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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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Mountain Theatre Company’s The Rocky Horror Show,
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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Legendary Life of Gauguin

A languid journey to the South Pacfic, a tumultuous passage from Jamaica to Great Britain, and the timeless enchantment of “The Magic Flute” are offered at The Highlands Performing Arts Center. The Highlands Performing Arts Center, in conjunction with The Bascom Center for VIsual Arts, will present “Gauguin in Tahiti: Paradise Lost,” the latest in the Great Art on Screen series …

Art League’s Thanks to The Bascom

The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts has had a major impact on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau’s art community.   The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers is especially grateful for the partnership that has developed between our two organizations.  The Bascom has been supporting the Art League in many ways over the years.  To be sure, it’s provided a venue for the …

Winter’s Wonder at The Bascom

Winter is here and The Bascom celebrates the changing season by providing professional development and exhibition opportunities for students and faculty of higher education institutions. Through two important programs, The Bascom becomes a crossroads for connecting students, faculty, and the community through the new and innovative work being created in these art programs.   In 2020, The Bascom will be …


Mystery Infused with Whimsy

When you encounter artist O.M. Norling’s 6.5 paintings at The Bascom, you’ve obtained a passport to a vision that’s just slightly left of reality. Each is crafted with a dream logic that beguiles in its healthy dose of mystery infused with a dash of whimsy. Gaze carefully and you may even detect the notes of a half-remembered fragment of music. …

Billy Roper, Folk Artist

Billy Roper was born and raised in the North Georgia mountains. Billy was into his 40s before he ever sold his first painting, and at that time, he painted on anything he could find.  Today, he paints primarily on wood, canvas, and paper using rich bold and vibrant colors. Many of his works feature the culture of his Appalachian roots …

Grandpa’s Workshop

Mike Holden crafts marvelous wooden toys. Customers with an eye for aesthetics appreciate his model forms and delight in their durability and movement.  Two events shaped Mike’s design destiny. First, when he was 12, his 30-something brother showed him his new scroll saw (a narrow-bladed tool for cutting intricate designs).  “It tickled my fancy,” says Mike. “I used his saw …


Painting Personalities

Patti Gilley is most at home in a woodland, pasture, or field observing the wildlife, making sketches for future paintings, taking photos, and breathing in the delicious mountain air.  Painting called to her early on. She took an art class in high school. After graduation, Life pulled her in a lot of directions, all welcomed. It wasn’t until she married, …

Make Sure a kid Has Christmas

Shop With A Cop is a program for children who will have little or no Christmas – a dynamic charity led by the local law enforcement officers acting in coordination with teachers, churches, after school programs, and community organizations like  The Mountain Garden Club and the Rotary Club of Highlands.   Each participating child will have a $100 electronic debit …

Cashiers Cares

Christmas is nothing without tradition and Cashiers Cares is happy to invite the community to its 11th complimentary lunch following the Cashiers Christmas Parade, set for Saturday, December 14.  Join the festivities at the Community Center as we serve up hot dogs and chili with our co-sponsor Cashiers Rotary Club.  Santa will be on hand for pictures (and Wish Lists).  …


Christmas Cantata

Everyone is welcome to attend Highlands United Methodist Church’s Christmas Cantata at its 10:50 Service on December 15. The church’s choir, under the direction of Minister of Music Les Scott, will perform “A Festival of Lessons in Carols.” It’ll include traditional Christmas favorites, as well as those that are less well-known to modern audiences.  For more information, call the church …

Happenings at the Hudson

This year, Highlands Hudson Library celebrates two anniversaries – 135 years since its founding and 75 years since the beginning of the Fontana Regional Library System.  What started as a bookmobile service in 1944 and as a way to provide library service to the Tennessee Valley Authority workers finishing the Fontana Dam, the Fontana Library System, now supports six libraries …

Fontana’s 75th Anniversary

Fontana Regional Library System, which includes Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library and Hudson Library, is celebrating 75 years of service to its communities. “Even though FRL was established during World War II, the seeds for its existence were planted during the 1930s and the Great Depression,” says ACCCL Librarian Serenity Richards. “The New Deal’s Civilian Conservation Corps brought young men and …