Unto These Hills Outdoor Drama Closes

8/29/09
Mountainside Theatre
Contact: Cherokee Historical Association Box Office (828) 497-2111

The "Unto These Hills" Outdoor Drama closes for the 2009 season on August 29!

“Unto These Hills” debuted on July 1, 1950 and was an instant hit. The drama has shown at the open-air Mountainside Theatre each summer since then when Kermit Hunter, a non-Native, wrote the original version as a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A new version that debuted last year adopted a Cherokee perspective of the Eastern Band’s own history and included authentic costumes, traditional dance and music and – for the first time ever – a majority of Cherokee actors. Attendance rose last season and audiences gave the revised show a standing ovation after each performance. Over the decades, more than five million people have experienced this memorable outdoor drama.

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SEPTEMBER

Handmade | Homemade | Homegrown: 7/31/10 - 9/25/10
Qualla Arts Open-Air Indian Art Market: 9/4/10 - 9/4/10
Cherokee Survivors Motorcycle Rally: 9/10/10 - 9/12/10
Southeastern Tribes Cultural Arts Celebration: 9/17/10 - 9/18/10

OCTOBER

98th Annual Cherokee Indian Fair: 10/5/10 - 10/9/10
Big Rigs Antique Truck Show: 10/15/10 - 10/16/10

NOVEMBER

Thanksgiving Day Feasts: 11/26/09
Cruise the Smokies - Fall Cherokee Rod Run: 11/5/10 - 11/7/10

DECEMBER

Area Holiday Festivities: 12/1/09 - 12/31/09
Cherokee Christmas Parade: 12/12/09
New Year’s Eve Fireworks: 12/31/09

MARCH

Cherokee KOA Fishing Tournament : 3/27/10
Ramp It Up! Festival: 3/27/10
Second Annual Vietnam Veterans Parade & Ceremony 2010: 3/27/10

APRIL

Cherokee Survivors Motorcycle Rally: 4/23/10 - 4/25/10

MAY

NAIWA Strawberry Festival: 5/1/10
Week of the Young Child: 5/3/10 - 5/7/10
Cherokee Visitor Appreciation Day: 5/6/10
Cruise the Smokies - Spring Cherokee Rod Run: 5/14/10 - 5/16/10
Cherokee Day of Caring: 5/20/10

JUNE

Gourd Festival: 6/3/10 - 6/5/10
Summerfest Carnival: 6/10/10 - 6/13/10
Summerfest Carnival: 6/16/10 - 6/19/10
Cherokee Bluegrass Festival: 6/17/10 - 6/20/10
4th Annual Housing Fair: 6/25/10 - 6/26/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring Balsam Range: 6/26/10

JULY

4th Annual Cherokee Art Market: 7/2/10 - 7/4/10
July Powwow: 7/2/10 - 7/4/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring Paul's Creek Band: 7/3/10
July 4th Fireworks: 7/4/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring Lonesome River Band: 7/10/10
Dare Motorcycle Run: 7/10/10
Festival of Native Peoples : 7/16/10 - 7/17/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring Alice Gerrard with The Kari Sickenberger Band: 7/17/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring Dismembered Tennesseans: 7/24/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring Dehlia Low: 7/31/10
Handmade | Homemade | Homegrown: 7/31/10 - 9/25/10

AUGUST

Handmade | Homemade | Homegrown: 7/31/10 - 9/25/10
Wounded Knee Memorial Motorcyle Run : 8/6/10 - 8/7/10
9th Annual Talking Trees Children's Trout Derby: 8/7/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring The Kruger Brothers: 8/7/10
28th Annual Cherokee Days of Recognition: 8/7/10 - 8/8/10
Volkswagen Car Show: 8/13/10 - 8/15/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring New North Carolina Ramblers: 8/14/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring The Jeff Little Trio: 8/21/10
58th Cherokee National Holiday Co-ed Softball Tournament: 8/27/10 - 8/29/10
An Appalachain Evening featuring Farewell Drifters: 8/28/10