this week magazine twVolume 38 Issue 22 m• 6|1|17 - 6|7|17 BHA ANNOUNCES OLD HOMES TOUR HONORARY CHARIMEN FEATURED PHOTO Feature of the Week This fun picture prop is Volume 38 Issue 22 • 6|1|17 - 6|7|17 set up in Atlantic Beach in this photograph by Chuck Waters. To see your photograph in this space, email it and a short caption to megan. soult@thenewstimes. 3 COVER STORY com, share it with us on our This Week Magazine Each year, the Beaufort Historical Association social media feeds, or chooses an honorary chairman for its largest mail hard copies with a fundraiser, the Old Homes and Gardens Tour. postage-paid envelope if you would like the photo- graph returned to you. 4 MOVIE REVIEW ‘Wonder Woman’ film and star live up to the name. On the cover David and Shirley Pleace, of Beaufot, are this year’s Beaufort Historical Association’s honorary chairmen for the Old Home and Gardens Tour. (Dylan Ray photo) 5 RECIPES Text your friends, dust off your apron and fire up the grill. It’s time to throw a barbecue party CONTACT INFORMATION that won’t sink your summer budget. twm is published weekly by Carteret Publishing Co. Inc. 4206 Bridges St., Morehead City, N.C. 28557 CALENDARS 8 EDITOR: Find out what’s happening this week and Megan Soult beyond on the Crystal Coast and in surrounding [email protected] areas. PHOTOGRAPHY: Dylan Ray [email protected] 10 ART GRAPHICS: Sarah Smith The Beaufort Old Homes Tour & Antique Show [email protected] Weekend’s Kick Off Party is Saturday, June 3, at ADVERTISING: the Beaufort Historic Site. Kim Moseley [email protected] 12 MUSIC To submit event information, email Megan Soult or write to: The Bears will perform on acoustic instru- twm, P.O. Box 1679, Morehead City, NC 28557 ments at Trent River Coffee Co. in New Bern, on Saturday, June 10. Include the event time, date, location including address, admission BLACK price and contact information. FAMILY Find us online at www.carolinacoastonline. 12 com/entertainment, www.facebook.com/ thisweekmagazine or This summer youth ages 10-17 can learn to www.instagram.com/twm_moreheadcity. march and perform with the Tryon Palace Fife YELLOW and Drum Corps Monday-Friday, June 19-23. ADVERTISE WITH US! It’s the best deal on the Crystal Coast. Reach out to 6,000 people across Onslow, Craven and Carteret counties. this week is available FREE at hundreds MAGENTA MAGENTA of local businesses and hotspots. Call Today | 252-726-7081 CYAN CYAN 3 • David, Shirley Pleace BHA Honorary Chairmen this week BY MEGAN SOULT “I love meeting people and furnace, the cookhouse and the for this job, and we don’t know town Beaufort. NEWS-TIMES finding out where they are bread oven at Fort Macon, and how much money has to go into The Beaufort Historical Each year, the Beaufort from. They are often from very Mrs. Pleace is on the Friends working on these houses, and it Association will also host the Historical Association choos- far away,” she said. “It’s also of Fort Macon board and vol- goes off perfectly each year.” Antiques Show and Sale Friday- es an honorary chairman for interesting to hear if they have unteers as a tour guide in the Mr. and Mrs. Pleace were Sunday, June 23-25, at the its largest fundraiser, the Old this sort of thing where they are summer. chosen as the honorary chari- Crystal Coast Civic Center in Homes and Gardens Tour. This from … historic places.” Mr. Pleace joined the Friends men for their dedication to the Morehead City. year’s honorary chairmen are Mr. Pleace volunteers with of the Library at the time when association. Tickets can be purchased 6|1|17 - 6|7|17 David and Shirley Pleace of many parts of the association, the Friends had lost the train “This is an amazing testa- for the Old Homes Tour Kick- Beaufort. including driving and working depot as a venue for book ment to David and Shirley’s Off Party, the Old Homes and Mr. and Mrs. Pleace were on the double-decker bus. sales. love of this community,” said Gardens Tour and the Antique born in London and have lived In 2007, Mr. Pleace found a Mr. Pleace designed and built Patricia Suggs, executive direc- Show and Sale. in Canada and the northern double-decker bus in London a book sales trailer copied from tor for the Beaufort Historical Tickets for the Old Homes parts of the United States. to replace the association’s old a design he had seen at the Association. “It’s also why we’re Tour Kick-Off Party, which is They moved to Beaufort bus. Nashville, Tenn., flea market, so proud to have them as our Saturday, June 3, are $30. about 25 years ago and wasted The bus was shipped to scaled down and lightened so honorary chairs for the week- Tickets for the Antiques Show Charleston, S.C., and Mr. Pleace it could be towed by a pickup end – especially all their dedica- no time joining the Beaufort and Sale are $8, and tickets for and three other drivers made truck. tion to both sides of the week- Historical Association. the Old Homes and Garden Tour They first joined the associa- the trip to bring the bus back to Mrs. Pleace also served as end with Shirley in charge of the BHA. a secretary for Beaufort Sister scheduling everything for the are $18 in advance and $20 the tion during an annual volunteer day of the tour. training session. The couple also enjoys work- Cities for seven years. Leffers Cottage at the Historic Combo tickets are also avail- Mr. Pleace said he would vol- ing with the various build- Mr. Pleace was awarded the Site for the Old Homes Tour unteer to drive the bus and Mrs. ings on the historic site, with Order of the Long Leaf Pine in and also getting all the volun- able. Tickets for the Old Homes Pleace said she would learn their favorite being the Leffers 2010 for his volunteer work. teers, as well as working herself, and Garden Tour, Antique Show about the houses and buildings Cottage. The couple was humbled to for ticket check in at the Civic and Sale and the Kick Off Party and conduct tours. “Leffers Cottage gives chil- be chosen as this year’s honor- Center for the Antiques Show are $45, while tickets for the They have been volunteering dren the chance to see things ary chairmen. weekend.” Old Homes and Gardens Tour with the association ever since. like where milk comes from and “This is such a sacrifice on Mr. and Mrs. Pleace will and the Antique Show and Sale From her earliest days in how you cook before electric- the people who do the houses, be honored during the Purvis are $24 in advance and $25 the Beaufort, Mrs. Pleace has pro- ity,” Mr. Pleace said. “It’s pretty and I’m just awestricken by the Chapel Choir Concert on days of the event. vided visitor tours of the BHA important to provide that link to amount of work they have to Thursday, June 22. For more information or to buildings and children’s tours. the past for the young ones.” put in to this and any little help It is the official start of the purchase tickets, visit www. Providing the tours are her Their volunteer work does that I can give, I’m glad to do it,” Old Homes and Gardens Tour beauforthistoricsite.org, visit favorite part of volunteering at not stop in Beaufort. Mr. Pleace said. “Year after year weekend, which is Friday- the Welcome Center at 130 the BHA. Mr. Pleace rebuilt the hot shot people come up and volunteer Saturday, June 23-24, in down- Turner St. or call 252-728-5225. Beaufort Wine & Food calls for applications for grant program Beaufort Wine & Food is invit- tor of Beaufort Wine & Food, ference and Beaufort Wine and al Oyster Roast in November also Beaufort Wine & Food events, ing all area nonprofits serving explained that the grant pro- Food is pleased to help them strive to raise funds for charity. contact the office at 252-515- Carteret County to apply for gram was developed to spotlight carry out this work,” she con- For more information on how 0708 or go online and down- funding for its 2017 grant cycle. the good work being done in tinued. to request grant funding, become load the application at beaufor- The deadline to submit applica- the community from some truly With the help of a grants a member or learn more about twineandfood.com/giving-back. tions is 5 p.m. Friday, June 2. amazing organizations. committee made up of Beaufort Beaufort Wine & Food is a non- “It’s our way of supporting Wine & Food board members, profit organization and proceeds those groups that are making recipients will be selected and from its events benefit nonprofits a difference through charitable notified by Friday, July 14. that excel in community enrich- programs that serve so many The Community Grant ment and enhance quality of life in Carteret County,” said Ms. Program is just one of the ways in Carteret County. Parker. that Beaufort Wine & Food can Through the generosity and support from sponsors, members “There is such a broad a range give back to the area nonprof- and wine and culinary partici- of nonprofit organizations we its. pants, Beaufort Wine & Food has have in our area and their work Funds raised from it’s upcom- raised almost $600,000 that has really does impact the quality ing craft beer festival, Beaufort’s been donated to nonprofit orga- of life in Carteret County.