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That’s How Rotary Rolls
The Rotary Club of Cashiers Valley may be small in number but their impact within the community is huge. It’s all about service, both locally and globally. A visit to their website tells you just how far their reach extends. Rotarian Bill Mobley has embraced his membership with all the zeal of a man on a mission, which he is. …
Glad I Didn’t Win
Even if you didn’t like Jimmy Carter, the President, chances are you admire Carter, the Humanitarian. His international diplomacy backed up by his work with Habitat for Humanity, earned him 2002’s Nobel Peace Prize. He will go down in history as a man of quality, brilliance, and character …a Southern gentleman with a goofy-toothy grin, who perhaps was too honest …
A Sense of Place
On May 26 at 4:00 P.M. an informative landscape design lecture is sponsored at the Cashiers Library by The Friends of the Albert Carlton Library. Did you know you can create your own special sense of place with a vignette within a sheltered courtyard or an inspirational view terrace? That your natural talents and resources can coax the best from …
A View From the Ridge
Revel in the views from the top of Ravenel Ridge, just four-tenths of a mile from Highlands’ Main Street. Peruse the panoramic views from Whiteside Mountain to Black Rock through Horse Cove to the Fodderstacks. Buena Vista, designed in the Beaux Arts style popular in grand mansions at the turn of the 20th century, incorporates stone and bark along with arches …
Move Over, and Over, and Over
The human body is designed to be a three dimensional moving machine. As aging occurs, it is more common for the joints to be used less in their full ranges, resulting in two-dimensional movement, discomfort, and arthritis. The problem with this outcome is a breakdown of the joints and soreness in the muscles. When this deterioration involves the spine, very …
Emergency Department Upgrade at Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
Big things are in store for Highlands-Cashiers Hospital. Groundbreaking for the new Emergency Department in April was the beginning of a project that has been in the works for years. While the number of treatment rooms will not change, everything else will, including its location. No longer will the department be located next to the outpatient registration area but …
The Bump Chair
When you do genealogical research on a family, studying records of ancestors through several generations, you may think you’ve come to a stopping point with a large collection of birth, marriage and death proof but the truth is that years after your active research has ceased, new evidence often shows up – seemingly out of the blue. That happened in …
We Are the Stewards
This is the third and final installment in a series of articles saluting the Botanical History of the Highlands Plateau, based upon research of the Laurel Garden Club’s Land Stewards and Ran Shaffner. The pamphlet and video accompanying the research were winners of the N. C. Society of Historians’ Paul Green Multimedia Award in 2015. From the ancestors of the …
A Flip Waiting to Happen
Hello friends. It’s springtime again and time to get our rusty swings out of hibernation and tuned up. I think the short game is where to start. As you are well aware many courses are mowing the greenside areas super low — sort of like hitting off a pool table. The margin of error with a tight lie is much …
The Merry Merry Month
May might first have become “merry” in an old English ballad entitled “In the Merry Merry Month of May,” immortalizing Barbara Allen and her Sweet William. This reappeared in a new form in a familiar childhood favorite that begins: While strolling through the park one day In the merry merry month of May… Perhaps you remember the joyful encounter with …
Talking Turkey
Let’s talk turkey. No, not the kind of turkey that could be elected in November, but the kind that roams North Carolina’s forests and open lands, the Eastern Wild Turkey. Males have dark plumage accented with bronze, copper, and green iridescent coloration. They also come equipped with spurs, used to fight other males for mates. Gobblers or toms (males), and …
The Seed With a Family Tree
There’s something about seeing a clump of Lupins that takes you back – waaaaayyyyy back. These plants were cultivated in Highlands over 6,000 years ago. No, not these Highlands, but rather the Andean Highlands of South America. They have been grown all over the world. Lupins are grown for their edible seeds for the most part, but we tend to …
