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We don’t always work every weekend. We don’t always vacation one whole week of the month either, as some of you might do this August. In light of the temporary shift in the routine of work and play this edition is also pleasantly different.

One thing you might enjoy while engaging in the world beyond work, is listening to a good story. For me, “the happiest times my heart knows, are those in which it is pouring forth its greatest affections to a few esteemed characters.” Though not my own words, I share heartily in that sentiment, and enjoy few things more. And in almost any context, it is engaging and entertaining.

A new section debuted this month is More Than Horse Sense (with only a little non-sense), as a tribute to the instinct that we rely on beyond our formal training.

This intangible intuition plays such a large role in our journey, we couldn’t help but take a phrase from our societal, rural roots. The people you will read about in this unscheduled and lengthy treat (quarterly at most) are those rare individuals that you might find yourself seated beside on an airplane, talking to at a social event, or communicating with at almost any random, blessed circumstances. The kind of person who can show you just how wide this world is, in that familiar yet distant way. Forrest Jarrett is that kind of person.

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80 Soaring A unique glider operation, just over the hill in Spartanburg, SC

36 Carolina in the West 52 The Old North State 76 National & World News

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“If you can’t raise food and clothe yourself, you have a big issue,” says Julie Jensen.

IT’S A LESSON SHE LEARNED as a youngster, growing up on a farm and hearing harrowing tales of the Dust Bowl—a series of droughts during the 1930s that devastated 100 million acres of American farmland, including parts of Texas where Jensen’s family is from. “It was something I heard about the whole time I was growing up,” she says. “My mother remembers when they came and got all the cattle. There was nothing to feed them.”

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harmoniously thrive with the plants, animals, and land surrounding us.

“We turned the Dust Bowl around, and I think we can turn stuff around now,” she says. “Agriculture may well be part of the problem, but it’s essential to the solution.”

From the Farm and Back Again Jensen’s connection to farm life began in her childhood. After her family moved from Texas when she was five years old, she grew up on a farm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She remembers the farm having lots of animals, a big garden, and one of the original Red Delicious apple trees. And she recalls fondly how the local kids used to come over to play basketball in her family’s barn—a fun activity during the cold winter months.

But as anyone who has lived on a farm knows, there was also a lot of work to be done. “We were always busy, so we never got in trouble,” says Jensen. “My father used to send us to pick the mustard out of the fields. We probably had the cleanest hay fields in three counties.” She also dreaded shoveling manure, a chore she detests to this day. But overall, her childhood on the farm is something she looks back on fondly.

While Jensen’s mother ran the farm, her father worked in town as an insurance executive at a life insurance company. He would go on to become a very successful entrepreneur, who started multiple companies and was a venture capitalist. This entrepreneurial spirit would eventually find its way to his daughter.

As soon as Jensen turned sixteen, she left home to attend college. She studied biology at Grinnell College and then earned a law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, with the intention of becoming an environmental lawyer.

After school, Jensen moved to Washington D.C. to work for the Congressional Research Fund, then the Internal Revenue Service. She married Christopher Meyer, a Washington native, and they had two sons.

She went on to work for the Jenesis Group, a private family foundation founded by her father that empowered disadvantaged youth through education and professional development. She would eventually become the foundation’s chief operating officer.

Then, following in her father’s philanthropic footsteps, Jensen and her husband founded the

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Chadrew Fund in 1997. The organization provides pro-bono assistance to charities that work with disadvantaged youth. As a tax lawyer, Jensen found that her skills were much needed in the nonprofit community, since 501(c)(3)s depend on tax code exemptions to do their work.

“We worked with some really great groups throughout the country,” says Jensen. “I gave a lot of technical advice, telling people how to set up their books, telling them that they really needed a human resources department, and that even if they made no money, they still had to fi le their tax returns each year.”

Then, in 1999, Jensen’s husband passed away.

She was left to be a single mother to two boys, then aged four and nine.

Around this time, Jensen’s love of D.C. began to wane. While the trauma of losing a spouse undoubtedly contributed, Jensen says she also became disenchanted by the city’s changing culture. She found that politics were polarizing the social fabric, with increasingly divided Republican and Democratic neighborhoods—a stark shift that had happened during her twenty-five years of residence. As a result, “it wasn’t as much fun to live there as it was when I first moved there,” she says.

She also felt constrained by the urban environment and yearned for a return to the rural lifestyle she had enjoyed as a child.

One day, while visiting friends in Mills River, North Carolina, Jensen agreed to tag along to view some houses on Reynolds Mountain. “I don’t really like to look at houses,” she says, “so I didn’t want the real estate agent to be talking to me. So I said, ‘Well, if you have a horse farm, I’m interested.’”

Knowing that the area wasn’t known for horse farms, she thought the cute comment would put her in the clear. But the agent happened to know of a miniature horse farm that was for sale nearby in Weaverville.

It was love at first sight. Jensen purchased the home and its twenty-seven-acre lot in 2005. For five years, she split her time between her new Weaverville property and her home in D.C. She moved down with her sons full-time in 2010.

Hops: Not Just for Beer The first thing Jensen did on her new farm was purchase five goats, to eat down the brush. Then she started a small garden, added some Angora goats, two rescue donkeys, and a miniature

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this machine operates one step of pelletizing hops

long-haired donkey (named, appropriately, Shaggy).

Today, the farm has stretched to 75 acres and is home to a veritable menagerie: two Angora rabbits (Thelma and Louise), two Scottish Highland cattle, 30 alpacas, 35 goats (including

geese, ducks, and chickens, and 25 buzzing bee colonies in stacked blue boxes (which produced more than 500 pounds of honey last year).

As far as crops, the property is planted with greasy beans, buckwheat, and Hickory Cane corn. But the crop that attracts the most attention is hops. A small sunny valley on Jensen’s property is lined with what look like telephone poles, rows of 24-foot-tall posts connected by string, supporting the dark green hops vines that will surpass the poles’ height by season’s end.

Jensen was attracted to hops because of their versatility. “I liked hops because it’s an herbal remedy, it’s used in beer, and it has the potential to be used in the textile industry,” she says. As her land was previously a tobacco allotment, Jensen also thought that perhaps hops could replace tobacco. She has since discovered that they can’t due to being a lower-value, higher-labor crop.

To serve this market, the key is finding good fiber. Jensen describes animal fiber as “incredibly sustainable,” but explains that the challenge is to find the fibers that are soft enough for humans to wear.

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Jensen started her hops rhizomes about seven years ago and last year had her most successful yield yet at about 1,000 pounds of dried hops. However, this year has been a hard one for hops, both at EchoView Farm and on a national level, due to an abundance of downy mildew, which no fungicide has been able to control. “I’ll be happy if we get 300 pounds dried this year,” she says.

Of course, EchoView’s two acres of hops, comprising about 3,000 plants, is tiny compared to major hops farms in the western states, which average hundreds of acres each. But Jensen says that for a North Carolina hops farm, EchoView is pretty big.

She also has a hops dryer and pelletizer on site (most breweries prefer pelletized hops) and offers pelletizing for other local hops growers. EchoView sells its own hops to a variety of breweries in the Carolinas and Virginia, including Weeping Radish Farm Brewery in Grandy, North Carolina, and Blue Mountain Pizza in Weaverville.

Jensen says that growing hops is more of an experiment than anything. While EchoView grows several hops varieties—including Cascade, Chinook, Nugget, and European varieties—she

acknowledges that Western North Carolina isn’t their ideal home, being the southern most region where hops will grow at all. They tend to do better in more northerly locations like Germany and Oregon, where the days are longer. So she’s not yet sure if it’s economically viable for this area.

But it’s clear that the biology major in her is intrigued by hops’ properties and potential. “If you use the beta acids from hops in chicken water, it cuts down the use of antibiotics by about fi fty-percent,” she says.

She’s also curious about whether or not hops can play a role in her newest business venture. “We’re going to see if we can use hops as a natural dye for wool.”

The Fiber Mill While the fiber mill is the newest addition to the EchoView compound, it’s actually the first part you’ll come across, and you can’t miss it.

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for a few beats, and… BOOM. There it is. An impressive, modern structure of blonde wood, rusted steel, and large windows. The blocky, rectangular edifice is surrounded by an expansive parking lot—featuring a solar-powered charging station for electric cars (which is what Jensen drives)—rolling lawn, and several giant, old silver maple trees.

Jensen explains that the building materials are symbolic, representing the three main types of barn found in North Carolina. The red rusted steel reflects the old red barn style; the cypress wood will silver to the color of a tobacco barn; and the galvanized steel and aluminum represent contemporary pole barns.

Upon entering the facility, visitors are greeted by the receptionist at the front desk (the EchoView logo displayed on giant flat screens behind her) and find themselves in a cozy gift shop made for fiber lovers. The shelves are lined with skeins of naturally-dyed yarns in sunset pinks and indigo blues, soft knitted blankets and winter hats, and giant nests of colorful roving. There are non-fiber options, too, that reflect EchoView Farm’s hops and hives—Bröö shampoo (made in Asheville with

local beer), Gypsy Bee soaps, and jars of honey.

Continuing up the giant black metal staircase, visitors find themselves face-to-face with the mill’s working guts. A wall of floor-to-ceiling windows looks down onto rows of machinery

“It has been much more difficult than I had thought it would be,” Jensen says. “But anything worth doing is often difficult.” that process animal fibers into yarn, rug yarn, roving, batting, or felt. Jensen explains that the ceiling of that room is equipped with air foggers that regularly spray mist to keep the environment between 65% and 75% humidity, the ideal conditions for processing animal fibers.

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apparel. Also on the floor are meeting rooms, classrooms, a catering kitchen, and a library full of books on animals, gardening, and textiles.

At 17,000 square feet, the hulking building, which opened in April of 2012, is an unexpected find in quiet Weaverville. Jensen says it took two years to build, a process that was made a bit longer due to the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification process. Jensen says the building attained the first Gold LEED certification for a manufacturing mill in the country. Toward that end, the mill has 196 solar panels on the roof, which, in the summer months, produce about half of the electricity needed to run the facility. And beneath the building are a series of geothermal wells that provide the water needed for processing fiber.

From Alpaca to Apparel Jensen first had the idea for the mill after taking a class on community mills at Gaston College. “I thought the class would be interesting,” she says, “and I hoped that small farmers would be able to find an alternative to growing tobacco.”

Jensen combined her new knowledge with a past interest in fiber (as a knitter, spinner, and handweaver) and decided to see what she could do. For the most part, she has been learning from scratch, visiting mills and reading books. “It has been much more difficult than I had thought it would be,” she says.

“But anything worth doing is often difficult.”

For one thing, some of the machines Jensen initially purchased didn’t have the capacity she expected. And now she knows that she should have placed the scouring and spinning machines in separate rooms because they work best at different humidity levels. Even constructing the building was a challenge; it was hard finding folks with the right expertise because “there hadn’t been any new textile facilities built in North Carolina in twenty-five years,” she says.

But things really turned around once she brought in an expert this past April—Ken Simpson, her new mill manager who has been in textiles for thirty-six years. With Simpson’s guidance, the mill is purchasing new machines that Jensen says will enable the production of more and better yarn, hopefully at a capacity that can serve not just farmers, but small apparel companies as well.

EchoView Mill currently processes about 25,000 pounds of animal fiber per year. 75% of the fiber comes from the southeast, mostly from farmers who sell their yarn or roving in farm stores or fiber festivals. While 80% of the mill’s customers send their fiber to be processed and returned, the rest sell their raw fiber directly to EchoView, which makes it into yarn and other products that it sells itself.

While small farms have made up the lion’s share of the mill’s customers to date, Jensen realizes that the key to profitability is to scale up and find new revenue sources. “We want to

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To serve this market, the key is finding good fiber. Jensen describes animal fiber as “incredibly sustainable,” but explains that the challenge is to find the fibers that are soft enough for humans to wear. The diameter of animal fibers are measured in microns; the lower the measurement, the softer the fiber.

In general, younger, healthier animals will have fi ner fiber. But each species is different. Jensen explains that sheep’s wool is acceptable below thirty microns, but is ideal under twenty-two microns. Alpaca fiber can be a little larger and remain soft, but the guard hair has to be removed “or you’ll still have a prickle factor.” And mohair is a beautiful and very strong fiber, but not very soft, so it’s usually mixed with other fibers.

The softest fibers are spun into yarn or thread. But the rougher fibers are made into felt or rug yarn. Jensen says they can also be used for insulation or as a garden weed barrier. The result is that very little fiber goes to waste.

Jensen is optimistic that the timing is right for niche mills, as consumers shift toward a desire for local, sustainable products. While much word-of-mouth blames cheap foreign labor for the demise of the North Carolina textile industry, Jensen says the problem is not that simple.

“The textile world has never been easy,” she says. “It’s not going to suddenly become easy.” Jensen points to a lack of machine maintenance and a history of textiles being a protected industry in America—protections that were recently lifted. “Now lean manufacturing plays into textiles just like it does any other kind of manufacturing,” she says. “We have the ability to do it. You just have to stay on top of all the latest innovations.”

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With mill manager Simpson focusing on the day-to-day mill operation, Jensen now has more time for experimenting with natural dyes. In front of her modern, state-of-the-art building sits a rustic wire drying table draped with bundles of wool yarn, fresh from the dye bins. Four loose skeins stand out, a deep ochre shade from being dyed in madder, a root used to dye cloth since ancient times. Next to it, are a few piles of pale, egg-noodle yellow yarn, dyed with hops. Jensen is also working with lichen, marigolds, daylilies, weld, and black walnut.

So why does she do all of this? The woman who left the hustle and bustle of the big city for a quiet rural lifestyle now manages multiple businesses, many acres of land, and fi fteen employees. Her approach to much of it is matter-of-fact—she feels a responsibility to make payroll every week and is eager to refine the mill’s niche.

But what really leads her forward are those tragic Dust Bowl stories and a desire to make a positive difference—in her community, in her industry, and on this planet.

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In the not too distant future, social historians who assign cute nicknames to our passing eras— the Roaring ’20s, Fabulous ’50s— may decide to call our present time, “The Age of the Festival.”

Nowhere is that description more accurate than in Western North Carolina and its surrounding areas.

From April Fool’s Day to Halloween it seems not a weekend goes by without at least a couple of festivals clamoring for our attention. Their festive themes run from the standard music, art, and food categories to some pretty esoteric extremes.

Consider: The North Carolina Mineral and Gem Festival, Dirty Dancing Festival, Coon Dog Day Festival, Asheville Yogafest, Sourwood Festival, Big Love Fest, and the Wild Goose Festival.

This proliferation of celebrations has spawned a new mini-industry of festival producers and directors. Their skills must include precise planning, elaborate multi-tasking—and a simple faith that it will all work out in the end.

They agree that they could not do it alone.

Rod Bowling has produced festivals for more than two decades. His credits include the Poetry Alive Festival at UNC Asheville, the Mountain Renaissance Adventure Faire, the Bluff Mountain music festival in Hot Springs, and now the Mars Hill Heritage Festival. “I trust committee chairs,” Rod says. “I want to make sure I’ve got somebody there who can do the job and will be honest with me if they’re having troubles along the line.”

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Jennifer Pickering agrees that a festival can’t succeed without a strong staff. “You really have to trust people and build your team,” she says. Jennifer created the semi-annual LEAF Festival in Black Mountain 19 years ago, and now her team consists of 10 full-time staffers and nearly 300 workers during the festival. “You can’t oversee all of it, so you have to make sure you surround yourself with amazing people.”

Bob Bowles, who produces Asheville’s Wine and Food Festival, says staff involvement is the key ingredient. “I try to spend several days every couple of months with the staff and say, ‘Let’s visualize.’ And we take that mental walk to review how we’re putting it on and what the guest is seeing. We visualize what we’re aiming for and then we make it happen.”

Rod Bowling echoes that approach. “You really need to start at the end. What do you want to end up with? What’s your vision for this day or days for this festival?”

Rod leans forward, elbows on the table, as he expands on the thought. “What do you want to do and where do you want to do it?

Then we start by working backwards. What are we going to need? I think people don’t realize how much behind-the-scenes stuff goes on to make it seem like what a great day this is. It has to be seamless.”

Bob Bowles ran through a roster of staff positions. “It takes the person soliciting vendors and sponsorships. You need someone to do the marketing, a website person, an accounting person. There are typically five to six people working full-time for six months before the festival. We also have lots of assistants and a volunteer coordinator. I have to hire package designers, sometimes writers, photographers, videographers. I have three guys who set it up every year and take it down. There’s a large group of people who support it one way or another.”

Once the planning is done and the vendors are set up, the next order of business is getting the festive crowds in the door. That challenge begins in the parking lot.

Jennifer Pickering says one of the toughest lessons she learned was how to handle the limited parking space at the LEAF Festival. “We don’t have one big open field.

We have to rely on 10 different areas that are open at different times. So we can’t accommodate people arriving early. All our tickets are for specific times, and if people show up early we either recommend they go to Black Mountain and hang out for a little bit, or if there’s any way we can squeeze them in somewhere we try to do it.”

Bob Bowles smiles as he recalls that parking was his very first hard lesson. “The first year of the festival, we held it in Carrier Park. It was a very small festival, only a couple of hundred attendees and about a dozen wineries. But even at that size, it didn’t take long to realize there wasn’t enough parking there. People couldn’t get in.

So we moved to the WNC Agricultural Center down by the Asheville Regional Airport.

It has plenty of parking, but the lesson we learned down there is that people don’t want to drink and drive. After tasting two or three wines, people didn’t want to get back on the highway. It took a couple of years, but we finally got into the US Cellular Center downtown, and that seems to have solved both problems.”

The entry issues don’t end at the parking lot. With one main entry point, the US Cellular Center creates its own complications. “I have volunteers who go outside to check IDs while people are waiting in line. They give a wristband to customers

“You really need to start at the end. What do you want to end up with? What’s your vision for this day or days for this festival?”

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old enough to drink alcohol. This year they’ll also hand out programs outside so the customers have something to read while they’re waiting.” Bob begins pacing around his office in the old Barnardsville Fire Department. His words gather speed as he moves. “The other thing is spread out the burden. We have VIP tickets which allow the customer to enter an hour earlier than the general admission tickets. So we get maybe a thousand people in the first hour and another 1,500 over the next two hours or so.”

In its six-year history, the Wine and Food Festival has grown from that small event in Carrier Park to a three-day extravaganza held at three separate locations. This year’s event kicks off on Thursday, August 21st, with what may be Asheville’s most elaborate cocktail party.

Elixir will combine the creative talents of top area bartenders with the craft spirits of North Carolina distillers. In keeping with the prohibition theme of the event, the location is a secret—for now.

On Friday evening, the party moves to the Grove A rcade for a des ser t extravaganza called Sweet.

Local purveyors of sugary concoctions will line the corridors of the arcade to serve their fancy creations.

The festival concludes on Saturday with the main event, the Grand Tasting, at the Cellular Center. The event includes 120 vendors and features the finals of the Chef’s Challenge competition.

The Bluff Mountain Festival in June is only a one-day affair, and it has a simpler format, but it presents its own logistical challenges. “The structure of any festival is essentially the same,” Rod Bowling says. He lists parking space, restrooms, exhibit facility, selection and placement of vendors, and number of food stations as “the first order of business. Those components really are going to run through any event. Take the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee. They get 80 thousand campers every year.

I guarantee you if I talk to the director, that person’s role and my role will be identical. The only difference is a matter of scale.”

“Take the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee. They get 80 thousand campers every year. I guarantee you if I talk to the director, that person’s role and my role will be identical. The only difference is a matter of scale,” says Rod Bowling.

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Bluff Mountain features eight hours of traditional mountain and bluegrass music.

“We have 14 different performers, each doing half-hour sets,” Rod says. “Someone has got to coordinate all that.” There are also several dozen craft and food vendors and a massive silent auction under a series of tents.

The festival takes place on an open field in front of the Hot Springs spa. Rod ran through some of the last minute preparations. “Make sure the spa grounds have the date right. Make sure the Porta Johns are opened. Make sure we borrow the stage from the fire department. Make sure we move it onto the grounds and get it set up.”

Problems can arise in the most unexpected places. “We had a hitch with the stage this year because it was blocked by some equipment. We couldn’t hitch a tractor to it.

We almost had to do the festival the old-fashioned way, on the grass. But we got the equipment moved and hauled the stage into place in time to set up on the grounds.”

He uses the incident to launch into another facet of his job. “You’ve got to stay relaxed. If there’s a problem, you don’t want the audience to see it. The whole thing has got to look smooth. And the same goes for your staff. This is a fun day, don’t get upset because someone’s being a jerk over there.

I’ll deal with the jerk.”

Jennifer Pickering is well acquainted with unexpected situations. “Problems?” She laughs at the thought. “There are so many possibilities. Your staff shows, up and their badges haven’t been printed. Or the bags for your guests weren’t made. When the Porta Johns are being cleaned, you’ve got to remember to post signs saying, ‘Temporarily Closed.’ It’s a million little things.”

There are also what must seem like a million big things. At this October’s LEAF Festival, 110 musical acts will perform, making a total of 350 musicians. That number of performers would seem to present its own logistical nightmare, but Jennifer says, “In the nineteen years of this festival I’ve only had two groups cancel on me.” But does the pressure of knowing that disaster might be looming around every corner make her a little edgy when everything is happening at once? “It used to in the early days. But over time you learn that isn’t your best self, and it’s not great for your staff.” So a laid-back attitude—or at least the ability to appear relaxed—is another attribute of the successful festival director.

But the absolute essential attribute is attention to detail. Bob Bowles ran through the hidden complexities of what would seem to be a simple transaction: pouring an ounce of wine for a patron. “How do we keep the water in the pitchers both for drinking and cleaning their wine glasses? The used water goes in spit bucket, and I have a group of volunteers who come around with five-gallon buckets to empty the spit buckets. But then what do we do with all those five-gallon buckets of used water?

We finally settled on dumping them in a shower backstage.”

“You’ve got to stay relaxed. If there’s a problem, you don’t want the audience to see it. The whole thing has got to look smooth. And the same goes for your staff. This is a fun day, don’t get upset because someone’s being a jerk over there. I’ll deal with the jerk.”

Bob pauses for a minute to think about some other issues that required creative solutions. It doesn’t take long for him to come up with one. “I think the big problem I’ve had over the years is getting enough ice. That’s really an issue because all the white wines have to be iced down and all the restaurants want to keep their food on the ice until they’re ready to put it out. So I bring in this large portable electric freezer on wheels.”

Even the background noise level demands attention. “Do we have music?

Well, it can’t be too loud to drown out the wine and restaurant people who are talking with the customers. One year, one of the vendors wanted to have their microphone to talk over their own announcement system. And a radio station wanted to come in and blare their music. I had to tell them, ‘I’m sorry you can’t do that.’ If I have music there, it’s got to be background music.”

You may be sitting in a lawn chair on a sunny field listening to a country fiddler; you may be tasting an interesting Merlot or a delightfully gooey pastry; you may be zip lining into a warm summer lake.

Whatever activities you pursue, whatever festival you attend, you can be sure that, just like the biggest iceberg, there’s more going on below the surface than anyone can see—more than most people can even imagine—all in an effort to keep the “festive” in the festival.

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WestCare Health is establishing a new full-time primary care clinic in the Health and Human Sciences (HHS) Building on the West Campus of Western Carolina University (WCU). The clinic, scheduled to open in September, is the result of a partnership between the hospital and the university in which access to care will be expanded in the community and educational opportunities will be offered to health sciences students. A family nurse practitioner will start accepting patients this fall when the clinic opens and will be joined by a physician recruited to the community specifically for the clinic at WCU. The practice will treat patients ages sixteen and older. Doug Keskula, dean of WCU’s

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pool used in treating specific injuries and conditions. The new primary care clinic will be adjacent to the Carolina West Sports Medicine space.

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College of Health and Human Sciences, welcomed the opening of the clinic as the most recent joint effort between the college and health care partners to help meet the needs of people from the region while providing students opportunities for hands-on education and faculty members with opportunities for professional practice and research. The 2,000-square-foot clinic will be located in the 160,000-square-foot Health and Human Sciences Building, a state-ofthe-art facility dedicated to the critical intersection of health sciences and technology. In December 2013, WestCare launched a rehabilitation and sports medicine clinic in the building. Carolina West Sports Medicine offers care to the community and collaborates clinically with WCU rehabilitation and sports medicine faculty, staff, and students.

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The Greater Asheville Regional Airport Authority has been awarded a $6.5 million grant by the U.S. Department of Transportation for use towards its upcoming airfield redevelopment project.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will distribute the funding, which will be used for the first phase of a fouryear-long project that will result in the construction of a new runway and a west-side taxiway. The current runway is more than 50 years old. Over the years, the pavement has had to be resurfaced numerous times. The FAA has prioritized the construction of a new runway, which includes bringing the airfield up to the most current construction standards.

“We are very pleased to be receiving these funds for the upcoming project,” said Lew Bleiweis, A.A.E., executive director of Asheville Regional Airport.

“This project will be the biggest in the

airport’s history since the airport was built, and is a big part of the future of our region’s airport.” The total cost of the project during its four year duration will be $64 million, with 100 percent of the costs to be covered by FAA, NCDOT, and airport funds intended for airport infrastructure improvement.

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The Nu Wray Inn, Western North Carolina’s oldest surviving inn, is seeking a new owner. Originally expanded out of a log cabin, the inn has been welcoming guests since 1833, the same year Yancey County was formed, and a year before the town itself was established.

The three-story colonial building on Burnsville’s Town Square is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Its guest record includes Thomas Wolfe, Mark Twain, Jimmy Carter, and Elvis Presley. Three years ago, Kathy England and her husband, Bob Cohen, rescued the 16,500-square-foot inn. They refurbished and revived the National Historic Landmark, but need to move closer to family, so have put the establishment on the market. The Nu Wray includes twenty-six guest rooms and a large dining facility that could be run as a stand-alone restaurant. The Inn was the 10:42 AM

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only North Carolina property included in Architectural Digest’s 1978 book set entitled “Classic Country Inns of America.”

In the late 1960s, Presley stayed in room No. 9 during a visit to look for property.

That room remains as the Elvis Room and includes a few mementos of his career.

The Nu Wray Inn features deluxe and standard rooms with antique furnishings, custom draperies, luxury linens, indoor and outdoor fireplaces, backyard gardens, a rocking-chair porch, and an upstairs balcony overlooking Town Square.

ASU professor part of National Science Foundation team boone, nc

Assistant professor Michael Madritch from Appalachian State University’s Department of Biology is part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) “Dimensions of Biodiversity” program.

The decade-long NSF program’s goal is to transform how Earth’s biological diversity is described and understood by the year 2020. Madritch is co-principal investigator on a $2 million collaborative project that was one of thirteen chosen for funding in 2013. He was awarded $120,000

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to conduct his portion of the research at Appalachian, while the majority of the work will be conducted at the Cedar Creek Long Term Ecological Research station in Minnesota. Madritch is working with researchers from the University of Minnesota, University of Wisconsin at Madison, and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln to apply innovative remote sensing techniques to monitor biodiversity in experimental manipulations of plant diversity, permitting scientists to study links between plant biodiversity, soil microbe diversity, and ecosystem function. The work is essential, he said, because of the rapid rate at which the Earth is losing plant species to climate and land use change. Madritch is an ecosystem ecologist. His data, and the data collected by his co-researchers who are plant specialists, will be compared with information gathered by aerial imaging spectroscopy data and other groundbased technologies to develop a new method to track changes in ecosystems.

With previous NASA funding, Madritch was able to show the viability of using remotely sensed imaging as a surrogate for biological data for both canopy diversity and below ground processes.

The researchers will work at an ecological research station in Minnesota that

contains a diversity of well established plants and trees. There, they will collect and analyze data from the peak growing season to observe color variations in field and forest canopies, and then use that information to predict diversity in the plant community, the amount of biomass in the study area, if the soil is experiencing fast or slow nitrogen and carbon cycling, and if the soil communities fluctuate between areas with different imaging spectroscopies.

Establishing a method to extrapolate remote sensing data associated with plant and forest diversity will allow scientists to study larger areas and collect data more quickly. The scientists would like to eventually expand the remote sensing method developed in Minnesota to track changes in biodiversity in other ecosystems.

Wildlife Resources Commission seeks volunteers to count turkeys western north carolina

Every year the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission does a turkey

poult count during the summer months.

If you spend a lot of time travelling country roads or in the outdoors, you might be able to help. This year, they are seeking public assistance in reporting observations of wild turkeys. From July 1st through August 31st, wild turkey sightings by volunteers and Wildlife Commission staff can be recorded and entered into an online database. The information gives an indication of annual wild turkey productivity, gobbler carryover, and other population trends, all of which help the commission manage the state’s turkey population. To participate, volunteers should use the online survey link on the Wildlife Commission’s website at www.ncwildlife.org/summerturkeysurvey.

After new volunteers submit observations, the commission will automatically send a survey postcard the following year to provide an opportunity to participate again.

Previous volunteer observers include members of the National Wild Turkey Federation, a valued partner of the Wildlife Commission in the reintroduction of the wild turkey in North Carolina.

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Site preparations under way for Modern Toyota, Subaru boone, nc

Modern Automotive has made progress on 12+ acres on U.S. 421 in Boone for its two new dealership facilities, Modern Toyota and Modern Subaru of Boone. Modern purchased the Toyota store, currently located at 665 King Street, in 2009, and the Subaru location, found at 199 Highway 105 extension, in 2012. Modern Toyota’s current employee force of 40 will increase to 50, and Modern Subaru will expand from 21 to 30, consisting of new and preowned sales, service, parts, administrative, and reconditioning. The new facilities will include conveniences such as enclosed heated service drives, comfortable customer lounges with a fireplace, WiFi, and fresh coffee and bagels daily. At Toyota, service capacity will increase from 9 service bays to 19, and Subaru from 8 service bays to 14. Toyota plans to stock more than 120 new vehicles; Subaru plans to stock over 80. Both facilities are expected to be complete

by February 2015. Modern Automotive is a family-owned business that was established in 1933. Locations include

Modern Chevrolet, Modern Nissan, Modern Toyota, and Modern Infiniti in Winston-Salem, Modern Infiniti in Greensboro, Modern Nissan and Modern Hyundai of Concord, Modern Nissan of Lake Norman, and Modern Toyota and Modern Subaru of Boone.

State authorizes UNC Asheville to make $990,000 in capital improvements asheville, nc

Student Recreation Center. This includes renovations of the current locker rooms, the addition of a gender-neutral locker room, and resurfacing the floors of the multipurpose courts. The projects should begin in early fall 2014. Special-obligation bonds will finance the projects. They will be repaid by a $27 student debt service fee that the UNC Asheville Board of Trustees and the UNC Board of Governors have approved. The Karl Straus Track is the training and competition facility for the UNC Asheville men’s and women’s track and field programs. With the renovation of the track and field facility to NCAA/ IAAF standards, UNC Asheville will be able to host intercollegiate and community track meets. The Student Recreation Center accommodates various types of recreational activities offered to students, faculty, staff, and eligible members with a valid OneCard or Recreation Pass. The facility includes a pool, indoor track, racquetball courts, and multipurpose courts that can be sectioned to make space for different simultaneous activities.

The state has authorized UNC Asheville to borrow nearly $990,000 to make capital improvements. Governor Pat McCrory signed the authorization bill in July, which permits roughly $376 million worth of improvements at six campuses in the UNC system: UNC Asheville, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Charlotte, East Carolina University, North Carolina State University, and Western Carolina University. At UNC Asheville, the funding will go toward improving learning Introducing The and living conditions for students, with $550,000 allocated for the completion of the Karl Straus Track Building, and $440,000 invested in improvements to the

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UMMER IS HERE! THIS DECLARATION IS OF some importance considering the winter that we in Western North Carolina endured at the beginning of 2014. Accompanying summer is the ongoing circuit of cookouts. “Your house? My house?

Our friend down the street?”

The cookout is a holy endeavor punctuated with barbeque sauce and special dry rubs on racks of ribs and chicken, hot dogs, and perfectly sculpted burgers charring on the grill. We stand around the blazing cooking surface talking about baseball, soccer, or an upcoming football season while the kids run amok in the yards and parks playing tag and hideand-go-seek. Fireflies flare up their illuminating language and puppies yip and roll in the grass. The cookout is a magical time that seems to slow down the rest of our chaotic world.

What really sets off this immaculate conception of food, friends, and the sweet smell of freshly cut grass? Silly to forget one of the underpinnings of such gatherings, but I won’t begrudge you.

Wine. It is the oldest and simplest of beverages discovered by humans. Its liquidity flows through those slow evenings at cookouts and birthday parties like a cool, babbling creek. Are you there yet? Glass in one hand, plate in other, laughing at your friend’s best one-liner? Good. So run to your local, independent bottle shop for the perfect mix-matched case to go with this exceptional evening.

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satisfied with these selections and there is nothing wrong with them (in fact, wine choices are never really wrong to the person with the glass in their hand), but for this particular season you may want to consider more. If I’m right, continue reading.

This summer’s cookouts deserve something different and possibly more exciting. Now close your eyes and think “acidity” and “brightness” on your tongue. Is the idea in your mind? Take another minute and really think. Next, open your eyes with that good looking bottle shop clerk and say, “I want a Sauvignon Blanc or a Chenin Blanc. Or maybe a Torrontes?”

Don’t worry about the budget. You are in the huge sweet spot of eight to fi fteen dollars a bottle for these kinds of wines. For example, Hill & Dale Sauvignon Blanc from South Africa over delivers in the acidity (in this case, the part that gives you the citrus fruit notes) and balancing factors of semi-rich textures (the way the wine feels in your mouth) and some smoky vegetal-ness. California, of course, kicks out some great Sauvignon Blanc with more candied fruit, while New Zealand exudes a leaner body and more green pepper on the palette.

Chenin Blanc holds up in the summer cookout line up just as well. This is not as popular as the mainstream varietals I spoke about previously. Chenin Blanc originated in France in the Loire Valley but globetrotted as far south as South Africa (I know, they do the best summertime wines though). There, Chenin, or steen as it was called, sports very ripe tropical fruit tones that marries with spicier foods very comfortably. Glass of this and some hot wings and you won’t think twice about Chenin Blanc. Ken Forrester Petite or The Royal are some great brands to bank on.

Third in the white wine cookout line up: Torrontes. A Spanish

grape that migrated to South America during colonial times and cropped up on the American wine scene with another obscure wine, Malbec. Torrontes is usually produced in Argentina and is the country’s answer to Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Grigio. Usually light in the mouth and floral on the nose, Torrontes delivers some great acidity without the citric tones of some of these other whites. Tilia, Pascual Toso, and Kaiken are wonderful producers, with their price points coming in under fifteen dollars.

Do you need red? Of course, that was a silly question. The key here is to push the Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlots to the side when it’s a quieter evening and dinner is a rare steak and some potatoes. The cookout warrants easier tannins and maybe lighter consistency—there is a theme to the structure of these wines that resonates more for the reds than the whites. It’s hot outside, the humidity is through the roof and to drink a heavy wine with a heaped up chilidog is like chugging milk and running a mile. Don’t dwell on it further.

Choices for accommodating reds should start out with Pinot Noir (but of course, in your best French accent). Pinot is still one of the most popular wines on the shelf almost a decade after Sideways came out and for some great reasons. It can pair with a lot at holiday meals including chicken and pork. Tone down those wings and the ribs a little in the spice department then pour yourself a healthy dose of Pinot Noir. The cherry dominates the fruit profile, and the lighter texture of the wine accommodates our charcoal smoking soiree. Finding the buys in Pinot are harder but are out there like Felicite from South Africa (I know, I know) and Zorzal from Argentina.

A good lighter Zinfandel can make it at the cookout as well. Zin’s body can be mercurial in that the texture is not always this sticky heavy fruit bomb that is so popular. Sometimes we can find a truer Zinfandel that is lighter on the residual sugars, and with less heft on the palette it becomes that perfect summer wine. Less on the white pepper and jammy consistency and more acidic with the fruit that in essence lightens the body. Zinfandel is one of the perfect burger wines out there so make it a steady part of your grilling agenda. Usually from California look for Four Vines or Three for values while maybe considering taking a walk on the wild side and trying the Hyatt’s Zilla Gorilla from Washington state.

Finally, on the red front, a more obscure wine from Spain, a place I feel is making amazing, food-friendly and value-centric wines. I give you Monastrell in all of her even keeled and balanced glory. Monastrell translates to Mourvedre, which the French in the Rhone Valley use as a blending grape to balance out their Côtes-du-Rhône reds.

In Spain, Monastrell is its own single varietal wine and traditionally exudes dark fruit without over ripening. It has the body of the lighter Zinfandel I described, but the tannin structure is a little more forward resulting in a just a hair more austerity.

I would give a glass of this with a slider to a very traditional wine drinker and watch them smile. A couple of fan favorites to scout out: Hecula and Casa Castillo, which typically don’t retail over twelve to thirteen dollars.

I think we have sufficiently supplied this Saturday’s wine list for burgers and wings.

Just remember that these wines are at your local indie bottle shops that count on you and your social graces of never arriving empty handed to thrive and grow in your community. Now, turn up the Steve Earl and Otis Redding on the stereo and pour up a glass of wine because summer is here and the food is on the grill!

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he sporadic rain showers, damp air, and threatening thunderstorms that attack Western North Carolina in the early days of spring and the sweltering days of summer, provide ideal conditions for an often overlooked commodity that ourishes in this area— the mushroom.

Light, humidity, and temperature are the basic ingredients that feed the growth of this mystical and magical edible.

After a good rain, one can scour the lush wooded areas of our mountainous region and fi nd a wide variety of fungi emerging, sometimes hidden, and sometimes large and in charge, consuming what it grows upon and beckoning you to explore and possibly even taste.

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mushroom hunting as a means for dinner, or as a hobby, comes with an amount of risk. Luckily there is a plethora of resources in this area for every kind of mushroom enthusiast, whether hunting and foraging is your pleasure, or cultivating in your backyard is your desire.

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Mushrooms are a food source, and most people who trek through the wilderness to find them enjoy the taste. There are also a number of medicinal properties and health benefits that draw people to the quest. And many people in this area, and across the country, search for the fungus, among other natural edibles, as a nostalgic means of returning to a simpler way of life in which we historically hunted and gathered our food.

Alan Muskat, a self-proclaimed philosoforager, believes that anything but wild foods is bad for you. He often refers to “BC”—Before Costco, a time when we were all foragers.

He is a wild foods educator and has successfully created a business in which he leads interested hunters and community members on wild food adventures. His company, No Taste Like Home, leads expeditions into the forest to correctly identify, harvest, appreciate, and eat wild plants and mushrooms.

Alan believes in cooperative foraging and views all of nature as friends and family.

To him it is important to return to the traditional and natural way of eating. His philosophy touts not just a way to eat dinner, but a way of getting involved and creating a sense of home, of safety and belonging, and of ownership and caring. Through this process he feels that you can discover that most things are not dangerous.

That being said, Alan also urges potential foragers not just to refer to books and online information but to learn from a field guide. He says there are several thousand types of wild mushrooms on the continent and less than a dozen are known to be deadly. At least 300 might make you sick, sometimes to the point of warding off

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mushrooms or food altogether. Alan himself has unfortunately been exposed to the dark side mushrooms have to offer, yet it hasn’t deterred him from the hunt.

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When searching for mushrooms, one usually pictures delving deep into the woods, but driving through West Asheville you might stumble upon a brightly painted building decorated with Alice in Wonderland-esque red mushroom caps on one side, and brainy porous morels on the other, set against a blue background and green grass. This small building, tucked away off of the main bustle of Haywood Road houses an operation encompassing everything mushroom related.

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left : Chris Parker outside the Mushroom Central greenhouse. right : Joe Allawos tossing some waste sawdust.

They use this as a substrate for growing their mushrooms.

offers information, equipment, and supplies for anyone from the most basic to expert cultivators of mushrooms. While the owners still enjoy foraging for mushrooms in the wild, their real passion lies in the cultivation process and the controlled creations of mushroom spawn and cultures in their sterile lab.

Joe Allawos, a biology instructor at A-B Tech, and Chris Parker met due to their mutual enthusiasm for mushrooms, and paired up with a silent entrepreneurial partner to open the shop. While Chris runs the daily operations of the retail space, Joe focuses on the marketing and operation of the website and online sales.

Upon entering the store you are greeted with shelves of books and mushroom memorabilia on one wall, tinctures on another, coolers filled with freshly harvested meaty fungi, starter kits of sawdust and grain, and venturing even further back are the sterile rooms where all the magic happens. This is where the cultures are created in small petri dishes like so many science

Hericium americanum, bears head tooth fungus, cloned from a local wild specimen.

experiments, giving birth to these specialized organisms that will grow into intricate shapes and colors. The cultures are sold in the store as well as around the world through online sales.

The grow room is located beneath the retail space. Interestingly enough, Joe is severely allergic to mushroom spores and opts out of venturing downstairs, although this doesn’t affect his love for mushrooms or the taste of them. He warns that the spores often cause your nose to itch and, after descending the wooden plank leading to the ominous room, it will immediately be apparent if you have a mushroom allergy.

It is damp and musty with puddles of water on the concrete floors. The fluorescent lighting blankets shelves upon shelves of basketball sized inoculation bags containing materials such as sawdust, grain, coffee grounds, brewing remnants, and the mushroom spawn that grows out of them.

These materials that are considered waste to other businesses are gold for mushroom growers, making the process fairly cost efficient.

The bags have dates on them, and as the mushrooms grow, they are harvested, and

Chris emphasizes his main rule: “Don’t put it in your mouth unless you know what it is.”

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Continuing on the tour to the greenhouse next door, Joe excitedly points out a large growth of mushrooms protruding in one large clump. He explains that these are Reishi mushrooms and they are his top sellers. He can barely keep them on the shelves.

In the parking lot, Chris is unloading a few items from the trunk of his car, and Joe stops him to discuss one of the mushrooms in hand. What ensues is an excited discussion on what this mushroom could be, with a bit of back and forth banter, some sniffing, and then a taste. Joe’s reaction to the bitter taste speaks volumes and cures any desire to partake, not that you should be so brave. He emphasizes his main rule: “Don’t put it in your mouth unless you know what it is.”

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There was a sense of ease as everyone walked around or chatted with the person next to them. Some had brought physical mushroom samples they had found in nature, or their backyard, and there was a constant conversation about what each was. A young gentleman shared photographs from a recent excursion on the Appalachian Trail, and “oohs” and “ahs” were expended as people flipped through them.

At the start of the meeting all of the first timers introduced themselves with a brief description of why they were there, ranging from childhood interest in mushrooms, to out-of-towners that love the taste of mushrooms, to writers researching what the mushroom craze is all about.

A speaker, Walt Sturgis, presented a slide show titled “Just for the Smell of it,” in which he displayed the many mushrooms he has encountered and how he has learned to identify them through their scent. Some he fondly recalls as smelling like coconut, while others unfortunately remind him of boiled urine. Throughout the presentation, mushrooms are passed from person to person with guesses on what that smell might be. Anise, garlic, maple syrup, and even bacon are a few of the descriptors used for the various finds.

What that smell means to one person might mean something entirely different to another person. The overall theme of the evening is how these smells trigger nostalgia to times past or a memory from long ago.

Identifying what mushroom you are dealing with is an essential and vital part of hunting for mushrooms, and knowing how to make that identification can save your life, or at least your lunch, but the thrill of the hunt runs deeper than just good food.

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Morel, Reishi, Oyster, Chanterelle, Shitake, Lion’s Mane, Chicken Mushroom, Milk Cap, Porcini, Truffle, Tooth Fungus, Gypsy, Horn of Plenty are just a few of the common names of the thousands of mushrooms that grow wild and are cultivated. Some may make you sick, and yes, some are even deadly, but to those that hunt this mysterious fungi the risk is minimal and worth the reward.

There are two schools of thought that accompany mushrooms. One is that they should be hunted in the wild as our ancestors have done for centuries, minimizing the effects to nature, and returning to our foraging roots while adding to our diet. The other is the intrigue of this specialized organism and our ability to grow, create new strains, and experiment utilizing waste products and producing them commercially or for individual use.

No matter if the hunt is what you are after, or creation is your game, the overreaching motif is a sense of community. The act of mushrooming has created a dialogue based on what our region has to offer, what our knowledge of this distinctive organism is, and how it connects a network of individuals in a communal aspect. Not to mention that most of them taste good, are good for you, and just look really cool.

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Starting July 2015, you may be able to earn a master’s of accounting (MAC) degree from Kenan-Flagler Business School’s highly-ranked program from your home. The school announced plans in July for the new online program, Accounting@UNC. Its students will be required to go to Chapel Hill for orientation, leadership development, and recruitment, but they will complete the remainder of their course requirements online. Douglas A. Shackelford, dean of the business school, explained: “Historically, firms have wanted to hire more of our graduates, but space constraints prevented us from increasing the

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Raedy says online students will spend roughly the same amount of time receiving classroom type instruction as their peers in the residential program. The primary difference between the online and residential programs will be length.

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A new business in Wilmington may have solved a frequent problem for party throwers. With DWI charges, plus the dilemma of leaving guests for a bit, driving to the package store poses risks that aren’t worth taking. Now, Beer Run LLC will take your order and make a delivery. The primary reason Daniel Bachtel started Beer Run LLC was to keep people safe. Bachtel, who is a former employee of an A lcoholic Beverage Control Commission (ABC) store, insists Beer Run is not so much about money. “I need money to run the business, but the focus is to keep more people in Wilmington safer,” said the twenty-eight-year-old, who has lived in North Carolina for seven years. The Beer Run process begins when

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Following receiving a $1 million gift from the Blanche & Julian Robertson Family Foundation, Catawba College will launch a nursing program. Those funds, to be distributed over four years, will allow the Salisbury private college to offer a program where registered nurses can complete their bachelor’s degree in nursing. More than half of North Carolina’s registered nurses do not hold a bachelor’s degree. The college claims there is a growing need for its program.

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American Airlines Group Inc. is adding a second daily flight from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to London Heathrow Airport. The additional flight is part of the airline’s effort to improve its international service from Charlotte, something the company expected to happen in the months leading up to last year’s merger with US Airways. The new London flight will launch September 13th, with booking now available. The flight to London departs Charlotte at

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Family Dollar to close 30 stores in the Carolinas statewide

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Chapel Hill establishment named one of South’s best bourbon bars

The Bourbon Review’s list of top bourbon bars in the South region. The other bars that made the list are: Yardbird Southern Table and Bar, Miami, Florida; Southern Art and Bourbon Bar, Atlanta, Georgia; Whiskey Kitchen, Nashville, Tennessee; Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House, New Orleans, Louisiana; The Standard Pour, Dallas, Texas; Local Three, Atlanta, Georgia; Husk, Charleston, South Carolina; Capitol Grille at the Hermitage Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee; Peter Kern Library, Knoxville, Tennessee; and Social Southern Table and Bar, Lafayette, Louisiana.

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“HONORABLE SIR,” THE ENERGETIC voice on voicemail had said, “this is Detective Forrest Jarrett. Retired. I would love to meet and talk with you.

Meet me at Turkey Creek Grill in downtown Leicester at noon.”

Now the closest thing to a definable downtown in Leicester, North Carolina, is a stretch of Highway 63 a few miles west-northwest of Asheville where a scattering of stores, businesses, a community center, and a post office line the road before it climbs up and away towards Doggett Gap and the serious hills.

By that reckoning, the Turkey Creek Grill is in downtown Leicester. As you walk in, you face a plywood mural: the couple from Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” with, in the background, a barn on whose roof is the invitation, “Eat at Turkey Creek Grill.” It’s a light, unselfconsciously cheerful place, with today’s specials on a standing chalkboard and a farm-fresh young hostess in a Turkey Creek Grill t-shirt and cutoffs, who tells us, the Capital at Play delegation, that the gentleman we’re looking for is waiting for us in the far corner booth.

Forrest Jarrett is seated beneath a beautifully blocked Stetson of Ecuadorian straw the color of vanilla ice cream.

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The band is unusual. Most such hats have only a narrow ribbon for decoration. This hatband is of a pebbly, leatherish material, tan with a brown chevron pattern and gathered into a flat bow on one side like the ribbon of a fedora. From the bow protrudes a fingerlike extension made up of flattened, bonelike segments.

“Rattlesnake,” Jarrett says, obviously pleased that we’ve noticed. “Nine foot long, or near enough. Killed him at that Norfolk Southern 16,000-acre huntin’ preserve down at St. George [South Carolina]. This good ol’ boy, friend of mine, took part of the skin and made it into this hatband. I said, if I’m gonna have lunch with these magazine gentlemen, I should wear my best hat.”

Jarrett slides out of the booth, shakes hands, removes the Stetson and proffers it for inspection. He has a full head of silver-white hair and a florid, good-natured face that resembles the Western character actor Chill Wills. He squints a little, as though looking into bright sunlight. This, together with a constant three-quarter smile, gives him an expression of genial shrewdness.

Hatless, he seems to be a shade over six feet tall and a shade under 200 pounds, but he seems larger. His back is straight, and he has the warm, dry, just-firm-enough handshake of a man who has nothing to prove. He is dressed like

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a gentleman rancher come into town: spotless white western-style shirt, bolo tie set with a dark stone, western-cut whipcord trousers over mid-calf boots of plain, polished tan leather. Altogether he has the appearance and movements of a well-conditioned man of perhaps seventy.

He is eighty-six years old.

“Everything’s good here,” he says as our waitress, another pretty young blonde in Turkey Creek t-shirt and Daisy Dukes, approaches. “Come over here, Bonnie,” he beckons. “Come here, honey.”

“Hey, Mr. Jarrett,” she beams.

“Tell us what the special is, honey,” Jarrett beams back.

“Catfish sandwich with one side.”

There ensues an intense debate over what to have for lunch. Jarrett settles on a veggie plate. At Turkey Creek Grill a vegetable plate is not the same as one ordered in, say, Biltmore Village. It’s fried okra, fried squash, and fried green tomatoes. This formality having been dealt with, Miss Bonnie goes off to fetch sweet tea and Jarrett sits back expansively and asks, “Do y’all—does your circulation go into Madison County?”

Assured that it does, he continues, “When I come out of service, my good

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On another wall, the keys to at least two cities, plus three railroad-model wrist (not pocket) watches, hanging by their straps, just so.

kinfolks, Mr. Zeno Ponder, sent word to me by my first cousin, Marvin Ball, that he’d see me in hell before I’d get a job in Madison County. So I’d just like for this publication to go down there. He’s gone, but his folks are still there.”

For those too young or too recently arrived to have a point of reference, Zeno Ponder was for four decades the political kingpin of Madison County. The county was his fiefdom, and Ponder ran it on exactly the same business model as an eighteenth-century Scottish Highland clan, with himself as chief.

His brother, the equally legendary E.Y. Ponder, was sheriff, and another Ponder brother was mayor of Marshall, the county seat. It’s still a place where auld acquaintance—and old affronts—are not forgot. Jarret’s interest in making sure a feature article about him in a magazine will attract the right people recalls Faulkner’s observation: “The past isn’t dead; it’s not even past.”

“Zeno’s father and my grandmother were born out on the farm where I live,” Jarrett explains, “But then our great-grandfather Ponder, who was also Zeno’s great-grandfather, he passed away at thirty-six. He went through the Civil War. He started with the South and went to the North—I’ll come back to that—and he died the year after the war was over. Our old homeplace joined the old Ponder homeplace over in Rector Corner.”

Now, technically Rector Corner is in northernmost Buncombe County, above Leicester but shy of the Madison County line. But in those days a neighborhood was exactly that, a locality where families who knew each other, for good or ill, had lived cheek by jowl since time out of mind. Physical features—hillsides, streams, trails, rocks, old trees—formed its boundaries by consensus and often did not conform precisely to lines on a map, or on a plat in a book at the courthouse.

“My grandmother ended up with her half of the farm,” Jarrett continues, “and

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then my grandfather traded a little piece of property and not much money for the other half of the property where I live, and the Ponders thought the Jarretts cheated them—I think maybe they did, a little bit. And ever after that, well—” he shrugs. “Course the politics was different then, too. So it ended up like the Hatfields and the McCoys.”

Not dead, not even past…

“But that aside,” Jarrett says, attacking his just-arrived veggie plate, “I’m just a poor old wore-out railroad pistol-toter, and I’m glad to be back in the mountains after thirty-seven years and two weeks on the railroad, twelve different moves and we’re just glad to be at home.”

Jarrett takes a bite of fried green tomato, glances around and lean inward across the table as though about to divulge a confidence. It’s an old and still effective storyteller’s trick.

“Name Jesse James Bailey mean anything to you?” he asks.

“A great deal,” comes the reply.

“He’s the man that hired me,” Jarrett almost whispers.

For those who don’t know the name—that would be most of the world outside Western North Carolina and also, as time passes, an increasing number of natives—Jesse James Bailey was one of the few honest-to-God legends in his own time. He is best known for having served as sheriff of both Madison and Buncombe Counties in the 1920s and ’30s, and

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for cleaning up Madison at the height of Prohibition, when there was a still in every thicket and guns guarding the stills. Elliot Ness could have learned a thing or two from Jesse James Bailey; his name is still spoken, among those who knew or knew of him, with something approaching awe.

“I’ve got his picture in the 175-yearold log cabin that you’ll see when we go out there. He and my father SIDE NOTE: were good friends, and he found me a job with the Southern Railway. I In 1967, D. W. Brosnan was didn’t know there was even such a informed by thing as railroad police, but I ended Southern's board up going to New Orleans, Louisiana, of directors that he on December 16, 1953, as a relief would have to step watchman making three hundred down as Chairman and twenty-five dollars a month and CEO of the and tickled to death to get it. Little Southern Railway. bit later I went over to Chalmette, He remained on the where they fought the Battle of New board of directors Orleans and Southern had some big of the Southern yards and got made full watchman. until 1983. Brosnan Then got promoted in August of died in 1985.

1955 to junior patrolman and sent to Birmingham, Alabama. January of ’57 I made senior patrolman, went to Knoxville, Tennessee. Then, to broaden my work experience, I got on the wrong side of the fence in the politics that were goin’ on in the railroad police department and got a lateral transfer to Sheffield, Alabama. That was okay. Lotta catfish over there, lots of good hunting.”

By the time Bonnie arrives with more sweet tea, Jarrett has arrived at the part of his narrative where he got his first big professional break.

“Mr. D. W. Brosnan was running the railroad out of Asheville,and he got mad at the division chief here in Asheville, so the division chief in Sheffield got laterally transferred up here. We had a good relationship and his cousin was head of the Southern Railway police department. They sent for me and I come up to Asheville in December of ’65.

“Mr. Brosnan had been so hard on labor that he was afraid the labor folks would kill him,” Jarrett remembers, “so from then until [Brosnan] retired in ’67, that [acting as Brosnan’s unofficial bodyguard] was about all I done—myself and Dick Perkins, who was chief up here, and Charlie Ray—wherever Mr. Brosnan went, we went. If he went to the Kentucky Derby, we went to the Kentucky Derby. If he went to the board meeting in New York, we went to New York. Wherever he went, some of us were always there.”

After Brosnan retired, Jarrett did a stint in Hickory before landing a promotion to lieutenant and a posting in Memphis.

This, he says, was in the summer of 1968, not long after the King assassination. “I loved Memphis,” he says, “I stayed

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there till ’75. Had a wonderful time. My college roommate [he went to “A little school for poor boys like me, in Kentucky, called Berea”] was right over there in Lone Oak, Arkansas, and we got in with a bunch of duck hunters. Good huntin’ all over in there… quail…” He seems to see a covey rise from the other end of the restaurant, then jerks himself back to his primary subject when he is asked what was the most dangerous law enforcement situation he was ever in.

“December of 1977,” he responds immediately.

“United Mine Workers [UMWs] was on strike and the railroad wasn’t unionized and was hauling coal. They was a roving band of UMWs—about three hundred men and women. They’d done been out about five days, drunk, mean… and they was comin’ for us.

“I had fi fteen railroad police with me. We saw ‘em comin’. I picked up a radio and told the mine run, ‘y’all ease on out of here, we’ve got company.’

They blocked us [and the track]. I told my boys,

‘get on out, and when y’all hit the ground, rack ‘em back—you know there’s no other sound like a shotgun bein’ racked back—and they’ll know we’re ready.” Jarrett’s boys did as they were told; fi fteen shotguns went chick-kachick. Then Jarrett alone stood up and spoke to the mob.

“I told ‘em our employees weren’t United Mine Workers, that we work for the railroad and were required by law to serve our customers. I said, ‘I know that y’all can kill us, but the first ten or fifteen of y’all make a move, we’re going to kill you first. So y’all decide who the first ten or fifteen are gonna be and just step on up here.’

“Right then, here came the Scott County sheriff and five loads of deputies. I felt like the cavalry had arrived.

“Anyway,” he says, resuming the chronology, “I made chief [of Southern Railway Police] in ’78 and went to Atlanta. Atlanta’s the heartbeat of the Norfolk Southern and always will be, but they were trying to run it from Roanoke. Now, trying to run a

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“Now, trying to run a railroad out of Roanoke is like trying to have sex standing up in a hammock, but that’s what was happening, so I went to Roanoke.”

railroad out of Roanoke is like trying to have sex standing up in a hammock, but that’s what was happening, so I went to Roanoke.

“Well,” he says, “the new vice president resented authority and he hated the police, he and I couldn’t just get on the same page, we weren’t even in the same book. So in 1990 I told my wife, ‘When we get our bonuses in March, we’re gone to North Carolina. They gave me three years on my retirement—made it an even forty—and six months’ salary, and I laughed all the way home to 15 Jarrett Farm Road—built a little retirement home—and never looked back. Y’all take one of these fried tomatoes.”

“There’ve been Jarretts in these parts pretty much forever, isn’t that right?” he is asked.

“The Jarretts come from the French-German border. They was a potato family. Mine came to Charlotte; they helped survey the city of Charlotte, and then my Jarretts come on to Asheville, and the racin’ Jarretts [Ned, Dale et seq.] dropped off in Catawba County [home to Hickory Motor Speedway].

When the city of Asheville was organized, there was a Jarrett on the first city council.

“Then my people went on to Madison County, to the Laurels.

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There’s a Jarrett Cove over in Big Laurel. Then in 1830 my Jarretts and the O’Dells come into Sandy Mush, and they settled on what’s our old home farm in Rector Corner. Built a little house that my great-grandmother, Polly O’Dell, was born in, in 1844. My great-grandfather Obadiah Jarrett married Polly, and they lived on Low Hole Road there in Rector Corner and, like I said, he fought for the South.”

More or less.

“His heart wasn’t in it,” Jarrett explains. “He had a big family and he’d desert every spring, come home and put in a crop.

The third time he deserted, they come and got him. Now great-grandmother Polly, she would watch out while he was plowin’, and she’d act like she was knittin’ and wave a white cloth at him if they came around. But this one time they slipped up and caught him.

“Zebulon Vance was governor then, and there was a whole bunch of these ol’ boys they’d caught and locked up at the penitentiary in Raleigh,” awaiting execution, by firing squad, for desertion. “They’d set ‘em up on their coffins and shoot ‘em.”

But shrewdness has never run short in the Jarrett Family.

We step into cool dimness and back a century and a half in time into the 175-yearold cabin.

Some of his neighbors, “Teagues and Ramsays, mostly,” who had developed the same system of French leave as Jarrett’s ancestor, were duly put to death. But Obadiah, who’d been keeping up with the news, asked for and obtained a ninety-day stay of execution from Vance. Well before the postponed execution date, the war had ended.

Obadiah Jarrett just shook the dust of Raleigh Penitentiary off his soleless Confederate shoes and went on home to Rector Corner.

“About fourteen months after that, my grandfather, Zebulon B. Vance Jarrett, was born.”

Jarrett winks.

This brings on talk of soldiers generally and from there it’s a short step to Jarrett’s own military career, how it ended, and how everything that came after was the karmic result of that ending.

He met and married his wife, Alene, who had been in training to be an army nurse. He got drafted and was sent to Camp Polk, Louisiana, home of the First Armored Division, where he

began training on a tank crew.

“I was in a heavy tank outfit,” he remembers, “Now on a heavy tank you’ve got a loader, a gunner, and a tank commander, and they rotate. And the trigger for the 90mm gun is there on the floor.

You’re supposed to count to three and then fire the round.

“Well, the loader was scared of that 90mm round—they weigh about eighty pounds—and he couldn’t close the breach tight, and I jumped down into the tank from outside just as that gunner kid hit the trigger.”

The recoiling gun caught Jarrett in the back and side. “I was busted up right bad,” he says.

“Ruptured two disks; that’s why I walk like I’m crippled up now,” he says, referring to his slight limp.

The accident dashed Jarrett’s plan to return to Rector Corner with his wife and take up farming.

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had four farms up in here, and I was looking to do something with them.”

And so it came to pass that, deprived of his livelihood and looking for about any job he could find, Jarrett tweaked Jesse James Bailey’s streak of compassion and found himself hired as a night watchman for the railroad.

Which brings us full circle and to the end of lunch.

As we make our way out of Turkey Creek Grill, a lean, hatchet-faced elderly man in overalls and a worn engineer’s cap lays a hand on Jarrett’s arm. “Do you know me?” He asks with a craggy grin. “You remember who I am?”

Jarrett obviously does. “Look out here,” he grins back.

Then leaning towards the man, he says in that confidential undertone, “You know they’re gonna let that road bid soon?”

“Yeah?” says the man.

“Oh yeah,” Jarrett replies. “So you stay outta trouble, hear?”

“I want to be just like you when I grow up,” the other man says. They both cackle. The man waves and departs.

“Eh law,” says Jarrett, still chuckling.

SIDE NOTE: “Y’all follow me on out to the house. I’m On October 14, in that red pickup yonder.”

1980, President So we follow Forrest Jarrett’s sparJimmy Carter signed kling, scarlet, extended cab pickup the Staggers Rail north by northwest and mostly uphill Act, which enabled through some of the last and prettirailroads to compete est undeveloped land in Buncombe without government County: rolling pastureland, mostly, regulation. CSX interrupted here and there by hedgeCorp. was formed rows, a barn or two, and a silo. A by a railroad merger blacksnake scoots across a road too in November. In warm to be comfortable for it and disresponse, the appears into shade on the other side.

Southern Railway Midsummer lies over everything like merged with Norfolk mosquito netting. and Western The red truck makes a right where Railway to form the a regulation green sign announces Norfolk Southern “Jarrett Farm Road,” then slows, flashRailway in 1982. ing its left blinker, and turns in at a capacious asphalt driveway. We follow.

Fifteen Jarrett Farm Road disabuses an observer of any preconceived idea of a quaintly weathered farmhouse with marigolds in window boxes. Jarrett’s “little retirement home” is a long, symmetrical, red brick dwelling that sits atop a slight rise, a good fifty yards from the road on an expanse of perfectly manicured lawn. We follow Jarrett around back to where he parks his truck in front of a threebay garage entrance.

“When we built this place,” he says, alighting from the truck, “I was thinking about doing the whole thing with two stories and big ol’ white columns. But Alene said she wanted everything on one floor, and so that’s the way we made it.

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Come on in.”

The lady of the house herself is in the dining room, which we cross with Jarrett leading the way. She smiles, says hello, and goes back to what she was doing. “She’s used to interviewers,” Jarrett says.

We cross a hall, and Jarrett shows us into his study/den/ man-cave. It is in fact a light, airy room on the front of the house with generous windows that look across the lawn and down to the road. There are a couple of deep chairs, a love seat, and lots of shelving crammed, as the walls themselves are decorated, with memorabilia. In less careful hands this would amount to clutter, but here everything is arranged as precisely and logically as in a museum; it’s Forrest Jarrett’s life on display.

Here are framed photographs with various railroad officials and politicos, framed letters, including a thank-you note on White House stationery from Bush the Elder. On another wall, a polished billy club with scarlet braided cord bears an inscribed brass plate—a token of esteem from the Mayor of St. Louis. On another wall, the keys to at least two cities, plus three railroad-model wrist (not pocket) watches, hanging by their straps, just so.

By itself between a pair of bookends is a paperbound booklet. “That’s the thing I’m proudest of,” Jarrett says. “Go ahead and take it on down.”

It’s a copy of the bill that established a federal railroad police commission. The bill, which had been stuck in the House of Representatives, literally for decades, created a uniform, cooperative law enforcement system among railroad police division heads, whose authority had previously ended at state lines. Jarrett, a networker if there ever was one, got the bill revived and—to the extent that anyone who isn’t an elected official can—shepherded it through House and Senate and signed into law in late 1990.

“Well, I say I’m proudest of that; I guess that’s public-wise,” Jarrett says. There’s some other things.

Indeed.

Serving as Georgia State Chairman for the 1987 law enforcement torch run for Special Olympics. Constructing a mammoth twenty-four-foot mobile cooker which he used in part to cater fundraisers for veterans. Creating a Norfolk Southern country and western band (“One ol’ boy, he was a good musician. I kinda rescued him; he was livin’ in a corn crib, drinkin’ Jack Daniels and singin’ hymns.”), spearheading, after he retired and came home, the rescue and remodeling of the old Marshall depot and turning it into a music venue. And so on.

“Come on out back,” Jarrett says, rising. “I want to show you something.

Recrossing the hall, we notice the door is flanked by two highly polished engine bells salvaged from coal-burning locomotives. One is emblazoned with an old Southern Railway

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logo. “I had ‘em put that logo on there,” Jarrett says. “No telling how much that thing would be worth. I’ve got fifteen dollars in it.”

Across the back driveway, nestled in the trees, is Obadiah Jarrett’s log cabin, moved painstakingly from its original site across the Madison County line. We step into cool dimness and back a century and a half in time.

Polly O’Dell Jarrett’s spinning wheel dominates one corner. Generations-old farm implements decorate the walls. The ancestral bed with an ancient and lovingly cared for patchwork quilt dominates the alcove. The bed looks freshly made because it is: the 175-year-old cabin has been unobtrusively modernized into a cozy guest house. There are, in fact, more photographs on the walls, including one of a youngish E.Y. Ponder standing beside a demolished still. “There he is,” Jarrett says. “He used to tell people, ‘Call me anytime, day or night.’ Always said that.”

(In fact, this becomes a catch phrase among us for the rest of the afternoon.)

Talking about Ponder, the brother of his old nemesis Zeno, seems to cue Jarrett for something else.

“Let’s go down the hill,” he says.

We pile into his truck and take a spur of the driveway that leads off into woods.

The blacktop ends but a gravel road continues, now into open field rolling down to a stream. “This is actually part of old Highway 20, the stage road over into Tennessee,” he says. The road is maybe seven feet wide. Easy to imagine a wagon or a Model T navigating it, but what if somebody was coming in the opposite direction?

At the foot of the hill we cross a wooden bridge onto a flat, broad field of freshly mowed grass. Off to one side there’s a graveled area where a black iron kettle is suspended from a tripod of railroad crossties. And

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something else: a fireplace made up of a ring of large flat-topped stones. Jarrett points to one with his boot.

“Looka here,” he says.

Professionally chiseled into each stone is a quotation and the name of the person quoted. “I heard later the monument man [who did the inscriptions] said he hadn’t never wrote on no rocks where the man could talk back.” Jarrett says. The inscriptions are in-jokes and bywords of his friends and colleagues of nearly half a century: “NambyPamby.” “Love Everybody.”

“I can’t believe I’ve lived this clean a life.” “Best I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen 1,000.”

“I should have put E.Y.’s on there: ‘Call me day or night,’” Jarrett says. Then he grows suddenly reflective. “You know, you look back and you think, ‘What if we’d worked together.’”

“I think it would have been less interesting,” a reporter says.

Nearby stands a new, well constructed and roomy looking outhouse, complete with its own…

“Front porch,” Jarrett grins. “The only outhouse in this county with its own front porch and rocking chair. We got to get it plumbed, though. Friend of Alene’s was over here last fall a-makin’ apple butter and she got stuck on the one-holer, and she said ‘There will be a functioning toilet in here before I come back.’ So we’re gonna fix it up before the fish fry.” (Jarrett throws a large-scale cookout every summer for friends, neighbors, and politicians who find it an important summer schmoozing venue.) “Y’all come on over,” he says. “Your governor will be here and your congressman will be here.”

We disembark back up at the house and the Earl of Leicester, feet planted on his ancestral land and master of all he surveys, waves goodbye.

“Call me anytime, day or night,” he says.

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T ALMOST SOUNDED FUNNY AT THE TIME. The housing market had crashed, the stock market wasn’t doing too well itself, and here was this billionaire Wall Street fund manager telling everyone to go buy a house.

Yep. That’s what happened. In a 2010 speech at the University Club in New York, the normally reclusive billionaire fund manager, John Paulson, told the assembled crowd they shouldn’t invest with him, they should buy a house.

“If you don’t own a home, buy one. If you own one home, buy another one, and if you own two homes, buy a third and lend your relatives the money to buy a home.”

Paulson has repeated his comment many times including exactly one year ago in July at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference in New York. But was he right?

Absolutely. Real estate is out of the doldrums and headed towards the highest prices and greatest unit volume sales since the heyday of 2005-6. In Western North Carolina the average home price peaked at $278,800 in 2007 and by 2010 had declined 20 percent to just $231,816. Then Paulson jumped in and said it was time to buy as the market was bottoming out.

At the end of 2011 the average price was down to $217,687, a net loss at the bottom of 28 percent. But people were starting to buy again, a little bit, and things started to improve.

Today the overall Western North Carolina residential market is still 18 percent lower than its 2007 peak. But as it continues to climb. Paulson looks more and more like a genius. The important five county area of Buncombe, Henderson, Haywood, Transylvania, and Madison counties served by the WNC Regional 68

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MLS is actually seeing shortages in several market segments.

The primary causes for the increase in sales and prices are pent-up demand by retirees and young couples. Couple the demand with a product shortage, and you have a buyer-driven seller’s market.

During the recession, home building from 2007 through roughly 2012 was almost a lost art. Foreclosures and other distressed sales were the hot ticket, and the market exploded as banks moved to protect their assets. That put a number of houses on the market as foreclosures, REOs (Real Estate Other, indicating bank property that isn’t used for banking), and short sales. It was a down market for everyone including the home flippers who lived on the margin. No one was buying their renovated houses. The flippers quickly learned that if they bought it they had better plan to live in it, because some other distressed property was coming on the market just down the street and that would hurt the value of every home in the area.

And that’s today’s history lesson. Forget all the above. The market is back. Flippers are flipping, and the retirees are dipping into their savings to buy their new home even before their home back home finds a buyer.

Before you take the plunge, there are a few things to know about real estate in Western North Carolina.

First, housing and land can be more expensive here than you might think. The reason is that our beautiful mountains are often owned by the National Park Service or some other agent of the federal or state government. In some counties more than 50 percent of the land could be owned by the federal government.

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2012

2014

% CHANGE

Buncombe

$247,150

$267,741

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Haywood

$182,181

$178,081

-2%

Henderson

$200,880

$217,354

8%

Transylvania

$255,048

$242,205

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Regional MLS first 6 months

2012

2014

% CHANGE

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3,556

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$235,335

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$185,000

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2012

2014

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$185,000

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$210,000

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$155,000

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$185,000

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$159,828

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Ave. Sales Price By County first 6 months

2012

2014

% CHANGE

Regional MLS

$221,238

$235,335

6%

Buncombe

$247,150

$268,021

8%

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$182,181

$178,003

-2%

Henderson

$202,184

$216,810

7%

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The Pisgah National Forest, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and even the Blue Ridge Parkway own or influence great areas of land that are off limits to developers. The Parkway even has mapped out its “viewshed” to determine where an undesirable development might be placed. That project, in conjunction with the National Park Services (funding) and the N.C. State University School of Design, created a detailed map of land that might be purchased by various conservancy groups to protect the Parkway’s scenic beauty.

And while all that is well and certainly intended for the public good, it is just one more program that could further reduce the amount of mountain land available for private ownership. In the law of supply and demand, the supply didn’t grow much in the past five years and now the demand is back. So we have higher prices and a shortage of good houses in many price ranges and locations.

Looking at the residential market only, both new and existing homes, for the first six months of this year versus the same period in prior years, prices are up seven percent from last year, first six-month sales are up four percent and sales in the five major counties in the WNC Regional MLS reached $735.5 million versus $663.6 million in 2013.

The type of housing in demand in various areas shows some marked differences. Green is the thing in Asheville but nowhere else. A sample of new construction sales in Asheville from March 1st to July 7th shows 28 new homes closed in all price ranges, 13 of which were described by the seller as “green” or “energy efficient.”

In the same time frame in Henderson County there were 21 new construction sales of which none used the green or energy efficient labels. The same thing is seen in Haywood County, but the sample is small with just five new home sales. Again, none were labeled green or energy efficient, not even the new house that sold for more than $1.1 million.

Why the focus on green in Asheville? You might as well ask why doesn’t Brevard have a Friday night drum circle, or why aren’t tattoos popular in Hendersonville.

Asheville is a bit different and it is the dynamic engine that drives the economy of the region. Trends and innovation tend to happen first in Asheville. As green becomes more and more popular, builders and buyers will spread the word to outlying areas where land might be less expensive.

Not coincidentally, Asheville is also the home of the Western North Carolina Green Building Council (WNCGBC), the nonprofit 501(c)(3) that dispenses assistance, information, and certifications to the public and to would-be green builders. WNCGBC offers multiple levels of participation as well as a full spectrum of services to help buyers along the LEED path.

LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. Levels of certification range from Certified to Silver, Gold, and Platinum. When planning a new home buyers should consult with qualified architects and/or builders as to what

Everyone, it seems, is in the real estate website game including the N.C. Mountains MLS system. That website has two sides. One faces inward and is used by member Realtors.

The other side faces outward toward the general public.

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green standard or LEED level, if any, they should build. Western North Carolina is blessed with a moderate climate that, depending on the building, might make some choices too expensive and totally unnecessary, while others are so obvious they’re no-brainers. But you’ll never know if you don’t ask.

So where are the new home communities? We picked five to look at. Together they represent homes ranging from $350,000 to over $1 million.

Grand Highlands at Bearwallow Mountain

Western North Carolina is full of communities with grand views and Grand Highlands possibly has the best of all. The community features high-end view lots with prices starting in the $200,000 range, as well as woodland lots from as little as $78,000.

A new community within the community is The Lanterns, consisting of just half a dozen summer log cabins set in the scenic and natural woodlands area. All lot owners, regardless of price and location, have membership rights to the incredibly beautiful Grand Highlands Clubhouse. Residents have regular social get-togethers and share the common experience of mountain living just 20 minutes from either Asheville or Hendersonville. Grand Highlands is wooded but features a large natural pasture that dates back at least to the early 1800s. During the Civil War, elements of the Union Army used the pasture to graze their horses and to this day it is still equestrian country.

The Ramble Biltmore Forest

The Ramble is a new home community in Asheville conceived by Jack Cecil and the design team at Biltmore Farms. The Ramble is a 1,000-acre residential development.

The community has an extensive network of parks and trails, and much of the acreage is permanently preserved as pristine woodlands. The Ramble is located just off of Hendersonville Road in South Asheville, less than 1.5 miles from Biltmore Park Town Square via a private south gate. Homesites start in the low hundreds while completed homes range into the low millions.

The Boulders in Hendersonville

The Boulders, a new gated mountain community growing just North of downtown Hendersonville, brings a high-standard of development to the vital HendersonvilleAsheville corridor. The development is divided into neighborhoods that will be developed as demand requires. Currently offered homesites range in price from $69,000 to $100,000. The Boulders is the creation of Peter Brower, a developer who has been in the business for more than fifty years. Brower’s most recently completed project is the boutique 10-home Vance Gap Forest community on Town Mountain Road in Asheville.

Mountain Air Country Club in Burnsville

It can be an exhilarating experience to fly a light plane into the 2,875 ft. runway at the Mountain Air Country Club near Burnsville. The airstrip is private and prior permission is required. You don’t have to come in so spectacularly, of course. Mountain Air is a 35-minute drive from downtown Asheville. The community consists of 1,300 acres of beautiful mountain country that rises to 4,919 feet. Residents enjoy a clubhouse, members’ lodge, mountain market, heated pool, tennis, organic garden, nature center, and family activity and fitness center with a movie theater. If you’re a golfer there is also a manicured golf course. Homesites start at $59,000 and range to $1,050,000. Homes

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Condos and villas are also offered from $185,000 to $930,000.

Fox Run Preserve

Fox Run Preserve is a small, wooded gated community only 10 minutes from downtown Hendersonville with a focus on the beautiful natural surroundings of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Peaceful, and quiet, the 86-acre community consists of 44 homesites and offers a variety of green spaces, from open meadows and gardens to trails that meander around a community pond and through the mature mountain forest. Land/ home packages are available through the Biltmore Farms Cottage Collection from the mid $300,000’s and there is a model home on-site. Homesites for custom homebuilding are also available from $75,000.

How can a visitor know where to land?

The big question many visitors to the area have to face is where to locate? Should they build or buy a summer home in the far reaches of the state, near Murphy, the Nantahala River, Fontana Lake, or Franklin? How about the beautiful mountains in Maggie Valley or the wonderful downtown walking streets of Waynesville or Hendersonville? How about the enchanting forests, woodlands, and lakes in Transylvania County? What about the high country up in Boone and the Watauga County area near Appalachian State University and the great ski resorts? Or something closer to the region’s cultural and business center in Asheville?

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We suggest that, like 87 percent of all property buyers, visitors should do some basic research on the Internet. There are good real estate websites both by local firms and from national sources such as Zillo and Trulia. Also Realtor.com, and a multitude of national real estate franchise websites that link to local offices. Activities in an area are often featured on those local real estate websites as well as on the various Chambers of Commerce websites. If someone is thinking about business in the region, they should check with the local Chamber of Commerce.

Everyone, it seems, is in the real estate website game including the N.C. Mountains MLS system. That website has two sides. One faces inward and is used by member Realtors. The other side faces outward toward the general public. It isn’t the greatest and it doesn’t have lifestyle videos, but it does throw up a lot of stuff on its colorful opening screen. Find it at www.ncmmls.com.

But note, too, that all the other local Realtor websites have the exact same listing data, have profiles of their real estate agents, and might be easier to use.

Outlook

In a word, the outlook is good. Builders are building again, and sales are climbing. Prices are still very favorable and are well below the historic highs. In the higher price ranges there are still more good houses than there are buyers. If you’re looking for that special $800,000+ house, there are plenty of them out there, but they are selling at an ever increasing rate. By this time next year we could easily be in a shortage position in all price ranges.

Paulson was right. If you already own a house, buy another one. And buy it here. Western North Carolina, from Brasstown to Boone, is a wonderful place to work and live.

Bill Fishburne is a Realtor with Beverly-Hanks & Associates and is President of the Hendersonville Board of Realtors.

Though Bill Fishburne is a Realtor, he has no connection to any of the properties mentioned in this article.

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Denver International Airport $25 million upgrade denver

Denver International Airport (DIA) is launching two projects, tallying $25 million, to repair and upgrade its two east-west runways. The airport has four north-south runways and two east-west runways. Money to pay for DIA’s airfield costs, including maintenance of the runways, comes from a combination of federal grants from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and fees paid by airlines that use the airport. Reconstruction of Runway 7-25, one of the airport’s two east-west runways, began in July. The project includes replacing nearly 300 concrete slabs that are showing signs of deterioration. Runway 7-25 is expected

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to reopen August 14th. DIA said it anticipates work to begin August 15th on Runway 8-26, the airport’s second eastwest runway. On the second runway, the airport will replace the lights down the center of the runway and in the touchdown zone with new, energy-efficient LED lighting. The runway will likely be closed through September 30th. It is the third runway at the airport to get new LED lighting. The airport has nearly 24,000 lights on the airfield, 4,000 of which have been upgraded to LEDs during the last four years. The runway upgrade is part of a larger lighting project at the airport that involves replacing more than 5,400 lights at DIA’s east and west parking garages. DIA’s Airport Infrastructure Management division maintains the airport’s six runways, which are comprised of about 1.2 million square yards

of airfield concrete, including more than 150,000 individual concrete slabs. DIA’s runway rehabilitation program inspects, documents, maps, and photographs each individual concrete slab on the airfield every three years for signs of deterioration and compares the actual rate of deterioration of the concrete versus the forecasted life of the slab. In addition, the airfield is inspected daily by airport staff and annually by the FAA.

Facebook, Twitter ads have little sway on purchases nation

According to a recent Gallup survey, advertising on social media outlets like Facebook and Twitter may not be as effective as marketers and the social sites hope. The survey shows that a mere five percent of American consumers say the ads have a big impact on their purchases. The State of the American Consumer report also found that 62 percent of the roughly 18,500 respondents are not influenced at all by the social media ads. However, only 48 percent of millennials claim they are not swayed at

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all, which does not signify a great reality for brands but is slightly stronger than older generations. In addition, the poll found that buyers are more influenced by old school brand campaigns like window displays at brick-and-mortar retailers and television commercials than social ads. Gallup found Americans are more likely to visit a social media website to interact with their friends and family, not brands, and are more often tuning out the advertisements that appear on their feeds. This is clearly not the best news for brands, which spent a combined $5.1 billion on ad space last year, or social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, if the survey results truly represent a majority of Americans. It is important to note that consumers were polled based on responses rather than actual behavior.

Disney Accelerator’s first start-up class los angeles

The L os A ngeles -ba sed Disney Accelerator program, which is powered

by Techstars, announced the 11 companies that will participate in its fi rst class this summer. The 15-week program

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offers mentorship from the Walt Disney Company and other entertainment executives, plus up to $120,000 investment capital and access to resources from across the Mouse House. The following companies will have plenty of room to use their imaginations this summer in Los Angeles before pitching at the Techstars-style Demo Day in September: Cogo, a video monetization solution for content creators; Jogg, an app that allows users to request, acquire, edit, and share video content from their friends; Twigtale, which creates personalized books with accessible expert advice for every major childhood transition; Buzzstarter, which provides a platform for optimizing online distribution on emerging channels; ChoreMonster, which provides a platform for web and mobile that makes chores actually fun for kids; Codarica, which features digital educational products that teach children how to code; Sphero, which creates robotics like the world’s first robotic ball gaming system that you control from your smartphone or tablet; Sidelines, which provides a social network for sports fans that allows users to follow their favorite teams; SnowShoe, to create SnowShoe Stamps, which are small pieces of plastic with “secret digital identities;” TYFFON, an entertainment

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app development company and creator of the ZombieBooth series with more than 25 million total downloads; Ubooly, which provides an interactive, educational soft toy for children that can be controlled through iOS devices. Disney Accelerator mentors include chairman and CEO Robert A. Iger, as well as leaders from throughout the studio in Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, ABC, ESPN, and Walt Disney Imagineering.

Google launches $50 million initiative to get girls to code nation

Google Inc. has publicized a $50 million program designed to encourage girls to program computers. Google’s new Made with Code initiative is also supported by Girl Scouts of the USA, MIT Media Lab, Girls Inc., and the National Center for Women & Information Technology. The company will offer grants to support coding activities at organizations such as the Girl Scouts and the Boys and Girls Clubs. The tech giant wants to show the range of applications programmers might work on. “Nowadays, coding isn’t just a

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Phillies former GM joins committee to speed up baseball nation

The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball is continuing its mission to speed up games and has brought a famous Philadelphia Phillies executive on board to assist with the effort.

Pat Gillick joined the “Pace of Play Committee” recently formed by the independent league that is headquartered in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The committee’s task is to reduce the average

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time and enliven the pace of baseball games in order to enhance the overall fan experience. The panel is also requesting fan suggestions for how to make games shorter. According to the league, more than half of all professional baseball league games last more than three hours, up from an average time of about two and a half hours in the 1970s. The eightteam Atlantic League is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. Its teams include the Camden Riversharks, York Revolution, and Lancaster Barnstormers.

In 2013, the league took several initiatives to speed up their games, including: reducing the amount of time a pitcher has to deliver his next pitch from the moment he receives the ball to 12 seconds from 20 seconds; restricting the number of mound visits that coaches and players can make to chat with the pitcher; and permitting only 90 seconds

to pass between each half-inning from the moment of the third out is made to the moment of the next pitch in the following half-inning. During the 2013 season, the Atlantic League gathered an extensive database of factors that affect average game time and pace of play. The Pace of Play committee, chaired by Tal Smith, is currently reviewing the data.

International planetnaming competition world

The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the world authority that names objects in space, is offering the public the chance to name up to 30 planets from a pre-selected group of 305 extrasolar planets or “exoplanets,” planets outside our solar system, discovered before 2009.

Since the 1920s, the IAU has had the immense task of naming every planetary body spotted by astronomers, including planets, stars, and the more common asteroids, of which there are hundreds of thousands. Typically, the naming system used by the Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature results in some less than memorable planet names, such as Gliese 581g, a potentially habitable exoplanet located 20 light-years away.

However, for the first time, the naming process is open to the public. In July, the IAU, in association with crowd sourcing experts Zooniverse, revealed a worldwide competition to give “popular names to selected exoplanets along with their host stars.” The basic idea is that any registered astronomical society, club, or related nonprofit organization can suggest a name for any of the 305 handpicked planets. The names can be up to 16 letters long and

cannot feature names of living people, names likely to be divisive, or common pet names. The most popular names will then be put forward to an online public poll in March 2015, through the new web platform NameExoWorld, where up to 30 planets will be christened. The new competition the IAU’s first endeavor into internet polling in 2013, when the public was asked to name two newly discovered moons of Pluto. Styx and Kerberos were the chosen names.

St. Louis craft beer dispenser gets big bucks st. louis

Synek Draft Systems, the St. Louisbased startup that developed a beer dispenser that performs functions comparable to a Keurig coffee machine, has

exceeded its Kickstarter goal of $250,000 in the fi rst seven days of its campaign.

As of the morning of July 7th, the Synek dispenser received $323,761 from more than 1,100 individual backers nationwide.

Steve Young, a St. Louis-area entrepreneur, created the Synek dispenser. The machine uses an innovative 128-ounce flexible packaging that can hold carbonated beverages, which fits into a box that can be plugged into the dispenser.

Young said he had initially hoped to tap into a growing market of home brewers to help fund the Kickstarter campaign.

However, after a private funding period designed for that group failed to put up more than $25,000, Young said the Synek team rotated and targeted beer lovers across the world. Young personally put $35,000 into the venture, and said he hopes to raise $2 million from the Kickstarter campaign.

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Soaring helios , amelia e arhart, wright brothers , alberto santos dumont, da vinci ’ s flying contr ap tion .

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h u m a n s h av e s o u g h t t h e skies for millennia . they have obsessed , slaved , and died in th e p u r s u it of th e fe e li ng of peace and weightlessness p r e v i o u s ly f o u n d o n ly i n dreams and legends . caught in limbo between heaven and e a rt h , t e m p t i n g fat e , a n d dancing by the sun .

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uch of this intrigue surfaced in observation of nature. Da Vinci envied the flight of birds which even in modern times can be mimicked but not mastered. His intricate drawings of birds and their wing structure inspired his further concepts of flying machines that would never fly but inspired many to innovate further down the road.

Predating Da Vinci by millions of years, a skeleton found at the Charleston, South Carolina, Airport in 1983 constitutes what is thought to be the largest airborne bird to be discovered thus far. Only recently named as a new species by the Academy of Sciences, it is estimated to have had a 21-foot wing span. Millions of years have passed since its extinction, but today we would be flying only a few hundred miles away from what was once the territory of such an impressive creature. Flying in a glider designed to function as this ancient bird once did, using the wind and air currents as effortlessly as possible.

Built to soar for hours upon hours, riding the currents of air in a world so distant, different, and yet inherently close to our own.

There are both mythical and real tragedies associated with the desire to fly. Helios and Earhart made mistakes that cost them their lives. The Wright brothers and Alberto Santos Dumont certainly experienced many a crash in their obsessions. Fortunes spent and lives lost, yet those brave mad souls persevered in the face of obvious danger.

Pioneers must take risks in pursuit of goals, and are compelled to push on where others might falter, though prudence might dictate otherwise. In any case, this web of bravery, compulsion, and productive insanity has earned humanity the ability to evade the limitations of our own bodies and overcome obstacles of physics. Flight.

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Pre-launch, the glider stands at the ready while the slack line from the winch is tightened and the pilot double-checks his take-off checklist.

sometimes plague us. The task at hand is all that matters.

Arriving at The Downtown Memorial Airport (SPA), a small but pristine site near the junction of 77 South and Highway 26 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, I was impressed by the welcoming structure and flight tower itself. Designated a Class D (reflective of size and capacity though not quality) airport, the location is a convenient hour and a half from Asheville as well as Charlotte.

A mere hop considering the experience that awaits.

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Liftoff occurs in under 3 seconds, leaving little time for anything but focus on the glider itself.

is used for personal aircraft and the fine sport of soaring.

I was warmly greeted by Buck Arnold, who orchestrated the day of adventure, along with several other members of the Carolina Soaring Association. A short tour of the premises displayed an efficient space designed with vision and an eye for function. The modern structure contained a briefi ng and conference room and a flight observation tower, which provided a grand vantage of the various runways and preparations going on on the various strips and concourses. Murals and photos showed the rise of an airport predominantly for mail transport and regional service, followed by a lull and some dysfunction, followed by a rebirth of what is now a beacon of municipal efforts in the region.

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The glider is pitched upwards at about 45 degrees to gain as much altitude as possible before the winch cord is released.

At the exact moment when the glider passes over the winch, the cord is automatically released and the flier is officially in the hands of the thermals.

a fellowship of flyers

driven many back to the skies time and time again.

While the CSA members I met were a merry bunch, excited by the achievement of their passion, there was an underlying tone of professionalism and overt adherence to procedure.

They are there for the pleasure of the experience as well as the camaraderie, and keeping your friends safe is an important point of loyalty in all pursuits.

The Carolina Soaring Association (CSA) was founded twenty years ago. Starting with only a few members, the ranks have since expanded to 86 members, with 30 consistently active and flying. The club owns two gliders in addition to having 14 members with wings of their own. The eclectic group’s ages span from teens to retirees, with many nationalities represented. They banter and quip like brothers. Dry humor and good nature abounds with this bunch. This soaring around seems like therapy of the sky, both recuperative and addictive.

As one long time member, Rob, said to me after my fi rst fl ight “once it gets you it doesn’t let up.” This passion seems to have

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top : In a banking right turn, the view down the starboard wing. bottom : Two members

of the club landing after a training session.

facing page : Uly sits in the winch’s safety cage while launching the glider.

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position. The glider itself is a polymer composite structure, both rigid and lightweight, as tight tolerances are essential for control and safety. Designs vary in both wing spans and design including those built for racing and acrobatics. While the sport is also known as sky sailing, the consequences of equipment failure would be tragic in comparison to flipping a catamaran (which I have been known to do on occasion).

Sailplanes can be equipped with oxygen to allow for the achievement of greater altitudes.

Two methods are used for setting a sailplane to flight. It can be towed behind a powered plane or

info man ual S PARTAN B U RG DOWNTOWN AIRPORT (SPA) Airspace Type: Class D Communication Type: UNICOM VHF Frequency: 123.00 MHz Runway Direction: 23 & 05

GLIDER FACTS Potential Flight Duration (at SPA): 5-6 hours World Record Duration: 56 hours & 15 minutes April 2–4, 1952 Charles Atger Arsenal Air 100 Average Ceiling for Glider operation: 30,000 MSL (Measured Sea Level) Age Requirements to fly glider: 14+ years old (to ensure that you can reach the rudder pedals)

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thrown into the sky by a winch system such as the one fitted together and tuned by Uly Neumann, a German gentlemen of significant engineering prowess. The winch is the preferred method of takeoff for the Carolina Soaring Association.

Built for torque, the big block winch puts out 450 ft/lbs of torque on a single-gear box. It has the bearing of a hotrod and is equally loud. Uly has had the motor tested on a dyno system to ensure his numbers are accurate, stating that: “As an engineer you don’t want to guess. You need to know.” A synthetic spectra cable rated for incredibly high tolerances and durability is utilized as a tow line. Lighter and more durable than steel, the line has minimal stretch to keep the tension consistent during the 2.5 seconds it takes this roaring engine to tow you (throw you) into the sky.

Much of the appeal of the winch system revolves around cost and efficiency.

Throughout Europe, where fuel is significantly more expensive, there are roughly 2,500 winches in operation compared to the 50 used in the United States. The winch

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system excels at getting more pilots up in the air throughout the course of the day, making for a lot of very happy glider pilots, both from the additional trips up and the remnant beer money in their pockets from the lowered cost of operation. I could sense their excitement even after years of experience and knew I was in for a treat.

my turn I have always admired the flying arts and get quite a rush on the rare occasion when I get to tag along. To draw contrast with my previous experiences of skydiving and paragliding, soaring exceeds both in grace, emotion, and duration.

While skydiving I could not wait to jump out of the duck taped Cessna, in which the pilot was already wearing a parachute as though he expected the plane to disintegrate at any moment. Quite different is the sport of paragliding, in which the chute is already open and you run off of a cliff, which was a floating ecstasy that was altogether too brief. In either case: The moment of pushing off the landing gear into freefall, or sprinting down the slope towards the steep drop off of a mountain, is a moment of contemplation and reflection where one realizes asking whether that ‘This, objectively, is a very stupid thing to do.’

In preparing for my first skysailing experience I had or not i no such foreboding. The efficacy of gliding is proven should climb both in history and natural origin. The physics of in felt simil ar the sport seemed logical, inherently interesting, and with the obvious confidence and competence in requesting of the CSA members, safe. a dance with Approaching this composite winged creature I noticed similarities to more familiar prop planes someone else ’ s in the rudders and controls. Scott Fletcher, my girlfriend the pilot temporary guardian, is also an instructor. His nonchalant and yet attentive nature was reassuring response was in likeness to a ship’s captain in the face of stormy basically that seas. The weather was by no means perfect, but i was allowed Scott seemed unphased, and by proxy, so was I. Asking whether or not I should climb in felt a dance but similar in requesting a dance with someone else’s to maintain girlfriend. The response was basically that I was allowed a dance but to maintain a respectful disa respectful tance. A bright red lever on my right stared at me, distance and I was about to ask as Scott interrupted “most of all don’t touch that. It will jettison the cockpit canopy.” I got the point. “Ready” was radioed to Uly and the slack was slowly pulled out of the line. A distant roar followed by a rapid thrust forward and then up.

My thoughts as the glider catapulted away were incoherent, and the sensation gave me goose bumps, though feathers might have been more appropriate, and a euphoric rush of adrenaline opened my awareness to the details which surrounded me. The angle of ascent was a steep 45-degree climb, pressing my body forcefully into the seat. Leveling off, the pressure subsided and my ears adjusted to the altitude.

Soaring about and browsing the intermittent clouds my brain began to function normally, or as normally as it gets for me. ‘This has to be the closest experience to the flight of a bird.’ The flight that occasionally comes in dreams can’t quite compare to the sensation of soaring.

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Sky Captain Scott asked if I would like to take control for a moment and that sounded splendid albeit ill-advised.

Feeling the tension of the wind and testing the controls in different directions was a very liberating feeling. To Scott, I’m sure it felt like riding tandem with a toddler on a tricycle and, after a patient window of letting me fumble but not fall, he took back the controls and put us into a steep banking turn swooping towards earth and then sky as our acceleration and the currents lifted us up again. The g-forces added vigor to the overall grace.

We did not have a long fl ight as the thermals and currents did not allow for further travel, yet as we circled back towards the Spartanburg airport I felt anything but disappointment. The crescent path that brought us into the line of our landing allowed one last peek at the horizon and a sweeping view of the airport below. The descent was far more gradual, but, never the less, the ground came quickly, and a soft landing by an experienced guide ended our exhilarating journey.

The cockpit popped open, and I sat for a few moments contemplating what I had just seen and felt. Buck called out, “So what do you think!” I, for once, was at a loss for words. My expression seemed to satisfy as a response. I can only imagine that, in the words of a good friend, I was “grinnin’ like a fox eatin’ yella jackets.”

The Carolina Soaring Association provides ample proof that adventure is still alive and well in the minds and practices of Americans. Embracing the long tradition of testing the skies continues in the Carolinas in a way that would make the Wright brothers proud.

A little danger and daring are essential parts of the American experience, and a club that crosses gender and generations warrants accolades for playing an active role keeping this spirit alive and well. All we can do is try to keep up.

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August July 31-august 2 Mountain Dance & Folk Festival

July 31-august 3 Mountain Piecemakers Quilt Guild Quilt Show

7pm diana wortham theatre, pack place, 2 south pack sq, asheville, nc

times vary burnsville town center , 6 south main street, burnsville, nc

Since 1928, mountain fiddlers, banjo pickers, dulcimer sweepers, dancers, balladeers, and others have come to enjoy themselves “along about sundown” at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival. In 2014, performers at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival will take to the stage for the 87th annual festival.

One of the most celebrated heritage crafts of the Appalachian Mountains are handmade quilts. Some of the best of these can be found at the annual Quilt Show held in historic Burnsville. The beauty of these painstakingly intricate quilts will both amaze and intrigue you. Art almost always evokes a curiosity about the mind and life of the artist behind the craft, a wonder about or a revelation of why it resonates so deeply with us. Mountain Piecemakers Quilt Guild was founded in 1997 to promote and preserve the art and history of quilts, foster quilt making in all its forms, teach quilt making, and further skills of quilters.

admission: adults $20 , children (12 & under) $10 , package for all three nights: adults $54 | children $24

July 31-august 3 Art & Antiques Show 10 am - 6 pm blowing rock art & history museum , 159 chestnut street, blowing rock , nc The Blowing Rock Art and History Museum is hosting its eighth annual Art and Antiques Show. Vendors from across the East Coast will bring a variety of items, such as porcelain, fine and folk art, antique furniture, jewelry, silver and more. Additional highlights will include an informal presentation

by Schatzie Crowther, curator from Ayr Mount, an 1815 Federal-era plantation house restored and furnished with period antiques and fi ne art located in Hillsborough, North Carolina. This talk will take place in the Community Meeting Room at 2pm on Saturday. Tickets may be purchased at the door.

admission: $10 (entry for weekend) www.blowingrockmuseum.org

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“Above the Horizon” Artist Reception reception 5 -7:30 pm millard & company, 22 depot street, tryon , nc In August, the skies will turn red, orange, pink, and gold during an exhibit of paintings by Tryon artist Vicki Van Vynckt.

The show will include over twenty oil paintings of sunrises and sunsets that were inspired by the six years the artist spent living in New Mexico. Live, improvisational music will be performed on keyboard by Weaverville musician Aurora Fox. The exhibit will run until September 5th. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9-5pm.

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Saint Saëns Organ Symphony 7:30 pm brevard music center , brevard, nc Conductor Ken Lam kicks off the fi nal weekend, leading the Brevard Concert Orchestra in a performance of two powerful works. Violinist Noah BendixBalgley joins the orchestra to perform Khatchuturian’s Violin Concerto. After Intermission, the orchestra will present a rare performance of Saint-Saëns’s “Organ” Symphony.

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august 1-2 58th Annual Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair town square, burnsville, nc People from all across America know that the place to be on the first Friday and Saturday in August is the charming Town Square of Burnsville, North Carolina.

The Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair is the oldest and largest crafts fair in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Every kind of handmade craft imaginable can be found here... Whether you are looking for a quilt, jewelry from local gemstones, hand-turned wooden bowls, pottery of every shape and size made by skilled artists. Stop by the Heritage Hollow tent to take a walk back in time. The Food Court along with nearby restaurants offer a wide array of delicious food all within easy walking distance.

For the fourth year the Burnsville Town Center is opening their doors and offering an air conditioned oasis with clean restrooms, tables to eat your fair food, and a place to relax and rest your weary feet.

admission: free 828 - 682-7413 www.yanceychamber .com

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NC Mineral & Gem Festival thurs-sat 10 am - 6 pm sun 12:30 - 5pm 12183 s 226 hwy, spruce pine, nc Thousands of visitors from across the country come to shop, swap and discover beautiful jewelry, gemstones, minerals, fossils, and more in Spruce Pine.

admission: $3 kids under 10 are free august 2-3

42nd Annual Village Art & Craft Fair all souls cathedral , biltmore village, nc The fair hosts 125 artists from 20 states representing the full spectrum of craft media: jewelry, ceramic, wood, fiber, metals, two-dimensional art, and more.

admission: free

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Black Light Tour aug 2 at 9pm | aug 30 at 8 :30 pm emerald village, 331 mckinney mine rd, little switzerland, nc Emerald Village offers nighttime underground mine tours that unlock vibrant hidden colors available only under ultraviolet light, commonly called black light.

The brilliant coatings in the Bon Ami Mine are largely deposits of Hyalite Opal, a true form of opal found in this area.

Under shortwave ultraviolet light, these coatings fluoresce or glow a vivid lime green. The effect, underground at night, is stunning. There are other fluorescent minerals there, too, including feldspar that glows pink to red, mangan-apatite that glows cream to orange, and a rare

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phosphorescent blue mineral which, so far, has not been identified. This location is home to some of the world’s largest deposits of Hyalite Opal, and the only known underground Hyalite Opal deposits open to the public. Reservations are recommended, and be sure to wear comfortable walking shoes. The tour is a 30-40 minute guided tour, led by one of Emerald Village’s professional staff. The special lights, flashlights, and safety glasses are provided. Since it is necessary to have complete darkness for the tour, the beginning time varies with the season.

admission: adults $15 . 00 | students $10 . 00 pre-school students free

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The King and I showtimes vary parkway playhouse, 202 green mountain drive, burnsville, nc The King & I is a dramatic, richly textured and ultimately uplifting tale of enormous fascination. It is 1862 in Siam when an English widow, Anna Leonowens, and her young son arrive at the Royal Palace in Bangkok, having been summoned by the King to serve as tutor to his many children and wives. The King is largely considered to be a barbarian by those in the West, and he seeks Anna’s assistance in changing his image, if not his ways.

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august 3

Beer Camp Across America 1– 6 pm

sierra nevada brewing co, 100 sierra nevada way, mills river , nc This traveling beer festival aims to be the largest craft beer celebration in history. It is designed to bring together craft brewers and the beer fans that have contributed to the success of the craft beer movement. Moving its way from west to east, and enjoying plenty of stops in between, Beer Camp Across America starts and finishes at Sierra Nevada’s two breweries, with its seventh and final stop at Sierra Nevada’s Mills River Brewery, which will also serve as the Grand Opening celebration for the new state of the art brewery. Tickets are on sale now at but are limited at 5,000. General admission tickets include unlimited tasting and a tasting glass.

general admission tickets: $65 designated driver tickets: $30 sierranevada .com/beercamp august 6

Fly Fishing Skills: Casting for Beginners II 10 am -3 pm pisgah center for wildlife education , 1401 fish hatchery rd, pisgah forest, nc

So you’ve learned the basics of casting.

Join the knowledgeable and experienced staff for a day at Lake Imaging in DuPont State Forest for more advanced casting techniques. All equipment and materials are provided, and be sure to bring a lunch.

This event is open to people 12 years and older. Please call for reservations.

admission: free 828 - 877- 4423

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1 Million Cups of Coffee Asheville 9am -10 am moJo coworking , 60 n market street, asheville, nc Details of this exciting event are still in development, but essentially, 1 Million Cups is a simple way to engage entrepreneurs in communities around the world.

During each event, the 1 Million Cups program offers two local entrepreneurs an opportunity to present their startups to a diverse audience of mentors, advisors, and entrepreneurs. 1 Million Cups Asheville is being developed through a collaboration of Mojo Coworking, Venture Asheville, EC Biz Solutions, and JB Media Group. Presenters prepare a six minute educational presentation and engage in twenty minutes of feedback and questioning after they present.

www. advantagewest.com/ entrepreneurship august 7

A Pirate Party Hullabaloo 6 pm -10 pm 12 old charlotte highway, asheville, nc This pirate themed evening of music, food, drinks, and fun will benefit six youth arts education programs locally and globally.

LEAF brings multicultural experiences and arts education to Asheville and Buncombe County, through the twice-annual LEAF Festival, Benefit of Culture, other special events, and its two main arts outreach programs: LEAF Schools & Streets and LEAF International. A pirate costume contest, silent auction, two live bands, and performing artists are all on the docket for this family friendly event.

admission: $35 - $75 828 - 686 - 8742 www. highlandbrewing .com www.theleaf.com

august 8

Pub and Grub Crawl 2pm - 5pm black mountain , nc Start your weekend early by signing up for this walking food tour. Participants will visit six local pubs, breweries, and restaurants partaking in local beer and unique, local food tastings in downtown Black Mountain. Enjoy the leisurely stroll while sipping, tasting, and exploring your way through the hidden culinary and historic gem of the city.

admission: $40 creativemountainfoodtours .com august 9

Painting your Story Quilt 9am - 4 pm 431 main street, chimney rock , nc Quilt making is an art form that spans multiple centuries and a variety of cultures. Learn and develop techniques to illustrate your own story through color, texture, and pattern with a narrative painting. Share your story by creating a unique wall hanging for your home or a friend. Talented local artist Nora Mosrie leads the workshop. No previous art or sewing experience required.

Materials provided, but participants may also bring their own keepsakes to incorporate in the art. Advance registration is required. Price includes $25 materials fee and park admission.

admission: $65 adult, $50 annual passholder chimneyrockpark .com august 7- 9

Disney’s Aladdin, Jr. thurs & fri 7pm | sat 2pm harvest house performing arts venue, 247 boone heights dr , boone, nc Beanstalk Community Theatre presents the classic tale of Aladdin and Jasmine and their adventures in Agrabah. Other favorite characters include Genie, Jafar, Iago, Sultan, and many more. Enjoy listening to other classic songs like “Friend Like Me” and “A Whole New World” during this show.

admission: $10 - $14 beanstalkcommunitytheatre.com

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august 9

RiverFest 1pm -7pm

french broad river park , 508 riverview dr , asheville, nc

Plan a great day out at the French Broad River Park in West Asheville, with live music, dancing, face painting, food trucks, craft beers, and arts and crafts.

Our favorite is the Anything that Floats Parade competition. Cheer on the parade rafters or gather your crew and join for the wildest, wackiest event of the summer. Judges will select a winner in each of the four categories: Most Creative, Green Machine, Funniest, and Judges’ Choice. Registration, fees, and details at can be found on the event website.

admission: free Join the parade: $20 per boat riverlink.org/experience/riverfest

august 9 -10

Sourwood Festival sat 9am - 8 pm | sun 9am - 5pm

downtown black mountain, nc

There’s always plenty to see and do at this street festival, including great music and lots of fun, and of course lots of great mountain cookin’. This event is alcohol-free.

admission: free www.sourwoodfestival .com august 9 & 23

Grandfather Mountain Sunrise Opportunity grandfather mountain ,

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Mountain’s peaks as the sun rises and sets. Participants in sunrise sessions will pay the $10 fee plus regular gate admission, which will be refunded if they depart before the park opens. Space is limited, and registration is required.

admission: $10 $5 for bridge club members with proof of membership events @ grandfather .com 828 -733 -2013 august 9, 16 , 23 & 30

Shindig on the Green 7pm -10 pm pack square park , asheville, nc Musicians and dancers from across Western North Carolina gather on these Saturday nights to share the region’s stirring Southern Appalachian mountain culture and traditions with each other and visitors from around the world at the Shindig on the Green in downtown Asheville. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and stake out a spot on the “green.”

admission: free

august 15 -16

Dirty Dancing Festival friday 7-10 pm saturday 9am - 4 pm lake lure, nc The Dirty Dancing Festival will feature a free Lakeside Screening of Dirty Dancing at Morse Park Meadows on Friday beginning at 7pm. The Festival on Saturday will have live music, a lake lift competition, games, dance lessons, a beer and wine garden, crafts, and much more. Attendees are encouraged to come to scenic Lake Lure to dance, eat, drink, golf, enjoy great live music, attempt their own ‘Lake Lift,’ carry a watermelon or two, and ultimately have the ‘time of their lives.’

admission: adult $22 . 00 child (12 and under) $12 www.dirtydancingfestival.com

august 16

Art in the Park 10 am - 5pm

behind blowing rock city park blowing rock , nc

Blowing Rock Art in the Park is now in its 52nd year, featuring 100 juried artists that exhibit a series of art and fine handcraft. The artists work includes: painting (oil, watercolor and acrylic), etching, stained and blown glass, basketry, wood carving and turning, clay, photography, fiber, jewelry, and more.

admission: free www. blowingrock .com august 21-23

Asheville Wine & Food Festival various locations in downtown asheville The finest regional, national, and international wines, exceptional local restaurants, craft beer and spirits, and handcrafted artisanal foods for three days of palate-pleasing indulgence.

admission: $55 - $70 ashevillewineandfood.com august 21-24 & 28 -31

Uniquely Local Food Crawl

haywood county The only thing better than reaping the tasty rewards of another bountiful harvest season in the Great Smoky Mountains is sharing every delicious bite with our visitors and locals alike.

Participating “Farm to Table” partners will create specialty menu items featuring fresh “Farm to Table” flavors, from innovative small plates to home grown libations. Over the two weekends, Buy Haywood’s “Uniquely Local Food Crawl” event will crisscross Haywood County, North Carolina, highlighting the rich

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farming and agricultural heritage of the community while offering a variety of epicurean adventures. A full listing of participants and flavors will be featured on Buy Haywood’s website.

admission: prices vary 828 -734 - 9574 www. buyhaywood.com / uniquely- local- food - crawl august 22-23

Speaking of Gardening Symposium 8 :30 am - 4 pm nc arboretum , 100 frederick law olmsted way, asheville, nc The 2014 Speaking of Gardening event will host a group of speakers whose renowned horticultural experience and design philosophies will be of significant interest to professionals and garden enthusiasts. Inspiring lectures on creative design, innovative horticulture practices, and unique plant specimens are the focus of this two-day event. Other highlights are book signings by the speakers and live and silent auctions of rare and unusual plants. Table displays by sponsors will give patrons an opportunity to purchase from suppliers of plants and products in the region.

admission: $165 828 -275 -1751 sabra106@ charter . net august 23 -september 6 Treasure Island

showtimes vary parkway playhouse, 202 green mountain drive, burnsville, nc This swashbuckling and wild yarn about piracy on the high seas centers on Jim Hawkins, a fourteen-year-old boy who longs for adventure, and the infamous

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Long John Silver, who is at once good and evil, perhaps the most famous pirate of all time.

admission: adults $18 -22 children (17 & under) $10 -12 828 - 682- 4285 www. parkwayplayhouse.com august 29 -september 1

NC Apple Festival 10 am -10 pm downtown hendersonville, nc

This street festival features more than 150 vendors lining eight blocks of the main event area with continuous entertainment. The King Apple Parade, always held on Labor Day, culminates the Main Street activities.

admission: free www. ncapplefestival .org august 30

High Country Half Marathon 7:30 am -11am boone, nc The High Country Triple Crown is celebrating its tenth year of existence as the premier running series in the High Country. The Triple Crown consists of three races of varying difficulty and terrain. All races showcase the scenery of the North Carolina mountains. Runners are encouraged to complete all three races for special prizes and reduced fees. Runners who compete all three Triple Crown events are eligible for over $1,500 in cash prizes.

One-hundred-percent of the proceeds from The High Country Triple Crown will benefit Girls on the Run of the High Country. The Half Marathon will begin in Appalachian State University’s Kidd Brewer Stadium. For route description and other details, please visit the website below.

admission: $50 - $60 triplecrown . appstate. edu

august 30

Baconfest 2014 12- 4 pm

highland brewing co. (outdoor meadow ) 12 old charlotte hwy, asheville, nc The 2nd annual BaconFest, a celebration of all things pork organized by 105.9 The Mountain, will be a day of bacon-flavored *everything*—complete with Highland Brewing craft beer, music, and much more. Proceeds from ticket sales benefit Blue Ridge Food Ventures.

admission: $30 vip $15 general admission children 9 & under are free 1059themountain .com august 31

LAAFF Festival north lexington ave in downtown asheville Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival (LAAFF) is an experience for the whole family. Kids will enjoy making art, dancing, getting their faces painted and having fun all day long. There will also be bicycle jousting, local brews, along with an eclectic culinary and artistic experience. There will be lots of fun new vendors as well as old favorites with plenty of variety. No pets, biking, skating, or outside alcohol is allowed within the festival area.

admission: free

august 31

Mile High Kite Festival 10 am - 4 pm

meadow at the top of beech mountain next to the brick oven pizzeria

The Beech Mountain Chamber of Commerce hosts this annual festival as part of the town’s Labor Day Weekend

festivities. The party starts the night before with a street dance outside the Beech Mountain Town Hall. Located 5,506 feet above sea level, Beech Mountain’s elevation almost guarantees great breezes for flying kites. Two recognized kite clubs, one from Charlotte and one from Richmond, Virginia, will be on hand to demonstrate flying techniques, staff kite clinics, and help folks build their own kites. Free kites will be given to the first 150 children under the age of 13. Prizes are given to novice flyers for the biggest kite flown, the most original handmade kite flown, the kite to fly the highest, and whatever other categories the organizers can dream up.

800 - 468 - 5506 www. beechmtnchamber .com admission: free | parking: $5

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