FRIDAY-SATURDAY Burnsville

Cool off at Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair

The Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair, next weekend in the Yancey County town of Burnsville, will feature more than 150 juried artisans displaying a large variety of handmade crafts - quilts to jewelry, soaps to stained-glass art. Entertainment on the bandstand includes a variety of traditional mountain music, ranging from bluegrass to folk to gospel. Details: 828-682-7413; www.mtmitchellcraftsfair.com.

THROUGH SATURDAY Atlanta

Shark Week stalks Ga. Aquarium

Discovery Channel and Georgia Aquarium are celebrating the network's "Shark Week" at the Atlanta aquarium with a live Shark Cam view of a variety of sharks living in the Ocean Voyager exhibit.

Shark Cam - now up and running at www.shark week.com (click "Shark Cam") - is showing whale sharks, sand tiger, black tip, sandbar, zebra sharks and more.

Throughout Shark Week, Georgia Aquarium, downtown at 225 Baker St. N.W., will host themed events. Admission: $24.95; $20.95 for 65 and older; $18.95 for ages 3-12. Details: www.georgiaaquarium .org .

SATURDAY Sanford

Patriots, Tories to re-fight at Alston mansion

A Revolutionary battle re-enactment and a daylong series of 18th-century living demonstrations are free to see Saturday at House in the Horseshoe state historic site, at 288 Alston House Road in Sanford. The house, named for its location in a horseshoe bend of the Deep River, was the home of Revolutionary Col. Philip Alston. In 1781, a large group of Tories attacked the home and attempted to set it afire. After casualties on both sides, Alston surrendered.

The house, which is open to tours, is furnished with late colonial and early Federal-period pieces. Details: www.nchistoricsites.org/horsesho/horse sho.htm .

THROUGH FALL Asheville

Tiffany lamps on display at Biltmore

Stained-glass lamps created by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) and his Tiffany Studios fill the Biltmore Legacy exhibition hall in Biltmore Estate's Antler Hill Village through Oct. 23. The "Tiffany Lamps: Articles of Utility, Objects of Art," exhibit, on loan from the Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City, is an in-depth look at the man (and his studio) who helped define late-19th-century decorative style. The "Tiffany at Biltmore" promotion is included in daily Biltmore admission. Details: www.biltmore.com.

John Bordsen