We are pleased to welcome you back to North Carolina for GeoWoodstock 15!
Please come on over to the NC Folk Art Center Auditorium on the Blue Ridge Parkway on Friday 26th May 2017 from 10am to 11.30am! We will be showing the movies from last year's Geocaching International Film Festival on the big screen. Take a seat, enjoy and catch up with friends as you gather in the area for GeoWoodstock XV. Stay awhile or pop in and out, the movies will be rolling throughout the event.
Why movies?? Well, Asheville and its surroundings are a huge mecca for film making with its stunning scenery. Indeed, North Carolina has more production complexes and sound stages than any state in the nation outside of California. Western North Carolina captured the attention of Hollywood years ago. The first movie shot in Asheville was in the 1920s and was titled Conquest of Canaan, filmed in what is now Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Other movies shot at least partially in the area include A Breed Apart, Searching for Angela Shelton, Last of the Mohicans (box office #1 film in the U.S.), Being There, My Fellow Americans, Loggerheads, The Fugitive (#1 film), All the Real Girls, Richie Rich, Thunder Road, Hannibal (#1 film), Songcatcher, Patch Adams (#1 film), Nell, Forrest Gump (#1 film), Mr. Destiny, Dirty Dancing, Bull Durham, The Private Eyes, The Swan, The Clearing, House of Poets, The Purple Box, 28 Days and The Hunger Games (box office #1 film). Many geocaches in the area pay homage to these movies.
Look for the NCGO / GW15 banner!
The Folk Art Center is a museum of Appalachian arts and crafts located at milepost 382 on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, North Carolina. It also houses offices for three separate Parkway partners: the Southern Highland Craft Guild, the National Park Service, and Eastern National. The Center is the most popular attraction on the Parkway, seeing a quarter of a million visitors per year. Opened to the public at its current location in 1980, the Center contains three galleries, a library, and an auditorium, and also houses the Eastern National bookstore and information center. The Center also features an exhibition of traditional and contemporary southern Appalachian crafts. Admission is free. No pets allowed.
Big thanks to our local host wncsteph for helping on this.
Nothing could be finer than to cache in Carolina....AGAIN!
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