Arendell Parrott Academy has a lot to brag about today. Their "MathCounts" team of math wizards just won the North Carolina math competition in Durham. They will compete in the nationals held this May in Texas.
Parrott is the local high scorer in successful graduates, located in nearby Kinston, most of the students are New Bern kids. With a school of over 600 kids and over 60 faculty members, this is a local school second to none. They have a K-12 facility; we should all thank our lucky stars that there are some bright kids learning well in NC and the US. These kids are the future of our country in a very big way!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
Just think about this...
New Bern's 300th birthday is coming up in 2010. Christophe deGraffenried of Bern, Switzerland arrived in New Bern in 1710. His German and Swiss settlers were eager for a new life in America. Queen Anne of England was eager to get the German Palatine refugees out of England. She'd offered them sanctuary from the French Catholic King Louis who was destroying their Protestant settlements in the rich farmland of Palatine Germany. So many came that London was overrun, English citizens were in an uproar....sounds familiar doesn't it?
DeGraffenreid had read an (exaggerated) report of rich silver mines in the Carolinas in a book written by John Lawson a year or so earlier. Lawson, an English adventurer and explorer, traveled throughout the Carolinas early in the 1700's and wrote an immensely popular report of his adventures. Lawson lived for a year in a cabin with his bulldog on the peninsula where the Trent River meets the Neuse, near where Lawson's Creek is located probably. This (now)in downtown New Bern. He lived peacefully among the Neusiok Indian tribe in their town named Chattawka. How Lawson imagined there were silver mines, we'll never know. But the Swiss DeGraffenried was determined to start a prosperous settlement here...based on a fallacy.
So New Bern was settled by an ill-informed aristocrat with poor hard-working religious refugees; brought to a place where an aggressive Indian tribe, the Tuscarora, held all the territory. It was a recipe for trouble. And trouble came pretty quickly. In September of 1712, the Indians attacked throughout the entire eastern North Carolina seaboard without any warning.
DeGraffenreid had read an (exaggerated) report of rich silver mines in the Carolinas in a book written by John Lawson a year or so earlier. Lawson, an English adventurer and explorer, traveled throughout the Carolinas early in the 1700's and wrote an immensely popular report of his adventures. Lawson lived for a year in a cabin with his bulldog on the peninsula where the Trent River meets the Neuse, near where Lawson's Creek is located probably. This (now)in downtown New Bern. He lived peacefully among the Neusiok Indian tribe in their town named Chattawka. How Lawson imagined there were silver mines, we'll never know. But the Swiss DeGraffenried was determined to start a prosperous settlement here...based on a fallacy.
So New Bern was settled by an ill-informed aristocrat with poor hard-working religious refugees; brought to a place where an aggressive Indian tribe, the Tuscarora, held all the territory. It was a recipe for trouble. And trouble came pretty quickly. In September of 1712, the Indians attacked throughout the entire eastern North Carolina seaboard without any warning.
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Southern Recipe #1 Blue Cheese Tart
Try a Southern specialty party dish. (Use Maytag blue cheese. Maytag is America's premier blue cheese.)
BLUE CHEESE TART
½ Cup pecan pieces, toasted 1/3 Cup chopped, sun-dried tomatoes
2 pkgs. 3 oz. cream cheese softened 1/4 Cup chopped gr. Onions
½ cup half and half ½ Cup Swiss cheese, shredded
2 eggs 1 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
8 oz crumbled Maytag blue cheese
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Place favorite pie crust or prepared pie crust in greased 11" tart pan with removable bottom. Press on bottom and up sides of pan. Cut away excess pastry; prick all over with fork. Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Reduce oven to 350. Place pecans on bottom of pastry shell.
Place cream cheese in larger mixer bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add half and half and eggs; mix well. Stir in blue cheese well drained tomatoes. green onions, Swiss cheese and Worcestershire sauce by hand. Pour into hot partially baked shell. Bake 35-40 minutes or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cut into wedges. Garnish with chives, if desired. Serve warm room temp or cold. (Warm is best)
BLUE CHEESE TART
½ Cup pecan pieces, toasted 1/3 Cup chopped, sun-dried tomatoes
2 pkgs. 3 oz. cream cheese softened 1/4 Cup chopped gr. Onions
½ cup half and half ½ Cup Swiss cheese, shredded
2 eggs 1 1/2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
8 oz crumbled Maytag blue cheese
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Place favorite pie crust or prepared pie crust in greased 11" tart pan with removable bottom. Press on bottom and up sides of pan. Cut away excess pastry; prick all over with fork. Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned. Reduce oven to 350. Place pecans on bottom of pastry shell.
Place cream cheese in larger mixer bowl. Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy. Add half and half and eggs; mix well. Stir in blue cheese well drained tomatoes. green onions, Swiss cheese and Worcestershire sauce by hand. Pour into hot partially baked shell. Bake 35-40 minutes or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Cut into wedges. Garnish with chives, if desired. Serve warm room temp or cold. (Warm is best)
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Iraq Memorial and St. Patrick's Day Parade
This year's Irish march will take place on the day AFTER St. Patrick's. See it tomorrow, Sunday the 18th. Don't miss the biggest ever celebration of all things Irish in New Bern; a total of 70 units and 3 hours of pure fun.
Time: 2-6pm
Route: George St. (The Tryon Palace site) to Broad St. to Middle St. and ending on S. Front Street.
MEMORIAL!
If you need another event for Sunday, in a much more sober mein, there will be a memorial service at Union Point Park for fallen American soldiers in the Middle East. Totally apolitical, honoring those who serve and give their lives for their country, this is New Bern's quiet way to mark the 4th Anniversary of the Iraq War. Color guards, music and a finish with the traditional 21 gun salute all included. Beginning at 4 pm, all the names will be read aloud during which all observers remain silent; a candle will be lit for each name. As darkness falls on the park this should be a wonderful sight and memorial for lost sons, daughters, daddys, mommys and friends who lit up our lives for too short a time.
Time: 2-6pm
Route: George St. (The Tryon Palace site) to Broad St. to Middle St. and ending on S. Front Street.
MEMORIAL!
If you need another event for Sunday, in a much more sober mein, there will be a memorial service at Union Point Park for fallen American soldiers in the Middle East. Totally apolitical, honoring those who serve and give their lives for their country, this is New Bern's quiet way to mark the 4th Anniversary of the Iraq War. Color guards, music and a finish with the traditional 21 gun salute all included. Beginning at 4 pm, all the names will be read aloud during which all observers remain silent; a candle will be lit for each name. As darkness falls on the park this should be a wonderful sight and memorial for lost sons, daughters, daddys, mommys and friends who lit up our lives for too short a time.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Welcome to the New Bern Life blog
This is a new page of information that we'll discuss over the next few months...all about New Bern, NC.
- Events
- Retiree facts
- Historical facts
- Festivals
- Activities
- Clubs
- "Gossip"
- Beach Stuff
- "Wild" life
- Golf Tournaments
- ...whatever I feel like writing about!
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