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When planning Asheville vacations, visitors can time their stays festivals in and around downtown.

The biggest one happens the last weekend of July each year. Known as Bele Chere, the three-day event is the largest free street festival in the Southeast. It includes multiple stages of free live music, a wide range of arts and crafts, and many children’s activities.

Each August the YMI Cultural Center makes Asheville vacations into truly memorable experiences with the Goombay Festival at the historic intersection of Eagle and Market Streets. The family-friendly event features Third World crafts, exotic foods, and entertainment ranging from steel drums and African-American dancers to contemporary rhythm bands and local gospel groups.

In October, perfectly timed for autumn Asheville vacations, the Southern Highland Craft Guild presents the annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands. The three-day weekend event brings hundreds of craftspeople and their handcrafted merchandise to the Asheville Civic Center downtown. The event also includes live performances from local musicians and hands-on projects led by craft educators for children.

On Saturday evenings throughout the summer, the Folk Heritage Committee of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce presents Shindig on the Green, an outdoor concert at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Park. Many Asheville vacations have been enhanced by the Shindig’s unique presentation of mountain dancers, clog dancers, bluegrass and old time string bands, ballad singers and storytellers.

The Folk Heritage Committee also produces the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival held annually the first weekend of August at downtown Asheville’s Diana Wortham Theatre at Pack Place. The event, held since 1928, features entertainers ranging from balladeers and dancers to mountain musicians on fiddle, banjo and dulcimer.

For Asheville vacations that encompass music events, visitors may also wish to come to town in time for Downtown After Five, held once a month May through September on a Friday night. These events feature a live concert and plenty of food and drink from local vendors.

May brings the Mountain Sports Festival. The event features trail running, disc golf, adventure racing, Iron Kids events, high-speed track racing, whitewater kayak clinics, entertainment, food and more along the French Broad River at Asheville’s Carrier Park on Amboy Road.

And film lovers who embark upon Asheville vacations can take in the annual Asheville Film Festival. The four-day event celebrates independent films with screening, parties, networking and educational seminars.

Current information on events and festivals that can coincide with Asheville vacations is available on http://www.ashevillenc.gov and http://www.exploreasheville.com.

Gift baskets are a great gift for families. You can make your own Holiday Gift Baskets inexpensively and easily using some of the ideas below.

Start with a basket or container. Throughout the year, watch for inexpensive baskets wherever you go. I find great baskets of all shapes and sizes at dollar stores. However, you aren’t limited by baskets. Use anything from a popcorn tin to a beach pail filled with goodies for an inexpensive gift.

There are a zillion themes to choose from and they’re very fun to make. Here are just a few ideas, but the possibilities are endless.

Family Movie Night Basket:

Fill a basket with classic movie theater snacks, like Junior Mints and Raisinettes. Include a few family-friendly DVDs. Don’t forget the microwaveable popcorn.

Sunday Morning Basket:

Fill a basket with gourmet coffee and tea, muffin mix, pancake mix and syrup, jellies and jams and other yummy breakfast treats. Line the basket with the funnies from the newspaper. Include coloring books and crayons to keep the kids busy while Mom and Dad fix breakfast.

Making Memories Gift Basket:

This is a great gift for scrapbookers. Include the basics of what they’ll need to create a family memory book - an album, papers and embellishments, markers, a glue stick. Include a disposable camera for each child in the family in the basket so that their memories in the making can be captured through their eyes. You can even include a few photos of the family that you already have to help them get started.

The holidays do not need to cost a fortune. You can give thoughtful Holiday Gift Baskets to family and friends to show you care.

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Desolation
[Dedicated to Poet Bei Dao of China]

We are only Free
Because the hunter
Is far away,
(but he is coming)
The sun used to blind
His eyesused to!
Should the prey, think
He is not pray
He will be bellowing
Over dray corpses
Trembling as the hunter wipes
The sun from his face.

Evil comes,
When freedom sleeps:
Comes with a frown,
And leaves with a smile,
Vanishes in the creek.

Evil says:
‘Look at what I’ve done,’
He paints a picture
On a canvas for everyone:
To see, his …desolation.

#838 8/6/05

Newspapers
[Dedicated to: Ryuichi Tamura: of Japan]

I would think
Reading papers, newspapers
Would be hard on your system
IT”S ALL DEPRESSING
Misery loves company they say
Desolation, destruction
In the world everyday
Headlines, phrases
That sways a person’s eye:
Then sways a persons heart,
Ripping his nervous system
Apart…apart, apart!…
And then there is the
Financial pagewhere
Everyone seems to be
In a state of rage.
Reading newspapers
May not be a healthy thing,
Sensationalism-Yes
With not much good to say.

#839 9/05

Macchu PicchuSleeps

[Dedicated to Pablo Neruda: of Chile]

Macchu Picchu sleeps, amongst the stones and shrubbery (on a mountain peak], above, a world, that is bottomless; beside, the golden arms of he Ancient Andes. Macchu Picchu almost touches the sky; unhurried, she remains a symbol of a vague and vibrant time. Her wings now clipped, but not her pride!…

#840 9/05

Note by Rosa; Dennis will be going back to South America in October, for 6-weeks, but will of course be doing some writings, and he will be visiting more countries than Peru. And so, look for his new writings during the 4th of October, and the 19 of November. He will be giving a presentation of his poetry at the Recardo Palma House, in Peru, and perhaps at the Unversity Los Andes, in Huancayo; among other things. Rosa

You can see Dennis’s books at LapidaryArt.com, or his site: http://dennissiluk.tripod.com