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SUNDAY RECORD YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC RECORDS AND VITAL STATISTICS IN CALHOUN COUNTY BANKRUPTCIES
DEATHS Kenneth Wayne Ashley, Centre Edward O. (Ed) Bailey, Centre James Edward Barnes, Heflin Annie Lee Bass, Oxford Clara Ann Ussery Brown, Roanoke Rodney B. Carroll, Anniston Bobby Gene Colburn, Oxford Eloise Shelton Cooper, Woodland Glenn Darrell Currier, Jacksonville Linda Joyce Daniel, Cedar Bluff Mary Doegg, Centre Elizabeth Edwards, Anniston Annie Lou Ferguson, Centre Carlton “Frosty” Fields, Leesburg O.C. Geyer, Heflin Sara Jane Griffith, Georgia Veronica Faye Hawkins, Anniston Pamela Leigh Higgins, Piedmont Rebecca (Becki) Knowles Hinton, Lincoln Jan Hodges, Anniston James (Jimmy) Hughes, Seattle, Wash. Joseph Crum Hurd Sr., Smith Station Harold Dean Hydrick, Georgia Robert W. “Bob” Johnston, Oxford Inez Jones, Anniston Joyce B. Knightly, Weaver Estelle Lindley Ledbetter, Anniston
Caffey Jeanette Owens Lumpkin, Georgia James Francis Lyons, Piedmont Fallon Magouirk, Oxford Charlotte Mains, Anniston Myrtle Rider Mateer, Jacksonville Sandra L. Newmans, Anniston Era O. Otwell, Heflin Ruby Smith Page, Alexandria Doris A. Pearson, Cedar Bluff Ethel P. Porter, Anniston Louise Pruett, Piedmont Mattie Lou Reese, Piedmont James Donald “Duck” Roberts, Anniston Bunia Mae Rooks, Anniston David William Sanders, Heflin Timothy L. Sims, Lineville C. S. Smith, Anniston Flora Lee “Leedee” Smith, Anniston James Bernard Strawder, Piedmont Yvette T. Thompson, Anniston John Francis Todt Jr., Texas Frank H. Waldrup, Anniston Betty J. Walker, Nebraska Christopher Scott Walker, Oxford Ida Mae “Polly” Walton, Georgia Karen Waugh, Wellington Imogene Elaine Whetstone, Weaver Nancy L. Williams, Anniston Mable Wilson, Choccolocco
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A Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows the debtor to retain certain exempt property, but the debtor’s remaining property is gathered and sold by a trustee from which creditors will receive payment. It may also be used by businesses which wish to terminate their business. A Chapter 13 bankruptcy enables debtors, through court supervision and protection, to propose and carry out a repayment plan under which creditors are paid, in full or in part, in installments over a three-year period. During that time, debtors are prohibited from starting or continuing collection efforts. The following bankruptcies declared by Calhoun County residents were recorded by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Alabama last week:
Chapter 7 • Jacob Wade Tucker and Ashley Marie Tucker, Brierwood Place Southwest, Jacksonville • Nathaniel B. Maffett Jr., Patch Place, Anniston • Mark Steven Burnett, Ross Lake Road, Wellington
Chapter 13
• Virginia Wilson, Rogers Avenue, Anniston • Sandra W. Kennedy, East 6th Street, Oxford
FORECLOSURES • Carmelo E. Gomez and Latonya L. Gomez, HIllandale subdivision, 1st addition, block J, lot 3. • Jeremy S. Greenwood, a parcel of land in section 20, township 16, range 7. • Jonathan T. Gilpin, a parcel of land in section 4, township 14, range 8. • Victor Sands, Pine Hill Estates, 6th addition, lot 93. • Vernon D. Thomas and Michelle Thomas, Sarrell subdivision, block A, lot 12. • Matthew J. Delozier, Choccolocco Estates, 1st addition, lot 36. • Lorraine D. Ruloph, HIllandale, 1st addition, block J, lot 5. • Marcus K. Albreaux and Adelaide A. Albreaux, The Willows, lot 3. • Billy W. Stallings and Martha B. Stallings, Belleview Hewights, block 1, lot 3.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES • Jeffrey Alan Sallee of Jacksonville to Tiffany Denean Martin of Jacksonville • Brian Carter Selke of Alexandria to Dorothy Fraser Faulkner of Alexandria • Huy Chong Phan of Rainbow City to Candace Leigh Floyd of Rainbow City • Edward Manuel Burks of Anniston to Ting Deng of Anniston • Troy Duane Hammond Jr. of Eastaboga to Maari Lynn Krogfoss of Eastaboga • Melvin Carl Smith Jr. of Anniston to Christina Jaye Lewis of Anniston • Joseph Eric Tidwell of Anniston to Brittany Rae Kristjanson of Anniston • Francisco Orlando Del of Oxford to Cassandre Renee Brannon of Oxford • James Lee Ward of Anniston to Sharon Norvlean Williams of Anniston • Cederick Lamon Woolverton of Anniston to Fabienne Thomas of Anniston • Glen Darnell Lawrence Jones Jr. of Anniston to Jennifer Lynn McAfee of Anniston • Paul Anthony Cosby of Villa Rica, Ga., to Dovie Lynn Key of
Anniston • Jason Thomas Hammett of Piedmont to Whitney Paige Mobley of Piedmont • William Brandon Neal of Anniston to Shawna Jessica Marie Jamieson of Anniston • Brandon Marquice Curry of Talladega to Quanesha Lashae Dimming of Anniston • Brandon Scott Rich of Jacksonville to Jessica Shay Hallman of Jacksonville • John Clayton Thompson Jr. of Anniston to Heather Louise Nelson of Anniston • Gary Dewayne Woodard of Anniston to Christy Breanne Bramlett of Anniston • Robert Alexander Byers of Weaver to Johanna Raquel Jackson of Weaver • Larry Ray Lackey of Wellington to Shannon Renae Parker of Wellington • Donald Emmett Woodard of Alexandria to Belinda Fay Woodard of Alexandria • Steven Darrell Turley of Anniston to Lauren Jae Brown of Anniston • Christopher Allen Phillips of Anniston to Gabrielle Lutrell Jakiel of Anniston
DIVORCES • Timothy Lee Nunnally and Angela R. Nunnally • John Mark Epps and Lisa Vaughn Epps • Stacy Jones Brown and Mark Brown • Brian Gregory Garrett and Amelia Ruth
Preston • Kristin Alexandra Haynes and Hugh Brown Martin • Megan Skinner Hall and Michael Wayne Hall • Arthur Thomas Jones and Julia Ruth Jones
CATTLE SALE
Here is the livestock market report for the Tuesday sale. Receipts for this week 603 compared to 436 last week. Receipts a year ago 614.
FEEDER CLASSES:
Bulls and steers (Medium and Large No. 1 and No. 2): 200-300 lbs. 250.00 to 295.00; 300-400 lbs. 240.00 to 275.00; 400-500 lbs. 195.00 to 222.50; 500-600 lbs. 180.00 to 207.00; 600700 lbs. 140.00 to 190.00. Heifers (Medium and Large No. 1 and No. 2): 200-300 lbs. Too Few; 300-400 lbs. 200.00 to 220.00; 400-500 lbs. 185.00 to 211.00; 500600 lbs. 170.00 to 192.00; 600-700 lbs. 140.00 to 165.00.
SLAUGHTER CLASSES:
Cows: Boners 95.00 to 105.00; Lean 90.00 to 93.00. Bulls: Normal Dressing 54-58% 110.00 to 111.00; Low Dressing <54% 107.00 to 109.00.
INCORPORATIONS
• Westbrook Mobile Home Movers LLC • Westbrook’s Logging LLC • Bill Clark Football Camps & Events LLP • Evolution Health & Fitness LLC • Green Acres Designs LLC • A1 Autos LLC • Big Fish Ministries Inc. • Taylor Financial Services of Oxford Inc. • AHC Enterprises LLC • Adi Mahi LLC • Neckworks LLC • Dance at Studio C LLC
Dissolved
• JP Enterprises LLC • Meadows Agency LLC • Piedmont Investment Properties of AL LLC
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• Dale Murray Puch • Velma A. Hovatter RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS • Hattie Sanford 0 • Dwight Lyman Here are food service establishments allowed. Goss 52 weeks Last This recently inspected by the Calhoun • William P. Cary Evans Jr. ago week week County Health Department, along NO MAJOR DEMERITS with scores. A score of 100 indicates • Anniston Middle School - 99. the inspector found no deficiencies. • BBQ Boss, 1429 U.S. 78, W., Oxford EDITOR’S NOTE Potentially hazardous deficiencies - 98. The material inside the Sunday Record appeared on the documents obtained by the (four- or five-point demerit items) is recorded by The Anniston Star from various newspaper. Direct questions and comments about are noted. These must be corrected • Kangaroo Express (Pantry), 1050 Pelham Road, Jacksonville - 97. institutions and government offices. Sunday Record to Isaac Godwin at igodwin@ immediately and inspectors say they • Kentucky Fried Chicken, 2000 N. The public records are published as they annistonstar.com. are often corrected while the inspec- Quintard Ave., Anniston - 96. tion is underway. Restaurants earn• Krystal Kwik, 5600 McClellan Blvd., BLOTTER ing below 70 must raise their scores Anniston - 96. within seven days or face closure. Crimes are listed by location. wood Circle: firearms. • Mad Hatter Cakes, 30 Coffee St., SE, Calhoun County 4-OR 5-POINT DEMERITS Anonymous tips may be called Jacksonville - 99. Robberies in to Crime Stoppers at 256-238The following property crimes • Chef T’s, 3900 U.S. 431, N., Anniston • Tropical Treats, 3900 U.S. 431, Annis1414. A reward of up to $1,000 • Highway, 1900 block of Rocky were reported to the Calhoun - 90, no bare hand contact with food ton - 100. Hollow Road: jewelry, shoes, County Sheriff’s Office during may be given. wallet, cash, debit card, person- the seven-day period ending at ARRESTS al I.D. Anniston 7 a.m. Thursday. The people listed in this arrest Sheriff’s Office during the seven-day Thefts Burglaries The following property crimes report, whose names and charges period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday. were reported to the Anniston • Parking lot, 5600 block of • Residence, Pattiway Drive, are obtained from public records, • Jerome Charles Howard, 31, of Police Department during the McClellan Boulevard: coins. are presumed innocent unless prov- Anniston: first-degree unlawful Alexandria: farm equipment. seven-day period ending at 7 • Field, 500 block of South Cornen guilty in a court of law. possession of marijuana, unlawful ing Street: utility trailer, tool box, Thefts a.m. Thursday. possession or receipt of a controlled tools. substance, obstructing justice by Burglaries Anniston Arrests • Residence, 5000 block of Eula- • Residence, Pine Manor Road, using a false I.D. Alexandria: riding mower. • Residence, 2700 block of Old ton Road: wrestling champion• Stephanie Michelle Johnson, 36, of The following felony arrests were • Residence, Reads Mill Road, Quintard Avenue: television. ship ring, ATV key. reported by the Anniston Police Anniston: failure to appear in court. Wellington: cast iron kettles. • Residence, 4000 block of Department (addresses not provid- • Jackie Wade Lee Studdard, 27, of Auto-related thefts Charles Avenue: television. ed) during the seven-day period end- Piedmont: failure to appear in court. Auto-related thefts • Residence, 2200 block of Simp- • Service station, 1400 block of • Phillip Owens Stevens, 36, of Annising at 7 a.m. Thursday. Lenlock Lane: 2008 Nissan Alti- • Residence, Alabama 9, Annis- • Kevin Lamar Winningham, 35: sec- ton: probation violation. son Street: television. • Residence, 300 block of Rose- ma. ton: 1997 Dodge Ram truck. ond-degree receiving stolen prop- • Billy Ray Thomas, 57, of Anniston: erty, third-degree burglary, first-de- probation violation. • Jonathan Michael Jackson, 26, of gree theft. • Justin Garrick Bagley, 18: first-de- Hokes Bluff: probation violation. gree assault. • James Henry Williams III, 57: possession/sale short rifle/shotgun. Pardon and Parole Board Pound-for-pound the best newspaper in Alabama • Janova Thompson Reid, 49: possession of a controlled substance. The following felony arrests were reported by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole during the seven-day period ending Thursday at Calhoun County 7 a.m. The following felony arrests were • Tori Demond Middleton of Oxford: reported by the Calhoun County probation violation.
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SUNDAY RECORD CALENDAR: AnnistonStar.com/calendar PROPERTY TRANSFERRED
• EH Pooled 1211 LP to James Dunn and Michael Sager, Anniston Land Co., block 702A, lot 4, $2,700. • Joyce Peal Hays to Billy Mack Watkins Sr. and Donna Jean Watkins, a parcel of land in section 33, township 13, range 7, $10. • Harolan McClellan, Sara Jane Booth, Faye R. Lataste and Patsy Jane Gulledge to Harloan McClellan, Sara Jane Booth, Faye R. Lataste and Patsy Jane Gulledge, Marvin Hill, lot 12, block 37, $10. • Fannie Mae to John Sears, Hidden Valley subdivision, lot 12, $60,105. • Mary Jim Harper and Donald L. Harper to Mark D. Cline and Mary L. Cline, a parcel of land in section 5, township 16, range 9, $185,000. • Alice D. Minton to Robyn A. Stephens and Chris Stephens, a parcel of land in section 29, township 15, range 5, $10. • Robert E. Farrell and Betty E. Farrell to Okla F. Blankenship, a parcel of land addressed 1915 West 10th Street, Anniston, $10. • Linda F. Mountain to Larry L. Jones, Lyncoya subdivision, block 6, lot 6, $48,000. • Gary Wigington to Peyton Properties LLC, Pine Ridge Estates, block C, lot 4, $10. • Elizabeth C. Stevens to Elizabeth C. Stevens and James T. Stevens Jr., fraction B of a parcel of land in section 19, township 15, range 6, $10. • JKA Enterprises LLC to WDJX Holdings LLC and DG Evansville Holdings LLC, a parcel of land in section 14, township 14, range 8, $10. • Cane Creek LLC to Cane Creek Apartments LLC, Cane Creek Homes in McClellan, lots 166, 167, 170 and 171, $5,000,000. • Crystal Denise Bentley to Bradford Keith Bentley, a parcel of land in section 13, township 16, range 8, $10.
• Billy Martin Wilburn III to Courtney Jayne Wilburn, a parcel of land in section 14, township 16, range 8, $10. • Mark F. Strickland to P. Keith Kelley and Phyllis C. Kelley, Woodgate subdivision, block B, lot 3, $10. • Branch Banking & Trust Co. to Jimmy Ray Rainey II, Mountainview, phase 3, lot 117, $10. • BAT Holdings Two LLC to ACM Vision V LLC, Roberts Chapel Estates, lot 1, $25,633. • Housing & Urban Development to Kraig Wall, a parcel of land in block 6 of Midway Land Co., $76,608. • Lillian M. Prater, Diane Erlier, Deborah Brogi and Donna L. Young to Robby Scott Hughes, Clubview Heights, McCall’s addition, block 2, lots 7 and 8, $10. • A.G. Baggett, Sandra Baggett, Janice Marie Milner, Wallace Neil Baggett and Janet Elaine Jones to Charles Glenn Hulse Sr., a parcel of land in section 3, township 14, range 8, $10. • Peyton Properties LLC to Aaron Howell and Betty Howell, Brownwood Estates, 5th addition, block M, lot 14, $10. • Dana Green Milewicz and Kyle Milewicz to Dana Green Milewicz, a parcel of land in section 16, township 13, range 8, $10. • Amber H. Calhoun to Peyton Properties LLC and Shane Hanson, a parcel of land in section 4, township 17, range 8, $100. • Henry T. Ballew and Joann Ballew to Blake Trammell and Deborah McDaniel, H.P. Johnson subdivision, block A, lots 6-9, $10. • L. C. Jackson to Lucas Claudie Jackson, James Nelson’s Midway subdivision, lots 1 and 2, $10. • Oxford Exchange OP LLC to Oxford OP Oil LLC, Oxford Exchange, lot 5, $10. • Freddie Mac to Gerald Wilkerson, East Highland Land Co., block
H, lot 8, $34,000. • Wesley R. Woodard to Wesley R. Woodard and Amy A. Woodard, Mountain Terrace subdivision, Streets addition, block A, lot 1, $12,000. • Jennifer Abernathy to Bobby Woodrow, Griffishurst subdivision, block C, lot 8, $10. • Norman R. Dasinger and Sharon P. Dasinger to Shone Jones and Linda Jones, a parcel of land in section 20, township 13, range 8, $10. • Arthur Vernon Cooper to Betty Cooper Brown and Rebecca Lynn Hurst, Five-W Lakesite subdivision, block 10, lot 10, $10. • Betty Cooper Brown and Rebecca Lynn Hurst to Scott J. Martin, Five-W Lakesite subdivision, block 10, lot 10, $10. • Herman L. Coachman and Angra M. Coachman to Donald Eugene Wainscott Jr. and Aurea G. Wainscott, Buckhorn subdivision, phase II, block B, lot 4, $10. • Green Tree Servicing LLC to Jason R. Rowland and Pamela S. Bonds, Miller Estates, 2nd addition, lot 17, $28,000. • Branch Banking & Trust Co. to Rebecca Lynn Hurst, a parcel of land in section 15, township 16, range 8, $10. • Kristen M. Eccles Skinner to Lewis F. Clements and Rainer H. Clements, Church-Hill Downs, phase 2, lot 16, $10. • Veterans Affairs to Victoria Garcia, Blue Pond subdivision, Area 1, block C, lots 1 and 2, $47,000. • RW Investments LLC to Ralph F. Fallon Jr. and Marian J. Fallon, Lenlock Lane, block B, lot 17, $10. • Fannie Mae to Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB, Mountain Pointe subdivision, phase I, lot 148, $10. • Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB to PrimeStar Fund I TRS
Inc., Mountain Pointe subdivision, phase I, lot 148, $10. • PrimeStar Fund I TRS Inc. to Daniel J. Futral and Jessica E. Futral, Mountain Pointe subdivision, phase I, lot 148, $10. • Diane McFall Fuller to Sherry Diane Maxwell, Jeffrey Robert Fuller and Joshua Wayne Fuller, a parcel of land in section 35, township 13, range 8, $10. • Mary Fink to Harold C. Turk and Annie L. Turk, Dugger View subdivision, lots 7 and 8, $10. • Charles S. Sparks to Lesslie D. Sparks, Whites Gap Estates, 3rd addition, block D, lot 5, $10. • Coca-Cola Refreshments USA Inc. to Coca-Cola Bottling Co. United-Central LLC, a parcel of land in section 25, township 16, range 7, $10. • Samuel Brett Burnham to Sheree W. Burnham, Pine Hill Estates, 3rd addition, lo t38, $10. • Wayne Baugh and Rita Baugh to Linda C. Johnson, a parcel of land in sections 7/12, township 14, ranges 7/8, $10. • Heirs of Terry Johnson to Linda C. Johnson, a parcel of land in sections 7/12, township 14, ranges 7/8, $10. • Linda Conlee Johnson to Jeffery Lynn Goodwin and Kellie Goodwin, a parcel of land in sections 7/12, township 14, ranges 7/8, $250,000. • William L. Ballard to Gayle B. Storey, Cambridge East, 3rd addition, block F, lot 7, $118,570. • Lenard Lee and Doris Ann Jackson to Randall Morgan, South Anniston Land Co., division A, block 8, lots 19 and 20. • Gary L. Holt and Vanda C. Holt to Jimmy S. Smith and Deven L. Smith, a parcel of land in section 24, township 14, range 8, $10. • Fannie Mae to Winfred Grimes, Betta-Life subdivision, 2nd addi-
tion, block 3, lot 5, $10. • Aaron Studdard and Honesty Studdard to Sondra L. Moore, Mrs. W.T. Williamon subdivision, 2nd addition, block 2, lots 2 and 3, $10. • Robyn Daniels, Ralph Daniels and Linda Daniels to Andrew Kyle Webb, Piedmont Land & Improvement Co., block 20, lots 12-15, $10. • Kay Wofford Formby and Franklin E. Wofford II to Randy Joe Christopher and Rebecca E. Christopher, Piedmont Land & Improvement Co., block 52, lots 53 and 54, $10. • Verley L. Bible to Thomas Bible and Cynthia Bible, Kimberly Road Estates, lot 1, $10. • EverBank to Housing & Urban Development, a parcel of land in section 18, township 15, range 8, $500. • Billy Jean Barnwell to Joe Barnwell, a parcel of land in section 11, township 13, range 10, $10. • Joe Barnwell to Gerald Humphrey, a parcel of land in section 11, township 13, range 10, $10. • JPMorgan Chase Bank to Veterans Affairs, Whites Gap Estates, 3rd addition, block D, lot 8, $500. • Taylor’s Bend LLC to Rodney W. McSheridan and Leslie Brooke McSheridan, Taylor’s Bend, lots 28 and 29, $10. • LPP Mortgage LTD to Ronald Cofield, Woodland Heights, block 17, lots 4 and 5, $4,900. • Andrew J. Burden and Sarah Burden to Gary D. Barber, Carterton Hills, block 5, lots 31 and 32, $10. • Metro Bank to Eugenia L. Sparks, a parcel of land in section 30, township 16, range 8, $10. • G.C. Newsome and Sara Newsome to Debra K. Goss, Mrs. W.T. Williamon subdivision, lot 5, $10. • Ryan Wade Orth and Alyson Parrott Orth to Ryan Wade Orth, Colony at Jamestown, lot 24, $10.
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Vera Kap creates pysanky, elaborately decorated Easter eggs using an old Ukrainian method at her home in Akron, Ohio.
Ohio artist’s Easter eggs carry on Ukrainian tradition BY MARY BETH BRECKENRIDGE
on the eggs were given Christian associations, and pysanky became a form of folk art Akron Beacon Journal connected to Easter. Casual observers might call Vera Kap’s The resilience of the art form amazes eggs beautiful or intricate or even exquisite. Kap. It survived periods of starvation in But Kap knows they’re so much more. Ukraine. It survived years of war. It survived The West Akron, Ohio, resident is a Communist rule, when religious practices pysanky artist, who decorates Easter eggs were outlawed. When the Soviet Union using methods and motifs that have been broke up and Ukraine regained indepenpart of Ukrainian culture for centuries. To dence in 1991, the work of many Ukrainian her, the eggs aren’t just springtime ornapysanky artists suddenly emerged, she said. ments. They’re a connection to her heritage “So somebody had to have done them in and proof that tradition can triumph over secret for years and years.” hardship and oppression. Pysanky are created using a wax-reThe pysanky process employs wax and sist dyeing technique, in which the eggs dyes, using colors and symbols that have are dyed in progressive stages and wax is special meanings in Ukrainian tradition. applied to resist the dye and prevent it from Kap, the child of Ukrainian-born parcoloring certain parts of the eggshell. ents, learned the art from her mother when The process of drawing the designs onto she was growing up in Cleveland. the eggs with wax is called writing, Kap said. “This is something that’s passed from That’s because the term pysanky comes mother to daughter” in Ukrainian culture, from the verb pysaty, which means “to she said. “For centuries.” write,” and because the wax is applied with The tradition is believed to date to a writing stylus called a kistka. pre-Christian times and possibly as far back A rich symbolism is used in the designs. as the Trypillian culture, an ancient Eastern Geometric shapes and simple pictures have European civilization. When Christianity particular meanings: A triangle, for examspread to Ukraine, the pagan symbols used ple, stands for the Holy Trinity; a rooster
symbolizes fertility. Likewise, the colors have special associations — black with mortality, yellow with youth and happiness, red with divine love and the passion of Christ, and so on. Even the egg is symbolic, representing the renewal of the earth after winter and the rebirth of humankind to eternal life. Early on, Kap said, pysanky were dyed only in a limited number of colors that could be made from natural sources. Peddlers brought manufactured blue and purple dyes to the Ukrainian villages in the 1800s, but because those dyes were expensive, those colors were used sparingly. For her pysanky, Kap uses chicken and goose eggs with the centers blown out. She washes the eggs beforehand in water and vinegar so the aniline dyes will take, she said, and she even injects some of the solution into the emptied eggs with a syringe to clean them and prevent odor. She starts by sketching a design onto an egg in pencil, and then uses an electric kistka — a tool that works a little like a glue gun — to cover those lines with a fine bead of wax so they’ll stay white throughout the dyeing process. Then the egg goes into the
first in a series of dye baths, progressing from the lightest color to darkest. After each dip into a jar of dye, Kap uses wax to cover the areas she wants to remain that color. A knife might be used to scrape off a blob of excess wax; a marker might be used to color in an area she doesn’t want to dye or to repair a splotchy area. After the final dye bath, she melts off the wax with a candle to reveal the multicolored design underneath. She then covers the egg with three coats of varnish, applied with rubber-gloved hands. Kap turns her dining room over to the pysanky-making process for two or three months each year. She might spend seven or eight hours a day on her art, she said, although she can work at it for only about an hour at a stretch. “Sometimes I’ll look at my bowl and go, ‘Oh, I haven’t done that in 20 years,’” she said. People often suggest she adorn her eggs with rhinestones or glitter but she’s adamant about sticking with the old ways. It’s all about preserving a bit of her culture, she says. “I just feel that if we’re going to pass along a tradition, then it should be authentic.”
Easter f lowers a work of art in D.C.’s National Gallery BY TISH WELLS
plants are in bloom those months falls to the gallery’s department of horticulture. The most fragile and It provides flowers for spememorable beauty at Wash- cial events as well as the ington’s National Gallery of museum’s offices, landscapArt is on display only from ing and sculpture garden. November to Easter. That’s “We’re part of the miswhen the dark-pillared sion statement of the gallery rotunda is decorated with to enhance our visitors’ live flowers, trees and ferns, experience through hortimost from its own greenculture, through education,” houses. said Juli Goodman, the dep“Right after Easter, this uty chief of horticulture serall goes away, and it will stay vices. “We don’t just do the empty until next November,” displays, we’re responsible s said Cynthia Kaufmann, from 3rd Street to 9th Street, the chief of horticulture ser- everything inside and out.” vices. They prepare all sumThis includes tulip dismer for the winter months, plays around the fountains when nothing is in bloom in the front, the newly plantoutside. ed magnolias next to the The job of making sure the building and the North CarMcClatchy-Tribune Newspapers
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olina cherry trees planted beside the East Building. The National Gallery isn’t part of the Smithsonian Institution. Opened in 1941, it features art of all kinds, including paintings, drawings, photographs, furniture and decorative arts. When it
opened there was one horticulturist on staff; now there are 16 in the department, of whom seven have degrees in horticulture. “From day one, horticulture’s been here doing something,” said Goodman. The 10 greenhouses are
of various ages. The oldest two, from 1954, are due to be replaced when funds become available. Within the greenhouses, space is at a premium. Often cuttings, such as a 3-foot-tall spiky rosemary, are nurtured for years until they’re ready. Other trees, such as a large flowering hibiscus and weeping pussy willow, are moved in and out for exhibits or as screens for events. Museum designers call on the horticulture department well in advance of an exhibit. “That gives us time to either buy or get what we can of plants that were from that era,” Kaufmann said. One example was a Pompeii and Roman villa
exhibit in 2008. “Pompeii was a very big one. We were pulling plants out of the frescoes to re-create that look of what their garden would really look like. That was a big undertaking,” said Kaufmann. Italian cypress trees were shipped in from California. There are still plants from Pompeii in the greenhouses, including calamondin trees with hanging golden-but-bitter fruit. This year in addition to the white Easter lilies, white hydrangeas set off by green fluffy ferns, and palm trees, pussy willows were added to the rotunda Easter display instead of cherry blossoms, since the latter were already peaking.