Tri-State Living - Spring 2011

vol. 1, no. 3 | spring 2011

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A Homemade Tradition Kentucky candy maker continues sweet legacy

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Editorial

MICHAEL CALDWELL is the publisher and president of Ironton Publications, Inc. A lifelong resident of the Tri-State, he grew up in Ashland, Ky., went to college in Huntington, W.Va., and has worked in Ironton for the past decade.

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bout a year ago, when the magazine you hold in your hands was just a dream and an idea in my head, I was talking with a friend in the community about our vision.

“Well, it sounds good, Mike, but can you sustain it?” he asked. “I’m sure the first issue or two will be good, but can you make it last?”

I scoffed at this, assuring him that we were prepared to make this the best magazine around to showcase everything that makes our Tri-State great.

“There are millions of great stories here,” I said. “Our people, our businesses, our history, our future. All

we have to do is present them in their most real form and the rest will take care of itself.”

Well, here we are at issue three and I am proud to say that Tri-State Living has earned massive praise from the community and is stronger than ever.

Here is a look at some new features: • Q&A asks some of the Tri-State’s local celebrities and community leaders the kind of questions that offer insight into who they are.

• Face in the Crowd is the flipside of Q&A, introducing the community to the Average Joes and JoAnns who make our hometowns so special.

• History Lesson is a snapshot of a key person or moment in our past.

For the first one, the 1937 Flood seems fitting this wet spring.

• Then and Now will blend the past and present in photograph form to offer a unique window into how things have changed.

But we still want to know what you think. Tell us what you like. Tell us what you want to see.

Let me know how we can be the best local magazine by emailing news@tri-stateliving.com.

I am more convinced than ever that our Tri-State has countless stories to offer. Let’s hear yours.

Michael Caldwell, Publisher Benita Heath, Staff Writer Lori Kersey, Staff Writer Michelle Goodman, Staff Writer Jennifer Chapman, Staff Writer news@tri-stateliving.com

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arts & culture

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TRI-STATE SCENE ◗ Tri-Staters are out and about

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OUT ON THE TOWN ◗ Enjoying art and history on a budget

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ON DISPLAY ◗ Cathy Painter reflects on stained-glass art

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IN PRINT ◗ Area authors capture region’s culture

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I leave everything laying out. I get inspired by the clutter of it. I love the challenge of creation, to make something no one else has.

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LIFE 101 ◗ How to make a mint julep and spring clean

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THE PULSE ◗ Act F.A.S.T. on strokes

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HEALTHY LIFE ◗ Fun (and Safe) in the sun

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ON THE ROAD ◗ Ohio winery is ripe on the vine

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DIFFERENCE MAKERS ◗ Ashland, Ky., woman leading non-profit to prosperity

— Cathy Painter ‘On Display’ | Page 26

shopping on the cover It is hard to plan a day of outdoor fun in the spring without having an umbrella handy, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be stylish at the same time. Vicki’s Divine Design in Portsmouth, Ohio, o˜ ers these Galleria designer umbrellas.

Specialty shops across the Tri-State o˜ er unique gifts that you won’t find in just any store.

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TREASURES ◗ Specialty stores o˛ er gems you won’t see everyday

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FASHIONISTAS ◗ ‘Sole’ searching uncovers latest in spring footwear

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IN THE BIZ ◗ Pottery Place taking shape

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Contents | spring 2011

features

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64 Ruth Hunt candies

w Candy maker offers sweet legacy 68

generations of spirit w Cheerleading family helps lead GCHS

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harriette ramsey w Burlington woman tackles life with inspirational gusto

homes 78

home showcase w Kopp family enjoys life in a proverbial museum

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diy w Growing your garden doesn’t take much space

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food 88

on the stove w Wheelersburg family saucing it up

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from the cookbook w Whip up tasty muffins and a cool bean salad

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in the kitchen w Crumpets & Tea all about the experience

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in every issue 10 Face in the Crowd

w Myra Gauze

14 History Lesson

w The 1937 Flood

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15 Then & Now

w Tanks Memorial Stadium

Q&A w Yvonne DeKay

12 The Top 5

w Books, movies and restaurants 13

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off the air w A new beginning

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the last word w Who says there is nothing to do?

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face in the crowd

They may not be local celebrities.

You nay not recognize them in the grocery story. But the Tri-State is made up of lots of unique people that make it a special place to live.

Myra Gauze • Age: 45 • Hometown: Ashland, Ky. • Occupation: Recovery room nurse at King’s Daughters Medical Center • Hobbies: Organic gardening, landscaping, repurposing, reading, couch surfing, yoga, Tai Chi, making soap and loofahs, sustainability, attending folk music festivals. “Every new hobby or challenge I take on is generated from a desire to free myself from a dependency on (the) system.”

• Favorite authors: Barbara Kingsolver, Edward C. Smith • Staying involved: “Organicconsumers.org is the best way I have found to stay informed on changes in industrial agriculture and governmental food policies.” Supporting local farmers, recycling.

• Life philosophies: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. “I can’t make the whole world right, but I can start with one little thing.”

• Favorite quote: “The most important thing I can do is try to raise awareness to the idea that practicing contempt prior to investigation is the most dangerous of human traits.”

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QA questions & answers

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Yvonne DeKay

Yvonne DeKay Sinnott is known across the Tri-State for her inventive choreography showcased by students at her Ironton dance studio. But it’s not just dance that brings out her wit and creativity.

The outspoken artist recently sat down to talk about life, love, the world and much more.

What is your favorite Tri-State hangout?

The Paramount Arts Center because I love the stage. I love the shows and the nostalgic atmosphere. ? What’s the best comfort food?

Lobster and shrimp ? You knew you had found your life’s work, when ….?

When I used to play in my yard and teach all the kids circus routines ? The best movie you’ve ever watched?

“The Ten Commandments” with Yvonne DeCarlo ? What would you do if you woke up one morning and discovered you were President of the United States?

I would first of all give all the teachers in the country a raise. Our educational programs are the most important for our future and I would cut all politicians’ salaries and give to educational programs. ? What advice would you give to an 80-year-old?

To get out and move and to have fun one more time in their life before they check out. To start a revolution of goodwill for all humanity. ? What advice would you give to an 8-year-old?

To respect their parents and to always reach for a higher goal ?

What would you want with you on a desert island?

Some hummus, pita and a good looking man ? What book are you reading right now?

Sylvia Browne’s “Father God” ? How often do you lie about your age?

Never ? What’s the best part of the weekend?

Traveling ? Your worst vacation memory?

Being stranded in South Africa with no luggage ? In 10 years from now, you will be doing what?

Living on the beach and working at Dairy Queen ? If you could trade places with any celebrity, who would it be?

Sophia Loren ? What’s the best thing about living in the Tri-State?

Just to work with so many wonderful children ? What’s the hardest part of creating choreography?

To always find something better than the past, the previous piece ? What does it mean to be an artist?

It is a feeling, a connection I have with the spirit of beauty, music. It’s a feeling that gets in your soul. ?

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living | The Top Five

the top five

Top 5 Restaurants 1. Bob Evans 2. Applebee’s 3. Texas Roadhouse 4. Super China Buffet 5. Los Hermanos — Elizabeth Spurlock, 51, of Boyd County, Ky. Spurlock is a nurse practitioner.

Top 5 Movies 1. Top Gun 2. The Shawshank Redemption 3. Training Day 4. The Goonies 5. Back to the Future — Steven Frye, 26, of Huntington, W.Va. Frye is the assistant manager of Verizon Wireless at the Ashland Town Center.

Top 5 Bands

We asked four Tri-State residents to weigh in on some of their current favorites in pop culture

1. Katy Perry 2. My Chemical Romance 3. The cast of Glee 4. Breaking Benjamin 5. Girl Talk — Kayla Wilson, 21, of Ashland, Ky. Wilson is the manager of the Dakota Watch Company in Huntington, W.Va.

Top 5 TV Shows 1. That ‘70s Show 2. True Blood 3. Weeds 4. Dexter 5. Avatar — Maria Cline, 19, of Ashland, Ky. Cline is an associate at JCPenney in the Ashland Town Center.

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off the air

To new beginnings Spring has me and birds trembling at the season of change

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his time of year makes me think of a quote from “The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran. He compares death to a shepherd preparing to be honored by the king. The shepherd is joyful, “yet is he not more mindful of the trembling?”

Spring is a time of trembling. We know birth and life and greenery are right around the corner, but if you really look, if you study the ground and watch the labor of the birds, you might wonder if they too are more mindful of the trembling. Spring breaks the icy hold winter has gripped us with. The ground erupts. Buds burst. Eggs crack. Violent words usher us into the most beautiful time of year, when the air becomes soft and the days grow long.

I guess this is on my mind because I too am bursting forth and breaking some eggs. As some of you may know, after 15 years, I have stepped down from my job as morning show host on WKEE. My health was the reason; my hopes are the impetus. I now have the opportunity to pursue my dream of becoming a published novelist full time. Not many people get an opportunity like this and I count myself blessed to be among them.

At this moment, however, I am more mindful of the trembling.

Fortunately I have the love and support of my family and friends, including my radio family who has moved me so deeply with their affection and respect. I am beholden to you.

So now, I’m going to team up with the forsythia and

Sheila Redling is a long-time radio personality in the Tri-State.

A graduate of Georgetown University, Sheila lived in New York and California before returning to Huntington, W.Va. She is also a novelist and an avid traveler. You can reach her at sheila.redling@yahoo.com.

the red buds. I’m going to dig deep, grabbing every speck of daylight I can reach, until I too burst forth with colors I could only dream of when winter held me in its grip.

When summer rolls in, hot and fat, may the trembling be behind us.

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IRONTON, OHIO

history lesson

the

Fl ood

o f 1937

Journal entries fro m that time by An gie Geswein Schweickhart, of Iro nton, exemplified what was felt by the residents at the time. Here is a sample: • Jan. 24 – We are marooned at Kate’ s… The water is coming up over the sidewalk here in front… You can picture how we are beginning to feel. With the water still raisi ng about 1 and a half inches an hour and pour ing down rain. W e have no electricity, no radio , but still have some telephone service.

• Jan. 25 – Well, he re we are with a foo t of water all around the house.

Telephone won’t work. Moving everything upsta irs…The state of th e river is now 2 feet above the 19 13 flood stage and still rising about an inch an hour.

• Jan. 26 – Stage about 71 feet. Hope to reach crest sometime to morrow. Able to ge t food from temporary stores at Kingsbury and St. Lawrence Schools.

• Jan. 27 – Receive d our emergency rations this morning by boat…

Thankful we are ali ve.

• Wednesday even ing – Water left in side of house by noon. Working hard scrubbing an d cleaning floors. Started rain ing again this aft ernoon. Very disheartening.

• Friday – Our foo d supply has held out grand. Sun shining bright. Ab le to dry things ou t.

• Saturday – Hear d our mail going out today.

Story Jennifer Chapman

The Tri-State has had its share of wet weather this year, but anyone who was around in 1937 would say we haven’t seen a real rain.

The Flood of 1937 brought displacement, destruction and death to communities all along the Ohio River. The effects of the flood were felt from Pennsylvania all the way to Illinois.

Rain fell heavily in January of 1937, with the Ohio River reaching flood stage in the Tri-State on Jan. 19. It continued to rise until it crested on Jan. 27, at 70 feet, 5 inches in the Ironton, Ohio, area.

In Ironton, approximately 75 percent of the city was covered by floodwaters, with other estimates as high as 90 percent. The maximum depth of water in the city of Ironton was 20 feet.

Ironton lost one life and several people were injured.

The flood claimed five lives in Huntington, W.Va. The area suffered $18 million in damages. Homes and businesses were damaged and destroyed and the only method of travel 14 | T ri-StateL iving

for most residents was by boat.

The city of Ashland, Ky., was hit hard with the river cresting at 73.8 feet. No lives were lost during this tragedy.

Businesses were halted and homes were vacant during flooding. Bunyan Wilson, of Ashland, was 16 at the time and remembers it clearly.

“I can remember at the center of Ashland, 16th and Winchester, water was lapping over the street from both sides. Some people had rowboats out,” Wilson said. “They had a Kroger store that they had to move to a church. I was in the Boy Scouts and we went down to help them distribute the Kroger stuff. A lot of people couldn’t get to the stores.

“From our main street, the river badly flooded. We were fortunate to get through that and get a floodwall. It’s really made a difference. It was awful. It was scary,” he said.

After the floodwaters subsided, typhoid fever remained a concern, and many were vaccinated as a precaution.

Following this tragedy, a system of levies and floodwalls were put into place to prevent a recurrence.

then & now

Tanks Memorial Stadium Driven by a community eËœort, Tanks Memorial Stadium was built for $30,000 in less than six months to become the now-historic home of the Ironton Tanks professional football team.

Built in 1926, Tanks Memorial Stadium in Ironton is now recognized by the Ohio Historical Society and Ohio Bicentennial Committee as a historical landmark.

Work began in May of 1926. That November the field was christened on Thanksgiving Day with the Tanks playing the Kansas City Cowboys to a scoreless tie.

This picture was taken in 1969. The Conley Sports Center, the building on the right edge of the photograph, was built in 1975.

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up close Cathy Painter’s studio may look cluttered but all that mess is actually inspiration for the Ashland, Ky.-based stained-glass artist.

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SCENE

The region has no shortage of things to do from nights out on the town to 5K races for a cause.

Huntington Museum of Art Ball | March 19 (ABOVE) Huntington Museum of Art Ball Committee Member LaMoine Potter arranges a table setting for the “Dancing through the Seasons” Museum Ball dinner.

Photo by Shea Anderson

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(ABOVE) Monte Ward and Jenny Holmes, who made her own dress, pose for a photo. (LEFT) Laura Evans performs during the cocktail reception at “Dancing through the Seasons,” the 2011 Huntington Museum of Art Ball.

Photo by Shea Anderson

Tri-State Scene

(ABOVE) Huntington Museum of Art Board Member Elizabeth Appell Sheets is greeted by a valet, courtesy of Cabell Huntington Hospital, as she arrives for the “Dancing through the Seasons�

Museum Ball. (BELOW) Museum Ball Committee Member Mary MacClellan and Museum Ball Co-Chair Julia Mathisen pose for a photo.

(ABOVE) Dancers sway to the music of Big Planet Soul during the Museum Ball. Photo by Shea Anderson (BELOW) Huntington Museum of Art Conservatory Director Dr. Mike Beck and Linda Hunt look at a bottle of Petrus vintage wine.

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Tri-State Scene

United Way ‘Celebration of Excellence’ March 30 (ABOVE) Gerry Sawrey and Dortha Williamson at the “A Celebration of Excellence” reception for United Way.

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Becky Davis and Nikki Thomas, above and Bobbie and Gene Watts, left during the “A Celebration of Excellence” reception for United Way.

Tri-State Scene

DD Awareness 5K Run/Walk March 12 LaDona McMackin, left, and Ashton McMackin, right, before the start of the 5K Run/Walk for DD Awareness Month.

(ABOVE) Rosemary Lucas, Mandy Medinger and Michael Gleichauf, pictured left to right, before the start of the 5K Run/Walk for DD Awareness Month. (LEFT) Ruth Bates, Penny Absher and Kim Boyles.

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Tri-State Scene

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Heather Meadows and Dusty Blevins

Paramount Oscar Night | February 27

Stormy Cheek, Kristen Stewart, Gary and Lisa Donalson, Jordon Biederman, Will Wittmann and Brandon Estep

Tori Powell and Gabrielle Cassity

Madison Carbert and Kati Hornbuckle

Megan Russell, Kate McMullen and Jessica Watts

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arts & culture | Out on the Town

You don’t have to break the bank to have a good time here in the Tri-State

Portsmouth Mural Project Front Street • Historic Portsmouth, Ohio

Take a stroll down Front Street in Portsmouth’s historic district and you can see one of the largest outdoor murals in the country.

As a part of a revitalization project, the 2,000-foot mural was started in 1993 and depicts scenes from the last 2,000 years of what has become Portsmouth’s history. The scenes, painted by muralist Robert Dafford of Lafayette, La., run east to west in chronological order and took 10 years to complete.

The canvas for the murals is the 20-foot-high floodwall that was built after the disastrous flood of 1937, which is also depicted in the mural.

The timeline begins with the Mound Builders, a depiction of the ancient Hopewell cultures who were ancestors of the Shawnee Indians, and their mound structures.

From there, the scenes move on to show various milestones in Portsmouth history, including the first European settlers, the founder of Portsmouth, Henry Massie, the flood of 1937, advances in transportation from stagecoaches to railroad, sports, industry and various who’s who of the town.

Clarence Carter, an American regionalist and surrealist painter, is portrayed, as well as Carl Ackerman, local photographer and historian, Roy Rogers and his horse Trigger, Vern Riffe and Jesse Stuart.

More murals have been added since the completion of the initial project in 2003. In 2006, a mural of Portsmouth baseball heroes was added, as well as the Tour of the Scioto River Valley, a bicycle tour between Columbus and Portsmouth, in 2007.

Pendleton Art Center

537 Winchester Ave., Ashland, Ky. 41101 • www.pendletonartcenter.com

Since the summer of 2005, the Pendleton Art Center has strived to promote artistic expression, art education and appreciation while revitalizing Ashland’s downtown.

Ashland’s Pendleton, one of four locations, is a gallery in which local artists can rent studio space to create and sell their art. The gallery has housed as many as 40 local artists and represents a plethora of mediums.

The Pendleton is open Monday to Friday for the public to stroll around and look at the art displayed.

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Heritage Farm Museum and Village 3300 Harvey Road, Huntington, W.Va. 25704 304-522-1244 • www.heritagefarmmuseum.com

Step back into a simpler time; a time without cell phones or television. Huntington’s Heritage Farm Museum and Village replicates Appalachian farm life during the 1800s with its various museums, log structures, educational classes and overall charming atmosphere.

To get an idea of what life was like in 19th century Appalachia, the facility has several museums with authentic artifacts from the time. The transportation and mill museum shows covered wagons to early automobiles. The industry museum displays the development of agriculture, coal mining, glass and timber. The heritage museum displays various artifacts from barbershop and dental and medical office, woodworking and antique washing machines.

There is also an original one-room schoolhouse that was located in Lick Creek, Wayne County. At the center of the farm stands the church. It seats up to 100 people and is available for meetings and even weddings.

If an afternoon of tours and classes in traditional skills

leaves you wanting more, you can stay the night or longer in one of the log homes or farm houses. From family trips to honeymoons, there are a variety of accommodations in the relaxing, rural setting. To get the real feel of 19th century living, stay in the Kress/Conway pioneer homestead cabin.

It is an original cabin furnished with period items, no electricity or running water or indoor restroom facilities.

visit with the artists and see their creations. The center houses studios for paintings in watercolor, acrylic and oil, furniture, stained glass, jewelry, photography, clothing, graphic design, gourd art, art printing and more. There is a piece of art available for any budget.

The Pendleton, as well as other galleries, also opens to the public for First Fridays. On the first Friday evening of each month, downtown Ashland is teeming with artists gathering to display their art, sometimes with a special theme in mind. The goal is to promote the arts and bring the

community together to keep the downtown area vibrant.

For a light lunch, The Olive Tree Café is housed inside the Pendleton. It is open Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and serves gourmet sandwiches, wraps, salads and desserts.

For the budding artist, the Pendleton also offers classes.

There are classes for watercolor or acrylic painting, drawing and children’s classes. Contact information for each class can be found on the Pendleton website, as well as a roster of artists, upcoming events and studio rental information.

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Cathy Painter Stained-glass artist offers kaleidoscopic view of her art form

Story Benita Heath | Photography Jessica St. James

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t looks as simple as tossing a glass marble up into the sunlight, then watching that sphere become a canvas of hypnotic, undulating bursts of magentas, forest greens and regal purples.

But watch stained glass artist Cathy Painter at work in her studio in Ashland, Ky. and the making of that old-fashioned child’s toy, the kaleidoscope, takes on the precision of a diamond cutter and the extravagant artistry of a Jackson Pollock.

The invention of Scottish scientist David Brewster in 1816, the kaleidoscope takes the principle of an optical illusion and marries it with pieces of tinted glass and mirrors to create a seemingly never-ending rotation of shapes and colors.

Take that lesson in physics and add the whimsy of Painter and you will get her one-of-a-kind pieces of kaleidoscopic art, many you can even wear around your neck.

“In my 20s, I took a class on stained glass,” the Southern California native said. “I was always fascinated and from there it just evolved.”

From those roots she began building Tiffany-esque stained glass windows and lampshades, from both authentic patterns and designs she creates herself.

“I love everything he did,” Painter said. “He was very intricate and I like intricate.”

To prove her point, she shows an inverted tulip-shaped Tiffany reproduction lamp made of 2,000 pieces of colored glass.

“I did that when my husband was in the Gulf War and I

was in Germany,” Painter said.

Often she gets shade patterns from the California-based Odyssey Lamp System.

“When you do a Tiffany project, they reproduce everything,” she said. “They want you to do it the way he did it.”

Then when a customer asked about kaleidoscopes, she developed a mini-library on the subject, teaching herself how to build one.

Today Painter’s studio is crammed with the finds she brings home from her habitual trips to estate sales and antique shops. On workbenches are pieces of old silverware, the stem of a wine glass, beads, copper cylinders, even the rack from a 4-point buck. Pushed against a wall are sheets and sheets of stained glass.

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arts & culture | On Display

and a lot of what is junk to somebody else, I think about how to use it. I leave stuff lying around. I may not use it for a year, but I finally find a home for it.”

Throughout the rooms in her basement studio lie worksin-progress. A four-foot window with a mermaid theme rests on an old wooden door Painter has propped up for a workbench. A fiberglass form, lined in pale blue ink with the pattern for a lampshade, is dotted with a few pieces of glass.

“It’s like putting a puzzle together,” she said. “It just comes.”

And the seeming clutter proves a muse for the artist.

“I leave everything lying out,” Painter said. “I get inspired by the clutter of it. I love the challenge of creation, to make something no one else has.”

It was in California in the late 1980s that Painter met her husband, Russ, while he was on temporary duty with the Air Force. They married and moved to Fort Walton Beach, Fla., where she worked at a local stained glass studio, The Glas Haus. There she taught beginner and advanced classes as she delved deeper into the art form.

A couple of years later, she opened her own studio, “A Touch of Glass,” where she specialized in custom-designed windows, lamps and kaleidoscopes. In 1989 her husband was sent to Germany where Painter steeped herself in the 28 | Tri-StateLiving

European manner of working with stained glass.

In 1997, the Painters moved to Ashland after the retirement of her husband from the Air Force. Here she opened up her latest studio, Kaleidoscopes-N-More.

Today her work can be found at the gift shop in the Hilton Hotel and the Indigenous Art Gallery, both in Cincinnati, Gary Kouns Interiors and Aladdin Frame Shop, both in Ashland, the Damsel Fly shops in Midway, Ky., and the Galt House in Louisville, Ky. “They find me,” she said. “I have people call me on the phone. Sometimes they see me at craft shows. This is a passion. I could never not do it.” a

Appointments to view Painter’s stained glass art at her Ashland studio can be made by calling her at 606-324-2153.

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Contingency

by Paula Wiseman

Since its official release on Dec. 3, 2010, author Paula Wiseman’s “Contingency,” Book One of the Covenant of Trust series has spent time on the Christian Fiction Bestsellers list at Amazon.com.

The paperback peaked at No. 22 in Christian Fiction (No. 1 in Hot New Releases in Christian Fiction) and the Kindle edition, reached No. 11 in Christian Fiction, and spent more than a week as the No. 1 in Hot New Release in Christian Fiction.

“Contingency” focuses on adultery and marriage restoration ...

Bobbi Molinsky’s comfortable life is shattered when a forwarded email from her husband’s account lands in her inbox. The email teases, “My whole evening is free again.” After an angry confrontation with Chuck, she is left with the broken remains of an 18year marriage. Can she let go of her deepest, most primal fears and save her marriage?

“Contingency” is available for purchase at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, and many others.

One of Morgan’s Men edited by Kent Masterson Brown

“One of Morgan’s Men: Memoirs of Lieutenant John M. Porter of the Ninth Calvary,” edited by Kent Masterson Brown, documents Porter’s personal participation in what he called “The War of Southern Independence” through a series of entries written in 1872.

Brown’s version draws from four existing copies of the original manuscript, and Porter’s passion for his cause and for the preservation of history are clearly evident. He draws the reader into his world of gunpowder and Rebel spirit as he tells of his personal war experiences and incarceration, emphasizing his devotion to freedom and his opposition to the “tyranny” of the North.

Porter gives extensive insight into one of the most defining periods in American history, detailing the war from the point of view of a dedicated soldier. Porter goes far beyond the battles though, detailing the joy of returning home to Kentucky and other memorable events.

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“Camphor’s Quest” is the result of four years of research on the Magi that visited the Christ child and who they actually could have been, writes author Kathleen Armstead.

Christians have made Biblical stories dry and uninteresting. Have you ever stopped to think about the three plastic kings we see year after year on our front lawns? They have pathetic looking little presents to give the child whom they believed was sent to the earth by God. Three kings with no entourage? No way.

The story begins with an orphan and his Jewish slave who attempt to travel with the Wise Men as they search for the birthplace of the child sent from heaven. The boy spends a lifetime seeking the King and is forever changed when he finds him.

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and clean for spring Spring is in the air.

The birds are singing, flowers are blooming and it’s time to get rid of the dust and clutter that has piled up over the winter. Spring-cleaning can seem like a daunting task, but if you take it room by room, your neglected spaces will be sparkling in no time.

Home office If mail and bills have piled up on your desk, take time to throw away or shred documents that you want to get rid of. File the others in your filing cabinet or accordion file. Also, it might be a good time to set up a budget or payment schedule if those winter bills have fallen behind.

Dust off your computer and use a soft cloth to clean the screen. Cotton swabs can be used to clean the keyboard. Remove books from shelves and dust.

Living room First, clear out all the clutter that has accumulated.

Then start from the top and work your way down. Dust the ceiling and walls. With a damp, clean cloth, dust picture and art frames. If you’re ceiling fan hasn’t been on in a while, dust the fan blades and bulbs. Clean the windows inside and out to let in the sunlight. This is also a good time to have curtains or draperies cleaned if needed.

Vacuum couch crevices, wash slipcovers and spot clean stains. Dust lamps and knickknacks, books and shelves, tables and entertainment centers. Vacuum and steam clean carpets. Also, clean your doormats to make sure dirt isn’t tracked into your newly cleaned living room.

Bedrooms Spring is a good time to rotate your mattresses to ensure even wear and also to replace those heavy blankets with warm-weather bedding. Check the labels on your pillows. Most can be machinewashed to rid the pillow of odors or bacteria.

Be sure to hit the closet. While you’re switching out your winter gear for your spring and summer attire, take a good look at what items you didn’t wear this winter. Start a donation pile for items you can part with or sell at a yard sale.

Kitchen If there is still figgy pudding lurking in the back of your fridge, it’s definitely time to hit it with some hardcore cleaning. Empty out old leftovers and clear the shelves for a thorough wipe-down. Remove drawers and shelves and wash with a mild detergent and dry with a clean cloth.

Also wipe the interior using a cloth with warm water and detergent. Dry the interior before replacing shelves and drawers. Replace your food, wiping off any sticky jars or cartons.

Check the freezer and discard expired food. The freezer can be cleaned in the same way as the refrigerator if needed.

The refrigerator coils can also be vacuumed.

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early 700,000 Americans will have a new or recurrent stroke this year. Every 45 seconds someone in the U.S. has a stroke. Someone dies from a stroke every 3.3 minutes.

Because of such staggering statistics, each May is designated as National Stroke Awareness Month. Stroke is the third leading cause of death and a leading cause of severe, long-term disability in the United States. If you do not know how to respond to a stroke emergency, now is the perfect time to become familiar with the warning signs and to learn how to act quickly. If any of the signs present themselves, call 911 immediately to help reduce devastating effects. Warning signs include: • Sudden numbness or weakness of face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body • Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding • Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes • Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination • Sudden severe headache with no known cause The effects of a stroke can be serious and permanent. Brain injury from a stroke can affect the senses, motor activity, speech and the ability to understand speech. It also can affect behavioral and thought patterns, memory and emotions. Paralysis or weakness on one side of the body is common.

Every minute counts during a stroke. If any of the warning signs are present, remember to act F.A.S.T. • Face – Does one side of the face droop? Ask the person to smile.

• Arms – Is one arm weak or numb? Ask the person to raise both arms.

• Speech – Is speech slurred? Ask the person to repeat a simple sentence.

• Time – If the person shows any symptoms, call 911 or take them to the hospital immediately.

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fun in the sun Story Lori Kersey

Ashland, Ky. dermatologist o˜ers tips to beat the heat this spring and summer As temperatures heat up, it’s important to protect your skin from the harmful rays of the sun. As we age, many of the wrinkles on our skin can be attributed to sun damage, but there are ways to reduce the effects that sun has on skin.

Jolinda Dillow, a dermatologist practicing in

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Ashland, Ky., offered some tips for anyone planning to have some fun in the sun this spring and summer. “(The sun) is a good thing. I’m not saying don’t get out in the sun,” she said. “It makes us feel good. I think the sun is a good thing as long as we do it safely and do the adequate precautions.” Here are Dillow’s tips:

1. Avoid tanning beds.

If you must have a tan, Dillow recommends a sunless alternative to tanning beds.

“I think that any of the spray tanning is acceptable, as well, the topical lotions are a very safe alternative,” Dillow said. “Tanning beds and natural sun increase the chance of skin cancer and ages skin. The lotions are safe as far as we know.”

It’s a misconception that getting a base tan in a tanning bed can protect your skin from further sun burns and the damage associated with them, Dillow said. In fact, a base tan only has a sun protection factor of between 2 to 4, she said.

“The sun is actually damaging the skin cells,” Dillow said. “They have to be damaged for the tan. So just the tan itself is damage.”

2. Wear sunscreen Although Dillow warns against the damage caused by the sun, she also doesn’t think that people will never venture outside.

“I don’t expect people to stay inside. I work in the yard,” Dillow said. “I tell people to wear an SPF of at least 30.” She also recommends putting sunscreen on 20 to 30 minutes before you go outside. “It takes it that long to become effective,” Dillow said.

It’s also important to note that there is no such thing as waterproof sunscreen. You should plan to reapply it while playing in water or sweating. Even without a water element, the sunscreens should be reapplied every two to three hours.

3. It’s all about timing If you have yard work to do or need to be in the sun for another reason, try to schedule those activities either before 10 a.m. or after 4 p.m., Dillow advises. It’s during these times that the sun’s rays are not as strong and you are less likely to get sunburned.

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Rows of grape vines can be seen from U.S. 52 in Manchester, Ohio, on the Moyer Winery property.

Ripe on the vine Manchester winery blends tradition with taste Story Jennifer Chapman Photography Jessica St. James

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When Ken Moyer and his family began looking for a place to fulfill his dream of winemaking, he found just what he was looking for along the Ohio River in Manchester, Ohio, in 1973.

When Moyer’s opened, they started with a simple menu of wine-tasting, bean soup, cheese and bread. Throughout the years, the menu expanded, and now includes appetizers, lunches, dinners and desserts.

The Moyers decided it was time to sell the winery and restaurant to someone else as they got older. There weren’t a lot of prospective buyers, so in 1999, a group of the Moyers’ friends got together and decided to take it on to keep it from closing.

Cindy Gilkison, general manager, and her husband Bob, joined in by buying shares in 2004.

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We try to keep it reasonable. We serve quality food. It’s first class all the way.

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— Cindy Gilkison site, even growing most of the grapes in the eight acres of vineyard.

They serve 12 wines, including four red wines — Cabernet Sauvignon, Chambourcin, Country Home Red and River Valley Red. There are three white wines to choose from, including Chardonnay, Vidal Blanc and River Valley White.

There are five choices of grapes, fruits and berry wines — White Zinfandel, Blush, raspberry, strawberry and peach.

The wines may also be purchased for carry out.

“Our most popular wines are the sweet wines,” Gilkison said. She said the Country Home Red, as well as the raspberry, are the best sellers.

“We can’t make them fast enough,” she said.

While the menu can change from month to month, it consists of appetizers like shrimp cocktail, fried green tomatoes, Rumaki and ale-battered mushrooms.

Salads available include a coconut shrimp salad, Mediterranean salmon salad and chicken Caesar, to name a few.

Sandwiches and burgers to choose from are plentiful and include the cranberry turkey club, a corned beef Ruben, the Buckeye burger and mini steak burgers and many others.

Vineyard favorites include chicken livers, River Valley

A couple enjoys the view of the Ohio River as they take advantage of the early bird special.

Moyer’s Restaurant opened in 1973 with a modest menu of wine tasting, bean soup, cheese and bread. Years later the menu has expanded and includes appetizers, lunches, dinners and desserts.

salmon, Creole shrimp and grits, and the Shawnee Valley steak sandwich.

For steak lovers, the filet mignon, beef medallions or one of the ribeyes might be an option.

The blue jacket chicken, walnut chicken feta, the peach wine BBQ or southern fried chicken are options for those wanting to choose the poultry.

The seafood and pasta choices include Chardonnay shrimp and salmon, Icelandic Cod, chicken fettuccini Alfredo and some spaghetti choices, along with several other options.

Some of the sides include sweet potato fries, salad, onion rings and bean soup. That’s right — the very bean soup recipe Ken Moyer used when the restaurant opened.

The desserts vary but include a toasted pecan caramel ball, a triple fudge brownie a la mode and a lemon berry torte, which is two layers of Italian cream cake joined together by a layer of mascarpone cheese, studded and drizzled with blueberries and raspberries, and finished with a dollop of whipped cream.

The prices for meals vary, with lunch ranging from $8.25 to $12.95, and dinner from $11.95 to $29.95.

“We try to keep it reasonable. We serve quality food,” Gilkison said. “It’s first class all the way.”

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Central dining room at Moyer’s restaurant.

Customers come from as far as Lexington, Ky., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio, to enjoy the dining and the peaceful atmosphere of the restaurant.

“People out for a drive, they make kind of a pilgrimage here once or twice a year to sit out there and enjoy the river

well as the perfectly placed table settings, it offers more of an experience rather than just dinner.

Even seeing the view every day at work, Gilkison said it isn’t something she gets bored with.

“It’s really beautiful and calming to look out there every

and the view and the wine and the food,” Gilkison said.

While Gilkison described the dining as casual, the

day and see all that beauty,” she said. “I never get tired of looking at it.”

restaurant and the décor she describes as rustic and charming. From the wine-colored walls to the windows all around the building and the open view of the Ohio River, as

Gilkison said the restaurant has been the setting for weddings, birthday parties, business meetings and reunions.

She said they can comfortably seat 125 guests.

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Giving the customers a good dining experience is something Gilkison strives to do.

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Ashland, Ky., woman helps lead non-profit toward prosperity Lucy Davis knows a little about how to make a non-profit work. No, that’s just a bit of an understatement. With 13 years of serving on the boards of a variety of Tri-State organizations, she definitely knows what it takes to bring the funds in and to send them back out as a helping hand to others.

So when she was asked to take over one of the oldest and most established non-profits in the Tri-State, Davis was as comfortable about the prospect as curling up in a favorite chair in front of a toasty warm fireplace.

It was seven years ago when Davis was asked to become director of Federated Charities that has for 80 years supplied free used clothing to men, women and children, no questions asked. Located in an old frame house a couple of blocks from downtown Ashland, the organization had struggled with a downturn in donations that was forcing cuts in the number of those it helped.

No problem. Davis took her “never met a stranger” personality and started soliciting clothes anywhere she could. Friends. Colleagues. Upscale boutiques. National chain department stores. Even at ball games at the local high school stadium, much to the chagrin of her then teenaged children.

“I’d tell people, ‘I need size 11 shoes,’” she said. “It has gotten the word out.”

So much so that the 10,000 individuals served the first year of her leadership swelled into four times that in the next three years.

“They are on fixed incomes,” she said. “They are struggling. Three years ago, we added blankets. With heating bills and rates rising, people were cold. I couldn’t pay their electric bill, but we have solicited new and used blankets.”

However with volume quadrupling, that old house was

shrinking fast. Often Davis and volunteers sorted stacks and stacks of clothes piled up on a kitchen table in a room without heat.

“We’d be saying ‘Excuse me,’ about 500 times,” she said.

That’s when Davis teamed up with the directors of a halfdozen Ashland non-profits to change the look and more importantly increase the reach of all of their missions by joining forces.

“We decided all the agencies were having trouble finding a home,” she said.

So they all went out “house-hunting,” and found the abandoned processing plant of a former dairy singing a special siren call.

Now that barn of a dairy factory has a new name and a new mission as the headquarters of Neighbors Helping Neighbors. Looking much like an upscale shopping mall, the headquarters sports a main street ambience with Davis’ agency prominently featured with a fresh look and a different moniker — The Dressing Room.

Her career in the non-profit realm is a far cry from the work she decided on in college. Davis started out as a health and physical education major, teaching in the schools at Muhlenberg County.

When she relocated to Ashland, she segued to community relations becoming Ashland Inc.’s face on dozens of nonprofit boards, when the company was headquartered in the Tri-State. Following a 10-year hiatus she took to bring up her two children, Davis came back to the workforce with renewed energy combined with the expertise gained from her years in corporate America.

It’s a career change that Davis finds has given her a unique satisfaction.

“Every day I have seen something different I didn’t know before, coming here from corporate to human services,” she said. “Just realizing a lot of people are struggling and trying to get back on their feet. Every day I see good things. There are nice people. I think helping people is the best thing you can do for your inward health.” a Tri-StateLiving | 43

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Spring Step Gladiator sandal with multicolored straps and stacked heel and back zip closure $79.99

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The Pottery Place really taking shape Huntington, W.Va., business offers outlet for creativity Story Jennifer Chapman | Photography Jessica St. James 58 | Tri-StateLiving

For people who consider themselves less than artsy, hearing the word “pottery” conjures up images like the scene from the movie “Ghost.” Complicated, messy and too difficult to attempt. But residents all over the Tri-State are finding out it doesn’t have to be that way.

At The Pottery Place, located in Pullman Square in Huntington, W.Va., you can choose an already-formed bisque — a piece of unglazed pottery — and paint it right there, with all the supplies at your disposal. With more than 100 pieces to choose from, and more than 100 paint colors, your art can be as simplistic or creative as you choose.

Choosing a bisque is the first step, and with all of the options, that is not an easy task. The variety of bisques include something that would fit just about anyone, from plates and coffee mugs to trays, coasters, garden gnomes and soap dispensers. For the younger crowds, there are a

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Alex Antzes, of Chesapeake, Ohio, joins his mom, Cynthia Clagg, at The Pottery Place to create unique items for their home.

variety of coin banks, mirrors and ice cream bowls and much more. There are always seasonal items available too, that change frequently, like Easter bunnies and Christmas trees.

Once the piece has been chosen, the options are wide open on what you can to do with it. The staff will explain how to do whatever it is you want to try, whether it is simply a solid color, using stencils, copying an image from transfer paper, sponging or specialty glazes, just to name a few.

After the piece is completed, the item is paid for and turned in to be glazed and fired in the kiln and it is ready to be picked up in about a week.

“My favorite part is when they come back to pick it up and they decide they’re going to stay and paint something that day, because A, they had a good time, and B, they’re really happy with their piece when they get it back,” said owner Laya Hutchison.

Hutchison said a customer doesn’t need a certain skill level to paint at The Pottery Place, just a desire to come in and have a good time.

“My vision was for people to come in and spend time with family and friends and create memories together, and that’s what happens when you come into a pottery studio.”

The prices can fit just about anyone’s budget. The cost is listed below each bisque on the shelf, and the price is all-inclusive. There is no extra charge for paint or for the amount of time spent in the studio, just the listed price and sales tax. A person can paint a $4 keychain or special-order a large oval platter for $83.

The time it takes to paint an item varies, depending on the item and the detail the customer wants to put in it. For

Sixteen-year-old Paige Pack works on a duck.

people who can’t get it all finished in one day, the studio offers pottery-in-progress.

“If you get started on something and run out of time, you leave it here, and pay for the piece the day you begin to paint on it. After that, you can come in and paint on it as often as you want,” Hutchison said. “We don’t charge you for time.”

Hutchison said they ask that the pottery be completed within two months so there will be room to store them.

Hutchison said there is no certain demographic that they cater to, but that she sees it as something everyone can enjoy.

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Nine-year-old Matana Williams browses through the selection of items.

“Painting pottery is age-appropriate for everyone. There are no boundaries to it,” Hutchison said. “My youngest customers, and it’s been more than once, have been 6-week old babies to have handprints and footprints made. We’ve had The Red Society come in and paint. We’ve had guys bring girls for date nights. It’s just age-appropriate for everyone. I don’t have a specific demographic for who my customer is. My customer is everyone.”

When Hutchison first opened The Pottery Place, she hoped it would do well, but she didn’t imagine it would do as well as it has.

The business first started on Eighth Avenue in the West End of Huntington and as the business grew, Hutchison needed more space and more parking. In June of 2010, the Pottery Place moved to Pullman Square.

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Square is having other businesses and restaurants nearby, offering the customers more options. They can bring food and beverages into the Pottery Place or they can take a break to eat and come back to finish the pottery.

“There are lots of choices for people to do something before or afterward,” she said. “You can come here and have an entire experience versus just painting pottery.

“It has actually been busier than I expected it to be,” Hutchison said. “I was hoping to have an increase in foot traffic in the studio because of the location, but it has actually surprised me even from my expectations.”

The Pottery Place offers parties for guests of eight or more, and can accommodate more than 100 people. In addition to birthday parties, scouting troops, book clubs, baby and bridal showers, businesses and sports teams have had events at the Pottery Place.

In the Biz | shopping Pottery-to-go is offered if a group can’t make it to the studio. The bisques and supplies are sent with you and returned, then the finished pieces are picked up a week from the time they are turned back in.

The Pottery Place has mobile events where a studio employee goes to the event to instruct the group and to transport the supplies.

In the summer, the studio offers workshops for children and teens.

Gift cards are available for any amount. The studio also has fundraising opportunities.

“We are constantly evolving,” Hutchison said. “I feel we change based on what the customers’ needs are.”

Hutchison couldn’t be happier with how the business is going.

“I’m very, very thankful people have received us so well. They got it. That’s why I was able to grow. I was able to take what my dream was for this, my vision, and with the help of the community, I was able to make it a reality and grow it. I wouldn’t have been able to do that if people hadn’t supported it.” a

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A Homemade Tradition Story Michelle Goodman

Kentucky candy maker Ruth Hunt continues sweet legacy Ruth Hunt didn’t invent old-fashioned Kentucky cream candy, but one could certainly say she perfected it.

Just bite into one of her famous Blue Monday bars, and as the soft cream melts in your mouth, you can taste the history that began 90 years ago with Ruth Hunt Candies.

Hunt’s sweet legacy began in 1921 in the basement of her Mt. Sterling, Ky., home, selling candies to family and friends.

With nothing but word-of-mouth marketing, her small business venture began to outgrow itself.

In 1930, she found a permanent shop and factory to keep up with the rising demand of her cream candies, caramels, butter creams and assorted chocolates.

But factory or not, Hunt was not going to sacrifice taste for cost. Only the finest ingredients were to be used in each of her treats, with no deviation from her recipes.

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The same is still true today. Even the methods of production are hardly modern, with most of the candies still wrapped by hand.

“By staying true to the recipes, and really the methods of making the candy, that’s what got us here the past 90 years,” said Toby Moore, manager of Ruth Hunt Candies. “That’s what I think you have to stay true to.”

Moore has been with the company since 1988, the year that Larry and Charles Kezele bought the factory from Hunt’s daughter, Emily Peck.

“When Larry bought the business in ‘88, we really didn’t change anything,” Moore said. “We kept the recipes of course and really focused on trying to bring it up to modern times as far as the marketing campaigns.”

In 2000, the facility was moved to Maysville Road, just off

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Janice Trent pokes a stick inside bunny molds to get the air out as she makes Easter candy.

of Interstate 64, in a bustling new area of Mt. Sterling. This allowed for an expansion of the gift shop and ample room for groups to tour the factory.

It is a uniquely sweet experience to see how Ruth Hunt Candies still makes their signature Blue Monday bar, as well as how the bar got its name.

The story goes, Hunt had developed a cream bar, but didn’t know what to call it. One day, a minister stopped by the shop. He said he liked to stop in on Mondays, because he needed a cure for his blue Mondays.

If anything can cure a blue Monday, it is one of Hunt’s old-fashioned cream bars.

“To describe the taste, generally what we do is just hand people a piece,” Moore said. “Sampling is the best way.”

The lifecycle of a Blue Monday is truly something to behold.

Cream, sugar, butter and water come to a rolling boil in large copper kettles, stirred by chief cook, Junior Carroll.

One batch will make up to 300 Blue Monday bars.

After the liquid comes to 260 degrees, Carroll uses a kettle lift to hoist the large vat from its burner, to a larger steel table, where it is poured out. As it hits the cool surface, the caramel colored liquid begins to solidify and become pliable. Carroll works the leathery-looking flat Blue Monday center with his hands, flipping it over like a large pizza dough, until he rolls it up like a carpet.

Carroll then transfers the roll to the puller. In the old days, Ruth Hunt would use a large hook on the wall to hold the cream. The hook is still there. Now, a machine pulls the cream just like saltwater taffy, one of the few modern advancements of the factory.

As air is pulled into the cream, it turns a pearly white.

Then, Debbie Maddox, Michelle Hatton and others on the production crew use large shears to cut the cream into thick strips.

This stage of the cream is what they call “chewy.”

“A lot of people, at Christmas, will come in and say, ‘I want to get a pound of chewy,’” said Moore. “Once it creams off, it’s like a totally different candy.”

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Lynn Isaac pulls softened cream into long lines to be taken through a machine to make the Blue Monday candy bars.

The thick strips are laid on a marble slab table, the same ones used in Hunt’s original factory. The crew turns them so they won’t cool too quickly and crack.

“There is really no automated way to make cream candy,” Moore said. “It’s such a hand-made process.”

The thick strips of cream are shaped and fed through a small set of rollers that scores the surface. When the cream firms, the scores will mark where to snap apart.

The cream squares are placed on sheet pans and are now ready to be coated in chocolate.

When the squares are placed on the conveyor belt, they are just blocks of cream. When they emerge from the other side, they are Blue Mondays, coated in rich, single origin dark chocolate from Africa.

“Even though it gets increasingly challenging to continue making candy using the old methods, we do not want to go to a scenario where we’re loading the candy with

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preservatives and freezing it and changing the whole niche that we’ve been successful in,” Moore said. “You have to be creative and try to come up with different ways to remain competitive.”

To keep up with the demand for Blue Mondays and other cream candy, a machine wraps them. Other candies, such as the mallows, caramels and suckers, are still hand-wrapped.

As much as the company has grown, it has still remained a small family of workers, dedicated to keeping the legacy of Ruth Hunt alive.

“We’re a small factory, but we’re a big family,” said Mae Allen.

Allen has worked at the factory for 36 years, filing orders, waiting on customers and answering the phone. She knew both Ruth and Emily.

“She was particular about her candy,” she said of Hunt.

“She didn’t want it scarred up. She’d say, ‘Oh look. You’ve

“I havn’t tried anything I didn’t like,” says Meg Palmer, of Lexington, Ky., as she browses through the case of chocolates while visiting Ruth Hunt Candies, in Mt. Sterling, Ky.

hurt my little candy.’ Miss Peck was a different lady than her mother. She and I were friends and we shared a lot of secrets over the years.”

Ruth Hunt Candies has managed to keep their oldfashioned ways intact while continuing to grow and reach new customers.

The retail shop carries all of Hunt’s traditional candies: Blue Monday bars, bourbon balls, caramel, butter creams and assorted chocolates. The factory produces more than 50 varieties of candy.

The shop also carries other Kentucky based products like jams, sorghum, hot sauces, University of Kentucky gear, leather products and coffee mugs.

“I always stop here whenever I’m in Mt. Sterling,” said customer Meg Palmer. Palmer said when she moved to Lexington from Cincinnati, she stopped in one day to give it a try.

“The bourbon balls are great,” she said. “I think everything is good here. I haven’t tried anything I didn’t like.”

From the days when Ruth and her daughter Emily delivered candy on a horse and buggy, to shipping online orders from their website through UPS, the company has become an historical landmark in Kentucky.

As Moore puts it, “(Hunt) had to be a remarkable lady to accomplish that.” a

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Generations of spirit Family has long-running ties to championship Greenup County High School cheerleading program GREENUP, Ky. — It’s been a tradition for more than 30 years. The women of the Cade family are cheerleaders.

And not just any sort of cheerleading.

These women are national champions at the sport.

The Greenup County High School cheerleading squad has won 14 Universal Cheerleading Association national championships.

During 12 of those championship years, a member of the Cade family has been on the squad.

“It’s something that bonds us all together,” Scarlet Cade Shoemaker, 39, said. “We all have that common thread.”

Mitzi Cade Lanning, 44, was a part of the UCA championship-winning team in 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984 and her sister, Scarlet, was on the squad for its championship in 1987. Mitzi’s daughter, Alex Lanning, 18, was on the squad in 2010 and 2011 championship years.

The sisters’ niece, Lindsey Greenslate Moore, 26, was on the squad for the championships in 2002 and 2003.

Their niece, Aubrey Warnock Roy, 29, was on the squad during the 1997 and

1999 championships. Aubrey’s sister-in-law, Shawnda Warnock, 31, was on the squad in 1994 and 1997.

Scarlet and Mitzi’s sister, Christy Cade Greenslate, was also part of a national championship squad during the 1978 and 1979 school years, before the UCA was organized in 1980.

“It’s kind of what you looked up to,” Aubrey, a marketing and communication specialist at Southern Ohio Medical Center, said. “I grew up watching Mitzi and Scarlet go through it. They always babysat me and tossed me around, and spotted me and we did back handsprings. They really made me love it.”

Much of their success at the sport the women attribute to Coach Candy Berry, who started coaching at Greenup County when Christy was a freshman and most recently coached Alex and the rest of her squad.

“She came and she changed cheerleading from what it had been,” Christy, a bank vice president, said. “Before, you kind of tried out, but it was more or less the popular girls that were on the cheerleading squad.

“Always before they had eight cheerleaders and it was juniors and seniors only on varsity. She came at the end of my freshman year with the idea that they were going to have 16 cheerleaders, which was unheard of. People would laugh at us when we came on the floor cause they’d say, ‘oh my gosh here comes the army,’ or ‘they got more on the cheerleading squad than they got on the basketball team.’”

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As anyone who’s ever won a championship — especially on a national level — can guess, cheerleading was more than just a hobby for the women. You might even say it was a lifestyle for them.

“It was serious business,” Scarlet, a public relations manager for Greenup County Schools, said.

Just successfully trying out for the team was a feat. The girls had to be good at dancing and tumbling to even be considered.

Once they made the team, the women remembered, they practiced six and seven days a week for hours at a time.

On the weekends they were constantly off to one event or another.

“I can remember when we would be on trips places and there would be girls crying,” Mitzi, a teacher, recalls.

“We always rode in one van. Girls would be crying, saying, ‘Please Candy, please let’s just stay home one weekend.

Just one weekend let us stay home. We never get to see our boyfriends, we never get to go out on dates.’

“Finally Candy pulled the van over, she turned around and we went home because they were crying that they just wanted to stay home one weekend.”

Her mother and others tell Alex, a senior on the squad, that the rules and practice schedule have changed since their time in the sport.

“I have it easy,” Alex, a future student of the University of Louisville, said. “They always get mad at me because I get to do whatever I want. It doesn’t seem easy to me but to them it seems like a vacation.”

Even still, don’t tell Alex or the other women that cheerleading isn’t as tough as other sports.

Alex has explained it this way to the boys who were giving her and her teammates a hard time: “It’s just like football only you’re not wearing pads and you’re lifting weights but you’re lifting people instead of weights.”

Scarlet recalls once during her high school days when her squad challenged the football team to a race on a hill.

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hill and tumbled through the parking lot, just to kind of rub it in their faces.”

Winning national championships didn’t come without attention from the media and the public. While Shawnda and Aubrey were in school, a writer followed the squad around researching for a book. “We’ve Got Spirit: The Life and Times of America’s Best Cheerleading team” was published later.

Despite the attention, hours of practice and pressure, being on a national championship squad gave the women more opportunities than a typical rural Kentucky youth gets to enjoy.

For instance, Scarlet went to Japan after her squad’s win.

Aubrey and Shawnda went to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga. The work ethic, coolness under pressure and people skills that they gained during cheerleading have given them an advantage in their respective career fields, they said.

“I know it’s helped me be a stay-at-home mom,” joked Lindsey, who is also a cosmetologist.

Then there’s the experience of winning a national competition.

“I would say (it’s like) having a baby,” Aubrey said after searching for words to describe it. “I mean it’s different but it’s the same.”

But what is even more special, they say, is watching the younger members of their family get their chance at a win.

“I remember sitting there and being so nervous for them to hit the stage,” Aubrey said. “And they got out there and I was like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t do anything about this. This is out of my hands. I can’t help them hold their stunts. I can’t help them with their tumbling. They just have to do it.’”

The most recent of the women to win the championship was Alex, who was on the squad that won this year. Aubrey couldn’t make the trip to Florida to see her cousin, so she watched the performance over the Internet.

“I bawled my eyes out because I know how she feels and I know how she worked. And it’s something in common that we all have that we share and I think it keeps us close as a family.” a

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Harriette Ramsey Burlington, Ohio, resident tackles life with a gusto that belies words She goes at life like a dynamo that can’t wind down. Community activist.

Career woman. Wife. Mother. Devoted Christian.

Everything Harriette Ramsey touches, she goes at full tilt. It’s the only way she knows how.

“I guess that it’s my ancestry,” Ramsey said. “My mother always said she would rather wear out than rust out.

I guess that’s me. I just enjoy life.”

Almost three decades ago, the Ashland, Ky., native transplanted to the community of Burlington, saw her neighbors in need and reached out to help. Home after home would flood during heavy rains because nearby ditches were overflowing with water.

“The ditches weren’t being cleaned out,” she said. “We met to talk about flooding in the area. The storm water wasn’t affecting me. But these are my friends, neighbors, my community.

If the community has a problem, I have a problem. It takes all of us to do something. It takes working together to solve the problem.”

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That meeting grew into the Concerned Citizens of Burlington, created originally for a one-time problem, now going strong after 28 years. And at the helm for all those years has been Ramsey.

One night after a meeting of the organization at the old Burlington Elementary school, Ramsey was standing out front and an EMS squad stopped to ask directions. At that time there were no signs marking Burlington streets.

“I said to Raymond (her husband), ‘Someone could die,’” she recalled.

That gave the Concerned Citizens their second project, erecting signage for all the streets in the community.

“I have taught my kids that it is about giving back,” Ramsey said. “If God has allowed me to come this far, let’s reach out to help. If I can help someone, then my living is not in vain.”

Ramsey came to the Ohio side of the river when she married. Soon she found a career that seemed too good to be true.

“I’ve always wanted to be a librarian. I’ve always loved to read,” she said.

So when the Chesapeake branch of the Lawrence County public library system needed a leader, Ramsey took over.

“I thought this was utopia,” she said. “I’m going to get paid to read. They wanted you to read all the new books.”

However, the dream job came with a possible caveat. At that time African-Americans had almost no presence in the village of Chesapeake.

“I was told there was going to be some trouble,” Ramsey recalled. “That was very far from the truth. I made some very fine friends.”

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Elementary, work she does to this day. It put Ramsey in her element. It’s what she does for a living. It’s what she does to relax. Hard cover. Paperback. Kindle. Harriette Ramsey likes her words any way she can get them.

“My bookshelves are kind of crowded. In my living room. The TV room,” she said. “Some I have ordered and put on my Kindle. If it is a good book, I will go back and read it again.”

Particularly she likes to steep herself in the biographies of others, looking for their life lessons.

“I always liked to read about people’s lives,” she said.

“What they have gone through in their lives. It is really how they have overcome and sometimes when you read about other people’s lives, your problems don’t seem so bad. It’s encouragement.”

And it’s encouragement that Ramsey wants to give to the young students who cross her path daily at the Burlington school.

“I try to encourage them to read things they are interested in,” she said. “If they are interested in sports, I try to get them to read sports. If you try to force them, they get stagnant and don’t want to read. Some of them aren’t used to reading.”

But it’s not only suggesting a book or two to the students. Thirteen years ago Ramsey took it upon herself to start a morning school newscast, put on entirely by the children.

“I did not know what I was doing. I had never been involved in something like this before,” she said. “But our kids at Burlington were like the black sheep kids (in the school district). I wanted to make our kids feel special.”

And in making them feel special Ramsey is planting the seeds for what she considers her philosophy of life.

“It’s enthusiasm for whatever you are into,” she said.

“With my broadcast at school, I tell the kids, if you don’t want to be here and are not enthusiastic, it will show. If you have enthusiasm, you will do a good job. I am doing something I know we see a need for. … When I know that something is right and it is going to help the community, I’ll give it my all. I am not one to give up.” a 74 | Tri-StateLiving

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up close Being president of Marshall University comes with a variety of perks but perhaps none better than living in a home that has the feel of a museum.

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The President’s House, which serves as the home of current Marshall University President Stephen Kopp, features columns on the front of the house and a semi-circular sunroom on its east side.

The residence, located on 13th Avenue by Ritter Park, is a fully furnished museum of antiques that are owned by the university.

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The formal dining room located inside Marshall University’s President’s House. From the mirror to the table and chairs, the room is furnished with antiques that have been donated to the university.

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t’s not easy being caretaker of a museum. But that is one of the duties Jane Kopp faces with grace and aplomb as Marshall University’s latest first lady.

About six years ago Stephen Kopp took over the presidency of the Huntington university and with the job came a house already furnished, at least the downstairs part of it. Maintaining the elegance and formality of those rooms while making a home for her and her husband has become Jane Kopp’s mission.

It’s in the public rooms where the Kopps entertain guests of the university, faculty and students. Those are the rooms filled with antiques given by supporters who want to make the President’s House on 13th Avenue by Ritter Park a showcase.

“People have donated to the university or left them in their estate,” Jane Kopp said. “It’s a big responsibility, but

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the university provides staff to take care of the home.”

Built in 1922, the three-story brick features a square portico on the front and an enclosed side porch. Attorney and one-time Huntington mayor Charles Campbell built the house that was designed by the Huntington architectural firm of Sidney L. and R.L. Day in a combination of Neoclassical and Greek Revival.

The spacious entrance hall features the original French

The formal living room in the MU President’s House. An oil portrait of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall hangs above the fireplace.

hand-blocked wallpaper, mounted on panels and then installed on the walls. Called El Dorado, the design shows a fanciful world of castles with lush foliage and aviary life and was created in Rixheim, France by the firm of Zuber and Cie. On the left of the hallway is the formal dining room the Kopps use when entertaining university guests. Here the style of the room is strictly federal with two Hepplewhite sideboards in the familiar curvilinear shape dominating.

Above the onyx marble fireplace, one of seven in the house, is a vivid mural still life of foliage and parrots, painted by Louis Chappell. The panel is original to the house.

The design in the mural is picked up in the cushions on the dining room chairs and draperies where magenta parrots dance across an eggnog cream background.

“I would like to see more color in the room,” Kopp said.

“My husband would like it to reflect Marshall and its colors.”

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The entranceway of the President’s House features original French, hand-blocked wallpaper that shows a world of castles and lush foliage.

Windows fill the entire sunroom located on the east side of the President’s House.

The sunroom is used as an escape where the Kopps like to eat breakfast.

A massive breakfront holds the white and gold-banded china used for Marshall functions.

Across the entrance hall from the dining room is the formal living room, paneled in a rosy mahogany-esque wood.

The focal point of the room is the oil portrait of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, for whom the university is named. The painting was done by university professor E.E. Myers after a portrait by Henry Inman.

It is here in the living room, also used for formal occasions, that the special touches of Kopp come alive with family photographs on display. In a recessed bookcase are examples of Fenton and Blenko glass, the latest interest of Kopp.

“I’ve fallen in love with the glass made in this state,” she said.

Upstairs are the private rooms that include four bedrooms,

two offices and a sitting room on the second floor and a modified ballroom with only an eight-foot ceiling.

“Other first ladies had their sewing clubs there,” she said.

A small downstairs study is also a refuge for the Kopps along with the enclosed side porch with planters and pots of house plants.

“Steve and I eat out here on weekends,” Kopp said.

“This is a great room to grow plants. The breakfast room is claustrophobic.”

But antiques and architectural details aside, it is the location across from Ritter Park that seems to capture Kopp’s imagination the most.

“Last week the cherry trees were just gorgeous,” she said.

“It is a gorgeous view. Every season. And the colors that came from the trees in the fall, it made everything glow.” a Tri-StateLiving | 83

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Landscape expert offers tips on square-foot gardening

Whether you live on 10 acres of land or in an apartment with a strip of green space, everyone has space to grow their own food. And you don’t even have to get up at the crack of dawn to do it. All it takes is a few hours of dedication a week and a few feet of space to be on your way to becoming more self-sufficient and self-sustaining.

Gardening is something anyone with any budget at any skill level can do, says Mark Springer, gardening expert and landscape architect. Springer, 56, owns Lavalette Nursery in Huntington, W.Va. Gardening and growing one’s own food is something Springer says anyone can do, even beginners. For first timers, he recommends a process called square-foot gardening.

“It’s a simple, raised bed,” Springer said. “It can be made out of wood or anything else. Instead of going out and getting a tiller and plowing everything up, you’re doing it in a smaller area.”

The raised beds can be bought pre-made or they can be easily built with lumber from a local hardware store.

Springer said a four-by-four grid is a good starter size.

“Theoretically, you can divide it into a grid with 16 square-foot sections and you can put one plant in each square foot,” he said. “It really does work.”

Mysquarefootgarden.net has a good “apples to apples” cost comparison of “bought” versus “made” raised beds with various dimensions.

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Once you’ve decided on a raised bed type, placement of the structure and soil are key. The bed should be placed in an area that sees at least six to eight hours of sunlight a day.

So steer clear of large shade trees. The area should also be free of puddles after rain.

Since you will be adding your own dirt to the bed, soil isn’t a factor in placement. Springer recommends a mixed soil for best results.

“The key is you put a really super soil mix in the raised bed,” he said. For the mix, he recommends one third each of peat moss, compost and vermiculite. The mix is light and requires very little in the way of hardware for planting. “The soil mix is so loose and light, you don’t really need a shovel, and you’re not going that deep. You can pretty much do it with a hand trowel. That’s the beauty of it. You don’t have to get into a lot of stuff.”

With the lighter soil, seeds can push through much easier and roots can easily spread. There is also no real threat of weeds, unlike regular soil.

Once you’ve got the soil in the bed and the threat of frost has passed, you are ready to plant. But what?

“Anything can grow,” said Springer. “It doesn’t seem like it should work, but it does. It really does. Most people do the tomatoes, peppers, that kind of thing. You really can do about anything.”

Springer recommends if you can buy your favorite fruits or veggies already in plant form, go ahead and do that. You

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will be on your way to fresh produce in no time.

There are some vegetables, however, that must be started from seeds, he said.

“There are a lot of things that people can do from seeds that are really easy,” Springer said. He recommended lettuce, beans and corn, saying those veggies are almost “fool-proof.”

“Most of those things germinate within a week,” he said, adding that seed packets will tell the proper time to plant and when to expect maturity. If the possibility of frost still looms, the plants can be started indoors in planters and transplanted later.

Once the square-foot garden is planted, watch you’re mini-farm grow. Remember to water deeply a couple times a week, but take into consideration that each plant may have different needs.

If your plants aren’t growing properly, Springer said there could be three main reasons.

“Soil is the first thing,” he said. “Most problems are because of heavy, poorly drained soil. If something just looks really weak or the color is not right, it’s probably a fertilizer thing. The third thing to look at would be an insect or a disease.”

If pests are a problem, Springer said most nurseries offer a variety of chemical as well as organic insect control solutions. The nurseries also offer non-toxic deer repellent and various fertilizers.

Springer, a lifetime gardener, said he uses raised beds at his own home and likes having fresh produce on hand. “It’s always better,” he said.

One last piece of advice that Springer likes to give to first time gardeners is to just be patient.

“There’s a lot to learn. Most everybody that gardens likes to talk about it, and share what they know,” he said. “It’s a fun thing to do. Don’t get hung up on all the details. Just plant something.” a

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Special Sauces Story Jennifer Chapman | Photography Jessica St. James

Pastor Sam Peters, of Wheelersburg, Ohio, is the owner of Patter Fam Sauces. Patter Fam features specialty sauces and a cookbook.

Wheelersburg, Ohio, family offers sweet, spicy tastes with Patter Fam products Sam Peters has liked cooking since he was 14 years old. He said he would try different spices and flavors together right out of his mother’s cabinet.

“Somehow I have a knack for putting them together,” Sam said.

Sam and his wife, Joyce, were going to a birthday party at Sam’s brother’s house and were asked to bring some hot sauce, which he made from scratch. Their lives haven’t been the same since.

Requests for his sauce kept coming in and Sam and Joyce kept making it, and Patter Fam sauce was born. From May to October of 2009, they were filling orders from their kitchen in their Wheelersburg, Ohio, home. As the orders grew, they began to outgrow their kitchen.

“We just got to the point by October where we either just had to get in or get out because it was killing me,” Sam said.

“I was standing every day, literally cooking sauce to order, every day.” And he was doing this in addition to his two day jobs as an investment broker and a pastor of Minford United Methodist Church.

Sam was cooking the sauce in a 2-½ quart pan, Joyce was bottling it, their grandsons and daughter were working on packaging and all of them worked together to put the sauce in boxes.

Sam said their oldest grandson excitedly said, “This is like a factory.” Sam laughed as he remembered saying, “Shhh… don’t tell. Child labor laws.”

And that’s how Sam said they got started.

The name of the company came from a nickname given to Sam by Reagan, a then-2-year-old boy from their church who couldn’t quite say Pastor Sam. Patter Fam became Sam’s nickname.

In January 2010, the pair got a co-packer in Englewood,

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Cedar plank salmon with a spicy orange glaze is served with “Patter Slabs” and spicy orange tomatillo Sauce.

Ohio, and by March all the sauces were being bottled there.

At times they now need 500 gallons of sauce, and are so thankful to not still be using the 2-½ quart pan. Sam said the co-packers go by his recipes exactly, just as he would make it, but adds that the sauce has actually improved since moving on with a co-packer because the company is able to order the same ingredients for every batch, where he had difficulty finding enough produce, sometimes having to substitute green peppers for red ones.

Patter Fam Sauces range from the milder Sweet Barbeque Sauce and Spicy Orange Glaze and Jamaican Jerk Sauce to the hotter Spicy Barbeque Sauce, Hot Barbeque Sauce, Berry Hot Jelly and the Holy Cow Hot Sauce. The Sweet Mango Fire and the Mango Inferno sauces were successful, but with Tri-StateLiving | 89

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the price of mangoes getting out of hand, Sam and Joyce didn’t want to have to raise the prices on their sauce to keep selling it, so it is being discontinued for now, with hopes that it will make a reappearance every now and then.

The sauces have spent some serious time in the spotlight, winning some pretty big awards. The Hot Pepper Awards for 2010 awarded Patter Fam’s Berry Hot Jelly the best overall condiment, and Patter Fam sauces won the Pepper Patch Industry Award for the best product line. Nearly every sauce Patter Fam has created has won an award.

At their first big event, the Huntington RV and Boat Show, about a year ago, they sold almost 700 bottles of sauce in 2 ½ days.

Their hope was to be in their first store by the end of the first year. The sauces are now sold at specialty stores and restaurants throughout the Tri-State, in addition to trade shows, fairs and other events. The sauces are available online at www.patterfamsauces.com.

Joyce said you will probably never see their sauces in a

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discount supermarket. She said they couldn’t compete with a 99-cent bottle of hot sauce made mostly of fillers.

“Flavor is always first,” Sam said. “I will never compromise that.”

In addition to the sauce, Patter Fam also sells cookbooks, with recipes for the sauces, for everything from poultry to potato salad, meat, fish and even cheesecake.

“My goal is to make good food better,” Sam said. “I’m not trying to change the taste.”

Sam said the Berry Hot Jelly is good in a variety of things.

“You can kick up a peanut butter and jelly sandwich,” he said. “I have used it on pancakes, waffles, and ice cream or pork chops. I made some peanut butter and jelly fudge with it that was incredible.”

Sam and Joyce admit that not all of their flavor ideas work out. Sam said his biggest bomb was an idea for a basilflavored salad dressing. He envisioned basil-infused vinegar with hot oil in the top of the bottle that you couldn’t see because of the bottle top. You could only see clear dressing

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We have had an opportunity to meet some wonderful people.

We’ve had a chance to pray with people.

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“What I didn’t realize was that the basil was going to turn the champagne-vinegar green,” he laughed. “It looked like pond scum.”

“That was just nasty looking,” Joyce remembered.

Sam said there are always new ideas for flavors in the works. When people ask him what his favorite is, he always responds the same way.

“I always say, ‘All of them,’” he said. “If I won’t eat it, you won’t see it.”

Sam said hearing people say how much they love the sauce is one reward he gets from the business, but another is the interaction with so many new people.

“One of the unique things about doing this is that this has been a pulpit for me,” Sam said. “We have had an opportunity to meet some wonderful people. We’ve had a chance to pray with people.”

Sam said people are more likely to tell him things that they wouldn’t want to share with their regular pastor they see each week.

“It’s a way to share the good news and do sauce at the same time,” Sam said. “How cool is that?”

Sam and Joyce credit God with the success of the company.

“We never set out to do this,” Sam said. “It was divine intervention that this happened. This was not our plan.”

Sam said Patter Fam believes very much in creating jobs in the state of Ohio and in the neighboring area.

He said they like to buy Ohio produce, do business with Ohio companies and they are hoping to support Ohio jobs in another way as well.

“We are working on some things that I can’t divulge yet, but we are looking to create 10-15 jobs from our company this year.” a

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Mix and blend first five ingredients in small bowl. Mix next three in a separate large bowl. Blend. Prepare and blend remaining ingredients in a separate bowl.

Combine flour mixture with egg mixture. Blend until smooth. Add shredded and chopped mixture to combined mixtures. Pour or spoon batter into muffin tins and bake at 370 degrees for 18 to 20 minutes.

Submitted by New Baptist Church, Huntington, W.Va. Printed in “Recipes: From our Kitchens to the World.”

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Crumpets & Tea All about the experience

Karen Shook and Trish Burns are the proprietors of Crumpets & Tea restaurant, located in Heritage Village in downtown Huntington, W.Va.

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Restaurant in Huntington, W.Va.’s Heritage Village blends atmosphere with old-world charm

Nestled in the quaint Heritage Village in Huntington, W.Va., Crumpets & Tea offers much more than the name suggests.

The restaurant offers an experience.

Owners Karen Shook and Trish Burns met working together at Huntington’s Berryhill House and Garden and Craft Center. When the owner died and the store closed, the two were wondering what to do next.

Robert “Jenks” Jenkins had worked at Berryhill House for more than 40 years and quickly set out to open his own shop, doing custom framing. He saw an opening at Suite No. 2 at Heritage Village and took the idea to Karen and Trish.

Together, the two women have a combined 75 years of hospitality experience, with Karen running a tearoom in the northern part of the country for 20 years. It was the perfect opportunity.

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linens. Much of their other furniture they were able to get when Berryhill closed. The only major change to Suite No. 2 was to build a partition to separate Crumpets & Tea from Jenk’s Custom Framing. Then they were up and running.

Before even entering Crumpets & Tea, the charm of the place grabs you with the vintage look of the garden tables and chairs for outside dining with a view of the plaza.

When you open the door to the tearoom, it takes a minute to fully absorb all of the character and details of the room.

Dinner plates, teacups and saucers and teapots of every kind imaginable fill the wall and line the shelving that goes completely around the room. With the high ceiling and simple brass chandeliers, the room is warm, open and inviting. The honey-colored walls provide a neutral backdrop for the numerous decorative focal points.

In addition, many of the items around the room can be purchased. With antique-collecting neighbors, Karen has

Diners at Crumpets & Tea restaurant gather to share ideas, display their art and just catch up with old friends.

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great help in finding appealing pieces to add to the décor, and a number of these are for sale if diners see something you must have.

Some of the things that are not for sale include Karen’s baptismal gown and two other antique dresses from her childhood, each hanging on the wall and framed by Jenks himself.

The round tables-for-four are draped with table linens and navy linen chair covers. Each table is set with its own teapot of hot water, enabling guests at the table to choose their own individual tea, from Earl Grey to herbal to decaffeinated and Chai tea and much more.

The menu has a few regular items, including chicken salad, chef salad and quesadillas, with the comfort foods and desserts changing weekly. The comfort foods include chicken divine, minestrone soup, and bread pudding one week to spinach tart, potato soup, and pineapple upside-

down cake the next.

A lunch is $10 and includes soup, salad, an entree, a dessert and a beverage. Karen said the portion sizes are just enough to fill you up.

“You won’t be taking doggie bags, but you’ll be satisfied,” Karen said.

Crumpets & Tea is open for lunch from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Booked events can be scheduled after hours or on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. This can be anything from bridal showers to bridge groups or just an evening with a group of friends.

There is no party fee and the only requirement is a minimum of eight guests.

They recently started a murder-mystery event they will likely do quarterly with the great success they have had. The space is limited to 48 guests and the last time they hosted one, there were 104 people on the waiting list.

Karen said she hasn’t done much advertising, but depends on word-of-mouth to grow business.

“We are really lucky that we have a lot of loyal people,” she said. “That’s the way I like to do business.

“You come in as guests and leave as friends,” Karen added.

Trish couldn’t be happier with how things are going.

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Four-Bean Salad 1 can green beans 1 can yellow beans 1 can dark red kidney beans, washed 1 can garbanzos (chick peas), washed 1 stalk celery, sliced thin 1 green pepper, chopped 1 medium onion, sliced thin 1 c. sugar ½ c. salad oil ž c. vinegar salt

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Combine sugar, salad oil, vinegar, and salt. Beat well or run a few minutes in a blender. Pour over ingredients and stir gently. Stir several times during the first day. Make this salad at least 24 hours before serving. (Keeps for several days).

Serves six or more.

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Who says there is nothing to do?

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fter writing about and promoting the arts in the Tri-State for close to 20 years, I hate to hear anyone say that there “isn’t anything to do in this area.”

Hundreds of people and volunteers in the Tri-State work hard every day to bring exciting performances, exhibits, movies, music and more to the Huntington, Ashland and Ironton areas.

So, let me say up front that there is no way to list every organization that is doing something in the Tri-State arts scene in this space and that also tells you how much is really going on.

To find out what is going on from week to week, check your local newspaper listings or listen to arts news on local TV or radio. Contact the convention and visitor’s bureau in your area. It’s their job to know what is going on.

Let’s start with Huntington.

The Marshall Artists Series has been bringing national tours of Broadway productions, singing stars, comedians, symphonies and ballets to Huntington for 74 years.

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productions in the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse, the MU Jazz Festival and exhibits in the Birke Art Gallery.

Speaking of exhibits, the Huntington Museum of Art has been presenting world-class exhibits since it opened its doors in November 1952.

Huntington has a number of other museums including Heritage Farm Museum & Village, the Touma Medical Museum, the Museum of Radio & Technology, and the Huntington Railroad Museum. You can also check out exhibits at Gallery 842 and the art gallery at the Renaissance Center.

Don’t forget productions by Huntington Outdoor Theatre, First Stage Theatre and Musical Arts Guild.

The arts scene is thriving in downtown Huntington with Marquee Cinemas movies and Funny Bone comedy shows at Pullman Square, movies at discount prices at the Cinema, events of all kinds at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena, Keith-Albee events, the Jeslyn Performing Arts Center and Huntington Dance Theater.

First Fridays are always hopping in Ashland and a great way to celebrate the arts scene there. First Friday organizations include the Pendleton Arts Center, the Upstairs Gallery and the Highlands Museum and Discovery Center.

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John Gillispie is the public relations director for the Huntington Museum of Art. For more information, visit www.hmoa.org or call (304) 529-2701.

Series, the Paramount brings in national tours of Broadway shows, well-known entertainers, symphonies, ballets and more. You can even catch classic films there.

Look for a variety of entertaining programs and events at the Ohio University Southern Campus in Ironton and big concerts and productions at the Vern Riffe Center at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth.

The Lawrence County Museum in Ironton has a variety of exhibits.

Annual events in Ironton include the Lawrence County Fair and the famous Memorial Day Parade. Check out exhibits at the Southern Ohio Museum in Portsmouth.

So, the next time you hear someone say, there isn’t anything fun to do around here, tell them to take a closer look and they will see a thriving local arts scene right here in the Tri-State.

And if more people take advantage of what is already happening locally the arts will be even stronger.

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