To clarify, classic rock act Molly Hatchet will not be playing the “Southern Rock Wood Stock” on the grounds of the Smoky Mountain Event Center in Way.
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It is Christmas week, and there is a level of tired in this nation, and even the world, that I have not felt since 9-11. That was my first world-shattering event which I navigated from an adult perspective, and that altered the course of the way we relate to each other and the world around us.
What is tragic about this pandemic is that the enemy is not outside of us but within us. But just as terrorism and jihad altered how we view other humans, so has this damned virus. Just like the ugly leftist tropes of race and class, now, whether you are a vector of human transmission (and we all are) is being used as a bone of contention and separation to divide us, rather than unite us.
It was billed as part Christmas celebration, part peaceful protest, and at the end of the day, it seemed the two went hand-in-hand for local Republicans who gathered at the Smoky Mountain Events Center.
A press release went out to local media earlier this week from the Smoky Mountain Republican Women out of Swain County announcing the group was teaming up with Haywood County Republicans to host a Canât âCoopâ-Up Christmas Celebration, a tongue-in-cheek reference to the groupâs defiance of Gov. Roy Cooperâs requests that people distance themselves during the holidays to prevent the spread of COVID-19.