{"id":10097,"date":"2023-04-14T17:02:08","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?p=10097"},"modified":"2023-04-14T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T17:03:58","slug":"hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins"},"content":{"rendered":"

The email sent to the Forest Hills listserv on Monday was a bit unusual. It came from Hunter Buxton, 54, who was searching for linen napkins for her daughter\u2019s wedding.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAs an homage to my mother, who died long ago, I would like to dye the linen napkins I inherited from her for the wedding reception,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI am about 50 napkins short.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The message ended with a plea for help. \u201cIf anyone has old linen napkins they no longer use and would like to sell to me please let me know!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The tale of the napkins goes back three decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rain storms were blowing through Concord, North Carolina, on Buxton\u2019s wedding day. The groomsmen tried to dry off the 300 chairs in Buxton\u2019s parents\u2019 backyard \u2013 just as more bands of rain swept through.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The rain held off for the ceremony as her bridesmaids, in hand-dyed dresses and mismatched shoes with flowers stapled to them, sloshed down the aisle \u2013 until the preacher started on the last prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018You need to hurry up that prayer,\u2019 and people ran back into the house,\u201d Buxton recalled with a laugh. \u201cBut we ended up dancing in the rain.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"
Hunter Buxton with her wedding album. Photo by Abigail Bromberger – The 9th Street Journal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Buxton, who lives in Durham now, said her family didn\u2019t have a lot of money at the time. Finding affordable dresses for her bridesmaids took some work, especially in the days before online shopping. When she finally found the perfect dresses (not too expensive and something that her bridesmaids would be able to wear again for other occasions), there was still a problem.<\/span><\/p>\n

They were white.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So her mother called the textile school at N.C. State and asked for tips on dyeing the dresses. With the school\u2019s expert advice, she filled her bathtub with color and turned all 10 white dresses purple.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That was great \u2013 until the rains came. The purple dye started running off the dresses during the rainy celebration. Buxton could even tell which of the men had gotten especially close to her bridesmaids, \u201cbecause that guy was purple as well!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Buxton\u2019s mother, who had to resew all of the dresses because the fragile fabric fell apart, died 23 years ago. But she\u2019s not forgotten.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI always said my first child would be named after my mother,\u201d said Buxton.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now Buxton\u2019s first child, Drake, is getting ready for her own wedding day. She\u2019s lived in New York, California, Texas, Hawaii, and Georgia, but will be moving to Raleigh and marrying in Blowing Rock.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buxton, remembering the love that went into the creation of her bridesmaid\u2019s dresses, wants to pay tribute to her mother\u2019s hard work. She will dye the linen napkins blue and green to remember not just her mother, but everyone who won\u2019t be at the wedding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Buxton has spent her career working for nonprofits. So like her mother, she took on this project without any dyeing experience. She asked her second daughter, who is a textile and fashion student at N.C. State, for help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everyone is hoping for good weather.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Got linen napkins? Contact hunterbuxton@gmail.com. <\/span><\/p>\n

Photo at top: Hunter Buxton with her napkins. She needs 50 more. Photo by Abigail Bromberger – The 9th Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The email sent to the Forest Hills listserv on Monday was a bit unusual. It came from Hunter Buxton, 54, who was searching for linen…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-durham","entry"],"yoast_head":"\nHunter Buxton wants your linen napkins - 9th Street Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To pay tribute to her mother and a stormy ceremony 30 years ago, the Forest Hills resident is searching for 50 linen napkins.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins - 9th Street Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To pay tribute to her mother and a stormy ceremony 30 years ago, the Forest Hills resident is searching for 50 linen napkins.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"9th Street Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-14T17:02:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-14T17:03:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"749\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chase Pellegrini de Paur\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chase Pellegrini de Paur\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Chase Pellegrini de Paur\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/person\/a9395b6a4e27774e4db78b666056d566\"},\"headline\":\"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-14T17:02:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-14T17:03:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/\"},\"wordCount\":567,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Life in Durham\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/\",\"name\":\"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins - 9th Street Journal\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-14T17:02:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-14T17:03:58+00:00\",\"description\":\"To pay tribute to her mother and a stormy ceremony 30 years ago, the Forest Hills resident is searching for 50 linen napkins.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":749},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/\",\"name\":\"9th Street Journal\",\"description\":\"We cover Durham (and North Carolina politics)\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#organization\",\"name\":\"9th Street Journal\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/9th-Street-Journal-Logo-cropped.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/9th-Street-Journal-Logo-cropped.jpeg\",\"width\":869,\"height\":104,\"caption\":\"9th Street Journal\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/person\/a9395b6a4e27774e4db78b666056d566\",\"name\":\"Chase Pellegrini de Paur\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea31b92f14f0d6ddd03bf474e6c8e44b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea31b92f14f0d6ddd03bf474e6c8e44b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Chase Pellegrini de Paur\"},\"url\":\"#molongui-disabled-link\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins - 9th Street Journal","description":"To pay tribute to her mother and a stormy ceremony 30 years ago, the Forest Hills resident is searching for 50 linen napkins.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins - 9th Street Journal","og_description":"To pay tribute to her mother and a stormy ceremony 30 years ago, the Forest Hills resident is searching for 50 linen napkins.","og_url":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/","og_site_name":"9th Street Journal","article_published_time":"2023-04-14T17:02:08+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-04-14T17:03:58+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":749,"url":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Chase Pellegrini de Paur","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Chase Pellegrini de Paur","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/"},"author":{"name":"Chase Pellegrini de Paur","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/person\/a9395b6a4e27774e4db78b666056d566"},"headline":"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins","datePublished":"2023-04-14T17:02:08+00:00","dateModified":"2023-04-14T17:03:58+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/"},"wordCount":567,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg","articleSection":["Life in Durham"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/","url":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/","name":"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins - 9th Street Journal","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg","datePublished":"2023-04-14T17:02:08+00:00","dateModified":"2023-04-14T17:03:58+00:00","description":"To pay tribute to her mother and a stormy ceremony 30 years ago, the Forest Hills resident is searching for 50 linen napkins.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/04\/Hunter-napkins-1.jpg","width":1200,"height":749},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/2023\/04\/14\/hunter-buxton-wants-your-linen-napkins\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hunter Buxton wants your linen napkins"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/","name":"9th Street Journal","description":"We cover Durham (and North Carolina politics)","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#organization","name":"9th Street Journal","url":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/9th-Street-Journal-Logo-cropped.jpeg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/9th-Street-Journal-Logo-cropped.jpeg","width":869,"height":104,"caption":"9th Street Journal"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/person\/a9395b6a4e27774e4db78b666056d566","name":"Chase Pellegrini de Paur","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea31b92f14f0d6ddd03bf474e6c8e44b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ea31b92f14f0d6ddd03bf474e6c8e44b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Chase Pellegrini de Paur"},"url":"#molongui-disabled-link"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9thstreetjournal.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}