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PAGE 12B PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS THURSDAY. JUNE 16. 2022
Little Free Library at admin building
Kick off the summer at
The Old Mulehouse
a
Eagle Scout Cade Turbeville and his father Brent Turbeville,
Commissioner Kris Stancil.
Friends of the Pickens Library board member, with
Submitted by Brenda Wynn
Friends of the Pickens Library would
like to invite you to visit their new Little
Free Library the next time you have
business at the county’s administration
building on East Church Street. This
Little Free Library is the Eagle Scout
project of Cade Turbeville, whose fa
ther, Brent, is a board member of the
FOPL. Cade raised the money for the
materials needed and along with fellow
Scouts constructed and installed the
new Little Free Library. It is a beauti
fully crafted addition and we are grate
ful to Cade and Scout Troop 836 for a
job well done.
A converted old metal paper box in
the hallway off the lobby served the
public well for years as our Little Free
Library. Many children took their first
picture books from its shelves while
parents were taking care of county busi
ness at the administration building. That
box will now be converted again for
service locally as a food pantry for the
homeless and hungry. Just an old fash
ioned paper box prolonging its useful
ness and making life a little better for
our fellowman.
There are several Little Free Li
braries throughout Pickens County pro
viding residents of all ages the
opportunity to enjoy a variety of books
conveniently located near their home,
work and daily activities.
We are excitedly anticipating the re
opening of our newly renovated and en
larged Pickens County Library in
September. To keep up to date we sug
gest that you like and follow on Face-
book Friends of Pickens County GA
Library or visit us at friendsofpickensli-
brary.org.
Special events
and programs
this month
Cheers, Jasper. Summer is
in full swing at The Old
Mulehouse. The chef-driven
neighborhood tavern invites
the community to join them
for an entire month of live
music from local favorites,
refreshing cocktails, seasonal
dishes, special events and
programming.
Father's Day Brunch on
Sunday, June 19th from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. Treat dad to the
ultimate gentlemen’s brunch
featuring Beef Brisket Hash,
NY Strip & Eggs, DAD-
mosas, Maple Bacon Cheese
cake, and more with live
music by Gary Hooper on the
porch from noon to 3 p.m.
Reservations are highly rec
ommended and can be made
by visiting
oldmulehouse.com.
Summer Porch Party on
Saturday, June 25th from 11
a.m. to 10 p.m. The Old
Mulehouse will be hosting its
first-ever porch party to offi
cially kick off the summer
season. As a thank you to the
Jasper community, the day
will include BBQ specials
and summer bites, cocktails,
and craft beers with continu
ous live music from Orange
Walls, Anna Shinholster, and
the Joe Logan Band. Guests
can also enjoy crafts with
BEAU-tiful Creations, visit
with CaliFino Tequilas and
Tantrum Brewing Company
representatives, participate in
giveaways and raffles, and
more out on the patio.
For more information on
The Old Mulehouse and the
THE OLD
MULEHOUSE
GEORGIA DRINKS
full schedule of events,
please visit www.oldmule-
house .com/ calendar.
The Old Mulehouse was
founded by Atlanta restau-
ranteurs George and Pano
Koulouris in 2019. The Old
Mulehouse offers a modem
twist to the neighborhood
tavern.
Located in the heart of
downtown Jasper, the chef-
driven pub with both Euro
pean and Southern influences
provides something for
everyone, from a casual
lunch and drinks after work
to a date night out and even
the perfect Sunday branch.
The Old Mulehouse
strives to showcase an array
of Georgia's small producers
and vendors through its sea
sonally inspired food menu,
including their Pecan-
Crusted Trout, local grits,
Wellness Bowl and signature
dishes, the Mulehouse
Burger and Buffalo Pork
Belly Sandwich.
The bar features craft beer
from Georgia's finest brew
eries, a wine list celebrating
Georgia's award-winning
vineyards, and cocktails
highlighting local flavors and
distilleries, including their
signature Peach Mule.
Plants of the Southeast
"Daisy fleabane," Erigeron philadelphicus
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Legend has it that Daisy fleabane will keep fleas away,
which may not be true. But this native is a colorful plant
and not rare by any means, occurring all across the nation.
By John Nelson,
University of
South Carolina
All the "composites," or
members of the sunflower
family (or aster family, if you
prefer) have their tiny, re
duced flowers arranged in
compact heads, and each
head is called a “capitulum”.
Before the capitulum
opens, a series of bracts sur
rounds it, much like the
sepals surround a flower bud
before it opens up. When it
blooms, the head will thus
have this series of bracts all
tucked down at the bottom,
revealing the tiny flowers
above. Of course, the take-
home message of all this is
that a single head is not just
one flower: it’s several,
sometimes a great many.
Thus, when you pick a daisy,
or a sunflower, you are actu
ally holding about 100 flow
ers (give or take), not just one
flower.
Most composites tend to
bloom, as a group, later in the
year. Goldenrods, sunflow
ers, joe-pye weeds, and asters
come to mind quickly as
prominent fall-bloomers.
Other members, such as
the coneflowers and tick-
seeds, are at their height dur
ing the summer months.
(And what about everybody’s
favorite hay-fever plant, rag
weed, which is indeed a
member of the sunflower
family, and which starts to
bloom in the summer?)
Of course, there are sev
eral different kinds of dande
lions and dandelion-like
species (mostly weeds), and
some other, mostly intro
duced composites that bloom
early, such as the charming
“Bachelor’s buttons” (Cen-
taurea cyanus), which you
sometimes find growing
along the railroad tracks and
field margins.
Our plant this week, Daisy
fleabane, Erigeron philadel
phicus, is a native species
which has been making quite
a show.
It is found in a variety of
places, mostly not very spe
cial ecologically, and it can
be rather weedy. It can be
found in most of Canada and
every one of the United
States (not so commonly in
the desert Southwest).
Its buds will open up, first
revealing bright white ray
flowers (the narrow flowers
on the outside edge of the
head), with golden-yellow
disk flowers opening in the
interior. The rays commonly
become lighter, often chang
ing from white to pale pink or
lavender.
Daisy fleabane fruits are
tiny little achenes, each with
a fluff of snow-white bristles
at the top. (The fluffy stuff,
which allows wind-transport,
is called the pappus. The
genus names means “early
old man”...an allusion to an
old man’s hair and beard.)
Carl Linnaeus described
this plant in 1753, based
upon a specimen that he re
ceived from his student, Peter
Kalm, who collected plenty
of specimens from America.
Not knowing too much
about the geography, Lin
naeus indicated in his text
that the plant grows in
Canada (which is true), but
he named it after the city of
Philadelphia...which was at
the southern end of his own
concept of “Canada”.
It has been used medici
nally for quite a number of
ailments, and a rather long
standing tradition maintains
that the foliage will keep
fleas away. That's why this
species (and its close rela
tives) have sometimes been
used, after drying, for stuff
ing mattresses. Hope you
won't have to use it for that,
though.
©JohnNelson2022
[John Nelson is the retired
curator of the A. C. Moore
Herbarium at the University of
South Carolina. For more infor
mation. .herbarium.org or email
johnbnelson@sc. rr. com.]
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