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A Haunting Tune A country music star’s harrowing memoir   By Stephen E. Smith If a memoirist’s job is to make sense of the raw, shifting facts of the past in order to instruct the future, [...]

The World After Rain A good soak is the gift that keeps on giving   By Jim Dodson Every year about this time, as another summer’s lease expires, I remark to anyone who will listen (i.e. [...]

Cape of Good Wines A feast of South Africa’s finest   By Angela Sanchez South Africa is one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited, full of dichotomies, and singular in the world [...]

The Sound of You This morning I wake to music, the sound of the cat lapping water from the glass on my nightstand, and wish I could capture the softness with words. The 1-2-3 rhythm sends me [...]

Good Ol’ Rittenhouse Rye whiskey that was love at first sip   By Tony Cross Anyone in the bar business is well aware of Rittenhouse Rye. It is, without a doubt, the best bang for your buck [...]

Blue Streak Listen for the sound of the blue grosbeak’s loud “chip” call this time of year By Susan Campbell ’Tis the season for the annual appearance of blue grosbeaks! Begin spotting this [...]

Coffee with Conscience Best-selling novelist Amy Reed on Asheville writers, young adult books and the challenge of living one’s values By Wiley Cash   •   Photographs by Mallory Cash There are [...]

Remembering a Hero A cabin, a pack of Red Man and a distant war By Tom Bryant Sometimes fall has a way of sneaking up right in the middle of summer, or maybe it just seems like it. That’s the way [...]

A not so quiet day in the country Fiction by A.J. Rothwell      Lord Blenkinsop was a good man. Good family. Acquaintance of the king. Wide of girth. Not the sharpest knife. Took his [...]