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Happy Year of the Dragon
On January 23, according to the oldest Chinese continuous calendar, we entered the year 4709. The Chinese New Year is based on a lunar calendar that begins as winter wanes and the season turns toward spring. This year, which ends on February 9, 2013 in the Gregorian calendar, is a Year of the Dragon in [...]
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Happy Year of the Dragon
On January 23, according to the oldest Chinese continuous calendar, we entered the year 4709. The Chinese New Year is based on a lunar calendar that begins as winter wanes and the season turns toward spring. This year, which ends on February 9, 2013 in the Gregorian calendar, is a Year of the Dragon in [...]
Cat Vibert Photography Exhibition With Click! Project
Cat Vibert, former copy editor and resident photographer with the Town Crier, will be one of 14 local photographers to be featured in The CLICK Project at the Conn-Artist Studios & Art Gallery. The 14 week exhibition opens on Valentine’s Day with a reception from 5:30–8:30 pm. The gallery is located at 611 Greenville Highway [...]
Step Right Up and Take the Fairview Food Survey!
What are your thoughts about the food you buy and eat? Do you ever… Wonder if it’s possible to eat healthily and affordably? Ask yourself where the food you eat really comes from? Say, “Sure, I’d eat more fresh food, if it weren’t for _____?” From now until July 2012, Fairveiw is participating in a [...]
Touched by Music: A.C. Reynolds Music Departement
Who hasn’t been touched by music at some point in their lives? Some people could even say their lives have been profoundly changed by music. Often that change came from an inspiration, a source of learning and discipline while having a blast. Sometime that inspiration is a high school music teacher. A.C. Reynolds High School [...]
I have issues with Fairview… about 100 of them to be exact!
— Letter from the Editor January 2012 That’s right, I have about 100 issues with Fairview… or The Fairview Town Crier to be correct. Recently while pondering the topic I would settle upon for my yearly “Letter from the Editor” and while simultaneously sorting through over four bins of past issues of the newspaper, I [...]
Staghorn Sumac
Staghorn Sumac is one of the more common and lovely shrubs seen along roadsides and open thickets in western North Carolina. It is easy to recognize with its clusters of brilliant red, cone- shaped berry clusters that are a gorgeous adjunct to the stark winter landscape and they also provide a wonderful addition to the [...]
The Lord’s Acre Q and A
Q. I know you are attempting to purchase the land you are growing on but where are you in that process? When will you be able to begin expanding into those six acres? A. We were recently asked this question and it’s a good one. Just as most of us ‘buy’ a house but still [...]
New Year’s Resolution — Get Out and See the Birds
Another new year and once again we have a chance to try and improve ourselves — albeit psychologically. We could try to drink less, write longer letters to those we love (how about even just writing a letter rather than sending an e-mail?), eat healthier or just get out and exercise a little more often. [...]
January Short Story Contest Winners
SHORT STORY CONTEST Congratulations to this month’s contest winner, Mary Alice Ramsey for her story entitled, Rose. Mary Alice has been awarded a $25 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble. Teresa Ennis’ submission entitled The Field Trip was such a close runner up that we agreed a prize was in order, so she has been [...]
The Real Old Drover’s Road, Part 2
The amount of traffic on the old drover’s road peaked in the 1830s and 1840s. During this period of time some 150,000 hogs would pass through Asheville in both the months of November and December. Stands lined the French Broad River at intervals of eight miles. Eight miles was the normal speed for all the [...]
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