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Shopping Your Way Through Cashiers 64E
If you’re in the market for home furnishings and yard art, head down Highway 64 East out of Cashiers, this little corner of our mountains is a must see. Just up the road from the entrance to the Village Green is a unique little shop, known colloquially as “Slick’s Place.” The menagerie metal farm animals and other unique yard art …
The Legendary Mama’s Recipes
Julia Child said, “People who love to eat are always the best people.” If that is so, then Helen McKinney Cleaveland “Mama” Thompson might top the list of bests…times three. She loved to eat. She loved to cook. And she loved sharing recipes. In fact, if there is a down-home Highlands cookbook that personifies our town’s good food and hospitality, …
Culinary Stars and Spring Rosés
On Friday, April 5, join the Old Edwards Inn for the Culinary Stars and Whispering Angel Dinner. Every year, Old Edwards Inn hosts this dinner, served up by their in-house chefs, at The Farm at Old Edwards to celebrate the release of the spring rosés. But this year, the dinner will be a little different. “We wanted to kick it …
Quintessentially Highlands
Here we are in March, and throughout this issue of Laurel, you’ll find heaps of references to the arrival of Spring, popping up like the crocuses that my Mom always noted when she talked about this blessed season. Nature columns, gardening tips, guides to hiking and fishing, they all note the season. Heck, even Dr. Anastasia Halldean’s healthy recipe is …
Spring art Links
March is here, and soon forsythia and daffodils will be popping out all over. Forsythia is the symbol of anticipation and excitement, and the daffodil denotes hope, joy, and friendship. Bright yellow to me perfectly symbolizes hope and anticipation and longing for more sunshine, especially after all the gray of winter. So, I have been inspired to reach out to …
Great Art on Screen at Highlands PAC
The Highlands Performing Arts Center and The Bascom have joined forces to bring Great Art on Screen to the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau. Great Art on Screen is a series of 90-minute documentaries featuring such great artists as Van Gogh, Caravaggio, Klimt & Schiele, and Monet. Audiences will be able to journey all over the world with scholars viewing the dramatic and …
Wagner & Donizetti
The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present the Met Opera productions of “La Fille Du Régiment” and “Die Walküre” in March, Live via Satellite. On Saturday, March 2, Donizetti’s “La Fille Du Régiment” will begin at 12:55 P.M. Bel canto stars Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena team up for a feast of vocal fireworks on the Met stage. Baritone Maurizio …
HCP’s Dinner Theater
March is the month for Highlands Cashiers Players’ popular Dinner Theater at the Martin-Lipscomb Performing Arts Center. The show dates will be Thursday, Friday, and Saturday – March 21 through 23, and 28 through 30. Doors open at 6:30 P.M. and the dinner shows begin at 7:00 P.M. Four one-acts will be performed between dinner courses created, prepared, and catered …
Painting the Connection
Lara Julian Potter (née Polangco) is a North Georgia native, and lives there with her husband and their five children. She’s made a name for herself locally as a self-taught singer/songwriter, playing acoustic guitar, banjo, and mountain dulcimer. These inform the depth and soul of the traditional string instruments she loves best to paint: “There is a kind of …
Bringing Back the Hits
The Highlands Playhouse is still charged with excitement from its 2018 grand finale, “Guys and Dolls.” Managing Director Lance Matzke says, “Theater-goers tell us that every season our staging, acting, directing, music, costumes and scenery get more beautiful, creative, and impressive. Their praise inspires us to work harder on each production to show our gratitude. That’s why we’ve upped the …
Happily Lost in the Light
For Susan Renfro, light defines life. She cherishes it in Nature. She searches for it in a sea of faces. She waits for its shadowy edges to sharpen; its aura, tone or atmosphere to burst open and reveal an emotional flash. At the instant the light exposes that magical moment, she snaps the shutter, capturing a story, layers-deep, in a …
Laurel’s Cover Contest
The stark beauty of winter beckons the inner photographer in us all to take a few moments in the quiet beauty of nature, trying to capture the beauty of the moment so we can carry it with us throughout the year. From the bright red flash of a Cardinal or holly berry against the barren trees, to expansive sunrises …
