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Zac Lopez-Ibanez is the founder and principal designer at FEHLO in Asheville, North Carolina. The company mass produces contemporary home goods and furniture designed by Lopez-Ibanez and handcrafted by local artisans.
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In the 1960s, garage bands sprang up in North Carolina and across the country. The garage band scene was particularly prominent in Asheville, where rock musicians formed bands, and played in Battle of the Bands competitions. Some of these bands included The Fabulous Wunz, The Ron-De-Voos, and The Satyrs.
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This article profiles five North Carolina fashion designers who each have a passion for individual expression in the clothes we wear. Their clothes have been described as wearable art, garments that tell a story, environmentally sustainable, and an extension of the long tradition of the textile business in western North Carolina.
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Five North Carolina jewelry designers, each with a unique skill set and expression of style, are making one-of-a-kind adornments. Their jewelry is made from a variety of natural materials using a range of artistic techniques. They describe their pieces as a reflection of spirituality, a representation of history, ecocentrism, and wearable works of art.
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For decades, Steve Martin has evolved and diversified his career, finding a refuge in bluegrass of late. In an interview with Martin, he discusses his banjo playing, song writing, life in Asheville, and his band the Steep Canyon Rangers.
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Sebastiaan and Ariel Zijp host supper clubs under the name The Farmer’s Hands, a tribute to the handcrafted nature of every element of the meal. The couple’s business is rooted in agritourism. Their homestead is the final stop on the Madison County route of Asheville Farm to Table Tours, which brings visitors to several farms and ends with a locally sourced lunch prepared on their property.
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29605
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Sonker is a centuries-old dessert and tradition in Surry County, North Carolina. The dessert usually consists of cooked fruit and a crust, and is prepared in various ways depending upon family tradition. The heritage food dish is highlighted by the Surry Sonker Trail and Sonker Festival in Mount Airy.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 11 Issue 5, Sep/Oct 2017,
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The City of Asheville is home to the world’s largest storehouse of data measuring the Earth’s weather and climate. In 2015, Asheville became the headquarters of the National Centers for Environmental Information and the steward of over twenty-five petabytes of data consolidated on servers at the Veach-Baley Federal Complex in the city’s center. A new conference called ClimateCon will solidify Asheville as a “Climate City” and key player in developing solutions to climate change.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 12 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2018,
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Carl Ernest Duckett, born in Swannanoa, North Carolina in 1923, served as the Central Intelligence Agency’s top science official. A collection of declassified documents unveiled Duckett’s role as a key player in high-tech espionage at the height of the Cold War, which he quietly helped win. Duckett oversaw secret programs including U-2 surveillance flights, the agency’s CORONA spy satellites, and its Glomar Explorer mission to raise a sunken Soviet nuclear submarine from the ocean’s depths.
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Leah Wong Ashburn is president of Highland Brewing Company in Asheville, a business that was started by her father, Oscar Wong, in 1994. Since 2011, Ashburn has dedicated herself to maintaining the uniqueness of the brewery, while incorporating her own values and marketing expertise. Under Ashburn’s leadership, the brewery is committed to environmental stewardship and sustainability, and cultivates a hiring process that seeks out character over expertise.
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Brothers Tim and Matt Nichols run one of the largest Japanese maple tree operations in the country, propagating and shipping more than one-thousand cultivars. Their business, Mr. Maple nursery, is located in East Flat Rock, Henderson County. In addition to the maples, the Nichols brothers grow nearly five-hundred other kinds of woody ornamental shrubs, including varieties of ginkgo trees and dawn redwoods.
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The town of Dillsboro, located less than three miles from the Jackson County seat of Sylva, hosts a vast array of arts, crafts, eateries, and outdoor recreation opportunities. Among the must-see attractions are Dogwood Crafters, Toad in the Hole, Tree House Pottery, Dillsboro Chocolate Factory, Dillsboro River Company, Appalachian Women’s Museum, American Museum of the House Cat, Haywood Smokehouse, The Well House, and Jackson County Green Energy Park.
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Author Charles Frazier, born in Asheville and raised in Cherokee County, has a deep family ancestry in the Appalachian region of North Carolina. Frazier’s first novel, Cold Mountain, was a depiction of Appalachia, its culture and people. His latest work, Varina, is a biography of Varina Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and delves into the culpability of the Civil War and the South’s legacy of slavery.
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Hope Larson of Asheville writes and illustrates graphic novels for children and young adults. Larson is known for her original novels including a recent work entitled, All Summer Long, as well as her adaptations of iconic stories, such as Madeleine L’Engle’s, A Wrinkle in Time. Larson discusses growing up in Asheville, her progression in comics and illustration, and the use of graphic novels to get kids interested in reading.
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The late Samuel J. Ervin, Jr. was the United States Senator whose investigation of the Watergate affair and related abuses led to President Richard Nixon’s political demise. As both the public record and declassified papers show, Ervin was willing to wade into some of the country’s most vexing questions of law and order. Born in Morganton, North Carolina in 1896, Ervin played a key role in the 1954 deliberations about Senator Joseph McCarthy, and laws regarding Americans’ rights to privacy and freedom from government meddling.
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