Briars to Bounty
Five years ago, the vacant lot beside First Congregational Church of Hendersonville looked like a lost cause. For starters, it was overgrown. Tenacious kudzu…
Read MoreFive years ago, the vacant lot beside First Congregational Church of Hendersonville looked like a lost cause. For starters, it was overgrown. Tenacious kudzu…
Read MoreBy July, Hendersonville’s fiberglass bear statues are deep into their six-month tenure on Main Street, reflecting the sun, fulfilling their duties as the collective…
Read MoreThe South mountains are exploding with Independence Day celebrations this year, never mind that July 4 proper falls on an early weekday. Lake Lure…
Read MoreAppalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s big, two-day farm tour is this weekend, but only the separately coordinated Polk Farm Fresh Tour, gives drivers the opportunity…
Read More“It burns intensely for a few minutes,” admits David Stallings, president of the Henderson County Beekeepers Association, who gets stung quite a bit. But…
Read MoreWhen Kathryn Pritchett met Pavel Gulov in the Monumental Art School at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox University in Moscow, she spoke no Russian, and “zank…
Read MoreAt 5:30pm on a Wednesday, most Hendersonville residents are fighting traffic or rustling up dinner. But just a few miles outside city limits in…
Read MoreOrganizers in Rosman are too mannerly to call their second annual event “The Other French Broad River Festival,” opting for a purely logistical designation:…
Read MoreIf bright sunshine and humid hoopla leave you dispirited, consider a delightfully off-season and otherworldly hike — led by local writer/historian Mary Jo Padgett…
Read MoreIt says something that Western North Carolina is able to flout the big-box oligarchies by supporting quite a few independent comic-book and gaming stores….
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