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We’re Just A Heartbeat Away.

For more than a century, we have served the healthcare needs of Newnan and Coweta County. We are proud to continue our tradition of quality medical care for the next generation with up-to-date technology and a staff who really cares.

We’ll be right here when you need us.

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You only think about us when the lights go out.

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We think about you all the time.

For over 50 years, we’ve been working hard to supply your electricity at the lowest possible cost, and think of new ways to better serve you. – like our promise that our crews are on the job within 45 minutes of the report of any outage in our service area. And bringing you the option of purchasing environmentally-friendly power through Green Power EMC; and responding to your requests by now offering natural gas via our wholly-owned subsidiary, Coweta-Fayette EMC Natural Gas. We also offer products and services through Relyco®, at very competitive rates. Remember, we keep your lights burning brightly – and a whole lot more.

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Contents

Features THE DINING IS FINE IN DOWNTOWN NEWNAN Where can you find succulent dishes such as Crab Cakes with Wasabi Mayonnaise Sauce or Fried Green Tomatoes topped with feta cheese and peach salsa? Upscale restaurant dining is closer than you might think.

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THE BUZZ ON BEEKEEPING If you’re looking for locally-harvested honey this spring, you’ll want to meet some local beekeepers whose efforts to put sweet, golden honey on our tables are keeping them busy as, well, you know.

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THE SECRET LIVES OF CLEANING LADIES Admit it. Some days, your house is so cluttered you’d be ashamed for your cleaning lady to see it. We found some cleaning ladies willing to spill the dirt on what they’ve found inside Coweta homes.

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THE BUSINESS OF PLEASURE Coweta County’s Joe Guerra is one of the most powerful names in the golf business, but he has a higher calling. He wants to build a better world. Eighteen holes at a time.

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MEET THE ARTIST Newnan’s Marc Stewart is working desperately to capture 20 56 the stories of WWII heroes on canvas before they’re gone. Find out what inspired his aerial love affair and why he’s happiest with his head in the clouds.

Departments COWETA COOKS Outside the operating room, one Newnan surgeon enjoys cooking food for family, friends — and fundraisers. We go behind the scenes and in the kitchen with Dr. Cliff Cranford.

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26 30 INMoreBLOOM than 200 varieties of iris are in bloom at Donald and Sara Katherine Sandlin’s home in Moreland. Find out how to add color and grace to your garden with this favorite perennial.

LET’S GO Get back to nature by taking a day trip to Butts Mill Farm in Pine Mountain. Families can enjoy feeding animals, fishing or taking a ride on horseback together. Children will love the mazes, slides and go-kart rides.

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ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES Costume jewelry collector Ellen Ehrenhard inherited a sparkling collection that would delight any jewelry fan. Learn about the designers of these fabulous fakes and how to begin your own treasure hunting.

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Contents COMMUNITY PROFILE Can a historic village and future development peacefully co-exist? They think so in Sharpsburg. Read about how this Coweta community is preparing a long-term growth plan with its historic downtown as the centerpiece.

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LOCAL HERITAGE With visitors gathered around the potbellied stove, the Bridges and Cole Store on Terrentine Street was once the center of community life in Sharpsburg. Local writer and historian Winston Skinner shares its story.

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EDITOR’S LETTER

ABOUT TOWN Learn what’s coming up in our Arts and Entertainment calendar.

ON OUR COVER Chef André Cross serves up Mahimahi with Avocado and Corn Relish at André’s on the Square.

– Photo by Mary Ann Meeks

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COMING ATTRACTIONS

MY COWETA Your stories, your page. Carolyn Burson is our first guest columnist, sharing her memories of enjoying the city pool on Duncan Street after it opened in the mid-1930s.

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EDITOR’S LETTER

Welcome!

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Welcome to our first issue of Newnan-Coweta Magazine!

In February The Times-Herald purchased the 10-year-old publication, and although I was secretly hoping to be one of its writers I would not have imagined I’d have the privilege of serving as editor.

The two publications are logical siblings, I believe, because this newspaper already has experienced teams of publishing professionals in place.

Now I’ve always liked what columnist Cal Thomas says about his daily newspaper habit: that he reads the New York Times alongside his Bible every morning so he’ll know what both sides are up to. I agree! But after that, when I’m reading purely as a leisure pursuit, it’s a magazine I usually reach for first.

My relationship with NewnanCoweta Magazine goes back to its beginning in 1995. It premiered during my two-year hiatus from the newspaper business, and I freelanced for owners Gene and Janice Lambert. Their new publication was modeled on Lake Martin Living in Alabama, a magazine I’d seen thanks to Newnan friends with a second home on Lake Martin.

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When I returned to newspapering in 1996 I no longer had time to freelance, but I always read the magazine. Deb Knowles would become its second owner — caretaker, really, as this magazine has always seemed to be “owned” by Coweta County — and a new friend. I liked her magazine and always enjoyed hearing how she kept it filled with great, locally-oriented pieces. I had a collection of all the back issues, and one day in a fit of spring cleaning I passed them on to her.

But things have a way of coming full circle, don’t they?

Not long after we purchased Newnan-Coweta Magazine I got to meet its most recent owners, Chad and Monica Watkins, whose talented design work helped us produce this transitional issue. Among the materials we inherited were … back issues of the magazine. I’m definitely keeping them this time.

It’s a new day for the magazine once again, only this time the lucky editor comes to the job backed by the resources of a 140-year-old publishing company. We plan to continue the previous owners’ legacy of producing a locally-oriented, locally-

written publication that reflects the best Coweta County has to offer.

And that won’t be hard to do.

What I believe has always made this magazine special is its focus on the people of Coweta County. I’m about to enjoy my 20th summer in Newnan, and hardly a week goes by that I am not impressed, once again, with my neighbors here.

In this issue you’ll get to read about a few of these fine folks.

There’s a local doctor whose “rounds” include the fund-raising circuit and a Moreland couple who add beauty to our gardens with their irises. There’s a wonderful local artist whose work pays tribute to our veterans and, if we have a coup for this issue, I like to think it’s that we kick off our “My Coweta” feature with a writer who is just as sweet as Pie. I hope you enjoy this issue and, by all means, let us know what you think about it!

Fondly,

Angela Webster angela@newnan.com

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FEATURE

Down on the

The Dining is Fine

André’s on the Square

Square Ten East Washington

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BY JANET FLANIGAN PHOTOS BY MARY ANN MEEKS

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It’s early on a Wednesday afternoon, and the phone is ringing at Ten East Washington Restaurant in downtown Newnan. Chef George Rasovsky tells his caller the only available reservations for the coming Friday are for 8 p.m.

“Will this be acceptable?” he asks. The chef then goes on to give a brief description of the restaurant’s European-style menu. Duly impressed, the caller books a table for four and makes after-dinner plans to catch some jazz entertainment at the upstairs bar. A small smile plays at Rasovky’s lips because he knows it is a blessing to have a full reservation book week-in, week-out.

“We’ve been here for 10 years now,” Rasovsky says. “It took some time for us to get started and, I have to be honest, for the first couple of years I didn’t know if I could keep it going. But Newnan stuck with me and now we are booming.”

It’s evident from the moment guests enter this grand old houseturned-restaurant, the scents wafting from the kitchen are not producing bland, uninspired meals – something’s happening here! The smell of spicy, delicious peppercorns comes from a brandy reduction

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Chef André Cross, at work in the kitchen of André’s on the Square, says his customers in Newnan are “more educated about food than my customers in Atlanta and much more appreciative.”

sauce that will be served over a strip steak. When a waitress walks by with Rasovsky’s famous Penne Pasta — a dish which combines the subtle flavors of tomatoes, garlic, tarragon, cream and a splash of vodka with Parmesan cheese over chicken breasts — it throws diners into complete menu perplexity. Ah, such delicious indecision.

The menu at Ten East Washington is reflective of Rasovsky’s Czechoslovakian heritage and culinary training. He learned restaurant management in the finest hotels run by the then-Communist Czech government, hotels he says rivaled any in Europe.

His most popular dishes are the French Onion Soup, Crab Cakes with Wasabi Mayonnaise Sauce, Penne Pasta, Herbed Black Angus Filet Mignon served with Merlot Sauce, and the nightly European Plate, which often features dishes from his faraway homeland.

Around the corner, four hours

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before André’s Off the Square is even ready to open, the delicious promise of the evening to come can already be sensed. Pans are bubbling on the stove, their velvety stocks and rich sauces preparing to adorn the jewels of the menu: Filet and Lobster with Balsamic Sauce, Seafood and House Made Fettuccini with Cream Lobster Sauce, Chicken Breasts with Rosemary Sauce. Employees run in Sandy and V.B. Smith celebrate their fifth wedding and out of the kitchen with anniversary with dinner at Ten East Washington. glassware, tablecloths, fresh granted,” he says. vegetables, and all of the Who were his culinary mentors? accoutrements it takes to run a Cross quickly names Paul Albrecht, successful restaurant.

Chef/Owner André Cross and his former executive chef of Pano’s and Paul’s (now at Spice), and Richard popular general manager, Robert Lindamood, former executive sous Coudle, have been encouraged by chef of The Abbey and now owner of their opening here last fall and have Newnan’s Butcher Shoppe. In built a great base clientele. Cross is addition to working for these two enthusiastic about his Newnan culinary giants, Cross graduated customers. “I have found people in from Johnson and Wales Culinary Newnan to be more educated about Institute and enjoyed a prestigious food than my customers in Atlanta and much more appreciative – in big position with the famous McCormick and Schmick’s chain. cities, everything is taken for

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has two wine lists, the Wine Cellar and a Captain’s List.

André’s hopes to take the intimidation factor out of ordering a nice bottle of wine by creating its Wine Cellar list of fine wines from around the world, all priced at $19.99 or $6 by the glass. “It makes it very nice for our guests,” Cross says. “We also offer a Captain’s List which offers a bit more premium priced wines.” Private and small group wine tastings are also available.

Nearby at the Brick Yard Restaurant, guests entering this Enjoying a recent Wine Night at Redneck Gourmet are Teresa Hand, Kelli Yeager, Angie Smith and Joanne Maddox.

Cross might have had a slight advantage in hiring his veteran manager: they were high school classmates. So far the teamwork has paid off, and things are running smoothly.

The chef notes that while beef is always popular at André’s, seafood seems to be the big star there – especially Fried Lobster Tail, Sautéed Tilapia in Creole Sauce, and the nightly specials. This summer’s menus will feature a continued emphasis on seafood dishes, marrying shrimp, lobster, mahimahi and tuna with fruit and avocado that highlight tropical and Southwestern flavors.

The pastries and desserts at André’s are created by the owner’s wife Jennifer, who is a pastry chef. You won’t find her in the restaurant, however, because she’s home caring for André Jr., age 2, and Abigail, 1.

The restaurant’s Martini Bar, Cross says, was added as an afterthought but has been extremely popular. André’s also

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Above: Gordy Collins plays the keyboard and Mike Burk plays bass during a performance at Ten East Washington. Left: Chef and owner Jeff Ingram serves Brick Yard patrons Marvel and Charlie Bell.

establishment find it feels almost like a private club, from the nonassuming entrance to the cozy and comfortable interior. That “clubby” feeling extends to the greeting given

by General Manager Thaddeus Miller when guests arrive at this twoyear-old restaurant. This feeling,

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however, is not that of an exclusive club. It is one of warmth and friendliness, something like “Welcome back! I read about your promotion in the paper.

Congratulations!”

Chef/Owner Jeff Ingram attended Georgia Southern and had a family business waiting in Peachtree City when he graduated.

But the restaurant business called to him and he listened. He went to work for Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Buckhead and worked his way up to general manager, putting in time behind the stove whenever he could.

He won two Wine Spectator awards while there and then decided to go it on his own. Brick Yard is his first Newnan restaurant.

Ingram’s wife Trish can often be found working the “Front of the House” in the Hostess Station, making sure everything is running smoothly and that guests’ needs are being met.

Manager Miller promises, “Given 48 hours, we can do anything for you: a themed dinner, wild game, quail, duck, escargot and ostrich.

Our pride is in our level of service and, of course, the quality of our food.”

It is very difficult to make a decision from among the menu’s top sellers. They include the Fried Green Tomatoes, cooked in a tempura batter and topped with feta cheese and peach salsa; Lump Crab Cakes, prepared with 100% lump crab meat and served with Mango Corn Relish; Sushi-grade Ahi Tuna steak; Rib Eye wet seasoned; Petite Filet; Rack of Lamb served with a red wine and soy reduction sauce; and the Signature Filet, lightly seasoned and drizzled with barbecue butter. Some diners actually decide by seeing what everyone else in the

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restaurant is having.

The restaurant features a full bar and wine list of unique offerings not traditionally found in a grocery aisle, allowing diners to explore wineries the world over. Brick Yard also offers wine tastings on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month.

In fact, wine tastings are held at all of downtown Newnan’s fine dining establishments, each offering a unique experience with one common ingredient: each chef works with the same popular and jocular wine distributor, Joey Glisson of Grapefields Fine Wine Distributors.

“Joey is terrific,” says Brick Yard’s Miller. “He always finds incredible wines for us that are new and exciting for our customers. Never some tired old label from the grocery aisle.”

The other restaurateurs second his opinion of their distributor, and they compliment the job the other restaurants are doing as well.

Rasovsky raved about Glisson’s ability to hold wine tastings at Ten East Washington, André’s Off the Square, Brick Yard and, until last month, The Redneck Gourmet, and make each one a unique experience for every restaurant client. (The Redneck’s popular wine dinners were discontinued when the Smith family, owners of the Redneck, decided to scale back on some of the events held at the restaurant.)

Chef André Cross says, “We love Joey so much that when he’s not doing his wine dinners, he’s working behind our bar! He’s great, a very knowledgeable man.”

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Cranford family shares gift of cooking

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“She’s the great cook in the family.”

Newnan surgeon Cliff Cranford gestured at his wife, Val, in the kitchen of their European-inspired home in Newnan.Val Cranford, however, quickly scooted out of the house to get to their youngest son Jack’s baseball game.

Learning how to cook in this family is truly a gift, one passed from generation to generation. Dr. Cranford learned to cook from his father, Cliff Sr., and the doctor said, “I’ve seen more culinary interest by my two boys, little Cliff and Jack, than my girls Valentine and Emily.

Cliff has already mastered the ‘secret’ Cranford family Brunswick stew.”

Cranford has long been known in Newnan for both his surgical skills and his culinary efforts. He recently held a barbecue fundraiser for his church, First United Methodist Church, featuring that famous Cranford Brunswick Stew. The event netted enough funds to send three additional doctors on the church mission trip to Honduras.

His culinary fundraising efforts are becoming renowned, and he is holding another public fundraiser, for the tiny Emory Chapel United Methodist Church on Franklin Highway, on May 22. Cranford learned of the church’s need through fellow hospital employee and church Lay Pastor Mike Ayers and offered his services; Cranford’s nurse Sonja Gabriel will even be singing at the event.

A Medical Fellowship in Scotland really sparked Cranford’s culinary imagination and broadened his cooking techniques.

Many of his dinner parties feature menus that combine the best of the South with favorites from France, Scotland and Switzerland.

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BARBECUED SHRIMP Recipe courtesy of Cliff Cranford 1 pound head-on shrimp (if possible) if not, regular headless shrimp 1 stick butter (not margarine) 1/4 cup olive oil 1 cup onion, diced 1 heaping tablespoon Cajun spice 1 warm beer 2 cloves garlic, crushed Crusty fresh bread of your choice Melt butter and olive oil together in large, heavy saucepan on low heat. Add shrimp, onions, garlic and spices and cook on low until onions are clear and shrimp are pink. Add beer and garlic and increase to a boil. Remove from heat and serve quickly with lots of bread to soak up the juice – the best part.

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The Cranfords recently hosted a dinner for the French artist Francoise Gilot, who was in Newnan for an exhibition at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts. The menu that night offered Spring Asparagus Soufflé, Risotto (recipe follows) and Cornish Game Hen Stuffed with Haralson Sausage. The dinner in Gilot’s honor was a huge success, blending high end Continental fare with Southern ingredients.

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The juxtaposition of those ingredients is a bit like Cranford himself. He is equally at home in the intense surroundings of the operating theater or in the quiet of an afternoon kitchen, washing lettuce or cracking an egg to whip up a quick omelet for his kids, telling stories and sharing. While he may be well-educated, well-traveled and enjoy a great meal, he’s also just good folks – with lots of talent.

has long been known in Newnan for both his surgical skills and his culinary efforts.

He recently held a barbecue fundraiser for his church, First United Methodist Church, featuring his family’s famous Cranford Brunswick Stew.

The event netted enough funds to send three additional doctors on the church mission trip to Honduras.

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Craig Exner uses a smoker to distract bees from the hive where he’s about to collect honey.

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We’ve all heard of “Burt’s Bees,” but have you heard of Craig and Josie’s Bees? What about Wally’s Bees?

Beekeepers all over Newnan and Coweta County are committed to bringing sweet, golden honey to the tables of those who seek it. Their bees also provide the beeswax used in lip balms, hand creams and other cosmetics.

Those who like honey but aren’t looking for the local product might not know what they’re missing.

Besides tasting great, locallyharvested honey can provide a homeopathic remedy to the seasonal allergies that ail so many.

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the time to start looking. Within a few months most beekeepers will be sold out until next year.

If you don’t know a beekeeper already, though, finding local honey can be like finding a queen in a hive: It can take a while, and you might get smoke in your eyes.

(The good news? Avoiding the stingers of 60,000 angry honeybees is not a worry.)

The spring honey flow runs from late March into June. The beekeepers’ “girls” travel as many as three miles from the hive to gather nectar and pollen. Packing the nectar into the wax comb, the bees add an

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enzyme and cover the combs with wax. When the water evaporates, they’ve got honey.

Spring brings new hope for every beekeeper, says Wally Batchelor, a past Coweta County Beekeeping Association president.

In early spring the beekeeper enters his soggy backyard with a hive tool, a lighter, a smoker packed with pine straw, and a veil. He sizes up the hive, putting a flame to the dry straw in his smoker. It fires up and, pumping the mini-bellows, he gives the bees at the hive’s entrance a light wisp of smoke to mask the “danger pheromone” guard bees are emitting, sounding the alarm to other bees.

The smoke doesn’t stop the pitch of the bees’ wings from changing from a low, workaday hum to an excited, angry buzz. Smoke distracts most of the bees from the beekeeper and — to save what honey they have from the fire they believe is approaching — they gorge on the stuff.

The beekeeper must be brave as the guard bees attack. Using his hive tool he pries the hive open, gives the inside a puff of thick, white smoke, and inspects the frames of comb for signs of disease, brood and freshly laid eggs.

“The honey flow is starting,” says Craig Exner, inspecting some blueberry blossoms on his property.

“Those winter days, you’re working on the bee hives and looking forward to the honey flow. But now, the game has begun.”

“There’s no way to tell how much you’ll have,” says Batchelor. “You’re a farmer. You just don’t know what you’re going to do year to year.”

From his 19 hives Batchelor, a “journeyman” training to become a “master” beekeeper, hopes to harvest 2,000 pounds of honey this year,

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compared to 400 last year. The constant rain last spring hurt production.

Exner likes the idea of making an insect do something productive for him. There’s a hierarchy within the hive he respects. Every bee knows what it’s supposed to do, and as it ages its job changes every few days.

“I wish we had that,” Exner says.

“A hive is a huge city of bees but everyone knows his — actually her — job. And they are doing their jobs. They don’t have to be taught.

They know what to do.”

Josie Exner, Craig’s wife, enjoys baking foods with honey.

“Oh, the smell of it!” she says.

“The smell of honey. I haven’t tasted any honey yet that I did not care for.

Kudzu, tupelo, sourwood, Sue Bee … cheap honey from the grocery store — it’s all good. You can tell a difference between processed honey and raw honey, though.”

With 15 hives now, the Exners get a faraway look in their eyes when

they talk about breakfast at their home off Turkey Creek Road. They do enjoy their biscuits, tea and honey.

With his wife’s help, Exner harvested almost 600 pounds of honey in 2004, and this season he hopes for more. They sold quite a bit of last year’s haul, gave a lot away as Christmas presents, and even made some mead, or honey wine. With the wax they made lip balm.

Batchelor sold out of honey before Christmas last year, and every day now he gets a call about it. His wife Lynn gets stopped at the grocery store and called at work by people looking for local honey.

“I was surprised,” Exner says.

“Several beekeepers have added more hives to keep up with the demand.

Every day people ask me for honey, and I hate to say that I’m out, but that’s what I have to say.”

When the word is out that you’re a beekeeper, you’re a marked man — or woman. NCM

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The Buzz… on where to find locally harvested honey

Allergy sufferers know what to look for when buying honey. Most of what local beekeepers sell is raw honey. Unlike most store-bought honey, it’s not filtered finely and hasn’t been heated.

By consuming the pollens in raw honey, you build up a resistance to airborne pollens in the environment.

Honey produced within 10 miles of where you live will contain the same allergens you breathe and can greatly assist allergy and asthma sufferers.

And though local beekeepers can’t seem to make enough of it to suit us, there is hope out there for those searching for the locally-grown pot of honey at the end of the honeyflow. Here are some sources: - The Coweta Beekeepers Association. The group of about 30 members meets at the Coweta

County Fairgrounds on the second Monday each month at 7 p.m.

- The vegetable sale held each year at the Asa M. Powell Expo Center (the old Temple Avenue fairgrounds). This year’s sale runs June 25 to Oct. 1 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays.

On weekdays the fun begins at noon and ends at 3 p.m., and Saturdays it’s 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

- Franklin Highway Flea Market. You might find the spouse of a honey seller at the vegetable market. (Beekeepers are a busy lot, and distributing the goods can be fast and furious.) The flea market is on the left as you travel on Georgia Highway 34 from downtown Newnan.

- Hit The Trail at 10 LaGrange Street has also been known to carry locallyproduced honey. It even comes with the picture of the maker on every bottle.

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Dragging my almost-full laundry basket through the upstairs hall to the doorway of my sons’ room, I stop to feel for perpetually forgotten socks under my 9-year-old’s bedcovers. As I top off my basket with three socks, a pair of pajama bottoms and a baseball jersey, I look upward in my hourly plea for patience and am startled to see cobwebs that rival the decorations at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

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“What I need,” I hiss softly to no one, “what I really NEED is a Cleaning Lady.”

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“I only cleaned that house twice before I fired myself. The husband came out with a stopwatch and said, ‘It takes me three hours and 20 minutes to clean the house,’ then started his stopwatch. I was insulted, but when the wife actually put on a white glove, I knew it was over.”

— Regina Coweta County Cleaning Lady

common reason for arguments among married people is the distribution of housekeeping duties.

I must learn more.

I find Regina, who has been a Cleaning Lady for seven years, and Cindi, a four-year veteran.

Business is booming for each.

Both made time in their busy schedules to dish some dirt on the Secret Lives of Cleaning Ladies.

Regina’s first job almost ended her cleaning career.

“It was a nightmare,” she recalls. “I picked up the lid on the crockpot, and it was full of maggots. I almost threw up.”

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even worse, but the only forthcoming details were that it was covered in human feces. That was enough for me.

“I wasn’t forewarned that I would need a toxic waste suit,” Regina says. “It’s a miracle I didn’t quit that day. There were rats in that house the size of my dog.”

Cindi’s best story is as good as Regina’s is awful. She contracted with a builder for a newconstruction home, pricing out the job at $150 for a basic cleaning.

“He came by and told me if I did extra to make sure every bit of it was sparkling clean by the closing on Wednesday, he’d pay me $1,000,” Cindi says. “I spent 11

hours cleaning that place and made a copy of that check!”

They say “their” families usually have tidy homes but need extra muscle for the mopping, deepdusting and bathroom-cleaning for which they can’t quite find the time.

Still, Regina felt redundant at one home, where red flags flew in the form of hotel-like sanitary strips on the toilets.

“I only cleaned that house twice before I fired myself,” Regina says.

“The husband came out with a stopwatch and said, ‘It takes me three hours and 20 minutes to clean the house,’ then started his stopwatch. I was insulted, but when the wife actually put on a white glove, I knew it was over.”

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Cindi confesses that she gets a little bumped and bruised sometimes in her cleaning ardor, but Regina admits she sometimes puts her clients in peril by making things too pretty.

“I polished one client’s desk chair with citrus oil,” Regina says.

“It looked beautiful, but when he tried to sit down, he just went shooting out of it.” She pauses.

“Come to think of it, I had to stop doing the stairs, too.”

Regina says she feared for her personal safety only once.

“I went to price a home with my husband,” she says. “When I came back a week later to clean it, the man came out of the bathroom naked.”

Her reaction was classic.

“I said, ‘Okay, see ya! I mean, I did see ya…I mean, goodbye!’” she says.

Cindi was shocked when she opened a bedside table drawer to put away some bobby pins and found it filled with adult toys.

“I don’t go looking for stuff,” she says. “I’m just there to do my job and let myself out. But this … I called the girl who works with me to show her and said, ‘Can you believe it?’”

Animals provide a different kind of challenge. Cindi once made a client’s bed without realizing her cat was still in it. It took her a startled moment to identify the strange, moving lump under the sheet. One of Regina’s clients neglected to warn her of her huge Boxer’s sock fetish.

“I lost my sock, but at least I kept my foot,” Regina says.

Back in my own dusty world, I’m feeling pretty good. No rats, no maggots, no poop on the bathroom floors and walls. No cats or sock-

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“Mom!” I hear from the living room. “Brother spilled his juice on the floor … AGAIN!” I quickly do some figuring in my head: If we drop the cable package that includes TV Land, I can afford to have a Cleaning Lady once a month.

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The names of these irises in Moreland are almost as elegant as the flowers themselves. At this time of year some of the sheer, gracefullycurved petals are about to unfurl for the first time. Others are letting it all hang out and displaying the “beards” for which bearded irises are known.

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Sandlin, a retired chemistry and biology teacher, and his wife, a retired paraprofessional, may have set out a few plants after moving to Coweta in 1998, but they never set out to have an iris-growing operation.

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began to stop and ask if they could buy a plant or two. Business hasn’t stopped since.

The Sandlins now offer some 200 iris varieties, selling the plants from about mid-April to mid-May each year. Although some years a certain color is fashionable with gardeners, this year it’s too soon to tell which Sara Katherine and Donald Sandlin tend the irises at their home in Moreland.

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iris will be voted Class Favorite. Last year it wasn’t a color of iris but a variety of iris — the re-blooming one — which was such a hit with plant buyers.

“It’s a wild guessing game,” Sandlin said, and he never knows what a customer is going to want.

When he considers adding new varieties, he says to himself, “If I buy this, it’ll be two years before I can sell it. Will people buy it?”

Four or five new varieties are available this year. Sandlin said customers won’t come back if he doesn’t have something new to entice them. He wants the plants to sell, too, because these newcomers to his iris garden don’t come cheap.

“We’ve got some out there that are worth $50 each,” he said. Still, he likes to keep things simple by charging the same price for each

clump of irises: $8 each.

By the first of April customers were already heading out to Moreland in search of irises. “A landscape lady came by and bought some the other day,” Sandlin said, and a repeat customer drove up from Americus as well.

Master Gardener Roger Echols of the Coweta County Extension Service said the iris is a favorite plant in southern gardens as well as northern ones. “They’re a wonderful thing to grow,” he said.

Echols said it is important when planting an iris to make sure the rhizome — the plant’s thick, fleshy stem — is planted at or just below the surface of the soil.

He echoes the sentiments of many an iris lover by noting what compels so many gardeners to grow this flower: “The gorgeous turnout.”

Here are some tips on growing irises from Donald Sandlin.

- Select a sunny location with well-drained soil.

- Use a high phosphorus fertilizer.

On established beds, fertilize in mid to late August. Fertilize again in mid-February with a wellbalanced plant food such as 10-10-10. Don’t use manure in iris beds.

- When flowers fade in spring, remove the flower stems along with any dead foliage. All other foliage should be clipped back to about 6 inches in height.

- When planting irises, space them about 18 to 24 inches apart to prevent overcrowding. The beds will need to be thinned about every 3-5 years.

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The sun is out for the first time in a week and Flat Creek Golf Club in Peachtree City is crawling with gaudily-clad golfers. Joe Guerra looks down from the balcony of the massive clubhouse and smiles.

Flat Creek has just undergone a $3 million renovation, and it’s obvious everyone is pleased.

“We’re in the business of dispensing pleasure to our members and guests,” Guerra says, pointing down at the crowd. “And look.

Those people are having a ball.”

In November 2003, Guerra’s company, Sequoia Golf Holdings, LLC, purchased the Canongate golf franchise, making Guerra one of the most envied and powerful names in the golf business. Although Guerra modestly says, “We’ll try not to screw it up,” his track record indicates that for Canongate members, a good experience is about to get even better.

The opulence of Flat Creek is light years from the east Los Angeles suburbs of El Sereno and Covina where Guerra grew up. His parents were hard working and supportive but didn’t have money for luxuries.

“They taught us character and encouraged us to get a good education,” says Guerra, 47, “but I was still a poor Hispanic kid. I had to come up with my own spending money.”

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Guerra worked the books as hard as the job, and when he finished his master’s degree in business, he was swamped with lucrative offers.

He signed on with a Los Angeles real estate developer and was soon heading a project that included the construction of a new headquarters building for American Golf Corporation (AGC).

AGC’s CEO was so impressed with Guerra he offered him a job developing a piece of commercial property. It was a great offer, but

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The purchase and sale also required Guerra to complete two Canongate clubs in the planning

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From the balcony of the clubhouse at Flat Creek Golf Club, brothers Ken and Joe Guerra like to look out and see members and guests having a ball.

Canongate Golf Locations Canongate 1, Sharpsburg, Ga.

Planterra Ridge,

stages: Heron Bay in Locust Grove,

Established 1965

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Ga., and Pinecrest, in Bluffton, S.C.,

Course designers: Dick Wilson, Joe

Established 1994

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Lee, Rocky Roquemore, Jeff Burton

Course designers: Rocky

The November 2004 acquisition

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Flat Creek, Peachtree City, Ga.

north Atlanta’s booming Forsyth

Established 1968

Mirror Lake, Villa Rica, Ga.

County expanded the Canongate

Course designer: Joe Lee

Established 1999

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Course designer: Rocky White Oak, Newnan, Ga.

The “Canongate concept”

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Course designers: Joe Lee and

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Established 1988

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Guerra knew nothing about golf and asked, “What do I do after this project?”

He was told, “We’ll teach you how to build golf courses.”

Guerra was hesitant but signed on with AGC, never dreaming that his rocket ride up the corporate ladder would land him in a totally foreign universe.

A year later, at Lake Tahoe, Calif., Guerra was invited to play golf with other AGC officials. He froze. Guerra thought back to his childhood, when the only brown faces on L.A. golf courses were carrying bags or cutting grass. He was in his mid-twenties and had never even picked up a club.

“Growing up, golf was the farthest thing from our lifestyle,” he says.

“Golf was something rich people did.” His business associates insisted.

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love with it,” he says.

Guerra had just discovered the passion shared by millions of others, including the late W.A. “Bill” Roquemore, an avid golfer and astute businessman who in 1954 founded Lakeland, Ga.-based Patten Seed Company.

In 1965 Roquemore developed a parcel of Patten Seed property in north Coweta into a championship golf course he named Canongate I. Roquemore’s super-affordable memberships soon sold out and he looked to build another club. When Flat Creek opened in Peachtree City in 1968, the unique Canongate concept of offering a single, affordable membership that allowed play on multiple courses was born.

As Patten Seed’s Canongate empire grew to seven courses in Fayette, Coweta and Douglas counties during the ’90s and early 2000s, prospective buyers came calling, including AGC, which under Guerra’s leadership became the world’s largest golf operator, growing from 30 courses to more than 300 on four continents.

Patten Seed rebuffed all offers, and the Canongate clubs were still officially off the market when Guerra left American Golf in 2002 to pursue other interests. While Guerra was considering his options he was approached by the Roquemore family.

They had been unwilling to see their Canongate clubs disappear into a faceless corporate portfolio. But they were finally willing to discuss a sale to someone who would keep the Canongate name and concept intact.

Someone like Joe Guerra.

Guerra was stunned. “I couldn’t believe it. As far as I was concerned Canongate was the ultimate golf property.”

Patten Seed CEO Jim Roquemore

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knew Guerra had the golf contacts and could muster the financial muscle to close the deal. He also believed Guerra was the right man to fulfill some commitments Patten Seed and the Roquemore family considered more important than cash.

“We knew Joe was a first class

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fellow, and we felt like he would do the two things that were most important to us,” Roquemore says. “That was taking care of our employees and keeping the members happy.”

Retired businessman Leon Nash (Canongate member number 23) joined Canongate I on opening day.

Nash had his pick of Atlanta clubs, but his main reason for choosing Canongate wasn’t the courses or the cost. “I made some good friends there, and friends aren’t easy to come by. It’s still a great place to come,” he says.

Bill Roquemore’s son Rocky, a golf course architect who designed many of the Canongate courses, says, “Joe is a great golf man, but he’s also great with people. We’re very happy with the way things are going.”

In November 2003, Guerra closed the sale and moved his family to Newnan. A year after the Canongate purchase, Guerra’s brother Ken, 35, left a promising career at AGC to join his older brother. He points out that Canongate is about more than golf.

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Canongate as their playground, and we’re doing everything we can to make that experience better every day.”

Joe Guerra envisions a “daisy chain” of Canongate clubs around metro Atlanta and believes the Canongate concept would thrive in places like Charlotte, Nashville, Dallas or Houston.

While such expansion is “way

down the road,” Joe Guerra believes the Canongate model reflects the future of golf.

“The days when a golfer would spend $100 or more for one round of golf on a signature course are gone,” he says. “Today, they’d rather pay $100 and play at 10 different courses. We deliver that better than anyone else. And we’re not through yet.” NCM

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“Kids don’t have to be entertained by the latest electronic gimmick. They can have more fun fishing, skipping rocks, playing in the water or seeing the animals.”

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Part businessman and part ringmaster, he shows off the attractions at Butts Mill Farm with the wide-eyed exuberance of a youngster fueled by cotton candy at an amusement park. Nestled among pines trees and pastureland, the farm provides more than the typical amusement park experience.

Nearly everything there is to do is outdoors and includes a tie to nature. That’s just how Liechty likes it.

“It goes back to how I was raised,” he said, sharing details of his Mennonite heritage. “The only income we had was the farm. That gave me an appreciation for the outdoors.”

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“Kids don’t have to be entertained by the latest electronic gimmick,” he added. “They can have more fun fishing, skipping rocks, playing in the water or seeing the animals.”

The animals play a large part in the farm’s recent history. After years of developing and managing retirement communities on the Gulf Coast, Liechty moved his family to Pine Mountain, Ga. for a change of pace.

“I hated being in the office all the time,” he recalled. “That just wasn’t my thing, and I didn’t want to raise my children in that environment.”

By chance, Liechty ran across a gristmill that was almost beyond salvaging. After restoring the mill as his home, Liechty moved in and began buying surrounding land.

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Then came calls from people seeking homes for horses and wild animals that had outgrown their previous dwellings.

Knowing he needed funds to feed his growing menagerie of tigers, bears, lions and other wildlife, Liechty opened the farm to small groups. As interest grew, so did his vision of what Butts Mill Farm could be. A large replica of Noah’s Ark soon anchored a playground, and a retired fire engine allowed children to run their own imaginary ladder companies.

Always with a keen ear tuned to his visitors, Liechty added more and more activities. A stocked pond

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allows anglers of all ages to hook a fish or tell the tale of the one that got away. After saddling up, riders can take in the beauty of the area’s woodlands from horseback as they hit the dusty trail.

Recently, Liechty traveled to New York to purchase a surplus indoor playground from the Discovery Zone company. While the collection of mazes and slides that drop into pools of colored, plastic balls requires a trip indoors, it also provides a momentary escape from the summer heat.

Back outside, kids of all ages can live out dreams of being the next Mario Andretti as they zoom

around the farm’s new go-kart track. Nearby, budding golfers can test their skills on a miniature golf course that rivals any in the state.

Red maple and cypress trees shade many of the holes, and a glistening waterfall fuels a creek that runs throughout the course.

Such hard play often leads to a hearty appetite. No problem.

Sumptuous dishes – from fajitas to ribs – promise to please even the most discerning palate. Follow that with homemade ice cream or cotton candy and it’s time for a relaxing sit-down beside the farm’s charming creek. Guests can even dip their toes in the cool water from swings that hang from a

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From his new home overlooking the farm, Liechty surveys his world of fun, keeping a close eye on daily operations. While he’s pleased with the current atmosphere, the entrepreneur of outdoor fun is busily planning new, exciting things to do. Rest assured, whatever the new attractions are, they will build upon Liechty’s drive to provide a good time in the outdoors.

“I’m not interested in having an amusement park,” he said. “Here, it’s about getting out in the fresh air, exploring nature and really enjoying yourself. The farm is a place people can go as families and have fun with interesting things to do.” NCM

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Think Joan Crawford, Rita Hayworth and Marlene Dietrich. Their ears, necks, wrists and fingers jeweled in gems, these Hollywood glamour girls helped create a thirst for jewelry among American women tired of the make-do, scrape-by mentality that had lingered after the Depression.

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Pearl, rhinestone and filigree jewelry items, at left, are among the Miriam Haskell pieces in Ellen Ehrenhard’s collection. The feminine designs are typical of Haskell’s work, Ehrenhard said. Ellen Ehrenhard’s mother, Leila H. Doney, below, wears the Eisenberg brooch now owned by her daughter.

women in middle America.

Today these baubles once sold inexpensively in department stores can fetch hundreds of dollars as admirers amass colorful collections of these vintage jewels.

Ellen Ehrenhard of Newnan acquired what she calls “an instant collection” of vintage jewelry years ago when her mother-in-law showed up for a visit one day with a Publix sack filled with old costume jewelry.

“It was just jam-packed to the top,” Ehrenhard recalled. The former archaeologist and historic preservation planner began to excavate the treasures in that sack and thought, “My, this is fascinating stuff.”

Husband John Ehrenhard’s grandmother and aunt had died, and since his mother didn’t care for costume Jellybelly scatter pins, in which gemstones form the “belly” of an animal, are popular with vintage jewelry collectors.

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jewelry herself, she decided to pass the pieces along to her daughter-in-law.

Those costume jewelry fashions formed the basis of a collection that would both amuse and inspire Ehrenhard. Because of her line of work, she had long been interested in

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She makes no claim of being an expert on vintage costume jewelry (“I wouldn’t call myself an authority”), but clearly she is a well-educated collector.

She began to catalog the pieces, about half of which bear well-known names such as Eisenberg and Weiss.

Although much of the jewelry came from her husband’s relatives, Ehrenhard said a favorite piece was actually a gift from her own mother, a bow-shaped Eisenberg Original rhinestone brooch.

The Eisenberg pieces in her collection also include a sparkling rhinestone bracelet. It was purchased at a shop in Albuquerque, N.M., and Ehrenhard couldn’t help wondering if perhaps the horseshoe-shaped embellishments on the piece had somehow appealed to Native Americans in the area.

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This unsigned emerald-hued set is among the vintage costume jewelry pieces collected by Ellen Ehrenhard.

her husband when she admired a piece but wasn’t willing to pay the price.

“I’m an opportunist,” she said with a smile. Yet she acknowledged it can be hard to find a bargain in costume jewelry these days because interest is so high. “Most people know what they’ve got.”

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vintage costume jewelry, Ehrenhard recommends beginning the search at garage sales. When visiting antique stores, she said, aspiring collectors should make a point of looking at pieces whether or not they intend to buy.

“Everywhere you go, look at it,” she said, and check eBay to get an idea of the going prices.

And yes, she does like to wear her vintage jewelry, especially to social events such as the annual Charles Wadsworth and Friends Concert in Newnan or historical society functions.

The pieces are just as fashionable today as they were decades ago, and Ehrenhard doesn’t mind sharing what she knows about them with others.

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“The Eisenbergs seem so rounded to me,” she said, examining a piece.

“Weiss gets into the leaf shapes more than the flower shapes.” A wreathshaped pin by Miriam Haskell, who favored flowers and pearls in her designs, features the frilly filigree so typical of the designer. Pearls encircle half the pin, and Ehrenhard believes the Haskell pearls may have been a full circle originally.

For Ehrenhard, costume jewelry is about more than just fashion. She likes to unearth the history of each of her vintage artifacts.

“I think the archaeologist in me comes out,” she said.

This study of jewelry-as-materialculture continues, since Ehrenhard in retirement has become an avid student of beading. She now designs jewelry in a studio at her home in Newnan.

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As the county’s population swells and more and more Cowetans begin to consider themselves Southsiders, they may track the progress of the

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new library construction and map the quickest route to the post office.

Old Town Sharpsburg, however, may be a good intention that goes unfulfilled.

What do they miss? A rosy sunset over Sharpsburg Baptist Church, where the original country church building is flanked by a modern addition that welcomes newcomers and old-timers alike. A row of quaint businesses, where anything from antique glass to singing bass plaques can be found, where proud owners

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keep spotless shops and always show their appreciation with a smile and conversation. The A&O Bridges Recreation Center, where people of all ages can learn to line dance or attend a town hall meeting. And a carload of friendly teen-agers, stretched out on hoods or propped on bumpers, pondering life and waving at passers-by on a warm spring evening.

Growth is coming, though, and the marriage of this historic village and future development is a pressing concern. So the city has staged a preemptive strike, hiring an architectural firm to prepare a longterm growth plan with downtown as the centerpiece.

“The growth was already on top of us,” Mayor Wendell Staley said.

“We felt like we had to stop all advancement until we got planning in place, because we’ve seen places that didn’t have planning that were a disaster.”

During recent town hall meetings, residents and merchants gave their blessings to the plan, which strictly dictates the kinds of growth allowed. Old Town businesses will be required to have historic facades, while greenspaces, parks and recreation areas all will be built in and pre-planned.

“We’re looking for Sharpsburg to be kind of the showplace for the county,” said Eric Richards, a Sharpsburg photographer who is president of the Sharpsburg Merchants Association. Richards said the town is working on ways to better promote itself and its activities, which include spring and fall festivals, Easter egg hunts and Christmas visits from Santa Claus.

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Drive-by shoppers are slim downtown since the post office moved to Highway 154. Unlike other Sharpsburg merchants such as Collector’s Corner and newer strips of stores popping up in hightraffic areas, downtown merchants are struggling, according to Old Town Antiques owner Sharon Hazel.

“Old Town’s growth is the key to our survival as downtown merchants,” Hazel said. “The city council is very in tune with that, and they have done a great job considering us in this new growth plan.”

Staley says he thinks the plan will make Sharpsburg not only unique, but desirable.

“There’s a tremendous amount of the population that wants to preserve history,” he said. “The developers that are working with us now are willing to even go beyond what we asked for, just to make it a beautiful town. There’s no question in my mind that people are just really going to embrace it.”

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Sharpsburg’s Bridges and Cole store as it looked in the 1950s.

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As Sharpsburg’s current leaders look at ways to develop the community’s historic town center, they are — in a sense — looking back in time.

For decades, Bridges and Cole Store was a town center. It was a place where a farmer could sell his cotton and buy feed for his cows and a new pair of shoes for himself. His wife could buy sugar, detergent and some fabric to make a new dress.

Husband and wife could then gather with neighbors around the warmth of the potbellied stove and find out the latest news, critique the preacher’s Sunday sermon and simply pass the time.

The brick store facing Terrentine Street was built more than a century ago by Joe Wynn. A brick in the facade bears the date 1861.

Edward H. Bridges and Inis M. Cole bought the Wynn farm and store in the 1920s, opening the store in their own names in 1929. Bridges and Cole were brothers-in-law.

Cole’s sister, Cecil, was married to Bridges.

Herb Bridges of Sharpsburg, Edward and Cecil’s son, remembers playing in the store as a boy. He enjoyed the rolling ladders that still run along the shelves in the old building. “You would run up and down there until they’d chase you out,” he says.

A large glass display case contained candy. “You’d want to sneak in there and get you a piece of candy if you could,” he recalls.

The ice cream box was a drawing card for the store. Getting a Hunky or Popsicle was a special treat for Sharpsburg youngsters in the 1940s.

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built a cotton warehouse. They ginned cotton and sold it for local farmers.

The store also ran accounts for local residents. In those days, most people charged their purchases. A ticket was written for the sale, and the books were balanced each night.

“They sold everything then,” Bridges said — shoes, overalls, fabric by the yard, household cleaners, garden seed, corn seed for cultivation and fertilizer. Chicken and hog feed, some of it made at nearby Elder’s Mill, was also stocked.

The Papa Juju’s building was constructed as a fertilizer warehouse for Bridges and Cole customers. “I remember when that was built in 1942,” Bridges said.

The store had pumps for both gasoline and kerosene. For many years, people living in the rural area surrounding Sharpsburg used kerosene lamps for light after dark. “A lot of people would buy a gallon of kerosene for their lamps,” Bridges said.

Later, some had generators that ran on kerosene. Bags of coal were also available.

When Bridges got older, he sometimes worked at the store in the summers. His father tried to teach him to cut meat, without success. “I could fit shoes, but I couldn’t cut porkchops,” Herb Bridges remembered.

There were two telephones in the store. One connected three locations — the Bridges and Cole homes and the store — with distinct rings for

each location. The other telephone was for long distance. Sharpsburg residents would log their calls and contact the operator to get connected. A followup call would determine the cost, which would then be paid or placed on account.

George Hardy, who worked at the store for years, also served as the town’s mayor. Later, Howard Lawson became mayor. Lawson organized the town’s government, and monthly council meetings then began, with Bridges and Cole Store as the official location.

By the time he reached adulthood, Herb Bridges knew he did not want to run the store. His first cousin, the late Marvin Cole, however, decided to follow his father in the retail business, operating the store until it closed in the early 1980s.

“Marvin loved the store. He worked there all his life until he got tired of it,” Bridges said.

The store closed, with its inventory still in place. When Sharon Cox contacted Marvin Cole and Herb Bridges about opening Country Mercantile in the building in 1984, an auction was held to dispose of the items lining the store’s shelves.

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Roy Rogers and Hopalong Cassidy were icons of his generation, but as long as he can remember, aviation artist Marc Stewart has revered those who fought, bled and died in the service of their country.

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out of the Great Depression to win a fight it hadn’t picked and emerge as the world’s first superpower. “It was good versus evil, right versus wrong,” he says.

“We were the good guys and we won. For me, World War II was the perfect war.”

In the studio at his Roscoe home, Stewart, 52, works desperately to capture the stories of his WWII heroes on canvas before they’re all gone. “I’m struggling to get as many

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Stewart’s aerial love affair began with a kiss. He remembers hanging

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on every word as his father and uncles sat around the table at his boyhood home and recounted their WWII exploits.

During one of those visits, an uncle described the sound of a plane’s landing gear touching the runway. “He said it sounded just like a kiss,” says Stewart. “I’ll never forget that.”

By the time he was six, Stewart was sketching warplanes under the supervision of his father, a Navy veteran and aviation buff whom Stewart admiringly calls “a pretty fair artist.” Color technique was supplied by his mother, whose tole paintings Stewart still considers the best he’s ever seen.

Stewart had a pilot’s license before high school prom night and took his passions for art and aviation off to West Georgia College, where he flew sailplanes and gleefully took his chances with the school’s sport parachute team.

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“Strike on the Shirakumo”

Stewart completed what he calls his first “serious” piece of aviation art.

“Splash One Betty” depicts the downing of a World War II Japanese bomber and is currently on display at the Museum of Aviation at Warner Robins Air Force Base.

Jim Balletto, the museum’s art director, says the critical element of aviation art is researching the battle being portrayed, right down to the local vegetation and each plane’s individual paint scheme.

“The details make the difference.

It’s got to be perfect and Marc gets it right,” Balletto says. “That’s why he’s one of the best.”

Stewart has logged plenty of air time since leaving the Navy reserve in 1994, but admits his real passion isn’t flying but something less tangible.

“I know people who just love flying,” he says. “I like it, but I have more of a passion for the projection

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of power in flight, of the U.S. being able to defend itself, fight enemies, win wars.”

Though Stewart is in awe of modern air power he misses the romance of an era where face-to-face, man-to-man warfare was as personal and passionate as making love.

“Today you fire a missile, it kills a guy over the horizon and you never see him. It’s just not the same.”

Stewart has worked at everything from managing a toy store to driving an airport shuttle to support his art habit. The sacrifices are finally paying off, but Stewart says his most important career decision was marrying his wife, Robin, a marketing executive with Parks & Mottola realtors.

“I couldn’t do any of this without Robin,” he says. “She runs the business and all I have to do is paint. She’s my real inspiration, and her attitude and support have kept

me going.”

Robin modestly dismisses her contributions to the family business, but says Marc’s excitement is infectious. “He’s so passionate about it, you can’t help but be caught up in the whole process. I especially love meeting the pilots.”

Stewart still sounds like a starstruck fan when he talks about the aviation giants he has met, including General Robert Lee Scott, whose aerial exploits with the legendary Flying Tigers were the basis for his bestselling memoir, “God Is My CoPilot.”

“When I meet those guys,” Stewart says, “it’s like shaking hands with God.” Although his career is now firmly grounded, Marc Stewart is happiest when his head is in the clouds.

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Stewart has won numerous juried art awards and his work has illustrated several publications, including Aviation History, World War II, and Military History.

His painting “The Rescue” was the cover art for the book “Fantail Fighters,” and in 2002 Stewart’s painting “Forrestal’s Phantoms” earned what is considered the Oscar of military art, a first place award from Aviation Weekly and Space Technology magazine.

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May/June Calendar Theatre MAY 6 AND 7, 2005 “The Diary of Anne Frank”— Newnan Theatre Company will conclude its run of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” a Main Stage Series show, May 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. at the theatre at 24 First Ave. in Newnan. The play follows the story of a young Jewish girl during the Nazi occupation.

Tickets: $12 adults, $10 students and seniors, discount for groups of 10 or more.

Information: 770.683.6282, www.newnantheatre.com.

MAY 13-22, 2005 “Charlotte’s Web” — Adapted by Joseph Robinette from the beloved children’s book by E.B. White, “Charlotte’s Web” will be performed May 13, 14, 15, 20, 21 and 22 in the Black Box Theatre as part of Newnan Theatre Company’s Popcorn Theatre Series, appropriate for kids of all ages. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows are at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets: $12 adults, $10 students

and seniors, discount for groups of 10 or more.

Information: 770-683-6282, www.newnantheatre.com.

JUNE 10-26, 2005 “Noises Off!” — Whatever can possibly go wrong during this production does in Michael Frayn’s hilarious “Noises Off!” This Newnan Theatre Company MainStage Production will be staged June 10, 11, 12, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows are at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m.

Tickets: $12 adults, $10 students and seniors, discount for groups of 10 or more.

Information: 770-683-6282, www.newnantheatre.com.

JUNE 20-JULY 30 KidsCamp at Newnan Theatre Company, for children 6-12, runs for five week-long sessions, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. with a performance each Saturday, 10 a.m.

Cost: $80 per child, discounts for additional child or additional weeks.

For costs, registration forms and

The Young Singers of the Centre perform at the Centre for Performing and Visual Arts May 7.

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Auditions MAY 21, 2005 For Fayette-Coweta Family Theatre production of “Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Location to be announced. Production dates: July 14, 15, 16 and 17 at Villages Amphitheater in Fayetteville. Rehearsing Monday and Tuesday evenings, Saturday afternoons beginning May 23.

For roles available, audition times and other information, call 770-251-7611 or visit www.fcft.net.

MAY 23 AND 24, 2005 For Newnan Theatre Company’s production of “Sordid Lives” by Del Shores. “Tacky clothes, bourbon and Momma’s funeral permeate this wild look into the lives of this Texas family,” says NTC. Production dates: July 22Aug. 7. Auditions open to adults.

Info: 770-683-6282.

JUNE 20 AND 21 For Newnan Theatre Company’s production of “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.” Production dates: Aug. 19-28. Auditions open to teens. Info: 770-683-6282.

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Info: 770-254-2787

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Tickets: $10 general admission, $8 students and seniors 55+.

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MAY 27, 2005 Spring Concert 2005, Classical Dance Theatre, 7:30 p.m., Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County.

June 12, 2005 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” 2 p.m., Georgia Academy of Dance, Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County.

Tickets: $10 general admission, $8 students and seniors 55+.

Info: 770-631-3128.

MAY 28, 2005 “Sleeping Beauty,” Newnan School of Dance, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County.

Info: 770-253-2623.

JUNE 4, 2005 ”Evening at the Theatre,” 2 p.m., Sharpsburg Dance Academy, Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County.

Info: 770-251-8450.

JUNE 11, 2005 ”A Mouse in the House: Early Childhood Program,” 11 a.m., Georgia Academy of Dance, Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of Coweta County.

Tickets: $10 general admission, $8 students and seniors 55+.

Info: 770-631-3128.

JUNE 11, 2005 ”To the Point: A Celebration of Contemporary Dance,” 7 p.m., a special 15th anniversary celebration with Georgia Dance Theatre alumni, Georgia Academy of Dance, Centre for Performing and Visual Arts of

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Hometown Events MAY 14 Palmetto Spring Festival — The Palmetto Community Association holds its Palmetto Spring Festival on May 14, beginning at 10 a.m. with a parade north on Main Street to the Palmetto City Park. Festival goers can enjoy arts and crafts, music, food and family fun.

Trisha Adams is among the NCAA artists in “The Artist’s Signature.”

Art Exhibits MAY 7 Southern Crescent Alliance of Visual Artists (SCAVA), Traveling Exhibit “The Artist’s Signature,” opens May 7 at Clayton College and State University, remains there in May and then travels to the Coweta County Welcome Center in June. A reception in honor of the Newnan-Coweta Art Association artists in the exhibit will be held at the Welcome Center June 9 from 4-7 p.m.

Exhibiting Coweta artists include Kristina Adams, Trisha Adams, Susan Boehms, George Burdett, Lois Bruning, Mollie Flack, Dorothy Goodwin, Jerry Hetrick, Tutt Larsen, Eunice Nichols, Lila Oliphant, Bette Schumann, Rusty Sharp, Deborah Smith, Pam Trued and Jay Tullis.

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(LOFAS), Pottery Wheel Art Gallery in Newnan, through May 20. Fine art in oil, watercolor, colored pencil, ceramics and acrylic, and photographs from awardwinning fine art photographers, Info: Honey Corbin, 770-4870426 or e-mail at honeycorbin@earthlink.net.

JULY 18-21 Summer Art Camp with the Young Artists of Newnan and Coweta County, sponsored by the Coweta County Recreation Department, July 18-21, Harriet Alexander Art Center, Newnan.

Session 1, “Under The Sea,” runs Monday through Thursday, 10-11:45 a.m., for ages 5-12.

Session 2, “Above the Earth and Beyond,” runs Monday through Thursday from 1-2:45 p.m. for ages 5-12.

Fee: $50, includes supplies.

Discount for two or more siblings. Instructors: Bette Hickman and Teri Lewis.

Info: 770-254-9811 or 770-713-3449

JUNE 11 Grantville Day — This year’s event will include two competitions for children, an Art Contest and a Talent Show. Anyone 9-18 may enter the Art Contest, with submissions due June 5.

Winners announced, prizes awarded June 11. Entries can be paintings, drawings, sculpture or mixed media no larger than 4 feet.

For delivery of artwork: Art Contest Director Scott Palmer, 770-583-3337. The children’s talent show will be held in the Grantville Auditorium and include musicians, singers, poets, storytellers, comedians.

Those interested should call Talent Show Director David Wilson, 770-583-2918.

Community Fundraisers MAY 14, 2005 Cruisin’ for Charity — Fifth annual Cruisin’ for Charity Open Car Show, Saturday, May 14, 2005, benefits Coweta Sheriff’s Office Project S.A.F.E. - Students Are For Education. Coweta County Fairgrounds, Pine Road. Cars, trucks and motorcycles welcome.

Show day registration will be 8 a.m. to noon with awards at 4:30 p.m. The show goes on rain or shine.

The Friday evening before the

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show there will be a cruise to the fairgrounds beginning at Newnan’s Court Square. There will be $1,000 in cash plus door prizes awarded, with some cash prizes for pre-registered vehicles only.

Pre-registration is $20, and registration forms are available at businesses and restaurants around Newnan. The first 150 cars will get a dash plaque.

Information: Kelvin Brown, 770253-0006; Ken Ronig, 770-2533773; Ronald Stevenson, 770-2515145; or Travis Teal, 770-253-8949.

JUNE 25, 2005 Keith Brooking Tailgate Kick-off — The second annual Keith Brooking Great Tailgate Kick-off is Saturday, June 25, 2005 at the NewnanCoweta Airport. Proceeds support the efforts of the Keith Brooking Children’s Foundation, which has donated athletic shoes to needy children and physical education equipment to local elementary schools.

Some 600 people are expected to attend and help raise $100,000. Brooking and 10 to 15 other professional athletes will attend the kick-off.

Tickets are $75 each for the tailgate event from 6 p.m. to midnight. There is an additional $25 fee to attend the VIP reception from 5-6 p.m., where celebrity autographs may be requested. No cameras are allowed, but a photographer will be available to take a photo of guests with the athlete of their choice.

Information: Gina Weathersby, 770-683-4377, on the Web at keithbrookingfoundation.org.

Calendar information for July and August events may be mailed to Newnan-Coweta Magazine, P.O. Box 1052, Newnan, GA 30264 or e-mailed to angela@newnan.com.

Deadline is June 1.

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One of the most popular programs at the NewnanCoweta Public Library, the Vacation Reading Program gets underway this month.

“FUNtastic Reading” is the theme of this year’s summer reading program, which begins May 21. Along with prizes and certificates for reading, the library will once again be offering special programs and crafts during the summer months.

Programs include: • May 24, 10:30 a.m. — John Cooper, entertainer • May 26, 7 p.m. — Ron Anglin, juggler • May 31, 10:30 a.m. — Kele, Pacific dancer • June 2, 7 p.m. — Akbar Imhotep, puppeteer • June 7, 10:30 a.m. — David Ginn, magician • June 9, 7 p.m. — Todd Key, juggler • June 14, 10:30 p.m. — Queen Glitter, stories with sparkle Above, right: The Pacific dancers of Kele will entertain young library patrons during this year’s Vacation Reading Program.

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• June 16, 7 p.m. — Cynthia Watts, traditional tales • June 21, 10:30 p.m. — Ken Scott, magician • June 23, 7 p.m. – Deborah Strahorn, storyteller • June 28, 10:30 p.m. — Doodle the Clown • June 30, 7 p.m. – Sue Landa with her trained dogs For more information, visit the library’s Web page at www.newnan-coweta.org and click on the section entitled “Children” on the left hand side of the homepage, or call Anna Hollander, Youth Services Librarian, at 770-253-3625.

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Ian Miller helps magician David Ginn perform a trick during a past appearance at the Newnan-Coweta Public Library. Ginn returns June 7.

Puppeteer Akbar Imhotep will perform for patrons at the Newnan-Coweta Public Library on June 2 at 7 p.m.

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MY COWETA

Carolyn “Pie” Wilson Burson is a Newnan writer and the author of “Pie’s Half-Baked Memoirs,” a charming book which will be enjoyed by anyone who likes stories of the Coweta County of yesteryear.

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The Jacksons’ swimming pool at the end of McKoy Place (now Alpine Drive) was more than sufficient for me and all the children who lived on the street. While others had to pay, we were allowed to go in free. But my family eventually moved from McKoy Place to Third Street and we never, to my recollection, went back to the Jacksons’ pool. We young’uns had to be content to dam up the creek behind our house in Mr. Ferrell’s pasture and wade in it. It did not need to be deep for the others, because I was the only one who could actually swim.

I must have been nine or 10 years old at the time, and I can’t say that I didn’t miss the pool on McKoy Place. I don’t know how my older sisters felt, since Love was 13 and Sister was 15 and swimming was low on their list of things to do. (Boys, of course, topped their lists.)

My new friends on Third Street and I were content playing games day and night, especially in the evening under the street light, which

was our gathering place after supper — after we had (supposedly) finished our homework. Those were happy hours of play.

But I loved to swim, and I could not have been happier when the new city swimming pool opened on Duncan Street in the mid-thirties.

Bubba was working at the mill, and Daddy was working for one of President Roosevelt’s new programs which provided jobs for people who were out of work during the Depression. Since I earned 25 cents a week taking Bubba his lunch every day, in the summer I could afford a dime to go swimming once a week.

One particular day, though, I must have spent all my earnings at the Alamo picture show because come Saturday, an especially hot day, I had no dime to go swimming. But I had a plan. (I also had a new bathing suit, one that was not homemade).

Unbeknownst to Mama, I wrapped my new bathing suit in a towel and set out, penniless, for

Duncan Street. When I got to the pool I marched straight into the dressing room, bypassing the ticket counter, changed into my bathing suit and, after wading through the small disinfectant pool just outside the dressing room, walked to the edge of the pool. I was just about to dive in when the lifeguard, whom I had not even noticed, approached me and asked me for my ticket.

I just looked at him with that little girl innocent look and said, “I don’t have one.” With that, I dived into the pool. He didn’t try to retrieve me, so I played and swam and dived to my heart’s content and then got out of the pool, went into the dressing room, changed into my clothes and walked home, my own mother never the wiser. And the lifeguard, Dr. C. M. “Bro’r” Barron, doesn’t even remember it himself.

That was the only time I pulled that stunt, and through the years I spent many glorious days at that city pool on Duncan Street.

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