May 21, 2018
Ridge Spring News
Harriet Householder
Due to rain and threat of more storms the sixth Magnolia
Ridge Antique and Art Gathering was cancelled and rescheduled for September
22. There was a pretty bad storm late
Friday night so it was a good thing that they postponed the event.
BUT Peachtree 23 Yard Sale is 2 weeks from
this past weekend. All the spots have
been filled but new spots are being found.
This is a 2 day event so pick your date and come on to Ridge Spring, Batesburg-Leesville,
Monetta, Ward, Johnston, Edgefield, land Modock and shop. Make sure your trunk
is empty before you start the trip.
I will have boiled peanuts and the rest of my tomato
plants for sale. I am down to 10 of each
variety-better boy, whopper, celebrity, Cherokee purple, and I still have a few
red bell peppers, green bell peppers, and orange bell peppers. I am working on my herb collection, too.
George Raborn went into the Ridge Spring bank,
Security Federal. He stopped by my shop to
let me know how nice it was to go into a bank and know the customers. He spoke to Ed Gregory, and Carolyn
Boatwright, people he knew. When he would
go into the bank in Aiken, he did not know a sole. You just can't beat small town living.
The Friends of Ridge Spring met Tuesday night
at Town Hall. The sign on Hwy #1 and Hwy
392 will be revised. New T-shirts have
been ordered for the vendors, and T-shirts for Peachtree 23. The town is planning to revise the parking
lot soon. All are concern for the live
oaks that are in the bump outs for they seem to be dying. The farmers and vendors at the Farmers'
Market sure appreciate them.
The vouchers will be distributed at Town Hall
on June 5th from 1:00 to 7:00 PM.
The Art Center of Ridge Spring by Joanne Crouch
There is COOL Art at the Art Center! Thank you to RS Town Hall, air conditioning
units are being installed in the Art Center.
Come shop and take classes in a comfortable environment.
Barbara Yon held a quilt
block painting workshop. Five new quilts
will be added to the Ridge Heritage Quilt Trail when they are completed.
Anne Hightower-Patterson is offering a
2-day workshop, “Taking your watercolor to the next level” on Friday, June 22
and Saturday, June 23 from 10-4 with 1 hr for lunch. Cost will be $130. Supplies not included. Spots are limited. To reserve your spot, call (803)685-5577 and
leave message.
D.S Owens is the featured artist for May
at the Jim Harrison Gallery in Denmark, SC.
A photographer is featuring a tree study in this exhibit. Member, Ron Buttler, will be the featured
artist for June at Gallery next month.
Hours of operation at the Art
Center are Fridays and Saturdays from 10-2.
Join us for our membership meetings on the first Thursday of the month
at 6:30.
Josie Rodgers
Congratulations
to Texanna Miller, Sarah Shore, and
McKenzie Maffett, recipients of the Saluda
Young Farmer Scholarship for 2018.
RSM High: The
Shakespeare Chapter of the National English Honor Society held its 2nd
Poetry Night Wed., May 16, in the
library. Between 40-50 people attended
and read poetry of all kinds.
Refreshments were served and awards given to outstanding poetry readers
and writers. Even though the library was
quite stuffy and humid, the participants and audience had a wonderful time!
The
RSM High Beta Club
has been named a State Convention School
of Excellence due to their participation in the 2018 state convention and
their dedication to the “importance of academic achievement, visual and
performing arts, leadership development, and service.”
Seniors Lexi Sterling and Rachel Burger were honored for academic
excellence last week at the Aiken Senior Scholar Banquet sponsored by Aiken
County Schools. To be an Aiken Scholar, students must be ranking in the top 10%
of their class, have a minimum GPA of 3.8, and have no grade lower than a B in
all courses for 15 consecutive quarters of their high school career. Scholars also receive a Senior Scholar
medallion to be worn at graduation.
Several track team members competed at the State Championship Track Meet Sat.,
May 12, at Spring Valley High. Results follow:
Jason Robinson - 2nd in 800, 3rd in 1600; Melvin Alewine - 4th in Discus;
Katelyn Kirk - 4th in 4x100, 5th in 4x800, 7th in 1600; Anissa Dean - 4th in 4x100; Kaylah McDowell - 5th in 4x800; Kendra
and Kelsie Storey: 4th in 4x100, 5th in 4x800.
Rene
Miller, RSM Elementary
Saturday, May 12th,
our school district hosted a "Character
First" ceremony with Aiken's mayor. Each school nominated only a
handful of students to represent them at this celebration and we had 4 young
gentlemen that were chosen: Jonathon
Gonzalez, gr. 3; Jose Hernandez, gr. 4; Wyatt Davenport, gr. 4; and Aaden
McCormick, gr. 2. Congratulations to these wonderful RSM students!
On May 4th the
Seniors from RSM High came over and
walked through the halls of RSME one last time as a student. Most of these students attended their elementary
and middle school years right here at RSME.
Our current students lined the halls and made signs of best wishes for
the seniors.
March
of Dimes: Premature birth
and its complications are the #1 cause of death of babies in
the United States. The March of Dimes
Prematurity Campaign aims to reduce premature birth in the United States and to
give every baby a fair chance for a healthy full-term
birth. Ridge Spring-Monetta Elementary will host a College Football battle. Who
can donate the most to the March of Dimes Campaign, Carolina or Clemson fans?
Please bring your coins and dollars and place them in the bucket labeled
Carolina, Clemson or Other. We will begin our campaign on Thursday May 17
through May 24. We will end the campaign on May 24 by wearing
purple to represent the March of Dimes.
Pastor
Keys: What an Awesome time we
had at the Women's Conference!! Everyone there got SUCH A WONDERFUL Blessing.
Thank you to all who attended, participated and supported the event.
Review from
David Marshall James: "A Ship Without a
Sail" by Gary Marmorstein
If Rodgers &
Hammerstein are synonymous with the grand, stately Broadway musicals of the
1940s and 1950s, many of the songs from the Broadway shows (1920s, '30s, and
early '40s) of Rodgers & Hart have been disassociated from the plays in
which they were introduced. However,
Richard Rodgers and Lorenz (Larry) Hart collaborated on many more shows than
Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.
Many Rodgers & Hart
songs are ideally suited to cabarets, nightclubs, or-- one of Hart's
favorite venues-- smoky barrooms complete with a resident pianist/warbler. Any club headliner who wishes to sing of
love-- in all its could've-, would've-, should've-been forms-- couldn't,
wouldn't, shouldn't overlook the Hart lyrics for: "Blue Moon," "Bewitched,
Bothered, and Bewildered," "Ten Cents a Dance," "My Funny
Valentine," "This Can't Be Love,” or "I Wish I Were in Love
Again."
Hart, the older of two
sons of German immigrants who settled alongside Morningside Park in Harlem, was
a lyrical genius, perhaps owing to his genes: He was the great
grand-nephew of famed German poet Heinrich Heine. However, Larry's
father, Max Hart, was not of the cultural elite, yet he did have connections to
the world of show.
Lyrics with interior
and multiple rhymes came to well-read versifier Larry Hart in seeming
flashes, often jotted on the back of, or on a scrap of, anything
handy. Unlike Hammerstein, Hart almost never composed a lyric until he
first had Rodgers's melodies. Hart
never aspired to anything less. His talents were honed at
summer-camp shows in and around the Adirondacks. He hooked up with the
seven-years-younger Rodgers (still a teenager) through Columbia University's
prestigious Varsity Show's, an annual competition open to students and alumni,
with performances in grand ballrooms of swanky hotels.
They struggled to
produce a hit beyond their collegiate successes (incidentally, neither was
officially graduated from Columbia). Hart had hit 30, and Rodgers was
prepping to move into the garment business when "Manhattan" (as in,
"We'll Take Manhattan") put them over with the then-particularly-vast
Broadway public.
As author Gary
Marmorstein explains in this extensively detailed biography, the Great White
Way was in its heyday during the mid- to late 1920s, just as Rodgers & Hart
were making a splash. The Depression and talking pictures (specifically,
musical pictures) would result in a reduction of both theaters and productions,
especially as much of the songwriting talent was lured to
Hollywood by fantastic sums.
Rodgers & Hart were
not immune to such temptation, working on scores and songs for new films at
most of the major studios. Many of their own shows would receive
cinematic treatment, including "Babes in Arms," which set the stage
for all the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland "let's put on a show"
musicals, and "Too Many Girls," which introduced, most fatefully,
costars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz (he had starred in the Broadway version).
Larry loved Hollywood,
but Rodgers was far less enthusiastic. Marmorstein indicates he was
something of a control freak, desiring complete decision-making over
his work, which he certainly lacked during his initial Hollywood forays.
Many a conductor and performer have attested to the fact that one didn't skip
or change a note of Rodgers's music. He was known to fire such
transgressors on the spot.
In spite of Larry being
the more congenial of the pair, his demons nipped persistently at his elevated
heels, as if he had made a Faustian bargain with them for his phenomenal talent
and achievements. Foremost, his drinking was already out of hand by his
early 20s. He considered himself unattractive, was continually ribbed
about his diminutive (less than five feet tall) stature, and was forced to
mask his homosexuality (although most New York and Hollywood show-business
insiders were aware of it).
Hart picked up checks and
generally went overboard in keeping the proverbial party rolling
around him-- anything to stave off the loneliness of the three a.m.
blues. How perfect, then, when he could stumble upon a chanteuse in some
after-hours place on 44th or 45th streets, singing his words. He died from complications owing to chronic
alcoholism 75 years ago; even so, many proponents of The Great American
Songbook consider him the best lyricist this nation has produced.
Harriet's
Garden Tips: The rains have made
so much greenery even more green, growing and stronger. This weather also encourages those pesky
weeds. Just remember the sooner you get
them up, the easier it will be. How many
times have you seen that weed, thought of getting it later, and then you find
the roots go all the way to China. That
is one of the problems I have with those tree-weeds. Oak trees, red buds, pecan trees, and camellias, and more. They just love to sprout up in my rose bushes. I seem to be complaining but I am thankful
for the rain, good soil, and the beauty that surrounds us each day. AND I bought a shovel that will not break!!!!
REMINDERS
June 2: Peach Tree 23 Yard Sale
June 5: Voucher Distribution
June 9: Farmers Market Opens
Ridge Spring Library hours: Mon. Tues. 9:00 - 12:00; Wed. Thurs. Closed;
Fri.
10:00 - 4:00; Sat. 10:00 - 1:00.
Ridge Spring Post
Office hours: Mon-Fri. 7:30 am – 11:30 am; Sat 9 – 10 am
Recycling Center
Hours:
Mon/Wed/Fri 1-7; Sat 7-7; Sun 3-7; Tues/Thurs closed
First Thursday of the
Month: AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783
Every Friday &
Saturday: AARS hours 10 – 4 or by appt, free admission
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