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Giving A Bit of Oriental This Year

There are now almost half a dozen art galleries where you can buy locally made art. Circle 10 has a good supply of dragon art from their recent dragon show, as well as non-dragon pottery, paintings and photos.

Circle10 is one of several Oriental art galleries with local works inside, but it may be the only one with a dragon guarding the door. The gallery is selling scales for the dragon as a fundraising project (which offers yet another gift possibility.)

Village Gallery on Hodges.

Village Gallery’s artists have also been ramping up with lots of selections for the holidays, as have Gil and Laura at Hodges Street Studio. And if you’re just not sure exactly what art to buy, they all say they’ll sell gift certificates.

Oriental’s History Museum is selling necklaces made from bits of china and crockery that Grace Evans has been collecting for years from the waters off of town.

Shards from the Neuse turned in to necklaces.

Since we mentioned the necklaces the other day, they’ve been going fast. The Museum is also selling T-shirts, mugs, trivets and books, including one about the Steamer Oriental — which has everything the history buff on your list could ever want to know about the ship and shipwreck that gave Oriental its name.

Booklet by Oriental Steamer researcher Lou Ostendorff. It’s available at Oriental History Museum as well as at the Inland Waterway Provision Company.

Gifts That You Don’t Have to Wrap

For the person who has everything — and no room for any more things — may we suggest, a brick? Oriental’s Old Theater is reviving its Buy a Brick fundraising campaign, in which a name is engraved in a red brick and then placed in the sidewalk alongside the theater.

Your name – or their name – here.

You can also give a bit of what goes on inside the Old Theater – tickets to some of the upcoming shows that the Pamlico Musical Society and others are presenting this winter and spring.

One gift that stands little risk of being re-gifted: the Ambulance Fund is selling the highly reflective number curbside plaques that help EMT’s find houses in a hurry.

Finally, the Oriental Farmers’ Market, as it does just about every Saturday of the year, offers up locally made, locally grown items.

Foods and crafts to give can be found at the Farmers’ Market. Here, Bonnie Cap sells ornaments made of cedar..

Whether you live in town or read this from afar, we hope you’ll visit — in person or on line — the businesses and galleries in Oriental. It’s the gift that keeps on giving…

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Posted Thursday December 17, 2009 by Melinda Penkava

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