“You Never Forget”
By Elise Lasko Dating back centuries, the ancient Chinese board game Mah Jongg has been a longstanding exercise in social interaction and cooperation. Rather…
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Farm to Fork to Farm
This spring’s record rainfall, floods, and mudslides couldn’t have come at a worse time for Henderson County’s agriculture and the family farms whose business…
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Find out what Community Foundation of Henderson County has been up to this past year in this special report…
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Proud of the Plaid
“There is absolutely no truth to the myth that ‘Mac’ is Scottish and ‘Mc’ is Irish,” boldly claims Rich Shader, a member of the…
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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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In the Moment, for the Past
Saluda’s Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, with its distinctive square steeple and Carpenter Gothic details, has been a local landmark since the building was…
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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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Come as You Are
“We needed a place just to sing,” says Laura Miklowitz. Her love of music rivals her passion for the outreach efforts of the Hendersonville…
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Opening Arguments
When the golden-domed Historic Henderson County Courthouse on Main Street opened in 1905, the North Carolina Supreme Court had been convening in Raleigh for…
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“The Reward of a Living Wage” — 100 Years Later
“If a country is justified in rewarding its heroic pioneers,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumna Ellen Swallow Richards wrote in her 1907 report, Desirable…
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