Flat Rock’s Ladies Aid Society Keeps Charity Close to Home With its Nonprofit Book Exchange
In just about every town of any size in Victorian America, there was a Ladies Aid Society — a group of well educated women…
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Miss Ross Speaks Her Mind
When her three children had flown the coop and gone to college, Ann. B. Ross of Hendersonville decided it was now her time. So…
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Retired Teacher Explores the History of School Segregation in Western North Carolina
When retired school teacher Betty Jamerson Reed began doing research on Brevard’s historic African-American school, little did she realize the project would evolve into…
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50 Shades of Love
Everyone loves a happy ending, none more so than the half-dozen or so women who meet monthly at Malaprop’s in Asheville to discuss their…
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The Guided Autobiography
“Why do writers write?” novelist Tom Bergen once pondered. “Because it isn’t there,” was his own answer. Diane Rhoades is one of those people…
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Odyssa Speaks
There are journeys outward and journeys inward. For Hendersonville-born author and hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis, the best of the former lead to the latter,…
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Living History
Even after 42 years of weekly columns for the Hendersonville Times-News and nine books, Louise Bailey never ran out of stories to tell and…
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The Carl Sandburg Home Welcomes an Award-Winning Poet this Month
It’s only fitting that Christina Lovin would be the first Writer-in-Residence at the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site in Flat Rock. First of all,…
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History in the Making
The cosmopolitan author William Henry Porter, famously known as O. Henry, who often visited Western North Carolina with his Asheville-born wife, complained “I could…
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The Bares Essentials
When Roger Bares decided ten years ago to write a book, it wasn’t Beyond The Sea: A Tale Of Love & War In The…
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