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Grand Opening Party Scheduled for Saturday, August 3rd ASHEVILLE, N.C.—UpCountry Brewing’s West Asheville location is now officially partnering with The Döner, a local German/Turkish restaurant currently located in the Asheville Mall. This will be Döner’s second location. The brewery will be serving up Döner’s theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com German Street Style food at their West Asheville taproom beginning this month. The Tuesday July 16th Bike Night at Mels Riverside Bar & Grill 6pm new food menu will feature The Döner’s well- Tuesday July 16th Bike Night w/ Before The Storm at 423 Social at 6:30pm known rotisserie meats, falafels, bratwursts, wraps, and more. Both businesses are Tuesday July 16th Bike Night w/ Area 52 at OT’s Sports & Social 7pm pairing their respective items with each other, resulting in a myriad of food and beer Thursday July 18th Bike Night at Quaker Steak and Lube at 7pm combinations that compliment each other. restaurant influenced by Turkish recipes, serving local and fresh vegetables and meats Thursday July 18th Bike Night at Woodstone Deli (Kingsport) “We’re excited for this,” says UpCountry in Asheville. THE DÖNER has two locations, Brewing’s owner, John Cochran. “Partnering Friday July 19th Bike Night at Tulips Grub & Pub our quick service spot in the Asheville Mall with local Asheville businesses is one of our Food Court and our sit down restaurant priorities, and The Döner presented a really inside UpCountry Brewing. cool opportunity. 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Evenings at Asheville U.S. Cellular Center 10am Ladies' Fridays at Rain Nite Life 10pm La Cage Aux Folles at Barter's Smith Theatre 3pm Founders Park 7pm The Little Mermaid at Barter's Smith Theatre 10am Elite Singo! At Quaker Steak and Lube The Wizard of Oz: Summer Movie Magic at Connie Regan-Blake’s 14th Annual Summer Tennessee Theatre 3pm (Bristol, VA) 7pm Storytelling Retreat at StoryWindow 10am Saturday July 20th Cornhole Tournament at CJ's Sports Bar 7pm Summer Art Show with Watauga Valley Art League at Mellow Bingo at Mellow Mushroom Allan Wolf: Launching Poetry into Space at (Bristol, VA & Johnson City, TN) 6pm Texas Hold 'Em at CJ's Sports Bar 7pm Johnson City Public Library 11am Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park 9am Wonderland Who's Got Talent at West Wing Trivia Night at Johnson City Brewing 7pm Exit Laughing at Barter Theatre 2pm Anything That Floats Parade at RiverLink's RiverFest 9am Wonderland Lounge/Bar N Grill 6pm PM La Cage Aux Folles at Andy Offutt Irwin - Storytelling LIVE! At The Little Mermaid at Barter's Smith Theatre 10am Extreme Music Bingo at The French Quarter at Barter's Smith Theatre 7:30pm International Storytelling Center 2pm Jay's Dock 6pm Full Moon Paddle at Billy Lush Boards and Brew 8pm Kingsport Summer Showcase at Repticon Knoxville Reptile Show at Kerbela Shriners 315 Mimosa Avenue Knoxville, TN 10am Bring It! Live: The Dance Battle Tour at Comedy at Fleetwood's w/ Ryan Singer 9pm Fort Henry Mall 2pm Knoxville Civic Auditorium-Coliseum 7pm La Cage Aux Folles at Barter's Smith Theatre 2pm Connie Regan-Blake’s 14th Annual Summer Storytelling Retreat at StoryWindow 10am Shakespeare on the Square at Historic Church Basement Ladies at Barter Stage II 3pm Wednesday July 17th Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands at Market Square, Knoxville 7pm F3 Free Men's Bootcamps at Jonesborough’s Third Thursday at Main Street U.S. Cellular Center 10am Jonesborough 5pm Love Chapel Elementary 5:30am Funfest Cornhole 2019 at Indian Highland Park 10am Monday July 22nd PT Pub Night - Tri-Cities at JRH Brewing 5:30pm Summer Art Show with Watauga Valley Art League East Tennessee Music Collectors Show at F3 Free Men's Bootcamps at at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park 9am ArborEvenings at The North Carolina Rothchild Catering & Conference Center 10am Love Chapel Elementary 5:30am Antonio Rocha "Hidden Gems" Institute at Arboretum 6pm Saturday Shake it - WERQ with Jennifer at Summer Art Show with ETSU Storytelling Institutes 9am Mellow Bingo at Mellow Mushroom Memorial Park Community Center 11am Watauga Valley Art League at SHEro's Journey at International (Bristol, VA) 6pm The Day We Walked on the Moon Film at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park 9am Storytelling Center 9:30am Singles Soiree at Haiku I Do 6:30pm International Storytelling Center 11am SHEro's Journey at International The Little Mermaid At Barter's Smith Theatre 10am FiA Free Women's Fitness Thur. Evenings at RiverFest 2019 at New Belgium Brewing Storytelling Center 9:30am Connie Regan-Blake’s 14th Annual Summer Founders Park 7pm (Asheville, NC) 1pm 2019 Greene County Fair TN at Storytelling Retreat at StoryWindow 10am Mellow Trivia at Mellow Mushroom Shrek The Musical at Barter Theatre 2pm 410 Fairgrounds Rd Greeneville, Tennessee 3pm Shrek The Musical at Barter Theatre 2pm (Johnson City, TN) 7pm Ice Cream Social - Unicoi History Group in Family Movie Night at Kingsport Andy Offutt Irwin - Storytelling LIVE! At Shakespeare on the Square at Historic Town of Unicoi 2pm Public Library 4pm International Storytelling Center 2pm Market Square, Knoxville 7pm 12 theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com

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“Trial of the Big Bad Wolf” July 13, 14, by stage manager Brittany Wallace, | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com and 15 at Theatre Bristol, 512 State costumer Zaiah Gray, set designer Street, Bristol, TN. Luke Gray, props Mason White, and The Big Bad Wolf, the Three Little lighting designer Albert Tester. Pigs, Judge Wise O. Al, and a “The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf” jury of fairy tale representatives opens September 6, and runs for bring a delightful comedy to the two weekends at the Theatre Bristol ARTspace stage in September under ARTspace, Fridays at 7:30 pm, the direction of Camille Gray. No Saturdays at 5:30 pm, and Sundays preparation is required to audition at 2:30 pm, closing on September and roles are available for men, 9. Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 women, and children. Show details, for seniors and students, and will audition times, and rehearsal dates be available at www.Theatre Bristol. are available at org. For information on school www.TheatreBristol.org/audition. shows, please contact “The Wolf: villain or victim? The Three [email protected] Pigs: innocent or at fault? The Jurors Theatre Bristol’s is pleased to (Miss Muffet, Bo Peep, Cinderella and present “The Trial of the Big Bad Humpty-Dumpty, to name a few): Wolf” as part of its family-friendly solid citizens or characters with a 54th season of ARTspace and past? And what about Judge Wise O. Paramount shows, including Al? Is justice on his side—or does he “Cinder Red Robin Hood and the have a secret to hide? Then there’s Seven Dwarfs,” “The Wizard of Oz,” the media—a reporter, newscaster “Sherlock Holmes Mysteries,” “Into and town crier. Have they come to the Woods,” and “Miracle on 34th Street.” accurately report the proceedings— Founded in 1965, Theatre Bristol or to turn the courtroom into a media is the oldest continually running circus? And who is that surprise children’s theatre in northeast witness at the end? The answers to Tennessee. Its Main Stage season these profound questions and even consists of up to six productions. more are revealed once and for all Some of its performances take place in this rollicking, fun-filled, action- in the ARTspace, a multi-purpose, packed trial-of-the-century”. black box theatre which seats up Director Camille Gray, most recently to 120, and other performances choreographer for Theatre Bristol’s are on stage at the Paramount production of “The Wizard of Oz,” Center for the Arts. Theatre Bristol is has directed Sherlock Holmes, volunteer run and we invite you to “Pinocchio,” and “Godspell,” as well get involved. as choreographed, stage managed, For more information, visit Theatre costumed, and performed in many Bristol’s website or Facebook page, shows. A Theatre Bristol veteran of contact Theatre Bristol at 16 years and mentor to the Youth 423-212-3625, or email Service Board, she is currently [email protected]. 14 PUZZLE SUDOKU CROSSWORD theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com

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Concert Schedule | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com BRISTOL TN/VA ASHEVILLE NC PARAMOUNT U.S. CELLULAR CENTER July 26 USAF Band of Mid-America July 20 Gordon Lightfoot Thunder Valley Amphitheater BILTMORE Bristol Dragway July 25 Beach Boys July 27 Alabama July 26 B-52’s KINGSPORT TN CHARLOTTE NC METRO CREDIT UNION AMPHITHEATER FUNFEST IN KINGSPORT July 14 Weird Al Yankovic July 18 Newsboys/Sidewalk Prophets July 16 Godsmack July 19 Tyler Farr/The War and July 28 Sublime the Treaty/Drake White SPECTRUM CENTER & The Big Fire July 9 New Kids on the Block, July 20 Andy Grammer/NeedToBreathe Debbie Gibson, Tiffany THE FILLMORE KNOXVILLE TN July 24 Carly Rae Jepsen TENNESSEE THEATRE IN KNOXVILLE PNC MUSIC PAVILION July 20 Little River Band July 7 Tedeschi Trucks Band July 30 Amy Ray (of Indigo Girls) July 12 Train and Goo Goo Dolls with Shawn Mullins July 19 Dave Matthews Band TENNESSEE AMPHITHEATER July 22 Iron Maiden (WORLD’S FAIR PARK) KNOXVILLE July 24 Mary J. Blige and Nas July 20 Corey Smith July 27 Florida Georgia Line NASHVILLE TN CHEROKEE NC NASHVILLE MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM HARRAH’S July 26 George Clinton July 5 Lady Antebellum SCHERMERHORN SYMPHONY CENTER RALEIGH NC July 9 Rob Thomas PNC ARENA July 17 The Isley Brothers July 7 New Kids on the Block, July 19 Little River Band Debbie Gibson, Tiffany July 21 Kirk Franklin RED HAT AMPHITHEATER July 11 Rob Thomas July 24 Johnny Rivers COASTAL CREDIT UNION CITY WINERY AT WALNUT CREEK July 13 Train and Goo Goo Dolls The Elizabethton / Carter animals. Just like a hospital, July 21 10,000 Maniacs July 26 Delbert McClinton GREENVILLE SC nursing home or human shelter, RYMAN AUDITORIUM County Animal Shelter is BON SECOURS WELLNESS ARENA a Government operated Animal when we are full we are full. We July 7 Carly Rae Jepsen July 10 New Kids on the Block, July 19 Jonny Lang Debbie Gibson, Tiffany "Adoption Shelter." We only do have a waiting list and, as we July 22 Joe Bonamassa July 29 Reo Speedwagon ATLANTA GA accept and adopt out domestic adopt pets out and have room, STATE FARM ARENA THE OPRY HOUSE we will accept new animals. July 7 Jeff Lynne’s ELO cats and dogs from Carter July 8 Yes, Asia and Carl Palmer’s ELP July 11 New Kids on the Block Legacy group County. We do not accept Feral July 31 Shawn Mendes ASCEND AMPHITHEATER THE TABERNACLE animals nor wildlife nor farm For more information call July 6 Rascal Flatts July 28 Carly Rae Jepsen July 16 Train and Goo Goo Dolls CELLAIRIS AMPHITHEATRE animals and we do not provide (423) 547-6349 or visit us July 24 Third Eye Blind/Jimmy Eat World AT LAKEWOOD online at BRIDGESTONE ARENA July 20 Iron Maiden veterinary or euthanasia services cartercounty.gov July 3 Jeff Lynne’s ELO CHASTAIN PARK AMPHITHEATER to the public. We are a very small and select animal shelters July 18 Mary J. Blige July 8 Rob Thomas July 19 Michael Buble’ July 16 Mary J. Blige and Nas shelter and do not kill animals under the departments and July 26 Korn July 31 Lionel Richie to make space to take in more services section. CALL WQUT @ 477-1015 FOR MORE CONCERT INFORMATION 16 Storyteller Antonio Rocha to Return for His Third ETSU Storytelling Institute

of the second of two Storytelling voice, movement, song, and any the coveted Circle of Excellence Institutes offered by the ETSU other art or style that suits them. Award for outstanding performance Storytelling Program. These Rocha, a native of Brazil, began from the National Storytelling annual institutes, which have his career in the performing arts Network. He just returned to the been part of the program since in 1985. In 1988, he received a U.S. from Austria, where he was theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com 1992, feature three-day master Partners of the Americas grant featured in “The Tales of Graz.” classes led by some of the world’s to come to the U.S. to perform Admission to Rocha’s concert top performers and teachers of and deepen his mime skills with is free, and donations will be storytelling arts. the late American mime master accepted. This event is co- This marks Rocha’s third time Tony Montanaro. Since then, he sponsored by the ETSU Storytelling teaching a Storytelling Institute, graduated summa cum laude Program and Department of having previously team-taught with a B.A. degree in theater from Communication and Performance. a popular movement class with the University of Southern Maine For more information on either JOHNSON CITY – Storyteller spoken word artist Milbre Burch. and studied with the late French the concert or the Storytelling Antonio Rocha, who brings a In “Hidden Gems,” his three-day mime master Marcel Marceau. He Institute, contact Dr. Delanna Reed, unique fusion of mime and spoken intensive to be held Monday- has performed from Singapore to ETSU Storytelling Program interim word to his performances, will Wednesday, July 15-17, Rocha South Africa and many places in coordinator, at 423-439-7601 or be featured in a public concert at will guide participating between, including 16 countries [email protected], or visit East Tennessee State University on professional storytellers in on six continents. www.etsu.edu/stories. Monday, July 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the recognizing transitional A favorite of the National For disability accommodations, Ball Hall auditorium. moments in a story as “hidden Storytelling Festival in call the ETSU Office of Disability Rocha’s appearance comes as part gems” to be explored through Jonesborough, Rocha received Services at 423-439-8346. weekly JULY lineup EERT YU FRY RED A “AL I TOWN” IN “TAILS AT FRIENDS FURRY YOUR CELEBRATE photos courtesy of JulsBuckmanPhotography • • • • • • • • friendsbringto ourlives. furry joy andunconditional love that our to celebrate thecompanionship, ages andaonce ayear opportunity the ultimate dayfor doglovers of all howling about!TAILS INTOWN! It’s to attend is that theevent everyone Hendersonville, NC-Make plans

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17 theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 18 MORNINGSTAR FLUTE ENSEMBLE

The opportunity for a concert tour of Sunday, July 21st 3 p.m. Hungary in 2006 was the catalyst for the formation of Morningstar Flute First Presbyterian Church Ensemble. When her Hungarian friend Miklos (Mike) Bus was willing to arrange 100 W Church Circle, such a venture, Charlotte Ellis invited Kingsport, TN a select group of flutist friends to theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com participate – and Morningstar was born. Suggested Donation Since then, the Ensemble has given at the Door $10 concerts in several states and recorded a CD of some of the world’s most $5 students beautiful and soothing music. Reception to follow Morningstar’s eclectic 3 p.m. concert on Sunday, July 21, will include music by Beethoven and Mendelssohn, a rag by education degree from the University Scott Joplin, traditional melodies and of Tennessee, Knoxville, and is a middle Celtic music, and will be performed on school band director in Unicoi County. the commonly heard C flute and not-so- Hayley has been an avid performer commonly heard alto and bass flutes. for many years. She won MTNA’s Solo Competition in the Senior Woodwinds The group derives its name from the Division in 2008 and placed in Hampton occasions that Charlotte’s mother Roads Flute Faire’s College Competition carried her very young daughter into in 2009. She was a member of the the early morning darkness to view University of Tennessee’s Wind the morning star, memories that have Ensemble for 9 consecutive semesters. remained vivid and special over the many intervening years. Erik Peterson is a flutist from Johnson City, TN. A graduate of East Tennessee A reception will follow the concert with State University, Erik studied flute opportunity to visit with musicians and under Rebecca Paluzzi. During his examine their instruments. studies, he played with the flute choir Hayley Goad is a flutist and teacher and Wind Ensemble, where he was from Jonesborough, TN. A student of principal flute for three consecutive Dr. Shelley Binder, she earned her music semesters. He currently works at ETSU for the university’s tutoring center and plays with the Johnson City Community Band. Morningstar Flute Ensemble’s founder, Charlotte Ellis, is a freelance musician and composer living in Blountville, TN. She performs in a number of ensembles in the east Tennessee area, including the flute and piano duo Windsong and Bittersweet Celtic Ensemble. She has toured in Britain, China, Australia and New Zealand with the Veterans Administration National Medical Musical Group. Charlotte is a member of the National Flute Association and a former flute instructor and the owner of Flour Fancies Bakery. For more information contact Charlotte Ellis at 423-323-4933. 19

-WhatSummer is the time when everyHave That is why You today I am sadlyRead here needs to This finally start moving Summer? on classic tale of the Little Mermaid - reading lover plans to read as to report that I have read just one from the tragedy and you get to if Ursula had won. much as they can in hope to check sole book so far this summer. That follow her journey of acceptance, I have so many books that I want as many books off of their to-read book is Standing Still by Jessica self-growth, and being okay with to read this summer, having | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com list. On any break from college, Brody. I read this book at the very not being okay. convinced myself to purchase I strive to read as much as I can. beginning of summer break, in an I am currently reading My Dear books with the sole purpose of During the semester, I just do not attempt to ease myself back into Hamilton: A Novel of Eliza having all summer to read them. As have the time to read leisurely. reading for pleasure. I try to start Schuyler by Stephanie Dray and I only have a little under a month As an English major, I am reading back into reading by selecting Laura Kamoie which follows the and a half to start reading more, so many books throughout the something easily read, like a young perspective of Eliza Schuyler, I better start reading yesterday. If school year that reading for adult or contemporary novel for Alexander Hamilton’s wife. The you are reading this, I encourage pleasure becomes a forgotten example, so that it is much easier book offers Eliza’s point of view you to pick up that book that you pastime. I lose the connection I to get my brain adapted to wanting on the events that transpire in her have thought was interesting for a have to books that I love and get to read and not viewing it as a life before and after she met and while or you have had on your to- so focused on reading simply what mundane task. Overall, the book married Hamilton. It is fascinating read list for who knows how long. is required of me. This causes me was a lovely read. Standing Still to read her side of the story, even There is nothing quite as satisfying to spiral into a reading slump and deals with tough subject matter, if it is from a fictional perspective. as reading a good book and being reading becomes required rather including grief and how to cope I am also still reading Becoming able to check it off your list. than something I willingly get to with losing a loved one, all while by Michelle Obama, despite Also, if you have any book choose. This can cause me to lose maintaining feel-good moments of receiving it as a Christmas gift. I touch with reading for fun, but I humor and blossoming young love. recommendations, feel free to have learned that memoirs are a send them in to my email. try to use breaks to reverse this The novel follows a protagonist slow read for me and perhaps, that thought process. I attempted to do who has one unread text message I would love to read what is is what has caused me to fall back meaningful to someone else. this at the beginning of this summer from her deceased best friend on into a slump. To counteract these because it always works best for her phone and takes the reader harder to digest novels and prevent Happy reading, me to lay out my goals right at the through a journey of her swapping this from happening again, I am beginning. However, I quickly got phones with a stranger in an going to read Part of Your World by Lauren lost in my new internship and am airport and trying to get her phone Elizabeth Braswell next as it was right back at where I started with my back with the message intact. This gifted to me. This novel explores reading slump. event turns out to be just what she what would have happened in the

She Reads by Lauren Stotsky [email protected] 20 Rhythm & Brews Concert Series presents Colby Deitz Band and Kenny George Band FREE EVENT with Randy Borawski on drums, C. should be a “musical party.” and Caswell Streets in downtown Downtown Hendersonville Marshall Ely playing the pedal steel Rhythm & Brews is a free outdoor Hendersonville NC. Tickets and Thursday, July 18, 2019 guitar and Brooks Andrews on bass. concert series offering local foods, wristbands, for the purchase of beer, 5:30-9:30 PM. In 2016, the band was voted South wines, craft beers and ciders. wine and hard cider, will be located Carolina Artists to Watch by the at the Downtown Hendersonville Rhythm & Brews Concert Series South Carolina Music Guide. Hands On! Children’s Museum tent. Rhythm & Brews is held on the presents Colby Deitz Band and booth provides fun for the whole 3rd Thursday of the month May-Sept. Continuing the momentum at 7:30 family. The concert is located on

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No preparation is required to audition Brother’s Grimm stories full of musical wishes For more information, visit and roles are available for men, women, and choices to their less-than storybook Theatre Bristol’s website or and teens. Doors will open 30 minutes endings. “The story follows a Baker and his Facebook page, contact Theatre before the first audition on each of these wife, who wish to have a child; Cinderella, dates:August 3 at 10:30 am, August 4 at who wishes to attend the King’s Festival; and Bristol at 423-212-3625, or email 2:30 pm, August 5 at 6:30 pm, August 10 at Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. [email protected]. 10:30 pm. The audition will consist of singing, When the Baker and his wife learn that they INTO THE reading, and dancing. No preparation is cannot have a child because of a Witch’s necessary as musical pieces will be provided, curse, the two set off on a journey to break | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com but prepared material will also be welcome. the curse. Everyone’s wish is granted, but Winner of multiple Tony Awards when Auditions will also include cold readings. the consequences of their actions return to debuted and revived, and adapted for film by For important details on preparation and haunt them later with disastrous results. One Walt Disney Pictures, Into the Woods features WO ODS music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book auditions, please be sure to visit of Sondheim’s most popular works, Into the www.theatrebristol.org/audition. Woods is a musically sophisticated show of and original Broadway direction by James dark comedy.” (MTIshows). Lapine, and with orchestrations by Jonathan Anyone interested in being a part of the Tunick. Into the Woods is presented production crew may contact Theatre Bristol Into the Woods opens November 15, and runs through special arrangement with Music at [email protected], or be present at for two weekends at the Paramount Center Theatre International (MTI). All authorized any of the audition times. for the Arts, Fridays at 7:30 pm, Saturdays at performance materials are also supplied by Bristol, Tennessee/Virginia, July 2019 – 7:30 pm, and Sundays at 2:30 pm, closing It’s into the woods and happily ever after Directing Into the Woods will be highly MTI (www.MTIShows.com). respected and talented actor/director, on November 24. Tickets are $16 for adults as Theatre Bristol announces auditions for plus fees ($20 total) and $12 for seniors and Founded in 1965, Theatre Bristol is the oldest the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Theatre Bristol veteran Glenn Patterson continually running children’s theatre in (Fiddler on the Roof, Disney’s Beauty and students plus fees ($15.75 total), and will be musical Into the Woods onAugust 3, 4, 5, available at www.ParamountBristol.org. northeast Tennessee. Its season consists and 10 at Theatre Bristol, 512 State Street, the Beast, The Music Man, Les Misérables, of up to seven productions, as well as a Bristol, TN. The award-winning Broadway Scrooge! The Musical, Joseph and the Theatre Bristol’s is pleased to present Into children’s camp, and other events. Theatre musical is on stage this fall for the holidays Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Miracle on the Woods as part of its family-friendly 54th Bristol performances take place in downtown at the Paramount Center for the Arts and 34th Street). season of ARTspace and Paramount shows, Bristol at the ARTspace, a multi-purpose, we invite the community to audition. Into the Woods features enchanting and including Cinder Red Riding Hood and the black box theatre which seats up to 120, or Show details, audition times, character clever songs such as “Children Will Listen,” Seven Dwarfs, The Wizard of Oz, Sherlock the Paramount Center for the Arts. Theatre roles, and rehearsal dates are available at “The Last Midnight” and the humor-filled Holmes, The Trial of the Big Bad Wolf, and Bristol is volunteer run and we invite you to www.TheatreBristol.org/audition. “Agony.” Into the Wood’s plays out the Miracle on 34th Street. get involved. 24 YOUR WEEKLY Sweet Home theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com

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Home Even if you’re not in the mood to be delights of the area. I genuinely outdoors, the Tri-Cities offers tons of wanted to remind people just how things to do. We have some of the lucky we are to be able to call this best selections for antique shopping place home, because I myself had YOUR WEEKLY in the nation. Just take a stroll down forgotten. After awhile anyone can Sweet Homeby Kathie S Blackcalf any of the city’s Main Streets and fall into the “same old, same old” you can spend the better part of rut and feel like there’s nothing to Being away from home so much as stints in Nashville, I actually took an entire day falling in and out of do, when in fact there is so much | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com of late has really inspired a new love in the scenery as I drove up 19E to interesting shops, boutiques and right in our own backyard, we just of my home here in Tri-Cities. It’s my house. The mountains ahead eateries. Downtown Johnson City have to take a step back to be able funny how most of the time to truly loomed larger than I remembered, has really grown their Main Street to see the forest through the trees. appreciate something, you have and the late afternoon sun cast a and surrounding areas by leaps and While I’m enjoying exploring my new th th to lose it in some capacity. I never golden glow, making the trees even bounds in the last 15 years. When I life in a big city, it is a relief to be able July 16 - July 22 Courtesy of Lauren Stotsky acknowledge how wonderful it is to more lush and green than normal. first started hanging out downtown, to come back and slow down. To taste food until I get sick and lose my I rolled down the window and took no one wanted to go there. The area take a stroll downtown without being palate to a stuffy nose. And I never in the sticky sweet air as I drove past was considered a bit unsafe and bombarded by homelessness, non- thought twice about my vehicle the drive-in movie theatre, where the only place to go was Numan’s, stop sirens and skyrise construction. Aries Taurus Gemini Cancer until I wrecked it last week and people were already lined up to Gatsby’s (now Capones), the Mecca Not to mention the convenience of (March 21- (April 20-May 20) (May 21-June 20) (June 21-July 22) realized how much I rely on take in the evening show. This is (now roughly where Korean Taco and free parking! The world is such a April 19) transportation and just how such a great place to get outside and Red Meze reside) and Halo (now Holy big place, and I cannot encourage screwed I would be without the wander. The fact that an 8-minute Taco.) The only people wandering up people to travel and get outside their This week try to take advantage Be especially thoughtful to others Make an effort to stick to your Place yourself in someone else’s rental car policy on my insurance. drive is all that separates me from and down the streets at night were comfort zone enough. However, of your free-time by being around you this week, because routine this week. You will find shoes this week. You will gain a In the same respect, after a lifetime Watauga Lake and I never go enjoy vagrants and you can forget about it’s always good to come home. So efficient and getting the things you never know what someone satisfaction in taking care of whole new perspective on each in the Tri-Cities, I have grown it says everything about how jaded food options. To see the downtown whether it’s people or places in your done that have been on your to- situation you encounter. may be going through. your wellbeing. accustomed to the natural beauties I’d become with this place. At any economy now thriving with eclectic life, take stock of all the good things do list for a while. and small-town treasures that time of the day or week a person restaurants and bars, the beautiful around you and don’t take them for abound in the area and realized just can hop right on the Appalachian green space at Founder’s and King granted. In an instant you could lose how much I’ve taken it for granted. Trail and explore beautiful woods Common, as well as the farmer’s them and you just don’t ever realize Upon returning from one of my 4-day and waterfalls. Or if you’re in the market and multiple festivals and what you’ve really got til it’s gone. Leo Virgo Libra Scorpio mood for a bike ride, you could even events, it makes my heart glow take a ride on the Tweetsie from with pride. (July 23- (August 23- (September 23- (October 23- Elizabethton and enjoy a Cardinals August 22) September 22) October 22) November 21) We have terrific museums and game when you arrive at the trail state parks if you’re interested in head in Johnson City. getting to know the area a little XO- Kathie Be mindful of your close One night this week, try to This week do not put too You may have to have a conversation more intimately. The Gray Fossil friendships this week. Schedule a leave your phone behind and with a loved one this week that you much attention on your Site, Birthplace of Country Music, dinner or an evening together, so be completely present in the have been dreading. Try to take physical appearance. Instead, Sycamore Shoals, Bays Mountain you all can catch up. moment and in the situation. You advantage of the opportunity to lay focus on your mental wellness and Warriors Path are just a handful will notice things you normally out your feelings. for a change. to get you started and can be fun for all ages. Barter Theatre runs terrific productions year-round, as does the Jonesborough Reparatory Theatre. Sagittarius Capricorn Aquarius Pisces If you enjoy a liquid libation, the (November 22- (December 22- (January 20- (February 19- Tri-Cities is home to dozens of December 21) January 19) February 18) March 20) breweries, distilleries and vineyards where you can not only Try to filter out the toxic Remain determined this week. Some things may be changing this Be aware of your boundaries drink like a local, but also take a elements in your life, whether You may be experiencing week, but instead of shying away this week. 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The young and “young at heart” are At RCAM, visitors will rotate through alkali metal reactions. To register, call 423-354-5200 invited to a free intergenerational three stations. The first will demonstrate or email [email protected]. Parking for the intergeneration fun camp fun camp Thursday, July 18, for a computer numerical controlled (CNC) will be available in the City of Kingsport For more information, visit grandparents and their grandchildren milling machine used to create such Clinchfield Street parking lot. The event is www.kingsportlearning.org. ages 7 and up.The one-day interactive things as automotive parts, household

theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com free to attend, but registration is required For disability accommodations, STEM experience is from 1-4 p.m. and items, electronics and clothing. Next is and space is limited. call ETSU at Kingsport at 423-354-2000. sponsored by the Kingsport Alliance infrared imaging science demonstrations for Continued Learning, a continuing of infrared thermography (IRT), thermal Space is limited for grandparents and grandchildren ages 7 and up education program offered through a imaging and thermal video, followed partnership with East Tennessee State by digital instrumentation involving a University to provide adults, regardless control room simulation using digital of educational background or age, instrumentation and computers to control opportunities to attend stimulating level and flow in industrial environments. courses, lectures and special events. Campers will learn about cardiovascular Campers will begin at 305 W. Main Street technology at the RCHP, such as invasive to tour Kingsport Academic Village and non-invasive options, as well as facilities, including Northeast State dental assisting, emergency medical Community College’s Regional Center technology, medical laboratory technology, for Applied Manufacturing (RCAM) and nursing, paramedic and surgical technology. Regional Center for Health Professions Chemical demonstrations will cap (RCHP). Door prizes and ice cream will the day at KCHE. Participants will see close out the day at the Kingsport demonstrations of reduction-oxidation Center for Higher Education (KCHE). reactions of rusting and burning fuel, and 27

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Model City Wrecking Crew FREE CONCERT SERIES will take the stage at Winged Deer Park’s Lakefront Festival July 11: theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com Plaza Goulding Amphitheater Model City Wrecking Crew from 7-9 p.m. Thursday, July 11. July 18: The Kingsport-based classic The Bosses rock band performs a broad July 25: range of tunes from bands Jae Marie Project and performers such as Billy Aug. 1: Come taste the freshest meats, veggies, and eggs around, Joel, Eric Clapton, the Eagles, Sound Traveler Steely Dan, Atlanta Rhythm Locally sourced from farms right here in Tennessee! Section, Steppenwolf, the Aug. 8: Rolling Stones and much more. Barefoot Movement Aug. 15: Members include Joe Ball, Tri-Cities Jazz Orchestra guitar/vocals; Dwight Brown, bass/vocals; Jimmy Dale, keyboards; Alan Wells, guitar/ vocals and Jeff Johnson, Deer Park, 199 Carroll Creek drums/vocals. Road, Johnson City. The concert is free. Attendees The Lakeside Concert Series are also encouraged to is presented by The Johnson bring a blanket or folding City News & Neighbor, chair. The location offers 101.5 WQUT, Tri-Cities’ easy access, free parking, Classic Rock, Tennessee concessions, a playground Department of ransportation, and a relaxed atmosphere. and Washington County Sheriff’s Office. The lakeside concerts are from 7-9 p.m. each Thursday For more information, through Aug. 8 at Winged call 423-283-5815.

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I am not, by nature, one of those wearing chacos. For me, my “get Another pot of coffee, then I’ll The restaurant owner dreads types who thinks that men back to Andy” weekend means crack open another hunk of this each year, he’ll always come need to get away to the woods sitting around in my underwear, industrial cheese from Sam’s up to me and say “Mr. Ross, for a “get in touch with your eating blocks of cheese with a Club. Eat, watch, sleep, repeat. you promised this year it would | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com primitive side” retreat. One of clean screwdriver, and watching That’s how it goes over the be different!” Then I’ll laugh those ridiculous things were men reruns of “Supermarket Sweep.” weekend, by the time I return to mightily, pick him up over my who have more income than I The mornings are most magical. civilization I feel like a completely shoulders and toss him aloft. True set things on fire in a desperate The cabin is remote, no one rejuvenated version of myself. to my word, I’ll always write him attempt to battle their insecurity. for miles, no neighbors. The My friends dread this return. I a nice check to make up for any That being said, the idea of a driveway to the cabin is about emerge from the woods in full damage I caused, and to show weekend away in the woods to half a mile long off the main road. flannel, with a bushy beard, that my business is good business get in touch with yourself does This means one can truly feel at looking like I should be selling to have. My friends won’t speak to strike me as a good idea. I’m peace with being themselves, Brawny paper towels. I greet me for a few weeks, at least until not talking about a camping and it means I can drink coffee them in a loud, mighty, Asgardian the beard is shaved off. expedition, but more just a on the front porch every morning voice. I greet them with back- It’s amazing what getting in chance to get away from it all. completely naked. Just me and breaking hugs. Picking them up touch with nature and you can This is a practice I’ve engaged in my raw naturals being bared and tossing them all around like do. Some people just returned over the last three years. Each before God and all of His creation. they are gentle feathers. After I more relaxed, while I return in a July I get a cabin in a quiet part of I’ll contemplate while doing this. sit them back down at the table, VERY pure version of the chaos East Tennessee for a weekend. I I’ll produce a worn cassette tape I holler “Garson! Stacks of your engine that is Andy Ross. I hope avoid social media, I try to avoid and player, and I’ll begin to play finest flapjacks for everyone!” you all take time to get away for my phone, and I try to spend my the song “Wildfire.” I’ll listen to Once the energy of the sugar a weekend in the woods, then time trying to get back in touch the words and think about the reaches my system, I’ll dance toss your friends around like with the mysterious chaos engine only woman I ever truly loved. around the restaurant like I’m they’re nerf balls while wrecking a that is Andy Ross. For most She grew up on a pony ranch recreating the barn-raising restaurant. It will do wonders for people, a weekend in the woods outside of Erwin. Our love was sequence from “Seven Brides for you. See you next week. means, fishing, reading, cooking, strong and intense. She taught Seven Brothers.” and going to group actives while me how to saddle a pony and ride through the Erwin night. Considering that I’m 6’2, this was quite the site for all the locals to see. I would have married her. I loved her so much that I would have given up my life of print media, words, letters, and reruns of “Supermarket Sweep.” But, it was not to be. She left me. She left me for a sesame seed farmer from Detroit. Last I heard she’s Batteries happy, and she and the farmer Not Included are raising up a nice little family By Andy Ross of Buicks. aross@ I’ll put a fresh pair of underwear theloaferonline.com on, then I’ll go inside and paint up a nice little watercolor as a way of dealing with my feelings. 30 August Under the Stars at Allandale Season 5 begins August 1st

Wilson and Ivy Road. We will complete are being donated by Cattails Golf this year by Ballad Health, The Blake and Free Concert Series our season with Winston Salem’s Big Course, Rush Street, Blakey-Mitchell Allandale Package Store. Our media Daddy Love. It’s the most exciting line-up and Allandale Package Store (you must sponsors are Kingsport Times News, Aug 1 Richard Vos we have had so far.” In the event of rain, the be 21 to win this one), and the Diamond Johnson City Press and VIPSEEN. For the concert will be moved to the Picnic Pavilion. Exchange. Registration will be available first time, we also have had a number Aug 15 Ruby Velle and PEAK president Lindsay Powers at each show. of concert supporting individuals who the Soulphonics elaborates, “This is our second year in Incoming FOA president, Nina Myers, donated individually. It’s expensive to partnership with Friends of Allandale. wanted to thank our community put on this series of free concerts for theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com Aug 22 Benny Wilson The series brings exciting comedy and sponsors. She said, “We are grateful to our regional community, but it brings and Ivy Road music at the bucolic Allandale campus, Eastman Credit Union and Visit Kingsport our organizations great joy to see so and PEAK handles the marketing and who have been sponsors of our series many families enjoying the beauty of the Aug 29 Big Daddy Love social media. Local creative talents, since the beginning. They are joined Allandale campus and the amphitheater.” art director Ashley May King and multi-media producer Ryan Shipley, For more info go to: allandalemansion.com/wp-content/uploads/Concert-Flyer.pdf For the fifth August, Friends of Allandale, donate their innovative talents as and partner PEAK, are sponsoring a four PEAK members to market the series in concert series which run the gamut of advertising and social media.” entertainment from comedy to soul to rock n roll and country. Lynda Snook, This August the amphitheater will be president of FOA, explains “We are very open at 6 p.m. when food trucks will excited to sponsor our fifth season of sell picnic friendly entrees. Because free regional concerts at the Allandale the crowds have grown, there will be amphitheater. This year we begin on two food trucks along with a desert August 1st with comedian Rich Vos. This truck and beer sold by Bays Mountain concert contains adult material and is not Brewing Company. They will be open for recommended for children. There is no business at 6 p.m. “You are also welcome program on August 8th which is the city’s to bring your own picnic and beverage” final downtown concert. Vos is followed according to Allandale curator Rod on August 15th by Atlanta soul singer Gemayel. The music begins at 7 p.m. Ruby Velle and the Soulphonics. August For the first time, we will have drawings 22 brings together local legends Benny at each week’s intermission and gifts

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It will crave the feel? This is one of the reasons we start protein can lead to massive sweet cravings. Eating too much animal First, let’s talk about WHY you have opposite of Contracted foods – it will eating sugar and we quite literally can’t crave sweet, expansive bliss foods! Do stop and crave it constantly. protein can lead to sweet cravings. sugar cravings. When I work with clients we find just the you find that if you have something salty Your body is actually trying to find The concept of polarity is pretty simple. like potato chips, you crave something right sweet spot for protein intake so It’s based on the principle that everything blood sugar balance. So, the sugar they feel satisfied. sweet afterwards? That’s the challenge, craving is your body’s way of saying it has 2 “polarities” or extremes. For if we have too many contractive foods 5. Sniff out low-fat and fat free foods. example, hot and cold are extremes of needs something specific to restore we’ll crave the expansive. If we have this balance. The easiest and most When food manufacturers take the fat the pole called “temperature.” It’s the too many expansive foods, we’ll crave out of foods, what do they put in? same way with every apparent opposite: convenient food to restore blood sugar the contractive. So what many people balance when your blood sugar is in the Yep, sugar. hard and soft, noisy and quiet, light and don’t realize – and I didn’t realize this dark, good and bad, love and fear. When toilet is sugar. However, if we keep eating 6. Move yo’self. Movement is another myself either – is that we’re often times sugar, we will stay on that crazy craving kind of food for your body. It releases you find one thing, you’ll also find the CREATING our cravings, unknowingly. potential for its opposite. To look at the roller coaster. And that roller coaster stress, makes you feel great and look That craving is your body trying to affects your mood, causes weight gain, great. When you don’t get enough, the world through the lens of polarity is to balance itself out again. look at it in pairs: dark/light, night/day, and can lead to serious diseases. And body starts to look for other ways to yin/yang, male/female, etc. Let’s take a quick look at what’s there’s a little more to the story….. After blow off steam, like binging on happening in the body when you the hormone insulin is sent out to take Snickers bars So how does this concept apply to food? excess sugar out of the bloodstream, it First, we want to consider that food is eat sugar. 7. Create new post-meal rituals. If you’re And why we experience that awesome has three places it can take that sugar: a “dessert after your meal” person, one more than simply fuel. It has energetic 1. Your brain 2. Your blood cells 3. Your qualities that are beyond the science and sugar high. Products containing lots of of things you might love about that is the sugar usually don’t contain lots of fiber, muscles. Now if all those receptors are ritual of it. What are other possibilities for mechanics of calories, fat grams, and full because you’ve been eating a lot of nutrient values. For example, leafy greens fat or protein. Fiber, fat and protein slow post-meal rituals? down sugar absorption, so when those sugar already, where does that excess grow upward, so they have a “lifting” sugar go? Yep, right on the hips. That If you find yourself saying, “I don’t have energy, whereas root vegetables, like a nutrients aren’t present, your blood time to exercise,” which is one of the sugar shoots up really fast, like to the excess sugar is stored as FAT. So let’s talk potato or squash, grow deep about some practical ways to get of this fastest ways to double your energy and into the ground, so they have a top of a roller coaster. Now at the top of kick the sugar habit, then check out my this roller coaster, your brain is alerted. blood sugar roller coaster and back on “grounding” energy. So what does the level ground. FREE guide to “Make Time To Exercise” polarity of food look like? And how might Your brain uses about 50% of your blood at www.coahlesliej.com. this polarity in your food actually be sugar at any given time, so any drastic Here are 7 Solutions CREATING your cravings? rise or fall in your blood sugar levels to Sugar Cravings. To Your Health, cause your brain flip out. So when you’re On one side you have “Expansive Bliss” These are also displayed on the picture. Coach Leslie J. blood sugar spikes up, your brain and Print it out and put it on your fridge to foods. Foods that represent this energy your body aren’t happy – to YOUR body are represented in alcohol, caffeine, sugar, remind you to pause before you reach THIS IS AN EMERGENCY. So what does for that sweet snack. dairy and to some extent fruit. The energy your body do? Your pancreas secretes of these foods make you feel light, relaxed the hormone INSULIN to bring your 1. Check Your Bevvies! Sounds crazy, but and happy – blissful! But when you eat blood sugar back down. sometimes sweet cravings are a sign of too many “bliss” foods you start to feel dehydration. So pound a glass of water, spacey, maybe even a little forgetful. Here’s the problem. We have spent wait 5 minutes and then see if you still a lifetime eating a lot of high-sugar, Then, on the other extreme are the have the craving. Also, too much caffeine processed products – hey, I grew up in mimics a blood sugar crash – you’re high “Contracted Tension” foods. 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Kicking off their sixth year offering arts foundational elements of the medium, glazes, classes are small in size and can be adapted education classes, The McKinney Center and and terminology while making beautiful to any level of experience! Jonesborough’s Mary B. Martin Program functional and decorative pieces. The Potter’s If you have always dreamed about loosing for the Arts is announcing their fall 2019 Wheel Series is a two-part class that starts yourself in painting then look no further schedule! You will not want to miss this with the Level I for beginners and is designed than what is offered this semester. The | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com year’s selection of creative offerings. Hands- to develop your skills on the wheel. After the Adventures in Watercolors is a great way on classes that teach various skills are led by Level I class the Level II class is a great choice to start your painting journey as you experienced instructors and are fitting for to continue working on skills. get to experiment with techniques that various ages and ability levels. New to the curriculum this semester is create amazing masterpieces. For adults For young children, the Art Adventures a generous offering of dance classes for who prefer a daytime class there is also a Maybe you want to try a class but do not program offers instruction for your young children, teens, and adults. Ballet Level 1 for Beginning Watercolor Technique class and have the time to commit to an ongoing artists who are ready to explore the world grades 1 – 4 will be taught by Mauren Pickle. an Intermediate Watercolor class on Monday class. The fall semester does have one- of art. Students receive an introduction to Zoe Hester will be teaching Grades 1 – 5 in mornings. New to the painting curriculum day workshops including making clay art skills where activities and projects are Jazz and Tap. Teens can enjoy Beginning this semester is Basics of Oil Painting taught Jack-O-Lanterns, Alcohol Ink, 2D Paper organized to develop their understanding Ballroom taught by Emily Matney. Teens by Sharon Squibb, which will explore the Composition, making a Clay Toad House, and experimentation with a wide variety of and Adults can choose from Jazz, Ballet, and beauty of oil painting with step-by-step Pottery Glazing, Zentangle, and several media, techniques, and processes. Over the Ballroom, all beginning level courses. projects. And, don’t miss out on Allison Glass Fusion workshops. course of their class work students will get Music selections include the all-time favorite Parker’s Plein Air Painting, which will include You can save money if you register between to take home paintings, drawings, sculpture, Bucket Drumming class for grades 5 – adult. discussing trends found in art history and now and August 11 with the Early Bird and more! For older elementary aged Guitar is another option this semester. For contemporary landscape paintings, as well Discount. All classes are $10 off during this students, the Creative Construction courses beginners, the group classes are a great as exploring strategies for simplifying the time. You can also save money if you bundle are taught to build their skills as artists option to start with. Group classes for guitar process of painting outside. certain classes. Check the website www. including drawing and painting skills that include a kid and teen class on Tuesday Mosaics is another popular class offered mckinneycenter.com for more information. will be taken to the next level. Students will nights and an adult group class takes place at the McKinney Center by artist Beverly work with clay, paper mache, learn to draw A Fall Open House will be held at the during the day on Tuesdays. Private guitar Thomas Jenkins. This semester you can McKinney Center on August 10 from 10am 3D images, and try watercolor and acrylic lessons will also be available this semester take the Mosaic Abstract class and/or the paint. There are daytime options for these – 2pm. This will be an opportunity for the but times are limited and you are encouraged Pet Portrait class. Both of these fun classes public to see what the fall classes have to classes for Homeschool Families and Co-ops. to register quickly! Additionally, Heidi Ehle demonstrate the basics of mosaics as New to this year’s line up is Sensory Art for offer. Faculty will be present for questions will be offering private flute lessons for students design their own pieces. Students and demonstrations. The last day to toddlers ages 18 months – 4 years old, which students of all ages. will work from a drawing or photo and work is a parent/child class that introduces young register for classes is August 17. Drawing skills are a fundamental aspect of the step-by-step on how to create a beautiful children to art processes, materials, and work of art. The McKinney Center is open to the creative exploration. visual art world and there are several options public Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm. Staff this semester for teens and adults. The Basics Let’s Make a T.V. Show is a great class for Ceramics is one of the most popular encourages all visitors to feel at home at the of Drawing class is for beginners interested grades 8-12. If you have a kid interested in McKinney Center; take a class, participate in offerings at the McKinney Center. There are in learning the fundamental skills and film making this is the class for them! They clay classes for young and old alike. Kids an exhibition, come to a lecture, volunteer techniques for making drawings of simple will learn how to write a script for their show, your time, attend a workshop, or set up N Clay is geared for grades K– 3 and Young subjects. Mixed Media Drawing for grades how to operate a video camera, work with Potters for grades 4-7. Both of these classes an easel on the grounds and paint. Please 6 – adults will be a guided class in learning lights, green screen backdrops, and learn check the McKinney Center at Booker provide basic instruction and students will how to create a finished composition utilizing the basics of acting for television. get to take home 3-5 projects that they T. Washington School Facebook page various mediums. Anime Art Club is back this Writers are also encouraged to participate throughout the year for information about make themselves. Teens and adults have semester for grades 5th – 12th which focuses the choice of Hand-Building or The Potter’s in the Creative Writers Group. The purpose our exciting programs and events. on the Japanese originated comic style of of this group is to allow members to share Wheel Series. Hand-building is a great way Manga and Anime drawings. All the drawing to start working with clay and learn the their work, explore ideas, feel supported, and build their portfolio. This is an Full descriptions of class intergenerational group starting with young writers as young as 15 years old through offerings can be found senior adults. online at New this semester is a Shadow Puppet mckinneycenter.com Theater class for grades K-4th and Homeschool Story Collecting for grades 5th or by stopping by the – 8th. The Shadow Puppet Theater class will McKinney Center, learn traditional folk tales and create their narrations and puppets working toward a Monday – Friday final performance. The Home School Story 8am – 5pm Collecting class is a day time experience that teaches young people the art of interviewing to pick up a catalog. their family and friends to capture stories of culture and heritage. Some stories may be For additional information chosen for the McKinney Center’s annual contact the McKinney community play or monthly radio show. Center at 423.753.0562. 34 EVERY EVERY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY BIKE KNIGHT $3 PINTS SPONSORED BY $3 PIZZA BLACK WOLF HD theloaferonline.com | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com

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Legend tells the story of an attack Bristol. Covering over 3,334 acres, by far one of the best routes in the We haven’t camped here yet, but on several settlements throughout the state park features a wide variety park; it completely circles around that may be changing soon! southwest Virginia in the early of geographic features as well as Hungry Mother Lake in a distance Perhaps the best amenity offered by days of our nation. While many of providing plenty of recreation of just over five miles. Access to the park are the ranger-led activities | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com the inhabitants were killed, others options for visitors. fishing areas, overlooks of the marsh which range from campfire talks were taken prisoner. A mother Hungry Mother Lake is by far the habitats bordering the shoreline, and leaf identification walks to known only as Molly was able to park’s most attractive feature and and opportunities to observe guided hikes throughout the escape and carry her child with usually crowded with swimmers at wildlife such as beaver and cranes surrounding forest. The Restaurant, her to safety; with no food or other the park’s guarded beach. At 109 make this our favorite trail. a full-service dining facility, adds yet supplies, they could only make acres, the lake furnishes plenty of Picnic shelters are available to another reason to visit this hidden it to the outskirts of present day room for everyone to get away to reserve for events and can seat gem of a park. Open from March to Marion before she could go no their own little slice of paradise. upwards of seventy people; November, the restaurant serves further. The child, however, was Paddleboats, canoes, and kayaks smaller picnic areas are available brunch on Sundays and is open eventually rescued and attempted are available to rent daily Memorial throughout the park as well, though during select hours throughout to lead her saviors back to her Day to Labor Day weekend. A launch we prefer a blanket on the edge of the week. Please check the park mother. Unfortunately, they arrived site is included as well for those the lake. A campground is located website to check the restaurant’s too late, as Molly had passed due who bring their own watercraft. Be nearby, with areas set up for tents hours, as they change several times to exhaustion and lack of food. mindful, however, that motorboats and RV camping. If sleeping in a throughout the year. Hungry Mother State Park now are not permitted under any tent isn’t for you, cabins and the Directions: From Johnson City, protects this site, as well as the circumstances, as park officials wish Hungry Mother Lodge are also nearby Molly Knob, named in take I-26 West 14 miles to exit 8B to preserve the peaceful nature of available to rent year round. The and merge onto I-81 North. After 64 honor or the brave woman who the lake. lodge has six bedrooms total and risked everything to save her child. miles, take exit 45 and turn left onto Almost twenty miles of hiking sleeps up to fifteen people, while VA-16. Follow VA-16 5 miles to the For our next chapter in the state trails wander throughout the park, the cabins can accommodate up to park boundary. parks series, we decided to leave allowing exploration of all the eight guests. With the leaves soon the Blue Ridge and feature a to change within the next month, Park information for campsite and habitats and ecosystems. Several cabin reservations can be found park located in the valley while paths climb to the peak of Molly’s now is the ideal time to place a providing just as much fun and reservation to ensure that you have by calling 1-800-933-PARK, or by Knob, and the nearby vista trail visiting the park’s website at outdoor adventure as those in leads to a fantastic overlook of the a spot available if you decide to get the mountains. The park is also park and the surrounding ridge away for a little weekend getaway. www.dcr.virginia.gov/state-parks/ easily accessible from Interstate and valley region. Lake Trail Loop is Cabins fill up quickly and the lodge hungry-mother. 81, located just an hour away from is available on a weekly rental basis.

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Veterans Night At Liberty! Liberty! Continues Its 41St Season Performances Thursday, July 18

of ensuring that historic events of national weeks to go, we hope you will mark significance are always remembered. your calendars now to attend the 41st On Veterans Night Within their hearts you will find a passion season performances of Tennessee’s and strong desire to honor our ancestors – Official Outdoor Drama – Liberty! we honor and thank patriots in the truest sense of the word. The Saga of Sycamore Shoals in our veterans Leaving the comforts of home, long Elizabethton, Tennessee. hunters, and then families, began leaving Set beside the Watauga River, the story and an escort by the 13 English colonies to begin a new life, unfolds with Fort Watauga as the backdrop. free of the rule of the British king. They The outdoor amphitheater provides bench offering them crossed over the mountains beyond the seating with backs and an opportunity to free admission. Proclamation Line of 1763 discovering land sample great food within a short distance that was cleared, yet uninhabited. The from your seat, at Carter’s Store. Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park – “Old Fields” of the Watauga quickly became Liberty! 2019 performance dates – Elizabethton, Tennessee the heart of frontier settlements on land Thursday through Saturday, Watching the cast of Liberty! share the belonging to the Cherokee. Set in the 1770’s, July 11 – 13, July 18 – 20 and the 25 – 27, stories of Sycamore Shoals is humbling, Liberty! relates the good times and the sad closing the 41st season on Saturday, July exciting, and above all…….inspirational. times; the struggles and the sacrifices - of 27th. For additional information please Comprised of over 100 volunteers, our families who were willing to take incredible contact the park at: neighbors from throughout the Tri-Cities risks to create a democratic society against a multitude of obstacles. Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park and beyond, come together each January 1651 W. Elk Avenue Elizabethton, TN to begin auditions and rehearsals for the Liberty opens its second week of July drama. Giving an enormous amount performances on Thursday, July 18, and 423-543-5808 of time and energy, they ask nothing in continues Thursday through Saturday Advance Ticket Reservations: return – just the opportunity to be a part through July 27th. With just two more www.thelibertydrama.com 39

Veteran | July 16, 2019 theloaferonline.com oftheweek Written by: Lauren Stotsky

The Loafer’s Veteran of the Week is Paul McDowell III. He served in the United States Marine Corps in the 3rd Battalion. He was born on July 28, 1953 to Paul McDowell Jr. and Peggy McDowell in Bridgeton, New Jersey. McDowell graduated from Bridgeton High School with the senior class of 1970. Shortly after graduating, he was drafted right at the end of Vietnam. Because of this, he witnessed mostly peace as the war was winding down. McDowell trained for boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina and was assigned into the 3rd Battalion Platoon 144. He stayed in the 3rd Battalion throughout his service. He was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and Camp Pendleton, California during Military Police training and as a Military Police. After his time there, he went aboard the USS Hancock as a Police Sergeant. Soon after, he went on to station in Alaska up until his discharge in 1973 at 20 years old. McDowell Paul McDowell III states that his service and career in the marines kept him out of trouble. While serving, he received the national defense medal and two good-conduct medals. Upon his discharge, McDowell went to work on pipelines in Alaska for six months, where he later returned home and got married. After marriage, he had children and currently has grandchildren and even great grandchildren. He ventured into the tattoo industry to fulfill his passion for drawing and painting, going on to owning and operating White Tiger Tattoos until his retirement. COMING ATTRACTIONS

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