Good morning! We hope you enjoyed the holiday and managed to get some good eats in. We’re back with our Sunday newsletter, this time spotlighting our December magazine issue, which launched online today. In our “Home for the Holidays” issue, we hope you’ll find finding warmth through stories of restoration, tradition and care.
But first, writer Allison Underwood takes us behind the scenes of a beloved Renaissance-themed dinner and theater experience in Fayetteville: the Yuletide Feaste. The long-awaited fundraising event is returning for the first time since 2022, presented this year by Cumberland Choral Arts. Read Allison’s story below.
Welcome to CityView Today. Also in today’s newsletter, Magazine Editor Valeria Cloës welcomes readers to the December magazine issue, and Bill Kirby Jr. remembers longtime Fayetteville resident Evelyn Fay Spicer.
Thanks for reading,
Maydha Devarajan
Interim Editor-in-Chief
A Yuletide Feaste for the ages
As the holiday season nears in our community, downtown springs to life with festive wreaths and twinkly lights lining the streets. People begin their gift shopping, and the holiday spirit sparks in us all. Old traditions join with new ones, and some traditions rise from the ashes to start again. One of those traditions is the beloved Yuletide Feaste.
THE KIRBY FILE: The red, brick house overlooking the rolling hills was forever a home
When Evelyn Fay Spicer’s husband, Bob Spicer, developed Alzheimer’s and then the debilitating stroke, she never left his side. “She said that was her place,” a daughter remembers. Evelyn Fay Ingle Spicer died peacefully at age 98 on Nov. 18 in her home.
Finding warmth in the holiday season through restoration, tradition, and care
With this December CityView magazine, the year is almost to a close. I can’t help but pause and think, “Where has the time gone?” But before I start nostalgically reminiscing on the past year any further, the winter season’s holiday cheer has come knocking on our door.
Our “Home for the Holidays” issue is here!
Continue reading Valeria’s column.
Events
NEW MOON MEDITATION AND PAINT WORKSHOP
- Where: Prima Elements Holistic Wellness Center, 124 Anderson St., Fayetteville
- When: 6-7:30 p.m. today
- What: Join us for a chill evening of painting and meditation under the enchanting New Moon vibes — relax, create, and find your inner zen!
PUPPY YOGA
- Where: Depot Park, Downtown, Sanford
- When: 10-11:30 a.m. today
- What: Mark your calendars now for Puppy Yoga, a benefit class for Carolina Animal Rescue and Adoption.
FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS
- Where: Lu Mil Vineyard, 438 Suggs-Taylor Road, Elizabethtown
- When: Today
- What: Enjoy a festival of lights at Lu Mil Vineyard.
Obituaries
Deloise A. Lucy
Deloise A. Lucy, 74, of Elizabethtown, passed away on Tuesday, Nov. 26.
Ruth Ledford Ruppe
Ruth Ledford Ruppe, 93, of Fayetteville, passed away on Monday, Nov. 25.
Dorothy Margaret LaRock
Dorothy Margaret LaRock, 82, of White Oak, passed away on Tuesday, November 26.
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