Calendar looking for a new editor
Jim Wise, Staff Writer

The Eno River calendar for 2006 is the 35th consecutive edition of what has become a western Triangle tradition. According to editor Don Moffitt, this calendar could be the last.
Moffitt inserted a notice in the 2006 calendar that it is his "last dance" and that someone else will have to step forward to carry on the work. "It's good for me to change my focus to other things," he said, "and have other people focus on this."

The first 25 Eno calendars were coordinated by Eno River Association founder Margaret Nygard. After her death in 1995, photographer David Page took over and managed five. The past five have been Moffitt's work -- in conjunction with various and sundry writers, photographers, editors and graphic artists.
Over the years, the calendars have gone from simple black-and-white affairs to slick, full-color productions with several thousand dollars' worth of pro bono design work for each, photographer Duncan Heron said. The calendars "have been basically breaking even" -- rather than making money, their reason for being has been to publicize the river and the association's purpose of preserving it as a free-flowing stream.

Along with their monthly grids, the calendars have carried Eno history, recipes, personality profiles, wildlife illustrations, hiking guides and accounts of particular causes -- including the association's long campaign to block construction of the Eno Loop through northern Durham.
" It's not an onerous job; it's fun to do," Moffitt said, but it's time for a new guiding hand.
" We need someone if we're going to have a 36th," he said. "It's too important to let it go."