PEOPLE & PLACES

PEOPLE & PLACES
Feb 2024
Nineteen influential women who have had a positive impact on Western North Carolina

Nov 2023
Mountain Alliance is using the tranquility of the outdoors to help teens in the Appalachians

Nov 2023
Asheville’s Jackson Building, the first skyscraper in Western North Carolina, turns 100

Sep 2023
Guitar, vocals, lyrics—the Asheville-based musician does it all. Go behind the scenes to learn about Ramsey’s life on the road, the joys of playing music live, and his journey home.

Sep 2023
Grist Mills of the Western North Carolina Mountains

Sep 2023
The life and legacy of celebrated bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs gets a standing ovation in his native Shelby

Sep 2023
A young craftsman in Avery County uses steel and local materials to construct handmade knives

Jun 2023
For nearly 100 years, the Ela Dam has interrupted the flow of the Oconaluftee River. But now, a team of locals are restoring the waterway.

Jun 2023
Boone artist Ryan Kirby talks living in the High Country, his success as a painter, and his love of family and the outdoors

Jun 2023
A Graham County family's symbiotic relationship with honeybees

Jun 2023
Asheville’s ball team boasts a long, rich past, with multimillion-dollar upgrades planned for the future

Mar 2023
For our annual photo contest this year, we reviewed more than 600 entries.

Mar 2023
In McDowell County, a writer takes a leap of faith in the past and present

Dec 2022
Bella & Oliver Soap Co. brings unique, all-natural bath products to WNC

Dec 2022
Local nonprofit organizations to support this year

Dec 2022
Investing in Asheville’s historical roots

Dec 2022
Tune in to the first biography of late, great musical inventor Bob Moog

Sep 2022
Following Hernando de Soto’s historic–and devastating–legacy through the South

Sep 2022
From the galleries of Asheville to the backroad studios of world-class artisans, amble along the Blue Ridge Craft Trails to discover the creative spirit of the North Carolina mountains

Aug 2022
North Wilkesboro Speedway, the High Country’s historic racetrack, is getting a major tune-up

Aug 2022
Walker and De Souza reconcile loss and hope in new albums

Jun 2022
A mountain man who led the way to our outdoor life

Jun 2022
At the Madison County Championship Rodeo, North Carolina’s oldest event of its kind, cowboy culture passes to a new generation

Jun 2022
Meet the first responders behind a new local leatherworks store

May 2022
UNCA receives NIH award for medical research

May 2022
The rehabilitated Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School is revived as a beacon of Black history in America

Mar 2022
As the nation celebrates Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday, witness the creation—and evolution—of his visionary Biltmore landscapes

Mar 2022
From a scary-steep ride to historical encounters and a swig of Tennessee whiskey, our travel writer dives into Chattanooga

Mar 2022
Throughout the mountains, mini golf awaits pro and amateur putters alike

Mar 2022
Author Luke Manget unearths the history of ginseng cultivation in the mountains and beyond

Mar 2022
Don’t worry, be happy: there’s a humorous story behind the unique moniker of one WNC community, and there’s a splendidly contrasting place name just down the road.

Dec 2021
Beech Mountain rolls out road trip-worthy “adventure trails”

Dec 2021
A sprawling new dictionary preserves mountain language

Dec 2021
As luck would have it, one determined Madison County man brought a welcome change to his isolated community—and inadvertently endowed it with two quaint monikers.

Dec 2021
Asheville author Tom Jerman celebrates the many and varied Santas of the world

Dec 2021
At the new Mitford Museum, the world of Jan Karon’s bestselling books transcends the page

Aug 2021
In a fresh River Arts District location, Asheville’s Local Cloth weaves a new textile tradition

Aug 2021
A harrowing, Halloween-perfect tale from deep in Western North Carolina

Aug 2021
At the Old Marshall Jail Hotel, no one does hard time anymore

Aug 2021
Avery County is 2,000 miles from the lands where the Aztec emperor Montezuma once ruled, so how did a community there get his name?