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Running all October
The High Country Haint List. Haunted trails, ghost tours and a live Rocky Horror shadowcast. Everything spooky between here and Oct. 31, updated as the flyers go up. Read it →
Voting Nov. 3? Registration closes Fri, Oct. 9, at 5pm. Dates, early-voting sites, ID rules and a sample-ballot lookup, all on one page.
Wed, Oct. 7.
Sunny and 72 once the morning fog lifts. The Watauga Arts Council keeps the day going with Open Studio from 9am to noon, then Yarn Circle from noon to 3pm, both at its Shadowline Dr studio. App State's Visiting Writers Series runs 2 to 5pm.
Tonight, at 5pm, the Wilkes Agricultural Fair opens its gates in North Wilkesboro for four nights of carnival rides, a midway, and ag exhibits. At 5:30pm, the Arts Council launches its Artist Talk Series at Betty's Biscuits with Nysie Hurst, and Draw Club meets at Sumting Tattoo until 7pm. At 6pm, the App Theatre screens the 1986 cult classic Maximum Overdrive, free.
Worth knowing
New Liner Notes on C. W. Stoneking, with the skull paint, the hokum blues, and the zombie song from the wrong side of the world. Read it.
Police are investigating after a human skull was found near Winkler Creek in Boone. The remains have been sent to the medical examiner. We'll carry updates as they come. The story.
Homecoming 2026 is on all week at App State, through Saturday's 1pm kickoff against Old Dominion. From Friday the site goes full 2006.
Voting deadlines
Registration for Nov. 3 closes Friday, Oct. 9, at 5pm. Miss it and you can still register and vote in the same trip once early voting opens Oct. 15 and runs through Oct. 31. Absentee ballot requests close Tue, Oct. 20, at 5pm. Election Day is Tue, Nov. 3. Sites, hours, and everything else.
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◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
Jefferson and or Mussolini
Ezra Pound
Pound's 1933 case that Jefferson and Mussolini were running the same play with different names. Read as literature it's a mess, mostly worth it as a document: modernism's most famous poet putting his fascist sympathies on paper in his own words, years before the worst of it landed. Not a recommendation of the politics, a primary source on how a brilliant mind talked itself into them.
Read the pick →
🌘 Waning Crescent · 22% lit
Half-lit moon: planets and bright constellations show well, the dimmest stuff hides.
Sky's truly dark after 8:26 PM.
◆ NASA's photo today: Supernova Remnant Pa 30 →
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