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A Christmas Tradition
Mountain Theatre Company

Mountain Theatre Company brings back its lavish holiday revue Highlands Home for the Holidays: A Christmas Tradition, December 8-24 at Highlands

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Wreaths Across Highlands

Wreaths Across America will be commemorated at Highlands Rec Park and Highlands Memorial Park, December 16. For more information email Phil Potts

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Parading the Holidays in Highlands

Highlands’ Olde Mountain Christmas Parade set for 10:00 A.M. Saturday, December 2, caps a flurry of holiday fun.

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Christmas on the Green
Cashiers NC

The Village Green in Cashiers will stage a trio of Christmas events to launch the holiday season with style and excitement and bunches of small-town

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Festival of Trees
Summit Charter School

The Cashiers Festival of Trees is a singularly Plateau-y introduction to the Holiday Season – Friday and Saturday, November 24-25 at The Summit

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Gobble on The Green

Gobble on the Green is a pre-turkey dinner turkey trot, set for 9:00 A.M. Thursday, November 23, at the Village Green in Cashiers.

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Holidays in Highlands

Highlands is transformed into a winter wonderland from November to December.

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Rings of History

A gift from the past, the Plateau’s history is written in her trees. To learn more and to help save mountains visit hicashlt.org or contact

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Started in Friendship

An unquenchable sense of playfulness – demonstrated by a splash in an Alabama creek and a frantic critter chase – has infused Susan and Robert

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Holiday Traditions
Marsha's Cranberry Sauce and Salsa

Marsha Moxley’s pair of cherished recipes turns the humble cranberry into a holiday showstopper.

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Where Every Bird is Royalty

The high-rise avian apartments of Todd Wolfe are earning plenty of satisfied Tweets from their residents (and the people who love them).

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Find Your Sweet Spot
Edelweiss

Edelweiss Pastry Boutique, 892 North 4th Street in Highlands, is a dazzling doorway to sublime treats for the eye and the palate.

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Four Days of Excellence

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A Celebration of Wine and Food

The wine dinners and specialty events embedded within Highlands Food & Wine promise sensations that will beguile the senses and create lifelong

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The Test of Time

A sweet declaration of love in the fifth grade somehow built a steady relationship that’s endured a lifetime.

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Pothole Falls

Though there’s nothing imposing about little Pothole Falls, it exerts a hypnotic charm upon those who seek it.

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Highlands Halloween: New Thrills, Old Tradition

Everyone (the living and the recently departed) is invited to stroll Main Street for Highlands’ Halloween on Main, 6:00 P.M. Tuesday, October

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Cashiers Halloween Block Party

Like The Blob or a Zombie Outbreak, Cashiers’ Goblins on The Green has broken loose! Now all of Frank Allen Road is one big Halloween Block

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About Color and Talent
Fall Colors Art Show

Just as vibrant as the leafy October landscape, the Fall Colors Fine Art Show, set for October 21-22 at Highlands Recreation Center, is a bazaar

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Fall Leaves 101

Science lies at the heart of the Leaf Spectacle, but we’re betting there’s a touch of magic involved as well.

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Review of Mountain Theatre Company's Rocky Horror Show

It ain’t The Sound of Music! Mountain Theatre Company’s The Rocky Horror Show is a full-blown time warp of sci-fi shlock, rock-n-roll salaciousness,

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Through Generations

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Vineyard Dreams and Mountain Allure

For Guy Davis, the road from the vineyards of Sonoma County led to Highlands and his High Country Wine & Provisions.

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Highlands Heritage Jamboree

Oh, the tales they’ll tell and the music they’ll make! It’s a trip into the past and a hopeful look to the future with the Highlands Heritage

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Brad, Janet and Rocky

Ooh, it’s spooky and packed with flash and glitter! It’s got to be Mountain Theatre Company’s The Rocky Horror Show, October 6 through

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Cover Artist: The View Through Rosemary’s Eyes

Cover Artist Rosemary Stiefel sees the world with different eyes – and it’s made all the difference. For proof, just look closely at these

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Journey Back To Joy

No matter where she finds herself, artist Penny Pollock is in the midst of beauty.

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A Jet-Fueled Valentine: Review of Mountain Theatre Company’s Rock of Ages

Mountain Theatre Company’s Rock of Ages is a jet-fueled (with a splash of Riunite) valentine to the 80s Power Ballad Era, running through August

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Chief Holland

Highlands Police Chief Andrea ‘Sissy’ Holland puts a sunny face on a grueling job.

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So Much To Talk About

The sisters saw it first – the love between Wendy Strong and Sam Lupas was meant to be. The obstacles vanished with a kiss.

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The Sumptuousness of Primary

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Season’s Bounty

The Plateau’s two green markets are a celebration of the landscape’s bounty and a tribute to the men and women who make it all possible.

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Weekend Concerts

Lace up your dancing shoes – Highlands’ free weekend concerts return next month – Friday nights at Town Square and Saturday evenings at

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The Bear & the Bands

The talent’s already lining up for the third incarnation of the Bear Shadow Music Festival, set for April 28-30. For ticketing and more information

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Histamines-Seasonal Allergies

Sneezing a lot? Change of season making you have a runny nose and itchy eyes?  You may be dealing with a histamine intolerance, and this is not fun!    Histamines are small chemical molecules that are in your bloodstream as well as in the gut and they have several roles in human function. They are released by special immune cells …

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Vision 20|20 Retreat at The Mountain

With rhythm under your feet, a bonfire with friends, and fresh   crystalline air in your lungs, you can welcome in the New Year 2020 feeling aligned and connected to your inner vision. Resolutions at New Year’s are on everyone’s mind.  Who will you be in 2020?  Writing something down on paper may do your goal justice, but there’s another …

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Not in the Mood for Winter?

Some people see the changing of the colors of leaves in the fall as a reason to spend more time outdoors and to start getting excited about the holidays ahead. There are some who react to this time of year with drained energy and feelings of depression. The clinical name for this is called seasonal affective disorder (SAD). If you …

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A Norton Christmas Dinner

The people of the Norton Community of Hamburg were busy having festive dinner parties to celebrate Christmas in 1912 according to the news posted in the social gossip column ran in the January 3, 1913, issue of the Jackson County Journal. Norton had about 220 people living on the western higher mountains above the village of Glenville when the village …

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That Rings A Bell

My aunt lived in Social Circle, Georgia.  It used to be way, far-away from Atlanta. Now it’s practically a suburb. There was a drug store, a couple of churches (one of which survived Sherman’s march), a freezer locker (remember those?), and something that resembled a service station. If you wanted to call someone, you’d speak to the operator who, for …

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A Step Back in Time

December, the month when Mother Nature provides us with the quiet and welcoming embrace of near silence, offering a chance to step into her welcoming arms and escape the hustle and bustle of the season. When you’re ready for a break from the clamor of the holiday season, the Cashiers Historical Society invites you to visit the Zachary-Tolbert House grounds …

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Clear Creek Christmas Memories

Last month, the Plateau lost one of its Good Guys. Eugene Talley was something of a living legend. He was gruff, quick to challenge those who thought they might have an edge on him, just as quick to laugh at himself. And that rough-as-a-cob exterior couldn’t quite hide a generous spirit that knew no boundaries. The stories about that sweet …

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Where the Wild Things Are

This summer, the Highlands Nature Center’s programming celebrated the rich natural history of the Plateau.  Our campers explored wild spaces ranging from the HBS Meadow to Panthertown Valley, digging into topics like geology, ecology, and gardening along the way. At Nature Center Nights, attendees searched for fluorescent millipedes in the Botanical Garden, meandered for salamanders, and listened for bats over …

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Gather the Galax

Galax comes from the Greek word Gala, which means milk, and refers to the white-as-milk dainty flowers that bloom into an eight to 15-inch spire in late May through early summer.  Other names are Beetleweed and Wandflower. This ground cover plant is native to the Southeast, and grows from New York to northern Alabama, but thrives in the Southern Appalachian …

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The Northern Cardinal

This bird is close to the human heart, the state bird in seven states. We revere Cardinals and have made them mascots of many sports teams from grade school to the major leagues including the St. Louis, Arizona, Ball State and Wesleyan Cardinals. We take them as totems and even have a College of Cardinals, appropriately attired, in the hierarchy …

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Winter Fly Fishing

For most fly anglers, the perceived “Season to Fish” is Spring  through the Fall.   For a lot of trout destinations around the world, this is true. Here in the Southeast, however, it’s not the case.  In fact, our larger rivers and streams (the ones that are most desirable to fish for most people) actually fish a lot better in winter …

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Exploring Norton Mill Creek

Whiteside Cove Road is a gateway to several popular sweet spots throughout the Nantahala National Forest, including Granite City, Cashiers Sliding Rock, Ammons Branch, Ellicott Rock, and Iron Bridge, to name a few. All of them offer visitors a unique day-trip experience.  One of the lesser known spots in this area is the footbridge at the confluence of Norton Mill …

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