{"id":884773,"date":"2026-10-16T21:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884773\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T21:08:08","slug":"hill-o-ween-celebrating-wnc-mountain-culture-kicks-off-with-book-distribution-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/884773\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill-o-ween, celebrating WNC mountain culture, kicks off with book distribution event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MITCHELL COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 Mitchell County\u2019s own version of Halloween, known as Hilloween, kicked off on Oct. 16 with a scary story and a lot of books. <\/p>\n<p> News 13 Meteorologist Karen Wynne was a celebrity reader at the book distribution event at Harris Middle School. Wynne said she enjoyed sharing the story &#8220;Creepy Carrots&#8221; by Aaron Reynolds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/local\/election-voting-north-carolina-buncombe-henderson-counties-western-issues-infaltion-abortion-democracy-democrat-republican-politics-community-wnc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NC EARLY VOTING BEGINS AS VOTERS IN BUNCOMBE, HENDERSON COUNTIES WEIGH KEY ISSUES<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year, Hilloween\u2019s book distribution has grown substantially. Every Mitchell County student from Pre-K through second grade received four books at the event, compared to two books in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>In total, each of those students will get 12 books over the course of the year, thanks to the Hilloween Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>For more on the other Hilloween events, go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hilloweennc.org\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hilloween website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MITCHELL COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) \u2014 Mitchell County\u2019s own version of Halloween, known as Hilloween, kicked off on Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":["post-884773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}