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“She watched a lot of BBC and always told me stories from the past,” Quinn said recently, prior to speaking to the High Point
At William’s death in 1795, 20-year-old son David inherited “all the interests in his hatter’s trade, also the hatter’s tools.” Apparently no land came with the bequest.
To look at Kate Quinn, you would not expect her to be someone interested in the power and politics of the first-century Roman Empire. Nor would you expect her to be someone interested in spies and Enigma codes, much less Germany invading the Ukraine. Yes, Germany. Russia was an ally at the Buttime.Quinn is an author and they write what interests them and, hopefully, will interest readers. She believes in the power of a Thestory.daughter of a librarian mother with a degree in Ancient Medieval History, Quinn began learning about history at a young age.
the site of the Meadows at Jamestown. Beard family history indicates that the brick hat shop was about 200 feet west of his house, described as “a commodious brick building of colonialAnarchitecture.”articlein the Dec. 27, 1931, “Winston-Salem Journal” by Jamestown native Martha Robbins Tilden describes the house as being “built of brick and hip-roofed after the Dutch style.”Tilden’s article also relates the tale of buried
Several years later, when the Piedmont Saddle Club and the Grange withdrew their spon-
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Meeting, taking along their Beard hats.
The opening of the new fine art gallery at Pennybyrn featured a variety of paintings from the collections of residents Peg and dar Ferry and eloy doolan and his late wife Connie. Pictured left to right are Peg, dar and eloy as they discuss the artwork they have acquired through the years.
Author of historical fiction writes of intrigue, strong women
This change is one of several updates being made as the district reviews safety procedures on its campuses. Following the successful use of security scanners at its high school entrances, GCS has begun using them at large public gatherings, including athletic events.“The safety of our students, staff and guests is a top priority,” said Dr. Whitney Oakley, superintendent. “We are constantly enhancing our emergency and safety protocols and procedures.”
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Since 1940, motorists along Greensboro Road/ West Main Street at its intersection with Penny and Wrenn Farm roads have passed a North Carolina highway historical marker recognizing Beard’s Hat Shop. The N.C. Office of Archives and History is responsible for the marker, officially known as J-19.
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Annual horse show continues into new decade
also to enhance community presence. It is a fun, family event and this year we will have drawings to give away approximately $900 worth of gifts to people in the bleachers.”Although the goals for the Jamestown Rotary Club have remained the same throughout the years the event itself has seen several changes. It started when Bob Moore, a member of
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“The horse show serves a two-tier function,” said Michael Greth, Rotary member and chair of the event for the past three years. “It is an opportunity to get revenue to support charities, non-profits and schools in our area, but
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A new decade is underway for the Jamestown Rotary Club Horse Show as it approaches its 61th event. For the past 60 years members of the Jamestown Rotary Club have participated in the annual fundraiser and this year will be no different. They will be at the Piedmont Saddle Club arena at 8001 Leabourne Road, Colfax, on Oct. 1 to help participants and spectators enjoy the activities. The fun begins at 10 a.m. and continues throughout the day.A total of 49 classes will be judged in Western and English style. Some participants do both. Each one competes for points from the Piedmont Horsemen’s Association to count toward awards at the end of the show season.
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Milliner Katie allen has created several replicas of hats made in Beard’s Hat shop.
When renovations were planned for the Pennybyrn independent living community on Penny Road in High Point, they included a new gallery to display high-quality artwork for residents and their guests. On Sept. 15 the first exhibit opened to the delight of those gathered to view the paintings, pottery and a handcrafted wooden clock.Ifthe reaction of those visiting the gallery is any indication, it should continue to be a success.
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Originally held at High Point College Athletic Stadium, the show later found a home at the Jamestown Public School athletic field for many years. The horse show once included music from local bands and singers, and even a dog show held during lunch break as an additional form of entertainment.Several years ago, the venue for the horse show changed to the Piedmont Saddle Club arena, where there is both an indoor and outdoor show area. The various events transition from one to the other. What was once more of a rodeo atmosphere is now strictly part of the Piedmont Horsemen’s Association show circuit. Judges are rotated from year to “Theyear. horse show is more for the participants now,” Greth said. “The competition is on a point system and at the end of
Photo by Carol Brooks author Kate Quinn was the featured speaker at the sept. 14 High Point Literary League luncheon.
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Such markers generally recognize a person or event, such as a battle but in this case, the NCOAH went against normal policy and erected a marker recognizing a Williambusiness.Beard was well known as an excellent haberdasher, with customers as far away as Indiana, where Quakers from this area traveled to the Yearly
Photo courtesy of www.jamestownrotaryclub.com stephanie Johnson, right, past president of the Jamestown Rotary Club, presents a ribbon to a participant during the 2021 Jamestown Rotary Horse show.
David Beard soon opened his own hat shop nearby on land purchased from Phineus Mendenhall, now
Times have changed and with it come new ways to keep school students and the community safe. Guilford County Schools has implemented a new policy for attending its district athletic events. Starting Sept. 23, purses, backpacks and other traditional bags will not be Acceptableallowed.bags must be made of clear plastic or vinyl, including gallon-sized or smaller zip storage bags. Small clutch bags, diaper bags, with the infant/toddler present, and bags used for medical supplies, such as insulin pumps, will be allowed but will be subject to Fansinspection.carryingbags that do not meet the criteria will be turned away from the venue at or near the gates. They will have the opportunity to return prohibited items to their car.
He established his shop in the Florence Community (near the intersection of Penny and East Fork roads), about 1.3 miles from the marker. Beard’s house, built in 1774, was located near the current Deep River Friends Meeting. The house was destroyed by fire June 6, 1993. It’s said that General Charles Cornwallis camped on Beard land on the way to the battle of Guilford Courthouse in March 1781.
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Jamestown Rotary, and Vance Proctor, president of the local Grange chapter, were riding horses together and came up with the idea for the two groups to present a local horse show. With the help of Piedmont Saddle Club, the only group with a portable ring, the long-standing event began.
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This historical marker, erected in 1940, notes Beard’s Hat shop.
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sorship of the show, the Jamestown Rotary Club took over sole responsibility of conducting it. Moore and fellow Rotarian Bob Whisnant built a portable ring for the club’s use.
“It’s about an opera sing er,” Quinn said. “For the first time, I don’t have to do research!” The
David Beard owned more property than just that on which his business was located. Around 1819, Isaac Potter bought land in Jamestown for his home from Beard. That home burned several years ago but a marker on West Main Street indicates the location.
Her mother’s background in medieval history influ enced Quinn to write the four “Empress of Rome” histori cal fiction books that were set in the first century and two books on the Italian Renais
sance.Quinn’s first book, Mis tress of Rome, is set in a world of depravity, blood and secrets in Rome and follows the heroine, Thea.
singer was not her, Quinn decided to fall back on her other love — writing, which she had done for years.
Her first literary attempt was in longhand, front and back of a sheet of paper. It was about the assassination of King Edward II of Eng land. She was 7 years old.
In 1938, Mabel Leigh Hunt wrote a children’s book, “Benjie’s Hat”, about a young Quaker boy who needed a new hat. He had one specially made for him by David Beard. The book is available at the Jamestown Public Library.
Beard made hats for over 50 years. After his death in 1849, Isaac Lilly, ran the tannery and shop. Harper Johnston bought the tanyard in 1863 and oper ated the business until after the Civil War. Beard’s original buildings were torn down around the turn of the 20th century, and the bricks were used in other build ings.
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All of her books feature strong women. The term she used — to the delight and applause of the female Lit erary League members — was “badass.” Many live in adversity while using often unknown skills to answer the call of their countries. They go from being weak to very strong women. Quinn is interested in what happens to them after a war when they are expected to step back into the box they were in before the“Iwar.love looking at ladies in history and restoring them to the public today,” Quinn said.
Milliner Katie Allen has created rep licas of hats made by Beard for display at Mendenhall Homeplace. Her work was recently on display at the Village Fair at the Homeplace. She said Beard’s hats often had a drawstring in the inner hatband so the hat would fit any head, no matter the size. Allen added that wallpa per was often added inside the hat instead of cloth. Her designs feature fabrics that mirror wallpaper designs.
treasure on the Beard plantation. She says, “At intervals the superstitious with crooked sticks tried, in vain, to locate the treasure.”Totheeast of the house was a tanyard where hides from beaver, rabbit, cattle, sheep, etc. were turned into leather for the hats. Beard may have had 25 vats for tanning. Hunters brought their pelts to Beard to sell, turning the shop into a tradingApparently,post. Beard operated the only hattery in the area. A typical Beard hat for gentlemen was in the wide-brimmed Quaker style and lasted many years. The Friends Collection at Guilford College has one of Beard’s hats on display.
“I was watching ‘I, Claudi us’ at way too young an age,” Quinn said laughingly. “I heard a lot about the ancient world [as a child] and it fas cinated me. Ancient Rome is this juxtaposition of this empire that had these tremen dous achievements in archi tecture and law and sculpture and art and all these things, yet at the same time you still had slavery and this rampant empire running over other cultures.“Somuch violence. That’s the thing that makes great grist for novels.”
It has been said that Beard was so suc cessful, that rather than saying they were from the Florence Community, people would list Beard’s Hat Shop as their place of However,residence.
The motto of the High Point Literary League is “to ignite, enhance, and nurture the appreciation of literature in our community.” The membershiponly group sponsors two events annually that feature nation ally renowned authors as guest speakers. For more information, visit hpliteraryleague.org.
The best-selling New York Times and USA Today historical fiction author has options on three of her books, The Huntress, The Alice Net work and The Rose Code as a limited series, but Quinn said the release date was probably years from now.
Micajah Henley took this photograph in 1873 showing david Beard’s son, William, in front of the hat shop. He appears to be holding one of the famous Beard hats.
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Literary League. “It intro duced me to historical fiction on the young side. History fascinated me at a young age and that’s where I gravitated when I began writing stories of my own.”
2014 was the 100th anni versary of WWI and the theme sparked Quinn’s inter est. During her research she learned of the real Alice Net work — and the book was born.Her most recent book, The Diamond Eye, is very timely these days, set in Ukraine in 1941 as Hitler was invad ing Kiev, now Kyiv. Russia was an American ally at the time and Ukrainian solders were important in the Soviet
She switched to writing about 20th Century events because the past had become stale to her. Noticing the cur rent boom in 20th Century war fiction, her more recent books are still set in the past but a more recent past. She set The Alice Network in two time periods, 1917 World War I and 1947, just after World War II. Other books also tie in events in two dif ferent time periods.
Quinn expected to follow her professional jazz musi cian father into music as an opera singer. She earned a master’s in classical voice from Boston University but after deciding the grueling travel schedule of an opera
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defeat of the German army. The story is based on top sniper Mila Pavlichenko, a real-life Ukrainian sniper for the Soviets during World War II. She was credited with 309 deaths and was known as LadyQuinnDeath.does most of the research for her books her self. When she learns of an interesting topic, she dives into the history. All of her books are based on truth, with some literary license added, of course.
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The inner hatband of a Beard hat often had a drawstring to correctly size to a head.
Quinn has never regretted her decision to leave opera but is using that knowledge in a new book in collaboration with author Janie Chang.
times were not always rosy for David Beard. An article written by A.M. Briggs recalls that Beard stockpiled goods at the beginning of the War of 1812, thinking it was a good investment. But a depression followed the war, caus ing Beard to lose almost everything he owned. According to information from the North Carolina Office of Archives and History, although he continued to
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“It is interesting to watch the younger riders focus as they compete,” Greth said. “They are in control.
Sister Lucy Hennessey, mission leader and chair of Pennybyrn’s Board of Directors, shared her pas sion for the new art gallery in a writ ten“Westatement:arethankful for those who are blessed with the talents of painting and drawing, which inspire us all and provide a glimpse of God’s beauty,” she said.
“I ended up touring and the second I got on campus I loved it. I said, ‘This is where I want to be.’”
It appears art will continue to be
Admission to the horse show, as always, is free but passes to the event will be presented to local school children to promote the activity. Each child who attends will receive a rib bon from a past show.
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“I wanted to share some of the pic tures my wife and I had collected so others would be able to enjoy them,” Doolan said.
Moore and still have a few of them left. We will give them away and when we run out will give newer ones. The kids enjoy get ting them and it is a trend we want to continue.”
lery with borrowed pieces.
“We started that last year,” Greth said. “We received some historic rib bons from the estate of Bob
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the year the riders with the highest numbers of points winTheawards.”beautiful horses and the communication between riders and their mounts are still exciting for spectators to witness, however.
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A rabbit beside a wooden wall was so realistic it resembled a photograph. “But the colors are much warmer,” Eddie Bass said, as he also noted how the light source created interesting shadows and depth to the painting.
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part of the culture and beauty of life at Pennybyrn in many ways. Besides the new fine art gallery, the facility has two other galleries — one for visiting artists and one for work com pleted by residents.
Moving forward, the Art Gallery Committee, chaired by Pennybyrn resident Kitty Montgomery, plans to add to the facility’s permanent collection and supplement the gal
Photo by Carol Brooks Miranda Keith was the 2022-23 recipient of the High Point Literary League scholarship to High Point University.
The senior English major from Asheville, with dou ble minors in biology and Chinese, is a Presidential Scholar and Honor Student.
She began as a neuroscience major, thinking she wanted to be a doctor. However, she found her passion was not“Ineuroscience.actuallystumbled upon [High Point University],” Keith said when asked how she chose the school. My dream school was Wake. High Point was on my list. The color is purple and I like it.
An aspiring writer, Keith was very excited to meet author Kate Quinn at the recent High Point Literary League luncheon.
“One hundred percent of the money we raise goes back into the community,” Greth said. “Covid slowed things down, but last year was better than the year before and we think this year will be even better.
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The inaugural exhibit included art work from the vast collections of residents Peg and Dar Ferry and Eloy Doolan and his late wife Connie.
Jeff Horney, executive director of Theater Art Gallery (TAG), will serve as the gallerist and curator. Exhibits will be changed every three months, with the next showing a pho tography display.
The horse show is one of two main fundraising events sponsored by the James town Rotary Club.
Miranda Keith is the 2022-23 High Point Liter ary League’s winner of a scholarship to High Point University. The scholarship recognizes excellence in creative writing and literary areas of study.
High Point University’s English Department fac ulty nominates the recipi ents. Emphasis is placed on students who have demon strated academic merit and financial need, with prefer ence given to female stu dents who have maintained at least a “B” average in their writing curriculum. At least one scholarship, rang ing from $800 to $2,500, has been awarded annually since 1990,
On occasion, others whose art is displayed in the gallery also will be invited to discuss their work.
“I’m pretty sure I want to get into publishing and fiction editing,” Keith said. “I figure my experiences abroad will steer me in a direction of what I want to do.”
“We want to keep the displays interesting and explore different opportunities to grow and expand the gallery, Sarah Barker, director of Development & Community Rela tions, said. “We will be looking for a variety of mediums to showcase.”
“I especially like the painting of the baby elephant,” Louise Squires said. “I might not want to hang it in my home, but it is so well done.”
Photos by Norma B. Dennis Kitty Montgomery, chair of the art Gallery Committee, stands in front of “Peacock in Flight,” a painting by Matthew Hillier that is part of Pennybyrn’s permanent collection.
Club members spend lots of time getting sponsorships and we hope to have at least $8,000 to distribute as needed.”
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Many were intrigued by a paint ing created by Victor Huggins called Blue Ridge Mountains. The fields and trees beneath the mountains were highlighted by indentations that set the artwork apart from others in the collection, which included a variety of Pennybyrnstyles. owns two of the paint ings by nationally and internationally known artists Marcy Dunn Ramsey and Matthew Hillier. Before the offi cial gallery opening, Ramsey came to share her inspiration and motivation behind her artwork “Circle Dance.”
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After graduation, Keith plans to use her proficiency in Chinese to teach English to Chinese students. She has applied for a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Tai wan to be an English teach ingFollowingassistant. that, she wants to get a master’s degree.
“One of the most inter esting entries I saw was a dog sitting in the saddle as the horse was lead around the ring by the participant,” Greth added. “I asked the judge how she planned to grade it and she just said she would figure it out.”
Keith is the most recent Literary League Scholar ship winner. Inspired by Helen Mounts, the Liter ary League Scholarship was established in 1987 at then High Point College by members of the High Point LiteraryQualifiedLeague.students must be North Carolina residents, with preference given to