Matthew Wynn

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A Traditional Legacy | A Tale of Two Centuries

“If you’ve never been to Rose Hill, you’re missing out.” So I was told. By several people. Repeatedly. So I went. It was a Wednesday. Rose Hill greets you at the gates. Landscaped walkways welcome you and beckon you forward. Hundreds of years of hard work and talent and passion rest comfortably, as if they knew you were coming. Music and laughter chase each other through the front door of the main house. Incredible, stomach rallying smells escape kitchen windows. Rose Hill wants you to relax. Have a bite to eat. Something to drink. While the guitarist strums and sings, people pass around crab dip and hummus plates. Conversations about

An Interview with Dexter Quintin Price, November’s Mr. Bella

Have you ever met someone who was so cool that just by being in proximity to them you felt cool? They just seem to radiate this confidence that makes you feel like the best version of yourself. You laugh a little harder, hold your head a little higher. And afterwards you look forward to seeing them again, but honestly, you’re a little intimidated by all of their incredible achievements, so you think to yourself, “I really need to get the ball rolling…” If you haven’t met someone like that, you should. You should meet Dexter Price. It all started 4 years ago, with the purchase of two used computers from

Creating a Calling | Bella’s Featured Artist: Robert Campbell

‘…you know the type…’ Not long ago, a new family moved to the area. They seemed like nice folks. I heard they came from Florida, somewhere near the water. Then, their son came to town. You know the type: long hair and loud music… keeps going on-and-on about how he will own a Trans-Am someday. He had run-away when he was sixteen following an argument with his mother about; you guessed it, a guitar. I heard he wrecked his car, and that’s why he moved here. After his car wreck, he did what anyone does: he called his mom. And she told him, ‘come home, ’even though he had never

Back to Aiken | Going Home

The Welsh call it mynd adref: going home. Odysseus spent his entire life just trying to go home. It took Moses over 40 years, and then it didn’t really end that well for him. E.T. had to play dead and evade the government just to go home. And Princess Leia can never go home, it was vaporized by the Death Star. But for me it took four years. And 3,000 miles. Way back in 2015, I was working as a baker and pizza chef at Lake Theater Café, just outside Portland, Oregon. I had just graduated from Portland State and was trying to figure out my next move. I started