As any enthusiastic business owner, Phyllis wanted to "dress things up", so she planted some sunflowers around the tree next to the sidewalk in front of the shoppe. They started to bloom several weeks later and looked so beautiful that she had to take a picture. It really set her place apart from the other business's on Arendell Street and tied in so well with the flower-power stickers inside and on the window outside her shoppe.
A few weeks later she received a summons from the Morehead City Council demanding that she remove the sunflowers. She took her case to the city council, As she says it, "I had to go there and beat them up!" She won the right to have the flowers in front of her shoppe. A newspaper article in the Carteret County News Times paper (that I'm still looking for) announced her victory and brought a lot of attention to her shoppe...some of it unwanted. A few days later she came to work to find the flowers had all been pulled up and stomped on.

"In Morehead an empty grain silo on U.S.70 blew down, and the Sanitary Fish Market lost it's awning and some roof. Down the road at the 60s/70s Museum, a plywood cutout of the late rocker Jim Morrison took a ride on the storm."