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WNC Profiles

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.

Mamie Thompson Gumbs

Update [11:14 p.m. 3/26/09]: Mamie Etta Gumbs is at Spartanburg Regional hospital after a fire at the MaimyEtta Black Fine Arts Museum and Historical Society broke out on March 19.

Update [5/27/09]: A fire destroyed the MaimyEtta Black Fine Arts Museum and Historical Society on March 19.

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.