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Quilts: The Stories They Tell

Mountain Heritage Center Hunter Library, 176 Central Drive, WCU, Cullowhee, NC, United States

Twenty-five quilts from the Mountain Heritage Center's extensive collection featuring Album, Crazy, and Patchwork quilt styles. Stories of makers, families, and community members as well as local and national patterns, […]

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Mountain Legacies: Exploring Appalachian Culture

Transylvania Heritage Museum 189 West Main Street, Brevard, NC, United States

The Transylvania Heritage Museum's new exhibit, Mountain Legacies: Exploring Appalachian Culture, is now on display. This exhibit shows how early settlers made their way into the Appalachian Mountains and made […]

The Banner House Museum Summer 2022

Banner House Museum 7990 Hickory Nut Gap Road, Banner Elk, NC, United States

The Banner House Museum is excited to announce hours, tours, and tickets for Summer 2022!  Experience 19th-century life in Banner Elk and the High Country in the home of Samuel […]

Carl Sandburg Home Summer Plays & Sing-Alongs

Carl Sandburg Home NHS 81 Carl Sandburg Lane, Flat Rock, NC, United States

In mid-June, Carl Sandburg Home will offer free summer children’s plays and family sing-alongs. The park will also expand Sandburg Home hours to four days per week.   Apprentice actors […]

Blue Ridge Blueberries: U-Pick Farm

Blue Ridge Blueberries 267 Altapass Church of God Road, Spruce Pine, NC, United States

We are launching our U-Pick Blueberry farm this year:  www.blueridgeblueberries.com.  We are located about 1.5 miles off the parkway at mile marker 327 where Altapass Hwy intersects the parkway between North […]

An Appalachian Summer Festival: Hayes School of Music Faculty Chamber Players

Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Riverside Drive, Boone, NC, United States

Conducted by Dr. Régulo Stabilito, the chamber orchestra — which features faculty from the university’s Hayes School of Music — performs a concert of diverse works by Martinů, Castellanos and […]

2022 Summer Tracks: Peggy Ratusz & Reggie Headen

Rogers Park Amphitheater 55 W. Howard Street, Tryon, United States

Asheville’s best-loved vocalist and raconteur Peggy Ratusz and fellow performer Reggie Heading bring their show “Something You’ve Got”— a night of duets. These two quintessential vocal interpreters will fill the […]

Speaker Series: Coyotes in NC – History, Distribution, Myths, and Facts

Anne Elizabeth Suratt Nature Center at Walnut Creek Preserve 179 Wood Thrush Lane, Mill Spring, NC, United States

The coyote is considered the most adaptable mammal in North America and has lived in North Carolina since the early 1980’s. Their flexibility allows them to live in a wide […]

An Appalachian Evening with Appalachian Road Show

Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center 121 Schoolhouse Road, Stecoah, NC, United States

With multiple individual Grammy honors, Appalachian Road Show is a visionary acoustic ensemble. In addition to their own innovative original music, they bring new-generation interpretations of traditional American, bluegrass, and […]

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