Claws-on Learning
State Park program promotes quality time with wild animals During the last week of December, Chimney Rock Park will host “Winter Break Family Animal Encounters,”…
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Building a Better Universe
Local inventors go big with geometry-influenced construction toy Lisa and Mark Burginger owe a lot to Archimedes. Besides proving a laundry list of geometrical…
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Warming Hearts is Hard Work
Boutique card crafter elevated her game in 2020 In a time when best wishes are best served at a distance, greeting cards can do…
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Fired Up For 2021
Japanese-style pottery kiln opens at Blue Ridge Community College It looks like what might be the world’s biggest wood-fired brick oven. About as big as…
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If You Like Miniatures, This One’s For You
A side project that local artist Barbara Wilcox had originally put on the back burner quickly turned into what she now calls her “pandemic…
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“It’s Not a Performance, It’s a Ministry”
Foothills archival series highlights gospel’s role in our region This year, the Tryon Fine Arts Center launched its virtual “Illuminations Through Music and Heritage”…
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Only One Way to Play
Purveyor of boutique instruments sticks to handcrafted Eddie West knows guitars. He has to: As the owner of Area 22 Guitars in the heart…
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Stories on 7th
Tour focuses on Hendersonville’s historic outpost “Agriculture and tourism are two words that became part of our vocabulary when the first steam locomotive arrived in 1879…
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Real Help in Real Time
How to Be a Living Organ Donor Hendersonville resident Heather Ledbetter would be thankful for your help, and she needs it soon. She’s in…
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Eighty Pounds of Flannel and No Holiday Markets
How one area fiber farm is getting through 2020
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