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Holiday Stays: Montfair offers a 15% discount on three and four-night stays and 18.5 % on five-night stays, a 31% for a weeklong stay and 37% off a two week long stay! Celebrate the Winter Holidays of Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year’s with a vacation in comfort, close to… Read More
"Amid the clutter of instruments in Barr’s Fiddle Shop on Galax’s Main Street, three guys sat playing bluegrass tunes on guitar. Sometimes, the owner Stevie Barr – a man who had played for the Queen when she visited Virginia in 2010 – would join in." Read More
The U.S. Marine Corps invites you to help celebrate its 247th birthday on November 10th, 2022. This is a very important day for all Marines who have served from across the world to gather, to celebrate, and toast our Corps. We invite you to our “birthday” celebration on November… Read More
Greg Wilsbacher, Ph.D., a University of South Carolina faculty librarian and curator of the famous Fox Movietone News Collection housed there, will present a muti-media program, How the American Homefront First Saw D-Day on June 5 at 2 p.m. at the Transylvania County Library’s Rogow Community Room, 212 S. Gaston… Read More
Enjoy a 15% discount off nightly vacation cottage rental rates now through October 31, 2024! Clean comfortable lakeside cottages with air conditioning, heat and Wi-Fi. Montfair Resort Farm is a perfect place to reconnect with family, loved ones and friends. Enjoy the end of summer days with onsite fishing, birdwatching,… Read More
Free concerts every Friday and Saturday night with local jazz musician Charlie Ellis! Enjoy the music in the lobby and sitting rooms of the beautifully restored Green Park Inn. Read More
Join us for a “squealin'” good time in Downtown Marion on June 1st! We will have free kids activities, a hog callin’ and pig squealin’ contest, and a food truck rodeo, with the best Food Truck Liver Mush dish earning a trophy! The winning hog callers and pig squealers win… Read More
October 20 Program – Loyal Forces: The American Animals of World War II The Brevard College History Program and the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas are pleased to host Brevard College alumna Toni McCourt Kiser for a discussion of her book, Loyal Forces: The American Animals of World… Read More
Viewing History “Through Their Eyes” By Michel Robertson The Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas is proud to announce an exciting addition to their galleries: “Through Their Eyes: The History of America at War from 1917 through the Global War on Terror.” Beginning on November 1, 2022, each museum gallery… Read More
Slow down and experience some Appalachian Christmas traditions at our annual “Old Time Appalachian Christmas Festival” downtown. Held the 2nd Saturday in December, the streets are filled with hand crafted gifts, canned and baked goods, food, heritage demonstrations, live music, s’mores, photo ops, Santa, wagon rides and tons of fun!… Read More