Plateau Magazine June-July 2023
This issue we feature women entrepreneurs with locally run businesses and cowgirls who are protecting local animals. We also highlight protecting the land and fields that are important for bees and butterflies pollination. And for the foodies, check out our feature on the Highlands Tavern. Get outdoors with this issue, with our interview on legendary hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis.
This issue we feature women entrepreneurs with locally run businesses and cowgirls who are protecting local animals. We also highlight protecting the land and fields that are important for bees and butterflies pollination. And for the foodies, check out our feature on the Highlands Tavern. Get outdoors with this issue, with our interview on legendary hiker Jennifer Pharr Davis.
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field, decided to join in and bring his 1956<br />
300SL Gullwing from Florida, knowing<br />
that having two Gullwings at any show is<br />
a big deal. HMF was able to publicize this<br />
significant display. Anticipation was high.<br />
On show day, as the cars were arriving,<br />
registering, and being positioned on the<br />
show field, a third Gullwing appeared.<br />
The gentleman had heard about HMF and<br />
decided to cruise up to Highlands for the<br />
day. This was a game-changer for HMF.”<br />
But perhaps two of the most indelible<br />
occurrences happened in 2019, when “Dennis<br />
Gage broadcasted his TV show, ‘My<br />
Classic Car,’ from HMF’s show field to an<br />
international audience of millions of people,<br />
and HMF was selected as the ‘Best<br />
Concours Event’ in the land by Classic<br />
Motorsports magazine in a poll of readers.”<br />
for local organizations and charities, and<br />
2022 was their most successful fundraising<br />
year yet, allowing them to donate $105,000<br />
to local charity partners: The Literacy and<br />
Learning Center, REACH of Macon County,<br />
and the Community Care Clinic of Highlands<br />
and Cashiers. Ham explained the<br />
cornerstone of the festival’s ongoing success<br />
in helping the community, “People wonder<br />
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how HMF can donate such a significant<br />
figure when there is no charge to enter a car<br />
or general attendance at the two car shows.<br />
Further, the paid evening events are low<br />
cost in terms of value provided. There are<br />
two answers- Sponsorships and Donations.”<br />
A full list of <strong>2023</strong> sponsors and a schedule<br />
of events can be found on their website<br />
highlandsmotoringfestival.com. P<br />
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Highlands Motoring Festival was canceled,<br />
but that allowed for organizers to continue<br />
to raise the bar of excellence, and in 2021,<br />
in collaboration with the Bascom Center<br />
for Visual Arts, they presented FreeWheeling,<br />
“which was a centerpiece component<br />
of ‘CELEBRATE ART + AUTOMOBILE,’<br />
a summer series of events in Highlands.”<br />
This unique exhibit featured over 40 pieces<br />
of automotive artwork, including paintings,<br />
sculptures, and photographs, by internationally<br />
renowned artists alongside a<br />
display of three classic automobiles, which<br />
were rotated twice during the 15 weeks of<br />
the exhibit so that a total of “9 classic cars<br />
shared gallery space with the artwork.”<br />
Steve Ham is most proud of the volunteers<br />
who show up year after year. HMF<br />
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is a rain-or-shine event and in 2019, these<br />
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volunteers were invaluable to the continued<br />
success of that year’s festival. He<br />
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explained, “Having had the privilege of 68 W. Main St., Brevard, W.<br />
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chairing this event in the past and after<br />
several years of working in its execution,<br />
my greatest pride is the volunteers that<br />
come out to work the event. This was never<br />
OPEN:<br />
more evident than in 2019, when, as forecasted,<br />
five inches of cold rain came down<br />
10:00 am - 5:00 pm<br />
Monday - Saturday<br />
on Kelsey Hutchinson Park and HMF.<br />
But the show went on. The volunteers<br />
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stayed at their posts and the car owners<br />
did not leave. The people could see that we<br />
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were in trouble and turned out in force to<br />
save the day. These are my heroes. That<br />
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year we raised forty thousand dollars for<br />
our three local human-needs charities.”<br />
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Each year the Highlands Motoring Festival<br />
raises a significant amount of money<br />
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