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Gather around and listen to a
story ... several stories, in fact, as
the Brunswick County Library sponsors
a Storytelling Festival this week
in celebration of National Library
Week.
Weather permitting, storytellers
from different areas of the county
will entertain listeners of all ages.
The first storytelling session was
canceled Tuesday at the West
Brunswick Branch Library because
of rain. It may be rescheduled next
month.
The second session is today, in
Southport's Franklin Square Park;
and the last will be Friday in the
community park next to the Leland
Branch Library. Three sessions are
scheduled at each location: 10 a.m. to
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p.m. to 1:45 p.m. In the event of rain,
the sessions will be canceled.
"I'm crossing my fingers about
Thursday and Friday," Felecia Hardy,
children's services coordinator
said Tuesday morning.
She and Nancy Price, coordinator
of adult services, organized the
Brunswick Cour
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Variety will be the note when the
Brunswick County Band presents its
spring concert on Sunday, April 16, at
the Brunswick Community College
gymnasium in Southport, now known
as the Center for The Performing
Arts.
"We'll be performing a wide variety
of music," said Donna Massingale,
a band member from Holden Beach.
Selections will range from classical
to marches, Dixieland jazz and show
tunes.
The concert begins at 3 p.m. at the
gym, located at the intersection of
I.ord and Eighth Streets. Admission
is $2, with children under eight admitted
free. Tickets are available
from Mrs. Massingale at 842-3233
after 6 p.m., or in Southport, from
aweeireai and New York Deli.
Paul Pittenger directs the band,
which began with a looseknit group of
musicians who performed for a
Brunswick Players' musical. "After
'Oklahoma!' we stayed together,"
said Massingalc.
Open to all county residents who
read music and play an instrument,
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Two special presentations of "The
Immortal Showboat" will be
featured during the 1989 Azalea
Festival in Wilmington.
A 70-minute drama, "The Immortal
Showboat" tells the history of the
USS North Carolina battleship
through voice, music, sound effects
and lights. It is staged at the Battleship
Memorial, located in
Brunswick County on the west bank
of the Cape Fear River near Wilmington.
The show will be presented Friday
and Saturday, April 14 and 15, at 9
p.m.
Also scheduled at the memorial
during the festival are two April 14
performances of patriotic songs by
the Mount Olive College Singers, at
1:30 p.m. at the visitors center and on
board the battleship at 2 p.m.
Constructed at the New York Navy
Yard in 1937, the career of the
"showboat" took her through participation
in all 12 major naval campaigns
in the Pacific Ocean during
World War II.
Principal characters in the outdoor
drama are two sailors from North
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Storytellers scheduled to participate
in the festival include some
voices and faces already known to
area residents: Judy Wolf and Tammie
Mang, who teach four-year-olds
at The Kid's Connection daycare;
several students of West Brunswick
High School English teacher Kay
Williams; several home school
students who have taken workshops
with Ms. Hardy and. at the Iceland
festival, several senior citizens and
North Brunswick High School faculty
members.
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of "Grandmother and The Poppyseed
Children," will tell stories at
both the I,eland and Southport sites,
and will autograph her books, copies
of which will be available for those
who don't already own them.
For more information call Ms.
Hardy or Ms. Nancy Price, adult services
coordinator, at I,eland,
371-2978; West Brunswick, 754-8573;
or the main library in Southport,
457-8237.
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the group now practices each Tuesday
night at Trinity United Methodist
Church in Southport.
In addition to Mrs. Massingale.
members include Dick Conrad,
Italph Parker, Mary Campbell, Neil
Watkins, Janet Porterfield, Bob
Porterfield. Julia Smith, Vanessa
Smith, Mary Wigfall. Ellen Dorsett,
Jenny Rabon, Debbie Raker, Pain
Bowman, Duwayne Grimm, Don
Fenstermacker, Lou Sosler, Brad
Williams, Arnie Hegler, Gene Eagle,
Greg Walker, Grant Walker and John
Humphrey from Southport, Ted Moss
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George and Martha Tabor of Winnabow,
Linda Dor man and Harry
Soloway of Oak Island.
Mary Campbell is the group's
manager.
The non-profit group is available to
perform for festivals, plays and other
special events, said Mrs. Massingalc.
It also accepts monetary gifts or gifts
of music, which are often made in
honor or in memory of someone.
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Carolina and one from Texas.
Through the voices of Walter Abel,
Alexander Scourby, 18 actors and
such world leaders as President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill
and Adolf Hilter, realism is brought
to the "sound and light spectacular."
Spectators sit in a 1,000-seat grandstand
across from the ship's bow.
During the show more than 400 lights
of varying color and intensity are used.
Special effects include 20mm and
40mm antiaircraft gunfire, the blast
and flame of large 5-inch and 16-inch
guns; and a simulated torpedo explosion.
Background music is performed
by the New York Philharmonic
Orchestra.
Admission tees to tne show are $3
for adults (age 12 and older) and
$1.50 for children ages (i-l 1. Groups of
20 or more persons receive a 10 percent
discount on admission fees.
The USS North Carolina Battleship
Memorial will be open from 8 a.m. to
8 p.m. April 13 through 16. Admission
fees to the memorial?the battleship?
are $1 for adults and $2 for
children, with 10 percent discounts
for groups of 20 or more persons.
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BCLC Receive:
Brunswick County Literacy Council Chairman Daphne
Fournier of Holden Beach (right) accepts the first
"Helping Hands" award, presented by Dr. Lee
Langston on behalf of the Brunswick County Medical
Society. Designed by local artist Wendy Ward Milazzn,
the award was given in recognition of the council's efforts
to combat illiteracy and poor self-esteem through
its one-on-one tutoring program. The annual award
was presented at the medical society's first Spring
Charity Ball Friday at the N.C. National Guard ArSteinem
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Chorus
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Musical Revue
'i The seventh and eighth grade
choms at Shallottc Middle School will
present its spring concert,
5 "American Pop." on Thursday April
13, at 7 p.m. in the school gyms
nasiuni.
"American Pop" is a rock and roll
] musical revue which features the
< birth of rock. American Handstand's
"Kate a Record." the California folk
sound, the versatile music of the '70s
and today's sound.
Sixty students will sing and dance
to the music of songs which made
rock 'n' roll popular, said choral
director Donna Mcl.ninb. and there
will be several featured dancers and
vocalists.
No admission will be charged.
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Gregory Cooper of Sunset Beach
will appear in the University of Nortli
Carolina at Wilmington's dramatic
production. "The Diviners," to be
presented April 12 through IB at the
SRO Theatre on the UNC-W campus.
Cooper will portray the character
Buddy Layman in the play by James
Leonard Jr., which tells the story of a
boy (I,aymanl and his special relationship
with a reluctant preacher.
The play is set in Indiana in the 1930s.
Curtain time is 8 p.m. on April 12
through 15, and 2:30 p.m. on April IB.
Advance tickets may be purchased at
the Thalian Center box office, Wilmington.
"The Diviners" will be the last
UNC-Wilmington production to be
performed before the college's
Department of Creative Arts Summer
Festival, running June 1 through
July 31 on the college campus.
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