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'March totes two faces'
Sandy and Lawrence Burton enjoyed visiting Pinky and Tony Young and Cecelia, Mallory, and Olivia in Hickory, N.C., last weekend. Friday evening they attended a production of "The Wizard of Oz" in which Olivia played a Munchkin, a Poppie, and a Jitterbug. Cecelia plays the string bass in her school's seventh and eighth grade string orchestra that recently got two superior ratings in state competition. Mallory has been quite active in swimming and is in the top 10 in the state among girls her age in the breaststroke. . Columnist Loran Smith, who was a member of the committee that planned the recent Ernie Harwell celebration in Washington-Wilkes, had a column about Washington- Wilkes and the Ernie Harwell program in The Athens Banner-Herald last week. He was very complimentary of several of the local committee members and of our town in general. . My Mama always said that "March totes two faces" - and it does. But this year, February has also toted two faces, with temperatures in the 70s and plunging overnight into the 20s and lots of wind. It's interesting to observe and the days have been beautiful. Saturday really toted two faces with snow flurries, cold wind, and low temperatures in the morning, changing to brilliant sunshine in the afternoon. . All this warm and pretty weather makes us want to get our gardens started and plant flowers, too. The nurseries are taking advantage of the warm weather, and advertising all kinds of garden things. . I hope we can all learn this distinction: The Washington Little THEATER Co. is the entity that presents plays, musicals, and other entertainment. The events are performed in the Bolton Lunceford PLAYHOUSE. . . . The theater is NOT the Bolton Lunceford Theater. The Bolton Lunceford Playhouse honors this grand lady. . The restoration of the old Lowe- Ellington-Rodgers House on Water Street has been a gigantic ongoing project of Beth and Frank Petersilie from St. Augustine, Fla., for two or more years. They will be ready to greet tour guests in this beautiful old home during the Spring Tour of Homes set for April 4-5. Beth says that the project involved more than 60 individuals with Arthur King as overseer for on-site maintenance. You can see for yourself on the Tour, but here are some things to look for, according to Beth. All of the wood in the house, except for insides of closets, was stripped and refinished by Deb Talley. Bill Sleighter is responsible for much of the inside wood-working chores and Butch Capps made the solid wood carved ballisters for the front porch. "Mike Dyches and his crew have done a phenomenal job and we could not have accomplished what we did without his knowledge and insight," Beth says. "He specializes in restoration, not just remodeling." Joe Barnett is doing the window treatments, bed covering, etc.; and Henry and Shay Harris at Petal Pushers Too found the perfect fountains for the front yard and back patio. At some point the round wood columns on the front porch had been sold and replaced with bricks set in a square. Although the columns were located, the Petersilies felt it best to just veneer the existing brick. . . . We thank them for rescuing this beautiful old home and I, for one, am looking forward to seeing it soon. . The First Baptist Church will begin the events leading to Easter and the celebration of the Resurrection on Sunday evening, March 16, with the presentation of the musical drama, Once Upon A Tree. The program is directed by Patricia Burton with music by the Senior Choir. Soloists are Tom Duggan, Teresa Bishop, and Jim Newsome. Emilie Waters is director of the drama, and there are many persons in the drama which is narrated by Brian Baldwin. Time is 7:00 p.m. . The tornado warning that we had for the county last Tuesday night made us aware that we need to be prepared and heed these warnings and I think that most people did. The new alarm system was very much in evidence and heard from many miles around. Most people found safe places to wait until the all-clear signal was given. Norris Ware reports that we had an inch of rain during that time and that on Friday we got another .7 of an inch, with a little snow (very little) thrown in early Saturday morning.. . The annual Kiwanis Talent Showcase will be presented Friday night, March 14, at the Washington- Wilkes Comprehensive High School Cafetorium. The program gives us a chance to see the talents of some of our students. .
Tom Chase brought me about 20 pages that he had printed out from the internet about the total eclipse of the sun in May 1900. This is the eclipse which technologists determined would be best viewed from Washington in the area known now as Grandview, having acquired its name following the eclipse. The information Tom brought is from "The Technology Review" dated July 1900 and is titled "The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eclipse Expedition to Washington, Ga." In addition to the text, the article has pictures of "typical homes" in Washington; The Square; the equipment and cameras that were set up; and the young Washington ladies in the sketching class who recorded the different phases of the eclipse. Pictures of the equipment and temporary "shacks" housing it were rather primitive looking, especially in view of today's hi-tech instruments. But what did I expect? That was 108 years ago!
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