By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission Jaki Shelton Green, named the inaugural Piedmont Laureate in 2009 and inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame… Read More →
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Vitamin O: Builder and Woodworker David Hinkle
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission David Hinkle designed and built the new bee hotel, a habitat for solitary bees, in Gold Park on Hillsborough’s Riverwalk…. Read More →
Vitamin O: Sand Sculptor Damian Hoffman
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission For Damian Hoffman, it all started with being “bored out of my mind.” He was sitting on Sunset Beach, waiting… Read More →
Vitamin O: Kit FitzSimons
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission Kit is the ninth generation of men named Christopher (no middle name) FitzSimons although “I don’t have a number. My… Read More →
Vitamin O: Blacksmith Mark Eichinger-Wiese
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O for the Orange County Arts Commission In Mark Eichinger-Wiese’s required blacksmithing class at Emerson Waldorf (EW) School, he gives students a piece of hot metal to… Read More →





