By: Lorraine Sedor
I spoke recently to Emma Stults, who is spending the summer on Long Beach Island.
She is awaiting the arrival of her daughter, Holly, who crafts silver and gold jewelry. Holly lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and comes out to exhibit her work at the annual Loveladies Arts and Crafts Festival, the weekend of Aug. 5 and 6. The festival is run by the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and is held at 120 Long Beach Blvd.
Holly has been exhibiting at the festival for the past three years and has been designing jewelry for 20 years. Primarily self-taught, Holly teaches at Santa Fe Community College and has taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
Holly will be on Long Beach Island through Aug. 15, and if you’d like to see her and her work, you will find her at booth 51.
Two New Jersey galleries also feature her work, Beautiful Things in Scotch Plains and Whichcraft in Millburn.
Her web site includes an on-line catalog. The address is silverhawk.com/ex98/stulh.
August is your last chance to view the Cranbury Museum’s exhibit, "Cranbury Scenes by Cranbury Artists." The exhibit features eleven artists, each with his own vision of our town. Most of the canvases on display are for sale, although a number have already been sold. A portion of the proceeds from the sale will be donated to the Historical Society. The Cranbury Museum, located at 4 Park Place East, is open Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m.
Katherine Pease shared her summer reading list recently. Right now she’s reading "In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" by Nathaniel Philbrick. It describes the 19th-Century Nantucket whaling industry and the loss of the Essex, upon which Herman Melville based "Moby Dick."
Katherine also just finished James Patterson’s "Cradle and All," the latest in his series of "nursery rhyme" thrillers. Set in Boston, the book revolves around an ex-nun detective hired by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate two pregnant teenagers, who supposedly are destined to deliver "unspeakable evil and a miraculous force" into the world. Katherine loved it!
Aaron Patterson, grandson of Dorothy and Charlie Patterson of Evans Drive, is heading off to St. Andrew’s, Scotland, not necessarily to play golf, but to attend college. Aaron is the son of Charlie and Debbie Patterson who live in Medford Lakes, where he never missed a day of high school and still managed to play a few rounds of golf.
As a matter of fact, he was a high school champion in the sport and a caddie at Pine Valley Golf Course. It was only after he was accepted to St. Andrew’s as a business major that he learned of the availability of the Ransome Trust Scholarship, a full-merit scholarship to St. Andrew’s. Aaron was awarded the scholarship, which includes tuition, room and board and a living stipend, as well as two round-trip air tickets, so that he can come home to visit a few times.
Needless to say Dottie is thrilled for her grandson and is looking forward to her first-ever trip to Europe some time in the near future to visit Aaron, "What better excuse to make the trip!"
Aaron’s parents and sister Sandy, who is a student at Penn State, plan to visit over Thanksgiving.
Residents can contact Ms. Sedor by phone at (609) 655-3386, by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail at 32 Evans Drive, Cranbury, N.J. 08512.