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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 →
Early voting runs through Sat, Oct. 31, 3pm. Watauga and Avery sites close the weekends of Oct. 17–18 and 24–25. Ashe stays open those Saturdays, 8am–3pm. Sites and hours.
Thu, Oct. 22.
Today's weather is one of those good weather days where it doesn't make sense to waste this important space talking about the weather.
Meet Annie Woodford, a poet and now a contributor to left917. She is a 2022 Weatherford Award winner, her new book Peasant is out from Pulley Press, and we are excited to share her first poem with you. Read "On the Way to the Hickory Target", in the Circled box this morning.
Dancing Anyways: Halloween Edition is Friday, 6 to 10pm at Parallel Brewing and Wine Bar. It's a women-only dance party with spooky visuals and a costume contest. Come dressed to distress.
Hunting for color? Appalachian State biologist Howard Neufeld says the high elevations are running about two weeks behind and the middle elevations about a week, while the foothills are on a normal late-October schedule. Our leaves story has the rest.
Tonight's picks, the early vote count, and a Downtown Boone agenda are in the orange button below.
◆ Book of the Week · with Huzzah Books
The Cocktail Party
T.S. Eliot
Eliot's three-act play examines the social rituals and hidden emotional currents of a London cocktail party, where casual gatherings mask deeper personal crises. This first edition presents a landmark work of twentieth-century drama in near-perfect condition.
Read the pick →
🌔 Waxing Gibbous · 80% lit
A bright moon tonight, so the Milky Way and the faintest stars wash out.
Sky's truly dark after 8:07 PM.
☄ Orionids still streaking — look the southeast after midnight.
◆ NASA's photo today: The First Green Star, WD J1330+6435 →
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