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Features 14 Memories to Melodies Bobby Hammond didn’t know what he was getting into when he agreed to restore his wife’s old family organ years ago. Today, he can tell you precisely how it’s done.

20 Preserving Our Heritage The African American Alliance and Museum is working to preserve the history of African-Americans in Coweta County, and volunteers are needed to reconstruct a former slave cabin.

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24 Restoring Serenity When fire destroyed the upstairs of the Bowers family’s farmhouse in Moreland, it didn’t destroy dreams for the home, which was recently reconstructed in a manner respectful of the home’s heritage.

30 Remembering the Battle of Brown’s Mill Often overlooked, the Battle of Brown’s Mill in Coweta County during the Civil War was actually “the South’s biggest win in the Atlanta campaign,” some historians say. Find out about plans to protect the historic battlefield.

34 Storyteller with a Needle Betty Bryant first learned to sew as a girl in the hills of North Carolina. Today, the seamstress reproduces Civil War fashions at her antebellum home in Turin.

38 A Woman of Many Hats Professional dancer since age 3. Performer on the USO tours.

Secretary to a Georgia governor. Nelle Ashmore of Sharpsburg has worn many hats in her amazing career.

44 Passing the Hats In Newnan, Lynn Smith is sometimes as well known for her legendary hat collection as she is for her years in the legislature.

Find out why she decided it was time to part with the hats — and where they’re going.

47 Heritage Scrapbooking Freyer Caffarel started scrapbooking when her grandson turned 2, and today this Grantville woman has an entire room of her house dedicated to the hobby.

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54 A Carver’s Quest Local artists John Andrews and Cecil Cornwell create masterpieces from blocks of wood.

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58 Keeping a Tradition Alive Madras resident Eva Knight says she is one of the last in her family who cans foods. We share one of her favorite soup recipes to use when canning.

72 A Passion for Pizza Coweta County pizzerias are known for their great pies and for being great places to run across neighbors and catch up on news.

78 How to be a Football Widow

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With football season in high gear, southern belles may need a little help figuring out what to do about that zombie-like man drooling across his team sweatshirt in front of the big screen TV.

82 Author Keith Dunnavant A decade ago Newnan’s Keith Dunnavant won praise for “Coach,” his book about Paul “Bear” Bryant. Dunnavant’s new book is also about Alabama football, but this book has a unique marketing strategy.

84 Justice Revisited – Part II In the second of our three-part series by former GBI Agent Charles Stone of Newnan, learn how police finally caught up with the man wanted for the murder of a 79-year-old grandmother in one of Coweta’s most memorable crime stories from the eighties.

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Departments 60 Local Heritage The Veranda Bed and Breakfast in Senoia, formerly the Hollberg Hotel, has a long and storied past, and it’s celebrating a birthday this year.

62 Super-duper Zinnias Find out what happened when a neighbor brought our Thoughtful Gardener a gift of what appeared to be dead leaves.

66 Saddle Up Dr. P.H. “Phil” Beegle Jr. shares his love of polo with the community while also raising funds for disabled children in Coweta County through the Kool Kidz Classic, set for Sept. 9 at Cedargate Farm.

76 Newcomer Julian Huxley has styled the hair of Cindy Crawford and Reese Witherspoon, but today this former Brit is styling locks in Newnan.

88 Day Trip The Port Columbus Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus is a great place to visit for anyone wanting to know more about the naval history of the Civil War.

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EDITOR’S LETTER

The preservation mindset

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ecycling paper, I must confess, is something of an obsession with me.

When I first read “Gone With the Wind” years ago, I came to the part where Scarlett O’Hara was reading a letter which was, literally, a case of “reading between the lines.” Because paper was so scarce, the writer had used an old letter and carefully penned the new information in between what few blank spaces were left on the page. Imagine!

Convinced this level of paper famine should never happen again, I began recycling. Newspapers and magazines. Junk mail. Catalogs. Grocery store receipts. Paper bags. To-do lists. Straw wrappers.

I save them all and, at any given time, have a bin or basket in my home that’s headed to the recycling center.

I’ve recycled for so long — paper, plastic, glass, lots of stuff — it’s become second nature. I love the thought that I’m keeping things out of the landfill while also supplying raw material for companies who make things out of recyclables.

In the decorating world, recycling has taken on a new cachet in recent years thanks to the junk movement. Old ladders aren’t discarded but turned into clever bookshelves. A weathered old door isn’t thrown out on the curb but repurposed as a stylish headboard for a bed, or perhaps a one-of-akind coffee table.

What appeals to me most about all this recycling is that we’re preserving old things. The preservation mindset means we don’t have to toss and replace something the second it gets a little age on it. In fact, Rachel Ashwell’s whole “Shabby Chic” philosophy is based on the idea that older items have character, that a few slight flaws and imperfections are things to be desired, not retired.

In this issue of Newnan-Coweta Magazine, “preservation” is a theme woven throughout many of the pages. From preserving an old organ to preserving green beans, we hope to open your eyes to some of the good things worth preserving today.

And as for me, well, I’m getting married this month, so I’m just trying to preserve my sanity!

Warmly,

Angela Webster

Since our last issue, Newnan-Coweta Magazine and The Times-Herald have lost a

beloved member of our creative team. When Graphic Designer Carol Vaughn lost her courageous battle with cancer, it was a terrible blow to our publishing family. We didn’t get to work with her nearly long enough, and her talent, wit and creativity are greatly missed.

Our thoughts and prayers remain with Carol’s mother Linda and the rest of her family.

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What do these things have in common?

1) Green beans 2) African-American heritage 3) An antique pump organ 4) A fire-damaged farmhouse

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These are all things Cowetans find worth preserving. And

although you often hear about “historic” preservation, the preservation mindset can be applied to much more than just the past. In this special section, you’ll see some of what’s being preserved in Coweta County today and meet some people for whom preservation — of all kinds of things — is a way of life. Enjoy!

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Bobby Hammond of Newnan learned how to restore an organ after acquiring the musical instrument his wife had played some 50 years earlier.

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A group of young girls rushes across the road and into an antebellum home for their Sunday after-church ritual, trying to be first to play the sparkling organ with beautiful, handcarved flowers. They scurry into the house, their full skirts dancing and their hair bouncing in ribbons and ringlets.

One girl is quicker than the rest, and she assumes her seat on the tiny stool and raises her hands to play a cheerful melody.

Many years later, this same organ would sit in the Newnan home of this young girl, now a woman with

children and grandchildren of her own. Her name is Mary Cowart Hammond.

Her husband, Bobby Hammond, didn’t know what he was getting himself into when he acquiesced to his wife’s request to rebuild the pump organ she had played so many years ago.

“She hadn’t seen this organ in more than 50 years when we bought it,” said Hammond.

For years, the organ remained in the main house on a plantation in south Alabama near the place Mary grew up. The organ ended up with

two sisters who were the last living relatives on the property. They left the organ behind when they moved into a smaller house on the plantation.

When the sisters died, they left their entire estate to the church, including the organ. The church had an estate sale, and Hammond’s wife told her sister who was still living in the area to buy the keepsake.

“Had we seen it, knowing what the condition of it was at the time we bought it, we never would have bought it,” said Hammond.

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the dump, but his wife insisted on keeping it. “It was just in shambles,” said Hammond. “I didn’t know what I was going to do with the thing.”

He worked diligently on the organ for three to four years and estimates he put in about 3,500 hours of labor. He paid $500 for the organ and spent approximately $1,500 on parts. As Hammond soon learned, hiring someone to restore an organ is extremely expensive. He was told that

It took Bobby Hammond of Newnan about 3,500 hours of work to restore this antique pump organ. He refinished it completely inside and out, replated about 200 internal parts, and replaced the pedals and red velvet trim. The Reed Organ Atlas above is one of the publications Hammond consulted during the organ’s restoration.

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repairs would cost up to $10,000.

He decided to take on the project himself, learning along the way. He had to take the organ apart piece by piece to dissolve the water soluble glue which was incompatible with the glue he needed to use, in some cases having to use an eyedropper.

The organ was made of American walnut, which can be purchased only by special order today, Hammond learned. The wood was badly stained, and he initially used soap and water to attempt to clean it. Realizing he needed something stronger, he tried many solvents until he discovered one that would work. The wood contained beautiful, intricate carvings, and Hammond cleaned the entire organ with a soft bristled toothbrush. He learned that he could use tung oil for a more professional finish.

He refinished the organ completely on the inside and outside and replaced and replated about 200 of the organâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s metal internal parts. He obtained parts from a store he found listed in the phone book. He also replaced the pedals which had become rusty, the red velvet trim, and carpet found on the pedals.

He even had to make special tools to rebuild the bellows, which are responsible for the organâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sound. In addition, Hammond had to replace all of the organâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keys, in some cases having to sand them off. He also replaced the stops, from which the phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;pulling out all the stopsâ&#x20AC;? originates, according to Hammond.

With this experience under his belt, Hammond bravely undertook the restoration of a second antique organ. He paid $300 for the organ, also made of walnut wood, spending about $1,342 in parts and supplies.

He restored the organ in a similar manner and worked on the project for about two and a half years.

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Old organs aren’t worth that much until they have been restored, according to Bobby Hammond. He said an organ that hasn’t been completely rebuilt is worth only about $1,000.

Hammond had the organs appraised and was told they are each valued in the five figures and are considered to be of museum quality.

“These organs are not worth much until they’ve been completely restored,” he said. An organ that has not been completely rebuilt is worth only about $1,000, he explained.

To determine when the organs were built, Hammond located the serial number on the back and found a reference which gave a complete listing of all major pump organ manufacturers.

He learned the organ his wife had played was built in 1887 by the Clough and Warren Company in Detroit, Mich. The second organ was built in 1904 by Weaver Piano and Organ Company in York, Penn.

Pump organs operate by turning a key. Before playing a song, a person pulls out the “stops” to achieve a desired sound. Organs have differing numbers of stops. One of Hammond’s organs has 10 stops and the other has 13.

To play a pump organ, a person gently pumps the pedals and can open the shutters which make the organ play louder. As Hammond demonstrated each organ’s sound, deep, rich melodies resounded throughout his home, bringing cherished memories to life.

Hammond is willing to speak to anyone who is interested in restoring an organ. For more information, call him at 770-253-6724. NCM

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“Do you know me?” These photos appear under that heading on a bulletin board at the African American Heritage Museum. If you can help identify any of the photos, call 770-683-7055.

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By Janet Flanigan, Photos by Bob Fraley

Cowetans celebrate their roots through African American Alliance and Museum

ome people might describe Dianne Wood as a “human tornado” because, as the director of the African American Heritage Museum, she seems to have hundreds of volunteer projects going at once. But Museum President Toni Teagle praises Dianne and says she can be described in two words: “A godsend!”

The African American Alliance (AAA) and African American Heritage Museum and Research Center (AAHM) offer a wealth of information that should be of interest to all citizens of Coweta County, as Teagle says, “no

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matter what your race, creed or color.”

Any citizen of the United States can use the alliance’s resources to trace their genealogical roots and visit the museum’s displays celebrating the history of the African-American citizens of Coweta County.

In 2001, former Newnan resident Cynthia Rosers proposed to the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society (NCHS) the need to support the community’s African-American heritage. The NCHS agreed, organizational structures and plans were made, and by 2003 the African American Alliance was formed.

Eventually funds were raised, and the current museum at 92 Farmer St. was opened.

The museum is located in the former Ruby Caldwell home, donated by the City of Newnan, and is known as a “shotgun house.” Shotgun houses are single story dwellings, with one room in front of the other, and with a front, middle and back door. It was often said they acquired their name because, if all the doors were opened, a shotgun could be fired straight through without hitting anything in the house. But since the early 1990s, a more widely accepted theory is that

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the design for shotgun houses originated among plantation slaves in the Caribbean and was carried to New Orleans and then disseminated throughout the South by slaves and free African-Americans. It is believed the name “shotgun” is a corruption of several African words for “house.” So it seems fitting the African American Alliance and Museum be housed in a shotgun dwelling.

The museum has several different collections and is always looking for more donations from the community.

Chief among the collected works is a midwife exhibit. This collection is of special significance since it contains many records of Louise Wilcoxson, an African-American woman born in 1868 who was certified by the Board of Midwifery in 1930 by the State Board of Health. She kept detailed records of each birth she attended and recorded the birthing information on little pieces of paper – any paper she could find handy, such as receipts, grocery lists, any scrap. The required information was the father’s name, mother’s name, father’s occupation, place of birth, live birth or not, and the date. Recently, The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. accepted four of Wilcoxson’s birthing records into its permanent collection on midwifery. It was a very exciting achievement for this fledgling museum from Coweta County.

Other exhibits tell the story of slavery, the story of Powell Chapel School House, the stories of black Cowetans of distinction and much more.

Wood and Teagle said the museum always needs more donations from the African-American community to enhance its collections.

“Family and church histories are great so we don’t have to recreate them. Old school yearbooks, particularly from Central High, are needed. Old

Dianne Wood and Toni Teagle, at right, are seeking volunteers for the African American Heritage Museum.

The pile of wood above is part of a former slave cabin and awaits reconstruction by volunteers.

photographs, with ID’s, obituaries, furniture, prescriptions and equipment from old AfricanAmerican medical offices; they can all be used. Bring us anything you may think is significant and we’ll take a look, but we’re not a garage sale! Just items that have a history!” said Wood.

One of the alliance’s more enormous projects, both in scope and importance, is the reconstruction of a

slave cabin that was donated from its original home on the grounds of Buena Vista, the antebellum home of Leah and Mike Sumner in Newnan.

Each plank and log was painstakingly numbered so it can be reconstructed exactly in the same manner. It’s hard to imagine humans living in these little shacks, but it seems the imagery of slave quarters really brings the issue home for people. Meanwhile the SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

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Besides acting as a repository for historical items, the museum and alliance are a valuable resource Cowetans have for finding their own histories.

Remember A recent display at the African American Heritage Museum the “human includes a photo of school builder W.C. Carlyle. tornado”? She is a genealogical specialist, and the cabin waits for its reconstruction, alliance has access to all of the records because volunteers to do the rebuild and information people need to are lacking. The directors say it seems research their family history. Whether there just aren’t enough people willing you are from Newnan, Ga. or to step forward to honor those who Newman, Calif. she can help you! lived in this cabin and get the work The museum and alliance also done. “We need help and folks who do want more visitors. “We just don’t help themselves,” said Teagle.

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As technology propels us into the future, it’s important we stay connected to the past, remembering those who worked so hard to pave the way for us. The African American Heritage Museum allows us to step back for a moment and take a tiny glimpse into the lives of some ordinary and extraordinary Cowetans. Like their motto says, “Embracing our history …

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t must be one of the most horrendous feelings, receiving a phone call that your home is on fire.

It would make the heart leap to the throat. Local realtor Sam Bowers remembers that feeling well as he

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the task because they had worked together since Estes designed Jessie’s first nursery eight years earlier.

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“Whenever possible, we used animals in the plan and we used pet and child-friendly fabrics to reflect the family’s love of nature.”

The design team was responsible for the upstairs redo on this job which included the master suite and bath; a walk-in dressing room; creation of an office nook; and assistance with the layout of furnishings on the front porch.

Most people would have their schedules full to the brim handling the demands of daughters Jessie, 8, and Emily, 3, plus a farm full of horses, donkeys, a pig, chickens, dogs and cats. But as a former game warden, Dale wants to teach others to respect and love the outdoors, so she also acts as a guide for Adventures in Good Company, with whom she occasionally leads groups of women on outdoor wilderness adventures to such exciting spots as the Grand Tetons, the Appalachian Trail and the Okefenokee Swamp. Realtor husband Sam is working toward growing his commercial real estate company, Bowers & Burns, so the couple really wanted the master suite to provide a place of calm and tranquility.

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Prior to the fire, the couple’s master bedroom had an unwieldy brick column smack in the middle of the room, a remnant of a fireplace that was no longer in existence. “The original space was rather dysfunctional,” said Estes.

“After the fire they were able to have great space utilization and get some touches that they wanted, like a great vaulted ceiling and a fireplace.”

The new working fireplace is a self-contained, log-insert unit with an added antique mantle and glazed finish around the firebox that make the area look as if it has been there forever. A plasma screen television mounted above the mantle brings the modern day into play, and two luxury recliners disguised as designer

chairs are poised for optimal viewing front and center. Soft, modern shades of light blues and browns lend a feeling of quietude from the hardwood floors to the tongue and groove ceilings.

Flanking each side of the mantle in the master bedroom, opposite the bath, is a huge dressing room.

Highlighted by a center island, this dream closet has fantastic built-ins designed by California Closets, and it meets all of the storage demands of the parents and keeps all of their clothing and accessories organized until needed.

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While a fire in your home is never a good thing, apparently both Sam and Dale were very positive about the entire experience. Their attitude was, “No one was hurt. It was only things that were lost, and they could be replaced.” It is precisely this optimistic thinking that led to finding hidden gems like creating something from nothing.

“We were actually able to create an office nook from what had previously been an unusable space.

We put in custom cabinetry, and it’s just a great space now,” said Estes.

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By Leigh Knight, Photos courtesy of Coweta County Planning Department

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As a life-long Coweta resident, I’m ashamed to admit that, although I had heard of Confederate General Wheeler, truthfully, I identified more with the now-closed restaurant that bore his name and served a yummy peach cobbler. I remember hearing about the Battle of Brown’s Mill in Coweta, but I had no idea where it occurred. It wasn’t until I began researching it that I realized what a significant, although often overlooked, battle it was. Many historians believe this engagement to be “the South’s biggest win in the Atlanta campaign,” according to www.ourgeorgiahistory.com.

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The defeat of Union General E. M. McCook of Ohio’s “Fighting McCooks” at the Battle of Brown’s Mill on July 30, 1864 forced General William Tecumseh Sherman to rethink his strategy of isolating Atlanta by burning depots and mangling sections of railroad.

Political pressure for a decided defeat of the Confederacy (it was a presidential election year) set in motion Sherman’s siege of Atlanta.

The battle began when McCook — who had completed his mission of cutting railroad communication between West Point and Atlanta and Atlanta and Macon — decided to

move west toward Newnan to cross the Chattahoochee after realizing Confederate Cavalry had positioned themselves along his line of retreat. In the meantime, the train of Brigadier General Philip Dale Roddey and 550 dismounted cavalrymen stopped at the depot on Broad Street in Newnan because of news of a railroad break north of town.

According to David Evans’ book Sherman’s Horsemen, “Learning that a Yankee raid was imminent, Roddey had posted his men on all the likely approaches of town. ... Early the next morning, one of the scouts ... reined up on the courthouse square and told

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This aerial photo shows the 104acre Battle of Brown’s Mill site purchased by the county in 2001.

The road you see is Millard Farmer Road, and the property is south (to the left of) the road. You can also see Haynes Junk Yard to the right of Millard Farmer. The county’s property is believed to be the site where the Battle of Brown’s Mill began.

a crowd of anxious listeners the nearest Yankees were miles away.

Believing that the danger had passed, Roddey ordered the train whistle sounded to recall his troops to the depot. The engineer pulled the cord hanging over his head just as Companies D and E of the 8th Indiana came charging down the hill.

‘Yonder comes the Yanks now,’ a startled Rebel exclaimed over the wail of the locomotive.”

Outnumbered 10 to 1, the companies retreated to warn McCook after Roddey’s command let fire.

McCook set about looking for another route to the river. Panic ensued in

Newnan, which at that time had hospitals located in churches, homes and other buildings serving wounded of the North and South.

“Many of the walking wounded, assistant surgeons, druggists, and orderlies hastily armed themselves and, together, with some ‘impetuous boys,’ took their places in Roddey’s ranks,” according to Evans.

McCook, whittled down to 2,400 officers and men, began his move west with a poor guide and Roddey in pursuit; however, it would be General “Fighting Joe” Wheeler with his Cavalry of 720 who would get there first. Taking place on about 400-600 acres, the battle was roughly in the area of Millard Farmer Road, Corinth Road, Old Corinth Road and Earl North Road. In this area three miles south of Newnan the battle was fought, ending with the capture of the Federals, thereby saving Newnan from possible capture and destruction.

Newnan is now known as the City of Homes because of the beautiful Civil War era homes, including Buena Vista on LaGrange Street which was used as Wheeler’s temporary headquarters after the battle.

Fortunately for Coweta and Newnan, we had good leaders then and now, leaders such as former Coweta County Commissioner Jim McGuffey and Past President of the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society Ellen Ehrenhard.

“I learned a lot I didn’t know (about the Battle of Brown’s Mill) after listening to David Evans, author of Sherman’s Horsemen, speak at a historical society

function,” said McGuffey. “I decided to speak with then-Historical Society President Ellen Ehrenhard and found out she knew a whole lot more than I ever knew. She said to me, ‘The county needs to acquire that property.

If we don’t, it will be lost forever. So, I set out a campaign of my own to do something about it.”

The Temple-Inland Timber Company owned 104 acres of battle site property and agreed to sell.

In January 2000, McGuffey said, “we voted unanimously to purchase the land if we could find the funds. I knew that (former) Governor Roy Barnes had a greenspace fund, but we would need more than that. I also had a friend, Lonice Barrett at the State Department of Natural Resources. So Evans, Ellen and myself sat down to discuss it with him. He was sympathetic to our cause and said he would do all he could to get additional funding. Lynn Smith, our State Representative, was contacted and instrumental in procuring funding. Through the combined efforts. . . we were able to purchase the property without the use of general funds (in December 2001).”

At the far end of the county’s Battle of Brown’s Mill site, near Old Corinth Road, stands the United Daughters of the Confederacy monument commemorating the Battle of Brown’s Mill.

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The county then contracted with the Jaeger Company to produce a master plan and landscape design for the Battle of Brown’s Mill Historic Site, according to Coweta County Comprehensive Planner Sandra Parker.

In February 2004, the master and landscape plan were completed, consisting of a Cultural and Historical Interpretive Study, which won an Honorable Mention from the Georgia Chapter of the American Institute of Landscape Architects.

The design incorporates two trail systems, a commemorative garden and seat wall, a plaza, museum and amenity area. One of the trails is a scaled re-creation of McCook’s route from Marietta southward to Coweta and follows his retreat through Heard County and Alabama west of the Chattahoochee. Wheeler’s route of pursuit is also re-created from Decatur to Philpott’s Ferry at the

Chattahoochee. The implementation of this design is estimated to cost $3.5 million, according to Parker.

In August 2005, the county, the Coweta County Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the NewnanCoweta Historical Society learned from the State Historic Preservation Office that the battle and historic site are eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.

Coweta County was recently awarded a grant of $16,810 from the American Battlefield Protection Program in order to conduct an archeological survey of the Brown’s Mill Battlefield site. Once the survey is complete, the county can apply for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. According to the National Park Service, the survey will determine where a battery of two Hotchkiss guns was located as well as determining the route of the Union

Army and what houses were on the property at the time of the battle.

“We are very happy to receive this grant, which will help the Brown’s Mill project move ahead,” said Greg Tarbutton, chairman of the Coweta County Board of Commisioners. “We were selected as one of 11 grants made from a field of 34 applicants. The archeological work will begin in late 2006 or early 2007, which will help identify important components of the battle site.”

“Ellen Ehrenhard is really the one who started this whole thing,” said McGuffey. “It’s fantastic for the county. The plan to develop this is a one-of-a-kind, exceptional thing.What a key event this one battle was in respect to the Battle of Atlanta. Had it not occurred and had the Federal Cavalry done what it was supposed to do, Atlanta might not have burned.” NCM

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Betty Bryant’s dresses are made to order.

They come in fabrics that can be sumptuously rich or refreshingly simple.

They can be adorned with simple buttons, fancy bows or other decoration. No matter what, however, Mrs. Bryant’s dresses come with a name and a story.

A name – like Mercedes Grace. And a story – Mercedes Grace is “a matron, dressed really nice – nothing naughty,” Mrs. Bryant related.

“I’ve always sewed. My grandmother and me, back in North Carolina in the hills – I would spend the summer with her, and she taught me how to sew,” Mrs. Bryant recalled.

What led Mrs. Bryant to spend hours recreating the fashions of the early 1860s, however, was romance. Rick Bryant was her sixth grade sweetheart. They went separate ways, married, divorced and met again at a yard sale.

They reconnected. When Rick visited Betty’s home and saw all the Civil War memorabilia, it was clear the two still had a lot in common. After they married, they decided to move to Coweta County where her son was living. Betty wanted to see her granddaughter more often.

Until about four years ago, Mrs. Bryant’s sewing had been mostly limited to contemporary dresses. When she and her husband got involved in Confederate heritage activities, she decided to make two antebellum style dresses – one for herself and another for a friend.

Having a granddaughter fueled Mrs. Bryant’s imagination. “I dressed her up.

We had a tea down at the church” – Turin Methodist – where the participants wore mid-1800s fashions, Mrs. Bryant recalled.

Her son wanted her to make an 1860s outfit for his new infant daughter.

“I started researching what babies wore,” Bryant remembered. Soon, Mrs. Bryant had recreated a simple 1860s outfit for the baby.

Mrs. Bryant said she always names her creations. When she is asked to make outfits, she agrees with the proviso that the dress must come with a name and a story.

“I love doing the little girls’ the most,” she said of her dressmaking jobs. She said she creates the pattern in her head, does some major seams on her trusty sewing machine – which has its own room in the house – and then sits and sews. As she stitches, she often watches “Gone With the Wind” for inspiration and comes up with a name and story for the outfit in hand.

The most difficult part of the process is ensuring the skirt is gathered correctly.

“You want it to hang just right or it won’t go over the crinoline properly,” she said.

Customers visit with Mrs. Bryant and describe what they have in mind. In two weeks and two fittings, she can generally turn out the finished product. “The second fitting is only to make sure it’s going to hang right,” she said.

Her own favorite design is Mercedes Grace, who is named for one of Mrs. Bryant’s female ancestors. Mercedes Grace has a place of honor on a mannequin in the living room of the Bryant home, where she can keep watch as Betty Bryant stitches.

“Mercedes Grace,” on the mannequin opposite, is Betty Bryant’s all-time favorite design. Her little girls’ outfits, above, can be made with a matching doll dress. At right, she puts pins in place to designate spots for bows.

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Mrs. Bryant recalled a Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) memorial service held at the city cemetery in Senoia. “I made all the widow’s weeds,” she remembered.

The clothing of Southern widows in antebellum days was supposed to be starkly simple and drab. Wearing black fabric with a sheen or a dress adorned with even the tiniest bit of color was a little naughty, she explained.

Mrs. Bryant has sewn authentic Confederate uniforms, including the one Rick wears to SCV events and a miniature version for a 5-year-old.

“Uniforms are okay, but I like the frillies,” she said.

Mrs. Bryant does more than just design, sew — and name — her dresses. She also advises wearers about accents such as gloves, hats and shoes.

She much prefers hats to the snoods, although both were worn by Southern ladies of long ago.

“The snoods make you look like a lunchroom lady,” she confided.

When it comes to shoes, she recommends comfort. “I wear my tennis shoes because nobody can see them,” she said.

In the 1840-era Bryant home in Turin, there are reminders that the couple’s interest in the Civil War is in their blood. On the parlor wall hangs a numbered print of a painting depicting the death of Tennessee

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Confederate Col. William Grace.

Betty Bryant found the print at the Salvation Army Thrift Store in Newnan, where she paid $3 for it. At home she found an envelope that explained the subject. Grace — it turns out — was her great-greatgrandfather.

On a shelf in Rick Bryant’s library is a biography of his greatgreat-grandfather, William Holland Thomas, a Cherokee chief and a Confederate colonel.

Betty Bryant is likely to continue recreating 1860s fashions for years to come. When she attends an event evoking the era, she likes to see lots of full skirts, fancy blouses and snappy chapeaus. She especially likes it if she knows the wearers — and the dresses — by name.

As long winter nights approach, the light will be burning in the Bryants’ parlor. Coweta County’s Civil War seamstress will be watching “Gone With the Wind” one more time and creating a story of her own with fabric and thread. NCM

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Nelle Wilmot Ashmore has worn many hats in her 80 years — literally and figuratively. From entertaining troops on USO tours during her teens to working as a receptionist for one of Georgia’s governors, this remarkable woman, affectionately called the “hat lady” because of her array of unique hats, continues to be an inspiration to all.

At the Sharpsburg home where she’s lived with husband Bill since 1977, Nelle looks cool and breezy in a flowing pink pantsuit. She is petite and trim with her skin smooth and radiant. Her voice is strong and confident, making her seem decades younger.

Nelle remains in constant motion as she shows pictures of her family. She is the proud mother of a daughter, also named Nelle, who will soon retire from teaching in the Coweta County School System, and has a grandson, Jason, who graduated from the Heritage School.

In the midst of family photos are several glamorous black and white photographs—very reminiscent of Betty Grable and Carmen Miranda.

“That’s me when I was a professional dancer. I think I was about 13 in that one,” says Nelle. “I started dancing at age 3. My sister and I liked to watch Vaudeville shows, and I really took to dancing.”

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Nelle’s mother took care of the dancing teacher’s children in exchange for Nelle’s lessons.

“I pushed myself because I loved it,” says Nelle, whose proclivity for dancing Nelle Ashmore started dancing professionally at age 3, and by her teens she was called on soon to entertain on USO tours. attracted agents. Nelle became a professional dancer at age 3 and would perform lunch and dinner shows at hotels around the country with her dancing troupe. In 1940, Nelle performed for soldiers stationed in military camps in Jacksonville, Fla. and was invited to travel with the USO tours. In 1942, her father agreed to let her tour as long as she was chaperoned by her mother. For the next four years, Nelle spent her summer vacations performing for the soldiers.

“We would do as many as 3-10 shows a day, depending on what the different sections wanted. They may not all be full shows. It may have been singing a song or dancing a jitterbug with one of the soldiers. I didn’t care how many shows I did. I enjoyed every one,” recalls Nelle. “It was the only time in my life when I felt totally alive — except for the birth of my daughter.”

Tap dancing was her specialty; however, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, people began to take an interest in the Hawaiian culture. Nelle was soon dancing the hula, taught to her by a Hawaiian couple.

“People ask why I didn’t teach dancing. I don’t have the patience. I would say, ‘Mother, you’re wasting your money,” laughs Nelle.

After dancing, Nelle excelled as a receptionist, working 20 years as receptionist to J.B. Fuqua, a selfmade Atlanta businessman who built a multimilliondollar empire.

“Now everything is voice mail, but back then someone had to answer the phones. I had this uncanny

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ability to catch a person’s voice,” says Nelle. “My favorite boss was J.B. Fuqua, who recently passed away ...

Have you ever been to the Atlanta Botanical Gardens?”

She continues by telling the story of the day J.B. Fuqua announced that he had bought his wife a gift — the Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Conservatory at the Atlanta Botanical Gardens.

“Yes, J.B. stole me away from Governor Carl Sanders,” says Nelle.

Nelle was on the Atlanta Women’s Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, where she helped organize and raise funds for the Dogwood Festival for many years.

She also volunteered in the emergency room at DeKalb General on Sundays and later in the Morristown, N.J. emergency room.

For the past seven years, Nelle has worked at the Atlanta Auto Auction in the customer service department where, among other things, she greets the dealers.

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Brightly-colored clothing and a variety of summer and winter hats are wardrobe staples for Nelle Ashmore of Sharpsburg.

them, so I started creating my own,” says Nelle, who owns approximately 40 summer and winter hats. “I started wearing them on sale days.

Now I get in trouble when I don’t.

People as far away as California call to find out what color hat I’m

wearing. It’s fun. (Everyone) should try it.”

In addition, Nelle and her husband Bill, with the help of their daughter, grandson and son-in-law, owned and operated the House of Ashmore Pecan and Pecan Candy

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and happiness?

“I finally learned when I was disappointed in myself that if the Lord wants me to do just this, then I need to be happy with that. ... It’s not good to dwell in the past. I like to be positive about what I’m doing right now,” says Nelle.

“She’s the same weight as when she graduated from high school,” adds Bill.

“Well, I am allergic to chocolate.

That helps,” says Nelle with a wonderful, infectious girl’s giggle. “I discovered that when I was working in a law firm in New York.”

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Passing the hats Story and photos by Angela Webster

hen Lynn Smith was a girl, she loved to have her Aunt Rosemary visit. Her aunt hailed from New York and wore the latest fashions. Smith

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thought her aunt was the picture of style, arriving as she did with two trunks, carrying her hat boxes, and wearing a mink coat and hat.

Other times Smith would head north for a visit, living for a while with her aunt and her hats. Made by such legendary designers as Schiaparrelli and Mr. John, the hats

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were treated like precious jewelry, Smith recalled.

As a new bride, Smith easily began collecting the wonderful old headpieces.

“When I was young and newly married and living in Newnan, I would go to estate sales, garage sales and yard sales” and purchase hats, Smith said. “I think it was a hat rescue.”

Because she had learned about the design and construction of them, “I knew to look for a well-made hat,” Smith said. “I just knew that.”

And then came the day “the hats came off, the girdles came off, the hair went up.”

While Smith’s mother and aunt had worn hats, and she remembers wearing them to church herself in the sixties, the changing styles meant hats were no longer everyday accessories in a woman’s wardrobe. That’s when Smith’s “hat rescue” really took off, and she added many elegant pieces to her collection — often very inexpensively.

Some of her 300-plus hats cost just $1; as she educated herself on them (she recommends the book “Hats” by Jody Shields), she was willing to pay more. Later she found

herself acquiring related accessories, such as spare tubes of ostrich feathers, wooden hat molds, and millinery instruction books.

But Smith’s life has been filled with much more than hat collecting. She and husband Charlie operate Murray Printing Company in Newnan, and in 1996 Smith was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, where she has served ever since. She is also a mother, grandmother and avid gardener.

Earlier this year, Smith said, she realized it was time to renovate the kitchen of the home where she’s lived since 1976.

Readying for the renovation, she knew she had to do

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something about all the hats, which for years she has shared with the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society and other interested individuals and groups.

Daughters Martha Lynn Mitchell and Jackie Baxley wished to keep only a few hats each, according to Smith, so she contacted the historical society about donating her hats to its textile collection.

Longtime curator Dorothy Pope is pleased to see the society get the collection and has spent recent weeks cataloging the hats and getting them ready for exhibition, possibly this fall.

The historical society already has quite a few hats, Pope said, so with the addition of Smith’s hats it is possible the society will end up with the finest collection of hats in the South.

This summer, she and Smith spent a morning sorting hatboxes and organizing the transfer of the hats.

Pope paused to admire an olive green hat. “It’s in excellent condition,” she said. “Even the feathers. Obviously this was kept in a hat box.”

Like Smith, Pope herself remembers wearing hats as a young woman. In the early sixties, she was in school in Washington, D.C., and she remembers going to a hat shop and spending the exorbitant amount of $35 on a hat.

Like that hat shop in D.C., stores in Newnan once catered to hatwearing women as well. Smith said Cavender’s dress shop and Mattie Cook’s were both stores which stocked hats.

Because she is fairskinned and stays out of the sun, on vacations Smith often would find herself wandering through antique stores where cast-off hats were readily available.

“Nobody wanted them,” she said.

“I found the best of the best.” Her collection includes a Chanel and a Christian Dior. Today, she said, some of the best vintage hats cost $200$300 or more. “A Mr. John would bring a lot of money,” she said.

But instead of selling her hats, Smith thought they would most benefit the historical society. Hats convey more than just the history of fashion, according to Smith; they also tell the history of women. By studying hats and their role in history, she learned that during World War II women couldn’t get hats from Europe. “It’s really fascinating,” she said.

“I’ve always admired women,” Smith said. “I think they’ve been quiet achievers a lot of the time.”

Almost subconsciously, it seems, the artwork at Smith’s home often features women. There’s a portrait of a Creole woman, a painting of a Renaissance-era woman writing and many stylishly-clad women. There’s also a female mannequin she wouldn’t mind parting with, but husband Charlie won’t let her get rid of it now.

There was a certain wistfulness as she handed over her hats to the historical society, and clearly these are pieces she won’t soon forget.

“Oh, I love all these hats,” Smith told Dorothy Pope. “I’m going to have to come visit.” NCM Opposite: Dorothy Pope, at left, meets with Lynn Smith to accept her donation of more than 300 hats to the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society.

From left: Just a few of the treasures Smith amassed as a collector.

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hen Freyer Caffarel’s grandson turned 2, she decided she wanted him to have a scrapbook of his life. Now four years later, Caffarel, who lives in Grantville, has one entire room and an additional closet completely devoted to scrapbooking materials. She had no idea when she started that her new hobby would change her life in more ways than just taking over her house.

In addition to her grandchildren’s books, Caffarel has been working to create scrapbooks that tell her family history, and that can be passed down from generation to generation. She has beautiful pages with old pictures, names, and birth and death dates of family members. There is a page with pictures and stories of her family home in White Castle, La. There is a striking “American Hero” page with pictures of an uncle who was in the Navy, a twopage spread with pictures and stories of what life was like for her as a child, and a page with a picture of her mother and father that holds especially fond memories for her. She wants her four children to have these books to pass on, and at the age of 64, she feels like her scrapbooks will be how her 11 grandchildren remember her.

Rose Carter Caffarel’s friend Rose Carter, owner of Matte Magic Scrapbooks, Inc. in Newnan, says that most scrapbookers start out like Caffarel, working on heritage scrapbooks.

Carter’s daughter Rebecca Miller got her interested in scrapbooking, and Miller got started by creating scrapbooks for her foster children.

The children got to take their books with them when they moved to a new home; without these books, they would have no tangible memories of their childhood and nothing to pass on to their own

children. Seven years and many scrapbook pages later, Carter and her family have now been in the scrapbook business for four years.

Caffarel likes to attend crop sessions at Matte Magic, uses their equipment and gets many of her layout ideas from the store. They offer photo restoration services and can make old photos look new. Common flaws they repair are cracks, bends, stains, missing pieces, and removing people from photos. The prices range from $5 to $25, depending on the photo and the severity of the flaw.

One woman took a copy of her

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grandparents’ wedding photo, which had a white blob covering the grandmother’s lower arm and several bend marks. Carter was able to manually shade the blob and marks, and you could not tell the flaws were ever there.

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• Wash hands before handling photos.

• Always protect photos from moisture of any kind. Never store photos in a basement or attic with high levels of humidity. Store them at a consistent temperature, around 75 degrees.

• Store in a dark place. Sunlight

fades photos and discolors card stock and stickers.

• Use page protectors. You’ll be more comfortable sharing your books, even with children, if your pages are in a plastic sleeve.

• Many keepsakes (tickets, programs, children’s art, handwritten family recipes) are printed on highly acidic paper. Use deacidification sprays or make color copies of the items on acid-free paper.

Caffarel used a variety of ways to display her family memories on her pages: photos, poems, journaling, beautiful embellishments and decorative papers. She said that she doesn’t write something to go with every picture, but when a picture evokes a certain memory, then she will write it up.

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get you started with your heritage scrapbook: Photograph family heirlooms, such as a wedding dress or a handmade quilt. Then write its story alongside the photo.

Interview family members from the older generations about what life was like when they were growing up. Topics to cover could be pets, siblings, church, a favorite activity, birthdays, how they met their spouse, holiday traditions, neighbors, nicknames and career.

Use scrapbook magazines and Web sites to get layout ideas. Try to keep the overall look consistent.

Caffarel has her best friend to thank for introducing her to scrapbooking. She says that scrapbooking has changed her life by helping her to be more outgoing in social situations. After attending the crop sessions, she says she is more comfortable talking with strangers, especially about scrapbooking. She has even had some friends pay her to make scrapbooks for them, and she sells some mini albums on eBay. Her discovery of heritage scrapbooking has been a benefit not only to her, but also her friends, family and future generations to come. NCM

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TheVeranda:

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By W. Winston Skinner

Back in 1906, Senoia’s residents watched with interest as the Hollberg Hotel was built.

The stately building quickly became a landmark in the south Coweta town. Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan was a guest in 1908, during his final run for the presidency. Since then, aging Confederate heroes, Georgia governors, movie stars and an Atlanta woman named Margaret Mitchell working on her first novel have visited the hotel.

This year the hotel will celebrate its 100th birthday. Renamed the Veranda — a nod to its wide, inviting front porch — some two decades ago, the grand old lady will celebrate her centennial with a flourish.

Innkeeper Rick Reynolds said two events are already planned, and others may be put together as the anniversary year unfolds. “We’re not doing anything spectacular,” he said.

The graceful building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was built by Charles Francis Hollberg, an Ohio native who lived briefly in Newnan before coming to Senoia to open a business in 1894. He was the son of a German immigrant and grew up in a Union state, but Hollberg quickly became part of the fabric of the Southern community in Senoia.

The hotel he built looks like an archetype of traditional Southern architecture. “History of Coweta

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County Georgia” said the hotel was “for a number of years ... the social center for this part of the state ... where many notable citizens, both statewide and nationwide enjoyed their hospitality.” Bryan was among the most notable national figures ever to spend the night beneath the Hollberg Hotel’s stately roof.

It was in 1908 when Bryan, who had unsuccessfully run for president twice before, came to Senoia during his third campaign for the White House. Though he was defeated by Republican William Howard Taft, the famed Democrat and Populist continued to be known as one of the nation’s most gifted orators and writers. Bryan was later one of the attorneys in the famous Scopes trial in Tennessee, depicted in the play and film “Inherit the Wind.”

The county history noted the 19th Georgia Regiment, Confederate States Army, visited the hotel annually “until the last of these noble veterans answered their final roll call.” Local legend maintains Mitchell took advantage of the annual gathering of white-haired Confederates. She is said to have spent hours on the piazza of the hotel gathering stories and details that would make their way into “Gone With the Wind.”

C.F. Hollberg and his wife, Lillian, did more than preside over a landmark known throughout the region for its beauty and hospitality.

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They also started an entrepreneurial legacy. Frank Hollberg, their grandson, still owns and operates a furniture store that bears the family name in downtown Senoia.

By 1930, the era of the small town hotel had passed. The hotel was closed, but the family continued to live there. Frank Hollberg lived upstairs in the house — by then the residence of his grandmother — when he returned to Senoia after serving in the U. S. Navy. He recalled that Lillian Hollberg still referred to the rooms by the numbers they had been given when the structure was a hotel.

Frank Hollberg’s uncle, Marsh Douglas Hollberg, inherited the house and sold it. The old hotel passed through a couple of owners before Jan and Bobbie Boal purchased it about 20 years ago. The Boals restored the building, furnished it with antiques and opened their doors as a bed-and-breakfast inn.

In January 2005, Rick Reynolds purchased the Veranda. He and his wife had been overnight guests at the Veranda a couple of times.

Reynolds, who had been a counselor at Clayton State University, decided to start a new career as an innkeeper.

Stars of “Fried Green Tomatoes” enjoyed meals at the Veranda while that movie was being filmed in town several years ago.

“FGT” brought Mary-Louise Parker, Mary Stuart Masterson and Cicely Tyson to town.

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to film. Country star Toby Keith heads the cast along with Burt Reynolds, Kelly Preston, Lindsey Haun and Tess Harper.

“They actually filmed here seven straight days,” Reynolds said.

The movie centers around “an old inn that everyone comes back to,” he said.

Current plans for the Veranda’s birthday include a celebration of Margaret Mitchell’s 106th birthday in November.

“That’s the main thing we’re doing,” Reynolds said.

The innkeeper said he believes the hotel actually opened for business in 1907. Accordingly, he is planning some type of New Year’s celebration. Other events may be planned during 2007 as well.

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By LaTina Emerson, Photos by Bob Fraley

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o most, a piece of wood is nothing more than just that. But to John Andrews and Cecil Cornwell, a block of wood is a canvas for a masterpiece.

Andrews and Cornwell specialize in carving, with Andrews carving ducks and birds and Cornwell specializing in carving fish. Through their art, they work to preserve the natural beauty of animals that could one day be forgotten if nature continues to take

its toll.

Andrews began carving in 1977 when his wife gave him a wood carving kit as a gift. Years later, her suggestion for a hobby has become a craft.

Through trial and error, along with help from books and videos, Andrews taught himself the art of carving. He began carving pieces for sale in 1980.

“People know me as the ‘Duck Guy,’” said Andrews.

To showcase his talent, Andrews hosted a one-man show in August at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County. The show featured a total of 30 pieces.

He was presented with the opportunity after appearing in the Art Walk in downtown Newnan, and Andrews was up to the challenge.

For the show, Andrews crafted the largest project he has ever attempted — a three-foot-tall sandhill crane, the largest bird of flight in terms of migration, he said.

He worked on the project for more than six months. Andrews strives to

make his pieces as authentic as possible and studies details such as head and tail feathers.

Andrews has developed his technique over the years,

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The works of “Duck Guy” John Andrews, opposite, were recently featured in a one-man show at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts. His friend Cecil Cornwell, this page, was honored earlier this year when his fish carvings were selected to appear in the Rappahannock Water Fowl Show in Virginia.

starting with a block of wood and tracing the pattern onto it. Patterns can be bought commercially, he said, with hundreds of choices. Then, he uses a bandsaw to cut out the pattern. He has an array of tools such as bits, files, knives, sandpaper, ripping tools, a wood burning set, and even dental tools to shape his projects and achieve any effect he desires.

There is, however, one tool that Andrews values above the others. “The most important piece of equipment is a pencil,” he said. He uses a pencil to draw boundary and center lines.

There are also pewter feet which can be purchased to be placed on the bird or duck, Andrews said, because trying to construct your own feet can be time-consuming and they often break.

In addition, Andrews paints all of his pieces. On average, it takes him about three hours to carve a small bird and one hour to paint it. Bigger pieces take much longer, Andrews said, and he also produces pieces with varying levels of detail.

Cecil Cornwell recalls carving boats and arrows for other kids in his neighborhood as a child. He grew up in rural Virginia, where he was introduced to hunting and fishing as a small boy. “It was kind of a natural thing for me to gravitate toward carving fish,” he said.

About 15 years ago, Cornwell decided to take his carving seriously. He estimates he has carved more than 100 species of fish to date. He makes it a point to reproduce the fish as anatomically correct as possible, and he studies texts to ensure that he is completing his projects with accuracy.

He is also able to rely on his extensive fishing experience.

According to Cornwell, many people will never see the true colors of many species of fish because they lose

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The crane at left is one of the largest pieces ever carved by John Andrews. Above, fellow carver Cecil Cornwell shows some of the fish he has carved.

their color as soon as they hit the surface. The mahi-mahi, for example, loses its color within three minutes.

“A lot of fish, people will never see because they become extinct. One of the things I try to do is identify

some of those fish and carve them so they will be a record for future generations to see,” he said.

According to Cornwell, the health of a fish is a direct measure or barometer of our environment.

Cornwell is meticulous with the details of his projects. He creates the scales for his fish one at time, burning each one onto the wood. He uses only eyes which are anatomically the correct color for each species. He

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even looks for the proper piece of driftwood that the fish would be found with in nature.

The striper, for example, is found with sassafras wood, Cornwell shared.

The amount of time to complete a project depends on the size of the fish. A small fish can be completed within two to three hours, he said, while a larger fish could take up to 20 hours.

Painting requires more time than carving, Cornwell said. He applies his paint in layers to give the color depth.

Cornwell participates in several art shows each year. This past March, Cornwell participated in the Rappahannock Water Fowl Show in Virginia, which features the world’s best water bird carvers. He was juried into the show, which traditionally features only birds, to display his fish. He also sells some of his carvings at Hit the Trail in downtown Newnan.

For more information on their work, contact John Andrews at 770-253-8498 or Cecil Cornwell at 770-253-6757. NCM

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COWETA COOKS

Eva Knight keeps a dying tradition alive and cookin’

By Janet Flanigan, Photos by Bob Fraley

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Trips to my beloved Mamaw’s and Papaw’s farm in the foothills of Virginia’s Appalachian Mountains were always a time of magical wonder. There were smokehouses, corncribs and henhouses to investigate. But one of the most exciting places was the root cellar, with its jeweled jars of canned goods lining every shelf like little soldiers waiting to do battle, fighting to make delicious meals for another year.

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People canned out of necessity back then – it was how food was put on the table. But canning seems to be a dying art. People today seem to have the attitude that they can just as easily buy food at the grocery, so why go to the trouble?

Thank goodness for Madras resident Eva Knight, who has a passion for preserving food in glass jars.

“I come from a long line of canners. Both my mother and

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grandmother did it, so I grew up knowing how. I have two grown sons, and they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much interested in learning canning,â&#x20AC;? said Knight with a laugh and a twinkle in her eye. But with a bit of wistfulness she added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In my family, I think Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m the last generation who cans.â&#x20AC;?

While Knight admits it is a time-consuming process, certainly, she says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;you can set your day aside to have your pantry full of wonderful vegetables and fruits.â&#x20AC;? She loves canning so much that she sells some of her jams and jellies at the Farmers Market on Temple Avenue during the summer months.

There are two types of canning processes â&#x20AC;&#x201C; pressure cooking and water baths. Different foods call for the different types of canning.

Knight recommends anyone interested in canning contact the Coweta County Extension Service (770-254-2620) for brochures listing in-depth information on canning, but she lists a few cautionary doâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ts to get you started.

A common misconception, she said, is that you must always hear a â&#x20AC;&#x153;popâ&#x20AC;? to have a properly sealed lid when canning. Knight called it â&#x20AC;&#x153;music to the cannerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ears,â&#x20AC;? but she said that actually as long as the lid, or â&#x20AC;&#x153;flat,â&#x20AC;? is concave and cannot be pressed down any further, the lid is sealed tight. Also, once the flats are secured tightly on the jars, the rings are only decorative and not really necessary to keep a tight seal on jars.

Rings may be reused, but the flats may never be reused for canning purposes since rubber seals wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t reseal properly.

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jars. Water in bath should be

5 quarts peeled and chopped

PRESSURE CANNING

boiling before placing jars in

tomatoes

(most vegetables – except

bath. The jars should be on a

Salt

tomatoes)

rack to be placed in the boiling

Lemon juice

Again, Mrs. Knight says to please refer to the extension service or a book on canning for complete canning instructions before undertaking your first canning attempt.

water, and the water will then return to a boil. The jars should

Put all vegetables except

be covered with boiling water by

tomatoes in a pressure cooker

at least an inch and boil for 5-10

and add just a little water

minutes or longer, depending on

(about 1/4 cup) and cook for 5

recipe. It might be handy to keep

minutes. (If you don’t have a

a tea kettle with boiling water on

pressure cooker, you may cook

hand in case it is necessary to

the vegetables on the stovetop

Pack vegetables in jars and fill jar

top off the water so the jars are

in the usual manner until

with hot water to within 1/4” from

covered by the necessary

done.) While the vegetables

top of jar. Put lids on and rings.

amount. Again, any jars that are

are cooking, bring tomatoes to

Place in pressure cooker which

not properly sealed should not

a boil. Then mix the vegetables

has 3 inches of water. Turn on

be used.

and tomatoes together and

pressure cooker and gauge

return the mixture to a boil. In

pressure will rise to 10 pounds,

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a separate stockpot, place the

and the food should cook for 25

VEGETABLE SOUP MIX

rack with jars in hot water to

minutes. Check lids to make sure

get jars nice and hot. Put one

should not be used.

You can use a pressure cooker and a water bath to prepare this recipe or with simply a water bath

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2 cups peeled and chopped

the rack from the hot water

A WATER BATH

carrots

(wipe off any jars if necessary)

(tomatoes, vegetable soup mix,

2 cups diced onions

and place rack in boiling

fruit, jams, jellies)

2 cups corn, cut off the cob

waterbath. Cook for 25 minutes

1 cup cut okra

after water returns to a boil.

You will need to prepare your

1 cup cut green beans, any kind

When done, remove jars from

vegetables ahead of time (such as

1 cup peas, snap or shelled

waterbath, check seals and let

stewed tomatoes, applesauce and

1 cup diced celery (or may use

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THE THOUGHTFUL GARDENER

Zinnias The Super-duper, Splendiferous Shoot

Story, photos and artwork by Katherine McCall

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urs is a disposable society. My grandparents and those before them would be astonished and mystified by the preponderance of items we throw away: plates, cups, napkins, toys, magazines, clothing, electronics, and the list goes on. In times past, when your favorite socks became holey you, or someone who loved you, darned them. Now we blithely throw our damaged socks in the wastebasket and quickly plan a mindnumbing trip to our favorite “super-duper, improved, haseverything” store. Of course, very few would consider recycling those old socks as rags, much less trying to patch or darn them.

Does anyone today even know how to darn? Our affluent culture has contributed to this “new is better, super-duper, fantastic” attitude. This is the culture I grew up in and assimilated, a causality of the advertising wars enacted on TV, radio, and in magazines that taught us when something possessed a flaw or imperfection it

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was time to toss the old and purchase the “new, incomparable, unrivaled” version.

So when my neighbor, Miss Dottie, graciously brought over an old pie plate filled with what looked to be dead leaves, I was confounded.

She,

being older and more sensible — not given to flighty ideas of throwing things away — patiently explained these were zinnia seeds saved from her garden the previous summer. I looked down in bewilderment at the “seeds.” They appeared to be flimsy pieces of brown nothingness. My thoughts jumped from one incredulous question to the next. How could these flyaway seeds stay in the soil long enough to grow anything? And didn’t you buy zinnias

from the “super-duper, superb, exceptional” garden store? Not to mention the pie plate itself, which was old, rusty and dented. Why didn’t she put those dead things into a nice clean new “super, outstanding, glorious” baggie?

I was brought up with manners and tried not to let any of these thoughts show on my face, but quickly promised that the boys and I would plant the “seeds” the following week.

I agonized for several days over those seeds. I just couldn’t help but

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These zinnias were grown in Katherine McCall’s own garden, and the ones below are from Redwine Farms in Newnan.

wonder if she had gotten her seeds mixed up with some grass clippings or maybe she was just a little confused. I couldn’t believe anything would actually grow from them and was tempted to toss them in the trash. Finally, my promise propelled me into my little garden. My boys were with me and, amazingly, had no reservations like I did.

They believed the seeds would grow into beautiful flowers because Miss Dottie said they would.

Oh, for the faith of a child!

Helen Keller once said, “Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look

within themselves — and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.” I had seen only what was within my experience, although my children had allowed Miss Dottie to expand their horizons of what could be. And so, thankfully,

we reveled in something that summer that truly was “super-duper, magnificent, breathtaking” — the exuberant, saturated colors of the zinnias that profusely adorned our garden and home. Zinnias have been nicknamed “old maids,” and I learned that old maids have a lot to teach me, whether neighbors or flowers!

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I looked down in bewilderment at the “seeds.” They appeared to be flimsy pieces of brown nothingness.

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When Dr. P.H. “Phil” Beegle Jr. decided to learn to play polo,

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he went all out, just as he does when racing after the ball in this fast-paced game of hockey on horseback: He got on a bulldozer and built a polo field in his backyard. Then he bought a herd of polo ponies.

Of course, Beegle’s “backyard” is his 1,600-acre farm overlooking the Chattahoochee River. The verdant polo field, its lush Bermuda sports turf rivaling a golf green, lies beyond the trees lining Cedargate Farm’s rolling hay fields where herds of deer roam. Now Beegle invites the world to enjoy the game he loves through the Kool Kidz Classic, a benefit polo tournament held every September.

Beegle and his wife, Ann, already were avid fox hunters when polo became his passion. Soon after their marriage in 1994, they began riding just for fun on their Coweta County farm near Roscoe. After they met Hal and Linda Barry, who live on a farm near Moreland, the Beegles threw away their Western saddles and got serious about riding.

“We started fox hunting, and later we learned to ride,” quipped Ann Beegle. “It’s been a natural progression. Riding was something we always wanted to do

together.”

Through the Barrys, the Beegles began hunting with the legendary Benjamin H. Hardaway III and his Midland Fox Hounds of Columbus in the late 1990s.

The couple restored a 100-year-old barn on their farm and filled it with hunt horses. They even opened their stall doors to the Danish equestrian team, which trained at Cedargate before the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

But as exciting as fox hunting was, dashing behind baying hounds through woods and across fields on the trail of a coyote or fox, Beegle wanted more.

“Foxhunting has been great,” said Ann Beegle. “Of course, Phil does it a bit faster and more furiously than I do.” And his love of polo? “He has a need for speed.

Polo fits Phil’s personality to a T.” And indeed it does. A plastic surgeon, Beegle commutes to his office at Northside Hospital in Atlanta by helicopter. He pilots

Dr. P.H. “Phil” Beegle Jr. and wife Ann enjoy a quiet moment at home before the Kool Kidz Classic polo tournament comes to their Cedargate Farm in Newnan Sept. 9.

Above, a scene from last year’s polo tournament.

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I decided it was so much fun. It’s fast and exciting and very, very competitive.

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the helicopter himself, following the Chattahoochee River from the farm to Atlanta.

Beegle, who had always been intrigued by polo, was operating on a patient when he was challenged by Atlanta anesthesiologist Dr. Randy Rizor. “Polo’s your speed,” said Rizor, who later would present Beegle with a polo mallet. “You need to play polo.”

The mallet hung over the Beegles’ mantelpiece for a year, a reminder of Rizor’s prediction, before Beegle tried the sport. There are only about 40 serious polo players in Georgia, and Beegle wanted to be among them. After playing a few times, Beegle turned to a pro. He traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyo., to learn from a master, internationally renowned instructor Rege Ludwig.

“That was only about the third or fourth time I’d ridden polo,” Beegle says. “I decided it was so much fun. It’s fast and exciting and very, very competitive.”

So he built his own field and established the Cedargate Polo Club. “Once we had the field, we wanted to inaugurate it with a benefit that was for children,” he said. “We wanted it to be for kids in this area.”

So four years ago, the Beegles launched the Kool Kidz Classic as a benefit for the Kool Kidz Foundation.

The non-profit organization provides summer programs and competitive sports and recreational activities for disabled children from Coweta and other metro Atlanta counties who do not fit into programs for able-bodied kids. Funds generated by the tournament eventually will help build a Kool Kidz facility in Coweta County.

“We are a perfect fit with this charity,” said Ann Beegle. “The physical therapists donate their time to work with the kids, and we are awed by their selflessness. It’s truly very special to us. We want people from Newnan to know about it and support it.”

That first year, Ann Beegle said happily, the fledgling tournament attracted 500 fans to enjoy tailgate picnics and stomp divots, all in the name of charity. (Anyone who has ever seen the movie “Pretty Woman” will remember Julia Roberts and Richard Gere “stomping divots” at the polo match, when they went out on the field during the break between chukkers to help fill the holes left by the horses’ hooves.) And each year the Kool Kidz Classic has grown, adding spectators and activities, from auctions and dancing to carriage At top opposite, polo teams race across the field at last year’s Kool Kidz Classic, the annual polo tournament held at the home of Phil and Ann Beegle. The tournament benefits the Kool Kidz Foundation, which was founded to benefit disabled children from Coweta and other metro Atlanta counties.

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rides and hat contests.

The Beegles envision the tournament eventually becoming a grand fall tradition much like the Atlanta Steeplechase is a rite of spring, with spectators in sporting attire — and ladies in their best hats — all gathered to see some of the best polo in this part of the country.

“It’s real important that we present Coweta County as a horse community,” Beegle said, noting that the county now boasts a number of equine pursuits, including the Bear Creek Hounds fox hunting club.

The Kool Kidz Classic is competitive “high-goal polo,” which Beegle explains is fast and fluid with players whose mallets are extensions of their right arms. Some players are so skilled that they can bounce a ball on their mallets while galloping downfield. The four teams competing in the Kool Kidz Classic are all eightgoal teams, which means that the four players on each team have handicaps that add up to eight.

Like golfers, polo players are ranked by their ability, 10 being the best. The average player is ranked a zero or one goal player. Some players

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The polo tournament, which benefits the Kool Kidz Foundation, is Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006 at Cedargate Farms. The public is invited to bring tailgate picnics or

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are minus one goal. “The 10s are like Tiger Woods. They’re that good,” said Beegle, who is a zero-goal player.

Beegle has a stable of 30 polo ponies to indulge in his sport. Of course, polo ponies are not really ponies but Thoroughbreds who were former race horses, he explained. “They are called polo ponies because of their height, which is about 15.1 hands or 15.2, so they are smaller than most horses. They have to be fast, nimble and have good endurance. Most are off the track, because they were not fast enough to win the big money.”

So far, Beegle is the only one in his family to play polo. The couple’s four children are grown, busy with careers and families that leave them little time to ride, though they all enjoy riding for pleasure. And while polo intrigues son Brian Beegle, an actor with a lead role in the upcoming movie “We Are Marshall,” he has not followed his father into such an intense sport yet.

But there is hope for the next generation. The Beegles’ 3-year-old grandson, Cameron, too young to ride, already clamors to sit on their horses. NCM SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER

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he popular 1980s television sitcom Cheers made famous a Boston watering hole where a local gang of friends hung out and the theme song said, “Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name …” The same can be said for several Coweta County pizzerias, known as much for their great pies as a place to run into neighbors and catch up on quick hellos.

On a recent soft summer night at 24 E. Main St. in Grantville, diners could have received whiplash watching the 87-year-old door at Nick’s Pizza Stop fly open with customers, then close. Open, close.

Open, close. All the while the phone with its train whistle ring never stopped, announcing orders for pizza, sandwiches and wings.

Nick and Kim Sasso discovered the tiny town of Grantville on a

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crispy chicken wings. “We only offer top of the line quality items and work to get them the best they can be,” said Nick.

“Our signature pizza is the ‘A&WP’ named for the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, which features creamy garlic butter sauce, tender artichoke hearts, feta cheese and a blend of fresh and roasted garlic,” he said. Other pizzas include traditional pies, custom orders and more exotic toppings including a Spicy Fajita Pizza, Grecian Delight, Ramponi White (no sauce) and the Mexican Hat dance. Nick’s also offers strombolis, calzones, Nick’s Stix (bread sticks with a variety of flavorful dips), those signature wings and fingers, hot and cold sandwiches and pasta.

Our passion for pies

By Janet Flanigan, Photos by John Beck

getaway when they stayed at Bonnie Castle, and on a subsequent visit in 2004 they found out the Pizza Stop was for sale, bought it and never looked back. Never mind that they had no restaurant experience!

Since then, their passionate devotion to perfecting the restaurant’s food has grown their business each year, adding menu items and improving customer favorites such as

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They’ve applied for their beer and wine license and have plans to add some fine dining options in the future. They currently offer specialty dinners on request.

Another spot where diners are sure to spot friends while eyeing their favorite slice is a perennial Newnan favorite, Partners II Pizza at SummerGrove. Jim and Marilyn Royal and daughter Taasha Moore have been operating this phenomenally successful small chain of independently-owned restaurants for more than 25 years. Partners II also has locations in Peachtree City and Fayetteville. As Moore, owner/manager of the Newnan location, succinctly described 25 years of success, “People come in for the value and quality.

And the potato pizza.”

In the summer of 2002, a great buzz was generated when word was out that the famed Potato Pizza was coming to Coweta County. Partners’ signature crust is spread with sour cream, layered with sliced potatoes and topped with green onions, bacon, and cheddar cheese, then baked to perfection.

It quickly became their number one pizza this side of the Fayette County line as well.

In addition to the potato and customized pizzas, Partners

Opposite page: At left, the Phillips family enjoys pizza at Partners II Pizza at SummerGrove in Newnan.

At right, Deanne Kwon serves up a slice during a visit to Nick’s Pizza Stop in Grantville. This page, clockwise from above: Nick Sasso of Nick’s Pizza Stop, pizza from Fabiano’s in downtown Newnan, Lexa Kwon enjoying pizza at Nick’s, and a Greek Salad from Fabiano’s.

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name. There are always lots of friends and neighbors enjoying a quick bite on the town.

This funky, get-it-like-youwant-it establishment has a simple philosophy, according to operator Jeff Gustavo Jimenez at Fabiano’s in Newnan Partners II Pizza Merback: “Every town square II offers 15 other specialty pies, a meat and sauces, so any dish you like needs a pizzeria, and customers popular pizza bar, more than a dozen in one location will taste the same in should be able to get good pizza salads and salad bar, and a variety of quickly and easily by the slice.” another location.” pastas. There are also appetizers, Amy Murphy, who also owns If you are seeking the Cheerssandwiches, wraps, calzones, Alamo Jack’s, took six months to style Norm greeting — but in a breadsticks and daily specials. Moore create the concept with Merback, family environment, mind you — said Partners “creates all of our own who is developing a partnership with pop into Fabiano’s at the Alamo and salad recipes, dough recipes, taco her. Merback’s family has someone’s almost sure to know your

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longstanding ties in the restaurant industry, including his grandfather’s original pizzeria in Hollywood, called Fabiano’s. (It closed in the 1960s.) He also has a Fabiano’s in Douglasville, but Merback’s signature restaurant has been The Highlander, in Virginia Highlands. After graduating from Georgia Tech, he opened The Highlander when he was only 24 years old.

“We want Newnan’s Fabiano’s to be a place where families can come to meet friends, where sports teams can gather after a game or the local lunch crowd can pop in for a quick slice at lunch or get it to go,” he explained.

Fabiano’s prepares a New York style pizza (puffy outer crust, tapering to a thinner inner crust) and several specialty pizzas. Favorites include the California (artichoke hearts, chicken and sun dried tomatoes), Hawaiian and Veggie. Wings, calzones, strombolis and salads are also very popular.

“My wife and I love Newnan,” Merback said. “It has wonderful people, beautiful architecture, so many cool things. She runs the front of the house and has made a whole new group of friends. We’re having a great time.”

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NEWCOMERS

Julian Huxley: Stylist to stars now styling in Newnan Photos by Bob Fraley

Newnan-Coweta Magazine: So Julian, you are one of the fortunate few who seem to have always known what they have wanted to do and then gone out and done it.

Julian Huxley: Yes, I have been very fortunate. I actually began an apprenticeship in London with the world famous Vidal Sassoon salon. I started out sweeping floors and ended up on their international team traveling the world. My training took me to the employ of the company that handles the Royal Family aboard the QE2, and I did many demonstrations for hair color and it was during that time that I became a color specialist.

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NCM: We understand that you are quite well known for hair color. Beside the stint on the QE2, have you ever had the opportunity to work with any celebrities?

JH: Early in my career I was trained by a well-known English stylist called Teasy-Weasy, and through this association I became an expert on “period” hair and have been hired for several independent British films to do the hair and hair pieces, which is very intricate work. I also spent a portion of my career working with many models including Ford and Elite models, particularly in the Bahamas and Miami.

I have done Cindy Crawford’s hair many

times and Reese Witherspoon requested me for her wedding (when I had my own salon in Charleston). In fact, I met and fell in love with my former wife when I was doing a lot of work in Miami and the Bahamas.

NCM: You’ve obviously had such an exciting career, London, the Bahamas, Miami, New York, Milan, Atlanta, Charleston … what brings you to Newnan?

JH: Quite honestly, I really wanted to be near my daughter Megan, and her mother flies for an airline so we can share the parenting. She studied with the Philadelphia Ballet this summer and goes to Arnall Middle School.

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She’s a great girl.

NCM: It’s obvious you are very proud of her. How did you find your position with the salon St. Hair?

JH: Actually, again, through my daughter. She is friends with Sharon Tranter’s son Alex. Megan said we should meet up and we did. Sharon owns the salon and she is British as well, and in many ways the salon is run as a British hair salon. It’s contemporary and friendly but we are the only ones from England.

NCM: Okay Julian, what should stylish locks be sporting over the coming year?

JH: When it comes to cuts, I think we will see more defined edges and softer waves. In color, we will see more tonality – in other words, color will be layered and will have a lovely depth of color in the same shade– not just a highlight slapped on top of the head. It will provide beautiful contrast and make hair look so healthy. I’m really playing around with this right now.

NCM: With all the time you put in at the salon and then spending time with your daughter, have you had much chance to poke around Newnan?

JH: I just moved back in February, but I was here 14 years ago and I have been pleasantly surprised by the change in the town. There have been so many people moving in from all over the world which is exciting and there is, of course, so much more shopping and more places to eat. I would like to request the City Council to leave park and picnic places so that we are able to get out and enjoy our town and each other … and also the department of transportation to sync the lights! One last thing – growth is nice but a small town like Newnan has to be careful to remember what it is and not to lose its identity or Newnan will be just another sprawling suburb that has nothing special about it.

NCM: Thanks so much for your time JH: No, thank you! NCM

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Author Dunnavant taking new book to the fans

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t age 14, Newnan’s Keith Dunnavant became the youngest credentialed journalist in the history of the Southeastern Conference by talking his hometown Athens, Ala. newspaper into giving him a sportswriting job that didn’t exist.

Now he’s relying on Internet technology that didn’t exist a decade ago to help sell his newest book, “The Missing Ring,” a chronicle of the 1966 University of Alabama football team that went undefeated, untied and uncrowned as national champions, robbed of a third straight title by a national media determined to punish an entire state by proxy for its leaders’ segregationist politics.

The fact that Auburn ended the 2004 season undefeated, untied and uninvited to the national championship game proves that one of college football’s longest-running problems hasn’t changed at all. But the publishing business has, and when it comes to marketing, Dunnavant is anything but old school.

His 1996 “Coach,” a warts-andall look at Alabama’s legendary Paul “Bear” Bryant, was widely hailed as the definitive study of the Alabama icon. “Coach” scored big with a national audience, but in Alabama, the book approached cult status, snapped up by tens of thousands of Crimson Tide fans still desperate for one more word about their beloved team and coach.

Dunnavant knew he had a core audience when he started writing “The Missing Ring” in 2004. When he finished the book earlier this year, he thought he knew just how to reach them.

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Newnan author Keith Dunnavant and friend Jonathan Hickman have joined forces to form ShadowVision Productions, which among other projects has created an Internet movie-style trailer for Dunnavant’s new book, “The Missing Ring.”

regional and national TV sports shows this fall will boost book sales, but Dunnavant is also taking “The Missing Ring” straight to the fans, computer to computer.

“You can’t talk to a coach or a player or a fan these days without hearing how much time they spend on the Internet looking for any scrap of information about their team,” Dunnavant says. “And those fans are all potential book buyers.”

Once Dunnavant was convinced Internet promotion could help his book, he knew just where to turn.

The World Wide Web was already familiar turf to Newnan’s Jonathan Hickman, a longtime Dunnavant friend. Hickman is a practicing attorney but also has a passion for movies and years ago turned his love of film into einsiders.com, a hugely successful entertainment Web site featuring streaming Internet video interviews with film insiders and stars.

Dunnavant was aware of Hickman’s Web site but once he really paid attention to the video interviews, something clicked.

“When I realized exactly what he was doing and how accessible the

technology was, it all came together,” he says. “I knew if we could interview some of the people quoted or talked about in the book and put it on the Internet, it would generate some buzz.”

Once the concept was set, Dunnavant and Hickman started a new company, ShadowVision Productions. The pair spent two days doing interviews and, in less than a week, an Internet video advertisement — known as a trailer — was up and running on the book’s Web site, www.themissingring.com.

It turned out Dunnavant and Hickman were among the Internet book trailer pioneers and, as far as Dunnavant can tell, the trailer for “The Missing Ring” is the first for a sports book.

“Either way, we’re definitely on the cutting edge,” he says. “And it’s already had an impact on sales.”

Once the book trailer was ready for viewing, Dunnavant e-mailed the heads of 75 Alabama alumni clubs across the nation. He told them about the new book and gave them a link to the Web site. In just days “The Missing Ring” drew more than 700 hits. That number continues to

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“We knew in a hurry we were on the right track,” Dunnavant says. “In addition to a certain creative eye, Jonathan brings a world of technical know-how to the operation that I lack, and I think that will make us a great team. I think that’s already being proven.”

Dunnavant says the book trailer is just a warm-up act for ShadowVision. The company plans to create documentary films and has already signed a deal to produce a documentary about the history of Alabama’s Republican Party. That film will be released in early 2007, and plans for a more ambitious project are already on the drawing board.

Dunnavant has begun his next book project, but says he can’t wait to expand ShadowVision’s reach.

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How to be a Football Widow

By Alex McRae

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ccording to the calendar, there are four seasons. According to the southern man’s biological clock, there are only two: Football and The Rest.

Right now, football season is in high gear. Which is bad news for those southern belles who carry the forlorn label of Football Widow.

The somber title, though dramatic, is misleading. These women aren’t actually widows because their husbands aren’t actually dead. The guys just look that way once they enter their annual football-induced coma.

The symptoms are easy to spot. On any given day, the man fan is either talking football with his buddies, scheduling trips to a game or sitting in front of the big screen TV, eyes glazed over, drooling on his team sweatshirt. He occasionally utters a grunt, squawk or curse. The condition lasts from Labor Day until early January.

On the surface a Football Widow’s plight seems hopeless. But with a dash of faith, a pinch of love and a locker room full of patience, girls can actually make this the best time of the year. It just requires learning a few basics.

Not about football. About men.

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First, women have to realize the problem isn’t football. It’s genetics.

Guys were born to bash each other.

This phenomenon was first observed in the Bible when Cain slew his brother Abel with a rock.

Girls were taken aback, but guys liked the activity so much they

aggression. American guys finally found the answer.

The exact date is unclear, but some time after the Civil War ended, football began. It was promoted as a healthy physical activity, but everyone knew football was just a fun way for red-blooded American boys to burn off

eventually organized the slaughter and called it war.

Over the centuries as wars became more deadly but less frequent, guys looked for other ways to vent their

excess testosterone between armed global conflicts.

It worked like a charm. These days, football is more popular than ever. And women who want to

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maintain household harmony should learn to love it.

And it’s not really that hard if you just remember a couple of easy rules.

Rule Number One … if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.

Many women have overcome their natural inclination towards civility and common sense and learned to spend autumn afternoons buzzing, barking and bleating with their boys in a form of coed bonding not found anywhere else. Some girls actually learn to enjoy this behavior.

(By the way, studies show that couples who enjoy football together have stronger relationships because they learn to hate the opposing team more than they hate the ex or the inlaws).

But if you can’t learn to love football, ladies, follow Rule Number Two ... leave your guy alone.

He’ll only be missing for a few months, and if you’re smart, you can use his absence as a time of renewal and rejuvenation.

You’ll want to lay up a good supply of snack food and batteries for the TV remote before the season starts.

And a really loving woman will come back a time or two to dust her dude off, but in general, football junkies don’t require much maintenance.

And the payoff is great, girls.

Studies show that during football season a man’s passion actually peaks.

At least if his team is winning. And if his wife makes a few romantic adjustments.

In her book, A Survival Guide For The Football Widow, author Tracy Santany writes, “First and foremost, put aside the sexy nightgowns and black lace teddies for a while. For now, your new seductive arsenal will consist of football jerseys, a cheerleader uniform and a referee’s whistle. Right now you can’t even get him to notice you much less turn him on. If he’s not telling you to get out from in front of the television, he’s coming to bed grumbling about how that field goal should never have been missed, and they must have hired that defensive coordinator right out of Clown College. It doesn’t exactly set the mood for a night of unbridled passion.”

But here’s the really good news, girls. Football season can set the stage for months of unbridled revenge.

Former Football Widows know the secret. They begin each football season with a big smile, a cheerful attitude and a brand new journal.

Every time their spouse roars over a score, raves about a rally or squeals for another bag of chips, they make another journal entry on the “to-do” list.

As soon as the last bowl game is over, all these wise women have to do is say, “OK, buddy, now it’s MY season. And I’ve got a ‘honey-do’ list that won’t wait. Get busy.”

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JUSTICE REVISITED: PART II

T he Search for a Killer Story by Charles Stone Photos by Steve Hill

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Editor’s Note: In our July/August issue, retired GBI Agent Charles Stone of Newnan looked back at one of the more notorious crimes to occur in Coweta County in the eighties, the murder of Mrs. Kate Furlow, a 79-year-old grandmother. In this second installment of our three-part series, Stone tells how local law enforcement got its guy. If you missed Part One, you’ll find it on our Web site, newnancowetamagazine.com.

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One Sunday, Sheriff Larry Hammett and I, having distributed copies of the sketch on Saturday, received our first big break in the case. We were contacted by probation officer Mike Yeager in Newnan, who said the sketch bore a striking resemblance to, indeed was almost a portrait of, one of their probationers, William Anthony Lipham, also known as Tony Lipham, who was currently on probation.

With a name to work with, the pace of our investigation increased dramatically. We got an earlier mug shot of Lipham and compared it to the sketch, and the likeness was startling. After Sybill Laurent’s description was transformed into an almost-portrait by sketch artist Marla Lawson, we placed Lipham next door to Mrs. Furlow’s house immediately prior to her murder. Lipham, who had an extensive background with the Department of Family and Children Services after being removed from his house at an early age because of abuse by his parents, was well known to Carroll, Coweta and Douglas County authorities.

On Monday, Investigator George McGee received our second big break. He was contacted by a friend of Lipham, Ronnie Simon, who said that on the evening of Dec. 4, 1985, or the early morning hours of Dec. 5, 1985, he put Tony Lipham out on

foot on Highway 16 near a propane dealer, which was located directly across the road from Mrs. Furlow.

When we interviewed Simon again a short time later, he told us even more. Lipham had shown back up at approximately 5:30 a.m. at his trailer at Quail Hollow Trailer Park, located on Highway 16, with several small bags, two guns, some jewelry and some old coins. Several days later, he called and told Simon to get rid of the bags and anything that he might have left.

On Dec. 9, 1985, I obtained arrest warrants from Magistrate Eddie Ball charging William Anthony Lipham, a/k/a Tony Lipham, with murder, rape, armed robbery and burglary. The criminal investigation pace was steamrolling now, and a parallel fugitive investigation began.

In interviewing family and friends of Lipham, we quickly accumulated evidence and information. We didn’t know where Lipham was, but we were confident we’d find him.

As far as the evidence was concerned, each day we built a stronger case against him. We recovered what we believed to be the murder weapon from his brother in LaGrange. It was a .25 caliber automatic pistol with the serial number removed. Witnesses told us they’d seen the weapon with Lipham

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several days before the murder.

Special Agent Lisa Harris actually located the store where Lipham purchased the ammunition for the pistol three days before the murder. A few days later, the state crime lab confirmed the .25 caliber pistol as the murder weapon.

Because of other information we received, we traveled to LaGrange and recovered some old coins that had been pawned by Lipham after the murder. Old coins were among the items taken from the murder scene, according to Charles and Pat Furlow, Mrs. Furlow’s son and daughter-inlaw. Lipham’s wife, Janie, was questioned and furnished a watch and some jewelry her husband had given her. Again, this was after the murder and prior to his disappearance. The items were later identified as Mrs. Furlow’s. It was also through Janie Lipham, who had an infant son with Tony, that we learned of a girlfriend and other associates, including Whitesburg resident Mike McGuken.

By this time the emphasis of the case had shifted to finding Lipham. He had been entered as a wanted person on the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and Georgia Crime Information Center (GCIC) databases. Flyers were distributed, and pressure was being placed on confidential sources and known associates.

We searched various locations day and night. The word was out: Anyone found helping and/or hiding Lipham was going to jail on felony charges with no exceptions.

A high percentage of fugitives are located and arrested when pressure becomes too much for someone. This is one of the approaches we used in late December 1985.

The evening of Christmas Day in 1985 found Sheriff Larry Hammett

and me at Banning Mill in Whitesburg. Banning Mill, dating to the Civil War, had been partially restored. The multi-story building was a large, cavernous building with open spaces and landings throughout. The interior, what one could see of it, resembled a series of sound stages. Christmas carols were playing on an out-of-sight stereo.

The door was unlocked, and we went inside.

Seeing a light in a different area, we followed a catwalk to a furnished sitting area. A young female came out of the shadows, and we identified ourselves. We were surprised when she told us the occupant and owner of the mill, Mike McGuken, was not there but was expecting us and would return shortly.

Several young people appeared.

We learned they were attending college in the area and were staying at the mill during Christmas Break.

When McGuken returned, we briefed him on what could happen if we located Lipham at the mill. He assured us he would cooperate and we left.

McGuken had been a close friend and confidant of Lipham for a long time. We had learned McGuken might be hiding Lipham or in contact with him, and we made the reality of the crime crystal clear.

Whether or not our visit would do any good remained to be seen.

Several days went by.

Surveillances were conducted, associates were picked up and questioned, locations surged, and the pressure increased.

The tactics worked. On Jan. 14, 1986, we heard Lipham was located at a motel in Douglasville. I contacted Douglas County Sheriff Earl D. Lee and told him the new

information. Sheriff Lee, a personal friend for years, quickly told me the FBI had just contacted him and said they were on the way to arrest Lipham. I asked Sheriff Lee to delay them long enough for me, Sheriff Hammett, and Special Agent Harris to get to Douglasville.

The best time to interview a suspect is directly after the arrest.

Since we had the beginning-to-end knowledge of the case and the FBI didn’t, we needed to be on the scene of the arrest. We could immediately transport Lipham back to the Coweta County Jail before he was exposed to “jail house wisdom” while waiting transport to Coweta County.

Sheriff Lee agreed, and we met the FBI at the motel. Lipham was called out, and he immediately surrendered. We loaded him in my car and headed back to Newnan.

How the FBI learned of his location was never revealed, not that it made a lot of difference. Our suspect was in custody, and for the first time we could relax.

The last major step of the investigation was about to unfold.

Lipham was brought to my office at the jail for an in-custody interview.

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Visit our Web site, newnancowetamagazine.com, to hear Lipham’s taperecorded statement to police about his role in the murder of Mrs. Kate Furlow.

Marla Lawson’s sketch, at left, bore an uncanny resemblance to William Anthony Lipham.

was a good opportunity for Special Agent Harris to see and participate in an interrogation. Along with Sheriff Hammett, she had been a part of the investigation since the beginning, and both could provide detailed institutional knowledge of the case facts if needed.

After being advised of his rights, Lipham waived his right to an attorney, signed a waiver and agreed to answer questions. During the interview, Lipham admitted taking part in the crime but blamed the murder and rape on an unknown suspect who had picked him up on Highway 16. He said that after the crime occurred, he left the unknown

man on foot and took some jewelry and coins and went back to Ronnie Simon’s trailer. When he heard about the warrants he fled, went to Florida, returned, and had been hiding until his arrest in Douglasville.

I asked Lipham if I could take a written statement from him. He declined due to his limited ability to read and write. I suggested he make a tape-recorded statement, and he agreed. Toward the end of the statement I asked him about the murder weapon. He said the unknown person gave it to him after the murder. When I pointed out to him that I could place the weapon with him days prior to the murder,

This is the ham Tony Lipham told police he ate following the murder of Kate Furlow. Why? “I was hungry.”

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he could offer no explanation.

Shortly after this exchange, a piece of information from that awful day in December popped in my head. It was the comment by Pat Furlow when she was surveying the scene of the tragedy: “Whoever did this ate some ham.” When I questioned him, Lipham readily admitted eating some ham.

I was astounded by his answer to my question of why: “I was hungry.”

This from a man, nay a monster, who had just implicated himself in a heinous murder and sexual assault. In my mind this confirmed without any testing that William Anthony Lipham, a/k/a Tony Lipham, was a psychopath and deserved to die in Georgia’s electric chair. Having been through death penalty cases before, I knew a lot of work was ahead. While our investigation was complete, the legal process was just beginning. NCM

COMING NEXT ISSUE In Part III, Stone tells how the state sought and received a death penalty conviction against Tony Lipham.

But the case was far from over …

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If you’ve got a taste for Civil War or naval history — or better yet, both — you might consider spending an afternoon at the Port Columbus Civil War Naval Museum down in Columbus.

From the development and use of iron ships to improvements in steam engines and submarine technology, naval operations during the Civil War revolutionized naval warfare. While the Civil War is the most-studied period of American

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history, the naval history of that war is not so well known. A visit to Port Columbus will make this important part of Civil War history come alive, and children and adults alike will find plenty to entertain and enlighten.

Opened in 2001, the 40,000square-foot museum actually houses two original Civil War vessels, the CSS Jackson and the CSS Chattahoochee.

The CSS Jackson was one of the

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largest Confederate ironclads and weighed nearly 4 million pounds. It was in 1862 that the Confederate Navy Department established a naval yard on the banks of the Chattahoochee River in Columbus.

Lt. Augustus McLaughlin was directed to build an ironclad warship for the defense of the ApalachicolaChattahoochee-Flint river system, and the ship was originally named the Muscogee. Its design was based on the CSS Virginia, also known as the Merrimac. Powered by an unusual center-mounted paddlewheel, the ship’s armament included four 7-inch Brooke Rifles, two 6.4-inch Brooke Rifles, and two 12-pounder boat Howitzers.

In early 1864 there was an unsuccessful attempt to launch the ship, so modifications were made, including replacing the paddlewheel with twin propellers. The ship was named Jackson after the capital of Mississippi, and on Dec. 22, 1864, it was successfully launched.

A shortage of American armor plate delayed completion of the ship, however, and it was still unfinished when Gen. James H. Wilson’s Union raiders captured Columbus on April 18, 1865. The CSS Jackson was

burned to the waterline, cut loose and ultimately sank 30 miles downstream.

In the late 1950s, as the centennial of the Civil War approached, several in Columbus got interested in finding the remains of the Jackson. It was located in 1960, and the ship’s recovery began the following year.

With assistance from Ft. Benning, it was raised in two large pieces in 1962 and 1963.

At the same time recovery of the CSS Jackson was underway, the sunken hull of the CSS Chattahoochee was discovered. Like the CSS Jackson, the CSS Chattahoochee was originally built to defend the ApalachicolaChattahoochee-Flint river system.

An accidental boiler explosion killed 19 of the gunboat’s crew members, and it was brought to the shipyard in Columbus, where it underwent repairs for the rest of the war. The Chattahoochee was sunk by her own officers in March 1865 to keep her from falling under northern control.

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original uniforms, documents, equipment and weapons from the war. One of the garments on display is the uniform coat of Catesby Jones, commander of the CSS Virginia (or Merrimac) on the day of its battle with the USS Monitor. Artifacts from the famous battle of the Monitor vs.

Merrimac include a piece of armor plate from the CSS Virginia and a

mustard bottle from the USS Monitor.

The museum also has an amazing collection of flags on display. The white No. 9 signal flag was flown from Ft. Jackson, La. when it surrendered to Union forces after Admiral Farragut captured New Orleans in April of 1862. Another significant flag in the collection is the

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largest known surviving Confederate naval flag, the 24 x 16 foot ensign which flew from the ironclad Atlanta.

And while there’s lots to see at this museum, there’s also plenty to do.

A full-scale replica of the USS Hartford has been recreated at Port Columbus, and visitors can go inside to see the various officers’ cabins and the Captain’s cabin. For a realistic

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look at life on a naval ship during the Civil War, there is the ironclad combat simulator CSS Albemarle.

Here visitors can experience various naval combat episodes and learn what it feels like to have a cannon ball bounce off the side of a ship.

Civil War ship murals and models are featured in the museum, and the gift shop is filled with books and souvenirs relating to the Civil War navies.

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The Bookshelf We Are All Welcome Here

By Elizabeth Berg Random House, $22.95 Reviewed by Holly Jones Elizabeth Berg wants her readers to know that We Are All Welcome Here is a work of fiction. She created the story, the setting — and a certain connection to the leader of the Memphis Mafia.

But the circumstances surrounding the two main characters are based on something real.

In an author’s note before she begins her story, Berg writes that a fan sent her an idea for a novel. Normally, Berg says, she doesn’t “like to take ideas from anyone,” but this woman’s life was just so amazing Berg had to contact her.

The woman’s mother was 22 years old and pregnant when she contracted polio. The daughter, Berg’s fan, was born in an iron lung, which was “a medical miracle.” The baby’s father left and the mother spent three years in an iron lung, then came home to raise her family. And from then on, the mother lived in a wheelchair wearing a portable respirator.

It is from this remarkable motherdaughter team that We Are All Welcome Here was created.

The book, the fictional part, is about 13-year-old Diana Dunn and her mother Paige. They live in a tiny, rundown house in Tupelo, Miss., the town where Elvis was born.

Paige has two caregivers. Mrs. Gruder is the large, elderly lady who comes in the evenings, and Peacie is the young black woman who runs the house.

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letters to Elvis and writing and putting on plays with her best friend, it is what Diana does.

As Diana gets older, though, she realizes how poor she and her mother are, how differently they are treated because of both her mother’s condition and their financial circumstances. She sees how good people can be and how others take advantage of the less fortunate. But mostly, she sees how truly brave her mother is.

After a few attempts at rebellion, Diana learns to fight with and for her mother, rather than against her. She learns the true meaning of why We Are All Welcome Here, as do Elizabeth Berg’s fans.

The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner

By Andrea Smith The Dial Press, $24 Reviewed by Holly Jones Bonnie Wilder wanted a baby her entire life.

Oh, Bonnie was happily married to a man she loved, and who adored her. She lived in a wonderful house she had inherited from her family. She had a good life in Canaan Creek, S.C. — except for the fact that she wasn’t a mother.

So in 1957, when Bonnie’s husband, Naz, finds the body of an infant in the creek where he and his friends are fishing, Bonnie is shocked — and heartbroken.

She can’t believe anyone wouldn’t want a baby.

This horrible incident prompts the normally shy and soft-spoken Bonnie to make an announcement at a town meeting. Any solution is better than drowning a child, Bonnie says, so if a parent feels lost and hopeless with nowhere else to turn, bring the baby to her. This is the premise of Andrea Smith’s The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner.

Of course Bonnie’s little speech is met with quite a bit of shock from the townspeople, especially her husband.

Then babies — including a set of twin girls — suddenly start appearing on Bonnie’s front porch. Sometimes the mother places the baby directly in Bonnie’s arms, and sometimes the child

or children are just left in a basket.

Sometimes a baby will have a note, or a small amount of money, or some small token of thanks or help — but then, sometimes not. With each child, Bonnie takes them in, feeds them, and finds them another home.

Unfortunately, Naz won’t let Bonnie keep any of the children. He himself was adopted, but Naz refuses to “raise another man’s chile.” It doesn’t matter how sweet or how young any of the babies left on Bonnie’s doorstep are, she is expected to find them somewhere else to live and be loved.

This is just what Bonnie does, though. And when the task starts overwhelming her, Bonnie calls in her friend Thora and a few other ladies from her church group. The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner, as they begin calling themselves, find homes for 11 children by the time their story is complete. There are no lawyers, no adoption papers, no records of any kind — just abandoned babies and the new families who want them desperately, no questions asked.

Bonnie herself begins to ask questions, though. The more babies who show up and the more Bonnie tries to take control and change her life, the more she learns that her life is not what it seems — and neither is her husband.

But by giving each of the 11 children a chance to become who they would be, Bonnie is in turn allowed to become the woman she was meant to be.

Amazing Love

By Mae Nunn Steeple Hill Books, $4.99 Reviewed by Angela Webster Remember Mae Nunn, the Sharpsburg woman who writes inspirational romance? We featured Nunn in our special “writer issue” back in January, when she was busy celebrating the success of her first two novels, “Hearts in Bloom” and “Sealed With a Kiss.” Nunn’s third book, “Amazing Love,” takes up where “Sealed With a Kiss” left off and brings us up to date on Claire Savage, the former Miss Texas who played a role in that book.

Today Savage is back in Houston,

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Texas working her charms as the sole owner of Savage Cycles, a bike shop which sells only American-made products. Savage’s biggest business project is the launch of the Southern Savage, her signature line of custom-designed choppers. Outside the bike shop, though, Savage spends a lot of her free time singing, mentoring and generally helping out at Abundant Harvest Church.

It is there she meets handsome Luke Dawson, a newcomer who’s in town to work with the church’s youth band.

While strangely drawn to Dawson, Savage senses he has some secrets in his past, and she becomes determined to find out more about the man. The only problem is, Savage risks revealing a few secrets of her own in the process.

“Amazing Love,” like “Sealed With a Kiss,” is part of Nunn’s “Texas Treasures” series for Steeple Hill, yet this book definitely bears the stamp of Georgia in its pages.

The church at the center of “Amazing Love” is inspired by Crossroads Church in Newnan, Nunn’s contemporary worship style church at Thomas Crossroads. The senior pastor of Crossroads is Ken Adams, while the senior pastor of Abundant Harvest Church is Ken Allen. Even those who aren’t members of Crossroads will enjoy knowing the novel features a Coweta County church. (And does the real-life pastor really eat all those miniature chocolate bars as the kind-hearted, my-door-isalways-open Ken Allen does? Inquiring minds want to know!)

While Nunn’s earlier books had interesting plots and believable characters, she has definitely kicked things up a notch with “Amazing Love.” The writing seems richer, the faith component much deeper than in her earlier books.

If this is the sign of where her faith and her writing are taking her today, readers of inspirational romance can look forward to great things from this talented Coweta author. NCM

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September/October Calendar SEPTEMBER 2-4, 2006 Powers’ Crossroads — The 36th Powers’ Crossroads Country Fair and Art Festival runs Saturday, Sept. 2 through Labor Day, Sept. 4.

Each Labor Day Weekend more than 200 artists and craftsmen converge on Powers’ Crossroads to display and sell their work. Singers and musicians perform on the Summerhouse Stage, and wonderful Southern cooks offer homemade treats. For youngsters there is the Twin Oaks Junction children’s park with rides, games and concessions. Festival gates open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. Admission is $6 for adults, $5 for Seniors and military personnel, and $3 for children 5-12. Kids under 4 are admitted free.

Ample free parking is available with free shuttle service to and from the front gate throughout the weekend. Powers’ Crossroads is located off Georgia Highway 34, 10 miles west of Newnan.

Information: 770-253-2011 or e-mail cowetafestivals@charter.net.

SEPTEMBER 17, 2006 Grantville Citi-Fest — On National Citizenship Day, Grantville area residents will gather for Grantville Citi-Fest, A Celebration of Citizenship and Community. The event is an opportunity for local residents to learn more about their city, county, state and country, and to explore products, services and opportunities available in the community. Those attending will want to bring a camera and snap pictures of George Washington and other celebrities visiting for the day. Also on hand will be soldiers, public safety officers, current political candidates and city officials. Participants can register to vote in November’s city elections, and everyone will enjoy great entertainment and a picnic lunch.

Info: www.citifest.grantville.net.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006 All Star Golf Jam — Atlanta country music station Kicks 101.5 FM will host its fourth annual All Star Golf Jam fundraiser at Canongate Golf Course in Palmetto on Sept. 18, 2006 as a benefit for Coweta County’s Angel’s House. The event will feature performances by country music stars including Tracy Byrd, Steve Azar and Eric Church.

Angel’s House was built through donations and the generosity of this community. It was named by country music star Alan Jackson and

Sisters Beth Jones Willems and Susan Jones Paulk at last year’s Sue Verner Jones Foundation fundraiser

his wife, Denise, and it serves this county as a temporary emergency shelter for children.

Kicks disc jockeys broadcast live from the golf jam throughout the day and conduct live interviews with the entertainers, who also spend the day playing golf. The event kicks off at 10:30 a.m. with golf registration. The shotgun start is at noon, and the jam session, dinner, award presentation and auction begin at 5:30 p.m. The day usually wraps up by 9 p.m., since the event is held on a weeknight.

Prizes are raffled off all day long, including autographed Braves merchandise, gift certificates to area restaurants, and plane tickets. Also, staff from Landmark Dodge will reward any golfer who completes a hole-in-one on a Par 3 with a new car. At the end of the day, champion low gross, 1st place low net, 2nd place low net, closest to the pin and longest drive golfers will be awarded crystal trophies.

Golf slots are available for $250 per person or $1,000 per four-man team. With this ticket, each golfer receives complimentary green fees and cart; beverages during the tournament; continental breakfast and box lunch; two tickets for the jam session; and dinner and a commemorative tote bag with gift items. For those uninterested in golfing, tickets for the jam session with dinner and seating under the tent is available for $50 and tickets for lawn seats without dinner can be purchased for $10. Shane’s Rib Shack will be catering the barbecue dinner. Live auction items will include autographed guitars and other Kicks surprises. Info: 678-378-3477.

SEPTEMBER 22-OCTOBER 1, 2006 NTC’s “Treasure Island” — Theatre-goers will set sail with Jim Hawkins as he goes aboard a pirate ship with Long John Silver in search of buried treasure in Newnan Theatre Company’s Popcorn Theatre production of Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Treasure Island.” Performances are Sept. 22-24, and Sept. 29-Oct. 1. Shows are at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are $12 for adults (12 and up), $10 for seniors (55+) and children (11 and under).

Reservations: 770-683-6282 or visit www.newnantheatre.com.

OCTOBER 12, 2006 Taste of Newnan/Wing Cook-off — At Main Street Newnan’s fall Taste of Newnan and Wing

Cook-off event from 5-8:30 p.m., visitors will gather downtown to enjoy a breath of fresh fall air and sample specialties of local restaurants and caterers on the Courthouse Square.

Participants are also welcome to bring their best wing recipe and enter the Wing Cook-off contest. Info: 770-253-8283 OCTOBER 13-29, 2006 NTC’s “A Few Good Men” — Set at the U.S. Naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, this gripping drama by Aaron Sorkin tells the story of military lawyers who encounter a high-level conspiracy while trying to defend their Marine client on a count of murder. The play runs Oct. 13-15, 20-22 and 27-29. Shows are at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. on Sunday.

Tickets are $12 for adults (12 and up), $10 for seniors (55+) and children (11 and under).

Reservations: 770-683-6282 or visit www.newnantheatre.com.

OCTOBER 21, 2006 Breast Cancer Fundraiser — October is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and on Oct. 21, 2006 the Sue Verner Jones Foundation will host a Casino Night fundraiser to benefit local breast cancer patients. The event will begin at 7 p.m. at the Jackson-Pless National Guard Armory and will include a live auction and raffle.

Tickets are $75.

In 2004, Sue Verner Jones of Newnan lost her battle with breast cancer. In her memory, daughters Beth Jones Willems and Susan Jones Paulk established a foundation to raise funds which provide support for local breast cancer patients. The foundation does not fund cancer research, which is already being done by government agencies and groups like the American Cancer Society. Instead, the foundation helps pay for caretaking and personal medical needs of local breast cancer patients.

“This past year we raised over $50,000,” said Willems. “We were able to help two families with pharmaceutical and hospital bills. We also helped a family pay for a bone marrow transplant.”

The foundation would like to hear from other breast cancer patients in need of help. Any breast cancer patient in Coweta County can request an application.

For tickets to Casino Night or an application to receive assistance, call 770-254-1792 or write to The SVJ Foundation, 701 W. Hwy. 16, Newnan, GA 30263.

OCTOBER 31, 2006 TRICK OR TREATING DOWNTOWN — On Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., downtown merchants will pass out Halloween treats to costumed children. Info: 770-253-8283

Want to see your event in our calendar listings? The deadline for submitting events for the November/December 2006 issue of Newnan-Coweta Magazine is Oct. 1, 2006. E-mail information to angela@newnan.com or mail it to “Magazine Calendar,” c/o NewnanCoweta Magazine, P.O. Box 1052, Newnan, GA 30264.

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Highland Park/Spinks, Brown, Durand Realtors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Hollberg’s Fine Furniture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Home Fixology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 HomeLife Communities/Fox Ridge . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Hullabaloo Gifts/My Favorite Things . . . . . . . . . . 41 Kids R Kids, Newnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Kimbles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Lazy Daisy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Lee-King Pharmacy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 The Lighthouse Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Lindsey’s Realtors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Main Street Newnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Milli Sanders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Miss Lila’s Tea Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Moonray Video Productions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Newnan Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Newnan Bridal & Prom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Newnan Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Newnan Utilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 NG Turf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Nick's Pizza Stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Oakhurst Wedding/Special Events . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Panoply Interior Design & Consulting . . . . . . . . . 40 Parks & Mottola Realtors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Patricia Recklett, Veterinarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Peanut Butter Kisses Children’s Boutique . . . . . . . 22 Plaid Rabbit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Publix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Radiation Oncology Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 R. S. Mann, Jr. Jewelers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Scott’s Book Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Sew Exclusive, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Neal Shepard & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Shell Investment Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Simple Treasures Children’s Boutique & Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Skinny Jeans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Southern Crescent Equine Services . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Summit Realty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Ten East Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Times-Herald. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 University of West Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Watts Furniture Galleries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Wesley Woods of Newnan-Peachtree City. . . . . . . 41 1-800-Got Junk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 2 Have & Hold. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

INDEX OF ADVERTISERS

Advantage Realty of Georgia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 All Stars Academy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Angie’s Cleaners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Anna’s Linens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Ansley’s Attic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Applause Salon & Spa. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Banana Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Bank of Coweta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Bank of Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Baptist Retirement Communities of Georgia, Inc./ Palmetto Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 BB&T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Dr. Jay Berger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Boone Landing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Boscoe’s Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Brown’s Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Kelley Brummett, DMD/J.M. Threadgill, DDS Family Dentistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Buffalo Rock/Pepsi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Callaway Gardens/Steeplechase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Canongate Golf Clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Center for Allergy and Asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Centre for Performing & Visual Arts of Coweta County . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Champ’s Clock Shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Chin Chin Chinese Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Christie Hayes & Associates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 The Commonwealth/ United Realty. . . . . . . . . . . 70 Connie’s Antiques and Gifts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 The Costume Shop. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53, 61, 71, 75 The Cotton Pickin’ Fair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 Coweta County Farm Bureau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Coweta Pool & Fireplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Crescent Veterinary Hospital. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Dalton West Carpets, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Dottie Cohen/ Transition & Creativity Coach . . . 17 Elegante Surfaces, L.L.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Exit Realty Unlimited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Family Physicians at SummerGrove . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Fayette Ceramic Tile, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 The Five Star Team, Keller Williams Realty . . . . . 77 Floorco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Functional By Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Jackson T. Giles, M.D./PAPP Clinic. . . . . . . . . . . 37 Harper Group/ReMax Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Heritage Quilts & Fabrics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Heritage Retirement Homes of Peachtree . . . . . . . . 4 The Heritage School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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We loved photographer Bob Fraley’s unusual shot, taken with a wide-angle lens, of this horse at Cedargate Farm in Newnan, where he was shooting our latest “Saddle Up” column on Coweta’s growing horse community. If you have a photo for Last Look, please send it to angela@newnan.com or mail a print to “Last Look,” c/o Newnan-Coweta Magazine, P.O. Box 1052, Newnan, GA 30264.

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PalmettoPark A GEORGIA BAPTIST COMMUNITY

Do the math and sum up the benefits!

We invite you to count the benefits of living at Palmetto Park in the Georgia Baptist Retirement Community of Georgia.

Studio - $1,400 per month 1 Bedroom - $1,650 per month Cottage 1 Bedroom $1,200 per month 2 Bedroom, $1,500 per month

We offer independent or asssisted living and encourage an active lifestyle Expenses PROPERTY TAXES INSURANCE GARBAGE WASTE WATER MORTGAGE OR

Your Home

Baptist Manor

Cottages

Assisted Living

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$1,400-STUDIO $1,650-1 BR 24 HOUR

$1,200-1 BR $1,500-2 BR

$1,700

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YARD CARE HOUSE REPAIR ELECTRICITY APPLIANCE

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$2,500+

$1,400 TO $1,650

$1,400 TO $1,650

$1,700

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