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2012 Foothills Arts & Crafts Holiday Show

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It’s always a treat to see the work of our talented local artists up close, so we were really excited to hear that two of our local artists’ groups — the Arrowhead Artists and Artisans League (A3L) and the McDowell Arts Council Association (MACA) — will be hosting the first Foothills Arts & Crafts Holiday Show on Saturday and Sunday, November 17-18, 2012, at the Corpening Memorial YMCA in Marion (25 minutes east of the Inn on Mill Creek).

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2012 Biltmore Christmas Candelight Tickets

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[Photo Credit: Biltmore]

When we mention to guests that Biltmore Estate in Asheville decks its halls with bows of holly for the Christmas season, we’re talking 175,000 square feet of halls, living rooms and dining rooms and gathering rooms, bedrooms and more, completely decked out in Christmas grandeur. When the annual tree raising ceremony at Biltmore Estate happens (at 10am on November 1 this year), it’s a 35-foot Christmas tree for the seven-story banquet hall inside Biltmore House, which also happens to have a massive fireplace that’s actually three fireplaces in one. Santa definitely has his choice of chimneys to come down at Biltmore — there are 65 fireplaces in total.

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Octoberfest Fall Festival in Old Fort, October 5-7

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Photo Credit: Old Fort Chamber of Commerce

Old Fort holds an annual small-town festival the first weekend in October to celebrate the coming of fall to this part of North Carolina. If you like small town festivals, this one’s for you! This family-friendly three-day event, sponsored by the Old Fort Chamber of Commerce, features scores of local arts and crafts vendors and local business booths, great food, kids’ activities and rides, a climbing wall, and live entertainment, plus the annual rubber duckie race along Mill Creek behind the Mountain Gateway Museum and Heritage Center.

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East of Asheville Studio Tour Returns in October

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The East of Asheville Studio Tour (EAST) is an event where artists based in East Asheville, Fairview, Swannanoa and Black Mountain invite you to their studios to see where they create their art, and where you can browse and buy several different types of art and craft, ranging from painting to sculpture, woodworking to jewelry, glass to pottery and everything in between.

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Wicked Plants Exhibit at the NC Arborteum

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If you’re into unique and interesting plants, here’s a rather unique and interesting exhibit to see while you’re in our neck of the woods — Wicked Plants — based on Amy Stewart’s best-selling book, Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Abraham Lincoln’s Mother and other Botanical Atrocities. The exhibit is showing at the North Carolina Arboretum in Asheville through September 3.

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2012 Sourwood Festival is August 11-12

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2012 Sourwood Festival logo by George White

The 35th annual Sourwood Festival in Black Mountain is just one month away. {Can you believe the year is going by this fast?!} The Sourwood Festival is a big-time small town mountain festival, with 200 vendors that you can browse, handmade arts and crafts, music, great food, activities for kids, and honey, honey, honey.

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