Tuned to Tradition

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 Boatman

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

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

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

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

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

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…

Harvesting a Hobby

Harvesting a Hobby

When Steve and Judi Levinson come to Hendersonville from Florida for the summer, the mountains promise more for them than cool breezes and sweeping…