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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Down Came the Rain
This striking image, captured by Greg Holt of Fairview with his Samsung Galaxy S5, took first prize in Chimney Rock Park’s annual Spring Photo…
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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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The North Carolina Mountain State Fair hosts ten days of midway rides, livestock exhibitions, juried craft and crop competitions, and classic fair food —…
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Grow It, and They Will Come
“Make the people love the forest.” Those were Governor Hunt’s words of advice on the opening of DuPont State Forest some 20 years ago,…
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Come as You Are
“We needed a place just to sing,” says Laura Miklowitz. Her love of music rivals her passion for the outreach efforts of the Hendersonville…
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Operation Education
In June 1944, more than a year before the officially declared end of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law…
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Grape News for Teachers
This week, your child’s teacher wrangled around 30 kids coming down from eclipse mania who already aren’t too thrilled to be back in the…
Read MoreSparkling Success
Henderson County can now claim rights to what’s being called “the world’s most stunning brewery” — i.e. Sierra Nevada in Mills River, that gleaming…
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Wrong Answer
Quiz Show (1994), directed by Robert Redford, earned four Oscar nominations. Critics praised it, other filmmakers admired it, I absolutely loved it — but…
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