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HART to hold auditions for ‘Lost In Yonkers’
The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will hold auditions for its production of “Lost in Yonkers” at 6:30 p.m. June 17-18…
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Broadway star to light up Highlands Performing Arts Center
Highlands Performing Arts Center will present “Broadway and More” with Glory Crampton at 8 p.m. June 23. Crampton is a…
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Storyteller/naturalist to lead basket-weaving workshop, lecture
The Highlands Biological Foundation will host a basket-weaving workshop and nature lecture on June 14. Doug Elliott, a local storyteller…
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Sylva businesses to host art stroll June 8
The Jackson County Visual Arts Association will host the Sylva Art Stroll beginning at 5 p.m. June 8 in downtown…
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Deadline extended for OICA summer arts program
High school students and recent graduates have until June 6 to submit their applications for the Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural…
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‘Vincent’ to stage in Highlands
Highlands Performing Arts Center will perform a two-weekend run of the play “Vincent.” Performances are at 7:30 p.m. June 7-9…
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Lorraine Conard Band to play in Jackson
The Lorraine Conard Band will play a free concert at 7 p.m. June 14 at the Jackson County Public Library.…
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Free outdoor concerts at WCU in June and July
Western Carolina University’s 2012 Summer Concert Series will start June 7. The shows will take place at 7 p.m. each…
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Rafe Hollister heads to Sylva June 8 for Concerts on the Creek
Haywood County-based band Rafe Hollister will perform in Sylva from 7:30-9:30 p.m. on June 8 as part of Concerts on…
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WCU Fine Art Museum offers exhibits throughout the summer
The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University will open a new exhibit “RE+ constructed” with a reception at 5…
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Local Cloth looking for area designers to feature in fashion show
Textile artists and fashion designers working within a 100-mile radius of Asheville are invited to submit entries for Project Handmade,…
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The Bascom to host Family Fun Day June 9
The Bascom, a visual arts center in Highlands, will hold a Family Fun Day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.…
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HCC to offer evening ‘Introduction to Bladesmithing’ course
Haywood Community College and the American Bladesmith Society will hold an “Introduction to Bladesmithing” course from 6-10 p.m. June 18-19…
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Kids, hone your hula hooping skills
Kelly Jewell-Timco will lead a hula hooping class at 4 p.m. June 13 at the Jackson County Public Library. This…
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Summer art workshops offered in Cullowhee
Cullowhee Mountain ARTS is gearing up for its Youth Week art workshops for children ages 5 and up from July…
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Waynesville prepares for second-annual Appalachian Lifestyle Celebration
Downtown Waynesville will transform into a Mecca for Appalachian heritage geeks and for people who want to learn more about…
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Its a scarlet tanager kind of year
“The scarlet tanager flies through the green foliage as if it would ignite the leaves. You can hardly believe that…
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Highlands Nature Center offers summer camps
The Highlands Nature Center is holding a series of summer nature camps for children from ages 4 to 14 with…
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Friends of the Smokies donors raise money for Trails
Friends of the Smokies met a challenge grant from the Aslan Foundation of Knoxville to raise $4 million for the…
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GSMNP is starting a Youth Leadership Class
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is starting a new program beginning this summer to create a Youth Leadership Class…
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Tremont announces bird banding program
Volunteers are needed to assist Tremont and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by monitoring birds through bird banding on…
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Pisgah center for wildlife education offers free fishing events
The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is hosting three free fishing events in early June at its Pisgah Center for Wildlife…
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Bird banding at Tessentee preserve
The public is invited to the bird-banding project at Tessentee Preserve in Otto at 8 a.m. June 2. Participants will…
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Free rafting trip on the Tuckasegee
The Dillsboro River Company will offer free unguided rafting trips down the Tuckaseegee River from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.…
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Jackson County Golf Club summer schedule
The Jackson County Golf Club has planned its summer schedule, which will include rounds at Mill Creek, Sequoyah National, Bear…
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WCU online course to address wilderness survival
Western Carolina University is offering an online course beginning June 1 on topics related to surviving accidents and dangerous encounters…
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Cradle of Forestry to host Curiosity Club
The Cradle of Forestry will hold a nature and educational series titled “Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club” from 10:30 a.m. to…
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Kids in the Creek T-Shirt competition
Robert Coleman won the Kids in the Creek T-shirt design competition and will have his design printed on 785 T-shirts…
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Forum to discuss alternative energy
The Franklin Open Forum will discuss “Is alternative energy a viable alternative?” at 7 p.m. on June 6 at the…
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Mast General Store to hold Land Trust Day
Mast General Store and the Appalachians Highlands Conservancy will celebrate Land Trust Day on June 2 by encouraging customers to…
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View the transit of Venus in Cashiers
View the transit of Venus from 5:30 p.m. until sunset Tuesday, June 5, behind the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library. The…
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Lily here and lily there
I was in the Grandfather District of the Pisgah National Forest the other morning preparing to go to one of…
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World-class research taking place at Highlands Biological Station
Richard Baird, a plant pathologist from Mississippi State University, was hard at work one day last week examining mushrooms in…
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Rash, Frazier featured at author lecture series
Ron Rash, Charles Frazier and Wayne Caldwell will be among a group of southern writers to speak at the Summer…
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Great Smokies Writing Program comes to Waynesville
UNC Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program is offering “A Feast of Memories,” a course in Waynesville that will help local…
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Finding the right word
In his Foreword to Robert Hartwell Fiske’s The Best Words (ISBN 978-193333882-8, $14.94), Richard Lederer reminds us of Mark Twain’s…
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International Festival Day moved to July 21
Folkmoot USA has changed the date of its popular International Festival Day celebration to July 21. The event will take…
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‘Let’s Talk About It’ book series focuses on Civil War
Since it is the 150th anniversary of Civil War, the Waynesville library has decided to make the momentous war the…
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Carden’s new play to premiere in Greensboro
The world premiere of Outlander, a play written by Gary Carden of Sylva and Horace Frank Lee of Bryson City,…
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Summer reading programs focus on dreaming big
Registration has begun for the “Dream Big – Read” summer reading program at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City…
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Book arts workshops at City Lights
Jackson County Visual Arts Association will present two workshops on book arts from 9 a.m. to noon on June 2…
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Arts association to host reception during ‘Sylva After Dark’
The Jackson County Arts Association will hold an artist reception as part of “Sylva After Dark” from 6 p.m. to…
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Gourd Art Festival in Cherokee
The 10th annual Gourd Artists Gathering and Art Festival will be held at the fairgrounds in Cherokee from 1 to…
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Leapin’ Frog Gallery to hold collage workshop
The Leapin’ Frog Gallery in Waynesville will host a workshop on mixed media abstract collages from 11 a.m. to 2…
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WWII display to stop in Franklin
A World War II exhibit from the Museum of Military Memorabilia in Naples, Fla., will travel to Franklin in June.…
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Motorcycle ride comes to Maggie Valley
“Thunder On the Parkway,” a new motorcycle ride from Gainesville, Ga., to Maggie Valley, will take place from June 8-10.…
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‘Celebrating Appalachia’ exhibit to open at Gallery 86
Haywood County Arts Council’s will host an artist reception for its new exhibit, “Celebrating Appalachia,” from 6-9 p.m., June 1,…
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Meet the Cherokee Indians and learn their history at Cherokee Voices Festival
The Cherokee Voices Festival will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on June 9 at the Museum of…
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Jackson student wins Catch the Spirit of Appalachia scholarship
Catch the Spirit of Appalachia awarded the Elmer and Irene Hooper Civic Leadership Scholarship to Autumn Skye Baird. The scholarship…
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Take time to traverse the quilt trail
The Haywood County Quilt Trails project is bringing tourists to Haywood County with the colorful display of traditional quilting patterns.…
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