Community Service
Save Asheville’s Tree Canopy
Although it sits in the midst of the cool Appalachian temperate rain forest, Asheville, North Carolina, has been losing nearly 100 acres of tree canopy a year to bad development practices since at least 2008, and the city’s land-surface temperature … Continue reading
Feeling Outraged About U.S. Politics?
American Pagans and Witches can be a formidable voting block and force of change to ensure a fair voting process and elect candidates that support our spiritual traditions of acting compassionately and preserving nature. Here are some ways we recommend. … Continue reading
Beltane Rite with a College Class
Update: A fall 2019 visit by Wofford students left them with unforgettable impressions. Queen Lady Passion and *Diuvei often host groups of college and university students who want to experience traditional Witchcraft. In this capacity Coven Oldenwilde hosted a circle … Continue reading
Open letter to Lady Passion
Dear Queen Lady Passion, For 20 years of outdoor public Samhains, I was privileged to witness up close your always-astonishing versatility and skill reach new heights every October. I want to offer you in this open letter my thanks, praise, … Continue reading
Police videotaping revealed
[php] $thisSubdir=’gen_info’; $thisPage=’APD videos’;[/php] Actual police video of Samhain 1996 and activist video of police videotaping cannabis activists in Asheville City Council meeting, 1998, released here for the first time. See articles about our video release: Asheville Citizen-Times, “Wiccans release … Continue reading
Asheville Women Fight “Big Power” to Save a Foothills Wilderness
An article by *Diuvei (Steve Rasmussen) is the Verve Magazine cover story for October 2013: The Box Creek Brockoviches When electricity came to Brackett Town in 1948, the men who wired the church in the onetime gold-mining village near the … Continue reading
Bele Chere 2013: Going Out With Style
For the third year in a row, Coven Oldenwilde manned a “beer bracelet” booth during Asheville’s annual street fair held on the last weekend in July. This year was heartrending since weeks before, City Council voted to discontinue the event … Continue reading
Whistleblowers Unite!
by Lady Passion Recent near-daily T.V. news reports have revealed the extremes that the U.S. government is willing go to in order to demonize domestic whistle-blowers — those who act as oversight to benefit citizens by exposing an organization’s wrongdoing. … Continue reading
Bele Chere 2012: The Rule of Two
Slideshow of Coven Oldenwilde’s wristband booth and volunteers at Bele Chere 2012. First time’s beginners’ luck; second time’s a challenge. That’s the “Rule of Two” we wrote about in The Goodly Spellbook, and our second year running a nonprofit wristband … Continue reading
Bele Chere 2011
Good company! Bele Chere is the Southeast’s biggest annual street festival, and for the first time ever the city of Asheville invited us Witches to help out. On Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30, 2011, volunteers from Coven Oldenwilde … Continue reading