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Powers Museum 19th Anniversary.

The Powers Museum will celebrate its 19th Anniversary on Saturday, June 16 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, June 17 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The festivities will include refreshments, music, special video presentations and door prizes given on the hour. Every 19th visitor to the museum will receive a special souvenir.

The special Mid-American Art Alliance/Ozarks Plateau traveling photographic exhibit "Grand Ole Opry" will be available for viewing through the 17th. Co-sponsors of the MAAA exhibit include the Carthage Council on the Arts, Community Foundation of Southwest Missouri, Community Foundation of the Ozarks and the National Endowment for the Arts.

A free special education program will also be held at the Museum on June 16th beginning at 1:30 p.m. "High C Diva" Colleen Malette will present a 45 minute interactive performance for children featuring national folk music. This presentation is being sponsored by the Powers Museum, the Carthage Arts Council and the various sponsors of the "Grand Ole Opry" exhibit.

More information may be obtained by calling the Powers Museum at 358-2667.

Monday will be the official end of the fifteenth year of publication of the Mornin’ Mail. For those who don’t want ta figure, we put the first Mail on the street on June 18, 1992. That comes out to about 3,600 issues, and near that many Jake Columns. Looks like even Jake should observe a day of silence ever’ now and then.

‘Course the whole operation is entirely dependent on the cooperation of our readership and our loyal sponsors. Sponsors put up the cash, and the readers have to support the sponsors by walkin’ in the door. Next time you pick up a Mornin’ Mail, be sure to acknowledge your appreciation for those who allow the Mail to occupy valuable counter space. Let those who advertise know you appreciate their contribution. Tell ‘em ya saw it in the Mornin’ Mail.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

Natural Nutrition
By Mari An Willis

The farmers market has made it easy for all of us who did not get out a garden. Fresh is best! Thanks to all of you who have weeded and gathered and taken care of gardens so those of us who have not been able to can share in the summer bounty.

Saucy Vegetable Wraps

from

Enrico’s 60th Anniversary

Recipe Booklet

• 12 8-inch flour tortillas

• 2 tablespoons olive oil

• 1 diced red bell pepper

• 1 chopped small onion

• 1 cubed small eggplant

• 2 cloves minced garlic

• 1/2 cup Enrico’s All Natural

Chunky Style Mild Salsa

• sour cream substitue

• fresh sprouts

Preheat oven to 250.o Warm tortillas in oven while preparing the vegetables and stir until browned.

Add salsa to taste and then wrap mixture in tortillas with sour cream and some fresh sprouts. Enjoy!

artCentral
ART NOTES FROM HYDE HOUSE
By Sally Armstrong, Director of artCentral

No one who has seen the exhibition of art currently being shown here in Carthage at the Hyde House Galleries can say we don’t have variety! Ninety pieces of various media are presented side by side representing forty artists from three states. There are sculptures in marble and alabaster, fiber, metal, and wood, framed photography, oils, acrylics, watercolors and watermedia on our walls, textiles and weaving, jewelry and ceramics on pedestals and platforms. All ages and genders, old members and new. Something truly for everyone!

Seven artists we are seeing for the first time. These include Cha’Tullis of Hominy, Oklahoma and his paintings of horses, Melody Knowles of Carthage has three very different entries in ceramic sculpture and mixed media, Frank Young of Joplin and two oils of city and harbor scenes, Kathleen Day of Nevada and three very different entries, one a metal sculpture, Betsy Cooper of Joplin with intaglio prints and a watercolor, Janice Kinman of Carthage with a pencil sketch and a watercolor, and Kelly Moreland of Joplin and 2 framed textiles. Welcome to these new artist-members of artCentral and their work! If you have not yet had a chance to see this wonderful exhibition we hope you will do so before it closes at the end of the day Sunday the 17th of June. Artists may pick up their work anytime after that day during regular hours or by appointment. And speaking of new artists to our area, the paintings for the next exhibition are already here and we are very pleased and excited to show for the first time in Missouri the work of a Wisconsin artist, Cathy Martin. Her oil paintings are done on masonite board, reflect rural themes and nature, and are elegant and realistic pieces that should be most appealing to all. I invite you to plan to come to this next showing we have scheduled for July 13- August 5th here at our gallery, and additionally see a second exhibit of Cathy’s daughter Lindsey’s photo-realistic paintings in the Member Gallery. Both of these shows should be fantastic!