On the streets Mountain momma BY B ECKY JOHNSON
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There will be a P.A.W.S. fundraiser at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City on June 15.
Trail release party at Nantahala Brewing The essence of food, craft beer in Bryson
The Cherokee Voices Festival runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian grounds in Cherokee. The event will feature continuous performances of dance, storytelling and music, and more than 25 demonstrations of traditional Cherokee arts and crafts. Harvey and David’s Catering will provide food and drink. The festival is sponsored by the N.C. Arts Council and
Family fun at Relay for Life in Franklin Relay for Life of Franklin runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 8, at the Franklin High School football field. With the theme for the day “Country Folks Can Survive, Fightin’ For A Cure,” there over 37 teams participating with a goal of raising $80,000. Events and various types of entertainment will be held throughout the day, which include a bouncy house, inflatable slide, children’s games, dunking booth, sumo wrestling, corn hole tournaments, face painting, pie eating contest, bake sales, and raffles. There will also be food vendors onsite. Admission and parking are free. www.relayforlife.org or 828.369.9221.
On the stage Buddy Holly musical comes to Highlands “Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story” will be showcased from June 13-30 at the Highlands Playhouse. Holly’s brief life became the stuff of legend when he died in a plane crash. The production catches that unique A musical about the life of rock legend Buddy Holly mixture of innocence, deter- opens at the Highlands Playhouse on June 13. Donated photo mination, humor and charm that was Holly and wraps it up into a p.m., with a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday. package that truly deserves the billing: Tickets are $30 per person, $12 for chil“The World’s Most Successful Rock & dren age 12 and younger. 828.526.2695 or Roll Musical.” Tuesday-Saturday show times are 8 www.highlandsplayhouse.org.
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Festival celebrates Cherokee life, culture
the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. Also, two free tours of the Cherokee Heritage Trail are available at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., on a firstcome, first-served basis. The festival is free and open to the public. 828.497.3481 or www.cherokeemuseum.org.
BERRY PICKIN’
June 5-11, 2013
The 5th Trail Magic Ale release party is set for June 7-8 at Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City. The Honeysuckle French Farmhouse Ale will be tapped at 6 The P.A.W.S. “Sampling of the City” will be from 6 p.m. June 7. The ale release is a comto 10 p.m. Thursday, June 15, at the Nantahala plex, spicy honeysuckle saison. Along Brewing Company in Bryson City. with the use of local wildflower The fundraiser showcases all of the restaurants honey, handpicked Honeysuckle found in Bryson City as well as the craft beers at flowers give this Belgian farmhouse Nantahala Brewing. Proceeds go to P.A.W.S. ale the adventurous soul of the Great (Placing Animals Within Society), a no-kill shelter in Smoky Mountains. A bottle Bryson City. swap/beer geek party kicks off at 8 Entry is $10 per person. p.m. Participants are encouraged to bring home brew, rare bottled beers and your favorite local craft brews to share. Liz and AJ Nance will be playing at 8 Hoppers performing at 8 p.m. 828.488.2337 or p.m. A limited bottle release of the Trail Magic Ale will begin on June 8, with The Freight www.nantahalabrewing.com.
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have faint but fond memories of pickmake your own strawberry milkshakes. Or ing strawberries as a kid: the twisty, make smoothies with vanilla yogurt, dusty gravel roads leading to the farm, bananas and orange juice. You can make being handed my very own big-girl pail by fresh strawberry syrup in a flash for panthe strawberry lady and, most notably, cakes on Saturday morning — just throw a sneaking mouthfuls when my mom wasn’t splash of water, a few spoonfuls of sugar looking. and strawberries in a pot, simmer a bit and Sure enough, when I take my own kids then mash with the back of a fork. And of strawberry picking their pails remain suscourse, freeze some. piciously empty while the contrail of pink If you don’t have your kids’ summer strawberry juice down their shirt front mapped out yet, check out the day camps grows suspiciously bigger. We’ve since list in the “Kids and Families” section of adopted tie-die T-shirts as our official strawberry picking uniform to hopefully camouflage the evidence. Otherwise, the • Shelton Farms, Sylva. www.sheltonfamilyfarm.com. farmer would probably • Darnell Farms, Bryson City. www.darnellfarm.com start weighing my kids • Ten Acre Garden, Waynesville. 828.235.9667 before and after they pick • Mitchell Farms, Franklin. www.jwmitchellfarms.com. and charging us for what they ate. While strawberry picking last year, my the calendar at the back of the paper. I am toddler made the connection for the first eyeing the world cultures art camp put on time that food was something that grew by Cullowhee Mountain Art, one of several out of the ground. The next day he wanted themed art camps for a range of ages. They to go Oreo picking. If only. even have a family clay week in July, where If you go, let your kids talk to the folks you get to make pottery with your tweens who run the farm if they are around. For or teens. With art increasingly being cut in little ones, I recommend making your own public schools, it’s fabulous to have this pail at home by punching holes in a extracurricular art option in our region. Tupperware container and lacing a ribbon On the historical front, you can experithrough it so they can wear it around their ence both Appalachian and Cherokee culneck. That way, their hands are free to pick ture at two different festivals this Saturday, and they don’t have to worry about tripJune 8. There’s the Appalachian Lifestyles ping and dropping their berries, or keepFestival in downtown Waynesville and the ing up with the pail. Cherokee Voices Festival at the Museum of Now comes the challenge of eating all the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee. Both will those strawberries. Stop on the way home feature traditional music, dance, crafts and for a gallon of low-fat vanilla ice cream and lifeways. Have fun out there!
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