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Highlands Playhouse Challenge

While you wait for 2020-21 Highlands Playhouse’s latest news, here’s a show/movie quiz to challenge your film/show acumen. Answers below. 1.  What is the longest running play on Broadway? A. Phantom of the Opera B. Cats C. Lion King D. Chorus Line 2.  Where was that play set? A. Paris B. London C. Africa D. Junkyard 3.  In what year …

Revamping Art Camp

At this time of the year, you’d normally find members of the Art League at the Highlands Rec Park on Thursday afternoons, volunteering for the Art League’s Children’s Summer Art Camp.       This free eight-week program, started by the League in 2007 as a gift to area children, until now has been offered every summer since.  This year, …

PAC is BACK

The Highlands Performing Arts Center, which has been shuttered this summer, is planning on reopening September 1, depending on Governor Cooper’s announcement this month. In response to the Covid-19 emergency, PAC has initiated Procedures, Precautions and Protocols:   All audience members and PAC staff are required to wear a mask/face covering.   Gloves are available.  Hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes …


Fabricating Dreams

Highlands’ Main Street boasts many jewels, but there’s one that shines exceptionally bright . . . Bijou, the showcase of master jeweler Laurel Parham-Martinez.  Highlands is the perfect setting for Bijou. Bijou’s a stone’s throw from land that’s produced dazzling gems for Tiffany’s.  Add to that Highlanders’ high regard for the aesthetic quality and the metaphysical properties of Laurel’s gems …

Take and Make

When Laura Leichter, our Education Fellow, came to The Bascom in May, we knew her experience would be like no other.  Though COVID-19 has disrupted some of the normal responsibilities for this Fellowship, Laura worked under the direction of Billy Love, Director of Education and Outreach, to develop new programming in response to the pandemic.   From those efforts, The …

Capturing Hearts Gracing Homes

If you’re a Laurelphile, you probably remember Annell Metsker’s beautiful cover/article a decade ago. She’s back, having evolved from a photographer/painter to a stunning oil painter, both digital and traditional.  She still takes photographs and uses them as reference, but today she considers herself first-and-foremost an oil painter. Annell’s happiest portraying a human or pet, capturing bold color, shape, form, …


The Chateau’s Mesmerizing Views

Eagles soar high above the trees as you relax in style at the Chateau, just two miles outside the quaint mountain town of Highlands. As guests of this private expansive estate retreat you will soak in the beauty of the surrounding mountains and find that it is the perfect setting for every occasion. Whether you’re looking to host a small …

A Run for the Money

Welcome to the 8th Annual Rotary Club of Highlands 5k and 10k Twilight Run, beginning at 9:00 A.M.  Saturday, November 28. At 4118 feet and dubbed as “Patty Cake,” the 5k course, edged by Harris Lake, running through gently rolling hills, and shaded by Appalachian hardwoods is the flattest of its distance in Highlands. Stroller and walker friendly, the 5k …

Escape to Greystone

The Covid-19 crisis has left the entire hospitality industry shaken, but it’s also led to the implementation of new practices that’ll ensure the safety of guests and staff. The Greystone Inn at Lake Toxaway began studying these protocols and training staff in the early spring, so that with the arrival of summer, all of the steps were in place for …


Orchard Sessions: Olivia Daponte

When The Farm at Old Edwards returns with their popular Orchard Sessions on Thursday, August 27, the Orchard will once again be transformed into a vibrating music hall without walls.   An idyllic place for a music gathering, the outdoor setting promises to provide an intimacy and exhilaration to a live performance by young artist Olivia Daponte that could not …

Reconnect with Nature

As North Carolina continues to slowly open, Highlands is starting to bustle with energy with the arrival of the summer season.  Year-round residents and summer visitors are trying to find ways to make this summer fun and as profitable as possible. Many are feeling safest using this time to explore natural beauty, which Highlands is never lacking in.  The wonderful …

Sister Suffragette

A main scene in the 1964 film Mary Poppins focuses on the women’s right to vote when the mother of the story’s two children marches into the home singing the song about “Sister Suffragette.”  This year, 2020 – although it will be remembered for much that is negative – is also the commemorative year of the 19th Amendment, which granted American …