Counting on Transylvania
This Halloween, the inevitable finally happened: Count Von Count came to Transylvania County. At Halloweenfest 2018, Sesame Street in Communities and Transylvania County’s Get…
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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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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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“You Never Forget”
Dating back centuries, the ancient Chinese board game Mah Jongg has been a longstanding exercise in social interaction and cooperation. Rather than pointed…
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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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