NOC welcomes new president Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Nantahala Outdoor Center has named a new company president, welcoming former Grand Canyon Resort Corporation CEO Colin McBeath to the top job.
McBeath has more than 20 years of experience in the hospitality and activity/recreation industry. A career hospitality executive, he has worked in the United States, Canada and Asia managing luxury properties, airlines, hotel chains and resorts, most recently for Grand Canyon in Arizona. That corporation hosted 1.3 million visitors worldwide each year. McBeath managed a large rafting operation on the Colorado River, zip line courses, land-based adventures, retail department, lodging and 12 Food and beverage locations throughout resort.
The history of what was once Toronto s grandest mansion
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The Cawthra Family immigrated from Geysley, Yorkshire, England and arrived in Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1803. They lived in a brick house on the northwest corner of King and Caroline (Sherbourne) Streets.
The following year, head of the family Joseph Cawthra was granted land in Port Credit, but remained there only until 1806, when he relocated to York (Toronto), the provincial capital.
He had once hoped to be a doctor, and because of his interest in medicine, he established an apothecary that he expanded into a general store. It is thought to be the first store of its type established in Toronto.
North East galleries and museums confirm reopening dates and here s what they have in store
Here are the staggered reopening dates for all Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums venues including Laing Art Gallery, Discovery Museum, Shipley Art Gallery and Roman forts
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Evy Leibfarth took first place in the canoe and kayak slalom events during last week’s Olympic Team Trials in Charlotte. Jean Folger photo
Western North Carolina teenager Evy Leibfarth will represent the United States in the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo this year after placing first in two Olympic Team Trials competitions last week.
“Making the Olympic Team is a dream I’ve had since I was really young, and it’s so exciting that it’s becoming a reality,” said Leibfarth. “I’m so grateful and proud to be a part of Team USA and an amazing community of athletes who inspire me to be a better athlete and person!”
Beads on the tundra: The first U.S. import from Europe? February 11th |
Glass beads the size of blueberries found by archaeologists in a Brooks Range house-pit might be the first European item ever to arrive in North America, predating the arrival of Columbus by a few decades.
Made in Venice, Italy, the tiny blue beads might have traveled more than 10,000 miles in the skin pockets of aboriginal adventurers to reach the Bering Strait. There, someone ferried them across the ocean to Alaska.
At least 10 of the beads survived a few centuries in the cold dirt of three locations in northern Alaska. Archaeologists recently unraveled the mystery of the beads in a paper published in the journal American Antiquity.