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7 Chicken 'n Pastries

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8 Local Product Island time hot sauce

9 Beergraph

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MADE IN PITT

10 Making Dough

Anne Grimes, dumpling maven, jumps in with both feet

ART & SOUL

26 Through the looking glass

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Photography is more than a hobby for the creator of Anne's Dumplings

28 Ingrained

Artist uses wood to help craft memories

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46 Then and Now

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7CHICKEN ‘n PASTRIES YOU GOTTA EAT

An Eastern NC favorte, chicken and pastry can be found on tables across the region. Whether you call it “chicken and dumplings,” “chicken with noodles,” or “chicken pastry,” this dish combines flat strips of dough, cooked in a rich chicken broth with boiled chicken.

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MADE IN PITT

Making Dough

Anne Grimes, founder of Harvest Times Foods

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Harvest Time Foods sits in the middle of over 40 acres on Emma Canyon Road.

Anne in demand

AYDEN DUMPLING MAVEN JUMPS IN WITH BOTH FEET

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hether it’s making the best dumplings in the south, taking stunning nature photographs or publishing her own book, Anne Grimes has a way of simply getting the job done.

“Anything I wanted to do I just went on and did it,” she says, crediting her late husband Bryan

for supporting her ideas. “I grew up reading and just amassing information.”

“I worked with computers, and lots of other things,” she adds.

“I worked for the Philadelphia Enquirer when my husband was in the Air Force, wrote feature articles. I did a company newsletter for a food management company,

worked for Kroger, owned a grocery, a bakery, a daycare center.

If there was something I decided I wanted to do, he said, ‘If that’s what you want to do, do it.’ Everything that you learn is going to help you later on.”

Through it all there was food.

Grimes says she had her first food business at nine years old,

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Anne’s Old Fashioned Food Products includes a full line of dressings and sauces, dumplings, meat & vegetable bases, cookies, crackers, and other products. Many of the company’s products are glutten-free.

and cooked and sold food until she went to college. Today she’s the matriarch of Harvest Times Food Inc., which she and Bryan started in their carport in 1981 and which now has 35 employees and a network of brokers throughout the eastern U.S.

DIVINE DUMPLINGS The company’s core product, its dumplings, are a soft wheat pastry made in flat strips and used for making chicken pastry.

“My mother called it chicken stew because she was from Virginia. Here we call it chicken pastry,” says Anne, who was born GREENVILLE TIMES SPRING/SUMMER 2016

in Greenville. “But we call it dumplings because we sell in such a wide market that what you call it depends on where you live. So our box says different things. In the Amish country in Pennsylvania they call it pot pie.”

The business got its start at a bakery Anne had opened on Memorial Drive called the Rolling Pin, which sold all kinds of baked goods, but not dumplings, she says. But a group of ladies came in regularly and kept asking for it, and eventually even made it a challenge by doubting out loud whether Anne could make it.

Rising to the challenge, she

made a batch, and it sold quickly.

Soon the bakery was selling enough that rolling it by hand was a monumental chore. A friend helped the family by purchasing a sheeting machine and leasing it back to them, and soon, the bakery’s other products fell by the wayside one by one. Finally Anne and Bryan closed the doors and turned their carport into an inspected bakery to make pastry.

“It wasn’t a matter of whether I wanted to,” Anne says. “The demand was there; I had to. It got to the point of are we going to grow or not, so we had to move into that.”

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Anne’s dough also makes a great pizza crust.

MAKING IT HAPPEN It hasn’t always been simple.

Mass producing pastry is entirely different from making it by hand, Anne points out.

“You’re working with pressure and heat, things that you don’t work with when you’re handmaking, so what you do in the kitchen has to be different from what you do on a commercial line,” she says.

In need of a machine that nobody made, Anne designed it herself and worked with a company in Japan to have it built.

“It was a prototype, and we developed some things on there

that they said wouldn’t work,” explains Anne. “We told them to make it anyway.”

After visiting Japan to look over the equipment and make sure it did what they needed it to do, they had it shipped home and reassembled.

“It’s a 75-foot line from the mixer all the way through all the sheeting action, down to the freezing tunnel and out to the other end where we do the packaging,” Anne says.

“They couldn’t believe that it was going to work, but it did. We still use that machine.”

Today, Anne and her company are addressing a new challenge – once again led by demand, this

time for gluten-free products.

Located in a separate plant on property to avoid contamination, the new line will produce a full array of products.

“There were always people who couldn’t have it, but nobody was really doing a whole lot about it,” Anne says. “They just weren’t eating any bread and there weren’t any alternatives, so they had to do without.”

As the demand for glutenfree products has grown, she says more and more customers started coming in and saying they couldn’t eat wheat but still wanted dumplings. Some of the

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Anne’s Old Fashioned Food Products offers five different cookies.

products were naturally gluten-free, but had to be properly processed and certified. For the dumplings themselves, an entirely new formulation was needed.

“You’re not working with wheat flour,” Anne explains. “It’s white and brown rice, corn starch and other starches. You have other things you use to make up your flour base, and you have to have something that will stick together since you don’t have the gluten.”

It has been a bigger project than she imagined, Anne admits, but she will keep working until it’s right.

“We want to have the best service and the best quality with each thing we do, and grow that way. That’s what we’ve always done and what we felt was important.”

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The company started with one product, the flat dumpling strips, shown here in chicken and pastry.

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Noodles with beef stroganoff

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Grimes' home and factory are set in a rural, natural area where wildlife abounds.

Grimes displays her products at the Down East Holiday Show.

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Grimes has camera equipment set up in a small structure in her garden for photographing birds, flowers, and other wildlife.

GIVING BACK As an entrepreneur, Anne makes an effort to help others who are interested in going into business.

In 2014 she was awarded the City of Greenville’s Standing on the Shoulders of Giants award, the highest honor from the city and Greenville Utilities Commission’s Minority and Women Business Enterprise Program.

“We try to encourage other people who are entrepreneurs,” she says. “First of all, they’ve got to have a vision for a business. They come in and say, ‘I want to start a business.’ The first question is what do you want to do, and they may say, ‘I’m not really sure.’ Well, you can’t start a business if you don’t have something inside you that makes you feel like you’re on a mission and you’re going to go from A to Z.” In addition to advising business owners on navigating the process from startup through growth to expansion, Anne has contributed to philanthropic activities such as distributing food in the aftermath of hurricanes Dennis and Floyd, as well as to hurricane victims in Honduras.

NATURAL AFFINITY A few years after her husband had passed, Anne dove into another calling – photography. She would see something in the garden she wanted to have a picture of, she says, and friends encouraged her to get a camera and capture those images.

“I took a class, just the basics, and started practicing,” she says. “Just taking a camera everywhere and taking a picture of everything. I took pictures of birds and the flowers growing in my yard. There are swans out there, and mallards that fly in.”

Abetting the cause was the 40-acre wildlife refuge next door, but that wasn’t enough for Anne. She built her own “birdhouse,” a shed in the garden with cameras set up inside where she could watch and photograph the birds in the garden. There are birdfeeders and, more importantly, plenty of other places for them to land.

“Birds are supposed to be seen on something natural, not on a birdfeeder,” she says. “They usually land somewhere before they land on the feeder.

They check it out the situation first and then go to the food. And they’ll take a seed and go back to that same place with it.”

She travels occasionally with photography groups and has delved into macro photography, capturing the tiny details of bugs and plant life. But she loves watching the birds.

“They’re all different; they have expressions, and personalities,” she says. “I have some that I recognize that come back every year.”

If there’s one thing that defines Anne’s personality, it’s that she dives in and gets it done, whatever the “it” may be.

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ART & SOUL

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Anne Grimes aims to capture nature’s bounty Anne Grimes, the founder of Harvest Time Foods Inc., has spent the last few years practicing photography, often from the cozy confines of her own “Bird House,” a small shed set up for shooting the birds, butterflies and other wildlife in her backyard garden. On the following pages are some of her photographs, along with her own descriptions of what she looks for and how she attracts the colorful visitors that inhabit her outdoor studio.

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These shots are definitely in the hand of man’s realm, not nature, but each is enhanced by the creator’s palette, be it the light’s rays, storm clouds, rippling water or a trailing vine on an old barn door.

When people ask, what is your favorite type of photography, I answer, “Whatever the camera I have in my hand is pointing to.” In photography, live for that moment, that speechless moment of awe as the sun’s rays beam forth a new day, that baby bluebird fussing on the pole waiting for Momma to bring breakfast, that red fox that just ran across the yard, or just a dew drop catching the light.

SETTING THE SHOT “Being at the right place at the right time” is what I have always heard people say when they have managed to get a ribbon-boasting shot, but I have found that many times you can create the scene and have the subject come to you by providing the

things that will entice that special bird or butterfly.

I use colors, finding that butterflies like some colors better than others. I put out umbrellas with different colored panels and spray sugar water on them and smear a little mashed banana on the yellow panel, and it is amazing what insects show up. I enhance the flowers sometimes with nectar spray that I use in my hummingbird feeders. Don’t cut away all the undergrowth; some birds like to sneak up to the feeders on the ground before they feed. Others like a perch to land on before they go to feed. When it is really hot and dry, I will fill a terra cotta plate with wet sand and watch the butterflies congregate. I collect twisted branches to tie up for the hummingbirds to land on, much more photographic than the wire swings at the store, and being bare, it is easier to get a good shot of the hummingbird. I keep shallow water dishes scattered about so even the bees can get a drink of water.

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INSECTS Insects are just a natural with all the greenery here, and I enjoy watching the activity and interaction of the bees, hummingbirds and butterflies. I saw for the first time, or at least recognized it as such, a wheel bug and watched it catch a poor, unsuspecting bee. I feel like I’m peering through the keyhole as I watch nature take its course. The lynx spider can take out a bee pretty quickly too, and bless those grasshoppers who chew my leaves.

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BUTTERFLIES What a delight to watch the butterflies.

There are so many flying around it is hard to get a shot. I saw for the first time last summer a giant swallowtail and an American snout.

The zinnias and coneflowers are covered sometimes with multiple butterflies. The sedum is beginning to bloom and it is an attractant for many kinds of butterflies and insects. I counted 37 silver spotted skippers on one sedum plant. The red-spotted purples are a favorite of mine, and I use rotten bananas and orange slices to attract them. I have seen as many as 11 red-spotted purples on a stinking banana dish. The viceroy and red admiral are also attracted to this foul smell, as are the Japanese beetles.

21 HUMMINGBIRDS Hummingbirds interest all of us, and I plant all kinds of vines and flowers with deep throats to attract them, as well as numerous feeders.

They are noisy and aggressive even to birds much larger.

Getting a good shot in flight is quite a feat and takes much patience. Watching their antics close up with a camera is so much fun – like this one cleaning its toenails.

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22 SONG BIRDS AND FLOWERS Wildlife need food, water and shelter, so by looking at wildlife in my area and setting out the flowers and shrubs that would not only provide food, but shelter yearround, I have been able to provide right in my backyard a wealth of photography opportunities. The benefits of just walking out my back door with my breakfast in hand and knowing I don’t have to count the miles to the next rest area are priceless.

Those who visited in June got a chance to see the setup in my Bird House. I have cameras stationed at three windows facing each of my feeder stations. I can sit comfortably in my swivel chair with my soothing music in air-conditioned or heated comfort, waiting for my photography subjects to make an appearance. While bear and elephants don’t casually stroll my gardens, there is more than enough activity year round in my cameras view to keep my interest and produce some interesting photography.

The 40 acres that my business and home are on are a certified wildlife habitat and also a butterfly habitat. Our company is green in the sense that we are protecting our environment in our processing as well as on the property we maintain. We have a video on our website that shows what we do to maintain that environment, and we are also into sustainability, where we can exist off the grid and still be able to produce. We see a variety of animals such as squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, opossums, deer, foxes and once a bobcat.

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WATERFOWL Since youth, birds have fascinated me, and I have a wonderful mix of birds at the pond that greet me each day as I walk the area. Eight adult swans and four cygnets adorn my pond. Their pristine white in the moonlight as they seemingly glide across the water is beautiful. A pair of friendly Sebastopol geese gives me the current news with their cackling.

I am followed around by a wounded Canada goose called My Girl who showed up last year with a torn wing and has become one of us as she cannot fly. There are 11 varieties of resident ducks that are pinioned that I can sit and watch for hours on end if I just had the time. We have herons, egrets, cormorants, Canada geese, kingfishers, wood ducks and others that stop by to visit and feed.

I have logged 47 varieties of birds and 28 butterflies from our property. For the first time this year, I saw a male and female prothonotary warbler and a blue grosbeak.

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SWANS We have been blessed with such lovely cygnets this year, two males and two females. The young will often ride on the mother’s back. Cygnets can be seen checking out an inner tube; they are after the algae that grows inside the tube. They are fed small kibble-like feed and then go on regular waterfowl food, supplemented with cracked corn in the winter. They love greens and are fed water hyacinths in the summer, and in cool months they get to eat our southern collard greens. The cygnets will be given to Sylvan Heights in mid-fall to be sold to help support their educational programs. It is hard not to become attached to them, but eight adults is about all my pond can handle, as the males become very territorial, especially during breeding season.

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BOATS AND OLD BUILDINGS While nature shots seem to be what I spend most of my time taking, I do love old buildings and boats. I love old abandoned houses, and sadly many I have photographed in the past are now gone. I love to walk the waterfront at Swan Quarter and Engelhard, and those old boats with peeling paint and quaint names draw me in. The colored rope and nets, the crab pots are so picturesque. Seems like there are few things in this world that I don’t love taking a shot of.

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Artist Daniel Peoples would rather be in his studio, making things, crafting things.

Form and function

ARTIST USES WOOD TO HELP CRAFT MEMORIES DEGREE: ECU, BFA in wood design, 1998 FAMILY: Wife, Melissa and sons, River(9) and Utah(8) INSPIRATIONS: Apprenticed in Michigan with Clifton Monteith, a renowned twig furniture maker in 1999.

PATHWAY: Moved back to Greenville and started a custom cabinet shop (Timeless Designs) which was a great learning experience, but unfulfilling as for design and art. Two years ago he decided to make a conscience effort to make more art and furniture and Tyson Creek Studios was born.

WHERE TO FIND: Emerge Gallery, Umbrella Market, Art Shows WEBSITE: tysoncreekstudios.com WHAT’S NEXT: Develop an exclusive line of furniture using his designs, ideas, and inspiration. Also working with Coastal Fog on line of furniture designed and finished by Coastal Fog, and fabricated by Tyson Creek Studios.

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“ My studio is an old primitive baptist church built in the 1930s. It has wonderful old wood floors and lots of great character. Over these past two years I’ve been working hard remodeling the studio.

I’ve added a showroom recently an I am slowing adding furniture and functional art to the inventory.”

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“ I consider myself an artist, not necessarily a wood worker. Wood is just my chosen medium. I try to create each piece as functional art with a heavy emphasis on design. It’s really rewarding to think of people spending time and making memories around my artwork.”

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“I enjoy my long commute to the studio each morning. I pass the chickens, walking with the dogs … It’s a nice environment.”

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“ Little houses, even real houses, have a life to them. They also tell stories.

Welcome homes have arms wide open.”

Welcome Home, Daniel Peoples

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“My background as an art student brought a personal touch to my cabinet and furniture making…

I say ‘let’s design something really cool, with neat finishes, something for your personal style.’”

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Hanna Jubran – “Fall & Winter” Evans Street Parking Deck Courtyard Greenville, NC 27858 Corrina Sephora – “Freedom of Flight” Pitt Community College 1986 Pitt Tech Rd, Winterville, NC 28590

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RETROSPECT

Presidential Ties COUNTY WELCOMES NUMEROUS PRESIDENTS, FIRST LADIES Story by ROGER KAMMERER • Images COURTESY OF ECU MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

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itt County has been fortunate to be connected to and visited by many United States presidents since the country was founded. Some readers may have heard about George Washington’s visit to Greenville in 1791, Eleanor Roosevelt’s visit in 1941 and John F. Kennedy’s visit here in 1960 while he was campaigning for the presidency, but if not, let me reacquaint you with these and other local stories of connections to presidents.

In March 1791, President George Washington began his Southern Tour, coming to North Carolina by way of Petersburg, Va., through Halifax and Tarboro. According to his diary, “Tuesday, April 19 at 6 o’clock I left Tarborough, accompanied by some of the most respectable people of the place for a few miles — dined at a trifling place called Greenville, 25 miles distant — and lodged at one Allan’s, 14 miles further, a very indifferent house without stabling, which for the first time since I commenced my journey were obliged to stand without cover. Greenville GREENVILLE TIMES SPRING/SUMMER 2016

Eleanor Roosevelt standing on steps with a group of Girl Scouts. Roosevelt spoke at ECTC on November 17, 1941 during her visit to Greenville.

is on the Tar River and the exports the same as from Tarborough with a greater proportion of Tar — for the lower down the greater number of Tar makers are there — this article is contrary to all ideas one would entertain on the subject, rolled as Tobacco by an axis which goes through both heads — one horse

draws two barrels in this manner.”

The president and his entourage got up early the next day, ate at John Allen’s house and were in New Bern by lunch. So President George Washington did eat and sleep in Pitt County.

Our next connection occurred on March 4, 1885 at the inauguration of President Grover Cleveland.

Several Greenville people went to the Inauguration and were a part of the crowd of 250,000 who heard him give his speech at the Capitol. That evening, the largest fireworks display ever held in America was given at the Washington Monument. At 11 p.m., the crowds made a rush for the Great Pension office to the Inaugural Ball. One hundred thousand people surrounded the Pension Office and watched the fortunate 10,000 get into the ball. The women dressed in rich evening dresses and diamonds, Army and Navy officers in formal uniforms, diplomats covered in rich regalia and civilians in formal black attire, all danced and gossiped until the wee hours of the morning. According to

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United States Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts speaking at a podium during a 1960 presidential campaign rally at East Carolina College.

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On Sept. 17, 1960, John F. Kennedy stopped at Farmers Warehouse, where thousands had gathered to see him. After a mock tobacco auction led by Ray Oglesby, Arthur Tripp presented JFK with a farm program plaque. Kennedy enjoyed the warehouse stop greatly, and some of the tobacco went with the motorcade to ECC College Stadium where the main rally was held. After Kennedy was killed, a memorial service was held at Farmer’s.

the newspaper, Miss Ella Monterio of Greenville was said to be the most beautiful woman that attended President Cleveland’s reception.

Miss Monterio (1866-1937) was later married to Harry Skinner (1855-1929), a prominent lawyer in Greenville.

In May 1893, former Governor Thomas J. Jarvis and Major Louis C. Latham were appointed to the committee to act as escort of the remains of Jefferson Davis as it passed through N.C. Former Confederate President Jefferson Davis died on Dec. 6, 1889 in New Orleans and was buried in the Metairie Cemetery.

Several years later Mrs. Davis decided to have the president’s remains moved and reinterred in at a location that could accommodate the entire Davis family. After listening to several options, Mrs. Davis decided that Richmond, Va., which had been the

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capital of the confederacy, would be the final resting place of the Davis Family. On May 31, 1893, with full Confederate Military Honors, President Jefferson Davis was reinterred in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. According to the schedule, on May 28 Davis’ body was removed from a vault in Metairie Cemetery, and the funeral train left New Orleans with the body. Davis’s daughter was on the train, which made a stop at Beauvoir, his former home, before continuing eastward.

On May 29, the body lay in state at the Alabama capitol and Georgia capitol. On May 30, the body lay in state at the capitol in Raleigh for three hours. On May 31, the train reached Richmond, where Mrs. Varina Davis, widow of Jefferson Davis, met up with her daughter. It was estimated that 75,000 people witnessed the procession to Hollywood Cemetery.

Davis’ body was reinterred to a 21gun salute.

Greenville lawyer Edmund Hoover Taft (1912-1992) was in law school at Duke University in 1936 with Richard Milhous Nixon. Taft saw Nixon several times over the years. Taft visited Nixon in his Vice Presidential Office during President Eisenhower’s time in office. Mr. and Mrs. Taft and son Tommy attended Nixon’s Presidential Inauguration Ball at the Smithsonian, where Hoover talked to Nixon for a few minutes.

The next known connection occurred on Nov. 17, 1941, when Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and her personal secretary visited Greenville.

After almost going to Greenville, S.C. due to a miscommunication, Mrs. Roosevelt came by train to Wilson, and an entourage of Greenville citizens in their automobiles went to meet her at the train. There is a funny

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John F. Kennedy, Sam Ervin, and Leo Jenkins at Kennedy’s political campaign rally at East Carolina College. Kennedy spoke at the at the bottom of College Hill, near Christenbury Gym.

story about how this whole caravan of cars coming back to Greenville from Wilson, with the most important woman in the world at the time, had to pull over to the edge of the road so that a little boy could go potty. Mrs. Roosevelt was given a tour of the Greenville tobacco market; visited Sheppard Memorial Library and the art gallery located there; and was a luncheon guest of the East Carolina president and Mrs. Leon H. Meadows in the president’s house on Fifth Street. After the lunch, while standing on the porch, she gave a talk to huge crowd that was broadcast on the radio. A snapshot taken at the time shows Mrs. Roosevelt standing on the porch holding a bouquet of red roses surrounded by Girl Scouts. She later had dinner in the student dining hall at East Carolina so that the students could meet her. Afterwards she gave

a talk to a packed house in Wright Auditorium about “A Day in the White House.”

It seems that a few days later, President and Mrs. Roosevelt ate a Pitt County turkey for Thanksgiving at their annual dinner at the Warm Springs Foundation in Georgia. J.L. Stokes, who operated a turkey ranch near Cox’s Mill, Pitt County wrote to President Roosevelt and offered him a choice turkey. The White House advised him to send the turkey to Washington, D.C. by Nov. 15 so that the president could take it with him to Georgia.

The next connection comes in 1950 with President Harry Truman.

It seems that J.G. Gibbs, engineer with the state highway division here in Greenville, had a hobby of wood inlay. He would make pictures from hundreds of small pieces of different types of wood. In 1950, Gibbs had

the honor of presenting President Truman with a large desktop with a map of the United States, inlaid with wood from every continent.

On Saturday, Sept. 17, 1960, popular Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kennedy flew into the Greenville airport. He was greeted by Gov. Luther Hodges, gubernatorial Democratic nominee Terry Sanford, Sen. Sam Ervin; a mob of photographers and well wishers; Greenville Mayor S. Eugene West, who gave him a key to the city, and a large group of girls from the Alpha Delta Pi sorority holding a large welcome banner. He was taken to a tobacco warehouse, where he witnessed a mock tobacco auction, bought a pile of tobacco for the high price of 81 cents a pound and was presented a tobacco

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Joe Hardy of Bethel, who was in the Navy in the Pacific at the same time as Kennedy and Butterworth, didn’t meet Kennedy then but got to know him personally at a Democratic convention many years later.

Also during the rally at College Stadium, W.W. Speight, a local attorney, fell and fractured his elbow and had to have an immediate operation that Saturday afternoon to remove bone fragments. Kennedy sent Speight a telegram stating, “Want to tell you how sorry to hear of your injury suffered during our rally in Greenville, N.C. I hope that you will have a speedy recovery.”

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The TECO ECHO, East Carolina College’s student run newspaper, announced Mrs. Roosevelt’s visit on the frontpage of the Nov. 14, 1941 edition.

of messages the next day on the radio during the Bible Fellowship Hour on “Why I cannot vote for a Catholic for President.”

Over the years numerous Pitt County people certainly met President Kennedy, but one of the most memorable meetings occurred in July 1962. An eight-year-old boy from Farmville named Vance Daniell, a boy with an inoperable heart condition, got to meet with his idol President Kennedy at the White House. Vance and his parents, Rev. Jack and Colleen Daniell, drove up to Washington, D.C. and met up with Congressman Herbert C. Bonner, who arranged the meeting. Vance and the president exchanged gifts during their conference; the president giving Vance a model of the patrol boat that Kennedy commanded during WWII and a fountain pen, and Vance gave the president a golden flue-cured tobacco leaf.

On Nov. 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, and almost instantly for Pitt County it

seemed the world stood still. Among the funeral cortege of President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C. were Louis C. Arthur III, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ficklen Arthur, and Simon Joseph (Jimmy) Waters Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon J. and Jeanette Waters, both of Greenville. They were among a unit of men chosen to represent the U.S. Coast Guard. The young men were stationed at the U.S. Coast Guard Station, Cape May, N.J. On Jan. 20, 1963, the Inauguration was held for President Lyndon Baines Johnson, and Pitt County residents were there. William Beverly Whitley, an administrative assistant to N.C. Sen. Everett Jordan, was chosen to hold the bible on which President Johnson was to take the oath of office. Whitley, the son of William B. and Lela D. Whitley of Greenville, was a 1942 graduate of Greenville High School. After attending Duke University for one year, he went into the Navy for three years. After his discharge he went to UNC-Chapel Hill, graduating in 1950. A newsman

Get Your Personalized Plan From Our Team Of Physicians. by training, he began a career in political circles being a press man for N.C. senators.

Also at the Inauguration was Nelda C. Ormond, who was one of eight members of the Howard University Choir who were invited to sing at the Inaugural Ball. Ormond, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Ormond of Ayden, was a 1961 graduate of South Ayden High School and then a senior in the School of Music at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Ormond and other members of the concert choir were also featured performers at the 1962 New York World’s Fair.

On March 17, 1976, Mrs. Jimmy Carter flew into Greenville while campaigning for her husband’s Democratic nomination for president.

After being welcomed by Greenville Mayor Percy Cox, she held a press conference at the PittGreenville airport. On March 19, 1976, Mrs. Nancy Reagan flew into Greenville while campaigning for her husband’s Republican nomination for president.

Mrs. Reagan was honored at a coffee hour held at the Holiday Inn, where she held a brief news conference.

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Event brings in $40,000 for PCC Foundation

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itt Community College Foundation officials say last month’s “Accelerating the Future” fundraiser eclipsed the 2015 event in terms of money generated for student scholarships and educational activities at the college.

According to PCC Event Specialist Erin Greenleaf, the 2016 version of “Accelerating the Future” took place March 18 and raised $40,657 for the PCC Foundation. She said last year’s inaugural event netted $38,728.

“Any time we can get the general public on campus and make new friends for PCC, it is a success,” Greenleaf said. “It is not always about the dollar amount raised.”

Nearly 250 people visited campus to participate in this year’s fundraiser, which took place in the Craig M. Goess Construction and Industrial Technology Building and featured a buffet dinner, silent auction, student exhibits and dancing. The college’s Automotive Systems, Building Construction, Architectural Technology, Horticulture, Advertising and Graphic Design, Fire-Rescue, Associate in Fine Arts and Welding programs were represented during the event.

“By highlighting eight different academic departments, our hope was to bring awareness to the wealth of learning possibilities offered at Pitt Community College,” Greenleaf said. “We love sharing our campus with the community.

It’s a chance for our supporters to see how their contributions to the PCC Foundation have helped the college grow and do great things to develop a skilled local workforce.”

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“We appreciate our ‘Accelerating the Future’ sponsors and the many friends of the college who participated in it to support the success of our students,” said Susan Nobles, who serves as vice president of PCC’s Institutional Advancement Division and executive director of the PCC Foundation. “We were especially pleased that our guests had an opportunity to see some of our students’ work from our Construction and Industrial Technology, Fine Arts and Public Safety programs.”

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ECONOMIC DRIVERS

BUSINESS LEADERS

Chamber recognizes small business

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he Greenville-Pitt County Chamber of Commerce presented Dr. Billy Ray Smith, owner of Eastern Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, with the 2015 Small Business Leader of the Year Award during the Small Business Awards Breakfast on May 3.

“Winning the Chamber’s award is truly an honor,” said Smith. “It affirms that the American dream is alive and well.”

Eastern Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation was formed in March of 2010 to provide quality healthcare to the citizens of eastern North Carolina.

They provide acute rehabilitation services in local facility and specialize in diagnosing and treating acute and chronic pain. They work closely with other area healthcare providers to restore function and improve their patient’s quality of life. In 2010, they had two employees and now have grown to thirteen employees. From Eastern Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation two other businesses have been formed employing an additional six people. These organizations benefit the community not only by helping their patients have a better quality of life, but also by providing employment opportunities in the Pitt County area.

Dr. Smith also serves the community in a variety of ways. He is an usher at Oakmont Baptist Church, member of the fundraising committee for the Heart Ball, an active fundraiser for Rocking Horse Ranch, and provides medical services to the underserved at the Oakmont Free Medical Clinic. He also volunteers at the Brody School of Medicine Office of Admission, the Little Willie Center, the Food Bank of Eastern NC, Boy Scout Troop 46, Doctors on Call, and Stop Hunger Now. Additionally he is a financial

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supporter of Building Hope, Boys & Girls Club, Rocking Horse Ranch, Riley’s Army, Greenville Museum of Art, Pirate Club, Aces for Autism, and The Dream Factory.

Dr. Smith served active duty in the United States Army from 1984 to 1990 and then served in the US Army Reserves until 2009. He has received the Army Commendation Medal and Army Achievement Medal. He attended ECU from 1993 to 1996 graduating with BS in Exercise Physiology.

He then entered ECU School of Medicine where he graduated in 2000. He completed his intern year in internal medicine in 2001 and then went on to complete his residency where he served as Chief Resident for the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in 2003 and 2004. He started working in private practice and then opened Eastern Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation in 2010 in Greenville.

The Chamber hosts the Small Business Awards Breakfast each year to honor leaders in the Pitt County Business Community who have demonstrated successful operations of their business as well as made a significant impact on the community. Finalists are selected and recognized at this event. In addition to Dr. Smith, Owen Burney of Burney and Burney Construction Company was also recognized as a finalist for the 2015 Small Business Leader of the Year award. Also highlighting this event each year is the presentation of the First Citizens Bank Forever First Award, formerly the First Citizens Bank Customer Service Award.

This year’s recipient is Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Greenville.

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Kings of Q BBQ Cook-Off & Festival

First Friday Artwalk

First Fridays, 5 p.m.

Uptown Greenville hosts First Friday Artwalks on the first Friday of every month for the local community.

This event provides the community opportunities to network with local artists while providing them with exclusive specials at surrounding restaurants and retail shops. Art galleries, artist studios and museums located in the Uptown Greenville area will highlight local artists for meet-and-greets with the local community interested in products produced by the artist. For more information, visit www. uptowngreenville.com.

Umbrella Market

Every Wednesday thru August, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

FIVE POINTS PLAZA, UPTOWN GREENVILLE Sponsored by Uptown Greenville. Bring the entire family and enjoy this open-aired market consisting of live music, fresh produce, meats, seafood, handmade arts, jewelry, antiques, local brew, ice cream, baked goods and more. Visit www. uptowngreenville.com or contact 252-561-8400.

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May 20-21 AYDEN Sponsored by Ayden Main-Street, the BBQ Cook-Off will be held in the BBQ Village, centered around Ayden Christian Church, 462 Second Street, and the festival along West Avenue, Ayden, Friday 6 -10 p.m. and Saturday 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. Enjoy amusement rides, games, vendors, arts and crafts, and live music entertainment with the Eli Craig Band and Train Wreck. Visit www.aydenbbq.org or contact 252-746-2266.

Greenville Youth Fest hosted by City of Greenville

June 4, 12 - 4 p.m.

FIVE POINTS PLAZA Enterainment will be provided by kids of grades 6-12! There will be singing, spoken word, dance teams, face painting, bouncy houses, food vendors and activites for all ages. For more info, contact Cassandra Daniels at cdaniels@greenvillenc.gov.

SUNDAY IN THE PARK Jarvis Memorial presents Don Davis: American Story Teller

May 15, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

TOWN COMMON, FIRST STREET Sponsored by Greenville Recreation & Parks. Visit www.greenvillenc.gov or contact 252-329-4567.

Liverpool, Beatles Tribute

June 5, 7 p.m. - 8: 30 p.m.

TOWN COMMON, FIRST STREET Sponsored by Greenville Recreation & Parks. Bring your blankets and chairs as you re-live the sights and sounds of the sixties. Visit www.greenvillenc. gov or contact 252-329-4567.

Tar River Community Band

June 12, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

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Emerald City Big Band

June 19, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

TOWN COMMON, FIRST STREET Sponsored by Greenville Recreation & Parks. Bring your blankets and chairs and enjoy the sounds of this great big band. Visit www. greenvillenc.gov or contact 252329-4567.

The Speculations

June 26, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

TOWN COMMON, FIRST STREET Sponsored by Greenville Recreations & Parks. A medically-associated Rock & Roll Band that is dedicated to making a difference by raising awareness and funding for many charitable and service organizations.

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July 17, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Performing an array from early Jazz to Rhythm and Blues, The Monitors have been a Sunday in the Park crowd favorite for over 40 years. They are known to get large audience participation for the Electric Slide and other dances.

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Pamlico Sound Machine

July 3, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

TOWN COMMON, FIRST STREET The Pamlico Sound Machine will bring energy and power to any stage. Playing all your dance favorites and top 40 hits. Making their first appearance at Sunday In The Park , this will be a concert that gets you moving, while starting off the holiday week-end just right.

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June 2, 2016, 5:30 - 7 p.m.

GARRIS EVANS, 701 W 14TH ST. Celebrate the great business opportunities we have in Greenville and Pitt County at Business After Hours. Enjoy hors d'oeuvres and refreshments while building new business relationships and strengthening established ones.

Fire/Rescue and Law Enforcement Appreciation Dinner

June 7, 6 p.m.

HOLIDAY INN, 203 W. GREENVILLE BLVD. Help thank the law enforcement officers and Greenville Fire/Rescue professionals in our community for their commitment and dedication to make Greenville and Pitt County a safe place to live and do business. Awards Presentation to include Law Enforcement Officer of the Year and Fire/Rescue Employee of the Year.

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May 26 GREENVILLE COUNTRY CLUB Play 9 holes of golf and enjoy a rotating craft beer and wine tasting while you golf. Eighteen teams of four are available for this event, the cost per team is $140 @ $35 per person.

Not a golfer? Thats ok! Join for a networking opportunity on the patio overlooking the beautiful course at Greenville Country Club with have food, raffle items, games, and more.

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June 2, 6 - 11 p.m.

GREENVILLE CONVENTION CENTER, 303 SW GREENVILLE BOULEVARD The inaugural Big Night Out event benefiting the Junior Women’s Association of Greenville will be held on Thursday, June 2 from 6-11 p.m. at the Greenville Convention Center. The evening will include a plated dinner, drinks, dancing, a silent auction, and live music by The Embers. There will also be a mystery wine pull and an event table by Bailey’s. Doors will open at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $75 per person, $140 per couple, and $550 per 8-top table, and are on sale now through May 21. Price includes beer, wine, and food. For more information about Big Night Out or to purchase tickets visit www.jwagreenville. org. About the Junior Women’s Association of Greenville: The mission of the Junior Women’s Association (JWA) is to promote volunteerism, develop the potential of women, and improve the community through effective leadership of trained volunteers. Since 2010, JWA has contributed over 7,000 volunteer hours to the community and helped raise over $160,000 for local organizations.

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Flatty Creek Trail Hike

Please call the park at 252-923-2191 to register. Wear clothes that you do not mind getting wet, shoes that strap on and sunscreen.

Introduction to Goose Creek State Park

June 11, 10 a.m.

Hike through upland forests that incorporates sections of boardwalk that cross wetlands.

Meet at the entrance to the campground.

July 3, 10:00 a.m.

A power point presentation will be given that features the natural communities and recreation opportunities found in the park. Meet in the visitor center.

Campfire Cooking

Bicycle Road Tour of the Park

June 17, 5 p.m.

Increase your camping skills and savor a meal cooked over the campfire. Meet at the Campground Amphitheater. Bring a camp chair and something to drink. Space is limited, so registration is required. Please call the park at 252-923-2191 to register. All ages are welcome.

July 9, 10 a.m.

Join a ranger for a tour and discussion of areas of the park via bicycle. All riders must wear a helmet. We hope to see a variety of wildlife and learn of future developments. Meet at the visitor center parking lot with your bicycles.

Intro to Kayaking

July 16, 10 a.m.

Can you guess North Carolina’s state reptile? I’ll give you a hint, it’s a turtle. Meet at the park’s visitor center to discover some of the unique turtles living throughout eastern North Carolina.

There will be live turtles showcased throughout the program.

June 18, 11 a.m.

Meet at Dinah’s Landing boat ramp to learn the basics of kayaking such as paddling, entering and exiting the boat and safety precautions.

After the class we will explore Goose Creek.

Space is limited, so registration is required.

Totally Turtles

2792 Thompson St. Village of Simpson

Ann’s Antiques at

Cinnamon Pear Pork ChoP marinade ingredients 3 tablespoons 692 olive Cinnamon Pear Balsamic 3 tablespoons 692 olive Lime Olive Oil 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 teaspoon allspice 1 minced shallot 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper 1 teaspoon crushed fennel seed Salt & Pepper to taste

Remember When

252-757-1805 252-714-7154

OPEN: WED-SAT. 11AM - 6PM

direCtions Combine ingredients and use to marinate pork chops or tenderloin for about 3 hours in the refrigerator.

692 E. Arlington Blvd Arlington Village

252.565.8472 www.692olive.com

Hours: M-F 10 am to 6pm; Sat 10am to 5pm

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Scott Senatore Chamber of Commerce

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Uptown Greenville is a public-private partnership.

We exist to promote quality cultural, residential and economic development in Greenville’s Central Business District, Uptown Greenville.

An era of new growth is underway, the result of the ongoing process of planning, public and private investment, a proven market and the hard work and vision of the development community, residents, workers, and businesses. Thanks to these efforts, forethought and creativity; Uptown Greenville continues to grow into a stronger, more vibrant place to Love, Live, Eat, Work, and Play. Please, join us.

We welcome everyone in our community to participate by becoming a member, joining one of our committees, or simply introducing someone to Uptown.

Best Regards,

marybeth Eason Uptown Greenville Chair

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