Evince Magazine March 2018

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Calendar Clips

Barking Bluegrass Page 12

Photo Finish

Cooking at Reid Street Gallery Page 22

William Tell Fritzler

Directing Special Events See Page 3

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March Contents

Editor’s Note

Photo by Michelle Dalton Photography

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You never know when a moment in life might become a milestone.

For William Tell Fritzler, who is pictured on the cover, it was a conversation with a friend of Faith Stamps, also pictured on the cover. That talk changed the direction of his life, brought him to Danville, and now he is planning some fun for you this month. Read page 3.

Diane Adkins writes about a sad milestone—the death of a loved one. If you are also grieving, she recommends a book that might help. See page 16.

A seasonal milestone is happening on Tuesday, March 20, at 12:15 p.m. with the arrival of spring! It’s a reminder to shake off the winter doldrums and experience something new like “Tweaking Your Lifestyle” (page 18) or organizing your house (page 20).

Maybe you will try the recipe for Irish potato pies and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on March 17 (page 21). If you plan to have a beer with the Irish pie, read “Tap Lessons” on page 11 and learn more about this beverage. You can impress your friends with your newfound knowledge. Perhaps you are between milestones? There’s a wine for that. See page 18.

Evince is packed with information that could lead to a milestone in your life so it’s important not to skip even a single page. You might miss an opportunity to enjoy life a little more.

3 William Tell Fritzler / Directing Special Events

by Joyce Wilburn 4 Renovation Reality / Part 22

by Carla Minosh 6 Meet Sly Milam / Evince Marketing Consultant

Spotting Exceptional Customer Service

by Courtney Dodson

9 Second Thoughts / When We Get Behind Closed Doors

by Kim Clifton 10 Bitterroot

Fiction by Telisha Moore Leigg 11 Tap Lessons / What Ingredients Are in Beer?

by Ethan Brown 12 Calendar Clips

OICE OF MILESTONES

CEO / Publisher Andrew Scott Brooks Editor Joyce Wilburn (434.799.3160) joycewilburn@gmail.com Associate Editors Jeanette Taylor Larry Wilburn Lanie Davis, Intern Contributing Writers

Diane Adkins, Tammy Bailey, Ethan Brown, Kim Clifton, Lanie Davis, Courtney Dodson, Adam Goebel, Mimi Grubb, Kathy Hurt, Karan Johnson, Telisha Moore Leigg, Linda Lemery, Erica Lowdermilk, Kathy Milam, Carla Minosh, Danielle Pritchett, Joan Reynolds, Dave Slayton, Danielle Staub, Jay Stephens, Donna Strange, Lisa Tuite, Melanie Vaughan, Joyce Wilburn, Annelle Williams, Mack Williams

Finance Manager Cindy Yeatts (1.434.709.7349) Marketing Consultants Kim Demont (434.792.0612) demontdesign@verizon.net

14 Calendar 16 Book Clubbing

The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping

with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents

by Alexander Levy

a review by Diane Adkins 18 The Wine Spot

Celebrate a Milestone with a Milestone Wine

by Dave Slayton

Lee Vogler (434.548.5335) lee@showcasemagazine.com

Living Well / Tweaking Your Lifestyle

by Kathy Hurt

19 What’s Happening in the Public Libraries 20 Marking Milestones in Life

by Mack Williams

Reflecting Forward / Organizing Leads to Good Karma and Achieving Milestones

by Linda Lemery

21 Around the Table

Irish Potato Pies for St. Patrick’s Day

by Annelle Williams 22 Photo Finish

On the Cover:

Photo of Faith Stamps and Tell Fritzler

by Michelle Dalton Photography

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W

illiam Tell Fritzler—

who goes by Tell—admits

that his parents had “a heck of a sense of humor” when naming him. Sitting behind his desk at the Boys & Girls Clubs in the Danville Area (BGCDA), the Director of the Annual Fund & Special Events simultaneously laughs and talks while explaining, “My mom, the librarian, really liked William Tell Sackett, the main character in the popular Sackett series of books by Louis L’Amour. My dad, a military man, liked the marching music of the “William Tell Overture.” It was almost a given that their son should be named William Tell.

When asked where he was born, Tell has a story for that too. The answer to the birth question is Wyoming but he calls himself a native of Amherst County and “a product of the Sweet Briar College library.” There is a good explanation. When Tell was very young, his mother began working in the Sweet Briar library where his fondness for education was nurtured. “I grew up playing on campus, swimming in their pool, fishing in their lakes during the summers, and hanging out with wonderful people,” he says remembering his childhood at the private liberal arts college for women in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

As a young adult with a degree in history from Lynchburg College, Tell returned to Sweet Briar College during the 2015 financial crisis to help save his beloved school from closing. “I was fortunate to be the Development Assistant for phase one of their Next Is Now Campaign to raise the necessary funds to continue operations. It was a grassroots effort to re-engage alumnae,” he says, adding after a pause, “The College is doing well now in fundraising.” With the successful completion of that project, Tell learned of a position in Danville that promised to be just as fulfilling.

“I had heard about Boys & Girls Clubs, but never thought of it when picking a career because we didn’t have one where I lived,” he reflects. After a twohour conversation with a mutual friend of the local Boys & Girls Clubs Chief Executive Officer, Faith Stamps, Tell was intrigued.

He compares the Sweet Briar job and the BGCDA job: “At

Tell and Faith review the final checklist for the Blue Jeans Gala.

Photo by Michelle Dalton Photography.

William Tell Fritzler Directing Special Events

by Joyce Wilburn Sweet Briar, I was focused on raising money to keep students in college. At Boys & Girls Clubs, the focus is on getting kids into college. I thought that helping boys and girls who otherwise wouldn’t have an opportunity to attend college would be very rewarding.”

With the decision made, Tell started to work at the local non-profit youth organization in January 2017. Over the next twelve months, he and a team of volunteers accomplished one big goal—raising $250,000.

That, however, didn’t mean the job was finished. “We want to continue engaging the community, sustaining that level of giving, and building relationships,” he says with a passion that lets the listener know he is determined to

make it happen. Tell doesn’t mind asking for financial gifts to provide after-school care for youth ages six to eighteen with a focus on academic programs and healthy lifestyles. “What’s the worst that could happen?” he reflects and then answers his own question, “Someone might say no.” That doesn’t bother Tell and he explains why, “Danville has a very strong sense of community.

People care about it a lot. I don’t see that in bigger cities. People here who have the capacity to help, they invest in their community, their homes, and other people.” With his positive attitude and a love of engaging people in conversation, Tell’s job as Director of Annual Fund and Special Events is a perfect fit for him and an invaluable asset for the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Danville Area.

Looking over his notes about the upcoming Blue Jeans Gala to benefit the children in the Danville area, Tell realizes that the planning is almost complete.

The only thing left to do is don a pair of blue jeans and have a good time. He invites you to join him.

• The 4th Annual Blue Jeans Gala to benefit BGC of the Danville Area will be held on Friday, March 23, at the Gentry Farm, 202 Cane Creek Court, Ringgold, from 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Cost is $30 a ticket and includes one drink, food catered by Golden Leaf Bistro, music by DJ Larry Stamps, and door prizes.

Cash bar available. Must be 21 to attend. All ticket sales are in advance at www.EventBrite.com.

• For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ BoysGirlsClubsOfThe DanvilleArea or 123 Foster Street in Danville and 956 Woodlawn School Road in Chatham or call 434.792.6617.

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Renovation Reality Part 22

by Carla Minosh

Unlike HGTV shows where home renovations are completed within 30 to 60 minutes, the Victorian house at the corner of Chestnut Place and Main Street in Danville has been under a transformation for 17 years.

This series that began in April 2016 explores the truth of home renewal from someone who has been there and done that. If you missed any of the installments, visit www.evincemagazine.com.

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he fence around the front

of the house was original to

the Wilcox-Parker mansion in Meriden, Connecticut. It had already been removed from that grand mansion, however, long before I was introduced to it. Our initial meeting occurred on eBay, during the youth of that online auction service. We found the listing for the fence and printed it off to discuss the possibilities later. We were skeptical that such a grand thing could actually be for sale, especially with the opening bid so low, and sure enough, days later, the auction listing had been deleted. Our too-goodto-be true rule seemed to be holding. On the off chance that we were wrong, I called the phone number on the printout.

It was common back then to list a phone number. The older woman, Gladys, who answered told me that her son had insisted that she remove the listing. He was not sure that eBay was the right way to sell such a thing.

After talking with her, I was confident that she actually was selling one of the best antique

cast-iron fences we had ever seen, and in a quantity that would allow us to completely surround the front portion of our yard. This called for a road trip to see this thing up close. As luck would have it, things were heating up for Tom at work, so I made the trip to Connecticut on my own. Gladys was all business when I arrived, and I was already mesmerized by the handsome beauty of the fencing around the yard. It was exquisite, authentic, antique, and of the highest quality. The incongruity of it surrounding the yard of a 1960s New England Saltbox house left me a bit disjointed.

Pouring tea, Gladys was welldressed, very formal, and had a million questions about who I was, why I wanted the fence, and what I intended to do with it. After talking about my plans and our restoration efforts, she seemed to grow a bit softer. She had lived for a time in North Carolina and was familiar with Danville. She asked to see a picture of the house and I gladly obliged, bringing a small photo album from the car. That seemed to change her whole attitude. With a smile, she invited me into the dining room of her home to look at a scrapbook about the fence. I accepted her invitation, but was completely unprepared for what lay beyond the small door in the back of the kitchen. I felt like Alice, falling down the rabbit hole, as I emerged into the dining room of an 1870s Victorian mansion!

(to be continued)

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Page 6 March 2018 Sly (Sylvia) Milam is the newest member of the Evince team.

Please introduce yourself the next time you see her. Here is a little background information about her.

to me and I value each and every moment with them.

Other tidbits: I was a professional photographer for a little over eleven years in Danville and Martinsville.

Stories are was born in everywhere North Carolina waiting to be told and raised through the lens in Florida and of a camera. I Virginia. Growing am a huge fan up I was extremely of 1920s jazz Photo by Von Wellington lucky to enjoy the and absolutely Photography beauty of palm adore the older trees and beaches classic horror and later live films. In my near mountains downtime, there and snow. This is nothing better year my husband, than sipping a Shane, and I will nice, hot cup of be celebrating coffee, finding our twentya comfortable fifth wedding spot with a view anniversary with of the Dan River, our three amazing and reading a children: Kevin, good book while Hunter Lee, and listening to the Shalyn. soothing sounds of the water running alongside the shore.

Shane and I play in a rock band “Drowning Delilah” with our That’s a little about me. I look adult children. Making music and forward to meeting you, Evince memories with my loved ones is a readers and advertisers, and passion. Family is very important learning about you.

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Meet Sly Milam

Evince Marketing Consultant

Spotting Exceptional Customer Service

by Courtney Dodson

Recently, I did some shopping at Lizzy Lou Boutique, 310 Main Street, in Danville. As I walked in, I was greeted warmly by the owner, Sarah Rodden, who asked whether I needed any help and showed me various items throughout the store. Sarah was very informative and made good suggestions. She knows her products and vendors so well, and has a calm and pleasant demeanor that makes shopping in her store enjoyable. The store is airy and bright, with plenty of space to move around. It carries women’s clothing and accessories for all ages and budgets. With Sarah´s help, I purchased two items for myself and two for my daughter as gifts, which Sarah kindly wrapped.

I will absolutely be back at Lizzy Lou on a regular basis!

Evince and the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce want to encourage and recognize exceptional customer service. When someone gives you exceptional service, please let us know. In 300 words or less, tell us what happened. Email your story to joycewilburn@ gmail.com or chamber@dpchamber.org.

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Evince Magazine Page 9 one is so high off the ground that scaling a Mayan pyramid blindfolded would be easier than coming up those steps. The trek to the backdoor is such a hike that all that’s missing is a campsite and an Appalachian Trail sign.

That only leaves a side entrance with its illusion of actually working. The knob turns but rarely moves the latch. It takes more twists than Chubby Checker to get this thing to open. So there I was. I couldn’t drive out because the garage door was down. I couldn’t walk out because it would lock us out, so the best I could do was watch out...in case something slithery was in there with me.

Second Thoughts

by Kim Clifton ©2018

When We Get Behind Closed Doors Open... shut them. Open... shut them. Give a little clap. Open… shut them. Open…shut them.

Lay them in your lap. Seems like a hundred years ago, but I can still see and hear my Sunday School teacher reciting this verse as we sat in a semi-circle facing her. It was our signal to be quiet, put our hands in our laps, and listen. When we heard the words, we all knew what we were supposed to do.

If only my garage door knew what it was supposed to do. In the last few weeks it seems to have forgotten. Like our hands in the finger play at church, garages only have two jobs when it comes to doors. Open.

Shut them. Shutting was not the issue. It was the opening where my troubles began. And what trouble it has been. For more than twenty years, our door worked just fine. It wasn’t until we installed a new one that we had problems.

I think my garage is mad at me but I’m not sure why. It’s either because we replaced a perfectly good door just to have a prettier one or because I no longer treasure this place like I used to. Everything I enjoyed about my garage, like starting a warm car in the winter or unloading groceries indoors when it’s pouring outdoors, ended last fall when a reptile slithered in uninvited. Say what you want, but that cold-blooded creature will never be my friend. Robert

has sprayed cases of sealant to the point that the cinderblock walls seem to be sprouting marshmallows. Even with his repeated assurances, I have my doubts. I still worry what could be hiding inside a box or waiting under my car.

My garage isn’t feeling the love anymore and that’s probably why it’s making me pay. First, the door jumped off its tracks, derailing faster than my diet resolutions when Mama Crockett’s Cider Donut truck pulls into town. The second time was disastrous, requiring more than a few squirts of WD-40 to fix. I’d run home for lunch only to hear a deafening pop as the bottom edge of the door touched the concrete floor. The coil on the motorized opener had exploded with a boinngg sound like you’d hear in a cartoon. I halfway expected to find Wile E. Coyote setting off an Acme bomb in the path of the Road Runner. Instead, all I saw were loose wires swinging back and forth from the ceiling letting me know I wasn’t going anywhere. I couldn’t leave even with or without a ride. If I locked the house, we’d be homeless, because we couldn’t get back inside. The truth is we’ve only come in and out through the garage. We’ve never owned a key to any of our doors and until that moment never needed one.

Nothing is ever normal with me so it stands to reason our doors wouldn’t be either. The front

Repairs took longer than I’d hoped, which meant several weeks of my car parked in the elements.

I know my garage enjoyed seeing me scrape my windshield in the mornings, shovel a footpath in the snow and repeatedly struggle with that side door to get inside.

Most of all, I’m sure it relished my learning a lesson of appreciation for its years of service the hard way. Open…shut them. Finally this entrance is working again and I’m doing a little clap. Life is so much better when I can sit inside my garage pushing its buttons instead of sitting outside having it push mine.

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pretty funeral in stepfather Harold’s big Baptist church on Monroela Avenue, and almost a year after Michael was gone; the guilt of our children’s accidental death was a plague that ate his heart. Ms. Mountenberry who was old, pale, wretched and self-righteous said, “God knows these things, dear.

He knows what we can bear,” and she touched my hand before walking away toward the bread. My soul opened up there and broke just as Mother came back with the eggs. Mother dropped those eggs and I bent in the aisle methodically picking up the yolks, more smearing than retrieving. Mother knew I was gone then.

rief is memory’s ragged

stillbirth.” Mandy Blue Eyes,

AKA Anna-Margaret Corinth Ragslin, mother of Isabelle and Beau.

Dear Papa, I am told in the winter of 1995 it snowed many times inches deep and then ice; branches were brittle, crystal fingers that smacked the house when the wind blew. For days, people were snowbound, nothing in and no one out; the radio weather advisory warned everyone to stay put.

Emergency services stalled. And still, the next day it snowed more. Inside our home, Mother paced bouncing me on her hip, mumbling prayers, because I was seven and had two days earlier caught a deep coughing sickness that lasted.

I don’t remember this illness and anyway Mother said I wasn’t really awake, just crossing back and forth through a fevered in-between, too hot to cry yet cold to the bone. Mother said when she shook me, I just watched her listless. Mother told me later that rubbing ice over my face in the university housing kitchen, she thought I wouldn’t make it. In that moment, she said she screamed for my professor Papa and his heathen myths--reached out for any link in the chain to tether me here.

Mother told me I said, “Papa, I hurt,” but I don’t remember. I just remember

Bitterroot fiction by Telisha Moore Leigg you, Papa, and how you held me, talking and talking, telling me what I know now are pagan stories of how humans survive the whims of the gods. Mother says the power went out that fourth night. Mother had tried cool baths, cold water on the forehead, followed by heated blankets, to break the fever. She cooed and baby-begged me to drink or eat. But you, Papa, never talked to me like a child. In the end, Mother said you calmly threw me in the snow and banked me there. I don’t remember the cold, but I remember you holding me with my blue lips shivering. And me, I was seven, old enough, hearing you talk, always talking, “Anna-girl!” when I tried to sleep. I think I remember Mother crying on the back porch.

I was twenty-seven when I remembered again that night, when I remembered you saying, “Anna-girl, you’re dying.

Fight! Do you want to stay with your mama and your papa? Huh, girl?” I remember Mama’s anguished cry as I finally spoke. “Papa,” was all I said.

I remember Mother pacing, whisperbegging to call Dr. Rolwan. “Shhhh…I’ve got you,” my papa said.” You told me my soul couldn’t go, so it didn’t.

Papa, little more than twenty years later, complete strangers whispered in grocery store aisles when I went out because of the trial and all. So I stopped going out until family made me. They tell me that my husband, Michael, wasn’t family anymore, although they understood that I can’t let that go too. Papa, Michael will not talk to me, and I got the feeling folks thought it pitiful and wrong to ask any advice from the man who you still loved but who let your babies die. But I think you know the truth, Papa. That when he left by his own hand, how inside one could wail because one couldn’t even ask him how to go on yourself. I think you know how in pain, people choose sides; strangers chose sides. But we know, love is not a shadow at night and we can’t just choose the light because we are cold. I admit it. There has been a decline. Correction. I have declined, Papa. You may not recognize me. I blame the newspapers, Michael’s trial, both the ambiguity and zipped-pocket knowledge of small towns that led Hazel Mountenberry to me in the Food Giant grocery store in Boris, North Carolina, on a Tuesday. She saw me at the edge of the dairy and Popsicle aisle by the sliced cheese. I was twenty-four.

Cruel-curious people make me so ashamed to have lived without my babies. I know that I was so young, but I at first couldn’t feel their loss. Couldn’t really understand the sweet weight of arms full, now empty. I wasn’t raised to tell them that Isabelle still wet the bed at four and sometimes I didn’t change the sheets but crawled in beside her so she wouldn’t feel ashamed. I did not say that Beau, the baby, still wanted the breast, but I had weaned him and he was too old to go back, but sometimes when he cried more milk somehow came, and I gave him that comfort.

Papa, it was a chance encounter, my first fall. Mother just left me to go to the other end of the aisle for eggs. Usually and recently, she wasn’t thirty feet from me. But now, months gone after the big

Papa, the drinking began two years after the children’s death and I blame no one. I drank in closets, in the car, in the back of the laundry room. One day I wandered to the front yard and passed out piss-drunk. At twenty-six, I tore through Mother and Harold’s garage door by backing and breaking and backing and gunning down until I broke free. Poor choices. Rich pain.

Fate and grief became lovers. You have to know about Mother now, how her cancer was marching her toward ruin. Papa, I sat in corners with my vomit, with my selfish sadness and Mother going, leaving. Sadness is a violin un-rosined. I do not blame Harold. Mother’s husband couldn’t split his grief between his soul and mine. By now, I was twenty-seven and every day Harold grew closer to asking me to go.

Papa, at first, there is denial, and I only felt the impression of my babies like an abstract painting I made where the inks stained my fingers and would never come out, and some bitterroot that I had not understood completely what I had created until it was stolen from me. Papa, Mother died when I was drunk on a ripped-vinyl-topped stool at a bar two towns over. That night she passed without her only child.

Harold came and got me, didn’t say a word, put me to bed in my old room. I did not cry for him, for Mother, for my babies. And one day in April, when I was twenty-eight, the front door was open and I walked out. I did not look back and no one followed me. Papa, do you still follow me?

I ask because, Papa, you sent nothing, no gift, when they died. You did not call. You did not come back. After all you had never met them, my Isabelle and Beau. Perhaps you did not know, but I think you did. Somehow you knew.

I know I will not see you again. It’s okay. I understand too much time and regret have made us sunlight through winter’s bare branches. Papa, I never told you this, but I remember the snow too, how it felt warm and silent even though you kept calling my name. I remember you holding me when I was little, how that saved me. Papa, and... and…and… I could not do that for them, my babies. I wasn’t there to save them. One day, Papa, will the silence be sweet for me, some warm peace for me? Will someone say to my soul, “Yes Anna-girl, now you can go?” Will I be grateful for this, and will you, Papa, will you be there?

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Tap Lessons

What Ingredients Are in Beer?

by Ethan Brown, 2 Witches Brewery Reinheitsgebot! No, it’s not a German swear word and you don’t have to reply, “Bless you.”

The Reinheitsgebot (Gebot) is the 1516 German Beer Purity Law that limits Bavarian beer to three ingredients: water, malt, and hops. Yeast wasn’t one of the original, permissible ingredients because it wasn’t discovered until 1857. The modern version of the law now includes yeast.

Water makes up about 95% of beer so its characterization is crucial - elements and minerals can affect the fermentation, giving the beer a fingerprint of where it was brewed. Many homebrewers will try to mimic beer styles from around the world by making small additions of minerals to the water.

Malted barley is the grain used in beer and it was a major reason for The Gebot. There was competition between bakers and brewers for wheat and rye. Limiting brewers to barley meant there would be ample supply of wheat and rye for bakers. Barley must be malted, which is the process of partially germinating the grain to activate naturally occurring enzymes, followed by kilning, or the drying process that stops the germination. The malted barley

provides the required starches which are converted into sugar during the brewing process.

Hops, flowers from the hop plant, were originally added to beer as a preservative because they kill microorganisms, allowing the transport of beer overseas (ex. India, giving rise to the India Pale Ale, or IPA).

Hops act as a preservative and impart bitterness to the beer.

The more hops added to beer, the more bitter it will taste.

Brewers can impart additional flavors and aromas based on when hops are added during the brewing process.

Yeast is responsible for the chemical process of converting the sugar derived from the mashing or steeping process into ethanol (alcohol). There are thousands of yeast strains available to brewers, not to mention wild varieties that can impart local flavor. Although wild yeast strains can impart new and interesting flavors, they’re not as alcohol tolerant as purified strains. In order to achieve the alcohol levels found in most craft beers, brewers rely on commercially available strains.

Prost! (That’s German for

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Libby Anderson and her pet Buddy, the 2017 winner.

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Annie Chang 2017 Best in Show winner for “Vine.”

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March Calendar Abbreviation Key

• 2 Witches Winery & Brewing=209 Trade St. Danville 434.549.2739 • AU=Averett University, 434.791.5600 www.averett.edu • Ballad Brewing=600 Craghead St. 434.799.4677 • DMFAH=Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History, 975 Main St. 434.793.5644 www.danvillemuseum.org • DSC=Danville Science Center, 677 Craghead St. 434.791.5160 www.dsc.smv.org • HNT=Historic North Theatre, 629 North Main St. Danville 434.793.7469 www.TheNorthTheatre.com • PA=Piedmont Arts, 215 Starling Ave, Martinsville 276.632.3221 www.PiedmontArts.org • RSG=Reid Street Gallery, 24 Reid St. Chatham 434.203.8062 reidstreetgallery.com • The Prizery=700 Bruce St., South Boston, 434.572.8339, www. prizery.com

Ongoing

DSC Exhibit – From Here to There! explores how things move by land, sea, air.

Guided Walking Tours – Millionaires Row, Holbrook Street and Tobacco Warehouse District.

Danville Historical Society. www. danvillehistory.org. 434.770.1974.

DMFAH self-guided audio-visual tours. 434.793.5644.

Public Library Events. See page 19.

Cascade Express Variety Band – Every Friday and every first & third Saturday; Cascade Community Center 3561 Huntington Trail 7pm 336.552.3703

March 1 (thru March 8)

Throw Paint at Cancer: Last week to sign up for the new eight-week session for families that will begin Tuesday, March 6, 4-6pm This peer-to-peer support program is open to children ages 10+, accompanied by an adult. Sessions for adult survivors/caregivers continue on Thursdays beginning March 8 from 3-5pm. Taught by artist and cancer survivor Cynthia Hubbard. DMFAH No charge and all supplies provided. Registration required. 434.421.3060.

March 4 (thru March 25)

Pickleball Play: Sundays at City Gym 125 N Floyd St Danville 2-4:30pm $3 434.799.5216

March 2

Science After Dark: DSC 5:309pm $5 free for college students Burn the Bateau: Prizery 7:30pm Prices vary.

Back Creek: live music @ 2 Witches 8-10pm

March 3

Danville Symphony Orchestra Concert: classical music; 8pm

GWHS Auditorium, 701 Broad St. free www.danvillesymphony.net 434.797.2666 The Sledge Trail Run: the race features a 5k, 10k, and half marathon on Anglers Park bike trails. www.playdanvilleva.com Danville Farmers Market Looking for Vendors: Be a vendor for the 2018 season. Learn the rules for selling, complete required paperwork. Pepsi Building, 661 Craghead St. 8-9am 434. 797.8961 Cabin Fever Music Series: Jim Quick & Coastline: Danville Community Market 629 Craghead St 7-11pm t $8 434.799.5200

March 5 (thru 30)

Adult kickball league registration: Squire Recreation Center 434.799.5214

March 5 (thru April 9)

DMFAH pottery class: Mondays 6:30-9:00 pm, $95 DMFAH members/$105 for others.

434.792.5355 to register.

March 5

Quizzo & Meet Up Monday: 2 Witches 5:30

March 6

Middle Border Forward Health and Wellness meeting: A work group session to discuss goals relating to health and wellness for MBF’s Vision 2035. 326 Main St. 5:30-7pm Register through MBF’s facebook page www.middleborderforward.org 434.483.2894

March 6 & 7

Lite and Easy with Clara Gutierrez: learn to cook your favorites with lighter ingredients.

RSG 6pm register by March 4.

March 7

Middle Border Forward Business meeting: A work group session to discuss goals relating to business for MBF’s Vision 2035.

326 Main St 5:30-7pm Register through MBF’s facebook page www.middleborderforward.org 434.483.2894

March 7 (thru May 1)

Art After School: for ages 6-12 will learn the fundamentals of art by using different mediums. This class will meet on Wednesday afternoons, except for April 4. RSG $120 register

by March 5.

March 8

Middle Border Forward Infrastructure meeting: A work group session to discuss goals relating to Infrastructure for MBF’s Vision 2035. 326 Main St 5:30-7pm Register through MBF’s facebook page www.middleborderforward.org 434.483.2894

March 9

Define Jazz: live music@2Witches 8-10pm

March 10

Danville Farmers Market Looking for Vendors: Be a vendor for the 2018 season. Learn the rules for selling, complete required paperwork. Community Market, 629 Craghead St. 8-9am 434.797.8961 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Auditions. See page 12.

Mommy + Me Painting Class: PA 10:30am-noon $30/$35 member/ non-member adult and one child ages 4-12 Dads welcomed! Price includes 2 students (adult and child) and one canvas. $5 for each additional adult, child or canvas.

Advanced registration required.

Dancing for the Arts: PA Martinsville High School Auditorium 7pm. $10/25 fundraiser featuring local celebrities dancing in support of the arts in Martinsville-Henry County. Contest features eight teams competing to win the most votes, the highest judges’ score and the big prize. Votes raise money to support Piedmont Arts programming in Martinsville-Henry County.

March 10 & 11

Free admission weekend to DMFAH

March 11

March 2018

S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 the Museum’s Attic Sale from 10am-5pm.

March 19 (thru April 16)

Averett Student Spring Art Show: Jut’s Café on Woodland Dr. and Blount Library on West Main St. 434.791.5620

March 19

DHS Trivia Night: 2 Witches 7pm

March 23

DMFAH Attic Sale Preview for the Museum’s members 5-7pm Marie Anderson: live music@2Witches 8-10pm

March 24

DMFAH Attic Sale: 9am to 1pm Easter Treats for Kids: Ms. Clara will teach the kids to make tasty treats. RSG 11am $25 registration required by March 22.

Kickin’ Chicken Wing Ding: River District Association and URW Credit Union; live music by The Pizazz Band. Tickets include chicken wings, sides, and non-alcoholic beverages.

Beer and wine available for purchase. 18+ Danville Community Market 629 Craghead St 5-10pm $25 434.791.0210

March 25

DMFAH exhibit opening: Italian artist, Max Gasparini. 2:30-4pm

Pints & Poses: yoga at 2 Witches 3pm

March 13 & 15

Book Signing with Patrick Womack: The author will discuss his new book, A Son of Pittsylvania County Joins the Confederacy. RSG 6pm

March 15

March 29

Pickleball clinic: Learn the basics.

Coates Recreation Center 1725 Westover Dr Danville 7-9pm $10 434.799.5216 to register St. Waggy’s Day: This dog friendly event features live music, food trucks, pet product vendors, Irish games and activities. Danville Community Market 629 Craghead St 6-9pm free 434.799.5150

March 16

Passport to Adventure featuring Ireland: Enjoy Irish music, food, and fun. RSG 6pm $45 reservations required by March 14.

Whiskey Foxtrot: live music@2Witches 8-10pm St Patrick’s Day Celebration: Ballou Rec Center 760 West Main St. noon-2pm $2 434.799.5216 St. Patrick’s Day Dance: live music Ballou Rec Center 760 West Main St. 7-10pm $5 434.799.5216

March 17

St Paddy’s on the Dan: 2 Witches 3-9pm

March 18

Barking Bluegrass: See page 12.

March 19 (thru 23)

DMFAH is accepting donations for

March 27

Easter Brunch Ideas: Clara Gutierrez will teach Easter brunch recipes. RSG 6pm $45 registration required by March 27.

IdeaFest: 5th Annual Pitch Competition $10,000 in awards www.thelaunchplace.org Why Is That Art? PA 7pm free A look at the history of modern art, dating from 1870 through 1950.

March 30

Kirk & Dinky Duo: live music@2 Witches 8-10pm

March 31

Elliot Humphries: live music@2 Witches 7-9pm

Upcoming April 2

World Autism Awareness Day: Enjoy autism awareness crafts and activities provided by The Center for Pediatric Therapies and explore the DSC ’s interactive galleries. View a sensory friendly movie at noon in the Digital Dome. DSC 11am-2pm

For more events see Calendar Clips on pages 12.

The deadline for submitting information for the April calendar is Monday, March 19, at 5:00 p.m. Please send just the basic information following the format on these pages to joycewilburn@gmail.com.

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Book Clubbing A Review by Diane Adkins

The Orphaned Adult

Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents

by Alexander Levy

At the beginning of January, my 97-year-old father died. It was nine years nearly to the day after my mom passed away. He had hoped to be 100. On the other hand, he missed my mom every day for nine years and I think he just decided it was time.

My dad’s pastor in Ohio, who had lost both of his parents recently, recommended this book to my brother and me. At first, I was surprised to think of myself as an orphan. That is a term for young children who lose their parents, not for me. However, this loss of the second parent reverberates the rest of one’s life. After all, as Levy points out, parents “provide a unique spot on this planet, which is called home, where we can return, if we need to, to be loved and to feel that we belong.” Once both of our parents are dead, we are no longer anyone’s child, something that has been fundamental in our lives and in the formation of our identities. It also means we are next in line for death; there is no more buffer between us and the end, at least within our family of origin.

For many, the loss of the second parent leads to change in selfdefinition, in behaviors, in religious beliefs, in other relationships.

One of the most useful things about this book for me was the inclusion of many anecdotes of how others confronted and coped with this grief. Levy was drawn to write this book by his own experience of the loss, combined with the dearth of resources for those who are orphaned as adults. But more importantly, he is a practicing psychologist and had many coming to him for help with the same challenges. The stories reflect a range of experiences.

Despite the famous stages of grief promulgated by Kubler-Ross, we don’t grieve in a straight line. We can feel much better one day and worse the next. But the point is to go through grief, not avoid it. The death of the second parent is a milestone. A transition.

When it happens to us, we should expect change. But there is this comfort as well: “Just as each season of a tree’s life creates, and is permanently recorded in the encircling layers of its trunk, the people we have loved and have been loved by are indelibly registered upon our being. Who we are is a product of and is supported by their continuous presence in our minds.”

Parental death is the single most common cause of bereavement in this country, with nearly five percent of the population losing a parent each year. If you are, as I am, one of that number, you will find help by reading this book.

Diane S. Adkins is a retired library director.

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M

ilestones tell us where we are on life’s journey. They report how far we’ve come and how far we have to go to reach our destination. A 2010 Saveur magazine listed a few milestones for California wines: 1770s: Spanish missionaries plant California’s first grapes and use them to make sacramental wine.

1976: A blind tasting of new-world cabernets and chardonnays against red Bordeaux and white Burgundies is organized. It’s assumed the nine French judges will vote French. The results shock the world. California wines top both the red and white causing a figurative earthquake in the wine world. California wine popularity and prestige skyrocket. This is the subject of the great wine movie, Bottle Shock.

The Wine Spot Celebrate a Milestone with a Milestone Wine

by Dave Slayton

a member of the Master Court of Sommeliers

1873: A Virginia Norton wine is named “best red wine of all nations” at the Vienna World’s Fair.

1920-1933: Prohibition promptly brings wine making to a standstill.

The industry is slow to bounce back.

1995: Virginia has forty-six wineries.

2018: Virginia surpasses 280+ wineries. Only California, New York, Oregon and Washington State have more wineries than Virginia.

Virginia has its wine milestones too:

2014: The first combined winery and brewery opens in Virginia— Danville’s 2 Witches.

1820s: Wines made from Native American grapes meet with great success.

Most of us celebrate life’s milestones with Champagne or sparkling wine. But what about

You want me to stop drinking sweet tea! What? While old dogs can learn new tricks, it’s not always easy. Habits and tastes are hard to change. There is strong scientific evidence, however, that little tweaks to your lifestyle can lead to a healthier lifestyle.

Reducing sugar intake while increasing fiber and moving more can go a long way to preventing health troubles like heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s and cancer. If you have young children, why not take this opportunity during their early years to cultivate a love for nutritious foods and active living?

Setting that standard will be good motivation for you to live well too.

To borrow and adapt a wellknown phrase, your body is a temple. Honor it by moving more and enjoying foods like beans, whole grains, whole vegetables and whole fruits. These foods help prevent a steep decline into old age. By the way, vegetable and fruit juices including smoothies don’t count as healthy because they are stripped of their fibrous quality. Also, many juices contain as much sugar as soft drinks. It’s better to create your own flavored water with fresh fruit. Watch out for cereals and flavored yogurt,

those times between milestones?

I have a “between-the-milestones” wine in mind. It is called Milestone.

Imagine that! This California cabernet sauvignon is inexpensive and “jammy”. Wine experts are not fond of that. Think of a PB&J sandwich with an abundance of jam, but jam that is not overly sweet.

When you sip this wine, please toast the memory of Delly Eastwood of Keeling who had the 1800s historic mile marker stone pictured here placed at its original location, 14917 Old Richmond Road, where VA 360 and VA 701 intersect. Cheers!

• Meet Dave during the wine tastings on most Saturday afternoons at Vintages by the Dan, 310 Main Street, Danville.

On one side of the marker, the inscription reads: Left to Beavers 8 mi. (Beavers Tavern was located on US 29 Business south of VA 719 in Blairs.) The other side reads: Rite to Linches (Lynchburg) 60 mi.

Photo by Dave Slayton

Notice the different ingredients in these three labels from canned beans. The fewer ingredients usually indicates the healthier option and, in this case, the one without added sugar.

Living Well

Tweaking Your Lifestyle

by Kathy Hurt too. Mark special occasions with natural sweets--clementines, grapes, watermelon, and freshly popped, not microwaved, popcorn.

Be especially aware that sugar, an addictive and cheap preservative,

has sixty-one different names and is hidden in a lot of the processed foods we eat. When possible, compare labels and opt for little to no added sugar.

The American Institute for Cancer

Research estimates that onethird of the most common cancers in the US could be prevented if we ate better foods and moved more. Why not start forming good habits today? It’s not too late or too early to do the right thing.

For more information, visit VCU Massey Cancer Research & Resource Center’s Facebook page and to see a schedule of Living Well programs in Danville.

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Pittsylvania County Submitted by Lisa Tuite

Brosville/Cascade • Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays: Activate, 9am. Easy exercises.

• Tuesdays: Needlework, 10am.

Work on your projects with fellow enthusiasts.

• Wednesdays: Wednesdays for Wees, 10am. Stories and more for ages 0-5.

• March 2: Read Across America Day, 4pm. A Dr. Seuss Celebration • March 5: Mario Cart, 4pm. Try to beat Mr. Jonathan on Rainbow Road.

• March 7: Nutrition Program, noon.

Learn to eat healthy in this sixsession program.

• March 8: Plastic Canvas Fun, 6pm.

Learn to make whirligigs.

• March 9: Cup & Crochet, 10am.

Bring your favorite beverage and learn basic crochet stitches.

• March 14: Nutrition Program, noon. Learn to eat healthy in this six-session program.

Open Maker Space, 4pm. Bubble Fun. • March 15: Book Bingo, 6pm. Play and win books and other prizes.

• March 21: Nutrition Program, noon. Learn to eat healthy in this six-session program.

What’s Happening in the Public Libraries • March 22: Quilting Fun, 6pm. Learn the basics of quilt-making. Call for supply list.

• March 28: Nutrition Program, noon.

Learn to eat healthy in this sixsession program.

Chatham Library • Mondays: Mother Goose on the Loose, 11am. Stories, songs and fun for ages 0-3.

• Wednesdays: Story Time, 10am.

Stories and crafts for ages 3-5.

• March 1: Friends of the Library Meeting, 4pm. Learn about and join the Friends!

• March 2: Winter Reading Logs are due.

• March 7: Brown Bag Book Review, noon. Bill Leftwich reviews The Life and Career of a Hollywood Madcap,

by Timothy Lefler. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.

• March 8: 2nd Thursday Discussion Group, 4pm. Discussion based on Bill Guerrant’s book, Jim Wrenn.

Danville Public Library

Submitted by Danielle Pritchett

• Flora of Virginia: A traveling panel exhibition from The Library of Virginia The DPL will host a panel exhibition from March 19 to April 28 that explores Virginia’s natural environment and examines the history of botanical illustration and art. This exhibit was created in collaboration with the Flora of Virginia Project and the Virginia Native Plant Society.

• Mondays: AARP Taxaide 10am-2pm Afterschool Computer Lab 3-5pm Game Geeks for grades 5-12 4:30-6:30pm • Tuesdays: AARP Taxaide 10am-2pm Storytime for preschoolers 11-11:30am Afterschool Computer Lab 3-5pm Crafter’s Club: 4-6pm • Wednesdays: Family Storytime @ Westover 11-11:30am Afterschool Computer Lab 3-5pm • Thursdays: Afterschool Computer Lab 3-5pm • Fridays: Large Group Storytime 11-11:30am Game Geeks for grades 5-12; 2:30-4:30pm Afterschool Computer Lab 3-5pm • March 1: It’s Elementary, STEAM activities for grades 1-5; 6:00pm • March 2: Therapy Dog Read-ALong 11am. Dr. Seuss’s Birthday Celebration 4pm • March 5: Read It...See It Movie Matinee: Murder on the Orient Express (PG-13) 11am • March 5: Lego Engineers 4pm. Tech Week: Roblox Day 5pm • March 6: Genealogy 101: Getting Started 11am. Tech Week: Stop Motion Animation (Brickfilm) 4pm • March 7: FIRST Lego League Jr. 4pm.

Tech Week: Minecraft Hour of Code 4pm

• March 8: Intermediate Genealogy: Preserving Your Research 11am. Tech Week: 3D Modeling Bookmarks 4pm.

Spring Couponing Class with Jaime 6:30pm • March 9: Tech Week: Gaming Tournament 2:30pm • March 12: Computer Basics: Meet the Computer 11am. Family BINGO 5pm.

Maker Monday 5pm • March 13: Genealogy 101: Navigating Ancestry.com 11am. Westover Branch Book Club 11am • March 14: Computer Basics: Introduction to the Internet 11am.

FIRST Lego League Jr. 4pm • March 15: Intermediate Genealogy: Findagrave.com 11am. Pajama Storytime 5:30pm • March 19: Computer Basics: Intro to Email 11am. Coding Club 5pm • March 20: Genealogy 101: FamilySearch.org 11am. Computer Basics: Microsoft Word 2016 11am • March 21: Crafternoon @ Westover Branch 4pm. FIRST Lego League Jr. 4pm. Intermediate Genealogy: Ancestry DNA 11am • March 26: Computer Basics: Review 11am. Maker Mondays 5pm • March 27: Genealogy 101: African American Ancestry 11am • March 29: Intermediate Genealogy: Courthouse Research 11am All programs are free but require registration at ww.playdanvilleva.com.

For more information visit DPL, 511 Patton Street, www.readdanvilleva.org or call 434.799.5195. For the Westover Branch, visit 94 Clifton Street or 434.799.5152.

• March 13: Flower Pot Painting, 3:30-5pm. All ages.

• March 14: Brown Bag Book Review, noon: Hal Thornton reviews a book TBA. • March 21: Brown Bag Book Review, noon: Kenyon Scott reviews a book TBA. • March 22: Bingo, 3:30-5pm. Play and win crafty prizes. All ages.

• March 27: Critique Group, 4-5pm.

Read and review advance reader’s copies of soon-to-be-published books.

• March 28: Brown Bag Book Review, noon. Rick Dixon reviews a book TBA.

Gretna Branch Library • Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays: Group Fitness, 10am.

Exercises to start your day. Ages 18+ • Tuesdays: Mother Goose on the Loose, 10am. Stories, songs and rhymes for ages 0-3.

• Wednesdays: Preschool Read & Rhyme, 10am. Stories, crafts and more for ages 0-5.

• Thursdays: Learn to Crochet, 5pm.

All ages and experience levels welcome.

• March 1: Afterschool Ice Cream Social with the Cat in the Hat, 3:15pm. Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday!

• March 4-10: Teen Tech Week Contest, all week. Submit a selfie of youself reading in your favorite spot. Email by March 10 to Gretna. staff@pcplib.org to enter a drawing for a price.

• March 13: Homeschool Connection, 2pm. Continue our virtual trip around the world with stories and crafts.

2nd Tuesday Recipe Club, 5:30pm.

This month’s theme is “A Rainbow Meal” – pick and prepare a dish in your favorite color to share. Call to register.

• March 27: Homeschool Connection, 2pm. Continue our virtual trip around the world with stories and crafts.

Mt. Hermon Target Opening Date is Monday, March 5! Come check out the new branch.

History Research Center & Library Open 10am until 2pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

Unless otherwise noted, all programs are free. For more information, contact Gretna Library, 207 A Coffey Street, 434.656.2579; Mt. Hermon Library, 4058 Franklin Turnpike, Tuscarora Shopping Center, 434.835.0326; History Research Center and Library, 340 Whitehead Street, Chatham; 434.432.8931; PCP Main Library, 24 Military Drive, Chatham, 434.432.3271; Brosville Library, 11948 Martinsville Highway 434.685.1285 or www.pcplib.org.

Gunn Memorial, Caswell County

Submitted by Erica Lowdermilk

• Tuesdays: Bookbaggers ages 6-12; 3:30pm • Wednesdays: Lambs and Lions ages 0-5; 10am • Thursdays: 3:30-4:30 ages 12-18.

Snacks and fun provided.

For more information, visit the temporary location at 118 Main Street West, Yanceyville, North Carolina, or www.caswellcounty.gov/library or call 336.694.6241.

South Boston Public Library Submitted by Jay Stephens

• Mondays: Makerspace: 1-5pm ages 8-adult • Tuesdays: Itsy Bitsy PALS: 12:301:30pm ages birth-2 years PALS: 2:30-4:30pm ages 2-7 Tweens and Teens: 4:30-5:30pm ages 8-17 • Second and fourth Fridays: Art @ the Library 4-5pm ages 5-17

• Second Tuesday: Adult Crafts 1 pm • Third Friday: Art for Adults 3-5pm ages 18+ For more information, visit South Boston Public Library, 509 Broad Street, or www.halifaxlibrary.org, or call 434.575.4228

Halifax County Public Library Submitted by Jay Stephens

• Wednesdays: Itsy Bitsy PALS: 12:30-1:30pm ages birth-2 years PALS: 2:30-4:30pm ages 2-7 Tweens and Teens: 4:30-5:30pm ages 8-17 • Thursdays: Art @ the Library: 4-5pm ages 5 -17 • Second and fourth Fridays: Easy Exercise for Adults 10am • Second Wednesday: Adult Crafts:

1pm • Third Thursday: Art for Adults: 4-5pm ages 18+ • Third Tuesday: Tea & Book Discussion 2:30-3:30pm For more information, visit Halifax Public Library, 177 South Main St. in Halifax or www.halifaxlibrary.org or call 434.476.3357.

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Marking Milestones in Life

by Mack Williams

T

he first

definition of

milestone is a marker in a series placed along a route, providing reassuring measures of distance and the confirmation that someone is traveling in the right direction.

We also have milestones of elapsed time in our lives, those goals that are achieved only by staying alive, such as birthdays. Looking at a picture of me on the milestone of my first birthday (above), either I was easily upset by anything or at that young age, I already had misgivings about growing old.

Stumbling blocks are milestones too. Stumbling blocks become milestones when we survive the initial fall, right ourselves, then continue on a while before looking back

and taking stock of our progress since the misstep. I see my father’s death in such a light. He was sixty and I was only a formative fifteen. Though my father’s death was a stumbling block at the time, later on, recollections of him became memory stones joined together like supportive blocks for a strong foundation of life.

A milestone in friendship is reached when someone rescues us at a trying time and helps us to move forward--like a series of stepping stones that suddenly become apparent in the swirling eddies of a treacherous stream we are attempting to cross.

Milestones can represent more than just their original measure of land’s length and breadth.

They are also measures of something much greater: life.

Reflecting Forward Organizing Leads to Good Karma and Achieving Milestones

by Linda Lemery

I

recently took

a college

course Think Green: Sustainability for a Better World.

The use of green technology and the embedded theme of creative reuse especially energized me because I’d been doing the latter all my life, but now it had been Daisy enjoys the comfort of a new home. formalized. That realization was a milestone for me. falling over. I could see the paint on the shelves. (Green – who knew?)

I’ve always tried to build on creative Foods were grouped by logic rather reuse. When our dear dog Hershey than by container stackability. I died, family and friends urged me could see what was present. There to purge all the dog-related items was order, and order in one’s life and thus purge the pain of loss. leads to a clearer understanding Although I donated the perishables of karma in the universe and how and a bed, I kept a bigger bed, a events can cosmically align, if we crate, brushes, leashes, and collars pay attention. Sometimes that in case we could use them in the alignment hinges on the simplest future. I didn’t know if that would thing, like the decision on when to ever happen, but if it did, I wanted run an errand. to be ready. So much of life is about being ready. Realizing that Back when the cabinets were was another milestone. However, organized, we had found pet items stockpiling all those things created that others could use. I finally clutter which in turn led to reactive made time and took them to the decluttering. vet’s office. I hadn’t been there five minutes when the vet arrived with After organizing two cabinets earlier a rescue. Out of his truck came a (see February, page 20), I was shaky, tentative dog named Daisy. excited at the prospect of doing the Underweight. Uncertain. Geriatric. same thing in the pantry. I threw In need of a good home with open the pantry door ready to comfort, structure, and regular food. start, but the sight stopped me in The chain of events had tumbled my tracks. The pantry hadn’t been like dominoes, and I, the owner of a decluttered in decades. I couldn’t dog bed, a crate, brushes, leashes, even get in. All the floor space and collars, was right where I was was gone and stuff was stacked supposed to be, at exactly the right waist-high. It was too much. I day and time. One week later, we took the only action I could: I adopted Daisy. We’re reusing all of hired my son’s fiancée Chelsea to Hershey’s things for what honestly clean it out. That’s why one Sunday feels like a higher calling. Another afternoon I came home to find her milestone. there hard at work. The big box of expired food on the table had to Life is full of possibilities for go. She explained why, “Look at achieving milestones if we’re exactly this. It’s older than I am!” Chelsea where we need to be, if we’re ready, had timed the clean-out perfectly and if we have the courage to because the next day was garbage embrace the opportunities. If I didn’t day. I steeled my nerves, pulled out believe in karma before, I surely do a few things, and the rest went to now. the landfill. Another milestone.

Being able to actually step into the pantry was illuminating. I could reach the light-bulb cord without

About the author: When she’s not walking Daisy, Linda Lemery llemery@averett.edu works as Circulation Manager at Averett University’s Mary B. Blount Library in Danville. She welcomes your comments.

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Irish Potato Pies for St. Patrick’s Day

by Annelle Williams

Don’t go to the bakery on a Friday afternoon expecting to find scones and muffins for weekend guests. They will be long gone. I went, still hopeful, but found empty display cases, except for one shelf. The tray on it was full of flakey pies that looked delicious. The baker explained they were Irish Potato Pies filled with potatoes, onions and cheese. She said her customers were more interested in the fruit-filled pastries rather than this savory version. Their loss!

I was already envisioning fresh fruit, bacon for the meat eaters, and sunny-side-up eggs on the plate next to this beautiful savory pastry.

And that’s exactly how it happened. Now I’m sharing the recipe with you.

There are so many changes you could make, like adding bacon, ham or mushrooms. You could also make your own crust or use pre-made pie crust rather than puff pastry. I hope you enjoy these as much as we did especially on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17!

Reid Street Gallery is a great place to gather with friends!

Bring a group for a fun day of shopping or sign up for a cooking or art class!

Check online for calendar updates!

Follow us on Facebook and check out our website for more events and information... www.ReidStreetGallery.com

MARCH CALENDAR OF EVENTS

March 1 7:00 p.m.

Chatham First Monthly Meeting

March 6 Lite and Easy with Clara Gutierrez- Revamp your favorite 6.00 p.m. dishes with lighter, but just as delicious alternative ingredients as Clara or teaches us that flavor doesn’t have to equal calories. $45, minimum March 7 and maximum requirements to hold the class, reservations required by 11:00 a.m. March 4th. Visit our website for menu information.

March 7 Art After School (every Wed., Mar. 7th - May 1st; no class April 4th) 3:45 p.m. - During this 8-week session, students will explore the fundamental 5:00 p.m. elements and principles of art using various mediums to create their own works of art. Available to students ages 6-12. $120 for the 8-week session. Minimum and maximum requirements, registrations required

by March 5th. Visit our website for more information.

March 12 - Women in Art (every Monday) – Bring your brown bag lunch and April 16 join us weekly as we mingle and discuss the various ways in which noon women have shaped art as we know it.

March 16 Passport to Adventure Featuring Ireland – Each month 6:00 p.m. we will feature a different country or culture to celebrate and explore through music, food and fun! The third destination of our Passport to Adventure series takes us to Ireland. Join us for an Irish feast just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. $45, minimum and maximum requirements, reservations required by March 14th. Visit our website for menu information.

March 24, Easter Treats for Kids - Bring the kids to make some fun and 11:00 a.m. tasty treats with Ms. Clara! $25 per person. Minimum and maximum requirements, registrations required by March 22nd. Visit our website for menu information.

Irish Potato Pies (makes 8-10 pies)

1 box puff pastry, thawed (Find it in the frozen food section near the pie shells.)

4 cups one-inch cubed peeled potatoes 1 medium-sized sweet onion, peeled and diced

1 tsp. salt 4 T butter, divided 1 1/2 cups shredded Irish Cheddar Cheese, or your choice 1/2 cup whole milk 1 egg

Preheat oven to 400°. Cover potatoes with salted water in medium-size pan. Gently boil until potatoes are fork tender. Drain and remove potatoes.

Melt two tablespoons butter in pan over medium heat and add onion.

Stir for a couple of minutes. Return potatoes to pan with onions. Stir in remaining butter and then the cheese, leaving some potato chunks. Add milk if needed to have mashed-potato thickness. Taste for salt. Set aside to cool.

Unroll puff pastry sheets and roll to a size to make four circles that are 5-6 inches in diameter from each sheet. Use a saucer or plastic lid as a template to cut circles. You can re-roll scraps for more circles.

Line sheet pans with parchment. Place dough rounds on parchment.

Scoop about two tablespoons of the potato mixture on to half of the pastry round. Don’t overfill. Brush edges with milk. Fold over top.

Press together with a fork. Beat egg and brush tops with egg. Bake for approximately 20 minutes or until pies are browned and crispy. Remove from pan and cool on wire rack. Serve warm. You can reheat at 350° for a few minutes before serving.

Questions or comments?

Email me: AnnelleWilliams@comcast.net I look forward to hearing from you!

March 27, Book Signing with Patrick Womack - Join us for an 6:00 p.m. evening with Patrick Womack as he discusses his new book, A Son of Pittsylvania County Joins the Confederacy, which chronicles the early history of the Womack family of southern Virginia.

March 29 Easter Brunch Ideas – Join us as Clara prepares us to make 6:00 p.m. an Easter brunch sure to please our family and friends. $45, minimum and maximum requirements to hold the class, reservations required by March 27th. Visit our website for menu information.

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Featured Artist

Suzy Eick

I’ve enjoyed fiddling with my hands since I was little – cutting up paper and making collages or spending Saturdays making ragdolls out of old cloth, mop-head and yarn. It was a way to stave off boredom and keep from getting into trouble.

After several years in the business industry, I received my teaching degree in art and taught for 20 years. It wasn’t until I gave up teaching and moved to Virginia that I began painting full time.

The gorgeous scenery of the Blue Ridge Mountains, fresh air and rolling fields in Virginia are truly soul enriching. There is inspiration everywhere you look. I paint places I visit, working from photo references and notes or en plein air. I relish my time in my studio and enjoy what I do every day!

I don’t know too many people who can say that.

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Photo Finish On February 14, Reid Street Gallery in Chatham held a Valentine’s Day cooking demonstration. Clara Gutierrez showed ten couples how to make a gourmet four-course dinner. For March events at Reid Street Gallery, see page 21.

Kathryn Gillispie studies a wine label before serving guests.

Alisa Davis, Reid Street Gallery Director, watches as Dave Slayton, wine connoisseur, pours.

Captions by Lanie Davis.

Clara Gutierrez sautés the asparagus while keeping an eye on the rice pilaf.

The group sat around an island to watch Clara Gutierrez prepare their dinner.

Richard Phillips, John Collins, Ben Davenport, and John Reynolds pose for a picture before dinner begins.

Janet Holley shops in the Reid Street Gallery boutique with Danny and Laura Lewis.

Betty Davenport chats with John Collins between courses.

Sue and Dave Elwell listen as Dave Slayton talks about the wine to be served.

John and Susan McCaleb watch as Clara prepares their beef tenderloin.

Evince Magazine Page  23 Dianne and David Caldwell stand next to Karen Reynolds.

Clara Gutierrez smiles as she checks on the rice pilaf.

Gail and Richard Phillips share stories with Phyllis Collins before the first course.

The evening started with a Valentine Caprese Salad consisting of fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and sweet basil—the colors of the Italian flag.

Salmon is laid on a bed of onions and fresh vegetables; asparagus and lemon is placed on top. After being wrapped in parchment paper, the salmon is baked in the oven.

The beef tenderloin is browned while guests watch.

Dessert was a choice of a chocolate basket holding mini-brownies and ice cream or vanilla flan with berries.

Guests had the choice of beef tenderloin in red wine sauce or salmon with lemon vegetables, roasted asparagus and rice pilaf.

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