Archives for October 7, 2019

The fight against food insecurity

“Food security is an invisible injustice that is so much more pervasive than we realize… There are literally people that are living in chicken coops in Western North Carolina, that are eating dog food in Western North Carolina, that their only refrigeration is a cooler that’s sitting in a creek. I don’t say that abstractly; […]

Cherokee art shines through in 2019 Mountain Heritage Day

Mountain Heritage Day celebrated the history and culture of Western North Carolina, with music, food and local artists selling their work. Brothers and Cherokee artists, Bill and Rob Radford, keep some distance between their booths, as their work has a similar style, both with a focus on knives, pipes and gorgets.  They carve knife handles […]