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August 8, 2024 12 minute READ

The Woolly Worm Festival is held the third weekend of October in Banner Elk, North Carolina

Colorful Destinations: A Guide to Some of Mast's Favorite Fall Festivities

Mast General Store prides itself on being a destination that takes our guests on a journey. It’s one of many reasons we value our communities – their histories, cultures, Main Streets, outdoor spaces, and, most of all, their people – and strive to fill the role of a traditional general store by serving as a gathering place where everyone can come together and feel a sense of common spirit. ...read more

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July 30, 2024 11 minute READ

Old-fashioned skills everyone should know include reading and writing cursive and writing letters

6 Old-Fashioned Skills Everyone Should Know

We can all agree that technology is good. After all, without technological advancements, we would all be carding and spinning yarn to weave cloth for making our own clothes, walking everywhere we go, and books would be very expensive and hard to come by. While we’re not advocates for Luddite living, there are some old-fashioned ways of doing things that should continue to be practiced every day. ...read more

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July 24, 2024 13 minute READ

A summer sunset over a field of sunflowers

Pause to Let the Sunshine In

When you pause and let your mind wander, where does it go? Maybe it goes to a time far away to a family trip to the lake. Perhaps it moseys off to summer days spent at your grandparents’ house. Possibly it drifts back to an amusement park visit with brothers, sisters, and the whole family. Wherever it goes, it always seems to be a summer place. Evidently, warm weather makes warm memories. ...read more

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July 18, 2024 9 minute READ

The Year of the Pickle

When was the last time you wrestled a pickle jar? Truly engaged in “person versus pickle” combat with one? Sure, we’ve all been there… ...read more

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July 10, 2024 11 minute READ

The Green Grass Cloggers, courtesy of Mountain Home Music and Lonnie Webster

Tap into Tradition: The Evolution of Clogging

Did you know the State of North Carolina’s official folk dance is clogging? Yep, the North Carolina General Assembly adopted clogging as the state’s folk dance and shagging as the state’s official popular dance in an act executed on July 20, 2005. That’s recent history, but the roots of clogging extend to the country’s colonial period and even before. Photo courtesy of Joe Shannon's Mountain Home Music and Lonnie Webster. ...read more

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June 27, 2024 11 minute READ

Looks Like a Good Day for a Picnic

Who can forget one of Yogi Bear’s favorite catchphrases, “A pic-a-nic basket has everything a bear needs?” Jellystone Park was definitely a perfect place to enjoy a meal alfresco, but did you know that picnics were affairs originally held indoors? And that there is science behind many of the foods commonly found nestled in a picnic hamper? Yep, there’s a reason we crave watermelon this time of year. ...read more

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Colorful Destinations: A Guide to Some of Mast's Favorite Fall Festivities

6 Old-Fashioned Skills Everyone Should Know

Pause to Let the Sunshine In

The Year of the Pickle

Tap into Tradition: The Evolution of Clogging

Looks Like a Good Day for a Picnic

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