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COACH LETA ANDREWS slams a basketball onto the gymnasium floor at Granbury (Texas) High School and yells at the top of her voice: “Go after it! Get it!” as two Lady Pirates scramble to grab the bouncing ball.

“Now finish! Finish it!” shouts Andrews, 73, urging the player who snatched the ball to put it into the basket. “I will not tolerate mediocre work!”

Throughout preseason drills, the demanding coach commands the full attention and effort of her players, chastising her charges one moment,

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encouraging and supporting them the next, in hopes of preparing them for success both on and off the court.

As she begins her 49th season as a coach, Andrews is on the brink of achieving her own remarkable feat—becoming the winningest high school basketball coach in the nation. Beginning the 2010-11 season with 1,328 career wins, Andrews is poised to surpass the record held by former Fort Worth (Texas) Dunbar High School boys’ coach Robert Hughes Sr., 81, with 1,333 wins.

“I don’t know what I’ll do (after breaking the record), but I will be thrilled to get it behind me,” says Andrews, who in June was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn. “Then I can relax and just go on and play basketball. The only important win to me is the next one.”

Barnyard hoopsAndrews’ passion for the game was kindled

more than 65 years ago on her parents’ farm eight miles north of Granbury. Alba and Clyde Rains knew the value of hard work and passed that ethic on to their four children, including Leta. Initially, however, Leta had another profession in mind.

“I thought I would grow up to be the next Dolly Parton,” she says, recalling how she crooned to cows and chickens while doing farm chores before and after school.

A suggestion from her father, however, directed Leta to another pursuit. “I think you need to put that singing on the backburner and start playing some basketball,” Clyde told his daughter. “There’s a basketball over there; I think you ought to start dribbling it.”

And dribble she did, practicing on the gravel road in front of their house. “I became a pretty good ball handler, because the ball would hit a rock and I could go and move with it,” she recalls.

Before long, Leta asked her father for a basketball goal, and soon after, he proudly presented his work—a backboard and hoop mounted to the chicken coop. The skilled dribbler rapidly became an expert rebounder—out of necessity.

“When I shot that ball I didn’t want it to hit the ground,” recalls Andrews, who shared the barnyard with a flock of chickens, “because you knew what it would land in.”

After practicing barnyard hoops with her older—and taller—sister Shirley, the two

helped lead Granbury to the Texas Class A championship games in 1954 and ’55. Later, Leta played at Weatherford (Texas) College, where she studied to become a schoolteacher.

Incredible careerAndrews landed her first teaching and

coaching job in 1962 at Tolar (Texas) High School, followed by stints at Gustine and Comanche high schools, also in central Texas.

In 1965, her coaching skills advanced following an impulsive phone call to the legendary Adolph Rupp, then head men’s basketball coach at the University of Kentucky.

“I just called him one day and asked if I could

fly up and study basketball with him,” Andrews recalls. “He said, ‘I’d love for you to.’”

Rupp taught her basketball basics, such as the location of the passing lanes and to abandon the bounce pass, which is difficult to control and too easily stolen.

After her first stint at Granbury High School from 1976 to 1980, Andrews coached for a decade at Calallen High School in Corpus Christi, Texas, where in 1990 she guided her team to her one and only state championship. In 1992, she returned to Granbury, and she has coached there ever since.

During her coaching career, Andrews has amassed 34 consecutive seasons with at least 20 victories, taken 14 teams to the state tournament, and in 2005 became the nation’s winningest high school girls’ coach, surpassing Cleveland (Tenn.) Bradley Central coach Jim Smiddy.

“Her coaching style drives the players to succeed where they might otherwise not,” says Rick Mauch, 51, sports editor of the Hood County News in Granbury (pop. 6,808). “She put this community on the map.”

Granbury has shown its appreciation: Andrews’ name graces a water tower in town; the

// Coach Andrews watches as two Granbury (Texas) Lady Pirates scramble for the basketball during preseason drills.

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court in the high school gymnasium also bears her name; and her face even has appeared on the cover of area phone books.

“She is the sweetest, most adorable human being you could know,” Mauch says. “You can’t always see that when she’s yelling at an All-American guard, but that’s the coaching side of her. Once the game is over, she’s the first one to go up and hug that player. When a player graduates, she’s waiting right there when they walk off stage, or she’ll be the first one to be at that person’s wedding.”

Building characterWhile Andrews

retired from teaching in 2001, the wife and mother of three daughters doesn’t plan to quit coaching anytime soon. She continues to conduct two basketball camps each summer because she enjoys working with and molding young players.

“I want these young ladies to taste the fruits of success,” says Andrews, the 1993 Disney Outstanding Teacher of the Year, who also coordinates girls’ athletics at Granbury, “and you’ve got to work in order to do that.”

Senior guard Hayley Jordan, 17, clearly understands Andrews’ work ethic. “She teaches you to give all you’ve got,” Hayley says. “Even if you’re smaller or slower than somebody else, if you give enough effort you can beat them every time.”

As Andrews nears another coaching milestone, a widening circle of young women forms around her. They have become clarions of the principles and tenets of a coach who has instilled character through the game of basketball.

“Everything she teaches and talks about, you take with you,” says Mandy Hayworth, 33, assistant girls’ basketball coach at Arlington (Texas) Seguin High School, who played for Andrews at Granbury from 1992 to 1996. “She always said what builds character is what we do when nobody’s looking—what we do in our jobs, with our families, with friends, how we treat people.”

For Andrews and her young players, it’s a win-win situation. ★

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Basketball’s Big WinnersCoach Career wins

Robert Hughes Sr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,333Dunbar High School, Fort Worth, TexasLeta Andrews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,328Granbury High School, Granbury, TexasMorgan Wootten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,274DeMatha Catholic High School, Hyattsville, Md.Jim Smiddy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,217Bradley Central High School, Cleveland, Tenn.

// Andrews was inducted into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in June.

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IT ALL BEGAN when Chester Greenwood’s ears got cold.

Allergic to the woolen scarves that others tied around their heads, the industrious teenager wanted a better way to warm his ears in Maine’s chilly winter weather. So, using wire, beaver fur, cloth and a pair of pliers, he fashioned the first set of earmuffs in 1873.

Only 15 at the time, he hardly could have imaged that, a century later, his hometown would dedicate a day in his honor, complete with a parade, speeches from local dignitaries, and the raising of a Chester Greenwood flag at the Franklin County Courthouse.

However, that’s exactly what the town of Farmington, Maine (pop. 7,410), has done each year since 1977 when the state Legislature designated Chester Greenwood Day, celebrated on the first Saturday of December.

It’s decidedly an earmuff day as downtown streets overflow with proud townsfolk, curious visitors and students from Farmington’s branch of the University of Maine. Parade participants, spectators and even a few horses and dogs are decked out in Greenwood’s ear protectors, while oversize earmuffs also adorn police cruisers, fire engines, a school bus and other vehicles in the motorcade.

But earmuffs, which Greenwood patented at age 19, are just part of the legacy of Farmington’s most famous son. Called “an inventor for the ordinary man,” Greenwood also created the spring steel rake, wide-bottom kettle, doughnut hook, advertising matchbox, mechanical mousetrap, folding bed and dozens of other devices, as well as installing and owning Farmington’s first phone system. By the time Greenwood was 28, Chester Greenwood & Co. was shipping Champion Ear Protectors worldwide. By 1936, his factory was

manufacturing more than 400,000 earmuffs, and more than half of the town was employed by Greenwood’s various enterprises.

Not bad for a kid with frosty ears or for a village, settled in 1781, that began with water-powered mills, including a paper mill and a toothpick factory, on the banks of the Sandy River. Greenwood died in 1937 at the age of 78 and, though his earmuff factory closed when World War II made spring steel for the headbands impossible to procure, his influence in Farmington is felt today.

“Chester Greenwood put Farmington on the map,” says Lorna Nichols, executive director of the Franklin County Chamber of Commerce, the event’s sponsor. “And while celebrating his accomplishments isn’t bad for Christmas season business, we enjoy the quirky way it sets us apart from other festivals.”

Chester Greenwood Day attracts as many as 2,000 visitors, many of whom line up at Renys downtown department store to buy earmuffs, most now made in Taiwan or China. They come to see the parade, hear street-corner carolers and sample steamy creations from a chili cookoff. The event also features a gingerbread house contest, the American Legion’s craft fair, the Rotary Club’s Christmas tree auction, and appearances by Greenwood look-alike Clyde Ross.

“I was born in 1937—the year Chester died—and I’ve enjoyed the role for 23 years,” says Ross, 72, a Farmington native who usually is

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HOMETOWN SPOTLIGHT

By Richard Matthews • PHOTOS BY PAM MAT THEWS

Chester Greenwood

Farmington, Maine, celebrates inventor Chester Greenwood

Descendants of inventor Chester Greenwood ride in a parade float on Chester Greenwood Day in Farmington, Maine.

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accompanied by one of Greenwood’s great-great granddaughters in the role of Isabel Greenwood, Chester’s wife and the mother of their four children.

The Greenwood family is well represented on Chester Greenwood Day, with four generations of earmuffed descendents smiling and waving to the crowds from a family parade float. “We have a ball commemorating gramps,” says George Greenwood, 80, a great-grandson. “This is a day we Greenwoods don’t miss.”

Like their celebrated ancestor, the Greenwoods are a mechanically inclined bunch. George, who lives near Bangor, has a doctoral degree in engineering; his older sister Eileen, who died in 2001, was the first woman to receive a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Maine; great-great grandson Ron, 70, lives in West Farmington and runs a shop where, among other things, he builds and repairs safes.

Theirs is a testament to the spirit of ingenuity that reaches beyond the whimsical fun and creativity evident in Farmington on Chester Greenwood Day—all the way back to the earmuff inventor himself.

“He was a good businessman and a bright guy and lived in an era when there was a need for entrepreneurship,” says Nancy Porter, 62, a town leader who authored a book about Greenwood.

“Because Chester invented his ear protectors as a 15-year-old, teachers use him as an example to show that kids can be inventors, too. Look at Chester with a wider lens, and you see a man who influenced the character of the town he lived in.” ★

Eight-month-old Asher Pond sports Greenwood’s most famous invention during last year’s parade.

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Butternut Squash and Tomato BisqueYou can make this creamy soup up to a month in advance and freeze. The day before serving, thaw it in the refrigerator and heat it either on the stovetop or in a slow-cooker.

3 1/2 pounds butternut squash (4 cups squash pulp)

2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 large onion, chopped 1 (28-ounce) can whole tomatoes,

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1 to 2 tablespoons maple syrup or honey

3 1/2 cups reduced-sodium chicken or vegetable broth

1/4 teaspoon salt Chopped tomato

1. Preheat oven to 375F.

2. Cut squash in half lengthwise. Place squash cut sides down in a roasting pan. Add water to depth of 1 inch. Bake 30 minutes or until tender. Scrape pulp from squash to measure 4 cups.

3. Heat butter and oil in a Dutch oven. Add onion; sauté 5 minutes.

4. Place tomatoes with liquid in a food processor. Add maple syrup or honey; process until blended. Add butternut squash; process until smooth. Add squash mixture, chicken broth and salt to Dutch oven; stir well and cook until thoroughly heated. Garnish with chopped tomato.

Serves 8.

—Recipe by Crescent Dragonwagon, Saxton’s River, Vt.

Nutritional facts per serving: 143 calories, 7g fat, 3g protein, 20g carbohydrates, 4g fiber, 540mg sodium.

Red Apple Salad with Oranges and FetaA small serrated knife works well for sectioning the fruit. Work over a large bowl to catch the juices, which you’ll use in the dressing.

3 seedless oranges 6 cups baby arugula or mixed baby greens 1 red apple, cored and thinly sliced 3 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice 1/4 teaspoon coarse salt 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/2 cup (2 ounces) crumbled blue cheese or feta

1. Grate rind from 1 orange into a small bowl and set aside.

2. Peel all oranges and section. Reserve juice, squeezing more for the dressing if needed. Combine arugula, orange sections and apple in a large bowl.

3. Whisk 3 tablespoons orange juice, olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper with orange rind. Pour over salad and toss gently. Spoon onto serving plates and sprinkle with cheese.

Serves 8.

— Recipe by Jean Kressy, Ashburnham, Mass.

Nutritional facts per serving: 110 calories, 6g fat, 3g protein, 13g carbohydrates, 3g fiber, 180mg sodium.

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SPENDING TIME with a child doing something special is an important way to demonstrate your love and strengthen your relationship. Here are five ways to share fun, quality time with your daughter or son.

Get beautiful. Take a preteen daughter on a shopping trip for her first makeup. Many department store cosmetic counters offer to apply makeup and give makeup lessons if you buy a product.

Sleep under the stars. Surprise a child just before bedtime with an invitation to a campout. Haul out the sleeping bags and snacks you’ve prepared ahead of time and head for the backyard or the living room floor. What you chat about while dozing off may be the most meaningful conversation you’ve had in a while.

Get into the groove. Engage an older child by working together to create playlists of songs that enhance family activities. A selection of fast-paced tunes will pump energy into chore time. Choose soft, classical music for homework time. Kids may roll their eyes, but studies show that listening to Mozart in the background may enhance concentration and learning.

Personalize their space. Help a child organize or redecorate his or her bedroom. Go together to pick out paint or anything else needed to spruce up and maximize the efficiency of this personal space in kid-friendly ways.

Get smart. Enroll together in a class at a community college or YMCA. Learn something new together, such as jewelry making, golf or yoga.

Whatever you do, turn off your phone and disconnect from the rest of the world—and ask your child to do the same—so you can make the most of your time together. ★

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