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iyN Time Off The Herald Friday August 1 1 199S 3D Saturday festival celebrates African sttpries Want To Go? African American Living History Day will be from 1 0 am to 4 pjn Saturday at Historic Brattonville off 10 miles west of Rock HilL Admission is $3 aduhs and $2 for ages 7 to 17 Visitors will see she Interpretation of the 19th-century Upcountry plantation from the African American prospscnvo Historical dramas wfll be presented at 1 1 am and 2:30 at 1 1:30 am and 1 :30 pm and by Chetter Galloway at noon and 2 pm Thera will be a cultural gathering at I pm and games at 2:30 pm Details 684-2327 Work Projects Administration pro-ject Tales by the elderly former daves all from York County varied from firing conditions in dirt floor cabins with mud and stick chimneys to happy times when the children flayed marbles after work ended at 3 pjn The post-Ciril War court records describe bartering cases between daves and whites' an unlawful act that could land the perpetrator a $25 fine and a jail sentence tiie Civil Galloway says process finally took His findings leave him wishing for more read about tiie Frederick Douglasses (American abolitionist) and the Harriet Tubmans (Underground Railroad he says you hear about tiie everyday people who1 were making it me day it a cooking weaving and spinning and the historical dramas of Galloway and Evans "I feel like I found 1 found some good stuff Galloway says recently reading from a spiral notebook in his office in the Historical Center of York County person is different even those from the same For five months Galloway has been a detective poring over general sessions court records at McCelvey Center and books at the SC State Archives and South Carolinians Library in Columbia His research will be included in a history book on African Americans in York County and is being incorporated in the educational part of Historic Brattonsville The stories of Benjamin and George were among nearly 200 narratives on South Carolina slaves that emerged from inter made in the 1930s for a Sam Rkhs The Hbald Leslie Scoggins of Clover works on her rendition of a waterfall and bam Hfa only her second painting Yorkvflle group brings together area artists American Living History Day at Historic Brattonsville The day offers games story telling demonstrations of domestic drills such as woodworking a new thrill zone at Carowinds By Pat FitzGerald The Hbuid YORK George Wood an Upcountry plantation slave stayed dear of Lowcounbry slaves because they were known to conjure up evil spirits Benjamin Russell a field hand bora 14 miles north of Chester remenibers the kindness of his master and the succulent dinner he served the slaves every New-Year's Day The stories of Geoige and Benjamin plus several other slave stories are being uncovered by Chet-ter Galloway the new curator of African American history for tiie York County Historical Commission History comes to life On Saturday many of these reaHife stories will be worked into reenactments that Galloway and Kitty Evans will stage at African Drop into By Pat FitzGerald TtiE Herald What goes up must come down and at Carowinds happen at a heart-stopping 56 miles an hour from 16 stories up When it opens in March 1996 for the new season tiie theme park will have Drop Zone Stunt Tower guaranteed to give you "a free fail twice as high as the initial drop on the new and more intense than any of Carowinds other rides Vertigo sufferers need not apply Zone Stunt Tower wifi take the thrill of free fall to new said Watt Burris general manager He announced the ride Thursday According to David Mandt of Carowinds there will be no age restriction but probably a height restriction similar to other looping coasters probably will be in tiie range of 48 to 54 The ride tower design is named after tiie 1994 Paramount film about US Marshal (Wesley Snipes) on the trail of skydiving criminals Burris arid planners wanted to replicate tiie thrilling sensation experienced by skydiving criminals in tiie film when they execute a mid-flight kidnapping aboard a 747 flying at a height of 15000 feet Such adventure he says was reserved for skydivers and professional Hollywood stunt First you go up Riders will sit on small seats on a high-speed fourperson open-air platform their feet dangling Their backs will be against a 174-foot tower with no cage or metal enclosure to protect them Only powerful shoulder harnesses lock them into place The ascent is 16 feet per second slowing as the transport reaches tiie top of tiie tower From there riders with the strongest stomachs can eqjoy tiie milewide view before the transport breaks away without warning plummeting toward tiie earth at 56 mph The free fall goes 100 feet before a silent magnet braking system slows tiie descent for a smooth landing Intamin Ltd a worldwide industry leader of Zurich Switzerland and designers from Charlotte- waatr loss able to award scholarships having difficulty raising says Botin who speculates that they may have saturated auction regulars need new buyers and to get the world out about our he says They expect the art competition and sale to whet appetite for original art It will be held Aug! 26 and 27 at McCelvey during Summerfest farewell to summer Usually 60 artists guild and non-guild enter more than 200 works Stallings will enter a floral of a white Rose of Sharon She won a purchase award in 1993 been she says while studying a photo of the bench for her preliminary sketch In her four years of art classes she says she has learned the value of shadows and creating them by leving some white in tiie painting get carried away and cover up everything" she says Good therapy Bennie Love a second-grade teacher at Bethel Elementary adds flowing grasses to her tractor painting iqjecting a feel of rustling wind is good says Love dabbing a bit of green on her grasses wonder where the time as She hopes for a prize after winning a merit award in tiie Gaston Art 1994 art show at tiie Schiele Museum Making art can be an expensive hobby they agree as they discuss tiie cost of framing and matting a requirement in competitions costs me between $50 and $65 Stalling says Jerry Robinson who is detailing frosty weeds may be too busy selling work to enter tiie competition eqjoy says Robinson who sells hundreds of landscape and animal paintings and prints through ads in national magazines real Each year tiie judge selects a work for reproduction on limited edition invitations to next year's reception A sketch of the York County Courthouse in 1914 by Kin Mdsaac of Rock Hill is on tiie 1995 invitation By Pat FitzGerald 'TheHoald YORK Sandra Brakefield licks her fairehaped brush and a pebbled road near die bam in her punting Sandy Brindle is dabbing crumpled paper towel along trees behind her pheasant while Sarah Stallings erases and redraws the arm on a deacon's bench The artists are relaxing in ack Monday night ait ilass at McCelvey Center hey are painting soothing subjects winter scenes lusty tractors bams wildlife in walencolor acrylic oil and gouache Their weekly sessions havebuilt a symbiotic relationship full of comments on each work Botin walks among his students sug-sting new techniques I come to class says Stallings put everything else out of my She is associate dean of the College of Arts and Scfencro at Wlnthrop University and drives an hour from Fort Lawn to McCelvey Competition nearing Stallings and several of the students are preparing for the upcoming Yorkville Guild 1995 Open Art Competition TD enter five in all" says who has won numer--ous ribbons and purchase awards in guild shows including third place in 1994 She teaches art Tuesdays and Wednesdays and with Botin also will compete and sell work at the Southeastern Wildlife Show in Decatur Ala in October i Brindle Botin and others in class are members of the YorfcviUe group the wily area gutid with officers Monthly meetings and goals to Sponsor a competition the Student Art Show and high school art scholarships The group with nearly 35 members provides space for and classes and invites Visiting artists to demonstrate techniques at meetings guild members punt as a Bays Bolin who is a fulltime artist The guild raises money through its auction Buyers needed the group wasn't Joining based Paramount Parks Design creating and manufacturing Drop from the new Skycoaster in -Entertainment are engineering Zone It will be located across Wayne's World area of the park i i 'rli i -and- stop smoking hypnotherapy The Guild Membership In tip YorkvMe Artists Guild is $20 annually For more tofermadon oN Juk Bolin 324-4747 Tuesday August 15 1:30 PM or 7:30 PM Holiday Inn-Rock Hill i i 'V i i -1 ii- (1-77 21) Exit82A) It's true! 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