Asheville: Few clouds, 84.2 °F
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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 |
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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. |
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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.’” |
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Selina DeLangre Going with the Grain: A purveyor of exotic sea salts creates her own success |
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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. |
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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. |
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Mast Appeal When John Cooper opened the front door of Valle Crucis’ Mast General Store in 1980, he walked into a virtual time capsule. |
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Architectural Wonder Robert Griffin recalls the exact moment he decided to change the course of his life. It was 1975. |
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Mamie Thompson Gumbs Mamie Thompson Gumbs shines a light on the black experience at her Forest City museum |
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Pipe Dreams Smoke rolls into Craig Tarler’s mouth like fog, curls around the tongue and cheeks, coats the taste buds with flavor—fruity, spicy, nutty, sweet—then billows out in a fragrant cloud. |
