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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Blind Faith
So much of our perception of the world around us arrives by sight that losing that sensory connection can seem catastrophic. But Deborah Fazio,…
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In the Moment, for the Past
Saluda’s Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, with its distinctive square steeple and Carpenter Gothic details, has been a local landmark since the building was…
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Flying Away from Human Mentors
Hendersonville may be a few hundred miles from the ocean, but the recent renovation and reopening of the Team Ecco Aquarium & Shark Lab,…
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Opening Arguments
When the golden-domed Historic Henderson County Courthouse on Main Street opened in 1905, the North Carolina Supreme Court had been convening in Raleigh for…
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The Sisyphean Struggle in Bronze
Sometimes the creative impulse has to bide its time. Fred McMullen waited until the last of his four children had graduated from high school…
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Mixed-media artist still feels the pull of classical European influences
As a young girl, Cathryn Cooper was already a collector of odd bits of paper, leaves, ribbons — anything that caught her eye. “I…
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Retired diplomat explains the complexities of the American/Chinese relationship
At this winter’s global economic summit in Davos, Switzerland, attention fell on the increasingly frayed economic relationship between the United States and China, as…
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