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Heritage Days with the Southern Highlands Craft Guild
Backtracking to September 21-22, 2024 Just a few days before Hurricane Helene hit, I attended the Southern Highlands Craft Guild’s Heritage Days at the Folk Art Center (Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville, NC). Each year, the guild invites its members to the Folk Art Center, their home base, for two days…
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Views from the Haywood Road Bridge
October 6, 2024 – The first view of the River Arts District from the bridge on Haywood Road.
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Hurricane Helene: Calm After the Storm
September 27, 2024 – Hurricane Helene hit the Gulf Coast in Florida as a category 4 storm the day before. At 9 am, it battered Western North Carolina and tore across other parts of Appalachia in South Carolina, Georgia, and Eastern Tennessee. Towns in WNC were decimated. Some are now…
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Paper Doom Flies Again
Flames are lit. She emerges from the shadows A paper harbinger of doom. The tiny moth. The one that you could clap into dust. She flutters erratically, taunting the spiders and barn cats. Threatening my sanity as she unknowingly swoops past. There is no reason to fear her, but she…
Bridget Herbig 