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Act 5, Scene 1: Irene's Twilight Zone
Act 5, Scene 1: Irene’s Twilight Zone See whole poem, "The Main Show," and index of scenes. (Spotlight opens on the lobby of the theater. Characters who remain in the lobby enter the theater, which remains dark. Joan the nurse tells the tour guide to also go in, and the narrator hangs back awhile.) Joan: Go ahead in. I’ll stay with my patient.Anyway, this is a family…See More
A Slice of Life: An Evening of Stories hosted by Connie Regan-Blake
December 7, 2019 from 7:30pm to 9pmConnie Regan-Blake’s Taking Your Story to the Stage, 3-day storytelling intensive
December 6, 2019 to December 8, 2019
Julia Nunnally Duncan at Little Switzerland Books and Beans
August 30, 2019 from 3pm to 6pm
Julia Nunnally Duncan will be a featured author at Little Switzerland Books and Beans on Friday, August 30, from 3-5. A book signing will follow. Julia will read from her latest books A Neighborhood Changes, A Part of Me, and A Place That Was Home.See More
Guide to Antebellum Flat Rock
"The introduction of my new publication, Guide to Antebellum Flat Rock will be launched on Sept 14 2019 at 1:30 PM at the Henderson County Court House 500 Main Street. A talk and a brief slide show follows with refreshments afterward. …"
Nancy Werking Poling at Black Mountain Library
June 15, 2019 from 3pm to 4pm
Can women rescue the planet from ecological disaster?Nancy Werking Poling will launch her new novel, WHILE EARTH STILL SPEAKS, set in WNC. She'll tell the stories behind the story: How did Mary (more crone than virgin) get into the narrative? And Mary Surratt, a co-conspirator of John Wilkes Booth?See More
Transylvania Chautauqua - Jackie Kennedy
June 22, 2019 from 7pm to 8:30pmTransylvania Chautauqua - Alexander Hamilton
June 15, 2019 from 7pm to 8:30pmBuncombe Chautauqua - Andrew Jackson
April 29, 2019 from 6pm to 7pm
Flat Rock history via a road
Travelling back in time on a Flat Rock roadby Rob Neufeld If you walk the one mile length of North Highland Lake Road in Flat Rock, you step nearly 200 years into the past. At the east end, the 21st century reigns. Fronting six-lane Spartanburg Highway, a super-Ingles sits above a bog; and a CVS store faces an Octopus Garden smoke shop, a chiropractor, a cell phone provider, and a six-lane avenue to I-26 a mile away . Neither Ingles nor CVS carries the big…See More
A Lad And His Boat
Pap's father, Wade, was an old time Baptist Preacher (thats him above with Paul).
Pap heard him tell a story about a lad who made a small boat during one of his sermons.
The lad placed the boat in a rushing stream to see if it would float. As the wind began to blow, the boat was taken from his reach. He frantically tried to rescue the boat-but to no avail.
The lad searched from shore to shore but never found the little boat. He grieved for the boat he had made. As time went swiftly by, he happened to see the boat in a store window-oh how great the joy he felt. He would own the boat once more-no matter what the cost.
The story of the lad and his boat stuck with Pap. He discussed it with his father, wanting all the details surrounding the story. The image of the lad loosing what was his-only to have to buy it back again inspired Pap to write the song I chose for this week's Pickin' & Grinnin' In The Kitchen Spot- I Twice Belong To Thee. To see the video hop over to my website Blind Pig & The Acorn. (I'm also celebrating the month of Acorns by hosting a giveaway each Friday of October on my website-to enter just leave me a comment on the Blind Pig & The Acorn)
My Papaw, Wade, has been dead many years-he died the year before The Deer Hunter and I were married. I still miss him. He had great wisdom to share-like the story of the lad and his boat. But he was also a real Appalachian Mountain character-you never knew what he was going to say or do next. He wore overalls every day-except Sunday.
Do you have any memories of wisdom passed on by your grandparents or someone else that was important to you? I need all the wisdom I can get-so please leave me a comment!
Tipper
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