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…
Read MoreIn just about every town of any size in Victorian America, there was a Ladies Aid Society — a group of well educated women…
Read MoreWhen her three children had flown the coop and gone to college, Ann. B. Ross of Hendersonville decided it was now her time. So…
Read MoreWhen 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…
Read MoreEveryone 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…
Read More“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…
Read MoreThere are journeys outward and journeys inward. For Hendersonville-born author and hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis, the best of the former lead to the latter,…
Read MoreEven after 42 years of weekly columns for the Hendersonville Times-News and nine books, Louise Bailey never ran out of stories to tell and…
Read MoreIt’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,…
Read MoreThe cosmopolitan author William Henry Porter, famously known as O. Henry, who often visited Western North Carolina with his Asheville-born wife, complained “I could…
Read MoreWhen 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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