Waynesville

So I graduated when I was 20 because I did an extra year to get college credit.

And I did a year of just playing and playing and playing, whether it was in Silva or Waynesville or Atlanta.

We just took whatever gigs that we could get.

Yeah.

And then in 1987, I remember reading in Fangoria Magazine, for months leading up to its release, there was going to be a sequel to The Evil Dead, and it was even filmed not far from where I lived in...

Waynesville, Wadesboro, I'm sorry, Wadesboro, North Carolina, not far from where I live, just a couple hours down the road, and I, again, played only in one theater in our area, and you had to be 18 or older to get in.

They wouldn't let you in.

It was unrated, so I didn't get to see it in a theater.

And then I started going to Trump rallies and anti-human trafficking rallies in Hawaii on the volcano and came to North Carolina, got involved with politics a little bit.

I was the tech guy for the Republican Party in this little town called Waynesville.

And we noticed immediately that we're gonna need a lot more to win than our own intellects and even money and support.

Like, the people were not ready.

You wished for it, and you're gonna get it." Well, a lot of people do this without even knowing, so it doesn't feel fair to me.

I feel my word is to God to send teachers and to make it appropriate to where we can receive them in little towns like Waynesville, North Carolina.

But how about all those big cities and all those big places that there would be receiving of the teaching of the word of truth, the word of life, and to speak life over yourself? That dragon is not gonna be able to devour the seed of the woman as long as we receive the grace to obey, the power to obey the word, and to not go along with doubt.

Don't say, "God healed me," and then check and go and get another doctor's appointment right away to check and see if you're healed or not.

Read more in the Mountain Express.

And Haywood County Arts Council has bought a permanent home at one ninety-six North Main Street in Waynesville using a one point three five million dollar gift from an anonymous donor.

The move expands the council from six hundred and forty square feet to seventeen thousand across three floors.

Plans include affordable artist studios, exhibition and classroom space, children's art clubs, and free classes for disabled adults.

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I, I'm originally from a small town in Western North Carolina, a little town called Waynesville, and I had a great, uh, home life growing up.

My parents both were believers and Christians, and, uh, we attended a small little church of maybe 20 people, uh, growing up.

Half of those were my family.

But a lot of places are back in business.

And, um, it would, it would help the economy of the western mountains if a lot of people go out and do their leaf peeping this fall because, uh, it's the busiest tourist season for this area, and, uh, for Asheville and Boone and, and Waynesville.

Um, this, this is the, the time of year when most, they get their most tourist business.

And so if you come out, you're helping the area recover.

Yeah, I mean, we were kind of figuring it out.

And luckily, we had a great customer base there with a lot of chefs in the Asheville area, Waynesville, those cities.

And to me, I mean, I've kind of built this business over the past 25 years and Raised our three boys out there on the farm too.

Our son Cyrus is at App State.

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... like a trivia night or a one-man band, and those are the things that I think we picked up and realized that places like the Lantern and the Foundry, and even Waynesville, our golf course, where it's like how do we keep our guests here?

Right.

And those are the things that we started looking at saying it's not that expensive, and if I could go and end up building revenue streams in the bar, in the restaurant, th- with that, then it helps us.