Flag Waving
On a recent visit to Winchester, Virginia, Costanza Knight saw the light behind the light. Strolling downtown, she noticed the lampposts lining Main Street….
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Creative Anachronisms
The story idea for Leanna Sain’s first romance novel came to her on a holiday typically more gruesome than glamorous: Halloween. The local author…
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Edgy Angels
In her body of work branded “Fractured Angelics,” local artist Kate Thompson creates angels reminiscent of those on ancient frescos. This summer she taught…
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Keeping the Home Fires Burning
In 2009, local musician Tom Fisch heard about a single father with young daughters whose power had been turned off. The dad was working…
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Area Collector Helps Keep Artisan Legacy Alive
Put Tryon resident in a time machine, and he wouldn’t waste time hemming and hawing about which past date to visit. “I’d go back…
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Art and Anarchy
Casual collectors and connoisseurs alike are quick to call Peter Chumbley’s work “folk art,” and he doesn’t argue with them. But he certainly doesn’t…
Read MoreLadies Aid Society of Flat Rock Benefit for Area Nonprofits
Flat Rock was born when affluent Charlestonians began heading to Western North Carolina to build their summer estates. So it’s no surprise that what…
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Six Weeks For Nina
Since late January, the Tryon art gallery Upstairs [artspace] has been busy paying a multifaceted birthday tribute to their town’s most famous — sometimes…
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It’s a Hard Lox Life
Why is this year’s HardLox Jewish Food and Heritage Festival different from all other HardLox festivals (to borrow, arguably, the best-known line of the…
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“Cold” Grapes are Hot Topic
“When I’m in a vineyard with my hands on the vines, I feel like I’m communicating with nature,” says Chuck Blethen, proprietor of Jewel…
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