Coming to visit Appalachian State is a big step in the right direction!  Whether you’re coming for your first visit through the admissions office or coming back for homecoming to that BIG game where you’ll see people you haven’t seen in years; finding a convenient, comfortable place to stay is important…after all this location will be part of the memory of Parent’s Weekend or Graduation!

Remember when you were in college, how great was it to have a home cooked meal and have Mom do your laundry!  Stay at our house…the perfect way to bring the family together and still be close to the FUN at ASU.

For more info, visit: http://www.goapprentals.com/

The High Country Host is a regional travel promotion organization.  For more information on accommodations, attractions, dining or shopping in the area please visit www.mountainsofnc.com or call 800-438-7500.

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Do you know a student that would love to go to a camp where there are no biting insects or poison ivy? Well look no further than Appalachian State University this summer! High School students can enjoy a two-week residential Russian immersion camp; study the human skeleton and practice surgery (not on humans!); immerse themselves in drawing, painting, casting and digital media while making art that matters; tackle the age old question, “What is math good for?” at Math Camp; and learn the ins and outs of social media tools at Appalachian Youth Technology Business Camp.

Younger students can join in the fun as well! Math Camp is for everyone, both those that love it and those that fear it. Future authors of the world will love Writing4Fun Camp where they will learn all sorts of social media skills and be able to share their written work with the whole planet. How cool is that?! Animal Studies campers will have the opportunity to study (and hold!) live salamanders, lizards, snakes, and turtles, and plenty of preserved animal specimens as well. And, who knows? Campers at Camp Invention might just start their journey to being the next Thomas Edison, Virginia Apgar, or Mary Anderson (inventor of the windshield wiper, for those not in the know)!

Appalachian offers enrichment opportunities for every age from first grade through high school graduates. There are camps for every budget too. Some offer financial aid, and one is even free! You can learn more about these programs, and dozens more, at http://www.camps.appstate.edu/

For more info on The High Country of North Carolina, call (800) 438-7500, or visit www.MountainsofNC.com.

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Summer Craft Enrichment classes are now enrolling, and the 2011 summer series offers something for everyone. Are you already in the High Country for the summer, and ready to get out and make new connections? Classes in pottery, fiber spinning, and stain glass start in the next few weeks.

Are you a High Country weekend visitor? Beginning in June, you can take Saturday classes in stain glass, glass fusing, or sewing. There are also pottery day and evening classes in June and July, and evening classes in jewelry, quilting, drawing, and painting. There is even a four day mosaics class in August… really, there is a class to fit every schedule!

Whether you are an advanced student or someone who wants to get started on a new hobby, these lively and creative classes are energizing. You will learn alongside fellow artists-at-heart, and have time to explore your creative self while you see where an idea leads. Small classes provide individual attention from faculty who are dedicated professionals, both as teachers and craft artists.

Interested? You can read more about all our summer classes at www.craftenrichment.com!

For more info on The High Country of North Carolina, call (800) 438-7500, or visit www.MountainsofNC.com.

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Academically gifted students still have time to sign up for a week of summer fun, but don’t delay because some sessions are nearly full! For students currently in grades 3-5, there are five weeks of day camp, with themes such as The Life Aquatic, a Broadstone Sampler, and Blue Ridge Base Camp. Most day camp sessions include one overnight at camp, for campers ready for a taste of residential camp life.

There are also three, one-week sessions of residential camp for students currently in grades 4-6. Five nights at camp allows plenty of time for all the adventure and enrichment classes, as well as evening skits, swim parties, and group games.There are also a few openings left for older campers in grades 4-9, who can register for two-week sessions.

The Summer Enrichment Programs for Academically Gifted Youth provides current 4th through 9th grade students an opportunity to explore a blend of enrichment classes and adventure programs that are designed to encourage and foster intellectual, social and physical growth.

All registration information and qualification forms are available at www.campbroadstone.com

For more info on The High Country of North Carolina, call (800) 438-7500, or visit www.MountainsofNC.com.

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The Turchin Center for Visual Arts invites you to celebrate a fantastic Spring Exhibition.   The Turchin Center is located at 423 West King Street in Downtown Boone.  This event will be held from 7:00 to 9:00pm, on Friday April 1^st.  This event is FREE and open to the public! 

There will be Food, Live Music, a Cash Bar and a chance to meet the artists!  On the first Friday on each month the Turchin Center participates in the Downtown Boone’s First Friday Art Crawl, and this celebration is part of Aprils.  The Spring Exhibition Celebration is a wonderful program to get engaged with the Appalachian community and intact with the arts which is both therapeutic and educational for all ages. 

The Turchin Center takes pride in the ability to provide visitors and residents with a dynamic, year-round program rotation of visual art exhibits.  The center’s mission is to make programming accessible in support of the university’s role as a key educational, cultural and economic resource for Appalachian State University’s campus, greater community, and beyond.

Spring Exhibition Celebrating:
Appalachian Alumni in the Arts
8^th Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition
Open Spaces, Sacred Places: Tom Stoner & TKF Foundation
Beyond Their Natural Range: April Flanders
Places for Contemplation in the Public Buildings: Alex Poorman
Chromata: Laura Berman

For more information about the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts or these Exhibits please call 828-262-3017 or visit www.tcva.org

For more info on The High Country of North Carolina, call (800) 438-7500, or visit www.MountainsofNC.com.

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When: February 5, 2011
Where: Appalachian Ski Mtn.
What: Fist event in ATP’s Shred for the Cup Series

App Terrain Park will kick off the 10-11 Shred for the Cup event series on Saturday Night, February 5th with the Big Air. Shred for the Cup is the premier event series in the region, and is better than ever going into its 5th season. As always, Shred for the Cup is open to Skiers and Snowboarders of all age and ability. Tons of prizes are up for grabs, as well as points for the entire series winners.
 
All event participants will receive lunch and Shred for the Cup series T-Shirts.

Categories:
The Shred for the Cup series is for everyone, no matter your ability level. Skiers and Snowboarders are judged separately, and the categories for both include:

Beginner:
-No Sandbagging
-Can hit smaller flat rails and boxes
-Can hit small table tops
 
Intermediate:
 -No Sandbagging
 -Comfortable doing variety of tricks on smaller rails and boxes
-Can hit some kinked/curved rails and boxes
-Can hit smaller and medium sized tabletops
 -Can do a variety of grabs or small rotations (180’s, 360’s)
 
Advanced:
 -Comfortable doing variety of tricks on all rails and boxes
 -Comfortable spinning and grabbing on all size jumps (180’s, 360’s, 540’s, 720’s, etc…)
If in questioning your ability placement you find yourself in the middle of 2 categories, ATP encourages you to compete in the higher category and try to push yourself to a new level.

The Shred for the Cup series also offers Ski and Snowboard categories for Women who want to get out and ride.

For more info, visit AppSkiMtn.com!

Winter sports enthusiasts are invited to ring in 2010 on the slopes in the High Country of North Carolina. Each of the three High Country ski resorts offers a fireworks extravaganza this New Year’s Eve.
 
The festivities begin with a 10:30 p.m. fireworks show at Beech Mountain Resort, while Appalachian Ski Mountain and Sugar Mountain Resort light the skies at midnight.
 
Beech Mountain Resort provides night skiing until 10 p.m., followed by ice skating from 10 p.m. to midnight. Folks can watch the 10:30 p.m. fireworks display from the Viewhaus restaurant or anywhere in the Alpine village at the base of the slopes. There will also be live music in the Beech Tree Bar & Grill from Chasing Edison, a Charlotte-based rock band.

Sugar Mountain Resort has skiing, tubing and ice skating until 10 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. At midnight, the public is invited to a combined torch light parade and fireworks show, while the Terry Batson Band provides live beach music and oldies in the lodge.
 
Appalachian Ski Mountain’s alcohol-free celebration begins with night skiing at 6 p.m., followed by moonlight ice skating at 10 p.m. A torch light parade takes place at 11:45 p.m., with fireworks at the stroke of midnight. Breakfast is also available from 9 p.m. to midnight.
 
“We’ve provided fireworks on New Year’s Eve since 1992. It’s one of our best nights of the year,” said general manager Brad Moretz. “They shoot them off on the slopes and people watch from the deck, or on the base of the slopes or the front porch.”

For info on these three celebrations, call High Country Host at (800) 438-7500, or visit the website for each resort: www.appskimtn.com, www.skisugar.com and www.skibeech.com.

For more info on The High Country of North Carolina, call (800) 438-7500, or visit www.MountainsofNC.com.

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Complete information on skiing and winter sports in the North Carolina High Country is just a mouse click away thanks to the re-launch of SkiTheHighCountry.com.

The redesigned and upgraded website now features everything skiers need to know about the High Country’s three ski resorts – Appalachian Ski Mountain, Beech Mountain Resort and Sugar Mountain Resort – as well as key info on the snow tubing park at Hawksnest Resort.

Visitors to SkiTheHighCountry.com can access live webcams for real-time conditions, view trail maps, check rates and hours of operations, receive details on ice skating, and browse accommodations. There’s also a dining guide and an overview of activities away from the slopes.

Photo galleries of each resort, featuring the work of award-winning photographer Todd Bush of Banner Elk, are included.

The site was created by Big Boom Design of Asheville and is produced and maintained by North Carolina High Country Host.

High Country Host is a tourism marketing organization that promotes travel to North Carolina’s High Country, a five-county region anchored by the popular towns of: Banner Elk, Beech Mountain, Blowing Rock, Boone, Linville, Sparta, West Jefferson and Wilkesboro.

To view the new site, go online to www.SkiTheHighCountry.com.

For more info on The High Country of North Carolina, call (800) 438-7500, or visit www.MountainsofNC.com.

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The Daniel Boone Native Gardens, located near downtown Boone, N.C., contain an outstanding collection of native Appalachian trees, shrubs, and wildflowers. Hundreds of plant varieties provide a progression of blooms throughout the growing season.

Opened in 1966, the three-acre Daniel Boone Native Gardens were an educational and conservation effort to nurture rare or endangered Appalachian plant species.

A project of the Garden Club of N.C., Inc., these public gardens comprise a bog garden, fern garden, rhododendron grove, rock garden, rock wishing well, vine-covered arbor, pond alongside the historic Squire Boone Cabin, and several grand vistas. Wrought-iron gates at the entrance were made by a descendant of Daniel Boone, who hunted in the area.

For more information, visit: DanielBooneGardens.org!

To request a free High Country vacation guide, call (800) 438-7500 or go online to: www.MountainsofNC.com.

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