Muir to stroll through Highlands on Friday
Tuckasegee writer Thomas Crowe previewed the performance in the most recent issue of the Cashiers Crossroads Chronicle; here’s an excerpt:
While the Sierras were [Muir's] preferred stomping grounds, he did travel, throughout his lifetime to many areas of the country, including the western N.C., mountains.
As if by some kind of time-warp or reincarnation intervention, Muir will be returning to the mountains of western N.C., for the first time since his visit in 1867 as part of his now-famous 1,000-Mile Walk.
As a walk (in to the body of California-based actor Lee Stetson) Muir will be giving talks in Asheville and Highlands that relate some of his most remarkable adventures in the wild, including a remarkable “tree ride” in a windstorm, a “sleigh ride” on a snow avalanche, his “interview” with a bear, and a face-to-fang encounter with a rattlesnake. Muir’s true wilderness tales are liberally salted with his wilderness philosophy–all around the theme of the health and invigoration one acquires when one fully and joyfully engages wildness.
But even more important to us, here in the Smoky Mountains, he will be talking about his time spent here in the western Carolina mountains.
Read the entirety of Crowe’s piece here.
The performance in Highlands on Friday, October 9 at 7 p.m., will also include a “Meet Lee Stetson /Patron’s Party” from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., which will include wine and hors d’oeuvres. For ticket info, visit the Jackson Macon Conservation Alliance website, here.
Tags: Cashiers, Cashiers Crossroads-Chronicle, Highlands, john muir, Tuckasegee, wnc alliance
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