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September 2016 DEPARTMENTS 15 Simple Life By Jim Dodson
FEATURES
20 Short Stories 23 Doodad By Grant Britt
71 Hole in the Sky
Poetry by Bob Wickless
SEE FOLK CITY
25 O.Harry By Harry Blair
72 World Music By Grant Britt
27 Life’s Funny By Maria Johnson
Greensboro’s place in folk music history
29 Omnivorous Reader By Stephen Smith 33 Scuppernong Bookshelf 36 Artist at Work By Maria Johnson 43 Vine Wisdom By Robyn James 45 Spirits
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79 Offbeat By Ogi Overman
There’s more to The National Folk Festival than music
80 The Happy House in the Woods By Annie Ferguson A quiltist and master gardener customcreate their ideal home in the lively woods of Summerfield
74 The Mythic Faces of Tate Street Music By Jim Clark
90 A Work in Progress
76 Making Tracks By Grant Britt
97 Almanac
A Remembrance of Greensboro’s music scene
Andy Zimmerman’s and ArtsGreensboro’s mini-folk fest on Lewis Street
By Ross Howell, Jr. For Cindy Jones and Craig Wagoner, 19 years was just enough time to produce a magical garden shaped by imagination and spirit By Ash Alder A Harvest Moon, asters and the autumnal equinox
49 Gate City Journal By Grant Britt
51 True South By Susan Kelly
53 Threads
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57 Life of Jane
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60 Alamance Photo Club 63 Papadaddy By Clyde Edgerton
65 Birdwatch
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67 Wandering Billy By Billy Eye
98 Arts Calendar 119 GreenScene 127 Accidental Astrologer By Astrid Stellanova
128 O.Henry Ending By Pamelia Barham
For our recreation of an iconic Woodstock image celebrating the 76th Annual National Folk Festival, we invited another icon of the music biz to be our cover boy. Craig Fuller is not only a prolific, Grammynominated songwriter but founding member the the legendary country rock band Pure Prairie League — and man who penned the famous anthem “Amie.” He went on to work with Eric Katz and Little Feat, shaping several of their most acclaimed albums. The engaging father of four now divides his time between Pinehurst and Nashville. We think he looks darn good in painted denim. Speaking of working icons, our classic jean Wrangler jacket was donated by VF Corporation and hand painted by one of our favorite artists, Denise Baker.
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Walkin’ Man
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After two years of being sidelined
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from a severe injury, I recently underwent knee surgery and began walking to work in the mornings again and with our dogs in the evenings.
Frankly I’d forgotten how good it feels — how walking through a busy world at a neighborly pace provides useful time to think and helps one notice important small things right in front of your nose. “I tell people that I walk for sanity, not vanity,” says my friend Dennis Quaintance, the Greensboro hotelier who has been a dedicated daily walker in historic Green Hill Cemetery for years. “A walk helps me make sense of the world.” The health benefits of a daily walk are also amply documented, and I’ve even managed to drop a dozen pounds since I resumed my regular walks three or four weeks ago. Soon I hope to be up to walking a complete golf course again, just in time for my wife and me to slip away to Scotland later this month. In some ways my involuntary removal from golf prompted a true awakening. I probably took the ability to walk for granted and am both relieved and resolved to be back cruising the world on two feet. Ditto my new friend and fellow golfer Kevin Reinert. We met last Father’s Day at a family golf event I host annually for the Pinewhurst Resort, a gathering of like-minded souls created around a surprise best-selling book of mine called Final Rounds, a story about taking my father back to England and Scotland, where he learned to play golf during the Second World War. On the first night of the event I typically welcome 125 or so folks from around the country and give a little talk aimed at setting a lighthearted tone for golf and fellowship. After this year’s opening dinner, a fit-looking fellow about my age came up
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to say hello with his wife, Jean. “This is my first year here,” explained Reinert, offering me his hand. “I just want to say thank you for saving my life.” I smiled, waiting for the punch line. But there wasn’t one. “No, seriously,” he said, “your book on Ben Hogan inspired me to get up and teach myself to walk again.” And with that, he told me an absolutely extraordinary story of courage and one man’s resolve to put his shattered world — and legs — back together. It was a beautiful evening a year ago this October when Kevin Reinert put his golf bag on a trolley at Greensboro’s Starmount Forest Country Club, hoping to get in a quick 18 before meeting Jean at a special fundraiser at the club. “It had been raining for days,” he remembers, “but the weather had suddenly cleared. It was a beautiful evening.” Reinert, 62, is a retired Air Force colonel who spent almost 30 years working in recruiting and public affairs for the Air Force and Air Force Reserve. He was the administrator responsible for overseeing public affairs for 35 different Reserve units around the United States and the men who helped transform the Reserve’s recruiting profile. Eleven years ago, Kevin and Jean, who met and married while both were captains on active duty in 1985, relocated from Georgia to Greensboro, where Kevin went to work for The Brooks Group, a leading sales management consulting firm. Before being deployed to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Jean Reinert taught nursing at UNCG and returned from active duty to become nursing administrator for Cone Health. “Greensboro was a place we fell for in an instant,” Reinert explained. “It has everything, great restaurants, theaters, wonderful people and a location that was perfect for us — the mountains in one direction, the coast in another. Our kids were grown and doing their thing, and North Carolina really felt like home.” But all of that changed in an instant as Reinert pushed his golf trolley September 2016
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toward Starmount’s beautiful finishing tee. “There was a group ahead of me, just out in the fairway, when my phone went off alerting me to incoming messages. I looked down, thinking it might be Jean, as I walked toward the tee. That’s when I heard this ferocious sound. I looked up but I didn’t quite register what I was seeing.” What he saw was a Kia Rio with smashed side mirrors barreling directly toward him over the course’s cart path. “I had just enough time to try and jump out of its way. So I jumped, hoping — I don’t know — that maybe I’d land on the hood and roll over the top like you see guys do in the movies. I didn’t get high enough,” he notes with a laugh. The car struck him at the knees and knocked him over the hood and roof before barreling on. Reinert was tossed 30 feet from the site of impact, landing on the tee. The car was estimated to have been traveling anywhere from 35 to 45 mph, driven by a man who was on a violent robbery and mugging spree, trying to outrun the police. He managed to get one hole farther before the car went out of control and wound up in one of Starmount’s meandering creeks. The driver set off on foot, commandeered another car and was later apprehended. “My first thought, as I lay there, was a kind of stunned disbelief. I saw that one leg was lying at a 90 degree angle from my body, and when I tried to lift myself up, my arm wouldn’t function.” Workmen from a nearby residence hurried over, calling 911. The group ahead also rushed back. Reinert asked one of the golfers, a fellow member named Mike Corbett, to find his phone and call his wife. “Jean was over at UNCG and thought I said I’d been hit by a golf cart. She hurried over and actually got there before the ambulance did.” Owing to heavy rains, the EMS unit couldn’t reach the spot on the course where Reinert lay, but head professional Bill Hall hurried out with a flatbed cart just as a fire unit arrived with a rescue board. “They got me on the board and Bill drove me back to the parking lot, where the ambulance was waiting. It was a bumpy ride and he kept apologizing. I was probably close to being in shock but joked to him that he’d better not charge me for a cart because I’d walked the course. He thought that was funny. I also told him that if I’d parred the hole, I probably would have shot 87. He couldn’t believe I was conscious and making jokes. But I knew I was in pretty bad shape.” Both Reinert’s knees were crushed. He’d suffered a shattered femur, a broken tibia, a broken right ankle and a fractured right humerus bone, the upper bone of the arm. “There was a deep cut on my face but, amazingly, no head injuries,” he said. “I was conscious the whole way, already wondering if I would be able to walk again.” The next morning he underwent six hours of surgery. This was followed by four more surgeries over the ensuing weeks. “The doctors couldn’t give me a clear prognosis or even tell me if I would ever be able to walk or referee or even play golf again.” Besides golf, one of Kevin Reinert’s other pleasures was a budding avocation as a college-level lacrosse official. After 18 days in the hospital, he was sent home. He began therapy three days a week that continues to this day. “The hardest part was just not knowing what was ahead. I sat and tried to watch TV, but the news was so discouraging I decided to turn it off and read books instead.” An old pal from Long Island who taught him to play golf during their college years together at Adelphi University sent him a box of books, one of which was Ben Hogan: An American Life, my biography of professional golf’s most elusive superstar. At the height of his success, while returning home from a golf tournament in Arizona, Hogan and his wife, Valerie, were struck head-on by a Greyhound bus that shattered Hogan’s legs and nearly killed the star golfer. His obituary, The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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Wingin’ It
Who isn’t charmed at the sight of tiny, ruby-throated visitors hovering over red flowers and feeders, while beating their wings at an astonishing fifty times per second? Known for their ability to fly extremely long distances (and backward), hummingbirds never fail to fascinate — and in some cultures have become the symbol of joy and playfulness. On September 8th at noon, find out how to attract them to your yard at “Gardening for Hummingbirds,” a Lunch and Learn at Ciener Botanical Garden (215 South Main Street, Kernersville), courtesy of Audubon North Carolina’s Bird Friendly Community Coordinator Kim Brand. To register: (336) 996-7888 or cienerbotanicalgarden.org.
Venture Capitol
Here’s something Greensboro residents — and in fact every North Carolinian — would agree is worth a road trip to Raleigh: a shindig to help preserve our state’s capitol. Since 1840, the Greek Revival monument with the iconic domed rotunda has been home to N.C.’s seat of government. But the er, state-ly lady with National Historic Landmark status needs constant primping. Thanks to the North Carolina Capitol Foundation, she has, since 1976, seen windows and lighting repaired, statues and paintings restored, desks, chairs and lighting refurbished, and received 60,000 schoolchildren (and more than 100,000 across the state, county and globe) every year. So why not help keep the People’s House of North Carolina presentable, by presenting yourself at the “Shuckin’ and Shaggin’” oyster roast at 7 p.m. on September 16? Held on the capitol’s grounds (1 East Edenton Street, Raleigh), the affair is a casual one, with shagging demos, music by the Embers, tasty food and beverages and a silent auction. Tickets: ncstatecapitol.org.
Toque-n of Affection
Burners are on, pans are sizzlin,’ spatulas are raised. Yes, it’s that time again: Men Can Cook takes place at on September 24 at 6 p.m. at the Coliseum Special Events Center (1921 West Gate City Boulevard, Greensboro). Line up to sample hors d’oeuvres, meats, sweets, sides and more from various chefs — some amateur, some professional, all of them fellas who have a desire to dish it out while serving the community. The event, which also features a silent auction, benefits the Women’s Resource Center, whose mission is to promote the self-reliance of women by meeting unmet needs, holding educational programs and workshops. Tickets: (336) 2a75-6090 or womenscentergso.org.
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Love, Not War
Opposing views of war erupt in the bedroom when an idealistic young Bulgarian woman (Raina) hides a Swiss mercenary and war skeptic (Buchstil) during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war, the backdrop for George Bernard Shaw’s popular comedy, Arms and the Man. Deemed Shaw’s wittiest by author George Orwell fifty years after the play’s debut, Arms was Shaw’s first commercial success. We wish Triad Stage similar success when it launches its 2016–17 season with a revival of Arms and the Man September 11–October 1 at the Pyrle Theatre (232 South Elm Street, Greensboro). Tickets: (336) 274-0067 or triadstage.org.
A Time to Read
Winston-Salem’s BookMarks Festival of Books and Authors has outdone itself again. Expanding from three days to four, the event kicks off on Thursday September 8th at 7 p.m. with a keynote opening event with Azar Nafasi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books at Hanesbrands Theatre (209 North Spruce Street, Winston-Salem), continues on Friday the 9th with three “Eat & Greets” at various locations around town, before the free festival on Saturday the 10th in front of the Rhodes Center for the Arts. The roster of scribes on hand includes Annie Barrows, John Hart, Terry McMillan, Simon Goodman, Davis Miller and on and on. Capping off the weekend is an address from the master of the legal thriller, John Grisham. And that’s just the beginning. BookMarks is currently scouting locations for an independent bookstore, which it hopes to open in 2017, another way to spread education, outreach . . . and a love of books. Tickets and info: (800) 838-3006 or bookmarksnc.org. The Art & Soul of Greensboro
The Feminine Mystique
Remove the slogans and taglines, and a hundred years of advertising images paint a different story than intended. Falk Visiting Artist Hank Willis Thomas does just that in Unbranded: A Century of White Women 1915–2015, opening at Weatherspoon Art Museum (500 Tate Street, Greensboro) on September 3. Revealing how corporate ad campaigns have marketed products to women and created a perception of women’s social roles, the exhibition addresses larger themes of virtue, beauty, power and desire. The exhibition will be on view until December 11. Info: (336) 334-5770 or weatherspoon.uncg.edu.
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The Way of All Flesh
The art of bodypainting has been an accepted art form throughout most of the world for at least a half-century, but only in the last decade has America gotten in on the act. Much of that overdue interest is due to Reidsville couple Scott Fray and Madelyn Greco, who from 2011–2014 captured an unprecedented five world titles in five categories. They have since made the leap from competitors to presenters at The North American Bodypainting Championship, which for years called Atlanta home — until this year. Starting September 24, the event’s main competition comes to the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center, with ancillary events, such as live painting, a film festival and an awards gala taking place for the remaining five days at the Carolina Theatre, Revolution Mill and the Millennium Center in Winston-Salem. It is expected to draw as many as sixty artists from five continents and twenty countries, including current and past world champions, who will compete for a share of the total purse of $15,000. Proceeds go to benefit the Chelko Foundation, which seeks to empower women through art. Tickets: livingartamerica.com. —Ogi O.
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“War! What is it good for?” Before you answer “absolutely nuthin’” and say it again, think again. Armed conflict has been a muse for countless works of art, literature and, as the lyric of this anti-bellum Motown hit suggests, music. Examining the role of conflict in culture, and giving nod to the centennial of the United States’ entry into World War I is the interdisciplinary initiative, “Imagining War and Peace” for the 2016–17 academic year. It includes a broad scope of courses on Tolstoy’s War and Peace, medieval love and war, and Trojan war narratives, concerts, lectures and films, from Platoon to The King of Hearts and much more. For a complete listing of events and information on a mobile app and social media tie-ins, go to http:// warandpeace.uncg.edu
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Ogi Sez Ogi Overman Oh yes, I am aware that the National Folk Festival will include more than thirty musical acts. And, yes, I plan to be there all three days from beginning to end. But I am also aware that September has twentyseven more days.
• September 15, O.Henry Hotel:
You could pick out a random Thursday at O.Henry Cocktails and Jazz, and never hit a clunker. But this night promises to be a red-letter date with Cary’s Angela Bingham. Her new album, The Night We Called It a Day, has the critics drooling and the fans swooning.
• September 17, Doodad Farm: Groovejam is an all-day affair put on by Rich Lerner and it benefits the Greensboro Urban Ministry. Now in its fifth year, the party features not only his band, the Groove, but the Fairlanes, Ladies Auxiliary and a half-dozen other top local bands, as well. So go get your groove on. • September 24, Blind Tiger: Parody
meets party meets performance art in the character of Unknown Hinson. But underneath the slicked-back hair and sideburns lies a voice that could easily be anyone from Faron Young, or Ernest Tubb to Porter Wagoner. UH takes his comedy seriously, but the boy can flat out sing.
• September 25, Carolina Theatre: Until the good ol’ U.S. of A. restored relations with Cuba, the Havana Cuba All-Stars were legends on the island and anonymous everywhere else. No more. And, believe me, that is our gain. This twelve-man ensemble is a treasure that needs to be shared with the world.
• September 29, Greensboro
Coliseum: Continuing the Latin theme, Juan Gabriel is known as Mexico’s most prolific and popular singer/composer/producer. With more than twenty-five albums to his credit in a variety of styles, he is finally making inroads into the American musical consciousness. And it’s about time.
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Life’s Funny
THE BIG ASK!! Just trying to have me some fun(d)
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Dear Potential Sponsors,
I wanted to let you know that I have the most amazing opportunity. I can’t believe it. It’s like a dream come true. I could go to Tahiti!
THAT’S RIGHT, Tahiti!! I have always wanted to go to Tahiti!! And now it’s possible for me to go!! YES!! There’s just one hitch: money. Don’t get me wrong. I could save enough money to go to Tahiti. But I really don’t want to do that. I want YOU to pay for it!! ISN’T CROWDFUNDING AWESOME?!! In case you don’t know, crowdfunding happens when people go online (and sometimes in magazines!!) to ask for money for specific projects. This idea is, you can raise a lot of money if everyone gives a little. Usually, the projects help people who are truly needy or down on their luck. But sometimes, the campaigns are like mine!!! Just to be clear, I am not sick. I am not a flood victim. Or a crime victim. I have no religious agenda. I’m not trying to help anyone. Or be reunited. Or start a business to benefit people. I JUST WANT TO GO TO TAHITI!!! COME TO THINK OF IT, MY HUSBAND WANTS TO GO, TOO! He’s a swell guy. We’ve been married twenty-seven years, and he’s always there for me. He loads the dishwasher every night! He walks the dog every morning! Sometimes, when we grill hamburgers, he points to the last one on the platter and says, “Do you want that?” And I’m like, “Awwwwwwwww! You are soooooooo sweeeeeeet! Yes. Yes, I do!” And he gets this sad little look on his face. WHAT AN ADORABLE GUY! How can you not send this man to Tahiti with me? Right about now, you might be saying, “Where the heck is Tahiti, and why do you want to go?” Well, allow me to educate you. Tahiti is an island in the South Pacific. It is part of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, south of Hawaii and directly east of Australia. The sunsets are breathtaking, and water is Ty-D-Bol blue. The area is a magnet for movie stars and artists, and it has been for a long time. The French painter Paul Gauguin lived in Tahiti in the late 1890s. Marlon Brando liked it, too. He bought a chain of tiny islets near Tahiti after filming there for his 1962 film Mutiny on the Bounty.
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In fact, his former islets are now home to a super-luxury resort called The Brando. You guessed it!! That’s where we want to stay!! Yes, it’s expensive, but we plan to go in the OFF SEASON!! BIG $$$$AVINGS! I can hear the cynics now. “Maria, why should we help you and your husband go Tahiti? Why don’t you spend your own money on something that benefits only you?” Wow. OK. Wow. Let me explain something, all right? This trip is about ENRICHMENT. It’s about enabling us to OPEN our minds, and UNDERSTAND another culture, and RESPECT indigenous people. Who do you think bakes the croissants in these places? Who rakes the beaches and minds the bicycle liveries? Who gives the massages at the spas? The local people, that’s who. We will be interacting with them face-to-face, talking to them as needed, and tipping them — but not too much because we will be good stewards of your generous donations! If we happen to see people in dire need — which, let’s face it, would be a total vacation downer — we will point them to local churches. Also, we will be documenting things with our cell phones and posting our photos and videos. DOCUMENTATION IS VERY IMPORTANT WHEN YOU DO A CROWDFUNDING PROJECT!! What will we be documenting? Well, endangered stuff for sure. Coral reefs, probably, when we go snorkeling. Maybe migrating whales, when we go kayaking. Birds. God knows there’s got to be an endangered bird over there somewhere. So, really, this trip is about learning, which is almost like RESEARCH, which, as we all know, has been linked to SCIENCE! Let’s just call this trip what it is: a SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION!! WHOA! YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO BACK A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION!! I’ll tell you something else: You ARE going to directly benefit from this trip because a) We will tell the most wonderful stories about Tahiti at your next party, and b) We will text all of our donors the recipes for the best drinks we encounter in the course of our research at The Brando. Don’t you want to know how to make The Dirty Old Bob? YOU KNOW YOU DO!!! So don’t hesitate. Please give to this worthy cause. We would sooooooo appreciate it! THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU in advance!!! With Beaucoup Good Energy, Maria P.S.: A few people have asked about going to Tahiti with us. We have carefully considered these requests, and, after many nanoseconds of thought, we have decided it’s probably best if you create your own crowdfunding pitch. In other words: Go fund yourselves. OH To help Maria get to Tahiti, go to www.giveit-heresukkah.com and click on the
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The Omnivorous Reader
Updike Redux A collection of 186 stories and a new biography are a chance to reexamine a remarkable literary life
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Updike, Adam Begley quotes from a letter John Updike wrote to his mother while he was a student at Harvard: “We need a writer who desires both to be great and to be popular, an author who can see America as clearly as Sinclair Lewis, but, unlike Lewis, is willing to take it to his bosom.” Updike was describing the writer he’d become. For more than 50 years his novels, essays, poems and short stories filled America’s bookshelves, and the upper middle class, the culturati from which he drew his characters and themes, received each new volume with enthusiasm. When Updike died of lung cancer in 2009 (addiction trumped intellect), we were left with 30 novels, 15 short story collections and umpteen books of poetry and assorted prose to appreciate anew. With the publication of Library of America’s quality two-volume edition (a boxed set) and Begley’s biography, Updike, readers have an opportunity to read or reread 186 stories (the Bech and Maples stories are published in separate volumes) arranged in order of publication. Astute readers can correlate the stories with Begley’s exposition of Updike’s richly complex life as an observer and participant in the subculture about which he wrote with extravagance and often shocking excess. Best remembered for his “Rabbit” novels, it’s Updike’s short stories, most of which were published in The New Yorker, that most closely parallel the life he lived. Begley is quick to point out that few American fiction writers were more autobiographical than Updike — so obsessively so as to raise questions about Updike’s capacity for rational detachment. Readers unfamiliar with his short fiction are forewarned that his dominant theme is betrayal and its resultant complexities. His characters are white, usually Protestant members of the American upper middle class living in southeastern Pennsylvania or New England. His subject is adultery. The operative emotion is guilt, as explained in his 1977 story The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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Omnivorous Reader luminary and held responsible stations in various Protestant churches. In the final analysis, however, Updike is more than a horndog with a thesaurus. In conveying memorable life moments, true and full of empathy, and producing examples of sense experience used to good effect, he is unsurpassed. The poignant, knifing nuances of life permeate his fiction, as with this typical passage from a pedantically sexual visit to a dental hygienist in “Tristan and Iseult”: “Sometimes his roving eyes flicked into her own, then leaped away, overwhelmed by their glory, their — as the deconstructionists say — presence. His glance didn’t dare linger even long enough to register the color of these eyes; he gathered only the spiritual, starlike afterimage of their living gel, simultaneously crystalline and watery, behind the double barrier of her glasses and safety goggles, above the shield-shaped paper mask hiding her mouth, her chin, her nostrils. So much of her was enwrapped, protected. Only her essentials were allowed to emerge, like a barnacle’s feathery appendages, her touch and her steadfast, humorless gaze.” Updike is tirelessly observant, and any careful reader of his fiction is bound to wonder if there’s an emotion, gesture or technical detail that’s gone unexplored. Updike’s early stories are a study in the evolution of the great writer he would become, and the later stories are often burdened with excess detail and Jamesian syntactical constructs that leave the reader yearning for a misplaced comma or a dangling modifier. The less ambitious middle stories — most notably those included in the collections “Museums and Women” and “Trust Me” — are varied in subject matter and more experimental in structure and execution. “The Orphaned Swimming Pool,” “Invention of the Horse Collar,” “Poker Night,” “Under the Microscope,” “Museums and Women,” “During the Jurassic,” “The Baluchitherium,” “The Slump” and “Still of Some Use” are departures from Updike’s formulaic adultery fiction. They’re overlooked gems that avoid the quirky, distracting The New Yorker ending and are more immediately appreciated. Updike became the writer he described in that long ago letter to his mother. A large segment of the American public took him to their bosom, convinced that his vision of America was correct — or at least sufficiently believable. Whether his literary reputation will eclipse that of Sinclair Lewis’, well, that remains to be seen. OH Stephen E. Smith is a retired professor and the author of seven books of poetry and prose. He’s the recipient of the Poetry Northwest Young Poet’s Prize, the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for poetry, and four North Carolina Press awards The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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Male Call
Exploring masculinity in American letters
It’s hard for men to know how to
behave. Acceptable social behavior changes from generation to generation, and sometimes from year to year. The pompous balloon of chivalry, once the norm, has been lanced and deflated. Even holding the door open for “the fairer sex” feels antiquated at best, demeaning in many circumstances. What’s a man to do?
Change is difficult, and some will resist it with all the testosterone in their rage-filled veins. This month’s Scuppernong Bookshelf looks at the phenomenon of “Toxic Masculinity” from a literary perspective. Who are the pillars of hyper-masculine literature? How do we think of them today? And what contemporary books address the evolving norms of masculinity? The grand men of 20th-century American literature have not aged well. Ernest Hemingway and Norman Mailer should be judged for the excesses of their openly demeaning attitudes and behaviors toward women. And the crimes of the Beats include William Burroughs killing his wife, among a litany of misogynist behavior by other Beat writers. Still, we can read The Sun Also Rises and The Executioner’s Song and Naked Lunch with enthusiasm and interest even as we recognize the failings of the authors. Can’t we? Neil LaBute, a prolific playwright, really made his name with an early, provocative film, In the Company of Men, in which two men separately The Art & Soul of Greensboro
seduce a deaf coworker, then dump her, comparing notes and enjoying themselves all the way. It’s a savage film and controversial in its day, exploring both the dark side of male conquest and the sliminess of the relationships some men have with each other. Reasons to Be Pretty (Faber & Faber, 2008. $14) is pretty much more of the same. The thing is, LaBute no longer appears to be exploring the dark side of masculinity, he just seems to be sadistically reveling in it. There’s not much fresh or engaging here. It’s just another exercise in walking a fine line toward misogyny under the guise of psychological truth. The characters are repellent, which is a LaBute calling card, but they’re not saying anything new, so that the play itself becomes a monument to the very thing it professes to explore. Unlearning toxic behaviors is painful enough. Unlearning toxic behaviors as a country is truly excruciating. J.M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize–winning 1999-novel Disgrace (Penguin, 2000. $16) follows the fall of a predatory English professor, David Lurie, who employs the words of Lord Byron to manipulate his young female students into bed. It is the story of a man who must pay for his actions, which are simultaneously a metaphor for the abuses of white males in post-Apartheid South Africa. Reading this multilayered text is by no means easy, but then again, neither is change. The knockout stories in Junot Díaz’s This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead, 2013. $16) continue the misadventures of Yunior, narrator throughout most of Díaz’s other books Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, as he tackles love — romantic, familial, unrequited, and doomed. Presumed dominance as a man living in a hyper-masculine Dominican-American culture September 2016
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Fights of Fancy
Aerial artist Jay Jones trades in a different kind of mobile device By Maria Johnson
Jay Jones walks into HQ Greens-
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There, in the rafters, twirls a piece of his art: a mobile. Its long arms look like I-beams. Two white figurines, courtesy of a 3-D printer, sit at the end of a beam. Jones was inspired to make the mobile after looking at Charles Ebbets’s famous photograph, Lunch atop a Skyscraper, which captured workers taking a break over New York City in 1932. Riding currents of air-conditioning, the mobile catches the eye, demanding a pause and a gawk. Funny thing about mobiles, Jones observes: They’re moving, but they have the opposite effect on viewers. “They cause people to slow down,” he says. Here’s another funny thing about mobiles: They’ve quickened Jones’s career as an artist. Since 2012, when he dived into mobile making full time, Jones has amassed a client list that includes several private customers and about 250 galleries, museum shops, and home furnishings stores around the world. Abroad, his mobiles pirouette in Spain, France, Belgium and Japan.
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In New York, the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum stock his mobile kits. So do the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Closer to home, the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh sells his kits. You can find his assembled mobiles for sale in the Biltmore Estate gift shop and at the Grovewood Gallery, next to the Grove Park Inn in Asheville. Area Inc., a modern home furnishings store in Greensboro, carries his pieces. Jones also has created large, commissioned works for private homes in New York, California and Atlanta. “It’s a challenge, being a professional artist,” says Jones, 57. “But if you have a good product, you can do it.” A native of Arizona, Jones started making his flights of fancy in a roundabout way. After a semester of college, he landed in San Diego, where he acted and built sets for The Old Globe theater. Connections took him to New York City, where he continued making sets for Broadway shows, the New York Shakespeare Festival and the children’s TV show Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. “That was a lot of fun,” he says. More fun came while working with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Jones traveled to Naples, Italy, with renowned artist Robert Rauschenberg, who had designed the scenery for a show. A dock strike stranded the scenery at sea, so Jones and Rauschenberg made do. The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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Artist at Work “We drove around Naples, around Christmas 1986, just collecting things off the streets for sets. He’d say, ‘Build this, build that.’ He was a master of composition and structure,” says Jones. Back home in posh Westchester County — where Jones and his growing family lived relatively low on the hog in a two-bedroom apartment inside a three-family home — he started his own furniture-building business, incorporating into his bookcases, chests and desks some of the exaggerated, cartoonish curves that he had perfected on the Playhouse children’s show. In 1995, Jones and his family moved to North Carolina, where relatives resided and where Jones thought he might catch a break as a furniture maker. “We had a fairly extensive client list,” he says. “We needed to find a manufacturing-friendly environment.” He scored small victories — his hourglass bookcase was included in a Christie’s auction to benefit the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in 1998 — but manufacturing success was difficult to sustain. “This area is really friendly to giant manufacturers; not so much to small manufacturers,” he says. “We were purchasing materials in small amounts, but paying full price for stuff. We were not big enough for anybody to take us terribly seriously. It was too costly. We could never really get ahead on it.” Jones took a job with the City of Greensboro in 2001. He was responsible for replacing old computer equipment with newer machines. Gradually, he became a creative go-to guy. For libraries, he built book carts, computer tables and set pieces like a scaled-down English cottage for the children’s area at the Edwards branch and a whimsical tree for the Hemphill branch. He managed the website for the engineering and inspections department. He designed signs. Once, he made the city manager a conference table from a huge pane of glass that was removed from the Melvin Municipal Office Building. It was interesting work, but hardly the stuff of a career. “I kept having to create my own job,” he says. “There was no path for advancement.” In 2006, while on vacation, his family visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and Jones’s life was altered as he approached a large, drifting Alexander Calder mobile. “It stopped me in my tracks,” he says. “That was the first time I saw a real mobile, not something dangling above a baby’s bed. I sat there for a long time looking at that piece.” Jones had always thought of himself as artistic, but not necessarily an artist — more of a mechaniThe Art & Soul of Greensboro
Artist at Work cally inclined designer. That’s why Calder’s mobile, with all of its moving parts, spoke to him. “I thought, ‘I get this. I know how he’s doing this,’” Jones says. The next Christmas, his wife Naomi, an elementary school art teacher, gave him a VHS tape about Calder’s life. “I must have watched that fifty times,” he says. “I would start-stop, start-stop, start-stop, watching the mobiles.” He began messing around in his garage, creating his own Calderesque pieces with wood, metal and wire. A coworker asked him to make a mobile out of copper. Jones obliged with a leaf design inspired by the gingko trees that he saw while on lunch break in downtown Greensboro. A passion was kindled. Jones began carting copper mobiles to weekend craft shows. They flew out of his booth. He diversified, offering different shapes – leaves, butterflies and birds, as well as abstract ovals, darts and squiggles. He worked in different woods. He burnished the copper with chemicals and with flame to create distinct patinas. He gave customers a choice of sizes. The best seller, then and now, was the copper ginkgo leaf. “I sell the ginkgo leaf probably ten-to-one over everything else. It’s a pretty shape, even if you don’t know what it is. A lot of people seem to have an emotional connection to ginkgo trees. They stand for peace and longevity in Japan,” he says. Jones’s wife, who had retail experience, guided him to wholesale market shows, where retailers bought his pieces in large numbers. “I was eating up all of my vacation time,” he says. “It was amazing how I had a ‘little cough’ on Mondays,” he says. In 2012, he took the plunge, quitting his city job for the high-wire life of a mobile artist. “It’s coming along,” he says, with a grin punctuating the middle of his Rembrandt mustache and beard. Jones works in a studio in the Old Greensborough Gateway Center on South Elm Street. His wife now runs the business side of the operation in addition to contributing design ideas and creating her own colorful paintings of animal faces. “They all have a little attitude,” Jones says appreciatively as he scrolls through images of Naomi’s work. For the mobile business, the Joneses employ a full-time assistant, who helps with the manufacture and assembly. As JFJones Mobiles, they turn out 1,500– The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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Artist at Work 2,000 pieces a year. They subcontract some aspects of the manufacturing. Someone else in their building laser-cuts the shapes. Someone around the corner creates the 3-D figures that inhabit the I-beam mobiles. Jones painstakingly creates new designs and commissioned pieces. He literally balances the shapes and armature until the whole thing looks right to him. This involves hours of trial and error, but it’s the only way for Jones. “I have to do it by hand,” he says. When he’s pleased with the result, he reverse-engineers the piece, documenting rod lengths and balance points for future reference. The price of his work ranges from $42 for a small kit to $10,000 and up for large commissioned pieces. To date, most of his work hangs in private homes, but he’d like to change that. He’s shifting his focus toward commercial clients. Greensboro developer Andy Zimmerman, who owns HQ Greensboro, the shared workspace on Lewis Street, has been supportive. Well-Spring, the Greensboro retirement community, bought a large piece that hangs in an atrium. Jones dreams of creating a large, one-of-a-kind mobile for the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts, scheduled to open in downtown Greensboro next year. It would be an ideal place for him to show that art is not confined to walls or stages. “I think there’s a big need for aerial art,” he says. “I walk into a space and think, ‘You need something up in the air here.’” OH Maria Johnson is a contributing editor of O.Henry magazine. You can find Jay Jones’s work online at www.jfjonesmobiles.net.
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Vine Wisdom
Pinot Noir Goes Gaucho Chileans find surprising success with a difficult grape
By Robyn James
Pinot noir: the
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Holy Grail of wine grapes. It’s finicky, it’s elusive, and it may be the best wine you ever had, or the worst. As the primary red grape of Burgundy, France, be prepared to spend $50 for a lowlevel basic Burgundy and sell your car to try the best.
It’s a joke in the wine industry that there is no such thing as a “good value” pinot noir. It’s painstaking and expensive to grow this grape that needs vines with age and lower yields at harvest. Many love Oregon; California gets a lot of play, and New Zealand has made great strides with the grape. Ever considered pinot noir from Chile? Probably a resounding no. Fifteen years ago I sampled some Chilean pinot noirs and thought, hey folks, stick to chardonnay, cabernet and carménère. Pinot noir takes time for vines to age, and winemakers need to find very site-specific areas for the grapes that need a cooler climate, preferably with a maritime influence. Fast forward 15 years, and winemakers have zeroed in on the Casablanca, Maule and Aconcagua Valleys on the coast, brought pinot noir clones from Burgundy and hired Burgundian consultants. The vines are older now, and Chile is off and running with pinot noir. Although pinot noir is only 3 percent of Chile’s total plantings, it has increased 170 percent since 2006. Chilean winemakers have embraced the challenge. Eric Monnin, a French enologist with experience working in Champagne and Burgundy, splits his winemaking duties between Chile and France. He is the head winemaker for the Boutinot Company and supervises making the El Viejo del Valle pinot noir. He and his team discovered a very old block of pinot noir beneath a volcano in the Maule Valley and picked it to produce this little gem that sells for a ridiculous $9. The interesting label is a reproduction of Chilean street art, and if you look closely you can find the profile of the “Old Man of the Valley” hidden in the art. They describe their El Viejo pinot as “deliciously long, bright, textural pinot from cold, stony vineyards deep in the Maule Valley. Some oak barrel fermentation adds complexity, depth and warm vanilla notes to the finish.” The Art & Soul of Greensboro
Don Maximiano Errazuriz founded his winery in 1870 in the Aconcagua Valley. His fifth generation descendants now run this natural quality winery and have named their reserve lines “Max” in his honor. Already located in a great pinot location, Errazuriz is a must on any visitor’s itinerary. The estate is stunning, and their techniques are first class. Firstclass oak barrels, 15 percent new, for 12 months before release. One of the first Chilean wineries to gain success with pinot noir, the current vintage scored a whopping 90 points from The Wine Spectator. They describe it as “a suave red, with a silky mouthfeel and mediumgrained tannins behind the flavors of cherry, plum and hazelnut. The spicy finish is long and rich, revealing accents of sandalwood.” That’s a description and score worthy of a $65 Oregon pinot noir. This winner from Chile is about $17. August Huneeus, born in Santiago, Chile, has one of the most impressive résumés in the wine industry. He became CEO for Concha Y Toro at a very young age, then came to the United States for a long, successful career. He owns several prestigious wineries in California such as Quintessa (where he resides), The Prisoner, Illumination and several others. In 1989 Huneeus and his wife, Valeria, decided to venture back into Chile and founded the Veramonte Winery in Casablanca Valley. Their Ritual pinot noir is hand-harvested from the coolest vineyards of their estate, put through a malolactic fermentation and aged in French oak barrels for 12 months. The Wine Advocate gave this $18 wine 89 points, and noted that, “This aims at showing what Casablanca can do as a valley in pinot noir. There are more fruit than herbal aromas here, and this shows nice ripeness, combining aromas of sour cherries with lactic hints and bare traces of spicy oak. The palate is medium bodied with fine tannins, good freshness and the final granite bite in the finish with the oak much better integrated.” Incidentally, Chile has the same ability as California to allow up to 25 percent of another grape into the wine without noting it on the label. However, all three of our pinots recommended are happily 100 percent pinot noir. “A” for effort, Chile! OH Robyn James is a certified sommelier and proprietor of The Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in Southern Pines. Contact her at robynajames@gmail.com.
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Spirits
Subtle Notes
And the myriad of flavors from Winston-Salem’s Sutler’s Gin
By Tony Cross
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“When are you
coming up to Winston-Salem? How does your schedule look for the next two weeks? Any chance you are coming to the Triad area? Either way I need to get Sutler’s Gin into your market very soon.” All are questions from Scot Sanborn, owner and distiller of Sutler’s Spirit Co. Sanborn and I were introduced via email from a mutual friend back in March. We’d been playing tag up until July, when the two of us finally sat down at his distillery and had a chance to talk. When we went our separate ways, I left Sanborn a bottle of my Tonyc and took with me his sleek and sexy bottle of Sutler’s that I purchased. I definitely got the better deal in the exchange.
Although he was born in Boston, Sanborn considers himself a “Southern soul with Yankee blood.” As he relocated to the South as an infant, Charleston, South Carolina, served as his stomping ground as a youth. After graduating high school, Sanborn went on to attend The Citadel, where he received his The Art & Soul of Greensboro
undergraduate degree, and later, his MBA. When scanning over his unique bottle of gin, you can definitely see the patriotic influence. Twenty-some years of the commercial photography business followed, but it wasn’t until eight years ago, when Sanborn began experimenting with home distilling, that his passion developed. After making what he calls “horrible-tasting spirits,” Sanborn began taking distilling courses, traveling the country, and acting as an apprentice to deepen his knowledge and perfect his craft. Soon after, he left his domestic cocoon of garage distilling and took it to the next level. Gin is the spirit that has intrigued him the most over the years for a few different reasons. “It’s versatile and classy, and it doesn’t require aging, which means that I knew that I could get it on the market much quicker than other spirits starting out.” He’s also been perplexed as to why gin sales in the South aren’t much higher than they are: “I feel that gin is a spirit that people have forgotten about, but are slowly returning to.” And he’s right: Most folks that I’ve talked to that pass on gin do so because they’re used to London Dry gins, whose characteristics are juniper-forward, or “piney,” as most would put it (think Beefeater’s or Tanqueray). It wasn’t until Hendrick’s went global that people began to rethink their position on the ever-changing botanical spirit. Delving into a glass of Sutler’s, on the nose I immediately notice the presence of juniper. However, on the palate, the juniper is present, but nothing like a London Dry or as Sanborn calls it “a lack of a ‘punch in the mouth’ Christmas tree flavor.” In fact, I find that the juniper is balanced quite nicely with citrus, and coriander. On the finish, a trace of lavender and Earl Grey tea. I’ve never prided myself on having the best palate so I’m afraid that I’ve had to September 2016
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Spirits keep sipping just to make sure that I get this right. Actually, this is something that Sanborn and I have in common: good, but not great palates. To help him with distinguishing the subtler notes of his labors, Sanborn recruited distiller Tim Nolan. The two met in Winston-Salem a few years ago when Sanborn was building his distillery in the renovated Mill Works complex near downtown. Sanborn would cool off next door at a Hoots Roller Bar & Beer Co. and would chat with Nolan, who managed the brewery and was often behind the bar. Nolan’s background spans over 10 years in the food and beverage industry, including working in New York and studying abroad in Italy. They would always chat, and “during one of these conversations, I realized he was very knowledgeable about gin and I asked if he would like to help me,” Sanborn recalls. After a short apprenticeship, Nolan became a “mad scientist, (and) after almost 11 months of hard work, and making all types of gin, Nolan and I were finally confident that we had something that was special. I am very lucky to have found someone who is so passionate about gin and other unique spirits. Nolan is a great asset to Sutler’s Spirit Co.” Sanborn, Nolan and I sip the fruits of their labor at the distillery, which, incidentally, you can tour (just reserve an appointment online at sutlersspiritco.com or through its Facebook page.) Otherwise, look for Sutler’s in Triad ABC stores or in cocktails at area restaurants such as Crafted, Undercurrent, all three locations of 1618 and at Quaintance-Weaver properties, Green Valley Grill, Print Works Bistro and Lucky 32 Southern Kitchen. For the moment, Sanborn and crew are only selling Sutler’s across North Carolina, but it’s making a, well, splash wherever it’s served. (Last month, the Wyndham Championship chose Sutler’s as its exclusive gin, “the only locally made North Carolina spirit at the tournament,” Sanborn notes.) It’s just a matter of time before the rest of the world catches on and Sutler’s gin makes its way across the Southeast and other parts of our nation. The gin has plenty of depth, with unique packaging to boot. In time, Sanborn and Nolan plan to release a rum that they’ve had barrel-aging for a few years. They’re hoping for a winter release, but nothing’s set in stone yet. In addition to the gin and rum, they’re experimenting with other spirits at the moment. Their gin is delicious, so I’m eagerly anticipating their rum, my favorite spirit. With the work ethic that these two employ, I’m sure it’s going to be nothing short of fantastic. OH Tony Cross is a bartender who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern Pines. He can also recommend a vitamin supplement for the morning after at Nature’s Own, a local nutrition store.
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The Guitar That Greensboro Built
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Terry Fritz is a dream weaver. But you
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The very first guitar Fritz made was with the help of a former Martin guitar factory worker who had set out on his own, teaching novices to build a guitar from scratch in one week. “You started with a pile of really nice, high-end oak wood and you go through the steps of bending the side, joining the top and the back and creating a guitar of your own,” Fritz says. “With the proper instruments and the proper instruction, people with absolutely no experience can come up with a beautiful guitar.” Providing that opportunity for the general public is a special enough achievement, but Fritz is taking his guitar building to a higher level with his latest enterprise. The Guitar that Greensboro Built is a unique project involving the hands-on building of a high-quality instrument by local and national musicians. Having participated in the construction of the guitar, the artists will perform on it around town. “There are a number of nationally recognized folks that play the Greensboro area I would love to get involved in this,” Fritz says. “ I’m thinking of (having) Rhiannon Giddens, David Holt, Chris Daughtry
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come in and add a piece of themselves to it.” But Fritz also wants venue owners whom he says pump up the arts — Mack and Mack, Natty Greene’s and Triad Acoustic Stage — to participate as well. “I’d like for several folks from any of those groups involved in making this guitar, just dip your hand in there and do one tiny step of it and say, all right, I had a hand in making this guitar.” The instrument will not only represent Greensboro, it will be created from material from the site of one of Greensboro’s most revered landmarks, Blandwood Mansion. Through a woodworker friend, Fritz learned of a 100-year-old willow oak on the property that had to be cut down before it fell on someone. Fritz was apportioned only a limb, but that was plenty for his communal guitar. “Some of those limbs are the size of normal tree trunks,” Fritz says, adding that white oak bends very well. “It was something unique. Guitars used to be made out of oak. They rarely are today.” To amp up the Greensboro heritage, Fritz will build the instrument at the Forge located in the Flying Anvil building at the foot of Lewis Street. The Forge is being touted as a makerspace, a place that provides tools, training and a workplace for young entrepreneurs to learn and hone their skills in a hands-on environment. Fritz gives credit to his fiancée Rita Parham for the idea. “She was telling me, ‘We could do this, be a gift to the community, a gift to you.’ And I added, ‘Boy, if we could get a piece of wood that had some connection to Greensboro, that would take it up another notch,’” Fritz says. To further tie the project to Greensboro, each participant will have the opportunity to sign the inside of the guitar. Additionally, the building process will be recorded and posted on social media. Upon completion, the guitar will serve the people of Greensboro in venues throughout the city as well as paying homage to its roots with a concert at the Blandwood Mansion. Fritz has applied for a Spark Grant through Action Greensboro to help fund the project, but he vows to bring the project to fruition no matter what. “I’m gonna build this thing, I’m gonna do this,” Fritz insists. “I would love to have the support of the Spark fund, but if I don’t get it, I’m still gonna do this project. It’s too important to let go.” OH Grant Britt frequently weaves stories about music for O.Henry. September 2016
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A Little Bacon Grease, Please
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In praise of the olive oil of the south
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I miss bacon grease.
My grandmother and my mother — and I, as well, for a while — had a round, silvery metal container on the top of the stove for bacon grease where everyone now has their sea and/or kosher salt bowl. The container held a clever, fitted strainer neatly built in, where crispy bits of brown were trapped. These are the bits, my mother says, that make your eggs unlovely if you scramble them up in the same cast iron pan that you cook your bacon in. I have no use for these aesthetics, but it’s easier to answer, “Fine.” Even less appealing to the eye, beneath the sieve was stuff that resembled pus, but grainier. A semi-solid that wasn’t quite white, but wasn’t quite yellow. Nowadays, we don’t even cook bacon anymore, or rarely, the big-breakfast must-have that smells so good. We buy it already cooked at Costco and just nuke that baby for your BLT or spinach salad or squash casserole. But at one time bacon grease was king. It reigned over butter, margarine, Crisco, the works. Bacon grease went into cornbread and was an understood ingredient for the pot likker in crowder peas and butterbeans and green beans. You put a dollop in a pan and fried up a hot dog or slice of bologna. Or okra. Heck, you used a cup of the stuff in red beans. Bacon grease went into the dog food, too. Lab to dachshund, it made their coats shine, or so it was believed. With our dogs drooling over those
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dry chunks coated with bacon grease, their supper looked so good I nearly wanted to eat it myself. Bacon grease was the olive oil of yesteryear, though it didn’t come in pretty containers, and you actually had to cook to get it. You couldn’t buy bacon grease at T.J. Maxx, or upscale foodie stores, or the everyday Teeter, for that matter. Still, like olive oil that comes from certain regions or specific orchards, bacon grease had a provenance too: your own kitchen. It wasn’t cold-pressed or extra virgin or truffle-flavored. It was, however, labeled, though not in a foreign language or with pretty, Italianate fonts. The container said GREASE right there in raised, silver, block, all cap letters. Even purists could throw a little sausage grease in there, too. Neese’s patties are preferred over links, though links are an admittedly more convenient vehicle to dredge, swipe and swish through the syrup left behind by the pancakes and waffles. To this day, I’m still unsure what made me feel more that I’d become a bona fide grownup in the kitchen of my first apartment: potholders, or that store-bought GREASE can. When it comes to stove-sitting-stuff, salt bowls may be trendier, even healthier, but nothing — including spoon rests and olive oil spritzers — has the personality and presence of a metal grease container. Empty frozen O.J. cans need not apply. OH In a former life, Susan Kelly published five novels, won some awards, did some teaching, and made a lot of speeches. These days, she’s freelancing and making up for all that time she spent indoors writing those five novels. September 2016
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Greensboro’s Got Style Put aside your polos and your Bermudas: It’s time to dress to impress at Greensboro Fashion Week
By Waynette Goodson
What do New York, Berlin, Shanghai and
Greensboro have in common? They all have their own fashion week.
Whether you’re involved in fashion or you’re just looking for something fun to do, the third annual Greensboro Fashion Week, September 22–25, will feature everything from live bands to professional runway shows — all in high style, of course. “Every night has its own special theme,” says director Giovanni Ramadani. “And every night has a different shaped runway and different seating. There’s a two-hour vendor reception before the show, so you can shop the trendiest stores in the area and enjoy wine-tasting at the same time.” Back by popular demand, pop/ R&B trio Citizen Shade will play during intermission as well as other local performers serving up a variety of genres, including jazz. “You’re going to come away with an experience,” Ramadani says. “Whether it’s a date night or a family night, there’s entertainment from start to finish. Shop, eat, drink and see all the collections.” The four-night event at the swank Elm Street Center calls for cocktail attire, of course, which you’ll need for your grand entrance on the red carpet.
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Ramadani observes a misperception of Southern style, noting that those beyond the Mason-Dixon line “think we wear polos and Levi’s and flip-flops all the time. We want to dispel this perception.” Both he and his partner Witneigh Davis stress that the Greensboro show is modeled after fashion weeks in larger cities, with industry standard models, rehearsals, contracts — requiring up to a year to organize. The two want to create a bridge to New York Fashion Week, and their goal is to become the premier show in the Southeast. Another goal: To elevate Greensboro and call attention to the high-end nature of the area, which they easily achieve via the title sponsor Jaguar and Land Rover Greensboro, and the elegant venue, Elm Street Center. The two style visionaries say they have “pulled out all the stops” for the junior year of their fashion extravaganza, complete with blocking off a portion of North Elm Street, red carpet galore and special VIP areas. Based on attendance during previous years, they’re expecting 5,000 guests, about 1,000 each night. “We want to make sure that everyone comes to the shows and participates,” Ramadani says. “It’s once a year, and we want to make sure we celebrate it.” The event has grown from three to four days, and, for the first time, the week will have special themed nights. The following is a guide to each night. (Fashionistas take note: If you like a look that comes down the runway, you can buy it right then — you don’t have to wait!). September 2016
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Emerging Designers Night In February, Greensboro Fashion Week organizers selected eleven local designers, who had seven months to create a ten-piece collection, à la Project Runway. Those looks will hit the catwalk, Friday, September 23. The prize? The title of Designer of the Year. “This show means so much,” says Emily Costlow, 25, a self-taught seamstress. “For a young designer, Greensboro is a great place to launch a business. I want to get my name out there and get started.” The Apex resident was inspired by coworkers to craft a collection focused on the journey from childhood to adulthood. “You grow up and you gain more self-confidence,” Costlow says. “You become more of a strong, powerful woman.” Thus, her collection demonstrates both rebelliousness (black mesh dresses) and structure (light blue, triangular skirts paired with white tops in a bralette style). “It’s very different from what I’ve done before,” Costlow says. “I’m really excited about it.” Fellow emerging designer Jasmine Rhodes, 25, of Greensboro, also plans for powerful, structured looks, inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama. She’s using a neutral palette (tan, white, black and pink) in sheer fabrics, satin and some blends. A 2013 graduate of N.C. State with a degree in fashion textile management and product development, Rhodes plans for a career in fashion and hopes the Greensboro platform will help prepare her for New York. “If I won, I would be ecstatic,” Rhodes says. “It’s been such a journey becoming a designer and gaining confidence. Sometimes I doubt myself a lot. So it would be so great to win! I want to create an amazing collection, and if I won, that would be the icing on the cake.” Other emerging designers to look for? Dani Oliva, Brian Atkins, Kerri Murray, Liamcy Hogan, Jokenya Brown, Lindsay Broughton, Moniquea Renee, Raven Ledbetter, Elva Vieyra and Palmira Carrera Jarquin.
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High-End Retailers Night The Saturday evening show (September 24) is the most-attended event and sells out the fastest. It features local high-end boutiques that send their trendiest looks down the runway. Past shows have included BCBG Max Azria, Rebecca & Co., Simply Meg’s and Palm Avenue.
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A Passion for Fashion Why does Greensboro need a fashion week? Organizers Giovanni Ramadani and Witneigh Davis love to hear that question because it gives them an opportunity to explain their cause. “We’ve created a movement,” Ramadani says. “We like setting the stage for fashion. But we didn’t have to build a foundation — it was here long before us, with this being the first textile industry.” “Some of the first overalls were created here,” Witneigh chimes in, citing C.C. Hudson, who launched his Hudson Overalls Company on the second floor of a grocery store in 1904. “Then there’s Wrangler with the VF Corporation,” she continues. “This is an international textile hub. Fifty years ago, all of the denim was from here. If you went to China, the denim came from here. The True Religion brand still buys denim from Cone Mills. It’s quality; it’s American-made.” The two entrepreneurs view Greensboro Fashion Week as a natural extension of the city’s history, as well as a showcase for downtown development, to lure young professionals, and especially, to provide higher education opportunities. Students from seven area colleges, including N.C. A&T, UNCG and Elon University, have important roles, from budding fashion designers to make-up artists. How did the two millennials get the idea? Let’s call it a “fashion moment.” Ramadani was looking for a tie and Davis was trying on shoes when the two met. “We became friends, and we started thinking of ways to create a strategy to help Greensboro grow,” Ramadani recalls. “We wanted to attract more young professionals here. There are good fashion programs at local colleges, but there was no platform for fashion. This is something we love doing, and we do it well. ”
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The best part for brides: Ten area stores will send ten of their newest looks for 2017 down the runway. That’s one-hundred dresses! Better bring a pad and pencil to take good notes, so you can say “yes to the dress.” Info: greensborofashionweek.com. Waynette Goodson is the Editor in Chief of Casual Living magazine. A high point of her life was attending a Betsey Johnson fashion show at New York Fashion Week in which the 70-year-old designer turned a cartwheel on the catwalk — and landed in a sweet-pea split.
Clad in a vintage, three-piece suit custom tailored by Pierre Cardin, Ramadani stands well over 6 feet. A native of Albania, he moved to Greensboro in 1999 at the age of 12 to escape the war in Kosovo. He worked as a runway model for six years and walked in New York Fashion Week in 2012. Sporting Prada shades and wrapped in a delicate white blouse and a silk, emerald green skirt by BCBG Max Azria, Davis exudes personal style — in fact, she has worked as a personal stylist since college. In addition, she graduated with honors, with a B.A. in communications and a minor in marketing, and put her skills to work representing local car dealerships. Davis has also managed major store brands such as BCBG and Aldo. The two fashionistas share the same philosophy: You can never be overdressed. “People often ask us why we’re so dressed up,” Davis says. “Why not wear your heels?” she counters. “Just because you’re going to the grocery store or getting off work for drinks, that doesn’t mean you have to go home and put on jeans,” Ramadani says. “You can get dressed up. People are going to look at you whether you look good or bad, so you might as well look your best.”
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Treat the now, pave the way for what’s to come. This health care philosophy is embraced by Dr. Daniel Clarke-Pearson, MD, a gynecologic oncologist with the Cone Health Cancer Center. When his patient Laura Kilpatrick was diagnosed with cervical cancer, her dreams of having children were seemingly dashed. But Dr. Clarke-Pearson used an innovative surgical technique that would allow Laura to have her embryos preserved so that one day she could start a family. Learn more about the union of science and hope at ExceptionalCare.com.
Ten percent of all Greensboro Fashion Week proceeds go to Emily’s Plea, a local charity focused on educating the community about the dangers of drunk and distracted driving. Named after Emily May, a Jamestown youth killed by a drunk driver in 2007, a group goal is to put breathalyzer tests on keychains. “Emily was my friend,” says Witneigh Davis, event director. “She was super-trendy, and she would have loved fashion week.” emilysplea.com. OH Exceptional Care. Every Day.
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Life of Jane
Purple Prose A sister tells all
By Jane Borden
“You copied me,” Tucker said. My
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accuser was about 10 at the time, which would make me, her younger sister, 6. “Did not!” I shouted defiantly.
“Did too!” she said, holding her stuffed polar bear in the air as evidence. The bear’s name, Pola, was short for the word polar. I had also given my stuffed toy the name Pola. Tucker was mad. “Did not!” I persisted. But, yeah, I’d definitely stolen her creative I.P. Because I wanted to be like her. I couldn’t reveal this motivation, though. My desire to hangdog by her side would have disincentivized her from allowing me to. So I replied, “I thought of it because it’s short for polar, like polar bear.” A solid effort, this excuse. Surely, two people could independently have lighted upon the same abbreviation as a name. The only problem: My stuffed animal was a panda. I did not succeed in pulling the bear hide over her eyes. And our play date ended, if you could call it play date, which I did, because even a cross-examination felt good if it was administered by her. I wanted everything Tucker had and did, usually without knowing why. Mostly, I wanted to spend time with her, and eventually I figured out how. Tucker was a talker. Still is. She can spin anything into yarn. While your walk around the block may have just been “fine,” Tucker’s was Gulliver’s Travels. Recaps of books, movies and TV shows are her specialty. She combines an attention to detail with a strong memory and a desire to share what she’s witnessed. She’s the war reporter of cable dramas. As a child, the tendency was especially pronounced. It’s like she aimed to record all she witnessed for the Library of Congress, and she thought I was its The Art & Soul of Greensboro
librarian. This worked well for me, however, because as long as I let her talk, I could spend all afternoon by her sparkling, big-kid side. My mother, though tolerant, was not as delighted by Tucker’s tendency. She recalls driving to the beach with her once, when she was about 10 or 11. “Out of the driveway we went and Tucker said, ‘Mom, I saw this great movie.’ And my mistake was saying, ‘Oh really? What was it?’ She told the whole movie. It took the entire trip. It’s four hours to Figure Eight.” Mom was most astonished, and still is, by her endurance. “She even did the dialogue, Jane. And then she’d say, ‘Wait I forgot something. Remember when I said such and such? Actually you need to know such and such.’ Then she’d reinsert that part into a place we’d already visited, and tell it to me again. That’s why it took four hours.” My sister Tucker, the original book-on-tape. My mother doesn’t exaggerate. In 1985, Tucker saw The Color Purple at the Janus Theatre. It’s about a young girl named Celie, who’s married off to a much older man named Mister. The two children she’d had, by her father, are taken away from her. Celie also has a sister, and a friend who’s a singer. It’s a heartbreaking story, but the ending is happy. I remember it very well. I’ve never seen it. It was PG-13 and I wasn’t allowed. But no matter, I got the extended, director’s-cut version from my sister. Tucker’s retelling was cinematic, longer than the original and probably longer than the book. She took me to the attic for the recap, a location, in our home on Carlisle Road, that was presumably chosen for the diminished chance of interruptions. It is also where Tucker taught me pre-algebra. Every day, she’d teach me what she’d learned that day at Aycock Middle School. So desperate was I to be with my sister that, at the age of 9, rather than jumping rope or playing clapping games, I sat in a hot attic taking pre-algebra. You know who did play clapping games? Celie and her sister in The Color Purple. Tucker not only set the scene for me, but reenacted the pattern of September 2016
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Life of Jane the claps. She also pointed out that the flowers in the field where they played were purple — and added, “You know, like the title.” The film may have been subtle with imagery and metaphor, but Tucker was not. The film has an oft-repeated line, “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Every time Tucker quoted it anew, she pointed out the repetition, lest I miss the significance. Usually, I had already recognized it, but I didn’t dare interrupt. At the end, she told me about Celie’s reunion with her children, and especially that Celie wore a purple dress, “Like the title.” She told me that Mister watched from across the field, and that orchestrating the reunion was the one nice thing he ever did, and how this proved that people can change. I wept. This was the power of Tucker’s storytelling on an 8-year-old: sobbing tears. She also told me Flowers for Algernon, when she read it, and I cried at the end of that marathon recap too. If we’d lived a thousand years ago, she’d have been in charge of the tribe’s oral traditions, telling them about the Sun God, and then turning to the sky to say, “You know, like the sun.” Tucker’s version of The Color Purple ended as the film did, with the final scene of Celie and her sister playing the clapping game again, but as adults. Then, of course, she pointed out that it was the same game they’d played as children. But this time, Tucker was wise to hammer home the significance, considering it had now been several hours since the beginning of the film. Before writing this article, I pulled up the movie on Netflix, to help me recall some of the details and to fact-check my blurry memory. I only watched a few scenes, most of which were unfamiliar. But I need you to know that the shot of Mister at the end — in his wide-brimmed hat, standing next to his horse, witnessing Celie’s reunion with her children — is exactly as I’d remembered it, in spite of the image never before meeting my eyes. This means that Tucker even described the shape of his hat. I’m surprised she didn’t also recount the rolling credits: “The Boom Operator was Marvin Lewis. Ooh, and the Foley Artist . . .” “I ruined it for you!” she shouted in apology when I called her this week. “I’m so sorry.” “You didn’t ruin it. I loved it,” I said. “You told me good stories!” This is true. However, today, when I talk to Tucker, I choose when to say, “Tell me more,” and when to quickly change the subject. Because the more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s the same adage from the film. Just making sure you didn’t miss it. OH Jane Borden lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter and her daughter’s stuffed rabbit named Pola. The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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I’d never seen a rug cleaning machine that I knew of. I thought things through for about a second and asked, “How much does it cost to just get a rug cleaned?” I was thinking to myself: I’ll have to drive to get the cleaning machine, take it home, figure out how to use it, maybe get one of the kids to help me, take that big rug out on the back deck, clean it, let it dry, put it back, take the cleaner back to Pittsboro. Kristina answered my question — told me how much it costs to get a rug cleaned. Holy Moley. I picked up the cleaning machine — it looks like a very large vacuum cleaner — and brought it home. A YouTube video would explain how to operate it. My job the next day was to write the first draft of a Salt magazine essay about the Frontier Cultures Museum in Staunton, Virginia. I was hoping to have a first draft done by noon but my new job — before starting the essay — was to clean two rugs (was one, now two) with the help of my 9-year-old daughter, Truma. Rug No. 1 — very large, maybe 8-by-12 — had been peed on several times by dog No. 1. Rug No. 2 — about 4-by-8 — had been thrown up on at least several times by dog No. 2. I picture this conversation happening very early on several mornings within the last month: Dog No. 1 says: “Are they up yet?” Dog No. 2 says: “Nope.” No. 1: “I have to pee.” No. 2: “Pee in the corner of the living room. In the corner by the table. It’ll be days before they figure it out.” No. 1: “OK. Would you throw up on that other rug in the play room — kind of keep them distracted?” No. 2: “Sure.” Truma and I find the YouTube video telling us how to use the machine. The video is 15 minutes long. The person giving instructions seems to be used to talking in a foreign language and I have problems understanding him, but we finally get through the explanation, including how to clean the machine after cleaning the rug. Some assembly and disassembly are involved. Truma takes notes.
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Our first task is to go buy some liquid cleaner. About 6 ounces is to be combined with 2 gallons of warm water in a soft plastic container inside a hard plastic container that will keep dirty water separate from the cleaning solution. We go to Lowe’s and they don’t have our brand — I’d yet to learn that most any concentrated rug cleaner would work. Duh. Sitting in the parking lot, I call Home Depot. They don’t have our brand, either. I call a rug cleaning service. They are rude. I call another rug cleaning service, explain that I’m sitting in a hot parking lot in a bit of a jam and this person patiently tells me to go to Food Lion. At Food Lion, the manager walks with me to the rug cleaning stand and finds a substitute concentrate for me. Truma and I buy it and we start home. At home, we take the machine apart, load it with warm water and cleaner, then put the machine back together. We spread the smaller of the two rugs on our back deck and Truma starts cleaning. Generally speaking, you go over a portion of the rug while holding a trigger beneath the hand grip. The trigger sprays the rug with cleaning solution and then you go over the same portion of the rug and the machine sucks up dirty liquid. Truma gets tired. I take over and she goes inside, out of the sun. I finish the cleaning about time it stops being fun. I hang the rugs over the deck railings, disassemble the machine and, in the driveway beside my automobile, start spraying the plastic parts with water from a hose. The problem with cleaning the plastic parts is that there is a great amount of dog lint inside one of the see-through plastic parts and — though I don’t remember the video telling me to unscrew anything — I notice that if I unscrew four screws, I can pull that section apart. Seeing that lint is like feeling a little popcorn shell-like thing between your teeth when you can’t free it. I unscrew the screws and nothing happens — nothing comes apart. Oh. I see four more screws. I unscrew them and the thing falls apart, but the lint is still not exposed in any way. The screws are lined up on the hood of our car. I start putting the screws back in. A screw rolls off the hood of the car and I hear it plink dully onto the cement driveway. I look. It’s nowhere to be seen. I get down on my hands and knees. One of the dogs comes up and sniffs me. It’s dog No. 1. She will go back inside the house and say, “Clyde is out in the driveway. He thinks he’s a dog. It won’t be long before he’s peeing on the rug.” I didn’t get started on that essay and I cleaned two more rugs the morning after that. This could go on a long time. I now better understand the cost of cleaning a rug. OH Clyde Edgerton is the author of 10 novels, a memoir and a new work, Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers. He is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNCW. September 2016
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Killdeer By Susan Campbell
As the long days of summer wane
here in the Piedmont and Sandhills of North Carolina, we have scores of birds preparing for that long southbound journey we refer to as fall migration. Thousands of birds pass by, both day and night, headed for wintering grounds that are deep in the Southern Hemisphere. Some seem very unlikely candidates: medium-bodied shorebirds, dropping down in flocks to replenish their reserves. They may stay a few hours or a few days, depending on the weather and the abundance of food available to them. At first glance, you might think these long-legged birds are lost — far from the coast where sandpipers are commonplace. But once you take a good look, you will realize these are birds of grassland habitat, not sand flats. Referred to broadly as “grasspipers” by birders, these species forage on a wide variety of invertebrates found in grassy expanses. They breed in open northern terrain, all the way up into the Arctic in some cases. And they are moving through in order to make their way to grassland habitat in southern South America. Although some may be seen along our coastline, they are more likely to be found in flocks or loose groups at airports, sod farms, athletic fields and perhaps even tilled croplands. Come late August and early September, armed with binoculars, and, better yet, a powerful spotting telescope, you can find these cryptically colored birds without having to travel too far from home. They are indeed easy to miss unless you know where to look at the right time. Flocks often include a mix
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of species, so be ready to scrutinize each and every bird, lest you overlook one of the rarer individuals. When it comes to shorebirds as a group, many of the dozens of species are tricky to identify, so I suggest you arrange to join a more accomplished birder for starters. The most common and numerous species without a doubt is the killdeer, identified by dark upper parts contrasted with white underparts, but it’s the double neck ring that gives it away. A spunky bird whose name comes from its call, the killdeer nests (if you can call a rudimentary scrape in the gravel a nest) on disturbed ground such as unpaved roadways and parking lots throughout North Carolina. Flocks of hundreds are not uncommon. But frequently other species are mixed in as well. In the Sandhills, the sod farm in Candor hosts large numbers of killdeer around Labor Day. Check them all and you will likely be rewarded with something different mixed in! The plover family, to which the killdeer belongs, consists of squat, shortnecked and billed birds of several species. The semipalmated plover is a close cousin. This slightly smaller species sports only a single neck ring and, curiously, individuals have slightly webbed (or palmate) feet. They can actually swim short distances when in wetter habitat and are thus more versatile foragers. However, the most curious are the obligate grassland shorebirds that include the well-camouflaged buff-breasted sandpiper and the upland sandpiper. Both nest in the drier prairies of Canada and spend the winter months mainly in the pampas of Argentina. “Buffies” are a buff-brown all over and have delicate-looking heads and short, thin bills and a distinctive ring around the eye. “Uppies” are brownish and have small heads as well, but they have both longer bills and longer legs, along with larger eyes. These two species are thought to be declining — most likely due to habitat loss on both continents. If you miss the chance to get out in search of inland shorebirds this fall, do not fret! They will move through again come spring, although in smaller numbers. Winter will take its toll but those who do make it back our way will be in vibrant plumage as they wing their way northward to create yet a new generation of grasspipers north of the border. OH Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photographs at susan@ncaves.com. September 2016
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Wandering Billy
Railroaded
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“I’ve upped my standards. Now, up yours.” — Pat Paulsen
You may recall the Carolina Model
Railroaders exhibit located in what was the “Colored Waiting Room” of the downtown Depot (rechristened the Galyon Depot). Beginning in 1975, the club was the only permanent occupant the Depot had for a couple of decades, when the main concourse was leased out for private parties and 1990s’ raves. The museum was relocated on the property in 2003 and has its new home in the space once occupied by the Railway Express Agency (REA) offices and operations. What the Railroaders are up to in there is nothing short of astonishing. Visitors will encounter a massive, HO scale replica of the rail lines between here and Spring Garden Street, and beyond. Hundreds of buildings and familiar cityscapes The Art & Soul of Greensboro
you’d recognize along a route reach from floor to ceiling in this 2,400-square-foot space.
Their blueprint is based on aerial photography from 1966. Kenn Cassell and Walter Sabin head up a motley crew, in that they are celebrating the legacy of Governor John Motley Morehead, who had the foresight to make our state a leader in rail transportation back in the mid-1800s. See for yourself their impressive collection of memorabilia and witness this work in progress, perhaps lend your tinkering skills to this remarkable undertaking. The display is open to the public Saturdays, Sundays and Thursday evenings. I was early to a meeting for this very magazine on Banking Street, so I enjoyed a delightful but short visit with Charlie Jones, whose Leasing Financial Inc. office is off Pembroke, close to Carolyn Todd’s, where my mother was especially fond of shopping. After retiring in the 1980s, my dad went into business with Charlie. Back in 1990 while I was visiting my father, who was dying of a brain tumor, we had met briefly a couple of times. Charlie and his partner would stop by the hospital hoping that it would be a lucid day for dear old Dad and they could get advice on how to structure a leasing deal or decipher some notation of his. But, alas, by that point my father assured us he was “looking out over the golf course” from his room at Cone. (A result of the tumor unless he’d developed X-ray vision.) First thing Charlie said to me was, “Did my wife get in touch with you?” By coincidence, Charlie had read something I had written for O.Henry and had been looking for a way to get in contact to say how much he enjoyed it. Charlie told me about how, when he and dad used to September 2016
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Wandering Billy work together, my father would be standing in the doorway. Without saying a word, Dad would be tapping his watch as if to say, “You’re late.” Ironic, considering my dad never ever worked a day past noon. When he’s not navigating a sea of everchanging business models, Charlie and his wife, Stella, enjoy summer sailing the Chesapeake Bay and spending time with their seven grandchildren. “I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.” How fondly I remember how, forty years ago, perpetual presidential candidate Pat Paulsen made a whistlestop at Aycock Auditorium. There, he boldly struck back at his critics, “They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. . . . I did darn near everything on drugs!” It is widely regarded as somewhat true that Paulsen syphoned off enough votes from Hubert Humphrey in 1968 to lead to the election of Richard Nixon who, almost immediately, pressured CBS to cancel The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, the show where Paulsen appeared regularly. At College Hill Sundries, conducting deep cover research into the effects of cheap booze on a fragile psyche, I was struck by an old building behind the place. Well, I’m pretty sure the building remained stationary and I struck it, whatever. No. 544 Mendenhall is currently home to a church but this is one ancient structure! With the original wood siding and antique doors dating back to 1921, when it was constructed for what became Matlock Grocery from 1924-1945, it later became the longtime home to Cockman Plumbing & Heating. This was a corner property beginning in 1927 when Morehead Avenue briefly cut through the neighborhood. As many of you have noticed, our city is once again on a wartime footing in a way it hasn’t been since 1945, only now it’s a battle over beef patties. Business Insider has recognized two local eateries in their “50 Best Burger Joints in the Nation” listing: Big Burger Spot (No.14) and Hop’s Burger Bar (No.17). Esquire magazine determined Burger Warfare’s “Hell in the Pacific,” topped with Scorpion Sauce, fried jalapeños, habañero chow chow, pepper jack cheese and chimichurri, to be the “Most Over-The-Top” sandwich in the state. Alternatively, my pal Randy Barnes has been sampling hamburgers at every place that serves them in the county. His detailed rankings and reviews can be found, appropriately, at HamburgerSquare. com. His three local favorites are served at The Worx, Lucky 32 and Mark’s. OH Billy Eye will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today. The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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Hole In the Sky Nothing, or nearly so, These thin molecules of air, Water vapor collected So high it’s crystallized, The ice of a cirrus cloud Lit by reflected light And the slant of evening sun Rendering this whole blue nothing Something. Then the hand, old, instinctively wise, Darting across toned paper, The scratch, scratch of a pastel . . . There! Do you see it? A hole in the sky! Sometimes, If we push hard Against the skin of the world, It will give enough To allow us a moment, nearly nothing, Maybe, but something, Even if it’s just a hole in the sky That calls us to remember, Then shows us Why we do what we do. —Bob Wickless
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World Music Globalizing Greensboro Folk By Grant Britt
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reensboro has a brand-new music festival. Most everything about it has been good so far, and it looks to keep getting better over time. The only problem is with the name. Putting the term “Folk” in front of “Festival” still is off-putting for some people. Folks who attended the first one know, that it’s not about old hippies with acoustic guitars blowing in the wind. The point is, you can’t easily define in a single word what the National Folk Festival is, and its organizers don’t want you to. If you had to use one word to describe it, try “diversity.” Participants come in all genres, from all over the world. Trying to put the artists in boxes not only makes them uncomfortable, it’s misleading to the audience. If festival-goers arrive expecting one thing and get another because of the definition used to describe a particular artist, they go away confused or unhappy. The best solution? Educate the audience and expand their perception of folk. Even though folk music almost always originates as regional music, its influences are global. The folk music label first surfaced in the mid-1800s, but since the beginning of man’s footprints on the Earth, every tribe, every group of huddled masses has
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always had a style of music of their own. As the globe shrank, the music spread, cross-pollinating cultures, influencing regional music. Appalachian folk music leaned heavily on Scottish and English ballads. And even bluegrass’ main instrument, the banjo, is of African origin. And look at the Carter Family. Although they’re responsible for contributing a sheaf of original songs to the American folk music canon, founder and patriarch A.P. was also a song collector, traveling around with black guitarist Lesley Riddle accumulating songs to Carterize with Mother Maybelle’s distinctive flat-picking style. Many musical historians put Pete Seeger up as the godfather of folk, but African-American folksinger Josh White was writing protest songs and civil rights anthems in the 1930s while Seeger was still a young ’un. White became a confidant and friend to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and wife Eleanor, serving as Roosevelt’s overseas ambassador. In fact, the Presidential couple became the godparents of White’s son, Josh Jr. White performed at Roosevelt’s inauguration in ’41, the first African-American artist invited for a command performance. The president was so impressed with White that he invited him to his chambers to discuss racism, and White confided that he had written two songs, “Uncle Sam Says,” and “Low Cotton,” that addressed the president directly. He was referThe Art & Soul of Greensboro
ring to Roosevelt as Uncle Sam, asking him to change how blacks in the Army at Fort Dix were treated. (The song was inspired by the ordeals his brother had to endure there.) 1933’s “Low Cotton” concerned the plight of poor cotton pickers who were still little more than slaves at the time, and appealed to the president for help. White paid a heavy price for his songs and ideals, blacklisted for nearly twenty years for being a communist and subversive from 1950–63, when President Kennedy got him on CBS Television’s civil rights special, Dinner with the President. But one man, Elektra records founder Jac Holzman, was willing to give White a chance to earn some money in spite of the blacklisting, backing what would become White’s seminal album, Josh At Midnight, recorded over two nights in a converted Manhattan Church in 1955. Recently re-released on Ramseur Records, founded and run by The Avett Brothers and Carolina Chocolate Drops manager Dolph Ramseur, the record shows what an influence White had on generations of folkies including Peter Paul and Mary’s Peter Yarrow, a protegé of White’s. Harry Belafonte acknowledged his influence, as did Eartha Kitt and Lena Horne. White’s vocal and guitar styles are reflected closely in the honeyed sound and pristine picking of Eric Bibb, whose father, Leon, was also a folk pioneer blacklisted as well for his outspoken views. Like countless folk artists before and since, White worked from a large arsenal of material in the public domain, including prison work songs, spirituals and music with European origins. Even folk legend Woody Guthrie, who wrote Americana’s anthem “This Land Is Your Land,” as well as hundreds of other songs, also adapted and covered music from blues, country and gospel. All that paved the way for the folk revival that bloomed in the ’50s with wellscrubbed collegians in matching fancy shirts warbling clean versions of the old standards. A little later, a passel of not-so-clean-cut longhairs blowin’ in the wind snarled over a new wave of protest and once again revived the old stuff, hurling it out for another global spin. All this is a long-winded way of saying that the term “folk” shouldn’t make you pigeonhole the music that will echo up and down Greensboro’s downtown this month. Open up your ears and your mind and soak up the flavors drifting in from all over the planet. Here are a few 2016 National Folk Festival performers to whet your appetite and expand your horizons: The Bahamas Junkanoo Revue is a mind-bending mashup of New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians lookalikes, brass bands and Caribbean rhythms cavorting in the streets for a feather strewn, whistle-tootling, talking drum celebration that leaves onlookers no choice but to surrender to the beat and prance along. The Bahamas Junkanoo Revue began in ’93 as an offshoot of Miami’s legendary Sunshine Junkanoo Band, formed in ’57. Samba Mapangala & Orchestra Virunga is one of the best examples of globalized folk music at the festival. As far back as the ’30s, Afro-Cuban and Haitian music mingled with traditional Congolese tunes, first dubbed rumba, now known as soukous. Mapalanga mixes in ’50s style–dance music from Kenya called benga for a lilting, upbeat music that tickles your feet and warms your soul. Mangum & Company’s usual gig is at Charlotte’s Mother United House Of Prayer for All People. But the brassy call to worship is so strong that the band regularly takes the trombone choir to the streets to spread the gospel to those who don’t make it to a house of prayer (for any people) on Sunday. The shout band replaces the traditional organ in church worship services, the brassy hymns of praise stirring up feelings that make your whole body vibrate with the stirring rhythms. Jeffery Broussard & the Creole Cowboys will rock your world. Whether it’s the rawer sound of the button accordion or the rocking zydeco pumping from his piano squeezebox, Frilot Cove, Louisiana native Brousard’s relentless beat will having you doing the crippled pony step out on the dance floor to Cajun and Zydeco dance tunes. Once again, it’s a global mix, handed down from their French ancestors, remaining somewhat more traditional on the Cajun side, with some country mixed in, and the Creole side seasoned with R&B and blues for a spicier gumbo. That’s just a small sampling of the global flavors awaiting you at the 2016 National Folk Festival. Your best course is to create your own menu, a feast that you need to stretch out over the three-day celebration to fully savor the best meal you ever had, served up hot and ready on your own stomping grounds. OH Grant Britt is a frequent contributor to O.Henry The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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The Mythic Faces of Tate Street Music A Remembrance of Greensboro’s music scene
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Emmylou Harris n this month of festivals when the playbills are filled with the faces of John Coltrane and scores of jazz and folk musicians headed our way, and as Jaime Coggins once again sets the stage for the Tate Street Festival, it is not surprising that a quarter-century-old debate should reemerge in the pubs and eateries of College Hill: Who really is the face of Tate Street music? And without fail, someone will always answer quite definitively, “That would just have to be Emmylou Harris.” But for many of us who have long called Tate Street home, these are fighting words, evoking as much passion as the geopolitics of Southern barbecue sauces and rubs. And yes, I’ve always had a dog in this fight — well, actually three. Now please understand that I, like most of us connected to Tate Street or UNCG, am right proud Emmylou Harris took her first steps toward stardom in our neighborhood. And we admire too her leaving behind the stage of what was then Aycock Auditorium, where she played leading roles in The Tempest and in The Dancing Donkey, to cross the street and begin singing at the Red Door at a time when it was taboo for campus women to even go down to Tate Street. At the Red Door, she was paid $10 a night to sing, plus all the beer she could drink — and she didn’t even drink beer at all. Some of the Red Door patrons weren’t quite sure what to make of her. One of them was Ted Keaton, longtime Greensboro musician and former keyboardist/vocalist for Kallabash. “She was this nice, quiet hippie girl. We really never had any idea she would go so far,” he recalls. But surprised by her success or not, fans have given Emmylou an enthusiastic welcome whenever she has returned to Greensboro. In April 1976, ten years after leaving the Gate City, she returned to give a concert at the old Piedmont Sports Arena. The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce along with local promoter Bill Kennedy had the day declared Emmylou Harris Day, complete with a birthday party at the old Hilton on Market Street. When she leaned over to cut the cake, her long hair kept spilling
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over onto the icing, so she asked fans to hold her hair back for her, and several hurried to her aid. Then in June 1997, she returned again to give a concert at the Carolina Theatre and the Greensboro News & Record review gushed over her performance: “Standing among her quite casually attired comrades, this beautiful lady stood out like a gray-tipped rose in her modest, full-length, maroon-colored skirt. The goldinlaid walls of the majestic Carolina Theatre were a perfect setting as the angelic voice of Emmylou Harris soared toward the heavens” So yes, she is definitely one of our musical angels, but the face of Tate Street music after little more than a year singing there a half century ago? No way. The first face that Bruce Piephoff comes to my mind when I think of Tate Street music is, of course, folksinger/ songwriter and poet Bruce Piephoff, who got his start there around 1970, and where he did, as he puts it, “an apprenticeship for ten years: “Back then there was a lot of playing in kitchens, and sleeping on couches,” he remembers. Now with more than twenty-three CDs to his credit, Piephoff’s “Tate Street Blues” defines the spirit of those days when the street was known as Tate-Ashbury.
Young man walking down the street at night Young man, he’s lookin’ quite a fright He got the Tate St. Blues He got nothing to lose He got the Tate St. Blues Up all night pickin’ in the kitchen Sleeping on the couch Eatin’ fried chicken He got the Tate St. Blues He got nothing to lose He got the Tate St. Blues
(Words & music by Bruce Piephoff, Piephoff Music, ASCAP)
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And, of course, then there was Psyche Wanzandae, one of the founding members of the Truth and Rights One Love Reggae Band. In the early ’70s I spent many nights picking him up on Tate Street and driving him to various Greensboro clubs, where a high point of one of his acts was setting himself on fire. I was there the night of his clothing malfunction when the flames on his wristbands refused to go out on their own. Born Terence Quinton Lindsay, Psyche died last year. You can see some of his contributions to the musical scene near and far by watching “Celebrating the Life of Psyche Wanzandae,” available on YouTube. Someday when the definitive history of Tate Street music is written, probably by the likes of an Ogi Overman, a Grant Britt or a Billy Ingram, there will emerge a panoply of musical faces and places, including Amelia Leung, who opened Hong Kong House in 1971 and who nourished the bodies and souls of so many of the Tate Street musicians for twenty-eight years, including Bruce Piephoff, who would take out the trash in exchange for a meal. Surely there will be a chapter on Aliza Gottlieb of the subterranean Aliza’s Café, opened in 1972, later renamed the Nightshade Café. And, of course, Friday’s, where R.E.M. and Eugene Chadbourne performed and where Henry Rollins from Black Electro Flag rolled across broken glass on the floor. But for now, we have only brief snippets of this rich history, represented, for example, in that fine 15-minute tribute to Tate Street music, Ian Pasquini’s “Tate Street That Great Street,” which went up on YouTube last year. The video appropriately concludes with Bruce Piephoff’s “Tate Street Blues,” with him singing a couple of lines about “Sittin’ on the wall in front of the Hong Kong House / Listenin’ to Electro playin’ Son House.” Ah yes, Electro, the Tate Street bluesman who twenty-three years ago was literally supposed to be the face of Tate Street music and as a result has become the center of one of Greensboro’s longest running urban legends. Electro, who has always described himself as “just a hard-core ’60s hippie.” Born Harry Wilton Perkins Jr., after a stint in the U.S. Air Force as a radar technician, Electro arrived on Tate Street in 1969, where he started playing slide guitar. And, yes, he pretty much lived . . . on the street. (These days he is living in a trailer in Roxboro.) The Art & Soul of Greensboro
A quarter of a century later, when a group of Tate Street merchants selected communication and design student Michael Crouch to do a mural on the wall at Tate and Walker Avenue, the mural was to feature O.Henry, General Greene, and originally Electro. But some of the merchants objected to glorifying one of the street people, so Electro was supposedly replaced by Emmylou Harris. However, the legend goes, when her handlers heard about this, they objected, and Emmylou was replaced by Dolley Madison, who eventually made it onto the final version of the mural (which, alas, was painted over a few years back). Crouch at the time of the controversy said he really wanted Electro on the mural, because he was “such a landmark.” Now a marketing specialist at Guilford College, Crouch insists Electro was only on the planning stages of the mural and was never actually painted on the wall, although many Tate Street denizens still swear they remember the image of Electro on the mural. (Back in those lazy, hazy days we saw lots of things that may or may not have been there.) Crouch did sneak in the words “Inspiration by Electro” at the bottom of the mural. And, Crouch adds, “I have to re-emphasize that Emmylou was never a part of the mural project in any way — not in my sketches, not in my proposal, not in the concept [or] execution in any way. I hope I have cleared that up; I would hate to see that misconception perpetuated in print. No offense to Emmylou, she simply was not part of my generation’s understanding of the Tate Street area or its history.” I wish we had known neither Electro’s image (nor Emmylou’s) was ever actually on that wall. As Bruce Piephoff sings in his “Tate Street Blues,” lots of folks sat on Tate Street “waiting for the night,” when interesting things were bound to happen. On some moonless nights, after UNCG had planted thorn bushes on Hippie Hill to keep the street people away, Also Aswell (aka Chuck Alston) dressed in his cosmic ray deflector garb would lead forays unto the hill where he’d plant thorn bush — killing vines. And on other darkened nights bell-bottomed Johnny Appleseeds would sow marijuana seeds among the thorny tares in a sarcastic nod to UNCG as a bastion of higher education. And on still other such nights, there were those who argued for sneaking down to the mural with paint remover where — not to take anything away from Emmylou or Dolley — they wanted to carefully rub away the face of Dolley and then the face of Emmylou to reveal the face of Electro, shining there for all to see the way it should have all along. OH Jim Clark, the editor of The Greensboro Sun in the 1970s, was one of the organizers of the first Tate Street Festival in 1973. He now directs UNCG’s MFA Creative Writing Program.
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Andy Zimmerman’s and ArtsGreensboro’s mini-folk fest on Lewis Street
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rossing the barrier is a leap of faith. Marked with flashing red lights, clanging bells and a metal arm that bars your way, it divides the town. Historically and metaphorically, crossing the tracks means going from a prosperous part of town to an economically deprived one. But if Andy Zimmerman has his way, the railroad crossing that separates his West Lewis Street empire from the rest of downtown Greensboro will no longer be a barrier, but a gateway for the Lewis street homesteaders he calls “the creative class on the other side of the tracks.” If you haven’t ventured down to lower South Elm in the past year, you won’t recognize it. Not too long ago, Lewis Street looked like a slum, the buildings shabby, derelicts leaning drunkenly on one another, barely able to keep from collapsing in the street. Zimmerman’s interest was piqued two and a half years ago after he had just sold off a string of watercentric businesses including Confluence Water Sports, Wilderness Systems and Legacy Paddlesports when a friend asked his advice about buying the building at 117 West Lewis, formerly an antique shop. But Zimmerman’s friend only wanted advice. “And I said, ‘Do you mind if I buy it, ’cause I like it.’ It was just, ah, I don’t have anything to do, let me buy this building,” Zimmerman adds, breaking into a laugh. He hung out a sign hoping to entice entrepreneurs to put up a restaurant or bar in the space and a month later signed a deal with Gibbs Brewing Company. Greensboro Distilling Company has begun making small-batch spirits right next door. He planned to have his office in the other half of the building but two weeks later, Joey Adams, president of the board of directors of the Forge, a makers space for community hands-on craftsmen, called and explained what a makers place entailed, and an hour later they had a deal. On a guided tour of the properties, Zimmerman is a genial host, casually dressed in shorts and a T-shirt and sandals. Everybody knows him. He can’t go ten feet without somebody wanting a word, and he deals with all of it on the fly, calling people by name, taking care of the problems with a word or two as he keeps moving. “Welcome to The Forge,” he says as we pass through the outside doors with two sledgehammers as door openers. Seconds later, we’re confronted by two big box wrenches mounted as handles on the inside doors. What was
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once the Flying Anvil is unrecognizable, inside and out. The raggedy chain link and barbed-wire fence around the property is gone, replaced by what Zimmerman proudly describes as “a cool, artsy-type fence.” Inside, the place has been gutted, re-imagined as a hands-on learning place for trades. “I spent too much money fixing it up,” Zimmerman admits. “But I get a different kind of return with this place; it’s really created some neat businesses job opportunities and a place for retired people, or for the unconnected, as we like to say.” We pass one member operating a laser-engraving machine. His attitude embodies the spirit of the Forge. Asked how it’s going, the man tells Zimmerman that he’s not getting all the power he needs because of a part he’s waiting on, but “instead of moping, either I give this stuff up or get back at it, so I’m just back at it. Thank you for supporting us,” he says as Zimmerman pats him on the back and we move on. Another Forge stalwart is Joe Tiska, head of machining, who worked at P. Lorillard for thirty-three years. When he retired, the company gave him these two enormous milling machines on which Tiska is happy to teach anybody who wants to learn more about metalworking. “Somebody wants to try welding or machine shop, they come in here,” Joe says. “Some people just come and get hooked on it.” Zimmerman points out that “this is a lot less intimidating than down at GTCC.” The last tour stop is Zimmerman’s office, aka HQ Greensboro. “In 1898, this was Lewis [Bros.] Wagon Company, next door where my offices are, was a livery stable,” Zimmerman says. “When I bought it, it was falling down.” It’s beautifully restored, with 300-year-old pine floors salvaged from a building near Revolution Mill and two levels of twenty-five office spaces filled to capacity. Zimmerman’s office door is camouflaged as a bookcase. Prominently displayed is the book and CD combination, We Are The Music Makers: Preserving The Soul Of America’s Music, produced by Timothy and Denise Duffy. (“I’m trying to help him market his photography,” Zimmerman says.) But as impressive as this place is, we’re here to discuss Zimmerman’s plans for a local stage for the National Folk Festival. Dubbed the Lewis Street Amphitheatre, the area outside the former Flying Anvil, now the Forge, features seating for 300–500 and standing room for 800. The ambitious project will debut as a stage hosting local acts during the National
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Folk Festival. An architect’s drawing describes the outdoor area as “an urban event space in a park-like setting to enhance this gateway to downtown.” ArtsGreensboro President and CEO Tom Philion got together with Zimmerman to jumpstart the project. “Last year we did “Songs of Hope and Glory” with Laurelyn [Dossett] and Rhiannon [Giddens] on Thursday night as a pre-celebration event at the Railyards. Friday night, in Hamburger Square, we had doby, kind of a late-night thing outside of Natty Greene’s.” Philion describes the reaction as “fantastic, so we were thinking, what are we gonna do this year?” Philion says one of the things that became a consideration this year was how to focus on the Elm Street corridor and more specifically the South End, in terms of introducing people to all the neat stuff that’s going on down there. But the tracks turned out to be more than just an economic barrier. “The sanctioned Folk Festival people said ‘no, there are issues with having events on the other side of the tracks,’” Zimmerman says. “One of the issues was making sure it was safe for people to cross railroad tracks. And I certainly get that, but then you say, there’s cross-gates, and there’s whistles, and there’s lights and all of that, but I’m not one to take no for an answer,” he says. “There’s gotta be a win-win situation where the loving can be spread to the other side of downtown Greensboro.” Philion and ArtsGeeensboro jumped into the love fest. “We had a conversation with Andy Zimmerman, and thru Andy, with a lot of the merchants at that end of town, decided to do a new stage Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday late afternoon,” Philion says. “After all, it’s an activity that draws people ’cause they hear the music. Far enough off the footprint so people would have to say, ‘Hey let’s go check that out.’ Idea is to have fun and draw people to south end, introduce them to that community.” Estimates of the crowd for the Folk Festival’s second year in town are running 130,000 or more. “It’s a community effort because we really want everybody to benefit from the festival coming to town,” Philion says. The additional local stage will run later than the Folk Festival on Friday and Saturday night.
“The Folk Festival pretty much shuts down around 10 p.m.,” Philion says. “This stage will give people who aren’t done yet, who want more, to move down and see what’s going on down there in the South End.” Zimmerman is cooking up more treats from his end as well. “We’ve got a good collection of people down here, creative, artsy-craftsy musicians, so we’re also going to be lining up our own music as well as utilizing Tom’s resources.” “A lot of my development work downtown has been happy collisions,” Zimmerman says. “Now I’m much more calculating in my development work and planning. Once upon a time, he says his way of doing thing was ready fire, aim. “Now it’s a lot more ‘ready, aim, fire.’ But a lot of it at the beginning, it just felt good, so I did it.” OH The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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he primary draw for the multicultural The National Folk Festival, held in downtown Greensboro September 9–11, is the lineup of eclectic, upper-echelon musical acts, but as festivalgoers discovered last year, much of the event’s appeal was found off-stage. The talent and creativity that is on display between stages, in the streets and in the North Carolina Folklife Area (adjacent to the Melvin Municipal Office Building) adds exponentially to the sense of discovery and wonderment. So, as folks meander from stage to stage, if they want the full Folk Festival experience, they are advised to pause at many of the exhibits, demonstrations, interactive displays, and even a couple of parades so as to soak it all in. We are the world in microcosm for three days — let’s explore as much of it as possible. Below are a dozen of the between-stage delights that await.
• Dancing On Air Crew — At the heart of hip-hop culture is breakdancing — or “breaking” as it’s now known — and this crew of eight “b-boys” ages 17–26 rivals any troupe around. Hailing from Charleston, South Carolina, DOA has been drawing crowds throughout the Southeast since they formed in 2010. • Echelman Sculpture — The centerpiece of LeBauer Park is the magnificent sculpture by the world-renowned Janet Echelman. All during the festival, volunteers will be underneath the colorful, tent-like piece, explaining what it represents and its significance as Greensboro’s signature artwork. • Ethnic Cuisines and Cookery — This area features cooking demonstrations from chefs hailing from all parts of the globe. Many of them are firstgeneration Americans, providing a sensory link to the people and places they left behind. Expect to find such distinctive dishes as papaya salad from Laos, Egyptian koshary and Salvadoran corn tamales steamed in banana leaves, not to mention good ole’ North Carolina barbecue. • Joe Bruchac — A Native American storyteller with a Ph.D in comparative literature, Bruchac has authored more than 120 works of both fiction and nonfiction, most centered around Native American themes. He is a member of the Abenaki, an Algonquin-speaking tribe from New England and Eastern Canada.
• Alberti Flea Circus — Patrons of MerleFest will know this act — or at least their kids will — as they have been regulars there almost from its inception. The Winston-Salem–based troupe, headed by Jim Alberti, was founded and brought to the United States by his great-great uncle in the 1880s. The flea circus tradition dates back to 16th-century Europe, yet there are only a handful of performers keeping it alive today. • Bouncing Bulldogs — This team of 140 youngsters ages 7–19 has won the World Jump Rope Championships for the past five years. Based in the Triangle, the group was founded in 1986 by Ray Frederick. This is serious stuff, as evidenced by the 200 other jumpers from age 4 and up on the waiting list who participate in the club program.
• Chankas of Peru — The Peruvian dance troupe carries on the ancient scissors dance, an acrobatic ritual dance indigenous to the southern Andes. The name “scissors dance” refers to a pair of polished iron rods held in the dancers’ right hands that add a percussive accompaniment to the intricate steps. • Chico Simoes — This master puppeteer began studying the Brazilian art form in 1981, forming his own puppet theater in 1985, on his way to becoming an international goodwill ambassador. The Brazilian tradition can be traced to the Italian 16th-century commedia dell’arte, and this Portuguese native is one if its most notable practitioners. The Art & Soul of Greensboro
• Montagnard Weavers — One of the main attractions of the North Carolina Folklife Area will be these Vietnamese-Americans, many of whom settled in Greensboro after helping U.S. Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. They have been recognized the world over for their intricate and colorful silk designs and patterns, produced on the looms used by their ancestors. • Paperhand Puppet Intervention — Opening the festival will be this contingent based in Saxapahaw, each carrying giant owls, green goddesses and dozens of other magical and mythical creatures. It is fun with a purpose, as its mission of celebrating humanity and “shifting the paradigm to more compassion and justice so people and the creatures we share the planet with can survive.” • Steam Locomotives — Engineers from the North Carolina Railroad Company will drive at least two steam engines from the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina, each restored to mint condition as they were in the 1800s. The locomotives will be on display on the tracks near the J. Douglas Galyon Depot and remain for the duration of the festival. • UNCG Art Truck — Reminiscent of the old bookmobiles, students and professors at UNCG have created this eye-catching vehicle, full of various art exhibitions and projects. It was transformed from an 18-foot U-Haul truck into this mobile museum. OH September 2016
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Story of a House
The Happy House in the Woods
A quiltist and master gardener custom-create their ideal home in the lively woods of Summerfield By Annie Ferguson • Photographs by Amy Freeman
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hink of Ken and Judi Bastion as two artists in the woods, living in a home that radiates with their love of design, surrounded by wild turkeys, foxes, deer, eagles and rabbits. If you build it, they will (still) come. Truer words were never spoken when it comes to the animals that share the space around the custom home the Bastions created with love — from the inside out. “It’s great for wildlife-viewing,” says Ken. “Every Memorial Day a snapping turtle lays her eggs, digging a very large hole,” says Judi. Ken, a retired environmental health and safety engineer who graduated from the Boston’s Massachusetts College of Art and Design, volunteers as an extension master gardener at the Guilford County Cooperative Extension. With a bachelor’s degree in theater from State University of New York and a master’s in art administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, Judi demonstrates her design talents in her quilting studio and in shows with Greensboro’s Gate City Quilt Guild and Cary’s Professional Art Quilters Alliance. Combining their love of the outdoors and their passion for art and design, the Bastions have created a haven for
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wildlife and a unique and colorful two-story house on a 2.5-acre wooded lot near the shores and walking trails of Lake Higgins. “We designed from the inside out, so it functioned the way we wanted it to,” says Judi, who spent two-and-a-half years designing the house with Ken. As someone who has loved the outdoors ever since his mother took him out in the snow in a stroller, Ken knows you have to roll with the punches when it comes to nature and planning your landscape. The couple has had to take into account not only the water course that cuts across their land into the lake but also the climate in the South where the humidity and heat are more of an issue than in his native New England. To create a landscape you can enjoy in any season, Ken has selected a range of plants — red cone flowers (Echinacea purpurea in Sombrero Salsa Red), a hardy long flowering and easy to grow perennial flower; autumn fern (Dryopteris erythrosora in Brilliance), a large feathery evergreen fern with a beautiful copper tone in the spring; Raywood’s Weeping Blue Ice Cypress (Cupressus glabra in Raywood’s Weeping), an energetic wild and shaggy evergreen tree with a strong blue cast. Ken’s volunteer work helping educate the public about planting and growSeptember 2016
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ing has helped inform his planning of the landscape: “It was really important to have the property be a blank canvas when we were scouting out places to build. Other things to consider are how you move through the spaces and how plants move through spaces. You have to be very good at imagining or drawing models to get an idea of how it’ll look,” he says. “Finding out what the deer like to eat was key, and we’re still in a running battle with raccoons,” Ken explains. “They dig for grubs creating a trench that makes it look as though a small bulldozer went through our garden.” Ken and Judi point out some of their strategies for coexisting with nature as we walk along a long gravel driveway leading to a white-and-teal trimmed house and free-standing garden workshop with an attached pergola built with Cypress sourced from the North Carolina Coast. As we enter the main entrance on the side of the house, a striking foyer gives the visitor a first glimpse of the kaleidoscope of colors on the walls of the home. “When I first walked in after the paint job, I thought it looked like a Jamaican restaurant! The painters called it ‘the happy house,’” Ken says. “But we only had to adjust the shade of one of the yellows to match the vision we had for the place.” If you look up in the soaring foyer, you’ll see stained glass windows with a quilt-inspired design, one leading into a guest bedroom and one leading to Judi’s custom quilting studio. As a quiltist (someone who blends art and quilting), Judi has been spending a lot of time recently in her studio, which is perfectly designed for of the three quilt production phases: design, construction and finishing. Each takes up difThe Art & Soul of Greensboro
ferent spaces, supplies and materials. The studio, featuring a custom table with a measuring grid atop and specially designed storage areas in addition to a large supply room, would be the envy of quilters, or any craftsperson for that matter. Hardwood floors throughout the house give it the rustic feeling befitting its location, but the abundance of light through the home’s many windows (in addition to the cheery colors) give it a beach house vibe, reminiscent of the house Judi’s family had along the Rhode Island coast. The couple also made sure they had plenty of wall space and built-in shelving to display art from family in Maine, as well as from local artists.
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grandfather’s house ever since she could remember. The house has an abundance of windows and a patio for viewing wildlife and Ken’s meticulously cared for garden. Above a large window in the den hangs a panoramic photograph of single shots that were pieced together. Ken’s father, a U.S. Army photographer, took the photos from the top of the Eiffel Tower in 1945 and 1946. He’d originally joined as a paratrooper, but due to an injury was placed into the photographic corps. Ken’s father also photographed the Nuremberg trials. The younger Bastion recalls growing up among his father’s photos of infamous Nazis such as Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess at the trials. Also hanging in the den is a framed certificate that belonged to Judi’s father. Dated July 7, 1937 it commemorates his transition from lowly Pollywog to Shellback or Son of Neptune for crossing the Equator during his service on a destroyer — which, by the way, took part in the U.S. Navy’s search for Amelia Earhart. As talented as Ken and Judi are, they did have help with the design and building of the house in 2009. They worked with Buck Nichols of E.S. Nichols Builder, who was very flexible and worked hand-in-hand with them as the house evolved. Nichols also encouraged the Bastions to keep an open mind as the house took shape, sensing that the couple might discover unexpected ways to use various aspects of their home. “Buck is a real craftsman,” Judi says. “He was with us before the lot was even prepped. He and his crew are amazing workers, and they understand that
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it’s the details that make a difference. Buck’s homes are built well, and he works with local people and sources materials locally.”
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duction made. “We used as many honest materials as we could,” Nichols says, “like the metal roof and wood siding.” The E.S. Nichols team is pretty small, and Buck says he has a love of history. “I really like to build in style whether it’s traditional, classical or vernacular. We try to keep the bones of our houses consistent with historical precedent. We don’t want to misappropriate detailing,” Nichols explains. “Most of what we try to do is actually editing. It’s a better idea is to edit a solid composition as you go along, as opposed to creating bits and pieces that don’t really form a cohesive composition.” It’s all about being constantly conscious of design as the house takes shape and evolves, which only comes from a homeowner/building team appreciative of an artistic vision. As Judi works in her studio overlooking the woods, finishing up a twelve-quilt series based on photographs, she has a proposal out to several venues to house them. “My quilts travel more than I do,” she quips. (Her work can be seen on October 14 and 15 at Greensboro’s Gate City Quilt Guild show.) Her love of quilting started when she was living in Seattle thirty years ago. Judi’s sister gave her a box with quilting basics and supplies. “I signed up for a sampler class to see
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how it worked and haven’t looked back since,” she says. “The teacher was Marsha McCloskey, who is a very well-known quilter I ran into years later at an annual quilt show.” Judi is also a photographer and is working on combining the two crafts more in the future. By the end of the year Judi plans to spend all of her time working on her art. She does, however, plan to take time off to attend the National Folk Festival this month in Greensboro. “We went in 2015 and loved it, and we have friends from Maine joining us this year,” Judi says. “Many times my inspiration for quilts comes from folk music. I also enjoy that there’s such a rich history in quilting back to the Underground Railroad and the Civil War.” Clearly, the Bastions’ have an affinity for the folksier things in life, as exemplified by their wooded retreat — where the two happily toil away on their beloved works of art. OH Talent in the folk arts skips a generation in Annie Ferguson’s family, but she won’t entirely have to do without — her mother promises to bequeath her handmade quilts to Annie and her siblings. The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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A Work in Progress For Cindy Jones and Craig Wagoner, 19 years was just enough time to produce a magical garden shaped by imagination and spirit By Ross Howell Jr. Photographs by Lynn Donovan
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n a macadam road outside Greensboro, my wife, Mary Leigh, and I pass small farms with pastures bordered by tidy, four-board fences. Horses lift their heads from grazing to watch us go by, flicking their tails. Barn swallows dip and swerve over hayfields. We pass tree groves, creek bottoms and modest houses with wide expanses of lawn. A lady wearing a straw bonnet waves at us from her riding mower. We turn onto another road and slow when we see the address on a mailbox. Tires crunch on gravel as we turn into the drive. Before us stands a glade. Several hardwoods. The drive begins a gentle descent. Then we see the entrance. Boulders stand by the road, as though they’d been deposited by a glacier, and before us rise impressive stone gate guards. Beyond, I see something I haven’t seen since I lived in the Midwest. Limestone fence posts. The gravel drive winds past a pond, past scattered Japanese maples, magnolia trees, more boulders before starting to rise. Atop a knoll stands a handsome house with a big front porch. Walking toward us from the other side of the drive is a trim man, suntanned, a touch of gray in his hair. He’s carrying a watering can. That’s Craig Wagoner. He puts the can by a spigot and greets us as we get out of the car. The front door of the house opens. Cindy Jones calls hello and invites us inside. She is suntanned, too, trim as Craig, her smile as bright and friendly as her invitation. A female Great Dane, her coat so dark a gray she looks blue, gallops by Cindy’s knee and trots down the porch steps. “That’s Daphne,” Cindy says. “She’s friendly.” The Dane snuffles my hand, moves on to Mary Leigh, then surveys the slope in front of the house. “Really helps with the deer,” Craig says. “Here, come on in.” We sit in the living room under a high ceiling, the wide stone fireplace rising to the peak of the roof. There are metal sculptures on the walls. Through the back windows I can see sweet corn just beginning to tassel, The Art & Soul of Greensboro
the tops of tomato plants bright with yellow blossoms. There’s a rustling in the flue. “Chimney swifts,” Craig says, grinning as he shakes his head. “Every summer. We’re definitely in the country here.” I feel calm, though I’m with strangers, as though the place I’m sitting was prepared for me starting a long time ago. Turns out, it was. Starting nineteen years ago, to be specific. Craig purchased this 6-acre parcel in 1997. After a career in finance and insurance, he was in a position to act on a dream. “I always wanted to live in a park,” he says. “I was born and raised in Kansas — on farms. We had livestock and my parents grew vegetables. It seemed like I was always outside, exploring, and Nature just spoke to me somehow.” He nods his head, musing. “This land was part of the Carter farm,” he continues. “They were an old Virginia family from Richmond. The place was so overgrown with brush and vines I couldn’t even walk through. So I started clearing.” About that time, Cindy Jones moved to North Carolina to continue her career in leadership development. “When we met, I think Craig was surprised I was as passionate about gardening as he was,” she says. I hear her Canadian accent in the word, “about.” Cindy grew up in Montreal, where the growing seasons are short and the winters fierce. “Everyone in our neighborhood was a gardener,” she says. “As soon as the weather began to warm, people were outside, working in their vegetables and flowers. Both my parents were devoted to it. And I loved being outside with them. In fact, that’s how I was punished if I misbehaved. I had to stay inside the house.” “People in my Montreal neighborhood had big gardens, with only a little bit of grass,” she says. “It surprised me when I moved to North Carolina, where we have a long growing season and temperate climate, ideal for all sorts of plants, yet everyone seems to want a big yard to mow!” As Craig began to clear brush and vines, thinking about where he might locate the gardens and house, he discovered that the Civilian Conservation Corps had built six earthen terraces on the land. “I don’t know why,” he says. “We’re on a knoll here, not far from the Haw River. Maybe topography had something to do with it. Anyway, we had to take the terraces into account when we started planning the gardens. Want to have a look?” We walk along the gravel drive over a gentle rise. I see more limestone fence posts by the drive. Cindy tells me there are more than sixty of them on the property. Below us the drive makes a turnabout, with massive stones arranged in a concentric ring. “These are the Standing Stones,” Craig says. “Thirteen boulders, Tennessee stone, for the thirteen full phases of the moon in a year. Good place to meditate.” Beyond the ring of stones are other boulders, and here and there, stone fence posts. Nearby, a big stone sculpture of Buddha rests on a wooden pallet. “Haven’t got him where he’s supposed to be,” Craig says. “See the top of that big pine up the hill? He’ll go up there, for a Buddha Garden.” “Definitely a work in progress,” Cindy says. “The whole place. There’s something new, something different, every year.” Past the circle of stones, Craig points up the slope. “See the dragon bridge? The dragon is a Buddhist protector. Good luck in a garden.” From my vantage, I now see the pattern of rocks depicting the creature’s back, with a broad stone for its head. “I’ve always been interested in stone,” Craig says. “But I got more and more interested in how the Japanese use it when I started on the gardens here. It’s said that walking barefoot on stone will help forestall the onset of dementia.” He looks about. “The limestone fence posts we trucked in from Kansas. Blue stone from Pennsylvania. North Carolina stone from old gristmills. Stone from all over. See? Those small millstones are from China.” Craig pauses. “And there’s the contrast of stone with living things. The The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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Japanese see stone as the passive element of a garden. Plants are the active, vigorous element. So that led to my interest in Japanese maples. They’re so hardy, we started planting them all over the property.” “Because meditation is essential to the design of Japanese gardens,” he continues, “Cindy and I started thinking of our gardens as destinations. They would be places where people could go to meditate.” We leave the Standing Stones and approach a grassy open area at the edge of a wood. I see pits for pitching horseshoes. “There’s a stone path from here that leads down to a pond,” Craig says. “In this open space, we can put up picnic tables, maybe a badminton set, for cookouts.” “How is it everything is so well-kept? The beds, the lawns, everything?” I ask. “Cindy and I have done all the new plantings here,” Craig says. “All of them. But Cindy and I operate the Edgefield Plant and Stone Center. It’s a great way for us to make a living, get plant materials at good prices and have help maintaining the gardens. So once a week I come in with a crew of three. We mow and tend all the beds, so everything gets done right.” “Even with help,” Cindy says, “Craig and I work out here every evening, every weekend. It’s what we love.” We walk up the hill, closer to the house. The shape of one of the old CCC earthen terraces comes into view. There are teak benches near a big field of boulders planted with flowers and perennials. “The Boulder Garden,” Craig says. I take a seat on one of the benches, its seat and back cut from a massive teak log. It’s incredibly comfortable. Bees drone in the flowers. The breeze freshens. Nearby is a bowl cut in the earth, almost perfectly circular, filled with tall grasses and cattails. “That’s the Frog Pond,” Craig says. By it stands the statue of a goddess. Craig follows my eye to the stone figure. “The pond was supposed to be a formal fountain,” Craig says. “My plan was to build the house here, by the fountain.” “We debated about where to build for five years,” Cindy says. Her eyes twinkle. “I guess you can tell who won,” Craig says. He grins sheepishly at Cindy. “Anyway, the frogs enjoy it. You should hear them in the spring.” We approach a green farm gate near the house. I get a good view of the vegetable garden I’d first noticed through the back windows of the house. We pass through the gate. There are flowers and hostas planted here, and pretty birdhouses and feeders. Mary Leigh remarks on a small headstone among the flowers. “Our Emma and Lily Garden,” Cindy says. “Two of our pets are buried here.” There are a variety of conifers where we’re walking now. We’re in the Pines destination, and most are native to the region. The contrast of their color, size, bark and foliage is fascinating. Various Japanese maples are scattered among them. Craig stoops and brushes the needles of a low-growing conifer the size and shape of a basketball. “This little guy? A native of Hungary,” he says. “It’s a mature plant. Only grows about an inch a year. We’ve planted a real hodgepodge.” “We have more than seventy types of Japanese maple, somewhere in the The Art & Soul of Greensboro
twenties for different types of pine and more than twenty types of cryptomeria,” Cindy says. “There’s no irrigation, and we like to grow organically, so what we plant has to be hardy and sustainable,” Craig says. “All the magnolias, for example, are native species.” A cardinal perches atop one of the pines. “We see remarkable bird migrations,” Craig says. “You know rose-breasted grosbeaks, how pretty they are? One evening there must have been 200 of them in a flock. Right here. It was unbelievable. So we take into account the birds when we do our planting. And, of course, the deer. They bed down by the Frog Pond all the time. So we put up stakes to make sure bucks rubbing their antlers won’t girdle a new tree.” We stop by a large bush, 15–20 feet tall. “Witch hazel,” Cindy says. “There are tiny white fruits at the base of the leaves as early as February. They have this delicate cinnamon scent. The bush comes into full bloom in the fall. We planted it next to our daughter’s bedroom window because she loves the fragrance.” As we top the brow of the hill on the entrance side of the house, we see an aerated pond below us, in the dell. Near it are big willow oaks, cryptomeria, Japanese maples, hostas, stone pathways. As we approach, I spy a small metal sculpture with wings next to a wooden bench. By the tiny creek feeding the pond, I see another winged figure fashioned in glass. There are gnomes carved in wood and whimsically painted birdhouses. “The Pond and Fairy Garden,” Craig says. “Cindy’s creation. There are all sorts of turtles in the pond. I can scatter some pellets, if you want to see them feed?” I shake my head, “No.” I’m enjoying the quietude. Craig points out a couple of Japanese maples. “These are pretty unusual,” he said. “This is Acer griseum, paperback maple, and here, Acer circinatum, vine maple.” A few more steps along the stone path we arrive at our last destination, the Swings at Willow Oak Tree. It’s cool here in the shade, not far from the pond. Tranquil. My wife, Mary Leigh, flies, arms and legs akimbo, in one of the swings Craig has suspended by thick ropes from the limb of an oak. She smiles and smiles, like a little girl. Cindy and I are sitting on a wooden bench, watching. The sensation that came over me in Cindy’s and Craig’s house returns. I feel I’m sitting in a place prepared for me — for us — over a long period of time. Nineteen years, to be specific. The shadows in the woods deepen. The plash of water in the pond is gentle, soothing. I hear a towhee call from the trees across the gravel drive. I look at Craig, who’s sitting on another bench. We smile at each other. “People always like the swings,” Craig says. “I tell them, ‘Breathe deep, and be free.’” OH Ross Howell Jr. lives “on the artsy side” of Fisher Park, Greensboro, with his wife, Mary Leigh, a public relations professional specializing in home and garden; a geriatric English cocker spaniel, Pinot; and two rescued pit bulls, Sam and Elly. September 2016
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“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year — the days when summer is changing into autumn — the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.” ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
Plant your garlic now until the first hard freeze — the earlier the better, as large root systems are key. Although it won’t be ready for harvest until next June, growing your own garlic means you’ll be well equipped for cold (and collard) season next fall. Aside from boosting your immune system and enhancing your sautéed greens, garlic, researchers believe, can reduce the risk of various cancers. Roast a head until tender and add it to your rosemary mashed potatoes and squash casseroles.
The full Harvest Moon — also called the Singing Moon — will rise at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Friday, September 16. Owing to its close proximity to the horizon, the moon will appear vast and orange-colored. Don’t be surprised if you get the sudden urge to dance beneath it. Also, because this month’s harvest includes the first plump grapes, the harvest moon is alternatively known as the Wine Moon. Red wine pairs well with Neil Young’s Harvest (1972) and Harvest Moon (1992). Should you feel inspired to drink from a sterling goblet while dancing on this brilliant night, consider offering a small libation to Dionysus, the Greek god of winemaking and ritual madness. Asters (also called Italian starwort or Michaelmas Daisy) are the birth flower of September, their daisy-like blooms a talisman of love and symbol of patience. The ancient Greeks burned aster leaves to ward off evil spirits, and the plant was sacred to both Roman and Greek deities. Those familiar with the hidden language of flowers will tell you that a gift of asters reads: Take care of yourself for me, Love.
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This month, with the sun entering Libra (the Scales) on the autumnal equinox, we look to Nature and our gardens to remind us of our own need for balance and harmony. On Thursday, September 22, day and night will exist for approximately the same length of time. Mid-morning, when the astrological start of autumn occurs, take a quiet moment for introspection. In the fall, just as kaleidoscopes of monarchs descend for nectar before their mystical pilgrimage to Mexico, we must prepare to journey inward. Breathe in the beauty of this dreamy twilight — this sacred space between abundance and decay. The duality of darkness and light is essential to all of life. Tolkien fans have double the reason to celebrate the equinox. In 1978, the American Tolkien Society proclaimed the calendar week containing September 22 as Tolkien Week. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novels, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both said to be born on September 22; Bilbo in the year of 2890, Frodo in 2968 (refer to the Shire calendar of Tolkien’s fictional Middle-earth). This year, since Hobbit Day officially falls on the first day of autumn, consider hosting a grand birthday feast — call it Second Breakfast if you’d like — with a menu showcasing the bounty of the season. Decorate with ornamental corn, squash and gourds. Since no hobbit meal is complete without ale, mead or wine, you’ll want to have plenty. Punctuate the evening with fresh-baked apple pie. Alternatively, you might celebrate Hobbit Day by walking barefoot on the earth, a simple meditation practice with remarkable health benefits. If you’ve never heard of barefoot healing, check out Clinton Ober’s Earthing (2010) or Warren Grossman’s To Be Healed by the Earth (1999). Think about it: If the average hobbit lives about 100 years, they must be doing something right. OH September 2016
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September 1 HOPPERS HERE. 7 p.m. Bid summer farewell as the Greensboro Grasshoppers play their last home game. NewBridge Bank Park, 408 Bellemeade Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 268-2255 or www.milb. com.
September 1–4 LAST CHANCE. To see Inside the Outside: Five Self-Taught Artists from the Louis-Dreyfus Foundation. Weatherspoon Museum of Art, 500 Tate Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 334-5770 or weatherspoon.uncg.edu.
September 1–18 DOUBLE YOUR FUN. Two exhibitions share a com-
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SEPTEMBER 1–October 16 MERCI, HENRI/17DAYS. See lithographs and bronze sculptures, the focus of Henri Matisse: Selections from the Claribel and Etta Cone Collection. Weatherspoon Museum of Art, 500 Tate Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 334-5770 or weatherspoon.uncg.edu.
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September 1–October 30 WAKE UP. Don’t miss With Open Eyes, an exhibition of Wake Forest’s Student Union art collection. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), 750 Marguerite Drive, Winston-Salem. Info: (336) 725-1904 or secca.org.
September 1–November 30 ARS POETICA. Poetry builds strong bodies as well as strong minds, so take a stroll downtown along the Visual Poetry Walk. A collaboration between Writers Group of the Triad and local artists, VPW features ten art installations — responses to poems — replete with journals so you can add your two cents’ worth. From Greensboro Public Library, 219 North Church Street, to ArtMongerz, 619 South Elm Street, Greensboro.
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September 1–Spring 2017 TAPESTRY/17DAYS. See the interplay between local history and art in video installations inspired by Janet Echelman’s sculpture in LeBauer Park at Weaving Wonder With Historical Threads. Greensboro Historical Museum, 130 Summit Avenue, Greensboro. Info: (336) 373-2043 or greensborohistory.org.
September 2 HAPPY FEET. 10 p.m. Put on your dancin’ shoes for Pop-Up Dance Club, with host DJ Jessica Mashburn. Print Works Bistro, 702 Green Valley Road, Greensboro. Info: (336) 379-0699 or printworksbistro.com. FUNNY LADY. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. Comic Sheryl
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September 2–November 6 LOST AND FOUND/17DAYS. Younger North Carolina sculptors are the focus of Insistent Objects, featuring works in various media — wood, fiber, paper, glass, welded steel and clay — mixed with abandoned or discarded items. Greenhill, 200 North Davie Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 333-7460 or greenhillnc.org.
September 3 GOOD SEEDS. 10 a.m. Let your young ’uns learn how to read seed packets, plant and grow things
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September 3 & 4 ’TRANE TRACKS. It’s back for a sixth year: The John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival, featuring headliners Kenny G, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Eric Gales, among others, and the 2016 N.C. Coltrane All-Star Band. Oak Hollow Festival Park, High Point. Tickets: coltranejazzfest.com.
September 3–December 11 AD HOC(US POCUS)/17DAYS. Thomas Hank Willis reveals the advertising world’s true depiction of the female sex at Unbranded: A Century of White
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Women, 1915–2015. Weatherspoon Art Museum, 500 Tate Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) Info: (336) 3345770 or weatherspoon.uncg.edu.
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HUM-DINGER. Noon. Or perhaps we should say, “hum-winger.” Bird-friendly co-ordinator Kim Brand of Audubon, North Carolina, discusses “Gardening for Hummingbirds.” Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden, 215 South Main Street, Kernersville. To register: (336) 996-7888 or cienerbotanicalgarden.org.
BOOK BASH. Still connecting readers and authors after all these years, the BookMarks Festival of Books and Authors expands to four days and forty scribes. Downtown Winston-Salem. Ticketed events: (800) 838-3006 or bookmarksnc.org.
SAND(OVAL) DANCE/17DAYS. 5 p.m. Brazilian tap dancer and National Folk Festival performer Leonardo Sandoval will lead master classes for kids and advanced students. Studio 323, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 North Davie Street, Greensboro. To register: (336) 373-2727 or danceproject.org. AUTHORS, AUTHORS/17DAYS. 6 p.m. Words of Note Festival kicks off with an artist’s reception for Marianne DiNapoli-Mylet and continues at 7 p.m. with a discussion from Gary Reid, author of The Music of the Stanley Brothers. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com. STRING MASTER. 6 p.m. Wayne Henderson, featured in The Luthier’s Craft: Instrument Making Traditions of the Blue Ridge (through December 17), discusses guitar-making and strums a few tunes, too.
September 9 AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Words of Note Festival keeps humming with News and Observer music critic David Menconi, author of Ryan Adams: Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown, and music by Elliott Humphries. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com.
September 9,10, 14 & 17 ARTFUL STEPS/17DAYS. 1 to 10 p.m. Explore the South Side through the artists’ lens with Elsewhere Walking and Wayfinding Tours. Elsewhere Museum, 606 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: goelsewhere. org.
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September 9–11 WE HEART FOLK!/17DAYS. In case you were unaware, it’s back! The seventy-sixth National Folk Festival lights up the Gate City with performances and demonstrations by nationally renowned musicians, dancers and artisans. Downtown Greensboro. Info: (336) 373-7523 or nationalfolkfestival.com.
September 9, 12–16 & 19–23 STATUS QUOTIDIAN/17DAYS. Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, John Biggers . . . these are a few of the extraordinary talents on view at Our Art In the Everyday. Henry Clinton Taylor Gallery, N.C. A&T, 202 University Circle, Greensboro. Info: 17daysgreensboro.org.
September 9–23 PRÊT À PORTER/17DAYS. Wear your art on your sleeve, literally. See an exhibit of wearable art, a collaboration of artists, designers and printers. Mack and Mack Clothing, 220 South Elm Street and Red Canary Fabric Print Studio, 506 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: 17daysgreensboro.org.
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CARNY KNOWLEDGE. Step right up and get yer cotton candy, peanuts and rides right here! It must be fall if the Central Carolina Fair is back in town. Times vary. Greensboro Coliseum Parking Lot, 1921 West Gate City Boulevard, Greensboro. Info: greensborocoliseum.com.
September 9–December 31 WOOD WORKS. Agrarian life is the theme of Grant Wood and the American Farm, featuring the works of Wood, Winslow Homer, Thomas Hart Benton, Andrew Wyeth and more. Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2250 Reynolda Road, WinstonSalem. Tickets: (886) 663-1149 or reynoldahouse.org.
September 10 COLL-ABORATION/17DAYS. 7:30 p.m. Collage 2016, a joint concert of UNCG’s School of Music, Theatre and Dance takes inspiration from the yearlong “War and Peace Imagined” initiative. UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 272-0160 or https://vpa.uncg.edu/collage. HOE DOWN/17DAYS. 8 a.m. And chow down on a hearty breakfast honoring those who’ve brought you fresh produce for Farmer’s Appreciation Day. Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 501 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 373-2402 or gsofarmersmarket.org.
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WATCHBIRDS WATCHING WATCHBIRDS. 8 a.m. Bring your binoculars and observe our fine-feathered friends. Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum, 6136 Burlington Road, Sedalia. Info: nchistoricsites.org.
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SIZZLIN’. 12:30 p.m. Sign up for lessons from Green Valley Grill and Print Works Bistro chefs, who’ll teach you how to prepare three courses using fresh ingredients. Proximity Hotel, 704 Green Valley Road, Greensboro. Reservations: (336) 379-8200 or proxinfo@proximityhotel.com. RIFFS AND GROOVES. 6:30 p.m. Tin Tuxedo and vocalist Amy Hancock jazz it up. O.Henry Hotel, 624 Green Valley Road, Greensboro. Info: (336) 854-200 or ohenryhotel.com.
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AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Words of Note presents Penny Parsons, author of Foggy Mountain Troubadour: The Life of Curly Seckler, with music. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com.
September 10 & 24 CHIEF IRON HORSE. 10 a.m. You know who we mean . . . the Blacksmith. Yeah. High Point Museum, 1859 East Lexington Avenue, High Point. Info: (336) 885-1859 or highpointmuseum.org.
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September Arts Calendar September 11–October 2 HEE (S)HAW/17DAYS. Love is a battlefield in George Bernard Shaw’s comedy Arms and the Man. Triad Stage, 232 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 272-0160 or triadstage.org.
September 13 OLD LIMBS AND NEW/17DAYS. 10:15 a.m. Shake a leg . . . and an arm and anything else that needs strengthening at an Intergenerational Creative Dance. LeBauer Park, 200 North Davie Street, Greensboro. Info: danceproject.org. AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Words of Note includes Eddie Huffman, author of John Prine: In Spite of Himself, with music by Molly McGinn and Jeffrey Dean Foster. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com.
September 14 & 15 GOOD EVE-NING/17DAYS. 5:30 p.m. For a clever take on “women’s work,” see Eve Recast: A Performance by Meg Stein. Stein is also an exhibitor in the Insistent Objects show. Greenhill, 200 North Davie Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 333-7460 or greenhillnc.org.
September 15 BILT TO LAST. 5:30 p.m. Enjoy some sips and nibbles as you hear Parker Andes, horticulture director at Biltmore Estate, discuss “Preserving Historic Design Intents at Biltmore.” Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden, 215 South Main Street, Kernersville. To register: (336) 996-7888 or cienerbotanicalgarden.org. AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Words of Note features Backstreets Editor Chris Phillips, author of Talk About a Dream: The Essential Interviews of Bruce Springsteen, with music by Nicholas Rich. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com. HANK-LY SPEAKING/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Hank Willis Thomas offers insights into his exhibit, Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915–2015 with a free artist’s
talk. Weatherspoon Art Museum, 500 Tate Street, Greensboro. To reserve: (336) 334-5770 or weatherspoon.uncg.edu. !VIVA CINEMA!/17DAYS. 7 p.m. As a part of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Greensboro Public Library presents “The Latino Image in Hollywood 1930s–1970s,” with a screening of the documentary The Bronze Screen: 100 Years of the Latino Image in Hollywood. Hemphill Branch, 2301 West Vandalia Road, Greensboro. Info: (336) 373-2925 or greensboro-nc.gov.
September 15–18 H2O SHOW. Forget water for elephants. How about water for acrobats, divers and contortionists? Cirque Italia, a traveling water circus featuring a 35,000-gallon tank, fountains and feats of derring-do comes to town. Performance times vary. 410 Four Seasons Town Centre (near Dillard’s parking lot). Tickets: cirqueitalia.com.
September 16 RAISED IN SONG/17DAYS. 6:30 p.m. Listen to “Sounds of the Movement,” a tribute to the artists and songs created during the civil rights era and beyond. International Civil Rights Center & Museum, 134 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 274-9199 or sitinmovement.org. A CAPITOL IDEA! 7 p.m. Oysters and The Embers . . . who could ask for a better time? Head down the road to Raleigh for “Shuckin’ and Shaggin,’” an oyster roast and fundraiser for the North Carolina State Capitol Foundation, which helps preserve our state capitol. 1 East Edenton Street, Raleigh. Tickets: ncstatecapitol.org. WORDS OF NOTE/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Hear the sounds of Anonymous Bosch. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 7631919 or scuppernongbooks.com. SHOOTING FILM/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Catch two documentaries about war on film: Soap Opera for Social Change (2010) is the story of soap producers’ attempts to heal a bitterly divided Kenya in the wake of its 2007
elections; The Good War and Those Who Refuse to Fight (2000) centers on conscientious objectors during WWII. Greensboro Public Library Central Branch, 219 North Church Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 373-2471 or greensboro-nc.gov. BRASS KISSERS/17DAYS. 7:30 p.m. Brass Roots Trio brings its blend of symphonic and jazz sounds to Music for a Great Space. Gail Brower Huggins Performance Center, Greensboro College, 815 West Market Street, Greensboro. Tickets: musicforagreatspace.org. BOLDLY BLOW/17DAYS. 8 p.m. Piedmont Orchestra mixes jazz and sci-fi with “Jazz Trek,” to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of television’s Star Trek. Geeksboro Coffee House, 2134 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 355-7180 or geeksboro.com/jazztrek. EAT YOUR WORDS/17DAYS. 9 p.m. At the Poetry Café, featuring live music, spoken word, vendors and more. PB & Java, 616 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Tickets: 663-7615 or thepoetrycafe.org.
September 16 &17 FOOTLOOSE/17DAYS. 5 to 10 p.m. The Greensboro Dance Film Festival celebrates movement on film and features panel discussions, as well as a children’s animation workshop. UNCG Campus and downtown locations. Info: greensborodancefilms.org.
September 16–October 2 Q-TIE PIES/17DAYS. Puppets take Manhattan in the Tony Award–winning Avenue Q, a comedy about 20-something angst, presented by Community Theatre Greensboro. Performance dates and times vary. Starr Theatre, 520 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 333-7470 or ctgso.org.
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to twenty people. To register: (336) 885-1859. DANCING QUEENS/17DAYS. 9 a.m. Royal Expressions Contemporary Ballet presents a choreography collective, workshop and performance to uplift, inspire and empower women. Odeon Theatre and Atrium, Greensboro Coliseum, 1921 West Gate City Boulevard, Greensboro. Info: (336) 944-6146 or royalexpressions.org. SHHH! 10:30 a.m. Writers’ Group of the Triad hosts author Lisa Muir who gives pause — as in, pregnant pause — in her seminar on the effectiveness of silence in poetry and prose writing. Sternberger Artists’ Center, 712 Summit Avenue, Greensboro. To register: (336) 329-3768. AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 11a.m. Words of Note presents Carole Boston Weatherford, author of Becoming Billie Holiday. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com. MOVEMENTS FOR A MOVEMENT/17DAYS. Noon. Alexandra Warren, director of Joyemovement Dance Company, leads a workshop on dance as a vehicle of activism and, at 2 p.m., presents a free lecture, “Getting to Know the NC Dance Festival.” Studio 323, Greensboro Cultural Center and LeBauer Park (artist’s talk), 200 North Davie Street, Greensboro. Registration for workshop: danceproject.org/festival. MOVIN’ AND GROOVIN’/17DAYS. 1 p.m. Groove Jam rides again, as muscians and bands perform to benefit Greensboro Urban Ministry. Doodad Farm, 4701 Land Road, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 260-7999 or facebook.com/doodadfarm.
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BALANCING ACT/17DAYS. 4 p.m. As the days and nights approach equal length, seek equilibrium at the Fall Equinox Labyrinth Walk. Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 607 North Greene Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 272-6143 or holy-trinity.com. BEN JAMMIN’. 6:30 p.m. Jazz trumpeter and Guilford College grad Benjamin Matalack returns to select Saturday jazz concerts. O.Henry Hotel, 624 Green Valley Road, Greensboro. Info: (336) 854-200 ohenryhotel.com. AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Words of Note includes Emily D. Edwards, author of Bars, Blues and Booze: Stories from the Drink House, with music. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com.
September 17 & 18 PUPPETHEADS/17DAYS. 7 p.m. and 3 p.m. See the fantastical creatures at Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s production of The Beautiful Beast. Carolina Theatre, 310 South Greene Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 333-2605 or carolinatheatre.com. OR ELSE(WHERE)/17DAYS. 8 p.m. It’s time for your favorite all-night art party! Elsewhere’s eighth
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September 18 STRICTLY BALLROOM/17DAYS. 4 p.m. Amateur and championship ballroom dancers take the floor at Carolina Heartland Showcase. Greensboro Shrine Club, 5010 High Point Road, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 299-5901 or carolinaheartland.org. LIT UP. 7 p.m. Scuppernong Books takes it down the street and a block over to Le Bauer Park for “The Greensboro Literary Connection,” featuring Fred Chappell and others. Le Bauer Park, 200 North Davie Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com.
September 19 CLAY DAY. 6:30 p.m. Tykes can learn about pottery from worldwide cultures and make a dish of their own at Hand to Art Pottery for Kids. Greensboro Public Library, Hemphill Branch, 2301 West Vandalia Road, Greensboro. Info: (336) 2925 or greensboro-nc.gov.
September 20 WORDS OF NOTE/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Join Will Taylor and friends for Vic Chestnutt Night, as the Word of Note Festival plays on. Scuppernong Books,
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September 20 OFF-THE-CUFF. 6 p.m. Learn the art of improvisational dance, courtesy of Dance Project and COLLAPSS (COLLective for HAPpy SoundS). Studio 323, Greensboro Cultural Center, 200 North Davie Street, Greensboro. To register: danceproject.org.
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HERE AND NOW. 6 p.m. Art Alliance, Dance Project and COLLAPSS create art, dance, music, performance and visual art in real-time at a Pop-Up Art Exchange. Le Bauer Park, 200 North Davie Street, Greensboro. Info: danceproject.org. ALL HAIL DALE/17DAYS. 8 p.m. That would be Dale Watson, a familiar face in the Austin, Texas, music scene who created his own musical genre, “Ameripolitan.” Carolina Theatre, 310 South Greene Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 333-2605 or carolinatheatre.com.
September 22 AUTHOR, AUTHOR. 5:30 p.m. Meet W. Scott Poole, author of In the Mountains of Madness: The Life, Death, and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com. MUSICAL PEAK. 6:30 p.m. Asheville’s Town Mountain performs on a Concert on the Lawn as summer morphs into fall. Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden, 215 South Main Street, Kernersville. Tickets: (336) 996-7888 or cienerbotanicalgarden.org. PUT THE BLAME ON MAME/17DAYS. 6:45 p.m. The “Latino Image in Hollywood” film series continues with Gilda (1946), starring Rita Hayworth. Greensboro Public Library, Hemphill Branch, 2301 West Vandalia Road, Greensboro. Info: (336) 3732925 or greensboro-nc.gov.
September 22 & 23 CINEMATIC CYMBALS/17DAYS. 7:30 p.m. North Carolina Brass band strikes up some John Williams scores and more at “Brass At the Movies.” Carolina Theatre, 310 South Greene Street, Greensboro (9/22) and Brendle Recital Hall (9/23), Scales Fine Arts Center, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem. Tickets: ncbrassband.org.
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September 23 ART TALK/17DAYS. 12:15 p.m. Curator Emily Stamey gives broader context to Hank Willis Thomas’s work in Unbranded: A Century of White Women, 1915–2015. Weatherspoon Art Museum, 500 Tate Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 334-5770 or weatherspoon.uncg.edu. DINO DO. 7 p.m. Don your dancing shoes, because Six Stylez will be in the house for the See to Believe Gala, a cocktail fundraiser for the new “Prehistoric Passages” exhibit coming in 2017. Greensboro Science Center, 4301 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 288-3769, ext.1406 or greensboroscience.org/seetobelieve. AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Words of Note features Bob Carlin, author of Banjo: An Illustrated History, with music. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 7631919 or scuppernongbooks.com.
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AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 11 a.m. Words of Note includes Robbin Gourley, author of Talkin’ Guitar: A Story of Young Doc Watson. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com. IN VINO VERITAS/17DAYS. Noon. Ditch the shoes for a little grape-stomping, swill some Sangria and throwdown to the Swamp Nots at the Harvest Festival. Stonefield Cellars, 8220 N.C. Highway 68 North, Stokesdale. Tickets: (336) 644-9908 or stonefieldcellars.com. HANDIWORKS/17DAYS. 1 p.m. Browse the The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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QUILT TO LAST/17DAYS. 2 p.m. Learn about new fabrics and techniques that have revolutionized quilt-making at a presentation, “Trends in Quilting.” Congregational United Church of Christ, 400 West Radiance Drive, Greensboro. Info: gatecityquiltguild.org. ON YOUR MARK, GET SET . . . 3 p.m. Go! Run 4 the Greenway, a 1-mile walk/run and party, with live music and food trucks, commemorates the completion of Innovation Cornerstone. While you’re there, contribute your dreams and hopes to the Dream Wall, a community art project and 17DAYS event that will be displayed at Greenhill’s ArtQuest. Cumberland Park/ Innovation Cornerstone, 401 Cumberland Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 387-8355 or email llorenz@actiongreensboro.org. TURNING UP THE HEAT 6 p.m. Support the Women’s Resource Center and fill up on good food at Men Can Cook. Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center, 1921 West Gate City Boulevard, Greensboro. Tickets: womenscentergso.org.
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SATED. 6:30 p.m. Five years and 5 million meals strong, Out of the Garden is still feeding the hungry. Celebrate the organization’s mission at its Hearts for Hope fundraiser with music by Carolina Brass. C3 Church, 300 N.C. Highway 68 South, Greensboro. To RSVP by September 16: outofthegardenproject.org. WORDS OF NOTE/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Words of Note Festival goes out on a high note with the music of The Difficulties. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com. LIBERATED. 7 p.m. As a part of the Fabric of Freedom portion of the National Folk Festival, Dislocate tells the story of refugees in North Carolina through dance. Little Theatre, Bennett College, 900 East Washington Street, Greensboro. Info: danceproject.org. AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Best-selling novelist Jamie Ford (Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet) discusses his latest work, Songs of Willow Frost. Greensboro Historical Museum, 130 Summit Avenue, Greensboro. Info: (336) 373-2043 or greensborohistory.org. TUNEMAKERS/17DAYS. 7:30 p.m. See how the masters do it at the Faculty and Friends Showcase Concert, which supports scholarships. Music Academy of North Carolina, 1327 Beaman Place, Greensboro. Tickets: musicacademync.org. The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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September Arts Calendar PWT/17DAYS. 9:30 p.m. Campy, trashy, outrageous, hilarious . . . are but a few descriptors for “psychobilly” country band, Unknown Hinson. The Blind Tiger, 1819 Spring Garden Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 272-9888 or theblindtiger.com.
September 25 GO, POKE(Z), MAN!/17DAYS. 11 a.m. Check out all manner of stuff at Pokez Flea Market, 501 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro. Info: Info: (336) 373-2402 or gsofarmersmarket.org. EAST BY SOUTHEAST/17DAYS. 2 p.m. Traditional music, food, crafts and performances inform the Asian Pacific American Celebration, held in conjunction with the exhibition, I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story. Greensboro Historical Museum, 130 Summit Avenue, Greensboro. Info: (336) 373-2043 or greensborohistory.org. TO HAVANA AND HAVANA NOT/17DAYS. 7 p.m. Some of Cuba’s greatest musicians team up as the Havana Cuba All-Stars, mixing fresh songwriting with the islands musical traditions. Carolina Theatre, 310 South Greene Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 333-2605 or carolinatheatre.com.
September 29 ART-IFACTS/17DAYS. 6:30 p.m. Artist Leah Sobsey
discusses her latest book, Collections: Birds, Bones and Butterflies, photographs from the collections of North America’s National Park Museums, now celebrating 100 years. Weatherspoon Art Museum, 500 Tate Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 334-5770 or weatherspoon.uncg.edu. THE BIG TODO. 8 p.m. Latin star Juan Gabriel takes the stage — along with fifty mariachi and orchestral musicians, ten singers and twenty dancers — for his extravaganza, “MéXXIco Es Todo Tour 2016.” Greensboro Coliseum, 1921 West Gate City Boulevard, Greensboro. Tickets: (800) 745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. KEILLOR INSTINCT/17DAYS. 8 p.m. His gentle wit and wisdom, and soft-spoken delivery are unmistakable to American audiences. Enjoy a performance of master storytelling at “An Evening With Garrison Keillor.” Carolina Theatre, 310 South Greene Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 333-2605 or carolinatheatre.com.
September 29–October 1 BATONS AND BATALLIONS/17DAYS. 8 p.m. Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and UNCG Symphony Orchestra team up for a night of Prokofiev and Shostakovich as part of the university’s “War & Peace Reimagined” Initiative. UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street (9/29) and Dana Auditorium, 5800 West Friendly Avenue (10/1), Greensboro. Tickets:
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September 30 AUTHOR, AUTHOR. 7 p.m. Meet poet Charlotte Mathews, author of Whistle What Can’t Be Said. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com. AUTHOR, AUTHOR/17DAYS. 7:30 p.m. Author Michael Pollan (The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food) kicks off the Bryan Series. Greensboro Coliseum, 1921 West Lee Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (800) 745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. AND THE BEETHOVEN GOES ON/17DAYS. 8 p.m. Dmity Sitkovetski & Friends inaugurate Greensboro Symphony’s chamber series with Beethoven’s Archduke Trio. UNCG School of Music Recital Hall, 100 McIver Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 335-5456, ext. 224 or greensborosymphony.org. SWEET CAROLINE/17DAYS. 8 p.m. An AfricanAmerican domestic faces a moral dilemma against the backdrop of social change in Caroline or Change, set in 1963 in Louisiana. UNCG Taylor Theatre, 406 Tate Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 334-3392 or theatre.uncg.edu.
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September Arts Calendar September 30–October 1 BWAHAHAHAHA! Cue the creepy organ music for the Wreak Havoc Horror Film Festival, with shorts and features, low-budget flicks, comedies, slasher movies and then some. Carolina Theatre, 310 South Greene Street, Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 333-2605 or carolinatheatre.com.
September 30–October 2 GATHER TOGETHER/17DAYS. To Harvest Gathering, hosted by Guilford College and Our State magazine, and featuring good, sustainable eats and speakers such as chef Leigh Hesling, author Ronni Lundy, farmer Rania Campbell-Cobb and more. Proximity Hotel, 704 Green Valley Road, Greensboro. Reservations: (336) 379-8200 or proximityhotel.com.
WEEKLY HAPPENINGS Mondays BUZZING. 10 a.m. Your busy little bees engage in a Busy Bees preschool program focusing on music, movement, garden exploration and fun in the kitchen, at the Greensboro Children’s Museum, 220 North Church Street, Greensboro. Preregistration: (336) 5742898 or gcmuseum.com.
CHAT-EAU. Noon. French leave? Au contraire! Join French Table, a conversation group. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com.
Tuesdays READ ALL ABOUT IT. Treat your little ones to storytimes: BookWorms (ages 12–24 months) meets at 10 a.m.; Time for Twos meets at 11 a.m. Storyroom; Family Storytime for all ages meets at 6:30 p.m. High Point Public Library, 901 North Main Street, High Point. Info: (336) 883-3666 or highpointpubliclibrary.com. PICKIN’ AND GRINNIN’ 6 until 9 p.m. Y’all come for Songs from a Southern Kitchen — live music featuring Laurelyn Dossett, Scott Manring and Alex McKinney (9/2); Alex Peterson and Alex McKinney (9/13 — 17DAYS event); Molly McGinn and Wurlitzer Prize (9/20); and Wes Collins and Angela Easterling (9/27) at Lucky 32 Southern Kitchen, 1421 Westover Terrace, Greensboro. Info: (336) 370-0707 or lucky32.com/greensboro_music.htm.
Wednesdays TO MARKET, TO MARKET. 7 a.m. until noon. The produce is fresh and the cut fleurs belles. They can be yours mid-week, through December. Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 501 Yanceyville
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Thursdays TWICE UPON A TIME. 11 a.m. Preschool Storytime convenes for children ages 3–5. Storyroom, High Point Public Library, 901 North Main Street, High Point. Info: (336) 883-3666 or highpointpubliclibrary.com. ALL THAT JAZZ. 5:30 until 8 p.m. Hear live, local jazz featuring Dave Fox Neill Clegg and Matt Kendrick and special guests Clinton Horton (9/1), Lisa Dames (9/8), Angela Bingham (9/15 — 17DAYS event), April Talbot (9/22 — 17DAYS event) and Emile Worthy (9/29). All performances are at the O. Henry Hotel Social Lobby Bar. No cover. 624 Green Valley Road,
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Greensboro. Info: (336) 854-2000 or www.ohenryhotel.com/jazz.htm. JAZZ NIGHT. 7 p.m. Fresh-ground, fresh-brewed coffee is served with a side of jazz at Tate Street Coffee House, 334 Tate Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 2752754 or tatestreetcoffeehouse.com. OPEN MIC COMEDY. 8–9:35 p.m. Local pros and amateurs take the mic at the Idiot Box, 2134 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro. Info: (336) 274-2699 or idiotboxers.com.
Fridays
THE HALF OF IT. 5 p.m. Enjoy the hands-on exhibits and activities for half the cost of admission at $4 Fun Fridays. Greensboro Children’s Museum, 220 North Church Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 574-2898 or gcmuseum.com.
Fridays & Saturdays
NIGHTMARES ON ELM STREET. 8 p.m. A 90-minute, historical, candlelit ghost walking tour of Downtown Greensboro. Tickets: (336) 905-4060 or carolinahistoryandhaunts.com/information.
Saturdays
TO MARKET, TO MARKET. 7 a.m. until noon. The produce is still fresh and the cut fleurs still belles. Greensboro Farmers Curb Market, 501 Yanceyville Street, Greensboro. Info: gsofarmersmarket.org.
THRICE UPON A TIME. 11 a.m. Hear a good yarn at Children’s Storytime. Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 763-1919 or scuppernongbooks.com. IMPROV COMEDY. 10 p.m. on Saturday, plus an 8 p.m. show appropriate for the whole family. The Idiot Boxers create scenes on the spot and build upon the ideas of others, creating shows that are one-ofa-kind — at the Idiot Box, 2134 Lawndale Drive, Greensboro. Info: (336) 274-2699 or idiotboxers.com.
Sundays HALF FOR HALF-PINTS. 1 p.m. And grown-ups, too. A $4 admission, as opposed to the usual $8, will allow you entry to exhibits and more. Greensboro Children’s Museum, 220 North Church Street, Greensboro. Info: (336) 574-2898 or gcmuseum.com. MISSING YOUR GRANDMA?/17DAYS 3 p.m. Until it’s gone, tuck into Chef Felicia’s skillet-fried chicken, and mop that cornbread in, your choice, giblet gravy or potlikker. Lucky 32 Southern Kitchen, 1421 Westover Terrace, Greensboro. Info: (336) 370-0707 or lucky32.com/ fried_chicken.htm. OH To add an event, email us at ohenrymagcalendar@ gmail.com by the first of the month prior to the event.
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From the creator of Madame Butterfly and La Bohème comes an explosive triangle of love, lust and lies. October 28th, 30th & November 1st The Stevens Center of the UNCSA Ride the WellSpring Bus from Greensboro on October 30th! No traffic, no parking, no walking in inclement weather. Weekend packages are available. 336.725.7101 or PiedmontOpera.org
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Viva La Triad Stage Monday, June 20, 2016
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Celebrate Fall in Your New Home Ascot Point
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Charming one-of-a-kind classic home located in the heart of Old Irving Park overlooking natural park and golf course area. 4-5 Bedrooms, 4 and a half Baths. (Option of downstairs bedroom) High ceilings, custom moldings, Plantation shutters & hardwood floors throughout. Great patio and landscaped grounds, 2-car garage with finished room and bath above. Don’t miss seeing this home!
Desirable Ascot Point brick home with updated and custom designer details. 9 foot ceilings, hardwood floors, custom moldings, Plantation shutters & enclosed Charleston patio. Washer & dryer to remain. Lots of storage. In pristine condition.
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In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Preservation Greensboro and the 5th anniversary of O.Henry Magazine
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Take a Chill Pill In September, nothing succeeds like . . . moderation
By Astrid Stellanova
Summer’s end is here, Star Children. Mercy be, Astrid is relieved, as so many star charts are running hot and boiling over, like my Cadillac’s overheated radiator. Cool off, cool down, top off your tank with some nice cool water, and find whatever tickles your pickle. — Ad Astra, Astrid
Virgo (August 23–September 22) When you celebrate the date of your birth, you don’t have to bake your own cake. You don’t have to apologize for wanting a party. You don’t even have to second-guess what is everybody else’s favorite cake. Sometimes you know what you want, but you find yourself worrying about what others want. Take yourself on a different kind of birthday trip this year, and I don’t mean you have to actually put on your shoes and go anywhere — just get outside of your comfort zone. Libra (September 23–October 22) Excess is not your friend this month. The definition of forklift isn’t about putting more on your fork than you can lift. Temperance and a little patience will help you overcome some of the challenges in your personal life and also make you find other outlets for all those frustrations taking residence in your psyche. Scorpio (October 23–November 21) Your silence is often mistaken for your possessing great depths. Dare I just flat-out say it, Sugar? It’s often you trying to be mysterious but even more, it is you refusing to commit what you truly think. There’s nothing much wrong in your life right now that a good flatiron and a cocktail couldn’t fix right up. Sagittarius (November 22–December 21) Imagine you are Lank Lloyd Wright, younger brother of Frank. Or Willy the Kid, the distant cousin of Billy. You feel like you have grown up in the shade. Born into the unfortunate ranks of shadow siblings, not has-beens but never-weres, you don’t like that you never have gotten your due. Honey, all of those feelings are going to dissipate this very summer when fame comes knocking. Capricorn (December 22–January 19) You and a certain troubled someone go together like drunk and disorderly. They are the flip to your flop. They are also reliably a lot of fun and a lot of trouble. Their draw has been irresistible for so long you cannot imagine a month without their talking you into something you would never do without their goading. This would be a good month to try. Aquarius (January 20–February 18) Say what, Honey? Your belt won’t buckle but your knees do? This is a good time to hit the gym, hit the road, hit a ball . . . just don’t hit the pantry. You love to entertain and you know how to set up a moveable feast. But it is exactly the right time to hit the salad bar and the garden patch and say “no” to anything that doesn’t look like cream, butter or a heaping spoon of sugar, Sugar. The Art & Soul of Greensboro
Pisces (February 19–March 20) Summer started off with you acting like some kind of genuine crazy person. Thelma and pleaaaaaaaaaaaase! Now that you’ve been there and done that, come on back to reality, Child. Take charge of your inner GPS and find a detour around Crazy Town, USA. Aries (March 21–April 19) It has been a redneck picnic this summer for you, and you enjoyed every last bite. Now on to your next phase. You are known for episodes of sanity, and one is coming up. Grownup time for you, Sugar Pie. It may read as mind-numbing and boring to you, but just give it a test drive. Taurus (April 20–May 20) You have a will, and that will has been more or less focused upon figuring out how to get your way. Always. Hmmm, hit a roadblock recently, didn’t you? Now you have some explaining to do if you want your beloved to forgive and forget. That’s all I’m saying. Gemini (May 21–June 20) Contrary to what you believe, you have a tendency to show your emotions all over your face. And what you have been showing lately is the meanest-looking doll face since Chuckie’s. Tempers have been flaring, you got into the middle of a ruckus, but you can do better. Cancer (June 21–July 22) This month is going to be a breeze compared to the hot mess you endured last month. There is every indication you can borrow anything — a cuppa flour, a little time — but don’t borrow any more trouble. There are more important things to attend to right now. Leo (July 23–August 22) Go ahead, Leo, roar. You’ve got a splinter in your paw and it hurts like the dickens. Actually, it’s more like you have a splinter wedged in your heart. The wedgie from Hell. It is going to require some time to find the relief you are seeking. Meantime, do what you can to find an outlet — and I don’t mean Tanger’s. OH
For years, Astrid Stellanova owned and operated Curl Up and Dye Beauty Salon in the boondocks of North Carolina until arthritic fingers and her popular astrological readings provoked a new career path.
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Dogged Pursuit
By Pamelia Barham
Living on a farm
in Summerfield with lots of animals, I’ve become an amateur animal behaviorist. And among my pets, the one I have occasion to observe most often — or keep an eye on — is my rescue dog, Bridgett, an Irish setter.
Bridgett is bad about carrying things off and bringing an assortment of unusual — and sometimes unwanted — objects home. Our boots have been known to go missing, only to show up in the barns or behind the well. Once Bridgett brought home a hubcap and another time, a garden hose with the nozzle attached. It is not unusual to find shoes, tools, gloves, empty feedbags or outdoor furniture cushions in the front yard. This one spot has become Bridgett’s personal trove (some would say junkyard) where she keeps her stolen treasures. One day when I came home from work, Bridgett was lying in the front yard, surrounded by five one-gallon plastic milk jugs that she’d deposited near the porch. She was very happy to see me, as always, and with tail wagging back and forth, she would proudly look at the milk jugs and then at me. I walked over to her and picked up one of the jugs, wondering where they all came from. Each had a young tomato plant in it, so I gathered them up and put them under the car shed where Bridgett or squirrels or other tomato-loving critters couldn’t reach them. Each day for a week when I got home there were more jugs with tomato plants in them. I added them to the first crop under the car shed, away from Bridgett, and watered them. I figured whoever had gone to the trouble of planting them, wouldn’t appreciate it if they all shriveled and died before producing any fruit. The following Saturday morning after breakfast I noticed Bridgett coming through the woods behind our house with another jug in her mouth. I watched for a while, as she placed it in her favorite spot in the front yard and wandered back into the woods. I followed her through the woods to a creek bank where there were dozens of jugs just like the ones in my shed. She fetched another and headed home with her prize.
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I recalled seeing a trailer on some property whenever I rode my horse along the creek bank, but I never knew who lived there or saw anyone around. I decided to saddle my horse and ride down that way to see if anyone was at the trailer. The trailer was set in an open clearing surrounded by trees, and for the first time I saw signs of human life. I said “Hello” and two very friendly fellows returned my greeting. I asked them if the tomato plants in the jugs along the creek were theirs and they said “yes.” Apologizing profusely, I told them about Bridgett making off with the others and bringing them to my house. I also explained to my neighbors that I had been watering their plants, which they were welcome to come and retrieve. They seemed very relieved and jumped in their pickup and drove to the house, where I met them on horseback. They gathered up the plants and thanked me for looking after them, and I assured them I would put Bridgett inside the fence so she wouldn’t be bothering them anymore. As the saying goes, “Good fences make good neighbors,” — especially if your neighbor is a nosy Irish setter. Later the next week when I pulled in my driveway after a day at work, I was shocked to see the dirt road leading down to the creek crawling with law enforcement officers. Five men in handcuffs were leaning against a car, and I recognized two of them as my neighbors at the trailer. “Ma’am?” It was one of the sheriff’s deputies, instructing me to wait in my car. A drug officer identified himself to me and asked if I knew anything about the people in the trailer behind me. I told him “no,” but explained how my dog had brought quite a few of their tomato plants to my house, which I had returned. “Is this what the plants looked like?” the officer asked, holding one of the milk jugs. “Yes!” I replied, adding that these were the same plants I had watered until I had found out whose they were. The officer smiled at me and revealed that the crop I’d helped cultivate wouldn’t yield any fruit this year — or ever. And it was then that I learned it is hard to distinguish a young tomato plant from a young marijuana plant. Maybe it’s time to switch from animal behavior to botany. OH Pamelia Barham still likes to ride her horse through the woods and is considering a career as a detection dog for Bridgett. The Art & Soul of Greensboro
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