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Garden Jubilee, veterans, music kick off summer

Flowers and plants star downtown


Folks with green thumbs will flock to Main Street this weekend.
The annual Garden Jubilee Festival Saturday and Sunday features workshops by gardening experts, more than 200 vendors selling thousands of annuals, perennials, vegetables, herbs and hard-to-find plants
plus handmade lawn furniture, jewelry, garden tools, yard art, planters, wind chimes, birdhouses and more. (Many shoppers bring wagons to
haul their trove of plants and accessories.)
The Southeast Tourism Society has named Garden Jubilee a Top 20 event in the Southeast for May 2016.
Lowe’s Expo at the Visitors Center will feature lawn and garden workshops, a variety of plants for sale, patio displays, a hands-on kids clinic, outdoor furniture and equipment. Bill Slack, landscape and gardening specialist with Southern Living magazine, will host these gardening workshops at the Expo:
• 11 a.m. Saturday: Gorgeous Landscape: Maximum Beauty/Minimum Effort.
• 1 p.m. Saturday: Annuals & Perennials: Colorful Garden Accessories.
• 3 p.m. Saturday: Help! I don’t have sun in my yard.
• 1 p.m. Sunday: Gorgeous Landscape: Maximum Beauty/Minimum Effort.
• 3 p.m. Sunday: Annuals & Perennials: Colorful Garden Accessories.
Please leave pets at home. A Hendersonville city ordinance prohibits animals in the festival area.


Veterans Hall hosts Memorial Day program


The Henderson County Heritage Museum will host the annual Memorial Day program and salute to veterans at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Veterans Hall outside the Veterans Services office at the Henderson County Human Services Building, 1200 Spartanburg Highway, Suite 200.
The program includes Jeff Miller speaking about the new HonorAir Korean War flights taking off this fall, the Hendersonville Chorale singing a collection of patriotic songs, the Henderson County Patriot Guard, Henderson County Honor Guard and the Heritage Museum Tar Heel Junior Historians.
Veterans Hall displays a timeline of United States conflicts from World War I to today. Pictures of veterans are displayed along with artifacts
and memorabilia from the veterans. The public is invited to tour the exhibits. The museum’s videographer
will be present to scan photographs for anyone wishing to include their veteran in the Hall. Photographs
will be scanned and returned during the tour.


Festival celebrates Sandburg’s folk music

 

FLAT ROCK — The Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site hosts the 30th annual Carl Sandburg Folk Music Festival on Memorial Day with free live performances from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the site’s outdoor stage.
A special theme this year is Chicago-style folk and blues in celebration of 100 years of Carl Sandburg’s ground-breaking collection of poetry Chicago Poems, published in 1916. Performers are:
• 11 a.m.: Dana and Susan Robinson are two guitar-playing, banjo-picking, fiddle-sawing, and harmony-singing interpreters of the American experience. Their unique blend of contemporary songwriting and traditional Appalachian music bring to their performances a deep understanding of America’s musical heritage much in the same way as Carl Sandburg.
• Noon: The King Bees, led by Rob Baskerville and Penny “Queen Bee” Zamagni, are considered one of the hottest and most entertaining shows anywhere, igniting the stage with exuberant joy, Chicago-style shuffles and rockabilly.
• 1 p.m.: Jon Shain brings story-telling songs that are enhanced by stark country folk-blues accompaniments.
• 2 p.m.: Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues delivers a style that connects Arnold’s life and music to Chicago, the Mississippi Delta and South Carolina blues tradition. Arnold toured and recorded with the Muddy Waters Band and recorded LPs with John Lee Hooker, helped produce Soul Train with his friend Don Cornelius and even played bass on the Sanford & Son television show when he wasn't playing bass for Otis Redding and B.B. King.
Steve and Jean Smith will perform hammered dulcimer music at the historic barn area from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sandburg began playing the guitar in the early 1900s to enhance his lectures. Performing during the era of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, he was a mentor for Burl Ives. He played guitar, banjo and harmonica and collected a series of folk songs, which he published in his book The American Songbag.

Enjoy picnic, music on Jump Off Rock


LAUREL PARK — The Laurel Park Civic Association presents the annual Jump Off Rock Music Festival Saturday.
The Carburetors kick off the show at 4 p.m. followed by Dashboard Blue.
Tickets are $10 and available at Laurel Park Town Hall, Crate Wine Market and the Henderson County Visitors Center. Admission is free for children under 12. Bring your own food and beverages — beer and wine are permitted — chairs, picnic blankets and coolers.
The Civic Association will present a check for $21,500 to the town of Laurel Park, which was the
proceeds from the Jump Off Rock event. The money will cover the first phase of improvements at Jump
Off Rock, which included a new
entrance plaza, removing a large
evergreen tree, adding a circular wall and rock garden and
redoing the path to the main viewing spot.
“It’s a meandering path with a much better surface so handicapped people and wheelchairs can maneuver it much better,” said Civic Association President Don McIntyre.