“It’s About to Start Getting Better”
“When you can look a kid in the eyes and say, ‘I believe you,’ that is the beginning of the healing process,” proffers…
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Back to the Ballgame
Her husband hadn’t spoken much lately, not even to say hello, a participant told Debbie Nordeen following a session of Side by Side Singing,…
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“A Hundred Years in a Blink”
When Rain Parker and Temica Ferguson quit their jobs in 2010 and headed for a farm in Transylvania County, they knew very little about…
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Building a Mystery
When Kathryn Pritchett met Pavel Gulov in the Monumental Art School at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University in Moscow, she spoke no Russian, and “zank…
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Bow and Era
Few instruments are as synonymous with an emotion as the violin is with love. Certainly acclaimed violinist Anne Akiko Meyers knew that when she…
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Ministry of Hats
“Everyone can wear a hat,” pronounces Sandra Suber, owner of Ianodell’s Hat Shop in Mills River. “You just have to adjust it to fit…
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“Grey With the Hue of Twilight”
Moss Hollowe Farms already has a fairytale appeal, as does the fiber art made there. Fittingly, the most high-profile residents of the place —…
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