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About North Carolina Day Trips By Theme
Product Description Your All-in-One Guide to North Carolina’s Best Outings! If you’ve ever asked, “What should we do today?” then you’ve never seen North Carolina Day Trips by Theme. This comprehensive guide to the Tar Heel State is jam-packed with 170 of North Carolina’s top spots for fun and entertainment. Take a simple day trip, or string together a longer vacation of activities that catch your interest. Destinations in the book are organized by themes, such as Lighthouses, Festivals, Outdoor Adventures, and Natural Wonders, so you can decide what to do and then figure out where to do it. Useful for singles, couples, and families―visitors and residents alike―this guide by North Carolina author Marla Hardee Milling encompasses a wide range of interests. Discover the state’s unique attractions―state parks, museums, beaches, foodie delights, and more. The book’s handy size makes it perfect for bringing along on your road trips. Plus, with tips for other things to do in the area, you’re sure to maximize the fun on every outing. With North Carolina Day Trips by Theme at your fingertips, you’ll always have something to do! About the Author Marla Hardee Milling is a native of Asheville, North Carolina, and a seventh-generation Buncombe County resident. She’s been self-employed as a full-time freelance writer since August 2004. More than 850 of her articles and essays have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, websites, and newspapers. She serves as a longtime contributing editor for Blue Ridge Country magazine. Her byline has also appeared in Our State: Celebrating North Carolina, Smoky Mountain Living, Capital at Play, Far & Wide, Go Magazine (AAA Carolinas), Asheville Citizen-Times, Charleston, WNC Magazine, Denver, The828.com, WNC Parent, NICHE, AmericanStyle, Luxury Living, Parenting, Redbook, Health, Pregnancy, Kids Health, Women’s Health & Fitness, SmartComputing, PC Today, The Christian Science Monitor, New Orleans Gourmet, Chocolate for a Woman’s Soul Volume II, and many others. Marla has also written three other nonfiction books: Only in Asheville: An Eclectic History; Legends, Secrets and Mysteries of Asheville; and Wicked Asheville. She previously spent 10 years as a news producer at WLOS-TV in Asheville and 6 years as director of communications at Mars Hill College (now University). She loves traveling and making new discoveries. Her children, Ben and Hannah, are her best day-trip buddies. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Coon Dog Day Downtown Saluda, NC 28773; 828-749-3789 cityofsaludanc.com/coon-dog-day-1 Organizers of many North Carolina festivals ask you to leave your four-legged friends at home. That’s not the case for this annual festival in Saluda. Dogs are welcome as long as they are leashed. Coon Dog Day is billed as “a celebration for dogs and their people.” Activities include a 5K race, live music, a quirky parade, a street dance, and an American Kennel Club–licensed show. Held in July. Free admission; registration fee for race and show. Folkmoot Festival Various locations in Western North Carolina; 828-452-2997 folkmoot.org Folkmoot is a long-running festival headquartered in Waynesville that brings seven to nine international dance teams to Western North Carolina each July. The goal is to celebrate diversity and cultural differences and create a global bond through friendships. The idea of such a folk festival came to Dr. Clinton Border in 1973 as he traveled with a local square dance group to a folk festival in England. He came home with a plan to create an international folk festival here. He traveled to a range of folk festivals, researched how they work, and finally in 1983 proposed his idea to town leaders. Within a month, they embraced his idea, and Folkmoot USA was born. The 10-day festival kicks off with a Parade of Nations on Main Street in Waynesville. During the week, the dance groups perform at multiple venues in the region, and then they return at the end of the
