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Dance raises $60K for the Smokies

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Wednesday, August 01, 2018
The square dancing takes off in Fairview. Donated photo The square dancing takes off in Fairview. Donated photo

The inaugural Smokies Stomp Barn Party hosted by Friends of the Smokies raised more than $60,000 to support the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Saturday, July 21. 

The evening at Hickory Nut Gap Farm featured a square dance called by Rep. John Ager, D-Fairview, and his wife Annie, with live music by NewTown and the Bonafide Band and attendance from Smokies Superintendent Cassius Cash, Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Hendersonville, and former congressman and Friends of the Smokies director Heath Shuler. 

Funds raised will support a variety of Smokies projects, including Parks as Classrooms, which provides hands-on curriculum-based environmental education programming for thousands of Western North Carolina schoolchildren. 

Donate to Friends of the Smokies at www.friendsofthesmokies.org. Photos from the event are online at www.smokiesstomp.org.

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