Gap shopping in Autumn. My best friend was outside the door waiting for me and I was in there taking photos. LOL. I love this cardigan. It’s good to splurge on yourself every now and then. I have to remember that. Plus I’m still putting together my capsule wardrobe while learning my own personal style, and, as always, learning my everchanging body.
Tryon Foothills set to become the newest American Viticulture Area established in North Carolina.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau announced on Friday, January 5th, 2024, four proposed new AVA rules.
The announcement proposed to change the name of the established Mendocino Ridge AVA, and to establish three pending American Viticulture Area’s. The three new AVA’s proposed are…
Nina Simone's Childhood Home-Tryon, North Carolina
Nina Simone was born on February 21, 1933, in this 660-foot square home in Tryon, North Carolina. Named Eunice Waymon, she lived here with her parents and eight siblings until 1937. This home is mere feet away from St. Luke’s CME Church, where her mother was a pastor, and she began to play the piano for the church by the age of four.
In 2017, artists Adam Pendleton, Rashid John, Ellen Gallagher,…
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church-Tryon, North Carolina
The congregation of the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church began in 1886 in a log church near Tryon as a place for Black residents to worship. It didn’t officially become the Good Shepherd Mission until 1908.
Before the mission’s founding, the church existed in a Sunday school begun by Mabel True Plaisted, the second wife of Maine’s governor and member of the local white Episcopal Church, Holy…