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September 5-11, 2018 Vol. 20 Iss. 15

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CONTENTS On the Cover: The 55th installment of the Pisgah-Tuscola high school football rivalry is about more than just football, it’s about political and professional life in small town America. (Page 15) For the 29th time Pisgah Memorial Field in Canton played host to a storied rivalry. Cory Vaillancourt photo

Living Well Waynesville Salt Room now open ................................................................................3 Physical therapy can tackle number of ailments ........................................................4 Cherokee program yields harvest of self-reliance ....................................................5 WNC challenged to ‘Get Fit’ ..........................................................................................8 Health experts explain potential risks of keto ..........................................................10 Don’t be confused about CBD ....................................................................................13

News Jackson health, DSS organization will be an election issue ................................18 Mission reaches purchase agreement with HCA ..................................................21 Haywood tax collector to pay for mistakes ..............................................................22 Folkmoot honors inmate volunteers ............................................................................23 Sylva to look for alternative N.C. 107 plan ................................................................25

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Waynesville Salt Room now open BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER Why don’t Polish salt miners ever get sick? No, it’s not a joke, according to Marisa Spagnoli, owner of Waynesville Salt Room, a new Montgomery Street business that’s capitalizing on one of the latest trends in the spa industry. “Natural caves of salt mines are only found in Poland,” said Spagnoli. “They were trying to find out why salt miners didn’t get sick like the other miners did, and so they did a big study in Russia.” What they found, according to the study, is what some people have known for millennia — halotherapy helps people improve their breathing, their skin and their mood. From the Greek word “halo,” meaning salt, halotherapy can be beneficial to those suffering from upper airway viral infections, allergic rhinitis, asthma, bronchitis, COPD, emphysema, cystic fibrosis, eczema, atopic dermatitis, post-surgical scar healing, pharyngitis, psoriasis, sick building syndrome, smoker’s cough, tonsillitis sinusitis and multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome. An aesthetician by trade, Spagnoli owned day spas in Florida for over 20 years and still runs an online skincare company but opened her business in Waynesville to save Western North Carolinians the costly and time-consuming trip to Poland. “I moved up to Waynesville and tried to figure out what we need to do here to benefit the community, so we spent a lot of time visiting businesses and really getting to know Waynesville,” she said. “I fell in love with Waynesville, and just decided that we needed a salt room — a really good, a state-of-the-art facility.” Although there are similar facilities in the region to the east, what makes Spagnoli’s business special is that it’s what’s called an active halochamber. Others are passive halochambers. “Passive is not a breathable cleansing for the lungs,” said Spagnoli. “We have a machine that is a medical device called halogenerator. What it does is it takes pharmaceutical-grade salt and grinds it down to less than 5 microns, which turns it into an aerosol, also known as a dry salt aerosol.” Air is drawn in from outside the building, and then passed through an 8-inch HEPA filter, and then passed through all-new HVAC ductwork Spagnoli installed in the building. It’s then run through the halogenerator and pumped into a small room. “Generally, you’re going to feel very relaxed and energized and refreshed,” she said. And that may be an understatement — the room has reclining “zero-gravity” chairs, and for optimum absorption is kept at a constant temperature of around 70 degrees

with less than 50 percent humidity. The floor consists of gravel-sized grains of pink Himalayan salt … and then there’s the walls. “It’s a proprietary process,” she said of her three-week endeavor to coat the walls — and ceiling — with pure white salt. “It’s hand-applied, inspected daily for cracks, and vigorously maintained.” Tiny LED lights dot the ceiling, changing color in soothing, darting patterns, but a set of wall-mounted lighting can be adjusted to display a variety of comforting colors that contribute to the calming, dimly-lit atmosphere, along with soft ambient music that emanates from speakers above. In such a pacifying spa-like setting it’s easy to forget that it’s the halotherapy treatment that’s most important, but it couldn’t be much easier to stop in for a relaxing session, even on a quick lunch break from work. “It’s come-as-you-are, no special clothing or preparation is required, and you don’t have to undress,” said Spagnoli. Surgical booties are worn over shoes, to avoid introducing adulterants into the salt floor. Sessions last 45 minutes, begin at the top of every hour, and can accommodate up to six people at a time. There’s a small charge for a private session and appointments are recommended. Otherwise it’s first come, first served. “The halogenerator is computerized, and I can set the parameters for each session, so depending on who’s in the room and what they’re dealing with I’ll adjust the dosage based on the people in the room,” she said. There’s also almost no indication that patrons are being subjected to concentrations ranging from 1 to 16 micrograms of aerosol salt per cubic meter; there’s no salty taste, nor does it irritate the eyes or soil the clothes. A wall-mounted laser detector constantly measures the concentrations, and feeds the data back to a computer that tells the halogenerator whether or not to grind more salt. “During the session the micro-particles of salt are visible in the laser, but it’s pretty much the only way you can tell,” said Spagnoli. It’s also completely safe. There are no special building codes for this type of facility, no special medical license needed to administer halotherapy and it’s not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or anyone else. “Really, nothing can go wrong,” she said, although peo-

ple with some conditions like tuberculosis should refrain from treatment — not because it’s a danger to them, but because it could be a danger to others. After the 45-minute session is over, a high-speed evacuation fan kicks on, sucks all the air out of the room, vents it

A rainbow of relaxation awaits at the Waynesville Salt Room. Cory Vaillancourt photos

to the outside and replaces it with all new air. “That happens every session,” she said. “There’s a separate set of ducts and dampers that allow air to come into the Proprietor Marisa Spagnoli has creroom and air ated a healthy and relaxing place in to be evacuatthe heart of downtown Waynesville. ed via computer.” The Waynesville Salt Room offers a variety of individual plans and packages, including lower pricing for children under 13. Multiple session plans as well as family and unlimited plans are also available. For more information or to book a session, find the Waynesville Salt Room on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, call 828.246.0788, or visit www.waynesvillesaltroom.com.

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Coaching you through it Physical therapy can tackle number of ailments BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR majority of people wait until they’re ordered to undergo physical therapy after a surgery or injury, but physical therapy treatments can also be taken as a preventative measure. In addition to helping someone through a recovery, physical therapy can also help a patient avoid surgery, reduce or eliminate pain, improve balance and manage a number of conditions including diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis and even heart and lung disease. Carlyle Schomberg, one of the owners of Smoky Mountain Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy, has seen amazing outcomes from the physical therapy process, which is why he chose it as a career. As a former college baseball player, he saw a close friend recover from a knee injury thanks to physical therapy, and he’s also spent several years in Birmingham,

Alabama, working in a world-renowned sports medicine clinic alongside several well known orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists. “That’s why there’s such a satisfaction in what we do,” he said. “We can have someone who can’t do the basic daily stuff and by the time they leave us they’re back to their normal physical activity whether it’s a sport or just gardening. We love seeing that progress.” SMSMPT has opened three local clinics since last August to serve patients in need of outpatient physical therapy. It’s an employee-owned private practice committed to providing high-quality rehabilitation to the populations of Jackson and Swain counties. Between the seven owners — Robyn Duncan, Mary Curtis McCracken, Ben Rickert, Blake Queen, Gabe Peterson, Erik Watkins, and Schomberg — the clinicians have over 100 years of experience in all areas of physical therapy, including sports medicine and orthopedic conditions, manual treatment techniques and vestibular rehabilitation. Schomberg said all the clinicians have been practicing in Western North Carolina for a number of years and he really wanted

ur treatment approach is both individualized and evidence-based, ensuring optimal patient outcomes. The staff at Smoky Mountain Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy wishes to build long-standing relationships with the community while offering premier rehabilitation services. We are an employee owned business, comprised of a group of physical therapists, dedicated to providing the best possible care to our patients and our communities.

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The staff of Smoky Mountain Sports Medicine & Physical Therapy Ben Rickert, (from left) Erik Watkins, Robyn Duncan, Carlyle Schomberg, Mary Curtis McCracken, Blake Queen and Gabe Peterson. Donated photo to bring a group of like-minded people together to start a private practice. “We really wanted to collaborate and partner with the patients we see and provide them with what they need — we felt this was a good opportunity to do that,” he said. “When we see people repeatedly like we do, you get to know them really well and they become part of the family and vice versa.” Forming those relationships with patients is an important aspect of physical therapy because the patients have to be just as committed to their treatment as the therapist. Ideally, someone undergoing physical therapy would be treated five days a week for a serious injury or recovery, but most private insurance will only cover two or three days a week. “Patients have to buy in to the program — especially with insurance limitations. We can teach you strategies and exercises when we can see you twice a week but if you go home and don’t do anything, you’re not going to get better,” Schomberg said. “Coaching you through things you can do on your own is something we strive to do.” SMSMPT sees a variety of patients from student athletes to patients recovering from a hip replacement surgery. Someone recovering from surgery might need treatment for two to three months, while someone who has thrown their back out might only need a couple of weeks. In addition to rehabilitation services, the practice offers specialty expertise such as dry needling, soft tissue mobilization and cupping techniques, therapeutic taping techniques and custom orthotics. Schomberg said three of his clinicians are certified to do dry needling, which is similar to acupuncture and effective at reducing muscle spasms

and back or neck pain. Some clinicians are also certified in helping people suffering from vertigo improve their balance. SMSMPT is a direct access practice, which means many patients can be seen without a physician referral. “A majority of our patients are referred by physicians or health care providers, but we are a direct access state for physical therapy. So if you have a sprained ankle or something your insurance allows for that,” he said. “It’s underutilized and we’re trying to promote that more in the community. It’s better to come in immediately rather than waiting until it progressively gets worse.” SMSMPT participates with all major insurances, including Medicare and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Patients can expect to see the same clinician for the duration of their treatment. Patients will be welcomed and treated with attention and compassion. Due to the extensive experience of SMSMPT clinicians, patients will achieve their goals for treatment in a timely and effective manner. Most patients can be seen within 48 hours of referral or initial contact. “I think treating the whole body and the whole person is something we try to do. You might have a knee problem but it’s causing something else to be inflamed. We can help with all those issues,” Schomberg said. To receive treatment or inquire about services, call 828.550.3923, visit a clinic location at 80 Songbird Forest Road, Bryson City, 594 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee, or 90 East Main Street, Sylva, or visit the website at smsmpt.com. Each location is recently renovated and incorporates the most up-to-date equipment, and is easily accessible for all patients.

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828.246.0788 WaynesvilleSaltRoom.com Tribal members choose their starts and seeds during the Community Garden Kit Giveaway. The kits include a variety of traditional and heirloom seeds. Donated photo BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ith harvest season underway, members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are now reaping the benefits of a springtime program the tribe has sponsored for 15 years running. Each year, EBCI Cooperative Extension distributes garden kits containing seeds and starts for a diversity of heirloom and traditional produce varieties, this year passing out more than 700 kits. The idea is to encourage selfreliance, gardening skills and cultural connection in tribal members while providing them with a way to feed their families healthy, fresh food. “Overall it’s an event and a program that our community really looks forward to,” said Joey Owle, Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources for the EBCI. “I know I participated over several years with giving them out. The lines are very long.” The seed kits are typically distributed in early April at several different locations — the Tsali Manor Senior Center and EBCI Cooperative Extension Office, both in Cherokee, and at locations in the Snowbird and Cherokee County areas. This year’s kit contained nine different types of seed as well as strawberry crowns and onion bulbs. The tribe orders the seeds through the Long Family Farm and Gallery, owned by tribal members Harold and Nancy Long. “We consult with them through the year to say, ‘Are we sticking with the game plan or are we switching it up?’” Owle said. In the future, said Owle, he’d like to do some more engagement with the

community to assess the garden kit program for a better idea of what the impact is and how the kits are used. More educational opportunities as to how to get the most out of a gardening effort — especially principles of raised-bed gardening, since flat land is at a premium on the Qualla Boundary — will also be important.

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nutrition to the brain comes from the According to the Mayo clinic’s movement of the spine. So when you experts, sitting too often can cause a decrease motion by sitting for hours on number of health conditions such as end, you are actually depriving the brain heart problems, metabolic syndrome, of vital nutrients it needs to function obesity and high blood sugar. In addiproperly. This leads to poorer health and tion, sitting has been linked to an poorer productivity for adults at work unhealthy brain. and children at school. So, how can sitting Sperry also said, “Better than 90 perbe this bad? cent of the energy output of the brain is When we take used in relating the physical body in its a look at our culgravitational field. The more mechanicalture and the posly distorted a person is, the less energy tures many of us available for thinking, metabolism and frequently assume, healing.” it is no wonder we This means that extended sitting will are seeing so many cause postural alignment issues (distorhealth problems. tions) which will deplete the energy the For instance, when Dr. Tara Hogan D.C. brain could be using for thinking, metabthe large muscles olism and healof the legs are not ing. used often As Einstein put it, we Just in time enough, it slows need a substantially new for the new our metabolism. school year, It is not just manner of thinking if research was the act of being mankind is to survive.” published on sedentary at work Aug. 20 in the that’s contributing — Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard Sperry journal to these health Neuropsychology problems though. stating, “Children with higher levels of A study in Annals of Internal Medicine physical activity, while controlling for found that people who exercise regularly individual differences in intelligence and can still experience these problems. They fitness-related factors, have better workconcluded, “physical activity guidelines ing memory as assessed by both behavshould target reducing and interrupting ioral and neuroelectric measures.” sedentary time to reduce risk for death.” Essentially, kids who move their bodIt seems that we are living in a culture ies throughout the day have better aptipushing production without taking into tude for remembering what they learn in account how our bodies actually work. Specifically, the sacroiliac joints of the school. We could work smarter and not longer or harder in our schools by implepelvis are not structured for long periods menting more motion in our children’s of sitting. Sitting slumped at your comdaily routine. If kids exercised more in puter for hours on end causes the musschool they wouldn’t have to study for as cles in the front of the hips to become long. Maybe teachers don’t need more shorter, which puts more strain on the time to teach, they need healthier student lower back. The shoulders and neck roll brains to teach. They need brains that forward causing poor posture and stress have experienced more nutrition because on the upper back and neck. they were fed with movement. As a chiropractor for the last seven years, I have seen how neck pain and A solution to combat this situation sacroiliac joint dysfunction due to sitting might be as simple as “spinal movement is very common. These problems also breaks” in schools and at workplaces every have the ability to affect the overall pos30 minutes for brief moments to “feed” ture of a person, which can be detrimenour brains. The sad part about Dr. Sperry’s tal to our health in general. discovery is that it happened in 1981. According to the medical journal Presently, it is of utmost importance Spine, “All measures of health status that those of us who have influence over showed significantly poorer scores as the the workforce and schools embrace this C7 plumb line deviation increased (forscience of how our bodies work instead of ward head carriage/body).” In plain fighting it. We have implemented too English, that means when head posture many unscientific ways to try to raise test comes forward, overall health goes down- scores and increase work productivity by ward. going against the grain of our physiology. The neurobiologist and Nobel The secret is simply movement. That will Laureate in Medicine, Dr. Roger Sperry, be the key to healing many heath conunfound that 90 percent of stimulation and drums.

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Challenge asks all in WNC to ramp up activity BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER his year’s eight-week WNC Get Fit Challenge is set to return Monday, Sept. 10, challenging not just Jackson County residents but people across the region to get moving. “It’s really just encouraging participants to be more active,” said Janelle Messer, health education supervisor for the Jackson County Department of Public Health. “It has a little bit of competitive feel to it. You can compete for weekly prizes. It’s not just who has the most steps or minutes but who’s the most diligent at putting theirs in, who’s the most improved and that kind of thing over the course of the eight weeks.” For the first time, this year’s challenge will be individual rather than team-based and broken into two separate competitions. For the minutes challenge, participants will enter the number of minutes of moderate or strenuous physical activity they’ve completed for each day, earning one point for each minute. For the steps challenge, participants with fitness trackers will earn one point for every 1,000 steps. For each challenge, the person with the most points at the end of the eightweek challenge — which ends Nov. 5 — will named the winner.

Take the Get Fit Challenge Registering for the WNC Get Fit Challenge takes just minutes online and will offer eight weeks of encouragement toward a healthier, more physically active lifestyle ahead of the holiday season. The challenge includes two different contests — the steps challenge and the minutes challenge. For those with a fitness tracker, the steps challenge calculates points based on number of steps taken, and data can be automatically uploaded using the website Challenge Tracker. The minutes challenge asks participants to manually enter the number of minutes of exercise they complete each day. Prizes are available for winners in both categories and throughout the life of the challenge. Free, and open to all regardless of residency. Register or find out more at wncgetfit.weebly.com.

“It’s not just who has the most steps or minutes but who’s the most diligent at putting theirs in.” — Janelle Messer, Jackson County Department of Public Health

“Our biggest goal is to reach people who are less physically active and encourage them to get out there with other folks and find physical activity they find enjoyable,” Messer explained. “Last year we surveyed participants at the end of the challenge through Survey Monkey, and 75 percent of those who took the survey said they were more

active as a result of participating in the challenge.” Eight weeks is plenty long enough to build a habit, and the hope is that by the end of the challenge — which occurs less than three weeks before Thanksgiving — participants will have developed some new routines that will provide armor against holiday overeating. “Starting this challenge right before the holiday season really gears up to allow people to start a healthy habit going into the holiday season where we may be more sedentary and engaging in more unhealthy eating habits,” Messer said. The event Sept. 10 will kick off this year’s challenge, with community members meeting at 5:30 p.m. for a walk on the Jackson County Greenway in Cullowhee, about 2 miles to walk the entire length and back again. The challenge will include two more group activities as well. At 5:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 8, an activity yet to be determined — likely yoga — will take place, and the End of Challenge Celebration will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, at the Cullowhee Recreation Center, including a walk, games and food. While the challenge is run through the Jackson County government with organizational support from the Healthy Carolinians of Jackson County, for the last few years it’s been open to anybody, regardless of which county they reside in. Attendance at the group events is not mandatory, and online sign-up is available. “It started out as a Jackson County initiative and we had people from Swain County and Waynesville and even Macon County who wanted to be involved,” Messer said. “The goal is to get people physically active no matter where you live, so the people who were in charge of it thought it made sense to open it up if other people wanted to participate.”

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I’m nervous because I’m not flexible. Perhaps you think yoga is twisting into a pretzel while balancing on the

you can do. And let’s not forget — most people are so preoccupied thinking about how other people are judging them that they aren’t judging you. We at Waynesville Yoga Center want you to know that our classes are accessible to all ages, skill levels and body types, and pride ourselves on being an establishment that strives to help everybody in the community reach their wellness goals. Maybe calm your nerves by prepping yourself and following along to a DVD or Youtube video before coming to class. Or maybe convince a friend to join you so you can you feel a little more at ease. At the end of the day, not trying something new because you are afraid of what other people will think only leaves you worse off. You’re the one who wakes up to your life everyday — so chuck what other people think in the F*** it Bucket and move on.

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BY J ERICA ROSSI G UEST WRITER hile people were walking into class, I heard a woman whisper to her friend, “I’m really nervous to go to class right now.” As someone who loves diving headfirst into the unknown, I had a hard time relating, but I’m sure there are many of you out there who do. Whether you’re brand new to yoga or someone who has been out of practice for quite some time, the nerves can be real. So let’s break it down and see what you can do about it.

I’m nervous because it might be too hard for me. They call yoga a ‘practice’ for good reason. It is supposed to be something that you work on — that you in some way expand on with each session. The first thing you can do is choose the appropriate class for you. Give us a call, stop by or peruse our website to find out what to expect. How many people are in the class? What is the teacher like? Are there going to be other beginners? Try our small Yoga Basics or Gentle Yoga classes to become familiar with the foundations in an intimate setting to help you along your way. If you find yourself unable to keep up in class, or to hold/balance in a certain pose, take a child’s pose or go into a modification. Give the teacher a little wave and ask them to help you find a pose that feels better for your body. Maybe you’ll take a class where you can’t keep up for most of it, and the next class you can. It’s that feeling of progress — or that you at least tried — that will positively serve your mental and physical well-being and give you a boost of confidence.

“Yoga is not for the flexible; it’s for the willing.” edge of a cliff with your chiseled muscles glistening in the sun and a poised look on your face. It is — for some people. Then there are the majority of us who practice accessible forms of yoga for the purpose of focusing body and mind, to increase range of motion, to strengthen weak muscles, to recover from an injury or as a general preventative health measure — not because we want to balance on two fingers. To do yoga you don’t need to be flexible, or young, or thin, or strong or able to balance on your fingers or hands, or even be able to get up and down off the floor easily. You just have to want to try, to listen to your body and, most importantly, to show up. It’s that simple. I’m nervous because I’m out of shape and I don’t want to be judged by other people. To be blunt: screw what other people think. You’re there for you. This is your journey and not theirs. So fall over. Wobble in your tree pose. Take a resting pose when you need to — and do it all smiling because all you can do is what

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Health experts explain potential risks BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR It seems like every year there’s a new fad diet people swear is the panacea for quick weight loss. This year has been no different with everyone on the keto bandwagon. A ketogenic diet is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat plan known for quick weight loss results. But as with many fad diets, nutritionists and health experts say there are always risks. “The ketogenic diet was originally used in medically supervised settings to help patients with epilepsy. Since then it has been used therapeutically, under supervision, for people with Parkinson’s, autism, ALS and other cognitive issues,” said Dr. Linda Sparks, a naturopath doctor with Blue Ridge Natural Health in Waynesville. “Most people today who undertake this diet are looking for rapid weight loss.” Chelsea Burrell, community wellness outreach coordinator at Harris Regional Hospital in Sylva, said more studies are needed to fully understand the breadth of potential adverse side effects of keto dieting, but already people on the diet have reported feeling sick, dehydration, fatigue, dizziness, irritability, nausea, muscle soreness, irregular menstrual cycles, decreased bone density, sleep issues and constipation. “Low-carbohydrate weight reduction diets, such as the ketogenic diet, are popular despite the dearth of scientific data on long-term efficacy and adverse effects,” said Burrell, who recently wrote a literature review and research article on the ketogenic diet. “With the ketogenic diet creating a surge of interest, much like all other fad diets, it is important for people to remember that health is a life journey, which cannot be completed in weeks nor months.”

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The goal of the keto diet is to cut carbs down to less than 50 grams a day in order to achieve a state of ketosis in which the body starts burning fat instead of sugar for energy. Ingesting fewer carbohydrates allows the body to deplete carbohydrates as well as stored glycogen, conditioning it to begin using fat, leading to the generation of ketones for energy. “Evidence indicates that low-carbohydrate diets could potentially be better in terms of short-term weight loss in relation to traditional low-fat diets; however, little is known about the longevity and safety,” Burrell said. Keto is similar to other popular low-carb diets like Atkins, but Atkins has four phases that start with extreme dietary restrictions and slowly add items back into the diet as you reach your weight goal. However, keto promotes one way of eating for the entirety of the diet. The keto diet can also be misinterpreted. While people are advised to eat plenty of protein, low-carb vegetables, dairy and eggs, many people don’t get enough vari-

ety in their diet or use it as an excuse to just eat fats like butter and bacon. “Like most fad diets, the ketogenic diet is not sustainable due to its restrictions. One of the biggest challenges is being able to consume enough healthy fats like Omega3 fats,” Sparks said. “Many people who undertake the ketogenic diet, Atkins diet or paleo diet choose unhealthy forms of proteins or fats like processed meat.” Many people are attracted to the keto diet because you can still eat large portions of food and not feel hungry when in reality people should be working on portion control.

Most dieticians will all say the same thing: any extreme diet, whether it’s keto or the next fad, is not good for you. It’s all about eating in moderation and exercising. “One evident benefit of the ketogenic diet is the caloric intake being cut drastically without producing ravenous hunger,” Burrell said. “The consumption of fat allows the body to be full quicker and longer, reducing the need to eat again later. Fat is satiating, which is an advantage of keto as it promotes an avoidance of overeating.”

HEALTH RISKS Switching to a keto diet can cause some initial discomfort and gastrointestinal issues as your body adjusts to ketosis. This so-called keto flu can cause vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue and lethargy, but usually passes within a few days as your body switches to burning fat when it runs out of sugar. The transition also means your gallbladder is

working harder than normal to break down the additional fat in your diet, which can cause gastrointestinal issues. During the ketosis process, Burrell said, the body removes ketones through frequent and increased urination, which may lead to symptoms such as dehydration, fatigue, dizziness, irritability, nausea and muscle soreness. The loss of electrolytes as well as fluid can lead to a loss of sodium, magnesium and potassium, which can result in acute kidney injury. “Further, electrolytes are necessary for the heart to beat normally, putting the individual at risk of cardiac arrhythmia,” she said. Sparks said the biggest risk of keto is an increased risk of cardiovascular disease due to consuming large amounts of bad fats. “There is also a risk for decreased micronutrient intake that can happen when people eat less fruits and vegetables,” she said. “One class of micronutrients to consider is anti-oxidants. When these are decreased we age faster inside and out and are more susceptible to chronic diseases like cancer.” On a keto diet, you aren’t getting the fiber you normally would from things like pasta and whole-grain breads — making it important to take a supplement or eat more fiber-rich vegetables. “It is important to note that while sustaining a ketogenic diet, individuals must eat enough calories to avoid metabolic or thyroid problems that can be associated with a low caloric intake,” Burrell said. “A lower caloric intake promotes weight loss as well as a reduction in body fat. However, it is harmful over an extended period.” Sparks said some studies show keto can lead to an increase in blood pressure as well. Those who have kidney disease or transplants need to be very careful with an increased protein intake. Keto can be dangerous for people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes because it can trigger ketoacidosis. This condition can occur when your body stores up too many ketones — acids produced as a byproduct of burning fat — and the blood becomes to acidic. The build-up can cause liver, kidney and brain damage. Symptoms of ketoacidosis include dry mouth, frequent urination, nausea, bad breath and difficulty breathing. “People who are insulin-dependent diabetics need to be supervised by their physician as their blood sugar can drop dangerously low when beginning an extremely lowcarb diet,” Sparks said. Burrell’s paper specifically focused on athletes using the keto diet instead of the long-accepted method of carbloading before a major endurance event. “The fat utilization theory suggests that fat burns in a manner that does not deplete calories, sustaining energy for longer periods of time,” Burrell wrote regarding keto. “In contrast, a few studies indicate an impairment to performance during intense training with a low-carbohydrate diet — runners consumed various amounts of carbohydrate intake, and the higher carbohydrate diets improved performance.” In a recent study in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness, Edward Weiss, Ph.D., associate professor of nutrition and dietetics at

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SUSTAINABILITY Because the keto diet is so restrictive, many people end up reverting back to their old eating habits, which causes them to gain the weight back. “When they discontinue the diet and return to a SAD (Standard American Diet), they can become more sensitive to sugars and go back to their original weight or gain more than before,” Sparks said. “This creates a yo-yo dieting cycle, which is a risk factor for gallbladder issues. Women over 40 are already more susceptible to gallbladder stones, and yoyo dieting with increased fat can exponentially increase this susceptibility.” Regaining the weight can lead to new weight loss challenges — doctors say the regain will probably be fat instead of lean muscle. With a lower muscle mass, your metabolism will be lower, making it harder to burn calories. Most dieticians will all say the same

thing: any extreme diet, whether it’s keto or the next fad, is not good for you. It’s all about eating in moderation and exercising. “My recommendation is to lead a healthy lifestyle, eating proportionate and appropriate macronutrients to sustain energy according to the individual,” Burrell said. “A healthy lifestyle would include smaller portions, lean meats, grilled and colorful vegetables, fruits filled with antioxidants, and limiting all processed foods. A change in lifestyle versus a fad diet is easier to maintain and reduces dropout rate.” For those still looking for a specific diet that is more sustainable, Sparks said the Mediterranean Diet has been shown to be sustainable and also hearthealthy. She said the Whole 30 Diet is also more easily maintained and recommends a good balance of protein, healthy fats, vegetables, fruits and whole grains. “While maintaining a healthy weight is important, it is not the sole measure of a healthy body. One must get a broad range of minerals, vitamins and macronutrients to be healthy,” she said. “Moderate exercise is a must for those who are able, and addressing the mental-emotional and spiritual wellbeing of a person is equally as important to overall health.”

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Journey toward positivity Negativity surrounds us, is embodied in us. Until a couple of years ago, I felt like I was a pretty positive person. Seeing the good in others, feeling good about life and my journey. One day this all changed. That day I realized that I had been lying to myself. I had ignored the negativity, but my brain had not. When I looked deep down inside I realized that I would think something positive, feel something positive and then negativity would seep in. Negativity is like a cancer. It hits unexpectedly. Self-talk becomes imprinted on the brain as “I’m not worthy,” “I fail at everything,” “I… (fill in the blank).” We all do this, but we ignore it and rush off to the next task at hand. On the day I realized negative thoughts have been a part of my daily life, I decided to do something about it — really do something about it. The road would not be easy. It is not easy. For me, a pivotal moment came when I decided to become a wellness advocate for an essential oils producer. Through this journey, I’ve found the most rewarding and fulfilling part has been helping others — and myself — gain confidence and overcome those nagging doubts.

Negativity certainly does surround us, but we do not have to welcome it into our lives. The lies that we believe everyday can be reprogramed as a positive truth, “I’m worthy, I’m perfect the way I am.” The truth taught to me as a Wende Goode · Guest Columnist child that God loves us all unconditionally is the foundation for reprograming my self-talk. Even as my fingers type, doubt tries to seep in. Words like “why,” “can’t,” and “you’re crazy” are always there. So, we ask the question: How do we overcome these thoughts? The answer: Work. It takes work, daily work. Is it worth it? The answer is a resounding yes. Start today. Each morning, wake and say a positive affirmation. Reprogram one negative thought. I learned that neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to change; this is something we should use to our advantage. Reprogram the thoughts in

your brain that you have believed for so long. Say the positive thought out loud, say it to your reflection in the mirror, say it as you drive to work, say it as you lay your head down to sleep. Dr. Caroline Leaf speaks about changing our brains in her book “Think, Learn and Succeed.” In her recent blog she wrote “our expectations change the structure of our brains.” “When we expect good things, good things start to happen… yet the opposite is also true.” Enhance this verbal ritual by applying an essential oil that calms and grounds the central nervous system. I use doTERRA’s Balance blend, which contains Frankincense — a powerful cleanser and magnifier that opens the mind’s eye and connects the soul with its authenticity. Finally, surround yourself with positive people, positive input including personal development books, blogs, scripture, prayer and the daily text message app Shine. Life and business coach Tiffany Peterson and networking entrepreneur Eric Worre have been instrumental in my journey from negative thoughts to positive thoughts. Peterson’s annual November

“Gratitude and Generosity Series” is amazing and free (www.tiffanyspeaks.com). Peterson explains it this way: “what we focus on expands.” Worre’s middle name should be “never give up” and his words ring out loud when negativity screams “you can’t do this,” “you’re not good enough,” “no one wants to hear what you have to say.” Daily I pick myself up, apply some Balance and say out loud to the person staring back at me “I’m worthy,” “I’m important)” and “people want to hear what I have to say.” So, here I sit typing about how to recognize negative thoughts, those lies that your brain tells you every day, and how to speak the truth to yourself so that one day the only thoughts that come out are positive and the truth. My journey has taught me a lot — how to provide a healthier life to my family and others, and how to support those less fortunate. Most importantly, I’m learning that “I’m worthy” … and I need to tell others who doubt themselves that they are worthy too. Wende Goode is a doTERRA wellness advocate in Clyde. She can be reached at 828.246.2256, goodeoils@gmail.com or my.doterra.com/goodeoils.

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THE MILL VS THE HILL Small town high school football in the rural South BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER

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of which were but institutionalized representations of rivalries hewn from these here hills centuries ago. “I do have friends that did happen to go to high school at the wrong end of the county,” said Chuck Francis, 1974 Tuscola graduate and chairman of the Haywood Board of Education for the past 16 years. “And I call them ‘friends’ in a kind way.” In this county of just 60,000 people, three of the four incorporated municipalities have populations of less than 5,000 residents. Mountainous terrain and a generous veining of creeks and rivers create physical barriers between them — they don’t bleed together like suburbia does, and have thus developed very distinct identities. Canton, with its century-old paper mill at the center, fancies itself the blue-collar bastion of Haywood County, with its oldest-inthe-South Labor Day parade. With its longtime factories now long gone, Waynesville, twice the size and further west, is the county seat and features an upscale downtown shopping district, a thriving professional class and Tuscola’s hilltop campus. “Really, you grow up and you just dislike

Waynesville and Tuscola,” Smathers said. “Even when I was in high school, you didn’t associate. You didn’t date their girls, and if one of the girls from down here dated someone from up there, it became an issue quickly.” Tubby Ferguson and his wife Stephanie didn’t start dating each other until college. She graduated from Pisgah the same year he graduated from Tuscola. “We manage,” Tubby said. “It is kind of one of the first questions you ask somebody when you start taking interest in them. When you do find out, it becomes this kind of taboo thing, dating someone from across the county.” Haywood’s household hostilities add an extra level of intensity to the rivalry, and Tubby admits it can be hard to endure year after year of snide comments made in passing across his own kitchen table. “We joke about it, but it’s all in good fun,” he said, just before his wife interrupted him. “All I have to say is, Pisgah’s won the past five years, so…” In the weeks leading up to the game, both towns are in a fever. Pizza joint mar-

quees start the smack talk. Colors start popping up in unexpected places, like hardware stores and banks. Corporate stiffs sport neckties they haven’t worn in 11 months. Cheerleaders visit each high school’s feeder schools, which hold “spirit days.” Students cruise the streets with slogans soaped on their trucks and mascots hung in effigy just to harangue natives from the wrong end of the county. “It does bleed over into business and politics,” said Francis. “You have to be careful, you have to walk that tightrope and not go too far in that rivalry, because you can make some folks mad — at least half the county.” That habit can be hard to shake, as engrained as it is in the very fiber of Haywood’s being. “I think the biggest change for me is that when you’re born and bred into this you dislike Waynesville 365 days a year,” said Smathers. “When I became an attorney, I realized I needed business from both ends of the county, so only one day a year do I hope the whole place burns to the ground.”

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f the good Lord blessed me for some reason to become President of the United States there would be a Pisgah ‘P’ on Air Force One and it would land at Lake Logan Airstrip,” said Zeb Smathers. “I would not miss this game.” Smathers is mayor of Canton, like his father was. He’s a graduate of Pisgah High School, like his father is. He also played on the football team, like his father did. “I think my first memory of this game, I was in third grade. Nancy Moody was my teacher and she lived in Waynesville. I remember the class booing her because she was from Waynesville,” he said. “In third grade.” The rivalry runs much deeper than its official 55-year history. In 1966, the county’s schools were integrated and consolidated, resulting in the creation of the red and black Pisgah Black Bears and the yellow and white Tuscola Mountaineers. Those mascots were really just a reimagining of the Canton High School Black Bears and the Waynesville Township Mountaineers, their precursor schools — all

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Its wooden walls are lined with knickknacks, claptrap and faded family photos of people and places long gone. Three men stand behind three vintage teal and steel barber’s chairs, while three men sit in them. Others wait on red vinyl couches next to checkerboards beneath the watchful gaze of Andy Griffith and Floyd Lawson. Between the intermittent jangle of the front door’s lanky chain and over the low, persistent buzz of clippers clipping, they all talk high school football. On this day, they all talk about a local rivalry that’s been called one of the greatest in the nation. On this night, that game will be played. “Oh, it’ll never stop,” said barber David Bryson. “I mean, as long as there’s Tuscola and Pisgah, it’ll be here. It’s the Super Bowl of Haywood County.” Rivalry games such as these are also a microcosm of the divisions in American society — it’s geography and class, and bluster and brass and a color that defines who you are. It’s memory farsighted, it’s houses divided, it’s new wounds on top of the scars. But when the tiny mountain milltown plays the little tourist hilltown, it’s something else entirely that shines through.

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Falling into photography: the art of Bill Killillay BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER hen you take in the totality of photographer Bill Killillay’s work, you might think it comes as the result of intensive schooling at some fancy film or art school. But you would be wrong. In fact, you might say he just fell into it. “At 17 I dropped out of high school,” said Colorado native Killillay. “I got my GED and then I went to college and by 19 I became the youngest flight instructor in Colorado.” While focused solely on getting his pilot’s license, he moved through the ranks quickly qualifying as a commercial pilot and adding additional instructor ratings. He then enlisted in the United States Army with the intention of becoming a pilot. That didn’t work out, but he didn’t stray far from flight, becoming a Blackhawk crew chief in Korea. Although he hasn’t served as pilot in command for quite some time, he says than whenever he’s in an airplane now, he’s looking for a reason to jump out of it. “Around 2005, I made my first skydive,

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That day is today. ince the Lyndon Johnson administration — Sept. 23, 1966, to be precise — the game has only been played in one of two stadiums, Canton’s Pisgah Memorial Stadium or Waynesville’s C.E. Weatherby Stadium. Pisgah prevailed that day, as it would in the first seven such games. Then Tuscola won three in a row, including two on the road. A 13 to 13 tie at Pisgah on Nov. 22, 1974 set the pattern in reverse — Pisgah went on to win three in a row, including two on the road, before Tuscola took 10 straight. That streak was snapped in 1988 and marked the beginning of an era where no team won more than two games in a row for over 20 years. “I truly think it is the greatest high school rivalry in the state,” said Smathers. “I was blessed to go to both Duke and Carolina, and to sit in both those stadiums during basketball. This is our Duke-Carolina.” The feud ranked second in a July Asheville Citizen-Times poll of best high school rivalries in Western North Carolina, but sports website greatamericanrivalry.com calls it one of the best in the nation. Pisgah was for the 29th time the site for this year’s game, which drew more than 13,000 to the 7,000-seat stadium, tucked along the banks of the Pigeon River behind the old armory, smokestacks looming in the distance beyond green-dappled knobs. It was warm, but not unseasonably so, with a still breeze following the little fluffy 16 clouds lingering above.

and it was like somebody hit me with heroin man. I was hooked,” he said. “Instantly.” Since then he’s logged more than 1,500 jumps; after the first 200 or so, he felt comfortable enough to strap on a camera. Still a relative novice, he asked around on some skydiving forums what camera settings he should use, and was told in not so delicate terms to “read the manual.” “So I did, and then I started watching videos and other stuff, but it all started because I wanted to do tandem videos,” he said. “This is how photography started for me.” From there, it all started to happen pretty quickly for Killillay — his skydiving work was featured on Atlanta-area billboards and in important hobby magazines — but it was his son Brendan who pushed him into the field for which he’s probably now best known. Killillay’s jaw-dropping sports photography has been burning up Facebook and generated considerable interest from both parents of athletes as well as local media outlets eager to run his perfectly-timed, perfectly-

Below the visitors’ stands, Mountaineers huddled in a stiflingly hot musty concrete bunker that had all the charm of a port-ajohn, but less air circulation. As first year head coach J.T. Postell called their names in turn, each assistant coach addressed the team, most of whom had their backs pinned to white walls. In succession they all talked about how they were born here, how they were lucky to be here and how they hoped to die here. They talked about their fathers, their sons. Still perched at the cusp of adulthood, some players were sentimental and some were shaking — even before Postell laid out his platform. “I think you know that this is more than just a game. It means a lot to everybody in here, and everybody in our community,” he said calmly, a large ineffectual fan humming comfortingly behind him. “But I’m tired,” he said, his voice becoming more assertive, more defiant. “I’m sick and tired of losing to them!” “Seniors, this is it!” It had now grown to a shout. “This is your last chance! Underclassmen! Make sure they go out winners! Because that’s what everybody in this room is! We are winners!” he boomed. “God dangit, I love you! Let’s…” The end of Postell’s speech is, like many other ephemeral moments in the legacy of this partisan gridlock, lost to posterity; before he could finish, his crescendo got his team worked up into a deafening roar that reverberated around the room and will likewise long in the heads of kids who will tonight take off their helmets for the final time. Once the skydivers — dragging a huge

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framed shots of the fast-moving athletic action; it’s made him a familiar face courtside, and on the sidelines. He also does portraiture, landscapes and real estate work including drone shots and video composition, but that’s all for a reason, too. “A friend told me, ‘I think sports is your niche,’ and I said, ‘No, man, photography is

my passion and I want to prove it,’” said Killillay. “I don’t want to be pigeon holed, in fact I used it as motivation to not be pigeonholed. I’m an artist. I love to take pictures, I love being behind the camera. I love the creative side of it.” See more of Killillay’s work, including shots from the recent Pisgah-Tuscola football game, at www.killillay.com.

About 13,000 people pack Pisgah Memorial Field in Canton last Friday to watch the nation’s best high school football rivalry. A Shot Above WNC photo American flag — delivered the game ball to midfield, the mill’s whistle blew and kickoff ensued. Fired-up Tuscola jumped out to an early seven-nothing lead, but Pisgah came right back with a 76-yard strike just before the end of the first quarter. After a Pisgah turnover deep in their own end, Postell’s team made a gutsy call to convert a red zone 4th and inches, but had to settle for three and nursed that 10-7 lead into halftime. Pisgah came out and drove the length of the field to open the third quarter, found pay

dirt but saw an extra point attempt fail, putting them up 13-10. A Pisgah pick with 22 seconds left in the third left the Black Bears in good shape, however a bend-but-don’t-break Hill defense kept them out of the end zone, setting up a missed Mill field goal attempt. The two sides then traded horses in what would become a fight for field position until Pisgah punched it in with six minutes left in the fourth, setting the score at what would become the final, 20 to 10. Pisgah now leads the series 28

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But like the Fergusons, Smathers sometimes has the toughest talks over his own kitchen table. “My father-in-law is the head of the Republican Party,” said Smathers. “Him and I can sit down and find solutions. I think people get frustrated when they don’t see that in Raleigh and they don’t see that in D.C., but people can do that here in Haywood.” Haywood County Schools Board Chair and Tuscola Dem Chuck Francis agrees that the rivalry won’t stand in the way, but with barber David Bryson he also agrees that the rivalry won’t go away, either. “It can be divisive, but I can tell you one thing — whenever Pisgah is playing someone outside the county, the Tuscola fans are generally there pulling for them like I am,” said Francis. “And I like to pull for our team on the wrong end of the county just as much as Tuscola does — but only when they’re not playing each other.”

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merica reveres tradition regardless of both relevance and obligation; much of a rivalry is so. You’re this or you’re that because your parents were or weren’t have’s or have-not’s. You’re not the same color as me. You’re not from here and you’re not from there but always to someone, you’re from the wrong end of the country. Or county. That’s all changing, though. Here, at least. “I’m being sincere about this — there is a special relationship happening in Haywood County right now where you have the communities and the county working together for economic development purposes and for recreation. I believe what is good for Waynesville is good for Canton. I sincerely believe they think the same thing,” Smathers said. “That is something that could not be said 15 or 20 years ago, even 10 years ago.” Pisgah Democrat Smathers acknowledged people like Kirk Kirkpatrick (Tuscola Democrat, Haywood commission chair), Mike Sorrells (Tuscola Democrat, Haywood commissioner) and Brandon Rogers (Pisgah Republican, Haywood commissioner) as bipartisan collaborators helping move the county forward regardless of party, pedigree or provenance. “It shows people can be very competitive, very enthusiastic, very passionate about their team, their cause and their beliefs, but we can get past that when the dust settles and get back to work,” he said. “That’s what people expect, not just in football, in politics as well.”

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Jackson health, DSS organization will be an election issue November outcome could change setup — again

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER fter nearly a year of public hearings, votes and contentious meetings, Jackson County’s health and social services departments are back where they started — sort of. Following a party-line vote Aug. 20 to abolish the Consolidated Human Services Department — which itself was created through an identical vote in January — and replace it with a Department of Public Health and Department of Social Services, community members will no longer comprise the board that oversees those functions. The county commissioners will, and the directors of the two departments will no longer report to a set of independent boards — as was the case before commissioners voted to consolidate the departments in January — but will instead report to the county manager, just as they did when consolidation was in effect. As a result of the vote, the county will no longer hire a new director’s position to oversee the consolidated department. State statute requires the county to set up an advisory board of health composed mainly of professionals in the field, but no such requirement is in place for social services. However, it’s possible that — like consolidation itself — the current set-up will be a short-term situation. In every consolidationrelated vote, the board of commissioners has split cleanly along party lines, with Republican Commissioners Ron Mau, Mickey Luker and Charles Elders in favor and Commissioner Boyce Deitz and Chairman Brian McMahan, both Democrats, opposed. With elections coming up in November, that 3 to 2 balance could change. Deitz, Elders and McMahan are up for election. Mau is running against McMahan for the chairman’s seat. If Mau wins, he will join the other three commissioners to choose a fifth member; if he loses, he’ll retain his seat until his term is up in 2020. The board could flip to a Democratic majority, or the Republican majority could strengthen. “I made the commitment that if I’m given the opportunity, then I will put a motion on the floor at some point to go back to the original arrangement, the original structure, which is two independent volunteer boards, if and when I get the votes to do that,” McMahan said. Mau, meanwhile, has hinted that the departments could become consolidated once again, depending how things go with the new structure. “For now it’s wait and see how this will 18

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Jackson County commissioners discuss the future of the consolidated human services agency and board. Jessi Stone photo work, and we’ll move from there,” he said. Mau has been a staunch proponent of consolidation. Minutes before voting to abolish the consolidated department Aug. 20, he said that Buncombe County had documented an average of $2.4 million per year in savings after consolidation in the last 10 years, about 2.4 percent of the total health services budget. In Jackson County, a 2.4 percent savings would translate to $360,000 per year. Consolidation was a way to make government more efficient and save taxpayer money, he said.

HALTED HIRING Before the Aug. 20 vote, the county had been in the process of hiring a consolidated department director to oversee the existing health and social services directors. The salary range for the position was $74,000 to $145,000, plus benefits — opponents of consolidation said the position would be an expensive and needless hire for a job that was already being done well with current staff, while proponents said the position would allow for a more global perspective of the department and allow for more strategic decisions in the future. Consolidation has been controversial from the beginning, when a Jan. 29 public hearing on the proposal drew 11 speakers, mostly professionals in the health and social services fields and all opposed to consolidation. However, commissioners voted in a 3 to 2 party-line vote to move forward, espousing their trust in and appreciation for the existing health and social services boards but holding fast to their belief that consolidation would allow for a streamlined framework that would increase accountability, improve serv-

ices and cross-department communication and provide cost savings. But, on Aug. 20, those same commissioners voted to abolish the consolidated department as well as the consolidated board, which contained many of the same people who had sat on the previous health and social services boards. The motion was proposed by Luker, who sat as the county commission’s representative on the consolidated board. It was a reaction to the consolidated board’s Tuesday, Aug. 14, vote to postpone hiring a director for the new department until after the November elections. Depending on election results, board members said, the consolidation could be reversed and the county could have caused its new hire to uproot his or her life for what would prove to be only a short-term job. The Aug. 14 motion carried 10 to 1, with Luker the sole vote opposed. Luker did not make any statements on the issue at the meeting and didn’t have any follow-up conversations about it with members of the consolidated board. However, he did draft a pair of resolutions to put on the commissioners’ meeting agenda for Aug. 20. One option would have kept the consolidated department and put commissioners in place of the existing board, while the other option — the one that was ultimately chosen — would dissolve the consolidated department and seat commissioners as the boards of health and social services. “I kind of found out about it (the resolution) in a roundabout way, and it was definitely not through him (Luker),” said Kathy Farmer, who chaired the consolidated board. “No one that evening during the discussion when the motion was made to delay the hiring of the director, no one spoke against that.”

INJECTING POLITICS? Luker would later make it known that he was vehemently opposed to the action. “For a board not to respect the vote and the direction of the county commissioners is just bewilderment,” Luker said. “It’s not their decision to decide whether it’s correct, politically incorrect, whatever. Their agreement to serve as a board member and agree to be a board member — it wasn’t like they didn’t have a choice to be on that board. As a board member they should have been cohesive in getting everything together and hiring a director and moving forward and looking at it in the best interest of the agency.” “If you’re a county employee in certain positions, do you now have to worry at every election outcome?” asked Mau. In his comments to the board Aug. 20, County Manager Don Adams said that the contentious nature of consolidation and the board’s vote to wait for the November elections before hiring the new director put staff in a difficult spot. “This whole process in my mind has become politicized. It’s openly being discussed about what may or may not occur in the next election. As manager representing the staff, it’s a position we don’t need to be in,” Adams said. Deitz, who attended the Aug. 14 meeting, saw it differently. As it was, the county wouldn’t likely be ready to hire anybody until October, so waiting until November or December wouldn’t set things back too much. Acknowledging that the election could have an impact on consolidation isn’t necessarily politicizing the issue, he said — it’s just acknowledging reality. “It wasn’t but two weeks different,” said Deitz. “I wouldn’t want my son to take a job doing that knowing that he’d move his family and a month later the board changed and they do away with a job.” “I felt like the reasoning brought forth was very persuasive and was wise and was not meant to be political or just stall the hiring of someone, but was to make a wise decision and know that things would not be changed a few weeks after the hiring occurred,” Farmer agreed. The politicization in this scenario, Deitz and McMahan said, is instead the fact that an elected board of commissioners will now replace a nonpartisan appointed board of professionals overseeing the health and social services functions. “We have eliminated doctors and veterinarians and engineers and psychiatrists, nurses and all these types of people that are professional people in order to basically supervise these two departments ourselves. And it’s ridiculous,” said Deitz. “It interjects politics into the play,” added McMahan. “Those two agencies are both serving people, people with needs, not a power control. I think that’s what it comes down to. I think there’s three commissioners that wanted control.” Mau and Luker both deny that politics will influence their decisions as health and social services board members and pointed out that the health department will retain an advisory board of professionals.

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Either way, adding in the new board duties will heighten the demand on commissioners’ already-demanding schedule. In a 2016 Smoky Mountain News story investigating how much work commissioners put in and how much they’re paid, Jackson County commissioners put the workload at anywhere from eight to 20 hours per week, depending on the time of year. For that they receive a $12,000 salary, plus travel expenses and a $75 per-meeting fee. “The commissioners have a lot on their plates, and going through the training that we have gone through to understand more about the legal aspects of both departments and also their budgets and their operations — I just don’t see that being a possibility for the commissioners,” said Farmer. “They’re just not going to have the time to do that, nor do they have the professional experience.” Mau said he’d make it work. “I’ll make the time,” he said. “I’ll sleep less. Watch less football in the fall.” Health Director Shelley Carraway said she shares concerns about whether commissioners will be able to shoulder the additional time commitment and acknowledged that, while she doesn’t see it happening with the current board, the new structure could set the departments up for political influence down the road. On the flip side, she said, the new structure could be a good thing for the department. “If the commissioners become our board, maybe we should see this as a great thing because they’re my board. They’ll have to see me more and hear all about my issues,” she said. “It’s always good when your elected leaders know you intimately because when you have something come up they have a great background to react.” Social Services Director Jennifer Abshire also said she was optimistic about the new arrangement. “I will say that throughout the state, the people I have talked to that are in this situation — which has only been two counties that I have talked with — it’s been successful for them,” she said. Both Abshire and Carraway said that the changes shouldn’t have any effect on day-today operations, such as employment and service delivery. Commissioners declined to hold a public hearing before voting to abolish consolidation and seat themselves as boards over the departments, but a public hearing will be held after the fact at 2:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, at the Jackson County Administration Building in Sylva.

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“I do what I think is right based on input I receive from staff and constituents and experts, looking at the data of course, and make my decisions accordingly,” said Mau. “I don’t make decisions based on what I think is going to get me a vote or not get me a vote.” Luker said that elections are the people’s mechanism to make sure that undue political influence doesn’t happen. “There’s always that potential out there, but let’s just say that people hold people more accountable and I just think we have better people that run for office than that,” he said.

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Benefit for combat veterans A BBQ Dinner & Square Dance will be held at 6 p.m. Sept. 15 to benefit Equinox Ranch’s program for combat veterans. The square dance will be called by Joe Sam Queen and musical entertainment provided by Cullowheezer. The event will be held at the ranch, 24 West Rogers Road, in Cullowhee. Tickets are available at www.equinoxranch.org.

Cornhole to support mentor program A cornhole tournament will be held at noon Saturday, Sept. 8, at BearWaters Brewing in Canton to benefit Big Brother Big Sisters of Haywood County. Registration begins at 11 a.m. There will be two divisions — Social Division for backyard and tailgate players and the Competitive Division for ACL competitors. First place will receive $300 1st place, free food, 50/50 raffle and free T-shirts for all participants.

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One hundred and fifty years ago, a small congregation of faithful Christians built the

first sanctuary and public school in Maggie Valley. Today, this vital congregation continues its original priorities with all the people in the valley: worship and service. Maggie Valley United Methodist Church will celebrate its homecoming and 150th anniversary Sunday, Sept. 9, with a worship service at 11 a.m. followed by a covered dish lunch. Serving the local community remains in the DNA of the congregation. Today, the church hosts a food pantry twice a week. Shepherd’s Table, a Monday evening meal open to anyone at no cost, serves 120 people weekly. Ann Duncan, a third-generation United Methodist pastor with 10 years of ministry experience, is the new senior pastor. She is a graduate of Duke University and Boston University School of Theology, and served in the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa.

Mast Store celebrates Friends’ Day Each September, the Mast Store celebrates friends in each of its communities that are working to create special places and to positively affect the local economy. On Sept. 8, the Mast General Store in Waynesville will host volunteers from the Friends of the Smokies and will contribute 10 percent of the day’s sales to the organization. The Friends of the Smokies celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. With a stated

goal of assisting the National Park Service in its mission to preserve and protect the Great Smoky Mountains National Park by raising funds and public awareness and providing volunteers for needed projects, the Friends have a far-ranging impact on the health of the Park.

held at 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10, at the Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub, located downtown at 58 Stewart Street, Franklin. Those interested in an open exchange of ideas (dialog, not debate) are invited to attend. For more information, call 828.371.1020.

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September’s Seniors and Law Enforcement Together class will be held from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6 at the Haywood County Public Library in Waynesville. Haywood County Sheriff ’s Office Deputy Kevin Brooks will touch on various aspects of personal safety — safety at home, situational awareness when away from home — and he will briefly touch on active shooter situations. Brooks has experience teaching the Refuse to be a Victim class to various groups throughout the community. He also has been trained in CRASE (Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events).

This September, the Haywood County Public Library is joining with the American Library Association and libraries nationwide for Library Card Sign-up Month to encourage parents, caregivers, and students to obtain a free library card that will save them money while reaping rewards in academic achievement and lifelong learning. Libraries play an important role in the education and development of children. Studies show children who are read to in the home and who use the library perform better in school and are more likely to continue to use the library as a source of lifetime learning. “Throughout the year, Haywood County libraries offer a variety of programs to stimulate an interest in reading and learning,” said Library Director Kathy Vossler. “Story hours and summer reading programs expose young children to the joy of reading and encourage school readiness. Youth of all ages have access to technology and digital tools through the library’s website.”

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ission Health’s Board of Directors and HCA Healthcare have entered into a definitive agreement for HCA to acquire Mission Health. HCA has agreed to pay about $1.5 billion for the assets of the Mission Health system. Under the terms of the definitive agreement, nearly all Mission Health facilities and clinics will become part of HCA while continuing to operate under the Mission brand. HCA has committed to maintaining key clinical services for at least five years and keeping open all rehabilitation and acute-care hospitals for a minimum of 10 years — other than St. Joseph’s Hospital — which was already planned for transition. HCA has agreed not to sell any rehabilitation or acute-care hospital for a minimum of 10 years. None of these protections exist for Mission programs or facilities today. HCA has also committed to investing $430 million over five years in capital expenditures, which includes the completion of the Mission Hospital for Advanced Medicine, building a replacement hospital for Angel Medical Center in Franklin and building a new behavioral health hospital. Lastly, HCA will contribute $25 million, that when combined with a matching $25 million contribution from Mission Health, will create a $50 million innovation fund to invest in businesses providing innovations in health care delivery that benefit the people of Western North Carolina. “Mission Health has an impressive, more than 130-year tradition of caring for communities throughout Western North Carolina and we are delighted to have finalized our agreements so that we can help continue their legacy,” said Milton Johnson, HCA Healthcare’s chairman and CEO. “As a healthcare provider founded by physicians 50 years ago ourselves, we share Mission Health’s focus on excellence and we look forward to investing in western North Carolina to improve the health of the region.” The agreement will now be sent to North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein for applicable regulatory review. As part of its normal regulatory review process, Stein will evaluate any effect the transaction could have on market competition, whether HCA is paying a fair price for the acquisition and how proceeds resulting from the sale will continue to benefit WNC.

The sale means a major transition in health care in the region. Up until this point, Mission has operated as a nonprofit system and is the last nonprofit system in the region since Duke LifePoint purchased Haywood Regional Medical Center, Harris Regional Hospital and Swain Community Hospital in 2014. While Mission leaders have asserted that the switch from nonprofit to for-profit will only mean more benefits for the region and better outcomes for patients, some communities are still skeptical. However, the three nonprofit hospitals were struggling financially before Duke LifePoint purchased them and invested millions into new technology, infrastructure and expanded services. The purchase also resulted in the establishment of a foundation that will utilize the proceeds of the sale to fund health care needs well into the future. The same will happen with the proceeds from HCA’s purchase of Mission — except it’s anticipated to be a much larger pot of money. The total won’t be confirmed until the transaction is final. The proceeds of the sale combined with Mission Health’s remaining cash and investments — after all debts and obligations have been paid — will be transferred to the newly formed Dogwood Health Trust. “From the very beginning, Mission Health’s board worked diligently and continually to ensure that the very best path was selected for the people of Western North Carolina and to make certain that our community has access to high quality, effective and compassionate care for generations to come,” said Mission Health Board Chair John R. Ball. “After completing due diligence and finalizing definitive agreements that have significant protections for our rural communities, we are convinced that HCA Healthcare is the right and best choice for Western North Carolina and Mission’s team members, providers and patients.” According to a press release, Mission will continue to be managed locally while Tennessee-based HCA will offer its expertise in operations, capital access, clinical trials, research, predictive modeling, analytics and more to augment Mission Health’s existing capabilities. Mission CEO Dr. Ron Paulus stated in a press release that the Mission board believes that joining HCA is an extraordinary opportunity to build upon Mission’s exceptional quality and to ensure that every entity within Mission Health has significant protections that it lacks today. “HCA Healthcare has a strong track record of enhancing its hospitals’ operations

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and a proven history of investing in the communities it serves. The fact that we have ensured unprecedented protections for our rural communities in Western North Carolina, enabled a $50 million innovation fund and created the Dogwood Health Trust all demonstrate how this transaction will be transformative for our region.” Chuck Hall, president of HCA’s National Group, was also quoted in the press release stating that he was “delighted by my visits to Western North Carolina” meeting with people there and touring Mission’s facilities. However, Franklin Mayor Bob Scott said his attempts to meet HCA leaders and discuss what the purchase will mean for small community hospitals like Angel Medical Center have failed. With Mission closing the labor and delivery unit at Angel last summer and with plans for a new hospital, Scott has not been pleased with the level of communication from Mission. “We have tried repeatedly to get to meet some of these HCA people but no luck with that,” he said. “We were also supposed to have a big powwow with Mission folks and they canceled it.” Scott added a resolution to the Franklin Town Council’s agenda for Tuesday night that states the town would only support the HCA purchase if three conditions are met. The sales agreement must be made available for public review in sufficient time to ensure public input during the attorney general’s review process. Secondly, the sales agreement must specify that if HCA or a successor owner decides to stop operating Angel as an acute care hospital after the protected time period ends, the hospital must be returned to the community at no cost. Lastly, Dogwood Health Trust board must be independent from Mission and HCA and broadly represent the region and the people it will serve. The resolution states that Mission should hire an independent firm to select members of the foundation board. Mission has already begun appointing people to the foundation board. Of the eight people already appointed, only two reside outside Buncombe County — Michell Hicks, former chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, and Sam Lupas of Jackson County. So far, no one has been appointed from Macon County where Mission operates two hospitals. “When selecting Board members, we’ve taken into account skill, competence, willingness, time and capacity to serve as well as geographic diversity,” said Janice Brumit, founding chair of the Dogwood Health Trust. “Most importantly, Board members must have a firm commitment to our bold mission to dramatically improve the health and wellbeing of all people and communities in Western North Carolina and understand they do not serve on behalf of any particular geography, but rather as a fiduciary steward to ensure that Dogwood’s mission is achieved for everyone in every community across this region.” A broader public announcement discussing more about the Dogwood Health Trust is currently planned for Sept. 30. In the meantime, applications are still being sought for board members. Visit www.dogwoodhealthtrust.org.

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Haywood Tax Collector will pay for own mistakes BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER slew of county tax penalties waived by Tax Collector Mike Matthews’ office will have to be re-added to some tax bills because they were improperly released. “This is the way it’s always been done, and the way I was shown how to do it,” Matthews said. “And it’s not something we do very often. It’s usually because of a postmark issue, or if it’s an error when somebody comes in here and pays 15 or 20 bills, and one got missed or didn’t get picked up in the system. As a courtesy we would waive the interest because they came in with the intention of paying everything. So that’s when I would remove the interest, because that’s the way we were taught to do it.” But that all came to a screeching halt a few weeks ago. “The auditor was doing a routine periodic internal audit in the tax collector’s office, and in that audit it was discovered that there were some refunds and releases that had been granted that were not authorized by state statute,” said Joel Mashburn, interim county manager. As soon as that was discovered, Finance Director Julie Davis along with Mashburn

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More than 120 accounts with amounts ranging from $464 on down to 9 cents had the penalties waived improperly by at least five county employees, including Matthews. Some elected officials can be held personally liable for improperly waived fees, however, all Matthews probably needs to do is rebill taxpayers. Matthews said he’d pay all the improperly waived accounts he personally authorized, to

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met with Matthews and asked him what he was going to do about it, and told him the tax collector doesn’t have the authority to waive such penalties. General Statute 105-381(b) gives the governing body responsibility for approving refunds and releases only if there is a clerical error, if the tax is illegal or if the tax is levied for an illegal purpose. “Even county commissioners don’t have the authority to waive a tax bill unless it fits into one of those categories,” Mashburn said. A list of improperly waived penalties provided by both Mashburn and Matthews is based on the audit period, and dates back to shortly after Matthews took office in late 2015. More than 120 accounts with amounts ranging from $464 on down to 9 cents had the penalties waived improperly by at least five county employees, including Matthews. The total amount is just shy of $4,108. “I never realized this, and obviously I should have,” Matthews said. “I mean, I’ve read the Machinery Act [a longstanding group of statutes that deal with taxation and revenue collection, among other things] but I was told this is the way it’s always been done.”

the tune of $1,279.77, even though he doesn’t have to. “Because if I personally guarantee something to you, and we come to find out [it’s incorrect] I mean, it’s not your fault,” said Matthews. “I had the option of billing everyone for it.” The other accounts not personally authorized by Matthews will have the penalties added back to the taxpayer’s balance; a letter from Matthews to individual taxpayers informing them of the improperly waived fees has been at the ready for days, but due to some software installation issues hasn’t yet gone into the mail. An argument could be made that the improperly waived penalties could be considered a “clerical error” and thus waived by commissioners, but Mashburn made the case that such errors were more along the lines of typos or other innocent mistakes, not the intentional acts by Matthews and others who approved the waivers. “Waiving the penalty was the error, but the tax itself was not an error — the tax was correct itself,” said Mashburn. “It’s been that way forever,” said County Attorney Chip Killian. Mashburn said he didn’t know if Matthews and other county employees were following an established departmental procedure left over from the previous tax collector David Francis’ office, and had no immediate plans to find out. “I do think this is something we will have to discuss, obviously,” he said. “But there has been no decision at this point to do that.”

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that helps a few of the inmates get back on their feet.” Last year, inmates put in a whopping 942 hours of labor. Given that a typical work year is about 2,040 hours, that’s the equivalent of a full year of part-time labor. Even at minimum wage, that’s a savings of several thousand dollars. “Because the crew is helping, we are able to make the building available to the community,” she said. “Family reunions, special events, friendship dinners, conferences, workshops and classes and camps on a yearround basis. We no longer look like a blight on our neighborhood. The Friendship Center is a resource.” As with most things Folkmoot, it’s not about the short-term gains associated with

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he Town of Sylva will take MountainTrue up on its offer to look for a better design for N.C. 107, with MountainTrue’s Asheville Design Center currently working up a scope of work and timeline for the project. “There’s a lot of really creative solutions we’ve seen around the county for how to address those (issues) that I’m hoping there’s a window of opportunity there if we can find a design that might be able to bring that footprint a little tighter,” said Chris Joyell, director of the design center. Preliminary plans for the N.C. 107 redesign, released this spring, drew widespread opposition from the community when it was revealed that they would require 54 businesses, one nonprofit and five residences to relocate. In a small town like Sylva, 54 businesses is a lot of businesses — roughly one-sixth of the town’s total. The large number of businesses likely to be affected drastically increased the project’s estimated price tag, as well. When initial plans were released in March 2017, the N.C. Department of Transportation estimated the project would cost $35.5 million total, with $14.6 million of that going to right-of-way and utilities. The revised estimate in February 2018, however, said that right-ofway alone would cost $47.6 million.

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The plans — which are only 25 percent complete and so still subject to change — sparked a strong reaction from the community and spurred a revival of the Jackson County Smart Roads Alliance, which originally formed in 2002 to oppose DOT’s proposal to build a connector road between Cullowhee and U.S. 74. The project was eventually killed but led DOT to its current proposal — both plans aimed to reduce congestion and crashes on N.C. 107. The existing proposal would affect N.C. 107 from the fire department on West Main Street all the way out past Ingles, plus a one-third-mile section of the Old Asheville Highway from McDonald’s to the intersection with N.C. 107. With the exception of the West Main Street portion, which would remain a four-lane road, the result would be a five-lane road with a grassy median in place of the existing “suicide lane.” Drivers would be able to turn across the median only at designated locations, and bike lanes and improved sidewalks would encourage non-vehicular transportation. During a public meeting held Aug. 6 at Sylva Town Hall, well over 100 community members packed the building and 29 people signed up to speak. None of the 23 people who actually delivered public comment were actively supportive of the proposal, though several spoke passionately about the need for something to be done. “I felt like the general consensus at that meeting was that something needed to be done to improve the condition of the road, or that people realized that,” said Town Manager Paige Dowling. “I think they felt that the design could be improved.” That’s why the town decided to call the Asheville Design Center, part of the nonprofit MountainTrue, which offered its services

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Division Engineer Brian Burch said during the Aug. 6 meeting. If not, the number could increase. “Until we get that information any decision that we make is somewhat premature,” Burch said Aug. 6. That said, Joyell believes that the 25-percent mark is a good place for the Design Center to enter the conversation.

pro bono to help find a project design that would solve the traffic issues while leaving more existing development intact. During a regular meeting Aug. 9, commissioners voted to work with the center. Joyell is in the midst of assembling a team, which he says will consist of experienced professionals with a “fair understanding of the challenges on N.C. 107” who “probably know a lot about the internal politics and social dynamics in the community.” While Joyell is a MountainTrue employee, the remainder of the team would be working on a volunteer basis. Joyell said he’ll ask his team to start with a blank slate. The plan is to begin the process by listening to the community describe the problems, then working with the DOT and the town to find a solution. He also plans to involve the cycling community, looking for ways to include bike lanes without requiring businesses to relocate. “I should be really clear that up front we don’t know what the outcomes are going to be and I can’t really tell anyone what the center’s products will look like,” Joyell said. Outside of anything the Asheville Design Center proposes, there’s potential for the DOT plans to change significantly between now and the end of the year. The agency is waiting on utility companies to submit their plans for the corridor before moving forward on its end. The content of those utility plans could drastically affect the DOT’s constraints. One wild card is whether buried lines are a possibility. If so, the number of businesses relocated could decrease,

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Confederate statues are a problem To the Editor: Just over a year ago, Charlottesville, Virginia, was flooded with hate, thinly-veiled fascism, and white supremacy, all over the Charlottesville City Council’s decision to remove Confederate monuments from public spaces. Now, UNC Chapel Hill is staunchly divided over the UNC administration’s complacency over Silent Sam — the Confederate monument UNC calls its own that was recently toppled by protestors. This isn’t a concept foreign to Southern Appalachia. In fact, many Confederate monuments call Western North Carolina home. This includes the Confederate monument depicting a Civil War soldier that stands halfway up the stairs to the historic Jackson County courthouse that overlooks the town of Sylva. The statue is just a handful of miles away from Western Carolina University, where racial tensions have continued to peak and plateau for years. Western Carolina students and Jackson County residents have experienced racially charged chalking, the N-word being shouted from residence halls and public spaces, a lackluster administrative response, and numerous other things that hardly make it easy for the university to retain students, faculty, and staff of color. The last thing we need is another Confederate monument, overlooking the our

But what about those stagnating wages? A recent Pew Research Center study found that in 1973 the American worker’s paycheck bought more than it does in 2018. Buying power has been stagnant for 45 years. That’s both an amazing and alarming statistic, and it points to the reality that both Democratic and Republican congressional majorities and presidents have not been able to solve the economic puzzle for the working class. And right now the economy is growing tremendously. Jobs have been added to the economy every month since October 2010, the longest streak since records started being kept in the 1930s. The stock market is in its Editor longest bull market ever, chugging along since March 2009. So, under Barack Obama and Donald Trump, the economy is moving forward. But workers aren’t seeing an improvement. So far this year, wages are growing at a 2.7 percent annual rate. Inflation is at 2.9 percent. Those who work for a living are losing ground. Where’s the disconnect? Some point to the weakened labor movement. Unions are struggling. The United Steelworkers Local 507 is strong in Canton at Evergreen Packaging — an anomaly with about 90 percent of workers. Nationwide, it’s estimated

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very Labor Day we celebrate the American worker. We wax nostalgic about the bygone days of the great American middle class when parents worked hard and expected their children to climb the economic ladder. Unfortunately, evidence today shows workers are not doing well. The standard of living for the American worker is, by many measures, falling. Politicians of all stripes need to address fundamental issues that have been ignored if the great working class is to flourish and remain the backbone of this country. And despite challenges, I’m not ready to concede that we can’t turn things around. First a step back. According to one version of the story, labor unions planning the first Labor Day march in 1882 had to meet clandestinely in order to avoid persecution or possible violence from thugs hired by their bosses. Factory owners did not embrace these groundbreaking labor activists. Back when the norm was a 12-hour workday and 7-day workweeks, often for workers who hadn’t even reached puberty, the concept of worker rights was something many just did not appreciate. But courageous activists persisted and politicians came around, enacting laws to protect the people who produced the goods that helped turn this country’s economy into the world’s most prosperous. By 1945, it’s estimated that about 25 percent of U.S. workers belonged to unions. Along with better pay came shorter work weeks, less dangerous conditions and even vacations. These benefits became an expected part of factory and professional work for those who belonged to unions.

that only 10 percent of the U.S. workforce is unionized. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 5 percent of the fulltime U.S. workforce — 3.6 million employees — are paid poverty-level wages. Since these workers are receiving government aid, working-class taxpayers are subsidizing these corporations despite record profits. What about the recent tax cut? There’s no evidence it’s helping workers, as noted by the stagnant wage growth. And those much-ballyhooed bonuses many companies were touting? An analysis by Americans for Tax Fairness, an advocacy group dedicated to tax reform, noted that at Fortune 500 companies only 4 percent of workers got a bonus or raise as a result of the tax bill. But workers and voters are not giving up. A recent ballot measure in Missouri that would have weakened unions was voted down. Fast food and service-sector workers are demanding a living wage, and many areas they are seeing an increase to $15 per hour. Teachers in many states have struck for higher wages. The Hill reports that in Oklahoma, “primary voters … chose to oust 15 of the 19 state legislators who tried to block a tax increase to fund a teacher pay raise.” No one is blaming all of workers’ problems on corporate America or any particular political party. But when partisanship is as heated as it is today and rich donors game the system, those at the bottom lose. We can honor and fight for American workers by making careful decisions at the ballot box come November. (Scott McLeod can be reached at info@smokymountainnews.com)

LETTERS college town as a reminder that once upon a time, and maybe more recently than we care to admit, people of color were not welcome here. I believe the dark history of the U.S., while not to be forgotten, should not be paraded like “participation trophies” for the Confederate Army, scattered across the places we call home. Sara Mears Cullowhee

Politics at play in Jackson debate To the Editor: I recently attended the Jackson County Board of Commissioners meeting specifically to apologize to Commissioner Charles Elders. I was appointed to the DSS (Department of Social Services) Board last year. The commissioners voted to combine the Health Department with DSS this year and the commissioners offered me a seat on that combined Health Services Board. From the very first meeting — there have been three meetings — complaints have been logged ad nauseam and ad infinitum regarding the reasons for the commissioners’ decision. In fact, one board member made a motion to have the county manager request from the commissioners a written explanation for the merger of the two departments. The commissioners declined to submit a letter, so the new Health Services Board mem-

ber that submitted the original request made a motion to withhold consent on hiring a director for the combined departments “until after the November elections.” I felt as if I was hijacked. I thought I would be serving on a board that would help people, not serving on a board that wanted to usurp the powers of the elected board of commissioners. The newly formed Health Services Board is not an elected board. The county did not have an opportunity to vote on those appointments. The Jackson County Board of Commissioners, however, were elected by the

people of the county. That is a political move pure and simple. However, I was having trouble with how to respond to the motion — should I say “aye” or “nay?” I said aye. Upon reflection, I determined I made an error in that vote. The commissioners’ vote to combine DSS and the Health Department was a 3 to 2 split along party lines. The reason the combined board member made the motion to forestall the hiring of a new combined board director until after the election was a political move, hoping to put a liberal in

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people. Yet, in light of what is happening in Buncombe County, why in the world would anyone push away more oversight in Jackson County? The contention is because it creates a new position of director over the combined departments. Yet, isn’t that what the left always seeks, an increase in government jobs? Bill Clinton heartily approved such events, as does the Democratic Party. Why? The reason for these shenanigans is to try to dislodge Charles Elders from his seat on the county commission. Elders is one of the finest men in this county. He cares a great deal more about service to those in need than do those jockeying with politics. Elders would like to see the new Health Services Department become more efficient and cost saving. Other counties have reported this came about for them, according to some of the other commissioners. It doesn’t

Chris Cox is the emcee for The “Southern Storytellers Series,”which will kick off with Buddy Melton & Milan Miller at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. Tickets for the “dinner and a show” are $25 per person. The series will continue with homesteader/author and made-from-scratch culinary expert Ashley English (Oct. 4) and Affrilachian author/artist Ann Miller Woodford (Nov. 3). Both events begin at 6 p.m. and are $15 per person. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.folkmoot.org.

sorely longed for. When I got to high school and heard Lynyrd Skynyrd singing “Free Bird” on the juke box in the lobby, I thought of my old buddy, Huck Finn. He and Ronnie Van Zandt were birds of a feather, birds you could not change. In their stories, I could fly with them. In high school, and especially in college, I found more complex stories to explore, like new undiscovered countries. The plays of William Shakespeare. The novels of William Faulkner. The short stories of Flannery O’Connor. Before my freshman year was over, I abandoned my plans of going to law school. I knew that I would always want to remain close to storytelling, the truest and longest love of my life. I wanted to read them, to savor them, to share them, to discuss them with others of my tribe, and maybe even to write a few of my own someday. In the South in particular, we are true connoisseurs of storytelling, not that we would call it that exactly, since some would say it sounds “uppity.” Let’s just say we’re partial to them, then. In the beauty shops and the barber shops, in the grocery stores and the hardware stores, on the ball fields or the hay fields, we share our stories, sometimes with a little extra gravy, it being the South and all. (Chris Cox is a writer and teacher. jchriscox@live.com.)

necessarily mean it would for Jackson County, but more oversight is a good thing. I don’t have to ask Buncombe County officials to know that. I apologize to you, Charles Elders, for falling into that political trap. I volunteered to serve on the DSS Board and Health Services Board to give back to this wonderful community. I did not expect to be pressured into this political mess. Shame on those who try to jam politics down people’s throats. Just as an aside, please, when you say, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it,” think a little about what you have just said. The ad nauseam part comes in here. I have heard this said on this issue until I gag. You need to buy a horse and buggy then, because that mode of transportation was never broken. Thank you, I like improvements, I’ll take the car. Deborah J. Stanley Sylva

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Commissioner Charles Elder’s seat in November so that the liberal could dissolve the union. She has already stated she will do that if elected. The Asheville Citizen Times on Sunday, Aug. 19, had a column by John Boyle on Buncombe County’s government scandal for, I quote, “a lack of oversight.” The federal indictments against former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Greene, et al, are still coming in. The column from Boyle further states, speaking of Green: “… it looks like she had no qualms about misleading commissioners, county officials and the media, or intimidating underlings into not asking a lot of questions, all the while commissioners adored her.” I am not impugning either Jackson County’s manager or the current two directors of the Health Department and DSS. I, personally, have admiration for these three

living hell they endured the other nine months of the year. For them, teaching wasn’t a calling, or even a job. It was a 30-year sentence with no parole, a judgment, penance for terrible crimes committed in another life. Church was stifling, with too many rules to remember, much less follow, including some I could barely comprehend — show me a kid who doesn’t “covet,” and I would show you a kid whose parents had a lot of Lowe’s stock — while others that seemed to expect more than I Columnist could ever deliver. Love my neighbors? Did that include the neighbors’ kids, the same budding psychopaths who tormented me on the bus every day and threw rocks at my dog when we went for a walk? Jesus could love them if he wanted to. I preferred to imagine them suddenly erupting in flames, victims of spontaneous combustion. Come to think of it, that would make a pretty great story. An older, meaner boy reaches out to knock all of your books out of your hands and then goes “poof,” his ashes falling quietly as snow on the floor of the bus. As I grew older, I consumed stories at the movie theater, and learned every short story on “The Andy Griffith Show” by heart. I could almost recite entire episodes from memory. My siblings and I would reenact scenes to aggravate our mother, who for reasons I will never understand, could not stand Barney Fife. Then I made the startling discovery that there were also a lot of great stories in some of the songs on the radio, or in the bluegrass songs that I heard at the Galax Fiddler’s Convention every year, great, tragic songs of love lost, or the trouble with drinking liquor, or times long gone and

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’ve always been fascinated by storytellers and the stories they tell. As a small child, I loved hearing my parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, or any other willing grown-up tell stories of their childhoods, the experiences they had, the people they knew, and the people they once were. I could listen to these stories for hours, as long as they were willing to tell them. When I was too young to read, I liked having stories read to me, stories of giants and wolves and witches, and how heroic boys and girls not much older than I had to outwit this terrifying array of villains or else be eaten. When the stakes are this high and you’ve got an ounce of empathy, you’re bound to become invested in how the story turns out. When I learned how to read, I read every kind of story I could get my hands on, including the adventures of a kid called “The Great Brain” and another sharp fellow named Encyclopedia Brown, who was especially good at solving perplexing mysteries. But my favorite tales were written by a fellow named Mark Twain, who could pack a great many of them in his Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn books. In Huck Finn, I thought I had found a kindred spirit. The main thing Huck was always fighting against was everybody’s attempts to “civilize” him, which included not only the Widow Douglas and his Miss Watson, but the institutions of public education and church as well. He wanted none of it, and his attempts to steer clear of these influences and remain free resonated with me on a profound level I could barely understand. Although I liked watching cartoons on Saturdays and “The Andy Griffith Show” anytime it was on, I really did not want to be civilized either. I found school to be boring and oppressive, a viper pit of vicious bullies and jaded teachers, many of whom spent their school years marking the days like prisoners, wondering why they ever thought summers off could be worth the

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tasteTHEmountains Taste the Mountains is an ever-evolving paid section of places to dine in Western North Carolina. If you would like to be included in the listing please contact our advertising department at 828.452.4251 BLUE ROOSTER SOUTHERN GRILL 207 Paragon Parkway, Clyde, Lakeside Plaza at the old Wal-Mart. 828.456.1997. Open Monday through Friday. Friendly and fun family atmosphere. Local, handmade Southern cuisine. Fresh-cut salads; slow-simmered 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. Lunch daily 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; dinner nightly at 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Wine Down Wednesday’s: ½ off wine by the bottle. We specialize in hand-cut, all natural steaks from local farms, incredible burgers, and other classic american comfort foods that are made using only the finest local and sustainable ingredients available. CATALOOCHEE RANCH 119 Ranch Dr., Maggie Valley. 828.926.1401. Breakfast seven days a week, from 8 to 9:30 a.m. – with eggs, bacon, sausage, oatmeal, fresh fruit, sometimes French toast or pancakes, and always all-youcan-eat. Lunch menu every day from 12 noon to 2 p.m. includes homemade soup du jour and fresh-made salads. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday night will feature an evening cookout on the terrace. On all other nights of the week, dinner is served family style and includes locally sourced vegetables, homemade breads, jellies, desserts, and a wide selection of wine and craft beer. The evening social hour starts at 6 p.m., dinner is served starting at 7 p.m., and cozy rooms and cabins are available if you love us so much that you want to stay for breakfast, too. Please call for reservations. And see our dinner menu online at www.cataloocheeranch.com/dining.

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BOOJUM BREWING COMPANY 50 N Main Street, Waynesville. 828.246.0350. Taproom Open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday & Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Gem Bar Open Tuesday through Sunday 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. Enjoy lunch, dinner or drinks at Boojum’s Downtown Waynesville restaurant & bar. Choose from 16 taps of our fresh, delicious & ever rotating Boojum Beer plus cider, wine & craft cocktails. The taproom features seasonal pub faire including tasty burgers,

sandwiches, shareables and daily specials that pair perfectly with our beer. Cozy up inside or take in the mountain air on our back deck.”

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. THE CLASSIC WINESELLER 20 Church Street, Waynesville. 828.452.6000. Underground retail wine and craft beer shop, restaurant, and intimate live music venue. Kitchen opens at 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday serving freshly

prepared small plates, tapas, charcuterie, desserts. Enjoy live music every Friday and Saturday night at 7pm. www.classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter. COUNTRY VITTLES: FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT 3589 Soco Rd, Maggie Valley. 828.926.1820 Winter hours: Wednesday through Sunday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet. Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service. FERRARA PIZZA & PASTA 243 Paragon Parkway, Clyde. 828.476.5058. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 12 to 8 p.m. Real New Yorkers. Real Italians. Real Pizza. A full service authentic Italian pizzeria and restaurant from New York to the Blue Ridge. Dine in, take out, and delivery. Check out our daily lunch specials plus customer appreciation nights on Monday and Tuesday 5 to 9 p.m. with large cheese pizzas for $9.95. FROGS LEAP PUBLIC HOUSE 44 Church St., Downtown Waynesville 828.456.1930 Serving lunch 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; Dinner 5 to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday. 5 to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Closed Sunday and Monday. Frogs Leap is a farm to table restaurant focused on local, sustainable, natural and organic products prepared in modern regional dishes. Seasonal menu focuses on

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tasteTHEmountains Southern comfort foods with upscale flavors. www.frogsleappublichouse.com. HARMON’S DEN BISTRO 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville 828.456.6322. Harmon’s Den is located in the Fangmeyer Theater at HART. Open 5:309 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday (Bistro closes at 7:30 p.m. on nights when there is a show in the Fangmeyer Theater) with Sunday brunch at 11 a.m. that includes breakfast and lunch items. Harmon’s Den offers a complete menu with cocktails, wine list, and area beers on tap. Enjoy casual dining with the guarantee of making it to the performance in time, then rub shoulders with the cast afterward with post-show food and beverage service. Reservations recommended. www.harmonsden.harttheatre.org J. ARTHUR’S RESTAURANT AT MAGGIE VALLEY U.S. 19 in Maggie Valley. 828.926.1817. Open for dinner at 4:30 to 9 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. World-famous prime rib, steaks, fresh seafood, gorgonzola cheese and salads. All ABC permits and open year-round. Children always welcome. Take-out menu. Excellent service and hospitality. Reservations appreciated. JUKEBOX JUNCTION U.S. 276 and N.C. 110 intersection, Bethel. 828.648.4193. 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday; Sunday 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Serving breakfast, lunch, nd dinner. The restaurant has a 1950s & 60s theme decorated with memorabilia from that era.

MAD BATTER FOOD & FILM 617 W. Main Street Downtown Sylva. 828.586.3555. Open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with Sunday Brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Handtossed pizza, house-ground burgers, steak sandwiches & fresh salmon all from scratch.

Sunday 11:30 to 8 p.m. 11:30 to 3 p.m. family style, fried chicken, ham, fried fish, salad bar, along with all the fixings, $11.95. Check out our events and menu at rendezvousmaggievalley.com

MAGGIE VALLEY CLUB 1819 Country Club Dr., Maggie Valley. 828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine. Open seasonally for lunch and dinner. Fine and casual fireside dining in welcoming atmosphere. Full bar. Reservations accepted.

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.

MAGGIE VALLEY RESTAURANT 2804 Soco Road, Maggie Valley. 828.926.0425. 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Daily specials including soups, sandwiches and southern dishes along with featured dishes such as fresh fried chicken, rainbow trout, country ham, pork chops and more. Breakfast all day including omelets, pancakes, biscuits & gravy. facebook.com/carversmvr; instagram @carvers_mvr. 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. PIGEON RIVER GRILLE 101 Park St., Canton. 828.492.1422. Open Tuesday through Thursday 3 to 8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday noon to 9 p.m.; Sunday noon to 6 p.m. Southerninspired restaurant serving simply prepared, fresh food sourced from top purveyors. Located riverside at Bearwaters Brewing, enjoy daily specials, sandwiches, wings, fish and chips, flatbreads, soups, salads, and more. Be sure to save room for a slice of the delicious house made cake. Relaxing inside/outside dining and spacious gathering areas for large groups. RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley 828.926.0201 Home of the Maggie Valley Pizzeria. We deliver after 4 p.m. daily to all of Maggie Valley, J-Creek area, and Lake Junaluska. Monday through Wednesday: 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. country buffet and salad bar from 5 to 9 p.m. $11.95 with Steve Whiddon on piano. Friday and Saturday: 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.;

TAP ROOM BAR & GRILL 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville. 828.456.3551. Open seven days a week serving lunch and dinner. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, the Tap Room Bar & Grill has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Full bar and wine cellar. www.thewaynesvilleinn.com. TRAILHEAD CAFE & BAKERY 18 N Main Street, Waynesville. 828.452.3881 Open 7 days a week. You will find a delicious selection of pastries & donuts, breakfast & lunch along with a fresh coffee & barista selection. Happy Trails! VITO’S PIZZA 607 Highlands Rd., Franklin. 828.369.9890. Established here in in 1998. Come to Franklin and enjoy our laid back place, a place you can sit back, relax and enjoy our 62” HDTV. Our Pizza dough, sauce, meatballs, and sausage are all made from scratch by Vito. The recipes have been in the family for 50 years (don’t ask for the recipes cuz’ you won’t get it!) Each Pizza is hand tossed and made with TLC. WAYNESVILLE PIZZA COMPANY 32 Felmet Street, Waynesville. 828.246.0927. Open Monday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday noon to 9 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Opened in May 2016, The Waynesville Pizza Company has earned a reputation for having the best hand-tossed pizza in the area. Featuring a custom bar with more than 20 beers and a rustic, family friendly dining room. Menu includes salads, burgers, wraps, hot and cold sandwiches, gourmet pizza, homemade desserts, and a loaded salad bar. The Cuban sandwich is considered by most to be the best in town.

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Friday, September 7 Bob Zullo guitar, vocals. Jazz, Rock, Pop. Saturday, September 8 Joe Cruz piano, vocals. Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor + More. Friday, September 14 Duo from Hot Club of Cullowhee guitar, hot jazz guitar. Gypsy Jazz. Saturday, September 15 Joe Cruz piano, vocals. Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor + More. Thursday, September 20 DATE NIGHT: French Wine Pairing Dinner with music by pianist Richard Shulman. Music begins at 6:30pm. Four courses, wine and music, $55 per person. Taxes and gratuity extra. Reserve at 828-452-6000. Friday, September 21 James Hammel guitar, vocals. Jazz, Pop, Originals. Saturday, September 22 Joe Cruz piano, vocals. Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor + More.

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Like a river we grow as we roll a dichotomy on the new album that comes through in the writing and playing.

Sanctum Sully.

Sanctum Sully to play Boojum Brewing BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER If change is the only constant in life, then Sanctum Sully is the epitome of change. Celebrating a decade together this summer, the Asheville-based band has always been hard to pindown in description, and in stage presence. Initially a rag-tag bluegrass and Appalachian music act, they’ve shed as many layers of their sound as they’ve conjured. The group has meandered along like a river through a deep holler, heading in whatever direction feels most comfortable and exciting at that moment in time. It’s about pursuing the unknown possibilities presented before you in the presence of other creative minds looking to break down genre walls in the name of euphoric, melodic discovery. And with its latest, self-titled EP, Sanctum Sully lays down a thick tone soaked in the whiskey heartache and redemption that is southern rock.

SMN: And how has the intent for the band, professionally and sonically, changed or remained the same in this transition? Jay Franck (singer/mandolin): Since 2015, most of us have had a kid or two and being there for our families is important to us. Gigging over 100 times a year doesn’t quite

“There are few moments in this day and age that we can all be present and not distracted. That, to me, is the greatest gift music brings — appreciation of the present moment.” — Justin Powell

have the same appeal it may have used to. However, while we certainly play out less, and travel less, than we used to, our commitment to creating music together hasn’t wavered. I love getting together with these guys — that’s never changed. We’ve been refining our sound since then. While we’ve mostly departed from bluegrass, our Southern Appalachian roots still find a way to shine through on most tunes.

Want to go? Rock/blues outfit Sanctum Sully will hit the stage at 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in The Gem downstairs taproom at Boojum Brewing in Waynesville. Admission is $5. For more information, visit www.sanctumsully.com. The current state of Sanctum Sully is a seamless marriage of electric and acoustic instruments (akin to Widespread Panic and The Allman Brothers Band), all swirling around multiple vocal harmonies. But, it’s also a crossroads where the sound is always within earshot of its origins steeped in that “high, lonesome sound.” Even with the hundreds of shows played over the last 10 years, the endless miles of sleepless nights rolling along lost highways, Sanctum Sully itself is a testament to what it takes to create something from nothing, and to have multitudes of folks joyfully embrace your message of compassion and camaraderie — an honest sense of self aimed

squarely at never losing the passion to create, a constant urge to do what you love, and to chase after the avenues where those dreams reside. Smoky Mountain News: The new album is quite the departure from the last release, in terms of sound and attitude. What brought about this change, and how has it been serving the band since? Justin Powell (keyboards): A few years ago, the band was asked to open for Todd Nance of Widespread Panic. Since it was a rock and roll show, the guys decided that instead of doing a bluegrass set, they’d put together a full band show. About a year later, Leftover Salmon asked us to open. Since the full band show went over so well with the Todd Nance crowd, we decided to do it again. We re-worked some of the older bluegrass style tunes, but were really wanting to move in more of a southern rock/jam direction. Several members in the band, including myself, have had kids in the last few years, and all of us have experienced loss of some sort. The joy of our growing families, coupled with the pain of those losses is where the new music comes from. It’s kind of

SMN: Sanctum Sully. Where does the name come from? JF: We were just sitting around my living room brainstorming and my girlfriend — now wife — was thumbing through a book I had on southern colloquialisms. She came across “Sanctum Sully,” which means “whiskey that drinks mighty easy.” At the time, being a rough-around-the-edges young bluegrass band, well, this sounded perfect to us. Sanctum Sully has kind of become this thing that brings the crew together, not just band members, but friends and extended family, too. SMN: Onstage, when each member is finding their pocket for improvisation, where do you go in your mind and your playing? JP: When the band is communicating telepathically and totally present in that moment, there’s nothing sweeter than that. It’s really an amazing thing that can bring you a lot of joy — being present, not carrying the weight of the world, which we all seem to have to these days. There are few moments in this day and age that we can all be present and not distracted. That, to me, is the greatest gift music brings — appreciation of the present moment.

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Rock/blues outfit Sanctum Sully will hit the stage at 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in The Gem downstairs taproom at Boojum Brewing in Waynesville.

Hello, from the “Mile High Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage City.” Center is hosting an exhibit on William A. Sitting here in Denver, Barnhill, a photographer who documented onward back to Asheville early 20th-century regional craftsmanship, tomorrow morning. This sumthrough Sept. 14. mer has been quite the physical and emotional odyssey. The fog The 13th annual “Music at the Mill” celebration in my heart and soul is slowly will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, lifting, disappearing into the Sept. 8, at the Francis Grist Mill in Waynesville. cosmos. I went north in July The “Summer Music Series” at the Lake Logan and out west in August to find Conference Center will continue with craft beer myself once again. by Ecusta Brewing at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, Honestly, I felt pretty lost a and music by Devils in Dust at 5 p.m. couple months ago. It’s been a rough road peeling back some The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will present deeply held layers within. But, the hit musical “Ghost” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6-8 it had to be done, and was way and at 2 p.m. Sept. 9 in Waynesville. overdue to be done. It took a gled, my feet leaving temporary footprints lot out of me to admit I wasn’t where I was on the white sandy beach near my parents’ supposed to be in my thoughts and actions. rental cottage, the waves of the mighty But, I’m starting to regain my balance. I set out for Maine sometime around late Atlantic Ocean crashing onto the shore, the sun tucking in the lazy evening behind tall July. Solo drive through southwestern trees and a vast New England forest. It was Virginia to cover a music festival, then stops the exact same scene, place and feeling as to visit a high school friend in Long Island, when I was a toddler, child, adolescent and an old friend in south-central Connecticut, a young adult strolling that beach, wondering college friend near Boston, and my family just what tomorrow would bring. (parents, sister and 4-year-old niece) while There were girls I would think about they were on vacation along the Maine coast. while moseying the ancient, serene beach. And I think fondly of how my toes wig-

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Middle school crushes. High school sweethearts. College soulmates. Adult femme fatales. All I figured I would end up with at one juncture or another in my existence, in some haphazard fashion. And yet, here I am, 33 years old, trying to turn around and just make sense of the trail I’ve blazed from my childhood home in Upstate New York to where I currently stand in Western North Carolina. Toward the end of August, after I circled back to Haywood County for a couple weeks, I hopped on a plane to meet up with my folks in the Grand Teton Mountains of Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming. It’s my mother’s most favorite place on this earth, and she wanted “to see them one more time” for her upcoming milestone birthday. It’s also my most favorite place on this earth, and I wanted to see my old friends and stomping grounds of when I lived there in 2008. Ten years ago, where has the time gone, eh? I reconnected with beautiful souls out there in the high desert prairie, many of which I hadn’t seen since I last rolled through there some nine years ago. Those people — those dear friends — always made me feel loved and welcomed when I was out there, a 23-year-old rookie journalist whose family and all things familiar were on the other side of the country. We reconnected like it had been nine days, and not nine years, since we last shared a laugh, a drink, a salute to another day in this wild, wondrous universe. You can do a lot of thinking while driving from the Grand Tetons down to Denver. And that’s exactly what I did. The desolation is incredibly moving, and also inspiring. It makes you realize just how small you are in this world, a single dot roaming around, buzzing and vibrating with a zest for adventure in the presence of innumerable other dots of humanity, all trying to search and find just what you’re looking for, too — to love, and to be loved. That girl I loved, and still love (will always), is somewhere out here in the Wild West. I know she’s also finding what she’s looking for, whatever that may be, though I’ll never stop missing her, the way she’d smile at me, and the way she made me feel like I could conquer any obstacle in front of me, and us. Especially us. She deserved better, a version of me I once knew, that was lost years ago, only to be found randomly on the side of a silent western highway, my true and honest soul sticking out its thumb for me to slow down, stop, and pick it back up. You know, it’s funny how poignant and absolutely surreal music can be, how it always seems to find you just when you need it the most. As I began writing this column, I threw the streaming service on a shuffle, randomly coming across Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks 1969 album “Original Recordings.” I’ve listened to his music before, but not this record. Maybe I wasn’t supposed to hear it until now. Who knows, huh? I dove deep into the record. My body relaxed into the chair, my soul at ease, if but for one glorious moment. The evolution never stops. But, you must push ahead with your best intentions amid yourself and your interactions. Life is beautiful, grasp for it, y’all.

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The Jackson County Public Library will host a musical concert featuring singersongwriter Heidi Holton at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, in the Community Room in Sylva. Holton is turning heads with her unique take on one of America’s oldest popular musical traditions. At once authentic and yet utterly new, her take on blues standards such as “Baby Please Don’t Go” and “Statesboro Blues” is nothing short of a revelation. Her tasteful originals shine just as brightly, seemingly both familiar and fresh. This program is free and open to the public. The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. For more information, call 828.586.2016 or visit www.fontanalib.org.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park announces the return of its popular “Music of the Mountains” event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Sugarlands Visitor Center. There will be something for everyone at the “instrument petting zoo,” held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., where anyone can try their hand at playing spoons, a wash tub, or washboard. Park rangers will also offer dulcimer lessons for beginners and kids will have the opportunity to create their own instruments. At 2 p.m., an old-time square dance begins. The event is free, and attendees are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch, blankets and/or chairs to enjoy the day. www.nps.gov/grsm.

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The inaugural “Summer Music Series” will take place at the Lake Logan Conference Center, just south of Canton. • Saturday, Sept. 8: Music by Devils in Dust, food trucks and craft beer from Ecusta Brewing. • Saturday, Sept. 22: Music by The Kenny George Band, food from Hit the Pit and craft beer from Frog Level Brewing. The gate opens at 3 p.m. with music starting at 5 p.m. The event is family-friendly. Waterfront will be open. Admission is $15 per carload, $50 for a 15-passenger van, $5 for bikes. Camping and cabins available. To make reservations, call 828.646.0095. www.lakelogan.org/events.

Buddy Melton and Milan Miller. Created by Folkmoot, the brand new “Southern Storytellers Series” will kick off with Buddy Melton & Milan Miller at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. Tickets for the “dinner and a show” are $25 per person. Lifelong friends and collaborators, Melton is the award-winning lead singer of Balsam Range, arguably one of the biggest acts in bluegrass nowadays, with Miller an acclaimed songwriter who has contributed many melodies to Balsam Range’s string of hit songs and albums. The two share a common bond of being born and raised in

Haywood County, a kinship at the foundation of why it’s crucially important to never forget where you came from, and to never forget where you’re going. Hosted by Chris Cox, a popular columnist for The Smoky Mountain News, the series will continue with homesteader/author and made-from-scratch culinary expert Ashley English (Oct. 4) and Affrilachian author/artist Ann Miller Woodford (Nov. 3). Both of those events begin at 6 p.m. and are $15 per person. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.folkmoot.org.

Like to sing? Join former members of the popular Ubuntu Choir for a short six-week term. No auditions, no music to read, just be able to sing back, with practice, what you hear, in a non-critical environment.They sing songs in many styles from all over the world. Performance is optional. Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in Franklin. Text or call 409.789.8387 for details. New term starts Sept. 5.

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• Balsam Falls Brewing (Sylva) will host Balsam Beats w/Joel Sept. 7 and Mike Jones Sept. 14. All shows begin at 9 p.m. www.facebook.com/balsamfallsbrewing. • Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. Sept. 6 and 13. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com. • Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host Sanctum Sully (rock/jam) Sept. 8, Ol’ Dirty Bathtub (Americana/bluegrass) Sept. 15 and Grayson Jenkins & The Resolutions (Americana/alt-country) Sept. 21. All shows are free and begin at 9 p.m. www.boojumbrewing.com.

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• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will Bob Zullo (guitar/vocals) Sept. 7, Joe Cruz (piano/vocals) Sept. 8 and 15, Hot Club Jazz Duo Sept. 14. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. 828.452.6000 or www.classicwineseller.com.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Shiloh Hill 7 p.m. Sept. 7, Ol’ Dirty Bathtub (Americana/bluegrass) 8 p.m. Sept. 8, Aunt Bee’s Jam (bluegrass) 7 p.m. Sept. 14 and Hannah Styles 8 p.m. Sept. 15. All shows are free and open to the public. www.froglevelbrewing.com. • Harmon’s Den Bistro at HART (Waynesville) will host karaoke and an open mic at 8 p.m. on Saturdays. All are welcome. www.harttheatre.org.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night Sept. 5 and Sept. 12, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo Sept. 6 and 13, Nick Prestia (singer-songwriter) Sept. 8 and Alma Russ (Americana/bluegrass) Sept. 15. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com. • Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Grace Pettis w/Rebekah Todd & The Odyssey 7 p.m. Sept. 5, Cuddle In The Cosmos 7 p.m. Sept. 6, The Wildmans 7 p.m. Sept. 7, Chasing Jonah 7 p.m. Sept. 8, Holly Bowling 9 p.m. Sept. 8, Bob Sinclair & The Big Deals 5:30 p.m. Sept. 9, A.T. Branch & Friends 7

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host an open mic night every Thursday, Aces Down Sept. 7 and 14, Frank Lee & Allie Burbrink (Americana/folk) Sept. 8 and Somebody’s Child (Americana) Sept. 15. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

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• Nantahala Brewing (Bryson City) will host The Andrew Thelston Band Sept. 7, Jamie Keny (Americana/rock) Sept. 8, Redleg Husky (Americana) Sept. 14 and Frank Lee & Allie Burbrink (Americana/folk) 6 p.m. Sept. 15 (at The Warehouse). All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com. • The Oconaluftee Visitor Center (Cherokee) will host a back porch old-time music jam from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 15. All are welcome to come play or simply sit and listen to sounds of Southern Appalachia. • Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host an open mic night from 8 to 11 p.m. on Wednesday. Free and open to the public. www.pub319socialhouse.com. • Salty Dog’s (Maggie Valley) will have Karaoke with Jason Wyatt at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, Mile High (classic rock) 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a Trivia w/Kelsey Jo 8 p.m. Thursdays. • Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will host “Hoppy Hour” and an open mic at 6 p.m. on Thursdays and live music on Friday evenings. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com. • Soul Infusion Tea House & Bistro (Sylva) will host Wineaux Jones & The Corkscrews 7 p.m. Sept. 14 and Nick Prestia (singer-songwriter) 7 p.m. Sept. 22. 828.586.1717 or www.soulinfusion.com. • The Ugly Dog Pub (Cashiers) will host High 5 (rock/blues) Sept. 21 and Andrew Thelston Band (rock) Sept. 28. All shows begin at 9:30 p.m. • The Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host Benny Queen 7 p.m. Sept. 6, Jon Cox & Friends (country) 9 p.m. Sept. 7 and Silly Ridge RoundUp 7 p.m. Sept. 13. • The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host Andrea & Mud Sept. 14. All shows begin at 9:30 p.m. 828.456.4750.

Photo by Ed Green Music at the Mill is a celebration of our WNC heritage at the 131-year old Francis Grist Mill which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. Enjoy crafts, Mama Moody’s Fried Pies, and Milling Demonstrations. Bring your own lawn chair. Registered service animals only please.

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• The High Dive (Highlands) will host DJ Jimmy Shur Sept. 7 and 21, and Stig (progressive jazz/funk) Sept. 28.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, George Reeves Sept. 7, Twist of Fate Sept. 8 and Formula 5 (jam/rock) 9 p.m. Sept. 21. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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• Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” with Bill Vespasian (singer-songwriter) Sept. 6, Scott Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) Sept. 7, Andrew Chastain (singer-songwriter) Sept. 8 and Heidi Holton (blues/folk) Sept. 13. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

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On the beat McLean to rock Asheville Acclaimed rock act The Jamie McLean Band will perform at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at Isis Music Hall in West Asheville. Regarded as one of the premier rock/soul singers and guitarists in the scene today, McLean just released a new album, “One and Only,” which features guest appearances by bluegrass legend Sam Bush and saxophonist Jeff Coffin of the Dave Matthews Band. Atop his longtime and bountiful melodic friendship with Aaron Neville and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, McLean has shared the stage Gregg Allman, Dr. John, Taj Mahal, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Trombone Shorty, Los Lobos, Blues Traveler, Marc Broussard, and Gov’t Mule. Tickets are $15 in advance, $18 day-ofshow. For more information on the show and/or to purchase tickets, visit www.isisasheville.com.

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Popular Americana/bluegrass group Ol’ Dirty Bathtub will perform at 8 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 8, at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. “We’ve always had energy when playing on someone’s porch, but on several occasions lately we have been able to replicate it live,” said ODB guitarist Jerad Davis. “And that’s what makes this fun — people dancing, rooms getting hot, creating an atmosphere that is as fun for those listening as it is for us onstage. That’s why we do it. And that fuels the passion and creativity. It’s a double positive feedback loop.” The show is free and open to the public. The band’s new album, “Pack Mule,” is now available for purchase. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ oldirtybathtub.

Pickin’ on the Square The Pickin’ on the Square summer concert series will feature Charlie Horse (Texas swing) at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Gazebo in downtown Franklin. The concert series is free and open to the public. Bring your lawn chair. Food vendors will also be available. Other performers will be Carribean Cowboys (variety) Sept. 15, Rick Morris (classic hits) Sept. 22, Curtis Blackwell & The Dixie Bluegrass Boys Sept. 29 and Blueridge (southern gospel) Oct. 6. For more information, visit www.townoffranklinnc.com.

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The 13th annual “Music at the Mill” celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Francis Grist Mill in Waynesville. Live music by Ol’ Dirty Bathtub, Hill Country Band and Possum on a Whale. A part of Western North Carolina heritage, the 131-year-old mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. There will also be vendors, barbecue by the Friends of the Francis Grist Mill, Mama Moody’s Fried Pies, milling demonstrations, and more. Tickets are $8 in advance, $12 at the gate. Sponsored by the Francis Mill Preservation Society. www.francismill.org.

Registration open for Haywood JAM The Haywood County Arts Council has opened registration for the Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) program for the 2018-19 school years. Classes will take place from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday afternoons from Sept. 11 through May 14 at the Shining Rock Classical Academy in Waynesville. Now in its 18th year in Haywood County, JAM is offered to students in fourth grade and older who want to learn Appalachian music from talented local musicians. JAM students will learn banjo, fiddle, or guitar in the traditional way mountain music has been taught for generations. A string band class and fiddle II will be offered to advanced students by instructor referral. JAM instructors for the 2018-19 program include Cary Fridley, Robby Robertson, Travis Stuart, Bob Willoughby and Maddy Mullany. Students in Haywood County are eligible for the Junior Appalachian Musicians program. Students in adjoining counties may participate if space is available. Lessons are $150 per student for the school year (approximately $5 per class) with siblings charged just $50. Contact the Haywood County Arts Council with enrollment questions by calling 828.452.0593 or emailing director@haywoodarts.org. Visit www.haywoodarts.org. The JAM Program is supported by the N.C.

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Registration is now open for the Fall 2018 Semester of Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) in Jackson County on a first-come, first-serve basis. JAM is an after-school program providing young people instruction and performance opportunities in mountain heritage music on traditional Appalachian instruments — guitar, fiddle, banjo, and mandolin. JAM is open to all Jackson County students grades 3-12, (including home-schools, private schools and charter schools). Class will meet from 3:15 to 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday afternoons in the music room in the north hall of Cullowhee Valley School. This program is sponsored by the Jackson County Arts Council and supported by the NC Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Fall Semester class dates are Sept. 11 through Dec. 18 for $95. Contact Information: Lena Woods, office manager at Jackson County Arts Council, 828.507.9820; Betty Brown, JAM Director, 828.293.1028 or email jcncjam@gmail.com.

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Interested in breathing techniques? There will be an introductory class for breathing techniques from 1:15 to 1:45 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Waynesville Yoga Center. Most of us take breathing for granted. We have it in “auto mode” and don’t pay it much

Ready for the Macon County Fair? The annual Macon County Agricultural Fair will take place Sept. 12-15 at the Macon County Fairgrounds in Franklin. Join the celebration, which will feature a barbecue supper, best cake contest, Special Needs Livestock Show, harvest sale, festival foods, and more. Sponsored by Macon County Horse Association. www.themaconcofair.com.

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The Mountain Life Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Mountain Farm Museum in Cherokee. This is a Great Smoky Mountains National Park Oconaluftee Visitor Center event. Walk around the mountain farm and enjoy demonstrations of hearth cooking, apple butter making, blacksmithing, lye soap making, food preservation, and chair bottoming. Artifacts and historic photographs from the park’s collection will be on display. The centerpiece of the event is the sorghum syrup demonstration using a horse or mulepowered cane mill and a wood-fired cooker.

attention. Amazing health benefits can occur though when we shift and make breathing a conscious activity. Learn some simple breathing techniques at this free class that can radically affect your health. Purposeful breathing can help reduce the stress of modern life and provide a path to health and quiet peacefulness. The class is free and open to the public. Come learn how good health might just be “right under your nose.” To register, call 828.246.6570 or register online at waynesvilleyogacenter.com.

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The Smoky Mountain Rollergirls will continue the 2018 roller derby season with a double header Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Swain County Rec Department in Bryson City. The junior team takes on Columbia Junior Rollers with SMRG taking on Charlotte Roller Girls B-Dazzlers. Doors open at 3 p.m. and the first whistle blows at 4 p.m. to start the Lil’ s Nemesisters’ game. The adults play at 6 p.m Proceeds from the ticket sales for this event benefit Smoky Mountain Community Theatre. Smoky Mountain Community Theatre is a nonprofit that has been producing quality community theatre since 1980 in the historic theatre located at 134 Main Street in downtown Bryson City. The next SMCT production is “Greater Tuna” to be staged seven nights beginning Oct. 12 f and closing Oct. 22 with performances on the weekends. To learn more, visit smctheatre.com or call 828.488.8227. Purchase tickets presale from your favorite skater for $5 or get them at the door for $7 (ages 7 and under are free). Meet both teams at a family friendly after party located at Nantahala Brewing in downtown Bryson City.

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‘Best in the West’ recipe contest Nuts will be the featured food for the popular “Best in the West” recipe competition this year at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Day. Mountain Heritage Day is Saturday, Sept. 29, on the WCU campus. A free, family oriented festival that celebrates Southern Appalachian music, arts, dance and culture, the daylong event includes concerts, living history demonstrations, competitions and awards programs. In addition to the “Best in the West” recipe contest, the festival’s traditional food competition includes categories for canned goods, baked goods and heritage foods conservation. Competition is divided into adult and youth (16 and younger) divisions. Ribbons will be awarded to the top three entrants in each age category, plus a grand champion will be selected in each division. Canned goods and heritage foods entries should be brought to WCU’s Cordelia Camp Building room 134 on Tuesday, Sept. 25, between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Baked goods and “Best in the West” nuts recipe entries should be dropped off there before 12:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 28, with judging taking place that afternoon. Winners will be announced and all items

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On the table will be displayed at Mountain Heritage Day. For more information or to request a copy of “A Gathering in Traditional Food Competition” booklet, contact the Mountain Heritage Center at 828.227.7129 or lstiles@wcu.edu. The festival goes on, rain or shine. Festival attendees are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets for comfortable seating. Dogs on leashes are allowed on the grounds. For more information and updates, visit www.mountainheritageday.com. • There will be a free wine tasting from 1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 8 and 15 at Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville. www.waynesvillewine.com or 828.452.0120.

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• A free wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sept. 8 and 15 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.631.3075. • Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro. Watch the demonstrations, eat samples and taste house wines for $3 a glass. All recipes posted online. www.countrytraditionsnc.com.

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Susan Morgan Leveille. The monthly Creating Community Workshop will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in the Atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Weaver Susan Morgan Leveille’s family has had a great deal to do with the resurgence and modern vitality of the craft movement in Western North Carolina. Her aunt, Lucy Morgan, was the founder of the Penland School, and her parents, Ralph and Ruth, were the founders of Dillsboro’s famous Riverwood studios. Leveille continues her family tradition, both as an artist and as a supporter of and advocate for the arts. She is a lifetime member and former president of the Southern Highland Craft Guild, and with her husband

Bob owns and operates Riverwood’s Oaks Gallery. In 2013, Leveille received the North Carolina Heritage Award, the state’s highest honor for folk artists. In this workshop, Leveille will be sharing with participants her many years of weaving expertise. All supplies will be provided. The workshop is limited to 10 participants. Call the library to register. The class is free and open to the public. For more information, call the library at 828.586.2016. This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library. The Jackson County Public Library is a member of Fontana Regional Library (www.fontanalib.org).

• “Beginner Step-By-Step” painting class will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays (Sept. 13, 27) at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided. RSVP by contacting Robin Arramae at 828.400.9560 or paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

month at the Panacea Coffee House in Waynesville. All crafters and beginners interested in learning are invited. You can keep up with them through their Facebook group or by calling 828.276.6226 for more information.

• An exhibition for artisans Wanda DavisBrowne and Judy McManus will continue through Oct. 6 at Gallery 1 in Sylva. DavisBrowne’s photos are inspired by the diverse natural patterns and colors of nature, primarily flora. A glass artist, McManus was invited to join working artists at Jackson County’s Green Energy Park in Dillsboro in 2010. She also teaches classes and gives demonstrations at the facility and exhibits art in the GEP gallery. www.facebook.com/artinthemountains.

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• “Thursday Painters Open Studio” from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 to 9 p.m. at the Franklin Uptown Gallery. Bring a bag lunch, project and supplies. Free to the public. Membership not required. For information, call 828.349.4607. • “Youth Art Class” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to noon every Saturday at the Appalachian Art Farm on 22 Morris Street in Sylva. All ages welcome. $10 includes instruction, materials and snack. For more information, email appalachianartfarm@gmail.com or find them on Facebook. • Free classes and open studio times are being offered at The Uptown Gallery in Franklin. Join others at a painting open studio session from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Tuesday and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursdays. For information on days open, hours and additional art classes and workshops, contact the gallery on 30 East Main Street at 828.349.4607.

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Now through Oct. 5, the Haywood County Arts Council is accepting applications for North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artists Project Grants (RAPG). These grants will fund artists in Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson and Macon counties at any phase of their professional development. Qualifying projects must occur between Dec. 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019. For application information, visit www.haywoodarts.org/regional-artistproject-grant. Grant recipients will receive notification of their award by Oct. 31. Grants generally range from $400 to $1,200 and recipients may use their grants to cover equipment purchases, training, marketing, and more. There will be a grant workshop at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in the first floor conference room of the Jackson County Library at 310 Keener Street in Sylva. Those interested should RSVP by emailing Leigh Forrester, the RAPG administrator, at director@haywoodarts.org. The Haywood County Arts Council is supported in part by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. 828.452.0593 or director@haywoodarts.org.

The Uptown Gallery in Franklin will be introducing new artwork for September and October with an art reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at the gallery. Come by for refreshments and meet the local artist members of the Macon County Art Association. 828.349.4607 or www.franklinuptowngallery.com.

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Gourd pendant workshop The humble gourd will be the next Dogwood Crafters workshop to be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. Madge Sala, a long-time member of Dogwood Crafters, will be the instructor for this workshop which will focus on the techniques of gourd craft. Participants will make a gourd pendant that will be a unique accessory for themselves or to give as a gift. They will learn more about gourd art and preparation of the gourd for use in creative endeavors. Cost is $6. Register by calling Dogwood Crafters at 828.586.2248 by Sept. 7.

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‘An Evening with Ruth E. Carter’ The first event in the 2018-19 Arts and Cultural Events series at Western Carolina University will be “An Evening with Ruth E. Carter.” The event will be at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee. Carter, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for more than 25 years, has designed and created costumes for more than 40 stage and screen productions. Critically acclaimed for her style, Carter’s work includes the films “Serenity” (2005), Lee Daniel’s “The Butler” (2013) and “Marshall” (2017). Carter has received two Oscar nominations, from Spike Lee’s “Malcolm X” (1992) and Steven Spielberg’s “Amistad” (1997), and an Emmy for the 2016 miniseries and remake of “Roots.” Her most recent film work was designing the dress culture for the hit Marvel movie “Black Panther.” Carter is the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award in costume design. Should she be nominated for her work on “Black Panther,”

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• Free comedy improv class from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday at Moo Mountain Bakery in Maggie Valley. No experience necessary, just come to watch or join in the fun. Improv teacher Wayne Porter studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando, Florida, and performed improvisation with several groups. Join Improv WNC on Facebook or just come on down to the bakery 2511 Soco Road.

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Older books are still worth a read wo days ago, I finished reading Jon Hassler’s Rookery Blues (Ballantine Books, 1995, 485 pages). Hassler focuses his novel on the lives of professors and administrators at a small state college in Minnesota. One faculty member, a former worker in the oil fields, tries to organize a faculty strike. Two more become acquainted through playing music and fall Writer in love. Another, a shy pianist dominated by his mother, finds fulfillment in a faculty band playing blues and jazz. A budding novelist has no talent for teaching. In The Destiny Thief, a book about writing I mentioned in an earlier review, novelist Richard Russo pointed me to Rookery Blues. I had read several of Hassler’s novels 20 years ago and enjoyed them, but what caught my attention was Russo’s argument for omniscient narration in the novel. Omniscient narration occurs when the author offers the reader the viewpoints of the various characters in the book, sometimes in the same passage. Russo advocates such an approach, using as his examples writers like Charles Dickens and Jon Hassler. But, I am not here to write about literary devices. No — I’d like to address books and book reviews. In general, most reviewers take an interest only in new books. This makes sense, as older books have already received either their accolades or their slings and arrows. A few critics — Nick Hornby in his wonderful collection of reviews Ten Years In the Tub, and the great Michael Dirda of the Washington Post — do revisit older books, but this is rare. It is also unfortunate, especially for good literature. First, check out the publication date of Rookery Blues: 1995. Readers under the age of

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store, or by coming across his name, as I did, in another book. Consider Larry Woiwode’s Beyond The Bedroom Wall, a rich, lyrical novel about the Neumiller family in North Dakota. I was living in Boston and working in the Old Corner Bookstore when this book was published in 1975. Like many others, I was blown away by the story and the quality of the writing — Woiwode was first a poet, and brings those skills into his prose — and subsequently I

Poetry lecture in Highlands Dr. Catherine Carter, associate professor at Western Carolina University, will give a lecture titled, “Larvae of the Nearest Stare: Poetry and the Nonhuman,” at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Highlands Nature Center. Each summer, the Highlands Biological Foundation hosts free evening lectures at the Nature Center on Thursdays focused on the theme of natural history and conservation, a tradition that began in the 1930s. Today, these lectures are known as the Zahner Conservation Lecture Series, which serves to educate and inspire through a series of talks from well-known regional scientists, conservationists, artists, and writers. The word “poetry” often sounds threatening.

read everything by Woiwode I could get my hands on. (I have just opened my age-spotted first edition of Beyond The Bedroom Wall, which I have not read in many years, and marveled again at the book’s power. His account of a death in the Neumiller family touched my heart at age 24. Today, four decades and more later, with so many deaths and so many losses of one kind or another behind me, these same passages moved me to tears.) Because this novel is 43 years old, most readers under the age of 50 may never discover what some critics regard of as one of the great American novels. And unlike Hassler’s works, Beyond The Bedroom Wall and most of Woiwode’s other books are out of print. They may be obtained only in your local library, from secondhand bookshops, and online. More and more, we live in a culture of the immediate present. We live in the now. (The word novel itself comes from the Latin novus, meaning new.) Every day a flood of information inundates us, carrying away and burying in the silt many treasures from the past. Larry McMurtry’s novel about a young woman in Texas in the 1960s, Moving On: Walter Miller’s apocalyptic A Canticle For Leibowitz;

But, poetry is one of the ways of seeking knowledge about the world, and, when it’s done well, it’s like science — a way of trying to get beyond individual will and profit to see and report as truly as we can. Good poetry tries to find exact language that lets us do that, and a lot of good poets seek to explore and engage with the non-human, what’s not-us, what sometimes gets called nature as though it were separate from human nature. For this presentation, Carter will explore a few accessible, nonthreatening poems which engage with the nonhuman and report back and talk a little about what they find there and how they do that. Audience participation is encouraged. For more information on other programs, visit www.highlandsbiological.org or call the Highlands Biological Foundation at 828.526.2221.

Tom McGuane’s story of junkies and burnouts in the Florida Keys, Ninety-Two In The Shade; Anton Myrer’s A Green Desire; John Gardner’s The Sunlight Dialogues and Mickelssoon’s Ghosts; Dodie Smith’s I Capture The Castle; Anthony Burgess’s lively books, especially Earthly Powers: these and dozens of other novels receive little notice, though all of them are as good as, and in most cases better than, the novels coming out today. (They were also better than most of the novels in print at the time of their publication.) Many of you reading this column know how to dig through the silt deposited by the river of the new and find such riches. For those of you who don’t, here are some tips: First, browse your local libraries and bookshops. Just wander up and down the aisles, pulling whatever strikes your fancy and reading the book’s blurb. This is the slowest approach, but in an age when all is hustleand-clatter, it may be the most satisfying. Next, explore online sites like goodreads.com. This is a little like visiting the library, but you can do it sitting in your own home. Here you will find book-lovers reviewing thousands of books. If you prefer books of a certain genre, such as suspense novels, Google “100 greatest suspense novels” and start through the list. Seek out readers older than you. Bring a pen and paper, and ask them for the titles and authors of their top 10 favorite books. Take your list, hit the laptop, and follow the trails they’ve pointed out. Finally, and perhaps most easily, read books about books. Hornby and Dirda are wonderful guides. Look for Jane Mallison’s Book Smart or George and Karen Grant’s Shelf Life. There are many such books, and your library should have an ample supply of them. Take these steps, and you’re in for some grand surprises and fine adventures. Enjoy. (Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher. minick0301@gmail.com.)

New Legacies of Arnan book Paige L. Christie will present the second book in The Legacies of Arnan series, Wing Wind, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. Janny Wurts, author of the Wars of Light and Shadow series said, “Two fast friends, welded by choice and fate to an incompatible dynamic — and a love that will try the depth and scope of their human destinies as never before. A powerful second book.” The first book in The Legacies of Arnan series, Draigon Weather, is now available in paperback. In addition to being a writer, Christie is also the executive director of the Community Table in Sylva. To reserve copies of her books, call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

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Like an old friend Two decades of rock climbing getaways build friendship, identity for Sylva woman BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER wenty years ago, Erin McManus and her friend Amy Miller were 22-year-olds fresh out of college, with no jobs, no boyfriends and a love of adventure. So, they did what many have dreamed of doing — they outfitted McManus’ little Mazda pickup truck with a loft bed and kitchen set-up, packed up their rock climbing gear and hit the road. For six whole months. “It was the best time of our lives,” said McManus, now 42. “We weren’t quite yet worried about getting jobs. We weren’t worried about boys. We weren’t worried about our careers. We were just living day by day, climbing, experiencing new towns, seeing the West.” They drove through the Red River Gorge of Kentucky and up through Champagne and Urbana in Illinois, then all the way to Chicago, across North and South Dakota and down through Wyoming and Colorado, mostly sleeping in hospital and Walmart parking lots

— “Our moms told us that would be safest,” McManus said — using maps and books to navigate their way to climb sites and keeping in touch with their families only through weekly pay phone calls. Twenty years have passed since the women returned home from their big adventure, and life has changed in countless ways. McManus, of Sylva, is now married with two young children, ages 4 and 6, and works as the director for Full Spectrum Farms, a nonprofit that works with people with autism. Miller, too, has a career that keeps her busy out in Boulder, Colorado. They’re no longer footloose 22-year-olds who can disappear from day-to-day life for six months at a time. But that hasn’t stopped the two women from continually working to recreate the magical experience of 1998. Every year, they carve some time out of their busy lives and go climb western rockfaces together. “I feel like it re-centers me as a person, as a spouse and as a mom,” McManus said. “Every year reminds me of who I am, which I feel like

in turn makes me better in those roles that I play.” Rock climbing requires 100 percent focus and attention, free of any absentminded nonchalance. There’s a calmness that comes with that, McManus said, a corralling of the thoughts that typically run through her constantly busy mind into the single task at hand — to scale the wall, and scale it safely, the hands of a close friend her only lifeline. “We have each others’ lives in our hands, so it’s the greatest trust-based relationship that I know above a spouse,” she said. “And so there’s an intimacy in that, and that has maintained for 20 years.” That mutual trust has gotten Miller and McManus through tough and easy climbs alike. On McManus’ highlight reel is definitely a 20-pitch climb the two conquered in 2013, between the birth of her son and her daughter. It was a hard, long day near Frisco, Colorado that took more than 12 hours to complete. And after conquering the first pitch, they discovered that Miller’s water container had leaked — they were down a whole person’s water supply for the day. Still, they decided to forge ahead. “We were in that far already, and I think we each had a sense of trust in each other,” McManus said. “We shared my water, and we knew we had to move forward quickly throughout the day, and we knew each of us could move more quickly to get through it.” Get through it they did, filling up on beer

McManus and Miller climb up a rock face in Frisco, Colorado. Donated photo

Erin McManus (left) and Amy Miller explore Grand Tetons National Park in Wyoming in 1998. Donated photo

and pizza afterward. When they were done with dinner, they found that they literally could not stand up, their legs were so sore. That sort of profound soreness is something they wouldn’t have experienced as 22year-olds. The women find themselves needing more rest days, more ibuprofen, than they did then. They’re more careful, too, knowing that the interconnected nature of their lives these days means an injury would hurt more people than just them. “Last year Amy said, ‘Getting old is really going to stink,’” McManus laughed. “But we are bound and determined that we’ll keep it up as long as we can possibly get out there to do it.” They’ve changed, but so has the world around them. “Like everywhere, it’s just crowded,” said McManus. “On the rockfaces, crowded on the approaches. And I think the culture around rock climbing has changed somewhat. We’re kind of the old ladies watching the world change.” It’s no longer quite the wilderness experience it was 20 years ago, when the two young women fumbled their way through remote mountain roads, searching out the climbs using a limited supply of books and maps. There are cell phones and GPS directions now, and good coverage even out in middle of the woods. Where they used to sign off and not contact their families but for that weekly pay phone call, now they’re constantly in touch with the folks at home. “I think we were so present in us and our own friendship and whatever was happening in front of us, and now we can be connected to the world even when we’re hanging thousands of feet in the air,” McManus said. Of course, that’s not all bad. She wants to know what’s happening with her kids and her husband while she’s gone, and in an emergency situation having the ability to call 911 is pretty important. The phones are great for photos, too. “There’s some solace in that safety, but it’s also hard because it takes so much away from the spirit of what you’re doing,” McManus said. That connection could be one factor in how many more people there are on the rockfaces these days. According to The Outdoor Foundation’s annual Outdoor Recreation Participation Report, participation in outdoor climbing sports such as traditional climbing, ice climbing and mountaineering increased by 27 percent between 2007 and 2017, going from 510,000 participants to 762,000. Various outdoors magazines are also reporting that an increasing share of those rock climbers are women, something that McManus said rings true from her anecdotal experience. “The sport has changed so much over the years,” she said. “We used to be the only allfemale team out there, and now there are several.” She’s also seen more couples as teams, with one man and one woman climbing together.

Help with Kids in the Creek

Become a leader in the creek A chance to play in the water while learning about the economic, health, recre-

Electrofishing yields fish to identify. Donated photo ational and natural values of Haywood County’s water resources will be offered during Haywood Waterway Association’s annual Leaders in the Creek event, 2 to 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Canton Recreation Park. The program, geared toward adults in the Haywood County community, will include stations dedicated to fish, insects, stormwater and streamside vegetation, explaining how these interconnections impact waterways, communities and economies.

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Volunteers are needed for the 19th annual Kids in the Creek program, which will introduce Haywood County eighthgraders to watershed ecology Sept. 10-13 at the Canton Recreation Park. During the program, kids learn about hydrology and water chemistry, collect fish and aquatic bugs and have a lot of fun. No experience is necessary to volunteer. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sept. 10, 11 and 12, and 8:30 to 11:45 a.m. Sept. 13. Sign up with Christine Bredenkamp by Sept. 5 at 828.476.4667, ext. 11, or christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com.

Participants should wear clothes that can get dirty and bring a towel, change of clothes and anything else needed for a couple of hours outside. Free, with food, waders and snorkel gear provided, though getting in the water is not required. RSVP by Sept. 11 to 828.476.4667 or info@haywooodwaterways.org.

Earn a boating safety certification A boating safety course will be offered 69 p.m. Sept. 10-11 at Haywood Community College in CLyde, giving participants a shot at a certification required to operate vessels propelled by a motor of 10 horsepower or greater. Participants must attend both sessions and pass a written exam. The free course is offered as a partnership between HCC and the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. Register at www.ncwildlife.org by selecting the “Learning” tab.

FINAL PERFORMANCES!

Volunteer at DuPont A pair of workdays at DuPont State Forest in Henderson and Transylvania counties will offer an opportunity to get outside by giving back, Saturdays, Sept. 8 and Oct. 13. Both days will be focused on cleaning drains on the Reasonover Creek Trail, with volunteers assembling at 8:45 a.m. and finishing by 1 p.m. Volunteers should wear heavy boots, bring water, work gloves and bug spray, and come prepared to cross the creek on stepping stones. Tools are provided with no experience required. RSVP to Lyle Burgmann at llbmwb@gmail.com.

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will allow attendees to meet farmers, chefs and artisans while sampling small plates and bites highlighting seasonal foods in the Southern An event celebrating the conAppalachians. nections between farmers, chefs $30, with tickets and artisan food producers will be available in advance held 6 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. from www.asapcon13, at New Belgium Brewing nections.org. Company in Asheville. Chelsea Lane photo Proceeds benefit The Appalachian Sustainable ASAP. Sponsored by Ingles Markets. Agriculture Project’s Local Food Experience

McManus (left) and Miller finish a climb in the mountains near Frisco, Colorado. Donated photo

Summer Music Series

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While outlets including Climbing Magazine and Gear Junkie have reported a rise of women in rock climbing, exact statistics are difficult to find. However, the gender-based breakdown of participation in natural rock climbing contained in the 2004 Outdoor Recreation Participation Report does show the sport to be a traditionally male-dominated one. According to that report, in 2003 only 24 percent of rock climbers were female, a share that actually represents a decrease over the fiveyear period beginning in 1998, when 33 percent of rock climbers were female. While much has changed, two things have not — the connection between Miller and McManus, and the feeling of being on the rocks. “By now, in 20 years, we get to the rock and it’s just second nature, which is just awesome,” McManus said. “It’s like that old friend that you just fall right back in step with.”

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A cooking demonstration and tasting featuring fall produce will be offered at 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Waynesville Public Library. John Patterson will present the event, demonstrating a savory squash side dish and fall fruit dessert. Free, with registration required to Kathy Olsen, 828.356.2507 or kolsen@haywoodnc.net.

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A greenway walk focusing on its butterfly residents will be offered at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, in Franklin. Ecologist Jason Love will lead the excursion along the Little Tennessee River Greenway, beginning at the butterfly garden behind the Shops at RiverWalk on Highlands Road. Love is the site manager for the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research Program and is a local authority on butterflies, having studied them for 17 years. Organized by Friends of the Greenway, with a $5 donation suggested. RSVP to frog28734@gmail.com.

Mark the migration The Cradle of Forestry in America will host a daylong celebration of the monarch butterfly 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16. Monarchs are migrating south to Mexico this time of year, and “Bring Back the Monarchs” will feature a variety of activities teaching participants how to help the orange-and-black butterflies survive their big journey. The Cradle of Forestry is located along U.S. 276 in the Pisgah National Forest, about 35 miles south of Waynesville. www.cradleofforestry.com.

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Migrate toward monarch month In honor of the monarch butterfly’s annual migration in September, the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville will host several events celebrating monarch month in Western North Carolina. n Monarch Butterfly Day, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8. Arboretum educators will offer crafts, butterfly releases, demonstrations and more. Free with standard $14 parking fee. n Monarch Conservation MiniSymposium, 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22. An engaging mini-symposium will offer a deep dive into the world of monarch butterflies. Registration required at www.ncarboretum.org/event/monarch-conservation-mini-symposium. n “Flight of the Butterflies” Screening and Q&A, 6 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 22, The film tells the story of the monarch’s extraordinary endurance and perseverance on its annual flight south. Following the screening, monarch expert Estela Romero will host a special Q&A focused around her hometown and the monarch winter grounds of Angangueo, Mexico. Free with standard $14 parking fee, but space is limited. Register at www.ncarboretum.org/event/flight-of-thebutterflies-screening-and-qa.

Fall color will likely be dimmer than normal mal. Leaf season is a spread-out affair in WNC, with colors appearing in early September at higher elevations and peaking in early October, with the lower elevations progressively coming into peak over the remainder of the month. The spectacular variety of tree species in the region also influences the color show, creating a patchwork quilt of hues that blankets the mountains.

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long-range forecasts predict for this year — in that case, leaf color could turn out to be bright, though still more muted than nor-

Explore Cherokee archeology A lecture on archaeology in the Cherokee heartland of Western North Carolina will be offered at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Highlands Nature Center in Highlands. Speaker Ben Steere, Ph.D., is an archeologist and director of the Cherokee studies program at Western Carolina University. In recent years, cooperative projects between archeologists and Cherokee tribal members have resulted in important new research and nuanced interpretations of the area’s rich cultural history. His lecture will be titled “Mounds and Towns: Collaborative Archeology in the Cherokee Heartland.” Free, and part of the Zahner Conservation Lecture Series, which offers free lectures on conservation-oriented topics from July through September. The last lecture of the year, to be held Sept. 13, will be an interactive talk on poetry by WCU professor Catherine Carter, Ph.D. www.highlandsbiological.org or 828.526.2221.

The N.C. Mountain State Fair will open in Fletcher this weekend, running Sept. 7-16 at the WNC Agricultural Center with special discounts offered along the way. n During the Friday Night Frenzy discount offered Fridays, Sept. 7 and 14, fairgoers will pay $28 for admission and unlimited rides from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. Students in grades K12 will get free admission until 6 p.m. Sept. 7 and seniors 65 and older will get free gate admission Sept. 14. n On Tuesday, Sept. 11, kids 12 and under will get unlimited rides from 3 to 11 p.m. for $20. Gate admission must be purchased separately. n On Wednesday, Sept. 12, visitors who bring five cans of Laura Lynn brand foods from Ingles will get free admission, with canned goods benefitting MANNA Food Bank. n On Thursday, Sept. 13, unlimited rides will be available from 3 to 11 p.m. for $20 plus admission. n On Saturday, Sept. 15, fairgoers 18 and over will receive a free scratch and win promotional ticket from the N.C. Education Lottery for each fair admission ticket purchased. In addition to these promotions, discounted tickets are available at participating Ingles stores, the WNC Ag Center and the WNC Farmers Market. www.mountainfair.org.

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Autumnal vibrancy will depend on weather conditions over the next few weeks, according to Western Carolina University’s fall color soothsayer. If the warmer and wetter-than-normal conditions prevalent across Western North Carolina during the summer continue into September, fall colors will likely be muted, but transition to a normal weather pattern would cause a brighter tapestry of hues across the region, said Beverly Collins, a biology professor at WCU who combines her knowledge of forest ecology with weather observations to assess the potential for a big leaf color season. While warm, wet weather is great for photosynthesis, those sugars tend to go into tree stem and leaf growth rather than accumulating in the leaves, where they can trigger the trees to make less green pigment or more red. WNC weather typically becomes drier in autumn, which is what

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Large trees abound on the Albert Grove Loop Trail. Donated photo

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A guided hike along Albright Grove Loop on Tuesday, Sept. 11, will explore rich old-growth forest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Haywood County resident Steve Winchester will lead this 6.5-mile, moderate-difficulty hike through the Cosby area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Named for Horace Albright, the second director of the National Park Service, the trail winds its way through old-growth forest

Bird the Parkway The Highlands Plateau Audubon Society will embark on its annual search for migrating birds at 7 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The Annual Charlie Davis Memorial Blue Ridge Parkway Outing will leave from Founders Park Highlands at 7 a.m. or from the Cashiers Recreation Center in Cashiers at 7:30 a.m. Participants should expect roadside birding with some easy walking and bring water, a camera and a light lunch to eat before returning mid-afternoon. Loaner binoculars are available. www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org.

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that includes hemlocks, tulip-poplars, Fraser magnolias, maples, beech and silverbells. Organized by Friends of the Smokies, with proceeds benefiting the Trails Forever Program to reconstruct and rehabilitate the park’s most impacted trails. Meeting locations available in Asheville, Waynesville and at the trailhead. $20 for Friends members and $35 for nonmembers, with one-year membership included. Sign up at hike.friendsofthesmokies.org.

Learn how to photograph extreme sports and other adventures with a presentation from Cathy Anderson at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Cullowhee United Methodist Church. Anderson’s adventurous photography journeys include highlining, rock climbing,

boxing, whitewater kayaking and more, all with an off-camera flash. The program is all about excitement and of interest to photographers and non-photographers alike. Outdoor 76 will be in attendance, giving swag to attendees, with a door prize drawing for a Sandisk Extreme 16 GB SD card offered. Part of the Sylva Photo Club’s regular monthly meeting. $5 donation recommended for visitors and applied to the $20 yearly membership fee. sylvaphotoclub.wordpress.com.

Mainspring to talk viewsheds, conservation The impact of Mainspring Conservation Trust’s work on viewsheds along the Appalachian and Bartram trails will be the focus of a talk at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. Jordan Smith, land conservation manager for Mainspring, will give the talk on the land trust’s new conservation priority plan and how the strategic emphasis will affect the viewsheds. Free. Offered as part of the Nantahala Hiking Club’s regular meeting.

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WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

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• Southwestern Community College is accepting submissions from artists, writers, poets and local creatives for its biennial art and literature review entitled “Milestone.” Open to all residents of Jackson, Macon, Swain Counties and the Qualla Boundary – as well as SCC students and alumni. Only unpublished work is eligible. Must be postmarked by Dec. 3 and sent to SCC Milestone; Attn. Toni Knott; 447 College Drive; Sylva, NC 28779, or milestone@southwesterncc.edu.

to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday through Nov. 10. As you step into the Oconaluftee Indian Village, you’re transported back to witness the challenges of Cherokee life at a time of rapid cultural change. Tour guides help you explore the historic events and figures of the 1760’s. www.cherokeehistorical.org.

• A Duke Nonprofit Management Certificate Class: Planning for Change is scheduled for 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Arthur R. Edington Education & Career Center in Asheville. Scholarships available for individuals affiliated with a WNC nonprofit organization. www.learnmore.duke.edu/nonprofit/certificate/program (Course ID: 0574-042).

• “Russia’s Closed Cities, Part 1” will be offered at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room in Franklin. Led by Alan French, a U.S. Government interpreter.

• Sign-ups are underway for Jackson County’s “Citizens Academy” – an eight-week course focused on services provided by the county – starting at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11. Info and applications: 631.2295 or jcfitzgerald@jacksonnc.org. • The annual Macon County Agricultural Fair will take place Sept. 12-15 at the Macon County Fairgrounds in Franklin. Join the celebration, which will feature a barbecue supper, best cake contest, Special Needs Livestock Show, harvest sale, festival foods, and more. www.themaconcofair.com. • The Smoky Mountain Roller Girls will host the Charlotte B-Dazzlers at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15. Junior Rollers go at 4 p.m. Tickets: $5 from skaters or $7 at the door. Ages under seven get in free. • “The Role of Railroads in the Emergence of Western North Carolina” will be presented by Ray Rapp from 45:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. • Nominations are being sought for the Mountain Heritage Awards that will be presented on Saturday, Sept. 29, on Western Carolina University’s campus in Cullowhee. Awards go to individual and organization for contributions to or playing a prominent role in research, preservation and curation of Southern Appalachian history, culture and folklore. Nominations can be sent to pameister@wcu.edu, Mountain Heritage Center, 1 University Drive, Cullowhee N.C. 28723, or drop off in person at Room 240 of WCU’s Hunter Library. • The Village Green will offer an opportunity for public participation in “Growing a Vision for Cashiers” at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 5 and Tuesday, Sept. 25. VillageGreenCashiersNC.com, info@villagegreencashiersnc.com or 743.3434. • The N.C. Mountain State Fair will run from Sept. 7-16 at the WNC Agricultural Center in Asheville. For schedule and info on discounted tickets, visit www.mountainfair.org. • Registration is underway for Marriage Enrichment Retreats that will be offered four times over the next year at Lake Junaluska. Led by Ned Martin, an expert in marriage counseling. Price is $699 per couple. Dates are Sept. 30-Oct 2; March 10-12, Aug. 18-20 of 2019 and Sept. 29-Oct. 1 in 2019. Registration and info: www.lakejunaluska.com/marriage or 800.222.4930. • The Cherokee Bonfire & Storytelling will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 27 at the Oconaluftee Islands Park. Sit by a bonfire, alongside a river, and listen to some of Cherokee’s best storytellers. The bonfire is free and open to the public. There will be no bonfire events in September. www.visitcherokeenc.com. • Oconaluftee Indian Village will be open from 10 a.m.

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• Haywood Community College’s Workforce Continuing Education Department is offering a wide variety of courses in September. For a complete listing and registration invo, visit https://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8. • A luncheon entitled “Getting Started with email Marketing” will be offered through Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. Speaker is Aaron Means. Registration required: www.southwesterncc.edu/sbc or 339.4211. • A ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Carolina Point Young Life Camp is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Sept. 6 in Brevard. • Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a seminar entitled “Financing Your Business” from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the College’s Regional High Tech Center, Room 3021, in Waynesville. For info or to register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512. • Registration is underway for “A Guide to Selling on Etsy for Small Business-Livestream,” which will be offered through Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center from 5-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the college’s Regional High Tech Center Auditorium in Clyde. SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512. • Registration is underway for a “Better Communication Through Creative Play” workshop that will be offered through Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, at WCU’s Biltmore Park location in Asheville. Led by Neela Munoz. $125 Pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397. • Registration is underway for a seminar entitled “Telling Your Creative Small Business Story” through Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center. The seminar is from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25, at the Haywood County Arts Council. Register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512. • The Free Enterprise Speaker Series will feature Siri Terjesen of the Center for Innovation at American University from 5-6:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, at the A.K. Hinds University Center Theater in Cullowhee. Terjesen, who is also a professor at the Norwegian School of Economics, will offer a presentation on social entrepreneurship. • A presentation on the Incremental Development Alliance, a nonprofit, will be offered from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Sept. 11 at the US Cellular Center in downtown Waynesville. The organization aims to teach wannabe developers of small-scale rentals how to plan, design, finance and manage projects. Presented by Jim Kumon. www.incrementaldevelopment.org. • Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a seminar entitled “Basics of Bookkeeping”

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from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the College’s Regional High Tech Center, Room 3021, in Waynesville. For info or to register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512. • Southwestern Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a “HUBZone/Federal Certification Opportunities” seminar from 10 a.m.-noon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Franklin Chamber of Commerce. HUBZone is “Historically Underutilized Business Zone.” Seminar led by Aregnaz Mooradian of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Topics: How the HUBZone Program works, benefits, eligibility and more. Preregistration required: www.southwesterncc.edu/sbc or 339.4211. Info: t_henry@southwesterncc.edu or 339.4426. • Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a seminar entitled “Marketing Your Small Business on Google” from 9 a.m.-noon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce. For info or to register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512. • Haywood Community College will offer hunter safety courses from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 17-18, Oct. 8-9 and Nov. 5-6 in Clyde. Preregistration required: www.ncwildlife.org. • Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will offer a seminar entitled “Marketing Your Business” from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, at the College’s Regional High Tech Center, Room 3021, in Waynesville. For info or to register: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

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 County will meet at noon on Sept. 13 in Room A227 of the Jackson County Justice Center in Sylva. • A Guardian ad Litem training class will be held in September through the Cherokee County GAL office. The N.C. Guardian ad Litem program recruits, trains and supervises volunteer advocates to represent and promote the best interests of abused, neglected and dependent children in the state court system. Info: www.ncgal.org or www.facebook.com/ncGuardianAdLitem. 837.8003. • Senior Companion volunteers are being sought to serve with the Land of the Sky Senior Companion Program in Henderson, Buncombe, Transylvania and Madison Counties. Serve older adults who want to remain living independently at home in those counties.

HEALTH MATTERS FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • “Southern Storytellers Series” will kick off with Buddy Melton & Milan Miller at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. Tickets for the “dinner and a show” are $25 per person. Hosted by Chris Cox, a columnist for The Smoky Mountain News, the series will continue with Ashley English (Oct. 4) and Ann Miller Woodford (Nov. 3). www.folkmoot.org. • A CornHole tournament benefitting Haywood County Big Brothers Big Sisters is set for noon on Saturday, Sept. 8, at BearWaters Brewing in Canton. Social and competitive divisions. $300 first-place payout, food, 5050 raffle and t-shirts for all participants. • Mast Store in Waynesville will donate 10 percent of sales on Sept. 8 to Friends of the Smokies. www.FriendsoftheSmokies.org; MastStore.com. • Bethel Rural Community Organization will hold a yard sale from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at Danny Heatherly’s Event Center in Bethel. Benefits BRCO and other community organizations. 421.0610. • The Equinox Ranch “Helping Warriors Heal” BBQ Dinner & Square Dance is at 6 p.m. on Sept. 15 in Cullowhee. Benefit to support the ranch’s program for combat veterans. Square dance called by Joe Sam Queen; music by Cullowheezer. Tickets: www.equinoxranch.org. • Habitat for Humanity will have a “Raise the Roof” fundraiser at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at the River Walk at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. Food, beverages, DJ, hammering contest, prizes and more. tinyurl.com/yd28md98, 452.7960 or visit Jeweler’s Workbench in Waynesville. • A fundraiser for United Christian Ministries of Jackson County is scheduled for 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22. For every test drive taken, Andy Shaw Ford in Sylva will donate $20 (up to a total of $6,000). www.ucmhelp.com or 586.8228.

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• The Haywood County Senior Resource Center holds a dementia caregivers support group from 4:30-6 p.m. on Tuesdays in Waynesville. 452.6761 or www.haywoodseniors.org. • “Breathing Techniques for Health,” an introductory class, will be offered from 1:15-1:45 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Waynesville Yoga Center. Register: 246.6570 or waynesvilleyogacenter.com. • An introductory class on Breathing Techniques for Health will be offered from 1:15-1:45 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Waynesville Yoga Center. 246.6570 or waynesvilleyogacenter.com. • A story-based workshop on medicinals will be offered beginning Saturday, Sept. 8, through Alarka in Franklin. Cost: $99. www.alarkaexpeditions.com/upcomingevents. • Mast Store in Waynesville will donate 10 percent of sales on Sept. 8 to Friends of the Smokies. www.FriendsoftheSmokies.org; MastStore.com. • An essential oils class is being offered at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 12 at Mad Batter Food & Film in beautiful downtown Sylva. Come learn how to use essential oils for natural health care. Stay after the class and make rollerbottle essential oil blends to try at home. Each roller is $5, make as many as you want. RSVP to Wende Goode at 246.2256 or goodeoils@gmail.com. Space is limited. • Restorative Yoga Series is set for 4-5 p.m. on Sept. 13, 20 and 27, at Maggie Valley Wellness Center. $55. 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • ZUMBA! Class with Monica Green, are offered from 67 p.m. on Monday & Wednesday, at the Canton Armory. $5 per class. 648.2363 or parks@cantonnc.com. • The Get Fit Challenge will run from Monday, Sept. 10, through Nov. 5 in Jackson County. Track physical activity and compete for prizes. Kick-off event is at 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 10 at the Greenway in Cullowhee. Regsiter: wncgetfit.weebly.com. Info: 587.8238.

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â&#x20AC;˘ There will be several ballroom and Latin dance classes offered on Sundays and Mondays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Classes for beginners, intermediate and all levels. $10 per class. For more information, click on www.froglevelbrewing.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Line Dance Lessons will be held on Tuesdays in Waynesville. Times are 7 to 8 p.m. every other Tuesday. Cost is $10 per class and will feature modern/traditional line dancing. 734.0873 or kimcampbellross@gmail.com for more information. â&#x20AC;˘ Pickleball is offered from 9 a.m.-noon on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at the Old Armory in Waynesville. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov. â&#x20AC;˘ The Safekids USA/Blue Dragon Taekwondo School is offering self-defense classes â&#x20AC;˘ The Maggie Valley Wellness Center is offering two yoga classes from 9-9:55 a.m. on Wednesdays through March: Gentle Flow with Candra and Gentle Vin Yin with Jamie. 944.0288 or maggievalleywellness.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Pickleball, a cross between tennis, badminton and ping-pong, will be offered from 9 a.m.-noon on Mondays and Wednesdays at the Old Hazelwood Gym in Waynesville. $3 per visit, or $20 for a 10-visit card. 452.6789 or iansmith@haywoodcountync.gov. â&#x20AC;˘ Yoga classes designed specifically for those who have experienced trauma are being offered at the Fitness Connection in Waynesville. www.sonshineyoga.com.

SPIRITUAL â&#x20AC;˘ Rosh Hashanah is at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9, and 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, at Mountain Synagogue in Franklin. www.mountain-synagogue.org.

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â&#x20AC;˘ Registration is underway for a Self-Directed Retreats that will be offered at Lake Junaluska in the coming months. Spend time walking the trails, meditating in gardens, in private devotions, journaling, reflecting

and more. Lake Junaluska will also provide a booklet with optional agendas, resources and ideas for structuring your retreat. $97 per person, per night, including lodging in Lambuth Inn, breakfast and retreat booklet. Other dates are available, pricing varies. Dates are Sept. 9-12, Sept. 17-18, Oct. 17-18, Oct. 29-Nov. 1 and Nov. 19-21. www.lakejunaluska.com/retreats. â&#x20AC;˘ Yom Kippur is services start at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 18, and 10 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 19, at Mountain Synagogue in Franklin. www.mountain-synagogue.org. â&#x20AC;˘ Registration is underway for Personal Spiritual Retreats that will be offered at Lake Junaluska in the coming months. Experienced spiritual directors and clergy guide you through a group centering session, evening prayer service and an individual spiritual direction session, while leaving you ample time for personal reflection and renewal. $297 for two nights lodging in Lambuth Inn, program and retreat booklet. Dates are Oct. 1-3 and Nov. 5-7. www.lakejunaluska.com/retreats.

POLITICAL â&#x20AC;˘ N.C. Rep. Mike Clampitt has scheduled a 911 Remembrance Ceremony for 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 9, at the Swain County Administration Building Parking Lot in Bryson City. Cookout for emergency medical technicians, fire fighters, law enforcement officers and veterans. Games, face painting, bounce houses. 736.6222. â&#x20AC;˘ The Jackson County Republican Party will have a meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Cashiers/Glenville Rec Center. Guest speaker is Doug Farmer, candidate for Jackson County Sheriff. 743.6491. â&#x20AC;˘ The Haywood County Libertarian Party is now meeting at Blue Ridge Books on Main Street from 4:30-6 p.m. every second Monday of the month. These meet-

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ings will be for discussion on current events, and are open to the public. â&#x20AC;˘ A lunch-and-discussion group will be held by the League of Women Voters at noon on the second Thursday of each month at Tartan Hall of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin. RSVP for lunch: lwvmacon@wild-dog-mountain.info or 524.8369.

â&#x20AC;˘ The Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department has set a time for senior citizens (55-older) to play tennis from 9 a.m.-noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays through Oct. 28 at the Donnie Pankiw Tennis Center in Waynesville. For players intermediate or higher skill level. $1 per day. 456.2030 or dhummel@waynesvillenc.gov.

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AUTHORS AND BOOKS â&#x20AC;˘ Paige L. Christie will present the second book in The Legacies of Arnan series, Wing Wind, at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. To reserve copies of her books, please call City Lights Bookstore at 586.9499.

â&#x20AC;˘ Reservations are being accepted for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parents Night Outâ&#x20AC;? program for kids ages 3-12 on Monday evenings throughout September at Waynesville Recreation Center. Cost is free for members or $20 for the month for nonmembers. 456.2030 or tpetrea@waynesvillenc.gov.

â&#x20AC;˘ Clemson University professor Todd May will present his book, A Fragile Life: Accepting our Vulnerability, at 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. To reserve a copy, please call City Lights Bookstore at 586.9499.

â&#x20AC;˘ An opportunity for Waynesville residents to nominate their favorite coaches (leaders in the community with a positive impact on schools, players and the community) will be offered by U.S. Cellular starting on Sept. 11. TheMostValuableCoach.com.

â&#x20AC;˘ Dr. Catherine Carter, Associate Professor at Western Carolina University, will give a lecture titled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Larvae of the Nearest Stare: Poetry and the Nonhuman,â&#x20AC;? at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Highlands Nature Center. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221.

â&#x20AC;˘ Registration is open for the fall semester of Jackson County Junior Appalachian Musicianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program, which runs from Sept. 11-Dec. 18. Classes meet from 3:154:45 p.m. on Tuesdays in the north hall of Cullowhee Valley School. $95. Info and registration: 507.9820, 293.1028 or jcncjam@gmail.com.

SENIOR ACTIVITIES â&#x20AC;˘ Seniors and Law Enforcement Together class is set for 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Waynesville Library. Featuring Haywood County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Deputy Kevin Brooks, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll discuss various aspects of personal safety. â&#x20AC;˘ Registration is underway for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mind the Music! Piano Lessonsâ&#x20AC;? that will be offered to ages 55-up starting the week of Sept. 24 and running through the week of Oct. 22. $60 plus a materials fee of less than $20. Led by Susan Huckaby. director@haywoodarts.org, 452.0593 or HaywoodArts.org.

â&#x20AC;˘ Registration is open for the Haywood County Arts Councilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Junior Appalachian Musicians classes, which are held from 3:30-5 p.m. on Sept. 11-May 14. For fourth-grade and up. Learn banjo, fiddle or guitar in the traditional way mountain music has been taught for generations. Register by Aug. 31. $150 per student for the school year; siblings are charged $50. Register: 452.0593 or director@haywoodarts.org. Info: www.haywoodarts.org. â&#x20AC;˘ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Smoky Mountain Elkâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a Great Smoky Mountains National Park Summer Junior Ranger program â&#x20AC;&#x201C; is at 5:30 p.m. on Saturdays, Sept. 8 & 22 at the Palmer House in Cataloochee Valley.

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• Registration is underway for fall acting classes through Kids at HART program. Classes run from Sept. 10-Nov. 26. $120 for acting classes or $110 for voice classes. www.harttheatre.org.

Asheville. Meet farmers, chefs and artisans; sample small plates and bites. Tickets: $30 and available at http://asapconnections.org. Proceeds benefit ASAP. 236.1282.

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• Plains United Methodist Church will hold its annual fall barbecue from 4-7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at 2029 Newfound Road in Canton. $10 for adults; $5 for children.

FESTIVALS AND SPECIAL EVENTS • The “Art After Dark” in downtown Waynesville is hosted on the first Friday of the month (MayDecember), Main Street transforms into an evening of art, music, finger foods, beverages and shopping as artisan studios and galleries keep their doors open later for local residents and visitors. www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com. • Thunder in the Smokies Rally is scheduled for Sept. 7-9 in Maggie Valley. www.ThunderInTheSmokies.com. • “Music of the Mountains” event from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Sugarlands Visitor Center in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. There will be something for everyone at the “instrument petting zoo,” held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., where anyone can try their hand at playing spoons, a wash tub, or washboard. Park rangers will also offer dulcimer lessons for beginners and kids will have the opportunity to create their own instruments. At 2 p.m., an old-time square dance begins. The event is free, and attendees are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch, blankets and/or chairs to enjoy the day. www.nps.gov/grsm.

• High Mountain Meadows Farm & Creamery will host a farm party from noon-4 p.m. on Sept. 9 in Hayesville. Hold baby goats and meet a turkey and donkey; enjoy a farm dinner of locally grown foods. 506.5566. • Emerald Gate Farm will host an Open Farm Day at 4 p.m. on Sept. 15 in Waynesville. Live music, potluck, draft beers, fishing and dancing. emeraldgatefarm.com.

• The 11th annual Youth Arts Festival is scheduled for 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Jackson County Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Artist demonstrations and activities in a wide range of crafts including glass, metal, ceramics, weaving, clay, etc. Musical performances. www.JCGEP.org.

FOOD & DRINK • The ASAP Local Food Experience is scheduled for 68:30 p.m. on Sept. 13 at New Belgium Brewing Co. in

• The Haywood Arts Regional Theatre will present the hit musical “Ghost” at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 6-8 and at 2 p.m. Sept. 9 in Waynesville. 456.6322 or www.harttheatre.org. • Haywood Community Chorus (HCC), directed by Kathy Geyer McNeil began fall rehearsals on Sept. 3. Registration will be at 6:30 p.m., followed by a full chorus rehearsal from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Rehearsals continue each Monday evening for 12 weeks, culminating in the annual Christmas concert, scheduled for 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at the First United Methodist Church in Waynesville. Membership dues are $30, which covers the cost of music and hiring musicians for concert performances. 18 and up are encouraged and welcome to join; auditions are not required. Please note that rehearsals are held in the Wilson Children’s Complex at Lake Junaluska. 557.9187. • Tickets are on sale now for a Southern Storyteller Supper Series event featuring Buddy Melton, who plays fiddle in Balsam Range, and Milan Miller, multiinstrumentalist, songwriter and recording artist, on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Folkmoot Friendship Center in Waynesville. Tickets: $25. Folkmoot.org. • The Jackson County Public Library will host a musical concert featuring singer-songwriter Heidi Holton at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, in the Community Room in Sylva. 586.2016 or www.fontanalib.org. • The Highlands Performing Arts Center will present “Bravissimo Broadway” at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, in Highlands. Tickets: highlandspac.org or 526.9047. • Tickets are on sale now for a concert featuring Jim Witter’s “Time in a Bottle” at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16, at Western Carolina University’s Bardo Arts Center in Cullowhee. Fundraiser for WCU Friends of the Arts. $25 per ticket. Foa.wcu.edu or 227.ARTS.

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• The Haywood Community Band presents its September concert: “Americana: The West Coast” at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16, at the Maggie Valley Pavilion.

SUMMER MUSIC • Cold Mountain Music Series will host Devils in Dust at 5 p.m. on Sept. 8. Gates open at 3 p.m. Admission is $15 for a car, $50 for 15-passenger van and $5 for bikes. Craft beer offered by Ecusta Brewing. 646.0095 and www.lakelogan.com/events. • The Pickin’ on the Square summer concert series will feature Charlie Horse (Texas Swing) at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Gazebo in downtown Franklin. Food vendors will also be available. www.townoffranklinnc.com.

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• The Mountain Life Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the Mountain Farm Museum in Cherokee at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Oconaluftee Visitor Center event. Walk around the mountain farm and enjoy demonstrations of hearth cooking, apple butter making, blacksmithing, lye soap making, food preservation, and chair bottoming. Artifacts and historic photographs from the park’s collection will be on display. The centerpiece of the event is the sorghum syrup demonstration using a horse or mule-powered cane mill and a wood-fired cooker.

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• The 13th annual “Music at the Mill” celebration will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Francis Grist Mill in Waynesville. Live music by Ol’ Dirty Bathtub, Hill Country Band and Possum on a Whale. A part of Western North Carolina heritage, the 131-year-old mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. There will also be craft vendors, barbecue by the Friends of the Francis Grist Mill, Mama Moody’s Fried Pies, milling demonstrations, and more. Tickets are $8 in advance, $12 at the gate. www.francismill.org.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • Subscriptions are on sale now for the Bardo Arts Center’s Sunday Cinema Series, which presents encore live performances from the National Theatre in London in Cullowhee. Arts.wcu.cinema or 828.227.ARTS.

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CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • An “Android Users Group” is set to meet at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 6, at the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. Register: 586.2016. Please call the library to register. FREE. 586.2016. (www.fontanalib.org).

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• Michael Aday will present “I Had No Idea!! Researching History in the Archives at Great Smoky Mountain National Park Collections Preservation Center” at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 6 at the monthly meeting of the Swain County Genealogical and Historical Society. Group meets at the Swain County Regional Business Education and Training Center in Bryson City. www.swaingenealogy.com. • The monthly Creating Community Workshop will be held at 10:30 a.m. on the second Saturday in the Atrium of the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva. A workshop on handwoven bookmarks will be offered on Sept. 8 led by weaver Susan Morgan Leveille. 586.2016. • “Are people assets or liabilities and is the population timebomb ticking?” will be the topic for the Franklin Open Forum, which is at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, at the Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub in Franklin. Open exchange of ideas, dialog not debate. 371.1020. • Dogwood Crafters will present a Gourd Pendant Workshop from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Dillsboro Masonic Lodge. $6. Register by Sept. 7: 586.2248.

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• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” painting class will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays (Sept. 13, Sept. 27) at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided. RSVP by contacting Robin Arramae at 400.9560 or paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • The Haywood County Arts Council will hold a new showcase featuring local artist Bee Sieberg & Students exhibiting their work through Sept. 29 at the gallery in downtown Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org. • Bee Sieburg will demonstration oil painting with canvas and board from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at Haywood County Arts Council Gallery & Gifts in Waynesville. HaywoodArts.org. • The Sylva Photo Club will present Cathy Anderson’s Extreme Sports and Adventure Photography at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Cullowhee United Methodist Church. Suggested donation for visitors: $5. Sylvaphotoclub.wordpress.com, Sylva Photo Club on Facebook or sylvaphotoclub@gmail.com. • “An Evening with Ruth E. Carter” is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center in Cullowhee. Carter has designed and created costumes for more than 40 stage and screen productions, and she’s a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences. Tickets: Free for WCU students, $10 for all non-WCU students and $15 for general admission. 227.2479 or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• Quilters are invited to participate in “A Heavenly Quilt Walk,” which will be held Sept. 21-22 at downtown churches in Franklin. www.smokymtnquilters.org.

• An exhibit on photographer William A. Barnhill is on display through Sept. 14 at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center in Cullowhee. Barnhill documented 20th century regional craftsmanship. 227.7129.

• Registration is underway for a retreat featuring artists Judith Kruger and Chris Liberti from Oct. 22-27 at Lake Logan Conference Center in Haywood County. Kruger’s workshop is “Abstract Alchemy” while Liberti’s is “Strengthening the Foundation: Color, Value, Composition and Surface.” www.cullowheemountainarts.org or 342.7899.

• An exhibition for artisans Wanda Davis-Browne and Judy McManus will continue through Oct. 6 at Gallery 1 in Sylva. Davis-Browne’s photos are inspired by the diverse natural patterns and colors of nature, primarily flora. A glass artist, McManus was invited to join working artists at Jackson County’s Green Energy Park in Dillsboro in 2010. She also teaches classes and

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FILM & SCREEN • “BlacKkKlansman” is showing at 7 p.m. on Sept. 56 at The Strand On Main. See www.38main.com for tickets. • “Book Club”, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 6 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555. • “Upgrade”, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 13 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555.

HIRING PART-TIME POSITIONS FOR FALL AND WINTER MONTHS · Must be at least 16 years old · Must possess current lifeguarding certification through an accredited entity · Lifeguard courses are offered at the Waynesville Recreation Center for those seeking lifeguard certification. · First 5 applicants will receive half off certification pricing · Applications can be found online at www.waynesvillenc.gov or stop by the Waynesville Rec Center

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• The Highlands Plateau Audubon Society will search for migrating birds at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Meet at 7 a.m. at Founders Park in Highlands are at 7:30 a.m. at Cashiers Recreation Center. www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org. • “Fall Migration Bird Walk” – a moderate Chimney Rock Naturalist Niche Hike – is scheduled for 7:30-10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 15, at Chimney Rock State Park. $23 adults; $8 for annual passholder; $13 youth (ages 5-15) and $6 per Rockin’ Discovery Passholder. Visit an area typically not open to the public. Advance registration required: chimneyrockpark.com. • The Cradle of Forestry in America will hold a daylong celebration of the monarch butterfly from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 16, in Pisgah National Forest. www.cradleofforestry.com.

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• “Intro to Fly Fishing” will be offered to ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 18 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• “Cherokee Culture” - part of the Zahner Lecture Series – will be presented at 6 p.m. on Sept. 6 at the Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221.

• “Casting for Beginners: Level I:” will be offered for ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 20 at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• Reservations are being accepted for the 2018 Fly Fishing Hall of Fame ceremony, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 7, at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. Induction and ceremony are set for 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. on Sept. 8. Cost: $35. RSVP: info@greatsmokies.com or 488.3681.

• A National Hunting and Fishing Day event will be offered from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Sept. 22 for ages 12up at the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: https://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• A river cleanup of the Little Tennessee is scheduled for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at Big Bear Park in Franklin. 524.2711 or sburdette@mainspringconserves.org. • Volunteers are being sought for work days on the Reasonover Creek Trail from 8:45 a.m.-1 p.m. on Sept. 8 and Oct. 13 in Henderson and Transylvania Counties. llbmwb@gmail.com. • The N.C. Arboretum will host a Monarch Butterfly Day from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, in Asheville. Crafts, butterfly releases, demonstrations. $14 parking fee. www.ncarboretum.org. • Friends of the Greenway will host a “Walk on the Greenway” at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Butterfly Garden behind the Shops at RiverWalk on Highlands Road. $5 suggested donation. Frog28734@gmail.com. • Boating Safety course will be offered from 6-9 p.m. on Sept. 10-11 at Haywood Community College in Clyde. Must attend both meetings. Pre-registration required: www.ncwildlife.org.

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• The Franklin Appalachian Trail Community Council will meet at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at the Franklin Town Hall. facebook.com/FranklinATCommunity or appalachiantrail.org/home/conservation/a-t-community-program. • Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8 a.m. on Sept. 12. Meet at Salali Lane. Franklinbirdclub.com. • Haywood Waterways Association will hold its annual “Leaders in the Creek” event from 2-4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Canton Recreational Park. Discover what lies beneath the water’s surface, interact with fellow leaders and citizens, understand the importance of clean water. Reserve a spot: 476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org. • “Poetry and the Nonhuman” - part of the Zahner Lecture Series – will be presented at 6 p.m. on Sept. 13 at the Nature Center at the Highlands Biological Station. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2221. • Registration is underway for The Great Smoky Mountains Association’s 2018 Members Appreciation Weekend, which is scheduled for Thursday through Sunday, Sept. 13-16, at Fontana Village. Learn about Eagle and Hazel Creek communities, guided tours and more. $109. Register: https://conta.cc/2lHoLSI.

• Franklin Bird Club will have a bird walk along the greenway at 8 a.m. on Sept. 19. Meet at the Macon County Public Library parking area. Franklinbirdclub.com.

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Registration is underway for the Tour de Cashiers, which is Saturday, Sept. 15. Options include 25-mile, 62-mile and 100-mile for cyclists and 5K for runners. $30-$50 through Aug. 26; prices rise afterward. www.tourdecashiers.com. • Registration is underway for the 12th annual Power of Pink 5K run/Walk/Dog Walk that will be held on Saturday, Sept. 29, in Waynesville. Proceeds support prevention of breast cancer. Advance registration: $25 (by Aug. 31). Regular registration: $30 (after Aug. 31). Dog registration is $10 per pet. Register at www.gloryhoundevents.com/event/power-of-pink. Info: 452.8343.

FARM AND GARDEN • An upcoming round of seminars will show participants how to grow ginseng. Seminars are scheduled for 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, at the Jackson County Extension Center in Sylva and 6-8 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 17, at the Swain County Extension Center in Bryson City. Registration required: 586.4009 or 488.3848. • “What’s in Season and How Do I Prepare It?” – a cooking demonstration and tasting with John Patterson – is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 13, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Registration required: 356.2507 or kolsen@haywoodnc.net.

FARMERS MARKETS • “Locally Grown on the Green,” the Cashiers farm stand market for local growers, will be held from 3-6 p.m. every Wednesday at the Village Green Commons in Cashiers. info@villagegreencashiersnc.com or 743.3434. • Jackson County Farmers Market runs from 9 to noon on Saturdays at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. • Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market runs from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturdays through the end of October, on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software. 349.2049 or www.facebook.com/franklinncfarmersmarket.

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‘Ironfoot,’ the hermit of Island Park

generally enjoy working in my office, which is situated off the town square in Bryson City. But I find that it’s sometimes worthwhile to get away, if only for a few minutes. Just shut down the computer, turn out the lights, lock the door, and take a walk. Get away, as they say, from it all. My footsteps often lead north up Everett Street and across the bridge over the Tuckasegee River. I almost always pause and look down into the water. When it’s clear, you can catch glimpses of the occasional red horse, smallmouth bass, bream, or trout hovering in eddies over the sandy bottom. It’s sort of like looking down into a natural aquarium from above. Very soothing. Next, I generally turn east down a side street on the far side of the river. A short stroll takes me to a seven-acre tract now known as Bryson City Island Park situated near the railway depot. The island — maintained by the Swain County Parks and Recreation Department — is presently accessed via a 150-foot long swinging bridge that traverses a side channel of the Tuckasegee River. There’s a loop trail on the island that meanders beneath very large holly, oak, tulip poplar, and sycamore trees. Most of

BACK THEN the time I have the entire island to myself. I feel fortunate. After all, not many people can leave their office and within a few minutes escape via a swinging bridge to the solitude of a nearby island. I wouldn’t, in fact, mind living on just such an island. That’s not possible, of course, as it is publicly owned. But a man — a hermit of sorts — did live here Columnist in a shack during the early years of the 20th century. At that time the island didn’t have a name or a swinging bridge. I like to think from time to time about that hermit and his island home here in the mountains of Western North Carolina. His name was Ironfoot Clarke. Not too much is known about Ironfoot. I became aware of him some years ago due to vague allusions circulating among old-timers in Swain County. I talked to many of those older folks, mostly now deceased, and scribbled down the following notes regarding Ironfoot. “Yes, that’s correct,” Buddy Abbott recalled, with a twinkle in his eye, “old

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Editor’s note: This column first appeared in a September 2014 issue of The Smoky Mountain News.

Ironfoot did live on that island. I saw him, but I don’t remember his real given name. He had an artificial foot. That much is certain. The story goes that he was a part of the James Gang and rode with Jesse James. That’s what I heard as a boy growing up. “Ironfoot got his foot shot off in a train robbery was what they said. Then he came here to Bryson City and lived on the island. That’s the story. I didn’t camp out there until Ironfoot was gone, and even then I was apprehensive.” Other long-time residents added bits and pieces to my Ironfoot file. Hazel Fry Sandlin came to town from the Nantahala Gorge in 1914 as an 11-year-old girl. She recalled that Ironfoot’s last name was Clarke, and that he was buried “west of town.” (I haven’t been able to locate Ironfoot’s last resting place.) “Oh yes,” she said, “he had a saddle stirrup attached to his leg where he’d lost that foot. Mr. Clarke never gave anybody any trouble, but our parents didn’t want us near the island because of the dangerous currents, so they told us tales about Ironfoot that made you stay on solid ground. No, I’ve never set foot on that island even though I can see it from my front porch right now.” At the time I was conducting my

Ironfoot investigations, Virginia Freck lived in the house in which she had been born that was, as she put it, “within spittin’ distance” of the island. “Ironfoot lived by himself over there in a house that people these days would call a shack,” she recalled. “It was his home. People said he had been an ‘engineer’ for the James Gang. I supposed that maybe he sometimes drove the trains they robbed, if need be. That sort of engineer. I don’t know. “Mr. Clarke was all right. Some times he would get flooded out of his shack by the river. Then he’d have to climb that big tree over there in order to save himself. Folks would send him food across the water on a wire that was especially attached to the tree for such occasions. He would remain in the tree until the water subsided. Then he would come down and go about his business, whatever that was.” I’ve never discovered what Ironfoot’s “business” was either. My best guess is that he didn’t have any “business” except that provided by living on a semi-isolated island in the mountains. To my way of thinking, it was a pretty good “business.” One could do worse. (George Ellison is a naturalist and writer. He can be reached at info@georgeellison.com.)

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