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In 2010, two skillful carpenters, Will Evert and Jason Brownlee, merged their love of woodworking and fishing to form French Broad Boatworks. Carter describes their boats as \"hand-hewn watercraft that becomes pieces of floating art.\"
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22346
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At 6,683 feet Mt. Mitchell in Western North Carolina is the highest peak east of the Mississippi River. Before the building of the Blue Ridge Parkway, visitors had two ways of reaching the summit--the Mt. Mitchell Railroad which opened in 1915 and the Mt. Mitchell Motor Road which opened in 1922.
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22347
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Eleven conservationists have worked very hard to help preserve the wild and scenic places of Western North Carolina. They are Mike Leonard; Karen Cragnolin; Brian Payst; Paul Carlson; Sandy and Missy Schenck; Susie Hamrick Jones; John Humphrey; Tim Sweeney; and Jay Leutze.
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Richards reviews Highland Avenue, a newly opened (2013) Hickory restaurant owned by Meg Jenkins Locke. Chef Kyle McKnight is a graduate of Johnson and Wales in Charleston and has cooked in Miami, St. John, Argentina, and Wilmington. The restaurant is located in the former 1930s Hollar Hosiery Mill.
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DeNiece Guest and Nan Chase combine their love of gardening and home cooking to demonstrate that a drinkable landscape can exist in the backyard. For example, fruit trees, berries, herbs, vegetables, even wildflowers, can be drinkable crops, and most are easy to grow. Their recently published book, Drink the Harvest, shows how.
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22350
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Asheville is the first official Bee City USA. This means it supports sustainable habitats for bees. Bee populations which are necessary for much of the food production have been declining. Encouraging pollinator-friendly habitats is a step toward reversing the trend.
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22351
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O'Sullivan discusses the work of Swannanoa artist Sally Sweetland.
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22352
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Miles examines the \"pioneering, Western North Carolina-based natural medicine manufacturer S. B. Penick and Co.\" who dominated the business for years. He founded his company in Marion in 1914, and with the advent of World War I and the need for medicine, his business increased tenfold.
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22353
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O'Sullivan examines the work of Robert Nicholas, a self-taught lighting designer who is based in Asheville.
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In 1913 Fred Seely put his mark on Asheville with the completion of the Grove Park Inn. In 1914, he began work on a family home, a castle that would stand on a 29-acre site on the crest of nearby Sunset Mountain. Called Overlook, aka Seely's Castle, it was sold by his wife in 1949. Since then it has passed through five known owners, including Asheville-Biltmore College, the predecessor of UNC-Asheville, and Jerry Sternberg, a local businessman and raconteur.
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William Bartram, son of the famous royal botanist John Bartram, left Philadelphia in 1773, on a four-year botanizing expedition across the Southeast. Part of his travels took him through seventy-four miles of western North Carolina. He is considered the father of American botany. Today his route is maintained by the NC Bartram Trail Society.
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22356
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\"The Brasstown home of artist Sandy Webster and her husband, Lee, houses an inspired gallery of artworks and artifacts from near and far.\"
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22357
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Chef/founder Sam Etheridge's Ambrosia Bar & Bistro is located in North Asheville in the Beaver Lake Shopping Center. Richards's review provides information on Etheridge's background and some of his servings.
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22372
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Chase describes the work of Valle Crucis artist Lowell Hayes, whose paintings capture that prebud period between winter and spring in Western North Carolina. He was influenced by Chinese painters whose work captured that period in their country which started his thinking about the same thing happening in his own Appalachian area.
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William Gillette was a famous American stage actor and playwright. Following the death of his wife at age 28, Gillette was aboard a train, some thought seeking relief from depression over his loss, when the train was delayed for five hours in Tryon. He got off, walked about, and fell in love with the place. He later purchased 110 acres on Little Piney Mountain and lived there awhile to regain his health and vitality. Eventually he returned to his career. He is best known for taking one of Sir Arthur Conon Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books and turning it into a stage play. He is also credited with capturing the persona of Holmes complete with deer slayer hat and curved pipe.
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