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Hip & Cool Plants
Our seventh season of the Garden Talk Salon resumes its summer schedule at 10:00 A.M. Friday, June 14, with “Hip and Cool Plants,” a tour and horticultural discussion with Mary Palmer Dargan. These are plants suitable for Mountain Chic Gardens, perfect for the Plateau. It will include shrubs, trees, evergreens, perennials – you name it, we’ll talk about it! We …
Fire Away with the Bascom
One of the most anticipated ceramic events of the summer is The Bascom’s Annual Three Potters Symposium, held on June 15, from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. in the Dave Drake Studio. In its ninth year, this event hosts three talented ceramic artists from the region for a day of public demonstrations and dialogue. If a piano was a potter’s …
HIghlands Marketplace
The Highlands Marketplace is being staged from 8:00 A.M. until 12:30 P.M. every Saturday at Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park. Local farmers, artisans, and growers gather to offer the freshest and most colorful selections you’ll find anywhere. Whether it’s spring lettuces, organic salves and tinctures, eggs, or handmade crafts you’ll not be disappointed. Farmers will be offering the first fruits of …
Highlands Motoring festival
As you start to grow up, you often strive to emulate people that you find are larger, or more nationally recognized; but, all too often, circumstances might prevent you from achieving that goal. At that point you look at what you have and what is unique, and capitalize on that. Such is the case of the Highlands Motoring Festival. Highlands …
Just in time for Mother’s Day
Studio 106’s photographers, Susan Renfro and Colleen Kerrigan will be teaching all age and skill levels how to snap their own prize-winning close-ups in a series of creative camera classes. There are many options to explore. At 10:00 A.M. Saturday, May 11, get ready to capture images photographers couldn’t have imagined a decade ago. Smartphones have come a long way, …
Bark, Beer & Barbeque
The eighth annual signature fundraising event in Highlands for the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society officially starts the social season on the Plateau! The evening features a fantastic mountain-themed dinner and auction combined with the naming of the prestigious CHHS Humane Heroes of the Year. Bark, Beer & Barbeque is Thursday, June 20, at The Farm at Old Edwards. Enjoy a live …
HIghlands Kitchen Tour
If one had to list the top Three Guilty Pleasures, for most of us, it would be a noble bottle of red wine, a few choice dark chocolates and HGTV. You can’t lie and say you haven’t binge-watched a marathon of home improvement shows, gleaning ideas and inspiration for your own home, especially for the kitchen. I fantasize about …
Western N.C. Singers
The Western North Carolina Singers will mark their successful return to the Plateau soundscape with a pair of concerts at the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Highlands at 4:00 P.M. Saturday and Sunday, June 15 and 16. Admission is free and everyone is invited, although donations will be accepted. The Singers have won a devoted following with their blend …
It’s All About Trout
Did you know that the Highlands-Cashiers area boasts some of the best trout fishing in the country? In 2016 the state legislature named Jackson County the North Carolina Trout Capital. Trout fishing is not only a popular pastime but a designated heritage tourism activity. This will be the subject of the first Village Nature Series of the season at 5:30 …
Low Country Shrimp Boil
The newly completed Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park has become the crown jewel of Highlands. Completed in April 2017, the park features a stage pavilion, amphitheater, restrooms, an interactive fountain, a Little Free Library, and an ice rink in the winter. The tireless efforts of the Friends of Founders Park, and their president Hank Ross, have given the town the urban green …
Author Talks Series
The Friends of Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library has launched its ambitious Author Talks, a 25th Anniversary Speakers Series. The list includes returning favorite Ron Rash and Highlands author Diane McPhail (whose new novel, “The Abolitionist’s Daughter” was spotlighted in the April issue of Laurel), along with many new authors who represent writers of various genres and subject matters. Their books …
World Bee Day
World Bee Day, what this that? And aren’t all pollinators included? Yes! All pollinators, including the backyard hive of Honey Bees, are the pollinators of approximately one-third of all the food we eat. What is a pollinator? Well, just to name a few; birds, flys, beetles, bats, hummingbirds, and the important 25,000 to 30,000 species of bees! Why should we …
