Category Archives: Asheville Attractions

It’s looking less like the week before winter starts than the week before the start of spring here in Asheville, but there is snow sledding to be had not too far away.

Youth sledding hill at Beech Mountain

The Beech Mountain youth sledding hill in Avery County has opened for the winter season, brought to you by the magic of a snow gun. The sledding hill offers a wonderland of fun daily for children 12 and younger. Located next to the town’s visitors center, the hill provides good sledding conditions with a combination of natural and man-made snow.

The free sled run is operated by Beech Mountain Parks Recreation Department seven days a week (weather permitting) with safety personnel on duty. A loud speaker plays music and hot chocolate is available at nearby restaurants.

Plastic sleds are required. Families may bring their own, or they’re available for rent and purchase at nearby stores on the mountain.

“The sledding hill is a great option for families with younger children who aren’t ready for skiing or snowboarding yet, but still want to play in the snow,” says Amy Morrison of the Beech Mountain

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Editor’s note: With 2014 fast approaching, we begin a three-part series today on Mooresville’s early growth, written by local historian and frequent Tribune contributor Cindy Jacobs.

In 1914, visitors to Mooresville’s business district found more than 35 stores offering a wide variety of goods and services. With a population of 4,500, the town was growing and expanding its residential and business districts.

A commercial building boom started in 1908 and expanded the business district north and south including large brick and mortar structures for McNeely Livery, Merchants and Farmers Bank, W. C. Johnston Hardware, W.M Freeze and the Mystic and Artcraft movie theaters. James W. Brown opened the Crystal Palace Theater in 1908 and was showing moving pictures every evening by 1910. Citizens were entertained and educated with newsreels, news from Hollywood as well as programs provided by the United Daughters of the Confederacy for the celebration of Memorial Day.

H. N. Johnston’s ice plant added to the industrial community in 1908. The latest electric machinery produced perfect, clear ice available for pick up or delivery in special ice wagon with the

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Rounding the bend on Woodfin Avenue, the spirit of the season is felt almost instantaneously upon arrival. It’s hard not to smile.

Greetings of “Merry Christmas!” and carols sung by children — huddled together atop a restored 1950 Alexander Railroad Company No. 7 train engine — ring out, bringing a bit of sunshine to an otherwise dreary winter day.

After climbing aboard a parked 1925 trolley, passengers are rewarded with sugar cookies and hot cocoa, sipping from their Styrofoam cups, shielded from the cold winter weather outside, while Bing Crosby serenades “White Christmas” from the speakers.

“I’ve always

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NEW YORK — Lights, trees, gingerbread and the Grinch are among the Christmastime attractions on display around the country.

Here are some East Coast attractions that might fit your travel plans this year — or that you can put on your list for the future:

Close to home

New York City’s holiday traditions never fail to please:

There is the tree at Rockefeller Center, the Radio City “Christmas Spectacular” show, origami decorations on the tree at the American Museum of Natural History, the Neapolitan Baroque creche and tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and, of course, windows decorated with Christmas themes in stores around the city.

In the Bronx, the New York Botanical Garden hosts its annual train show, with model trains winding around miniature replicas of New York landmarks made from plant materials like bark, leaves and nuts.

At Grand Central Terminal, there are real trains, along with a light show each evening through Dec. 26 from 5 to 11 p.m.

And at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, an interactive exhibit called “The Grinch’s Holiday Workshop” is up through Dec. 31, along with a synthetic ice rink where kids

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Painter, sculptor’s holiday open house

Artist Bonnie Bardos will feature paintings, sculpture, note cards and more during her Holiday Open Studio event today from 1 to 4 p.m.

Located at Bardos’ 1895 “Art House” at 285 Greenville St., the studio will display a range of works by the artist.

Bardos’ “Esto Perpetua” landscapes are represented by Patricia Carlisle Fine Art in Santa Fe, N.M.; and Skyuka Fine Art in Tryon.

For more information, visit Bardos’ website at bonniebardos.com.

Call to local artists for {Re}HAPPENING project

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The Media Arts Project are seeing Chance Operations artists for the 2014 {Re}HAPPENING. Artists may apply now through Jan. 1.

Selected artists will create a new work in a spontaneous and collaborative way.

The artists’ names are randomly selected to create teams, and each team is presented with various elements, challenges and problems to solve.

The result is a new and indeterminate piece.

Artists of all genres, from performance to sculpture, are encouraged to apply.

The Chance Operations projects will premier at the {Re}HAPPENING on April 5 at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain.

For more information and to apply, visit rehappening.com.

The {Re}HAPPENING is a fundraising event for both Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and The Media Arts

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NEW YORK – Lights, trees, gingerbread and the Grinch are among the Christmastime attractions on display around the United States. Here are some details.

New York City’s holiday traditions include the tree at Rockefeller Center, the Radio City “Christmas Spectacular” show, origami decorations on the tree at the American Museum of Natural History, the Neapolitan Baroque creche and tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and of course windows decorated with Christmas themes in stores around the city.

In the Bronx, the New York Botanical Garden hosts its annual train show, with model trains winding around miniature replicas of New York landmarks made from plant materials such as bark, leaves and nuts. At Grand Central Terminal, there are real trains, along with a light show each evening through Dec. 26 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. And at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, an interactive exhibit called “The Grinch’s Holiday Workshop” is up through Dec. 31, along with a synthetic ice rink where kids can skate in their socks.

In Florida, Universal Orlando offers the “Grinchmas Wholiday Spectacular” show, and re-enactments of New York’s Macy’s parade with balloons and costumed characters, through Jan.

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