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Madison
Beautiful and Historic Madison County, Florida
Greater Madison County
Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
248 SW Range Avenue
Madison, FL 32340
850
-
973
-
2788
Fax: 850
-
973
-
8864
Toll Free: 877
-
272
-
3642
Email: chamber@madisonfl.org
Website: www.madisonfl.org
2010 Officers
Dr. Jessica Webb, President
Ina Thompson, Vice President
Lynette Sirmon, Secretary/Treasurer
2010 Board of Directors
Clyde Alexander
•
Roy Ellis
•
Ray Griffin
Deena Hames
•
Adrian Kinsey
•
Ernestine Kinsey
Charles Maultsby
•
Michael Halley
Kim Scarboro
•
Myra Valentine
Brent Whitman
2010 Staff
Ted Ensminger, Executive Director
Cindy Vees, Administrative Office Manager
Christina Dallas, Administrative Assistant
Mickie Salter, Advisor
2010 Tourist Development Council
Jacquelyn Blount
•
Jim Catron
Justin Hamrick
•
Ben Harris
•
Roy Milliron
Latrelle Ragans
•
Shirley Vonroden
Craig Waldrop
•
Teresa Williamson
Cover Photo by Travis Ensminger
Copyright © 2010
Greater Madison County
Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
4
How Do We Write of a River?
9
Madison County, the Faraway Place That’s
Not Far Away
11
Madison County Quick Facts & Stats
12
Madison Blue Springs, A Splash of Outdoors
15
Quilting in Madison County
18
Madison County’s Three Rivers Offer
Canoeing and Kayaking Paradise!
21
A Road Trip Through Beautiful Madison
County
34
Southern Barns
38
The Churches of Madison County
45
Madison County Events
46
Advertiser Index
Magazine
Fall / Winter 2010
Madison Magazine Page
Madison
Magazine
Madison Magazine Page
2
Fall / Winter 2010
Fall / Winter 2010
Madison Magazine Page
3
Madison
Beautiful and Historic Madison County, Florida
Greater Madison County
Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
248 SW Range Avenue
Madison, FL 32340
850
-
973
-
2788
Fax: 850
-
973
-
8864
Toll Free: 877
-
272
-
3642
Email: chamber@madisonfl.org
Website: www.madisonfl.org
2010 Officers
Dr. Jessica Webb, President
Ina Thompson, Vice President
Lynette Sirmon, Secretary/Treasurer
2010 Board of Directors
Clyde Alexander
•
Roy Ellis
•
Ray Griffin
Deena Hames
•
Adrian Kinsey
•
Ernestine Kinsey
Charles Maultsby
•
Michael Halley
Kim Scarboro
•
Myra Valentine
Brent Whitman
2010 Staff
Ted Ensminger, Executive Director
Cindy Vees, Administrative Office Manager
Christina Dallas, Administrative Assistant
Mickie Salter, Advisor
2010 Tourist Development Council
Jacquelyn Blount
•
Jim Catron
Justin Hamrick
•
Ben Harris
•
Roy Milliron
Latrelle Ragans
•
Shirley Vonroden
Craig Waldrop
•
Teresa Williamson
Cover Photo by Travis Ensminger
Copyright © 2010
Greater Madison County
Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
4
How Do We Write of a River?
9
Madison County, the Faraway Place That’s
Not Far Away
11
Madison County Quick Facts & Stats
12
Madison Blue Springs, A Splash of Outdoors
15
Quilting in Madison County
18
Madison County’s Three Rivers Offer
Canoeing and Kayaking Paradise!
21
A Road Trip Through Beautiful Madison
County
34
Southern Barns
38
The Churches of Madison County
45
Madison County Events
46
Advertiser Index
Magazine
Madison Magazine Page
4
Fall / Winter 2010
How Do We Write of A River?
© 2009 by David Lambert
How do we write of a river? Do we say that it passes us
daily carrying life in every molecule? Do we tell of li-
quidity and a river’s willingness to surround and absorb,
to enliven and dissolve? Do we mention the intimacy of
its caress? That we feel its essence by its river baggage
and know of its passing by its current and swirl and force?
Do we tell of the life of a river? The persistent volume
coursing beneath? Do we name it by breadth or depth?
Define it by its banks, its flora, its color, location or
length? Can we can only guess at the forces that engen-
der its flow?
Do we say that a river moves unimpeded, carrying always
downstream the debris of life, surrounding branch and
boulder in a choreography of both nature and the natural,
a dance of life and motion, a liquid ballet that knows nei-
ther stop nor stage?
In telling of a river, do we ask where the river begins;
where it ends? Do we write that a spot of vapor con-
denses, mingles and becomes something larger
–
a trickle
following the downhill track of unknowable earlier uni-
ties.
Do we say that trickles merge and unite, merge and unite?
And those build freshets and rivulets which with time and
travel unite to become creeks? That those creeks become
streams and streams merge and unite and become the
river?
And the river? Do we tell that the river seeks other riv-
ers? That, through merge and travel they become some-
thing bigger, a singular, larger entity? Or do we say that
rivers coalesce into a sea; and the sea into other seas?
And so on, and so on, until they cover the earth? Do we
say that this process is eternal, as never
-
ending as the
earth itself and on this day it begins again? And ends
again?
Or, do we write instead of the light that captures the
river? Of surface shimmers in a silver dance, directed by
currents and orchestrated by the breeze? Do we tell of
swords of light that brighten the depths and of how their
edges soften and bend to form a sort of liquid lambrequin,
light curtains in an underwater world? Do we say that we
have seen the northern lights in the sunbeams of that
world? Can we tell of a river without telling also of light?
Can we tell of nights when the moon hangs obliquely in
the eastern sky and how the river connects both eye and
orb by a singular sulphur pathway? Of how that moon-
path is ours and ours alone; and how no moonpath can be
shared, that every eye will have its own? Do we tell of
the jewels we find there and how we hold them tight to
our chests, of how they are always and only ours, yet not
ours to share?
Do we tell of dirty cotton days and weighty, wet light
when the sky is all sullen and the river offers nothing but
a dull metallic hush? Of the winds that push the leaden
Madison Magazine Page
4
Fall / Winter 2010
How Do We Write of A River?
© 2009 by David Lambert
How do we write of a river? Do we say that it passes us
daily carrying life in every molecule? Do we tell of li-
quidity and a river’s willingness to surround and absorb,
to enliven and dissolve? Do we mention the intimacy of
its caress? That we feel its essence by its river baggage
and know of its passing by its current and swirl and force?
Do we tell of the life of a river? The persistent volume
coursing beneath? Do we name it by breadth or depth?
Define it by its banks, its flora, its color, location or
length? Can we can only guess at the forces that engen-
der its flow?
Do we say that a river moves unimpeded, carrying always
downstream the debris of life, surrounding branch and
boulder in a choreography of both nature and the natural,
a dance of life and motion, a liquid ballet that knows nei-
ther stop nor stage?
In telling of a river, do we ask where the river begins;
where it ends? Do we write that a spot of vapor con-
denses, mingles and becomes something larger
–
a trickle
following the downhill track of unknowable earlier uni-
ties.
Do we say that trickles merge and unite, merge and unite?
And those build freshets and rivulets which with time and
travel unite to become creeks? That those creeks become
streams and streams merge and unite and become the
river?
And the river? Do we tell that the river seeks other riv-
ers? That, through merge and travel they become some-
thing bigger, a singular, larger entity? Or do we say that
rivers coalesce into a sea; and the sea into other seas?
And so on, and so on, until they cover the earth? Do we
say that this process is eternal, as never
-
ending as the
earth itself and on this day it begins again? And ends
again?
Or, do we write instead of the light that captures the
river? Of surface shimmers in a silver dance, directed by
currents and orchestrated by the breeze? Do we tell of
swords of light that brighten the depths and of how their
edges soften and bend to form a sort of liquid lambrequin,
light curtains in an underwater world? Do we say that we
have seen the northern lights in the sunbeams of that
world? Can we tell of a river without telling also of light?
Can we tell of nights when the moon hangs obliquely in
the eastern sky and how the river connects both eye and
orb by a singular sulphur pathway? Of how that moon-
path is ours and ours alone; and how no moonpath can be
shared, that every eye will have its own? Do we tell of
the jewels we find there and how we hold them tight to
our chests, of how they are always and only ours, yet not
ours to share?
Do we tell of dirty cotton days and weighty, wet light
when the sky is all sullen and the river offers nothing but
a dull metallic hush? Of the winds that push the leaden
Fall / Winter 2010
Madison Magazine Page
Madison
Magazine
Madison Magazine Page
2
Fall / Winter 2010
Fall / Winter 2010
Madison Magazine Page
3
Madison
Beautiful and Historic Madison County, Florida
Greater Madison County
Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
248 SW Range Avenue
Madison, FL 32340
850
-
973
-
2788
Fax: 850
-
973
-
8864
Toll Free: 877
-
272
-
3642
Email: chamber@madisonfl.org
Website: www.madisonfl.org
2010 Officers
Dr. Jessica Webb, President
Ina Thompson, Vice President
Lynette Sirmon, Secretary/Treasurer
2010 Board of Directors
Clyde Alexander
•
Roy Ellis
•
Ray Griffin
Deena Hames
•
Adrian Kinsey
•
Ernestine Kinsey
Charles Maultsby
•
Michael Halley
Kim Scarboro
•
Myra Valentine
Brent Whitman
2010 Staff
Ted Ensminger, Executive Director
Cindy Vees, Administrative Office Manager
Christina Dallas, Administrative Assistant
Mickie Salter, Advisor
2010 Tourist Development Council
Jacquelyn Blount
•
Jim Catron
Justin Hamrick
•
Ben Harris
•
Roy Milliron
Latrelle Ragans
•
Shirley Vonroden
Craig Waldrop
•
Teresa Williamson
Cover Photo by Travis Ensminger
Copyright © 2010
Greater Madison County
Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
4
How Do We Write of a River?
9
Madison County, the Faraway Place That’s
Not Far Away
11
Madison County Quick Facts & Stats
12
Madison Blue Springs, A Splash of Outdoors
15
Quilting in Madison County
18
Madison County’s Three Rivers Offer
Canoeing and Kayaking Paradise!
21
A Road Trip Through Beautiful Madison
County
34
Southern Barns
38
The Churches of Madison County
45
Madison County Events
46
Advertiser Index
Magazine
Madison Magazine Page
4
Fall / Winter 2010
How Do We Write of A River?
© 2009 by David Lambert
How do we write of a river? Do we say that it passes us
daily carrying life in every molecule? Do we tell of li-
quidity and a river’s willingness to surround and absorb,
to enliven and dissolve? Do we mention the intimacy of
its caress? That we feel its essence by its river baggage
and know of its passing by its current and swirl and force?
Do we tell of the life of a river? The persistent volume
coursing beneath? Do we name it by breadth or depth?
Define it by its banks, its flora, its color, location or
length? Can we can only guess at the forces that engen-
der its flow?
Do we say that a river moves unimpeded, carrying always
downstream the debris of life, surrounding branch and
boulder in a choreography of both nature and the natural,
a dance of life and motion, a liquid ballet that knows nei-
ther stop nor stage?
In telling of a river, do we ask where the river begins;
where it ends? Do we write that a spot of vapor con-
denses, mingles and becomes something larger
–
a trickle
following the downhill track of unknowable earlier uni-
ties.
Do we say that trickles merge and unite, merge and unite?
And those build freshets and rivulets which with time and
travel unite to become creeks? That those creeks become
streams and streams merge and unite and become the
river?
And the river? Do we tell that the river seeks other riv-
ers? That, through merge and travel they become some-
thing bigger, a singular, larger entity? Or do we say that
rivers coalesce into a sea; and the sea into other seas?
And so on, and so on, until they cover the earth? Do we
say that this process is eternal, as never
-
ending as the
earth itself and on this day it begins again? And ends
again?
Or, do we write instead of the light that captures the
river? Of surface shimmers in a silver dance, directed by
currents and orchestrated by the breeze? Do we tell of
swords of light that brighten the depths and of how their
edges soften and bend to form a sort of liquid lambrequin,
light curtains in an underwater world? Do we say that we
have seen the northern lights in the sunbeams of that
world? Can we tell of a river without telling also of light?
Can we tell of nights when the moon hangs obliquely in
the eastern sky and how the river connects both eye and
orb by a singular sulphur pathway? Of how that moon-
path is ours and ours alone; and how no moonpath can be
shared, that every eye will have its own? Do we tell of
the jewels we find there and how we hold them tight to
our chests, of how they are always and only ours, yet not
ours to share?
Do we tell of dirty cotton days and weighty, wet light
when the sky is all sullen and the river offers nothing but
a dull metallic hush? Of the winds that push the leaden
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