Celebrating Our State‘s 80th Anniversary
Our State magazine celebrates its 80th anniversary this June. We look pretty good for our age, don’t we?
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Arts & Culture
In the Garden with Our State (June 2011)
As we head toward mid-summer, here are several helpful tips to keep your garden flourishing. Warm weather and pests can really put a damper on things, but these simple maintenance tips will make a difference for your garden.
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Summer Reading from Our State
Looking for summer reading suggestions? We’ve got them! This week’s list comes from McIntyre’s Books in Fearrington Village.
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Moonvine Magic
This nighttime beauty proves that not everything beautiful can be found under the sun.
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A Musician’s Sanctuary
Artists from around the world, and around the corner, find their sound at Asheville’s Echo Mountain Recording.
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Bamboo Country
At Haiku Bamboo Nursery in Hendersonville, Keiji and Stefani Oshima nurture the plant that brought them to this place — they care for it, prune it, tame it, and bring out its strongest qualities.
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The Cup Guy
Art Cozart sketches his masterpieces on the unlikeliest, but most convenient, of places — his coffee cup.
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I Totally Meant to Do That by Jane Borden
Jane Borden — bona fide Southerner, sorority sister, and debutante — graduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and moves up to “northern territory,” aka New York City. The move in itself is not unusual. “Coveys of
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The Watery Part of the World by Michael Parker
Set on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Michael Parker’s fifth novel takes the form of a biblical narrative tracing the fate of New World exiles across 150 years of imagined history steeped in original sin.
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Becoming Odyssa by Jennifer Pharr Davis
By turns serious and humorous, Becoming Odyssa earns its place on the shelf of first-person Appalachian Trail thru-hiker accounts.
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Comfort Food
I used to think homesick and cabin fever meant the same thing. The distinction, I thought, was less about how you felt but where you felt it: in a house or in a cabin. Imagine my dismay when I learned
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