Category Archives: Asheville Attractions

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Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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WORLD News Service
Morning Star News
Association of Christian Schools International

Mohler begins QA podcast:
‘Ask Anything: Weekend Edition’

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) — “Ask Anything: Weekend Edition,” a new weekly segment of R. Albert Mohler Jr.’s “The Briefing” podcast, launched Saturday, Feb. 1, bringing back a popular feature of the former “The Albert Mohler Program” radio show that allowed listeners to pose questions to the theologian, author and broadcaster.

“Ever since the end of the Albert Mohler program, I’ve received many requests for a return to something like ‘Ask Anything Wednesday,'” said Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

The “Ask Anything Wednesday” feature was held each week during Mohler’s former daily, live radio show, which aired nationally 2004-10 over the Salem Radio Network. He discontinued the radio show to begin in 2010 “The Briefing” podcast, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview perspective.

Mohler noted the callers’ questions on “Ask Anything Wednesday” were wide-ranging

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When Elise Okrend creates pastel paintings, she experiences “a freeing of my mind,” she said, and feels connected to her true self.

Okrend hopes that her pastel landscapes, paired with mindful passages from her husband, Phil, will help other people “get into that space.”

The Asheville couple’s new coffee table book — “Messages to the Heart: Reflections of Beauty and Truth” — is designed to be a tool “that readers can use again and again to pull themselves through life’s challenges,” said Phil, who is a writer and professional coach.

The hardcover book features 37 of Elise’s paintings of the area’s natural beauty, such as the Blue Ridge Mountains, Lake Fontana and the Great Smokies.

The Okrends will make two local appearances in the next couple weeks to promote the book, which is available for $29.95 at The Kress Emporium, Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe, The Asheville Museum of Art Store, The Asheville Visitors Center Gift Shop and online at their www.messagestothe heart.com website and major book retailers.

Malaprop’s will host an author reading and book signing Sunday. Hotel Indigo will host a Valentine’s Day themed reception, book

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This little book went on to become a best seller and was adapted first as a movie (starring Olivia de Havilland) and, much later, as a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.

Spencer, who moved to Chapel Hill in the 1980s, wrote much more than “Piazza,” of course, and she kept writing – well into an age when most of her contemporaries have retired to the Barcalounger.

At 92, Spencer has brought forth a collection of nine luminous short stories, all published within the past decade. While not exactly avant-garde, her fiction is tight and gem-like, and it shows an author at the height of her considerable powers.

Spencer writes about the new, suburbanized South. Most of her characters are white, middle-aged (often, with children in college) and fairly middle-class. One is a medical researcher, another is a congressional aide but most seem to gravitate toward insurance.

Their religious preferences gravitate toward Presbyterian or Episcopalian – “the sort of religion that went with the wine and the candlelight.”

In most of their pasts, though, lies a family Big House where they spent riotous summers in their youth or childhood, and where elderly female relatives still reside amid stately decay. And, off in the woods, there still are

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The Abraham Kuykendall Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will conduct a Prospective Member Workshop in the auditorium in the Henderson County library from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 1, followed by a tour of the Research Room. To enroll, or those with questions, call Frances Reese at 828-692-8685 or Ginger Seay at 828-890-3553.

Kathleen Rehl will speak at a workshop and luncheon from 9:30-11:30 a.m. Feb. 21 at First Baptist Church, 312 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville. Rehl will explain how grief sabotages thinking and decision making, three stages of widowhood and money implications, financial steps for recent widows, money pitfalls to avoid and more.

The workshop is free and open to the public. It is being presented by the Women’s Financial Empowerment Center of OnTrack Financial Education Counseling and is sponsored by Doll Associates Long Term Care Insurance Services, Davis Financial Planning and WNC Geriatric Care Management.

The cost is $20 and includes lunch and a free copy of “Moving Forward On Your Own.” Pre-registration by Feb. 14 is required. Contact Dawn at 828-225-9585 or Dawn@LTConly.com.

Asheville SCORE presents a free seminar for aspiring entrepreneurs: “Accounting Responsibilities” from 8:45 a.m. to noon Saturday at the A-B Tech Enka

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In her new office, the first thing Discovery Place Director Catherine Wilson Horne unpacked was a red horseshoe magnet, a device emblematic of the Charlotte science center’s mission and her goal as its president.

“We want to draw people to us, and we want to be drawn to people in the community,” said Horne, who took over Jan. 27 as only the third leader in the institution’s 32-year history.

In a broader sense, the magnet represents the two poles Discovery Place finds itself between today. It weathered the recession as well as or better than any cultural destination in Charlotte, with a strong balance sheet and without dipping into reserves.

But Discovery Place is entering a fragile era in which it must carefully navigate the troubling economic reality besetting other nonprofits – decreased philanthropic donations from traditional sources and a need to keep the turnstiles whirling.

State support for the museum’s educational math and science initiatives to students in the region has fallen by about half to $261,000 and operating and programming grants from the Arts Science Council have fallen a third to about $1 million.

Horne will need to lead the center to

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Presbyterian College
Sports Information

The Presbyterian College women’s basketball team (5-16, 3-9 Big South) welcomes the Winthrop Eagles (15-6, 9-3 Big South) to Templeton Center for a Saturday afternoon matinee matchup at 2 p.m.

The Blue Hose snapped a three-game losing streak with a decisive 55-41 win over UNC Asheville on Thursday night and hope to knock off the Big South Conference’s top team in Winthrop. All five of PC’s wins this season have come at Templeton Center and Thursday’s result evened the team’s league record at home to 3-3.

Winthrop holds a 17-3 record over the Blue Hose, with all three PC wins coming in the last eight meetings. The Blue Hose last downed the Eagles in the 2011-12 season as Winthrop won both meetings last season and the tilt earlier this year on December 28, 55-50. The Eagles’ 55 points mark the fewest for the squad in a Big South Conference game this season. Keyonna Allen and Karlee Taylor led the Blue Hose with 15 points apiece against Winthrop and Allen and Smith each grabbed 10 rebounds.

Winthrop brings a 9-3 Big South Conference record into Saturday’s game, tying the Eagles with High Point atop the league standings. The squad

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Fiber expo Sunday at Historic Johnson Farm

The Heritage Weavers and Fiber Artists are having a free expo from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Historic Johnson Farm, 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville.

Visitors are invited to try their hands at the crafts offered at HWFA.

New classes are being offered this year in Appalachian basket-making. While bobbin lace-making has been offered for many years, now the age-old art of tatting will also be taught.

The spinning classes range from beginning wool spinning to cotton spinning and spinning art yarn. There are 12 instructors who will offer 19 classes this spring in a variety of fiber arts.

For more information, call 891-6585 or visit www.historicjohnsonfarm.org.

Film Society to show ‘White Heat’

The Hendersonville Film Society will show the 1924 silent film “White Heat,” directed by Raoul Walsh, at 2 p.m. Sunday at Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

“White Heat” has been described as one of the most spectacular American silent films. The film has been restored by the Museum of Modern Art. The showing is 140 minutes and open to the public.

For more information, call 697-7310.

‘Frankie and Johnny in Clair de Lune’ Thursday

Johnnie Jeff Catanese and Cary Nichols, in partnership with

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