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Cherokee to vote on Council term limits Weighted votes, elected official pay also discussed during Annual Council

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER uring this month’s Annual Council sessions, Tribal Council’s structure and compensation loomed large in the discussion — and in the vote.

In sessions held Oct. 11 and Oct. 18, Tribal Council approved a trio of referendum questions aimed at limiting and staggering Tribal Council terms and considered legislation to reapportion the weighted voting system and cut Council pay back to 2020 levels.

Though the latter two proposals did not pass, they did elicit robust discussion.

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Currently, Tribal Council members serve two-year terms, with all 12 members up for election in every odd-numbered year. In 2016, Council enacted term limits for the principal chief and vice chief, but not for its own membership — Council members can serve an unlimited number of terms.

Cherokee County/Snowbird voter Robert Jumper — who is also editor of the Cherokee One Feather — brought in a resolution Oct. 11 seeking a referendum vote to change that.

Vice Chairman Albert Rose, Big Cove Representative Teresa McCoy and Wolfetown Representative Bo Crowe agreed to co-sponsor it, allowing for the somewhat easier referendum process outlined in the code for referenda submitted by Council members.

“My reason for asking for this vote of the people is that our governing document is no longer sufficient to provide for the civil rights of our people,” Jumper wrote in an Oct. 12 letter to tribal leadership. “We have outgrown it and it is important that we begin to make meaningful progress toward replacing it with a more substantive guiding document. And, if that cannot be done through a full replacement with a constitution in the near future, we should not wait to make enhancements to current law to provide those civil rights.”

Tribal Council passed Jumper’s resolution unanimously. At the ballot box, voters will answer three questions: • Do you agree to change the terms of office prescribed in the Charter and Governing Document for Tribal Council members from two years to four years?

• If you agree with Question 1, do you agree to amending the law to hold Tribal Council member terms of office to “staggered,” with one representative seat from each township being up for election every two years?

• If you agree with Question 1, do you agree to limit the number of consecutive terms a Tribal Council member may serve to two terms?

If voters approve all three questions, each Tribal Council member will be able to serve a maximum of eight years — two consecutive four-year terms — before rotating off the board for at least two years. In the resolution, Jumper writes that the staggered terms would ensure “experienced leadership would continually remain in service for each township” and that limiting the number of consecutive terms would “give opportunity and allow for a fair and equitable way for fresh perspectives to be in elected leadership positions.”

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians does not have a constitution — rather, it has a Charter and Governing Document that serves as its superseding legal document. For years, a group of tribal members has been working to draft an actual constitution, which would more comprehensively address governmental structure and citizens’ rights than does the charter.

Snowbird/Cherokee County Representative Adam Wachacha commended Jumper’s submission as a way to begin making some of the necessary changes outlined in the draft constitution in more bitesize pieces.

“I like the approach here because I know when we had the discussion on the constitution, one of the main things that was being pushed back was everything being pushed into one document,” he said. “I think this provides the public an opportunity to create an avenue for a smaller leaping-off point,” he said.

Other Council members also spoke favorably about the legislation.

“Believe me, you will like going home for a couple, three or four years,” said Big Cove Representative Teresa McCoy, who rejoined the horseshoe this month after leaving it in 2017. “You can do so much at home. Thank you so much for this.”

“I think it’s a good move,” added Birdtown Representative Boyd Owl. “Eight years, you can do some tremendous work for the tribe within an eight-year period.”

The measure passed unanimously, but Yellowhill Representative T.W. Saunooke cautioned that the tribe is ultimately working with a limited pool of candidates.

“We’re not the state of North Carolina, and we’re not the federal government,” he said. “We don’t have millions of people that are eligible to actually run for these capacities. Whenever you start doing the term limits, which I am definitely in agreeance, just know that pool of your candidates is going to dwindle.”

One way to further expand that pool, said Jumper, could be to allowing tribal employees’ pension to carry on if they’re

elected to Tribal Council.

“That could be helpful to y’all in gaining additional qualified applicants,” he said.

“That could be something for you all to consider in the future.”

As of press time, a date had not been set for the referendum vote. Because it involves a change to the Charter, passage would require voter turnout of at least 51%, a higher bar than the 30% required for other referendum votes. In the September General Election to select new Tribal Council and School Board members — and participate in an alcohol referendum — only 45.3% of registered voters cast a ballot, and a standalone alcohol referendum in 2018 elicited only a 25.6% turnout. However, in the 2019 election, which included the two chief races, 57.1 percent of voters participated.

The resolution asks that the referenda

will be put to the public in 2023, an election year that includes chief ’s races, offering the best chance of meeting the turnout requirement. While tribal law requires that most referendum votes be held within 90 days of the referendum questions being approved, that time limit does not apply to referenda seeking to change the Charter. No date has yet been set for the vote.

WEIGHTED VOTE CHANGES VOTED DOWN Later in the Oct. 11 session, Yellowhill Representative David Wolfe asked Council to make another significant change to the way it conducts business. His request was voted down with six in favor and six opposed — though the even split

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intended. Limited housing in other communities means that more and more people are now residing in larger communities like Birdtown — the new weighted votes could skew control of Council even further.

For that reason, other members voiced their support for transitioning from a weighted voting system to a “one man, one vote” system. However, that would be a more complex process requiring a Charter amendment.

“My vote is as important as Bill Taylor’s or Boyd Owle’s or Albert Rose’s or Bo Crowe’s,” said Painttown Representative Tommye Saunooke, who receives a weighted vote of six. “That’s just the way I feel. I think it ought to be one man, one vote. I’d support that in a heartbeat.”

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In a walk-in resolution submitted Oct. 18, Crowe sought to walk back the massive pay raises Tribal Council approved for its members in the budget passed last month — but Crowe’s measure failed to pass with only four members supporting it.

The pay raises were the result of a broader compensation analysis the tribe commissioned, looking at pay for not only elected officials but also for tribal employees and appointed bodies. The budget included a 5% raise for all employees, followed by further upward adjustments for those who the analysis determined were being paid less than market rate, and then additional changes to address any resulting pay compression issues.

However, it also included a $10,000 bump for freshman Tribal Council members, with a 6% increase for each subsequent term up to a maximum of $157,936 for 10th-term members. The chair receives an additional $15,000 and the vice chair $10,000, with salaries also tied to the Consumer Price Index and adjusted upward for inflation.

The pay plan includes a salary of $262,732 for the principal chief and $218,943 for the vice chief.

“It was said that it was across the board, and it wasn’t really across the board — tribal employees getting 5% and elected officials, some of them went up 60-some percent,” said Crowe. “I just don’t agree with that.”

Owle, meanwhile, pointed out the demanding nature of the job and the need to make the compensation significant enough to attract people who are likely to serve the tribe well.

“I’m not giving myself a raise, but the people coming in years to come. That’s what I’m looking at,” he said. “If we get it for the next two years and don’t get back in, at least it’s set for the future.”

If the referendum question seeking limited and longer terms for Council members passes, it could assuage some of the impact of the higher salaries, at least as it relates to the 6% raise per term. With four-year terms and a required two-year break every eight years, the average number of terms served would likely decrease.

The resolution failed to pass, with only Taylor, McCoy, Crowe and T.W. Saunooke voting in favor for a weighted vote of 38-62.

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translated to a weighted vote of 62-38.

That, said Wolfe, is exactly the problem.

“Us smaller communities, we don’t have a chance,” he said. “If two larger communities have a will to do something, run this whole tribe, then smaller communities, we’re just along for the ride.”

Each Tribal Council member’s vote is weighted with a value representing the relative population of his or her community, but those weighted values are based on old information. The Charter states that Tribal Council must reapportion weights every 10 years, starting in 1981, based on census data.

However, Wolfe said, no census has been conducted since 2001, and the weighted votes have not changed either since that time.

Currently, Wolfetown and Birdtown representatives receive 12 weighted votes, Yellowhill and Big Cove get seven, and Painttown and Snowbird/Cherokee County get six. That means that the four members holding 12 votes need only one other person on the 12-member board to carry a majority.

Wolfe’s ordinance proposed changing the weights to 10, eight and seven. Doing so would mean that passing any action would require at least six members to cooperate.

“I’m not trying to take votes away from anybody,” said Wolfe. “I’m just trying to represent each and every one of us, whether you live in California, Mississippi, Swimmer Branch or Bunches Creek.”

“I understand Wolfe’s saying he doesn’t want to take numbers away, but that’s what you’re doing,” replied Rose, who holds 12 votes.

All four 12-vote members ultimately voted against the resolution, but it also met opposition from some members who hold fewer votes but want to see a census take place before the weights change.

“I can’t pass it until I have actual numbers,” said McCoy. “I have to know how many people live in Yellowhill, Big Cove, Painttown, Wolfetown. I just have to know that. Other than that though, I agree with you that the vote in this Council has been so lopsided.”

Her fellow Big Cove representative Chairman Richard French joined her in opposing the resolution.

Meanwhile, Snowbird/Cherokee County Representative Adam Wachacha said that, while he agrees a census must be done, adopting the proposed resolution would “provide a push” to move forward with that process.

In fact, Council has already approved funding for a tribal census. In July 2017, Tribal Council voted unanimously to approve Principal Chief Richard Sneed’s request for $273,000 to contract with the U.S. Census Bureau to manage the census and pay local workers to carry it out.

However, that census was never completed.

According to Sneed’s office, that’s because the tribe’s contract with the government required 150 applicants for 35 positions.

Only about 30 applied, so the contract was never executed.

During the Oct. 11 discussion, several members voiced the possibility that revised weights based on new census data could have the reverse effect to the one Wolfe

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Lynching commemoration in Franklin could ignite monumental debate

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT POLITICS E DITOR lans are underway for a Nov. 6 event in Franklin to commemorate the lynching of a Black man more than 120 years ago, but if organizers are successful, the Mozeley Memorial Walk will also initiate debate over how, if at all, Mitch Mozeley should be publicly acknowledged.

“History matters,” said John deVille, a Franklin High School history teacher who was active at the Black Lives Matter rally in Franklin last June. “The metaphor I would give is that when you throw a rock into a pond, the ripples keep on rippling.”

It’s not the first time the difficult subject of century-old monuments has been discussed in recent years, and it’s not even the first time the difficult subject of memorializing people who were lynched has been discussed in recent years. If those discussions were any indication — Confederate-related or not — this discussion will prove controversial as well.

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he story of Mitchell “Mitch” Mozeley (sometimes spelled “Moxley”) isn’t much different from thousands of extrajudicial killings across the Reconstruction-era South, or the 165 documented lynching incidents in North Carolina.

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attempts and two alleged rape attempts in Franklin, Mitch Mozeley purportedly confessed to the crimes. The local Black community supposedly disowned Mozeley and opined that he deserved to be lynched.

And he was. While awaiting trial, Mozeley was yanked from his jail cell and hung from the old iron bridge on the east side of Franklin in November 1898.

Mozeley’s story parallels that of Haywood County man George Ratcliff in several ways, both then and now.

In March 1900, Ratcliff (sometimes “Ratliff ” or “Ratcliffe”), as the story goes, was supposedly caught in the act of sexually assaulting a minor and after a brief manhunt ended up in the old Waynesville jail. When a mob showed up in the night but couldn’t free him, they shot him, in his cell, dozens and dozens of times.

We’ll never know if Ratcliff, also a Black man, was indeed stopped in the act of committing a crime. We’ll never know if Mozeley’s confession was made under duress, or if the small community of Blacks in Franklin in 1898 truly turned their back on him or did so to avoid persecution. We’ll never know if Ratcliff or Mozeley were guilty of the allegations made against them because both were denied due process and both were killed before evidence or testimony could be presented in any court of law.

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“If we are going to be the best nation that we can be, if we are truly going to live up to democratic principles, then we have to confront not only the ugly chapters in our past, but also how those ugly chapters ripple forward.”

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A such murders, as chronicled in the 2015 UNC project, A Red Record, which seeks to document incidents using contemporary reporting, as racially biased as it may have been.

But Ratcliff and Mozeley share another thing in common — some people living today in the communities where they were murdered want them to be remembered.

In early 2019, members of the Haywood County NAACP branch began to discuss the possibility of memorializing Ratcliff. That possibility arose thanks to the Equal Justice initiative, which in 2018 opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.

The purpose of the memorial is two-fold; in one section, 800 steel boxes — about the size and shape of a coffin — hang suspended from the roof of a covered outdoor gallery.

Each represents a county in the United States where a documented lynching occurred between 1877 and 1950. The other section is a six-acre plot of identical boxes laying out-

side on the ground, waiting to be taken to the counties they represent, where they’ll forever link the Alabama memorial site and the place where the lynching occurred.

There’s a box there for Ratcliff, but Haywood County NAACP members, whether Black, white, or mixed-race, displayed a wide spectrum of opinions on bringing it here.

Some thought it should be prominently displayed on the courthouse lawn or on Main Street. Others felt that a better place would be the small park taking shape off Pigeon Road in one of Haywood County’s traditional Black enclaves. Others still felt it might stir up trou- J ble for Haywood County’s relatively small Black population and would rather just leave well enough alone.

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County, NAACP member Katherine Bartel said at the time.

Local leaders, including Haywood County Commission Chairman Kevin Ensley, voiced support for the monument but widespread disagreement over the actual placement of the monument lingered, and the effort has since languished.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice has a box for Mozeley, too, and an upcoming event designed to raise awareness of his plight will serve as an important first step in determining whether or not that monument will ever make its way to Macon County.

“If we are going to be the best nation that we can be, if we are truly going to live up to democratic principles, then we have to confront not only the ugly chapters in our past,

but also how those ugly chapters ripple forward,” deVille said. deVille and local researcher Claudia Aguilar have planned a memorial walk for Mozeley for Saturday, Nov. 6. The walk will begin at 7 p.m. at the Macon County Courthouse in Franklin, proceed to the jail from whence Mozeley was abducted and trace his final route to the bridge where he was murdered.

Aguilar has compiled her exhaustive research on the incident, including period news clippings, on the ncgenweb.us website but deVille has an interesting theory on Mozeley that marks his murder as significantly different than that of Haywood County’s Ratcliff.

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Following Young’s address, he will host a panel discussion on reparations across the nation. The panel will include Lori DecterWright, Councilwoman in Tulsa, Oklahoma; Robin Rue, former Councilwoman in Evanston, Illinois; Syndi Scott, Founder and Director of the Amendment Project; and Robert Thomas, of the Racial Justice Coalition of Asheville.

The second address of the day will be given by Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, on reparations and education justice. Muhammad is an associate professor of Literacy, Language and Culture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has previously served as a middle school teacher, literacy specialist, school district administrator and school board president. Muhammad’s scholarship has appeared in leading educational journals and books. She also works with teachers and young people across the United States and South Africa in best practices in equity, antiracism and culturally and historically responsive instruction. She is the author of

racial issues at the time — controlled state government in 1896, but Democrats engineered a voter suppression campaign during the 1898 election with the help of the Ku Klux Klan and another paramilitary group of domestic terrorists called the Red Shirts.

“We believe, though cannot prove, that Mozeley’s execution was an act of voter suppression, an act of political terrorism, coming a mere 48 hours before the ballots were to be cast in North Carolina,” deVille said.

A few days after Mozeley’s murder, Red Shirts succeeded in overthrowing the duly elected fusion government in Wilmington, killing between 60 and 300 people in the process. The insurrection was led by future Democratic Congressman Claude Kitchin.

Kitchin’s brother William, a Klan supporter and congressman who went on to become

North Carolina’s governor, spoke during the dedication of Franklin’s Confederate monument in Rankin Square in 1909.

Neither deVille nor Aguilar support removal of the Confederate monument, with deVille saying it should be put into context and preserved so that “people have to look at it forever,” but both agreed that the memorial walk for Mozeley should create a baseline from which to build support for bringing his monument from Alabama to Franklin.

“It still matters, because these issues are still relevant today,” Aguilar said. “They are more relevant today than ever. These issues are not going to go away if we just try to bury them and say that things are better now, because ‘better’ is arguable. Yes, we don’t see people being lynched, but yes, it’s still very much relevant.”

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for the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Therefore, this year’s transitional event will be co-hosted by Waters and Ruffin.

Ruffin is the director of Africana Studies and has been a faculty member at UNC Asheville since 2010. A Fulbright Scholar and award-winning educator, Ruffin is also the managing editor of Moja: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Africana Studies.

The Africana Studies Program, under Ruffin’s leadership, has worked on the organization and curation of this year’s AAWNC Conference, in order to preserve the important work of this event for the community. In this way, the conference will continue to be a community-wide effort in making the invisible histories of African Americans, and other highland minorities visible.

Ruffin currently serves as the Director of African Studies, and a professor of Africana Studies and Education at UNCA. Her interests and past publications demonstrate her devotion to equity, inclusion, diverse and special needs learners, service learning, pedagogical approaches for the diverse and inclusive classroom and how culturally responsive education systems can create new opportunities for educational justice.

“Our hope is for attendees to be inspired with uncovered revelations and strategies that can be put into action and directly benefit Black Asheville,” said Ruffin. “If we are to uproot and dismantle racism, engage in restoration, restitution and make amends for historical and ongoing racial injustices, we must move to strategically map out the next phase with concrete tools and practices for justice. If we don’t, racial justice will not be realized, and resolutions will simply maintain the status quo.”

Other speakers include Keith Young, former Asheville City Councilman. He will speak about reparations in Asheville. Young received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the historically black Virginia State University and studied Implementing Public Policy at Harvard. Young returned to Asheville in

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BY HANNAH MCLEOD STAFF WRITER he eighth annual African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia Conference will be held virtually from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6. The focus of this year’s event is “Reparations, Revelations and Racial Justice: The Path Forward.”

“The City of Asheville was one of the first municipalities in the United States to pass a reparations resolution behind Evanston, Illinois, and it has appropriated an initial $2.1 million in reparations funding,” says Dr. Tiece Ruffin, co-host of the conference. “The theme, ‘Reparations, Revelations & Racial Justice: The Path Forward,’ is based on the premise that now is the time to move forward to sharing knowledge, insights and next steps for racial justice.”

The AAWNC Conference illuminates the African American experience in Southern Appalachia through hisDr. Tiece Ruffin tory, culture, community and enterprise. Now in its eighth year, the conference seeks to eradicate incomplete and false narratives about African Americans in this region, while creating new possibilities for the future.

The conference is a project of UNC Asheville and was started as part of an effort to illuminate a history of African Americans in WNC and Southern Appalachia that was for so long glossed over or simply ignored.

Eight years in, the conference has undergone a transition — from the committee as led by Dr. Darin Waters via the Office of Community Engagement and the Department of History, to a living, evolving history with the Africana Studies Program.

Waters has transitioned from UNC Asheville’s executive director of the Office of Community Engagement to a new role as deputy secretary for Archives and History

the best-selling book, “Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy.”

The second panel will be moderated by Ruffin and will discuss reparations and education justice. Panel members will include Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Ph.D, Western Carolina University; Summer Carrol, Ph.D, Lenoir Rhyne University; Darrius Stanley, Ph.D, Western Carolina University; Nicole Cush, Principal of the School of Inquiry and Life Sciences at Asheville; and Seth Bellamy of the Racial Equity Ambassador Program.

Following the afternoon panel, there will be two presentations given by faculty and undergraduate students at UNC Asheville — “Towards a Comprehensive Accounting of Urban Renewal in Asheville: Initial Findings from the Urban Renewal Archival Database and Lost Black Wealth Study,” and “History Erased: Examining the Intersection of Redlining and Historic Preservation.”

After the academic presentations, there will be a virtual exhibit tour on reparations and health called “Black in Black on Black.’’

This exhibition features three WNC-based artists: Ann Miller Woodford, Viola Spells and Ronda Birtha, as well as data from the “Heart of Health: Race, Place, and Faith in Western North Carolina’’ project. This is a three-year community-participatory research study that seeks to better understand the role and impact of race and racism on health. “Black in Black on Black” presents an exhibition about the lives and contributions of Black/African American communities in WNC. The final address will be given by Dr. Dwight Mullen, Professor Emeritus, on regional reparations in WNC. As a teaching professor at UNCA, Mullen was committed to both his students and to being professionally active. He offered courses in public policy, American politics and African and African American politics. His scholarly activities included panels chaired and papers presented at meetings of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists; overseeing undergraduates’ research projects covering the State of Black Asheville; and serving in local, state, national and international capacities that aim to improve the delivery of public services to underserved populations.

2003 and focused on community organizing in low-income communities. As a former city council member, he was the architect of the city’s reparations legislation along with other equitable policies.

Young also played a key role in the recent resolution passed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the city formally apologized, for the first time, for the events of the 1921 race massacre and subsequent policies that negatively impacted the black community. The resolution is likely to become the base to build a reparations program for the recompense of the 1921 race massacre.

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“I think the most important thing that the Democrat Party can do is open its doors back up to a larger group of individuals. We lost rural America quite significantly in the last election.”

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT POLITICS E DITOR ince his election last November, President Joe Biden has spent a lot of time — and untold political capital — pursuing a sweeping domestic agenda.

Although these programs, like the child tax credit and his “build back better” plan do contain some attractive items like help for working families and badly-needed infrastructure improvements, the sustainability of the massive new debt associated with them has given many elected officials — and even some Democrats, like Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) — cause for concern.

With some Democrats on the fence, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that most Republicans remain adamantly opposed.

“I prefer to refer to Biden’s agenda as the ‘build back broke’ agenda, because people are beginning to remember how broke they were under Barack Obama and Joe Biden the first time around,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn, (R-TN). “You can’t have a three and a half-trillion dollar bill, which is really a $5 trillion bill they say is not going to cost anybody a dime, and have people believe it.”

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“I won’t say that every single thing in this bill is bad, but I will not say yes to the 90% of it that is just basically full-on socialism only to gain 10% of the things I believe are actually beneficial,” Cawthorn said. “I mean, you see what Americans are going through when they go to the gas pump. The inflation we’re seeing in this country right now is destroying middle-class families.”

A day before the Asheville fundraiser, 11th District Democrats held a press conference also in Asheville, touting Biden’s build back better agenda. Joined by NC-11 Dem Chair Matt Ballance, North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Dr. Bobbi Richardson and Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer, Rep. Brian Turner (DBuncombe) voiced support for Biden’s plan.

“I would like to see many of these programs become permanent. I think that we’ve really seen that if you just look at the number of families that have been really lifted out of poverty due to the expanded child tax credit, that’s one of the great things about the programs,” Turner said. “I think that once people realize not only what government can do for them, but how little it has been doing for them, they will want to see these programs continue.”

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Asheville’s Democratic Rep. Brian Turner compared Biden’s infrastructure plan to the TVA. Cory Vaillancourt photo

Right in the middle is former NC-11 Congressman Heath Shuler, known for being a more conservative Democrat than many of his fellow party members — especially fiscally. Shuler made his first public political appearance since 2012 at a fall rally, hosted

by Haywood County Democrats on Oct. 23.

“At some point we have to start paying for all of this,” he said. “We talk about taking care of people, and sometimes that’s going to come down to individual people taking care of our neighbors. We don’t always have to rely upon the government to do so. We cannot continue to just continue to rack up trillions of dollars in debt.”

Shuler also raised the specter of interest rate fluctuations having a major effect on existing debt, saying that an increase of just a few points would end up making interest payments the single largest line-item expense in the federal budget.

While that specter may never materialize, another one certainly will — Biden’s domestic agenda will be at the forefront of the upcoming 2022 elections.

“I think the most important thing that the Democrat Party can do is open its doors back up to a larger group of individuals,” Shuler said.

“We lost rural America quite significantly in the last election, in some cases 80-20 or 70-30.”

To ensure that margin continues, Republicans will make the case that the Biden administration’s goals are de facto socialism, and not in the long-term interest of Americans.

“Joe Biden’s polling numbers are down, he’s at 37%. I think Vice President Harris is in the 20% [range of] approval ratings, and the American people are making their opinions known,” Blackburn said. “They’re going to continue to do that. And we have a great story to tell of hope, opportunity and freedom for all. And we’re going to be out there telling that story.”

Turner, however, sees a different side to that story.

“In times of crisis, our country has really reached down and worked to make sure no one gets left behind,” he said. “We talk about the New Deal and particularly in Western North Carolina, we talk about the TVA. I don’t think people were complaining about that being some sort of socialist program, the fact that it electrified basically the Appalachian spine. I think that is a red herring to call it to call it ‘socialism.’ I think that we have seen a contraction of the social safety net and of government programs over the past decades, and this is actually just more of a course correction.”

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“Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey,” which includes disarming Americans, conducting warrantless searches and anything that would “subjugate” state sovereignty.

In recent years, the group has taken on a far more sinister reputation due to the actions of some during the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C. At least four members of the group have pled guilty to a variety of federal charges and as prosecutions continue, more pleas may come.

Clampitt said he considers those particular Oath Keepers “bad apples” and “outliers,” and that plenty of other groups — on the left, and on the right — experience similar behavior.

For his part, Clampitt disavowed the violent actions of those individuals and points to anti-riot legislation he supported in the General Assembly.

“I don’t advocate violence or any of that,” he said. “You have the right to peaceably assemble. Our constitution from North Carolina and then our government allow for free speech but when you pick up a brick, bat or a stick or any kind of item that you could use for a weapon and you just start destroying other people’s property or you harm someone, then you’ve crossed that line.

It’s gone from peaceful protest to air your grievances, to a riot.”

Despite Clampitt’s self-proclaimed membership in the group, he said the group is not very active, at least here. He said he doesn’t receive any sort of newsletter, hasn’t been asked for dues and hasn’t been to any organized meeting since at least 2015, although he still supports the group’s central beliefs.

The Southern Poverty Law Center describes the Oath Keepers as an extremist anti-government organization, but Clampitt takes issue with that, and with the depiction of the group as a militia.

“I would not say it’s a militia. I never attended a meeting in the past that there was any armed participation and organized attempt to conduct any kind of paramilitary training or education,” he said. “[It’s] concerned citizens that wanted to ensure that their rights aren’t infringed upon by the federal government.”

Clampitt ran against Waynesville native and incumbent Democratic Rep. Joe Sam Queen in 2012 and 2014, losing both times.

In the 2016 rematch, he beat Queen on the heels of Donald Trump’s surging popularity, but then lost the seat back to Queen in 2018.

Bucking the trend of national Democratic gains in 2020, Clampitt defeated Queen again and is expected to seek reelection in 2022. The filing period for candidates wishing to run in the 2022 General Elections in North Carolina begins Dec. 6.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT POLITICS E DITOR estern North Carolina Republican Rep. Mike Clampitt is an Oath Keeper.

The Swain County native has been up front about that since at least 2012, through five Primary Elections and five General Elections — two of them successful — but a recent story in the nonprofit online journal ProPublica goes to great lengths to paint its “outing” of Clampitt as the triumphant unmasking of a wall-scaling Capitol insurrectionist.

“I think everybody knows the playbook of the liberal agenda and how they want to paint people as something that they’re not in order to achieve an agenda to disparage, discredit and cause reputable harm to individuals,” Clampitt said.

According to the story, published Oct. 20, Clampitt’s name appeared on a list of more than 35,000 Oath Keepers that was presented to ProPublica by a “whistleblower group” that acquired it from an anonymous hacker.

The stolen list, according to ProPublica, contained Clampitt and “47 more state and local government officials … all Republicans: 10 sitting state lawmakers; two former state representatives; one current state assembly candidate; a state legislative aide; a city council assistant; county commissioners in Indiana, Arizona and North Carolina; two town aldermen; sheriffs or constables in Montana, Texas and Kentucky; state investigators in Texas and Louisiana; and a New Jersey town’s public works director.”

But ProPublica didn’t need to wait until 2021 to rely on a stolen list to identify Clampitt; they could have just read the April 9, 2014, issue of The Smoky Mountain News in which Clampitt plainly states, “I am an Oath Keeper.”

Or, they could have researched any of Clampitt’s submissions to online voter education website ivoterguide.com. The site publishes candidate biographical and positional surveys submitted by the candidates themselves.

Under the heading, “affiliations,” Clampitt discloses his membership in the group in questionnaires submitted in 2012, 2014 and 2020. Candidate surveys for his 2016 and 2018 state House bids couldn’t immediately be located on the site, but the previous and subsequent ones have been there all along.

The Oath Keepers, founded about a decade ago, are widely known as a far-right militia group that claims to hold the line against federal government overreach.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS EDITOR new nonprofit expanding its services into Haywood County is challenging the status quo when it comes to overcoming addiction.

Seek Healing began in Asheville three years ago, but recent grant support has allowed the organization to open an office in downtown Waynesville with hopes of meeting people in need exactly where they are.

Seek Healing operates with the belief that addiction is not necessarily the opposite of sobriety — “Rather, it is an authentic connection and a deeply rooted sense of purpose and belonging” that can help people deal with the underlying causes of their addiction. With free facilities and programs that work to rebuild that lost sense of connection so many people are experiencing, Seek Healing aims to have the community rethink the traditional model of rehabilitation in the U.S. “What we understand now is addiction has roots in trauma,” said Executive Director Jennifer Nicolaisen. “Once we understand that, it becomes less relevant to talk about what they’re doing, whether it’s opioids, heroin, etc. By stepping back, we can see the bigger picture and help them as they heal from their trauma and that looks different for different people.”

Nicolaisen said it’s all about how we learn to connect to the people in our lives from our early caregivers to how we’re socialized later in life. For a child who’s suffered from early trauma, it can be common for them to form unhealthy bonds with drugs and alcohol as a coping mechanism. Even when someone is working to break these habits, she said the person will often just shift to another addiction if they can’t get to the root cause of the 12 behavior.

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“We’re truly starting to understand this on a national level and in the scientific community, and we see how recovery is extremely nuanced,” she said. “We see the journey people take when they end one relationship and still cycle through addictions to others. For example, I’ve never seen so many cigarettes being smoked and coffee consumed than at AA meetings.”

With all that in mind, Seek Healing focuses more on offering people nonjudgmental friendship and understanding during their individual journey. That’s done through something called Connection Practice meetings — a hallmark of the Seek Healing program. These meetings are conducted by a professional facilitator who has completed the organization’s active listening training.

However, the focus of these meetings isn’t necessarily addiction. Participants don’t have to share anything about their past mistakes and no one hands out medallions for being sober for certain periods of time — they can talk about whatever is on their minds and whatever they might be struggling with that day.

“It’s an alternative recovery meeting. We practice healthy communications skills and people can talk about whatever they like,” Nicolaisen said.

You don’t even need to be struggling with addiction to attend a connection practice meeting — maybe you’re just depressed or isolated and looking for an outlet.

Danny Wallace, now the community engagement director with Seek Healing, said finding the Connection Practice meetings three years ago in Asheville changed his life.

He compared drugs and alcohol to a BandAid that covers up a deeper wound.

“I started going to connection practices and it opened my eyes to what real recovery is. When you fix the wound, you don’t need the Band-Aid,” he said.

Now three years into his recovery journey, Wallace sits on the Seek Healing board and was hired on as community outreach director to help the organization expand services into Haywood County.

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“What we think of today as traditional recovery started back in the 1950s. The only options were AA, NA and Celebrate Recovery, and that works for some people, but for many others it doesn’t,” Wallace said.

That traditional method of recovery didn’t work for him either. Wallace grew up in Haywood County and lived at Broyhill Children’s Home as a child.

“I had a rough life growing up,” he said.

“I’ve been a functioning addict for a majority of my life, and when I decided to finally stop, the 12 step programs were the only thing available. I couldn’t get behind it because I wasn’t allowed to identify as Danny. I had to identify as an addict who has no control over his life.”

For someone who was under the influence for much of his adolescent years, Wallace said he was emotionally immature and it was hard for him to express himself. Attending NA support groups only made him feel shame for his situation. Seek Healing believes identifying as an addict facilitates socially acceptable shaming and further isolates them from

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As a co-founder of Seek Healing, Nicolaisen brings her experience in business l and project consulting, but as with most peo- i ple, she also has her own story about how b t addiction has impacted her life.

“I found a passion around this work in a 2016 when a dear, dear friend of mine was dying from heroin addiction,” she said. “I c partnered with her to get her into treatment w w and I learned a lot during that process.”

The most important thing she learned t was that there was a glaring gap in the recov- s ery process — the lack of a strong social sup- t port network that allows people to reconnect h s in their community.

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With the office set up on the corner of t Depot Street and Branner Avenue in down- s town Waynesville, Wallace is now reaching t out in the community to create relationships p and partnerships with other organizations, t churches and civic groups working toward o common goals. Seek Healing is hosting a Connection Practice from 1 to 2 p.m. every B Tuesday at the Bethel Resource Center on l p South Main Street. The center h also hosts other organizations

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Until the jail is back open to accepting outside visitors, Seek Healing staff will continue to train people as facilitators and for other volunteer opportunities while building relationships in the community.

Entering a community where many established organizations working to address the issues of addiction are abstinence or religious based can be daunting, but Nicolaisen said there is room for everyone to do their part and work together toward a common goal.

“Our intention is to coexist in the local culture. Compassion is an important value we all have. We’re not seeking to compete with those other models — we’re just adding this additional layer to social awareness,” she said. “Our approach partners well with traditional recovery programs. We just want to help people up level their communication skills and help address the stigma and changing paradigms in recovery.”

Seek Healing facilities in Asheville offer Connection Practices every day in addition to many other resources and classes. For now, a once a week practice is being held in Waynesville. Wallace hopes to offer more practices in the future. People are welcome to stop by the office on Depot Street for a safe place, a cup of coffee or someone to listen. Seek Healing also offers wellness kits for people going through detox — the kit contains herbal teas, kratom, epsom salt, CBD oil and more.

Whether you’re in Haywood or Buncombe, Seek Healing has a 24/7 listening line for people who need connection and support. For more information on services or how to volunteer, visit seekhealing.org.

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Nicolaisen said Seek Healing received grants from Vaya Health to hold Connection Practices for inmates in the Haywood County Detention Center, but the COVID-19 Pandemic has put that plan on hold.

Evergreen Foundation has also given grant funding to Seek Healing to expand its programming.

“We’ve been working with Vaya Health since the beginning of Seek Healing. They’ve been a long-time supporter of our work,” she said. “Vaya granted us funding for Danny’s position and focused work at the jail, but the jail is shut down to outside visitors so it’s been challenging to get that up and running.

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BY HANNAH MCLEOD STAFF WRITER slew of zoning decisions in the Town of Maggie Valley have revealed deeper concerns about development and the future of Haywood County’s tourist hotspot.

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

But, while tourism may be booming, Maggie Valley, like the rest of WNC, is hurting for workers. “Now Hiring” signs blanket the valley and several restaurants have reduced hours of operation due to staffing shortages. Some attribute this in part to a growing lack of affordable housing and a growing number of short term rentals, highly profitable in a booming tourist economy.

When developer Frankie Wood arrived on the scene in Maggie Valley with hopes of reopening Ghost Town in the Sky, the need for infrastructure such as affordable housing became immediately clear. Along with plans to redevelop Ghost Town came plans for housing developments.

Over the past several months Wood has submitted zoning requests for some of those

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Maggie Valley resident and local Realtor Jim Blyth spoke to the board about one of the public’s major concerns — water. According to Town Planner Kaitland Finkle, all of the properties up for zoning have portions in the critical watershed, as well as 100-year and 500-year flood plain.

“In the wake of the disaster in Cruso and Bethel about two months ago, when people lost their lives in travel trailer parks, I think that needs to be kept in mind as you’re considering the law, considering the effect to the community, because we could too have a flood similar to that in Maggie Valley,” said Blyth.

Additionally, Blyth brought up concerns about water intake. There are two water intake spots in Maggie Valley that provide clean water to about 9,000 residents. One of those intake spots is between The Ghost Town in the Sky property and St. Margaret’s Catholic Church in Maggie Valley. The other is near the other two properties Wood is seeking to develop.

Several other members of the public brought up concerns about a high-density development on the L-shaped property accessed by Rocky Top Road for other rea-

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Decisions about zoning the three properties caused a rare split among board members. Mayor Mike Eveland continued his opposition to Wood’s efforts.

“I believe firmly that along Jonathan Creek, along Campbell Creek, along Soco

Highway, we have enough to do with campgrounds and what they call RV parks,” said Eveland. “I don’t know that we should be doing high-density RV campgrounds along Jonathan Creek, Campbell Creek, or along the corridor of Soco Road. I believe firmly that the residents of Maggie Valley, that’s what they’re seeing. Does that mean I’m antigrowth? absolutely not.”

Eveland cited several other properties in Maggie Valley and Haywood County that, for him, were examples of smart growth that catered to the year-round community.

However, while Eveland and members of the public alike seemed to be concerned about exactly what Wood’s plans are for the three properties, Town Attorney Craig Justus reminded board members at the start of the Oct. 12 meeting they were not to give weight to an individual developer’s plans while making general use redistricting zonings.

As for the developer in question, Wood has apparently been taking stock of public outcry. His original plans for the property on Rocky Top Road involved a “high class” residential RV park. But after hearing aggressive public opinion, Wood plans to put small cabins on the property instead — 32 to be exact.

However, Wood says that if he can’t get the zoning he needs for the Pioneer Village property or the property accessed by Rocky Top Road, he’s likely to walk away from them.

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Tammy Hartzog is owner of Kamp and Kountry, a development also accessed by Rocky Top Road. At the Oct. 12 meeting, she said 95% of the people at Kamp and Kountry don’t want a large development accessed by

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In addition to Eveland, Alderwoman Twinkle Patel joined in voting against two zoning requests from Wood and recommendations by the planning board.

“I voted against R-3 on the Pioneer Village property because the property is bordered on two sides by R-1 zoned properties and on the other two sides by properties without zoning, one in the county and the other recently annexed into town,” said Patel. “I voted against R-2 zoning by Rocky Top Road because the surrounding parcels are R-1. Currently, the property is un-zoned, so it has no regulations.

Any development of this property would require hookup to the city sewer and getting rid of the 13 septic tanks on that property, and this is the first step to clean water.”

Zoning decisions must be passed by a two-thirds vote on first read. Because two of

the properties only passed with a 3-2 vote, with Eveland and Patel voting no on both the Pioneer Village property and the L-shaped property accessed by Rocky Top Road, they will be up for a vote again at the November aldermen meeting where a simple majority will be enough to pass.

Dave Angel, owner of Elevated Mountain Distillery in Maggie Valley, spoke at the Oct. 12 meeting. He noted that as of now, the properties have septic tanks. When properties are annexed into the town and zoned, they can be hooked up to town sewer and water, which is safer for the waterway as opposed to septic.

“Please look at the facts that you’ve got, consider the emotion that’s in the room, but don’t let the emotion overweigh your responsibility of looking at everything,” said Angel.

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currently run by veteran Disney Imagineers and creative professionals with a long, successful history in the themed entertainment industry. The firm specializes in theme park master planning, strategy and feasibility studies, concept design, architecture and integrated marketing.

Previous work by Storyland includes attractions such as LEGOLAND® Water Park, Universal Orlando’s Hogwarts Express and the new FAO Schwarz.

Wood and Ferguson have maintained throughout the past year that detailed 3-D renderings of the existing structures on the town’s main street will be utilized to ensure that rehabilitation of the buildings is as faithful to the originals as possible.

The buildings will, however, have one major upgrade the park currently doesn’t have — compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, making the park more accessible.

Preliminary plans call for on-property lodging, including a mountain lodge, boutique hotel and spa, as well as cabins and cottages.

For more information on Storyland Studios, visit storylandstudios.com.

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT POLITICS E DITOR evelopers associated with the rejuvenation of Maggie Valley’s Ghost Town in the Sky are moving forward with plans to resurrect the iconic mountaintop attraction and have enlisted some high-level talent to help redesign and prepare the park for reopening.

“Our team is thrilled to be a part of bringing this special park back to life,” said Matt Ferguson. Ferguson is the chief innovation officer at Storyland Studios.

Storyland’s involvement in the Ghost Town project was first reported exclusively

by The Smoky Mountain News back in March, but an Oct. 26 press release from Storyland revealed that the relationship is now official.

“We selected Storyland because of their experience on so many theme parks around the world. They have a team that can help us get our brand story right, redesign the park and help us bring it to life and make it successful,” said Ghost Town Managing Member Frankie Wood.

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BY J ESSI STONE N EWS EDITOR fter spending the last several years discussing the need for an updated pay scale, Macon County commissioners recently approved spending close to $9 million over the next three years to increase county employee pay.

During an Oct. 12 meeting, County Manager Derek Roland summarized the new pay scale proposal for the board, which was a top priority set during this year’s county budget process.

“This goes back further than the budget this year. In fiscal 2021, we intended to do this but then COVID happened,” he said.

The county had a pay study done by Springstead back in 2016, and it improved starting pay for employees but didn’t address pay for seasoned employees — a problem that’s gone unaddressed for the last four years and has led to issues with retaining and recruiting essential positions. The county currently has 47 positions that aren’t filled — 21 in public safety, 18 in health and human services and eight spread across other departments.

“Meanwhile, now the pay scale is eight years old, and we’ve seen rising wages in the public and private sector. Just in last eight months alone everything has skyrocketed,” Roland said.

In February 2021, the county hired Arthur Gallagher Consulting to conduct

and bonuses to essential employees who worked during the pandemic.

“One of the primary usages authorized is to support those who’ve beared the health risk in the public sector,” he said. “I can tell you today, because of these unprecedented times were in, if we don’t follow suit with that, I feel like we risk leaving here today and being in the same position we are in today.”

He suggested giving all employees an extra $2 an hour and making it retroactive to April 26 through Oct. 20, 2024, to spread the $6.9 million “The point of this money is to over three years.

Rescue funds can also be pump money into the economy, used to replace lost revenue, and that’s what this would do.” but Macon County didn’t experience any lost revenue during — Derek Roland the pandemic and actually saw an increase in sales tax collections. It can be used for water, sewer and EMS — we’re holding it together but we’re broadband infrastructure, but Roland said on the edge of having to decrease services. I the county doesn’t operate water and sewer think this is a must right now. There’s still systems while creating and implementing a other things we need to discuss, but this is a broadband plan would take years to accomreally good start. I’ve been here a long time, plish. and this is as close as we’ve ever been to per“The point of this money is to pump fect with the pay scale.” money into the economy, and that’s what Roland also encouraged the board to this would do,” he said. consider using the $6.9 million coming to Commissioner Paul Higdon said he felt Macon County from the American Rescue “blindsided” by the proposal and wished he Act funds toward employee pay. He said had more time to think about it and read it many other western counties — including over, but in the end, the board approved the Graham, Cherokee and Clay — were using premium pay policy unanimously. their recovery funds to pay out lump sums the county to fund the increase in the future.

“In 2023, we’re looking at $2.4 million but just like we have this money to carry forward we’ll have funding to ensure this pay plan is sustained for years to come,” he said.

The new pay scale passed unanimously, but county leaders warned the board that it’s just a start.

“This gets you to market rates in a normal year, but this is not a normal year,” said EMS Director Warren Cabe. “We’re short in

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another pay study. The new study included an independent survey of 34 organizations in the region, examined government positions across the state using data from the UNC School of Government and government positions in the region using data from the Southwestern Commission.

“We wanted to have multiple sources to be sure we’re getting it right,” Roland said.

“We looked at counties similarly populated to Macon to see what they were doing and to give us a good feel of where we need to be with a population of 38,000.”

The changes, Roland said, would give the county a market-aligned pay scale moving forward. A few of the highlights — a new sheriff ’s deputy will start out at $17.45 an hour instead of $15.51; a new EMT will start at $40,002 instead of $33,494; a transit operator will make $14.36 an hour instead of $12.16 and a solid waste site attendant will start at $11.25 an hour instead of $8.50.

Planning on the results of the pay study to come through later in the year, commissioners approved a 2020-21 budget amendment for about $1.6 million back in the summer to set money aside to implement the new pay scale. Roland said those funds will be used to implement the new pay plan through the end of the next fiscal year in June 2022. A full-year implementation will cost the county about $2.4 million.

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could be used for housing projects.

However, final guidance on how those funds may be spent has not yet been issued.

A September 2019 housing report from the Jackson County Economic Development Department revealed an acute need for additional housing in the county, especially in the Sylva area. According to the report, between 2020 and 2025 the Sylva area could accommodate a 91-unit subsidized apartment complex for low and very lowincome seniors, a 54-lot single-family development, a 44-unit tax credit rental property for seniors, up to 500 units of low-income family rental housing, 140-200 units of affordable rental housing, 92 units for market rate rentals and about 33 new homes for sale per year.

However, nothing close to that level of development has materialized. As of Oct. 25, a Zillow search for a house in Sylva town limits under $400,000 with at least two bedrooms and one bathroom turned up zero results.

Earlier this year, the town board approved a Conditional Use Permit application for a 72-unit complex to be built on Savannah Drive. The development will be built with tax credits, and proposed rents will range between $345 and $750 per month, depending on the unit and the applicant’s income. However, in the same meeting the board denied — in a razor-thin decision — an application for a 76-unit senior living complex on Skyland Drive. All board members said they recognized the need for additional housing, but the three who voted no said the proposal was wrong for the location. That decision has spurred the need to identify places that would be right for new housing developments.

“We just know it’s a need,” said Dowling.

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BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER he housing crisis gripping the entire region hasn’t spared Sylva, and the town board hopes to partner with Jackson County to alleviate it.

“We know that there is such a housing shortage here, and we want to be looking at everything we can be doing to encourage housing,” said Town Manager Paige Dowling.

The conversation began during the July 8 meeting, when Commissioner David Nestler told the board he’d reached out to the county about potentially using property they own within city limits to develop additional housing opportunities.

“I gave them four PIN numbers of potential spots and proposed that we partner with them on abating and getting these into the hands of someone who could do something good for alleviating our housing crisis,” Nestler said at that meeting.

During the Sept. 26 meeting, the town board voted unanimously to designate Nestler, Dowling and Mayor Lynda Sossamon as liaisons to discuss the issue with the county, and representatives from the two governments plan to have their first meeting this week. There’s no specific proposal at this point, said Dowling — the idea is just to get the conversation started and brainstorm ideas about what the county and town can do together to encourage more housing.

The conversation comes at an opportune time. The town is working on zoning ordinance updates, some of which could be written so as to better encourage housing development. Meanwhile, both governments received significant allotments from the federal American Rescue Plan, and Dowling is hopeful that some of that money

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This is a change in the school’s current policy of requiring face coverings. This policy change begins Oct. 26. As required, the Board of Education will revisit the face covering policy each month.

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Hinton is one of four candidates running for two spots on the Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen. He is running on the slogan “open, fair-minded leadership for Maggie Valley.” Hinton is running against Alderwoman Patel, Jim Owens and Jeff Lee, current chairman of the planning board.

The photo posted to Alderwoman Twinkle Patel’s Facebook shows the contents of the campaign letter John Hinton sent. extremely illegal. I take my position as an Alderman very seriously and I am always ethical in my voting and my campaign.

Campaigns are run by donations by the people, and they have a right to know about this vote buying and they have a right to be furious,” Patel told The Smoky Mountain News.

“This is about bribery in an election. If I, as a representative of the people, do not stand

North Carolina Board of Elections Public Information Officer Patrick Gannon said on Tuesday, Oct. 26, that "State Board investigators continue to look into the matter.

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BY HANNAH MCLEOD STAFF WRITER he North Carolina State Board of Elections is currently investigating John Hinton, a candidate for Maggie Valley Board of Aldermen after he admittedly sent a letter containing campaign information, along with a dollar bill to a friend whom he was asking for his vote.

“I thought it was harmless, you know, looking back on it, I wouldn’t have done it,” said Hinton. “At the time I didn’t think anything about it. It was a very innocent prank that got turned around.”

According to Robert Inman, chairman of the Haywood County Board of Elections, it is illegal to give someone anything of value in order to garner their support in an election.

Haywood County Board of Elections received the first reports of a campaign letter containing money Friday morning and quickly sent the information along to the State Board.

According to Hinton, he sent out about 35 letters to members of his church, Maggie United Methodist church. These letters contained information about the race for Alderman in Maggie Valley, details about Hinton’s platform and why he was running, a Hinton for Alderman business card, pamphlet and in at least one case, a dollar bill.

“I sent one to a friend of mine as a joke.

He’s a buddy of mine and, when I grew up, my grandmother used to put a dollar in the little cards and stuff she sent. And I do the same thing and, as a joke to him, I put a dollar in his. I sent 35 out. That’s the only one I

put a dollar in,” said Hinton.

On Sunday afternoon, Alderwoman Twinkle Patel, who is also running for a seat on the board, posted a photo of the letter and its contents to Facebook asking, “is this the type of Alderman we need representing Maggie Valley?”

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BY CORY VAILLANCOURT POLITICS E DITOR n Oct. 26 report in Rolling Stone based on the claims of two anonymous sources places Western North Carolina freshman Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-Henderson) at the center of the planning of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The sources, said to be organizers of the Trump rally that took place in Washington, D.C.’s Ellipse just hours before demonstrators stormed the Capitol, claim that they were part of conversations about overturning President Donald Trump’s election loss with seven House members, or their offices — Cawthorn, Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Lauren Boebert (RCO), Mo Brooks (R-AL), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Cawthorn’s office issued an immediate response, denying the allegations.

“These anonymous accusations are complete garbage,” reads a statement provided by spokesman Luke Ball.

“Neither the congressman nor his staff had advance knowledge of what transpired at the Capitol on January 6th or participated in any alleged ‘planning process.’”

Also painted as a major insurrection figure in the Rolling Stone story is former NC-11 Congressman Mark Meadows,

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Meadows has been subpoenaed by the House’s Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.

It’s not yet clear if Meadows will comply with the subpoena. Another man, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon, refused to cooperate and was found to be in contempt by the House.

Those charges have been forwarded to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Cawthorn hasn’t been subpoenaed by the committee.

When asked if he planned to comply in the event he is subpoenaed, Ball told The Smoky Mountain News he couldn’t commit outright.

“Congressman Cawthorn will review any request related to the commission that comes his way and take it into consideration at that time,” Ball said. “We can’t make a blanket promise without reviewing the commission’s specific requests.

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To the Editor: I was once a candidate for the Sylva Town Council but withdrew when I realized that I did not have the time, because of personal matters, to do the position justice if elected.

That does not mean that I have lost my interest in what is happening in the town of Sylva.

For that reason, I attended the forum of the candidates for Sylva Town Commissioner that was held at the Old Courthouse.

There I saw the candidates and heard the answers to the questions posed to them. Of the four candidates running, there is only one

hop on a ferry to Ocracoke.

This part of North Carolina is as rural as it gets. In fact — something many in this part of the state don’t know — there are more black bears in rural Eastern North Carolina than there are in the Smokies. It’s a vast forestland pockmarked with swamps and wetlands.

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ravel is one of my favorite soul foods, but it’s also cool to really get to know the place you live. I’ve spent most of my life in North Carolina and I know the state well. I’ve stowed my bicycles and parked my cars at addresses in nine different towns and cities in every compass quadrant of the state since moving here in 1970.

So when I decided to ride my old motorcycle around a part of eastern North Carolina that I had never visited, I was excited at the prospect. The coastal weather last week was perfect, sunny and in the 60s and 70s. There was a steady wind that pushed my mid-sized 650 around a bit during gusts, but that’s part of the fun of motorcycling, being out in the elements.

Fall is beautiful in the mountains, but that beauty attracts a crowd. For locals, it’s a good time to retreat from the onslaught. Since my wife, Lori, had a fall break, we decided to go east and spend a few days on her father’s sailboat. I hitched my motorcycle to the back of the truck and left it at the marina while we wandered the Neuse River to anchorages in South River and Upper Broad Creek.

The winds howled while we sailed, reaching gusts up to 30 miles per hour. That’s pretty intense for a small sailboat, but much preferred to no wind. It’s great to have a little diesel engine for anchoring and docking, but anyone who sails relishes the killing of the engine. Then it’s only the sound of the wind popping the sails and lines slapping against stays, sea gulls all around and the constant and rhythmic pounding of water against hull.

When Lori headed back to work, I had a few days before she would meet me in Greenville where we were going to the wedding of a friend’s son. My oldest brother lives close to Havelock, and our visits have gotten more infrequent since our parents both died. I drove the bike over and helped him do some work around his home. It was great to spend time with him and my sister-in-law, Anita, but it was too short.

Motorcycling does put one in touch with the elements, but that can go both ways. Deer hunting season has started in Eastern North Carolina, and the animals are everywhere — including on the sides of road from impacts with automobile.

A friend told me that this past Friday he counted 10 dead deer on one stretch of road between Wilson and Greenville.

I wanted to be careful and do everything I could to avoid one of those collisions. I planned my traveling so as not to be out along any rural road before 8:30 a.m. or after 5 p.m. Deer move at dawn and dusk, so I wanted to be as careful as possible. My route would take me through the Croatan National Forest and out to the Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge to

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On my way to Cedar Island to catch a ferry, I traveled the easternmost section U.S. Highway 70. In travels across the U.S., I’ve often intersected with this highway, so seeing the sign for its terminus in the unincorporated community of Atlantic in Carteret County made me want to learn more.

U.S. 70 was the most-used southern route across the country in the early days of automobile travel before the interstate system. As it turns out, plans were hatched in the early 1900s for a northern and southern highway across the country. The northern route was named for Abraham Lincoln, the southern for Robert E. Lee. Much of U.S. 70 was known for decades as the Lee Highway

LETTERS that I feel comfortable to vote for. Let me explain.

The two incumbents, Mary Gelbaugh and Barbara Hamilton, recently voted in favor of a 1.5% increase of the property taxes for the residents of Sylva. Mind you, they did this while the county tax evaluations were still in flux but were expected to increase significantly. As the property values of the town are based on the evaluation by the county, these two incumbents voted for a tax increase without truly knowing what the tax base ultimately was to be. Indeed, one member of the town council proposed several reasonable courses of action to postpone such a vote until the tax

and it once went all the way to Los Angeles but now ends in Arizona.

Eastern North Carolina has suffered as textiles have gone away and much of the agriculture has become industrial sized. I met one former farmer down east who lived off his 800 acres of cotton, tobacco, peanuts and soybeans for decades. He now leases his land to an outfit that farms more than 3,000 acres.

On the coast out near the community of Atlantic, on the Pamlico Sound, I passed old fish and crab processing facilities that were closed. There is a burgeoning tourism industry and lots of rentals, but it’s a quiet, beautiful place.

I planned my route to make three ferry crossings in two days: Minnesott to Cherry Point, Cedar Island to Ocracoke, Ocracoke to Hatteras. I worried about the motorcycle if the water got rough, but the ferry workers had it under control, aiming the bike perpendicular to the cars, its front tire against a foot rail to help prevent rocking.

As I crossed from Cedar Island to Ocracoke, all changed, from the rural south to a busy Outer Banks tourist spot with license plates from all over the country. Ocracoke still shuns high-end tourism and there is not a single chain business in the community, but it’s bustling and prosperous.

Headed back this past Sunday after putting hundreds of miles on the motorcycle, it felt good to get back to the mountains and back home. Again, though, I’m reminded that North Carolina is a great place to live, from the mountains to the coast. Those of us who call it home should consider ourselves lucky.

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

base could be ascertained, but these were rejected by these two incumbents and two other members of the board.

The third candidate, Ms. Carrie McBane, ran for the town council in 2019. In that election her campaign was sponsored by and financially supported by an organization named Down Home North Carolina, which touts itself to be a “grassroots” organization.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of the funding for this “grassroots” organization comes not only from out of state but even from out of region. Ms. McBane states that she has severed ties with this organization, but in her opening statement at this forum and several times within the answers to questions, she mentioned Down Home and her work

with them. I am opposed to outside money being pumped into local elections. I do not know if that is the case in this election, but I am still a bit gun shy from the last one when it was.

The fourth candidate is Natalie Newman. I do not know her that well, but in the few conversations that I have had with her, I find her to be a smart, thoughtful and astute young woman. I am pretty sure that there are probably plenty of issues that she and I may not agree on, but my impression of her is that she is forthcoming and honest, and will listen to my concerns. I will give her the chance. She has my vote.

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BY GARRET K. WOODWARD ARTS & E NTERTAINMENT E DITOR n an effort to bust out of her Virginia hometown and head for the bright lights of Nashville, rising singer-songwriter Karly Driftwood put down her guitar and reached for the stripper pole — eventually gathering up enough dollar bills to fill the gas tank, the hood of the car soon aimed for Music City.

Known for her dark, snarky, yet honest melodic tales, Driftwood is a force of nature, this “hell or high water” presence that is steadily moving up the ranks. It was an “all or nothing” attitude of passion and persistence akin to emerging East Tennessee psychobilly group Humps & The Blackouts.

Well-regarded for its mix of honky-tonk, bluegrass and alt-country stylings, the Blackouts are a band of musical pirates roaming the high peaks and low valleys of Southern Appalachia and beyond.

Both Driftwood and the Blackouts represent this latest, “devil-may-care” chapter of the sacred “three chords and the truth” that resides at the foundation of country music in the 21st century.

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with friends. The sound and feel of it. The better it feels, the more energy it feeds me.

Offstage? I’m a fairly reserved person. So, performing onstage is my time to “wild out.”

The crowd sees that I’m truly enjoying myself and having the time of my life, and that energy spills out into them. The more fun they have, the more I want to give ‘em.

It’s also a little therapeutic. Playing music is not my only job. So, all the day-to-day “BS” just fades away when it’s show time. When I sing with the band, it’s the same feeling when you’ve got the music cranked in your car, windows up and your singing and dancing in your seat like nobody’s watching — I just let it all out.

SMN: Country music is at the core of the Blackouts. What does that sound provoke within your heart and soul?

MH: Country music is just in my blood. I grew up with it. The same songs I loved when I was 3 [years old], I still love now. While I like and listen to a lot of different styles, nothing feels more like home.

It’s so universal. The stories in the songs, the people who write them, and the events that inspired them — [it] didn’t come from one type of person.

No matter where you’re from or what you’ve been through, there’s a country song for that. That’s where the saying “three chords and the truth” came from. They’re songs about the ups and downs of life. Love, sorrow, anger and joy. Things we all deal with, and from any walk

Karly Driftwood.

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The Water’n Hole Bar & Grill in Waynesville will host two highly-anticipated upcoming shows: • The Humps & The Blackouts “Halloween Extravaganza” will be held at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30. There will also be a costume contest, drinks specials, and more.

• Singer-songwriter Karly Driftwood hits the stage at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6.

Both shows are free and open to the public. Ages 21 and older. 828.456.4750 or facebook.com/waternhole.bar. of life, can relate to.

To me, country music is a bowl of mama’s banana pudding, with a bottle of Jack [Daniel’s] to wash it down.

KARLY DRIFTWOOD Smoky Mountain News: You became a stripper to save money to leave your hometown and head to Nashville. What did you take away from that experience and apply to your musical career?

Karly Driftwood: Well, there’s a quote “it takes money to make money,” which I think is completely true. Money also buys time to write songs and make new material. Without dancing, I don’t know if I could have afforded to move to Nashville or record an album.

I’m not on a label yet, so I have to finance/have time for my recordings, promotion, booking, gas money, hotel rooms, album art, mixing, mastering, posters, videography, merchandise, etcetera, by myself.

I think I was surprised by how many people have paid their way into the [music] industry, and how many people have faked a middle-income story to seem relevant to the average person.

SMN: Why country music? What makes that genre stick out more than other styles of music?

KD: To be honest, I didn’t listen to a lot of country growing up. I was an emo kid in the 2000s. But, as I got older, I started getting into country because I started noticing a lot of emo vibes in it, believe it or not.

I’m from Mechanicsville, Virginia, so country music also gives me a nostalgic feeling. A lot of people assume country music is boring and slow. But, in reality, it can be very badass and in your face like rock-n-roll.

SMN: What do you see your role as a singersongwriter, in terms of what you want to say and how you want to say it?

KD: I think my role of a songwriter is to make people feel inspired to be themselves and just get out there and chase their dreams.

There’s a lot of distraction, but I think we all go through similar problems, and I would like people to know that I have probably gone through the same thing — I hope my music can be a sort of comfort for them.

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HOT PICKS Renowned jazz/swing duo Russ Wilson & Hank Bones will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville.

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Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host the Humps & The Blackouts “Halloween Extravaganza” at 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30.

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The immensely popular WNC Pottery Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, in Bridge Park at 76 Railroad Avenue in Sylva.

Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host Alma Russ (Americana/indie) at 5 p.m.

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swagger and of a stoic nature in how he carried himself now reduced to a head of curly white hair and slow shuffling along the sidewalk. Too tired to want to do anything besides head to the diner in the morning and the golf course in the afternoon. And yet, it’s at his own pace, you know? To each their own, I say. Alas, it is what it is.

Again, I don’t take any of it for granted. I know so many close friends who don’t have their parents around anymore to sit down to eat with, to sip a beer with, to spend the holidays with, to ask for advice, to hear

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y the time you read this, my folks will be motoring through Southwestern Virginia, probably deciding whether to just keep driving back to their native Upstate New York via Interstate 81 or maybe east onto I-64 and Charlottesville to visit Monticello again.

It’s been about a year since my parents have been in Waynesville. They usually swing by in March (for a few days) en route to Florida for the month of March (those North Country winters are unforgiving) or in October (for a few days) to soak in the last of the foliage on the Eastern Seaboard.

Mom is 73. Dad will be turning 80 by the time they return to Florida. Married some 49 years this Nov. 4. Some of the most interesting, engaging and intelligent souls I’ve ever come across. And this is with all personal bias aside. I just got lucky to have folks like them. I don’t take it for granted. Never have, thankfully.

I’ve always had a pretty stellar relationship with Frank and Kathy. We get along well. All of us constantly on the go. Travel and new experiences are of the most importance.

Enjoy fine dining. Striking up conversations with strangers at the drop of a hat. Good wine is a must. Great live music (especially jazz and swing) a top priority. And so forth.

My little sister doesn’t necessarily have the same relationship with them like I do, sadly. She looks at them as mom and dad, or as grandma and grandpa these days with my seven-year-old and eight-month-old nieces back up in New York.

Me? I look at them as equals and as dear friends who just so happen to be my parents.

Maybe it’s the old soul in me. Maybe it’s the mere fact I was a little kid raised in an older family (I’m the oldest child of two, with my dad 43 when I arrived). Heck, they’d already been married 12 years by the time I made an appearance.

Saying “I do” in November 1972, they were 30 and 23, respectively. Instead of settling down, they traveled the world and built a life together through my mother’s teaching career and father’s law enforcement pursuits.

By the time they circled back to maybe starting a family, it was already a few years into the 1980s.

Regardless, here we stand in 2021. It’s odd for myself these days. Truth? My mother hasn’t aged a day in years (more so decades).

Still her jovial self, physically and emotionally. Still down to go dancing. Never shying away from dinner with friends (new and old) or a glass of wine when the sun gets low.

But, the old man is, well, starting to live up to the name. This lifelong brickhouse of

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about stories of their past (for the hundredth time), or to simply call up, well, just because.

Thus, it was such a treat to have Frank and Kathy back in Haywood County and greater Western North Carolina this past weekend. A handful of days wandering around the same haunts we chase down when we’re all together: The Sweet Onion, 5 Walnut Wine Bar, Mast General Store, diner around the corner, whatever golf course is available for a lastminute tee time.

This time, they showed up Saturday morning at my downtown Waynesville apartment right as I was jumping into my truck to head to the Maggie Valley Festival Grounds to be the stage emcee for the inaugural Smoky Mountain Bluegrass Festival. And with that, they immersed themselves in a day of the “high, lonesome sound” at the hands of Balsam Range, Unspoken Tradition, and The Kruger Brothers.

Come Monday afternoon, they hopped in the truck and we headed for Max Patch.

Crazy how in all the years I’ve lived here that I’ve never taken them there. I figured they’d be able to see some incredible panoramic views of the Great Smoky and Blue Ridge mountain ranges. Besides, it wasn’t the weekend, either, so it’d be an ideal to make our way up there due to most of tourists being already gone.

The Southern Appalachian sunshine streaked across the orange, yellow and red trees above the truck pushing along the winding dirt roads. Parking at Max Patch, it was only a short trek to the summit. I pointed to where the summit was, telling my folks I’d circle back to that spot once I finished a few miles along the nearby Appalachian Trail.

By the time I circled back to the summit, a slight rainstorm quickly swept in, thick clouds overtaking the bald peak and completely obscuring the view. I didn’t see Frank and Kathy, so I trotted down the trail back to the parking lot. Around the first curve, I saw my dad moving slowly, a walking stick in hand taller than him. My mom was already several yards ahead.

“It’s tough to get old,” my dad huffed, his once powerful legs that ran thousands of road races (and the Boston Marathon 12 times, 80 marathons total) now shuttering at the notion of 0.3 miles back to the truck on a slight downhill.

“It might be tough, but it’s beat the alternative. Getting older is a privilege. Besides, what’s the fun in not having you around, eh?” I said.

He chuckled, his breath visible in the cold mountain air, his arm reaching for mine for balance as we made our way back to the truck, back to Waynesville, eventually back home to the North County.

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

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On the beat Want to learn the dulcimer?

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

The group welcomes all beginners and experienced dulcimer players, including mountain (lap) dulcimer and hammered dulcimer players. Songs played include traditional mountain tunes, hymns, and more modern music. The group meets at 1:30 p.m. on the second and fourth Saturday of every month in the basement of St. John’s.

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

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

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

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‘Mouth of the South’ swings into Waynesville Jazz/swing duo Russ Wilson & Hank Bones will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, at The Classic Wineseller in Waynesville.

His voice will stop you in your tracks.

Known as the “Mouth of the South,” Wilson is a bridge to an era, a time when style and class were synonymous with musicianship and showmanship.

A beloved crooner in Western North Carolina, Wilson performs in as many different and varied groups as there are

days in the week. One day, he’ll jump in with an old-time gypsy jazz outfit at a wine lounge playing selections from the 1920s and ‘30s, the next, he’ll be adorned in a tuxedo fronting a 16-piece big band orchestra onstage playing numbers from the ‘40s and ‘50s.

Limited seating. Reservations required. Admission is $10 per person.

For more information and a full menu, call 828.452.6000 or classicwineseller.com.

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Bryson City community jam A community jam will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, 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.

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Singer-songwriter Wyatt Espalin will hit the stage at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, at Mountain Layers Brewing in Bryson City.

Born and raised in Hiawassee, Georgia, Espalin has been entertaining audiences since he was 8 years old. A blend of Americana, bluegrass and indie-roots music, he’s a beloved fixture on the Southern Appalachian live music circuit.

Free and open to the public. For more information, call 828.538.0115 or click on mtnlayersbeer.com. To learn more about Espalin, go to wyattespalinmusic.com.

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• Boojum Brewing (Waynesville) will host karaoke at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, trivia at 7 p.m. on Thursdays and the Halloween Bash Oct. 29. All shows begin at 9 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.246.0350 or boojumbrewing.com.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will The Russ Wilson Duo (guitar/vocals) Oct. 30 ($10 cover) and a special dinner show with Cynthia McDermott (mandolin/vocals) Nov. 6 (call for price). All shows begin at 7 p.m.

Limited seating. Reservations required.

828.452.6000 or classicwineseller.com.

• Cowee School Arts & Heritage Center will host semi-regular live music on the weekends. 828.369.4080 or coweeschool.org.

• Currahee Brewing (Franklin) will host semiregular live music on the weekends.

828.634.0078 or curraheebrew.com.

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

828.734.1084 or elevatedmountain.com.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Space Granny Oct. 29 and Bonafide Oct. 30.

All shows begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public.

828.454.5664 or froglevelbrewing.com.

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

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host a Halloween Bash w/Natti Love Joys Oct. 30 and Roscoe’s Road Show Nov. 6. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.349.2337 or lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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• Nantahala Brewing (Sylva) will host Shane Meade & The Sound (rock/soul) Nov. 5. All shows are free and begin at 8 p.m.

828.641.9797 or nantahalabrewing.com.

• Rathskeller Coffee Haus & Pub (Franklin) will host semi-regular live music on the weekends. Shows begin at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. rathskellerfranklin.com.

• Satulah Mountain Brewing (Highlands) will host semi-regular live music on the weekends. 828.482.9794 or satulahmountainbrewing.com.

• Southern Porch (Canton) will host semi-regular live music on the weekends.

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• The Ugly Dog Pub (Cashiers) will host semiregular live music on the weekends.

828.743.3000 or theuglydogpub.com.

• The Ugly Dog Pub (Highlands) will host semi-regular live music on the weekends.

828.526.8364 or theuglydogpub.com.

• Unplugged Pub (Bryson City) will host Scaryoke w/Joel Oct. 28, Brian Ashley Jones Oct. 29, Trisha Ann Band Oct. 30 and Jason Lee Wilson & James County Nov. 5. All shows begin at 8 p.m. Free. 828.538.2488.

• Valley Tavern (Maggie Valley) will host semiregular live music on the weekends and The Lads AVL 6 p.m. Nov. 20. 828.926.7440 or valley-tavern.com.

• Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host karaoke on Thursday nights and Humps & The Blackouts “Halloween Extravaganza” 9 p.m. Oct. 30. 828.456.4750 or facebook.com/waternhole.bar.

• Whiteside Brewing (Cashiers) will host semi-regular live music on the weekends.

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• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will host semiregular live music on the weekends and Liz Nance (singer-songwriter) 7 p.m. Nov. 10.

Free and open to the public. innovation-brewing.com.

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host Wyatt Espalin (singer-songwriter) Oct. 29, Twelfth Fret (Americana) Oct. 30 and Alma Russ 5 p.m. Oct. 31. All shows begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free.

828.538.0115 or mtnlayersbeer.com.

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• Friday Night Live (Highlands) will be held at the Town Square from 6 to 8:30 p.m. with live music Oct. 29. Free and open to the public. highlandschamber.org.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Sylva) will host a Halloween Bash w/Natti Love Joys Oct. 29 and Metal Spaghetti Nov. 5. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.349.2337 or lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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

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

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The Friends of the Greenway (FROG) will host an arts and crafts fair from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 6, at the FROG Quarters, located at 573 East Main Street in Franklin.

A wide-array of artisan booths will be onsite. Vendor fees, food purchases and purchased raffle tickets will benefit FROG. Live music will also be ongoing during the event.

Safety precautions will be in place with greater vendor spacing, hand sanitizer available, and masks encouraged. For more information, visit littletennessee.org or email frog28734@gmail.com.

• “Halloween in the Park” will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, at the Parker Meadows Complex in Franklin. Free and open to the public. franklinchamber.com.

• “Monster Mash on Main” will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, in downtown Franklin. A family-friendly event. Trick-ortreat. Candy. Scary-fun music. Wear your Halloween costume. franklin-chamber.com.

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• “Bat Street” will take place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, in downtown Sylva.

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one, one will be provided for you. There will also be temperature checks on both you and our monsters to ensure your safety. Social distancing may add time to your wait, so be prepared and patient. All proceeds support local scholarship funding and community needs. facebook.com/nchauntedschool.

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

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

Start at the Visitor Center to pick up your Bat Street Sheet. With each one you find, the merchant will give you a treat. Follow the clues in the Bat Trivia. Take a selfie and enter the virtual Costume Contest at the selfie station. At the end, you can turn in your Bat Street Sheet at the Visitor’s Center for a chance to win a prize. 828.586.2719.

• The “Barn of Terror: Hayride & Haunted Barn” will be from 7 to 11:45 p.m. Oct. 2831 at Darnell Farms in Bryson City.

Admission is $15 per person. Waivers must

be signed before entering. For more information, click on facebook.com/darnellfarmsnc.

• The “Haunted School” will be held from 7 p.m. to midnight Oct. 29-31 at the Fines Creek Community Center. Admission is $10 per person. Must be age 13 and up to enter without an adult. The Haywood County government has issued a mask mandate while inside all county buildings as of Aug. 2, so all visitors must wear a mask. If you don’t have

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• Farmer’s Market (with artisans) will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays through October at 117 Island Street in Bryson City. Stop by the old barn by the river for local, homegrown produce, as well as baked goods, jellies and preserves, authentic crafts, and more. Food truck, picnic tables and a strolling musician. Leashed pets are welcome. Outdoor event. Current Covid-19 safety protocols will be followed and enforced. 828.488.7857.

• “Hazelween” will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 30, on Hazelwood Avenue in Waynesville. The street will be closed for trick-or-treaters to visit local businesses along the route in search of candy and other goodies. Free and open to the public.

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Presented by the Haywood County Arts Council (HCAC), the exhibit “Bear, Elk, Trout — Oh My!” will run through Oct. 30 at the HCAC in downtown Waynesville.

HCAC artist members were tasked with exploring the diversity and abundance of Western North Carolina’s unique ecosystem through the wildlife that calls it home.

The exhibit will include local animals of all kinds, in a variety of mediums from photography to sculpture. Each piece will include a brief paragraph which discusses the animal’s special habitat, elevation where it can be found, food sources, or why it is unique to the WNC area.

The exhibit is sponsored by Appalachian Wildlife Refuge, a local nonprofit saving orphaned and injured wildlife. haywoodarts.org.

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• Jesse Adair Dallas will be showing his artwork at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin during the months of November and December. There will be an informal reception to meet and visit with the artist from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at the library. Open to the public. For more information, email jesse@enjoyarttoday.com.

• The “Jefferson Pinder: Selections from the Inertia Cycle” exhibit is currently on display at the Bardo Arts Center at Western Carolina University. Pinder focuses on themes of labor and endurance in his video art practice with metaphoric references to African American identity, history, and experience. Regular museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tuesday through Friday and until 7 p.m.

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

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• The Haywood County Arts Council’s “Art Works @ The Library,” a collaborative program between the Haywood County Public Library system and the HCAC, is currently showcasing works by artist Cayce Moyer at the Canton Library. Working in traditional and mixed media, Moyer blends the worlds of high-brow and low-brow work. Classically trained at Savannah College of Art and Design, her portfolio includes drawing, painting, sculpture, illustration, graphic design, murals, and set prop painting.

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• To elevate the Dillsboro experience for the month of October, local businesses will be celebrating with “Dillsboro’s Downhome Harvest.” The community is inviting artisans to set up a booth in front of businesses from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Great Smoky Railroad will be arriving daily at 1:15 p.m. There will be “walking scarecrows,” face painting, trickor-treating, and more. If interested, contact Connie Hogan at chogan4196@gmail.com.

Thursday. For information, call 828.227.ARTS or visit arts.wcu.edu/jeffersonpinder.

Featuring over 50 works of art in a variety of media by over 30 Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and Cherokee Nation artists, “A Living Language: Cherokee Syllabary and Contemporary Art” is an

exhibit currently being showcased at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee.

The exhibition highlights the use of the written Cherokee language, a syllabary developed by Cherokee innovator Sequoyah (circa 1776–1843). Cherokee syllabary is frequently found in the work of Cherokee artists as a compositional element or the subject matter of the work itself.

The exhibition will be on view at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee through Oct. 31. mci.org.

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The immensely popular WNC Pottery Festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday, Nov. 6, in Bridge Park at 76 Railroad Avenue in Sylva.

Showcasing the work of more than 40 master potters from an array of states. A variety of clay art styles will be presented with over 40 master potters. The event is juried and the lineup of potters are some of the finest in their craft.

The event has been named one of the “Top 20” events in the Southeast for November.

Admission is $5. Children under 12 are free. For more information, visit wncpotteryfestival.com.

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Taylor receives HART award Following the curtain call for the opening night performance of the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre’s current production of “Harvey,” the show’s director Wanda Taylor got a major surprise.

HART Executive Director Steve Lloyd stepped out onstage to announce that Taylor was being awarded the theater’s highest honor, the Career Achievement Award. The recognition celebrates not a single work, but decades of service to the Waynesville theater company.

Taylor became involved with HART in the 1980s and performed as one of the theater’s most popular actresses in: Night of Jan. 16, The Nerd, Witness for the Prosecution, Blithe

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Dracula hits the big stage The Mountainside Theatre in Cherokee will host the world premiere of “Dracula: The Failings of Men,” written by debut playwright Benedetto Robinson.

The production is an original work by Havoc Movement Company, which will be joining the Cherokee Historical Association for the fall season.

The show features a cast packed with live-stunt powerhouses as well as aerial effects that have been designed to bring the vampires to (supernatural) life.

Spirit, Deathtrap, Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Lion in Winter, Shirley Valentine, A Password to Murder, The Grapes of Wrath, and Love Letters.

In the mid-1990s Taylor began directing.

Over the past 25 years, Taylor directed Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound, The Member of the Wedding, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Talley’s Folly, The Little Foxes, Plaza Suite, Twelve Angry Men, Welcome to Mitford, Lost in Yonkers, Ah! Wilderness, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Nerd, and Harvey.

Over the past 20 years, HART has only recognized eight other individuals with this honor.

Past winners are: Reta Scribner, Lloyd Kay, Allison Stinson, John Winfield, Suzanne Tinsley, Barbara Bates Smith, Tom Dewees and Bob Baldridge.

The story begins as a ghost ship washes ashore near London in 1897 and an ancient evil goes searching for blood.

“Dracula” is an action-horror reimagining of the classic Bram Stoker novel as an immersive show.

The audience will literally walk alongside Ada Van Helsing as she battles against the darkness in this high-action adaptation.

Masks will be required for all attendees.

Performances will run through Oct. 31.

Tickets are $30 or $20 for enrolled members. VIP Experiences are available for an extra $20.

To purchase tickets, go to cherokeehistorical.org/dracula.

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Actress Barbara Bates Smith, noted for her Off-Broadway debut with “Ivy Rowe,” adapted from Lee Smith’s bestselling novel “Fair and Tender Ladies,” now celebrates her 30th year of touring this show with two benefit performances at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday Nov. 6, and 2 p.m. Sunday Nov. 7, at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

Of its Off-Broadway debut, The Village Voice wrote “A lifetime’s worth of sass, whoop, hurt, and reflection;” WOR Radio: “We are captivated and enthralled;”

Variety: “Both funny and heartbreaking.”

A Southeastern Theatre Best Actress award winner, Barbara Bates Smith has played leading roles in HART productions of “Wit,” “Hamlet,” “Doubt” and “August: Osage County,” among others.

Musical accompaniment will be provided by Jeff Sebens. Tickets start at $14 per person. For tickets and/or more information, call the HART box office 828.456.6322 or click on harttheatre.org.

To learn more about Barbara Bates Smith, go to barbarabatessmith.com.

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Masks and social distancing will be required for all courses.

This fall, there will be a slew of theatre classes offered by the HART Arts Academy through Nov. 3 at the Haywood Arts Regional Theatre in Waynesville.

Adult classes include directing, beginner tap, and musical theatre vocals. Kids classes include dancing, acting, singing, directing, and improvisational courses.

Learn more about these opportunities and sign up for classes by visiting harttheatre.org, clicking on the “Kids at Hart” tab

• “The Magical Lamp of Aladdin” will hit the stage at 7 p.m. Nov. 5-6, 12-13 and 2 p.m.

Nov. 6 and 13 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets are $13 per person. smokymountainarts.com.

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On the shelf homeland. As Moor quotes: “For many indigenous people, the land served as a library of botanical, zoological, geographical, etymological, ethical, genealogical spiritual, cosmological, and esoteric knowledge.”

Mile by mile Marshall is incorporating the human landscape back into the natural one — everything from Little Frog, Big Snowbird, Devil’s Den Ridge, Fire’s Creek and Carver’s Gap to what he calls “Big Stamp” or the pathways defining the infamous Trail of Tears.

Moor also spends much time in these southernmost Appalachians with full-blood Cherokee Gilliam Jackson, better known as “Gil,” from over in the Snowbird community who is a legendary harsh terrain hiker and the founder of the Kituwah Academy focusing on Cherokee culture and language and embracing the idea that “Indigenous cultures need both language and land to survive.” On page 180 we also meet folklorist Barbara Duncan, who spent decades recording Cherokee myths and legends where “almost every prominent rock and mountain, every deep bend in the river, in the old Cherokee country has its accompanying legend.”

Aside from the familiar Western North Carolina mountains and their spiderweb of paths and trails, Moor in “On Trails” takes us, if briefly, to faraway places like Aboriginal Australia, Papua, New Guinea, Bolivia and New Zealand. As he states, “Walking creates trails. Trails, in turn, shape landscapes. And, over time, landscapes come to serve as archives of communal knowledge and symbolic meaning.”

Toward the end of the book Moor talks about environmental and cultural erosion.

“We have lost the elemental bond between foot and earth,” he says. He laments the disconnect between modern technological culture and “wilderness,” or the “not self ” as he names it, and yearns for what the Cherokee call tohi denoting “something, or everything, that is moving at its own speed, utterly at peace — where trail-builders build trails that both preserve the integrity of the land and fulfill the hiker’s desires — “creating connections: of people, of ecosystems, of countries, of continents, and of geologic epochs.”

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

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Exhausted and dreading the day, she keeps her hands busy working in Bryson City's textile plant, known as the "blue jean plant," all the while worrying about her teenage daughter, Carole Anne.

The whistle of the train, the hum of those machines, and the struggle to survive drives Barbara. When an unexpected layoff creates a financial emergency, the desperate pressure of poverty is overwhelming.

When Carole Anne goes missing, Barbara finds herself at a crossroad. She must put aside old memories and past hurts to rely on a classmate for help finding her daughter. But, this is the same man she blames for the incident years ago.

Is she strong enough — or desperate enough — to do anything to keep her daughter safe?

Register ahead for the reading by calling or emailing Kristina Moe, kmoe@fontanalib.org or 828.524.3600. Books will be available for sale at the event.

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Bryson City author Renea Winchester will be reading from her debut novel “Outboard Train" at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin.

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Mesa, Arizona, hunting deer in the northern Adirondacks of New York, tracking buffalo on the Old Jasper Road in Alabama, human trails on and off the Appalachian Trail, and, finally, on the IAT international “supertrail” of some 14,000 miles from the state of Georgia to the country of Morocco. All of these journeys that he creates in brilliantly personal prose take us inevitably, as he says, to the conclusion that “we are, each of us, wild to our marrow” — giving us remarkable insights into these various insects and animals (including ourselves) in the context that the journey along Earth’s pathways “is not labor, not work, but a dance.”

Citing members of the eco-aristocracy from Thoreau, Muir and Gary Snyder to Aristotle and the Chinese poet Han Shan, Moor’s research on his subject is profound, if not staggering. But, science aside, the book’s true essence, for this reader, comes in his autobiographical accounts in actual places with actual people who know the terrain and have lived lifetimes on the land.

In that sense, his accounts of shepherding sheep on the Navaho reservation and his experiences on the Appalachian Trail are what held my rapt attention.

For those of us living here in western North Carolina, you may be, as I was, most interested in the long AT sections. Here, I was both surprised and thrilled to read of Moor’s accounts of time spent with people that I, too, have spent time with and know.

People who know these mountains here in Cherokee country as well as anyone. We spend a lot of time with Lamar Marshall, who has slowly but diligently for many years now been piecing together a map of all the major footpaths of the ancient Cherokee

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n my younger years, I used to do a lot of hiking. I would follow footpaths and trails or blaze my own way through the woods or along streams and rivers. While those trailblazing days are over, I get my more physical outdoor thrills vicariously from writers like Robert Moor, who travels all over the planet experiencing different ecosystems and terrain to whet his appetite and intellect. In his 2016 New York Times bestseller, “On Trails: An Exploration,” we Writer meet him in the book’s Prologue walking the length of the Appalachian Trail, a journey of “wet stone and black earth” as he describes it and “looking for answers to how pathways act as an essential guiding force on this planet.”

Concluding, early on, with the statement “without trails we would be lost,” he proceeds to take us, chapter by chapter, on his personal journeys and experiences tracking and tracing different trails here in North America and abroad. He talks about evolution. He talks about paths (trails) as being a spiritual experience. Conjuring up the spirit of Robert Frost he ruminates: “Our history is one of many paths we might have taken, but it was the one we took.” He then launches us into the body of this book with the essential thesis statement of “we need to understand how to make trails and how trails make us.”

Throughout the 340 pages in “On Trails,” Moor takes us on ant (“arguably the world’s greatest trail-makers”) and fossil trails in Newfoundland, African elephant trails in the Six Flags Adventure Theme Park in New Jersey, Navaho sheep trails in Black

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In a photo taken between 1890 and 1903, an African American family sits on a front porch in the Great Smokies region.

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Making the invisible visible Smokies marks three years FROM SLAVERY of research effort in African TO THE CIVIL WAR The first Africans to arrive in the Great American history project Smokies region came as slaves accompanying

BY HOLLY KAYS STAFF WRITER ombing through the dustiest tomes of park history, Great Smoky Mountains National Park researchers have since 2018 been working to elevate a plotline that so far has been relegated only to the smallest of small type — the history and contributions of African Americans within the park and in its outlying communities.

In a trio of virtual town hall meetings this month, Smokies researchers shared what the African American Experience Project has uncovered so far, and the work that still lies ahead to fully tell the stories that have spent decades and even centuries buried in file cabinets, graveyards and individual memories.

“Our research has really taken it from the 1540s all the way to contemporary periods,” said Smokies Science Communicator Antoine Fletcher, who is heading up the project, during an Oct. 22 virtual meeting hosted by University of North Carolina Asheville.

“When we think about African Americans in and around the Smokies, we’re looking at the artifacts that they left behind. We’re looking at the policies that impacted or affected them.

We’re looking at the oral histories and really capturing their voices. We also want to make sure that we have those photos that tell those stories as well.”

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Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto’s 15391543 expedition, which took him north through South Carolina into Asheville, and then west through modern-day Bryson City and Fontana into Tennessee, before returning south via northwestern Georgia. As white settlers began to populate the mountains over the following centuries, enslaved Africans from the coast of Guinea in West Africa arrived in the mountains, imported through major cities like Charleston, South Carolina.

The steep terrain and cold climate of the Great Smokies region meant that the plantation-style farming common in the low country, where hundreds of slaves might work a farm owned by a single white family, simply wasn’t practical in the mountains. Most farms ranged from 80 to 700 acres and had between one and 20 enslaved people working them.

During the colder months, slaves would be loaned out for other purposes, including working at hotels or mining for gold.

It’s near impossible to say exactly how many enslaved people lived in the mountains prior to 1850, the first year that the U.S. Census counted them. That “slave schedule,” as it was called, showed an average of about 80 slaves in rural counties like Sevier, Blount and Cocke counties in Tennessee or Jackson and Haywood in North Carolina, with larger counties such as Buncombe recording over

1,000. However, even this data gives little information about the individuals it represents. The “slave schedule” lists only each person’s age, sex and skin color. The only names listed are those of the slaveholders.

The Civil War was a turning point both for African American history as a whole and for the way that history was recorded. When Black Americans fought as soldiers, they showed up on both enlistment documents and pension records. No longer viewed as property, death certificates were issued when they passed away.

Not all Black people living in the Smokies during the 1850s were slaves, said Research Assistant Atalaya Dorfield. That year’s census shows Cooper and Ellen Clark, free people of color, living in what is now the Cades Cove area of the park. By the 1860s census, they’d disappeared from the area. Nobody knows exactly where their homestead was located, what kind of work and lifestyle they had there, or were they went next.

“Now you’re really getting a glimpse into African American lives other than a slave owner name or a first name of a family,” said Fletcher.

Fletcher and Dorfield have already combed through some of those records, espe-

Tell what you know If you have any information or family history regarding African American history in the Great Smokies region, contact Antoine Fletcher at antoine_fletcher@nps.gov.

cially those relating to the formation of the U.S. Colored Troops.

“They really had to make this choice.

Could they escape to Union lines like in Eastern North Carolina and become contraband and eventually fight in the war, or could they just take up arms themselves?” said Fletcher.

On Jan. 17, 1862, the Second Confiscation and Militia Act allowed President Abraham Lincoln to enlist Black people into the military, and the Emancipation Proclamation issued the following January authorized use of these soldiers in combat. Outside of Knoxville, members of the U.S. Colored Troops helped move artillery and fought on the front lines alongside white soldiers.

“A lot of these enlistments are what we’re looking at within the Union military,” said Fletcher. “However, our next step in our research is to really look at in what capacity African Americans fought for the Confederacy.”

While the Confederacy never officially approved the enlistment of African American soldiers, there are stories about Black people serving in that capacity, said Fletcher.

However, it’s unknown in what context that service occurred, including whether they were forced to do so.

Pension records, too, are another potentially rich source of information about the lives of Civil War-era African Americans. The pension process involved going before a judge and divulging information about your spouse, your children and your hometown, for instance. While many such records are available for well-known units such as the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, which inspired the movie “Glory,” that’s not the case for other units, such as the USCT regiment that served in Knoxville. Fletcher and Dorfield hope to learn more as they dig those records out.

RACE RIOTS AND CHAIN GANGS Looking at the beginning of the 20th century, Dorfield found herself wondering what the racial climate was like in Western North Carolina. It was hard to find much information on the topic, but eventually she found newspaper reporting on what was dubbed the Bryson City Race Riots, beginning Dec. 29, 1907, and continuing into 1908.

According to the newspaper accounts, said Dorfield, African American railway workers began attacking white railway workers, as “bad blood” had existed between the two groups for some time. Five white men were injured — with no statement as to the number of Black people injured — and a 9 p.m. curfew was placed on African American community members. In response, Black citizens burned down the courthouse in Bryson City, leading to several arrests and national coverage.

In relating the incident to town hall attendees, Dorfield cautioned her listeners that the newspaper accounts were written by white reporters during a time when racism was the rule rather than the excep-

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AN ONGOING PROJECT

“Our staff, our superintendent, and even other national parks are really pushing to make sure that everyone knows that African Americans were in these areas, in these spaces, and continue to be in these spaces.”

— Antoine Fletcher

the first four Black women to attend the school — later writing a book about that and other experiences titled “Our Place in Time: Blacks in Blount County.” In 1967, Alabama native Joe Lee was hired as one of three men to serve as the Smokies’ first Black naturalists, and Ron Davis Jr. — spurred by a love for the outdoors emanating from childhood summers spent at Elkmont — joined Waynesville native Hilliard L. Gibbs Jr. as one of two African Americans enrolled in Haywood Community College’s inaugural forestry class.

As Baker, Spann, Lee and Davis were starting their careers with the Job Corps, the generation that remembered the Civil War and days of slavery had all but vanished. The Oct. 24, 1962, issue of the Asheville Citizen-Times reported the death of Minnie DeHart Parrish, a woman who was born into slavery on the

When the research project launched in 2018 with funding from the Great Smoky Mountains Association and Friends of the Smokies, it was envisioned as a three-year effort to research and tell the story of the African American experience in the Smokies.

But three years later, the work is by no means done. Fletcher and Dorfield still have a long to-do list of documents to comb through, people to interview and gravesites to investigate — and they’re hoping that list will grow as more people learn about the project and add their family stories to its archives.

The Reconstruction Period — the decade or so immediately following the Civil War — is a time period that Fletcher is especially passionate about exploring further. Before Southern power structures found a way to clamp down on the new freedoms African Americans were exercising, Black people were holding public office, founding schools and leading their communities in ways that would have been unthinkable 20 years before or after.

Dorfield said she plans to focus on the stories of African Americans who lived in the park itself, prior to its formation, and on the contributions of African American women.

The team hopes to work with churches and local Black organizations to turn up more stories, and additional investigation is planned for the various African American cemeteries scattered throughout the park. Researchers have been using ground-penetrating radar to learn more without disturbing the gravesites and is also working with cadaver dogs, which can decipher between animal and human decomposition — even when the death occurred long ago — and are easier to take to remote places than the heavy ground-penetrating radar equipment.

Communicating newfound knowledge to the public is just as important as gathering it.

The team is working to populate its website with all manner of stories and resources and plans to load that information into the National Park Service App as well. They also just finished writing the first drafts of four wayside interpretive panels that will be installed at the Enloe Slave Cemetery, Tremont, Elkmont and Clingmans Dome.

Fletcher hopes to have those signs in the ground around February.

“This project is definitely important,” said Fletcher, “because our staff, our superintendent, and even other national parks are really pushing to make sure that everyone knows that African Americans were in these areas, in these spaces, and continue to be in these spaces.”

Stretch it out at the Macon library An outdoor yoga session at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, at the Macon County Public Library in Franklin will offer a virus-safe experience.

Jennifer of Beyond Bending Yoga will lead the class. If the weather is bad, the class will move indoors, so registration is required to ensure safe numbers. Sign up at www.beyondbendingyoga.com/sched ule.

Start scouting The Daniel Boone Council for Scouts BSA is looking for new members, with scouting open for youth ages 5-17.

Students ages 5-10 can join Cub Scouts, with Scouts BSA open to ages 11-17. The program aims to develop youth into upstanding members of our communities, with plenty of fun outdoor activities along the way.

To learn more, visit www.danielboonecouncil.org/join or contact Brian Sullivan at 828.254.6189 or brian.sullivan@scouting.org.

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In the park itself, most of the infrastructure was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps, a work relief program that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created in 1933.

The first Smokies superintendent, J. Ross Eaken, advised against including African Americans in the CCC crews, but just a few decades later, the Job Corp program was founded. A residential education and job training program for youth ages 16-24, the nationwide program still includes a site in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park at Oconaluftee and used to have a site at Tremont as well. Fletcher and Dorfield have interviewed two African American men, Johnny Baker and Frank Spann, who joined the Smokies Job Corps at Tremont in the 1960s — both reporting positive experiences.

“I just think it’s so cool that in a program modeled after the CCC you get these African American men who wouldn’t have been able to work in the park 30 years prior coming in and contributing to the park and finding their

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Thad Siler Farm in Macon County, moving to Maryville, Tennessee, in 1918 and Swain County shortly after that. Parrish, who gave birth to 18 children, was thought to be as old as 110 at the time of her death.

“The elderly colored woman’s home had long been the gathering place for meetings in connection with religious matters, oftentimes drawing folks from three states,” read the news story. “These gatherings are called ‘associations.’ And the main items on the programs used to be a large share of Aunt Minnie’s famous cooking — hot corn pone, yams, catfish or ‘redhorse,’ greens and hog jowl.”

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careers in the park,” said Dorfield.

The 1960s was a significant decade for African Americans in the Smokies, as it was for African Americans nationwide. Just prior to its start, in 1958, Mary Carr Clowney graduated from Maryville College after becoming one of

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tion. It’s likely that the reports erred on the side of portraying the Black workers as aggressors and white workers as victims. During the late 1800s, she said, a similar instance occurred during the construction of the Biltmore House when a story began to circulate that drunken Black workers had staged an uprising against white workers. Eventually, she said, representatives from the Biltmore House said that nothing like that had ever happened.

One man named William Trotter was arrested during the alleged race riots in Bryson City, said Dorfield, and thought to be the ringleader. But he escaped and fled toward Buncombe County. That county’s sheriff then requested papers allowing Trotter to be placed under his control.

“Of course this immediately sounds like the claiming of property,” said Dorfield. “It sounds like slave papers that would have only existed a few decades prior to the Bryson City Race Riots.”

That leads into the “new form of slavery” inflicted on African Americans at the time, she said — the chain gangs that built most of the railroads in Western North Carolina. The chain gangs were made up of incarcerated men, many of them African Americans whose conviction was the result of dubious legal processes.

Still, some African Americans managed to overcome the odds and earn respect from Black and white neighbors alike. Dr. Dennis Branch is one such example. Originally from Raleigh, Branch studied medicine at a historically Black college in West Memphis and moved to Newport, Tennessee, just outside the park, where he treated both white and Black patients using traditional medicine as well as plants and herbs.

“He was a pillar of the community,” said Fletcher. “He evan ran for mayor at one time.

And so he really was a part of that community.”

Recently passed legislation from the N.C. General Assembly means that military veterans can now fish for free in Mountain Heritage Trout Waters.

Typically, anglers 16 and older must purchase a license to fish these waters, but as of Oct. 1 any veteran of the Armed Forces who separated under honorable conditions — whether a resident of North Carolina or not — is exempt from license requirements when fishing Mountain Heritage Trout Waters.

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New book comes to Cosby Storybook Trail Through Nov. 9, the Storybook Trail of the Smokies along the Cosby Nature Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will feature prompts and activities based on “A Search for Safe Passage,” a middle-grade chapter book that tells the story of best friends Bear and Deer, whose home range was split in half by a highway.

In the book, written by Frances Figart and illustrated by Emma DuFort, the friends embark on a life-changing adventure and search for safe passage across the highway.

Teachers and homeschool groups are invited to use the trail and review standards-based activities for the classroom or virtual-learning opportunities for students at SmokiEEEs.org. The storybook trail is free and accessible seven days a week. “A Search for Safe Passage” is the fifth book to appear on the storybook trail.

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decommissioned to meet the goals.

The law requires the N.C. Utilities Commission to consider the most affordable and reliable way to reach carbon goals and to use a stakeholder process to develop its new clean energy plan. It also establishes a program to help homeowners finance energy efficiency upgrades and pay back the up-front costs associated with those upgrades.

“North Carolina is a growing state, attracting businesses and families from all over,” said Senate Majority Leader Phil Berger. “That growth depends on a stable supply of reliable and affordable energy.

After months of policy negotiations, we reached an agreement that will signal to businesses and families here now or considering a move here that North Carolina’s leaders are committed to pro-growth energy policies.”

The law as passed is significantly stronger than the version that “emerged from the murky back rooms of Raleigh in July,” reads a summary of the issue from MountainTrue. While the organization believes the final version still doesn’t go far enough, on balance it said it supports the compromise bill.

“It is our position that while every piece of legislation is an opportunity for action, no bill exists in a vacuum,” reads a newsletter from the organization. “HB 951 has its shortcomings: it’s a good climate bill but seriously lacking as a piece of climate justice legislation.”

The full bill text and voting record is available at ncleg.gov/billlookup/2021/h951.

— Holly Kays, outdoors editor

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After extensive negotiation and revision, a bill aiming to steer North Carolina toward carbon neutrality by 2050 has been signed into law.

Gov. Roy Cooper signed the bill on Wednesday, Oct. 13, after the Republicancontrolled legislature ratified it on Thursday, Oct. 7. The legislation passed with bipartisan support, sailing through the Senate 42-7 and passing the House 90-20.

Of the 20 nay votes in the House, 12 came from Democrats and eight from Republicans. Two of Western North Carolina’s local delegation — Senator Kevin Corbin and Rep. Mike Clampitt — voted in favor of the bill, while Rep. Mark Pless opposed it.

“Today, North Carolina moves strongly into a reliable and affordable clean energy future,” Cooper said in a statement Oct. 13.

“This new bipartisan law requires the North Carolina Utilities Commission to take steps needed to get North Carolina a 70% reduction in carbon emission by the year 2030 and to carbon neutrality by 2050. Making transformative change is often controversial and never easy, especially when there are different points of view on big, complex issues. But coming to the table to find common ground is how government should work.”

The law supports climate goals Cooper laid out in his 2018 executive order on clean energy. It tasks state regulators with developing a plan to cut carbon emissions from energy plants by 70% of 2005 levels by 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.

Carbon offsets can be used to attain only 5% of these reductions, ensuring that carbonemitting infrastructure will have to be

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Highlands recently became the first recognized BearWise Town in the U.S., with the honor officially bestowed on Oct. 5.

“This major achievement came after the town moved to require bear-resistant garbage carts and enacted an ordinance to prohibit the feeding of black bears (intentionally and/or unintentionally),” said Ashley Hobbs, assistant black bear and furbearer biologist for the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission. “Due to their efforts, Highlands will serve as the ‘gold standard’ for BearWise Communities throughout the U.S.” BearWise is a program covering the 17 Southeastern states that was developed by black bear biologists and is supported by state wildlife agencies to provide consistent and scientifically accurate messaging to

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North Carolina Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr are among the 28 cosponsors on a bill that the N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission is calling “the most significant wildlife conservation bill in nearly half a century.”

The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would devote $1.4 billion annually to locally led efforts — including more than $20 million to North Carolina — to help prevent extinctions and help at-risk wildlife species. At least 15% of the funds would be used to help species already designated as endangered or threatened. Federally recognized tribes like the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians would share an annual $97.5 million for wildlife conservation efforts on tribal lands.

“If this bill passes, we’ll be able to significantly help at-risk wildlife through collaborative, voluntary efforts across every state, territory and tribal nation,” said Shannon Deaton, chief of the Wildlife Commission’s Habitat Conservation Division. “Nearly 500 North Carolina native species would benefit from the bill, including the gopher frog, bog turtle and hellbender. Together, with over 150 partners, we are shaping the reality of our conservation blueprint.”

“States have struggled to meet all of the conservation needs outlined in State Wildlife Action Plans,” Deaton added.

“The goals are daunting and the resources to meet the needs are limited, but the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and our partners are ready to put projects on the ground. We all want the same result — to keep common species common.”

The House version has 131 cosponsors representing both parties. This list includes eight North Carolina representatives — David Rouzer, Deborah Ross, Patrick McHenry, David Price, Katy Manning, Richard Hudson, Alma Adams and G.K. Butterfield.

The House version was introduced in April and the Senate version in July, with no action of any kind since July. However, the Wildlife Commission said it expects to see the bill considered further in November.

Full bill information is available at congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/housebill/2773.

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Fontana cleanup aims for 25 tons of trash

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One hundred volunteers are wanted for a massive cleanup at Fontana Lake Nov. 5-7.

To be held over three days at the Fontana Resort and Marina, the event will be the country’s largest trash cleanup event in a national park. Volunteers can sign up in shifts anytime between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The goal is to remove 50,000 pounds of trash, with at least 10 pontoon boats and six large dumpsters transporting and removing the trash.

Spanning 10,230 acres and reaching depths of 400 feet, the artificial finger lake is home to one of the most diverse fisheries in the country. Fontana Lake’s 238 miles of shoreline provide a natural landscape and unique habitats for wildlife such as black bears, bobcats, foxes, bald and golden eagles, ospreys, otters, turkeys and deer.

“Unfortunately, Fontana Lake is also a gathering place for garbage that’s dumped — both accidentally and knowingly — or collected from other water networks that

carry the trash downstream,” said Tara Moore, North Carolina Wildlife Federation's director of conservation partnerships.

Left in the lake, the litter leaches deadly toxins into the environment reducing the quality of Fontana Lake and the Little Tennessee River. Aquatic and terrestrial wildlife suffer as well when they ingest or get caught in the litter. Since 2019, staff and volunteers from the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, Mainspring Conservation Trust, Tennessee Valley Authority, National Park Service and Smoky Mountain Hiking Club have removed more than 100,000 pounds of litter from Fontana Lake through volunteer cleanup efforts. For every 25 pounds of trash collected at the lake and dam, the N.C. Wildlife Federation will plant a native tree, shrub or 10 pollinator plants to promote healthy wildlife habitat.

Sign up at bit.ly/3vzhmtl or contact Tara Moore with questions at 704.332.5696 or tara@ncwf.org.

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Join in for the 11th annual Lake Chatuge Shoreline Cleanup, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 6, at the Towns County Swim Beach Pavilion in Georgia.

Volunteers will be assigned cleanup locations and given bags, gloves and safety information, along with coffee and grab-and-go-breakfast. The first 50 volunteers will also receive T-shirts.

After two hours of shoreline cleaning, volunteers will meet back at the pavilion for prizes at 11:30 a.m. Prizes will be given for Most Trash Collected by a Group, Most Creative Trash Photo and Most Unique Trash Item Found. A fourth gift certificate will be awarded the week after the cleanup for most engaging social media post.

Organized by MountainTrue. Contact Callie Moore at callie@mountaintrue.org with questions.

Beautify on pruning A two-hour virtual class titled “Pruning Trees and Shrubs” will be offered at 10 a.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 11, through Haywood Cooperative Extension.

The class will cover general pruning guidelines, pruning tools, types of cuts and pruning methods for trees, shrubs and hydrangeas.

Cost is $10, with registration open through Oct. 31. Sign up at haywood.ces.ncsu.edu and click on

“Extension Gardener: Learn to Grow Fall Series” or email mgarticles@charter.net.

WNC Calendar COMMUNITY EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS • The annual wreath laying on graves of veterans buried at Greenhill Cemetery in Waynesville will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec.18. This is part of the nationwide Wreaths Across America event. Sponsoring a wreath is $15, and if people sponsor two wreaths, the cemetery will receive an additional wreath for free. Orders for wreaths need to be placed by Nov. 15. Those who would like to sponsor wreaths are asked to place orders at www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/ — using Group FundRaising Code NC0081. p31s8@aol.com

BUSINESS & EDUCATION • Two forums will be held to share WCU’S need for an update to its campus master plan, and allow for public feedback. The forums will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 26 at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87084192045 (Meeting ID: 870 8419 2045 ), and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Oct. 27, at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82762416951 (Meeting ID: 827 6241 6951). The latest campus master plan can be seen by visiting info.wcu.edu/masterplan.

Those who attend the forum will be able to access and provide feedback after the event via a link that will be provided.

• Speed connecting for women entrepreneurs will take place at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, at Focal Point Cowork in Asheville. Cost is $10. Get your tickets at https://www.plrconnectevents.com/tickets. For more information, email Val@plrconnectevents.com.

• The Haywood County Arts Council will sponsor three performances at their downtown Waynesville gallery by Mental Health in Motion from 5:30 to 6 :30 p.m. starting Thursday Nov. 4 through Saturday Nov. 6. Space is limited to 25 people per performance and is open for advance sign ups through the HCAC website: www.haywoodarts.org. For more information about Mental Healthy in Motion and the wide variety of programs and events they provide, visit: mentalhealthinmotion.org/about.

• Drake Software will hold a hiring job fair from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Nov. 5, at the Drake Software Employee Gym, 107 Technology Drive, in Franklin. edc@maconnc.org.

• Haywood Chamber of Commerce is hosting an event for Women Enlightened with guest speaker, Linda Plunkett, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 18, at the Wells Event Center. This event is open to the public with the cost per ticket being $25. This price will include lunch and we request that attendees register no later than November 15, 2021. For more information, contact the Greater Haywood County Chamber of Commerce at 828.456.3021 or visit our information page.

FUNDRAISERS AND BENEFITS • Pisgah Legal Services, in partnership with iconic ceramic studio East Fork, is offering a raffle to support the nonprofit’s free legal aid for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Through Oct. 31, folks can buy an unlimited number of $5 tickets to enter a drawing to win one of three vases. Winners will be announced Nov. 1. Find out more at www.pisgahlegal.org.

• Traditional English Tea hosted by Dogwood Crafters will be held at 1 p.m. Nov. 13 in Sylva by reservation only. A fundraiser for scholarships, the cost is $20 per person. Call 828 586 2248 to save your seat.

VOLUNTEERS & VENDORS • North Carolina conservation organizations need 100 volunteers from Nov. 5-7 to remove litter from Fontana Lake, the country’s largest trash cleanup effort in a

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

• Beyond Bending Yoga will offer free, outdoor yoga at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27 at the Macon County Library. Register with Beyond Bending Yoga, https://beyondbendingyoga.com/schedule/ to ensure safe numbers. Yoga is for everyone, so get your friends and family to sign up too!

• Conquer the Mountain Half Marathon and 5K will take place Saturday, Nov. 6, in Franklin. The race is the only USATF certified race in North Carolina west of Charlotte.

The Half Marathon begins at 10 a.m., the 5K at 8:30 a.m., at the Tassee Shelter off Ulco Drive on the Greenway in Franklin. Register now for individuals or two-person teams at www.runsignup.com.

SUPPORT GROUPS • Al-Anon, for families and friends of alcoholics, meets every Monday night from 7-8 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 77 Jackson St., Sylva. Enter at front of church through the door to the left of the sanctuary; meeting is first door on the right. The Church requests that you wear a mask if you are not vaccinated.

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

Also Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at Cullowhee Methodist Church and Saturdays 6 p.m. at Cullowhee Methodist Church. Meetings in Haywood County, Macon County and Swain County have re-opened as well. For more details visit ncmountainna.org.

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• The Haywood Community Band will have its final concert of the season with a tribute to Veterans at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 7, at Long's Chapel Methodist Church in Waynesville. The concert is free, but donations are accepted. The performance will honor Veterans in music and word.

• The Classic Wineseller (Waynesville) will The Russ Wilson Duo (guitar/vocals) Oct. 30 ($10 cover) and a special dinner show with Cynthia McDermott (mandolin/vocals) Nov. 6 (call for price). All shows begin at 7 p.m. Limited seating. Reservations required.

828.452.6000 or classicwineseller.com.

• Elevated Mountain Distilling Company will host an Open Mic Night 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesdays and semiregular live music on the weekends. Free and open to the public. 828.734.1084 or elevatedmountain.com.

• Friday Night Live (Highlands) will be held at the Town

Square from 6 to 8:30 p.m. with live music Oct. 29. Free and open to the public. highlandschamber.org.

• Frog Level Brewing (Waynesville) will host Space Granny Oct. 29 and Bonafide Oct. 30. All shows begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.454.5664 or froglevelbrewing.com.

• Innovation Brewing (Sylva) will host Liz Nance (singer-songwriter) 7 p.m. Nov. 10. Free and open to the public. innovation-brewing.com.

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• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Franklin) will host a Halloween Bash w/Natti Love Joys Oct. 30 and Roscoe’s Road Show Nov. 6. All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.349.2337 or lazyhikerbrewing.com.

car. Craft beer pairings with a meal, and more. For more information and/or to register, call 800.872.4681 or click on www.gsmr.com.

• Lazy Hiker Brewing (Sylva) will host a Halloween Bash w/Natti Love Joys Oct. 29 and Metal Spaghetti Nov. 5.

All shows begin at 8 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.349.2337 or lazyhikerbrewing.com.

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

• Mountain Layers Brewing (Bryson City) will host Wyatt Espalin (singer-songwriter) Oct. 29, Twelfth Fret (Americana) Oct. 30 and Alma Russ 5 p.m. Oct. 31. All shows begin at 6 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Free and open to the public. 828.538.0115 or mtnlayersbeer.com.

• Unplugged Pub (Bryson City) will host Scary-oke w/Joel Oct. 28, Brian Ashley Jones Oct. 29, Trisha Ann Band Oct. 30 and Jason Lee Wilson & James County Nov. 5. All shows begin at 8 p.m. Free and open to the public. 828.538.2488.

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

• Water’n Hole Bar & Grill (Waynesville) will host karaoke on Thursday nights and Humps & The Blackouts “Halloween Extravaganza” 9 p.m. Oct. 30.

828.456.4750 or facebook.com/waternhole.bar.

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

• The “Uncorked: Wine & Rail Pairing Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on select dates at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-adult first class car. Wine pairings with a meal, and more. For more information and/or to register, call 800.872.4681 or click on www.gsmr.com.

ON STAGE & IN CONCERT • “The Magical Lamp of Aladdin” will hit the stage at 7 p.m. Nov. 5-6, 12-13 and 2 p.m. Nov. 6 and 13 at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts in Franklin. Tickets are $13 per person. For more information and/or to purchase tickets, click on smokymountainarts.com.

HALLOWEEN • “Halloween in the Park” will be held from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, at the Parker Meadows Complex in Franklin. Free and open to the public. franklin-chamber.com.

• “Monster Mash on Main” will be held at 3 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 30, in downtown Franklin. A familyfriendly event. Trick-or-treat. Candy. Scary-fun music.

Wear your Halloween costume. franklin-chamber.com.

• “Bat Street” will take place from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 30, in downtown Sylva. Start at the Visitor Center to pick up your Bat Street Sheet. With each one you find, the merchant will give you a treat.

Follow the clues in the Bat Trivia. Take a selfie and enter the virtual Costume Contest at the selfie station.

At the end, you can turn in your Bat Street Sheet at the Visitor's Center for a chance to win a prize.

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• The “Barn of Terror: Hayride & Haunted Barn” will be from 7 to 11:45 p.m. Oct. 28-31 at Darnell Farms in Bryson City. Admission is $15 per person. Waivers must be signed before entering. For more information, click on facebook.com/darnellfarmsnc.

• The “Haunted School” will be held from 7 p.m. to midnight Oct. 29-31 at the Fines Creek Community Center. Admission is $10 per person. Must be age 13 and up to enter without an adult. All proceeds support local scholarship funding and community needs. For more information, go to facebook.com/nchauntedschool.

FOOD AND DRINK • The “BBQ & Brews Dinner Train'' will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on select dates at the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad in Bryson City. Full service all-adult first class

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• Join the second season of the Highlands Biological Foundation’s virtual book club delving into All We Can Save, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katherine K. Wilkinson, with meetings 4-5 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

30, through Nov. 18. Sign up by contacting paige@highlandsbiological.org or 828.526.2623. www.highlandsbiological.org.

• Haywood County Parks and Recreation will offer a guided hike Saturday, Oct. 30, to Black Rock and Yellow Face Mountain led by Lisa Cook and Phyllis Woolen.

Hikes cost $10 to join, paid at registration. Sign up by calling 828.452.6789.

• Join in for the 11th annual Lake Chatuge Shoreline Cleanup, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Nov. 6, at the Towns County Swim Beach Pavilion in Georgia. Volunteers will be assigned cleanup locations and given bags, gloves and safety information, along with coffee and grab-andgo-breakfast. The first 50 volunteers will also receive Tshirts. Organized by MountainTrue. Contact Callie Moore at callie@mountaintrue.org with questions.

• Through Nov. 9, the Storybook Trail of the Smokies along the Cosby Nature Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will feature prompts and activities based on A Search for Safe Passage, a middlegrade chapter book. Teachers and homeschool groups are invited to use the trail and review standards-based activities for the classroom or virtual-learning opportunities for students at SmokiEEEs.org. The storybook trail is free and accessible seven days a week.

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