April 2009 Tyrrell County’s Favorite Publication

Issue 20 www.ScuppernongGazette.com Cover Photo Neli Lemme

Calendar of EventsApril 06, 2009Columbia's Board of Aldermen Monthly Meeting

April 06, 2009 Tyrrell County Board of Education Meeting

April 06, 2009 Tyrrell County Board of Commissioners Meeting

April 07, 2009 Children's Story time at the Tyrrell County Public Library

April 08, 2009 Greater Tyrrell County Chamber of Commerce Meeting

April 09, 2009 Columbia's Planning Board Meeting

April 13, 2009 Tyrrell County ABC Board Meeting

April 14, 2009 Tyrrell County Planning Board Meeting

April 20, 2009 Tyrrell County Board of Commissioners Meeting

April 21, 2009Children's Story time at the Tyrrell County Public Library

April 26, 2009 Tyrrell County Historical & Genealogical Society Meeting

April 28, 2009 Children's Story time at the Tyrrell County Public Library

http://www.visittyrrellcounty.com/Calendar/EventMonth.asp?Mn=April

Keep your PetsThe next time you hear

someone say they have to get rid of their pet when they have a child, show them the photo

above.

E-mailed to us by Miss Julie Phelps

of Tyrrell County.

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Happy Spring! Boy, we all feel the pinch of the difficult economy somehow and have to deal with whatever it might be. I have a really tuff time over some things that I cannot change, too. Then my daughter-in-law Neli told me about the film ‘The Secret’ - you’ve got to

watch it! Oh and before I forget, experience a crazy, fun EXTREME HOME Make-

Over through the eyes and pen of local artist Barb Fleming and meet the cutest kid in town, this month. Hope ya’ll find lots of Easter-

Eggs and have a wonderful Happy Easter! - Love

z April Fool’s Quotez

“You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

DEAR READER

P U B L I S H E R S I N G R I D A N D N E L I L E M M E

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Thanks for emailing me the Scuppernong Gazette and Swan Quaterly. You're doing a masterful job. Is any effort being made to permanently preserve these publications? 

Certainly the Tyrrell Library would be interested in all copies of the Gazette for its North Carolina room, which houses family histories, local histories, etc. What can we do to

ensure these publications are retained permanently? -  Best regards, Ray McClees Dear Mr. McClees, Neli and I feel truly honored by your comments. You have to tell this our son Dom ( Neli’s husband) who thinks that we need some serious editing ;). The Scuppernong Gazette is celebrating its 2nd anniversary at the Scuppernong River Festival this year and will present a set of both magazines with CDs in binders to the Tyrrell County Library. - IL

Man of the Month Tyrrellʼs Ray McClees

Reporter for the Scuppernong Reminder

“Thanks so much for the St. Patrick's Day greeting. My ancestor, Dennis Macalease,  seven generations back, left from Cork and arrived in the Alligator River in 1735 at age 17, settled in East Lake, and bought land there in 1760. Over the centuries we've managed to migrate about 20 miles westward across the Scuppernong, but we're still in Tyrrell, as he was when he arrived.“ - Ray McClees

...On the Board Walk...Man of the

MonthRay McClees, reporter for the Scuppernong Reminder

Book of the Month

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne, a must read.

Business of the Month

Chris Hassell painting and Remodeling, based in Columbia, NC 252 394 6452

Movie of MonthThe Secret reveals the most powerful law in the universe...knowledge of this law has run like a golden thread through the lives & teachings...

Boat of the Month

The Shirley B. in the foreground of Barbara Fleming’s new mural, that she painted for Gary and Shirley Barncord

Save the Date22nd Annual Engelhard Seafood Festival - Saturday, May 16, 2009 www.engelhardseafoodfestival.com

Couple of the Month

Stephen & Bridget Spruill, who got married October 25, 2008 at the 4-h Conference Center Artist of the

Month Highly talented and gifted Tyrrell County Photographer Ashlee Spruill-King

APRIL 22 HYDE 4-H

LIVESTOCK SHOW & SALE

Info call 926-4489

VIPMichael Crowder

FAMILY The

Crowders

FUN DAYHyde Trail Ride Lake Mattamuskeet April 11 Weekend Info call 944-1105

ORGANIZATIONTyrrell County

Ambulance

Ladies of the Month Miss Janice Brickhouse and Miss Carla Sawyer

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Your Preventive Maintenance Specialist and Certified U-Haul Dealer

SPRING FLING SPECIALTransmission Flush - $99.99

(regular price $119.99)Clean fluids enhance the life of your transmission. Spring and summer warm temperatures can break

down fluid properties. A transmission flush is recommended every 35,000 miles.

Sooo…take advantage of April’s Spring Fling Special. Call today to schedule your appointment for this

important service. 637 Road Street Ext., Columbia, NC 27925

(252) 796-9100

Artist of the Month: Ashlee Spruill King Inspirations by Ashlee: Song of the South Photography offers high-quality 4.5x5" photo note cards. Sets of 8 include envelopes, and each image has a different verse inside. Custom note cards can be created with any image in the gallery, and she includes your personal message with a minimum purchase of 3 boxes. After a one-time setup fee of $20, your card will be added to the store and is available for purchase any time. Song of the

South Photography. Ashlee King, (252) 796-7473, 3594 Sound Side Road, Columbia, NC 27925 www.songsouthphoto.com e-mail: ashlee@songsouthphoto.com

The Song of the SouthPhotographer Ashlee Spruill King lives in Columbia, where she farms corn, wheat, and soybeans with her husband and her parents. Ashlee has been taking pictures for years, and recently decided that she would like to make photography more than just a casual hobby. AND WE APPLAUD! She has always enjoyed taking pictures, but during her years at NC State University, Ashlee developed a love for the art. After she moved back home to work on the family farm, she decided to incorporate her love of photography with her longtime love of agriculture. Now, she strives to capture the world around her, paying special attention to her rural heritage.

Kid of the Month: Stephen Spruill Jr

We wanted to share with you a mural that local

artist Barbara Fleming painted for Gary and Shirley Barncord on a

piece of 4'x8’ signboard. She created it

at her house. She said: ” It is the hardest I think I have ever tried...Weeks and weeks of detail.“ We all cant wait to see what

comes next.

dad.  (His dad is a commercial fisherman!)  Stephen's favorite food is Tacos, although he isn't a picky eater!.

Meet Stephen Spruill Jr. March 7th was little Stephen Spruill Jr.’s birthday, he turned 4! Happy Birthday Stephen.

His mother Bridget Spruill send the photos to us that were taken in spring 2008 by Megan Jones of Memory Lane Photography. Does he look cute as button or what? Stephen Spruill Jr.’s proud parents are Stephen & Bridget Spruill of Tyrrell County. Stephen is a very active 4 year old. Stephen goes to Mothers Helper Daycare.  He loves dinosaurs and books. He especially likes to hear his dads fishing

stories.  He can't wait to get older and go fishing with his

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www.engelhardseafoodfestival.com KIDS CONTEST! Sign up for the Tiny Shrimp, has to be 18

months or younger. Little Shrimp has to be 19 months but not yet 3. Jr. Shrimp can be ages 3 and 4

N.C. 4-H welcomes you to get a glimpse of what 4-H is all about. Starting in 2008, more than 208,000 North Carolina youth along with more than 20,000 volunteers will celebrate the N.C. 4-H Centennial Anniversary. Take time to participate in an upcoming event or attend any of the various local centennial celebration activities to connect or reconnect with other youth and adults and learn more about what 4-H has to offer. As we look to the future, we see 4-H as an organization that seeks to provide individualism to North Carolina's youth as well as provide educational programs that teach life skills. N.C. 4-H programs focus on the areas of workforce development and entrepreneurship, science, technology, engineering and math, healthy lifestyles, citizenship and leadership.

* Master skills to make career and life choices. * Connect with communities and learn to give back to others. * Mature in self-discipline and responsibility. * Learn to better understand themselves. * Become independent thinkers. * Develop lifelong friendships and long-term relationships with caring adults.

4-H Youth Development , Tyrrell County Center, North Carolina Cooperative Extension P.O. Box 209 Columbia, NC 27925 Phone: 252-796-1581 - Bridget E. Spruill, Extension Agent http://tyrrell.ces.ncsu.edu

DONT MISS THE 18TH ANNUAL HYDE COUNTY 4-H LIVESTOCK SHOW& SALE APRIL 22ND, 2009! SHOW @ 2PM / SUPPER @ 5:30PM / AUCTION @ 7PM ! CONTACT MISS

NATALIE B.WAYNE (252) 926-4489 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND LOCATION.

4-H Centennial CelebrationIn 2009, N.C. 4-H Youth Development will celebrate its centennial as North Carolina's premier youth development organization. Reflecting on its historic vision, 4-H is commemorating this event through a variety of local and state initiatives. Since 1909, North Carolina's youth have been given opportunities to become positive, productive, contributing citizens in their communities through the largest youth organization in the world known as 4-H. North Carolina 4-H is the k-12 educational outreach program of NC State University and NC A&T State University and is part of the National 4-H organization.

The delicious, cold Tyrrell creation is now available to the public through the NC State Creamery. It also will be offered at all 4-H events throughout the year, as well as at the North Carolina State Fair. To order the ice cream, available in pints and 3-gallon tubs, contact Sarah Ray at 919-515-9263 or sarah_ray@ncsu.edu. To learn more about the 4-H Centennial, "We are 4-H," visit www.nc4h100.org.

Pictured above from left to right: John Ort, Assistant Vice Chancellor & Assistant Dean & Director Johny Wynn, Dean of NCSU Bridget Spruil, Tyrrell County 4-H Agent Kaite Woolard, Tyrell County 4-H'er, Caleb Back, 4-H State President Marshall Stewart, Associate Director, Department Head, & State Program Leader

Award-Winning Tyrrell Ice-Cream Since 4-H is celebrating our Centennial this year, the state is offering many different activities.  One was an ice-cream contest. All 100 counties in North Carolina were asked to come up a ‘cool’ ice-cream flavor.  62 flavors were entered from all across the state.  Out of those 62 Tyrrell County made it in the top 10, and then in the top 3.  At the end of February, Miss Bridget Spruill travelled to Raleigh for the taste test, and Tyrrell Counties Ice-Cream flavor won! Our ice cream flavor, the "4-H Campfire Delight", (submitted by Tyrrell County 4-H )is graham cracker ice cream with chocolate chunks and marshmallow cream swirl.

She took me inside the house....OK, picture mass confusion, people doing something everywhere, I was kinda scared to breathe, much less move. The painting supervisor, said: “Start on this door.” Finishing the door, a man came through hollering ..everybody out.. the floor guys are here. WHAT..I just started. Hurry ,clear all rooms of everything !! Picture ultimate confusion,!! OK, I can do this..just stay calm. When finished, we all went outside, to tote scaffolding from the field, then cleared trash for the outside workers. Picture mobs of debris.

OK what next? ? It was 80 degrees so I decided to find water for the sweaty workers. The diner, drinks and porty’s were waaaaay across the field (guessing 2 football fields away) From the back of the house one has to dodge the bobcats, watch for flying debris from the roofers, walk under 10 ladders (yikes, I’m very superstitious), not slip in water from the cement cutter, watch out for the camera boom swinging, jump a ditch, squeeze through mobs of workers, cross a road with speeding heavy machinery, walk past the spectators and volunteers lines. Then you walk on very loose dirt or ankle breakin’ machinery tracking.

Extreme Makeover Home Edition...Dear Ingrid and Neli . . . Sure I’ll share my Extreme MakeOver HE experience! First of all, I have never seen the TV show, I am not really big on TV. I receive an email at 3pm saying they desperately needed painters. I had filled out the volunteer thing online, never really thinking they would contact me. When I called, they asked me to come immediately. At sign in, they threw a shirt, hard hat, and badge at me, and hustled me out the door. I drove to the massive cotton field, acres and acres full of huge tents, supplies, and equipment. As I stood with the other volunteers waiting, this lady saw my painty pants, and said: “Come with me now.”.

Thursday, with enthusiasm, I leave at 8:30 am. At the gate, a parking guy is heading to me...looking a little angry. "So you’re the person driving the avalanche". OLE NO..What ? Lady you parked in the middle of the field, not in line with others. UH OH..So sorry sir, you’d have to know me. OK Lady, see if you can park beside that truck over there..Yes Sir. Wow....Once inside, I was on a ladder in the great room. I had been working about 4 minutes, when a group of people and cameras started gathering by my ladder. This one guy, didn’t have on a hard hat or shirt, so I thought OK this must be somebody. I leaned down, and asked was I in the way. "Oh no doll, don’t you dare stop, you are perfect, Thanks so much sweets", then he walked out. Some other guy came up and said "Lady you are right in the way, move it. I found out the nice man was head designer guy, Michael. I guess the rude dude had not had coffee yet. The supervisor said take a break..OK, I can do this. Exiting the house, was total chaos. Imagine 10 plus people per room, doing wall paper, painting, caulking, custom closets, putting in lights, cleaning windows, sweeping, electricians, etc, etc, and 10 people saying what do I do next. As I stepped outside, I noticed a lady with a weird hat, and asked if she was as lost as I.

Photo of the Jamesville family

...Extreme Makeover Home Edition...The ladies filled my arms with cold, cold waters. It will take many trips, but, I can do this. Captain Bob’s catering was serving ...OK time for grub, and sit down time. AAAHhhhhh. I continued to carry water until 9:45pm. More volunteers are standing in line, they want a turn, plus my feet had barnacles from the 4,372 miles I had walked. When I asked the production manager, had the painting started up again, no, but please mame can you come tomorrow? Can you please bring people, we need 100 volunteers tomorrow, and 100 more tomorrow night. Whew...End of day one.

This was BeBe from Rockyhock, her husband was donating plants. She was in a panic for 50 rosemary’s had not arrived..Little did I know my day was gonna kick into another gear.

Porty mission, so once again it’s trek the field . When we return the neighbors dogs are out, little one is angry and is charging my ankles, but...I like my ankles .BeBe decides she’d laugh run and leave me. Thanks a lot. Returning inside, I’m asked to caulk, 6 minutes later I’m asked to finish painting a door. The guy beside me is tripping out, cause he painted the metal door knob. Thank God, someone stupider than me. Thirty minutes later we are asked to clean all brushes, we gotta break. What???

I go back outside, Bebe corals me to help her fix the ruined outdoor furniture. Someone painted it I think "get out the slop jar" green. We had just started when a stack of T1 11 had to be painted. OK girls please get it done. Then 30 minutes later...lunch time, ahhh sit time, once again trek the field. After lunch, we are out resting in the sun, and they decide the porty’s need cleaning. We laughed about picking the most perfect place to rest. What else can happen? For years I’ve tried to figure out why dumdum things follow me.

We go back to the T1 11, then back to the furniture, then OK "rosemary’s here, come help me". We move huge ferns, potted plants etc. This came to real action because we had to stradle a ditch to do all of this. Can you picture tongues hanging out ?

Shortly the sod is here, 50 people were rushing to unload, and throw it in place, I picked up a piece, started running with it, and that did it. It didn’t LOOK heavy. My back said wrong move. I looked to see BeBe running her mouth kicked back on the sideline, and laughing as my back was crying. A man threw me a rake, I had to rake very fast to remove clods before the sod was thrown. Please picture 50 people running back and forth, and I’m trying to rake under their feet, not a pretty picture, and yea, Bebe, thanks again. It is dark now, the sod is in place..but my back is not.

Returning from dinner, a man had gathered all the workers, explaining, they were 5 hours behind, could we all stay the entire night. Yikes. BeBe and I go finish the "hurt your eyes" furniture. Later, she asks me what time I’m coming tomorrow to help plant the rosemary. WHAT???It is 9:45, and we’re packing it in, I trek to my car..tonight having 9,374 barnacles on my feet. The ride home was so peaceful, I never turned on the radio. Getting out of my car, I couldn’t find my camera. Oh, now this is just great....Typical ...End of day two.

Uh OH Friday the 13th.....OMG my camera. By 7:30, I had called the site twice, Edenton Builders, once, to please ask a volunteer to search for my camera before it rains. BeBe called at 10:30. "Hey Barb, we ready, Oh by the way, I’ve got your camera"....WHAT, I’ve called everyone but the governor, and you’ve got it. So, back to the site, for my camera, two brushes I left... AND to help with the dang rosemary...I truly hope someone has thrown it in the woods, at this point.

tube. In the truck, the heat full blast, thawing, I turn and have eye contact with the parking guy. I start out of the field, and that guy starts running to me. "You can’t leave now lady. the family is coming up the road. Wait 10 minutes" OK I can do this. Ten minutes later I edged up ten feet to get out of someone’s way, and I notice the guy frantically waving his arms across the field for me to stop. OK..OK I’ve stopped. Five minutes later, we hear lots of screaming from the site..the family is there. The guy waves frantically..this time for me to leave. I know this guy thought I was sent there to drive him totally insane. Goodbye, parking guy, love you too, goodbye dear house, Goodbye BeBe...Thanks for the memories.

Gotta tell ya, what a heck of an experience. So thrilling to see hundreds of people pulling together for a special cause. So, so glad I could be a small, small part in this project. Totally mind blowing, totally heart warming. The show will be aired on ABC, May 3, I think. BeBe if you’re reading this....you’re one of a kind girl...don’t break a nail, don’t ever change!!! Cheers BC (BC - Barbara Carol, that is ) Most photos are from Barbara Fleming, some are from ABC website. http://www.extremeebheroes.com, This piece is to much fun for edit. - IL

... Extreme Makeover with Barbara Fleming.I call my sister, Na, and make her go with me. It’s raining, and totally freezing. Typical. The house is in the last stages, so there is little volunteer work to do. The rosemary is in the ground...Hallelujah !!!!! Hundreds of people are now at the watch gate. Veterans, children, volunteers, family, media, name it, it is 4pm. Ty (photo top right) the main guy is comes running out, Na is the first person he slaps hands with, we see this later on the news. It has been 3 hours now..Are we really this stupid...we can’t do it any longer !!! Time to say goodbye...family coming, move that bus, whatever that means... we’ll see it on the

Historic Gem in Tyrrell’s BackyardSomerset Place is a representative state historic site offering a comprehensive and realistic view of 19th-century life on a large North Carolina plantation. Originally, this unusual plantation included more than 100,000 densely wooded,

mainly swampy acres bordering Lake Phelps. In present-day Washington County. During its 80 years as an active plantation (1785-1865), hundreds of acres were converted into high yielding fields of rice, corn, oats, wheat, beans, peas, and flax;

sophisticated sawmills turned out thousands of feet of lumber. By 1865, Somerset Place was one of the upper South's largest plantations. The present-day historic site includes 31 of the

original lakeside acres and seven original 19th-century buildings. With the goal of accurately representing the lives

and lifestyles of the plantation's entire antebellum community, the Department of Cultural Resources has acquired the recon-structed Overseer's House and

reconstructed one-room and four-room homes where enslaved families once lived, along with the plantation hospital. Somerset Place stands today as a rather remarkable historic site.

www.nchistoricsites.org/somerset/somerset.htm

Photos by Neli Lemme

SOMERSET PLACE

2572 Lake Shore Rd. Creswell, N.C. 27928 Phone(252) 797-4560 somerset@ncdcr.gov

Hours of Operation

April 1 through October 31

Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sundays 1-5 p.m.

Admission is free. Donations are welcome and appreciated.

Photos by Neli Lemme

www.nchistoricsites.org

Website of the Month

WWW.IBXLIFESTYLES.COM

IBX Homes and Land LLC announced the launch of two ventures that are designed to market Inner Banks businesses, institutions and real estate to professionals across industry sectors in the United States, Canada and Europe. IBX Lifestyles (www.ibxlifestyles.com) provides an Internet crossroads for Inner Banks towns and counties, business leaders, hospitality and tourism professionals, artists and crafts persons to introduce themselves to people around the world. Visitors to IBX Lifestyles—whether they are retirees, entrepreneurs, developers or artists; whether from New York, Massachusetts, Ireland or Italy—discover here the very best that North Carolina’s Inner Banks region has to offer. IBX Lifestyles spotlights Inner Banks waterfront towns, history, culture, news, people and the region’s uniquely enticing lifestyle. IBX Homes and Land (www.ibxhomes.com) provides comprehensive, up-to-date real estate offerings from across North Carolina's Inner Banks, including second and retirement homes, townhomes and condominiums, commercial properties, raw land and manufacturing facilities. Launched in tandem with IBXlifestyles.com and IBXhomes.com is the “IBX Lifestyles” newsletter. The Spring Newsletter is available here: http://issuu.com/ilemme/docs/ibx_lifestyles_spring_2009 In this issue of “IBX Lifestyles” newsletter: an interview with New York-to- Inner Banks transplant Ingrid Lemme; the 29 Inner Banks historic sites and towns of the Historic Albemarle Tour; Inner Banks film news; Inner Banks calendar of events and tourism resources; and, some of the best Inner Banks photography available anywhere. “As we continue to experience an economic downturn that challenges every region in the U.S., it becomes imperative that we enhance our competitiveness in fresh ways and seek out new markets for business,” said CEO Harvey S. Wooten. From “Southern Living” magazine to Canadian snowbirds; from U.S. movie directors to Italian and Irish television producers; from Florida retirees and Hamptons second home buyers to hunting, fishing, boating and birding enthusiasts, everyone is discovering that North Carolina’s Inner Banks region offers unparalleled natural, historical, cultural and lifestyle assets: beautifully maintained 18th and 19th century waterfront towns; abundant wildlife, forests, the Albemarle and Pamlico sounds, rivers, beaches and the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW); affordable real estate; and, some of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet. “North Carolina's Inner Banks region offers more than 3,000 miles of largely undeveloped coastline,” said Ms. Wooten. “Moreover, we have more available land—inexpensive when compared to other markets—and more amenities than many entire states enjoy. Add to that our incredible people and it becomes crystal clear that the Inner Banks region is one of the last great undiscovered places in the U.S.”

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