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Spring has just about sprung, but as I write this, it’s cloudy, drizzly and about ten degrees too chilly outside—which is why I’m so happy to have Autumn Cobeland’s brilliant artwork on our cover. Her super-saturated paintings of area greenways brighten up any gray day! Much like Cobeland, I’ve been exploring the greenways little by little, on long jogs and weekend bike rides with my kids. I love noticing the ebb and flow of the seasons and the way the light filters differently on early mornings or late afternoons. It’s amazing how something as simple as a path through town can offer a place to connect, reflect and refresh. On some level, each of our features have that same spirit of going back to the fundamentals. When we visit chef Jamie DeMent’s farm, we see how her thoroughly of-the-moment locavore lifestyle is, in reality, the way her forebears lived (p. 78). In Preserving History, we follow a gut renovation whose goal is not to modernize, but to restore a grand Victorian historic home to its original state (p. 94). Our tour through Raleigh Denim Workshop reveals artisans using machines made in the early 20th century to craft heritage-level garments today (p. 86). Even our beer feature is, ultimately, about local makers tinkering with centuries-old recipes (p. 110). If you enjoy this issue—printed on good, old-fashioned paper!—please visit waltermagazine.com to subscribe. While you’re there, you’ll notice our new web-exclusive content, including stunning sports and music photography (like the shots above), shorter profiles, decorating ideas and more. We hope you agree that there are more great things happening in our community than we can fit into our pages every month!

Ayn-Monique Klahre Editor

EDITORIAL Editor AYN-MONIQUE KLAHRE Creative Director LAURA PETRIDES WALL Associate Editor CATHERINE CURRIN

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Contributing Writers ALEX DIXON, JASON FRYE, HAMPTON WILLIAMS HOFER, PAIGE JACOB, ADDIE LADNER, JESSIE RUMBLEY

Contributing Photographers TYLER CUNNINGHAM, SMITH HARDY, KEITH ISAACS, BOB KARP, TIM LYTVINENKO, S.P. MURRAY, TAYLOR MCDONALD, EAMON QUEENEY, GUS SAMARCO, BERT VANDERVEEN, GEOFF WOOD PUBLISHING Publisher SARA GLINES

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Circulation JERRY RITTER, BRIAN HINTON VOLUME VII, ISSUE 6 MARCH 2019

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