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Shop at the Top

11/30/2018

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The holidays are hectic enough without driving all over town to do your shopping. We are fortunate to have just about everything we need right here on the mountain!

The Fairyland Pharmacy offers much more than hardware and drugstore items. It stocks a full line of durable Melissa and Doug toys, with many new ones this year. Check out the hilarious array of cocktail napkins, the popular Russell Stover’s candies, books by local artists and a vast array of stocking stuffers, kitchen gadgets, acrylic wine glasses, Gund toys, Root candles, Vinrella umbrellas, plus many Christmas knickknacks.

As you know, the Mountain Escape Spa offers spa services and gift certificates, but lots of other gifts as well, including clothing, specialty foods, candles, creams and lotions, and jewelry. Find two must-give items that were featured on the “Today Show,” Sleep Tight by Private Holdings, sleeping garments that are super soft and offer built in support, and Notes to Self, socks with positive affirmations stamped on them. Peruse pajamas, incredible fur jackets from Fabulous Furs, super soft animal bedroom slippers, silk jackets in bright colors, toy soaps that contain a rubber toy inside, dress toppers in beautiful bright colors, fingerless gloves, embroidered shawls, and the list goes on.

The Market on the Mountain offers several new items for our holiday shopping, including handcrafted popcorn in a variety of flavors, like salted caramel and chocolate peanut butter, as well as several food items from Charleston’s Food for the Southern Soul, including Bloody Mary mix and Golden Mary mix (made from yellow tomatoes), and a blackjack barbecue mustard sauce, peach hot sauce, and peach chutney. You will also find Miss Donna’s cheese straws, and cookies that were voted as one of 2018’s best food items in the magazine Taste of the South. You’ll find flavored pecans, goodies from Olive Chattanooga, Betsy’s Cheese Straws, Shuptrine’s Twisted products, and, of course, the deli is always cranking out entrées and hot soups. You can even place your order for Christmas dinner if you don’t want to cook!

Speaking of cooking, gift certificates to Café on the Corner make wonderful stocking stuffers!

If you haven’t been to the mountain’s new pop-up shops, you must go! Jen Kline of Thread and Ink and Adelaide Naumann of Divine Goods joined forces this holiday season to open up a shop next door to the Mountain Mirror on North Watauga. Jen specializes in personalized gifts and paper, offering monogramming onsite, and Adelaide offers gift boxes that you can personalize yourself from her products, or just let her work her magic. This adorable shop offers a corner devoted to dog and cat gifts, like bowls, treats and grooming items, and as well as travel wraps, cashmere scarves, ponchos, food and bar items, facial products, personalized party supplies, insulated wine tumblers that can be personalized and lots more. The walls are accented with Billy Parker’s beautiful watercolors, and these timeless treasures are for sale. Throughout the month of December, local artists will bring their specialties on certain designated afternoons. These cute gals offer gift wrapping, as well as a holiday wish list for anyone who might be shopping for you!

Michelle Workman opened a pop-up shop next door to the Fairyland Pharmacy, and you’ll find all manner of decorative accessories for the home, including many one-of-a-kind items from all over the world, from Louis XV side tables discovered at the famed Paris Flea Market to gorgeous bedspread she picked up in Morocco, and everything in between. The chance to peruse this famed interior designers wares is truly a treat!
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Happy shopping to all, and see you at the top!

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New Salem Artists to Hold Sale on December 1

11/27/2018

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By Julie Hailey Clark
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Christmas is just around the corner, and we all know the most meaningful gifts are always those made by an artist’s hands. On Saturday, December 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., a talented group of artists in the New Salem community on Lookout Mountain, myself included, will open up our shops and studios for visitors. We will offer a huge variety of handmade items for purchase, as well as information about our crafts. Participants include Claire Vassort (silk painter), Vista Mahan (quilter, handmade card maker) Mark Issenberg (potter), Bonnie Casey(textile artist), Anna Casey Smit (jeweler, ornament maker) Nikki Oliver (wood carver) and myself, Julie Hailey Clark (metal worker and photographer).

The New Salem community has long been a landing place for artists. Fannie Mennen (print maker), Virginia Dudley (metal sculptor), Charles Counts (potter) and Frank Baisden (painter) all called this special place home from 1930-1990. Frank Baisden started the art program at the University of Chattanooga, which is now known as UTC. Fannie Mennen was well known for her craft fair called the Plum Nelly Art Show. In 1947, she and the other artists hosted what they called a “clothes line” art show, and it became so popular it turned into the larger Plum Nelly festival, which continued until the early 1970s. I am certain many of you used to attend the Plum Nelly Art Show. I still have a pillow on my bed that I purchased there as a child.

A few of the artists in the December studio tour have personal connections with these artists from the past. Mark Issenberg was a student of Charles Counts, who held pottery workshops in New Salem in the ’70s. Mark now lives on the home site where Fannie Mennen held the Plum Nelly Art Show. My parents, Julie and Bill Hailey, were dear friends of Frank and Kay Baisden and Virginia Dudley, and our farm was next door to Charles Counts’ pottery shop, which is still there. My husband, Bruz, and I live on the same land where Frank and Kay Baisden lived, and Vista and her husband, Charles Mahan, spent their very first date at the Plum Nelly Art Show in 1969.

When I was a child, whenever we spent the weekend at our family farm, Virginia Dudley stopped by to visit. She was a very talented and eccentric metal artist and a truly unusual (in a good way) character. I was always struck by the fact that she never brushed her matted hair. Isn’t it funny what you remember from childhood? But, what is really funny is that I am a metal worker and, I swear, I never brush my hair. I just put it in a ponytail and go. So, as you can see, the creative spirits from the past are still hovering around, and the creative spirits of today invite all of you to please come see us in our beautiful com- munity of New Salem on Lookout Mountain on Saturday, December 1. For more information and a map, email Julie Clark at jhcbarn@aol.com, or search for “Rising Fawn Studio Tour” on Facebook.

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Love Lookout’s Christmas Tree Lighting Has Been Cancelled

11/13/2018

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The Love Lookout Tree Lighting and Christmas Celebration scheduled for November 30th has been canceled due to inclement weather and will not be rescheduled this year. 

The special Christmas T-shirts will be available at the Pop-Up Shop on Watauga, Market on the Mountain and Michelle Workman's Interiors next door to Fairyland Pharmacy.

Additionally, the much-anticipated Lookout Mountain Movie Night is set for May 3, 2019! Again, be sure to mark your calendars so that you may coordinate with family and friends. Food trucks will be on site for this incredible evening, and folks can picnic on the grounds of the Commons.



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11th Annual Stocking Full of Love Parade is November 29

11/13/2018

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The 11th annual Stocking Full of Love Parade will take place on Thursday,November 29, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Fairyland School. Each year, folks line the streets, but instead of receiving gifts from Santa as he cruises through the Fairyland neighborhoods, these generous folks present the jolly ole soul with all manner of toys, as well as cash donations. With a sleigh full of gifts collected during the parade in Lookout Mountain, Ga., Santa will present these much-appreciated gifts to needy children in Walker County, Ga. After the parade, the tree lighting will take place at 7 p.m. at Lookout Mountain, Ga., City Hall. Bundling up and bringing the family to enjoy hot chocolate and cookies to witness the spectacular tree lighting is a mountain tradition!

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Order a Holiday Mailbox Decoration

11/12/2018

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It's time to order your Holiday Mailbox Decoration from the Laurelwood Garden Club. This beautiful greenery is topped with a red velvet bow to embellish your mailbox or lamppost this holiday season!

This annual fundraiser supports the landscaping and environmental needs of Lookout Mountain's elementary schools and the Lookout Mountain Beautification Fund.

Orders must be placed by November 26 and delivery is November 30.
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Download this form and send it, along with your payment, to Elizabeth Barnes.

Thrive at Brow Wood,  in conjunction with Comprehensive Care,  has begun collecting new and gently used children’s and adult coats and jackets. These will go to the organization One Warm Coat to take to people in need. Please help someone stay warm this winter!  A box in the lobby at Thrive, located at 37 Brock Drive. Coats will be collected until December 21.


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Looking Back on Mark McKnight’s First Year at Reflection Riding

11/12/2018

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By Tish Gailmard

Many years ago, a college age North Carolina native accepted a counselor position at Camp Alpine in Mentone, Ala. Years later, Mark McKnight is celebrating his first year as Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center’s president, a year with a list of very noticeable accomplishments.

Mark’s camp counselor gig amplified his love of the outdoors, and he grew to appreciate our area’s geology, scenic beauty and ecological diversity. After graduating from Hampton-Sydney College with degrees in English and religion, a conversation with Dawson Wheeler, co-founder of Rock Creek Outfitters, brought Mark to Chattanooga, where he built Rock Creek’s brand into a force to reckon with in the outdoor world.

Within the retail platform, Mark was able to continue to connect people with the outdoors through many forms of recreation on public lands, including the wildly popular trail race series that still exists today. These trail races, with engaging names like Brow Beater, Savage Gulf and Stump Jump, showcase the many striking opportunities for enjoying the outdoor world in our community.

Mark then ventured into the start-up realm as co-founder of Roots Rated, once again connecting people with the great outdoors. His next gig was in the consulting business, after another call from Dawson piqued his interest - Reflection Riding was looking for a president to shake things up and carry this well known (but in need of a revamp) environmental education facility into the future. Reflection Riding hit the jackpot when Mark accepted the position.

During Mark’s first year, he took a deep look into both what Reflection Riding is doing and needs to do in this community. Mark assessed the management of this nonprofit from an ecological standpoint, recognizing that promoting biodiversity through better ecosystem management is imperative. He introduced successional fire as a natural method to maintain habitat and removed approximately 18 acres of the non-native invasive privet plant, replacing it with native plants. (Caterpillars don’t like privet, which means no songbirds, which means no predators, which results in an unhealthy ecosystem.) Removing privet and replanting with natives also eliminates homogenous woods and replaces them with Tennessee native forests.
Mark and his staff have increased and diversified programming for all ages. With updated marketing strategies, these exciting programs are well attended and reviewed. Want to learn to mountain bike? How about a guided nighttime canoe trip or a raptor training workshop? Want to feed the red wolves? Attend a few campfire concerts or the Earth Day Festival? You get the idea ... this place is hopping with fun for all ages.

In the spirit of the Lookout Mountain Conservancy, Mark’s quest is to make outdoor activities available to everyone, even changing Reflection Riding’s admission from fee-based to donation-based. “What we do has to reach everyone. Access, equity and inclusion,” stated this innovative leader. The organization is finding its visitors are happy to make a donation upon entering this nirvana and often many of them contribute again as they leave or purchase a membership. It’s the organization’s hope these excited visitors will become long-term supporters.

Mark hopes the community will become more devoted to the future of Chattanooga’s Nature Center and Arboretum by taking a leap of faith and investing in the future of this highly unusual 317-acre property that sits just six miles from Chattanooga’s center. “For those who believe in what we’re doing, we need them to invest in us. It’s time for smart growth while honoring the legacy of our founders - the Chambliss and Humphrey families and the Chattanooga Junior League,” Mark said.

Mark harnessed today’s technology to get this non-profit running lean, meaning more of your donation dollars go directly to the mission of connecting people with nature. The use of several software packages makes the business side of this non-profit run very efficiently, and utilizing inter-organizational apps means the staff gets out from behind the desk faster, leaving more time to be in the field, teaching and engaging visitors.

Reflection Riding is a truly fantastic place to unplug, but this savvy organization knows that technology can be leveraged as a great teaching tool and encourages visitors and staff to use the app iNaturalist to record what they see on the property and in their own circles of the world.
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School field trips, the native plant sale, and summer camps have been Chattanooga favorites for years. With Mark’s magic, these events (and many new ones), coupled with a new attitude, have lit a spark. Exciting things are going on here, and you don’t want to miss the opportunity to be involved! Find out more at reflectionriding.org.
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Kline and Naumann Open Pop-up Retail Boutique on Watauga Lane

11/6/2018

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This November and December, a fabulous pop-up shop featuring fine art and gifts will be open at 116 North Watauga Lane, between Café on the Corner and Lookout Mountain Dental. The gallery space will feature a watercolor collection of Mountain Mirror publisher emeritus William Parker. Both prints and originals will be for sale. His work varies from the reflective to the whimsical, but all of it evokes emotion, which is one of the purposes of art.

Local small business entrepreneurs Jen Kline and Adelaide Naumann will stock the pop-up retail shop, which is next to the Mountain Mirror office. Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through December 2018, the shop ensures its patrons can conveniently check off everything on their gift-giving lists while supporting local Lookout Mountain businesses at the same time.

Holiday season is approaching, and it’s always full of opportunities to show appreciation to folks. From party hosts, friends and neighbors to teachers, business associates and golf partners, gift giving will be in full swing. Thread and Ink owner Jen Kline, who started her business in 2001, specializes in personalized gifts and paper. She offers unique ideas for new babies and new neighbors, along with individualized items that make perfect gifts for anyone. Guest hand towels or cocktail napkins that are adorned with a family monogram are a perfect gesture of appreciation, while a luxurious Italian cotton throw blanket may appeal as a more intimate offering. Thread & Ink provides gift options at all price points, and personalization usually takes less than a week. Additionally, Adelaide Naumann has been assembling specialized gift boxes for several years with her business Divine Goods. Bags, boxes or baskets filled with thoughtful accessories can be tailored to the yoga lover, wine connoisseur, new college student, and even a man in your life who has everything he needs. Naumann’s packages are complete with distinguished finds that can be tailored to every occasion and individual. For example, her “It’s a Wonderful Life” basket is a beautiful compilation that includes gourmet biscuit mix, Carolina salt from Bull’s Bay Salt Company and an olive wood salt keeper, along with wine twirls, a winged corkscrew, and a Counter Couture tea towel. However, customers can build their own boxes from an assortment of exclusive products to make a one-of-a-kind gift, as well.

Other businesses will set up shop periodically throughout the two months the pop-up retail shop has its doors open on Watauga. Kakhi Wakefield Designs, Alex Huffakerwith India Hicks, Ann Caldwell with Miss Ann’s Happies, and several more mountaineers are making plans to show their wares.
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Kline and Naumann, as well as all of the other handpicked vendors, show a passion for the beautiful and unique through their gift offerings, and Billy Parker’s art is timeless. This location is likely to be one of those fun shopping adventures where you go in to buy something for a friend and leave with a special little treat for yourself. You deserve it!


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