Carthage Buggy Festival 2012 by The Pilot LLC

Find yourself at the 24th annual Carthage

Buggy Festival Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12, 2012

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Buggy Festival Promises Fun for the Whole Family BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor

The Carthage Buggy Festival was started in 1988 as a celebration of the rich history of Carthage. It commemorates the famous Tyson and Jones Buggy Factory that produced the carriages that were essential to life in rural North Carolina from the mid-1800s to the 1920s. One of the biggest and best-known festivals in the region, the Carthage Buggy Festival attracts thousands of visitors to the Moore County seat every year. Buggy Festival Committee members invite you to bring the whole family out to experience the joy and pride of an entire community celebrating its heritage. With the 24th annual festival set for Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12, organizers have done everything they can to ensure that festival-goers of all ages will have plenty of activities and entertainment to fill their day with fun.

Festival Kickoff Event On Friday, May 11, the Carthage Buggy Festival fun gets under way at Nancy Kiser Park. From 6 to 9 p.m., the park will be filled with a display of antique firetrucks, a cruise-in of classic cars, live music provided by the Crawley Creek Company and grilled burgers and hot dogs. The Carthage Firefighters Association has invited departments from all over to bring their antique firetrucks to be part of the show. Carthage’s own antique firetrucks, a 1945 Seagrave fire engine and a 1932 Chevrolet fire engine, will be on display. Classic car buffs can get a preview of

Saturday’s car show as members of the Sandhills Classic Street Rod Association display their vehicles at the park on Friday evening. The Crawley Creek Company will be performing its combination of country, modern and gospel, mixed up with a bluegrass sound from 6 to 9 p.m.

Marine Corps drill team at 9 a.m. The Union Pines High School Band will then play the national anthem. After opening remarks by local dignitaries and members of the Carthage Buggy Festival Committee, the band will perform several more numbers. The Rev. Eugene Ussery will once again serve as master of ceremonies for the event. A number of daylong festival activities also get started at 9 a.m., including the

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The Carthage Historical Museum, including Tyson’s Kitchen, will be open to festival-goers from 5 to 9 p.m. The Carthage Garden Club will be holding a fundraising bake sale inside Tyson’s Kitchen during the evening. As always, the Carthage Firefighters Association will have hamburgers and hot dogs available for sale.

Festival Activities Buggy Festival fun and festivities start bright and early on Saturday, May 12, with the presentation of colors by the

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Classic Car and Truck Show is for 1977 and older American-made vehicles only. More than 150 cars will be on display. Awards will be presented at 2:30 p.m. Children of all ages can play from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the children’s activity area free of charge. Amusements include Tubs of Fun, the Frog Hopper, swings, a super slide, train ride, bungee jump and much more. And, best of all, everything is free. Food and crafts vendors will be offering a wide variety of goods at booths lining the festival area. Whether you fancy a funnel cake, ice cream, hamburgers or kettle corn, you are sure to find something to satisfy your taste buds. You’ll also find plenty of opportunities for shopping at the more than 100 vendors who are offering everything from homemade dog treats and handthrown pottery to tie-died clothing, floral arrangements and garden flags. At noon, the crowning of Ms. Buggy Festival and Mr. and Mrs. Tara Plantation and Pinelake will take place on the Buggy Festival stage. Festival-goers should watch the skies above historic downtown Carthage around noon. Plans are to have a airplane flyover around midday, compliments of GilliamMcConnell Airfield.

Transportation Showcased Benefit Classic Car and Truck Show and the children’s activity area. More than 120 crafts and food vendors also will open for business. Sponsored by the Sandhills Classic Street Rod Association, the Benefit

And, what’s a buggy festival without buggies? Throughout the day Saturday, more than two dozen buggies will be on display around the courthouse square. These buggies will include a few

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Fun Find yourself at the 24th annual Carthage

Buggy Festival Friday, May 11, and Saturday, May 12, 2012

About This Issue Cover Design Martha J. Henderson Cover Photograph Glenn M. Sides Supplement Design/Layout Martha J. Henderson, Special Sections Editor Contributing Writers Katherine Smith, Leigh Pember, Martha J. Henderson and John Chappell Contributing Photographers Hannah Sharpe, Glenn M. Sides, Johnsie Tipton, Ken Owen and Chad Thomason

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From Page 3 Tyson and Jones buggies, a doctor’s buggy and several built by Amish communities. A number of vintage tractors, all makes and models, will be on display on McReynolds Street during the festival. The Fayetteville Model A Club will return to the Buggy Festival this year, bringing a selection of Model A cars and trucks for display. Don’t miss these vintage automobiles, which will be parked on Martin Street.

Entertainment Lineup Every year, Buggy Festival organizers bring an exciting lineup of musical entertainers to its stage, including cloggers and bands playing gospel, country and bluegrass music. Taking the stage first at 10 a.m. will be the Deep River Bluegrass Band playing traditional bluegrass with a twist as well as some country. The band comprises Jeff Medlin, James Hill, Teddy White, Ronnie Bailey, Harold Pickett and Jimmy Kennedy.

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Festival-goers check out some of the vintage tractors on display at last year’s festival. The Harvesters Quartet is returning to the Buggy Festival stage once again. Based out of Sanford, the group has been a gospel music staple since 1953. Phillip Hughes, Danny Parker, Allen Hunter, Jim

Collins and G.W. Southard will perform at 11 a.m. and at 3 p.m. At 12:30 p.m., the Quicksilver Cloggers,

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Aileen Garner, Lou Smith, Jane Drzewicki, Brenda Ritter, Jennifer Garner, Bonnie Hanham, Sarah Daffron and Pam Kennedy, will be kicking up their heels in a lively dance routine. Founded in 1996, the Quicksilver Cloggers dance to a variety of music genres, including bluegrass, country and pop. Mitzi Brooks has been a longtime favorite for music lovers at the annual Buggy Festival. Brooks will bring her Southern gospel sound to the stage at 1 p.m. The ninth annual Buggy Idol contest will be a fitting finale for the family-fun festival as potential stars of all ages will sing their hearts out as they try to win over the judges and take home the top prize of being named the “Buggy Idol.” The contest begins at 4:30 p.m. For the safety and well-being of festivalgoers, pets are not allowed at the festival or the car and truck show again this year. Service dogs are permitted. Parking spaces for festival attendees are located on the streets and parking lots

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Bleachers on the front lawn of the historic courthouse provide a nice place for festival-goers to watch the festival’s entertainment. surrounding the Buggy Festival area. Handicap-accessible parking is available in the Fidelity Bank parking lot on Monroe Street with golf cart access to the festival provided by volunteers.

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Festival Begins Friday Night at Nancy Kiser Park BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor

There’s so much fun to be had at the annual Carthage Buggy Festival that just one day can’t contain it all. To offer festival-goers even more to experience, event organizers have stretched the family-fun festival to include Friday evening. The 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival kicks off with an evening of history, music, food and fun Friday, May 11. From 6 to 9 p.m., Nancy Kiser Park in Carthage will be filled with a display of antique firetrucks, a cruise-in of classic cars, live music provided by the Crawley Creek Company, and grilled burgers and hot dogs. The Carthage Firefighters Association has invited departments from all over to bring their antique firetrucks to be part of the show. For the past two years, the antique firetrucks show has been a growing attraction for the evening. While the group hopes to have most, if not all, of the area’s antique firetrucks at the show, it all depends on which ones will run when it’s time to fire them up and drive them to Carthage for the event, says a spokesperson for the association. Several firetrucks from the county and a few from out of the county are expected. There will be two antique

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Carthage Fire Department’s 1945 Seagrave fire engine will be on display during the Friday night festivities. firetrucks from Carthage. These include a 1945 Seagrave fire engine and a 1932 Chevrolet fire engine. During the evening, trophies will be awarded to antique firetruck show participants for oldest firetruck and farthest traveled. The public will have an opportunity to

vote on their choice for Best of Show, which also will be awarded during Friday night’s festivities. Classic car buffs can get a preview of Saturday’s car show as members of the Sandhills Classic Street Rod Association display their vehicles at the park on Friday evening. The public is invited to come out and enjoy live musical performances by the Crawley Creek Company. A local band featuring brothers Wayne and Max Livengood, as well as Mark Fry, Austin Cameron and Noah Richardson, the Crawley Creek Company plays a combination of country, modern and gospel, mixed up with a bluegrass sound. The Carthage Historical Museum, including Tyson’s Kitchen, also will be open to festival-goers from 5 to 9 p.m. The museum houses relics of Carthage’s past, from old tools and vintage buggies to historical clothing and photos from the early 1900s. The Carthage Garden Club will be holding a fundraiser bake sale inside Tyson’s Kitchen, next to the museum, from 5 to 9 p.m., as part of the Buggy Festival activities. There also will be a bouncy house for the kids and, once they’ve worked up an appetite, you can treat them and yourself to a hot dog or hamburger. Members of the Carthage Firefighters Association will be selling hot dogs and hamburgers throughout the evening.

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Crawley Creek Company Rocks the Park on Friday BY KATE SMITH Newsroom Intern

The Crawley Creek Company band is like a palpable memory: a circle of five Southern locals fingering out their stories. At age 18 and 16, “self-directed” brothers Wayne and Max Livengood made a band of themselves, built on calloused fingers and a couple of radio station gigs. The brothers grew up in Carthage with the birth of bluegrass, the acoustic pan-out of country, folk music about lost love and trains, and the electric craze of rock ’n’ roll. “My brother and I always idolized Don Reno, Red Smiley and the Tennessee CutUps,” says Wayne Livengood. “In Carthage, we could pick up their broadcast early in the morning all the way from Roanoke, Va. I’d watch Red Smiley play that big 45 Martin guitar — I loved to hear him play runs on it — beautiful guitar. He was, and is, my ideal.” Now, after nearly 60 years, the Crawley Creek Company has the history of life’s twangs and breakdowns narrating their memoirs through Wayne’s rhythm guitar, Max’s Dobro, fiddle, guitar, banjo and mandolin, Mark Fry’s rhythm guitar, Austin Cameron’s banjo and Noah Richardson’s bass. “My brother and I are the band,” Wayne Livengood says, in a literal sense, as their nature has been grafted with the music. “I hope when I leave this ol’ world that I’m making a G chord run on my guitar and the Lord calls me right up.” Known as the Bluegrass Tarheels until 2009, the Company is a combination of past and new members. In a word, Livengood describes the current members. Mark Fry is “fun loving.” “He went from not being able to [properly] sing or play a note seven years ago, to singing and playing very very well,” Livengood says. Austin Cameron and Noah Richardson

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Scheduled to perform Friday evening at the Buggy Festival kickoff, the Crawley Creek Company has its own bluegrass sound. are 15 years old and have an appetite for music and the band. “Austin is the best five-string banjo player that I know. He’s focused. He wants to get it right,” Livengood says. “Noah is dedicated — dedicated to what the bass can do and what it can do for the band. They’re farm boys; they raise chickens and cattle. They’re the kind of young men that make you proud of the United States that you grew up in.” With the canyon between ages in the band, Livengood still claims that “we’re all the same age. We’re not looking for anything. We just want to have a good time. Four- and 5-year-old kids have to be taught not to like bluegrass music; it puts rhythm

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in them and they can’t help but dance. Bluegrass gives all people the opportunity to sit back and relax and not be bothered by anything. They can enjoy the beat and the tone.” Though the Crawley Creek Company has weathered and strengthened for 60 years, it’s been only two years since its resurrection. “My brother and I have been playing for so long that we decided to retire from the band. Now we’ve begun again, and we’re pushing toward a new horizon. “We play country, modern, gospel, and mix it up with a bluegrass sound,” Livengood says. “We try to play what people have heard and what they like.

“Bluegrass-style music tells a story. People write the history of their lives when they write these songs — messages about the simple life and what life has to offer. “Whether that be ‘comforting and warm’ like Grandma’s chicken pot pie, or ‘ponderous’ like solitude in a field of bearded wheat, the music resonates with us, stitching our patterns together with the musicians as people sharing our ‘good and bad.’” The Crawley Creek Company will be providing the musical entertainment for the 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival kickoff event, Friday, May 11, at Nancy Kiser Park. The band will take the stage from 6 to 9 p.m.

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Museum Open During Friday Buggy Festivities BY KATHERINE SMITH Newsroom Intern

The 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival kicks off on Friday, May 11, with an evening of history, music, dancing and food. From 6 to 9 p.m., Nancy Kiser Park will play host to an antique firetruck and classic car show, and a performance by Crawley Creek Company. There will also be hamburgers and hot dogs sold by members of the Carthage Firefighters Association. The Carthage Historical Museum, including Tysonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kitchen, also will be open to festival-goers from 5 to 9 p.m. The rustic building, at 202 Rockingham St., houses relics of Carthageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s past. Three buggies are glassed in on the porch. Visitors can browse through old tools, photos from the early 1900s, historical clothing and

furniture, as well as a vintage organ. The museum also features written excerpts on past schools, churches, businesses and war heroes, including the fearless James R. McConnell. Its regular hours are from 2 to 5 pm. every Sunday, excluding holidays. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of what is in the museum comes from what the people of Carthage have found in their attics and parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homes,â&#x20AC;? says Carol Steed, a member of the Carthage Historical Committee, which operates the museum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So the museum literally comes from our own people.â&#x20AC;? The Historical Committee also will have books and ornaments for sale during the Buggy Festival, Saturday, May 12. For more information or to set up a special tour of the museum, contact Carol Steed at (910) 947-5686.

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Tyson’s Kitchen Serves Up Glimpse of Carthage’s Past BY KATHERINE SMITH Newsroom Intern

The name Thomas B. Tyson represents a prominent part of Carthage history. Tyson, a merchant, purchased a small buggy repair shop in 1856, and renovated it into a leading manufacturer of buggies in the pre-automobile era. Tyson employed W. T. Jones, a carriage painter, shortly afterward. The two secured a massproduction permit and — despite a postwar depression — 20 short years into business, they were selling more than 600 buggies a year. Tyson and Jones Buggy Company then came up with the idea for the first rubbertired buggies, and by 1895 their business had boomed to 3,000 buggies per year. In addition to his business life, Tyson also had a small family. He married Mary Jane “Miss Polly” Person in 1842, and fathered his only child, Lucian, 11 months later. “As most men did in those days, Mr. Tyson built a house for his family,” says Carol Steed, a member of the Carthage Historical Committee. “It was a big house, and it stood where the Carthage Food Lion is today.” Years passed before the family moved. Their first house was relocated to where the parking lot behind the Carthage

courthouse is now, cater-cornered to the Carthage Library. Here, Tyson allowed his brother to board. “Not only was the Tyson’s first house there,” Stead says, “there also was a kitchen connected to the back through a Gladys walkway. It was separate in case of fire.” The Tysons eventually sold part of the property, including the house and kitchen, to a businessman named Monk, who set up a cleaner’s store. They sold the other half to the county. Monk moved the kitchen to behind his shop to be used for FILE PHOTOS storage; the county tore down the Tyson home in 1961. After Monk’s business closed in 1978, the Carthage Garden Club purchased the Tyson’s Kitchen. The Garden Club moved the kitchen to a location across the street from Fred’s store, where it became a small tourist attraction. In 2005, it was moved one more time, to a location behind the Carthage Historical Museum on 202 Rockingham St. “We moved it in hopes of more traffic and so it can be open more often,” says Steed. “We’ve planted plants that were popular in the 1800s around the kitchen.” Both the museum and the kitchen are open from 2 to 5 p.m. every Sunday,

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“We just hope that people appreciate the way life used to be,” Steed says, “and maybe see something that they haven’t before.” “The kitchen pulls on us,” Stead adds, “because it’s a small snapshot of our ancestry. Kids usually love the old wood stove and musty crannies because it tugs on the imagination.” And of course, the kitchen holds a timeless appreciation as everyone’s favorite room at home.

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developed her Southern gospel roots in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. While she was attending college at Mitzi Brooks knows that she has been Appalachian State, Brooks began performsinging since she was 5 years old, but the ing with two groups she started, Gabriel Buggy Festival performer doesn’t know and Straight to the Heart. how long she’s been performing at the A teacher for the popular annual festival. past 20 years, Brooks “I know it’s been has taught fourth, fifth several years, but I and sixth grades in don’t know how long,” Robbins, as well as in says Brooks. “I do Chatham and Yadkin know that I love it.” counties. Brooks, a former Currently, she teacher in Robbins who resides in Bear Creek now teaches at Bennett with her husband, Elementary School in Eric, whom she met Chatham County, says while attending performing at the Appalachian State, and annual festival gives their children, her the chance to catch Brittany, 11, and up with people that she Corey, 13. doesn’t get to see Brooks attends except when she’s at Beulah Baptist Church the Buggy Festival. where she sings in the “I get to see former choir, and also leads students and meet a lot children’s church. of new people, too,” COURTESY OF ERIC BROOKS Brooks performs at Brooks says. “I really Mitzi Brooks weddings and festienjoy it.” vals, as well as in conBrooks will bring her certs and at churches. Southern gospel sound to the Carthage “I really like going to churches and Buggy Festival stage at 1 p.m. Saturday, singing,” Brooks says. May 12. She is a popular performer who Brooks has recorded four CDs with touches a chord with the festival audience Karen Peck Gooch and Kim Ruppe Lord each year she performs. singing backup on her CDs. Born and raised in Elkin, N.C., Brooks Special Sections Editor

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Kids Can Bounce, Slide, Fly and Spin — All for Free BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor

What can make fun even more fun? Free fun! And that’s what children of all sizes will find when they come to the 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival’s children’s activity area — lots of free fun just for them. There are activities and rides for big kids and for little kids. Every year, event organizers make sure that nobody gets left out, that there is something fun for everyone. And, all of the activities are always offered free of charge. Children of all ages can play from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 12, in the children’s activity area. (See the festival map on pages 20 and 21 for location.) While family fun is always the focus of the annual festival, the children’s activity area holds a special place in the organizing committee’s hearts, says Town Manager and Buggy Festival Chairperson Carol Sparks. “We are most proud of our children’s GLENN M. SIDES/The Pilot

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Youngsters soar through the sky on the mechanical swing set at last year’s Carthage Buggy Festival.

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The Deep River Bluegrass Band performs at the Spring Festival and Old Timers Day in Townsend, Tenn., last May.

Band Delivers Bluegrass With a Twist The Deep River Bluegrass Band brings its own special twist on bluegrass to the Carthage Buggy Festival stage Saturday, May 12. The Deep River Bluegrass Band, which includes musicians Jeff Medlin, James Hill, Teddy White, Ronnie Bailey, Harold Pickett and Jimmy Kennedy, will take the stage at 10 a.m. and return to it at 2 p.m. Although all of its members have been playing music in other bands for more than 20 years, the Deep River Bluegrass Band has been together for about five years.

“We play traditional bluegrass, as well as some country, and other music in a newer twist with a bluegrass style,” says band member Jeff Medlin. The Deep River Bluegrass Band plays a number of local music barns and events, including the Special Olympics Bluegrass Barbecue at the Fair Barn in Pinehurst; Fords Mill in Rockingham; 705 Music Barn; and, of course, Clyde Maness’ Music Barn in Carthage. “We also play local festivals and play in Townsend, Tenn., at the Spring Festival and Old Timers Day in May,” Medlin says.

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Display Highlights Disaster Preparedness Operations BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor

A part of Moore County’s disaster preparedness operations will be on display at the 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival, Saturday, May 12. Members of the Moore County Medical Reserve Corps will be on hand to demonstrate and explain the preparedness procedures that would be employed in the case of an emergency. According to MCMRC coordinator Matt Gardner, who also is the health promotions coordinator for the Moore County Health Department, which administers the MCMRC, the Medical Reserve Corps is a national network of volunteers — both medical and nonmedical — who are prepared to respond and act in whatever capacity they are needed in the event of a local public health emergency. “The Medical Reserve Corps would respond in the event of a disaster, pandemic or emergency,” Garner says. “The Health Department’s trailer would be deployed as a mobile unit and would

act like a mobile command center.” In addition to sharing information, Garner and other MCMRC volunteers will be on hand to answer questions about the program and recruit volunteers for the MCMRC. A major part of a mobile command center is communications. In the event of a local emergency, the MCMRC turns to the Moore County Amateur Radio Society (MOCARS) to provide its communications operations. “In the event of an emergency, MOCARS would be involved, setting up radios and providing communications,” Garner says. The MOCARS is federally licensed and actively supports all aspects of area amateur (ham) radio, including community service activities. At the Carthage Buggy Festival, MOCARS will have an emergency communications display set up, including radios and antennas. “MOCARS works with the Moore County Health Department to supply

communications wherever the Health Department would need us in the case of an emergency or disaster,” says Chuck oswald, a MOCARS member. “At the Buggy Festival, we will give demonstrations on what we would be doing in emergency situations.” The Health Department’s trailer will

serve as the mobile command center at the festival just as it would in the case of an emergency. MOCARS will utilize the generators on the trailer just as they would in an emergency situation. In addition to partnering with the

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feet tall and 100 feet long with three lanes for lots of sliding fun; an oversized mechanical swing set that seats 20 children or adults as From Page 12 they are lifted up and soar through the sky. New to the festival this year is the Frog Hopper. According to Fun Rides and Events, activities,” says Sparks. “New this year will be the Frog Hopper is a ride designed for little a super slide and a Frog Hopper. The bungee passengers. It lifts passengers up vertically and trampoline is returning as well. And, like then “hops” downs during descent. always, everything is still Visitors to the festival free for the kids!” will once again see the A four-station bungee red train winding its way trampoline proved to be through the children’s very popular with advenactivity area. turous festival-goers, “The train is very popsays Sparks, so the comular,” Sparks says. “It’s mittee knew it had to busy all day.” bring it back. Not just for Many more amusechildren, this super tramments will provide hours poline uses a bungee sysof fun for children durtem that enables a pering the Buggy Festival. son to jump extremely Kids, don’t forget to high in the air while also The Tubs of Fun ride bring your parents and performing flips and grandparents to the Carthage Buggy Festival somersaults. because there is plenty for them to do as well. The bungee trampoline is operated by From down-home musical entertainment, trained personnel who ensure the jumpers are securely strapped into the harnesses. They also tasty treats and more than 100 vendors to classic car and vintage tractor displays and a monitor each person during their ride. talent contest, there is plenty for family memThe kid-sized activities available will include bers of all ages to enjoy during the annual festia Tubs of Fun ride that lets kids spin as fast as they like; a new super slide that is more than 30 val.

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Variety will be the name of the game when it comes to offer too much of the same thing, preferring to have the vendors who will be hawking their wares during the vendors that offer a little bit of everything. 24th annual Carthage If you are a Buggy Festival, shopaholic, satisfying Saturday, May 12. your shopping fancy There will be no will not be a problem. shortage of items to Handmade wreaths, look at, admire and painted gourds and purchase during the wood trash bins, popular family-fun rocking chairs and event, from homemade tables will be in soaps and salts to birdabundance as will houses and much more. handmade leather belts Festival organizers and much more. are expecting more than The eclectic assort125 vendors, including ment of merchandise both food and arts and available from the crafts booths, guaranvendors at the Carthage teeing that there is Buggy Festival also will something for everyone. include handmade iron The wares available yard signs and decoraGLENN M. SIDES/The Pilot will range from hometions, metal art made A jewelry vendor waits for customers at last year’s festival. made dog treats and from scrap metal and hand-thrown pottery to more. tie-died clothing, floral arrangements and garden flags. If you find yourself at the Carthage Buggy Festival and Buggy Festival organizers say they purposely try not to you still haven’t bought Mom the perfect gift for Mother’s

Day, you are sure to find just what she wants from one or more of the vendor booths. Books, note cards and Christmas ornaments are just a few of the items that are sure to appeal. A gift collection based on harvested lavender bushes would provide a chance to pamper Mom or yourself luxuriously. There will be face painting for the young and the youngat-heart to enjoy. The Wildlife Rescue Center, of Sanford, will have several birds, including a red-tailed hawk, a barred owl, a black vulture, a great horned owl, a Mississippi Kite and two Eastern screech owls, on display. The group will be set up on the lawn of the historic courthouse. Throughout the day, Wildlife Rescue Center volunteers will be on hand to answer any questions festival-goers may have about the rescued birds and animals or the organization. For those wanting something to commemorate the 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival, event organizers will have a booth set up next to the entertainment stage where you’ll find a large assortment of festival T-shirts, caps and license plates. If you are a vendor who is interested in having a booth at the festival, there are still some spaces available. Call (910) 947-2231 or e-mail ktohara@nc.rr.com.

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Benefit Classic Car and Truck Show on Tap KEN OWEN/Special to The Pilot

The Benefit Classic Car and Truck Show is always a popular attraction at the Carthage Buggy Festival.

Area Street Rod Club Shares Love Of Vehicles, Community Outreach BY KEN OWEN Special to The Pilot

What brings together people with varied backgrounds and a wide range of ages from geographies spanning coastto-coast? Answer: Their love of cars and a desire to indulge that love affair while making the community a better place. In this case, it’s the love of older American-made vehicles by members of the Sandhills Classic Street Rod Association (SCSRA). Formed in the mid’70s, the club comprises some 70 active members throughout Moore County. What is a street rod? It begins as a “stock” vehicle (in the case of SCSRA, this means American-made and more than 35 years old) and is limited in design only by the desire, imagination and pocketbook of its owner. It can range from “basically stock” to “radically modified,” which is what makes the car hobby so interesting and diverse. Unlike

the “100-point restorations” of the highdollar Concours d’Elegance events, where vehicles are restored to the exact way they came from the factory), street rods can follow a variety of forms and are designed to be enjoyed and driven by their owners. This love of cars often begins at a young age and can continue well beyond the years of retirement. Some car owners are motivated by the potential profit derived from restoring, modifying and selling a vehicle, even to the extent of making it a business. Most owners, however, consider their car or truck a labor of love and try not to focus on the money invested. It’s still a hobby; and like many hobbies, it can take on a life of its own. My wife, Anita Owen, and I are SCSRA members. We moved to North Carolina three years ago from San Diego, bringing with us our long interest and involvement in the street rod car culture. An

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An estimated 150 cars and trucks will be on display during the Benefit Classic Car and Truck Show at the 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival. Sponsored by the Sandhills Classic Street Rod Association, the car/truck show is open to 1977 and older American-made vehicles and will be held rain or shine. The Benefit Classic Car and Truck Show event begins with a sneak peek on Friday, May 11, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Nancy Kiser Park, with registration on Saturday, May 12, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. The day of show registration fee is $20. Dash plaques will be available for the first 100 vehicles registered. Awards, including Top 50, Best of Show, Truck, Mopar, Ford, Chevy, GM, Other and Ladies Choice, will be presented at 2:30 p.m. on the festival stage. The Sandhills Classic Street Rod Association will also hold a $500 cash raffle. Raffle tickets are $5 each and will be on sale before and during the car show. You do not have to be present to win the $500 raffle. The Benefit Classic Car and Truck Show is a charitable event that will raise monies this year for the Carthage Food Pantry and the First Baptist Church of Vass Food Bank. For more information, visit www.sandhillsclassicstreetrods.com or contact Tom Walker at (910) 949-6594 or Tom Murray at (910) 295-3559.

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Buggy Festival — as well as class competition for Best Chevy, Ford, Mopar, Truck (et. al) of the show — make an enjoyable day for the participants. SCSRA also hosts a Fall Car Show and schedules a monthly Cruise-In on the third Friday of each month (April through October) at Ledo Pizza in Southern Pines. Cruise-Ins are casual gatherings of car/truck/motorcycle enthusiasts who share their love for their vehicles with others. These events draw hundreds of spectators from the community, which may spawn future involvement in the hobby. All proceeds from these events — as well as two cash raffles in conjunction with the two annual car shows — go to local charities. This year’s chosen charities are the Carthage Food Pantry and Food Bank in Vass, Wheels to Work and Moore Coalition for Human Services. Since their inception, SCSRA has raised more than $75,000 for a variety of local charities. SCSRA members participate in other community activities such as Christmas parades in Southern Pines, Aberdeen and Carthage. About 20 members brought their cars in support of the Southern Pines Police Department-sponsored “National Night Out” last August. Members travel each year to Pinelake Nursing Home in Carthage to wrap Christmas gifts for the elderly and also participate in the Tara Plantation (assisted living and Alzheimer’s care unit in Carthage) community outreach and appreciation day. The club also hosted the New Year’s Day destination party for the annual caravan hosted by Cruisin’ Carolina Magazine, a caravan which originated in Charlotte, with participants from all over the Carolinas. Members are drawn to the club by their love of custom vehicles as well as the

SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 opportunity to assist in various community projects. The Moore County Board of Commissioners presented its 2011 Governor’s Volunteer Service Awards to five individuals, one of whom was SCSRAmember John Calhoun. Calhoun oversees the transportation committee as Family Promise’s transportation chairman. Their purpose is to restore used vehicles, which are then donated to low-income workers who need wheels for work. “I consistently tell people I meet that I’m amazed at the number of beautiful cars that are in our area and truly admire the amount of work that goes into the creation and maintenance of each one,” says Bert Higgins, an SCSRA member and retired banker from Connecticut. SCSRA members are proud of the opportunities they have had to assist local charities and community organizations. These charities are obviously appreciative of the club’s desire to lend a hand, as evidenced by comments from various recipients. Rebecca Ainslie from the Cancer Care Fund, a 2011 charity recipient, commented, “Our sincere thanks for the donation that will help our local cancer patients. We love that it is raised in such a fun way with wonderful people.” The Rev. Joseph Batluck, president and executive director of Sandhills Teen Challenge, said in a letter to SCSRA, “Because of partners in ministry like you and generous gifts such as yours, we are able to continue to help more men overcome addiction.” Monthly meetings are held at the Lunch Box That Rocks restaurant on Morganton Road in Southern Pines on the first Monday of each month at 7 p.m. Each meeting begins with prayer, and members bring canned goods for the Carthage Food Pantry. Anyone with an interest in American-made cars and trucks is encouraged to attend. You also can learn more about the organization at www.sandhillsclassicstreetrods.com.

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The Harvesters Quartet Set To Perform at Buggy Festival BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor

Festival-goers at the 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival will be treated to a number of exciting, foot-stompin’, hand-clappin’ live musical performances, including two performances by The Harvesters Quartet. A gospel music tradition, the popular quartet will take the stage across from the historic courthouse at 11 a.m., Saturday, May 12, and will return for a second hour-long performance at 3 p.m. This will be The Harvesters Quartet’s fifth appearance at the Carthage Buggy Festival and the group is happy to be returning. “The Buggy Festival is one of our favorite events of the year,” says lead singer Danny Parker. “Not only do we get to walk around and check out the many booths, we get to perform two concerts. “We’ve made a lot of friends in the area over the years, so naturally it is good to visit with them, too.”

Since 1953, The Harvesters Quartet has been one of the top gospel groups in the nation. Organized in Charlotte, the original members were Pat Patterson, Bill Hefner, Buddy Parker, Hershel Wooten and David Reece. After they had disbanded for a while, Hefner later reorganized the group. He performed with The Harvesters Quartet until he was elected to the U.S. Congress, representing the 8th District of North Carolina. While the makeup of the quartet has changed over the years, the group has always worked to maintain the sincerity and dedication handed down to them, never forgetting their responsibility to their God and their friends. Today, The Harvesters Quartet is based out of Sanford and comprises five outstanding musicians, including Phillip Hughes, Danny Parker, Allen Hunter, Jim Collins and G.W. Southard. The group is known for its friendliness, teamwork, dedication and perseverance as they

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Harvesters From Page 22 all strive to fulfill God’s potential in their lives. During its concerts, The Harvesters Quartet invites the audience to share in some entertaining, lighthearted moments; however, the focus of the group’s ministry is firmly established in the joy of the

THE PILOT — SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. acceptance of Jesus Christ as one’s personal Savior while delivering his word of salvation and encouragement. Originally from Enterprise, Ala., tenor Phillip Hughes received his vocal training from The Steve Hurst School of Music Ministry and Performance in Nashville. He sang lead for the Kingsmen Quartet for six years. Hughes also previously sang with The Harvesters Quartet, The Anchorman Quartet and The Melody Masters Quartet. Sanford resident Parker is the group’s lead singer and manager. A graduate of

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Stamps-Baxter School of Music, he and his brother, Ivan Parker, once sang with The Noblemen. Backed by years of experience, Parker’s warm, engaging personality and smooth lead voice has warmed hearts and gained friends wherever he is heard. Hunter is a seasoned gospel music singer who once toured with the popular Revelaires Quartet. The baritone singer’s outgoing personality appeals to audiences of all ages. He makes his home in Raleigh. Bass singer Collins is from Graham. Before joining The Harvesters Quartet,

Collins spent 25 years with The Masters Quartet and four years with The Noblemen, where he met and toured with Parker. His versatility, warm, sincere personality and great bass voice are a great contribution to The Harvesters Quartet’s music and ministry. G.W. Southard, of Charlotte, plays the piano and runs sound for the group. Before joining The Harvesters Quartet in March 2009, Southlard played with Chapter 4, The Greenes, The Anchorman Quartet and many others.

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Winning Ms. Buggy Festival Leaves Mom Speechless BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor

ords can’t express how I feel” was Teresa Taylor’s response when she was asked to describe how she felt about being nominated for and winning Ms. Buggy Festival 2012. “I’m speechless,” Taylor says. “I’ve been on a real cloud nine. It’s a real honor and I’m so proud of my daughter.” It was her 10-year-old daughter, Mandy, a fifth-grade student at Carthage Elementary School, who wrote the letter nominating Taylor for Ms. Buggy Festival. Every year at the Carthage Buggy Festival, one special person is chosen to be Ms. (or Mr.) Buggy Festival. Carthage administrative assistant Karen O’Hara, a member of the Buggy Festival Committee, says the tradition has been a popular festival attraction for the past 10 years or so, with Carthage Elementary students nominating their loved ones for the title. “It’s called ‘Ms.’ but we had a ‘Mr.’ several years ago,” says O’Hara. “Really, it’s open to anybody the kids admire.” And Mandy does admire her mother. In her nominating letter, Mandy wrote: “I would like to nominate her because she is a strong and confident woman. … She always tries to give us the best, she never gives up and she does it by herself. To me, she is like Superwoman. … All she does is give. … Also, she always puts others before herself and now it is her turn to shine.”

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Mandy Taylor nominated her mother, Teresa Taylor, for Ms. Buggy Festival because she says her mother is like Superwoman. Teresa Taylor will be crowned Ms. Buggy Festival 2012 at noon on Saturday, May 12.

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Buggy From Page 24 The letter, which Taylor hasn’t seen yet, concludes with Mandy stating that her mother “is my role model. She is my everything that is why she deserves to be Ms. Buggy Festival.” Upon hearing that part of her daughter’s letter, Taylor said her heart swelled “because you never know what children are observing. It makes it all worthwhile. It touched me that she noticed and that I’m not doing it in vain.” In addition to raising three children, Taylor, a certified CNA, works as a private duty nurse for Liberty Home Care. She also is attending Sandhills Community College and studying to be a massage therapist. “I’ll graduate in 2013,” Taylor says. “I told Mandy that this award would look good on my resume. When she told me that

THE PILOT — SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. she had called me Superwoman in her letter, I told her I would make myself a cape. Mandy said, ‘Oh, no.’” Taylor says that between work, schooling, cooking, raising children and taking care of her 89-year-old aunt, Mary Hall Taylor, who lives with the family, there is never a dull moment. A good sense of humor, upbeat attitudes and a genuine love for each other help Taylor and Mandy get through. “We share everything. We have that kind of relationship,” Taylors says. The Taylors regularly attend the Buggy Festival, which makes winning the award even nicer. “This is a real honor for me. I have really struggled through life to get where I am today and this gives me more self-esteem,” Taylor says. “I’m looking forward to being there and being presented. Last year, I was runner-up and was proud of that, but this is even better.”

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Difficult Decision Teresa Taylor will be crowned Ms. Buggy Festival at noon Saturday, May 12, during the 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival. Every year, the town gets a big stack of letters nominating a loved one for Ms. or Mr. Buggy Festival. “They’re wonderful,” says O’Hara. “It’s just amazing what these kids come up with, who they pick, and the reasons why the choose whom to nominate.” Many employees have the opportunity to read the letters, but there’s just one impartial judge who remains anonymous to keep the contest equitable. “I think the judge looks for the most unique, most heartwarming type of letters,” says O’Hara. “It’s a difficult decision to make, but what we try to do, to be fair, is get a letter representing each grade level.” In addition to the winner of

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“I want my mommy (Victoria Botson) to be Mrs. Buggy Festival. She prays for other people that are sick and poor. She puts me to bed, walks me to school and makes me lunch. If we didn’t have the Buggy Festival then we would not thank them for what they have done and that would not be fair.” — Gwendalyn Botson First Grade

Deserving Runners-Up

While Mandy Taylor’s letter nominating her mother, Teresa Taylor, as Ms. Buggy Festival was selected as the overall winner, letters from each grade were selected as runners-up. Following are those letters: “My mom (Lara Sepko) should be Ms. Buggy Festival because she comforts me when there is a storm. My mom loves me and I love her. My mom cooks for me and helps me take care of my dog.” — Morgan Sepko Kindergarten

“I think my dad (Jared Salazar) should be Mr. Buggy Festival because he is serving our country in Afghanistan. He is fun to jump on the trampoline with. He is a great cook. He can cook the best enchiladas. He plays Wrestlemania with me, my brother and my sister. I love to snuggle with my dad. I so, so love my dad!” — Trissa Salazar Second Grade

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Carthage Elementary students whose nominating letters for the Mr./Ms. Buggy Festival contest were selected are Margaret McNeil (front row, left to right), Mandy Taylor, (back row) Haylee Ratliff, Morgan Sepko, Gwendalyn Botson and Trissa Salazar.

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Buggy From Page 26 “I think my great-grandma (Claudia Smith) should be Miss Buggy Festival because she cooks the best pies in the world. My great-grandma is so wonderful. I think my great-grandma is so wonderful because she is the only one who takes

THE PILOT — SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. me to Subway, but that’s not all. She is also wonderful because she is the only one that takes me to church every Sunday. We stay with her in her new house also. The reason I think she should be Miss Buggy Festival is because when she got out of the hospital she gave me a twenty dollar bill to spend on myself and probably no other great-grandma or grandma would do that when they just got out of the hospital.

This is why I think my great-grandma should be Miss Buggy Festival.” — Haylee Ratliff Third Grade “I want my MeMe (grandmother Judy Bittle) to be Miss Buggy Festival because when I was little my MaMa would go to work and my sisters went to school. MeMe would take care of me by teaching me match and how to gorgel (sic).

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When I was sick she would give me chicken noodle soup and make the most best homemade from scratch biscuits. Yummm!!! She showed me love. “Also she takes care of her older sister. She can’t be alone. She inspires me by keep doing things even if they get tough. “That is why I want MeMe to be Miss Buggy Festival.” — Margaret McNeil Fourth Grade

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Quicksilver Cloggers Set to Kick Up Their Heels At Event BY LEIGH PEMBER Newsroom Intern

Pleasant imagery does not come to mind when one thinks of something getting clogged, but clogging as a dance is entertainment at its finest. The Quicksilver Cloggers will perform at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, May 12, as part of the Carthage Buggy Festival’s entertainment lineup. The Quicksilver Cloggers have been together for more than 15 years, although only two of its eight members have been with it since the beginning: Aileen

Garner and Jennifer Garner, who are unrelated. The other six members are Bonnie Hanham, Brenda Ritter, Lou Smith, Pam Kennedy, Sarah Daffron and Jane Drzewicki. The group is Robbins-based, but its members are spread across the area in Robbins, High Falls, Vass, Pinebluff and Greensboro. Aileen Garner is the leader of the team, but Daffron, who is a certified clogging instructor, also plays an important role. “I do most of the teaching and

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Cloggers From Page 28 choreographing,” Daffron says. “But all of us go to workshops, and we practice once a week.” The Quicksilver Cloggers have established themselves in several different festivals over the years. They go to many on a recurring basis, including a pig pickin’ in New Bern, a Fourth of July celebration in Denton and Farmers Day in Robbins. “We’ve done lots of different festivals,” Daffron says. “We go many places, and we have fun doing it.” The cloggers participate in both competitive and noncompetitive events. The two competitions that they focus on are at the North Carolina State Fair and the North Carolina Senior Games. “For the competitions, we have to have perfectly matching costumes and synchronized steps,” Daffron says. “Competitions have a lot of pressure, but we like staying to that standard for all of our performances, anyway. The only difference is if something is messed up, no one gets fired.”

THE PILOT — SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. However, they really have nothing to worry about, as they are capable cloggers and have triumphed on several occasions. The Quicksilver Cloggers have gotten second- and third-place finishes at the fair, and have advanced from the county level to the state level in the senior games. “Those of us who are old enough compete in the senior games. Pretty soon, all of us will be old enough,” she jokes. “But we have won before and gone to Raleigh for the state competition in the performing arts category.” Even with their distinguished record, the Quicksilver Cloggers do not have any kind of predetermined price that they charge for their performances. “We do not have a set fee,” Daffron says. “We have to buy the music, the costumes, and pay for our travel. It comes out of our pockets, but we happily accept donations.” Daffron encourages people who are new to the dance to try it if it’s something that interests them. “Dancing is fun, but clogging is twice as fun,” Daffron says. “If you see the dance, and you fall in love with it, the first step is to find somewhere to dance. If there’s not a group in your area, then get one together. If it’s something that you love, you’ll find someone to dance with.”

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One great aspect of clogging is that you created and memorized many routines do not need a partner to be able to clog, with the help of Daffron’s talent for choreand it can be done at any age. This is not to ography. The experience she gained while say that it is easy, as the cloggers’ earning her certification makes her more performances usually last at least 30 than capable of creating clogging routines. minutes, with little to no break time “To become a certified clogging between songs. However, the long instructor, it takes a certain number of performance time does not stop hours of teaching, going to these women from doing what workshops and choreographing they love. routines,” Daffron says. “I also “For this group of ladies, cloghad to go to the national conging is their passion,” Daffron vention that they have every says. “Mostly we do it for fun, Thanksgiving, but if you love it, and of course it is good getting it doesn’t feel like work. exercise. I don’t do other exerThe certification really helps cises. I feel like clogging is the people who teach in studios, but exercise for me.” I just did it for my own personWhile clogging helps them al experience.” Sarah Daffron stay active, the members of the Earning the certificate is just team do not clog solely for fun part of the lifelong process and exercise. Their associated with learning to participation has helped them clog. Initially, people learn the form lifelong friendships with their teambasic steps. From there, they keep adding mates. to those steps as they become better “People who dance together form very dancers. According to Daffron, learning to strong bonds,” Daffron says. “I would say I clog is not hard if you have rhythm, and the other girls on the team are closer instinct and a love for clogging. than blood sisters.” “You can always keep learning,” Daffron This is not surprising, as the current says. “You can always find something to team has been dancing together for more add to a step to make it more interesting or than a decade. During that time, they have fun.”

“For this group of ladies, clogging is their passion.”

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Mr. and Mrs. Pinelake, Tara Plantation to be Honored During Ceremony at Festival ince it started in 1988, the Buggy Festival has celebrated the rich history of Carthage. The annual event also is a celebration of community and, as such, organizers like to honor and recognize those who have helped make the town of Carthage the wonderful community it is. For each of the past nine years, Carthage Buggy Festival organizers have named four individuals as Mr. and Mrs. Tara Plantation and Mr. and

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PAGE 31 pleasure to have around. Anna, who management also says “sings a beautiful tune,” shares her voice with others as a member of the Pinelake Choir. This July, Anna will have been a resident at Peak Resources - Pinelake for four years.

Mr. and Mrs. Tara Plantation Jerry Richardson and Elizabeth Brown were chosen as the king and queen to be honored by the Buggy Festival as Mr. and Mrs. Tara Plantation. Jerry came to Tara on Dec. 12, 2011, and already he has made a great impression on the staff at Tara Plantation. “Jerry always has a happy ‘hello’ or ‘hey, baby’ to all who come by,” says a spokesperson for Tara Plantation. Jerry loves the outdoors and often can be found sitting outside sunning on the porch or sidewalk. His hobbies are racing — Jeff Gordon is his favorite NASCAR driver — and country music. He is married and has four daughters who all live locally. Jerry worked at Lowe’s Home Improvement and Terminex.

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Festival Good Chance to Check Out SJP’s Semitrailer Together We Can Do MOORE

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Pines developed a program to help the people in the low wealth rural parts of Moore County, people with no access to health care, wellness and health information and no health insurance. Thanks to a $448,470 grant as part of the Omnibus Bill in December 2009, St. Joseph of the Pines was able to outfit the semitrailer to become a mobile satellite office for rural patients who aren’t able to drive to the offices of the program’s partners. The semitrailer is equipped with masses of medical supplies and two fully furnished examination rooms. It also has offices for screening eligibility, a stage for education and cultural events and a stor-

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age area to provide needed nonperishable food and hygiene items to all who visit the semi. The trailer was built to St. Joseph of the Pines’ specifications and went into service in June 2011. “We act as a satellite office for the resource agencies we partner with,” says Lynne Drinkwater, community relations coordinator for St. Joseph of the Pines. “Our goal is to be a one-stop shop for people so they can come get everything they need at one time.” The Moore Free Care Clinic is one of the partners in the Together We Can Do MOORE program. The clinic is able to see

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Semitrailer From Page 32 patients on the semi by scheduling appointments for when the semi is in the patients’ areas. Patients also are able to pick up their medicines on the semi. As a mobile outlet for the Moore Free Care Clinic, the semitrailer travels to Carthage and Robbins a total of four days

THE PILOT — SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. each month to offer health services to any free clinic patient who may not have the means to travel from rural Moore County to Southern Pines for a doctor’s visit. The Sandhills Moore Coalition for Human Care, the Benefit Bank of North Carolina, Sandhills Community College, Dr. James Tart and Christine Ganis are also members of the partnership. Drinkwater says that soon there will be eye doctors available on a quarterly basis. An audiologist to check hearing and a den-

tal program are also on the horizon. Drinkwater and other St. Joseph of the Pines personnel will be at the semi during the festival, handing out calendars to let people know the semi’s schedule as well as fliers to let people know what the program has planned for the summer. Tours of the semitrailer also will be available. “We want people to visit the semi to see who we are and what we do,” Drinkwater says. “We hope that by visiting the semi in a festival setting, they will not be intimi-

PAGE 33 dated and will take advantage of the services when we are in their town.” The semitrailer will host an education series called Semi School. This summer, Drinkwater says, the series will focus on Stress in America and cover a variety of topics, including Recognizing Signs of Stress, Caregiving 101, Parenting Tips, Stress Management, Eating Healthy on a Budget, Balancing a Checkbook and many more. Pick up a flier with more details at the semitrailer during the Buggy Festival.

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‘The Town Secret’

Race of Famous Carthaginian Embraced This article is reprinted from the February 12, 2012, edition of The Pilot.

forget he was black, a former slave, of mixed race and in an interracial marriage. “His father owned a plantation, and his BY JOHN CHAPPELL mother was a slave on the plantation,” Staff Writer Motz-Frazier said. “His father was married very year with its Buggy Festival, and had three other children with his wife, Carthage celebrates the achieveall white. He had freed Mr. Jones. Census ments of a former slave, though until records in Raleigh showed it. Once we recently few knew it. knew it, people started telling other things William T. Jones — born a slave, and the that they knew.” son of a slave and her owner — ran the Bit by bit, she pieced together a remarkfamed Tyson & Jones Buggy Co., the able story, wondering all the while how it biggest business around. was that people around Carthage — even Though he was an Africanon the town’s Historical American described in census Committee — just assumed records as “a mulatto gentleman” Jones was white. She found one and a former slave, Jones neverreason after learning Jones and theless became a leading busihis wife had no children. nessman and industrialist, recog“He did have three white sibnized and honored, his color the lings,” she said. “His father was best kept secret in Carthage hismarried to a white woman, and tory. they had three white children, His elaborate 1880s Queen two boys and a girl. His father Anne Victorian mansion stands at owned a plantation, where his the entrance to the town’s historic mother was a slave.” district. Now a bed-and-breakfast When Motz-Frazier started inn lovingly restored with wraptelling what she’d discovered, around porch and fanciful gingerpeople thought she had it all bread trimmed in elegant Painted wrong. Lady fashion, the Jones house “Charles Prevost and his sister evokes the lavishness of a bygone came down to tell me what I had era. been saying wasn’t true,” she Few in Carthage today realize said. “So, I gave Mr. Prevost its builder and former owner was copies of everything I had found. a black man of mixed race who Then — it took him about a lived openly with his white wife, month — he went behind me, operated one of the biggest factowent to Raleigh, checked census ries in the South, taught Sunday records. School in the Methodist Church, “He came back by himself GLENN M. SIDES/The Pilot served on national and local about a month later and apoloPat Motz-Frazier, owner of the Old Buggy Inn, and Carol gized and said that I was right. boards, and was admired and loved without any mention of Steed, of the Carthage Historical Committee, stand in front of He felt really bad, because he race. the bed-and-breakfast that was once William Jones’ mansion. felt for all these years that the Today, the fact that Jones was committee had been misreprean African-American is something the town senting the truth. Once he knew it, and I history committee’s present chairwoman, began telling it, people started coming out ‘Regarded in All Aspects’ Carol Steed, thinks the town can take pride of the woodwork telling us that they knew.” After his death in 1910 the local paper in — though for years nobody spoke of it. described Jones as “a citizen regarded in “People on the committee — even long all respects as probably the peer of any, liv- Fought for Confederacy years ago — were not sure,” she said. “We Jones was born a slave near ing or dead, in usefulness in accomplished had nothing to verify it then, aside from his Elizabethtown on Aug. 8, 1833, and died purpose … and withal in the example and picture, and sometimes pictures fool you. Nov. 29, 1910, a free man — well-respected, model which he has left the present and “I still think a lot of people outside of the well-known, and wealthy. future generations.” museum have no idea. Now it is a source of As a freed man, he had moved to Jones was known nationwide as a pioneer pride.” Fayetteville, where his work as a carriage of manufacturing techniques and business That’s the way Mayor Lee McGraw sees painter attracted the attention of two acumen. Yet over the century since his it. Carthage men: Thomas Bethune Tyson, and death, most people in Carthage seemed to

“I think it’s a neat thing,” McGraw said. “When I joined the committee back in 1998, his picture was one of the first things I saw, and I said, ‘Wow! African-American!’ People have done a lot of research trying to find out as much as we can about him.” One of those people now owns the Jones house. Pat Motz-Frazier operates the restored mansion as The Old Buggy Inn. She’s delved into historical records, collected memories from other townspeople, and tried to find out everything she can about the man who built her house.

William T. Jones Alexander Kelly, the county sheriff. In 1857 they talked Jones into coming to Carthage to take charge of the painting department of their little buggy factory. Two years later, Tyson, Kelly & Co. gave Jones entire charge of the vehicle part of their business. He enlarged the company and its trade grew, but with the beginning of the Civil War in 1861, production was suspended. Jones and many workers left to serve in the Confederate Army. Captured, they were interned at Fort Delaware. “There were 12,000 men in Fort Delaware at the time,” Motz-Frazier said. “During their time there, 600 were separated to be treated in retaliation for the way Union soldiers were being treated. They told them that they were going home, that they would be exchanged for Union prisoners.” That didn’t happen. They segregated them from the normal population and put them on starvation rations. They were not given water. “A lot of the time they had to catch water in their cap when it rained,” she said. “One article said Mr. Jones was in prison a year, but I think it was longer.” While Jones remained at Fort Delaware, the 600 were moved about. At Fort Pulaski outside Savannah they were crowded into cold, damp quarters and fed only a meager “retaliation ration.” The group came to be known as “The Immortal 600” for what they endured and their refusal to take oaths of allegiance to the Union. “They were taken to other prison camps, then later marched — a hardship march — back to Fort Delaware,” Motz-Frazier said. “Many died. When they got there, they were in bad shape, starving and dying.” Jones started picking up potato peelings

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Secret From Page 34 off the ground and saving bread crusts, making moonshine for them to fill their bellies, warm them up. Union prison guards began buying his moonshine and paying him in Union currency. “By the end of the war, a great many were no longer living because of the hardships they endured,” Motz-Frazier said. “Matt Blue — you know, who had a homestead here in Carthage — was one of the 600. At the end of the war, when the war was over and they opened up the prison camp for men to come home, Matt Blue could not walk, he was so ill. Mr. Jones hired a carriage for him — and some other Carthage men — to come home.”

‘Town Secret’ Back in Moore County, Jones set about helping Tyson rebuild the business using his moonshine money as capital. “When the war was over, and they came back to Carthage, that’s how they reopened the buggy factory,” Motz-Frazier said. “They reopened the company on this

THE PILOT — SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. money he’d made selling moonshine.” She and Prevost spent a lot of time talking about how it could happen that a Southern town had a black man, married to a white woman — which was illegal — and living in one of the biggest houses in town, owning and being president of a company, yet not being persecuted. “What Mr. Prevost and I kind of concluded was that it became the town secret,” she said. “When they came back to Carthage, Sherman had marched through. There was devastation. People were starving. Here is a company that can reopen, can pay so that men can buy feed, plant crops, feed their families — and they can prosper. Other Southern towns weren’t able to do that. So what if he was a black man — at that point who the hell cared?” The former slave, former colonel of the Confederacy, former prisoner-of-war was back in Carthage with hard currency — U.S. dollars — at a time when hardly anyone in the state had anything but worthless Confederate paper. “He came out of prison with considerable money earned while there, and brought it home with him, something that probably no other prisoner did during the whole course of that war,” according to “A Short History of The Establishment and Growth Of the

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A drawing of the Tyson and Jones factory Vehicle Industry in Carthage, N.C.,” as reprinted in 2009 by the Moore County Historical Association. Jones bankrolled partners Tyson and Kelly in rebuilding their ruined buggy business. On the first Monday of each month — the great sales day in Bennettsville, S.C. — they brought buggies down from Carthage in long strings, one hitched behind the other and pulled along by horses or mules over deep sand roads. The trip took about a week, down and back. Jones went down

with buggies and came back with money. In 1873, he and Tyson bought out Kelly, changing the name to Tyson & Jones. Jones — having visited Northern factories on trips — concluded it was necessary to use machinery. He bought a steam engine and boiler, circular saws, a planer, drills and other machines. He had it all shipped to Jonesboro, then hauled to Carthage on wagons. In 1889, Jones and Tyson incorporated, with Jones as company president. In 1895 the company exhibited in Atlanta at the Cotton States Exposition and continued expanding. A 1902 Republican Party flier urged voters to support “Col. W.T. Jones of Carthage — one of the Captains of Industry of the State” for the state house. His campaign was unsuccessful. Three years later, the wooden buildings at the factory began to be replaced by brick structures. One remains. The race of this Confederate colonel, beloved Methodist Sunday School teacher, town leader and prosperous industrialist apparently became the town secret. His photograph never appeared in any Tyson & Jones catalog.

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Local Talent on Display During Buggy Idol Contest BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor

The Buggy Idol Contest has become one of the most popular events of the annual Carthage Buggy Festival — something event organizers hoped for when they first started the contest. “There’s a saying that time flies when you’re having fun. How true that is! This is the ninth year of the Buggy Idol Contest and it seems like it was only a few years ago when we had the first contest,” says an event spokesperson. “The number of talented competitors grows every year,” says Carol Sparks, Carthage town manager and festival committee chair. “The contestants are very good, making the contest even more popular.” Winners of the 2011 Buggy Idol contest were Jack Oxendine, ages 1-5; Callie McIntyre, ages 6-12; Katie Wallace, ages 1317; and Jeannie Garcia, age 18 and over. This Buggy Idol win was the third in a row for Oxendine, who also took home the top prize in his age group in 2009, 2010 and

2011. Will he be back to defend his reign as one of Moore County’s singing stars? Festival-goers will find out when the contestants take the stage at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, May 12. The Buggy Idol contest will be a fitting finale for the family-fun festival as potential stars of all ages will sing their hearts out as they try to win over the judges and take home the top prize of being named the “Buggy Idol.” A $100 prize will be awarded to winners in each of the different age groups. Styled after the television hit “American Idol,” the Buggy Idol contest features contestants split into four competing age groups. The first group is children ages 4 to 8. The second is children ages 9 to 12. The third is ages 13 to 17, and the fourth is from 18 years of age to infinity. There is no age limit, organizers say. “It’s a first cousin to the ‘American Idol’ contest,” Sparks says, “and our contestants are as talented as the ones on ‘American Idol.’” The Buggy Idol contest is open to both

singers and musicians, although in previous years, it has been dominated by singers. Three judges will evaluate each performer. To compete, contestants must fill out an application form and pay a registration fee. Contestants may register until 4 p.m. Saturday, May 12. The entry fee is $10

prior to 4 p.m. After 4 p.m., the fee is $15. Registration forms are available at the Carthage Town Hall, 4396 U.S. 15-501, prior to the event, at the festival’s information booth during the festival or at the festival’s website at www.thebuggyfestival.com. For more information, call (910) 947-2331 or visit the festival’s website.

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Coming to the Festival? Bring Your Appetite BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor

Hot dogs and ice cream and popcorn, oh my! When you come to the 24th annual Carthage Buggy Festival, Saturday, May 12, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to leave at home â&#x20AC;&#x201D; your appetite. From the sausage dogs, meatball sandwiches, fried pickles and breakfast sandwiches available at the Hot Diggity Dog concession to the roasted corn and popcorn being served up by Squeezers, there is sure to be something to tickle everyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s taste buds. Festival organizers have once again lined up a wide selection of food vendors who will be offering an array of tasty treats, says Karen Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara, Carthage administrative assistant and Buggy Festival committee member. Deciding which goodie to try first will be the hardest decision of the day. Visitors who prefer traditional festival flavors will not be disappointed. In addition to funnel cakes, the lineup of fun fair flavors to be found at the food booths surrounding the historic courthouse in downtown Carthage includes cotton candy, candy apples, snow cones and more from Martin Enterprises/Sweet Thing Concessions. Gilbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Homemade Ice Cream will once again be churning up some creamy goodness with the help of a 1937 John Deere engine. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost as much fun watching the

ice cream being churned as it is eating a scoop â&#x20AC;&#x201D; almost. The smell of fresh-popped kettle corn will waft through the air around the Vinksters Gourmet Kettle Corn booth. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll want to try one of their lemonade shakers, the perfect complement to a few handfuls of kettle corn. Speaking of cool, Sunshine Delights will be serving Italian ice, lemonade and fun fingers to hungry festival-goers. Hope Maness will be selling snow cones, which are always a hit on a warm festival day. Those with a slightly bigger appetite will not be disappointed with the selection of food items offered by vendors, including Polish or Italian sausages, beef and blackened chicken on pita bread from Carolina Fun Food. Patrice Colvinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s booth will be serving grilled panini sandwiches, Philly steaks, wings and fries. Festival-goers who are adventurous and want to try something a bit different will want to stop by the Caribbean Grill where the choices include jerk chicken, Caribbean rice and salads and stuffed grape leaves.

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D EDICATED V OLUNTEERS Every year, a team of dedicated volunteers begins meeting in August to plan the popular family festival that brings thousands of visitors to Carthage every Mother’s Day weekend. The continued success of the annual Carthage Buggy Festival is owed to this team of hard-working individuals, says Town Manager Carol Sparks, who has chaired the festival for more than 10 years. Pictured are members of the 2012 Buggy Festival Committee, including (seated, left to right) Karen O'Hara, Carol Sparks, Dina Tharp, (middle row) Ronni Lussier, Linda Phillips, Elaine Frye, Bart Davis, (back row) Brian Tyner, Rocky Davis, Doug Brown and John Calhoun. Not pictured are Gail Meeks, Pat Motz-Frazier, Milton T. Dowdy, Vincent Cornelius, Wendy Butner and Neal Wolfe. JOHNSIE TIPTON/The Pilot

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