BEAUFORT'S BEST: WARSHAW BOOK IS FINALLY ON ITS WAY!!

PORCHSCAPES
The Colors of Beaufort, North Carolina
Three Centuries of History Woven Through Art and Words
by Beaufort artist and historian Mary Warshaw

ADVANCED DISPLAY COPIES

are available for viewing in Beaufort at the BHA Giftshop, Handscapes Gallery, Rocking

Chair Bookstore, and Scuttlebutt; Dee Gee's in Morehead City; Eastern Offset in Atlantic Beach and Tidewater Gallery in Swansboro. Retailers will be taking orders from customers who wish to pick up their copies as soon as books arrive - about December 10th.

The tactile "leather" cover, with its full-color inlay of Front Street houses, is a beautiful hardcover introduction to Mary Warshaw's 11x8½ 200-page coffee-table artbook of Beaufort history.

Compiled over the past eight years, the book's foundation is built around the houses that create Beaufort's street vistas and the people who built and lived in these "Architecture Treaures." Besides the fifty featured house paintings and family histories, woven into this book are many other histories, from those who first touched the sand banks to the history of the Beaufort plaque - all with full-color images. Contributions by architectural historians Tony P. Wrenn and Edward F. Turberg add more history and visuals to round out the book. Wrenn's introduction is a wonderful "love song" to Beaufort. His friend Ed Turberg, whose 1985 thumbnail sketches are included, commented that Wrenn's introduction "should be put to music." After seeing a preview of Porchscapes, Turberg commented, this book will be "a treasure for the ages."

Books may, of course, be purchased directly from Mary Warshaw or ordered for shipping by emailing the author.

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Be sure to read this post and the link regarding heat stroke in canines.

Winston suffered an intense heat stroke this summer after walking to the waterfront. He collapsed after arriving home. My brother and I cooled him as best we could with the hose and a wet towel. Vomiting and diarrhea followed. He could hold his head up, but still couldn't move. As luck would have it, it was after hours, so he had to be transported, using a beach-towel sling to get him to the car, to the Emergency Vet in Havelock. He spent the night - on an IV and steroids. He had already started internal hemorrhaging and the doctors were worried about internal organ damage.

Winston spent the next day at a local Vet. To avoid the trip back to Havelock for overnight monitoring, he came home in the afternoon to spend the night before going back this morning for more tests and observation. He could stand but wouldn't/couldn't walk - again had to be transported by the sling.

Winston didn't move - sleeping for 10 hours straight until he woke and went outside on his own. For the first time, he ate a little and drank some water. He actually walked to the car before being taken back to the Vet.

Winston is back to normal, but the experience caused me to do this post. I hope readers will take time to read and be aware of exactly what to do for canine heat stroke.

The important thing to remember - even if you think your dog has cooled down and improving - is that you can't see what's going on internally and it is absolutely VITAL that you seek medical attention.

In case this happens to your dog or one of your neighbors dogs, please read Heat Stroke (a good comprehensive), Google to find out more AND have Vet numbers handy, including the 444-1399 Emergency Vet number. It would also be a good idea to know the location of this Havelock facility.

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