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12 HELLO, HOLIDAYS! 14 THANKFUL KIDS Local schoolchildren are thankful for a surprising number of things this year!

18 THE YOUNG KNITTERS Some young Coweta ladies are learning an old craft that’s giving them new possibilities – for creativity and for giving to others.

24 BABY FILES Pacifiers. Naptime. Tupperware. These are things for which a young mom gives thanks.

26 HOLIDAY HAPPENINGS From Holiday Open Houses to the Piedmont Newnan Hospital Auxiliary’s Candlelight Tour, there are plenty of holiday happenings in Coweta this year.

28 GRILL A TURKEY For a new twist on a Thanksgiving staple, try cooking your bird on the grill this year.

40 CELEBRATING CHANUKAH The Kam family observes Chanukah each year as a time of celebration and reflection.

44 CHRISTMAS MEMORIES In 1997, Hallmark Entertainment’s “Christmas Memories” was filmed in Sharpsburg and Senoia. This year, Sharpsburg is recalling that memorable time with a special December screening.

50 TRUNKS FULL OF MEMORIES Senoia’s Jack Merrick shares how he came to restore old trunks.

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64 CELEBRATION FIT FOR A KING Whether you like to decorate a patriotic tree or a traditional red and green one, learn some new tips for gathering Christmas decorations all year round.

72 PIECES OF THE PAST In his woodworking shop, Newnan’s Dr. Charles Barron crafts elegant pieces for family and friends.

78 THE BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT Cowetans share some of the most meaningful Christmas gifts they have received.

Departments 36 COWETA COOKS Vegetarian and looking for new recipes for the holidays? Kim Frederking shares some of her family’s favorites.

60 LOCAL HERITAGE Looking back now that he’s 50, Winston Skinner shares what he likes best about celebrating the holidays in Coweta.

82 THE THOUGHTFUL GARDENER

Whether it is given or received, gardening is truly a gift that keeps on giving.

88 MEET A READER Meet Frances Smith, the scooter-riding ticket lady in downtown Newnan who has also provided a home for 135 Coweta foster children through the years.

90 SADDLE UP Mary Fowler is a top-ranked dressage judge who is also devoted to sharing her vast knowledge of dressage with her students.

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> FROM THE EDITOR

f I were a better woman I’d claim my favorite Christmas movie was something inspirational such as “Miracle on 34th Street” or “It’s a Wonderful Life.” My favorite Christmas movie, however, is probably “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.”

Can you believe it’s been 20 years since we first joined Clark Griswold and Company for an old-fashioned family holiday?

Poor Clark. He tries to keep the in-laws and the outlaws happy. He can’t figure out how to get all those Christmas lights to work. And he doesn’t get that Christmas bonus he was planning to use to install a new pool for the family.

The not-too-subtle message of that movie, the message that makes it so meaningful to me, is that sometimes we set unrealistic, Martha Stewart-sized expectations for our holidays. (Not that a little Martha isn’t a good thing.) I see the “Christmas Vacation” movie as a guide for how not to celebrate the holidays.

It’s also a reminder to focus on the real meaning of Christmas, which for Christians means commemorating the birth of Christ and

not letting that get lost in the hustle and bustle of the season. Every year I aim to do better!

And yet Clark Griswold also reminds me that, sometimes, our holiday traditions are just plain funny.

One family memory came back to me recently for the first time in years. My grandmother had this next door neighbor named Louise, a good-hearted and colorful character who often visited in her bathrobe, the scent of Eau de Vick’s Vapor Rub forever trailing her.

Picture Hallmark’s Maxine character without the sass.

Louise enjoyed gifting our family with pecan pies.

Only problem was, Louise’s pecan pie recipe had a toohigh ratio of hulls to actual pecans. Year after year we had to come up with ever more creative ways of disposing of Louise’s deadly, tooth-chipping pies without her knowing it.

I miss that.

This year I’m hoping to follow Louise’s generous example, minus the hulls, with a new tradition of giving beautifully decorated cookies as gifts. I’m inspired by a great new book, Cookie Craft Christmas (reviewed on page 97), and we’re giving away a copy of the book and some cookie baking supplies to one lucky Coweta reader. If you’d like to win, be sure to enter at www.newnancowetamagazine.com/cookiekit by midnight Nov. 30.

Meanwhile, be careful around those pecan pies, and I hope you have a Merry Christmas!

Fondly,

Angela McRae, Editor angela@newnan.com

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By Nichole Golden | Photos by Bob Fraley In the fall of 1621, Pilgrims and Indians gathered for the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Mass. Although the uniquely American celebration has changed through the years, the root of it remains – giving thanks for the blessings in our lives.

For children, it’s the simple things that make them grateful.

A group of first and second grade students from Atkinson Elementary School in Newnan shared what Thanksgiving means to them, how they’ll spend the holiday, and what they’re most thankful for.

What topped the Thanksgiving list of this delightful group of students? The love in their lives and a certain delicious bird.

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Eric Romero, second grade Every year, his family’s Thanksgiving celebration is held at night with “turkey and nice food.” Romero moved to America from Mexico when he was just two years old. He already knows about the Indians and Pilgrims. This year he is thankful for “having a great family and living here in the United States.”

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Kaliyah Matthews, first grade “We go to my grandmother’s house,” she said, where the dinner menu includes turkey, dressing and fruit salad. What’s nice about Thanksgiving?

“That you’re off from school,” she said.

“I like coming to school,” she later added. She counts her mother, who buys great toys, among her blessings this November. “My mom loves me a lot,” Kaliyah said.

Jesiah Woodard, first grade “I love the turkey,” he said.

“I love to go outside and play in the leaves.” On Thanksgiving Day, Jesiah goes out to eat with his family. He is most thankful for his mom. She buys him toy houses and takes him to cookouts.

Trey Herring, second grade

“I like to help my grandmother cook,” he said. Trey most enjoys meat and dressing on his Thanksgiving table. “I like dressing,” he emphasized. His granddaddy and mom set the table.

The family has a party with dancing.

Trey is thankful for his “grandmother’s cookin’” and enjoys playing games.

Ansley Dennis, first grade What does Thanksgiving mean to Ansley? “Being with my family,” she said. Her family eats a good dinner. Ansley mentions liking turkey but shakes her head “no” at the mention of pumpkin. “I’m thankful that I have a Mom and Dad,” she said. Ansley also has brothers and a sister.

Janice Tuck, second grade

Grace Manning, second grade Grace spends her Thanksgiving with family. “We go to my grandma’s house and play games,” she said. She is thankful for the “blessings that I have.”

She is grateful for her longtime friends Sarah and Grace, and she likes to laugh.

At Janice’s house Thanksgiving also means celebrating her brother’s November birthday. Last year, she made his birthday present by hand with leaves. “Everybody comes to my house” for the holiday, Janice said.

The family plays games, and dad and all the girls get to fix their plates first. She is grateful for her older brother, his birthday, and that he watches over her.

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Jordan McKeever, first grade Giving presents should be part of Thanksgiving, says a smiling Jordan. He wants chicken and ham at his holiday dinner. He is thankful for his family and also his teachers.

“They’re nice,” he said. But Jordan is already thinking ahead to Christmas. “I wish I could get a cat,” he said.

Jordan Smith, second grade

“It’s about when people get together and share,” said Jordan. The sharing includes swapping recipes.

She likes pizza, but for Thanksgiving the table features ham, bread, and macaroni and cheese. She has a big family that gathers together for the holiday. She is most grateful for “having a fun teacher,” and that “I get to go to the library and check out books I haven’t read before.”

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Bella Grace Parker, first grade

Colin Swenney, first grade

“Turkeys.” According to Bella, that’s what this November holiday is all about. The colors brown and red make her think of Thanksgiving. She likes to play with her cousins during the holiday and enjoys eating “turkey ... and peas ... and green beans.” She is grateful for “my family” and “Jerry and Sophie” the giraffes and “Bunkie the Bear.”

“I know you eat like some ham, and chicken and turkey,” he said. Colin is thankful for school, for his big race track, and all of his cars. “I got a lot of them,” he said.

For the holiday, Colin goes to his Papa’s in Newnan for dinner to “eat and have fun.”

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McKenzie enjoys playing with his cousins outside and eating turkey, stuffing, salad and mashed potatoes. “It’s about having family around,” he said. McKenzie sums up the significance of Thanksgiving Day: “It’s about the people that came before us that helped to make it nice for us.” NCM

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These crafty ladies share needlework

By Meredith Leigh Knight | Photos by Bob Fraley irls, for the last time, put down your knitting and go to bed!”

I found myself uttering these strange words to my (now) 11-yearold daughter, Ansley, and her spendthe-night friends – all members of the Young Knitters group.

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same thing one night.

“When they were spending the night at my house, I told them to turn out the lights. Later, I went back up and they were knitting in the dark,” she said.

Fittingly, Caroline gave Ansley glow-in-the-dark knitting needles as a birthday present.

“She loves to knit at night,” Caroline told her mother.

Where did she learn this skill?

“Not from us!” Dawn and I are both quick to say.

The girls, along with many others, were taught knitting after school at Elm Street by volunteers Carrie Griswold and Joy Gugert.

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The Young Knitters include Ellie Waters, Audrey Meyer, Caroline Thomas, Ansley Knight, Meg Oldham and Autumn Hinze.

skills, joy of giving to others “I was at a party (three years ago), and the counselor, Carolyn Sears, approached me and said she’d really like for me to be a mentor,” said Griswold, who taught herself to knit after watching her aunt at age seven. “I said, ‘What I’d really like to do is teach some of the girls at school to knit.’ Carolyn loved the idea and

then Joy volunteered, and it just flowed from there.”

Griswold, who recently moved to North Georgia, chose third graders as her initial group of knitters.

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Meg Oldham and Ellie Waters admire a knitted frog.

Caroline Thomas and Ansley Knight work on a knitting project together.

Gathered for a meeting at Two Sisters Knitting Nook in Newnan are Meg Oldham, Ellie Waters, Caroline Thomas, Ansley Knight, Audrey Meyer and Autumn Hinze.

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work with as a group,� she said, “because they have the finger dexterity. Kids can learn at a younger age, but it’s easier if it’s one on one.� “The girls wanted to knit socks from the very beginning,� recalls Gugert. “We told them we needed to teach them some other things first and then they could knit socks.�

The girls began by knitting a washcloth, then a hat, the group quickly growing in knowledge as well as number. “After the first year, the girls brought in others,� said Carrie, who opened up the group to third through fifth graders. “It was a challenge to keep the numbers small, but others would help. Carolyn Sears brought out her knitting and often joined the group, and Katie Brady joined the group with her mentee.�

“One of the funniest things in the beginning,� said Griswold, “was the girls had a really hard time not looking at each other while they talked. They were all raised so well. I had to tell them this is the one time it’s okay and not impolite to not look at the other person when you talk.�

In order to remedy this and curb the girls’ desire to chat, Griswold began reading to them while they knitted, choosing books such as oldfashioned fairy tales, advice and sayings from knitting books, and the girls’ favorite, Caddie Woodlawn. “Caddie is based on a true story.

She was about the same age as the girls, and from the Wild West, a real tomboy. The girls couldn’t wait to hear what would happen next,� said Griswold. “It brought up so many topics. The girls could bring up their

fears and challenges, talk about anything and be accepted. I’ve experienced that with all knitting groups. It’s a bonding that takes place. There’s something about working with one’s hands that takes away the self-consciousness. It’s a wonderful gift to pass on through the generations.�

Ask the girls what their favorite project is and they will unanimously say “The bears!� And not just because they are cute and cuddly. “We liked helping other people,� said Ansley, as the others nodded in agreement.

The knitters made the bears during their second year as part of the Mother Bear project, which supplies hand-knitted bears to children suffering from the effects of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. For many of the girls, it was the first

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time they had heard of the disease so it brought a real awareness to the plight of others. The girls used a pattern that dated back to World War II. The original pattern was used to make bears for children evacuated from London during the Blitz. Once the girls’ bears were finished, they were sent to Africa with a note as part of the Mother Bear project.

“We had a good time doing the bears,” said Joy. “They all had names, and we would line them up to talk to them.”

During the final year, the older girls made their much anticipated socks.

“My favorite thing about knitting was making our own stuff,” said Meg Oldham.

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“Yeah, and then people ask ‘Who did that?’” said Ellie Waters, “and we can say, ‘I did!’”

“I like knitting because you can get a redo,” said Griswold. “If it’s not right, you can rip it out and do it over again. It teaches patience, humility and brings lots of joy.”

Despite the fact that several of the girls have moved on to middle school, and Griswold, too, has moved away, the lessons learned while knitting are carried with them.

The girls continue to practice at home and in groups when they can, eager to share their newfound skill with others, whether it be helping younger kids learn or teaching a few old dogs (a.k.a. their moms) a new trick. NCM

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> Baby Files

By Carolyn Barnard have recently concluded that once you have a baby, you enter into a very strange space-time continuum. It feels like I blinked and the year was gone. It just does not seem possible that the holiday season is already upon us! As we come into the most wonderful time of the year, I wanted to share my list of what I have been most thankful for in 2009. (Amazing how it’s the simple things you love and appreciate the most once you become a mother!)

1. Disney’s “Little Einsteins”!

This has been Lilly’s favorite show since she was three months old, and I am now forever indebted to these kids because of their “Musical Missions” CD that prevents my child from screaming every time she is put in her car seat. That theme song comes on and the [fake] tears dry up immediately! Granted, I have heard these songs so many times that I am humming them in my sleep and at times just hearing them makes me want to slam my head against the

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steering wheel, but I am thankful nonetheless.

2. Pacifiers. I know that use of these controversial objects is probably the sign of me being a “weak” mother, but if that’s the stereotype so be it! It should also probably bother me that my one-year-old often shares said pacis with my dogs – and yet strangely it doesn’t. I love these things and am convinced you can never have enough. Anything that speeds up nap and bedtime is a

that Lilly loves her schedule and takes regular naps. I have friends whose babies never take naps and I simply can’t imagine how exhausting those days must be! How else are you able to squeeze in basic things like showering?! (There was a very stressful time in our home when Lil would stand outside the shower and scream at the top of her lungs at whoever was attempting one. She would also beat on the glass and try to slide the door open while

Several of my friends are very productive people during naptime, while I often find myself staring into space doing nothing. And loving it. friend of mine. Speaking of which leads me to number 3 …

3. Naptime! Every mother’s favorite word. I am very fortunate

screaming. Showering one-handed while your ears are ringing is a less than enjoyable experience, I can assure you.) Several of my friends are

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very productive people during naptime, while I often find myself staring into space doing nothing.

And loving it.

4. Pets, cell phones and Tupperware. These may seem unconventional things for which to be thankful, but anything that keeps Lilly entertained as much and as frequently as these things do goes on the list. I cannot tell you how much my child loves our dogs, and how much I love them for being patient with her! She chases them around, pulls their ears, pokes their eyes and regularly tries to eat their food. She went through a phase where her favorite things to teethe on were their chew toys, but I assured myself that if they were safe for animals surely the same was true for babies. Cell phones are amazing car seat distracters (we have replaced only one so far due to the drool factor), and Tupperware is an amazing thing to give a baby while kitchen-cleaning!

5. My husband! Truly he is the most amazing man on the planet for how attentive and helpful he is. It has been one of the most incredible experiences of my life to watch how he loves our daughter and how she loves him back. I always thought I would take it personally if my kids acted like they wanted to be held by Daddy instead of me, but nothing could be further from the truth! I have loved watching their relationship develop and am truly blessed by it every day.

Of course all of these things are wonderful, simple pleasures that have made my life easier, but in all seriousness, even with the world and economy the way they are, we have an innumerable amount of things in our lives for which we should be thankful every day. My parents are currently living in Manila, the Philippines, where recently there was severe flooding with terrible casualties. Some of the pictures from relief efforts there are nothing short of tragic. My mother tells me all the time that when she sees the young mothers on corners begging for money or food, how easily that could have been me or Lilly. What an incredible blessing and gift that we live in America and that we have beds and food and even flu shots.

From the smallest things like pacis and naptime to the bigger blessing of being an American, to the ultimate Gift of a Baby in a manger, fill your holiday season with a spirit of thankfulness. We all have much to be grateful for! NCM

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Holid y H ppenings Enjoy the sights and sounds of the Christmas season in Newnan with bazaars, parades, an art show and a chance to see the community’s historic homes all dressed up for the holidays.

By Nichole Golden a bake sale and a Lights Parade. For more

shopping break to enjoy a snack or two since

information on Main Street events, call 770-

food and drinks will be for sale at Coweta

253-8283.

Christmas.

• Coweta Christmas, the 11th annual event of the Chi Chapter of Alpha Delta Coweta Christmas’s Santa

Kappa (ADK), will be Nov. 14 at the Coweta County Fairgrounds on Pine Road. The

• Kicking off the season is the 41st

shopping event has plenty to entertain

Christmas Artist Market, an event of the

youngsters and will be held from 9:30 a.m.

Newnan-Coweta Art Association (NCAA), to

to 4 p.m.

be held Nov. 6-8. The art exhibit will be held

Local school choruses and an Irish

47 Jackson St. • The Candlelight Tour of Homes in

at the Historic Train Depot, located at the

dance group will be performing. School

Newnan will be like stepping back into

corners of Broad and Washington Streets in

groups entertaining with holiday music will

Christmas 1909. The tour is Friday, Dec. 4,

Newnan. Hours are Friday from noon to 7

be Eastside, White Oak, Atkinson, Northside,

from 4-9 p.m. The Piedmont Newnan Hospital

p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday

Poplar Road, Brooks and Newnan Crossing

Auxiliary is joining with the Newnan Reading

noon to 5 p.m. This show features original

elementary schools. Brenda Word of ADK

Circle this year for the celebration of the

paintings, prints, photography, jewelry, crafts

said Santa will be returning this year for

literary group’s 100th anniversary. The five

and gifts, all made by local artists, and

photos with the children. The Secret Santa

homes selected for this year’s tour were the

perfect for the art lover on your Christmas

Shop is closed to parents so children may

homes of some of the original charter

list. For more information, call Silvia

purchase surprise gifts for their loved ones.

members of the Circle.

Feenaghty at 770-487-1005.

Parents may pay a small fee for little ones to make crafts.

• Main Street Newnan has a packed

Vendors will offer wares including

“The Auxiliary is honored to be part of this once in a lifetime celebration,” said Barbara Tumperi, event chair.

calendar for both November and December.

jewelry, home decor, homemade goodies,

Events in November include Market Day on

Christmas gifts and children’s clothes. A

Victorian architecture, Georgian and

the Square (Nov. 7 from 10-2), the annual

silent auction will also be held. Proceeds

antebellum plantation styles. Tumperi said

Holiday Open House (Nov. 8 from noon-5),

help ADK, an organization of women

Reading Circle members will be dressed in

Pickin’ on the Square (Nov. 14 beginning at 10

educators, raise money for scholarships for

period costume for the tour. Traditional

a.m.), and finally, the much-anticipated arrival

students from Coweta’s high schools to

Christmas carols such as “Deck the Halls”

of Santa on Nov. 27 (6-8 p.m.)

The homes featured are examples of

study education. Contributions are also

will be played on the piano. Refreshments

In December, the Main Street offerings

made to Community Welcome House and

will be served at one of the homes.

include a Market Day (Dec. 5 from 10-2), the

the Ferst Foundation, which provides free

annual Christmas Parade with Santa (Dec. 6

books to children. Visitors may also take a

The homes open for tour will be the Parks-Enloe/McWhorter home, 27 Temple

beginning at 3 p.m.), Pickin’ on the Square

Ave.; the Atkinson-Glover home at 19 Temple

(Dec. 12 beginning at 10 a.m.), and a new

Ave.; the Orr-Zellers-Jessel home at 10

event, a Downtown Cookie Exchange, on

College St.; the Salbide-Reese-

Dec. 11 from 5-8 p.m. Participating merchants

Betts/Williams home at 29 College St.; and

will each feature a homemade cookie along

the Sargent-Bryant-Estanich home at 47

with the recipe for you to pick up and take

Jackson St. in Newnan.

Tour attendees will see beautiful built-in

home to share. Finally, round out the

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porch and gazebo porch among other architectural details.

Advance tickets are $12 and may be purchased at Scott’s Bookstore on the Court Square, both Sprayberry’s BBQ restaurants in Coweta, the Piedmont Newnan Wellness Center on the Court Square, or the Gift Shop at Piedmont Newnan on Hospital Road.

Mary Williams Assistant Professor of Nursing

Tickets at the door are $15 each. For information on the tour, call 770-253-8866.

Parking will be available at the in-town lot of the hospital. Proceeds benefit the auxiliary’s annual scholarship program, as well as the hospital’s new outpatient diagnostic center for women.

Senoia parade

• Light Up Senoia in downtown Senoia is set for Dec. 5 from 5-8 p.m. There will be a Christmas parade, Christmas tree lighting, music, Santa’s Secret Workshop and pictures with Santa. The Clydesdale horses will be in Senoia Dec. 13 from 1-3 p.m., and the Candlelight Tour of Homes will be Dec. 13 from 5-8 p.m.

• Shop and support a good cause by attending the second annual Coweta Shopping Bazaar. Sponsored by the Coweta County Special Olympics program, the bazaar will support mentally and physically handicapped children. The event will be Saturday, Dec. 5, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the county’s all-purpose building next to the Recreation Department, 39 Hospital Rd. Vendors for this event are exclusive, and food and drinks will be sold to shoppers. Warm up with chili, coffee and hot chocolate. Shop for candles, scrapbooking materials, engravable gifts, cosmetics, jewelry and home interior items. Vendors will be offering door prizes and giveaways.

For details on the event, call Teresa McDonald, bazaar coordinator, at 770-253-0892.

“We would like to have many vendors and many shoppers,” McDonald said. NCM

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Like most Coweta families, the first item on our Thanksgiving menu is always turkey. Until recently, it was roasted in a large roasting pan in our home's only oven. I often ran into the problem of scheduling the baked items and wishing for a second oven, just for Thanksgiving.

A couple of years ago, my husband Jerry, an avid griller, suggested grilling our Thanksgiving turkey to solve the oven dilemma and I nervously agreed. It was an experiment that turned into a tradition.

Not only did we free up the kitchen, but the grilled turkey was tasty and even more tender than when roasted in the oven.

There are some "must have" items you will need before grilling a turkey.

The most important is a meat thermometer. The second is a foil pan with wire handles (the kind with the wire that goes underneath the pan). This adds stability when removing the hot turkey from the grill. You also will need large oven mitts, a basting brush and heavy duty aluminum foil. It is also nice to have a small rack to place under the turkey. You can make one by covering a small metal pan or even a foil pie pan with heavy-duty aluminum foil and placing it underneath. This helps keep the turkey out of the drippings. The grill should be a four-burner covered grill, and it is helpful (but not necessary) to have a temperature gauge on the grill to make sure the temperature remains constant. One of the most important tips: always start with a full tank of gas.

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Optional garnish for the turkey Add herbs and spice leaves around turkey and garnish with miniature pears and lady apples If your grill has a top or warming rack, remove it for grilling the turkey.

Use a foil pan with handles and prepare by inserting a covered rack or pan in the bottom of large foil pan. Pour 1/2 cup of water in the bottom of the pan. Place turkey in the pan, checking to make sure all cavities are empty (unless of course you are stuffing the turkey). Cover with aluminum foil that is sprayed inside with cooking spray, so it won’t stick to the turkey. To prepare the grill, turn all burners on until temperature is between 300 and 325 degrees. Turn off the inside burners and put the turkey in the center of the grill.

Monitor the grill to keep the temperature around 325 degrees.

Cook the turkey approximately 4 hours and check temperature after about 2 to 2 1/2 hours. The temperature should steadily rise. In the last 30 minutes of cooking, remove the foil and baste with the glaze. Baste every 10 to 15 minutes and watch carefully that the turkey doesn’t get too brown. Remove when internal temperature reaches 160 degrees. Put on a plate and garnish with greens, herbs and small pears and apples.

I don’t generally stuff the turkey because I usually make cornbread dressing, but according to the USDA, the internal temperature of a stuffed turkey must be 165 degrees. NCM

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ast year, a “Vegetarianism in America” study was published which revealed that 3.2 percent of the American population is now vegetarian and 10 percent follow a vegetarian-inclined diet. A vegetarian diet is nothing new to Newnan’s Kim Frederking since she decided to give up all meat except fish more than 20 years ago.

Always a huge lover of animals, Frederking had thought about giving up meat and made a firm decision to do so but was worried about eating enough protein. “Then I met a friend years ago who told me how I could eat healthfully while phasing out the red meat first, then the poultry and that was it,” she said.

She and husband Scott have two daughters, Amanda, 15, and Emma Rose, 12, who have chosen to follow a vegetarian diet of their own volition, and Frederking says they are even stricter than she is.

“They’ll not even eat fish and get mad at me if I do!” she said. Scott enjoys the family’s meatless meals at home but has not gone full vegetarian; he indulges his steak and burger cravings during lunch at work.

Holidays provide opportunities to pull out favorite recipes, and Frederking has a prized cookbook she turns to often, The Greens Cookbook from Greens Restaurant in San Francisco. She said Greens is a pioneer vegetarian restaurant which applies organic, sustainable growing practices by buying local produce and growing what they can’t purchase locally.

When deciding to go meatless for holiday meals, Frederking recommends selecting a hearty main dish recipe such as this Wild Mushroom Lasagna to replace the turkey or ham. Vegetable side dishes like this Winter Squash, Leeks and Sage are a natural addition to the vegetable spread. Chicken broth can often be replaced with vegetable broth or fruit juice, and cream of mushroom or cream of celery soup can often be used in place of cream of chicken soup.

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WINTER SQUASH, LEEKS AND SAGE

WILD MUSHROOM LASAGNA WITH BÉCHAMEL SAUCE

2 butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1/2 inch pieces 1 leek (white part only), chopped 1 garlic clove, minced 6 fresh sage leaves, minced 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons butter Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

1 box lasagna noodles, cooked (can use no-cook noodles) 2 cups Parmesan or Asiago cheese, shredded 1/2 ounce dried porcini mushrooms 4 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 bay leaves 1 small onion, finely diced 4 medium carrots, peeled and finely diced 4 celery stalks, finely diced 2 tablespoons fresh thyme or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme 1 tablespoon fresh marjoram, chopped, or 1 teaspoon dried marjoram 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped 1-1/2 pounds mushrooms, wiped clean and thinly sliced (Kim uses a combination of regular and baby portabellas) 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped Salt and pepper 4 tablespoons tomato paste

Preheat oven to 425 degrees.

Prepare a casserole dish by coating with butter or cooking spray.

Toss squash, leeks, garlic, sage and olive oil together. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Dot pieces of butter on top. Bake uncovered for 50 minutes or until squash is tender.

Serves six.

Adapted from “The Greens Cookbook”

Wild Mushroom Lasagna with Bechamel Sauce and Winter Squash, Leeks and Sage

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Cover dried mushrooms with 1 cup boiling water and let sit for 20 minutes. Squeeze dry, saving soaking liquid. Roughly chop mushrooms into small pieces. Strain cooking liquid through strainer lined with a paper towel and reserve liquid.

While mushrooms are soaking, cook lasagna noodles. If using cooked kind, drain and cover loosely with damp paper towels to keep moist.

Melt butter and olive oil with bay leaves over medium heat in a skillet.

Then add the onion, carrots, celery and herbs. Raise heat and cook briskly for 3-4 minutes. Add sliced mushrooms, garlic and dried mushrooms. Season with salt and pepper and cook 3 minutes. Add soaking liquid and tomato paste. Cook until mushrooms are tender and a syrupy juice remains on bottom of pan.

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or many, the winter holidays are a time for family joy and festivity. For the religious, they are a time of celebration and reflection. Newnan’s Michael and Debbi Kam and their children Jason, 25, Amy, 27, and Erik, 33, see Chanukah as one of the most festive holidays on the Jewish calendar.

Debbi Kam explains, “We are joyous during Chanukah because it is a holiday that celebrates the victory of the Maccabees over the Greeks and the rebuilding of the Temple. Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) are more solemn and are spent all day in Shul (synagogue).”

The elder Kams grew up, met and fell in love in Atlanta, although Debbi’s family is originally from St. Louis. Debbi and Michael moved to Newnan 30 years ago when Michael was offered a position in a law firm with George Rosenzweig. He is now a partner in Kam, Ebersbach & Lewis PC. Debbi spent many of the early years making sure their children made it from their regular school education here in Newnan to their religious school education in Atlanta.

“We attend Temple Sinai in Atlanta, and our children attended religious school there,” Debbi says.

There aren’t many synagogues on the south side of Atlanta and now that

Debbi and Jason Kam, above, show some of the food and decor typically used in their family’s Chanukah celebration.

At right are a dreidel, some gold coins and a menorah that are part of the observance.

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includes beef brisket with carrots and onions as well as latkes with applesauce. At right are some of the family’s menorahs, including ones the children made.

Debbi Kam says her family’s traditional Chanukah meal

Michael’s mother is the administrator for the temple, Debbi says, “it really makes sense to go there!”

The Kams have enjoyed getting together with other Jewish families in Coweta County by creating a Havurah group, a close-knit group or circle of friends with whom to share friendship, prayer and fellowship.

Debbi says their Havurah was more active when the children were younger but they love to see new and old friends.

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Chanukah is a celebration of the Maccabean revolt and rededication of the Holy Temple and its altar after it was desecrated by the Greeks.

During the original Chanukah dedication, there was only enough consecrated olive oil to keep the eternal flame in the Temple burning for one day, but miraculously the oil burned for eight days. Jason says eight days is the length of time it took to press, prepare and consecrate fresh olive oil.

Today, Jews the world over celebrate Chanukah in many personal ways but there are rituals that help keep the Chanukah miracle alive for families. The menorah lighting is central to the Chanukah observance.

This candelabrum can be plain or fancy, and many families collect individual menorahs for each member of the family. Debbi says that each person in their family has their own menorah and they also have ones the children have made.

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The menorah may be lit by wax candles or by oil and cotton wicks, but whatever the fuel, Debbi says the flame must not be blown out but burn out on its own each night. She finds candles safer than oil, especially with children in the house. The flames must burn at least 30 minutes each night and for at least 1-1/2 hours on Friday night Shabbat (Sabbath). If a candle or oil lit flame does go out, it must not be relit. The Chanukah lights must not be prepared for Saturday night during Friday night Shabbat because it is a day of rest.

Shabbat takes place from sunset Friday evening until nightfall Saturday night, and the menorah must be lit before lighting the Shabbat candles because no work may be done during the Sabbath. Sabbath candles are lit 18 minutes before sundown, so organization is crucial,

but it’s a matter of recognizing God comes first.

The Jewish faith has many symbolic foods for different holidays, but during Chanukah two of the more popular ones are Potato Latkes and Sufganiot. They represent foods cooked in oil and naturally hearken back to the miracle of oil from the Temple. The latkes are a potato pancake made of grated potato, egg, grated onion and sometimes flour or ground matzo and salt and pepper to taste. They are fried in a shallow layer of oil until crisp and can be topped with a variety of tasty treats from sour cream to applesauce or sugar. Sufganiot (or Sufganiyot) are doughnuts, and again the oil is significant during Chanukah. These sweet treats are especially popular in Israel during the weeks leading up to and during the Chanukah season but certainly are enjoyed the world over.

Debbi says their traditional Chanukah meal is beef brisket with carrots and onions and latkes with applesauce. “The kids also enjoyed playing the dreidel game, which is a betting game where they win gelt,” she says. Gelt is money, including real money, but more often in relation to Chanukah it is chocolate-covered gold coins. Kids spin the dreidel and win or lose their coins.

“During Chanukah we also had one night of gift-giving but really made more of a deal of it when the kids were small. Now that they are older, we focus more on the celebration and family time,” Debbi says.

The commemoration of the Chanukah miracle brings together the Kams, and Jews the world over, in celebration and remembrance through ritual, love and family. NCM

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In 1997, Sharpsburg turned “Hollywood” for several months when stars Patty Duke, Piper Laurie, Eric Lloyd, Anita Gillette and Jeffrey DeMunn came to film a Hallmark Entertainment adaptation of Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory. Filming became a community effort, and the Sharpsburg Merchants Association has once again invited the community to come together, this time for a free showing of the film on Dec. 18.

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diminutive author. However, for a few short years, from age four to nine, he was raised in the most stable environment Capote would know.

He was sent to live with his mother’s aunts and uncle in Monroeville, Ala., and it was during this time he formed his lifelong friendship with fellow writer Harper Lee. He wrote of his remembrances in his semiautobiographical short story classic, A Christmas Memory, in which he recalls the sweetness of a childhood left behind.

The Hallmark version carries the essential truths of the book, which

are the loving reminiscences of the seven-year-old Buddy, who has been sent to live in Alabama with his ancient aunts, uncle and an older female cousin named Sook, who is Buddy’s best friend. Sook has never seen a movie or eaten in a restaurant but she can tame hummingbirds and tell great ghost stories; she’s childlike in many ways, and this makes her magical to Buddy.

The stars of the film included Patty Duke (Sook), Eric Lloyd (Buddy), Piper Laurie (Jennie), Anita Gillette (Callie) and Jeffrey DeMunn (Seabone). Hallmark Pictures

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Patty Duke and Eric Lloyd

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Herb Bridges during filming

Director Glenn Jordan and his team turned to the town to fill out the cast.

Ann and Jack Merrick received a call from a location scout about using their house as ground zero for Capote’s childhood home. This was not a commitment to be taken lightly, as shooting took several months and entailed packing up their entire house and their dogs and then having the house “turned back” to the 1930s. “Our house had been used before for the movie Pet Sematary II,”

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said Ann Merrick, “so we knew what it meant and Jack enjoys the whole movie thing. I worried about moving my older dog but Hallmark Pictures was great.”

Ann said for Pet Sematary, movie folks literally came “knocking on our door,” but for A Christmas Memory and Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns they were approached through the Georgia Film Commission.

Mary Ann Reese had just retired from 30 years of teaching (34.333 years of first grade, she says) when a friend recommended she lend her quintessential southern voice as a dialect coach. She was contacted by Director Glenn Jordan and a location director, so she read the script for them around her dining room table.

“I was nervous at first, but then I was fine,” she said. The directors recorded that reading and gave it to all of the actors, and Reese said by the time they arrived in Sharpsburg

Director Glenn Jordan and actress Patty Duke autographed this photo for Sharpsburg’s Herb Bridges, who promoted the town as a site for filming. This shot was during the “Delivering Fruitcake” scene.

Jack and Ann Merrick had already loaned their home for the film Pet Sematary when a location scout came calling about using their home as the location for A Christmas Memory in 1997.

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behind cars and trees to give cues to extras about when they should walk or move. “It wasn’t the director saying ‘Action!’ and we moved,” he explained.

For his second role in the film Williams played the driver of a 1927 Pierce Arrow Bus, and what interested him was a background scene happening behind the main scene in a flower shop, yet they had to shoot it over and over again.

What he remembers most about that scene is another extra, a young woman in her thirties who was missing her front teeth and played a bus passenger. She decided to liven up their non-speaking parts by proudly announcing each time she Retired school teacher Mary Ann Reese lent her voice and talents as a dialect coach when A Christmas Memory was filmed locally in 1997.

At right, Ret. U.S. Marine Colonel Warren Williams enjoyed observing the military precision with which he and other extras were coached during filming.

they had their accents down.

“I went to Peachtree City to work with them and was in Sharpsburg every day in case they wanted to ask me how to pronounce a word, but they were very professional,” she said.

“One of my favorite memories was when Patty Duke gave Eric Lloyd a little puppy at the end of the film. It was so sweet.”

Ret. U.S. Marine Colonel Warren Williams enjoyed his experience through the eyes of a retired military man; he saw the film as a precise, well-oiled machine.

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silent generators were everywhere.

“We used generators in the military and would have loved those silent ones!” he said. In one scene Williams walked down a street “dressed like my grandfather” and was amazed at all the people hidden

boarded the bus, “It’s me again!”

Warren said it’s a phrase he uses himself on occasion to this day.

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n the days before rick enjoys Senoia’s Jack Mer interstate unks restoring vintage tr highways and l airplanes, Sarah Fay Campbel ory and photos by St suitcases on wheels and backpacks, the essential piece of luggage was the trunk.

And unlike suitcases they also came in very handy in the household for storage of linen, papers and even hopes. Pretty much everybody had one.

Many trunks from the early 20th century have been passed down over the years and become treasured family heirlooms.

Treasured though they may be, many haven’t weathered the years well Most of at all. those trunks are still Bottoms rot, sides rust or peel or stacked in his basement workshop. crack, and of course the handles break. He’s been too busy with customers’ That’s where Jack Merrick of trunks.

Senoia comes in. He began restoring The majority of the trunks are trunks in 1996 and estimates he’s from 1900 to 1920. At that time, restored 80 or more. “there was a lot of traveling going He’s bought a few in those years as on,” Merrick said. As travel options well, deals too good to pass up. He were somewhat restricted, “people even got three free trunks in exchange would go and they would stay a for restoring the owner’s favorite. couple of weeks. That was the theory 50

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behind it. If you carry a trunk, you obviously carry quite a lot.”

Nearly all the trunks Merrick has encountered have been in pretty sorry shape.

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different challenge,” Merrick said. “This is what makes it fascinating.”

The biggest problem is a rotted bottom.

“A wet floor is the number-one trunk killer,” Merrick said. The water causes deterioration to the wood and metal.

Every square inch of metal, whether hardware, bracket or body, is gone over with a wire brush, “because you’re always going to have rust,” Merrick said.

Restoring a trunk is a slow, deliberative process.

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Senoia's Jack Merrick takes turn-of-thecentury trunks and returns them to their former splendor.

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Leather trunk handles always need to be replaced. Merrick uses heavy duty, triple layer leather which he hand dyes. Square trunk nails, at left, attached to the remains of a handle, must be cut off and pried out, above.

One man brought this trunk to Merrick to be restored as a surprise Christmas gift for his wife. It had been in his wifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family for generations.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rush. Because if you rush it, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to lose the quality â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the whole intent of the restoration work,â&#x20AC;? Merrick said.

First up is removing the handle covers and anything else that needs to come off.

That requires cutting off the nails.

All antique trunks are made with nails. Trunk nails are tapered like a spike, and the heads are bent over flat with a hammer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On an original trunk, you will never see a screw holding any of the hardware,â&#x20AC;? Merrick said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you ever come upon a trunk and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got screws in it, walk away from it.â&#x20AC;?

He cuts the nail heads with a Dremel and carefully pries off the pieces. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about 100-year-old wood. You have to be careful with these things,â&#x20AC;? Merrick said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It takes time and patience.â&#x20AC;?

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The owner of this painted trunk inherited it from her mother, and had Merrick freshen the existing colors and return the interior, covered in red fabric, to the standard paper and acrylic covering.

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The results of the restoration work are often astonishing. The cleanup of this trunk revealed a unique metal design. The owner purchased this trunk from a Senoia antique shop.

He tries to keep the trunks as original as possible. When replacement is a must, he can order from suppliers of reproduction pieces; Merrick also makes his own wooden staves.

The locks almost always have to be replaced, because at some time over the 100 year or so life span, “somebody’s tried to jimmy the lock,” Merrick said.

The trunks have a skeleton of yellow pine; exterior materials can be wood, metal, canvas, leather or pressed tin.

Most of the trunks have a stained finish, which he does with oil-based stains, “wet sand hand rubbed to get the finish I want,” Merrick said.

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wallpaper, essentially the modern version of the original. Customers can pick out any wallpaper they want.

Merrick came up with the idea of trunk restoration when he and several co-workers were pondering what they would do after retiring from Delta.

None was planning to stop working altogether. “I can’t just sit around and watch the grass grow. I would’ve been dead in three months,” Merrick said.

The idea “just came to me all of a sudden.”

He liked the trunk restoration idea because it was different. He’d always enjoyed light woodworking, and drew on his metal shop skills from high school.

It was a very good choice.

“I love recreating something from the past,” Merrick said.

It makes it even more meaningful that “people really enjoy these things.

They have put them to a purpose and a good use, at the foot of the bed to store their blankets in.”

“I figure that I’m giving the piece another 50 years of life – for the current generation and the generation after that to be able to share and enjoy,” he said.

“If I can make it fit somebody else’s dream, or memory from their grandmother … and people come into their house and say ‘Hey, where did you get that?’ and they say, ‘From my grandmother,’ and come back and tell me – it’s beautiful,” he said.

“To me, that is success.” NCM

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ince last Christmas, I have passed the half century mark, and my first memories of the holiday seem to be taking on a nostalgic glow. Plus, the birth of Clair Lynn Kight in March means I am now somebody’s grandpa and can, therefore, be excused if more of my stories start with “Back in my day ...”

When I was born, my parents lived in the little home they built when they married, along Highway 27A at the edge of my mother’s family’s farm. I was the only grandchild on both sides.

Though my Trammell great-grandparents died before I came along, my position as the first great-grandchild secured me considerable Yuletide generosity since the family included my grandfather’s unmarried sister, Nellie, an independent, college-educated bookkeeper, and two businessmen brothers, Lester and Rhodes.

Christmas centered around family and church.

In those days, church was Luthersville Baptist. I remember receiving – in Sunday School – a tiny nativity scene formed of molded brown plastic and

dabbed, not too meticulously, with colorful paint. I could not have treasured it more if it had been carved from wood in the original stable at Bethlehem. The tiny artifact represented for me the story of the infant Savior, “the little Lord Jesus asleep on the hay” on that silent night that in my mind always was cold and snowy.

It did snow one Christmas as we were celebrating. Mom and Dad had invited the greater Trammell family, and Tom Jarrard, Mom’s first cousin, brought his fiancee, Nancy, to meet us all. I can still see them standing on the front porch with snowflakes falling behind them. It was a magical Christmas moment, and Nancy has proven herself a Christmas gift to be treasured.

On another occasion, Mom prepared a Christmas meal for Aunt Hettie and Aunt Ophelia Hunter, her mother’s unmarried sisters.

This festive gathering has gone down in family lore because of my unique ensemble. I was about 5 years old, and Mom had selected a matching

Here Aunt Ophelia Hunter “admires” my Christmas outfit, circa 1964. Getting ready for a Christmas dinner, opposite, are my grandmother, Carney Hunter Trammell; great aunt, Hettie Hunter; my mother, Sara Jane Skinner; and great aunt, Ophelia Hunter.

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Dad, who I later learned grew up in lean circumstances, marveled at how the two sisters got everybody in the family a small gift ... from their wages at the Moreland Knitting Mill. outfit for me. I, however, was particularly proud of my new PJs. When I decided to wear my pajama top over my dress shirt, Mom remonstrated only briefly and then returned to her dinner preparations. A prized family photo shows Aunt Ophelia – elegantly dressed – looking at me as if I had lost my mind.

Aunt Hettie and Aunt Ophelia lived in an old plantation plain style house in south

Mom helps me try out a special gift, a toy piano, at Granny Carney’s house some 45 years ago.

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Coweta’s Bexton community. The old place had been built around 1860 by the Presbyterian preacher but had been in our family for decades by the time I first remember it. My greatgrandmother was born, married and died there.

On Christmas Day, her descendants by the dozens gathered there. I remember the year Uncle Cecil Hunter told a long grown cousin who had put on a few pounds, “My, how you have grown.” And I remember being terribly disappointed one year to open my gift to find an elegant pink nightgown. Mom quickly figured out that Aunt Mildred Hunter was

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puzzled by the little boy’s outfit she had received.

There was always an abundance of food, conversation and love at Aunt Hettie’s. Dad, who I later learned grew up in lean circumstances, marveled at how the two sisters got everybody in the family a small gift – for him often a pair of socks – from their wages at the Moreland Knitting Mill.

Christmas also always included a gathering at Granny and GrandDaddy’s home just over the Meriwether County line in Luthersville. Their home was a bit more elegant, a Victorian farmhouse that is my cousin Bob Trammell’s law office today.

There was always a bountiful meal followed by distribution of presents in their living room, redone for courting as their children reached adolescence. Uncle Rhodes and Uncle Les were always there with their respective ladies, Janie Walthall and Gibbs Bexley. Granny, Miss Janie and Miss Gibbs were girlhood friends from Bexton. Aunt Virginia Jarrard and her family always came from Gainesville – which seemed very far away at that time.

My Dad went to graduate school in Athens when I was school age, and we later lived in Brunswick for several years. One year, we came home at Christmas. My brothers, Robert and Rhodes, and I wondered aloud as to whether Santa could find us at Uncle Rhodes’ and Uncle Lester’s. We should have known the jolly old elf was well acquainted with our bachelor great-uncles who had eyes that twinkled just like his.

Aunt Nellie had died by then. I slept in her room one restless Christmas Eve – listening for reindeer. When I awoke the next morning, the usual treasures there – the steel pennies on the mantel, the old adding machine, Aunt Nellie’s monogrammed mirror – held no charm. I wanted to see if Santa had found us.

He had, and he had brought GI Joe with him.

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By Tina Neely | Photos by Bob Fraley

hen December rolls around, the Neely house is all lit up, inside and out, with trees, garland and lights.

We deck the halls from top to bottom. Most of the trees are strategically placed in front of windows for a lovely Christmastime view, and many people stop and ask how many Christmas trees we have. I tell them we have eight full size trees and a 64

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couple of small ones. Why so many?

I do love Christmas – I love all the holidays – but Christmas is time to decorate for the biggest birthday celebration of them all, the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Decorating starts the week of Thanksgiving and takes at least five days. We play Christmas music, load up a trailer full of storage containers from the barn, and work from room to room with pure joy and excitement for the upcoming holiday season. No longer using real

trees due to some incidents with watering on the 70-year-old hardwoods, we pull out the man-size boxes of artificial ones. I could just kiss the person who invented trees with limbs pre-hung and pre-lit.

Stand it up, fluff it out, plug it in and voila, it’s ready to decorate!

In hopes you’ll be inspired to create something lovely in your own home this Christmas, we are all decorated and would love to give you a tour of our trees and their special themes.

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THE SNOWMAN TREE is my most favorite tree. It’s all in primary colors, lots of blue with touches of red, green and a goldyellow. This tree is for the children and has all their special ornaments on it: picture ornaments, characters and special ornaments from fun vacations. It’s fun, whimsical and simply delightful. I always “save” some of this tree’s ornaments for garland on the mantle and furniture to tie it all together. Because this is the kids’ tree, all the ornaments are non-breakable except for the souvenir Mickey ears from our Christmas visit to Disney one year. Garland is made of little “snowballs” and snowman heads, and the tree is topped with a sweet snowman.

Presents are wrapped to match the trees, too.

THE MANGER SCENES AND ANGELS TREE adorns the sunroom and looks so lovely from all angles. It’s full of glass manger scenes, angels, balls of gold and silver, and white feathers, which remind me of angels’ wings. This tree features garland of pearls and jewels and is topped with a lovely angel. Under this tree are gold and silver boxes and on the tags are written in gold the Fruits of the Spirit: Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

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THE FARM FUN IN THE PLAYROOM TREE may be small (only 4 feet tall), but it’s full of fun. Red balls, country ribbon, and cranberry beads and buttons as garland are joined by ornaments of cows, pigs and chickens wearing Santa hats. Burlap wrapped around the bottom serves as the perfect tree skirt.

Close to becoming my favorite tree is the SANTA TREE in the kitchen/keeping room. Fat and fluffy and hung with white lights and the oldtimey big red ones, this tree is full of all things Santa. Glitter balls and red bead garland with peppermints are topped with “Santa belt” ribbon that inspired it all. My most favorite garland on the tree and mantle is that of Santa pants and shirts. The theme is carried on to the fireplace mantle, the pot rack light over the island and the chandelier over the table. I’ve even got a new idea for a tablecloth featuring the perfect big Santa belly. Take a red tablecloth, lay a black runner down the middle, and for a perfect shiny buckle, use foam cut into shape and covered in gold glitter.

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Moving upstairs to the kids’ rooms, we have a PINK IS FOR PRINCESSES TREE in honor of our twin girls. Hung with pink and pastel lights, it features glitter fairies, princesses, butterflies, teacups, ballerinas and all things girly. It’s wrapped at the bottom with a small quilt that matches their beds. Because I let the girls decorate this one with me, and it gets a bit heavy on the front side (we actually had it fall over last year), we’ve gotten smart and started wiring it to the wall.

MEMORIES IN RED, GREEN AND GOLD is the theme of this tree, full of colorful balls and ornaments and the sweetest little Santa and Mrs. Claus ornaments that used to hang on our tree when I was a child.

I “save” ornaments from this one when I decorate it, too, to hang from the chandelier and put in the garland on the furniture. It’s topped with a lovely angel I got at an ornament swap.

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Want to start a new tree for your house?

Here are some ideas: • Shop year round. Local craft stores have a wonderful selection of Christmas items they put on sale even in the summer months.

• On vacation, pick up a special ornament or two. Let the children select a special new character ornament every year, too. It’s neat to have ornaments that have a special story to go with them.

• Don’t limit yourself to specialty Christmas shops. Shop everywhere for ornaments, even local discount stores. You never know what you might find or can make out of something. I have paired 50-cent plastic balls with fancy $50 crystal balls, and when it’s all mixed together it looks beautiful.

• Use artificial trees but still want that wonderful Christmas tree smell? Get branch clippings the tree farms and tree sellers are throwing out. Tuck them into your mantle greenery and trees. It smells yummy and doesn’t cost a thing.

• And the best tip for starting a new Christmas tree for your house? Start the day after Christmas. All the trees and ornaments are half price or more. If you have enough patience to wait until then, you get twice as many for the same price.

Merry Christmas with lots of love to you and yours from the Neely house! NCM

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Finally, the newest tree I’ve been working on looks like a MARDI GRAS TREE to me.

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Old photos of furniture like the one at right serve as inspiration for Dr. Charles Barronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s woodwork, which he then designs and creates from scratch.

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ome people preserve their past in stories or songs. Dr. Charles Barron’s most precious memories are captured in the swirling grains, rich hues and fine details of the furniture he has crafted for loved ones over the past three decades.

Each piece was built on request, each with a particular purpose. And each comes complete with its own unique tale.

“I can tell you a story about every piece I’ve ever built,” Barron says. “They each mean something special to me.”

Woodworking was never a career ambition, but Barron exhibited some crude carpentry skills as a lad when he, his brother Harold and some neighborhood boys used scrap wood from a local lumber yard to build a full-sized merry-go-round, Ferris wheel and roller coaster that soared 20 feet high.

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Dr. Charles Barron, a retired dentist, today enjoys woodworking and has crafted secretaries, cabinets, chests, tables, huntboards and sideboards.

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Barron says with a laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any idea what we were doing, but the other kids really liked it.â&#x20AC;?

Woodworking was the last thing on his mind when Barron completed Emory dental school in February 1946 and one month later, bought the only dental practice in Meriwether County. The postwar economy was booming, and between private patients and work for the Roosevelt Institute in Warm Springs, Barron had more business than he could handle.

Things got even busier in 1947 when he met, wooed and married Lavinia York, an Athens, Ga. girl who came to Meriwether County to teach school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My life was absolutely wonderful,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was as happy

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painstaking and meticulous.

Projects are measured in months and Barron is paid in compliments instead of cash.

He wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I never thought about selling anything,” he says.

“Most of it was for my children and you can’t put a price on that.”

Barron has traveled widely and his souvenirs often included pieces of wood picked up abroad and turned into keepsakes or gifts. He has carved Hawaiian ironwood, Icelandic arctic birch, Danish horse chestnut and countless other leftover limbs into everything from shoe horns to letter openers to a giant sewing needle.

“It keeps me busy,” he “I never thought says, “and it’s a great way to about selling remember places you’ve anything,” Dr. Charles visited.”

Barron says of his woodworking. “Most Lavinia passed away 10 of it was for my years ago, and several years children and you can’t later Barron married longtime put a price on that.” acquaintance Melba Sport.

More woodworking requests followed as Barron’s extended family “I had a knack for it,” Barron grew. says. “I was as surprised as anyone.”

Barron retired from dentistry The family orders started pouring in and Barron’s once-modest more than two decades ago, but still workshop was soon packed with fine spends hours each week in the basement workshop. He says woods, glues, varnishes, stains and dentistry will always be his first love, tools ranging from clamps, sanders and joiners to saws capable of cutting but admits that woodworking enriched his life in ways he never everything from stout framing expected. lumber to fragile strips 1/32 of an “I got satisfaction from both inch thick.

Barron built secretaries, cabinets, dentistry and woodworking,” Barron chests, tables, huntboards, sideboards says, “but that doesn’t really matter.

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Most people are lucky enough to have at least one Christmas memory that stands out in their mind.

You can’t forget that feeling of unwrapping the most perfect present. Maybe you received that Easy-Bake Oven or toy train set you’d been asking Santa for. Perhaps you were treated to the trip of a lifetime with that special someone, or welcomed a bundle of joy in time to celebrate the holidays as a family.

Coweta County’s own Stephanie Butcher, Jim McGuffey and Elizabeth Almon get nostalgic around the holidays thinking of their best Christmas gifts to date.

Stephanie Butcher – Coweta County’s Extension Coordinator – got quite the holiday surprise on the eve of Christmas 2007.

Stephanie and her thenboyfriend, Kirk Butcher, had been dating for several months, and he invited her to his home on Christmas Eve to celebrate with him and his two children, Tori, 14, and Trevor, 10.

After they’d all exchanged gifts, Kirk – who had been videotaping the occasion – handed the camera to his daughter and directed Stephanie’s attention to the lone present that remained under the tree.

“It was the most beautiful box you’ve ever seen,” said Stephanie. “It was a red box with a window in it. There was green, white and red

sparkly tissue paper inside.”

Stephanie discovered a ring box inside – though she quickly convinced herself that it was earrings. But, it wasn’t.

It was Kirk’s late mother’s engagement ring.

“It’s the most beautiful ring I’ve ever seen in my life,” she said. “I was so excited.

Then Kirk got down on one knee and proposed – and I said yes.”

It had been nearly 50 years since Kirk’s father had proposed to his mother with that ring. Kirk’s mother died in a car accident in 1990.

Kirk had the band customized for his bride so she would have a ring that was both sentimental and unique.

“It meant the world to me because of the history behind the ring and what it meant to Kirk,” she said.

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Jim McGuffey takes the greatest pleasure in the simplest of Christmas memories.

“My all-time favorite gift was Christmas itself when I was a little boy,” he said. “But there were memorable occasions that have stayed with me all these years.”

At 72 years old, he vividly recalls being about 5 years old in World War II — a time when Santa Claus “had a hard time getting around to houses.” His father, who

Elizabeth Almon was living in a foster home in Tennessee in 1999. That Christmas, when she was 14 years old, she was in the process of being adopted by the Almon family of Newnan.

Elizabeth had been visiting with the family for around six months and would stay with them about every other weekend while the adoption process was under way. While she was in Newnan, she slept on the couch or on an air mattress on the living room floor.

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came and Elizabeth unwrapped a puzzling gift.

“I was sent on a scavenger hunt inside and out in my pajamas on a crazy cold Christmas morning,” said Almon.

Her clues eventually led her back inside and upstairs to her now-brother Tripp’s bedroom. She opened the door to find the entire room had been redone.

There was new furniture, the walls had been repainted and the space was redecorated.

“I didn’t get it at first,” she said. “I think it took a

few seconds before I realized it was my own room, that Tripp gave up his room for me. Then, I cried.”

She had gone from being in and out of foster homes to sleeping in the living room of her soon-tobe family’s home. As of that Christmas, she had a place to call her very own.

“Sleeping in the living room was amazing to me – I was with a family and I had people who cared about me,” she said. “But then I had my own room in the house – I had a place in the family.” NCM

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was a frugal handyman by necessity, worked for Georgia Power Company as a substation operator.

One Christmas, his father found a small metal car and decided to fix it up. He repainted it and added a Georgia Power sticker as the finishing touch.

“That was what Santa brought me that year, and nobody had anything like that – it was the only Georgia Power car in the neighborhood.”

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morning, McGuffey and his three brothers awakened to find 20-30 little toy jeeps around the base of the tree that were exact replicas of old WWII jeeps. McGuffey’s father had been making them for months leading up to Christmas.

“Christmas time was a special time of the year for family,” said McGuffey.

“We spent Christmas in the house with meals, stories and singing. It was about just being together and having a good old time.”

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> The Thoughtful Gardener

The Gift Garden of the

Story and photos by Katherine McCall

ne dollar and eighty-seven cents.

That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one’s cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony that such close dealing implied. Three times Della counted 82

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it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents.

And the next day would be Christmas.”

Thus opens O. Henry’s tale of the fateful (or maybe not so fateful – we shall see) giftgivers Jim and Della in The Gift of the Magi. Times are hard, money is scarce, and it is Christmas, but there is still a deep desire to celebrate with the giving of a special gift. The dictionary defines a gift as “something given voluntarily

without payment in return, as to show favor toward someone, and/or honor an occasion.”

In Unplug the Christmas Machine: A Complete Guide to Putting Love and Joy Back into the Season, Jo Robinson and Jean Staeheli report that many Americans are dissatisfied with the way they celebrate Christmas. “The one concern that unites virtually all the people we’ve talked to is a yearning

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A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness, it teaches industry and thrift, above all it teaches entire trust.”

— Gertrude Jekyll

for a simpler, less commercial, more soul-satisfying celebration. There is a universal wish to end the year with a festival of renewal that rekindles our faith, brings us closer to the people we care about, and brings light and laughter to the dark days of winter.”

A solution they offer is giving more thought to what and why we are celebrating while keeping in mind what is most important to us. Many people profess gifts are not high on their list of priorities, but, in reality, gifts become our main focus during

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the holidays. So, in light of Jim and Della’s dilemma, I have given some thoughts and words to the gifts of gardening: Creativity, continuity and beauty. Gifts that are a blessing to both the giver and the recipient.

As a gardener, the options for creativity seem limitless and essential.

In the planning of my borders, vegetable garden or hardscape, I can be imaginative with flowers, shrubs and trees. Sometimes the winter months spent planning and dreaming are the most enjoyable as our

inventiveness is not bounded by money, time and effort. Throughout the year, visiting gardens, public and private, provides fertile ground for ideas to incorporate into one’s own designs. Inspiration begets inspiration, and a consequence of the beauty we have created is the compelling desire to capture and share it – similar to Monet at Giverny, whether it be by brush, camera or pen. Amazingly, as one becomes more creative, it stimulates others’ imagination and becomes the gift you give – they are touched in a way that inspires them to become more resourceful and creative in their own lives. As creative beings, we possess a need for expression – the garden is the ideal place to let loose that creativity.

Continuity has an important place in our lives as well as creativity.

We all feel a certain satisfaction and normalcy when the flowers bloom each spring, schools reopen in the fall, and the full moon appears each month. Continuity gives structure and expectation to our lives. Edith Schaeffer says it well in The Hidden Art of Homemaking: “We are surrounded with ‘things’ which give continuity to life. We have emotions of satisfaction, quietness, familiarity, continuity, when we scuffle through the leaves at fifty-five in exactly the way we loved to do when we were five.”

The “things” with which we are surrounded are the things of the garden – seasons, growing plants, weather. If you are not outside in the natural world, do you really notice and really experience the freezing cold of January frost, the nothingness of a tiny seed bursting into exuberant flower, and the heady drum of the cicada in the blurry August heat? The

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growth and life, innumerable expressions of color, shape and fragrance in astonishing blooms, and the immense diversity of prolific vegetables and herbs. All our senses are engaged as we receive the gardenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gift. But the dimension of beauty goes deeper.

As human beings we were created to be in a garden. We can become dehumanized as we live constantly with technology and machines and we are not exposed to our living, growing, responding world. The experience of things like the warm gritty earth, flitting lazy dragonflies, and early morning fog are all gifts presented to us!

And once we get outside and enjoy those gifts, we are able to share them with others.

And so we return to the poorly furnished little flat with Jim and Della embracing on the couch â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the two who each gave their own treasured possession to buy a Christmas gift for the other and in the process rendered the gifts useless. But are they really useless? O. Henry finishes the tale: â&#x20AC;&#x153;But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest.

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest.

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Meet a Newnan-Coweta Magazine READER ...

FRANCES SMITH

If you drive or walk around Newnan’s Courthouse Square, chances are you at least know who “Miss” Frances Smith is. She’s the beloved school crossing guard for both Newnan High School and Elm Street. She says she’s “been putting children across the street” so long that she “crossed” their parents, too, and loved every minute. She is also the well-known parking ticket administrator who deftly rides her yellow scooter while flicking little white marks on car tires in downtown Newnan. She enjoys her work and says most people understand she’s just doing her job, although she has been chased before and that wasn’t fun.

But Smith and her husband of 44 years, Henry, share a true avocation which is their passion and purpose in life – caring for children. They had two children of their own, Bernard (who sadly died at 28), and their adult son Adrian.

They’ve also made room for some 135 foster children and adoptive children over the years.

“When we were raising our two boys, people helped us out and we wanted to give back. We love the kids,” she says, “but that doesn’t mean it’s always easy.”

Currently they have nine children living in their fivebedroom home, five of whom they’ve adopted.

As the mother of nine (at the moment), how do you find moments of peace for yourself in a very busy household?

Nine o’clock at night is my time because the little ones are in bed and the older ones are doing homework or in their rooms doing computer games or other things. I get in my recliner and find a movie, call my sister or my husband calls on the phone. He is a truck driver and doesn’t get home until late so we talk. It’s a peaceful time for me.

Can you share some great money-stretching tips that other families might find helpful?

I don’t buy anything unless it’s on sale, but I don’t really use coupons because I have to buy two of everything and I don’t usually need it. I’m a BIG Target shopper! Also, if it goes on sale within 14 days after you bought it, Target will give you the price adjustment.

What are some of your favorite things to do in and around Newnan and Coweta County?

We are a big family so it is expensive to go places, but we also just like hanging out at home. We have a trampoline in the backyard and a nice yard to play in. But we do get out and do things. We like to go for ice cream, go to church, go to Kid’s Castle Playground (Carl Miller Park), and go to the Elm Street playground. I also like to pack picnics for the kids.

Do you have any dreams that you have yet to pursue in your life?

I’ve been so blessed, I have a birthday coming up and Harry asked me what I want and I told him “nothing” – I need nothing. We have saved and made a few real estate investments that we hope will help the kids down the road if they need it, so I’ve had a great life. I guess one dream would be I would like a kitchen because my kitchen is a small, walk-in kitchen. But I’m not a fancy person, I’m plain. Just a bigger kitchen that works better to make food for so many people.

Do you follow a regular menu plan or do you mix it up from week to week? Do you pack the freezer or prepare meals on a day to day basis?

I cook almost every day but we eat out maybe twice a month – maybe something like McDonald’s or pizza. I buy Kroger meat on sale and freeze it and cook on weekends and prepare a couple meals at a time. The kids will also ask for their special favorites like sloppy joes or spaghetti.

Any special place you’d like to take the family, if money were no object?

We took the kids to Disney World and they didn’t act like they loved it that much – the lines and everything. But the boys’ ROTC commander told them that all Americans really should go to Washington, D.C., and I would love to take all the kids there – especially the bigger ones. I know we would all enjoy that trip, especially the older ones. Plus you get into the museums and everything free! NCM 88

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The Smiths volunteer for the JOY PROJECT, which provides a meaningful Christmas for foster children in need. Often, foster families simply do not have the extra money it takes to purchase the desired Christmas items for their foster children. You can “adopt” a foster child for Christmas and provide them with some desperately needed clothing items and three items on that child’s (reasonably priced) wish list.

For more information, call the Smiths at 770-683-9217.

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By Martha A. Woodham | Photos by Bob Fraley

rom the porch of the white-columned, antebellum house on Parks Road, Mary and Bill Fowler hear echoes of the past. The pastures stretching out on all sides of the house are filled with memories of their three children and friends on horseback, their national 90

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championship horses and the 30 horses that once inhabited their Echo Lane Farms.

Today the Fowlers have downsized. Only nine mares and geldings â&#x20AC;&#x201C; warmbloods and Thoroughbreds â&#x20AC;&#x201C; inhabit the large, 14-stall barn just a pleasant stroll from the house, and NOVEMBER/DECEMBER

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Bill and Mary Fowler and their championship horses live at Echo Lane Farms in Newnan.

Below, Mary gives lessons to Meg Morgan.

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five of those are retirees.

“There are only so many hours in the day, and I just can’t do all of those horses anymore,” says Mary, but her schedule belies her. She has the four young horses to train, yet Mary and Bill Fowler first came to Coweta looking for a horse farm back in 1967.

manages to find time to give dressage lessons and travels frequently to judge horse shows.

The Fowlers first discovered their home in 1967, when they had come to Coweta County looking for a

horse farm in the days when I-85 went only as far south as Palmetto.

Bill, now retired, was a Delta Air Lines pilot, and Mary, a former flight attendant, had been managing the couple’s investments in apartment rentals. He had given her a saddle as a wedding present and promised her a horse some day. As they drove up to the house, neglected for decades, the weeds were taller than their car.

The house had been built by a patriarch of the Parks family, a longtime Coweta clan, but the house had changed hands and had never been updated. Without a foundation, it was perched on rocks, one chimney was gone and some former resident had nailed old license plates over holes in the floor.

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The Fowlers, with a background in refurbishing apartment buildings, were not dismayed by the house’s condition. They parked a house trailer on the 46.6-acre property and lived there for a year while they renovated.

Today a tour of the 1850s-era house shows many of Mary’s loving touches, including her grandmother’s antique dresser turned into a stand for the powder room sink.

Mary Fowler, above, gives a riding lesson at Echo Lane Farms.

Student Meg Morgan, at right, gives a treat to Bosphous.

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The Fowlers’ devotion to their horses also shines throughout their home. Hanging just inside the front door is an oil painting of a horse grazing in front of the Tybee Island Lighthouse. The horse is Tybee Light, who was a favorite of Mary’s and the U.S. Dressage Federation’s Horse of the Year in 1991.

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recognizing the couple’s champions. In addition to Tybee Light, Talisman and Delta Pilot also earned national Horse of the Year honors.

“My horses have won a lot of spectacular things nationally, and I was lucky to have them,” she says.

Mary doesn’t remember learning to ride. It’s just something she’s always done, growing up in Ohio (Bill is a native Georgian, which explains the Echo Lane Farm colors of blue and gray). Although her parents never bought her a horse, she always found a way to ride, and she showed hunters as a teenager.

“If it’s in your blood, it’s in your blood,” she says.

The couple bought a horse when their oldest child, Melissa, was just seven weeks old. That $200 horse was just the beginning as the Fowlers gradually became more involved in showing and foxhunting. In the 1970s, Mary and her children showed their horses at three-day events, an equestrian triathlon that meant that Mary had to add dressage to her riding repertoire.

In addition to jumping obstacles set up in a ring and out in a field, event riders must perform dressage tests in a rectangular arena. The Fowlers also began breeding horses, bringing their young horses along and training and showing them.

By 1980, Mary was concentrating on dressage, which is training to develop the horse’s natural athletic ability, willingness to work and attentiveness to his rider. Competitive dressage involves nine progressive levels with multiple tests within each level. Mary was so dedicated she took lessons in all kinds of weather.

She recalls a session with former Olympic dressage rider Elizabeth Lewis when it was so cold that the coffee Lewis was holding froze.

Today Mary is a top-ranked dressage judge, flying around the country to horse shows. Riding in shows herself is still a thrill for her, but she is also devoted to sharing her vast knowledge of dressage with her students.

“One of my biggest joys right now is developing a rider to get the most out of her horse,” she says.

“People try to deal with horses like they are people, but you have to understand how they think. You have to deal with horses the way they are, not how people are.”

Mary points to a plaque hanging on the wall of her home that she says sums up a life with horses: “May your horse never stumble; your cinch never break; your belly never grumble; and your heart never break.”

Although she knows the heartache of losing a beloved horse, she also knows the joy that they bring.

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THE BOOKSHELF From Herschel to a Hobnail Boot

By Larry Munson and Tony Barnhart Triumph Books, $24.95 Reviewed by Holly Jones “In the mere confines of a book,” asks Tony Barnhart, “how do you sum up the life and career of a man who, unbeknownst to him, provided the soundtrack to your life and to the lives of so many others?”

It’s simple, really. “Let Larry be Larry,” Barnhart says.

That’s what Larry Munson and Barnhart’s collaboration, From Herschel to a Hobnail Boot, is – Larry being Larry.

Told in first person in a stream of consciousness and memories, the book is Larry’s story, the way he sees it. As University of Georgia fans know, Larry sees things uniquely – and when it comes to his own life, he sees things quite humbly.

The book isn’t all Georgia football.

Did you know the great Munce has never had a sense of smell? It left him with some disgusting jobs in World War II. Larry loves fishing and hunting because his dad taught him to do both. Larry created a fishing show when he lived in Nashville where he was both host and cameraman.

He taught Joe Torre how to play golf. And when Larry was 18, he spent a week playing piano for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. One night he accompanied “a skinny kid from Hoboken” named Frank Sinatra.

He’s called games for the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Chiefs, minor league baseball, college basketball, and yes, college football. Larry’s heart, the heart of this book, and the hearts of everyone who loves Larry, are with the Dawgs.

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Most people can name their favorite Munson calls. Want to know his? Ten are listed, including game descriptions and what he thinks of those calls now. By the way, Larry had no idea what a “hobnail boot” was when he made that call in the 2001 Georgia-Tennessee game. (“We just stepped on their face with a hobnail boot and broke their nose!” was the famous line.)

There is a timeline of Larry’s life – most of it dealing with football. There is a thank you note to the people who have meant the most to him.

There is even speculation about this year’s team and a sense of dread about that Oklahoma State game (Larry always was prophetic).

But mostly, there’s Larry being Larry.

It is, Barnhart says, “a universal truth that Georgia fans everywhere will confirm: the experience of a big Georgia victory was not complete until you heard what Larry had said about it.”

That truth and that Voice are gone, and even he can’t believe it. Now, however, we have his account, his memories, our Legend. Thanks, Larry, for everything.

South of Broad

By Pat Conroy Nan A. Talese, $29.95 Reviewed by Holly Jones Pat Conroy’s new book is not for the faint of heart, the lighthearted, or – let’s just say it – the book is dark.

The South, sex, suicide, scandals and psychiatrists – on these topics, Pat Conroy is king. Specifically, in South of Broad, Conroy’s latest backhanded love letter to Charleston, Conroy is Leopold Bloom King.

Leo is a coke-bottle-and-hornrimmed bespectacled teenager with a face not even his mother loves; but his story is not all despair and dark secrets. The heart of South of Broad is friendship, the life-

sustaining kind Leo makes on June 16, 1969, or Bloomsday, the annual commemoration in Dublin celebrating the life of Irish writer James Joyce and the events in his novel Ulysses.

Sheba and Trevor Poe, Leo’s new neighbors and twins, are flamboyant and fragile. Niles and Starla Whitehead are troubled runaways at the orphanage.

Betty Roberts lives at the orphanage with the Whiteheads. Then there is Ike Jefferson, son of the new football coach – the first black high school football coach in Charleston. Finally, there are Chad and Fraser Rutledge and Molly Huger, Charleston pedigrees. Chad and Fraser are brother and sister; Molly is Chad’s girlfriend.

Leo meets them all on Bloomsday 1969, and 20 years later those friendships are still the core of Leo’s life.

The story is a breathtaking rollercoaster of events, with more twists and turns than the latest Dan Brown novel.

Leo’s narrative flashes back and forth between 1969 and 1989, showing how these friendships were so tightly bonded and have affected the lives of each teenager.

Sheba, now a movie star, comes back to Charleston looking for help finding her brother who is dying of AIDS. So the gang, minus Chad, goes to San Francisco for two weeks, in search of their lost friend. Leo’s wife Starla has run away again, in search of herself but all the while begging Leo for a divorce. Leo’s troubled childhood, centered around his beloved brother Steve’s suicide, comes back to haunt him. There’s also the dark force throughout the novel, an evil man who stalks and attacks the friends, leaving smiley faces with a single tear painted in fingernail polish as his trademark. Then there’s Hurricane Hugo, which hits Charleston right as the friends think things couldn’t get any worse.

Yes, it’s dark. But somehow, Conroy turns dark into such an intricately woven

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tapestry that the dark and the light need each other – the terror and the tender are soulmates, formed in the heart of Leo King.

For here, Conroy is King, and South of Broad a crown jewel.

Cookie Craft Christmas

By Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer Storey Publishing, $14.95 Reviewed by Angela McRae In 2007, Valerie Peterson and Janice Fryer released their Cookie Craft to rave reviews. Aspiring cookie bakers everywhere were treated to one of the best how-to guides imaginable, with clear, step-by-step photos and diagrams and charts that made even a beginner eager to master the art of baking decorative cookies. These women have elevated cookie baking to an art form, and they are convinced anyone can follow their simple advice.

Now, in a move that will have cookie bakers everywhere firing up the ovens once more, the ladies have just released Cookie Craft Christmas: Dozens of Decorating Ideas for a Sweet Holiday.

You know the kind of elegant, beautifully decorated cookies you see in stores and bakeries for $5 each? You can make them yourself! (“Yes! We! Can!”) “While writing and decorating for the year-round Cookie Craft,” the authors say, “we realized we could fill a whole book with just Christmas shapes – each one in its own way a treasured symbol of the season – and the idea for this followup was born.”

The cookie creations all begin their lives as either sugar cookies, gingerbread or chocolate cookies. Recipes are included, as well as a supply list good for beginners. Some of the recipes are super simple and involve decorating cookies before they are baked.

“Afterbaking techniques” are also discussed in depth,

including recipes and instructions for making royal icing and piping or “flooding” it onto cookies.

There are traditional Santas and snowflakes and Christmas trees and angels, but there are also cookies featuring a pickup truck with a Christmas tree in transport, cookies that are personalized and used as placecards, and even a “Blades of Glory” cookie in the shape of an ice skate featuring edible “luster dust”

on the blade.

If you’re planning to ship cookies or host a cookie exchange, there are suggestions for you as well.

“Though the holiday season is always busy, making time for tomorrow’s memories has never been more important,” the authors say.

And for their readers, making good cookie memories has never been easier. NCM

INDEX OF ADVERTISERS Artisan Jewelry Company . . . . . . . 63 Ashley Furniture HomeStore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Bank of Coweta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 BB&T . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Benton House Senior Living Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Brothers Ltd.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Brown’s Pools & Spas, Inc.. . . . . . . . 49 Cardiovascular Consultants of Georgia, P.C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Center For Allergy & Asthma . . . . . . 5 The Centre For Performing & Visual Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Chin Chin Newnan Chinese Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Connie’s Antiques & Etc. . . . . . . . . . 58 Coweta-Fayette EMC . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Crescent Veterinary Hospital . . . . . 93 Discovery Point Child Development Centers . . . . . . . . 81 Downtown Church of Christ . . . . . . 87 Edible Arrangements . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Farm Bureau Insurance . . . . . . . . . . 71 First United Methodist Church of Newnan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Franklin Road Animal Clinic. . . . . . . 58 Heritage Retirement Homes of Peachtree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 The Heritage School . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Hollberg's Fine Furniture . . . . . . . . . 69 Hoofer’s Restaurant . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Jack Peek’s Sales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Kimble’s Events By Design. . . . . . . . 58 Knox Company, Inc.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 LaGrange Development Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Lee-King and Lee-Goodrum Pharmacies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Let them eat Toffee! . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Loads of Joy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Main Street Newnan . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Maritime Air Charters. . . . . . . . . . . . 75 McManus Family & Cosmetic Dentistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Morgan Jewelers/Downtown . . . . . 35 Newnan Academy Preschool & Child Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Newnan Station Tire & Service . . . . 9 Phillips Dental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Piedmont Newnan Hospital. . . . . . . . 2 Plum Southern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Radiation Oncology Services . . . . . . 3 the ritzy roost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 R. S. Mann Jewelers . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 The Skin Spa at Newnan Dermatology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Southern Brokers Real Estate. . . . . 86 Southern Charm & The Craft Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Southern Crescent Equine Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 The Southern Federal Credit Union . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Stephens Exclusives. . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 StoneBridge Early Learning Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Ten East Washington . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 The Times-Herald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Towne Club at Peachtree City. . . . . 21 Traditions in Tile & Stone . . . . . . . . . 81 Uniglobe McIntosh Travel . . . . . . . . . 6 United Bank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 University of West Georgia . . . . . . . 27 Valentine Weight Loss . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Watts Furniture Galleries. . . . . . . . . 56 Wesley Woods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Wedowee Marine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 West Georgia Center for Plastic Surgery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 West Georgia Hospice, Tour of Homes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The White Orchid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 The Wynn House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

January/February 2010 Ad Deadlines Published: January 6, 2010; Contract Ads: November 25, 2009; New Ads: December 4, 2009.

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