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Thursday, October 14, 2021
Downtown Belmont will become an outdoor art gallery By Alan Hodge alan@cfmedia.info
“An experience like no other.” “Never done before.” “A cool way to display art outside.” That’s how Belmont’s downtown director Phil Boggan describes the upcoming Gobo Art Walk that will be coming to Main St. as part of the Oct. 22 to Nov. 7 Moonlight On Main event. The art show will feature original works that will be projected onto the sides of build-
ings in the heart of downtown Belmont. The means of projection is called a “gobo”. A gobo is a small disc or template made of glass, metal, or film that carries a logo design or other desired image. The gobo is placed into a gobo projector and when light passes through the lens, the image appears on the selected surface. One gobo projector has been in place in front of the Main St. City Hall building for months. For the event, two dozen projectors See GALLERY, Page 5
This work by artist Carol Carstarphen “Webcam Selfie” is just one of over 20 works that will be projected on the sides of buildings in downtown Belmont during the “Moonlight on Main” event.
Fourth annual Mt. Holly Lantern Parade just around the corner
Belmont history available for viewing on YouTube
By Alan Hodge
By Alan Hodge
alan@cfmedia.info
The fourth annual Mt. Holly Lantern Parade will take place on Saturday, Oct. 23 starting at 7pm in downtown Mt. Holly. Unlike last year’s event which due to Covid had to be configured as a “parade in reverse” with spectators walking past the lanterns, this year there will be a full blown, regular, “normal”, spectacle with hordes of happy lantern bearers marching down the road and mobs of folks on the sidewalks taking it all in. Awaken Gallery owner Emily Andress dreamed up and has organized every parade. She is glad things are back to the way they were pre-Covid. “I can’t wait to see it happen,” she said. “The lanterns being carried through town will be spectacular.” Andress estimates there will be hundreds of lanterns lifted aloft. This year’s parade theme is “Let’s All Go
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Lantern parade founder Emily Andress with her creations for last year’s parade. This year the theme will be Let’s All Go to the Movies. Photo by Alan Hodge to the Movies”. Andress didn’t want to spoil the surprise, but hinted that some of the lanterns will represent
Minions, Star Wars, Marvel Comic characters, and other creations from flicks past and present. Andress is
working on a lantern depicting Cleopatra which should be very special. See PARADE, Page 4
As most folks know, all sorts of things from the sublime to the ridiculous can be seen on YouTube. Well, here’s an interesting fact, there are several videos on there of Belmont during the early to mid 20th century made from “home movies” shot by local folks. One of the YouTube videos shows newsreel film shot during the 1930s and 1940s in both Belmont and Kings Mountain. The video includes interviews with mill workers, action from a 1940 flood, and Herbert Hoover speaking to a huge crowd at the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain celebration. The YouTube video was made and posted by Belmont’s Harding Stowe using original home movies actually shot on the scenes by his uncle, the late Daniel Stowe.
“When he passed away I got the films and had them digitalized by a company in Pennsylvania,” Harding said when the first film aired on YouTube in 2013. “I thought other people might want to see them so I posted the video. He started taking movies in the 1920s and the other films are travel and family stuff.” In one early Belmont YouTube video, you see female workers leaving the Majestic Mill while a group of men in overalls hunker under a shade tree taking a break. The camera also encounters a group of young girls and films them giggling while a fellow mill hand named Charles Huggins holds a microphone and asks how they like their lollipops. Huggins also asks his colleagues how they like their jobs and gets mostly positive comments in return. Another portion of the video See HISTORY, Page 4
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