Every day Asheville has a couple of dozen entertainment events and hundreds of other cultural, arts, crafts, spiritual, gastronomic and marketing affairs as well. Chronicling all this and reporting important regional news for locals and visitors is the popular – Mountain Xpress newspaper and web site. It’s there I began a new feature called Granola Park this week. Page 84 of the July 7th edition. Not on their web site as yet.
Any and all comments ( +, – or otherwise ) sent to the Xpress are much appreciated!
Appalachia! I’m taking a great course in the literature of the region – learning first that it’s “Appa-lahch (not laych) -ia.” It’s full of surprises because we “foreigners” have believed all those media stories, some true but most incomplete, over the past 40 years. And then, there’s Deliverance and Lil’ Abner and Snuffy Smith. Oh my.
Asheville is complex market, proud of its roots, progressive and determined to do their development differently. There is a real spirit here, and for me, an exciting place to live, (and now work.) Hopefully, I can contribute a few smiles.
I’m posting all my locally published cartoons and other interesting art around Asheville at a new web site: Granola Park .
