A Deck for Every Decision
byCulinary entrepreneur thanks the cards for success Fourteen-year-old Jesse Roque didn’t know the future when she found a deck of tarot cards in an under-construction…
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Mobile Unit
bySimpatico creatives unite in new Brevard firm Seeing a giant mobile by Alexander Calder hanging beneath architect I.M. Pei’s pyramid-shaped skylights in Washington’s National…
The Daughter of Invention
byMichelle Moog-Koussa gives local flavor to an international legacy Michelle Moog-Koussa didn’t know much about her famous father’s legacy until Robert Moog, inventor of…
Hunt, Peck, Keep
bySean Trapp haunts Brevard’s thrift shops looking for the lost treasures of his trade. With his sister, Leigh, Trapp is the third-generation owner of…
A Matter of Taste
byMackensy Lunsford is not a traditional restaurant critic, and she’s not even particularly picky. She’ll try almost anything — “except I’d prefer not to…
Live and Let Dye
byPatricia Spangler has more than enough leaves in her life. “They’re everywhere. Our home has a two-car garage. It’s full of leaves. I open…
Raising the Roof
by“The manner by which the structure touches the sky defines the architecture,” says architect Rob Carlton, memorably. He adds that this is a key…
A Parliament of Art Owls
byFrom her Cliffs at Walnut Cove home snuggled into a hillside, Julia Peterson has a bird’s-eye view of the wilderness. Inspired by a Frank…
“I’ll Never Willingly Move”
byNovelist Heather Newton has a sparsely decorated home office, and on her bookshelf sits a clue about her pragmatism. There, tucked alongside other locally…
An Oktoberfest of One’s Own
byWhen the rental house he was living in burned down, Wayne Ruth of Haywood County bought property on a rural lane named after a…