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On the Cover: A comprehensive, yearlong study of the seven westernmost counties in North Carolina will provide regional leaders a valuable planning tool and could determine the fate of the long-stalled Corridor K road project.

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News Protestors flock to courthouse to rally against GOP legislators . . . . . . . . . 6 WNC contingent joins Moral Monday protests in Raleigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Drug busts target oxycodone, methamphetamine dealers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Franklin, Sylva mayors won’t run for office in 2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Jackson TDA to decide fate of Cashiers visitor center funding . . . . . . . . . 13 Tornado makes rare appearance in WNC, damages GSMNP . . . . . . . . . . 14 Skate park construction rolls along, September opening expected . . . . . . 15 Maggie Valley leaders debate police department personnel needs . . . . . . 16 Mission Hospital formalizes partnership with Franklin’s Angel Medical . . . 19

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Democrats organize Waynesville protest against General Assembly’s actions

BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER ore than 150 protestors marched in downtown Waynesville Monday to oppose what they characterize as egregious policies by Republican state lawmakers that will take North Carolina back to the Dark Ages.

After parading down Main Street, protestors converged on the lawn of the historic courthouse with chants of “We’re fed up!

We’re fed up!”

Protestors decried the dismantling of public education, an assault on the poor and needy, cuts to social programs and shifting more of the tax burden to the middle and lower class.

“It’s the greediest bunch I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Jack Gentry, one of the protestors. “They don’t want nobody to have nothing but the rich people.”

The outpouring was organized by the Haywood County Democratic Party to lend its voice to the ongoing Moral Monday protests playing out at the N.C. General Assembly in Raleigh. Thousands have been marching on the legislative building in Raleigh every week to convey their outrage, including weekly demonstrations of civil disobedience.

The protests — in Raleigh and in Waynesville — should send a powerful message to legislators that the people are watching, said Janie Benson, chair of the Haywood Democrats.

“We are watching the laws being passed, laws that will serve the very few, laws that will hinder and hurt our working families, our children and our old — and we are fed up,” Benson said, eliciting a rousing round of applause and chanting.

The dozens of signs wielded by protestors touched on a gamut of issues, from library budget cuts to the loss of teacher’s assistants.

“Kids not cuts,” “Class size matters,” “Stand up for Head Start,” “North Carolina is not for sale,” and “Health care for all” were among the messages on display.

Education was one of the top themes of the protest. Not only cutting public schools,

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but the entire spectrum of education will see cuts, from subsidies for poor kids to go to preschool to colleges and universities.

“Our current state government does not have my generation’s best interest at heart,” Justin Conley, a leader of N.C. Young Democrats from Franklin, told the crowd.

“These lawmakers are giving us a North Carolina we don’t want to inherit.”

Several retired teachers were in the ranks of the march, including Wanda Caldwell, donning a T-shirt that read: “Teachers plant the seeds that harvest the future.”

Caldwell said the legislators are dismantling the public schools by siphoning resources away to charter schools and private schools serving select student bodies.

A couple of speakers called out Republican legislators for denying Medicaid expansion for an additional 500,000 North Carolinians at federal expense.

“Those are our friends and family members,” said Conley, prompting a few in the

crowd to cry out “Shame!”

Ray Rapp, a former Democratic state representative from Madison County, said the Republican-controlled legislature and governor’s mansion is being controlled by “Greed not need.”

Tax cuts are being handed out to the wealthy and special interests in exchange for the campaign contributions they made to help the Republicans get elected, Rapp said.

“I have been moving around the state with this bell to wake people, but I see you don’t need it in Haywood County. You are awake and ready to go.”

— Bob Etheridge, former N.C. congressman

One of the state’s top Democratic voices journeyed to Waynesville for the protest, bearing a golden bell which he rang as he took the microphone.

“I have been moving around the state with this bell to wake people, but I see you don’t need it in Haywood County. You are awake and

them take North Carolina to the bottom.”

The crowd was told not to lose the fire in their bellies before 2014, when all the seats in the state House and Senate will be for election.

“Let’s stay fed up until the next election and do something about it,” said Phil Haire, a retired Democratic state representative from Sylva.

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WNC residents travel to Raleigh for moral Monday rally

BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER hen moral Monday protestors gathered this week in front of the legislature in Raleigh to decrying the policies of conservative lawmakers, among them were a contingent of demonstrators from Western North Carolina.

A group, organized by Saint David’s Episcopal Church in Jackson County, took off Monday morning heading toward Raleigh to join in the action. The 20 or so people came from Swain, Jackson and Haywood counties. As activist church member Ron Robinson stated, it was an

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ready to go,” said Bob Etheridge, a former Democratic Congressman in North Carolina and state superintendent of public instruction.

Etheridge said Democrats didn’t do enough to stop the Republican take-over of state government in the last election and will now pay a terrible price.

“We are fighting to keep them from totally destroying what we worked for our entire lives,” Etheridge said. “We aren’t going to let

easy choice to go to Raleigh after lawmakers didn’t return phone calls he made expressing his concerns.

“A lot of the legislation seems to be taking away all the progressive legislation that helped people in our state,” Robinson said. “It takes us back decades.”

His sentiments were matched by hundreds who joined Robinson at the demonstration, holding signs, singing and chanting slogans like “Don’t take any steps back. Go forward,” and “We’re here to show support for justice.”

In response to suspicions that the protestors were insiders, many carried signs with a message identifying the hold-

er by their hometown — Asheville, Raleigh and other North Carolina cities and towns. The swarm of protestors filling the mall was also ethnically diverse. Robinson described the faces next to him as young, old, AfricanAmerican, Hispanic, Caucasian, and so on.

“The scene, the best way to describe it, was overwhelming,” Robinson said. “People kept coming and coming and coming.”

More than 100 people were also arrested that evening, according to local news reports. Robinson said as of Tuesday morning it was still unclear if any members from the WNC caucus were among those who entered into the N.C. Assembly to be arrested. He said several expressed an interest in civil disobedience, but he wasn’t sure if they followed through.

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drug offense carries a maximum prison term of 20 years, a $1 million fine, or both.

The remaining 32 face tribal or state drug charges.

Officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation, the Cherokee Indian Police Department, and the sheriff ’s offices in Macon, Jackson and Swain counties took part in both the methamphetamine and oxycodone busts.

The methamphetamine operation also included the Franklin Police Department, and Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Haywood County and the Graham County sheriff offices helped with the oxycodone bust.

Each agency was able to help the other, which allowed them to facilitate the large, regional drug busts. “That is a key to being successful,� said Lt. Charles Moody with the Macon County Sheriff ’s Office. “Very rarely do you have someone breaking the law in just one jurisdiction.�

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“We go to work everyday and see the impact illegal drug use and sales is having on our community, and it’s sad. What we have done here, and what we will continue to do, is identify the drug dealer, the drug buyer, the drug user, and every person associated with them and go after all of them, no matter what jurisdiction or state they are in.�

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER aw enforcement agencies in Western North Carolina are cracking down on drug use in the region.

In the last month, nearly 60 individuals have been charged by county, state and federal law enforcement officials during two separate WNC drug busts. “We hope it sends a message that we are going to keep investigating drug sells,� said Ben Reed, chief of the Cherokee Police Department. The department was part of both multi-agency investigations.

The first drug bust focused on methamphetamine dealers from Macon County, while the second helped clean up Cherokee by taking out an oxycodone ring. Indictments for both were announced within days of each other.

On May 30, the U.S. Department of Justice charged 19 people in connection with the methamphetamine trafficking ring. The majority of those arrested were from Franklin, with others hailing from Canton, Bryson City, Cullowhee, Robbinsville and Clayton, Ga. According to the indictment, each knowingly conspired to possess and distribute more than 50 grams of actual methamphetamine or more than 500 grams of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, which has a street value of $100. All 19 defendants face a minimum prison term of 10 years, a maximum term of life imprisonment and a $10 million fine.

On the heels of that bust, 39 people were charged on June 4 with trafficking oxycodone — a two-year effort on the part of law enforcement. “With these last arrests, with that many people involved in that same prescription pill drug case, it will definitely make a dent (in the drug trade),� Reed said.

Most of the individuals arrested in the oxycodone bust were from Cherokee.

In a news release sent out following the indictments, Reed vowed to continue similar investigations into drug trafficking. “We go to work everyday and see the impact illegal drug use and sales is having on our community, and it’s sad,� Reed said in the release. “What we have done here, and what we will continue to do, is identify the drug dealer, the drug buyer, the drug user, and every person associated with them and go after all of them, no matter what jurisdiction or state they are in.�

Although such investigations take months or even years, they are worth it in the end, he said.

Once all was said and done, a federal grand jury indicted seven of the 39 on federal charges including one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, including oxycodone, cocaine, marijuana and alprazolam. Two of the seven have additional drug-related charges. Each federal

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER n ambitious yearlong exercise to create a collective economic vision for the mountains will decide whether a longawaited $800 million highway through the rugged and remote far western end of the state is ever built.

Carrying a consulting fee of $1.3 million, the visioning process is supposed to quantify the emotional and ancedotal arguments about the controversial highway known as Corridor K — and ultimately determine whether it lives or dies.

Project managers hope the undercurrents of Corridor K — laden with deep-seated controversy and ardently dug in battalions — won’t overshadow the process, however.

Instead, they are extending stakeholders in the seven western counties a broad invitation to dream big, think big and wish big when it comes to the region’s economic future.

“Everyone is tired of hearing the word ‘study,’” admitted Ben Brown, whose Franklin-based consulting firm Placemakers is playing a lead role.

But this isn’t your average study, he went on.

For the first time ever, the far western counties — Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain, Clay, Cherokee and Graham — will toss out old paradigms and craft a new economic future that recognizes just what the mountains truly are and what people want them to be.

The regional visioning process, known as Opportunity Initiative — or Opt-In for short — is being funded by state and federal highway dollars.

“This is a unique project. No one has ever attempted anything on this scale in such a rural area,” Brown said.

A deep bench of consultants will sort, dissect and crash test all the ideas pouring in and amalgamate them into a decipherable blueprint. That’s where the rubber will really meet the road.

“It is important to get everyone’s perspective, but then try to knit it all together in some sort of coherent vision of a future we can all get behind,” said Dr. Michael Smith, a professor at Western Carolina University in the construction management program and part of the Opt-In leadership council.

Corridor K, a proposed four-lane highway traversing 18 miles of mountainous terrain in Graham County, is the final piece of an Appalachian highway system envisioned 50 years ago. It stitched together the seven, peakpacked western counties with the lofty goal of ushering economic prosperity into a depressed backwater with better, faster roads.

The missing link in Graham County — through Stecoah, past Robbinsville and back out to Andrews — was the steepest, most expensive, most environmentally challenging and most out of the way.

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“Somehow there needs to be a way to attempt to establish a collective vision for the region if that is possible,” said Joel Setzer, head of a 10-county region of the N.C. Department of Transportation spanning the westernmost c o u n t i e s .

“Transportation infrastructure needs to follow that vision.”

The study will prove invaluable for the region, according to Ryan Sherby, the director of the Southwestern Ben Brown (foreground) is one Commission, a planof the consultants leading the ning and development comprehensive study that will agency for the seven help determine the fate of western counties that is acting as the project Corridor K. Donated photo manager.

“Nothing will protect our region’s traditions of independence “[People] have to be willing to test and self-reliance more than understanding their ideas and let the evidence where future opportudemonstrate what the potential nities and challenges are likely to come from strategies are. People don’t have and what strategies are necessary to steer us in to check their convictions at the the right direction,” door. They just have to be willing Sherby said.

A team of more To learn everything you ever wanted to know, and to have them analyzed.” than a dozen consultthen some, about the Opportunity Initiative, go to ants will do the sorting — Ben Brown, Placemakers consulting firm www.optinswnc.org. and crunching and quantifying. The big And thus it was left for last. With con- the best solution, however. A four-lane high- contract for the project went to the TWS construction plans finally in hand, however, way isn’t a sure-fire recipe for economic suc- sulting firm based in Atlanta but with a myrCorridor K ground to a screeching halt last cess — especially given the cost and environ- iad of subcontractors to fill gaps in various year. State and federal environmental agen- mental damage. specialties. cies refused to sign off on necessary permits.

Until now, both sides have been left to “It is a huge diverse team of experts for a Without them, the highway can’t go forward. argue over whether Corridor K is worth its wildly ambitious project for a rural area, one Now, the Opt-In study aims to answer costs with little to go on other than hunches. the region would not normally be able to once and for all the question holding every“There is a reason there is only anecdotal attract or justify,” Brown said. thing up: is the highway worth its $800 mil- evidence — because it costs a lot of money to In that sense, the Opt-In initiative is a sillion price tag and the environmental damage? do this kind of research,” Brown said. ver lining to the Corridor K controversy, since Brown hopes Opt-In will transcend the Opt-In isn’t just a dreamy romp of what the money is coming from state and federal baggage of Corridor K and lead to a unified the future could hold for the seven western highway dollars in an attempt to resolve the future the region can buy into. counties. It’s more tangible than that. million-dollar question.

“They have to be willing to test their ideas “Our task is to look at the region’s enviThe consultant team will use a different and let the evidence demonstrate what the ronmental, economic and transportation approach from the typical visioning process potential strategies are,” Brown said. “People needs. Those are our three pillars. What does most people are familiar with. Instead of pubdon’t have to check their convictions at the the region want and need in those three lic hearings and big group brainstorming sesdoor. They just have to be willing to have areas,” said Kristy Carter, an Appalachian sions, consultants will take to the road, visiting them analyzed.”

Regional Commission liaison for the state. stakeholders in person to gather their input.

For years, the debate over Corridor K has “The road planners can then come back and “We are spending an awful lot of energy been hypothetical. Supporters claim the four- say what type of transportation system meets going out and listening to people,” Brown lane highway in the far western counties will that vision.” said. “What are the things that concern them cure isolation and poverty, bringing better In the past, those issues have been tackled the most? What are their questions? We have jobs, health care and education. in a silo, Carter said. It’s a sea change to put a big enough team we can go out and say ‘if Critics question the wisdom of following a an economic vision first, and design trans- you do this, this is what it will look like?’ and course charted for the region in the 1960s as portation around it. then test those.”

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“[The study] is a good opportunity to get some beneficial planning with funding at a level that is hard to come by. The study could have real value outside the Corridor K project.”

— D.J. Gerkin, Southern Environmental Law Center attorney

“In a lot of cases, we are up against the amount of coping and amount of adaptability there is in the system,” Smith said.

Graham County’s leaders have been fighting for their slice of Corridor K for years.

Isolated, rural and remote, Graham County is one of the most economically depressed counties in the mountains. It’s a plight often blamed on not having a four-lane highway.

“It seemed like our kids’ graduation gift is a suitcase,” said Mike Edwards, chairman of the Graham County commissioners.

The paradigm behind an Appalachian highway system can’t be totally discounted some 40 years later.

“The purpose was to decrease Appalachia’s isolation, and Graham County is the Appalachian region’s most isolated county. It snowballs into so many issues from health care

NOT SO FAST Critics on the other side of the issue hope the Opt-In study isn’t a fait d’accomplis.

Among them is D.J. Gerken, an attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center in Asheville, who’s been fighting Corridor K for several years.

Gerken questions the assumption of Corridor K as an “economic magic bullet” for the region. There’s a much simpler, much cheaper and less damaging solution, he said.

After state and federal agencies put the breaks on the highway by refusing to issue environmental permits, a team of federal mediators was called in with hopes of breaking the impasse.

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Corridor K supporters are hopeful the study will provide the justification for the missing link of highway.

“That was part of the charge. What would be the economic impact to Western North Carolina if they built that?” said Ken Mills, the economic development director of Swain County.

Mills sympathized with his neighbors in Graham County. Graham County leaders oft complain they’ve been denied their just due.

Everyone else got their highway, while Graham County stayed at the bottom of the waiting list. There’s a reason for that though.

“The sections that haven’t been completed are the most difficult to complete,” Carter said.

The missing link through Graham County fcalls for a tunnel through a mountain that’s more than a half-mile long.

Mills recognizes that it’s a stretch to

Leaders in all the seven westernmost counties will all have access to the data put together by consultants conducting a year-long study of the region.

sion of Corridor K — a smaller, cheaper and less damaging design. They proposed an upgrade to the existing two-lane roads instead of brand-new super highway through sensitive mountain terrain.

But the state and federal highway departments refused to budge.

Until — and unless — the road builders can prove their four-lane road is indeed superior, Corridor K is stalled.

Enter the Opt-In visioning process. But Gerken is skeptical of the motives. It is being funded by state and federal highway dollars after all.

If the study is indeed genuine, however, Gerken is ready to embrace it.

“Nothing about an honest evaluation of this project causes me any concern. I am confident that a leaner project would show a similar economic development purpose,” he said.

“Everything depends on the people doing it.”

To that end, Gerken trusts the Southwestern Commission to be unbiased and also trusts the consultant team that was chosen.

“I am suspending disbelief for now,” Gerken said. “It is a good opportunity to get some beneficial planning with funding at a level that is hard to come by. The study could have real value outside the Corridor K project.”

That’s one thing Gerken and DOT’s Joel Setzer seem to agree on.

“That’s where I see a lot of value in this effort. I hope folks will go out there and express opinions about what our region should be,” Setzer said.

There’s a catch, however. The money set aside so far for Corridor K — about $270 million — doesn’t have a lot of flexibility.

If access to health care or higher education is a concern for Graham County, why not spend the Corridor K money building a hospital or satellite college campus instead?

But it doesn’t work that way, Setzer said.

“The visioning effort is not an effort to see how we can spend $270 million in the region the best way,” Setzer said.

The $270 million in the kitty for Corridor K was a federal earmark intended for the build-out of an Appalachian highway system.

“We have been pursuing that vision in a segmental way,” Setzer said.

To redirect the remainder of the money for other things — even if they’re shown to do more good for the region than faster highways — would take an act of Congress, Setzer said.

That gives some pause to supporters of Corridor K. “If it is determined that the road is not worth that money, can we say, ‘Hey, here’s a great idea we can do instead?’ Or is that money going to disappear to someone else?”

Mills asked.

But for now, players on both sides have little choice but to go forward with the process.

Despite being an ardent Corridor K supporter, Edwards said it’s time Graham County starts thinking of a plan B. A born and bred mountain man, Edwards has plenty of colloquial sayings to that end.

Graham can’t put all its eggs in one basket, or throw its paddle out in the middle of the pond.

“We cannot go hitching our wagon to a star that doesn’t exist. If it does, all well and good, but we have to be prepared,” Edwards said. “If we don’t get the Corridor K, what do we do?” 9

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to economy to education,” Carter said.

But Graham County can’t make its case alone, Edwards said.

“We don’t have the population to have the clout or voting bloc to have much to say,” Edwards said.

Corridor K has a nest egg of $270 million saved up for its construction thanks to a special federal funding stream for the Appalachian Highway system. But that funding stream dried up this year with no sign of being restarted.

What’s in the kitty is not nearly enough to cover construction. The project would have to compete for state highway construction dollars going forward.

Edwards said it has to be shown that Corridor K will help the entire region — not just Graham County — to have a fighting chance.

“We have to approach things regionally,” Edwards said. “Eight thousand people out in the middle of the mountains aren’t going to compete with Charlotte-Meck.”

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The process will no doubt have its share of skeptics on both sides. Some fear the process is simply a stalling tactic to bury Corridor K once and for all.

Some fear the process is the middle school math equivalent of “showing your work.” You know the answer but have to justify how you got there. In other words, go through the motions to bring Corridor K to the finish line.

But those hired to lead this colossal planning exercise swear it is legitimate. f The recommendations or ideas that emerge won’t be foisted on the region. Nothing is mandatory or imposed, Sherby said.

“The option to act or not to act on any of the work we do together is up to citizens and leaders,” Sherby said. “Our job is to help them get what they need to make informed choices.”

Some of the region’s best and brightest thinkers have been amassed as a Leadership Council for the process. They will talk up the merits of participating and help keep the brainstorms flowing.

“What do we have to do to get from where we are to what we want to be?” asked Dr. Smith, the WCU professor.

Smith conjured up an old Greek proverb that’s just as applicable today as it was to ancient Mediterranean fishing villages.

“He not ruled by the rudder is ruled by the rocks,” Smith said. “If you aren’t steering your ship, you are destined for destruction. It is a great way to think about the importance of planning.”

This exercise stands out to Smith for its regional approach — something that is too often lacking.

“Most of the real challenges in the region are larger than the capability of any given entity to actually deal with them,” Smith said.

“We need to think broadly across our region if we are going to come up with meaningful answers to help us be successful in the future.”

The study has its parameters though. It can’t totally lose sight of purpose — to bring that vision back around to transportation.

But that’s still highly beneficial, Smith said.

“What is it we want of this region, and how do we connect it in a way that allows it to be what we want it to be?” Smith asked.

spend $800 million on a highway to bring economic progress to a county of just 8,000 people.

“Sure, there are thousands of counties that could say, ‘we need a four-lane road,’” Mills said.

But the Appalachian highway system was — and is — about more than that.

“The reason they devised this way back in the 60s was it was good to have an interstate commerce route on the south side of the mountains,” Mills said. “It was about, ‘How do you cross the Southern Appalachian mountains?’”

Mills only has to point to winter 2009 as proof that there simply aren’t enough transportation corridors punching through the mountains. Triple landslides simultaneously closed down Interstate 40, U.S. 441 and U.S. 64. The only way through the region was I-26 north of Asheville or heading down through Georgia. That winter showed just how vulnerable the regional economy is when transportation corridors are rendered impassable, Smith said.

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man. With no particular agenda in mind — running for office with a narrow-minded focus is a mistake many politicians make, he said — Moody was the top vote-getter. But he learned quickly about the fickleness of

Sylva Mayor Maurice Moody has decided not to run again in the upcoming election, ending his 16-year stint in town government. Andrew Kasper photo politics when he ran for a second term and barely scraped out a victory.

On the board, Moody helped mold the current set of town ordinances, including some controversial but necessary regulations, according to Moody. He said it was imperative as Sylva developed to make sure rules were there to guide that growth.

“As the town grows and the lot sizes get smaller — what I do in my backyard may affect what my neighbor can do and see from his backyard,” Moody said.

He was also on the board that saw major improvements made in the landscape of the town and the surrounding area. The renovation of Main Street, renovating the pool right

BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER ranklin will soon be saying goodbye to its sitting mayor and longtime town politician Joe Collins. The Franklin native has announced he will not seek reelection in the approaching race, bringing to a close a 10-year stint as mayor and a total of 16 years serving in local politics.

“With my eye on the time clock, it’s time to step aside and allow someone else the privilege and honor to serve as mayor,” Collins said.

During his tenure, Collins witnessed notable changes in town government, adding fulltime staff such as a town manager, town

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planner and a human resources officer. A stateof-the art police station was also built, and so was a public works facility and the new town hall on Main Street.

Collins also backed a progressive shift in government policies, supporting the comprehensive zoning laws that are now in place and pushing the passage of alcohol sales in town limits Joe Collins when he cast the tiebreaking vote to put the issue to a referendum. Collins went against the grain on other occasions, in one instance apol-

ogizing to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians after the town applied herbicide to an ancient burial mounds. That move earned him censure from the board, on which a majority of the members didn’t agree an apology was necessary and that the mayor was out of line.

Collins said lack of family ties in Franklin allowed him to operate more independently as a policymaker, especially when pushing the envelope. Although born in Franklin, his mother grew up in Cherokee and his father in Haywood County, so many of his family members live in other parts of Western North Carolina. Those that did live in Franklin have either died or moved off.

“It’s my hometown, but it’s just me,” Collins said. “I didn’t have ma or dad or

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Haywood County • All seats on the Canton Board of Alderman, including the mayor, are up for election. Aldermen Ed Underwood and Jimmy Flynn both said they would not decide until the last day of filing if they plan to run for re-election. It is unknown if the remaining two aldermen, Patrick Willis and Kenneth Holland, and Mayor Mike Ray will go for another term.

• The Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen has three seats out of five up for grabs in this year’s election. Two are currently occupied by Saralyn Price and Mike Matthews, both who plan to campaign to keep them. The third seat has sat vacant since former Aldermen Phil Aldridge moved out of town. The remaining board could not agree on whom to appoint. June Johnson, who applied for Aldridge’s position, has already said she plans to run for the seat in November.

• The Town of Waynesville has no municipal elections this year.

Swain County • Two of the five seats on Bryson City’s Board of Aldermen are up for grabs. Stephanie Treadway and Tom Reidmiller currently hold the open seats. Treadway said she has no plans to run for reelection; Reidmiller said he is still contemplating his options.

Jackson County • The Town of Sylva has three out of its six commissioner seats up for election. They are held by Mayor Maurice Moody, Danny Allen, Barbara Hamilton.

• The Town of Dillsboro has all five alderperson seats up for election, including Mayor Michael Fitzgerald, Jim Cabe, David Gates, David Jones, Tim Parris and Beauford Riddle.

• The Town of Webster has the all five commissioner seats up for election. The seats are held by Mayor Larry Phillips, Tracy Rodes, Billie Bryson, Jean davenport, Rick Fulton, and Allan grant.

• The Village of Forest Hills has three of its five council members up for election: Mayor James Wallace, Clark Corwin, and Carl Hooper.

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER ylva Mayor Maurice Moody has announced he will retire from town government and not seek reelection in the upcoming election. His departure, after 16 years on the Town Board of Commissioners, will leave a void of experience in local government and force Sylva voters to choose a new leader.

Moody served 12 years as a town commissioner and four years as mayor. But his time in office will come to an end in December when his current term expires.

Plainly put, Moody said it’s in the cards.

“I think I’m going to retire,” Moody said.

“I think it’s time.”

Moody said his decision to not run again was a personal one and largely based on spending more time with his wife. Moody said she would support him if he decided to run again, but that she had expressed interest in seeing him around more often.

He also said he is stepping down, in part, because it’s time for Sylva to have some younger members of the community take a role in town government as it opens the next chapter.

“After 16 years on the board, I think it’s time to move on and let some younger folks step forward and lead into the 21st century,” Moody said.

Moody was on the board when the Sylva entered the current century. After taking early retirement from his post with BASF, a German chemical company, he moved back to Sylva, his hometown, and took an interest in the local happenings. Moody was born in Sylva but spent 30 years living in South Carolina and Georgia before returning.

He wasn’t back in Sylva long before he put his name on the ballot and ran for alder-

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next to town hall and the building of Bridge Park — now a popular destination for the farmers market and everyday recreation — are on Moody’s short list of noteworthy projects.

He also supported the sale of the town’s phased-out watershed into a conservation easement through the state’s Clean Water Management Trust Fund. The move protected acres of sensitive habitat from development and created Pinnacle Park.

And Moody warned future boards about using the funds the town gained from that sale.

For the past two years, the town has used big chunks of the money to balance the budget.

Moody believes it should be left to gain interest and only the interest should be spent.

“If you only spend the interest, that money will basically last forever,” Moody said “Once you spend it — it’s gone.”

However, that piece of advice was one of the few Moody was willing to give. He asserts he will not be a backseat mayor and will not take an active role in guiding the town board and whoever succeeds him.

“When you step aside, whoever replaces you, it’s their job then,” Moody said. “When my term is over in December, I don’t plan to be giving a whole lot of unsolicited advice.”

Yet, with Moody departing and two other town commissioners on the fence about whether or not to run again, town government could look different come next year. Long-term commissioner Danny Allen is toying with the idea of calling it quits. He said he likes the idea of fresh faces and turnover on the board, yet he won’t go as far as to say he has made up his mind.

“I’ve been in one of these seats for 10 years, and I’m a firm believer of term limits,” Allen said. “But I’m leaving the door open, and the door is cracked.”

Newly appointed this year to take over the seat of an outgoing commissioner, Barbara Hamilton is still deciding if she will run in her first election. She indicated she is leaning toward running but is deciding if she’s up for four more years.

“I feel pretty positive, but you have to ask yourself, looking forward, for that length of time,” Hamilton said. “Yet, I’m really enjoying it.”

• The Town of Franklin has four of seven town board seats up for election. The seats are held by Mayor Joe Collins, Sissy Pattillo, Billy Mashburn and Bob Scott.

• The Town of Highlands has three of six Town Board of Commissioner seats up for election. The seats are held by Mayor David 11 Wilkes, Amy Patterson and Gary Drake.

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Collins before joking that “it may be good to be out the door before they get tired of you.”

Although he hasn’t ruled out a future bid for elected office, he has no immediate plans. His absence also opens up the field for other mayoral hopefuls. Rumors are circulating around Franklin as to who will seek the mayoral post and already some candidates have offered up their names.

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grandma or grandpa around the table Sunday afternoon critiquing me.”

Ever since Collins was in the sixth grade he said he knew he would be mayor of Franklin someday. He kept that thought in the back of his mind as he moved up the Franklin social ladder from one of his first jobs working in a pharmacy on Main Street to a local lawyer.

He first ran for alderman in his early 40s and, as a “Small town elections — you don’t practicing attorney, felt natural in politics. He served for have a campaign committee; you six years before becoming buy a few signs, and you get you unhappy with the town’s direction and deciding to run an ad or two a week or two before for the influential position of mayor. In his first mayoral the election. Your campaign has election, and in a true display been done over a lifetime.” of hometown politics, the incumbent was his dentist of — Joe Collins, Franklin mayor 40 years, who Collins beat in a bittersweet victory. But throughout all the elections, the experi- and gun store owner Bob Simpson is eying enced politician said he never really caught the move to make himself a candidate.

Alderman Sissy Pattillo, a retired educator, is on to the idea of politicking.

“Small town elections — you don’t have also circling the wagons on a bid for mayor. a campaign committee; you buy a few signs, The town had its first female mayor in the and you get you an ad or two a week or two 1960s, but it could be due for another one.

Fellow Alderman Bob Scott, a former law before the election,” Collins said. “Your enforcement officer and journalist, said he campaign has been done over a lifetime.”

Now, citing a shift toward more privacy too is seriously considering a bid, but says in his personal life and as a nod to his philos- he won’t be sure into he actually files in July.

“I am very seriously considering it,” ophy on term limits, Collins is bowing out.

“The political system works best when Scott said. “But I won’t be running until I there’s a fairly consistent turnover,” said sign up.”

New Waynesville ABC store to open

ome September, a brand new $1.3 milalcohol sales next fiscal year, a 7 percent lion South Main Street liquor store will increase compared to this year, and attributed open in Waynesville. it solely to the change in locale. The South The town’s Alcoholic Beverage Control Main Street location is prime for attracting Board has planned for years to build a second shoppers as they head to Walmart, Belk, ABC store in Waynesville, but it took a while to Michaels or any of the other stores in the find the right location at the right price. Eventually, the board acquired a plot right next to Super Walmart.

The town’s current Walnut Street liquor store will close when the new one opens. For a while, the board planned to keep its current store on Walnut Street open for at least a year to see if the town could sustain two locations.

But the lease for the Walnut J Street store ends Oct. 1 this year, and the board was unable to negotiate a single-year lease. Instead, they ABC store manager Joy Rasmus said the new building will vacate the leased property and is coming along well and is on schedule to open by take up residence in the new store Oct. 1. Caitlin Bowling photo sometime in September. The ABC board pays $2,550 a month for the Walnut location. plaza. If the ABC store wasn’t moving, “We couldn’t negotiate the lease so that Rasmus said, projected revenues would have was a factor,” said Joy Rasmus, who manages remained flat. the ABC store. Plus, “With having debt for the A 7 percent increase is still on the consernew store, we wanted to get that paid off as vative side when it comes to projecting next soon as possible.” year’s revenues. Sales could jump 10 percent The board took out a $1.3 million loan to or more, according to the board. build the new ABC store and will pay it off “I wanted to be conservative,” Rasmus during a 10-year period. said. “Things are still a little on the slow side.”

Rasmus projected nearly $3 million in — By Caitlin Bowling

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER eaders of the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce are pushing for more funding from the Jackson County Tourism Development Authority in the upcoming budget year.

The issue recently took center stage when a boost in funding for the chamber’s visitor center in Cashiers was added to a draft of the TDA’s budget. However, TDA Chairman Clifford Meads opposed the increase in funding and had it removed.

The budget subsequently was attached to Jackson County’s budget and was posted for a public hearing before the full TDA had a chance to discuss it. Meads claims to have the support of the board members in opposing the $20,000 increase to the visitor center allocation, but Ken Fernandez, president of the board of directors for the Cashiers Chamber, believes the money is long overdue to the visitor center.

“Given the significant volume of occupancy taxes generated by the Cashiers area, this Chamber request is simply for a long overdue, legitimate reinvestment of those dollars into visitor center operations to promote successful tourism development,” Fernandez wrote in an email calling on mem-

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The TDA operates with revenue generated from a lodging tax. Much of the tax is generated from overnight stays in Cashiers; however, those funds are distributed for promotional projects for the entire county.

Fernandez contends that the proposed increase would put the Cashiers visitor center on par with the visitor center for the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce in Sylva. He also fears that Meads is set on cutting back on visitor center operations in the county.

However, Meads contends that the increase to a small visitor center operation is gobbling up money that could be used in the coming year for promoting the entire county as a tourism spot and attracting more visitors.

Although Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce officials are trying to keep the issue open for discussion, Meads expects the rest of the budget process to run smoothly. He even took a recent board vote on the issue as a sign that he had support for reversing the increase.

But Meads said he is unsure if it will become an issue again as the authority moves to finalize its budget in the wake of the public hearing.

“I can’t speak for the board,” Meads said.

“But we already voted on it once.”

Waynesville hosts KIDS on MAIN Fourth of July parade

Children of all ages are invited to participate in this year’s 22nd annual “Stars & Stripes Celebration” at 10 a.m. Thursday, July 4, on Main Street in Waynesville.

Participants can decorate their bicycles, tricycles, scooters, strollers and wagons. Patriotic dress and/or decorations are required.

The procession led by Waynesville’s

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Mayor Gavin Brown and Uncle Sam will go from the courthouse up Main Street to First Baptist Church where parade participants under the age of 18 will receive free ice cream and free hot dogs at the new Main Street Cook Out. No motorized vehicles or animals will be permitted in the parade.

The Main Street Cook Out located in the United Community Bank parking lot will offer hot dogs, burgers and brew from local breweries. Sponsored by the American Legion, Knights of Columbus and the Main Team from Main Street Realty, all proceeds will benefit local charities.

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The second session of “Good Neighbors, Good Stewards: Community and Environmental Change in Macon County” will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Rickman Store on 259 Cowee Creek Road, seven miles north of Franklin.

The goal of the forum is to identify and understand what environmental issues are of concern to residents and what knowledge about the local environment they can share to enhance Coweeta Long-Term Ecological Research.

The meetings are part of a partnership between the Coweeta Listening Project and the Friends of the Rickman Store.

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER he National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado formed during an afternoon of thunderstorms and high winds that ripped through Western North Carolina two weeks ago.

The tornado touched down briefly in a portion of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Haywood County, making its mark as only the second confirmed tornado in the mountainous county in more than half a century.

According to the Greenville-Spartanburg National Weather Service, the tornado occurred at 4:10 p.m. June 13 in the Big Creek area of the park. Although the tornado only occurred for about 10 minutes, its winds reached speeds of 100 miles per hour as it carved a football field-sized swath of downed trees and debris through the forest.

“It snapped a bunch of trees and uprooted a bunch of trees along the trails,” said National Weather Service Meteorologist Scott Krentz.

The tornado was part of a larger storm front that moved across the region that day.

Winds left sections of the park impassable and caused closures at one campground.

A tornado warning was issued for Haywood County as the storm gained speed.

However, the tornado could not be confirmed until weather service professionals were able to arrive at the scene last week and confirm by the wreckage that it had indeed reached ground level — a prerequisite to be considered a legitimate tornado and not just a funnel cloud. Trees snapped off 20 feet in the air and trunks lying in opposite directions on either side of the tornado’s center are tell-tale signs of a twister.

Park officials are still surveying the damage. One man was injured in that storm by a

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falling tree and transported to Mission Hospital in Asheville.

On the day of the storm, most residents were caught off guard by the tornado warning — a rarity in most mountainous regions.

Peaks and ridges tend to act as a roadblock for the stream of moist, warm air from the Caribbean that feeds tornado-causing storms as it clashes with drier and cooler air from the north and southwest.

“It’s not real common at all,” said Krentz, who is based in South Carolina. “Usually when they reach a higher terrain, they get disrupted, but this storm was pretty strong.”

The tornado was ranked as an EF-1, the weakest classification, but its wind speeds were only a few notches away from putting it in the EF-2 category. The last tornado confirmed tornado in Haywood County came in 1976 near Lake Junaluska and was also an EF-1.

In general, WNC counties rarely see any tornados at all. Since the 1950s, Swain County has had two; Jackson County has had three; and Macon County has seen four.

Meanwhile, several eastern counties had two to three tornados just in 2012.

On that afternoon in Waynesville, after the warning was issued, groups of people

“It just kind of goes to show that it’s easy to forget in the mountains that tornados can happen because they’re so rare.”

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were still meandering around the downtown area as the rain cleared. Others questioned if the warning was real.

The number of residents in Buncombe and Haywood counties who went running for an interior room without windows or the basement is unknown, but local meteorologist David Still with Ray’s Weather guesses

the number was near to nil. Most people, he said, don’t follow the tornado preparedness textbook, especially those in the mountains who have probably never been through a tornado warning their entire lives.

“It just kind of goes to show that it’s easy to forget in the mountains that tornados can happen because they’re so rare,” Still said.

“Folks in Haywood County and Buncombe County probably didn’t do a darn thing.”

However, Still, who previously worked as a weatherman in the prime twister territory of Iowa, said he saw the same reaction there.

The Internet abounds with Youtube videos where residents can be seen on their front porches looking to catch a glimpse of the incoming tornado. And reports such as the 1987 high-elevation F4 tornado that cut a 25mile path through Wyoming and crossed the continental divide at 10,000 feet make Still nervous when mountain residents don’t take warnings seriously.

“They’re pretty narrow so everyone thinks it’s not going to hit them,” Still said. “That’s just human nature.”

The state of North Carolina has never seen an EF-5, which has wind speeds of more than 200 miles per hour. But the mountains and the forested terrain in the state can actually make a less powerful tornado more dangerous. People don’t have time to spot it and move to a safe place.

On the Great Plains or in the Midwest, tornados can be seen up to 20 miles away. In WNC, most storms with tornado potential enter from Tennessee or Georgia and dissipate over the mountains — a reason the state doesn’t have many prolonged thunderstorms either.

The storms that do maintain the energy to become a funnel cloud and then a tornado have the potential to cause damage to the unsuspecting WNC resident.

“The few storms we do get here can be very dangerous,” said Ryan Boyles, director of state climate office. “By the time they’re visually confirmed, they’re generally right on top of you.”

Speaker to lecture on open book management Russ Seagle will give the keynote address at the Young Professional of Haywood breakfast at 8 a.m. June 27, at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center.

Job incentive deal brewing in Haywood

The skeleton of the Waynesville skate park is currently under construction. with WNC Paving of Waynesville to build skate park. The park will feature at least four ramps, rails and various obstacles that recreate an urban skateboard setting.

In preparation for the skate park’s opening, the Waynesville Board of Aldermen recently passed an ordinance requiring people to wear helmets, kneepads and elbow

pads when using the park. The board will place signs saying such at the park.

The move was not so much about safety as liability. The park will be unsupervised, and by passing the ordinance and posting the signs Waynesville leaders will mitigate their culpability should someone get injured.

Owner of Seagle Management Consulting, Seagle will focus on open book management and employee satisfaction. In survey after survey during the last forty years, employees have said more control over their job — not more money — is the key to keeping them motivated, engaged and happy enough to stay. Employees today are smart, creative, and savvy. They want

the ability to call an audible every now and then.

The key to letting them do that successfully is to teach them to understand the way you keep score in your business. Do they understand how your business makes money? Do they fully grasp how their daily performance affects your bottom line?

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Haywood Community College is negotiating with the architects and contractor who worked on the college’s new Creative Arts building to figure out who owes what.

Construction on the building started in 2011, and throughout the process unexpected costs cropped up — most notably, the need for $227,000 to purchase a pump to push water up a hill to the new building as well as

an outdoor shed to house it.

Bill Dechant, HCC’s director of campus development, attributed the unanticipated expense to architect error. The Raleigh-based architects did not realize the water would lose pressure as it moved up hill and therefore did not foresee the need for the pump until the project was underway. When drafting the plans, the architects also made the door to one of the

rooms too small for equipment to fit through.

After having to shell out money upfront to remedy such problems, the county board of commissioners has pressed HCC officials to recoup some of the dollars from the builders. And now that the building is complete, that is what the college hopes to do.

“What we are trying to do is come up with a conclusion to the project — a financial conclusion to it,” Dechant said.

However, the contractors have bills for unpaid services.

“They are coming back to us, and saying, ‘you got this, this, this, this and this that you owe us for,’” Dechant said. “If you (HCC) are

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Haywood County could be landing new jobs in the near future — but what type of jobs, how many and when they would be coming are a secret for now.

Haywood County commissioners met behind closed doors Monday to discuss an economic incentive package for an unnamed company or employer. It could be a new business or an expansion at an existing business.

The Haywood County Economic Development Commission met two weeks ago to discuss the incentive package before passing it along to county commissioners. The county is still in negotiations with the unnamed company so nothing is certain yet.

The size of the incentive depends on the number of jobs being created and the scale of the physical investment — such as factory expansion or new equipment — being made by the employer.

Haywood County has a formal incentive policy based on a sliding scale. On the low end, a company has to create at least 15 new jobs with an investment of at least $500,000.

The theory is that counties would recoup the value of the incentive over time from property taxes paid by the company and from simply a more robust economy.

Given the sensitive and competitive nature of luring new jobs, discussion of economic development incentives are allowed to take place in closed session.

Buncombe County recently spent months negotiating a secret incentive package that was finally announced this week to bring more than 50 new GE jobs and a new high-tech manufacturing plant for specialized materials of jet engines.

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BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER Construction on an 8,000-square-foot Waynesville skate park is visibly progressing.

“They are coming right along with it,” said Rhett Langston, director of Waynesville’s Parks and Recreation Department.

Although early projections had the Vance Street park finished by next month, it will not actually open until later this summer — closer to late August. Rainfall this spring and summer made it hard to set an actual date for the skate park’s ribbon cutting.

“Right now, it is kind of early to tell because there could be rain,” Langston said, which would delay work on the park.

To the casual passerby, the site just looks like some dirt and wood frames, but it is already quite different from the flat patch of grass of yesterday.

“It’s looking good. We are excited about it,” Langston said.

Once the outline of the park is complete, the last steps will include pouring the tons of concrete that will actually make up the skate park and creating a parking lot for visitors.

Although he knows people have been waiting years for the town to build the skate park, Langston discouraged skaters from using it before the pavement fully dries and the grand opening is held.

“That is going to be very, very important that everyone stay off of it,” Langston said.

Skaters have lobbied the town for more than a dozen years to invest in a skate park.

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going to ask for money back, then we (the builders) are going to ask for this money that we feel we are owed in additional services.

That is the way it always goes.”

HCC officials will negotiate with the architect and contractor, said Dechant, and give the commissioners an update on the talks at their next meeting. The goal is to find some common ground.

“Nobody wins if it goes any further than that,” Dechant said.

In a worst-case scenario, the college and the county could end up in a lawsuit with the builders.

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Maggie leaders try to strike balance

BY CAITLIN BOWLING STAFF WRITER It was Groundhog Day again for the Maggie Valley Police Department.

Last year, Police Chief Scott Sutton defended his department and officers against claims that the force is too large and its budget should be slashed. This year was no different.

The board of aldermen approved a more than $900,000 police budget — a $50,000 increase compared to last year — but only after two aldermen, Mike Matthews and Phillip Wight, relented on calls for a 10 percent cut to the department’s budget.

At the heart of the issue is an argument about whether the police department is too big for a town of Maggie Valley’s size.

Proponents of the cuts have called the police presence in Maggie Valley overbearing, but Sutton wondered what would happen if the

on elderly residents and has one officer dedicated to the DARE anti-drug program for schools.

“Those 400-something kids down there and those parents — it makes a difference,” Sutton said.

They would also feel differently about the police if they were victims of a crime and needed help. If the force was scaled back, response time could suffer.

“When you need a police officer, do you want them to be there within four minutes or do you want them to be there within 20 minutes?” Sutton said.

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The Maggie Valley Police Department currently has 10 officers, including the chief and one detective. It is a 24-hour, seven-day-aweek operation, meaning it has at least one officer patrolling per shift. The department keeps one officer on the road during the day two at night. However, more cops are on duty during big events such as the upcoming Red, White and Boom, which attracts thousands to Maggie Valley.

People who favor the cuts have repeatedly cited information from the N.C. League of Municipalities, which says that towns need 2.4 officers for every 1,000 residents. According to census data, Maggie Chief Scott Sutton sat behind his desk at the Maggie Valley Police Valley only has 1,146 resDepartment last week. The last two years Sutton has had to idents.

By that figure Maggie defend his department against those who say its budget and Valley has more than police force are bloated. one cop per 100 people.

However, the census cops scaled back and an accident happens or does not account for second-home owners someone decides to bring a weapon someand tourists. where.

According to the census, two-third of the “How can we say in one breath, ‘OK, we town’s homes are vacant. Subtracting for are going to lay off,’ and then, you get people actual vacant homes and rental properties, down here who are hurt?” Sutton said, citing Maggie Valley’s population is at least double an incident where a woman driving through what the census pegs it at, if not more the valley crossed into oncoming traffic and — increasing the resident-to-officer ratio. hit a car with two kids from Cherokee. All But that doesn’t include the tourists who three were hospitalized. ebb and flow through Maggie Valley during Although neither aldermen went as far as different times of the year. to ask to cut police staff, the majority of a “They have a large tourist population,” police department’s budget funds salaries and Gerard Ball, a regional director for the N.C. wages. A $90,000 cut may have forced the Association of Chiefs of Police and chief of the chief to cut a position or some employee benClyde Police Department. efits.

During the winter, Cataloochee Ski Resort Residents and business owners who are may have 2,000 skiers and snowboarders viscomplaining only see a limited view of what iting, which right there triples the population the police department does, according to the of Maggie Valley. The same is true during the summer month, particularly when motorcy16 chief. The department goes on calls to check

cle rallies bring a few thousand bikers to the valley.

When you take all the variables into account, Sutton argued, the department works with a pretty barebones operation.

If an officer is called to the scene of an accident, he or she will have to interview all involved and if a person is injured, travel with them to the hospital. If it occurs during the day, that leaves no one to patrol the town while the officer is busy.

“That is fine if you have no calls,” Sutton said.

Proponents of trimming back the police department have argued that the police sit outside or near restaurants and bars, and it affects their ability to draw customers.

Sutton denied that.

“We spend the majority of our time with the residents,” Sutton said.

However, it is undeniable that Maggie Valley Police Department has garnered a reputation for pulling people over as they leave the bars and setting up checkpoints on U.S. 19 going toward Waynesville — a reputation the department seems stuck with.

“That is probably their problem,” said Topsail Beach Police Chief Samuel Gervase.

One way to change that is to get out and educate the public on what the department does as well as do little things, like helping old ladies bring their groceries into their homes to generate some positive PR, Gervase suggested.

“That goes a long way,” he said, adding that his department has no such problems because of its good relationship with community members.

In fact, in Topsail, a town of only about 550 year-round residents, the town board is actually expanding the police department from seven officers to eight. During hot summer days, the chief estimated that the small town swells to 12,000, which strains the department.

“We are spread so thin that we can’t keep up,” Gervase said.

NOT ALONE Over in Highlands, the police department there faces the same stigma. The town has a year-round population of less than 1,000 residents, according to the U.S. census.

And like Maggie Valley, that number does not include the second-home population or tourists. On a good day during the busy season, Highlands Police Chief Bill Harrell estimated that the number of people in Highlands swells to about 15,000.

However since the population is so low during the off-season, Harrell combats remarks about his 10-officer operation being too large.

“We get a lot of the same negative comments, and we have to continue to forge ahead knowing we are doing the right thing,”

Comparing sizes People who have called for Maggie Valley leaders to cut the police budget, complaining that it is too large, have often referred to information put out by the N.C. League of Municipalities as evidence. The league says that towns need 2.4 officers for every 1,000 residents, according to proponents of the cuts. But by that standard, other departments are bloated as well.

Waynesville’s population is about 9,800, according to most recent U.S. Census data.

The town employs 34 officers — but using the N.C. League of Municipalities’ residentsto-officer ratio, it should only have about 24.

Canton, which has a population of about 4,200 people, should have 10 officers by that standard. It has 14.

Similar to Maggie Valley, both towns have tourist and second-home populations that come and go throughout the year.

Harrell said. “(Naysayers) don’t realize what things you do that make their quality of life.”

One difference between Maggie Valley and Highlands, however, is that Highlands is more than 6 square miles, whereas the valley is only 1.6 square miles.

“It is a large area to cover a lot of times with just two officers,” Harrell said of Highlands, adding that given the town’s remote location, his department often responds to calls outside its jurisdiction as part of a mutual aid agreement with the Macon County Sheriff ’s Office. It just depends on who is closer.

According to Harrell, the Highlands Police Department received more than 1,000 calls a month during the busy season. From December to late March, the number drops to a few hundred, he said.

No matter how big the population is, however, if only one cop is on duty and there are multiple calls, he or she may not be able dedicate enough time to each call. If the officer is responding to a theft call but gets a call about an accident, the officer might have to leave the victim in the lurch.

“Our job is, when someone is the victim of something, to provide them with the best service we can,” Sutton said. “The last thing we want is somebody to go back to wherever and say, ‘Don’t go to Maggie Valley because we got our purse stolen and they didn’t do nothing about it.’”

POLICE JALOPIES Also on the chopping block again this year were vehicle purchases. The town typically replaces the two oldest vehicles every year; by the time the vehicles cycle around for replacement they are about six years old.

During last year’s budget talks, all the aldermen came to the agreement to postpone replacing two of the aging vehicles for a year.

Then this year, they would buy two new cars.

But Matthews and Wight wanted to delay purchasing new vehicles again. If that had happened, the cars that the police department expected to replace a year ago would be eight or nine years old.

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BY B ECKY JOHNSON STAFF WRITER ngel Medical Center in Franklin officially came under the umbrella of Mission Hospital System this week, a move Angel leaders say will help improve health care for patients and the hospital’s bottom line.

“You look at a small rural hospital today and ask how does it survive a constantly changing environment and meet the needs of the community. How does it survive?” posed Jan Unger, the president of Angel Medical’s board of directors. “It has to change.”

Angel simply could not survive financially as a standalone community hospital and inevitably succumbed to the national trend of small hospitals partnering up with larger ones.

Angel Medical Center started down the path of an affiliation with Mission more than two years ago.

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Angel would otherwise have had to pay for. hospitals in Haywood, Jackson and Swain All those savings add up and are making a counties but was unsuccessful in forging an difference in Angel’s bottom line. alliance. Mission could have another shot as “We are cautiously optimistic we will be MedWest hospitals are now contemplating close to break even by the end of the year,” whether to switch partners or even put their Bross said. hospitals up for sale.

It’s an odd goal — to merely break even Mission CEO Ron Paulus said the motiva— but is not uncommon for small rural hos- tion in taking smaller community hospitals pitals like Angel, with a daily average of 18 under its wing is a benevolent one. inpatients.

“People tend to doubt you when you say “That’s great to get to the break even that, but it’s true,” Paulus said. “The reason point compared to where we have been the we exist is to serve the communities of past five years,” Bross said.

There’s intangible benefits as “Here it comes down to ‘Are well. For example, Angel’s 460 employees can look forward to there going to be services or are better benefits as part of there not going to be services?’”

Mission’s network, which will help with employee recruitment — Ron Paulus, Mission CEO and retention.

Mission has been well received by the community as a partner for Western North Carolina.”

Angel, according to Martin Wadewitz, the Critics of Mission have accused it of chief operations officer of Angel. monopolistic forays and tactics to take over Angel has always had high patient satis- health care in WNC. But look around, Paulus faction levels, perhaps due to its smaller size said. Small rural hospitals aren’t exactly a and thus more personal feel. But the Mission financially lucrative proposition. Mission partnership will — and already has — meant isn’t hindering competition but filling a void. clinical improvements, from better nurse “Here it comes down to ‘Are there going to training to patient tracking systems to care be services or are there not going to be servicprotocols, Wadewitz said. es?’” Paulus said.

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Hoping Lake J – and its infuence – will be around for 200

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Without an editor, Ken had turned to Garrison to write opinion pieces for the newspaper. Garrison was ready to hand that job back to me, but as we talked in my office at during my first couple of days in the mountains, I realized what a unique man he was. He didn’t tell me at the time, but I learned later that he was an accomplished writer and scholar. Ken had been smart enough turn to him when the paper needed a helping hand.

Editor A few weeks later, a book showed up in the mail with a personal note from Garrison.

It was his new book, The Lincoln No One Knows, and I still have the inscribed copy. In those days before the Internet, you couldn’t just Google someone and get their history. A trip to the bookstore at Lake Junaluska revealed other titles by Garrison, books about history and on language and words. A search today will tell you he wrote more than 55 books. Impressive.

Garrison’s columns for the paper were progressive and well written. But they also had

humor and style. I’m sure readers of The Mountaineer and all of Haywood gained valuable insights from his intellect.

One of the other weekly contributors to the editorial pages at that time was Claude Evans, a retired Methodist minister who also had moved to the mountains because of his ties to the church and Lake Junaluska. As writer Evans could be funny and combative at the same time, and over the years I learned that he had been a passionate player in the Civil Rights movement as a minister in South Carolina. His columns were, again, smart, and in some ways very liberal for a newspaper covering a conservative mountain county.

During those first few years that I lived in Haywood County, it seemed I was constantly meeting community leaders and volunteers who had a history that went back to Lake Junaluska. During our weekly meetings to discuss editorial coverage in The Mountaineer, I picked Ken’s brain about this, and we talked frequently about how Haywood County’s history was influenced by these church leaders who also became influential members of the community. Many of today’s leaders in Haywood County had parents who first brought them to the mountains to visit the Lake. It is a unique relationship, that between

Haywood County and the Assembly.

And it continues to this day. Nothing energizes my rebellious spirit like seeing those protestors at the Haywood Courthouse who have gathered for years every week to stand against the wars in the Middle East. The leaders of that group are also from Lake Junaluska and the Methodist Church.

The sense of engagement that Lake Junaluska personifies was also evident during the recent merger process with Waynesville.

Some at the Lake did not want this to happen, and I can understand their concerns. But I can’t remember a civic debate in Western North Carolina that had so many interested, informed people on both sides. Nothing makes a journalist happier than covering people who read newspapers and are knowledgeable.

That informed, inspired and ethical voice is what I associate with Lake Junaluska, and I know Haywood County and the surrounding region have benefitted from having it for 100 years. Here’s wishing Lake Junaluska a happy anniversary, and hoping the Assembly and that same brand of leadership will be around to mark the 200th. In these challenging times, we’ll need that voice.

(Scott McLeod can be reached at info@smokymountainnews.com.)

We must pass immigration reform

• Billions of dollars are poured into “border security” — walls, detection devices, patrols — that can never stop the flow of desperate persons seeking a path to survival and a better life. Our country has been built by persons like this — our forebears. Aren’t we shooting ourselves in the foot by trying to keep them out?

• More than 11 million undocumented persons (no human being is “illegal”) are already contributing to our economy, and could benefit us much more if their status were regularized. Among these are the socalled “dreamers,” young people brought here by their parent who could be our future scientists, doctors, inventors if allowed to get the training and opportunity their abilities deserve. Why deprive ourselves of this rich pool of human potential?

Comprehensive immigration reform must be passed this year. We need to fix this broken system that harms so many of God’s children.

In a subsequent letter, I hope to tell how.

Doug Wingeier Waynesville

I seen the amount of tree-topping as in Haywood County. When you cut off all the branches of a tree, you are accomplishing several things: reducing your property value; encouraging new, weak growth that will be more likely to fall than the original branches; encouraging disease and decay to sicken and weaken the tree, which will hasten its death; and wasting your money. If you are worried about tree branches falling on your house or your power lines, then you should replace the tree with a native tree or shrub that fits into the space available, such as a flowering dogwood. What follows is an excerpt from an article that I published in the Carolina Country magazine on this very topic: Many homeowners think that topping a tree reduces the height of the tree and helps to prevent hazards. Unfortunately, exactly the opposite is true. Instead of tree topping becoming a simple, inexpensive solution, it magnifies the problem and costs the landowner in additional ways.

When a tree has no leaves, its food production source is removed, and it must tap into energy reserves in order to prevent starvation.

Numerous small branches will form near the end of each stub in order to produce as many leaves as quickly as possible. This rapid new growth not only increases the height of the tree, but also the branch density, making the tree taller and fuller than before. These new branches are weakly attached and prone to breakage in windy or icy conditions — a liability for which the landowner is financially responsible.

Topping a tree causes stress in other ways,

as well. Newly revealed tissues may become sunburned — possibly resulting in cankers, splitting bark, and even death of the branches.

Large wounds and long stubs close slowly and are prone to decay and insect invasion. These factors combine to shorten the life of the tree and cost the landowner in terms of tree maintenance and removal.

Removing tree branches leaves a disfigured, aesthetically displeasing tree. Because of the rapid new growth, the tree will need to be regularly pruned. While healthy trees can add 10 to 20 percent to the value of a home, topped trees decrease a home’s value as potential buyers are faced with future tree maintenance.

There are several alternative approved and healthy methods for managing your trees. First, be sure when planting a tree that it is the right tree for that place. There should be adequate space for the mature tree, including the height and diameter of the crown (the branches and leaves extending from the main stem of the tree), as well as the roots. In the long run, it may be worthwhile to replace a mature ill-fitting tree with a smaller tree that is right for that space.

The “Hazelwood Haircut” is really just a cute name for a horrible and harmful practice that no certified arborist or tree service would ever recommend or perform. It is much wiser — and more cost-effective — to replace the tree. For more information about native plants that will fit your landscape, visit www.ncsu.edu/goingnative.

Amy Ney Canton

To the Editor: As Congress wrestles with immigration reform, it appears that folks of all political stripes are convinced that our current system is broken and needs fixing. This brokenness is seen when: • Hardworking individuals are detained

by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, held in custody, and deported — uprooted from their families, jobs, and communities, separating families and leaving wives and children with no means of support.

Who benefits from this?

• Millions of workers are forced into an underground economy, made vulnerable to exploitation, wage theft and obscene underpayment by unscrupulous employers. Does this make America proud?

• Thousands die in the Arizona desert — forced off their lands by unfair tariffs and subsidies embedded in NAFTA and other unfair “free trade” treaties that allow U.S. imports to undersell their local products — coming here to find work to support their families back home. Can this be called humane?

• Millions of migrants, who are also consumers and taxpayers, are denied an immigrant status that could mean higher wages, more tax revenue, and an upward spiral in consumption, jobs, and prosperity for us all.

Does this make practical, economic sense?

Scott McLeod

he Lake Junaluska Assembly is marking its 100th anniversary this year, and a plethora of activities will take place at the Methodist conference center during the July 4 week. I’m not Methodist, but because of my job as a journalist in this region, I’ve seen firsthand the positive impact the Lake has had on Haywood County and the surrounding area.

And I’m not talking about economics and tourism and dollars, though it has a positive impact in that area as well.

When I took the job as editor of Haywood County’s community newspaper The Mountaineer in 1992, the position had been vacant for several months. That era was still the heyday of newspapers, a time when the economy was strong and the Internet was a gee whiz toy for brainy professors and programmers. The Mountaineer was known as the best non-daily newspaper in North Carolina, and I was ecstatic that Publisher Ken Wilson hired me to lead the news staff.

One of the first people he introduced me to was Webb Garrison, who had been a dean at Emory and president at McKendree College. Garrison lived at Lake Junaluska and was a part of the Assembly’s collection of wise, learned high-ups in the church who had retired to the mountains.

‘Hazelwood haircut’ is a destructive practice To the Editor: I wanted to reply to the “Did That Used to be a Tree?” article in the June 5-11 paper. I have worked in the natural resources community for a number of years, and nowhere have

Editor’s note: Marie Cochran attended the production of the “Liar’s Bench” on June 20 at the Mountain Heritage Center on the WCU campus and wrote this review for The Smoky Mountain News.

A fiery monologue titled “The Prospector” was filled with impassioned descriptions of the treasures of the land coming off the train — reminiscent of a car dealer’s sales pitch and the sermon of a tent revival preacher — was performed by Newt Smith. A recording of “Berta, Berta,” a traditional African American work crew song arranged by Branford Marsalis, played in the background, inserting its own counter narrative of labor, sweat and sadness.

Ritter accompanied himself with the percussive beat of chains clinched then dropped on the stage, simulating both the sound of workers beating in spikes to lay tracks and the clank of slave shackles.

Victoria Casey-McDonald appeared as the surrogate for mothers who mourn their missing sons. Pacing the stage, she sang a potent baritone accapella version of “Steal Away” that had the audience spellbound. By this time, the compelling photographic stares of male black faces on the screen seemed all the more one-dimensional and unsatisfyingly mute.

Casey-McDonald summoned the spirits of the deceased men to the stage by calling out some of their names.

Dave Waldrop, Tom Deweese, Newt Smith and Gary Carden recited an imagined dialogue given by four of the 19 men who died that gave voice to their individual experiences on the day of the incident. It was disconcerting to hear these older white men bound into the spotlight answering to an African American woman with the cry “Yes, Mama.” There are plans to recruit African American youth and older men to play these roles in the future.

William Ritter presented a hauntingly beautiful untitled piece of original music. Sitting alone on the stage in a humble manner to “give the song” as old-timers would say — rather than perform it, Ritter accompanied himself with the percussive beat of chains clinched then dropped on the stage, simulating both the sound of workers beating in spikes to lay tracks and the clank of slave shackles.

“Can you hear it? Can you hear it?

That’s the clank and the rattle of the chains.

19 men done laid to rest — are restless, restless Can you hear it? Can you hear it?

The water comes weeping down down

The tears still fall from the roof of the tunnel Where 19 men were drowned.

(Chorus) Mmmm, the tears fall like rain Fall like blood and leave the stain The names, of 19 men, You can hear their cries in the howling wind Can you hear it? Can you hear it?

The songs of the working dead Still hauling stones from the heart of the mountain And painting our progress red.

Can you hear it? Can you hear it?

The clink of steel down deep, deep.

19 men were dragged down together Shackled forever to sleep.

At the conclusion of the evening, Gary Carden and historian Curtis Wood fielded questions from the audience that pointed out the desire for additional acts of recognition for the tragedy, concerns about insensitivity regarding the value human of life, and cautionary tales about the “price of progress.”

The drowning is widely known about through oral history and documented in newspaper accounts, which noted it as one of the worst tragedies associated with prison laborers in North Carolina. Its resurrection is based on the discovery of a record with the men’s names and ages; plus, the possible discovery of their final resting place.

It is even more poignant when you consider that it is the 85th anniversary of the removal of the church and gravesite of the Mount Zion AME Zion church to make way for the expansion of the Western Carolina University campus. Both stories propel themselves out of local lore into a wider context as we mark the 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation giving thoughtful consideration to the complex narrative of our mountain communities.

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“Think of all of the cowboys, the outlaws and the wakeful lovers who have wrapped themselves in that sound! Hear that lonesome whistle blow .... But that is why we are here, to talk about trains and rails, crossties and ... chains .... Black people had been freed from slavery but they needed a way to survive. Suddenly, they had to find a way to wrest a livelihood from the bosom of this wounded earth.”

“They slept in haystacks, abandoned barns and railway boxcars, and they traveled through a landscape that was often desolate, pastures and fallow fields. Everything was temporary ... a week’s work here, sometimes an entire season, and then they were on the road again. Sometimes, they harvested old potatoes and dried beans in abandoned fields.

Sometimes, they stole. Eggs, chickens, a corn sheller, sheep shears … maybe a cow. It is an easy thing to do if you are hungry enough .... The jails and prisons of the South grew overcrowded. You could end up on the chain gang simply because you were in a strange town where no one knew you .... The prisons of the South had formed an unholy alliance .... As author Douglas Blackmon’s critically aclaimed work states, it was “Slavery By Another Name.”

Gary Carden taking questions during “The Liar’s Bench” performance at the WCU Mountain Heritage Center. Carl Iobst photo

June 26-July 2, 2013

I am very familiar with the term “the Liars Bench” in its practice of casual storytelling among Southern men sitting in the courthouse square and at barbershops; yet I was skeptical to hear this lighthearted phrase associated with the account of 19 Black men who drowned on a chain gang only decades after the Civil War. As a disclaimer, for the last month I’ve been a witness to the assemblage of information and a participant in debates that raged about the proper way to engage a diverse audience. Yet, I waited like every other audience member wondering whether “Tears in the Rain” would be told as a gruesome ghost story, a sorrowful tale of faceless men who perished in an unfortunate accident, or an insightful portrayal of a human tragedy.

In his welcome remarks, Scott Philyaw, director of the Mountain Heritage Center, informed the audience that this program might be painful and difficult to hear but not unlike a blues song, a sorrowful story to help us to deal with the pain. Gary Carden, founding director of The Liars Bench, crafted a collaborative ensemble of performers who utilized various media to build the emotion in the premiere of “Tears in the Rain” as a work-in-progress.

A documentary short film, “Bring Them Home” by director/producer Dave Waldrop and filmmaker Joe Holt, brought the audience to the actual scene of the drownings and proposed evidence for an examination of the suspected burial site(s). Throughout the evening, a backdrop of compelling photographic portraits of incarcerated workers and trains, assembled by Pam Meisner, curator for the Mountain Heritage Center, was projected onscreen.

The extended notes of a lonesome homemade train whistle called to order the dramatic interpretation of the official account. Carden’s narrative set a scene of this historic era by invoking vivid sights and sounds.

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AMMONS DRIVE-IN RESTAURANT & DAIRY BAR 1451 Dellwwod Rd., Waynesville.

828.926.0734. Open 7 days a week 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Celebrating over 25 years.

Enjoy world famous hot dogs as well as burgers, seafood, hushpuppies, hot wings and chicken. Be sure to save room for dessert. The cobbler, pie and cake selections are sure to satisfy any sweet tooth.

BLUE RIDGE BBQ COMPANY 180 N. Main St., Waynesville.

828.452.7524. 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. TuesdayThursday; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. FridaySaturday; 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Blue Ridge BBQ is a family owned and operated restaurant. The BBQ is slow hardwood smoked, marinated in its own juices, and seasoned with mountain recipes. All menu items made from scratch daily. Featuring homemade cornbread salad, fresh collard greens, or cornbread and milk at your request. Old-fashioned homemade banana pudding and fruit cobbler of the season.

Catering, take-out, eat-in. blueridgebbq@gmail.com.

BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997.

Monday-Friday 11 a.m. to 8:30 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slowsimmered soups; flame grilled burgers and steaks, and homemade signature desserts.

Blue-plates and local fresh vegetables daily.

Brown bagging is permitted. Private parties, catering, and take-out available. Call-ahead seating available.

BOURBON BARREL BEEF & ALE 454 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville, 828.452.9191. Now open for lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Dinner nightly from 4 p.m. Closed on Sunday. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks, fresh fish, and other classic American comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. We also feature a great selection of craft beers from local artisan brewers, and of course an extensive selection of small batch bourbons and whiskey. The Barrel is a friendly and casual neighborhood dining experience where our guests enjoy a great meal without breaking the bank.

HERREN HOUSE 94 East St., Waynesville 828.452.7837.

Lunch: Wednesday - Saturday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday Brunch 11 a. m. to 2 p.m.

Enjoy fresh local products, created daily.

Join us in our beautiful patio garden. We are your local neighborhood host for special events: business party’s, luncheons, weddings, showers and more. Private parties & catering are available 7 days a week by reservation only.

CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1401. Family-style breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 am – with eggs, bacon, sausage, grits and oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-you-can-eat.

Lunch every day from 11:30 till 2. Evening cookouts on the terrace on weekends and Wednesdays (weather permitting), featuring steaks, ribs, chicken, and pork chops, to name a few. Bountiful family-style dinners on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, with entrees that include prime rib, baked ham and herb-baked chicken, complemented by seasonal vegetables, homemade breads, jellies and desserts. We also offer a fine selection of wine and beer. The evening social hour starts at 6pm, and dinner is served starting at 7pm. So join us for mile-high mountaintop dining with a spectacular view.

Please call for reservations.

CHEF’S TABLE 30 Church St., Waynesville.

828.452.6210. From 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday through Saturday dinner starting at 5 p.m. “Best of” Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator Magazine. Set in a distinguished atmosphere with an exceptional menu. Extensive selection of wine and beer.

Reservations honored.

CITY BAKERY 18 N. Main St. Waynesville 828.452.3881.

Monday-Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Join us in our historic location for scratch made soups and daily specials.

Breakfast is made to order daily: Gourmet cheddar & scallion biscuits served with bacon, sausage and eggs; smoked salmon bagel plate; quiche and fresh fruit parfait.

We bake a wide variety of breads daily, specializing in traditional french breads. All of our breads are hand shaped. Lunch: Fresh salads, panni sandwiches. Enjoy outdoor dinning on the deck. Private room available for meetings.

CITY LIGHTS CAFE Spring Street in downtown Sylva.

828.587.2233. Open Monday-Saturday 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tasty, healthy and quick. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, espresso, beer and wine.

Come taste the savory and sweet crepes, grilled paninis, fresh, organic salads, soups and more. Outside patio seating. Free Wi-Fi, pet-friendly. Live music and lots of events.

Check the web calendar at citylightscafe.com.

CORK & CLEAVER 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.7179. Reservations recommended. 4:30-9 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday. Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, Cork & Cleaver has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Executive Chef Corey Green prepares innovative and unique Southern fare from local, organic vegetables grown in Western North Carolina. Full bar and wine cellar. www.waynesvilleinn.com.

FRYDAY’S & SUNDAES 24 & 26 Fry St., Bryson City (Next To The Train Depot). 828.488.5379. Spring hours: 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Wed., Thur. & Sun. 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. Fri & Sat. Fryday’s is known for its Traditional English Beer

tasteTHEmountains Battered Fish & Chips, but also has burgers, deep fried dogs, gyro, shrimp, bangers, Chip Butty, chicken, sandwiches & a great kids menu. Price friendly, $3-$10, Everything available to go or call ahead takeout. Sundaes has 24 rotating flavors of Hershey's Ice Cream making them into floats, splits, sundaes, shakes. Private seating inside & out for both locations right across from the train station & pet friendly.

MAD BATTER BAKERY & CAFÉ Located on the WCU Campus in Cullowhee.

828.293.3096. Open Monday-Thursday 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., Friday 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Earth-friendly foods at people-friendly prices. Daily specials, wraps, salads, pastries, breads, soups and more. Unique fare, friendly service, casual atmosphere and wireless Internet. Organic ingredients, local produce, gourmet fair trade and organic coffees.

MOUNTAIN PERKS ESPRESSO BAR & CAFÉ 9 Depot St., Bryson City. 828.488.9561.

Open Monday through Thursday, 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Friday 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. With music at the Depot. Sunday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Life is too short for bad coffee. We feature wonderful breakfast and lunch selections.

Bagels, wraps, soups, sandwiches, salads and quiche with a variety of specialty coffees, teas and smoothies. Various desserts.

PASQUALE’S 1863 South Main Street, Waynesville. Off exit 98, 828.454.5002. Open for lunch and dinner seven days a week. Classic Italian dishes, exceptional steaks and seafood (available in full and lighter sizes), thin crust pizza, homemade soups, salads hand tossed at your table. Fine wine and beer selection. Casual atmosphere, dine indoor, outside on the patio or at the bar.

Reservations appreciated.

SOUL INFUSION TEA HOUSE & BISTRO 628 E. Main St. (between Sylva Tire & UPS). 828.586.1717. Tuesday-Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Saturday noon -until.

Scrumptious, natural, fresh soups, salads, sandwiches, wraps and desserts. 60+ teas served hot or cold, black, chai, herbal.

Seasonal and rotating draft beers, good selection of wine. Home-Grown Music Network Venue with live music most weekends. Pet friendly and kid ready.

SPEEDY’S PIZZA 285 Main Street, Sylva. 828.586.3800.

Open seven days a week. Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Sunday 4 p.m.-10 p.m. Family-owned for 30 years. Serving hand-tossed pizza made to order, pasta, subs, gourmet salads, calzones and seafood. Also serving excellent prime rib on Thursdays. Dine in or take out available.

TAP ROOM SPORTS BAR & GRILL 176 Country Club Dr. Waynesville 828.456.5988. 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. Enjoy soups, sandwiches, salads and hearty appetizers along with a full bar menu in our casual, smoke-free neighborhood grill.

THE WINE BAR 20 Church Street, downtown Waynesville.

828.452.6000. Underground cellar for wine and beer, served by the glass all day.

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828.456.3333. Classic fireside dining in an historic mountain lodge with cozy, intimate bar. Dinner served nightly except Sunday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Signature dinner choices include our 8oz. filet of beef in a brandied peppercorn sauce and a garlic and herb crusted lamb rack. Carefully selected fine wines and beers plus full bar available. Open year round. Call for reservations.

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othing says summer more than the 4th of July, and in Western North Carolina, we celebrate Independence Day with gusto. Between majestic fireworks, sizzling hot dogs and hamburgers, cotton candy, games, live music and craft demonstrations, there’s a little of bit of everything for any and all. So, grab your lawn chair, sunglasses and adventurous spirit, and enjoy this special day in Southern Appalachia.

All events occur on Thursday, July 4, unless otherwise noted.

Come play in the Great Smoky Mountains!

828-926-0866 3374 Soco Rd. Maggie Valley, NC 28751 maggievalleyfestivalgrounds.org Paid in part by HCTDA www.visitncsmokies.com

Thursday, July 4 2 to 11 p.m.

Maggie Valley Festival Grounds

FREE ADMISSION! Family Fun! Live Music & Entertainment, Fireworks, Games, Bouncy Houses, Pony Rides, Petting Zoo And more!

Bryson City

“Freedom Fest” begins at 8 a.m. with Rotary International “Firecracker 5K” (registration 6:30 to 7:30 a.m.) at the Swain County Administration Building on Mitchell Street. Riverfront Park will hold a “Strut Your Mutt” pet show at 10 a.m., and the Grove Church entertainment and kids’ area from 6-9 p.m. There will also be an all-day “Kids’ Street” activities area at the railroad depot filled with a climbing wall, bouncy house, choo choo train and waterslide. The Bridge Stage on Everett Street will have an opening ceremony with VFW Post 9281 (10 a.m.), Grandpa’s Music (10:30 a.m.), Boogertown Gap (11:30 a.m.), Watermelon Eating Contest/Hula Hoop-off/Smoky Mountain Shimmy from 1-3 p.m., The Freight Hoppers (5 p.m.), Elvis impersonator (7 p.m.), Barefoot Movement (8 p.m.), craft and food vendors on Everett Street, and the fireworks show beginning at 10 p.m. A “Freedom Train” will depart from the railroad depot at 8 p.m. www.greatsmokies.com/freedomfest.

Canton

The annual “4th of July Celebration” begins at 6 p.m. with music and dancing in the street at Sorrells Street Park.

Watermelons will be provided for free, with children’s watermelon roll and seed spitting contests. Food vendors will be onsite. Live music provided by the Little Creek Bluegrass Band. Fireworks at dusk. www.visitncsmokies.com.

The “Fireworks Extravaganza on the Green” begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday, July 5, at the Village Green Commons on Frank Allen Road. Live music will be provided by rhythm and blues band The Extraordinaires. The

Franklin

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The “4th of July Parade and Celebration” is 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in downtown Franklin.

The “Fireworks in the Park” runs from 310 p.m. at the Macon County Veterans Memorial Recreation Park (just south of Franklin on U.S. 441). The event features the

Celebrating its 100th anniversary, the “July 4th Lake Junaluska Parade and Fireworks” begins with the parade at 11 a.m.

The parade starts at the Lambuth Inn and ends at the Nanci Weldon Gymnasium.

There will be bluegrass music, barbeque and children’s activities throughout the day, with the fireworks beginning at 9:30 p.m. www.lakejunaluska.com/july4th or www.visitncsmokies.com.

Cherokee The “4th of July Fireworks” begin at dusk at the Acquoni Expo Center. A Cherokee bonfire will be from 7-9 p.m. at the Oconaluftee Islands Park Bonfire Pit. A “Moonlight 5K Run” will also take place. For more information on the race, call 828.788.1408.

828.554.6471 or www.visitcherokeenc.com.

Maggie Valley

Dillsboro Festivities will kick off with the Color Guard presenting the flag at 6:30 p.m. at the downtown depot, with Americana musical act Porch 40 following the presentation at 7:30 p.m. Restaurants will be open late, with Bradley’s General Store serving kettle corn. Fireworks are set to launch at 10 p.m. A “Freedom Train” will depart from the Bryson City railroad depot and will arrive in Dillsboro for the fireworks.

828.586.0265.

Fontana Village Resort The Fontana Village Resort activities run from July 3-6. Live music kicks off at 6:30 p.m. July 4 with Fast Gear, followed at 9 p.m.

by The Chillbillies. My Highway at 8 p.m. on July 5 and The Mardi Gras Kings at 8 p.m. on July 6. There will be an Independence Day barbecue cookout all day, with fireworks starting at 10 p.m. www.fontanavillage.com.

“Red, White and Boom” goes from 2-11 p.m. at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. There will be games, food vendors and live entertainment throughout the day, with fireworks shooting off at 10 p.m.

828.926.0866 or www.maggievalleyfestivalgrounds.org or www.visitncsmokies.com.

famous plunger toss (7 p.m.), horseshoe tournament (10 a.m.), cornhole tournament (3 p.m.), bulls eye ball drop (9:15 p.m.), food vendors and the “largest fireworks display” in Western North Carolina beginning at dusk. Live music will be provided at the park by the Southern Appalachian Boys (5 p.m.) and My Highway (7 p.m.). A bus shuttle will run from Franklin High School’s parking lot to the park beginning at 5 p.m. www.franklin-chamber.com.

The “4th of July Round Robin and Fried Chicken Picnic” is at 10 a.m. at the Sapphire Valley Resort Racquet Club. Tennis will start at 10 a.m., with the picnic following. The event is open to the public, but reservations are required. Tickets are $16 per person.

828.743.1181.

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Waynesville

The 4th of July activities begin at 9:30 a.m. at the community baseball field. The Rotary Club of Highlands will host a cookout from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., with a rubber duck derby on Mill Creek. Fireworks will start at 9:15 p.m. www.highlandschamber.org.

The “Stars and Stripes Celebration” begins with Main Street shops and restaurants offering up live music and specialty foods from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in downtown Waynesville.

828.456.3517 or www.visitncsmokies.com.

Sapphire Valley

June 26-July 2, 2013

Cashiers

Cashiers Farmers’ Market, and numerous food vendors will be on-site. There will also be a moonshine margarita, beer and wine set up in several locations. Fireworks begin at dusk. VIP packages available. www.villagegreencashiersnc.com or 828.743.8428.

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hundred years of history and community will come together during the Centennial Homecoming Week at Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center from June 30 to July 7.

Reunions, dynamic speakers, an impressive lineup of concerts, a golf tournament, a water skiing show, fine art and an antiques “road show,” home and garden tours and historic reenactments are all on tap for the thousands of locals and generations of families who will make the pilgrimage to honor and celebrate Lake Junaluska during this special week.

“We’ve tried to have something for everybody,” said Jack Ewing, executive director of Lake Junaluska Retreat Center. “There is a lot of excitement around what has been planned.”

Founded by James Atkins and George R. Stuart as a spiritual retreat for Southern Methodists in 1913, the lakeside compound has evolved into a worldwide destination.

Both Methodist ministers, Atkins and Stuart were colleagues who wanted to create a special place for their worship as seen in other parts of the country.

“There are special places, and certainly Lake

“There are special places ... Lake Junaluska is one of those, where, for whatever reason, the ground, the space, the air are different.”

— Jack Ewing, executive director of Lake Junaluska Retreat Center

Junaluska is one of those, where, for whatever reason, the ground, the space, the air are different,” Ewing said. “And I say that it’s a mystery because it’s not something you can measure analytically, but it is there, and however it got there, whether it is God ordained or whether it’s because we’re intentionally providing it through our Christian hospitality, it is real.”

Since its inception, Lake Junaluska continues to be a haven for Methodists and is the headquarters for The World Methodist Council. Each year, more than 50,000 people visit Lake Junaluska to hear speakers and music, and to participate in hundreds of worship services, classes, conferences and other events — a substantial positive economic impact to Haywood County and beyond.

Lake Junaluska Centennial Homecoming Week runs from June 30-July 7. There will be a reenactment on July 3 of this 1913 photo of the attendees at the First Annual Conference held at Lake Junaluska in front of Stuart Theater. Donated photo

Lake Junaluska Centennial Homecoming Week

SUNDAY, JUNE 30 • Native American Celebration Worship Service with Jonathan Miracle. 8:30 a.m., Stuart Auditorium.

• Worship Service led by Sermon by Ivan Abrahams, General Secretary of the World Methodist Council and music by Lake Junaluska Singers Alumni. 10:45 a.m. to noon, Stuart Auditorium.

• Dramatical production “Of Men Who Ventured Much and Far.” This story is based on the Belgian Congo travels in 1911 by Bishop Walter Lambuth and Dr. John Wesley. For a white man and a black man to travel as brothers to the deepest recesses of the Congo in 1911 was remarkable. This reenactment is based on a book about the venture. 7:30 p.m., Stuart Auditorium, free.

MONDAY, JULY 1 • Friends of the Lake Golf Tournament. 1 p.m., Lake Junaluska Golf Course.

• Lake Junaluska Train Depot Open House. In the Lake’s early days, the train would make four trips a day, ferrying visitors back and forth to Waynesville for meals and accommodations since there were none at the lake back then. The restored depot is now a private residence being opened for tours during this time. 4 to 6 p.m., 1799 S. Lakeshore Drive, free.

• Reenactment of “Historic Lake Crossing.” Relive the lake crossing made by thousands of visitors during Lake Junaluska’s early days from the depot to Stuart Auditorium.

Participants are encouraged to dress in period costumes. For transportation to and from the event, the Lake Junaluska bus

will pick participants up at the tent on the front lawn of the Administration Building. 6 to 7 p.m., free.

• A Junaluska Ghost Story. The ghosts of Junaluska past, and the brainchildren of the Lake’s inception — James Atkins and George R. Stuart — meet by chance at midnight in historic Stuart Auditorium and reminisce about how they merged their respective visions for a Methodist retreat in the North Carolina mountains. 7:30 p.m. Stuart Auditorium, free.

TUESDAY, JULY 2 • Tour of Historic Homes. Tour five historic homes of some of the lake’s original residents on Atkins Loop, all built between 1913 and 1917. Current owners of the homes and lodge will be on hand to provide historical facts. Visitors may walk the loop or ride in a van. 2 to 5 p.m. $10 per person. (Purchase tickets at the Bethea Welcome Center or at 334 Atkins Loop).

• Balsam Range Concert. 7:30 to 9 p.m., Stuart Auditorium.

Tickets are $20 reserved, $17.50 general admission.

The Junaluska Singers will perform conWEDNESDAY, JULY 3 certs filled with patriotic tunes at 7:30 • Family Olympics. p.m. on July 3 and 4 as part of the cen9 to 11 a.m. tennial celebration. Donated photo • Boat parade.

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• Picnic Fish Fry. 5:30 p.m., tent beside Stuart Auditorium.

• Photo reenactment. 100 years ago this summer attendees of the

opening conference at Lake Junaluska gathered in front of Stuart Auditorium to commemorate the historic event with a photograph. Join in the replication of this historic photo. 6:45 p.m., Stuart Auditorium.

• Lake Junaluska Singers concert. 7:30 p.m., Stuart Auditorium. $20 reserved seating, $17.50 general admission.

THURSDAY, JULY 4 • Independence Day Parade followed by BBQ picnic, music and family activates at Nanci Weldon Gym. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

• Lake Junaluska Singers concert. 7:30 p.m., Stuart Auditorium. $20 reserved seating, $17.50 general admission.

• Fireworks. 9:45 p.m.

FRIDAY, JULY 5 • Family Olympics – 9 to 11 a.m.

• Carolina Water Ski Show. Professional Carolina Show Ski Team will perform stunts and water skiing routines. Best viewing is from the Rose Walk. Two performances at 2 and 4 p.m.

• Lake Junaluska Singers Alumni Reunion. 6 to 10 p.m., Shackford SATURDAY, JULY 6 • Antique and Fine Art Discovery Day at Lake Junaluska. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Harrell Center.

• Collecting Fine Arts and Antiques in the 21st Century, Facts and Fiction. 2 p.m., Harrell Center.

• Family Olympics. 9 to 11 a.m.

• Lake Junaluska Time Capsule sealing. 7:15 p.m., Stuart Auditorium.

• Singers Reunion Concert. 7:30 to 9 p.m., Stuart Auditorium. $17.50 general admission.

Some additional events, such as movie night, morning meditations and evening porch fellowships can be found in the full schedule online at www.lakejunaluska.com or 800.222.4930.

On the streets

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD

• The Moms of Music Festival runs from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Twin Maples Farm in Waynesville. The event features live music, vendors, a children’s play area, food and refreshments.

Admission is $5. Moms and children under 5 are free. 828.400.2414.

The 12th annual Graham County Artisan Drive-About will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 28-29 in conjunction with the opening of the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center’s Appalachian Evening Music Series in Robbinsville.

Artists and area businesses have donated items for silent auction to be held from June 24-29 at the Stecoah Valley Center.

Proceeds from the auction will benefit the center. Winning bids will be announced at the end of the Balsam Range concert in the center at 7:30 p.m. June 29. Tickets for the performance are $25 for adults and $5 for children in grades K-12.

The self-guided driving tour highlights artisans who have built a livelihood with their creative talents.

To access the Mobile Tour Guide, go to www.stecoahvalleycenter.com/tour.

Printed maps are available at the Artisans Gallery at Stecoah Valley Center and can be downloaded from www.stecoahvalleycenter.com/artisans.

• A “Craft Beer Meet, Greet and Tasting” will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at the Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City. Special guests from Stone, 21st Amendment, No-Li, New Holland, Mother Earth, Blue Mountain, Dogfish, Avery and Left hand breweries will be onsite, with live music also. Free. www.nantahalabrewing.com or 828.488.2337.

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• The 24th annual Mountain Artisans Summertime Art & Crafts Show will feature some of the top artisans and crafters in the Southeast from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 2930 in the Ramsey Center at Western Carolina University. Items displayed for sale include fine art, woodworking, pottery, weavings, paintings, blacksmith items and gourd art. $4 for adults, with children under age 12 admitted free. 828.524.3405 or www.mountainartisans.net or www.mountainlovers.com.

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Getting poison ivy is my official sign short shot on the fairway, with a clear shot summer is here. for the hole. But, the weather was nice, a Like old men whose knees ache when pleasant sunset behind me, and I felt frisky. I there’s an impending storm, the symbolic chucked the disc for a birdie instead of a rash and blisters are Mother Nature’s way of smart par. It immediately veered to the left, telling me spring is over. Ever since I was kid, ducking into the dreaded brush. I shook my I always seemed to catch poison ivy at least head in disgust. Stupid, stupid, Garret. The once during the summer months. brush was hard to navigate in the slight Growing up in Rouses Point, N.Y., a rural outpost community smack dab on the Canadian border and the vast Lake Champlain, my childhood home was surrounded by cornfields and thick tree lines. All of us neighborhood kids would make forts way back against those tree lines. We’d spend all day tracking down materials from my large barn — old wood, rusty nails or unused paint — in order Do not pick to make our structure stable the poison ivy. enough to withstand any attack from outside forces. And, as expected, I would cross paths with poison ivy inside those tree lines, to my mother’s dismay.

It didn’t stop there. I’d catch it at my grandparent’s camp on the lake, hiking a desolate trail An array of WWE, WCW, NWA and ECW in the nearby Adirondack Park, wrestling superstars swing through the or just wandering, as most of us Birdtown Gym in Cherokee for a handful of did in the pre-Internet days. As I legendary feuds taken to the ring on July 7. got older, I vowed to be more careful, to not expose myself to Author Denise Kiernan presents her book, The the wicked week or two of blisGirls of Atomic City, about young southern ters, bumps and uncomfortable women working for the Manhattan Project on bandages. Through high school, June 29 at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

I pretty much kept to my vow.

But, that small streak of success Country sensation Gary Allan performs at soon ended in college, where I Harrah’s Cherokee on June 28. went on a trip to an empty, picturesque cove on the lake. It was a surreal sight, lying on the Broadway musical tribute to legendary theatre sandy beach, sipping a cold beer composer Stephen Sondheim takes the stage and watching life drift by. as “Side by Side by Sondheim” at the HART And yet, that fun quickly Theatre in Waynesville starting June 28. vanished when I had to go to the bathroom. No toilet paper, too A “Craft Beer Meet, Greet and Tasting” taps far away from the nearest restinto Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson room and too many beers later, I City on June 27. found a secluded spot in the deep woods and a handful of leaves I thought were just … well, leaves. Wrong. I couldn’t sit down or walk darkness and thickness of vegetation. I with ease for the next two weeks. couldn’t clearly decipher if I was walking Excruciatingly painful, to say the least. through poison ivy. Whatever, I thought, I So, here I am, in Western North Carolina don’t think I see any, and I need my disc last weekend (on June 21, the first official back. I eventually tracked down the disc and, day of summer, oddly enough), ready to take the next morning, the rash and bumps my driver shot on Hole 14 at the Waynesville appeared on my leg.

Recreation Center’s disc golf course. It’s And thus, my friends, summer is officialprobably the meanest hole on the entire ly here. Whether you’re outside enjoying course — a dogleg right, down a steep some live music, barbecuing, hiking, biking embankment, with the recreation center on or disc golfing, keep an eye out for our old one side, brush and a junkyard on the other. friend, poison ivy. An ounce of prevention is Normally, I play it conservative and hit a worth a pound of cure, as they say.

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On the beat • The Freestylers and Carolina Dusk play City Lights Café in Sylva. The Freestylers will be playing on Friday, June 28. Hitting the stage on Saturday, June 29, Carolina Dusk is a one-man Americana band, where the genres of blues, country, rockabilly and bluegrass come together. Free.

828.587.2233 or www.citylightscafe.com.

• The Whitewater Bluegrass Company and the Dixie Darlin’s kickoff the Mountain Street Dance summer series from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday, June 28, in downtown Waynesville. Enjoy old-time mountain music, dance and learn how to clog. Free. www.downtownwaynesville.com.

• Indie-folk artist Austin Powell performs from 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, at the Nancy Weldon Gym in Lake Junaluska. The performance is part of the Young People in Mission conference that will host the City of Opportunity. The conference runs from June 30-July 4. $99 for the week or $20 per day pass. www.lakejunaluskacom/youthin-missions.

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• Violinist William Preucil and pianist William Ransom will perform as part of the Highlands Cashiers Chamber Music Festival at 6 p.m. June 28 and at 5 p.m.

June 29-July 1. Friday and Sunday shows are at the Highlands Performing Arts Center, while Saturday and Monday performances are at the Albert Carlton Library in Cashiers. Tickets are $30 for adults, $15 for students. www.h-cmusicfestival.org or 828.526.9060.

• Buick MacKane rolls into the Concerts on the Creek concert series at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, June 28, at Bridge Park in Sylva.

Based in Morganton, the classic southern rock group will showcase an all 1980s music set, paying tribute to REO Speedwagon, Motley Crue, and others. The series is sponsored by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, the Town of Sylva and Jackson County Parks and Recreation.

800.962.1911 or www.mountainlovers.com.

• Randy and Kay Miller come to Pickin’ on the Square at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the lower level town hall in Franklin. The Nashville duo specializes gospel melodies and other selections. At 6:30 p.m. the stage is opened up for anyone wanting to play a few songs. The event is free and open to the public. 828.524.2516 or www.franklinnc.com/pickin.html.

• Smoke Rise and The Bayou Diesel Band comes to Alley Kats Tavern in Waynesville.

Smoke Rise plays June 27, with The Bayou Diesel Band on June 28. 828.226.1657 or www.facebook.com/alleykatstavern.

• The Honeycutters hit the stage at 7 p.m.

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country group is filled with emotion and honesty reminiscent of the country greats.

The concert series is free and open to the public. ledavis@wcu.edu or 828.227.3622.

• The Haywood Community Band presents its annual “4th of July” concert at 2 p.m.

Thursday, July 4, at the Haywood County Courthouse. Music will consist of patriotic selections from the armed forces and other numbers. Presented by the Downtown Waynesville Association. Free. www.haywoodcommunityband.org.

• Country music pioneer Gary Allan will be performing at 9 p.m. Friday, June 28, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center. The legendary superstar is well known for his hits “Her Man,” “Watching Airplanes,” “Nothing On but the Radio” and “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain).” Tickets start at $45 per person. www.harrahscherokee.com or www.garyallan.com.

• The Mountain High Dulcimer Group will perform as part of the Friday Night Live concert series from 6 to 8 p.m. June 28 at the Highlands Town Square. The band features mountain music and bluegrass selections. Free. www.highlandschamber.org or 828.524.5841.

• The Music in the Mountains concert series continues at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad Depot in Bryson City. The free concert series brings together local residents, visitors and musicians for an evening of melodies and mountains. The series is sponsored by the Swain County Chamber of Commerce and the Swain County Tourism Development Authority. www.greatsmokies.com.

• The Jackson Taylor Band plays the Groovin’ on the Green concert series at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, at the Village Commons in Cashiers. The series is sponsored by the Greater Cashiers Merchants Association. Free. www.cashiersvalley.com.

• Blues guitarist Bobby G and R&B funk/soul group The Mixx tap into Frog Level Brewing Company in Waynesville.

Bobby G hits the stage on June 28, while The Mixx plays June 29. Free. 828.454.5664 or www.froglevelbrewing.com.

• Original funk/blues group Porch 40 will be hitting the stage at 9 p.m. Friday, June 28, at No Name Sports Pub in Sylva. The Cullowhee ensemble blends together original funk, jazz and rock melodies. Ages 21 and older. Free. 828.586.2750 or www.nonamesportspub.com.

• Shane Bridges plays the Saturdays on Pine concert series at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at the Pine Street Park in Highlands. The musician offers original rock and country selections. www.highlandschamber.org.

Jazz festival heats up Waynesville Enjoy traditional, bop, and original jazz during the Summer Jazz Festival on Saturdays from June 29 to July 20 at the Classic Wineseller in Waynesville.

The schedule includes Michael Jefry Stevens (piano), Zack Page (bass) and Rick Dilling (drums) on June 29; Sonny Thornton (drums), Michael Jefry Stevens and Mike Holstein (bass) on July 6; Byron Hedgepeth (vibraphone) and Michael Jefry Stevens on July 13; Wendy Jones (vocals) and Michael Jefry Stevens on July 20.

Stevens performs extensively around the world. A bandleader for more than 30 years, he has more than 75 albums. Page

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American Idol singer in Franklin American Idol singer Lauren Alaina will perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 3, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Runner-up on Season 10 of American Idol, Alaina’s strong vocal performances earned comparisons to the Country genre’s premier vocalists, Carrie Underwood and Martina McBride. A record-breaking 122.4 million votes were cast for Lauren and Idol winner Scotty McCreery. Soon after, she made her much-anticipated Grand Ole Opry debut to sing her debut hit, “Like My Mother Does.”

Her debut album “Wildflower” was released in 2011 and landed at No. 2 on the Billboard’s Top Country Album chart and an impressive No. 5 on the Billboard Top 200.

Tickets are $25, $30 and $35. www.greatmountainmusic.com or www.laurenalainaofficial.com.

A night of music with Eric Hendrix Singer/songwriter Eric Hendrix will perform as part of the Summer Music Series at 6

Vocalist Wendy Jones will be one of the performers at Summer Jazz Festival in Waynesville, which runs each Saturday from June 29 to July 20. Donated photo has traveled the globe, performing at the Montreaux Jazz Festival, and all 50 states.

Dilling has played for some of the greatest musicians of all time including the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Margaret Whiting and Billy Taylor. Holstein has been a member of the band, Cotangent, a New York-based group led by pianist/composer, Bill Gerhardt. Thornton is a master drummer.

Hedgepeth currently teaches at Appalachian State University.

828.452.6000 or info@classicwineseller.com or www.classicwineseller.com.

p.m. Thursday, June 27, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Hendrix composes original and inspired acoustic songs with flavors of the 1960s, 70s, and through today.

“I write lyric- and story-driven songs shaped by the music and artists who inspired me on many levels — chiefly, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Jackson Browne, and a list too long to mention them all,” he said. Hendrix recently released his latest album, “Would you Dance with Me?” 828.488.3030 or www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

Acclaimed pianist at Lake Junaluska

Pianist David Troy Francis performs “The All American Piano Concert” at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, June 28, at Lake Junaluska’s Stuart Auditorium.

Francis likes his piano music American made, so much so that he started a nonprofit organization, The Modern American Music Project, David Troy Francis to support and nurture its various genres by American composers. A Memphis native, he is a classical pianist with eight commercial CDs to his credit. “The Americans,” his latest, contains music of living American composers. For his Lake Junaluska concert, he’ll perform Gershwin, American hymns and music from Broadway. Tickets are $17.50 for adults. Ages 18 and under are free. Tickets may be purchased at the Bethea Welcome Center daily and online. www.lakejunaluska.com/david-troy-francis or 800.222.4930.

On the stage

“Cinderella, A Magical Musical” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. June 27-29 and 2:30 p.m. June 30, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Presented by the Overlook Theatre Company, Cinderella, one of the world’s most treasured fairy tales, will come to life in this musical celebration of magical hopes and dreams. The finest cast in all the kingdom will provide a charming and witty take on a classic story and delight and charm theatergoers of all ages. The story is a timeless treasure with incredible melodies, elaborate costumes and pure magic.

Tickets for each production are $15 for

adults and $10 for students. www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

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Celebrating the work of theater composer Stephen Sondheim, the production “Side by Side by Sondheim” will hit the stage at 7:30 p.m.

June 28-29 and July 5-6; 3 p.m. June 30 and July 7; and at 2 p.m. July 13, 20 and Aug. 3, at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

Tickets are $22 for adults, $18 for seniors, and students are $10. Special $8 discount tickets for students are available for Thursdays and Sundays. Season ticket holder tickets are $12.

828.456.6322 or www.harttheatre.com.

Jonathan Maracle of Broken Walls will be the guest speaker and facilitator at the Native American Conference June 28-30 at Lake Junaluska.

Maracle, a Mohawk from Tyendinaga Territory in Ontario, Canada, will share his experiences, skills and knowledge of First Nations ministry. He will also perform a benefit concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at Stuart Auditorium in Lake Junaluska. Maracle’s band, Broken Walls, was conceived in 1995 in response to the walls he saw built between First Nations people and the dominant culture.

Tickets are $20 per person. www.lakejunaluska.com/sejanam or 828.454.6731.

• Auditions will be held for the Southern comedy “Dearly Departed” at 6:30 p.m.

June 30 and July 1 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville. Actors auditioning as professionals should come with a prepared monologue, headshot, resume and musical audition piece. Actors auditioning as volunteers will be asked to cold read from a provided script. Anyone interested in working

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Actress Barbara Bates Smith will stage an adaptation performance of the works of author Ron Rash at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

The featured stories are from the collections Nothing Gold Can Stay, Burning Bright, Chemistry and Other Stories, and The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth. They will be presented as works-in-progress, with feedback encouraged. www.barbarabatessmith.com.

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Pro wrestling stars from the WWE, WCW, NWA and ECW jump into the ring at 1 p.m.

Sunday, July 7, at the Birdtown Gym in Cherokee.

Key events include the Rock & Roll Express versus Powers of Pain, Matt Hardy versus Chris Hamrick, Buff Bagwell versus The Shiek, and George South Jr. versus The Priest Shane Williams, among others. There will also be a six-man tag team and women’s champ match.

Ringside seats are $40 per person. General admission is $20 for adults and $10 for children. Tickets available at Ric’s Smoke Shops.

828.497.3556 or 828.497.0178.

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backstage on the production is also encouraged to come by during auditions to sign up. www.harttheatre.com.

• Auditions will be held for the production of “The Dixie Swim Club” at 7 p.m. June 28-29 at the Smoky Mountain Community Theater in Bryson City. The story is a hilarious and touching comedy about five unforgettable women and friendships that last forever.

828.488.2988 or 828.506.1931.

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s a kid, my sister and I had an unspoken pact. If one of us heard Cyndi Lauper come on the radio, we promptly ran through the house hollering “Come quick, she’s on!”

As children of the ‘80s, you had to work at being cool. We couldn’t merely sit back and swoon over Michael J. Fox’s latest episode of Family Ties or count our collection of jelly bracelets, we had to perfect our tightrolled jeans technique, experiment with the best brand of “big bangs” hair spray, and memorize lyrics to songs during the fleeting and fickle window when they came on commercial radio.

We were highly supercilious toward my mom’s musical taste, groaning in protest whenever the kitchen radio was tuned to her Goldie Oldie station on Saturday mornings, sending us trudging to our room to pull out our one communally owned record, Men at Work.

I remember wondering whether the music of our time would be seen by future generations as we saw my mom’s. And I concluded that surely such a fate would be impossible, that our music would never fall into the same bowels of dorkdome.

Whew! Thank goodness I was right ‘cause I sure like my ‘80s music. And at least for now, my kids are complicit in my secret practice of throwing ‘80s dance parties in the living room.

So I was ecstatic to see the outdoor Concerts on the Creek series in Sylva will throw down with an all ‘80s set this Friday night.

Truth be told, Concerts on the Creek is an excellent bet for the family any Friday night of the summer. Come socialize with friends, relax in a lawn chair (or on a blanket) and let the kids romp and dance. Bring a picnic and it’s a virtually free night out. If you are too harrowed by the end of the week to pull off a

picnic, there are hotdogs and cotton candy — or plenty of places downtown to grab a bite before the show.

Music genres vary over the 14-week season, but I personally have been looking forward to the ‘80s band Buick MacKane from Morganton playing this Friday (June 28). It will probably lean toward ‘80s rock — their selfproclaimed specialty — but they do promise to serve up some ‘80s dance tunes and pop hits.

The show goes from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and is held at the Bridge Park Pavilion along Mill Street downtown. Concerts on the Creek are put on by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, with support from local business sponsors.

Summer in the mountains brings loads of free outdoor concerts. I start looking forward to them each spring. Just about every town has their own version. There’s Pickin’ on the Square in Franklin, Pickin’ in the Park in Canton, Groovin’ on the Green in Cashiers, Music in the Mountains in Bryson City, Concerts on the Quad at WCU….and the list does on. We run a full list in the calendar at the back of The Smoky Mountain News.

One of my favorites are the street dances in downtown Waynesville held right in the middle of Main Street in front of the historic courthouse. (Although we sure will miss the shade of the large maples cut down from the courthouse lawn by our county commissioners this year.)

The Waynesville street dances are like oldfashioned hoe downs, with cornmeal scattered on the street and the crowd led in a community square dance. They aren’t every week, so you have to watch our calendar for them — hint, hint, there is one this Friday starting at 6:30 p.m.

My kids may not have the same selection of radio stations here as the big city where I grew up, but I’ll take the small town charm of street dances any day.

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• “Eight Decades of Art” by Dane will run from June 29 to July 13 at the Burr Studio in Waynesville. An opening reception will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 29. Free.

828.456.7400.

• The “Wild Flowers of the Smokies” auction will be at 6 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

The evening will include a barbeque dinner, live music, with a silent and live auction to benefit the Waynesville Public Art Commission. Raffle tickets for Grace Cathey’s art installation piece that was selected by WPAC are currently available for purchase at $10 each or six for $50. They

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can be bought from members of the WPAC, town municipal building and the night of the fundraiser. 828.452.2491 or 828.246.8188.

• Two art instructional films will be shown starting at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, at the Swain County Center for the Arts in Bryson City. One will be about acrylic painting and its recent developments, while the other focuses on paper collage techniques. Free.

828.488.7843 or www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta.

• The Sapphire Valley Arts & Crafts Show runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 29-30, at the Sapphire Valley Community Center.

Handmade crafts, folk art, live music and food. 828.743.7663.

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King’s Joyland set in eastern North Carolina here is something about carnivals, amusement parks and shoddy summer circus operations that inspire a special kind of supernatural tale. Certainly, a reader who has read Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) or Charles G. Finney’s classic work, The Circus of Doctor Lao (1935), is familiar with the carney sensation that blends expectancy and unease. The world is altered here and a trek down the midway surrounded by garish sideshows, Ferris wheels and the Writer taunting calls of barkers may easily suggest that there are both thrills and dangers inside those tents.

Stephen King’s Joyland reads like a tribute to the numerous writers who have created a nostalgic world permeated with the smell of popcorn and chili dogs. Instead of a carnival or circus, King’s tale is set in a minor league version of Six Flags. Joyland’s narrator is Devon Jones, a college student who has taken a summer job hoping to forget “the girl who broke his heart.” Instead, he finds himself plunged into an environment that speaks a different language (carnival lingo which often becomes a bit irksome), and where carney veterans observe a strange system of ethics. In time, Devon forms permanent ties of friendship with Joyland’s regulars and even learns to enjoy his primary job, “wearing the fur,” which means that he dons the big, sweaty dog suit of “Howie, the Happy Hound” and cavorts for an audience of adoring children. In fact, if Joyland has a theme, it is Howie, for the image of the dancing hound is everywhere.

Ah, but that isn’t the only image that resides in Joyland. In time, Devon learns that lurking in the House of Horrors where patrons careen through dark tunnels filled

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with glowing skulls, recorded screams and hysterical laughter, there is a real terror. Bit by bit, Devon hears the grisly tale of Linda Gray, the young girl who was murdered here. From

Dungeon, searching for yet another victim.

As any Stephen King fan knows, the author has a preference for tales that feature characters who are blessed (or cursed) with a special talent. Frequently, that gift is some variation of what is called “the shine” or “second sight.” (Remember the kid in The Shining or Christopher Walken in “Dead Zone”?) Joyland’s old midway fortune-teller has a touch of it, as does Devon’s best friend, Tom Kennedy. They can “see” the tortured specter of Linda Gray who approaches them at night near the House of Horrors, begging for help.

Eventually, Devon realizes that the only people who can see Linda are people who are dangerously close to death themselves, like his friend, Tom Kennedy, who will die young from cancer. Then there is Mike, a young boy with multiple sclerosis who lives with his mother in a Victorian mansion near Joyland. Devon becomes friends with the stricken boy and eventually becomes involved with Annie, Mike’s mother, in a kind of “Tea and Sympathy” relationship. As it becomes increasingly evident that Mike is dying, Devon and Annie decide to give Mike “a last wish” trip to Joyland. However, all of this seems to have much to do with fate and/or destiny.

There are a half-dozen subplots Joyland by Stephen King. Titan Books, 2013. 283 pages. going here, but suffice it to say that Joyland contains intrigue and suspense to keep the reader scrambling Joyland’s veteran staff, Devon learns that to keep track of all of the misguided, doomed Linda’s terrified soul is still trapped in the and revengeful characters who influence House of Horrors, and her killer (who has a events at Joyland. In addition to a few penchant for killing young girls in carnivals sociopaths, there is a TV evangelist (who just and theme parks) is still stalking the mirrored happens to be Annie’s father) and two sons halls of the Torture Chamber and the who are being groomed to take over their

Author to discuss A-bomb Asheville author Denise Kiernan will discuss her book, The Girls of Atomic City, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

Imagine boarding a bus or a train knowing that your destination was a total mystery. The only thing you’ve been told is that your work there will help end World War II, and that everything will be taken care of for you. This was the case for thousands of young women who were recruited by the U.S. government in 1943 to serve the top-secret Manhattan Project.

It turned out their destination was “Site X”, or Oak Ridge, Tenn., a secret city that appeared on no maps. Those who worked there, though they had no idea at the time, were enriching uranium for the first atomic bomb used in combat. The book shares the neverbefore-told, true story of these remarkable, hardworking, determined young women and the crucial role they played in one of the

most significant moments in U.S. history.

828.586.9499.

Haywood poetry trio to read at Blue Ridge Poets Michael Beadle, William Everett and Charley Pearson will perform original verse and wordplay at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 29 at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville.

The event will offer a variety of poetry styles from ballads and playful rhymes to an abecedarium (using all the letters of the alphabet), and the experimental French Oulipo form. Beadle, an award-winning poet, touring writer-in-residence and local history author, will read and perform from his latest poetry collection, Invitation. Everett, a retired Christian ethics scholar, novelist and poet, recently produced his first collection of poems, Turnings.

father’s TV ministry. However, King fails to develop this subplot. The holy trio never appears at Joyland. The reader is left to wonder how Devon’s final ride on the Joyland Ferris wheel would have been changed by three fundamentalist ministers!

The colorful minor characters includes a supporting cast of roving girl photographers who take random pictures of Joyland’s patrons which they sell back to those same patrons as they leave at the end of the day.

If Joyland has a flaw, it is the fact that it is afflicted with two deadly viruses: juvenilia and a kind of smarmy sentiment. The dialogue is sometimes painful to read since many of the characters talk like the kids on “Leave it to Beaver.” All of that bright-eyed, unabashed enthusiasm seems ill-suited to the cynical world of carney life. This, in conjunction with the poignant (and sometimes downright mawkish) sentiment attending the death of the wise-cracking Mike, who thumbs his nose at the darkness while he strives to accomplish what no one else can do, release the trapped soul of Linda Gray from the prison of the House of Horrors.

Joyland is vintage Stephen King and bears all of the earmarks (and occasional flaws) of his past work. Yet, somehow it all seems strangely muted. Devon and his buddy, Tom, talk like the kids in the classic film, “Stand by Me,” and the topics are always the same: flatulence, sex and girls. There is a serial killer who fulfills the requisite force of evil, and there is the final confrontation between the Devon and the “crazed killer” who has been “hiding in plain sight.”

I loved the setting of Joyland. It is eastern North Carolina and much of the action takes place near or around Wilmington and Lumberton. It is an area well-suited to hot, dark nights, the sprightly tune of a carousel, the smell of cotton candy and — wait — was that laughter? A squeal of joy or terror?

Sometimes, it is hard to tell the difference.

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Carden receives lifetime membership award During its annual meeting on June 11, the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library awarded Gary Carden of Sylva a lifetime membership in the Friends organization.

Smith said Carden had allowed the Friends to produce his plays at no cost as fund-raisers for the library and had donated some of his paintings to sell in support of the capital campaign. Carden’s name will be added to the “Lifetime Members” plaque, which hangs in the library entrance, and for the next 10 years a book will be added to the library’s collection in his honor.

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BY ANDREW KASPER STAFF WRITER ou’ve got your chain well-oiled, air in your tires and water in your bottles. You are all set for a bicycle ride in Haywood County but haven’t the slightest idea where to go.

To help lost tourists with bicycles mounted on their vehicles and locals who may not know the rural areas of the county, bicycle advocates and tourism promoters have teamed up to print a guide to six of Haywood’s best rides.

For each route, the guide includes a map with an elevation profile, turn-by-turn directions, and a brief description on what riders should expect and the scenery they’ll encounter.

Local bike club leader Cecil Yount said it’s a good sampling of what the county has to offer and can work as an introduction to out-of-towners who are looking to ride.

“So when visitors come to the area and ask ‘Where can I ride?’ we have something to hand to them,” Yount said.

Yount, who is chairman of Bicycle Haywood NC, worked with other members of the club to come up with the six routes.

They include the “Waynesville Town and County Cruise,” a nine-mile loop that starts from North Main Street in town, and the more brutal, 45-mile “Cold Mountain Loop,” which leave from Bethel and passes by Devil’s Courthouse on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The list in the pamphlet is by no means a comprehensive guide of what is available in Haywood County for cyclists, but the club members aimed to include a good mix of easy and hard, long and short. The outcome is a product that highlights why Haywood County — with its mountains, rural scenery and the parkway passing through it — is a good place to go on a bicycle ride.

“It’s challenging riding; it’s beautiful scenery; 98 percent of the people are friendly,” Yount said. “It’s just an excellent environment for riding.”

The maps are a product of the bicycle club working alongside the county’s Tourism Development Authority and Haywood County Chamber of Commerce. Following the popularity achieved by the Blue Ridge Breakaway, a local bicycle event held each August, the biking and tourism community began to take notice of the untapped potential in cyclo-tourism.

Yount said he noticed that some participants in the breakaway — which has sections of its route featured in the pamphlet — became enamored with Haywood County cycling and planned returned visits for the sake of riding.

Meanwhile, local bike shops and visitor centers felt like they were turning off potential riders by not having anything to offer them except some online resources, which rely on a data plan and good service or an Internet connection to access.

Yount said it came time to start catering to the bike crowd — and that’s spandex, not leather.

“Americans are getting out on bicycles more and more, and they’re riding across the country, or they’re going to places and taking their bikes,” Yount said. “We offer outstanding opportunities, and we need to be helping out our local community by bringing in cyclists.”

The group of cyclists and tourism leaders who came up with the map also hired consultants who provided advice on

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promoting bike tourism. Yount said another step is for businesses to provide bicycle racks or storage for tourists who travel with a bicycle and to let the cycling crowd know they’re welcome in Haywood. Many riders pass information along by word of mouth in the cycling community, and a good review can lead to repeat and new customers.

With the promise of attracting more

cyclists, the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority footed the bill for the first printing of the maps. This month, 5,000 copies were printed and placed at visitor centers, gas stations, retail businesses and other places around the county.

Lynn Collins, executive director of the TDA, said the bike maps are one more addition to several trail maps the authori-

ty prints, from quilting to motor touring.

She has high hopes that tourists will begin picking up the free brochures and the word about cycling in Haywood County will get out.

“We just have a lot of our visitors who are interested in bicycling,” said Collins.

“We are getting more and more requests and see it as a segment of the industry that will be growing.”

“Americans are getting out on bicycles more and more, and they’re riding across the country, or they’re going to places and taking their bikes. We offer outstanding opportunities, and we need to be helping out our local community by bringing in cyclists.”

— Cecil Yount, Bicycle Haywood NC

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That’s Suuthern flyin’ squerl, y’all

squirrels range from about seven-and-a-half to 10 inches long. The soft dorsal (back) fur is gray to chestnut brown and the underside (ventral) is grayish white. There is a dark gray-black band of demarcation between the dorsal and ventral colors. The large, round black eyes are prominent. Soft loose furry membranes that extend from the fore limbs to the hind limbs unfurl like sails to catch air and let these arboreal acrobats glide. Glides of 100 to 150 feet are common, and there are records of as far as 300 feet.

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baby elk as well. They will also learn some of the rich history of the area, build fellowship with other elk-seers and be outside in the natural surroundings.

The group will leave the Waynesville Recreation Center at 2 p.m. and return by 9 p.m. The cost is $5 for members of the Waynesville Recreation Center or $7 for nonmembers. Participants are asked to bring their

Spend a day learning how to identify plants and trees Native Americans and early settlers used for dye, food, medicines, crafts and other items of daily life.

A class through Great Smoky Mountains Field School will teach participants the ins and outs of plants and herbs in the backcountry.

The class will be held 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, June 29, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Instructor Ila Hatter will share the herb-lore from “medicine men” and “granny women” while the group searches the woods and fields of the Smokies temperate rain forest for its hidden treasures. Students get to sample delicious wild flavors appropriate to the seasons.

Also, the class will explore the original route between Gatlinburg and Cherokee and a portion of the Appalachian Trail. The cost is $49. There are future classes planned in August. www.outreach.utk.edu/smoky/ or 865.974.1000.

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I’ve written about these small nocturnal hang gliders before, but I posted a pic of a group from my home, on Facebook, the other day, and it produced more than 70 likes in one day (and I know it wasn’t the quality of the photo), so I thought I would share our little adventure with you.

We went out on the deck last Friday evening to take a gander at the soon-to-be Super Moon. She had climbed above the mountains and was holding forth in the southeastern sky — a large, coldwhite orb shimmering in the twilight. She began to take on a deeper orange glow as darkness gathered.

Denise and I were sitting, and the girls were hanging out near the railing when a gray shadow cut through the dusk and thwacked against the poplar tree like a soft handclap.

“Whoa!” said Izzy, “what was that?”

“Flying squirrel,” I said as tiny toenails scraped the poplar bark and the shadow disappeared around the large tree.

Flying squirrels immediately Southern flying squirrels at the feeder. Don Hendershot photo and instinctively race around to the opposite side of whatever The critters learn the art early, and by eight tree or branch they land on just in case an weeks, babies are capable of 90-degree owl had spotted them in the air and was in turns and loop de loops like their parents. hot pursuit.

Like all rodents, flying squirrels have Unlike its cousin, the northern flying ever growing teeth. When their diet of hicksquirrel, the southern flying squirrel, ory nuts, acorns, seeds, lichens, fungi and Glaucomys volans, is not endangered nor berries isn’t enough to keep those choppers threatened. It is quite common in eastern sharp and fit, flying squirrels will gnaw on forests from Canada to Florida. bones and/or antlers found in the woods as The girls were at the corner of the deck well as the bark of trees. near a large bird feeder that hangs from the Southern flying squirrels can be quite poplar tree. “Just be still and quiet,” I said vocal at times, emitting a lot of high-pitched “and the flying squirrel will come to the cheeps and chirps. These vocalizations help feeder for a bite.” groups stay in touch with one another and “But there’s no food in the feeder,” Izzy serve as warnings should danger approach. said.

For all their high energy scurrying, Wondering aloud how that could be bouncing and jumping, flying squirrels are because I had just filled the feeder a day or actually quite approachable. I remember two earlier, I got up, got the hook and took hand feeding flying squirrels that often the feeder down and filled it. I put the feedmade it inside our not-so-airtight shack on er back up, and before I got back to my Horseshoe Lake when I was a kid. Izzy chair, a shadow leapt from the tree to the could gently grab the bottom of the feeder feeder. Momentarily, another shadow glidand draw it near to be nearly face to face ed to the poplar, then another. It was pretty with our furry visitors the other night. dark by then, and all you could see were At one time, we counted eight individushadowy figures bouncing back and forth als at the same time. I’m sure there were between the feeder and the tulip tree. more around — no wonder the feeder was The girls went inside and got a flashempty. light. With the aid of the light, we could see (Don Hendershot is a writer and naturalist. He that the tree and feeder were alive with tiny, can be reached a ddihen1@bellsouth.net.) furry, nocturnal rodents. Southern flying

Waynesville seniors will have a chance to see elk up close and personal.

The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department will offer a trip on July 15 for seniors, ages 50 and older, to visit the local elk population at Cataloochee. Those on the excursion will likely see some young elk and maybe

own dinner, an optional folding chair, cameras and binoculars. Space is limited to the first seven to register.

Additional information or registrations can be obtained over the phone.

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Cyclists commemorate Trail of Tears There were hundreds of hills, a few minor spills, but mostly thrills for the 2013 Remember the Removal bike riders who completed their 950-mile bicycle ride in Tahlequah, Okla. last week to honor their

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Cherokee ancestors. The Cherokee Nation had 15 riders and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians had seven riders participate in the bike ride to retrace their ancestors’ footsteps along the northern route of the Trail of Tears.

The group ranged in age from 15 to 54 and started in New Echota, Ga., on June 3.

They traveled across Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas before reaching the Courthouse Square in Tahlequah.

Marvel Welch, 54, of Cherokee, said she was amazed by the journey.

“The energy that these kids have is just so unbelievable, and they helped me get to where I’m at right now,” Welch said, of her victory completing the ride.

The riders visited various gravesites and historic landmarks along the trail, including Blythe Ferry in Tennessee, which was the last piece of Cherokee homeland the ancestors stood on before beginning the trek to Indian Territory.

June 26-July 2, 2013

Bryson City run set for the Fourth The Bryson City Firecracker 5k will scream through town this Independence Day. Runners can join more than 200 participants for an easy 5 kilometers through picturesque Bryson City and the Deep Creek community. The run kicks off at 8 a.m. Saturday, July 4, from the Riverfront Park. Registration on the day of the event will take place 6:30-7:30 a.m. Medals are awarded for the first three places in each age category. The cost is $25 for adults and $20 for youth on race day, but $10 cheaper in advance.

All proceeds benefit programs sponsored by Rotary Club of Bryson City, including their “Help Stamp Out Polio” program, with a contribution to the Purple Pinkie Project. The disease is still prevalent in three countries Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. www.runbrysoncity.com Mark Haskett photo

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From 12:01 a.m. until 11:59 p.m., Thursday, July 4, everyone in North Carolina — resident and non-residents alike — can fish in any public body of water, including coastal waters, without purchasing a fishing license or additional trout fishing privilege. Although no fishing license is required, all other fishing regulations, such as size and creel limits and lure restrictions, still apply.

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Riverfront Park on Mitchell Street 10:00 am: “Strut Yoour Mutt” Pet Show 6:00 - 9:00 pm: The Grove Church entertainment and kids’ area

Bridge Stage on Everett Street 10:00 - 10:30 am: Opening Ceremony with VFW Post 9281 10:30 - 11:30 am: Grandpa’s Music 11:30 - 1:00 pm: Boogertown Gap 1:00 - 3:00 pm: Watermelon Eating Contest, Hula Hoop-Off and Smoky Mountain Shimmy 3:00 - 5:00 pm: TBA 5:00 - 7:00 pm: The Freight Hoppers 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm: Elvis 8:00 - 9:55 pm: Barefoot Movement 9:55 pm: Star Spangled Banner 10:00 pm: Fireworks Show

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Meander for a salamander Children and adults will have a chance to go salamander searching in the dark at an upcoming night dedicated to the slippery creatures.

The “Salamander Meander” will take place at 9 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at the Highlands Nature Center. This is the 10th year that the popular event has been held.

The evening will begin with a short presentation on salamander biology and species identification by experts in the area. Then, participants will join herpetoloClay Bolt photo gists on a night search to observe some of the area’s magnificent salamanders in the wild. Attendees are asked to bring a flashlight to spot them and find their way in the dark. The cost of the program is $5 per person and advanced registration required due to limited space. Children must be at least 7 years of age to participate.

Registration can be done by phone.

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The Macon County Public Library was recently recognized as a community leader in recycling.

Environmental group Macon Pride gave the library the recognition as an upstanding recycler in acclaim of its “complete” recycling program throughout the building. The library has recycling stations in every room, containers by each desk and in the kitchen for community meetings and staff lunches.

The library staff also sends magazines and books to Friends of the Library for re-use and sponsors many programs, especially for children, in “up-cycling,” which is the art of reusing potential throwaways to create new items.

“Our goal is to make it as convenient as possible for our staff and visitors to recycle,”

Macon Pride member, Shirley Ches, awarding the “Proud to Recycle” window sticker to library staff members. said Librarian Karen Wallace. “Our patrons deserve As for helping the library, community and county in this worthwhile effort.”

Macon Pride has also honored exemplary recycling programs such as Caterpillar, Goshen Timber Frames, Collectiques, Tony

Angel Media, Life’s Bounty Bakery and Café, Rosebud Cottage, Roomful of Nuts, Mountain Valley Health Foods, Edward Jones Highlands Road, Great Smoky Mountains Fish Camp, UU Fellowship, and H&R Block.

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Bear carcass baffles law enforcement A bear carcass marked in white paint with a message seemingly taunting law enforcement officials was dumped onto a road in Buncombe County. The bear was discovered last week with “WHATS BRUIN?” written across the head and “w-h-a-t-s” across the claws on the right paw and “b-r-u-i-n” across the claws on the left paw.

In February, state and federal wildlife officials made numerous arrests from a four-year undercover investigation in North Carolina and Georgia deemed “Operation Something Bruin.”

The state is currently prosecuting cases in Haywood County for arrests made as a result of the operation. Ten defendants were convicted earlier this month in U.S. District Court on federal charges stemming from the undercover investigation.

The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission and the Wildlife Federation are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in this latest case. “We feel strongly that this malicious and cowardly act of illegal activity has no place in N.C.,” said Tim Gestwicki, CEO of the N.C. Wildlife Federation. “We are providing these resources to underscore the seriousness we place on the poaching and outright desecration of this animal.”

Anyone with information pertaining to this or other wildlife violations should call 1.800.662.7137. Callers may remain anonymous.

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WNC Calendar BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Employability Laboratory, Southwestern Community College, Sylva: June 26, Improve and Develop Your Customer Service Skills; July 3, Wellness, Fitness and Nutrition; July 10, Dressing for Successful Interviews— For Women, 35 E. Main St., Franklin. 524.3161.

• Professional Development Breakfast, 8 a.m. Thursday, June 27, Terrace Room 316, Terrace Hotel, Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center.

YPHaywood.com, 456.3021 or by email kgould@haywoodchamber.com.

• Deadline for applications to Leadership Haywood is 5 p.m. Friday, June 30. 456.321, www.haywoodchamber.com.

COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

free outdoor concert, 3 to 5 p.m. Monday, July 1, Nanci Weldon Gym, Lake Junaluska, featuring indie folk artist, Austin Powell. Conference of Young People in Mission runs June 30-July 4. http://www.lakejunaluska.com/youth-in-missions.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES • Seniors trip to an Asheville Tourists baseball game, Thursday, July 11. Leave Waynesville Recreation Center at 5:30 p.m., return at 11 p.m. 456.2030 or email recprograms@townofwaynesville.org

KIDS & FAMILIES • And to Think that We Thought that we’d Never be Friends, art, music and drama program, 2 to 4 p.m.

Wednesdays and Fridays, through July 12, Waynesville branch, Haywood County Library. Daydreamz, 476.4231, Lisa Hartzell, 452.5169.

• RoadRUNNER Touring Weekend, July 11-13, Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Guest speakers on-site.

336.354.6430 or www.roadrunner.travel/TWE.

• Nature Nuts: Snakes, 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday, June 28, Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, U.S. 276 south of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Transylvania County. Ages 4 to 7. Story, crafts and hike. 877.4423

Jackson • Cashiers Community Blood Drive, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, 213 U.S. Highway 64E, Cashiers. www.redcrossblood.org, keyword: Cashiers to schedule appointment.

• Jackson County Recreation Center Blood Drive, 1:30 to 6 p.m. Friday, June 28, 88 Cullowhee Mountain Road, Cullowhee. Bryan Cagle, 293.3053 or log on to www.redcrossblood.org, keyword: Jackson to schedule appointment.

• Eco Explorers: Raising Trout, Friday, June 28, Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education, U.S. 276 south of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Transylvania County. Ages 8-13.

877.4423 • Kids Clay: Tree Faces, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 29, Southwestern Community College Swain Center, 60 Almond Road, Bryson City. For ages 8 to 14, 5 to 7 with a parent or guardian. Jeff Marley, 366.2005 or j_marley@southwesterncc.edu.

• Gnome pottery class for 3rd-5th graders, 11 a.m.

Monday, July 1, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City.

Amber Platt, 488.3030.

• MedWest Harris Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, July 11, 68 Hospital Drive, Sylva. Melissa Southers, 586.7131.

• Burrowing animals discussion for preschool through 2nd graders, 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 3, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. 488.3030

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• KARE’s Parents as Teachers, 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 3, Smoky Mountain Cinema, free movie, Pirates Band of Misfits.

• Cherokee Indian Hospital Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, 268 Hospital Road, Cherokee.

Sally Penick, 497.9163 ext., 6498.

Macon • Angel Medical Center Blood Drive, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Friday, July 5, 120 Riverview St., Franklin. Barbara Hall, 369.4166.

• Southwestern Community College Macon Campus Blood Drive, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, July 11, 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin. Fairley Pollock, 306.7017.

RECREATION & FITNESS • Adult Co-Ed Kickball League, registration through July 8, at Haywood County Recreation & Parks office, 1233 N. Main St., Annex II Building, Waynesville. $200 per team of 15 maximum. 452.6789 or email drtaylor@haywoodnc.net. www.haywoodnc.net

THE SPIRITUAL SIDE • Shabbat, 6 p.m. Friday, June 28, Mountain Synagogue, 216 Roller Mill Road, Franklin. Zvi Altman will conduct the service, with musical accompaniment

by Marshall Greenman; an oneg shabbat will follow.

Phyllis Cardoza, 369.9270.

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All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

• Historic Design Guidelines public meetings: 2 p.m., Historic Preservation Commission meeting; 5 to 7 p.m. workshop session, Wednesday, July 3, City Hall Board Room, 9 S. Main St., Waynesville. Paul Benson, 456.2004.

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• Kids Clay: Hobbit Houses, 1 to 4 p.m. July 5 and 1 to 3 p.m. July 6, Swain Center room 123, Instructor: M. Burrell, Cost: $25. For children age 8 to 14, and 5 to 7 with a parent or guardian.

• Jim the Science Guy, 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 10, KARE house.

• Birds of Prey, 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 10, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. 488.3030.

• Kids Clay: Animals, 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, July 12 and 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 13, Swain Center room 123, Instructor: M. Burrell, Cost: $25. For children age 8 to 14, and 5 to 7 with a parent or guardian.

Summer Camps • Tennis Lifesong Summer Camps, Tuesdays through Fridays, through Aug. 23 at Lake Junaluska. Ages 4 and older. Bunnie Allare, 513.608.9621, www.lakejunaluska.com/tennis or www.facebook.com/tennisLifesong.

• Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department summer camp for kids in kindergarten to fifth grade., 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. through Aug. 16. Register, 456.2030 or email recprogramspecialist@townofwaynesville.org.

• Elementary School Summer Day Camp, ages 6 to 12, Cullowhee United Methodist, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, through Aug. 2. 293.9215 or visit

• Lake Junaluska Summer Day Camp, through Aug. 9, for ages 24 months through rising sixth graders. Half day, full day available. www.lakejunaluska.com/children, lkrekelberg@lakejunaluska.com, 454.6681.

Registration forms available online.

• Highlands Playhouse Summer Fun Drama/Theatre Camps: July 1-13, Theatre Camp; July 15-27; Musical Theatre Camp; and July 29-Aug. 2, Dance Camp.

526.2695 or email highlandsplayhhouse@yahoo.com.

Highlands Playhouse, 362 Oak St., Highlands, www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

• Smoky Mountain Center’s Summer Fun Drama Camp, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. July 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25.

Performance at 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 30, Smoky Mountain Center for Performing Arts, Franklin. $65 per student, $50 each additional sibling. For ages 8 to 16.

524.1598. www.greatmountainmusic.com.

• WOW! a World of Wonder day camp, ages 4 to 6, 10 a.m. to noon, July 9-12 and Aug. 6-9, Highlands Nature Center. $55, advanced registration required. 526.2623, www.highlandsbiological.org.

• NatureWorks day camp, ages 8 to 11, 10 a.m. to noon, July 16-19, Highlands Nature Center. $85, advanced registration required. 526.2623, www.highlandsbiological.org.

• Three-day Summer Science Investigation Camp, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 1-3, Oconaluftee Visitor Center, Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center, 926.6251.

• 22nd annual Crossfire Basketball Camp 1 to 4:30

Visit www.smokymountainnews.com and click on Calendar for: ■ Complete listings of local music scene ■ Regional festivals ■ Art gallery events and openings ■ Complete listings of recreational offerings at regional health and fitness centers ■ Civic and social club gatherings p.m. July 1-5, at the Waynesville Recreation Center.

Details at 456.2030 or email recathletics@townofwaynesville.org.

• Family Art Experiences: Clay Works, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

July 8-11, glaze day, July 19, ages 9 to adult, $225. Fine Arts Building, Western Carolina University, www.cullowheemountainarts.org/youth.

• Summer Day Camp, Southwestern Child Development and Hazelwood Early Education and Preschool, 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Fridays, through Aug. 28.

Ages 5 to 9. $500 per month. Subsidy accepted.

456.2458.

• The Robotics with Legos Camp for rising sixththrough eighth-grader, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday. Monday, July 8Friday, July 12, Western Carolina University. $149, includes lunch. 227.7397.

• TetraBrazil Soccer Camp 9 a.m. to noon or 1 to 4 p.m., July 8-12, Waynesville Recreation Center. Advance

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• Basketball Camp, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 15-18, Waynesville Recreation Center. Offered by Kevin Cantwell, current head coach at Carolina Day School. $135 per camper. Checks payable to Kevin Cantwell.

770.490.6580 or email academy7@live.com.

• Two-day art camps, Cullowhee Mountain Arts: Garden Party 9 a.m. to noon, July 17-18, ages 5 to 8, $50, and Nature Fest 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 15-16, ages 9 to 12, $90. Fine Arts Building, Western Carolina University. www.cullowheemountainarts.org/youth.

Science & Nature • Guided tours of American Chestnut Orchard, 11 a.m.

Wednesdays, Cataloochee Guest Ranch. $15, includes tour, lunch. Self-guided tours anytime. Reservations, 926.1401.

“kids on Main” patriotic parade • 11 am Show up and sign up at 10 a.m. at the Courthouse. Children 12 and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Decorate your bikes, tricycles, scooters, wagons and strollers. Parade starts at 11 a.m. and ends at the First Baptist Church. Free ice cream for parade participants!

Note: Under NC law, bicyclists under the age of 16 are required to wear a helmet on public streets.

Main Street cookout • 11–3:30

A&E FESTIVALS, SPECIAL & SEASONAL EVENTS

Craft beer and hot dogs served in the UCBank parking lot. Proceeds benefit local community projects. Sponsored by American Legion, Knights of Columbus and The Main Team of Main Street Realty.

Free hot dogs for all parade participants.

Traditional mountain & folk Concert • 11:15–1:45 Sponsored by First Baptist Church & held in the parking lot.

• Maggie Valley Spring Swap Meet & Car Show, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. June 28-29 and 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, June 30, Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. $5 admission.

Rodney Buckner, 423.623.2723, 423.608.4519, www.maggievalleyswapmeet.com.

• Cherokee Bonfire, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, through Aug. 31, Oconaluftee Islands Park (across from KFC), Cherokee. 800.438.1601, visitcherokeenc.com.

Haywood Community Band Patriotic Concert 2 pm in front of the Historic Courthouse

June 26-July 2, 2013

• Teen Workshops: A week of working in a different medium each day, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 14-19, ages 13-18, $275. Fine Arts Building, Western Carolina University, www.cullowheemountainarts.org/youth.

Downtown Waynesville Association • downtownwaynesville.com • 828.456.3517 Sorry, no animals allowed at downtown events

• BBQ & BREWS Dinner Train, June 29, and July 6 and 13, Great Smoky Mountain Railroad. 800.872.4681 or www.GSMR.COM. • Second annual Moms Music Festival presented by Women of Waynesville, noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 29, Twin Maples Farmhouse, East Street, Waynesville.

545.6879, 452.8343, womenofwaynesville@gmail.com • Mountain Artisans’ Summertime Arts & Crafts Show, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 29-30, Western Carolina University Ramsey Center, Cullowhee. 524.3405, www.mountainArtisans.net.

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• Haywood Community Band annual 4th of July Concert, 2 p.m. Thursday, July 4, Haywood County Court House steps, Waynesville. www.haywoodcommunityband.org/, Rhonda Wilson Kram, 456.4880.

• Blue Ridge Craft Show, July 6-7, Owl Produce, 899 Old Asheville Highway, Canton. Features local and regional Appalachian crafters. http://www.visitncsmokies.com/events/blue-ridge-craft-show/420.

• Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina Public Listening Session, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, June 27, First Citizens Bank Boardroom, 196 Walnut St., Waynesville.

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• Alley Cats, Waynesville: 8 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday, Julie’s Kickin’ Karaoke; Thursday, Bike Night with Smoke Rise; Friday, The Bayou Diesel Band.

LITERARY (ADULTS) • Writer Tom Earnhardt, author of Crossroads of the Natural World, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 27, Mountain Heritage Center, Western North Carolina University.

Earnhardt hosts UNC-TV’s Exploring North Carolina.586.9499.

• Thursdays at the Library, A Preview of A Rash of Stories with Barbara Bates Smith, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 27, Macon County Library, Franklin. Featured stories from Ron Rash’s collections Nothing Gold Can Stay, Burning Bright, Chemistry and Other Stories, and The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth. 524.3600.

• Authors Sarah Kennedy and Rod Smith joint reading, 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva.

Kennedy will read from her Tudor-era mystery, The Altarpiece. Smith will read from his two recent collections of poetry, Sherburne and Red Wolf: A Dream of Flannery O’Connor. 586.9499.

• Asheville writer Denise Kiernan, author of The Girls of Atomic City, 6:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, City Lights Bookstore. 586.9499.

• The Brothers Grin, fellow poets Michael Beadle, William Everett and Charley Pearson will perform original verse of wit and wordplay at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 29, Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville.

456.6000, www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

• Literary Journeys through the Western North Carolina Landscape: An Exploration in Cultural and Natural History through Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry, July 15, Highlands Biological Station, Highlands. Afternoon field trips with the authors. Class limited to 12. Brent Martin, 587.9453, www.wilderness.orghttp://highlandsbiological.org/summer-2013/.

• Metal sculptor Grace Cathey will host a book signing for her new book, Fire & Steel: The Sculpture of Grace Cathey, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, July 5; 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 6, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, at 136 Depot St. (Walker Service), Waynesville. www.gracecathey.com.

• Let’s Talk About It book discussion, 4 to 6 p.m.

Thursday, July 11, Haywood County Public Library auditorium, Waynesville. Book is Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys. Discussion led by Dr. Margaret (Peg) Harman, professor emeritus at Pfeiffer University.

Linda Arnold, 456.5311 or stanandlinda@charter.net.

Lake Junaluska Centennial Homecoming Week • Sunday, June 30—7:30 p.m. Stuart Auditorium, Of Men Who Ventured Much and Far dramatic production that reenacts events based on the Belgian Congo travels in 1911 by Bishop Walter Lambuth and Dr. John Wesley.

• Monday, July 1—1 p.m. Friends of the Lake Golf Tournament, Lake Junaluska Golf Course, 4 to 6 p.m.

Lake Junaluska Train Depot Open House, 1799 S. Lakeshore Dr.; 6 to 7 p.m. Reenactment of Historic Lake Crossing from the train depot to Stuart Auditorium; 7:30 p.m. a Junaluska Ghost Story, Stuart Auditorium.

• Tuesday, July 2—2 to 5 p.m. Tour of Historic Homes; 7:30 p.m. Balsam Range Concert, Stuart Auditorium.

• Wednesday, July 3—10 a.m. to noon, Corneille Bryan Native Garden Tour; 6:45 p.m., present day photo reenactment of 1913 photo of crowd in front of auditorium, Stuart Auditorium; 7:30 p.m., Lake Junaluska Singers concert, Stuart Auditorium.

• Summer Jazz Festival, Classic Wineseller, 20 Church St., Waynesville. 7 p.m. Saturdays: June 29, July 6, 13, 20. Reservations at 452.6000, www.classicwineseller.com.

• Thursday, July 4—11 a.m. to noon, Independence Day Parade, Lakeshore Drive; noon to 2 p.m., barbecue picnic and family activities, Nanci Weldon Gym, 7:30 p.m., Lake Junaluska Singers Concert, Stuart Auditorium; 9:45 p.m. fireworks.

• Pro Wrestling, 1 p.m., doors open, 3 p.m. bell time, Sunday, July 7, Birdtown. Rock & Roll Express vs.

Powers of Pain. 497.3556.

• Friday, July 5—10 a.m. to noon, Lake Junaluska Garden Tours; 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., Carolina Water Ski Show.

• Bingo, 5:45 p.m. Thursdays, through Sept. 5, Pavilion next to Maggie Valley Town Hall. Cash prizes.

• Saturday, July 6—10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Antique and Fine Art Discovery Day at Lake Junaluska, Harrell Center

202; 2 p.m., Collecting Fine Arts and Antiques in the 21st Century, Facts and Fiction, Harrell Center 202; 7:30 p.m. Lake Junaluska Singers Reunion Concert, Stuart Auditorium.

JULY 4TH CELEBRATIONS

• Auditions for the fall production of The Dixie Swim Club, 7 p.m. June 28-29, Smoky Mountain Community Theater, 134 Main St., Bryson City. Kay, 488.2988 or 506.1931.

• Balsam Range, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center, Graham County. Tickets at www.StecoahValleyCenter.com, 479.3364.

• Auditions for Dearly Departed, 6:30 p.m. June 30 and July 1, Feichter Studio of the HART Theatre, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville.

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ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, 8 p.m. through Saturday, June 29, and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 30, Highlands Playhouse, Highlands. $30 adults, $12 children up to 12. 526.2695, www.highlandsplayhouse.org.

• Family friendly Concerts on the Creek, every Friday during summer, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., Sylva Bridge Park Pavilion near Scott Creek: June 28, Buick MacKane; July 5, Sundown. 800.962.1911, www.mountainlovers.com.

• Western Carolina University free Summer Concert Series, 7 p.m. Thursdays, (excluding July 4), A.K. Hinds University Center stage in Central Plaza: June 27, The Honeycutters. atledavis@wcu.edu, 227.3622.

• Cinderella, A Magical Musical, by the Overlook Theatre Company, 7:30 p.m. June 27-29, and 2:30 p.m.

Sunday, June 30, the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. www.GreatMountainMusic.com, 866.273.4615.

• Gary Allan, 9 p.m. Friday, June 28, Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center. www.ticketmaster.com • Side By Side By Sondheim, 7:30 p.m. June 28-29, and July 5-6; 3 p.m. June 30 and July 7; and 2 p.m.

July 13, 20 and Aug. 3, Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. Tickets,

• Brigadoon, 7:30 p.m. July 12-13, 18-20, 25-27 and Aug. 1-3; 3 p.m. July 14, 21, 28 and Aug. 4, Performing Arts Center at the Shelton House, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. Tickets, 456.6322, www.harttheatre.com.

• Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival, 7:30 p.m.

Sundays, through July 21, Performing Arts Center, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville. Tickets, 452.0593. www.haywoodarts.org, www.swannanoachambermusic.com.

• Gary Allan, 9 p.m. Friday, June 28, Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, Cherokee. www.ticketmaster.com.

• An Appalachian Evening Concert Series at historic Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center. 7:30 p.m.

Saturdays, June 29-Aug. 31. www.StecoahValleyCenter.com or call 479.3364.

• Unto These Hills, 7:30 p.m. preshow, 8 p.m. main performance, nightly except Sundays, through Aug. 17, Mountainside Theatre, 688 Drama Road, Cherokee. www.cherokeeadventures.com/tickets.

ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • 12th annual Graham County Artisan Drive-About, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 28-29, in conjunction with the opening of the Stecoah Valley Center’s Appalachian Evening Music Series. Self-guided driving tour. Printed

maps available at the Artisans Gallery at Stecoah Valley Center or download from www.StecoahValleyCenter.com/artisans. 479.3364.

• Art After Dark, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 5, downtown Waynesville. www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.

• On Hallowed Ground art exhibit by mural artist Doreyl Ammons Cain, July 1-31, Jackson County Arts Councils’ Rotunda Gallery, Jackson County Library Complex, Sylva. Opening reception, 5 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 12.

293.2239, colorfestartblog.com.

• Nature Inspired, mixed media exhibit, July 3-27, Gallery 86, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville. Artists’ reception 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July 5 during Art After Dark. www.haywoodarts.org.

Tuesday, July 2, Swain County Center for the Arts, Swain County High School, 1415 Fontana Road, Bryson City. Two short art instructional DVDs will be shown: Nancy Reyner’s Acrylic Revolution, Watercolor and Oil Effects with Acrylic Paint and Paper Collage Techniques with Nita Leland. 488.7843, jjohnson@swainmail.org, www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta.

• Summer Balsam Arts & Crafts Show, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 6, Balsam/Willets Ochre Hill Fire Department seven miles east of Sylva. Jane McClure, 226.9352.

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For tickets and other information about Lake Junaluska Centennial Events, visit www.lakejunaluska.com or call 800.222.4930.

456.6322, www.harttheatre.com.

• Summer drawing class with Julie Jacobson, 6 to 7:30 p.m. through June 20, Gallery 1, Sylva. 843.614.7428, juliedraws@yahoo.com.

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CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS • Free Make and Take class, 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 29, Art Room, 45 E. Main St., Franklin. Make a card. Ages 15 and up. 349.3777.

• Muddy Summer Nights clay class series, 7 to 9 p.m.

Friday, June 28, Pincu Pottery, Bryson City.

ovie night, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 26, Jackson County Public Library. 586.2016.

• Classic film, 1 p.m. Friday, June 28, Marianna Black Library, downtown Bryson City, featuring Tyrone Power.

488.3030.

• Children’s movie, noon Saturday, June 29, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Call Library for movie title. 586.2016.

Adults. $15 per person per 10 items. Pre-registration required at 488.0480 or email pincupottery@gmail.com.

• Children’s movie, 1 p.m. Monday, July 1, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Call Library for movie title. 586.2016.

• Acrylic painting, 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 29, Blue Mountain Studios, 788.0348. $25 per class, or 2 for $40.

• Ladies Night, 14 and older, 6 p.m. Thursday June 29, Claymates, Dillsboro. Free hors d’oeuvre, bring your own beverage. Reservation only, 631.3133 • Drawing, 5 to 7 p.m., Tuesdays, Blue Mountain Studios, $75 for eight classes, 788.0348. Students, $10.

• Teen movie, 3 p.m. Monday, July 1, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. Call Library for movie title.

586.2016.

• Family movie, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. 488.3030.

• New movie starring Daniel Day Lewis and Sally Field about an American president, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Wednesday, July 3, meeting room, Macon County Library, Franklin. 524.3600.

• Art League of the Smokies meeting, 6:15 p.m.

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DANCE • Dance, 8 to 10:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, Franklin American Legion Post 108. Music by Tom Ellers.

369.9155. Non-members welcome. Non-smoking.

OUTDOOR MUSIC CALENDAR • Honeycutters, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 27, Western Carolina University Summer Concert Series.

• Summer Music Series featuring Eric Hendrix, 6 p.m.

Thursday, June 27, lawn of the Marianna Black Library, Bryson City. 488.3030, www.fontanalib.org/brysoncity.

• Buick MacKane, 7:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, Concerts on the Creek, downtown Sylva at Bridge Park.

800.962.1911.

• Jackson Taylor Band, 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 28, Groovin’ on the Green, Village Commons, Cashiers.

• Randy and Kay, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 29, Pickin’ on the Square, Lower Level Town Hall, Franklin.

524.2516.

• Singing in the Smokies, 7 p.m., July 4-6, Inspiration Park, Bryson City.

• Sundown, 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 5, Concerts on the Creek, downtown Sylva at Bridge Park. 800.962.1911.

• Sundown, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 6, Pickin’ on the Square, Lower Level Town Hall, Franklin. 524.2516.

Outdoors June 26-July 2, 2013

OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Franklin Bird Walk, Wednesday, June 26, led by Karen Lawrence. Meet at 8 a.m. at the Macon County Public Library parking area. 524.5234.

• Franklin Bird Club weekly bird walk, 8 a.m.

Wednesday, June 26, along the Greenway, with Karen Lawrence. Meet at the Macon County Public Library parking area at 8 a.m. 524.5234, http://franklinbcb.wordpress.com/.

• Franklin Bird Club and Highlands Plateau Audubon Society bird walk, 8 a.m. Saturday, June 29, along the Greenway with Paula Gorgoglione. Meet at Macon County Public Library parking area. 524.5234, http://franklinbcb.wordpress.com/.

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• Nantahala Hiking Club, moderate five-mile hike, 9:30 a.m. Saturday, June 29, Deep Creek Loop in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Meet at Bi-Lo parking lot in Franklin. Joyce Jacques, 410.852.7510.

• Nantahala Hiking Club, easy two-mile hike, 2 p.m.

Sunday, June 30, Highlands Biological Center and Nature Gardens. Meet at 2 p.m. at Bi-Lo parking lot in Franklin or at 2:45 p.m. at Highlands Nature Center.

Kay Coriell, 369.6820.

• Franklin Bird Club weekly bird walk, 8 a.m.

Wednesday, July 3, along the Greenway with Paula Gorgoglione. Meet at Salali. 524.5234 or http://franklinbcb.wordpress.com/ • Volunteer Trail Work Days, July 6, Kelsey Trail, Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust. Meet at 10 a.m. at HCLT offices at Peggy Crosby Center, Highlands or contact Kyle at stew.hitrust@earthlink.net, 526.1111.

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• Friends of the Lake Golf Tournament, 1 p.m. Monday, July 1, Lake Junaluska Golf Course. $200 per team of four, includes 18 holes of golf, cart, gift bag, door prizes and post tournament meal. Individual or busi-

ness sponsorships. Proceeds to support and maintain recreational opportunities at the lake. www.lakejunaluska.com/friends-of-the-lake, 454.6680.

• Firecracker 5K, 8 a.m. Thursday July 4, Riverfront Park, Bryson City. Registration, 6:30 to 7:30 a.m., www.runbrysoncity.com.

• Moonlight 5K, Thursday, July 4, Cherokee Indian Fairgrounds. Chrissy Arch, 788.1408.

• Moonlight Moonshine 10K & Half Pint 1 Mile Kids Fun Run, Saturday, July 6, downtown Franklin.

FARM & GARDEN • Haywood County Beekeepers Association, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, July 2, KT’s Orchard, Thickety Road across from Canton Ingles, make an immediate left onto Pigeon Ford Road, go 2/10 of a mile. Bring a covered dish and a lawn chair for a potluck dinner.

• Haywood County Plant Clinic: Master Gardeners provide research-based answers to all your gardening questions, 1 to 4 p.m. weekdays through Aug. 2, and 9 a.m. to noon through September, Haywood County Extension Service, Raccoon Road, Waynesville.

456.3575.

• Community Garden Plots available at the Cowee Community Garden, Macon County Heritage Center, Cowee School. Voluntary $25 donation for the season.

524.8369.

• Volunteer workdays, Thursday afternoons until dark, Sylva Community Garden. Produce from the garden goes to the Sylva Community Table. 477.4380, e-mail seascat@ymail.com or Facebook.

FARMER’S & TAILGATE MARKETS Waynesville • Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesdays and Saturdays. 250 Pigeon St, Waynesville in the parking lot of the HART Theatre. 828.627.1058. www.waynesvillefarmersmarket.com.

• The Original Waynesville Tailgate Market 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesdays and Saturdays, 171 Legion Dr., Waynesville, at the American Legion in Waynesville behind Bogart’s restaurant.

828.648.6323. www.buyhaywood.com.

Canton • Canton Tailgate Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon Tuesdays and Thursdays at Municipal parking area, 58 Park Street in Canton. 828.235.2760. www.buyhaywood.com.

Sylva • Jackson County Farmers Market Jenny McPherson, 631.3033. www.mountainlovers.com, Facebook or www.jacksoncountyfarmersmarket.org.

Cullowhee • Whee Farmer’s Market, 5 p.m. until dusk, every Wednesday, Cullowhee United Methodist Church grass lot, behind BB&T and Subway on WCU campus, Cullowhee. www.facebook.com/cullowheefarmersmarket. avantgardenorganicfarm@gmail.com.

Cashiers • Cashiers Tailgate Market 9 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, N.C. 107, Cashiers, in the parking lot at the Cashiers Community Center.

828.226.9988. www.blueridgefarmersco-op.com.

Franklin • Franklin Tailgate Market 8 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, 226 E. Palmer St., Franklin, across the street from Drake Software. 828.349.2046. www.facebook.com/franklinncfarmersmarket.

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Georgia’s Black Rock State Park worth the visit

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George Ellison

erhaps you’re looking for a new site to visit this summer? If so, consider making a visit to Black Rock State Mountain Park, which is situated in Rabun County, Ga., just off U.S. 441 several miles south of where Macon County adjoins Georgia. It’s about a half-hour drive from Franklin.

The 1,500-acre park is the highest in the Georgia system of state parks and is one of the most Columnist interesting to visit.

Named for the numerous dark granite outcrops, it stretches for more than three miles along the Eastern Continental Divide.

Whenever the topic of the Eastern Continental Divide (ECD) comes up in natural history workshops, there’s always a lot of interest. Here in Western North Carolina, we spot from time to time highway markers indicating we’re crossing the ECD at elevations ranging from 1,500 to 6,000 feet. But few of us have a clear idea of what it means and where it goes.

The ECD is that almost imaginary, pencilthin boundary which establishes the divide between waters that flow eastward via vari-

BACK THEN ous river systems into the Atlantic and those that flow westward via the Mississippi River system into the Gulf of Mexico. One of my interests has been delineating — as best as I can — the ECD from southwestern Virginia through northwestern South Carolina to its southern terminus in north Georgia.

Someday I hope to trace the ECD from Virginia to its northern terminus.

Meanwhile let’s take a look at the ECD in our immediate area, starting in Blacksburg, Va. The runway of the airport at Blacksburg (located in the Ridge and Valley Province of the Southern Appalachians) diverts waters eastward into the Atlantic on one side and westward into the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio and Mississippi systems on the other. The ECD enters the Blue Ridge Province at the tiny village of Copper Hill just south of Roanoke. From there, it winds southward along the Blue Ridge Escarpment (following the general route of the Blue Ridge Parkway in many areas) over the crests of familiar landmarks

like Bluff and Grandfather mountains. In the area of Sassafras Mountain, the ECD is the state boundary between N.C. and S.C. From there, it turns back into N.C. and traverses Cold Mountain south of Waynesville and numerous peaks in the Highlands area like Whiteside, Satulah, and Little and Big Scaly mountains. The ECD crosses into Georgia at Rabun Bald and Black Rock State

Park before entering N.C. yet again. After circling the Standing Indian area at the headwaters of the Nantahala River, it passes back into Georgia and follows the Appalachian Trail southward to Young Lick Knob southwest of Clayton.

The hardwood canopy at Black Rock is comprised of northern red oak, white oak, black gum, sourwood, maple, buckeye, and other deciduous trees. Numerous trails of varying degrees of difficulty and length crisscross the park. It’s not difficult to find a spot along one of the ridges where you can stand with one foot in terrain where the water is headed to the Gulf and the other in terrain where the water is headed for the Atlantic.

The facility has tent and trailer sites, walk-in camp sites, rental cottages, a playground, and a 17-acre lake. For specific information on visitation and use fees or special programs, write Black Rock Mountain State Park, Mountain City, Ga., 30562; call 404.746.2141; or go online at www.gastateparks.org/BlackRockMountain.

George Ellison wrote the biographical introductions for the reissues of two Appalachian classics: Horace Kephart’s Our Southern Highlanders and James Mooney’s History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees.

In June 2005, a selection of his Back Then columns was published by The History Press in Charleston as Mountain Passages: Natural and Cultural History of Western North Carolina and the Great Smoky Mountains.

Readers can contact him at P.O. Box 1262, Bryson City, N.C., 28713, or at info@georgeellison.com.

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