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Shopping on the Plateau
Diamonds and furs and hiking boots! Oh My! Is it true that people come to the mountains to shop? You bet! Most stores in the Highlands-Cashiers area are owner-operated. This means enjoying a level of personal attention unheard of at the mall. Many businesses have been here for decades and have become a destination for generations of shoppers. Stroll around …
Highlands-Cashiers Adventure
Whether you want to tackle a mountain or sit by a stream, you’ll find just what you’re looking for here. It’s the perfect place to step outside and enjoy nature. When folks think of the Highlands – Cashiers area, the first thing that comes to mind would no doubt be golf. This is a premier destination for those seeking the …
Highlands-Cashiers Dining
Award winning chefs flock to the mountains of Highlands and Cashiers and bring with them a variety of sophisticated menus. Taking advantage of the bounty that flourishes in mineral rich soil, restaurants tempt diners with seasonal specialties to please even the most discriminating tastes. You’ll find an array of establishments boasting Wine Spectator Awards and chefs who pay homage to …
Highlands-Cashiers Plateau
Known for their natural beauty and genteel lifestyle, the areas surrounding Highlands and Cashiers offer visitors and residents alike numerous and varied opportunities to enjoy the cool summer temperatures and moderate winters. The Highlands Plateau is surrounded by the Nantahala National Forest and sits at an elevation of 4,118 feet. The Cashiers Valley, anchored by the village of Cashiers with …
Window Dressings
During the holiday season, the town of Highlands transforms into a Dickensesque Christmas wonderland. Our streets are lined with wreath-adorned street lights, trees are aglow, and store windows gleam with holiday vision. To help with this festive town image, the Highlands Chamber of Commerce sponsors an annual Holiday Window Decorating Contest. Store owners have the first three weeks of November …
The Chamber’s Permanent Home
The Marchant-Parker-Davis-Patterson House became the permanent home of the Highlands Chamber of Commerce in 2013. Its provenance is impressive and is reflected in its lengthy name. The home’s history spans three centuries beginning with its construction in 1879 by Robert Marchant. It was his Highlands Pine Ridge residence for five years. In 1884 Greenville, South Carolinian Thomas F. Parker, stepson …
Building a Land Legacy
Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust originated in 1883 to become the first land trust in the Southeast, though it was not until 1909, when members collected money from the residents of Highlands to protect the summit of Satulah Mountain, that the then-Highlands Improvement Association would protect its first property. One of those initial contributing families, the Anderson-Sargent family, went on to …
CLE: Yearn to Learn
Did you know how the Center For Life Enrichment got its start? I sure didn’t and I’ve been working with them on and off over the course of the last five years. In a beauty shop in Highlands, in the summer of 1989, a chance meeting between two women, Nell Martin and Nelda Toothman, unknowingly put into motion the …
Happy in the Dog House
I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. After arriving at Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society in May, 2012, and enjoying a glorious and beautiful spring, summer and fall, the winter months set in and for this Florida native it just didn’t seem that cold. Why were so many people leaving this pristine paradise when all of a sudden the mountain vistas …
Fostering Kindness
Kindness is what we are all about. Helping those that cannot help themselves. We are a voice for our animal brothers and sisters who in their senior years, or in times of need, have no family to care f or them. The Forever Farm in Lake Toxaway is a lifelong sanctuary for senior and special needs animals that come to …
No Greater Love
No greater love have I ever lost than my magnificent Promise. From the day he was born he was the iconic image of Carpe Diem Farms. We announced his birth in The Highlander and he became the talk of the town! Photographers, parents with children, friends of the farm gathered to see our one and only foal born on the …
BBBS Looking Ahead
As the new Big Brothers Big Sisters Program Coordinator of Cashiers, I’m looking forward to this new year. We ended 2015 with a wonderful holiday group outing to the Asheville Community Theatre. It was a great way for me to meet and enjoy time with 20 “Bigs” and “Littles” as we rode the bus to Asheville to watch “The Best …
