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CONTENTS Unique Destinations Less Than 200 Miles From Home
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Fun For The Whole Family? Surely You Joust!
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Museum Dedicated To Airborne & Special Operations
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The Best Is A Head
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Film Junkies Guide to North Carolina
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Unique Destinations Less Than 200 Miles From Home St. Stan’s Polish Festival Saturday, November 1, 4849 Castle Hayne Rd, Castle Hayne, NC 28429. Come join the annual event that draws thousands of visitors from near and far! The St. Stan’s Polish Festival offers the opportunity to feast on authentic Polish food all day long and watch as traditional dancers show their skills. There will be loads of kids activities and entertainment including “The Chardon Polka Band,” a craft sale, raffles and more, so make sure not to miss out on this authentic Polish event right here in Wilmington! www.ststanspolishfestival.org St atesville Pumpkin Fest Sat, November 1, 10am – 5pm Historic Downtown Statesville, North Carolina. Highlights of the 2014 Festival include Festival Kid Zone Games, Rides and Activities such as Pumpkin Bowling, Pumpkin Painting and even Pumpkin Smashing - Over 60 Art and Craft Exhibitors - A Variety of Tantalizing Food Booths - Three Entertainment Stages - Cornhole Tournament - Classic Car Cruise-In on Court Street - Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest - Pumpkin Fest 5K Race & Fun Run/Walk. www.statesvillepumpkinfest.com 7th Annual Colfax Persimmon Festival Saturday, November 1, 558 N Bunker Hill Rd, Oak Ridge, NC 27310. Featuring: Persimmon products, including persimmon pudding and pulp - Persimmon history - Lots of food vendors and music (several bands) - Apple cider & apples - Stonefield Cellars wine - Arts & crafts tents - Blacksmith/Woodworker/Chainsaw Artist /Flintnapper - Civil war encampment w/cannon/Revolutionary war encampment w/cooking demo - Children’s area w/vintage games - Vintage car show; Tractor and vintage farm equipment show. www. colfaxpersimmonfest.com 8th Annual Highlands Culinary Weekend November 6 – 8, Highlands, NC 28741. Join us as we embrace Highlands’ majestic mountain location, boundless activities, appealing accommodations, unique retail shops & extraordinary cuisine. Throughout the weekend, fill your itineraries Continued On Page 8
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with an array of activities, cooking demonstrations, tastings and dinners hosted by area restaurants, merchants and accommodations. Experience the wares of Highlands’ fine shops by attending the annual Sip & Stroll in our beautiful downtown area. It’s truly a wonderful experience to see a community come together for this celebration of Highlands. We invite you to be a part of this grand affair. www.highlandsculinaryweekend.com Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials And Dog Festival November 8 – 9, Historic Rural Hill, 4431 Neck Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078. A fun filled festival running November 8 – 9 featuring the United States Border Collie Handlers’ Association, Carolina Dock Dogs, Laura Moretz of the Purina Incredible Dog Team, the Greater Charlotte Shetland Sheepdog Club, and more! www.ruralhill.net 2nd Annual Climbin’ the Chimney Sat, November 8, 11am – 3pm at Chimney Rock State Park, 431 Main St, Chimney Rock, NC 28720. Experience Chimney Rock from a rope with the Southeast’s leader in rock climbing education, Fox Mountain Guides. For beginners, try climbing Vista Rock and rapelling, or for experienced climbers, test your skills on two difficult routes up the Chimney. For a big thrill, try rappelling 200 feet down the Chimney like Santa does every December (costs extra, expert rappellers only)! Profits benefit a local non-profit. All equipment is provided. www.chimneyrockpark.com 3rd Annual Tryon Beer Fest Sat, November 8, 12pm – 6pm Depot St, Tryon, NC 28782. An array of craft beers will be available along with an Oyster Roast, authentic German food, and other treats. The Oyster Roast starts at 12:30 and will go until they’re all gone. Non-alcoholic beverages and water will be available. Live Bavarian music will be played during the day then we’ll rock out with a live band later in the afternoon! We’ve done away with sampling tickets, so admission gets you unlimited beer and wine samples. www.tryonbeerfest.com Pumpkin Prowl 2014 Sat, November 8, 12:30pm – 3:00pm 676 E Hughes Mill Rd, Burlington, NC 27217 No one knows how to play with pumpkins better than the residents at the Conservators Center. Pumpkins are a good
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Destinations source of entertainment for the animals; our lions, tigers and wolves think they have an intriguing smell, and they are the perfect shape for gnawing, tossing and chasing. The binturongs and lemurs also like digging into pumpkins full of fruit and Jell-O! Visitors can help select and decorate the pumpkins we give to our animals. The pumpkin carving begins at 11:30am. www.zerve.com/BeWilderNC/Pumpkin Fonta Flora Brewery Is Turning One! Sat, November 8, 3pm – 11pm, 317 N Green St, Morganton, NC 28655. Live music, local food and locally crafted beer. Special release of Echoview Estate, Appalachian Tripel and a VERY special release of 2013 Urban Monk, a Defiant Whisky Infused Imperial Stout. Also the first ever bottle release of Double Hop Beard. www.fontaflora.com Mooresville Veteran’s Day Parade & Celebration Tuesday, Nov 11, Richard’s Coffee Shop / Military Museum, 165 N Main St, Mooresville, NC 28115. The parade will begin at Richards following a brief ceremony and travel to Mooresville Town Hall lawn where celebrations will include free food and music. Come out and support our vets - our hometown heroes! www.facebook.com/pages/Mooresville-Veterans-Day/331987330306095 Valdese Christmas In November Tue, November 11, 9am – 4pm Old Rock School 400 Main Street West Valdese, NC 28690. Enjoy a day in Valdese and get your Christmas shopping done early. With over 30 Continued On Page 10
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handmade crafters, attendees will have a wide selection to choose from to purchase the perfect Christmas gift. Enjoy the sounds of a living Christmas tree and enter a raffle to win a beautiful piece of local made furniture. townofvaldese.com/pages/community/ Christmas Tree Farm Choose & Cut Season November 15 – Dec 24, A trip up the Blue Ridge Mountains to Alleghany County and Sparta, North Carolina, is a great way to get in the Christmas spirit. This is an activity the entire family will enjoy and the pastoral countryside and the quaint town of Sparta will only add to your holiday spirit. Plus you get the fresh-cut advantage with your tree. Our local Choose and Cut tree farms will provide a wonderful experience for your whole family! Go for a hay ride, let your children visit with farm animals, or have a cup of steaming hot chocolate while enjoying a relaxing day with one of our local tree growers. There are many options to choose from! www.sparta-nc.com/choose_and_cut.php Time Travelers Weekend November 15 – 16, 16445 Poplar Tent Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078. Patrons don’t need a Passport to Time Travel to the Renaissance! Dress as your favorite Time Traveler or dress as a character inspired by your favorite movie, TV program, comic book, work of science fiction and/or fantasy - all are welcome! Participate in the Time Traveler’s costume contest at 2:30 PM at The Haven (next to the Joust) and win prizes! www.royalfaires.com Wheels Through Time Raffle Weekend Saturday, Nov 15, 62 Vintage Ln, Maggie Valley, NC 28751. WTT is proud to introduce the 12th Annual Wheels Through Time Raffle Bikes!!! Yep, you heard us right. Wheels Through Time is giving away not one, but TWO genuine Harley-Davidson Flathead Bobbers November 15th 2014! www.wheelsthroughtime.com Violins and Vines at Adagio Vineyards Sat, November 15, 2pm – 4pm Adagio Vineyards 139 Benge Rd Elkin, NC 28621. Adagio Vineyards will present a monthly series of violin performances, Violins and Vines, featuring Susan Perkins of Salem College of Music Faculty and Dr. Jan Wahl of Adagio Vineyards playing one of her handcrafted violins. Music is 2-4pm. www.adagiovineyards.com Festival of Lights at Tanglewood Park Sat, November 22, 6pm – 11pm Tanglewood Park. Tanglewood’s Festival of Lights continues to be one of the largest and most spectacular light shows in the southeast. From storybook scenes to Holiday themes, over one hundred displays and over a million lights fill Tanglewood Park with the splendor and joy of the holiday season. Open 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. www.forsyth.cc/Parks/Tanglewood/ 70th Annual Mooresville Christmas Parade Tuesday, Nov 25, 154 W Iredell Ave, Mooresville, NC 28115. Generations of locals and visitors alike have enjoyed the numerous float s, dance and enter tainment groups, marching bands, and merchants displaying their holiday spirit - of course... ending with the traditional appearance by Santa Claus. www.mooresvillechristmasparade.com Continued On Page 12
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8th Annual Black Cask Festival Fri, November 28, 3pm – 8pm Triangle Brewing Co, 918 Pearl St, Durham, NC 27701. The NC Black Friday Cask Festival is always scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving from 3:00pm to 8:00pm! Tickets are available through Eventbrite or you can buy them at the door. This cask festival features only NC breweries. A Cask, is a special keg that the beer has been naturally carbonated in and the beer is served at cellar temperature (55F). Many of the casks have been specially dry hopped and/or have had specialty ingredients added to the beer. www.trianglebrewery.com/on-sale-black-friday-cask-festival-tix/ Americarna Live 2014 Saturday, November 29, Ingersoll Rand, 800 Beaty St, Davidson, NC 28036. Ray Evernham’s second annual AmeriCarna LIVE car show presented by Ingersoll Rand and MSC Industrial Supply Co. www.americarnatv.com/americarna-live/2014/ Santa on the Chimney Sat, December 6, 11am – 2pm at Chimney Rock State Park, 431 Main St, Chimney Rock, NC 28720. How is Santa able to climb down millions of chimneys around the world in a single night? He practices, of course. Meet Santa and Mrs. Claus, enjoy live holiday music, hot cocoa, cookies and kids’ activities, plus meet live critters. This rappelling Santa was recently ranked as one of the “8 Most Extreme Santas in the World” by Buzzfeed. Win a Free Climb with Santa’s Elves! www.chimneyrockpark.com/events/
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and wine, heritage breed livestock, hay rides, historic craft and cooking demos, food vendors, shopping, open trails, antique tractors, living history demonstrations in the 1760’s cabin, pumpkin chunkin’*, corn launchin’, kid’s activities, and much more!
What better way to wrap up the fall season than with your canine pal and several hundred of their new best friends? Bring your family, friends, and dog (or dogs) to the Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials and Dog Festival for one of the area’s best known dog events, now in its twentieth year! No other dog festival in the area can offer more fun or variety!
* Bring your old Fall pumpkins and let us chunk em’ into the field for you using our large, powerful, and explosively fun catapult! This hallmark feature of the Sheepdog Trials will launch your orange friend as much as 40 feet into the air: Newton’s law of gravity still applies however, and it will soon land with a splat in our field.
Don’t miss a thing! National Border Collie Sheepherding Championships will be held over the two day event, as will as Carolina Dock Dogs and Dog Sports demonstrations featuring the Greater Charlotte Shetland Sheepdog Club and others! Also on hand will be North Carolina beer
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ousting is given a 21st Century roar of approval at the Carolina Renaissance Festival. Jousting is now, as it was 500 years ago, a merrie sport; a make-believe pageant of Sir Galahads and Sir Lancelots, of villainous Black Knights versus the virtuous Red Knights, mounted on thundering steeds, plumes waving, chain mail clanking and the festival crowd sarcastically screaming “Cheat to win!” On Fall weekends in the Carolina piedmont, Knights will again strap on the heavy suits of armor, settle astride snorting chargers, take up their lances and tilt with each other. These Knights are regular performers at more than a dozen “Renaissance Villages” around the country and will be battling at the Carolina Renaissance Festival on a large tournament field within the Festival just north of Charlotte, North Carolina.
each other in some wide meadow. The result was a melee of shattered lances, clanging swords, flailing arms and legs – astride and afoot – that went on all day and into the night. The earliest recorded melee was in 1066 A.D., though mock combat had The origins of jousting are believed to probably been around for at least a be in classical Rome, but the “sport” century by then. rose to its greatest popularity in Europe by the 1400’s. It all evolved At first, the battles served more to hone from mock battles in which knights fighting skills than to provide popular on horseback, assisted by foot soldiers, diversion. But in peaceful times, a formed into teams and charged at Continued On Page 20 DashboardsandSaddlebags.com 704-706-2365
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Fonta Flora crafts beer from beets, figs, carrots, oysters, ramps, dandelions, sunflowers, rye grass, alfalfa, clover, and a wagon full other “foraged” ingredients. Todd takes farm to table to a whole new level! Don’t think that these are novelty beers, quite the contrary. Each is work of living art. In fact Fonta Flora, just brought home a Gold Medal from the Great American Beer Festival in Denver for their Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout Irish Table. For me, the candle on the cake for this celebration is that the last 5 gallons of my favorite beer will be released on this day... Urban Monk. An imperial stout made with oak spirals that were used in the barrel ageing of the award winning single malt Defiant Whisky distilled just down the road. See you on November 8th!
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Film Junkies Guide to North Carolina Lake James State Park Lake James State Park The park is located on N.C 126 in Burke and McDowell counties near Morganton and Marion. For information, call (828) 584-7728.
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ay Evernham’s second annual A mer iC a r n a L I V E c a r show presented by Ingersoll Rand and MSC Industrial Supply Co. will be held on Saturday, November 29th from 10am to 4pm. The show will again be open to all cars and held at Ingersoll Rand’s North American Corporate Headquarters in Davidson, N.C.
Ve lo c it y C h a n ne l fi l m s for a n upcoming episode of AmeriCarna LIVE. The AmeriCarna LIVE car show will benefit IGNITE, a new community center in Davidson for young adults with high functioning autism (HFA) or Asperger’s Syndrome (AS). IGNITE offers activities, skills training, and educational workshops that will foster social, financial, educational, and employment independence for its members. But most importantly, IGNITE offers a social environment where members can connect with others and experience a sense of community.
“Americarna LIVE is the celebration of car culture and what better place to host it than in the town of Davidson, N.C., which personifies the classic American community,” said Ray Evernham, an avid car collector and long-time Lake Norman-area resident. “With support from our Davidsonbased corporate partners Ingersoll Rand and MSC Industrial Supply Company, Americarna LIVE will serve as a great holiday activity for the whole Ingersoll Rand Campus family and also raise awareness and 800 Beaty St.Davidson, NC funding for IGNITE.” To register your car and check
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At AmeriCarna LIVE, auto enthusiasts www.AmericarnaTV.com/LIVE. will have the opportunity to display IGNITE is a program of the Autism their cars along side the unique Society of North Carolina. For rides that belong to the NASCAR more information on IGNITE visit community’s top stars while the www.autismsociety-nc.org.
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