Land of the Night Sky
Forget holiday light shows for a moment – the tacky kind, the high-design kind, and all kinds in between – and consider the December…
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Community-Powered Christmas Tradition
For more than 30 years, Christmas in Hendersonville has included the annual Christmas Day Bounty of Bethlehem, an outreach of the city’s Immaculate Conception…
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“Flood of 1916” Centennial Program Serves a Wake-up Call
The Great Flood of 1916 was the worst natural disaster in Western North Carolina’s history. The rain began to fall the first week in…
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Popular Aluminum Tree Display Collects New Contributors
The Aluminum Tree and Aesthetically Challenged Seasonal Ornament Museum and Research Center (ATOM) first planted its shiny seasonal shrine in Transylvania County in 1998,…
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A Real Santa’s Workshop
Imagine a room overflowing with 1,500 toys, but not a Disney face or bit of plastic in sight. Everything from wooden hippos to handcrafted…
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Don’t Miss This, Y’all
Some of the major contributors to the popular Vintage Hendo market, including Cathy Lombardo and her “Lady Beatrice” line, will also appear at the…
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Arms Open for Fair Trade
In general, we might cast a side-eye on holiday bazaars held as early as the second week of November. But two promising events this…
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Got You Covered
As much of the perhaps-too-civilized world is gearing up for holiday shenanigans, the thoroughly original “Mossin’ Annie” Martin is still talking gardening. After all,…
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Strength in Shadows
Photojournalist José Galvez seeks out people and places that reveal the complexities of life across cultures. For more than 40 years he has documented…
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Trash Challenge
Sometimes trash talk is a good thing, if it leads to a cleaner planet. Toy engineers at the LEGO company helped design the innovative…
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