Father's Day in Black Mountain

June 18-21 Black Mountain Center for the Arts. Gardening, art, demonstrations and flowers fill the weekend at the Art in Bloom event. June 19, a special gardening presentation on “Best Garden Plants for NC” with author Pam Beck, followed by a book signing on Sat, June 20, and a show of the garden tour plein air painters work on Sunday, June 21. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 828/669-0930, or look at their website at www.blackmountaina! rts.or! g, and click on Events, then Art in Bloom. No one else in western NC is doing anything like this – be sure to go by and see it.