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Smocking Trunk Show: First Baptist Church of Palmetto, 1020 Fourth St., Palmetto The Smocking Arts Guild of America National Traveling Trunk Show will be on display 7-9 p.m. Feb. 8. The free event includes samples of English smocking, silk ribbon embroidery, garment construction, and techniques of interest to needle and fiber artists. Information: 798-3116. Greek Glendi: St. Barbara Greek Orthodox Church, 7671 N. Lockwood Ridge Road, East Manatee The 23rd Greek Glendi will be 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Feb. 8-10 and noon-8 p.m. Feb. 11. Come experience the great food, music, and culture of the Greek people. There will be live music and dancing, food vendors, and merchants selling goods. Guided tours of St. Barbara's will be given throughout the day. There will also be raffles with the first prize being a Mercedes C280 luxury sedan.
Peddler's Malls built on our need to sell and buy
In the nine years since Johnny George of Louisville opened his first Peddler's Mall in an abandoned Rose's department store on Outer Loop, the chain has grown to 15 locations from Paducah to Winchester to Clarksville, Ind. Some are in old Wal-Mart buildings left vacant when the company opened supercenters nearby. Two of the three Peddler's Malls in Louisville occupy former Evans Furniture stores. One of those, the mall in Middletown, has a waiting list of more than 600 vendors -- each willing to pay $120 a month to rent a 9-by-10-foot space in which to sell everything from fine antiques and collectibles to jewelry, books and flea market items of nearly every description. "There's even an airplane propeller back there," said David Schmidthuber, a retired Army pilot who has a booth at the Middletown Peddler's Mall.
LODGE OFFERS COZY HIDEAWAY IN CANADA
My dilemma: Should I trudge through shin-deep snow to the side door at the Kilmorey Lodge library? Or should I use the front door, shooing away the doe and her fawn that have taken shelter there from the falling snow? I opt for the library door. The deer, after all, are one reason we chose this isolated lodge in the almost-deserted village of Waterton Lakes in the Canadian Rockies. This is their home; we are merely visitors. In summer, Waterton Lakes National Park is a popular mountain destination for Canadian vacationers, smaller and less crowded than the better known Banff and Jasper national parks to the north. It also receives thousands of visitors who come north across the U.S. border as part of their visit to Glacier National Park, which abuts it. Together, they form the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Wood restorer masters what could be
Niall Bourke has an odd way of taking a seat. He faces it and places his right knee in the middle of the chair, then puts one hand on the arm and the other on the back. Gently, he rocks his body to and fro. If the chair wobbles, it will need to be re-glued and clamped. If not, he'll look more closely to determine when and where it was built, what wood was used and how the piece was crafted.
Bourke knows his stuff. He studied carpentry in school in Limerick, Ireland, and then in the mid-'80s moved to Greenwich, England, where he learned to restore wood paneling in the homes of aristocrats. Today, in a Culver City, Calif., workshop, he restores antiques, builds custom designs with aged lumber and specializes in applying a high-gloss French polish technique to furniture for dealers, decorators and customers with family heirlooms.
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