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Brett Grimm thinks like a penny-pinching homeowner about distinguished Crescent Bend House & Gardens.

While the 1834 stucco-over-brick living quarters looks beautiful under spotlights at night, he turns off the lights unless a fete is going on. The sunroom's wooden floor doesn't get refinished as often as it hand-me-down to. Garden fountains are on timers; he'll buy cheaper flower bulbs. "Everybody's in firm times," says Grimm, the house trustee of 17 years.

At what's now Kingston Pike and Neyland Ride, Crescent Bend was built in 1834 on Drury Paine Armstrong's 900-acre grange. By 1974, the house was divided into apartments and faced being razed for grave-rise college student housing. But the Toms Foundation begun by Knoxville businessman William P. "Buck" Toms bought the effects and restored it as a house museum to display Toms' collection of antiques and pretty.

The museum opened in 1977; the Italian terraced gardens behind it were built in 1981. Now Crescent-shaped Bend is likely best known as the house whose gardens are filled with tulips and brides.

Source: Knoxville News Sentinel

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Palm Coast is, quite simply, a perfect vacation spot, consent Tom and Monica Hodge, who divide their time among several homes worldwide, including one on the Mediterranean eyot of Cypress. But they have been coming to Palm Beach on holiday for 35 years.

“It’s a weighty place to come with the grandchildren, and it’s a very nice subsistence,” Tom Hodge says.

“We love walking to the seashore and along the Intracoastal Waterway. And we love driving to the local restaurants on the holm. In fact, although we often stay for weeks in Palm Beach, we find that we don’t turn one's back on the island because everything we want is right here.”

Their 1939 Bermuda-pattern home is at 201 Indian Road at the northern tip of the eyot on a corner lot with deeded beach access. They bought the domicile about a half-dozen years ago and extensively renovated it to reconcile the needs of their family.

The main house has three bedrooms and four bathrooms, while in the analyse guesthouse are two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a kitchenette. That adds up to 4,149 rectangular feet of living space, inside and out.

Source: Palm Beach Daily News

How Can I Reorganize Floor Toms Stands?

by Vaughn
(Riverside , Ca.)

Thanks for your position! Doubt. I have 2 touchstone
keyboard floor toms w/ the 3 spindly legs on them. Is there any armaments that will covert these into drums up and off the floor. Alike resemble to Floor toms i've seen by DW/Pacifica and some Yamaha sets. I don't have any side mount that will blunder onto a components/floor tom confront. Any suggestions?

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Hi, Vaughn--

I tried looking at some DW and Yamaha sets and could not see the gentle of floor tom mount that you are talking about.

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Source: How Can I Modify Floor Toms Stands?

by Adam Jones (Rhythm Magazine)

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