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f I can draw back the curtain just a bit on the realm of magazine production, one of the most difficult things about the business is what to omit from the pages. Discussions, opinions and sometimes tempers can flare. Disagreements and debate in the magazine world are healthy. It tends to allow the cream to rise. Take, for instance, our Uncommon Good story in this issue. When we took over Pinehurst Living it was important for Amanda and I to create an annual story on the people who positively impact our community. There is good in this world, and much of it goes unnoticed. Working in the publication business grants the opportunity to rectify that, at least in a small way. So several months ago in our weekly editorial meeting we began discussing the type of person we should highlight. What character traits should these super people evoke? What is the criteria for goodness? Did they have to be well-known in the community? Did they have to show some form of sacrifice? Should we solely highlight super volunteers? We sipped our coffee and tea, munched on our granola bars and continued to ponder. At some point in our dialogue, the lightbulb did come on. It didn’t have to be complicated. By unfettering ourselves from restrictions we realized there’s a much simpler (and easier) way to go about it. Kindness, charity and decency are traits that reveal themselves without much effort. No matter the form, we’ll find the faces that fit. With that moment of enlightenment, we began the search for those people, and this is where the difficulty truly began. Goodness is prevalent everywhere, it’s just not as loud as the other, uglier side of life we’ve become accustomed to hearing about. There is a common thread of those that we chose this year: their presence, their work, their outlook makes our small world under the tall pines of North Carolina, and the larger world beyond, better. These are your neighbors, your friends and the stranger you walk past. There is no neon sign above them calling out their good deeds. They do it because that is who they are. They do it because it’s the right thing to do. We could have filled this issue with the stories we found (it was discussed), but I trust that those we did highlight will inspire you as much as they inspired us. And we’ll be back next year with more stories. Goodness, true probity, we realized, comes in many shapes and sizes, and that is what makes life in our community so unique.
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Coffee is more than just a beverage. It’s a first date. It’s a social call. It’s a way for people to connect whether at a trendy shop, a Keurig machine in the office or a French press at home. Coffee brings people together all over the world and, fittingly enough, it’s also an everyday opportunity to bring the world home in one little cup. As legend has it, a goat herder in Ethiopia noticed his herd eating a red fruit from a large tree. He then observed the goats were more active than normal. The herder pulled some of the fruit, looked at the seed and coffee was discovered. Shortly after that, the coffee beans were harvested, cooked, ground and made into a drink. It did not take long for the trade route of the Golden Crescent, the modern Middle East, to bring this to Turkey, then into the Balkans and finally into the European market. Over the course of several hundred years Europeans enjoyed coffee, eventually bringing it to the America’s in the early 1600s. There are two different types of coffee beans: arabica and robusta. Robusta coffee is grown at lower elevations which results in more farms and a larger production harvest. Typically noted for its higher caffeine content, robusta coffee also has a higher degree of bitterness. During the 1950s and 60s, robusta coffee was king. Due to the acidity, fillers were added to reduce the bitterness. The fillers, however, were a concern among medical professionals who believed they caused breast cancer. Doctors advised limiting coffee intake or switching to decaffeinated blends. Luckily, the emergence of arabica beans in the coffee market saved coffee lovers around the world. Coffee arabica has proven to be the elixir of the 20th century, not only because of its taste and quality of beans, but also for providing the wake up without the heartburn. Coffee arabica is grown at a higher elevation, typically 5,000 feet above sea level, which results in reduced caffeine levels, reduced acidic overtones and a significant source of antioxidants.
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Coffee is grown in a very tight corridor, 10 degrees north – within the Tropic of Cancer – and 10 degrees south – within the Tropic of Capricorn – of the equator. Following the equator, you’ll find most harvests in the Central and South American countries, Africa, Indonesia, parts of Asia and at the northern most line, Kona, Hawaii. Marketing has done an amazing job convincing everyone that coffee comes from Colombia but there are actually 55 countries that produce coffee in some form, the most recent to start growing being Vietnam and China. Along this “Coffee Corridor,” any area 5,000 feet or higher above sea level typically produces coffee. Higher altitude provides a more constant temperature, more consistent rainfall, better soil conditions for young trees and reduces the chance of soil pollution. Because of this, arabica beans take on the taste characteristics of their geography. Many of the Central American beans, for example, have zesty fruity notes with chocolate overtones. Indonesian beans have a higher woodsy flavor with some citrus characteristics. No matter your palate, there is a coffee to suit it. Research the origin of your coffee beans to find the perfect blend. So much of the world comes through the front door with every cup of coffee. Understanding that we live in a complex and global society and that we have the opportunity to bring the world to Moore County has been fun, challenging and, most importantly, a rewarding experience. Mike Birky is the owner of Cactus Creek Coffee in Aberdeen.
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“Over second and third cups flow matters of high finance, high state, common gossip and low comedy. [Coffee] is a social binder, a warmer of tongues, a soberer of minds, a stimulant of wit, a foiler of sleep if you want it so. From roadside mugs to the classic demi-tasse, it is the perfect democrat.”
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Decaf Typically, decaffeinated coffee comes from the leftover beans that did not pass the scrutiny for regular coffee and go through one of two processes of decaffeination. The first is called a Swiss water process, in which the beans are steamed and then an osmosis treatment is used to pull the caffeine gene from the coffee beans. The other is a chemical process that dissolves the caffeine by pushing carbon dioxide through the beans. No decaf coffee is truly caffeine free, but it comes close. The American standard for decaffeinated coffee is 97 percent caffeine free, while Europe has a 99 percent requirement.
Did You Know? Coffee plants may look like a bush, yet they are considered a tree. Coffee trees take about seven years, from the time of planting, to produce fruit. During that time there is a great deal of care taken to nurture and protect the tree. One tree can produce up to a bushel of coffee fruit or about eight pounds of coffee. That equals more than 400 coffee cherries and a lot of picking from the farmers. Most coffee picking is done by hand, especially in the higher elevations, but on lower elevations with high-yield farms, a type of tractor is utilized.
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Coffee Houses in Moore County Swank
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Crossroads Coffee
133 Main Street / Vass
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Java Bean Plantation & Roasting Company
410 SW Broad Street / Southern Pines
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Buggy Town Coffee
201 McNeill Street / Carthage
910.722.2076
Pony Espresso
801 SW Broad Street / Southern Pines
910.692.7667
The Roast Office
95 Cherokee Road / Pinehurst
910.215.8861
Pine Scone Cafe
905 Linden Road / Pinehurst
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Frankie’s Southern Grinds
1120 Old US Highway 1 South / Southern Pines
910.693.1929
Cactus Creek Gourmet Coffee Roasters 120 O’Connor Place / Aberdeen
910.944.1543
Mean Bean Coffee
444 Mill Creek Road / Carthage
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“So much of the world comes through the front door with every cup of coffee. Understanding that we live in a complex and global society and that we have the opportunity to bring the world to Moore County has been fun, challenging and, most importantly, a rewarding experience.” ~ Mike Birky Cactus Creek Coffee
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Italian Wine Dinner social time/wine/apps 6pm - dinner to follow Columbus Day - Monday, October 10th
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Dignity is the belief that all of us have an innate right to be valued, no matter the circumstances. Salvatore Cordileone, an archbishop of the Catholic Church, says, “Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.� In other words, it is natural to strive for the common good, to help those in need. Admittedly, it is a value not always recognized in day to day life. Yet there some among us....
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Leia Capps
Owner, Sage Harvest Gourmet Jerky
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hese days, the definition of a conventional family can have several meanings. Take the Capps, for instance. California natives, Leia and her husband Devin found themselves in the Sandhills courtesy of the military, as so many do. Devin, Leia explains, had found his mission “stemming the tide of evil,” so Leia began to think about what her mission could be. She didn’t have to look far from home. In fact, she just had to look within her home. “My husband and I decided to adopt because, for me, it was always in my heart. And my husband was raised by his step-father, who he felt didn’t need to be such a great father but he was anyway, so for him it was kind of a pay-it-forward thing,” explains Leia. The process took a couple of years, but finally they arrived in Vietnam ready to bring their son home. Except it wasn’t that straightforward. “Once you step foot in an orphanage, the game is over,” Leia says. “There’s children just hanging on us and begging for us to be their mom and dad. So how do you take this one child, come back to this world of excess and not be haunted by all those that you leave behind? The answer was keep adopting.” Which they did, adopting three more children within the next seven years, as well as having two biological children. A dizzying amount of change for a young couple, but for the Capps it simply seemed right.
“We thought, how can we not do something?” she says. “We can literally choose to save a life because we’ve been blessed with the resources we have. So we went back and back and back and now we’re at a point where our days are full with medical appointments. Our house is pretty full.” UNICEF estimates there are between 143 and 200 million orphans worldwide. If the Capps could, they would probably take them all in, but there are always limits, even with the most noble of intentions. “We’re on a military income, and we’ve exceeded the limits with six kids, but the need is still so great and it still haunts us,” Leia says. “So how do we stay in the game? Jerky seems like the natural choice,” she adds with a smile. A friend in California who produces jerky got them thinking the Sandhills is an ideal market for the highly portable, high protein, healthy snack. So they created Sage Harvest Gourmet Jerky to continue their mission. The initial idea was to give 10 percent of their profit to orphan charities, but at the moment 100 percent goes to their current charity of choice. “We’re not selling enough yet for 10 percent to have a big impact, so right now we pay our fees and expenses and everything else goes to the charities,” Leia explains. At their new storefront on East New Hampshire Street in Southern Pines, they have a gallery wall of the children they’ve already helped. Leia says their goals are still evolving, but since their founding nearly a year ago they’ve worked with charities she has worked with in the past while going through her own adoptions. Their current charity partner, for example, is Love Without Boundaries, an organization that provides medical care, foster care, education and nutrition to orphans in China. Sage Harvest has pledged $30,000. “We’re almost there, about $2,000 away,” Leia explains. “So then at that point we’ll link up with another charity.” Sage Harvest is open to supporting both domestic and international organizations, and they encourage customer feedback and suggestions on future charities to support. “The hard part is knowing my limits,” Leia says. “We can all do something. Whether adopting, supporting the families who adopt, selling dried meats − there is something you can do. I think a lot of people feel like if they’re not financially equipped or they’re past the age where they can parent a child that they’ve missed it. But there’s still a way to be involved in orphan care.”
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Michael Cotten
Branch Director (Sandhills), Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina
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he Persian poet Rumi, some 800 years ago, reflected on the power of the soft-spoken, saying, “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” Perhaps Michael Cotten is familiar with this quote, but even if he isn’t, he adheres to its wisdom. The 61-year-old native of Pittsboro, North Carolina, has been branch director for the Sandhills Food Bank since 2011. Tasked with managing the food bank’s mission across four counties (Moore, Richmond, Scotland and Lee), Michael’s reserved countenance and demeanor fits well with his simple but daunting goal of fighting hunger in our area; an area where more than 43,000 people are deemed food insecure (people with limited access to adequate food because of lack of money or other resources). “It’s a great organization, first of all, because it impacts the community in so many different ways,” Michael says. “It helps people with food but food is not all we do. We see ourselves as a resource hub. We not only link people with food resources but we link people with other resources in the community.” This includes developing a computer lab and partnering with school psychiatrists. “We don’t just see food as the remedy for poverty. We see education and linking them with other programs as well.” The challenge for Michael and his staff is the rural setting of our area, where large industries aren’t as prevalent as they are near cities, thus limiting the partnership opportunities that come with large employers. Individual donations and fundraisers, therefore, become even more vital to the success of the Sandhills branch. One dollar donated to the food bank provides five meals. Michael sees his position at the food bank as a continuation of his life’s work, starting with 30 years at the Department of Corrections working with adult and youth offenders, and through his leadership positions with the Kiwanis Club. “I’ve been blessed to be in a situation where, throughout my entire career, I’ve never been unemployed, and I’ve always been in a position, thankfully, that I could help people,” he says. “So I see my mission and the opportunity to be in this position for a specific reason. And that is to help people. If I can do anything to make the challenges that people have a little bit more bearable than I think that’s what my mission is, because I’ve been so fortunate.”
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Interventional Cardiologist, FirstHealth
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e’re sitting in Dr. Steven Filby’s office on the second floor of FirstHealth’s Reid Heart Center and we’re talking about bees. Why would we be talking about bees with an interventional cardiologist, you may ask? It would make more sense to be talking about Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), a cutting edge, minimally invasive procedure Filby performs with a team of medical professionals that replaces a damaged aortic valve without actually removing it. As described on FirstHealth’s website after celebrating the 50th TAVR procedure in January, “With the TAVR approach, a balloonexpandable replacement valve is delivered to the valve site through a catheter. Once the new valve is in place, it is expanded, pushing the old valve out of the way and allowing the tissue in the replacement valve to take over the job of regulating blood flow.” It’s related, though, bees and TAVR. We just need to go back a few years with Filby to when he was a recent Harvard graduate with a degree in biological anthropology and he found himself working as a physical education teacher for physically and mentally challenged children at a school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to do medicine, and I love teaching,” he says. “I was a swimmer. I swam for two years at Harvard, and one of the things that swimmers do in the summer to make extra money is we teach swimming lessons. So I always had an affinity for kids and working with kids.” Seeing the children manage their disabilities and the physical challenges they must overcome every day was the final nudge for Filby toward medical school at LSU. This then led to a brief nomadic period for Filby with a residency and fellowships in California, North Carolina, Ohio and Oklahoma before settling down in the Sandhills four years ago. OK, let’s get to the bees now. Why bees? “We moved to a small horse farm in Southern Pines. We don’t have horses, we have donkeys, but we wanted to make responsible use of the land, and so I put in some apple trees and then I thought, well, what goes with apple trees... bees,” he explains. “I’d been thinking about beekeeping at some level just as a neat backyard adventure.” A backyard adventure that eventually turned into something more. What started as two hives quickly became six and then 20. Filby now manages 25-30 hives on his property. And it wasn’t long before he recognized his hobby could do some good as well. For the past several years, he has sold the honey extracted from his hives and donated 100 percent of the proceeds to FirstHealth’s Clara McLean House, a place of affordable lodging for out-of-town patients, families and caregivers. This past summer, Filby’s bees yielded 35 gallons from just one extraction, raising $1,600 for the Clara McLean House. “This is the third year of the TAVR program, and as part of the TAVR program we have a relationship with the Clara McLean House, or I should say I have a real appreciation for the Clara McLean House and how they care for the families of my patients, some of whom come from distances to have this procedure,” Filby says. “I’ve never had a single patient or family complain. It’s only been positive reviews, so when I got into my beekeeping, I immediately though to do it all for charity. Every cent of my effort goes to the Clara McLean House.”
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Peggy Raney
Super Volunteer
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eggy Raney is not a woman of leisure. While some kick back during retirement, the spry 75-year-old kicked it into a higher gear. An Alabama native, Peggy has lived in the Sandhills for 30 years and has spent a good portion of that time volunteering her time at Habitat for Humanity and Family Promise of Moore County. A lively woman with a silver pixie cut and bright blue eyes, Raney has the energy of someone half her age. Why is she so involved? “I can’t sit around and do nothing. How can people sit and do nothing?” she asks. “It’s mind boggling to me.” In 2000, when the Habitat affiliate contemplated opening a ReStore – a retail/ donation store where proceeds support the work of the organization – Peggy offered to do the research to make sure a store would be successful in Moore County. “When we started [talking about building a store], we thought if we could build one house a year, wouldn’t that be neat?” While the executive director worked on the business plan, Peggy dragged her “poor husband” (her words, not ours) across five states in the Southeast researching every Habitat ReStore they could find. The Moore Store opened in 2002 and now funds five to six new homes every year. When it’s suggested that she’s indirectly responsible for affordable housing for at least five families every year, she is quick to correct the notion. “A lot of people are. Gosh, the people who donate to the store are just as much a part of that as I am.” Unassuming would be a good way to describe Peggy. While she’s had positions that put her more in the spotlight – as Chairman of the board of Habitat, for example – she’s done far more behind the scenes. She’s been a jack of all trades for Habitat, getting involved in almost every aspect in the two decades that she’s been with the organization, from on-site construction to the family selection committee to various board positions. And while serving on the board of Family Promise, she solicited local restaurants to donate food for the Family Promise fundraiser, hardly a glamourous task. “I’ve always volunteered with something, somewhere, wherever we lived, whenever I could,” she says. “I think it makes you feel like you’ve accomplished something.” Her most recent accomplishment is helping Family Promise acquire a permanent shelter. Previously, families in need would be shuttled to host churches for the night to sleep, then picked up in the morning and brought back to the nonprofit’s office during the day. With the new permanent shelter, parents have a consistent place for their kids while they look for jobs and prepare for interviews during the day. “We’re able to help mothers, children and families move to a new plateau, get out of the rut they were in and advance.” Oh, and did we mention Peggy helped paint every room in the house? PL
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aine Lambert, the chef at Ashten’s in Southern Pines, is 27, but he has the maturity and humility of a culinary sage. In this age of celebrity chefs peacocking for cameras and hawking cookware, Lambert’s modesty is rooted in the traditions of his craft. “We’re not the rock stars,” he says. “The people finding, growing and raising the food are the rock stars.” He’s talking about what he calls the “seasonal bounty” from folks like the fellow he knows only as “Mushroom Man John,” a mysterious woodsy character who will show up at Sandhills restaurants with buckets of foraged fungus, which Lambert avidly buys. Lambert estimates that about a third of Ashten’s produce, three quarters of its cheese and a large percentage of its meat are locally sourced. Hand-raised and handmade food is more flavorful, of course, but it’s also healthier. “The human body is sacred,” Lambert says. “What people put into it is important.”
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That all goes a long way toward explaining why he was invited to cook a rather remarkable supper in August. When Country Club of North Carolina Executive Chef Adam Minicucci flew in visiting peers − both of them old friends, and Executive Chefs at other country clubs − to cook for a function at CCNC, he wanted to thank them for their work by treating them to the kind of sumptuous dinner they often cook for guests. He asked around for recommendations for somewhere seriously gastronomic but casual and intimate, where old friends could gather and with a real chef in the kitchen. You want Caine Lambert, Minicucci was told. He and his guests were soon invited to Ashten’s for a private “Sunday Supper” on a Monday night, when the restaurant is closed. The seven-course feast Lambert served included some showy courses, like gnudi gnocchi with rock shrimp and local ham in a Paradox Farm sheep’s milk cheese sauce, and a pair of exquisite sweets made by Ashten’s precocious, 20-year-old pastry chef, Renée Beaulieu (whose olive oil-pecan-cardamom cake recently won the Competition Dining Series); but the main course was so old-school that its high degree of complexity was almost obscured: the classic, honorable French dish, coq au vin. Lambert was already considering doing coq au vin for this autumn’s Terra Vita Food & Drink Festival in Chapel Hill, in which Ashten’s had been invited to participate, so this special Sunday Supper was a perfect opportunity for a trial run. He had begun the dish a few days earlier with chicken from CATHIS Farm in Lillington, marinating the legs in red wine and mirepoix, and the dish had gone through its multi-step preparation: stock-making, searing− bacon − braising, resting.
By the afternoon of the dinner, the legs were deep glossy-purple with wine, the flavors penetrated to the bone. Lambert had made an appetizer of pate with pickled eggs (bracketed with a wink by Beaulieu’s chocolate pate for dessert); his shrimp for the gnocchi were portioned; unhurried and un-harried, an organized and seasoned chef, he was patiently slicing local figs for an amuse bouche while verbally retracing his steps that led him to Ashten’s. Lambert was born in Minnesota − he wears Twins t-shirts − but later lived in South Carolina and the Sandhills with his family. He went to school for graphic design, “my whole family is artists,” he says, but he found himself bored “behind a computer.” Like many chefs, his rent-paying nighttime work in kitchens supplanted design as his preferred art form. “It’s the same as painting in a lot of ways,” he says, “but it’s 3-D− and you can eat it.” Lambert cooked at Charleston’s Beard Award-winning FIG and its sister restaurant, The Ordinary, deepening and refining his craft. After a few years, he and his family returned to Moore County to be closer to his parents, and he worked at Elliott’s on Linden before taking the chef position at Ashten’s, where his culinary approach harmonizes with the restaurant’s longstanding farm-to-table mission. You didn’t need to be a gastronomic expert to hear the harmony between Lambert and his party of Executive Chefs. After the threehour dinner, the table was impressed and sated. Lambert emerged from the kitchen. He was warmly invited to sit down and join them in their postprandial leisure. They’d been happily reminiscing and talking shop over supper all night, and it was only minutes before Lambert was fully folded into their company. PL For Chef Lambert’s coq au vin recipe, visit pinehurstlivingmagazine.com.
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IN VINO, VERITAS:
Boca: A Gem in Piedmont By Sheila Pellizzari
We are driving in Italy from Tuscany to Piedmont, and it’s been five hours on windy, potholed roads, with aggressive Italian drivers flashing their headlights at us from behind, urging us to move on at an unsafe speed. I was looking forward to getting out of the car and stretching my swollen ankles, and, being in northern Italy, 30 miles from the border of Switzerland, I imagined crisp, fresh air and cows with large bells. Silly me. It is still July in Italy and still 100+ degrees, with no air conditioning anywhere in sight. Feelings of carsickness and leg circulation quickly disappear, however, as we approach the quaint mountain town of Boca in the Piedmont region. Boca, a tiny town of less than 1,200 inhabitants, where the snow-peaked mountain tops in the distance remind us of cooler temperatures, and Monte Rosa, the second highest peak in Europe, is refreshingly looming in the backdrop. “Boca DOC” is one of the tiniest appellations in Piedmont, with barely a dozen winemakers in total,
and is frequently considered Italy’s most prestigious wine region. Being the birthplace of nebbiolo (a variety of black wine grape), Boca is credited to have inspired the birth of the ever-famous Barolo wine, which is made of 100 percent nebbiolo grapes. Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, one of the most important political figures in Italian history and a great wine connoisseur, said “only the hills of Boca can produce a wine that can compete with the great Burgundy wines.” My excitement continues as we are warmly greeted by Christoph Kuenzli, a Swiss winemaker who single-handedly revived this area in the 90s, when Boca risked extinction, having fewer than 25 acres of vineyards. Boca’s historic decline was quick and sharp, stemming from a plague called phylloxera, which is a pest that feeds on grape vines that affected many European vineyards. In this particular tiny town there was less incentive to replant with phylloxera-resistant vines because factories
The nebbiolo produced in Boca is more acidic, lighter in color, earthier and more miner al than nebbiolo wines from different areas. Another important char acteristic is the longer aging process compared to most wines.
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and textile mills in nearby cities like Novara and Milan were luring away the agricultural work force with higher-paying jobs. But then in 1998, Kuenzli came to Boca simply because he recognized the quality of wines in this historically important wine region. Although Boca was nearly forgotten, when he relaunched it in the market, his wines received many awards and the region was brought back to life. The Boca DOC requires that the wines must be 70-90 percent nebbiolo and 10-30 percent vespolina. The vines must also be a minimum of 7 years old and the wines must be aged in wood for a minimum of 18 months, with a total aging time of 34 months. Boca Riserva DOC must be aged for 46 months, 24 of which must be in barrel. All oenophiles know nebbiolo, but what is vespolina? It is an ancient grape planted in Boca, and its name comes from vespa (meaning wasp) because, due to the high sugar in the grapes, it was used to
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attract the wasps away from the nebbiolo. Vespolina has a tendency to over ripen on the vine. It adds spice, structure, fruit and color to the Boca wines. The nebbiolo produced in Boca is more acidic, lighter in color, earthier and more mineral than nebbiolo wines from different areas. Another important characteristic is the longer aging process compared to most wines. We were told that Boca wines pair well with fattier foods, but we wanted to taste and see for ourselves. Kuenzli graciously proved this by providing us with a vertical tasting of Boca vintages (1970, 1991, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011) and accompanying the wines with traditional Piedmont fare. We were served asino stew (donkey), heavy egg pasta and truffles, fried mixed meats and vegetables and polenta with gravy, and we finished the meal with rich, aged cheeses, toma and robiola. All of the wines, particularly 1970 and 1991, were impressively aged to
perfection, just as intense and drinkable as the current vintages, extremely elegant and complex with tannins rounded by time. The high acidity and delicate fruit was a perfect accomplice for the meal. The light color of the wine hides a mighty power that will caress your nose and refresh your tongue with endless flavor. Current vintages can be aged properly for decades. Boca is for an advanced palette and is recommended for Pinot Noir and Burgundy lovers. While it was not an ideal summer meal, it proved to me that there is no season for a great wine. Can’t you just imagine how much greater it would taste on a brisk, autumn day in North Carolina? PL
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Sheila Pellizzari lived in Italy for more than 13 years, where she developed a passion and knowledge of Italian wines. She and her husband, Paolo, are the owners of Bacco Selections, a Pinehurst-based company specializing in fine wine importing and distributing.Â
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These were my grandmother’s pickle jars. She made bread and butter pickles in them. My dad moved to Pinehurst in 1912 and my mother in 1928. They, along with my aunt and uncle, used these jars to make wine. Pickles date back more than 4,000 years and were brought to America by Christopher Columbus in the 15th century. Pickles were especially useful to explorers like Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci (from whom the U.S. received its name) due to their vitamin C content that helped prevent scurvy on long sea voyages. - Nancy Smith, Pinehurst
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My grandfather was an orphan. He arrived in Canada from England as an indentured servant. After serving his commitment he sailed the Great Lakes, and this is his sailing log from that time. Later he became an ironworker in Bayone, New Jersey, and then wrote for The New Yorker magazine. Indentured servitude, widely used in the 18th century, was a labor system in which people paid for their passage to North America by working for an employer for a fixed term, typically five to seven years. Due to the vast amount of farm land in the New World, most indentured servants worked on farms, although some were craftsmen. After their term was completed, servants became free men. Almost half of the white immigrants to the American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s came as indentured servants. As demand for labor increased in the United States into the 19th century, so did the cost. Indentured servitude eventually shifted to slavery as the main source of labor, although in Canada the practice survived into the late 19th century. - Barbara Brando, Pinehurst
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’m not entirely sure if it was my fault but I probably was a little responsible for disrupting such a place of tranquility. Hoeti was going to be heard, there was just no question about it. And after nearly a minute of petulantly stomping her hoof, accompanied by the kind of piercing bray you only want to hear in the distance and chuckle about, I got the point. Hoeti, the donkey guardian of the herd, was making it known she wanted her nose scratched. At least that’s the interpreted message I got from Sue Stovall, owner and operator of Paradox Farm in West End. After all, at Paradox Farm, a working goat farm and creamery, they “look at life for the udder side.” Paradox was not in the original plan for Sue, a physical therapist, and her husband Hunter, an attorney, nearly a decade ago. At first they just decided to purchase farmland to get away from the growing bustle of Southern Pines and perhaps work on a little self-sustainability, prompted in part by the threatening recession at that time. Sue, however, has the self-described “live by the seat of my pants” mentality toward life, and so in 2008, granted with a little wine-induced courage, they decided to buy some livestock. Thelma and Louise were the first goats on the farm, and then they added another goat, Sarah, and a llama named Barry soon after. As with many things in life, one thing led to another, until one day they had enough goats and goat milk that cheese was hanging in the laundry room. “We just kept growing and growing and started making cheese and then thought to try to sell it,” Sue recalls. “So once you commit to making cheese to sell and become a commercial dairy, you have to meet all the regulations required by the state and federal government.” And so that’s what they did. The cheese operation in the laundry room moved to a sterilized kitchen and they eventually hired a full-time cheese maker. Paradox Farm was in operation. When Sue looks back on it now, you can tell it’s with a fondness of time well spent. It was her and Hunter, both farm novices, figuring it out together, enjoying and learning from their mistakes. So when Hunter unexpectedly died of a heart attack in 2014, Sue was left alone pondering a life envisioned for two. “He really enjoyed it,” she says with a smile. “He just loved the animals. You know how some people show pictures of their grandchildren? He would show pictures of his goats and his donkey, and he was always telling stories.” In fact, in memory of Hunter’s life and stories, Sue organized a story telling event on the farm that also helped support the Sandhills/Moore Coalition for Human Care, a non-profit that assists those in need by providing food, clothing and financial resources. Hunter was a staunch supporter of the organization. About 150 people attended. “For me personally, [the challenge] is trying to do it on my own without Hunter,” she admits. “When it was the two of us, it was the two of us. So if you have a baby being born in the middle of the night, it’s poking him and saying ‘I’m going to go check on the doe and let you know.’ That sort of thing has been a challenge for me over the last two years.”
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Perhaps a portion of her love for the farm came from Hunter’s passion, or perhaps it was a shared love, but there’s a sense that Sue’s spirit has grown for the farm in ways she may not have anticipated, and she has found a determination to continue. And if there was any doubt that she wasn’t all in, that ended when she retired from her physical therapist practice at the end of last year, just after her 59th birthday. “I love it. I love the realness of it,” she says. “I’m out in the morning and I get to watch the sun come up. At night, the sun sets over there, so I can sit and watch the sun go down. When it’s warm out, we’re hot and when it’s cold out, we’re freezing. But it’s real. It’s very real. Farming isn’t where you get rich, not in dollars. You just get rich in life.”
The Art of Cheese
It’s probably appropriate to start talking about the goats now. They’re the key to this whole enterprise, after all. There are about 25 females in the pasture that Hoeti guards. And let’s just say life is pretty good for Paradox Farm goats. Milked twice a day to garner a yield of 12-20 gallons a day, the remainder of their time is lounging in the shade and eating. In the spring they breed; there were 53 babies born this year. Sue sells most of them, but keeps a few. They’re on the “M” names this year, so I was introduced to two little ones, Marigold and McKenzie. It takes two to breed, so that brings us to the two males, sequestered in another pasture farther away with a lot less shade. I’m tempted to comment on the injustice of this treatment disparity on the lines of gender but I decide against. Hoeti wouldn’t approve. “Everything on the farm is set up so that everything is healthy,” Sue explains. “We want to raise our animals in the most natural manner because we take the fact that we feed our community really seriously. Keeping my animals healthy is good for them, it’s good for our milk and it’s good for our food.” There are several breeds of goats. Sue has Alpines, Nubians, Nigerians and Alpine/ Nubian crosses (they have the long floppy ears). Alpines, I learn, produce a lot more milk, but Nubians and Nigerians produce sweeter milk. The time of year also impacts
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the milk and its production. In the spring, the goat’s milk is light, and as the seasons progress it becomes denser, all of which is important when it comes to cheese making because it can influence taste, texture and the amount of cheese that can be produced. “Cheese, basically, is milk, culture (bacteria) and rennet, which is the enzyme that helps the milk coagulate,” Sue explains. “So then how the different cheeses evolve depends on the temperature of the milk, the timing and the amount of rennet.” Sue loves to experiment, taking meticulous notes; trial and error is a way of life for any cheese maker. Cheese Louise! was the farm’s first commercial cheese. A chevre, Sue and Hunter knew they were onto something when they were dining at Ashten’s in 2011 and their cheese was on the menu. From there they’ve branched out to feta, camembert, raw-aged cheeses and a few different types of cow’s cheese made from Jersey cow milk from a local farm in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Sue’s also begun dabbling in handmade pasta and ravioli. As to the future, Sue’s building a larger “cheese cave,” where the cheese is stored and aged, which will then allow her to expand her kitchen to make more cheese. But the plan will evolve, no doubt, as she reminds me again she’s a “seat of her pants” kind of gal. “I worked in healthcare for my entire career,” she says. “Physical therapists notoriously don’t have windows where they work. So you’d see the weather in the morning when you came in and in the evening when you went out. I’d be driving to work and I’d go, oh, the azaleas are already in bloom. Or the leaves are falling off the trees, I thought they just turned orange. “Now, every time I go out, I’m always paying attention. I’m always looking at the clouds. I feel so much more connected to my environment throughout the day. So being out here has expanded my ability to be more, to be larger.” Hoeti gets it, she just needs to keep the braying at a minimum. PL
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Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde October 8
Cheese Louise! (fresh chevre) Natural Garlic and Herb Black Pepper Roasted Red Pepper Jalapeno Fig and Honey Seasonal
Mozart’s Don Giovanni October 22
Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin December 10
Verdi’s Nabucco January 7
Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette January 21
Dvorák’s Rusalka February 25
Verdi’s La Traviata March 11
Mozart’s Idomeneo
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Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin April 22
R. Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier May 13
Feta Complee Hickory Creek (camembert)
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Life Under Pines
Trick
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By Sundi McLaughlin
This is my favorite time of year.
As a little girl growing up in Florida, I fantasized about leaves changing, jumping into a pile of those leaves and lighting a Jack-o’-Lantern on the front stoop. For those of you who aren't aware, Florida has no seasons. There is no raking up leaves, there are no changes in leaf colors and if you leave a carved pumpkin outside for more than 10 minutes it will mold and shrivel until your carving resembles a shrunken, toothless old man. Moving here after a lifetime of sun and fun, I was and am thrilled to discover autumn. The air turns crisp, the leaves turn bright green to yellow and then amber. The first fires of the season are lit and the nostalgic s’mores appear. But what really gets me pumped is the downtown Southern Pines Trick or Treat Fest. There is nothing more charming than seeing hundreds of kids dressed up as Superman, mermaids, Darth Vader, Maleficent and so many more, while their parents try to tamp down that crazy glint in their eye that is plainly seen after one thing only… CANDY. Over the past few years I have become very excited about this event. My first year, I dressed up as a witch – pointy hat and all. My eyes were painted with green cobwebs and of course I was dressed in all black with a purple feather boa… because, really, when else can I wear a boa? Turns out I frightened the children. Apparently being 6 feet tall with pointy lace up heels and a 3-foot witch hat was too much for the kiddos. Honestly, after a day of work in full costume I sort of forgot how insane I looked, so when 5 p.m. rolled around and I bent down and whispered, “Hello my pretty”
to the first teeny princess fairy and saw her eyes fill with horror, I was at first confused and then realization dawned. I think I forged an indelible memory on that sweet little thing… I can still hear her screams in my sleep. The other thing I did that year was attempt to glue giant false eyelashes on for the ultimate witchy effect. Due to the fact that I am a dumb-dumb, however, and I had no idea what I was doing, I ended up gluing my eyelid to the sensitive flesh right below my eyebrow which made blinking virtually impossible. So in addition to my height, all black outfit and scary makeup, I also had one blood-shot angry eye staring down at them. *Interesting fact: no matter how terrified the poor children were of me they still managed to grab the candy from my outstretched hand before fleeing for their lives. Even with the psychological pain I inadvertently inflicted, I still had a blast. The only down side is handing candy out to kids in jeans and a T-shirt who are just a little too old for dress up, but still young enough to have a bad candy monkey on their backs. I also find it discouraging when I have to coax a “trick or treat” out of a youngster. I mean, Halloween is a delicate ecosystem. I’m dressed up for nine hours in a ridiculous/ amazing costume with my eye accidentally glued open and enough sugar to fuel a small city, the least one can do in return is give a hearty “trick or treat” and slap some makeup on their faces for my troubles! Am I crazy? Don't answer that…. Nevertheless, this past Halloween, bearing all of my previous mistakes in mind, I decided to dress up as Mother Nature.
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Nothing scary about Mother Nature right? I purchased a big flowy skirt and had this idea to glue butterfly wings next to my eyes. Still remembering my incompetence from last year, I hired the pros, Molly and Megan at Retro. I showed up like a bag lady, with feathers, nests, butterflies and twigs all shoved into my oversized tote. I emptied the contents onto their tray and exclaimed, “Have at it girls.” Megan gingerly picked up a few of my trinkets and, after some contemplation, she grabbed a bunch of feathers and sticks and said, “You know I’ve never had a client tell me to just start shoving random items into their hair before….” She trailed off, but not before I gave them both my full vote of confidence. Two hours later I looked like something out of Alice in Wonderland. Wings on my face, feathers in my hair and a big skirt, which I glued the leftovers on to. I have to say I had never felt prettier. A few weeks earlier I told my staff, Jacki and Courtney, about the throng of trick or treaters that take over downtown, and I mentioned that I would be dressing up and they were welcome to join me, but that it was absolutely not a job requirement. Bless them, they showed up in adorable costumes. Courtney the Doe, Jacki the Cat and I, Mother Nature. We had a blast! And pretty quickly we all kind of got over our embarrassment of being completely made up and in full costume at 11 a.m. By 5 p.m., the kids descended, and it wasn't long before the line was all the way down the block. Tiny little cartoon characters as far as the eye could see… that is, until the candy ran out. Two years ago I ran out of sweeties very early on. Thankfully, my
husband was able to run over to the Sunrise Theater and purchase a bunch of candy from the concession stand. I felt like quite the aristocrat handing out full-sized candy bars. The children looked at me like I was a queen. It was magical, until once again the candy was gone and I was left a pauper. The kindly Lisa from Swank, dressed as a cute little mouse, was able to tide me over with a supply of Hershey Kisses, which I sparingly began giving out one piece at a time until my husband whispered from the back of the darkened shop, “Shut the door, you’re humiliating us!” Last year I bought 15 deluxe bags of assorted candies and chocolates and I still had to shut the door before the last little mummy passed by. So this year I am going 20 bags strong (which sounds ridiculous because if no one shows I am stuck with a lifetime supply of candy as well as early onset diabetes). I am also thinking about dressing up as a bird. With a shop called Mockingbird it was only a matter of time. So mark your calendars and show up with your little ones, or if you just want to see a grown lady in a bird costume. Either way, you won’t be disappointed. PL
Sundi McLaughlin is a proud military wife and small business owner. She happily divides her time between her shop, Mockingbird on Broad, and her volunteer work on Fort Bragg and the Sunrise Theater. She also can be seen walking her enormous black lab named Dodge.
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Treska scarf / $22 and Treska tote / $110 from Framer's Cottage • Fall sprig / $3.15 and candle wreath / $21.75 from Gracefully Rustic • Chocolate Cake in a Mug / $16 from The Potpourri.
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Marindale backpack in gray / $90; Bump Pregnancy Planner & Journal / $24; The Amazing Make-Ahead Baby Food Book / $18.99; and Our Family Traditions / $18.95 from Bump and Baby • Gund Teddy Bear / $85 from The Potpourri • Herringbone pumpkin / $9.75 and yarn pumpkin / $7.99 from Gracefully Rustic • Giraffe nightlight / $20 and elephant coin bank / $32 from South Street.
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Autumn sign / $14.99; Grateful, Thankful, Blessed sign / $25; Candle / $54.99; and brown fabric pumpkin / $33 from Gracefully Rustic • Rustic wheelbarrow / $128 from Framer's Cottage • Handmade Italian saffiano travel handbag in chocolate / $395; and Handmade Italian burnt orange calf skin and brown suede / $395 from Le Feme Chateau • Boot socks / $22 from Jacqueline's • Wool yarn / $7.50; Decorative antler / $8.50; and metal stand / $37.50 from South Street.
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A Festival of Fall Colors! Votive tray / $38 from Framer's Cottage • Pinecone mug / $12 from The Potpourri • Hatch hat / $44; Summer Renee necklace / $68; and infinity scarf in tan / $30 from Jacqueline's • Fabric pumpkin / $33 from Gracefully Rustic • Chicken / $68; Bubble bath No. 9 / $32; No. 9 candle / $32 from South Street.
Pure handknit sweater, $124 from Cool Sweats Hatch hat / $44 and TB necklace / $62 from Jacqueline's
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Empire Bleue Jeans in Bombshell Straight / $182 and Lilla P sleeveless sweater in rose / $143 from Cool Sweats • Infinity scarf in rose / $30 from Jacqueline's • Arm candy bracelets in gold / $17.75; Mud Pie tan clutch / $37.50; and horse figurine / $24.95 from South Street.
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The Garden
Chrysanthemum The
The Flower of Autumn | BY DOLORES MULLER
In late September or early October, the harvest moon
appears; the full moon closest to the fall equinox. It signals autumn has arrived and tree leaves begin taking on their rich warm fall colors. The most widely cultivated flower in the world is the chrysanthemum. It has been cultivated in the East for more than two millennia. A symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the orderly unfolding of the chrysanthemum's petals to represent perfection, and Confucius once suggested it be used as an object of meditation. It's said that a single flower petal placed at the bottom of a wine glass will encourage a long and healthy life. Named from the Greek prefix "chrys-" meaning golden and "-anthemion," meaning flower, years of cultivation have produced a full range of colors. Daisy-like with a typically yellow center and a decorative pompon, chrysanthemums symbolize optimism and joy. It's the November birth flower, the 13th wedding anniversary flower and the official flower of the city of Chicago.
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Chrysanthemum tea has many purported medicinal uses. It is used as a relaxant, to aid in recovery from influenza, sore throat prevention and fever reduction. In Western herbal medicine, Chrysanthemum tea is drunk or used as a compress to treat circulatory disorders. Commonly known as "mums," they are well suited for container gardens and are a good perennial garden flower. Colors of orange, gold, rust, purples and red fill the nurseries, garden centers and even grocery stores in the fall. Purchase a mum to add instant fall color to your landscape. PL
A special congratulation to the Garden Club of the Sandhills, which is celebrating its 50th year. Many of our community beautification projects were spearheaded, organized, funded and maintained by this wonderful organization. Well done, and wishing you many more years of service to our community.
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A Look Back
Putting on the Lilliputian at Cedarcrest.
Thistle Dhu: Then and Now By Jean Barron Walker Photography courtesy of Tufts Archives
The original Thistle Dhu was the first 18-hole miniature golf course in the United States. Its name is a play on words that
combine the thistle – the symbol of Scotland, where modern golf began – with the statement of course owner James Wells Barber, who declared with satisfaction, “This’ll do!” That was in the spring of 1919, when Barber’s Pinehurst home and adjoining garden golf course were completed. Barber emigrated from England to America in 1887 and, with his brother Herbert, founded Barber and Company, Inc., which became a world-wide shipping empire. Barber, an avid golfer, began visiting Pinehurst in 1906, and he invested thousands of dollars through the years as an advocate of progress in the Sandhills. His purchases included 1,200 acres located near Niagara, where he envisioned building a golf course and hotel; 650 acres at Lakeview, where he built the Lakeside Inn overlooking the beach on Crystal Lake; and the Knollwood area between Pinehurst and Southern Pines, where he invested $50,000 in the Knollwood Corporation. He also built several homes there and was a charter member of the exclusive Mid-Pines Golf Club. In addition, he owned hundreds of acres from Midland Road to both sides of Airport Road (then known as Seals Road). In 1927, on part of
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this land, Barber completed a club house for his proposed private golf course. The 18-hole course, designed by golf course architect Donald Ross, was begun but never completed. It would have skirted back and forth across Seals Road on land now owned by Longleaf Golf and Family Club and Forest Creek Golf Club. When Barber retired in 1922, he continued to spend the winter and spring seasons in Pinehurst, as did other magnates of his time. In 1916, while living with his family in the Cedarcrest cottage on Beulah Hill Road, Barber built a 9-hole miniature golf course on his property and called it the Lilliputian. That same year, The Pinehurst Outlook wrote that Barber purchased three lots across the road to build a much grander home. His wife Kate actively followed the details when construction on their twostory home at 5 Shaw Road began in the spring of 1918. It was here that Barber asked another enthusiastic golfer and architect, Edward H. Wiswell, to design an 18-hole miniature golf course on the west side of this new Shaw Road estate. When both the home and miniature golf course were completed, Barber is reputed to have said with understated humor, “This’ll do!” and hence the name “Thistle Dhu” remained for his palatial home and garden golf course.
The ground on which Wiswell laid out the course was composed entirely of sand, typical of the Sandhills. The greens were elevated for good drainage as well as for watering the shrubbery, and were made with sand taken from the foundation of Barber’s new home, which was then under construction. The greens were rolled down, with six inches of clay added, and again rolled, tamped and then molded into shape. A top layer of sand finished off each green. Thistle Dhu was not for the timid golfer. An Altoona Mirror article in 1928 emphasized the point: “North Carolina boasts of the world’s craziest, most scientific and most aggravating golf course, which occupies a space no larger than a farmer’s back yard. The Lilliputian links, which rejoices in the euphonic name of Thistle Dhu, is a golfing nightmare of natural and artificial hazards, perfectly designed slopes and curves whose dangers are generally well masked until the unsuspecting player is afoul of them. If it isn’t a tree trunk that must be missed by a bare two inches for a perfect approach to the hole, then the hazard is likely to be a pair of cement mounds, crescent-shaped, between which the ball must be cut with geometrical precision to drop into the hole.” The Popular Science Monthly of August 1919 included the article, “The Golf Course at Thistle Dhu: A miniature course that
requires all the skill of the expert golfer,” written by the course designer, Edward Wiswell. In the article, Wiswell said that the course “comprises eighteen holes of which no two are alike. The first nine holes are divided from the second nine by a terraced garden, fountain, summer-house, and flower bed and iris garden.” He then cautioned the reader, “The Thistle Dhu course was laid out to force the player to carefully study each shot and also to provide a good test for the expert golfer as well as school those new to the game.” Wiswell went on to describe each of the 18 holes to better emphasize the challenge, and more to the point, the ultimate test of playing this difficult miniature golf course. For instance, “At the No. 1 hole there is a small oak tree almost sixteen feet from the tee in direct stymie to the hole. The line of putt is a few inches to the left of this tree. It is always necessary to put a slight cut on the ball as well as to give it perfect distance. Then you may get your one. It is quite easy to accumulate a good-sized score on almost every hole if the eye is not on the ball, and the mind is not working in unison.” After giving hints for playing the No. 2 and No. 3 holes, Wiswell proceeds to the next hole. “At the 4th hole, which is twenty-eight feet long, you are presented with a new problem. To have your ball remain near the cup, it is necessary to make use of a two-cushion
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18th hole at Thistle Dhu. Photo courtesy of Tufts Archives.
The Tin Whistles, James Barber (center) in white knickerbockers. Photo courtesy of Tufts Archives.
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carom. As you stand on the tee, you have before you, at the left, a clay bunker with a grass trap. Immediately behind the trap is a high bank of clay. The proper play on this hole is to have your ball roll up on the right hand bank in such a manner that on its descent it will roll slightly on the left bank (the bank behind the grass trap). It will then roll toward the hole. The player new to the course will think the proper shot is to make use of the valley and the right hand bank alone. He will invariably find himself tucked away in the wooden bunker at the left hand side of the green placed there for the purpose.” Yikes! Are you still with me in wishing you could play Barber’s course? Here’s just one more of Wiswell’s hole accounts: “Hole 17 is forty-seven feet long, and you go down a few steps to the tee. The green is elevated some five feet. Use a niblick (akin to a 9 iron) from the tee. As you stand on the tee, in front of you is a privet hedge, then a sloping bank of grass, some five feet high, on top of which is a small wooden fence. The ball must be well-lofted and have sufficient back-spin to hold within the horseshoe, which is about eighteen inches in height, with sloping banks on each side. In case of an over-play, if in direct line with the hole, the ball will go under the wooden bunker from which you lift with penalty. Then you find a very difficult shot to play back over the raised horseshoe to the green.” In 1906, Barber was admitted to membership in an elite Pinehurst men’s golfing group, the Tin Whistles. He was their president in 1921 and served several terms on the Tin Whistles Board of Governors, the last being from 1926 until his death in 1928. From the March 8, 1919, issue of The Pinehurst Outlook: “James Barber invites the Tin Whistles to play 36 holes on his new miniature course on Tuesday, March 11th. This will be an all-day affair. Come just as early as you like and bring your putter with you.” Perhaps his Tin Whistle friends kept their niblicks in Barber’s basement, which today might be called his man cave, as it had both a billiards room and a smoking room with a bar for his Tin Whistle comrades. Just a week before Barber’s death at age 75 on February 19, 1928, the Board of Directors of the Knollwood Corporation
unanimously re-elected him president, honoring him with their highest regard. At his memorial service, the Reverend Thaddeus Cheatham, minister of the Village Chapel and fellow Tin Whistle, eulogized James Barber, saying in part, “God gives to some men great riches, big hearts and sympathetic souls. … I cannot let this occasion pass without paying tribute to our great-hearted friend who has gone from us. ” James Barber’s home was purchased from his estate by M.J. Meehan, who deeded it to the Catholic Diocese of Raleigh before he died in 1947. Other owners followed. It’s unknown how long the Thistle Dhu miniature golf course survived, since there is little evidence on the grounds now. And now, almost 100 years later, the name Thistle Dhu has returned. Pinehurst Resort CEO and owner, Robert Dedman, Jr., decided to build a Pinehurst putting green similar to the Himalayas putting green near the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland. This new 15,000-square-foot heavilycontoured 18-hole putting green opened in August 2012. It was designed by Toby Cobb and Dave Axland, associates of Coors and Crenshaw, who redesigned the Pinehurst No. 2 course. Nearly 100 names were submitted in a contest to name this new putting green and Thistle Dhu was chosen. Located near the first tee of the No. 4 Pinehurst golf course, and a stone’s throw from the Maniac Hill driving range, this new Thistle Dhu is no easy practice green. At first glance it seems like a simple putting green with hills and valleys. But watch out, as it’s cunningly deceptive! Golfers of all ages and abilities are highly-challenged as they watch their balls head upward towards holes on small elevated plateaus or drop sideways four feet on the read of a hole not visible at first glance. Ah, Edward Wiswell, are you smiling? PL
Jean Barron Walker is a member of the Moore County Historical Association. For more information on the association, visit moorehistory.com.
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Book Review
When Breath Becomes Air By Robert Gable
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nowing that we’re not going to be around forever is a difficult concept to grasp. Like it or not, at some point in our lives we have to confront the unpleasant fact that death is undeniable. Paul Kalanithi was a promising young doctor when he had to confront this. His inspiring battle and extraordinary insights can be found in his posthumously published book, When Breath Becomes Air. Kalanithi was born in New York and grew up in Kingman, Arizona (His father went out West to establish a thriving practice in cardiology). Growing up, he had the good fortune to have parents that stressed book learning as well as life experiences. After forging a love for literature in his undergraduate days, he surprised himself by deciding to go into medicine. At age 36, just when he finished the arduous preparation to be a neurosurgeon, he was given a diagnosis of terminal lung cancer. This book is his attempt to offer words when words are found wanting, and to stare death in the face without blinking. The foreword comes from Abraham Verghese (a doctor/ writer who shepherded Kalanithi’s manuscript into book form). The prologue tells about Kalanithi’s initial diagnosis. Then he tells his story in two main sections. Part one is “In Perfect Health I Begin.” Part two is “Cease Not Till Death.” His wife Lucy Kalanithi provides the epilogue, followed by the acknowledgments. Throughout the book Kalanithi displays an ability to get right to the crux of what matters. He thought he’d never go into medicine after seeing the long hours his father put in at his cardiology practice, but he decided medicine offered him the best chance to explore what truly matters and “to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay.” He chose neurosurgery because “neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and direct confrontation with meaning, identity, and death.” He goes on to write, “Because the brain mediates our experience of the world, any neurosurgical problem forces a patient and family, ideally with a doctor as a guide, to answer this question: What makes life meaningful enough to go on living?” His writing is clear and thoughtful, with words carefully chosen to convey his meaning. Early in his education, for instance, he decides to pursue a summer camp to get some life experiences, instead of attending a book-intensive summer school class. He observes, “If the unexamined life is not worth living, is the unlived life worth examining?” Kalanithi has extra insight into the cancer and what is happening to him because, as a
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When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi 228 pages, Random House / $25.oo doctor, he had to deal with this in his patients all the time. When the doctor becomes a patient – and the shoe is fully on the other foot – he has to adjust his way of thinking. He writes with empathy about the first time he had to cut into a cadaver as part of anatomy class in med school. He writes about his OB-GYN rotation, where he saw premature twins delivered by emergency caesarean-section in a desperate attempt to save them, only to find out the next day the preemie twins died a few hours after the emergency surgery. Then there was the day he lost his first patient as an intern, the day he heard about a fellow resident succumbing to the intense pressures of being a doctor, the day he began chemotherapy and the day he held his newborn daughter in his arms for the first time. This is not a maudlin tale, although that would certainly be understandable. Kalanithi had time to live his life and examine it. He had good friends, a loving wife and a baby daughter. He made a difference in the lives of others when he had the chance. Lucy puts it well in the epilogue: “Paul’s decision not to avert his eyes from death epitomizes a fortitude we don’t celebrate enough in our death-avoidant culture. His strength was defined by ambition and effort, but also by softness, the opposite of bitterness. He spent much of his life wrestling with the question of how to live a meaningful life, and his book explores that essential territory.” He would avow that we need to ceaselessly strive for perfection, even though it’s unreachable. Along the way there are good times and bad times. It’s the striving that adds the meaning. Try not to squander any days, because there’s no certainty as to how many you’ll be given. Paul Kalanithi’s life was cut short, but he made the most of his time. This book records the too-short life of a special man, one we can all learn from. PL
Robert Gable worked in book publishing for 18 years before going into the golf industry. He lived and worked in Pinehurst for five years and still misses it. He currently lives in Queens and works as an assistant golf pro at Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, New York.
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FirstHealth-hosted 1 in 8K Will Benefit Breast Cancer Patients by Brenda Bouser for The Foundation of FirstHealth
For 12 weeks in 2014, Carolyn Mitchell and her husband
Norman made the nearly 60-mile round-trip to FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital for her chemotherapy treatments. Before those treatments even began, a hospital social worker surprised Mitchell by telling her that money would be available from The Foundation of FirstHealth’s Cancer CARE Fund to help with the gasoline she and her husband would need for the drive. “It was a blessing to us, to me,” says Mitchell, who has a Cameron address but actually lives in Harnett County. For Mitchell, who lost her left breast to cancer in September 2014, having the gasoline assistance was one less concern. That’s true for many of the cancer patients who make regular trips to Moore Regional from the outer reaches of FirstHealth’s service area for their chemotherapy. It’s even more of a consideration for those who need radiation therapy, because their regimen often means daily treatments over several weeks. On Sept. 10, FirstHealth of the Carolinas will host the 1 in 8K Moore for the Cure, a 1K Fun Run/Walk and 8K Run/ Walk to support the Cancer CARE Fund and mammography scholarships for low-income patients of the Moore Free and Charitable Care Clinic. For several years, the 1 in 8K was a fundraiser for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. With the departure of the event’s founder, John Eastman from Pinehurst Radiology Associates, The Foundation of FirstHealth assumed responsibility and will direct most of the proceeds to local breast cancer assistance while making a donation to the Komen organization in Eastman’s name.
Although transportation matters comprise the bulk of Cancer CARE Fund concerns, assistance is also available to patients with other needs, including medications, wigs, prostheses and nutritional supplements. “On more than one occasion, patients have been brought to tears by the generous assistance they have received during treatment, and I am reminded daily that we are all incredibly fortunate to be members of a community that supports one another in times of need,” Cancer CARE coordinator Laura Kuzma says. “Cancer touches all of us in one way or another, and it is a blessing to know that, through the Cancer CARE Fund, we can face any challenges together.”
Conducted by The Foundation of FirstHealth and the Sandhills Race Series, the 1 in 8K Moore for the Cure will get under way at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 1o, on the Pinehurst Village Green with the 8K Run/Walk. The 1K Fun Run/Walk will follow at 1o:30 a.m. Registration information is available online at www.active.com. Additional information is available at www.1in8k.org.
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Love’s Revenge By Jim Moriarty AT THE END OF SEPTEMBER the biennial Ryder Cup matches will reconvene 1,200 miles away from here in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes on a golf course once described as a ruined cow pasture. It will fall to a former University of North Carolina Tar Heel golfer, United States captain Davis Love III, to do at Hazeltine National GC outside Minneapolis what he couldn’t do four years ago at Medinah CC and what eight-time major champion Tom Watson was unable to accomplish two years ago in Scotland − make America great again. It will also mark the 65th anniversary of the Ryder Cup matches staged on Pinehurst’s No. 2, back in the days when it was just us against the Brits or when, as that unnamed politician hinted at above might suggest, the system was rigged. With Ben Hogan, the Masters and U.S. Open champion, at its core and Sam Snead its playing captain, the 1951 American side threw the British overboard 9 ½ to 2 ½ in a competition that wasn’t as close as the score would indicate. The quirks of the ’51 matches are well known. They took a day off between the foursomes and singles to go watch coach Carl Snavely’s Tar Heels get pummeled at Kenan Memorial Stadium by the undefeated Tennessee Volunteers, 27-0, an outcome predicted by Ryder Cupper Clayton Heafner from Charlotte, who told one reporter early in the week that there was, “No hope for the Tar Heels.” Most of the members of the American team didn’t even bother to go to the game. And, given his well-known fondness for making a buck, Snead went in the opposite direction from Chapel Hill, doing an exhibition in Florence, South Carolina, on his day off to rake in a few hundred dollars. The non-playing captain of the British team, Arthur Lacey, would later become a figure of some minor historical importance as the official involved in the Ken Venturi/Arnold Palmer brouhaha in the ’58 Masters. A rules hash that makes Dustin Johnson’s chaotic Oakmont adventure look positively forthright, it’s too complicated to get into here, so let’s just leave it at the fact that Lacey would die in Pinehurst in 1979 at the age of 75. Public attendance for the ’51 matches was well above par for an American venue, and Western Union − the way stories were filed in those days − supposedly transmitted 200,000 words around the globe, or at least to the other side of the pond. Henry Longhurst, the British golf writer and raconteur who would become the gold standard for CBS Limey announcers, gave a
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talk at the local Kiwanis Club, concluding with, “May the best team lose.” They didn’t. Which brings us back to Davis Love’s current dilemma. There is not a finer gentleman in the game of golf than Love, the son of the famous teaching pro, Davis Love Jr., who was lost in a private plane crash in 1988. In the Ryder Cup matches at Medinah in 2012, Love’s first go-round as U.S. captain, Rory McIlroy nearly missed his tee time for the Sunday singles, arriving at the course in the front seat of an Illinois State Trooper’s cruiser. With barely enough time to put on his golf shoes and hit a couple of practice putts, McIlroy beat Keegan Bradley 2 and 1, the centerpiece of five straight opening singles victories for the Europeans that propelled them from a four-point deficit to a one-point victory, equaling the largest comeback in the history of the matches (the U.S. set the bar at The Country Club in Boston in ’99) and they did it on American soil. At the very instant the Europeans were celebrating on Medinah’s 18th green, one of the most miserable moments of Love’s sporting life, Davis sought out McIlroy, put his hand on his shoulder and said, “Glad you could make it.” And he meant it. After Medinah, the PGA of America decided the U.S. team needed a stiffer backbone, and they picked Watson to give it to them. The American’s lost 16 ½ to 11 ½, and Phil Mickelson staged a public palace coup at the closing media session, blasting Watson’s leadership style. Love was chosen to return as captain as the PGA reached back to find the answer to their answer. What no one has been able to conjure yet is an answer to the grim reality: in the last 10 meetings, Europe has won eight. The age of Tiger and Phil has produced little more than American heartache, or at the very least heartburn, at the Ryder Cup. The sole surviving participant of the ’51 matches at Pinehurst is Jackie Burke Jr., the 1956 Masters champion and, along with Jimmy Demaret, one of the founders of Champions GC in Houston, Texas. In his report from Pinehurst, Longhurst described Burke as, “perhaps the most promising young player in the world.” Burke, 93, is now the promising old teacher and a man of simple truths. In a Wall Street Journal story not too long ago, he said, “When I was out on Tour, I used to read a lot because there wasn’t any television or anything. I had this little book a bunch of old monks wrote (“My Daily Bread”) and I’d usually find something in it that would help get me through the
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day. They wrote about ‘needless curiosity’ in one chapter, about how people get a pile of stuff in their heads they don’t need to be thinking about, like ‘How am I doing?’ or ‘Where did he get that shirt?’ I learned you have to forget all the crap and just focus on what you need to do now to get the job done.” Davis Love III played in six Ryder Cups. He won’t hit a single shot in this one. But, if he can make his team think like a monk, he’ll have done all he can do. PL
Jim Moriarty moved to Southern Pines in 1979 to join the staff of Golf World magazine, a publication founded in Pinehurst in 1947. He worked for Golf Digest and Golf World as both a contributing writer and photographer for 35 years.
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17th Hole
South Course, Forest Creek Golf Club Par 3, 172 yards Designer: Tom Fazio, 1996 Forest Creek Golf Club Pinehurst, NC Par 72 Course Forest Creek Golf Club’s South Course is rated among the top 15 courses in North America and features 7,016 yards of rolling Bentgrass greens and Bermuda fairways. Patterned after Augusta National, Fazio’s design approach for the South Course was low profile in nature, essentially draping the hole across the land.
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September/October 2016
CALENDAR OF EVENTS Dates and times subject to change. Check directly with event organizers before making plans.
Art September 23-24, 2016 Quilting in the Pines 2016 The Fair Barn | 200 Beulah Hill Road | Pinehurst Local and regional quilters present their work for competition, vendors, boutique, demonstrations, antique quilts and silent auction. Quilt displays by award winning quilters, applique and fiber artists. Presented by Sandhills Quilters Guild and co-sponsored by Village of Pinehurst Dept. of Parks and Recreation. Admission: $7. September 23, 2016 | 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. September 24, 2016 | 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
October 20, 2016 Harvest the Promise The Fair Barn | Pinehurst A night of food, music, fun and fundraising to benefit Family Promise of Moore County. The evening will feature Moore County chefs and restaurants and live and silent auctions, including Sponsor A Child. Help us erase homelessness among Moore County families. Tickets $50. 6 p.m.
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September 16, 2016 Carolina Philharmonic Gala Grand Ballroom | Carolina Hotel 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst The annual major fundraiser for Music Education. For reservations, call the Box Office at 910-687-0287 6 p.m.
September 17, 2016 Arboretum Fest Village Arboretum | 395 Magnolia Road | Pinehurst Musicians, dancers, culinary artists, puppeteers, storytellers, potters and craftspeople will appear during this celebration of the arts at the Arboretum. Get creative with hands-on activities for young and old. Crafts vendors will have their works on display and available for purchase. Food and beverages will also be available to purchase. Call 910-295-1300 for more information. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.
September 20, 2016 The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange presents “100 Years of Wedding Dresses” Cardinal Ballroom at the Carolina Hotel 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst Guests will view more than 20 dresses from 1910 to present day. We will be serving afternoon tea and refreshments, and guests will enjoy viewing the donated silent auction items prior to the show. There will also be a special presentation by Willie Otey Kay’s granddaughters. Willie Kay was an esteemed bridal designer in North Carolina for six decades. A recent exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of History highlighted her coveted dress collection. She passed at the age of 98, but her five children have carried on the dressmaking tradition. Elizabeth Constant Lewis, a grandniece, will demonstrate the intricate bead embellishments often gracing the dresses. Several of Willie Kay’s dresses will be on display. Tickets are $40. Call 910-295-4677 for more information. 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.
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September 24, 2016 McDonald Artisan Farm Fall Craft & Music Fair McDonald Artisan Farm | 1615 Bethesda Road | Aberdeen Come out to the 3rd annual arts/crafts, antiques and music fair! The McDonald Artisan Farm will be host to more than 60 local crafted goods and antique vendors from around our beautiful state. The event, held on a 72-acre historical farm, will be a truly magical time for every member of the family. There will be kids’ activities, shopping, food, beer by Southern Pines Brewery and some incredible live music. McDonald Artisan Trading
Company, home to more than 30 local artists, will also be open all day. Don’t miss out on a great time! Rain or shine! Entry is $5, which includes parking and all-day entertainment. Kids are free. Canned goods will be collected for the Coalition for Human Care of Moore County. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. October 29, 2016 Hamlet 34th Annual Seaboard Festival City of Hamlet | Main Street | Hamlet Visit the area’s largest single-day festival in the Hub of the Seaboard. Four city blocks of arts, crafts and food. Free entertainment throughout the day with a dance troupe performing on the main stage and a variety of music on the upper stage. Fun for the entire family. Shop local with vendors and crafters. Tickets $50. 6 p.m.
Stage/Theater/Film Movies by the Lake Aberdeen Lake Park | 301 Lake Park Crossing | Aberdeen September 16, 2016 | Zootopia | 7:45 p.m. | FREE October 7, 2016 | Hotel Transylvania | 7:15 p.m. | FREE For more information, contact Aberdeen Parks and Recreation at 910-944-7275 September 22-25 Twelve Angry Men Owens Auditorium | 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst A jury forced to consider a homicide trial of a boy accused of murdering his father must decide: “guilty” or “not guilty,” with the instruction that a guilty verdict carries a mandatory death sentence. You won’t want to miss Judson Theatre Company’s production of Reginald Rose’s electrifying classic, starring Emmy winning Broadway and TV star John Wesley Shipp. For more information call 800-514-3849 or visit judsontheatre.com. September 22 | 7 p.m. September 23 | 8 p.m. September 24 | 2 p.m. & 8 p.m. September 25 | 3 p.m. September 30, 3016 NC Symphony Presents Dvořák’s Symphony No. 5 R.E. Lee Auditorium at Pinecrest High School 250 Voit Gilmore Lane | Southern Pines Program - Husa: Pastorale; Dvořák: Serenade for Winds; Dvořák: Symphony No. 5. with Grant Llewellyn, conductor. For more information call 919-733-2750. 8 - 10 p.m.
October 13, 2016 NC Symphony Presents Blockbuster Film Scores R.E. Lee Auditorium at Pinecrest High School | 250 Voit Gilmore Lane | Southern Pines Join the North Carolina Symphony with David Glover, associate conductor, for an epic journey with the great film composers. Music from Saving Private Ryan, Vertigo, Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter and more. For more information call 877-627-6724. 8 - 10 p.m. October 15-17, 2016 Hamlet - National Theatre Live from London Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | Southern Pines In Hamlet,Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game, Frankenstein at the National Theatre) takes on the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father’s death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his predicament, threatening both his sanity and the security of the state. $25 reserved seating, all shows. October 15 & 16 | 2 p.m. October 17 | 7 p.m. October 16, 2016 Bolshoi Ballet: The Golden Age Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St Southern Pines Sunrise Met Opera Event. Live via satellite. Tickets $25. 910-692-8501. SunriseTheater.com 1 p.m. October 17, 2016 Chamber Music: Windsync Sunrise Theatre | 250 NW Broad St. | Southern Pines The Arts Council of Moore County and Parsec Financial Wealth Management are proud to present the opening concert in the 2016-17 Classical Concert Series featuring the woodwind quintet, WindSync. Tickets are $30 for single events. Call 910692-2787 for more information. 8 - 10 p.m. October 22, 2016 Symphonic Masterworks: The New World Owens Auditorium | Sandhills Community College For tickets: www.carolinaphil.org or at 910-687-0287 7:30 p.m. October 22, 2016 Mozart’s Don Giovanni Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | Southern Pines Sunrise Met Opera Event, live via satellite with English subtitles. Tickets $27. 910-692-8501. SunriseTheater.com 1 p.m.
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October 29, 2016 Frankenstein - National Theatre Live in HD Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | Southern Pines National Theatre Live in HD via satellite. Directed by Academy Award-winner Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Steve Jobs), this thrilling production features Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, The Imitation Game) and Jonny Lee Miller (CBS’s Elementary, Trainspotting) alternating roles as Victor Frankenstein and his creation. Tickets $20. 910-692-8501. SunriseTheater.com 7 p.m.
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October 8, 2016 Shaw House Vintage Fair Shaw House | 110 West Morganton Road | Southern Pines The Shaw House Vintage Fair will include tours, vintage collectibles for sale, a trash or treasure sale and vintage craft demonstrations on the grounds of the historic Shaw House. Admission is a $2 donation, which includes one raffle ticket. Children 12 and under are free. Call 910-692-2051 for more information. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
October 29, 2016 Candlelight Tours of House in the Horseshoe The House in the Horseshoe | 288 Alston House Road | Sanford Enjoy candlelight tours of the Colonial-era house that still bears bullet holes from the Revolutionary War battle that took place there. Reservations required. For more information call 910-9472051. 6:30 - 9 p.m.
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October 6, 2016 Owens Auditorium Sandhills Community College Dr. Frank Turek, internationally renowned Christian apologetics speaker and co-author of I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist, lecture and question and answer session. Free and open to the public. 7 - 9 p.m.
Library Given Tufts Given Memorial Library | 95 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst Given Outpost | 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst The Given Outpost supports the Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives. The Given Memorial Library is open to the public. There is no residency requirement for a library card. Each event is free and open to the public. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
October 29, 2016 Militia Muster The House in the Horseshoe | 288 Alston House Road | Sanford Join us for the second annual House in the Horseshoe Militia Muster. During the day, learn about Revolutionary-era militias and their roles during the war. Watch units practice their drills and visit their encampments. Enjoy various other activities throughout the day. For more information call the Shoe at 910-947-2051. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Story Time for ages 3-5 | Given Memorial Library September 1, September 8, September 15, September 22, September 29, October 6, October 13, October 20, October 27 10:30 a.m. Gathering at Given | September 7, 2016 Bill Case, a former attorney and local writer, will talk about the unlikely series of events that led to his becoming a writer, how he goes about selecting his stories and the interesting people he has met along the way. 3:30 p.m. | Given Memorial Library 7 p.m. | Given Outpost Saturday Kids’ Program Given Memorial Library September 10, October 1 10 a.m. - noon
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Book Lovers Unite! | Given Outpost September 12, October 3 7 p.m. Artistry Song & Poetry Circle | Given Outpost September 15, October 20 7 p.m. In & Out at the Outpost | September 29, 2016 Come join Board of Education member Helena Wallin-Miller and Parents for Moore administrator Karin Kent for a “State of Our Schools” report and an update on “Investing in the Future of Moore.” 7 p.m. | Given Outpost For more information call 910-295-6022 or visit giventufts.com
Music September 9, 2016 Pinehurst Live After Five Tufts Park | 110 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst Prepare to be transported back in time to one of the most influential periods of American music history as we pay tribute to Motown. The Legacy takes you back to the days of The Drifters, The Coasters, The Jacksons, Earth Wind & Fire, The Temptations and so many more legendary icons! Food trucks will be on-site with a great selection of sandwiches, pizzas and desserts. Beer, wine, water and sodas will also be available for purchase. Picnic baskets are allowed, however outside alcoholic beverages are not permitted. This concert is free for the entire family. Don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs and blankets. Contact 910-295-1900 for further information. 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. September 23, 2016 Local Artists In the Round Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | Southern Pines
Four microphones, four guitars, four storytellers, one stage. Presented in Nashville’s famous “in-the-round” style, Becca Rae, Mitch Clark, Momma Molasses and Patrick Fuller will take turns playing one song at a time, explaining the meaning behind the melodies and the emotions that were carefully crafted into passionate lyrics. Tickets for the show are $14 and can be purchased online at www.sunrisetheater.com or by calling the theater office at 910-692-3611. 7:30 p.m.
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September 9, 2016 First Friday Sunrise Green Space 250 NW Broad St. | Southern Pines September 2, 2016 The Ballroom Thieves with Falkyn Velvet October 7, 2016 Danielle Nicole with Lakota Johnson 5 - 8:30 p.m. | FREE
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The Rooster’s Wife Rooster’s Wife | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Doors open at 6 p.m., shows start at 6:46 p.m. September 2, 2016 | Ed Stephenson | $15.00 September 11, 2016 | Scythian | $20.00 September 16, 2016 | Liz Longley | $15.00 September 18, 2016 | Will Overman Band | $15.00 September 22, 2016 | Guy Davis Trio | $20.00 September 29, 2016 | Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen | $20.00 For tickets or more information call 910-944-7502, email theroosterswife@yahoo.com or visit theroosterswife.org.
Outdoors September 24, 2016 Plein Air Painting in the Gardens Sandhills Horticultural Gardens | 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst Come and enjoy a day in the Gardens and watch local artists painting in this beautiful garden setting. Light refreshments will be served throughout the day at the Ball Visitors Center, where additional paintings will be on display and for sale. All art will be for sale with proceeds going to support the gardens. Cash or check ONLY will be accepted. Call 910-695-3882 for more information. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Sandhills Community College Horticultural Gardens SCC Gardens & Owen’s Auditorium 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst October 27, 2016 | Living Flower Arrangements | 1 - 2 p.m. $50.00 for SHS members, $55.00 for non-members October 28, 2016 | Bulbs and Companion Plants | 1 - 2:15 p.m. Free, but all must register October 28, 2016 | Living Flower Arrangements | 10 - 11 a.m. $50.00 for SHS members, $55.00 for non-members
Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Road | Southern Pines Join renowned ornithologist Susan Campbell Wednesday mornings at 8:30 a.m. as she bands hummingbirds at the visitor center. Susan will discuss the process as she handles the hummingbirds, records data about each bird and finally bands and releases each hummingbird. It is recommended to call the park office in advance to be sure banding will be taking place. September 7 September 14 September 21 September 28
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For more information call 910-692-2167, email weymouth. woods@ncparks.gov, or visit ncparks.gov/weymouth-woodssandhills-nature-preserve. Weather and staff availability permitting. 8:30 a.m. Free Admission! October 30, 2016 Dr. Douglas Tallamy “Restoring Nature’s Relationships at Home” The Pinehurst Fair Barn |Pinehurst Nationally-known, respected speaker and author of Bringing Nature Home. Learn what is needed to make our landscapes part of a functioning ecosystem that benefits wildlife and enhances our environment. Presented by the Village of Pinehurst Greenway Wildlife Habitat Committee and Save Our Sandhills. Books and songbird nest boxes for sale. Includes author “meet and greet” and book signing. Space is limited, register by phone: 910-295-1900. 1 p.m. doors open; 2 p.m. program begins. Free Admission!
For more information please call 910-695-3882. October 15, 2016 Fall Plant Sale Sandhills Horticultural Society & Student Horticultural Club will hold their Fall Plant Sale. It will be next to Steed Hall at the Sandhills Community College. Woody plants (azaleas, hollies, camellias), perennials, daffodils, pansies and spring flowering bulbs will be available. Call Johanna Westmen at 910-246-4959 to pre-order, or plants may be purchased the day of the sale. 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
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SOUNDS ON THE GROUNDS Weymouth Center Southern Pines June 23rd
From top, clockwise: Liquid Pleasure entertained; Kathryn Talton & Julia Brokmeyer; Henry, Patrick & Katie Rucker; Jennifer, Amelia & Brian Meister; and Alex & Jon Miller with Chas Crowder.
SOUTHERN PINES ROCKS Benefiting MIRA USA and the Rotary Club of the Sandhills Outside the Southern Pines Brewery June 25th
From top, clockwise: MIRA USA founders Elaine & Bob Baillie with Peggy Baldwin; Pam Partis, Valerie Kessinger & Dana Redfern; Kathy & Jeff Burkey; Ross & Brian Benjamin, Karen & Rusty Williamson and Colleen Watts; and Mark & Drew Marquez; and Kelly Childress.
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Downtown Southern Pines July 1st
From top, clockwise: Kaly-Mae Esquinel; Enjoying the entertainment; Lola, Wallace & Maria Eklund; Rachael Deasy & Melanie Randolph; and Jean, Matthew, Mike Miller and Keith & Annie Osterman.
4th OF JULY CELEBRATION Pinehurst July 4th
From top, clockwise: The Cross Creek Pipes & Drums; Christy Forrest, Chloe, Myrtle Turner & Karen Dettmer; Princess of North Carolina, Isabel Bugueras; Magician John Tudor and Peyton Jordan petting Magic bunny; Balloon man.
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From top right, clockwise: The Menke Family; Fauna Jorgensen with Betsy Ross; and Shelby, the über-festive Border Collie.
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Sandhills Sightings SANDHILLS COMMUNITY COLLEGE JAZZ BAND CONCERT Owens Auditorium, Pinehurst July 11th
From top, clockwise: ;Band member Tim Haley & singer Lynn Nelson; Sadie Small, Judy Threadwell, Vivian Kelly & Thomasina Murphy; Mike & Sally Moore with Mary, Alice, Abby & Ken Waclo; Duane & Sharon Erickson; and Ronnie & Betty Milligan.
TAPAS: A TASTE OF RIO Weymouth Center, Southern Pines July 14th
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and bee’s wax candle making workshop Ball Visitors Center Sandhills Horticultural Gardens July 19th
From top, clockwise: Instructors Bob & Ruth Stolting; Charlene Sharp, Suzanne Wright & Pat Welch; Tracy Kelly & Dallas Knight; Ruth Stolting; and Barbara Barrett, Nancy Mack & Kaye Morrele.
9th ANNUAL BACKYARD BOCCE BASH Benefiting the Sandhills Children’s Center Pinehurst Harness Track August 13th
From top, clockwise: Event co-chairman Rob Barrett with Director of Events Teresa Copper; Philip Stone, Justin Clark, Charlie Gilliam & Chip Cloninger; Tom & Dot Lawless and Gary & Debbie Bobbitt; Timmy Adams & Whitt Tucker; and Jennifer Fitzhugh, Janice Ashley, Willie LaRose & Bruce Bullock.
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Annie, Get Your Gun photograph courtesy of Tufts Archives
Caption courtesy of The Moore County Historical Association
Annie Oakley and her husband Frank Butler were regular winter guests in Pinehurst from February 1916 until March 1922. Oakley repeatedly exhibited her marksmanship skills at the Gun Club, participated in trapshooting contests and spent many hours instructing other women how to handle a gun. She is said to have taught more than 15,000 women how to shoot.
Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees.... Are we not better and at home In dreamful Autumn, we who deem No harvest joy is worth a dream? A little while and night shall come, A little while, then, let us dream... - Ernest Dowson (1867–1900), “Autumnal” 72 PINEHURSTLIVINGMAGAZINE.COM
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