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A delightful time for tea

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Profile of rock band Dri Rain

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Artist LouLou Clayton

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Greenville & Hockessin Life Summer 2020 Letter from the Editor: Welcome to the summer issue of Greenville & Hockessin Life.

Our family of publications includes a weekly newspaper (the Chester County Press) and seven community magazines, including Greenville & Hockessin Life, which you hold in your hands. Originally, this issue was scheduled to be published about a month earlier than this, but of course the coronavirus changed our plans—and probably changed lots of your plans, too. We’re very pleased to be able to bring you this issue of the magazine now, and we hope it offers just a small sample of the people, places, and things that make the communities of Greenville and Hockessin so distinctive.

In this issue, we invite you to the Centreville Café as writer Ken Mammarella explores the delights of afternoon tea.

We also feature a story about Shish Interiors, which is also based in Centreville after getting its start in Wilmington. We talk to the company founder and visionary, Sally Guare Hunsinger, about Shish Interiors’ furnishings and decorator items that can help bring peace to a home.

The new Trinity Community Church in Hockessin is beautiful so we decided to feature it in a story and in this issue’s photo essay. We explore how this new church will benefit the community in many ways in the years ahead.

In “Old souls, new ambassadors,” writer Richard Gaw introduces readers to Dri Rain. Whether they are jamming at rehearsals in Hockessin or performing live, Dri Rain is proof that you’re never too old to rock and roll.

We hope you enjoy these stories and, as always, we welcome your comments and suggestions for topics that we might write about in the near futrure. We’re already hard at work planning the next issue of Greenville & Hockessin Life, which will arrive in the fall of 2020.

Sincerely, Randy Lieberman, Publisher randyl@chestercounty.com, 610-869-5553 Steve Hoffman, Editor editor@chestercounty.com, 610-869-5553, Ext. 13

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|Around Centreville|

A delightful time for tea

By Ken Mammarella Contributing Writer

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fternoon tea at the Centreville Café is a friendly ritual, and no matter how patrons customize it, it’s still a jolly good classic. And most importantly, “it’s about having the time to get together,” said Erica Ferguson, a certified pastry chef at the café and a British native who grew up drinking tea all day.

Some customers dress up for afternoon tea; some go casual.

“Whatever you prefer,” said owner Susan A. Teiser. The centuries-old building, on Kennett Pike and Owls Nest Road, retains the architectural homeyness of its history as a home, enhanced by art on the walls, books on the shelves and magazines and newspapers at the ready. Indoor and outdoor seating is available for afternoon tea.

Of course, the ritual has been adjusted to follow Delaware rules on social distancing and face masks. “Other than that, we are in full gear,” Teiser said. “Please come by.”

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For afternoon tea at the Centreville Café, tea sandwiches are the first course. The selection for a recent tea was tuna fish and cucumber with vegetable cream on the top layer of the serving plate. Hidden below is curried chicken salad and cheddar-bacon, known as Jane’s spread, for a former staff member.

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Afternoon tea consists of four courses: tea sandwiches (“we’re known for making among the best in the region,” Teiser said), savouries (also known as appetizers, hors d’oeuvres, nibbles or noshes, depending on where you’re from), sweets (a selection of miniature desserts) and scones.

“It’s just lovely. It’s a time to sit and relax in such a calm atmosphere,” said fan Maureen Jarvis, adding that partaking of it “brings back memories of all those stories that I read as a child growing up in suburbia, like Eloise, the Brontes and Dickens. So very English.”

That lineup can go in multiple directions. First, customers are asked if they have any allergies and preferences. If not, there’s a choice of two dozen sandwiches; more than three dozen savouries, changing with the seasons; a dozen and half sweets, also seasonal; and nine kinds of tea.

Customized, and ending with scones The tea comes with lemon or milk (not both, Ferguson noted, because the combination curdles) and lumps of white sugar (not unexpectedly, there’s another four choices of sweeteners). The house tea is Typhoo. Teiser drinks African Nectar, a no-caffeine herbal tea, throughout the day.

The last course sticks to tradition: fresh-baked plain and raisin scones, with clotted cream, house-made lemon curd and strawberry jam. Speaking of tradition, there are two

popular pronunciations for scones, rhyming with either “stones” of “Johns.’ Once again, it’s whatever you prefer, Ferguson said.

Wilmington resident Diane Dunham has enjoyed many afternoon teas at the Centreville Café, often as birthday outings for girlfriends. What keeps her coming back? “The selection. The setting. How they easily handle special requests. The cost. You are never disappointed,” she said, also praising Teiser and her staff for their “warm and welcoming approach. They’re truly appreciative you’re there.”

Afternoon tea usually takes about 90 minutes, Teiser said, and reservations are required 24 to 48 hours in advance.

That time is needed to craft the fillings from quality ingredients, assemble the sandwiches on Pullman bread from Le Bus Bakery and cut them perfectly into triangles. Helping to keep them looking so neat are fillings that stick together nicely with binders like mayonnaise.

The time is also needed for the carefully prepared savouries and sweets. Garnishes include micro greens and herbs from Second Chances Farm, a Wilmington startup focused on hydroponic indoor farms in economically distressed communities. “We’re known for our pretty food,” Teiser said.

The table is set for afternoon tea for four.

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The scones, once again, are an exception to the advance work: they’re baked just before serving.

The rave reviews are in “Great variety,” said one of the members of a family of four gathered to share a recent tea.

“Very creative,” said another.

They loved the experience, and they loved even more the chance to catch up. The family member who organized the ladies tea said she had enjoyed such events with her mother while in England.

Afternoon tea is one of several British meals featuring tea, said Ferguson, whose father is Scottish and mother is Australian. Before the café, she was head pastry chef of Harry’s Savoy Grill and Taste of Britain English Tea Room. The offerings get an Irish touch from another café chef, Kathleen Donovan, with an Irish upbringing and stints as chef/owner of Feasts of Fairville and Troll of Scandinavia.

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Savouries are the second course. The selection for this tea include a flavorful hummus in phyllo puff pastry; cucumber slices with Boursin cheese and smoked salmon; and pickled peppers called peppadews, stuffed with herbed goat cheese.

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Sweets are the third course. This selection includes cream puffs decorated with red sanding sugar, lemon curd in fluted pastry cups and adorned with blueberries, Irish cream bars and petit fours.

Afternoon tea ends with plain and raisin scones, served with clotted cream, lemon curd and strawberry jam.

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recalling some cross-cultural confusion while she was growing up in the United States. “As a kid, I invited my friends to tea,” she said. “I thought it was for dinner, and they thought it was for cookies.” She ticked off some common variations: There’s tea for breakfast.

Elevenses refers to tea and a snack served around 11 a.m.

Cream tea involves tea and scones.

High tea is a hearty meal like a dinner.

Of course, tea can also serve as a proper end to lunch or dinner.

And then there’s the expression “I’ll put the kettle on for you,” meaning let’s have tea and chat.

Catering by Montrachet Fine Foods, too Teiser opened up the Centreville Café in 2003 following a career in corporate strategy, logistics and marketing. She operates two businesses out of the building: the café for dining in and Montrachet Fine Foods for catering. She’s been offering afternoon tea for a half-dozen years.

“Susan is just a dynamo of social interaction, introducing us to the community,” said Jarvis, who can walk – and does frequently – to the café. “My husband Bob calls her a connector.”

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Part of the charm of the tea is the mismatched service pieces.

Customers have given the cafĂŠ many of the teapots it uses for afternoon tea.

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without power for four days. Her solution was to give away the food prepared for the opening. “When you hit adversity, you find a way to make it work,” she said. “In the end, we made a lot of friends.”

So many friends that many teapots used for afternoon tea at the café have been gifts, and some teapots in turn have been gifted to regular customers. That’s why the pots, cups and saucers don’t necessarily match, in way resembling the whimsical delight of an English cottage garden. Mismatched tea sets are also trends on Pinterest and Etsy.

“We have the most loyal and kind clients, polite and charming,” Teiser said. “We watch their children grow up.

We are invited into their homes. We cater their funerals. It’s all very personal, and we like that.”

She interrupted her thoughts to speak to yet another familiar customer. “Come back,” Teiser said.

“I will,” the customer replied.

“I know,” Teiser said.

Afternoon tea is $29.95 per person at the Centreville Café, 5800 Kennett Pike, Centreville. It’s available every afternoon. The café closes at 6 weeknights and at 3 p.m. weekends, so the café recommends that weekend afternoon teas start by 1:30 p.m. Information is available at https://centrevillecafe.com/special-events/31-afternoontea, with reservations required at 425-5808.

This sign on the front door updates “Keep Calm and Carry On,” a 1939 British slogan aimed at lifting people’s spirits.

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|Greenville & Hockessin Entertainment|

Whether they are jamming at rehearsals in Hockessin or performing live, Dri Rain is proof that you’re never too old to rock and roll

Old souls, new ambassadors

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer

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n a mid-afternoon in Hockessin in February, Ron Rodeck gathered five other men to the lower-level family room of his home, where he has lived with his family for the past two decades.

Such spaces as this are normally reserved to tell the history of a family in photographs, a comfy couch or two, a largescreen television and perhaps a bar area where a visitor can rustle up a beer or a glass of wine. The Rodeck family room offers all of this, but on this day, it also provides the sound of what happens when six guys of a certain age and decades of combined and diverse musical backgrounds get together and jam.

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On this day – as on other days just like it – the room has been transformed into a musical man cave for the band Dri Rain.

For the next hour, Rodeck, a guitarist, joins with keyboardist Rick Cassar, guitarist John Hannum, drummer Chet Emerle, bassist Rich Cosby and saxophonist Pete Scilla.

They rip into The Beatles’ “Get Back,” follow it up with Gerry Rafferty’s “Baker Street,” fire up their version of Al Stewart’s “The Year of the Cat,” tear through Jakob Dylan’s “One Headlight,” do their take on Santana’s “Black Magic Woman” and wrap it up with “Chestnut Hill,” an original written and sung by Hannum.

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warrior ambassadors of rock, pop, country and blues, with shows at the Wilmington Waterfront, CCArts in Yorklyn, and at open mic events, private parties and local breweries.

At nearly every show, they will pull from their catalog of 50 covers and 15 original songs that have been written by Hannum, Rodeck and Cassar.

The origins of Dri Rain date back to 2018, when all six attended a music appreciation seminar for musicians at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Delaware’s Wilmington campus.

“It was a class for people who were in love with rock

and roll, and there were about 25 people who signed up – singers, songwriters and guitarists, all of various degrees of ability,” Scilla said. “A few of us broke away a bit and got something going.”

The nucleus of Dri Rain was made up of Rodeck, Emerle, Cassar and Scilla, who performed as part of a community group at the Village of Fox Meadow in Newark, where Cassar lives. Soon, the group was rounded out when Hannum and Cosby joined.

“Our personalities have really jelled,” Rodeck said.

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Formed in 2018, Dri Rain has played at several festivals and venues throughout the Brandywine Valley.

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“This is a group of men who have lived their full lives and retired for the most part, so can do this because we enjoy it, and not because any of us has to.

“It’s been a real pleasure to be able to share all of our influences with each other.”

While Dri Rain is still in its early stages, the musical origins of the band, however, date back to their respective childhoods and influences.

In fact, Rodeck and Scilla found they shared a unique experience: Both attended the original Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y. in 1969.

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Guitarist and songwriter John Hannum.

as the drummer in Tommy Conwell and the Young Rumblers, Hannum began playing in bands when he was a teenager in Newark. Emerle played in several bands in his native Camden, N.J., and was influenced by drummers like Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, and the Big Band sound. Cassar, a native of Connecticut, played at weddings and nightclubs during college. For Scilla, his musical roots go back to playing in house bands throughout northern New Jersey, and during high school and college, he played in several wedding, jazz and rock bands.

When he was eight years old, Cosby was given a guitar for Christmas, but later transitioned to bass, when he began hearing everything from gospel to James Brown.

“Music is universal,” Cosby said. “By the time I attended the class at OLLI, I had already played gospel, hip-hop, disco, jazz and smooth jazz, but I was looking to expand into new genres and absorb new influences such as The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton and The Beach Boys. I saw Dri Rain as an opportunity to meet and play with new musicians, and blend my influences with theirs.”

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recordings of The Beatles, and subsequently formed a band with his brothers.

“The band ended in about 1971, and at that point, I had graduated from college, began my career, and began a family, so I like to joke that I put the band on hold for 45 years,” he said. “Joining this group and having to learn my timing again has been a challenge. My musical roots were certainly there, but the last year has served me well in getting me up to speed.”

Mick Jagger used to proclaim that he didn’t want to be 60 years old and still singing “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”

In 2020, the seemingly indefatigable Rolling Stones planned a return to North America for a 15-city stadium tour starting May 8 that was postponed due to the Covid19 outbreak, when Jagger was 76 years old. He is now 77. Pete Townshend of The Who wrote “My Generation” in 1965, which contained the lyric, “I hope I die before I get old.” Now 75, Townshend performed the song with his long-time band mate Roger Daltrey, now 76, during the band’s extensive 2019 tour.

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Singer, songwriter and guitarist Ron Rodeck.

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defying the onset of age through association. In many ways, they’ve just started. They performed a sold-out show at the Kennett Flash in February, and before COVID-19 wiped out their touring schedule, they had scheduled performances at the Limestone BBQ in Wilmington, the Market at Liberty Place in Kennett Square, the CCArts Hot Jam in Yorklyn, as well as a follow-up visit to the Kennett Flash in August.

“We’re all at an age when we should have probably stopped a long time ago, but we still play, because it is in our blood,” Hannum said.

“Our ‘Best Before’ date is still somewhere in the future,” Rodeck said. “Music is both physically and mentally stimulating, and to be able to do it in the company of people you enjoy being around, it’s been quite a ride. We haven’t yet started recording our originals, but we look forward to that, because it will harness our talents and take us to a new level.”

To learn more about Dri Rain, visit them on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/DriRainBand/ and by email at rrodeck@gmail.com.

To contact Staff Writer Richard L. Gaw, email rgaw@chestercounty.com.

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|Greenville & Hockessin Business| In 2015, LouLou Clayton found the creative focus of her artistic attention shift. Since then, her pet portraitures have delighted her clients, who now get to keep the memory of their furry friends alive forever

‘It’s all through their eyes’

By Richard L. Gaw Staff Writer

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efore she had to temporarily close her Fredericks Corner studio in Centreville due to COVID-19 this spring, the cozy space that the portrait artist LouLou Clayton occupied was festooned with framed evidence depicting the work that has transformed her artistic journey since she began Custom Pet Portraits & More five years ago.

From floor to ceiling, it’s all gone to the dogs, figuratively, of course. Working from photographs sent to her from clients from as near as Delaware and as far away as Europe, the Terriers, Beagles, Boxers, Poodles and Shepherds are all dignified and stunning, graceful and adorable, and they peer longingly out at the world with the collective and soulful look of wanting to burst out of their permanent confinement and sniff about in order to satisfy their innate curiosity.

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A “likeness” waits at Clayton’s Centreville studio, before returning to its owner.

And that’s it – the gift that has enabled LouLou Clayton to crack the code, that has led to a continual stream of commissions and acrylic portraits that hang in hundreds of homes -- to give the great illusion that the dog in the painting is, in fact, real.

“It’s all through their eyes,” she said. “Then it’s about color, and then it starts to take shape from there. Eventually, it gets to the point where I am asking the face I am creating, ‘Do you want a treat?’

“Often, I will leave the painting on the easel overnight, get to it the next day, and establish a sense of what I still need to work on. I always want to be working toward the moment when I get to say, ‘There it is. That’s it.’ I love that moment because it’s the moment when their eyes have begun to talk to me.”

There is not an artist alive whose creativity does not – in large gulps of influence or in brief snapshots – properly trace itself back to his or her youth. For a writer, it could be library visits to see the big picture books. For a sculptor, it may have been the accidental merging of mud and water discovered in a sandbox. For a photographer, perhaps it was the disposable camera and a first assignment given to them on a car ride to a wedding.

By the time she had turned ten years old, LouLou Clayton had already become the recipient of gifts, opportunities and moments. When she was a kindergartner in Westchester County, N.Y., she received a Christmas present one year of a painting easel, and an artist’s costume, (that turned out to be highly flammable,) and came with a beret, a goatee and a cigarette holder.

With a quick change, the little girl could transform into a miniature Salvador Dali.

She began to draw individual family Christmas cards. Her mother would pay her a quarter for each card she made and unknowingly, become in the process the first artistic inspiration of her daughter’s life.

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she loved to paint, and took out a black magic marker and drew a rabbit smoking a corn cob pipe, and gave it to her as a gift.

“I still have the drawing,” she said. “That moment was huge for me, because I was thrilled at the way he just took a marker and drew. For me to see that, everything opened up.

I began using pen and ink and began copying illustrations from nursery rhyme books. My mother would have them framed and give them as gifts.

“I remember drawing a few of my Barbie dolls that had beehive haircuts, and I did a watercolor of them,” Clayton said. “At the time, I was only about seven years old, so I don’t think I had any inclination that I had the gift of being artistic. I just liked it, and I got a lot of support for it.”

After spending a part of her childhood in upstate New York, she moved with her father – Dick Clayton, a broadcasting pioneer in Philadelphia radio for more than two decades - to Chester County when she was a teenager.

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Kennett Square after high school. There, she saw the biggest names in the Brandywine Valley art world come by – sculptor Andre Harvey and artists Peter Sculthorpe and Woodrow Blagg, among others.

Following her graduation from college, Clayton, now married with children, sought to satisfy her creative recklessness. Watercolor classes were doing absolutely nothing for her, but on the advice of an artist friend, she took a graphic design class at the University of Delaware, “and that’s when all of my gifts as an artist and all of my interests came together,” she said. “I loved art. I loved marketing.

I loved design. It pulled my brain together. That was the beginning, and it led to some incredible opportunities.”

She became a cartoonist for the Kennett Paper.

She illustrated greeting cards for local companies.

She designed logos for clients, established graphic identities for businesses and created promotional brochures.

She painted murals at hospitals and medical centers, in schools and in private homes.

She developed set designs for a local children’s theater.

She taught art at a school in Brussels, Belgium.

With little trepidation, LouLou Clayton had emerged as an artist simply by walking through the many portals that had become available to her. It was a creative canvas of many contours and derivations and detours and sudden turns, so when she first entered into pet portraiture in 2015, she had already built the thick skin that comes with experience.

“In a word, my first pet portraits were ‘horrific,’ but I had resigned myself to allow a year and a half to feel my way through it,” she said. “I realized that I wanted to paint kids and pets. These are two components of being alive that both provide unconditional love. I felt, ‘This just makes sense.’”

In five years, she has completed several hundred pet portraits, and it has become her full-time job. In any given month, depending on the size of the portrait, Clayton can complete between six to ten commissions – ranging in size from 6” x 6” to 30” x 40” canvases. It’s a three-step process from start to finish: 1) after an initial phone call or email contact, the client determines the dimension of the portrait he or she wants; 2) he or she sends several clear photographs of the pet to Clayton; and 3) Clayton creates the painting and ships it directly to the client.

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“I don’t necessarily need to speak or meet directly with the client,” she said. “I don’t know half the people I paint for. Sometimes, someone will introduce themselves to me and thank me for creating a portrait of their Beagle. I will thank them, and have very little memory of having done it. I have to keep a journal of the client and the dog. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have a record of what I’ve done.

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have had a very long conversation. To be able to be trusted enough to portray this member of the family is a huge honor.”

For Clayton – who now works from her home studio in nearby Chadds Ford while her Centreville studio waits out the pandemic – dog portraiture gives her an opportunity to be with people who love animals, as well as the payoff of being able to ship a portrait of their best friend. Sometimes, when the recipient first unveils Clayton’s portrait, it’s emotional territory to wade through; in some cases, the commission is sent to Clayton after the death of the pet.

“When someone receives a portrait of his or her dog after the pet has passed on, the painting arrives in two phases at first,” she said. “When it’s first seen, often it hits the nerve of the moment and becomes very painful to look at. But later, you can look at it again and again and say, ‘Yes, there’s my dog.’”

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Photos by Jim Coarse Through the support of a half-dozen families, founding Pastor Steve Trader and his wife Barb started the church in 2005, with services first at Wilmington Christian School.

Hockessin’s new Trinity Community Church is beautiful in respect to its architecture, its modern amenities, its acknowledgment of its hallowed ground and its becoming a bright and shiny home to hear the Word of God. The $9 million project is also too small for the inclusive goals of its leaders, who want to serve the dearly departed, soccer moms, nature lovers, sports fans, people who want to learn and area groups needing a place to meet.

“Our heart is to be available to everyone in the community,” said pastor TJ Harris, a good man to lead the growth, based on his last post, fostering another Assemblies of God church in Wausau, Wisconsin, from 80 members to 600 in 2½ years. “We’re good builders,” he said of himself and his wife Robin, also a pastor at Trinity.

Trish Gunn serves as the third pastor.

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Of course, all these plans have been delayed by coronavirus restrictions, and the building, at 6580 Lancaster Pike, is currently not being used for large gatherings. For now the church has pivoted to virtual services: 5 p.m. Saturdays and 8:30 a.m., 10 a.m. and noon Sundays. At 6 p.m. Sundays, the church is hosting an outdoor service.

The last few months have been bittersweet,” said Mia Burch, one of the founders. “We overcame many struggles with finances and government approvals, so it was incredibly exciting to be open, but then the Covid situation happened. But in the end, it’s never about the building; it’s about the community, leading people to Christ. A church is not a building. We are the church.”

The building has enabled church members to do more good work behind the scenes, she added, such as providing food to children who once relied on school lunches and to residents of the Delaware Center for Homeless Veterans in downtown Wilmington.

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The church can now seat as many as 500 parishioners.

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“We’ve kicked up our compassion,” Harris said, noting that Trinity and its members have fed 7,000 people since the virus hit this spring through The Well, a coffeehouse and marketplace owned by the church a mile and a half away.

First a building, then more additions Various laws encouraged the church to grow in stages of 20,000 square feet, and fortuitously other laws allow it to eventually build on about half of its 13-acre property.

The first major change since the opening of the church is the Trinity Community Cemetery, which Harris said will have 1,000 burial plots, plus space for mausoleums and cremains. It opened in July, on the north side of the property, next to the cemetery for St. Mary’s, Delaware’s first Catholic church. Trinity also manages the old cemetery, and its sign will return, once it can be secured. Vandalism had scarred the rolling property when it was largely unused, with one hopeful graffito kept for now: the word “dream” spray-painted on an old storage building.

Other outdoor features being considered include a soccer field, walking trails and an amphitheater. Indoors, church leaders are planning for a gym and rooms that can serve as offices, classrooms and meeting spaces.

Church offices are now on the second floor of The Well. “It feels peaceful,” Harris said of The Well. “The environment is very welcoming, with Christian and affirming music playing.” There’s also a bookcase of Bibles and religious books for browsing. A spinoff, The Well at Coffee Run, encourages fellowship at the church before and after services.

A half-dozen families – Paul and Mia Burch; Zach and Reny Koshey; Jim and Danielle Sipala; Neil and Ann Marie Taylor; and founding pastor Steve Trader and his wife Barb – are credited with starting the church in 2005, with services first at Wilmington Christian School. (Trader is now chief executive officer of Global Teen Challenge.)

Over the years, the church’s new site, split by a waterway called Coffee Run, was considered for a subdivision, a 55-plus community and a school. Its return as a church pleases Harris. “It was set aside a couple hundred years ago for God’s purpose, and it lay dormant until we could continue its mission.”

About 400 adults “call the church their home, attending at least twice a month,” he said in an interview this winter, and that figure is up from 30 when it began services. Some come from near (such as residents walking from the adjacent Westgate Farms subdivision and Coffee Run condos), and some from as far as Middletown and New Jersey.

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Serving the community Trinity, one of Delaware’s 17 Assemblies of God churches, wants to open its facilities to everyone, including other churches, “to show love for our community,” he said. The church also forwards 10 percent of its budget to 75 missions worldwide. “Our heart is ... to make the world a better place.”

“I’ve been watching and praying for your success,” A’Lexa Hawkins wrote on the church’s Facebook page, just before the new building opened Dec. 22, a few weeks after the Harrises arrived.

They were high school sweethearts who grew up Greek Orthodox and Presbyterian.

One day when he was a high school sophomore, a fellow football player invited him to an Assemblies of God youth group. “I had Christ presented to me in a way that I had never seen before,” he said. “It made sense. I had purpose and a personal connection.”

He was baptized at age 17, and Robin followed at age 18.

The main entrance is into The Atrium, an airy space available for weddings and other milestones. The sanctuary seats 500 and is designed like a theater, with a sloping floor and technology that allows events to be viewed on Facebook and heard on https://trinitychurchde.com. When it can use the building, Harris plans to have Sunday services at 9 and 11 a.m. and is thinking about a third service, maybe on Saturday evening.

A chapel follows the spirit of the Lancaster Pike property’s old stone barn. After concluding the barn couldn’t be salvaged, they kept the chapel to the same footprint, repurposed stones, used rafters that evoke the barn’s ceiling and installed classic barnred doors. Some low stone walls remain nearby.

A large amount of space is dedicated to children, with cameras and a check-in system providing security and comfort to parents and guardians.

Once a month, Trinity hosts Prayer Furnaces, with 12 stations, including one with participants encouraged to nail their burden to the cross. One telling prayer that the church’s guiding philosophy could resolve: “The need to figure everything out on my own.”

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Shish Interiors offers a wide range of furnishings and accents, including candles.

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Sally Guare Hunsinger has run Shish Interiors out of the Frederick’s Country Center in Centreville for the past two years, after moving the business from Wilmington.

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The company founder and visionary, Sally Guare Hunsinger, started Shish in Wilmington, but moved it to Centreville two years ago. A tour of the shop shows a consistent, clean style that is both welcoming and unifying. Nothing is stuffy or too precious to be actually used. That’s part of an aesthetic that goes back many years in Hunsinger’s life, as she recalled in a recent interview.

What are the roots of your design sense? Did you paint or draw as a child? Where did you grow up?

My family is from Vermont. I think that is probably a huge factor in my design. My grandmother had an incredible sense of style. Her home was livable and beautiful and always smelled amazing -- it was magical! Perhaps because I have four children, my design tends to be functionalIy based. I think a well-designed home brings peace to its inhabitants, allowing them to flourish. Teasing out the likes and dislikes of customers and figuring out how to incorporate their tastes is so much more important than imposing trends and way more fun to determine. My mom has long been famous for saying “Different strokes for different folks.” In many ways, that is my design style. Life would be so boring if we were all the same!

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Did you come from an artistic family? Were you encouraged to create?

I am not sure I was encouraged as much as allowed.

We moved around a fair amount, and I was always allowed to rearrange furniture and convert closets to special play spaces and even change rooms with my siblings on occasion. When I wanted a doll house, my dad built it and then used balsa wood to make the furniture as I described it to him. Later, when I had time to envision the furniture I wanted, but not the time or cash to obtain it, he would build it for me.

Did you study art or design in college?

No. My degree is in special education, and I truly loved my time working in that field, but decorating and creating has always been my passion. For as long as I can remember, I have been rearranging and designing and working on projects in my own homes, friends’ homes, the residential facilities where I worked. Creating functional and beautiful spaces has always been great fun for me. I used to do it in my free time and I guess now I do it all the time.

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How did your career path evolve? When did the idea of doing interior design come about?

This is what I have always loved, and I am fortunate that my husband and my kids have pitched in a lot over the years to help and allow me to do this. In 2004, my husband read an article about interior designer and minister, Denny Daikeler. He gave me a gift certificate for a weekend workshop with her, and everything that I felt about decorating and interior design was validated. I chose to stay home with our kids, and in doing that, met people who asked me to help them work on projects or spaces, and I always did it because I loved it. I had one friend who really encouraged me and showed me the value of my passion. I have always dreamed of having a shop of my own, but I am not sure it was something I ever really thought would happen. Having a retail store is so helpful to the design portion of my business because clients can meet me and see how they feel before committing. They can also see the quality of my merchandise, and in many cases see and try pieces before committing to purchase them.

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When did you open Shish Interiors in Greenville? Have you always had this same space, or did the business move at any point?

I moved Shish to Centreville two years ago. Prior to that, I had a small store on North Lincoln Street in Wilmington.

I was there for almost five years. That space was good to me. It allowed me to build a client base in Delaware, and it was small, which kept my costs manageable. The store in Centreville is quite a bit bigger and the community here is incredible. There are several similar stores in Centreville and we all support in one another and share resources and customers. I am so thankful to be here.

The store and the items you offer have a clean, comfortable “look.” Are all the items a reflection of what you personally like? So it’s a matter of finding like-minded customers?

I actually love the fact that my customers are all so different in their tastes, needs and wants and in their budgets.

The common thread is that I think most people want their homes to look and feel good and function well. The furniture I sell is sturdy, most of the fabrics are washable, the pottery and bedding is all commercial grade, most of the

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You offer a wide range of services – from selling a piece or two to designing whole rooms. What’s the percentage of each?

It seems many store sales morph into design jobs, and vice versa. I try to stick to one or two bigger design jobs at a time and always seem to have lots of smaller projects tossed in.

My cell phone is my business phone and customers text me all the time. If they need a cheese board for an upcoming party, or are looking for a coverlet but do not have time to stop in to the store, or are stuck with something and want some ideas, they reach out. I really enjoy those interactions, and if I can’t provide what they need, I can usually head them in the right direction.

What is the room or home design process like? I imagine there’s a lot of listening on your part, then finding something you think would work?

I do not go into a job with thoughts about what I would like to see or a direction I think a client should go. I tend to

ask a lot of questions and yes, listen a lot. Regardless of the space we are working on, I like to see the entire home as it is lived in, rather than perfectly tidy in anticipation of my arrival. While there, I tend to brainstorm with clients, and by paying attention to their reactions, I can usually tease out what they want and need even if they are unsure. Then it is really just a matter of offering plans to fit their budget. It is easy to design a beautiful space, but that is useless if it does not fit the customer’s taste, budget and needs.

How has the shutdown inspired people to redecorate or re-design?

It is kind of exciting! This idea that our home is so important is really true now. Having to shut down the store for 11 weeks was a bit unnerving. So many of my customers graciously reached out to place orders that could be drop-shipped or placed outside the door for pickup, or just to say that they would return once things opened up again. It was nice to know that I remained on their radar.

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for a person to spend frivolously, but there is no denying that most homes need a bit of modification to accommodate work, school, daily living and recreation, all under the same roof. For some, a beautiful smelling candle may be all they need, and I have those also!

How important is good design to an improved overall mood in a home?

It is SO important. It matters so much! I really think that there is something sacred about our homes. They should allow us to be our best selves, so that we can do whatever it is that we are called to do, and we can do it well. For some people, that means providing spaces for rest. For others, it is offering uplifting or energized spaces. For most of us, it’s a bit of all of that.

The custom farm tables you offer -- Where are they made?

For years, Shish has offered all kinds of custom furniture. In moving to the larger store, I have tried to keep the custom furniture to tables only, but we recently finished a beautiful four poster bed to go with a media cabinet we had just completed.

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oil and pigmented waxes. He is so talented, and along the way has become a good friend. I am really very fortunate to work with him.

Do you work with regional artists and artisans when possible?

I do! I have been fortunate that several local artists share their work with Shish, and it has allowed me to offer really beautiful and varied art. I often say that their work makes my store look legit! Additionally, many of the products that I carry are from smaller companies where the owners are also the makers, or work very closely with the makers. This is true for the pottery, bedding, candles, and lighting. I have local artisans who make pillows, candles, tables, artwork, stationery, etc.

There’s probably a sense that people have to be wellto-do to have good design in their home. Can a simple rearrangement or a key piece or two transform the look of a room for an affordable price?

You absolutely do not need to have a lot of money to have a beautiful home, and typically it is a combination of price points that make the most beautiful homes. While you may find a $300 pillow at Shish, it is likely right next to a $40

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or $50 pillow. You may find a $200 lamp sitting on a $40 desk. I try really hard to carry a wide variety of pieces and price points.

What’s the satisfaction of doing what you do?

Teasing out what a person needs or wants and helping them facilitate that is so rewarding! It really does not matter how big the scope of the job is, or how much money a person is spending. It is the excitement, and sometimes the relief, of the customer that makes me happy. I think I am approachable and I like helping others. I am also a bit of a perfectionist about some things. These characteristics have allowed me to work with customers of all walks of life, which hopefully helps me to keep an open heart, with tons of fresh ideas. I am thankful for that.

As a one-woman company, what’s your schedule like? In normal times, and now?

It is pretty much non-stop. I tend to go all day and work late into the evenings. I think it is important to deliver as promised and sometimes there are just barely enough hours in the day to do that. Because I enjoy what I am doing, sometimes it seems a bit harder to rein it in!

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