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August 2011 | The Homewood Star
Ordinary Days By LAUREN DENTON
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As I type this, we’re still in the middle of a sweltering heat wave, and summer officially started only a few weeks ago. However, in the library, in the check-out line at the grocery store, at playgroup get-togethers, I’m already starting to hear the first rumblings of “the school year.” As we all can attest, it seems like school starts earlier and earlier every year. When I was growing up, Labor Day was the last big hurrah before school started, but now August 1 is barely behind us before we start to see neighborhood children walking towards the elementary schools. There’s always been something to signify to me that the school year is beginning, regardless of whether or not I’m in school. Growing up, it was obviously the start of that first semester. I went to a private school in Mobile, so going to the August uniform sale meant the end of lazy days and brought the aroma of scholarly things to come. Once in college, summer break ended and the school year began in a flurry of dorm room assignments and RA meetings. School is behind me now, but August still brings indicators of exciting things to come. When I was working at Southern Progress, it was the Homewood High School marching band. Starting in August, we’d exit the building at the end of the day to strains of tubas and snare drums floating across Lakeshore from the practice field. The sound always reminded me of lively Friday night football games, pep rallies,
good friends and making memories. Once I got married, the countdown to SEC football began about two days after the previous season ended. Matt is a diehard Auburn fan, and sometimes I think when he can’t sleep at night, instead of counting sheep, he counts days left until the first “Waaaaaaaar Eagle! Hey!” And he’s not the only one. In fact, I’m sure I’m in the very small minority of people who aren’t in love with college football. I think it’s because I just don’t understand it all. Despite almost six years of marriage to my football-loving husband (and a lifetime before that of a football-loving dad and brother), I still see a bunch of large men jumbled together like pick-up sticks. Maybe this will be the year I learn to love it. For those of you who aren’t up on the countdown, today I heard on the radio, “Only 66 days left until kickoff!” By the time you read this newspaper, it’ll be about half that. So get your folding chairs, grills and koozies ready. However you plan to celebrate the end of summer vacation, I hope you can enjoy these last days of “freedom” before the new year starts, whether school is in your future or it’s a distant memory. Enjoy the crickets serenading the end of the day, make as many trips to the swimming pool as you (or your kids) can handle, and go ahead and take a jump through the sprinkler. I may be wishing for some cooler temps right about now, but I know in just a handful of months, I’ll be reminiscing about these lazy dog days of summer.
40 years of Three On A String By ASHLEY BERKERY
Three On A String began its career forty years ago in 1971 at the Lowenbrau Haus, a small folk music club in Homewood that was located underneath Jack N’ Jill Shop and Sikes Childrens Shoes just off of Oxmoor Road. “We started in a Tuesday night slot and worked our way to the weekends, where we stayed for almost 10 years,” band member Jerry Ryan said. After a one year gig on Southside at the Cadillac Café, they returned to their Homewood roots, playing at a club called The Stage Door that was located just past “The Curve” where the SoHo complex is now located. Harkening back to their Homewood origins, Three On A String played to a packed house at Out Takes, located almost exactly between the sites of the two former clubs. Three On A String plays a reunion celebration every five years. On August 6, they will hold a 40th celebration at Mountain Brook High School’s Fine Arts Center. Tickets for the 2 p.m. show are
Three On A String band members Bobby Horton, Jerry Ryan and Brad Ryan. Photo courtesy of Jerry Ryan.
$25, and tickets for the 7:30 p.m. show are $30. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 854.3957.
Book sale and computer classes at the library Homewood Public Library will be hosting its annual Friends of the Library book sale August 12-15. Thousands of books, audio books, CDs and DVDs will be for sale and all proceeds go to benefit the library. The prices are reasonable, and refreshments are offered on Friday night for $2. Admission to the sale is free all other days. Sale hours are Friday 6:30-8:30 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Sunday from 2 to 5:30 p.m. and Monday from 9 a.m.-8:30 p.m. The library is also holding computer
classes during August. All classes will be held from 2-4 p.m. 8/2- Introduction to Word 2007, Part 1 8/4- Introduction to Email 8/9- Introduction to Word, Part 2 8/23- Introduction to Excel 8/25- Introduction to the Computer 8/30- Introduction to PowerPoint To register, email sswindle@bham. lib.al.us. For more information about the library, visit www.homewoodpubliclibrary. org.