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The Bascom’s Residencies
The Bascom’s residency program has been an important part of the organization’s mission for many years. Throughout the year, talented artists from around the country apply to participate. Resident artists are an essential part of Bascom programming, and provide a fresh perspective, new skills sets, and big ideas. In return, The Bascom works to provide professional development opportunities, and real-world …
Going Forward While Looking Back
What a year 2020 has been so far. For the community not to get discouraged about how a global pandemic derailed everyone’s lives, Librarian Serenity Richards shared some significant milestones of the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library as reminders of what it has already come through in its short history: 2001 – September 11 “We had news coverage on the TV …
Favor Local Flavor
Saturday mornings offer the promise of a weekend brimming with the possibilities of your best day ever. There is no better place to start your weekend than the Highlands Marketplace held at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park every Saturday morning from July through October from 8:00 A.M. until 12:30 P.M. This open air market is a feast for the senses, offering …
Cashiers’ Plein Air Festival
Nationally-acclaimed painters from throughout the country set up their easels to capture the beautiful landscape and charming lifestyle of the North Carolina Mountains, July 15-19. This is the Sixth Biennial Cashiers Plein Air Festival, a premier outdoor painting event benefiting The Village Green. The festival artists’ original art is displayed for viewing and sale at a pop-up art gallery at …
Music in The Orchard
The collaboration of musicians and the out-of-doors can be quite magical, even when it includes the occasional cricket solo or thunderclap percussion. Over the next few months, music lovers can join with musicians in an orchard under sprawling oak trees at The Farm at Old Edwards. Known as the “Orchard Sessions,” the series of five concerts showcases a diverse …
Wild Lives & Wild Places
If you’re wondering Where the Wild Things Are during this strange pandemic summer, well, it turns out they’re in Sapphire. Sapphire Valley Resort’s 17th Annual Wildlife Mountain Days will be held on July 17 and 18 at the Sapphire Valley Resort. This annual event promotes a better understanding of, and connection with, wildlife through a diverse mixture of children’s …
Man-Made Whitewater
Experienced paddlers from throughout the Southeast turn out for the West Fork annual recreational dam releases. During the summer months, the Lake Glenville Dam releases whitewater into the west fork of the Tuckasegee River, creating class IV rapids over a 5.5-mile stretch. Release dates for 2020 are July 11, July 25, and August 8 and 22 from 10:00 A.M. to …
Natural Settings Showcased
The Cashiers Historical Society has announced the opening of the 2020 Cashiers Designer Showhouse. Located at the Silver Run Reserve property, the showhouse is set amidst 300 acres of natural beauty, bordering the Nantahala National Forest. Originally developed 40 years ago as a private family estate, Silver Run is today being revived and transformed into a private mountain …
Perfect Tonic for Minds
The Center for Life Enrichment launches its 2020 season with a full slate of compelling presentations. We start off with two powerhouse presenters from UNC-Chapel Hill. Max Owre will discuss Charles De Gaulle’s military ideas and his commitment to continuing the fight against Hitler’s Germany when most of France, demoralized by the army’s collapse in 1940, accepted defeat. In a …
Always Fresh Always Local
Choose the food less traveled at Locally Grown On the Green, Cashiers’ farm stand market for local growers. The market is “producer only,” meaning that the vendor must be the grower or producer of all the products they sell. Vendors must produce within a 125-mile radius of Cashiers. That means that the season for each fruit and vegetable is longer. Shopping at …
The Village Nature Series
There’s been a lot of controversy over whether or not “climate change” is real. Here in the mountains of Western North Carolina, we’re only just now seeing some real changes with later autumns, earlier summers, and record rainfalls, both high and low. These shifts in climate can have subtle impacts on our biotic diversity. For example, the early warm temperatures …
Highlands July 4th
With uncertainty swirling about the Plateau’s health situation as the state prepares to enact Phase 3 of the Coronavirus Response, the Highlands Chamber of Commerce has decided to postpone the town’s traditional Fourth of July Fireworks Display, moving the date to Saturday, September 5, on the presumably safer Labor Day weekend. Highlands Mayor Pat Taylor’s said, “Given the circumstances, it …
