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Angel Food Cake Day | Cashiers Historical Society
Cashiers Historical Society invites everyone to join them in celebrating National Angel Food Cake Day on October 10 from 11:00 A.M. until 3:00 P.M. at the pavilion on the grounds of the historic Zachary-Tolbert House. Who doesn’t love to enjoy a holiday celebrating cake? National Angel Food Cake Day celebrates the delicious, light and fluffy cake and is celebrated annually …
Kinnebrew’s Ballads | Orchard Sessions
On November 5, Singer-Songwriter Mike Kinnebrew will return to The Farm at Old Edwards to perform at the Orchard Sessions. Kinnebrew grew up in Atlanta in the 1980s. By his late teens, he knew his future was not academics, and that music was something he could call his own. He started playing in joints around Buckhead, covering the tunes …
Learn More Do Better | The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center
Organizers say that the program will enable participants to: Learn how to Be More. Learn More. Do Better; Do better both as an individual white person, and as a member of the white racial group in America; Learn how to do more to become an anti-racist (versus a non-racist) The series will be led by Dr. Rita Brodnax. Dr. Brodnax …
Canned Food Drive – Fishes and Loaves Food Pantry
Fishes & Loaves Food Pantry in Cashiers, an emergency food pantry, works year-round to help meet some of the dietary requirements of individuals and families in need throughout the community. Nearly one in five people in Jackson and Macon counties fall below the poverty line. Though Fishes & Loaves would normally participate in the Empty Bowls Project, held around the …
A Deeply Southern Novel – Hudson Library
Author talks scheduled throughout the summer at local libraries were sidelined because of the pandemic, but a few are scheduled for the fall due to easing restrictions. One of those is at Hudson Library on October 21 at 2:00 P.M. Award-winning author Susan Zurenda will share insights regarding her novel, Bells for Eli (published March 2 by Mercer University Press). …
Make a Run For It – Twilight Runs
Highlands Mayor Patrick Taylor has been a competitor in the annual Highlands Twilight Race since its inception eight years ago. Mayor Taylor pointed out that although the race has had to adjust to the pandemic, he and many other local and out-of-town runners look forward to its challenging but beautiful course. The Twilight takes place November 28 and will start …
Virtual Book Club: Highlands Biological Station
Highlands Biological Foundation is launching a Virtual Book Club with an examination and discussion of Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. The Foundation Book Club will meet weekly via Zoom Meetings, accessible both through a device or over the phone. No in-person meetings will be held. At each meeting, a leader will facilitate discussion about …
Your Need to Read | The Bookworm
Welcome to our little bookstore! Affiliated with the Hudson Library, the Bookworm has been welcoming and serving the Highlands community and its visitors from as early as 1995. Originally, the Bookworm opened with one room at the Peggy Crosby Center, then grew to four rooms at the Peggy Crosby Center, and in 2014 moved to its current location at …
Autumn Fest at Old Edwards
A great conundrum of the pandemic is that while it has restricted travel abroad and even in places in the U.S., one of the psychological effects has been the strong desire to be elsewhere. Surely it’s true that now both the need for refuge and the beguilements of a bucolic setting closer to home have never seemed stronger. The …
Always Fresh, Always Local | Locally Grown on The Green
Choose the food less traveled at Locally Grown On the Green, Cashiers’ farm-stand market for local growers. The market is “producer only,” meaning that the vendor must be the grower or producer of all the products they sell. Vendors must produce within a 125-mile radius of Cashiers. That means that the season for each fruit and vegetable is longer. Shopping …
October Harvest Aplenty | Highlands Marketplace
The “big” veggies make their presence known as the air cools and crisps. Pumpkins galore, but also several different kinds of squash – including butternut and acorn – brighten booths at the Highlands Marketplace each Saturday morning from 8:00 A.M. to 12:30 P.M. Also plentiful are collards, kale, cabbage, mustard greens, beets, and more. Produce through October is just-picked fresh …
