Grassroots International – 30th Anniversary Auction
Auction Ends: Oct 4, 2013 11:59 PM EDT

Travel

7 Nights at Horton House

Item Number
121
Sold
460 USD to upsidedown
Number of Bids
6  -  Bid History

Item Description

Spend a week-long vacation relaxing at the newly renovated Horton House, the former home of Highlander Center founder and Civil Rights Movement leader Myles Horton. The Horton house is located at the top of a ridge, with a spectacular view of the Great Smoky Mountains.

 

The property is open to individuals, small groups, and organizations as a site for meetings, writing projects and individual or group retreats.

The Horton House has the following facilities:

  • A full kitchen with pots, pans, cooking utensils, plates, dishes, silverware, glasses, dishwasher, microwave, etc.
  • Three bedrooms
    A large bedroom with three twin beds
    A small bedroom with a double bed
    A small bedroom with a built-in twin bed
    (There is also a couch in the living room that folds out to a double bed.)
  • A large living/dining room facing the mountains.
    The dining room section has a dining room table that can seat up to 10 people for a meal.
    The living room section has a couch, two easy chairs, and 8 rocking chairs.
  • A large deck and adjacent patio, both of which also face the mountains.
  • An accessible full bathroom with a roll-in shower.

The house can sleep 6 people with one person in each bed (including the fold-out couch) or 8 people with two people in each of the two double beds. 

Item Special Note

Availability subject to program work at Highlander. 

About Highlander Research and Education Center: Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny. Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we help create spaces — at Highlander and in local communities — where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible. We develop leadership and help create and support strong, democratic organizations that work for justice, equality and sustainability in their own communities and that join with others to build broad movements for social, economic and restorative environmental change. 

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