A Racy Ride
byGrady Hawkins is a Dodge man, always has been and probably always will be. His driveway is dominated by a 2009 Charger (with the…
Diversions
Paper Work
byOne 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…
Vintage Flavor
byThe ladies of the High Point Junior League were no slouches when it came to entertaining. Their 1974 spiral-bound cookbook Furniture City Feasts, which…
Malibu Dreams
byShortly after Tommy Tolles retired from professional golf in 2005, a friend who was moving away from the Hendersonville area, where Tommy’s lived for…
Tiny Tins
byThe craft ethos of the mid 1960s to early ’70s was cultural light years before the Martha Stewart school of perfection. Macramé owls were…
Last Picture Show
byEven 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…
Riding in Circles
byHoyt and Gail Griffith grabbed the brass ring years ago, and for them, the merry-go-round will never stop. Their house in Mills River is…
The House that Quilts Built
byOne thing is for sure: this is no down-home granny, quilting in her rocker on the front porch. And despite having a name fit…
Harvesting a Hobby
byWhen Steve and Judi Levinson come to Hendersonville from Florida for the summer, the mountains promise more for them than cool breezes and sweeping…
Time Traveler
bySometime during 1977, Georg Pilz decided he wanted a grandfather clock. It might have had something to do with his childhood in Regensburg, the…