Franklin, NC
Live music fans compulsively recollect their favorite shows. Thankfully, some do so categorically, because I myself am far too sentimental about it.
I was reminiscing the other night about a show I took in about a decade ago at the short-lived Round Mountain Music Park, way up at the head of Little Canada. “Canada”, a [...]
I have a recommendation for those of you who, like me, are suckers for strong, independent radio.
The age of streaming media has opened up lots of spots on the dial, and I, because I experienced the halcyon days of Spindale’s WNCW, have saved one for that station. Another, which reminds me of WNCW before its [...]
For those of us who’ve spent our lives in these mountains, it’s hard to wrap our imaginations around the idea of water shortages. Memories of summers prior to the mid-nineties include regular afternoon thundershowers, and regular large, wet storm systems from the Gulf of Mexico year around.
I admit my evidence above is circumstantial, but the [...]
Meyerson in the Washington Post:
“If 19th-century England was a nation of shopkeepers, the United States today is a nation of shoppers, and our role in the world economy is to buy what other countries — or U.S.-based corporations with factories in other countries — make. It was not ever thus. In the four decades following [...]
On September 11, 2001, when Susan Jacoby was walking home in a daze to her Upper East Side apartment, she ducked in to a bar for a well-earned drink, and eavesdropped as two well-dressed young men talked about the attack. “Worse than Pearl Harbor” said one. The other hadn’t heard of Pearl Harbor. His buddy [...]
A Bryson City man and a Cherokee man were sentenced to jail in January for poaching ginseng in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Jail time is rare for such offenses, but Park Rangers hope that increasingly stiff sentencing will begin to deter poaching, which threatens to drive the plant to extinction.
“Ginseng is now becoming rare [...]
I can remember Rep. Phil Haire fretting about Jackson County’s seal some years ago, and now, from Gulahiyi over at Ruminations from the Distant Hills, we learn that Jackson County manager Ken Westmoreland has asked Jon Jicha’s classes at WCU to develop a design for a county flag.
Seems to me that the county seal has [...]