by Ann Lee Miller | Aug 4, 2017 | Blog, Hendersonville NC, Just The Facts Fridays
I’d hiked uphill behind Ridgecrest Baptist Conference Center in Black Mountain, North Carolina. A summer breeze ruffled the nearby leaves and cooled the sweat on my skin. I turned around to a sea of greens my color-blind eyes couldn’t catalogue. A dirt road curled up... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Dec 16, 2016 | Blog, Hendersonville NC, Just The Facts Fridays, Our Lady of the Hills Camp
After pulling the overnight waitress shift at a Daytona Beach HoJo’s for a month—just me and a big black ex-con flipping burgers—camp never sounded better. But I hadn’t counted on a different kind of danger driving into Our Lady of the Hills in 1977 in the back of... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Dec 2, 2016 | Blog, Hendersonville NC, Just The Facts Fridays
The Florida to North Carolina trek took sixteen hours—one for each year I’d been alive—or long enough to read Go Ask Alice, Love Story, and a Mad Magazine cover to cover. I packed my K-Mart steamer trunk with enough T-shirts, shampoo, and books for a summer at Our... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Sep 16, 2016 | Blog, Hendersonville NC, Just The Facts Fridays, Our Lady of the Hills Camp
My heart thumped faster as the guy in the Our Lady of the Hills Camp T-shirt rounded the van onto a tree-canopied dirt road. My folks’ divorce last year had ushered in TV, telephone, and air conditioning. Now my dream of going to boarding school—even if it was only... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Aug 29, 2014 | Blog, Hendersonville NC, Just The Facts Fridays, Our Lady of the Hills Camp
During August I’m blogging about Our Lady of the Hills Camp near Hendersonville, North Carolina–now owned by Highland Lake Inn. I transplanted the camp to a Florida beach town for my novel, Kicking Eternity. E-copies on sale this weekend for .99! An excerpt appears at... 
by Ann Lee Miller | Aug 22, 2014 | Blog, Hendersonville NC, Just The Facts Fridays, Our Lady of the Hills Camp
During August I’m blogging about Our Lady of the Hills Camp near Hendersonville, North Carolina–now owned by Highland Lake Inn. I transplanted the camp to a Florida beach town for my novel, Kicking Eternity. An excerpt appears at the bottom of this post. I...
