Her Lifelong Love of and Visits to Asheville, with keynote speaker, Dr. Alaina Doten, curator and director of the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. Doten, will review Zelda and the Sayre family's lifelong love and visits to Asheville, spanning from Zelda's childhood to her time at Highland Hospital; including various visits in between. Along with being an authority on Fitzgerald, Doten, hosts a weekly Podcast, “Zelda’s Peaches & Biscuits”, https://www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org/zeldas-peaches-and-biscuits-podcast

It’s been almost 80 years, since Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald passed away in the tragic Highland Hospital fire on March 10, 1948, and people are still enraptured by her persona.

Many know about Fitzgerald (Zelda), from the mythos surrounding her: Southern belle, Jazz Age icon, muse and model to her famous writer husband, tragic troubled beauty. But by moving beyond these popular culture legends to become an accomplished professional—novelist, journalist, ballet dancer, painter and illustrator—she appropriated and tried to gain control of her own mythos to recover and define herself.

Through her work, she attempted to achieve a degree of agency that the circumstances of her life—her Southern background, her marriage, and her illness— often denied her. This year’s events highlight the circumstances of women creatives from this period.

Host or Publisher AmeriHealth Caritas NC -Asheville Wellness Center