Flea Market, 8am to 2pm at Balsam Grove Community Center.
Transylvania County News
This spring Brevard Middle School students submitted logo designs to the County as a school Sesquicentennial project. BMS art instructor Erin Keane opened the assignment to art classes in grades 6-8 and allowed the students to voluntarily submit their work. All of the work is also displayed at Brevard Middle School in the Sesquicentennial visual journal that the schools created throughout last school year.
The logo designs shown here are the culmination of the creative spirit of the students and represent how each of them envision Transylvania County’s...
The planning for the Transylvania County 150th Birthday Celebration has been going on for months and now the centerpiece event of the Sesquicentennial year is just a month away. The celebration will begin at 10 am on Saturday, September 3 on Main Street in downtown Brevard. The day’s many signature activities will run until 5 pm and will be followed by a special concert and fireworks extravaganza on the campus of Brevard College from 7...
Gardens of Silvermont Dedication Ceremony
The Transylvania County Extension Master Gardener Volunteers (EMGV)invite the public to attend the official opening and dedication ceremony for the Gardens of Silvermont at 5PM on Wednesday, July, 20. A new work of sculpture donated to the Garden will be unveiled.
Special honorees will be the...
Gail Comer to Lead Herb Gardening Workshop at Silvermont
Brevard, NC – The Transylvania County Extension Master Gardener Volunteers (EMGV)invite the public to attend a free workshop on Herb Gardening on Saturday, June 18 at the newly renovated Gardens of Silvermont EMGV demonstration garden behind the Silvermont Manion. It will include classroom...
The Chestnut Mountain Quilters is a small group of ladies with very big hearts. This group creates a hand-crafted quilt that is then sold to raise money for competitive scholarships awarded to deserving residents of their community (See Off Mountain area).
This year, they created this...
As part of its Sesquicentennial Celebration, Transylvania County is looking for graphic designers of all ages and skill levels to enter a contest to create a new logo for Transylvania County.
This logo will be used to produce a new County Flag, which is one of the Sesquicentennial objectives identified by the County’s Sesquicentennial Steering Committee...
200 Transylvania County students have their artwork on display at the TC Arts Council now through April 22. A Student Reception was held on Thursday, April 7. More than 310 people attended the reception. This was a record breaking crowd for TCArts!
3rd Grade Pisgah Forest Elementary Student
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The Transylvania Community Arts Council has an Artist in Residence this week, April 4-8, at Rosman Elementary School. The students are making handmade books in honor of the Transylvania County Sesquicentennial Celebration.
TC Arts Council is focusing this year's Arts In Schools programs on providing an Artist In Residence at each county school. An...
Press Release
Transylvania County 150th Eastatoe Community Event “Living off the Land”
The Eastatoe community invites the public to attend the second of Transylvania County’s many community events in celebration of the Sesquicentennial. The Eastatoe Community Center, located on Claypole Road off Highway 178 south of Rosman, will be hosting the Traveling Exhibit “Living Off the Land” on April 9th. The exhibit, along with other historic items related to the area, will be on display from 4 until 6 p...
Students in Rosman High School's Foods II Advanced class made a special contribution to the initiation of Transylvania County's sesquicentennial celebration and at the same time learned some valuable lessons about professional food preparation. Planners of the event asked Mrs. Billie Wilson if her class could prepare special cookies for the event. In the Foods II course students learn the basics of professional food preparation, and Mrs....
