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Decor Trends Are Shifting, Acorns on Church
Visions of the ideal mountain home no longer revolve around twig and bark with massive leather sofas and bearskin rugs. Fresh, clean modern lines are showing up everywhere. Also out the window are hard-and-fast rules about a consistent theme. Today’s homeowners create more interesting spaces by mixing old and new and bringing their own personal preferences into the space, …
Back in My Hometown, Michael Cox
Michael Cox works in real estate with his mother at Betsy Paul Properties in Cashiers, and has done so for the past eight years. First moving to the area when he was in second grade, Cox has since lived throughout the nation and in foreign countries, but has managed to find his way back to the Cashiers area. “From then …
The New Blue
Who knew? There’s a new blue. Just when you thought Mother Earth had no more glorious pigments to cough up, a dramatic color was created … quite by accident. YInMn was discovered in a lab in 2009. A student at Oregon State combined yttrium, indium, and manganese oxides in a furnace. When the team unveiled the results, it was an …
Hip and Cool Garden Plants at Dovecote
Amuse yourself at Dovecote with inspirational plants on May 11 and May 25. “Great Choices for Hip and Cool Garden Plants: Gardens for Use and for Delight” is our May theme designed to add a little zip to your summer garden. A visit to Chattooga Gardens and Scotlyn’s Yard helps get your garden ready for Mother’s Day and this summer …
Abundance of Talent, Diane McPhail
Diane McPhail has an abundance of talent. She’s an artist, poet, writer, therapist, teacher, retreat leader, and now, a soon-to-be published author. In May 2019 McPhail’s historical novel, “The Abolitionist’s Daughter,” will be released by Kensington Publishing. This has been a labor of love for the past 12 years. The book, while fiction, is based on a true event and …
Prepare to Be Dazzled, Home for Sale in Sapphire Valley
It’s no secret. Mother Nature has bequeathed every home on the Plateau a marvelous view by virtue of its mountain setting. But in the 25 years of Sapphire Valley Realtor Bill Kruckenberger’s experience, one home, hands-down, is set in the most exquisite scenery, not just in the mountains, but perhaps anywhere in the entire country. It’s as though a big …
Berry Good, Antioxidant Berry Salad
Antioxidant Berry Salad Ingredients For Salad: 3 cups Mixed baby lettuce 1/2 White onion optional; diced 1 medium Avocado sliced 1 cup Blackberries 1 cup Blueberries 1 Red bell pepper chopped 1 medium Tomato chopped For Dressing: 3/4 cup Buttermilk or 1/2 cup yogurt+ 1/4 cup water 1 tbsp Poppy seeds 1 tbsp Apple cider Vinegar 1 tsp Raw Honey …
New Organ Takes Shape
In a move similar to Christopher Columbus, scientists recently discovered a new organ in the body. Despite the fact there were people standing on the beach waving to Columbus (they were called the Lucayan-Arawak natives of the Caribbean), Columbus dubbed it the New World. Let this set the stage for what is happening in science today. The headlines of the …
Thermal Imaging
Thermal Imaging is a very safe and effective diagnostic tool for mapping pain and inflammation in the body, quite literally visualizing your pain. Often used as a screening tool for early detection of breast cancer, especially in those who have dense tissue, fibrocystic breasts and/or breast implants, the study and science of thermal imaging allows the detection of heat in …
Spot a Stroke, Highlands Cashiers Hospital
Neurologists and radiologists released a new approach to stroke diagnosis/treatment at a conference early this year. Dr. James Wright, Medical Director of Emergency Medicine at Transylvania Regional Hospital/Highlands-Cashiers Hospital says, “If a stroke is suspected, there’s no time to waste. We used to have a four-to-six hour window for intervention. Now, thanks to new technologies that isolate problems quickly, doctors can …
The Abbeville Connection, Cashiers NC History
From the time construction began on the Zachary-Tolbert House in the 1840s until the time Thomas and Wendy Dowden purchased the house in the 1990s in order to give it to the Cashiers Historical Society, only four families owned the house. Mordecai Zachary was the builder and first owner of the house; Armistead Burt of South Carolina was the second …
Highlands’ Mayors
Ran Shaffner’s “Heart of the Blue Ridge” is a delightful read for history buffs, but, interestingly enough, 14 appendices also tell insightful stories in their own dossier kind of way. “Appendix 1: Mayors of the Town of Highlands” lists 44 names (not including current-Mayor Patrick Taylor) going back to 1879. It’s a fascinating glimpse into the becoming of Highlands. Highlands’ …
