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A Thank You To Visit Highlands
Written By: Donna Rhodes | Issue: 2021/03 – March
A long lineup of events and celebrations will restore a measure of life and generosity in the Highlands Community, extending far beyond the Plateau.
Highlands is the recipient of so many wonderful annual events, parties, concerts, galas, etc., it’s hard to keep up with which organization provides what. 2021 will be a return to all the fun we normally expect.
Visit Highlands, NC / Highlands Chamber of Commerce is honored to provide the heart and hub of year-round happenings. Every Friday and Saturday night (May-October), outdoor concerts sound the call to lawn-dining, street-dancing, toe-tapping, kid-romping, wine-sipping, rollicking (and occasional frolicking) good times.
Visitors and residents say, “Thank you, Visit Highlands, North Carolina.”
A rousing, patriotic concert and Fourth of July Fireworks celebration are the mountain peak performance of summer. Here’s a shimmering shout-out …“Thank you, Visit Highlands.”
As harvest approaches, Halloween on Main is ushered in with a chill in the air, literal and figurative, for the ghostie-goblins wail along the trails. Creep it real. Altogether now…“Thank you, Visit Highlands.”
Light Up the Park is a want-to, have-to-, will-do heart-warming tree-lighting. It’s every bit as thrilling as the tree illumination at Rockefeller Center. Kids from 1 to 92 sing, “Thank you, Visit Highlands.”
Not far behind is The Olde Mountain Christmas Parade. Santa makes his grand entrance and Rudolph shouts, “Thank you,
Visit Highlands!”
And that’s not all. Kaye McHan, the Chamber’s Executive Director says, “We also are major sponsors and supporters for Highlands Food and Wine, Bear Shadow Music Festival, Highlands Motoring Festival, Highlands Art and Craft Shows, Highlands Chamber Music Festival, Highlands Performing Art Center, and many other offerings in Town.”
Whew. Who knew? That’s a whole lot of ways to love where you live.
We’re pretty sure that the Chamber’s core marketing program is a hard-working smile-generator that makes and keeps our village a happy one. Here’s to fun in 2021, and we all shout, “Thank you, Visit Highlands!”