This is certainly not my usual “First Impressions” column. I’m not ranting about anything, rather I just want to take the time to acknowledge our readers, advertisers and Asheville, NC our feature focus this month.

I must say that Asheville has certainly turned my head. Being from the Tennessee mountains, my visit there gave me a feeling of being back home. Yet there was certainly a difference in the feel of Asheville and my hometown, Chattanooga. Asheville has a certain open-minded approach that is lacking in most southern towns. It almost felt like I’d landed in a friendly mix of Virginia Highlands, Little 5 Points and Decatur when I first visited there over a year ago. I knew that I wanted to have more than just a surface involvement in this cosmopolitan yet down-home town where Wendy Lippman had established a healthy circulation for Oracle 20/20 Magazine.

I visited Asheville this year to look over the routes and meet with the distribution manager for Mountain Express. They are putting some really nice racks in many of the locations that we have been in for some time. With this partnering of locations, you will be seeing lots more of us in Asheville than before. The main complaint that I have had from readers is that the magazines are often gone by the time they get there to pick one up. That shouldn’t be a problem for long, with lots of new locations and a beefed up supply beginning this month, there should be plenty to go around.

We now have distribution in eight southern states and in Ohio. If you want to find an Oracle 20/20 distributor in your area, just go on line & find out where you can pick one up (Distribution lists here.). If the racks are all picked clean by the time you get there, there’s always a copy on line. We even have back issues for the past three years. If nothing but hard copy will do, call us & we’ll send out the issue(s) you are missing.

Finally, I want to thank the advertisers, not only in Asheville, but all over the country for trusting us to get your word out. We want to do more than you expect and give you superior results for your advertising dollars.

Sherry Henderson, Editor