"It's the natural beauty that certainly keeps me here," says Mary Jo Padgett, a resident for more than 40 years and owner of Hendersonville History Walks. Padgett leads guided history walks through the town whose unofficial nickname is the City of Four Seasons. "We have four seasons, but none of the seasons are too long or too hard," she adds. It was that idyllic weather that first attracted visitors from Charleston and Florida, to summer camps and second homes - and it still attracts visitors today.
"It's a small town, but it's much more sophisticated than many others," Padgett says about the area that boasts both the Flat Rock Playhouse - the state theater of North Carolina - and The Hendersonville Symphony, in addition to multiple murals and mosaics in town. It's also home to the "Look Homeward, Angel" statue, from Thomas Wolfe's novel of the same name, located in Oakdale Cemetery.
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