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Former Gateway Club has new owner Page 4 Gov. Cooper visits WNC, touts outdoor industry Page 13

CONTENTS On the Cover: Artistic effort aims to give voice to Appalachian women (Pages 6-9) “Aunt” Arie Carpenter lived in the Otto community of Macon County from 1885 to 1978 and is the subject of a biography, Broadway play and Hallmark movie stemming from her interactions with Foxfire Heritage Center students. Foxfire photo

News Former Gateway Club has new owner ..........................................................................4 Teachers plan Raleigh march ............................................................................................5 HCC wants building for medical training ..................................................................10 Haywood schools seek more capital needs..............................................................11 Sylva wants art commission under umbrella of downtown group ......................12 Gov. Cooper visits NOC, touts outdoor industry ....................................................13 Duke Lifepoint hospitals ink agreement with insurance provider........................15 Macon to open health centers in schools ..................................................................16

Opinion Responsible media may be a thing of the past ........................................................20

A&E Perpetual Groove to play new Franklin venue ..........................................................24

Outdoors A hike to Little Cataloochee............................................................................................34

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER long-underutilized gem in the heart of Waynesville’s historic downtown has finally found a new owner, sparking optimism that new businesses could move in and further augment Haywood County’s urban core while yet preserving its unique aesthetic.

“One day we were just sitting there, admiring the building. The opportunity came around and the rest, as they say, is history,” said Shan Arora, one of the building’s new owners.

Located just east of Main Street, the three-story, 16,000-square-foot classical revival style Masonic Temple was built in 1927, but lost to the Masons through bankruptcy just three years later.

Renovated in 1973, the building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1988, and was designed by Britishborn architect W.H. Peeps, who worked on a number of important buildings across North Carolina including another Masonic Temple in Gastonia.

Most recently, the building was home to the Gateway Club, a restaurant and private club. The third-floor ballroom was available for events. The new owners plan a somewhat similar set-up, with a restaurant on the ground floor, office space on the second, and a space to rent for events on the top floor.

Records from the Haywood County Register of Deeds office show that on April 12 the property was purchased by Mandir Street LLC; Mandir is a Hindu word that loosely translated means “church,” a clever play on the building’s 37 Church Street address.

With Arora in Mandir LLC is his fatherin-law, well-known Haywood County businessman Satish Shah, owner of the Best Western in West Waynesville, as well as his brother Prakash. Arora said his in-laws have been part of the business community in Haywood County for decades.

The .36-acre parcel, which includes the 17-space parking lot directly adjacent, was last sold in 2012 for $750,000, and prior to the current sale was appraised at $1.1 million. According to the deed, Mandir Street LLC paid $1,770 in taxes on the sale;

“Downtown Waynesville is an amazing place and this building is an amazing asset,” he said, adding that the building was “better than expected” in terms of condition. But Arora also admitted that the devil’s in the details, and he won’t know exactly how much work will go into the building until his team gets a little deeper.

Still Arora, who said he’s visited Waynesville often, already has plans to energize the space.

“All ideas right now are, of course, subject to the reality of the marketplace,” he said. “But we really envision the first floor as some kind of restaurant.”

The second floor could wind up as office space, but Arora said he and his partners are trying to figure out what, exactly, the right kind of tenant might be.

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Located just east of Main Street, the three-story, 16,000-square-foot classical revival style Masonic Temple was built in 1927.

Most recently the home of the Gateway Club, the historic 1927 Masonic Lodge building on Church Street is now under new ownership. Cory Vaillancourt photo Haywood Recorder of Deeds Sherri Rogers said that those taxes translate out to $2 per $1,000 on the sale price, so the building was probably sold for right around $885,000.

Arora, an Atlanta-based sustainability consultant, says he already has ideas on how to make the building more environmentally friendly, including natural lighting, water-

saving appliances and LED lighting.

That’s not to say the building is about to become futuristic, by any means. Arora is a self-proclaimed history buff who remains fascinated by the building’s legacy and architecture; those energy-efficient lighting fixtures, for example, will remain period when possible.

Crowning the building, on the third floor, is the ballroom, which Arora called “magnificent.”

“We want to be true to the historical purpose of it,” he said. “We want it to be a rentable location.”

He’s also considering using the basement for “something that would be an addition to downtown Waynesville,” once that need becomes apparent.

As to his timeline, Arora seemed excited for the Masonic Lodge to rejoin Waynesville’s energetic tourist district, but he’s also unwilling to tarnish the legacy of the 92-year-old structure by rushing it to market.

“From a business perspective, we want to get going ASAP,” he laughed. “But we also want to be very purposeful. We don’t want to rush. This building’s been in the community for so long, we want to give it the respect it deserves.”

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Meanwhile, the top drivers of purchases are taste, price and health. Taste and price have consistently been top drivers of purchases. You may buy something once but if it doesn’t taste good you won’t buy it again!

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“We know students who aren’t having their health care taken care of don’t learn. We know students who worry about their parents and their grandparents not getting health care don’t learn,” he said. “We have 27,000 diabetics in this state not getting their medication. We have 40,000 woman not getting screenings.”

Also, the federal government is willing to reimburse states on Medicaid expansion costs, which means North Carolina has been leaving money on the table in Washington, D.C. That’s money that deVille and other proponents of expansion say would create 40,000 high-paying jobs throughout the state.

Educators are also concerned about a proposal in the General Assembly that would give each teacher a $400 stipend for classroom school supplies. deVille said it sounded like a great plan at first, but he’s found the devil’s in the details.

Right now, Macon County Schools receives about $135,000 a year for school books and supplies and the county has been providing another $90,000 to supplement that amount.

Since current funding levels for books and supplies are already 39 percent below where they were in 2008 (adjusted for inflation), deVille had hoped the proposal would mean an additional $400 a year for teachers, but it turns out it would be supplanting the current allocations.

“It’s a robbing Peter to pay Paul situation and reallocating of funds,” he said.

If the stipend is given to the teacher directly, they won’t be able to take advantage of the lower bulk purchasing power that the school system has now. Lastly, teachers would have to purchase supplies through an online platform called Class Wallet, a forprofit operation.

He said he’s expressed all these concerns over the proposal to Sen. Jim Davis, RFranklin, and Rep. Kevin Corbin, R-Franklin, but still thinks it has a good chance of passing.

“So, that’s why we’re marching May 1.

We’ve got room in the van leaving from Macon County,” deVille concluded.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR ast May, more than 25,000 educators across the state took to the streets of Raleigh to march for additional public education funding, and they plan to do it again this May. John deVille, president of the Macon County chapter of the North Carolina Association of Educators, updated county commissioners last week on the five reasons teachers will once again march to the General Assembly.

“We made some headway with the legislature last year in our opinion, but from what we can see in our classrooms, we’ve got a ways to go,” he said.

While the legislature has been working to get teachers’ pay increased across the state, deVille and other educators say it’s about more than pay — it’s about ensuring teachers and students have what they need to be successful.

According to deVille, educators will be marching to get the General Assembly to increase funding for systems to hire more school counselors and psychologists; to pay all school personnel (custodians, cafeteria workers and bus drivers) a fair wage of $15 an hour; to get health benefits eliminated in 2017 reinstated for retired educators; to restore compensation for educators earning an advanced degree and more Medicaid expansion.

“We need more counselors and psychologists in the schools — we’re three to five times below where the national association recommends we be,” deVille said. “Look at the mental health issues we have in this county.”

The elimination of retiree health benefits and funding to incentivize teachers to earn advanced degrees is hurting the industry’s ability to recruit and retain high-quality teachers.

While Medicaid expansion may not sound like a public education issue, deVille said, it does become an issue when rural hospitals continue to close and when 20 percent of people in the far west counties don’t have any health insurance.

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Sullivan, president of the women’s museum board. “I just couldn’t see how it would fit, and they agreed. It wouldn’t. This is a walkway and enclosure and it’s very circular. It uses the look of the old native stone and the old native pointing. Its whole purpose is to engage, so I’m excited about it.”

LIVLAB was one of 20 applicants to win a preliminary $5,000 planning grant. A decision on the full grant amount is expected in May. If the funding comes through, build-out should take about a year.

Buena Hicks, of Watauga County, plays the fiddle while her sister Hattie Presnell looks on. Foxfire photo

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Telling Appalachia’s untold stories Artistic effort aims to celebrate the female side of history

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ust as millennia of rain and wind and heat and cold have carved the physical shape of the mountains for which Appalachia is named, so have years of immigration and emigration and peace and war carved the human culture that covers them.

Through the centuries, each of millions of lives — men and women, Cherokee and white, black and Hispanic — has added its own chapter to the story.

But the story is often told differently from the way it was written by the people whose lives were the lines, artist Mo Kessler told a group of people gathered for a March 28 panel discussion at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian.

“Appalachia is one of those places that is often told by outsiders, and it’s often wrong,” Kessler said. “We knew from the get-go we wanted to have an opportunity for people to tell their own stories.”

The story of Appalachia, said Kessler, who is from Kentucky, is often told through the lens of industry — logging, mining, factories.

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Kessler, and other members of the Western Carolina University-based LIVLAB Artist Collective, hope to tell the feminine side of that story through a $50,000 grant they’re competing for from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. The grant aims to fund a piece of public art that will raise up overlooked stories — to the LIVLAB members, stories related to the women of Appalachia seemed to fit the bill rather perfectly, especially when they realized the piece could be located at Dillsboro’s Appalachian Women’s Museum, another ongoing effort to tell the female side of Appalachian history.

“It was this awesome serendipitous moment of, ‘this is what we have to do,’” said Morgan Kennedy, assistant professor of sculpture at WCU and member of LIVLAB. Leading up to the panel discussion, LIVLAB hosted two town hall meetings in Sylva to get an idea of what the community might want to see in a finished art piece. It will be located in the backyard of the museum building, centering around a big fire pit with bench seating circling the whole thing. The benches will contain technology allowing visitors to trigger a random database of stories of Appalachian women, “told by people who love them or know them or are them,” said Kessler. Ideally, they’d also be able to revamp some outdoor structure on the property as a recording studio for guests to add their own family stories.

“I was initially worried a little bit about a figurative kind of sculpture,” said Sharon

“Appalachia is one of those places that is often told by outsiders, and it’s often wrong. We knew from the get-go we wanted to have an opportunity for people to tell their own stories.”

— Mo Kessler, LIVLAB Artist Collective

Before the stories can be told, they have to be known. That’s what the March 28 panel event, held at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, was all about. Attendees were invited to share their own stories for incorporation into the finished piece, and the panel itself featured speakers from the Foxfire Museum, Macon County Women’s History Trail, Appalachian Women’s Museum and Cherokee Beloved Woman Committee.

“Our archive contains over 3,000 hours of audio interviews, 100,000 film negatives, tens of thousands of color slides, video. It’s remarkable.

It’s daunting. And the vast majority of that material is women, I’m proud to say,” said T.J. Smith, executive director of Foxfire, a nonprofit based in Rabun County, Georgia, that works to document and preserve Appalachian heritage.

That’s not because Foxfire intentionally focuses on women, he said.

“I think it has a lot to do with the nature of the relationships between the (Foxfire) students and these people they interview,” he said. “Oftentimes when they would interview the men in the community it was very much focused on the task — how do you build a log cabin from scratch? How do you build a basket or a barrel? And that would be the gist of that interview.

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A window in the Appalachian Women’s Museum offers a view of the restored canning house.

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number on how much money has gone into restoring the building thus far but says it’s less than $200,000 spread over nearly 15 years.

“What we can tell you is we have hundreds of thousands of dollar equivalents in volunteer time,” she said. “On an average year we’re pulling in more than 1,000 volunteer hours.”

Built in 1908, the three-story house was the home of sisters Edna and Edith Monteith, both of whom declined the traditional marriage-and-kids route and lived together in their childhood home until their deaths. Their father was a postmaster, and the property was a working farm. When their father died, Edna took over the postmaster duties, and together the sisters kept the farm running.

“The Monteith sister who was over the post office actually served as a postal clerk,” said Busick. “She got ready to retire and she said, ‘Wait a minute. This is not right.’ So she wrote the postmaster general and said, ‘I do this and this and this and this, the same as a postmaster. I want postmaster retirement.’”

Amazingly, she got her retirement.

It’s stories like that that made the place seem the perfect location for the only museum in existence honoring Southern Appalachian women. Currently, the building is staged mostly with early-1900s furniture and décor that was left in the house after the sisters passed away. But the museum won’t simply be a shrine to the Monteith sisters.

Board members have been working to collect a diverse stock of stories from across the community and region about the women who have made the Southern Appalachians what they are today.

When it’s all done, the Monteith family will have a dedicated room — the “green room,” the sisters’ favorite color — but the other rooms will explore the lives of women

Appalachian Women’s Museum board members stand on the porch of the building in Dillsboro.

Pictured left to right are treasurer Debi Sullivan, past president Cathy Monteith Busick, current president Sharon Sullivan and vice president Marty Greeble.

Airing of the Quilts returns The second annual Airing of the Quilts will return to the Appalachian Women’s Museum in Dillsboro 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, May 4, in Dillsboro.

The airing-out of quilts is a traditional rite of spring in the mountains, a chance to give the blankets a freshening-up after a long winter indoors. Quilts of different types and eras will be on display along with demonstrators, children’s activities, a raffle, a fabric scrap exchange and music on the porch from local musicians. New this year will be a demonstration from nationally known quilter Laura Nelle Goebel. www.appwomen.org. who were important to education, health care, politics, arts and crafts, music, community leadership and more.

The museum has also landed a grant from the Cherokee Preservation Foundation to plan a Cherokee women’s room. Using the grant money, the board has hired a designer to start work on it.

After so much time, things are finally

starting to come together, and Busick is excited to get those stories out in the open.

“You really have no idea the contributions that women have made over the years and in the formation of your communities because most of those stories are undocumented,” she said. “They pass down in families and that’s great, but unfortunately families die out or kids don’t listen. Those stories get lost.”

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER t’s shaping up to be a big year for the Appalachian Women’s Museum in Dillsboro. The nonprofit is preparing for its second annual Airing of the Quilts event, will get an artistically designed storytelling installation on its grounds if a grant Western Carolina University is working on goes through, and hopes to start regularly opening its doors to the public during Saturdays summer.

And, as of Jan. 25, it owns the building outright.

“We’re really excited about this year,” said Sharon Sullivan, board president for the museum. “It’s like an overnight success that has taken 15 years.”

The town of Dillsboro gave the organization the deed to the Monteith Farmstead where the museum is located for $10 — a gift that came after years of hard work. In 2013, the town agreed to lease the building to the museum for five years. If the group could raise its own money and fix the place up, the town said, they could have the deed.

“When we got the price for doing what we’re doing, it was so out of our price range it was like, oh no, that will never happen,” said Cathy Monteith Busick, a current member and past president of the board. “So we just did it the old-fashioned way. We did it a little bit at a time.”

The canning house was restored in 2010, the roof repaired in 2014, the exterior painted in 2017. In 2008, the house was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Following a blitz of volunteerism from Western Carolina University students, the interior now also bears a fresh coat of paint, colors chosen to be true to the period.

All that has happened on a shoestring budget. Sullivan said she doesn’t have a hard

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The kitchen in the Appalachian Women’s Museum offers a peek into the early 1900s. Beulah Perry stands in her yard in Rabun County, Georgia. Holly Kays photo • Foxfire photo

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U NTOLD, CONTINUED FROM 6 “With the women they interviewed they got that stuff, because they interviewed people who were weavers and basketmakers, but they also got philosophy, they got religion, they got perspectives on community and family that the men were not willing to share or not inclined to share for whatever reason.

There’s just a tremendous amount of the Appalachian ethos in those interviews. It’s quite remarkable.”

That ethos is characterized by a recurring set of themes, said Smith.

“When I look at the interviews with women, there’s some focused thematic elements there,” he said. “There are a lot of great perspectives on some big ideas, community chief among them, work and work ethic and the importance of work, a lack of interest in material things and really just minimizing how non-important that stuff is. Strength through hardship, and also the relationship that they had with the land and nature around them.”

“Aunt” Arie Carpenter, who lived in the Otto community of Macon County, is one of the first people who comes to mind when Smith thinks about all the stories Foxfire has told over the years. Carpenter’s life was even written up as a Foxfire biography, and turned into a Broadway play and later a Hallmark movie. During her life, 1885-1978, she never traveled further than 35 miles from home and lived most of her married life, which began at age 38 after years spent caring for her mother, in a log house making a living off a small farm.

“The students would go to Aunt Arie’s house,” said Smith. “She would always cook for them, a full supper. She would sit with them and share with them as long as they wanted to stay with her. It was the favorite place for students to go.”

But Carpenter, Smith said, is “the tip of the iceberg” when it comes to admirable Appalachian women.

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that tribal member Kimberley Smith — no relation to T.J. Smith — wants to see told.

Kim Smith was 29 when she first began learning about the women pivotal to her tribe’s past. She’d often driven by the tribe’s finance building, which is named after Beloved Woman Maggie Wachacha, but never knew who Wachacha was and what she did to get her name on the sign. She decided to start researching.

Now she knows that Wachacha was a Tribal Council clerk and Cherokee language speaker who lived in the remote Snowbird area of Graham County. Every month, she would walk 50 miles into Cherokee to serve as the language translator for Council.

“I hate to drive that far, and she walked, monthly, dedicating her time to be here to ensure that her community had a voice and her culture was preserved,” said Kim Smith.

The stories are compelling in their own right, but it’s important to look at them within the context of Cherokee culture, said Kim Smith. Unlike Western culture, traditional Cherokee culture was matrilineal but egalitarian. That means that lineage was traced through women rather than men but that the balance of power was equal between the genders.

“Traditionally we were very balanced. We recognized the balance of the cosmos, so winter to summer, animals to plants and men to women,” she said. “There were very strong definitions for what a man is or what a woman is and what their duties are like.”

Women worked in agriculture and took care of the home, while men hunted and fought wars. Occasionally, women would cross those boundaries and go to war, with some of those warrior women earning a deep respect from their tribe for their contributions. When men tried to assume a different role, it didn’t work out the same way.

“It often seemed disrespectful that a man would try to live his life as a woman, because he could never complete all the activities a woman could,” said Kim Smith. “He could never menstruate, he could never bear a child.”

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“Traditionally we were very balanced. We recognized the balance of the cosmos, so winter to summer, animals to plants and men to women.

There were very strong definitions for what a man is or what a woman is and what their duties are like.”

— Kimberly Smith, Cherokee

Follow LIVLAB Get updates on the LIVLAB project at the Appalachian Women’s Museum at www.facebook.com/WCU-Livlab-2041377835930866, www.instagram.com/wculivlab and bit.ly/2PcJJaa. Pennsylvania Governor Benjamin Franklin arguing against further encroachment on Cherokee land, provide a strong example of the contrast between Western and Cherokee ideas of a woman’s place in the 18th century.

“I am in hopes that if you rightly consider it that woman is the mother of all and woman does not pull children out of trees or stumps nor out of old logs, but out of their bodies, so that they ought to mind what a woman says and look upon her as a mother — and I have taken the privilege to speak to you as my own children, and the same as if you had sucked my breast,” she wrote in 1787.

“It showed incredible leadership and incredible power that she possessed to be able to speak that way,” said Kim Smith.

As Western attitudes percolated more and more through traditional society, that perspective shifted. Older accounts showing pic-

tures of Cherokee people tend to name the men in the images, while images of females are labeled more generically, as “image of Cherokee woman with child” or something similar, said Kim Smith.

“You always get this ‘Come to Cherokee, see the exotic Cherokee woman’ — you don’t really get to hear her story,” said Kim Smith.

That’s what she’s trying to change with some of her recent efforts, which include spearheading creation of the Beloved Woman Committee to better define the process for bestowing the title and celebrate those who have already received it. Smith’s research has turned up countless stories of bravery, wisdom and stoicism that she hopes to share with an ever-wider audience — and especially with her own daughters.

There is no shortage of stories. There’s Lula Owl Gloyne, for example, who is believed to be the first Native American registered nurse. She once saved a patient in Cherokee whose guts had spilled out of him and drove him 45 minutes to the nearest hospital — and then went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for Cherokee to get its own hospital.

Wilma Mankiller was the first female chief of either Cherokee tribe, Arizona Swayney was a college graduate and college professor in a time when neither was typical for a woman, and Ruth Littlejohn was a successful hotel owner in the 1950s, using her own money to start the fall festival that continues in Cherokee to this day.

By knowing the stories, Kim Smith said her daughters — and, hopefully, females throughout the tribe — “can be comfortable in their own skins and know they have a lineage of strong, independent women, and they’re not having to wait until 29 to find out about them.”

WOMEN FROM AWAY For Barbara McRae, a different kind of story hits home.

The child of an Air Force family, McRae didn’t grow up in Western North Carolina.

She moved to Franklin with her husband in 1973, becoming a reporter for The Franklin Press and, later, its edi-

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into the county to teach, they came from somewhere else, and they were welcomed because they were so needed,” said McRae. Some women even made it into academic administration. Mary Kilgore, a young woman from Atlanta, was recruited as a teacher in 1919. But when the principal at the Higdonville high school where she taught left — his name was Robert Madison, and he left to start what would become Western Carolina University — she became the principal. Kilgore stayed for a year and then went to Iotla, where she worked for five years as a teacher and principal before returning to Atlanta, but she stayed connected to her community in Macon County.

“I interviewed this woman in 1980,” said McRae. “She came to Franklin to stay with friends she had kept up with all those years.”

Women were influential in other fields as well.

Mary Lapham, originally from a wealthy Midwestern family, moved to Highlands shortly after it was established, bought a farm

as a single woman, and, upon discovering how little health care was available in the area, went to medical school and then to Switzerland to study the latest treatments for tuberculosis.

“Tuberculosis was the big killer in those days,” McRae said. “It’s incredible how many people died of it. She came back to Highlands and established a sanitarium. It was called Bug Hill. She had this treatment she had developed based on what she learned. It became the national norm and she became a nationally known figure. Hundreds of people came to the sanitarium, and she cured them.”

For McRae, the story of Arabella Johnson perhaps hits home the most. A widowed woman with six sons, Johnson bought the Franklin Press and ran it during World War II, becoming its first female editor. McRae was the second, and today she lives in the house Johnson once inhabited.

“I’ve really learned how much my experience in Macon County mirrored the example of these women that I have become so fond of in my research here,” said McRae. “People welcomed me with open arms when I came to Franklin. They got me into these clubs.

They’re doing the same thing in 1973 that they were doing in 1920.”

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Literacy was a problem. Before the Civil War, the area had public schools, but that system was destroyed in the conflict. Nearly all the schoolteachers had been male, and few of them were left after the war. By 1870, hardly anyone could read or write.

“The answer was to get women to go into teaching, and there was an organization called the Peabody Foundation,” said McRae. “His idea was to save the South by helping the South re-establish its education system. He figured the best way to do this was to get women to go into teaching.”

Society in Macon County was receptive to the idea. The wealthier families in town were “very interested” in educating their daughters, often sending them to Asheville for college or finishing school, said McRae. Various mining and forestry operations were headquartered in Franklin, attracting a set of educated, administrative people to town. The women spent their time as active members of various social and educational clubs, planning all sorts of events and programs in town.

Peabody helped start a teaching school and recruited women to go, and by the 20th century nearly all the teachers were women, a complete changeover from what had been.

“Of course a lot of the people who came

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tor. Now retired, she serves on the town council and led efforts to create the Macon County Women’s History Trail, the first such trail in North Carolina.

“I’ve discovered a lot of very fascinating women, and some themes that I’ve come across that kind of surprised me,” she said.

“One has to do with women from away.”

White settlers first arrived in Macon County around 1820. The people who came were children of the frontier, following the western front as it moved. Most of them were related to each other or otherwise knew each other, McRae said, so they brought a culture with them. By 1830 there were 2,300 settlers.

But in the 1830s, a lot of people left North Carolina for the promise of cheaper and more abundant land westward. Hardly anybody else moved in.

“Especially in the coves, you did have this beautiful culture that we think of as the Appalachian culture,” said McRae. “In the towns things were a little bit different. People were more literate, for one thing.”

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Haywood Community College wants a new building

BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER espite proposed increases in nearly every major budget category, Haywood Community College is proposing a substantial new facility that could be hard to fund — and even harder not to fund.

“Our job is to provide employees for our employers,” said HCC President Dr. Barbara Parker.”

Several of the proposed increases — along with the school’s free tuition guarantee — aim to do just that, but the volume of the requests will test appetite of Haywood County Commissioners for increased capital outlays.

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CAPITAL OUTLAY BUDGET HCC’s auditorium, perhaps the largest in the area, could see $325,000 in improve-

ments to the curtains, PA system, and stage lighting. Built in 1990, the 1,000-seat auditorium still has its original furnishings.

Parker said that from Nov. 1, 2017, to Nov. 1, 2018, the auditorium hosted 248 events

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By far the biggest outlay would be a new facility that would not only increase the capacity of HCC’s well-regarded nursing program, but also serve as an economic development boost to the area.

With that, she described a new 16,000-square-foot Health and Human Services Building that would contain a 16-bed simulation lab for the school’s health programs, a 30-seat computer lab, a 40-seat biology lab, a 100-seat lecture hall, and space for administration and faculty offices.

“Certainly, this produces graduates with skills needed across the medical community in Haywood County,” said The potential site for a new building at HCC is outlined Parker. “Especially with our above, in red. HCC photo aging population, there are going to be medical needs here. and more than 30,000 people from 80 organ- This will provide a number of LPN positions, higher paying positions.” izations, many of whom are repeat users.

The building will also help lay the groundThey’re also looking to replace a 19-yearold, 15-passenger van, a maintenance truck work for a retooled EMS program that by and an arboretum truck, bringing the capital 2023 must be a 2-year degree program.

The price tag? More than $7.2 million. outlay budget to $417,000, up 15.8 percent First, there’s the 10 percent from last year. The auditorium improvements account for 78 percent of the increase. design fee of $566,000.

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The good news is that salaries and fringe benefits will remain relatively flat, with just a $23,735 increase proposed against a prior year budget of $1.1 million; likewise, the professional development budget remains unchanged at $13,200.

Other costs, like tree removal and pest control, will jump almost 20 percent to $513,000, but that’s relatively meager compared to another contracted service.

“This is the big one,” Parker said, revealing that HCC’s contract for custodial services — which hasn’t been renegotiated in seven years — would likely double.

Currently, the vendor charges about $1.69

a square foot, and hasn’t changed the total cost of services despite the addition of new buildings at HCC. After checking around, Parker said she thinks that cost will rise to $2.88 per square foot. Factoring in the new buildings, it’s likely custodial services would jump from $300,000 a year to over $600,000.

Bids for the service are due by April 24, which will give HCC a clearer picture of the cost increase.

The ever-rising cost of utilities will also result in a 10 percent jump, from $533,000 to more than $590,000; Parker says she expects an increase of 5 percent for water, and 9 percent for AT&T’s telecommunications services, including new lines in the Regional Business Advancement Center.

HCC seems to have dodged a bullet though in another troublesome line item.

Most local governments are grappling with substantial rate increases in insurance, but the community college will see only an 8 percent increase.

All that adds up to a proposed fiscal year 2019-20 operating budget of $3.24 million, 17.9 percent larger than last year’s; without the increase in custodial services, that would have been a 9.4 percent increase.

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budget goes towards salaries, and 16 percent towards benefits for a total of 61 percent; the next largest category, purchased services, accounts for 19 percent.

The school system’s nutrition program is accounted for separate from the regular budget, and acts almost as an enterprise fund, like a town’s water, sewer, or electric might.

This year, a very small increase of $13,000 is proposed, which would bring the total to $4.2 million, but no increase in lunch prices is expected.

Of that, food accounts for just 38 percent of the cost; overhead is around four percent, and the rest of the $4.2 million is labor.

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With a number of buildings strewn across the county, HCS has constant infrastructure needs. This year is no different, and there are a few big ones — replacement rooftop HVAC units at Junaluska Elementary and at North Canton Middle School to replace models so old that they can’t be repaired.

There’s also a new gymnasium floor proposed for Riverbend Elementary, a chemistry lab at Central Haywood High School, and $50,000 in cafeteria equipment.

That adds up to a proposed $900,000 in capital spending this year, which is up from recent years.

“I think it’s a good and realistic number for us to strive for,” said Francis.

Francis said that in the past, HCS has tried to work with commissioners to keep spending down — especially during the recession years — with the result that lots of much-needed patch-and-mend repairs were put on the back burner.

Commission Chairman Kevin Ensley said he wouldn’t be sure until numbers from the next budget workshop come through, although he did say he thinks a 3 percent raise may be a percent too much.

As proposed, the local current expense budget could see an increase over 2018-19 of about 1 percent.

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That budget was built on several critical assumptions — a 3 percent pay increase for all positions, a 20 percent retirement rate, and a hike of $6,400 per local employee in hospitalization costs. All that adds up to about $389,000 in new spending.

The 2019-20 budget proposes a number of additions as well, including increasing the non-certified employee supplement from 2 to 4 percent, increasing extra duty pay for principals, assistant principals and systemlevel administrators, providing insurance for some bus drivers and implementing a new computer replacement schedule.

“I think we’re addressing some of the personnel concerns that will allow us to attract and retain good employees,” said Francis.

“Especially with the bus drivers. It’s a step in the right direction that we’ve overlooked for a long time now.”

Also on the personnel side, the budget proposes another half-time assistant principal for Waynesville Middle School, another half-time art teacher, a full-time English language learner teaching position, and an additional custodian.

According to data presented by the Haywood County Schools, 45 percent of the

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Even by using the bond money, though, that leaves a funding gap for the project of more than $4.4 million.

“I’d like for us to fund this, from an economic development perspective,” said Haywood Board of Commissioners Chairman Kevin Ensley. “Every time they turn out a nurse, that becomes a $50,000 a year job.”

Ensley said that some of the existing quarter-cent sales tax might be used to help pay for the project.

“I think there’s some room there,” he said.

“I think we can maybe do it with the money we’ve already got coming in. I’m comfortable with moving forward on this.”

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VEGETABLES Construction costs are estimated to be $5.6 million, including a half-percent per month allowance for price escalations. Soil testing and surveying add another $15,000 to the tab, and furnishings, including security, add another $825,000 to that.

In 2015, as a result of the Connect NC Bond, $2.8 million was appropriated to HCC, and that money’s still in the kitty; if they don’t use it by 2021, it goes away.

Commissioners pondered how to pay for Parker’s proposal, with Mark Pless suggesting that HCC could use that bond money now and perhaps split the project, which would likely take between two and three years to complete, over multiple budget years.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER he Haywood County school system presented its proposed local current expense budget to Haywood County commissioners April 15, and at least one school board member is optimistic about how it was received.

“Well, while I was there, I didn’t see anybody cringe,” said Chuck Francis, chairman of the Haywood Board of Education.

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Sylva reorganized public art efforts

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ust over two years after forming it, the Town of Sylva has voted to disband its Public Art Committee — but with the intention of reassembling it under the auspices of the Main Street Sylva Association.

“A lot of what the committee would do is the same, but there’s more flexibility with it being a Main Street Committee that isn’t considered a public body and appointed by the board,” said Town Manager Paige Dowling during the April 11 town meeting.

“The art committee has struggled with membership. They’ve gone through quite a few members and then there’s the constraints of a majority living in town or not having a quorum and having to cancel meetings. I think they’d get more support if they could go under the Main Street Design Committee.”

The vote stemmed from a discussion that Dowling introduced during a March 28 budget meeting. Commissioners were receptive to considering the idea, though some were uncertain as to whether they would end up in favor when it came to a vote.

“Will it fall apart and become a nothing committee?” asked Commissioner David Nestler.

Commissioner Greg McPherson said he’d rather have it under the town and added that, “I would be very against it if the board was funded, but it’s not.”

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However, Mayor Lynda Sossamon as well as Commissioners Mary Gelbaugh and Barbara Hamilton expressed support for the change.

When the issue came up for a vote April 11, Gelbaugh was quick to make a motion in favor.

“This is kind of hard for me, because I’m the one that started the committee,” said McPherson. “The committee was a little bit lackluster. Having said that, they came up with this idea for a mural and it’s a reality now, and it’s one of the things that brings people into Sylva, and I don’t want to take

away from the seriousness of that.”

The mural, 22 by 53 feet and painted on the side of Mill Street’s Ward’s Plumbing and Heating building, was completed last summer following a $10,000 state grant for downtown revitalization awarded by Jackson County.

McPherson said that the board could still move its meetings around while remaining under the town, especially if it appointed one of its members as the secretary so town staff wouldn’t have to be present to take minutes.

The problem, he said, was that the committee never organized a fundraiser or had anybody actively looking for grants — but the

art committee is “more serious than a quasicommittee on the Main Street board” and should remain a public body, he said.

Sossamon disagreed.

“That (design) is one of the pillars of the Main Street program,” she said. “I think you’ll have some of the same people. It sounds like two of the people that have been working on it want to be on the committee when it becomes part of the Main Street Association, and then we also had town people that are interested.”

“It would basically be the same committee,” she added.

“A watered-down version of the same committee,” said McPherson.

“I don’t think it’s a watered-down version of it,” replied Nestler. “I think it’s less constrained by inconvenient rules … It lets it move around, be more dynamic. I think it could be good.”

Nestler added that the Main Street Association is stronger than it’s been in the past.

“This helps make it stronger,” he said, “which might play a large role in convincing a majority of the town board to fund it in the future.”

The new organization could make it easier for the group to fund its projects even apart from town support, said Dowling.

Under the Main Street Association it could apply for grants as a nonprofit, where before it was considered a governmental entity.

And its members would be better able to work with MSA’s promotions committee, which puts on fundraisers

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Gov. Cooper touts tourism at Nantahala Outdoor Center role in engaging people in outdoor recreation, doing it in a way that is safe and secure so that they want to come back and do more.

We see ourselves as not just opening up the door to outdoor recreation offered by the Nantahala Outdoor Center but also to the local region and the biking trails, the hiking trails, just a lifestyle outdoors.”

Since his election in 2016, Cooper’s been active in promoting this sector of North Carolina’s economy, which now surpasses the entire financial services industry’s

that could perhaps eventually benefit public art projects. She added that art committee members and MSA members had expressed support for the change.

While design is one of the pillars of the national Main Street America Program, there isn’t currently an active design committee in

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structure directly related to activities like canoeing, hiking or kayaking; it’s things like coffee shops, breweries or arts districts.

Promotion of the diverse offerings in North Carolina is also of top import, because many people don’t know that within the confines of the Old North State, one can participate in activities as diverse as

revitalize the region’s rivers and fisheries, and to conserve habitat and migration corridors in a diverse set of landscapes whose biodiversity is almost unrivaled in the world’s temperate climactic zones,” he said.

Irving also cited the work of groups like the Nantahala-Pisgah National Forest Partnership, and Land for Tomorrow.

impact in the state.

“I think that Gov. Cooper definitely understands the value of outdoor recreation in the state of North Carolina and is a big proponent of allowing us to grow that as well,” said Jan Wojtasinski, vice president of marketing at NOC. “Unfortunately this is an area that does struggle economically. I think the state does recognize that, and we would love to see the state help support us more from a marketing perspective and to help grow the outdoor recreation economy here, because there is a huge effect on local communities.”

Last summer, Cooper led an effort with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper to unite outdoor recreation professionals from nine other states — including Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming — to explore potential collaboration.

But Cooper also cited the creation of an outdoor recreation department within the N.C. Economic Development Partnership in January 2018 as the best evidence of his commitment. At the time, North Carolina became only the fourth state to have such a department, but at least six other states have since added similar operations.

Upon establishment of the department, officials conducted a listening tour, which revealed a number of ways in which the outdoor recreation industry could grow.

Across the state additional lodging near attractions is a top priority, as is additional infrastructure — but not necessarily infra-

scuba diving off the Outer Banks to snow skiing in the Great Smokies.

“Western North Carolina has one of the country’s most vibrant and fast-growing outdoor economy industry clusters,” said Irving. “Between outdoor gear builders, outfitters, guides, retailers, summer camps, guides, trail builders and the like, this is one of the region’s most pivotal economic drivers, and a rival to destinations like Boulder, Ogden, and Portland.”

Irving said that WNC is that way largely because of the significant attention paid to economic development by regional Councils of Government and economic development partnerships, in conjunction with some longstanding conservation-minded governance.

“All of this builds on the region’s long and storied legacy of conservation, from serving as the Cradle of Forestry in the US, to the amazing work that’s been done to

“Just as important are regional universities and community colleges like WCU, Appalachian State and Southwestern Community College, all of whom have formally recognized the power and importance of the outdoors through founding new departments and programs specifically to care for our region’s outdoors,” he said.

Those programs also focus on the gear manufacturing industry that not only supplies local outfitters, but also brings in significant revenue from out-of-of-state consumers who may not be planning to visit North Carolina but will eventually spend some of their money in the state through online shopping.

“I think state government can play a role in working with local government and the private businesses that are out here in being successful in attracting more tourists to Western North Carolina,” said Cooper.

Sylva. Once resurrected, the committee will be able to choose its own members. Under the program, design is anything that enhances the attractiveness of the business district, including historic building rehab, street cleanup, landscaping and lighting.

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Committee can focus only on art or expand it the focus to more elements of streetscapes,” said Dowling.

Getting a public art program started in Sylva has been a priority of McPherson’s ever since he was elected in 2015. The town created a public art fund in 2016 and then a

public art committee in January 2017. The committee sifted through applications and managed the design for the postcard-style mural now on the side of the Ward Plumbing and Heating building but has not launched any fundraisers or secured additional grants to fund more ideas.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER t’s no secret that Western North Carolina has long been a haven for outdoor recreational enthusiasts, but as that particular segment of North Carolina’s economy continues to expand, Gov. Roy Cooper is doing all he can to foster further growth.

“We want to emphasize this, find the best way to market ourselves, and to maximize all of these amazing natural resources that we have,” said Cooper. “It’s hard to find a better view than in Western North Carolina. It’s hard to find a better outdoor experience.”

Cooper, a Democrat from Rocky Mount, made his remarks during a visit to the Nantahala Outdoor Center in Swain County on April 13, part of a trip that included stops in Robbinsville and at Western Carolina University.

“You can have outdoor experiences in Western North Carolina like no other place.

We have these amazing river rapids that provide family entertainment,” he said. “We have amazing hiking trails. We have historic small towns with amazing artwork. There is a lot here in WNC that can attract people from all over the world.”

It’s certainly done that — international events at the renowned facility have drawn competitors and spectators from dozens of different countries, as well as other states. In fact, more visitors to NOC come from Atlanta than any other city, and from Florida than any other state, including North Carolina.

According to stats from the Boulder, Colo.-based Outdoor Industry Association, outdoor recreation across the United States generates $887 billion in annual consumer spending, $65 billion in federal tax revenue, $59 billion in state and tax revenue and supports more than 7.6 million jobs.

In North Carolina, the industry accounts for $28 billion in annual consumer spending, $8.3 billion in salaries and wages for more than 260,000 workers, and $1.3 billion in state and local tax revenue. The 11th Congressional District, comprised of much of Western North Carolina including Swain County, is home to more than 80 outdoor companies.

North Carolina is tied with Colorado for the sixth-largest outdoor recreation economy in the nation, according to William Irving, President and CEO of NOC. “The NOC has, for over 40 years, served as the gateway to people’s first experiences in this state. In our [11th Congressional] district alone, we’re seeing about a $1.6 billion impact,” said Irving. “We understand our

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER fter a four-month lapse, services from physicians working for hospitals in Clyde, Sylva and Bryson City will be back in-network with UnitedHealthCare as of May 1. These services had been out-of-network since the previous contract lapsed Jan. 1.

In addition to putting physician services back in-network, the agreement also includes a multi-year contract for the hospitals themselves, said UnitedHealthCare spokesman Cole Manbeck. The existing contract between Harris Regional Hospital, Haywood Regional Medical Center and Swain Community Hospital was set to expire later this year.

“This is a win for our patients who deserve access to quality care here at home, and we appreciate your patience as we worked through this process … From the outset we have been committed to ensuring your healthcare needs would continue to be met, and we are pleased to continue this commitment,” reads a statement from the hospitals.

“Our new contract gives us the ability to continue reinvesting in patient care by recruiting new physicians and caregivers and enhancing the services we provide.”

The disagreement between United and the hospitals had hinged on reimbursement rates for physicians employed by the hospitals. In a statement released in October 2018,

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the hospitals said that United was reimbursing physicians at rates “significantly below market average” and that the arrangement was “simply unsustainable long-term.”

Meanwhile, Manbeck said at the time that Duke LifePoint, which owns the hospitals, had been stalling the negotiating process, “failing to provide us a single proposal or inform us what they are seeking in this negotiation.”

In an email sent April 16, Manbeck said that United has reached multi-year agreements with Duke LifePoint for seven North Carolina hospitals, including Harris, Haywood and Swain.

The contract is private, so it is unknown how many years the agreement covers or whether the hospitals got the higher reimbursement rates they wanted.

Reimbursement rates had also been the issue in a 2017 contract lapse between Blue Cross Blue Shield and Mission Hospital.

Mission announced in July 2017 that it would not be renewing its contract with BCBS and went out-of-network Oct. 5, remaining so until more than two months later, Dec. 15.

HCA Healthcare purchased Mission for $1.5 billion on Feb. 1.

In November 2018, LifePoint Health and RCCH HealthCare Partners merged and are now operating as one company under the LifePoint name.

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With a variety of associate, diploma, and certificate programs to choose from, students can take the first step to map their future and guide our world. For assistance with career counseling, call 828.627.4500. For more information about registration, visit www.haywood.edu or email hcc-advising@haywood.edu.

Center for Domestic Peace (CDP) is hosting an open house from 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at 26 Ridgeway Street, Sylva.

Speakers will begin at 4 p.m.

The open house welcomes all past, current, and future volunteers, donors, and partners. It also provides the opportunity for individuals, organizations, and companies to learn more about services provided and how they can become involved.

Attendees will have the chance to meet

staff and board members, learn more about the partnership, and see the renovated office space. Refreshments will be provided.

“We want to educate our community members about the Center for Domestic Peace, REACH of Macon County, and our partnership to provide services to Jackson County,” said Destri Leger, Jackson County Outreach and Development Coordinator.

Guest speakers including Jackson County Commission Chairman Brian McMahan and Chairman Ali Laird-Large will discuss the history of domestic and sexual violence services provided in Jackson County.

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Macon, Jackson funded for school health centers

BY J ESSI STONE N EWS E DITOR acon County Schools will be setting up a school-based health center at South Macon Elementary School soon thanks to a $150,000 community health grant from the state Office of Rural Health.

Carmine Rocco, interim public health director for Macon County, said the health department has been working in conjunction with the school system to figure out a way to provide more health services for students. He said the one-year grant is a great start to providing earlier intervention for students.

“This community health grant will fund a school-based health center that will provide several different services — preventative care including immunizations, nutritional services to children and parents and behavioral health services,” Rocco told commissioners last week.

He said the health center would be created through a partnership between the county, the school system, Appalachian Community Services and Western Carolina University. WCU will be on hand to evaluate the health center’s successes and challenges through the first year.

“Young children can benefit from intervention earlier than waiting until they’re in high school,” Rocco said.

kindergarten through third grade, we’ve never experienced before and we’re illequipped to handle,” Baldwin said. “South Macon was chosen because it’s the largest elementary school and it’s close to Union Academy and we hope they can reap some of those benefits as well.”

As for keeping it going, Rocco said he would continue to look for other funding sources, including a similar grant offered

mary care medical services during school hours, three days per week, to all Fairview Elementary and Smoky Mountain High School students. Additional access to comprehensive primary care, including family medicine, pediatrics, counseling, psychiatry and nutrition, will be available at Blue Ridge Health-Jackson located at 293 Hospital Road in Sylva.

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The health center will be created through a partnership between the county, the school system, Appalachian Community Services and Western Carolina University. through the state Division of Public Health.

Commission Chairman Jim Tate thanked Rocco and Baldwin for going after the grant.

“It’s a fantastic example of the county thinking outside the box on how we may solve some of the larger issues affecting us as a community,” he said.

Jackson County Schools is also working toward having the school-based health centers. Beginning this month, in collaboration with Blue Ridge Health, the school system will open health centers at Fairview School and Smoky Mountain High School.

The sites will first start providing pri-

are practices that bring preventive and acute care, as well as health education and other services, to children and adolescents at schools. They are staffed by BRH pediatric and adolescent health specialists, including nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses, licensed clinical social workers (counselors), and a consulting medical director.

The health center staff will work closely with school nurses and key school support staff to identify and treat student health issues.

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The grant process was very competitive and Macon County is one of 18 systems awarded the grant. The health center will be staffed with two full-time behavioral health specialists, a contracted position for a psychiatric nurse practitioner to help with medication management, and school nurses and nutritionists will be spending more time at the school as well.

“It’s an intensive approach so we can track these children and have more success than trying to do a shotgun approach to hitting lots of different schools but not being able to follow and work intensively with these kids,” Rocco said. “We’re building on a reputation of being concerned about behavioral health and providing services where they’re needed. Local is where the action takes place — local is where we make a difference.”

Dr. Chris Baldwin, superintendent of Macon County Schools, said that suicide is currently the second leading cause of death in children 10 to 18 years old. With more incidents of violence, bullying and threats being made in the school system, he said it’s more important than ever to get ahead of these issues.

“What we’re seeing in our school system now — obviously we’re all concerned about the events at Parkland and other schools across the nation, but in our our school system we’re seeing needs, particularly in

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Library, REACH to host movie The Jackson County Public Library is partnering with REACH to show the movie The Line at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in honor of April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

There will be a short presentation and discussion afterward between staff members of REACH and the public. This movie is, now more than ever, very important. All attendees of this event will be eligible to win a raffle for a $100 gift basket.

For more information, call the Jackson County Public Library in Sylva at 828.586.2016.

Harris offers free seminars Harris Regional Hospital will offer a free educational event entitled “Running 101: Essentials for Success” at noon on Monday, April 22, in the Harris Regional Hospital boardroom on the first floor of the hospital.

“Running 101” is designed to help runners and athletes of all ages stay active and performing at their best by providing education and tips when running for leisure or in preparation for an event.

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“We opened our first school-based health center in Henderson County in 1996 and the program has grown significantly since then,” said Tammy Greenwell, COO for Blue Ridge Health and President of the North Carolina School Based Health Alliance. “In our experience, the addition of on-site healthcare services in schools yields positive results for the well-being and academic success of students in the district.

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health center represents our district’s commitment to our students well-being,” said Jackson County Schools Superintendent Dr. Kim Elliott. “We want to promote the utilization of preventive care services whenever possible and, nationwide, school-based health centers have been demonstrated to help prevent chronic absenteeism and provide access for families in a way that encourages regular utilization.”

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT STAFF WRITER he Town of Waynesville and Haywood County both got a spot of good news last week when it was announced that the building that was originally the county’s hospital would advance to the next stage in potential redevelopment.

“We have received the results from NCHFA on final site scoring for Brookmont Lofts,” said John Stiltner, director of development and construction management for Winston-Salem-based Landmark Property Management Company, in an email to Waynesville’s Development Services Department. “I am happy to let you all know that we received a perfect site score and will be working to submit a full application for the proposed project May 10.”

The building has languished largely unused for years now and currently sits in what the town calls a blighted area.

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The town’s designation of the neighborhood around the building as a redevelopment area will essentially give Landmark for the first time two bites of the apple in its bid to acquire tax credits from the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency that would make the project financially feasible.

Despite past perfect scores, the project has been passed over for those credits repeatedly, to the chagrin of commissioners who are tired of paying the nearly $70,000 a year it takes to keep the decaying building safe and secure.

“Worst case, we’ll have to tear it down,” said Kevin Ensley, chair of the Haywood County Board of Commissioners.

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No name. No photo. No notoriety. The quest for notoriety and infamy is a well-known motivating factor in rampage mass killings and violent copycat crimes. In an effort to reduce future tragedies, we challenge the media — calling for responsible media coverage for the sake of pubic safety when reporting on individuals who commit or attempt acts of rampage mass violence, thereby depriving violent like minded individuals the media celebrity and media spotlight they so crave.

I wonder if that is possible: can society count on the media

Make redistricting an important issue To the Editor The U.S. Supreme Court met March 26 to hear arguments on redistricting in three states, including North Carolina. Their decision could have significant impact on you no matter what your party affiliation.

Both parties in North Carolina have a long history of drawing district lines to win elections. Call it stacking the deck or cheating, it’s wrong and it does nothing to serve the greater good. If you take no action you are approving the politicians choosing their voters instead of voters choosing their politicians.

The North Carolina legislature is considering two bills on redistricting, House Bills H69 and H140. This letter is intended to make you aware of them and encourage you to call your representatives. Get their position on these

to be responsible in how it covers any event? The problem, from my perspective, is that word, “media.” That one noun encompasses such a broad range of outlets, from this small weekly newspaper to giants like USA Today to cable television talk shows to agenda-driven websites run by individuals who often have nefarious motives. This explosion of media made possible by the internet, unfortunately, means there is little hope that a plea for responsible coverage is achievable. For some, being responsible is the opposite of why they blog or why they post to websites.

Truth is, I’ve spent countless hours and used up gallons of ink in arguing Editor for a free press. If you believe in the First Amendment, then you also have to embrace that fact that people should have the right to express opinions and thoughts that most of us would deem vile or despicable.

With that right to freedom of expression, however, comes responsibility — at least for most of us. That’s what’s missing in the proliferation of outlets reporting on the news today, and it was one of the first lessons I learned in my journalism career.

My first full-time job was as a reporter for The Zebulon Record, a small weekly covering a small town in Wake County, just outside Raleigh. My publisher was Mark Wilson, who is the brother of former Mountaineer publisher Ken Wilson. I learned a lot from the Wilson brothers, and among those les-

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t’s one of those anniversaries most would rather forget: April 20, 1999, the Columbine High School shooting. Two high school seniors murdered 12 fellow students and a teacher, and they shot and injured another 21 people before they committed suicide. They also brought bombs to the school, so the carnage could have been much worse.

Twenty years later, the tally of school shootings and mass killings continues to mount. That shooting and its aftermath changed this country, but rather than coming together to find ways to reduce random mass shootings we’ve instead become numb, seemingly accepting the reality that they are part of life in 21st century America.

After the deadly Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting in 2012 — 12 dead, 70 wounded — one victim’s parents started an organization called No Notoriety. It was a call for those reporting on these events to not make the shooters famous.

Tom and Caren Teves used their son’s senseless death to make a plea for responsible media coverage. You can check their website, but here’s No Notoriety’s mission statement:

sons was the need to constantly weigh your responsibility to journalistic ethics, your community and the public’s right to know. Publishing decisions are not always easy, and so you need to think things out but also trust gut instincts.

Back in Zebulon, we had gotten wind of an upcoming Ku Klux Klan rally. As a young reporter, my adrenaline was pumping when the police chief called me to his office and informed me that they had requested a permit for the rally. I imagined photos of hooded men with swastika armbands carrying crosses and Confederate flags and such, perhaps a clash with counter-protestors.

Mark, however, shut me down immediately. We won’t cover it, he said. We’re not going to give them what they want, which is publicity and their 15 minutes of fame, he said.

When I think back on that now, I remember how Mark didn’t even have to think about it. He knew what we should do, had obviously been through something like this before.

Twenty years after Columbine and seven years after Aurora, the media landscape is ever-evolving. Mass shootings, unfortunately, still occur all-too-often. Access to guns and our abysmal mental health system are a large part of the problem, but we in the media also have a role to play.

I don’t remember the name of the Columbine shooters, or the Aurora killer, and I’m not sure if they left some kind of manifesto or statement. I won’t name the perpetrators, and the No Notoriety mission is something I’ll consider whenever a question arises about reporting on senseless acts of violence.

Maybe we have learned something in the 20 years since Columbine. At least I’d like to think so.

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

bills and why.

The bills differ in several ways — size and party composition of the redistricting commission; number of votes required to approve the new redistricting maps; and if a change to the Constitution is required.

Most importantly, both bills would go far to ensuring a non-partisan process that results in fair and representative elections of our state legislators and members of Congress.

Understand what’s going on. Call your legislators. Rep. Kevin Corbin (R-Franklin) supports these bills; it appears Sen. Jim Davis (RDistrict 50) will not support it should the bill get to the Senate. Ask both why they support or oppose these bills.

This is in no way about party politics. The majority party today may not be the majority party in the future. This is about ensuring a level playing field now.

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wenty years ago, a friend and I would get together on the weekends of the major golf tournaments and bet an enormous Japanese take-out meal on whether Tiger Woods would win against the field. He would take Tiger and I would take the field. If you know anything at all about golf, that bet is nearly unimaginable — one golfer against 156 of the best players in the world — but Tiger Woods was so dominant in those days that the odds seemed Columnist just about even that he would win any given tournament, especially the big ones like the Masters and the U.S Open. I won a few of those bets, but I also paid for quite a few of those prodigious meals.

Watching Tiger Woods play golf in the late 1990s and early 2000s was like watching Michael Jordan play basketball in the 1990s, or what it must have been like to watch Babe Ruth play baseball in the 1920s.

In his prime, Tiger made countless shots that looked impossible under the most intense pressure imaginable. In the process, he won 14 majors in 11 years. When he won his fourteenth, he was only 32 years old. It was not really a question of whether he would break Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 majors, but when and by how many. He was still young. It seemed likely that he would win 30 or more. He not only dominated the game, he captured the imagination of the entire country.

Then there was that other narrative, a black man shattering records and winning tournament after tournament in a sport that had long been the province of white men.

Here was a young black golfer making mincemeat of Augusta National, not only one of the most challenging courses on the tour, but a very exclusive country club that had once hired only black caddies, did not allow a black man to play the Masters until Lee Elder broke the color barrier in 1975, and did not induct its first black member until 1990.

Tiger became the best-known athlete in the world, bringing a new audience to an old game, while shattering yet another stereotype. There had been black golfers, but none had ever become a star in the game. Tiger, of course, did more than that. Before he was 30 years old, he was universally acknowledged as the greatest golfer to have ever played the game, greater even than Nicklaus himself.

Because he had reached a peak the game had never seen, his fall from grace a couple of years later was all the more dramatic. There were the injuries that would eventually lead to four back surgeries, pain so intense that he

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could not swing a club, could not sleep. That would come later.

But first, in 2009, there were reports of infidelity in The National Enquirer, the infamous car crash while driving under the influence, the very public dissolution of his storybook marriage. There were numerous reports of dalliances with strippers, porn stars, and assorted other women. Reports of poor treatment of service people. In 2010, he checked into a “behavioral rehab” center in an attempt to get his life back on track.

Eventually, between the injuries, Tiger’s game fell apart. He fired his longtime caddy.

He tried a series of swing coaches. He did not look like the old Tiger on the course, neither his shot-making nor his temperament.

I suggested to my friend that perhaps his biggest problem was psychological. Maybe his fall from grace was like something out of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was golf ’s Hester Prynne, shunned by his people, riddled with guilt. My friend was not amused. His hero had become the object of public ridicule.

America loves few things more than basking the in the glow of a dumpster fire, especially if someone famous is being roasted in it. Tiger had once dominated the golf world.

Now he dominated the tabloids and talk shows. He lost millions in endorsement deals. He lost the respect of millions of fans.

Eventually, the fascination faded — there is always a new scandal just around the corner for an insatiable audience — and so did Tiger’s game. My friend and I had long since stopped making those bets. People no longer expected Tiger to win, or really even to contend, for the major championships. It was no longer a foregone conclusion that he would catch Jack Nicklaus after all. It seemed less and less likely that he would ever win another tournament, as he passed the age of 40 and contemplated retiring from the game altogether due to his chronic back problems.

Two years ago, he summed up the state of his game to his fellow golfers at the Masters champions dinner: “I’m done.”

But spinal fusion surgery in 2017 saved his career and made possible one of the greatest sports stories that will ever be told.

When Tiger Woods won the Masters on Sunday, coming from three shots behind in the final round to do it, fans all over the world not only cheered, but wept. The gallery erupted, and Tiger — who had shown almost no emotion at all during his furious comeback on the back nine, even as his competitors wilted around him — erupted as well, hugging everyone in sight.

I have been watching sports all of my life, and I have never seen anything like what Tiger Woods accomplished on Sunday in Augusta, or the effect it had on people. I do not know of a single person who was not rooting for Tiger to win that tournament. If there is one thing America loves more than basking the in the glow of a dumpster fire, it is a good redemption story, and this was a great one, perhaps the greatest ever in professional sports.

On Palm Sunday, no less, the Prodigal Son returned.

(Chris Cox is a writer and teacher. jchriscox@live.com)

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828.452.6000. Underground retail wine and craft beer shop, restaurant, and intimate live music venue. Kitchen opens at 4 p.m.

Wednesday through Saturday serving freshly prepared small plates, tapas, charcuterie, desserts. Enjoy live music every Friday and Saturday night at 7pm. www.classicwineseller.com. Also on facebook and twitter.

COUNTRY VITTLES: FAMILY STYLE RESTAURANT 3589 Soco Rd, Maggie Valley.

828.926.1820 Winter hours: Wednesday through Sunday 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Family Style at Country Vittles is not a buffet.

Instead our waitresses will bring your food piping hot from the kitchen right to your table and as many refills as you want. So if you have a big appetite, but sure to ask your waitress about our family style service.

FERRARA PIZZA & PASTA 243 Paragon Parkway, Clyde.

828.476.5058. Open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Sunday 12 to 8 p.m. Real New Yorkers. Real Italians. Real Pizza. A full service authentic Italian pizzeria and restaurant from New York to the Blue Ridge. Dine in, take out, and delivery. Check out our daily lunch specials plus customer appreciation nights on Monday and Tuesday 5 to 9 p.m. with large cheese pizzas for $9.95.

FIREFLY TAPS & GRILL 128 N. Main St., Waynesville 828.454.5400. Simple, delicious food. A must experience in WNC. Located in down-

tasteTHE mountains town Waynesville with an atmosphere that will warm your heart and your belly! Local and regional beers on tap. Full bar, vegetarian options, kids menu, and more.

Reservations accepted. Daily specials. Live music every Saturday from 7 to 10 p.m.

Open Mon.-Sat. 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Sunday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday brunch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

HARMON’S DEN BISTRO 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville 828.456.6322. Harmon’s Den is located in the Fangmeyer Theater at HART. Open 5:30-9 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday (Bistro closes at 7:30 p.m. on nights when there is a show in the Fangmeyer Theater) with Sunday brunch at 11 a.m. that includes breakfast and lunch items.

Harmon’s Den offers a complete menu with cocktails, wine list, and area beers on tap.

Enjoy casual dining with the guarantee of making it to the performance in time, then rub shoulders with the cast afterward with post-show food and beverage service.

Reservations recommended. www.harmonsden.harttheatre.org HAZELWOOD FARMACY & SODA FOUNTAIN 429 Hazelwood Avenue, Waynesville.

828.246.6996. Open six days a week, closed Wednesday. 7:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Breakfast until noon, old-fashioned luncheonette and diner comfort food. Historic full service soda fountain.

KANINI’S 1196 N. Main St., Waynesville.

828.452.5187. Lunch Monday-Saturday from 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., eat in or carry out. Closed Sunday. A made-from-scratch kitchen using fresh ingredients and supporting the local food and local farm-totable program. Offering a variety of meals to go from frozen meals to be stored and cooked later to “Dinners to Go” that are made fresh and ready to enjoyed that day.

MAGGIE VALLEY CLUB 1819 Country Club Dr., Maggie Valley.

828.926.1616. maggievalleyclub.com/dine.

Open seasonally for lunch and dinner. Fine and casual fireside dining in welcoming atmosphere. Full bar. Reservations accepted.

RENDEZVOUS RESTAURANT AND BAR Maggie Valley Inn and Conference Center 70 Soco Road, Maggie Valley 828.926.0201 Home of the Maggie Valley Pizzeria. We deliver after 4 p.m. daily to all of Maggie Valley, J-Creek area, and Lake Junaluska. Monday through Wednesday: 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Thursday: 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. country buffet and salad bar from 5 to 9 p.m. $11.95 with Steve Whiddon on piano. Friday and Saturday: 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 to 8 p.m. 11:30 to 3 p.m. family style, fried chicken, ham, fried fish, salad bar, along with all the fixings, $11.95. Check out our events and menu at rendezvousmaggievalley.com SAGEBRUSH STEAKHOUSE 1941 Champion Drive, Canton 828.646.3750 895 Russ Ave., Waynesville 828.452.5822. Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Carry out available.

Sagebrush features hand carved steaks, chicken and award winning BBQ ribs. We have fresh salads, seasonal vegetables and scrumptious deserts. Extensive selection of local craft beers and a full bar. Catering special events is one of our specialties.

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WAYNESVILLE PIZZA COMPANY 32 Felmet Street, Waynesville.

828.246.0927. Open Monday through Friday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday, noon to 10 p.m.; Sunday noon to 9 p.m.; closed Tuesdays. Opened in May 2016, The Waynesville Pizza Company has earned a reputation for having the best hand-tossed pizza in the area. Featuring a custom bar with more than 20 beers and a rustic, family friendly dining room. Menu includes salads, burgers, wraps, hot and cold sandwiches, gourmet pizza, homemade desserts, and a loaded salad bar.

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TAP ROOM BAR & GRILL 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville.

828.456.3551. Open seven days a week serving lunch and dinner. 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Tucked away inside Waynesville Inn, the Tap Room Bar & Grill has an approachable menu designed around locally sourced, sustainable, farm-to-table ingredients. Full bar and wine cellar. www.thewaynesvilleinn.com.

MON.-SAT. 11AM- 8 PM

34 CHURCH ST. WAYNESVILLE 828.246.6505

Starting at 6:30 will be a presentation on our organization and information, local data and helpful tips regarding lost and found pets.

Get an id tag made for your pet, and sign up to have your pet microchipped for $20.

Note: limited microchips available.

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MAD BATTER FOOD & FILM 617 W. Main Street Downtown Sylva.

828.586.3555. Open Monday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. with Sunday Brunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Hand-tossed pizza, house-ground burgers, steak sandwiches & fresh salmon all from scratch. Casual family friendly atmosphere.

Craft beer and interesting wine. Free movies Thursday through Saturday. Visit madbatterfoodfilm.com for this week’s shows & events.

PIGEON RIVER GRILLE 101 Park St., Canton.

828.492.1422. Open Tuesday through Thursday 3 to 8 p.m.; Friday-Saturday noon to 9 p.m.; Sunday noon to 6 p.m.

Southern-inspired restaurant serving simply prepared, fresh food sourced from top purveyors. Located riverside at Bearwaters Brewing, enjoy daily specials, sandwiches, wings, fish and chips, flatbreads, soups, salads, and more. Be sure to save room for a slice of the delicious house made cake.

Relaxing inside/outside dining and spacious gathering areas for large groups.

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JOEY'S PANCAKE HOUSE 4309 Soco Rd Maggie Valley.

828.926.0212. Open seven days a week! 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. Joey’s is a family-friendly restaurant that has been serving breakfast to locals and visitors of Western North Carolina for decades. Featuring a large variety of tempting pancakes, golden waffles, country style cured ham and seasonal specials spiked with flavor, Joey's is sure to please all appetites. Join us for what has become a tradition in these parts, breakfast at Joey’s.

MAGGIE VALLEY RESTAURANT 2804 Soco Road, Maggie Valley.

828.926.0425. 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Daily specials including soups, sandwiches and southern dishes along with featured dishes such as fresh fried chicken, rainbow trout, country ham, pork chops and more. Breakfast all day including omelets, pancakes, biscuits & gravy. facebook.com/carversmvr; instagram @carvers_mvr.

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Perpetual Groove.

It starts where it ends Perpetual Groove headlines Franklin festival

BY GARRET K. WOODWARD STAFF WRITER hen it comes to the truly innovative and distinct jam acts of the modern era, Perpetual Groove is a name that’s been roaring back into the scene in recent years.

Formed in Savannah, Georgia, in 1997, the group was ahead of its time with a seamless blend of exploratory rock-n-roll and electronica influences. The foundation was built upon the curious melodic nature and reflective songwriting of Phish and Widespread Panic, but was also highly immersed in the sonic possibilities found in the late-night rave and festival circuits back then.

Fronted by the carefree and welcoming persona that is lead singer/guitarist Brock Butler, Perpetual Groove has bounced back from a hiatus in 2013 that nearly derailed the beloved group toward a point of no return.

And since it has come back to the stage, Perpetual Groove has found new footing as a jam-rock powerhouse of musicianship in the digital age, quickly reclaiming its longtime fans and countless new listeners along the way — all in search of that you-had-to-be-there beauty that resides solely at the core of improvisational music.

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Smoky Mountain News: What does the landscape of Perpetual Groove currently look like?

Brock Butler: It’s an exciting time in the band. The new album comes out May 17.

There’s been more time spent on making this record than anything we’ve done before it.

Certain lyrics came into existence at quite a cost with regards to the perspective I’ve gained from things that have happened in what is now more than a year since putting pen to paper.

I’ve lost a family member — my sister and closest friend — unexpectedly, which has opened my eyes to looking for the joys and focused my awareness and attention further to appreciate the present.

SMN: Is there a difference between being a “musician” and being an “artist”? Are the terms mutually exclusive, can one be the other, or can both be vice versa in the realms of creativity and sonic possibility?

BB: I think it’s art. For me, auditory, visual and the written word are all artistry — chefs, filmmakers, athletes, musicians. With the age old subjective of what is art, I might not have been as actively aware of what my intentions were when I was younger. Having fun making music in a rock-n-roll band was pretty much reason enough. The long and short of it is that music has been and remains my therapy, my joy, and my own outlet for catharsis. My gratitude that anyone has ever cared to listen to what we make at all has always been there.

Over time, I hear from people I meet out on the road or if they message me about how certain songs or lyrics have effected their lives or what it’s meant to them — it’s ultimately all positives. My intent is mostly for the music to make

Want to go?

Perpetual Groove will headline “Springtopia II,” which will take place April 19-21 at 110 Carolina Mountain Drive in Franklin.

Friday acts include Anthony Mossburg, Lost Bridge, Scott Elo, White Oak Splits, and Grizzly Mammoth. Saturday will feature 28 Pages, Cougar Convention, The Paper Crowns, The Dirty Dutch Trio, CBDB, and Perpetual Groove (9 p.m.). Sunday will conclude with Heidi Holton, A. Lee Edwards, Jonathan Newell, and Wildeyes.

The event will also be the official grand opening of Altered Frequencies, Franklin’s newest outdoor music and event venue.

Tickets for Friday and Sunday are $8, with Saturday $20 per person. VIP and weekend passes are also available.

For more information on “Springtopia II,” a full schedule of events and/or to purchase tickets, click on www.alteredfrequencies.net.

For more information about Perpetual Groove, go to www.pgroove.net. people feel good or maybe even better — hopefully, a tranquil sort of thing.

SMN: For you, personally, what does the live setting spark within you, and also within your band?

BB: As far as the sound of the band Is concerned, I feel like it’s always been an evolving thing — always towards a more sophisticated thing. In some ways, albums are like the musical equivalent of yearbook photos. You can see some things that are indicative of the era that might be not as hip as you thought it was at the

time, but, conversely, you can see how far you’ve come since that time. This applies to the live setting as well. I think it’s a big part of the appeal to having improvisation in our shows. There’s no substitution for the time spent together with your band mates playing, traveling, and the life experience, that gets woven into the mix.

“There’s no substitution for the time spent together with your band mates playing, traveling, and the life experience, that gets woven into the mix.”

— Brock Butler

SMN: What has a life in music taught you about what it means to be a human being?

BB: I can’t see any way to calculate what size of a ripple we might make as a band or I might presume to make as an artist. I just hope it’s a positive one to any ears that choose to dial in — to try to be about the things I talk about.

There’s a wealth of forces and people at play in this world that don’t have a unifying intention or message. It seems that deliberately divisive and being controversial are the routes taken as often as not. What it means to be a human being and my intentions as a music maker are pretty much one and the same, connections and encounters that I would hope lend to — or even inspire — further kindness and positive things. I’ve been through enough peaks and valleys in life to not be naïve. Trying to find the balance of idealism and realism, and all while not getting jaded or cynical, takes finesse.

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HOT PICKS 1 2 3 4 5 Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host PMA (reggae/rock) 9:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20.

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fter a long week and weekend grinding away, I Grand Old Lady Hotel (Balsam) will host had to bust out and dis“Bluegrass on the Mountain” w/Bobby Maynard appear into the woods. And & Breakdown at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20. yet, I looked out my apartThe Catamount Singers and Electric Soul, a ment window on Sunday afterWestern Carolina University student ensemble, noon and it was pouring rain. will present “Made in America” at 7:30 p.m.

No matter, I figured. Who Thursday, April 25, at WCU’s John W. Bardo Fine cares? I wanted to be in the and Performing Arts Center. woods. It’s just water and mud, two of my favorite Folk duo Somebody’s Child will perform at 7 p.m. things to frolic in, if but to feel Thursday, April 25, in the Community Room of alive while literally and figurathe Jackson County Public Library in Franklin. tively immersed in the depths of Mother Nature. ing toward Maggie Valley remained stormy So, as I headed out of Waynesville and and violently windy, the other side sloping into the Great Smoky Mountains National into Cataloochee Valley slowly clearing up.

Park via Jonathan Creek, I parked at the Though the massive trees shielded me Cataloochee Divide Trail. With my usually loud truck stereo now silent, I emerged from from the 40-50 mph winds, I could see the branches swaying way above my position. the vehicle and into the silence of these Several recently fallen branches and trees ancient and mysterious mountains. littered the trail, with one massive branch Not a soul around. No recent tire tracks in the mud, either. The torrential rainstorms sticking out of the ground in the middle of the trail like a well-thrown javelin. I tried to of the day had finally transitioned into a wiggle it loose, but to no avail. It was stuck slight drizzle. Hitting the trail, a few breaks at least a foot into the cold ground. of blue sky appeared to the west, only to By the time I reached the top of the ridge once again — in an instant — be swallowed and stopped at an outlook, the sun serendipup by dark clouds and howling winds. itously appeared, as if to wink at me before As I jogged along the steep ridgeline, some 5,000 feet in elevation, I was straddling vanishing back into the storm clouds. I raised my head towards the sky in that fleetthe storm itself. One side of the ridge look-

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ing sunshine and smiled.

I thought of my kind and wise grandfather who died an old man. I thought of dearly missed friends who died young — some by suicide, others from drug overdoses. And I thought of those many loved ones of mine, who are far away on a map, but always close by in my soul.

Jogging back down to my truck, the torrential rain had resumed, but soon dispersed again. Muddy and wet, I cruised down the Old Cataloochee Turnpike and looped around into Cataloochee Valley. With my truck windows rolled down, Neil Young’s greatest hits album, “Decade,” blared from the speakers.

Completely alone in the solitude of the Smokies, “The Loner” radiated from the stereo, the freewheeling drums and searing electric guitar echoing into the tall trees, the only other sound being the truck tires crunching over the gravel and splashing through mud puddles.

That tune gave way to the rollicking heaviness of “Cinnamon Girl,” a melody that shook the tree of life within my heart of all its fruits of hard-fought labors spent in search of love, finding love, losing love, and starting the search all over again, “A dreamer of pictures / I run in the night / You see us together / Chasing the moonlight / My cinnamon girl.”

Circling back towards the bridge over Cataloochee Creek, “Sugar Mountain” soon swirled around the cab of the truck. A tune signaling the transition from childhood to adulthood, I couldn’t help but soak my current and lingering thoughts within its timeless message of a loss of innocence that can be found at any age, “Now you say you’re leavin’ home / ‘Cause you want to be alone / Ain’t it funny how you feel / When you’re findin’ out it’s real?”

Emerging from Cataloochee Valley and back up along the Old Cataloochee Turnpike to the entrance of the park — the invisible line between civilization and all things beautiful and true — “Down by the River” became the cruising soundtrack.

In Jack Kerouac’s seminal 1958 novel The Dharma Bums, he said, “There’s nothing better in the world than a roll-your-own [cigarette] deeply enjoyed without hurry.” Well, to that point, Jack, there’s nothing like listening to “Down by the River” in its entirety (nine minutes and 20 seconds) without hurry, “You take my hand / I’ll take your hand / Together we may get away / This much madness / Is too much sorrow / It’s impossible / To make it today.”

The whole experience was surreal, poignant and magical. I emerged from the woods an hour or so later, my mind and cosmic being refreshed. Adjusting my rearview mirror, I reentered society, but not before noticing a few new strands of white in my beard and throughout my curly hair in the reflection.

Oh, where has the time gone, eh? As well, where has “she” gone? And you, too, my friend? I shook my head in sheer awe of time itself — it’s all one moment, you know, right?

— the nose of the truck aimed back down the mountain and back home to Waynesville.

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On the beat Three sisters, one harmonic tone The musical group Sisters will present “Dynamic Harmonies & A Deep Love For Christ” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

The trio has received numerous honors including: Gospel Music five-time “Female Group Of The Year,” “Progressive Album Of the Year” and “Female Vocalist Of The Year,” as well as a Fan Award, Dove Award and multiple Grammy nominees.

Tickets start at $15. www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

Vintage jazz at Macon Library

April 17-23, 2019

A program of vintage jazz standards from the big band era, “Spring Swings the Library” with C-Square will be presented at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

The band will perform familiar favorites like “April Showers,” “Blue Skies,” “Red, Red Robin,” “Stormy Weather,” and many more, inviting audience members to sing and dance along. Requests are encouraged.

This free audience-participation pro-

gram will be held in the handicap-accessible library located at 149 Siler Farm Road in Franklin. The event is produced by the Arts Council of Macon County.

For details contact the council at arts4all@dnet.net or 828.524.ARTS (2787).

Bryson City community jam A community jam will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 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 you can 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.

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and I thought it would be great to take our students through some of the music that has influenced today’s top artists. An artist like Aretha Franklin has had such an impact on the music industry that we just had to perform a piece that pays tribute to her life as an entertainer. We know everyone will enjoy the variety this show brings.”

Admission to the show is $10 for WCU faculty and staff, $5 for students, and $15 for all others. Tickets are available by calling the Bardo Arts Center box office at 828.227.2479.

All proceeds from the event benefit student scholarships in WCU’s School of Music.

For more information, contact Frazier at 828.227.2400 or Henson at 828.227.2711.

WCU welcomes Montreal Symphony trumpeter

music composed for trumpet and piano, including works by Alexander Arutunian, Dimitri Shostakovich and Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Accompanying Merkelo will be Lillian-Buss Pearson, pianist and adjunct faculty member in WCU’s School of Music.

Merkelo’s appearance is made possible by funding from WCU’s School of Music, Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts, and Visiting Scholars Grant Program.

The event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Bradley Ulrich at 828.227.3274 or ulrich@wcu.edu.

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The Catamount Singers and Electric Soul, a Western Carolina University student ensemble, will present the spring concert “Made in America” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at WCU’s John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center.

The concert will feature songs best known from performances by Aretha Franklin, The Pentatonix, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Sam Cooke, Pink, and Earth, Wind and Fire.

WCU music faculty members Bruce Frazier and Jon Henson lead the student performers.

“In picking this year’s musical selections, we wanted to tie into the campus theme of ‘Defining America,’” said Henson. “Bruce

Trumpet player Paul Merkelo will perform a recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, in the Coulter Building recital hall on the campus of Western Carolina University.

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Folk duo Somebody's Child will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library in Franklin.

Both of these Tuckaseegee troubadours have spent most of their lives singing and sharing the gift of music, and their mutual joy shines through on stage.

This program is free and open to the public. The event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Jackson County Public Library.

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On the beat

• Balsam Falls Brewing (Sylva) will host Alma Russ (old-time/Americana) April 19 and Troy Underwood (singer-songwriter) April 26. All shows start at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. www.balsamfallsbrewing.com.

• Blue Ridge Beer Hub (Waynesville) will host an acoustic jam with Main St. NoTones from 6 to 9 p.m. April 18 and 25. Free and open to the public. www.blueridgebeerhub.com.

• Boojum Brewing Company (Waynesville) will host a bluegrass open mic every Wednesday, an all-genres open mic every Thursday, PMA (reggae/rock) April 20 and Joey Fortner & The Universal Sound (Americana/folk) April 27. All shows begin at 9:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.boojumbrewing.com.

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• Currahee Brewing (Franklin) will host Redleg Husky (Americana) 7:30 p.m. April 20 and Dirty Dave 11 a.m. April 27. Free and open to the public. www.curraheebrew.com.

• Grand Old Lady Hotel (Balsam) will host “Bluegrass on the Mountain” w/Bobby Maynard & Breakdown April 20. Dinner buffet at 5:30 p.m followed by the show at 7:30 p.m. 828.456.9498 or www.grandoldladyhotel.com.

• Innovation Station (Dillsboro) will host Alma Russ (Americana/old-time) April 20 and Tina Collins Duo April 27. All events are free and begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Isis Music Hall (West Asheville) will host Wyatt Edmondson & Laura Rabell 7 p.m.

April 17, Jon Shain & FJ Ventre (blues/Americana) 7 p.m. April 18, Bettman & Halpin (bluegrass) 7 p.m. April 19 (in lounge), Carsie Blanton w/Laney Jones (folk/rock) 7 p.m. April 19 (main stage), Brie Capone w/Kismet (blues/folk) 9 p.m. April

• The Macon County Public Library (Franklin) will host C-Square (big band/jazz) 1 p.m.

April 18. Events are free to attend.

• Mad Anthony’s Taproom & Restaurant (Waynesville) will host The Turbos 5:30 p.m.

May 12. All shows are free and open to the public.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host the “Stone Soup” open mic night every Tuesday, Kate Thomas (singer-songwriter) April 19, Twelfth Fret (acoustic/folk) April 20, Shayler’s Kitchen April 26 and Somebody’s Child (Americana) April 27. All shows are free and begin at 7 p.m. www.mountainlayersbrewingcompany.com.

• Nantahala Brewing (Bryson City) will host The Company Stores April 19, Nice Couch April 20, Shane Meade & The Sound April 26 and Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats (rock/blues) April 27. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.nantahalabrewing.com.

• Pub 319 (Waynesville) will host an open mic night from 8 to 11 p.m. every Wednesday.

Free and open to the public. www.pub319socialhouse.com.

• Salty Dog’s (Maggie Valley) will have Karaoke with Jason Wyatt at 8:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays, Mile High (classic rock) 8 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays, and a Trivia w/Kelsey Jo 8 p.m. Thursdays.

• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will host “Hoppy Hour” and an open mic at 6 p.m. on Thursdays and live music on Friday evenings. 828.482.9794 or www.satulahmountainbrewing.com.

• The Strand at 38 Main (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic” night from 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays. 828.283.0079 or www.38main.com.

• The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host an “Open Mic Night” on Mondays, karaoke on Thursdays and semi-regular music on Fridays and Saturdays. All events at 10 p.m. unless otherwise noted. 828.456.4750.

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• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will have an Open Mic night April 17 and 24, and a jazz night with the Kittle/Collings Duo April 18 and 25. All events are free and begin at 8 p.m. www.innovation-brewing.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host an open mic night at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday, Karaoke Throwdown 8 p.m. April 19, “Lazy Hiker’s Outdoor Music Jam” w/Porch 40 (rock/funk) and The Company Stores from 5 to 11 p.m. April 20, Social Insecurity April 26 and Nick Prestia Band April 27. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Kathryn O’Shea April 19, Frank & Allie (Americana/folk) April 20, Swamp Rabbit Railroad April 26, JR Junior 6 p.m. April 27 and Fuzzy Peppers 7 p.m. April 27. All shows begin at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. www.froglevelbrewing.com.

20, Frank & Allie Lee (folk/old-time) 6 p.m.

April 21, Alien Music Club (rock/folk) 7:30 p.m. April 21, Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/Mason Via & Hot Trail Mix 7:30 p.m. April 23, Bird in Hand (folk/Americana) 7 p.m.

April 24 (in the lounge) and Gypsy & Me (Americana/alt-country) 7 p.m. April 24 (main stage). www.isisasheville.com.

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• Andrews Brewing Company (Andrews) will host the “Lounge Series” at its Calaboose location with Gabe Myers (singer-songwriter) 5 p.m. April 18, Tom Edwards (singer-songwriter) April 19, A. Lee Edwards (indie/folk) April 20, Blue April 26 and Andrew Chastain (singer-songwriter) 7 p.m. April 27. All shows are free and begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. www.andrewsbrewing.com.

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On the street ‘Take A Walk In Her Shoes’ To highlight April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the DV/SA/EA Task Force is sponsoring the “Take A Walk In Her Shoes” event at noon Saturday, April 27, in front of the Historic Courthouse in downtown Waynesville.

Walkers may furnish their own shoes, if they wish, or shoes will be available at the event. There will also be signs to carry, toenail painting, makeup and accessories to wear, optional.

“This is a light-hearted way to involve the young men and male adults in our county in an exercise to create awareness of what women may experience on a daily basis: sexual comments, harassment, crude name-calling and whistling, gender-based pressure to look or act a certain way and sexist touching and attacks,” said Buffy Queen, facilitator for the Task Force. “By fostering understanding in our masculine population, we hope that those who come

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Blue Ridge Public Radio listening session In an effort to get to know Western North Carolina communities better, Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) and The Smoky Mountain News will be teaming up for a listening session at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the taproom at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City.

In an open dialogue format, there will be several members of each organization present to answer questions folks may have about what news topics are covered, how those issues are covered, and what more your news outlets can do for your community.

The event is free and open to the public.

Feel free to bring questions to have answered onstage, too.

For more information, you can email BPR News Director Matt Bush at mbush@bpr.org or Smoky Mountain News Arts & Entertainment Editor Garret K. Woodward at garret@smokymountainnews.com.

Interested in model railroads?

The Smoky Mountain Model Railroaders Club will host an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Buffalo Creek Vacations above the Pigeon River on Riverside Drive in Clyde.

walk on Saturday will be more willing to each step in as an active bystander to stop this kind of behavior and to vow to never personally behave in any sexualized violent way. As the #MeToo Rally last year showed, it’s time for men to step up and literally ‘walk the talk’.”

Walkers are urged to invite their support persons to cheer them on. The route will be around the sidewalks of the courthouse lawn and down Main Street. There is no requirement for how far to walk; it is up to each walker (and his feet).

The Task Force is asking leaders of teen groups (school, church, or civic), as well as men’s organizations, to coordinate and bring their members to participate.

REACH and other member agencies of the Task Force are also collecting large-sized women’s shoes (heels, sandals, flip-flops, etc.), so if you have some to donate, please drop them at the REACH office, 627 North Main Street in Waynesville.

For more information or to register your group, call REACH of Haywood at 828.456.7898.

The display is a 30-foot-by-50-foot railroad station with huge three-rail O Gauge layout deputizing the Western North Carolina mountains and the railroads. The event hosts have a herd of American Bison, some llamas, alpacas, miniature horses, goats, bunnies, and other animals to see as well. There are also several real cabooses to add to the atmosphere.

Address is 13 Caboose Way in Clyde.

Photography is welcome and asking a $5 donation at the door. For more information, call Sam Hopkins 828.550.5959 or Harold Clackett 828.593.0394.

• The Southeastern Mini Truckin’ Nationals will be held April 26-28 at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Open car and truck show.

Gates are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Part vendors, food vendors with a DJ booth. Contact Bell’s Rod Shop at 865.742.7403, email minitruckinnats@gmail.com or visit www.minitruckinnats.com.

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• There will be an Easter celebration from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Cornerstone Wesleyan Church in Bryson City. Easter bonnet contest, egg hunt, raffle, fire trucks, music, prizes, food, and more. Spaghetti dinner is $10 for adults, $5 for kids. Sponsored by RENEW Bryson City for Drug Awareness. 828.698.4417.

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Richie’s Alliance for Autism

April is National Autism Awareness Month and people in Western North Carolina can help make a difference.

Richie’s Alliance for Autism will host three days of charity events April 22-24, which will provide outreach to Haywood County’s ASD children.

Richie’s Alliance not only works to raise awareness understanding of ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder), but also provides much-needed support to ASD families, right here in Haywood County.

According to the Center for Disease Control, one in 58 children in North Carolina have been identified with ASD. It is more prevalent than childhood cancer, cystic fibrosis and multiple sclerosis — combined.

Richie’s Alliance believes, “Together we can make a difference,” and is grateful for the community support the past three years.

In 2018, Richie’s Alliance donated more than $55,000 to directly touch the families of WNC ASD children, including the Haywood County School Foundation’s Exceptional Children’s Program.

“This year, we’ve designated the Haywood County Exceptional Children’s Program as the beneficiary of Richie’s Alliance funds raised,” said Louis Perrone, co-founder of Richie’s Alliance. “This program provides specially-designed instruction to children with disabilities, ages 3 through 21, so that they have a free, appropriate public education. And, importantly, it directly benefits families in Haywood County.”

The community is invited to participate in three days of activities for fun — and support of local ASD families.

“Whether or not you’ve been touched directly by Autism, chances are someone you love has,” said Richie’s Alliance co-founder Debra Perrone. “Join us to do something extraordinary.”

• Monday, April 22: “Casino Royale” Autism Awareness Golf Tournament. The tournament begins with a 9:30 a.m. shotgun start at Laurel Ridge Country Club and Event Center in Waynesville. Presented by Ken Wilson Ford, and hosted by Laurel Ridge, the

tournament promises “something fun on every hole.” Haywood County craft breweries, Elevated Mountain Distilling and several local restaurants will be serving right on the course.

Rounds are $500 per foursome and include a buffet lunch Golf registration coffee and continental breakfast begin at 8 a.m.; shotgun tee is at 9:30 a.m. To reserve a foursome, sign up at www.richiesalliance.org/event/autismawareness-golf-tournament or call Gary Hughes at 828.421.2408.

• Tuesday, April 23: Richie’s Alliance for Autism Dine Out/Shop Out Day. It’s as easy as dining out that day at participating local restaurants, shops and breweries donating a portion of revenues to Richie’s Alliance: for Autism.

Visit www.richiesalliance.org/event/dine-outfor-autism for participating businesses.

• Wednesday, April 24: Richie’s Alliance for Autism ‘Taste” event, featuring VIP Pol Roger Champagne Experience. Presented by Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort, and hosted

by Laurel Ridge, Western North Carolina’s premier culinary benefit features top chefs, wineries, and brew masters — all coming together to donate their time and talent to help make Autism more understood.

Attendees will sample signature dishes from local restaurants and mingle with top culinary talent, in an evening of gourmet food, wine, local brews and spirits. Shop the silent auction tables to benefit Haywood County Exceptional Children’s Program.

Auctioneer Allen Brasington will host the live auction, with exciting items including: A Royal Caribbean (RCCL) seven-day cruise for two; “Cop for a Day” with the Maggie Valley Police Department; Classic Arcade Video Game cocktail-style; ‘Paint and Sip’ evening for 20 with master artist Jo Ridge Kelley; private wine class for 10 at Frankie’s; a Harrah’s Cherokee overnight get-a-way; and a photo safari for four with naturalist and photographer Ed Kelley.

To order tickets and see a list of participating restaurants, wineries and breweries, visit www.richiesalliance.org/event/taste.

For more information, visit www.richiesalliance.com.

On the street

The 31st annual Easter Hat Parade will take place on Saturday, April 20, in downtown Dillsboro. Festivities begin at 10:30 a.m. with the parade at 2 p.m.

Dress up the smiles on everyone’s face by joining in and walking in the parade. If you do not have an Easter bonnet, you have an opportunity at 10:30 a.m. to make your own at the “Hat Table” set up in front of Dogwood Crafters (61 Webster Street) the morning of the parade.

Easter egg hunts (by age group) also start at Dogwood, beginning at noon. Registration for the parade starts at 11 a.m.

The prizes for the hat contest are simple and mostly handmade. The categories are ever changing, but include the largest, smallest, most outrageous, best use of fresh flowers, hat that traveled the farthest, youngest and, of course, best dog.

The Easter Bunny will be there for photos and face painting. Visit some of the stores, have lunch, have your face painted, join in the Easter egg hunt and win prizes such as coloring books and posters, which are donated by the merchants of Dillsboro.

Piles of eggs will be displayed which have been colored with many different techniques — eggs wrapped in onion peels, dyed with

CELEBRATE EASTER different herbs, oil and water, as well as the traditional egg color. You can spend time simply looking at the different, unique hats.

For more information, call 828.506.8331 or click on www.visitdillsboro.com.

The Village Green celebrates Easter Featuring events that celebrate the hope, renewal and joy of the Spring holiday, Easter Weekend will return to The Village Green in Cashiers.

Cashiers area churches will once again observe the Stations of the Cross in The Village Green. The ancient tradition of carrying the cross is a way of remembering how Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha. This walking devotional experience with fourteen readings is open to residents and visitors in the area. It features scripture, prayer and reflection to recall the events of Good Friday.

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Reception to close out World War I exhibit A World War I centennial exhibit at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center will conclude Friday, April 26, with the public invited to a closing reception.

“I Want You! How World War I Transformed Western North Carolina” has been on display since November in the museum’s first floor gallery, located in Hunter Library. The reception will take place 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the gallery.

The exhibit examines how the war changed Western North Carolina, including the roles of women in the workplace and Native American and AfricanAmericans in the military, and features wartime images and artifacts, as well as examples of propaganda used to build support for the war effort. It was created

by Mountain Heritage Center staff with support from the Library of Congress, WCU’s Special Collections and the “Defining America” theme committee on campus, as well as the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.

For more information, call the Mountain Heritage Center at 828.227.7129.

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rain, the Stations of the Cross will be held at the Christ Church of the Valley across Highway 64 from The Village Green.

Residents and visitors to the Cashiers area are also invited to hop on over to the Gazebo at the Cashiers crossroads at 11 a.m.

Saturday, April 20, for the annual Easter Egg Hunt This egg-stravaganza is for children 10 years and younger. Children will be divided according to age in three separate areas to hunt hundreds of colorful eggs scattered in the park. Be sure to be on time and bring your own basket. As always, the Easter Bunny will make a visit for photos, so plan to also bring a camera.

On Sunday, April 21, Cashiers area churches will celebrate Easter with the annual Community Easter Sunrise Service at 7 a.m. at the Gazebo and Lawn of The Village Green.

The service features live music, scripture and an uplifting message with the backdrop of a beautiful sunrise over the mountains. Those attending are encouraged to bring a lawn chair.

The Village Green provides a beautiful, free public space, however it is conserved by a nonprofit organization that depends on contributions to maintain the park and provide such an exceptional venue for the community. The Village Green is a park for the people.

To learn more about these events or to make a donation, call 828.743.3434 or visit www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

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YOGA YOGA BASICS: BASICS: 55 WEEK WEEK SERIES SERIES

Are you new to yoga- or coming back to yoga after an injury, break or baby?

Would you like to refresh the basics to deepen your yoga practice?

This 5- week series is designed for beginners or those looking to re-learn the the fundamentals of a yoga practice, and is a solid way to deepen your understanding of your body + your wellness journey.

This small class will also give you plenty of space for dialogue with a teacher who can offer modifications and advice on what will help you in your unique practice.

Join Jake Gilmore for this five week series that kicks off on Sunday April 28th from 5-6pm. $65 for 5-week series.

Space is VERY limited: to save yours, register on our class calendar at WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com

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On the wall

Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

The “Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition” showcase will run through May 3 in the Fine Arts Museum at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. There will also be a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 25, at the museum.

The exhibition displays work in a variety of media and surveys a range of conceptual themes and creative approaches that charac-

Cowee master potter class Artist Joel Queen will host a Master Potter Series class from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Cowee Pottery School in Franklin.

Queen will guide the class in hand building pots the traditional way. He will demonstrate his carving style and teach about the Cherokee stamped pottery tradition. Stamped pottery is the oldest of the Cherokee pottery traditions

• The Museum of the Cherokee Indian has recently opened a major new exhibit, “People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters.”

It features more than 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation, and more than one hundred works from 1900 to the present. The exhibit will run through next April.

• The Macon County Art Association and the Uptown Gallery “Featured Artists Alcove” will host a special invitational exhibit by the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers. The show will be on display through April 27. For more information, call the Uptown Gallery at 828.349.4607.

• The exhibit “Outspoken: Paintings by America Meredith” will be on display through May 3 at the Fine Art Museum Gallery B in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. This showcase draws particular attention to the importance of language in Meredith's work, bringing together paintings that incorporate Cherokee syl-

terize the global cultural landscape and contemporary art practice.

Featuring three graduating artists, Chelsea Dobert-Kehn, Lauren A. Medford, and David Skinner, this exhibition represents a synthesis of each student’s experience in the Master of Fine Arts Program in Studio Art from the WCU School of Art and Design.

The WCU Fine Art Museum is free and open to the public with free parking on site, located at 199 Centennial Drive in Cullowhee.

Regular museum hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursdays until 7 p.m. 828.227.ARTS or visit arts.wcu.edu/mfathesis. and dates back thousands of years.

Pots are hand coiled, burnished and fired.

Participants will need to bring a bowl to use as a form when building their pots.

The 2019 Master Potter Series is made possible through North Carolina Arts Council support provided through the Cowee School Advisory Board.

For more information and/or to register for the class, email contact@coweepotteryschool.org or visit www.coweepotteryschool.org.

labary, reference Cherokee oral histories, and pair found-object text with visual imagery. www.facebook.com/americameredithart.

• The Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum at Bardo Arts Center is pleased to present the School of Art and Design Faculty Biennial Exhibition 2019, which will be on display through May 3. All WCU Fine Art Museum exhibitions and receptions are free and open to the public. arts.wcu.edu/biennial or 828.227.3591.

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• There will several local artisans on display at the Waynesville and Canton libraries through March. Artists at the Waynesville Library will include Patty Johnson Coulter (painter), Linda Blount (painter), Jason Woodard (painter) and Mollie HarringtonWeaver (painter). Artists at the Canton Library will include Russell Wyatt (photographer) and Ashley Calhoun (painter). For more information, click on www.haywoodarts.org.

Underwater people photography exhibit Photographer and Clyde dentist John Highsmith presents “Breathless,” a metal-print series of underwater people and waterborne fabrics. The photo exhibit will run through July 15 at Green Sage Café Westgate in Asheville.

Highsmith worked in pools with students, swimmers, dancers, and scuba divers. He digitally retouches images to remove air bubbles, sometimes replacing the black bedsheet backdrop with classical art backgrounds.

It’s a challenge to hover in a swimming pool while a photographer captures moving forms, hair and fabric.

The exhibit features dye sublimation prints on metal, using inks that transform from liquid to gas state (sublimation), suspended at varying depths in a coating on the metal. This lets in a little bit of light behind the inks, creating an illuminated look. The pigment suspension permits a depth of tone and color that’s hard to achieve with paper.

Highsmith’s prints are on exhibit through July 15 at The Green Sage Café Westgate location, Westgate Plaza in Asheville. For more information, call Highsmith at 828.734.6301.

• A “Beginner Step-By-Step” painting class will be held at 7 p.m. on Thursdays at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. Cost is $25 with all supplies provided. For more information on paint dates and/or to RSVP, contact Robin Arramae at 828.400.9560 or paintnitewaynesville@gmail.com.

• The Western Carolina University (Cullowhee) Campus Theme, the “Defining America” exhibit brings together artists with different perspectives on the concept of "America" and asks visitors to reflect on the values, definitions, and assumptions attached to this concept. The exhibition will be on view through May 3 at the Bardo Arts Center. Regular museum hours at the BAC are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursdays until 7 p.m.

828.227.ARTS or bardoartscenter.wcu.edu.

• Mad Batter Food & Film (Sylva) will host a free movie night at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. www.madbatterfoodandfilm.com.

On the table

Now under new management with Stephanie Strickland and Genevieve Bagley, Bosu’s Wine Shop in Waynesville will continue to host an array of wine tastings and small plates.

• Mondays: Free tastings and discounts on select styles of wine that changes weekly.

• Thursdays: Five for $5 wine tasting, with small plates available for purchase from Chef Bryan’s gourmet cuisine in The Secret Wine Bar. • Saturdays: There will be a free wine tasting from 1 to 5 p.m.

There will also be a “Springtime Seated Wine Tasting” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23. Taste an array of springtime wines with signature snacks at $32 per person.

828.452.0120 or www.waynesvillewine.com.

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• A free wine tasting will be held from 2 to 5 p.m. April 20 and 27 at Papou’s Wine Shop in Sylva. www.papouswineshop.com or 828.631.3075.

• Free cooking demonstrations will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. on Saturdays at Country Traditions in Dillsboro.

Watch the demonstrations, eat samples and taste house wines for $3 a glass. All recipes posted online. www.countrytraditionsnc.com.

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‘An Evening of One-Acts’

• There is a free comedy improv class from 7 to 9 p.m. every Tuesday at Frog Level Brewing in Waynesville. No experience necessary, just come to watch or join in the fun. Improv teacher Wayne Porter studied at Sak Comedy Lab in Orlando, Florida, and performed improvisation with several groups. Join Improv WNC on Facebook or call 828.316.8761.

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Presented by the Overlook Theatre Company, “An Evening of One-Acts” will hit the stage at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin.

Four different shows, four different directors and one evening of entertainment. “An Evening of One-Acts” presents a quartet of scenes and plays that will make you laugh, remember your childhood and enjoy every aspect of putting on and seeing a show, right before the eyes of the audience.

Tickets are $12. www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

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Author treats death and grief with realism them to pull that fucking ventilator. You authorized the certain death of someone you love. You will always remember her first choked breath when the ventilator was removed. Later, you think of all the things you wanted to say to her. You think of the apologies for those times you hurt her, how special

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Some will understand more fully than others.

On a Wednesday you arrive home to find the one you love collapsed on the bedroom floor. The rescue squad brings her to the hospital. Now she is in neurological intensive care with a brain aneurysm, her skull shaven, kept alive with breathing and feeding tubes, monitored for heartbeat and brain activity. Surrounding her are other patients, many of them unconscious from blood clots in the brain, blows to the head, or Writer some other trauma.

On Friday the neurosurgeon tells you there is no hope. Her condition is inoperable, her chances of recovery nil. A friend puts you in touch with a Catholic bishop halfway across the country, an expert on death and dying. You describe her condition. The bishop tells you that when they remove the ventilator for breathing, and if she can breathe on her own, the Church requires she be given water and feeding tubes. Then he adds, “From what you’ve told me, your wife will die within the hour once the ventilator is pulled.”

There is only kindness and sorrow in his voice.

On Monday, you follow the advice of the medical team and the bishop.

You give permission to remove the ventilator.

Within an hour, or less, she is gone. She dies because she can’t breathe.

The bishop was correct about the timing.

And you did the right thing. Everyone says so.

What no one has told you is that for the rest of your days on earth you will be visited by grief and guilt. You gave permission for

she was, how she was always so supportive when you were surrounded by doubters, the laughter and adventures you shared. Before she goes away, you tell her you love her, but you doubt she can hear you.

Which brings us to Nina George’s The Book of Dreams (Crown Publishers, 2019, 389 pages, translated into English by Simon Pare).

Henri Skinner, a former war correspondent, and Madelyn Zeilder, a 12-year-old bal-

Children’s author visits Haywood Author Kerry Madden-Lunsford will host a series of events around Haywood County in celebration of her latest children’s book Ernestine's Milky Way. The book tells the story of 5-year-old Ernestine, who sets out on a journey to help a neighbor in Maggie Valley. She learns that she can conquer her fears and be a “big girl.”

The inspiration for this book came from a story told by native resident, the late Ernestine Upchurch, about her childhood.

Madden-Lunsford first met Upchurch after she published Gentle’s Holler, a children’s novel that was set in Maggie Valley. They remained close friends until Upchurch’s death.

The events are as follows: n 8 a.m. to noon Thursday, April 18: Book signing at Joey’s Pancake House in Maggie Valley. Free and open to the public. n 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 19: Afternoon tea at Nettie’s Bakery in

let prodigy, are both lying in a London hospital in a coma. After rescuing a child who fell from a boat into Thames, the exhausted Henri staggers into the street and is struck by an oncoming vehicle. Madelyn is also the victim of a traffic accident, in which her entire family was killed.

Sam, the 13-year-old son whom Henri has never met — he was on his way to a school event involving Sam when the accident occurred — begins visiting the hospital to care for his comatose father. Sam is a brilliant boy, and also a synesthete, meaning in his case he often sees human emotions as colors. Eddie Tomlin, a publisher and editor who loved Henri in the recent past and now finds herself as the person in charge of his living will, also visits Henri and soon becomes acquainted with Sam. The two of them, especially Sam, soon take upon themselves the role of unofficial guardians, friends, and even family members for Madelyn.

Together they labor to save these two lives.

To say more would reveal too much of the plot and ending of this novel, which, I must confess, left me blinking back tears. Plot aside, here are just some of the strengths of The Book of Dreams.

First up are George’s descriptions of a coma — the confusion of the patient, the mingling of fantasy and reality, her medical knowledge combined with a humility that brings in the Postscript “If you notice any mistakes in my novel, rest assured that I am entirely to blame. Please write to the publisher, and we’ll try to rectify them in a future edition.” The comatose Henri, for example, often recollects his father, whose death he blames on himself; he thinks of himself as married to Eddie, when at one point he rejected her out of hand; he sees himself as together with Sam,

Waynesville. Tickets must be purchased in advance through Blue Ridge Books. n 3 p.m. Saturday, April 20: Book reading and signing at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. Free and open to the public.

Kerry will also be doing programs for three local schools. For more information, call 828.456.6000 or click on www.blueridgebooksnc.com.

New nature collection Blue Ridge Books and the Smoky Mountain News are excited to announce a meet and greet/book signing by author, naturalist and Smoky Mountain News columnist Don Hendershot at 3 p.m. Monday, April 22 at Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville. A Year from the Naturalist’s Corner Volume I is a compilation of 52 columns from his long-running Naturalist’s Corner column in a January through December format. The Naturalist’s Corner column has been in print

despite never having laid eyes on him.

In addition, as she did so well in The Little Paris Bookshop, previously reviewed in The Smoky Mountain News, George addresses the themes of love, regret, missed opportunities, and unexpected connections. In Henri, Eddie, and Sam, we find searchers for love and relationships. Here, for example, is just one small piece of George’s wisdom, when Eddie ponders love: “Someone who wants to write truthfully about love would need to write a new novel about the same couple every year in order to tell the story of how their love evolves, how life comes between them, and the color their affection takes on as the days darken.”

Finally, the ghost of Nina George’s father, Wolfgang George, haunts both The Little Paris Bookshop and The Book of Dreams. In The Little Paris Bookshop, George wrote this moving dedication: “Papa, you were the only person who read everything I ever wrote from the moment I learned to write. I will miss you at all times. I see you in every ray of evening light and in every wave of every sea. You left in midsentence.”

Halfway through The Book of Dreams, I sensed the presence of Nina George’s papa.

He was there in all the characters, especially in Henri. Her father’s death, I thought as I read, had caused the author great sadness and roused many questions. So, when I read George’s “Postscript” with its brief account of her father’s death in 2011 and her “haunting doubt: when death comes, will I have lived the life I might have lived?” my suspicions were confirmed.

Here is a writer who understands the horror and sorrow brought by the death of a cherished lover, friend, or family member, the turmoil and wreckage it brings to heart and soul, and the love that abides.

Thank you, Nina George.

(Jeff Minick is a writer and teacher. minick0301@gmail.com)

since 1994 and has been published in The Smoky Mountain News since 1999. Hendershot will talk about what set him on his “natural” journey and why that journey is as fresh today as it was in 1994.

There will be time for questions from attendees plus readings.

Sharing the power of God Ann Melton will present her book While Walking with God at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva.

The events of this book, say its author, illustrate God’s unlimited and amazing power; he is able to do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine. He promises that he will cause all things to work together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose. That means he will take each person’s failures and mistakes and turn them into something worthwhile.

To reserve copies of While Walking with God, please call City Lights Bookstore at 828.586.9499.

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Hiking through history Little Cataloochee offers a window to the past

The Dan Cook cabin is one of three restored buildings in the Little Cataloochee area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Holly Kays photos

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ne hundred years ago, the parking area and campground just past the fields in Cataloochee Valley where elk often hang out was better known as Nellie, a remote community in what is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

As anybody who’s ever driven the steep and narrow access road from Jonathan Creek can imagine, it was hard to get in and hard to get out in the days when horsepower came mainly from actual horses. People didn’t have much, partly because of how difficult it was to transport outside goods up and over the ridge.

When settlement began in the 1830s, Robert Love, a big landowner in Haywood County, held all the land in Cataloochee. The Cherokee had a presence too, using the land as hunting grounds but not erecting permanent settlements there. Love sold the land to families who wanted to move in, acting as a mortgage holder by allowing them to pay in installments over a period of as many as 20 years. People came, and eventually they outgrew the valley.

“They had 10 and 11 children apiece, and people started looking for new places to go,”

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said Beth Fluharty, who led a hike to Little Cataloochee for Carolina Mountain Club April 10.

Fluharty, an Asheville native with deep family roots in Western North Carolina, has long had an interest in history, and she jumped at the chance to dive into researching Cataloochee’s past for the 10.5-mile outing she and her husband Randy led on a sunny-and70s Wednesday.

When the settlers at Nellie found themselves in need of new land, they looked over the Davidson Divide, to an area known as Little Cataloochee.

If Big Cataloochee, where Nellie was located, was remote, Little Cataloochee was doubly so. Davidson Gap sits 2.6 miles past and about 1,200 feet higher than the parking area, accessed only after some steep uphills and multiple creek crossings. Getting down into the valley where the Ola community once thrived — by 1910, the Cataloochee area was home to 1,200 people, four post offices and five schools — requires zigzagging downhill through a cove that in early April still offered a sweeping bowl-shaped view, unimpaired by leafed-out trees or scrubby underbrush.

In describing the area, the Hiking Trails of the Smokies guidebook quotes Raymond

Hike more The Carolina Mountain Club, which organized the Cataloochee hike, offers a full schedule of group hikes on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays on trails throughout the region. Check out the full schedule or join the club at www.carolinamountainclub.org.

Caldwell’s comments about travel between Big and Little Cataloochee in Cataloochee: Lost Settlement of the Smokies.

“Well, it was quite a chore to go through Davidson Gap … it would take more than a day to go over to Little Cataloochee and back … so, in one respect, it was separated about as much as New York City and California are today (by airplane).”

The trail continues down alongside Coggins Branch, eventually reaching the old Dan Cook place at 3.3 miles. The two-story log cabin was built in the 1850s but taken down in the 1970s. However, in 1999 a grant from Log Cabin Syrup allowed the park to reassemble the stored pieces of wood. In 2017, Asheville-based contractor The Hands of Sean Perry donated labor for another round of restoration. Across the trail from the cabin stands the crumbling stone foundation of an apple house, constructed around 1910.

“People tend to look at these cabins and see it as one point in time, but they were part of this long continuum,” said Fluharty. “I find that interesting, how the area changed over the time that people lived here.”

When the first settlers crossed the divide, they were mostly just scraping out a living as subsistence farmers. But around the turn of the century they started planting apple orchards, selling apples to the lumbering camps and also obtaining licenses to make brandy from the fruit. The area wasn’t really fertile enough to produce more corn than

needed to feed livestock, said Fluharty, so it wasn’t a hub for moonshine. By the time efforts were underway to create the park in the 1920s and 30s, the area was already turning to tourism, with residents offering guided fishing tours and renting cabins out to visitors.

Dan Cook’s daughter Rachel married Will Messer, who operated a mill and was one of the wealthier members of the Cataloochee community. In a time and place when luxuries were few and far between, Messer’s home had acetylene lighting and hot and cold running water, Fluharty said.

With the sun shining and the sky as blue as it could be against the green grass covering the cabin lawn, it was easy to imagine the idyllic life these people had led, living out every day amid the peaceful beauty that is Cataloochee Valley. But that illusion lasted only about three-quarters of a mile, shattering upon arrival at the Little Cataloochee Baptist Church.

The church itself is beautiful, flawless white with an A-frame roof and a quaint interior featuring clean white benches circling a pulpit and a woodstove. It’s built on a hill, the bell tower visible for quite a distance through the still-bare trees.

Behind the church, though, is a graveyard.

It holds the remains of many of its former congregants, and an astonishing number of them died astonishingly young.

There’s Leola, daughter of W.M and Myrtle Messer, whose headstone has just a single date for birth and death — Nov. 12, 1928 — and the inscription “only a bud to bloom in heaven.” The grave of Lennis Mae, daughter of C.L. and Flora Morrow, is marked with the same inscription and also bears a single date, Dec. 19, 1921. Owen, son of J.W. and H.B. Burgess, died on May 9, 1911, before his fourth birthday. It was not the first time tragedy struck the family, with J.W. and H.B. also burying sons Reuben and Rufus in 1906 and 1905, respectively, months before their first birthdays. The list goes on.

“It was a hard life,” said Fluharty.

The Cataloochee communities disbanded as efforts ramped up to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

“It happened gradually,” said Fluharty.

“They (the government) made noise — yes, we’ll buy your property — and some people immediately sold, and others waited until the property was condemned and they were forced to sell and fight for their price.”

It wasn’t easy to carve out a living in Cataloochee, and the fact that some settlers were quick to accept government offers to buy indicates that the chance to relocate somewhere new may have been pretty attractive for some families. But definitely not for all of them.

“The Hannahs were one of the ones who refused to leave and took the park to court and went the whole way trying to not leave this property,” Fluharty said while standing on the steps of the John Jackson Hannah Cabin.

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Boat ramp to close for improvements The Hanging Dog boat ramp and picnic area on the Tusquitee Ranger District near Murphy are temporarily closed for parking lot improvements as of Monday, April 15.

Workers will pave the lower gravel parking lot, with work expected to be complete by May 15. The project is funded by the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission.

The closure will be at the intersection of Ramsey Bluff Road and Hanging Dog Campground.

Alternative boat access to Hiwassee Lake is available at Ramsey Bluff boat ramp, which is located within Hanging Dog Recreation Area.

This ongoing project began in 2015 and will continue each spring and late fall so as to have minimal impact on wildlife.

Trees will be left where they fall to provide habitat and nutrients for the ecosystem.

Vista restoration is a part of the backlog of maintenance projects faced by the National Park Service on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The entire list of needed projects totals more than $500 million, including repairs to the road. This spring’s project was made possible by private donations to the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation. www.brpfoundation.org/renewtheviews.

Waterrock Knob Visitor Center opens The Waterrock Knob Visitor Center is now open for the season on Mile 451.2 of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The visitor center’s hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday to Monday through April 26. From April 27 through the season’s end Nov. 11 it will be open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

A full opening schedule for Parkway facilities is available at www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/hours.htm.

Sunday, April 21 · 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Easter Buffet Soup: Shrimp Bisque Cold Items: Assorted Deviled Eggs • Peel & Eat Shrimp Fresh Fruit with Imported & Domestic Cheeses Tri-Colored Fusilli Pasta with Surimi Crabmeat Mixed Greens Salad Bar with Assorted Toppings & Dressings Carving Station: Slow Roasted Round of Beef au Jus Smithfield Spiral Ham with Organic Honey & Orange Marmalade Glaze Hot Items: Atlantic Haddock with Crabmeat & Meyer Lemon Beurre Blanc Marinated Grilled Chicken with Lemon & Fresh Herbs Fresh Asparagus Polonaise • Bacon Macaroni & Cheese Green Beans with Onions & Applewood Bacon • Rolls & Butter Desserts: Chocolate Dipped Strawberries • Berry Cobbler Assorted Cakes & Pies • Chef ’s Selection of Miniature Desserts A service charge of 18% will be automatically applied to parties of 6 or more Adults $32.95 ~ Young-at-Heart (70+) $26.95* Children 6-12 $15.95 *Additional discounts do not apply to Young-at-Heart Price All prices include coffee, tea, water or fountain drinks.

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Hannah finished building the cabin in 1864 amid the land on whose slopes he would spend the coming years working to farm. Despite that humble-sounding way of life, the Hannah family went on to breed success, with one of John Hannah’s sons going on to graduate from law school and eventually purchasing the bell for the Little Cataloochee Baptist Church. Another descendent, Mark Hannah, became a park ranger for the Smokies who placed special emphasis on Cataloochee history.

The Hannah Cabin sits about 5 miles down the trail from the parking lot, with the hike back allowing ample time for reflection on both the past and the present of Cataloochee. Water runs its course in streams flowing alongside the trail, likely much as it did back in Hannah’s day, or

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The graveyard (above) at Little Cataloochee Baptist Church (below) contains many headstones memorializing lives cut short.

Cook’s, while moss-covered logs of trees that were rooted and leafy back then absorb sunlight from the same star that lit the earth 100 years ago.

“It kind of reminds you how we live in a modern society and life is a lot easier,” said Elaine Tennen, 67, an Asheville resident who moved from California two years ago.

“Then I started thinking about people talking about us 100 years from now and how we lived. That’s kind of what hit me, was thinking about people doing this to us 100 years from now or whatever, saying, ‘They walked in those shoes?’ or, ‘They carried those kinds of packs?’”

The difficulty of life in Cataloochee struck Waynesville resident George Shepherd as well, despite the fact that his lively interest in local history means that the stories weren’t necessarily new to him.

“That probably means we should be more flexible since we’re all the same species,” he said. “They survived all that and found a way to do it, and we shouldn’t bellyache so much about things.”

They managed to build a community in the backwoods of North Carolina, but they lost it, too. And there’s an element of sadness to that.

“They lost their land,” said Tennen.

“They had to leave, and that’s always sad to think about that. It’s hard to pick up and leave.”

It’s important to avoid romanticizing it too much, though, said Fluharty. There are all kinds of reasons a person might lose their home to change — an aunt whose home was condemned due to the construction of Interstate 40 comes to mind — and it’s safe to assume that, had the Cataloochee communities been permitted to persist, they wouldn’t still exist as quaint villages of log cabins powered by horses and mules.

“Who knows what it would have been like if it had got sold off to tourism cabins like Maggie Valley,” she said. “That’s where it would have gone. It’s not like there would still be people in here living in their log cabins.”

Nevertheless, it’s a history that can’t help but provoke pensive reflection and conflicting feelings.

“I’m really glad the park’s here,” Shepherd said thoughtfully. “It was really tough on the families that had to move out, were forced to move out.”

The view from the Pink Beds Overlook at milepost 410 on the Blue Ridge Parkway is looking a lot better than it has in a long time following a Renew the Views vista restoration project.

In March, a team of National Park Service resource managers cleared the overlook and many others to restore some of the scenic views visitors come to see.

The team also completed other overlook clearing projects between mileposts 364 and 412 — from Craggy Gardens to View of Cold Mountain.

“It was like dropping a curtain and revealing a beautiful painting,” said Carolyn Ward, CEO of the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, who watched the crews remove branches and fell trees at Pink Beds Overlook. “These are the views tourists hope to see and remember seeing, and to unveil them again is like uncovering a hidden treasure.”

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Part of the Horse Cove Campground in the Cheoah Ranger District of the Nantahala National Forest near Robbinsville is closed until further notice due to a major leak in the water system holding tank reservoir.

The upper loop will be closed, while the lower loop will remain open. However, there will be no potable water and campers will need to bring their own water.

Overlook clearing completed on the Blue Ridge Parkway

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prescribed burn program, and based on comments decided to conduct a treatment

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inside National Park Service vehicles, become a Junior Ranger, hike a TRACK Trail and more. The event is part of a Parkway-wide celebration of National Park Week April 20 to 28.

Junior Ranger Day — which is 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center in Asheville — will give park stewards of all ages the chance to participate in a variety of activities led by Parkway staff and park partners.

Attendees are invited to learn how to camp, use detective skills with historic artifacts, look

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The sixth annual Fish Fest Youth Fishing Clinic and Tournament will be held 1 to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Haywood Community College’s Mill Pond.

From 1 to 4 p.m., the fishing clinic will give lessons in water safety, fishing ethics and respect for the outdoors, with children 6 to 12 fishing for trout with help from HCC students. All gear is supplied, with children receiving a t-shirt. It’s free, with space limited and a parent or guardian required to be present.

Afterward, a trout fishing tournament will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Adults and children alike can register for a fee of $8, with the grand prizewinner receiving a $75 Bass Pro Shop gift certificate.

All proceeds benefit the HCC Wildlife Club. Register at 828.627.4560 or jcarver@haywood.edu.

Comments are wanted on a U.S. Forest Service proposal to burn 814 acres in Panthertown Valley, located in the Nantahala National Forest near Cashiers.

The proposed authorization would be in effect for one to three burning cycles, or up to 10 to 12 years. Treatment would be conducted between October 15 and April 15 of any given year, with roads, trails, water bodies and topographic features used to contain the fire and exposed soil treated post-burn to prevent erosion.

The burns would aim to reduce undesirable shade-tolerant species such as mountain laurel, red maple and white pine in areas prone to pine beetle infestation so desirable species can regenerate. A mosaic pattern mimicking natural fire behavior, improved wildlife habitat and reduced fuel accumulation are also intended effects.

In 2012 the Forest Service requested comments on adding these sections to the

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now passed and the Forest Service is putting out a last call for comments to make a final decision on the Blackrock and Little Green Mountain proposals of 2012.

Input from previous comments is already being considered.

Comment with new information by April 25. Send comments to comments-southernnorth-carolina-nantahalananatahala@fs.fed.us; by fax to 828.369.6592; or by mail to USDA Forest Service, 90 Sloan Road, Franklin, N.C., 28734. For more information about the project contact Steverson Moffat at 828.837.5152.

Panthertown Valley is a 6,300acre backcountry recreation area in the Nantahala National Forest. File photo at Big Green Mountain to allow the public to see the effects of prescribed fire over several growing seasons. Sufficient time has

Gear up for hiking A gear exchange and music jam will offer plenty of opportunity to fuel up for the hiking season ahead, 5 to 11 p.m. Saturday, April 20, at

the Lazy Hiker Brewing Company in Franklin.

The gear exchange will kick off at 5 p.m., and the music will play from 7:30 to 11 p.m.

Those who want their own table to sell gear can get one at no charge by calling Alex Kempton at 828.349.2337. Donated gear can be dropped off at the brewery between 4 and 5 p.m. April 20 or given to the Nantahala Hiking Club beforehand.

Call Bill Van Horn at 828.369.1983 to coordinate.

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Waynesville Parks hosts survey A customer service survey for the Waynesville Parks and Recreation Department is now online.

Voice your opinion at www.waynesvillenc.gov/online-survey. All ages are welcome to participate.

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Enter the inferno

Run the relay Teams of runners will be jogging the mountains from Brevard to Bryson City April 26 to 27 for the Smoky Mountain Relay.

In teams of six or 12, participants in this epic overnight relay race will run 212.5 miles along trails and country roads from Brevard to the Nantahala Outdoor Center, enjoying stunning views of the Blue Ridge Parkway and Mountains-to-Sea Trail along the way.

Register to race, or just stop by the NOC April 27 to celebrate with the racers as they finish and talk to them about their experience. www.smokymountainrelay.com.

Saturday, April 20, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m 44 Boundary St., Waynesville The flea market will be held the third Saturday of each month. To sell items, booths are $10 each.

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The Fire Mountain Inferno will return to Cherokee for its second year April 27-28 on the Fire Mountain Trail System, with enduro and cross-country mountain bike racing for all experience levels.

The course will open for practice at 8 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, and 7 a.m. on Sunday, April 28, with the Enduro race starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and crosscountry races for various skill levles at 10 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 12:35 p.m. Sunday.

Preceding the competitive races will be the NASty FUN Bike Rodeo 5 to 8 p.m.

Friday, April 26, at the Cherokee Fairgrounds organized by the Nantahala Area Southern Off Road Bicycle Association.

The competition includes a hill climb, skinny and wheelies, and an obstacle circuit.

Preregister by April 25 at www.gloryhoundevents.com and be entered into a drawing for a Specialized Stumpjumper EVO valued at $3,620. On-site registration will be 5 to 8 p.m. April 26 at the Cherokee Fairgrounds.

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Get started on the golfing season during three upcoming events in Haywood and Jackson counties. n The Lake Junaluska Golf Course 100th Anniversary Kickoff Event will be held Wednesday, April 24, at the Lake Junaluska Golf Course. A shotgun start for a four-person step-aside scramble will be held at 1 p.m., with the $35 per player fee including the green fee, cart fee, one mulligan and prize payout. Wilson staff will host a free demo as well. Sign up at 828.456.5777 or golf@lakejunaluska.com. n The fifth annual Battle at the Creek Golf

Tournament will be held at 10 a.m.

Saturday, April 27, at the Golf Club at Mill Creek in Franklin. This two-person scramble format will support Franklin High School Golf Teams. $75 per player includes a mulligan and lunch, with cash prizes offered. To sign up contact Felicia Nidiffer at 828.342.7491 or fefesha@gmail.com. n The third annual golf classic to benefit Full Spectrum Farms will be held at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at Trillium Links and Lakes Club in Cashiers. Proceeds from this tournament will benefit Full Spectrumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work to serve people with autism spectrum disorder in Western North Carolina. Cost is $100 per person, with lunch available for purchase. Pre-registration required. Contact 828.293.2521 or fsfvolunteer@gmail.com.

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sheds, water quality, wildlife and conservaIt’s Earth Month, and Haywood tion work underway at the Pigeon River Waterways Association is celebrating with a State of the Watershed, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. full slate of events to let folks clean up the Tuesday, April 30, at The Strand at 38 Main water and learn more about it.

Street in Waynesville. Seating is limited and n An invasive plant removal will be held 1 the cost is $5 for ages 11 and up. Buy tickets to 2:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, next to the from The Strand or by contacting Haywood baseball field at the Waynesville Recreation Waterways at 828.476.4667 or info@hayPark. RSVPs helpful but not necessary. woodwaterways.org.

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6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, at the n Clean up trash in Richland Creek 9 a.m.

Agricultural Research Station at 589 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 27. The group will meet at the Vance Street Park pavilion by the baseball field at the Waynesville Recreation Park. RSVP by April 25 to Christine O’Brien, christine.haywoodwaterways@gmail.com or 828.476.4667, ext. 11. n Learn more about septic systems during a presentation noon to 2 p.m. Monday, April 29, at the Agricultural Research Station at 589 Raccoon Road in Waynesville.

Volunteers participate in a Haywood Waterways and the creek cleanup. Donated photo Haywood County Environmental Health Raccoon Road in Waynesville. These 55-galDepartment will cover how septic systems lon barrels capture and retain rainwater, work, common problems, solutions, failure reducing stormwater impacts and providing prevention and financial help for homeownwater for landscaping. Space is limited and ers. RSVP to 828.476.4667 or info@haycost is $50. RSVP to 828.476.4667 or woodwaterways.org. info@haywoodwaterways.org. n Learn about Haywood County’s water-

Load up on garden plants A plant sale April 25-26 at Haywood Community College will offer all manner of garden starts and flowers for sale.

The event will be held 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day in the Nix Greenhouse complex. Varieties include geraniums, petunias, tomatoes, basil, Swedish ivy, and much more, as well as hanging baskets. All plants are grown by the students.

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A weekend focused on science, data collection and the amazing diversity of life in Western North Carolina will be held Friday, April 26, through Monday, April 29, at the Cradle of Forestry in America.

The Cradle is teaming up with City Nature Challenge and the N.C. Arboretum for the City Nature Challenge and Cradle BioBlitz.

The main event will be Saturday, April 27, starting with a 9 a.m. tutorial in iNaturalist and BioBlitzing apps. The bioblitz will be from 9:30 a.m. to noon, with citizen science related activities follow-

ing from 1 to 3 p.m. A bioblitz is an event when participants try to record as many plant and animal species as possible in a given timeframe.

Observations are welcome for all four days of the challenge, as City Nature Challenge is a friendly competition between cities and regions worldwide to see which one can observe the most nature in four days. Observations will help scientists as they collect data on the region’s biodiversity. The top participant in Western North Carolina will win a prize.

The Cradle is located along U.S. 276 in the Pisgah National Forest near Brevard. www.cradleofforestry.com.

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Learn the basics of composting with worms during a workshop slated for 1 to 4 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at the Macon County Cooperative Extension Center in Franklin.

The workshop will cover what to compost and what not to compost, as well as why, with participants learning how to transform food scraps, leaves and other organic materials into a nutrient-rich soil conditioner sure to benefit lawns and gardens.

Free, with registration required at 828.349.2046.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • In an effort to get to know our communities better, Blue Ridge Public Radio (BPR) and The Smoky Mountain News will be teaming up for a listening session at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in the taproom at Nantahala Brewing in Bryson City. mbush@bpr.org or garret@smokymountainnews.com.

• The Fontana Regional Library will host a community information sharing meeting about broadband from 3:30-5 p.m. on Monday, April 22, in the Marianna Black Library in Bryson City. 488.3030.

• Haywood Community College will hold a Job Fair from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, at the HCC Library in Clyde. 627.3613 or jhilbert@haywood.edu.

• The Town of Waynesville will hold their last community meetings at 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on April 25 to get input in the 2035 Comprehensive Land Use Plan at Folkmoot Center.

• Public comments are being accepted through April 25 for a prescribed burn proposed for Panthertown.

Proposed authorization will be effective for one-to-three burning cycles for up to 10-12 years; Treatments would be conducted between Oct. 15-April 15 of a given year.

Send comments: comments-southern-north-carolinanantahala-nantahala@fs.fed.us or fax: 369.6592, or mail: USDA Forest Service, 90 Sloan Road, Franklin, N.C. 28734. Info; 837.5152.

• As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the DV/SA/EA Task Force is sponsoring “Take A Walk In Her Shoes” event at noon on Saturday, April 27, in front of the Historic Courthouse in Waynesville. Shoes will be available. 456.7898.

All phone numbers area code 828 unless otherwise noted.

• Registration is underway for a seminar entitled “Financing Your Business” that will be offered by Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, at HCC’s Regional High Technology Center in Waynesville. Part of the “Are You Ready to Start a Business series. Room 3021. Register or get more info: SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• Registration is underway for Six Sigma Yellow Belt training, which will be offered through Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and Enrichment from April 23-26 at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Workshops are 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Tuesday through Thursday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Friday. Led by Dr. Todd Creasy, DM, MBA, MSc and Juran Institute Certified Master Black Belt in Six Sigma. Registration fee: $899. Register and get info: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center will hold a Professional Craft Artist Summit from 12:307 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, in the Creative Arts Building in Clyde. Networking reception. Pre-summit roundtable at 11 a.m. with presenter Deanna Lynch.

Register: sbc.haywood.edu or kmgould@haywood.edu.

• Registration is underway for a “Jump-Start Series” offered by Haywood Community College’s Small Business Center from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays, April 30-May 14. SBC.Haywood.edu or 627.4512.

• The Fines Creek Community Association will hold its annual Ramp Dinner from 5-8 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at the Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road in Clyde. Cost: $8 for adults; children 6under free with paying adult. 593.7042.

• Registration is underway for an “Intro to Content Marketing” course that will be offered by Western Carolina University’s Office of Professional Growth and on Friday, May 3, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville.

Instructor is Scott Rader, Ph.D., associate professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship. Cost: $119. Register: pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• April 27 is Safe Kids Macon County’s Safety town event, featuring Operation Medicine Drop (10 a.m-2 p.m.), baby car seat check (10 a.m.-1 p.m.) and bicycle rodeo (11 a.m.-1 p.m.) at the Robert C. Carpenter Community Building in Franklin.

• Registration is underway for Boating Safety Courses that will be offered from 6-9 p.m. on May 15-16 at Haywood Community College, Building 3300, Room 3322, in Clyde. Preregistration is required: www.ncwildlife.org. Additional offerings: June 26-27.

• “National Day of Prayer: Pray for Haywood” will be held at 6 p.m. on May 2 at Calvary Road Baptist Church in Maggie Valley. With Sheriff Greg Christopher.

• Registration is underway for a workshop entitled “Communicating Change Effectively in the Workplace” that will be offered by Western Carolina University from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17, at WCU Biltmore Park in Asheville. Taught by WCU Communications Professor Betty Farmer. Advance registration: $139 (through May 1). Pdp.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Haywood Community College is holding registration for its summer and fall semesters. 627.4500, haywood.edu or hcc-advising@haywood.edu.

• The Small Business Center at Southwestern Community College will offer a wide variety of seminars for aspiring and existing entrepreneurs throughout Jackson, Macon, Swain Counties and the Qualla Boundary through May. tinyurl.com/y46uqeo9.

• Tickets are on sale for the Swain County Chamber of Commerce’s Membership Banquet, which is set for 6-9 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, at the Fryemont Inn in Bryson City. Tickets: $35 per person at the Chamber office or by calling 488.3681.

• Reservations are being accepted for a non-credit travel course that will take students to Valencia, Spain, from June 23-July 2. Price: $1,969 for single occupancy or $1,859 for double occupancy. Includes: three-star hotel, meals, transportation within Spain, admission to sites, a Spanish cooking class and all excursions. Price does not include airfare. 227.2769 or lfoxford@wcu.edu.

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• Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts Department will host lecture by visiting artists Jason Bige Burnette at 4 p.m. on April 22 in the Creative Arts Building Room 7105, in Clyde.

• A Fundraisers to combat child abuse will be held at 7 p.m. on April 17 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. 10 percent of sales go to SEASCAT, a supportive environment for adult survivors of child abuse and trauma.

Mad Batter will show movie “Sybil;” raffle drawing at 6:30 p.m.

• Western Carolina University will offer an eight-week online beginning German language course from April 22-May 31. Instructor is Dr. Will Lehman, associate professor of German at WCU. Registration: $79. For info or to register: learn.wcu.edu or 227.7397.

• Richie’s Alliance for Autism will hold three events from April 22-24 to observe National Autism Awareness Month in Haywood County: “Casino Royale” Autism Awareness Golf Tournament at 9:30 a.m. on April 22 at Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville (sign up:

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www.richiesalliance.org/event/autism-awareness-golftournament or 421.2408); Dine Out/Shop Out Day on April 23, when local restaurants, shops and breweries donate a portion of their revenue (participating businesses listed at www.richiesalliance.org/event/dineout-for-autism); and “Taste” – an opportunity to sample signature dishes from local restaurants – on April 24 at Laurel Ridge (order tickets and view participating restaurants, wineries and breweries: www.richiesalliance.org/event/taste.).

• Women of Waynesville, a nonprofit organization that supports the needs of women and children in Haywood County, will present the third annual Kentucky Derby Gala from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at Elevated Mountain Distilling in Maggie Valley. Tickets are $40 each and include two drink tickets. Proceeds from the event will benefit Sharin Care, a fund designated to help relieve the financial burdens associated with medical and dental needs for people in Haywood County. www.opendoor-waynesville.org/sharin-care. www.facebook.com/events/1087074268167457. WOW is also seeking business sponsors for the event. womenofwaynesville@gmail.com or 550.9978.

• Registration is underway for the third annual disc golf fundraiser for Green Built Alliance. Event is Saturday, May 4, at Lake Julian Park in Arden. http://tinyurl.com/yykl6buo.

• The third annual golf classic to benefit Full Spectrum Farms will be held at 12:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at Trillium Links and Lakes Club in Cashiers. Proceeds from this 18-hole tournament will benefit Full Spectrum’s work to serve people with autism spectrum disorder in Western North Carolina. Cost is $100 per person, with lunch available for purchase. Pre-registration required.

Contact 828.293.2521 or fsfvolunteer@gmail.com.

• REACH is seeking donations of gently used accessories for its silent auction at the “Sprint into Fashion” Social and Luncheon, which is on Thursday, May 9, at Laurel Ridge Country Club. Donations accepted through Friday, April 19, at 627 N. Main St. in Waynesville.

456.7898.

• Ticket reservations are being accepted for two fundraisers that will benefit the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society this summer: Bark, Beer & Barbeque on Thursday, June 20, at The Farm at Old Edwards; and Pawsitively Purrfect Part on Monday, Aug. 19, at Country Club of Sapphire Valley. Cost for each event: , $195 per person, $390 per couple or $1,800 for a table of 10. To request an alert once tickets are available, call 743.5769 or write shannon@CHhumanesociety.org.

HEALTH MATTERS • NAMI Appalachian South, local affiliate of National Alliance on Mental Illness, will offer a Peer-to-Peer education course on recovery and wellness for adults challenged with mental illness starting on Saturdays in April. 200.3000, 507.8789 or happydonita3@gmail.com.

• An educational event on running and how to ensure athletes of all ages perform at their potential is scheduled for noon-1 p.m. on April 22 in the Harris Regional Hospital first-floor boardroom in Sylva. Led by Jared Sonnier, PT. RSVP: 844.414.DOCS (3627).

• A Town Hall on Medicaid Expansion will be held by members of We Are Down Home from 6-8 p.m. on Monday, April 22, at Folkmoot in Waynesville.

• The Alzheimer’s Association is offering a “Healthy Living for Your Brain” program from 2-3 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, in the Waynesville Library Auditorium. Info: 356.2507.

• The Center for Domestic Peace will host an open house from 3-6 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, at 26

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• David-Dorian Ross will offer an in-person meet-andgreet and interactive talk on Tai Chi and Healthy Aging at 6 p.m. on Friday, April 26, at Haywood Regional Health & Fitness Center in Clyde. 904.377.1527 or mattjeffs@comcast.net.

• Four Seasons, Wells Funeral Home and first United Methodist Church of Waynesville will offer “Living After Loss: A Grief Discussion” from 9-11 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, at Wells Event Center in Waynesville. Led by Dan Yearick, MS, LPC-S, Bereavement Coordinator with Four Seasons. 692.6178 or dyearick@fourseasonscfl.org.

RECREATION AND FITNESS • Warm Power Flow Yoga will be offered from 5:45-7 p.m. on Friday, April 19, at Waynesville Yoga Center. $14. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Power Core Yoga will be offered from 12:30-1:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at Waynesville Yoga Center. $14.

Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• The Lake Junaluska Golf Course 100th Anniversary Kickoff Tournament is set for 1 p.m. on April 24. Cost: $35 per player. 456.5777 or golf@lakejunaluska.com.

• Registration is underway for the fifth annual Battle at the Creek Golf Tournament, which will be held at 10 a.m. on April 27, at Mill Creek in Franklin. Two-person scramble. $75 per player, includes mulligan and lunch.

Sign up or get info: 524.4653, 342.7491, fefesha@gmail.com, 371.1141 or ryan.raby@macon.k12.nc.us.

• An evening of ballroom dance is scheduled for 8 p.m. on April 19 at Angie’s Dance Academy in Clyde. $10 per person for nonmembers. 734.8726.

• A “Forest Bathing” class will be offered from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, April 28, through the Waynesville Yoga Center. $25 in advance; $30 day of. Led by Raymond Johnson. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• A Yoga Basics five-week series starts on April 28 at Waynesville Yoga Center. Class meets for five consecutive Sundays. $65 for entire series. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• A belly dance and yoga four-week series starts on April 28 at Waynesville Yoga Center. Meets for four consecutive Sundays. $55 for entire series. Register: 246.6570 or WaynesvilleYogaCenter.com.

• Sylva Yoga is offering a variety of donation-based classes through late May. Complete listing and registration info: www.sylvayoga.com.

SPIRITUAL • Maundy Thursday is scheduled for noon on April 18 at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 99 Academy Street in Canton.

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• During Holy Week, First United Methodist Church of Sylva will hold Maundy Thursday (6 p.m. on April 18), Easter Sunrise Service (8:15 a.m. on April 21) and a combined Easter Service (10 a.m. on April 21). Info: 586.2358.

• “The Living Last Supper” – a dramatization of da Vinci’s famous painting – will be presented as part of Maundy Thursday evening worship service at 7 p.m. on April 18 at Waynesville’s First Presbyterian Church.

• The churches of downtown Waynesville will have their annual Good Friday Cross Walk at 10:45 a.m. on Friday, April 19, starting at First Presbyterian Church.

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• Cashiers area churches will observe the Stations of the Cross at 4 p.m. Friday, April 19. The ancient tradition of carrying the cross is a way of remembering how Jesus carried his cross to Golgotha. This walking devotional experience with fourteen readings is open to residents and visitors in the area. It features scripture, prayer and reflection to recall the events of Good Friday. Participants will meet at The Village Green Commons on Frank Allen Road in Cashiers. In the event of rain, the Stations of the Cross will be held at the Christ Church of the Valley across Highway 64 from The Village Green. 743.3434 or www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• St. Andrews Episcopal Church will host Easter ceremonies on the weekend of Friday through Sunday, April 19-21, at 99 Academy Street in Canton. Good Friday festivities are at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.; Holy Saturday events are at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., and Easter Day will be celebrated at 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on Sunday.

• Sunday, April 21, Cashiers area churches will celebrate Easter with the annual Community Easter Sunrise Service at 7 a.m. at the Gazebo and Lawn of The Village Green. The service features live music, scripture and an uplifting message with the backdrop of a beautiful sunrise over the mountains. Those

attending are encouraged to bring a lawn chair.

743.3434 or visit www.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• Registration is underway for Lake Junaluska’s Summer Youth Events, which run from June 15-July 14. Morning and evening sessions with worship, guest preachers and workshops for sixth-through-12th graders. www.lakejunaluska.com/summeryouth or 800.222.4930.

• Registration is underway for Music & Worship Arts Week, which is from June 23-28 at Lake Junaluska.

Multi-generational educational event including arts, praise and renewal. For ministry leaders or those who want to sing, dance or act all week.

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• Registration is underway for Native American Summer Conference, which is June 28-30, at Lake Junaluska. Speakers, Bible study and workshops.

Lakejunaluska.com/sejanam or 800.222.4930.

• Registration is underway for Guided Personal Retreats, on July 22-24, Sept. 16-18 and Oct. 21-23 at Lake Junaluska. Lakejunaluska.com/retreats or 800.222.4930.

POLITICAL • The Jackson County NAACP membership meeting is at 10 a.m. on April 20 in Liberty Baptist Church’s Downstairs Fellowship Hall. Gary Carden will present his documentary “The Cowee Disaster” at 11 a.m.

• The Swain County Democratic Party’s Alarka monthly precinct meeting is at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, at the Alarka Community Building in Bryson City.

488.1118.

AUTHORS AND BOOKS • Author Kerry Madden-Lunsford will host a book signing of her book Ernestine's Milky Way at Joey’s Pancake House in Maggie Valley from 8 to noon on April 18.

• Nettie’s Bakery in Waynesville will host an Afternoon tea with author Kerry Madden-Lunsford as she shares her children’s book Ernestine’s Milky Way from 3 to 5 on Friday, April 19. Purchase an afternoon tea ticket prior to the event at Blue Ridge Books. 456.6000.

• Blue Ridge Books in Waynesville will have author Kerry Madden-Lunsford sharing her most recent children’s book Ernestine’s Milky Way on April 20 at 3 p.m.

• Ann Melton will present her book “While Walking with God” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva. 586.9499.

• Blue Ridge Books and Smoky Mountain News will present a meet and greet/book signing by author, naturalist and Smoky Mountain News columnist Don Hendershot at 3 p.m. on April 27 at Blue Ridge Books, 428 Hazelwood Ave., in Waynesville. Book is “A Year from the Naturalist’s Corner Volume 1.”

KIDS & FAMILIES • The Blue Ridge Parkway will hold a Junior Ranger Day event from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at Milepost 384. Stewards of all ages will learn how to camp, use detective skills with historic artifacts, look into National Park Service vehicles, hike a TRACK trail and more.

• The Haywood Community College Wildlife Club will hold the sixth annual Fish Fest Youth Fishing Clinic and Tournament on Saturday, April 27, at the HCC Mill Pond in Clyde. Youth clinic for ages 6-12 is 1-4 p.m.; tournament is 4-6 p.m. Entry fee for tournament is $8.

Info or register: 627.4560 or jcarver@haywood.edu.

• A Nature Nuts: Raising Trout program for ages 4-7 will be offered from 9-11 a.m. on April 29 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• An Eco Explorers: Mountain Habitats program will be

offered to ages 8-13 from 1-3 p.m. on April 29 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• Registration is underway for the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society’s Critter Camp, which is offered from June 17-21, July 15-19 and Aug. 5-9. Camp hours: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Fun, immersive experiences with animals at no-kill shelter for rising first-graders through sixthgraders. $300 per child for each week. 743.5752 or info@CHhumanesociety.org.

• Registration is now open for a new PGA Junior League golf team forming at Lake Junaluska Golf Course for ages 17-under. Season runs from through July 31. Registration fee: $190. Includes team practice sessions, matches, merchandise. Register: pgajrleague.com/sign-up. Info: www.lakejunaluska.com/golf, 456.5777 or ctcarswell@lakejunaluska.com.

• The Haywood County Arts Council will hold a JAM (Junior Appalachian Musicians) for fourth through sixth graders from 3:30-5 p.m. on Tuesdays through May at Shining Rock Classical Academy. Cost: $85.

452.0593 or bmk.morgan@yahoo.com.

• Registration is underway for Discovery Camp with weekly camps available June 10-Aug. 16 at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. Open to pre-K through rising eighth graders. Register: www.ncarboretum.org/education-programs/discovery-camp.

• Registration is underway for a summer volleyball camp that will be offered to rising third-through-12th graders from 9 a.m.-noon on June 17-20 at the Waynesville Recreation Center. Cost: $85 before June 1 or $100 after. Register or get more info: amymull@bellsouth.net.

• Registration is underway for two basketball shooting and dribbling camps that will be offered from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on June 24-27 and July 15-18 at the

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Cost: $150 per person; deposit of $25 required.

Register or get info: 456.2030 or academy7@live.com.

plan to also bring a camera. 743.3434 or ww.villagegreencashiersnc.com.

• An Easter Sunrise Service will be held at 6:30 p.m. on April 21 in the Maggie Valley Pavilion next to Town Hall on Soco Road.

A&E SPECIAL EVENTS & FESTIVALS • Nantahala Outdoor Center Spring Fling is April 1921 near Bryson City. Freestyle open practice and boat demos on Friday; prelims and longboat race, raffle, throw rope challenge and music by Somebody’s Child on Saturday; more racing and demos on Sunday. www.noc.com.

• The 25th annual Southeastern Mini Truckin’ Nationals will be held April 26-28, at the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds. Open car and truck show. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday and Saturday; 8 a.m.-2 p.m. on Sunday. Part vendors, food vendors, DJ. 865.742.7403, minitruckinnats@gmail.com or www.minitruckinnats.com.

• The Haywood County Jazz Festival featuring area middle and high school bands as well as the Blue Ridge Big Band and Western Carolina University is scheduled for 4-9 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at Tuscola High School.

• The 22nd annual Greening Up the Mountains Festival will be held Saturday, April 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., in downtown Sylva. The festival includes more than 200 vendors who will be spread throughout two locations — on Main Street and Railroad Avenue. www.greeningupthemountains.com.

• The American Legion Post No. 47 presents the 89th Ramp Convention starting at noon on Saturday and Sunday, May 4-5, in Waynesville. Advance tickets: $8 for Saturday and $10 on Sunday (meal included) or $5 for event only on Sunday. Free hot dog to children under 12. Food, vendors, raffles, bounce house.

Vendors: 734.2234.

EASTER • The Annual Town of Canton’s Easter Egg Hunt is set for 10 a.m. on April 20 at Canton Recreation Park. For ages 1-12. Info: 648.2376.

• Dillsboro’s 31st Easter Hat Parade is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, in downtown. Festivities start at 10:30 a.m.; Easter Egg hunts start at noon.

Info: 506.8331 or visitdillsboro.com.

• An Easter Celebration sponsored by RENEW Bryson City for drug awareness is scheduled for 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at Cornerstone Wesleyan Church, 495 Franklin Church Grove Road in Bryson City. Spaghetti dinner and games. $10 for adults; $5 kids. Easter Egg Hunt at 2 p.m.; Fashion contest at 1 p.m. renewbrysoncity.org, 488.4455 or search for event on Facebook.

• Cashiers area residents are invited to hop on over to the Gazebo at the Cashiers crossroads at 11 a.m.

Saturday, April 20, for the annual Easter Egg Hunt This egg-stravaganza is for children 10 years and younger. Easter Bunny will make a visit for photos, so

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • A program of vintage jazz standards from the big band era, “Spring Swings the Library” with C-Square will be presented at 1 p.m. Thursday, April 18, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin. This free audience-participation program will be held in the handicap-accessible library located at 149 Siler Farm Road in Franklin. arts4all@dnet.net or 524.ARTS (2787).

• Grand Old Lady Hotel (Balsam) will host “Bluegrass on the Mountain” w/Bobby Maynard & Breakdown at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 20.

• Trumpet player Paul Merkelo will perform a recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, in the Coulter Building recital hall on the campus of Western Carolina University. The event is free and open to the public.

Bradley Ulrich at 227.3274 or ulrich@wcu.edu.

• The Catamount Singers and Electric Soul will present their production of “Made in America” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, in Western Carolina University’s Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Hall in Cullowhee. Tickets: $15 for adults, $10 for faculty/staff and $5 for students.

• Folk duo Somebody's Child will perform at 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 25, in the Community Room of the Jackson County Public Library in Franklin. This program is free and open to the public. 586.2016. (www.fontanalib.org).

• “An Evening of One-Acts” will hit the stage at 7 p.m. Friday, April 26, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets are $12. www.greatmountainmusic.com or call 866.273.4615.

• The musical group Sisters will present “Dynamic Harmonies & A Deep Love For Christ” at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 27, at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets start at $15. www.greatmountainmusic.com or 866.273.4615.

• Highlands Performing Arts Center will have the fulllength play “Calendar Girls” by Tim Firth on May 2326 and May 31-June 2. Highlandscashiersplayers.org.

CLASSES AND PROGRAMS • The UNC Asheville Visiting Writers Series will present students sharing their own works as part of the Senior Seminar in Creative Writing at 4 p.m. on April 27, in Karpen Hall, Laurel Forum. english.unca.edu.

• Registration is underway for a “Women’s Conceal Carry Class” that will be offered from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at the Waynesville Police Department, 9 South Main Street in Waynesville. Cost: $50. RSVP by April 15: 246.3538 or thundercaldwell@gmail.com.

• Artist Joel Queen will host a Master Potter Series class from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Cowee Pottery School in Franklin. Queen will guide the class in hand building pots the traditional Cherokee way. Participants will need to bring a bowl to use as a form when building their pots. For more information and/or to register for the class, email contact@coweepotteryschool.org or www.coweepotteryschool.org.

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• The Lake Junaluska Easter Celebration, featuring Easter egg hunts and a sunrise service at the amphitheater below the cross, is set for April 20-21.

Full schedule of events: Lakejunaluska.com/easter.

Info: 800.222.4930.

FOOD & DRINK • Fines Creek Community Center will host an evening of food, music and dance at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 20. Featuring “Running Wolf and The Renegades.”

Music and dance: $5.

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• Tickets are on sale now for Thunder in the Smokies Rally, which is May 3-5 in Maggie Valley.

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• “Easter Parade”, will be shown at 1 p.m. on April 21 at The Strain on Main in Waynesville. See website for times & tickets. 283.0079.

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• Smoky Mountain Model Railroaders Club will have an open house to introduce a Lionel-type Model Train display from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, April 28, at 13 Caboose Way in Clyde. $5 donation requested at the door. 550.5959 or 593.0394.

• Registration is underway for a Bladesmithing Basics class that will be taught by Brock Martin of WarFire Forge from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. on April 28 at Green Energy Park in Dillsboro. Cost: $200 (includes materials). Preregistration required: 631.0271.

ART SHOWINGS AND GALLERIES • The Haywood County Arts Council (HCAC) latest showcase, “Inspired Art Ministry,” will run through April 27 at the HCAC Gallery & Gifts in downtown Waynesville. www.haywoodarts.org.

• “Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition” showcase will run through May 3 in the Fine Arts Museum at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. There will also be a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at the museum. Regular museum hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursdays until 7 p.m. 227.ARTS or arts.wcu.edu/mfathesis.

• Haywood Community College is currently hosting a Professional Crafts Faculty Exhibition in the Mary Cornwell Gallery on campus in Clyde. Through April, the public is invited to view the exhibition 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. 565.4240 or clschulte@haywood.edu.

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• The Museum of the Cherokee Indian has recently opened a major new exhibit, “People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters.” It features more than 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation, and more than one hundred works from 1900 to the present. The exhibit will run through next April.

• The exhibit “Outspoken: Paintings by America Meredith” will be on display through May 3 at the Fine Art Museum Gallery B in the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University. The WCU Fine Art Museum is free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday. Free parking is available on site. www.facebook.com/americameredithart.

• An exhibition entitled: “Ebb and Flow, Bloom and Fade: Dynamic Rhythms From Hambidge Fellows” is on display through June 16 in the Bunzl Gallery at The Bascom in Highlands. Info: www.thebascom.org.

• Entries are being accepted for The Bascom’s 2019 Member Show: “Rhythm Systems: Nature and Geometry.” Exhibition will be on display from June 15July 21. www.thebascom.org or 787.2878.

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• Photographer and Clyde dentist John Highsmith presents “Breathless,” a metal-print series of underwater people and waterborne fabrics. The photo exhibit will run through July 15 at Green Sage Café Westgate in Asheville. 734.6301.

• New artist and medium will be featured every month at the Haywood County Senior Resource Center in Waynesville. 356.2800.

FILM & SCREEN • “Sybil”, will be shown at 6 p.m. on April 17 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 10% Fundraiser Event for SEASCAT with raffle. 586.3555.

• The Jackson County Public Library will show the movie “The Line” at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 18, in Sylva. Info: 586.2016.

• “VICE”, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on April 18 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555.

• “Glass”, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. on May 2 & 4 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. 586.3555.

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shown at 6:30 p.m. on May 3 at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva. Free. MAINSPRING Fundraiser. 586.3555.

6 p.m. on Saturday, April 20, at the Lazy Hiker Brewing Company in Franklin. Live music. www.lazyhikerbrewing.com or www.facebook.com/lazyhikerbrewingco.

• Community Roadside Litter Pickup is at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 20, starting at the Forest Hills entrance sign.

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• Submissions are being accepted through May 10 for the sixth annual “Birdhouse Bash” that will be auctioned by silent bids during the Whole Bloomin’ Thing festival on May 11 in the Frog Level area of Waynesville. Birdhouse creations can be delivered to Second Blessing Thrift Store in Waynesville. Proceeds benefit Daydreamz’ community art projects and the Open Door ARTS program. Info on DayDreamz: 476.4231; info on Open Door Community Garden: 734.1570.

• The Waterrock Knob Visitor Center is now open for the season on Mile 451.2 of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

Open Monday through Thursday through April 26; Open daily from April 27-Nov. 11. www.nps.gov/blri/planyourvisit/hours.htm.

• Registration is underway for the “Spring Wildflowers of Southern Appalachia” classes, which will be offered

by Adam Bigelow from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on Fridays from through April 26. Learn how to identify wildflowers while walking among them. Single day rates are $40, or $150 for the entire series. bigelownc@gmail.com.

• The Highlands Nature Center is open from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. through late May. www.highlandsbiological.org or 526.2623.

• The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission will open Hatchery Supported Trout Waters from 7 a.m. on the first Saturday in April until one-half-hour after sunset on the last day of February the following year. Info: https://tinyurl.com/yae8ffqn.

• A “Casting for Beginners: Level I” program will be offered to ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on April 18 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• Great Smoky Mountains Association will have a “History and Wildflowers” program from 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. on Friday, April 19, along Kanati Fork and Thomas Divide Trails. https://tinyurl.com/yyy8pqjy.

• Haywood Waterways will have an Invasive Plant Removal day from 1-2:30 p.m. on April 19 at the Waynesville Recreation Center/Vance Street Park pavilion. RSVP: 476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org.

• Alarka Expeditions will observe William Bartram’s 280th birthday with a seven-mile canoe trip on the river he explored in 1775 on Saturday, April 20. Cost: $55 per person. Boats $25 each. Register: www.alarkaexpeditions.com.

• The AKC kennel club, Western Carolina Dog Fanciers Association will hold its annual dog show/trial on April 20-21 at the Haywood County Agriculture and Activities Center on Crabtree Road in Waynesville.

Hours: 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Small parking fee. WCDFA.org or infodog.com.

• Great Smoky Mountains Association will have a Wildlife Connectivity Project Presentation and Panel Discussion from 10 a.m.-noon on Saturday, April 20, at The Strand, 38 Main in Waynesville. https://tinyurl.com/yxs6gvam.

• Jackson County will host its inaugural Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on April 20 at the Cullowhee Rec Center Parking Lot. Paint, aerosols and flammables accepted.

• Tickets are on sale now for the April 20 Spring Social at the N.C. Arboretum in Asheville. Fun, fellowship, food, hikes and more. $24 per person. www.carolinamountainclub.org or hikingtech@gmail.com.

• The Outdoor Music Jam and Gear Exchange is set for

• Jeff Hunter, senior program manager for the National Parks Conservation Association, will present and lead a panel discussion at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 20, at The Strand at 38 N. main Street in Waynesville on the issue of vehicle collisions with large mammals – an issue that results in roughly $12 billion in costs plus loss of life annually.

• Great Smoky Mountain National Park officials will host volunteer workdays from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on April 20 and 22 to work on trails. Info: www.nps.gov/grsm/getinvolved/volunteer.htm.

• Outdoor Skills Series: Map and Compass will be offered to ages 12-up from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on April 22 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• The Franklin Bird Club will hold a Greenway walk at 8 a.m. on April 24. Meet at the Macon County Public Library parking area. Info: 524.5234.

leave with a 55-gallon rain barrel. RSVP: 476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org.

• A cycling ride exploring the Western Carolina University mountain bike trails will be offered at 6 p.m. every other Thursday, begins on April 19 in Cullowhee. Participants will meet at the N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching and divide into a beginner group and a non-beginner group, with 60 to 90 minutes on the trail each time. Organized by the Nantahala Area Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association, with an event page at www.facebook.com/NantahalaAreaSORBA/. nantahala.area.sorba@gmail.com

COMPETITIVE EDGE • Registration is underway for Friends of the Lake 5K Race, Walk & Kids Fun Run, which will be held at 9 a.m. on April 20 at Lake Junaluska.

Lakejunaluska.com/run or 800.454.6680.

• The Smoky Mountain Relay is scheduled for April 26-27. Teams of six or 12 runners will jog overnight for 212.5 miles along trails and country roads from Brevard to the Nantahala Outdoor Center. Register: www.smokymountainrelay.com.

• Fly-Tying for the Beginner will be offered to ages 12up from 9 a.m.-2noon on April 24 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• Registration is underway for the annual Greening Up the Mountains 5K Run, which is set for 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, at Mark Watson Park in Sylva. www.greeningupthemountains.com. Registration ends April 24. Info: 293.3053, ext. 7 or jeniferpressley@jacksonnc.org.

• The City Nature Challenge and Cradle BioBlitz are scheduled for Friday through Monday, April 26-29, at the Cradle of Forestry in America near Brevard. Using iNaturalist and BioBlitzing apps, participants will record as many plant and animal species as possible. www.cradleofforestry.com.

• The Fire Mountain Inferno will be held from April 2728 on the Fire Mountain Trail System in Cherokee.

Enduro and cross-country mountain bike racing for all experience levels. Preregister by April 25: www.gloryhoundevents.com. Onstite registration: 5-8 p.m. on April 26 at Cherokee Fairgrounds.

• A Tackle Rigging for Fly Fishing program will be offered for ages 12-up from 9 a.m.-noon on April 27 at the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission’s Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education in Brevard. Registration required: http://tinyurl.com/yb28fpz8.

• The National Park Service will hold its second-annual Project Parkway for potential volunteers on Saturday, April 27, at a variety of campgrounds – including Mount Pisgah, Milepost 408.8. If interested, write to BLRI_Volunteers@nps.gov.

• Haywood Waterways will have a Richland Creek Clean-up from 9-10:30 a.m. on April 27 at the Waynesville Recreation Center/Vance Street Park pavilion. RSVP: 476.4667, ext. 11, or Christine@haywoodwaterways.org.

• Great Smoky Mountains Association will hold a “Birding Cataloochee by Bus” program on Monday, April 29. Info: dana@gsmassoc.org.

• Registration is underway for a “Leave No Trace Master Educator course, which will be offered by Landmark Learning later this year in Cullowhee.

Frontcountry/basecamp training is set for April 29May 3 while Backpacking will be from June 24-28, Aug. 12-16 and Oct. 21-25. www.landmarklearning.org.

• Haywood Waterways and Haywood County Environmental Health Department will have a presentation entitled “All about Septic Systems” from noon-2 p.m. on April 29 at Agriculture Research Station, 589 Racoon Road in Waynesville. RSVP: 476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org.

• A discussion on “Pigeon River State of the Watershed” is set for 6:30-8:30 p.m. on April 30 at The Strand movie theater in downtown Waynesville. $5(free for 10-under). Tickets: haywoodwaterways.org/membership-donations-andconservation-goods, 476.4667 or info@haywoodwaterways.org.

• A rain barrel construction workshop is set for 6:30-8 p.m. on May 1 at Agriculture Research Station, 589 Racoon Road in Waynesville. Cost: $50; participants

FARM AND GARDEN • Applications are being accepted for the N.C. Cooperative Extension’s Master Food Volunteer program. Deadline is April 25; training starts May 9.

Designed to provide volunteers the opportunity to support Family and Consumer Sciences agents with foodrelated programming. $30. To apply: go.ncsu.edu/emfv or Julie_sawyer@ncsu.edu.

• The Haywood Community College Career & College Readiness Horticulture Class will hold a plant sale from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, April 2526, in Clyde. Info: 627.4618 or dhshalosky@haywood.edu.

• A workshop on worm and backyard composting is scheduled for 1-4 p.m. on Thursday, April 25, at the Macon County Cooperative Extension Center in Franklin. Speaker is Rhonda Sherman, extension specialist in the Department of Horticultural Science at N.C. State University. Register: 349.2046.

• Applications are being accepted for garden space in the Macon County Community Garden in Franklin. Fee: $25. To apply: 349.2046. Available for use by May 1.

FARMERS MARKETS • Jackson County Farmers Market runs from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesdays at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva. jacksoncountyfarmersmarket@gmail.com or www.jacksoncoutyfarmersmarket.org.

• Haywood Historic Farmers Market will start April 20, on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon at the HART Theater parking lot and Wednesdays from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Church overflow parking lot beside Exxon. waynesvillefarmersmarket.com or haywoodfarmersmarket@gmail.com.

• Franklin Farmers Tailgate Market runs from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturdays in April and 8 a.m. to noon from May to October, on East Palmer Street across from Drake Software. 349.2049 or www.facebook.com/franklinncfarmersmarket.

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27 Bruins legend Bobby 28 A dieter may try to lose it 29 Obstruction 30 Riddle, part 2 37 Decline to vote 41 Earsplitting 42 Alleviates 43 Riddle, part 3 49 Cat sound 50 Make fun of 51 Seemly 52 Zig's reverse 55 Archie's sitcom wife 57 Name on an elevator 60 Minor error 61 Bicycled, e.g.

62 Rock singer Snider 63 Epitome of easiness 66 3/15 or 4/13, day-wise 68 315 or 413, phonewise 70 Riddle, part 4 73 Roget's references 76 "Taken" star Neeson 77 China's Lao- -78 "Blue Bloods" airer 81 Cat sound 82 Tide type 84 Scissor cut

86 hand 88 89 91 94 95 99 102 103 104 110 111 112 113 117 118 125 126 127 128 129 130

For only the case at Rest house Player getting a goal Hourglass fill Plus Riddle, part 5 Part of Iberia Crab part Plush End of the riddle Go offstage Geologic span Lennon's lady Cuisine with tom yum Jar coverer Riddle's answer Flying geese formation Stud farm owner, e.g.

Waterproof sheet Suffix with govern More lathery Got testy with

DOWN 1 Cry out loud 2 Tennis champ Arthur 3 Exam taken by many jrs.

4 Little tykes 5 Here, to Hugo 6 Auntie, to Mom 7 Wrestlers' pad 8 Pal of Porthos and Aramis 9 Looks of lust 10 Architect I.M. -11 See 12-Down 12 With 11-Down, New York Giants legend 13 Pasta sauce brand 14 Actress -- Aimee 15 U.S.-Can.-Mex. treaty

16 Schnozz suffix 17 Planet with 27 moons 18 Focus one's gaze 19 Final Greek letters 24 Vocal quaver 29 Really rise 30 Slugger Ripken 31 Raise 32 From scratch 33 British runner Sebastian 34 Jostle 35 Scents 36 Heady brew 37 Really longed 38 Wedding party?

39 "Wake Up Little --" (1957 hit) 40 Trial balloon 44 "O Sole --" (Italian song) 45 High storage room 46 "Memento" director Christopher 47 Soul 48 Conical homes 52 Wildlife park 53 Stir in, e.g.

54 "You don't say!"

56 "Funny joke!"

58 Joss or tiki 59 Hauling trucks 61 Panasonic alternative 64 Like pogo sticks 65 Mailer's "via" 67 Arch across 69 Far off the shore 70 ENE's reverse 71 One-named singer with the 2005 hit "Oh" 72 Simple-living sect 73 "I didn't need that level of detail!," in texts

74 Cackling bird 75 Geologic span 78 Sevigny of "Kids" 79 Officer over deckhands 80 Actor Wolf 83 Lake fish 85 Golf number 87 "The BFG" author Roald 89 Reasonable 90 Depend 92 Twelve p.m.

93 Bamboozle 95 Droop 96 British rule in old India 97 -- more (greater than one) 98 Bloke 99 Postpone 100 Fairies 101 Stage actors' whispers 105 India's first prime minister 106 Gluttony, e.g.

107 Records on a cassette 108 Army outfits 109 Like Livy 113 "That's right" 114 Embraced 115 Korea locale 116 "-- that right?"

118 "American Dad!" airer 119 Meanie Amin 120 Singer David -- Roth 121 Hound sound 122 Madrid Mrs. 123 Antonym: Abbr.

124 Disparity

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hese days my wife, Elizabeth, and I just play around at gardening in several raised beds situated beside the front deck of our home. This year, she has already put out patches of spinach, peas, and lettuce.

These will be followed in early May by Swiss chard, a few tomato plants and cucumber vines, a “teepee” of pole beans, and eight or so sweet banana peppers. We do get pretty serious in the fall, trying to establish by early September beds of potherbs (rape, turnip greens, kale, etc.) that will serve as cooked greens during the winter months.

Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, we pretty much lived out of a large garden (maybe one-eighth of an acre in size) maintained in a flat area up the creek. We experimented with just about every crop that can be grown in the Smokies region. It was labor intensive, but well worth the effort.

Three of our vegetables were corn, pole beans, and winter squash. The raccoons usually beat us to the corn, but we did pretty well with beans and squash. Our favorite was acorn squash, which Elizabeth made into pies that were just the thing during the long winter months. For several winters running, we— along with our three children — had buttered acorn squash pie almost every

BACK THEN night and never tired of it.

It has long been my supposition that corn, pole beans, and squash have been raised along Lands Creek for going on a thousand years or so. These three vegetables were, of course, the ones revered by the Cherokees and other tribes as The Three Sisters: the name given to their companion plantings of corn, pole beans, and squash.

There’s always Columnist been ample evidence in the form of stone tools and potshards of a small Indian settlement (no doubt Cherokee) up the creek from where our old garden was located. A settlement on Lands Creek (located about three miles west of Bryson City adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park boundary) would have been a satellite of the major village at Kituwah just east of Bryson City. Well-worn trails, some of which are still in use, would have connected Kituwah with Indian Creek, Deep Creek, Lands Creek, and Peachtree Creek.

Agriculturists today recognize the genius of the Indians, who used the strength of the

corn stalks to support the twining beans and the shade of the spreading squash vines to eliminate weeds and trap moisture for the growing crop. Bacterial colonies on the bean roots captured nitrogen from the air, some of which is released into the soil to nourish the high nitrogen needs of the corn. I have been told — but have never been able to substantiate — that these vegetables, taken

George Ellison

Editor’s note: This column first appeared in The Smoky Mountain News in April 2004.

together, provide all of the essential amino acids.

The Indian agricultural system was based on the hill-planting method, which is essentially the same one I learned growing up in piedmont Virginia. Women, who were primarily responsible for farming, placed several kernels of corn in a hole. As the small seedlings began to grow, they returned periodically to mound the soil around the young

plants, ultimately creating a hill arranged in rows about one step apart. Two or three weeks after the corn was planted, bean seeds were planted in each hill. Between the rows, squash and/or pumpkins were subsequently sown.

Jane Mt. Pleasant, professor of horticulture and director of the American Indian Program at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., has recently observed that “these staples of cropping are traditionally grown together on a single plot, mimicking natural systems in what agronomists call a polyculture.

Though the technique was not developed scientifically, it is ‘agronomically sound.’ The Three Sisters cropping system embodies all the things needed to make crops grow. A monoculture, in which only one crop variety is grown on a plot of land, is a relatively recent agricultural technique. Though it is suited to highyield mechanized harvests, it leaves crops vulnerable to disease and insects. A polyculture reduces the risk of an entire harvest being wiped out in this way.”

It gives Elizabeth and I no little pleasure to contemplate a “polycultural” agricultural continuity on our property dating back a thousand years or so.

(George Ellison is a naturalist and writer.

He can be reached at info@georgeellison.com.)

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