In the summer of 1892, Beatrix Potter put a dog’s leash on her pet rabbit, Benjamin Bouncer, and took him on a walk to look for gooseberries in the garden of her family’s rented summer cottage in Birnam, Scotland.
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Woodfin Greenway & Blueway
RiverLink, an environmental advocacy group dedicated to the French Broad watershed, has launched a partnership with Friends of Woodfin Greenway & Blueway (FWG&B) in support of the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway project.
Finding Unexpected Flavors in Wine
When we have private tastings in the store, one of my favorite activities is to have each customer take a sip of wine, take a bite of buttery cheese or bittersweet chocolate and then take another sip. They see then how the wine changes—because it will.
Toe River Arts Presents Blacksmith Exhibition
For the 13th year, Toe River Arts’ Spruce Pine Gallery will host the Annual Blacksmith Exhibition through Saturday, April 27, when the Fire on the Mountain Festival returns to downtown Spruce Pine from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Lovers Leap Hits Streets April 19
A “great musical blind date” brought together the musicians calling themselves Lovers Leap, whose eponymous, debut EP comes out on April 19.
FBN Productions Brings Children’s Opera to Asheville
The Asheville Jewish Community Center (JCC) and the YMCA of Western North Carolina have partnered to bring an operatic production of The Three Little Pigs to Asheville on Monday, April 15, at 2 p.m. in the newly renovated JCC social hall.
Disappearing, Inc. Brandon Amico, Author
"The poems of Disappearing, Inc. speak to the sense of displacement that many people feel today in relation to where they are in their lives and where they thought they would or should be."
Compleat Naturalist Spring Show
March sets the stage, tempting us to believe that spring has begun. But it is April that gives spring full expression here in the mountains.
From the Editor
Statewide Star Party Event at Mayland Community College
Homeland Park’s Rustic Log Cabins
RAD Artists Welcome Spring with Second Saturday
Asheville Bread Festival Celebrates 15 Years
Becoming Whole Opens at BMCA
Asheville Wordfest 2019: Healing the Soul of Appalachia
MFA Thesis Exhibition at WCU Fine Art Museum
Spring Lineup at Isis Music Hall
In Bloom: Flowering Dogwood
NC Arboretum Hosts the 21st Annual Asheville Orchid Festival April 6-7
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