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My first exposure to Washington was during the eighties as a student at East Carolina University. During several trips to the

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to the unique qualities of the best-little-town-in-the-world. I hope you enjoy reading about the people, events and eclectic nature of Washington in this inaugural edition.

Washington’s own, every-other-month publication is a celebration — in print — of the character and charm of our hometown.

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transformation of an old hospital and a deteriorating second floor of a downtown building into amazing condos.

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• “Why I Love Washington” offers a first-person perspective on life here. Enjoy David Norwood’s reflection of planting family roots along the shores of the Pamlico.

If you share my passion for this place, I invite you to offer suggestions, story ideas, photos and input. This is your magazine after all.

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aBOUT THE SCENEBeaufort County Arts Council Fine Arts Show Gala

Members and patrons enjoy beautiful artwork, and each other, at the annual show held in conjunction with the Smoke on the Water festival. The event is held by the Beaufort County Arts Council and sponsored by PotashCorp-Aurora. The history of the Fine Arts Show predates the formation of the organization. The popular event is a showcase for local artists and is held each year at the Washington Civic Center. Read more about the arts council and executive director, Joey Toler on page 49.

Sue Beck and Judy Jarvah Ann Peters

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Eleanor Rollins and Glenda Barnes Tom Russell and Mary Thomson

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Boys and Girls Club Pig Cook-Off

The Boys and Girls Club of Beaufort County held an inaugural Pig Cook-Off and Bike Show. Delicious barbeque and baked goods were sold to benefit programs and activities for area children.

Michael Griffin, Carlton Roberson, Garland Griffin

Brandi Haywood and Karen Ball

Nadine Gordon and Jamie Cahoon

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Summer Festival Golf Tournament

Running in conjunction with Summer Festival weekend, the golf tournament is a popular Washington tradition held annually at Washington Yacht and Country Club. Good golf and social activities make for a fun weekend attracting participants throughout the state and beyond.

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St. Peter’s depicted on WAHF’s 2011 Christmas ornament

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church is featured on this year’s Christmas-tree ornaments produced and offered to the public by the Washington

Area Historic Foundation.“This will be the 16th ornament in a

series that has depicted a structure of interest in the city,” said Dee Congle-ton, WAHF vice president. “The orna-ments sell for $25 plus tax, and they come with a stand for display purposes. Proceeds from ornament sales are used for community projects like the park on Water Street and the Harding Square landscaping.”

Other WAHF projects include the car-riage for the cannon displayed at the N.C. Estuarium and a historical marker for the former Eureka lumber company site.

The ornament project began in 1996 and featured Singleton Primitive Bap-tist Church, the old courthouse and old City Hall. Since then, other historical structures have been featured on or-naments such as the skipjack Ada Mae Fowle warehouse and train station, Bank of Washington, the Municipal Build-ing; the former John Small Elementary School, the church towers of the First Presbyterian, St. Peter’s and First Meth-odist churches; the Bug House; Washing-

ton High School, former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad depot (Beaufort County Arts Council building), the former Tay-loe Hospital; Atlantic Coast Line freight depot (Civic Center), Turnage Theater, old City Hall, First Presbyterian Church building and the DeMille home.

Congleton, who has been a part of WAHF for 16 years, said the late Hazel Lassiter came up with the idea for the Christmas ornaments. Rebecca Clark is chairwoman of the Christmas ornament committee. Don Stroud, WAHF presi-dent, said the group has more than 100 members.

New members are encouraged to join. The foundation’s board meets once a month and hosts a historic homes tour. The 2011 tour featured 17 homes and raised more than $4,000, which will be returned to the community to promote historic sites and interest people in sav-ing old structures.

This year’s ornament selection was chosen because of the church’s rich historic value. Established in 1822, St. Peter’s is in its 188th year. In 1824, a frame building facing Main Street was erected. A stone marker in the church-yard identifies the spot where the old church stood. On May 9th, 1864, the church burned to the ground, an indi-rect result of the Union occupation of

Washington. A crystal chandelier and the baptismal font were all that sur-vived.

Undertaking the rebuilding of the church soon after the Civil War required great sacrifice from the parishioners of St. Peter’s, many of whom had lost their homes in the same fire that de-stroyed the church. Nevertheless, the present building was laid out in 1867 and completed in 1873. The church was consecrated by Bishop Atkinson in De-cember 1873. Today, the interior of the church features beautiful stained-glass lancet windows depicting scenes and symbols of religious life, wainscoting and arches from Beaufort County wal-nut, heart-pine pews made by Williams Walling and a beautiful white marble altar. A highlight of the interior is the St. Peter’s window, which depicts Saint Peter holding the keys to the heavenly kingdom. At its top is the eye of God. Traditional symbols of Christian belief complete this beautiful triptych-stained glass window. The stained-glass window in the sacristy depicts the old church and the new church.

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catch a ride back,” McCotter recalled. “I kept a boat here. It was small and had a 7½-horsepower motor. It was always a has-sle to get gas. No gas meant I had to sit on the shore and play.”

As a teen, he learned to fish and water ski while working at his father’s boatyard. He would prepare cabin cruisers for out-of-town owners who would come for a weekend visit.

“When I didn’t have anything to do, (dad) would put me to work,” McCotter said. “We always looked forward to the boaters coming because they would bring crabs and girls for us.”

As a young man, he skipped his usual card game with friends one evening to go on a blind date at McCotter’s Marina, where he met the woman who would be-come his future bride. He proposed three weeks later.

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“My roommate in college, who was a good friend growing up, introduced us. I went back to school in Greens-boro. The Saturday before Labor Day, mom and daddy took me back to school, and on Sunday night, he called me and said, ‘I’ve moved to Raleigh.’ He came over Monday, and we went out on Monday night. We’d known each other three weeks and he said, ‘You want to get married?’ and I said, ‘Sure.’”

The McCotters feel blessed to have had the continuity to raise their chil-dren and grandchildren on the creek, something that is not readily available to everyone.

“It’s all about the water, and you can’t own that,” said Jane McCot-ter. “We don’t own that. We are lucky enough to live here but you don’t own it. … Nobody owns this. This is here and a God-given gift that we have.

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Upper left: The James Adams Floating Theatre rests on a dry dock in Baltimore, Maryland, on Aug. 7, 1917. Middle: A view of theater seating as seen from the stage circa 1927. Upper right: Leading lady Beulah Adams was known as the “Mary Pickford of the Chesapeake.” Above: The cast of the theater holds a production meeting backstage.

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The top story in the Wash-ington Daily News that Wednesday went on to describe what would be christened the James

Adams Floating Theatre. Built at a cost of $25,000, the floating the-atre could seat 850 people and had living accommodations for 25.

It would travel from city to city along the waterfronts in eastern North Carolina, Virginia and Mary-land, going as far north as Balti-more.

At each stop, the cast and crew would entertain local townspeople by staging multiple theatrical shows over the course of several days for as little as 10 cents a ticket. People would return nightly to see dra-mas, comedies and vaudeville per-formances before the Adams would shove off for the next port.

Unknown at the time, one guest would send Mr. Adams’ floating the-atre into historical lore.

After graduating from high school in Appleton, Wis., in the early 1900s, Edna Ferber wanted to be-come an actress. Lacking the finan-

cial means to attend college, she ac-cepted a position as a reporter for the Appleton Daily Crescent for $3 a week.

Ferber would go on to become a celebrated novelist, winning the Pu-litzer Prize in 1924 for “So Big,” the tale of a woman raising a child on a truck farm outside of Chicago.

“Ferber was a well-known author of that early 20th century and she kind of fell into writing,” recounted Bea Latham with the Historic Bath Site. “It wasn’t really what her pas-sion was at first. Her passion as a child was really to be on stage or be in the theater. That just didn’t work out for her, and writing was some-thing that she could do, and they asked her to do that right out of high school for a local newspaper.”

Ferber’s success as a writer at-tracted the attention of Broadway playwright George S. Kaufman. The two collaborated on a stage adap-tation of Ferber’s short story “Old Man Minnick.”

Opening night at the Schubert Theater in New Haven, Conn., was less than triumphant. In the after-

“The first show ever given on water will be afforded the citizens of Washington next Monday evening. The “Playhouse” which has been under construction at the W.M. Chauncey marine railways since September last is now practically completed and is the first enterprise of the kind ever built on the Atlantic coast. The “Playhouse,” or rather floating theater, as some choose to call it, is the scheme and plan of the owner Mr. James Adams who for many years has been in the show business. He gave the first carnival show here in 1902, when the Hatch Adams attraction spent a week in the city.”

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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edna Ferber spent four days aboard the James Adams Floating Theatre, taking tickets and performing in shows as it traveled along the Pamico River. This served as her inspiration to write “Show Boat.” (Photo courtesy of Historic Bath State Historic Site)

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James Adams may sail againNearly 70 years after fire destroyed

the James Adams Floating Theatre in the Savannah River, an effort is under-way to bring the show boat-era vessel back to life.

Chesapeake Bay Floating Theatre, Inc., a 501c(3) non-profit organiza-tion based in Indian Head, Maryland, has been spearheading an endeavor to “re-create the experience of the Ameri-can repertory theatre movement of the early 20th century.”

The plan is to build James Adams II, a replica of the original James Ad-ams Floating Theatre that will serve as both theatre and museum as it tours the coastal communities of Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina.

While the CBFT focuses on fundrais-ing, the immediate concern for Adams is gathering oral histories and artifacts for the museum while they are still available.

“One of the goals of this project, in addition to re-creating the theatrical experience on the water, is also to have a small museum to educate about the original James Adams and the time pe-riod and what life would have been like on a traveling show boat,” Adams said. “The people who have the direct expe-rience with the original boat are aging at this point in time. Finding those in-dividuals is hard so getting the word out about the fact that we are looking to collect oral histories, we are look-ing to collect experiences, artifacts, we would appreciate. We certainly would want to encourage people to get in touch with us.”

To contact CBFT, visit www.floating-theatre.org.

math, as the troupe analyzed what went wrong, producer Winthrop Ames suggested they charter a show boat for their next production.

“(Ferber) had never heard of that before, but that really sparked her interest because theater is what she wanted, and here was this opportunity to learn more about how these boats plied up and down water-ways offering entertainment to people that couldn’t really get to Broadway,” Latham continued. “She was very intrigued by how all this worked.”

Ferber’s curiosity led her to the James Adams Floating Theatre, which at that time was playing cit-ies and towns along the Pamlico River.

Ferber arrived in Beaufort County in October 1924, travelling to Bel-haven to rendezvous with the ves-sel. Unfortunately, the season had just ended for the James Adams, al-though Ferber was invited back for the following season.

Ferber returned in April 1925, spending one night in Bath while awaiting the floating theatre’s ar-rival. She even signed the guest registry at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on April 18, 1925.

“She actually spent four days on the boat as it went up and down the shores of eastern North Carolina,” Latham said. “(Ferber) took part in all the aspects of how the boat worked. She said she sold tickets, she performed in some small parts. … She was just completely taken with this whole concept of the show boat.”

With her newfound experience, Ferber returned to New York to write “Show Boat,” a novel published in

1926. It would be turned into the 1927 Broadway musical about the Hawks family and its troupe of ac-tors aboard the fictitious Cotton Blossom on the Mississippi River. In reality, Ferber’s background for the story was garnered from those four

days in eastern North Carolina.

“I think for us here in Bath, what we like about the movie or the

book or the play or whatever

part of ‘Show Boat’ that you’re familiar with,

what we like is the fact that we know some of the things that she uses in her book are things that she found here in Bath,” Latham said. “For example, even though she changes the names to fit her character, she uses the inscription off of Margaret Palmer’s grave right here behind the Palmer-Marsh House; she uses that inscription in her book even though she changed the name. She talks about other aspects of our small town even though she changed the name and never really gave credit to her visit to Bath or re-ally didn’t seem very excited about her time here. The little part we can glean from that is that we know she was here and we know that she used what she found here in her book.”

The James Adams Floating The-atre continued to operate along the Eastern Seaboard from Georgia to Maryland until it sank in the Savan-nah River in 1941.

There have been countless perfor-mances of the musical “Show Boat” and its signature song “Ol’ Man River.”

What the audience doesn’t realize is that the inspiration behind the song was not the Mississippi, but the Pamlico River.


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It’s said this theater is haunted. It is.

It’s haunted by musicals buried so deeply in the past their songs are lost echoes, their copyrights expired.

It’s haunted by reverberating, wide-mouth laughter and the low hum of an organ; it’s haunted by sepia, silent-movie dreams and a chattering projector; it’s haunted by lonely shadows that

have been shuttered away for nearly a century.Downstairs, there is

active life.Reopened to the pub-

lic in November 2007, the Turnage Theater hosts around 20 shows a year plus special events — everything from Ve-gas revues to private parties.

But the public Turnage that most every Wash-ingtonian knows is a cir-ca-1930, fully restored “palace-style” theater in a two-story complex.

All of 150 W. Main St. is ensconced on the National Register of Historic Places.

Yet upstairs, unseen by most spectators, is the now-quiet vaudeville stage, a yet-to-be-restored space said to have been completed in 1913.

In its day, this place was called The New Theatre.This is where silent movies were shown, where hoofers hoofed and

bands blared, where on-the-circuit musicals like “Oh! Johnny, Oh!” played in January 1918. This is where, in March of that wartime year, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. blazed a trail in the film “The Man from Painted Post.”

Lecturers, from local politicians to a real, live British army veteran, took the stage to hold forth on “how to win the war” — you know, the one that was supposed to end all wars.

It’s rumored stars like comedian Red Skelton and bandleader Cab Calloway trod these boards — rumors hard to confirm.

C.A. Turnage, the man for whom the building was eventually named, WAITING

Turnage vaudeville stage ready for awakening

The 1913 vaudeville performance space built as the New Theatre now sits empty waiting on efforts to reawaken the memories of its grand past. The old projector from the days of silent cinema, on facing page, sits inside the theater.

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purchased stock in The New Theatre in 1914. (He bought out his partners in 1921.)

A man of obvious vision and enter-prise, Turnage ended up building the ground-floor palace theater after talk-ies necessitated a retreat from The New Theatre’s noisy, Main Street-fac-ing façade.

Turnage outlined his history with the theater in a letter to longtime businessman and Washington Daily

News columnist John Bragaw. The let-ter was published, in part, in the 1976 book “Washington and the Pamlico,” authored by part-time historians Ur-sula Loy and Pauline Worthy.

“The New Theatre was the leading theater in Washington, N.C. from the day it opened in 1913 until 1930,” Turnage wrote.

In 1929, Turnage took a long-term lease on the downstairs portion of the building and the lot behind it.

The original Turnage Theatre sits empty with its walls and signature horseshoe balcony showing signs of age and deterioration.


He oversaw construction of the Turnage Theater, which he called “one of the most modern theaters in eastern North Carolina.”

Turnage reportedly died in 1963. After his death, the Tur-nage Theater continued in opera-tion through 1978, when it closed. Movies were shown there sporadi-cally through the early 1980s,

according to former patrons’ ac-counts and a scrapbook that has been housed in the restored build-ing.

By the mid-1990s, it was clear the deteriorating Turnage was in danger of demolition. A nonprof-it group, the Turnage Theaters Foundation, was formed in 1996, fundraising began soon after and the palace theater was restored by 2007.

But restoration funds couldn’t be stretched to cover a rebirth of the vaudeville theater, which some visitors contend is a more impres-

sive space because of its size, its grand past, its curved balcony and its remarkable acoustics.

Scotty Henley, executive direc-tor of the Turnage foundation, lov-ingly referred to the “horseshoe embrace” of the balcony, and to a group of 20 or so “almost like box seats” because of their positions relative to the stage.

Henley, who handles lights and sound for many of the palace the-ater’s productions, has a profound appreciation of the dusty vaude-ville hall.

“You don’t find a lot of theaters …


that have a balcony line that runs perpendicular to the stage,” he said, tossing in praise for the stur-dy structure, and the pressed-tin ceiling that is pretty much still in place.

It’s plausible that famous vaude-ville players trouped through this water-and-railroad town in the era when “every day was an audition,” Henley speculated.

In fact, the Feb. 16, 1914, edi-tion of the Washington Daily News trumpets “high-class vaudeville” at The New Theatre, thanks to the booking prowess of the Keith cir-cuit. The Keith-Albee circuit mar-keted some of the leading road acts of that time, and the name was synonymous with the classier-than-most vaudeville performers that went down well with church-going Americans.

“There (are) only four other towns in the state running this class of vaudeville,” the Feb. 16 Daily News article notes. “That is New Bern, Wilmington, Winston-

Salem and Charlotte. With Wash-ington included on the circuit with these larger cities the patrons of the (New) Theater will from to-night on have the pleasure of get-ting the best there is in the vaude-ville line.”

In these first years of The New Theatre, vaudeville was front-page news — and usually top-of-the-page news — in Washington.

The Jan. 1, 1914, WDN unleashed the paper’s hyperbole stores on “a novelty sharp shooting sister team,” calling the duo “one of the best acts that has ever been South, and one that is different from the majority of acts now being seen at any theater.”

Photos of actors were published in advance of their arrivals, often under italicized headlines such as “Grand Opera Coming.” This head-ing proclaimed the imminence of the road version of Charles Gounod’s opera “Faust,” which pulled into Washington in February 1914.

“‘Faust’ has been fully equipped with scenic details and the costum-ing considered one of the essen-tials in all the particulars toward furnishing a genuine treat,” pro-claims a contemporaneous edition of the Daily News.

Despite its colorful theatrical and cinematic background, the vaude-ville theater isn’t due for refurbish-ment — not yet, anyway.

“It is a dream, it is a wish,” said Henley, pointing out early plans called for the theater to be brought back in Phase II of a long-range plan.

If and when it does return, The New Theatre could have the power to outdraw its successor, the palace.

Henley has heard the vaudeville house could seat nearly 900 souls.

The palace seats just 432.But for the present, the lady

sleeps with her memories, waiting for her grand reopening.

She hasn’t vanished after all.And the ghosts go on

whispering.

Wood framing shores up the opening of the old vaudeville stage of the Turnage Theatre. A mannequin, on facing page, stands watch in the empty space.


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A StoriedCollectionTreasures tell tales of couple’s journey

Beth Collier is a collector. She wouldn’t use that word to de-scribe herself — she’d likely choose more traditional ones: in-terior decorator, designer, artist,

mom — but the unique collection Collier has amassed with a true connoisseur’s skill easily escapes notice among the many antiques, ob-jets d’art and kitschy stuff filling her home. It eludes the eye because it simply can’t be seen. Instead, it’s heard.

Collier points to a wall in her dining area, to a large, framed map. Behind the glass, the old paper is wrinkled and stained.

“That’s the map my grandfather kept in his johnboat,” Collier explains. “And that’s motor

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The Colliers working on

their new line of furniture in

the vanCollier design studio.


oil on it. Look — can you see the pat-tern it makes? It looks like an Asian woman. A painting of an Asian woman.”

The map-turned-portrait is a work of art, like the perfect still life beneath it: chunks of white coral reaching skyward from a clear bowl atop a raw wood pillar. Another long, narrow piece of wood leans at a perfect angle against the column. The perfection of the still life, however, does not reside in its aesthetic beauty. Rather, it’s the story behind each piece that defines Collier’s style and defines her, as a collector: the crystal bowl be-longed to Collier’s grandmother; the coral brought back from her brother’s honeymoon in the islands; the pillar of wood, hewn from an ancient pecan tree uprooted to make way for All Saints Hall at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church; the stick, a tobacco stick from the days when tobacco was king, and Collier’s grandfather, Malcolm Hassell, owned a tobacco warehouse on Pierce Street.

Point at any given object in the reno-vated condo Collier shares with her hus-band, Chris, and sons, Beck and Hawes, and a story is forthcoming. In the liv-ing room, there’s a friend’s inspiration in the Greek key pattern of the otto-

man Collier designed; in the bedroom, there’s the round security mirror she hung, on a whim, above a tray of crys-tal decanters and is the inspiration for her next design; in the hall, it’s in the intricate designs of small rugs scattered about, worn with age, yet still vibrant with a story of Chris Collier’s childhood in Turkey, when his father was a buyer for a subsidiary of R.J. Reynolds.

But if the Collier book of style is com-prised of those individual stories, the binding of the book would be the turn-of-the-century Georgian building in which the Colliers reside. Located at a corner of West Main and Washington streets and locally referred to as “the old Tay-loe Hospital,” the Colliers bought the building in 2001 after it had sat unused for a decade. It was in distressing shape when they purchased it — every window boarded over, mold had infested mat-tresses and equipment abandoned when the building’s second inhabitant, Brit-thaven of Washington, moved to a new building near the hospital.

“‘Blair Witch Project’ comes to mind,” Collier says, as she describes exploring the pitch-black, three-story building by flashlight in those early days. “We found

bedroom slippers, near the entrance of the hospital, like someone had just stepped out of them. It was eerie. Eerie. Eerie,” she says, each repetition more emphatic than the last.

The Colliers began renovation in 2004, gutting the main masonry struc-ture and dividing it into three separate living spaces: the Colliers’, with a first-floor entrance, though most of the living space is on the second; a ground-floor dwelling and another duplex. Ceilings, walls and linoleum were ripped out, and the Colliers had the condo’s concrete flooring scored down to its aggregate, leaving a smooth finish with a slightly rough look. Collier took two months to stain the concrete by herself, giving the floor a dark, luminescent, terrazzo effect.

A 1950s-era, brick-façade addition to the original building, they razed and replaced altogether with four new town-homes that carefully maintain elements of the hospital’s southern Georgian style in their columns, parapet walls, concrete seals and keystones.

But the stories of the renovation are not nearly as interesting to Collier as the stories told about the hospital

Blue doors open onto the Colliers’ first-floor foyer, formerly the ambulance entrance to the Tayloe Hospital (left). The vanCollier furniture line features this ottoman, made of recycled metal in a Greek Key pattern and cream-colored cowhide.


itself. Collier discovered part of her son’s room was local resident Dr. Neil Partrick Sr.’s, office in the early years of his prac-tice. The palatial restroom off the kitch-en was originally a “birthing room,” and the decrepit Otis elevator that wheezes its way from one floor to the next (the wary Colliers take the stairs), apparently has many stories of its own.

“That elevator saw plenty of action in the old days,” Collier winks, but demurs when asked to elaborate on why the el-evator seemed to get stuck, quite often, between floors.

It’s a stellar fit — the building with the Colliers. The recreated condo is a combination of new and old, industrial and antique, traditional and modern. It’s a style filled with contradictory im-pulses that somehow manage to compli-ment one another.

The same style defines the Colliers’ in-terior decorating company, vanCollier, and their new furniture line debuted at this year’s fall High Point Furniture Market. The line is a collaboration, something at which the couple is skilled — Chris Collier is the antiques expert; Beth Collier, the interior designer — and emphasizes a commitment to using

natural materials and recycling, repur-posing items from the past into the de-sign elements of the present.

The Malcolm line is a perfect example. Named for Collier’s grandfather, the line of sconces, chandeliers and tables is both rustic and modern, softened by the uneven edge of raw wood — real to-bacco sticks, recycled from the old to-bacco barns of eastern North Carolina, from which tobacco was once hung over fire to dry.

Pieces of the line decorate the third floor of the old Tayloe Hospital, where the Colliers’ design studio is located. The sprawling, open space, with some walls and ceilings stripped down to bare I-beams, has equal elements of an up-scale design office, fabric store, antiques auction warehouse and a set straight out of Stephen King’s “The Shining.”

It’s clean, it’s bright, as quirky and fun as Collier’s sense of humor, but unnerv-ing remnants of the building’s past life take one by surprise: a porcelain bath-tub caged by metal where walls once ex-isted; a paper-towel dispenser on a pink-tiled wall, its brown paper stacked and ready, though the last pair of wet hands to come through was more than two de-

cades ago. The juxtaposition of the old Tayloe Hos-

pital’s third floor with the sleek comfort of the Colliers’ condo below is startling, yet a completely natural progression. In the upstairs space is the bare bones of Beth Collier’s style, flayed clean of the protective layers of prettiness, a simple elegance that defies real description.

“I don’t define it,” says Collier. “When you design, things just evolve. The struc-ture of my style is traditional, but I like to think it’s layered by moments in my life.”

For most, the moments of one’s life are captured in frames — wedding pho-tos, school pictures, baby pictures of grandchildren — because there’s noth-ing more traditional than filling a home with faces and memories.

Beth Collier’s variation on the tradi-tional is, however, more stark and beau-tiful, sophisticated and simple. It’s also strikingly sentimental. On the second floor of the old Tayloe Hospital, the memories are just as clearly displayed as on any stairway wall full of family por-traits, images of vacations at the beach, birthday parties long ago. Look around. The stories are there to be told — if you choose to listen.

The stately facade of the original hospital structure offers few hints about its former life (left). Red, lacquered walls and stained-concrete flooring mark a dramatic entrance to the Collier home.


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A kitchen that doubles as living space is part of the condo. Beneath the stairs, paneled cabinetry hides kitchen storage and the refrigerator. An image of the area during restoration is inset at right. Scott Campbell and Bill Sykes, owners of Fire Station Lofts, are pictured upper right.


The scene could almost be scripted — step, pause, the jaw drops. Turn left, turn right, look up. And up. Exclaim. And cut.

No director is calling out commands, and there are no actors, but this is always the reaction —immediate, predictable — when the door opens to the Campbell-Sykes home and one is first ushered into another realm, one more likely to be found at some tony Park Av-enue address than on Market Street in Washington, N.C.

The building is virtually indistin-guishable from the other early 20th-century buildings that line Market Street from Wa-ter Street to Third Street. Only the sig-nage sets it apart — for 54 years, it’s read “Washington Daily News,” and tucked above the newspaper is not the warren of offices one would expect, but an architectural rev-elation. An inspiring renovation. A labor of love.

Bill Sykes and Scott Campbell began their labor of love, the Fire Station Lofts, in January 2007. For years, they’d been searching for the perfect build-ing; and for years before that, they’d been looking for the perfect town in which to search. They could have settled anywhere, in any of the world’s great cities. They might have traveled the seven seas on their 32-foot-long catamaran, spending summers cruising the Northern coast and winters anchored in

the sunny Caribbean. “We talked about many different places,” said

Sykes. “Washington and the welcoming people and the beautiful environs captured our hearts.”

Sykes speaks fluently about many of those plac-es, because he’s seen more of the world than most. The son of a petroleum-industry executive, he spent most of his childhood in Bolivia and Venezuela, and

the latter part in Pennsyl-vania. As a lieutenant, engineer officer, he cir-cumnavigated the globe on the USS Charles P. Cecil, which included a stint in Vietnam. He later received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and he spent a career in finance work-ing in such faraway plac-es as Auckland, London, Singapore and Tokyo. But he and Campbell were ultimately drawn to the small, tradition-ally Southern town on

the river where they chose to make a new life and their new home.

The criteria for their new home: a suitable size, a reasonable price and a sense of history.

“We wanted a space with unique, irreplaceable features,” says Campbell.

They found it in the building that began its life as a factory then served as the town’s fire station from 1925 until 1965. The original red-oak floor-ing, with lengths running more than 20 feet, is be-lieved to have been milled on site. History is embed-ded in every tread of the heart-of-pine staircase that

“Washington and the welcoming people and the beautiful environs captured our hearts.”

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Washington’s firemen clomped up daily; that residents trod on their way to USO dances during the war years.

“That’s irreplaceable. It’s price-less,” says Campbell. “And now it’s our turn to take care of and cherish those treads.”

Before they could cherish, they had to gut the place first, ripping out the previously mentioned warren of small rooms left behind when a past tenant, Beaufort County Tech-nical College, moved out. Sykes and Campbell had a vision for their home, and they turned to Matt So-pher, owner of Turning Point Reno-vations and Remodeling Inc. to help turn their vision into reality.

“It was definitely a different proj-ect to jump into,” says Sopher, re-calling the process of converting a 100-year-old building into a state-

of-the-art condo. “There were a lot of engineering issues. When it was built, there was no real building code. Trying to do what they envi-sioned and keep them within current building code was challenging.”

Like chipping away layers of rock to get to the jewel beneath, the gut-ting process revealed the space’s sol-id structure and natural beauty.

In one area, a large crawlspace above the main floor was revealed, opening the path for the set of stairs and loft office that would eventually be built.

From the stripped, raw space the shape of Sykes/Campbell home be-gan to emerge: two spacious bed-rooms, with baths, on either side of a kitchen that blends seamlessly into graciously open living and dining areas. Between kitchen and living areas, an L-shaped granite bar pro-

vides plenty of counter space, addi-tional room for dining and a gather-ing place when entertaining, which Campbell and Sykes do quite often. Skylights rain sun down from the soaring 25-foot-plus ceiling in the loft, and another short set of steps leads from the loft to a hatched door and out to the terrace with sweeping views of historic homes and church steeples, of sky and the river.

Conservative and conservationist-minded, Sykes and Campbell aug-mented standard energy-saving mea-sures with more progressive ones. The exterior walls of the building received an ½-inch to 1-inch thick coating of closed-cell foam on the interior brick, further insulated by R15 fiberglass batting on their built-out 2-inch-by-4-inch walls. Hot wa-ter, space heating and the LED sec-ondary lights in main hallway (from

One of the loft’s greatest features is hidden to most passersby. The view of historic downtown Washington from the third-floor terrace is breathtaking and a favorite fair weather spot for the owners.

As an homage to the past: an image of

a horse-drawn fire truck taken in front of

the fire station, circa 1930, is prominently displayed in the loft.

Gorgeous natural light spills over the originalred-oak flooring, which the owners believe may have been milled on site during construction.

staircase at the entrance to the condo’s door), are all powered by two solar panels installed on the building’s roof. The primary lights in the main hallway are on five-min-ute timers.

The architectural trend of in-cluding the kitchen into the main living space of a home is one Sykes and Campbell embraced fully. Be-neath the stairs to the office loft, instead of sheetrock and the tradi-tional closet space, paneling runs the southern wall of the kitchen. Only upon closer inspection is it re-vealed that cabinetry doors hide be-neath the paneling, which, in turn, conceals an enormous amount of storage space, and … the full-size kitchen refrigerator.

“I call it eclectic palatial,” Campbell describes.

Whatever one calls the unique

style of their home, it’s comfort-able — as comfortable as the life Sykes and Campbell have created in Washington. Both men are ac-tive volunteers and advocates for downtown living. They walk every-where. And they certainly don’t mind climbing those 25 beautifully restored, heart-of-pine steps.

“We’re not afraid of stairs,” says Sykes.

Of course they’re not afraid of stairs. Not when climbing them a few times a day is included in their exercise regimen. Not when the steps they’re climbing hold the memory of a bygone era, pieces of Washington history. And especially not when Sykes and Campbell wait-ed, from purchase to completion, a total of two years, one month and 19 days to walk up those steps to the place they call home.

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BCAC, Toler strive to enhance arts in region

W hen you think of the Beau-fort County Arts Council, you also probably think of Joey Toler.

Toler has made it his life’s goal to fulfill the arts council’s mission statement — “to be a moving force that pro-vides cultural opportunities through initia-tion, support and presentation of artistic pro-grams.”

Toler’s first interest in the arts developed in high-school, when he was active in theater. His high-school theater group participated at the state level with “one acts.” One of his first, “Ledge, Ledger, Legend,” won awards and great reviews.

“One of the highlights of my senior year was when I did a one-act titled ‘The Big Black Box.’ I was the voice inside the box, so no one ever saw my face, but I won the best-actor award,” said Toler. “I was really proud of that.”

After high school, he majored in theater and communications at Appalachian State University. After college, Toler returned to

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Washington and taught math and science at Pun-go Christian Academy.

“I was reviewing the multiplication tables each night before I had to teach them,” he said with a laugh.

During this time, Toler performed in the sec-ond season of “Blackbeard” and approached the arts council about directing a play. He chose Kurt Vonnegut’s “Happy Birthday, Wanda June,” and rehearsals were well under way when the arts council’s board of directors decided the play was too risqué for a Beaufort County audience. Toler considers this as the beginning of his journey into arts administration.

After a year of teaching, Toler moved to Ashe-ville for a couple years before returning to Wash-ington and a job with the Washington Daily News. It was during this time that Toler became in-volved in community theater. A co-worker told Toler about a new theater on the Outer Banks that was holding auditions in Raleigh, and the acting bug drew him to try out.

“A woman named Faye Tucker and I were given two hours to come up with a cabaret act. We found a practice room on the NCSU campus and put a couple of songs together. When we performed, we received a standing ovation and were the first two people hired. Faye and I are still friends to this day,” he said.

Toler remained at the Shell Theater until it folded. It was around this time that Toler found himself in Chapel Hill, playing keyboards and singing lead vocals with a band called The Point. When the band drifted apart, Toler returned to Washington and started freelancing for the arts council, directing children’s plays. In 1982 dur-ing a staff turnover at the organization, Toler was asked to join the staff under the direction of Judy Meier Jennette. He worked at the arts coun-cil with Jennette for two years before moving to Charlotte where he and his wife had two sons, Graham and Hank. After spending five years in Charlotte as a customer-service agent for Pied-mont Airlines, Toler returned to Washington. Along with his then-wife Karen, they operated a local Chem-Dry carpet-cleaning franchise. Dur-ing this time, Toler was active as a BCAC board member, served on several grant panels and con-tinued working with the local community theater


Joey Toler, executive director of Beaufort County Arts Council

group by directing many productions. He still occasionally performed as a solo keyboard player and singer in var-ious venues. Toler served as the direc-tor of the Beaufort County Schools’ Steppin’ Out productions for 14 years.

When Toler decided he was tired of cleaning carpets, he was ready to sell the business. He calls it “kismet” that it was almost to the day of that decision that he received a call from Wanda Johnson and his former co-worker Jen-nette. With-out too much convincing, they per-suaded Toler to join the arts council as program director in 2001. After a short break from the arts council in 2006, when he served as interim direc-tor for Down-town Washington on the Waterfront, he returned as BCAC executive direc-tor after Johnson’s retirement in July 2007.

Toler is quick to add that in the time he has been director, the up-heaval of the economy has created changes in the way the arts council does business.

“It’s a challenge. We are having to be more creative in our fundraising and make a much more concerted ef-fort regarding our finances,” he said.

Toler says his challenge is to make people realize that the arts are an in-vestment in the community.

“You can’t cut out the arts and ex-pect your community to remain vi-

able,” says Toler. “The arts are impor-tant, even in the bleakest of times, maybe more important, because the arts can restore optimism. The arts add to the economic development, and recovery, of a community and al-ways remind you of possibilities.”

Toler highlights the changes in the downtown area in just the past sev-eral years.

“Just look at the type of businesses that have come to downtown Wash-ington recently — River Walk Gallery,

the Inner Banks Arti-sans’ Center, Lone Leaf Gallery and the Turnage Theater, to name a few; even the heal-ing arts, with the new yoga studio. The arts commu-nity has al-ways thrived. We have al-ways kind of had a Bohe-

mian culture lying just below the sur-face here.”

There is one thing Toler thinks the community is missing, and that is a community-theater group.

“It would be nice to have a thriving community theater group. We have a lot of talent here in Beaufort Coun-ty, and it would be great to see that come back,” he said.

Toler’s busiest time of year is Oc-tober, when BCAC’s annual Fine Arts Show takes place. This year marked the show’s 47th anniversary.

“I love my job,” says Toler. “No two days are the same. I have the oppor-tunity to have an impact on a lot of people.”

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We are passionate about food and wine. We love stories about where our food comes from and the various cultural traditions of preparing and shar-ing food. And we are fascinated by the long human tradition of turning grapes into wine. We’ll be sharing some of those stories, along with tips and tricks for enjoying food and wine with your family and friends, in this column. All you need to bring to the adventure is your curiosity ... and your passion.

A Zen master once taught a lesson that is important in all endeavors:

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, but few.”

Well, we like the possibilities of food and wine. We keep an open mind as we explore this fascinating world. We don’t pose as experts; we serve more as guides. So, if you keep your cup empty and your mouth ready, we’ll be glad to have you along for the journey.

As this inaugural column comes out, our favorite season for feasting and toasting is upon us — the holidays. From Thanksgiving feasts to New Year’s Eve

toasts, we’ll be using food and wine to bring together co-work-ers, family and friends.

Most holiday celebrations are not occasions for fussy and dif-ficult gourmet meals, but we do want our get-togethers to delight the eye and the taste buds. For us, nothing accom-plishes this holiday task better than pairing bubbly and munch-ies. This doesn’t have to mean French Champagne and caviar (though those are certainly ele-gant and tasty). You can use less formal sparkling wines, such as Spanish Cava or Italian Prosec-co, and pair them with simple homemade goodies prepared

from the best ingredients and seasoned with love. The light on the glasses of sparkling wine and the smells from the home cooking will light up a dark, winter eve-ning.

Chef Yvonne likes to make Parmesan crisps to go with our favorite Saint-Hilaire Blanquette de Limoux from Languedoc, France. It’s easy.

Grate a good Parmesano Reggiano cheese. Heat up a nonstick skillet. Drop little spoonful-size “cookies” of Parmesan into the skillet. Cook them for about half a minute, then flip them over and cook until brown. They cook really fast. But once you get the hang of it, you can whip up a stack or a bowlful.

Let’s pop a cork! And happy holidays!

James “The Wine Guy” McKelvey and “Chef Yvonne” Sedgwick are proprietors of Wine & Words ... & Gourmet in downtown Washington.

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No one knows for certain if the Pilgrims and Indians ate turkey at the first Thanksgiving in the new world. These days turkey is the signature food for Thanksgiving.

Wild turkeys were plentiful in the area settled by the Pilgrims. More than likely, they ate turkey. Then

again, the Pilgrims used the word “turkey” to describe other fowl, according to several websites pertaining to turkeys and/or Pilgrims.

Turkey most definitely is on the menu for the Thanksgiving buffet at the Washington Yacht & Country Club, said Jonathan Schatz, a magna cum laude graduate of the Johnson & Wales University’s cu-linary school in Norfolk, Va., and WYCC’s executive chef.

Schatz, a 1997 graduate of Washington High School, plans to cook fresh, whole turkeys and turkey breasts for WYCC members on Thanksgiving. How many he cooks depends on an upcoming esti-mate of how many WYCC members will dine at the lunch buffet from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thanksgiving, he said.

“I’ll probably roast mine in the oven. I don’t really have the set-up to be deep-frying turkeys. We might deep fry one. If I deep fry one, it’ll be at about 350 (degrees), and usually I do about three minutes a pound on a bird,” he said.

Before the turkeys are roasted, they will be rubbed with salt and pepper, Schatz said. An herb butter will be applied under the tur-keys’ skins to help keep them moist.

“I like to cook my turkeys real hot for the first 20 or 30 minutes. So, I’ll probably burn the oven at 400 degrees. I’ll scale that back down until it (the internal temperature of a turkey) hits about 160 degrees, and then I’ll pull it out.”

Starting off the turkeys “hot” crisps their skins, which helps retain the turkeys’ fat and natural juices, Schatz said.

“We’ll probably start getting those birds ready to go the Wednes-day before. … We’ll do some stuffed, some unstuffed,” he said.

When it comes to cooking that perfect turkey for Thanksgiving, Schatz said, “I like to pull mine out (of the oven) about 160 degrees nice, crispy skin, and that’s the internal temperature. I check it at the joint and through the breast as well, close to the bone. You want to try to cook it to 165, but the trick is to pull it out a little bit shy of that and let it rest, and it will cook up. My turkeys, they’ll be out of the oven half an hour before they’re served. They’ll be wrapped up. They’ll still be warm. That kind of allows that juice to relax a little bit and work its way back into the meat.”

Schatz will use drippings from the roasted turkeys and the giblets that come with them to make turkey gravy for those who like their turkey “wet.”

Schatz won’t be the only person cooking turkeys for those who are not dining at home this Thanksgiving.

Leftover turkey?Turkey Salad with Cranberry DressingMary paulson, Chocowinity, from “plate and palette, a Collection of Fine art and Food from Beaufort County,”

4 cups cooked, diced turkey1 cup chopped celery½ teaspoon salt½ teaspoon pepper½ cup mayonnaise½ cup sour creamsalted pecans or toasted almonds¾ cup salad oil¼ cup vinegar1 teaspoon salt1 teaspoon sugar½ teaspoon paprika¼ teaspoon dry mustarddash of pepper½ cup jellied (or homemade) cranberry sauce

Mix first six ingredients. Divide into 4 or 6 servings. Sprinkle each serving with nuts. Make dressing by combin-ing all remaining ingredients, except cranberry sauce, in a jar. Shake until blended. gradually blend vinaigrette into cranberry sauce, beating until smooth. Spoon dressing over each salad. Yield: 4 to 6 servings.

Sage Pastryirene Forbes, Washington, from “plate and palette, a Collection of Fine art and Food from Beaufort County,”

½ cup all-purpose flour½ teaspoon salt3 tablespoons water½ teaspoon sage½ cup cornmeal1/3 cup butter

Combine dry ingredients, cut in butter, add water and roll crust to fit over casserole. Yield: 4 servings.salt and pepper, to taste. Saute vegetables in butter until limp. add remain-ing ingredients and simmer until blended, about 15 to 20 minutes. The hash is better if made the day before, and it freezes well. Serves 6 to 8.

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Stuffing or dressing?Does it matter as long as it’s delicious?

With Thanksgiving just days away, there’s a ques-tion that must be answered? Is it stuffing or dress-ing that accompanies the turkey?

Most people probably don’t really care whether it’s called stuffing or dressing. They do care about being called to the table when it – stuffing, dress-ing or whatever it’s called – is ready to eat.

Clarence Gray contends it’s stuffing if cooked in-side the turkey and dressing if it’s cooked outside the turkey and in a pan or casserole dish.

“You’re talking about the dressing you make and bake in the oven?” Gray responded when asked if it’s stuffing or dressing.

Gray prefers to eat dressing.“When you put stuffing in there, it’s soggy be-

cause it’s done been baked in the turkey,” Gray said. “The dressing tastes better because you bake it and it’s got a little crunch to it.”

Bianca Gentile didn’t hesitate when posed the stuffing-versus-dressing question.

“Oh, it’s definitely stuffing,” she said.Why?“That’s what we call it in my family,” she said.John Rodman also didn’t hesitate.“My grandmother always called it dressing be-

cause you dress up the turkey to make it taste bet-ter,” he said. “So, it’s always been called dressing.”

Gentile replied: “Well, we stuff it in the turkey.”“What can I say? My grandmother was always

right,” Rodman responded.Beth Byrd also had a quick reply to the question.“Stuffing,” she said.Again, why?“I don’t know. Our family always called it stuff-

ing.”Paula Stephenson chuckled when she heard the

question.“That’s a good question,” she said. “You know,

not everybody puts it inside the bird. So, I guess, technically, it’s stuffing if it’s inside the bird, but if you just bake it inside a casserole dish, it’s dress-ing.”

“I call it dressing — because it’s outside the bird,” she noted. “I’ve never put it in the bird.”


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Washington’s Golden Corral will be cooking turkeys, too. It plans on feeding about 1,500 people Thanksgiving, when the restaurant will be open from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Terry Tetterton, restaurant owner, said 20 whole turkeys and 30 tur-key breasts will be cooked for Thanksgiving.

Golden Corral likely will have three carving stations operating Thanksgiving so diners won’t have to wait in line, Tetterton said. At those stations, diners may choose from meat from a whole turkey or carved from one of the turkey breasts.

“Years ago, we only did the breasts. I guess about three years ago, company-wide, we went to the whole turkey,” Tetterton said.

“No,” Tetterton said when asked if the restaurant had ever run out of turkey on Thanksgiving. “I’ve heard stories of restaurants running out of turkey, and it’s never good.”

Turkey won’t be the lone meat served Thanksgiving, he said.Tetterton said customers likely will consume from 200 to 250 pounds

of ham.Tyree Moore, one of the restaurant managers, explained the secret to

cooking multiple turkeys.“We cook them overnight, for six hours. They hold for two hours at

165 (degrees),” Moore said. “Our overnight cookers actually use a steam process. So, they’re steamed — it’s like steam in an oven. Slow cooking is the secret, though.”

Moore also explained the secret to preparing to cook a lot of turkeys.“Planning,” he said. “We probably start a few days ahead. We’ll start

Tuesday night, maybe with half of what we are going to cook. Wednes-day night, we’ll cook the other half. Then, we are able to reheat them in the oven on Thursday.”

It’s the height of the holiday season, so thoughts are turning to family gatherings, church socials and club functions ... and that means cooks ev-erywhere are looking for the perfect

dishes to serve during their Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas feasts.

No meal would be complete without dessert, and for many that means a slice of delicious, homemade pie. Since about 9500 B.C., pies are favorites of most dessert connoisseurs. Such noted cooking gurus as Martha Stewart and Paula Deen share the recipes for their special desserts with fans, but it’s hard to beat the good, old Southern favorites served up by some of Beaufort County’s best cooks.

For several years, the Washington Daily News has featured favorite recipes in its column, “Pamlico Pantry.” The column showcases recipes showcased in local fundraising cookbooks published by area churches and nonprofit organizations.

Here is just a sampling of local pie recipes — some have been passed down through generations and others are new favorites — that are sure to be a hit at any holiday gathering. Enjoy!

Sweet Potato PieSarah Wallace

Pinetown Emergency Services

Ladies Auxiliary

1 1/4 c. cooked, mashed sweet potatoes; 2/3 c. brown sugar; 1 tsp. cinnamon; 1/4 tsp. nutmeg; 1/4 tsp. salt; 1 egg; 1 tbsp. butter or margarine (melted); 1 c. milk; 1 unbaked pie shell.

preheat oven to 400 degrees. Mix all ingredients, except pie shell, thoroughly and pour into pie shell. Bake 10 minutes at 400 degrees and turn oven back to 350 degrees and bake for one hour.

Southern Pecan PieJackie Carrington

Ephesus Free Will Baptist Church Ladies Auxiliary

3 eggs, beaten; 1/2 c. sugar; 1/4 tsp. salt; 1 c. corn syrup; 1/2 stick margarine; 1 tsp. vanilla; 1 c. chopped pecans; 1 unbaked pie shell.

Cover bottom of unbaked pie shell with pecans. Beat eggs until light. add sugar, salt and vanilla; blend well. add syrup and butter; blend. pour over pecans. Bake 55 to 60 minutes at 350 degrees.

Eggnog Pumpkin PieKimberli Jones

Smyrna Original FWB Church Ladies Auxiliary

1 (15 oz.) can solid packed pumpkin; 1 1/4 c. eggnog; 2/3 c. sugar; 3 eggs; 1 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice; 1/4 tsp. salt; 1 unbaked 9-inch pie crust.

Mix together pumpkin, sugar, eggs, pumpkin pie spice and salt and slowly add eggnog. Mix well and pour into pie shell and bake at 375 degrees for 60 minutes or until knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Coconut PieFrank Steinbeck

St. Thomas Episcopal Church

3 eggs; 2 c. sugar; 2 c. milk; 1 stick margarine; 1 sm. pkg. coconut; 1/2 tsp. baking powder; pinch of salt; 1 tsp. vanilla; 2 tbsp. flour; 2 regular pie shells.

Beat the eggs. Blend in the other ingredients thoroughly and pour into two regular pie shells. Cook for about 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Mama’s Chocolate PieKay Johnson

Beaufort County Extension Homemakers Assoc.

1 c. sugar; 2 tbsp. (heaping) flour; 3 tbsp. (heaping) cocoa; 2 egg yolks; 1 1/2 c. milk; 1 tsp. vanilla; 1 baked pie shell.

Mix sugar, flour and cocoa together thoroughly. Mix egg yolks in milk; add to flour mixture. Cook in double boiler, stirring occasionally, until thick. add vanilla; let cool. pour into pie shell. Use remaining egg whites to make meringue. Spread on pie filling. Brown. Yield: six servings.


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Nov. 26thRocky Hock Opry Christmas Show

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Dec. 1stHoliday

Cookie Swap• NC Estuarium •

Bring one dozen cookies and a cookie recipe to swap. Also enjoy a demonstration in making pull mints, a Southern traditional holiday favorite. The program is from 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. with a $2 program fee. Call 252.948.0000 for reservations.

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Arts Council’s Annual Holiday Arts & Craft Show. The craft show will feature a variety of original, quality handmade items for sale by more than 45 artists and craftspeople from eastern North Carolina. Call 252.946.2504 for more information.

Dec. 3rdAnnual Washington Christmas Parade• Downtown Washington •

10 a.m. This annual parade sponsored by the local Kiwanis Club and the City of Washington will stroll through Historic Downtown Washington. This will be great fun for the whole family.

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2 p.m. The Bath Community would like to invite everyone to attend their annual Christmas Parade with over 125 entries. For more information, please call 252.923.2451.

Dec. 8thWreath Making with Evergreens

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If you’re looking for a good exercise pro-gram — either for weight loss or car-diac fitness — there’s no better way to get started than walking.

Washington offers several locations that are ideal for those people who want to start a walking program, according to Jenni-fer Weatherly, health and fitness coordinator for LifeStyles Medical Fitness Center in Wash-ington.

“Walking is good because it’s something we have all learned to do,” she said. “It’s the one exercise that everyone can do. And it helps keep us young and keeps us moving.”

There’s no particular time of day that’s bet-ter than another for your walk, Weatherly said.

“Any time you can fit a walk in is a good time,” she said.

The duration and speed of your walk de-pends on your goals.

A brisk walk is generally considered to be between three and four miles per hour.

If weight loss is your goal, three 10-minute walks are as good as a 30-minute walk.

But if cardiac fitness, is your goal, you need to extend that walk and walk at a brisker pace.

Think frequency, intensity and duration.The American College of Sports Medicine

recommends you exercise at least 150 min-utes a week to maintain heart health. That translates to a 30-minute walk at least five days a week.

You also need to monitor the intensity of your walk and try to maintain your heart rate

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between 65 percent and 90 percent of your pre-dicted maximum heart rate. (If you don’t know how to take your pulse while exercising, use the “talk test,” Weatherly said. If you are exercising hard, but can talk without losing your breath, you’re probably within your target heart rate.)

To achieve any cardiac benefit, you need to ex-ercise at least 15 to 30 minutes at a time, and as you get fitter, the duration needs to be longer.

You don’t need a gym membership to start a walking exercise program, but a gym is a good alternative if bad weather keeps you from the day’s walk.

The Washington waterfront — a distance of about 1.25 miles round trip — is a wonderful place to start a walking regimen, Weatherly said. And many people enjoy walking the 1.1-mile circuit around Oakdale Cemetery, she said.

Other good places for a walk include Washing-ton’s historic district along Main Street and the waterfront in Washington Park.

A walking exercise program doesn’t involve much specialized equipment — just a good pair of walking shoes.

“It’s very important to take care of your feet,” she said.

Good walking shoes need not be very expen-sive, she said, but they should have a supportive arch, roomy toe box and be snug on your heels. It’s also good for walking shoes to have laces that can adjust the tightness of the shoe.

And wherever and whenever you choose to walk, it should be fun.

Walk with a friend or walk with your dog.Watch the seasons change. Look at the boats

on the waterfront.“Look for the enjoyment factor,” Weatherly

said. “If it’s not enjoyable, you won’t do it.”For more information on walking for exercise,

Weatherly recommends the American Heart Association’s website, www.startwalkingnow.org, and the association’s Walking Paths mobile app for walkers — My heart, my life.

To compute the calories burned during your walk, Weatherly recommends the website www.everydayhealth.com.


You know about the disheartening struggle not to gain those extra pounds during the

holidays. So, now is the time to resolve not to let it happen to you. You have to have a plan of attack.

Here we go.Avoid the dreaded leftover Halloween candy. Either

you are stealing from your children’s bags, which you have no business doing, or you live out in the country or in a retirement community and stocked the house, just in case they bused in thousands of trick-or-treat-ers. Rid your house of the Snickers, Kit Kats and Twix-es. Improper disposal of the little wrappers will not suffice, since the evidence will be on your thighs.

Watch your social life. If you have a social life, it usually picks up during the holidays. Whether it in-volves swank cocktail parties, oyster roasts or fall fes-tivals and family dinners, for many, the time between Thanksgiving and the new year is party time. You have to have a strategy if you want to keep your old ward-robe. The first rule is to anticipate any eating event by “paying for it first.” People are a lot more motivated to work out or eat lightly knowing they have something special coming up, rather than paying for it the next day. The second rule is to not show up hungry. Have a light, healthful snack before the party. The third rule is to make food choices with your brain. Put on your plate what you think you need and get the heck away from the table. If you blow it, there’s always tomorrow. But take action tomorrow, not in January.

Keep regular meal times. This can be hard to do, but it is when we skip meals that we snack ourselves to a tune of a thousand calories. Even when life gets a little hectic, don’t forget to visit the grocery store for meal basics.

Keep the counters clean. Nothing, zilch — no tempt-ing, holiday morsels are allowed on the premises. Get apples, oranges and pears without a bunch of sugar fat and flour thrown in. Miss the holiday smells? Light a

scented candle or make a cup of spiced tea.

Plan indoor activities. I hate the time change this time of year. Or rather, I don’t like my home-from-work afternoons spent loitering in the kitchen. More time lingering around food leads to food in my mouth. Get dinner started and do some-

thing else. Read a book, take a quick walk — just get away from eating opportunities before the meal. I miss those afternoon walks that two weeks ago were in the sunlight and now would take place in the dark.

Put on your walking shoes. “I’m taking the holidays off,” is not acceptable speech. And if you weren’t do-ing anything to begin with, it’s actually a good time to start. You need the stress relief and a calorie outlet. Mornings are the best time for many to work out so that nothing that happens later in the day will get in the way. But whatever your time is, find it. Don’t wait until after the holidays to slog your heavier self to a crowded gym with the others. Do it now.

Enjoy this time. Is that possible? Sometimes, we get so caught up with what we are supposed to do, we for-get why we are doing it. You have time to plan to do it differently this year, so gear up.

If that holiday sweater is starting to get a little snug, perhaps it’s time to take notice of the heavy-traffic sugarplum freeway to your mouth. I call it nickels-and-dimes syndrome. Just as we flitter away money, we flit-ter in calories. I hate counting calories, especially this time of year, but an extra 3,500 calories adds up to a pound of fat. If you eat an extra 500 calories, seven days a week … guess what? Ho, ho, ho.

Katherine Tate is a registered dieti-tian with LifeStyles Medical Fitness Center and a certified diabetes educa-tor with Quintiles. She has written a nutrition column for the Washington Daily News, where portions of this ar-ticle appeared previously.

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Serenity and history mark the char-acter of North Carolina’s first town, established in the 1690s.

The state’s first port of entry be-came a trading post for furs and to-

bacco. The location made water transport easy with open access to the Pamlico River, Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.

It was also ideally suited for the nefarious ac-tivities of one Edward Teach, known by some as the pirate “Blackbeard.” Unconfirmed stories persist that the merciless man of the sea was a peaceful, involved citizen while in port. His fate was sealed — and stories became legend — when Blackbeard was killed in a naval battle near Ocracoke in 1718.

The past is present, thanks to restoration ef-forts that have saved the St. Thomas Church, the Palmer-Marsh House and other historic structures.

The original town limits are the boundaries for a National Register historic district.

Bath remains a small town, and contented residents wouldn’t have it any other way.

“What I’m most proud of as a resident is the overall welcoming feeling of our town,” said John LoGelfo Jr. “There are two bridges that bring you to Bath from either East or West and neither has a stop sign. The main road running through town does not have a single traffic light to stop you … always someone at the Ma-rina to spotlight you under the bridge and into the harbor. “

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W ashington is an unbelievably wonder-ful and beautiful place to live.

In 1974, I moved to Washington with my beautiful bride, Nancey, from Iowa City, IA, where we were

living while Nancey finished her senior year at the Uni-versity of Iowa. We married when we were barely 21 years old, and one year later we were ready to settle in some-where and start working in our fields of interest: Nancey in social work and I in the boating industry.

At the suggestion of my college roommate who had relocated to Washington, we came for a visit, took in a view of the Pamlico River at Hawkins Beach, enjoyed a daysail from Summer Haven then feasted on steamed crabs. We were captivated and fell in love with the river. We couldn’t wait to pack up and move to Washington. Jobs were easy to find back then. Nancey started work right away at the Beaufort County Department of Social Services, and I worked in pursuit of a career in boat build-ing. I worked at Moss Planing Mill, did carpentry work with Dick Leach, started a boat repair business and even worked at Beaufort County Hospital. In 1978, I worked with Joe and Bill McCotter at their marina for five years and then leased the marina for 10 years as Carolina Wind Yachting Center.

Once Nancey and I were happily settled, we spread the word to family members, and over the course of a few years both of my brothers, Al and Keith, their families, my sister Peggy, and my parents moved to Washington. My father, Charles Norwood — a Presbyterian minister from Char-lotte — retired with my mother, Madge, to be closer to grandchildren, sailing, fishing and life on the Pamlico Riv-er. This could never have been planned in advance.

Our children, Jules and Kelsey, enjoyed their school years here and were well prepared for college, and life by excellent teachers and role models. It remains a wonder-ful place to raise a family.

The people of Washington look out for each other and care about the welfare of everyone in the community. It

is impressive.I continue to be surrounded by an extended family of

friends, work associates, fellow musicians and sailors. These are the people who make Washington special and unique.

I am so grateful for my church family at First Presby-terian Church. When you have something to celebrate, they are there. When you need lifting-up during difficult times, they are there.

Now, as a 60-year-old, I am scheming and planning to semi-retire in a few years. I enjoy working with Jules in our marina business, Carolina Wind Yachting Center at Havens Wharf on Main Street — a true family affair.

We are blessed to have the beautiful Pamlico River on our doorsteps, providing plenty of recreation and the most magnificent sunsets on earth.

Washington will always be home.

David Norwood is president of Carolina Wind Yachting Center. His son Jules is vice-president and in charge of ‘just about everything.’ Carolina Wind is a Pacific Sea-craft dealer and offers sailboat charters, boat slip and mooring leases, and office rentals in the marina. Both Da-vid and Jules share a passion for ocean sailing and island hopping. David is a musician and can often be heard play-ing at area events, and in First Presbyterian Church. His daughter Kelsey works in Mumbai, India for L’Oreal.


The river beckonedWRiTTen BY DAVID NORWOOD

Y’aLLCOMeBaCK Why I love Washington

Jules Norwood (left) and David Norwood enjoy working on the river.

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We’re very proud to welcome Beaufort and Pungo Hospitals to our University Health Systems family of care. We’re now a 10-hospital system bringing advanced, integrated care to 1.4 million people in 29 counties of eastern North Carolina. With these additions, our commitment to more physicians, more access and more ways to improve the health of all our communities is stronger than ever.



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