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EYE Q
Who are these characters ?
A horse is a horse
The horse in last week’s
Eye Q question was Mr. Ed.
Getting it right were Brad
Bush, Stephine Cofer, Willie
Cofer, Chris Rady, Terry
Everett, Laurie Jones,
Michael Bishop, Jim
Worrall, Sharon Cyr, Terry
Reddish, Bill Harrison,
Mike Stanley, Jolene
Pierson and Betsy
Bazemore.
Charlottes
Summer Sizzler
This is a five-part chal
lenge. The Summer Sizzler
will have five questions, one
a week for five weeks. Do
NOT send your answers in
until all five questions have
been asked. Then send all
five answers in one e-mail
(or on one piece of paper) by
Monday, Aug. 15. I’ll remind
you!!
Summer Sizzler 1
Great moments in real
estate: As every school girl
(or boy) knows, in 1626, a
tribe of native Americans
turned an island over to a
Dutch explorer for 60
guilders worth of cloth,
beads, hatchets and other
items. When the Dutch
turned the same island over
to the English a half century
later, what did they get in
return ?
Bible Quiz
What is the fourth of the
Ten Commandments ?
The Scripturaily Savvy
Cush was the father of
Nimrod. Getting it right
were Helen Cleland, Terry
Everett, Laurie Jones,
Michael Bishop, Jim
Worrall, Sharon Cyr, Mike
Stanley, Bill Harrison,
Jolene Pierson, Betsy
Bazemore, Agnes Farr.
Literary Quiz
Which of the following
poets didn’t commit suicide?
Randall Jarrell, Vachel
Lindsay, Sylvia Plath, Anne
Sexton, Sara Teasdale,
Virginia Woolf, John Keats.
Last week's cognoscenti
Ivan Skavinsky Skivar
trod on the toe of Abdul
Abulbul Amir in the poem
written by Percy French in
1877 (and set to music,
too!). Getting it right were
Terry Everett, Laurie
Jones, Michael Bishop, Jim
Worrall, Sharon Cyr, Mike
Stanley Jolene Pierson,
Betsy Bazemore, Agnes
Farr.
Guest Quiz
The quotation in Tim
Hoskins’ question last week
was from Allen Ginsberg’s
See QUIZ, page 10A
THURSDAY,
JULY 14, 2005
'Peaches' A
peach of a novel
fop teens
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Lifestyle Editor
If you’ve been driving by
Middle Georgia’s peach
orchards all your life, barely
noticing them until the
peaches reach the market,
you might want to try tak
ing a new look through Jodi
Lynn Anderson’s eyes.
Anderson, whose first
teen novel, “Peaches,” has
just been published by
Harper Collins, grew up in
Virginia and started her
career in New York City, but
she’s a Georgia girl now,
and when she got ready to
write her first novel, set in
peach country, she headed
off to do her research first
hand.
That’s how she wound up
near Montezuma at Farmer
Brown’s, riding around in a
truck with William Brown,
learning about the work
that goes into getting one of
nature’s most fragile fruits
to market.
From there, she headed to
Peach County to Lane
Packing and then to Dickey
Farms in Musella. (Among
those willing to take time
for the young writer, in
addition to “Farmer
Brown,” were David Lane
111, Betty Hotchkiss, Ryan
Cleveland and the Dickey
family.
In short, she started with
the real thing, and the
peach orchard lore in her
book provides a rich region
al background along with
some magic and romance.
It will be the other
“peaches” in
the book,
howev
er, t h a t
teens are
likely to
love. Their
names are
Murphy
McGowan,
Lee d a
Cawley-
Smith, and
Birdie
Darlington,
and this book is
about their
“coming of age”
summer - com
plete with exas
perating parents,
cute guys, skinny
dipping, making
real friendships and
getting into real
trouble. Anderson
pulls no punches.
These are real girls
with real temptations
and real problems at
home, and they are
beautifully drawn charac
ters.
Murphy, a magnet for
boys with a reputation for
taking big risks (and a brain
she’s not using), gets the
story started by breaking
into the historic home of the
peach-growing Darlingtons,
and stealing a bottle of
creme de menthe. She gets
caught and sentenced to
hard work in the Darlington
peach orchards.
Birdie, in the meantime,
is ready to break out of the
WRIT to present
The Lone Star Love Potion'
The Warner Robins Little
Theatre opens “The Lone Star
Love Potion, “ under the direction
of Ann Scarborough, at 8 p.m.
Friday, with a Green Room recep
tion after the show.
The play, a farce written by
Michael Parker, deals with the con
nivance following the death of a
wealthy Texas rancher.
In the cast are Nicole Seddon,
Gary Mertz, Patsy Johnson, Will
Huskey, Billy Blumenthal,
Charlotte Nelson and Adrian
Chamblin.
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Summer
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cocoon her mother has been
keeping her in.
Homeschooled, with an
emphasis on French lessons
and cello playing, her real
love is the farm itself. Her
summer starts with twin
traumas: her mother’s deci
sion to divorce her father,
and her own sudden attrac
tion to Enrico, the hand
some farm worker.
And then there’s Birdie’s
cousin Leeda, a country club
princess who lives in the
shadow of her absolutely
perfect older sister, Danay.
Danay is getting married,
and the family’s life seems
to be revolving around wed
ding plans. Leeda’s hoping
to escape to Tybee Island
with her new boyfriend, but
her mom has a different
idea, and she’s packed off to
comfort Birdie and help at
Darlington farms.
The three are very unlike
ly friends, but in the course
of the story Anderson
weaves, they not only learn
a little more about life, love
and friendship from each
other, but also they begin
coming to grips with the
real, adult world.
Speaking to teens: If you
liked “The Sisterhood of the
Traveling Pants,” you’ll
love this one, because Jodi
Lynn Anderson was the
inspiration for that book.
Speaking to the moms of
teens: If you liked “Divine
Secrets of the Ya-Ya
Sisterhood,” snitch
this book
from your
daughter.
Author of
WiMerklng Trilogy
at Lamb's WeR
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
HHJ Lifestyle Editor
There’s good news for
young fans of “The Bark of
the Bog Owl.” Aidan and
Dobro are back!
Jonathan Rogers will be
at The Lamb’s Well on
NOTES FOR YOUR CALENDAR
Play dates are 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday; 8 p.m.
July 21-23; 2 p.m. July 24 and 8
p.m. July 27-30. The reservation
line (478) 929-4579 open on July
11. Tickets are $lO for adults and
$6 for students. Seniors pay $8 on
Sundays.
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St. Christopher’s Episcopal
Church in Perry will host a commu
nity game night on Friday, starting
at 7 p.m. All are welcome. The
games begin in Buchanan Hall at 7
p.m. and will include bingo, bunco
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niece, and one of her biggest fans, Amanda VanDerSluys. Anderson, who set her
book “Peaches,” in Middle Georgia, is now at work on a fantasy for younger girls.
Margie Drive in Warner
Robins on Saturday, July
23, to sign copies of hjs new
book, “The Secret of the
Swamp King.”
The book is the second in
Rogers’ “Wilderking
Trilogy,” which is an fanta
sy adventure, with plenty of
humor, based on Biblical
values, and set in a land
very much like the author’s
native Middle Georgia.
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Jonathan Rogers is the
son of Betsy and Delacy
Rogers of Perry. He and his,
Lou Alice, have six children.
He is a graduate of Furman
University and holds a
Ph.D. in seventeenth centu
ry English literature from
Vanderbilt.
The book is published by
Broadman and Holman, and
is the second volume in the
planned Wilderking trilogy.
It will be sold at the
Lamb’s Well, and can be
purchased or ordered at all
local bookstores. It can also
and beginners’ bridge. Participants
may also bring their own game and
a group to play. Coffee and light
refreshments will be provided and
there will be door prizes. Tables for
four may be reserved for $lO.
Individual tickets are $2.50. Rose
Mae Smith, 987-3277.
Audßtons lor 'Charle Brown'
Perry Players will hold auditions
for “You’re a Good Man, Charlie
Brown” on Sunday and Monday,
from 5:30 to 6 p.m. for children and
at 7:30 for adults. The auditions
will be held at the Perry Players
be ordered from
Amazon.com.
Harry Potter
fan alert!
By TIM HOSKINS
HHJ Student Writer
Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood
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Prince,
the sixth book in
the wildly popular series by
British children’s book
author J.K. Rowling is set to
hit stores at midnight
Friday and Houston fans
are can hardly wait.
Books-A-Million on
Watson Boulevard in
Warner Robins will be hold
ing a release party on
Friday from 9 p.m. until 9
a.m. the following morning.
“We’ll have face painting,
games, trivia, and they’ll be
making wizard hats,” said
Amelia Schlott of the
Warner Robins Books-A-
Million. “We have no idea
how many to expect.
Hundreds.”
Release parties for Harry
Potter books became a com
mon sight after the release
of the fourth book in the
series “Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire,” which
had a first printing of 6.8
million copies, according to
publisher Scholastic. The
latest installment falls short
of the 870 pages of
“Harry
book.
Author
Rowling has been
tight-lipped about
the contents of her
latest book, only
reminding readers of her
previous book’s clifihanger
ending which foreshadowed
a coming showdown
between the series’ hero the
young wizard Harry Potter
and his arch-enemy the evil
Lord Voldemort.
The Wal-Marts in Warner
Robins and Perry will also
be holding release parties
beginning at 10 p.m. on
Friday.
Theatre on Main Street in down
town Perry. There are six roles: two
female, three male, one child. For
more information call Jennifer
Duckworth at (478) 997-6080.
AudNons for The Seven Year Itch'
The Warner Robins Little
Theatre will hold auditions for
“The Seven Year Itch,” on Jully 25
and 26 at 7:30 p.m. at the theatre,
502 South Pleasant Hill Road in
Warner Robins. Jerry Reppert will
direct the comedy. There are roles
for five women, six men and one
boy. The play will open on Sept. 9.
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and
the
Order of
the
Phoenix,”
the fifth
book in the
f series, but
at 672 pages
it is still far
longer than
the average
children’s