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Arts & Leisure June 27, 2007
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Festival on the Square to kick off July 14
      Get ready for some fun. The Festival on the Square, hosted by the Clay County Historical and Arts Council, is Saturday, July 14, 10 to 5, and Sunday, July 15, 10 to 4. The kick-off begins with a street dance around the Hayesville Square on Friday, July 13 at 7 p.m..
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Harpist Linda Jones to perform at JCFS June 29
      Lorinda Jones will be featured in a free concert of Celtic harp music at 7:30 pm June 29 at The John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, N.C..
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Antique phones call up memories at museum
JULIE CHAUTIN Contributing Writer
      If you lived in Andrews back in 1924 and were one of the 91 residents who had a telephone, your number would have been easy to remember: all of them were only two digits long. "Call me. My number is 522," might have been a message.
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"Sound of Music" a show for the whole family
Cast members Aspen Fine and Barbara Walters make show a family affair
      "The Sound of Music" is a musical for the entire family. If there can be any doubt, look at Aspen Fine and Barbara Walters. At the age of six, Aspen is the youngest member of the cast. At the age of well, anyway, Barbara Walters is the oldest member of the cast. It is safe to say that from the age...
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      The tiny pink and blue shopping cart sits idle. I am observing it from the den recliner where I am pasted with inertia. My weary eyes catch a green triangular blob wedged under the settee in the corner. It belongs in the yellow tub for teaching shapes. Somehow it escaped clean up time.
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Sonshine
Searching for gold
By Sherrie Keely
      Following the rain showers we were blessed with this past week, I caught myself looking upward, trying to catch a glimpse of a beautiful rainbow. Oh, how I remember one summer... The joy of swiftly running through a meadow of wildflowers, finally getting to the "end of the rainbow.
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Jazzin' it up at the Art Center June 30
      Saturday Night, June 30, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. it's Jazz at the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association. "The Jazz Guardians," an 18- member group of The U.S. Army Ground Forces Band, whose primary mission is to promote Jazz, (the uniquely American art form),will play on the front porch of the Art Cen...
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Cherokee poster sold at library auction
JULIE CHAUTIN
      Nick Guthrie is not only a real estate agent with Western Carolina Realty, but he is also a professional art framer at the Artists Common Gallery in downtown Murphy.
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"Iron Station" opens "An Appalachian Evening" concert series at Stecoah Valley Center
      "Iron Station", a hard-driving bluegrass and mountain music band open the summer music series, "An Appalachian Evening" at Stecoah Valley Center on June 30, 2007 at 7:30 p.m.. The band, based in Asheville, NC, was formed in 2004 and now has five very talented musicians.
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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 p.m.) on your calendar. They will both be reading again at the monthly ...
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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 16. Bids will also be accepted on June 29 - 30 during the Sixth Annual Artisan Drive-About.
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Dinner is served at Stecoah Valley Center
      Authentic Appalachian dinners are being served every Saturday evening from June 30 - September 1 prior to each "An Appalachian Evening" concert. The dining room is open to the public and concert attendance is not required, although dinner and a show is a real treat.
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Mountain Weavers birdhouses
     Mountain Weavers and Crafters (MW&C) were pleased to participate for the second year in Union County School System's "Century 21" program. This year the students made random weave birdhouses with different colors and sizes of rattan reed. The students had a great time with the project that taught th...
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Peacock Pride theater camp photos
     Clockwise from top. Above: Holding a lantern among other items, a young lady stands with a cheerful smile.
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