Other Than Apples
While apples rightly get all the love beginning in late summer, it’s not the only fruit in town. Queen’s Berry Farm in Pisgah Forest…
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Beginning late this month, apple season is firmly upon us — but orchard life isn’t for everyone. Sure, U-pick can be fun; however, epicureans…
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Street Smart
If Brevard Music Festival had a poster boy this season, it was the late composer Kurt Weill, whose life and times were explored in…
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Bison’s Eye View
When Bold Life last checked in with J. Aaron Alderman, the Brevard native was newly sponsored by Haen Gallery and known for his coiled-steel…
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Off the Rails
If you’re going to have a Train History Day, it’s helpful to have an intact relic on your property, and the Cradle of Forestry…
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She Speaks for the Trees
One of them looks like a dragon, its “face” and gnarled branches recognizable to anyone who’s ever hiked Milemarker 417, aka “Skinnydip Falls,” a…
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Barber Pole Blues
Piedmont lawyer Mike Lassiter spent six years and 30,000 miles chronicling the state of Small Town America, North Carolina-style. Photographing old hardware stores, diners,…
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Sacred Ground
A reception opens clay artist Lucy Clark’s exhibit that followed a three-week workshop she attended at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico, learning techniques of…
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Bats Belong in Transylvania County
Being leery of bats in 2017 just isn’t smooth. Depending on which region they’re inhabiting, they pollinate all your favorite fruits and drinks (mango,…
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American Pie
“People tell me it’s like they’re coming home,” Kirsten Fuchs, owner of the Baked Pie Company, told Bold Life last month. Her pie place in…
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