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FEBRUARY 2015

Issue 47

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CONTENTSDayTrip Destinations 6

Beech Mountain’s Ski Slope Time Machine Weekend 16Just Desserts: Surry Sonker Trail Showcases a Tasty Confection 18Eat A Gourmet Meal In A 100-Year-Old Mule Stable 22

Monks Gone Wild! 23

Film Junkies Guide to North Carolina 24

Along The Way 26

Twelve Bones, Twenty Four Stops. Coincidence? 28

We Tell you where to go! Whether you are a long time resident or new to

the area, you’ll find destinations here that will have you saying “I never knew that was there.”

We a re ve r y s e lec t ive of our market ing partners as wel l as ou r e d i tor i a l cont e nt . I f we cannot be proud of the content submitted to us we will not put it in Dashboards and Saddlebags Magazine, period.

If you are looking for new desti-nations to explore on your own, or ideas for things to do with friends and family you will find something new each month in your destination magazine.


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DayTrip Destinations35th Annual NC Jazz Festival Friday Feb 6th–Sunday Feb 8th Hilton Riverside Hotel, 301 Water Street Wilmington NC 28401. This is one of the largest traditional jazz festivals in the Southeast and a Top 20 Event. We will kick off Thursday night featuring 3 hours of different styles of jazz which will open with The Benny Hill Quartet. The second set of the evening will feature vocalist Molly Ryan, Rossano Sportiello’s “Tribute to George Shearing” and Ed Polcer’s “Traditional Jazz Jam.” Friday and Saturday nights, our All-Star musicians perform in the traditional seven sets of six or seven players, each set with a different leader. These concerts wil l be 4-1/2 hours of beautiful jazz by the most talented musicians. To see a full l ist of musicians and activities please see the website. Admission: Single Night Tickets: Th: $40, Friday & Sat: $60, Active Military: $25 & Students: $15 each night. www.ncjazzfestival.com

11th Annual Krispy Kreme Challenge 8:30am–10am Saturday Feb 14th. Memorial Bell Tower, North Carolina State University, North Campus, 2011 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27607. The mantra of the Krispy Kreme Challenge epitomizes the test of physical fitness and gastrointestinal fortitude. What started as a challenge among 10 friends has transformed into a nationally publicized charity race, and the number one tradition to complete before graduating from North Carolina State University. www.krispykremechallenge.com

16th Annual Mid Pines Men’s Invitational Friday Feb 6th–Sunday Feb 8th 1010 Mid land Road Southern P ines, NC 28387. The Mid P ines Invitational is one of the first amateur events to kick off the golf season in the Carolinas. This 36-hole four ball competition is played solely at Mid Pines. To learn more contact Jon Cooley at [email protected]. www.pineneedles-midpines.com

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World War II Living History Saturday Feb 7th–Sunday Feb 8th Historic Latta Plantation, 5225 Sample Road, Huntersvi l le, NC 28078. Travel back in t ime to the European Countrys ide c i rca 1940’s, w ithout needing a passport or a time machine. The Latta grounds wil l take on a new identity as you meet both Al l ied and Axis forces. See original col lections of period clothing, weaponry, mil itary vehicles, l iterature, photographs, tents and much more. Also see a skirmish reenacting one of the many original ly fought during The Battle of the Bulge . Special event admission ($8 Adults, $7 Seniors/Students, Chi ldren 5 & Under Free). www.lattaplantation.org

Sweetheart House Tours Tue Feb 10th–Sunday Feb 15th Historic Latta Plantation, 5225 Sample Road, Huntersvi l le, NC 28078. Your Sweetheart is sure to enjoy a Guided House Tour with a sweet l ittle twist . Dur ing th is week each house tour wi l l be accompanied by historical Valentines Day facts and love stories of the Latta family. See the courting window, courting candle, vintage Valentines cards and more! Learn how the hol iday began and also enjoy a self-guided tour of the Plantation’s grounds and outbuildings as well as the exhibit hal l . Al l included in regular admission: $7 Adults, $6 Seniors/Students, Chi ldren under 5 are Free. www.lattaplantation.org

Hickory Furniture Mart Anniversary Sale Feb 13-16th 2220 Hwy 70 SE Hickory NC 28602. 2015 marks the 31st anniversary of this popular event. Dates have been extended to include Pres.’s Day so that furniture shoppers are able to enjoy more time & more savings during their time off. This is the first major event of the year & many

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Valentine’s Day Cruise Saturday Feb 14th 101 South Water Street, Wilmington, NC 28401. Take your Valentine on a romantic cruise aboard North Carolina’s largest riverboat, the Henrietta I I I . The cruise includes dinner, dancing and l ive entertainment, al l with scenic views of the Cape Fear River. www.wilmingtonandbeaches.com

Totally ’80s Retro Ski Weekend at Beech Mountain Fr i Feb 20th - Sun Feb 22nd 1007 Beech Mountain Parkway, Beech Mountain, NC 28604. Ski back in time during the fourth annual Total ly ’80s Retro Ski Weekend. Skiers and snowboarders wear neon ’80s ski gear on the s lopes, and retro fashions off the s lopes. L ive bands each n ight, including a performance by The Breakfast Club, America’s favorite 1980s tribute band. There’s a Madonna look-al ike contest Friday night and a totally retro apparel contest Saturday night. Special appearances by the Carol ina Ghostbusters, as wel l as ’80s-themed lodging and dinner specia ls . L ip-sync battle Fr iday evening at Beech Mountain Brewing Co. www.beechmtn.com


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Mardi Gras of the Carolinas 7:00pm–2:00am Saturday Feb 21st Castle McCul loch–3945 Kivett Drive Jamestown, NC 27282. Feel the heat of Carneva le w i th s i z z l i ng enter ta inment and ent i c i ng Mard i G ras costumes. Bring your dare-as-you-bare attitude with you and prepare to mix, mingle, see and be seen. Frol ic as you roam the grounds of Castle McCul loch and indulge in l ive music, f ire performances, bel ly dancers, and other exotic acts. Must be 21 to enter. Get tickets online, at the Ritz costume shop, Petra hooka, or Mean Bean in Greeensboro. www.castlemccul loch.com

2nd Annual All Ale to the Queen–Beer Carnival Saturday Feb 28th. Amos’ Southend 1423 South Tryon Street Charlotte, NC 28203 A “one of a kind” event and a “must do” for craft beer lovers in the region. All Ale to the Queen – Beer Carnival takes a different approach by focusing on the unique aspects of beer, with a little WOW factor mixed in. Attendees can expect outrageous fun at this event including music from DJ Allen Rockhouse, amazing aer ia l performers from Aeria l Char lotte, Hula Hooping from the Beer City Hoopers, belly dancers, jugglers, contact ball performers, costumes and more. This is what makes the Beer Carnival a must see. And of course, a Beer Carnival wouldn’t be a Beer Carnival without a King and Queen Competition. www.allaletothequeen.com

Sixth Annual Yadkin Winter Reds Food & Pairing Event Saturday Feb 28th–Sunday Mar 1st . Enjoy two weekends of wonderfu l wine and food in Yadk in County. Look ing for a day tr ip or a weekend getaway, then come vis it Yadkin County and enjoy the annual Yadkin Winter Reds Event sponsored by the Town of Yadk invi l le and Yadk in C o u n t y To u r i s m D e v e l o p m e n t A u t h o r i t i e s . T h i s i s a g r e a t opportunity for you to v is i t Yadk in County winer ies and taste the excel lent wines that are being produced. Al l Yadkin County winer ies wi l l feature their “Winter Red” (2 oz. pour) paired with a 4 oz. serving of a tasty food i tem. T icket pr ice to at tend w i l l be $20.00 per person per weekend. Each ticketholder wi l l be ass igned to a starting winery where they wi l l receive their souvenir glass and a map. Ticket i s good for both days on the se lected weekend you choose–one v is i t per winery. www.v is i tyadk in .com

Catawba Valley Feathers Bird & Repti le Show 9:00am–5:00pm Saturday Feb 28th Hickory Metro Convention Center–1962 13th Ave Dr SE Hickory, NC 28602. A wide variety of exotic birds and repti les.


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Celtic Festival Saturday Mar 14th–Sunday Mar 15th Historic Latta Plantation, 5225 Sample Road, Huntersvi l le, NC 28078. Celebrate al l things Celtic at the third annual Latta Celtic Festival . Enjoy authentic cuis ine, brew, music, vendors, historical demonstrations and more! This family fr iendly event offers chi ldren’s activities including pony r ides and face painting. Admission: $8 Adults, $7 Seniors/Students, Chi ldren five and under are FREE. www.lattaplantation.org

Emerald Isle St. Patrick’s Festival 9:00am–6:00pm Saturday Mar 14th Emerald Plantation Shopping Center–8700 Emerald Drive, Emerald Is le, NC 28594. The festival features more than 75 arts and crafts vendors, plus clowns and static displays along with amusement r ides, a cl imbing wal l, face painters, and many other fun, family-oriented activities. As always, the festival wi l l feature del icious foods such as corned beef and cabbage, shrimp burgers, hamburgers and hot dogs, Mediterranean cuisine, BBQ, funnel cakes, fried peanuts, cotton candy and much, much more. Festival goers can also enjoy a beer garden. www.emeraldis lestpatricksfestival .com


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Biltmore Blooms Friday Mar 20th–Saturday Apr 4th 1 Lodge Street, Asheville, NC 28803. Enjoy a beautiful progression of blooms from tulips to pansies, azaleas, and much more. Stunning floral displays across the estate celebrate the majesty of Frederick Law Olmsted’s legacy as Bi ltmore’s master horticulture planner. B i ltmore’s restaurants wi l l feature special menu items, with the Winery offering a commemorative Festival of Flowers wine and wine seminars. www.biltmore.com

St, Baldrick’s at Aviator Brewing Saturday Mar 21st 209 Technology Park Lane, Fuquay Varina, NC 27526. Be a hero for kids with cancer! Join this St. Baldrick’s event, and whether you decide to shave your head, volunteer, or donate, we hope you’ll be a part of the excitement. www.stbaldricks.org

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Beech Mountain’s Ski Slope Time Machine WeekendCan dayglo ski clothes melt

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All these questions – and more – will be answered during the fourth annual Totally ’80s Retro Ski Weekend at Beech Mountain.

This year’s time warp back the new wave era takes place Feb. 20-22 and includes live music, special guest appearances, retro festivities and 80’s-themed specials on lodging and meals.

Headlining the weekend is The Break-fast Club, America’s favorite 1980s tribute band. The Breakfast Club plays Saturday night in the Beech Tree lodge at Beech Mountain Resort. During intermission, the fun continues with the annual $500 Totally Retro Apparel Contest.

Friday night’s band is Buick MacKane, performing an all-80s set at the Mile High Tavern. Also that night at the

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The Carolina Ghostbusters – complete with their vintage Ectomobile – will make multiple appearances in town and at the ski resort, and they will be joined by a talking replica of the KITT car from the 1980s hit television show, Knight Rider.

Another throwback event is an ’80s lip-sync battle Friday afternoon at Beech Mountain Brewing Co. in the alpine village at the ski resort.

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Just Desserts: Surry Sonker Trail Showcases a Tasty Confection

Nor t h C a ro l i n a ’s ne we s t culinary trail showcases a heritage food passed down

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The Surry Sonker Trail leads visitors to several places that serve sonker – a cobbler-esque dessert unique to the county. Seven trail stops offer this sweet confection on their regular menu. An additional stop is a pottery studio selling sonker baking dishes and sonker cookbooks.

So, what exactly is this authentic Southern delicacy?Sonker is similar to a pot pie or cobbler. It comes about by blending fruit and unshaped dough that is sweetened with sugar, molasses, or other secret ingredi-ents. Sonker is also similar to snowflakes in that no two are exactly alike.

“Everyone has their own recipe,” says Carolyn Carter of the Rockford

General Store, “and I’ve never had a bad one.”

Sonker’s origins in the county date to the early 1800s. A common belief is it was made to stretch the usage of fruit in tough times, or as a way to utilize fruit toward the end of its ripeness.

A lot of places on the trail, including Rockford General Store, feature sonker that is baked; however, Loretta Flack of Roxxi & Lulu’s Bakery in Elkin has a different philosophy. Her grandmother taught her to cook a dumpling-style sonker in a pot on the stove.

“The dumplings sit on top of the fruit,” says Flack. “When you cut into the

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dumplings they are like a biscuit inside – fluffy and soft with the flavor of the fruit.”

Not far from Roxxi & Lulu’s Bakery in Elkin is Heaven’s Scent, a hometown bistro featuring a recipe handed down from Linda Darnell, mother of co-owner Jones Darnell.

“Our sonkers are all baked. They have a crust on top, and no crust on bottom,” says Heaven’s Scent co-owner Jeff Taylor. “We do not use a glaze. The butter itself gives it a bit of a glaze. Most people like our sweet potato sonker. That seems to be everyone’s favorite.”

In addition to Heaven’s Scent, Roxxi & Lulu’s Baker y and Rockford General Store, there are four other eateries on the trail. They are: The Living Room Coffeehouse in Pilot Mountain, Putters Patio & Grill in Dobson, Trio Restaurant in Mount Airy, and Miss Angel’s Heavenly Pies in Mount Airy.

Another trail stop is Mayberry Pottery in Mount Airy, where visitors can

purchase baking dishes and sonker cookbooks.

The most unusual sonker on the trail belongs to Miss Angel’s Heavenly Pies. Owners

Angela and Randy Shur are natives of Yonkers, NY, and have bestowed a northern flavor on this tasty treat. They utilize a crumb-based crust, and drizzle a moonshine glaze over the crust.

“They tease us for being from the North, so I don’t call it a sonker,” says Angela Shur. “I call it a zonker because when you eat ours with moonshine, you go zonkers.”

The trail was created in early January by the Tourism Partnership of Surry County. It aims to spotlight a heritage food at a time when culinary trails are gaining in popularity.

“People travel now to find good food and this ties in nicely,” says Jessica Roberts of the tourism partnership.

“We have visitors who have picked up the brochure and said, ‘Oh wow, that reminds me of what my grandmother baked,’ or ‘That reminds me of what my mother made for me when I was growing up.’ We’re getting a lot of good feedback from the trail already.”

A brochure map has been created by the Tourism Partnership of Surry County to guide folks along the trail. It includes all the key info to enjoy a day or two along the trail.

The brochure map is available at no charge by calling (800) 948-0949, or by requesting a map online at: www.SonkerTrail.org.

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Todd along with David and Mark Bennett, the three principles in Fonta Flora will be celebrating the opening of the newly renovated brewery with a release of several variations of Urban Monk Imperial Stout. Also, Vestige Bloom: Appalachian Wild Ale: Kiwi Funk and Vestige Wither: Appalachian Wild Ale: Fennel Funk will also make their debut on February 7th.

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scene of some well-known NCAA Tournament spots featuring Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski as a chauffeur. The chapel is available for weddings, though one ceremony was almost indefinitely delayed for a rather stirring film shoot. It seems that The Handmaid’s Tale’s director, Volker Schlondorff, kept insisting on one more take of a scene shot in front of the chapel—a public hanging featuring Victoria Tennant! All the while, a real life wedding party was slowly coming in.

Most shoots are not as dramatic. A favorite site for filming is the quad between Chapel Circle and Duke Hos-pital. In Getting In, a film most notable for some unknowns named Matthew Perry and Calista Flockhart in the supporting cast, Perkins Library was used as a dorm. The library’s interior appears in The Program in a scene with Coach Winters (James Caan) and star recruit Darnell Jefferson (Omar Epps). Duke’s campus appears in Stonehrook and in I Know What You Did Last Summer, most memorably when the ominous words appear on a fogged locker-room mirror before stunned Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt). The indoor pool was used for a scene

in Billy Bathgate And since Duke is known for excellence in both men’s and women’s basketball, it is ironic that a football movie, The Program, filmed interiors and a few exteriors here. Despite some controversy over Kiss the Girls, Duke is mostly film-friendly, with several commercials, made-for-TV movies, “Good Morning America,” and even the soap opera “One Life to Live” to its credit.

Credits The Osbornes” (MTV, 2002-3), Stonehrook (1999), “Dawson’s Creek” (The WB, 1998-2003); Kiss the Girls (1997); I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Getting In (1994); “A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story” (NBC, 1994); The Program (1993), Billy Bathgate (1991); The Handmaid’s Tale (1990); Weeds (1987); Brainstorm (1983)

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Twelve Bones, Twenty Four Stops. Coincidence? The North Carolina

Barbecue Society has designed a barbecue

trail from Eastern North Carolina to Tennessee. The trail will meander across the state with stops at 24 NCBS Historic Barbecue Pits. These pits were care-fully and selectively chosen by the NCBS board as representatives of the distinctive methods and barbecue cooking styles that have made North Carolina the Barbecue Capital of the World. Each NCBS Historic Barbecue Pit still cooks the old fashioned pit cooked method. And each NCBS Historic Barbecue Pit will proudly display a specially designed emblem depicting old style barbecue cooking that is part of the tradition, heritage and culture that NCBS seeks to preserve.

Criteria for selection to the NCBS His-toric Barbecue Trail included, among other things, that the NCBS Historic Barbecue Pit cook their meat product on pits fueled by wood or charcoal, make their own sauce, that the pit had operated continuously for fifteen or more years, that the end product was a good offering and representative of North Carolina Barbecue and that the pit had earned and enjoyed the high esteem of its community, the barbecue industry and barbecue aficionados. The board decided to only include pits that provide a sit down dining experience for the public and to limit the number of pits on the trail to two per town/city.

The establishment of the NCBS Historic Barbecue Trail will afford v isitors to the Old North State an opportunity to sample North

Skylight Inn, AydenLittle Richards Bar-B-Que, Winston-Salem

B’s Barbecue, GreenvilleSpeedy Lohr’s BBQ of Arcadia

Jack Cobb & Son Barbecue PlaceSmiley’s Lexington BBQ, Lexington

Wilber’s Barbecue, GoldsboroThe Barbecue Center, Inc., Lexington

Grady’s Barbecue, DudleyRichard’s Bar-B-Q, Salisbury

Stephenson’s Barbecue, Willow SpringsWink’s Bar-B-Que, Salisbury

Allen & Son Barbecue, Chapel HillM&K Barbecue & Country Cooking, Granite Quarry

Hursey’s Barbecue, BurlingtonCarolina Bar-B-Q, Statesville

Stamey’s Barbecue, GreensboroSwitzerland Café, Little SwitzerlandShort Sugar’s Drive-Inn, ReidsvilleBridges Barbecue Lodge, Shelby

Fuzzy’s MadisonHerb’s Pit BBQ, Murphy

Hill’s Lexington BBQ, Winston-Salem

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