Up and Coming Weekly is a weekly publication in Fayetteville, NC and Fort Bragg, NC area offering local news, views, arts, entertainment and community event and business information.
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4 UCW SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 4, 2022 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM STAFF PUBLISHER Bill Bowman Bill@upandcomingweekly.com OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Paulette Naylor accounting@upandcomingweekly.com MANAGING EDITOR April Olsen editor@upandcomingweekly.com ASSISTANT EDITOR Hannah Lee assistanteditor@upandcomingweekly. com ART DIRECTOR Courtney Sapp-Scott art@upandcomingweekly.com GRAPHIC DESIGNER Isaiah Jones graphics@upandcomingweekly.com STAFF WRITERS Alyson Hansen Ashley Shirley Kathleen Ramsey Jason Brady Chayenne Burns Laura Browne Katrina Wilson Jyl Barlow Deborah Murph Jacobs INTERN R. Elgin Zeiber CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Margaret Dickson, Sen. Ben Clark, David Larson, Chris Herring, Cynthia Ross, D.G. Martin COVER Design by Courtney Sapp-Scott MARKETING ASSOCIATE Linda McAlister linda@upandcomingweekly.com DISTRIBUTION MANAGER/SALES ADMINISTRATOR Laurel Handforth laurel@upandcomingweekly.com Up & Coming Weekly www.upandcomingweekly.com 208 Rowan St. P.O. Box 53461 Fayetteville, NC 28305 PHONE: 910-484-6200- FAX: 910-484-9218 Up & Coming Weekly is a "Quality of Life" publication with local features, news and information on what's happening in and around the Fayetteville/Cumberland County community. Published weekly on Wednesdays, Up & Coming Weekly welcomes manuscripts, photographs and artwork for publication consideration, but assumes no responsibility for them. We cannot accept responsibility for the return of unsolicited manuscripts or material. Opinions expressed by contributors do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher. The publisher reserves the right to edit or reject copy submitted for publication. Up & Coming Weekly is free of charge and distributed at indoor and outdoor locations throughout Fayetteville, Fort Bragg, Pope Army Airfield, Hope Mills and Spring Lake. Readers are limited to one copy per person. © 2020 by F&B Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction or use of editorial or advertisements without permission is strictly prohibited. Various ads with art graphics designed with elements from: vecteezy.com and freepik.com. Association of Community Publishers MARGARET DICKSON, Columnist. COMMENTS? Editor@upandcomin- gweekly.com. 910-484-6200. I did not actually know Queen Elizabeth II — Queen by the Grace of God, Queen of this Realm and of her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith — whose subjects comprise almost one third of the people on earth, but I thought I should. Growing up in the Haymount sec- tion of Fayetteville, I saw her children as potential chums who might want to come over to play and she, as a mother, very much like my own. My delusion sprung from my father's military service in World War II as a medical worker during the D-Day invasions, after which he boarded for a time in the home of an English widow, a Mrs. Fox. Surely, she had a given name, but I never heard it. My father, a courtly and personable Southerner, struck up a friendship with Mrs. Fox, which endured by mail until she died. e two young fami- lies, the Queen's and my own, were in the same stage of life, and Mrs. Fox sent us many photographic books about the British Royal Family. ey were PR efforts to portray the Royal Family as almost regular folks, much as the Kennedys did with their family. I pored over pages of charm- ing photographs of the Windsor fam- ily and little text. e Windsor children were in England doing the same things we were doing in Haymount, swinging, playing with our dogs, and getting into occasional mischief. ey were, I must admit, considerably better dressed and a lot cleaner than we were. I loved those books so much that I nagged my father to write Mrs. Fox to invite the Windsor children to visit us in Fayetteville. I think my desire was prompted by the acquisition of a new backyard wading pool. Needless to say, the Windsor chil- dren never showed. Queen Elizabeth's death has gener- ated worldwide respect for her and the institution she embodied, for her perseverance and wry sense of humor, and for the family trials and tribulations she endured with the unbelievable antics and worse of her now thoroughly grown children and their wacky spouses. We all live through some of that. e difference is that the Windsors played out their troubles and their joys on the world stage. e rest of us can keep at least our troubles close to the vest. Queen Elizabeth II presided over the final days of the once global British Empire, knew every U.S. President since Harry Truman except Lyndon Johnson who did once throw a White House party for the Queen's glamorous younger sister. She met weekly with Prime Ministers from Winston Churchill to the brand new Liz Truss. She rarely showed emotion in public, and famously so, be- cause she was loath to indicate an opinion on any matter. In her private life, she was said to be warm and engaging, with a quick wit, a woman who loved her dogs and horses, who enjoyed her toddies, including a glass of champagne before bed every night, and whose grandchildren called her "Granny." Queen Elizabeth did all this and more with dignity and a constant and unwavering hairdo that could have been styled in a downtown Fayetteville beauty parlor in 1965. Most people on earth have not lived a day without the reassuring knowledge that the Queen was some- where in the world calmly carrying on, pocketbook firmly in hand. She had no real legal or political power, but her presence was felt by her billions of subjects and the rest of us. Hers was a life well lived and a job well done. PUBLISHER'S PEN The mother across the pond by MARGARET DICKSON (Photo courtesy www.royal.uk/) Queen Elizabeth II 1926-2022 (Photo courtesy www.facebook.com/eBritishMonarchy/)