Marshall Movie Mavericks This Tuesday!

Missing that maverick word? Well it's back. There's a benefit for a fantastic powerful documentary being directed by Francine and Adam, who I'm sure many of you know personally. They're Marshall expatriates and even if you can't make the benefit, check out the trailer for the film. Very exciting!

The East-West Collective Presents:

The Pierce Edens Benefit for On Coal River
A benefit show for the upcoming documentary
"On Coal River"
Tuesday, March 31, 6 - 9 pm
Asheville Brewing Company
77 Coxe Ave Asheville, NC

Featuring:
Super-fun Country Rockers Pierce Edens & the Dirty Work
Scenes from the Upcoming film, On Coal River
Huge Raffle
Bo Webb - A Coal River, WV resident who is featured in the film, and author of an incredibly moving letter to President Obama about mountaintop removal.

Rock out and help the doc out!

Thanks to our generous sponsors for this event:

Asheville Brewing Company
Fine Arts Theater
Haywood Park Hotel
Jus Running
Limones Restaurant
The L.O.F.T.
The Mellow Mushroom
Orbit DVD
Rankin Vault
Second Gear
Ski Country Sports
Ursula Gullow
Westville Pub

French Broad River Paddling Trail - FYI

Greetings,

As part of promoting the French Broad River as a place to "live, work, and play", RiverLink is working to create a camping and paddling trail along the French Broad River. We are currently focusing on the northern stretch of the river through Buncombe and Madison counties and have identified several areas along the river on private properties and in Pisgah National Forest land that would be well suited for camping.

I'd like to invite you to be a partner in this effort and attend an informational and planning meeting scheduled for 3:00pm on February 17th 2009 at the RiverLink offices located at 170 Lyman St.,Asheville. Our vision is to make it feasible for people to launch a boat in Rosman, NC and paddle the 219 miles of river to Knoxville, TN, camping along the way, and having easy access points to get in and out
of the river. We would be grateful for any expertise or involvement you might be able to contribute.

Currently there are very few camping locations and river access is often quite challenging. As a result, we hope to change this reality by working with local landowners, municipalities, the US Forest Service and others to set aside or allow access to a small portion of their river front property to allow for camping or river access sites.

Points of discussion for the upcoming meeting include use of private and public land along the French Broad in Madison and Buncombe Counties, land easements and associated tax incentives, insurance and liability issues, land maintenance, and discussion of an upcoming Pigeon River Grant to help fund this project. In addition, I have invited representatives from the Forest Service, Buncombe county parks, greenways and recreation, Asheville chamber of commerce, and local rafting and paddling outfitters and advocates. Please feel free to pass this invitation on to others that would be interested.

Thanks and I look forward to working with you on this.

Palmyra Romeo
French Broad Assistant Riverkeeper
RiverLink, Inc.

Apollo Creed travel guide visits Marshall & writes home about it

This website visits Marshall, USA through the eyes of a plastic doll in short shorts! Funny and endearing. I like the part about when they meet a nice lady on the street in the middle of the night.

APOLLO CREED TRAVELS

Big Weekend Coming Up

March 21, 2009

Jesse James and the Junkman's Daughter!

Dance the night away with this original band based in Hot Springs, NC. Rooted in the traditions of Country, Rock, Jug Band, and Americana, Jesse James and the Junkman's Daughter consists of a musically diverse group of five artists who are all ready to get down. Showtime is 8:00 pm, and admission is $7.
Madison County Arts Council 90 South Main Street Marshall!


So come out for the Space Dance & Jesse James and the Junkman's Daughter, heck pitch a tent!

March 20th Spaceship Earth / Space Dance

Partial to Marshall

Spring is in the winds, air out your sheets, turn the field, pop your collar & roll down to the Bistro for Jen & the Juice.