The Village Voice - Old Hickory

The Village Voice

By: Historic Old Hickory Village (HOHV) P.O. Box 13, Old Hickory TN 37138

- Spring 2007

Old Hickory Home Tour Returns to Its Historic Roots

By Allison Baird

Historic Old Hickory Village Makes the News

By Allison Baird

The 2007 History Old Hickory Home and Garden Tour is set for Saturday, May 19th. This year's tour features five of the original ten styles of homes built by the DuPont company in 1918, including three Arlingtons, one Bay Tree, three Haskells, one Georgia and one Cumberland. This year's only contemporary home is a brand new "seaside colonial" with breathtaking views of Old Hickory Lake. Seven of the historic homes have recently been restored and updated with modern conveniences. One has even been chosen for and upcoming episode of A&E's program "Find an Design." Another, which was under construction for last year's tour is nearing completion and returns for the public to view. Although the floorplans on these homes may have all begun the same, they have all changed and taken on new lives over the years.

The Old Hickory Art Center also returns as a new tradition to the Historic Home Tour. The Art Center is open to Old Hickory residents daily. A couple times each year the center opens its doors and offers paintings by local artists who use the center for purchase. These works include water color, oil and acrylic, large and small of innumerable subjects. Proceeds from the sale will provide for supplies and other needs for the center. Many of the pieces available were recently featured on the popular NPT program Tennessee Crossroads.

If you recently saw a News 2 truck driving around the village don't worry. They were not here doing a story about someone getting in trouble, complaining or anything else you would usually see on the news. The Village was chosen as Jennifer Moran's Community of the Week. She liked it so much, she also chose one of our homes as The Home of the Week.

Jennifer is News 2's Real Estate Video Journalist and also has her own blog about communities and homes she visits.

Our stories were originally scheduled to air the week of April 24th, but were bumped because of severe weather in News 2's viewing area. However, a little birdie told me that we should be on Thursday and Friday May 3 and 4 on the 5 o'clock news, unless of course there is breaking news or bad weather.

In the event you miss it, HOHV plans to have a link to Jennifer's blog on our website at . You can read about other communities Jennifer has profiled on her blog .

Home and Yard of the Month

In addition to the homes, you may also take peek in to many classic cars that will be parked throughout the village. Local acoustic singer songwriters will provide entertainment and if you're hungry you can stop by the Mason's Lodge for its annual Fish Fry from 11-6.

Tickets for the Historic Old Hickory Home Tour are $12 and will be on sale at the Old Hickory Library at 1010 Jones Street from 10-4. The tour runs until 5pm. Proceeds from home tour fund a large portion of Historic Old Hickory Village's budget for the year.

Congratulations to our two Home and Yard of the Month Winners for April!

905 Hadley Ave 900 Fowler Street If you'd like to nominate a home contact us through the website or call Terry Torre at 847-4410.

Show your Village pride by purchasing an Old Hickory hat, coffee mug or T-shirt at the library the day of the event. The recently reprinted Village Floorplan book will be on sale for $8 with ticket purchase. Thanks for your support.

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2007 HOHV Board Members

Historic Old Hickory Village (HOHV) held its last meeting Monday, April 2, 2007 at the Old Hickory Community Center. The following is a list of 2007 officers and board members:

Shelly Cargill, President

Allison Baird, Vice-President

Melissa Bess, Secretary

James Waller, Treasurer

Benny Amos, Board Member

Jody Bess, Board Member Jim Bradford, Board Member "Red" Dean, Board Member

L to R Back Row: Ben Denton, Don Swartz, William Smith, Mark Branstetter, Susan Meece, Front Row: Joyce Coggin, Terri Torre, Jim Stokley. Not shown: Michelle Morse and Darren Jernigan.

Ricky McClintock, Board Member Don Swartz, Board Member Terry Torre, Board Member Bob Yates, Board Member Jill Ziegler, Board Member

Old Hickory Village and Rayon City Clean up Their Act

If you noticed less brush and trash in Rayon City and Old Hickory Village, there's a reason. During a March and April residents of both communities with the help of juveniles needing to do some community service work teamed up to clean up their neighborhoods.

HOHV meets the first Monday of the month at the Old Among the areas covered were many parts of Rayon Hickory Community Center at 6:30 P.M. Residents in the City, the Bicentennial Park and Gazebo, the cemetery

Old Hickory Village are invited to attend and get involved in across from Maisie's and the Veteran's Park. While

making the village a better place to live.

some volunteers cleared brush, leaves and trash oth-

ers drove around providing them with cool drinks and

snacks.

A cleanup was recently held at Rachel's Walk. Although weeding was done, this area is in need of some "regulars" to help keep it looking good. If you are interested, contact Terri Torre at 847-4410.

The next organized cleanup is scheduled for Saturday May 12th at 9am to get the Home Tour route looking good. Call 207- 0977 to sign up.

Thanks to all of the volunteers for all of their hard work!

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More cleanup volunteers. L to R back row: Rick McClintock, Sandra Eddins, Jill Ziegler, Susan Meece, Phyllis Williams, Wilson Stewart. L to R Front row: Terri Torre, Darren Jernigan and Kelly Morrison.

Lakewood Beautification Task Force Creates Website

By Allison Baird

Upcoming Dates and Events

May 6 Dupont High School Alumni Room Grand Opening. 1-4 at Dupont Hadley Middle School. More info at

May 7 Historic Old Hickory Village Board Meeting. 6:30pm Community Center. All village residents are invited to attend to find out what's going on in our community.

May 10 Old Hickory Chamber of Commerce Dinner $10 Old Hickory Country Club 6 p.m.

May 12 Community Wide Yard Sale All day long at many homes throughout the Village and Rayon City. See ads in newspapers.

May 12 Spring Clean-up Day 9am Community Center. This annual event is anticipation of the home tour. Volunteers will clean up the tour route.

May 19 Historic Old Hickory Village Home Tour and Art Sale. 10am-5pm. Tickets are $12 and are available at the Old Hickory Library on Jones Street the day of the tour.

May 19 Masonic Lodge Fish Fry11am-6pm Hadley Av

For more dates and information or to post an event contact us through

Neighbors in Lakewood began the year by creating a task force to beautify the city. Now they have a website to help bring neighbors and city commissioners together.

The goal of the task force is to "improve and complement the visual appearance of Old Hickory Boulevard", according to April Consulo the group's organizer. These improvements include upgrading businesses to make them more accessible for those with disabilities and new signs on both sides of Old Hickory Boulevard as you enter Lakewood. They also recently held a clean up day.

The new website address is and is chock full of information about Lakewood, its history and people. Surf on over there for more information, photos and upcoming events.

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Veterans Memorial Park Seeks Donations

Mama's Cooking

By Susan Lamb

For many, Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer, the end of school or an extra day off of work. Although all of those thing may be true, the real reason behind Memorial Day is to memorialize military heroes who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country.

The Veterans Memorial Park Committee is entering a new

Wow! Spring has suddenly burst out all around us. And amidst all the fresh growth and color comes the return of some old friends, allergies, bees sunburn and Skillet Cake, a simple one layer scratch

phase of fundraising to complete its goals of memorializing our veterans. The final phase of its project will honor those who served during the Korean, Vietnam and Iraq conflicts by adding benches, plaques and full gazebo restoration.

cake recipe with a gold-kissed crust from a cast iron skillet. New donation levels have been established.

This recipe was such a hit last spring that we brought it back by popular demand.

Purple Heart $250 Bronze Star $500

Skillet Cake 1/2 cup butter

Silver Star

$750

Congressional Medal of Honor $1,000 and above.

1 cup sugar 2 eggs

2 cups flour 1 cup milk

All donors at the Purple Heart level and above will have their name engraved on a new monument. For more information contact Kris Brummett at 847-

6382 or Darren Jernigan at 351-1685.

Cream butter and sugar together, then cream eggs

into mixture. Add in flour one cup at a time. Mix in

milk, but don't over mix.

Historic Old Hickory Village is

Bake at 325 degrees in a pre-heated cast iron skillet

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for about 25-30 minutes until the top is golden brown. Check with a toothpick. If it comes out clean, it's done. (May also be baked in a regular cake pan)

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A personal note from Susan--

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Many of you may know that I lost my sister Joyce to a blessedly brief struggle with cancer. In the middle of that struggle, my family and I were repeatedly blessed by this community. At a time when the world's peace is divided by issues of politics and profit (and our neighbors are often divided by local versions of these same issues) it's good to remember that neighbors are valued. Kindness is a great gift and I am so grateful that God's amazing grace gave me the kindness of neighbors here in Old Hickory. I thank each of you for your part in that gift.

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