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POETRY OUT LOUD
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Appreciation Celebration 13 Holiday Family Movie Night 14 TDDA, TLT and TFAC Holiday Happening
DEPARTMENTS 7 Movers & Shakers
A Black History Month Celebration Banquet
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Poetry Out Loud
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Landrum’s Designing Women
COLUMNS 28 Much Ado
Not Solving Any Problems Here: Just Hanging On
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Healthy for the New Year
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ONE LAST THING 65 Art in the Snow
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ne of my favorite things to do, when I can catch a few moments, is disappear into the quiet of the 12-inch-thick walled vault at the core of the Tryon Daily Bulletin building, left over from the days when the building housed a bank. (It would make the perfect bomb shelter but let’s hope it doesn’t ever come to that.) Lining the walls are shelves of bound volumes of newspapers dating back to the late 20s, some yellowed and crumbling with age. Recently I was searching through the volumes that coincided with the World War II years for a story about a Tryon notable. Naturally I got slowed down. Scanning and quickly flipping pages turned into pulling up a chair and settling in
Managing Editor Claire Sachse
Contributors Jimmi Buell Michelle Fleming Heather Freeman Steven Green Alex Greene Judy Heinrich Catherine Hunter Erik Olsen Claire Sachse Mark Schmerling Vincent Verrecchio Steve Wong
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for a long, slow read. The newspapers in that vault are better than any 10th grade history textbook. I studied WWII out of a textbook, written by a textbook writer detached from any personal connection to the war, writing about places too far away to fathom, about people whose lives and names I would never know. Our newspapers, on the other hand, tell about Green Creek families (with surnames you’ll still hear today) who sent sons to war and who shared their letters home, about Tryon women who had to ration sugar, about war-time marriage announcements, about how daily life was in one way or another interrupted if not overshadowed by a great national purpose. Will, 90 years from now, an editor of the Tryon Daily Bulletin (not me) be able to retreat to a quiet vault to read about life in the Foothills in 2018? What will they glean about our world? Will they wonder who this Trump person was that nobody likes? Will there even be newspapers in 2108? Perhaps that is the more pertinent question, and only time will tell. I hope so. I hope the “old school” types like myself somehow figure out how to preserve the tangible, paper medium. And specifically, the quirky, “hyper-local,” community-focused paper that is affectionately known as “The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper.” (There is a publication out West that has tried to challenge us on that moniker, but we’re having none of it!) So, please join us this month as we celebrate a big birthday, our 90th. Starting on page 20, is a story about how the paper gets to press every day and the people involved. As always, we thank you for buying and reading the paper, commenting, patronizing our advertisers, and recognizing the value we strive to give readers with each and every issue. Plus, it’s a little bit of history in your hands, every day.
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he Grown Man Club, Inc. will be presenting “Watch Me Lead, Watch Me Make Change,” a banquet in celebration of Black History Month. Come join us as we celebrate the birth of our non-profit organization and share our future endeavors. The music, food and fun is happening at the Tryon Depot Room, 22 Depot St., Tryon on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018 starting at 5:30 p.m.. Contact event organizer Steven Green at 864-541-4912 for more information.
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Through mid-January EXHIBIT: BONNIE BARDOS Holy Cross Gallery 150 Melrose Ave., Tryon Jan. 2, 7 p.m. FILM SERIES: PRISONER OF 2ND AVENUE Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon 828-859-8322 or tryonarts.org Jan. 4, 6 p.m. LITERARY OPEN STAGE Lanier Library 72 Chestnut St., Tryon 828-859-9535 or lanierlib.org
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Jan. 6, 10 a.m. BOOK LOVERS’ CLUB Lanier Library 72 Chestnut St., Tryon 828-859-9535 or lanierlib.org
Jan. 9, 10:30 a.m. GREAT COURSES LECTURE SERIES: PIANO SOLOS WITH ELIZABETH CHILD Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon 828-859-8322 or tryonarts.org Jan. 16, 12 p.m. LIVE@LANIER PRESENTS HAPPY MCLEOD, TRYON HISTORICAL MUSEUM Lanier Library 72 Chestnut St., Tryon 828-859-9535 or lanierlib.org Jan. 16, 7 p.m. STAGE DOOR SERIES: BACKSTAGE WITH THE BARD Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon 828-859-8322 or tryonarts.org
Jan. 17, 2 p.m. RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP OF THE LAND AND WATERS OF POLK COUNTY Tryon Garden Club 828-859-9021 Jan. 18, 7 p.m. SOMETHING DIFFERENT: DECADA Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon 828-859-8322 or tryonarts.org Jan. 20, 6 p.m. MARTIN LUTHER KING CELEBRATION Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon 828-817-0531 Jan. 25, 6 p.m. JOHN LANE ANTHROPOCENE BLUES: POEMS Lanier Library 72 Chestnut St., Tryon 828-859-9535 or lanierlib.org
Jan. 26, 8 p.m. TRYON CONCERT ASSOCIATION PRESENTS STEPHEN HOUGH Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon 828-859-8322 or tryonarts.org Jan. 30, 7 p.m. LEADING LADIES FILM SERIES: DEFENDING YOUR LIFE Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon 828-859-8322 or tryonarts.org Jan. 27-March 9 OLOF SORENSEN: NORTHERN LIGHTS Upstairs Artspace 49 S. Trade St., Tryon 828-859-2828 or upstairsartspace.org
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Photographs by Mark Schmerling The Tryon Downtown Development Association together with Tryon Little Theater and Tryon Fine Arts Center hosted a Holiday Happening networking event at Sunnydale on Dec. 6, 2017. 1. Mrs. Claus, Santa, and Wanda May 2. Carol Browning 3. Robin Edgar 4. Rodger Walker 5. Lydia Yuenger 6. Susan Woodcock OPPOSITE PAGE 7. Jerry Thomas and Jean Wagner 8. Jamie Carpenter and Anne Day 9. Michelle Fleming 10. Marianne Carruth 11. Dean Trakas and Kirk Gollwitzer
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Poetry Out Loud BY MICHELLE FLEMING
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The six finalists are senior Matt Loman, freshman Ellie Booth, junior Jillian Snyder, sophomore Ariel Ballard, junior Sadie Rogers, and sophomore Grace Bayse.
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igh school students in Polk County are used to competing. Polk County schools are ranked second in the state for academics, and they’re known for their prowess competing in track and field, football, volleyball, and more. Now, they’re competing on a national playing field with…poetry! Students in Ms. Heather Wright’s English classes at Polk County Early College are participating in the nationwide Poetry Out Loud program, learning about great poetry with the added fun of competitive recitations. Tryon Fine Arts Center and Lanier Library have partnered with Ms. Wright to facilitate Polk County’s inaugural experience with Poetry Out Loud. Since 2005, Poetry Out Loud has grown to reach more than three million students and 50,000 teachers from 10,000 schools in every state, Washington, D.C., the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Poetry Out Loud uses a pyramid structure that starts at the classroom level. Winners advance to a school-wide competition, then to a state competition, and ultimately to the National Finals. This program helps students master public speaking skills, build self-confidence, and learn about literary history and contemporary life. “Poetry Out Loud is a national program promoted by the NC Arts Council,” explained Marianne Carruth, TFAC executive director. “It was suggested to me by TFAC’s NC Arts Council contacts to support the school in this program. I presented it to Mrs. Ronette Dill as a way TFAC could partner with the schools. Ms. Wright had already heard about the program and this was the encouragement she needed to take it on.” “I think that Poetry Out Loud has been incredibly ben-
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Junior Sadie Rogers recites her poem “Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost.
eficial for my students,” said Ms. Wright, also the district coordinator for the new initiative. “The program requires students to dig into poetry and see what it means, what it sounds like, and how it feels. Poetry is just one of those amazing things that creates bridges between cultures, generations, and lives. It’s a uniting force and that is always a beautiful thing.” Local students seemed to agree, with nearly a dozen PCEC 9th through 12th graders participating in the classroom level of the tiered competition. “Poetry has always been a part of my life, but this was something I have never done before. I started to watch others perform poetry, acting as vessels for the poets. It was magical. I wanted to do that, too,” said competitor Jillian Snyder, a junior at PCEC. Students selected poems that spoke to them personally and—with a little ‘acting’ coaching from Tryon Fine Arts Center staff—recited them for a panel of local educators and poetry enthusiasts. Judges Beth McCallister, Ronette Dill, Marianne Carruth, and Lanier Library Executive Director Amber Keeran analyzed the recitations for accuracy, dramatic appropriateness, articulation, and students’ understanding. Six of the top recitations made it to the school-wide level, held at TFAC in early December. The stakes were higher at the school-level competition, with Arial Ballard, Grace Bayse, Ellie Booth, Matt Loman, Sadie Rogers, and Jillian Synder each reciting three poems from TFAC’s Veh Stage. “Poetry isn’t as hard to perform as I originally thought,” said Sadie Rogers, the runner-up from the school level contest. “It actually was quite fun and exhil18
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Heather Wright poses with the judges before the school-level competition. Left-right: Heather Wright, Greg Lobas, Mark Monaghan, Connie Clark, Frances Flynn.
arating to stand on the stage, with only myself and a microphone and the poems I practiced. I also learned that poetry is not just rhyming words on a piece of paper, but rather a story and feelings from a person.” Poetry selections ranged from Edgar Allan Poe and Anne Bradstreet to Robert Frost and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Judges Connie Clark, Greg Lobas, Mark Monaghan, and Frances Flynn had a tough job selecting the top student, but by using Poetry Out Loud’s national guidelines, PCEC senior Matt Loman was selected as the 2017-2018 winner for the Early College. Matt said his win was unexpected, but he was excited to “share something with my community. I wanted to be able to take something, like a poem, that spoke to me and be able to iterate that back to others in hopes of it speaking to them as well.” Matt now moves on to the district competition, and will face off with a representative from Polk County High School this winter. The winner of the district contest will compete in the state Poetry Out Loud finals in Greensboro in March of 2018. Support from TFAC and Lanier Library will cover travel costs for the student and chaperone to represent Polk County at the state level and potentially on the national stage. It’s an auspicious start to a new educational initiative. “The reception of the program has been phenomenal at the Early College,” said Ms. Wright. “We hope to have another group of participants next year!” For more information on the Poetry Out Loud competition, and TFAC’s Arts in Education programs, contact Marianne Carruth at 828-859-8322 or marianne@ tryonarts.org. • FOOTHILLS MAGAZINE January 2018
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Reporters Catherine Hunter (left) and Leah Justice (right) meet weekly with Managing Editor Claire Sachse to plan and discuss stories and assign coverage. Sachse notes, “Both are trained and experienced journalists and what better name for a reporting team than Hunter and Justice.” (Photo by Verrecchio)
Life Between the Deadlines Tryon Daily Bulletin turns 90 BY VINCENT VERRECCHIO
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don’t know how you do it!” I exclaimed. “Five days a week, year around, and 90 years old on January 31. I really think there’s a story here.” At her desk, Claire Sachse, managing editor, leaned forward. Her smile shifted from an amused “you’re kidding me” to a bemused “you’re serious.” I surmised it would take some convincing to overcome her misgivings about running a story about the Tryon Daily Bulletin in the sister publication of Foothills Magazine. But it was my belief that at 16 North Trade Street in Tryon, a lean staff of our
neighbors was somehow getting out “The World’s Smallest Daily Newspaper” on routinely claustrophobic deadlines in a tough business. Too few readers knew how it’s done, including me, and I wanted to know. The first US daily newspaper began publishing in 1784. Growth of the dailies peaked in 1910 at about 2,200 papers. In 1928, the Tryon Daily Bulletin became one of about 1,950 papers. Over the decades, while giant dailies fell, the original Curb Reporter, Seth Vining, Sr., and those who followed, continued to gather news and memories that page by page contributed to a sense of local
community and heritage. To me this is an accomplishment. Consider statistics from the Brookings Institution. Between 1945 and 2014, daily newspaper circulation per capita declined from 35 percent to under 15 percent. The number of dailies in 2014 was down to 1,331. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, newspaper publishers lost more than half their employees from 2001 to 2016, from 412,000 to 174,000. Despite the turbulence, the Bulletin staff today steadily adds to the nearly unbroken historical record that started with Issue 1, and the front page headFOOTHILLS MAGAZINE January 2018
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Some ghosts on the third floor are silent remnants of the obsolete technologies of engraved photographic plates and linotype matrices. One ghost, however, goes bang in the night as reported by objective news people who work late, alone. Perhaps it’s a former barber from the basement whose name was misspelled in an obituary. (Photo by Verrecchio)
On the same day of March 4, 1929, a home burned without casualties in Tryon and Herbert Hoover was inaugurated in Washington. A routine news day locally and nationally but October 29 was coming. Through the desperate years, the Bulletin stayed afloat to record the personal impact of the Great Depression in the homes and businesses of the Foothills. (Photo by Verrecchio)
line “Tryon Chamber of Commerce Elects New Officers Saturday.” That was not history on the national level with headlines about Coolidge, Lindbergh, or Capone, but history of significance nonetheless for knowing and appreciating the facts and opinions, triumphs and sorrows, and the “daily doings” in the Foothills. “Everyone here is so wrapped up in 22
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Within the hush of the former vault of the Bank of Tryon waits a treasure of almost 100 years of memories. Many are bound, others are boxed, and some are simply stacked. Only one month screams out as missing, December 1941. (Photo by Verrecchio)
the day-to-day commotion that they take for granted what’s being accomplished,” I said. “For example, how does the Friday edition get out?” Wednesday, 6 a.m., Claire sits in bed, coffee cup on the side table and computer on her lap. First email to download is a story about an upcoming cultural event. Submitted without ticket prices, it’s good to go. Next story un-
forgivably reads like an ad and the third reports Bigfoot on Melrose. No photos attached. The fourth email is a sweet “thank you” from a recent widow that deserves immediate response. The writer was grateful that the Bulletin, unlike other newspapers, ran the photo of her husband without cropping the military medals on his chest. Before Claire gets to the end of the email list, the dregs of her
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At a rate of 8,000 impressions per hour the printed web is automatically split, paginated, cut, and folded, usually into a 24 or 32-page edition depending on ad volume. (Photo by Verrecchio)
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The front page on Valentine’s Day 1942 featured a worrisome love story about some of the first Polk County men saying goodbye to sweethearts and family. As World War II progressed, names of those who would never return saddened the pages. (Photo by Verrecchio)
With massive 1,000-pound rolls of newsprint stacked behind her, Claire Sachse’s job description is to turn the blank paper into news that will ultimately inform, engage, and, she hopes, entertain. (Photo by Verrecchio)
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On Sept. 12, 2001, the Bulletin brought home the tragedy of the preceding day. (Photo by Verrecchio)
Among other duties, Assistant Pressman Jamie Lewis manually inserts color advertising supplements into each issue and then jogs the papers into stacks for a final edge trim. (Photo by Verrecchio)
negatives and metal plates still processed in safety light conditions. Pressroom Manager Jeff Allison started as an ad inserter 15 years ago and learned hands-on how to coax the 1976 offset press into reliable performance. Today with help from Alex Greene, Jamie Lewis, and Conner Peeler, the press starts as usual at 4 p.m. “30 minutes to run,” says Jeff. “With ad supplements, it’s about another four hours for insertion and bagging for the Post Office. Our driver needs about five hours to stock boxes from Saluda to Inman in time for Friday.” “What do you think?” I tried to nudge Claire to a positive decision. “As a close, you could give your vision for the paper.” She hesitated long enough that I was beginning to think she wasn’t going to answer. Then, “90 years from now, if someone would read today’s paper, I’d want them to get an accurate feeling of this community and who we were.” • A photo waits in all things, all places, and everyone with a passion has a story to be told. That’s the perspective Vince Verrecchio, lightly retired ad agency creative director, brings as a writer and photographer contributing to Foothills Magazine. He can be reached at vincent.verrecchio@ gmail.com. FOOTHILLS MAGAZINE January 2018
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Not Solving Any Problems Here: Just Hanging On BY STEVE WONG
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The problems of the world at large or just the tiny corner called the Carolina Foothills are certainly beyond my ability to solve. I am that guy who sits quietly off to the side taking it all in to be processed by the imperfect machine of body, mind, and soul. Whether you like it or not, “Happy New Year” because 2018 is here. January is always that transitional month on everyone’s calendar, a time to look back with fondness and regret at the good times and the bad; a time to look forward with hope and trepidation at what lies before us. We made it through another maddening rush of the Holiday Season, when Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years all blur together, only to be faced with $75-per-dozen roses for Valentine’s Day. I, for one, am especially sensitive to January 2018 because it marks the last year of the decade that I can by some liberal definition call myself middle-age. I resolve to not let the Thanksgiving turkey carcass and Christmas hambone stay in the freezer until Easter, which is when I normally give them to the dogs. I resolve to give real-florist roses no matter how much they cost. Bi Lo roses just don’t say, “I Love You,” but you do get extra Plenti points. I resolve to believe the adage, “Age is only a number,” instead of “You are only as old as you feel.” Right now, people all over the world are taking stock of their lives. By the time you read this, we may very well be at war or have a presidentially endorsed accused pedophile in our congress. Probably, we will still be wringing
our hands over budget cuts, taxes, healthcare, national debt, and morning tweets. And, just when we thought the war between the sexes was over, lost, or won, the women have brought out the big guns and the men are in full retreat. I resolve to stop drinking my morning coffee while reading upto-moment international news in “zoomed-in view” nine-point type on my cell phone. I can wait for the 7 a.m. CBS morning news (I sure do miss Charlie Rose) and the daily newspaper, both of which are easier to drink when half asleep and drinking hot caffeine. Closer to home, most of us are really proud of how downtown Tryon has spruced up and grown during the past few months. Landrum continues to be the cutest small town around. Saluda is both figuratively and physically above it all. And, Columbus is holding steady. And, yet, we are bewildered why the Chamber of Commerce is in the red. Who misses the Blue Ridge BBQ and Music Festival besides me? We are primping and prepping for the World Equestrian Games, and in whispered voices asking, “Will it be sustainable after the anticipated 500,000 equestrians come and go?” “Will it boom our local economy?” “Will it further secure Polk County’s place on the map of happening
places?” Only time will tell. The problems of the world at large or just the tiny corner called the Carolina Foothills are certainly beyond my ability to solve. I am that guy who sits quietly off to the side taking it all in to be processed by the imperfect machine of body, mind, and soul. Greater men than I have been elected by their peers to tackle such questions. I ponder in hopes of a better tomorrow, and cherish the time that and the people who have been allotted to my life. I resolve to write more fiction because “Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events,” so said South Korean writer Young-Ha Kim. I resolved “to accept the things that cannot be changed, the courage to change the things that should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” Sound familiar? Here’s to 2018! It is here, and so are we. Good luck!• Steve Wong is a writer living in the peach orchards in Gramling, S.C. He can be reached online at Just4Wong@Gmail.com.
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portion sizes, more calories and fat, fewer fruits and vegetables, less whole grains and fiber, and higher cost. In fact, there is a growing body of evidence that says when we eat out, we are likely to eat more calories than we need and people who eat out more often are more likely to be an unhealthy weight. Research shows that individuals and families who eat more foods at home consume a healthier diet. Eating and preparing more meals at home is a big step towards eating healthy. Eating at home means having more control over what we eat and how much we eat. When we eat at home (or carry food with us from home) we usually eat more fruits and vegetables and fewer calories. Enjoying meals at home is important to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Eating at home can also save you money, because it is less expensive. Buying fruits and vegetables in season is more affordable and is a great way to experiment with fresh and different foods. Each season brings its own unique foods. So, what does winter have to offer? You might be surprised by the variety.
Since most fruits and vegetables can be found year-round in the grocery store, it can be difficult to determine which ones truly are “in season.” A wide variety of things can be found this time of year including turnips, broccoli, leafy greens with asparagus and spinach showing up before the first sign of spring. If you like kale, it can be found almost year round and even locally. Check out the local winter market in Columbus, open every Saturday morning. If you like kale, as I do, here’s a great recipe for kale salad on page 31. Jimmi Buell, Extension Agent, Family and Consumer Sciences, Polk County Center of the NC Cooperative Extension Service, teaches cooking and nutrition classes with a focus on improving health with better food choices. She can be reached at jimmi_buell@ncsu.edu or 828-894-8218.
Kale Salad From the Smitten Kitchen
INGREDIENTS 1/2 cup (105 grams or 3 3/4 ounces) walnut halves or pieces 1/4 cup (45 grams or 1 1/2 ounces) golden raisins 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar 1 tablespoon water 1/4 cup panko (15 grams or 1/2 ounce) or slightly coarse homemade breadcrumbs (from a thin slice of hearty bread) 1 tiny clove garlic, minced or pressed Coarse or kosher salt
3 tablespoons olive oil 1 bunch (about 14 ounces or 400 grams) Tuscan kale (also known as black or lacinato kale, this is the thinner, flatter leaf variety), washed and patted dry 2 ounces (55 grams) pecorino cheese, grated or ground in a food processor (1/2 cup total) Juice of half a lemon Freshly ground black pepper or red pepper flakes, to taste
DIRECTIONS Prepare walnuts: Heat oven to 350. Toast walnuts on a baking sheet for 10 minutes, tossing once. Let cool and coarsely chop. Prepare raisins: In a small saucepan over low heat, simmer white wine vinegar, water and raisins for 5 minutes, until plump and soft. Set aside in liquid. Prepare crumbs: Toast bread crumbs, garlic and 2 teaspoons of the olive oil in a skillet together with a pinch of salt until golden. Set aside. Prepare kale: Trim heavy stems off kale and remove ribs. I always find removing the ribs annoying with a knife, because the leaves want to roll in on the knife and make it hard to get a clean cut. Instead, I’ve taken to tearing the ribs off with my fingers, which is much easier for me. Stack sections of leaves and roll them into a tube, then cut them into very thin ribbons crosswise. Tear kale into bite size pieces. Fill a bowl and drizzle olive oil over it. Add sea salt and massage it until it is about half the amount. Add walnuts and craisins. Best if made a day ahead. Then add balsamic vinegar or glaze. Or could add any type of nuts and avocado. Or you can add other fruit and use lemon juice instead of balsamic.
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Designing Women BY CATHERINE HUNTER / PHOTOS BY MARK SCHMERLING
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From the kitchen to the bedroom, the ladies of Fresh Décor use locally sourced, green furnishings and decor to help make any room warm and inviting. OPPOSITE PAGE: Landrum’s designing women Kim Karaman and Ginny Ezell have opened an interior design shop in the Shops of Landrum on E. Rutherford St.
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t’s not very often a person’s dream walks in the door, but it happened twice for Kim Karaman, owner of the Shops at Landrum Antique Mall. Karaman and her husband, Mike Karaman, bought the old antique mall in 1999. Karaman thought she was simply buying real estate, but in January 2017, fate walked through the door in the form of designer Ginny Ezell. Ezell said she was looking for a place to expand her current design business, Regeneration Interiors. “I had heard people talk about Landrum,” said Ezell. “They said it was quaint, cute and charming.” However, when Ezell first walked into the Shops of Landrum in January of 2017, manager Casey Gillespie didn’t realize Karaman was thinking of opening a design business. “She [Gillespie] said they didn’t have any space to rent,” Ezell said. The mall was full of antiques at the time. Long time dealer, Doug Morgan, rents most of one side under the name “The Thrill of The Hunt” which Kim Karaman features horse and fox hunting themed antiques. FOOTHILLS MAGAZINE January 2018
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Fresh Décor co-owner Ginny Ezell has worked in the design industry for most of her life and loves to help clients choose the best colors and materials for their homes.
Sandy Burn, owner of Olive and Then Some out of Spartanburg, rents a space in the front of the mall to sell premium olive oils and vinegars from around the world. Another dealer, Colleen Bircher, rents enough space to sell estate jewelry and a mixture of small accessories. In the center of the mall is High Cotton Mercantile owned by Karaman, but mostly rented out to Charlotte Hall, who has had a booth at the Shops of Landrum for 27 years. Karaman describes High Cotton Mercantile as a boutique that sells small gifts, jewelry, collegiate clothing, accessories, and seasonal items such as beach towels, hats, tote bags or scarves. “Its grab and go type stuff,” she said. According to Karaman, Hall and Morgan have been the backbone 34
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The designing women of Fresh Décor in Landrum are Ginny Ezell, Casey Gillespie, Susan Johnson and Kim Karaman.
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Ginny Ezell has worked in the design industry for most of her life.
Kim Karman wanted to start an interior design store for years. Karaman, and her business partner Ginny Ezell, help clients design anything in their homes from exterior colors to fabrics and furniture.
of the mall. During the years when Karaman and her husband still lived in Ohio and had to travel to Landrum, Hall and Morgan helped run the business. When Karaman and her husband originally purchased the mall it had 50 dealers renting booths. Her idea was that she would simply, “. . . open the door, collect rent and sell the stuff.” However, she soon realized she would need to use the retail experience she gained while in college, and become 36
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Clients of Fresh Décor in the shops of Landrum can choose from furnishings and décor locally sourced or made from green practices including items from recycled or reclaimed wood and metals or from sustainable forests.
more involved. “We liked to buy real estate,” Karaman said about her and her husband. “I had to figure out how to run an antique mall in order to know what was happening with the property. After I got involved I realized we needed to sell more than just antiques.” That was when she started thinking of a design business. Karaman realized that a lot of women from Greenville and Spartanburg were coming to Landrum to spend the day with their
friends and shop. After observing the clientele, Karaman decided the mall needed a few changes. First she remodeled the outside, basically dividing the old theater building into three main stores. Second, she decided along with the antiques, she needed to add new furniture, reproductions and complementary items to go with the house furnishings. Karaman happened to mention to Gillespie that she was thinking of starting a design business when Gilles-
pie remembered Ezell stopping in. “She [Karaman] said to Casey, ‘Get her back here,’” Ezell said. “Kim’s been looking to do this [interior design] for the past 10 years.” At first the two women agreed that Ezell would rent 1,000 square feet of space and run a basic interior design business helping people chose colors and order furnishings. However, the more they got to know each other, the more they realized they had common goals and interests for the business. It was then Susan Johnson walked in the door looking for something to do. Johnson had retired from an interior design business in Florida and moved to Landrum. She was looking for something she would enjoy doing and found Karaman and Ezell. The 1,000 square foot space soon expanded into a full service interior design business. The store, now named Fresh Décor, holds beautiful, tasteful furniture and accessories for every room in the house. Clients can stop in and talk with one of Fresh Décor’s qualified designers to get help in choosing everything from bed linens and table top items to curtains and dishware. Ezell divides her time between Landrum and Spartanburg where the parent store, Regeneration Interiors, is located. Ezell grew up in the furniture business in Hickory and opened her Spartanburg store in 2010. She said she always wanted to have a design business based on sourcing “green” and locally made items. “We’re trying to help reduce the carbon footprint,” she said, explaining that most of the items are made from sustainable practices. According to Ezell, all the wood items are either reclaimed or recycled or from sustainable forestry practices. The metal items are all from recycled material and they have a line of bedding and upholstery that is 100 percent organic cotton. Fresh Décor opened in July of 2017 on E. Rutherford St. Clients can talk with one of their knowledgeable designers Monday through Saturday. For more information visit www.freshdecorboutique.com. • Catherine Hunter’s journalism career spans 20 years of writing for newspapers and magazines, including The Chronicle of the Horse, The Western Horseman, the Tryon Daily Bulletin and Foothills Magazine. In 2000, Hunter received a South Carolina Press Association award for reporting in depth. She is the author of “Sacred Connections Horsemanship: Empowering Horse and Rider through Chakra Energy.” Email her at catherine. hunter@tryondailybulletin.com.
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Resolution for the New Year BY PEBBLES
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y New Year’s Resolution: I am going to lose weight, stand nicely for the farrier, learn to drive a cart, stay clean and stop chasing donkeys…well maybe not this last one! It is January, that sobering time to make a list of ways to improve ourselves, get those unfinished tasks completed, clean out that tack trunk. Resolve means to find a solution on a course of action or to have firm determination. The word rolls off the tongue with noble intent. It is something we should all strive to embrace as 2018 trots into our arena. We should embrace it like the opening of a dressage test: stride in, stopping to take a bow, and then proceed with the anticipated ride with focused commitment.
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This leads me to reflect on monumental effort in 2017 our rescue group HERD had to tackle to bring a horse home safely to member Teri Renfro Vincent in Florida. A big 8-year-old paint gelding caught Teri’s eye in Texas and she decided he must be saved from the slaughter pen. Getting him picked up from the lot and into quarantine was easily arranged. After a month to clear up his upper respiratory infection, which most horses get in these stressful communal kill pens, he was ready for his health certificate inspection and a safe haul to Shiloh Sporthorses in Micanopy. Teri and my mistress Heather have a weakness for pintos and paints. Teri’s new horse would be joining her farm full of “Premium” registered pinto
Oldenburg horses. My big pasture pals, Promise and Sophie, were born at Shiloh and their older sister has competed at Tryon International Equestrian Center so you might have seen her in action. Through HERD, Heather made enough networking contacts through Fleet of Angels to negotiate for a wonderful clean load rate to get Teri’s new rescue gelding home. Comanche, we learned, was his name. We found this through a copy of his Coggins test. Teri was able to contact the previous owner to learn he was formerly his wife’s horse. She had bought him as a youngster and started him under saddle. The wife died shortly afterwards of cancer and when Comanche lost his partner, all training ceased. He stood around the pasture for four years when the husband decided to send him to auction. Horse auctions by and large are attended only by meat buyers these days. Because of his size, Comanche was purchased quickly by one of the most powerful horsemeat buyers in the nation. He was also valuable for his good health, able to make the long, hard haul for days without food or water to meet his horrible fate of slaughter in Mexico. Old and starved horses do not survive the grueling trip. They are often discarded or are trampled to death in the crowded livestock trucks. Jason Davis from Pennsylvania was the designated hauler secured for the trip to Florida for Comanche. Just a few hours into the journey his truck engine overheated and major damage ensued. He was able to get truck and trailer off
to an exit before it would go no further. At 11 a.m., Jason made the call to Teri. He was stranded with her horse on this warm Sunday morning and had no back up he could summon for help from his contacts. None of them were willing to drive to rural Louisiana and complete the rescue rate haul to Florida for the price he had quoted us. Could HERD find someone else to come get the horse to safety? Just in from a morning ride on Sophie, Heather spoke with Teri and got to work in search of help. The first plan of action was to find boarding barns near the area that might be willing to come get Comanche and keep him at a daily rate until we could find another clean load haul to Florida. Using the Internet, Heather located five barns within a 50-mile radius. On the fourth call, a live voice answered but said they could not help. The gentleman did give Heather the name and phone number for a woman, Kathy Mesche, who had a farm about 30 minutes from the location of the stranded rig. Kathy responded to the call for assistance. She could leave in two hours at 4 p.m., after she finished up at the rodeo competition. She agreed to take Comanche into her facility until we could find him a ride home and refused any compensation for her efforts. Now to find a hauler. Heather contacted everyone she had corresponded with on previous rescue missions with no luck. Teri also reached out to horse friends far and wide to no avail. It was Jason that landed another hauler who was willing to come to his aid. Worley’s Hauling based in Texas had delivered horses out west and was coming home empty. This excellent company was willing to drive their large transport to Louisiana and pick up the stranded Comanche. They would also match the rate Jason had quoted despite the fact it would not even cover their gas bill to drive the distances required from Texas to Florida. They had resolved to help and would have driven through the night to pick up Comanche if we had failed to line up accommodations for him to get off the stranded trailer. Jason stayed with Comanche until Kathy arrived about 6 p.m. Then he was able to focus on getting himself a place to stay and a plan to retrieve his truck and trailer as he had to get back to his job in Pennsylvania by Wednesday. As for Comanche, he spent the night and following day resting up in his rescue oasis until Mr. Worley arrived in his spacious trailer. This one lucky horse had a nice ride ahead of him. Comanche was homeward bound for Micanopy and a great new life, resolution made it all possible. • Pebbles is the “spokespony” for HERD, or Helping Equines Regain Dignity, a local nonprofit that saves equines from dire conditions and in many cases slaughter. She dictates her monthly columns about her adventures and what a rescue organization does to Heather Freeman. Pebbles and Freeman can be reached through HerdRescue.org.
Pebbles’ Ginger Carrot Soup Makes 4 Servings
INGREDIENTS 1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter 1 1/2 cups chopped onion 1 tablespoon finely chopped peeled fresh ginger 1 1/2 teaspoons minced garlic 1 1/4 pounds medium carrots, peeled, chopped (about 3 cups) 2 tomatoes, seeded, chopped (about 1 1/3 cups)
1 1/2 teaspoons grated lemon peel 3 cups (or more) chicken stock or canned low-salt broth 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice (Pebbles like Meyers Lemon if you can find it) 4 tablespoons sour cream 1 small carrot, peeled, grated
DIRECTIONS 1. Melt butter in heavy large pot over medium-high heat. Add onion; sauté 4 minutes. Add ginger and garlic; sauté 2 minutes. Add chopped carrots, tomatoes and lemon peel; sauté 1 minute. Add 3 cups stock and bring to boil. Reduce heat, cover partially and simmer until carrots are very tender, about 20 minutes. Cool slightly. 2. Puree soup in batches in blender. Return soup to pot. Mix in lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.) 3. Bring soup to simmer, thinning with more stock, if desired. Ladle into bowls. Top each with sour cream and grated carrot. FOOTHILLS MAGAZINE January 2018
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Charles Harpt at home in Tryon.
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Oil of Katie Maxwell’s groom
Charles Harpt: Horses in Art & Heart BY JUDY HEINRICH
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he day Charles Harpt got to ride his first horse was also the day he got his first speeding ticket. Not on the way to or from the stables, mind you, but while he was actually on the horse. “Charlie” had been fascinated by horses since first watching them pull delivery wagons on the streets of Philadelphia, where he grew up in the 1930s and ’40s. “Any time I didn’t have school I would sit on the step and watch the delivery horses, study the harnesses, wonder why they were made the way they were. Some of the delivery guys
were very nice and would show me how they worked, let me pet the horses and let me put their feed bags on,” he recalls. He remembers hoping that the workhorses had someplace to go with grass and water at the end of the day, where they could be just horses, not workhorses. Charlie didn’t get his first ride until late in high school when he heard a group of classmates talking on a Monday morning about the fun they’d had at a riding stable over the weekend. He was invited along the next time but was warned not to tell the stable owners it
was his first time, “or we’d all be given the old nags.” Charlie was a small boy and was given a small horse. “When I put my leg across that little body and sat down in that saddle, it felt so comfortable. I had day-dreamed all the time, seen horses in the movies, but never thought about really getting on a horse,” he says. “I remember thinking, ‘I hope this turns out good because I really like it.’” One thing Charlie didn’t like was that the other guys talked the whole time, so he kept dropping back so he could hear his horse’s hoof beats. FOOTHILLS MAGAZINE January 2018
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A pencil sketch of hunting hounds
“At the end of the ride, the guys had gone one way and my pony went the other way. He kept going faster and soon was running for home. I was trying to stop him until I realized, ‘Charlie, this is what you’ve always wanted to do!’ So, I let the horse run until we went into a park where a cop made me stop and gave me a ticket – a speeding ticket on a horse!” Charlie had to go to City Hall with his mom, where he explained to the judge that the horse had taken off for home. His defense was weakened somewhat when the policeman said he’d seen Charlie raise his arm and yell “Charge!” But his case still got dismissed. 42
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That was his only riding experience for a long while as he was nearing graduation and, like most young men at the time, was headed into the service. He graduated in 1945, when WW II was ending, but new recruits were needed overseas so the war’s veterans could come home. Charlie signed up for a three-year hitch and learned that a list was being made for men to go to the Cavalry Training School in Fort Riley, Kansas. “I couldn’t let that go by – they had horses!” It took some persistence but Charlie did manage to get assigned to Fort Riley, where he was one of the last soldiers to be trained for the cavalry. “I loved the army, it was like boys’
camp with guns,” he remembers. “I liked it because I was learning something. When I was in regular school, I wasn’t there to learn something, I was there because of the truant officer. But at Fort Riley we got to learn how to use weapons and took turns leading the charge to destroy a mock village called ‘Little Tokyo.’ It was like an obstacle course – we crawled through this, climbed over that, I was in my glory rather than sitting in a classroom.” After basic training Charlie spent the bulk of his service as part of the Allied Occupation Forces in West Germany. The Army was not Charlie’s only military experience. He had joined the Army to do his part for the country,
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Paintings by Charles Harpt.
but he later enlisted in the Air Force because he needed a job. “And with the GI Bill I could get an education that I could never have afforded otherwise,” he says. Charlie had taken a break from horses while in the military but continued his other longtime hobby, which was art. “I had always drawn and used to get into trouble at school for sketching in my textbooks,” he remembers. “In the military, I got into painting more and decided to go to college to study art.” He used the GI Bill to go to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
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Arts, founded in 1805 as the United States’ first museum and school of art. While there he was awarded the prestigious William Emlen Cresson Traveling Scholarship for travel and study in Europe, which allowed him to spend months studying and painting in the British Isles and Scotland. When Charlie returned home and graduated, he started his civilian career as an artist in the outdoor advertising industry – back when the illustrations were actually painted by hand. He remained in the business until retiring in 1989. He also continued his fine
art paintings, garnering acceptance into such juried shows as Cartwrights Equestrian Gallery, American Academy of Equine Art, and The Sporting Art Exhibit in honor of the 50th running of the Block House Steeplechase, as well as numerous awards and accolades over the years. Charlie had found his way back to horses – and eventually to Tryon – through his annual visits to Florida, where his parents had retired. One year he was looking for something to photograph with his new camera and his father suggested he go to a combi-
nation yachting and equestrian club in Tampa Bay. It was Charlie’s first introduction to the English riding disciplines and he found himself reconnecting with his horse gene. He later retired to Florida himself, where he took riding lessons but discovered that Florida wasn’t his cup of tea. He learned about Tryon through an article in a horse magazine and decided to come spend a week here. He stayed at a nice hotel in Tryon next to the theater and a museum, where there was a showing of horse art. He was able to meet several artists, including one who had attended the same school he Painting by Charles Harpt. did. He realized he had found his new home, first renting an apartment, then a cabin for a few years, before buying a small stone house tucked in Tryon’s Hidden only way he would have wanted to do it. At the age of 90 Charlie no longer rides and no longer Hills. His sister, Betty, joined him in Tryon early on. paints in oils. But he’s keeping his hand in art with a recent One of the first horse people Charlie met in Tryon was pursuit of pencil sketches. He was also talked into getting trainer Jeannie Smith, at a Harmon Field horse show. Over a computer to stay in touch with trainer-turned-longtimethe years he has taken lessons with Jeannie, with Gerald friend Katie Maxwell and her family, now in Bluffton, S.C., Pack, and with Katie Maxwell. Taking lessons kept him in and found that having a computer led him to another new the horse world; he never had a horse of his own because pursuit – writing. He’s almost finished writing a book about a he couldn’t afford a place to keep one at home, which is the
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Oil of “Mrs. Meister on Ink”
family who emigrated to America from Prussia in the 1860s. It’s based in part on the experiences of his own Prussian ancestors but is not their actual history. With the book nearly done, Charlie will soon be looking into the editing and publishing steps. While I only met Charlie recently, I first saw some of his paintings about 15 years ago when local equine artists often had their works displayed at the Hungry Fox Restaurant between Tryon and Landrum. What drew me to Charlie’s art was how it captured more than just the beauty or athleticism of the horse – it captured the relationships between horses and their people. That
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ability must come from the heart and, I believe, dates back to Charlie’s earliest interactions with the drivers and workhorses of Philadelphia. When I was interviewing him for this article, Charlie showed me some of his collection of small, finely detailed metal horses that he’d gathered or been gifted over the years. Many are handsome, regal, colorful and beautifully tacked, like the showy one from the Royal Scot’s Greys Cavalry unit, the same kind he’d once had on a childhood Christmas stocking. But his favorite, he told me, was an untacked brown horse, not showy at all, which came with a separate model of an
equally un-showy man. And when you move the two statuettes together you see that the man’s hand is holding a small mound of feed that fits perfectly under the horse’s mouth. • Judy Heinrich is a freelance writer serving national clients in diverse industries. Judy writes for the Tryon Daily Bulletin and Foothills Magazine on all things horse related. She can be reached at jheinr412@gmail. com.
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TR&HC’s 42nd Horse Trials BY JUDY HEINRICH
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A Perpetual Trophy (above) was unveiled for the College Team Challenge.
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Tryon’s Blanche Costa on “A Mighty Romance.”
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ryon Riding & Hunt Club’s 42nd Annual Horse Trials were a big success, with 124 riders from 11 states competing at FENCE. That’s an increase in entries of 30 percent over 2016, with a date change to October being well received. TR&HC also added some new elements to its decades of tradition. One unique experience was the chance for competitors – and fans – to do a cross-country course walk led by local rider/trainer Eric Dierks and international 4* eventer and Grand Prix show jumper Doug Payne. Doug was at Tryon International Equestrian Center for the Jumper classes and came over to FENCE to be part of the Horse Trials action. A new Perpetual Trophy was introduced for the College Team Challenge, with the University of Georgia winning the honor of being the first team engraved on it. College teams also competed in a “Tack Stall Decoration” contest, which was won by the University of South Carolina - Aiken. The entire event ran smoothly under the management of Organizer Molly Bull, in her first time leading the TR&HC HTs. She was ably assisted by Control Ann Haller and
Local rider John Durr on “Toujours Pret.”
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The University of Georgia won the College Team Challenge.
USC Aiken took 2nd in the College Team Challenge and won the Tack Stall Decoration Contest.
Announcer Mark Lehner. More than 80 volunteers helped in all phases of the Trials, led by TR&HC board members. Board member Terry Lynch oversaw all aspects of the HTs and was gratified by the response from competitors. “We were really happy with our 2017 event and are already making plans for next year,” he said. “Among our goals will be to further strengthen the Starter/Novice/ Beginner Novice cross-country courses. That’s where most of our participants are, and we want to make this course at FENCE as fun and interesting as we can for the younger riders and those just entering the sport.” 52
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TR&HC’s 43rd Annual Horse Trials will be held on the same October weekend next year, so mark your calendar for October 20-21, 2018. •
Judy Heinrich is a freelance writer serving national clients in diverse industries. Judy writes for the Tryon Daily Bulletin and Foothills Magazine on all things horse related. She can be reached at jheinr412@ gmail.com.
Anne “Tippy” Brown on Panama Red (Betsy) at a TR&HC Horse Trials at Harmon Field in the late 1970s.
Tryon’s HT History H
orse Trials were introduced to Tryon equestrians in the 1960s by Anne “Tippy” Brown and her husband, Harry Brown, DVM, Polk County’s first veterinarian. The Browns, who moved to Tryon from Ohio, competed in the Southeast’s first-ever Horse Trials, held in Pendleton, S.C., in 1960. Harry took the “Low Score” trophy in the Preliminary Division and the Browns had such a good time they decided Tryon needed an HT of its own. The Browns first hosted the HT on their own farm before moving it to Harmon Field a few years later. Jumping and dressage were held on the showgrounds and cross-country was held on an old Hunter Trials course at Brannon’s Farm just across the river, which competitors had to ride through on their way. The Trials were interrupted for a few years when the Browns moved to Camden for Harry’s career, but they revived them with TR&HC when they came back in 1974, and they’ve been an annual event ever since. Harry also donated his original “Low Score” trophy to TR&HC, of which he was a longtime member and past-president. It’s been used as a perpetual trophy for many years. The Trials remained at Harmon Field until the opening of FENCE in 1985 provided a single venue for all three phases. The 43rd Annual Horse Trials will run there on October 20-21, 2018. • FOOTHILLS MAGAZINE January 2018
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Originally started as the TLC Pony Club for local riders, today the River Valley Pony Club has members from Charlotte, Greenville and Asheville. (photo submitted by Shelley Contin-Hubbs)
River Valley Pony Club celebrates 25 years BY CATHERINE HUNTER
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hen it first started 25 years ago, the River Valley Pony Club (RVPC) was known as TLC Pony Club (for Tryon, Landrum and Columbus) and the members were all from the local area. Today, their roster of 42 members includes youngsters from as 54
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far away as Charlotte, Greenville and Asheville. The club’s district commissioner (DC), Ivette Drumgool, said she believes there are two reasons for the far reaching influence of these riders. “There’s been a lot of smaller clubs in the area that have dissipated,” she said.
“But the bigger reason is the kids and parents in this club who work so well together. They support each other, they love each other and they encourage each other constantly.” According to ponyclub.org, the United States Pony Clubs (USPC), Inc. started in 1954 to teach riding
River Valley Pony Club member Rebecca Drumgool schools over fences at a club sponsored clinic with Olympian Karen O’Connor. (photo submitted by Michael Drumgool)
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Eric Dierks helps River Valley Pony Club member, Baylon Hubbs, enjoy a trot in costume at a Fall Derby at Renovatio Farms. (photo submitted by Michael Drumgool)
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RVPC exemplifies these values of sportsmanship, leadership and stewardship. Drumgool said the members not only learn to improve their riding skills but participate in many leadership and service activities as well. and the proper care of horses. The main goal is to promote sportsmanship, stewardship and leadership through horsemanship. It is based on the British Pony Club, which is a junior branch of the Institute of the Horse and has expanded to many countries around the world. RVPC exemplifies these values of sportsmanship, leadership and stewardship. Drumgool said the members not only learn to improve their riding skills but participate in many leadership and service activities as well. Some of these include selling programs at the Blockhouse Chases to raise club funds and sponsoring hunter paces, winter camps and rallies. A portion of the club’s hunter pace proceeds goes to support Therapeutic Riding of Tryon (TROT) and the club fosters a conservation and land stewardship program through Foothills Equestrian Nature Center (FENCE). The members of RVPC participate in mounted and dis-
mounted meetings, including teaching sessions and clinics, such as the recent clinic with Olympian Karen O’Conner. Drumgool said many local equine businesses have stepped up to help the club not only with financial support, but also by offering places for meetings and instruction. She said among those who help the club with teaching and/or donations include Aaron Langely, DVM, from Appalachian Equine, Farm House Tack, the Tryon International Equestrian Center, Tryon Equine, The Hare and the Hound, Ivy Summerall, Margot Savage, The Tryon Hounds and the Tryon Riding and Hunt Club. The club holds many of its dismounted meetings at the Hare and the Hound. Many of their riding events take place at FENCE and Still Creek Farm and Renovatio Farms have opened their facilities for mounted meetings. Renovatio Farms owners, Tracye Doubek and Eric Dierks, help with the teaching as well.
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Members of the River Valley Pony Club joined the Tryon Hounds for the 2017 opening hunt in November. The RVPC is participating in the annual Live Oak Hounds USPC Foxhunting Challenge this year. (photo submitted by Michael Drumgool)
River Valley Pony Club member Emelia Fredrick schools over the cross country course at the Foothills Equestrian Nature Center on a club schooling day. (photo submitted by Michael Drumgool) 58
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This year Tryon Hounds is helping the club members participate in the annual Live Oak Hounds USPC Foxhunting Challenge. The challenge is designed to encourage Pony Club members who do not regularly hunt to try the sport, and to reward members who hunt on a regular basis, to act as mentors to the less experienced pony clubbers. The challenge gives $10,000 in awards to the top Pony Clubs who regularly take the greatest number of active Pony Clubbers out hunting. Mr. and Mrs. C. Martin Wood III, Joint Masters of the Live Oak Hounds in Monticello, Fla., and past presidents of the MFHA support the challenge. Though it has had many changes since it first started as TLC Pony Club, today’s RVPC continues to help its members succeed, not only with horses, but with life. The club currently has 10 members designated as “Horsemasters,” which are members who are over the age of 18 and still want to be a part of Pony Club. Over the years the club has won many competitions and awards including first and second prizes in regional quiz competitions. As Drumgool begins her third year as DC she said in the years her daughter, Rebecca Drumgool, has been active, she’s seen the members accomplish quite a lot. Many of the members have gone on to have professional careers in the
equine industry. She added that in addition to the leadership and horsemanship skills RVPC members gain, they also learn life skills. “In the rallies, everyone was astonished. Those kids are dropped off at the barn with no parental supervision and they set up the stalls and tack room themselves,” she said. “They learn to work with people from all different walks of life, ages and skill levels. They also learn practical things such as how to change a tire on a horse trailer.” • Catherine Hunter’s journalism career spans 20 years of writing for newspapers and magazines, including The Chronicle of the Horse, The Western Horseman, the Tryon Daily Bulletin and Foothills Magazine. In 2000, Hunter received a South Carolina Press Association award for reporting in depth. She is the author of “Sacred Connections Horsemanship: Empowering Horse and Rider through Chakra Energy.” Email her at catherine. hunter@tryondailybulletin.com.
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William Steinkraus, Charles Dennehy, Jr. and Hugh Wiley were three of those training in Tryon for the 1956 U.S. Equestrian Team. (photo compliments of the Tryon Historical Museum)
Nautical, “The Horse with the Flying Tail,” qualified for the 1960 U.S. Equestrian team. Nautical’s owner, Hugh Wiley, rode on the U.S. team in the 1956 Olympics and the two competed in the 1959 Pam Am Games, helping the U.S. team bring home a gold medal. (photo compliments of the Tryon Historical Museum)
The world will be coming to Tryon in fall of 2018 – the equestrian world that is. Next September the world’s leading horses and riders will gather at the Tryon International Equestrian Center (TIEC) for the World Equestrian Games (WEG). From September 10 – 23 international horses and riders will vie for top honors in eight of the ten different equestrian sports recognized by the Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI). WEG was started in 1990 to allow riders to compete in one location rather than in ten different individual competitions at as many different locations around the world. WEG takes place every four years 62
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opposite of the Olympics and carries many of the Olympic traditions. Originally the Olympic equestrian sports were designed as a three-day-event type competition (also called combined training) that consisted of dressage, stadium jumping and cross-country. In addition to the original three-day event type competitions, today’s WEG competitions include driving, vaulting, reining, para-equestrian and endurance riding. The two other disciplines, recognized by the FEI, that hold their competitions separately are horseball and tent pegging. Horseball is a mounted sport that looks like a combination of polo, rugby and basketball. Tent pegging is a cavalry
sport in which the riders use edged weapons such as a lance, sword or sabre to either retrieve objects from the ground or slash and cut objects mounted on a post. When equestrian sports were added to the modern Olympic games in 1900, the cavalry was considered the source of the best horsemen in most countries. Therefore the Olympic equestrian sports turned to the cavalry for a method of testing horse and rider. Modern cavalry troopers had to be able to cover long distances, often over rough terrain and jumps. Once the horses and riders arrived at their destination, they would frequently go into a battle in which perfect, split second precision commu-
Frank Chapot on Redwood was one of the first non- military members of the U.S. Equestrian team in 1956. Until that year, the U.S. Equestrian team was only open to military officers. (photo compliments of the Tryon Historical Museum)
nication and responses meant life or death. The horses had to be strong, agile and responsive to the riders’ most subtle signals and be able to make quick, agile movements in high stress situations. Such movements would often be a flat out gallop for several yards, then a quick halt, spin 180 degrees, take off a gallop, stop and turn again. The horses had to be able to move sideways, gallop forward in a split second and stop immediately. At times cavalry horses had to jump high fences, hedges, walls or even wagons or cannons under battle conditions. The three-day event or combined training type competition involving dressage, stadium jumping and cross-country was designed to test these skills in the cavalry trooper and his horse. The dressage part of the three-day or combined training competition tests the horse’s agility, strength, precision, suppleness and response to the rider. Stadium jumping (known today as show jumping) tests the horse’s and rider’s ability to jump high jumps, at speed in tight, close quarters. The cross-country portion of the test determined whether the horse and rider had the skills and endurance to cover long distances, sometimes at speed, over difficult terrain and natural fences. It is from this tradition that the equestrian Olympic competition, and later the World Equestrian Games were born. Until 1952 the Olympics opened the equestrian competition only to male commissioned military officers, and “gentlemen.” In 1952 women were allowed to begin competing in dressage. In 1956 women were allowed to compete in the jumping competition, but it was not until 1964 that women were allowed to ride in the cross-country competition. Today the equestrian sports are the only Olympic level competition in which men and women compete with and directly against one another. FOOTHILLS MAGAZINE January 2018
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U.S. Equestrian team members Frank Chapot and William Steinkraus trained with team coach Bert DeNemethy in Tryon for the 1956 Olympics. (photo compliments of the Tryon Historical Museum)
The foothills area has its own historic connections to Olympic level equestrian sports. In 1956, the U.S. Olympic Equestrian Team trained in Tyron. Now, 62 years later, the World Equestrian Games bring Olympic level horsemen, and now women, back to the area. • Over the next several issues, Foothills magazine will describe the different events that are included in WEG. We will begin next month with a description of the beautiful ballet between horse and rider known as dressage. Our story will include a history of the art, an explanation of the different movements and how something that looks so easy and simple on the outside can thrill and inspire riders of all levels. Catherine Hunter’s journalism career spans 20 years of writing for newspapers and magazines, including The Chronicle of the Horse, The Western Horseman, the Tryon Daily Bulletin and Foothills Magazine. In 2000, Hunter received a South Carolina Press Association award for reporting in depth. She is the author of “Sacred Connections Horsemanship: Empowering Horse and Rider through Chakra Energy.” Email her at catherine. hunter@tryondailybulletin.com. 64
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art of the Our Carolina Foothills initiative called Art of the Horse, in which elaborately and brightly painted fiberglass horses are placed in visible locations throughout the Polk County and Landrum area, this horse stands colorfully at the Tryon International Equestrian Center in Mill Spring, a bright spot on a snowy day. Photo submitted by Tryon International Equestrian Center
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