June 23, 2023 Coats Museum News
It is a new year-1993 that we are revisiting. It was the year that Waco and the World Trade Center bombing site had left a nasty edge on things. Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd U.S. president. The nation’s first woman U.S. attorney general, Janet Reno, took office. President Clinton chose Court of Appeals Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an advocate of women’s rights, to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British Colony. A complex and controversial plan to provide health insurance to all Americans and to hold down health care costs was rejected. The Republicans swept major elections.
Superstar Michael Jordan retired. A key word for 1993 was information highway. The Intel’s Pentium chip was released. It was 1,500 times faster than the first microprocessor. For the first time in history, the U.S. prison population soared above one million inmates.
The internet comprised 1.8 million hosts computers in contrast with 1988 when there were 33,000 hosts computers. Health care had cost the Americans 820.3 billion dollars. There were 535,400 active members in Boy Scouts and 340,380 Girl Scouts. The trend again was to buy U.S. cars. Beavis and Butthead showed up on MTV. David Letterman was crowned king of late night TV. Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh emerged as reigning loudmouths of talk radio (Dickson, Paul. From Elvis to E-Mail pp. 330-334).
In Grove Township, the Harnett County Co-operative Extension agent recognized Jeff Turlington for helping with a transplant water fertilizer test (Daily Record Jan. 7, 1993).
The CACC announced plans for the Annual Awards Banquet. Dale Van Horn was to be speaker. Judy Turlington was all smiles because of the arrival of a beautiful granddaughter, Lauren Ann Jernigan. Steve and Gina Jernigan were the proud parents. Edna and Tony Mangum had their children home for the holidays .Don’t you wish Belle had shared the names of the children. I do know that she shared that Mrs. Mamie Bennett was a resident at the Senior Citizens Village and that sympathy was extended to the family of Mable Rowland.
Lots of us have fond memories of the Rowland family. Several of them served on the Coats School Board and others recall that the Rowland children were some of the brightest in their classes. What I recall most though are the hours I spent on the highboy tobacco harvester with Buster and Eloise as I worked to make money right after H.L and I were married. That was quite an experience being that I had never looped tobacco on a moving machine that was up in the air. My dad would say -”Hard work never hurt anyone.”
Does anyone remember that Lottie Pollard once had a pony? It seems that her daughter Debby gave Lottie one with a red bow for a Christmas present (Daily Record Jan. 8. 1993).
Death visited the family of Richard A. Ennis, 71, of Route One, Coats. He had died on Saturday. Services were held at the Red Hill PFWB Church. Larry and Richard Ennis and Kay Maynard and Jan Seagroves were his surviving children. His surviving siblings were R.O.” Bill”, Ed, Hunter and Elba Moffitt.
The CACC saluted the Penny’s Minnow Farm on NC27 two miles west of Coats. Joe Penny had started the fish business in 1939 and in 1993, his younger son, Hal Penny, operated the company (Daily Record Jan. 20, 1993).
Peggie Pope opened Peggy’s Beauty Nook using her previously owned beauty parlor’s name from way back. The shop was located in the T Mart Building across from the Coats School. Belle also shared that Nicole Turlington flew to Texas with her mom Wanda Turlington.
News also reported that Joseph T. Pollard, 82, of Raleigh, formerly of Coats, had died on Thursday. His services were held in the O’Quinn-Peebles Chapel by Rev. Robert West and with burial in Buies Creek Cemetery. Surviving Mr. Pollard were his wife-Eunice Stewart Pollard and a son-Dr. Gerald Pollard of Raleigh. His siblings were Horace B. “Jim” and Lovie Betts. A side note is that the family requested that memorials be given to the Coats Volunteer Fire Department.
Marsha Flowers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Flowers, was to marry Stephen Mark Rushing of Fort Bragg. Marsha had graduated from Triton and the prospective bridegroom had graduated from Escambie High School and the Unit Level Communications School. He was with the 82nd Airborne Division. A Feb. 27 wedding was planned at the Main post Chapel at Fort Bragg.
The Coats boys defeated West Lee y 40-39. Strong plays by Gary Walden, Jerode Ray, Adam Ennis and Garyen Denning brought about the win. Despite good plays by Jennifer Robinson and Tara Plummer, the girls were not able to triumph (Daily Record Jan. 22, 1993).
Notes from Coats reported that the faithful workers were busy turning the old Goat House School into a town museum. Belle also reminded her readers that Gale Penny could give instructions on submitting histories for the Harnett County Heritage Book.
Little Samantha Brown had a Victorian tea for her 5th birthday. The young ladies who attended the “grown-up tea party” were Leslie Ennis, Adrienne Cannady, and Kathryn Turlington. They dressed into their “dress-up” clothes. Samantha wore her mother’s wedding dress and veil. Leslie wore a full-length gown and veil. Adrienne was dressed for a day wedding in a tea length dress and veil. Kathryn had the look of an official bridesmaid when she had donned a tea length royal blue taffeta dress and a red hat. All the little ladies used rings, bracelets, necklaces, and purses to accent their fashion. The birthday table was set with Samantha’s great-grandmother’s finest tea set, crystal candlesticks and a beige Battenberg lace tablecloth. An old fashioned bouquet of tea roses in a crystal vase was the centerpiece. Instead of a regular birthday cake, dainty petit fours and individual cheesecakes were served. Samantha Brown was very active in her church choir and mission work. Her older brother was Sam Brown.
Sunday is a big day at the Coats Museum. The volunteers are honoring Marie Salmon for her love and devotion to the Coats School area. Marie touched so many lives. From a classroom teacher to the librarian and photography teacher, she was able to use her students and fellow teachers to pull off the 1985 Coats School Reunion Project. Later she would crank up the School TV project using the students to have a morning show where they shared happenings at the school each day.
We invite all her fellow teachers and students to come by the museum on Sunday, June 25th from 2-5. For those of us who know Marie well, we can’t imagine her having a bad day, but if she is feeling well that day, she will be at the museum. Let’s show her our love and appreciation for decades of service to the Coats area.
I
It is a new year-1993 that we are revisiting. It was the year that Waco and the World Trade Center bombing site had left a nasty edge on things. Bill Clinton was inaugurated as the 42nd U.S. president. The nation’s first woman U.S. attorney general, Janet Reno, took office. President Clinton chose Court of Appeals Judge Ruth Bader Ginsberg, an advocate of women’s rights, to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British Colony. A complex and controversial plan to provide health insurance to all Americans and to hold down health care costs was rejected. The Republicans swept major elections.
Superstar Michael Jordan retired. A key word for 1993 was information highway. The Intel’s Pentium chip was released. It was 1,500 times faster than the first microprocessor. For the first time in history, the U.S. prison population soared above one million inmates.
The internet comprised 1.8 million hosts computers in contrast with 1988 when there were 33,000 hosts computers. Health care had cost the Americans 820.3 billion dollars. There were 535,400 active members in Boy Scouts and 340,380 Girl Scouts. The trend again was to buy U.S. cars. Beavis and Butthead showed up on MTV. David Letterman was crowned king of late night TV. Howard Stern and Rush Limbaugh emerged as reigning loudmouths of talk radio (Dickson, Paul. From Elvis to E-Mail pp. 330-334).
In Grove Township, the Harnett County Co-operative Extension agent recognized Jeff Turlington for helping with a transplant water fertilizer test (Daily Record Jan. 7, 1993).
The CACC announced plans for the Annual Awards Banquet. Dale Van Horn was to be speaker. Judy Turlington was all smiles because of the arrival of a beautiful granddaughter, Lauren Ann Jernigan. Steve and Gina Jernigan were the proud parents. Edna and Tony Mangum had their children home for the holidays .Don’t you wish Belle had shared the names of the children. I do know that she shared that Mrs. Mamie Bennett was a resident at the Senior Citizens Village and that sympathy was extended to the family of Mable Rowland.
Lots of us have fond memories of the Rowland family. Several of them served on the Coats School Board and others recall that the Rowland children were some of the brightest in their classes. What I recall most though are the hours I spent on the highboy tobacco harvester with Buster and Eloise as I worked to make money right after H.L and I were married. That was quite an experience being that I had never looped tobacco on a moving machine that was up in the air. My dad would say -”Hard work never hurt anyone.”
Does anyone remember that Lottie Pollard once had a pony? It seems that her daughter Debby gave Lottie one with a red bow for a Christmas present (Daily Record Jan. 8. 1993).
Death visited the family of Richard A. Ennis, 71, of Route One, Coats. He had died on Saturday. Services were held at the Red Hill PFWB Church. Larry and Richard Ennis and Kay Maynard and Jan Seagroves were his surviving children. His surviving siblings were R.O.” Bill”, Ed, Hunter and Elba Moffitt.
The CACC saluted the Penny’s Minnow Farm on NC27 two miles west of Coats. Joe Penny had started the fish business in 1939 and in 1993, his younger son, Hal Penny, operated the company (Daily Record Jan. 20, 1993).
Peggie Pope opened Peggy’s Beauty Nook using her previously owned beauty parlor’s name from way back. The shop was located in the T Mart Building across from the Coats School. Belle also shared that Nicole Turlington flew to Texas with her mom Wanda Turlington.
News also reported that Joseph T. Pollard, 82, of Raleigh, formerly of Coats, had died on Thursday. His services were held in the O’Quinn-Peebles Chapel by Rev. Robert West and with burial in Buies Creek Cemetery. Surviving Mr. Pollard were his wife-Eunice Stewart Pollard and a son-Dr. Gerald Pollard of Raleigh. His siblings were Horace B. “Jim” and Lovie Betts. A side note is that the family requested that memorials be given to the Coats Volunteer Fire Department.
Marsha Flowers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Flowers, was to marry Stephen Mark Rushing of Fort Bragg. Marsha had graduated from Triton and the prospective bridegroom had graduated from Escambie High School and the Unit Level Communications School. He was with the 82nd Airborne Division. A Feb. 27 wedding was planned at the Main post Chapel at Fort Bragg.
The Coats boys defeated West Lee y 40-39. Strong plays by Gary Walden, Jerode Ray, Adam Ennis and Garyen Denning brought about the win. Despite good plays by Jennifer Robinson and Tara Plummer, the girls were not able to triumph (Daily Record Jan. 22, 1993).
Notes from Coats reported that the faithful workers were busy turning the old Goat House School into a town museum. Belle also reminded her readers that Gale Penny could give instructions on submitting histories for the Harnett County Heritage Book.
Little Samantha Brown had a Victorian tea for her 5th birthday. The young ladies who attended the “grown-up tea party” were Leslie Ennis, Adrienne Cannady, and Kathryn Turlington. They dressed into their “dress-up” clothes. Samantha wore her mother’s wedding dress and veil. Leslie wore a full-length gown and veil. Adrienne was dressed for a day wedding in a tea length dress and veil. Kathryn had the look of an official bridesmaid when she had donned a tea length royal blue taffeta dress and a red hat. All the little ladies used rings, bracelets, necklaces, and purses to accent their fashion. The birthday table was set with Samantha’s great-grandmother’s finest tea set, crystal candlesticks and a beige Battenberg lace tablecloth. An old fashioned bouquet of tea roses in a crystal vase was the centerpiece. Instead of a regular birthday cake, dainty petit fours and individual cheesecakes were served. Samantha Brown was very active in her church choir and mission work. Her older brother was Sam Brown.
Sunday is a big day at the Coats Museum. The volunteers are honoring Marie Salmon for her love and devotion to the Coats School area. Marie touched so many lives. From a classroom teacher to the librarian and photography teacher, she was able to use her students and fellow teachers to pull off the 1985 Coats School Reunion Project. Later she would crank up the School TV project using the students to have a morning show where they shared happenings at the school each day.
We invite all her fellow teachers and students to come by the museum on Sunday, June 25th from 2-5. For those of us who know Marie well, we can’t imagine her having a bad day, but if she is feeling well that day, she will be at the museum. Let’s show her our love and appreciation for decades of service to the Coats area.
I