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Times-News | Sunday, May 22, 2016 E1 BLUE RIDGE LIVING RIDGE LINES A bucket of UPCYCLING water and a scuttle of coal TOM ORR hen I think of youngsters W enrolled in our schools today, I often am reminded of how things used to be. Research reveals how things were back when there was no inside plumbing and water came from a bucket and a dipper instead of a fountain. The establishment of rules for teachers and students Artist Dave Pearce creates furniture and art objects from the scrap metal on his lot at Naples Iron and Metal Recyclers. was essential. PATRICK SULLIVAN PHOTOS/TIMES-NEWS You might like to visit the Henderson County Public Schools central office building (the old Rosa TRASH to TREASURE Edwards School). To your left, just as you enter the front entrance, is Confer- Scrap metal dealer and artist Dave Pearce creates visionary objects ence Room 1A. Attached to the walls in that room is By Seán Patrick Smith a timeline that shows the Times-News Correspondent development of Henderson County schools. You can also read a few of the rules riving up to Naples Iron and Metal that applied in times past. Recyclers off Asheville Highway Thanks to Bill Barnwell D (Aug. 27, 2014) for pulling in Hendersonville, an ordinary together pieces of history. person might see acres of twisted steel and I am always amused at rusted iron, the detritus of an ever-disposable Rules for Teachers (1872). Here are a few: 1. Teach- culture. Owner Dave Pearce sees endless pos- ers each day will fill lamps, sibilities for repurposing and rebirth among clean chimneys. 2. Each teacher will bring a bucket the cogs, gears and metal bars. of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's session. 3. Pearce is one part Make your pens carefully. scavenger, one part mad Steampunk: You may whittle nibs to scientist, one part vision- a crash course the individual taste of the ary artist. The works pupils. he creates are inspired. Steampunk is a subgenre Many of the rules apply An old brass bed can be of science fantasy the to personal conduct. For remade into a garden incorporates technology example: 4. Men teachers bench. An iron cage and design inspired by may take one evening each becomes a light fixture. 19th-century industrial week for courting pur- Old box springs form a steam-powered machinery. poses. 5. Women teachers table top. Steampunk works are often who marry or engage in “I like to create func- set in an alternative history unseemly conduct will be tional furniture out of of 19th-century Britain or dismissed. And then there scrap metal and found the American West. Dave is this one: 8. Any teacher pieces,” Pearce said. “My Pearce’s repurposed works who smokes, uses liquor in taste tends to run with rightly evoke comparisons. any form, frequents pool or industrial ‘automobilia.’ “I like Steampunk and its Dave Pearce welds a piece in progress. public halls, or gets shaved I incorporate vintage use of iron and wood. I like in a barber shop will give car and truck parts into the combination of the good reason to suspect his new and unusual pieces. modern and Victorian. The worth, intention, integ- Vintage car parts and industrial fantasy machines rity, and honesty. (I don't industrial parts can be are just fun.” quite get the “barber shop” truly beautiful pieces.” warning!) A current piece Pearce topped with a tiger’s eye Jeremiah Orr, my great- is creating illustrates his maple wood top. The gas grandfather, was born Oct. design aesthetic. To the tank opening is a perfect 15, 1827, in the Bowman's average eye, it is just a rear spot to conceal remote Bluff section of the county. panel from an abandoned controls.” According to Lenoir Ray 1956 DeSoto automobile. It is this thinking in “Postmarks,” he was a In his mind’s eye, Pearce outside the box and chal- schoolmaster. sees an entertainment lenging conventionality Jeremiah married Mar- console. that makes Pearce’s work garet A. Hamilton in 1850 “It’s all there, just wait- so intriguing. and by her had 10 children. ing to come out in physical John L. Orr, his son, was my form,” he said. “It’s the grandfather. perfect size. It will be SEE PEARCE, E8 Dave Pearce begins work on a reclaimed part from a cement mixer. I wanted to learn more about an exceptional teacher, Robert F. Ham- ilton. There is a chapter in “Book of Generations,” FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE written by Jessie Hart Wright, that focuses on “The Orrs and Hamiltons.” Posey to direct play that off ered her breakthrough role Admittedly, each time I try to unravel the genealogy ‘The Aff ections in “The Toys Take Want to go? of the Orr family, I come Over Christmas.” Put away more frustrated than of May’ opens on by her high school What: “The Affections of before. (There is at least one Thursday on drama club back in May” John in every generation). main stage Cleveland, Miss., the When: Show opens at Wright states the dilemma juvenile ensemble ini- 7:30 p.m. Thursday; per- best: “Any genealogist tially looked less than formances at 7:30 p.m. would find it difficult to By Lauren Stepp promising. Wednesdays and Thurs- determine accurately how Times-News Correspondent “But then a cheer- days, 8 p.m. Fridays and many citizens of this section leader broke her ankle,” Saturdays, and 2 p.m. trace their ancestry back In theater, “breaking Posey said. “And I Wednesdays, Thursdays, to the pioneer Orr family.” a leg” has evolved into a became the clown.” Saturdays and Sundays Scott Treadway and Lisa K. Bryant star in “The Affections of The author lists families hackneyed phrase with However inoppor- through June 4. May,” directed by Flat Rock Playhouse veteran Paige Posey. that connect: Jordans, little significance. Still, tune, the skit imbued Where: Flat Rock Play- The comedy opens Thursday. PHOTO PROVIDED Ashworths, Shipmans, longtime vagabond a thespian spirit, and house Mainstage, 2661 Maxwells, Killians, and Paige Posey’s rise to the now after over 30 years Set to debut on the K. Bryant, a carefree Greenville Highway, Flat others. stage gives the saying a at the Flat Rock Play- main stage Thursday bed and breakfast Rock This was certainly the whole new meaning. house, Posey will direct and continue through owner in Grogan’s Tickets: $15-$40 case when I tried to connect “I wasn’t even cast,” the upcoming rendering June 4, the romantic Cove. Conflict ensues Info: 828-693-0731, toll- she said, admitting to of Norm Foster’s “The comedy centers on May free at 866-732-8008 or SEE ORR, E7 her role, or lack thereof, Affections of May.” Henning, played by Lisa SEE POSEY, E8 fl atrockplayhouse.org E2 Sunday, May 22, 2016 | Times-News BOOKS REVIEW | ‘BOAR ISLAND’ BOOKCASE “Her Again: Becom- in Chile. Neruda is ing Meryl Streep” by renowned for an Michael Schulman. oeuvre that casts Novel among best in series “When they called away despair that my name,” Meryl celebrates living By Oline H. Cogdill settle into her job when she is Streep said in her and arises from the The Associated Press pulled into a murder investigation. 2012 Oscar speech, belief that there is Meanwhile, personnel problems “I had this feeling no insurmountable Nevada Barr’s vivid novels about threaten the rangers as Denise I could hear half solitude. This book National Park Service Ranger Castle launches her quiet hate of America going, presents Neruda’s Anna Pigeon have allowed read- campaign against Paul Barnes, her ‘Ohhh, no. Oh, common — mature imagination and writ- ers to take visceral tours of more co-worker and former lover whom why? Her. Again.’” By now, ing: signature love poems, U.S. national parks than most she cannot forgive for breaking it’s hard to remember a odes, anecdotal narratives could ever arrange to visit. Anna’s up with her three years ago and time when her name wasn’t and poems of the political work, which takes her across the starting a new family. Denise’s life synonymous with the title imagination. The acclaimed country, showcases the beauty and takes an unexpected turn when she Greatest Living Actress. translator Forrest Gander eco-systems of the National Park finally meets her long-lost twin, But who was she before beautifully renders the eros Service, which is celebrating its Paulette Duffy, from whom she she was the “Iron Lady” of and heartache, deep wonder 100th anniversary this year. was separated as an infant. The acting? How did she learn and complex wordplay of “Boar Island” finds Anna on women’s relationship is strained to do what she does? What the original Spanish, which a 21-day assignment at Maine’s by their past — Paulette was happens when we look at is presented here alongside Acadia National Park. A breath- adopted by a family while Denise her again, not as a cel- full-color reproductions of taking look at nature’s beauty landed in various foster homes. ebrated diva but as a limpid the poems in their original and stunning vistas is standard Barr excels in producing a 20-something burning with composition on napkins, for Barr’s series with its ongo- nuanced view of the rangers’ talent and ambition? playbills, receipts and in ing theme of man’s ruthlessness. lives and the economic hardships notebooks. “Boar Island” does all that, but “Boar Island,” by Nevada Barr. MINOTAUR the area lobstermen and their “Jungle of Stone: The True Story the plot unfolds in more inside VIA AP families face.