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June 1 - August 31

Oceans of Possibilities SLP

Hudson Library 554 Main St, Highlands

Kids up to age 17 can earn fun prizes by reading this summer! Oceans of Possibilities, our Summer Learning Program, continues through August 31. 

June 1 - August 31

Adult Summer Reading Bingo

Hudson Library 554 Main St, Highlands

Adults get to earn prizes for reading this summer too! Our Adult Summer Reading Bingo continues through August 31. Pick up a bingo card at the Circulation Desk!

July 18 - August 25

The Sketchbook Entrepreneur Masterclass

You know you have big dreams that you want to cultivate, but you’re lacking the language, tools, and habits needed to plant the right seeds to unleash your greatest creative potential. How do you, for once and for all, get beyond what has always held you back? By doing the deep work of getting to the core of who you are and reclaiming inspired creativity.

July 30 - September 10

Members Challenge: Place

The Bascom 323 Franklin Rd, Highlands

The Bascom presents our 6th annual juried Member Challenge: PLACE, an exhibit in our Thompson Gallery. As makers and creators, human beings experience the world as both a place given to them and as a place they can mark, shape, and mold. The places that become homes to us offer familiarity, comfort, and even companionship. Join The Bascom in embracing PLACE as our annual theme for 2022.

The Members Challenge is The Bascom's longest running exhibition and provides an important opportunity for Bascom community artists

August 11

Like No Other Place

Explore The Bascom's 2022 theme of "Place" through the lens of Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust properties.

Our mountains are among some of the oldest in the world. Over time, geologic processes have resulted in a complex landscape that is home to a great diversity of habitats for plants and animals. Home to more flowering plant species than anywhere else in the temperate zone, 250 are found nowhere else but here.

The plateau is the second wettest place in the continental U.S., contains a great number of high peaks, and of course the highest and greatest number of waterfalls in the eastern U.S. Our mountains feed the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico watersheds flowing through six major rivers and providing drinking water throughout the southeast.

These mountains have been inhabited by humans for a long time. Early Highlanders recognized that the forests and scenic views were at risk and banded together in 1909 to conserve an iconic mountain called Satulah, adding to that Sunset and Sunrise Rocks at Ravenel Park in 1914. This effort led to the creation of the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust which has now conserved over 3,700 acres in 127 places.

It is the deep love of and also need for our wild and natural places that drives these conservation triumphs.

The Bascom is pleased to continue its ongoing programmatic partnership with the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust, reimagining the relationship through works in the photographic medium. The images in this exhibition present an artistic interpretation by regional photographers of the beauty, bio-diversity, and expanse of the properties that the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust stewards, and that help define the plateau as a place like no other.

10:00 am
August 11 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Mountain Findings

Mountain Findings 432 Spruce Street, Highlands

Mountain Findings Hours

Thursday, Friday, Saturday 

10am - 1pm

August 11 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Highlands Nature Center

Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd, Highlands

Highlands Nature Center; Stop in to meet their live animals, explore natural history exhibits, peruse the nature-themed gift shop, and more! Admission is free.

August 11 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Highlands Food Pantry

Highlands United Methodist Church 315 Main St, Highlands

The mission of the Food Pantry of Highlands is to provide nutritious food to anyone who meets the income eligibility guidelines for USDA food. In the winter months, the economies of Highlands and Cashiers slow to a standstill. This, combined with increased heating costs, drains funds from the family budget that would normally be spent on food.

10:30 am
August 11 @ 10:30 am

Family Stoytime

Hudson Library 554 Main St, Highlands

Join us for stories, music, and movement at Family Storytime, every Thursday morning!

11:00 am
The Bookworm interior Highlands NC
August 11 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm

The Bookworm Open

The Bookworm 555 Main Street, Highlands

Known as the “Cheers” of Bookstores, the Bookworm in Highlands is affiliated with the Hudson Library: all books are donated; all staff are volunteers; and all funds go to help support the library. More than a retail store, we are a community service offering carefully sorted donated books to provide the best quality at a used bookstore price.

3:30 pm
August 11 @ 3:30 pm

Kids Zone: Thursday Afternoons

Hudson Library 554 Main St, Highlands

Kids Zone features a variety of fun and interesting programs where kids can explore art, nature, science & more! Best for ages 5 and up.

6:00 pm
August 11 @ 6:00 pm

Zahner Conservation Series Lecture

Highlands Nature Center 930 Horse Cove Rd, Highlands

The indigenous peoples of the Appalachian region saw their homelands as sacred places, connected to the spiritual world at every turn. In nearly 100 caves in the region, they made cave art to materialize some of those connections. This lecture will provide an overview of the ancient cave art of Appalachia and how it relates to both early and living Naïve American cultures.

7:30 pm
High Dive Lounge Area Highlands NC
Featured August 11 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Thursday Night Trivia at The High Dive

The High Dive 476 Carolina Way, Highlands

Enjoy Trivia night at The High Dive in Highlands on Thursdays!

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