From Small Town to Big Stage

He’s already a multiple-time survivor, but cancer is having another go at Kent Briggs. “It’s in my bones now,” the former Western Carolina University football coach reveals over the phone from his Asheville home. The… Read More »

The Second Day

Visiting a garden in Hendersonville, the fall colors of these Japanese maples struck my senses with their canopy of brilliant autumn foliage. I used the tree limbs as an element of contrast to give the… Read More »

Where the Dust Is Made

Alan Kinder disappears through a tall, black iron gate surrounded by fig vine into a small, unassuming building off Manning Avenue, his yellow Lab lumbering behind him. Inside, fluorescent lights buzz to life, revealing a… Read More »