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Farm Life Festival Offers Fun Family Experience BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON
history, arts and crafts, fun family activities and plenty of traditional toetapping musical entertainment during the The Malcolm Blue Historical Society three-day event. invites you to take a peek at yesterday as Located at 1177 Bethesda it hosts the 41st annual Road in Aberdeen, the 7.5Malcolm Blue Historical acre Malcolm Blue Farm Crafts and Farmskills itself will take center stage Festival, Friday, Saturday as festival-goers wander and Sunday, Sept. 24-26. the grounds, tour the One of the largest and restored 1825 farmhouse most popular traditional and view historic exhibits festivals in the region, the in the Clayton-Blair Malcolm Blue Historical Historic Museum. Crafts and Farmskills As they have in years Festival offers visitors a past, event organizers will firsthand feel for what daily ot Pil e /Th ARPE HANNAH SH bring together a diverse life was like in the early nt pa collection of artisans, 1800s. A festival partici vendors and entertainers to display their Young and old alike will skills, wares and talents. have the opportunity to experience the Demonstrations by artisans and crafters sights and sounds of life on a 19th-century will include blacksmithing, weaving, farm as they enjoy a rich mixture of Special Sections Editor
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Festival From Page 4 and loading of the sheep. Thomas and his dogs have been a familiar attraction at the festival for nearly 17 years. Members of the 26th North Carolina Infantry and Cavalry and the 1st N.C. Artillery will be in attendance during the festival this year. These groups of military re-enactors will be available for informal discussions on camp life, fighting tactics and equipment maintenance. Planned skirmishes and demonstration firings will be held on Saturday and Sunday. The artillery cannon also will have scheduled demonstration firings. The festival kicks off on Friday with Schoolchildren’s Day. Around 2,000 children from Moore County and several surrounding
THE PILOT — SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. communities are expected to be in attendance. Organizers have planned a number of special speakers, and programs are planned to enhance the educational aspect of the festival for the schoolchildren. Event organizers also say there will be a number of free children’s games for kids to enjoy throughout the three-day festival. These games will include stilts, rolling hoops, corn husk dolls, marbles and writing with quill pens and ink. Another familiar sight at the Malcolm Blue Festival is Talbert’s Catering, which will once again be serving food each day of the festival, from opening to closing. Everything will be cooked fresh at the festival. Talbert’s Catering will have four cookers fired up as the staff prepares a wide variety of foods, including chopped barbecue, back loin ribs, pork tenderloin,
kielbasa sausage, chicken breasts, hamburgers and all-beef hot dogs. The meats are available as sandwiches or plated with baked beans, cole slaw and a roll on the side. David Talbert with Talbert’s Catering also will give demonstrations to students during Schoolchildren’s Day, explaining the anatomy of the pig and showing them different cuts of meat, using one of the pigs he will be cooking during the festival. Food and beverage concessions will be available throughout each day of the festival. Festival grounds will be open for the 41st Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and
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Schoolchildren’s Day Kicks Off Three-Day Festival BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor
“Every kid deserves a farm.” When Malcolm Blue Historical Society founder Martha Swaringen first uttered those words more than 35 years ago, there’s no way she could have imagined the impact her words would have on generations of children. Local teachers concerned about the lack of traditional family farms had approached Swaringen to see if the Society could use the Malcolm Blue Farm to help educate children. Swaringen then determined that the Society would make sure children throughout the Sandhills and surrounding counties were offered the opportunity to see what daily life would have been like on a 19th-century farm. Her determination led to the creation of the first Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival. Every year, nearly 2,000 children take part in the annual schoolchildren’s day. Today, many of the parents who bring their children to the festival remember attending schoolchildren’s day when they themselves were in school. Schoolchildren’s day kicks off the 41st festival this year on Friday, Sept. 24. Festival hours on Friday are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Children from Moore County, as well as several surrounding counties, will spend the day getting a glimpse HANNAH SHARPE/The Pilot
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A couple of boys play during schoolchildren’s day at the Malcolm Blue Festival last year.
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There also will be nonstop entertainment provided by a variety of performers, including storytellers Elizabeth From Page 7 Garner and Paula Caddell, percussionist Matthew Bahr, the Sandhills Community College hand bells group, fiddlers and into the life their great-great-grandparents would have lived. Traditional artisans more. Admission to school children’s day is $5 will be on hand to demonstrate the skills for students. There are several additional and crafts that were an everyday part of activities, as well as conceslife in the 19th century. The sions, that aren’t included in skills on display during the the price of admission. schoolchildren’s day will Schools or teachers interinclude basket making, ested in attending the festicandle dipping, weaving, val on Friday can call the wood working, pottery, blackMalcolm Blue Farm at (910) smithing, leathersmithing 944-7558 to make reservaand more. tions. In addition to the many From the initial schooldemonstrations, children can children’s day, the festival tour the Malcolm Blue has grown into an annual farmhouse, view exhibits in three-day festival that is one the Clayton-Blair History of the largest and most Museum, take horse-drawn popular traditional festivals wagon rides, watch border in the region. The festival collies herd sheep, visit the continues from 10 a.m. to 6 HANNAH SHARPE/The Pilot Civil War encampment, and p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 25, Playing with a toy see Civil War and and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Revolutionary War demonSunday, Sept. 26, with plenty of activities strations. From stilts, hoops and corn husk dolls to and entertainment to capture the writing with quill pens and more, children imagination of festival-goers of all ages. will also get the chance to experience Contact Martha J. Henderson by e-mail what it was like to be a child in the at mjhenderson@thepilot.com. Sandhills in 19th century Moore County.
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Festival Stage: Something For Everyone BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor
Family fun is the focus of the 41st Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival, Sept. 24-26, and the lineup of performers set to take the entertainment stage offers something for everyone. From storytelling to traditional bluegrass and gospel music, the stellar lineup of entertainers is sure to have audiences’ toes tapping and hands clapping. Well-known for offering some of the area’s best traditional bluegrass, old-time and country music, festival organizers have once again rounded up a wide variety of entertainers guaranteed to live up to musical performances of years past. HANNAH SHARPE/The Pilot
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Audience members of all ages watch a performer on stage during the schoolchildren’s day at last year’s festival.
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perform along with percussionist Matthew Bahr. Making his first appearance at the Malcolm Blue Festival, the Aberdeen resident uses a washboard and a cajón, a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, to create his own brand of laid-back folk music with a percussion rhythm. Alan Ashdown and David McDonald will accompany Bahr on stage. In addition to performing, Bahr will share a brief history of washboards and how they would have played a part in the musical history of the Malcolm Blue Farm. He will have a number of washboards and box drums, as well as tambourines, shakers and noisemakers for children to play. Bahr says he also may bring in jugs for kids to blow as well as spoons for playing.
From Page 10 Storytelling The on-stage fun gets under way at 9 a.m. Friday, Sept. 24, with storytelling. Elizabeth Garner, of Pinehurst, will delight the audience as she tells a variety of stories, ranging from nature and animal stories to witchy and ghost stories. “Boney Legs” is one of the children’s favorites, Garner says. The retired school librarian draws from the children’s books and stories she read and learned during her 31 years in the school system. Wearing a dress similar to those worn by ladies living on the Malcolm Blue Farm in the 19th century, Garner has captured the imagination of visitors to the festival for nearly 20 years. Garner will weave her magic at 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. during schoolchildren’s day at the festival. While Garner tells stories to both adults and children across the state, she particularly enjoys the children. “I like to see their faces,” Garner says. “They’re just right there with you. You can see it when you captivate their little minds.” Another regular performer at the
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A group of truly good ol’ North Carolina boys, the McFarland Road Band promises to offer audiences a good time. The group is set to perform on Saturday and Sunday. festival for nearly 20 years, Paula Caddell will take the stage at 9:30 a.m. Well-known for her musical performances with Darlene Brafford, Caddell also will share the art of storytelling. Using words, images and sounds, Caddell will bring
stories alive to the audience.
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A group of home-schooled students, ranging in age from 7 to 17, will showcase their musical talents on the festival’s stage at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Friday. Fiddle students of Valerie Cox, these young fiddlers will perform a variety of selections, including Celtic, Southern and patriotic tunes with a bit of their classical repertoire mixed in as well.
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The musical lineup will range from “Old McDonald Had a Farm” to sacred music of the 19th century, Cox says. Fiddlers scheduled to perform include Cox’s daughters, Catherine, Sarah and Charlotte, and her students, Pete, Margeaux and Jacob Shore, and Ashtyn, Catherine, Kelly and Ella Clark. Although young, several of these fiddlers have been performing for 10 years or so, Cox says. Her own daughters started playing when they were 3 years old and have been performing for 12 years. The students have played at the Malcolm Blue Festival for several years.
Historic Instrument Tim Cole first picked up the bagpipes in 1970. Inspired by a performance of the Welsh Guards and Scottish Pipes and Drums, Cole dedicated himself to learning to play an instrument that is both hard to learn and temperamental. Cole says it takes about eight years of playing pretty regularly to learn the notes and embellishments for the piper’s hands to settle into the necessary patterns needed to play well. Once this becomes automatic and familiar, pipers then can expand the tunes they play. Born and raised in this area, Cole always had an awareness of Highland ancestory. At one time, Cole says, this area had one of the three highest concentrations of Highland Scotch ancestry in the country. Bagpipes are a traditional Highland instrument.
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The Ingrams are homegrown Moore County performers who have been getting local audiences’ toes tapping for four years. The family band will perform for Malcolm Blue Festival audiences on Saturday and Sunday. Cole’s musical repertoire includes a number of pipe band tunes, Highland Scotch marches, jigs, reels, horn pipes and strathspey (a dance tune in 4/4 time). “Most of what I play are very old tunes,” Cole says, “from the 1600s and 1700s.” The music Cole will be playing at the festival, he says, “would be what our ancestors mostly heard in their lifetime — that and the reels.” Cole has performed for a number of years at the Malcolm Blue Festival, including playing at the very first
festival. This year, he will play outside the Clayton-Blair History Museum and at various locations around the farm throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday. For the festival, Cole will be dressed in traditional day dress for bagpipers’ competition, including a kilt and all the associated accessories. A member of the St. Andrews Presbyterian College Pipes and Drums, Cole also performs at weddings,
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Stage From Page 14 funerals and corporate events. He says the bagpipes always get a very positive response from audiences at the festival. “People really seem to enjoy it,” Cole says. “It’s not something you see every day.”
All in the Family Formerly known as The Ingram Family, The Ingrams are homegrown Moore County performers who have been getting local audiences’ toes tapping for four years. Fronted by Eddie Ingram, the family band includes Eddie’s daughter, Ashley Ingram Wood, his brother, Aaron, sisterin-law, Natalie, and nephew, Andy. The band plays all types of bluegrass music, including traditional bluegrass and gospel. Audiences can expect to hear such bluegrass classics as “Foggy Mountain Breakdown” and “Love of the Mountains,” Ingram says. Ingram says he had been playing for a while when the group decided to take the music they were playing and enjoying as a family and share it with others. “At family gatherings, we would get the
THE PILOT — SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. instruments out and play together,” Ingram says. These instruments include guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo and fiddle. The Ingrams perform at Clyde Maness’ pottery barn, as well as at some local restaurants, including the Eastwood Diner and Russell’s Seafood House. The Ingrams will perform at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 26.
Traditional Flavor With David McDonald on fiddle, Sherman Jourdian on guitar, Steven Hedgpeth on banjo, Allen Ashdown on bass, The April Fools bring a traditional flair to acoustic, folk and bluegrass music. The group takes to the festival stage at 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday.
Good Ol’ North Carolina Boys Based out of Laurel Hill, the McFarland Road Band has a traditional bluegrass sound and loves to play anytime, anywhere. “We play for all kinds of events, festivals, weddings … We’ve been together about 10 years and have played at the Malcolm Blue Festival a few times,” says Mike Outlaw, a member of the McFarland Road Band. The group’s MySpace site takes it a bit
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Kick Up Your Heels The Southern Express Cloggers will dance onto the festival stage at 10 a.m. Saturday. The Albemarle cloggers, which number just under 30 members, specialize in both Appalachian freestyle and precision line dance clogging. “Clogging is good, wholesome fun for the whole family,” says Banks Mabry, director of Southern Express Cloggers. At the Malcolm Blue Festival, the Southern Express Cloggers will perform
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routines to popular country songs. The Quicksilver Cloggers will put the finishing touches on the fun family event as they wind up the entertainment at 4 p.m. Sunday. Founded in 1996, the Quicksilver Cloggers dance to a variety of musical genres, including bluegrass, country and pop. The group primarily does precision line dancing, which is when everyone on the team performs the same steps. Dance members include Jennifer Garner, Sarah Daffron, Aileen Garner, Pam Kennedy, Lou Smith, Brenda Ritter and Bonnie Hanham. Although the group’s home base is Robbins, members come from a number of different areas. Under the direction of Aileen Garner, the Quicksilver Cloggers dance at spring and fall festivals throughout the area, church gatherings and local nursing homes. And, while most of the dancing, Garner says, is for fun and exercise, the group has done some competitive dancing. In fact, the Quicksilver Cloggers competed at the 2009 North Carolina State Fair Folk Festival, placing second in the Traditional Line Dance category (ages 26+).
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Border Collies Lead the Herd BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor
This year, the Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival is going to the dogs, or at least, to the border collies. One of the festival’s most popular demonstration teams will once again be putting on a show. Donald Thomas returns to the festival, bringing several of his registered working border collies to the Malcolm Blue Farm, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 25-26, to give demonstrations of herding, wearing, penning and other techniques. No fancy show dogs here. The border collies Thomas will bring to the festival are true working dogs on his Jackson Springs farm. “We raise cattle, sheep and goats on our farm, and we’ve been using dogs on the farm for about 35 years,” Thomas says. “These dogs can do the work of five men when it comes to herding livestock.” The dogs are fully trained and respond to voice command or shepherd’s whistle, Thomas says. How the border collies react to the various commands will be part of the demonstration at the festival. Thomas and the dogs also will show herding, which, Thomas says, is the management of putting livestock where they need to be. Other demonstrations will include precision driving,
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Civil War Skirmishes, Soldier Identified Relics at 41st Malcolm Blue Festival BY PAUL BRILL Special to The Pilot
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Above and below, the two sides of one of only two or three known period bronze copies of South Carolina Brigadier Nathan G. “Shanks” Evans’ gold medal
The 41st Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival held at the historic Malcolm Blue Farm in Aberdeen, Friday through Sunday, Sept. 24–26, will feature an expanded number of Civil War re-enactors. These re-enactors will include members of the 26th North Carolina Infantry and Cavalry and the 1st N.C. Artillery. At designated times on Saturday and Sunday, Civil War re-enactors of both the infantry and mounted cavalry units on horses will conduct a fire fight attack and skirmish between one another. The artillery cannon also will have scheduled demonstration firings. The Civil War camp is open to the public at all times for informal discussions on camp life, fighting tactics and equipment maintenance. The Civil War camp closes at 5 pm on Sunday. The Malcolm Blue Farm is an official site of the North Carolina Civil War Trails. In addition to the Civil War re-enactors,
a special exhibit of Civil War items and relics used by and associated with specific soldiers from both the Union and Confederate armies will be on display in the Clayton-Blair History Museum.
Ongoing Exhibits Located on the Malcom Blue Farm, the museum has a permanent exhibit of artifacts, maps, graphics and brochures about the Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads. The Battle of Monroe’s Crossroads exhibit gives a detailed review of the battle and events leading into the battle, including Gen. Jordan’s cavalry encampment of about 1,000 men at the old Bethesda Church and the Malcolm Blue Farm on March 9, 1865. The battle was fought on March 10 between the cavalry forces of Confederate Gen. Joseph Wheeler and Union Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, about eight miles from the farm on the present-day Fort Bragg
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South Carolina Brigadier Nathan G. “Shanks” Evans
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were made between 1862 and 1864.
Pieces of History
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Collecting Civil War artifacts is an exciting hobby in which the collector helps to reservation. The Union cavalry was part preserve a piece of history from a critical of General Sherman’s army that was time in our country’s history. But when a moving through Georgia and the Carolinas relic is found that was used or associated en route to the Fayetteville Arsenal, which with a known person from the war, it was eventually destroyed. becomes especially rewarding. Another exhibit, showing the Model 1855 Some examples of soldier specific items Harpers Ferry arsenal rifle, dated 1860, to be presented during the festival include: and a Confederate Fayetteville arsenal I The soldier-marked, Confederaterifle, dated 1863, will made cartridge box be on display along and shoulder sling of with typical bayonets Jeremiah L. Moore used with these rifles. from the 7th N.C. The U.S. Model 1855 State Troops. This On Saturday and Sunday, Civil rifle was the first stanbrave soldier, who was War re-enactors will present a dard military weapon from Iredell County, skirmish and cannon demonstration that used a rifled barwas wounded in the immediately after the scheduled rel for better range leg and captured as a border collie herding demonstrations and accuracy with the POW on the final day, in the meadow behind the Claytonnewly created minie July 3, at the Battle of Blair History Museum. ball. The Model 1855 Gettysburg. Records used the new Maynard indicate, Moore died tape primer caps that from wounds in 1864. replaced the metal percussion caps. This artifact was taken from the battleProduction of these rifles ran between field and was released from a 1857 to early 1861 only at the Harpers Massachusetts museum in 2006, after Ferry Armory with a total of about 7,300 nearly 105 years of storage and display. total guns produced. This Harpers Ferry I One of only two or three known peririfle became the model for the famous od bronze copies of South Carolina Fayetteville Arsenal rifle, of which 8,700 Brigadier Nathan G. “Shanks” Evans’ gold
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Slain Confederate militia officer 1st Lt. James T. Weir’s (23rd S.C. Volunteers) leather sword belt captured in 1862 at the Battle of Kinston, N.C. medal will be shown. The medal was given to him by the South Carolina legislature for his gallantry at the Battle of Balls Bluff near Leesburg, Va., on October 21, 1861. Evans’ deft handling of his brigade dur-
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engraved “G. E. Manigault” on the butt strap will be on display. Gabriel Manigault was from the noted and From Page 18 wealthy Manigault family of Charleston, S.C., and was a member who was honored by his native state of the Charleston Dragoons and Adjutant to Col. Rutledge of the 4th during the war. The general’s gold South Carolina Cavalry. medal resides at the Confederate Capt. Manigault was captured in Museum in Richmond. the famous cavalry battle at I Slain Confederate militia Trevilian Station, Va., in June 1864. officer 1st Lt. James T. Weir’s (23rd He survived the war and was a S.C. Volunteers) leather sword belt, professor at the College of captured in 1862 at the Battle of Charleston until his Kinston, N.C., can be death in 1899. He is viewed. It was taken buried at St. Philips from him by Gary Church in downtown Voorhees, of the 9th Charleston. New Jersey I Finally, a Volunteers, and has handmade drinking an old string tag cup made from a marked “Taken powder horn will be from the body of a CONTRIBUTED on exhibit with a dead C.S.A. captain.” A handmade drinking cup carved soldier’s The Yankee made from a powder horn name of “William soldier mistook the Crawford, Co. G double-bar shoulder 25th SCV, Elmira straps to represent a NY 1865.” captain, as is true for the Union Pvt. Crawford made the cup as a Army, but in the Confederate Army, prisoner of war at the Union Elmira this officer was a first lieutenant. Prison after he was captured on The commanding Confederate genJan. 15, 1865, at Ft. Fisher, N.C. He eral at this battle was Gen. Shanks arrived at the prison on Jan. 30, and Evans. died from pneumonia on March 7. I A Model 1851 Colt navy pistol
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Free Wagon Rides Popular Attraction BY MARTHA J. HENDERSON Special Sections Editor
One of the most popular attractions each year at the Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival is the wagon rides around the farm. The wagon rides will once again be offered at the festival, but with a new man at the reins. Larry Morrison, of Eagle Springs, will be providing the wagon rides to every festival-goer, young or old, who would like to climb aboard for a ride around the Malcolm Blue Farm. “I’m doing this for my daddy,” Morrison says. His father, J.H. Morrison, was asked to do the wagon rides but after committing to the festival he found he had to be out of town. So, Larry Morrison is picking up the reins. Morrison will have two wagons drawn by Belgium horses. The larger team are geldings Ben and Bruce. Mares Dixie and Dolly also will be called into service to help ferry riders around. The horse-drawn wagon rides are provided free of charge with the price of admission to the festival all three days of the festival.
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stools. The lathe, he says, is an electric 1950s Sears and Roebuck model. Festival-goers will see what is involved in the wood-working. This will be Myers’ first appearance at the Malcolm Blue Festival. In addition to offering wood-working demonstrations, Myers will have a number of items available for sale, including benches, stools, hat and coat racks, cutting boards, blanket racks, serving boards and more. Some of the items turned during the festival also will be available for purchase.
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As they have in years past, event organizers will bring together a diverse collection of artisans, re-enactors and craftsmen to display their skills, wares and talents at the 41st Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts and Farmskills Festival, Sept. 24-26. Artisans and crafters will demonstrate skills and trades that were once a necessary part of 19th-century life, including wood-working, pottery-making, basket-making and more. Re-enactors will present a glimpse into the life of a Civil War soldier at an encampment on the farm.
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Gristmill The Malcolm Blue farm’s original gristmill will be up and running during all three days of the festival. Former Malcolm Blue Junior Historian Lance Probst will be operating the gristmill which was refurbished back in the late 1980s. Probst says the gristmill, powered by an old tractor, will be used to grind 1,000 pounds of white corn during the festival. Current Junior Historians will have a booth and be selling the cornmeal made from grinding the USDA-grade white corn, Probst says. Although he lives in Stantonsburg today, Probst grew up by the Malcolm Blue Farm. He says he fell in love with the farm and enjoys sharing his experiences and interests with others during the festival. In addition to demonstrating the gristmill’s operation, Probst will be available to explain the grinding process and answer questions. When talking about the gristmill, Probst says that although it is not a hands-on exhibit, visitors can get close to it to see how it works. “It’s neat to see when it’s running.”
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A weaver practices his craft during last year’s Malcolm Blue Festival.
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Bill Harbour, of Seven Lakes, has been working with leather since he was 16 or 17 years old. Using cowhides, both tanned and coached, Harbour creates a number of leather items, including guitar straps, bracelets, dog collars, checkbook covers, bookmarks and custom camera/cell phone cases. From making molds out of wood to stretching, tooling, sewing and lining the leather, Harbour does every step by hand.
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back to the 12th century) when throwing his pottery reinforces the historical/ spiritual aspect of the craft to him. From Page 21 A production potter when he first started giving demonstrations at the Malcolm Blue Festival in 1976, Hewett His demonstration will allow visitors to see firsthand what is involved in the craft now does what he wants. And not just with his choice of equipment, but also of leathersmithing. with what he Harbour will be creates at his giving demonstrakickwheel. tions all three days Using a blend of of the festival. local clays from He will have a Okeeweemee in number of items Montgomery available for sale, County, Hewett’s including bracelets ware is primarily priced between $2 functional. While and $5, perfect for his favorite form is children. Harbour a jug, Hewett says also will personalhe does everything ize dog collars, from coffee mugs bracelets and and pie plates to bookmarks during bowls and vases. the festival. Hewett says he is influenced by Historic Craft traditional Moore For Moore County potters as County potter Phil well as by 18th and Hewett, his craft CONTRIBUTED 19th century offers him a George Myers works on a project. English and strong connection German potters. with the past. While demonstrating his craft, Hewett His choice to use a traditional see ARTISANS, page 23 kickwheel (the format of which dates
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will offer basic explanations and answer questions throughout the three-day event. He also will have a number of pottery pieces available for purchase.
Blacksmith Ed Snyder likes doing things the old way. A Civil War re-enactor and retired master mechanic from the Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad, Snyder has turned blacksmithing, which was once part of his job at the railroad, into a full-time hobby. Using forges, anvils and hammers very much like his ancestors who fought in the Civil War would have, Snyder makes 18th and 19th century cookware, rifle hooks, tent pegs and other items. “At my home, my set-up is authentic for the time period,” says Snyder, who lives in Rockingham. “There’s no electricity, no running water, a brick forge. Pretty darn close to 100 percent of my equipment is 75 to 100 years old.” Because of his interest in history and the Civil War, Snyder began giving blacksmithing demonstrations at the annual Malcolm Blue Historical Crafts
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Civil War re-enactors talk to schoolchildren during last year’s Malcolm Blue Festival. and Farmskills Festival more than 12 years ago. In order for year-round visitors to the Malcolm Blue Farm to see how a blacksmith shop of that period would be set up, Snyder donated an anvil, anvil
stand and other items to set up a working blacksmith shop on the farm. That shop with the Dutch doors, located near the goats’ pen, is where Snyder will be demonstrating his blacksmithing skills and sharing his knowledge during this
While he won’t be trapping animals during the festival, Paul Tillman will be on hand to educate festival-goers on both the historic and current aspects of trapping wildlife in North Carolina. A certified wildlife agent with the N.C. Wildlife Commission, Tillman is a member of the county Animal Control staff and is informally known as the “critter gitter.” He will share his knowledge of the state’s rules and regulations as well as showing the two types of traps used in his trade. The son of a professional fur trapper who trapped fox, beaver, mink and otter throughout Moore, Richmond and Scotland counties for many years, Tillman says he was born into trapping. “As good as I think I am, if I’m having an issue or problem, I have to call my ‘technical adviser’ — my father,” Tillman says. “He is the master.” Trapping, Tillman says, is a skill or trade one has to learn. “You can’t read a book. Trapping is
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In Mourning
One of the permanent exhibits in the Clayton-Blair History Museum is dedicated to mourning during the Civil War era. Throughout the day on Friday and Saturday, Kelly Hinson, of Jackson Springs, will talk to festival-goers about the mourning customs of the period. Dressed in Civil War-era mourning clothes, Hinson will discuss the mourning customs, including how they were influenced by Queen Victoria, who adopted dressing in black following the death of Prince Albert, as well as the time limits of mourning based on one’s relationship to the deceased. She also will answer questions. A member of the John Blue Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Hinson became interested in mourning customs several years ago when she presented a
THE PILOT — SOUTHERN PINES, N.C. program on Anna Jackson, the widow of Stonewall Jackson. Although she has attended the festival since she was a child, this will be the first year Hinson will be involved as a participant. Hinson also will bring a collection of reproduction clothes for children to try on. The collection includes dresses for girls and soldier costumes for boys in a wide variety of sizes. She also has one adult-sized soldier costume. Parents are invited to bring their cameras to take photos of their children dressed in the Civil War-era reproduction clothes. Hinson will have a variety of props for the photos, including a drum, fife and tin whistles.
Encampment The Sons of Confederate Veterans Scotch Riflemen Camp 2001, Moore County, will set up an encampment during the festival. Festival-goers who visit the encampment will have a chance to understand what life would have been like for a soldier during the Civil War. According to Marshall Caddell, a charter member of the Moore County Scotch Riflemen, the camp will offer
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visitors a living history. The camp will include tents, cooking over open fires and musket firing demonstrations. Dressed as Civil War-era Confederate soldiers, members will be available to answer questions and share their insight on soldiers’ lives. The Sons of Confederate Veterans Scotch Riflemen is a heritage organization and is not political, Caddell says. Its mission is to carry on Southern heritage. The national group begin in 1986. Members must have an ancestor who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces. Caddell is a descendant of Neill B. Caddell, who was with the 49th N.C. Infantry. Visitors to the encampment are invited to sample some hardtack. Described by Caddell as a forerunner of saltine crackers, hardtack is made from water, flour and salt. Extremely hard, it could be soaked in grease or milk to soften enough to eat. Hardtack was a staple of Civil War soldiers’ diets. “Basically, it was a way for soldiers to carry flour with them,” Caddell says.
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