Black Mountain

Black Mountain is a small town that has played a disproportionately large role in American cultural history because it's the site of Black Mountain College. For more than 20 years in the middle of the 20th century, from its founding in 1933 to its closing in 1957, Black Mountain College was one of the world's leading centers for experimental art, literature, architecture, and dance, with a list of faculty and students that reads like a Who's Who of American arts and letters.