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Travel Tips from USA Today Several of the major hotel chains operate in Boone, North Carolina. They fill up quickly on Appalachian State University football game days, or when the university is holding graduation ceremonies. Luxury vacation homes dot the mountainsides around Boone, but there also are several higher-end resort hotels that offer more [...] This is the only farmers market my family and I have visited in the High Country…A failure I would like to remedy. But the failure is not on the part of Watauga County Farmers’ Market. We always enjoyed our trips to the market and planned our meals around what we found there. So if you are [...] BOONE—The 26th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at Appalachian State University features noted writer and activist Nikki Giovanni in a 7 p.m. talk Jan. 28 in Farthing Auditorium. The program is sponsored by Appalachian’s Office of Multicultural Student Development. Admission is free. A reception and book signing will precede Giovanni’s talk from 5:30-6:30 [...] BOONE—Noted Lincoln historian Harold Holzer opens University Distinguished Lecture Series Feb. 8 at Appalachian State University with the talk “Why Lincoln Matters—To History, To Our Presidents, and Us.” On March 23, NPR senior foreign correspondent Anne Garrels will speak on “From the Frontlines: Global Reports from an NPR Correspondent.” Both talks begin at 8 p.m. [...] |
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