The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games is underway in the North Carolina mountains. More than 10O of various clans set up on ...

Renaissance-style artwork is a surprising find in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains. ... I studied how a gold-leaf ribbon weaves together the composition, drawing the eye from one muse to ...

Savvy entrepreneurs over the past century, have come up with creative ways to draw in the crowds. And here in the mountains of Western North Carolina, you have all types of attractions to choose from.

The weight of drawing the important events that happen in Western North Carolina is resting on their pencils. “Anything I can do to tamp down the rancor, the division that we have now between ...

Drawings and text by Lorraine Plaxico Because Western North Carolina is in the forefront nationally for green homes, Xpress challenged me to depict and describe a handful of the area’s most ...