PEOPLE & PLACES
PEOPLE & PLACES
Sep 2024
Throughout Western North Carolina, activists are cultivating a movement to reawaken history through place naming
Jun 2024
McCormick Field celebrates its 100th anniversary, with many more seasons to come
May 2024
For generations of children—spanning more than a century of campfire songs, canoe races, s’mores, and more—WNC’s summer camps have defined the season
Feb 2024
Nineteen influential women who have had a positive impact on Western North Carolina
Feb 2024
The owners of Silver River Chairs and their work preserving and teaching the art of chair caning
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
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
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.
Dec 2022
Bella & Oliver Soap Co. brings unique, all-natural bath products to WNC
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
Jun 2022
At the Madison County Championship Rodeo, North Carolina’s oldest event of its kind, cowboy culture passes to a new generation
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
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
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