Cheers to a Simpler Christmas

There’s beauty in simplicity when infusing a splash of holiday cheer throughout the house.

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Festival of Lights

Everyone – everyone – is invited to the lighting of the first candle of the Menorah at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park in Highlands on the

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Winter Wonderland

The Village Green and surrounding shops and businesses in Cashiers will be a Glittering Wonderland throughout the grey days and dark, dark nights

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Comfort Dining of the Highest Order

We at Laurel spend a lot of ink rhapsodizing about life on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau. From the natural glories to the galvanizing art scene to the dreamers, they all get their moment to shine. Heck, every month I spotlight restaurants that are thriving in this most-Darwinian of environments. But here’s the secret harbored in the deepest corners of the hearts …

The Highlands Men’s Chorus

The Highlands Men’s Chorus will present the Annual Patriotic Concert at 8:00 P.M. on Thursday, July 4, at Highlands First Presbyterian Church. The concert will consist of many favorites, including “America the Beautiful”, “This is My Country,” “A Tribute to the Armed Services,” “God Bless the U.S.A.,” “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “God Bless America,” and more. There will also …

2019 Interlude Concerts

Highlands First Presbyterian Church will launch its 2019 Interlude Concert Series with a July 10 performance by Violinist Kate Ransom and her brother, Pianist William Ransom. Ms. Ransom is the President of the Music School of Delaware and has been a favorite performer at the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival. William Ransom is the Mary Emerson Professor of Piano at Emory …


Created to Create

Why should you come to yet another art and craft show? Well, I can give you 80 reasons.  Those are the 80 talented artists and crafters who will amaze and inspire you, who might occasionally blow your mind.  If you’re anything like me, you’ll find yourself asking, “Where on earth do they get these ideas?” or “Wow! How do they …

Bel Canto’s 27th Season

Sunday, September 8, marks the 27th Anniversary Performance of Bel Canto. The performance will begin at 4:00 P.M., with dinner at Highlands Country Club immediately following. This year’s program brings three newcomers to Bel Canto – Leah Partridge, soprano; Kirstin Chavez, mezzo-soprano, and Scott Quinn, tenor.  Returning for his third appearance will be Christopher Clayton, baritone.  Those of you lucky …

Original World’s Quilt on Display

The Original World’s Quilt will be featured at this year’s Mountain Artisan’s Summertime Arts and Crafts Show. This masterpiece was created for the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville to advertise Franklin, North Carolina, as the Quilting Capital of the World. It’s 19 by 22 feet and shows off 116 traditional patchwork and appliqué patterns. It took 96 quilters more than  …


Anne-Marie Chagnon

Wearing a piece of Anne-Marie Chagnon’s jewelry is like donning a mini Calder or Brancusi. It has all the energy of a monumental modern sculpture compressed into a vibrating, miniature form. If you’ve not seen Chagnon’s work (which is a guaranteed fall-in-love experience), get ready for a jaw-dropping encounter.  Chagnon is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is purchased and praised …

The Watchers

From locales throughout the United States to the rolling hills of the Emerald Isle, they are watching us … and we don’t mind a bit.  Who are they? “The Watchers,” the brainchild of veteran sculptor and Highlands resident Jim Collins. His pieces are figurative, human or animal forms, fashioned out of laser-cut stainless steel, often partnered with wood, copper, brass …

Leslie Jeffery at 4118 Kitchen + Bar

Art nourishes the soul as much as food nourishes the body. There is no shortage of places to find either of those things in Highlands, but there are only a few places that you can find both.  One of those places is 4118 Kitchen + Bar. Longtime supporters of the arts, owners Ryan Aydelotte and Richard Errington have turned the …


Breaking Lapidary Limits

The June 24 meeting of the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers will feature local artist Neal Hearn.   Neal will tell you that he has always been an artist, although his formal education is in electrical engineering, business, and computer science, which led him to an entrepreneurial career, developing new and innovative software, pairing it with the emerging micro-computing hardware, and …

June Concerts at PAC

Bluegrass, Retro Rock and Broadway in June.  Be sure to get your tickets now for these three concerts.  Ticket sales have been robust.    Bluegrass is up first, with the 8:00 P.M. Sunday, June 16, Highlands debut of the internationally-acclaimed fiddler Mark O’Connor and The Mark O’Connor Band.   Mark O’Connor Band’s very first performance took place in 2015. In …

38th Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Fest

You won’t want to miss an unforgettable summer as the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival unfolds its 38th season of chamber music at its best!  Enhancing the cool mountain temperatures and fine dining, the Festival offers chamber music’s master composers curated in creative ways and performed by world-class musicians.    Concerts are held in Highlands on Friday and Sunday evenings at …