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CITY LIFE THURSDAY

NOV. 16 - 23

SATURDAY

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High Point Holiday Festival Parade @ Green Drive, North on Main Street., Qubein Street. (HP) 3 p.m. The High Point Holiday Festival Parade is back with appearances from marching bands, beauty queens, Santa Claus and more. Visit highpointparade.com for more information.

As You Like It @ UNCSA (W-S) 7:30 p.m.

The School of Drama at UNCSA presents a communityled musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, featuring members of local community groups including Greater Vision Dance, the Winston-Salem Street School and the Enrichment Center as part of its cast and crew and murals by local artists as part of its set. Purchase tickets at uncsa.edu/performances.

Tails of Thanks @ Brown Truck Brewery (HP) 1 p.m.

MONDAY

Brown Truck Brewery and the Haley Graves Foundation NC invite you to enjoy an afternoon of getting to know adoptable dogs, shopping with vendors and entering raffles. Visit the event page on Facebook for more information.

Reynolda on the House @ Reynolda Drag Bingo @ Joymongers Barrel Hall House Museum of American Art (W-S) (W-S) 7 p.m. Winging It: How Tree Swallows Are 1:30 p.m. Join Anna Yacht and Genesis De Vil every third Monday Taking Over the World @ Kathleen Clay Reynolda invites all to visit “on the house.” Take a free at Joymongers for five rounds of bingo, drinks, prizes stroll through the museum to view Smith and Libby: Two and performances. Visit the event page on Facebook for Edwards Family Library (GSO) 7 p.m. Piedmont Bird Club invites you to join Dr. Lynn Siefferman, Associate Professor of Biology at Appalachian State University for a discussion surrounding bird research and her studies on eastern bluebirds and tree swallows. Free and open to the public. Visit piedmontbirdclub.org for more information.

Rings, Seven Months, One Bullet, enjoy light refreshments, live jazz music and an art activity for kids. There will also be the annual holiday stroll at 3 p.m. with carolers, carriage rides and decorations throughout the village. Advance registration at reynolda.org/visit/calendar is encouraged.

In the Habit of Harmony @ Virginia Somerville Sutton Theatre (GSO) 3 p.m.

FRIDAY

Triad A Cappella Connection, a women’s a cappella barbershop chorus, is excited to announce its annual stage show In the Habit of Harmony. The program features a medley of popular tunes, barbershop classics and holiday music. Tickets available at triadacappellaconnection.org.

Galatea, Or Whatever You Be @ UNCG (GSO) 7:30 p.m.

The UNCG School of Theatre presents Galatea, Or Whatever You Be, adapted from John Lyly’s 1585 play Gallathea Galatea, Or Whatever You Be tells the story of “two young people who dress as men and run to the woods to escape their town’s virgin sacrifice where they find each other and fall in love.” Purchase tickets at uncgtheatre.com.

Noise Pollution: The AC/DC Experience @ the Ramkat (W-S) 8 p.m.

San Diego-based Noise Pollution offers an amazing, energetic replication of the AC/DC concert experience from the Bon Scott and Brian Johnson eras. Tickets on sale at theramkat.com.

The Best of Everything @ UNCSA Main Theatre (W-S) 7 p.m.

RiverRun International Film Festival presents a retro screening of The Best of Everything, which tells the story of three young women working for a New York publishing firm. The ensemble cast features Hollywood legend Diane Baker, Robert Evans, Joan Crawford and others. Baker and author Foster Hirsch will be special guests at the screening for an on-stage discussion and book signing. Purchase tickets at riverrunfilm.com.

SUNDAY

Holiday Sip & Shop @ Hidden Gate Brewing (GSO) 12 p.m. Hidden Gate Brewing invites you to do some holiday shopping during this sip and shop vendor market. Head to northcarolinashoppersmarket.com/hiddengate for more information.

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THURSDAY Nov. 23

Running of the Turkeys @ Country Park (GSO) 8:30 a.m.

Start your Thanksgiving morning with this energizing 5K at Country Park. Leashed pets and strollers are welcome. Visit the event page on Facebook to sign up.

7th annual 5 Before the Feast @ High Point Rockers Stadium (HP) 8:30 a.m.

Head to High Point Rockers Stadium for an earlymorning 5K to benefit the YMCA of High Point. Kids 12 and under can participate in the Family Fun Run for free! Learn more at 5beforethefeast.org.

Thanksgiving @ the Katharine Brasserie and Bar (W-S) 12 p.m.

Don’t feel like cooking this year? No worries! The Katharine is offering a decadent Thanksgiving Day menu featuring herb-roasted turkey, cracked pepper-crusted prime rib, butternut squash bisque and other delicious entreés and sides. Reservations are available from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. and can be made at opentable.com.

FRIDAY

John Berry’s 27th annual Christmas Tour @ High Point Theatre (HP) 7 p.m. John Berry is known to country music lovers far and wide, but it was his 1995 CD O Holy Night that established his legacy. Join him for his 27th annual Christmas tour where he’ll perform holiday hits all can enjoy. Doors open at 6. Tickets available at highpointtheatre.com.

Turkey Burn @ High Point Yoga School (HP) 10 a.m.

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NOV. 24 - 28

SUNDAY

High Point Yoga School is hosting Turkey Burn, a high intensity, low-impact workout designed to burn Thanksgiving calories. Register at highpointys.com.

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas @ Steven Tanger A Motown Christmas @ Carolina Center (GSO) 2 p.m. In Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Theatre (GSO) 7:30 p.m. The Musical, Max the Dog narrates as the Grinch plans to steal Christmas from the holiday-loving Whos of Whoville. Kids and adults will enjoy music from the original animated series, lavish costumes and choreography featured in this timeless tale. Purchase tickets at tangercenter. com.

SATURDAY

Megan Doss Band @ Wise Man Brewing (W-S) 7 p.m.

The Megan Doss Band will rock the tap room with covers of your favorite country songs. Visit the event page on Facebook for more information.

Just a few tickets remain for A Motown Christmas, performances of holiday classics by a world-class vocal group comprised of past and present members of Motown groups the Temptations, the Miracles and the Capitols. Purchase tickets at carolinatheatre.com.

TUESDAY

Christmas Candle Workshop @ the Mantel Mercantile (HP) 5 p.m.

The Mantel Mercantile is hosting a night for you to indulge in holiday treats and drinks while you create and pour your own Christmas candle. Get tickets at themantelmercantile.com.

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OPINION

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK How we’re going to cover the Hamas-Israel conflict

ow can l o c a l media outlets cover an international conflict that’s taking place thousands of miles away? How by Sayaka Matsuoka can we do it in a way that doesn’t sow further division, but rather creates nuanced conversation? How can we do it in a way that will be meaningful? These are the questions that have been keeping me up at night these last few weeks. When the war broke out between Hamas and Israel after the former launched its unprecedented attack against innocent civilians on Oct. 7, I was busy packing for my trip to Japan. And for the next three weeks, I remained blissfully ignorant about the growing humanitarian crisis that was unveiling in the Gaza strip. When I returned at the end of October, people reached out to Triad City Beat to ask how we were covering the conflict and why we had been silent thus far. The question is simple: We didn’t have the manpower to cover it then. But we do now. Now that I’m back, I’ve been thinking day and night about TCB’s role in this moment. And as I contemplated the dilemma and talked to Sam, my husband, on a recent walk, the answer became

simple: We cover it the way we always do, by putting those most impacted at the center. When I started covering police shootings several years ago, I learned that the important thing was to always center the experiences, feelings, lives of the people who had had their loved ones taken away by an unjust system. The “giving the voice to the voiceless” kind of thing we always say in journalism. So that’s what we’ll do here. Of course, it’s difficult to do when the direct conflict is happening across the world, but we know that in the Triad, many have family, friends, colleagues who are scared for their lives because of the war. People are hurting right here in the Triad. M o t h e r s , children, sons, d a u g h t e r s , brothers and sisters fear that their homes, their hospitals, their entire worlds, will be blasted away at any given moment. Still others wait for the safe return of their families after being taken as hostages. So here, on the grounds in our little corner of the world, we’ll do our best to give a voice to what’s happening there, because despite the distance we know that what’s happening now and how we respond to it is a direct reflection of all of our collective humanity.

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NEWS NEWS | NOV. 16 - 29, 2023

Guilford County Sheriff Danny Rogers speaking to community members at a town hall on Nov. 8. PHOTO BY GALE MELCHER

‘Facing Difficult Times’ The Guilford County Sheriff’s Office holds town hall covering budget, violent crime, drug overdoses by Sayaka Matsuoka | sayaka@triad-city-beat.com

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n Nov. 8, members of the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office held a town hall during which they talked to the community about the department’s budget, detention services, violent crime and how they’re handling illicit drugs.

ccording to Lieutenant Wes Mecham, the sheriff’s department runs on an approximately $89 million budget. That’s an increase of about $9 million from the 2023 budget, which came in at approximately $80.9 million, according to the 2024 fiscal year adopted budget for Guilford County. Of that $89 million, Mecham noted, about $2.2 million is for salaries and the largest portion of the budget — more than $46.3 million — goes to operating the detention centers in High Point and Greensboro. Despite the sheriff’s office being the second-largest expenditure for the county, second only to the public school system, Mecham said that salaries for employees of the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office lag behind other nearby municipalities. “Right now, Guilford County is struggling as far as competing with the rest of the area that we live in,” Mecham said. In Guilford County, the starting range for a deputy sheriff or detention officer is about $43,000 but in neighboring Forsyth County, the range starts at $55,000, Mecham said. In Forsyth County, a deputy sheriff can make $62,000 while Greensboro police officers have a starting salary of $55,000. Alamance County’s Sheriff’s Office starting salaries are around $49,500 while the High Point Police Department pays about $53,000, and Winston-Salem Police Department starts at $55,000, according to Mecham.

“We’re trying to be more competitive,” Mecham said. “We’re doing the best we can but giving you an idea of where Guilford County ranks in the Triad area.” That’s resulted in a shortage of staff for the department, according to Rogers. “People are not coming in like they used to,” he said. “Right now we are facing difficult times.” Later in the evening, Deputy Chief Vic Maynard talked about how there are fewer deputies than there were 30 years ago. According to Maynard, each of the three districts has about six deputies patrolling per shift, meaning there are 18 deputies on duty at any given time. That’s only three more deputies than they had in 1990, Maynard said. “We need a lot more than that,” he said. He also pointed out how Guilford County is the third-largest county in the state and the sheriff’s office is the largest full-service law enforcement agency in North Carolina. That means the office executes a wide range of services inducing patrol, detention and administration compared to counties that provide fewer services. On the whole, Maynard said that the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office employs about 700 people when it is full staffed.

Detention services, mental health crises

heriff Danny Rogers also talked about an uptick in people moving through the county jails. “We have a little more than 19,000 people per year coming through detention,” Roger said. And many of those people suffer from mental health disorders, he said. According to Rogers, there are 330 positions within the detention centers. Many of 5

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those include counseling and behavioral therapy for substance abuse and a re-entry division. One community member who works at the downtown train depot said that she sees a lot of mental health issues amongst people who spend time there and asked who she should call. To that, staff responded that there is a non-emergency line (336.373.2222) that the community can call and that the Greensboro Police Department has also started a co-response program that sends social workers along with police to some nonemergency calls. The sheriff’s office does not yet have a program like that, staff said.

Drug overdose deaths

or community members struggling from substance-abuse issues, the sheriff’s office has recently implemented the minimal-assistance treatment program, shortened to the MAT program. This is a new initiative that considers substance abuse a “disability” rather than a criminal act. Following federal guidelines, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office began its first round of the MAT program in October 2022 in which inmates are allowed to take legally prescribed medication such as buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone, etc., to treat their opioid-use disorder as long as they are not engaged in the illegal use of drugs. The individual uses the medication under the supervision of a licensed healthcare professional. One woman — grandmother to a teenager who bought fentanyl-laced drugs which led to a fatal overdose — spoke passionately at the town hall. She asked the sheriff’s department what they are doing to stop the sale of illicit drugs laced with fentanyl, now a leading cause of death in drugs across the country. According to TCB’s reporting there’s been a surge in drug overdoses in the city as of late. “The rate of medication and drug overdose deaths was 29.6 per 100,000 residents in Guilford County between 2017-21,” TCB reported. “Statewide, the rate was 27.6 per 100,000 residents. As for opioid overdose deaths, Guilford County had 24.4 deaths per 100,000 residents while the state had 22.7.” Captain Clendenin spoke at length about a new statute within NC law that has changed how to address the rise in overdose deaths. The new law, called the “Death by Distribution” law, establishes more severe penalties for offenders who distribute drugs to people who end up dying in the result of the consumption of said drugs. The law, which will go into effect on Dec. 1, makes the offense a Class C Felony which carries a maximum of 231 months in prison. Clendenin also said that the routine is for patrol officers to always have Narcan on hand and if there is a death, to send the case to the Major Crimes Division. Up until now, Clendenin said that the department has been successful in jailing dealers who sell opioids or narcotics under the narcotics laws at both the federal and state levels. But with the new law, that could change, he said.

A Carolina Christmas Home Alone In Concert Saturday, Nov 25, 2023 & Sunday, Nov 26, 2023

A true holiday favorite, this beloved comedy classic features renowned composer John Williams’ charming and delightful score performed live to picture by WinstonSalem Symphony. Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, an 8-year-old boy who’s accidentally left behind when his family leaves for Christmas vacation, and who must defend his home against two bungling thieves.

Hilarious and heartwarming, Home Alone is holiday fun for the entire family!

Violent crime drop, police shootings rise

ccording to the department, the violent crime rate has decreased 8 percent compared to last year. The average response time for the department is also about nine minutes which is “well within the national average,” according to Deputy Chief Vic Maynard. Last year, the office had about 67,000 calls for services, Maynard said. Despite the decrease in violent crime overall, Maynard said that there have been more deputy-involved shootings in the last five years compared to years past. According to Maynard, from 1985-2015 there were 14 deputy-involved shootings. But from 2018-23, there were 12. Maynard said that they were “all justified,” and cleared by the district attorney’s office. TCB has reported extensively on police shootings in the Triad. This summer, officers with the Greensboro Police Department killed two people within eight days. More often than not, local district attorney’s offices clear officers of any wrongdoing, as was the case in the Marcus Smith, Nasanto Crenshaw and Edward Van McCrae deaths.

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NEWS NEWS | NOV. 16 - 29, 2023

The Coca-Cola bottling plant in Winston-Salem will soon receive historical landmark status and be developed into a food business. PHOTO BY GALE MELCHER

Building on a Legacy

Coca-Cola Bottling Plant building to receive historical landmark status, be transformed into new development

by Gale Melcher | gale@triad-city-beat.com

inston-Salem’s Coca-Cola Bottling Company plant is a bewitching architectural masterpiece near Old Salem. The delicate script of the Coca-Cola logo lines the face of the aged building. With years of historical significance and industrial accomplishments within its walls, the factory churned out its internationally beloved product throughout the 20th Century. Now, the location is on its way to acquiring local historic landmark status, a designation bestowed by the Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission. As provided by North Carolina law, the designation denotes recognition for properties that are important to the heritage and character of the community. Forsyth County currently has 143 properties designated as local historical landmarks. The Historic Resources Commission unanimously recommended approval after a public hearing on the application on Oct. 4; the designation was recommended on Nov. 13 by city councilmembers on the community development, housing and general government committee. It’s up for full council approval at next week’s meeting. According to the city staff report, the building is “much more stylish than the typical utilitarian factory.” The business that emerged from the 1929 Mediterranean Revivalstyle industrial building helped fuel the city’s economic and physical growth, and surrounding building additions to the plant continued to pop well into the 1960s. So how much of this location is slated to be included in the designation? The complete exterior and interior of the Winston Coca-Cola Bottling Company as well as the inside and outside of the plant’s garage and workshop, plus the entire tax block and lot they’re placed upon will be included.

A new life for the building

AH Group LLC purchased the plant and surrounding land last year. The local group is a real estate investment company headed by Jared Rogers. In an interview with Triad City Beat, Rogers said that he plans for it to be a “food-centric development.” The goal is for the new development to fill the gap in food service around Old Salem Museums and Gardens, allowing families to stroll from their historical excursion to nearby refreshments instead of walking or driving to find food. “We’re hoping to have the majority of it open by the end of next year,” he said. One of the already determined businesses will be a second location of Bobby Boy Bake Shop, the popular Winston-Salem bakery currently perched at the intersection of Robinhood and Reynolda Roads. The shop will also install a commercial kitchen at the new site in Old Salem. “The commercial kitchen will really allow them to actually expand [their] offerings,” Rogers said of Bobby Boy. The business often has a long line of eager customers spilling out the door. “They sell everything they make and they can’t make any more,” Rogers chuckled, adding, “because the kitchen’s limited.” They will “probably have some AirBNBs up there on the second floor” as well, Rogers said. Plus, there will be a balcony that overlooks downtown. “We’re still deciding if we’re going to do event space,” he added. The historic spaces and the land they’re situated upon were purchased for $2.6

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million, Rogers said, as well as 1.8 acres nearby which will be used for parking. “We’re doing this in a way that preserves the historic nature of the project,” Rogers said. Other competitors who were interested in the land were looking to demolish some of the buildings and prop up housing. “The competition wanted to just build townhouses on the 1.8 acres,” Rogers said. ”They were gonna tear down two of the buildings and throw more townhouses [at it] and then figure out what to do with the historic building.” He said that their approach was different. They wanted to preserve the buildings and use the adjacent property for parking. “The landmark [designation] kind of just preserves it for the long-term, you know, for my kid’s kids,” he said.

UPCOMING CONCERTS!

What happens when you run a business in a historically protected building?

he designation comes with some financial benefits, according to city documents. An owner of a designated landmark is eligible to apply for a deferral of up to 50 percent of their annual property tax, just as long as the property’s important historical features are retained. However, if they want to make any changes to their property, the plans must first be reviewed and approved by the Historic Resources Commission. Hopefully they can avoid the pitfalls of another local business headquartered at a historic location: Roar, a downtown dining hall that opened in 2022 in the building that formerly housed Twin City Motor Company. Earlier this year, Roar came head to head with the city over their exterior signage. As reported by FOX8 in January, the sign — emblazoned with a lion’s head — was composed of materials that were not in compliance with the rules. Forsyth County Design Review Standards for local historic landmarks states that any new additions, exterior alterations or related new construction must not destroy historic materials or features that characterize the property. New additions must be “compatible with the historic materials, features, size, scale and proportion, and massing to protect the integrity of the property and its environment.” The city’s former Marketing and Communications Director Frank Elliot told FOX8 that the city simply asked that Roar’s owners “follow the same rules that everybody else has to follow when they request and receive designation as a local historic landmark.” “As part of the quid pro quo they agreed to follow certain rules about maintaining the historic character of the building,” he said. However, the matter seems to have been resolved. In an October email to TCB, Historic Resources Officer Michelle McCullough stated that the business was “working on installing the new signage that was approved by the HRC.” So does Rogers anticipate any hiccups? “You can’t say never,” he said, but noted that they’ve hired a consultant — architectural historian Heather Fearnbach — to help. Fearnbach “is probably the most knowledgeable in the state,” Rogers said. “We have to run a parallel path. We can’t do all the soft work and get approved on everything and then start the construction,” he continued. “I have leases waiting to open, I have capital outstanding,” Rogers said. In an “ideal scenario,” Rogers added, “you’d have all of that approved, and then you start construction, but that never happens. So you do run the risk.” “It’s an expensive redevelopment, we are counting on the tax credits,” Rogers admitted. But Rogers and his team are doing everything they can to preserve the location for future generations. Rogers noted that it’s “amazing how much we are preserving.” Rogers added that they have gotten “preliminary approval” from organizations like the National Park Service. “That basically means that the project is a go but no guarantees that they will accept it after we complete work,” Rogers wrote in a follow-up email to TCB. They will still have to do things to “make the project work for the tenants” while staying true to the historic elements. That’s where the final approval comes in, Rogers stated. However, “everything’s moving in the right direction,” Rogers said, adding, “As long as we just keep focusing on doing things the right way, we should be fine.”

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OPINION | NOV. 16 - 29, 2023

OPINION

EDITORIAL

NC House and Senate districts stink, too

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space the anti-democratic Congressional maps put forth by by Brian Clarey the North Carolina Legislature. Those new maps result in 10 Republican districts and three earmarked for Democrats plus one toss-up, even though there are more registered Democrats, 2.4 million, than registered Republicans, 2.2 million, in NC. They break Guilford County, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a factor of almost 2-to-1, into three Republicanleaning districts, the 5th (R+8), the 6th (R+9) and the 9th (R+8). Forsyth is part of the 6th District and also the 10th (R+9). In Forsyth, registered Dems outnumber Rs by almost 27,000 voters. Now we move on to the state House and Senate maps, which are a mixed bag. We’ll compare the districts using the Cook’s scale and reporting from John Locke. The Senate map cuts Guilford County into three districts: 26, 27 and 28. District 26, which includes all of Rockingham County and the parts of Guilford which are neither Greensboro nor High Point, is R+8. Districts 27, western Greensboro 10 and High Point, is D+10. District 28, the

eastern half of Greensboro, is D+27. All in all, the map divides 50 Senate seats into 19 safe Republican districts and 16 safe Democrat districts, with nine more likely going to Republicans, one probably going to Democrats and five toss-ups. It takes 30 seats to attain a supermajority. The new NC House map shows less constraint. In it, Guilford holds the entirety of six different districts: 51 (R+9), 57 (D+18), 58 (D+28), 59 (R+5), 60 (D+15) and 62 (R+4) to give this blue, Quaker-founded county three Republicans and three Democrats to represent us in the House. Forsyth County becomes divided by five different districts, designed to result in a 3-2 Republican majority. WinstonSalem is covered by District 71 (D+20) and 72 (D+24). District 74, on the west side of Forsyth, is R+5; on the east, District 75 is R+6. District 91, R+14, packs a chunk of north-central Forsyth with all of Stokes County. These thin margins matter. A party needs to capture 72 of 120 House seats to attain supermajority, which enables veto overrides, bully pulpits and other tools of minority rule. Something else to remember as the election draws closer: These numbers assume baseline voter turnout. If everyone in Guilford and Forsyth shows up to vote, all bets are off.

The new state House and Senate maps are a mixed bag.

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CULTURE | NOV. 16 - 29, 2023

CULTURE ‘A Nationally Known Powerhouse’

Historian and author Eric Medlin recently published Sawdust in Your Pockets, the first book chronicling the social and economic history of furniture in North Carolina. COURTESY PHOTO

Historian Eric Medlin talks about the furniture industry’s impact on NC in new book by Sayaka Matsuoka | sayaka@triad-city-beat.com

ric Medlin is a history instructor at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh. Recently Medlin celebrated the release of his book Sawdust in Your Pockets, the first book chronicling the history of the furniture industry in North Carolina. The book is sold at both Scuppernong Books in Greensboro and Bookmarks in Winston-Salem.

I noticed that your book has been called the first book chronicling the history of the furniture industry in North Carolina. That was surprising to me. Can you tell me more about how you came to write the book?

I was shocked, too. I got the idea about five years ago when I was working on something completely different. I was told by one of my mentors that there had never been a book written about the furniture industry. I grew up in North Carolina and when you grow up here, you learn about tobacco, textile and furniture being the industrial basis for North Carolina. The fact that there hadn’t been an entire history about the furniture industry; I was amazed. And as a historian, you’re always looking for something like that.

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What was the process like in writing the book?

a really long time in North Carolina. There’s a large amount of furniture manufacturing into the late 1990s, then it really falls off a cliff.

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It’s different when you’re writing a book about something that hasn’t been written before at that level. You don’t have that secondary source base. I looked at newspapers, oral histories that had been done by the Furniture Hall of Fame in High Point and talked to some of the CEOs of furniture companies, furniture designers.

What were some of the most interesting things you learned in writing the book?

I think the most interesting thing is the size and scale of the furniture industry. Almost a million people worked for the furniture industry at its height in North Carolina which was in the mid-century around the 1950s and 70s. There was furniture of all different price levels, designs; there were even lighting companies making lights for the showrooms. It was amazing how it all came together in High Point and how High Point became a boomtown and became this center for this industry. 12 Another thing that surprised me was that we talk a lot about plants closing but it takes

Why did High Point become such an important city for furniture?

North Carolina had all these things that furniture needed: wood, a limited amount of capital to build plants, cheap labor and entrepreneurs. We also had railroads coming together at the right time. It started in the cabinet-making phase prior to the Civil War. In the 1880s it was the early factory period where there were small amounts of machines, some of the earliest factories. Another thing that you always had to keep in mind is the textile industry. With the factory towns, they need furniture and they need cheap furniture. Then in the early 20th Century it was the early Golden Age. High Point became a boomtown. The Golden Age was probably from 1921-68. That was when the factory towns, driven by furniture, started creating a wide range of pieces and they started expanding outside of High Point into the Lenoirs and the Lexingtons. There were dozens of towns in North Carolina that made furniture.

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In 1968 you have furniture still growing like crazy but also the consolidation and the entry of big companies for the first time. Then globalization in the ’80s and ’90s created problems with cheaper labor in other places. And many of these towns, with the smallest economic headwinds, start to shut down the factories and lay everybody off. When White Furniture Company closed in Mebane in 1993, that was a seminal moment in the industry; it was a sign that it was going to start declining.

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What about what’s been happening more recently?

I think High Point has realized that it can’t just be a market town and it needs more attention and more focus the other weeks of the year. It’s realized that and is doing a good job focusing more on the local community. I think that is going to help it out in the future.

The past 10 years is its own phase. Furniture has been growing, becoming more resilient with the rise of custom furniture and high-class furniture. Then the Covid pandemic happened and revitalized American manufacturing a little bit. So everything hit rock bottom and it’s coming up a little bit. At the moment, the Furniture Market is internationally known.

What impact do you think furniture as a whole has had on the state? The real impact is how the industry put North Carolina on the map nationally and internationally. How this previously small, forgotten state became a nationally known powerhouse and created pieces that were known around the world.

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Tell me more about that decline in the industry. When did it begin?

What do you think the future looks like for the industry? I think in general the furniture industry is still trying to figure out what it’s going to do and I think it’s found a good path forward. It needs to get a good hold on its labor situation. But I think it can do a lot of good work. We’re in the early stages of customizable, niche furniture. I think it’s really hopeful.

How do you think the Furniture Market has impacted High Point?

I think the market buoyed High Point. It’s the way High Point finds its way forward in a post-industrial landscape. The downtown pretty much oriented itself around it. Many of these buildings look empty after the market, but there’s people in them setting up for the next one. That’s an approach that very few towns in the country have taken. That was High Point’s strategy for dealing with factories closing. It’s worked in some ways, but hasn’t worked in other ways. It means you don’t have as many bars and restaurants downtown.

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CULTURE Nerd Magnet Dragon’s Hoard in Greensboro creates welcoming space by and for nerds

Zack Fisher, Sherri McDonald and Steven Ramos are the owners of Dragon’s Hoard, Greensboro’s newest geek store. COURTESY PHOTO

by Sayaka Matsuoka | sayaka@triad-city-beat.com

herri McDonald has a potions guy. And a leather guy. And an anime guy. In fact, she knows a maker for most any kind of niche nerd subculture. In that way, she, her husband and friend Zack Fisher have become the purveyors of all things geek in Greensboro. The three opened Dragon’s Hoard, a new hobby shop in the city, in February, and the business has been growing ever since. Follow Dragon’s “The original idea was for it to be a collectible hobby place,” Hoard on Facebook explains McDonald, who makes 3-D printed figures for the shop. and on their “Then we found that it was more of a gaming collective and then website at it evolved with the community and the community’s needs.” dragonshoardnc.com. McDonald and her husband, Steven Ramos, got into 3-D printing last year, churning out resin and RDF dragons and custom pieces like swords for miniature toys. After they got the hang of it, they started looking for a place to sell their wares and came across a enough money to pay rent and keep the lights on. small toy store in the same shopping center as the Food Lion off of West McDonald and Ramos remember when Geeksboro opened in Greensboro, they’d Market Street. When that store eventually had to close, Fisher, who was the realtor for go all the time to hang out. For years, it was the premiere spot for nerds to hang out, the space, asked the couple if they’d want to open up their own geek shop in its place. but owner Joe Scott often lamented how difficult it was to keep the business afloat “We put a lot of work into the space,” McDonald explained. “It was a labor of love.” because of the tight margins. Now, as the owners of the business, McDonald says they’re working on building a For their business, they hope to keep the community engaged so that they feel a community of local artisans who want to sell their geeky stuff to the community. sense of ownership in the store, McDonald says. “We’re more of a consignment shop,” McDonald says. “We invite other people in the “That’s the No. 1 thing we are focusing on, is building community,” she says. community to showcase their stuff so it’s not just Steven and Sherri and Zack’s stuff.” Fisher says that means making both the physical aspects of the store, as well as the Now the shop has everything from miniatures to anime figures to collectible cards invisible vibes of the business, as comfortable for all as possible. to D&D mats and books. Players also gather to play card games and compete in video Uncomfortable plastic or metal chairs were replaced with plushier office chairs and game tournaments like Super Smash Bros. there’s couches where people can sit and pass the time. “We opened the space so other people could expand their business,” she says. “It’s “We want the store to be welcoming to all people,” Fisher says. “We want kids to kind of what we were looking for.” feel comfortable, we want the LGBTQ+ community to feel comfortable. Ultimately at One of the most popular items in the store has been the new Disney trading card the end of the day, if people want to spend their Friday nights here, we want it to be game, Lorcana, which released its first deck in mid August. comfortable.” “We’re one of the only stores that sells it at MSRP prices,” Fisher says. As a 45-year-old nerd who grew up playing D&D and Magic the Gathering, he is aware A quick search on the internet shows that scalpers have been buying up stock and of how exclusionary to women and marginalized people many nerd communities were. reselling cards for three to four times the retail price, something that Fisher says goes “This culture is not celebrated more than it is hidden,” he says. “There’s stuff that against their mission as a store. every one of us at least has an interest or fascination in…. I think people should be able “We’re one of the only places in the state honoring retail prices,” he says. “We want to to be who they want to be sans judgment or fear. And I think we have become more be the place that everyone comes to for this new card game.” accepting of people and who they are.” On Friday, there will be another release of the Lorcana cards at Dragon’s Hoard, McDonald, who used to frequently go to Dragon Con in Atlanta, one of the largest something that Fisher says hopes will bring in more customers. It’s all part of building pop-culture conventions in the world, says she’s excited to create a space by and for that loyal base in this area, he says. nerds in Greensboro. “Ultimately you have to have a large family of customers that are going to not only “The thing we love about the store is when one of our customers says, ‘It’s our store,’” play in the store, but ones that feel so comfortable in your store that they’ll pay an extra she says. “They take ownership of the store. They use ‘we’ words. That’s what I enjoy couple of dollars to make sure that the store stays there,” he says. seeing most.” It can be a conundrum for hobby stores like Dragon’s Hoard to stay in business. 14 Oftentimes customers flock to play games and trade cards in-store, but won’t spend

Shining a Light

As RiverRun’s first BIPOC filmmaking fellow, Fatima Ward will help curate film for the 2024 film festival. COURTESY PHOTO

Sudanese filmmaker Fatima Wardy on being RiverRun’s first BIPOC filmmaking fellow

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iverRun International Film Festival has named Sudanese filmmaker Fatima Wardy as its first BIPOC Fellow as part of the BIPOC Filmmaker Fellowship, an initiative aiming to “uplift the work of Black, Indigenous and other filmmakers of color.” As the fellow, Wardy will curate films by filmmakers of color to screen during RiverRun’s 2024 festival. In 2016, Wardy earned an arts and sciences degree from the University College London, where she found her passion for storytelling. After graduating, she became a breaking-news journalist and documentary maker for BBC London. Now, she’s based in Austin while she earns an MFA in film and media production from the University of Texas at Austin. Growing up in rural Scotland as the child of Sudanese immigrants, Wardy wasn’t exposed to much diversity in her formative years, an experience that influences her films. In her conversation with TCB, Wardy spoke about diversity in filmmaking, what inspires her and how she works to highlight other filmmakers of color.

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How does it feel to be RiverRun’s first BIPOC fellow and to be a point of representation for other BIPOC filmmakers? I’ve just been grateful to have this opportunity to really learn more about programming for one thing; it’s a type of filmmaking in a way that I haven’t had a chance to do yet. Giving filmmakers exposure can open up doors for them down the line. In a really abstract way, programmers are also filmmakers because they create opportunities for filmmakers to make more work. It’s a really special program. I’m getting paid to practice a skill I have not practiced before and learn something new about this industry and filmmaking but more importantly, to shine a light on films that I really care about.

As RiverRun’s BIPOC Fellow, you will curate a program of four to six films by Black, Indigenous and other filmmakers of color to screen during the 2024 festival. What kind of films do you wish to include in the program?

I was trying to think of the kind of films I’d like to see. As a Sudanese filmmaker, I would like to one day make films in Sudan. I did a research project last year to investigate

what the state of Sudanese filmmaking is like. Currently, our country is going through a civil conflict which means any talk about making films is ridiculous given the fact that there are genocides happening and the capital city has basically been evacuated of citizens. I was just so inspired by these Sudanese filmmakers who are making really incredible work under really difficult circumstances. It occurred to me that if I want to one day make films in Sudan, we need to build an industry for that to happen, and I can’t wait for someone else to do that and I see this program as one way of doing that — bringing attention to the work that these filmmakers are doing. As successful as they’ve been over the years, they’ve never had their work screened in one place.

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How does your Sudanese heritage influence your work? What are other sources of inspiration? A huge point of inspiration for me is my family. My parents were very intentional about making sure we had a strong connection with our homeland and elders. There were oral storytelling traditions that definitely shaped my storytelling modes. The thing that’s inspired me the most in recent years is the fact I got stuck in Sudan during the pandemic. I ended up spending the longest period in my adult life there. My mom had passed away just before the pandemic, and I went home and then we got stuck there because the borders closed and I ended up spending most of the pandemic taking care of my grandmothers. It was a really lovely time. One of them is 15

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no longer with us, but I’m so grateful for the time I got to spend with her. I’m an only daughter, so I don’t really have sisters, but I was able to strengthen my relationships with my cousins and I feel like I have sisters in them too, and a lot of that inspires the work I do, the stories I tell and the scripts that I write.

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Why is diversity in filmmaking important? I’m trying to tell stories for my 16-year-old self, this girl that grew up in this tiny, rural town with mostly white people. I fell in love with cinema and storytelling and it was a really healing thing as I escaped into that world. I watched all kinds of films that didn’t have people that looked like me at all, but I wondered just how inspiring it would’ve been to have characters that look like her. My inner child is always my first audience. What is a film I can tell to inspire her or light up her world or make her think about the world differently? I think that’s what cinema can really do. It can be really powerful to have that representation of your world on a screen. It’s really important, and it makes you feel connected to the wider world. If you’re lonely in this place where nobody understands your culture or where you’re from, but you have this TV show or web series or a film that tells a story that you see yourself in, that makes you feel less alone in your experience.

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