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28 LOCAL HERITAGE

Architect, business owner and Newnan city councilwoman Cynthia Jenkins is racking up credits as a TV and film extra.

22 THE ROLLING STORE In the late 1940s, some enterprising mobile merchants served the buying public by offering wares on their buses known as Rolling Stores.

32 THE ARTISTS BEHIND A HORSEY AFFAIR

They’ll be galloping away soon, but the fiberglass horses of the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society’s “Horsey Affair” have been a huge hit. Meet two of the artists behind them.

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Daniel Stowell grew up in Newnan, but today he works in Springfield, Ill. as editor and director of the papers of the town’s most famous former resident, President Abraham Lincoln.

62 COWETA COOKS As the world’s eyes turn to Great Britain for the Summer Olympics, you might want to try baking that quintessential English treat, the scone.

68 TINA’S TIPS Tell someone to “Go jump in the lake” with our easy tutorial on how to make a custom sign for your lake house.

74 SADDLE UP A Coweta woman hopes to be in the stands at London’s Greenwich Park this summer watching her horse in the equestrian competition.

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56 NEW ORLEANS Enjoy Bourbon Street, blues and beignets on a weekend trip to the Crescent City.

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{ From the Editor }

hat do Graceland in Memphis, Southfork Ranch in Dallas, Buckingham Palace in London and Antique Archaeology in LeClaire, Iowa have in common?

Not much, really, except that all were smaller than expected when I got to see them in person—and yet all remain larger than life in my imagination.

Antique Archaeology, for the uninitiated, is the shop that serves as home base for the hit History Channel show “American Pickers.”

I was more than happy with the prospect of running into some of my very favorite celebrities, professional pickers Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz and their gifted assistant, Danielle Colby-Cushman.

It was my husband, actually, who had the hankering to visit the heartland, and I learned he thought it would be cool to check Iowa off his list of “States I Have Visited” while also getting to see Antique Archaeology.

Alas, none of the gang was there, but it was still fun to see where they work and how they roll.

While the shop was smaller than it looks on TV, I must say it was stacked to the roof with stuff, just as I’d expected. The day we visited, you could have bought a lamp or a cash register or a bicycle or a motorcycle manual.

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ever, wasn’t for sale. It was a small framed photo of Mike and a young bald girl. I don’t know her name but I’ll bet I can guess her story. That photo told me Mike not only took time out of his schedule to meet with a young fan and have his photo taken with her, but he also proudly displayed the photo for others to see.

I’d say the artifacts at Antique Archaeology aren’t the only things there with character.

If you’re standing in front of the shop you can see the Mississippi River. Alex and I ate a light lunch in a restaurant overlooking the river, and afterwards I was able to enjoy a little antiquing.

While we didn’t take time to go there, the town is also home to the Buffalo Bill Museum honoring one of LeClaire’s most famous personalities—before Mike, Frank and Danielle got to town, anyway.

Wherever your summer takes you, may you enjoy picking a new place to visit!

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Cynthia Jenkins, movie extra

By Alex McRae | Photos by Bob Fraley

Being an architect with serious professional credentials in urban design and planning, owning her own construction business and serving as a Newnan city councilwoman and mayor pro-tem is nice, but Cynthia Jenkins is still looking to check one more item off her bucket list.

“I’ve always wanted to be a movie extra that gets to throw a punch in a fight scene,” she says. “I’m an action junkie. I want to drive fast cars and shoot guns. I love it.”

With TV and film production so common in Coweta these days that locals don’t look twice at a big star sipping coffee in a local café or zombies strolling down the street, she may just get her chance.

After appearing as an extra in more than 15 film

and TV productions, Jenkins still hasn’t been cast as a female Chuck Norris, but says she has loved every minute of her time in front of the camera … and behind it.

“I’ve learned a lot and done some fun stuff and met some really great people,” she says. “It’s been a ball.”

Childhood gymnastics lessons prepared her to be a cheerleader at East Coweta High and Georgia Tech and a lifetime of church singing made her a natural for the

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Cynthia Jenkins, at far left in the first row of courtroom seats above, appears as an extra in an episode of Lifetime TV’s hit show “Drop Dead Diva” starring Brooke Elliott, standing (photo courtesy of Lifetime TV). At right, Jenkins is shown in costume while on location as an extra.

Georgia Tech Chorale, but Jenkins was never bitten by the acting bug.

“I was scared I’d forget my lines and mess up,” she says. “I didn’t want that.”

After earning a degree in architecture from Georgia Tech, Jenkins worked in Atlanta for several years before moving back to Newnan to run her own business. She stumbled into show business when a location scout from the Lifetime TV network approached Jenkins about using her kitchen in the film The Wronged Man. Jenkins’ kitchen didn’t make the cut, but the experience introduced her to entertainment business officials and when

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Extras rarely mingle with stars, but during the filming of Jayne

Mansfield’s Car, Jenkins got within shouting distance of Billy Bob Thornton and Kevin Bacon. When Parental

Guidance was filming in Atlanta, stars Billy Crystal and Bette Midler were extra nice to the extras.

producers of Lifetime’s TV smash Drop Dead Diva inquired about Newnan locations, Jenkins visited the show’s permanent set, located in a vacant airplane hangar at Peachtree City’s Falcon Field.

Jenkins was amazed at the setup, which includes a full sound stage, building facades, a courtroom set and complete wardrobe and makeup facilities.

“I saw all that and decided I wanted to be an extra,” she says. “I remember thinking, ‘How glamorous.’”

She quickly learned better.

“Extras do a lot of sitting around,” she says. “There’s nothing glamorous about it. They expect you to be on time and do what you’re told. If you do that, you’ll

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Movie Credits Cynthia Jenkins has found a great way to enjoy the best of two worlds. As a film and TV extra, she can choose when to work, which leaves her plenty of time to run her company, C.E. Jenkins Construction.

In fact, since extras spend so much time sitting around, Jenkins has found she can gets lots of “real” work done while she’s working on her show business skills.

Meanwhile, she has piled up an impressive resume as a TV and movie extra. Her credits to date include:

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Expecting Movie - Audience member The Walking Dead TV Series Evacuee Gamers NBC TV Movie Administrative Assistant, College Faculty The Reluctant Fundamentalist Movie - Princeton Professor/Faculty Member BET’s The Game TV show Upscale Church Member, Black Tie Party Goer Parental Guidance 2013 Movie Airport Patron w/car, Symphony Concert goer Flight Movie 2013 - News Field Producer Until We Meet Again Movie 2012 Hotel Patron Teen Wolf - School Administrator Vampire Diaries - Party guest Single Ladies - Party guest Tyler Perry Studios - For Better Or Worse - Salon worker Steel Magnolias 2012 - Wedding reception guest Necessary Roughness - Football fan, courtroom observer

get called for more work.”

Jenkins has mostly appeared in group scenes but when she showed up wearing one of her mother’s church hats to play a member of a church congregation, producers parked her in the second pew, right behind the stars.

“You could actually tell it was me,” she says. “And my mother loved seeing her hat.”

Extras rarely mingle with stars, but during the filming of Jayne Mansfield’s Car, Jenkins got within shouting distance of Billy Bob Thornton and Kevin Bacon. When Parental Guidance was filming in Atlanta, stars Billy Crystal and Bette Midler were extra nice to the extras.

There are disappointments, too.

When filming Flight in Atlanta, Jerkins never got close to hunky Denzel Washington.

“He wasn’t even in the same building,” she says. “Maybe next time.”

All production companies are first rate, but Jenkins says you can’t top the professionalism shown by Atlanta media giant Tyler Perry, who produces films and TV shows at his Atlanta studios.

“Everything he does is first class,” Jenkins says.

Most of Jenkins’ roles are measured in seconds, but she was onscreen long enough in BET’s series The Game that her Facebook page blew up with admiring comments.

“It was great,” she says. “All these people said ‘we saw you’ and it felt really good.”

So far, there’s just one small problem. Jenkins is known for speaking her mind, but as an extra, she doesn’t get to say a word.

“We pantomime everything,”

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she says. “They dub in the sound later.”

In a recent production, Jenkins played someone directing people through a door and mouthing “Go on in” over and over. When she saw the finished scene, she was shocked.

Her mouth was moving, but someone else was speaking.

“I jumped up and said, ‘Hey, that’s not my voice,’” she says. “Then I came to my senses. But it was a strange feeling.”

As long as occasional extra work doesn’t conflict with running her business, C.E. Jenkins Construction, Jenkins plans to keep her show biz skills sharp. And who knows? One day she might see a call for extras eager to throw a punch in a fight scene.

“Oh, I hope so,” Jenkins says.

“That would be so cool.” NCM

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Wilson Stapler, here and opposite, stands outside his Rolling Store.

Above are Stapler children Dennis, Clifford, Virginia and Janice with Vance Stapler. At right are brothers and Rolling Store owners Wilson and Vance Stapler.

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By Cathy Lee Phillips | Photos by Bob Fraley and courtesy of the Stapler family

t was 1948 when, in a brilliant stroke of marketing, brothers Vance and Wilson Stapler discovered a way to “grow” their business. Each owned a country store at the time—Vance’s on Roscoe Road and Wilson’s on Carrollton Highway. Both offered places for customers to buy food, supplies and enjoy fellowship with their neighbors.

Wilson’s Carrollton Highway location was boosted by hungry railroad workers and

men building nearby Plant Yates.

When the Stapler families began growing, the brothers sought new ways of promoting business.

The Rolling Store was Wilson’s idea. Only a limited number of customers could visit their stores, he reasoned. Why not take their stores to the people? Wilson located an old school bus, removed the seats, and replaced the space with shelves to hold inventory.

Vance found a bus of his own and the brothers began selling to folks in Coweta, Carroll, Fayette and Fulton counties.

The idea was timely.

Fewer people had automobiles, and they were too busy to drive to the store for a few groceries.

Gas was 28 cents per

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The Stapler brothers’ original stores may be long closed, but the buildings are still in evidence today. At top is Vance Stapler’s store on Roscoe Road, and above is Wilson Stapler’s store on Carrollton Highway near Plant Yates.

gallon, so filling a bus tank was nothing compared to what it would cost today. The Rolling Stores became so popular they soon traveled six days each week. After church on Sunday, the brothers traveled to the Atlanta Farmer’s Market for the next week’s inventory. This was the highlight of the week for the children 24 | NEWNAN – COWETA MAGAZINE

because while their parents searched for fresh fruits and vegetables, the kids watched planes taking off and landing at the Atlanta airport. They sat in the car, ate cookies and watched the free show! The brothers purchased produce, packed the cars, and everyone sat atop the potatoes and onions for the ride back to

Coweta County.

Young or old, all Staplers helped with the Rolling Stores. Vance ultimately had six children (Clifford, Charles, Dennis, Glenda, Virginia and Janice) who stocked shelves with canned goods, fresh produce, mullet fish on ice, and hoop cheese. Of course, they also stocked a Southern

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Stapler family members today fondly recall the stores of yesteryear, both the stationary ones and the rolling versions.

Clockwise from left above: Martha and Vance Stapler with Charles Stapler; Wilson Stapler’s daughters Carolyn, Sandra, Helen and Denise; the Rolling Store on Roscoe Road; Helen and Denise Stapler beside one of the Rolling Stores; and Clifford and Dennis Stapler at play.

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Stapler family members recently gathered to share memories of the family’s old Rolling Stores. Above are, seated, Carolyn Stapler Young, Autumn Tenney, Kaylen Tenney and Betty Stapler. Standing are Merlyn Stapler, Jeff Stapler, Helen Stapler Stephenson and Denise Stapler Tenney. Below are Amber Willis, Janice Stapler Sibley and Jean Stapler.

The idea was timely. Fewer people had automobiles, and they were too busy to drive to the store for a few groceries.

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delicacy—RC and Moon Pies.

Wilson’s children (Merlin, Helen, Carolyn, Sandra and Denise) woke early to plug in refrigerators that held meat, butter and kegs of fish. The stores had refrigerators, not refrigeration. When they hit the road, they left their power supply behind. The refrigerator doors were opened as little as possible to maintain a suitable temperature for the whole day. Wilson and Vance were quite ingenious and enjoyed a warm lunch by placing a can of Vienna sausages on the Rolling Store’s engine intake manifold for several miles.

There were other modifications.

Both added a flat area fenced with boards on the back of their rolling store, sort of like a truck body. This was the perfect place to stock kerosene. But in those days of economic hardship, customers often paid by bartering. No one was surprised when Wilson or Vance drove home with live chickens, a cute calf, or a couple of squealing pigs as payment.

Shoplifters struck a few times.

One brother noticed his apple inventory dwindling. Then he realized that one customer preferred standing at the front of the bus calling out her order. While he bagged her groceries, she tossed apples to children waiting outside.

Some apples were eaten on the spot, no doubt, while others became pies or jelly.

In a time when all trade was done in cash, Wilson and Vance were cautious. Luckily, most of their customers were fine folks. Janice Stapler Sibley shared a harrowing event that happened to her father, Vance, as he drove one day just inside Fulton County. A one-legged man he knew as Mr. Dooley began waving his arms until Vance stopped the bus

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and Mr. Dooley climbed aboard.

“Mr. Vance, don’t go on down the road,” Mr. Dooley warned.

“They are waiting on you today.”

Mr. Dooley saved Vance from certain robbery, if not injury or death.

The families worked hard and laughed abundantly. In fact, Wilson’s children still chuckle about “The Money Laundering Incident.”

Seems Brother Wilson returned home one evening and handed the day’s income to his wife, Lois. She hid the cash in a secret place in the back of a kitchen cabinet. As she strained to reach the back of the cabinet that night, she somehow miscalculated. Lois pulled back a gooey hand and realized the cash was sitting in a bottle of syrup. The family spent the rest of the evening “laundering” and drying that day’s cash stash!

In this March 1960 photo, below, Lois Stapler stands in front of Wilson Stapler’s store on Carrollton Highway.

A piece of Americana faded when the Rolling Stores parked for the last time. Shoppers now drive to huge impersonal stores with delis, bakeries and international foods. But today’s superstores will never match the adventure of a can of Viennas heated on a bus engine, washed down by an RC and chased with a Moon Pie! NCM

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An Abraham Lincoln portrait by John Buxton

Daniel Stowell reads Abe Lincoln’s mail Story and photos by W. Winston Skinner aniel Stowell, who grew up in Newnan, says there are thousands of papers written by or to Abraham Lincoln.

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editor and director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. The papers project, which includes papers from Abraham Lincoln’s legal career and other aspects of his life in Illinois, also has a focus on his pivotal presidential years.

Stowell works in a modern building in downtown Springfield, Illinois’ capital. The wide-ranging paper project is under the auspices of the Illinois Historical Society.

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At his desk in Springfield, Ill. is Daniel Stowell, who grew up in Newnan. Stowell now works as editor and director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. He will be back in Newnan this fall to speak to local high school students and give a lecture at Wadsworth Auditorium.

November at the invitation of the Coweta County Civil War Sesquicentennial Committee. He will speak to high school students on the morning of Nov. 4 and give a lecture that evening at 7 at the Wadsworth Auditorium.

Some of the documents that come to Stowell’s attention never were seen by the lanky 16th president.

Attempts at forging Lincoln papers are “a big issue,” he said.

“Bad forgeries are pretty easy to spot. We have to be careful to

discriminate between bad forgeries that are meant to deceive and contemporary copies,” Stowell said.

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century to copy items written by attorneys and public officials.

Stowell gave the example of a telegram. Lincoln would have written his message that would have been copied by a telegraph clerk in a logbook, sent to its destination where

it would again be recorded—and then written a fourth time for delivery. So, there could easily be four legitimate copies of that document, though only one in Lincoln’s actual handwriting.

Joseph Cosey was one of the

most infamous Lincoln forgers.

Working in the 1930s, Cosey crafted legal documents that would appear to be written by Lincoln. “He would make mistakes because he didn’t know the law,” Stowell said.

When Stowell is faced with a

This rocking chair at the Lincoln Heritage Museum in Lincoln, Ill., above left, has the name of Abraham Lincoln’s youngest son, Tad, carved along the back. Outside Daniel Stowell’s office in Springfield, Ill., at right, a large map shows where various Lincoln papers are located. The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville is one of the Georgia institutions with a piece written by the wartime president.

The Lincoln Home in Springfield, Ill., now a National Historic Site, is the only home Abraham Lincoln ever owned.

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document that may not be legitimate, one of the questions he asks himself is, “Does this sound like Lincoln?”

Sometimes documents are created that do not use wording or phrasing that are found in genuine Lincoln works.

Stowell has been studying Lincoln so long, he can often tell in what period in Lincoln’s life a particular document was signed.

Forgers also often fail to follow nuances relating to how Lincoln formed and connected letters.

Stowell talked about a document found in Alabama that was attributed to Lincoln. The document referred to the White House, which was an anachronism. The presidential home was officially the Executive Mansion until Theodore Roosevelt’s day. The Alabama document also referred to a salary for an official of $5,000 in 1863, when the typical person in such a post made only $1,500$2,500 annually.

The document also was dated Jan. 4, 1863—three days after Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Forgers often cannot resist the urge to create a fake that has some connection to epochal moments in Lincoln’s presidency.

While some forgeries are easily dismissed, “there are some where we have a hard time deciding,” Stowell acknowledged.

The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a project that sits on a three-legged stool fiscally. There are state dollars and funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The remainder comes from private foundations and smaller donations.

The total budget for the papers project is about $850,000 annually.

All of the staff, except Stowell, are paid through the state university system.

Stowell’s office has a professorial ambience. Shelves of books line a wall. His computer— multiple pages open to various projects—serves as a reminder that, though Abraham Lincoln oversaw a bloody war that tore America apart 150 years ago, 21st century technology is being used to tell his story.

Just outside the office, a large map shows where various Lincoln papers are located. Many museums around the country— and around the world—have papers written or signed by Lincoln. The Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville is one of the Georgia institutions with a piece written by the wartime president.

The map is dotted with pins of various colors—noting which institutions have granted access to their Lincoln holdings and which doors are currently closed.

The Lincoln papers project will continue for years—in part because the collection of papers written by and to the Great Emancipator still continues.

About a dozen previously unknown items were found earlier this year when Stowell visited a Japanese university, and 24 new legal cases were recently discovered in Pennsylvania. “Those kinds of things still happen,” Stowell said.

Having the office in Springfield—where Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln owned their only home, brought up their sons and socialized with friends—plays its part. Occasionally, someone brings in a letter or document that has been handed down, usually asking, “Is this real?”

Sometimes it is.

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By Alex McRae | Photos by Bob Fraley

umans have been painting pictures of horses since prehistoric artists scribbled images of their four-legged friends on cave walls.

But painting a picture of a horse is one thing. Painting a live horse creates difficulties better addressed in veterinary college than art school. And a group of local artists just learned that even painting a fiberglass statue of a horse presents a unique set of challenges.

This spring, 25 area artists painted original designs on fiberglass horses scheduled to be displayed throughout Newnan through Labor Day weekend.

The results were not just impressive but astonishing, and the horses have drawn huge crowds and rave reviews since they were placed in their downtown pastures.

The project—called “A Horsey Affair”—was created by the NewnanCoweta Historical Society. Each horse was sponsored and the funds raised will be used to build an interactive children’s museum in Newnan. The work was taxing, but the creative rewards were great. Once the paint was dry, the artists admitted they had a ball creating these horses of a decidedly different color.

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paintings are on display around the world. When it comes to depicting planes and pilots, Stewart is an ace, but says he had qualms about painting something featuring four legs instead of two wings.

“I have to admit my wife nudged me into doing it,” Stewart says. “Once I got going, though, it was great.”

Stewart’s design—“Equus Tropicale”—doesn’t feature a barnyard, but a beach. Many of Stewart’s aviation paintings feature World War II dogfights above the lush islands of the South Pacific. He felt the horse theme offered a way to show that setting in a different light.

“I wanted to show the tranquil, serene nature of the tropics,” Stewart says. “This was perfect for that.”

The horse project was also less technically taxing. Stewart says aviation buffs are so meticulous about aircraft, they will count the rivets on a wing Stewart has painted to make sure he got it exactly right.

“This time I could relax and do what I wanted,” he says. “The focus was on having fun instead of being realistic.”

Stewart decided to consider the two sides of the horse as two different canvases, one depicting a sandy beach surrounded by palm trees and the other

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Newnan artist Marc Stewart, long known for his award-winning aviation art, created “Equus Tropicale” for “A Horsey Affair.”

showing a view stretching from beneath waves to a flight of birds soaring above the ocean. He says the most difficult aspect of the work was keeping all the elements in the proper relationship to each other and the horse.

He is satisfied he pulled it off, despite the tight deadline.

“They gave us two months and I used every minute,” he says. “But I had a ball. I’m happy with the way it turned out.”

Corinne Galla, owner of Farrago Gallery, says she wasn’t fazed at the notion of painting a horse. In fact, it was something of a dream come true.

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Artist Corinne Galla painted “Forever Mine,” one of the horses in “A Horsey Affair,” to recall a favorite childhood carousel horse.

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“I just loved those carousel ponies,” she says. “I loved the bright colors and wonderful designs and the lights and colors. It is one of my favorite memories.”

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outdoor elements, Galla hesitated, but not for long.

“I knew it would be a little different,” she says. “But I knew I could do it and I knew this was an opportunity I wouldn’t miss for anything.”

Galla’s entry—a dappled gray pony titled “Forever Mine”—reminds her of a favorite childhood carousel horse. But the unique Galla style gives this horse a personality all its

own, from the colorful flowers that ride easily down the horse’s neck to the tassels and spangles dangling from the tack gear, down to Galla’s favorite equestrian touch.

“For some reason, I decided to do a cheetah-print blanket,” she says. “I was afraid it wouldn’t fit with anything else, but once it was done, I thought it was the perfect touch. It really set everything else off.”

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The Garden Door in Door County, Wisconsin Story and photos by Angela McRae

hile visiting family in Wisconsin last summer, my husband and I paid our first visit to the state’s famous Door County area. We whiled away some pleasant shopping hours in Sturgeon Bay. We enjoyed breakfast at Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant in Sister Bay with its famous goats on the roof. We saw some outof-the-way lighthouses and learned that Door County is a mecca for cherry lovers. And we satisfied our curiosity about Wisconsin’s famous Fish Boils at dinner one evening by witnessing the 36 | NEWNAN – COWETA MAGAZINE

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massive flames and cries of “Boilover!” in Fish Creek.

The most delightful find of the trip for me, though, was a quiet little discovery a visitor easily might have overlooked. The Garden Door, a public display garden created by the Door County Master Gardeners Association, Inc., just happened to be

July temperatures were no problem for the roses, above, growing at the Garden Door in Door County, Wisc. last year.

At right and below are views from the garden kaleidoscope stationed at the public display garden’s entrance.

listed on a tourist brochure. We almost missed the unassuming entrance at the University of Wisconsin’s Peninsular Agricultural Research Station, but I am so grateful we found our way there.

Upon entering, we saw the large garden kaleidoscope created by Door County artist Bob Anderson.

Traditional kaleidoscopes come with

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The Fairy Garden

Door County artist Bob Anderson created this garden kaleidoscope which greets visitors to the Garden Door, a public display garden in Door County, Wisconsin.

‘Morning Magic’ roses

an “object chamber” which usually contains small, sparkly things the viewer then sees in multiple while rotating the case. With this garden kaleidoscope, the object chamber has an open view and is aimed at a giant container full of live flowers. Visitors can look through the lenses on the kaleidoscope and see an ever-changing view of the flowers right before them—sedums and coneflowers at the time we visited.

The Garden Door is really multiple gardens within a garden. I got lots of inspiration from visiting the Knot Quite Garden, their take on the Elizabethan

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The Garden Door is a public display garden created by the Door County Master Gardeners Association, Inc., in Door County, Wisconsin. Clockwise from left above are a rustic gazebo; the Butterfly Garden; the Spiral Herb Garden; and the Edible Herb Garden.

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knot garden, and the Spiral Herb Garden. There was also an Edible Herb Garden leading up to a rustic gazebo— all immaculately maintained. Near these features was a Human Sundial which lets you stand there and “read� the time by becoming a bit of a clock yourself, and it was fun to use. (For my husband, at least. I was too busy oohing and aahing over the plants!)

Helpfully, the Door County Master Gardeners had done a masterful job of labeling their plantings. I snapped lots of photos of plant names so that, when I got back home, I wouldn’t forget that I had seen a Mock Orange, or those lovely blush pink ‘Morning Magic’ roses, a new rose from the breeders of the popular Knockout roses.

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Door County Fish Boils If you travel to Door County, the one culinary tradition you do not want to miss is the Fish Boil.

Popular with the Scandinavian populations, the Fish Boil begins when local fishermen catch Lake Michigan Whitefish, cutting the fish into chunks (photo 1) and cooking them in a large pot of boiling water with red potatoes (and sometimes onions).

The cooking of the fish is quite a production, as the cook stokes the flames beneath a cast-iron kettle (photo 2) and lowers into it a wire basket containing the fish. When the fish oils rise to the top, the cook does something no home cook will ever want to try: he throws kerosene on the flames and cries out, “Boilover!” (photo 3).

The increased flames cause the oils to spill over the sides of the pot (photo 4), and the fish is done (photo 5).

Fish Boils (this one is at Pelletier’s in Fish Creek) are popular attractions in the area, and if you’re visiting Door County you’ll see listings for them in all the brochures. Just be sure to arrive early so you can get photos of the dramatic “Boilover!” moment before you enjoy your dinner.

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The Garden Door’s Butterfly Garden featured metal sculptures and a mosaic bench appropriate to that theme, and the Pond Water Garden provided the soft trickle of water that is always such a pleasant, welcome sound in any garden.

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The view above is from the Charles Bridge, a popular tourist spot in Prague. At right, from top, are a mural and some of the unique architectural features that are a highlight of a visit to Prague.

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We took the subway to our hotel near the Old Town Square. The Arcadia Residence was to be our base of operations for the rest of the week. Our room was more of an apartment, and was incredibly reasonable. We received fantastic service and dealt directly with the owner.

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A nighttime view of Tyn Church in Prague, Czech Republic

including a statue of Stalin and a section of the Berlin Wall.

Afterward we wandered a bit more. We bought marionettes from a shop far from the tourist areas.

Prague is known for its marionettes, and we got a pair of great ones that are hand carved from Linden wood.

If you love the decorative arts, you’ll love Prague. The buildings are covered in murals and sculptures of various styles. There are excellent examples of High Gothic, Baroque and Art Nouveau. I am a great lover of Art Nouveau, so you can imagine my delight when we rounded a corner and found the Municipal House. It is a confection of Nouveau wonderfulness. I was in heaven!

Then it was off to Prague Castle.

The New Castle Steps aren’t all that steep, but there are 280 of them so that is something to consider before you decide to tackle them. The

Sights in Prague, clockwise from left, above: Mucha glass, silver cherubim in St. Vitus Cathedral, Wenceslas Chapel, and two views of the Municipal Building.

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centerpiece is St. Vitus Cathedral, which is incredibly ornate in the High Gothic style. Inside is where the real gems are—stained glass designed by Mucha, St. Wenceslas Chapel, and an incredible mausoleum surrounded by silver angels and cherubs.

That evening we saw a marionette version of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. It was incredibly reasonable and we thoroughly enjoyed it.

We spent our last day in the Jewish Quarter. We toured the OldNew Synagogue where the legend of the Golem (a monster said to have been created to protect the Jews from their enemies) originated. This synagogue was built in the Gothic era, but looks very different from the usual Gothic architecture. The façade reminded me of flames. The interior is very spare, which is notable in a city of wedding cake-like buildings.

There is a newer synagogue, which contained some of the most incredible decorative painting that I have ever seen. There is also a great memorial to the Holocaust victims.

If you decide to visit Prague there is no need to learn to speak or read Czech. Most everyone speaks English and speaks it well. We were also pleased to discover that the dollar went a long way. If you love art and architecture, Prague is a wonderland. Its buildings are encrusted in sculpture, murals and mosaics. If you require pampering, there is a fabulous spa at the Mandarin Hotel.

Since it is suggested that you avoid cabs, we managed all our adventures on foot and were none the worse for wear. When it was time to leave for the airport, our hotelier was kind enough to hire a car. I arrived in Prague a skeptic, and when I left I was in love with the city. I hope I get to go back one day! NCM

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f relaxation among natural wonders is your highest criterion for a vacation, Hawaii’s oldest island is an exceptional choice. With majestic cliffs, a colorful canyon, lush vegetation and gloriously blazing sunsets, Kauai is a potpourri of visual fascination.

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A scenic view at the resort in Kauai

South Pacific, Blue Hawaii, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Lord of the Flies, Jurassic Park, Avatar and Soul Surfer.

When my wife and I visited, we opted to stay on the sunnier south tip of the island at the Grand Hyatt Resort. With 50 acres overlooking the

sea, the hotel offers breathtaking landscapes, spacious accommodations and outstanding restaurants.

Dondero’s has the best Italian food on the island, while Tidepools features creative seafood cuisine which you enjoy while sitting in huts just above

the water. We were celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary, and the delicious dining during those two evenings significantly enhanced our romantic getaway.

Now let’s turn to our three favorite attractions.

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The rugged coastline

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Waimea Canyon Mark Twain is credited with describing this gaping gulch as the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific,” and the reddish lava beds are astounding.

The dimensions for the Kauai version are 12 miles long, 3,567 feet deep, but only 1 mile wide.

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rise as high as 4,000 feet above sea level, and produce an intriguing combination of majesty and danger. This site can be observed only by air or water, and we enjoyed both views.

We also witnessed the rugged coastline during a four-hour sunset dinner cruise with Captain Andy’s Sailing Adventures.

Though the 55-foot catamaran experienced more bounce than I liked while heading north at 22 knots, it was certainly a fun excursion.

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Na Aina Kai Botanical Gardens and Sculpture Park The flights back to the mainland from Kauai are in the evening, so travelers have many hours after hotel checkout for one or more activities.

We opted to drive to a rural farming community on the North Shore on our last day to see these highlyacclaimed gardens.

It had rained there earlier in the day, but shortly after we arrived the clouds turned to sunshine and we proceeded with the scheduled twohour tour. Fortunately for us, no one else ventured forth and we had the friendly guide to ourselves.

Opened to the public in 1999 by Joyce and Ed Doty, these 232 acres are absolutely magical. There you find waterfalls, pools, arbors, gazebos, a maze, a lagoon with spouting fountains, a Japanese teahouse,

Tidepools seafood restaurant offers creative cuisine which you enjoy while seated in huts just above the water.

spectacular birds, flowers, plants and trees, and a path along a bubbling stream to the ocean. Even people who have little interest in gardens (notice my raised hand) would like this remarkable environment. As the sign indicates, sculptures (around 90 of them) are cleverly placed throughout the beautiful grounds to delight both adults and children.

Kauai is a natural paradise. You can view emerald valleys, jagged

cliffs, tropical rainforests, cascading waterfalls and much more. The temperature is almost always between 75 and 85 degrees, and the people we encountered were warm and gracious. We now understand why some of our friends prefer the northernmost Hawaiian island to the others, and we heartily recommend the Garden Isle to everyone.

Aloha. NCM

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ake Pontchartrain swallows the first sliver of sun as the car’s wheels thump-thump onto the I-10 Twin Span Bridge. In five miles when the wheels thump-thump off the bridge, I’ll be in New Orleans. A friend invited me to drive down for the weekend. She’s a librarian and here for the American Library Association’s Conference. It’s the second time in five years the conference has been held here. Curious to learn what it is about the city that lured 25,000 bookworms back, I hopped in the car with no itinerary. I’d explore the city with fresh eyes, eating when hungry, drinking when thirsty, and sleeping when necessary. Since this is

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my first trip to the Crescent City and the librarians know this town, I’d watch them from a distance, like the host of a wildlife documentary, observing their eating, shopping and playing habits.

I maneuver the car through the French Quarter’s narrow cobblestone streets looking for Royal Street and the hotel where my friend is staying.

When I arrive, we exchange hellos and hugs then hit the streets looking for food. We follow a small pack of librarians into the Oceana Grill. Like a required reading list, New Orleans has a required eating list. Sure it feels clichÊd, but I can’t go back to Georgia without stuffing myself with po’ boys, blackened redfish, gumbo and beignets. So, I choose from seven different po’ boys on the menu, ordering one with oysters, and a Dixie beer.

After dinner, we look for a place to catch up and listen to music.

Hearing horns blow in from the west, we walk to the corner of Bourbon Street and Canal Street to find a band of street musicians circled by a crowd. Some have familiar brass instruments while others in the band drum five-gallon buckets, giving old jazz standards an inimitable sound. I throw a couple of bucks in the tip box, then we walk to Bourbon Street Blues Company, find a table, and listen to pulsing threechord songs until late in the evening.

The next morning, I wake up early with beignets on the brain and hustle to find them. At CafĂŠ Beignet, a line of people spills out the door and onto the sidewalk. Most are carrying American Library Association tote bags, so I get in line.

Waiting in line, I realize this is one of

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It’s not an exaggeration. I recognize the librarian ahead of me in line. She was still dancing to jazz music on Bourbon Street last night when I went back to the hotel, and not only did she beat me to breakfast, she’s showered and put together. I’m not.

Minutes later, I’m downing black coffee and deep-fried pastries blanketed in powdered sugar.

After breakfast, I explore the French Quarter on foot, taking in the neighborhood’s French influence and southern charm. Plants hang in baskets from wrought iron balconies and drip onto the sidewalk from an early-morning watering as I make my way to St. Louis Cathedral, the oldest continually operating cathedral in the United States. Next door, the Louisiana Purchase transfer ceremony took place at The Cabildo, which

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now houses the Louisiana State Museum. Inside, the Living with Hurricanes exhibit uses eyewitness accounts and personal stories to document the aftermath of Katrina and resilient spirit of those who experienced it. The Cabildo faces Jackson Square, the heart of the French Quarter, where kids play tag while their parents sit together on park benches, and artists sell their masterpieces to couples strolling through. The Square’s name honors Andrew Jackson, who defeated the British here in the last battle of the war of 1812 before becoming President. The statue of him on horseback that stands in the center of the square is identical to the one in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square and another outside the Tennessee Capitol Building in Nashville.

When hunger calls, I keep an eye out for those librarian tote bags. I find a line of them at the Gumbo Shop on Saint Peter Street. It’s the place to go for Creole food. Their award-winning gumbo is a staple in the French Quarter. I decide on the seafood okra gumbo, and it doesn’t disappoint. When my food settles, I saunter to meet my friend for another late night on Bourbon Street.

My last morning in town, I follow a vast migration of librarians out of New Orleans, and I know now why they came back, bringing their families and friends. There’s so much to see and do here. It can’t be done in a weekend. I came here without a plan or list of attractions to see, but when the car’s wheels thump-thump onto the Twin Span heading east, the restaurants, neighborhoods and museums I didn’t see flash in my mind—Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Garden District, Audubon Park—creating a list for when I come back. NCM

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do not remember when I could not read. Because my father read voraciously, especially newspapers, I recall sitting quietly in his lap as he carefully browsed The Atlanta Constitution. To avoid boredom, I think I began to attach words with pictures.

Occasionally, I would interrupt his reading to ask him to identify a word. Once I began to read independently, I began my travels in time and place.

Working my way through fairy tales and mythology, I graduated to Nancy Drew mysteries and small blue biographies, just inside the door of my public library in Monroe, Georgia, whose librarians became dear friends as they guided my choices and preferences.

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I wandered the dark moors with Lorna Doone, surreptitiously visited the ruins of Manderley, and broke apart scones in out of the way teashops.

My favorite settings were in the British Isles. In my childish fantasies, I wandered the dark moors with

Lorna Doone, surreptitiously visited the ruins of Manderley, and broke apart scones in out of the way teashops. Of all the travels I coveted, those of that assemblage held sway.

About 25 years ago, my fellow teacher at Monroe High, Julie Heggoy, queried, “How would you like to spend a few weeks in England; I have a time share in the Cotswolds?” My answer was an exuberant, “Yes!” I called my good friend in Newnan, the late Cap Goodrum, for travel advice since I was to meet Julie and her relatives in England after they completed her student-centered tour of Italy. “Go to Tewkesbury, Amelia; then you can meet your friends nearby.” I boarded my flight in Atlanta and was bumped to First Class, courtesy of former student Carter Campbell, who worked at

Delta at the time.

After landing at Heathrow, I headed for Paddington Station and changed trains three times, a truly remarkable feat as direction is my Waterloo. Taking a cab to Tewkesbury, I settled in at the centuries old Bell Hotel, which Cap had recommended. The floors were uneven, the hallways a maze rather than commonsensical, the beds soft, just as I had expected. England does not just raze structures because they are old, in need of an update. Roads are expected to take hedgerows into account, not cars.

Fearful of venturing too far alone, I had my first tea next door, where a gentleman enjoyed his repast with his dog at his feet, inside, quite a contrast to my Georgia dining habits. I ordered a toasted tea cake along with my tea and looked out at

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The next two weeks found our group touring the sites around us: Chichester Cathedral for headstone rubbings, the Roman influences in Bath, Stonehenge, even a trip to Wales. Knowing my penchant for English poets, my friend Julie chose Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey ruins and a trip to the Isle of Wight where Tennyson spent final years; we dined at his seaside home.

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who like our biscuits piping hot, so do the English enjoy their scones, augmented with butter and jam.

Brenda and I had a lovely night in London before the flight home; however, I had left my heart in the countryside with its thatched cottages, club-like pubs and small tearooms.

Upon my return home, even today, I still enjoy a cup of hot tea many afternoons, especially in winter.

Occasionally, I make scones, especially when my niece Holly Mitchell and her daughter of seven Callie come by for a visit with Aunt Amelia. Callie has a strong sweet tooth, so her mother monitors that inclination. There are no restrictions, however, when she is at my tea table.

To my great delight Callie likes what the British call “fruited” scones to contain the dried variety.

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In a large mixing bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cinnamon and turn over well. With fingertips or a pastry cutter, add butter and shortening and work until the mixture resembles coarse meal. In a separate bowl, stir cream and egg together.

Stir in fruit (cranberries, currants, golden raisins, cherries or any other of your choosing) and nuts (hazelnuts, almonds, walnuts or pecans) with the flour mixture and then the liquids. Knead the dough on a floured surface and roll to 3/4 inch.

Cut with a scone or biscuit cutter, brush with additional cream, and sprinkle with sugar. Place on a greased baking sheet and bake at 375 degrees for 15-18 minutes until golden brown. Approximately a dozen scones result.

Sometimes Callie and I visit Scott’s Bookstore to purchase the chapter books she favors reading at this point. We come home, travel upstairs to my small den and begin reading, she on the daybed, I in the chair next to her while my cat Mary Lou lies within petting distance of us both.

I do not know where Callie’s imagination takes her in late afternoons; I can only wish that she travels to unseen places as I did at her age. Somewhere, some day, I trust she sits in a small café and realizes, as I did in Tewkesbury, decades ago, dreams do come true. NCM

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{ Tina’s Tips}

Cowetan Tina Neely enjoys lake views like this one at Lake Harding in Hamilton, Georgia.

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Written and photographed by Tina Neely

n my life I have a new love, a love that completely consumes my time, my mind and my heart. What is this new love? It is Pinterest, and it’s wonderful!

Pinterest (www.pinterest.com) is a wonderful website filled with craft ideas, recipes, fashion tips, home décor photos, funny cartoons and any and everything else you can imagine. In any spare time I have, I am there.

I am determined not to be one of those people who just pins ideas all day long with the intention of doing something but then that never happens. I am making the crafts, cooking the recipes and wearing the outfits I find.

Another love that has completely consumed my life is the lake house. It’s a “renewing and redoing” project with a very strict, basically non-existent budget, and that’s where the love of Pinterest has come in handy! I have painted artwork on plywood, stenciled and made fabulous draperies from burlap, put down the most amazing floor out of brown paper bags, and even helped my Daddy make the coolest beds ever out of reclaimed wood. I love for things to be beautiful and not cost a lot of money.

The project that started it all, one I’ve already had to tell so many friends how to make, is the “Go Jump in the Lake” sign. It was painted on a piece of old plywood I found propped up on the porch. So simple, this project takes just a couple of hours. You can paint whatever saying you want and save yourself a hundred dollars or more on this piece!

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Soon the lake house will be done (well, the inside anyway) and we can just enjoy the

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Type the words, print them full-size and place them on your board. If they’re not big enough, resize and print again. My sign was huge, so I used a font size of 625 points for the “Lake” part of my sign, which meant one letter per 8-1/2 x 11 sheet of paper.

Step 5: Arrange words on sign exactly where you want them painted.

Step 1: Find your “canvas.”

I used an old piece of plywood, but I’ve used cabinet doors from the Habitat for Humanity ReStore, table tops, and I am about to use the risers on the stairs at the lake. Whatever your canvas of choice, make sure it’s in good shape, not rotting, and is cut the size you want it before you start.

Step 2: Clean your wood and prime it.

This is the most important step in the whole process.

When it comes time to sand and “distress” your piece at the end, you’ll see why primer is so important. I use a basic white paint primer and cover the entire board, including the sides. Paint one good coat with a sponge brush and let it dry.

Step 3: Paint your wood the color of your choice.

For this sign I used a barn red indoor/outdoor house paint that was left over from shutters we had. For the tabletop and for the “Welcome to the Lake” sign, I used the basic acrylic craft paint you find at any craft store for about 50 cents a bottle. I painted two coats of the color, letting it dry between coats. If it doesn’t completely cover all the white primer due to imperfections in the wood, that’s OK. It’ll give the finished project more character.

Step 4: Decide on the wording.

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After you have figured out the correct sizing and printed your words, place them on your “canvas” and tape them down with scotch or masking tape. Use a ruler to make sure the words are straight and positioned correctly.

Step 6: Place carbon paper under printouts and trace lettering onto the wood with a pen.

Basic blue carbon paper from the office supply store is what I used. It can be used and reused several times, no need for a new sheet for each project. It also comes in black, and white graphite paper works well if you are painting a very dark color for your sign.

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OLYMPIC DREAMS Coweta’s Melissa Hyde hoping one of her horses will compete in 2012 Summer Games in London

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By Martha A. Woodham | Photos by Bob Fraley and courtesy of Melissa Hyde

hen the equestrian competition at the 2012 Olympic Games begins on July 28, part-time Coweta County resident Melissa Hyde is hoping to be in the stands at Greenwich Park overlooking the London skyline.

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Hyde’s off-the-track Thoroughbred, Can’t Fire Me, is on the list of equine Olympic hopefuls as the mount of rider Becky Holder, a veteran member of the United States Eventing Team who competed at the 2008 Olympics.

Hyde, who splits her time between her Moreland farm and her

Melissa Hyde rides Sienna, above and at top, and at right spends some time at her farm in Moreland.

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home in Wyoming, originally planned to buy “Teddy,” as the gray gelding is called, to ride herself. But Holder, a good friend and Hyde’s riding coach, saw something special in the 13-year-old horse, a spark of greatness that could take him to the international competition. Holder, who has a farm in south Fulton County, put together a syndicate that includes Hyde to purchase and campaign Teddy.

For the past two years, Teddy has been on the fast track to make the U.S. Eventing Team, which will be announced on July 9. Hyde is keeping her fingers crossed that Teddy and Holder will be among the six horse-andrider pairs picked to represent the USA at the London Games.

Hyde grew up in Tucker and began riding lessons at Vogt Riding Academy, which has been an Atlanta institution among equestrians since 1954. The owners, the late Joe and Theresa Vogt, were from Germany and had been trained in classical dressage and horsemanship.

Hyde got the basics of correct riding during her lessons at Vogt, but she also was a 4-H kid, participating in horse care activities and drill teams with the DeKalb County club. “I loved it, loved it,” Hyde says, a smile lighting her face as she recalled those carefree days.

But Hyde’s first horse, an untrained 2-year-old Thoroughbred bought by Hyde’s mother, almost derailed her riding career. Hyde’s mother didn’t know that a green horse and a green rider are not a good match: an untrained rider needs a “packer,” a horse who will do just about anything willingly and safely for his rider.

After Hyde received a concussion in a fall, the highstrung Thoroughbred was replaced by the appropriately named Victor, a kid-safe packer that Hyde could ride bareback, even jumping without the support of a saddle and stirrups.

“Vic took great care of me,” she recalls. “He would jump anything I put in front of him.”

While in high school, Hyde began showing horses on the hunter-jumper circuit, winning classes as an equitation rider.

As a college student in Virginia, Hyde grew bored with the slow pace of hunter shows. She got hooked on the adrenaline-pumping excitement of eventing, where a horse and rider are tested galloping at speed over solid obstacles, ditches and banks. That sport led her back to Georgia. She worked for Carl Bouckaert, a noted businessman and horseman who was building an eventing business at his Chatsworth Farm. Hyde broke young horses and started their training for Bouckaert while

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balancing studies at Georgia State University. The weekends were reserved for event competitions throughout the Southeast.

Her next step was going out on her own.

“I moved to Alpharetta to start my own business training, boarding and importing horses,” she says.

She named her operations Starting Point Farm, because it was the starting point of successful careers for the young horses she rode.

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horses died in the fire, set by an arsonist, but the destruction of her business left Hyde deep in debt. She took the economics degree she had just earned at Georgia State and went to work, eventually paying off the debt. She married and moved to Virginia, where she established another horse farm and trained with

Melissa Hyde talks with Aubrey Dunkerton, at right, about all the changes to be made to the property. Above, Aubrey rides Adelpi.

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Olympic riders Bruce Davidson and Phyllis Dawson.

An amicable divorce put her on the road back to Georgia—and eventually to Coweta County. She and her two sons, now 16 and 18, moved to Suwanee to be close to her mother and her siblings. She leased a farm and hunted with Shakerag Hounds when she wasn’t competing. Bouckaert, a master of Bear Creek Hounds, introduced Hyde to Hal and Linda Barry, and Hyde started hauling her horses to Coweta to hunt on their Moreland farm.

As Suwanee and north metro Atlanta became more congested and crowded with subdivisions, the lure of Coweta’s rural beauty—and good coyote chasing—became more appealing. In September, she bought an 80-acre farm just down the road from the Barrys and immediately became a supportive Bear Creek Hounds member. Now she is branching out, getting involved in projects designed to breathe new life into Moreland. She also is building a crosscountry course at Starting Point Farm and plans to host horse trials and clinics.

“I don’t want boarders, but I like having people around,” Hyde says. “I want to have activities for the 4-H and for pony clubs.”

Also on her schedule are more lessons with Holder, competing on a regular basis and starting a sport horse breeding program. Another goal is to find more horses for Holder to compete at the highest levels. But for now, Hyde has booked a ticket to London—and is keeping her fingers crossed. NCM

The Olympics in London Two hundred horses and riders have qualified for the 2012 Olympics and will be vying for just six gold medals in team and individual competitions.

The United States will send horses and riders to compete in all three of the equestrian disciplines at the 2012 Games: dressage, show Becky Holder and jumping and eventing.

“Can’t Fire Me” Eventing is considered to be an equine triathlon with three phases: dressage, show jumping and cross-country jumping.

The competition will be held at one of the city’s most dramatic venues, Greenwich Park, the city’s oldest royal park established in 1433. The spectacular cross-country course consists of 42 obstacles overlooking the Thames River and the London skyline. The dressage arena is sited in front of the elegant Queen’s House. NCM

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The Healing

By Jonathan Odell Nan A. Talese, $26 Reviewed by Holly Jones A pregnant woman and her young daughter appear on an elderly woman’s doorstep. The pregnant woman dies, leaving the old woman alone with the little girl who is trembling and mute with fear.

What does the old woman do? She tells the girl stories.

Jonathan Odell’s novel The Healing is about a woman who calls herself Gran Gran. She’s been a midwife and a healer most of her life, and the pregnant woman came to her for help. Unfortunately, the woman was beyond Gran Gran’s help, and now the little girl Violet is left traumatized and alone. The only thing Gran Gran knows to do is talk to the girl–telling stories of the past.

Gran Gran’s story begins in 1847 when another young girl is taken from her mother. This child is a slave, ripped from her mother’s arms and brought up in the plantation house. The slave girl, Granada, believes she’s important because the plantation’s mistress dresses Granada in silks and satins from time to time. But the fancy dresses belonged to the mistress’s dead daughter and are kept locked

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in a wardrobe.

The plantation master is horrified seeing Granada dressed up in his dead daughter’s clothes; so when he brings a new slave to the plantation, a “doctor woman,” he gives her Granada as an apprentice.

Granada is devastated to be kicked out of the main house. She tries sneaking back in, to plead her case with her mistress. But the master has forbidden everyone from letting Granada back in the house.

Besides, Polly Shine, the new healing woman, insists Granada has “the gift.”

At first, Granada refuses to believe anything Polly says. After all, the other slaves believe Polly is a “conjure woman,” that she knows “hoodoo.” But there is something about Polly that fascinates Granada.

Polly healed dozens of slaves near dying in the fields. She can help both mother and baby survive even the most difficult birth. She cures snakebite and seems to heal–or at least calm–the sickest people merely by whispering in their ear. Polly won’t tell Granada what she’s whispering, or how she heals the sick until Granada will “remember your own self who you are.”

And as the days go by, Granada does listen to Polly just as Violet listens to Gran Gran. Slowly, these girls with parallel lives do remember who they are and The Healing begins.

Hank Hung the Moon

By Rheta Grimsley Johnson NewSouth Books, $24.95 Reviewed by Holly Jones Think about the first time you heard Hank Williams Sr.’s voice. Go ahead, close your eyes and remember that high, lonesome voice singing about love and heartache.

Do you hear him?

Hopefully, you’ve opened your eyes by now and are still reading. But think about Hank Williams Sr. and that first song you heard. What was it – “Cold, Cold Heart,” “Hey Good Lookin’,” “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” “Honky Tonk Blues”?

Rheta Grimsley Johnson believes

everyone has a “Hank” moment. It usually happens the first time a person hears Hank, but she believes that Hank Williams Sr. can–and does–influence all aspects of life.

So she has written a book about her musical hero. It is entitled Hank Hung the Moon and Warmed our Cold, Cold Hearts.

In fact, the book is not so much about the life of the country superstar as it is about the influence Hank or his music has had on people’s lives–especially hers.

Each chapter is like a short story about a person or event that touched Johnson’s life through Hank Williams’ music. It might be about the British Invasion vs. Hank’s music, or Johnson’s own music lessons as a child. Many chapters discuss Johnson’s second husband Don Grierson. Grierson and his first wife Pat actually began a book about Hank Williams, but both died before doing more than research. Johnson tells the story of how both Griersons loved Hank and her book was born from their research.

Another chapter highlights impersonator Hugh Harris and the life he built playing Hank Williams. Harris talks about the first time he sang a Hank Williams song, his love of Hank’s music, and how he came to play with members of Hank’s own band.

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{ Index Johnson interviews Hank’s friends, like Kitty Wells who describes Hank as “a fun-loving, laughing man when he was sober.” Brack Schuffert “helped Hank start his first band.” When Hank became famous he begged Brack to come on the road. Brack refused, staying home to take care of his family and drive a truck.

Rheta Grimsley Johnson claims she “can’t carry a tune in a bucket,” but “that never stopped me from trying.” And she admits that maybe Hank Williams Sr. hasn’t always been cool, but that hasn’t stopped her from loving him. For Johnson, Hank wrote life; and with Hank Hung the Moon, Johnson has written her hero a love song.

The World of Department Stores

By Jan Whitaker Vendome Press, $60 Reviewed by Angela McRae For many travelers, exploring a new city often means checking out the new shopping venues that await. It’s why tourists make a beeline to department stores such as Harrods in London, the Bon Marché in Paris and Seibu in Tokyo.

In her new book The World of Department Stores, retail historian Jan Whitaker takes shoppers and armchairshoppers on a terrific romp across the globe as she explores both the history and long-lasting influence of these stores.

For the department store to develop, Whitaker says, three factors had to be present—urbanization, mass transportation and mass production—and all working together.

Paris’ Bon Marché is widely regarded as the world’s first true department store, dating from about 1852. In the U.S., she says, the first three department stores were Wanamaker’s in Philadelphia, Macy’s in New York and Jordan Marsh in Boston. The early department store has been compared to a museum, she says, because “it introduced people to the fine arts as well as to a range of unfamiliar ideas and styles. Its cultural impact was especially strong in the nineteenth century, when museums had little idea of how to present art and artifacts to the public.”

Whitaker notes that “under the

guidance of department stores, the modern consumer began to evolve.” Those who had never visited a bookstore, for instance, began to buy books.

Some of the information in this book is just fun to know, such as which store was first to hold a white sale (The Bon Marché, appropriately enough).

And where did Germany’s Leonhard Tietz store acquire much of its merchandise in 1907? The U.S.!

Department store window trimming, it turns out, was once such an important profession that one fellow founded a national association for such tradesmen.

He wrote a book about this work, The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows and Interiors, but you probably know the author, L. Frank Baum, for another book, his Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Whitaker covers department store history, retail goods, the structures themselves, and store marketing and publicity efforts. Photos and illustrations in the large book (almost 10 x 13 inches) are fascinating, and some of them run two pages, to dazzling effect. You may find yourself staring off into space wondering what it was like to be among those wellheeled ladies strolling into Chicago’s Marshall Field in a photo from 1910.

Whether or not you’re planning a trip abroad anytime soon, expect to develop a fine case of retail wanderlust while reading this lovely book. NCM

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{ I am Coweta }

Paula Smith

By Nichole Golden | Photo by Bob Fraley Former educator Paula Smith helps other teachers to learn about retirement and plan for a comfortable one. Smith is the CEO and founder of ValuTeachers, headquartered in downtown Newnan. She is the mother of two grown children and also of an active six-year-old involved in the community.

How long have you lived in Coweta?

I moved to Coweta County in 1969 from Athens where I taught early childhood education at the University of Georgia.

I lived in Coweta County from 1969 to 1979 and was a college professor at West Georgia in early childhood education.

After 15 years in early childhood education, I made a career change and moved from Coweta County to start my new career in retirement services. After founding ValuTeachers, a company that serves school employees with retirement education and savings solutions, I relocated our company headquarters, as well as my residence, to Newnan in 1993.

Tell us about your educational background.

I started my advanced education at the University of Kentucky, and I completed my master’s degree at the University of Georgia. I entered the doctoral program for early childhood education at the University of Georgia, and I completed my coursework at Auburn University to satisfy a non-residency requirement. During my career in higher education, it was a requirement to complete your doctoral degree outside of your state university system to retain your teaching position within the University of Georgia System.

I was a pioneer in America’s Early Childhood Education Initiative. Public school Kindergarten was approved by Congress without having certified professionals, qualified curriculum or appropriate standards. I worked with key leaders in the U.S. to write curriculum and create standards for providing certification to teachers to educate Kindergarteners.

What is your job at ValuTeachers and what does it entail?

ValuTeachers helps thousands of school employees at all levels build retirement savings in over 5,000 school districts across the United States. It trains and develops former and retired educators to teach retirement concepts and solutions to school employees. I am responsible for all areas relating to the organization and growth of our company. My duties include establishing and maintaining relationships with school systems, recruiting and training retirement specialists, and monitoring and supporting the retirement accounts of our many thousands of clients.

What are your hobbies?

My hobbies are family outings, travel and history.

What do you enjoy about life in Coweta?

I enjoy the cultural events, the parks, the interfaith community and architecture. NCM

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