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Magazine Issue: 2020/07 – July


Native Gemstones

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by Donna Rhodes in History in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

Macon County’s corundum mining placed its shiny pin on the map in the early 1870s. Hiram Crisp, a shoemaker and farmer, was the first in the county to plow up […]

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Bloomers and Bicycles

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by Mary Jane McCall in History in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

Bloomers and Bicycles.  What do they have to do with the Centennial celebration of the ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote? Just step into Colonel […]

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Highlands Aerial Park

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by in Recreation and Creation | Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

Highlands Aerial Park is recognized as one of the finest “Tree Based” Zipline Parks in the World by several knowledgeable sources.  The signature “Squealing Mare” line has been claimed to […]

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Go Small Before You Go Big

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by in Recreation and Creation | Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

The old saying, “Go big or go home” does not apply here.  I feel fortunate – over the past nine years at Old Edwards Club, I have had the opportunity […]

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Bugbane, Buttercup’s Cousin

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by Jeannie Chambers - The Accidental Gardener in Recreation and Creation | Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

Black Cohosh (Actaea racemose) is from the Ranunculaceae family and is a cousin of the Buttercup.  It’s from the genus cimicifuga which translates to “bug flight,” rendering the common name […]

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A Garden in Every Season

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by Winter Gary in Recreation and Creation | Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

The Highlands Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station may not be physically open, but we continue to provide the Plateau community and beyond with environmental content and resources that […]

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A Great Escape

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by Matt Canter in Recreation and Creation | Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

What a wild year 2020 has been so far!   Most all of us were affected one way or the other this past spring by the effects of Covid–19.  Even […]

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The Carolinian Catbird

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by William McReynolds - Highlands Plateau Audubon Society in Recreation and Creation | Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

The Gray Catbird gets its vernacular name from its distinctive vocalization that sounds like a cat’s mew. Not somewhat like a cat’s mew, the call is a clear feline “mew.” […]

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Seductive Panthertown

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by Brian O’Shea in Recreation and Creation | Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

Check out Wilderness Falls and Frolictown Falls in a gorgeous two-mile loop trek that can be done in an hour or two in Panthertown Valley’s west side. The Valley is […]

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80 Years on Main Street

Issue: 2020/07 – July | by Deena Bouknight in Shopping in Highlands NC and Cashiers NC

Wit’s End, a family-owned and managed retail store opened in the summer of 1940, six months before the start of World War II. To say the business has weathered its […]

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