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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Card Catalog 2020
Homebound reading by the numbers The pandemic lockdown has been vexing to any number of businesses and service providers, but has been uniquely challenging…
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League of Their Own
Branch of 100-year-old group gears up for 2020 Not long after Rachel Poller and her husband Peter Zimring left big-city life in the Northeast for…
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An Asteroid of One’s Own
Local space center makes a stellar innovation for homebound students Once upon a time, in the universe of 2019, kids got to look through…
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Eight Feet of Empowerment
Hendersonville artist makes largest La Catrinas in U.S. Hola Carolina, a WNC nonprofit devoted to promotion of Latinx culture, has found a larger-than-life way…
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Creativity in Crisis
World-class film event weathers worldwide challenges When they first launched the Tryon International Film Festival five years ago, Beau Menetre and Kirk Gollwitzer aimed…
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