The Folklore of Lake Lure
Lake Lure rests in the Hickory Nut Gorge in Rutherford County and is a town of great natural beauty with a scenic mountain lake as its centerpiece. It is also a town of myths, legends, and the paranormal. Lake Lure was the vision of Dr. Lucius B. Morse who saw the potential for a mountain […]
Video: Western North Carolina Air Museum
Video: Henderson County Heritage Museum
VIDEO: Aquarium and Shark Lab by Team ECCO
Team ECCO was founded in 2001 as a grassroots ocean learning program to reach youth and adults in WNC. Our first classroom was established in 2009 in a simple 800 sq foot room with space for small classes. In 2011, we opened the first inland aquarium in NC: the Team ECCO Ocean Center & Aquarium. […]
Flat Rock Playhouse
The Flat Rock Playhouse is one of the founding fathers of theatre in Western North Carolina. The Flat Rock Playhouse’s roots go all the way back to about 1940. A ragtag group of struggling actors that called themselves the Vagabond Players was formed in New York in the late 1930’s. They were led by London […]
