The Winter School site is the Montreat Conference Center located in the mountains of North Carolina near Asheville. Over 4,000 acres of mountain scenery will greet school participants. The conference center offers a variety of comfortable and convenient meeting facilities. The Winter School will be held in Assembly Inn which features a combination of sleeping rooms, the Galax Dining Room, a spacious lobby for socializing and an excellent staff ready to make this a truly pleasant and rewarding experience. Montreat is located 15 miles east of Asheville, North Carolina off Interstate 40 and Exit 64 at Black Mountain.

With its rich history, Black Mountain naturally has become an antique searchers "heaven-on-earth."  Antique shops dominate and evern the old original depot displays handicrafts and "nostalgia."

Interstate 40, which makes the mountains to the east easy to climb, cuts through this once quiet valley where self-sufficient people just a couple of hundred years ago lived in mud-daubed log cabins and cooked in open fireplaces the meat and vegetables they had raised or hunted.  The old state coach stops have given way to old/new bed and breakfast homes, inns, a hotel, motels, and modern eating places.

The mountains are still here with their beauty and serenity.  The brooks still ripple under the beautiful native shrubs.  And the descendents of the early settlers are still waiting to greet you.