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By learning civics, resi- Broad Street and home to
dents have a chance to
the Chowan Herald and
Minicozzi is originally shape their communities two residences, generates
about $5 million in county
from Rome, N.Y., but now destiny, he said.
lives in Asheville. His busi ¬
By losing civics, people
taxes per acre, while the
ness helps “communities don’t understand how we’re Food Lion/Rose’s strip mall
make better decisions
“What do you want to be
when you grow up?” through an understanding
That is the questions
Chowan Comity, and in par
ticular Edenton, residents
should be asking them
selves about their commu
nity, according to Joseph
Minicozzi, AICP, principal
of UrbanS LLC, at a public
forum Monday at the John
A Holmes High School au
ditorium.
About 80 people attended
of data and community de
sign,” according to the web-
site.
When considering the
question, Minicozzi says
citizens need to be literate
in civics — how our govern
ment works and how the tax
policies work. In the 1950s,
elementary school students
learned these basics, but
somehow that education
all in this together,” Mini
cozzi said. “In the 1950s, lit
tle kids were talking about
this stuff. Nowadays, adults
aren’t even talking about
this.”
Minicozzi went through
several examples of how
urban sprawl contributed to
many municipalities’ prob
lems. Then he looked spe
cifically at Edenton, noting
the Josephine Leary build
ing in particular.
on Virginia Road generates
about $459,021 per acre.
“Leary gave you a per
fect lesson on the value of
property,” Minicozzi said.
“Her building has stood for
almost 200 years, and Rose’s
will be gone in 15 years or
so.”
Among the ways Mini
cozzi said the county could
make more money is by al-
See DEVELOPMENT, 8A
y to development
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Joseph Minicozzi, AICP, principal of Urban3 LLC, speaks
about how people in Asheville weren’t receptive to
renovating old buildings in the city’s downtown during
a public forum Monday at the John A. Holmes High
School auditorium.
STUDENTS work on mural of John A. Holmes
NICOLE BOWMAN-
LAYTON/CHOWAN
HERALD
John A.
Holmes
High School
students work
on a mural
near one of
the entrances
to the school.
Students
have been
working on
the mural
since the
beginning of
the school
year.
Red Cross quilt on display at Extension Office
NAMES ON RED
CROSS QUILT
According to the chart pro
vided by the Bassetts, owners
of the Red Cross Signature
Quilt, names stitched on it
include the following:
■ William Hudson, Ethel
Holland, Allis Griffins, Allie
Hudson
■ R.L. Norris, W.K. Cope
land, A.L. Copeland, Clara
Smith
■ Mildred Chesson, Helen
Chesson, D.M. Chesson, Mrs.
Gray Chesson
■ Mrs. J.C. Boyce, Mrs. W.T.
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BY NICOLE BOWMAN-
LAYTON
Editor
Some answers have been
solved in the mystery of a
Red Cross Signature Quilt.
But the owners hope more
questions can be answered
by the public, as the quilt is
on display at the Extension
Office in the Chowan County
Agriculture Center.
Earl and Becky Bassett
loaned it to the Extension Of
fice, which has a link to the
quilt.
County extension director
Mary Morris said the agen
cy’s home demonstration
clubs made the quilt during
World War I in support of the
war effort.
“We went upstairs where
our old records are kept,
and found that some of our
homemakers clubs worked
on a Red Cross fundraiser,”
she said. “The Bassetts de
cided that because there was
a lot of interest in the quilt,
they’d display it where peo
ple can see it. They called us
and asked to display it in the
extension office.”.
The quilt will be on display
until the end of February.
The Museum of the Al
bemarle, in Elizabeth City,
loaned the quilt rack to dis-
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Red Cross signature quilt
f hearkens back to World
War 1 and lists some of
Chowan County’s families
generations ago.
play the red and white quilt.
Each white square has a
cross in the middle embroi
dered in red. Four signatures
stitched in each corner of
the squares at a diagonal.
On some squares, each sig
nature is different, while on
other squares, they all look
the same. Red sashing and a
white corner block frame the
signature squares.
Morris believes that the
quilt makers either had the
families sign the squares or
had a way to transfer the sig
natures onto the fabric.
Included in the display is
a book for visitors to sign-
in and comment with any
stories they have about the
NICOLE BOWMAN-LAYTON/CHOWAN HERALD
The names of J.E. Meginley, Ed. Meginley, K.M. Meginley,
Ray. Meginley, Dr. J.S. Mitchener, the Rev. G.L Whiteley,
John Mitchener and Ollie Mitchener are among those
on the Red Cross Signature Quilt on display at the
Chowan County Extension office.
people whose names are on
the quilt.
“The Bassetts wanted to
document the visitors and
their stories, so they have
more information about the
quilt,” Morris said.
According to a quilt ap
praiser and information
gathered by Jennifer Finlay,
Shepard-Pruden Memorial
Library librarian, a call went
out in 1917 to raise money
for the Red Cross.
Quiltmakers across the na
tion, including the Chowan
County home demonstration
club, responded by making
and raffling quilts. People
would buy a subscription to
have their name inscribed on
the quilt and then the quilt
would be raffled off.
The appraisal says the
quilt was machine pieces and
hand embroidered.
Tire Bassetts purchased
the quilt at a yard sale.,The
woman who sold it to them
explained that the Red Cross
Signature Quilt had belonged
to her aunt.
Conger
Building
still unsold
Mayor: Talks ongoing about
proposed brew pub site
BY MILES LAYTON
Staff Writer
So far, not so much is
going on with the sale of
the land for the develop
ment of a proposed brew
pub on Water Street.
During the public com
ment portion of the Jan.
8 Town Council meet
ing, a question arose as
to what’s going on with
the project that council
approved in March after
about three years of de
bate.
“We are still talking
over the same points rela
tive to what the Town Of
Edenton is willing to do
with the building,” Mayor
Roland Vaughan said.
Nearly a year has
elapsed since council
signed off on the sale of
the Conger Building to a
Raleigh developer.
In March, Council vot
ed 4-1 to adopt a resolu
tion supporting the town’s
sale of the building, also
known as the former
Northeast Commission
Building, to John Conger
Glover for $309,000. No
earnest money has been
put down on the project.
“Hopefully, he (Glover)
can come to some conclu
sion that will allow him to
move forward,” Vaughan
said. “It’s in his mind. He
still believes that we, the
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