WNC Orchid Society show runs March 28-29 at N.C. Arboretum

The North Carolina Arboretum welcomes spring with the Western North Carolina Orchid Society Annual Show on March 28 and 29, one of the largest in the Southeast. Admission is free to Arboretum Society members, or with the standard parking fee ($12 per personal vehicle) to the public. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Thousands of orchids will fill the Education Center of the Arboretum. This year’s theme, “Orchid Shangri-La,” will be interpreted in carefully crafted displays by world-class orchid growers and regional orchid societies.

Vendors will offer orchid supplies and plants for purchase, including rare and hard-to-find varieties. WNC Orchid Society members will be available to answer questions and provide orchid-growing advice, and educational programs will be offered throughout the weekend.

Public Programs
Sunday, March 29
11 a.m. –  A Guided Tour through Shangri-La with Marc Burchette

12 p.m. – Everyone Needs to Repot their Orchids, presented by Cynthia Gillooly

1:30 p.m. – New Perspective on Novelty Slippers, presented by Marriott Orchids
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As a long-time proponent of media for social change, my early activities included coordinating the creation of a small community FM radio station to serve a poor section of St. Louis, Mo. In the 1980s I served as the editor of the "futurist" newsletter of the U.S. Association for the Club of Rome, a professional/academic group with a global focus and a mandate to act locally. During that time, I was impressed by a journalism experiment in Mississippi, in which a newspaper reporter spent a year in a small town covering how global activities impacted local events (e.g., literacy programs in Asia drove up the price of pulpwood; soybean demand in China impacted local soybean prices). Taking a cue from the Mississippi journalism experiment, I offered to help the local Green Party in western North Carolina start its own newspaper, which published under the name Green Line. Eventually the local party turned Green Line over to me, giving Asheville-area readers an independent, locally focused news source that was driven by global concerns. Over the years the monthly grew, until it morphed into the weekly Mountain Xpress in 1994. I've been its publisher since the beginning. Mountain Xpress' mission is to promote grassroots democracy (of any political persuasion) by serving the area's most active, thoughtful readers. Consider Xpress as an experiment to see if such a media operation can promote a healthy, democratic and wise community. In addition to print, today's rapidly evolving Web technosphere offers a grand opportunity to see how an interactive global information network impacts a local community when the network includes a locally focused media outlet whose aim is promote thoughtful citizen activism. Follow me @fobes

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