• Grandfather Mountain Receives Environmental Protection
Grandfather Mountain has received additional environmental protection thanks to a state and private conservation partnership.

• Investing In Community Supported Agriculture
Open house at Upper Mountain Research Station highlights program.

• Harvest Time Signals Fair Season
Avery County Fair & Farm Heritage Days are coming.

Finders & Keepers
Drawn Like a Collector to a Flame
The element of fire is fundamental and frightening. The tiniest spark holds the ability to grow into a raging inferno.
Collections behave in much the
same way.
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• Catching A Breeze On Beech
Beech Mountain Chamber Sponsors Inaugural Mile-High Kite Festival

• Holocaust History Inspires Drama
LMC & ASU co-produce I Never Saw Another Butterfly.


• Foscoe Hosts Second Annual High Country Barbeque &
Chili Cook-Off
Barbecue and chili fans can follow their noses to Foscoe this weekend for the chance to sample some of the High Country’s finest grilled and spicy recipes.

• Barnes & Noble Hosts Book Launch Party For The New Thriller, The Harvest
Barnes & Noble on Highway 70 will be hosting a book launch party for thriller author, Scott Nicholson.

• Mtnhome Music Closes Summer Season With Two
Weekend Shows
Appalachian Dance & Salute to laborers.

• Joanna’s Husband & David’s Wife Closes BRSC Summer

• Gamble Brothers: Memphis Soul & New Orleans Funk
Live show at Murphy’s Thursday.

• Artists Alley Invites Folks to Blowing Rock
Blowing Rock art show starts Saturday

• Beech Mountain Events Named To October Top Twenty Events
Autumn at Oz Party and Harvest Festival at Beech Mountain have been named to the Southeast Tourism Society’s Top 20 Events.

• Coffey’s Exhibits New Artwork
Watercolors by Katerina Ring now on display.

• Martha White Sponsors Local Jingle Contest

• Keller Williams Concert Announced
Farthing Auditorium Show September 25