From
the hands of elders
To behold a Cherokee river cane basket is to look upon centuries
of hands. Hands that turned living plants into works of art...
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Waynesville
novelist publishes Holmes stories Some 30 years after developing his writing
skills through a series of literary exercises imitating a storyteller
he calls the greatest of the past century, award-winning novelist
Rick Boyer of the English department faculty at Western Carolina University...
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a way, The Outsider isn’t just a fitting title for blues-rock
singer/guitar slinger extraordinaire Walter Trout’s latest album
— it’s a fitting description for much of his career. It’s
not that Trout hasn’t seen his share of high profile gigs; he’s
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diversions I’ve long been a
fan of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz’s work.
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to create readable historical narratives... full
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