Asheville: Broken clouds, mist, rain, 42.8 °F
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Massacre in Madison It was bitter cold on the 19th of January in 1863. Thirteen ragged-looking men and boys walked listlessly along an old wagon track through the bottomlands of the Shelton Laurel River. |
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Center Square Asheville’s cityscape, much like its surrounding landscapes, exists as a living ecosystem. |
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The Long Road to Victory The wind still howls through the Catawba Valley, along the shoals of the Watauga and Broad rivers. October colors still melt in a palette of red, yellow, and orange as they did 230 years ago. |
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Swing Shift Spring 1949 arrived as a torrent to the mountains. Rain fell nearly every day |
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The Great Lakes With 14 miles of private shoreline and a scenic mountain backdrop, Lake Toxaway is the quintessential picture of travel and leisure in Western North Carolina. |
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Flight of a Songbird Those old enough to remember seeing Ola Belle Campbell Reed perform may recall a charismatic woman singing and playing her distinctive claw-hammer style on an old Gibson Mastertone banjo and conversin |
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The Trailblazer On a November day 40 years ago, a dedication ceremony attended by 300 on the banks of the Davidson River near Brevard officially opened the Art Loeb Trail. |
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Memphis Belle’s Beau Flying just above the rooftops of downtown Asheville, a B-17 headed for the gap between city hall and the county courthouse. But the plane’s wingspan was too wide to squeeze through the divide. |
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Siren Shrub It’s not as showy as its cousin, rhododendron, but mountain laurel, with narrower leaves and prim clusters of pastel blossoms, is deceptively alluring. |
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Kings of the Hill For all his years competing in the Chimney Rock Hillclimb race, Jan Davis gladly says that he never went over the edge. Some of the other drivers weren’t so lucky. |
A selective guide for dining in Western North Carolina
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