PEOPLE & PLACES
PEOPLE & PLACES
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
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
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?
Aug 2021
50 years ago, a grassroots groundswell fought the federal agency’s plan to reshape the French Broad River Basin
Jun 2021
Meet Western North Carolina’s 2021 Olympic hopefuls—Manteo Mitchell and Abbey Cooper
Jun 2021
Hendersonville’s Center for Cultural Preservation uncorks a moonshine documentary
Mar 2021
Finding, fixing, and fabricating mid-century furniture brought Atomic Furnishing & Design’s owners together