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Start Your Summer With Shopping
When life returns to normal, summer is upon us, and the world is opening up a bit, we’ll all be ready to get back out, do a little shopping and support our small, locally-owned businesses that add so much to the fabric and fun of life here in Highlands. Shopping Highlands’ Main Street is a given, but also …
The Pie’s The Limit
The first time I met Mary Adair Trumbly, I was immediately drawn to her radiant self-presentation, eyeing her tulle skirt across the grocery aisles. It was clear then that the items in her wardrobe would reveal her story, as it did: Director of the Performing Arts Center, President of the Chamber of Commerce, and board member of the Highlands Food …
Helping the Hungry
The pandemic has brought the mission of the Food Pantry of Highlands into sharp focus and added a sense of urgency to its efforts to feed local families. “The Food Pantry is doing a steady 75 families every Monday and we’ve seen a number of new younger people reaching out for assistance due to the high level of unemployment,” said …
Peace, Love and Laurent Perrier
Old Edwards Inn is known for their love of hosting parties, innovative collaborative events that focus on and present their favorite finds. As they’ll do on July 30, at the Peace, Love, and Laurent Perrier Party at The Farm. The evening, featuring the champagnes of Laurent Perrier, promises to recapture the easy swinging style and laid-back rhythms of the …
Katherine Michael Paints Nostalgia
What do ping pong balls and wooden sub flooring have in common? Katherine Michael! Katherine is originally from Illinois, but has made Florida her home for nearly 20 years. Being a folk artist, you never know what she will paint nor what types of materials she will use for her creations; being out-of-the-box, she sometimes uses ping pong balls to …
HCCMF Getting Ready for 2021
To all our Festival Friends, we waited as long as we possibly could, hoping for a miracle, but sadly the time has come to make the call that the 39th season of the Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival has been cancelled. We had such an incredible summer planned for you, with more new faces and creative programs than ever before, including …
It’s Just Intermission
Highlands is in Intermission, but we’re slowly getting back to the performance. This is a very difficult time for everyone – the shop owners, the restaurants, the accommodations, real estate groups, the arts, – everyone is in intermission. The Highlands Performing Arts Center is in the process of rescheduling the June concerts to later in the year. Hopefully, if North …
Nothing Plain About Plein Air
This summer is the Sixth Biennial Cashiers Plein Air Festival, a festival to celebrate the outdoor lifestyle of the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, July 15-19. Plein air is French for “open air.” The festival will feature invitational artists painting outdoors, in the open air, capturing on canvas the beauty of the landscape and the bucolic way of life in the North …
Art League’s Definite Maybe
To say that 2020 has been a strange year so far hardly seems worth the effort. Like most Plateau dwellers, we at the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers looked forward to the new season. New speakers were lined up for our monthly meetings beginning in April, and we anticipated two more successful fine art shows and again sponsoring the Children’s …
Cherokee’s Utlunta Legend
The large stainless steel and concrete sculpture in The Village Green is named Utlunta, a figure in Cherokee legend. The name translates to “the one with the pointed spear,” and this shapeshifting witch is sometimes referred to as Spearfinger. According to Cherokee legend, she lived in Western North Carolina with her favorite home being Whiteside Mountain, a thunder mountain. …
See You in September
The Bel Canto Committee and our Artistic Director, Stella Zambalis, and our Musical Director, Dr. Stephen Dubberly, are hard at work coming up with yet another quartet of wonderful performers for our 28th year of the Bel Canto Recital. The recital, scheduled for Sunday, September 13, is shaping up to be another of our “it just keeps getting better and …
