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Date set for Ground Steak Festival
DOBSON — The dessert dish known as the sonker isn’t the only food item with roots firmly “grounded” in Surry County. There is also the ground steak sandwich that will be celebrated at an upcoming event. “It really is a Surry County thing,” Coordinator Travis Frye of the Dobson Tourism Development Authority is fond of saying. The unique sandwich will be the focus of the second-annual North Carolina Ground Steak...
Local book to be featured at national book festival
RALEIGH —Two books have been chosen to represent North Carolina in the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival, and one of those has local ties. Bountiful Red Acres: Two Farms, Two Families, and a Year on the Land written by Eileen Heyes and illustrated by Dare Coulter, is a book aimed at young readers in the age range of 8 to 11. The story is designed to let those readers get a taste of farm life in the North Carolina Piedmont through Bountiful Red...
Stories and songs in Boonville
A new series of events entitled “Stories and Songs” is slated to begin Thursday, May 30 at 6 p.m. in the Regional Studies Room of the Boonville Community Public Library. “The purpose of the Stories and Songs Series is to help build a sense of community, keep traditions alive, and better understand the unique culture of Appalachia and the mountain valley hill country of Surry, Wilkes, and Yadkin. Words and music show us where we’ve been, who we are, and most importantly where we are...
Garden party gala raises funds for Hugh Chatham Health Foundation
As is tradition, wine festival weekend in Elkin kicked off on May 17 with the Hugh Chatham Health Foundation's annual fundraising gala. This year's gala, hosted at Coley Hall in The Liberty in downtown Elkin, had a garden party theme. Guests showed up and showed out in their finest frocks to support this vital part of the Yadkin Valley health community. The gala has been a part of wine fest weekend nearly since its inception more than 20 years ago. Local wine is served, alongside...
NC Trail Days 2024 brings events to Jonesville May 30 – June 2
The fifth annual NC Trail Days Festival is planned for May 30 through June 2 with events happening in Jonesville and Elkin. Elkin and Jonesville have become destinations for hikers, paddlers and nature-lovers as the region boasts three great state trails: the NC Mountains-to-Sea Trail, the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, and the Yadkin River State Trail. Jonesville will host numerous events during the festival including trivia night, night hikes,...
Guest Column: A tribute to EHS music teacher Tonya Smith
The year was 1976. I was in Mrs. Fosters fifth grade class at North Elkin Middle School. As a new arrival to North Elkin, I learned of the annual talent show. Time to let this place know that I’ve arrived. There was only one thing to do — gift the adoring crowd with my rendition of “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” by Jim Croce. I knew the words by heart. I sang along with the radio every time it played. Mrs. Foster said there was a little girl in the seventh grade that could play the piano, and might be persuaded...
Perry to talk about White Sulphur Springs on Sunday
Local author and historian Tom Perry will be presenting part of his Tom Talks History series on Sunday, discussing his new book, “White Sulphur Springs North Carolina: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” “This 100 page book tells the history of the White Sulphur Springs on Riverside Drive, Highway 104, just north of Mount Airy,” he said of the new publication. Perry said there was once a nearly 200 room resort hotel along the Ararat River, where people came to drink sulphur water that smelled like rotten...
Family influences dominate Mills Farm
The first in a series highlighting each of the six private gardens featured on this year’s Mount Airy Blooms Garden Tour scheduled for Saturday, June 8. The tour is presented by Mount Airy’s three garden clubs. Proceeds will benefit a variety of charities. Ticket-holders will have a bonus opportunity to drive through the Healing and Prayer Garden at Northern Hospital of Surry County. Tickets for the Mount Airy Blooms Garden Tour are available at Eventbrite.com, the Mount Airy Visitors Center and at each garden site on the day of the tour. Advance tickets are $20 while tickets on the day...
Yadkin Valley Festival toasts NC’s top wine region
ELKIN — The Yadkin Valley Wine Festival celebrates North Carolina’s premier wine region each spring with a day of wine, food, music and art. This year’s festival is set for Saturday, May 18, at Elkin Municipal Park and features 16 wineries from Yadkin Valley wine country. The park setting allows patrons to bring chairs or blankets and spend the afternoon relaxing in the sun or under shade trees. “It’s nice...
'Women in Old-Time Music' exhibit to open
For Immediate Release May 8th, 2024 Museum to Feature New Traveling Exhibit Perhaps nothing is identified with Surry County more than its place in old time music history, and now the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History will be focusing on the role of women in that musical genre with its new exhibit, “I’ve Endured:...
Surry County should be spared Cicada problems
This year marks the emergence of periodical cicadas. Two broods, one 13-year (XIX) and one 17-year (XIII) will emerge soon from underground nests across a large section of the Eastern United States. Fortunately, North Carolina will only experience Brood XIX, a.k.a., the Great Southern Brood. We have not seen these 13-year cicadas since 2011. Even better news, not all counties in North Carolina will see a cicada emergence. Based on historical data from the University of Connecticut, fewer than 20 North Carolina counties can expect...
Historic house tours resume Saturday
The public has the chance to tour one of the oldest homes in the region this weekend, when an annual open house series resumes at the historic Edwards-Franklin House. This is a free event to be held from 1 to 5 p.m. on both Saturday and Sunday by the Surry County Historical Society, which owns the site at 4132 Haystack Road west of Mount Airy. A host will be on...
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