Not Judging By Appearances
Fonda Clark Haight has a favorite story from Sufi teaching, about an aging master whose disciples worry what will happen to them when he…
Read MoreSaluda
Voice of Several Generations
Darrell Scott is perhaps best known for the songs he’s written that have been recorded by others — big-time others that include the Dixie…
Read More
From the Curbside to the Classroom
Originally from Hickory and currently settled in Morganton, multi-genre multi-instrumentalist Joseph Hasty is immersed in a life of music. Audiences might find this retired…
Read More
Taking Wing
Bonnie Joy Bardos created her first paintings when she was just two years old, although her parents may not have appreciated her budding…
Read More
Lennon Through New Glasses
Imagine what it would have been like to spend a couple of years with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the mid-1970s. That’s…
Read More
In the Moment, for the Past
Saluda’s Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, with its distinctive square steeple and Carpenter Gothic details, has been a local landmark since the building was…
Read More
The Animals You Know
For this ambitiously whimsical exhibit at The Pottery in Saluda, owner Doc Welty has sculpted an animal for each of the 26 letters of…
Read More
The Olden Dog Days
Two generations of Carl Lee McGraw’s family harvested raccoon meat and took the pelts to market. For his granddaddy and daddy, rambling through Polk…
Read More