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November 13 - Drive & Eat to Fran's Front Porch. See article this issue! December 4 - Tour of Chinqua Penn Plantation in Reidsville, dinner at greene's Supper Club, and traditional White Elephant Exchange. Arranged by Karen Weller and Donna Byrd. Please click on the following link for more details. Click here to view calendar.President Carson will mail postcard reminders for each event. The Tarheel Footprints - Produced periodically by Can you write a technical article? Something that is old hat to you may be a revalation to someone else. Jot it down and mail it to me. Don't worry about spelling and grammar - I'll clean it up. The address is 9 Keppen Trail, Greensboro, NC 27410. The mail is checked almost daily. Letter to the Editor I received your recent edition of the Tarheel Footprints that contained an article I had written last winter. Thank you for sending it to me. There was a bit of irony regarding the particular issue in which you chose to include my article. On the front page there is an announcement entitiled, "Going to Mount Airy?" I actually lived in Mt. Airy for two years. (But I wasn't the deputy sheriff. That was another Fife.) As a break from graduate school, I taught for a couple of years at Mt. Airy High School. Furthermore, while I was living there, the sheriff's name was Taylor! So for a brief time at the beginning of the '70's. Fife and taylor both lived in Mt. Airy, and taylor was the sheriff, just like the real Mayberry! Earl Fife - Grand Rapids, MI (via email) |
If it is not already, the Tarheel Miata Club soon will be one of the best-fed groups in history! This month we are going to Fran's Front Porch, a restaurant famous for home cooked food and a country atmosphere. We'll meet at the McDonald's Restaurant on U.S. 421 at I-85/40 in Greensboro at 3:00 pm on Saturday, November 13th. Ferd and Vivien Carson will lead us to Fran's by some back roads, where we'll arrive about 5 o'clock. Fran's is near Julian, N.C. We will leave there after supper to return home by the most direct route. I'm still not used to a year whose name begins with a 2, but that's what will soon be upon us. And with that comes the changing of the guard. Club President Vivien Carson has been a one-woman nominating committee, and she has obtained commitments from Bran Aldridge to become newsletter editor, and from Butch Lovell to be president-elect. As you know, this year's president-elect, Jim Luke, will move up to president for the year 2000. Richard Linko will continue as club Treasurer, Pat Linko will continue as Historian, and Nancy Atkinson is willing to stay on as Secretary. The official election will take place at the annual Christmas party on December 4th, and nominations from the floor will be permitted, so if you're interested in filling one of these positions, let it be known. For more information, call Vivien Carson at 336-292-8878. |
The year, indeed the millennium, will go out with a bang at the Tarheel Miata Club's annual Christmas party. Karen Weller, with a little help from Paul, has planned a really super affair. The club will meet at McDonald's Restaurant on U.S. 29 North in Greensboro (near Carolina Circle Mall) at 1:00 pm on Saturday, December 4th. At 1:15, we'll leave for Reidsville to tour Chinqua Penn, the 27 room mansion built by Thomas and Beatrice Penn in 1925. We'll spend a couple of hours there, viewing their amazing collection of art and artifacts from around the world. Leaving Chinqua Penn, we'll caravan back to High Point Road in Greensboro, arriving at Grady's American Grill at 5:00 pm for our club Christmas dinner. Yum, yum! If you can't go to Chinqua Penn, maybe you can join us at Grady's. If we're not too stuffed to get back into our little cars, we'll caravan from Grady's to the home of Don Atkinson for desert and our annual white elephant exchange. The white elephant exchange is probably the most fun of any event that the club has each year, and it's probably the reason why the Christmas party is so well attended. If you've never been, here's how it works: Each person brings a white elephant - one of those things that nobody wants, but is too good to throw away. For example, there is usually a pair of Miata tie-down hooks. One year, someone even made a paper mache white elephant for the party! Each item should be individually wrapped so no one can see what's inside. During the exchange, each person gets a chance to get a present, either from under the tree or from someone else, but at the end each person gets a gift. Then we open all the gifts, and it's a lot of fun to see what unwanted item was fought over the most! One item of business must be conducted at the party, the election of officers for the year 2000. Please RSVP to Karen Weller at 336-621-8502 by Monday, November 29th. She has to let Grady's know how many to expect. |
The page goes on forever... Keep reading! I told you it would be fun! If you weren't there, you missed a good time. The six rallye teams were Jim and Ruth Luke, James and Michelle Briggs, Chuck and Connie Bohrer, Tom and Donna Byrd, Eric and Marty Menzell, and Charlie tucker, who drove by himself. The route meandered in and around Greensboro, and there were plenty of trick questions and ways to come into check points backwards. Experience seems to help at rallies, because the Menzell's came in first, the Lukes came in second, and the bohrers were third. One or two of the novices got lost and were late arriving at the last check point, Damon's Restaurant in Greensboro. Paul and Karen weller led six Miatas north from greensboro on the morning of Friday, October 1. We travelled by some neat back roads, and the air was so clear that the full moon was visible until noon! What a day! In the middle of nowhere, we met up with Joe and Brenda Williams, who led us to lunch at Smith Mountain Lake and then on to the Hampton Inn at Roanoke, Virginia, vefore supper at a Brazilian/Italian Restaurant. On Saturday, we visited Market Square in Roanoke and then caravanned along the Blue Ridge Parkway to Buchanan for the Street festival before supper at another great Roanoke Restaurant. The group returned to Greensboro Sunday. |