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CONTENTS GRUB & GROG

7 Treats by the Box Sticky and sweet

18 Top Chef

Brandon Qualls collecting culinary accolades

ART & SOUL

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20 Chair Affair

Fundraiser gives art students scholarships

28 Wild Art

Fashion for the outdoors inspires artist

ART AT HOME

37 Wire trees

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RETROSPECT

40 Cold as…

Ice, a luxury and a necessity

46 Then and Now 501 Fresh

ECONOMIC DRIVERS

52 Farmers’ market expansion

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GOOD CAUSE

54 PirateFest 2017 planned WHAT'S HAPPENING

56 Community Calendar SNAPSHOTS

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60 Pitt County Arboretum 62 Live United Courtyard 64 Red Day Outreach 66 Prayer Vigil

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GRUB & GROG BUZZETTE Buzz Coffee House

1201 S. Charles Blvd.

A made-from-scratch, made-to-order doughnut with caramel and cocoa.

Other toppings include honey and cinnamon, raspberry and powdered sugar, and chocolate.

MONKEY BITES Great Harvest Bread Company

2803 Evans St. Looking for a non-fried alternative?

Monkey Bites have all the buttery-cinnamon goodness of monkey bread in a handheld size.

FUNNEL CAKE STIX Sup Dogs

213 E. Fifth St. Perfectly doughy, flawlessly sweetened and overly delicious, with syrup for dipping.

HOT ORIGINAL GLAZED DOUGHNUT Krispy Kreme

300 E. Tenth St. Krispy Kreme’s Greenville location opened in 1971, and today serves its Hot Original Glazed Doughnuts — about 15,000 a week — along with a variety of other flavors.

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7TREATS

BY THE BOX YOU GOTTA EAT

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Sticky and sweet, these fried doughy indulgences will take you back to a childhood fair, or a summer afternoon street vendor. Watch the office light up when you walk in the door.

BEIGNETS Blackened Kraken

123 E. Fifth St. Warm fried and sugared sweet Louisiana doughnuts, covered in powdered sugar.

CUSTOM DONUTS Duck Donuts

420 E. Arlington Blvd.

Choice of coatings, toppings and drizzles on a fresh, made-to-order cake-style doughnut.

CHURROS Super Mercado El Rancho

2500 Charles Blvd.

Fried until they’re crispy on the outside, warm and soft on the inside.

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BEST OF TIMES

Local favorites Best of Times

2016 READER SURVEY RESULTS

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s we work to build our community from the ground up, it’s our local businesses that form an important part of the foundation. Shopping local supports their owners and employees, and nurtures a personal stake in the place we call home. From local landmarks to fresh and innovative stores, services, and restaurants, Greenville is fortunate to have so many great places to shop, eat, play, and relax. Chosen by you, our readers, via web poll and Facebook voting, these Greenville Times Best of Times Awards recognize the city’s favorites.

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BEST ARTS AND CRAFTS

The Painted Peacock

Honorable: Emerge Gallery and Art Center The Venue

BEST BED AND BREAKFAST

BEST FURNITURE STORE

Bostic Sugg Furniture Honorable: Waters Home Furnishings

BEST TEA

Parker's BBQ The 5th Street Manor Honorable: The Music House

BEST HOT DOG

Sup Dogs Honorable: Warren's Hot Dogs

Honorable: The Scullery Bojangles

BEST PLACE TO BUY GOLF EQUIPMENT

Gordon's Golf and Ski Honorable: Dick's Sporting Goods GREENVILLE TIMES FALL 2016

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BEST NEW RESTAURANT

BEST BURGER

Villa Verde Honorable: Dickinson Ave. Public House Sam Jone's BBQ

Pop's Honorable: Cubbies Starlight Cafe

BEST PLACE TO PLAY TENNIS BEST DRY CLEANER

Elm Street Park

Bowen Cleaners

Honorable: River Birch Tennis Center

Honorable: Cleaners Plus Scott's Cleaners

BEST WOMEN'S SHOP

Catalog Connection Honorable: Shimmer Monkees GREENVILLE TIMES FALL 2016

BEST MEXICAN

Chico's Honorable: El Azador Mi Cabana

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BEST LIVE ENTERTAINMENT

Crossbones Tavern Honorable: The Buccaneer Crave

BEST PASTA

BEST PLACE TO PLAY GOLF

Ironwood Golf Club

Honorable: Bradford Creek Golf Course Brook Valley

BEST JAPANESE

CPW's

Shogun

Honorable: Basil's Atavola!

Honorable: Sapparri Wasabi 88

BEST MEN'S SHOP

BEST SHOE SHOP

Coffman's

Sound Feet

Honorable: Campus Corner Steinbeck's

Honorable: The Shoe Crate

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BEST BEER SELECTION

Tapped

Wimpie's

Honorable: Firefly Wine Shop Winslow's

Honorable: Dixie Queen Starlight Cafe

BEST STEAK

BEST PLACE TO WALK/RUN

Ribeyes Steakhouse Honorable: Plank Road Starlight Cafe

BEST ANNUAL OUTSIDE EVENT

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BEST SEAFOOD

Greenway Honorable: River Park North Alice F. Keene Park

BEST PLACE TO PLAY POOL

Pirate Fest

Tie Breakers

Honorable: Umbrella Market Freeboot Friday

Honorable: MacBillards

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BEST ART GALLERY RECEPTION

Emerge Gallery and Art Center Honorable: Art Avenue

BEST PLANT NURSERY

Plant and See Nursery Honorable: Carolina Seasons Friendly Nursery

BEST PLACE TO BUY A WEDDING GIFT

BEST BBQ

B'S BBQ Honorable: Parker's BBQ Skylight Inn

BEST COMPUTER HELP

University PC Care Honorable: Computer Peripherials

BEST DAY SPA

Bailey's

Salt

Honorable: Jefferson's Lautares

Honorable: Refreshology The Spa at Merle Norman GREENVILLE TIMES FALL 2016

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BEST INTERIOR DESIGNER

Coastal Fog

The Venue

Honorable: Albritton Interiors Judy Moore

Honorable: Dickinson Avenue Antique Market Dapper Dan's

BEST DESSERTS

Confection Connection Honorable: The Scullery Starlight Cafe

BEST PIZZA

Basil's Honorable: Marabella Michaelangelo's

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BEST ANTIQUE SHOPPING

BEST CHINESE

China 10 Honorable: Ming Dynasty Osaka

BEST SANDWICHES

Market @ Coastal Fog Honorable: The Scullery Crave

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BEST VEGETARIAN

BEST THAI

Crave

Thai 360

Honorable: The Scullery Villa Verde

Honorable: Lemongrass Anchalee

BEST FLORIST

BEST COMFORT FOOD

Jefferson's

GK Cafe

Honorable: Emerald City Flower Co.

Honorable: The Seahorse Christy's Euro Pub

BEST PLACE TO WATCH SPORTS WHILE DRINKING

AJ McMurphy's Honorable: Crossbones Tavern Tiebreakers

BEST WEBSITE

ypofpitt.org Honorable: uptowngreenville. com

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BEST PLACE TO BUY FLOORING

BEST SUSHI

Shogun Honorable: Wasabi 88 Japan Inn

BEST INDIAN

Honorable: Carpet Design Center Boyd's Carpet

BEST APPETIZER

Cinnamon Indian Cuisine

Basil's

Honorable: Katsuri

CPW's Starlight Cafe

BEST WINE RETAILER

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BEST BREAKFAST

Jefferson's

The Scullery

Honorable: Firefly Wine Shop

Honorable: Egg Yolk Crave

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BEST FRIES

BEST COFFEE

Starlight Cafe

The Scullery

Honorable: Sup Dogs Pops

Honorable: The Coffee Shack Crave

BEST SOUP

BEST MARTINIS

The Scullery

Starlight Cafe

Honorable: Crave Confection Connection

Honorable: CPW's

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GRUB & GROG

TOP CHEF

Chef Qualls of Villedge collecting culinary accolades

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xecutive Chef Brandon B. Qualls of Villedge Wood-Fired Kitchen & Bar in Greenville has received wonderful accolades in the last few weeks.

The Food Network recently featured Qualls and Villedge’s Grilled CBR Burger on their list of the “51 Best Burgers from Coast to Coast.” The Grilled CBR Burger is pretty much everything you love about a Southern summer picnic, but in one delicious burger. This burger masterpiece consists of ground chuck, rib eye, and short rib patty smothered in smoked Gouda and white cheddar pimento cheese, candied Applewood smoked bacon, deviled egg spread, tomato, and lettuce on a grilled brioche bun.

The only other North Carolina burger to make the list The Rhu Burger created by Chef John Fleer at Rhubarb in Asheville.

Qualls also competed against other prestigious N.C. chefs in the Food Lion Cooking Challenge at the recent North Carolina Seafood Festival in Morehead City, where he won the coveted Chef ’s Hat for a second consecutive year. His final winning dish was N.C. Sheepshead with jasmine tea pepper jelly glaze, over creamed collards, farro and sage sausage, finished with corn bread crumble, and using olive oil from 692 Olive in Greenville. Qualls received the Chef ’s Hat Award, $500 Food Lion gift card, and a golden ticket to the World Food Championships in Orange Beach, Alabama.

Qualls worked for local Greenville restaurant Chefs 505, quickly rising from line cook to sous chef in just a year. After graduating from East Carolina University in 2006, he took on the role of Executive Chef at Pia’s in Washington, N.C. before becoming a Managing Partner. Qualls also helped open and GREENVILLE TIMES FALL 2016

Executive Chef Brandon B. Qualls of Villedge Wood-Fired Kitchen

manage a second Pia’s location in New Bern until the spring of 2012, when a partnership opportunity arose at the Hilton Greenville to conceptualize and renovate a new, cutting edge restaurant in Greenville. The Villedge Wood-Fired Kitchen & Bar opened in the fall of 2012, where Qualls is a Partner and Executive Chef, as well as the Director of Food and Beverage for the Hilton Greenville. Qualls and Villedge Wood-fired Kitchen & Bar offer a truly authentic and exceptional culinary experience all year round, from the restaurant’s modern yet cozy seating and décor to the expertly crafted menu starring local farm-fresh and seasonal ingredients, to a wide variety of local and regional craft brews and artistically created cocktails at the bar.

Locals and visitors can stop by Villedge WoodFired Kitchen & Bar seven days a week for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinks and enjoy live and local music every Friday night. Villedge also caters on and off-site corporate and social events.

Villedge Wood-Fired Kitchen & Bar is located inside the Hilton Greenville at 207 SW Greenville Boulevard.

For more information, call 252-355-9500 or visit villedgenc.com.

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Food Network recently featured Qualls Villedge’s Grilled CBR Burger on their list of the “51 Best Burgers from Coast to Coast.”

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ART & SOUL

Waiting Chair by Victoria Sexton

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Chair Affair Have a seat

FUNDRAISER GIVES ART STUDENTS A LEG TO STAND ON

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he Friends of the School of Art and Design is hosting a traveling exhibition and fundraiser, “A Chair Affair,” with the main event being a silent auction on Nov. 17 from 6-8 p.m. at the Greenville Museum of Art. More than 20 artists donated their time and talent to hand-decorate 25 unique chairs. All proceeds will go towards scholarships for East Carolina University art students. The event is free to attend, and beverages and hors d’oeuvres will be provided.

Throughout the month of October, the 25 chairs could be spotted throughout Pitt County and Washington in various businesses. The chairs were matched to participating venues based on the theme of the chair.

The chairs will be on exhibit at the Greenville Museum of Art from Nov. 8-16. The chairs will not

be for sale until the main event, the silent auction on Nov. 17.

"It's a win-win to be able to take home a chair to decorate your home and support our community’s art students," said Cathy Brown Hardison of the Friends of the School of Art and Design. "There is an eclectic selection of chairs to choose from — chairs for the living room, the dressing room, the garden, a child's room — each one has a unique personality and will no doubt be a conversation piece.

"All proceeds from this event will support students with distinctive artistic promise, who may not otherwise be able to attend due to financial circumstances. These scholarships enable ECU and our community to attract and retain the best artists."

The creators of the chairs are as varied as the themes. The artists come from various backgrounds

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Poppy Stool by Henry Stindt & Trish Hayes

Prom Night Chair by Isabel Farrell

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Boudoir Chair by Glynis Litwin

M’Lady Chair by Jeff Jakub

Garden Chair by Ginger & Joe Gehres

Eyes On You Chair by Marie Hamra

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Piano Stool by Jeff Jakub

Under the Sea Chair by Laura Frye

Hydrangea Chair by Jeff Jakub

Girl Games Chair by Lauri Arnsten

Color Bling Rocker by Kelley Kirk

Checkerboard Chair by Jeff Jakub

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Remembering Paris Chair by Dindy Reich

Serve, Tennis Chair, by Gale Champion

including recent fine arts grads, art faculty, self-taught artists, and arts administrators. There are chairs that incorporate painting, fibers, ceramics, found objects and recycled materials. Some chairs have very serious and thought provoking themes such as “Waiting” by Vik Sexton, which incorporates her core medium of ceramics.

Dindy Reich’s chair “Remembering Paris” refers to the coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015, which aligns with the recurring theme of gun violence in her work. On the other end of the spectrum, recent graduate Jacob Baysden created a chair called “Color Pop” that evokes nostalgia of the ’80s and ’90s by using bright, vibrant colors and exemplifies his fascination with experimentation. Jeff Jakub, a multi-award winning artist and compelling realist, created several exquisite and elegant chairs that focus on the beauty found in music, a game of chess, hydrangeas and ladies with bustles. Mike Litwin is an author and award-winning illustrator of children’s stories. His chair, “Bermooda Child’s Chair,” is themed after his new book in the Bermooda Series, which is set on

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Sunflower Chair by Gail Ritzer

a tropical island filled with talking cows. A signed set of the books will be included in the sale of his chair.

The Friends of the School of Art and Design at ECU was organized more than three decades ago. Its mission is to provide financial support to the school for scholarships, programs and projects that benefit the students and faculty.

The Friends organization also encourages and promotes the visual arts to its members and the community.

The ECU School of Art and Design is the largest and most comprehensive art school in North Carolina.

It is also one of the largest in the Southeast with 700plus undergraduate students, 50-plus graduate students and approximately 50 faculty members. It has been an accredited, institutional member of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design since 1962, offering concentrations in art education, painting and drawing, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, graphic design, illustration, photography, textile design, metal design, animation and interactive design, cinematic arts and media production, and art history.

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Cat in a Tree Chair

by Sue Luddeke

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Artist’s Palette Child’s Chair by Lou Everett

Vine Chair by Nelle Hayes

Keydet Chair by Lynne Anderson

Color Pop Chair by Jacob Baysden

Seaside Chair by Megan Maxwell

Bermooda Child’s Chair by Mike Litwin

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ART & SOUL

Wild art

“ I’ve hunted and fished all over eastern North Carolina, and that in itself is an inspiration to get outside and be with Gage. In the short three-plus years Gage has been in my life he has awakened my creativity.”

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Nature,s canvas

PASSION FOR THE OUTDOORS, HUNTING, AND DOGS INSPIRES ARTIST NEWTON SMITH

MEDIA: i-phone photography, colored pencils DEGREE: ECU, BFA in Environmental Design BACKGROUND: Married, 21 years this May. Lives in Farmville, since 1999. Originally from Charlotte, moved to area in 1986 to attend ECU. INSPIRATIONS: “My grandmother, Laura Lee Wilfong, first got me started in painting at a very young age.

My favorite activity outside of my work (PCC Marketing Specialist by day) and my art is training dogs and bird hunting – my dog, a Boykin Spaniel named Gage, is my training guinea pig.”

PATHWAY: “My Aunt JoAnn was also a big influence on me as a young artist with her beautiful landscape watercolor paintings of the North Carolina mountains and surrounding foothills. This is who I really got my love of wildlife painting from.”

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“ Six and a half years ago my first Boykin, Casey, died from cancer within 6 days of us finding out.

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I kind of shut down creatively for a while after she died; Gage has been a breath of fresh air and awakened me.”

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“ I have always enjoyed

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“ I’ve enjoyed taking pics of Gage and creating a timeline since the day we picked him up from the breeder in South Carolina.”

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ART at HOME

WIRE TREE 7steps

BY CATHY BROWN HARDISON

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STEP 1

The circumference of the cylindrical object determines the size of the tree. A small bucket or something similar would be ideal.

Wrap the floral wire around the cylinder forty times.

STEP 2

Pull the wire off. It’s easier to slide the wire off if your cylindrical object is slightly tapered.

STEP 3

4 SUPPLIES • 26-gauge floral wire • Wire cutters • Cylindrical object (like a bucket)

Hold each side of the circle of wire and twist into a figure eight. Continue to twist, but leave a large circle on one side and a small circle on the other.

STEP 4

With heavy duty wire cutters, cut the wires on each side. The side with the longer wires will be the branches of the tree, and the smaller side will be the roots of the tree.

STEP 5

Pull two wires from the top of the tree and twist about two inches. Loop the twisted wire and twist. This loop will be hanging apparatus for the tree.

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STEP 6

Separate the branches into three to five sections. Focus on one section at a time.

Divide the section in half and twist about halfway up the length. Divide into smaller sections and twist so that branches get smaller and smaller until all wire is twisted and the wires resemble branches.

STEP 7

Repeat step 6 on the other side of the tree to resemble roots.

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RETROSPECT

Cold as...

ICE, A LUXURY AND A NECESSITY Story by ROGER KAMMERER • Images COURTESY OF ECU MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

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oday, North Carolina summers can be oppressive, but a century ago, before air conditioning and refrigeration, ice was a vital commodity. The business of obtaining, transporting, storing and selling ice played an important role in a city’s economy and daily life.

In the country, work was done in the early morning and late afternoons, and food was cooked outside in pots known as “spiders” (pots with legs).

Sometimes overheated workers would drink cold well water for relief and suffer apoplexy (cerebral stroke) and suddenly die. Because of propriety, some farmers suffered heat stroke because they would plow with their shirts and coats on.

Soaring temperatures also brought heat stroke in crowded towns, and local people who had the means would flee to Ocracoke, Nags Head and Morehead City for relief.

In Greenville before the Civil War, different churches advertised ice cream fundraisers. Ice cream was a rare luxury, and these churches were able to get block ice by steamboat GREENVILLE TIMES FALL 2016

from up north. During the cold winters when the Tar River froze over, some entrepreneur would go and cut ice and store it in an ice house.

Over the years the local newspapers would report on “ice famines” and the difficulty of getting ice to Greenville.

As the northern ice market became more established, local merchants would build ice houses to receive ice packed in layers of sawdust and shipped by steamboat up the Tar River and later by railroad.

In 1882, Jonathan White, merchant and owner of the Greenville Bakery and Candy Factory, had a store on Evans Street and stored ice in his basement. It was reported in July 1882 that thieves had stolen 200 pounds of ice from his cellar. In June 1883, A.N. Ryan, who came from Winchester, Virginia in 1882 to work as a baker for Mr. White, bought out his business. Ryan then put up a partition in the back part of his store and opened an Ice Cream Saloon.

Ryan’s store burned in the Greenville fire of February 1884, and after going into the dry goods business for a time, he reopened a confectionary store by 1886 that had an ice cream parlor in the summer and served oysters in winter. In 1888, the Ryan & Redding Refreshment Parlor in Greenville sold lemonade, milk shakes, soda water and ice cream. The newspaper proclaimed that ice cream and soda water were the peculiar attractions for the young man and his girl at the time.

In March 1884, John Flanagan, Greenville wagon maker and undertaker, went into the ice business

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The new Jefferson's Florist location still contains the freezer door from its days as an ice house.

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Pictured is the steamboat R.L. Myers coming up the Tar River with goods for Greenville merchants; steamboat shipments included Maine ice, which would be stored in small warehouses near the wharf.

by building an ice warehouse near the steamboat landing on the river. He would regularly get 50 tons of Maine ice shipped to him by steamboat.

By 1885, he went into partnership with Benjamin Streeter Sheppard, forming the Greenville Ice Company, delivering ice around town in a specially built wagon for 2 cents per pound in lots of 10 pounds.

In February 1887, it was reported that E.B. Moore, owner of the Macon Hotel, built a large ice house at the steamboat wharf and would get large shipments of Maine ice. He even supplied Tarboro with ice at the same time. In 1888, he had an ice box in the store of Harry Skinner & Co. and sold ice for 1 cent per pound. He also delivered ice by wagon in town and advertised he would not deliver on Sundays.

After the train came to Greenville in 1890, boxcars of ice were then

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regularly brought in. In April 1891, J.J. Cory advertised he was in the ice business and would furnish ice to Greenville and Pitt County at “1 ½ cents per pound in small quantities, or at 1 cent per pound in 100 pound lots.” In 1900, J.J. Jenkins, the tobacco flue man, began an ice business and started delivering ice around town from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. He advertised that you needed to see him before making contracts for ice. He would give you tickets for 2, 5, 10 and 20 pounds.

In April 1896, Morris Meyer opened an ice cream parlor and soda fountain in his store. About 1902, Benjamin E. Moye had an ice house near the train depot and started delivering ice around town. In June 1903, Ben Savage advertised he had bought Moye’s ice business and would deliver ice mornings and afternoons, and Sundays by appointment. In May

1904, Bob Moye and Forbes Kennedy operated an ice and picture framing business from their ice house near the depot.

In the 1893 town ordinances, Greenville had blue laws stating that no store could open on Sundays or sell cigars, tobacco or anything else, except for medicines, ice and ice cream, and burial products from 9-10 a.m. and 6-7 p.m.

It was by this time that the predecessor of the modern refrigerator, the icebox, became an important staple in the modern Greenville household. Large ice tongs were used to carry the block ice into the kitchen, where it was put into the metal icebox. To have this luxury, you had to tend to the icebox by emptying the drip pan every day and replacing the ice every few days. Many owned other ice inventions like a handcranked “ice cracker” to chip ice or a

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A refrigerator and ice-making plant were located in the basement of the dining hall, called the Refectory, on the East Carolina Teachers Training School campus. They were destroyed in a fire that gutted the building during the night of April 1, 1915.

hand-cranked ice cream maker.

By 1900, Henry Sheppard had leased land on the south side of Tenth Street beside the Atlantic Coast Line spur from C.C. Cobb and built an ice house. Cobb then sold the lot in July 1901 to the Southern Ice Company. The Southern Ice Company went into debt, and the land and ice plant was sold by sheriff ’s auction in July 1911 to J R. and J.G. Moye.

In Sept. 1902, Robert Greene and Oscar Hooker decided to add an ice-making factory to their cotton mill and gin, located on the north side of Fifth Street, between Cotanche and Reade streets. The ice plant was not finished until August 1906, when Robert Greene then went into partnership with Edward H. Shelburn, the Coca Cola bottler.

They purchased J.J. Jenkins’ ice business and ice wagon. According

to a newspaper feature, the ice factory had “a capacity of about six tons a day and the storage will hold 50 tons. It occupies a building 30x85 feet, and the plant represents an outlay of about $12,000.”

They had two 150-foot-deep wells dug, and the water went through several processes “so that it is distilled, filtered and made absolutely pure before reaching the freezing tanks.” They charged 50 cents for 100 pounds by retail and 85 cents for 100 pounds by block delivered in town.

The plant operated day and night, and ice could be had at any hour; delivery from the wagon was made twice a day and once on Sunday.

By August 1906 they discontinued ice delivery to homes and only delivered to businesses. In 1908, Greene and Shelburn sold the Greenville Ice Plant to R.L. Hill and D.B. Johnson, and they reestablished

a two-wagon ice delivery service to homes.

At about midnight on September 18, 1908, the Greenville Ice Plant burned to the ground. In January 1909, Hill and Johnson then leased a piece of ground near railroad tracks at the junction of the Atlantic Coast Line and Norfolk and Southern lines to build an ice plant, machine shop and cotton seed oil mill.

They built a huge three-story building, 37x87 feet, covered in galvanized iron, and called it the Greenville Ice Company. According to a feature on the ice plant, “the freezing side of the plant is furnished by the York Manufacturing Co., of York, Pa., and the other machinery

by Sullivan & Ehler, of Albany, N.Y. The freezing cans are for 300 pounds size with the tank large enough for an output of 15 tons per day. The power for the plant is furnished by a

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About 1904, the Greenville Ice and Coal Company was established in Greenville and later incorporated in 1910 with J.W. Hines of Rocky Mount as president and Charles Wesley Harvey as secretary-treasurer and general manager. C.W. Harvey later founded the Harvey Oil Co. and was owner of Harvey’s Dairy on Dickinson Avenue Extension. C.W. Harvey opened the Greenville Ice and Coal Company on west Ninth Street about 1928, between the Orange Crush Bottling Co. and McGowan and Cannon’s Tobacco Warehouse. It was later called Harvey’s Coal and Wood Company.

The problem with these early ice making machines and refrigerators was that ammonia was used as the refrigerating fluid, so no matter how clean the water, the ice sometimes had an ammonia smell and taste.

It wouldn’t be until 1930 that dichlorodifluoromethane, under the commercial name Freon 12, became the most widely used refrigerant.

In 1913 the local newspaper railed about the ice having too much ammonia in it and making people sick. The newspaper stated, “Unless these conditions are remedied, the sanitary officer should be called upon to enforce the law in the matter, and to see that conditions are not so bad as to endanger the health of the citizens of the town who are patrons of the ice plant that turns out the unwholesome product.”

In April 1906, the Burton Soda Water Bottling Works and Ice Cream Company opened in Greenville and had Burton’s Ice Cream Parlor. In October 1906, they got into the ice business, stating they would “deliver ice to any part of the city for ½ cent per pound and 50 cents per hundred GREENVILLE TIMES FALL 2016

This building, constructed in 1948 on Ninth Street by the Colonial Ice Company, was purchased by Jack Edwards in 1970, became the Greenville Produce Building from 1985-2000. Today it is the new home of Jefferson’s Florist.

pounds.”

In 1908, Evans Street and Dickinson Avenue were paved with brick, which brought out every child on his bicycle.

Invariably there would be an accident around the ice wagon with children trying to get pieces of ice. In July 1908, James Skinner Ficklen, son of Edward Bancroft Ficklin, the tobacconist, was accidently run over by the ice wagon while riding his bicycle. The wagon wheels passed over his body, and fortunately he was only painfully bruised and not killed.

In September 1909, Dr. E.A. Moye opened Moye’s Pharmacy on the corner of Evans and Fifth streets (later J. Key Brown’s, then Beddingfield’s Drug store and later Cubbies). It had an ornate interior and sold ice cream and cold drinks in their soda fountain.

Owing to the oppressive heat and the need to preserve food at the new East Carolina Teachers Training School, the trustees of the school bid out and contracted on Jan. 20, 1910 to the Creamery Package Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, Illinois to put a

refrigeration and ice-making plant in the basement of the Refectory (dining hall). The company installed a Dekalb compressor that provided the capacity of making 500 pounds of block ice per day.

The first block of ice was pulled out of the tanks on June 21, 1910 to a curious crowd of onlookers. O.E. Warren of Riverside Nursery provided a handsome bouquet of cut flowers to be frozen in the block. After being on exhibition a short while, the novelty ice block was sent to ex-Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis with compliments of the school and faculty. The ice-making machine lasted until the fire in 1915 that heavily burned the Refectory.

According to the local newspaper there was an “ice famine” in 1916, when everyone had to beg for a little. There was only one ice plant in town, the Greenvile Ice and Coal Company on Ninth Street. There was no competition and the purchaser had to lug his own ice off the truck into the house unless a certain weight was bought.

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By the summer of 1917, there were three ice businesses in town, and the first early morning noise made on the streets of Greenville was the ice man calling out “ICE, ICE.” If you didn’t respond to the call, the ice man would ring the doorbell asking, “Would you like ice this morning?”

In June 1918, John and Pete Lautares, who owned the Candy Palace on Evans Street, opened Lautares Ice Cream Manufacturing Company.

They leased a brick building behind their store for their ice cream factory, 10 feet by 30 feet and lined with 8 inches of cork. The Lautares moved their ice cream factory to Dickinson Avenue in 1929.

In April 1919, the Hill Horne Drug Store installed an ice cream manufacturing plant and served ice cream at their new soda fountain.

In March 1920, J.D. Bazzell established the Greenville Ice Cream Company, and in 1921 he sold it to Thomas Smith and A.T. Denton. By 1921, there were three ice companies vying for the trade, one being A.R. Stepps, who ran an ice house on Ninth Street. In 1925, the Velvet Ice Cream Company opened in Greenville, and in January 1936, Carolina Dairy Products opened a plant.

In 1928, Charles W. Harvey sold his Greenville Ice and Coal Company on Ninth Street to the Eastern Carolina

Service Corporation, who in turn sold it to the Carolina Ice Company in 1931. The Carolina Ice Company changed its name to the Colonial Ice Company, with their main offices in Greensboro. In 1933, the Colonial Ice Company opened a new plant on Church Street.

In 1936 there were three ice companies in Greenville: Citizens Ice Co., E. Augustus Rogers, manager, on Albemarle Avenue; Clark’s Ice, Coal and Wood Co., William C. Clark, manager, on Atlantic Avenue; and Colonial Ice Company, Vernon M. Rawles, manager, on Church Street.

These three companies remained the leading ice distributors in Greenville for many years.

By 1938, Charles O’Hagan Horne, a local druggist, had opened Horne’s Coal and Wood on Albemarle Avenue, in front of Webb’s Warehouse. By 1940, it became Horne’s Coal, Wood and Ice, with John L. Horne as manager. It stopped selling ice by 1944.

Clark’s Ice, Coal and Wood Company also appears to have stopped selling ice during WWII. In 1948, Colonial Ice Company began building a new 50-ton ice-making plant on Ninth Street on the former site of the Greenville

Ice and Coal Company.

The Colonial Ice Company operated a fleet of 10 delivery trucks, serving a 12-mile circle around Greenville.

About 1966, the Citizens Ice Company moved to South Railroad Street, and the City Ice Company took over the old Citizens ice plant on Albemarle Avenue. By 1969, there were only two ice dealers in town, the City Ice Company on Albemarle Avenue and the Colonial Ice Company on Ninth Street.

The Colonial Ice Company closed by 1970. The City Ice Company, a picturesque

building and the last of the old-time ice companies, was torn down about 2006. The wood from the building was reclaimed and used in the River Dunes development on the Neuse River in Pamlico County.

As you can see, ice and ice cream were rare luxuries in Greenville, meant to relieve the unbearable heat. Thank God for those geniuses and their feats of modern technical alchemy that we now have refrigerators and air conditioners to preserve us during these North Carolina summers.

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330 EVANS ST. • 252.347.2632 Offering simple, delicious and nourishing food with the highest quality sustainably sourced coffee, it is a beacon of light for those needing replenishing.

214 E. FIFTH ST. • 252.689.6175 Indulge your taste buds with authentic Mexican food. From fajitas and burritos to enchiladas and quesadillas, Mi Cabana brings you the best in Mexican cuisine.

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The Pitt County Cooperative Extension has been selected to receive $100,000 in grant funds for the purpose of expanding the Leroy James Farmers’ Market.

The $100,000 is a combined total of a $30,000 grant from the Wells Trust, a $30,000 grant from the Perkins Trust and a $40,000 grant from the West Trust.

For several seasons the market has been making use of a large industrial tent, set up directly behind the main building, in order to provide additional covered space for vendors and shoppers alike. These grant funds are expected to serve a key role in the construction of a new addition to the market’s only permanent structure, which originally opened in 1986.

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PirateFest will begin Friday, April 7 with a live music concert called the Buccaneer Bash from 5-9 p.m. On Saturday, April 8, PirateFest resumes at 10 a.m. The celebration takes place along Evans from Fifth to First Street and on the Town Common in the Uptown district.

PirateFest features fine arts and crafts for sale, three live music stages, a grog garden, pirate entertainers, a parade of pirates, a children’s pirate costume contest and a pirate encampment offering crafts, an inflatable pirate ship for children and other activities. Also, don’t miss the fossil dig, as well as a variety of food and entertainment from around the world. Returning this year are carnival rides for pirates of all ages.

“We invite everyone to get in touch with their inner pirate at this popular annual event,” said Bianca Shoneman, president of Uptown Greenville.

“PirateFest offers top-notch entertainment and family-friendly activities throughout the weekend at one of the liveliest celebrations in the region.”

Artists, nonprofits and food vendors are all invited to apply to participate. Additionally, festival attendees are invited to dress up and walk in the parade of pirates. The walking parade kicks off at noon Saturday and leaves from the Town Common.

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First Friday Artwalk

First Fridays, 5 p.m.

Uptown Greenville presents Uptown First Friday ArtWalk Series. The First Friday Artwalk is a time when galleries Uptown throw open their doors to showcase new exhibits, often coinciding with free opening receptions. But it’s not just art: Many of Uptown’s eclectic mix of restaurateurs and shops show their support for the arts by offering specials to the art-walkers.

Freeboot Friday

Oct. 28, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

FIVE POINTS PLAZA, GREENVILLE Sponsored by Uptown Greenville. Alive-at-five style event filled with food, exhibits, inflatable, Pirates’ ship, beer and wine garden plus live entertainment.

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HarvestFest 'Under The Sea'

Oct. 31, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m.

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Nov. 11, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

FIVE POINTS PLAZA, GREENVILLE Sponsored by Uptown Greenville. Alive-at-five style event filled with food, exhibits, inflatable,Pirate’s ship, beer and wine garden plus live entertainment.

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Festival of Trees

Dec. 1-23, 8: 30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

GREENVILLE CONVENTION CENTER, 303 SW GREENVILLE BOULEVARD Sponsored by Family Support Network of Eastern North Carolina., story time with Santa December 1st and December 6th, 6pm, reservations must be made in advance. Bring the entire family and enjoy more than 100 trees, as they are transformed into a Holiday wonderland with each displaying a different meaning and theme.

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Greenville GIVES Holiday Celebration

Dec. 2, 5 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

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Bethel Annual Christmas Parade

Dec. 10, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

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Greenville Annual Christmas Parade

Dec. 10, 5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

UPTOWN GREENVILLE Sponsored by Greenville’s Jaycees.

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Dec. 10, 2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

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Nov. 10, 8 p.m.

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African American Music Series

Nov. 11, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.

404 SOUTH EVANS STREET, GREENVILLE Sponsored by North Carolina Arts Council. Enjoy great African American Music with entertainment

by Christie Dashiell and CDQ (NC CD Release Performance). The first set beginning at 7 pm and the next set beginning at 8:30 pm. Visit www. pittcountyarts.org or contact 252-551-6947.

Parmalee with Thompson Square

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Kelly Price and Avant in Concert

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THEn & nOW 7 BURGERS PILED HIGH EAT LOCAL. DRInk LOCAL. CREEkSIDE PARk THE MUSIC HOUSE

Nov. 18, 7 p.m. - 11 p.m.

MINGES COLISEUM, ECU, GREENVILLE Country music superstars North Carolina’s own Parmalee, return to its roots to headline Second Annual “Feels like Carolina Concert” accompanied by fellow BBR Music artists, Grammy-nominated country duo Thompson Square and harmonicnew comers Runaway June. Visit www.ecu.edu or contact 1-800-ECU-ARTS.

GREEnvILLE’S WHEELS kEEP TURnInG

Nov. 25, 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.

GREENVILLE CONVENTION CENTER, 303 SW GREENVILLE BOULEVARD Kelly Price is a six-time Grammy nominated American R&B singer and songwriter with hits “As We Lay”, “He Proposed”, “You Should’ve Told Me”, and more. Avant is hailed as the “new voice of ghetto soul” and acknowledged as the first act signed to NBA great Magic Johnson’s, Magic Johnson Music. Avant style of modern soul owes heavily to R. Kelly. Contact 252-321-7671.

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DANCE Salsa Dance

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Nov. 18, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

CRAVE, 409 SOUTH EVANS STREET, GREENVILLE Sponsored by Folk Arts Society of Greenville. Music provided by D J Ramon. Visit www.fasgnc.org or contact 252-752-7350.

Contra Dance

Nov. 19, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

JAYCEE PARK AUDITORIUM, 2000 CEDAR LANE Sponsored by Folk Arts Society of Greenville. Music provided by Possum Hoppers. Visit www.fasgnc.org or contact 252-752-7350.

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Reefer Madness

Reefer Madness

Nov. 17-22 ECU, MCGINNIS THEATRE, GREENVILLE Sponsored by ECU/ Loessin Playhouse, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday & Tuesday, 8 pm-10 pm and Sunday 2 pm-4 pm. Inspired by the original 1936 film, this raucous medical comedy takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz, music, sex, and violence. Parental Advisory. Visit www. ecu.edu or contact 1-800-ECU-ARTS.

Skippyjon Jones Snow What

Nov. 18, 10 a.m.

ECU, WRIGHT AUDITORIUM, GREENVILLE Sponsored by Family fare. Skippyjon Jones the Siamese cat, who thinks he’s a Mexican Chihuahua, heads off for the Real Adventure awaiting him in his closet. Skippyjon with the help of his friends the Seven Chimichangos, must rescue the beautiful princess, battle the evil dragon and defeat the Bruja. Skippyjon Jones Snow What is a twist on the classic fairytale Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Visit www.ecu.edu or contact 1-800-ECU-ARTS.

Nov. 20-22 ECU MCGINNIS THEATRE, GREENVILLE Sponsored by ECU School of Theatre & Dance, Sunday 2 pm-4 pm and Monday & Tuesday 8 pm-10 pm. Inspired by the original 1939 film, this raucous musical comedy takes a tongue-incheek look at the hysteria caused when cleancut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex, and violence. This dynamic show will go straight to your head! Parental Advisory.

Visit www.ecu.edu or contact 1-800-ECU-ARTS.

Lights Up!

Dec. 3 MESSICK THEATRE, ECU, GREENVILLE Sponsored by ECU School of Theatre and Dance.

This informal, student-driven performance is an opportunity for our dance and musical theatre students to make and perform their own works of art. Visit www.ecu.edu or contact 1-800-ECU-ARTS.

The Hot Sardines Holiday Stomp,

Dec. 4, 4 p.m.

WRIGHT AUDITORIUM, GREENVILLE Sponsored by S. Rudolph Alexander Performing Arts Series. Straight-up, foot-stomping jazz,

expect plenty of surprises along the merry way.

The Sardines infuse yuletide classics with lesserknown gems such as Ella Fitzgerald’s “Santa Claus got Stuck in My Chimney”. Visit www.ecu. edu or contact 1-800-ECU-ARTS.

The Nutcracker Ballet

Dec. 10-11 WRIGHT AUDITORIUM, ECU, GREENVILLE Sponsored by North Carolina Academy of Dance /Arts. Members of Dance Arts Theatre are joined by principal dancers from the American Ballet Theatre, the San Francisco Ballet, and the Carolina Ballet. The performances are accompanied by the Eastern Symphony Orchestra. Visit www.ecu.edu or contact 1-800-ECU-ARTS.

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PITT ARBORETUM A collection of natural treasures

The Pitt County Arboretum is located on the grounds of the Agriculture Center at 403 Government Circle, Greenville NC 27834 and is part of the Pitt County Cooperative Extension Service.

The arboretum offers Professional Certification Training, master gardener extension volunteer training, tours, and home gardening classes. Admission is free.

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LIVE UNITED COURTYARD New city parklet anchors born learning trail An ample crowd was present for the official opening of the United Way of Pitt County Live United Courtyard, a joint project with Emerge Gallery and Art Center, Greenville, NC Public Works, Rivers & Associates, Inc. and Uptown Greenville. This parklet is located near the corner of Evans and Fourth streets in Uptown Greenville and features interactive activites that promote early childhood education.

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RED DAY OUTREACH Realtors renew, energize and donate

Introduced in 2009, RED Day, which stands for Renew, Energize and Donate, is Keller Williams Realty's annual day of service. Each year on the second Thursday of May, associates spend the day away from their businesses serving worthy organizations and causes in their own communities.

Local Keller Williams Realty groups spent their RED Day landscaping and planting flowers at Leo Jenkins Cancer Center, Third Street Education Center, and a residence in west Greenville.

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Hurricane Matthew Prayer Vigil Hundreds gathered at Greenville’s Town Common following Hurricane Matthew to join in prayer for all the members of the community impacted by the storm and flooding.

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