March 2020

All Events, One Ticket Place
Highlands Performing Arts Center, Highlands Playhouse, and the Highlands-Cashiers Players have pooled their resources to make buying tickets for all three entities much easier. The new ticketing system provides […]

PAC Live Via Satellite
From October to May, most Saturday afternoons the Highlands Performing Arts Center will be presenting the Live via Satellite Series; featuring the MET Opera and the National Theatre of London, […]

Cornbread’s Critters
Guineas – yes, guinea chicks and hens – have made Georgia folk artist John “Cornbread” Anderson famous around the world. You can expect to see his guinea paintings anywhere and […]

Camp Is Calling & I Must Go
When a nine-year-old child on a Friday afternoon, completely unsolicited and out of the blue, looks up to you and says, “This has been the best week of my life,” […]

From the Recipe File of J.T. Fields
Many of you know J.T. Fields. The former co-owner of Mountain Fresh Grocery is a local celebrity of sorts. To many of his customers he was a beacon – a […]

A Park for the People
A couple walking their two dogs every evening. A group of bird watchers with binoculars looking for Red-breasted Nuthatches. A young mother with her toddler swinging, slidin’ and climbing. A family […]

The South Side of Town
For some first-time visitors to Highlands (and even some people who’ve lived on the Plateau for decades), the Highlands Shopping Experience extends for a couple of blocks along Main Street. […]

Being a Farmer Ain’t for Sissies
Being a farmer in the mountains is not for sissies or the faint of body! Year-End financial gifts to Carpe Diem have once again helped to bring the hay to […]

Crown Heritage Flowers
It’s easy to be enchanted by Crown Heritage Flowers in Highlands Plaza. For one thing, it’s quiet. Not a Hospital Zone kind of quiet, but a Zen-like hushed forest quiet. […]