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Wade Hampton Club Home

Enjoy the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains from your elegant home overlooking the 10th fairway of the award-winning Wade Hampton Golf Club.  Few homes today embody the quiet elegance of this golf course estate.  With its intimate sense of scale and timeless floor plan this home is perfectly suited for your carefree living whether you are home alone or …

Spicy Immunity Slaw

When the first chilly winds begin to hit, the colds and the runny noses begin to happen.   There is no better way to enhance your immunity that through eating delicious immunity-enhancing foods. A lot of these foods are combined in this easy slaw. The flavor is absolutely addicting and those that like spicy foods, like garlic and kimchi, will surely …

Guided Relaxation, Autumnal Cool-Down

Let’s practice! Read this aloud, slowly, to a friend, spouse, or child: “Now we will begin the practice of Yoga Nidra or Yogic Sleep.  Lie down on a soft surface with pillows under your head and under your knees.  Close or cover your eyes.  Allow your top eyelids to rest on the lower eyelids. Notice the darkness.  Allow your whole …


The Battle With Weight

As Americans, we seem to have an obsession with fat, weight and weight loss, especially around our midsections.  Many health issues stem from the inflammatory cells associated with belly fat. The battle with weight and undesired fat seems to get worse instead of easier.  Aging is usually blamed for the abdominal fat so often associated with heart disease and diabetes.  …

In the Right Hands

Marion Macy, Manager of Mission’s Rehab Services and Physical Therapy heads the rehab department, Team Spirit, that turns the impossible into possible. Patients with joint replacements, stroke, severe back pain, cardiac issues, neck pain, shoulder surgery, ankle fractures, knee replacements, or just about any injury or impairment will come out good-as-new or better-than-ever after just a few weeks of rehab/therapy.  …

The Tale of Charlie Wright

In the August 2018 Laurel Magazine, the Cashiers history article was about Whiteside Cove’s Felix Eugene Alley, who in the late 1800s wrote the “Ballad of Kidder Cole” which detailed his love for the pretty Kidder and his disdain for Charlie Wright, his rival for the affections of Kidder.  In this article, you’ll learn about Charlie Wright of Highlands who …


Magical History Tour

It’s easy to get Highlanded.  The region’s beauty snaps people up.  Once a visitor takes a downtown tour, a hike to any falls, a drive through a covered bridge, or a trek to the historical museum, he/she is suddenly, willingly, and often permanently planted in paradise. There are volumes of fascinating tales about the Plateau’s lure.  From the Cherokee, to …

Tatarian Aster

Move over Hollywood, there’s a new Us in town.  Kirk Douglas stood tall in the 1960’s film “Spartacus,” proclaiming, “I am Spartacus!” Later in the 2000 movie “Gladiator,” Russell Crowe faced death by saying “My name is Maximus!”  For over 2000 years, the Tatarian Aster has stood tall (really tall) and seems to yell to all who will gaze his …

From Castle to Classic Course

This was from a group of 12 golf nuts that had a wonderful time this July.  They sent me some of their great memories that I will share with you. “Our group had a fantastic trip in Ireland with Tom’s Golf Tours arranging things. From the moment we met Tim (our driver) in the Dublin airport we felt at home.  …


Broad-Wing Hawks

Broad-wing Hawks (Buteo platypterus) are recognizable while soaring by their full wing span and white tail bands.  Like hawks generally, they are intelligent and highly adaptive.  Their visual acuity, sharpness of vision, is astounding owing to the density of photoreceptors in their retina being five times greater than the density of the human retina. Broad-wings are skillful hunters, preying on …

Serenity Season

Fly-fishing is one of the few sports that is tailor-made for women every bit as much as it is for men.  Fly-fishing has so much more to do with finesse and presentation than it does with power and strength. The important stuff to do in a stream like spotting fish, knowing the feeding habits of trout or bass, matching what’s …

A Joyous Trek

Every now and then for a day or so I find myself adrift in a fog of melancholy. (Melancholy being the siren song for creative genius, of course.) Having learned in recent years that feelings pass, and I may as well not get into fights with them, I like to find a good place to sit on these melancholic days. …