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Cherokee’s Utlunta Legend
The large stainless steel and concrete sculpture in The Village Green is named Utlunta, a figure in Cherokee legend. The name translates to “the one with the pointed spear,” and this shapeshifting witch is sometimes referred to as Spearfinger. According to Cherokee legend, she lived in Western North Carolina with her favorite home being Whiteside Mountain, a thunder mountain. …
See You in September
The Bel Canto Committee and our Artistic Director, Stella Zambalis, and our Musical Director, Dr. Stephen Dubberly, are hard at work coming up with yet another quartet of wonderful performers for our 28th year of the Bel Canto Recital. The recital, scheduled for Sunday, September 13, is shaping up to be another of our “it just keeps getting better and …
The Arts Cure
The Bascom has remained mission-focused throughout the challenges and limitations of recent events, adapting to create visual art experiences that inspire and empower individuals and communities through seeing, thinking, and doing. Mary Ann Carter of the National Endowment for the Arts has stated that “the arts provide comfort, resilience, wisdom, and the means for self-expression and connection, perhaps even more …
Inspire & Be Inspired
Jess Moschouris is a Western Carolina University Bachelor of Arts graduate with a concentration in oil painting, ceramics, and art history. Add to that a minor in philosophy with honors. A walking compendium of craft skills, she dips her fingers in dozens of mediums and delights. And she’s the mother of a two-month old boy. Bam! This woman is remarkable! …
Creative Cross-Pollination
What do architecture, banjo-pickin’, and fine-tunin’ a vintage car have in common? Plenty. Just ask Knight Martorell. If you don’t know Knight, chances are you’ve seen him in a variety of venues: he’s an accomplished architect, the banjo virtuoso in Silly Ridge (blue grass band); the esteemed illustrator of the annual posters for Highlands Motoring Festival; a fine arts aficionado …
PAC Youth Are Zoomin’!
On Friday June 12, the Highlands Performing Arts Center’s (PAC) Youth Theater Program, in collaboration with the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library, will attempt an unprecedented approach to its Murder Mystery Dinner Theater event. Because such normally in-person events are on hold due to COVID-19, the activity will take place via the Zoom platform. “The goal is to sharpen dramatic improvisational skills, and …
Get Reading This Summer
There are thousands of books at the Albert Carlton-Cashiers Community Library, but what classifies as a “favorite” is highly subjective. Branch Librarian Serenity Richards polled her staff during the COVID-19 shelter-in-place quarantine to learn what they were reading. Following is a good mix of 10 titles that are all available in e-book and/or e-audiobook – just in case. – The …
Pandemic Ups & Downs for Pets
During these times of social isolation and high anxiety, more and more of us are turning to pets for emotional support and companionship. So it’s no surprise that one beneficiary of the coronavirus pandemic has been pets in shelters. With everyone truly physically isolated, many people are discovering that pets can be physically present in a way that other …
Cashiers Designer Showhouse
Cashiers Designer Showhouse, one of the Plateau’s premier events, will launch with a spectacular Opening Night Party at 6:00 P.M. Friday, August 21, before opening to the public from 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M Saturday. August 22 through September 5. The Designer Showhouse remains the Cashiers Historical Society’s signature fundraiser and it draws visitors from across the Southeast. Sprawling across …
Wishes That Change Lives
Local resident Lisa Mullins made her first hike benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 2014, raising over $2,800, and was planning her third hike on May 16, but that hike has been rescheduled for October 3 because of the covid-19 virus threat. Crossing the finish line of a 28.3 mile hike for Make-A-Wish was a life-changing moment, but before each …
The Noble Nineteenth
A hundred years ago, the Nineteenth Amendment passed both houses of the United States Congress, and then went to the states for ratification. The fight had been long and hard won. Seventy years had passed since the Seneca Falls Convention, where hundreds of people had gathered in upstate New York to discuss the rights of women, including the right to …
Wild Lives & Wild Places: Event Cancelled
It’s one thing to see images of local wildlife in books, zoos, movies or TV, but a very different experience to see them in person. Of course, the best place to see wildlife is in their natural habitat, though a personal encounter with a bear or rattlesnake can be far from entertaining. A safer way to experience these “wild lives” …
