The Global Life at Home
French painter rediscovers the fine art of making do The COVID pandemic stopped painter and mixed-media artist Asya Zahia Colie and her family from…
Enduring as an I-Beam
Exploring the home life of intercontinental trailblazers Jennifer Pharr Davis doesn’t say that “she” broke the Appalachian Trail’s thru-hike speed record in 2011. She says…
In His Own Backyard
Earlier in the spring, flower beds on Parker Andes’ property in Mills River were still bare. There was a lot of mud and manure,…
Like a Sherpa for Ceramics
WNC native leads art tours with an insider’s edge As an unemployed college student in the early ’80s, Sherry Masters would cobble together her…
The Daughter of Invention
Michelle Moog-Koussa gives local flavor to an international legacy Michelle Moog-Koussa didn’t know much about her famous father’s legacy until Robert Moog, inventor of…
He Was Born a Collectin’ Man
Allman Brothers superfan rambles far to augment personal museum of memorabilia As Doug McKee stands near a door in his garage, eyeing the large…
Hunt, Peck, Keep
Sean Trapp haunts Brevard’s thrift shops looking for the lost treasures of his trade. With his sister, Leigh, Trapp is the third-generation owner of…
“I’ll Never Willingly Move”
Novelist Heather Newton has a sparsely decorated home office, and on her bookshelf sits a clue about her pragmatism. There, tucked alongside other locally…
An Oktoberfest of One’s Own
When the rental house he was living in burned down, Wayne Ruth of Haywood County bought property on a rural lane named after a…
The Man Under the Hat
Never mind the trophies — two walls in David Holt’s mountaintop Fairview home testify to creative pursuits other than his decorated music career. In…