SHOW HOURS ARE 9 A.M.-4 RM.
Find The Unusual ' Under The
Bridge '
Festival shoppers looking for
something a bit different can most
likely find it "under the bridge" at
the Festival By The Sea Arts and
C rafts Show.
Among the 150 to 2(H) exhibitors
will be Joe and Betty Zegan of
Supply, returning to offering more
of their woodwork and pine needle
basketry unlike any other available
in the area.
Moving to Ocean Trails II from
Winston-Salem two years ago, the
Zegans have been Brunswick
County property owners for nine
years. Before their retirement. Betty
was a registered nurse and Joe was
;in engineer for the Stroh's brewery.
They spent weekends traveling the
festival circuit with the Carolina
Crafterss.
"We both enjoy people," says Joe
Zx-gan. "We like to talk and we
have a good time at the shows.
When we moved here decided not
to travel. We have enough to do
right here."
Their more relaxed retirement
schedule finds them doing only "lo
cal" festivals, those within a few
hours' travel. Joe also sells some of
his work through a shop in Col
umbus. Ohio. Joe takes time off as
he chooses, to cook for their
church, or to simply relax.
"I have friends with boats. I go
out fishing and shrimping with
them and enjoy myself. That's one
of the reasons we wanted to move
here.
"We're having an enjoyable re
tirement. I think if both of us
stopped we'd deteriorate, so we'll
stay busy."
Their new schedule gives them
more time to enjoy each other's
company as well as for pursuing
their own interests. Joe spends a lot
of his time in a workshop out back,
while Betty's needlework keeps her
inside the house.
They work as a creative team,
drawing on each others' skills.
Betty fashions prize-winning
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Many boaters love the thrill of boating and fishing
but hate the hassle of storing their boat, towing
their boat to the beach and launching and loading
in the strong current Gary Carr, general manager
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"Taking the hassle out of boating." Gary has iden
tified five problems that boaters experience and
offers his solutions
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to the leaves and pine needles found in most yards.
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yards away and that pine needle will find your bilge
pump. Aiso, most people do not have a locked
yard or someone to look after their boat when
they are not home.
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security lights. Storage areas have limited entry
dunng operating hours and the only trees we have
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increased chance of an accident or breakdown
Trailers rust in a few years, and it is almost
impossible to keep brakes on a trailer. Does your
trailer have brakes?
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when you buy a boat, save the cost of a trailer.
HBM Storage Customers never need a trailer
because we do all the launching and pulling you will
ever need. We make driving to the beach a
pleasure instead of a hassle.
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from a trailer is difficult in the current with an
expenenced crew. By yourself it is dangerous and
often exposes your vehicle to salt water.
HBM SOLUTION: We launch and retrieve your boat
with our giant $100,000 fork lift. All you do is make
one phone call and we launch your boat, start the
engine, fill with fuel or ice. etc. When you arnve at
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tel! you where and when the fish are biting. When
you get done, park your boat at our dock, and
lower your antennas as your signal to us you are
done for the day. We lift your boat, wash the
outside, flush your engine and put your boat on
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and motors sometimes breakdown. How many
weekends have been ruined because of
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technicians and Mike Potts, our service manager, to
save the day for you and to have your boat ready
for you when you return to the beach. HBM can
repair almost any boat and motor.
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you must keep it painted with toxic paint. Yearly
sanding and painting of your boat is expensive and
adds pollutants to the water.
HBM SOLUTION: When you expose your boat to
salt water only when you use it your equipment will
last longer and it will be better for the environment.
Storage when not in use is the answer to small
boats
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ers en|oy their experience at the beach. Our
friendly receptionists provide you with weather
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need assistance or need to make a phone call, we
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the happenings at the beach such as dredging,
inlet condition, fishing and helpful hints
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PINE NEEDLE BASKETRY items such as these featuring Betty
Zegan a needlecraft skills will be among the many items exhibited
during the N.C. Festival By The Sea Arts Crafts Show this week
end beneath the Holden Beach Bridge. Joe Zegan, Betty's hus
band, designs and etches decorative mirrors and makes cabinetry
from scrubboards.
baskets, as well as jewelry and
Christmas ornaments, from locally
gathered longleaf pine needles and
Madagascar raffia, using her own
designs and metal forms created by
Joe to her specifications.
element, while slices of black and
white walnuts decorate another. A
third basket is formed around one
square wire form set diamond-fash
ion inside another square.
"You can use anything," she said.
"All she has to
do is come out and
say, 'Honey, I
need...," says Joe.
"We help each oth
er.
Betty's airy bas
ketry features intri
cate shapes, the di
amonds, loops and
figure eights creat
ed by Joe, anil her
"We both enjoy
people. . . We like
to talk and we
have a good time
at the shows .
? Joe Zegan,
on craft shows
When he's not
shaping wire
forms for Betty,
Joe's usually hard
at work on his
own woodwork
ing projects ?
etched and sand
blasted decora
tive mirrors set in
handmade wood
en frames, as
intricate stitchery. She knits, cro
chets, embroiders and tats. "I try to
incorporate all of that into my bas
kets," she says. "They're not just
your everyday pine needle baskets.
Most people use my baskets as .wall
hangings."
One basket incorporates metal
shower curtain hooks as a design
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well as cabinets and other furniture
designed around washboards he
buys wholesale from a company in
Columbus, Ohio.
After years of general wood
working, Joe made his first wash
board cabinet for his daughter, who
saw a photograph in a book and
wanted one like it. Since then he's
made countless cabinets out of
washboards, often combining them
with mirrors. He's also built hutch
es, end tables and other pieces of
furniture incorporating washboards.
His smaller projects include dec
orative mirrors mounted behind
small hurricane lanterns so as to re
flect the light.
"I do all my own design work,"
he said, which means he can cus
tomize his mirrors and woodwork
to coordinate with other interior de
sign elements such as carpet, up
holstery, wallpaper or china.
"What we do is completely differ
ent from normal."
The Zegans will be displaying
their distinctive work along with
approximately 150 to 2(M) other ex
hibitors this weekend, including lo
cals Bryan Varnam, Vic Gillesie, A1
Gunnersen, Joyce Shore and Rose
Hadnot, and other artisans from
across the country.