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Publisher’s Note Far beyond a Fayetteville Footnote T his Food & Wine issue has some great stories in it. But the one dearest to my heart and soul is the story about the Broadfoot family. Kip Broadfoot, his first cousin Wendell Holmes (his mother was a Broadfoot) and I grew up together, creating quite a bit of mischief along the way. We went through childhood, our teens and eventually all became bridegrooms in our first marriages. I am still married to the same woman, but I’m not sure how many wives those two have had since those late days of the 1960s. Kip comes from a long line of Charles Broadfoots. His father was Charles, and Kip is Charles Wetmore Broadfoot III. Kip’s father was a real estate developer. The first project he built was on land where the family used to live when Kip was a child, where the current E.E. Smith High School is now located. I re- member going out there as a boy, and it seemed way out in the country. We would pass Fayetteville State University, turn right and take a long, winding dirt road to this big old house with fields all around it. As Charles’ development business succeeded, the family moved to a new house, still in the country but on the other side of Fayetteville, way out on Morganton Road. Morganton was once a two-lane road all the way to Reilly Road, and at that time we were all teenagers. We would drag race on that long straight road with our parents’ cars to see who was the fastest or more fool- ish. Most of the time it was who was the most foolish. 12 | Food & Wine • 2008 Kip’s father had a wonderful sense of humor and was a practical joker. One Christmas he received a full-dress camouflage hunting outfit as a gift, and on New Year’s Day, after a few cups of New Year’s cheer, he went and put the suit on. Then he decided to lie down on his bed to catch a nap. I walked in his bedroom because someone sent me to look for him. When I walked in, he asked me, “Marshall, can you see me?” I laugh about the moment every time I think of the Broadfoot family. Our families were all very close in those days but death and miles sepa- rate us now. Wendell lives on the West Coast, but his mother Kate and my mother still see each other in Fayette- ville. Both of Kip’s parents are deceased and his brother and sisters live else- where. I still see Kip at the coffee shop or at my neighbors, the Evans family, from time to time, and we talk about old times. There are a lot of good memories of growing up in Fayetteville and all the people we met and the things we did. The mischief we did was mainly drink- ing beer under age. We didn’t do any harm, we just worried our parents. The good Lord was surely watching over us in those days. We are glad to share the Broadfoot family with our readers; they have a long and special heritage in Fayette- ville.CV Marshall Waren, Publisher

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