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COLONIAL EDENTON
TO OPEN ITS DOORS
TO PUBLIC IN APRIL
Pilgrimage To Old Homes And
Plantations In Area, April
15-16 Promises Rare
Treat
Edenton, North Carolina, set-,
ting for a Revolutionary Tea
Party of 1774 and treasure-trove
of homes and public buildings
surviving from the days when the
city was capital of the Colony of
North Carolina, will hold its bien
nial Pilgrimage of Colonial Eden
ton and Countryside April 15-16.
• Colonial residences, a church,
courthouse, and plantation homes
along the Chowan River and Albe
marle Sound will be opened to
visitors during the Pilgrimage.
They include the former home of
Penelope Barker, who organized
the famous Edenton Tea Party,
and the plantation residence of
Inglis Fletcher, whose novels
have made Edenton and its near
by plantations familiar to thou
sands.
All Pilgrimage visitors are in
vited to tea at the Barker House,
which was presented to the city
in 1952 and moved to waterfront
overlook Albemarle Sound and are
within sight of Edenton Green,
which slopes down to Edenton Bay
from the Chowan County Court
House. The teacakes served at the
Barker House April 15 and 16 will
be baked from the recipe used by
Penelope Barker when she pre
pared refreshments for the 51
ladies of Edenton who met at her
home in 1774 to “solemnly engage
hot to conform to that pernicious
practice of drinking tea or ye
wear of any manufacture from
England until such time that all
acts which tend to enslave this
our native country shall be re
pealed”.
Bandon Plantation, home of
novelist Inglis Fletcher, was
established in 1717 through land
grants from Lord Granville. The
present house was built about
1790. Among the other planta
tions on the Pilgrimage are Syca
more, with a charming colonial
home built before the Revolution
and containing the original floors,
paneling and mantels; and Mul
berry Hill, plantation established
by Captain James Blount in 1684.
The three-story brick house at
Mulberry dates back to pre-Revo
iutionary days and overlooks
Albemarle Sound.
Notable buildings in Edenton
which will be open during the Pil
grimage are the Cupola House,
built in 1725 and considered the.
finist Jacobeantype house south
of New England; the Littlejohn
house built prior to 1791; tLe Ire- j
dell House, built in 1759 and main- j
tained as an historical shrine; the
Chowan County Court House built
in 1767 and considered the finest
Georgian court house in the
South; and St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, second oldest church
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By CAROLYN LLOYD
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Airlie, the beautiful mansion on
Wrightsville Sound, has thirty
bedrooms. What started out as a
two-room “shack” was expanded
o Qhi thirty-eight room mansion
to accomodate the ever increasing
number pf visitors. Imagine that.
Even with ample money and a full
staff of servants, the prospect of
thirty bedrooms filled with guests
Would scare most women today in
to a nervous breakdown. Orton
has only six bedrooms, which
would accomodate more than
enough guests to suit most people.
When those homes were built peo
ple nothing of dropping in to stay
for a week and meals were always
prepared with an eye to unexpect
ed guests. Today, though we still
cl> ng to the old tradition of
Southern hospitality, most house
wives buy just enough pork chops
for the family, and, unless they
have freezers, are apt to be em
barrassed when unexpected guests
drop in for a meal. That may not
be true in rural areas, where the
smokehouse is nearby, and the
pantry is filled with jars of fruits
and vegetables, but it is true of
most urban dwellers. Apartments
and small houses just aren’t con
ductive to large-scale hospitality,
and the accessibility of hotels and
motels make it unnecessary for
the traveler to seek shelter with
friends overnight.
I never lived in a mansion such
as Orton or Airlie, but I do re
member that there was always on
our table more than the family
could possibly eat, “just in case
somebody dropped in”. We never
had to worry whether there would
be enough for dinner in case we
wanted to invite a friend at the
last minute. Until I grew up and
became an apartment dweller, I
had never eaten a meal in the
kitchen, for that was where the
cook ate. Nowadays I wouldn’t
know what to do with a cook if I
had one because there simply
wouldn’t be room in the kitchen
for both of us. Such thoughts
bring back visions of old Lizzie,
who presided over our kitchen in
Louisiana for ten years and was,
more or less, the boss of the
household. Lizzie was a wonderful
cook but was not noted for the
sweetness of her disposition.
Among the things she abhorred
were “children messing around
her kitchen” and “people who got
a clean glass every time they
wanted a drink of water.” Perhaps
■ building in North Carolina and
center of a parish organized in
1701.
Azaleas and other flowering
shrubs bloom in Edenton gardens
during mid-April, and these, with
magnificent old trees and well
kept lawns, make the city one of
the most beautiful along the
Eastern seaboard. Edenton is on
U. S. 17, 346 miles north of
Charleston, South Carolina, and
93 miles south of Williamsburg,
Virginia.
The Edenton Pilgrimage is
conducted with the sponsorship of
the local Woman’s Chib and the
full cooperation of the city’s civic
organizations and home onwers.
Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts serve
as guides, and visitors arriving by
bus will find cars and drivers
available to take them on tour
from Pilgrimage Headquarters at
the Joseph Hewes Hotel.
Folders describing the Pilgrim
age are available from Mrs. W. T.
Harry, Box 430, Edenton, North
Carolina.
Edenton was established in
1628 and known as Queen Anne’s
Town until 1722, when its name
was changed in honor of Royal
Governor Charles Eden. Edenton’s
merchant prince, Joseph Hewes,
was one of the three North Caro
lina signers of the Declaration of
Independence and placed his ships
at General Washington’s disposal.
10 MILLION HEART SUFFERERS
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General Mark Clark, national chairman of the 1955 Heart Fund, on
a recent visit to Fayetteville, helps fill a plastic heart held by seven
year-old Jan Hicks, as Colonel J. J. Hockstim, Cumberland County
Heart chairman, looks on. Jan’s grandmother is one of 10 million
heart sufferers in the nation.
if Lizzie’s disposition had been
better, I might not have felt so
helpless when first faced with the
necessity of producing a full meal.
The ability to make fudge, prac
ticed after Lizzie went home for
the day, wasn’t of much help at a
time like that.
It’s a long way from Airlie and
Orton to Lizzie, but that is what
psycologists call “thought associa
tion”. I looked at pictures of those
example of an era of gracious
living and remembered childhood
dreams of some day living in just
such a beautiful home, surrounded
by faithful “Lizzies”. Such dreams
have no place in today’s stream
lined way of living, except for a
minority of people, but the houses
themselves are evidence that once
somebody’s dream came true.
Later, the bride and groom left
for a short wedding trip on the
Skyland Drive. Upon their return,
they will make their home at
Avon. Mr. Hooper is in the Coast
Guard and stationed at Cape Fear
at the present.
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BREAK TRAFFIC LAWS
Raleigh.—“ Why is it that citi
zens who obey other laws often
show great contempt for traffic
laws?”
The question was asked this
week by Col. James R. Smith,
commander of the State Highway
Patrol, as he commented on the
importance of knowing and obey
ing state traffic laws,
Col. Smith said people who
would be critical of sharp prac
tices irt business, who are strictly
honest in their personal relation
ships and who are highly respect
ed in the community, will fre
quently brag about “getting
away” with some infraction of
traffic laws.
"This attitude is difficult to
understand when you consider the
seriousness of our traffic prob
lems,” he said. “Department of
Motor Vehicles records show there
were 991 people killed in motor
vehicle accidents in 1954. It is
significant that department rec
ords show 87 per cent of the fatal
traffic accidents involved viola
tions of traffic laws by one or
more drivers. The conclusion is
obvious—violations of traffic laws
lead to traffic accidents.”
The colonel declared that, in
the face of these facts, no person
can consider himself a responsible
citizen if he doesn’t have the same
respect for traffic laws as he has
for laws prohibiting such crimes
as robbery and murder.
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IN PLAY’S LEADING ROLE
Laura B. Credle of New Holland
this week appeared in a leading
role in “Rumpelstiltskin,” a
dramatization of the familiar and
popular folk tale being presented
by the East Carolina College
Playhouse as its annual play for
school children in Pitt County.
Audiences totaling approximately
8,000 boys and girls were expect
ed to attend the four perform
ances scheduled from Monday
through Thursday.
Miss Credle was to play the role
of the Miller’s daughter who be
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ARTIST-EVANGELIST
RETURNS TO DARE
Phil Saint, . artist, cartoonist,
singer and evangelist, will return
to Dare County April 4-6 for three
public appearances and two school
chapel services, it was announced
today by the Rev. F. B. Dinwiddie,
Baptist minister.
This artist of unusual gifts,
will make his initial appearance
in this section Monday night,
April 4 at 7:30 at the Nags Head
Baptist Mission. Tuesday after
noon at 2:35 he will appear in a
chapel ' service at the Manteo
school,, followed Tuesday night at
7:30 with a service at the Roanoke
Island Baptist Church.
Mr. Saint will be at Kitty Hawk
school at 10:30 Wednesday morn
ing in a chapel service. Mr. Bryan,
principal of the school, states that
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