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CONTENTS On the Cover: Haywood County veteran Kori Osienger, who is disabled after being injured by an IED in Afghanistan, talks about how being a volunteer with Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Western North Carolina has helped her just as much as it’s helped her little. (Page 8) Service is at the core of what members of America’s military are called to do, but that doesn’t mean it all ends with a DD-214. Cory Vaillancourt photo

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New electoral maps approved

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT POLITICS E DITOR he North Carolina General Assembly passed new House, Senate and congressional maps last week, but if the lawsuits — some existing, some perhaps forthcoming — can’t stop them, Western North Carolina’s voters will be on the receiving end of something old, something new, something borrowed and nothing blue.

As indicated in maps proposed by the NCGA late last month, the old House district of Rep. Karl Gillespie (R-Franklin) didn’t change a bit. Comprised of Cherokee, Clay, Graham and Macon Counties, District 120 occupies the far western tip of North Carolina and voted more than 74% for then-President Donald Trump in 2020.

The two House districts east of that, however, will experience a fair bit of change.

Represented by Swain County Republican Mike Clampitt, District 119 used to consist of Jackson and Swain counties, along with a portion of Haywood County.

Now, the district includes Jackson and Swain, along with all of Transylvania County.

Gone is that portion of Haywood, which was given to Rep. Mark Pless (R-Haywood), but Clampitt’s new district still went almost 57 percent for Trump in 2020.

Pless’ 118th District had Madison and Yancey counties, along with outlying areas of Haywood County, but now that he’s responsible for all of Haywood, he no longer counts Yancey as one of his counties. His district remains deeply red, giving Trump more than 63% of the vote in 2020.

Opinion remains divided on whether a split county is an advantage or disadvantage

NC 11th Congressional District (Madison Cawthorn, R-Henderson) OLD NC-11 • Counties: Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford (partial), Swain, Transylvania, Yancey • Population: 782,217 • Trump 2020 vote: 56.1% NEW NC-14 • Counties: Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga (partial), Yancey • Population: 745,670 • Trump 2020 vote: 53.8%

in the General Assembly, but whichever way one leans on the subject, the argument can continue — although the split in the House

districts is gone, now there’s one in the Senate.

The 50th Senate District, represented by

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Franklin Republican Kevin Corbin, used to perfectly overlay the three westernmost House districts, but in a surprise move two towns and 11 precincts in eastern Haywood County were placed in the 47th District.

That includes both Fines Creek precincts, White Oak, Iron Duff, Crabtree, North and South Clyde all six of the Bethel precincts, the Town of Clyde, the Town of Canton and 12,000 voters who went more than 71 percent for Trump in 2020.

Sen. Corbin and Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers both opposed the change on various grounds, but by the time it was proposed there was little that could be done about it. Now, those areas peeled away from Corbin will be represented by Republican Sen. Ralph Hise (R-Mitchell).

Smathers and Corbin both said that they’d work with Hise to ensure that effective representation in that part of Haywood County continues. Pless, who’s worked with Hise before in McDowell and Yancey counties, spoke highly of Hise.

Like Clampitt, Gillespie and Pless, both Corbin (65%) and Hise (64%) remain in safe Republican districts — just like Henderson County Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn.

In one of the most closely watched redraws this year, North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District not only got a new shape, it got a new name — the brand-new 14th Congressional District.

“The North Carolina legislature went to great lengths to study these maps and draw the districts,” Cawthorn told The Smoky Mountain News. “Ultimately, everyone will have their own opinions about the fairness of them, but these are the cards we’ve been dealt. North Carolina is growing and changing — it’s now up to the voters to select their representation based on the maps drawn.”

Substantively, the district isn’t that much

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House District 118 (Mark Pless, R-Haywood)

House District 119 (Mike Clampitt, R-Swain)

• Counties: Haywood, Madison • Population: 83,282 • Trump 2020 vote: 63.1%

• Counties: Jackson, Swain, Transylvania • Population: 90,212 • Trump 2020 vote: 56.6%

Source: northcarolina.redistricitingandyou.org

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Senate District 47 (Ralph Hise, R-Mitchell) • Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell (partial), Haywood (partial), Madison, Mitchell, Watauga, Yancey • Population: 219,135 Source: northcarolina.redistricitingandyou.org • Trump 2020 vote: 64.0%

An analysis by fivethirtyeight.com shows that under the old map with 13 congressional districts, there were six solid red districts, two districts that leaned red, one that leaned blue, four that were solid blue and one true toss-up. That map produced a state congressional delegation of eight Republicans and five Democrats.

The same analysis shows that under the new map with 14 congressional districts, Republicans increased the number of safe districts to eight, with an additional two districts that lean Republican including Cawthorn’s).

Under the new map, no districts lean Democrat, but three are considered safe Dem districts and one true toss-up remains, likely giving Republicans 10 or 11 seats in 2022, despite statewide support for Trump in 2020 totaling 49.93%, compared to Biden’s 48.59%.

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different; gone are McDowell and Polk counties, and that portion of Rutherford that used to be in Cawthorn’s district. Added into the mix is Watauga County — or, at least, that portion of Watauga where nine-term incumbent Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx doesn’t live.

Cawthorn said he’s made substantial progress on a personal goal to travel to all 100 counties in North Carolina and looks forward to visiting his new county of Watauga soon.

He also doesn’t seem concerned that his new NC-14 district is only 53.8% Republican (based on Trump’s 2020 numbers) compared to his old NC-11’s tally of 56.1%.

“The people of Western North Carolina elected me to serve as their representative in 2020,” Cawthorn said. “I’m confident I will maintain the trust of North Carolinians to return to Congress again in 2022.”

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Senate District 50 (Kevin Corbin, R-Franklin) • Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood (partial), Jackson, Macon, Swain, Transylvania, • Population: 213,909 Source: northcarolina.redistricitingandyou.org • Trump 2020 vote: 64.7% 7

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For veterans, service doesn’t stop when uniform comes off

Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Kori Osienger (left) says her little enjoys hanging out with her. Cory Vaillancourt photo

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT POLITICS E DITOR n Veterans Day, we commemorate the service of members of the armed forces of the United States, past and present.

But for some of those veterans, the call to serve persists long after they take off their uniforms for the last time and return to civilian life.

One such veteran in Haywood County demonstrates that call to serve through her volunteer work, which is making a difference in the life of a child.

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ver since she was a little girl growing up in a military family in Florida, Kori Osienger has known exactly what she wanted to do — serve.

“Every time 9-11 rolls around my mom likes to tell that I got off the bus and was like, ‘I have to do something,’” said Osienger, now 32. “I decided I wanted to be an Army medic so during my senior year of high school I went to EMT school, dual-enrolled, and I joined the Army right out of high school as a combat medic.”

Osienger reported to Fort Bragg three days before she turned 19, in 2007. Six weeks 8 later, she found herself in Afghanistan.

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“I was what is called a ’68 Whiskey,’ a combat medic,” she said. “We worked in some trauma rooms. I was the medic for a protective services detail for a while, and then I was attached out with an infantry unit on the front line to assist with female local nationals.”

That year, U.S. casualties began to spike, going from less than 50 a year in the opening stages of the war to more than a hundred a year once Osienger got there.

“It was never slow,” she said. “Every day was something different. I like to say it was the best worst days of my life.”

Over the next four years, U.S. forces regularly logged over 300 fatalities a year, topping out at 496 in 2010.

On her second deployment, Osienger almost became one of them.

“I was injured by an IED. An improvised explosive device hit our Humvee and I ended up with a traumatic brain injury, injured my back, and we lost a couple guys that day too.”

For a long time, Osienger blamed herself.

As a medic, it was her job to bring everybody home, but that day, her job was to comfort dying soldiers in their final moments. In addition to her physical

You can help Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Western North Carolina matches children (“littles”) who could benefit from mentoring by adults (“bigs”) who are ready to help, but there’s always a list of littles hoping that someone like you can spare a few hours a month.

Applying to become a “big” is quick and easy. After a comprehensive background check, personal interview, reference check and short orientation session, a BBBS program manager creates an appropriate pair.

Although couples (married, or not) and women can be paired with boys or girls, men can only be paired with boys, which sometimes leads to boys waiting for their big to appear. BBBS of WNC operates programs out of 18 different offices, in almost every Western North Carolina county and community. For more information on how you can help a child near your home, visit bbbswnc.org or facebook.com/bbbswnc. In Haywood or Madison counties, contact Program Manager Martha Barksdale at 828.273.3601 or by emailing haywood@bbbswnc.org.

injuries, Osienger also experiences post-traumatic stress disorder.

“There’s generalized anxiety, certain things bring on flashbacks, panic attacks,” she said.

Her service dog, Battle, helps with that, but there is something else that helps her deal with the effects of PTSD. Osienger is rated by the VA as 100% disabled, so she doesn’t really have to work, but that same little girl who got off the school bus in 2001 wanting to do something about 9-11 now spends her time serving as a volunteer in her Haywood County community.

“I do Big Brothers/Big Sisters here, and I love it. I was just kind of googling things to volunteer, to be able to do something, get out of the house, and I came across the website,” she said. “I just thought that would be really cool, to be able to help influence kids and be there for them, be a friend for them.”

Founded in 1904, the nonprofit Big Brothers Association merged with the Catholic Big Sisters in 1977 to become Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America, a one-onone mentoring program that matches adults, called “bigs” with children, called “littles.”

Kori Osienger’s “little” is a third grader we’ll call David, and he says they get to do all kinds of fun stuff together.

“She’s nice to me and she picks me up usually,” David said. “I like to paint with her and go putt-putting and paddle boarding.”

David said he’s doing great in school this year and is learning from Osienger how to become a better listener.

Martha Barksdale is the program coordinator for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Haywood and Madison Counties. She made the match between Osienger and her little.

“We look for children that are facing adversity. They could be from a single-parent home. They could have had a recent death in their family. We do have a growing number of children in this community and all communities that live with a grandparent or another relative,” Barksdale said. “They just don’t have opportunities that some kids get, they can’t get out and do a lot of things, so we’re looking for a child that could benefit from more activity.”

Barksdale said the Haywood office runs on an annual budget of between $25,000 and $30,000 a year. Bigs don’t get paid for their service, but littles don’t have to pay for the program, either. Right now, there are 33 pairs of bigs and littles in Haywood County.

Over the past 2 years, as bigs and littles cycle in and cycle out of the program, there have been a total of 55.

Some bigs, like Osienger, find that they benefit from BBBS as well.

“Well that’s the beautiful thing about Big Brothers/Big Sisters,” Barksdale said. “The volunteer gets as much or more out of this relationship as the child.”

Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Western North Carolina is always looking for more bigs — especially men — to pair with their littles.

For more information, visit bbbswnc.org.

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day. We felt the momentum over the last couple of weeks and it crescendoed today.

Our tent was lively. We saw people coming.

It was about the issues. The people of Maggie Valley have spoken. And the things that we ran on the RV parks outside, the campgrounds outside the city limits, the Ghost Town issue, the zoning issues. That’s what it was about, the people spoke,” said Hinton following his win.

Owens, a U.S. Navy veteran, has made Western North Carolina his home for the last 20 years, living in Maggie Valley for the last seven. Prior to retirement, he spent 45 years working in the travel and tourism industry.

Most recently, he worked as vice president of Biltmore Estate for 14 years. He also worked as vice president for SeaWorld of Florida, and SeaWorld of San Diego. Owens founded and was the first chairman of the Tourist Industry Retail Merchants Association.

“I’m humbled by the amount of Maggie Valley voters that turned out at this election. I think if we check, it’s probably going to be a record, which tells me that the people in Maggie Valley decided to get out and vote their conscience and we’re humbled by it.

We’re excited about it, and we look forward to doing our best to serve them,” said Owens following the election results.

Conversation and debate leading up to the election in Maggie Valley centered on growth and development. Two major topics within that realm are the development of Ghost Town in the Sky and other projects by developer Frankie Wood, as well as the ability of food trucks to operate in the valley.

The current board has been divided about Wood’s plans for development in Maggie Valley. While there is general enthusiasm about the possibility of revitalizing Ghost Town in the Sky, Mayor Mike Eveland has not

voted to approve any zoning requests by Wood and has openly criticized Wood’s plans for development in Maggie. Following heated public input against Wood’s development plans at the October Board of Aldermen meeting, Alderwoman Patel voted against two of Wood’s zoning requests.

Hinton has expressed skepticism at some of Wood’s development prospects in Maggie Valley outside of Ghost Town.

“I want to see smart growth, smart investment. Campgrounds are not smart growth.

We want to see homes built,” Hinton said.

“I’d love to see Ghost Town redeveloped. I’d love to see it be a place that you could bring people, but I’ve yet to see a comprehensive plan of how that would work, a comprehensive plan that would not include a burden on the taxpayers of Maggie Valley.”

Maggie Valley has long been a top tourist destination in Western North Carolina, even without the infamous, on-again off-again theme park, Ghost Town in the Sky. For the fiscal year ending in June 2021, the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority reported that over $2.5 million in occupancy tax revenue came from Maggie Valley, which amounted to 48% of all collections.

Owens has stressed the importance of Maggie Valley completing its Unified Development Ordinance. Currently the town planner and the planning board are drafting the town’s first UDO. “I think one of the keys to us continuing to be able to develop new businesses, and residences for that matter, in Maggie Valley is to complete the UDO. It’s been a long time getting that done. It’s not an easy task, I understand that. But, in order to give developers, both residential and commercial, the tools they need to develop a property that falls within our ordinances, this is critical to me,”

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Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers (left) leads Sen. Thom Tillis through Canton, touring the damage caused by deadly flooding this past August.

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markedly lower turnout. There were also 19 write-in votes.

That same election year, Kristina Smith led a four-way contest by a large margin

and came away with 270 votes. James Markey came in second, but resigned midway through his term due to a change in residency. Shepard won a special election to

serve out the remainder of Markey’s term.

This year, Shepard topped the list with 137 votes. Smith was close, with 126.

Challenger Matt Langston, a music producer and relatively new resident of Canton, came away with 49 votes.

Langston, Shepard, Smathers and Smith all filed to run for office in July.

When they did so, they couldn’t have known that deadly flooding along the Pigeon River would drastically alter the agenda, and thrust them into a largely unfamiliar world of federal and state disaster declarations.

Since the Aug. 17 deluge that killed six and flooded parts of Bethel, Canton, Cruso and Clyde, Smathers, Shepard and Smith — along with incumbents Dr. Ralph Hamlett and Mayor Pro Temp Gail Mull — have led recovery efforts. Voters recognized that, but now they’ll all be faced with some tough decisions about how to proceed after their downtown took on four feet of water for the second time in less than two decades.

Results are unofficial.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT POLITICS EDITOR he mountain mill town known for its downtown rejuvenation as well as its “grit and grace” in the face of tragedy may still be recovering from the raging floodwaters of the Pigeon River, but on Nov. 2, voters night kept the town government on solid ground.

“It feels good to have this over, and Kristina and Tim and I look forward to getting back to work,” said Canton Mayor Zeb Smathers.

Smathers will go on to serve another four-year term as Canton’s mayor after winning his second unopposed election. In 2017, then-Alderman Smathers garnered 294 votes while outgoing Mayor Mike Ray, who didn’t file to run, received 60 write-in votes. This year, Smathers fell short of that total with 157 votes in a contest with

said Owens. “Going forward we need to make sure that we’re balancing the needs of new businesses and residents and our visitors. I think all three groups have a stake in what happens in Maggie Valley.”

Another issue the public has been very vocal about, and the Board of Aldermen has discussed at length — food trucks. Maggie Valley is currently undergoing a food truck pilot program intended to determine the interest in and the viability of permitting food trucks to operate in Maggie Valley. The pilot program began in October and will run through the end of December at which time the town board will reassess the issue.

On the current board, Mayor Mike Eveland has stood alone in his opposition to food trucks in the valley, even voting against the pilot program. Eveland fears food trucks would pose a serious threat to restaurants in Maggie Valley in the form of competition.

Hinton seems to be of the same view as Eveland, potentially creating a 3-2 split on the issue of food trucks among the future board.

He has said the pilot program is a good idea to gather information about the impact of food trucks but does not believe allowing them to operate freely would be a smart move for the valley.

“I don’t think that food trucks are a part of smart growth,” said Hinton.

Owens hasn’t taken a definitive stance on food trucks either way but has said he is glad the town undertook the pilot program in order to gain more insight on the possibility of food trucks in Maggie Valley.

“The pilot program is the way to go, I’m anxious to see what the results are,” said Owens. “Before we make a final decision, we need to reach out to more than just the restaurants to get their opinion. We need to know what the residents think.”

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BY HANNAH MCLEOD STAFF WRITER unicipal elections in Maggie Valley drew a record number of voters in a contest that boiled down to growth and investment in the small mountain town.

John Hinton and Jim Owens received the highest number of votes and secured seats on the Maggie Valley Board of Alderman for the next four years. The two newcomers beat out incumbent Alderwoman Twinkle Patel and former Planning Board Chairman Jeff Lee. Voters cast a total of 943 votes for aldermen, compared to 598 in 2019 and 312 in 2017. Hinton was the top vote getter with 326 votes, 34.57% of the ballots cast. Owens was close behind with 310 votes, 32.87% of the ballots cast. Patel garnered 170 votes (18.03%) and Lee received 134 (14.21%).

The Maggie Valley election in 2019 included the race for mayor, which usually results in higher turnout than races solely for the Board of Aldermen. In 2019 the top two vote-getters for the board of aldermen were Tammy Wight and Phillip Wight, with 199 and 197 votes respectively.

Hinton ran on the slogan “open, fairminded leadership for Maggie Valley.” He has been retired for five years, prior to which he spent 30 years with a major automotive supply company. Hinton has served on the board of the North Carolina Trucking Association for over 25 years and is a board member of the Maggie Valley United Methodist Church.

He is a team leader in the risk-taking mission, serving homebound folks with food delivery, errands, transportation, yard maintenance and more. Hinton is a member of the Waynesville Elks Lodge and has been in Maggie Valley since 2011.

“I’m overwhelmed. I don’t know that I’m surprised that we won. Today was a great

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER eating out two incumbent board members, Natalie Newman took the top spot in last week’s Sylva Board of Commissioners election.

She and incumbent Mary Kelley Gelbaugh, who came in second, will serve through 2025. Mayor Lynda Sossamon ran unopposed and will also remain on the board.

“I did a lot of campaigning,” Newman said. “We really tried to get my name out there and let people know who I am, and that’s the biggest thing, I think, is name recognition — to let people see your name and know that you really want it. I think that’s what it came down to.”

Newman ran a write-in campaign in 2019, but this is her first time appearing on a ballot.

When new commissioners are sworn in at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 9, she will become the first woman of color to hold elected office in Sylva. Danny Allen became the first African American to hold elected office in Jackson County when he joined the town board in 2001, said Town Manager Paige Dowling.

At 29, Newman is also one of the youngest — if not the youngest — people to win the position. However, Sylva has a tradition of electing younger people to its leadership board.

Gelbaugh was 34 when she won her first election in 2013, and Commissioner David Nestler was 30 when first elected in 2015.

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Unofficial Election Day totals had Newman in first place with 141 votes, or 29.38% of the total cast. Gelbaugh secured 125 votes in the unofficial tallies, edging fellow incumbent Barbara Hamilton by just five votes.

Carrie McBane finished fourth with 79 votes, and Luther Jones, whose decision to

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Natalie Newman........141 votes (29.38%) Mary Kelley Gelbaugh ........125 (26.04%) Barbara W. Hamilton ...............120 (25%) Carrie McBane ......................79 (16.46%) Luther Jones............................15 (3.13%)

withdraw from the race came after the deadline to remove his name from the ballot, received 15 votes.

Results won’t be final until the Jackson County Board of Elections completes its canvass, beginning at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 12.

However, the ranking is unlikely to change.

The margin between Gelbaugh and Hamilton falls outside the 1% distance required to trigger a recount, and the board will have only two provisional ballots and one absentee ballot to review Nov. 12 — not enough to overcome the five-vote separation.

While narrow, the results are infinitely more decisive than those of the 2015 and 2019

Natalie Newman.

Mary Kelley Gelbaugh. elections — both years, a coin toss was required to decide between two tied candidates. The 2021 election was more contentious than 2017, when Gelbaugh and Hamilton retained their seats after running unopposed.

Voter turnout clocked in a 16.5%, with 249 of 1,511 registered voters casting a ballot

— slightly less than the 256 people who voted in 2019.

The next four years could well prove pivotal for the small town, not least due to the N.C. 107 road project. The new commissioners will see Sylva through a period that will include a hugely disruptive right-of-way process and the first year and a half of a construction process estimated to last three to four years.

Other key issues will include guiding trail development and tourism at Pinnacle Park, addressing ongoing labor and housing shortages, and continuing to shepherd Sylva through the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic recovery. The new town board will also inherit the deep divisions left behind following last year’s debates about the proper framing of Confederate history and an ongoing conversation about what law enforcement should look like in the small town.

In a pre-election interview, Gelbaugh said that her top three priorities if re-elected would be to complete the sidewalk project on Skyland Drive, support businesses adversely affected by the N.C. 107 project, and improve affordable housing options. Newman named the Allen Street project, housing and labor shortage issues, and acting as a listening ear for community members as her top priorities.

Dillsboro, Forest Hills and Webster also held elections last week. All candidates in those contests ran unopposed.

Triple-Win Climate Solutions: Answers to quiz “Test Your Climate Knowledge” Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. —William Wordsworth, 1798 1) Answer c: Climate is defined as the average weather for a large region of Earth and time period, usually three decades. See NASA, Climate page.

2) Answer b: Since the 1880s, when industries proliferated, Earth’s temperature has risen over 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit. A rise to1.5 and above means even worse extreme weather. North America suffers some of the worst effects.

3) Answer d: Burning fossils in industrial production, including electricity, causes more global warming emissions than other sectors, but these contribute significantly: In the US in 2019, transportation (industrial trucks as well as private vehicles) caused 29%, electricity production 25% plus other industry 23%; and agriculture 10%.

NASA Climate, “Causes,” and the Union of Concerned Scientists’ “How Do We Know that Humans Are the Major Cause of Global Warming?”

Jul 14, 2009; updated Jan 21, 2021 4) Money and power are strong motives for acting against the public’s best interests. Executives of major US fossil fuel corps stonewalled or lied outright to Congress this month and last. See Scientific American Oct. 26, 2015: “Exxon Knew About Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago.” Over 19771978, Exxon’s lead scientist warned its executives that oil and gas extraction were the main cause of climate change. So Exxon fired its scientists and hired “communication” and “marketing” experts.

Since 2016 Exxon has spent over “$30 million on think tanks that promote climate denial.” It donates to Republican and Democratic candidates, but more to Republicans.

5) Answer b: A 2018 Republican-led House panel condemned Russian online disinformation for persuading some Americans to think climate change is a “liberal hoax.”

The Guardian, “The Disinformation Age: A Revolution in Propaganda” and “How Russia Used Social Media to Divide Americans” 6) Answer d. Hurricanes and wildfires, flooding, droughts and crop failures are all worsened by climate change.

We in WNC see all of these, most recently the flash floods in Cruso, Bethel, and Canton that killed six people, made hundreds homeless, damaged businesses, washed away crops, contaminated the Pigeon River with poisons, and did millions of dollars’ damage, at least $10.5 million to Haywood County Schools alone.

7) Answer d. The American Lung Association (ALA) found that the pollutants that increase global warming also increase numbers of premature births, childhood asthma, and under-developed lungs in children. ALA “Children and Air Pollution.”

North Carolina Health News Feb. 1, 2021: Coal ash pits damage the health of people near them.

EPA report, 2014: “Long-term exposure can lead to liver and kidney damage, cardiac arrhythmia, and a variety of cancers.”

8) Answer d. Peer-reviewed scientific articles,

with sources, are read by experts in the same field; the original research can be duplicated by independent scientists. The most unbiased journal review is from a “blind” submission (author’s name unknown to reviewers). Definitions are in mainstream dictionaries.

9) Answer c. At least 97 percent of climate scientists agree that global warming is humancaused. See NASA “Scientific Consensus: Earth's Climate Is Warming.”

10) Answer a. The costliest electricity production is coal-fired. See Forbes Magazine March 26, 2019, “The Coal Cost Crossover: 74% Of US Coal Plants Now More Expensive Than New Renewables, 86% By 2025.”

11) Answer d. In subsidies, we US taxpayers give fossil fuel corporations about $15 billion annually, but there is more: “Currently, experts estimate that direct subsidies to the fossil fuel industry total around $20 billion every year, $15 billion of that from the federal government. Indirect subsidies — policies that aren’t targeted at fossil fuel corporations specifically but still benefit them — total a whopping $649 billion per year in the US alone.” Fossil companies wouldn’t make profits without taxpayer handouts.

See North Carolina Health News Feb. 1, 2021: “Under a settlement announced last week [end of January] by Attorney General Josh Stein, Duke Energy will bear partial costs of cleaning up coal ash from unlined pits. That work through 2030 is estimated to cost roughly $4 billion, so customers will still be footing three-quarters of the

bill.” We pay $3 billion through state government taxes for cleaning up what Duke knew was damaging citizens’ health; Duke pays $1 billion.

12) Answer b, with a caveat. The easiest, cheapest cuts in atmospheric CO2 come from planting more trees and restoring lost forests.

However, trees alone cannot begin to mitigate climate change enough. Nations must cut carbon and methane emissions to benefit their economies and people’s health.

We must transition to lower-cost solar, mostly, for electricity; discourage development in high-risk areas, plan for water scarcity, make buildings energy efficient, and more. See, for example, Union of Concerned Scientists, Climate – Solutions.

For a clear explanation of costs-benefits, see Yale Climate Connections, “Can the Economy Afford Not to Fight Climate Change?”

The WNC Climate Action Coalition is an allvolunteer group working to mitigate the effects of the climate crisis in our region.

By WNC CAC volunteer, co-founder and Triple-win. wncclimateaction.com Editor Mary Jane Curry, co-founder WNC Climate Action Coalition; and Climate Reality® Leader MJCinWNC@gmail.com Twitter: @WncAction

King, Augustine elected to Bryson City board

but moved to Bryson City in 2001. As a sales representative for a kayak manufacturer, he has a love of the outdoors and holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from WCU. Working on the town’s water and sewer infrastructure will conSteven Augustine tinue to be the top priority for the Bryson City Board of Aldermen. The town recently implemented a moratorium on new water and sewer connections until it can get a handle on its water loss and sewer infiltration issues.

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Only 10% of Bryson City residents cast a ballot in this year’s municipal election, which is not unusual for the small town.

In 2019, only about 8% of voters went to the polls. The 2017 municipal election saw 23% voter turnout, but the increase could be attributed to an alcohol referendum that also appeared on the 2017 ballot.

Incumbent Ben King will return to the board for his second term after once again being the top vote-getter with 80 votes (43%).

The other vacant seat left by Alderman Janine Crisp, who decided not to run for reelection, will be filled by newcomer Steven Augustine. He received 62 votes (33%).

Candidate John Marc Gallagher came in third with 38 votes.

King, 32, is the owner of Bryson City Outdoors on the corner of Everett and Main streets. He graduated from Swain High School and earned a marketing degree from Western Carolina University.

Augustine, 40, is from Orlando, Florida,

My career began in 1976 and I have worked for Sheriffs Jack Arrington, Tom Alexander and Bob Suttles.

During my 35 years of law enforcement experience in Haywood County, I have held the following positions:

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Horton has plenty of experience in local government after serving as county manager in Macon and Haywood counties.

Horton was elected to the Franklin Town Council in 2019. With two more years remaining on his term, the new town council board will be tasked with appointing someone to fill his unexpired term.

During a candidate forum held at the Macon County library last month, all candidates were asked how they would go about making the appointment if elected to the board. Guffey said he would be willing to fill the vacancy with the fourth top vote getter in the election to allow the residents to select the board member.

Culpepper agreed that all the candidates running for office were well-qualified and would make a great addition to the board but said it would ultimately be up to the new board as a whole to make that decision.

Salain agreed, stating that she’d like to keep it open to the public because there could be other qualified residents willing to serve that didn’t want to run a campaign.

If the board does agree to appoint the fourth candidate on the ballot, it would be Frances Seay, who received nearly 18% of the vote.

Out of Franklin’s 3,789 residents registered to vote, 886 (23.4%) cast a ballot in the Nov. 2 election. The 2019 Franklin election was similar — 873 votes — but that’s still double the turnout compared to 2017 election when only 12 percent of residents cast a ballot for their municipal leaders.

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The Town of Franklin elected one incumbent and two newcomers to the town council board during the Nov. 2 municipal election.

Incumbent David Culpepper was elected to a second term with 265 votes (24.6% of the vote).

Stacey Guffey — also seeking his first term on the board — received the Rita Salain exact same number of votes as Culpepper, according to the unofficial results.

Just a few votes ahead of Culpepper and Duffey, Rita Salain was elected to her first term on the board with 268 votes (24.9% of Stacey Guffey the vote) — making her the top vote getter.

Jack Horton will serve as Franklin’s next mayor after running unopposed this year.

He will be replacing long-time Mayor Bob Scott, who decided not to run for another

Larry E. Bryson, former Chief Deputy Haywood County Sheriff's Office, announces that news

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Movement to memorialize lynching victim in Franklin gains momentum

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT POLITICS E DITOR xactly 123 years to the day after a Black man was dragged from his cell in Franklin and hung from a bridge at the edge of town, a group of activists took the first step in attempting to reckon with Macon County’s most infamous lynching.

“We are here to remember his life, we are here to remember his death, we are here to remember the manner of his death and I think we are here to make his death mean something,” said John deVille, one of the event organizers.

On Nov. 6, deVille and local historian Claudia Aguilar led about 25 people through Franklin, retracing the route taken by a mob of between 150 and 300 citizens on Nov. 6, 1898.

Starting at the courthouse while literally leaning on the Charters of Freedom displayed prominently outside, deVille and Aguilar recounted the story of Mitchell Mozeley, a Black man who’d been arrested for a series of alleged burglaries and assaults.

Walking down Phillips Street, past the Confederate monument that still lords over downtown Franklin, deVille and Aguilar paused at the town’s historic jail, from whence Mozeley was abducted.

Then, back up on East Main Street, the group marched down the big hill in the cold, dark November air — much like Mozeley must’ve.

“It makes me think about what he must’ve been feeling,” Aguilar said. “Did he have a wife? Was he thinking about her? Was he thinking about how she was going to carry on after this, without her husband? With her husband remembered as a criminal? It just makes me think about his family.”

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During the walk, deVille tried to imagine what it would have been like to have been in the same place, at the same time, 123 years ago.

“I think it was jubilant for everybody, except for Mitch Mozeley,” he said. “There’s mob jubilation, because that’s what you just see at every lynching. It’s a celebration. It is a victory for white body supremacy, not white supremacy, but white body supremacy. It becomes a message, a cautionary tale to African-Americans not to cross paths with whites.”

Almost nothing is known about Mozeley, except for the gruesome details of his death.

Mozeley wasn’t so much murdered as he was erased from history; census records don’t definitively point to his origin, details on any surviving family are sketchy and his final resting place remains unknown.

There is, however, a story that deVille calls “a deeply woven piece of Macon County lore” that says that after Mozeley was cut down from the iron bridge, his body was boiled in a cauldron.

While that practice was somewhat common in the days before widespread electricity and modern refrigeration, what supposedly happened next is not.

“When the flesh was boiled from the bone,” deVille said, “the skeleton was hung in a prominent Franklin doctor’s office.”

Attempts to document the display have thus far come up empty, but deVille says the story has meaning as long as it lives in the minds of Maconians.

“It sends a message of terror that’s material, that lives long past the actual night,” he said.

“And so the terror lives on 123 years later.”

The march culminated in a small covered pavilion on the

aywood County Public Schools has implemented a new COVID-19 quarantine policy change. In certain cases, students will be required to complete a 10day quarantine, instead of the previous 14day quarantine period (from most recent exposure) for students and staff who are considered close contacts.

This change comes following a careful review of current school policies and the status of COVID-19 as it impacts public health in Haywood County and the greater Western North Carolina region.

“We appreciate the ongoing meetings and conversations with local public health officials,” said Dr. Bill Nolte, Superintendent. “Our work has resulted in a quarantine modification designed to obtain additional in-person learning time while maintaining safety. As always, we will monitor the modification to determine if additional changes are appropriate.”

The CDC continues to recommend that anyone who has had a close contact to someone who is COVID-positive quarantine for 14 days starting from the last day of any exposure. This has meant 14 days of complete separation from anyone this quaran-

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• If any symptoms develop, they should immediately self-isolate and contact the local public health authority or their healthcare provider to report this change in clinical status.

What does a modified quarantine look like?

• 10 days of quarantine have been completed and no symptoms have been reported during daily at home monitoring.

• If the student/staff remains asymptomatic, they may return to school on day 11.

• Testing is not required to return to school.

• The individual should continue to monitor symptoms and strictly adhere to all-

non-pharmaceutical interventions (e.g. wear a mask, practice social distancing) through the full 14 days after the date of last exposure, both at home and when they go out and about.

• A person can transmit the virus anytime during the 14-day period, but data show this is less after day 10. Therefore, it is important for a student or staff member in quarantine to acknowledge their responsibility in making this protocol achieve the stated goal by remaining at home, separated from other people, including members of their household, as much as possible, during the entire 14-day quarantine period. A student or staff member should not attend other extra- curricular or social activities while they are in the 14-day quarantine period.

They should not participate in activities like sporting events, play dates, parties, social and family gatherings, music or theater performances, and other events where they may come into contact with other people.

• When quarantined, you will be asked to sign a statement that shows a commitment to all the requirements of this protocol change.

The Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency and Haywood County Schools will closely monitor the impact of this change and review the results after 30 days to decide whether this protocol continues to advance our goal of in-person learning as safely as possible and whether this protocol change should be continued or can be further modified.

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banks of the Little Tennessee River, not far from the bridge where Mozeley’s murder took place. Although marchers left flowers on the bridge in memory of Mozeley, they plan to do much more to ensure the incident is not forgotten.

“Macon County is proud of its history, proud of what their grandfathers did,” said Aguilar, who was born and raised in Macon County. “Their grandfathers did this.”

Aguilar and deVille went on to issue a call to action, saying they’d advocate for the passage of an anti-lynching bill like the one introduced into Congress in 2020.

Called the Emmett Till Antilynching Act,

the bill was stymied singlehandedly by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), who prevented it from being passed by unanimous consent.

Aguilar and deVille are also calling for “something” to be placed in Rankin Square, home to the 112-year old Confederate monument at the center of protests last summer.

Neither DeVille nor Aguilar are in favor of removing the monument, but both want context.

Aguilar said she thought the so-called “Cornerstone speech” would be ideal.

In 1861, then-Confederate Vice President Alexander Stevens told an audience in Savannah that the new Confederate government’s “cornerstone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.”

Finally, Aguilar and deVille reemphasized their desire that the lynching monument created by the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, be brought home to Macon County.

Although they hadn’t yet spoken to county or city elected officials about the monument, deVille said he’d hoped to do so privately, before presenting them with the idea in an open meeting. deVille also said that he hadn’t yet spoken to Macon County’s small Black community about the idea, saying that the events of last summer had left many of them shaken and cautious about speaking out on racial issues.

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Claudia Aguilar, who helped organize the march, is calling for action to commemorate Mitchell Mozeley’s death. Cory Vaillancourt photo

tined person could expose should they become positive themselves.

Current CDC guidance also offers options to modify the requirements of the quarantine period. This new guidance reflects those options and allows the school system to balance the concerns of in-person learning and safety.

“We in public health are committed to the health and safety of our community and have made in-person learning our priority when working with Haywood County Schools administration. We realize the importance of keeping children in the classroom and are making every effort to do so.

We will continue to work closely with school administration to assess the situation, provide guidance, and re-evaluate if need be,” said Sarah Henderson, public health director.

Universal masking within the school system along with isolation for those who become infected and quarantine for those at high risk of becoming infected after a close contact exposure has resulted in decreasing and nearly eliminating school-based transmission.

Asymptomatic, unvaccinated, close contacts can discontinue at-home quarantine at 10 days only if the following criteria are met: • No clinical evidence of COVID-19 has been elicited by daily symptom monitoring during the entirety of quarantine up to the time at which quarantine is discontinued; AND, • Daily symptom monitoring continues through quarantine Day 14; AND, • Persons adhere strictly to all recom-

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Tribal officials cut the ribbon for the Valley River Casino and Hotel on its opening day in 2015. Holly Kays photo

Cherokee announces record casino profits, plans for expansion

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER n the space of two days last week, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians announced its biggest per capita distribution and approved a loan agreement for a $275 million expansion to the Valley River casino in Murphy.

On Dec. 1, tribal members will receive checks worth $8,840 — or $7,514 after taxes — from casino profits earned from April 1 through Sept. 30. Unsurprisingly, the number dwarfs the pre-tax distribution of $4,889 from the pandemic-struck period that formed last December’s checks, but it also clocks in 22.5% higher than the $7,214 sent out in December 2019 — at the time, a record-high number.

This is due both to higher revenues and decreases in operational expenses required earlier in the pandemic, said EBCI Secretary of Finance Cory Blankenship. In 2020, the casinos closed completely from March 18 to May 12 — the first closure in the tribe’s 23year gaming history — reopening initially with strict capacity, social distancing, masking and cleaning regimens in place.

“Both casinos performed very well throughout the fiscal year, which ended on September 30,” said casino spokesperson Brian Saunooke. “When compared to the prior year period, the resort in Cherokee was responsible for 65% of the increased distribution to the tribe.”

The casino enterprise is owned by the EBCI. Half the profits go to tribal operations, with the other half divided evenly between tribal members. Checks are distributed in June and December.

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2020 and 17% higher than 2019, Saunooke said. The increased per capita distributions come despite a 0.79% increase in the number of tribal members receiving them since last year. In December 2020, the distribution had 16,014 certified shares, growing to 16,140.8 for next month’s distribution, Blankenship said. In December 2018, distributions were divided among 15,708.5 shares.

Because the December distribution is based on profits earned from April 1 through Sept. 30, the increased doesn’t reflect early success from the new Cherokee Convention Center, which opened Oct. 1. In its first month, the convention center hosted 28 groups, and the attached 725-room hotel tower kept 97% occupancy, Saunooke said.

However, the casino is still struggling to hire workers, with about 500 positions now open.

Non-tipped roles start at $15 per hour, with Harrah’s offering hiring bonuses up to $3,000.

PLANS FOR VALLEY RIVER The distribution announcement was certainly good news for the tribe and its members, but Cherokee’s casino enterprise isn’t resting on its laurels. Just half a year after the $330 million expansion in Cherokee — bringing the resort up to 2.56 million indoor square feet — the Tribal Casino Gaming Enterprise hopes to break ground on a $275 million expansion to the Valley River Casino and Hotel in Murphy.

“You’ve got to keep your facility state-ofthe-art to stay competitive in these markets,” loan facilitator Gina Jacobs told Tribal Council when presenting the amended and restated loan agreement Nov. 4. “I commend you for what the TCGE board has done and what the tribe has done to continue to update these facilities, expand these facilities.”

Tribal Council approved a master plan for the expansion during its July 8 meeting. On Nov. 4, it approved the loan agreement necessary to allow the TCGE to borrow money and start construction, though three members — Vice Chairman Albert Rose, along with

Wolfetown Representatives Bill Taylor and Bo Crowe — voted against it.

Saunooke declined to give a projected opening date for the expansion, but TCGE Chairman Tommy Lambert told Tribal Council that he hopes to break ground in February or March, with the loan expected to close Dec. 1.

Also unclear is what exactly the new construction will include. In July, Saunooke told The Smoky Mountain News that key features would include a new hotel tower, restaurant, hotel lobby café, spa and indoor pool, additional gaming space and more parking.

Following the loan agreement’s passage, Saunooke said it was still too early to release specifics, such as the number of square feet, hotel rooms, gaming machines and parking spaces included in the expansion.

The amended and restated loan agreement appeared on the published agenda as a new ordinance, scheduled to be read and tabled for a vote the following month.

However, Tribal Council approved the TCGE’s request to instead hear the legislation as a resolution — which is not subject to the 25-day tabling period — and hear it at the end of the agenda. The same three Council members who voted against the resolution also voted against the request. English Clerk Michelle Thompson and Indian Clerk Myrtle Driver Johnson read the entire resolution into the record, a task that took 53 minutes.

The long read came after a motion to hold the discussion off-air failed by the narrowest of margins. Painttown Representative Dike Sneed asked Tribal Council to cut the broadcast but allow those present to remain in the chambers, so that competing tribes like the Catawba Indian Nation wouldn’t have access to the discussion. However, Big Cove Representative Teresa McCoy pushed back, saying that the resolution document was already available online and that the community has the right to hear their representatives discuss the issue.

Though only five of the 12 members voted to broadcast the discussion, the weighted vot-

ing system brought it to a 50-50 split, leaving Sneed’s resolution dead on the floor.

Then, after the reading finished and Jacobs’ presentation started, Crowe interrupted to ask that the discussion be tabled for a work session.

“We do have some new Tribal Council members, and this is a ton of information. I mean a ton,” agreed Rose. “I know you guys are ready to get started too. I hate to rush into stuff because of the last couple times we have.”

Rose also questioned the accuracy of the $275 million ask, pointing out that the $330 million casino expansion was originally approved as a $250 million project.

Jacobs acknowledged that because of the pandemic, construction is “just a different world,” with costs going up for all manner of materials. However, she said, those escalations are built into the $275 million budget, which is based on preliminary calculations from the architecture firm, JCJ Architecture.

“It won’t be more than $275 (million),” Lambert promised. “We’ll do whatever we need to do to make sure it comes in under $275 (million).”

Chairman Richard French directed Jacobs to continue with her presentation.

THE LOAN TERMS The document restates existing loan terms for the TCGE’s $526 million revolving line of credit and the $330 million delayed term loan the TCGE already holds, adding $275 million for the Valley River expansion under terms similar to those agreed upon for the Cherokee expansion.

The $275 million delayed draw construction loan will allow the TCGE to begin drawing funds as needed during construction. Once the expansion is complete the debt will be converted to a term loan, with $6.875 million in principal payments due each quarter. The tribe will soon start to pay down its debt for the recently completed expansion in Cherokee, with $10 million in principal due each quarter. The loans include a variable interest rate that is currently at 1.84%, Jacobs said.

The agreement also contains provisions under which the principal payments could increase. If the Catawba Indian Nation or a location in Georgia within 200 miles of the Cherokee casinos opens a casino with at least 30 Class III gaming tables and 1,500 Class III slots — and the leverage ratio is more than 2 to 1 — quarterly principal payments would increase to $9.375 million for the Valley River expansion and $11.25 million for the Cherokee expansion.

According to Jacobs, it’s extremely unlikely those terms would kick in. Even if a competing casino comes online in that geographic area, she said, “we don’t believe we’ll ever get out of the 2 to 1 leverage ratio.”

The expansion is unlikely to be the TCGE’s last. The agreement includes an option to increase the borrowing amount by up to $500 million with Tribal Council approval but without closing on a separate loan document. That would ultimately save the tribe money, Jacobs said, bypassing the fees associated with resyndicating a loan.

“Hopefully we’ll continue to expand and grow these properties,” said Jacobs.

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A series of suspected arsons in Buncombe County has drawn the attention of multiple law enforcement agencies, and due to their proximity to Haywood County, Sheriff Greg Christopher is urging residents — especially in rural areas — to remain watchful.

“Farmers fill a pivotal role in our community and their livelihoods depend on the safety of their farms, livestock and equipment. The Sheriff ’s Office wants to do everything in our power to make sure that they are not only physically safe but that their livelihood is protected as well,” Christopher said. “Please continue to stay vigilant and remember that if you see something, say something. We are only a call away and are ready to lend assistance whenever needed.”

Starting around 6: 30 a.m. on Nov. 3, fire departments in Buncombe County began receiving calls about structure fires on Worley Cove Road, Mailon King Road, Gouches Branch near Old Newfound Road, Gilbert Road off New Leicester Highway and the 500 block of Willow Creek Road, all in or near Leicester and just a few miles from the Haywood County line.

No injuries to civilians or first responders have yet been reported as the active arson investigation continues. The Buncombe County Sheriff ’s office reports detectives from the major case division and the property crimes unit are also involved, as are the State Bureau of Investigations’ arson and K9 units.

Fire marshals from Buncombe County, Asheville and Weaverville are also involved.

According to Haywood County Sheriff ’s office spokeswoman Christina Esmay, HCSO has rendered assistance as well.

The fires are not only close to Haywood County, but also hit home for residents of nearby Bethel. Last May, a fire off Coffee Branch Road became the third suspicious fire in east Haywood County in six months.

Previously, a nearby barn and a wood pallet storage facility all went up in smoke.

Those incidents remain unsolved.

Esmay said there’s not yet any evidence linking the Haywood and Buncombe fires, but the investigation remains ongoing.

Anyone with information about the suspected arsons is asked to call the Buncombe County Sheriff ’s Office nonemergency dispatch number, 828.250.6670.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER It’s said that the pun is the lowest form of humor — unless it’s yours.

Begrudgingly, word nerds respect this nuanced interplay of one intentional idiom or expression with the next whether they’re harmonic, dissonant or otherwise. When executed precisely, the result is a glassy I-seewhat-you-did-there moment half-full (due to the simplicity of the damn thing) and halfempty (due to the simplicity of the damn thing).

All that in mind, Sylva fixture Dave Waldrop just dropped what he calls a “mildly acclaimed” collection of whimsical word play, “Roll Your Eyes Now” (Lanier Press, 2021, 31 pages).

Illustrated lavishly by warbly songbird Alma Russ, the work is in itself a minor rebellion against the laws of grammar and logic that lovingly nudges the reader into a brief, welcoming suspension of disbelief.

Let’s pretend, for a moment, that we live in a world absent from the absurdity of humor that relies on outrage to assuage or derisiveness to divide.

Let’s pretend that instead we live in a world filled only with the absurdity of linguistic shenanigans.

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No pun not intended: Dave Waldrop, small-town sage ry, and his dad-esque demeanor, helped him connect with students during his career as an elementary school counselor but also

bemused and befuddled family and friends.

One of his greatest delights, says son Brad in the foreword to the book, is an undetected pun cast into casual conversation.

There’s little secrecy here; Waldrop’s work is lain bare in an honest, handwritten scrawl backdropped by the fantastical imagery of Russ, who paints the world behind the words. That world is strange, colorful and casually familiar. It’s also indispensable to the piece.

Some puns, homographics especially, are essentially verbal sight gags. They benefit from a physical or mental image. Waldrop tells us the eels that make the best students are “more A’s” but it’s Russ’ rendering of a one sitting in a little desk filling out forms that’s amore. While midwestern pilots speak mostly of plains, Russ’ carouse about the sky, in search of plane fun.

If you have any cents, you’ll immediately buy the book at City Lights in Sylva. If you decide to buy the book later, you might as well roll your eyes now – Waldrop’s threatening to release 60 more of his family-friendly puns, and the small-town sage probably came up with a new one while you were reading this sentence.

“I can’t think of anyone I would rather read, talk to, and just be with,” writes Benjamin Woody, on the back cover. “Except for maybe Bob Dylan; but Bob Dylan doesn’t live in Sylva and Dave Waldrop does.”

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This pretend world is simple and peaceful and generally innocent, as are her infant moons made of milky metaphors and cheesy similes.

Perhaps this is why the entire cosmos of so-called “dad jokes” still resonates universally, like the Big Bang – they’re relatively fit to be told by a father to a daughter, or a mother to a sun … errr, son.

You can set your kids into bed at night with puns. You can tell them that you used to be a Wilde thang. You can tell them that your pet chicken wrote mysteries under the pen name of Mont Blanc but her real name was Eggatha Christie and you can tell them that her blood was Type-O. You might even tell them that your favorite first-person account of a tiger attack was a saucy one written by Claude Balls just before you go outside for a breath of fresh Eyre and then sneak off to pour yourself a tall, cold Tequila Mockingbird because you’re still forever Jung.

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Cawthorn’s fears should worry us To the Editor: As each new report comes to light about Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s concealed weaponry, we should be asking how we can help this young man manage his fears before he makes good on his threats.

The Big Lie of a stolen election has unraveled Cawthorn’s world. “It’s going to lead to one place, and that’s bloodshed. As much as I am willing to defend our liberty at all costs, there’s nothing I would dread doing more than having to pick up arms against a fellow American.”

Is it GOP talking points or those of Christian nationalists that drive Cawthorn’s fears? Cawthorn was eight years old when Michael Farris and conservative Christian nationalists launched the Generation Joshua or “GenJ” movement to create “a new generation of moral leadership” in government.

(Learn more about their mission at www.generationjoshua.org) You may know Farris from his successful effort to legalize homeschooling in every state or as the founder and president of the evangelical Patrick Henry College — the very same institution that feeds Washington, D.C., its young evangelical staffers and from which Cawthorn dropped out as an academic failure in his first semester.

Cawthorn’s words and actions give us reason to predict a deadly outcome as his fears rise and as opposition to his extreme views increases. Cawthorn’s refusal to hold in-person, in-district town halls might be the only public safety policy we’ll hear from this armed, immature young man who threatens

massacre, the Rosewood, Florida, massacre, etc. etc. Then there are thousands of lynchings; some documented at the museum and memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, which I visited.

Previously, I had learned that Christopher Columbus killed off native people and that the U.S. systematically kept driving Native Americans from their lands. However, I learned none of this in school. In school, I learned that Columbus was a great discoverer and that white folks righteously colonized the continent from coast to coast. In school, I also learned that the Civil War was about state’s rights and not slavery. In short, Guest Columnist my whitewashed education left me ignorant of my country’s real history — both the good and especially the bad.

CRT is not taught in schools, but neither is the real history of our nation. Our children and grandchildren should be taught the truth. They are not snowflakes so delicate that they need to be sheltered from reality.

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here has been a lot of hype about Critical Race Theory (CRT) — most of it false. CRT actually involves very sophisticated scholarship about how race and racism have been connected to legal, social and economic systems and events. It is not something that could or would be taught even at the high school level.

What is also not taught in school is our nation’s real history involving some of the racist behaviors of leaders and others throughout the 400 years since the first white settlers arrived.

I was at least 40 years old before I ever learned about the Trail of Tears where Andrew Jackson forced Native Americans living east of the Mississippi River to walk to Oklahoma. The guy on your 20-dollar bill was responsible for thousands of people dying on that forced march. Genocide? Maybe.

It was only about a year ago that I learned about the Tulsa race massacre where white folks in Tulsa literally obliterated, with fire and bombs, a prosperous African American community. Genocide? Definitely!

Then, I learned Tulsa was not the only massacre. There was the Colfax, Louisiana, massacre, the Wilmington, North Carolina, massacre, the Atlanta massacre, the Elaine, Arkansas,

LETTERS fellow Americans when their facts clash with his lies.

Holding our leaders accountable has fallen out of fashion, but as Generation Joshua leadership touts, it is actually part of wishing them ultimate good. Their training instructs that we don’t want our leaders to be instruments of injustice or evil and that we should let them know that.

Remember Cawthorn’s December 2020 speech when he said that we should lightly threaten our congressmen to overturn the election and to tell them that Madison Cawthorn and everybody’s coming after them unless they support “election integrity?” His speech was at Turning Point USA, another Christian nationalist organization whose mission is to train and organize high school and college students to “promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.” (Learn more about their campus activities at www.tpusa.org.)

Generation Joshua offers good advice on recovering from election losses and how to move forward — advice which alas, is the road untraveled by Cawthorn. Instead of tweeting “Cry more lib,” it suggests we “build genuine relationships and show sincere care for (our opponents) as people. They’ll never listen to you if you are hateful.” Seems true, right?

In closing, Cawthorn has proven a poor match for turbulent times that require thoughtful, caring action. Expect him to continue the Big Lie and fundraise off out-of-district contributors. Expect more weaponry and more outrageous behavior as a subpoena gets closer for his part in the Jan. 6 insurrection planning. And remember that he’ll dread picking up arms against fellow Americans

Yes, there are many good and honorable events in our history. However, there are also the dark and dishonorable events as well. We can take pride in the former, but we need to be aware of the latter to understand current realities.

Bigots and racists have attempted to marginalize those different from themselves throughout our history. In the mid 1800s, Irish immigrants on the east coast and Chinese on the west coast faced discrimination, followed by Italian immigrants some decades later. Most recently Latinos and Muslims have been the targets of bigots and racists.

The white supremacist dog whistlers talk about CRT, parental rights, personal rights, etc., but they never talk about personal responsibility as it relates to the greater good. The diversity of our population is a strength — not a weakness.

We should seek to learn about each other and from each other rather than villainize anyone different from ourselves. People keep saying, “We are better than this,” but I keep wondering if most of us really are.

(Dr. Hoffmann is a retired psychologist with expertise in the assessment of behavioral health conditions and program evaluation. He lives in Waynesville. wncfacts@gmail.com.)

who disagree with him. He recommends stocking up on ammo.

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No guarantee the republic will survive To the Editor: I’ve been giving much thought recently to what the framers had in mind when contemplating the creation of their new country. It wasn’t as if they were in totally unexplored territory. Civilizations had come and gone; some had succeeded, others failed. Did the framers really not have even an inkling of a premonition that a future leader would try to overthrow his own government, or what to do if one did try?

I appreciate more and more the question asked of Benjamin Franklin by a Philadelphia hostess, Mrs. Eliza Powel, after the Constitutional Convention: “What manner of government have you (“you” meaning the government of delegates) bequeathed us, Mr. Franklin?” We’re now obliged to value and ponder seriously, his answer: “A republic, Madam, if you can keep it.” It seems the framers surmised more than we have learned.

We’ve been lulled into believing we live in a functioning democracy, well-managed by “representative” government, guided by a system of “checks and balances,” and safely protected by enforceable common sense laws and principles. That may have been true (or at least more true) at one time, but today’s reality does not reflect (as William Blackstone would say) “the embodiment of the moral sentiments of the people.”

James Madison wrote about the complica-

tions of democracies in the Federalist papers.

Many of his revelations stand out. For example: “Pure democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

Neither the Articles of Confederation nor the Constitution seem to establish democracies directly. Under the Articles, Congress is chosen by state legislatures. Under the Constitution, our leaders are elected or are chosen by elected officials. Giving the framers the benefit of the doubt, I’d like to believe they had the best interests of the people in mind when the Constitution was conceived.

On the other hand, they might have been every bit as devious, corrupt and self-serving as many of our politicians are today.

So ... what would the founders say if they were alive today? What would James Madison say to a President who obstructed Congress, violated his oath of office and betrayed the public trust? What would John Adams say to a President who undermined the Constitution and believed himself above the law? What would Alexander Hamilton say to a President who abused the power of his office, spread lies and disinformation, and poisoned our politics? And what would George Washington say to a President who incited a deadly attack on his own Capitol in a last-ditch effort to overturn a free and fair election he lost?

One thing’s certain. The men who mutually pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor would not stick their heads in the sand as so many Americans are doing today.

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something bigger than yourself, not any more or any less important than anyone else.

Yes, you are special. No, you cannot do this by yourself. The world does not revolve around you, regardless of what your parents — and others, maybe — may have led you to believe. The world needs you and your life has meaning, regardless of what your parents — and others, maybe — may have led you to believe.

Kids that need to be humbled are humbled. Kids that need to be lifted up are lifted up. More often than not, it’s the same kid on different days. Our children certainly fit that description. Both have participated in the marching band for a combined seven years and counting, though last year’s season was lost, another cruel COVID casualty. Our daughter had already graduated and moved on, but I was worried about how my son, a member of the drumline, would do without the band as the center of his social and emotional life.

Answer: not great. We all missed the band season, and so many other things, of course, like everyone else.

We were afraid this season might be lost as well, especially when there was a spike of COVID cases among young people back in August. With dozens of students suddenly in quarantine and the community at odds over what to do and how to do it with respect to safety, every practice was an act of faith, a penny tossed into the wishing well. We knew that the season — indeed, the school itself — could be shut down literally any day, any minute.

With that as a context, every day, every practice, every performance felt like a gift.

A week passed, then another week. The show got tighter as the days grew shorter, as the first chill tamed the summer heat, as the first splash of color touched the trees up on Balsam, as T shirts and shorts were swapped for sweatshirts and jeans, as the landscape ripened and then revealed its full palette of brilliant red, orange, and yellows until finally, the first hint of winter pointed its bony finger at the final performance on the calendar, a competition at North Henderson High School in early November.

The performance was just about as perfect as it could be, the culmination of months of hard work and countless hours of practice and persistence, the work of the students, the leaders, the volunteers, and the parents. As the band marched off the field and back toward the bus, some of its members for the last time, parents stood in a row and cheered them on. What a long march it had been, and yet so astonishingly brief.

We will always consider this season a gift, but the truth is they have always been gifts.

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher who lives in Haywood County. jchriscox@live.com.)

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hen practice begins each year for the new high school marching band season, summer is still bearing down, the sun boiling high in the August sky as a bunch of confused teenagers take their first tentative steps toward learning what will eventually become an intricate show with about 10,000 moving parts.

That seems very far away in those first few days. First, way before anything resembling a “performance,” band members must endure a chamber of horrors known euphemistically as “band camp.” For now, the most pressing factors Columnist (other than the oppressive heat) include showing up every day on time, applying and reapplying sun screen, remembering to drink water — lots and lots of water — from the mini-keg thermos purchased at WalMart, getting better acquainted with your instrument and its balky behavior, and learning how to watch for cues and absorb lessons from two patient shepherds, Mr. Wise and Mr. Ingle, who patrol their flock in standard band shepherd gear: polo shirts and khaki shorts.

Once the program is unveiled and the music passed out for the band to learn, the show is still a theory more than a fact. It will be many weeks before the show is ready for competition, and even then new parts will be added until it is completely, miraculously realized. It will be a shocking transformation from these first few days.

Going through a complete band season is like reading a rich, page-turner of a novel.

All the elements are there. The unfolding plot with its assortment of conflicts, dramatic tension, crisis points, and resolution.

The vibrant, colorful settings, arenas packed with fans and competing bands and the sounds of music suffused with the cheering crowd lifting into the twilight. The characters, as they are revealed and developed over the course of the book, some dynamically transformed, some funny, some heroic in spite of themselves. The themes. Success is realized against long odds, or disappointments that land hard and have to be processed on the long ride back home. Or that it isn’t always easy to learn how to be an individual but also be part of a group. To a large extent, one’s identity, one’s character, is forged in that tension.

The biggest revelation of all is that none of the trophies, glittering as they may be, are nearly as important as the friendships formed, the greater sense of self that is slowly developed, the breakthrough epiphany of what it feels like to be part of

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Rolling down that lost highway A conversation with J.D. Pinkus

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD ARTS & E NTERTAINMENT E DITOR unkered down at a table in the depths of the cavernous DeSoto Lounge in West Asheville, J.D Pinkus takes a sip from his vodka soda. He adjusts his cowboy hat, leans back into the vinyl bench seat and grins — in awe of the road to the here and now.

Hailing from Georgia, Pinkus left home at 15 and found himself in the seminal 1980s Athens music scene. A well-regarded bass player by age 17, he was soon scooped up by groundbreaking psychedelic hard rock act Butthole Surfers, only to be whisked off on a European tour with the notoriously raucous band and its legions of die-hard, frenzied fans.

From there, he followed the Surfers back to its native Texas, a place Pinkus called home for the better part of the next four decades.

Leaving the Surfers in 1994 (only to return in 2009), Pinkus has found himself immersed in several other groups and projects, ranging from Honky to Daddy Longhead to Pure Luck.

Of late, he’s also been the bassist for The Melvins, arguably one of the most influential and innovative hard rock/metal bands of alltime.

Eventually, Pinkus circled back to his Southern Appalachian roots, trading in the high-desert landscape of Texas for the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina.

These days, his work is a hearty blend of Appalachian folk and psychedelic music, as heard on the latest release, “Fungus Shui.”

It’s a whirlwind of sonic textures and a sincere, pure intent to shift one’s perspective through Pinkus’ trusty banjo, gravelly voice and constant pursuit of life’s mysteries — onstage and off.

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Smoky Mountain News: You call your music nowadays “space grass.” What does that term mean to you?

J.D. Pinkus: Well, to me, there are no boundaries. I don’t play traditional style. There are plenty of people who do that already.

SMN: Why the banjo?

JDP: The guitar bores me. With the banjo, I’m just a songwriter, man. I get the textures and all of the layers that I want. And I can keep a percussive thing going on, while still being able to add effects to it to get what I want out of it. The loops that I make are with just what I have. I don’t use outside things like synthesizers, I use the organic sounds that I’m making.

SMN: You’ve had this rollercoaster life. And here you are in 2021, this balanced person. Is that how you’ve always been or did you end up that way?

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JDP: No, I ended up that way. And I think a lot of it had to do with the ayahuasca experiences that I’ve had — it humbled me.

It also made me realize one of the reasons why I do solo [music/performing] now.

Because I used to have an issue with getting upset with people that did not have the same goals as I had. They’d say they did, but they really didn’t and nobody really wanted to

make the leap.

I put a lot of faith into working with people that weren’t “lifers,” that weren’t [ride-or-die] musicians. Don’t half-ass it — if you do, be honest about it. [That’s why] I left Austin. I thought that I needed to stay around because of the bands that I was in. But, then I realized that the bands weren’t really going to do what I wanted to do.

So, I left Austin and luckily landed here in Asheville.

SMN: There’s always been this psychedelic thread running through you and your music.

Whether it’s a distorted reality, alternate reality or just reality as you see it. Why is that thread such a part of you?

JDP: Because to me there’s a window. And I’ve been lucky enough to see a glimpse of things that I don’t think are normally seen.

If you look at how a bat interprets the world, how an eagle interprets the world, how a jaguar interprets the world, there’s different spec-

trums that we all see and what our reality is.

Think about radio frequencies, there’s a spectrum. And we’re all limited in certain ways, in what we see and experience in our different realities.

To me, when you go off and you go up [in your psychedelic experiences], you kind of end up in a little place that might be uncomfortable to some people, but to me [it’s a happy medium]. And I’m lucky to have people in my life that are psychonauts.

There was one ayahuasca trip where I had a “death experience.” It was extremely intense. The DMT (aka: ayahuasca) gave me confusion. I heard happy songs and sad songs. All of these different emotions were going on and all of these different entities were coming at me.

I couldn’t tell if they were happy songs because I was coming back or because I was going somewhere. It was this sense of confusion, but it was a really [pleasant] time — my fear of death went away.

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An excerpt from ‘On the Road.’

Ode to being real, ode to the dude who felt otherwise

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Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host Whiskey Dick w/J.D. Pinkus (rock/folk) at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13.

The Haywood County Arts Council’s upcoming “Small Works” exhibit will kick off with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 12, at the HCAC Gallery & Gifts showroom in downtown Waynesville.

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Lazy Hiker Brewing (Sylva) will host Andrew Thelston Band (Led Zeppelin tribute) at 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12.

There will be a special stage production of “The Little Mermaid Jr.” by Kids at HART at 7:30 p.m.

Nov. 13 and 20, and at 2 p.m. Nov. 14 and 21 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

So, I walk over to him again. Me: “Hey, man, sorry about that. I remember faces and not names.” Him: “I just don’t like you.” Me: “Huh? Did I do something to offend you? If I did, I apologize.” Him: “You didn’t do anything. I just don’t like you. You’re fake.”

His words took me back. I stood there bewildered for a moment. Me: “So, you don’t know me or know anything about me, but you don’t like me?” Him: “Yeah, you’re fake.” Me: “Well, I’m sorry you feel that way.

I’m a real person and I am a human being. I laugh and cry like everyone else. What’s fake is your attitude.”

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The Veterans Day Parade & Ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, on Main Street in Franklin.

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t was Saturday. Having just strolled into my neighborhood bar in Waynesville, I walked over to say hello to my new musician friends at a nearby table who were performing that night.

One from Nashville, the other Kentucky.

I helped them get the gig when they needed a connector show to end their East Coast tour en route back to Music City. Said hey and proceeded to walk towards the bar counter to order a cold domestic beer.

And just as I made my way through the crowd, I saw a familiar face standing by himself next to the front window. I knew who he was. I knew his significant other. His crew are good folk, too. But, I couldn’t remember his name at that moment in time. I drew a blank. Shit.

A week prior, I saw the same dude behind the kitchen counter of an Asheville spot. Again, I recognized him and said hello.

He just blankly stared at me, eyes piercing through me from above his mask. He shoved my burrito across the counter to me and immediately turned away.

It was an odd interaction, truth be told.

So, curiosity got the best of me. Did I do something wrong? Was it the same dude? As he stood next to me near the front window of the bar, I stopped and tried to make same talk. I asked if it was him at the Asheville joint. He just stared at me with the same eyes. Well, that answered that question.

In that fleeting moment, I tried to formally introduce myself to him. He looked right through me. That 1,000-yard stare. The worst stare. Again, I couldn’t remember his name, only to say, “What’s your name again?” A lastditch effort to make friendly conversation. He just walked away. I was like, WTF?

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Thus, I just walked away. You may not like me or who I am or what I do and how I conduct myself, but don’t call me “fake.”

That is a lie. I’ve always worn my heart on my sleeve, transparent to a fault.

And now, here we are. It’s Tuesday morning. I’m at my desk within the walls of the newspaper. We’re trying to kick this publication you’re currently reading out the door to the printer, to be delivered tomorrow morning at newsstands around the region.

But, I can’t get that interaction on Saturday out of my mind. Sure, don’t let others buy real estate up in your head. And yet, it’s more so this thing to behold and understand. Why do I feel this way about one interaction? Is it the person or what was said? Hell, was it me?

Like most jarring, unexpected moments in your daily life, thoughts swirl in your head replaying the interaction like reruns of the Zapruder film of the JFK assassination.

Analyze each moment, frame by frame, to see where it all went wrong and what could have been done to prevent what ultimately occurred.

Normally, I would go the Zapruder route.

It’s what most folks do. Truth. But, as I’m getting older and realizing more about myself and those who surround me, I’ve also come to several conclusions.

They are as follows. Sometimes it’s not you, you just happened to walk into the wrong space at the wrong time. You can’t ever assume what someone is going through (past or present) to trigger such a reaction (this goes for both sides of the interaction).

And, as the Butthole Surfers sang in the hit song “Pepper” — “you never know just how you look through other people’s eyes.”

Or maybe it’s that lingering Catholic guilt from my long-gone childhood of pleasing people and taking things to heart. Maybe it’s the unrelenting torment and bullying that I experienced as a kid from others who simply didn’t like me because I was different (or “real” to myself and not the status quo), which is why being called “fake” hit hard, and deep.

In closing, it’s nothing and everything and whatever resides in-between. The yin and yang of people, places and things. The only thing we have control over in this universe is how we react in a situation. And don’t forget: kindness begets kindness.

Brush off your shoulders and continue onward with head held high.

And to the dude who felt otherwise, I hope you know I came in peace and was simply looking to make a connection. No ill will or hidden agenda. You seemed like an interesting human being. I dig those bands that you have stitched on your jean jacket, especially the one on your shoulder.

So, why not try and spark conversation in the name of human connection and fellowship, eh? If not, then it is what it is. I digress. Maybe someday you might feel otherwise. If so, the first round is on me.

Life is beautiful, grasp for it, y’all.

(Garret K. Woodward is the arts and entertainment editor for The Smoky Mountain News.

He’s also the music editor for Smoky Mountain Living magazine and a contributing writer for Rolling Stone. You can reach him at garret@smokymountainnews.com.)

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Want to learn the dulcimer?

The Pic’ & Play Mountain Dulcimer Players has resumed in-person jam sessions at the St. John’s Episcopal Church basement fellowship hall in Sylva.

The group welcomes all beginners and experienced dulcimer players, including mountain (lap) dulcimer and hammered dulcimer players. Songs played include traditional mountain tunes, hymns, and more modern music.

The group meets at 1:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Saturday of every month in the basement of St. John’s.

Pic’ & Play has been playing together since 1995. The more experienced members welcome new players, help them navigate their instruments, and guide them through some of the basics of tuning, strumming, and playing.

The mountain dulcimer, also known as a fretted dulcimer or a lap dulcimer, is a uniquely American instrument. It evolved from the German scheitholz sometime in the early 1800s in Appalachia and was largely known only in this region until popularized more broadly in the 1950s.

For more information, call Kathy Jaqua at 828.349.3930 or Don Selzer at 828.293.0074.

Holt to receive N.C. Award David Holt is one of nine North Carolinians who will receive the state’s highest civilian honor, the North Carolina Award, on Thursday, Nov. 18, at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh.

Gov. Roy Cooper will present the award in person. The award was created by the N.C. General Assembly in 1961 to recognize significant contributions to the state and nation in the fields of fine arts, literature, public service and science.

In addition to Holt, the 2021 honorees are Dr. Dudley E. Flood for Public Service, Maria F. Spaulding for Public Service, André Leon Talley for Literature, Dr. Timothy B. Tyson for Literature and Dr. Blake S. Wilson for Science. The 2020 honorees (not awarded live last year because of the pandemic) are Dr. Ralph S. Baric, Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett, all of whom will receive the North Carolina Award for Science in recognition of their work to develop treat-

• Balsam Falls Brewing (Sylva) will host an open mic from 8 to 10 p.m. every Thursday.

Free and open to the public. 828.631.1987 or balsamfallsbrewing.com.

• Boojum Brewing (Waynesville) will host karaoke at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, trivia at 7 p.m. on Thursdays and semi-regular live music on the weekends.

All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.246.0350 or boojumbrewing.com.

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Americana at Mountain Layers

Jackson County Americana/folk duo Bird in Hand will perform at 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at Mountain Layers Brewing Company in Bryson City.

The road less traveled has always been the way for husband-and-wife duo Bird in Hand.

Bryan and Megan Thurman call the Great Smoky Mountains of Western North Carolina home, and the region is directly reflected in their music. Bird in Hand is upbeat and new while still rooted in the traditions of American folk.

You can find their debut EP, “Due North,” online at birdinhandmusic.com. The show is free and open to the public. mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

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• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host Sheila Gordon (piano/vocals) Nov. 13 ($10 cover) and Nathan Hefner (piano/vocals) Nov. 20 ($10 cover). All shows begin at 7 p.m.

Limited seating. Reservations required.

828.452.6000 or classicwineseller.com.

• Elevated Mountain Distilling Company will host an Open Mic Night 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays and semi-regular live music on the weekends. Free and open to the public.

828.734.1084 or elevatedmountain.com.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Nick Colavito Nov. 12, Space Granny Nov. 13 and Pleasantly Wild Nov. 19. All shows begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and

ments and vaccines for COVID-19.

“Through their extraordinary accomplishments, these individuals have enriched North Carolina and our nation,” said Reid Wilson, secretary of the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. “Each of them has enhanced the lives of North Carolinians through their lasting achievements in the arts, sciences and public service.”

Award-winning musician and storyteller, Holt has spent more than 50 years collecting and performing the traditional music of North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains.

In 1975, he founded and directed the Appalachian Music Program at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa. Since 1981, Holt has pursued a full-time career in entertainment, bringing the spirit and fun of oldtime music to the concert stage.

As the host of several acclaimed television series, including “David Holt’s State of Music,” “Fire on the Mountain” and “Folkways,” he has introduced traditional mountain music, stories, people, and places to viewers across the country and around the world.

His many recordings have garnered numerous awards, including two Grammy Awards in 2002 in the Best Traditional Folk Recording category for “Legacy,” a retrospective of the life of Doc Watson.

“David Holt’s State of Music” is currently shooting its sixth PBS season and will be distributed nationally in 2022. The series is produced by the Will and Deni McIntyre Foundation, a 501(c)(3) based in Hendersonville.

open to the public. 828.454.5664 or froglevelbrewing.com.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will host semiregular live music on the weekends and Liz Nance (singer-songwriter) Nov. 10 and Cam Cokas Nov. 17. All shows begin at 7 p.m.

Free and open to the public. innovationbrewing.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host Scott Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) Nov. 13 and Troy Underwood Nov. 20. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.349.2337 or lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Sylva) will host Andrew Thelston Band (Led Zeppelin tribute) Nov. 12 and Urban Soil Duo w/Eric Chesson & Sarah Reinke Nov. 19. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.349.2337 or lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Long’s Chapel Methodist Church (Waynesville) will host the Voices in the Laurel children’s choir “Songs of Hope for the Season” concert at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 21.

Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door.

Tickets available at voicesinthelaurel.org.

On the beat

A community jam will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City.

Anyone with a guitar, banjo, mandolin, fiddle, dulcimer, anything unplugged, are invited to join. Singers are also welcomed to join in or just stop by and listen. The jam is facilitated by Larry Barnett of the Sawmill Creek Porch Band.

The community jams offer a chance for musicians of all ages and levels of ability to share music they have learned over the years or learn old-time mountain songs. The music jams are offered to the public each first and third Thursday of the month — year-round.

This program received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment of the Arts.

828.488.3030.

• Unplugged Pub (Bryson City) will host Brandon Morris Nov. 11, Rock Holler Nov. 12, UpBeats Nov. 13, Blackjack County Nov. 18, Dottie The Band Nov. 19 and Carolina Freightshakers Nov. 20. All shows begin at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public.

828.538.2488.

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• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host Bird In Hand Nov. 12, Granny’s Mason Jar Nov. 13, Alma Russ Nov. 14, Aces Down Nov. 19 and Scott Stambaugh Nov. 20. All shows begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public.

828.538.0115 or mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

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• Valley Tavern (Maggie Valley) will host The Lads AVL 6 p.m. Nov. 20. 828.926.7440 or valley-tavern.com.

• Western Carolina University (Cullowhee) will host the Western Carolina Civic Orchestra fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in the School of Music Recital Hall. Featured will be harpist John Wickey and a new work by Damon Sink. Free and open to the public. wcu.edu.

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• Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host karaoke on Thursday nights, Whiskey Dick w/J.D. Pinkus (rock/folk) 9 p.m. Nov. 13 and Hooten Hallers (blues/punk) 10 p.m.

Nov. 20. 828.456.4750 or facebook.com/waternhole.bar.

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• “Flights & Bites” will be held starting at 4 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays at Bosu’s Wine Shop in downtown Waynesville. waynesvillewine.com.

‘Where We Live: History, Nature and Culture’

• The “BBQ & Brews Dinner Train’’ will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on select dates at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-adult first class car. Craft beer pairings with a meal, and more. 800.872.4681 or gsmr.com.

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• “Dillsboro After Five” will take place from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in downtown Dillsboro. Start with a visit to the Jackson County Farmers Market located in the Innovation Station parking lot. mountainlovers.com.

• There will be a free wine tasting from 6 to 8 p.m. every Thursday and 2 to 5 p.m. every Saturday at The Wine Bar & Cellar in Sylva. 828.631.3075.

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• The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on select dates at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City.

Full service all-adult first class car. Wine pairings with a meal, and more.

800.872.4681 or gsmr.com.

The next installment of the “Where We Live: History, Nature, and Culture” lecture series will be held at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, at the Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center in Franklin.

Dr. Barbara Duncan will be the guest speaker. This talk explores the details of what happened in Macon County in September 1776 when two armies invaded deep into the Cherokee Nation.

General Griffith Rutherford and Colonel Andrew Williamson led about 4500 men on a mission “to extirpate the Cherokees completely,” carrying out a scorched earth policy along the Little Tennessee, Hiwassee and Valley rivers.

The Cherokees, allies of the British, resisted strategically. They concentrated on preserving the lives of their women and children, and although outnumbered, created an ambush on Wayah Road, where they engaged in The Battle of the Black Hole.

Details of the actions of Rutherford, Williamson and their men come from primary sources — the journals, letters, and interviews of officers-and will be presented in their own words. The historical context leading up to these events and their aftermath will also be considered.

Duncan received her Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. She coordinated “Folk Arts in

the Schools” in Macon County for several years, worked for The Foxfire Fund, and went on to spend twenty-three years at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, where she wrote grants, researched, wrote books, and coordinated festivals and community-based programs to revitalize Cherokee traditions.

Now retired from the museum, Duncan teaches Cherokee language as Assistant Adjunct Professor at University of North Carolina Asheville.

With a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, she has created a new method for learning Cherokee language and authored a series of textbooks and a website at yourgrandmotherscherokee.org.

Duncan has written award-winning books about Cherokee history and culture, including “Living Stories of the Cherokee,” which received the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award and the World Storytelling Award; and “The Cherokee Heritage Trails Guidebook” (coauthored with Brett H. Riggs) which received the Presidential Preserve Freedom Award and the Willie Parker Peace Prize. Both were published by University of North Carolina Press.

Her most recent book is “Cherokee Clothing in the 1700s,” published by the Museum of the Cherokee Indian.

Duncan has published two books of poems, has released a CD and lives in Macon

County, where she enjoys gardening and spending time with her grandchildren.

The program will last approximately one hour. It is free and open to the public. Masks are required for the health and safety of all. coweeschool.org.

• The Veterans Day Parade & Ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, on Main Street in Franklin.

The parade will leave from the Franklin Town Hall. The Veterans Ceremony will follow at 11 a.m. in the Gazebo on the Square. Lineup begins at 10 a.m.

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• The annual “Polar Express” train ride will kick off the holiday season on Friday, Nov. 12, from the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad depot in downtown Bryson City. For a complete listing of departure dates and times, call 800.872.4681 or visit gsmr.com.

• Mountain Makers Craft Market will be held from noon to 4 p.m. the first Sunday of each month at 308 North Haywood Street in downtown Waynesville. Over two dozen artisans selling handmade and vintage goods.

Special events will be held when scheduled. mountainmakersmarket.com.

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Handmade Holiday Sale alumni. Items for sale include artwork, candles, ceramics, wearable accessories, woodwork, and a variety of other handmade craft items. Get an early start on holiday shopping by supporting local artists.

This event is presented by the WCU Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center and is located throughout the Bardo Arts Center lobby and Star Atrium. Learn more about this year’s vendors in next week’s paper.

Learn more about each vendor and the event at arts.wcu.edu/handmade. Free parking is available onsite. Masks are required.

‘Small Works’ exhibit returns

in the downtown Waynesville gallery, as well as who can display their work. Other than specially curated exhibits, which occur a couple times annually, this exhibit is the only one that allows any artist within the western mountain region to participate for a small fee. haywoodarts.org.

• An artist demonstration with painter Gretchen Clasby will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Haywood County Arts Council in downtown Waynesville.

Clasby will showcase her unique acrylic painting technique. Free and open to the public.

828.452.0593 or haywoodarts.org.

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• Jesse Adair Dallas will be showing his artwork at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin during the months of November and December. Open to the public. For more information, email jesse@enjoyarttoday.com.

• The “Thursday Painters” group will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursdays at The Uptown Gallery in Franklin. Free and open to the public. All skill levels and mediums are welcome. Participants are responsible for their own project and a bag lunch. For more information, call The Uptown Gallery at 828.349.4607 or contact Pat Mennenger at pm14034@yahoo.com. See more about Macon County Art Association at franklinuptowngallery.com and like, follow and share the Uptown Gallery on Facebook.

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The Haywood County Arts Council’s upcoming “Small Works” exhibit will kick off with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m.

Friday, Nov. 12, at the HCAC Gallery & Gifts showroom in downtown Waynesville.

The exhibit is open from through Dec. 30.

“This exhibit is our longest and last exhibit of the year, stretching through the new year, and encourages buying art for holiday gifts,” said HCAC Executive Director Morgan Beryl.

Sponsored by Linda & Allen Blount, Janet & Darrell Steinke, and Alison & John Parks, the reception will include libations, snacks, and jazzy holiday music from Clyde’s own Jaime Gardner.

This year, the exhibit is sponsored at the producer level by the Reece Family in honor of their father Jeff Reece, who owned the 86 North Main Street building for many years and is in the process of selling it.

“Jeff loved Main Street and spent a significant portion of his formative years in the family business, Massie’s Department Store. He talked longingly about his days as the projectionist at the Strand Theater as a teenager and eating hot dogs at Felix Stovall’s American Fruit Stand,” said Judy Reece. “As an adult, Jeff was one of the founders of the Downtown Waynesville Association and a Main Street Champion. As we approach the anniversary of his passing, his family wishes to honor his legacy.”

The Small Works Exhibit is an annual exhibit that expands the types of work for sale

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The 12th annual Handmade Holiday Sale will be held from noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, at the Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at the Bardo Arts Center in Cullowhee.

Enjoy shopping, free snacks and holiday cheer. There is no entry fee to the event.

However, if you would like to buy handmade items onsite, artists appreciate payments made by cash or check, although some do accept cards.

This event features high-quality, handmade gifts created by students, staff, and

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WCU to present ‘Nutcracker’ The Bardo Arts Center is pleased to present the Ballet Conservatory of Asheville, which will be returning with a stage production of the “Nutcracker” at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

Showtime will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 10, and 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11. This magically festive, full-length “Nutcracker” production features professional classical dancers and the Ballet Conservatory of Asheville’s celebrated company.

In this classic ballet, Clara’s holiday dream comes to life, sneaking downstairs at midnight with her beloved new Nutcracker doll. Swept up in a fantasy toy-soldier battle, she saves her Nutcracker from the Mouse King. She is then whisked away to enchanted lands of snow and sweets, dancing the night away with a colorful host of captivating characters.

To learn more and/or purchase tickets, click on arts.wcu.edu/nutcracker. Tickets will be on sale Nov. 10.

Theatre in Waynesville.

The hour-long musical is based on the 2008 Broadway production and the 1989 animated feature film. The Kids at HART cast contains approximately 32 actors led by Shelia Sumpter.

The intricate underwater photography of Dr. John Highsmith will be on display in the theatre lobby for all to enjoy. Highsmith, who maintains a dental practice in Clyde, has displayed his work throughout the country and is a longtime supporter of Kids at HART. The cast is under the direction of Sumpter with Candice Dickinson, music direction by Maria Frost, stage management by Nichole Sumpter, and numerous other volunteers.

Tickets may be purchased online at harttheatre.org or by calling the HART Box Office at 828.456.6322.

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• “The Magical Lamp of Aladdin” will hit the stage at 7 p.m. Nov. 12-13 and 2 p.m. Nov. 13 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets are $13 per person. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on smokymountainarts.com.

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ability and its giving grace, I have decided that the only real way to share my impressions and the contents of this cultural classic with you is to let it speak for itself. This way, Joy Harjo’s humility and wisdom — her gift to us — will become evident and my job will have been better done with regard to and respect for this precious tome.

So, here, from the book’s autobiographical notes and associative poems, are some of the starred passages I have marked as I was reading “Poet Warrior.” “Enjoy.”

“In indigenous territory/Silence is ancient wisdom/We learn from the elders/To listen more than to speak.”

“Perception is always growing if you feed it, like a plant.”

“We are being brought to a place where we will once again remember how to speak with animals, plants, and life forms. We will once again know our humble place.

Humans are not the only ones with a spirit, nor are we more important than everyone else. We are related to all life, all beings.”

“When I fail to trust what my deepest knowing tells me, then I suffer.”

“The Twentythird Psalm is a poem from people who knew the earth. From people who, much like the Navajo, tend sheep and in doing so learn respect for the plants, animals, and elements with whom we live.”

“In these times and until we understand and act as if we are the earth, then each of us will experience the pain of separation from sacred knowledge, from ourselves.”

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“Community is those with whom you live, from home to school, to your tribal nation, city, or state. You must remember to place community interest and benefits ahead of individual and personal gain.”

“We need to keep up strong women’s councils to work in tandem with the men’s circles. We need both female and male to make balanced posts for the doorway of life.”

“Ritual is how we make a community, how we open the door for respect for the source of life.

Ritual nourishes our young men and women with the resources they need to spiritual growth for development.”

“Those roles in society filled by women and mothers, positions like teachers and childcare workers, became the least respected and valued even though they are the most crucial.”

“I came to see that all is spiritual and either we move about respectfully within it, or we are lost.”

“Fiction writers interact with their characters. Poets ride time. Painters open perceptual doors with line or color. Musicians hear what can’t be heard.”

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“[For healing] raise your vibration. Make it faster. We keep our vibration higher by prayer, by kindness, by taking care of what we are given to do, by cleaning ourselves of negative thoughts that originate within or come from others, by humility, by being in the real world, away from concrete and square buildings, by speaking only that which holds truth.”

(Thomas Crowe is a regular contributor to The Smoky Mountain News and author of the multi-award-winning non-fiction nature memoir “Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods.”)

Open call for ‘Milestone’ submissions Submissions are now being taken for the 2021 edition of the Milestone, the biennial art and literary review published by Southwestern Community College.

Milestone showcases the creative expressions of local writers and visual artists. The periodical is representative of the abundance of talent in the region and seeks to foster creative potential by providing artists an opportunity to gain public awareness.

All residents of Jackson, Macon and Swain counties and the Qualla Boundary, as well as SCC students and alumni, are eligible. Only unpublished work may be submitted. Prose should not exceed 2,000 words and should be limited to two pages in length.

Literary submissions must be postmarked by Dec. 3, 2021, and sent to SCC Milestone, Attn. Hannah Sykes; 447 College Drive; Sylva, NC 28779 or via email to milestone@southwesterncc.edu.

Submissions in visual art must be postmarked by the same date and sent to the same address, Attn. Hannah Sykes or via email to milestone@southwesterncc.edu.

For more information, contact Hannah Sykes at 828.339.4463 or h_sykes@southwesterncc.edu.

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“There is no one way to God, no one correct spiritual path, no one way to write poetry. There is no one roadway, no one-way Bering Strait, no one kind of flowering plant, no one kind of tiger, no one way to knowledge. Diversity characterizes this planet, this galaxy, this universe.”

“Cut the ties you have to failure and shame.

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oy Harjo is the current Poet Laureate of the United States. She is “Native,” “Indigenous,” of the Muscogee/Creek (Mvskoke) “Native Nations” as she likes to identify herself. I have followed her and her work — as a poet in the literary tradition and warrior in the tribal, indigenous tradition — for a long time. Long enough to watch her grow from a budding young poet to the wisdom-keeper she has now become in her early seventies.

Author of many books of poetry and Writer memoirs, her latest, “Poet Warrior” (Norton, 2021), in many ways is a culmination of all of these and given to us as a gift of her arduous yet blessed life as an artist and storyteller who has, as Joseph Campbell says, “followed her bliss;” or in the words of the poet Robert Frost “taken the road less traveled.” And in Joy Harjo’s case this certainly has, as you will see, “made all the difference.”

In “Poet Warrior,” Harjo is an open book and takes us behind the scenes in her life to show us the roots to her compassion (given the history of native peoples on this continent) and wisdom — beginning with infancy, through the hardship and pain, the joy and the love, that led her home to her cultural identity and her spiritual status amongst not only her own people but to women and to peoples all across the planet through her poems and her stature, now, as America’s premiere poet.

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CANTON’S CATALYST After weathering a flood and a lingering pandemic, the Berm Park bike skills course is expected to open to the public this spring. Holly Kays photo

Chestnut Mountain aims for April open

BY HOLLY KAYS OUTDOORS EDITOR eth Alvo makes defying gravity look easy.

Pushing off on his mountain bike, he gathers speed on a rolling portion of Berm Park’s double black diamond trail, careening around a curved berm until it joins a vertical wall. The bike lifts off the berm and, for just a moment, rolls perpendicular to the wooden boards before a solid landing again submits it to gravity’s rule.

“I’ve been doing wall rides since I was a kid,” said Alvo. “So it just feels kind of natural. But I think the best way to describe it is you have to get comfortable orienting your body in the same direction as the wall.”

Alvo, an Asheville resident who also happens to be the most popular mountain bike YouTuber in North America, hopes that kids and adults regionwide will soon start developing a similar comfort with mountain bikes and the possibilities they bring when Berm Park — a bike skills park within Canton’s larger Chestnut Mountain property — opens this spring.

“They’re already doing it the right way in other parts of the country,” Alvo said of public bike parks in general. “We know what works. And so we’re excited to demonstrate it here and to show how everybody can be happy if you just do it the right way, and you plan from the start.”

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his bills. But as the channel grew, attracting ads, sponsorships and deals with companies, Alvo started questioning whether he should continue pocketing the Patreon money.

Eventually, he decided, it was time to put his money where his mouth was and use the $4,000 coming in each month to build a public bike park. He approached Canton with the idea, and town jumped on it.

Alvo had wanted to open the park this fall, and while Berm Park itself is all but done, there are a few final touches and administrative green lights to go before welcoming the public.

Funded by Alvo’s Patreon subscribers — as well as dedicated sponsors for each of the five trails — the “park within a park” is designed

by Asheville-based Elevated Trail Design. With a set-up analogous to a downhill ski resort, Berm Park consists of five short trails of varying and clearly marked difficulty levels, with climbing trails leading back to the top. The idea is that riders will do multiple loops per visit, honing their skills with each circuit.

The park aims to be enjoyable for all riders, from children trundling around the flat beginner’s loop at the top to pro riders shooting off a 10-foot drop while performing midair tricks. Within each circuit, riders face choices that can make the loop harder or easier, depending on their skill level, with strategically placed “squirrel catchers” — a term for intimidating-looking obstacles designed to scare off unprepared riders — keeping bikers from getting too far down loops they’re not ready for.

BUILDING BERM PARK

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When Alvo first started his Patreon account in 2016, his YouTube channel Berm Peak was still young, and he depended on his supporters’ monthly subscriptions to help pay

The town’s full vision for Chestnut Mountain is outlined in its master plan, available at bit.ly/2NN10u6.

“You make those (squirrel catchers) safe, but intimidating,” Alvo said. “And then they’re like, ‘OK, maybe I’m not ready for all that.’ But it’s surprising how few people get overconfident.”

SETBACKS FROM FRED Berm Park will be the first attraction to open on the 450-acre property known as Chestnut Mountain Nature Park, but it will be far from the last. Last year, the Town of Canton completed a master planning process for the property that calls for miles of backcountry trails, overnight shelters, picnic areas, a greenway trail, event lawn and more — all located adjacent to U.S. 23 just over 2 miles from downtown.

“As a town, we recognize that it’s an unbelievable opportunity,” said Town Manager Nick Scheuer. “It’s 2 miles and a quarter from downtown, and the impact that it can have on us and the quality of life can’t be overstated.”

After two years of behind-the-scenes planning, The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy bought the property in June 2020 from the previous owners, Canton Motorsports LLC, intending to transfer it to the Town of Canton within a year for development as a recreation park in partnership with Haywood County. Excitement quickly gathered around the project, and while the ownership transfer is not yet complete, the town has maintenance and construction agreements with SAHC to move forward with development while the bureaucratic wheels continue turning.

Before transferring the property — and allowing public access to it — SAHC has to raise money to pay off the final $214,000 of its $3.52 million project cost, and the state has to approve the conservation easements SAHC is proposing for the property. The conservation

easements are currently in the state’s legal review process, said Conservation Director Hanni Muerdter. SAHC also wants Canton to complete an operations plan guiding day-today activities before handing over the deed.

“I don’t think we can say a definite date at this point,” she said, “but 2022 is when by all means we hope it will be open, and we’re just working on the steps to get there.”

Those steps suffered a setback in August, when record-setting floodwaters swept through downtown Canton, destroying homes, businesses and millions of dollarsworth of town infrastructure. Though Canton residents were spared the human death toll that affected nearby Cruso, the aftermath was devastating — and for town officials, all-consuming.

“We haven’t been able to put as many resources — whether that be time or money — into Chestnut Mountain because we’re deep in that recovery process,” said Scheuer.

“Between myself and our finance director, we could spend 100% of our time on flood recovery at this point.”

The floodwaters also impacted the park directly. Tropical Storm Fred compromised an emergency access bridge over Hominy Creek, stripped gravel from the newly completed parking lot, triggered at least three landslides on the property and destabilized Berm Park’s brand new trails — Elevated Trail Design had to come back and repair them.

The flood also challenged town leaders’ ability to devote the time necessary to move the project forward and caused uncertainty in the town budget. In June, Canton’s board approved a 2021-2022 budget that included $300,000 for development at Chestnut Mountain, but with more than $10 million in damage to town infrastructure, Scheuer was reluctant to spend those funds.

“While we feel comfortably optimistic about being able to utilize those funds in the next few months, we’re still in the wait-andsee period, because we have to make sure we understand what FEMA will reimburse us for,” he said.

But the flood also underscored the value of the Chestnut Mountain project. The raging waters destroyed many facilities at Canton’s in-town recreation park and damaged its pool. The town is working to get those amenities back online, but it’s slow work due to the manifold processes required to secure reimbursement from FEMA. Chestnut Mountain isn’t constrained by that kind of bureaucracy.

“It is one of the only recreational facilities that we have that we can anticipate opening up relatively soon,” said Scheuer. “A lot of them is just a hurry up and wait situation with FEMA.”

FUNDS FOR CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN The full vision for Chestnut Mountain will take about two years to build out, but if all goes as planned visitors will see new amenities added throughout 2022.

in the first round of awards issued in 2021, but due to the state government’s continued failure to pass a budge, the level of available funding hasn’t changed in the past year. If a new state budget passes soon, Scheuer is hopeful that recent funding packages from the federal government will mean growth for PARTF funding.

“The conversations we have had with the PARTF staff have been that if the PARTF budget gets funded at the projected budget amount and if we ever get a state budget, then there’s an opportunity to have projects like ours funded,” said Scheuer.

If fully funded, the requested $500,000 would pay for trails, overlooks, a frontcountry pump track, a picnic pavilion with restrooms, a playground and additional signage. The town has also applied for a

Seth Alvo, the Asheville YouTuber who spearheaded the Berm Park project, flies off one of the course’s most impressive obstacles. Holly Kays photo

The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy is still trying to raise $214,000 to cover its $3.52 million cost of acquiring the land. To donate, visit appalachian.org.

$100,000 N.C. Recreational Trails Program grant for backcountry hiking trails and single-direction mountain biking trails on the property.

“I think that Chestnut Mountain will be actively worked on for the next two years, but if we got the PARTF and RTP grants, that could accelerate and we could build out the majority of the park within the next year,” Scheuer said.

In addition to funding its master plan, the town is also scoping out possibilities for the 3.3-acre parcel it bought adjacent to the Chestnut Mountain property. It currently holds a small white building and decrepit parking lot, all of which will eventually be bulldozed to make way for a new enterprise designed to complement the park.

“I can’t speak too much to it at this point in time, but we’ve been approached by multiple interested parties,” said Scheuer.

Ideas include turning the property into a restaurant, brewery, bike shop or visitor center, and the town has approached vari-

The Berm Park project has given Alvo a new perspective on the luxury Ferrari and Lamborghini cars he occasionally sees on highway cruises. All told, the Berm Park trails — not counting Canton’s contributions like master planning, access trails and parking — cost about $220,000, similar to the price point of a luxury car.

“Why would somebody ever buy a car that costs $200,000 when you could build a park?” he said.

A park is more impressive than a car, and more permanent, he said — plus it benefits the whole community, from young to old.

Alvo, who has an 8-month-old daughter, is particularly enthusiastic about Berm Park’s potential to benefit kids. A Nov. 1 study from JAMA Pediatrics found that early in the pandemic, average daily screen time — not including virtual school — more than doubled from the pre-pandemic estimate of 3.8 hours per day to 7.7 hours per day. Other studies suggest that screen time remained high even after quarantine restrictions lifted, the paper said.

Though most of his YouTube subscribers are in their 30s or thereabouts, younger fans are “disproportionately stoked” about Berm Park, Alvo said.

“I love single track, and I love the natural experience if you’re going for that,” he said. “But if you’re trying to talk a kid into not being on their iPad and you’re like, ‘Hey, want to get really sweaty and climb for three hours?’ it’s a tough sell. So this is a way easier way to get into it.”

It’s not just about bikes, though, or even just about kids.

“Though some of the biking trails will be completed first, this Chestnut Mountain Nature Park is planned to not just have biking trails, but other experiences for different people, ages, families, schools and abilities to enjoy getting out into the 450 acres of forested landscape,” said Muerdter.

“Walking/hiking-only trails are also planned, as well as a lower-elevation experience for people to enjoy the area around Hominy Creek.”

And key to it all is accessibility.

Chestnut Mountain is just 2 miles from Canton, and 20 minutes from Asheville, right off a U.S. highway. It’s the kind of place people can swing by to blow off steam after work, take their kids at the end of the school day — or budget a whole weekend to backpack the trail system.

It remains to be seen how the park will benefit Canton’s economy and quality of life, but Scheuer expects it will be transformational.

“We’re essentially bringing online a new Bent Creek or a new DuPont,” said Scheuer.

“It’s an amazing opportunity to measure the impact.”

A forester from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will talk about the tribe’s efforts to make traditional gathering more accessible for tribal members during a free 30-minute webinar at 1 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16.

Tommy Cabe. Donated photo Tommy Cabe, tribal forest resource liaison for the tribe, will discuss how the EBCI is collaborating with the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service to study traditional gathering practices and their impact on culturally significant plants, such as ramps and sochan. The effort aims to demonstrate the low impact traditional gathering methods have on plant populations and, once proven, to allow such methods on traditional lands and change policy on how some plants are gathered.

Cabe, a tribal member from the Birdtown community, is a senior employee in the EBCI’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Department and has been involved with environmental projects on tribal lands for the past two decades.

Register for the webinar at brpfoundation.org/events.

Grow your own Shiitakes Get a tutorial in Shiitake mushroom cultivation 10 am. to 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, with Alarka Institute in Macon County.

Marina Buckner, a certified mushroom forager, will show participants the proper way to inoculate logs with Shiitake plugs in this hands-on class. The course will cover stacking and log care to maximize mushroom yield.

Materials are provided, but bring a notebook.

Buckner has been foraging mushrooms for the table for six years and is certified in more than 20 species, in seven states. Everyone who participates in the workshop will go home with some goodies.

The program will be held outdoors, weather permitting, or safely distanced in a wellventilated indoor space in case of poor weather. Proof of vaccination required.

Cost is $65. Register at alarkaexpeditions.com. Contact 828.371.8439 with questions.

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ing signs within the trail system, as well as marketing efforts to get the word out about Chestnut Mountain and nearby Canton.

Then there’s $30,000 that Haywood Waterways Association received from the Pigeon River Fund and $177,000 from the N.C. Land and Water Trust Fund for creek restoration, invasive plant removal and development of creek access points. Stream restoration is important not only for ecological reasons, but also for recreational reasons. The streamside portion of the park will be the centerpiece of the frontcountry development — to get it ready, Haywood Waterways recently led a litter pickup event there.

The town has also requested hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional grant funding, planning to use the budgeted $300,000 for parts of the master plan that grants won’t cover.

If awarded, a $500,000 request from the N.C. Parks and Recreation Trails Fund could prove pivotal for the project.

Chestnut Mountain did not receive funding

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ous nonprofits about potentially funding a low-cost bike rental fleet to lower the sport’s barrier to entry. Whatever happens, the town plans to retain ownership of the property and rent it through a long-term lease.

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Right now, said Scheuer, it looks like the property will open to the public in April or late spring, giving access to Alvo’s Berm Park project, with additional hiking trails likely opening a couple months later.

Earlier this year, the town completed a new parking lot alongside U.S. 23. A decorative arch over the robust bridge originally built to handle trucks hauling NASCAR racecars leads to the climbing trail that hikers and bikers alike will use to reach the main trailhead 200 feet above. Before the park opens, the town will build a bikes-only descent trail to prevent downhill cyclists from colliding with pedestrians.

Funding from the Haywood County Tourism Development Authority paid for the existing entrance sign, and Canton is applying for additional grants for wayfind-

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New NPS agreement to amp up collaboration with tribal nations The National Park Service and the American Indian Alaska Native Tourism Association recently finalized a new five-year agreement that aims to facilitate regular, robust and meaningful dialogue between the NPS and Native American tribes.

“Native American tribes have ancestral connections to public lands that pre-date the formation of the National Park Service by millennia,” said Sherry L. Rupert, CEO of AIANTA. “These wholly unique perspectives can serve as the foundation for one-of-akind cultural content for National Park Service sites.”

The agreement will expand opportunities for communication through AIANTA-sponsored virtual and in-person forums between the NPS and Native nations located in national park gateway communities. The resulting collaborations will expand awareness of American

Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian connections along national trails and in national parks nationwide and help connect tribes with technical assistance programs and resources from NPS. A recent survey from AIANTA showed that Native nations and communities engaged in tourism at gateway communities to national park sites are interested in working with the NPS. Results showed 90% of respondents wanting to partner or work with the NPS and public lands agencies, with 80% indicating they support visitors to public land attractions — food and lodging topped the list of services, at 71% and 61%, respectively.

Travelers are increasingly seeking authentic experiences, and the partnership will highlight opportunities for visitors to engage with tribal communities and support Native-owned businesses. More than 71 tribes have been contacted to lend their voice to Tribal Stories Along the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, and a similar project to bring Native voices to the forefront of the visitor experience is also underway for the Lewis & Clark National Historical Trail.

Help the Park Service solve a murder

November 10-16, 2021

The National Park Service is asking anybody who took pictures or videos on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina on Saturday, Oct. 9, to share those files as the agency works to solve a homicide.

On Oct. 9, a visitor reported that they’d found a body near the Yadkin Valley Overlook at milepost 289.8. Investigators identified the victim as 33-year-old Josue Calderon, of Rhode Island. The N.C. State Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy and concluded the death was a homicide.

Information from travelers and visitors is often helpful to investigators, so anybody with images or information to share should reach out. Information can be shared anonymously. Call or text 888.653.0009, email nps_isb@nps.gov or fill out the online form at go.nps.gov/submitatip.

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Rock on Learn how to identify rocks and put that knowledge to the test during a program at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the Highlands Nature Center.

The program will include a half-mile

rock identification hike ending at Sunset Rock, which is owned and protected by the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust.

Reservations and masks required.

Sign up at highlandsbiological.org.

Lifetime sportsman licenses now cheaper for older residents

North Carolinians to take advantage of our state’s wonderful fishing and hunting opportunities. After careful review, we determined offering a segment our lifetime licenses at a more affordable rate was an option we could pursue,” said Executive Director Cameron Ingram of the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

A Lifetime Sportsman license allows for statewide hunting and inland fishing, while the Lifetime Unified Sportsman license includes coastal waters fishing in addition to inland fishing and hunting.

Licenses are available at ncwildlife.org, by calling 888.248.6834 or at a local wildlife service agent.

North Carolinians ages 50 and older can now purchase lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for half price, following implementation of recent legislation.

From now on, residents ages 50-69 will be able to buy a Lifetime Sportsman license for $265 or a Lifetime Unified Sportsman license for $358 — half of what those licenses cost prior to the change.

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Winter begins on the Parkway Winter has started on the Blue Ridge Parkway, with some seasonal closures in effect and the first round of snow-related road closures taking place last week.

Mt. Pisgah Inn, Mt. Pisgah and Craggy Gardens picnic areas, and Mt. Pisgah Campground are all closed for the season.

The Waterrock Knob Visitor Center will close Nov. 14.

Last week’s cold, wet weather resulted in winter conditions on the Parkway, triggering a complete closure of the road from U.S. 276 through its terminus in Cherokee. As of press time, the road had reopened.

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Two U.S. Forest Service roads in the Nantahala Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest will experience construction delays over the coming months due to a road improvement project.

Work began Monday, Nov. 8, on Connelly Creek Road and is expected to last for about a month. The second phase of the project is expected to begin Dec. 10 and will cause delays on Cowee Bald Road. The project is expected to be complete by midJanuary 2022.

While work is taking place, visitors can expect delays lasting up to four hours on the road currently under construction. The contractor will replace 34 culverts on the roads.

The project is funded in part by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission to continue sportsman access to national forest land.

Direct questions to the Nantahala Ranger District office, 828.524.6441.

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Through Friday, Nov. 19, weekday, single-lane closures will be in place along the southbound Spur between the Gatlinburg Bypass intersection and the city limits of Gatlinburg.

The closure will allow city crews to perform utility work along the shoulder.

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Competing in the 65-69 age group, Woody won gold medals in Softball Throw, Football Throw, Basketball Shooting, Pickleball and Golf. He also earned three silver medals — in Shot Put, Bocce and Mini-Golf and bronze medals in Discus and Standing Long Jump. Due to pandemic restrictions, the games were held virtually.

Woody qualiPhil Woody, who lives in Dillsboro, finished the 2021 N.C. Senior Games fied in the Smoky a decorated athlete. Donated photo Mountain Senior Games held this qualification for next year’s State Finals. For spring. The Smoky Mountain Games is part more information on local Senior Games of a statewide network of 53 programs sancprograms statewide, call 919.851.5456 or tioned by North Carolina Senior Games, visit ncseniorgames.org.

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Winter hours begin at N.C. Arboretum The days are getting shorter, and so are the hours at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville.

Since Nov. 1, the Arboretum has been open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. When Winter Lights begins Nov. 17, regular hours will shorten to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Winter hours of 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. will resume Jan. 2, when Winter Lights ends.

As always, incoming gates will close one hour prior to closing time.

Spot birds on the greenway Take an easy 2-mile stroll on the Waynesville Greenway at 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, while looking for birds with Howard Burke.

The birding tour is part of an ongoing series that Haywood County Recreation and Parks offers to see the birds of Haywood County in their native habitat. Tours are $10, paid at registration. Sign up with Ian Smith at ian.smith@haywoodcountync.gov or 828.452.6789.

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The N.C. Bird Atlas team is looking for members to help record bird observations during the early winter season lasting

through Dec. 31.

Using the app Ebird, participants will record their observations during a season in which nearly 100 bird species migrate to North Carolina. Places to observe birds range from open water to shrubby thickets to stands of seed-producing trees like oaks and beech, but migrating birds will be present in North Carolina for only a short window of time.

For more information, visit ncbirdatlas.org.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • The Jackson County Veterans Day Parade will be held on Thursday, Nov. 11, on Main Street in Sylva. Line up will begin at 2 p.m. at Mark Watson Park and the parade will begin at 3 p.m. 828.631.2231.

• An annual Veterans Day ceremony sponsored by the town of Canton will take place at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 11, in the Pisgah High School auditorium. Free and open to the public.

• Live Forgiven Church will host a grocery and winter coat giveaway at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 14, at 45 Crown Ridge Road, Sylva. The grocery giveaway will be Thanksgiving Theme. Eggs and produce will be available. For more information, please email Chris or Crystal at foodministry@LiveForgiven.Life.

• There will be a sidewalk sale all day Saturday, Nov. 20, in downtown Sylva.

• The annual wreath laying on graves of veterans buried at Greenhill Cemetery in Waynesville will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec.18. This is part of the nationwide Wreaths Across America event. Sponsoring a wreath is $15, and if people sponsor two wreaths, the cemetery will receive an additional wreath for free. Orders for wreaths need to be placed by Nov. 15. Those who would like to sponsor wreaths are asked to place orders at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/ using group fundraising code NC0081.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Haywood Chamber of Commerce is hosting an event for Women Enlightened with guest speaker, Linda Plunkett, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 18, at the Wells Event Center. This event is open to the public with the cost per ticket being $25. This price will include lunch and we request that attendees register no later than Nov. 15. For more information, contact 828.456.3021 or visit the information page.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Traditional English Tea hosted by Dogwood Crafters will be held at 1 p.m. Nov. 13, in Sylva by reservation only. A fundraiser for scholarships, the cost is $20 per person. Call 828.586.2248 to save your seat.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS • Waynesville Yoga Center will host Yoga Basics 2, a five-week series of classes that introduce different styles of yoga. The series will start with a class from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 21.

• There will be a free Yoga class at 5:15 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 17, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room. https://beyondbendingyoga.com/schedule/ • Dementia and Psychosis Behavior: What You Need to Know, a class for caregivers and loved ones of people experiencing dementia will take place at 1:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 17, in the Macon County Public Library Meeting Room. Register ahead by calling or emailing Kristina Moe at 828.524.3600 or kmoe@fontanalib.org

POLITICAL CORNER • Haywood County Democrats will be showing their appreciation to all veterans by offering free donuts and coffee from 7 to 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 11 at Democrat Headquarters, 734 N. Main St, Waynesville. Drive up service will be available.

• The Swain County Democratic Party Whittier-Cherokee precinct will be meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, via

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SUPPORT GROUPS • Al-Anon, for families and friends of alcoholics, meets every Monday night from 7-8 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 77 Jackson St., Sylva. Enter at the front of the church through the door to the left of the sanctuary; meeting room is the first door on the right.

The church requests that you wear a mask if you are not vaccinated.

• Narcotics Anonymous meetings are back "live" in-person after a year of being on Zoom only. Local meetings are 12 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays at Sylva First United Methodist Church in downtown Sylva. Entrance at the back of the building.

Also Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at Cullowhee Methodist Church and Saturdays 6 p.m. at Cullowhee Methodist Church. Meetings in Haywood County, Macon County and Swain County have reopened as well. Visit ncmountainna.org.

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• The annual “Polar Express” train ride will kick off the holiday season on Friday, Nov. 12, from the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad depot in downtown Bryson City. For a complete listing of departure dates and times, call 800.872.4681 or click on gsmr.com.

• Mountain Makers Craft Market will be held from noon to 4 p.m. the first Sunday of each month at 308 North Haywood Street in downtown Waynesville. Over two dozen artisans selling handmade and vintage goods.

Special events will be held when scheduled. mountainmakersmarket.com.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will host Sheila Gordon (piano/vocals) Nov. 13 ($10 cover) and Nathan Hefner (piano/vocals) Nov. 20 ($10 cover). All shows begin at 7 p.m. Limited seating. Reservations required.

828.452.6000 or classicwineseller.com.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Nick Colavito Nov. 12, Space Granny Nov. 13 and Pleasantly Wild Nov. 19. All shows begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.454.5664 or froglevelbrewing.com.

• Innovation Station (Dillsboro) will host semi-regular live music on the weekends. All events are free and begin at 2 p.m. unless otherwise noted. innovationbrewing.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Sylva) will host Andrew Thelston Band (Led Zeppelin tribute) Nov. 12 and Urban Soil Duo w/Eric Chesson & Sarah Reinke Nov. 19. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.349.2337 or lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• Long’s Chapel Methodist Church (Waynesville) will host the Voices in the Laurel children’s choir “Songs of Hope for the Season” concert at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 21.

Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Tickets available at voicesinthelaurel.org.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host Bird In Hand Nov. 12, Granny’s Mason Jar Nov. 13, Alma Russ Nov. 14, Aces Down Nov. 19 and Scott Stambaugh Nov. 20. All shows begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.538.0115 or mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

• Unplugged Pub (Bryson City) will host Brandon Morris Nov. 11, Rock Holler Nov. 12, UpBeats Nov. 13, Blackjack County Nov. 18, Dottie The Band Nov. 19 and Carolina Freightshakers Nov. 20. All shows begin at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. 828.538.2488.

• Valley Tavern (Maggie Valley) will host The Lads AVL 6 p.m. Nov. 20. 828.926.7440 or valley-tavern.com.

• Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host karaoke on Thursday nights, Whiskey Dick w/J.D. Pinkus (rock/folk) 9 p.m. Nov. 13 and Hooten Hallers (blues/punk) 10 p.m. Nov. 20. 828.456.4750 or facebook.com/waternhole.bar.

• Western Carolina University (Cullowhee) will host the Western Carolina Civic Orchestra fall concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in the School of Music Recital Hall.

Featured will be harpist John Wickey and a new work by Damon Sink. Free and open to the public. wcu.edu.

FOOD AND DRINK • “Flights & Bites” will be held starting at 4 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays at Bosu’s Wine Shop in downtown Waynesville. For more information on upcoming events, wine tastings and special dinners, click on waynesvillewine.com.

• “Dillsboro After Five” will take place from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in downtown Dillsboro. Start with a visit to the Jackson County Farmers Market located in the Innovation Station parking lot. Stay for dinner and take advantage of late-hour shopping. www.mountainlovers.com.

• There will be a free wine tasting from 6 to 8 p.m. every Thursday and 2 to 5 p.m. every Saturday at The Wine Bar & Cellar in Sylva. 828.631.3075.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • “The Magical Lamp of Aladdin” will hit the stage at 7 p.m. Nov. 12-13 and 2 p.m. and Nov. 13 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Tickets are $13 per person. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on smokymountainarts.com.

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• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will host semi-regular live music on the weekends and Liz Nance (singer-songwriter) Nov. 10 and Cam Cokas Nov. 17. All shows begin at 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. innovation-brewing.com.

• Where We Live: History, Nature, and Culture lecture series’ upcoming program will be held at 6:30 Monday, Nov. 15, at Cowee School in Franklin.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host Scott Stambaugh (singer-songwriter) Nov. 13 and Troy Underwood Nov. 20. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public.

828.349.2337 or lazyhikerbrewing.com.

• The Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education will offer a robust schedule of outdoor programming this month — but at locations other than its still-closed building.

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Complete listings of local music scene Regional festivals Art gallery events and openings Complete listings of recreational offerings at health and fitness centers n Civic and social club gatherings Fish Hatchery and West Fork Mills River. All programs are free, but registration is required at ncwildlife.org/Learning/EducationCenters/Pisgah/Event-Registration/PageId/Calendar or by calling 828.877.4423.

• Learn how to be safe while hiking during hunting season at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. NHC membership not required to attend.

• The Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy will be hosting Donald Davis, author of “The American Chestnut: An Environmental History” at 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center.

Davis will be holding a reading and question session to wrap up his book tour here in Franklin. The event is free to the public.

• Take an easy 2-mile stroll on the Waynesville Greenway at 8 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 13, while looking for birds with Howard Burke. The birding tour is part of an ongoing series that Haywood County Recreation and Parks offers to see the birds of Haywood County in their native habitat. Tours are $10, paid at registration. Sign up with Ian Smith at ian.smith@haywoodcountync.gov or 828.452.6789.

• Friends of Panthertown is hosting a series of trail work days this fall, and all are invited to come pitch in.

Scheduled work days are Saturday, Nov. 13; Saturday, Nov. 20; Friday, Dec. 3 and Saturday, Dec. 18. No previous trail work experience is necessary. Work days typically run from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., with about 5 miles of hiking on moderate trails while doing trail corridor clearing, pruning and some tread and drain work. To sign up, email trails@panthertown.org. Learn more at www.panthertown.org/volunteer.

• A forester from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will talk about the tribe’s efforts to make traditional gathering more accessible for tribal members during a free 30-minute webinar at 1 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16.

Register for the webinar at brpfoundation.org/events.

• Learn how to identify rocks and put that knowledge to the test during a program at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, at the Highlands Nature Center. The program will include a half-mile rock identification hike ending at Sunset Rock, which is owned and protected by the HighlandsCashiers Land Trust. Reservations and masks required.

Sign up at highlandsbiological.org.

• Get a tutorial in Shiitake mushroom cultivation at 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 20, with Alarka Institute in Macon County. The program will be held outdoors, weather permitting, or safely distanced in a well-ventilated indoor space in case of poor weather. Proof of vaccination required. Cost is $65. Register at alarkaexpeditions.com. Contact 828.371.8439 with questions.

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WAYNESVILLE OFFICE 74 North Main Street | (828) 634 -7333 Fontana Lake Estates | 4BR, 4BA, 1HB | $1,590,000 | #3798629

2BR, 1BA $150,000 | #3799400

3BR, 2BA $195,000 | #3773087

1BR, 2BA $232,000 | #3801256

3BR, 2BA $269,900 | #3760626

4BR, 2BA $305,000 | #3801753

3BR, 2BA, 1HB $339,000 | #3800527

4BR, 2BA $375,000 | #3798604

2BR, 3BA, 1HB $390,000 | #3799776

Grimball Park | 3BR, 2BA, 1HB $435,000 | #3800353

Stoney Brook | 3BR, 3BA $525,000 | #3800497

3BR, 3BA, 1HB $675,000 | #3801329

Tanwood | 3BR, 2BA, 1HB $749,000 | #3802533

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