Summer 2019
Add/Drop and
Open Registration
Continues
Open registration and add/drop continues through the second meeting of most classes. The final day for dropping all summer courses for a full refund is Friday, June 7, 3 p.m.
Please remember to notify the office that you wish to drop any class that you cannot or do not wish to attend. Also remember that you may only attend courses for which you are registered.
Important Dates
Friday, June 7, 3 p.m.: Final day for dropping all College For Seniors courses for a full refund
Monday, June 10, 9 a.m.:
Summer 2019 courses begin
Tuesday, August 6:
Fall 2019 catalog will be available online
Thursday, August 15, 10 a.m.:
Fall 2019 CFS Registration begins.
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College for Seniors Instructor Support
Two-day training to enhance your instructor skills with PowerPoint or Keynote
Beginning PowerPoint
June 3 and 6, 9:30 a.m. - noon
Reuter Center Room 206
Advanced PowerPoint Techniques
June 3 and 6, 1-3 p.m.
Reuter Center Room 206
Introduction to Keynote
June 3 and 6, 9:30 a.m. - noon
Reuter Center Room 207
Click here to register for the workshops.
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OLLI VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
MANNA Food Bank Team
Providing Thousands of Meals a Day to Feed Hungry People
Give your time and make a difference
Habitat for Humanity
Changing lives one house at a time
VOLUNTEER NOW...
Make A Difference!
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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY WITH APPALACHIAN WILD
Have A Passion for Wildlife?
Channel It!
Appalachian Wildlife Refuge was created out of the community's need for a place to bring injured and orphaned wildlife in need of care. Hundreds of animals have been helped since the Appalachian Wildlife Urgent Care facility was opened in Candler last July. It is expected it will serve 2,000 by year-end. As a small non-profit, Appalachian Wild urgently needs volunteers willing to share an average of four hours a week to help us save our native wildlife. There are opportunities for virtually any skillset from clerical, to technology, to transport, to helping out in the triage center.
Please visit
www.appalachianwild.org and apply. Once the form is completed, you will be contacted to set a time for a tour of the facility and help you find a spot that feels right for you.
We hope to hear from you today!
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 Stitch in Time
Monday, June 3, 2-4 p.m.
Reuter Center Lower Atrium
This is a fellowship group for stitchers of all types (knitting, crochet, quilting, needlepoint, embroidery, cross stitch, sewing, etc) to help encourage, inspire, and support each other. All skill levels are welcome!
SIG contact: Gay Lambirth, 281.433.1060, gaylambirth@yahoo.com
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The Forum
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Friday, June 7, 1 - 3 pm
Reuter Center, Room 207
TOPIC:
If you had the p
ower, what progamstic changes would you make to this country and the world we live in to make it a better place?
The weekly Forum encourages a free-flowing dialogue designed to enrich and expand participants thinking on a wide variety of topics frequently focusing on current events. All OLLI members are welcome to attend.
SIG Contact: Beth Johnson johnson1ea@earthlink.net
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Whole Foods/Plant Based Living
Special Interest Group
Friday, June 7,
11:30 am
Reuter Center, Room 102
WELCOME TO SUMMER Potluck Lunch
Please bring a dish to
share with recipe or ingredient list available, your own beverage in a
covered container, your table service and flatware (preferably non-disposable).
We all love new ideas for summer dishes!
**This is instead of our regular 3:15 First Friday afternoon meeting.
For More information, Please contact:
Bonnie Wheeler
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Carolinas' Nature Photographers Association
Member Portfolio Challenge
Sunday, June 9,
5:30 p.m.
Meet and Greet; Meeting Begins at 6 p.m.
Reuter Center 206
Carolinas' Nature Photographers' Association's twice per year portfolio challenge is designed to showcase members' work by having them present a common themed portfolio. Their collection may be taken from images over the years and combined by a common theme. If you are interested in sharing, please notify the co-coordinators at coordinator@cnpa-asheville.org.
The CNPA-Asheville Region's goal is to develop a group that will more fully experience the beauty of Western North Carolina through photography. Activities in the Asheville Region include monthly meetings, photo outings, seminars, workshops, exhibits, photo contests, and image critiques.
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 Meditation Special Interest Group
Reaching Alpha with Jacquie Wollins
Monday, June 10, 4:15 - 5:45 p.m.
Reuter Center, Room 120
The Meditation SIG explores different styles of meditation. This allows people to see which form of meditation they prefer. Come experience Functional Meditation, an adaptation of the Silva Method, and perhaps you will be inspired to take Jacquie's meditation course at OLLI. Or, having taken the course, come for a refresher meditation. Novices are welcome as Jacquie is so skilled in bringing everyone to the Alpha state. OM.
SIG contact: Sally Ekaireb,
skekaireb@gmail.com
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Bridge Buddies
Special Interest Group (SIG)
Open for New Members
Tuesday, 2-5 p.m.
The Bridge
Buddies SIG is an eclectic mix of advanced beginner to intermediate players who play in the Atrium on Tuesdays, 2-5 p.m. The group uses bidding boxes to eliminate questions about who bid what when. To check us out just come by and join us for an afternoon.
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Buncombe Chautauqua
"It's Revolutionary"
June 17-20, 7 p.m. each night
AB Tech's Ferguson Auditorium
340 Victoria Road, Asheville, NC 2880
Duel wits with Alexander Hamilton. Debate democracy with Andrew Jackson. Witness the end of Camelot with Jackie Kennedy. Struggle for human rights with Malcolm X.
Meet four amazing people at the center of a revolution. Hear their stories and ask them how their world changed.
At Chautauqua performers bring history alive by performing and then answering audience questions in character. Bring your stories. Share your experiences. Get inspired. Because it's not just history - it's personal.
All Buncombe Chautauqua shows will be held at AB Technical College in the Ferguson Auditorium,
340 Victoria Rd, Asheville NC
Tickets are $7 per show. All tickets are available only at
the door
. Groups that wish to be seated together must arrive by 6:30 p.m. The box office opens at 6 p.m. each show night. Cash or check only.
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Advance Care Planning Workshop
Thursday, June 20, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
The workshop will feature a panel whose members are experienced in addressing end-of-life issues. The discussion will include communicating your treatment wishes to loved ones and to medical personnel, ethical and legal issues, and the uses of advance directives.
Ample time will be reserved for questions. Assistance will be provided for anyone wishing to complete a legally valid advance directive, including the notarization required in North Carolina, using the NC ACP "Short Form".
Preparation for you to do
before the workshop:
If you have never been admitted to Mission Hospital, but want your advanced directives added to the Mission Medical Record,
click here for an Advance Directive Permission form to fill out. Also, if you have existing advance directives, you may mail the "Permission Form" along with a copy of your existing Advance Directive to Mission for addition to the Mission medical record (or you can get help doing this at the next ACP workshop).
This workshop is free and open to adults of all ages.
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Travel Special Interest Group
Friday, June 21, 2 - 4 pm
Reuter Center, Manheimer Room
Antarctica,
Photographs and Presentation on the Amazing 7
th
Continent, Antarctica
by Dr. Roger C. Helm, Marine Ecologist
Dr. Roger Helm worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for nearly 25 years. He focused on assessing the impact of oil and other contaminants on wildlife and pursuing restoration claims against companies that harmed plants and animals or their habitats:
"To me Antarctica is the most raw, primal, exciting, stunning, and awe-inspiring place on earth. It's the highest, coldest, windiest, and driest continent and, surprisingly, it's quite different from its cousin on the opposite pole. Please come and see for yourself why so many travelers interested in nature rank this trip at the top of their list. "
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Art Bazaar Registration and Information
OLLI's Art Bazaar is a way to showcase the talent of OLLI members. If you would like to be a part of the Art Bazaar, but need more information, contact:
Sheila Murphy at: murphy.sheila.a@gmail.com
Already know you want to participate? Great! Please print and fill out the registration form and return it to the OLLI front desk.
Slots are limited.
Remember to familiarize yourself with a few important reminders about the bazaar.
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Living Solo
OLLI's Living Solo group has grown to more than 100 members.
The group is comprised of OLLI members living independently and seeking connections. This is not a dating group, but is made up of individuals who want to do activities and make connections here in Asheville with OLLI members. This is a self-identifying group. If you have a significant other but feel solo, feel free to join. Please come join us and meet new people!
Join Living Solo for OLLI members through a Meetup app!
We started a group in Meetup called OLLI UNC Asheville Living Solo. It is a private group with only OLLI members included.
How to join!
- Join Meetup using your preferred email address; enter a password (your favorite or one unique to Meetup)!
- Search Groups using key word: OLLI or look around; we are there!
- Click the yellow OLLI UNC Asheville Living Solo image!
- Click the red Request to Join button
Any questions?
Contact Barbara Rapchak
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Dear OLLI Members,
We are just finishing our Creative Retirement Exploration Weekend, having shared information about relocation in retirement with a group of 66 people from 19 states. It is always gratifying to hear how excited people are when they see the many wonderful things that happen here at OLLI at UNC Asheville. We will publish a full list of our volunteers in next week's newsletter, but we are so grateful to the many people who share their time and talent to make these weekends possible.
We will be cleaning out the lost and found drawer at the end of the first week of summer courses, so let us know if you think you may have left something at the Reuter Center.
Remember that this is your community. If you have questions or suggestions or would like to serve on a committee or volunteer, please let us know by responding to this email,
Catherine Frank
Executive Director
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Check the links here to see OLLI and UNC Asheville current events:
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Help Us Clean Out the
Lost and Found Drawer!
Claim your items by
Friday, June 14, 5 p.m.
Our lost and found is full of coffee cups, water bottles, jackets, vests, cushions, notebooks, caps and a variety of things our members leave behind. We will clean out and donate everything to a local nonprofit on Friday, June 14, 5 p.m.
You can help us throughout the year by checking in the spaces around you as exit to make sure that you leave things as good or better than you found them and that you keep track of everything you bring into the building.
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Hunger Doesn't Take a Summer Vacation
When you are at OLLI, please remember to drop some change in the contribution jar for the Asheville Terrace Apartments food pantry. Money collected in the jar (located near the exit of the Reuter Café, by the recycling bins), helps provide nutritious food to the over 200 low-income senior citizens living at Asheville Terrace Apartments. A poster next to the jar explains the partnership between volunteers from OLLI, Asheville Terrace Apartments and the MANNA Foodbank that supports this effort. Donations are especially important in the summer months, as one of the other donors of food to Asheville Terrace Apartments has had to suspend its operations for the time being.
To make a contribution to the OLLI-ATA-MANNA partnership, make a check payable to MANNA FoodBank and add the following notation in the memo line or at the top of the check (or in a note sent along with the check): "For Asheville Terrace Apts, Acct no. 01087." Mail it to MANNA FoodBank, 627 Swannanoa River Road, Asheville, NC 28805-2445.
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Dr. Erika Hendrickson
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Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)
5 Keys to Communication:
Having Realistic Expectations and Advocating for Yourself
at Home and in Public
Dr. Erika Hendrickson,
Mountain Audiology
We
dnesday, June 5, 10:15 a.m.
Seymour Auditorium, CarePartners Campus
Building 22 (Top of the Hill),
68 Sweeten Creek Road
For more information about HLAA
contact David Nelson, 828.505.1874
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Sierra Club Meeting
Thursday, June 6, 7 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation
1 Edwin Place (corner of Charlotte and Edwin)
Asheville
Governor Cooper's Order
to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Cassie Gavins,
Sierra Club Lobbyist for the NC legislature, will talk about the governor's order to reduce NC's carbon emissions by 40% from 2005 levels by 2025 and explain what the order means and how citizens can help in the effort.
Free and open to everyone.
Contact: judymattox@sbcglobal.net, 828.683.2176
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 Astronomy Club of Asheville
Thursday, June 6, 7 p.m.
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
"From Small Step to Giant Leap: The Epic Lunar Voyages of Apollo"
This presentation, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, will trace the genesis of the Apollo program and what led the United States to engage the USSR in a race to the moon. We will discuss exactly how NASA sent spacecraft on a half million-mile journey through the vacuum of space, highlighting the mission hardware that allowed astronauts to land, walk, live and eventually drive on a world of inhospitable terrain with danger at each step. Finally, we'll cover the scientific and geological discoveries gleaned from Apollo, and briefly highlight each of the 9 missions that flew to the moon.
The Astronomy Club of Asheville meets the first Thursday of the month (except January and July), with an interesting lineup of speakers and topics. OLLI members may attend the club meetings and star gazes, with club members on hand to advise and assist them in the basics of astronomy and the techniques of observing celestial phenomena. For more information on the Astronomy Club of Asheville, including infrmation about speakers and topics,
visit their website at www.astroasheville.org
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 Financial Strategies in Retirement Special Interest Group (SIG) Meeting
Diversifying Assets Using Asset Allocation, Location Allocation and Income Allocation
Guest Speaker John Coleman
Friday, June 7, 1:30 p.m.
Reuter Center 205
John Coleman, Coleman Advisory, LLC John is an OLLI instructor, Certified Financial Planner and the founder and CEO at Coleman Advisory, LLC. His 37 years in the financial service business included a stint with Dean Witter and several executive positions at other major investment firms. He will discuss using asset, location and income allocation to diversify assets and maximize the tax efficiency of investment accounts and income streams. The meeting is open to all OLLI members.
Contact Kate Beatty for further information: kkbmom@yahoo.com or 828.231.7710. Check the kiosks for room information.
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Oral History Training Opportunity
Saturday, June 8, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Reuter Center Room 206
The Western North Carolina LGBTQ-A Oral History Project, with the support of the University of North Carolina-Asheville, and the YMCA of Western North Carolina, is sponsoring a training session on conducting oral histories regarding the LGBTQ communities and their allies in Western North Carolina.
The course will focus on methods and opportunities to participate in an LGBTQ-A Oral History project. All are welcome, but we are limited to 30 participants. Lunch will be served.
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The Autumn Players
Ancestral Voices
by A R Gurney
directed by RoseLynn Katz
Sunday, June 9, 2:30 p.m. /
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
Breaking the rules of her upper crust social world and shocking her family, an older woman in the years before World War II divorces her husband and marries another man. Told lovingly by her grandson as a child, and later, after he becomes a mature adult, this tale, written expressly to be read aloud, nostalgically shows how an entire way of life has been erased by the passing of time.
This event is open to everyone; tickets are $7 at the door.
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2019 Mental Wellness Walk
Saturday, June 15, 9 a.m.
Meet at Carrier Park Pavilion
220 Amboy Road, Asheville, NC 28806
Registration and Check-In begin at 9 a.m.
Walk and Program begin at 10 a.m.
The organizers of the 3rd Annual 5k Mental Wellness Walk
seeks to raise awareness of the importance of mental wellness and community resources that exist for people with mental health issues. All funds raised will support the work of All Souls Counseling Center and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Western Carolina.
All Souls Counseling Center is a nonprofit organization that provides quality mental health counseling to uninsured and underinsured residents of Western North Carolina. (
www.allsoulscounseling.org.)
NAMI Western Carolina
is an affiliate of NAMI, the nation's largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
www.namiwnc.org
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Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society
Jaguars and Birds of the Pantanal by Cherie Pittillo
Tuesday, June 18, 7:00 p.m.
Reuter Center, Manheimer Room
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Covering over 70,000 square miles, South America's Pantanal is the world's largest tropica
l wetland. A biodiversity
hotspot
, it boasts the highest concentration of wildlife on the continent. From Macaws and Spoonbills, to Anteaters and Anacondas, the Pantanal is home to an incredible array of fascinating species. The EMAS June program will focus on the birds of the Pantanal and on one of the most charismatic species found there, the Jaguar. Illustrated by incredible photographs, this presentation will touch on new research and common behaviors of jaguars. Pantanal bird species and their behaviors will also be featured. Join us for this virtual wildlife trip to one of the world's most incredible places.
Whether flying in a microlight over Africa, hanging out of a helicopter to photograph nature in the US, or dodging a charging rhinoceros, Cherie Pittillo
perhaps
owes her destiny to being the first baby born at the hospital in Bat Cave, NC. An author and award-winning photographer, Cherie's photographic publications vary from BBC books, Incredible Journeys, to the African and US editions of Reader's Digest. Her
monthly column, "Backyard Birding in Merida, Yucatan and Beyond", publishes in three online Mexican newspapers of The Yucatan Times
. Cherie
earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in biology with an emphasis on Zoology.
She's an avid, traveling birder and a former EMAS board member.
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Brevard Opera at OLLI
Tuesday, June 18, 4 p.m.
Reuter Center Manheimer Room
The College for Seniors Performing Arts Curriculum
Committee collaborates with the Brevard Music Festival to
bring to OLLI this summer a taste of three operas:
Carlisle Floyd's
Susannah,
Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and
Johann Strauss Jr.'s Die Fledermaus.
The six-week College for Seniors course The Brevard
Opera at OLLI is part of the regular summer term, with
three live performances embedded in the schedule.
Sessions 1, 3 and 5 of the course will be presented in the
usual manner of a College for Seniors course, from 2:30-5 p.m. on Tuesdays, June 11, 25 and July 9, with renowned
music director Pat Heuermann explaining the operas.
The instructor will continue with sessions 2, 4 and 6 on June
18, July 2 and 16, and those sessions will conclude with live performances by the young artists of the Janiec Opera
at Brevard performing parts of these three operas as well as other musical selections.
The three performance sessions on Tuesdays, June 18, July 2 and 16 by members of the Janiec Opera of Brevard
will be held from 4-5 p.m. in the Manheimer Room. The performances are open to all OLLI members and to UNC
Asheville students and faculty. A period of questions and answers with the Janiec performers will follow these
performances.
Sunday, June 9, 2:30 p.m. /
Reuter Center Manheimer Room.
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Wilma Dykeman Riverway
2019 Summer Series
Wilman Dykeman, RiverLink and the Wilma Dykeman Riverway
Saturday, June 22,
10 a.m. - Noon
Smoky Park Supper Club
Boathouse, 350 Riverside Drive
This event includes food and drink tastings and
illustrated presentations.
To register contact Garrett Artz, Executive
Director, RiverLink 828-252-8474 or
Jim Stokely, President, Wilma
Dykeman Legacy 828-458-5813
Paddling the French Broad River with Asheville GreenWorks
Saturday, July 27, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m.
Asheville GreenWorks Riverside O
ffice, 318 Riverside Drive
Participants will take a shuttle to Hominy Creek River Park,
220 Hominy Creek Road and board canoes,
kayaks and dories, then paddle down the
river. Asheville GreenWorks will share their
history and current activities. To register contact
Dawn Chávez, GreenWorks Executive Director
or Eric Bradford, Director of Operations,
Asheville GreenWorks 828-254-1776
Participation is limited to 20 persons.
The Woodfin Greenway / Blueway and a Creekside Train Ride
Saturday, August 17, 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Craggy Mountain
Line, 11 Woodfin Avenue
or meet at French Broad River Academy for Boys, 1990 Riverside Drive
The afternoon will include a train ride (which starts at 1:30 p.m., with participation limited to 35 people) and Illustrated presentations,
followed by a short tour of the French Broad
River Academy's sustainable facility. To register contact
Jason Young, Woodfin
Town Administrator 828-253-4887
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Mamie Hilliard and Kim Hayes
Thursday, June 27,
5:00 pm
Reuter Center, Room 206
When she first began writing poetry, and she discovered she had ideas to share, both her grandmothers appeared as her muse, encouraging her to work on reclaiming her own soul through writing. Writing poetry draws her deeper into wonder and surprise. An ordained Disciples of Christ minister, she holds a B.A. and Master of Divinity degrees. She was a long-time army wife, is the mother of three, a grandmother and great-grandmother. She has taken many classes at OLLI and the university-housed Great Smokies Writing Program. Her recent book,
". . . and to see takes time . . ."
is the result of her discovery of herself as a poet, contemplative spirit, and narrator of stories covering the arc of her life journey.
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Born and raised in central Florida, Kim spent her early years fishing with her dad, going to Sunday school, swimming, reading and playing the piano. Her teenage years were spent a little farther north in Tallahassee where she eventually graduated from Florida State University with a major in English-Creative Writing and a minor in Mass Communication. Kim's minor came into play when, after graduating, she moved to Asheville and worked as a radio copywriter and Creative Services Director for over two decades. During that time, she met and married Rick, and they became the parents of a daughter, Rachael. Writing continued to play an important role for Kim professionally in positions she later held as marketing director for a local credit union and at a religious conference center. Crafting words has been a passion for Kim since childhood. In retirement, she has found fresh energy and the gift of time for writing. She cherishes
the new community of poetry friends she now enjoys at OLLI.
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UNC Asheville Concerts on the Quad
June 24, July 8 and 15, 7 p.m. each night
UNC Asheville Quad
The 2019 season of Concerts on the Quad - UNC Asheville's free, outdoor Monday evening concert series - will
feature
concerts on June 24, July 8 and 15 beginning at 7 p.m. each night. Featuring music that spans many genres, Concerts on the Quad are family-friendly and informal, with lawn chairs, blankets and picnics welcome. Free parking is readily available on campus for these concerts; alcoholic beverages and pets are prohibited. For more information, call UNC Asheville's Highsmith Student Union at 828.251.6990.
June 24: METAL!
July 8: Brody Hunt and the Handfulls (honky tonk)
July 15: Che Apalache (Latingrass)
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