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Page 6-B Albemarle Stories (Editor’s Note: The following article of local interest first appeared in the Durham Morning Herald (Hi December 28, 1981.) By Betty Hodges Thomas B. Wood works on the attorney general’s staff in Raleigh by day but by night he finds a quiet corner in his Raleigh home, pulls out a legal pad and retreats into the past in fiction of his own creating. Times Printing Co. of Manteo has just published his first book, Plantation Tales of Albemarle (106 pp. $4.95), a paperback collection of three tales set in his native Edenton where the sense of the past is so strong it left its mark on his imagination. “I grew up at Athol Plantation on Albemarle Sound,” Wood said in a telephone interview last week, “there and at Mulberry Hill which I still own and continue to restore.” THE FAMILIARITY with the past as embodied in the two old Chowan plan tations stayed in his mind, he said, long after he’d finished law school at the University of North Carolina, married and settled to live in Raleigh. It had something to do, too, with his enrollment as an undergraduate at UNC in the late Jessie Rehder’s creating writing classes, and with his hobby of collecting old books, par ticularly in the field of North Caroliniana. Southern Gothic is his field, he said, and when he reads it’s “things like Rebecca, Victor Hugo’s works, anything dark and brooding.” THE PREFERENCE has left its mark on his own prose, which is flowery and romantic. The first of his stries is that of Richard Ben bury and its intertwined between his own Mulberry Hill and Benbury Plantation just outside Edenton. It is, of course, a tragic story, told in first person and involving a stormy evening’s l/ou Want "To “Prink... Hut's l/out business. Gut Slf l/ou 4/a raw Prlnklny JOroUtm, Wt Want “To 4/alp. ” ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS AND AL-ANON Meet Monday Nights At 8 P.M. At First Presbyterian Church Corners of West Queen and Mosley Clothing Closet Located Open Over The Service MOn . Is Sponsored By Pate’s rh . local Church „ And Florist AIII , Thurs. All items (I*Pm) c Q< Each Hollowell’s Electrical Service Edenton Alvin Hollo well Owner (Licensed Electrician) Phone 482-2608 For Free Estimates Call After 3:30 New Work Contractor visitation witnessed by a 16- year-old. The second is built around a mysterious unfortunate whose mother’s widowhood scarred his life and th warted his happiness with the one woman he ventured to love. AND THE LAST is the journal entry of one Edward Paxton, a fanciful ex planation of bow “each man kills the thing he loves” then must live on in miserable atonement. The three stories were written as he writes all his stories, Wood said, in longhand on the legal pad that is a natural tablet for him. “I’m not smart enough to do it on a typewriter,” he said. “Sometimes I type a little bit but usually I hire it done.” THE SUBJECT of his concentration now, he said, is another collection of Chowan tales which “aren’t quite finished” and need some polishing. There are diversions, he admitted. He is active in the Edenton Historical Com mission and has himself recently organized the Edenton Historical Foun dation Inc., which will oc cupy itself with raising funds for the protection and restoration of endangered properties in the town. But his long range goal, he said, is a book on the fight to control the ports of North Carolina during the Civil War. It makes his interests all of a piece. Repairs Begin WILMINGTON Structural maintenance and repairs of Coinjock Bridge are scheduled to begin January 12 and continue through January 22. For the first four days, January 12 through January 15, the bridge will be closed to both water and highway traffic for five hours each day from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. During the second week, January 18 through January Continued On Page 9-B J|| ' ■ pi v ...OR ICE SKATE AT OWN RISK! The above sign 1 behind the Edenton Municipal Building seems a little out of place, due to the frozen Albemarle Sound behind it. A recent cold front hit Edenton with all its fury, droppiig tem peratures around the zero degrees mark. Ambum Reappointed To Post L. F. Amburn, Jr., editor and publisher of The Chowan Herald, has been reappointed to the N. C. State University School of Agriculture and Life Sciences Advisory Council. Amburn’s original term expired in 1981. Dean J. E. Legates said Ambum’s reappointment is in the school’s plan to maintain a continuing position for the state ad visory council. “We are most grateful to you for the energetic leadership which you have given our total agricultural program,” Dean Legates wrote Amburn. “It has meant much to our Ex tension Service and per sonnel, as well as our entire school.” Ambum is serving his third year as chairman of lS& 6Retk Tuler I Lea,y Bros ' storage I Com P ,imeMts ET CETERA Ilf It/ Buyers Os Peanuts akV A. Sfaii • eiops • Soybeans and Country Produce VM? A VomvtidOnpoxHi • <£«»*., Your Happy Shopping Center Sellers of Fertilizer and Seeds I • j Phone 482-2141,482-2142 rM“Mpa« Cmplimen.. ATJEND CHURCH «W™ Sas «*• Mitchener Village Friend OF YOUR CHOICE "—<•*«« B B Mimiture Outlet TMIO Open 9om to 6pm I II lO OUIIUM I ! THE CARTERS INK COMPANY Monday Through Saturday - ■ - - , A DIVISION OF Badham Kocd Ed.nlon Phono 4)2 8061 _ . l 1 p|' By DENISON MANUFACTURING COMPANY “Better Buys - Bigger Bargains” fn/fy »1V • 1 3 LEW? 1 edenton. north Carolina. 27932 482-447 J EDENTON TRACTOR & ' £—LI— SEABROOK rnmniiruT nn BLANCHING CORPORATION EQUIPMENT CO TO MAKE A LIVING—PICK- UP STICKS! Blonchers to the Vn„r PnrH Trartnr n«al«»r Aoontc I A3 IN EVERY PERIOD THROUGHOUT THE •• JJ Peanut Industry Your Ford Tractor Dealer Agents M worlds history, the poorandneedy tjfe?, mlc / il I u/c u/ncr cno ppakiiitc Cnrt u inmd.n,itkn»rHc 1 OUTNUMBERED THE WEALTHY AND MIDOLECLASS fIKL MIL, 1,1 WE WORK FOR PEANUTS, For Evinrude outDoaras lin biblical times-especially in the cities i JKi vs OT l fit) I|)L| AND WE ARE PROUD OF IT! US X7South,Edenton,N.C. PHONUBMIU EDENTON. NC WERE HARD PUT to EKE OUT AN EXISTENCE ! ONE MEAGER METHOD By WHICH A FOOD MAN " > CuoMmModo Cdblno* and Finn Wood ProdocN EKUCO "IN I I ——i COULP MANAGE TO SUBSIST, WAS GATHERING fri iMT"*'”" |L I vrnni 11 twigs fop firewood in a place uke jeousalem, -a aftßi ij' gaF,-J 't ~ ■« xll Art L/. IMUrJLr., IT WAS AT A PREMIUM FOR NONE COULD BE FOUND ftl SBaafMafclSarfc: 4 IB p orsTVT THE CITY AND THE OUTLYING AREAS BOASTED of / iS a oUJN Nut r< aaab■ ae w very little more i every stick andtwig that nl. i/—csSli , Jot.. , . , , UT COMPANY lav on the floor or the kipron viallev, every aßwjk 'iiPL, cabinet shop fallen branch from the olive trees on the mount ., , ABOVE, WA6 POUNCED UPON. THE WOOO-GAIWERS?S V RF 1 1 Wophon. 919/531.51id SPENT lONG, BACK-6REAWNG HOURS AT THIS TASK, >1 «M J - TO, - eoenton n c jt.» SOUTHEASTERN OPERATIONS FINALLY TO CARRV THEIR HEFWY BUNDLES IN A WEARV UIITTT fll|fr (1 r aMrßwf llie iTfl rv™ CLIMB UP THE HILL TO THE CITV. DUPING THE DtMTWIIISHr / Je’lfll> ■ ChockNoN, u™. Now "" 11 ■■ AT THE END OF DAY —THERE, TO BARGAIN WITH SOME 1 Ftj - . . ANXIOUS HOUSEWIFE NEEPFULL OF WOOD TO COOK Tw 1 r> • 1 rp Blair Funeral Service rwHouse Bndge Tum Exxon phone 432 4449 IB] frill - PCPHAPS THE OLIVE GROVES WERE THE B6ST AOOOAAI 141 East Carteret * !, t 'el I!U £ \+ gi ~PLACES FOR MAOOO GATHERING, ALTHOUGH IT I HOil OH HI 1,1 MSI 4 '« r T®ret st. ? 1 I N &iMiIN . > a|| >A\ did mean a long trudge down into 4 edenton fl JtjWKußf i Au L^T^SumoFOLivKtoget^'^ 8 _/Ik, fl Broad Street Jackson's Radio & r ‘ |f| J^n’s^auUque Ty Sprtlfp ;• 1 ' iLJj yjl) 1 Phone 482-8150 |' 'v\ fw ***" ,n<l wom,n '* AtylM Cut and blow dry, porma, fin ; \ I r22e«?i aSif* 51 V |eß| tinta, conditioning. Call Vicki and Joan to look your 482 - 4466 105 West Eden gal t tih i ©kv Edenton Savings | houoweu oid biount Lmp «nc pjlalßßßf' Ttexa// drugs Where You Save Does Make A Difference! edenton 482-2127 Carden Printing Company Perry’s Carpet Cleaning CAHOUNA „ r>d-krv^rtllrvTnnFn 112-114 South Water St 114 W. Eden BLOCK CO Airport Rd. COfTipli IXIOII tS P.O. Bo« 1454 Coll: 482-2676 EDENTON Elizabeth City, North Carolina Professional Cleaning Services: , 1 4*2-7488 Ol A Quality 8 Service h*t», jpn»fonef service wre -.teroNon. ■"» rnenq Boswell's R °y H^?.r^* n ' CompUments of LAG Company ol Edanton Market R - OU ** l l - -7 , T M1 1 tO3l Ellis Carpet & Tile SpecijlUU in HMtingand CaoAnc 22/ 8457 Sma The Friendly Store! 115 Church Street 482-8884 THE CHOWAN HERALD the 10-member state council, which has more than 60,000 volunteer leaders across the state. He said he is pleased that Dean Legates recognized the need for linkage between the lay organization and the school. “ ... your continued support of the Advisory Leadership System en courages us all to give a little bit more to spread the message,” Ambum wrote Dean Legates in accepting reappointment. Ambum also serves as secretary of the National Extension Advisory Council and as chairman of the National Extension Com mittee of the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture’s Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences. “Mott people judge men only by success or by fortune." Le Rochefoucauld Saiing Club To Hold Organizational Meeting Jan, 21 " An organizational meeting for a new com munity - wide sailing dub will be held on Jan. 21 at 7:90 P. M. at John A Holmes High School. The purpose of the dub will be to promote the sport of sailing through sailing classes, racing and recreational day sailing in small sail boats less than 20 feet in length. Hie dub will be open to' anyone interested in sailing from ages 8 to 80, and will be organized in three divisions: a youth division for youth up through Bth grade; a junior division for young people up to age 18; and a senior Centralized School Menus Edenton • Chowan Schools have released the following lunchroom menus for the week January 18-22. Monday Chilled juice, assorted cereals, milk Pork with gravy, whipped potatoes, green beans, apple sauce, rolls and milk. Tuesday— Chilled juice, doughnut and milk. Fish ’n cheese on bun, cole slaw, french fries, pineapple and milk. Wednesday Chilled WE WANT TQ BUY YOUR PECANS! All Sizes • Any Amount BRING TO: FRANK JONES WAREHOUSE Route 3 - Edenton 482-2953 or 482-4732 division for all above 18 years of age. Membership will be open to individuals and families. The new club is an outgrowth of a sailing dub started several years ago at Holmes High School for Holmes students. It is hoped that more interest and participation will be generated by expanding the dub to include- all segments of the community. Interested persons need not own a sailboat in order to be a member. The dub will have available for in struction and use two juice, cheese toast and milk. Meat loaf with gravy, steamed rice, mixed vegetables, pears, rolls and milk. Thursday Chilled juice, sausage link, buttered grits, and milk. Beef vegetable soup, sandwiches, crackers, peach cobbler and milk. Friday Apple sauce, cinnamon toast, and milk. Roast turkey with dressing, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, candied yams, green peas, rolls and milk. Tamer 16 and two Gram pian 17 fiberglass daysailers. Direction for the club will be provided by a Board of Directors con sisting of a representative from the Edenton Yacht • y » • if m ht mo pi EMPLOYEE OF THE QUARTER John H. Bond, left, was recently announced as Sea brook's Employee of the Quarto* by manager Robert Halsey, right With the award goes a SSO savings certificate and dinner for two. Edenton Upholstering and Antiques Quality Workmanship Come In And Browse.... We Buy And Sell Margo and Mlklos Baratn Queen Street Extended U.S. Highway 17 South Thursday, January 14, 1982 Club, Tanzer Yachts, Inc., and the Edenton Op timist Club. Additional information may be obtained by con tacting Gil Burroughs at 482- 2624
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