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WNC Profiles
Treasure Hunter

Growing up in the 1950s, della samuel, along  with her family, vacationed each year in Macon County. There, she spent her time digging in the dirt, loving every minute “in the hole,” as she recalls her early days as a rock hound.
Barbara Cook

World traveler Barbara Cook found her calling doing good for the children and artists of Nepal
Karen Hall

If she finally gets around to writing her memoir, it’s certain Karen Hall will have plenty of tales to spin from a well-lived life
Easy Does It

Recycling: it’s a chore. taking public transportation: an inconvenience. Reducing your home’s carbon footprint: Who’s got the time? The planet may be going to hell in a handbasket, but there’s no shortage of excuses for opting out of environmentalism.
Michelle Moog-Koussa

“It was the strangest thing I’d ever heard myself say,” she recalls. “I said, ‘I have to let you go. Stevie Wonder is on the other line.’”
Selina DeLangre

Going with the Grain: A purveyor of exotic sea salts creates her own success
Bill Cullom

From his 1970 GMC truck to his turn-of-the-century farmhouse in Yancey County, Bill Cullom surrounds himself with pieces of the past.
Ron & Suzanne Joyner

The tree was worn, neglected. It clung to a hem of cow pasture, gray limbs scabbed with lichen and branches chewed away by rot.
Mast Appeal

When John Cooper opened the front door of Valle Crucis’ Mast General Store in 1980, he walked into a virtual time capsule.
Architectural Wonder

Robert Griffin recalls the exact moment he decided to change the course of his life. It was 1975.