June 21,  2019

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

Ridge Spring Farmers' Market is in full swing.  The produce is perfect because it is fresh and local.  Check out tomatoes, squash, Cantaloupe, watermelon seeded and unseeded, peaches white and yellow and more. Fresh corn is delicious.  Farmers included  are Sherald Rodgers, Leonard, Bell and Titan Farms. David Day has Honey ready and will be at the market this coming Saturday. Also, for the first time he will have chunk honey (honey comb in a jar surrounded by honey). Hope to have boiled peanuts and muffins to sell.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Please note there will be NO Service on June 30, 2019. Again, No worship Service on June 30, 2019 at Ridge Spring United Methodist Church.  Service will resume on July 7, 2019 at 11:00am.

The Nut House: It’s time!! The banner is up and sweet corn is ready - we’ll have it inside starting tomorrow at 10am! Coming for more than 10 dozen? Feel free to give us a heads up here on Facebook or via phone (803-685-5335) the day before so we can be sure to have plenty freshly picked for y’all!

OLDE TREASURES: Who is ready for some change?
The storefront that houses OLDE TREASURES from 1950 until today in 2019 has seen its share of changes. The bricks are the same, the windows are the same, and actually the floor is the same, but the entrance area has changed and so have the businesses that occupied its space. These changes occurred over a period of 69 years.
OLDE TREASURES has occupied this building since 2007 with just one change in ownership which occurred in 2013. Serving Ridge Spring and surrounding areas has been our pleasure and we are committed to continually doing this. However, it's time for some changes. We invite you to follow along with us as these changes occur. In fact we are planning a celebration to reveal our new name and added product lines in just a few weeks. Several of the shops in town are joining in on our celebration to make this quite a nice event for everyone. Stay tuned as we give you much more specific information including the date and time for this Reveal and Grand Opening with our new name. Hold on and keep your eyes open; The best is yet to come!

Juniper Restaurant: On last Tuesday we were invited by our great friends at Titan Farms to cook with them in Jacksonville Florida at the Southeastern Grocers Headquarters! We made a Peach & Tomato Salad with Trail Ridge Farm and Grade A Goat Dairy Feta, Peach Cornbread Muffins, Peach Tea, Peach- Basil Butter! Of course all ingredients were SC Grown

A big thank you to all the volunteer firemen who have been out in Saluda county (and surrounding areas) since 4:00 a.m. getting trees out of the roadways during the storm.

Thank you all for letting me know you read my column.  Somehow the price of the meal came out as $5000, but it really is $50.00.  So here is the announcement again. The Big Delicious Event will be  held on June 30 at Camp Gravatt. Our own Brandon Velie of Juniper Restaurant will be preparing a delicious meal "Tapas Edition" The team will be preparing and teaching about those traditional Spanish dishes.  This dinner is the perfect friend outing or way to make new friends.  Camp Gravatt will provide the delicious food and you can bring the wine or spirits of your choice.  Tickets are $50.00 a person. To register, visit campgravatt.org/event or call (803) 648-1817 reservations are required to attend!  Juniper Restaurant will be closed for July 4th.

The Friends of Ridge Spring is sponsoring a book signing July 13 for James Scott who authored the book Changing Faces which is a biography of James' growing up in Ridge Spring and his career in the Army.  He will have books for sale at the event that will be held in the old First Citizen's Building.

Josie Rodgers: It’s a great time to remind everyone that we have our very own drive-in theater right here in Monetta. The Big Mo has 3 movie screens and show 3 double features each weekend. They also have a super concession stand. Gates open at 7 pm with movies beginning around 8:45; it is best to arrive early to get a good spot. The cost is $5 for ages 4-11 and $9 for ages 12 and up (kids 3 and under get in free). For more info, check out their Facebook page or call 685-7949.

RSM High Summer Hours: If you should need anything this summer, please note that our school will be open all summer, Monday through Thursday, with the exception of July 2-5.  Stop by any time from 7:15 am-5:45 pm for support with registration or for a tour of our school.

Tracy Bedenbaugh: We need volunteers to deliver Meals on Wheels in Saluda and a person or two to deliver once a week in Ridge Spring. We can always use people to volunteer at our site too calling bingo, helping serve food, etc.  It would be great to build up support from the Ridge Spring area. Janice Coleman is the new site manager and the office phone in Saluda is 864-554-5499.

AT THE ART CENTER OF RIDGE SPRING:

KID’S CLASS (6-12 yrs old) Joanne Crouch, instructor; the cost is $25 and will be held Saturday, June 29 from 1:30-3:30–Seashell make & take for kids 6-12.   Each student will make a wooden plaque with a one-of-a-kind design made from seashells.  To register, contact Joanne at Joanne.crouch26@gmail.com or at the Art Center of Ridge Spring on Fridays and Saturdays from 10-2.  Class limit:  12

July 15-6:30-8:30--Wacky Teapot class-Kim Ruff, instructor Cost will be $35.00 and will  includes all supplies and firing.  Ages 13 & up.  To register, contact Joanne at Joanne.crouch26@gmail.com at the Art Center of Ridge Spring on Fridays and Saturdays from 10-2.  Class limit:  10. There will be a basic quilting classes and a resin play classes in August.

Broadus Johnson interview continued:  Mr. Johnson commented that the Herlong family was good to work with, and he has fond memories of them.  He said Buck Herlong went to Charlotte to book the films and a truck line delivered the films to Saluda and would take the ones shown back. Then Mr. Herlong would bring the films to Ridge Spring.  In Charlotte the film would be rewound and checked for problems.  As far as the types of films the theaters received he thinks the size of the town and the market for the theater made a difference.

Both the Ridge Spring and Saluda theaters were built long  before television became a mainstay in small town American entertainment.  The Ridge Spring Theater was built after the war, and the Saluda Theater was built back in 1936. Both were built with fireproofing in mind.  At Saluda, windows were dropped down in case of fire and both  had fire extinguishers at the ready.

Those of us who grew up forming our views of the world from what we saw on a movie screen in small towns like Ridge Spring and Saluda owe a debt to people like Broadus Johnson.  It was he and others like him who were behind the scenes, manned the projection rooms that brought us a way to escape for a time our ordinary lives.  The Job that Broadus said was enjoyable to him has gone, replaced by modern technology. Dean Roesner videotaped Mr. Johnson's most interesting interview so that we can have it permanently stores at the Saluda County Museum.

Review from David Marshall James:  "Rouge:  A Novel of Beauty and Rivalry" by Richard Kirshenbaum

   "Vert" may be a more appropriate title, as the fictional cosmetics queens delineated in this extravaglamza are rolling in the dough-re-mi, as one character puts it.

   As such, settle in for a story dripping with jewels, draped in sable, and showcasing NYC apartments with MGM trappings, as well as pink Palm Beach "piles" fitted with green-and-white-striped awnings (hold the wedge salads with Roquefort, bien sur).

   The feuding principals didn't start life to the manor born, rendering their astronomical successes all the more intriguing.  Josephine Herz has literally circled the globe during her rise to the top, escaping the onset of pogroms in Poland for an uncle's shop in Melbourne, Down Under.  London and Paris intervene on her ascent before she lands on Fifth Avenue, opening an Elizabeth Arden-esque salon with lavender-lacquered doors.

   Which reminds us of some brilliant and largely unsung lyrics by Lorenz Hart, to his and Richard Rodgers's "The Lady Is a Tramp":

        Girls get massages, they cry and they moan

        Tell Lizzie Arden to leave me alone

        It's not so hot, but my shape is my own

        That's why the lady is a tramp.

   Madame Josephine (she's wed for the first time before her New York debut) proves a tramp in the truest sense of the word-- the peripatetic one.

   Meanwhile, high above Fifth Avenue, Miss Constance Gardiner (nee Gardener) is developing a Mary Kay sort-of Avon lady biz, the better to peddle her wares.  Well, who can resist a good ding-dong at the door?

   Then enter Miss CeeCee Jones of Virginia, who was headed for the chorus line at The Cotton Club in Harlem until she decides to answer an advert to assist Miss Gardiner.  Miss Johnson has notions of tapping into the vast market for women of color, particularly in the hair-care department.

   Enter also one gent (actually not-so-much a gent), a guy who sparks for CeeCee, and vice versa, at his fruit stand in the Lower East Side.  Yet, as with the bevy of beauty mavens, he's headed up, up, up:  unorthodoxly, and in more ways than one.

   The story follows the ladies as they re-invent the market for women's beauty products.  Why tweeze if you don't have the right pencil to Jean Harlow in your eyebrows?  Why not choose a lipstick color other than Jungle Red, one that tastefully heightens your allure and accents your skin tone?  Shouldn't you be able to Garbo your eyelashes without resorting to glue and spidery falsies?

   Author Richard Kirshenbaum packages this 20th-century American tale in Jacqueline Susann, coral-lipped style, with puff-puffing and highballs galore.  How much of the narrative runs to the roman a clef?  Certainly, the characters are profoundly affected by the times through which they traverse (Roaring Twenties up to the mid 1980s).  Nevertheless, the women stay ahead of the curve in that they empower themselves and encourage other women to do likewise.

   Make no mistake, however:  When Josephine and Constance start firing up their gold Cartier lighters and tossing their minks about, we're transported to a Tallulah Bankhead (who makes a cameo appearance herein) fantasy of cocktails, quips, and cork-tipped ciggies:  a high-life scenario that would cause Truman Capote's pen to explode.  As such, "Rouge" may become the sleeper hit of the year; plus, the dust-jacket cover is boss.  Feel free to judge the book by it.

Harriet's Garden Tips: Continue planting perennials with the onset of hot dry weather however be prepared to be on call with adequate water throughout t heir establishment period. The best time to harvest most herbs is just before flowering when the leaves contain the maximum essential oils.  

REMINDERS

June 8 - Labor Day in September: Ridge Spring Farmers' Market

July 13: Book signing by James Scott

Ridge Spring Library Hours: Mon. Tues. 9:00 - 12:00; Wed. Thurs. Closed;

            Fri. 10:00 - 4:00; Sat. 10:00 - 1:00.

Saluda Library Hours:  Mon/Wed 8:30 am-5 pm; Tues/Thurs 8:30 am – 6 pm; Fri 8:30    am – 5 pm; Sat closed

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

Fridays & Saturdays:  AARS hours 10:00-2:00 or by appt, free admission

Every first Thursday of the Month:  AARS meets at 6:30, 685-5783

Third Thursday: FORS at Town Hall at 5:30 PM

Every 1^st Thursday:  Audibel Hearing Center in the back room of Bank

Security Bank Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 9-12  1-5, Wed. 9-12

Ridge Spring Town Hall: Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm, Sat. 8:30am - 11:30pm