Beat Cabin Fever with Comfort Foods Rich in Omega 3 If you live anywhere in the US, especially on the East coast, you know as well as I that the last few weeks have been very difficult. And more cold weather Many Southern comfort foods are popular not only because of their great tastes and […]
Local Women Writers’ Book Signing – June 25, 2022 Saturday, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Mountain Made Gallery will be hosting a book signing for some of our most popular women writers: Jeanne Charters, Nancy Dillingham,C and Celia Miles. The books from these wonderful women writers range from fun, “who-done-it” cozy mysteries, to contemporary poetry; […]
Escape into Summer Reads Benefits of Reading Books by Our Local WNC Writers Are you stressed out? After the last few years, most people are worried or troubled about something. Stress can come from a lot of different sources: everything from politics to long cycles of disastrous weather, from personal illnesses to hard financial times […]
Meet American Pioneer Cooking Expert & Folklorist Barbara Swell According to Blue Ridge Hertiage (https://www.blueridgeheritage.com/artist/barbara-swell/), “Barbara Swell credits her grandmother, a West Virginia native, with inspiring her lifelong interest in Appalachian cooking and homemaking traditions.” “She writes that her grandmother taught her how to bake, garden, and can, and “that rum doesn’t count as alcohol […]
Nancy Dillingham Poetry on Current Events – 2020 to 2021 Although our YEAR 2020 project is over and our crowdsource created book published and offered for sale, Mountain Made’s artist of the year for 2020, Nancy Dillingham’s just published her latest book of poetry and essays, entitled, “I Can’t Breathe”. “I can’t breathe” chronicles her thoughts […]
