Making the Grade
They are often hidden away, in closets or bottom drawers — those childhood mementos of an earlier, and, it seems, simpler time: the…
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Home Sweet Mandala
Travel can broaden anyone’s horizons, but for Hendersonville’s Ashley Spero, it has also shaped a striking body of visual art. Her work is inspired…
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It’s All Relative
You may spend a lot of time dealing with the quirks of your relatives, but then there’s Relativity, which is full of quirks that…
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Delivering History
Sending yourself through the mail today might be a prank on a reality-TV show, but in 1848, it was brave beyond comprehension. An enslaved…
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Taking Wing
Bonnie Joy Bardos created her first paintings when she was just two years old, although her parents may not have appreciated her budding…
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The Strongest Impression
Like a teenager of any generation, Cathy Burgess was impressionable. Doubly so: she had her most important youthful epiphany at the Museum of Modern…
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The Manor Reborn
It’s been four years since Flat Rock’s historic homes were last opened to visitors, but “50” has a definite ring, so the wait was…
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Farm to Fork to Farm
This spring’s record rainfall, floods, and mudslides couldn’t have come at a worse time for Henderson County’s agriculture and the family farms whose business…
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Somewhere Between Structure & Spontaneity
Joel Edwards already wears several artist’s hats — accomplished portraitist, teacher, gallery owner. And now a previously unacknowledged influence in his early training finds…
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Reflections of a Reverend’s Daughter
When Pearlie Mae Suber Harris was growing up in Saluda’s small, strong African-American community in the 1930s and 1940s, certain rules were in place…
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