Go Lively or Go Home
You have to go bigger than creepy-clown tropes to scare the kids (and Halloween-loving adults) these days, although the rural NC Haunted Farm in…
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Tools of the Future
As a consumerist society, we have developed into a throwaway culture of staggering proportions, and Repair Café encourages a paradigm reversal through repairs. It…
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Fiber Fair Hops on a Trend
Among animals known for their fiber, alpaca and sheep come first to mind, as well as goat for its cashmere. All have distinctive proteins…
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Unknown Lineage and Other Happy Endings
The fourth annual Tryon International Film Festival, held in Western North Carolina’s famous equestrian town, bursts onscreen with a rambunctious “woof” instead of a…
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America at Its Best
It’s the moment that Sarah Perschall, chief of visitor services at the Carl Sandburg National Historic Site, always remembers. The one that gets her…
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Elite with a Beat
To the untrained eye, the million-dollar-horse Chardonnay looks like he’s suddenly decided to prance in place, flexing his hock and fetlock joints with great…
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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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Grow It, and They Will Come
“Make the people love the forest.” Those were Governor Hunt’s words of advice on the opening of DuPont State Forest some 20 years ago,…
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A Breed Apart
Mike Corn studied Animal Science at NC State, graduating in 1974, and he’s been working with cows ever since. The owner of Small Acres…
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Time of His Life (for the Last Time)
At 45, Lyle Laney admits he’s not the dancer he used to be. But to thousands of fans, he’s still Lake Lure’s favorite…
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