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Ragtime piano concert
to raise funds for school
Dr. Linda Hall of Fort
Valley State University and
Mercer University will per
form her repertoire of
unusual and unique, pop
ular ragtime compositions
Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. in the
Perry Middle School cafeto
rium.
Tickets are $3 for adults
and $2 for students.
The concert will benefit
the Perry Middle School
Athletic Department for
bleachers, concession
stands and a press box
which are needed at the
football field before Perry
will be able to host football
games.
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The Perry High School
Homecoming Game is Oct.
22. The Panthers will host
Southeast High School of
Macon for this game.
Alumni, plan to meet
your classmates and
attend the final homecom
ing game of the 1900’s.
Classmates of 1957 and
1958, you are invited to
tailgate at 6 p.m. on our
deck. Call us at 987-5272
so Ralph can know how
many hamburgers to cook.
Later we can all walk to the
game together.
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Janice Walker of the
Travel Center hosted a
group of 11 middle Geor
gians who joined others
from Illinois and California
on Mayflower Tours of New
England.
Among the 11 were Per
ryans Richard and Rose
Mae Smith, Debbie Wood,
Jane Perfect and Charlee
Duke. Tour guide Ann
Mullen of Cape Cod made
the trip a delight from
Boston through Maine,
Vermont, New Hampshire
and back through Massa
chusetts.
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Perry Kiwanis Club
members were treated
recently to an interesting
program about cotton by
Julianne Lewis, a Moultrie
native who has been work
ing in Perry for one year
promoting cotton for the
Georgia Cotton Commis
sion.
The young lady who
loves to talk about cotton
graduated from Valdosta
State University in 1997
with a major in political
science. She plans to be
married in December.
Julianne’s message to
the consumer is to “ask for
and buy U.S. cotton" to
create a larger demand. If
the product has the cotton
seal, it must be 60 percent
or more cotton.
Perry Mayor Jim Worrall
introduced his guest Lee
Gilmour. new Perry City
Manager.
President Joe Andrews
introduced his guest Dave
Crockett, co-principal of
Perry Primary School and
sales associate with Land
mark Realty.
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Members of Beltista Club
held their Oct. 5 meeting at
the Hickory’ House Tea
Room of the Peach Outlet
Mall at Byron.
Following the brief busi
ness meeting, peach tea
and sandwiches and
sweets were thoroughly
enjoyed by the members.
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00p5... Pauline Lewis and
her relatives spent hours
poring over photos and
papers...not pouring.
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The Oct. 10 performance
of the Bolshoi Ballet was
the third for Sally Stanley.
Many years ago she had
taken her mother and Ron
nie’s mother to New York
for the first appearance of
the Bolshoi in the United
States in because of
the between
the United States and the
former Soviet Union.
Some years later Sally
broke away from her Lon
don tour group of friends to
catch a Bolshoi perfor
mance of “Romeo and Juli
et" that was being boy-
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cotted outside the theater.
The only thing putting a
damper on the Sunday
evening performance of the
Bolshoi at the Grand was
the dampness of the rain.
This time the Bolshoi had
come to middle Georgia for
the only appearance in
Georgia and Sally was
there with her loved ones,
Ronnie, Dana and Kathryn
Stanley, Molly and Emily
Long and her friend Julie
Beasley of Kids America of
Macon.
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Members of Andrews
United Methodist Church
are planning for the eighth
annual Pecan Festival,
Nov. 20. 8:30 a.m. to 4
p.m. Crafters are needed
for $25 spaces and “yard
sale" spaces are $lO.
For more information
contact Shelby Arnold at
987-1397.
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John Berry and Trisha
Yearwood wowed the very
large fair crowd Saturday
in Reaves Arena. Berry
delighted everyone with his
entry from the rear of the
arena greeting fans as he
sang his way to the stage.
Trisha seemed really glad
to be back in Perry again,
first since her performance
for the flood victims five
years ago.
She. like we, realizes the
benefits of grdWfhg up-in a
small town (Monticello) and
sang “Small Town" telling
all the young people to
cherish every second of life
in a small town.
Well known Atlanta disc
jockey Rhubarb Jones
pleased the locals when he
related that his roommate
at Southern Union College
ofWadley, Ala., was Ronnie
Jones, football coach at
Westfield Schools; and that
Jones had gotten his 200th
win of his coaching career
the week before.
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David and Alice Phelps’
daughter, Amy. married
Jonathan Fouse in a lovely
candlelight ceremony Sat
urday evening at Cross
roads United Methodist
Church.
Their good friend Ann
Lanter of Fort Valley, who
helped with their wedding
Dec.r 22, 1967, directed
Amy’s wedding.
The bride's seven atten
dants in long burgundy
gowns and the groom’s
groomsmen in black tuxe
dos flanked the lovely
blond bride in her almost
white silk a-line gown and
her handsome groom.
The reception followed in
the church fellowship hall.
Jonathan and Amy
Fouse have a Thanksgiving
cruise planned for their
honeymoon. They have a
purchased a home in the
lngleside area of Macon.
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Never cooked black
beans? Here’s how Jackie
Klein prepared them for
Supper Club. From South
ern Living of March 1999.
Cuban Black Beans
1 (16-ounce) package dried
black beans
1 medium onion, chopped
1 small green bell pepper,
chopped
3 garlic cloves, pressed
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 quarts water
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1 /4 teaspoon pepper
1 bay leaf
Hot cooked rice
Chopped green onions
Place dried beans in a
Dutch oven and cover with
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Perryan Joe Gayle makes return visit to the site of ‘his war’
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Home Jouknal State
°*ljpoe Gayle first saw Pelaliu Island on Sept.
15, 1944. The island was a heavily armed
fortress for the Japanese. Gayle was a 24
# I year-old Marine captain, a company com
mander, putting his life on the line for his
country.
• “My war lasted three days." Gayle says now, but
those were three days he spent a long time trying to
forget.
The air was scorching hot, and the battle was
unrelenting. He saw his friends injured and killed as
U.S. forces assaulted the island and 11,000 Japanese
troops fought back from entrenched positions.
On the third day, Gayle was shot through the back
of his neck. The bullet went in one side and out the
other, nicking his spinal column and leaving him par
alyzed.
From there, he was taken to a series of hospitals,
from the Russell Islands and back to the states
eventually to Farragut, Idaho where he was reunit
ed with his young wife, Connette. and his son, Joe Jr.
The paralysis in his lower body cleared up quickly,
he recalled.
"They had me up and walking," he remembered,
“but my arms were big trouble."
Recovery was a long process, and even today,
Gayle can’t throw a ball overhanded. He has very
sensitive nerves in the area of his wound, still.
After he able to leave the hospital, he was reas
signed to the Princeton, N.J. area, with limited duty.
(It was there that he met an older man who got him
interested in antiques and refinishing something
he undertook, as he put it, “to educate my hands and
arms”).
On discharge, like hundreds of
thousands of other young men,
Joe Gayle took advantage of the
G.I. Bill to further his education.
He returned to his native Ken
tucky and to the University of
Kentucky, where he had been a
student before entering the ser
vice.
After earning a degree in profes
sional farm management, he
wound up in middle Georgia,
working as manager for Malatchee
Farms. He and his wife, with three
more children (Dick, Currie, and
daughter Deborah) in tow, made
their home in Perry. Connette
Gayle worked for the Department
of Family and Children Services
for many years, and as they
neared retirement, the Gayles fol
lowed a lifelong interest, opening
“Antiques at the Shed."
Pelaliu Island was a distant
memory by that time, but as the
50th anniversary of the battle
drew near, Joe Gayle considered
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Meet me at the creek!
Annual fall edition of Mossy Creek
Barnyard Festival is this weekend
From staff reports
Mossy Creek Festival “Whatever
happened to the way things used to
be?
This theme song sets the mood and
slows the pace of visitors returning to
the Mossy Creek Barnyard Festival in
the deep piney woods near Perry on
Oct. 16-17.
Flower beds in bloom around old
homestead buildings, and hostesses
in gingham provide a welcome to
devotees and newcomers who came to
the last festival from 35 states and six
countries.
Early arrivals sing and laugh with
the guitarist in the ticket line. Along
straw paths inside the split rail fence,
descendants of pioneers share skills
and friendship, bob, sitting in an old
rocking chair, carves out good-luck
wooden “knobbits."
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VARIETY OF MUSICIANS ENTERTAIN AT FESTIVAL
Event is Oct. 16-17 off Lake Joy Road
- Wed., Oct. 13, 1999
ISLAND ACCOMMODATIONS
Through the help of an interested trav
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FATHER AND SONS - Joe Gayle’s three sons went with him
to Pelaliu Island where he fought in World War 11. From left,
on the beach where Gayle's Marine regiment led the assault
on the Japanese-held island, are Joe Gayle Jr., Joe Gayle Sr.,
Dick Gayle and Currie Gayle.
Chester pounds original art designs
into aluminum plates and other deco
rative pieces with his hammer and
anvil. Beth weaves chair seats with
corn shucks. Harry displays his hand
built wooden canoe and his work in
progress. Dunlap, a nationally recog
nized specialist, makes fishing rods
and teaches methods of casting.
The greatest attraction of the festi
val is possibly the fine artists and arti
sans who bring original creations
from 27 states. New talent this year
will include Monica DeCamp from
Canada with majolica pottery. Dale
Cantrell from Indiana with chimes of
gemstones and Teddi Vala from lowa
with layered scented candles.
Sharon Hutto paints old times
images.
Live entertainment the Foxfire Boys
band, honky-tonk piano, hammered
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el agent, the Gayles were able to stay
on the island in these simple homes.
dulcimer, the Mountain Dulcimer
Philharmonic. Uncle Gus singing orig
inal songs and telling tall tales, Tedd
Conner, guitarist, and the “Celestial
Music" duo on Celtic harp and bam
boo flute.
Fantasy Forest offers three daily
shows of storytelling, magic and ven
triloquism. There is also a petting and
feeding zoo with farm animals, and
Ginger, the corn bread-eating mule.
Community leaders from 14 local
clubs and organizations will cook fes
tival treats.
Mossy Creek Festival has been
named one of the top 100 events in
North America by the American Bus
Association.
The site is off Dike Joy Road, with
signs dearly posted. Tickets are $4 for
adults and $1 for children. Parking is
free, and adjacent to the festival.