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MILLA MONTHLY MUSIC, ARTS AND LITERATURE PUBLICATION OF THE CARRBORO CITIZEN VOL. 4 + NO. 7 + APRIL 2011 INSIDE: t EARTH DAY FESTIVITIES t FArmers’ mARKET HOURS t ANDREA reusling’s fried okrA t CLYDEFEST AprilApril 21-2421-24 4 Days 4 Stages African • Cajun • Zydeco Old-Time • Rootsrock • Reggae Bluegrass • Country • Blues The Travelin’ McCourys Arrested Development Latin & more… Donna the Buffalo The Lee Boys Umalali Tift Merritt Holy Ghost Tent Revival Langhorne Slim Big Al Hall Pura Fe Do It to Julia Scythian Big Daddy Love Keith Secola & His Wild Band of Indians Mount Moriah Preston Frank & His Zydeco Family Band Nikki Talley Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion Skeedaddle Pine Leaf Boys Farmer Jason The Beast Sarah Shook & The Devil Taj Weekes Jack Maverick & His Wild Rebels Diali Cissokho Spirit Family Reunion Thousands of One Louise Omoto Kessel The Deer Clan Singers Aaron Burdett The Music Maker Revue Gray Young Paperhand Puppet Intervention Old Sledge Bluegrass Experience Kooley High Orquesta GarDel Michael Jacobs Joy Kills Sorrow Stuart McNair Elikem African Dance Possum Creek John Howie Jr. & The Sweethearts HoopDrum Cool John Ferguson Trilogy Greg Humphreys Big Fat Gap Ayurveda Hudost Double E Midtown Dickens Apple Chill Cloggers Old Man Luedecke Jason Ringenberg Lizzy Ross Band Birds & Arrows • 4 day passes: $90 advance | $100 at gate | youth 13-15 $50 |12 and under FREE • 1 day passes: $25 Thursday | $35 Friday | $45 Saturday | $25 Sunday Vehicle camping, tent camping, and parking additional www.shakorihills.org Alamance Community College AdvertisingDesigned by and Graphic Design Students 1439 Henderson Tanyard Rd., Pittsboro, NC 27312 - 919-542-8142 2 carrborocitizen.com/mill + APRIL 2011 MILL CAROLINA SPRING he blackberries have not is a favorite month for getting outside ART NOTES yet blossomed, so that little because it’s not too overbooked. Let’s freak bit of weather we just face it, May and June are just impos- had can’t rightly be called a sible, crammed full of holidays, festivals In the galleries blackberry winter. More of and ceremonies. But April is the oppor- Wootini has an April Ta dogwood winter, as one friend put it. tunity for larkish behavior. It’s the month 15 opening scheduled for Definitely, a redbud winter. where there’s still time to run with an a new group show titled We always have a last gasp spell of impulse to check out what’s blooming, “Little Green Men,” featur- winter after spring seems to be settled the top of some mountain, that place ing artwork from current in. More times than not, it includes with a patio, near-forgotten pioneers of and former employees showy flakes. rock, ice cream made with flowers or of North Carolina-based You may recall that last year we had the new cushions on the glider. game-development an abbreviated spring. After a rather We’ve included more than a few sug- company Red Storm, harsh extended winter, we were dealing gestions in this month’s MILL, including including David K. Rose, with temperatures close to the century a number of enjoyable ways to appreci- Richard Case, Andy mark in the first week of June. ate the natural wonders of this area. Foltz, Travis Getz, George So here’s hoping we have a nice, Before you get caught up in all there is Lamontagne and Doug long Carolina spring – warm days, to do in the warmer-weathered months, Oglesby. cool nights, a little shower here and take a little time to enjoy the spring. The Opening at the there – the kind of weather that gets larks are calling. Ackland on April 7 is you outside and keeps you there. April “De-Natured,” a 40- show exhibit of post-war German art, featuring Robert Dickson PUBLISHER Marty Cassady AD DIRECTOR works by Joseph Beuys, [email protected] [email protected] Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Hanne Darboven, Kirk Ross EDITOR CONTRIBUTORS [email protected] Susan Dickson, Vicky Bernd and Hilla Becher, Dickson, Ashley Melzer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Liz Holm ART DIRECTOR Will Bryant, Allison Russell Ruff, Thomas Struth and [email protected] Martin Kippenberger. The exhibit runs through July 10. COVER PHOTO BY Scrapel Hill III, the third annual art show of works made from recycled Taylor Sisk ALEX MANESS materials, will open on Earth Day, April 22, at University Mall. The exhibit MANAGING EDITOR [email protected] runs through June 25. MILL APRIL ALMANAC This is April’s way, a woman: O yes, I’m here again and your heart knows I was coming. — Carl Sandburg, from “Three Spring Notations on Bipeds” Time to plant something. Wait till after the sun goes down. The growth of daylight continues, gaining a little more than two minutes per day. April 1, Sunrise: 7:03 a.m. Sunset: 7:37 p.m. April 30, Sunrise: 6:24 a.m. Sunset: 8:02 p.m. Moon Phases New Moon – Apriul 3; First Quarter – April 11; Full Moon – April 17; Last Quarter – April 24 The Full Moon in April – another rather large moon – is known as the Egg Moon, Pink Moon, Fish Moon and Waking Moon. The last frost date for this area is sometime around April 15 (you’ve been warned). Planets & Stars: Saturn rises in opposition to the sun and hangs around all night. Sirius shines bright in the south-southwestern sky. Venus, rising closer and closer to daybreak, all but disappears by month’s end. Significant Dates: • April Fool’s Day is on April 1; • The NCAA finals are April 2-4; • April 7 is No Housework Day; • The Buddha’s birthday is April 8; • The annual Water Festival celebrat- ing the New Year in Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia is April 13; • Passover begins at sundown on April 18; • Earth Day is April 22; • Easter is April 24, almost as late as it can be; and • Arbor Day is April 29. April is National Poetry Month, International Guitar Month, National Frog Month, National Garden Month, STRESS AWARENESS MONTH!!!! and National Volunteer Month MILL APRIL 2011 + carrborocitizen.com/mill 3 FAUNA BY MARY PARKER SONIS HOG WILD FOR THE HOGNOSE SNAKE inching along the shoreline at Poplar his dog Hercules, he sang, “Leaning Point when I heard something loudly heavy on the end of the week/ hissing near my feet. This was not the Hercules and a hognose snake/down ordinary tail rattling of a black racer in on Copperline.” the leaves, but a threatening loud hiss The hognose is named for the that did not abate. I looked around upturned snout that it uses to dig in and discovered a beautiful hognose the sandy soil and leaves in search snake. It was about two feet long and of the toads that are its primary food one of the most attractively colored source. They come in a variety of of these snakes: an orange-phase, patterns and colors, from all-black boldly marked adult. I was overjoyed; melanistics to boldly marked beige/ I hadn’t seen a hognose snake for black and orange/black phases. many years. The hognose snake is a reclusive, The first snake I ever found on my diurnal creature that is not commonly own as a child was a hognose snake. encountered because it spends most I was 4 years old, and found the of its time burrowed beneath the soil young snake in a sandy pine forest and leaves. In April and May, these near Virginia Beach. My father let me snakes come out to mate and you keep the snake for the day because may be lucky enough to encounter I was so thrilled with my discovery. one crossing the road or coiled up No Southern childhood is complete along a trail in the woods. You will not until you’ve encountered a hognose in forget the experience. the woods. Even James Taylor made but the hognose has an even more again, looking quite convincingly dead. When confronted, this snake puts mention of this experience in the spectacular display to offer. on a dramatic, aggressive display. It I stood quietly watching the snake for a song “Copperline.” Writing about his flattens its head and spreads its neck After photographing the coiling, hissing, few minutes, and it never moved. It was own Morgan Creek wanderings with in a wide fan, like a cobra. Sometimes striking hognose snake, I leaned in and time to let it be on its way. I turned my people will refer to this snake as a gently touched it. Almost immediately, it back and walked away. After a minute, puff adder. It inflates its body with air flipped over, writhing as if in the throes I returned, but the “dead” snake had and hisses loudly at any aggressor. of death. It soiled itself, its mouth gaped already slithered away into the exposed It will coil tightly and make repeated open widely, its tongue lolled out, and roots of the shoreline trees. strikes at the air. fell into the sand. Lying on its back, all movement ceased, and the snake Finding this hognose snake brought me Let me remind you that the hognose appeared dead. I picked it up and it sat back to a childhood spent wandering the woods. On those long days with Visit our beautiful is completely harmless to humans. Its limply in my hand, utterly motionless, strikes are done with a closed mouth, and smelling of death. I placed it on very little to do with my time, I explored garden patio* and it is extremely rare for a hognose the ground, stomach down, and, what endlessly, and the discovery of a to actually bite a human.