August 2,  2019

Ridge Spring News

Harriet Householder

The Ridge Spring Farmers' Market continues.  Do come and get some of those fresh fruits and vegetables. Peaches here are the best. Dixie Bell sponsored a Summer Time Social on the Ridge Spring Town Plaza. This family fun day included a “taste-n-see” of Dixie’s products. The Truly Scrumptious Creamy ice cream truck could not make it and no replacement could be found. By the way, figs are ripening.  My grandmother loved to peel figs, cover with cream and enjoy eating.  She always had to make all of us grandchildren leave the kitchen or else she never would get enough peeled.  We loved them too.

Magnolia Ridge Antique Festival was blessed with a beautiful day in May!! We were surrounded with beautiful people and an incredible energy that makes us look forward to September 21 for our next event! It will be our second fall event for a Magnolia Ridge Antique and Art festival. Last September we had such a great show with both vendors as well as buyers!!!!

Laura Walker: Community Cat Clean-up!!!!  The Town of Ridge Spring hosted a mobile unit from the Humane Society of Columbia on August 5 for the spading or  the neutering of our overpopulation of cats.

August 31Town-wide Sidewalk Sale.  Main Street will be lined with deals.  Check it out on facebook.  All the shops are participating.  There will also be a Fall Gathering at Ridge Antiques and Dry Goods. There will be fall decorations including hand crafted scarecrows, gourd garlands, pumpkins, sparkleberry and grapevine wreaths, handcrafted log cabins, and candles tot fill your home with the wonderful scent of fall. and  a great selection of quality primitive antiques.

RIDGE SPRING UNITED METHODIST CHURCH  BIG RED BOX: I’M BACCCCK! Yes and hungry for school supplies. RSUMC collecting school supplies for Ridge Spring Elementary School and we could use your help. Lists of needed items are placed in local retails stores. If you would like to help leave your purchased items on either porch of the church or FLC. Members will make sure they make to the BRB. Plan to deliver to the school mid -August so you have time.  Please join us on Sunday at 11 a.m. church service. Promise you will leave inspired and with a smile on your face. We will save you a seat.

Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church Homecoming & Revival with Evangelist Bobby Earls

Sunday, August 11th @ 11:00 am with Homecoming Dinner served immediately following the service.  Revival services continue Sunday evening @ 6:00 pm; Monday - Wednesday services held at 7:00 pm.  Come join us and prepare your hearts to receive a blessing.

Art Association of Ridge Spring

RESIN PLAY (16 & up):  Joanne Crouch, Instructor; no previous experience is required.
The class will be Saturday, August 17th 10:00-4:00 with 1 hour lunch break from 12-1.
Cost will be $75 Must pre-register!  In this class, students will explore and play within the world of resin.  Exercises will include mixing dry pigments, acrylics, and glitter in resin. Student provides:  apron, gloves, paper towels, 2-12x 12 canvases or 2-12 x 12 wooden supports or combination of both. Student will also create a resin jewelry piece and an ornament. Cost includes two-part epoxy (retail $30-will do multiple pieces), tutorial from artist, dry pigments, acrylics, glitter and assortment of items to embed in resin.

 Contact Joanne at joanne.crouch26@gmail.com to secure your spot.  Class is limited to 6 students.  If class fills, another class will be scheduled.  Pre-registration can also be paid at the Art Center of Ridge Spring on Fridays and Sat from 10-2.  

Please join us in supporting our own D.S. Owens with his upcoming show at the Arts & Heritage Center of North Augusta from August 15^th to October 6^th. He will be showing a special exhibition of Fine Art Photography. The show will include paintings by M. Drake as well as Pottery by “CASE” artist. The opening reception is on August 15^th from 5 to 7 pm. It is free and open to the public.

GOURD BOWL CLASS: Joan Crouch, Instructor will be hled on Saturday, September 7^th from 1:00- 4:00. Cost will be $35.00 and all Supplies will be provided. Sign up now, class size is limited! Contact Joanne at joanne.crouch26@gm

Review from David Marshall James:  "Finding Zsa Zsa:  The Gabors Behind the Legend" by Sam Staggs

   In the 1953 film version of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei Lee quips, "You wouldn't marry a man just because he's rich-- but, my goodness, doesn't it help?"

   The speaker could just as well have been Magda (the oldest), Zsa Zsa (the middle), or Eva (the youngest) Gabor.  As captured in this en-famille biography, the three sisters could have become rich and famous sans husbands.  But my goodness, the fellas they accrued, like compounded daily interest, did help, in and out of matrimony.

   University of South Carolina graduate Sam Staggs, who has written four first-rate film studies and a champagne-corker of a biography of party giver Elsa Maxwell, acquits himself in plush-box style in his latest literary foray.  Staggs has been following the Gabor saga since Zsa Zsa's daughter and sole blood grandchild of Mama Jolie Gabor, Francesca Hilton, was alive and sharing her memories.  Staggs attended Zsa Zsa's funeral mass, which you'll read about here.

   Truth be told in Staggs style, the Gabors were secular Jews.  Magda, Jolie, and the sisters' father, Vilmos, who chose to remain in Budapest, almost met the fate of Jolie's mother and only brother, who were taken out and shot near the end of World War II.  Even so, all family members were required to wear the infamous yellow star when they ventured in public.

   Eva came to Hollywood in 1939, and made a few programmers for Paramount, whose founder, Adolph Zukor, was also a Hungarian Jew.  Zsa Zsa, married to a Turkish diplomat and residing in Ankara, fled to join Eva in the U.S.  During the height of WWII, it took her nearly three months to reach New York, via the Orient and the Panama Canal.

   Nevertheless, the Gabors, particularly Eva and Zsa Zsa, became devout Catholics, often worshiping several times a week at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills.

   With the help of Gabor relations, Staggs strips away the fake tinsel to get at the real tinsel.  You'll have to procure a copy to savor the scores of details.  Here's the thesis:  Jolie tried to create the daughters in the "Don't you want to be a star?" image that she craved for herself.  Instead, she became a successful businesswoman, a jewelry-store owner in Budapest and later in New York.  Magda, with that surname, couldn't avoid some of the limelight, yet the family considered her the sensible one, an even more acute businesswoman than her mother.

   Meanwhile, Eva aspired to be a serious actress.  Her sticktuitiveness-- in films, on TV, and in the theater-- ultimately made her a cultural icon, via 170 episodes of "Green Acres" during the late 1960s to 1971.  Incidentally, all the sisters loved pets, supporting many animal rights organizations.  Eva was even fond of the resident pig on "Green Acres," Fred and Doris Ziffel's TV-loving Arnold.

   And then there's Zsa Zsa, who epitomizes what Jolie thought her daughters should be:  An international cause celebre.  If she wanted to do movies, fine (among them, the classics "Lili" and "Moulin Rouge" [both 1953] ).  If she wanted to marry Conrad Hilton, fine.  Anything to contribute to that good cause.

   Zsa Zsa and Eva benefited from the huge audiences garnered by pre-cable TV.  You cannot be a Baby Boomer and not recognize their voices and images, although many viewers confused the two.

   All in the family, then.  To paraphrase George Sanders, Zsa Zsa's much-beloved third husband, as Addison DeWitt in "All About Eve" (1950):  "There never was and there never will be another family like them."

Harriet's Garden Tips: A good point was made by an author in "SC Gardener's Journal".   Don't be afraid to downsize or remove plants that  you find troublesome.  Do you dislike a certain shrub or tree.  Cut it down, dig it up or give it to a friend.  I love all of my mother's irises but when is the last time I had time to weed through them.  I am going to select a few of the best next time they bloom and give away the rest.  Day lilies need no help so I will keep them.  Even I am beginning to take my own advice.  Have a hot summer in which you protect yourself from that pesky sun.

I have been trying to write something about the two mass shootings in our country but words have failed me.  Is this censorship? These murders are pure evil that have been entering our civilization.

REMINDERS

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

August 31: Town Wide Sidewalk Sale

August 31 Fall Gathering

Jeannette Carr Memorial: 864.656.5896, www.clemson.edu/isupportcu, Jeannette        Carr Memorial, Annual Giving Office, 110 Daniel Drive, Clemson, SC 29631

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

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