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The Blue Banner
September 7,2000
Features
Apple Festival in Hendersonville
Kristina Elliot
Staff Writer
Hendersonville’s 54th annual
Apple Festival celebrated small town
life and the productive apple sea
son.
The festival focus was on the
apples, but also offered a unique
display of crafts and r -'ariety of
music and entertainment
The festival gave me a new appre
ciation for the culture of a small
southern town. I felt like I had
stepped back 50 years in time. The
Appalachian mountain lifestyle is
disappearing, but was briefly resur
rected only 30 minutes away from
Asheville.
The main reason for the festival
is the celebration of the apple.
Henderson County produces ap
proximately four million bushels
of apples each year. The apple
orchards covcr about 5,000 acres
of the county.
The streets were lined with vend
ers from apple orchards across
Henderson County. I had never
realized how many different variet
ies of apples exist. It turns out there
are over 100, and more are being
developed. The most popular vari
eties are Golden Delicious, Red
Delicious, Granny Smith, Jonagold
PHOTO BY JUSTIN MECKES
Downtown Hendersonville
festival attracted WNC fans.
and Honeycrisp.
If you are wondering what you
could do with all of these apples,
the fine folks from Ottanola Farm,
a local 100-acre orchard, can help.
They offered applesauce, apple
juice, apple cider, caramel apples,
apple chips and even apple cider
slushies.
The apple cider slushies were
better than ! expected, and the
apple pies put the grocery store
variety to shame. The rest of the
food offered was typical carnival
food, including cotton candy,
Polish sausages and funnel cakes.
The crafts were also an attraction
of the festival. Artists of all disci
Bannockburn
During his time in the throne, Scot
land remained free, according to
Paige.
As far as the production of
“Bannockburn” is concerned, there
has been a lot of work done to give
the performance a sense of presence
and authenticity. There has been
an extensive amount of work done
in the choreography of
“Bannockburn,” according to Paige.
Flight
any trouble with them.
Angel spends many months audi
tioning to no avail when she hits
gold with “Positively Ahab,” the
musical version of Moby Dick.
Despite her triumph in landing a
role in a play, which was her dream,
she packs up and leaves for the farm
back home.
Angel’s character brought some
genuine inoments ofsympathy to the
play as the audience sees her change
from a teetotaler preaching restraint
into a woman so downhearted she
finishes a whole bottle of beer.
The issue of love comes up with all
of the women with whom
Cummings has contact. Through
out his narration, it becomes appar
ent that these fleeting connections
are the most significant relation
ships in his life.
His final neighbor Gwen, a driv
ing instructor, has just left her bus-
Kings
Out of the four performers, his act
was the least amusing, but none
theless I kept a steady smile on my
face. He harped on how evil kids
can be and joked about the right to
beat them.
His material was not personally
offensive. It was just redundant.
Steve Harvey held the stage. His
jokes were also controversial, but
every once and a while a clear mes
sage was heard. The issues he re
mained serious about were never
ambiguous.
He criticized present hip-hop
music for failing to focus more on
love. His self-defined “old-school”
self wonders where all of the com
passion has gone.
One of the most amusing im
pressions he did was his hip-hop
concert re-enactment, which in
cluded him running around the
stage, with his arms raised, bab
bling into the microphone.
1 could not help but laugh aloud
despite my love for the particular
type of music he was scrutinizing.
If you are unable to laugh at your-
plines lined the sidewalk to create
their crafts before an audience. Glass
blowers and basket weavers set up
shop at small tables and an elderly
man whittled small wooden ducks
on the sidewalk. It was a chance to
see many folk art forms being cre
ated.
The music also emphasized the
jubilant spirit of the festival. The
main musical attractions included
The Original Tams beach tunes
and the R&B sounds of The
Mighty Kicks. However, they
were tiot as interesting as some of
the smaller musical displays.
Lisa Lynne Franco and George
Tortorelli performed many selec
tions with a Celtic harp and bam
boo flutes creating an enchanting
sound. They perform at art festivals
across the nation.
David Rowe and Michael Miller
also gave notable performances on a
hammer dulcimer and a classical
guitar. The duo’s rendition of
Pachelbel’s “Canon in D Major”
attracted a large crowd. Their mu
sic was a blend of Appalachian folk,
Celtic and classical.
There were also musicians wan
dering through the crowds playing
bagpipes and flutes.
The festival also included square
dancing and performances from the
Green Valley doggers and the Ap
palachian V alley doggers.
Angels
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graphical works in the American
fiction canon, and it depicts
Asheville and its residents as its
author saw them, which led to the
book being banned from all schools
and libraries in town for over seven
years, according to the Thomas
Wolfe Society.
The first copy of the book in Pack
Memorial Library was donated by
F. Scott Fitzgerald. Wolfe’s reputa
tion in Asheville has improved
steadily since then, and today his
childhood home, which was pur-
Flower-
chased from his relatives in 1949, is
a memorial maintained by the
North Carolina Department of
Cultural Resources.
There are a number of events
planned for the months of Sept.
and Oct. commemorating the
100th anniversary of Wolfe’s birth.
There will be an exhibit of draw
ings by artist Douglas Gorsline,
who illustrated “Look Homeward,
Angel,” at the Asheville Art Mu
seum beginning Sept. 29.
A stage production of ‘Look
Homeward, Angel” will open at the
Asheville Community Theatre on
the same day.
The events will continue until Oct.
3, Wolfe’s birthday, when theTho-
mas Wolfe Commemorative stamp
will be issued.
There will be a reception for the
publication oP‘0 Lost,” Wolfe’sorigi-
nal manuscript for “Look Home
ward, Angel” and “To Loot My Life,”
a collection of correspondence be
tween Wolfe and his editor at
Scribner’s, Maxwell Perkins.
continued from page 4
This would be a nice place to go if
you iust wanted to go out for coffee
and dessert.
Wildflower serves four different
kinds ofcheesecake with large slices.
They also have everything from a
lemo n tort to something strawberry
with ice cream.
We tried the strawberry dessert,
which had strawberries, vanilla ice ,
cream, whipped cream and a cara
melized sauce. It was good and I
had never had anything like it be
fore. It was exotic, as are most of
the desserts.
Throughout our meal, there was
light jazz music playing. It was
loud enough to be noticed bur it
did not muffle our conversation.
The lights were slightly dim and
the shades were open.
Wildflower is definitely a place
where you can have a conversation.
There is not a lot of background
noise so you could talk without
being distracted.
One important thing you might
need to know is what to wear. I had
on nice jeans and a casual shirt and
sandals, while my friend wore kha
kis and a button up shirt. 1 felt a
little underdressed. Although the
lunch crowd was slightly more re
laxed, I would suggest khak'^ ^
casual dress for dinner
This would be a suitable place to go
if you were taking a group out to
dinner. They do not have a private
dining room, or even a partition,
but they do have room enough for
large parties and they welcome them,
according to our waiter.
Wildflower lunch hours are 11:00
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through
Saturday. Dinner is served 5:00
p.m. to9:00p.m. Monday through
Thursday and 5:00 p.m. to 10:00
p.m. Friday and Saturday.
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There are over twenty actors and
actresses that will be performing as
well as a number of people working
on the production, according to
Paige.
UNCA students will receive a dis
count for admittance to the play
only if they have shown their stu
dent identification cards.
continued from page 4
band, a homicide detective with
the police force. Gwen has the most
effect on Cummings life.
When she and Cummings become
involved, he worries about her hus
band fearing he might be caught
“sleeping with Dirry Harry’s wife.”
Gwen makes him realize he is
searching for something more than
companionship.
The three women are all different
from one another. They are tough,
childlike, or heartsick, yet Monid
does an excellent job conveying each
character as a unique and sympa
thetic individual.
The two-person show of this hus
band and wife team brought chem
istry and fun to what otherwise
could be a play overflowing with
trivial banter and an overabun
dance of one-liners. The sex jokes
seemed especially popular with
the old folks.
continued from page 4
self, “The Original Kings of Com
edy” will succeed at offending you.
Cedric the Entertainer kept ev
eryone in the audience screaming
with laughter due to his hilarious
impressions, even though his man
nerisms lacked the enthusiasm the
other comedians emitted.
He expressed his love for Reggae
music by singing a mock song about
the perils of hunger in relation to a
peanut butter sandwich.
The wonderful thing about all of
these men is their ability to make
fun of something while actually
being good at it. Each of them
can sing, and their resounding
voices only make their jokes more
powerful,
D.L. Hughley addressed many is
sues that are understood by the
majority. A substantial portion of
his act joked about the banality
most of us face in the workplace.
“The Original Kings of Comedy”
will not fail at making you laughTo
sum it up, Chas Moore commented,
“It was nothing outstanding, but it
was funny”.
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