The Shape of Harmony
It’s 1906, and the air inside Etowah Methodist Church probably smells of a recent church supper: cornbread and pickled okra. Families are settled in…
Read MoreIt’s 1906, and the air inside Etowah Methodist Church probably smells of a recent church supper: cornbread and pickled okra. Families are settled in…
Read MoreEdith Edwards, aka the Kudzu Queen, deep-fried her first kudzu leaf on August 22, 1981. Decades later, she still remembers dipping the fronds in cold tempura batter and then…
Read MoreFive years ago, the vacant lot beside First Congregational Church of Hendersonville looked like a lost cause. For starters, it was overgrown. Tenacious kudzu…
Read MoreMost theatrical hiccups — wardrobe malfunctions, mis-timed cues, choppy lines — go unnoticed by casual onlookers. But unfortunately, some gaffes are just too conspicuous….
Read MoreAt 5:30pm on a Wednesday, most Hendersonville residents are fighting traffic or rustling up dinner. But just a few miles outside city limits in…
Read MoreMost write off Marsha Norman’s ‘night Mother, a sobering drama that follows a middle-aged divorcée in the hours before her suicide, as downright dour….
Read MoreIn the 1770s, settlers edging east from Tennessee found, in a cove of Pisgah National Forest, a bowl-shaped valley full of azalea, laurel, rhododendron,…
Read MoreWhen she was only 10, Rose Furney clicked with a feral cat she named Snowball. The Henderson County-based animal communicator remembers knowing just what…
Read MoreSome Brit Lit purists may balk at Blue Ridge Community College Drama Department’s comic spinoff of Sense & Sensibility. But by this point, in…
Read MoreWhen Dr. Walter Ziffer finished writing his memoir, Confronting the Silence: A Holocaust Survivor’s Search for God, in 2007, he considered it more a…
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