W Welcome. A MESSAGE FROM JUDY MICHAUD, Owner/President of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Meadows Mountain Realty
Welcome to our fall issue of ELEVATE: A Field Guide to the Plateau & Beyond. You may notice a small change to our name. We added “& Beyond” because some of the stories we want to tell sit just past the Plateau, at Old Edwards Reserve at Lake Keowee and in Brasstown. The Plateau is still home, and it is still where most of these pages begin. In June, I joined members at the Reserve for An Evening of Impact, the spring dinner and auction of the Reserve Charitable Foundation. By the end of the night, they had raised roughly half a million dollars for organizations across Pickens County. Our lead feature follows that money beyond the gates, to groups like Feed a Hungry Child, which sends weekend meals home with more than seven hundred children. One member told us the Foundation was a main reason they chose to live there. After that evening, I understood why. There is also an update on Laurel Village, where the first cottages are now framed. The red leaf on our cover is Virginia creeper. I have watched it climb the trees along my walk every September without once wondering why it turns early. In “A Signal in the Trees,” Andrew Renfro of the Highlands-Cashiers Land Trust explains why, and it’s not what you think. The same feature remembers the Highlands residents who bought the top of Satulah Mountain in 1909 rather than see a hotel built there. “The top of Satulah is ours to keep forever,” Thomas G. Harbison wrote that year. I have lived here for more than 35 years, and that sentence still moves me.
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