Mast General Store Blog

Did you know the State of North Carolina’s official folk dance is clogging? Yep, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted clogging as the state’s folk dance and shagging as the...

The week surrounding the 4th of July is traditionally filled with cookouts, barbecues, neighborhood picnics, family gatherings, and, of course, fireworks. But how did we get there? Good question. 

At Mast General Store, our buying team makes a concerted effort to seek out goods with a tiered focus to ensure that Made in USA products find their way to...

There’s an old adage about real estate investment that goes, “Buy land. They’re not making it anymore.” The line packs so much wit and wisdom that it has variations attributed...

A mysterious creature roams the hills of Appalachia. It carries its bulky, slouching figure upright yet travels with catlike agility under the cover of night so that it goes undetected...

It’s hard to believe that a quarter century has passed since the Mast General Store opened its fifth location on historic Biltmore Avenue in a resurging Downtown Asheville. Sunday, May...