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CONTENTSUnique Destinations Less Than 200 Miles From Home 6

Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials And Dog Festival 15

Fun For The Whole Family? Surely You Joust! 17

Museum Dedicated To Airborne & Special Operations 18

The Best Is A Head 21

Film Junkies Guide to North Carolina 24

AmeriCarna Live Star-Studded Car Show 28

We Tel l you where to go! Whet her you a re a long

time resident or new to the area, you’ll find destinations here that w i l l have you say ing “I never knew that was there.”

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So, i f you are looking for new destinations to explore on your own, or ideas for things to do with friends and family you will find something new each month in your destination magazine.


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Unique Destinations Less Than 200 Miles From Home St. Stan’s Polish Festival Saturday, November 1, 4849 Castle Hayne Rd, Castle Hayne, NC 28429. Come join the annual event that draws thousands of visitors from near and far! The St. Stan’s Polish Festival offers the opportunity to feast on authentic Polish food all day long and watch as traditional dancers show their skills. There will be loads of kids activities and entertainment including “The Chardon Polka Band,” a craft sale, raffles and more, so make sure not to miss out on this authentic Polish event right here in Wilmington! www.ststanspolishfestival.org

Statesville Pumpkin Fest Sat, November 1, 10am – 5pm Historic Downtown Statesville, North Carolina. Highlights of the 2014 Festival include Festival Kid Zone Games, Rides and Activities such as Pumpkin Bowling, Pumpkin Painting and even Pumpkin Smashing - Over 60 Art and Craft Exhibitors - A Variety of Tantalizing Food Booths - Three Entertainment Stages - Cornhole Tournament - Classic Car Cruise-In on Court Street - Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest - Pumpkin Fest 5K Race & Fun Run/Walk. www.statesvillepumpkinfest.com

7th Annual Colfax Persimmon Festival Saturday, November 1, 558 N Bunker Hill Rd, Oak Ridge, NC 27310. Featuring: Persimmon products, including persimmon pudding and pulp - Persimmon history - Lots of food vendors and music (several bands) - Apple cider & apples - Stonefield Cellars wine - Arts & crafts tents - Blacksmith/Woodworker/Chainsaw Artist /Flintnapper - Civil war encampment w/cannon/Revolutionary war encampment w/cooking demo - Children’s area w/vintage games

- Vintage car show; Tractor and vintage farm equipment show. www.colfaxpersimmonfest.com

8th Annual Highlands Culinary Weekend November 6 – 8, Highlands, NC 28741. Join us as we embrace Highlands’ majestic mountain location, boundless activities, appealing accommodations, unique retail shops & extraordinary cuisine. Throughout the weekend, fill your itineraries

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with an array of activities, cooking demonstrations, tastings and dinners hosted by area restaurants, merchants and accommodations. Experience the wares of Highlands’ fine shops by attending the annual Sip & Stroll in our beautiful downtown area. It’s truly a wonderful experience to see a community come together for this celebration of Highlands. We invite you to be a part of this grand affair. www.highlandsculinaryweekend.com

Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials And Dog Festival November 8 – 9, Historic Rural Hill, 4431 Neck Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078. A fun filled festival running November 8 – 9 featuring the United States Border Collie Handlers’ Association, Carolina Dock Dogs, Laura Moretz of the Purina Incredible Dog Team, the Greater Charlotte Shetland Sheepdog Club, and more! www.ruralhill.net

2nd Annual Climbin’ the Chimney Sat, November 8, 11am – 3pm at Chimney Rock State Park, 431 Main St, Chimney Rock, NC 28720. Experience Chimney Rock from a rope with the Southeast’s leader in rock climbing education, Fox Mountain Guides. For beginners, try climbing Vista Rock and rapelling, or for experienced climbers, test your skills on two difficult routes up the Chimney. For a big thrill, try rappelling 200 feet down the Chimney like Santa does every December (costs extra, expert rappellers only)! Profits benefit a local non-profit. All equipment is provided. www.chimneyrockpark.com

3rd Annual Tryon Beer Fest Sat, November 8, 12pm – 6pm Depot St, Tryon, NC 28782. An array of craft beers will be available along with an Oyster Roast, authentic German food, and other treats. The Oyster Roast starts at 12:30 and will go until they’re all gone. Non-alcoholic beverages and water will be available. Live Bavarian music will be played during the day then we’ll rock out with a live band later in the afternoon! We’ve done away with sampling tickets, so admission gets you unlimited beer and wine samples. www.tryonbeerfest.com

Pumpkin Prowl 2014 Sat, November 8, 12:30pm – 3:00pm 676 E Hughes Mill Rd, Burlington, NC 27217 No one knows how to play with pumpkins better than the residents at the Conservators Center. Pumpkins are a good

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source of entertainment for the animals; our lions, tigers and wolves think they have an intriguing smell, and they are the perfect shape for gnawing, tossing and chasing. The binturongs and lemurs also like digging into pumpkins full of fruit and Jell-O! Visitors can help select and decorate the pumpkins we give to our animals. The pumpkin carving begins at 11:30am. www.zerve.com/BeWilderNC/Pumpkin

Fonta Flora Brewery Is Turning One! Sat, November 8, 3pm – 11pm, 317 N Green St, Morganton, NC 28655. Live music, local food and locally crafted beer. Special release of Echoview Estate, Appalachian Tripel and a VERY special release of 2013 Urban Monk, a Defiant Whisky Infused Imperial Stout. Also the first ever bottle release of Double Hop Beard. www.fontaflora.com

Mooresville Veteran’s Day Parade & Celebration Tuesday, Nov 11, Richard’s Coffee Shop / Military Museum, 165 N Main St, Mooresville, NC 28115. The parade will begin at Richards following a brief ceremony and travel to Mooresville Town Hall lawn where celebrations will include free food and music. Come out and support our vets - our hometown heroes! www.facebook.com/pages/Mooresville-Veterans-Day/331987330306095

Valdese Christmas In November Tue, November 11, 9am – 4pm Old Rock School 400 Main Street West Valdese, NC 28690. Enjoy a day in Valdese and get your Christmas shopping done early. With over 30


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Christmas Tree Farm Choose & Cut Season November 15 – Dec 24, A trip up the Blue Ridge Mountains to Alleghany County and Sparta, North Carolina, is a great way to get in the Christmas spirit. This is an activity the entire family will enjoy and the pastoral countryside and the quaint town of Sparta will only add to your holiday spirit. Plus you get the fresh-cut advantage with your tree. Our local Choose and Cut tree farms will provide a wonderful experience for your whole family! Go for a hay ride, let your children visit with farm animals, or have a cup of steaming hot chocolate while enjoying a relaxing day with one of our local tree growers. There are many options to choose from! www.sparta-nc.com/choose_and_cut.php

Time Travelers Weekend November 15 – 16, 16445 Poplar Tent Rd, Huntersville, NC 28078. Patrons don’t need a Passport to Time Travel to the Renaissance! Dress as your favorite Time Traveler or dress as a character inspired by your favorite movie, TV program, comic book, work of science fiction and/or fantasy - all are welcome! Participate in the Time Traveler’s costume contest at 2:30 PM at The Haven (next to the Joust) and win prizes! www.royalfaires.com

Wheels Through Time Raffle Weekend Saturday, Nov 15, 62 Vintage Ln, Maggie Valley, NC 28751. WTT is proud to introduce the 12th Annual Wheels Through Time Raffle Bikes!!! Yep, you heard us right. Wheels Through Time is giving away not one, but TWO genuine Harley-Davidson Flathead Bobbers November 15th 2014! www.wheelsthroughtime.com

Violins and Vines at Adagio Vineyards Sat, November 15, 2pm – 4pm Adagio Vineyards 139 Benge Rd Elkin, NC 28621. Adagio Vineyards will present a monthly series of violin performances, Violins and Vines, featuring Susan Perkins of Salem College of Music Faculty and Dr. Jan Wahl of Adagio Vineyards playing one of her handcrafted violins. Music is 2-4pm. www.adagiovineyards.com

Festival of Lights at Tanglewood Park Sat, November 22, 6pm – 11pm Tanglewood Park. Tanglewood’s Festival of Lights continues to be one of the largest and most spectacular light shows in the southeast. From storybook scenes to Holiday themes, over one hundred displays and over a million lights fill Tanglewood Park with the splendor and joy of the holiday season. Open 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. www.forsyth.cc/Parks/Tanglewood/

70th Annual Mooresville Christmas Parade Tuesday, Nov 25, 154 W Iredell Ave, Mooresville, NC 28115. Generations of locals and visitors alike have enjoyed the numerous floats, dance and enter tainment groups, marching bands, and merchants displaying their holiday spirit

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8th Annual Black Cask Festival Fri, November 28, 3pm – 8pm Triangle Brewing Co, 918 Pearl St, Durham, NC 27701. The NC Black Friday Cask Festival is always scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving from 3:00pm to 8:00pm! Tickets are available through Eventbrite or you can buy them at the door. This cask festival features only NC breweries. A Cask, is a special keg that the beer has been naturally carbonated in and the beer is served at cellar temperature (55F). Many of the casks have been specially dry hopped and/or have had specialty ingredients added to the beer. www.trianglebrewery.com/on-sale-black-friday-cask-festival-tix/

Americarna Live 2014 Saturday, November 29, Ingersoll Rand, 800 Beaty St, Davidson, NC 28036. Ray Evernham’s second annual AmeriCarna LIVE car show presented by Ingersoll Rand and MSC Industrial Supply Co. www.americarnatv.com/americarna-live/2014/

Santa on the Chimney Sat, December 6, 11am – 2pm at Chimney Rock State Park, 431 Main St, Chimney Rock, NC 28720. How is Santa able to climb down millions of chimneys around the world in a single night? He practices, of course. Meet Santa and Mrs. Claus, enjoy live holiday music, hot cocoa, cookies and kids’ activities, plus meet live critters. This rappelling Santa was recently ranked as one of the “8 Most Extreme Santas in the World” by Buzzfeed. Win a Free Climb with Santa’s Elves! www.chimneyrockpark.com/events/


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Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials And Dog FestivalA fun fi l led fe st iva l r unn ing

November 8 – 9 featuring the United States Border Collie Handlers’ Association, Carolina Dock Dogs, Laura Moretz of the Purina Incredible Dog Team, the Greater Charlotte Shetland Sheepdog Club, and more!

What better way to wrap up the fall season than with your canine pal and several hundred of their new best friends? Bring your family, friends, and dog (or dogs) to the Rural Hill Sheepdog Trials and Dog Festival for one of the area’s best known dog events, now in its twentieth year! No other dog festival in the area can offer more fun or variety!

Don’t miss a thing! National Border Collie Sheepherding Championships will be held over the two day event, as will as Carolina Dock Dogs and Dog Sports demonstrations featuring the Greater Charlotte Shet land Sheepdog Club and others! Also on hand will be North Carolina beer

and wine, heritage breed livestock, hay rides, historic craft and cooking demos, food vendors, shopping, open trails, antique tractors, living history demonstrations in the 1760’s cabin, pumpkin chunkin’*, corn launchin’, kid’s activities, and much more!

* Bring your old Fall pumpkins and let us chunk em’ into the field for you using our large, powerful, and explosively fun catapult! This hallmark feature of the Sheepdog Trials will launch your orange friend as much as 40 feet into the air: Newton’s law of gravity still applies however, and it will

soon land with a splat in our field.

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Fun For The Whole Family? Surely You Joust!Jousting is given a 21st Century

roar of approval at the Carolina Renaissance Festival. Jousting is now, as it was 500 years ago, a merrie sport; a make-believe pageant of Sir Galahads and Sir Lancelots, of villainous Black Knights versus the virtuous Red Knights, mounted on thundering steeds, plumes waving, chain mail clanking and the festival crowd sarcastically screaming “Cheat to win!”

On Fall weekends in the Carolina piedmont, Knights will again strap on the heavy suits of armor, settle astride snorting chargers, take up their lances and tilt with each other. These Knights are regular performers at more than a dozen “Renaissance Villages” around the country and will be battling at the Carolina Renaissance Festival on a large tournament field within the Festival just north of Charlotte, North Carolina.

The origins of jousting are believed to be in classical Rome, but the “sport” rose to its greatest popularity in Europe by the 1400’s. It all evolved from mock battles in which knights on horseback, assisted by foot soldiers, formed into teams and charged at

each other in some wide meadow. The result was a melee of shattered lances, clanging swords, flailing arms and legs – astride and afoot – that went on all day and into the night. The earliest recorded melee was in 1066 A.D., though mock combat had probably been around for at least a century by then.

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Modern re-creations of Renaissance e r a jou st i ng tour n a ment s a re depictions of historical events, coming from a time of high ideals, noble causes, and grand chivalry.

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The Best Is A HeadFonta Flora Brewery Celebrates One Year Nov. 8

It seems only yesterday when I heard about a North Carolina Brewery

crafting a wonderfully unique North Carolina/Appalachian style of beer. By utilizing local grains provided by Riverbend Malt House and foraging the countryside for wild flora, we are taking brewing back to its agricultural roots.

Fonta Flora partners David Bennett, Brewmaster Todd Boera, and Mark Bennett created a tasting room that functions as a community meeting place, much like a traditional pub. Every time we stop in to see what new creations are on tap we always leave having made a few new friends.

Fonta Flora crafts beer from beets, figs, carrots, oysters, ramps, dandelions, sunflowers, rye grass, alfalfa, clover, and a wagon full other “foraged” ingredients. Todd takes farm to table to a whole new level! Don’t think that these are novelty beers, quite the contrary. Each is work of living art. In fact Fonta Flora, just brought home a Gold Medal from the Great American Beer Festival in Denver for their Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout Irish Table.

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Film Junkies Guide to North CarolinaLake James State ParkLake James State Park The park is located on N.C 126 in B urke and McD owel l counties near Morganton and Marion. For information, call (828) 584-7728.

The list of film credits for Lake James State Park, located in the

foothills near Morganton, is short but A-list all the way. Film junkies can explore the more than 150 miles of shoreline and visit the location of Fort William Henry, the centerpiece setting for The Last of the Mohicans. Though little remains of the set today, the beauty of the area is just as it was in the film. Numerous devotees of the movie still seek out the foundation markings. Besides being the British stronghold of Colonel Munro (Maurice Roe’ves), this site was also the location of the French camp. Other memorable scenes filmed here include the canoe escape led by Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) and the sequence when Duncan (Steven Waddington) falls during the Massacre Valley scene. All of the Mohicans locations are near the Haney’s Island/White Creek area of the park. If you’re lucky, members of the park staff will guide you to the spots used in the film.

Lake James also appears in the Sean Connery/Alec Baldwin thriller The Hunt for Red October, though just barely. It seems the executive producer was unhappy with the film’s ending, and a location was needed for quick reshoots. Lake James had the right look, so a two-day shoot was done here between Christmas and New Year’s Day. The lake may have been a good-luck charm for the sound crews of

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AmeriCarna Live Star-Studded Car ShowRay Evernham’s second annual

Amer iCarna LIVE car show presented by Ingersoll Rand and MSC Industrial Supply Co. will be held on Saturday, November 29th from 10am to 4pm. The show will again be open to all cars and held at Ingersoll Rand’s North American Corporate Headquarters in Davidson, N.C.

“Americarna LIVE is the celebration of car culture and what better place to host it than in the town of Davidson, N.C., which personifies the classic American community,” said Ray Evernham, an avid car collector and long-time Lake Norman-area resident.

“With support from our Davidson-based corporate partners Ingersoll Rand and MSC Industrial Supply Company, Americarna LIVE will serve as a great holiday activity for the whole family and also raise awareness and funding for IGNITE.”

At AmeriCarna LIVE, auto enthusiasts will have the opportunity to display their cars along side the unique rides that belong to the NASCAR community’s top stars while the

Ve loc it y Ch annel fi lm s for an upcoming episode of AmeriCarna LIVE.

The AmeriCarna LIVE car show will benefit IGNITE, a new community center in Davidson for young adults with high functioning autism (HFA) or Asperger’s Syndrome (AS). IGNITE offers activities, skills training, and educational workshops that will foster social, financial, educational, and employment independence for its members. But most importantly, IGNITE offers a social environment where members can connect with others and experience a sense of community.

Ingersoll Rand Campus 800 Beaty St.Davidson, NC

To register your car and check out more details on the show, visit www.AmericarnaTV.com/LIVE.

IGNITE is a program of the Autism Society of North Carolina. For more information on IGNITE visit www.autismsociety-nc.org.


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