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CONTENTS Unique Destinations Less Than 200 Miles From Home
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The History of Scottish Games
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Chasing the Dragon
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Local Treasure, Philly Feel
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Babe Ruth Home Run Centennial Celebration
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Film Junkies Guide to North Carolina Robbinsville - Graham County
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Visit the Ava Gardner Museum
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Along the Way
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Unique Destinations Less Than 200 Miles From Home The 254th Anniversary of the Attack on Fort Dobbs Mar 1 – 2, Fort Dobbs, 438 For t Dobbs Road, Statesville, NC 28625. Re- enactors representing the provincial garrison and Cherokee warriors will offer ongoing interpretation of 18th Century camp life, as well as featured musket and cannon firing demonstrations. Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 10am-3pm. www.fortdobbs.org Tribute to Madison County NC Fiddlers Sat, March 8, 4pm – 7pm Madison County Arts Center, 90 S Main Street Marshall, NC 28753. Madison County’s premiere event featuring Bobby Hicks, Arvil Freeman, Roger Howell, Vipers’ Dream featuring Adam Masters, Susi Gott, Jake & Sarah Owen and The Sons of Ralph. www.madisoncountyarts.com NC Half Marathon & Twilight 5K Sat, March 8, 10am – 9pm 5555 Concord Parkway South, Concord, NC 28027, The newest addition to the chase is the Twilight 5K! Here’s your chance to get acclimated to the track conditions and grab the pole position as you prepare for the main event, the half marathon, on Sunday! The green flag will wave at 6:30 PM on Saturday evening so make sure your pit crew is prepared for an awesome race weekend experience! www.nchalfmarathon.com Kannapolis Cruise-In Sat, March 8, 3pm – 9pm Downtown Kannapolis, NC 28081 Car lovers can enjoy every make and model of classic car in the quaint setting of downtown Kannapolis. The event is free and family friendly. Concord on Canvas Art Display Sun, March 9, 11am – 12pm Union Street South, Concord, NC 28025, All paintings are on display along Union Stre et and Church Stre et in Historic Downtown Concord. www.concorddowntown.com Wednesdays at PARI Wednesday, Mar 12, 201 1 Pari Drive Rosman, NC 28772 The Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute offers an unparalleled opportunity for people of all ages to experience the wonders of scientific research first hand. PARI volunteers share the history and future of the site. They emphasize the opportunities to explore the universe available through PARI to all ages. Reservations recommended. www.pari.edu Cary Kite Festival Sunday, Mar 9, 801 High House Rd, Cary, NC 27513. For kids of all ages, Bond Park’s Annual Kite Festival is a fun way to spend the afternoon flying your kite. We will have an expert kite flyer on hand for stunt kite demonstrations. Certificates and special awards will be awarded in a variety of kite flying categories. Registration begins at
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Destinations 5th Annual Chili Cook Off Saturday, Mar 15, 500 Sylvan Heights Park Way, Scotland Neck, NC 27874. Enter your own favorite recipe and compete to be this year’s winner or just come and sample the fare. An entertaining and great get together for everyone. Don’t miss it! Interested in entering? Contact info@shwpark.com www.shwpark.com Classic Car Cruise-In-Old Fort Saturday, Mar 15, 25 West Main Old Fort, NC 28762 Held the 3rd Saturday of every month at Hardee’s in Old Fort. Classics, Street Rod, Muscle Car, Antiques, Sports Cars, and Motorcycles welcome. 3-6 p.m.; free. Sponsored by Route 70 Cruisers. For more information, call 828-442-5135 or visit www.route70cruisers.com. Tribute to Madison County NC Fiddlers Sat, March 15, 4pm – 7pm Madison County Arts Center, 90 S Main Street Marshall, NC 28753 Madison County’s premiere event featuring Bobby Hicks, Arvil Freeman, Roger Howell, Vipers’ Dream featuring Adam Masters, Susi Gott, Jake & Sarah Owen and The Sons of Ralph. www.madisoncountyarts.com Stop, Sip & Savor Wine Hop Sunday, Mar 16, 2240 South Creek Road, Nebo, NC 28761. Blaze your own trail to four unique & boutique wineries! Purchase your ticket online & then start the journey by collecting your hop card at any of the participating wineries -- Belle Nicho Winery and South Creek Winery in Nebo, Lake James Cellars in Glen Alpine, and Silver Fork Winery in Morganton. Then sip as you collect a stamp at all four. At your fourth winery you visit, receive a unique crafted gift to savor the memories of your journey. By visiting all four wineries, you will also be entered into a drawing for a chance to win four $25.00 gift certificates. All participating wineries are conveniently located off I-40 between exits 94 & 100. www.southcreekwinery.com Chasing the Dragon Hill Climb Mar 22 – 23, Robbinsville, NC. Chasing The Dragon Hillclimb VI is a Sports Car Club of America Time Trial event – competition licensed drivers in prepared sports cars race one at a time up a 2-mile mountain road in class competition. The course is located near the Cherohala Skyway & Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in beautiful Robbinsville, the county-seat of Graham County, NC. The road race is on the edge of the Nantahala Forest, where spectators, course workers and drivers enjoy some of Nor th Carolina’s most beautiful mountain scenery! This race is sanctioned by the Central Carolina Region and the Southeast Division of Spor ts Car Club of America. www.dragonhillclimb.com Easter Bunny Express Mar 23 – 24, 201 North Carolina Transportation Museum 411 South Salisbury Avenue Spencer, NC 28159 Join the North Carolina Transportation Museum for two full weekends of Easter fun! Come take a ride on the Easter Bunny Express! The Easter Bunny will be riding alongside children and their parents, while handing out candy for the kids. Children can also get temporary tattoos and make a craft to take home. In addition to the Easter Bunny Express, on March 30th only, the event
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Destinations Springtime Kid’s Climb Saturday, Mar 29, 431 Main St, Chimney Rock, NC 28720. Get a taste of rock climbing and experience Chimney Rock from a new perspective with the Southeast’s leader in rock climbing education, Fox Mountain Guides. Kids (ages 7-15) climb for half price with 20-minute “tasters” on Vista Rock at this fun, family-friendly event, weather permitting. Convenient, walk-up access to climbing for the whole family to try! Beginners welcome, and no experience is necessary. All equipment is provided. Book a 2-hour or longer climbing lesson anytime with Fox Mountain Guides at (888) 284-8433. chimneyrockpark.com Freemont Daffodil Festival Sat, March 29, 10am – 7pm Fremont, NC 27830. Bring the whole family and join in on the fun, food, crafts, and entertainment! Special performances by the Coastline Band and the fabulous Monitors. See the Art Show, Kid’s Alley, and of course; Daffodils! www.fremontdaffodilfestival.com The NC Pickle Festival Princess Pageant Sat, March 29, 6pm – 9pm 139 South Center Street, Goldsboro, NC 27530. The NC Pickle Festival Princess Pageant has been featured on ABC’s Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson, MTV, Pageantry Magazine and more! The NC Pickle Princess Court will be an honored guest at the North Carolina Pickle Festival and many other exciting events throughout the year. www.goldsboroparamount.com Hops Around Greensboro Apr 1 – May 1, Greensboro, NC. Visit Greensboro during NC Beer Month, for Hops Around Greensboro. Festivals, brewery visits, city tours, culinary events and other activities are schedule for the entire month of April. www.visitgreensboronc.com/ events/hops-around-greensboro April is North Carolina Beer Month Apr 1 – 30, April is North Carolina Beer Month, and we’re celebrating all things beer. Come explore all the unique offerings in one of America’s best states for craft brewing. Check out our site to find all you need to know about festivals, special events, breweries, restaurants, hotels and tour packages all month long. Cheers! www.ncbeermonth.com AutoFair at Charlotte Motor Speedway Apr 3 – 6, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord Parkway South, Concord, NC. The AutoFair annually attracts more than 100,000 visitors. More than 1,500 collectible vehicles of all makes and models will be available for sale in the car corral that rings the 1.5-mile superspeedway. The AutoFair will also feature a collector car auction. www.charlottemotorspeedway.com Hook, Line, and Beer - Mountain Trout Fishing Tournament Apr 3 – 6, 565 Aquone Road, Andrews, NC 28901. You’ll have tough duty in Cherokee County this weekend - fishing for trout in the morning and then kicking back next to the fire with a pint of craft beer at Andrews Brewing Company! www.andrewsbrewing.com/#hook-line-beer
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The History of Scottish Games
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odern Scottish Festivals have their roots in the middle ages. We have reports of athletic competition (“Games”) at many times and places when people gathered together; fairs, military musters (“wapenschaws”), even funerals! Games which now feature track and field events, music, and dance have been held in the village of Ceres (in Fife) since shortly after the battle of Bannockburn in 1314.
Scottish Games as we know them today began to develop in 1781 when the Highland Society of Falkirk sponsored prize money and trophies for competitions in dancing, piping, and athletics during the town’s Fall Fair. In 1818 a Games was presented in St. Fillan’s with piping, athletics, and dancing (including the Sword Dance for the first time). Within a few years Gatherings were being held at many towns throughout Scotland. Many of these Gatherings are still being held today. The increasing popularity of these events eventually led to attempts to standardize the rules of competition and judging. Sanctioning bodies were formed to develop uniform rules and maintain records, Highland dancing, piping, and drumming teachers and judges stand for regular examinations to maintain their certification. With renewed interest in Scottish harp and fiddle their sanctioning organizations are seeing new growth. As Scots immigrated to far-flung lands they took their sport and
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culture with them. Tradition tells us t h at Game s were held near Ellerbe, North Carolina in the late 1700s; most sources state that t h e fi r s t G a m e s i n t he U. S . we r e presented by Scottish emigrants living in Boston in By 1861 at least three other Caledo1853. One source does state that the nian Clubs had joined Boston – New Boston Scots had been meeting for York, Philadelphia, and Newark, New “traditional games” for several years Jersey. The Civil War delayed the before that. There is also a descrip- spread of these events, but by 1875 tion of the “First Sportive Meet” of Highland Games were being held the Highland Society of New York in in at least 125 communities across the Emigrant and Old Countryman America. These “Caledonian Games” of October 19, 1836 which gives generally included competitions in some indication that regular com- dancing, music, and athletics; the athpetition took place during the first letics could include foot races, hurdle half of the 19th Century. races, wrestling, pole-vaulting, high and long jump, hop, skip and jump, putting the heavy stone, throwing Celebrating more than the hammer and the light and heavy 250 years in history… weights and turning the caber. ural Hill is located at 4431 Neck Road (off Beatties Ford With the rise in intercollegiate athletRoad) in Huntersville, 28078. The ics in the late 1800s participation at former homestead of Major John Scottish Games went into a decline. and Violet Davidson, the 265 acre Many events folded; the ones that site is maintained and promoted by survived refocused on their cultural Historic Rural Hill Inc. and features heritage and expanded to become annual events such as the Rural Hill Festivals. Games and Festivals offer Scottish Festival and Loch Norman competition focused on traditional Highland Games, the Rural Hill Scottish athletic events, dance and Amazing Maize Maze, the Rural Hill music; they have expanded to include Sheepdog Trials, and the NC Brewers “fun” competitions, non-competitive and Music Festival. Historic Rural tests of skill and strength, and historiHill Inc. is a non-profit organization cal re-enactments. supported through membership and donations, and with proceeds from its The Scottish Games in the United events utilized for the preservation of States have grown because many Historic Rural Hill and its education people of Scottish descent still feel efforts. For more information on the pull of their ancestral homeland events or for financial support and heritage. The Games provide a accepted securely online, please visit connection to that heritage. For many, www.ruralhill.net. going to the Games is like going home to a family reunion.
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he sixth SCCA Chasing the Dragon Hillclimb is being held March 22-23 in Robbinsville, NC on a closed course road in the Joyce Kilmer National Park. More than 70 cars will be competing for trophies, c a sh pr i ze s and ch ampion ship points as part of the Sports Car Club of A mer ic a - Sout he a st Division Time Trial Series. This event allows competition licensed drivers in prepared sports cars to race one at a time up a 2.4 mile mountain road for fastest time in class competition. The course is located just off Santeetlah Road at t he Maple Gap Obser vat ion Deck near beautiful Robbinsville, NC in Graham County. There is no admission for spectators and shuttle buses carr y racing fans from the parking lot to each of the family friendly viewing areas. Fo o d , s o u v e n i r s , g r a n d s t a n d s e at i ng a nd re st ro om s a re a l l avail able on site. Cars w ill be
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GrahamCountyTravel.com racing on Saturday and Sunday from 9am to 3pm but course will be closed on Sunday at 11am for a quiet hour and church service. Troph ie s a nd c a sh pr i ze s w i l l be awards Sunday at 4pm. Kids will receive prizes and many will get cowbells to ring to make the drivers go faster on course. Ted Theodore, Dragon Hillclimb manager stated : “The road we race is on the edge of the Nantahala Forest where our course workers and drivers enjoy some of North Carolina’s most beautiful mount ain scener y! We inv ite you to join us as a driver, a worker or as a spectator for a true SOUTHERN tradition that began in the 50s... HILLCLIMB! There is nothing like it! Bring your family and a camera. We will see you at the Dragon Hillclimb!” For more information go to www.dragonhillclimb.com DashboardsandSaddlebags.com 704-706-2365
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istoric Latta Plantation is a circa 1800 cotton plantation located on the banks of Mountain Island Lake in Huntersville, North Carolina. Here you will find a large plantation home which uniquely resembles Philadelphia style town homes from the same era, the Federalist period. It is unusual that a town home, like the one here at Latta Plantation, is located in the backwoods of the North Carolina piedmont - on a plantation of all places. With tall ceilings, lavish moldings, grand fireplaces, and sprawling grounds you are certain take a step back in time and find yourself engulfed in Latta’s beauty. In conjunction with special events, Historic Latta Plantation offers House Tours every day (Closed on Mondays) beginning at 11am until 4pm. Come visit us today and learn more about the prominence of the plantation and the Latta family within the community.
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Babe Ruth Home Run Centennial Celebration
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h i s y e a r m a r k s t h e 10 0 t h anniversary of George Herman Ruth’s first home run, which he hit during Spring Training at the fairgrounds back in 1914.
George Herman “Babe” Ruth was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1895. He was raised in an orphanage because his parents couldn’t control him. In 1914 he signed a baseball contract with the Baltimore Orioles. In those days the Orioles were a minor league team in the International League. In March 1914 the team held spring training in Fayetteville. Ruth was in Fayetteville for only about a month, but he always remembered it. It was the first time he had ever been out of Baltimore. Ruth later wrote about how much fun he had riding the elevators in his hotel. According to one legend, the young and inexperienced Ruth didn’t know what to do on his own in Fayetteville, and so he followed around the team’s manager and owner, Jack Dunn. One of the team members said, “There goes Dunn’s new babe,” and the name stuck.
Vintage Baseball Game Free Event March 8 at 11:00am
Catch Fayetteville Baseball Fever by attending two Vintage Base Ball games at Arnette Park. Vintage Base Ball is baseball played by the rules and customs of the 19th century. These games will follow the 1864 rules as adopted by the National Association of Base-ball Players, which are similar to today’s modern game. However, players will be dressed in the traditional uniforms of the past, and play barehanded using balls and bats meeting the 1864 requirements. No gloves here folks! For more information about Vintage Base Ball visit the Vintage Base Ball Association’s website at http:⁄⁄vbba.org⁄. Arnette Park is located at 2165 Wilmington Hwy, Fayetteville, NC 28306.
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In the 1920s and 1930s, when he was the most famous baseball player in the world, Ruth frequently visited North Carolina in the off-season to hunt and play golf. And he always remembered his early days in Fayetteville when he was on t he ro ad to becoming a legend.
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Film Junkies Guide to North Carolina Robbinsville - Graham County Robbinsville is on U.S. 129 and N.C. 143 in extreme western North Carolina A l l n o t e d N e l l l o ca t i o n s a re i n t h e d owntown a re a, m ost ke e p d ayti m e business hours.
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he theme song from composer Mark Isham’s Golden Glob e ® -nom i n ated s core for Nell is called “Welcome to Robbi n s v i l le,” wh ich i s appro priate, as this beautiful Graham Count y tow n w ill forever be linked to t he memorable Jodie Foster film. Robbinsville is civilization, in contrast to Nell’s wild, untamed wilderness countr y. It i s a l s o home to t he goo d doctor Jerr y Lovell (Liam Neeson), who h a s Nell’s be st intere st at heart, unlike the cold, hard city of Ch a rlotte w it h it s un iver sit ie s a nd ne w s me d i a a nd p s ychologist Paula Olsen (Natasha Richardson).
But Nell wasn’t the first time the movies came calling. The silent fe at ure St a rk L ove shot e xclusively in the area. It was written, produced, and directed by Karl Brown, a protege of D. W. Griffith. Brow n insisted on authenticity, using loc al, unt rained “actors” (at $25 a week!) a nd shoot i ng w it hout m akeup. Th i s re al i sm separated St ark Love from t he usual silent-film melodrama and is one of the reasons it is held in high esteem by film historians of the pre-talkie era.
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Of course, film junkies are more l i kely to rememb er Nel l which Foster produced as well as star red in, and for which she garnered a Best Actress nomination. A good st arting point for a tou r of R obbi n s v i l le’s M a i n St re et i s Snyder ’s Dep a r t ment S t or e , w h e r e Je r r y a n d Pa u l a take Nell on her tr ip into tow n to acclim ate her to societ y. In this memorable scene, Nell get s a litt le c ar r ied away w it h her shopping spree. Snyder’s, a Robbi n s v i l le f i xt ure for ye a r s, carries a little bit of ever ything, - t h e fo l k s h e r e a r e h a p p y t o discuss t heir br ush w it h fame. Of course, Nell escapes the little tr ip and ends up dow n at t he Blue Be acon Pool & Paw n, where t he coarser side of an exploitive society is on display.
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At the time of the filming, the re st aurant where Sher i f f Todd Peterson (Tar Heel Nick Searcy) comfort s his w ife, Mar y (Robin Mullin s), wa s c alled t he Joyce Kilmer Rest aurant, after the nearby national forest, which in tur n was named for the author of the poem “Trees.” Today, the pl a c e i s c a l le d Ly n n’s , a n d it st ill ser ve s up nice meals to hungr y film junkies. The courtroom scenes were filmed at the Graham Count y Courthouse, a str iking brow n and tan quart zi t e s t r u c t u r e b u i l t a s a W PA project and first used in 1942.
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Nell( 1994), : Stark Love (1927)
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