of weaver Neal Howard, potter George Rector and blacksmith William Rogers. For maps and directions, visit the Caney Fork General Store, 7032 Highway 107, next to East Laporte Park or email wingedgriffinstudios@hotmail.com.
• Country music legend John Michael Montgomery, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, at Carpe Diem Farms, near downtown Highlands. Gates open at 1 p.m. Tickets are $50 each, $10 for children under 12. Tickets for the Ball are $200 per person. Peter Raoul at 526.5700, or visit www.carpediemfarms.org.
• American Craft Week, Oct. 5-14. 252.0121 or visit www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/tools/refer.
• The Blue Ridge Orchestra will perform Fairy Tales and Mozart at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Colonial Theatre, 53 Park St., Canton, and at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain. $15 general admission; $10 for Friends of the Blue Ridge Orchestra, and $5 for students. Tickets for the Canton performance may be purchased at the door or ordered through the website at blueridgeorchestra.org. Tickets for the performance in Black Mountain are available at the door and at www.whitehorseblackmountain.com/. • Remnants Classic Rock Band will perform the final event of the fall Sundays On the Square, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7 at Franklin’s Town Square gazebo. www.artscouncilofmacon.org or 524.7683. • Illusionist Jason Bishop, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University. All ages. $20 for adults; $15 for groups and WCU faculty and staff; and $5 for children and students. 227.2479 or go online to bardoartscenter.wcu.edu. • The Western Carolina University Wind Ensemble will present its first concert of the season, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center. Free. 227.7242. • Songwriter’s Showcase featuring Lorraine Conard, Karen Sugar Barnes and Sheila Gordon, produced by Chris Minick, 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, Main Street Perks, 26 N. Main St., Waynesville. Benefit for Haywood County Arts Council. $ 5 donation. 456.8488.
• Smoky Mountain Community Theatre presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap 7:30 p.m. Oct. 12-14 and 1922. Box Office opens at 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $8 for adults and $5 for children. 488.8227.
ART/GALLERY EVENTS & OPENINGS • Art after Dark, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, in downtown Waynesville. Special artist showings, demonstrations and refreshments.
• An exhibition at Western Carolina University’s Fine Arts Museum available through Oct. 5. museum@wcu.edu, 828.227.3591. • Reception for Swain County art teacher Sheena Kohlmeyer, Sunday, Oct. 14, at the Swain County Center for the Arts, following a 3 p.m. bluegrass concert by the Rye Holler boys. Kohlmeyer is showing her MAEd Thesis Exhibit at the Center for the Arts through Nov. 14. 488.7843 or www.swain.k12.nc.us/cfta to get driving directions.
CLASSES, PROGRAMS & DEMONSTRATIONS • Cullowhee Studio Tour, 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the studios
• Landscape painter Jo Ridge Kelley will present a one day workshop, Expressive Landscape, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at River’s Edge Studio, 191 Lyman St., Studio 310, River Arts District, Asheville. $125. Demo will be oil. jo@jokelley.com, 226.0549; or fleta@fletamonaghan.com, 776.2716 • Blue Ridge Watermedia Society, 6:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the First Baptist Church, Main Street, Waynesville. Guest speaker is Jesse Clay, a senior illustrator for Disney World for 22 years. • The WCU Fine Art Museum will host an exhibition of thesis work by candidates for the degree of master of fine arts through Oct. 12. The thesis exhibitions are “Contradictions in a Mad World” by Julie Boisseau and “Retracing the Trace” by Luzene Hill. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, with hours extended to 7 p.m. Thursdays. fineartmusuem.wcu.edu. 227.2553 or ddrury@wcu.edu.
FILM & SCREEN • A new movie starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith will be shown at 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, at the Macon County Library in Franklin. PG-13 for sexual content and language. 524.3600. • An Encounter with Simone Weil, 7:30-9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the University Center Theater at Western Carolina University, as part of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers for the 2012-13 academic year. Weil (1909-1943) was a French philosopher, activist, and mystic. 227.3622 or email ledavis.wcu.edu. Also, visit ace.wcu.edu. • A Rankin and Bass Halloween classic movie starring the voices of Boris Karloff and Phyllis, 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. The film is a bizarre stop-motion animated parody of horror films. 524.3600. • Movie Night: A 2012 Superhero drama directed by Joss Whedon. 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, Jackson County Public Library, Sylva. 586.2016
Outdoors OUTINGS, HIKES & FIELDTRIPS • Georgia ForestWatch will host a volunteer Bertram Trail Work Day from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at Bertram Trail at Warwoman Dell. No pets. Register at info@gafw.org or call 706.635.8733. • Join Blue Ridge Parkway rangers at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5, for an easy to moderate 2.5 mile roundtrip hike to the summit of Sam Knob. Begin at the Black Balsam parking area accessed via the Black Balsam Road (FR 816), just south of milepost 420. 298.5330 ext. 304 for details.
• The Highlands Cashiers Land Trust will host an ecotour to Rock Mountain Summit from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13. Space limited and reservations are necessary. Moderate hike. HCLT members are asked to give a $10 donation and new friends are asked for $35 which includes the guided Eco Tour, lunch and an HCLT membership. 526.1111 or Julie.hitrust@earthlink.net. • The Gorges State Park is looking for volunteers to assist in maintaining existing trails and campgrounds in the park on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., weather permitting. Bring gloves, water and tools supplied. Participants need to be at least 16 years old and in good health. Registration not required. Meet at 17762 Rosman Highway (US-64) in Sapphire. 966.9099.
PROGRAMS & WORKSHOPS • Forest Festival Day, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Cradle of Forestry, four miles south of Parkway milepost 412 on Hwy. 276 in the Pisgah National Forest. Traditional craftsmen, exhibitors and musicians. Six colleges will compete in log roll, archer, chain saw, orienteering, standing block chop and more in the 17th Annual John G. Palmer Intercollegiate Woodsmen’s Meet. www.cradleofforestry.org • Georgia ForestWatch will host a volunteer Bertram Trail Work Day from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at Bertram Trail at Warwoman Dell. No pets. Register at info@gafw.org or call 706.635.8733. • Join Blue Ridge Parkway rangers at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 5, for an easy to moderate 2.5 mile roundtrip hike to the summit of Sam Knob. Begin at the Black Balsam parking area accessed via the Black Balsam Road (FR 816), just south of milepost 420. 298.5330 ext. 304 for details. • The local Audubon Society is offering weekly Saturday birding field trips. Meet at 7:30 a.m. in the Highlands Town Hall parking lot near the public restrooms, or at 8 a.m. behind Wendy’s if the walk is in Cashiers. Binoculars available. www.highlandsaudubonsociety.org or 743.9670. • Learn about the autumn leaves from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Highlands Nature Center. Tour the Botanical Garden and learn to identify trees by leaf type, shape and color. $2 per person. Advanced registration required. 526.2623. • Camping in the Old Style, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, Cradle of Forestry in America, Pisgah National Forest. Visit with a small group of re-enactors in a reconstructed campsite of the early 1900s. See fire by flint, steel, and friction, old style campfire cookery, four different styles of period shelters, and traditional camp tools in use. $5 adults; under ages 16 free; America the Beautiful and Golden Age passports honored. 877.3130 or www.cradleofforestry.org. • Franklin Green Drinks hosted by Macon County Chapter of WNC Alliance, third Tuesday of the month from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Rathskeller in downtown Franklin. Green Drinks is a time for local folks to get together and socialize and talk about environmental or social justice issues.
COMPETITIVE EDGE • The Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Foundation will host Pour Le Pink 5-K Walk/Run for Breast Health and Women’s Services at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, in
• The 14th annual Smoky Streak race, Saturday, Oct. 6, in Sylva, to raise funds to pay for mammograms for underserved, qualifying women. www.medwesthealth.org.
FARM & GARDEN • A Winter Garden Workshop, 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at Dan Pitillo’s Cane Creek Road property in Cullowhee. $5 per person donation will benefit the Jackson County Farmers Market. Purchase tickets from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturdays, at the Farmer’s Market in the Bridge Park Parking Lot or at Dan’s the day of the workshop. Jenny McPherson, 631.3033 or email jennywm@buncombe.main.nc.us. • An informational meeting for the upcoming Extension Master Gardener class at the Haywood County Extension Center, 1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 589 Raccoon Road in Waynesville. • The Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center is offering a poultry class from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10. Tuition: $35 Instructor: David Dodson. Learn the various methods for dispatching poultry, sanitation, scalding, plucking, eviscerating, cool down, and safe handling and cooking. Hands-on class with students playing an active role in the preparation of fresh poultry. Preregistration and payment required. Register online www.Stecoahvalleycenter.com or call 479. 3364.
HIKING CLUBS • Carolina Mountain Club hosts more than 150 hikes a year, including options for full days on weekends, full days on Wednesdays and half days on Sundays. Nonmembers contact event leaders. www.carolinamountainclub.org • High Country Hikers, based in Hendersonville, plans hikes Mondays and Thursdays weekly. Participants should bring a travel donation and gear mentioned on their website: main.nc.us/highcountryhikers. 808.2165 • Nantahala Hiking Club based in Macon County holds weekly Saturday hikes in the Nantahala National Forest and beyond. www.nantahalahikingclub.org • Mountain High Hikers, based in Young Harris, Ga., leads several hikes per week. Guests should contact hike leader. www.mountainhighhikers.org. • Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, located in East Tennessee, makes weekly hikes in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park as well as surrounding areas. www.smhclub.org. • Benton MacKaye Trail Association incorporates outings for hikes, trail maintenance and other work trips. No experience is necessary to participate. www.bmta.org. • Diamond Brand’s Women’s Hiking Group meets on the third Saturday of every month. For more information, e-mail awilliams@diamondbrand.com or call 684.6262.
ONGOING CLUBS • The Macon County Beekeepers Association, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, Cooperative Extension Office on Thomas Heights Road. Speaker is Carl Chesick, executive director, Honeybee Research Institute. He has been a no-treatment beekeeper since 2003; he and his wife operate a Certified Naturally Grown farm and apiary in the Asheville area. The public is invited. 524.5234. • The Cherokee Runners meets each month on the 1st and 15th of the month (if the first falls on Sunday, the group meets on the 2nd), at the Age Link Conference Room. Anyone, no matter the fitness level, is welcome to join. Group runs are being held each Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p.m. starting at the Flame. www.cherokeerunners.com.
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• Opening reception, 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, at Gallery 262, 142 N. Main St., Waynesville, for surrealism artists Bobbi Polizzi of Hendersonville, and Michelle Walker of Waynesville. 452.6100.
• Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Day, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center in Asheville. Family-friendly activities and demonstrations, such as cornshuck dolls, pumpkin decorating and Cherokee syllabary. At 12 pm the Whitewater Bluegrass will perform at noon, followed at 1:30 by Twilite Broadcasters. For a complete schedule, visit www.blueridgeheritage.com.
• The Live and Learn Committee of Lake Junaluska is hosting an outing at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, to see the elk at Cataloochee. Meet at Bethea Welcome Center, 91 N. Lakeshore Drive, to caravan. Bring a picnic supper. Everyone invited. clauser@charter.net.
Highlands. Funds raised will go toward maintaining HCH’s state-of-the-art equipment as well as financial aid for HCH patients. www.highlandscashiershosptial.org or 526.1313.
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• Bruce Hornsby will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Harrah’s Cherokee Event Center, 777 Casino Drive, Cherokee. www.ticketmaster.com or 800.745.3000. Must be 21 years of age or older to attend. www.brucehornsby.com.
• Craft demonstrations this week at Dogwood Crafters in Dillsboro. Open daily, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with evening hours until 9 p.m. in October. Call 586.2248 for details.
• The Nantahala Hiking Club will take a two mile easy hike at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7, in the Otto area on the Tessentee Farm trails. Good birding along the way; historic site. Meet at the Smoky Mountain Visitors Center. Drive six miles round trip. Call leader Kay Coriell, 369.6820, for reservations. Visitors welcome but no pet please.
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Gees, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts, Franklin. Tickets start at $20 each and can be purchased at GreatMountainMusic.com, or at the theatre’s box office, 1028 Georgia Road. 866.273.4615.
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