City Lights Bookstore discussion on the wisdom of the Enneagram today

June 16, 2 PM - City Lights Bookstore will host holistic healer, Andrea Ford as she discusses the wisdom of the Enneagram. The Enneagram is a road map to understanding your personality in a whole new way. It is based on 9 distinct personality types that are within all of us. The Enneagram gives you the power to do your own emotional and spiritual healing through self-awareness of your strengths and weaknesses. In addition to becoming more in tune with who you are as a person, the Enneagram, allows you to recognize why the people in your life behave the way the they do, thus enhancing all relationships both personally and professionally. The Wisdom of the Enneagram influences your whole being and opens the doors to becoming a more functional, healthier and balanced person. 

Andrea Ford blends Chinese Medicine, Enneagram Counseling, and Functional Medicine to create a personalized approach to wellness for the Mind, Body, and Soul and will be offering three workshops this summer.

City Lights Bookstore is located at 3 East Jackson Street in Sylva NC.

NASCAR History Author Dan Pierce today in Andrews

April 21, 2 PM at the  Valleytown Cultural Arts Center,  Andrews NC - Daniel S. (Dan) Pierce is the author of the first truly comprehensive history of early NASCAR, Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France (UNC Press, 2010) and writes a monthly column for NASCAR Illustrated magazine on the history of the sport. He is Professor of History, Chair of the department, and resident professional cracker at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee where he worked with distinguished southern historian James C. Cobb.

He is also the author of the The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat to National Park (UT Press, 2000) and has had his work published in The New York Times, Southern Cultures, Smokies Life magazine, numerous encyclopedias including the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, and has appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, The History Channel, North Carolina People with William Friday, North Carolina Bookwatch, and the South Carolina ETV Emmy Award winning program Take on the South.

At 7 PM this evening LoBrake perfroms live at the Center. Thge local band plays music from the mountains as well as rock'n'roll, grunge, reggae, alternative, country, classic-rock and funk in our arsenal.

Steven Rinella Public Lecture in Asheville

March 18,  2 PM at the Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 S Pack Square in Asheville NC -  Steven Rinella- author,  TV host, chef, professional outdoorsman and dedicated activist for protecting land and natural resources will host a public lecture entitled "Hunting for Food- An ancient path through modern life".  The discussion will be centered on hunting and gathering as well as exciting and even hilarious stories of his own adventures , all presented with a modern day reflection of our current food systems.

Blind Pig Supper Club will have a super creative menu of ’game and other odd meat’ hotdogs for purchase by Hardcastle Handmade Hot dogs at the event. There will also be a give-away of Four ‘golden’ tickets that will grant the winner VIP access to every Blind Pig event of 2012. Two lucky names will be drawn from the lecture guest list to be given two tickets a piece. The winners will be announced at the theatre.

Get details and purchase tickets HERE.  (Group discounts available)