Friday, October 1, 2010

Tonight's Sylva After Dark - a Hometown Experience

For those of us who long for a bygone day when an evening stroll down a city street was a fitting end to a hard-worked week there is a little town in the Western North Carolina mountains ready to take us "home".

Sylva NC may be one of the lesser known NC mountain towns, but once you've been there it will become one of your favorites. Tonight's Sylva After Dark is the perfect opportunity to explore this special place with an of evening of art, music, food, shopping and lots of friendly, smiling faces.

Begin your stroll at  It’s by Nature (678 W. Main St.) as the gallery hosts an artist demonstration/reception with Tara Melton-Miller demonstrating Kumihimo, a form of Japanese braiding. Meet the artist from 6-9 PM and enjoy live music and wine & cheese.  At  City Lights Book Store (3 Jackson St.)  Susan Gregg Gilmore, author of Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, will be reading from her new novel, The Improper Life of Bezillia Grove at 7 PM.  The Spring Street CafĂ© (3 E. Jackson St.) offers live music and a terrific menu  mixing local freshness with eclectic originality.

Stop by Annie’s Naturally Bakery (506 W. Main St.) for a bread tasting from 5 PM - 8 PM with toasted Whole Wheat Walnut bread topped with Annie’s scrumptious Pumpkin Butter - wash it down with Smoky Mountain Roaster’s Pumpkin Spice coffee.  Gallery One (604 W. Main St.) will host an opening night event  from 6 PM - 9 PM for the exhibition, “Hand + Craft: A Jackson County Celebration".  At Papou’s Wine Shop and Bar find  a free wine tasting from 6 PM - 9 PM or stop by The Wilderness Society  (563 West Main Street, Suite 1) for poetry and art  from 6 to 9PM featuring the Dreams and Distillations series of Rabun County artist Honor Woodard, and local poets Thomas Rain Crowe and Laurence Holden.

And don't forget Sylva's own brewery,  Heinzelmannchen Brewery for a Food & Beer Pairing from 5 PM - 8 PM.

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