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…
“What You Are About to Witness is Real …”
When people ask Doug Llewelyn how someone with his Hollywood credentials ended up living in Hendersonville, well, he gives them a Hollywood answer. “If it…
Pastries and the Pastoral Life
When Hallee Hirsh and Ryan Martin moved to Western North Carolina from Los Angeles, they lived for a while in a tent, pitched on…
When Mom and Dad are Action Figures
Not counting a stuffed closet, Adam and Beth Copeland’s South Asheville home has one room, their basement workout space, that contains most of the…
The Right Tree
The cultural divide between the High Country of North Carolina and the high-couture houses of Paris might seem vast. But an artisan-wood company in…
Dances with Memories of Wolves
Casey Kristofferson doesn’t want anything given to her because of her last name. So she’s worked hard to establish a life without having her…
Lettuce for Us
Cold weather typically means that gardens are bare and the idea of fresh greens is a dream worthy of someone snug in a winter’s…
Tuned in to the Good Life
The rural Brevard-area home that musicians Woody Platt and Shannon Whitworth share with their baby son, Rivers, has music spilling out its doors. Sure,…
Table Manners
Long pieces of ash and walnut criss-cross each other in the back of Brian Fireman’s beat-up red Durango. The wood, purchased at Gennett Lumber…