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SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 18, 2006
Belly
dancing
lessons
TuesdayandWednesday
evenings belly-danc
ing lessons are
offered at the Eagle Springs
Community Center and
Club House in Centerville.
Registration begins at 6:30
p.m. with the lessons lasting
from 7-8 p.m.
The cost is $7 a night and
Turkish hand-made hip
scarves, veils and jewelry
are available for purchase.
To get more information on
this enjoyable dancing oppor
tunity in the atmosphere of
middle Eastern music email
esbellydancing@cox.net or
phone 953-5922 after 7 p.m.
Price of parenting
For $160,140 you get a
frontrow
seat to
history to
witness
the first
step, first
word, first
bra, first
date, and
first time
behind
the wheel.
Jane Winston
The Left Rail
You get to be immortal.
You get another branch
added to your family tree,
and if you are lucky, a long
list of limbs in your obitu
ary called grandchildren and
great grandchildren.
You get an education in
psychology, nursing, crimi
nal justice, communications
and human sexuality that no
college can match, conclu
sion next week
Brain cramps
“I’ve never had major
knee surgery on any other
part of my body,” University
of Kentucky basketball play
er.
“Whenever I watch TV
and see those poor starving
kids all over the world, I
can’t help but cry. I mean
I’d love to be skinny like
that, but not with all those
flies and death and stuff,”
Pop, R and B singer, song
writer and actress.
“Smoking kills. If you’re
killed, you’ve lost a very
important part of your life,”
A movie star during an inter
view to become spokesper
son for federal anti-smoking
campaign.
(A Miss USA contestant
in response to the question,
“If you could live forever,
would you and why?”)
“I would not live forever,
because we should not live
forever, because if we were
supposed to live forever,
then we would live forever,
but we cannot live forever,
which is why I would not
live forever.”
Disappearing words
Fender skirt, curb feeler,
steering knob, Continental
kit, emergency brake, run
ning board, foot feed as
opposed to accelerator, store
bought as in “store-bought”
cookies and lastly when did
the wonderful word percola
tor, disappear?
Until next week
“It is therefore rec
ommended to set apart
Thursday the eighteenth day
of December next, for solemn
thanksgiving and praise,
that with one heart and one
voice the good people may
express the grateful feelings
of their hearts and conse
crate themselves to the ser
vice of their divine benefac
tor.,” Samuel Adams, father
of the American Revolution
on Nov. 1, 1777 (adopted
by the 13 states as the
first official Thanksgiving
Proclamation)
though Kerry’s pssi
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Lifestyle Editor
If you’ve ever looked
at an old hodse and won
dered about its history,
or noticed the ornate
brickwork on a down
town shop, or driven
down Perry’s older resi
dential streets and won
dered what they looked
like in the old days,
you’ll want a copy of
Ellie Loudermilk’s book,
“A Ramble through Olde
Perry.”
Just published by
Indigo Press, the book
is an invaluable resource
for all those interested
in Perry’s past, and even
for those who own older
houses and would like to
know the history of their
homes.
That’s how Loudermilk,
who moved here with
her husband in 1971 as
employees of the Houston
County School System,
got interested in deeds
and records, old photo
graphs and old maps.
It stated simply enough
with her wanting to know
the history of the old
home they bought and
restored several years
after moving here, but
she got still more enthu
siastic about capturing
the beauty of Perry’s
small town beginnings
when she worked with
Bobbe Nelson on the his
tory of Houston County,
and saw Charles Irby
Shelton’s slide show of
old Perry sites.
The end result after
more than two years of
research in deed records
and plat books is an
invaluable archive for the
people of Perry that also
happens to be a delight
to look at, and a treat to
read.
The book has hundreds
of pictures, not just of
homes, but also of old
businesses that have sur
vived through the years,
and in most cases owner-
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ABOVE LEFT: Amy Griggs of The Sweet Pea Shop gets her handmade and one-of-a-kind items ready for the big show. ABOVE RIGHT: Marti
Tolleson of Two Friends shows off a monogrammed robe, one of many Christmas gifts at the Mistletoe Market.
Mistletoe Market event scheduled for this weekend
Special to the Journal
The Mistletoe Market,
organized by the Perry
Balvaunuca Club starts
Saturday at 9 a.m., at the
McGill Building, Georgia
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Charles Irby Shelton and Nell Shelton get the first autographed copy of "A Ramble Through Olde Perry” by writer
Ellie Loudermilk. Charles Shelton wrote the introduction to the book as well as providing many of the old photo
graphs, and his wife, also a lifelong Perryan provided valuable information as well.
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Courtesy of “A Ramble Through Olde Perry”
ABOVE LEFT: A turn of the century scene on Swift Street. Many of the homes and businesses pictured in the book as
they were in the century are still standing, while some were moved as the commercial area of downtown Perry
grew. Author Loudermilk has provided a detailed guide of ownership and also the locations where some old houses
were moved. ABOVE RIGHT: A line drawing of the old Perry First Baptist Church.
ship is traced from genera
tion to generation.
National Fairgrounds, Perry
and will offer a shopping
extravaganza along with
live music and a number
of experts giving presenta
tions on holiday cooking,
“A Ramble through Olde
Perry,” may be purchased
1 o';
entertaining and decorat
ing.
You can have your child’s
photo taken with Santa,
meet Mark Ballard and Chef
Audrey, watch the Three
from the author. The cost
is $35. Order on line,
Southern Sisters cook up a
meal and buy many one-of
a-kind gifts.
There will be more than
70 vendors at the show,
which will continue until 6
SECTION
c
eloudermilk@alltel.net or
call 987-4267.
p.m. Saturday and will be
open from noon to 6 p.m.
Sunday. All proceeds from
the show will go to local
charities and service orga
nizations.