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COVERPHOTOBYBETHSNIPES

Three years ago I sat down with Janeane Barrett and her

daughter and talked about Janeane’s husband, Doug,

away in Afghanistan. She and daughter Allison were the

cover girls for the inaugural issue of Lee Magazine. Today, Janeane,

a retired Auburn Public Schools teacher, writes our education

column, Smarts. Bringing Janeane on board is just one of the many

ways Lee is becoming part of the community.

Janeane’s debut with Lee marks an important milestone for my

Lee County journey, almost bringing me full circle to our first

issue. That makes this a good time to say good-bye and hand things

over to a new editor, who I expect will do wonderful things for

the magazine. I warned Jessica Armstrong what she was getting

into with this job: the hurry-up-and-wait, the deadlines, and the

interesting, warm, funny – and even sometimes angry -- people

she’ll meet when she takes over as editor. She’s up for it. Beginning

with the next issue, she’ll be at the helm. I’m a little jealous, a little

sad, and a bit proud to hand it over to her.

Jessica is a long-time journalist who teaches at Auburn

University. One big advantage she brings to the job is that she’ll be

right here in Lee County. As some of you know, I’ve had to manage

by visits down Interstate 65 and the Internet. Not the best way to

do things, but one that worked for us in these early years.

Lee Magazine is and always has been Publisher Beth Snipes’

baby. When Beth first called me and invited me to join her, I was

working for a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. She and I had been

friends since working together – I hesitate to say how many decades

ago – at a small newspaper in Ohio. I was the city editor. She was

the photo editor. By the time the magazine started, my husband’s

job had taken us to Louisville, and I began working full-time as a

freelancer. My duties with Lee Magazine fit neatly into my new role

until time and distance conspired against the arrangement. I want

you to have the attention you deserve from an editor who you don’t

have to drive all day to meet. And I’m also hoping Jessica’s more

organized than I am.

So please welcome Jessica Armstrong to Lee Magazine, and thanks

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By Heida Olin

Maybe the economy plays a role, but people crave home cooking right now. The trou-

ble is, few have the time to make the stuff that grandma made and get dinner on the table before Jay Leno comes on the air. We are all so busy that the evening meal frequently ends up being frozen pizza.

But convenience doesn’t have to be so blasé.

You can make roasted vegetable sauces and rich stocks and freeze them in usable portions. You can freeze leftover salmon and roast an extra chicken. Or you save time and buy grocery store rotisserie chicken, keep canned salmon on hand, and stock up on pre-washed, pre-cut veg-gies. It’s all tasty. It’s all good.

PORCUPINE MEATBALLS If I don’t make this recipe at least once a

month I hear about it. You can use a pressure cooker to make it fast, or cook it in the oven. I include both methods. This recipe can be doubled or tripled. Just make sure the meat-balls are partially covered with sauce.

1 pound ground round1 small onion, diced1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce2 teaspoons Mrs. Dash’s Extra Spicy seasoning or 1 teaspoon of seasoning salt¼ cup uncooked long grain rice

Cooking spray 1 can condensed tomato soup or 1 cup of homemade roast tomato sauce. 2 tablespoons water

Mix the ground round, diced onion, Worcestershire, seasoning, and rice.

MAKE IT SnappyA short cut to comfort food

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Make meatballs about the size of golf balls by patting the ground beef into a square about the thickness of a golf ball. Using a bread knife, cut the square into a grid of equal-size pieces, then roll the pieces in your hand to form balls.

For the oven version, spray a 1½- to 2-quart casserole dish or square baking pan with cooking spray. Place the meat-balls in a single layer in the bottom of the dish. Mix the water and soup and pour over the meatballs. Cover with a lid or aluminum foil and bake for an hour.

For the pressure cooker version, pour the tomato soup and water into the pan. While the soup is heating, drop the meat-balls into the soup mixture, shaking the pan to distribute the meatballs over the bottom of the pan. They will not be totally covered by the sauce. Cover the pan and bring the pressure to 15 pounds. Let the pressure stay at 15 pounds for 10 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat source and let the pressure come down naturally. This usually takes only a few of minutes. GRANDMA’S CHICKEN AND RICE Revised

Grandma never used canned cream of mushroom or chicken soup in her chicken and rice; she relied on the seasoned chicken stock and herbs to give it her flavor. Although I use boneless, skinless chicken here, you can substitute a whole chicken, cut up, for more flavor. To make this more convenient, use frozen chopped onion (you can find them in the freezer section of the grocery store), canned chicken broth, and chop up ready-to-eat celery.

4- 6 boneless, skinless breast piecesLawry’s chicken seasoning, any varietyCooking spray1 cup chopped onion1 cup chopped celery1½ cups uncooked long-grain riceSalt and pepper to taste3 cups chicken broth

Spray the chicken breast pieces with cooking spray and press on chicken rub. Set aside about 15 minutes. Preheat the oven to 350°. Spray a 13-by-9-inch bak-

ing dish with cooking spray and cover the bottom with the onion and celery. Sprinkle rice over the vegetables and shake the dish well so the rice is spread evenly. Lightly season the rice with salt and pepper. Pour broth over the rice, and then nestle the chicken pieces on top of the rice mixture. Cover well with foil and bake for an hour.

CHICKEN & DUMPLINGS 2011This was always a Sunday dish when I

was growing up. Grandma would start the chicken simmering on the stove before church then come home, throw on an apron, and be elbow deep in the floury dough within min-utes. For the same results in less time, use Purdue Short Cuts chicken strips already cooked or a grocery store rotisserie chick. Simply Potatoes, in the dairy section, has pre-cooked cubed potatoes you can just bring to a boil. Grated carrots, ready-to-eat celery, and frozen chopped onion complete your short cuts. You can get this dish to the table in 30 minutes.

1 tablespoon vegetable oil2 cups cooked chicken, chopped1 medium onion, chopped½ cup celery, chopped1 cup potatoes, cubed1 cup carrots, grated

2 teaspoons of Tony Chachere’s Creole Seasoning

1 can peas4 cups chicken broth1 can refrigerated buttermilk biscuits ¼ cup of flour ¾ cup milkParsley (optional)

Heat Dutch oven with about a table-

spoon of cooking oil. Add onions and cel-ery, sautéing until onions are transparent. Stir in the chicken, potatoes, carrots, and Creole seasoning. Add the liquid from the can of peas and set the peas aside. Add the chicken broth. Bring to a boil and cook until the potatoes are tender — about 10 minutes depending on the size of your cubed potatoes. Meanwhile quarter each

biscuit. Blend milk and flour together and add it and peas into cooking liquid and re-turn to boil. Drop the biscuits on the top, cover, and cook for 10 to 15 minutes. Un-cover and check that the biscuits are firm, not doughy, and keep warm until ready to serve. Sprinkle with chopped parsley.

QUICK SALMON PATTIESCanned red salmon has all the goodness

of fresh salmon. Although a little pricy, it’s worth keeping a couple of cans on the shelf. It’s great for tossing with pasta and a cream sauce or making into a salmon loaf.

1 can of red salmon3 ounces cream cheese, softened2 tablespoons mayonnaise1 tablespoon dried parsley2 tablespoons scallions, choppedLemon pepper to taste3 slices of bread pulsed in the food pro-

cessor to fine crumbsFine dry breadcrumbs or cracker crumbs

(optional)2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons olive oil1 lemon, cut into eighths

Drain the salmon, reserving the liquid. Place the salmon in a large bowl and rem-ove any of the silver skin or large bones. (Salmon bones are edible and the tiny ones actually dissolve into the meat when cooking, but the large ones just make the patty unappetizing.) In a separate bowl, mix the cream cheese, mayonnaise, 2 ta-blespoons of the reserved salmon liquid, and parsley. Stir this mixture, the scalli-ons, and lemon pepper into the salmon, then add the fresh breadcrumbs, stirring with a light hand so the mixture remains somewhat loose. Form into patties that fit into the palm of your hand. Then, if desired, dredge in dry breadcrumbs. Sauté patties in melted butter and olive oil. Ser-ve with lemon.

Heida Olin is a local caterer and edu-cator. You can reach her at heida@lee-magazine.com.. Please visit her blogat www.lee-magazine.com

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F O O D

The majestic Southern mag-nolia tree, with glossy green leaves and creamy summer blooms, is fundamental to our landscapes, native

woodlands, and local art. But there are so many more magnolias you should know.

In fact, there are more than two hundred ever-green, semi-evergreen, and deciduous species of mag-nolias. The Magnolia Soci-ety lists more than a thou-sand named varieties. If you are fond of the evergreen Southern magnolia, you will fall in love with the deciduous magnolias.

Deciduous magnolias, which drop their leaves in fall and bloom in early spring (usually February and March), are among the most elegant magnolias, often with large, graceful blooms that stand out on bare branches. I will describe some of the more popular deciduous species and let you search your local nurseries and plant catalogs for available plants. One area nursery for deciduous magnolias is Wilk-erson Mill Gardens in Palmetto, Georgia (

or www.hydrangea.com (770)463-2400).Magnolias are among the most ancient

and primitive of flowering plants, grow-ing among ginkgos and redwoods millions of years ago. The first magnolia brought to England, a country with no native

m a g n o l i a s , was the semi-e v e r g r e e n sweetbay or swamp mag-nolia (Mag-nolia virgini-ana), sent to the Bishop of London by one of his

missionaries in America in 1687. Our native evergreen Southern magnolia (M. grandiflora) arrived in England in the 1700s. Asian species of magnolias made the trip this way by the late 1700s.

Yulan magnolia (M. denuta), from cen-tral China, was introduced in 1789. About thirty feet tall, this plant has creamy buds and white flowers. Early blooming makes it susceptible to late freezes.

In the early 1800s, a French Cavalry officer crossed the Yulan with another

Oriental species (M. liliflora) to create M. x soulangeana, introduced to American gardens in 1820. These are the saucer magnolias, twenty- to thirty-foot decidu-ous trees that bloom in a variety of colors. They are hardy from zones four to nine, but susceptible to late winter freezes.

Another group has star-shaped flowers. Star magnolia (M. stellata) is a deciduous species native to Japan. The fragrant-blooms are usually white, with strappy petals, on a shrub that reaches fifteen to twenty feet. Kobus magnolia (M. kobus) is another Japanese native with star-shaped flower that can reach thirty to forty feet. Both were introduced in the 1860s and

are among the most cold tolerant (zone four) deciduous magnolias, but they take the heat well too.

There is even a group of deciduous magnolias native to the United states. I have seen two in their native habitat, one in northern Arkansas, another in south-ern Mississippi. Each had leaves more than twenty-inches long.

The best spot for deciduous magnolias would have full sun or some afternoon shade or high pine shade, good moisture but also good drainage (not boggy), neu-tral to acid soils, an evergreen or dark background to show off the blooms, and space to show off these specimen plants. Early blooms mean an occasional late freeze will destroy the blooms, but blos-soms in milder springs will more than make up for that. These plants are seldom bothered by pests or diseases. If you need to prune, do so after the plant blooms.

As you drive around, visit garden shows, and browse your local nurseries, notice the deciduous magnolias. Such elegance and grace can grow in your garden.

Magnolia madness In search of the perfect deciduous bloomer

Connie Cottingham is licensed in three Southern states as landscape architect. You can reach her at connie@lee-magazine.com.

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I hate to be cruel but, remember that New Year’s resolution? Or are you

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nual pattern of resolution failure and self-recrimination, he swore this year would be different and resolved to gain weight and lose more hair.

The start of a new year brings out the optimist in most of us. Fitness centers are full in January and February, and the consistent gym goers complain about “the resolutioners.” Sometimes the complaint

is followed by, “Oh well, they will be gone by March.” Well March is nearly upon us, so how can you repair that resolution that’s – if you’re like most of us – already broken?

Experts advise us to make SMART goals, that is, Specific, Measureable, Ac-tion-based, Realistic and Time-based. If this great advice sounds too ambitious, let Jeff be your inspiration. Set KISS goals. You know what that stands for, right? Here are some of my favorites to revive your resolve.

• GO TO BED EARLIER. You’ll get more

rest, have more energy, eat less carbohy-drate, and are more likely to exercise.

• PUT A GLASS of ice water by your bed every night. You’ll drink more water and sleep better.

• GET ORGANIZED in order to avoid unnecessary stress. Pack everything you’ll need for tomorrow’s workday tonight. Wake up fresh and prepared, and get to work fifteen minutes early. Less stress

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• SOAK UP THE SUN to improve your mood, energy, and vitamin D level, boosting your immune system. Fifteen minutes a day, minimum, but wear sun-screen on your face.

• LEAVE WORK ON TIME. If you work nine hours instead of eight, and spend your lunch hour at your desk, you probably won’t stop by the gym on your way home. More likely you’ll crash on the couch with a glass of wine and some potato chips. Instead of focusing on the negative, “I should not have those fatty, salty chips,” focus on the basic problem. “I need to save some energy for myself, and not spend it all on work or on others.”

• PLAN FOR FUN; it doesn’t just happen. A couple of “fun pockets” each week should be a minimum target. An exercise session with a buddy, lunch with a friend, a glass of wine after work all qualify if they involve smiles and laughter.

If you are having trouble sticking to an exercise routine, or finding the time to eat a better diet, following your own set of KISS goals will help. Identify what’s getting in your way. Why are you tired? What’s making you feel stressed? What is sucking up all your time? Is the source of the problem worth the price you’re paying? Can you work around the obstacle?

Keep it simple sweetheart, and give yourself credit for all you do accomplish. It’s like giving yourself a great big spring KISS.

Lisa Gallagher, director of the Fitness Center at the Opelika Sportsplex, is a wellness coach, personal trainer, and group fitness instructor. You can contact her at lisa@lee-magazine.com.

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Every once in awhile a friend on Facebook will post a quiz so stu-pid I have to see what my results

are. From these quizzes I’ve learned a few things about myself. For example, my Jersey Shore name? T-pop. The same friend posted another quiz – interestingly enough, this friend also happens to be a guy – which would determine “What your handbag says about you.”

According to this quiz, my handbag – or rather the one I want but can’t bring my-self to spend more than I make in a single day on – says that I am relaxed and alert, keeping an eye out for anything unusual. I am high maintenance but lost outside my normal environment. I am open and comfortable with myself. I am creative, stuck in a whirlwind but always able to pull things together. I am practical, down to earth, quiet, and reserved.

Does that sound like a T-pop to you?I’ve been pining after this beautiful,

gray, across-the-body oversized bag since January 2009. I said I’d buy the Moop bag when I got a real job. Got one, didn’t buy the bag. I said I’d buy it for Christmas. Christmas came and went … no bag. I

said I’d buy it to start the New Year off right. Well, so far, there’s no new bag in my life. Now that I’m thinking about it, it’s tax time, which means I should be get-ting a refund check any day now. I think this means that this is the perfect time. And, lucky for me, the bag I swoon over every single day happens to fall in line with what’s on point for this season.

What you’re likely to run into are lots of (still) oversized bags in solid neutrals. And I’m going to go out on a limb here, but I’m going to bet that there will be many fall-type colors sneaking into your spring and summer wear, especially in the

accessories department. White is still a summer essential (unless you’re like me and will never keep it clean). Expect to experiment with mustard, pumpkin, per-haps a dusty rose and taupe two-toned bag.

The big trend this spring is the north/south handbag – a bag that is taller than it is wide. Be careful if you find yourself swooning over this. If the proportions are off, and it is way taller than it is wide, you risk looking a little like you’re carrying Barney’s (the purple dinosaur, not the de-partment store) bottomless magical bag. The great thing about the north/south bag is how unexpected it will be. It seems the only type of bag in the recent years has been east/west (wider than it is taller). Expect a lot of compliments. Trust me.

Based on observations, handbags will also be less likely to be made from canvas

or look like any of them could double as a beach bag. Soft, slouchy leather should win you over this year. That, too, is a bo-nus because leathers always translate best into fall and winter. Think of this spring’s investment as a love for all seasons. That’s what I’m planning, anyway. Especially considering what this bag says about me.

Dear state and federal government, how’s that refund check coming? What would T-Pop do? The only thing left to do, for me, anyway, is close my eyes, hold my breath and click “buy me.”

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Don’t worry about teaching your child to read. Your bigger task is

far simpler: Teach your child to want to read.

Learning to sound out words is only one part of learning to read. Background knowledge and motivation are equally im-portant. By reading aloud, you’re building background knowledge and fostering a love of the written word. A former colleague of mine calls this being “lap read.” Think of your lap as the earliest classroom.

Reading to your child is important for a lot of reasons. It tells your child about a world where there are sharks, mountains, skyscrapers under construction, and an-cient ruins. You might not afford a family trip to Paris, but you can both visit Made-line there from a cozy corner of the couch.

Through stories read aloud, you pour into your child’s ears the words he or she will someday be asked to read and under-stand in school. Yes, your child will learn new vocabulary in school, but the words

READING: A BEGINNERS GUIDEA great place to start with your pre-

reader is with wordless books and pre-dictable books.

Wordless books can be “read” by pre-readers and by adults who want to “read” to their children. With a word-less book the adult tells the story using the pictures as clues to the emerging plot. A wordless book we enjoyed was

he knows before entering school will de-termine how much he understands what the teacher says. Having rich background knowledge contributes to school success.

Reading aloud also improves a child’s attitude about reading. Children will do over and over whatever brings them plea-sure. Every time you read to your child, you teach her to associate books with pleasure. From the day you bring your new baby home, read to her regularly. Whether it occurs when she is in your lap, at mealtime, or in the bathtub, kids who begin reading early are those who were read to regularly.

I highly recommend the book, The Read-Aloud Handbook, by Jim Trelease. Trelease says children who achieve early classroom success consistently come from homes with four factors in common.

Parents who read to the child regu-larly.

A wide variety of printed material — books, magazines, newspapers, even com-

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ics — are available in the home.Paper and pencil are readily available.People in the child’s home stimulate the

child’s interest in reading and writing by answering endless questions, praising the child’s writing and reading efforts, tak-ing the child to the library, buying books, writing stories the child dictates, and dis-playing the child’s efforts prominently.

Reading to your young child will help prepare him for school. Students who en-joy reading will read more. Students who read the most also read the best, achieve the most and stay in school the longest.

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Good Dog Carl. There is a series of Carl books. The parents go off and leave Carl the Rottweiler in charge of the baby. (A child-care strategy not generally rec-ommended by the experts.) Then Carl and the baby have wonderful adven-tures. Many of these books are made with virtually indestructible cardboard – another plus.

For very young children, look for some predictable books. These picture books contain repeated word and sen-tence patterns. Children begin to predict the pattern and join in on the reading. These books will often be the first book a child “reads.”

I loved Dr. Seuss books when I was a child and they became some of our favorite read-alouds for my kids. My daughter still lists Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat among her fa-vorite books. The first book my son “read” was A Foot Book by Dr. Seuss.

OTHER GREAT PREDICTABLE BOOKS:

ARE YOU MY MOTHER? by P.D. East-man

BROWN BEAR, BROWN BEAR, WHAT DO YOU SEE? by Bill Martin Jr.

CHIKA CHICKA BOOM BOOM by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault

CHICKEN SOUP WITH RICE by Maurice Sendak

GOOD NIGHT MOON by Margaret Wise Brown

IF YOU GIVE A MOUSE A COOKIE by Laura Numeroff

MILLIONS OF CATS by Wanda Gag

OH, LOOK! by Patricia Polacco

TIKKI TIKKI TEMBO by Arlene Mosel

THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR by Eric Carle

This list of books brings back such fond memories. I have saved many of these well-loved books in hopes of reading them to grandchildren some-day. For a more comprehensive list, refer to The Read Aloud Handbook or visit the children’s section of the public library.Auburn resident Janeane Barrett recently retired from Auburn City Schools

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By Kelly Frick

If there was a Heisman Trophy for community banking .. .

well, we’d have a few of those.

AuburnBank is the only bank in Alabama to be named one of U.S. Banker’s “Top 200 Community Banks” for five consecutive years.

Stop in and find out why.

Baby names can be a lot like items at a garage sale.One parent’s trash is another one’s treasure.I’ve been thinking about this lately, particularly after a couple

of recent events.The first came when I ran across a news story about a man ar-

rested in connection with a shooting in 2006. The man’s name was Lando Calrisian Young. First name Lando. Middle name Calrisian. Like the Star Wars character. Seriously. The story went on to say the man often went by an alias. No kidding? Gee, I wonder why.

The second happened as a coworker told everyone in our of-fice that he and his pregnant wife found out they are having a girl. Her name is going to be Lily. Half the folks in the office said “What a lovely name.” The others said nothing, but looked as though they had smelled the inside of a diaper pail.

It reminded me of when I was pregnant with my first child. The baby was about the size of a peanut when my mother asked if we were thinking of names.

“If it’s a boy, I like the name Spencer,” I told her. “No,” she ordered. “I hate that name.” Ditto for the next ten

names I mentioned.After that, I didn’t tell her — or anyone else for that mat-

ter — names I was considering. (Spencer, however, was forever tainted for me.)

Naming a child requires deep thought and careful compromise. It should be fun — remember giving your baby dolls exotic names? — but it’s intensely stressful. This is the name your child will be stuck with FOREVER. Pick wisely, or else your child will be the butt of cruel playground pranks and lively Internet chatter.

You don’t want your child to end up as Fanny Whiffer or Champagne Dreams. And even if you are a celebrity, Apple and Bronx may be a bit embarrassed when ordering business cards.

My children, Emma and John, arrived after nine months of heated debate with my husband. We agreed that we BOTH had to like the name or it was immediately thrown off our list. I had my heart set on Claire and Patrick. He nixed them right out the gate. I axed his first choices: Elizabeth and Theodore.

I remember spending an entire evening thinking of book char-acters from which to craft the perfect name. The next day, at a doctor’s appointments, we sat next to a new mother. She was holding her six-week-old son, D’Artagnan.

“From ‘The Three Musketeers?’” my husband inquired. “Yep,” the mom answered. “We just loved the movie.”

We promptly threw out the book character idea and crossed Scarlett and Holden off the list. (I neglected to remind my hus-band that Emma is the title of a delightful Jane Austen book until after the ink on her birth certificate dried. This was also just before Emma skyrocketed up the list of most popular baby names.)

We could have tried song titles like my friend Bill. He’s a huge Beatles fan. His son’s name is Julian. As in “Hey Jude.”

“My wife and I never, ever agreed on boy names. Not even close,” he told me. “Julian was the only one. I mean THE ONLY ONE.”

Sure, Bill. It had nothing to do with a little ditty by Lennon-McCartney.

“I do call him Jude,” he admitted. A boy in my daughter’s class is named Lennon, as in John

Lennon. Emma says Lennon explains that every time he meets someone new. I guess even at 11 you don’t want people to think you were named after Vladimir Lenin. I wonder how John’s schoolmates, Kennedy and Reagan explain their names.

My niece is Elle. My brother isn’t even ashamed to say it’s because he was obsessed with supermodel Elle MacPherson as a teenager.

I have no idea how my friend Melissa came up with Gage and Devri. If she had given me a heads up before their births, I prob-ably would have steered her in another direction.

But when I looked at those sweet baby faces for the first time, well, their names just seemed to fit.

Which is what happened when my name-hating mother ar-rived at the hospital to meet her first grandchild.

“Mom, this is Emma,” I told her as she nestled the pink-blan-keted bundle into her arms.

“Emma,” my mom repeated as her eyes lovingly gazed at my baby girl. “What a lovely name.”

The delicate task of selecting a lifelong label

NAMING RIGHTS & WRONGS

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Emma

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Kelly Frick is a writer and mother of two.

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M O M I T U D E

If there was a Heisman Trophy for community banking .. .

well, we’d have a few of those.

AuburnBank is the only bank in Alabama to be named one of U.S. Banker’s “Top 200 Community Banks” for five consecutive years.

Stop in and find out why.

M O M I T U D E

Story by Mary Wood Littleton Photos by Beth Snipes

Sandra L. Taylor took her new job in Alabama because she got a big-ger office. And she got one with a

view – a wide-angled view, at that.Taylor’s “view” stretches more than 90

miles from Moton Field in Macon County -- where the Tuskegee Airmen trained for their legendary missions -- to Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University. To Montgomery, the old capital of the Confederacy, and on to Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, where one cold Sunday in March 1965, peace-ful protestors met police violence in the nation’s most unforgettable scene of civil rights violence.

Taylor is the National Park Service’s superintendent of those historic sites, but she’s more than her title implies. She’s their gatekeeper, as well. Preserving the integrity of the historical spaces means safeguarding the intellectual property as well through projects like the Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project.

“The great stories of these national trea-sures express a special capacity to endure and to succeed,” said Taylor, who became

superintendent almost a year ago. “These are very inspirational places. The personal sacrifices and contributions of the people involved in their history continue to high-light the greatness of America’s legacy.”

Though deeply immersed in these hal-lowed properties, Taylor isn’t from here. While the racial turmoil was brewing in the South, Taylor was growing up a world away in Pennsylvania, where pub-lic schools were integrated in 1881. There were no clashes over desegregation in Taylor’s integrated high school, an all-girls Catholic school, or at Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pennsylvania, where she graduated in 1974. “I mostly knew about Alabama through the television news and pictures in magazines,” Taylor explains, “Witness-ing people being hosed down with water from fire hydrants, bitten by dogs, be-ing spat on – it made me feel anger and fearful of Southern white people. It also seemed so contradictory to witness other white people marching arm in arm with blacks, going to jail, sacrificing their lives. That made me feel hopeful. I wanted

to be as brave as the people I saw sac-rificing their lives for the rest of us. We watched the programs with my parents. They sheltered my brothers, sisters and me from the harshness of the world, yet they still exposed us to the reality of it.” Taylor’s parents also transmitted a sense of responsibility, one she feels the weight of in her work, but she’s clearly delighted to have the enormous opportunity to pro-tect and promote these historic spaces, as well as to educate people about the events that took place in them. Taylor joined the

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Park Service in 1993, and exemplifies its mission: to “preserve unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the national park system for the enjoy-ment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.”

“I feel it’s my chance to create some-thing immortal – particularly with regard to gathering and chronicling the many personal stories from people who marched in Selma or pilots who were trained in Tuskegee,” she says. “The people telling these stories won’t be here forever, but their stories will live on. It’s my job to pre-serve as much as I can of these national treasures.”

Before coming to Alabama, the Park Service took Taylor to some of the

most beautiful places in the United States – including postings at Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and Virgin Is-lands National Park on St. Thomas and Hassel Island. She was most recently based in Washington, D.C., where she was the Park Service’s program manager for supervision, management, and leader-ship. It wasn’t until 2009 that she came to Alabama as interim superintendent.

Taylor’s first love was politics. She worked on Capitol Hill for Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Hugh Scott for four years, but the Watergate Hearings soured her as-

pirations for a career in politics. Upon re-turning to Erie in 1978, she met her future husband, a handsome naval officer named Harvey Mattox, on what he describes as his “first and last blind date.” Mattox also works with the National Park Service as the repair/rehabilitation program coordi-nator for the Southeast Region in Atlanta. The couple shares two homes – one in Opelika and another in Atlanta – alter-nating weekends between them.

Yes, Taylor and her colleagues work in park ranger uniforms (complete with Smokey Bear hats). But the Park Ser-vice means much more than forests: it has domain over many historic proper-

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Sandy Taylor pauses on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma

ties. Taylor oversees construction at the Tuskegee Airmen site and the Selma In-terpretive Center and the acquisition of the Lowndes County Interpretive Center from the State of Alabama.

The Airmen site only came under the auspices of the Park Service

in 1998, when it was designated as the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site to commemorate and interpret the heroic actions of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II (See sidebar.). Before his death in 2002, Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. -- the founder and commander of the Tuskegee Airmen and the first black gen-eral in the integrated U.S. Armed Forces – expressed his delight that the site had secured a faithful partner in the Park Ser-vice.

Taylor works with some of the original Tuskegee Airmen, who remain involved in preserving the history of the program. In fact, Taylor’s group recently discovered another member of the original 1939 class who was living in New York. They quick-

ly took the proper steps to ensure he was recognized, as others had been in 2007, by a Congressional Medal of Honor. The airmen’s site at Moton Field includes ten structures where visitors can see historic airplanes, learn to fold a parachute, and tour multiple exhibits that capture the ad-ministrative offices, war room, and even the tearoom, exactly as they would have looked in the early 1940s. Taylor is super-vising another in a series of expansions and improvements to the site – adding visitor parking, improving the roads, and creating a picnic area for visitors.

Taylor and her group are preparing to assume ownership of the Lowndes County Interpretive Center, which is at the mid-point of the Selma to Montgomery Na-tional Historic Trail. The center was built on a site known as “Tent City,” where many black sharecroppers lived with their families for many years after being evicted by white landowners in retaliation for their efforts to secure civil rights. Appro-priately, the center serves as a rest area

and welcome station for travelers, but also boasts an outstanding museum featuring exhibits that help visitors experience the spirit of the march, beginning with a glass-paned ceiling inspired by the Edmund Pettus Bridge. The Park Service will take over the center’s ownership and manage-ment from the State of Alabama in mid April, and Taylor must ensure that any building deficiencies are addressed before the Park Service assumes responsibility.

One of Taylor’s first, and most dif-ficult, tasks after taking the job

was selecting the site of the third inter-pretive center along the Selma to Mont-gomery march. She chose Alabama State University’s campus to house what will be the Montgomery Interpretive Center, because the site will offer the best educa-tional opportunities and appreciation for the stories of this historic movement.

Many significant events took place on the ASU campus in the period leading up to and following the march from Selma, and many ASU students participated in

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it. Also, alumnus Ralph Abernathy was a 1950 ASU graduate in mathematics; he founded the Montgomery Improvement Association, which, with Martin Luther King Jr., organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

“We anticipate that the Mont-gomery site will have the heaviest visitor traffic,” says Taylor. “ASU has offered five acres of its campus for the project, and they have assured us that the center will receive con-tinuous financial support.” This is the first prop-erty that Taylor will have shepherded from conception through construction.

Although relatively unchanged in recent years, the components of the Tuskegee Institute Historic Site -- The Oaks: Home of Booker T. Washing-ton and the George Washington Carver Museum -- require steady management. Coming under the auspices of the Park Service in 1974, these sites are rich with the history of these two great men, as well as the struggle and survival of one of the nation’s finest historically black colleges. Taylor’s team manages a large number of visitors to Tuskegee every year and was recently occupied with the inauguration activities of Tuskegee University’s new-est president, Dr. Gilbert L. Rochon, only the sixth president since the school was founded by Washington in 1881.

Taylor is a doer – always has been. She was taught from an early age to get involved. “As young people, we were required to be in leadership positions in school, church, the NAACP Youth Carv-er Council,” she says. “We helped Mom keep the bedrooms clean so we could pro-vide accommodations for travelers unable to stay in hotels. [My] mother’s message to us still rings in my head, `You cannot go through life sitting on the sidelines, we

are our brother’s keeper, and you must always require others to treat you with respect.’”

When Taylor isn’t managing the East Central Alabama sector of the Park Service, she also en-joys interior design, decorating, gourmet cooking, searching for antiques, and coaching and men-toring others. She has been renovating her Atlanta home for the last several years, and has even found a way to bring a small sense of one of her favorite na-tional parks inside.

“I just finished a room that recreates

the feeling of being in a forest of Aspen trees,” she says, “and I just love it.”

The Park Service provides poignant personal accounts and other rich resourc-es about all of these historic sites on its website, www.nps.gov.

TUSKEGEE AIRMEN

Prior to World War II, the world of military aviation was closed to

African-Americans. But pressures on the world stage prompted Congress to pass the Civilian Pilot Training Act in 1939. Pilot program were established on college cam-puses across the country to prepare large numbers of trained pilots to meet military demands. Tuskegee Institute was chosen to be one of a half dozen sites at black col-leges. Although the U.S. Army Air Corps denied flight training to African Ameri-cans, the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 outlawed discrimination in military training. In 1941, the Tuskegee program got a boost from First Lady El-eanor Roosevelt, who visited Tuskegee

Mary Wood Littleton is a freelance writer from Auburn, Ala., and executive director of the Greater Peace Community Development Corporation in Opelika.

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Army Airfield and was taken on a ride by Charles (Chief) Alfred Anderson, the first African American to earn his pilot’s license, and also the first flight Civilian Pilot Traning instructor.

Shortly thereafter, the 99th Pursuit Squadron was established and soon be-came known as the Tuskegee Airmen. Beginning in 1943, the Tuskegee Airmen began active combat in North Africa and Europe, showcasing their skill and dedica-tion through more than 15,000 sorties in 1,500 missions. They never lost a single escorted bomber to enemy fighters.

The distinction earned by the elite Tuskegee Airmen – returning from World

War II with 150 Distinguished Flying Crosses, Legions of Merit, and the Red Star of Yugoslavia – paved the way for the eventual desegregation of the U.S. Armed Forces in 1948.

JUBILEE CELEBRATION

Jubilee commemorates Bloody Sun-day, the historic day of March 7,

1965, when 600 marchers began crossing the bridge from Selma. They were met by a “sea of blue” Alabama state troopers, some on horseback, others wearing gas masks. The marchers stood still while the troopers advanced, releasing tear gas, and beating and whipping anyone in their path, and

ultimately driving the marchers back into Selma and the Brown’s Chapel area.

The nation watched via national televi-sion, and the marchers’ principles of non-violence were tested, but leaders, includ-ing John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Hosea Williams of the Southern Chris-tian Leadership Conference, translated the fermented anger into a resolve that bolstered the voting rights campaign.

Two days after Bloody Sunday, 2,000 marchers – including clergy from around the nation invited by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. – marched to the end of the bridge, knelt in prayer, and then turned around. They had opted to comply with a court injunction against another march.

The injunction was soon lifted, and the historic march from Selma to Mont-gomery began on March 21, two weeks after Bloody Sunday, when 4,000 march-ers set out on the 54-mile trek to Ala-bama’s state capitol. The march took five days, with participants spending the four nights at campsites along the route – Da-vid Hall Farm, Rosie Steele Farm, Robert Gardner Farm and the City of St. Jude. Three people lost their lives. By the time the marchers entered Montgomery, they were 25,000 strong. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) would later say, “The Voting Rights Act was literally written on that highway between Selma and Montgomery.”

THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965

Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, it put an end to illegal

efforts to deny minorities access to poll-ing places by requiring municipalities to seek approval from the U.S. Department of Justice before making any changes to voting procedures. In 2006, Congress voted to extend the Voting Rights Act for another 25 years, although some ju-risdictions – such as Shelby County, Alabama (a predominantly white area of Birmingham) – are currently petitioning in federal court to have requirements for federal approval lifted. They argue that the racial discrimination from 40 or 50 years ago doesn’t justify continued elec-tion monitoring for the group of 16 most-ly Southern states.

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AUBURN CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY, 479 East Thach Avenue, Auburn. Hours: Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday, 2-6 p.m. Information: 501-3190.

JAN DEMPSEY COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER GALLERY, 222 East Drake Avenue, Auburn. Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Admission: free. Information: 501-2963.

JULE COLLINS SMITH MUSEUM OF FINE ART, 901 South College Street, Auburn. Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Monday through Fri-day; 10 a.m. to 4:45 p .m. Saturday. Admis-sion: free. Information: 844-1484.

LEE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY, 1140 Ware Drive, Auburn. Adoption hours: Tues-day through Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Drop offs strays or pick up found pets: Tuesday through Sunday, 8:30 to 5 p.m.; Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Information: 821-3222; lchs@leecountyhumane.org.

LEWIS COOPER JUNIOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY, 200 South Sixth Street, Opelika. Hours: Monday and Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Information: 705-5380

LEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 6500 Stage Road (Highway 14), Loachapoka. Hours: Second Saturday of every month, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Information: 887-3007, webmaster@lee-countyhistoricalsociety.org.

LOUISE KREHER FOREST ECOLOGY PRESERVE, 3100 Highway 147 North, Auburn. Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission: free. Information: 707-6512.

TELFAIR PEET THEATRE, at the corner of Samford and Duncan avenues. Tickets: 844-4154 or http://goo.gl/Osvn. Information: 844-4748 or theatre@auburn.edu.

ONGOING: To celebrate that there’s noth-ing so nice as formal wear, the Lee County Humane Society, 1140 Ware Drive, Auburn, offers Tuxedo Tuesday discounts for “tuxedo” wearing pets. All adoptions of black-and-white cats and dogs, as well as solid black cats and dogs, cost $50. Information: 821-3222.

ONGOING THROUGH FEBRUARY 12: Birds of the Gulf Coast: Selection from the Miller Audubon Collection, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Admission: free.

ONGOING THROUGH FEBRUARY 19: Winter Invitational – “From A to Z,” an exhibit of works by local and regional artists, Jan Dempsey Community Arts Center. Admission: free.

ONGOING THROUGH MARCH 12: Stranger in Paradise: The Works of Rever-end Howard Finster, Jule Collins Smith Mu-seum of Fine Art. Admission: free.

FEBRUARY 1, 8, 15, 22 AND MARCH 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 AND APRIL 5: Baby Time, 10 a.m., Auburn Public Library, for infants six months to eighteen months and their parents, features stories and crafts. Admission: free. In-formation: 501-3196.

FEBRUARY 2, 9, 16, 23 AND MARCH 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 AND APRIL 6: Toddler Time, 10 a.m., Auburn Public Library, for children ages eighteen months to three years and their parents, features stories and crafts. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

FEBRUARY 2 & MARCH 2: Magic Tree House Club, for children reading the Magic Tree House Club book series, 3:30 p.m., Au-burn Public Library. Admission: free. Infor-mation: 501-3196.

FEBRUARY 2: Quink Voice Ensemble, Goodwin Music Building Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $10; $5 for students with a valid Auburn University ID. Information: 844-4165.

February 3, 10, 17, 24 and March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 and April 7: Preschool Story Time, 10 a.m., Auburn Public Library, for children ages three to five and their parents to hear a story. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

FEBRUARY 3 & MARCH 3: Teen Café at the Auburn Public Library. High school stu-dents can play Wii games, read graphic novels, dance, and listen to music. Information: 501-3196.

FEBRUARY 3, 10, 17, 24 AND MARCH 3, 10, 17, 24, AND 31: Home School Chess Club, 3:30 p.m., Auburn Public Library. Ad-mission: free. Information: 501-3196.

FEBRUARY 5-APRIL 30: Outsiders on the Inside: Contemporary Folk Art in the Per-manent Collection, Jule Collins Smith Mu-seum of Fine Art.

FEBRUARY 5-APRIL 30: Prints by Edvard Munch, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art.

FEBRUARY 5, 11 & 12: Storybook Farm 2011 Cowboy Roundup, 300 Cusseta Road, Opelika, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., includes cowboy

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FEBRUARY 8 & MARCH 8: Puppet Play takes place at the Auburn Public Library, 3:30 p.m. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

FEBRUARY 15: “Cain Raises Abel” screens as part of the Southern Circuit Tour of Inde-pendent Filmmakers, Jule Collins Smith Mu-seum of Fine Art, 6 p.m. Admission: free.

FEBRUARY 16: The Auburn Chamber Mu-sic Society presents the St. Lawrence String Quartet, 7:30 p.m., Goodwin Music Building Recital Hall. Information: 844-4165.

FEBRUARY 17 & MARCH 24: American Girls Club, for children reading the Ameri-can Girls book series, Auburn Public Library, 3:30 p.m. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

FEBRUARY 17: Grammy Award winner Art Rosenbaum, artist, musician, and friend of outsider artist Howard Finster, presents banjo picking and a slide show, 5 p.m., Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Admission: free. Rosenbaum, an emeritus professor at the Uni-versity of Georgia, Athens, won a Grammy in 2009 his field recordings of traditional Amer-ican music.

FEBRUARY 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, AND 26: Auburn University Theatre pres-ents The Light in the Piazza, Telfair Pete Theatre. The February 20 performance is at 2:30 p.m., all other performances are at 7:30 p.m. General admission: $15. Students with a

valid Auburn University ID admitted free.

FEBRUARY 18: The Paris Piano Trio per-forms at Auburn University’s Goodwin Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20. Information: 887-9379.

FEBRUARY 18: Auburn University Con-cert and Jazz Bands perform at the Auburn Performing Arts Center at Auburn High School, 405 South Dean Road, at 7:30 p.m. Admission: free. Information: 844-4165.

FEBRUARY 19-JUNE 11: A Wren by Any Other Name: Selections from Louise Hauss and David Brent Miller Audubon Collection opens at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Admission: free.

FEBRUARY 19: 22nd Annual Love Your Heart Run/4th Annual Crank Your Heart Ride, a fundraiser benefiting those with special needs in Lee County, takes place at Chewacla State Park, 124 Shell Toomer Parkway, Au-burn. Registration begins at 7 a.m. Preregis-tration is $16; registration $20 the day of the run. Pre-registration for the bike ride is $20, and $25 the day of the ride. Pre-registration for both events is $25 and $30 the day of the race. Information: 501-2940.

FEBRUARY 22-MARCH 31: “Collabora-tion,” a fabric works exhibit by members of Studio 222, opens at the Jan Dempsey Com-munity Arts Center. Admission: free.

FEBRUARY 24: Travis Bennet performs on the horn, Goodwin Music Building Recital Hall at Auburn University, 7:30 p.m. Admis-sion: $10; $5 for students with a valid Auburn University ID. Information: 844-4165.

FEBRUARY 24: Patricia Gray Berman lec-

tures on “Edvard Munch’s Modernity,” 4 p.m., Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Admission: free. Berman, a professor of art at Wellesley College has published on Munch’s work.

FEBRUARY 25: East Alabama Arts presents Tango Fire at the Opelika Performing Arts Center at Opelika High School, 1700 Lafay-ette Parkway, Opelika, 7:30 p.m. Admission is $40 for adults, $35 for seniors, and $26 for students. Information: 749-8105.

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FEBRUARY 25: The Sundilla Acoustic Con-cert Series presents Mike Agranoff, 7:30 p.m., Auburn Unitarian Universalist Church, 450 Thach Avenue. Tickets: $10, students $8, children 12 and under, free. Information: www.sundilla.org.

FEBRUARY 26: Children from kindergarten through high school create landscapes from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Saturday Art Club at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art.

FEBRUARY 28: Jeremy Samolesky’s piano recital takes place 7:30 p.m. in the Goodwin Music Building Recital Hall, Auburn Univer-sity. Admission: $10; $5 for students with a valid Auburn University ID. Information: 844-4165.

MARCH 2: Guest performers Angela De Boer, horn, and Arunesh Nadgir, piano, 7:30, Goodwin Music Building Recital Hall, Auburn University. Admission: $10; $5 for students with a valid Auburn University ID. Information: 844-4165.

MARCH 2: The Auburn Community Or-chestra performs 7:30 p.m., Telfair Pete Theatre. Admission: free. Information: 844-4165.

MARCH 3: “Inherit the Wind” screens as part of the Southern Outsiders Film Series, 6 p.m., Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Admission: free.

MARCH 5-29: Auburn Preservation League Photography Exhibition, a juried exhibition of photographs of Auburn historic sites and buildings, Jan Dempsey Community Arts Cen-ter. Admission: free. MARCH 5: Dance the night away to Kidd Blue at the Fat Cat Mardi Gras Ball benefit-ting the Lee County Humane Society. Tick-ets: $60 and include dinner and dancing. The ball begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Event Center Downtown, 614 North Railroad Avenue, Ope-lika. Information: 821-3222.

MARCH 5: Opelika Citywide Cleanup, 9 a.m. to noon. Information: 749-4970.

MARCH 9: Baroque trumpeter Nathaniel Mayfield performs in the Goodwin Music Build-ing Recital Hall at Auburn University, 7: 30 p.m. Admission: $10; $5 for students with a valid Au-burn University ID. Information: 844-4165.

MARCH 9, 10, 11, 12 & 13: Auburn Uni-versity Theatre presents Summertime at the Telfair Peet Theatre. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. on the 9th through 12th and 2:30 p.m. on the 13th.Tickets: $15; students with a valid Auburn University ID admitted free. Infor-mation: 844-4154.

MARCH 10: “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” screens as part of the Southern Outsiders Film Series at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at 6 p.m. Admission: free.

MARCH 12: Learn how to make stuffed sau-sage the old-fashioned way at Second Sat-urday, at the Lee County Historical Society, 6500 Stage Road, Loachapoka, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission: free. Information: 887-3007.

MARCH 15: “Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp” screens as part of the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Film-makers, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, 6 p.m. Admission: free.

MARCH 24: Patrick Kearney, guitarist, per-forms 7 p.m. at the Jule Collins Smith Mu-seum of Fine Art. Admission: free.

MARCH 24: Jacques Wood performs on cello, 7:30 p.m., Goodwin Music Building Recital Hall at Auburn University. Admission: $10; $5 for students with a valid Auburn Univer-sity ID. Information: 844-4165.

MARCH 25: The Sundilla Acoustic Concert Series presents John Flynn, 7:30 p.m., Au-burn Unitarian Universalist Church, 450 Thach Avenue. Tickets: $10, students $8, children 12 and under, free. Information: www.sundilla.org.

MARCH 26: Garden in the Park arts and crafts festival, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Opelika Mu-nicipal Park, 1102 Denson Drive. The festival includes vendors, children’s activities, and live entertainment and benefits the little red ca-boose at the Opelika Depot. Admission: $2, adults; $1, children. 749-4970.

MARCH 26: Children from kindergarten through high school create art from clay from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Saturday Art Club, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. In-struction is tailored to each age level. Parents are encouraged to attend.

MARCH 30: A violin and piano performance by David Leung and Jeremy Samolesky takes place 7:30 p.m. at the Goodwin Music Build-ing Recital Hall, Auburn University. Admis-sion: $10; $5 for students with a valid Auburn University ID. Information: 844-4165.

MARCH 31: Dancing with the Stars of East Alabama. Local dance pros and stars battle it out on the dance floor to benefit The Child Advocacy Center. 7:00 at the Event Cen-ter Downtown, Opelika. General admission 30.00 reserved seats $50.Visit dancingstarsofeastalabama.com for de-tail.

MARCH 31: The Adaskin Trio performs at Auburn University’s Goodwin Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20. Information: 887-9379.

MARCH 31: The Auburn Chamber Music So-ciety presents the Kandinksy String Trio, 7:30 p.m., Goodwin Music Building Recital Hall. Information: 844-4165.

APRIL 2-JULY 23: Reconsidering Regional-ism: Contemporary Prints About the South opens at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. Admission: free.

APRIL 3: Auburn University Music Depart-ment presents the Spring Chorale Concert, 2:30 p.m., Auburn United Methodist Church, 137 South Gay Street. Admission: $10; $5, students with a valid Auburn University ID. Information: 844-4165.

APRIL 16: The 5th annual Art Walk for Chil-dern. Registration at 8:00 a.m. and walk run at 9.00 a.m. at Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts. See page 30 for more details.

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DECEMBER 4 AND 5: The Auburn Universi-ty Singers perform their Fall Show at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at Telfair Pete Theatre. General admission is $10. Students and children admit-ted for $5. Information: 844-4165.

DECEMBER 6 AND ALL MONTH: Every-one is invited to the Boys and Girls Club Art Exhibit Opening at the Auburn Public Library at 5:30 p.m. The artwork will be on display at the library throughout the month of December. Admission is free. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 6: East Alabama Arts presents Fiddler on the Roof at the Opelika Perform-ing Arts Center, Opelika High School, 1700 Lafayette Parkway, Opelika. Performance be-gins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $40 for adults, $35 for seniors, and $26 for students. Infor-mation: 749-8105.

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DECEMBER 7, 14, AND 26, JANUARY 4, 11, 18, AND 25 AND FEBRUARY 1: Baby Time, 10 a.m., Auburn Public Library, a time to hear stories and make crafts for babies ages six to eighteen months and their parents. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 8-12: Admire the decorated porches of Opelika’s historic homes for the 17th Annual Opelika Victorian Front Porch Christmas Tour. The driving tour will be December 8, 9, 10, and 12 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The walking tour will be December 11 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Admission: free. Infor-mation: victorianfrontporchtour.com or call 749-9885.

DECEMBER 9: Children ages three to eleven are invited to a Children’s Holiday Party, Au-burn Public Library, 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Children will make seasonal crafts, play games, and hear holiday stories. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 9: A Little Lunch Music from noon to 1 p.m. at the Jule Collins Smith Mu-seum of Fine Art presents a free performance by The Woodfield Trio, including Patrick Mc-Curry on woodwinds, Charles Wright on cello and Barbara Acker-Mills on piano. The Mu-seum Café will be open.

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DECEMBER 1: Magic Tree House Club, for children reading the Magic Tree House Club book series, 3:30 p.m., Auburn Public Library. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 1, 8, AND 15, JANUARY 6, 13, 20, AND 27, AND FEBRUARY 3: Preschool Story Time, 10 a.m., Auburn Pub-lic Library, for children ages three to five and their parents. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 2: Join the director and cura-tor of the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art for a 1072 Society Exhibition Lecture at 5 p.m. Each piece in this year’s 1072 Society Exhibition will be discussed, including works by John Buck, William Wegman, Roger Shi-momura, and Jim Dine. Admission: Free.

DECEMBER 2: Teen Café at the Auburn Public Library. High school students can play Wii games, read graphic novels, dance, and lis-ten to music. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 2: Celebrate the holidays with Aubie as part of the Auburn University Holi-day Celebration, 6:30 p.m., Samford Lawn. The celebration includes carols, the lighting of a Christmas tree, cookies, and hot chocolate. Bring a Toys for Tots donation. Information: 844-4788.

DECEMBER 2, 9, AND 16, JANUARY 5, 12, 19, AND 26, AND FEBRUARY 2: Tod-dler Time, 10 a.m., Auburn Public Library, for children ages eighteen months to three years and their parents. Listen to a story and make a craft. Admission: free. Information: 501-3196.

DECEMBER 2: A Little Lunch Music from noon to 1 p.m. at the Jule Collins Smith Mu-seum of Fine Art presents an informal, free concert by cellist Laura Usiskin, cello fellow of the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra. The Museum Café will be open.

DECEMBER 4: The Chamber of Commerce hosts its annual Downtown Auburn Christ-mas Parade beginning at 10 a.m. Tim Hud-son, Braves pitcher and Auburn alumnus, is this year’s grand marshal. Information: 887-7011.

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