Photo by Ron Johnson at the Banner Elk Mill Pond yesterday
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Cell: 828-260-5112
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Today and tomorrow in Banner Elk could be
the most wonderful days in the history of the world.
(At night you might need your blankie or is it binkie?) - Ron

Is there any thing better than being in Banner Elk in the summer?
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Caught at Wildcat Lake
with her bare hands!
Photo by Jim Swinkola at Wildcat Lake
Raini Markwood, of Asheboro, NC, didn't need a fishing rod,
bait, or a boat as she caught this 13-inch trout with her bare hands
at Wildcat Lake in Banner Elk yesterday. (Maybe the manicure did the trick)
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Gearing Up For Saturday's Heritage Day
Around 1:30pm yesterday several antique cars came
passing through The Stoplight - a glimpse of an era
and Saturday's celebration of our roots.

Photos by Ron Johnson

On the side it reads: Bossi Creamery

On the side it reads: Fire Chief - Garden of Good and Evil Fire Department

Pulling up to the Exxon gas station at The Stoplight.
During that period of time - the early 20s - gas was 30-cents per gallon.

Banner Elk Town Councilman Charlie B. VonCanon
and wife Penny in the 4th of July Parade

Bradshaw Chandler in The Parade
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Banner Elk Heritage Day
This Saturday!
beginning at The Banner House at 9am

 Greater Banner Elk Heritage Foundation

Banner Elk Tourism Development Authority

 Lees-McRae College

Jo-Ann McMurray, Event Chair: 828-898-5717

The Banner House Museum 828-898-3634
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Jane Stephenson will display her magnificent  
quilt collection from The Banner Family at 
Banner Elk Town Hall all day Saturday
at Heritage Day 

"These quilts all came from the Banner House.  They are all from my collection given to me by my aunt, Jane Barlow Rowe.  Jane Rowe inherited them from her mother Martha Kate Banner,
daughter of Sam Banner." - Jane Stephenson

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Banner Elk Kiwanis Club members
all set to enjoy Heritage Day on Saturday
Photos by Ron Johnson

W. McNair Tornow, Esq., (at left in photo above) spoke at the Kiwanis Club yesterday and gave a vivid presentation of Civil War days. Displaying the Banner Elk Heritage Quilt is, left to right, Mr. Tornow, Jo-Ann McMurray, Chair of Heritage Day, Bud Hahn, a long-time supporter of the Heritage Foundation, and Judy Hilsmier, President of the Greater Banner Elk Heritage Foundation.

At the July 9th Kiwanis meeting Jerry Shinn of Beech Mountain, read passages from his book "Dixie Autumn." Left to right in the top photo: Mr. Shinn and wife, Anne, Stuart M. Strait, Volunteer Assistant to the President at Lees-McRae College, Kiwanian Cyclone Brett introduced Mr. Shinn. a Beech Mountain neighbor and friend.

The Heritage Quilt will be raffled at 5pm this Saturday at Heritage Day at Tate-Evans Park.

"Dixie Autumn is an important addition to the literature of the American South - a gripping, genre-stretching mystery within a powerful, philosophically and historically profound novel.

It examines the paradoxical nature of good and evil, the ethical ambiguities of law and journalism, the life-affirming but potentially degrading power of human sexuality, the dangerous synthesis of hate and fear.

It is also an unblinking but compassionate examination of the burden of Southern history that confounded the South and the nation in the middle years of the 20th century and continues to confound well into the 21st.
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Opening tonight at 7pm
at Hayes Auditorium on the campus
of Lees-McRae College
Rodger & Hammerstein's
A Grand Night for Singing
Begins Tomorrow!


Hayes Auditorium on the campus of Lees-McRae College

Directed by: Janet Barton Speer

Wednesday, July 16 at 7 p.m.
Thursday, July 17 at  2 and 7 p.m.
Friday, July 18 at  7 p.m.
Saturday , July 19 at 2 and 7 p.m.
Sunday,  July 20 at 2 p.m.


Taste and imagination, the two key ingredients for a first-rate revue, about in this fresh take on the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon conceived by Tony Award Winner Walter Bobbie.

Over three decades after the duo's final collaboration, The Sound of Music, took the Great White Way by storm, it was in fact this new R&H Musical that opened the 1994 Broadway season with flair and distinction, garnering wildly enthusiastic notices as well as earning two Tony nominations, including Best Musical.

Here at R&H, our founding fathers probably never imagined "Shall We Dance?" as a comic pas de deux for a towering beauty and her diminutive admirer, nor did they suspect that one day a lovelorn young lad might pose the musical question, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?"

But that's precisely the kind of invention lavished upon this revue, with innovative musical arrangements including a sultry Andrews Sisters-esque "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair," a swingin' "Honeybun" worthy of the Modernaires, and a jazzy "Kansas City" which leaves no question about how terrifically up to date the remarkable songs of R&H are.

  Click here for the Lees-McRae College website
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Limited number of tickets available for the July 31 event
Call the chamber: 828-898-5605
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Click here for the Pet Fest Facebook Page
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A Most Memorable
4th of July in Banner Elk
Photos by Ron Johnson

At the Annual Dunn's Deli Pig Roast
Ashley Smith at The Parade
Bonita Smith in The Parade for The Banner Elk Garden Club
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Have a Wonderful Wednesday and see you tomorrow.