Building a Better Universe
Local inventors go big with geometry-influenced construction toy Lisa and Mark Burginger owe a lot to Archimedes. Besides proving a laundry list of geometrical…
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Back With Bells On
Beloved seasonal play is staged in a safe format Responding to the COVID-19 crisis, all 41 Broadway theaters in midtown Manhattan closed on March…
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Warming Hearts is Hard Work
Boutique card crafter elevated her game in 2020 In a time when best wishes are best served at a distance, greeting cards can do…
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Eighty Pounds of Flannel and No Holiday Markets
How one area fiber farm is getting through 2020
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“Intimacy Despite Distance”
Art on Main does as much as it can with a virtual platform Becky Smith forges fairytales. A Canton-based jewelry artist, Smith writes fables…
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Change Begets Change
A cancelled festival prompts crop diversification — and a renewed zeal for local About 25 years ago, Beth Laughter and her sister-in-law Kim Hill of Circle…
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Medicine at your Doorstep
Online harvest conference features traditional Cherokee foods When Mary Crowe talks about superfoods, there’s no mention of acai or activated charcoal. Rather, her take…
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A Product of Time, Place, and Taboo
Morgana, Mississippi, is to Eudora Welty as Green Branch, South Carolina, is to Spartanburg writer Susan Beckham Zurenda. Besides being fictitious backdrops for exploring…
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Wild Life
In July 1966, a brutal murder in Henderson County would ooze to the surface of consciousness like rainwater saturating drywall. Terry Neal summarizes the gruesome crime thusly: “Three people were murdered in a small town in the mountains of Western North Carolina. But there was much, much, much more to the story than anyone would’ve realized.”
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The People Still Need a Poet
The deep fryer is fertile ground for poetry. While tending to chicken thighs churning in hot vegetable oil, part-time deli worker, part-time dishwasher, and “people’s poet” Tony Robles writes. He writes about peach cobbler and green beans, about snapping turtles marooned on Greenville Highway. He writes about racism. But mostly, Robles writes about people.
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