Day: June 2, 2012
Box Creek Wilderness gets new lease on life after development plan fizzles
Large areas of untrammeled nature are increasingly hard to come by in North Carolina — especially where the mountains meet the Piedmont, the state’s most urbanized and densely populated region. But every so often, wilderness gets a reprieve. So it is with the Box Creek Wilderness, a 3,300-acre link between the Blue Ridge and the South Mountains just east of Asheville.
The Signature Winds woodwind quintet to play on Sunday
The Signature Winds, a woodwind ensemble from Sylva, performs works by Handel, Gounod (pictured) and others on Sunday, June 3 at St. Matthias’ Episcopal Church on Dundee Street. The intricate woodwork of the chapel, built in the late 19th-century, makes for one of the warmest, resonant listening experiences in town.
