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Coffee Break Events and Items of Interest in Baldwin County
• Montrose Marketplace invites you join us for the Feel Good Weekend event on September 28-30!Friday 12p9p, Saturday 9a-5p, Sunday 1p-4p • Performing Arts Association of Foley announces Vino & Van Gogh Painting Parties for 2012 – 2013. Mark your Calendars for our first event on September 20th for a great night out. All participants will paint a masterpiece and enjoy great company, good food, fine wine and door prizes. This is great fun for beginners as well as, advanced artists. The cost is $30 per person. This price includes your supplies, food and beverages. Groups are welcome, the more the merrier. Future dates include November 29th, January 24th, and March 21st. Each session will feature a different picture so come and do them all. We also book private parties of 10 or more. Please contact us for a time and date. Vino & Van Gogh and is a great way to host a bridal shower, baby shower, birthday parties, (adult or child) or any social gathering. • Elsanor Community Center, 23741 US Hwy. 90 in Robertsdale. ELSANOR FALL FESTIVAL OCT. 20th, 7AM - 2PM. Come join us! Rent a table for $15 & sell your yard sale stuff. Bring your arts & crafts, too. Inside tables available for rental. We will have games for the kids, raffles, drawings and a cake sale. Proceeds benefit our children of Elsanor to help Santa. Accepting new toy donations for boys and girls to age 16. For more info call CAROL 251- 942-1371 or JEANNIE 251-424-7032. FUN GALORE FOR EVERYONE! • Cruise-In at the Foley Sonic on the third Friday of each month. Classic, modern and antique cars are welcome. Walk around and visit 5-8:30pm. • GULF SHORES AMERICAN LEGION POST 44. 6781 GULF SHORES PKWY, GULF SHORES. 948-6110. MEMBERS, GUESTS & GENERAL PUBLIC WELCOME. Gulf Shores American Legion Post 44, located on Hwy 59 just south of County Rd 8, is open for members, guests and the general public 7 days a week. Bring your friends and family and hang out in a friendly setting, with or without TV. Or schedule your group of up to 50 people to meet in our private meeting room. Monday Night Bingo – 6 until Tuesday night enjoy a prime rib dinner with live music - 5 – 8; Wednesday enjoy a Spaghetti dinner - 5 to 7 Thursday Morning Bingo – 10 until Friday night enjoy a steak dinner with live music – 5 – 11 Saturday – Sports T/V Sunday – Sports T/V and at 4 – 8 pm, enjoy short order food with live. There is no cover charge unless advertised otherwise. Live dance music by Musicman & Co is the best you’ll find on the coast, bar none. Call 948-6119 for more info. • Bluegrass by the Tracks @ Wales West in Silverhill every Tuesday and Friday night 7pm-9pm, weather permitting. For more info, visit www.waleswest.com. • Moonlight Chasse’ Ballroom Dance Society meets the first and third Monday of each month @ Fitzpen Place in Spanish Fort at 7pm. Dance Lessons 7-7:30pm, Salsa, Cha Cha, Swing, Rumba, Waltz, etc. 7:30-10pm. Visit www.moonlightchasse.com for more info. • Peaceful, Concerned Citizens Wanting Better Government Open Meeting, every Tuesday at 6:30pm at the Fairhope Public Library. Call 251-298-7899 or 251-942-7829 for more info. • Friends and Family of Addicts/Alcoholics meet every Thursday 6-8pm at The Shoulder in Daphne. Please call 251-626-2199.
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• Eastern Shore Fly Fishers meet every third Thursday of each month at 6:30pm @ Fairhope Yacht Club. For more info visit www.easternshoreflyfishers.com • Model Train exhibit @ Foley Railroad Museum every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 10am-2pm. Visit www. foleyrailroadmuseum.com for more info. • Senior Adult Fun and Fitness every Monday and Thursday @ 3pm at The First Baptist Church of Bay Minette. Call 251-937-9536 for more info. • Vendors wanted for the 50th annual Christmas Bazaar at St. Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church 601 W Laurel Ave in Foley. Date of the bazaar is Saturday, December 1, 2012, 8am - 4pm. Electricity available on a first come first serve basis for vendors. For more information or to reserve your spot contact Cathy at (251) 9430505 or e-mail cl.badger@yahoo.com • Oak Hollow Farm is a family-owned and operated event venue situated on 300 acres of green pastures and majestic oak trees. For more information or to tour the property for your upcoming function, call (251) 9284840 or go to www.OakHollowFarm.net. • North Baldwin Community Concerts will have a Bake Sale fundraiser booth at Market Days on Oct. 27th, 7am – until @ Blackburn Park, East 1st St. and North Hoyle Ave. in Bay Minette. Do you have an upcoming event you’d like to share in Coffee Break? Please email submissions to publisher@tibditsbc.com at least two weeks in advance.
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Faith in My Family One night, when I was still a small child, my parents told me about a tragic event that had happened six years before I was born. My father’s brother Terry had been carelessly murdered by a man who stabbed him in the back. Of course my dad’s heart had been broken, and for many years now my sweet, gentle and hard-working father had carried a lot of anger, and when he dreamed, he dreamed of revenge. Though this was always on my father’s mind, we never discussed or even mentioned this horrible event. But one time I did ask him the name of the man who had murdered Terry, and I will never forget the icy cold tone of voice that he had, when for the only time in his life I heard him speak this man’s name. My father tried to keep it all inside, and it was slowly destroying him. Anger and bitterness were taking a heavy toll on him, emotionally and physically. Though I was just a boy, I could see he was hurting a lot, but I was helpless to do anything about it. Several years passed, until one day something happened that turned everything around. It was a cold and rainy Sunday, and we had all gone to church that morning. When we returned home, my father wasn’t with us. It rained heavily all that afternoon, and my brothers and my mother and I stayed inside, but he was gone. I didn’t know where Dad was or when he would be back. Then, sometime around four o’clock that afternoon, we heard the front door open.
It was still raining as my father quietly stepped inside, took off his coat and hat, and closed his umbrella. He stood in the doorway, not moving. Looking across the room at my mother, he spoke very softly. Tears were in his eyes. A look of peacefulness was on his face. With a trembling voice he began to cry as he spoke. “Kate, I’m free! I’m FREE!”
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hurting the man who had killed his brother. That man was in prison somewhere, totally unaware of what my father was thinking or feeling. No, my father was only hurting himself and those of us who loved him. And when he forgave, it was HIMSELF that was set free! The most tragic thing is not what someone says or does to hurt us, as bad as that might be. But the worse thing is what we do to hurt ourselves when we don’t forgive.
What had happened was that my father had spent the afternoon with the church pastor. He had poured out his heart to God, and had finally, after twenty long years, forgiven the man who killed his brother! For over half of his life, my father had let what that man had done rob him of rest, plague him with bitterness, destroy his nerves, and ulcerate his stomach. Now, he had finally put it behind him.
Have you ever heard somebody say something like, “I will never forget what she said to me?” How long did it take for her to say it? Maybe four seconds? And yet we remember it for days, or months, or years, before finally we see how warped that is.
Later he explained to me that, as the pastor had told him, forgiveness doesn’t mean you approve of, nor do you agree with, a wrong that was done.
It doesn’t mean that it doesn’t still hurt.
When we are honest about it, we know that we ourselves are often in the wrong and need to be forgiven by God and by others. Likewise, we all have also been hurt by somebody. Maybe it was careless or unintentional. Or maybe it was deliberate and mean. It doesn’t matter. He commands that we forgive others who have wronged us. And He commands this, not just for them, but for US, so that WE can be free.
It just means you decide to turn it loose, so it can turn you loose. Dad had finally, simply, let it go. At long last he was free– free to love, to laugh, to enjoy his family, to get on with this wonderful gift that we call life. After that, my father lived nearly thirty more years.
The thought occurs to me that since God has indeed forgiven me for all that I have done, and since my father could forgive the man who had hurt him so much, I should have no problem forgiving anybody who ever hurt me– anybody, any time, anywhere, in any way.
What I am hoping to relate to you in this story is this simple but profound truth: when my father was angry and bitter, he was not
One more thought. If you do forgive... or if you don’t... you don’t even have to say anything. Your children will know.
It doesn’t mean that wrong is right.
Forgiveness is required of all of us if we are to keep any sanity at all.
[ Condensed from “Broken Roads to Grace” by Jim Lee. For more information or to buy the book, go to www.brokenroadstograce.com , or call Jim at (251) 510-7141 ]
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LETTERS FROM THE PAST An article recently submitted by the Baldwin County Heritage Museum, entitled “What is Heritage Worth.” asked the public to assist our non-profit museum by various means- financially being the most important one at this time- to help preserve the heritage of the family and early farm culture of Baldwin County.
The response was surprising in some respect, because several generous donations were received by the museum from Baldwin citizens who believe, as I do, that BCHM is a special place. And that it is worthy of its citizen’s support and be allowed to continue, not only as a forum for the education and entertainment of our citizens and visitors, young and old, but also as a repository for our County’s significant artifacts and documents from early community life long into the future. One such document is a letter which was written to the museum in August, 1989, by a then 80 year old gracious lady, recalling some fond and humorous episodes of her youth in Elberta, which I would like to share with our public. The following is the text of her letter (last names omitted to protect family privacy) which, in its simplicity and the images that it evokes, I believe you will find, as did I, simply extremely enjoyable and entertaining.
“Dear Mr. _______,
August, 1989
Last May my friend Edith _____(nee ____), while visiting in Alabama, stopped to see your Museum and found her father’s tailor iron on display there. My family and the _____family, along with three other families, migrated to Elberta, Alabama in 1919 and our farm and the ______’s farm were side by side. My family consisted of my father Leonhardt _____, my mother Kathi, a brother Frank, me (Anna) now Anne ______of Glenolden, Pennsylvania, and a sister Elizabeth who died of pneumonia while still a baby. I would like to tell you a little history of our stay in Elberta, Alabama. Perhaps it would be of interest to someone visiting your Museum. There was little to do but work, so on Saturday night the desks in the one room schoolhouse were moved to the side and my father and Mr. ______would play the accordion and everyone danced. The ladies bake cakes and made coffee and the men hid their ‘bottles’ behind different fence posts so they could take a ‘nip’ now and then. When I was about ten years old (I am now 80) the family would go into the fields and burn out tree stumps while I sat in a little shack watching drips from the still. I was always frightened the Revenooers would come and arrest me. The people only made whiskey for their own use (medicinal and a little pleasure) because they were miles away from any doctor. For instance, when someone had a toothache we held a mouthful of whiskey on the side where the tooth hurt and the toothache went away.
We raised vegetables, but our main crop was sweet potatoes which we sold in Florida. My father took me along on one of the trips (by mule and wagon) to huckster the sweet potatoes and we had to spend the night in a shack shared by everyone on their way to Florida to sell their crop. When Pop and I reached Florida the next day it began to rain and we each ran to different porches for shelter. The one I ran to had a little girl my age sitting there. We began to talk as children would and her mother immediately came out and ordered her to come in. I really didn’t understand why, but I must have looked like a ragamuffin and her mother didn’t want her to associate with me. We were just two little girls from two different worlds-talking! There was a large swimming hole nearby our farm with water as clear as crystal and just as cold. On Saturday entire families would take soap and towels down to the old swimming hole a have a bath there (while the weather was warm). Even with people taking baths and using soap the water was always clean and clear. On the way home we would take turns stopping at different houses for watermelon, which was kept in a well and was ice cold. After our refreshments we went home clean and happy. I am enclosing a pair of scissors that my father (Leonhardt _____) used to cut hair while we were living in Elberta. Also enclosed is a picture that I had enlarged of the Bartel School (the one room schoolhouse) and the entire six classes being taught there at the time. My nephew, Frank ____, Jr. of Philadelphia and I still own the forty (40) acres in Elberta. P.S. We sent to Montgomery Ward for our shoes. We would wear them, and before we got where we were going, we hid them under a bush and picked
them up on our way home.
Sincerely, Anne ______(nee _____)”
It’s these special stories from the past, be they about family, friends or things, which people remember and convey, that will hopefully provide ours and future generations an understanding of the extraordinary effort these pioneers made to make Baldwin County the special place it is today. And to ensure that our history endures, I take the liberty to close with BCHM’s motto: “Join today, to remember yesterday, and to be a part of tomorrow.” Ralph Veller Chairman, BCHM
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