Rocking Around the World
This fun, fancy little rock, painted a tropical green and decorated with a panda and bamboo-shoot stickers, was found next to the cash register…
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It’s Never Too Late for Lavender
“Where have all the flowers gone?” was a fair assessment to be made last month, with hordes of tourists at Craggy Gardens seen grumbling…
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Another Way Over the Mountain
At the turn of the year, the Arts Council of Hendersonville County announced the winner of its annual “Bring Us Your Best” competition, a…
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“All Maia’s Training Gets Put to the Test”
Maia is certified through the national organization “American Mantrailing, Police, & Working Dog Association (AMPWDA)” as both a live-find trailing dog and a Human…
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The Lost Art of Lingering
The idea of a secret restaurant is storybook charming. Not that Newman’s Restaurant at The Orchard Inn & Spa in Saluda, set inside a rambling vintage resort, is some kind of speakeasy or private club. Quite the opposite.
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Taking Wing
Raynard Walker is running a cottage industry in wings at DreadLife Kitchen in Edneyville. The Hendersonville native started with a home-based catering company and…
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Swimming Through the Trends
Industrial pendant lamps have become trendy in vacation homes and rustic-décor gastropubs — thick-rimmed, steel, hanging low over kitchen islands and bars like pocket…
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Apples for Days (Even Years)
The record spring rain that prompted mudslides and evacuations in Henderson County apparently didn’t hurt the all-important apple crop at Sky Top Orchard,…
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Floating Past the Pain
As though hosting one of the country’s most scenic triathlons weren’t enough — all the top-ten lists include it — the Lake Lure…
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Surviving With Flavor
“Hard as a hickory nut” is an old-timey saying, and presumably Hickory Nut Gorge holds a fair amount of this namesake specimen. But…
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