
{"id":12821,"date":"2010-09-30T07:29:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T15:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=12821"},"modified":"2010-09-30T07:29:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T15:29:39","slug":"local-ties-still-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/09\/30\/local-ties-still-bind\/","title":{"rendered":"Local ties still bind"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12822\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12822\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ensslin1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ensslin1\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ensslin1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ensslin1-113x84.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ensslin1-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ensslin1-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ensslin1-106x80.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">  PHOTO BY KIRK ROSS . John Ensslin with his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Famous Monsters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d exhibit at Acme.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Kirk Ross<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a guy who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now residing in Raleigh, John Ensslin sure has kept up his Carrboro bona fides.<\/p>\n<p>He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got an art show up at Acme Food &#038; Beverage, makes his living in the local real estate market and would have taken the stage at last Sunday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Carrboro Music Festival with his Chatham-based band The Breaks had not the outdoor events been called due to impending rain.<\/p>\n<p>Ensslin, whose father went to UNC and mother went to Duke, is among the many who came for an education and stayed to make a home hereabouts. He said he appreciates that places where being able to make a living and create art and music are rare.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The town acts like a magnet for those who want that lifestyle,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ensslin said.<br \/>\nHis path since college \u00e2\u20ac\u201c he chose his dad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s school \u00e2\u20ac\u201c was a traditional tandem of restaurants and rock bands. <\/p>\n<p>He met Acme owner Kevin Callaghan when the two worked at Crook\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner and made the move to downtown Carrboro when Callaghan decided to open his own place.<\/p>\n<p>His extensive musical experiences include the \u00e2\u20ac\u212290s power-pop scene via What Peggy Wants, where he began a longtime collaboration with Tom Maxwell. A few years back, the two produced a humorous take-off about low-key local lifestyles titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This Carrboro Life.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The bit features Ensslin as a guy who goes to the driver license office only to find it, you know, crowded.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his rebellious rock roots, Ensslin would not cringe to hear himself described as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153people person.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got him into his new business, Nest Realty, which is aimed at helping buyers, especially first-timers, negotiate the local real estate market.<\/p>\n<p>Ensslin, who worked at Weaver Street Realty for several years before the two parted company during the real estate downturn, said his experiences working with buyers proved the most enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than a traditional real estate company, which can represent buyers and sellers, Ensslin said he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more comfortable with being an advocate and counselor to people trying to find a home in a time of flux. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not about making the sale, he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m helping people make decisions and navigate the real estate market.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Nest is keeping him busy, as is his recent move to Raleigh, which was accompanied by an increase in family. He and his wife Kelly, an attorney with a Raleigh-based law firm, adopted their second child this spring from Vietnam. It was an arduous process that rose and fell with the interactions of nations.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, when he found a brief window of downtime, he plunged into a painting project, figuring that with a full house he might not have many such opportunities for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting series, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Famous Monsters,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d hangs on the walls at Acme through the month.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Tampa and, like many of his generation from that area, a former follower of kitsch monster-movie host Dr. Paul Bearer, Ensslin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s show is mainly a set of portraits \u00e2\u20ac\u201c mug shots \u00e2\u20ac\u201c of 17 monster greats of the past.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I really love monsters and so I sat down and thought how many I could do portraits of just off the top of my head,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Ensslin said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Seventeen sounded just about right.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a guy who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s now residing in Raleigh, John Ensslin sure has kept up his Carrboro bona fides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":12822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12925,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12821\/revisions\/12925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}