The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has one of the richest college basketball dynasties in the country, but its other sports boast a wealth of success stories, too. Weaverville resident Tim W. Jackson has combined a trivia-buff’s eye for detail with a journalist’s knack for storytelling to write a book that celebrates all … Read More
Letterpress Love is part one of a two-part article about the Asheville letterpress community and individual letterpress artists who have influenced its growth. Samantha Urbanick pulls a handful of wooden block letters from one of her hundred antique letterpress drawers and arranges them on the bed of her Vandercook press. She handles the blocks as … Read More
Local Asheville author Susan Blexrud, loves romance, the supernatural, and Civil War history. She’s poured all that passion and a dedication to historical accuracy into her latest Crimson Romance novel The Gettysburg Vampire. The story follows Abby Potter, a new theatre professor at Gettysburg College, who is determined to put on a holiday production centered … Read More
Molly Walling had been married and raised a family. Now she was divorced, had an empty nest, and was wondering what the next phase of her life might bring. Then came the phone call in 2006 that would change her priorities—and her life. Her brother, Jay Fields, had been to an uncle’s funeral in Florida. … Read More