The Shirts Off Their Backs
Raising fiber animals for love, art, and profit By: Lee Stevens As the most senior employee at Mountain Top Fibers, Frankie doesn’t punch a…
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Lessons of Nashville
How Sam Lewis didn’t get fenced in Sam Lewis is nominally an Americana artist. But a listen to any of his albums — most…
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The Inside Scoop
Competitive ice-cream-eating champs will try for a “three-peat” Showing up on a Tuesday to the North Carolina Mountain State Fair two years ago turned…
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Grow Big or Go Home
The Southern Appalachians are known for a comfortable climate and for extreme biodiversity — including pumpkins without limits. Susie Zuerner has been cultivating up…
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Making the Grade
They are often hidden away, in closets or bottom drawers — those childhood mementos of an earlier, and, it seems, simpler time: the…
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Fiber Fair Hops on a Trend
Among animals known for their fiber, alpaca and sheep come first to mind, as well as goat for its cashmere. All have distinctive proteins…
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