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Cover Artist: Gaylene Petcu
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Feature Artist: Kenny Pieper

Kenny Pieper

It wasn’t easy. Kenny Pieper’s older brother and sister were straight A students. But try as he might, he couldn’t live up to the expectations his teachers in the Spruce Pine school had for him. “It left me filled with self-doubt,” says Kenny. Tests revealed he was dyslexic. That diagnosis, however, wasn’t the end of his troubles. He was angry and that anger led him into trouble as a teenager. To help guide him to a better path, his parents hired Jane Brown to tutor him. She happened to be married to Bill Brown, the director ... read full article

 
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    The Laughing Seed CafeThose who think vegetarian cuisine is bland, monotonous, or for vegetarians only should experience the revolutionary cuisine at Laughing Seed Café on Wall Street in downtown Asheville. Opened in 1993 by Joan Cliney-Eckert and Joe Eckert, Laughing Seed read more

  • Hopping Boulders

    Hopping BouldersMy father used to tell me stories about playing around the hills of the Catskill Mountains when he was a kid. He shared how he and his two brothers would hop in creeks from rock to rock trying to avoid getting their pant legs wet and avoid jumping right on the read more

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