Hello Pocahontas readers, Fall is officially here! We’ve got our seasonal decorations switched over and hopefully the temperature, as with the leaves, will start to fall here soon. In the spirit of Halloween, a yellow garden spider has made her home here at the Welcome Center. You can see her in her web with her egg sack in the glass breezeway between the lobby and the restrooms.
In a plot twist even Hollywood couldn’t imagine, Taylor Swift, the reigning queen of pop (and everything else), has added a new role to her repertoire - the ultimate NFL game-changer. Swift, whose star power knows no bounds, has recently been spotted at Kansas City Chiefs games, donning her trademark outgoing personality, and altering the stadium into a buzzing hive of “Swifties” (her loyal fans). This unexpected love affair between the pop sensation and NFL superstar Travis Kelce has not only set social media on fire but has also shaken up the league in ways unimaginable.
Betsy McNabb Phillips successfully identified the mysterious lady in the photograph, at right, featured in the paper last week. She revealed that the unidentified woman was none other than her own mother, Anne Crise McNabb, who was married to Clifford McNabb.
The Good Earth held many festivals over the years. Perhaps the biggest and best ever were held at The E. Sloan Heritage Farm. The farm was entered through Old Davidsonville State Park, situated at the south end and bordered by Black River. The farm was rented each year for a set fee to The Good Earth, by the E.Sloan family. Back in that day, there was a two-dollar per car fee to enter the park. This fee was waived for those going to the farm. I believe the biggest festivals we ever held were those at The Sloan Farm. As yet Kilo Vista had not been given to The Good Earth. Big on Festival Posters at that time, not only as an event announcement but they were great money- makers. The small ads alone sold for fifteen dollars the larger ones were more, and we all sold ads. Just a few weeks back we ran across an old Good Earth poster from May 1997, it was unearthed here at our office. It was advertising an Old Fashioned Horse Plowing Demonstration Day. YES, Red has it stuck back up on our office wall. We read it all with a bit of Reminiscing on some old Randolph County History. Sadly some of those businesses no longer exist, while many continue to thrive and carry on.
What a glorious day it is, the sun is so wonderful and you can’t beat the temperature. I know Winter is coming one of these days so let’s enjoy the warmth of the sun while we can. Of course when the weather cools down the first thing I think of is Fall and Winter foods. Last week I shared some of my favorite chicken recipes so how about this week let’s try some Beef and Pork dishes.
Rose-Helene Spreiregen, Holocaust Survivor and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum volunteer, will be Black River Technical College (BRTC) Foundation’s 19th Annual Holocaust Survivor Series guest speaker.