For the romantic getaway one must visit Mackinac Island. This enclave is home to more than 5 art galleries and has quite the artsy scene. Other points of interest include The Grand Hotel, where Somewhere in Time was filmed, M...
Collection by The Spice & Tea Exchange® 104 Pins • 2. 74k Followers A Savory Sweet collection from The Spice & Tea Exchange of Blowing Rock, NC. Stop in and smell the spices. We are located at 1087 Main Street, Unit 4.
Before 1752, when Moravian Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg visited the Blowing Rock area, the windy cliffs of the area were home to the Cherokee and the Catawba Indian tribes, hostile to each other, and the basis for the story of "The "Blowing Rock". Two star-crossed lovers, one from each tribe, were walking near The Rock when the reddening sky signaled to the brave that he must return to his tribal duty, and the maiden urged him to stay with her. His desperation in choosing between duty and love caused him to leap from the edge of the gorge toward the rocks below, while the maiden beseeched the Great Spirit to bring him back to her. The famous winds of the John's River Gorge blew her lover back into her arms, and this legend about The Blowing Rock is still told today. After the mid-eighteenth century, when the Scotch-Irish began to settle close to this area, the passes from southern Virginia into Kentucky attracted many colonists, farmers, hunters, and trappers who continued south to the mountains of North Carolina.