Working the Land
Brevard-based artist Bianca Mitchell is inspired by the oral history of Transylvania County, where Lake Toxaway is North Carolina’s largest private, manmade lake. Generations…
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The Multi-Tasking Bouquet
With more than 11,000 followers on Instagram, Bethany Joy Adams is a clear example of how young artists grow success in the digital age….
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Thousands of Steps to End Hunger
A rural county known for agricultural production may seem like the last place where children would not have enough to eat. But the statewide…
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“I Wanted to See if I Could Do It”
It’s Chris Tinkler’s eighth summer with Tryon Little Theater’s Summer Youth Show, and he’s currently directing the musical James and the Giant Peach, based…
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It Could Still Happen
Judy Tenuta, the self-described “Petite Flower” and “Love Goddess” with the salty roar and signature line — “It could happen!” — saw her star…
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Three-Season Secret
Polk County native Dawn Jordan is her home region’s Agricultural Economic Development Director. The local government’s ag office and nonprofits such as Growing Rural…
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Purring Door Prizes and Rabid Groupies
Flat Rock resident Georgia Bonesteel has written 10 books on quilting, was the founding president of the Western North Carolina Quilters Guild, and has…
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The Foreigner opens at Hendersonville Community Theatre
Director Beth Bristol admits the play’s characters seem farfetched. And yet she thinks a lot of us can still relate to The Foreigner, a…
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Shocking News
If WNC residents feel trembling in their bones this Halloween, it might not be from children dressed as demons or the impending presidential election,…
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Noah’s Art
Ann DerGara usually does abstract work. But living in Brevard “put me back in touch with nature,” she says. Now horses and crows routinely…
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