White Squirrel Festival In Brevard, NC - 04/11/08 11:46 PM
This year will mark the 5th Annual White Squirrel Festival and this year's dates are Saturday and Sunday May 24th and the 25th in downtown Brevard, North Carolina.  This year will feature the ever popular Squirrel Box Derby which is a go-cart race down Jailhouse hill in downtown Brevard.  For the first time this year The Rotary Club of Brevard will sponsor a 5K/10K White Squirrel Race.  The music lineup is impressive and over sixteen acts are scheduled for the two days -- ALL FREE.  The White Squirrel Festival has been voted "Best Spring Music Festival in Western North Carolina" in a … (3 comments)

Flat Rock North Carolina History - 04/06/08 02:37 AM
  The Cherokee Nation once proclaimed what today we know and love as Flat Rock as their hunting grounds.  For early settlers it became a place business people, planters and their families to escape malaria and the oppressive summer heat/humidity of coastal South Carolina.Merchants from the seaport of what is now known as Charleston would meet with Cherokee braves on the "Great Flat Rock" to do their trading of beads, trinkets, etc.  It was in 1807 that the "Great Flat Rock" gave the site a name for a pioneer settlement that would grow up around it in what would become Hendersonville NC.By 1827 Flat … (0 comments)