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One Child at a Time
A Legend in Her Time
Mr. Charlie’s Picture Show
One of the most important things adults will ever do is to give their time to the young. Whether helping them academically or emotionally, a mentor can mean everything to a student in need. John Oxford takes a look at two important programs that the Moultrie YMCA has in place to make sure that no child gets overlooked in the hubbub of daily life.
Isabella Ivey is known to many as the lady with the long fingernails, but in fact, she’s so much more. Her fingernails might have made her a thing of myth, but this lady is a local icon because of the life she’s lived. We sat down with her to discuss her days as Moultrie’s first female parking enforcement officer and the secret behind those legendary nails.
Moultrie eatres, Inc. brought Charlie Powell financial success, but his dynamic personality and participation in city life made him a man to remember. As the owner of multiple theatres in town, he was truly a man of substance. We traveled to Birmingham to sit down with his son, Charlie Powell Jr., to hear his stories about his father and the real Mr. Charlie.
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Hello Friends! If you ask my friends and family, they would tell you that one would be hardpressed to find someone who loves Moultrie more than me. While I hope that there are many more who love this town as much as I do, I take great pride in my love for Moultrie. Ever since I was a child, Heath Dorminey I have loved, supported, defended and believed in it. Others wrote it off, ran away or even bad mouthed it. Still there were others who simply wanted to escape. I never did. I never felt trapped in this small town. I felt at home. And I still do. I always knew I wanted to be part of something one day that would help promote this community for what it is – a great place full of potential. Seven years ago I realized my dream by beginning Moultrie Magazine. I knew what I wanted to do, but I had little knowledge of how to do it. It hasn't always been easy. In fact, it has never been easy. It never is when you start a business, but when you’re doing something that has never before been done in a community, it can be especially tricky. Jim and I were producing the first-ever, full-color lifestyle magazine Moultrie had seen. When we first started telling people what we wanted to do, we were oen looked at as if we had lost our minds. Perhaps the most common response was, "What will you write about?" is was a clear indication to me that most people in this community had no idea the history, people and stories that surround them in this small community. at became my number-one goal – to showcase all the things that make Moultrie special. Well, I’m proud to say that we still have plenty of stories yet to tell. ankfully there were those in our community who did share our vision or, at the very least, were kind enough to give us a shot. We are eternally grateful. One of our goals was to improve with each issue we published. I feel we have done that. With this milestone, we have a brand new logo, a newly-inspired vision and an even stronger determination to continue spotlighting this community and its history including the people and businesses that call Moultrie home. is magazine is like my child, and I am very proud of it and work extremely hard on each issue. We all do that here at Moultrie Magazine, and we hope you enjoy the fruits of our labor. We are trying our best to do something special here. I want to say a very special thank you to all the advertisers, subscribers and readers who have continuously supported this magazine throughout the past seven years. Without your generous support, we simply could not have made it this far.
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A new year has arrived. It seems like we just started 2012 and now here we are in 2013. My, how time flies! It’s hard to believe that it has been seven years since we published the first issue of Moultrie Magazine, and we are so proud to have made it to this milestone. I will be the first to tell you that I have been blessed. I am so grateful for my family and friends and for having been able to do things my whole life that I have enjoyed. I try never to take things for granted and to face each day with a thankful heart and positive attitude. I turned another year older just Jim Hill last month, but I have no plans of stopping or slowing down anytime soon. I enjoy staying active and seeing and meeting new people. As a child, I remember it seemed like a year would creep by so slowly. It seemed that things like Christmas and birthdays came once in a decade rather than once a year. A day in school went by slower than molasses and summertime seemed light-years away. As I have grown older, it seems like Christmas comes every six months and the years tick by faster and faster. But I am thankful to be along on this crazy ride we call life. Like most people, I always become reflective at this time of year. I think back on the past year and the things that have happened to me, my family or people that I know. I think about the things I accomplished and the things I wish I had. en my attention turns to the year ahead – the things I want to see, do and accomplish. I hope that we all accomplish something great in 2013 and that we all spend just a little more time with family, a little more time with friends, and just a little more time being kinder to each other and helping those we can. I’m sure you know that it takes a lot more energy to be unkind to someone than it does to be kind. Here’s the really neat thing about being nice: It not only makes the person you are being kind to feel good, but it makes you feel good as well. We are all here together living, working and playing. We have to get along, become more patient with one another and be there for one another. You never know when you may be the one in need of a smiling face or an outstretched hand. ough we’ve all heard it our entire lives, it does help to live by the golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It is a simple task, and we should all try to live by it more oen than not. No one person is better than another. We all deserve to have a shot at our dreams, and we all deserve to be treated with respect and kindness. So in your list of New Year’s resolutions, let kindness become one of them. e way to change the world starts with something as simple as a smile. In closing, I want to thank you all for your kindness to Moultrie Magazine and for your appreciation for what we are trying to do with this publication. ere is a lot of work put into each issue, and we hope you enjoy everything we do. Gratefully,
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he Moultrie YMCA is working to make sure that no child gets le behind. e YMCA currently has two programs to help children improve themselves both academically and in their social or emotional abilities. Shannon Hall, Moultrie YMCA mentoring director, says the mentoring program has been in place for three years. Hall was also involved in the program while it was being done through Communities in Schools (CIS), which had overseen the mentoring program for about a decade. It was later moved to the YMCA in July 2009 when CIS was discontinued. Executive Director Greg Coop says the YMCA board was approached by the CIS board about continuing the mentoring program. e YMCA board felt strongly about taking on the mentoring program as a way of providing more outreach opportunities for the community. Coop says he believes it has gone very well for the YMCA. He says it is a true outreach program and an investment the YMCA is making for the community, and it is a program which positively impacts children in more ways than may ever be known. “I feel very strongly this is one of the best approaches to making positive changes in the community,” Coop says. “It is an important outreach program, and I am very excited about it.” e mentoring program is a school-based program for any Colquitt County student in grades kindergarten through 12th grade, Hall says. It is available in every Colquitt County school, including the Achievement Center and Pathways. ere are currently over 200 adult
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mentors serving over 250 students in the program, which runs during the school year. A mentor is asked to give between 30 minutes to an hour each week to a student for a full school year, but Hall says some mentors go beyond that. Hall says one of the most important aspects of the program is its flexibility with a mentor’s schedule. She says that mentors do not have to meet at the same time each week nor are they expected to give the same amount of time each week. Some of the mentors attend extracurricular activities of their mentees, such as games or recitals, and some mentors stay with the mentee for an extra year or several years. ere are some mentors who started with a mentee while he/she was in elementary school. Some of these students are now preparing to graduate high school. Since starting her work with the mentoring program, Hall says it has been fantastic seeing the progress made by both mentors and mentees in those three years. She says she has seen lives changed and that she loves working with both volunteers and students. “I have the great pleasure of watching it happen,” Hall says. “It really is a ministry to me. Mentors and mentees have been blessed by the experience.” For a student to become involved in the program, Hall says they must be referred to the YMCA by a teacher or staff member for a variety of reasons including a need to improve emotionally, socially or academically. Aer getting the parent’s or guardian’s permission to have the student mentored, Hall then takes the referrals and matches the student with a volun-
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teer mentor to help to build a relationship with the student and to help them through their problems or challenges. “We’re listeners,” Hall says. “e students need someone to listen to them, and we go in and meet the students where they are at. e key to being a mentor is building a relationship.” e mentors are not merely tutors to the students, but Hall says they are there to build a relationship with a student. A mentor can help a student get through rough and difficult circumstances and allow the student to see that someone cares for them and wants the best for them. With bullying being a big problem for students, Hall says mentors are encouraged to be empathetic and to allow a student to be themselves. e mentor is there to be an example to the student and to show them there is a better way to life. Hall says all mentors go through an orientation process and are required to undergo a background check before they are placed with a student. At the orientation, volunteers are given a handbook detailing what is expected of them as a mentor. Aer the orientation, Hall says an appointment is set up at the student’s school so the mentor and student can meet one-on-one. is is done so the student can be in a familiar setting, and all of the mentoring is done at the student’s school in an effort to continue to allow the student to feel comfortable. Once the meetings have begun, a mentor is welcome to see the student at any of his/her activities outside school.
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Above le to right: According to Mentoring Director Shannon Hall, Robert Duggan is the YMCA’s premier mentor; Women are the majority of volunteer mentors. Below le to right: Initial meetings are always held at the child’s school; Hall says there is a great need for male volunteers.
Hall says confidentiality between the mentor and mentee is a huge part of the relationship between the two. Being consistent on meeting with the student is also a big part of being a mentor, and mentors are encouraged to meet with their mentees at least once a week. Both allow a student to build trust with a mentor and help to build a strong foundation. As that relationship grows, Hall says the mentors try to follow the student at his/her own pace and look for and unlock any special gis the students possess. is is done to try and allow the students to
works with school counselors and social workers, and she sees the mentoring program’s impact on students. She says she strongly supports having the mentoring program in place and is excited to see it grow. “A mentoring relationship can make the difference between a student dropping out of school or not,” Sheumaker says. e mentors are asked to stay with the student for one school year, but Hall says over half of the mentors stay with the student for more than one school
Williams Middle School. Jeter says it is pretty easy to be a mentor, as he and his mentee typically meet once a week and talk about current events and sports. He does ask about any behavior problems since his mentee’s discipline can be an issue. He has also gone and met all his of mentee’s teachers, and he says they have all offered their own help in an effort to see the child improve. “It is easy to be there and be supportive of the child,” Jeter says. “It may be the only time someone gets to sit down and talk about issues with them. As
“I could easily have twice as many students involved if I had the volunteers willing to serve,” Hall says. see that they truly do have potential and are able to become their own person. “We are trying to help them dream and to believe in themselves,” Hall says. In the YMCA mentoring program, Hall says there are many more female mentors and students involved than male mentors and students. According to her, mentoring programs generally have more female involvement, and she says she now has a greater need for male mentors than ever before, with several students waiting for a mentor to be matched with them. “I could easily have twice as many students involved if I had the volunteers willing to serve,” Hall says. Colquitt County Schools Assistant Superintendent Fritzie Sheumaker says the mentoring program has become a vital part of the school system. Sheumaker
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year. Some in the mentoring program, such as Dan Jeter, have mentored multiple students and have continued to mentor them for several years. Jeter says he began as a mentor at the alternative school about eight years ago but was unable to continue serving there. He was asked to serve on the CIS board and felt an obligation to try mentoring again, and he began mentoring a student five and a half years ago. “If I was going to have an impact,” Jeter says, “I knew it needed to be started early.” For his mentee, Jeter says academics were not a significant issue even though many mentors provide help academically to students. Jeter’s mentee had more behavioral issues, and Jeter gives his mentee encouragement, someone to talk to and help with life issues. e two have worked together as the student has gone from elementary school to Willie J.
you learn about them and they learn about you, it creates more of a bond.” By becoming a mentor, Jeter says it gives a person a real sense of responsibility to the child. He says the adult begins to feel like the child’s performance, behavior and desires become part of the mentor’s own responsibility. Jeter says it also makes the mentor feel good when the students reach goals they have set for themselves. “I encourage everyone to find their role and be involved with youth,” Jeter says. Hall says the mentoring program would not be possible without the support of Coop and the YMCA Board. Without their support, she believes the mentoring program would not even exist here in Colquitt County. Hall says she is also grateful to the Colquitt County Board of Education for allowing her to partner
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Le to right: Mentors can also attend extracurricular activities; Mentors of all ages can find ways to support children. with them to reach the students of Colquitt County. Many school systems in Southwest Georgia do not have any kind of mentoring program in place, and they have contacted her about getting one started. Another program that the Moultrie YMCA is providing to students is the 21st Century Program. Director Misty Trouille says the program is administered by a state grant and is designed to help elementary-school children struggling academically and help to make them more well-rounded people. e program is in its second year at Friendship Alliance Church and serves students at Cox Elementary School, Trouille says. It gives the students a safe place to go aer school, and it focuses on providing help in mathematics and reading. Another program was completed last school year at the Norman Park Baptist Conference Center that served Norman Park and Odom Elementary Schools. e Friendship Alliance site currently serves 72 students, which Trouille says is split up with 12 students in each grade level. ere is a certified grade-level teacher and a youth development leader who works with the students Monday through ursday, and the students have other activities, such as music and character development, on Fridays. e students do STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) activities that are incorporated into the program. Only one school is allowed to serve as the site for the program because the grant has to be written for that school in particular,
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Trouille says. She says she hopes to be able to write grants for more schools, including again for Norman Park and Odom Elementary Schools, and have them awarded so others can be involved. Students in the program are referred by their teachers, and Trouille says the teachers refer those students who they feel need a little extra help academically and need help in passing standardized tests such as the CRCT. e 21st Century Program has been very successful at both previous sites, and Trouille says she has seen students make great academic improvements by being a part of it. She has seen progress in both students who are new to the program and those who have returned from the previous year. For those parents who have a child at Cox Elementary and are interested in the 21st Century Program, Trouille says they should begin by contacting the child’s teacher who is able to make the necessary referral. For anyone who would like to volunteer as a mentor, Hall says they need to contact the Moultrie YMCA at 985-1154 or email her at shannon.halldarby@gmail.com to express an interest. e mentor will need to go through the orientation class and submit to the background check before they begin serving, which can be completed in only a couple of weeks. She welcomes anyone with a desire to make a difference in a child’s life to volunteer to become a mentor. “I want someone who wants to give back to a young person, has a genuine care for youth and wants to invest in their life,” Hall says.
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sabella Ivey has become an icon in her lifetime in Moultrie, whether for being a former Miss Moultrie, the first AfricanAmerican parking enforcement officer or just for her fingernails. She worked for the City of Moultrie writing tickets downtown for 14 years, from 1978 to 1991. Prior to that, she did domestic work for several years and even worked for Willie Withers, attorney and mayor, for 16 years. She also worked making processed peanut oil for many years. Her work also included being in the fields and at J.R. Reynolds farm warehouse. Ivey says she loved stringing tobacco. When her aunt, with whom she lived, took ill, Ivey says she had to leave a job as a pants presser at Moultrie Manufacturing Co., located at Spence Field. Aer her aunt’s health improved, she began looking for another job. A friend who was a city councilman told her about an opening for a parking enforcement officer at Moultrie City Hall, Ivey says. Although she initially did not want to take the job, she applied for it and was hired following an interview with Police Chief Livingston and City Manager Tyson. She was the first AfricanAmerican woman to have the job. “ey said, ‘Well, we see so far everything is good about your reputation,’ Ivey says, ‘EveryIsabella Ivey appears in uniform as Moultrie’s parkbody has recommended you, and we think ing enforcement officer. you’ll be good.’” Ivey says she started work as the parking ena problem, Ivey says her training officer told her forcement officer a few days aer the interview. he never needed a weapon while he was on his “I had butterflies up until then,” Ivey says. beat. If she did have any problems, however, she Aer receiving her uniform, she trained for was told that she simply needed to call and offiabout a week, but she says she found out how cers would be there to help her out. hard the work was, especially since no one told Being an African-American woman, Ivey says her what kind of shoes to wear on the job. it surprised some people to see her wearing a “Oh my goodness,” Ivey says. “I came home. I uniform and working for the city. A man from couldn’t walk, underneath my feet was hurting. Dawson told her he was glad to see an AfricanI had calluses and sores.” She says that first American working here and wanted to spread night she soaked her aching feet in Epsom salt. the word and get other African-Americans Ivey says she immediately bought a pair of working in his town. comfortable shoes to walk the pavement aer “To me, it was an honor” Ivey says, “I had authat first week of training. thority. Of course, I had authority.” However, When she asked what she should do in case of she says, she didn’t want to use her authority
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beyond the reach that it allowed her. “I didn’t want that,” she says. “I wanted to be nice and kind to people and help people if I could help them.” Ivey says that she gave courtesy tickets to more parking violators than deserved them. She says she never had to appear in court because of a dispute over a parking ticket. Her biggest problem, she says, were the dogs that men would keep in the backs of their trucks when they parked outside the pool hall downtown. Ivey says she got into the routine of walking her rounds and checking for violations around downtown Moultrie and found she enjoyed the job. She became known for going into the stores and talking with people there, which was something that just came naturally to her. “I started then getting used to my job,” Ivey says, “and I began to like it more and more each day that I would work. I considered the merchants as my neighbors, and I would oen take a little time off and rest my feet up and go in the stores.” Ivey says her only job description was to patrol downtown, write tickets for parking violations and to help visitors and dignitaries that came to Moultrie. However, she says she also remembers helping children, whether tying shoelaces for some or showing her fingernails to a class before they went on a tour of the Moultrie Fire Department. She says she has found that many of the children she helped have remembered her and have told their children about her. “is is something that I will always cherish as long as I live, about children, how they don’t forget,” Ivey says. “We adults have a problem forgetting, but they don’t forget.” Ivey says she began growing her nails out while she was in high school, drawing attention from the school nurses who visited to give vaccinations. She attributes her ability to grow her nails to drinking milk instead of so drinks and eating her vegetables, and she would oentimes tell the children that is how she was able to
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One of Ivey’s great joys is her stick-shi Ford truck. She can be seen tooling around town in the vintage automobile.
grow them and keep them long. She says she does not mind that people may not know her but do know her nails, and she says to many people’s surprise, she doesn’t try and protect them. “To me, it’s not my thing being dainty about them,” Ivey says. Ivey says she was crowned Miss Moultrie in 1949 while attending Moultrie High for Negro Youth. ere was a school assembly in the auditorium prior to her being crowned.
there, being crowned as the queen of Moultrie,” she says. Also as a teen, Ivey says she remembers her visits to the Harlem eatre. “at was the first black theatre we had,” she says. “It was nice. I enjoyed it. I went every chance I could get to Harlem eatre.” She also remembers frequenting both the Moultrie and Colquitt theatres. “Most of the western movies [were] at the Moultrie eatre,” she says. “Colquitt was for
visits and holds Bible study with them. e society also prepares an annual Mother’s Day breakfast and has in the past worked to provide donations to the food bank. “is is what I love to do, missionary work,” Ivey says. “I like to go help somebody.” Despite living in the same house in Northwest Moultrie for 60 years, Ivey says she has always felt safe. Although there are all sorts of dangerous activities that go on around her, she says she has always been able to get kindness out of
“is is something that I will always cherish as long as I live, about children, how they don’t forget,” Ivey says. “We adults have a problem forgetting, but they don’t forget.” “at place was filled to capacity,” she says. “I was sitting there just as nervous as I could be.” Ivey says she remembers the feeling of hearing her name called from the stage. “Oh my God, I could’ve gone down between those seats,” she says. “You cannot imagine how I felt.” She took part in a school parade and was crowned during a high school football game. “ere I was with butterflies again,” Ivey says. She says she has never forgotten what it felt like to be at the football game and have her aunt there with her. “at was another highlight of my life right
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romance. I’d go see the westerns; they had a double feature.” Like the rest of the South during the time, the theatres were under Jim Crow laws and had separate entrances for whites and blacks. e entrance for blacks took her and her friends to the upper balcony for regular movie showings, with the lower level available to her only during matinees. Today Ivey serves as president of the missionary society at Friendship Baptist Church and has held that position for 8 to 10 years. Part of that work includes going to visit church members who are ill or those that are shut in. She
people. “I always say it’s how you carry yourself before the young or old, or before the drunkards or druggies or whoever it is, you know,” she says. “I respect them and I wish them to respect me.” “Now I can’t say it’s too late for nothing to happen,” she says. “I can’t say that, but so far it [hasn’t].” Ivey says she knows a higher power has protected her on the many nights she has returned home from church. “I know the Good Lord [is] lookin’ out for me,” she says. “I’m always going to put God ahead of everything I do. I don’t leave him out
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Le to right: To many people’s surprise, Ivey’s trademark nails never got in the way of her work; Ivey marks a tire on one of those rare cold Moultrie mornings. of anything because I know that he is the head of my life.” When Ivey was in high school, she says she held a job at the aeronautic school at Spence Field. She says she took enough of her pay every two weeks to pay her bus fare and gave her aunt the rest. Her aunt saved the money unbeknownst to her. When Ivey graduated high school, she says her aunt wanted her to take the money and go to college in Albany.
knocking on her door.” Since retiring from work, Ivey says her church life has taken up most of her time. She says she gets a big kick out of decorating for Christmas and loves making things pretty. She’s done some traveling, but she says she prefers to live here. She has visited cities like Cincinnati, Baltimore and Brooklyn. “I love Paducah,” she says, “and I love Missouri.”
“at was another highlight of my life right there, being crowned as the queen of Moultrie,” she says. “I didn’t want to go to college,” she says. Ivey says she wanted to stay close to home and take care of the ones who had taken care of her. “I didn’t know no other mother but those two,” she says of her aunt and grandmother. Ivey’s mother died during childbirth. Her father moved on shortly aer but remained a part of her life. Ivey says she took the money that her aunt had saved along with the money her aunt made taking in wash and decided she wanted to build a house for herself, her aunt and grandmother. Up until then, her aunt had rented a house. “When we got through with it, it was paid for,” she says. “e rent man couldn’t come
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At 80 years old, Ivey has outlived most everyone in her life. She’s rarely had the need to visit a doctor. “I enjoy life, really,” she says. Ivey says a love for people has helped her throughout her life and that love continues to be as much a part of her life today as it ever was during her days walking around downtown. “I always see people as people,” she says. “Sometimes we might overlook somebody and the one we overlook, that might be the one [to] have to give you a helping hand.”
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Article by: Heath Croî‚? Photography by: Heath Dorminey Historic Photos Courtesy of John Clark McCall Jr. and Charlie Powell Jr.
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ey paved paradise, put up a parking lot................................................................................................ Not long aer Joni Mitchell wrote and recorded these prophetic words, part of Charlie Powell’s paradise would be torn down to make way for the parking lot that it is today. By grace, some of the paradise he created in downtown Moultrie is still standing. Some might be surprised to learn that the Grand eatre, which is now home to Coco’s Boutique and Alderman Classic Realty, was once the premier theatre for Moultrians during the silent-film era. According to a 1975 article upon his retirement in the e Moultrie Observer, Charlie Powell bought the theatre in the early 1900s and completed extensive remodeling of the building. e Grand became a second-run theatre once the new Moultrie eatre was built in 1929 when silent films gave way to talkies. Since then, the building has been home to a newsstand, jewelry store and insurance agency. In later years, Rhoden’s stationery store, which sat next door, purchased the building and used it as storage. Aer that, the building sat vacant for decades. In 2007 local attorney Billy Fallin purchased the building from the Rhoden’s estate. Fallin says that since many historic buildings surrounding the Grand had already been razed, he jumped at the opportunity to save one. “I just thought it would be great if we could save it,” Fallin says. “We have such few le.” Fallin called on interior designer John McCall
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Jr. to oversee renovations of the theatre. “We had to make a very important decision,” says McCall. “at was, ‘Is this going to be a theatre again or is it really going to be a retail space.’” McCall says the choice was painful but evident. “We both, of course, knew that it had to be retail space,” he says, “and I have to give immense credit to Billy Fallin because it was as difficult for him as it was for me to make the decision to level the floor because the Grand had a sloping floor. “ere was no way to make it a viable retail complex with that floor. It broke our hearts. It truly did,” McCall says. McCall says that he had many ideas for the theatre including using it as a gallery space or even a venue for parties. He says that he and Fallin even considered installing an organ, but considering that Moultrie had always used the arts center for such functions reaffirmed the original intent to create a retail space. Aer the necessary repairs were first made to the roof, McCall says he began scraping layers and layers of paint from the walls and researching paint
colors typical of that era in an effort to take the theatre back to its original glory. “e thing I guess I’m proudest of are the wall sconces,” says McCall, “because they’re an Arts & Cras style, and if you look at the pilasters – the engaged columns all the way down the auditorium – they have marvelous Arts & Cras type millwork decoration on top which is kind of like a stylized tassel. “at immediately said Arts & Cras era which of course the period of the Grand matched that,” he says, “and I was able to find some really fine reproduction sconces.” He says the lanterns now hanging in the Grand came from the chapel at First United Methodist Church, which he also redesigned. ese, he says, work very well without ruining the fabric of the theatre. McCall says the current proprietors have made the Grand eatre a delightful space. “It still has the feel of the theatre,” he says. e fate of the Moultrie eatre was not to be the same as that of the Grand. Fallin says there was a strong effort to save the building that sat just behind the Grand facing Second Avenue
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Today the Grand eatre is home to an upscale boutique and realty office. Southeast, himself being a part of the committee to save it. “We tried to save it for a civic auditorium,” says Fallin. He says the original intent was to use it as the city’s auditorium, but with the numerous renovations that the building required, the wise decision then was to build a newer, more modern facility that would be accessible to students at the recently-built high school. e Colquitt County Civic Auditorium, now called the Withers Auditorium and named aer the late mayor of Moultrie, Willie Withers, was finished in the early 1980s. Fallin says the Moultrie eatre was razed aer the auditorium was completed. Fallin says he remembers the Moultrie eatre was very ornate. “at’s where we always went to the movies,” he says. “It was very pretty inside it.” McCall remembers the first time he sat in the theatre. He was here e Grand eatre was used as a storage building by Rhoden’s stationery from Vidalia visiting his grandparents in the late 1950s and walked to the store before it sat vacant for decades. In previous years, it was home to a theatre one aernoon. newsstand, jewelry store and insurance agency.
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“e [longer] I sat down and the more my eyes adjusted, I started seeing all these delicious ornaments including a beautiful Della Robbia motif around the proscenium arch of the theatre, a real orchestra pit that could house probably about an 18-piece orchestra and beautiful crown moldings out of cast plaster, and some of the gilt was still there, so I knew that this was really a special theatre for the size of Moultrie, Georgia.
as much ornamentation that the audience would see as they were seated in the theatre,” he says. He says the theatre’s best features were its gilded proscenium arch and its two organ chambers. e Colquitt eatre, which today houses the Moultrie Senior Center, was Powell’s third indoor theatre and was built in the early 1940s. Upon the new theatre’s opening, the Moultrie eatre then became the second-run theatre and oen showed dou-
“He was always very friendly,” says Milligan. “Never intimidating.”
e Colquitt eatre was brand new to Moultrie in the first years of World War II. White Savage premiered in theatres in 1943.
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“As I walked home, I pondered the whole idea of what I had seen, and I thought ‘I can’t believe I saw all this,’” McCall says. e theatre was designed by Lloyd Greer, a Valdosta architect, who designed more than one theatre of its kind in Southwest Georgia. McCall says the architecture is what one might consider a watered-down Beaux Arts style or Beaux Arts on a budget, but he says it was typical of theatres that size during the early 1900s. McCall says most of the theatre’s beauty was on its inside. “It was always smart to, back then, to do
ble features in its later days. By this time, the Grand had become home to Waite’s newsstand. A 1956 fire at the Colquitt eatre would end operations for two years during renovations. All 600 moviegoers at the time were uninjured. During this time, Powell would also own and operate two drive-in theatres: the Moultrie Drive-In which was located off Quitman Highway and the Sunset Drive-In located off omasville Highway. Rainey Milligan, a 1954 graduate of Moultrie High School, remembers working one summer to help install new speakers at
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the Moultrie Drive-In. He began work as a car-hop at the drive-in and was later that summer approached about learning how to operate the projection booth at the Moultrie eatre. He says he and Stanley Blackman split shis every aernoon from opening until closing. “We did that for a couple years,” says Milligan. “At that time I was about 16.” Milligan says he remembers Charlie Powell as a very distinguished gentleman who was always dressed to the nines. Milligan says that as an employee of the theatre, one was allowed to visit any theatre at any time for free. On his many visits to the Colquitt, he says he would oentimes see Charlie Powell in his office there, and Powell never failed to say hello and ask about the young Milligan’s father. “He was always very friendly,” says Milligan. “Never intimidating.” Charlie Henderson Powell, Moultrie’s theatre magnet, was born in 1892 near the Worth County line. His father, Jackson Lorenzo Dow Powell, moved the family to Moultrie when Charlie was a small child. His grandfather, Dennis Powell, was in the confederacy and was at the surrender at Appomattox. Powell graduated from Moultrie High School and later attended the Macon College of Pharmacy. According to his obituary in e Moultrie Observer, he was a veteran of WWI from 1915 to 1918 and was a corporal. In the early 1900s, he returned to Moultrie as a pharmacist at Horkan Drug Company. However, his father had greater aspirations for his son. A former saloon owner, J.L.D. Powell began buying property downtown and on Main Street, including the Grand theatre, and convinced Charlie to quit work as a pharmacist and go into the theatre business with him in 1924. “Dad was always the one he could depend on,” says Charlie Powell Jr., the only son of Charlie Henderson Powell, who is retired now and living in Birmingham, Ala. He says his father was the responsible one out of the three boys that J.L.D. shared with Carrie Powell and that his uncles, Lee and John Miller Powell, would oen make trips to Panama City in the early days of the 20th century. According to Powell, his grandfather would send Charlie to go aer them. “ey were down there raising hell like teenagers do today,” says Powell. He says it is somewhat surprising that his father quit work as a pharmacist to go into business with his grandfather. “My dad was a very very conservative man,” says Powell. “He was not what I would consider a risk taker. at’s the amazing thing.” Powell says his father once told him about business during the Depression-era. “I asked dad about the Depression and how it affected his business,” he says. “And he said, ‘Well, you know, funny thing,’ he said. ‘It didn’t affect us. In fact, our business grew and was very prosperous
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Designed by Valdosta architect, Lloyd Greer, the Moultrie eatre was the premier theatre in the 1930s. Silent films gave way to talkies beginning in 1927 with the release of e Jazz Singer. during the Depression.’” Powell says at that time adults could spend 35 cents and a dime for children and go to the movies as a way of escaping the harsh realities of a country that had hit rock bottom. As a teenager, Powell worked at both of his father’s theatres, and he admits he wasn’t fond of
beauty. “Many people thought it to be so ugly and [that] it was not a contributing piece of architecture to the city,” says McCall, “and they ignored its wonderful history in terms of the entertainment history and cultural history of Moultrie, Georgia.
ally weep because it was a really needless murder,” says McCall. “e Moultrie had the exoskeleton to make a wonderful theatre. It was done all out of cast concrete and structural steel so it could have been gutted and redone with every modern convenience.” McCall says that the theatre had a complete fly lo with stage
“I regret not getting involved trying to save the Moultrie,” he says. “From what I’ve heard, had other people, especially someone with some sentiment like me, had some more input, that we could’ve saved that theatre. And I think it’s tragic that we let it go.” the Moultrie eatre back then. “When I worked there, it was so run down,” he says, “and when it had the westerns on Saturday aernoons, the farmers would all come into town – the tobacco farmers – they would get their money and they would all come to the theatre, and they’d all spit tobacco juice on the floor and everything. I mean I thought it was just a nasty place. I didn’t like to go in there. “I never looked at it as a beautiful theatre,” he says, “but John McCall convinced me that it was.” Powell is referring to the watercolor masterpiece that McCall painted of the Moultrie eatre as a tribute to what he calls its forgotten
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“It was a cultural relic that was basically forgotten, and I tend to like to do watercolors of things that have been forgotten or that people have turned their backs on,” he says. Powell says that he didn’t think a whole lot about the building growing up, but as he’s gotten older, he’s realized how attached he is to it. He says that with age comes sentiment. He says he’s happy to know the Grand is still standing. “It means an awful lot, a lot more than it did when I lived in Moultrie,” he says. “I’d give anything if the Moultrie eatre was still right there behind it.” “I think a lot of people in my age bracket re-
rigging and all sorts of plays and musical acts could have used the theatre today. McCall says that Powell always equipped Moultrie theatres with state-of-the-art equipment. From the complete fly lo and organ chambers at the Moultrie eatre to the size of the Colquitt eatre and its motorized curtain reminiscent of Radio City Music Hall, he says theatres here were designed perfectly for the population that would fill them. McCall says that many communities overbuilt their theatres and found later that they had a “white elephant” that was only fit for a bygone era. He says, however, that isn’t true for the Moultrie eatre.
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Like the Rylander eatre in Americus, he says it would have been the perfect venue to be used in later years by a town the size of Moultrie. Not only does McCall remember Powell’s theatres, but he remembers the man as well. “He was a very dynamic man,” says McCall. “Once you met Charlie Powell, you never forgot that you met Charlie Powell.” Part of Powell’s dynamic nature and his being remembered by so many comes from the fact that, in addition to owning several theatres in town, he was very much involved in city life as well. He was chairman of the board at Moultrie Banking Company and later served as chairman of Moultrie Savings & Loan Association. He was also on the building committees of Vereen Memorial Hospital and Trinity Baptist Church. An avid golfer, Powell also served as president of the Sunset Country Club twice in his lifetime. During the Second World War, he was head of the rationing board. “ey doled out rationing stamps for sugar and gasoline and all the things that were rationed back in WWII,” says
Charlie Powell Jr. “He was one of the most respected businessmen in the community,” he says. “He got a lot of respect in Moultrie when he was in his prime because he was one of the most important influential businessmen in Moultrie back in the 50s and 60s.” Powell says that because his father had a manager for the theatres, he used his spare time to become involved in local organizations. “He would always volunteer,” he says. “He had time to devote to projects, community service projects like that, and he enjoyed participating.” Powell says his father was hardly ever Charlie Powell stands in front of the Moultrie eatre in the 1930s. alone, though. His trusted sidekick, a German shepherd named Blitzkrieg, German for lightning war, was his constant companion. “Blitz went with him everywhere, except the golf course,” says Powell. “Blitz had a fear of loud noises, and he went with dad to the golf course one time, and as soon as he hit the crack of that driver, he ran back to the car. And all dad had to say was ‘I’m going to play golf.’ He would curl up in a corner and not want to go with him.” Powell says he isn’t sure exactly where Blitz came from Charlie Powell Jr. works in his study. A photo of his father sits on his desk while John McCall Jr.’s watercolor of the Moultrie eatre hangs above.
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Maid of Salem was a 1937 film starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. but that his father had him for as long as he could remember. “He would go to the theatres, and he was a fixture around the lobby or wherever in the theatres or in the office he’d be lying quietly,” Powell says. “Everybody knew him, you know. Nobody was afraid of him. He was real friendly. People could pet him. “Blitz got in the back seat everywhere he went,” he says. “He went downtown every morning; Blitz would jump in the back seat.” Powell and Blitz were such a duo around town that when the dog died aer 12 years, e Moultrie Observer published the dog’s obituary. “When Blitz died, that was a real sad occasion,” he says, “and it was a big enough story in Moultrie I guess to make the newspaper.” Powell says his father oen played games with Blitz when they visited his grandfather for Sunday dinner. He says that his father would hide behind doors that were open against the wall and wait for Blitz to find him. “It was funny,” says Powell. “I Charlie and Blitz were an inseparable mean, it was pretty simple for a dog pair. when you think about it, but dad used to think that that was real amusing that Blitz could always find him.” Oftentimes, Powell says, his father would allow Blitz to carry the mail from the post office back past the Colquitt Hotel, past Schreiber’s and Crystal Pharmacy and around the corner back to the Colquitt eatre.
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“Dad just did that for fun,” he says. “It wasn’t like he couldn’t carry the mail.” One thing that Powell says he remembers most about his father was his open-door policy at the theatres. “Dad’s office was always open,” he says. “ere was a phone on the desk and anyone, any of the children or adults for that matter, could go in there anytime without asking and use the telephone to call home.” Powell says his father would not find that something to be especially remembered for because this type of generosity came so naturally to him. Powell says that sometime during the 1940s and 1950s, Georgia eatre Company approached his father regarding buying into Moultrie eatres, Inc. “He told them he wasn’t interested in doing that,” says Powell, “and in fact, he held them off for awhile.” However, he says, the men who were in charge of the company returned and told Powell that if he didn’t allow them to buy into his company, they would simply build a bigger, better theatre here. Powell says his father was, in a loose sense, strong-armed into the agreement. “ey were big operators,” he says. “My dad was small potatoes to them.” Powell says his father then decided to enter into a 50/50 arrangement with Georgia eatre Company. “It became a real good relationship,” he says. “He was on good terms with the people at Georgia eatre Company.” When Powell retired in the early 1970s, he sold out completely to GTC. Later, the Moultrie Twin as well as the Moultrie Stadium Cinemas would be built by Georgia eatre Company. In his spare time, Powell says his father was an also amateur photographer and filmmaker. “He used to spend hours up there in that darkroom,” Powell says. In fact, he says his father filmed the first-ever caesarean birth at Vereen Memorial Hospital. Powell says he later digitized his father’s 16mm reels. He says his father set up a screen in the living room at their As president of the Sunset Country Club, Charlie Powell was the first to tee off at the home at 1120 South Main Street so opening of the second nine-hole course. the family could watch the films he made. Powell says his father owned the first-ever Polaroid land camera and had a dual lens Rolleiflex camera, which he now owns. Powell says that in the mid-1970s, his father began to show signs of Alzheimer’s. At that time, not much was known about the disease and its effects on a person’s mind and body. “I want to say 1975 roughly was when we first noticed,” he says, “but at that time, he was still chairman of the board at Moultrie Savings & Loan Association.” Powell says his family finally convinced his father to resign his title to Al Hayes Sr. “He got to the point where he would go to those meetings and all the board members would notice that he was not entirely with it,” says Powell. He says his father slowly became a shadow of the man he had once been. “It brought him down slowly from the big, strong individual that he was to – somebody that – he didn’t even know my mother,” says Powell. “He would say, ‘at woman’s trying to steal from me.’” Powell says that his mother, Sarah Powell, took care of his father as long as she could despite his own wishes for his father to be placed in a suitable facility where he could be taken care of by professionals.
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Charlie Powell was an amateur photographer in his spare time. He filmed the first caesarean birth at Vereen Memorial Hospital. lot.” In October 1984, it became clear to Mrs.
father’s last words. On New Year’s Day 1985,
the Moultrie,” he says. “From what I’ve heard,
Powell that she could no longer care for her
Powell says he was summoned to Moultrie be-
had other people, especially someone with
husband on her own. He spent his last few
cause it had become evident that his father
some sentiment like me, had some more input,
months alive at Brownwood Nursing Home.
wouldn’t last much longer. Two days later, on
that we could’ve saved that theatre. And I think
Powell says by anksgiving of that year, his fa-
January 3, 1985, Charlie Henderson Powell
it’s tragic that we let it go.”
ther quit eating and had become nearly coma-
passed into eternity leaving behind his wife,
Powell says his father would be happy to
“It means an awful lot, a lot more than it did when I lived in Moultrie,” he says. “I’d give anything if the Moultrie eatre was still right there behind it.” tose. However, on one of the family’s last visits
son, daughter Judy and several grandchildren.
to Moultrie, Powell says his father looked at his
“Mother and Judy and I were sitting at his
family, including his grandchildren, standing in
bedside when he took his last breath,” Powell
his room.
says.
today.
“He looked at them and kind of cracked a
In retrospect, Powell says, he now wishes he
smile,” says Powell, “and he said, ‘at’s a fine
had been more involved in preserving the part
lookin’ bunch.’”
of his father’s legacy that is now gone.
To his knowledge, Powell says, these were his
know that two of his buildings are still in use “He would be so proud,” Powell says. Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone? ey paved paradise, put up a parking lot.
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$169,500 MLS#902399
1 acre 1.52 acres Building lot in Silver Creek Subdivision. Great lot for your new home in Thornridge Subdivision. $20,000 MLS#474341 $20,000 MLS#900432
300 7th ST S.W. Nice 3 BR, 1 BA and half bath home on corner lot. Needs some TLC. Lots of room for the price. Perfect for the handyman. $59,900 MLS#901979
1326 4th Street S.W. 3 BR, 1 BA home ideal for couple just starting out. Screened porch. $89,990 MLS#902056
27 Lower Meigs Road You must see this brick veneer, 3 BR, 2 BA home with fireplace, kitchen with built-in, separate LR, deck on back and situated on a 1.5 acre lot. $139,900 MLS#902339
132 Tallokas Trail
Quality built recently remodeled 3 BR, 2 BA brick home Separate living room and dining room, eat-in kitchen with appliances included. Home office/utility/game room with private entrance, could convert to 4th. downstairs bedroom. Low maintenance grounds and garden area with complete privacy. Private well
$179,900 MLS#900737
12.77 acres Hide in the woods on this 1arge tract of timber land in the Hartsfield community. $44,700 MLS#902055
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SINCE 1957
709 South Main Street l P.O. Box 3007 Agents & Evening Phone Numbers Moultrie, Georgia 31768 Kirk Friedlander, GRI...................589-0618 (229) 985-1145 l Fax (229) 890-1445 Patricia Taylor...............................891-8456 E-mail: mattco@windstream.net Website: mattcorealtors.com
(229) 985-1145
SINCE 1957
Todd Hall.......................................850-0025 Wayne Cooper...............................891-6439 Regina Giles..................................891-8162 Tim Carroll....................................891-6081
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105 Cepcot Meadows Drive 3 BR, 2 BA on 1.03 acres. Pristine condition w/9 ft. ceilings, lots of storage in large kitchen. MBR has separate shower and walk-in closet, fireplace, carport and patio. Cepcot Meadows is a wonderful small subdivision in the county and is in Hamilton school district. $78,000 MLS 902558
120 Cepcot Meadows Drive 3 Br, 2 BA on one acre in Hamilton School District. Home has a 12x20 deck and above ground pool. MBR has large bath with hard top countertops and double sinks. Backyard has privacy fence. $82,500 ILS#902616
180 Pine Ridge Street N.W. 3 BR, 2 BA built in 2007. MBA has separate shower and walk-in closet. Den has wood floors and carpet in BR’s fenced in yard with nice storage building. Home is protected with security system. Funston school district. Back porch is 12x24. $105,000 ILS#902592
1546 Ivy Lane Very well maintained condo located in Rosemont. 2 BR, 2 BA large family room and dining room. Private entrance with 1 car carport in back. $125,000 MLS#902592
766 Lee Courthouse Road 3 acres in the county for this 3 BR, 2 BA home. Move-in ready w/large family room and open floor plan. Large rocking chair front porch. Den has a wood burning fireplace. $159,900 MLS#902530
250 Cherokee Road Beautiful and well maintained 3 BR, 2 BA home at Indian Lake. Home has a fireplace in the den and kitchen is large w/stainless steel appliances. Large fenced backyard. $159,900 MLS#902581
1721 Gate Wood Circle 3 BR, 2 BA brick home on a nicely landscaped lot. Large rooms with 9 foot ceilings. Lots of storage space throughout with built-in bookcases in the family room. Separate breakfast room that overlooks the backyard. Separate dining room, kitchen has plenty of storage w/center island and double wall ovens. $179,900 MLS# 902626
27 Wiregrass circle This 3 BR, 2 BA home has upgrades including new flooring. The open kitchen has plenty of storage space and breakfast area w/bay windows. Recently renovated master bath, fireplace in the living room. Double garage w/storage room. The wooden deck overlooks the fenced back yard and storage building. $185,000 MLS# 902550
107 Twin Lakes Drive 3 BR, 3 and half BA home on the lake which is movein ready and only 6 years old. Over 3,000 sq ft of room and luxury living. Kitchen has hard surface countertops and plenty of storage. All bedrooms are large w/walk-in closets and private baths. Separate living and dining rooms. Separate Storage Building ideal for a workshop. Fenced in back yard. $299,900 MLS# 902640
142 Tanglewood Drive Almost new 4 BR, 3 and half BA’s. Custom built home in Tanglewood subdivision. Built in 2008 with lots of upgrades including hardwood floors, granite countertops, custom cabinets, heavy molding and gas tankless water heater. Screened patio w/gas fireplace. Home has surround sound system. $319,900 MLS# 902613
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6328 Lower Meigs Road
Private and secluded 3 BR, 2 BA quiet retreat on 20 acres. Home is in pristine condition w/new heat and air and 3 year metal roof. The property is located on the little Ochlocknee river and is loaded with deer, turkey and ducks. Property has 2 well stocked ponds. MBA has separate walk-in tile shower. Den is open with lots of windows overlooking the property. Outside storage and storm shelter.
$225,000 MLS#902588
272 Cheyenne Way Beautiful 4 BR, 3 BA home. Custom built w/storage building that matches. Large Master suite that includes separate shower, jacuzzi tub and walk-in closet. Kitchen is open with custom built cabinets. Solid surface counter tops, great room opens to a private deck. Laundry room is large w/custom cabinets and plenty of storage on 3.2 acres. $359,900 MLS# 902575
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