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Enjoy a Little Music and Dance
Summer has officially arrived in Highlands when the Friday Night Live and Saturdays on Pine outdoor concerts take the stage and folks of all ages come out to dance under the stars. Friday Night Live performances take place at the Highlands Town Square from 6:00 until 8:00 P.M. Saturdays on Pine are at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park on Pine Street and …
Happy Trails
On July 5, you have an opportunity to hike the historic Kelsey Trail from Whiteside Mountain to the Highlands Recreation Park, thanks to the Highlands Plateau Greenway. When Highlands was founded in 1875, there was no road to Whiteside Mountain. So in 1881 Samuel Kelsey began work on a road that would end a quarter-mile from the top of Whiteside. …
Happenings at the Hudson
Now that we’re here in June, Hudson Library is in full bloom to attract everyone in the community. We’d normally spotlight the Childrens’ Summer Learning Program, which is open to all children, regardless of whether they own a library card. This will go on all summer long and will feature special children’s programs every Friday morning at 10:30, kid’s movies …
Hip & Cool Plants
Our seventh season of the Garden Talk Salon resumes its summer schedule at 10:00 A.M. Friday, June 14, with “Hip and Cool Plants,” a tour and horticultural discussion with Mary Palmer Dargan. These are plants suitable for Mountain Chic Gardens, perfect for the Plateau. It will include shrubs, trees, evergreens, perennials – you name it, we’ll talk about it! We …
Fire Away with the Bascom
One of the most anticipated ceramic events of the summer is The Bascom’s Annual Three Potters Symposium, held on June 15, from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. in the Dave Drake Studio. In its ninth year, this event hosts three talented ceramic artists from the region for a day of public demonstrations and dialogue. If a piano was a potter’s …
HIghlands Marketplace
The Highlands Marketplace is being staged from 8:00 A.M. until 12:30 P.M. every Saturday at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park. Local farmers, artisans, and growers gather to offer the freshest and most colorful selections you’ll find anywhere. Whether it’s spring lettuces, organic salves and tinctures, eggs, or handmade crafts you’ll not be disappointed. Farmers will be offering the first fruits of …
Highlands Motoring festival
As you start to grow up, you often strive to emulate people that you find are larger, or more nationally recognized; but, all too often, circumstances might prevent you from achieving that goal. At that point you look at what you have and what is unique, and capitalize on that. Such is the case of the Highlands Motoring Festival. Highlands …
Chamber Welcomes John Woods
When your surname is Woods, it seems only natural that you’d settle in the Nantahala. John Woods, naval engineer, chemist/physicist, marketing genius, and resort manager traveled the world, stem to stern. After he married and started a family, he heard the mountains call. It was time to settle. Nothing suited him better than the woods of Western North Carolina. His …
Realtor LIz Harris
From her early years in British Columbia, Canada, to her forever home in Cashiers, Liz Harris excels in making a place richer by her presence. Recently ranked #1 in sales for 2018 in the Highlands-Cashiers MLS, Liz continues to deliver outstanding results for her real estate clients. Liz, an outdoors girl, fell in love with the area when she …
Cashiers Valley Nosh Mob
Nosh Mob – noun, a large group of delightful foodies; verb, to crowd a specific Chamber Member Restaurant and enthusiastically appreciate a locally prepared meal. Throughout a beautiful winter evening in February, the Greystone Inn’s new Mansion Bar & Restaurant was filled to capacity with animated Cashiers Area Chamber members and friends dining as part of the organization’s “Nosh Mob” …
Studio 106 Opens
A fallen leaf, a weathered fence post, a sun-dappled path … even a proverbial bump-on-a-log has photo-potential on the Plateau. Why? Because it exists in Eden. Maybe that is why so many photographers gravitate to Highlands/Cashiers … and the reason the smart ones stay. Thanks to the enthusiasm and vision of four of those smart ones, Colleen Kerrigan, …
Critter Camp
The Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society is launching an all-new summer camp program called “Critter Camp.” The CHHS Critter Camp will be five days in length and is open to rising first-graders through rising sixth-graders. The week of camp will feature fun, immersive, and interactive experiences with animals at the no-kill shelter; humane education programs including canine body language and dog bite …
