(nostalgic music) - I'm Katherine Turbeville.

I've been here since I was seven.

My father-in-law, it was his grandfather, they bought some land here, and he was running the post office.

And they needed a name, so they just named it Turbeville.

And his name was William Turbeville, and that's how they came about the name.

It's a small, but very caring community.

We take care of one another.

That's what we do.

And now we have a Puddin' Swamp Festival.

That's what they call this area is Puddin' Swamp.

We have rides.

And usually in the spring, March, April, we just have it like Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

A lot of vendors come with, food vendors come, local and out of town.

On Saturday we have like craft vendors come, and we have dance studios come, and their students.

10 to 12 years ago Pat Goodwin came to the town and wanted to have a festival.

And he just put a lot of work in it.

And we thought, well, we would try it, and it was such a big hit, we've been doing it ever since.

- It's a great festival.

Have crowds of people that come.

Have lots of vendors, games.

Have live music, usually on Friday nights.

Shop with the vendors, listen to the music, and just socialize.

Everybody's socializing.

(nostalgic music) - I don't care where you go, everybody says, "Oh yes, the Chat n' Chew."

- I started competition cooking probably about seven, eight years ago.

And I just enjoy cooking.

It's just a passion.

And I talked to my wife and decided to quit my full-time job and open the restaurant up.

All the same flavor profiles we take to competition, we use here at the restaurant.

Ribs, barbecue, every now and then we do brisket, chicken wings.

When I took it over, a lot of my friends asked me, would I change the name of it?

I told 'em I wouldn't dare to do that.

This restaurant was built in 1952.

Has a lot of history behind this restaurant.

- Mr. Bowen, I think was his name, told my daddy, he said, "You know, they've got enough gas stations here in town, but what we really need is a restaurant."

So the picture that we have here was a postcard that my daddy had shortly after he built the restaurant.

Our nephew, David Moore, who worked for ETV, and he decided he would like to do a picture of the restaurant.

So he found a niece of my daddy's, in Baltimore, who had one of the postcards.

But he drew the picture, and he also made copies.

And several people here in town have prints of the Chat n' Chew.

(nostalgic music) - Sports.

As soon as one's over, you got another one.

As soon as that one's over, you got travel ball.

Then you got summer league.

And then soon as summer league's over with, travel ball getting about over with, you got school ball starting back up.

- East Clarendon, I mean the school system is just great far as academics, and far as the sports.

- I guess the thing that I have been centered around more, you know, would be the school system because both, I worked in the elementary grades, and my husband worked in the high school.

So we were both, you know, connected with the school systems.

- [Katherine] A lot of people come to move to the surrounding areas of Turbeville for our schools.

We have a good football, baseball, and softball.

And the softball's won twice, I believe.

Softball girls, so we, you know, we're proud.

- [Albert] We have a girl that played basketball here, Talaysia Cooper, who's going to USC next year.

- [Katherine] Our basketball team, the girls won state championship several years ago.

And so we were really proud of them.

(nostalgic music) - I just got elected and got sworn in, in January.

I have the distinction of being the first Black elected counselor.

Just, even if you just coming through, you can stop and the people be real nice to you, and friendly.

- [Katherine] We just welcome people with open arms.

I mean, I just think we're a great town.

- [Albert] Turbeville, this is our town.

- [George] Turbeville, this is our town.

- [Mary] Turbeville, this is our town.

- Hi, I'm Katherine Turbeville, and Turbeville is our town.

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