A Shift in her Stars
More than a decade ago, Melissa Moss was living in Los Angeles and not loving it. She was an executive in the production end…
Tuned to Tradition
One day some years ago, the musician Becky Cleland asked her husband Ben Seymour to find her a plucked psaltery, a many-stringed zither of…
“The Modern Tribal Experience”
Wood sculptor George Peterson first stepped on a skateboard in 1972, when he was just six years old. Back then, the layered plywood under…
The Boatman
When Terry Dickinson went salmon fishing on a northern Maine lake almost 40 years ago, the water was dotted with the pontoon planes that…
Writing Her Own Script
The actress and former model Patti D’Arbanville lives with her Pomeranian Bisou Marie Antoinette D’Arbanville in a shingled, white-trimmed cottage in one of Tryon’s…
Sculpting Personalities
More than 40 years ago, just after her first child was born, Akira Blount found herself fashioning peculiar stuffed toys from old socks for…
Paper Work
One generation’s trash can be another’s treasure, a happy circumstance for the sub-genre of the collecting world concerned with ephemera, those fragile historical and…
Malibu Dreams
Shortly after Tommy Tolles retired from professional golf in 2005, a friend who was moving away from the Hendersonville area, where Tommy’s lived for…
Family Portrait
The career of the Tryon-based painter Margaret Curtis can be divided into two halves, separated by the major life change that came with the…
Last Picture Show
Even if you’ve heard of Scanimation, it’s not likely you’ve ever seen an actual Scanimate or know how it works. And that’s OK, because…