Current Issue: June 2016
Check out this month's content from the magazine!
Thank You Readers!
Thank you for for naming us one of the Best Free Publications in WNC every year since 2003!
Book Review: “Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland” by Jeremy B. Jones
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/book-1-135x190.jpg
Little did Jeremy B. Jones suspect that a kindly man, who stopped to help repair his car, would launch an odyssey by asking where he was from. When Jones indicated Henderson County, to the west, the man proclaimed, “Oh, so …
Posted in June 2016
Tagged book review, catio, Y-chromosome
Comments Off on Book Review: “Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland” by Jeremy B. Jones
Book Review: “Cotton in Augusta,” “Joy in the Morning” and “From Myra to Laura” A Trilogy by Shirley Proctor Twiss
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Books-2-190x128.jpg
Through Myra Stuart MacTavish’s long and energetic life, Twiss’s trilogy explores women’s economic and social conditions in the decades spanning 1909 to the mid-1970s. As Myra progresses from the daughter of a sharecropper in Georgia to the wife of a …
Posted in May 2016
Tagged book review, books, review, words by women
Comments Off on Book Review: “Cotton in Augusta,” “Joy in the Morning” and “From Myra to Laura” A Trilogy by Shirley Proctor Twiss
Eighth Annual Blue Ridge Bookfest
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Elephants-127x190.jpg
The Eighth Annual Blue Ridge Bookfest takes place on Friday, April 22, 2016 and Saturday, April 23, 2016.
Posted in April 2016
Tagged bookfest, literature, words by women
Comments Off on Eighth Annual Blue Ridge Bookfest
Book Review: “Nothing Vanishes: Memoir of a Life Transformed” by Karen Lauritzen
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/nothingvanished-130x190.jpg
Sweet Woods Garden, a familial cemetery, graces the top of a gentle slope on Karen Lauritzen’s property in Transylvania County. At his request, she buried Henry, her husband of twenty-two years there, and then, over the next ten years, her …
Posted in February 2016
Tagged book review, books, words by women
Comments Off on Book Review: “Nothing Vanishes: Memoir of a Life Transformed” by Karen Lauritzen
Book Review: “Three Graves Full” by Jamie Mason
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Graves-126x190.jpg
If only Alfred Hitchcock were still in Hollywood to direct a movie of Three Graves Full! He would have been delighted to discover a book containing all of his signature elements: psychological menace, harrowing scenes, relevant horror, black humor, and …
Posted in December 2015
Tagged book review, words by women
Comments Off on Book Review: “Three Graves Full” by Jamie Mason
Book Review: “Guest On Earth” by Lee Smith
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Guests-131x190.jpg
Prospective readers, noting the celebrated Zelda Fitzgerald’s name on the back cover, may be surprised to discover that she is a secondary character portrayed from the perspective of the orphaned Evalina Toussaint. Her days of glory and riotous living long …
Posted in October 2015
Tagged book review, books, words by women
Comments Off on Book Review: “Guest On Earth” by Lee Smith
Book Review: “Accidental Birds of the Carolinas” by Marjorie Hudson
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Book1-128x190.jpg
| Reviewed By Mary Ickes | Marjorie Hudson defines accidental birds as Birds found outside their normal range, breeding area, or migration path, arrived through storm, wind, or unusual weather. The signature story, Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, illustrates her …
Posted in September 2015
Tagged book review
Comments Off on Book Review: “Accidental Birds of the Carolinas” by Marjorie Hudson
Book Review: “Final Rights” by Tena Frank
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/FinalRights-132x190.jpg
Tate Marlowe loves a challenging puzzle! Not the dump-on-a-table genre, but circumstances usually shrugged off as mere coincidence. While walking in Asheville’s Montford Historic District, she discovers an old house that … “exhibited a hodgepodge of styles from Asheville’s architectural …
Posted in August 2015
Tagged book review
Comments Off on Book Review: “Final Rights” by Tena Frank
Book Review: “Phase Line Green: The Battle for Huế, 1968” By Nicholas Warr
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/GreenLine-129x190.jpg
Fifteen years after returning from the Vietnam War, Nicholas Warr began writing Phase Line Green as a catharsis. Then, while researching, he discovered an equally compelling reason for recording his experiences: According to The combat after-action report and command chronology …
Posted in July 2015
Tagged book review
Comments Off on Book Review: “Phase Line Green: The Battle for Huế, 1968” By Nicholas Warr
Vocational Solutions of Henderson County
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/voc5-190x143.jpg
Mission statement: Vocational Solutions of Henderson County is dedicated to providing career and life skills training to adults with disabilities or other vocational barriers in a safe, caring environment.
Posted in January 2015
Tagged henderson county, nonprofit
Comments Off on Vocational Solutions of Henderson County
Children and Family Resource Center - Part 2
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Hville1-190x163.jpg
[Click here for part one of this story.] Parallel to training parents to become their children’s first and best teachers, the Children and Family Resource Center (CFRC), cooperating with other agencies, works to assure . . . the accessibility, quality, …
Posted in May 2015
Tagged nonprofit
Comments Off on Children and Family Resource Center - Part 2
Book Review: “Six Notable Women of North Carolina” by Jack Prather
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/SixWomen-132x190.jpg
Mr. Prather, in 2012, published Twelve Notables in North Carolina, succinct biographies of 10 men and 2 women distinguished for their dedication to the arts, education, humanitarianism, journalism, medicine, and religion. Since publishing this sequel honoring six women, the constant …
Posted in May 2015
Tagged books, literature, words by women
Comments Off on Book Review: “Six Notable Women of North Carolina” by Jack Prather
Children And Family Resource Center Of Henderson County - Part 1
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/hendersonville-190x163.jpg
Their Mission Statement: Our mission is to improve the lives of children by providing resources that prepare children for success in school, increase and improve parenting skills, increase the affordability and quality of childcare, and lead advocacy efforts to improve …
Posted in April 2015
Tagged henderson county, nonprofit
Comments Off on Children And Family Resource Center Of Henderson County - Part 1
League of Women Voter of Henderson County, Part 2
http://www.wncwoman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/3002776434_643d076694_b-190x142.jpg
Initially, the League of Women Voters was a federation of affiliated state Leagues formed by merging the state headquarters of the defunct National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Posted in February 2015
Comments Off on League of Women Voter of Henderson County, Part 2