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Casting a spell. Storyteller Ray Hicks: "Stories are like panther – they won't let go of me."

Ray Hicks: America’s Premiere Storyman

Beech Mountain Native Says it "Comes Natural"
This photo of F. Scott Fitzgerald was taken in Asheville in 1935. He was 39, alcoholic and unsure of his talent.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Asheville Days

By the time “The Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his troubled wife Zelda reached Asheville in 1935, they were already in a period of serious decline.
Golfers’ kids can help lead llamas around the course. Mark English, in cart, and Eric Henson, on foot.

Quiet Caddies

Big black eyes… long eyelashes… six feet tall… banana-shaped ears… weighs 375 pounds. Yes, that golf caddy isn't a young man – it's a llama.
For more than a century, the lost state’s capitol has remained, appropriately, lost.

Franklin’s Lost Cabin

Across east Tennessee, a mystique remains when it comes to Franklin – the ill-fated “lost state” named for Benjamin Franklin.
The Estonoa wetland is covered with lilypads.

Tiny Lake, Big Save

A one-acre lake that had been tended to for more than a decade by a group of Virginia high school students was about to lose its caretakers when their school fell victim to consolidation.
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