(828) 526-0173 | [email protected] | Copyright 2024 – All Rights Reserved.
Search Articles
There are so many great articles in the pages of The Laurel Magazine, sometimes you want to read them again. You won’t miss a thing. Use these helpful search parameters and find just what you’re looking for about Highlands, NC and Cashiers, NC.
Always Fresh, Always Local | Locally Grown on The Green
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 …
October Harvest Aplenty | Highlands Marketplace
The “big” veggies make their presence known as the air cools and crisps. Pumpkins galore, but also several different kinds of squash – including butternut and acorn – brighten booths at the Highlands Marketplace each Saturday morning from 8:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. Also plentiful are collards, kale, cabbage, mustard greens, beets, and more. Produce through October is just-picked fresh …
Bear Shadow Music Fest
Last month the organizers and board of the Highlands Food and Wine Festival announced the cancellation of this year’s event, “due to social distancing guidelines regarding Covid-19.” As Festival Director Casey Reid said, “While this was a difficult decision, it was in the best interest of the community to cancel the fall event.” Though organizers and attendees were eagerly looking …
Get Ready for Autumn’s Burst on the Highlands Cashiers Plateau
With the arrival of the annual Fall Leaf Show, you’re seeing the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau at its best. And for those of us who’ve been driven a little bit wonky by a quarantined summer, it looks like this’ll be one of those classically colorful seasons. The wet days of September will pay off with a burst of vivid colors – Christmas …
In the Know: Author John Cribb
Author John Cribb, who introduced his September 15 published Old Abe historical novel at Hudson Library, said the idea for the book was “born in a library.” George Santayana, a Spanish-born American author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first said the oft-repeated quote: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Many, including Cribb, …
A Spooky Trivia Hike – Highlands Cashiers Land Trust
Among the hauntingly beautiful mountains of the Southern Appalachians, nestled only steps away from downtown Highlands, is the historic Kelsey Trail. Built over a century ago by one of the town’s founders as a path to Whiteside Mountain, the remnants of this popular trail are now protected by Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust and open to the public. This Halloween, all …
The Bascom – See, Think, Do
Curious Terrain: WNC from the Air in the Bunzl Gallery features stunning aerial photographs of the Western North Carolina region by Alex S. MacLean, an artist and pilot with over 45 years of experience taking images from the bird’s-eye perspective of an airplane. Newly-commissioned by the WCU Fine Art Museum, MacLean’s striking images of the seven western-most counties of North …
Empty Bowls Project
On October 4, a special event takes place in Highlands: Empty Bowls. Hosted by International Friendship Center’s Highlands Food Pantry as well as First Presbyterian Church of Highlands, Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort to fight hunger and food insecurity. The 10th annual event pairs potters and other craftspeople with concerned citizens. Typically, after sharing a simple meal of …
Jazz Night Every Weekend – Cake Bar at Mill Creek
Of course, no food group since The Enlightenment has been more closely associated with “Celebration” than Cake, so it’s only natural that Cake Bar at Mill Creek in Highlands would have something to say about the storied month of October. You can Indulge your sweetest dreams with a slice (or two) of their scratch-made treats, like their signature Chocolate Heaven …
Class in a Glass: Elevated Wines
At the start of February this year, before the word “Pandemic” was in our lexicon, Highlands Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Kaye McHan and Davis Picklesimer, co-owner of the Highlands Wine Shoppe visited California’s Napa Valley to meet with members of the Napa Valley Vintners Association, wine makers and owners. According to Picklesimer, their goal was, “to make Highlands …
Cashiers Chamber: Engaging Community & Business
The Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce is hard at work, even in these uncertain times, staying true to their mission of actively engaging the community and businesses in the hard work of ensuring that Cashiers and Jackson County continue to thrive and grow. Chamber President Mary Lanning, who’s the General Manager of Hampton Inn and Suites-Sapphire Valley/Cashiers, enjoys a dual …
McKee Welcomes Joanne Bryson
McKee Properties, the experts in luxury real estate in the Cashiers area of the Western North Carolina mountains, has announced the addition of Broker Associate Joanne Bryson to its team. A 40-year resident of the Cashiers area, Bryson served as a dental assistant, a flood adjuster and owned a successful small business before joining McKee Properties. “McKee Properties’ history and …
