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What’s Happenin’ at the PAC?
True blue fans of classic Country and Western Music will rejoice when Jason Petty takes to the Highlands Performing Arts Center stage at 8:00 P.M. Saturday, September 14. There is only one Hank Williams…and only one actor who can bring him to life…Jason Petty. Jason is the only actor to portray Hank Williams in the hit Off-Broadway musical, “Lost Highway,” …
Art League of Highlands-Cashiers
The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers will host its September meeting at The Bascom on Monday, September 30. A wine reception begins at 4:30 P.M., followed by a presentation at 5:00. The Art League is pleased to have as its guest speaker Emily Wernig, The Bascom’s 2019 Ceramic Artist in Residence, working at The Bascom’s Dave Drake Studio Barn under the …
Lamp Epiphany
When we visited Donna Ysland in 2015, she’d just had her Floor Lamp Epiphany. That experience launched her company Riverlights, now a thriving Western Carolina enterprise. It has evolved from rustic furnishings and accessories to a more elegant line of contemporary functional art. In case you missed the 2015 article, here are the CliffsNotes. She, her daughter, and her …
New Offerings at PAC
The Live via Satellite Series is expanding the offerings at Highlands Performing Arts Center. Great Art on Screen (a collaboration with The Bascom) has added three new documentaries for the fall. The first new documentary will be presented on Friday, October 4, at 5:30 P.M. “Tintoretto: A Rebel in Venice” fully immerses audiences in the life of the …
Great Art. 3 talented Artists.
The Highlands Cashiers Plateau sustains such a vibrant artist community, it’s startling to realize how few galleries are in existence here now. Ann Jacob Gallery, Robert Tino Fine Art, The Shuptrine Gallery, Summit One, and John Collette Fine Art were local mainstays until just a few years ago. But the vagaries of the art world and a climate of economic …
Marian Baker, Folk Artist
Have you ever thought about the meaning of the word “giddy?” One generally thinks, “Lighthearted thoughts, those full of excitement and happiness.” Well…this describes Marian Baker to a tee! Her personality exudes giddiness as does her work, and it is a descriptive term she uses often. Who is Marian Baker? Marian is a contemporary folk artist from Alabama. …
Wellspring of Creativity
Cedar Chan is a woman in motion, though she moves in quiet ways. She wears an invisible bumper sticker, “My other home is the forest.” The woods are her wellspring of creativity. Forest creatures not only inspire her, they are her. “Cedarness” is reflected in them, though she is quick to say, “I am not making animals human. It’s more …
An Artful Transformation
You may know Jeanie Jones, studio owner, sculptor, mural artist, and painter as Jeanie Edwards, Easely an Artist. She recently married Bryan Jones, a South Carolinian who works in Columbia and joins Jeanie on weekends. She happily shares Bryan’s name, and her business is still the same delightful Highlands art experience you’ve grown to love. If you visit Jeanie’s Easley …
Real Estate Agent Sue Mills
Since the real estate market is critical to the health of the entire Highlands-Cashiers Plateau, we asked Sue Mills, Keller Williams’ Resort and Second Home Specialist, to evaluate the 2019 season. She led the interview with the news that more and more people are considering living here full-time, rather than simply being seasonal residents or even weekenders. “Many folks are …
Landmark’s New Team
Landmark Realty Group, a local boutique luxury real estate firm, has added a quartet of new brokers to its stable of real estate professionals. The brokers, who will represent buyers and sellers across the Plateau, are comprised of both new and familiar faces in the community. Their arrival coincides with the launch of Landmark’s first in-house real estate team, …
Leadership Cashiers Program
Leadership Cashiers recently launched its inaugural program as a new community engagement initiative of the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce. The class is based on a development model used by many cities across the country to prepare and motivate participants to offer quality community leadership. The program’s mission is to inform, connect and engage individuals by studying issues affecting the …
Our Mountain Way of Life
In 2004, Dorothy Swearingen had a pair of revelations – that the future of real estate relies upon a compelling presence on the internet, and success in local real estate is predicated upon conveying what makes life on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau so wonderful. Armed with these twin convictions, Dorothy founded NCMountainLife.com. “The first concern was to create a website that …
