Written story produced by Elise Holbrook. Podcast episode produced in collaboration with Drue Stinnett. Did you attend public schools, or were you home-schooled? And, how many people do you know who were home-schooled for part or all of their education? When public and home-schooled children compare their experiences, the differences can be enlightening. I was […]
She Rambles Podcast Episode 3: Why Do We Get Emotionally Attached To Fictional Characters?
March 22, 2019 by
Written story produced by Elise Holbrook. Podcast episode produced in collaboration with Drue Stinnett. Are you the type of viewer who gets very emotionally invested in the TV shows you watch? Do you feel like you know the characters you hold close to your heart? I get super involved in any show I decide to […]
A Swedish-Cherokee artist truly Defining America
March 21, 2019 by
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 […]
