Pineola News

AVERY COUNTY, NC Leaves are changing quickly in the highest elevations of the North Carolina Mountains.

This is one of the vehicles Howard Carpenter Marmon built in Pineola, a town in Avery County.

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There are almost as many examples of young prodigies who have crashed and burned, cracked up or deserted their vocation altogether - from Rimbaud to Bobby Fischer - under the strain of so singularly focusing on something at a young age.

With the coming of spring comes preparations for a summer garden, and many nurseries, garden centers and farmers' markets are gearing up to help to that end.