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Peter Bonner restores the 75-year-old set

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When LeBron James announced he was going back to Cleveland to play basketball on his home ground, we understood. His reasons were much the same as our reasons for starting Slow Starting 12 years ago, a group of volunteers who live in this part of Georgia put together the inaugural event of what is now a nationally 9

The Last Oysterman Vinson Smith Artists JAM (Jurors and Artists Mingling)

selected for the show) via email.

But, come September 19, it all happens on the ground in Pike County. experience when their AT&T phones don’t work and the GPS programs changed when we began 911 in Pike).

In the digital age, why bother to come out to Pike County to see “real” photographs? We think because...it’s real.

Real people. Real experiences. Real places. Yes, we acknowledge that our show would not be as well known were it not for social media. This year we have close to 1,100 entries from over 20 states (and one person who uploaded her entries from Sweden).

The main show of winning photographs will be hung in the 1895 Strickland Building in Concord, a town with a population considerably less than the number of SlowExposures entries. Here’s where the “real” show beats out the digital one: Standing in front of an image, you’ll hear other people’s reactions to it. An intake of breath. A laugh. The telling of an anecdote from an elderly man’s recollection of picking cotton in the ‘40s. A snort to comment disagreesecond, third, or honorable mention.

is always the rural South. We do it to celebrate our own home ground—our place. Whether we have roots going back to the founding of this area or arrived this year intending to build the (a new volunteer’s project), we all feel a kinship anchored by this land.

The “slow” in SlowExposures refers to our invitation to slow down and experience the sights, sounds, smells, and feel of this region. LeBron’s Cleveland may be a different scene than Pike County, Georgia, but the point is the same—place matters. It has an impact on the people who live there and those who pass through.

It’s why over a thousand visitors trust their GPS devices to get them here (and often, have their first rural 10

our 2014 jurors—Aline Smithson in Los Angeles and Alexa Dilworth in Raleigh, North Carolina. They see the images (with titles, but names omitted), and somehow winnow them down to a show of 70 photographs.

We’ll reach out to the juried-in photographers (those whose work was

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motes from 100 years of groceries afternoon sun. The photographs will be larger than that little screen on your cell phone that you’ve been looking at all day long. Scale matters for photographs. Photographers will interact with other photographers and collectors. They will share stories about how they captured the image…or about the one that got away.

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making encouragement and advice will be given.

In real time, it’s all about connecting with other people around photographs that are enhanced by the surroundings. Context matters. The image century mercantile store which, for over a hun(To see how it looked, check out the 1989 movie Cold Sassy Tree Paris Trout.)

The events for this year’s show range from a

Photography 101 Photo 101 for folks who want to learn how to use our jurors will discuss how they picked the show this year. Besides the main show, there will be exhibits all over Pike County. The Do Good Fund Collection will hang at the Whiskey Bonding Barn in Molena—it’s the new collection of Southern photography which began two years ago with the mission of introducing art to everyone and hanging it in nontraditional spaces. Nothing could be further from an austere museum setting than an 1870 brick barn that was built to house barrels of (legal) whiskey until it aged to perfection.

A show by Eliot Dudik will feature his images of Civil War battle landscapes, and in front of the photographs will be a presentation on Southern Identity—a subject that gets people talking every year. Our Paul Conlan Prize winner from last year, McNair Evans, will be coming from San Francisco to present his show “Confessions for a Son” at Strickland’s. He will also have his new book available for signing. On Sunday afternoon of opening week is one of the most enjoyable events, J.A.M., Jurors and Artists Mingling, where work at the main exhibition is presented and discussed in a spontaneous and casual way. The public is invited, and the conversations include a wide variety of topics, such as “How do you price your work?” and “Could you tell me the story of your picture?”

In between the photography exhibits, we eat.

There’s an opening reception at A Novel Experience in Zebulon to honor Meryl Truett’s show of photographic images on old tin ceiling tiles. The ticketed Lunch and Learn on Saturday comes with a great box lunch. The Do Good Collection’s opening reception will have great food and a signature beverage in keeping with its Southern heritage. The Supper at Strickland’s is a Southern feast prepared by the Mount Venus Baptist Church of Gay (warning: only 150 tickets available!), and

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On opening Sunday, come by for the show’s brunch. During the second weekend, the a box lunch for ticket holders. At 6 pm on the second Saturday night, everyone is invited to bring a delectable contribution for our annual Potluck Dinner where we talk photography and collecting. On the last day, the reception for our Young Photographers Show is worth the wait, thanks to its sponsor, United Bank.

There’s a lot to see and even more to experience. One of the best parts is what our local community brings to the mix—we are great hosts for people who travel here from all over the country. And, truth to tell, we confound a lot of stereotypes. For many people, their entire acquaintance with the South is Terminal D Green Acres reruns. We give them a glimpse of our place to support the renovation of historic buildWe have a blast…right here on our own home ground. It doesn’t get any better than that.

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Walking up to a friend’s house that, upon my arriving in Griffin, has always emanated the warm glow of friendship and camaraderie and has oftentimes carried the heartbreaks of Georgia Bulldog and Ole Miss losses over the seasons, I couldn’t help but take a moment to look as an outsider peering in.

November 5th. It was a night I had been looking forward to for several weeks. This night my friends were celebrating me, our friendship, and the journey to come. As two friends gathered their contributions to the night’s meal from their cars, my boots crunched over the scattered leaves in the front yard. Approaching the glowing kitchen, I could see the familiar faces of those who had already arrived and reflected on how lucky I was to know each one of them. Anyone out in this cold autumn night would wish to be invited into this happy scene that lay before us.

A quick knock on the door and it was all hugs. It was good to be on the inside. Appetizers of cheese and fresh figs were on the counter, and before I could put my purse down a glass of red wine materialized in my hand. I inhaled the sweet fragrance like a wine snob assessing its quality. I wanted to savor this last indulgence as long as I could.

As the lasagna was coming out of the oven—amid the smiles, hugs, and reassuring looks—a circle formed around me. Laughing that I chose to wear pink that night (a color I had shown open contempt for since surviving October), one of my dearest friends held up her glass. I can’t remember her exact words. The glow somehow enveloped me. While I know she spoke of hope and encouragement for a speedy recovery, what I remember is love.

This past year, at 31, I became a statistic. I became one in eight. One in eight women diagnosed with breast cancer

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in her lifetime. With no family history, no real preparation, I was less than one week out from undergoing surgery for my bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction.

These women knew this. They all know my story as if it were their own.

They’ve been living it with me these past months. As we raised glasses to many more years together, wiped away a few tears, and promised that this would be the only emotional part of the evening, my eyes moved from one face to the next. Knowing each woman’s unique story, knowing many of them had experienced and endured greater losses and trials than I could imagine, I felt incredibly touched that they included me among them.

That’s when they handed me a small box. Inside was a little gold chain hooked around a delicate horseshoe.

As I fumbled around with the bracelet and they helped me with the clasp, I turned to see that each one of them had their own bracelet. We were in this battle together, and as my surgery day approached, each promised to wear her horseshoe for me.

I was sunk...a trained public speaker with no words. I don’t know that a gesture or a gift has ever meant so much. It meant I wasn’t alone. That small horseshoe embodying my love of horses was at the same time a well-known symbol

for luck and protection. I wish I could have said something meaningful then. I know I started by saying, “This year has been so tough...” I hope that whatever came out after resembled “thank God for you all.” Honestly I don’t remember what I said. I was trying not to cry.

At the end of the night, we put our wrists together, snapped a picture, and shared it among us with a #teamashley. I left thankful I would never be an outsider looking in. When I went home, I counted the wrists in the photo. Eight women.

What I wanted to say hit me. I didn’t choose cancer. Up until that night I thought no one chose cancer...but then, my friends did. I’m sure I didn’t ask them, but they took on my diagnosis as though it were their own. They shouldered my burden and lifted me up when I had only known them a few short years. They chose me with my cancer when they didn’t have to.

As my husband drove me to Atlanta the morning of my surgery, my phone started lighting up. One by one the images came in until there were seven.

Seven wrists. Seven tiny horseshoes.

Seven huge hearts.

I am one in eight women who will develop breast cancer in her life, but more defining than that, I am one of eight women who are lucky enough to be among the closest of friends. I am blessed sevenfold by friendships that have made all the difference and in every way define me. I only hope now that I can be their statistic. As the one in eight, I want my cancer to be the only one they ever have to choose.

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So many people can’t believe that Tara still exists and didn’t crumble into the dust at the back lot in Hollywood

The set of Tara was built on the back lot of Selznick Studio in Hollywood. Tara remained there for years, but it was dismantled in 1960 when the studio needed the lot for a new movie set. The doors, windows, and roof lining were removed and shipped to Georgia; the walls were then burned and torn down.

There was talk of putting the pieces of Tara into a museum after the set first arrived in Georgia. Julian M. Forster, an Atlanta lawyer and real estate developer, wanted to rebuild Tara into a theme park. But Tara sat in a barn for 20 years until Betty Talmadge purchased the remains for $5,000 in 1979. After she purchased it, various counties in Georgia competed for the opportunity to own Tara, but to no avail.

In 1989, the Atlanta History Center mounted an exhibition entitled “Gone With the Wind: The Facts Behind the Fiction,” and the centerpiece was the original Tara doorway. After being put away again, in 1998 the doorway was displayed at the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta and is still displayed there today as part of their “Making of a Film Legend: Gone With the Wind” exhibit. Despite great fanfare, such as hanging “Welcome Home Tara” banners when the set arrived in the state, and great interest from multiple parties, the rest of Tara is still sitting in a barn rotting.

The Talmadge family still owns the set. This is fitting since Margaret Mitchell used her great-grandfather’s plantation, the Fitzgerald House, as inspiration for the O’Hara estate, and the Fitzgerald House is neighbor to the Crawford-Talmadge Plantation, which many suspect may have been the inspiration for Twelve Oaks.

Peter Bonner, owner of Gone With the Wind tours in Jonesboro, recently entered into an agreement with the Talmadge family to try to save Tara. In addition to being a Gone With the Wind buff, Peter Bonner is also a local historian who has conducted a lot of research into local Civil War history, including the Battle of Jonesboro in 1864, which led him to many Gone With the Wind connections and subsequent Gone With the Wind research. This background made Bonner enthusiastic about the Saving Tara project.

Bonner, along with a group of volunteers, started assembling and inventorying the pieces of Tara lying in the barn. The pieces had been inventoried in the 1980s, but volunteers are retagging each piece, including shards from shutters, pieces of molding, and window frames. “We’ve got all the pieces,” Bonner said. “It’s just a matter of setting them up.”

Currently, the pieces are housed in the same dairy barn where they have been lying since Betty Talmadge purchased them.

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Bonner and the group of volunteers he calls “Taramedics” have made progress on sorting and restoring sections of Tara.

The volunteers have been sorting through pieces of wood and slats from the shutters, and they are starting to put together pieces of the cathedral window from the landing. Sadly, because of multiple moves and the wear from sitting in a barn for years, there are many broken pieces and pieces that have not yet been found.

Tara is being restored and displayed in an old dairy barn with no air conditioning, no electricity, and a concrete floor.

As visitors walk into the barn, leaning against the wall on the left are a 12-foot-tall window and shutters that were used in the opening scene of the movie. Just past that is the door leading to the side porch and the side window where Hattie McDaniel (Mammy) called out to Scarlett. Straight ahead are the huge, wide steps of the side porch where Olivia de Havilland (Melanie Wilkes) sat with soldiers. On the left are the seven windows that spread across the front and down the left side of Tara.

Despite offers from national museums to put the pieces in traveling displays, no plans are being made to move Tara to another location, so the hope is to keep sorting the pieces.

Since there are no plans to build the Tara pieces back into a tall façade, the goal is to display them in a museum-like fashion, with photos and a write-up by each piece of the façade.

Expanded Gone With the Wind tours are also planned where fans can experience the book Tara, the book Twelve Oaks, and the movie Tara all at one time.

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The immediate goal is to continue sorting through inventory and finish putting it together in the barn as Bonner and his helpers conduct tours for interested fans.

“It’s as much Griffin’s history as it is Lovejoy’s, Jonesboro’s, or Atlanta’s history,” said Bonner.

“If this turns out well, then it’s going to bring people to the area who want to stay for the night, eat a meal, or visit the local area, which includes Griffin and Hampton.”

For those who wish to see these pieces of “So many people can’t believe that Tara still exists and didn’t crumble into the dust at the back lot in Hollywood,” Bonner stated. “It’s - is amazing that the thing still here. Selznick said nothing lasts more than 90 days on the back lot, but after everything, Tara survived. It should be powder, it should be dust. But it’s not.”

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he world of Fantasy Football has grown exponentially over the last several years. What was once reserved solely for die-hard statistics fanatics has now become a more inclusive, user-friendly experience. With the advent of online leagues, fantasy football podcasts/weekly TV programs, and a continuing influx of quality fantasy football journalism (look no further than Matthew Berry), this once overlooked hobby has continued to welcome more and more football enthusiasts into the fold.

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I have been a part of the Never Welch on a Bettis league for three years running, and I have absolutely loved the experience.

(Our commissioner is Steve “Harrison’s Heroes” Welch, and he thoroughly enjoys puns.) Our league includes guys and gals with widely different football acumen, yet everyone enjoys the season and the friendly (and sometimes slightly less than friendly) competition that comes with it.

Our first champion, Charles “Kibbles & Vicks” Priest, focused on finding late-round steals during his draft in order to make his team as deep and dangerous as possible. Last season’s championship game came down to Patrick “Honey Badgers” Vu and yours truly, Taylor “Ryan Leaf Rehabs” Gantt. Unfortunately, Pat’s superior running back tandem spelled doom for my team of destiny, leaving me only to dream of what could have been.

Despite my epic defeat at the hands of the new champion, the fantasy season brought much more joy than sadness over the course of the year. The camaraderie among the owners of the

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league made me look forward to the weekends even more.

Draft day for our league kicks off in mid-August, and hilarity always seems to ensue. In last year’s draft, the First Lady of the league, Samantha “Attractive ‘n Athletic” Welch, surprised everyone by picking her first ten players based solely on looks, dubbing it the “Hot Guy Draft” (which led to her first playoff appearance, so hey, whatever works!). Conversely, Jonathan “The Italian Stallions” Scibetta committed a most grievous, yet hilarious, error in the 2012 draft when he selected starting QB Andrew Luck minutes after already selecting star QB Drew Brees, thus shooting his fantasy team in the proverbial foot.

But in the grand scheme of fantasy football, the outcome of the season is really immaterial. The whole point of this intriguing metagame is to make watching professional football more engaging and fun. Fantasy football can turn a random game that you would not ordinarily care about into a tense, highstakes thriller as you urge on your wide receiver to catch the game-winning touchdown or the defense you own to create a crucial turnover. The entire NFL becomes intertwined because a fantasy league depends on the performances of almost every player, not just those on your favorite team.

After the ceremony, we’ll pick our draft order out of a hat and begin making selections that will shape the narrative of the coming year. Although all of us will be mentally fitting the title belt around our own waists, the good times and shared experiences will be meaningful rewards in themselves.

If you’ve heard the buzz about fantasy football but have never tried it, I urge you to give it a shot. Find an online league, join a friend’s league, or make your own and call all the shots!

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Many kinds of fish live all over the U.S., but in the South bass are king, and we fish for crappie to eat. In the North musky are king, and they fish for walleye for food. Musky fight hard and they are harder to catch than bass, but they get huge, with 40-pounders not too unusual. Bass fight hard and a 10-pounder is not common, but most days it doesn’t take the famed 10,000 casts it takes to hook a musky to hook a bass. Walleye taste good, but I will put crappie up against them any day. On a trip to Tennessee a few years ago, I took some crappie filets for the communal fish fry and a couple of guys from Michigan brought walleye filets. Everyone there said the crappie were better.

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Deer hunting is not the same here as it is up North and in the Midwest and West. Here, we hide in trees and wait on a deer while swatting mosquitoes. Up North, they freeze their feet off tracking deer through the snow. And out West where mule deer roam, hunters jump one, wait for it to run a hundred yards, then shoot it when it turns to look back.

In cold climates, people go ice skating in the winter; we go roller skating. Northerners also cut holes in the ice on ponds and lakes and sit there staring at a tiny pole, hoping for a bite.

Our water doesn’t get hard on top, so we can fish out of our boats all winter—big bass bite best then. Almost all my eight-pound-plus bass hit from December through February. They would be too big to come through a hole in the ice.

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In other rural areas, kids probably dam branches, build tree houses, and camp out. But the South seems to have more rural areas where kids grew up playing in the woods. Can you imagine trying to dam a sewer, build a light pole house, or camp in an alley?

I was surprised to find out mosquitoes can be just as bad up North as they are here, but at least most other places don’t have chiggers. I get a laugh every time I see a tourist with northern license plates on their car getting Spanish moss to take home. They are taking more than the moss and are in for an itchy surprise in a day or so.

We eat different wild critters here, too. Forget grits, a staple of Southern diets, up North. As I found out, ordering grits in Wisconsin will just be met with a puzzled look. Many other common Southern foods are not eaten in other areas.

We are different in the South. Some come south for a visit, but there is a different name for Yankees who move here and try to make us just like them. That is impossible!

Crawfish are popular here, and in the South, you can catch your own. Some places up North serve crawfish, but not many. Alligator meat is great, and you can catch and kill your own around here, too; up North it is a rarity, and many are afraid of it.

Although I have visited 40 of our 50 states (and fished in many of them), and I’ve been to many foreign countries on five different continents, I have lived in middle Georgia all my life. There is no better place on Earth!

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STEVE There was once a time when God looked down on everything he had made and saw that “…it was very good…” (Genesis 1:31). That might surprise you when you turn on the news. Where is the good? Where are the good? What is so good about this world we live in?

By PETE CHagnOn

I ask myself that question on a daily basis—where are the good? Perhaps you’ve asked yourself that very question.

We search the TV news and the Internet looking for the good—but have we ever searched our backyards? Our neighborhoods? Our communities? This is a story of the day something good found me. Earlier this year, goodness walked form of a story involving Hope and Steve Dezember of Atlanta. Surely when God looks down from heaven upon this couple, he says they are good…very good.

I interviewed director Sarah Spicer and producer/editor Matt Moore, who were

in the midst of producing the documentary Hope for Steve. Steve was a good friend of theirs from college, and when they received news that he was seriously ill with a disease that had no known cure, they were surprised by his reaction and felt compelled to share his story

campaign raised the needed $30,000 plus in 14 days (45 days had been allotted). Even singer Michael Franti was so touched by the Dezembers’ story that he would later visit Steve in the hospital and become good friends with the couple.

In 2011, Steve Dezember was your average American guy in his 20s, full of life, hopes, and dreams. Hope, appropriately named, was his girlfriend.

However, all that would change in the blink of an eye when Steve began to lose control over his body, and several something was just not right, Steve went

Steve tells everyone that ALS has given him a renewed desire to live life to the fullest. The wedding took place quickly, before the disease progressed too far, and shortly after the wedding Hope and Steve embarked on a crosscountry journey. They wanted it to be a celebration of life and a way to increase awareness for ALS research, so they painted their minivan in bright for life with others, their enthusiasm was contagious. One supporter was even inspired to give Steve and Hope a trip to Belize. Many people still inspired by their story continue to help them in their daily struggle with ALS.

to a doctor and was eventually diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that results in the loss of muscle movement and eventually, total paralysis. Muscles waste away—patients are essentially buried alive in their own bodies. ALS affects the brain’s ability to control movement, breathing, and speech, but typically, mental capacity remains intact. ALS is an eventual death sentence, with many

Not very many people, including me, understand ALS. We might know that a famous baseball player named Lou Gehrig died of the disease many decades ago and that lots of people are having buckets of ice water dumped on their heads to promote ALS awareness and research, but a cure for this dreadful disease remains elusive. Hope and Steve’s documentary shows the harsh realities of ALS, but it also portrays the couple’s bravery in their daily struggles. The realities of ALS are not for the faint of heart. It quickly robs a person of any dignity or pride. Steve has to allow himself to rely 100 percent on Hope, and Hope has to be willing to be there 100 percent for Steve.

It wasn’t long before Steve could no longer walk, eat, or even get out of bed. He requires around-the-clock attention and care. Hope takes her vows of “for better or for worse” seriously, even quitting her job and losing their only source of income to care for her husband. Now they depend on the charity of others, another humbling experience for anyone.

Steve has regular medical setbacks and long stays in hospitals. For a time he was only able to communicate in labored whispers. Now, through the kindness of others, he can communicate through a Tobii—a device that tracks his eye movement and translates text into a synthesized voice.

Steve also has a motorized wheelchair that allows him some mobility. He Steve rolls his wheelchair through paint, creating fantastic works of art.

Bearing in mind the gravity of the diagnosis, how would any of us respond to being handed that news? Steve responded by calling Hope and gently breaking the news to her. While all that was sinking in, he said that he would completely understand if their relationship was over, but if she decided to stay with him, then he wanted to get married. She accepted his marriage proposal, and by doing so, his journey and struggle through ALS. This is where the story really begins.

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Through all the ups and downs, Steve and Hope’s devotion and reliance on each other is inspiring to everyone who sees their story unfold in the documentary Hope for Steve. In it, we get to know them personally, catch their enthusiasm for life, and see how Hope Dezember is not only hope for Steve, but hope for every one of us searching for a spark of human goodness in a world gone crazy.

good in a story of human suffering? Can something good really come from Steve’s battle with ALS? An answer can be found in their awareness campaign. Hopefully, through increased awareness and donations raised through this documentary, a cure for ALS will one day be a reality.

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I had the pleasure of viewing Hope for Steve June 1 at its Buckhead premiere. I cannot sing its praises enough. You’ll be in for a wild ride, lots tion your outlook on life will be changed. Please go to www.HopeforSteve.com to purchase a ALS research, and a portion of the proceeds of the DVD sales go to Hope and Steve Dezember.

Faced with a death sentence, Steve Dezember went on another soul-searching journey, and that path led him to Jesus. He became born again, as some call it, and was baptized at North Point Community Church in Atlanta. Although Steve no longer has an audible voice, Sarah Spicer told me that when you look into his eyes, you know he has peace in his heart and can tell that he believes that his eternity is secure. I, for one, believe when his time comes—as it will for each of us—Steve will walk through those pearly gates under his own power.

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By Betsy Harris Jackson, Georgia, a town of 5,000 people, is the county seat of Butts County, which can boast of Jackson Lake, Indian Springs, High Falls, and Dauset Trails. It can also boast of a talented lady named Glenda Grant.

Through our mutual friend Pam Stevenson, I had the opportunity to meet Glenda one day in late May. In fact, the three of us ate lunch together at Mesquite Mexican Grill and then went to Glenda’s house for a delicious homemade banana pudding, coffee, and—best of all—viewing of the intricate, clever, and whimsical fairy gardens Glenda had created.

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can’t be right or wrong. It wouldn’t be fun to design and create them if I had to sell them. Besides, now that I’m older, I want to sit down! I used to enjoy yardwork, but now I like to do something that allows me to sit.”

Pam’s take on those fairy gardens?

“They let us justify going back to our childhoods in our minds.” In fact, my long-time friend provided the main reason Glenda does what she does. When Pam hosted a book club meeting about a year ago, she had made a fairy garden in a large pot and put it on the back porch with her other plants. She got the idea from Plant Emporium, which carries not only tiny succulents but also fairies and miniature garden furniture.

“Glenda was so tickled with my fairy garden,” says Pam, “that she decided to create some, too.” My retired special education teacher friend is quite the encourager and mighty creative herself, and I’m glad she prodded Glenda into letting me in on this, uh, hobby, for lack of a better word.

To make her gardens, Glenda gets for fairy garden theme items. She also makes use of moss and a variety of small plants from her own yard, as well as sand, gravel, and dirt.

houses, game pieces—such as Monopoly houses and hotels—and gnomes, among other things,” Glenda says. “For one of the gardens, I even made a hanging ladder using twigs and wire. Fairy gardens are similar to terrariums. Like terrariums, they include foliage. It’s fun for me to create simply for the sake of creating.”

With these materials from various sources, she puts together a whimsy.

Glenda never has sold a piece she’s created, nor does she want to. Before you ask, I’ll go ahead and tell you that she doesn’t do custom-made fairy gardens.

She does, however, invite friends’ children and grandchildren to come over to see her many fairy gardens, all of which are tucked under the protecting limbs of a crepe myrtle tree in her front lawn.

I had fun crouching to take pictures of Glenda’s handiwork.

Why fairy gardens? “They’re an outlet for my creativity,” says Glenda. “They

Glenda couldn’t pinpoint exactly how old she was when she realized she was

“What IS a fairy garden, you ask? Well, instead of using merely fresh greenery

creative, but she’s always liked crafts. “I tend not to give up or get frustrated,” she mused. “I just sometimes approach a project from a different angle. Although I do these fairy gardens [and gnome gardens and Humpty Dumpty gardens and the like], I basically do them for my own enjoyment.

Glenda “delivers” (not literally—the gardens are hardly portable) these delightful little lawn decorations, but she’s so modest she didn’t even want me to take a picture of her. Of course she did let me take pictures of the gardens, thank goodness! I could tell that she took pride in her creations, especially those that required research on Pinterest and other sites, but she certainly didn’t brag. I doubt she knows how to.

I was glad, though, when Pam championed her talent and mentioned that Glenda had done other really nifty things inside her house. At Pam’s prompting, Glenda agreed to show me a square wreath, a collection of stylized Christmas trees that are so “unChristmasy” they looked good on her mantelpiece even in May, a miniature collection of Matchbox trucks with tiny Christmas trees in their beds, and a guest bedroom dresser adorned with variously sized earthenware pieces, which made for a clever still life.

My favorite, though, besides one particular fairy garden involving animals, was her dining room table centerpiece.

Glenda won second place at the Butts County Fair in the fall of 2013 for the arrangement that now graces her table.

It consists of toilet paper tubes that she’d unrolled and cut out into a leaf shape. Then she sewed a vein down the middle of each leaf and painted each by hand. To set it off, she inserted curly willow branches. Granted, I’m not what you’d call a professional decorator, but, in my opinion, that centerpiece would look great on anyone’s table, regardless of the style of furniture, wall color, or anything else. It’s good to know that the

judges at last fall’s fair recognized uniqueness when they saw it! And it’ll be good for you to know that Glenda has some to see Booth #16 at this establishment across the street from Liberty Technology.

Creating and designing occupy much of this lady’s time, but she is involved in other activities as well. Along with others on the Jackson Arts Council, she volunteers to work at the Arts Center at Indian Springs. Through mid-October, they offer displays of various arts and crafts, on consignment; these displays include paintings, photography, wood turning, and jewelry. The group also provides art classes for both children and adults. Glenda is also a Master Gardener, plays bridge several times a month, and somehow still has time to serve as the president of the Butts County Friends of the Library. Most importantly, though, she spends time with her son, a Georgia Tech graduate who lives in Duluth with his wife.

In early June, I took eight-year-old Sara and her grandmother to see those fairy gardens, and Sara in particular was fascinated. Want to take your own children or grandchildren or seniors group to see these wonderful delights? Shoot me an email (betsybookstore@aol.com), and I’ll forward it to gnomes in the cooling shade of a crepe myrtle tree. Give those little people my regards!

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By Elaine Krugman with Betsy Harris Photos by Elaine Krugman Have you ever been so absorbed in an activity that you lost track of time and asked yourself, “Wow, where did the time go?” This state of effortless concenand Dennis McDonald has mastered the ability to become completely immersed in his passion.

Ever since retiring two years ago from his career as a neonatal intensive care nurse, Dennis has been living in bliss while creating gorgeous works of art from the hard outer shells of gourds, a plant that dates back to 13,000 BC. How did this Hampton resident reinvent himself from career nurse to gourd artist? This was a question I was curious to ask after meeting Dennis last September at the 2013 Georgia Gourd Festival where I admired

and photographed his prize-winning gourds. I learned the answer when Betsy Harris and I met with Dennis recently at his home-based workshop.

“I always enjoyed working with my hands, and I was looking for things to do in retirement. I remembered I had a wood burner from my Cub Scout days, but as I was looking on the computer, I found that wood burners have changed since I was a Cub Scout. So, I bought a good wood burner and practiced with it.

My wife had some gourds lying around the house. She had one gourd covering a potted plant, and I started working with that and the wood burner. I went crazy with it! I like the feel of gourds. It’s like rubbing a worry stone.”

Glancing over at the item Dennis was talking about, I thought it was a woven basket. It wasn’t until I examined it closely that I realized it was indeed a gourd that had been burned in a perfect basket weave pattern. The meticulous pyrography—or wood burning—technique used to create this work of art was stunning, especially since it was one of Transforming himself from nurse to prizewinning gourd artist has been a quick ascent for Dennis. He worked with gourds for six to eight months before he realized there are many other people who create art from gourds. Dennis at-

show in Perry in 2011 and then joined the society. He worked at the 2012 show and entered his gourds in the competition; he was awarded Best New Artist in 2012. In 2013, he moved up to the Masters division and won Best of Show.

This year, he competes in the Grand Master division.

If there is one word to describe Dennis other than “artist,” it is “humble.”

In his typical modest manner, Dennis said, “I like challenging myself, and I’m still amazed that people think it’s nice.”

He also continues to be surprised when people use the term “artist” and his name in the same sentence.

Take a close look at the gourds in these photographs, though, and it is quite apparent Dennis is indeed a gifted artist. I wondered where all his skill came from, considering his lack of artistic experience, but he explained, “Working with babies takes up a lot of you. I think when I closed that door, it freed up a lot of disk space in my brain…it turns into a Zen-like thing for me. I get lost in it.

When I’m working on a project, sometimes I forget to eat, and I’ll spend the rest of the night in the shop. I tend to get obsessed with things I really enjoy.

I have the time now, and I can play all I want. It didn’t take much adjustment to retire. When I let the nursing profession go, I was ready.”

“I’m a very slow worker. I like the process so much it takes me a long time, because I plan,” Dennis continued. “The to do things that other people haven’t done yet. For example, there’s a basket weave, a herringbone pattern I had never seen on a gourd before. I had to think

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said including a beautiful necklace with a carved gourd pendant.

about it for a year and a half or two years the challenge. If I’ve tried something once, I want to try something new and challenge myself again.”

Experimenting with gourds has led him to try everything from carving to inlaying clay and painting with dyes to incorporating objects found at antique stores.

One of his 2014 Georgia Gourd Festival entries will feature an antique belt buckle as the centerpiece. In the future, Dennis is going to try making a medallion from a piece of gourd and inlaying it onto another gourd. Clearly, this sounds like an excellent contender for a future Grand Master prize!

Still, with all the experimenting Dennis has done with gourds, wood burning is his favorite technique. “A majority of gourd artists will use a wood burner, because gourds are such a great medium for wood burning. There is no grain, and the surface is even,” Dennis explained, adding that carving is a close secondfavorite technique. use in their gourd art, Asian is Dennis’s favorite style of art to incorporate in his work with gourds. He became inspired

by Asian art when he was stationed in Vietnam while serving in the military.

Now, all these years later, this style was evident in several of his gourds on display at the festival where we met,

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The upcoming 2014 Georgia Gourd Festival will feature Dennis’s gourds in the Asian category once again, as well as several other categories, including carving, pyrography, Native American, and miniature. In all, there are 34 categories in each of the three adult divisions (Novice, Master, and Grand Master).

Fortunately, you won’t have to travel far to attend the festival and see all of the beautiful gourds on display. As Dennis recalled, “The Georgia Gourd Society

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annual festival over the last couple of years, because L.V. Skipper and the Kiwanis have been very generous. They have let us use their building at the fairgrounds for our patch meetings at no charge. It’s just a great venue.”

This year, Dennis will be teaching a class at the festival for a nominal fee, and students will end up with a gourd they can take home. Those who get hooked on gourds as Dennis did can join the local Georgia Gourd Society gourd “patch”—or club—that Dennis started in that same sort of addiction happening to the new people who come in. After their same switch turning on. Some people really enjoy it and get swept away with it,” Dennis laughed.

“The members of the Gourd Society are really neat people,” said Dennis. “They are very willing to share what they know and very willing to show me how they do different things. They are so helpful, and I have learned so much from them.

show in 2012. He gave me a lot of tips and taught me a lot about what I do.”

Evidently, Troy and his wife, Ellen, who is president of the Georgia Gourd Society, and other club members have had a meaningful impact on Dennis as a budding artist. As he summed up his current life as a gourd artist, Dennis said unequivocally, “I’m obsessed!”

The Georgia Gourd Festival is free and open to the public on Saturday, September 27, 8-5 p.m. and Sunday, September 28, 9-4 p.m. Gourd entries from all over the state will be on display, including entries from three youth age group divisions. For more information, visit GeorgiaGourdSociety.com.

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ur French Market and Tavern experience began before our crew of eight even crossed the street from the parking lot. The warm brick walls, striped awnings, and window boxes tumbling over with a profusion of greenery promised a relaxing and aesthetically rewarding diversion. And that’s precisely what French Market delivered.

Proprietors Lauren Noah-Weaver and Rick Weaver have breathed new life into the 1902 J. L. Gardner General Store building and exhibit a heartfelt respect for its history. Lauren’s background in interior design is very much in evidence in the rustic industrial décor that includes beautiful tabletops and shelving constructed from the store’s original heart of pine flooring. During the renovation, the store’s “library” ladder (with a stamp date of 1897) was found in the attic. Once used for reaching goods on high shelves, it is now proudly displayed in the dining room.

And nowhere is Lauren’s impeccable taste and love for the eclectic, classy, and unique more evident than in the retail shop that makes a visit to French Market so much more than just “eating out.” A typical visit usually includes some lively shopping, expertly blended cocktails, and an exceptional meal.

A lovely special events room is filled with natural light streaming through heavy, richly stained French doors that open onto an intimate courtyard garden with a fireplace, fountain, and meandering plantings. Another outdoor area in back of the restaurant offers covered seating and is adorned with ferns, lamps, and string lights.

Background music is bluesy and classic jazz at just the right volume to encourage, not drown out, conversation. Although the dining room filled almost to capacity while we were there, we never had trouble hearing one another or our server.

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Both Rick and Chef Matlock hail from New Orleans, while Lauren is an Atlanta native. The result of their collaboration on the menus is a fabulous blend of Cajun and Southern flavors and techniques. A foremost example of this is the

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a fast one on the taste buds – making the onions sweet and the peaches savory, so it’s hard to tell where one flavor ends and another begins! Along with silky mashed potatoes, the caramelized, complex compote forms an ideal complement to the duck. This dish was the favorite for Josh, Brittany, and me!

I must also mention that Chef Matlock is a Soup Wizard. When we visited, the soup of the day was a Pepper Vodka Mushroom Bisque with a creamy, browned-butter aroma and flavor that was comfort-food perfection.

Ashley P. and I were WILD about this soup.

On the regular menu is the delicious Royal Street Brown Butter Gumbo, with Andouille sausage and spicy jasmine rice that was a favorite of Brittany’s, and Allison couldn’t decide which she enjoyed most!

French Market’s Chef Matlock enjoys a colorful culinary legacy. Her great-grandmother was the first female chef in New Orleans. According to Chef Matlock, “She wore a fedora and a three-piece suit every day, and her daughter was a burlesque dancer.”

Chef Matlock’s enthusiasm for French Market is palpable. She felt an immediate kinship with the Weavers and manager Lisa Powell. “It’s like Steel Magnolias,” she says. “These are my sisters.”

After collaboration with Rick and Lauren, Chef Matlock creates all the menus at home in shorthand. But then, she says, they need to love all aspects of the dish before it makes it into the dining room. “What happens at home has to happen on the plate. If we don’t like the way it looks, we don’t offer it. If we don’t enjoy eating it, we don’t offer it. If we don’t enjoy making it, we don’t offer it.”

Chef Matlock was also in complete agreement with the Weavers’ vision of creating Cajun/Southern fare, using locally sourced ingredients. She is thrilled with what our local farms have to offer and claims that “no produce can touch the produce here.” Sourcing locally is a policy she began with local fishermen in New Orleans and continues by visiting local farms personally. Chef Matlock sources, for example, her honey from Southern Dove Farms, her pecans from Finster, and fresh brown eggs from “Mr. Wayne.”

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As a starter, try the Spinach Artichoke & Tasso Dip in a bread bowl. Forget your

preconceptions – this is a reimagined favorite appetizer. Very well-balanced and served piping hot – the Louisiana Tasso ham lends its rich flavor without overpowering the delicate artichoke. Said Allison, “I’m not usually a fan of anything in a bread bowl, but that was a good one!”

Other menu highlights include the Crawfish Etouffee with impeccably cooked crawfish – tender, not at all rubbery – with just the right touch of heat. This dish received high marks from Nicole and Ashley M. And the Catfish

Elizabeth, served with smoked tomato and Tasso cream sauce,

went wonderfully with a side of mac & cheese.

This dish got two thumbs up from Josh who wisely observed, “Mac & cheese can do no wrong.” Ashley P. heartily agreed. Along with

the regular menu, the restaurant offers unique entrée specials on Friday and Saturday nights.

For dessert, the unanimous favorite was the Salted Caramel Vanilla Crunch Cake – a light, buttery vanilla/caramel marble cake with layers of salted caramel crunch and creamy custard.

Even if you never order dessert, order this.

French Market rose from the ashes of the 2008 real estate fiasco. Lauren, a real estate agent at the time, saw the handwriting on the wall. “You can cry about it,” she says, “or you can recreate yourself. I was just turning 40, and I decided to do something that would be harder than I ever imagined.” She and her husband bought the storefront and ended up gutting it all the way to the ground.

They thought they might fix up the building and resell it, but Lauren became increasingly invested in her growing dream for French Market as a multifaceted shopping and dining experience that would support local farmers and provide jobs – especially for talented, hard-working women in the area.

While several servers and kitchen workers are male, every department head at French Market is female.

Even with her far-sighted vision, Lauren didn’t foresee one of the greatest contributions of French Market’s success: the gradual revitalization of Locust Grove’s historical downtown area. As French Market set expectations higher, one by one, the businesses surrounding French Market have followed suit and have accomplished major renovation and restoration projects.

Lauren hopes that her experience of daring to reimagine and recreate herself, her business, and her community will inspire other women with similar dreams and ambitions to follow through on them. “Sometimes you have a dream, but you think, ‘Oh, I can’t do that.’ You have to try! The results might exceed your greatest expectations.”

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Even if you don’t keep up with the world of film criticism, the odds are pretty good that you’ve heard of the late Roger Ebert. Arguably the world’s most famous film critic, Ebert became a household name with the success of his television show At the Movies, which he cohosted with the prickly Gene Siskel. Officially, he was the film critic for the Chicago SunTimes. Unofficially, he was the film critic for the entire nation. w w w.k it chendr aw er.net

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Life Itself, inspired by Ebert’s memoir of the same name, makes a valiant effort to capture the richness and diversity of the man’s life. For the most part, it succeeds. .

In 2006, Ebert’s lower jaw was removed due to cancerous tissue which had built up. The operation robbed him of the ability to speak, a cruel irony, given that he was such a fantastic public speaker; many participants in the documentary reminisce about his ability to hold a crowd captive. Undeterred, Ebert expressed himself more loudly and passionately than ever by doubling down on his writing. He not only continued to churn out piles of movie reviews every week but also became a prominent presence on Twitter and began blogging on subjects as diverse as

devoted herself to helping him through his endless struggles.

His warm, considerate writing style and personal touch gave his reviews an immediate accessibility

I emailed Ebert for advice on film criticism, and he always replied with insight and wit.

always keeps coming back to the harsh realities of the present. The contrast is both startling and rather moving. The most engaging section barbs at each other that wouldn’t have made it past the network TV censors). Even so, there was a mostly unacknowledged kinship between illness. When Ebert himself was diagnosed with cancer years later, he deliberately chose not to let it take him quietly. He wrote with passion

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The title of Life Itself who lived life to its fullest from the beginning and who decided to keep living long after many others would have just given up. Ebert’s fans life story compelling and inspirational.

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