MEMORIAL DAY 2012 - THE COVE AT CELO

Let's see...Picnics! Parades! Farmers Markets! Swimming! Hiking! Live Bands on Town Square! Cookouts! 

did we forget anything?

Today's Drive through small towns - headed up to the Blue Ridge Parkway

Similar vignette but with a different message in each small town

In Heartfelt Appreciation of the Men, Women, and Families who have sacrificed all 

so that we may all be free 

Just off the Blue Ridge Parkway between Asheville and Boone, NC

Our first Quarterly Newsletter and E-Newsletter are ready for mailing and/or emailing to you.  We will highlight what is new in construction, in mountain lifestyle activities in our area, top events, and any other news that might impact your decision to become a part of our community at THE COVE AT CELO MOUNTAIN.  Please click here to receive the emailed and/or mailed quarterly newsletters or call 866-378-4769, and someone in our historic town square sales office will add you to our mailing list.  Also let us know if you want us to mail you our view book and other pertinent information.  Or, best of all:

VISIT US

The owners are offering the following visit packages:

• May-June 10 3 days/2 nights at your choice of either historic B&B ($99 – no taxes or fees):  Terrell House or Richmond Inn. 
• May – June 10  includes $100 dining certificate:  We will reserve your preferred seating time at the Knife and Fork.  Nate was formerly the chef in CA for high-profile actors and has now come back home and opened up this little ten-table restaurant with his wife, Wendy.  Nate WON THE FINALS OF THE 2011 WNC CHEF CHALLENGE, and Cooking Light’s 2011 Small-Town Chef Award as well as Garden&Gun’s 50 Best Southern Foods (Oct/Nov 2011 issue).

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Mother's Day Drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway - Near THE COVE AT CELO MOUNTAIN

One of the most calming, comforting and pleasurable experiences I have had is leisurely driving the Blue Ridge Parkway.  It is almost a spiritual encounter with nature.  I have known people fresh from extreme tragedies and crises who have experienced a tremendous relief and release of pressure from this beautiful drive.  I wish I could convey this to you through photos - from my iPhone, no less.  This is one life experience I would wish for everyone before leaving this earth.  

This part of the Parkway begins off of 80 S in Yancey County (a State Scenic Highway and Top Motorcycle Ride), just south of THE COVE AT CELO MOUNTAIN (a premier gated community between Boone and Asheville), past Mt. Mitchell State Park (the highest peak east of the Mississippi), and on into Asheville.  We stopped off at the renowned Southern Highlands Craft Guild Folk Art Center located on the Parkway near Asheville.  Wild turkey, bear, deer, gorgeous rock tunnels, spectacular long-range views, lush blooming flowers and wonderful trees and rock formations make this America's Favorite Drive.  We ended the day at the award-winning Cúrate Bar de Tapas in Asheville (Best Chef, Best in WNC 2011, Diner's Choice Winner 2012 and 5/5 Star Rating Trip Advisor.com) with other COVE AT CELO MOUNTAIN owners.  A stop at The Chocolate Fetish (12 years named Best Chocolate Shop in WNC) was a must for Mother's Day gifts here and before putting the youngest generation back on a flight to Dallas...not a bad way to spend a Mother's Day weekend together.

Breathtaking views off the Blue Ridge Parkway

Mountain Laurel in bloom - note the stems used for furniture and fencing

Wild rhododendron in bloom

Wild rhododendron - highlighting the wood used in furniture and fencing

One of several rock tunnels between Mt. Mitchell and Asheville  on the Parkway

Demonstration of broom making outside the Folk Art Center

Inside demonstration of craft

Final photo in lobby - no photography allowed within the Folk Art Center

 Come make this celebrated drive on North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway, learn the technique behind the traditional arts and crafts of the Appalachians, taste the award-winning restaurants serving organic, local produce from farm-to-table, and experience the sanctuary setting captured within THE COVE AT CELO MOUNTAIN. Call to schedule a visit or to request our view book: 866-378-4769

A Vignette of History and Home - Dating to the late 1700's - near THE COVE AT CELO MOUNTAIN

Generational locals say this is one of the most beautiful springs they can remember.  

Wild azalea - locals call it honeysuckle

 After our church's First-Sunday-of-the-Month dinner today, a friend agreed that this might be a good time to go in search of the trilliums and other blooms her daughter had seen along the Blue Ridge Parkway a week or so ago.  I love the history here, the people whose lives and beautiful characters have been shaped through the demanding challenges of living in these mountains, and - of course, the spectacular scenery all around us. 

This vignette of home and history through photos is of a family who has lived on this same land (his) for 7 generations and (hers) for the same length of time.  Their 5 children - the 8th generation - have now been deeded the land from both sides of the family.  The family names are well known in these mountains and near THE COVE AT CELO MOUNTAIN.  Many of the original roads within Celo Lands were cut out by the current patriarch of this family.  The 6th generation father walked across the mountain from 7 Mile Ridge every morning 5 days a week (a 10 mile or so trek)- getting up around 3 a.m. to arrive at his job constructing The Blue Ridge Parkway.  He was known as the powder man - using explosives to blow the rocks out to build this breathtaking highway we drove on today, known as America's Favorite Drive.  His pay - $1.30/hr.

This is one part of many sagas surrounding the history of this land  - from Indians (arrowheads still found here), to old logging trails, old mines and more.

 Come enjoy this celebrated season in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina in this small sanctuary setting of THE COVE AT CELO MOUNTAIN, a premier gated community between Asheville and Boone - just off the Blue Ridge Parkway.  Spend 3 days/2 nights with us on our special visit package at a wonderful historic Bed-and-Breakfast in a county that was Civil War Confederate. Then drive 15 miles down the road to dine at the nationally acclaimed 10-table Knife and Fork, in the sister county that was aligned with the Union - another part of our history.

Call 828-678-4769 to arrange your private appointment with us or to request a mailed view book and other information.

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