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July/August 2005

12 Wrights Down the Road

Meet Adam and Shannon Wright, Coweta’s latestcontribution to the country music scene.

18 The Whole World of Improv

Former Newnanite Brian Chapman is making aname for himself in the world of improv comedy inAtlanta.

22 Putting the world on hold

Senoia’s Gary Gruby tells why his “Portrait ofSenoia” may be the most important project he’sever shot.

32 Birds of Prey

Dale Arrowood of Sharpsburg counts eagles, vultures,owls and hawks among his friends, and he’s planningto bring his Birds of Prey show closer to home.

37 Pampered Pets

From mobile pet grooming services to a bakery thatmakes pet treats, Cowetans are fond of making suretheir pets live the good life.

46 Coweta’s Culinary Treasures

Coweta cooks have access to some great groceries,and we offer tips on where to find the best meat,freshest eggs and pick-your-own berries.

54 Home Organization

Cluttered closets? Messy mail center? Packed pantry?Local experts offer advice on how to make homeorganization a priority.

58 Scrapbooking in Coweta

Preserving memories with photographs and jour-naling is a favorite pastime for lots of folks inCoweta County, where scrapbooking classes andvendors abound.

66 Roscoe Revisited

Life in rural Roscoe and Dunaway Gardens in the latethirties is shared through the letters of Dorothy King.

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Departments

28 Healthy Living

Sharpsburg’s Glenn Brightwell stays activeby participating in the Highland Games,where he also pays tribute to his ancestry.

41 The Thoughtful Gardener

Georgia’s state flower, the Cherokee rose canbe found at several spots here in CowetaCounty, if you know where to look.

50 Coweta Cooks

When Gayle Whaley misses family inCalifornia, she simply cooks up a familydish that reminds her of home.

62 Let’s Go

For a peaceful getaway that’s not so faraway,consider serene Serenbe Bed and Breakfastin Palmetto.

70 Grantville Profile

A renaissance of sorts began in Grantvilleseveral years ago, and today more than adozen new neighborhoods are in the build-ing or planning phase.

74 Local Heritage

Trace your roots and explore local history by visitingthe Coweta County Genealogical Society inGrantville.

76 The Bookshelf

Great southern fiction and a former GBI agent’sbook top our summer reading list.

78 Snapshots

Who’s been out and about in recent months? Here’sa round-up of the local scene.

In Every Issue

11 Editor’s Letter

80 July/August Calendar

Save the date for these upcoming arts and entertain-ment events.

82 My Coweta

Senoia’s Tray Baggarly is grateful his Coweta Countyschool years were during the small-school era.

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W warmly and seemed genuinelyappreciative the hometownmagazine was in Birmingham just tosee him. Shannon was a gracioushostess, showing several of usCowetans the tour bus and talkingabout life on the road.

Here’s a little secret for theaspiring reporter out there: Younever get tired of being handed abackstage pass. At this concert it wasa small blue plastic-covered tag on ahang cord and read “Alan Jackson2005 — All Access.” Behind theconcert stage, those words workmiracles.

Posted at the entrance to thebackstage area were security guyswho looked like they could eat anywayward fans who dared enter. Flashthat “All Access” pass, however, andyou got a fast smile and a quick,“Oh, you’ve got the Blue Pass.Come on in.” It was as good assaying you were one of Alan’s sisters.

Blue Pass in hand, or on neck,actually, the curious Cowetans werefree to wander around, free tomarvel at miles of electrical cords

When we Cowetans count ourblessings, one item that ought to beon everyone’s list is this: We turnout good celebrities.

Think about it. Country musicstar Alan Jackson was instrumentalin helping open the Angel’s House,an emergency shelter for localchildren. Fellow country singerDoug Stone came home to performa benefit concert for the AmericanRed Cross. Our favorite AtlantaFalcon set up the Keith BrookingChildren’s Foundation serving fosterchildren. These men could havedriven up I-85 and never lookedback, but they didn’t. And oh, arewe grateful.

On a recent spring night inBirmingham, I was privileged to gobehind the scenes at the AlanJackson concert, where the openingacts included Sara Evans and TheWrights. I’d heard plenty of goodthings about Adam Wright ofNewnan, who is Alan’s nephew, andAdam’s wife Shannon, but it wassuch a pleasure to finally meet themin person. Adam shook my hand

EDITOR’S LETTER

and dozens of guitars. The nosyonlooker — not to say that Ipersonally know one — could museabout seeing a Bush-Cheney bumpersticker on a piece of soundequipment or mosey on over to TheWrights’ dressing room for abathroom break. “Yes, I knew themin the early days,” I will say one day,when The Wrights join the list ofCoweta legends who’ve hit the bigtime and made us proud. (Actually,they already have.)

This issue of Newnan-CowetaMagazine goes behind the sceneswith a lot of local folks whosetalents may surprise you. Pleaseconsider this your “Blue Pass” to gobackstage with us and look aroundto your heart’s content.

Fondly,

Angela Webster, Editor

The Blue Pass


COVER STORY

WRIGHTSDown the Road


B Y A L E X M C R A E

P H O T O S B Y A N G E L A W E B S T E R


The crowd isroaring for more, but as

they leave the stage it isn’t thewave of applause that gets the

couple’s attention. It’s a chanceremark about how good theylooked on the huge projectionscreens at Birmingham’s VerizonWireless Amphitheater.

Their first tour is eight daysold, but Adam andShannon Wrighthave been sofocused onconnecting withaudiences theyhaven’t eventhought aboutthe larger-than-lifeimages tracking their

every move.Adam just smiles and

shrugs. His wife, however, ishorrified. “I’ve never even looked

up there. Was my makeup OK?”Shannon asks, fingers searching her

face for a nonexistent blemish. “Did Ilook all right? Really?”

Moments later, assured she lookedjust as good as she sang, Shannon begins torelax. As Adam wanders toward thebackstage cafeteria with the group’s bassplayer, Newnan’s Alex McCollough,Shannon heads for the parking lot. Shebeams when a female visitor complimentsher earrings. “Thank you so much fornoticing,” she says. “I’m stuck out here withfive guys all day and they don’t understandhair and makeup and it really means a lot toget some girl input. Wanna see the bus?”

Shannon shows off her rolling home likeit is the Taj Mahal, introducing the gleaming

toilet with a flourish, pointing out thefront and rear lounges, the two flat

screen TVs and the sixcoffin-sized

bunks where bandmembers eat, sleep, dreamand fret between 30-minutedoses of onstage adulation.

Privacy is at a premium, butthe husband and wife team haveadjusted to life in the fast lane.“When I get cold I just sneak overthere,” she says, pointing toAdam’s bunk with a grin. “We’re

on the road, but we tryand have a life, too.”

With the May2005 release oftheir first CD,“Down ThisRoad,” The

Wrights, as Adamand Shannon are

known professionally,served notice they were ready forthe big time. And audiences arequickly learning that the openersfor Alan Jackson’s 2005 “What I Do”tour aren’t out to build a reputationon cowboy hats and cleavage, but bywriting and performing the kind ofclose-to-the-bone music that madelegends of musical couples like GeorgeJones and Tammy Wynette and PorterWagoner and Dolly Parton.

The critics are raving and the fan baseis growing, but the learning curve is steep.Right now the couple is running onadrenaline and awe, so excited at gettingtheir big break they still don’t bat an eye atthe marathon bus trips punctuated by on-the-fly phone interviews, nerve-testingvisits to truck stop restrooms and layoversat their Nashville home so brief there isbarely time to pay a bill or do thelaundry before hitting the road again.

“It’s not perfect, but I’m notcomplaining,” says Shannon.“This is what we’ve beenworking for.”



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The two were making musicalmost as soon as they crawled out ofthe crib. Adam was playing the pianoat age 5 and by the time he finishedNewnan High School had masteredseveral instruments. When he wasn’tplaying with local groups, Adamjammed with members of hismusically-inclined family, includinghis mom and dad, Cathy and LamarWright.

Just a few miles down the road inLaGrange, Shannon was followingthe same path, wowing the familygatherings by age 5, plinking aukelele and belting out pop hits untilway past her normal bedtime. “Fromthe time she was a little girl, it wasobvious she wanted to be a singer,”says Shannon’s mom, Sharon Gay.“She really worked at it.”

While Shannon studied music atGeorgia Southern, Adam pursued hispassion for writing and performing,working a variety of day jobs and

Chatting with Adam Wright, at right,before his concert in Birmingham areCile Smith, David Van Drew andChristy Van Drew, all of Newnan.

“We all get alonggreat and it’s still

pretty new, so we’reall excited about the

opportunity,” saysAdam Wright, shownon the tour bus withwife Shannon. “Butsometimes you get

the feeling you’restuck in a

submarine.”



performing several nights each week.Shannon hit the Atlanta club scene after

college, but just as her career was picking upsteam she unexpectedly found herself without aguitar player. Her cousin knew Adam andcalled him at Newnan’s Redneck Gourmet,where Adam was cooking, to see if he could fillin. It turned out better than anyone expected.

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“That first night together wasjust like magic,” says Shannon.“There was an instant connection.”

Soon after they met, Adam andShannon formed their own group.Heritage Cherry played somestandards but featured the couple’soriginal songs. Crowds were favorablebut club owners looking for top 40hits were not.

By 2001, Adam and Shannonwere desperately in love and totallyout of work, fired from every singleregular gig they had.

They didn’t care.“We could have gone back to

playing other stuff,” says Adam, “butthis is what we wanted to do.”

They decided if they were goingto play their own music they’d play itfor the right audience. In a singlewhirlwind week in 2002, they said “Ido,” called U-Haul and headed toNashville, determined to make it in atown that draws dreamers like amagnet and buries more ambitionsthan any place this side of Hollywood.

“We loved being together and weloved making music together andthat was more important thanmaking money,” says Adam. “Wewere willing to wait a while and see ifit worked out.”

The first doubts showed up early.

The Atlanta club scene wasmerely brutal. Nashville was amusical combat zone, swarming withsupertalented pickers and singerseager and willing to trample eachother to catch the ear of a Music Cityhoncho who can make or break acareer with one phone call.

When Adam and Shannonattended their first writer’s night,where aspiring artists showcaseoriginal tunes, they were floored.“The talent just blew us away,” saysAdam. “We knew we had to pick itup a few notches.”

They did, and soon their playingand songwriting began to getnoticed by the right people,including Adam’s uncle, countrymusic megastar Alan Jackson.

Jackson had followed his dream toNashville and knew what the two werefacing. He asked the couple to sendalong any new songs they wrote andinvited them to open for him at a fewconcerts. Adam will never forget thenight he and Shannon took the stageat Atlanta’s HiFi Buys Amphitheater.

“All our friends were there and Iwas so nervous I thought I was goingto throw up,” he says.

A year later he was ready toscream when Jackson selected two ofthe couple’s songs, “Strong Enough”


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Country singer Alan Jackson, at left, and RLG Nashville Chairman JoeGalante, at right, celebrated the signing of The Wrights with Jackson’sindependent label, Alan’s Country Records, in September 2004.


and “If Love Was A River,” for hislatest CD, “What I Do.”

When Jackson signed TheWrights as the first act on his newlabel, Alan’s Country Records, cries offavoritism arose, but the doubterswere silenced when “Down ThisRoad,” a collection of 12 originalsongs, hit the stores in May and thevideo shot to the top 5.

The CD’s moods span the musicalspectrum. “Leave A Light On” is no-frills traditional country twang. Thelead-swapping vocals give an edgyattitude to “On The Rocks” and“Hard Time” would make a Baptistwant to boogie.

Keith Stegall, who produced“Down This Road” along with JohnKelton, has worked with Nashville’sbiggest stars, including Jackson, andsays there was no doubt The Wrightswere ready for a shot at stardom.

“Country music goes in a lot of

different directions these days,”Stegall says, “but it’s always beenabout being genuine. Adam andShannon are as genuine as it gets.They’re gonna be around a while.”

The future looks rosy, but as theytake their first tentative steps into the

Big Time, the couple is focused onmanaging the little things that canbreak a career. Or a marriage.

“We were a little surprised at howconsuming it is,” Adam says. “Wemake a conscious effort not to talkabout the business stuff and sometimes

have to make ourselvestake time out so wedon’t drive each othercrazy.”

In the musicbusiness fame andfortune are just one hitaway, but for now thetwo are keeping thingssimple.

“It’s been great sofar,” Adam says. “Butwe’re really excitedwhen we get to sleep ina bed that isn’tmoving.” NCM


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E x p l o r i n g t h e W h o l e W o r l d o f

S T O R Y A N D P H O T O S B Y C A M E R O N J O H N S O N

Brian Chapman

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ou never know what’s going tohappen at an improv show. No onedoes.

On a recent Friday night atWhole World Theatre on SpringStreet in Atlanta, director BrianChapman took suggestions to set upimprovisational scenes for his team offive actors.

He took no guff from a crowdbuzzing with excitement. There wasbanter back and forth but Chapmanremained in control, wincing whenhe heard the weekly scatologicalsuggestions. After all the shouting, hesettled on a suggestion from a quietwoman in the back for the scenecalled “foreign dubbing.”

The actor was supposed to besad because, just as the womansuggested, the man had learned he

would “never walk on the moonagain.” The two actors on stageacted dramatically while speaking ingibberish, and two more actors offto the side “dubbed” the words.

Getting the audience behindyou is crucial, says Chapman, whosetheatre performs five improv showsa week. “If the audience isn’t withyou, the show can tank,” he says.Audiences lately have included moreand more people from Newnan,friends interested in the sort oftheatre Chapman and Whole Worldare performing.

Chapman graduated from

Newnan High School in 1991 andthen attended the University ofGeorgia. He graduated from theConnecticut School of Journalism inAtlanta, worked in radio, and landedback in Newnan filming schoolevents on Channel 7. While workingfor Newnan Utilities, Chapmancreated his own show on Channel 10reviewing movies. Then he heard ofWhole World Theatre, his friendsencouraging him to check out aFriday night show.

“I always felt that I wanted to dosomething like this,” says Chapman.“I just didn’t know how to getthere.”

It was five years ago that theNewnan native found his way toWhole World Theatre (WWT) inAtlanta. Chapman followed his heartand refused to get stuck in a rutdoing “the things that you think youshould do instead of what makes youhappy.”

Right now Chapman is contentmaking his way in Atlanta. He hasdirected a full-length, completelyimprovised movie called “CrookedRun,” and since taking that firstsix-month class at WWT,Chapman has acted in or directed

more than 500 improv shows. He’staken voice lessons and more actingclasses, and he was in a recentNASCAR-themed Lotto South TVspot as the “Huh, batteries must bedead” guy.

“I have plenty of friends who arebusinessmen and lawyers,” Chapmansays. “I see these guys and I knowthey’re happy, but if I had stayed thecourse, the ‘ordinary way,’ I wouldbe miserable right now. It would benice to say I’m making money, witha house, but I would be unfulfilled.”

Noting that acting is “a terriblyiffy field,” Chapman says he’s luckyto have the support of his family.“They knew I was doing this, butafter coming to the shows they cansee that it’s something really cool,”he says.

Some people don’t know whatimprov is, Chapman says. Althoughthey think it’s stand-up comedy, it’snot.

“When improv is awesome, it’sthe most amazing thing ever,”Chapman says. “Even when it’s notso good, the actors are still showingthe audience something. It’s stillsomething to witness, because mostactors are horrified of doing improv.

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There’s no script; it’s made up on thespot.”

In addition to directing at WholeWorld Theatre, Chapman is also thefirst ever improv acting instructor atthe Professional Actors Studio inBuckhead. Some aspiring actors wantto take his class to improve theirhumor, but Chapman says they aremissing the point.

“If you’re taking my class tomake yourself funnier, you need toleave,” he says. “You already haveyour sense of humor. I can make youa better actor, a better listener. Youcan’t make improv about yourself.”

At that recent Friday night show,Chapman had a great, fun audienceand avoided some of the morepredictable improv ideas that peoplethrow at him each week.

“You don’t take a lot of the junk,”he says. “Intelligent people will pullout the raunchiest stuff. It’s too easyfor the actors … Give them something

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Sometimes, though, the audiencecan get intimidated, especially ifChapman tells them not to sayanything vulgar.

“Diarrhea. Tourette’s, gay,diarrhea,” Chapman says. “God blessthe audience, but they sometimes dothe same things.”

The shows always change,though. You canhave a great showor a not-so-greatshow, Chapmansays, but the actorsare puttingthemselves on theline either way.

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Opposite, center: This photo of a night blooming cirrus

from his backyard won Gary Gruby the Best in Show

Award from the Southeastern Flower Show.

Opposite, far right: The United Way called Gruby in to get

photos for an ad campaign. United Way planned to use

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saw these children near a vacant building in Atlanta.



SSenoia photographer GaryGruby has three criteria he considerswhen deciding whether to take acertain job.

“You either like the work — it’sbeautiful or it’s going to lookbeautiful — you like the people oryou like the money. If any two ofthose come together, I go to work.”

Taking commercial pictures andall the work that goesinto them can be apretty draining business(“It will really just wearyou out,” Gruby says),so it’s nice to “put theworld on hold.”

He uses the termoften, and it’s aboutputting the world onhold to do a shoot. Cellphones are barred, andusually when he’sshooting a portrait hedoesn’t shoot anythingelse that day.

“A lot of timespeople think portraitureis something other thanwhat I think it is,”Gruby says. “If I can getthem on my wavelength,then I work my butt off for themdoing a portrait. But a portrait is notwhat you get at the storefrontportrait places.”

This past year Gruby startedtaking pictures of 3-year-olds,amazed to find that’s when you startseeing the future in a child’s face.“He may be adorable or notadorable, but one thing’s for sure.The man he is going to be is in hiseyes, and that’s what you want tocapture,” he says.

And when you’re having a photo

session with Gruby, you’d best keeplooking at the camera.

“Eyes. Eyes. Eyes!” Often, when Gruby’s having an

editing session where a family selectsphotos, he finds “the ones theygravitate to are the ones theyprobably could’ve done themselves.”

“A lot of portraiture is not thebig smile,” according to Gruby. He

gets plenty of those, of course,but that’s theoff shot.

Gruby’sportraits arealways black andwhite, orsometimes sepiatoned.

“My heart’sin black andwhite. Also, blackand whitetranscends time,”

Gruby says. Show him a colorphotograph and he’s bored, “butblack and white is just magnificentand has so many different tones.”

Gruby switched completely todigital photography several years ago,and while he loves the instantgratification and not having to spendmoney on film, it’s just not the same.

“If you’ve never had an experiencewith film, you’re reallymissing something. Thereis no place like thedarkroom, and anybodythat’s ever spent any timein there — that’s actuallyaccomplished something— knows exactly whatI’m talking about,” hesays. “If you’ve seen ablack and white imagecome up in thedeveloping tray, you’reeither hooked or you’renot. If you’re hooked, yourealize how magical it is.”


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back into their packages to return tothe store. (He works with a lady whohas a particular talent for this).

It’s also the world of taking thewhole family on shoots to theCaribbean and photographing CEOsclimbing a glacier-covered mountainin Colombia.

In addition to his commercialwork, Gruby has taken plenty ofphotos right here at home. In fact,anyone who lives in Senoia or visitsthere often is probably familiar withhis work. Gruby’s “Portrait of Senoia”is an ongoing exhibition ofphotographs of Senoia residents onloan to the Senoia Area HistoricalSociety.

On Jan. 1, 2000, Gruby arrangedthe Millennium Portrait, andhundreds of Senoia residents turnedout downtown to be a permanent,visual part of the city’s entrance tothe new millennium.

Gruby, his wife Alison Baker, andtheir sons, Dylan, 20, and Jesse, 15,moved to their home in Senoia in1989. “We really lucked out,” Grubysays. For years before that, theypioneered loft living in his Atlanta

Digital photography doesn’t looklike film either, Gruby says. “It’s toosharp. It’s too flat. It has no feeling.”

So for every picture takendigitally, Gruby uses the computerprogram Photoshop to adjust thephotos and make them look like theywere taken using film.

“It gives you what is called ‘thefilm look.’ If you’ve never known thefilm look, then you are going to bemissing out.”

He may miss “the look,” but hesure doesn’t miss the chemicals.“Flushing hydrochloric acid, aceticacid, selenium, all these are poisons,down the drain, and everyphotographer since Ansel Adams wore

short pants has been doing that; it’s areally, really dirty thing,” he says.

While the black and whiteportraits are Gruby’s favorites, the self-taught photographer’s bread andbutter is actually commercial photos.That’s a world of art directors andprop makers and makeup artists andmodels. It’s trying to make CEOsrelax, scouting out the perfectcornfield, getting hundreds of dollarsof curtains perfectly refolded to fit

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studio, a former blacksmith shop. Gruby started taking pictures of folks around town,

the genesis of Portrait of Senoia.Soon after they moved to Senoia, the late Lorette

Quick asked Gruby if he was going to be commuting toAtlanta. “I said, ‘I’m going to have to.’ She put her handon my shoulder and said, ‘I’m going to have my wholecongregation pray for you.’”

In Senoia he’s surrounded by “just true grit, realpeople, the salt of the earth. I would’ve been just crazynot to try to capture it on film,” he says.

When they first moved to Senoia, the Grubys got abit involved in politics but then decided to get out of that.“I put all of my effort into the photographic aspect ofSenoia rather than the political,” Gruby says. The Portraitof Senoia “enabled me to make peace with this town.”

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“My battle is to leave the best image that I possiblycan,” he says. “The Portrait of Senoia is probably themost important thing I’ve ever done.” NCM

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Why Sharpsburg’s Glenn Brightwell

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WWhen he put on the skirt, his world was changedforever.

Looking back on his introduction to the sport — andthe wardrobe — that is now a huge part of his life,Sharpsburg’s Glenn Brightwell laughs and says, “You neverknow where love will lead you.”

Ten years later they still remember that first date.Awkward, nervous, but determined to get off on the right

foot, Brightwell and Lezli McDonald sought commonground. Brightwell has Campbell blood on his

grandmother’s side. Lezli’s roots are Irish and Welch.The Stone Mountain Highland Games and

Scottish Festival seemed like a natural.It was. The two were enchanted by the

pageantry and color, the sound of pipes anddrums and the sight of thousands dressed intraditional Scottish plaids.

Brightwell felt as if he had comehome. Especially when he saw the huge

men in kilts toiling at the so-called“heavy” games, a set of exercises

developed centuries ago byScottish clan chieftains to

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between battles.Brightwell was

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to hurl huge weights and pitch telephone pole-sizedtimbers called cabers end-over-end. For the first timesince injuries ended his high school cross-country careerand a later fling with mountain biking, he felt thecompetitive fires stir in his blood.

“I revered those Scottish ancestors I’d never met,” hesays, “and the games seemed like a way to connect to them.”

Glenn and Lezli fell in love with each other and theHighland Games. They attended contests across thesoutheast, and Brightwell longed to compete but stayedon the sidelines for more than five years, saying, “I wasafraid I’d make a fool of myself.” It was only after he andLezli were married and raising a family that now includessons Connor, 7, and Brody, 2, that Brightwell made thedecision that changed his life.

At the end of a competition one of the athletesoffered spectators a chance to try their hand at an event.Brightwell accepted the challenge … and immediatelywished he hadn’t. “It was awkward and hard and I didn’thave any idea what I was doing,” he said.

He was crushed, but several athletes drew him asideand offered encouragement. At 6’ 1”, 235 lbs. Brightwellis stout enough to give any troublemaker secondthoughts. But he is one of the smallest competitors in asport dominated by giants who routinely top 6’ 6” andweigh more than 300 pounds. The athletes told him sizewasn’t a problem, though, and that with proper traininghe could compete at the highest level.

There was only one question.

Glenn Brightwell’scompetition in the Highland

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“They said, ‘You’ve got to havethe heart,’” Brightwell recalls. “That’sall I needed to hear.”

The next week he was shoppingfor kilts.

Brightwell threw himself into hisnewfound passion and quickly shotto the top of the amateur ranks. Afterjust four years of competition he israted number two in Georgia andnumber 155 in the nation.

“It’s pretty amazing,” he says.“I’ve never been this good at anything.

The “heavy events” are not testsof endurance or finesse. They areshort, focused bursts of brutestrength — gut-straining lifts, arm-burning heaves and muscle-rippingwhirls — that can shoot bloodpressures and pulse rates through theroof in a split second.

A single mistake could damage adisc or cause muscle tears requiringweeks of recovery. “It’s not somethingyou forget about,” says Brightwell.“You can get hurt in a hurry.”

Although Brightwell has beenbanged up by the weights, stones and


caber, his most serious injury came inthe sheaf toss, in which competitorshoist a 20-pound burlap sack with apitchfork and send it sailing overhead.

On the advice of a well-meaningcompetitor, Brightwell tried a newtechnique and wound up with his

razor-sharp pitchfork stuck in hislower leg.

“I went back to the old way realfast,” he laughs.

As far as he knows, Brightwell isthe only Highland Games competitorin Coweta County. He and Lezli andthe boys travel to more than a dozen

“Heavy” athletic events test theathlete’s strength and power, while“light” events — such as highlanddancing, sprinting, running andjumping — test agility and stamina.

Most U.S. Highland Gamesinclude seven heavy events: the ham-mer throw, heavy weight throw, lightweight throw, stone throw, weighttoss for height, sheaf toss and caber.

A brief description of the heavyevents:

Hammer Throw. The 22 lb. long-handled hammer is 42” in length. Theathlete swings the hammer aroundfaster and faster, and then releases,with the longest throw winning. Theathlete must remain in one spot, somost competitors wear boots withlong spikes to anchor them to theground while swinging the hammer.

Weights. Includes a “light”weight of 28 lbs. and a “heavy”

weight of 56 lbs. Both weights arethrown for distance and the heavyweight is tossed for height. Weightscan be held with only one hand.

Stone put or “clachneart.” Thisevent involves “putting” a stoneweighing between 15 and 22 lbs. asfar as possible. The stone may notbe thrown underhand like a softball,or overhead with two hands.

The Sheaf Toss. The sheaf is a 20lb. bag of hay tossed over a bar witha three-pronged pitchfork. Highesttoss wins.

Turning the Caber. The caber is a19- to 20-ft.-long pole athletesattempt to flip end-over-end.Competitors hope to execute a“twelve o-clock turn,” where thecaber falls straight away from wherethe athlete released it with the caberlanding at the center of an imaginaryclock face. — Alex McRae

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events each year. Games attract hugecrowds, but commercial sponsors arerare. Highland Games professionalsearn prize money, but amateurs likeBrightwell consider free admission anhonest day’s pay for eight hours ofpain.

“I’m sore for a week after acontest,” says Brightwell, “and whenyou don’t do well, you wonder whyyou bother. But you’re proud you didit. And it feels like I’m honoring myancestors.”

Only one thing could make itbetter.

Brightwell’s workouts are oftenfamily affairs. Lezli helps withequipment (and first aid) whileBrody offers encouragement to hisdad and to Connor, who is alreadyworking with special lightweightequipment.

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“My brother’s favorite bird wasthe eagle,” Arrowood said, “and thathad never happened before.”

In a career filled with memorablemoments, that’s saying a lot. Ahighlight of the Callaway showalways has been the breathtakingflight of the eagle and the story aboutits flirt with extinction. Show-goershave chuckled at a clownish vulturenamed Igor, strained to catch thenear-silent swish of an owl’s wings

Days after his brother passedaway last January, master falconerDale Arrowood experiencedsomething amazing. Back at workpresenting Callaway Gardens’ Birds ofPrey show, Arrowood was flying anAmerican Bald Eagle namedWoodward when four wild eaglessuddenly appeared and flew over theamphitheatre for about 15 minutes.

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and ducked to avoid low-flying,single-minded hawks during theSharpsburg resident’s two-yearpartnership with EarthQuest andCallaway Gardens.

Now, Arrowood is planning tobring a similar experience closer tohome, even looking at a few sitesright here in Coweta County.Arrowood’s love for the sport offalconry and the birds involved isobvious as he fires off his “wish list”

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of show birds: bald eagle, peregrinefalcons, Harris’s and red-tailed hawksand exotics like the MediterraneanLanner falcon, the Russian Steppeseagle and the Eurasian eagle owl,which is the largest flightable owl onthe planet at 3-1/2-feet tall. He plansto secure another black vulture likeIgor as well.

“(Igor) was very popular atCallaway,” Arrowood said. “Blackvultures are easy to train and

interesting. They aren’t raptors, butthey are considered migratory and areprotected.”

Although Arrowood’s firstexperience with falconry came whenhe was about 15, when he did sometrading for a gyr falcon, he later tookon a full-time law enforcement careerin Fulton County that left little timefor flying birds. He met and marriedElizabeth Ann Millians, daughter ofthe late Bobby Millians, in 1977 andthey started their family. Throughdaughter Ginger, who came across hisold falconry photos and becameinterested in exploring the sport,Arrowood found himself back in thefield in 1990.

“Ginger wanted to be permitted,so I got back into it,” he said. “Wewent out and trapped our birds andgot started. Pretty soon, people beganto want programs and I began to givelectures.”

Arrowood, who is a director ofthe Georgia Falconry Association,retired from law enforcement in1999. In 2001, he got a call fromSteve Hoddy of EarthQuest, a non-profit environmental educationorganization, who offered him thestint at Callaway. Arrowood has flowneverything from the enormous Indiancondor to the tiny hummingbird andis one of only a handful of people inthe United States legally qualified tohandle a bald eagle. He counts among



the key to bringing back the eaglefrom the verge of extinction. Peopleuse things so senselessly and don’trealize we really can do without

his friends and mentors the likes ofOkefenokee Joe and Mutual ofOmaha’s Wild Kingdom legendJim Fowler.

As co-permittee with Britishfalconer David Newby, Arrowoodplans to run his educationalprogram out of his home. Newby,who trained under Jemima Perry-Jones, runs Custom Falconry inAlabama. Together, the two menplan on an educational programwhich includes public flights andinformation about protectingwildlife.

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“By no means am I a tree-huggerextremist,” Arrowood added. “Iconsider myself an enviromentalistwith common sense. When you’relooking at the value of theenvironment, you’ve got to putlimitations on what you’re going toput there. There has got to be ahappy medium.”

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falconer, the East Coweta High School junior workedwith her dad at Callaway and currently is in possession ofa red-tailed hawk, which hunts over her Arkansas treeingfiest in a dog-bird tandem.

Falconry appears that it will affect a third generationin the Arrowood family as well. Eighteen-month-old WillSipes, daughter Katie’s son, may already have given thefamily a glimpse of the future.

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Lady Bass lives a life of luxury.She has a beautiful Newnan homewith a well-kept lawn, private pooland servants to attend to her everyneed. If she could speak, she mightcomplain that her hair is itchy in thesummer or that squirrels tend totaunt her from the tops of the tallGeorgia pines, but in general, she isone happy girl.

Lady is one of approximately 73million dogs who, along with some317 million cats, fish, birds, smallanimals and reptiles, has pushed the

number of pets in the United Statesto an all-time high. Her beginningswere, perhaps, a bit more dubiousthan some of the more high-profilepets who grace Hollywood’s redcarpet, but she is no less beloved byher humans.

In fact, Lady is so beloved that

her needs sometimes becomeproblematic. Owner Jane Basslaughed as she told of Lady’s pool.

“It was hot and Lady was outsidewith our grandchildren, playing,”Bass said. “It occurred to me that sheneeded a swimming pool, and I saidso. My granddaughter turned to meand said, ‘What about us, Gram?’”

With opportunities for everythingfrom luxury hotel stays to customizedbirthday parties, pampering pets hasnever been easier. In Coweta County,caretakers can take advantage of self-

service dog washes, mobile petgrooming, pet sitters and professionaldog walkers and a slew of veterinaryand kennel services. Sweet Sensations,a bakery in Newnan’s Avery Park,offers special treats for your horse, cator dog, while No Place Like Homecan give your city dog a country dogexperience.

Bill and Gloria Carswell, whoown the state-licensed and county-approved commercial boardingfacility, run it on their secluded, 50-acre farm between Senoia and

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PETSDogs romp in the exercise area of No Place Like

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Sharpsburg. According to Bill Carswell, No Place LikeHome is an alternative to traditional boarding facilities,where dogs sometimes are cooped up in small kennelsand walked just twice a day.

“We have large indoor/outdoor runs for dogs, plus a1-1/2-acre exercise area where they can play with otherdogs, if they are compatible,” Carswell said. “We takerides around the pastures and hayfields in the golf cartand take the dogs on long runs.”

At The Butcher Shoppe in Newnan, Mary BethLindamood has seen customers come by to shop for theirpets instead of themselves. “We have vegetarians who comein to buy ground lamb and beef for their pets,” she said.

Lindamood regularly takes tidbits home to her dogsDiesel, an American bulldog mix, and Leela, a pit bull mix.She recently purchased a pool and canopy for her poochesto keep them cool in the Newnan heat, and she takes themfor rides in the car “just to get out of the house.”

Local artist Kris Adams’s dog Abby is a traveler andathlete. She completed the North UmpaquaTrail in Oregon in 2000, hiking the 78-miletrail over weekends with her owners. BecauseAbby is athletic and loves to swim, it was thebest way imaginable for Adams to pamper her.

“She slept in the tent, chased elks andswam in the river,” Adams said. “She had agreat time.”

Nationwide, the pampered pets trend isnearly keeping pace with the number of petowners, according to the American PetProducts Manufacturers Association, which

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percent of cats now have healthinsurance.

• Obesity is such a concernamong pet owners that the weight-control market for pet food hasgrown 25 percent.

With pets so important in theirowners’ lives, their deaths are equallyimportant. More pet owners areshowing interest in urns for their pets’remains, and remembrance memorialsthat incorporate a lock of the pets’hair or some other token mixed intoperennial seeds also are growing inpopularity. Nearly one in 10 plans tomark their pet’s final resting placewith a headstone.

All this seems far removed fromLady’s home, which she shares notonly with her humans but also withcats Cosmo and Lucky-Lucky. Cosmoreigns supreme in the cat world as amoody brooder who will sit besidepeople but not on their laps andrefuses to drink anything except half-and-half. Lucky-Lucky is aptly named.

“I heard a meowing from undermy car and found her,” Bass said.“She’s lucky that she didn’t get cut upin the car, and I’m lucky I didn’t cuther up. My husband said we couldn’tkeep her, so naturally, she has the runof the house.”

With at least a couple of her ninelives intact, two indulgent humans andtwo furry playmates, Lucky-Lucky is aspampered as she wants to be.

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A friend once said to me, “Thingshave meaning only if you use them,”and I believe she is right.

I treasure my Mimi’s milk glasscup with the cobalt blue silhouette ofthe three little pigs. Why? Thosesummer weeks spent roaming sultrySouth Georgia pine forests, the FlintRiver, and my Grandfather’s pharmacystarted with morning “coffee” (mostlymilk and sugar) at my grandparents’breakfast table with the little cup atmy place.

Plants should be that way, too.They should carry memories andmeaning for us, connect us to thepast, communicate to us. How specialit is to walk through someone’s garden

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as they point out a huge, profuselyblooming flame azalea and say, “Thatcame from my mother’s yard,” or tobrush past the enveloping, headysmell of gardenias as they remark,“My grandmother always had a silver

bowl filled with these in the middleof her dining room table.”

Plants can be a tangible link tothe past for reasons other thansentimental ones. Many antiquelovers pick certain plants because of

A Cherokee rose hedge gracesthe home of Pat and Julie Yancey

of Newnan.

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thoughtful southern gardener.The first one was a serendipitous

discovery. I was convinced thefragrant white rose shrub bloomingin the yard of neighbors Bob and JanWitt, on Happy Valley Circle, was aCherokee. It seemed to possess thesame characteristics as the Cherokee:evergreen, very thorny canes, purewhite flowers with yellow centers,glossy green leaves and fragrant. Some features did not seem to fit,however. The Cherokee is essentiallya climber. If not pruned it will sprawlover whatever is available, andpruned it mounds 10 to 12 feet.

As I perused gardening books insearch of the elusive Cherokee, Ibecame very intrigued. Introduced in1759 from China, it quickly becamewidespread, partly because of theCherokee Indians who laterimmortalized it by planting cuttings

along the tragic Trail of Tears. It wasused widely throughout Georgia as ahedge as evidenced in James Cothran’s“Gardens and Historic Plants of theAntebellum South.” Generousinformation combined with quotesfrom historical documents gives acomplete picture of Rosa laevigata. Hequotes the “Southern Farmer andPlanter” (circa 1854):

“A great many shrubs and treeshave been used for the formation ofhedges, but none is better adapted tothis purpose than the Cherokee orCarolina rose. This plant is of hardynature, rapid growth, ease ofcultivation, and makes a durable,compact, and perfectly impenetrablehedge, and, so far has beenascertained, is not subject to anydisease nor the attacks ofdepreciations. This rose is propagatedfrom roots, seeds, layers, or cuttings… In about three years from theinsertion of cuttings, if the soil hasbeen well prepared, and well worked,a hedge will be formed, which, by itsimpenetrability, will repel the attacksof any animal, and by its beautysoften, in a degree, the desolate andgloomy appearance of our winters.”

A rose that was used as a hedge,that is the stuff of “The SecretGarden” or “The Hedge of Thorns”! Icould imagine the beauty of it in mymind’s eye: the white framefarmhouse set back from the road,

their historical significance and age.You are holding history in your handswhen you examine the BaltimoreBelle, the same rose Thomas Jeffersonplanted at Monticello.

Like interior decoration, thedecoration of our yards and gardensshould adhere to that old adage“form follows function,” otherwisewe become hedonistic. It is alwayspleasurable to have something purelyfor beauty, but to have a plant, tree,or shrub fulfill a specific function, behistorically significant, or havespecial memories attached, that istruly a labor of love.

I challenge you to become athoughtful gardener and relate somethingof yourself to others with your garden. Asthe old Persian proverb says, “The world isa rose. Smell it and pass it to your friends!”

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flanked by green pastures with horsesgrazing contentedly and encircled by,not a white fence, but a thick hedgeof white roses, slowly dripping theirfragrant petals to the ground.

Yes, I definitely had to find outabout that rose. I would need somecuttings to get my own hedge started.

A fellow garden club member,Marihope Troutman, introduced meto her dear friends Mary and SharonDenney. They graciously invited meto Moreland to see their Cherokee. Itwas spectacular, arching out over anold dock, profuse with white blooms.

To finally be in the presence ofone was undeniably exciting, and Ihad to agree with an article in “TheSouthern Cultivator” (1855) that theCherokee rose “ … with itsevergreen leaves and flowers of snow,is gloriously beautiful.” I hadbrought some of the thorny cuttingsfrom the Witts’ rosebush. Mary andI sadly concluded it was not thesame rose, but I’ve made some newfriends who (hopefully) will want toshare a few cuttings! NCM

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chefs from the United States whocompeted that year in Frankfurt,West Germany against the best chefsfrom around the world. Never heardof the Culinary Olympics? If youvisit The Butcher Shoppe in Newnanwith its dazzling display of meat,

You really have to crane yourneck to see them, high atop therefrigerator and casually looped over atrophy, but there they are: RichardLindamood’s gold medals from the1992 Culinary Olympics.

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seafood and specialty foods, youmight be able to get the modestproprietor to tell you about his pastdays of culinary competition.

Lindamood and his wife Dawnbrought their vision of a true old-style butcher shop to Newnan twoyears ago along with their personalbusiness philosophy. “Customersshould be able to purchase thehighest quality meats, any kind theywant, cut to their exactspecifications,” Lindamood says.

There are rich, red steaks ofseemingly infinite cuts, roasts of allkinds, ground beef, lamb, manyvarieties of seafood and ready-to-cookitems which allow customers toprepare dinner on the run.

Before coming to Newnan,Lindamood had a storied culinarypast working for such upscale Atlantarestaurants as The Abbey, The Coachand Six, The Capital City Club andNikolai’s Roof. The Lindamoodscould have traded in on his notorietyin Atlanta, but they are dedicated totheir hometown. One visit to theirshop and you’ll be very glad theydecided to come home.

A completely different kind ofmeat store is the famous WilliamsGrocery, located just a beautifulcountry drive away in the tiny townof Haralson in southeastern CowetaCounty.

One bite of their nationally-known sausage links and even chefslike Lindamood would acknowledgetheir quality and unique flavor. Manyin Newnan just call it “HaralsonSausage,” and it shows up everywherefrom breakfast to the cocktail buffet.

Tony Yeatman purchased thegrocery from the Williams familyabout two years ago, but he said theWilliams family still owns theproperty as well as the recipe for thesausage. “It’s a secret family recipeand Sandra Williams keeps it,” he

says with a twinkle in his eye. During the summer, two of the

three types of sausage are available –the regular link and bulk which areavailable year round. The famoussmoked sausage is made only in thefall when the temperatures drop andfrost is on the ground. But each stylehas its fans; the incredible link sausagewith its special casing is unlike anyyou’ve ever had, and the bulk isseasoned perfectly. They also sellfabulous biscuits, country bacon, ham,pork chops, souse, steaks and freshground beef. (The sausage is now soldat Newnan’s Avery Park Chevron, too,along with the famous “HaralsonSausage” biscuits at breakfast.)

Employees Ann Garner andMack and Juanita Clayton have beenwith Williams for nearly 30 years.They count former President Jimmy

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Mack Clayton, above, whips upthe secret recipe Haralsonsausage. Clayton and wife

Juanita, foreground at top right,and Frank Marshall, at back, chopmeat. Marshall and Clayton, right,work on some of the famous linksausage, and Ann Garner, belowright, prepares sausage biscuits

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Carter and Newnan’s own AlanJackson as customers, yet everyonewho comes to Williams is importantand treated with a wink and a smile.

Back in Newnan, you’ve seen thefolks for summer after summer andnever stopped. They’re congregatingunder sheds at the Old Fairgroundsand sitting at the back of their cars,but what are those people doing?

They are selling glistening redtomatoes, sugar sweet corn, blueberrieslike jewels, crisp greens, lemon-yellowsquash, bushels of apples and peaches,homemade jams, jellies and more. Ifsuch a list doesn’t pique your interestthen go ahead and open that can ofpeas when supper rolls around, butremember — three days a week, allsummer long, the freshest producearound is yours for the buying.

Every Monday, Wednesday andSaturday through October, localbackyard gardeners will once again beoffering their surplus backyardproduce for sale. Manager MaryPayne has been involved with theFarmer’s Market for 25 years. “Mylate husband Sanford started workingthe market because it was fun,” shesaid, “and I helped him and took overwhen he died.”

The Farmer’s Market merchantswill gradually move into new brickfacilities at the Asa M. Powell ExpoCenter this year, but while the newbuildings are still located at the old

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blueberries through August, and BobHarrell of Newnan (770-251-1507)has blueberries and muscadinesthrough the end of summer. If it’sfarm fresh eggs you want, KarenParrish of Senoia (770-616-6869) hasa flock that lay traditional brown andmore exotic green eggs from theAracauna chickens from SouthAmerica. For a wider variety ofproduce, Welcome Farms Fruit Patchin Newnan (770-251-2921) offerspublic fishing as well as fruits, nuts,honey and jellies.

We Cowetans are fortunate tohave so many culinary treasuresavailable to us. Remember to supportthem and to treat your family to thesefoods on the table. We all deserve thebest our county has to offer. NCM


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I“I really didn’t want to move toNewnan,” Gayle Whaley admitswhile she cooks up a Chinese stir-fryfor three of her four daughters on asunny, summer afternoon. “We lovedPaso Robles, California.” But whenher husband John had anopportunity to create a business here,Whaley and her family werecompletely supportive of him.



Whaley first learned to cook fromher dad, and many of their familyrecipes and culinary traditions werebrought to California from theirrelatives in Louisiana. As the Whaleyfamily ventured back South, the oldtraditions as well as new familyfavorites made their way back withthem. They’ve found recipes are a wayof bringing “home” with youwherever you go.

While Whaley may have been areluctant Georgian at first, she didnot let that stop her from becomingalmost instantly involved. “Involved”for some might mean attending anathletic event or joining the PTA. Butfor Whaley it meant running in thelast school board election, serving ashead of the Newnan High GirlsBasketball Booster Club, and servingon the Leadership Team for Walkingin Joy interdenominational Biblestudy — all that in addition toworking outside the home.

Whaley is an orthopedic nurse atGrady Memorial Hospital, but is ableto dine with her family because sheworks nights. What are the familydinner favorites? Teen-age daughtersMarissa, Jeannette and Angelica allstarted calling out at once:“Spaghetti,” “Mom’s Secret Gumbo,”“Mac ’n Cheese,” “Chinese Food,”“Sweet Potato Pie” and “Salad.”Whaley says her best dish is “reallygood gravy.” (Oldest daughterGabrielle is away at college and notable to enjoy mom’s home cooking asmuch right now.)

While Whaley has certainlyjumped feet-first into her life here inNewnan, she and her family still gethomesick from time to time for theirfamily and friends in California. Whenthat happens, there’s only one way tobeat the blues: select a recipe thatconjures up the best memories, andthe food will help take you homeagain. NCM

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Heat oven to 425°F. Prepare pas-try. Cover edges of pastry with alu-minum foil to keep from burning.Combine sugar, flour, baking powderand nutmeg in a medium mixing bowlor blender (Whaley uses her blender).Add remaining ingredients and mixuntil well blended.

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HOMES

OrganizationGetting the disorganized house under controlB Y J A N E T F L A N I G A N

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Lisa Shaak of Functional by Design shows clientshow to use organizing systems like this one fromClosets and More to help keep the pantry tidy.




Shaak helps families set up asystem they can use every day to keepthe whole family organized. She is amember of the National Associationof Professional Organizers, a groupwhich provides her with continuingeducation on keeping familiesorganized.

“Every family needs a system tosort mail, to handle laundry, to putaway groceries, what schoolwork tokeep and throw out,” Shaak says. “Iput that all in place for them.”

Comparing each family’ssituation to an archeological dig,Shaak says her job is “diggingthrough their years.” Because she isnot personally attached to thebelongings, it is easier for her to say,“Put it in storage – get it out of theprime real estate!”

Sally Hensley and her partner

Suellen Smith of Hensley SmithInterior Redesign have a slightlydifferent approach to homereorganization. They work with thefurnishings and accessories in a hometo streamline and clean up theappearance of the space.

“One of the best illustrations isthe use of picture frames,” saysHensley. “When grouping picturestogether, either use frames all of thesame color together or group thesame kinds of photos or picturestogether for a cleaner look.”

Hensley says, “Organizationdoesn’t have to be boring. You canput your children’s things in oldschool lockers, which are big enoughfor backpacks, tennis racquets orwhatever and still look great.”

A great tip for saving valuablecounter space is to mount the wall

AA half hour before their dinnerguests were set to arrive, the youngcouple raced frantically through thedownstairs of their home, hiding straypapers in drawers and pushing othermesses under beds and into closets.They gave each other a knowingglance as their guests rang thedoorbell. They made it just in time.

Many of us understand thisscattered running around. Ourhomes might be considered a mirror-image of how we feel and live; thehome looks pretty on the outside, buton the inside, everything is stuffed indrawers and closets.

“It’s normal to be disorganized,”says Lisa Shaak of Functional byDesign. “With today’s busy lifestyles,we accumulate so much, it’s hard tofigure out what to keep out, what tostore and what to throw away.”



plugs for hair dryers and electricrollers in the top back of drawers.Then, just plug in the appliance andkeep it in the drawer to turn on andoff for use. Simply close it up in thedrawer when finished.

Naturally, you don’t need to hirea professional to get your homeorganized and running smoothly.There are books in the library thatoffer helpful tips and plans to get youon track. Look around stores, evenyour workplace, to see how space isdesigned and see what you can takeinto the home with you.

That is what homeowner LoriSwords did when she made thetransition from working in specialtytennis sales at Reebok’s corporateheadquarters to being a mother offour in Newnan.

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“I don’t know if the systemgives me more space, but itdefinitely keeps me moreorganized,” said Swords. Slatboards are mounted on the walls ofthe closets or room, and then rods,basket and arms are mounted intothe slats. Hangers face the frontinstead of sideways, allowing formore use of space and more visualawareness in the closet as well.

“You can also hang rods andshelves and can keep moving the

slats up as thechildren grow inheight,” Swordssaid.

She also usesthe system inher office with aseries of hardplastic basketsmounted on thewall going up inorder accordingto height and

age. “It’s the only way to do it when you’ve got to keepthe papers of four children filed!” she laughed. The keyis to be creative, look around you, and see what you canuse in your home to make your life easier and moreefficient.

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“Crop Nights” in her home, meetingfriends like scrapbooker Beth Blair ofNewnan. Blair believes scrapbookstell a life story in photographs. Shelikes to “dress up” her pages withpretty sheets of design paper, stickersand emblems.

And while Blair enjoys preservingmemories, she also derivessatisfaction from the process itself. “Ifeel good about myself when Iaccomplish a page,” she said.

Pam Cosper of Newnandiscovered scrapbooking when afriend from church invited her to aCreative Memories Crop. “I enjoygoing to crops because you learn newtechniques, share ideas, and it is atime of fellowship,” Cosper said. TheLadies Ministry at her church hasCrafters Night twice a month, andmost of the women are scrapbookers.Some consult idea books, whileothers have great ideas of their own.

Idea swapping is one reasonscrapbookers take classes like those atMichaels in Newnan, where EventsCoordinator Vicki Walker says the

scrapbooking craze shows no signs ofslowing down. “It’s been growing yearby year and week by week,” she said.

Since many scrapbookersdocument their travels, she said,manufacturers are introducingstickers themed to specific cities suchas Chicago, San Francisco, New Yorkand New Orleans, as well as foreigncountries and famous sites.

Walker loves the decorativepapers, too. By layering papers orcutting them differently, ascrapbooker can create new looks.Today’s consumer sees so many

hristina Carlton was walkingpast a booth at theSharpsburg Fall Festivalthree years ago when shenoticed a display ofscrapbooks by some local

Creative Memories consultants. Theirbeautiful albums appealed to Carlton,who was soon filling up albums ofher own, and the rest is history —photograph-filled, neatly-cropped,archival-quality, acid-free, page-protected history.

Scrapbooking enthusiasts likeCarlton abound in Coweta County,and their ranks are growing every day.While one in five U.S. householdshas a golfer in it, one in four has ascrapbooker. (Sorry, Tiger.)

Preserving memories is what gotCarlton hooked. Wanting to explorethe heritage of her Greekgrandmother, she bought a basic kitand worked up the nerve to cut thatfirst photo (“crop” in scrapbooker-ese), a gesture she laughinglydescribed as “traumatic.” Throughscrapbooking she learned hergrandfather had worked as a saladchef when he came to this country. “Ithought that was kind of cool,” shesaid.

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excellent images in advertising,Walker said, the average person getsexposed to some really sophisticatedgraphics. With scrapbooking, “we arecreating a generation of graphicdesigners.”

Another trend is the “cross-over”from one craft into another.Scrapbookers are using fabrics andfibers which were once the domain ofthe seamstress. Polymer clay, onceused by jewelry and miniaturescrafters, is being used in scrapbookingto create decorative discs, tags, lettersand emblems.

“People are just going wild withmanipulating the different media,”Walker said.

Janel Starnes of Newnan wouldagree. Working on an album atMatte Magic in Newnan on a recentFriday afternoon, Starnes said sherecently became enamored of fabricsand fibers.

Scrapbooking since 1998, Starnesgot involved when her children weretoddlers and now documents the livesof daughters Rachel, 9, and Lauren, 7.

Starnes doesn’t like to havesupplies scattered all over the house,so she takes her projects on the road.

“Here is my favorite place,” she said,sipping a soft drink in the Cropper’sDen at Matte Magic. “That worksgood for me.”

Each year, Starnes and somefriends from college meet for ascrapbooking weekend. Her mother-in-law has loaned her house for theweekend, and another time thefriends gathered in Panama City, Fla.

hat do husband JoelStarnes and herdaughters think aboutmom’s scrapbooking?“They love it,” shesaid. “They cannot wait

to see the book when I come home.”Matte Magic was opened three

years ago by Rose Carter anddaughter Rebecca Miller ofFayetteville. They chose Newnansince there was already ascrapbooking store in Fayetteville atthe time, and they thought it wasimportant to be near the interstate.

The hobby has changed a lot inthree years, Carter said. “It was justpapers and stickers” in the early days,she said. “Now it’s grown into somuch more.” Suppliers haveintroduced more ethnic items, so

while early supplies featured whitefaces, “now there’s Latino and black.”

Customers now use three-dimensional embellishments orstamp their own designs, and eventhe “canvas” for scrapbooking haschanged. Scrapbooking techniquesare used on items such as paper bagsand empty Altoids candy tins. WhenCarter’s son Chad left for Iraq, hegot a gift of an accordian-style“scrapbook” of family photos in anAltoids tin. Chad, who is in theArmy, is a scrapbooker, too. “He’sdoing his own Army book,” Cartersaid.

That won’t be hard since todaythere are stickers and supplies forevery branch of the military — alongwith just about any other specialtheme imaginable. Whether you’reinto Confederate re-enactments,Harley-Davidson motorcycles, theRed Hat Society, Major LeagueBaseball or NASCAR, if you like it,there’s probably a scrapbook productfor it. “If not, it will soon be here,”laughed Carter.

She’s been most excited latelyabout the store’s selection as a testsite for the Epson Scrapbook

Janel Starnes of Newnan finds some of her favorite scrapbook pages are those starring daughters Rachel and Lauren.


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Because it’simpossible for her tokeep up with all thenew products, Carterhas a “Design Team”whose members get totest the latest offerings,items like stitchable paperthat can be threaded withfibers, ribbons and yarn.

Design Team member Darlene Melville of PeachtreeCity is often on the road to Newnan to teach classes orpick up items she’s ordered.

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life story for her child. Walking in astore, she purchased a scrapbookingmagazine and jumped right in.

Today’s scrapbooking groups arelike old-fashioned quilting bees,Melville said, adding that she is“forever grateful to Rose (Carter) forhosting many crops, allowing us to runover in time and not send us home inthe middle of having a good time.”

The former mud room ofMelville’s home is now scrapbookheaven, a tidy, colorful space filled tothe brim with organized boxes andbins of stamps and stickers, ribbons,paints, glitter, die-cuts, color-coordinated papers and more. There’seven a sewing machine, which is alittle odd since Melville doesn’t sew.

Except when she’s scrapbooking.She learned to stitch papers in herscrapbooks and handmade cards.

Melville said scrapbooking is hereto stay. “The history of scrapbooksgoes back generations, however Ithink the future will make it astandard in every home, just like thecomputer is today,” she said.

“Who would have thought 30years ago we would be so linked anddependent on technology?Scrapbooking is the one thread thattakes the future and the present andties it with our past.” NCM


Vicki Walker of Michaels, above,loves all the scrapbookingpapers. Darlene Melville, aDesign Team member at MatteMagic in Newnan, left, keepsher supplies at the ready withlots of organizers.


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by the colorful perennial bed, hergiant tail whomping the ground ingreeting, but she doesn’t bother to getup. And why should she? She, too, iscaught up in the serenity of Serenbe.

Steve and Marie Nygrenoriginally bought this farm in 1991as a rustic weekend getaway. One of

Cars seem to operate in a slowergear on the soft curves of HutchesonFerry Road leading to Serenbe Bedand Breakfast Farm in Palmetto. Thefeeling of quietude continues as tirescrunch over the drive. Ginger theGreat Pyrenees dog keeps her watch

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Atlanta’s busiest couples, he foundedthe Peasant Restaurant Chain, andshe had run the Women’s CommerceClub. For their weekend sojourns,Marie felt the farm needed a propername and combined the words“Serenity” and “Be” for Serenbe.

It is no surprise this enterprisingduo would simply create their ownword to name their unique place andlifestyle. They sold their Atlantainterests and felt compelled to sharewhat they had in Palmetto, turningSerenbe into a bed and breakfast farm.

“People are just so happy to behere,” said Steve Nygren in hissoothing tone, a genuine welcomingsmile on his face. “Our guestsexperience what my family felt whenwe began coming here on ourweekends.” The Nygrens’ belief in thislifestyle connected them to nature andgradually led them — and severalinfluential partners — to develop theSerenbe community (see sidebar).

“The peace we’ve found in thisway of life has encouraged many of

our bed and breakfast guests tobecome the first homeowners in ourSerenbe community,” he said.

Guests can choose from severaldifferent sleeping accommodationsincluding a 1930s converted horsebarn with screened porches andprivate living areas; three differentsize private cottages withkitchenettes, fireplaces, whirlpooltubs and each sporting differentamenities; and the larger Lake House

Serenbe seems unique among bed and breakfasts, with its farm atmosphere, and guests truly enjoy ambling all over the acreage as well as enjoying the amenities suchas a pool, hot tub, campfires, trampolines, croquet, canoeing and other activities.

with private entrances for housinglarger groups.

The Nygrens’ tasteful,comfortable and soulful decoratingstyle is prevalent throughout theproperty, both inside and outside.Rooms and grounds have beendecorated with antiques andheirlooms from the owners’ personalSouthern folk art collection, so eachspace is an entirely uniqueexperience. When you are finallyready to tuck in, downy soft linensand handmade quilts make sure youwill have a restful night’s sleep beforewaking to enjoy a full country

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breakfast served in the farmhouse.Serenbe seems unique among

bed and breakfasts, with its farmatmosphere, and guests truly enjoyambling all over the acreage as wellas enjoying the amenities such as apool, hot tub, campfires,trampolines, croquet, canoeing andother activities.

Guests have free rein to wanderthe grounds and visit the manyfriendly livestock that live on thefarm. Goats clamber to the fence fora scratch, hopeful for a handout anda tickle. Meanwhile, burros beginbraying to make sure they aren’tforgotten. And over behind thelawn area, pigs and bunnies areready for a pet from those who arewilling and able.

The kitchen gardenbehind the horse barn is awork of art in itself,including trellises madefrom tree branches andborders cut from small logs.Herb gardens spill over thesides of their raised beds,and some lettuces gone toseed raise their tops likenatural skyscrapers towardthe sky.

There are flowers,flowers everywhere, fromthe artfully tended beds atthe entrance to the

wildflower fields throughout the 60-acre property of the bed andbreakfast farm. The amateur andmore professional-mindedphotographer alike will want to bringa camera to capture the bounty offlora climbing, cascading, over everyfence, out of every urn, in every potimaginable.

It’s all perfectly serene. NCM

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1936, King experienced Roscoethrough fresh yet comprehendingeyes. On March 3, 1936, she tellsWill: “… I am farming! And on sucha grand scale. This sounds so big - it’s ashame to let you down so - to threeacres. But I guess if I should have to

plow that it would seem enormous. Itdoes seem a pitiably small amountwhen no doubt there will be five-hundred acres right by it lying idle….I’m planting cotton…. Yancey is goingto work it for me.”

In May she reports: “This weatheris atrocious for us farmers - the wind -I had more cotton planted yesterday inspots - where the other failed to come up

- or else went to China. Now for rain -and it should do well.”

Although Ferguson suffered fromtuberculosis and received treatment atthe State Sanatorium in Alto, Ga. formuch of this time, both thefrequency and intensity of King’sletters increased. By the summer of1936, they began talking about plansand houses, and a lot about chickens.“John is encouraging us - he says theidea of chickens and hogs is a good one- that there is money in both.”

By late July, King had a good ideaof the house she and Ferguson wantedto build, and took charge of thematter. She writes: “Well – I went intoCole’s yesterday myself and the manestimated the cost of lumber for me.Such a thrill I got out of that. He wasso accommodating and seemed to knowimmediately just what we wanted.”

Striving to convince Fergusonwhat a quality wife she will make,King even provides glimpses of herdaily domestic routine – cooking,cleaning, knitting, and nursing herailing grandparents. She also sharesthe lighter side of recreation in Roscoewith Ferguson. She writes: “Lastnight…Mr. John Causey took Miriam,Ophelia Colley and some boys from

LOCAL HISTORY

RoscoeRevisited:

Through the Eyes of Dorothy King, 1935 –1936BY JULIE TURNER

Like colorful pieces of a jigsawpuzzle, Dorothy King’s love letters toWill Ferguson written from Roscoe in1935 and 1936 paint a mosaic imageof Roscoe and Dunaway Gardens.Hiding within lines bursting of firstlove and dreams, these bits and piecesof ordinary life vividly convey therelationships between people andplace which created a sense ofcommunity.

In June 1935, King moved fromher parents’ home in Columbus toher grandfather Andrew Sewell’shome in Roscoe for an extended stay.She tells Will she is settling in andbeginning to line up piano students,although she had cut her rate to $4.King’s perspective on Roscoe anddaily life there is particularly poignantas that of an inside-outsider. She is nostranger to the community, but shesees herself as slightly apart asindicated in her description ofhomecoming at the family church:“Sunday is perhaps the biggest day ofall the year for these people around here.It is sort of a reunion at their littlechurch - and such planning andpreparations they do make - they’ve gotme busy too.”

In the spring and summer of

Dorothy King andWill Ferguson



Newnan and me - ‘possum hunting. Itseems decididly dumb to me. I loathe‘possum - so why chase miles over woodsand fields looking for one of the things -but it was fun - for a change. We caughttwo of the beastly animals.”

Ophelia Colley is mentionedoften in King’s letters in 1935 and’36. The young actress fromTennessee worked as a drama coachfor the Wayne P. Sewell ProducingCompany’s training school in Roscoethat was associated with DunawayGardens. About 1940, Ophelia wouldfind her place on the stage of theGrand Ol’ Opry as Minnie Pearl.

King’s uncle, Wayne P. Sewell,along with his domineering actress-wife, Hettie Jane Dunaway Sewell,held significant power and influencewithin the community during theearly 20th century. Their theatricalpresence also sets Roscoe apart fromother rural Georgia communities.Dunaway Gardens survives as thematerial expression of this uniquerelationship within the culturallandscape.

Begun in the 1920s, this series of“garden rooms” created on a 64-acretract of terraced farmland was thepersonal vision of Hettie Jane

Dunaway Sewell. King’s lettersconvey a great deal regarding therelationship of the community to theproduction company, DunawayGardens and the theatrical Sewells.

Dunaway Gardens has beenperceived as the core of theatricalactivities in Roscoe with relatedactivities throughout the communitysuch as costume making. However,King’s letters give a less centralizedimage, and one that places theAndrew Sewell House at the centerof Wayne Sewell’s training school foractresses, at least in 1935 and ’36. InSeptember 1935, King writesFerguson about her newresponsibilities with a little tongue-in-cheek exaggeration: “Very little ofimportance is going on in this village.I’ve a new job. I’m now connected withthe famous and incomparable Wayne P.Sewell Producing Co. - what a break -They’ve very generously turned thebook-keeping over to me - that is -looking after all trunks going out andcoming in - and all keys - it is quitecomplicated.” The trunks associatedwith Sewell’s productions came andwent through the Sewell Barnconstructed circa 1925. This barn isone of the best representations of the

relationship between the communityand Sewell’s theatrical operations. Itis basically a mule barn, and King’scotton would have been weighedhere, but it also housed Sewell’strunk making operations for costumestorage and transport.

King also provides a great deal ofinsight into the personality of HettieJane Dunaway Sewell and herrelationship to Roscoe. Aunt Hettycomes across as a very strong-willed,

Dorothy King and Andrew J. Sewell ride the ferry across the Chattahoochee River, probably at Hutcheson Ferry.

Dorothy King plays with a dogoutside the Patchwork Barn at

Dunaway Gardens.



self-centered, manipulative, back-biting kind of gal – an image hard toreconcile with the beauty and vision ofDunaway Gardens. Shortly afterarriving in Roscoe during the summerof 1935, King informs Ferguson that:“Aunt Hetty isthrowing it up to menow - that I refusedto take the meals incharge - and shecan’t say enoughdespicable things…”

Early the nextspring she writes:“Really Will, youwould get such akick out of the waythe things areworking over at thegardens. Everybodyis getting socompletely out done with Aunt Hetty.All of her workmen. I’m afraid one ofthese days she’ll be left with no one.

People are leaving her moreeveryday. She gets worse. Shedrives everybody away. Shestill throws it up to me that Iwouldn’t go over there lastyear. That’s why she tries totake so much out on me. Butnever do I expect to doanything for her. They tell methe gardens are getting simplybeautiful - her being there

ruins them - as far as I’m concerned. Iget along all right with her as long asthat creek divides us!”

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King and Ferguson never did build their dream house, nor did theymanage to get married. Her letters don’t say what prevented a wedding, butFerguson’s illness and poor prospects as a family provider seem to have broughtout objections. The two were, however, devoted to one another until his deathin 1940. NCM


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“It’s a wonderful, intact, turn-of-the-century town,” said DarwinPalmer, who operates a business thatsells doors, windows and other itemsreclaimed from old houses.

“It still looks the same as it didthen, except for the cars andtelephone lines,” adds Palmer, whomoved to Grantville 13 years ago.“But it’s close enough to Atlanta thatyou can jump on the interstate and

COMMUNITY PROFILE

GrantvilleB Y G A R Y L E F T W I C H

P H O T O S B Y B O B F R A L E Y & G A R Y L E F T W I C H

The sounds of an impromptuchoir fill the air as the sun sinksbelow a bank of clouds. An orangeglow paints the sky as those singingblend their voices in sweet, southerngospel harmony.

Not far away, a gathering ofthirtysomething friends prepares aSaturday barbecue in the back yardof a neat, suburban home. Activityswirls around each of the first few

homes in Brasch Park, a newneighborhood that boasts aswimming pool, a baseball diamondand a basketball court among itsamenities.

While they may seem worldsapart, both groups make up an equalpart of Grantville, a town thatproudly celebrates its past, whilecapitalizing on recent growth tobuild its future.

Downtown Grantville today has several retail shops andbusinesses. At the turn of the century, Grantville was a mecca

for cotton warehouses and mills.



two new subdivisions. Today morethan a dozen new neighborhoods arein the building or planning phases,according to Palmer.

Situated along the railroad thathelped build the town, an elegantGrantville Elementary Schoolwelcomes students with the motto“On the Track to Success.” There’seven talk of a grocery store, a bankand other businesses in the town’s

near future, and inquiries have comeabout turning one of the old millbuildings into a cotton museum.

Ever mindful of Grantville’shistory, local leaders are committedto managing the new development.They have hired a city manager andcharged the planning and historicpreservation commissions withensuring the typical consequences ofgrowth do not slow its progress.

be there in a half hour. That is whatmakes the area attractive to thosewho have moved here in the lastseveral years.”

Originally named Calico Cornerby those who settled it in the 1820s,Grantville adopted its name some 30years later from L.P. Grant, an officerwith the Atlanta and West PointRailroad. The railroad became alifeline for the small, rural hamlet,bringing in needed supplies andgiving local farmers access to marketsacross Georgia.

A booming commercial center atthe turn of the century, Grantvillebecame a small mecca for cottonwarehouses and mills. Fueled by thelabors of local businessmen, thetown thrived for decades.

As times changed and nearbycities grew, Grantville felt the effects.The mills and other businesses closed,along with the town’s only school. Theonce bustling, block-long downtownbecame home to a steady line ofrestaurants and shops that closedalmost as quickly as they opened.

Down but not out, Grantvillebegan a renaissance of sorts severalyears ago with the construction of

“It’s close enough to Atlanta that you canjump on the interstate and be there in a halfhour. That is what makes the area attractiveto those who have moved here in the lastseveral years.” Darwin Palmer,

Grantville businessman

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More than adozen new

neighborhoods are either being

built or are in theplanning stages

in Grantville.Businessman

Darwin Palmer, atright, says itsproximity to

Atlanta is onereason people are

moving toGrantville.



“We need to balance theresidential growth with industrial,and we need to get busy with sewerand other services,” Palmer said. “Ifeverything’s managed well, it’s a best-case scenario.”

For many, that means Saturdaysfilled with gospel singings inGrantville’s historic train depot andoutdoor barbecues for years to come.

“We see the growth coming andwe’re excited,” said businessman andMayor Billy Tucker, adding that thecity must encourage development andprotect the history and small-townfeel of the city. “It’s always been afriendly place. We want to keep thatas the growth comes.” NCM

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LOCAL HERITAGE

B Y W . W I N S T O N S K I N N E R

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The old passenger depot in Grantville today serves as

headquarters of the Coweta County Genealogical Society.

Coweta County Genealogical SocietyPresident Janet Bierig, right,

and Margaret Putnam take care ofsome society business at the

research center.

Helen Bowles, a skilled localgenealogist and researcher, peruses

materials at the CCGS research centerin Grantville.



EEvery now and then, I drivedown to Grantville.

The architecture there is lovely,and I particularly like the antebellumfreight depot and the turrets andflourishes at Bonnie Castle. My wife,Lynn, and I both have relatives whocall Grantville home.

I’ll have to admit, though, thatmy usual destination in Grantville isthe old passenger depot, aweatherbeaten Victorian jewel. Whilepassenger trains no longer stop inGrantville, the depot does offer aguaranteed trip to the past asheadquarters of the Coweta CountyGenealogical Society.

Inside this tiny building are booksand materials people can use to tracetheir roots. The first newspaper story Iwrote for The Times-Herald wasabout longtime Coweta genealogistNorma Gunby, who helped organizethe society. She and her comradeshave created a wonderful legacy.

The research center is openTuesdays and Wednesdays from 10a.m.-4 p.m., staffed by knowledgeablevolunteers. The center is also open thefirst and second Saturday of eachmonth from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

The society’s success has been sogreat the center is out of space. Whilethe society never turns down adonated family history, the shelvesholding them are packed.

“We can’t put another book onthat family shelf,” current presidentJanet Bierig told me on my mostrecent visit.

The CCGS bylaws call for thepurchase of a certain quantity ofbooks each year. Because of a lack ofspace, the society has reverted tobuying books “only as needed” orwhen a gift is specified for thepurchase of a particular tome.

Society volunteers dream of abigger and better facility, but I have toadmit that — although I will notbegrudge them the space they needand deserve — I will miss researchingin the quaint little building beside therailroad tracks when their ship — or

maybe, train — comes in.I have to keep an eye on my

watch while at the depot or I canwhile away too many hours. Amongmy favorite things at the genealogicalsociety’s research center are:

• The bound copies of TheTimes-Herald and its predecessorsdating back to the mid-1800s.Microfilm copies available at thenewspaper office are easily accessible,but there’s something about those oldbooks. Reading my grandparents’wedding announcement and realizingthis very paper rolled off the presseswith the one they read and clippedand treasured is, somehow, magic.

• The section on Virginia. Thoughmy wife, Lynn, and I both have rootsin Coweta County and neighboringMeriwether all the way to the 1830s,we both have family trees that wanderback to colonial Virginia. When Iperuse volumes with names like“Marriages of Some Virginia Residents1607-1800” and “Cavaliers andPioneers,” I invariably find some newtidbit to add to my trove of family lore.

• “Methodist Preachers in Georgia1783-1900.” In the 19th century,Baptist preachers were oftenhomegrown, except in the case oflarge, prominent churches. TheMethodists, however, moved preachersaround, meaning their clergy oftenwere born in one place, marriedsomeone from another and hadchildren who married into otherfamilies along the path of ministry.Genealogical puzzles are solved — andothers created — whenever I consultthis book.

• Those blue notebooks. Over theyears, CCGS volunteers have filleddozens of blue notebooks withinformation on families from Cowetaand surrounding counties. Someinclude copies of 19th century letters.Others have family trees stretchingback to the 1300s. Much of thisinformation has never been publishedin any book.

When I can find a spare moment,I’m heading to Grantville. This time, Ithink I’ll start by looking throughsome of those blue notebooks. NCM

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But throughout the book, the readers aretaken back in time to see what madeeach of these girls the way she is, andhow each got in the mess she is in today.And how, as Corrine says, they reallyhaven’t changed from the “Same SweetGirls” they were in college.

This wonderful book has similaritiesto “The Ya-Ya’s” and even “SteelMagnolias,” because these womencertainly are that. But there is more to itthan the similarities. It has its own heart,its own strength and its own secrets. Andit welcomes its readers into a great groupof friends.

“Hunting Eric Rudolph”By Henry Schuster with Charles StoneBerkley Books, $19.95Reviewed by Angela Webster

In April Eric Robert Rudolphpleaded guilty tomurder and receivedfour life sentences withno possibility of parole.For law enforcement,the confession cappednearly nine years ofinvestigative work sincethe one-time fugitive’sbombing campaignbegan at the SummerOlympic Games inAtlanta in 1996. Thepipe bomb he plantedthere on July 27, 1996exploded and killedAlice Hawthorne,injured dozens of otherspectators, and tarnished the wholecountry, really, by preventing whatmight have become known as “the bestOlympics ever ” in Atlanta. Rudolphwould go on to bomb a gay nightcluband two abortion clinics, injuring morepeople and killing an off-duty policeofficer.

And then he would run deep intothe mountains of North Carolina.

The story of Rudolph’s run from lawenforcement is a familiar one to Newnanresident Charles Stone. As head of theGeorgia Bureau of Investigation Anti-Terrorist Unit, Stone was on the case fromthe night of the Olympic Park bombinguntil his retirement from the GBI in1998. During those years Stone developeda friendship with CNN producer HenrySchuster, and the two recount the killer’sstory in “Hunting Eric Rudolph.”

“The Same Sweet Girls”By Cassandra KingHyperion Books, $23.95Reviewed by Holly Jones

Move over Ya-ya’s, see you later FirstWives Club, and Red Hat Ladies, takenotice. There are some new girls in town,and they’re the “same sweet girls” you’ve

known allyour lives.

“SameSweet Girls” isCassandraKing’s latestnovel,introducingreaders toCorrine, Julia,Lanier, Astor,Byrd andRosanelle,also known asthe SameSweet Girls.

The storyof the SSGs— although

they admit they are not “girls” anymore— is told from the viewpoint of clubmembers Corrine, Julia and Lanier. All arein their late 40s, rapidly closing in on 50,but they met while attending college.

“The question is,” Corrine says atthe beginning of the book, “are the SameSweet Girls sweet? Hardly. But one thing’sfor sure: we’re the same. We are the samecomplicated, screwy, mixed-up, love-each-other-one-minute and hate-each-other-the-next group of women we were whenwe met thirty years ago.”

That quote completely sums up thisbook and these girls. They share love aswell as animosity, and the soul of thisstory is how these friends work throughthese emotions in their lives.

The book begins with the ganggetting ready for one of their semi-annualmeetings, this one to be held at Lanier’scabin. But things are never that simple, atleast for the three main characters.

Corrine is battling a strange illnesswhile trying to keep her abusive ex-husband out of her life, Lanier hascheated on her husband but wants herfamily back, and Julia is First Lady ofAlabama — and absolutely miserable.

THE BOOKSHELF For those who love a good copstory, the book gives a fascinatingbehind-the-scenes glimpse into themanhunt that ended in May 2003 whena rookie police officer in Murphy, N.C.spotted what he thought was a homelessman dumpster-diving near a grocerystore. To everyone’s astonishment theprowler was the elusive Eric Rudolph.

The authors delve deeply intoRudolph’s history, carefully piecingtogether the story of how one mandeveloped such a warped worldview,how a supposedly Bible-believingsoutherner became a marijuana-smoking (and marijuana-growing),cold-blooded killer.

The back story in this book is asgood as what’s on center stage. Theauthors tell of the power struggles thatensued when various law enforcementagencies got in each other’s way, showing

how these strugglesmay have actuallyslowed or harmed theinvestigation. Stone isfrequently cast as thegood ole boy whoserves as bothpeacemaker andproblem-solver.

A few questionswill linger after a readerfinishes the book, suchas, “Did Rudolph havehelp in hiding frompolice all those years?”If the answer to thatquestion is locked upin a federal prison with

the killer who showed no respect forhuman life, at least they’re locked uptogether.

“Being Dead is No Excuse: TheOfficial Southern Ladies Guide toHosting the Perfect Funeral”By Gayden Metcalfe and Charlotte HayesMiramax Books, $19.95Reviewed by Holly Jones

Did you know that carnations andgladiolus are no-no’s for funeralarrangements? Or that Campbell’s soup— especially “Cream of” Anything — isa restorative balm? That if you die in theDelta, you simply cannot die withouttomato aspic? Or that if you live inGreenville, Miss., you simply must beburied in the old cemetery on SouthMain Street?


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These are just a few of the thingsthat you would know if you were a

“nice lady” inthe Delta, ormorespecifically,Greenville,Miss. Or, ifyou had read“Being Deadis No Excuse:The OfficialSouthernLadies Guideto Hostingthe PerfectFuneral” byGaydenMetcalfe andCharlotteHays.

“Being Dead” is, in some ways, acookbook. It is filled with recipes forfoods that are necessities at Deltafunerals. There are six recipes alone forpimiento cheese, which the authors call“the paste that holds the South together.”

But the book isn’t just recipes. It isfull of Southern anecdotes, Southernfuneral anecdotes, that will have youlaughing your head off while nodding atthe same time, especially if you areMethodist or Episcopalian. Thedifference between the two is alsodiscussed, though not in the way youmight expect. When it comes to funerals,the authors say, “Episcopalians are snootybecause they spurn cake mixes andcanned goods, without which therewould be no such thing as Methodistcuisine. Methodist ladies do great thingswith the contents of cans and boxes.”

Nothing is off limits in this book.The talents of Bubba Boone, theundertaker, are discussed. Headstonedates, which “we’d better warn you notto put too much credence in,” are a hottopic. And obituaries are given theirown chapter. “When it comes to theobituary, it is important not to lieoutright,” the authors say, because “youdo not want to make deceased relativesunrecognizable in their own obituaries.”

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clusion of camp. Camp is designed forages 7-14. Fee is $250 per camper. Therewill be no camp on Sunday, July 31.Preregistration is required, and there is amandatory camper/parent meeting thefirst 15 minutes of camp on July 29. Camplocation will be announced soon.Information: 770-599-0051 or visitwww.fcft.net/shops.

AUGUST 19-28, 2005“You’re a Good Man, CharlieBrown” — Newnan Theatre Company’s“You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” aPopcorn Series production, will be pre-sented Aug. 19, 20, 21, 26, 27 and 28.Shows begin at 7:30 p.m.on Friday andSaturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $8to $12. Special rates are available forgroups of 10 or more. For reservations,season tickets and more information, call770-683-6282, e-mail [email protected] orvisit www.newnantheatre.com.

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JULY 18 AND 19, 2005“Steel Magnolias” Auditions —Newnan Theatre Company will hold audi-tions for “Steel Magnolias” July 18 and19. Performances run Sept. 9-25.Auditions will be at Newnan TheatreCompany, 24 First Avenue in Newnan.Information: Visitwww.newnantheatre.com or call 770-683-NCTC (6282).

AUGUST 15 AND 16, 2005“Wit” Auditions — Newnan TheatreCompany will hold auditions for the fallshow “Wit” Aug. 15 and 16. Performancesrun Oct. 21-Nov. 6. Auditions will be atNewnan Theatre Company, 24 FirstAvenue in Newnan. Information: Visitwww.newnantheatre.com or call 770-683-NCTC (6282).

MUSIC

JULY 9 AND 10, 2005Ayrshire Fiddle Orchestra — Keepingalive the traditional music of Scotland, theAyrshire Fiddle Orchestra is composed ofabout 130 violinists, cellists, bass playersand percussionists. Concerts are July 9 at7 p.m. (Gala following performance) andJuly 10 at 2 p.m. at the Centre forPerforming and Visual Arts, Newnan.Tickets to the performances are $10, tick-ets to the gala $15, and can be purchasedat The Centre or at Scott’s Bookstore indowntown Newnan. Proceeds benefit theStrings program of the Coweta CountySchool System. Information: 770-254-2787or www.fiddleorchestra.com

JULY 22-24, 2005“West Side Story” — TheSuperintendent’s Theatre Arts Resource(STAR) program will present “West SideStory” July 22 and 23 at 7 p.m. and July24 at 2 p.m. at the Centre for Performingand Visual Arts of Coweta County. Ticketsare $10 adults, $8 students and seniors.

THEATRE

JULY 14-17, 2005“Joseph and the AmazingTechnicolor Dreamcoat” — Fayette-Coweta Family Theatre, Inc. will presentthe Tim Rice/Andrew Lloyd Webber musi-cal “Joseph and the Amazing TechnicolorDreamcoat” at the Villages Amphitheaterin Fayetteville July 14-17 at 8 p.m.General admission at door is $12, childrenunder 16 and seniors at door $11, and allpre-sale tickets are $10. A limited numberof front row tables is available for $100each by phone reservation only.Information: 770-251-7611.

JULY 15-17, 2005“Romeo and Juliet” — TheSuperintendent’s Theatre Arts Resource(STAR) program will present “Romeo andJuliet” July 15 and 16 at 7 p.m. and July17 at 2 p.m. at the Centre for Performingand Visual Arts of Coweta County. Ticketsare $10 adults, $8 students and seniors.Information: 770-254-2787.

JULY 22 – AUGUST 7, 2005“Sordid Lives” — An Artist Seriesshow, Newnan Theatre Company’s“Sordid Lives” will be performed in theBlack Box July 22, 23, 24, 29, 30, 31 andAug. 5, 6 and 7. Friday and Saturdayshows start at 8 p.m., Sunday matineeperformances at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $8to $12. Special rates are available forgroups of 10 or more. For reservations,season tickets and more information, call770-683-6282, e-mail [email protected] orvisit www.newnantheatre.com.

NOW THROUGH JULY 30, 2005KidsCamp — KidsCamp at NewnanTheatre Company, for children aged 6-12years, runs for one-week sessions nowthrough July 30, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. with a performance eachSaturday at 10 a.m. Fee is $80 for onechild for the first week. If the child comesadditional weeks, or if a sibling comestoo, the price for the second week or thesecond child is $60. Information:www.newnantheatre.com or e-mail [email protected].

JULY 29 – AUGUST 5, 2005Summer Production Camp —Fayette-Coweta Family Theatre will hostits fifth annual Summer Production CampJuly 29-Aug. 5 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30p.m. daily. Participants will experience allthings theatrical as they prepare to pres-ent the 30-minute musical production of“Aladdin” to a public audience at the con-

Information:770-254-2787.

JULY 28,

2005BenefitConcert — OnJuly 28, 2005 at7 p.m. at theCentre for Performing and Visual Arts ofCoweta County, BMI Nashville RecordingArtist Robert E. Walden will perform abenefit concert for the CommunityWelcome House. Cost is $25 for adults,$20 for students and senior citizens, andgroup rates are available for 10 or more.Tickets may be purchased at thePerforming Arts Centre or by contactingLinda Kirkpatrick at 404-944-8024 or by e-mail at [email protected].

COMMUNITY FUN ANDFUNDRAISERS

NOW THROUGH JULY 22, 2005Vacation Reading Program —Activities run through July 22 in theNewnan-Coweta Public Library’s VacationReading Program. Remaining eventsinclude: July 12, 10:30 a.m., AmyBeaucham presents “Amelia Bedelia”;July 14, Arts and Crafts for ages 7 and up,2–3 p.m., Paint a snake; July 14, 7 p.m.,Connie Haynes’ snakes; July 19, 10:30a.m., Carol Cain, storyteller; July 21, 7p.m., Drum Circle; July 22, last day ofVacation Reading Program. Information:770-253-3625.

JULY 16, 2005Old Town Sharpsburg WatermelonFestival — Sharpsburg’s Sixth AnnualWatermelon Festival runs 10 a.m. to 5p.m. July 16. More than 50 food, craft andantique dealers will line the streets, andfree watermelon slices are enjoyed by thepublic along with old-fashioned games likewatermelon seed spittin’ contests, threelegged races, marbles and more.Information: Sharon Hazel at 770-252-9400.

JULY 21, 2005Hunters for Habitat— Newnan-CowetaHabitat for Humanity,fundraising dinner andraffle, July 21, CowetaCounty Fairgroundsand Conference Centeron Pine Road. Doorsopen at 6 p.m., dinnerat 6:30 p.m. Tickets:$40 each, $65 per cou-ple, $15 for children 12and under. Table spon-sorships are $280.Tickets are available at

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JULY 23, 2005Barbecue Cook-Off — Coweta Up inSmoke Barbecue Cook-Off, July 23, 11a.m.-6 p.m., Coweta County Fairgrounds,Pine Road. Businesses, civic groups,churches and others will vie for the title ofBest Barbecue in Coweta County.Activities will include a children’s zone,antique car cruise, rock wall provided bythe Army recruiting command, a militarydisplay, live band music and food ven-dors. Admission $5. Proceeds benefit theCoweta County Community Chest andCivic Council, which helps local residentsin need. The four categories of judging —pork ribs, pork, beef brisket andBrunswick Stew — will award first place,$75, second place, $50, and third place,$25. Entry fee for competitors: $25 percategory, $75 for all four. Information:www.cowetabbq.com.

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SEPTEMBER 3-5, 2005Powers’ Crossroads — The 35thPowers’ Crossroads Country Fair andArt Festival runs Saturday, Sept. 3through Labor Day, Sept. 5, with morethan 200 artists and craftsmen. Singersand musicians perform on theSummerhouse Stage and Southern cooksoffer homemade treats. Twin OaksJunction children’s park offers rides,games and concessions. This year,Powers’ welcomes the Seedsowers ClownTroup entertaining with face painting,magic, balloon sculpting, crazy hair forgirls and air brush tattooing for boys.There will be demonstrations by the WestGeorgia Quilters Guild and a juried exhibitof student work by talented youngCowetans. Gates open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily.Admission: $6 for adults, $5 for Seniorsand military personnel, $3 for children 5-12, kids under 4 admitted free. Ample freeparking is available with free shuttle serv-ice to and from the front gate throughoutthe weekend. Powers’ Crossroads is locat-ed off Georgia Highway 34, 10 miles westof Newnan. Information: 770-253-2011 ore-mail [email protected].

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There were only about 20 stu-dents in Pub Lab, but all were ener-gized and excited about the task ofpublishing “Smoke Signals,” themonthly school newspaper. Thesmall number of students allowedme to jump right in and join thesportswriting staff. Since the time Icould read, my day began with theAtlanta Journal-Constitution sportssection. Lewis Grizzard, FurmanBisher and Jesse Outlar were on theAJC staff. Later, because of mycareer in the field, I was able to per-sonally meet all three.

Under the guidance of Driskill,we all learned to write, report, gatherthe facts and have a hand in the pro-duction of a newspaper. Learningthose skills put each of us ahead ofthe curve when we went off to col-lege. We were lucky during the late’80s to have many talented studentscome through East Coweta, and itwas that small school atmosphere,with excellent and dedicated teach-ers, that presented us with thechance of a lifetime.

It was not just the newspaperstaff. The yearbook, the school radioshow, the literary magazine – all

excelled with the guidance of teach-ers like Randy Brown, Anne Powell,Carol Shankel, Alice McKnight andDale Lyles. We also had the supportof the administration includingPrincipal Alan Wood and assistantsJohn Boren and Garland Shoemake.

Each spring we as a journalismprogram journeyed from Senoia tothe University of Georgia with hopesof competing with the larger stateschools in scholastic press competi-tion. We did just that year-in andyear-out and in 1980 captured ourfirst All-Georgia Championship,which was the equivalent of the statechampionship in journalism. We didit again the following year, and EastCoweta won several more after that.

I still look back on those days assome of the fondest times of my life.I developed lifelong friends, found acareer and it all happened betweenthe walls at “little ole East Coweta.”I would have it no other way.

I reminisced about those daysnot too long ago with Mr. Wood.He said, “You know, we had some-thing pretty special down there backthen, didn’t we?”

And he was right.

MY COWETA

HHaving the opportunity to

attend a small high school is some-thing I cherish to this day. It is some-thing I wish kids today could do, butgrowth makes that impossible.

When I went to East CowetaHigh School in the ’80s, I didn’trealize how good I had it. The smallschool setting allowed us more inter-action with teachers and peers and awonderful opportunity for hands-onlearning.

As a freshman back in 1978, Iresponded to an announcement onthe P.A. system to attend an organi-zational meeting of the Pub Labclass. Pub Lab was the technicalname for the class that was theschool’s newspaper staff. Taught byEnglish teacher Jim Driskill, the classwould go on to turn out numerousjournalists, as well as a trophy casefull of state awards. More important-ly, it helped turn us into journalists.

In those days, living in the east-ern part of the county meant wewere small in number, but we likedit that way. There were about 800students in grades 6-12, and we allgathered each day in one building(now East Coweta Middle School).

Do you have a story of life in Coweta County you’d like to share ? Send submissions of 300-400 words to “My Coweta,” c/o Newnan-Coweta Magazine,

P.O. Box 1052, Newnan, GA 30264. You may also e-mail them to [email protected].

Small-school atmosphere

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Tray Baggarly, manager of the Coweta County Fairgrounds and Conference Center, is a 1982 graduate of East Coweta High School and a 1988 Graduate of West Georgia College with a degree in MassCommunication. He and his 12-year-old daughter Hayden live in their 135-year-old family home in Senoia, which was remodeled in 2002.

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