Stay in the Know—Matthews Pulse delivers local events, history, food, coffee, business spotlights, and bookkeeping training every week.
👀 Upcoming Events in Matthews
🎾10/1 Pickleball with Tennisbloc - Pickleball season is here in Indian Trail! Whether you’re brand new to the game or already hooked, there’s a program for you this fall!
📹10/2 Record. Reach. Revenue: Use Video to Grow Your Business - In this two-part training, you’ll learn how to plan and produce a compelling video series using tools you already have.
🎃 10/3 Family Pumpkin Carving - Enjoy delicious sweets & treats, get creative with fall crafts, and spend a fun afternoon with friends and family.
🚚 10/3 Lake Park Food Truck Fridays
🍂 10/4 The Hunter Farm Fall Market - Join us for a day of autumn fun at Hunter Farm! Enjoy fresh local produce, handmade goods, baked treats, crafts, and more. Perfect for the whole family!
👯10/6 Beginning Carolina Shag Dance Classes - No partner required, but suggested.
❓ Did You Know…
The R.F. Outen Pottery is a historic industrial facility at 430 Jefferson Street in Matthews, North Carolina. The roughly 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) property includes a brick kiln, and a concrete-block workshop, both built about 1952 by Rufus Outen. Abutting the workshop to the north is a metal roofed and sided shed, in which Outen stored clay. Outen, trained by his father at the Matthews Pottery, produced utilitarian folk pottery on these premises until his retirement in 1976. The facility is a well-preserved example of a complete mid-20th century folk pottery works.
☕ Coffee Corner
Brakeman’s Coffee & Supply - Keeping Matthews slow with coffee, friends, and a chance to pause in a fast-moving world.
🏢 Local Lens: Business Spotlight
Bear Food - You’ve got to give this shop a look!
A Family Business with a Bigger Purpose
➕ Training for QuickBooks Online
Get started in QuickBooks Online: A quick tour & what to do next
😁 Fun Fact… “Stumptown” was its original nickname
Before it was Matthews, early settlers cleared so many trees for cotton fields that countless tree stumps remained — the area was unofficially called Stumptown.
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