Falling Into Place
In his O. Henry Award-winning short story “Speckle Trout,” Ron Rash writes of the mountain fish’s “water-flesh” gleaming like mica in “spring-flow gaps.” A…
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Trotting to the Forefront
Historically, horses of the Blue Ridge foothills were bred to work. Saluda, Tryon, Columbus, and Landrum, SC, were all born on the backs of…
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Hope for Monarch Butterflies
As the Mexican legend goes, ancestral spirits make an annual migration back to earth as Monarch butterflies. Their blood-orange-and-black-tipped wings flutter over the Sierra…
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Rhyme Scheming
Decades ago, Brevard College English professor Kenneth Chamlee, then an undergraduate at Mars Hill College, headed west. For him — a Greenville, S.C. native…
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Famous Fighter Jack Dempsey’s Laurel Park Reign
In the Roaring ’20s, Laurel Park Estates, a 10,000-acre development situated where the current Town of Laurel Park stands, was in an upswing. Money…
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Balfour: Remembering a Hendersonville Mill Town
In the thick of the Great Depression, Frank Massimino, an employee of the Federal Writers’ Project, produced a “life history” manuscript titled “The Deever Taylors.”…
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