The FORUM Entertaining Music Series at Lees-McRae College enters its 45th season in summer 2024. Returning for the fifth straight year, Symphony of the Mountains has a strong and proud heritage. The orchestra began when a small group of musicians in Kingsport, Tennessee, dreamed of having a civic orchestra in 1946. Through the decades, musical […]

The FORUM Entertaining Music Series at Lees-McRae College enters its 45th season in summer 2024. Returning for the fifth straight year, Symphony of the Mountains has a strong and proud heritage. The orchestra began when a small group of musicians in Kingsport, Tennessee, dreamed of having a civic orchestra in 1946. Through the decades, musical […]

The Sugar Mountain Resort Summit Crawl is a fun event in which participants walk, hike or crawl up Sugar Mountain’s 5,300-foot peak by way of three ski slopes: Easy Street, Gunther’s Way and Northridge. Although mostly just for fun, times are kept and prizes are awarded in various categories. The uphill course is approximately 1.2 […]

Beginning in late May and continuing through late July, wildlife biology and pre-veterinary medicine students at Lees-McRae College give weekly public wildlife presentations. These presentations take place at the amphitheater at Tate-Evans Park in downtown Banner Elk. At each presentation, Lees-McRae students bring an animal ambassador that is being rehabilitated or cared for at the […]