We (me and my vinyl-loving compatriot) got onsite early so as to catch the opening act; the Berkley-bred The Morning Benders, and got there early enough to catch front-ish row standing “seats”.  A plus because the show’s exponentially better the closer you are to the stage; at least at the 40 Watt, based on my [...]

The Morning Benders are young in both age and band-ed years.  Early twenty-somethings pushing their sophomore record Big Echo.  Their music expresses their age; personally, with words (lyrics) on individual relevance and emptiness entwined with supernatural joy and ambition over tune and tonnage that’s vintage sounding.  Think 60’s beach rock without most of the happiness [...]

Celebrate the 4th of July at home with family and friends
–Nation’s leading fireworks manufacturer encourages fun, affordable home-style Independence Day celebrations–

FLORENCE, Ala. (June 16, 2010) – The Fourth of July is a day when all Americans can celebrate their independence. TNT Fireworks, the nation’s leading distributor of consumer fireworks and sparklers, would like [...]

AH-CHOO  -  POLLEN
By  Elaine K. Delcuze
Preservation Committee Member
How can something be so irritating and yet so vital to life?  I’m referring to pollen, now that my seasonal sniffles are over, my eyes have stopped watering, my voice is back, and plants are abloom around me.
According to the American Institute of Biological Sciences, native insect pollination [...]

From left: Lloyd Dunham, Donn Smith, Hal Calloway, Jerry Hobbs

Folks in Union County always welcome a performance by two native sons, Buck Buchannon and Nelson Thomas. The Union County Historical Society is pleased to present a concert by Buck and Nelson at The Old Courthouse on the Square in Blairsville on Friday, June 25 at 7:00 p.m.
Buck and Nelson are boyhood friends who grew [...]

Last year an old tradition was revived at The Old Courthouse on the Square in Blairsville: A singing convention was presented by the Union County Singing Convention and the Union County Historical Society.  Eighteen people were inducted into the Union County Pioneers Hall of Shaped-note music.  All who attended agreed that it was a rewarding [...]

By Jennifer Cordier, Preservation Committee Chair
A bright, sunny day greeted visitors and dignitaries during the ribbon cutting ceremony for the new interpretive center at the Georgia Mountain Research and Education Center. Dr. Jerry Arkin, Associate Dean of the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, commended the staff of the Research Center and [...]

REVIEW OF JUST BETWEEN US
By
Brenda Kay Ledford
Davis, Tom.  JUST BETWEEN US.  Fayetteville, NC:  Old Mountain Press, Inc., 2010.  90 pages, trade paperback.  $14.00.  www.OldMountainPress.com.
JUST BETWEEN US, compiled by Old Mountain Press, includes poetry and prose by 70 writers.  North Carolina Writers’ Network-West members, Janice Townley Moore and Brenda Kay Ledford, have works in this anthology [...]

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Burton’s a versed producer. He’s worked within the hip-hop realm (e.g. the Grey Album [a now “illegal” download as it copyright infringed upon both the Beatles’ White Album and Jay-Z’s Black Album; sort of pitting these albums together; lacing the Fab Four’s vocals over Jigga’s beats into something that [...]