He Shows Up for Your Trees
Mobile sawyer mills wood on site to create heirloom projects It’s not uncommon for Chris Carroll’s clients to cry about a tree. It might…
Spotlight on Community
Retired stage engineer focuses on helping close to home After a long career of lighting up the stages and cranking up the sound at…
Perspective is Everything
Trompe l’oeil wood sculptor sees nature through a philosophical lens Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Colton Dion has been about as close to being a…
From Buffet to Bouffant
Hairstylist wins notice for her fashionable upcycling project Finding hair on Savannah Wallin’s antique buffet table is no big deal. Actually, it’s to be…
Seeing the Light
Evening event at the Arboretum offers new perspective on celebrated art As one might expect, butterflies, dragonflies, spiders, hummingbirds, flowers, and even a family of deer inhabit…
Home Again
When literary scion Thomas Wolfe wrote You Can’t Go Home Again, he was brooding about his childhood home, a boarding house on North Market…
To the Saddle Born
Fortuna Farm South sits right in the ring of foothills horse country. Here, equestrian estates dominate a conservancy of rural land and protected forest…
Rhapsody in Blue
At 69 years old and with nearly 40 years of “slow cloth” work under her belt, Eileen Hallman of Black Mountain is in no…
Wired Different
She — Cuban expatriate Carmen Grier — is the creator. But she likes the term “créateur.” In that mode, her husband, psychiatrist and businessman…
Ancient Art in the Third Dimension
When a friend said he wanted a naked lady in his bathroom, Robert Hennessy didn’t take it as a joke. Instead, he went to…