Tea

Tickets still are available for the Chautauqua tea 3-5 p.m. Thursday at Two Roads Cafe. The $15 cost includes full tea, performance and tax/gratuity Patricia Backhaus will speak on "The American Girl: Martha Awkerman, cornet soloist of the Women in the Air Force Band. " Elizabeth Wolfe is piano accompanist.

The unseasonably warm weather last week was a welcome reprieve from our usual cold, snowy days. Saturday was an absolutely beautiful day that I enjoyed to the fullest. Saturday morning, I was invited to the Nature’s Thyme Herb Group Annual Herbal Tea in Garrard County. These ladies went all out to make this event an outstanding success. Each table was decorated by theme. The table where I was seated was decorated with chocolate as the theme. There were chocolate-scented geraniums and chocolate-mint tea. Chocolate candies were scattered among fresh plants and flowers as the centerpiece.

The Brits long have had the reputation for doing up tea like nobody else but tea master Bruce Richardson says the Parisians do it even better than their London cousins. "To people in England, tea is like wallpaper - it's part of daily life," Richard explains. "In Paris, tea, like art and food, is treated with great respect and anything they do is going to be done beautifully. "They embrace the Asian tradition of tea. That means they look for beautiful green, white and oolong teas that are often pricey and rare, and they brew them perfectly.

Drop your shopping bags off at home and head to the library Wednesday for some relaxation.The Clark County Public Library's third annual open house will be a place "where you can just walk in and not have anything to do except enjoy yourself," said library director Julie Maruskin. "It's literally community-wide, it's not related to any one special holiday. " From 9 a.m to 8 p.m., there will be coffee, tea and light snacks for adults. Kids can munch on dried fruit and sip juice.

How many hammered dulcimers does it take to break a record? Last weekend, Conrad Shiba of Danville played one of 271 hammered dulcimers as part of an effort to break the world's record during the Annual Dulcimer Musical Funfest in Evart, Mich. A weekend of rain may have been the reason the group was unable to have 303 players, the number needed to set a new record. The performance by 271 still was impressive, Shiba said. "That's 16,820 strings being struck by hammers.

In celebration of Mother’s Day, Council Oaks Assisted Living Home of Nicholasville held a Mother’s Day tea. Many desserts were served as well as a variety of tea. At the conclusion of our tea, families were encouraged to stay for a Style your Sole party. Each of our residents received a pair of white canvas TOMS shoes that they were able to paint and decorate. TOMS is a for-profit organization with a not-for-profit goal. For every pair of shoes TOMS sells, it sends a pair of shoes to a child who doesn’t have any. The ministry is helping to prevent children from getting serious foot diseases.

Novice Reed liked to dress up, says Nellie Reed, his daughter-in-law. When he wasn't working for Southern Railway, he would "put on a white shirt and go to town," she says. When he died, her husband, Dale, inherited the cuff links. He has kept them because they belonged to his father, even though he doesn't wear them. "He doesn't have a shirt for them," Reed says. "He doesn't dress like his dad did. " Bruce Richardson says most of his shirts are French cuff - what you need for a proper pair of cuff links.

Feb. 9, 1986 Cynde T. Dundon, Clark County’s new Home Economics Extension Agent, will be honored at a tea from 2 until 4 p.m. Sunday by Elizabeth Chalfant at her home on Stonecrest Road. Members of the Clark County Homemakers will be hostesses for the tea. Cub Scout Pack 56 recently held its Blue and Gold banquet and pack meeting. Tom Young, Midland Trail district manager, was the guest speaker. Joe Bennett, scouting coordinator, received a certificate of appreciation.

Dear Editor: I remember when Dr. Thomas Clark brought his new bride, Loretta, to Elmwood Inn for tea - he was 93 and she was 75. I asked Mrs. Clark where they were heading for their honeymoon. "Oh, we're driving to Oxford where Tom will speak on the campus of Ole Miss," she said. I asked if she was the chauffeur in the family. "No. Tom will be doing all the driving," she quickly replied. "You know how he loves to drive!" He continued to drive until he was 99. He decided to turn the responsibility over to someone else after losing a couple of front teeth in an unfortunate fender-bender in Mt. Sterling.

Redbud blossoms in October. It could be because love is in bloom. The redbud at the home of Irvin and Betty Worthington on Worthington Road has never stopped blooming this year. Worthington wonders if the tree might have set some sort of a record. Mrs. Worthington doesn't know just when blossoms first appeared on the redbud but the blooms have spanned a budding relationship. She met Worthington in April while she was passing out food samples at Wal-Mart. "I've heard the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

A large room full of nicely dressed men and women were given a sneak peek at one of this weekend's performers for the Great American Brass Band Festival. A United Kingdom group called The Black Dyke Band featured its Youth Trombone Quartet at the annual musical Chautauqua Tea, held Thursday afternoon at The Presbyterian Church downtown. The tea, in its 24th year, is hosted by a local Philanthropic Educational Organization - PEO - which is a group designed to help women achieve greater educational success.

The Friends of the Library will kick off its spring program series at the group's Annual Meeting & Tea at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in the community room at the Boyle County Public Library. The program will include the Kentucky Chautauqua presentation of “Mary Settles - The Last Shaker at Pleasant Hill,” featuring Janet Scott. The presentation tells the story of Mary Settles, born in 1836 in Louisville. She developed a love for learning at an early age. Mary was teaching in Louisville when she married Frank Settles.

The Bluegrass State is known as a place for fast horses, great bourbon and excellent basketball. However, over the years, Boyle County resident Bruce Richardson has been striving to add fine teas to that list.    “I had a friend, his name is John Harney in New York and he's one of the grand tea gurus of the American tea renaissance, he used to introduce me to audiences by saying, 'If Bruce Richardson can sell tea in the middle of...

Ruth Fredericksen drove 17 straight hours from just outside Austin, Texas, to attend the annual Chataugua Tea on Thursday afternoon the Presbyterian Church of Danville. She arrived just in time to slide into a chair saved for her by her sisters, Rita Walker and Kay Berggren. Fredericksen was in town visiting Berggren and plans to continue on to Wisconsin where she summers with Walker. Walker had driven in from Wisconsin earlier in the week to visit Berggren. Berggren lives in Danville.

Don't sacrifice the “possible” for the “perfect.” That's the latest and greatest advice a Bowling Green Daily News editorial delivered to those affiliated with the Tea Party movement - via a “memo.” The editorial pointed to 2010 elections in Nevada and Delaware - elections where Tea Partiers passionately backed candidates not supported by the political establishment. These candidates won their primaries but eventually lost to leftist Democrats. Citing polls indicating that those defeated in the primaries could have come out victorious in the general election, the editorial concluded: “These are two seats that the Republicans may well have picked up had the Tea Party stayed out of those particular races.” But this shows a shallow and incomplete understanding about what the Tea Party is about as well as what it is not about.  The Tea Party is not a political party.

FORKLAND - The annual tea held here the day before Mother's Day this year will have an “angelic garden” theme. Tea organizer Kathy Coyle said the decor will feature angels, waterfalls and plants. Longtime Forkland resident Doris Purdom has created 10 homemade angels, Coyle said. “They are very pretty,” Coyle said of Purdom's creations, which will decorate the community center. “She did an excellent job.” Coyle said she decides on a theme based on simple criteria, mainly what decorations are readily.  This year's menu also reflects the angel theme.

The Kentucky School for the Deaf Christmas Tea and Tour will be 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday at Jacobs Hall, 303 S. Second St. on the KSD campus, with tours of six other historic homes and buildings around town included.  Advance tickets are $15 and may be purchased at the Danville-Boyle County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Heart of Danville, Maple Tree Gallery and area stores. They may also be purchased at Jacobs Hall or any other of the tour locations on Dec. 10. Admission for children under 5 is free.

Kakuzo Okakura's “The Book of Tea” first was published in 1906. It's never been out of print, and it's one of the most influential books written for tea-lovers. “The Book of Tea” recently was released by Perryville's Benjamin Press, with an introduction by world-renowned tea blender and writer Bruce Richardson. He said “The Book of Tea” was in anybody's library who was in to tea or art. “He basically interpreted the Japanese art aesthetic to the Western world at the turn of the 20th century,” Richardson explained in a telephone interview.

HARRODSBURG - The Mansion Museum at Old Fort Harrod State Park will be filled with sounds of past and present during the monthly teas set to be held there. Participants are even encouraged to wear period attire, and those who do will get in free to the events. Marilyn Allen, an employee at the park, said the first tea is set for 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Mansion Museum. That edifice was a residence from 1810 to 1825. Allen said a lot of people ignore the Mansion Museum, theorizing that perhaps the word “museum” is too intimidating for most people.