September 2012

There are champions and there are championships. In Avery County, N.C., they’re both about square dancing and it’s just about the best you’ve ever seen anywhere.

Mt. Airy, N.C.’s “other star,” country singer and author Donna Fargo, has overcome lots of adversity since her 1972 chart-topping hit, and still approaches every day with a smile.

Over the past 25 years, fiber artist Martha Bruin Degen has worked from her home studio in Staunton, where she has been expressing herself in a variety of artistic venues, including pen and charcoal sketches, printmaking and paper making.

A North Carolina writer/realtor, who lives in the mountains with his wife of 42 years, takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the election process.