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How Can It be Wrong if It Grows Wild?
Sipping a pint of beer in the back of the Wicked Weed Funkatorium in the South Slope neighborhood of Asheville, North Carolina, Charles Humphrey scans the wide room, a vaulted ceiling hovering high above the quickly assembling audience. Read more
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Breathing Life Into Wood
For one weekend in May, Burnsville, North Carolina, will play host to the second year of a new festival celebrating a historic Appalachian tradition: handmade stringed instruments. Read more
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Painting in a ‘Hermited Way’
Francesco Lombardo had been trying to get his paintings noticed when, in early 2019, he got three emails on the same day from galleries that wanted to represent him. Two were from so-called “vanity” outfits that charge artists to show their work. Read more
An Artist Remembered
Have you ever been stopped in your tracks at the sight of a splendid natural landscape? Perhaps captured by the glory, even divinity, of a place in the world with perfect symmetry and order? Perfect for you? Read more
Jun 1, 2020
Myriam Santos
It’s Only Fear That Makes You Run
From humble and hardscrabble beginnings as a performer in dive bars and backrooms throughout the Midwest in the late 1970s and early 1980s to international acclaim just a decade later, Etheridge has remained a beacon of creativity and purpose. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
Breathing Life Into Wood
For one weekend in May, Burnsville, North Carolina, will play host to the second year of a new festival celebrating a historic Appalachian tradition: handmade stringed instruments. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
Painting in a ‘Hermited Way’
Francesco Lombardo had been trying to get his paintings noticed when, in early 2019, he got three emails on the same day from galleries that wanted to represent him. Two were from so-called “vanity” outfits that charge artists to show their work. Read more
Apr 1, 2020
Show Me Something Higher
It’s 2:54 a.m. in the rural backwoods of Virginia and Vince Herman hands me a shot of high-end tequila. With his trademark Cheshire Cat grin, Herman then pours himself a shot, soon raising it into the air in honor of another incendiary performance. Read more
Feb 1, 2020
Quilting Reflects Creative Culture
Quilting inspiration is all around Deb Heatherly’s home studio just off the Blue Ridge Parkway in Western North Carolina. Read more
Feb 1, 2020
Sarah Cahill photo
Returning to the Chorus of the Universal Sound
Meandering slowly down Spencer Ridge Road in the rural depths of Eastern Kentucky, it’s been a while since I’ve has passed a house or another vehicle. Read more
Dec 1, 2019
Handmade for the Holidays
John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, provides experiences in non-competitive learning and community life that are joyful and enlivening. Read more
Dec 1, 2019
