PUBLISHER’S LETTER
merry christmas
YOU HAVE IN YOUR HANDS (or on your screens) the biggest issue of Roswell Magazine to date. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we want to express so much gratitude to our sponsors, advertisers, partners and readers for supporting our mission to provide our community with an upscale print and digital magazine devoted entirely to Roswell! We are a small, local business, too, so every bit of support we get inspires us to keep doing what we’re doing - and trying to do it even better! There is way too much in this issue to mention it all here, but some of the highlights include a feature about how PURE Taqueria is now making their corn tortillas in house, a story about the brains behind the new live music venue opening soon Gypsy Rose, the most robust comprehensive calendar of Roswell’s holiday events on the planet, a sweet piece detailing the wedding weekend of one of Roswell’s favorite couples, our take on why Roswell is so appealing to upscale residential developers, and a ton of ideas for you to shop local this year for your Hanukkah and Christmas gifts (please!). I know we say this every year, but if we each made the commitment to shop local - rather than from big box stores - this season, then we could lift up our local economy in exciting ways! Our cover story fills everybody in on the 30th Anniversary performance of Roswell Dance Theatre’s “The Nutcracker,” where you can find the backstory, performance times and a list of over 300 local cast and crew! My prayer is that each of you reading this will have a truly memorable Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, as well as a very, very merry, happy, joyful, fabulous, spiritual, peace-filled Christmas. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year to live in Roswell. We’re still having fun connecting with all of you on Facebook, but I’ve recently joined Instagram - woo hoo! So please give me some love over on IG @roswellmagazine. And don’t miss checking out page 15 for info on nominating a 40&under local person for our 2019 contest! Deadline is January 31, 2019. www.30075life.com/40 #givelocal
Regina
14 | November/December 2018
photo by Ashley Blencoe