Cabin & Cove Spring/Summer 2016 by Cabin & Cove

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Welcome to

Cabin & Cove

In this issue: 4

~ Independence Day

~ The Hayes Home

~ Meet Mary Martin Bowen

~ The Acorn Creek Academy

~ Bon Appetit at the Lake

~ Downtown Clayton Nightlife

~ Fire Up the Flavor

~ Event Calendar

~ By the Way

Publisher/Editor - Tracy McCoy Art Director - Dianne VanderHorst Copy Editor - Jan Timms Writer/Photographer - Peter McIntosh Office Manager - Cindi Freeman Marketing Executives Melissa Williams - 706.982.4777 Cindi Freeman - 706.782.1600 Contributing writers: Heather Leigh Johnson, Scarlet Cook, Emory Jones Cabin & Cove magazine is a publication of Rabun’s Laurel, Inc. Mailing: PO Box 2218 Clayton, Georgia 30525 Office: 633 Highway 441 South Clayton, Georgia Phone: 706.782.1600 Website: CabinandCove.com E-mail: info@CabinandCove.com

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Rabun County’s Fantastic Fourth Fireworks by Peter McIntosh

ndependence Day is a special time in Rabun County, on our beautiful mountain lakes and everywhere else for that matter. There are concerts, picnics, barbeques and of course, fireworks. You can’t a have a fun 4th of July without fireworks and Rabun County doesn’t just have one pyrotechnical display, we have four! And the shows are on three different days, Lake Burton’s fireworks are on Saturday, July 2nd, Lake Rabun and Sky Valley are shooting their shows on Sunday, July 3rd and the Dillard House sticks with tradition, lighting their fireworks on the fourth of July. The show at Lake Burton can only be viewed from a boat on the water or a strategically located deck or boathouse. The show on Lake Rabun is also best viewed from a boat or boathouse but the Rabun fireworks can also be seen from Shady Lane below Mathis Dam and a few other off lake locations. The magic of seeing one of the lake shows is seeing all the boats getting together at twilight and then the

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bonus of watching the bursting star shells reflecting in the water. If you don’t have a house on one of the lakes, find a friend that does, or call one of the realtors advertising in this magazine and buy one. It’s that simple. Nothing compares to a mountain lake pyro spectacular. All of the four shows in Rabun are fairly grand for a small community but it wasn’t always that way. Lake Burton first did a show in 1980 with a budget of just a few thousand dollars. Hal Rhoad and his friends have kept that show going and growing every year. One year later, in 1981, the Lake Rabun Association put on a show of their own. The Rabun folks only had $1,500 dollars to work with so the individual mortars we’re fired off very slowly in an effort to make the show last twenty minutes. Both lakes have increased their fireworks budgets dramatically since then. The Dillard House fireworks show started in 1990 by John Dillard Sr. It was a way to entertain the guests of the hotel and chalets but more importantly for Mr. Dillard, he wanted to do a fireworks show that everyone in Rabun County could enjoy, especially the children. The Dillard House pyro display is cleverly situated so the folks all along Hwy 441 between Rabun Gap and Dillard can view the show. The best place to watch this display is from the grassy hill in front of the Rabun Gap –Nacoochee School. Folks get there early and set out blankets and chairs as children run about with sparklers. It’s like a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. Then in 2003, the community of Sky Valley started their own fireworks extravaganza, the first show marked the 25th anniversary of the founding and formation of the city. And as of last year, “Class C” fireworks are legal in Georgia and we have a good fireworks store right here in the Rabun County. It’s North Georgia Fireworks, located next to Henry’s Restaurant. So if you want to do a little show of your own, stop by and ask for Chan or Ben, they’ll be happy to help you. North Georgia Fireworks will also have a temporary store set up at the Georgia / North Carolina state line one week prior the Fourth of July. So if you’re up in this beautiful corner of the state on Fourth of July weekend, there are plenty of opportunities to see the rocket’s red glare…..the bombs bursting in air! Happy 240th Birthday America! For more information: http://explorerabun.com http://lakeburtonfireworks.com http://www.lakerabun.org http://www.skyvalleyga.com http://www.dillardhouse.com North Georgia Fireworks: 1957 Highway 441 S. Clayton, GA - 706.982.1815

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Rebuilt with an Eye Toward the Future by Heather Leigh Johnson

tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to believe, but it was five years ago that areas of Lake Burton were devastated by that memorable tornado. As the hills quietly return to their natural splendor, many homes have been rebuilt on the shores even grander than they were before the storm. A case in point is the new home of Judy and Spurgeon Hays, also known as the Varn Reid Hayes Home; the former house on the Moccasin Creek site was destroyed by the tornado. While some homeowners would have walked away, Judy Hayes found it important to leave a legacy for her family to enjoy. And Jamie Dunlap and Tim St. Clair, the owners of Mountain Works Service Company, brought her dream to fruition. Mountain Works was the caretakers of the Haysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; property before the storm; they became the contractors during the re-build, and are

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still the care-takers today. Dunlap and St. Clair both had years of experience as contractors in the Dahlonega and Cleveland area before opening their caretaking company. When the Hayes decided to rebuild, they asked Mountain Works to serve as their contractors. The results are a stunning mix of good design and solid craftsmanship. Atlanta architect Kenneth Lynch provided plans that use the lot to its best advantage. An ownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; suite just off the front entry opens into a study with built-in book shelves and desk space. The master bedroom is well-lit by three transom windows above the bed, and a screened porch across the front of the space makes an ideal spot to relax and watch the lake. The master bath features duals sinks and a glassed shower, and the transom window design repeats in this room above the soaker tub.

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Throughout the house, not an inch of sheet rock shows; instead, shiplap boards or tongue-andgroove paneling unify the spaces. Judy Hays and her daughter Lilly Reid were in charge of the interior design and decoration, and their work shines in every room. The kitchen is especially pleasing with the warm tones of the heart-pine butcher block countertops playing off the “Mountain Laurel” blue cabinets. A large central island offers storage, space to work and seating. Zinc countertops on one wall, and in the nearby en-suite guest bathroom, add an eclectic mix to the design. The great room off the kitchen features an openconcept plan with a sitting area in front of a fireplace to the left, and a large dining table to the right. The ceiling soars to show off its openbeam structure and an antique Old Town canoe takes pride of place on a built-in shelf below a large picture window. The large screened porch running across the front of the house offers a view of the water below and a charming place to relax and enjoy lake life. Upstairs a canoe-paddle railing pays homage to the antique Old Town and two bedrooms, each with their own bath, allow the Hays’ grandchildren to share space. Down the hall, a large suite offers privacy for the adults. Downstairs, the finished basement provides a game room as well as easy access to the home’s utilities and systems for care taking. Five years ago, Jamie Dunlap & Tim St. Clair were among the first to reach the Hays’ home after the tornado. Sifting through the rubble for the homeowners, they saved mementos of the family’s history of competing in the Lake Burton Water Ski Tournaments in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The trophies they found line a shelf on the staircase, highlighted by natural light pouring down from the skylight above. It’s this personal touch, the care they took for a client’s home and their memories, that made Dunlap & St. Clair the perfect contractors to help the Hayes continue their legacy on the lake. Mountain Works was originally started as a caretaking/property management company, but through the experience and with the encouragement of the Hays, Jamie & Tim have

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decided to get back into the contracting business, in addition to caretaking. Mountain Works is currently building a new, custom home in Sautee but will be officially launching Mountain Works Construction Company this fall. Jamie & Tim are interested in lasting relationships. Not only do they want to build new homes for their clients, they want to maintain them indefinitely. Mountain Works would like to thank Judy & Spurgeon and the entire Varn, Hays, & Reid families for being such a big part of their continued success. Mountain Works can be reached by calling 706.782.9930.

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Mary Martin Davis Bowen – A Life Well Lived by Tracy McCoy

ary Martin Bowen was born in Dekalb County at Emory Hospital in 1936. She lived on a Aberdeen Angus cattle farm in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Her father was a circuit judge in the Superior Court there. Her childhood was shadowed by World War II. She remembers rationing and how unsettling those years were. She has kept a diary since she was eight years old. She began writing in English, then changed to Latin in high school and jokes that when she got to college her experiences out-ran her vocabulary and she had to switch back to English. Today it is mostly done in short hand. Filling one book up and beginning another, these volumes will be donated to the Georgia Archives after her death and sealed until 2136 and opened on what would be her 200th birthday.

Mary Martin was an only child. During the war families changed course as needed to ensure a steady income. The family kept the cattle operation going but added to it a vegetable enterprise and while her grandmother, who lived on the farm, worked the vegetable gardens, her mother began raising chickens. They sold vegetables and eggs on the courthouse square on Saturdays. Thinking back, Mary said the vegetable farming was a bigger business than she cared to remember and she would have to get out and help pick beans and cut okra. “I hated picking beans and that row seemed as long as a football field,” she said laughing. Having been a biology teacher, Mary’s mother was very smart and soon the family had a chicken house and yard with incubators in the basement. “We had a couple of roosters and there was one I remember and he was so mean we named him Tojo after the Japanese general. He would spur me on my bare legs when I would go in to gather eggs. I hated that rooster and after the war, we ate him. He was tough and stringy but I hated that rooster so much that I ate him with pleasure.” Mary is a wonderful story teller and I realized this might be the most entertaining interview I had ever done. I simply couldn’t write fast enough and was pleased I had brought a recorder. I knew at this point we had just scratched the surface and there would be many more stories to come. “During the war we had to collect everything. They took fences down and melted the metal to make things for the soldiers. On our farm someone left a big road scrape. It most likely broke down and they just left it. Over the years the brambles and vines had taken it over. In elementary school the fourth grade students at the Glenwood School had a scrap metal drive. I convinced my daddy to pull that road scrape with the tractor into town to the school.

My mother followed in the car and I rode up on the fender of the tractor with daddy. We pulled that road scrape 6 miles from Stone Mountain to Decatur. We pulled it up to the front of the school and the entire fourth grade were jumping up and down and celebrating because it put us on top. All the tin cans, boilers and pans could not compete with the old metal road scrape. My class won the competition. We got a free afternoon movie. That was the greatest day of my childhood riding on the tractor with daddy with that road scrape clanging behind trailing honeysuckle and brambles. That was a great day! Daddy wore his overalls and straw hat, he was the judge but that day he was a farmer.” On the farm Mary Martin and her family ate the culls so there was always food in the freezer and she told me, “If you lived on a farm you really didn’t know there was a war going on.” The family was very self-sufficient; they had hogs as well and employed tenant farmers to help out around the farm. “My grandmother made sure we had a jersey cow named Lily to milk, so we had plenty of milk and eggs for them and us. It was a good way to grow up.” In 1946, everything changed for this young girl; her father Judge James C. Davis was asked to run for Congress, which he did. Being the enterprising young lady that she was, she began a counter-campaign against her father in a homemade newspaper titled The Truth. She created and distributed the piece in the neighborhood. You see, even at only ten years of age she knew that if he won she would have to move to Washington D.C. and that was not something she wanted to do. In spite of her best efforts her father won and soon the family made the move. Her father served 16 years in the Congress. He was a Democrat and she jokes she had never seen a Republican until she was eleven years old and now she is one. “Senator Russell had a sister named Pat Peterson who was kin to the Dillards. She was from Winder but was living in Washington. She was a friend of my mother’s. Pat prompted her to place me in a private French school in Washington D.C.. This farm kid, a stringy sixth grader didn’t speak a bit of French but that mattered not. The students who were mostly international and the faculty spoke French all day. Pat told my mother, ‘Mary Martin will learn so much.’ Boy, she was right but I am not sure it was exactly what they wanted me to learn. The lunch line was in French; now imagine what it was like coming out of Decatur, Georgia standing in a lunch line where you couldn’t speak or understand a word. Now I was hungry and I wasn’t stupid, so I went in and looked at the board and I told the lunch lady ‘I want chicken’. She replied ‘En Francis s’il vous plait’ (in French please) so I looked at the board

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and I saw the word poulet and coming off that chicken farm I knew that pullet meant chicken so I said ‘pullet’ and she said ‘la poulet’ and I was given chicken so that day I learned my first French word. I ate that chicken, same thing the next day. Then I learned how to say beans, des haricots, so I ate chicken and beans. Then I learned milk and bread so for about four weeks I ate chicken, beans, bread and milk, but you can live on that. We didn’t speak French on the playground, we all spoke our native language. This school was full of the sons and daughters of dignitaries from all over so by the end of that year I could call you a bad name in five languages and I still can. That’s what kids do on the playground. It was very educational.’’ Mary Martin’s mother was gifted at many things but she was very talented at arranging flowers and so the members of the Congressional Club (a club made up of the wives of Congressmen) asked her to do that often. In the spring of 1947 they asked her to arrange flowers for an embassy tour and she did it in the French embassy first and then she went to the Romanian embassy. Mary Martin remembers, “Now, I was a tall, big and bossy child and I was very independent. It had been a very long day on the Friday before the tour getting the flowers ready. Mother had me help by carrying water from the kitchen to the area where she was arranging flowers. There was a very handsome fellow in a suit leaned up against a post nearby and I was tired of carrying the water so I looked at him and asked him ‘do you speak English?’ and he answered that he did so I handed him the can and told him to go to the kitchen and fill it with water and bring it back. He said ‘yes ma’am’ and he came back struggling to carry the can full of water. The embassy staff just went nuts when they saw him saying ‘Sir, Sir, let us help you.’ It was Prince Michael of Romania. Here this bossy little kid from Decatur, Georgia had him carrying the water!’’ Mary Martin’s mother was always in charge of things, on this certain evening at the Congressional Club, her mother and father had to stand in a receiving line with President and Mrs. Truman. Mrs. Davis was serving as president of the club and while she could talk to anyone, she was not sure how she would make small talk with the President and First Lady if the line should wane. So she made a list of questions in her head of things she might say or ask. She alphabetized the list in her head. A is always for apples so that would be her first topic. So when the line got lax she turned to the President and said, “Mr. President on our farm down in Georgia we have an orchard of apple trees from the Stark Nurseries in Missouri, your home state. We have golden delicious and red delicious. We love those Stark apple trees, do you know the Stark brothers?” President Truman looked at her mother and said, “I’ll say I know them; those SOBs have been against me in every race I’ve ever run.” Mrs. Davis was horrified. She thought she would scream and faint at the president’s language, but she knew she could not do that as she had another hour to stand in that receiving line. She looked him straight in the eye and said, “The hell you say, when I get back down to Georgia I’ll cut down every damn one of those trees.” That broke the ice and the list was not needed while a good evening was had by all. “I picked him up in a dining hall at Duke,” Mary said answering my question of how she met her husband. She continued, “I had attended Randolph Macon Woman’s college in Lynchburg, Virginia. It is now simply called Randolph College. I taught school for a year and then I wanted to go on to further my education. I went to see my favorite professor and she helped me get a full ride. I had real good grades in college so they were happy to have me. I had a one year scholarship to get a Masters degree in English. My roommate

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and I had a room in the dormitory. I didn’t know her until they paired us up, but we hit it off first thing and are still friends today. So we looked around the English department and there was no one to date there, there never is in the English department. So Jane, my roommate, said, ‘I hear there is a place called the Graduate Center where all the graduate male students live and eat. Let’s go over there and meet some guys. So we went over there and sat at a table for four and all these nice looking men came in and not one of them paid any attention to us. So we went back the next night at the supper hour and sat at a table for twelve and the other ten spots filled up with men, just like that. We introduced ourselves and I’ll tell you we dated off of that encounter for months!” she recalls laughing. One of the men at the table that night was Ed Bowen from Lakeland, Florida. Mary Martin and Ed didn’t sit near each other or exchange names but he must have seen something special in her. She recalls that she didn’t really remember him specifically because there were so many. “The next day the phone in our room rang and the voice on the line said, ‘This is Ed Bowen and I am a medical student and I met you last night at the men’s Graduate Center, would you like to go to the football game on Saturday?’ and I said ‘I’d love to.’ although I didn’t remember which one he was. So, he said there’s just one thing, I don’t have any money, I am a medical student and you’ll have to buy your own ticket to the ball game. I told him I could do that, so I went upstairs and bought a ticket from an undergraduate for $2.50, that was the best investment I have ever made in my life, it really was!” Ed picked her up and took her to the game and they had a great time. On Monday Mary Martin recalls while walking in front of the library and looking down towards the hospital she said to herself, “Ed Bowen is down there in that hospital and I am going to marry him,” and she did. The Bowens married at the First Baptist Church of Decatur and had a large wedding; Mary Martin remembers writing 1,250 thank you notes. “Once you make up your mind you don’t look back,” she stated “And years later I asked him why he had taken me out and I thought he would say, oh it was your charm or you were so beautiful but he said ‘Well I needed a date for the football game and I knew if you’d attended Randolph Macon no matter what at least you weren’t stupid.’” Her husband Ed was an OB/GYN and delivered near 30,000 babies during his career. A career that was quite impressive. At the time they married he was

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Fouts and he was a pilot serving in the Air Force as well. Ed picked him up from the hangar and we went to dinner. It was late evening in Vespa but it was noon in America. We were having dinner and I was in the ladies room. I heard the radio in the kitchen next to the bathroom say in German that President Kennedy was dead, I thought maybe I heard wrong but returned to the table and told Ed, he thought surely I heard wrong but, in a minute the head waiter came out and went from table to table. At each table he said, ‘Ladies and gentlemen I regret to inform you that your President has been shot and he is dead.’ The club cleared out because everyone knew they’d have to report to their post; we didn’t know if we were under attack or what. We took Joe back to his plane and Ed and I returned to our apartment and Ed had to grab his stuff and go to the hospital. When I dropped Ed at the hospital we didn’t know if we’d see each other again. We then sat around and waited to see if we would need to evacuate. Well of course, Lee Harvey Oswald was caught and we then knew it wasn’t an attack. President Kennedy had visited Germany the year before and as a show of respect the Germans had candles in their windows which they do if there is a death in their family. The response from the Germans was amazing. I looked out on that Saturday night and there were hundreds of Germans in a torch light ceremony going down the street. President Kennedy was loved by all.”

doing his residency in Gainesville, Florida. He had an apartment there and after the honeymoon they returned there to make their home. Mary Martin’s first job in Gainesville was as a secretary to the Dean of the Medical School there. “I worked for the admissions office and a heavy component of my job was to get cadavers for the Gross Anatomy department. The thing was, I was good at it. This was the medical school’s second year. At Emory and Augusta, established medical schools bodies were donated often but this school was new and people didn’t know to do it. When they told me that this was part of my job I must have turned pale but Dean Harrell said, ‘Don’t worry, what you do is call around to the state prisons and mental institutions. They always have people who die and the state can donate their bodies to the medical school.’ I was so tongue tied when I started doing it. I called the state prison at Raiford and I got the warden’s office and I said ‘This is Mrs. Bowen and I am at Dean Harrell’s office at the Medical School and, and... I just clammed up, I didn’t know what to say and the man on the phone said, ‘Don’t worry honey, I know what you want’ and he put his hand over the phone and said ‘Hey Joe, do we have any stiffs for this girl on the phone?’, I was horrified, but they did and they shipped them over by train. Dean Harrell played a joke on me and told me I’d have to go meet the train and pick them up. Needless to say I didn’t do that but I was really good at it after that, I got a surplus.” “The next year Ed went into the Air Force and we spent 3 1/2 years in Germany. I taught school there. This was the year the Berlin Wall went up, so I had my pick of any job I wanted in Wiesbaden, Germany. I chose to teach English in junior high. I taught Priscilla Beaulieu and her brother Donnie. She met Elvis Presley at the age of 14 and later became Priscilla Presley. We were in Vespa when President Kennedy was shot. We had a friend visiting, his name was Joe

After Ed completed his service the couple returned to Atlanta where Ed worked at Grady Hospital at Emory and Mary Martin taught at Atlanta Baptist College which later became Mercer College. Mary Martin took a year off to care for her mother who was suffering strokes. After her death she returned to work until her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease; after that she stopped working to care for him. While in her teens Mary Martin worked in the library shelving books and then she would walk across the courthouse square in Decatur to the New Era newspaper and type. “I was a fast typist and people would call in their stuff and I’d type it in. The mothers would come in with the wedding info and sometimes they would bring in plenty of details and sometimes not. I would add as needed so that even if there weren’t enough details when it came in, there was when it went into print. Everyone in town wanted to know what color the bridesmaids dresses were so a lot of them wore Hamlet Blue, I don’t know what shade that is but I made it up. I helped write the society column as well. Years later, after Ed and I returned from Germany my father had started a newspaper The Atlanta Times in opposition to the Atlanta Journal and Constitution because they were very liberal. It only lasted about two and a half years but I worked there. I began writing obituaries and since I had been a procurer of cadavers they thought I might have a knack for that. I still write them as a service to families because they are so stressed at a time like that. I was pretty good at it.” Mary Martin offered to write mine if I should go before her and I hope someone will hold her to that. “When I worked for The Atlanta Times I got to fly out to Hollywood to interview Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews. Another time they flew me out and I interviewed Mia Farrow. I interviewed Elvis when he was filming Blue Hawaii. He was very nice and respectful. My mother loved him. I got to speak with Ginger Rogers when she came to Atlanta. I loved writing entertainment news.” I was amazed that Mary Martin had experienced so much in her 80 years. “My mother taught me to

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keep saying yes to things and I learned that as long as you do that unless it is seriously illegal you are going to have fun! Seriously illegal things you have to say no to but if you had known my mother she packed a lot into her 64 years too.” More than one time I was instructed to put my pen down and turn the recorder off for stories “not for print”. The laughter filled the lake house as tales of kith and kin were shared. Some tales I have since repeated void of actual names of course. Mary Martin Bowen has an unbelievable memory and innate ability to tell a captivating story. She tells great stories of her family’s and Ed’s Confederate heritage. Upstairs in her home is a treasured Confederate flag and downstairs are photos of ancestors in uniform. She is a member of the UDC and her grands are members of Children of the Confederacy. I asked how this family ended up on the lake and she told me that Howard

and Jackie Brown, friends of the Bowens, had a place on Lake Rabun and they were neighbors to the couple in Atlanta. They visited the lake several times with the Browns and Ed fell in love with the mountains and Lake Rabun. The Browns sold their home at the lake and Ed and Mary Martin began looking for a place. Mary Martin said, “I was combing the real estate ads in the Atlanta paper one morning. I found a home for 55 or 60 thousand dollars; it came fully furnished and we jumped in the car and drove up here and bought it that very day. We couldn’t believe it even had a roast in the freezer.” That was the Bowen’s first home on the lake. It was the wood frame barrel house across from Witham Point. “It came with a boat and a roast,” she jokes. “Some time later Shirley Manry called me at home in Sandy Springs and told me that a lake lot had come available between the dam and the dike. Ed was in surgery at Northside. With Shirley in one ear and a second phone to the other

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I called the operating room and I said I need to talk to Ed Bowen. I told him the lot had become available, he asked how much it was, I told him and he said tell her we’ll take it. It was just like that. So we sold the little house and started building this home. Ed knew what he wanted and we had a group of architects draw the plans and then, I simplified them. We wanted plenty of porches and plenty of room so we could have everybody up so that’s what we did. If you ask what is Rabun County’s greatest asset, most people would say the scenery and natural beauty, I say it’s the people who live up here. You can find beautiful scenery anywhere but you don’t often find a county full of good people. The scenery brought us, but the people have kept us,” she said. I was told that Mary Martin’s family was of the utmost importance to her; when I asked if that were true, she waved her arm in the direction of a family photo and said, “Yes, well look at them.” Her home was filled with photos and memories of family. “Our home is for family and friends.” I asked Mary Martin what she enjoyed and how she liked to spend her time and she replied “I love to read, plant things and do needlepoint. I love my cat Daffodil. She is a country cat coming from the farm in Atlanta. She is very timid.” I wasn’t surprised that Daffodil’s photo was on display among the other family members. I asked what had been her greatest moment thus far because it is apparent that she still has a lot of living to do. She said, “I wanted children who could be educated up to their capacity and who were willing to work and able to marry and set up homes and start families of their own. Everything that Ed and I did was toward that end. That is what we wanted and we got it. We were very lucky. We took them to ball games and on trips. We took them on educational trips in the US and abroad. We took them to London and we took them to Duke and Clemson games. We wanted them to see that college could be part of their future that they would not only learn but have fun. When you take your children with you they realize that they are an important part of your life. They then make their children an important part of their life. Able and willing to be educated and willing and able to work and able and willing to start families of their own and if you get that, you are lucky. We had no trouble with drugs or kids going off to ‘find themselves’. There are a lot of temptations out there for children.” The Bowens have three children, two sons and a daughter. There are seven grandchildren five boys and two girls. They all love coming to the mountains and Mary Martin says she thinks that Rabun county has had a positive influence on her family. To call Mary Martin Bowen the Matriarch of her family is an understatement. She is a very strong, highly educated lady. Her life has been an incredible series of experiences that are a direct result of the wise choices she has made and because of the “raising” she had. Her parents were successful and encouraged her to learn all that she could, to embrace life and meet it head on. These things were not told to me rather gleaned during our interview. Mary Martin lives part time at Lake Rabun and has a condo in Decatur. She is very involved in the political world and has worked the polls in the Glenwood precinct for 35 or 40 years. I asked who was the best president she had ever seen and her response was Truman. “He was a Democrat and now I am a Republican but President Truman called it like it was.” she said. Like most of us she is unsure what will take place in the upcoming presidential race. Her final story on the afternoon I visited in her home was one of her best. With a stone cold expression she began: “In grammar school my best friend and I poisoned Hitler. This is the absolute

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truth. You know World War II was a lot of trouble. It made a lot of inconveniences and it was hard on us. It was Christmas of 1944 I remember because we were so proud of ourselves. My friend’s name was Peggy McDonald. Her mother and mine took the street car from Clarkston, Georgia to downtown Atlanta to do Christmas shopping. They left Peggy and me with her grandmother Mrs. Kelly in Clarkston. She was to look after us for the afternoon. Peggy and I were both disgruntled about the war. I had just turned 9 and she was 8, we talked that morning and at that time everything was the fault of the war and Hitler. I don’t remember which of us came up with the plan but we decided we were going to kill Hitler. We knew we could do it. Mrs. Kelly had a big chicken yard out back of her home. We took an old bottle of shoe polish that had some dried up black polish in the bottom and we went out in the chicken yard and got chicken poop and put it in there. Then we went into Mrs. Kelly’s bathroom and we got in her medicine cabinet and took a sample of everything in there, including Carter’s Liver Pills. We ground them into dust and put them in the bottle and filled it full of water. It was a lethal mixture and it would have killed anyone. I can’t remember everything we put in there but I know it involved chicken shit, rubbing alcohol and liver pills.” “Mrs. Kelly took a nap every day after lunch and now she was a devout Catholic and she had a shrine at the base of the steps for her son. There was a picture of the Virgin Mary and her son with candles. So when she went down for her nap Peggy and I went out and lit the candles with a match and dribbled wax around the lid of that shoe polish bottle until we knew it was sealed. We were very careful to burn the candles equally so we wouldn’t get caught. We then put crumpled newspaper and the bottle of lethal poison in a shoe box. We took the flap of an envelope and wrote on there HITLER, DRINK THIS and stuck it to the bottle. We tied it up in the box with a string. I did the writing because I was better at it than Peggy so I wrote on the box: Hitler Berlin, Germany The World Now between us we had maybe 6 cents each in our coat pockets and we had pennies in our loafers so we sacrificed them, so we had about 14 cents all together. Then we did the unthinkable; we crossed the train tracks and the street car tracks and Ponce de Leon Avenue. If Mrs. Kelly had woken up we’d have been under the jail. We knew she’d sleep the whole hour because she did it every day. Ladies took naps after lunch in those days. So we made it to the Clarkston post office and the postmistress sat on a high stool, her name was Miss Cammey. We went in and told her we were going to kill Hitler, there is poison in this box and here is our money. She said ‘I’ll see that he gets it.’ Again this was December 1944”. “Fast forward to April 1945; Peggy and I attended Glenwood School in Decatur. The principal called an assembly. She got on stage and was quivering she was so excited. She said, ‘Boys and girls I have something wonderful to tell you, Hitler is dead and Germany has surrendered. Peggy and I looked at each other and the principal dismissed us to the playground for the rest of the day. Peggy and I met at the flag pole and hugged each other, celebrating, knowing we did it. They always said Hitler shot himself but Peggy and I knew the truth and I believe it to this day. I am finally able to take credit for it.” My hope for you dear reader is that someday your path may cross with Mary Martin Bowen because you’ll never forget her.

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The Acorn Creek Academy by Heather Leigh Johnson

ucked on a quiet shore in the Acorn Creek area of Lake Burton stands a bungalow of unique charm, the result of collaboration between two well-known interior designers. Charles Gandy, formerly of Gandy/Peace Inc. and Brad Epperson, currently practicing at Epperson Design Inc., both in Atlanta, designed the home nearly thirty years ago. Together the designers created a charming cottage that exudes style and grace in subtle whispers suited to its peaceful surroundings. The cottage sits on a wide and flat fee-simple lot with a river-stone parking pad nestled deep in trees. Moss-lined walkways lead to the nearby lake and up to the boathouse with its high, rooftop entertainment deck above two boat stalls.

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This secluded cove does not generate much boat traffic, so stillness pervades the place. The site offers easy access to the main lake, but on this dock, one could settle into a peace missing on busier parts of Lake Burton. But don’t let all the quiet fool you -- inside the stylish cottage there’s plenty of room to entertain. Epperson and Gandy have long called the home The Acorn Creek Academy since the structure’s profile reminded them of an old one-room schoolhouse. But that’s where the similarity ends. The bungalow features an open-concept floor plan that makes the three-bedroom home feel grand. Real beaded board lines the interior and allows the interior spaces to flow effortlessly from one room to the next. The compact kitchen features all the necessary amenities, including plenty of cabinets and storage. The kitchen’s wooden ceiling is mitered to the center, a smart touch that provides a visually-interesting detail.

Dual ownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; suites on the main level flank the kitchen and offer spacious living quarters, full baths and closets. Through the kitchen, the great room opens up with the spacious screened porch just ahead. The living room to the left features a cozy sitting area around a woodburning fireplace and the sizable dining area to the right provides plenty of space for dinner parties or quiet family gatherings. The soaring ceiling in this room fills the space with light due to its many high and windows. Off the main room, the wide screened porch runs the front of the cottage. Out here there is plenty of space for tables and

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chairs, rockers and recliners to sit in and enjoy the view toward the water. Throughout the weekend house, the designers cleverly maximized the use of its space. That’s nowhere more apparent than in the guest rooms accessed by a compact spiral staircase. In the loft, two queen-sized beds tuck under the eaves to be easily pulled out to full size. A half-bath at the back provides convenient facilities and a daybed rests above clever built-in storage. Toward the rear of the loft, a wide staircase leads up to a marvelous treetop bunk room. This airy room features high windows on all four walls that bathe the space in light. Epperson and Gandy have ideas on how to easily convert the tower space to add two more bedrooms and a full bath. Out on the lot there’s plenty of room to build a two-car garage with a studio apartment above, so that the bungalow could provide more housing for family and friends. There aren’t many homes on Lake Burton as easy to reach as The Acorn Creek Academy. Just off 76-West, the home sits closer to Clayton than most, a helpful feature that’s rare on the large lake. It’s also rare to find a home so thoughtfully designed by not one but two interior designers who maximized the charm and style in one charming space. The home is offered through Michael McCaughey at Harry Norman Realtors in Clayton. For more information please call 706.982.9030

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Bon Appetit on the Lake

ummer is here and all cooks are looking for easy, cool recipes to feed those extra faces that appear around the dinner table this time of year. These recipes van be prepared ahead so that you can feed and enjoy those faces yourself.

Melon Congealed Salad Serves 8 2 Envelopes unflavored gelatin 2 Cups fresh orange juice 1/2 Cup sugar 1/2 Cup lemon juice 1/4 Cup finely minced fresh mint leaves 3 Cups melon balls – cantaloupe or honeydew or a mix Honey Lime Dressing 1/4 Cup honey 1/4 Cup lime juice 1 Cup sour cream or plain yogurt Place gelatin, 1 cup orange juice and the sugar in a small saucepan. Place over low heat and cook until the gelatin and sugar are dissolved; do not let the mixture boil. Remove from heat and add the lemon juice, the remaining orange juice and the mint leaves. Place the saucepan in a pan of ice and stir 5 – 10 minutes or until the gelatin starts to thicken. Gently fold in 1 cup of the melon balls. Pour mixture into an oiled 4 cup ring mold and refrigerate at least 4 hours. To make the dressing – blend the honey, lime juice and sour cream in a small bowl and chill. To serve – unmold the gelatin onto a chilled plate and fill the center with the remaining melon. Dress each serving with dressing. Spicy Shrimp Serves 4 – 6 6 Green onions, green and white parts sliced and separated 1 Tablespoon chopped fresh ginger 1 Tablespoon soy sauce 1 Tablespoon horseradish 1/4 Cup tomato paste 1/2 Teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 1/2 Teaspoons vegetable oil 1 Pound large shrimp, shelled and deveined Salt and Black pepper Tabasco sauce

In a small bowl combine the white onion parts, ginger, soy sauce, horseradish, tomato paste and red pepper flakes. Heat the oil in a large skillet over moderately high heat. Add the shrimp and cook, stirring, just until pink, about 3 minutes. Add the sauce mixture and cook a few minutes longer, stirring constantly until the sauce is heated. Season to taste with salt and pepper and Tabasco. Serve hot or at room temperature and garnish just before serving with green onion parts. This dish can be prepared ahead and refrigerated, covered. Reheat quickly – just until warm so that the shrimp don’t overcook.

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Cheese Grits & Jalapeno Pepper Casserole Serves 10 – 12

Deviled Eggs Serves 6

1 Pound sharp Cheddar cheese, grated 1 Stick butter 1 Teaspoon salt 1/4 Teaspoon cayenne pepper 2 – 3 Garlic cloves, finely minced 1/4 Cup finely chopped fresh jalapeno peppers 1 Cup hot grits, cooked in milk according to package directions 6 Eggs

6 Eggs 1/4 Cup mayonnaise 1/2 Teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 Green onion, finely minced 1 Teaspoon finely chopped capers Cayenne pepper to taste 1/4 Teaspoon Salt 2 Teaspoons finely chopped fresh thyme for garnish

Preheat the oven to 350˚. Grease a 2-quart baking dish. Stir the cheese, butter, salt, cayenne pepper garlic and jalapenos into the hot grits. Beat the eggs well and then stir into grits mixture. Pour into greased pan and bake until set and lightly browned 30 – 40 minutes. This casserole can be frozen after baking and reheated in a microwave or oven.

Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Gently place eggs in pot. Reduce heat to a simmer and cook eggs 11 minutes. When done, place eggs in cold water and let set for 5 minutes. Peel eggs and slice in half. Place yolks in a bowl and mash them with a fork. Add mayonnaise, mustard, onion, capers, salt and pepper. Mix well and spoon or pipe into eggs. Sprinkle with thyme if using.

Butter Bean & Corn Salad Serves 6 – 8 1 Pound frozen butter beans 1 Pound frozen white shoepeg corn 6 Green onions, chopped 10 Slices bacon, fried and crumbled 3/4 Cup mayonnaise 4 Tablespoons white wine vinegar 3 – 4 Tablespoons freshly chopped thyme, tarragon or dill Salt and Black pepper Blanch the beans and corn in boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain the vegetables and rinse under cold water. Drain well. Combine the beans, corn onions, bacon, mayonnaise, vinegar, herbs, salt and pepper. Toss gently. Refrigerate at least 2 hours.

Easy Fruit Cobbler Serves 6-8 1 Stick butter 1 Cup plain flour 1 1/2 Teaspoons baking powder 1/2 Teaspoon salt 1 Cup milk 1 Cup sugar or 1 cup light brown sugar, packed 2 Cups fruit – sliced & peeled peaches or sliced & peeled apples or hulled strawberries or blueberries

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Preheat oven to 350˚. Cut the butter into pieces and place in a 9” x 13” baking dish; place in the oven until the butter melts. In a bowl mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Stir in the milk and sugar. Pour the mixture over the melted butter. Spoon the fruit evenly over the mixture. Bake about 30 minutes or until batter is browned and has risen around the fruit. The baked cobbler can be frozen. To serve allow to come to room temperature and if desired, heat in a warm oven.

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Downtown Clayton

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by Peter McIntosh

en years ago, finding a parking spot on Main Street in Clayton was no problem. Usually by 6:00 PM, the place was a ghost town. That’s not the case today as downtown Clayton boasts a thriving and vibrant nightlife. That’s what we’re talking about here, the restaurants open in the evenings in downtown Clayton. We’ll be covering other eateries, diners and lunch spots in a later issue. This is a walking tour of sorts, heading down Main Street from north to south, followed by a left turn on Savannah Street. It’s interesting to note that the restaurant farthest north on Main Street is themed after the southernmost spot in the U. S., Key West. A visit to Rumor Hazit is a trip to the tropics with all the walls being nautically inspired hand painted murals, there’s a large fish tank in the main dining room and island decor all around. The restaurant features a spacious porch should you prefer outdoor dining. Rumor Hazit serves some nice steak and chicken dishes but seafood is the their focus. For appetizers I highly recommend the

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calamari or the fire coral shrimp. The Grouper Reuben sandwich is a house signature item and it should be, it’s great. The Mahi-mahi as a dinner entree is also one of my favs. There’s a full service bar and terrific frozen margaritas. Now we head up the sidewalk to what is undoubtedly the most popular patio in Rabun County. The Universal Joint is a bar / restaurant converted from an old gas station. The food at the UJ, as the locals call it, could be described as a level above pub grub. There are burgers like my favorite, “The Steinbeck,” (smoked bacon, house made pimento cheese and jalapenos) along with wings and fries of course, all top quality by the way. They also have fish tacos, salads and pulled pork nachos that are to die for. If you’re looking for lighter fare, the UJ also features a nice selection of fresh garden salads. And I said

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before they serve fries, but they also serve tots, not just any tots, best tots ever! They have live music on stage most weekends, featuring an amazingly talented line-up of musicians. Jenny Tyler and her crew are hopping all summer long serving tasty cocktails as well as a great variety of local and national craft beers on tap. We travel just up the hill to Fortify Kitchen and Bar, the restaurant that’s redefining fine dining in downtown Clayton. Chef Jamie Allred is one of the central figures in the area’s Farm to Table movement. Last year Governor Deal signed a document declaring Rabun County as the Farm to Table capitol of Georgia. Every Wednesday at Fortify during the growing season, the restaurant hosts a Featured Farmer Dinner, where products from local farmers are integrated into a special menu Chef Jamie prepares. And be it a nightly special or a menu favorite, if Chef Jamie makes it, it’s gonna be good. For steak, seafood, poultry and more, Fortify is a destination restaurant to be sure. They often use locally grown herbs in their special “Cocktail of the Week.” Managing partner Jack Nolan can do wonders with a bar shaker. One of my personal favorites is the Jalapeno Cilantro Martini. During season, it’s best to make a reservation at Fortify, trust me. And Fortify’s sister restaurant, Fortify Pi, is due to open any day now offering fresh made pizzas, dine in or take out. A great new addition to the downtown Clayton dining scene.

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So now we backtrack just a bit, back down to the crosswalk, and head to a spot that’s self described as “an unapologetic sports bar”. The place is Clarks’ on Main, and yes the apostrophe is in the right place because there are two Clarks involved in this restaurant, the husband and wife team of Burt and Erin. The place is a sports bar with 14 large flat screens and 30 different beers on tap, but the food they serve at Clarks’ is far above what you might expect. Appetizers include such interesting items as seared tuna, grilled okra and lobster sliders. There are wings with a choice of 15 different sauces, burgers and pizza. And Chef Alex Stein is always preparing a nightly dinner special to go with other dinner entrees such as Fettuccini and Clams and Grilled Butcher’s Cut Steak. This will be a great place to watch the Summer Olympics, knock back a cold one and get some great food. Is it too early to think about football season? Never! Clarks’ will have every TV sports package available and, by football season, they plan on having 20 large flat screens. Our tour continues as now we head up to the intersection of Main Street and Savannah Street. After crossing Savannah Street safely, we walk a few yards down the hill to the Laurel Bar at the White Birch Inn. And as it says under the Laurel Bar sign, the place is a restaurant, serving finely crafted tapas with sumptuous appetizers like Brazed Duck, Seafood Dip and Steamed Mussels. Entrees include absolutely amazing Crab Cakes, Stuffed Trout and Berkshire Pork Tenderloin. And not only is the food amazing, the bar / dining room is one of the most beautifully decorated places anywhere. The attention to detail is unparalleled. Brenda Patterson and her husband Chuck have an eye for quality and detail, in the place itself and food on your plate. It’s not immediately apparent but the Laurel Bar also a little “secret garden” outside patio in the back. It’s the perfect hideaway to sip some fine wine and enjoy an appetizer. An added plus is the White Birch Inn, a B&B in the same building. They have the most beautifully appointed guest rooms I’ve ever seen. Some of the rooms even have framed photos by yours truly.

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So come on out, stop hesitating, in downtown Clayton your table’s waiting. For more information: http://www.rumorhazit.us http://ujclayton.com http://www.fortifyclayton.com http://www.clarksonmain.com http://www.thewhitebirchinn.net/laurel-restaurant

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Fire up the Flavor Â L

ove cooking on the grill, but want to do more than basic burgers and the same-old barbecue chicken? Try cooking up some delicious grilled dishes with great tasting, all-natural Mrs. Dash(r) - you might be surprised how easy it is to add big flavor, without adding salt to your grilling favorites. Mrs. Dash bold seasonings and zesty marinades are just some of the ways you can spice up burgers, chicken and vegetables on the grill. The unique herb and spice combinations transform an ordinary cookout into something to brag about. For more mouthwatering grilling recipes, visit www.mrsdash. com.

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Caribbean Pork Kabobs Serves: 9

Old Fashioned Cole Slaw Serves: 12

1/2 cup pineapple juice 3 tablespoons Mrs. Dash(r) Caribbean Citrus Seasoning Blend, divided 1 pound pork tenderloin, cut into small cubes 1 sweet onion, cut into cubes 1 red bell pepper, cut into cubes 1/2 fresh pineapple, peeled, cut into cubes Mix pineapple juice and 2 tablespoons seasoning blend in a small bowl. Pour 3/8 cup (6 tablespoons) of the pineapple juice mixture over the pork in a separate bowl and the remaining over the vegetables. Stir to coat evenly. Cover and refrigerate for about 1 hour. Thread pork pieces onto 9 skewers, alternating with onion, pepper and pineapple cubes. Sprinkle on remaining 1 tablespoon seasoning blend.

5 cups shredded cabbage 1 cup shredded carrots 8 radishes, sliced 1/4 cup chopped green onion 1/4 cup olive oil 3 tablespoons cider vinegar 2 1/2 tablespoons Mrs. Dash(r) Original Blend 2 teaspoons sugar 2 tablespoons lemon juice Combine cabbage, carrots, radishes and onion in large bowl; set aside. Combine oil, vinegar, seasoning blend, sugar and lemon juice in small bowl; mix well. Pour dressing over cabbage mixture; toss to mix well. Chill for 2 to 3 hours. Toss again before serving.

Grill or broil for 10 to 15 minutes or until pork is thoroughly cooked. Salmon Fillets with Raspberry Citrus Sauce Serves: 4 Chipotle Burgers with Spicy Onions Serves: 4

1/4 cup sliced almonds, toasted 1 cup water 2/3 cup couscous 1/2 cup chopped green onions 1 pound skinned salmon fillets, 1 inch thick 2 tablespoons Mrs. Dash(r) Garlic & Herb Seasoning Blend 3/4 cup fresh squeezed orange juice 1 cup minced shallots 2 tablespoons raspberry preserves 2 teaspoons fresh grated peeled ginger 2 tablespoons raspberry vinegar 1/4 cup fresh raspberries, optional garnish

1 teaspoon olive oil 1 large red onion, peeled and thinly sliced 2 tablespoons Mrs. Dash(r) Southwest Chipotle Seasoning Blend, divided 1 pound extra lean ground beef 1/4 cup fresh cilantro, chopped 2 egg whites, or egg substitute equivalent to 1 egg 4 toasted hamburger buns Sliced tomatoes, optional Lettuce, optional Heat oil in large non-stick skillet, add onion and cook until golden and tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in 1 tablespoon seasoning blend, mix thoroughly and remove from heat. Gently mix ground beef, 1 tablespoon seasoning blend, cilantro, and egg whites or egg substitute. Mix well, and shape into 4 burgers. Preheat grill to medium-high heat and grill burgers for 8 to 10 minutes, turning once. Toast buns and top with burger and spicy onions. Garnish with tomato and lettuce, if desired.

To toast almonds, place in a small skillet over medium heat, shaking often until golden all over, approximately 4 minutes. Preheat broiler. Bring water to a boil in medium saucepan and remove from heat. Stir in couscous and green onion. Rinse and pat dry salmon fillets, then sprinkle seasoning blend on each side. Place fillets on a broiler pan coated with non-stick spray. Broil 5 minutes per side, 5 to 6 inches from heat source. Over medium heat, bring orange juice and shallots to a slight boil in a small saucepan. Lower heat and whisk in raspberry preserves, ginger and vinegar; keep warm while salmon is cooking. Fluff couscous with fork and place equal amounts on 4 dinner plates. Lay a piece of salmon on top. Drizzle citrus sauce over salmon and sprinkle almonds on top. Garnish top with raspberries, if desired.

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Mountain Happenings - Summer 2016 STEPHENS COUNTY June 1st and each Wednesday and Saturday through October Stephens County Farmers’ Market Corner of Pond and Tugalo Toccoa Info: 706.282.3309 June 4th Stephens County Historical Society D-Day Run and Events Camp Toccoa at Currahee Info: 706.282.5055 June 4th 1st Annual Currahee Cornhole Challenge Doyle Street Toccoa Info: 706.886.2132 June 11th and the second Saturday of the month through October Sage Market Corner of Pond and Tugalo Toccoa Info: 706.282.3309 June 11th and the second Saturday of the month Second Saturday Historic Downtown Toccoa Info: 706.886.2132 September 30th – October 2nd Currahee Military Weekend Toccoa Info: 706.282.5055 Ida Cox Music Series Downtown Toccoa Info: www.idacoxmusicseries.com June 4th Toccoa Jazz June 11th The Heap June 18th Second Time Around June 25th Tugalo Hollar July 2nd Clemson Jazz Band July 9th Seven Day Weekend

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July 16th Delta Cane July 23rd Clay Leverett July 30th James Brown Cover Band The Schafer Center Toccoa Info: www.mainstreettoccoa.com June 2nd and each Thursday through July Summer Movies June 10th; July 8th Southern Gospel Jubilee Concert HABERSHAM COUNTY June 4th and each Saturday Clarkesville Farmers’ Market Old Clarkesville Mill Clarkesville Info: 706.778.9374 June 10th Coach Cave Memorial Golf Tournament The Orchard Golf and Country Club Clarkesville Info: 706.778.4654 June 17th and the third Friday of the month Friday Night Live Downtown Clarkesville Info: 706.754.2220 June 20th Introduction to Genealogy Clarkesville Public Library Clarkesville Info: 706.886.6082 July 9th Cornelia BEACH BASH Splash Park, Depot Parking Lot Cornelia Info: 706.778.8585 August 19th Friday Night Flicks: “Cinderella” Pitts Park Clarkesville Info: 706.754.2220

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at Sautee Village Sautee Info: 706.878.0144

September 24th 7th Annual Taste of Clarkesville Downtown Clarkesville Info: www.tasteofclarkesville.com

June 11th Shriners’ Parade Downtown Helen Info: 706.878.2181

Habersham Community Theatre Clarkesville Info: www.habershamtheater.org

June 18 – 19 Woods & Water Craft Show Unicoi Lodge Helen Info: 706.897.6179 th

June 10th Movies on Main: “Mamma Mia” June 18 Summer Concert: Steve McKee th

July 21st - 24th, 28th - 31st “Shrek the Musical” August 6th Movies on Main: “Raiders of the Lost Ark” Grant Street Music Room Old Clarkesville Mill Clarkesville Info: 706.754.3541 June 11th 80’s Rock Night with Massive, Terratonic, Donnie Matheson June 25th An Evening with MELONFUNKY July 23rd Joe Olds Band August 13th Chase Thomas Band August 27th Twisted Whiskey with special guest Korbin Towe WHITE COUNTY June 2 – 4 43rd Annual Helen-Atlantic Hot Air Balloon Race Helen Info: 706.878.2271 nd

June 2nd – 5th 16th Annual US Riders New Reunion Run & 11th Annual Southeast Victory Run Helen Info: 478.237.3761 June 3rd and each Tuesday and Friday through August Bingo Helen Festhalle, Helen Info: 706.878.1908

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June 25th – 26th Father / Son Weekend Unicoi State Park Helen Info: 706.878.2201 July 4th Annual 4th of July Fireworks Behind the Helen Welcome Center Helen Info: 706.878.2181

June 3rd and the first Friday of the month First Friday Music Pickin’

Smithgall Woods Cleveland Info: 706.878.3087 www.smithgallwoods.com June 4th and each Saturday First Visit Tours

June 15th Yappy Hour

June 18th; July 16th August 20th; September 17th Youth Fish Day at Buck Shoals

Sautee Nacoochee Center Sautee Info: 706.878.3300

June 20th – 24th The Science of Nature Camp

June 3rd – 4th Unicoi Wine Trail Festival Weekend UnicoiWineTrailFetival.com June 3rd – 5th and each Friday through Saturday, March through December Discovery Tours

July 11th – 15th All About BUGS Camp (ages 4-6) July 25th – 29th Eco-Kids Camp: Caring for the Winged Onex (ages 6-14) August 20th Gold Fever

September 8th – 11th, 15th – 18th September 22nd – October 31st 46th Annual Oktoberfest Helen Info: 706.878.1908

June 17th – 18th The Hollar Games July 22nd – 23rd Auntie Q and Her Wayward Girls - A Variety Show Gone Awry

Saturday Evening Concert Series Unicoi State Park & Lodge Helen Info: 706.878.2201

September 10th Oktoberfest Parade Main Street Helen Info: 706.878.1908

July 9th The Vivants

June 11th George Hergen

September 3rd Folk Pottery Show & Sale and 10th Anniversary Celebration

June 18th Bill Rinaldo

Helen Arts & Heritage Center Helen Info: 706.878.3933

July 2nd; August 20th Wallace Band

September 17th Georgia’s Spirit of Appalachia Food, Wine & Art Festival Hardman Farm Historic Site Sautee Nacoochee Info: 706.865.5356 September 24th 9th Annual Agri-Fest & the 5th Annual Pottery Comes to Town Event Freedom Park Cleveland Info: 706.865.5356 Yonah Mountain Vineyards Cleveland Info: 706.878.5522 June 12th and the second Sunday of the month Reserve Wine Tasting August 1st Signature Vineyard Tour & Tasting

July 14th “All About Animals” Art Exhibit Opening and Reception September 8th 2016 Judged Art Competition & Reception BabyLand General Cleveland Info: 706.865.2171

June 25th Jerry Patterson

July 9th; September 10th; October 1st TBD July 16th Witness for Him July 23rd Front Porch Gliders July 30th The Band Delly August 6th Cane Creek

June 18th; August 13th Cabbage Patch Tea Party

August 13th Women of the Heart

July 11th – 15th, 18th – 22nd T-Shirt Workshop

September 3rd Happy Wanders German Band

September 10th Fall Fest

September 17th; October 15th Mars Pickers

September 3rd Crush Fest

September 24th; October 8th Evergreen

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Mountain Happenings - Summer 2016 North Georgia Zoo & Farm Cleveland Info: 706.348.7279 June 14th; July 12th; August 9th Mommy and Me at the Zoo June 3rd, 10th; July 1st, 8th August 5th, 12th Family Night Friday June 18th and the third Sunday of the Month Behind the Scenes Tour

July 2nd – 4th 4th of July Celebration July 8th – 11th Christmas in July July 9th; August 13th September 3rd – 4th Sunset Tours July 25th – 27th Junior Zookeeper Day Camp July 27th – 29th Boys’ Overnight Teen Camp August 3 – 6 Girls’ Overnight Teen Camp th

September 3rd – 5th Labor Day Weekenday September 24th – 25th and weekends in October Scarecrow Trail RABUN COUNTY June 3 – 5 , 10 – 12 “Double Wide, Texas!” North Georgia Community Players Dillard Playhouse Dillard Info: www.ngcommunityplayers.com rd

June 4th and each Saturday Simply Homegrown Farmers’ Market Clayton City Hall Complex Clayton Info: www.RabunMarket.com

August 5th – 6th Dillard Bluegrass & BBQ Festival Dillard City Hall Dillard Info: www.DillardBBQ.com

July 3rd 4th of July Wooden Boat Parade Mathis Dam to Big Basin, Lake Rabun Lakemont Info: www.lakerabun.org

September 2nd – 5th Labor Day Celebration River Vista RV Park Dillard Info: 706.746.2722

July 3rd 4th of July Fireworks at Lake Rabun Lake Rabun Dam Lakemont Info: www.lakerabun.org

September 3rd – 4th “His Last Days” Passion Drama Tallulah Falls School Tallulah Falls Info: 706.476.7939; 706.769.5271

July 3rd 4th of July BBQ & Fireworks Sky Valley Pavilion Sky Valley Info: 706.212.0241

September 14th Harvest Stomp Stonewall Creek Vineyards Clayton Info: 706.212.0584

July 4th 4th of July Parade and Cookout Sky Valley Pavilion Sky Valley Info: 706.212.0241

September 17th – 18th WannaGoFast 1/2 Mile Shootout Heavens Landing Airstrip Clayton Info: www.wannagofast.com

June 25th “Foxglove” Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center Mountain City Info: 706.746.5828

July 16th Clayton Crawl Downtown Clayton Info: www.ClaytonCrawl.org

June 25th – 26th 5th Annual Georgia Mountains Farm Tour 2016 Farms around Rabun County Info: 706.212.0241

July 9th – 10th Painted Fern Festival Rabun County Civic Center Clayton Info: 706.839.7185

September 12th Rhapsody in Rabun Rabun County Civic Center Clayton Info: 706.490.1494 rhapsodyinrabun.com

July 1st – 2nd Folk on the Mountain Festival Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center Mountain City Info: 706-746-5828

July 23rd Food Bank of NE GA Grand Opening Of the Mtn. Distribution Center, Food Hub & Teaching Kitchen Info: 706.960.9207

July 1st – 3rd Luau Weekend for Independence Day River Vista RV Park Dillard Info: 706.746.2722

July 29th – 30th Garlic Fest Rock House and the Clayton Municipal Complex, Clayton Info: www.rabunmarket.com

July 2nd 4th of July Fireworks at Lake Burton South End of Billy Goat Island Clayton Info: 706.212.0241

August 5th – 6th; 26th – 27th Haunted York House Inn York house Rabun Gap Info: 706.746.2068

June 10th – 11th 10th Annual Flower, Garden and Liturgical Arts Festival St. James Episcopal Church Clayton Info: 706.782.6179 June 16th North Georgia Arts Guild presents “The Story of an Art Quilter” with Kay Donges UGA Extension Rabun County Conference Room, Main Street Clayton Info: www.northgeorgiaartsguild.com

June 18th – 19th Celebrating Fathers

July 2nd The Rabun Ramble 5k & 10k Lake Rabun Pavilion, Lake Rabun Road Lakemont Info: www.RabunRamble.com

June 4th The Mountain Ivy Garden Club’s Plant/Bake/Yard Sale The Rock House Clayton Info: 706.782.9203

June 18th Rabun County Recreation Department 2nd Annual Rec Shootout Kingwood Country Club & Resort Clayton Info: 706.782.4600

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Rabun County Music Festival Rearden Theater Rabun Gap Info: www.RabunMusicFestival.com June 19th Atlanta Symphony Orchestra July 10th Paul Byrom July 17th Antsy McClain July 31st Married to Broadway August 14th Emile Pandolfi

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Hambidge Center Rabun Gap Info: 706.746.5718

June 19th; July 18th August 19th; September 16th Full Moon Paddle

June 4th and the First Saturday of the Month Grist Mill Visits

June 20th; July 19th; August 18th, September 15th, 17th Full Moon Suspension Bridge Hike

June 18th and the third Saturday of the month Nature Hike

June 22nd; July 13th; August 24th Family Paddle

Rabun Arena Tiger Info: 706.212.0452 June 4th Little Britches Rodeo June 11th – 12th; July 9th – 10th August 13th – 14th Junior Rodeo June 25th – 26th August 20th – 21st Wateree Cutting Horse Show July 15th – 17th Dogwood Jack Russell Terrier Club Show July 23rd Georgia Walking Horse Exhibitors’ Association July 29th – 30th Carolina Youth Rodeo August 6th NBHA Barrel Racing August 25th – 27th Rabun County Fair September 5th Wendy Reed Barrel Racing Tallulah Gorge State Park Tallulah Falls Info: 706.754.7981 June 1st, 15th, 29th July 6th, 20th; August 3rd, 17th, 31st Slackline 101 June 5th; July 5th, 17th August 7th; September 11th Sunrise Hike June 11th, 25th; July 23rd; August 28th Witches Head Hike June 18th; July 16th August 13th; September 10th Hidden Gem Hiking Series

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July 2nd – 4th; July 10th August 20th; September 3rd – 5th Gorge Floor Hike July 9th Hike Bike Bash September 10th – 11th, 17th – 18th September 24th – 25th Aesthetic Water Releases TOWNS COUNTY June 3rd – 5th North Georgia Highlands Seafood Festival Mayors Park Young Harris Info: 706.897.6179 June 4th – 5th Home & Garden Show The Event Center at Fieldstone Young Harris Info: 855.321.2110; 828.321.2111 June 18th; July 16th; August 6th US Coast Guard Auxiliary Safe Boating Classes Old 911 Center on Jack Dayton Circle Young Harris Info: 706.896.3167; 404.304.7068 July 16th Georgia Mountain Fair Parade Main Street Hiawassee Info: 706.896.4191 August 11th; September 8th Awake America Prayer Meeting Hiawassee Civic Center Hiawassee Info: 706.994.8962 August 27th Vintage Trailer and Car Show Riverbend Campground Hiawassee Info: 706.896.1415

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Mountain Happenings - Summer 2016 Music on the Square Town Square Hiawassee Info: 706.896.4966, 800.984.1543

September 1st End of Summer Wine Tasting & Lakes Celebration

June 4th The Bauman Family

Rollins Planetarium Young Harris College Young Harris Info: 706.379.5195

July 22nd Shenandoah in Concert July 23rd The Associations in Concert July 29th – 30th Georgia Mountain Moonshine Cruize-In

June 18th and the third Saturday of the month through October Cruise-In on the Square Downtown Courthouse Square Blairsville Info: 706.745.5789

June 17th “Solar Quest & Aurora System”

September 22nd – 24th HOG Rally

June 18th Shady Grove

July 1st “Summer Laser Jam” “American Pride Laser Spectacular”

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June 21st - July 15th (Tuesday - Thursday) Summer Youth Art Camp The Art Center Blue Ridge Info: 706.632.2144 www.blueridgearts.net

June 25th Bonnie Ridge Bluegrass

July 22nd; 29th “Solar Quest & Aurora System”

June 1st and each Wednesday BINGO Haralson Memorial Civic Center Blairsville Info: 678.630.0452

June 25th – 26th 10th Annual Mountain Fling North Georgia Technical College Blairsville Info: 706.896.0923

June 2nd and each Thursday Trivia at the View View Grill at the Butternut Creek Golf Course, Blairsville Info: 706.439.6054

July 2nd Lake Nottely Boat Parade US Hwy. 10/129 N Blairsville Info: 706.745.3638

June 3rd and each Friday through October Trash and Treasure at the Union County Farmers’ Market Old Smokey Road Blairsville Info: 706.439.6043

July 4th Independence Day Fireworks Over Meeks Park Blairsville Info: 706.745.5789

June 11th Bill Rinaldo June 17th; July 16th Paul Constantine

July 2nd Holman Autry Band July 9th Gnarly Fingers July 23rd Greg and Spencer July 30th “Music Legends” August 6th Dixie Tornados August 13th Whiskey, Stills & Mash August 20th Sharptones / Don Byers August 27th Ron Schott Saxophone September 3 Leather and Lace rd

Crane Creek Vineyards Young Harris Info: 706.379.1235 June 4 and each Saturday Winery Tour th

July 2 Bulletproof in Concert nd

August 20 Annual Tomato Festival th

August 27 Dash to the Vineyards 5K th

Georgia Mountain Fairgrounds Hiawassee Info: 706.896.4191 www.georgiamountainfairgrounds.com June 11th Appalachian Wine, Music and Art Festival June 17th Lynyrd Skynyrd in Concert July 2nd Little River Band in Concert July 4th Fireworks Celebration July 15th – 23rd Georgia Mountain Fair July 16th Exile in Concert July 17th Jerry Goff, McKameys, Primitives, Archie Watkins & Smokey Mtn. Reunion in Concert July 18th Connie Smith in Concert July 19th Bellamy Brothers in Concert July 20th Gibson Brothers in Concert

June 4th and each Tuesday and Saturday Union County Farmers’ Market Old Smokey Road Blairsville Info: 706.439.6043 June 10th and the second Friday of the month Writers’ Night Out Union County Community Center Blairsville Info: 877.745.5789 June 11th – 12th Scottish Festival and Highland Games Meeks Park Blairsville Info: 706.745.5789

July 21st Doyle Lawson & Quick Silver Grascals, Roy & Lizzy in Concert

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July 5th and each Tuesday and Thursday through October Canning Plant Union County Farmers’ Market Blairsville Info: 706.439.6043 July 16th – 17th 18th Annual Butternut Creek Festival Meeks Park Blairsville Info: 706.781.1221 July 17th Southern Gospel Concert – The Perry’s First United Methodist Church Blairsville Info: 706.745.2073 July 23rd Green Bean Festival Union County Farmers’ Market Blairsville Info: 706.781.8802

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September 3rd – 4th Mountain Heritage Festival Mountain Life Museum Blairsville Info: 706.745.5493 September 17th – 18th 4th Annual Celebrate Autumn Arts & Crafts Show North Georgia Technical College Blairsville Info: 706.896.0932 September 17th Comedy Dinner Theater & Live Auction House of Prayer Family Life Center Blairsville Info: 706.745.5925, www.hopb.org September 30th – October 2nd St. Francis of Assisi Fall Festival St. Francis of Assisi Church Blairsville Info: 706.745.6400

Friday Night Concert Series Historic Courthouse Blairsville Info: 706.745.5493 June 10 Bob Valentine and Colin Grant-Adams th

June 17th Without Pearls June 24th Shady Grove Bluegrass Band July 1st Bill Graff July 8th Jim Wood July 15th Roots and Branches

September 2nd Michael Hulett

July 22nd Cedar Grove Grass

June 1st and each Wednesday through October Brasstown Farmers’ Market Old Highway 64 Brasstown Info: 828.360.2498

September 10 Mountain Music & Arts & Crafts Festival

August 19th The Dona Bopp Band

Paradise Hills Winery, Resort & Spa Blairsville Info: 877.745.7483

September 2nd Nearly Normal String Band

June 6th and each Monday (Excluding Federal Holidays) Guided Garden Tour July 8th Seminar: Is There an Apothecary in Your Garden?

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August 26th Mountain Music Ensemble

September 9th Cartecay River Band September 16th Raven and Red September 23rd Mars Hill Porch Pickers September 30th The Wilson Family Rock Creek Fishing Hatchery Suches Info: 706.838.4723 June 3rd Seniors Fishing Rodeo June 4th Family Fishing Rodeo

July 8th – 9th Festival on the Square Hayesville Info: 828.389.2121 August 6th Benefit Auction – Friends of the Historic Courthouse Truett Baptist Church Hayesville Info: 828.389.2121 September 10th 5th Annual Pet Celebration Town Square Hayesville Info: 828.389.3704 September 17th Cherokee Heritage Festival Cherokee Heritage Village Hayesville Info: 828.389.2121

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July 29th Wade Powell III

August 12th Alan Kendall

Georgia Mountain Research & Education Center, Blairsville Info: 706.745.2655

July 2nd Mike Watson Band

July 22nd; September 30th Paul Constantine

July 4th Independence Day Festivities

September 3rd Grape Stomp Fest

June 24th David Phelps

July 8th; August 12th Reservoir Dogs

August 5th The Pressley Girls

June 4th and each Saturday through October Paradise Hills Concert Series

June 4th; July 16th One Night Stand Band June 18th Mike Watson Band

Vogel State Park Blairsville Info: 706.745.2628

Copperhead Lodge Blairsville Info: 706.835.7433

June 3rd and each Friday Music Night Eagle Fork Vineyards Hayesville Info: 828.389.8466 June 4th 16th Annual Car-B-Que On the Square Hayesville Info: www.RotaryClubOfClayCounty.com June 4th and each Saturday through October Hayesville Saturday Market Old Courthouse Square Hayesville Info: 863.287.4482 June 4th Tool Box Bash Habitat for Humanity Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Hayesville Info: 706.745.5789

Friday Night Concert Series Hayesville Square Hayesville Info: 828.389.2121 June 17th Paul Constantine June 24th Bonnie Ridge Blue Grass July 1st The Caribbean Cowboys July 15th Stone Cold Country July 22nd Just Us, Bluegrass July 29th Lee Holland August 5th Paradise 56 August 19th Irons in the Fire August 26th Modern Vinyl September 2nd Gnarly Fingers

July 2nd Celebration Rodeo 4637 Downings Creek Road Hayesville Info: 706.897.0956

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Mountain Happenings - Summer 2016 Licklog Players 34 Creekside Circle Hayesville Info: 828.389.8632

John C. Campbell Folk School Brasstown Info: 828.837.2775; 800.FOLKSCH www.folkschool.org

June 10th – 12th & 17th – 19th “Till Death Do Us Part”

June 17th Cornbread Ted & The Butterbeans

July 22nd – 24th, 29th – 31st “The Last of the Red Hot Lovers”

June 11th Annual Gala & Benefit Auction

September 2nd – 4th, 9th – 11th “The Odd Couple”

June 24th Steve Hickman & John Devine

Peacock Performing Arts Center Hayesville Info: 828.389.2787 June 3rd – 5th & 10th – 12th “Annie” July 9th; September 10th Songwriters Showcase 15 August 12th – 14th, 19th – 21st “Doublewide, TX” August 27th Sentimental Journey Orchestra September 10th Songwriters Showcase 16

June 11th Special Operations Adventure Race Highlands Rec Park and Civic Center Highlands Info: 828.526.2112

June 20th Pawsitively Purrfect Party The County Club of Sapphire Valley Highlands Info: 828.743.5750

June 12th; August 21st September 18th Horse Show Macon County Fairgrounds Franklin Info: 828.524.3267

June 25th SMPCC’s Bluegrass at the Barn Fundraising Concert / Silent Auction Bloemsma Barn Franklin Info: 828.349.3200

June 16th – 19th Taste of Scotland Festival Downtown Franklin Info: www.scottishtartans.org

July 4th 4th of July Parade Downtown Franklin Info: 828.524.2516 www.TownofFranklinNC.com

June 4th Pickin’ on the Square Downtown Franklin Info: 828.524.2516

June 18th – 19th August 20th – 21st Highlands Village Square Arts and Crafts Show Highlands Plaza Highlands Info: 828.787.2021

July 4th 4th of July Fireworks in the Park Macon County Recreation Park Franklin Info: 828.524.3161

June 9th – 12th Highlands Motoring Festival Kelsey-Hutchinson Park Highlands Info: www.highlandsmotoringfestival.org

June 18th Low Country Shrimp Boil Kelsey Hutchinson Park Highlands Info: 828.526.2112

July 1st Chuck Nation Band July 9th Shape Note Singing MACON COUNTY, NC

July 4th Independence Day Celebration Downtown Highlands Info: 828.526.2112 July 4th Rotary of Highlands Independence Day BBQ Kelsey Hutchinson Park Highlands Info: 828.526.2112 July 16th Appalachian Heritage Festival Downtown Franklin Info: 828.524.7766 July 27th – 31st Highlands Road Gem Show Highlands Road Franklin Info: 828.369.6341 July 28th – 31st 51st Annual Macon County Gemboree Franklin Info: 828.524.3161 August 12th – 13th 8th Annual Mountain High BBQ Festival and Car Show Franklin Info: 828.524.3161 www.MountainHighBBQFestival.com

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August 14th Land of the Sky Barbershop Chorus & Ice Cream Social Tartan Hall - First Presbyterian Church Franklin Info: 828.524.2787

July 15th – 16th, 22nd – 23rd Disney’s The Little Mermaid, the Broadway Musical

August 13th Bascom Barn Dance

Highlands Playhouse Highlands Info: 828.526.2695

July 28th Folkmoot

June 23rd – July 9th Chicago

August 20th Rotary Club of Highlands Twilight 5K Kelsey Hitchinson Park Highlands Info: 828.526.2112

July 30th An Evening with Kelly Pickler

Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival Martin Lipscomb Performing Art Center, Highlands Info: 828.526.9060

August 5th – 6th The Isaacs’ Musication Nation Festival

June 19th Opening Concert

August 12th Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers

June 26th Champagne & Chopin Concert

July 14th – 30th Rogers & Hammerstein’s: A Grand Night for Singing

August 13th Stars of Center Stage 2016

June 29th Picnic Concert at the Kelsey-Hutchinson Founders Park

September 10th Highlands Historical Society’s Dazzling Dahlia Festival Highlands Recreation & Civic Center Highlands Info: 828.526.2112 September 14th – 17th Macon County Fair Macon County Fairgrounds Franklin Info: 828.369.3523 www.themaconcofair.com Cowee School Franklin Info: www.coweeschool.org June 18th Blue Wheel Drive July 16th Becky Buller Band August 20th 12th Annual Franklin Area Folk Festival Info: www.franklinfolkfestival.com August 27th Full Moon Rising September 17th Malpass Brothers Smoky Mountain Center for Performing Arts Franklin Info: 866.273.4615; 828.524.1598 www.GreatMountainMusic.com JJune 17 - 18 Betsy’s School of Dance 2016 Recital th

August 20th Tim Hawkins August 27th Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out September 3rd A Tribute to John Denver starring Jim Curry September 10th Overlook Theatre Company’s 20th Anniversary Celebration September 24th Bill Anderson’s Country’s Family Reunion Martin Lipscomb Performing Arts Center Highlands Info: 828.526.9047 June 17th – 18th Travis LeDoyt... The Best Young Elvis June 25th Guy Bavli Mentalist and Illusionist September 17th Balsam Range September 24th Capital Company – A Political Comedy Company

June 24 David Phelps

The Bascom Highlands Info: 828.526.4949

June 30th Mountain Voices

June 25th Family Day at the Bascom

July 1st Neal McCoy

July 14th – 17th Mountains in Bloom

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July 1st, 3rd, 8th, 10th, 15th, 17th, July 22nd, 24th, 29th, 31st August 5th Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival Concert July 6th Interlude Concert Robert Shaw Celebration July 7 , 28 Bach at Bucks Buck’s Coffee Cafe th

July 12th Family Concert and Ice Cream Social Highlands Presbyterian Church August 7 Final Gala Concert th

Friday Night Live Town Square Highlands Info: 828.526.2112 June 3 ; July 15 Tallulah River Band rd

June 10th; July 8th; August 12th; September 2nd Southern Highlands June 17th; August 5th September 9th, 30th Mountain Dulcimer Group June 24th; July 29th August 26th; September 16th Johnny Webb Band

July 10th Bubbles and BBQ

August 4th – 20th “Steel Magnolias” August 25th – September 4th “Piano Man” Saturdays on Pine Kelsey-Hutchinson Park Highlands Info: 828.526.2112 June 11th The WellStrung Band June 18th Goldie and The Screamers June 25th Joe Lashers Jr. July 2nd Fish Out of Water July 9th Lyric July 16th High 5 July 23rd Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats August 6th Nitrograss August 13th The Broadcast August 20th Grandpa’s Cough Medicine August 27th Porch 40 September 3rd The Freeway Revival

July 1st, 22nd; September 23rd Concert - Performers TBA August 19th Randy Flack

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By the Way

Happy Trails? Not in My Book Everybody my age remembers where they were when President Kennedy was shot. But for me, an equally traumatic event was the day I heard that Roy Rogers had died. (Okay, I may have exaggerated some, but it was still hard on me.) Anyway, I was driving down Peachtree Street in Buckhead when that news came over the radio. A few minutes later, I walked into the Atlanta advertising agency where I worked, with what must have been a dazed look on my face, because our perky, young receptionist looked up and said, “What’s the matter, Mr. Jones? (Folks called me Mr. Jones back then) Is something wrong?” Obviously, she didn’t know yet that The King of The Cowboys had just become the newest rider in the sky. So, hating to break the news, I asked gently, “Have you not heard? Roy Rogers passed away this morning.” Fully expecting my white shirt and tie (I wore those back then) to be ruined by a tearful outburst, I prepared myself to offer some sort of comfort. Turns out she didn’t need it. Instead, she gave me a quizzical look, followed by, “Oh, is Mr. Rogers one of our clients? Should I order flowers?” That was the first time I felt old. Now, with Roy and his faithful wife, Dale, both dead and gone, they’ve even closed their museum in Branson, Missouri and auctioned off everything in it. It kills me to think that Trigger—the horse millions of us Baby Boomer boys would have walked to California to offer a lump of sugar—nearly wound up on eBay! (Roy had Trigger mounted, you know—which is why a lot of us were kinda’ glad Dale outlived him.) Everything else, including Pat Brady’s old jeep, Nellybelle and Roy’s very first pair of cowboy boots got scattered like tumbling tumbleweeds.

Trigger’s preserved remains went to channel RFD-TV in Omaha for $266,500. That’s a lot of money for a dead horse. RFD-TV also snagged Bullet and Buttermilk. I imagine they keep them all in their lobby. Trigger was a beautiful, blond, high rearing, fast running superhero of a horse that could shoot a gun and untie ropes, and yet let the weakest child sit safely on his magnificent back. In our hearts, we all knew that if we could just get in that silver-studded saddle, we, too, could be heroes. Off-screen, Trigger brought joy to kids and adults when he walked quietly upstairs or rode in elevators to visit those who needed to see him in hospitals or shelters. As far as I know, he’s the only horse to have his hoof prints planted on the sidewalk in front of Hollywood’s Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. By the way, Trigger’s first movie role was as Olivia de Havilland’s horse when she played Maid Marian in the 1938 movie The Adventures of Robin Hood. Of course, Miss de Havilland is best known for playing Melanie in Gone with the Wind. Trigger could have been in Gone With The Wind too, but I’ve heard they wanted him to lose weight for the role, and anyway, he and Roy were already shooting westerns by then. Roy Rogers was an icon who was the same straight-shootin’ man on-screen as he was off. And Lord, could that man sing! He treated people kindly and made himself accessible to fans, almost to the point of exhaustion. He made so many appearances that finally, to keep his number-one horse from being overworked; he bought two stand-ins for Trigger. That was top-secret, of course; he didn’t want any kid ever suspecting they weren’t seeing the real deal. After Roy and Dale died in 1998 and 2001, respectively, their children and grandchildren moved the museum from Victorville, CA, to Branson. But Roy had told them that if the museum ever started losing money, they should liquidate it and move on. So that’s what they did. I never thought I’d live in an America where a museum dedicated to Roy would close due to a lack of interest. But I reckon that’s life. And for you younger folks to understand how much this hurts, just wait until you see one of Taylor Swift’s red dresses going for $30 on Craigslist.

Emory Jones is a gifted writer, husband, author of The Valley Where They Danced, Distant Voices, The Story of the Nacoochee Valley Indian Mound and several other books and looks a little like Santa Claus. His humor is extraordinary and we are pleased to share it with you, Emory’s books are available on Amazon and at www.yonahtreasures.com.

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