Perq
uimans
Three Weekly contributors launch cooking/gardening book
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Aa editor of the PERQUIMANS
WEEKLY. I Mk our readers to excuse
us a moment while we pat ourselves
on the back.
This bit of self-congratulation is
generated as we page through a just
published book, a book whose authors
say waa spawned, after a fashion,
within the pages of this newspaper.
And if this book is a success, which
we are certain it will be. there will be
others like it. each with its origin in
this humble community paper.
In fact, the book is even dedicated to
us.
Now that we've ajHrfauded our
selves for our modest coatrttwUM to
this literary achievement, we'll
continue with the (acts on the folks
who did the real work.
Jean Winslow, who appears in this
paper each week as The Perquimans
Gardener. Edna Wolverton. who
decorates our Cook's Corner, and
Chris Kornegay. the pen behind our
editorial page cartoons, have com
bined talents to create what they call
a "kitchen and garden weekly hand
book" entitled INSIDE OUT.
The book will go on sale in
Perquimans County beginning April
13 at a sandwich luncheon-bake sale
autograph session from 11:30 a m to 2
p.m. at Holy Trinity Church in Hert
ford. The church will sell the book
exclusively as a fundraiser for the
following thirty days, after which it
will be sold in bookstores.
The book began one day in May of
1M0 as the three lounged around in
Jean's backyard. It was Jean's idea,
as they recall, for the three to gather
up their contributions to the Weekly
and put them together into a book.
At first, Chris and Edna thought she
Brock Wfcislow
Named to
State Band
Brock Whitlow, age 14,
hu been selected u a
trombonist for the 1M2
North Carolina Jr. High
School Honors Band. This
band is made op of the best
Jr. High School musicians
in the state.
Rehearsals and a concert
by the band wfll take place
at the N.C. State University
in Raleigh, on April 23, 24,
and 25.
Brock, an 8th grade
student at Perquimans
Union School, was also
selected this year as a
member of the All-State
Eastern District Band
which was held at Atlantic
Christian College in Wilson.
He was one of only two 8th
grade students to march
with the PCHS "Marching
Pirates" this past fall.
An honor student at
Union, Brock also plays
basketball and baseball for
the school teams. He is the
son of William and Susan
Wlnlaow of Belvidere.
Chris Kornegay, Jean Winslow and Edna Wolverton
was kidding, but Jean soon set them
straight on that score, and the work
began.
Pushed along by former Weekly
editors Mike and Noel McLaughlin,
they worked separately for the next
few months, each editing and
reworking and redrawing her work,
and sending copies to the other two.
The format of the book was decided
upon from the start, and taken from
their weekly contributions to the
paper: a week-by-week compendium
of what one should be doing in the
garden and what to do in the kitchen,
along with drawings to fit. Edna's
cooking column jived with what Jean
was planting in her garden at the
time, and Chris' drawings to fit both.
They managed to avoid the first
stumbling block of collaboration:
arguments over who knows best. "If
one of us said, 'I've got an idea,' and
the others said 'Yuck!', you didn't feel
bad about it," said Edna. "We were
open and honest with each other."
"We didn't take anything
seriously," added Chris.
"Yeah, we laughed about it,"
continued Edna.
"I hope we laugh all the way to the
bank," said Jean.
And it went on like that, the three
bouncing comments off each other.
"We worked off each other's ideas,"
said Edna. "Like. I was always
thinking we'd have a hole in the cover,
and Chris took that idea and made it a
window and added geraniums." And
that's how the cover turned out.
They didn't have to go to but a few
publishers to find one to print the
book. Publishing company JCP of
Virginia Beach. Va. was sold on the
idea from the start ? something
different from the usual cookbook or
garden book ? and liked it better
when they read it.
"When they first heard it," said
Jean, "they said. 'Hey. that sounds
good.' When they saw it, they said
'Hey, this really is good !"'
We at the Weekly are admittedly a
bit biased concerning our con
tributors, but frankly we find Jean
Winslow's prose to be just about the
most quotable stuff you'll ever read.
For example: .
"We have taken to watching for the
hummingbirds, and one in particular
has struck our interest. While her
pattern of feeding is quite normal in
that she feeds in flight, recently she
came flying in after having missed a
day because of showers. Each time
she fed. she swished up to a pecan
limb and actually sat there. I ob
served her doing this three separate
times and pondered the mystery: who
ever sees a hummingbird sit? Then,
being a mother myself, it dawned
upon me what she was thinking as she
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TRI COUNTY
LAW ENFORCEMENT
ASSOCIATION, INC.
P O BOX 429. ELIZABETH CITY, N C 27909-0429
Members of the Tri County Low Enforcement Association would like to take this
opportunity, to thank the many businesses of the area, and the many citizens
which helped our organization with our recent gospel music concert, and also
the other functions which we have had since our Chartering of this organization
September, 1981.
There is no way which we can name the many persons that have helped make
our organization a success, but we pledge to each and every citizen, that we
will continue to contribute to the community as we have done so far.
Again, thank you for your support.
Executive Board, and Members
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