Latest Past Events

Zahner Lecture 9

Highlands Nature Center

Lecture 9 - South Carolina’s Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area Featured Speaker: Tim Lee; Interpretive Ranger/Naturalist; Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area Date: Thursday, August 10th Time: 6pm – 7pm Cost: FREE Sponsored by Martha & Michael Dupuis, Monte & Palmer Gaillard, and Melanie & Tom Mauldin. Located in an area along the Blue Ridge Escarpment, the Mountain Bridge […]

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Writing the Appalachians

Highlands Biological Station 265 North 6th St, Highlands

Instructor: Dr. Sylvia Torti, University of Utah In this 5-day workshop we will explore the ways that notions of “nature” and “the self” intersect through writing, and we’ll do so embedded in the fabulous Appalachian Mountains. Using the text Mountains Piled upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene edited by Jessica Cory, we’ll learn […]

Zahner Lecture 8

Highlands Nature Center

Lecture 8 - Archaeoastronomy in Southwestern North Carolina Featured Speakers: Jane M. Eastman, Ph.D.; Associate Professor; Anthropology and Sociology Department; Western Carolina University & Brett Riggs, Ph.D.; Sequoyah Distinguished Professor of Cherokee Studies; Western Carolina University Date: Thursday, August 3rd Time: 6pm – 7pm Cost: FREE Sponsored by Suzanne & Don Duggan, Julie Farrow, Florence […]

Free