Abbotts Keep On Working
Retirement for Tom and Mary Abbott leads to a new venture with T M Crafts in Aiken. Tom left Du Pont after 28 years and Mary resigned after 22 years with the Department of Energy to pursue the couple’s lifelong dream. A framed plan grew after a Franklin NC craft shop visit and a decision to rent a small Silver Bluff Road building.
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Mary Abbott
Abbotts
T&m Crafts
Tom Abbott
du Pont
Mary
Department of Energy
N.C
Aiken
Silver Bluff Road
T&M Crafts founders build thriving craft shop in Aiken
Neighbors, the Abbotts, run T&M Crafts a year old in Aiken. The couple fills a small shop with cross stitch supplies prints and crafts while expanding display space. They emphasize personal service, aiding young artists and elderly artisans and balancing low prices with quality work.
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Abbotts
Tom
Mary
T&m Crafts
Rules For TV Jocks From A Bombeck Perspective
Syndicated columnist Joe Erma Bombeck lampoons Supreme Court rulings on televised sports and legal limits. The piece argues wives deserve control over their husbands Sunday obsessions, proposing humorous legal twists and moral questions about heavy sports viewing.
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South Pacific
Aiken Senior Shines At Brevard Music Center
Martha Caldwell, a senior at Aiken High School, spent six and a half weeks at the Brevard Music Center on two scholarships. She joined the Transylvania Youth Orchestra and later the symphonic orchestra and wind ensemble. Martha plans to study oceanography at the University of Miami, treating music as a hobby.
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Brevard
N.C
Aiken
Martha Caldwell
Aiken High School
Martha
Brevard Music Center
South Carolina Federation of Music Clubs
Fred Caldwell
Transylvania
California
Denmark
Penny Bagwell
University of Miami
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Ginny Southworth
McNeil
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Erma Bombeck
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O.K
Curt Gowdy
I.V
Aiken High
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