Editor's Picks by Eric Seeger
Eric Seeger is the editor-in-chief of WNC magazine. He moved to Asheville in 2006 to help launch the magazine, which released its first issue early the following year.
Next month, WNC is proudly doing its part to support the people of Haiti. We plan to donate 15% of all subscriptions made during February to Wine to Water (www.winetowater.org).
It’s 100% coincidence (though completely fitting) that this news is coming up right now, only a couple days after we sent our first-ever music issue to the printer. Two of the area’s institutions for local music are going through some tough changes, and they need the help of people around here.
I love having an office right in the middle of downtown Asheville. For a few minutes, the grinding monotony of working on a Sunday afternoon (ahh, deadlines) was broken by some noise outside my window.
Okay, so we’ve been running in overdrive around the office with On the Verge stuff this week. Ayana, our marketing director is getting everything ready for our two (count, ‘em TWO) parties this week.
If you were lucky, and happened to be driving along a winding country road just outside Franklin last year, you might have witnessed a bizarre display of antiquing unfold in David Pickartz’s front yard.
When the couple first saw the 1961 modernist-style house perched on the side of a mountain deep in the woods near Asheville, its good bones, affordability, lush surroundings, and location, excited them.
It’s here at Three Graces Dairy that Sacha and Steve Alford, and Sacha’s mother, Roberta Ferguson, create a litany of cheeses to be sold at local groceries and used in dishes served at restaurants