Santas That Pay for Sheep
Debbie Trantham lovingly gets called all kinds of names: Santa Lady, Dream Lady, Fiber Lady. “They all work,” she says with a laugh. In…
Built to Past
For the Rural Heritage Museum’s newest exhibit, Shelter on the Mountain: Barns and the Building Traditions of the Southern Highlands, director Les Reker and…
Light Show
As the daughter of a contractor, Maggie Minor spent her childhood on construction sites. She’d sit in the empty rooms while her mother worked…
Martha-Approved
This past fall, Asheville-based maker Heather Adcock got a nod from the queen bee of makers herself, Martha Stewart. Stewart and team selected Adcock’s…
Two Kitchens, No Regrets
Reza Setayesh doesn’t ride the wave: he stirs up his own trends. Setayesh first settled in Western North Carolina in the 1980s, to attend…
Waiting for Perfection
Lucy Clark walked into her first wheel-throwing lesson six years ago starry-eyed and ready to fall in love. She couldn’t wait to start the…
At Home with Sharon Feingold
Sharon Feingold is a storyteller and a saleswoman, yet she’s neither a writer, nor marketer, nor clerk. She’s a voiceover artist who delivers…
Pushing Basketry’s Boundaries
Acclaimed Asheville basketmaker Matt Tommey can also weave a great tale. He starts his story in rural South Georgia with a young and curious…
The Simple Life
Rattle off a list of odd jobs, and chances are Ashley English has held most of them. Between earning college degrees in sociology and…