What a lovely day, all around. We walked the two blocks of Main Street in Saluda, shared wonderful conversation and a meal with the very engaging Scott Derks and Hank Stallworth, enjoyed the stroll up to Pearson’s Falls, and popped over to Tryon to see the...
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It was SO INCREDIBLY DELIGHTFUL to celebrate Passover at the Asheville Jewish Community Center’s weekly Musical Tot Shabbat. My friend Penny White, who I met when she was singing and playing guitar when *I* was a kid, has made a career out of the transformative power...
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I met my old L.A. housemate and dear friend in his hometown of Richmond for the “Chad Coleman, This Is Your Life!” Tour. What an honor to have someone share their life story with you, and introduce you to their family by blood and by love. ❤️ Chad’s...
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You know how people often haven’t seen the attractions near their own homes? I have had family in Western North Carolina all of my life and had never been to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. We had to remedy that! This National Park has the dubious honor of...
Read moreMy parents and I made a pilgrimage to two places of deep reflection and crafting of action to further social and economic justice – Highlander Center and the Children’s Defense Fund’s [Alex] Haley Farm, both in east Tennessee. Highlander has been in existence...
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Wow, has American history come alive for me on this trip! I keep getting insights about how the natural resources attracted native peoples and their subsistence lives, then colonial settlement and their resource-extraction economies. How the labor forces evolved to...
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