Steve Hickman and John Devine to perform at Folk School June 22
      Fiddler Steve Hickman and guitarist John Devine will be featured in a free concert at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C. at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 22.
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Library auction a success
JULIE CHAUTIN
      The number one retirement destination in the world is Murphy, North Carolina. That is the opinion of Friends of Murphy Public Library. Not because of the beautiful mountains or the climate, but because of the people. The Friends held their third annual fundraising auction at Grove Auctions on Jun...
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Library movie shaken, not stirred
JULIE CHAUTIN
      If you like your summer vacation movies shaken, not stirred, the Murphy Public Library has a treat for you. The latest James Bond film will be shown on Thursday at 6 p.m. It is rated PG-13. In a new twist the filmmakers go back in time to when Bond was just starting out. And it is obvious he is y...
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Auction to benefit Murphy Adventist
      Bob Grove Auctions will be hosting a benefit auction for Murphy Adventist Christian School June 24 at 3 p.m.. There will be a preview of auction items beginning at 2 Pp.m.for those who would like a pre-auction tour. Grove auctions is located on US 64 East in Brasstown, two miles east of Murphy Med...
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Living with art
For the love of it DAVID VOWELL
      In January of 2006, on an unseasonably warm day, I sat in the rural Mississippi studio of renown impressionist painter and teacher, Sammy Britt. I was lucky. Sammy had stopped dealing with gallery owners (that was me) 20 years earlier, but a very dear neighbor of his had befriended me, and support...
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Poetry and prose reading at John C. Campbell Folk School
      If you were present last summer to hear Mary Lou McKillip and Brenda Kay Ledford read their original stories and poems at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, you will want to put Thursday, June 28 (7:00 p.m.) on your calendar. They will both be reading again at the month...
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Raven Welch Band to perform Saturday in Brasstown
      This Saturday, June 23, 2007, the Brasstown Community Civic Center will host one of the hottest young bluegrass talents around, when The Raven Welch Band comes to town. Only 15 years old, Raven Welch is the real deal. She had her first solo in a vacation Bible school program at the age of 5. By t...
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Silent auction to benefit Stecoah Valley Center
      A silent auction benefiting Stecoah Valley Center will begin at the Eighth Annual Mountain Music Championship on June 16th. Bids will also be accepted on June 29 - 30 during the Sixth Annual Artisan Drive-About.
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Liz Melendez to perform at Longhouse June 30
      Liz Melendez will be performing at The Longhouse Restaurant & Bar June 30 during Blues on the Greens! Live Blues Bands outside starting at 7 p.m., $10 cover. BBQ,beer and wine will be for sale. Her guitar playing has been compared to everyone from Carlos Santana to Stevie Ray Vaughan and her voic...
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Sonshine
Why we can't help but question
By Sherrie Keely
      Like any of you, "why" is one of my favorite words. It's gotten me into more situations than I sometimes want to recall. I remember as a child wanting to know how things were held together. Once, I carefully proceeded to unscrew my mother's bed.
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Journey through the cosmos
YHC astronomy professor makes planetarium a stellar experience
MARCUS KEELY
      The cosmos has been a lifelong fascination for Steve Morgan, Rollins planetarium director and astronomy professor at Young Harris College in Young Harris, Georgia. In the second grade, Morgan remembers checking out a book from the school library about astronomy in which he read that the sun was si...
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