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1 month ago | 
carolinacountry.com | Vanessa Infanzon
The mountain towns of Western North Carolina are mostly open for business and are excited to welcome visitors for dining, music, recreation and more. After the damage caused by Hurricane Helene, tourism stopped, leaving a serious dent in revenue. Local attractions and the people who keep them operating depend on visitors’ dollars.
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1 month ago | 
matadornetwork.com | Vanessa Infanzon
in paid partnership with Charlotte is North Carolina’s biggest city — one of the biggest in the country, even — but you might not realize that when you visit. It’s rare to find such a fast-growing population hub that still feels like a town in all the best ways, from the sense of community that runs throughout its distinctive neighborhoods to the incredible number of trees that keep the city green.
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2 months ago | 
cardinalpine.com | Vanessa Infanzon
We talked to 11 North Carolina power couples, including Sarah and Jeff Shepherd of Raleigh, about keeping love alive. (Adam Chapin Photography) It’s Valentine’s Day, and many of us are thinking about love and relationships. These North Carolina couples offer insight into keeping the spark alive. My husband Ryan and I met at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
southparkmagazine.com | Vanessa Infanzon
Western North Carolina is a haven for glassblowing The Arts Travel November 21, 2024 Glass act: The mountains are home to a thriving community of artists and makersby Vanessa InfanzonThe glassblower holds a metal rod and tweezers to demonstrate how to shape the gather — the molten glass — from the furnace at the North Carolina Glass Center in Asheville’s River Arts District (RAD).
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
cardinalpine.com | Vanessa Infanzon
Photo courtesy of Lia Bekyan/Unsplash. A search for the perfect holiday gift ends with these 15 businesses and makers in western North Carolina and beyond. As the holidays approach, those who thrive on giving gifts are excited to finish shopping.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
cardinalpine.com | Vanessa Infanzon
Need inspiration for your holiday meals? We asked 11 North Carolina chefs to share their go-to dishes and traditions for this celebratory season. When it comes to finding out what to serve at your holiday feast, North Carolina chefs are the experts. They understand how to host guests, when to stress (and when not to), and how certain dishes will complement the menu. Our chefs use the finest ingredients, finding many through our state’s agricultural community.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
carolinacountry.com | Vanessa Infanzon
When Allan McCoy founded Hook Line & Heroes in 2017, he was honoring his father who had fought in the Army during World War II and was involved in the second wave on Omaha Beach on D-Day.
“Many years later, looking back, he had many of the symptoms for the effects of what they call post-traumatic stress (PTS) syndrome,” says 65-year-old Allan. “It’s what we grew up with.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
forbes.com | Vanessa Infanzon
By Vanessa Infanzon, Next AvenueIn 2001, a YMCA in Brooklyn hired a husband-and-wife team of television producers, Stephanie Walter and John Williams, to help 15 high school students pull together a film about retired seamen living at the YMCA's residential facility. The class's final project, a one-hour documentary called "Sea Story," was so well done that WNET, the PBS Invesco Dynamic Media ETF station in New York, broadcast it.
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Sep 17, 2024 | 
cardinalpine.com | Vanessa Infanzon
The Great Trails State has converted old railroad lines into hiking trails. Learn about eight of them before trying one for yourself. In the 1960s, the first rail-to-trail, the Elroy-Sparta State Trail in Wisconsin, was created.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
cardinalpine.com | Vanessa Infanzon
Asheville’s Biltmore Estate exhibits glass artist Dale Chihuly’s work through early 2025. Artist Dale Chihuly, known for colorful large-scale glass chandeliers, started integrating glass into his work in the 1960s as a University of Washington student studying interior design. Over the past six decades, Chihuly has built a reputation for innovative installations all over the world.
