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Comfort food at its finest
8 Shucks
Wimpies returns with upgrades, seasonal schedule
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Gallery patron shares personal showcase
Art & SOUL
28 Clay Canvas
Artist explores both darkness and whimsy
37 Art at Home RETROSPECT
38 In the Shade
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The struggles of Greenville’s leafy landmarks
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No matter how you stack it, lasagna is one of America’s favorite comfort foods. These seven Greenville restaurants offer their take on Garfield’s favorite dish.
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Basil’s has been making the same lasagna recipe in Greenville since 1999. The best quality noodles, meat sauce, pork sausage, and ricotta, mozzarella, and provolone cheeses make Basil’s Lasagna special.
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Oyster decor and Pirate gear pepper the comfortable dining room. GREENVILLE TIMES OCT/NOV 14
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As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”
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Ernest Hemingway A Moveable Feast
Shucker Scott Conway, left, and owner Scott Joyner serve up lightly steamed oysters at Wimpies.
‘R’ months mean oysters Wimpies returns with upgrades, seasonal schedule
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or more than 20 years, when residents of Winterville, Greenville, and the surrounding areas have craved seafood, they’ve turned to Wimpies Steam Bar and Grill. In 2010, facing a weak economy and an oyster shortage, the restaurant closed its doors, but it reopened last year to its best year yet. Owners Scott and Kim Joyner say
it’s the food and the atmosphere that customers missed, and when the doors swung wide once again, the place filled up. “I knew that if we were going to do it, we needed to open in the fall,” Scott says. “That first cold snap is like a switch for our customers,” adds Kim. “It’s better than any advertising. It’s just got to get cold for it to feel right.”
“In Eastern North Carolina, we associate eating oysters with standing outside in the cold by a fire barrel,” Scott continues. “Of course, here they don’t have to stand outside. We bring ‘em right to the table with a drink, and we even wash the dishes.” That ‘right to the table’ part is a new addition to the traditional notion of a steam bar. On a busy
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Owners Scott and Kim Joyner have renovated the historic Ange building in Winterville to house Wimpies and their apartment upstairs.
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Four oyster bars and a roving shucker ensure that patrons have access to fresh, hot oysters.
Friday or Saturday night, even with four oyster bars going full swing, it was hard to accommodate a large group that showed up and wanted to sit together to eat freshly shucked oysters. Inspiration struck at a Mexican resort. “They had a guy going from table to table making guacamole on the spot,” Scott says. “We figured we could do the same thing with oysters, so now we have a roving oyster shucker.” The roving shucker has a fully stocked cart, with buckets of hot oysters, sauces, and crackers. “He just pulls up to the table and goes to work. It’s the same experience as sitting at the bar,” Scott
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explains. “The customer deserves to have ‘em hot, not sitting in a bowl. This way it’s timely, and it’s the way it should be done.” Other changes include a new bar area, outdoor patio seating, a paved parking lot, and new menu items. Kim says she utilized social media to ask customers what they missed the most, and what dishes they couldn’t live without. The Wimpies SS&C (shrimp, sausage, and chicken), she crab soup, and crab dip are popular favorites, along with steam pots and stuffed potatoes. Wimpies uses all domestic seafood, and as much from local sources as possible. Fried items are lightly breaded to leave the flavor
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Along with oysters, the menu includes seafood entrees such as the Bourbon Salmon, topped with pineapple.
intact, and the menu features some lighter items such as a new mahi entree. “It’s fine dining in a fun atmosphere,” Scott says. “People … next thing you know they’re talking to the people next to them. It gives you that atmosphere where you want to meet other people, and other people want to meet you. When people are smiling and happy, they’re the wealthiest people in the world.” Wimpies first opened in Winterville in 1991 and has been in its current location in the historic Ange building since 1999. The Joyners have put a lot of work into the building since then, installing flooring and bringing the electrical
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Several mahi dishes such as these grilled fish tacos are new menu additions this year.
and plumbing systems up to code. They renovated the space upstairs as their own home, leaving much of the building’s original character intact, such as exposed bricks and wood beams. Like the patio outside, the decor has a beach feel. “We’re coastal people,” says Kim. “So if I can’t live at the beach, I’m going to bring it here.” In addition to renovating a historic structure, the couple stays active in the community, serving on boards and contributing to organizations such as The Dream Factory. Outside, the former oyster shell parking lot has been paved, but there are still some shells in beds around the edges, as well as embedded in the sidewalk leading to the door. GREENVILLE TIMES OCT/NOV 14
Lanterns, buoys, and shells decorate the patio area. “The oyster shells in the parking lot gave it a certain atmosphere, and we wanted to keep some of that,” Scott says. He credits his kitchen staff for helping ensure that customers keep coming back. The chef has been with the restaurant for nine years, and was eager to come back on board when Wimpies reopened. “I’ve got a good staff here in the back. They’re driven on the quality of the food, the cleanliness of the kitchen, and doing things the right way,” he says. “The back of the house controls the whole house. “Customers aren’t coming in here to see the pictures on the wall, or me
with this ugly hat on. They’re coming for dinner, and the food’s got to be good.” Plenty of square footage in the building allows for a large kitchen space, allowing the staff to keep the quality high while keeping ticket times down, he adds. Since reopening, the restaurant has kept a seasonal schedule, opening during oyster season — remember, months with an ‘R’ — and taking a break during the summer. Wimpies Steam Bar and Grill is open Tuesday through Saturday, from 5-9 p.m. on weekdays and 5-11 p.m. on weekends. Live bands provide entertainment from about 5:30-10:30 on Friday and Saturday nights.
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Joyner surveys an order before it is served in the restaurant.
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A cigar-box guitar by Greenville artist Jim Warren, featured on Harvey Wooten’s mantel, left, is fully playable and can even be plugged into an amp. Above, vases by ECU alumnus Adam Egenolf are finished with a crystalline glaze.
The Home of Art GALLERY patron displays PERSONAL showcase
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ne of Greenville’s most ardent supporters of the arts has a gallery named in her honor at Emerge in Uptown Greenville, but the art showcased in her home is just as impressive. Founded in 2000, Emerge features an exhibition gallery, a sales gallery, a number of educational opportunities for students and Pitt County residents, and a growing number of community outreach programs. In 2007, Emerge
established the Harvey Wooten Gallery to hold community events and artist exhibits. Kinston native Harvey Wooten has lived in Greenville for 35 years, where she has become an active participant in supporting the arts. The term ‘active’ is not used lightly. Her dedication to and love for the arts — especially local art and artists — becomes immediately obvious upon meeting her, and a visit to her residence really drives it
home. The front walkway to Harvey Wooten’s Greenville home is lined with lush greenery and a variety of succulents, with whimsical touches of art sprinkled in here and there. Once guests enter the front door, however, Harvey’s art collection takes center stage. She has been in the home for more than 20 years, but it is probably safe to say that unlike many of us who painstakingly perfect our home GREENVILLE TIMES OCT/NOV 14
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Any space on a shelf, wall, or door is fair game to feature a piece of Wooten’s art collection.
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The glass shower in the master bathroom became a showcase for several ceramic pieces.
décor, she will never be finished decorating. But where does one look first? This is not the home of any stereotypical art collector (if there is such a thing); the pieces are not hung according to any rules, and they certainly do not give off a “look but don’t touch” vibe. This is an eclectic collection of all genres, mediums, tones, and sizes, and the juxtaposition of all types of art tells us just as much about the collector as the artists and pieces themselves. Harvey Wooten clearly loves art — anything beautiful, unique, meaningful, or light-hearted — and she loves supporting the arts in her community and beyond. As she shows visitors through her home, she doesn’t simply identify titles or artists, but she shares stories about where she found certain pieces, or why she loves certain pieces, or how wonderful the local artist is GREENVILLE TIMES OCT/NOV 14
who created this or that piece. Her home is warm and inviting. Furniture and fabrics are in warm reds and earth tones, seating is arranged to encourage conversation, and numerous light sources are placed throughout, creating a cozy and comfy feel. Her furniture is a complementary mix
of old and new, with a variety of wood tones, and plenty of surface space to house her unique finds. If there is space on a table, she’s putting something on it. If there is not space, she’ll make it. She notes that if she has to have a piece, she will find a place for it. “You just put it,” she explains.
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In the kitchen, a ledge above the cabinets includes a pair of taxidermy hens and a paper bag from the family store, Harvey’s in Kinston.
And put it, she does! Stepping from the black-and-white-tiled foyer, which is home to a display of white ceramic pieces, a walking cane collection, and a powder room with an original hand painted floral mural (yes — we’re still only in the foyer!), guests enter the welcoming living room with an inviting sitting area around a rust-red fireplace. Art is everywhere — hanging, leaning, overlapping, sitting, and calling to guests to come take a closer look. Art is everywhere throughout the rest of her home, too. Harvey mentions casually that there is “not a wall that doesn’t have something
on it,” and she’s not exaggerating. In fact, art goes beyond her walls, shelves, and display cases. Art is even displayed in a glass shower. Framed work lines the walls of her garage; it is the first room she sees when arriving home, after all. Art hangs in her laundry room. Art is on doors, on the backs of doors, on built-in ledges overhead, hanging from the ceiling, and hanging on a number of cabinets in the kitchen. Out back, the patio is home to art — whimsical pieces made from found items and metals. If Harvey is partial to a particular art medium or style, she doesn’t
show it. Framed items on the walls are acrylic, oil, watercolor, pastels, mixed media, and textiles. Landscapes live beside still-lifes, abstracts live beside realism, and glitter lives beside gauche. Alongside wall pieces are sculptures and ceramic pieces, carefully placed to work with their display-mates, while at the same time standing out. Along with paintings, ceramics, and sculptures, there are other collections — antique calligraphy brushes, wooden boxes, glass ink wells, and rabbits, lots of rabbits. Also mixed in are birds, natural objects like eggs or geodes, antique GREENVILLE TIMES OCT/NOV 14
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Pieces of art may be displayed together based on color, artist, or theme.
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1. The guest bathroom has a floral theme including a hand-painted flower on the wall. 2. The garage is Wooten’s studio as well as a display area. 3. A custom bookcase contains backlit vases. 4. An arched doorway leads from an informal dining area to the living room. 5. The black-andwhite-tiled foyer welcomes guests into the home and gives a hint of what is contained within.
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Bird’s nests and a lightning rod decorate the coffee table.
books, plates, folk arts, and “nontraditional items of art,” such as an old chess board, a metal sprinkler, and an antique lightening rod. Anything, if not everything, is art to Harvey. And just as she likes to mix things up, she also appreciates groupings of like items or artists. In the master bedroom, a collection of Adam Egenolf ceramic vases lives together on an antique bureau. In the “new room” — which was an outdoor patio eight years ago — one wall is home to framed work with a water theme. “If they include swans or a windmill, the better,” explains Harvey. A wall cabinet in the study and casual dining area contains a variety of pottery in rich teal
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hues. The walls in the formal dining room are home to a number of decorative plates grouped together and large portraits of Harvey’s grandchildren. This is not the only place we find Harvey’s family. Her collections include a strong family presence. Photographs of family and friends are arranged in groups throughout her home, placed on side tables and snuggled into the built-in bookshelves. A bronze statue out front of three girls and a painting of three girls on the wall going up the stairway both caught Harvey’s attention because she is one of three sisters. Next to this painting on the stairway wall is a framed watercolor painted by one of her sisters when she was fifteen.
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Harvey Wooten tends to a bench with ivy on the back patio.
Another artist in the family whose work is proudly displayed is her grandson; his crayon family portrait, created when he was five (he’s now in his teens), is matted and framed, with Harvey represented as a red stick figure, labeled as “Gaga.” Her sister’s watercolor and her grandson’s crayon portraits are two of her favorites. Local Eastern NC artists also are dear to Harvey. Throughout her home, guests can spot pieces by a number of artists featured at Emerge Gallery. Along with Adam Egenolf ’s ceramics, Harvey has work by Victoria Sexton, Catherine Walker, Gail Ritzer, and Andy Bates. She also enjoys collecting student art, and
she recognizes and appreciates the education Emerge provides them. Emerge Gallery itself is another love of Harvey’s. She explains that she was simply hooked the first time she stepped in the door and met Holly Garriott — and her support of and involvement with Emerge is here to stay. “You walk in, and it’s alive,” she says. As she praises the work Emerge does for students, for local artists, and with its outreach programs, it’s hard not to leave her house and drive straight there. It is this support of artists that started Harvey’s collecting. She does not talk much about her own creative endeavors, but she does some creating herself.
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The clock side table, left, is one of Wooten’s own works. She says if she likes a piece, she will find a place for it.
Her studio is in her garage, where she paints decorative tables, cards, pillows, and found items such as bowls or candlesticks — even an old wooden ironing board isn’t safe from her brush. When her collecting began, it was due to the great feeling she experienced when people were interested in buying her work, and it is this feeling that drives her to support others. There is no doubt, though, that being surrounded by all this creativity and energy and beauty is another great feeling that keeps Harvey collecting. As mentioned before, Harvey’s home is warm and welcoming — it seems to be the perfect
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habitat for her warm and welcoming personality. It would take a number of visits to really see all the treasures she has collected, even without the new treasures continually coming in. There is a chance to try, though. On Saturday, Nov. 1, the Friends of the School of Art and Design will include Harvey’s home on the Artist Studio Tour. Tickets are available at Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge, Art Avenue, ECU Gray Gallery, The Art Room, Strickland Framing, and from board members. When you visit, make sure to check out her taxidermy chickens on the ledge above your head in the kitchen.
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Wooten’s penchant for art has turned her home into a gallery in its own right.
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ART & SOUL
‘Worst Toy Ever’ is a combination of well-known — but creepy — toys.
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The studio contains an astounding variety of pieces waiting for paint.
Artist explores both darkness, whimsy
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n the shelves above the work desk in Vik Sexton’s studio are the tools of her trade — metal wire and pins, dozens of bottles of paint, and a small plastic drawer labeled “Spider Legs”. That might seems strange to someone who’s never seen Sexton’s work, but it should come as no surprise to anyone who’s seen ‘Worst Toy Ever’ or one of her ‘Terror-Dactyls’. Much of Sexton’s work, while whimsical, has an element of dark humor lurking around the edges — or sometimes front and center. GREENVILLE TIMES OCT/NOV 14
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‘Can’t Be Fixed’ is one of Sexton’s larger pieces and has to be fired in parts.
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Left, the subject of ‘Dilemma’ weighs a major decision. Right, trees and monkeys appear in a number of pieces, such as ‘Frida and the Tree of Life’.
Hanging from a piece of monofilament is a black-and-white mobile of a skeletal bird, which bobs its head when you pull the cord dangling below it. The ‘TerrorDactyl’ would look right at home in The Nightmare Before Christmas or Bride of Frankenstein. Sexton says she likes the movement of the piece. She works in painted clay, but the way things move, and even the way they sound, are important to her.
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Interested in clay since before kindergarten, she remembers squirreling away small chunks before class so that she’d have as much as possible to shape. “When I was younger, I really liked making animals, and I would make all kinds,” she says. “I went through an ostrich stage. I had in my head I was going to have an ostrich farm, and I would make these little clay ostriches. … I was going to raise an ostrich and ride
it to school. I had it all figured out, but it turns out it’s hard to get hold of an ostrich in Kansas City, so it never worked out. But I can make them out of clay.” Later she started shaping people, particularly faces and heads. After working with high-fired clays and glazes, she discovered that she could best achieve the matte look she wanted by using cold finishes — painting on the clay. “I went to the Greenville
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‘Can’t Be Fixed’ exhibits Sexton’s use of matte finishes and introspective themes.
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A bust of Ben Franklin was used to make a mold for this series of heads (top). Finished pieces in the studio collect a fine layer of clay dust.
Museum, and there was a lecture there on fresco painting, which is painting on plaster,” Sexton says. “Plaster is very porous, and clay is very porous. So after listening to him I started thinking about painting my work.” The key, she found, was to use very dilute paints and build them up layer by layer. “That succeeded, and it was a real transformation for me,” she says. “Because of that I started working larger, and I didn’t have this huge failure rate. And I can get any color that I want.” The sculptures are a canvas
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for Sexton’s imagination, who is as much a painter as a sculptor. Imagery of life, like trees and birds, are present alongside hints of the creepy, like ravens, monkeys, and skulls. ‘Worst Toy Ever’ depicts a monkey popping out of a jack-inthe-box holding a gun. “Both the monkey with the cymbals and the jack-in-the-box are really iconic toys … but they’re kind of creepy, and I put the gun on there because those are iconic in this country too. So it’s a toy that is loud and annoying and wants to kill you. Let’s take that lame, creepy toy, and take it up another level and
make it scarier,” she says. Sometimes the inspiration comes from life, such as the antismoking imagery she found herself creating after losing her mother to emphysema. And sometimes it comes from other cultures, such as Mexican folk art, in which she says death is natural and even celebrated. “Getting older, you’re exposed to death, which is part of life, and I don’t want to be morbid,” says Sexton. “You can’t be too heavy handed with this or you’re going to scare people, but with a little humor …”
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Sexton achieves the colors she wants by building up many thin layers of paint.
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Sexton travels with her work to art shows, where she enjoys meeting other artists and watching the different ways people react to her work.
“I like to see how people react to it, and boy … people will let you know how they feel about it,” she adds. “I really like that, if I can get somebody to laugh, or I’ve even done some pieces that made people cry. That [connection] is kind of what it’s all about. Some people will interpret my work differently than the way I intended it, and I like that idea, because I think that’s an ok thing, and that happens with any artist.” On a tray on the other side of the studio are dozens of small painted heads. A Ben Franklin bust from a gift shop in Florida became a press mold for variations on a theme. There’s ‘Franklinstein’, with
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the monster’s bars in his neck. There’s ‘Fish Franklin’, with fins where his ears should be. There’s a robotic Franklin with radio control antennae on his head. “If you’re an artist you have to play every so often. So I’ve made these Franklin heads, and I want to do a hundred of them,” Sexton says. “I decided I’m going to take some to a show and just see how people react to them. Who wouldn’t want a Franklin head that looks like a fish? It’s really fun to take this face and manipulate it. If I did a hundred of them and could figure out a way to display them, it would be a great piece.” Sexton’s work can be seen at
Emerge gallery, where Sexton led a Halloween-themed Sip, Savor, and Create Workshop in September. She also takes her work on the road, participating in a variety of shows. “What amazes me is I go to a lot of art shows, and I run into people from Greenville all the time,” she says. “No matter where I go, I run into someone from Greenville or someone who went to ECU. They are everywhere, and they all have fond memories. … Everybody’s kind of nostalgic for Greenville, especially the ones that went to ECU. It’s a real strong arts community, and it keeps getting better.”
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Sugar Skulls
Sugar skulls are a traditional folk art from Mexico used to celebrate the Day of the Dead on November 1 & 2. Spirits of ancestors who have passed are welcomed back to the home with altars decorated by sugar skulls, marigolds, and candles. Families carry flowers, sugar skulls, and folk art to the cemetery to decorate the tombs.
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RETROSPECT
In the Shade The struggles of Greenville’s leafy landmarks
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he canopy of large trees on East Fifth Street, across from the University, was once the most scenic drive in Greenville, comparable to Nash Street in Wilson, NC. These beautiful trees, live oaks and willow oaks, planted between 1920 and 1929, are dying and have suffered much from unreasonably cramped spaces, toxic fumes and every large wind that blows through. Trees have a stately beauty, which is a distinct asset to the appearance and economic value of a community. It is understandable that this beauty has to be sacrificed sometimes to keep pace with the growing needs of the community and for insurance concerns. But sometimes these so-called “needs” are dubious, and we are often left with less — visually, aesthetically, and economically. In 1901, T. C. Davis recalled that
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Story by Roger KammereR in the 1840s, a huge sycamore tree stood in front of the Greenville Academy (site of the post office). “Not such a tree as Zaccheus climbed,” commented Davis. “You needed a tall ladder to get to the first limb, and a swing that was attached to the limb was always in motion except at night.” The tree was cut down “by someone who didn’t like big trees,” Davis recalled. During the Civil War, several Confederate and Union Civil War soldiers remarked in their personal diaries how pretty Greenville was sitting in a canopy of trees. Later, visitors remarked while coming over the bridge how beautiful Greenville looked with its church spires rising above the canopy of trees. As early as 1883, the local newspaper remarked that so many trees were being cut down in town that in a few years they would all be gone,
and then some foolish somebody would cry “shut the stable door. But then it will be too late.” In 1885, an old resident of Greenville remembered when Greenville was a village, and the inhabitants felt some pride in beautifying and adorning her sidewalks with trees. He recalled that “every summer the trees were neatly trimmed and whitewashed and strangers remarked on their beauty and the neatness of our streets.” He complained that the town commissioners were neglecting their duty to care for the trees. In April 1872, there was instituted in the State of Nebraska the observance of a day set apart for tree planting known as “Arbor Day.” Years later, a week was set apart for Forest Protection Week. With the increased annual observance of both, President Warren G. Harding in 1922 made a proclamation to all
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The motorcade bearing John F. Kennedy to East Carolina College for a rally passes in front of the president’s home in September 1960. (Daily Reflector Image Collection, ECU Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, ECU)
the state governors to observe and set their own dates for holding tree planting exercises. The president requested the public officers, school boards, civic and commercial organizations of all the counties, cities, and towns in the nation to “unite in thought and action for the preservation of our common heritage and the need of individual and collective efforts to conserve the forests and increase our tree growth for ornament and use.” Arbor Day apparently didn’t take hold in Greenville, since in September 1896, the local newspaper remarked that the way the shade trees were disappearing from our sidewalks, it looked “as if an Arbor
Day will soon be needed for Greenville.” In April 1899, the town had all the trees between Five Points and the courthouse cut down. In the 1890s, the tobacconist, Edward B. Ficklin, began planting pecan trees on the western part of Fifth Street. He grew hundreds of small pecan trees on his farm near Greenville, and when they came of age, he brought them to town and planted them around his neighborhood and his mansion, known as Buckingham, on west Fifth Street. When the city got electricity in 1905, the war on trees began in earnest when the electric lines started tree fires all over town. Other trees had to come down in 1907 when the
sewer lines were put in. In October 1908, the city cut down an old beech tree on the corner of Washington and Third streets, which was the oldest known tree in Greenville at the time. In 1910, the city began widening West Fifth Street, and R.O. Jeffries sued the city to keep them from cutting the shade trees down in front of his house. The suit went as far as the N.C. Supreme Court, and the city won, having the right to widen streets, but had to make just compensation to the landowner. At East Carolina Teachers College, the first steps toward beautification of the grounds were taken by Jacques Busbee (later owner
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and operator of Jugtown). Under his direction, camellia bushes were planted in front of old Austin building. In 1929, under the direction of W.L. Wright, director of the Social Science Department, other shrubs, cedars, magnolias, and holly trees were planted, and the swampy area behind Graham building (formerly the college hog lot) was transformed into a Japanese sunken lake. In 1935, the college decided to combine the lake and the land around it into an arboretum. Named in honor of Miss Sallie Joyner Davis, the Davis Arboretum had a pagoda, little bridges, and boats and was surrounded with weeping willows. The lake was drained in the 1950s, and the last massive weeping willow on the dry lake was cut down the summer before the Bate Building (new classroom building) was built. In 1956, 100 pink and white dogwood trees were planted around the Flanagan Sylvan Theatre. Every Arbor Day, the senior class of ECTC would hold tree-planting ceremonies, and they would always use the “historical spade”, which was first used for breaking the dirt for the first building and used by every senior class after that for tree planting. The hurricane of Sept. 3, 1913 felled 100 trees on campus, and over the years other hurricanes, like Hazel, have wreaked havoc on the trees all over campus. In September 1919, Greenville was featured in the Atlanta Journal as being one of the 10 most beautiful small towns in the South. They
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A tree beside the Humber House on Fifth Street displays its autumn colors. (RYAN WEBB)
had a 34-page photographic supplement put out showing how beautiful Greenville and her streets looked covered in trees. From 1919 to 1925, the City of Greenville put in natural gas lines all over town. Later, when the gas company put natural gas into the pipes, it found that they leaked terribly. The gas killed numerous trees and large sections of grass all over the city. The company had to dig up these pipes to make the connections leak proof. In 1922, the Greenville Woman’s Club started a crepe myrtle campaign, putting trees all over town and around the parks. The oak trees on Fifth Street from downtown to the Spilman house near Eastern Street were planted at various times from about 1920 to 1929, mostly by Henry W. Martin. An old photograph taken in 1922 on the Fifth Street side of the Greenville
High School shows several young trees along the street with cages around their trunks for protection. In 1935 and 1936, J. Key Brown purchased trees from Simon B. Tucker for $2 each and had a peg-legged man named Israel Moore transplant them from the Spilman house to Greenwood Cemetery. Brown stated that he had the trees planted so that each house would be framed by two trees. The lot lines would run through each tree, and each lot would have a tree on each corner. In the 1930s, East Tenth Street was built as the US Hwy 264 bypass around Greenville. Nice homes were built along the street, and trees grew up, forming a beautiful canopy to drive under. These trees were cut down to widen the street in March 1970. In 1930, the new national obsession, “Tree Sitting” reached Greenville, and John David Bridgers
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was the first kid in town to give it a try, sitting 29 hours. In November 1931, the N.C. Federation of Women’s Club dedicated the Sallie Southall Cotton Memorial Drive, which began at Cottendale near Bruce, Pitt County, and came nine miles to Greenville (now Highway 43). As a memorial to Mrs. Cotton, they transplanted hundreds of her favorite trees, mostly cedar and oak, along the road. They were cut down in 1951 to widen the road. In 1936, the trees along Dickinson Avenue were cut down to widen the street. On Jan. 30, 1950, workmen felled two ancient oak trees, both more than 100 feet tall, at the corner of Fourth and Cotanche Streets, opposite the John Flanagan Buggy Company. The trees were believed to be at least 100 years old, according to the older residents. In 1950, the Greenville Jaycees started a Greenville beautification program, planting nearly 400 dogwood trees around town. A giant paw tree that provided shade on Evans Street between First and Second streets for 75 years was cut down in October 1952. In 1957, trees were cut down on Evans Street, and in 1965, the trees around the courthouse on Third and Washington streets were torn down to widen the road and allow sidewalks. In May 1972, the Greenville Board of Realtors gave 35 crepe myrtles to be planted on the Town Commons, and the Cub Scouts gave another three. In 1975, there was a campaign started to save the dying oaks trees on
Fifth Street. Thirteen trees had to be cut down because of disease, and the Greenville-Pitt County Board of Realtors raised funds to replace the trees. In late 1989, the City of Greenville adopted tree ordinances and now has an arborist on staff to enforce the regulations regarding trees, administer the city’s urban landscape program, and advise citizens about proper tree and shrub care. In 1990, the future of trees in Greenville got a boost with the creation of ReLeaf. ReLeaf is a community-based, volunteer, nonprofit organization that was established to plant, promote, and protect canopy and other trees. ReLeaf has planted and replaced more than 1,500 trees and contributed more than $229,000 to the beautification and re-greening of Greenville. ReLeaf and the city would not be able to plant the trees they do without contributions from the public. Funds for many of the trees come from the Commemorative Tree Program, which allows citizens and organizations to honor or memorialize fellow citizens or loved ones with a tax-deductible contribution to purchase trees. When a tree is purchased, a letter is sent to the person or organization being honored. The honored name will be inscribed on a ReLeaf plaque. The donation is acknowledged in the ReLeaf Newsletter. The donor also receives a one-year membership in ReLeaf. For more information on their many projects in Greenville, go to www.releaf.us.
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
Greek proverb
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GREENVILLE MEMORY
Selling Autumn at the Pumpkin House
Long-time residents of Greenville will remember
children and loved to see their eyes light up when
Ruby and Leon Joyner selling their pumpkins and
they saw the sea of pumpkins. She encouraged
gourds for 25 years in the front yard of their old
kindergarten and elementary school classes to come
home on Highway 43 (now Charles Blvd.), right past
out to Pumpkin House to see their farm animals.
what is now the Carriage House Townhomes. The
Ruby Joyner is remembered with fondness by many,
sight of the front yard filled with thousands of orange
along with the unique way she would dip a dirty
pumpkins was a sure sign that Fall had arrived in
washcloth into a tub of soapy water and tenderly
Greenville.
wipe away the dirt off the pumpkin you wanted to
It was in 1970 that the Joyners leased the Tucker
buy. She would then rub a light coat of scented wax
house and farmed tobacco, corn, and peanuts in
over the pumpkin, leaving it a shiny, vivid orange.
the extensive fields around the house. From 1972 to
When asked by the school kids why she washed each
about 1995, the Joyners planted pumpkins to sell
pumpkin, she would say, “When you came here today,
for extra spending money and Christmas money. The
you were washed and clean, and I want my children
seasonal business took off; they harvested nearly
clean when they go home with you.” She was also
4,000 pumpkins and gourds of all shapes and sizes.
heard to say, “I sometimes talk to the pumpkins. They
Ruby Joyner, known as “The Pumpkin Lady,” loved
all have personalities, you know.”
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Imperial Tobacco Company from Tenth and Dickinson streets. Painting by Matt Cook
IMPERIAL VIEWS
Artist chronicles loss of historic building The Imperial Tobacco Company building, built in the early 1900s and located off of Dickinson Avenue, was at one time one of the Greenville market’s largest buyers of tobacco for export. Abandoned by the company in 1978, the building, which covered two city blocks, was slated to be restored and renovated into a long-awaited arts and community venue when, in the midst of the project, it was gutted by fire on April 17, 2008.
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Imperial Tobacco Company from Ninth and Dickinson streets. Painting by Matt Cook
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Imperial Tobacco Company from Ninth and Evans streets at A&B Auto. Painting by Matt Cook
Imperial Tobacco Company from Ficklen and Dickinson streets. Painting by Matt Cook
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Imperial Tobacco Company during the fire in April 2008. Painting by Matt Cook
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NEIGHBORHOOD
A family farm for generations, Briley’s began with beans, cotton, and tobacco and now offers fresh produce as well as agri-tourism activities such as pumpkins in the fall and strawberries in the spring.
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Joey Whitehurst, his daughter, Lindsay (left), and wife, Rachel, keep Briley’s running with help from family and friends.
Family outfit opens for fall fun
Autumn means pumpkins, parties, corn mazes at Briley’s Story by Jules Norwood • Photos by RYAN B. WEBB
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t started several generations ago with a family farm growing beans, cotton, and tobacco in Pitt County. Today, Briley’s Farm has become a destination for farm-fresh produce and agricultural activities during the harvest season. When Joey Whitehurst was 18,
his grandmother helped him plant a pick-your-own strawberry patch on the family farm. Briley’s has had a presence in the Greenville area selling produce for decades, but Joey’s strawberry patch, with the option to pick your own, was the start of something new. “Briley’s has been selling produce
on this corner at Fourteenth and Greenville Boulevard for 35 years,” says Rachel Whitehurst, Joey’s wife and partner. “Agri-tourism had started getting really popular on the West Coast, and we started promoting that. The first crop of strawberries was in 1998, and it has just taken off from there.”
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Pee-Wee
Baa, Ram, Ewe
Hamlet
Mickey
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Joey Whitehurst takes a birthday group on a hayride tour of the farm.
Since then, new attractions and activities have continually been added to the mix. The year starts with the strawberry patch in the spring. Through the summer and early fall, Briley’s keeps Greenville supplied with fresh produce at its regular stand, farmer’s markets, and through its Blue Truck delivery program. Then, in the fall, the farm really comes to life. Beginning in early October, the pumpkin patch opens to the public. Visitors can choose from preselected pumpkins or visit the patch to choose their own for Halloween jack-o-lanterns or autumn
decorating. “The pumpkin patch is on the backside of the 100-acre farm, so you really get the whole experience,” Whitehurst says. “You take the hayride past the corn maze, all the other crops, and the animals, and it stops at a giant wooden pumpkin by the pick-your-own pumpkin patch.” The corn maze is an attraction in its own right, as well. The family picks out a design, and a specialty company out of Pennsylvania comes to cut the corn using a tractor with a small cutting disk and a precision GPS unit.
“It’s amazing,” says Whitehurst. “It’s seven acres of corn, and it only takes a little over an hour to make the first rough cut, and maybe a day in total.” The maze contains a mystery to be solved, with checkpoints and educational games along the way. “It’s Farm Scene Investigation,” Whitehurst explains with a grin. “Farmer Joe has gone missing, and it’s your job to find him and solve the case.” There are actually two mazes — one for adults and older kids, which has about a dozen checkpoints and takes 1½ to 2 hours; and a smaller
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The Briley’s corn maze is a challenge to solve the case of the mysterious disappearance of Farmer Joe by following a series of clues from one checkpoint to the next.
one for younger children with half as many checkpoints. For an added challenge, the maze can even be tackled at night. The farm hosts birthday parties and field trips, as well as company team-building retreats, and there are many other attractions and activities to entertain visitors. There is a wide variety of animals, from cows, horses, and a donkey to baby chicks, geese, catfish, rabbits, and a llama. Mickey the pony is a 22-year-old farm veteran and a crowd favorite. “Any child who’s visited the farm in the last 10 years has probably
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ridden Mickey,” says Whitehurst. “This year he’s getting an assistant.” That’s probably good news for Mickey, who’s showing his age, since the farm has hosted as many as 15 parties in a day. “We have kids who come back to have their birthday party every year, and we see them grow up,” Whitehurst says. “And we have teachers who bring their classes each year. When they return over and over, you feel appreciated, and that you are offering something they really enjoy and value.” There’s a playground, hay-bale mazes for the younger crowd, gourds, and a moving train of
barrels painted as cows. On the weekends there are inflatable bounce houses. Another favorite activity is gem mining — screening rock from the mountains of North Carolina to find gemstones, crystals, and arrowheads. “We try to keep it natural,” says Whitehurst. “There are no sidewalks. Our giant slide is made of wood and drainage tiles. We want to keep it all farm related, and let people see what goes on on the farm.” What started as a family farm is still very much a family operation. There are cousins that help out, and Joey’s daughter handles the farmer’s
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Choosing just the right pumpkin is serious business. Below: Harvest time at Briley’s includes pumpkins as well as Indian Corn and mums.
market stand. Joey’s brother, Jeffrey, also had a big hand in helping make the farm what it is today, Joey says. “We also employ a lot of ECU students, and they become like family, too,” says Rachel. “It’s always been a family thing. You can always count on family to pull through, to help you, to work when nobody wants to work. “I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” she adds. “What we do is very rewarding, making children’s dreams come true, if just for the day, seeing them get to do stuff that not every kid gets to do. We’ve been very blessed with community support.”
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WHAT’S HAPPENING COMMUNITY Events Freaky Freeboot Friday
October 24 and Nov. 21, 5 p.m. Alive-at-five style event filled with live entertainment from the Ragbirds, food, exhibits, inflatables, pirate ship for children, and beer and wine garden. Five Points Plaza, Uptown Greenville.
Festivals Fall Festival Fundraiser for the United Way of Pitt County
October 18, 10 a.m. The public is invited to enjoy fun for all ages at the City of Greenville’s Fall Festival Fundraiser for the United Way of Pitt County at Five Points Plaza on the corner of Fifth and Evans streets.
Halloween Comic Fest
October 25, 10 a.m. Local comic book specialty shop, Nostalgia Newstand,will feature Halloween and horror popculture products and merchandise from comics and graphic novels to costumes, toys, and more! Nostalgia Newstand is located at 201 W. 9th Street in Greenville.
Koinonia Harvest Festival
October 31, 6 p.m. Free fun and entertainment for children including food, face painting, clowns, games, music, talent show, oversized playground equipment, and more at the Greenville Convention Center.
Fourth Annual BMX Fest
November 8, 9 a.m. This festival is home to over 3,000 visitors plus hundreds of Trans Jam
BMX Contest Series competitors. Enjoy the addition of new and exciting special events and vendors at Five Points Plaza in Uptown Greenville.
demonstrations and games. The Village is located at 4570 County Home Road, next door to the Farmer’s Market. For more information, call Roger Kammerer at 758-6882.
Masquerade Ball
John Lawson Legacy Days
October 30, 7:30 p.m. Ghostlight Foundation’s Masquerade Ball benefiting the Magnolia Arts Center. Event will be at the Greenville Hilton. Visit the Ghostlight Foundation on Facebook for more information.
History Family Fun Day
October 25, 10 a.m. The East Carolina Village and Farm Museum is holding a free Family Fun Day, Saturday, October 25, 2014, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be music, displays, food, old time
November 7, 6 p.m. Celebrate the rich history of the region, including the earliest Native Americans, European settlement, colonial times, American Revolution, and the Civil War. This event will take place at Grifton Historical Museum & Indian Village.
Art The Works of Nancy Blass Winn
September 15 - October 31 This art show at the Surround Gallery of the Unitarian Universalist
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Congregation of Greenville displaying the work of Nancy Blass Winn will be presented for the months of September and October. The church is located at 131 Oakmont Drive in Greenville.
7th Graduate Student Art and Design Exhibit September 15 - January 15 The exhibit is on display at ECU Joyner Library, Janice Hardison Faulkner Gallery, 2nd Floor at East Carolina University during library operating hours.
Berlin Wall Exhibit
September 21 - November 15 “The Berlin Wall: A Historical and Photographic Exhibit to Commemorate the 25th Anniversary of its Fall” will be displayed through November 15 on the first floor of Joyner Library at East Carolina University.
Greenville Museum of Art Friends of Photography Exhibit
September 17 - October 31 Exhibit in the upstairs gallery of the Greenville Museum of Art. Visit www.gmoa.org for more information.
Greenville Brushstrokes October Exhibit
October 1 - 30 This exhibit at aTavola Market Cafe, located at 620 Red Banks Road, will feature the work of all Greenville Brushstrokes members.
Farmville Community Arts Council Exhibit
October 1 - 30 Rebecca Thomas and her paintings will be on display at the Farmville Community Arts Council, located at 3723 N. Main Street, in Farmville.
Faces & Places
October 2 - 29 The Art Room will host Faces & Places with works by potter Ben Watford and photographs by Lisa Snead and Rachel Bowman.
Artist Studio and Homes Tour
November 1 The Friends of The School of Art and Design Artist Studio Tour will, for the first time, include art collector homes on tour as well. It will be held Saturday, November 1 from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Tickets may be purchased starting October 1 at PCAC/ Emerge, Art Avenue, ECU Gray Gallery, The Art Room, Strickland Framing and from board members. Tour tickets are $20.00 Raffle tickets for art pieces donated by the artists are on sale for $10.00 each or 3 for $25.00.
Family Workshop Series: Aluminum Can Mosaic
October 19, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Teams will work together to create a mosaic made out of aluminum soda cans. Participants will cut and punch shapes out of aluminum and attach them to a backing that can be hung on a wall. Visit www. pittcountyarts.org for more information.
The School of Art and Design Student Exhibition
October 29 - November 14 An exhibition of ECU SoAD work will take place at several locations including the Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Burroughs Wellcome Gallery in Jenkins Fine Art Center, Erwin Gallery,
Mendenhall Student Gallery and the Faulkner Gallery in Joyner Library. The reception will take place November 7.
Saturday Workshop Series: Children’s Pumpkin Carving Workshop
October 25, 10 a.m. Participants will be provided with a pumpkin of their very own and led through a carving lesson allowing them to create their very own specialized carved jack-o-lantern. Visit www. pittcountyarts.org for more information.
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Halloween Artini
October 25, 7 p.m. An ARTini with a Halloween twist at the Greenville Museum of Art, 802 S. Evans Street in Uptown Greenville. Visit www. gmoa.org for more info.
Individuals requesting accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) should contact the Department for Disability Support Services at least 48 hours prior to the event at 252-737-1016 (voice/TTY).
Art Exhibit Farmville Community Arts Council
November 3 - 20 The Farmville Community Arts Council will exhibit pottery by Margaret Wells. Visit www. farmvillearts.org for more information.
Greenville Brushstrokes November Exhibit November 3 - 30 The November exhibit at aTavola Market Cafe, 620 Red Banks Road, will feature the work of John Groesser.
Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals and their Contemporaries
November 6 This fun-filled day of art appreciation, food, and fellowship is presented by the friends of the ECU School
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WHAT’S HAPPENING of Art and Design and the North Carolina State Art Society. This trip includes a private tour of the Small Treasures exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. Contact Mary Jane Gaddis at 252328-1268 or gaddism@ecu.edu for more information.
Down East Holiday Show
November 7 - 9 Pitt Community College Foundation presents the Down East Holiday Show at the Greenville Convention
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ECU students. This event at ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center is free and open to the public.
Ray Elmore: A Retrospective
ECU Chamber Singers Concert
November 14, 6 p.m. Greenville Museum of Art, 802 S. Evans Street, Greenville, NC.
Fine Crafts and Art Sale
November 14 - 15, 10 a.m. Original hand-crafted holiday gifts, bakery items, Brunswick stew, will be available for purchase at First Christian Church, located at 2810 East 14th Street in Greenville. Visit www.firstchristiangreenville.org for more information.
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Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival - Next Generation Concert
October 22, 7:00 p.m. Featured Guest Artist: Robert McDonald, piano; ECU Faculty Artists; selected current/returning
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Percussion Ensemble Concert
October 24, 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public at Peace Presbyterian Church, located at 301 Guinness Road in Winterville.
Garald Farnham, baritone & lutes
October 25, 7 p.m. The Music House presents a concert, both touching and humorous. Passing By: My Life as a Minstrel describes the journeys of a modern day troubadour. Garald Farnham has entertained children and adults on five continents with his Renaissance spirit and song. E-mail themusichouse@suddenlink. net or call 252-367-1892 to make a reservation. Donations suggested. 408 W. 5th Street, Greenville, NC.
PCC Symphony Orchestra Fall Concert
October 28, 7:30 p.m. The Pitt Community College Symphony Orchestra will perform its annual Fall Concert at the Farmville Community Arts council, 3723 N. Main Street, Farmville. Admission to the performance is free, but donations to support future orchestra concerts will be accepted.
October 29, 7:30 p.m. ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center presents the Percussion Ensemble. The Percussion Ensemble is a chamber ensemble specializing in music composed exclusively for percussion instruments. Music in all styles; contemporary art music, ethnic ensemble, pop, jazz are all performed. This event will be held in Fletcher Music room B110. Free and open to the public.
Wind Ensemble Chamber Winds Concert
October 30, 7:30 p.m. The Symphonic Wind Ensemble is comprised of the most outstanding wind and percussion students in the School of Music. This concert will take place at ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center.
Faculty Recital - Dr. Keiko Sekino and Emanuel Gruber October 31, 7:30 p.m. This concert at the A.J. Fletcher Music Center will feature Dr. Keiko Sekino, piano and Mr. Emanuel Gruber, cello performing the Debussy Sonata, Poulenc Sonata, and Franck Sonata. Free and open to the public.
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Greenville Area Barbershop Chorus Carolina Chord Connection
Every Monday Barbershop chorus consisting of men of all ages who love four-part harmony singing. Practice and fellowship every Monday at 7 p.m. at the Jaycee Park, Greenville. All men who love to sing are invited to join us. Contact Mack Leggett at 343-1158 or Jo Broadway at 943-9562.
Bandorama Concert
November 4, 7:30 p.m. Featuring the ECU Concert Band, Symphonic Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble. This event is free and open to the public. No ticket required.
Percussion Players Concert November 5, 7:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public at ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center. No ticket required.
NC New Music Initiative
November 6, 7:30 p.m. This concert will feature guest artist Blair McMillen performing New American Piano Music at ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center. Free and open to the public. No ticket required.
Guest Recital Laurence Lesser
November 8, 7:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public at ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center. No ticket required.
Good Music Good Medicine Charles Bath & Joanne Bath November 11, 11:30 a.m. Bo Newsome performs with the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Mallarme. Featuring Dr. Charles Bath, piano and Professor Joanne Bath, violin. Performance will take place at Vidant Medical Center Interfaith Chapel at 2100 Stantonsburg Road.
Guest Recital Milen Pareshkevov
SRAPAS - Red Priest
November 14, 8 p.m. Acoustic foursome that has been described by music critics as visionary and heretical, wholly irreverent and highly enlightened, completely wild and deeply imaginative, with a red-hot wicked sense of humor and a break-all-rules rock-chamber concert approach to early music. Wright Auditorium, East Carolina University. Visit www.ecu. edu/SRAPAS/ for ticket information.
Dance USA Dance Greenville Chapter October Dance - Salsa
October 25, 7 p.m. Salsa dance with Correai Moore at
the Drew Steele Center, 1058 S. Elm Street in Uptown Greenville. Visit www.greenvillencusadance.org for more information.
Fourth Sunday Salsa Dances
October 26, 7 p.m. Folk Arts Society of Greenville presents salsa dancing including merengue, bachata, cumbia lessons with Procopio and Heidi Serrano at the Tipsy Teapot. Visit www.fasgnc. org for more information.
First Friday Variety Dances
November 7, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. FASG and Uptown Greenville presents First Friday Variety Dances. November salsa will be featured during the November First Friday Artwalk.
November 12, 7:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public at ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center. No ticket required.
Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival - Brahms Plus
November 13, 7 p.m.; November 14, 8 p.m. ECU A.J. Fletcher Music Center presents Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, Op. 20 (arr. Ara Gregorian); Johannes Brahms’ String Sextet in G Major, Op. 36; Johannes Brahms’ String Sextet in B Flat Major, Op. 18. Visit www.ecu. edu/fourseasons for more information.
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November 15, 7 p.m. Folk Arts Society of Greenville presents contra dancing lessons at the Drew Steele Center, located at 1058 S. Elm Street. For more information, visit www.fasgnc.org.
Writing Greenville Writers Guild
Every Friday The Greenville Writers Guild meets at noon Friday in the group study room of Sheppard Memorial Library, 530 S. Evans Street. Call Bob Graham at 756-9595 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m for more information.
Tar River Writers
Every Wednesday Tar River Writers meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Tipsy Teapot. Call Mark Petterson at 830-0772.
Chamber October Power Luncheon
October 21, 12:00 p.m. The Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce presents October
October 22, 12:00 p.m. The Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce presents Greater Greenville Sports Club Meeting featuring Albert Long, Jr. as the best speaker. The meeting will take place at Hilton-Greenville, 207 SW Greenville Blvd. $20 to attend; lunch is included. Visit www.greenvillenc.org for more information.
YP Professional Development Luncheon
October 23, 12:00 p.m. Professional Development Luncheons are for Young Professionals of Pitt County members only. This luncheon, sponsored by the Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce, will take place at Rep Express Catering, 805 Red Banks Road in Greenville.
FUNDRAISER Riley’s Army fundraiser
November 14 As a partner and sponsor of Riley’s Army, Texas Roadhouse has offered to be the host of one of the organization’s fundraisers. They are cooking up amazing food and donating their business space between 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. in the hopes that guests will take advantage of this opportunity during their lunch breaks to drive by and pick up a boxed lunch. For $10.00, guests will have the option of two different boxed lunches while attending the fundraising event. Option number one consists of a pulled-pork sandwich, french-fries, fruit cup, and a pickle; while option number
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REVERSE RAFFLE Farmville Boys & Girls Club
November 21 Come out and support Farmville Boys & Girls Club at the 14th Annual Reverse Raffle. Tickets are $100/couple with dinner provided by LongHorn Steakhouse. Every 25th ticket is a winner and there is
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two consists of a grilled chicken sandwich, french-fries, fruit cup, and a pickle. Each meal will come with bottled water. Some of the money raised will help Riley’s Army sponsor children to Camp Rainbow. Deliveries will be offered for 10 or more orders. You may preorder for the boxed lunch anytime between Oct 15th and Nov 12th by calling Kimber Stone at 919-608-8421 or email at kimber@rileysarmy.com.
a chance to win $5,000.00 grand prize! Only 200 tickets will be sold for this event. Call (252) 355-2345 ext. 205 to purchase tickets!
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November 14, 7 p.m. The Folk Arts Society of Greenville presents Second Friday Square Dances at the Tipsy Teapot. Dinner, drinks, dancing, squares, circles, and more! For more information, visit www.fasgnc.org.
Power Luncheon at the HiltonGreenville, 207 SW Greenville Blvd. Visit www.greenvillenc.org for more information. $15 for Chamber members, $18 for non-members.
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Sup Dogs
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Pita Pit
Peasant’s Pub
Michaelangelo’s Pizza
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501 S Evans St., ✆ 252.751.0799 Salads and wraps made with fresh produce.
501 Fresh
213 E Fifth St., ✆ 252.752.7682 Fast casual restaurant and bar with all ABC permits serves 100 percent beef hot dogs and burgers but also has some vegetarian options. Everything under $6. Outside patio available.
Sup Dogs
104 W. 5th St., ✆ 252.707.9033 A family run, neighborhood restaurant in the European tradition. Featuring an eclectic menu made fresh, in house, with local produce, meats and cheeses. Bar serves generous, top shelf cocktails created with fresh fruits and juices.
Starlight Café
431 Evans Street, ✆ 252-321-1550 Fresh Roasted Coffee. Home made ice creams. Delicious daily breakfast, lunch and dinner specials.
The Scullery Coffee House & Creamery
214 E 5th St., ✆ 252.329.7482 Quick, healthy pitas and smoothies! Lunch and dinner. Beer available. Delivery and catering available.
Pita Pit
For more information, visit www.uptowngreenville.com
114 E. 5th St., ✆ 252.364.2367 Modern southern cooking with a twist. Enjoy hearty entrees like NC BBQ, brisket, catfish or
Peasant’s Pub
200 E. 5th St., ✆ 252.227.4425 New York style pizza and subs. Open lunch, dinner and late night.
Michaelangelo’s Pizza
113 East 5th St., ✆ 252.355.0311 Americant tavern with an Irish twist. An eclectic mix of American comfort food with a few mouthwatering Irish classic selections that will bring satisfaction to diners seven days a week.
Fitzgerald’s
706 S Evans St., ✆ 252.752.0326 A family Greek restaurant serving lunch and dinner. The oldest non-barbeque restaurant in town.
Marathon Restaurant
Courtside
300 S Evans St., ✆ 252.707.DELI (3354) A Boar’s Head premium delicatessen and diner serving breakfast all day.
220 Cotanche St., ✆ 252.717.7491 Authentic Salvadoran, Mexican breads and food.
La Benedicia
Cinnamon
419 S Evans St., ✆ 252.551.3253 Indian dishes served in an elegant setting. Serving lunch buffet and dinner.
300 E. 10th St., ✆ 252.830.1525 Hot, delicious Original Glazed doughnuts, signature roast coffees, expresso drinks and hot chocolate. Cool down with Krispy Kreme Chillers or Kool Kremes.
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Christy’s Europub
Jack’s Chicken with 2 delicious sides. Appetizers, soups and sandwiches also available. Serving lunch and dinner. Seasonal patio dining. Open Monday-Sunday, 11:00am to 2:00am. ABC permits. Live entertainment.
120 W. 5th St., ✆ 252.364.8921 Winslow’s Deli features 46 beers on tap, over 400 craft bottle beers, 22 wines by the glass as well as a large menu of appetizers, salads, sandwiches, burgers, desserts and full espresso bar. Open 7 days a week with daily entertainment, drink specials and outdoor seating.
Winslow’s Tavern, Deli & Market
124 E Fifth St., ✆ 252.355.0344 Featuring a pub menu and collegiate atmosphere. Offers a wide variety of pizza, pasta, salads and sandwiches. Serving lunch, dinner and late night.
The Varsity Club
409 S Evans St., ✆ 252.413.0087 A comfortable venue for relaxing with friends or taking in live music. Serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, Sunday brunch, microbrews and wine. Catering and outside patio available.
Tipsy Teapot
560 S. Evans St., ✆ 252.754.2244 Bringing culture and cuisine from the “Land of Smiles,” this restaurant sets the scene for an authentic experience with music, ambiance and language. Sit down or take out. Delivery available. Serving lunch and dinner.
Thai 360°
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301 S Jarvis St., ✆ 252.758.2774 Great pub atmosphere with patio seating available, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, and a late night menu. $5 daily food specials, monthly feature menu.
540 Cotanche St., ✆ 252.329.0130 Freaky fast, freaky good... cold sub and club sandwiches. No minimum delivery order. Open 10:00am to 3:00am.
Jimmy Johns
Reade/Cotanche St., ✆ 252.757.1666 Authentic Mexican restaurant and cantina with ABC permits. Serving lunch and dinner. Heated patio dining available.
Chico’s Mexican Restaurant
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Pumpkin brews T
his time of year, craft breweries all over the nation take off like wildfire for the hottest and quickest selling seasonal offering of the year: pumpkin beers. Each brewery has a very short window between the summer shandys and the big bad winter imperial stouts to go for gold and create the best pumpkin beer on the market. Don’t get me wrong, there are other popular seasonal beers out right now. In my last article, I discussed the awesome history and delicious qualities of Marzen/Oktoberfest. These seasonal beers are hugely popular worldwide and have their own followers, festivals, and celebrations. Here in the states, however, the pumpkin beers rule. Typically, pumpkin beer is
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associated with, you guessed it, pumpkin. Brewers actually use fresh pumpkin as an ingredient within the brewing process. ABV, or alcohol by volume, for this style can be a mild 5 percent all the way up to an intense 10+ percent. Barrel aging and other factors can also come into play, but beyond ABV, the differences between the beers can be detected in the spice profile. Many breweries use varying combinations and degrees of what I like to refer to as holiday spices. Nutmeg, cinnamon, all spice, and clove are just a few of the spices that can be added to these festive brews. Used in the right combinations and quantities, the brewer will achieve the perfect pumpkin beer. Pumpkin Pie, Thanksgiving, and The Holidays, are just a few common
descriptors of a good pumpkin beer. However, going too far with any of the previously mentioned spices can get out of hand quickly. Too much of any “holiday” spice can ruin a great pumpkin beer recipe and leave the consumer wanting nothing to do with this style ever again. My point here is this: Just because you’ve tried a pumpkin beer, doesn’t mean you’ve tried all the pumpkin beers. If you like the typical offerings at your annual Thanksgiving table, then there is likely a pumpkin beer out there you’d like too. Sample as many as you can and find the one that suits your pallet the best. Commercial examples of pumpkin beers that can readily be found at local markets include: Blue Moon Harvest Moon, Harpoon UFO Pumpkin, Foothills Cottonwood
Pumpkin, Magic Hat Wilhelm Scream, and the currently difficult-to-find New Belgium Pumpkick. Try them all if you can manage to find them before they’re gone. Now is also the perfect time to start your test runs on any of those fancy menu items you’ve been reading
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about and considering taking a shot at for Thanksgiving. Use these beers as a reference point to put you in the proper mood as you test that Thanksgiving recipe that will surely leave your entire family jealous and wondering where you found your inspiration. Enjoy them
while you can, because just like the holidays, they are done and gone too quickly. Joe Stewart is a craft beer representative at Coastal Beverage Company. Find your favorite beers at coastal-bev.com/beer-finder.
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