The White Buffalo of Farm Tours
Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s big, two-day farm tour is this weekend, but only the separately coordinated Polk Farm Fresh Tour, gives drivers the opportunity…
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Sweet Deal
“It burns intensely for a few minutes,” admits David Stallings, president of the Henderson County Beekeepers Association, who gets stung quite a bit. But…
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Building a Mystery
When Kathryn Pritchett met Pavel Gulov in the Monumental Art School at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University in Moscow, she spoke no Russian, and “zank…
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The Other Woman
Organizers in Rosman are too mannerly to call their second annual event “The Other French Broad River Festival,” opting for a purely logistical designation:…
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Fantasy and the Deal at Asheville Comic Con
It says something that Western North Carolina is able to flout the big-box oligarchies by supporting quite a few independent comic-book and gaming stores….
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New Beat: Tryon Celebrates
A refreshing addition to the spring festival scene unfolds this Saturday at the Depot in downtown Tryon. The first annual Afro-Fest encompasses a wide…
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What Can the Rosenwald Schools Teach Us?
Around 5,000 Rosenwald Schools were built in the American South in the early part of the last century, a collaboration between philanthropist Julius Rosenwald…
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Mom on the Rocks
Nothing says “I love you, Mom” quite like skipping the hours-long wait for brunch at some tedious chain restaurant and opting instead for a…
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Learning from the Past
During the first decades of the 20th century, a time marred by war and economic hardship, a unique model of activism emerged between an…
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Things That Go Slither in the Night
In the 1770s, settlers edging east from Tennessee found, in a cove of Pisgah National Forest, a bowl-shaped valley full of azalea, laurel, rhododendron,…
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Pop-up Hendo
Last month, Bold Life interviewed Cathy Lombardo about the drive behind Vintage Hendo (Vintage Pop-Up Market Speaks), her seasonal pop-up market where what is old…
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The Spring Arts & Flowers Festival
We like how Tryon has melded the two signature Southern-style outdoor events of the season — a plant-and-flower sale and an art-and-craft show —…
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