Stepping up to a lone microphone on a side lawn in Franklin, Dalton Mills plucked a couple guitar chords and said a few words before launching into hi.
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Sitting in the Innovation Brewing outpost taproom at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, writer David Joy takes a sip of his craft ale and pause.