Brian Shumate is a web producer based in Boone, North Carolina. He works full time as a web designer at Appalachian State University, and part-time building web applications and sites. Brian collaborated with others listed in the site credits to build and host the Silver and Stones Jewelry website.

Dawn Shumate is a homemaker and independent Photojournalist based in Boone, North Carolina. She works full time as a mother and home-school teacher of two children, and part time as an independent photographer/reporter for various area and national publications. Dawn collaborated with others listed in the site credits to build and provide all photography for the Silver and Stones Jewelry website.

Since 1964, Festival in the Park has been bringing good music, good art and good times to Charlotteans and visitors from around the world. The sounds of "big band music" drift across Freedom Park's lake whose still surface reflects the lights strung from Camelot exhibit tents.

A local business in Boone, North Carolina that sells ecology-minded products (aka "green" goods). You can find Silver and Stones Jewelry pieces for sale at Green Mother Goods.

High Country Mom Squad is committed to highlighting the best places to take your kids in the NC High Country! They share stories about our experiences shopping, dining and playing here in the mountains.

At the annual Mountain ValleyFest Green Valley Park on Big Hill Road, conveniently located between historic Todd and Boone, they have something for the whole family: Live music, food, children's activities, and arts and crafts vendors.

Recognized as one of the finest award-winning family festivals in the state, MUMfest is a combination of fun and entertainment that annually attracts more than 80,000 festival-goers to the revitalized beauty of New Bern’s historic downtown and waterfront. The Southeast Tourism Society has named MUMfest as one of the top 20 events for the month of October 2007, so don't miss it!

The winter weather forecast is an important subject for the people of Banner Elk, a one-stop-light village nestled between the three largest ski slopes in the High South. For 30 years they have raced the black and brown striped worms to determine which one worm deserves the honor of making the winter weather forecast. Tradition says that the black stripes predict cold and snowy weather while brown stripes point toward milder conditions. Over thirty years, the woolly worm has been all or mostly correct eighty-five percent of the time.