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The Grand & Glorious
Packed with style, comfort and a healthy dose of mountain ease, Hotel Cashiers is a destination uniquely suited for this season of worry. In a year that’s shaken Americans’ notions of relaxation and escape, Hotel Cashiers, located in the heart of Cashiers, is a welcome remedy. Drawing inspiration from the days when family vacations consisted of road trips and …
Easy’s Slippers Save Gentle Giants
The horses of Carpe Diem Farms continue to help save other horses’ lives. Many of you know that the farm is also home to Easy’s Slipper by Advanced Equine Comfort. The scientifically proven, glue-on, innovative, patented, composite rubber horseshoe alternative was developed and is manufactured at the farm. It exists today because of the horses of Carpe Diem and it’s …
Peggy Crosby Center
Even though the Peggy Crosby Center is practically a legend in Highlands, there are still those who aren’t sure of its true purpose. Simply put, the Peggy Crosby Center provides low-cost office space to aid helping-hand organizations and small business ventures on the Plateau. Why is that crucial? Peggy Crosby Center Board members responded: Martha Anne Carmichael: “So, I’ve decided …
Max and Me
Last month marked a very special birthday and anniversary for Max and me. It was Max’s 13th birthday and our 10th anniversary of doing pet therapy visits together at senior living communities. The residents of Chestnut Hill in Highlands helped Max celebrate by hosting a party featuring a safe outdoor gathering on a beautiful Friday afternoon. Max’s first visit …
Eclectic History to Match Eclectic Book Offerings
In Paris, France, just across the Seine River from the famous and medieval Notre-Dame, is the Shakespeare & Company bookstore. It opened in 1951 and quickly became a meeting place for anglophone (that means English-speaking) writers and authors, and it is housed in a 17th century building that was originally a monastery. It was not uncommon for people to temporarily …
Improving with Age
A body that improves with age is possible with the right teachers. During this pandemic and shutdown, Chad and I have launched a dream with our community in mind. We’ve been in a vortex of change and growth leading into our 16th year in Highlands – our core offerings keep refining. Movement is life and movement heals. We are welcoming Patti …
The Power of Stem Cells and Healing!
Sue Aery The Power of Stem Cells – We need them to heal us and take away our pain! Let’s live alive every day. Push away the thought of injections, medications and surgery – make every minute count! Dear Patient, we have very exciting news at Aery Chiropractic & Acupuncture! We are now offering Tissue Regeneration Therapy by way of …
Clean Hands: The Best Medicine
Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation is spreading the word (and the hand-sanitizer) about good health practices in Western North Carolina. Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation is abuzz. “This is an exceptional year of need,” says Foundation Chair Dr. Walter Clark. “With the unprecedented dynamics of Covid-19, we are trying to do everything we can to help our communities be …
Dreams of Becoming Rich
For 12 years before Cashiers was named “Cashier’s Valley’’ by Jonathan Zachary in 1839, settlers were already coming in and making their homestead claims. The first to stake a claim in the area we now know as Cashiers Township was Barak Norton. His homestead claim was just below the dramatic cliff side of Whiteside Mountain. Barak had another claim on …
Native Gemstones
Macon County’s corundum mining placed its shiny pin on the map in the early 1870s. Hiram Crisp, a shoemaker and farmer, was the first in the county to plow up corundum. File that away for the next time you’re planting petunias. Trace elements such as iron or chromium turn corundum blue, red, or occasionally yellow, white, or green. If it’s …
Bloomers and Bicycles
Bloomers and Bicycles. What do they have to do with the Centennial celebration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote? Just step into Colonel John’s Cabin on the grounds of the historic Zachary-Tolbert house at the Cashiers Historical Society and view their exhibit A National Milestone With a Mountain View: 100 years of women’s …
Two Small Shards
Intrigue, confusion, fear, excitement, joy, tears…it was all there, a full spectrum, and oddly enough, the embodiment of those emotions came into the frame shop one day in a small sandwich baggie. Carefully laid out before me on my design table, there they were….so famous…actual pieces of freedom. As I listened to the captivating story of how Franklin residents James …
