Co-written with Allyson Wainright The WCU Fine Art Museum purchased an America Meredith painting in 2017 and loved it so much, they invited her back to have her own solo exhibition, Outspoken, which is running from January 15 to May 3 2019. America Meredith is Swedish-Cherokee painter, printmaker and educator living in Santa Fe, New […]
17th Annual Spring Literary Festival starts this week
March 20, 2019 by
Western Carolina’s 17 Annual Spring Literary Festival starts Thursday, March 21 and features a variety of voices of literary writers from the Appalachian region and beyond. What began as a visiting writer’s series has grown over the years into a week-long festival of fiction writers, nonfiction writers, essayists, and poets sharing their work with the […]
WCU School of Music Artist-in-Residence week
March 18, 2019 by
The WCU School of music will be hosting the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra from Monday, March 18 through Thursday, March 21 for this year’s Artist-in-Residence series. Students in the School of music will have the opportunity to work with this group of professional string musicians. Clinics and workshops will be held throughout the week. At […]
Local veteran healing with words and tales of warriors
March 17, 2019 by
Story was originally published in The Sylva Herald on March 14. The story was co-written with Jim Buchanan. Across the centuries war has been a constant in the human experience. Needless to say, war itself has changed along the way – the steel in swords became the steel in rifle barrels; motivations changed, and adversaries […]
VMI completes the sweep sending Western Home
March 10, 2019 by
VMI Keydets sent the Western Carolina Catamounts home on an early first round knock out in the 2019 Southern Conference tournament at the US Cellular Center on Friday, March 8. The first half. started off with 18 different lead changes between the Keydets and the Catamounts. Shot for shot both the Keydets and the Catamounts […]
She Rambles Podcast Episode 2: The Negatives Of The Pursuit Of Academic Perfection
March 4, 2019 by
Written story produced by Elise Holbrook. Podcast episode produced in collaboration with Drue Stinnett. Is college made better or worse by being a student that is driven to make all A’s? And, when success in school becomes part of your identity how does failure, or perceived failure affect you? Whether it’s elementary school or college, we all […]
