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38 into it, and then some," Smedberg says, just as a repairman tells him that a promised $500 air conditioning repair will actually be about $1,200. "I'm slowly but surely getting it back into shape, where the budget allows." Smedberg wanders up to the third floor, a 15-by-46-foot hallway that traverses the entire building from front to back sideways, which is covered in original horsehair plaster that arches from the floor over the ceiling. Nearby one can see the wooden pegs used in framing the house, which architects say will sway in severe weather and could serve as a model for storm stabilizers in modern buildings. Bark still on the ceiling and rafter timbers is from trees that started growing on the farm prior to the Revolutionary War. Nowadays, Smedberg promotes farm-to-table meals and neighbors being friends rather than acquaintances, which he's found in Eutaw. He devotes much of his spare time to telling the world about the wonders of his adopted hometown via a website he built and maintains. "I feel like I've been so God-blessed, so much more than I deserve, in Eutaw," he says. Newest Everhope lodging is the restored Pecan Shelling House. CHEF'S SAUCE SOON IN GROCERY STORES Chef "Smokin' Joe" Summerville is soon taking a family tradition public at Publix and other grocery stores across Alabama. Smokin' Joe's Pleasant Ridge BBQ Sauce, refined through generations of Summervilles and Spencers in Eutaw, will enhance chicken, pork, sausage, beef and fish dishes. "I watched my dad a lot when I was young," says Summerville. "He barbecued a lot and his dad barbecued a lot. When I was growing up, my aunt was making a sauce that I've taken, changed a lile bit with a couple of things to enhance it." Summerville has been aempting to market his sauce for several years but found manufacturers always wanted to "change something" to speed mass production. He wanted nothing to do with that, so he went to friends at Pleasant Ridge Hunting Lodge to help make for the masses a Smokin' Joe's sauce true to the family recipe. "We don't put additives or preservatives in it. We are growing the onions, tomatoes and other ingredients on our farm," says Summerville. "It will be in 12- or 16-ounce jars so that you can use it in one or two seings. It's not going to sit in your cabinet."

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