To celebrate these prophetic creatures, Banner Elk, North Carolina, located near the Tennessee border, organises a Woolly Worm Festival every October.

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After a few more days of working the phones, my salvation came in the form of Kim Jochl, one of bosses at Sugar Mountain, in Banner Elk, N.

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