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A Tried & True Evergreen

Pachysandra is one of five species of the Boxwood family. It has roots to eastern Asia as well as North America. The plant most associated with this area is commonly called Allegheny Spurge.    Even though it can grow upward to 17 inches, the average growth for each plant is 12 inches high and 6 inches wide. It’s an aggressive …

See What Unfolds

The Botanical Gardens of the Highlands Biological Station is an ecological preserve of native flora of the Highlands Plateau and southern Appalachian Mountains.  Native plants are presented in natural habitat settings as well as in demonstration gardens for the education and delight of visitors. If you explore the Botanical Gardens this spring, keep a close eye out for the native …

Those Travels Add Layers

A-List Antiques, located at 40 Burns Street in Cashiers, is a deceptively humble location for a larger than life antiques warehouse.   Proprietress Ann Miller Hopkins recently relocated full time to Cashiers after co-owning the successful Antiques on Holiday in Destin, Florida, for 18 years.  That business wasn’t just a business for Ann, it was a passion, so getting out …


Shop The Plateau from Home

It’s no secret that, for many people, the Plateau’s shopping opportunities are a reason to visit for a weekend or a week, or to buy a second (or third) home. It’s an astonishingly rich collection of shops, galleries and boutiques, their goods assembled with care and an eye toward quality. And it’s all served up with deeply personal service, at …

Greystone’s Generosity

For over 100 years, Lake Toxaway has been offering comfort and relief  to its guests and the community.  For its  guests – people like Stephen King, and Nicole Kidman, and Steve Martin, driven people looking to escape from the rigors of 21st century life  – Greystone Inn offers an undeniable level of comfort and tranquility.  For the community, it’s offered …

Cashiers Valley Smokehouse

Summer’s coming and there’s some good news to look forward to.  Here on the Plateau there’s a new game in town, Cashiers Valley Smokehouse, owned and operated by hospitality specialists and restaurateurs,  Brien Peterkin Jr. and Jon Caddell.  Many will recognize them as the current owners of popular Slab Town Pizza, so they are not new to the restaurant business …


For the Love of Barbecue

EVENT CANCELLED. Five years ago, Southern Foodways Director John T Edge said that “Southerners recognize Barbecue to be our premier folk food”, their joints, places “where seekers find solace as well as honest eats.”  On May 21, The Farm at Old Edwards will celebrate two pit masters who work one of these shrines – Atlanta’s Titans of Barbecue, the Fox …

Paula Jones’ Grouper Hemingway

Furniture designer Paula Jones strolls through the grocery store with a smile so magnetic that it seems to set the whole place aglow.   On her wrist she brandishes a woven wood peach “shopping basket.”  Yet there’s more to know about her – for the woman that appears and is so approachable is also a deeply talented artist and a …

Take it Out

I’ve been writing restaurant reviews for Laurel for six years.  That’s given me and Tricia and a select group of friends entree into an astonishing collection of restaurants, ranging from little Mom and Pop places where you know your server and the people in the kitchen and it’s like being welcomed into a friend’s home, to lavish dining rooms that …


The Power Of Art

Throughout 2019, The Bascom’s staff and leadership spent hours in meetings and discussions as they worked with The DeVos Institute of Arts Management to create a new strategic plan, services that were awarded to The Bascom pro bono as part of The DeVos Institute’s Rural Initiative. For months, committee members pored over statistics, interviews, and presentations.  Tough questions were asked …

The Art of Jim Lewis

In the folk art world, Kentucky is the home of the world’s most renowned folk woodcarvers, Minnie Adkins, Lonnie and Twyla Money, Harry Jennings, the Skaggs family, and others. Jim Lewis also belongs to this stellar group. Jim was born and raised in Kentucky and continues to call the Bluegrass State home.  Jim’s world was pretty conventional…he married, had a …

Simply The Best

EVENT CANCELLED. Before I was an antiques dealer (Mirror Lake Antiques), I taught chemistry.  As a scientist I always hated it when people used superlatives, especially in advertising. Calling something “the finest,” “the best,” “the greatest” has always bothered me because I was taught, “there are no absolutes in science.”  That said, I am about to break my own rule: …