One Big Family, One Serious Game
Life lessons can come from anywhere, as Jay Fitzpatrick learned when he started playing shuffleboard. It was 1999, and he’d just moved to Hendersonville…
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Different Strummers
As an internationally acclaimed luthier, Jay Lichty of Tryon makes only about 30 stringed instruments a year — guitars and ukuleles — in his…
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Green and Growing (and Growing and Growing)
It smothers hillsides throughout the South, turning telephone poles into spooky green smokestacks straight out of a vintage horror movie. It’s immune to herbicides,…
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2017 Solar Eclipse Information Session
Hendersonville is in the 99-percent viewable range for the Great American Eclipse on August 21 — an epically historic event not seen in populated…
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Bright Spot
It’s not easy to get a white buffalo born on your bison farm — and once you have one, it’s even harder to safely…
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Security Measure
The newest way to calm pre-flight jitters isn’t dabbing on essential oil or assuming the Shavasana pose in the TSA lane. It’s Grace — an…
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When the Sun and the Moon Align
According to legend, a solar eclipse happens because a dragon swallows the sun. However, not even ancient monsters could devour the cosmic serendipity that…
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A Small Universe
The word “bog” may conjure up an insalubrious patch of muddy, mosquito-ridden terrain, but to photographer Michael Oppenheim, it is a small universe of…
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Off the Rails
If you’re going to have a Train History Day, it’s helpful to have an intact relic on your property, and the Cradle of Forestry…
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Banner Day
Last fall, Bold Life ran a story about Blue Ridge Honor Flight’s mission to take Korean War veterans to the memorial in Washington D.C.,…
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