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Features MARCH/APRIL 2o18

10 Clean Conscience

Birds are chirping and flowers are blooming.

Spring simply makes us think of the wonders of nature. So we decided to sit down with Sustainable Sandhills to talk about how to preserve it.

16 The Art of Water

Ask any artist—watercolor can be an unforgiving medium. Luckily, we found two local artists willing and able to embrace this beautiful art form.

22 Sunday Supper

The word scone comes from the Dutch word skone, which means “beautiful bread.” Scones originated in Scotland in the 1500s and have been perfected by the Pine Scone Cafe in the 2000s.

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44 50 Book Review 52 On the Buckle 54 Puzzle 56 Golf 60 Calendar 67 Sightings 72 Last Impression my friends, the spring is come; the “ Behold, earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love.

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y son is working on his Sustainability Merit Badge for Boy Scouts with Troop 7 in Pinehurst, which is what prompted me to reach out to Hanah Ehrenreich at Sustainable Sandhills for our story on page 10.

The Sustainability Merit Badge is a bit more intense than some of the others; I’m assuming because it’s a requirement for Eagle Scout. Believe me, as a parent who is involved with his child’s efforts to achieve Eagle Scout, I’m amazed any teenage boy has the fortitude to reach it. It’s intense, as it’s meant to be, but it takes a certain kind of kid to get through it (and an amazing team of parents and adults who dedicate inordinate amounts of time helping their child as well as the other young men in the troop to attain this goal).

There’s a 20-page workbook for the Sustainability Merit Badge, and several of the sections require the family to sit down and discuss their level of conservation and what they can do moving forward to improve. Some of the sections include: as a family, discuss your water usage and develop and implement a plan that attempts to reduce your family’s water usage; as a family, choose three ways to help reduce consumption; and develop a plan that attempts to reduce your household food waste.

Turns out we do OK conserving, although numbers could have been a little skewed when comparing our electric bill from the first two months of the year. Did anyone else have a nice surprise when opening their electric bill after that cold snap in January?

But it also reminded us that we can do better without a lot of effort. We’re going to put in a rain barrel this spring, we’ve reprogrammed our thermostats to lower temperatures and we’re now a little more aware of lights being left on (although I feel like I’m always barking about that, as my father did before me, and his father did before him). The idea, of course, is that every little bit helps.

There are also sections in the workbook on how our community, state, country and world can better conserve, which leads me to Hanah at Sustainable Sandhills.

We’re a bit spoiled here under the pines, as our air quality is second to none, but that doesn’t mean we’re immune to the changes going on around us. I remember one pleasant day last summer going on some errands down U.S. 15 501 and when I stepped out of the car it felt like I was walking into an oven. I discovered they have a name for that—heat island—and it’s much worse in urban areas.

We titled the story Clean Conscience to hopefully help make us all a little more aware of our impact on the environment. The key to improving our environs, as Hanah will point out, is collaboration and cooperation. If we all do a little to help, it will add up to a lot.

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Clean Conscience HANAH EHRENREICH LEADS THE AREA’S ENVIRONMENTALISTS AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SUSTAINABLE SANDHILLS

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seems appropriate to first turn to NASA to get some perspective, and some basics, on climate change—the 30,000-foot view or, considering it’s our space agency, maybe a little higher. According to NASA, the overall global temperature has risen nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit since 1880, with 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurring since 2001.

The culprit? The rise in heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other gases created by human activity. The trapped heat has been melting the arctic ice and glaciers, leading to a rise in sea levels (about eight inches in the last century). It has decreased snow cover on mountaintops around the world and caused snow to melt earlier in the spring, which causes increased flooding and the loss of much-needed water for communities, particularly in the West, later in the year.

The oceans, it turns out, have absorbed most of that increased heat and carbon dioxide, which creates a whole host of other natural problems, including extreme weather events and ocean acidification.

Hanah Ehrenreich has seen the impact of climate change; granted, from a considerably lower level than NASA. Ehrenreich is the executive director of Sustainable Sandhills, a “tiny environmental nonprofit with a giant mission—to save the planet and preserve the environment of the Sandhills through education, demonstration and collaboration.” Their mission: clean air, clean water, green schools, green business and local food.

Sustainable Sandhills began in 2003 out of a collaboration between Fort Bragg and the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, eventually evolving into an independent 501 (c)(3) nonprofit, focusing on the environmental footprint of originally six and now nine surrounding counties.

Pinehurst Living decided to touch base with Ehrenreich, and get her thoughts on how we are doing as a community to combat climate change.

So what has Sustainable Sandhills been focusing on most recently?

Recently we’ve been doing a lot on climate resilience planning and air quality and water quality. It’s definitely a priority, starting back in 2014, with the dumping of coal ash into the Cape Fear water. That’s a drinking water source for many people in the area, and now,

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Hanah Ehrenreich Raul Rubiera Photography

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with both the Atlantic Coast pipeline and some of these unregulated chemicals appearing in the river, we have been concerned with the safety and quality of our drinking water supply.

North Carolina predominantly relies on rivers for drinking water, along with wells and aquifers. And for the Sandhills region, it’s the Cape Fear river.

And it’s not that we don’t have what we need to take those contaminants out. The issue is that we haven’t been notified that we need to. For something like coal ash, there isn’t an approved method of disposal, so that is worrying because the ash does include heavy metals, which settles in the sentiment and degrades the basin.

carbon when a company, like Delta, wants to off-set their emissions, either through what they usually do as an air transit business or because they want to offer their customers the ability to provide a way to reduce climate impact.

So our forest (carbon bank) sequesters carbon and offsets carbon produced by industries—companies essentially pay the owner of the carbon bank to grow and maintain the trees. We planted 4,700 trees on Cumberland County School property last year. We tallied it up and the actual

What are the visible impacts of global warming in our area?

Heat vulnerability. We see a lot more kids passing out at high school sports practice. We see a lot more elderly coming in with heat-related illnesses. We see a lot more outdoor workers—construction, farm labor, landscaping—who are impacted because of heat stroke. Soldiers too. We’ve seen Fort Bragg close because it’s been too hot.

So the high heat is definitely an issue and it’s something that relates to human health. We’ve also seen storm water impacts. North Carolina is known for its hurricanes, but we had almost a 10-year hiatus without a hurricane and then we got hit by the impact of three of them in the span of nine months. We’re going to see some more extreme weather events. We’re going to see higher heat days, and lower cool days. And we’re going to see more drought and excessive storm water—water when we don’t need it, not enough water when we do.

We see the impact. It was 70 degrees yesterday, it’s going to be 70 later this week. Anyone who is anyone in North Carolina will tell you that is not normal. We had 90 degree temperatures in November. And then when you get into big urban areas, a lot of pavement, storm water issues, it becomes even worse.

What about some positives, what are we doing right?

Our air quality is fantastic and so as an organization we’re focusing on things that move the needle, like the Carbon Bank, to continue to improve air quality. The next best thing we could do is focus on public and mass transit. Trains to get people to and from the Triangle area and Wilmington.

Reduce the number of cars that are on the road. We also can have people invest in things like the Carbon Bank.

Talk about this Carbon Bank? What’s the idea behind it?

A carbon bank is a collection of new trees that absorb

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Courtesy of Sustainable Sandhills Planting of the Carbon Bank in Cumberland County. cost was $1,300 to plant and in the last year the school district received a check for $2,500. So every year the forest grows, it generates more revenue for Cumberland County School districts based on the amount of carbon offset we sell through the forest. The ultimate goal is to sequester 23,000 tons of carbon, which would earn the school district $230,000.

We want to plant trees near schools so that kids can breathe better. Nationally, and particularly in urban areas, schools that have carbon banks see a 2 degree difference between their area in the summer time and the area without the trees, which is pretty significant.

And, again, individuals can also participate by purchasing carbon credits. Our broker is Urban Offsets (urbanoffsets.co) out of Raleigh, and you can buy credits through their website.

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Is that required by law for companies to strive for carbon neutrality?

Purchasing offsets is a way to make a direct, local impact and at the same time allow their emissions to be absorbed at the local level. North Carolina as a state adopted the Paris Accords. New York City adopted the Paris Accords, so regardless of the U.S. government’s stance on the Paris Accords, companies and local governments are getting on board.

OK, let’s switch gears a little bit, what’s a locavore?

Locavores eat and source their food within about 100mile range. Some do less than 100 miles, some do up to 250 miles, depending on certain food systems. The goal is to create a local “food shed” and a local food eco-system; so you know where your food is coming from, how it was raised, how it was farmed. And you support food that comes with less vehicle miles traveled.

Generally, food tastes better in season and is fresher. We have a number of businesses in Moore County—Southern Whey, The Flavor Exchange and Elliot’s on Linden—that do a lot to incorporate North Carolina products or products sourced within that 100-mile radius in their menus and food selection. They do a lot of seasonality and using food when it’s ripe.

Have you ever had a banana in a country that grows bananas? Did you know bananas could taste that good?

I mean, how many bananas have I consumed in my entire life and I never knew they tasted like this. It’s like a transcendental experience … it’s amazing. And you can have that same experience with cabbage and kale—well, I’m not a huge kale person, but for those who are, it’s local and offers that enhanced, fresh flavor.

You’ve got a clean energy summit coming up on March 9-10. What’s on the agenda?

We have a fantastic keynote speaker lined up: Desmond Wheatley, who is CEO of Envision Solar. His company does electric vehicle charging stations that are off grid. Basically, when you want to install them, you drop them down at whatever parking space you want to operate in, they charge through solar and then they charge the vehicle. Big cities like San Francisco and New York are investing in this technology because they don’t have to do any sort of infrastructure to add it to their grid.

Apparently, Envision Solar had an EV ARC in the U.S. Virgin Islands when Hurricane Maria hit. It took the company about a week or two to get in touch with the

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facility and check on the unit. And when they did get ahold of someone down there, They were told, “yeah, it’s the only thing working on the island.” Now, there are some real applications it can be used for in disaster preparedness, grid-less military installations and more.

We also hope to get someone from the Department of Defense to talk about garrison sustainability. We have a guy who has electric bikes and vehicles in Fayetteville presenting and a faith-based roundtable talking about conservation, to name a few.

We also have PWC, the municipal utility in Fayetteville, speaking on a community solar program. They believe this is an affordable solution for people who want to help solar development in the area. It’s a one megawatt solar farm.

It’s very small, and basically you become an investor. You pay whatever it is, say $25 per month, and you are paying into the ownership of X amount of kilowatt hours that they generate. Then they go and sell those kilowatts and you profit from it without having solar panels directly on your roof.

So we’re real excited about the agenda and the summit is free and open to anyone interested in sustainability. Keynote tickets are available through our website.

How else as a community can we get involved in easing climate change?

Literally planting a tree helps. And particularly native trees, like longleaf pines. We can do a lot to reduce heat island effect, heat vulnerability and increase drought resilience through that.

We still don’t have the perfect legislative environment for renewables but we are getting there. We now have the ability for schools and municipalities to do third-party solar, where the solar array is not owned by the school but rather owned by a company that can recoup tax credits. And that makes a tremendous difference. Duke Energy is putting in an incentive per installed watt.

As an example, in South Carolina they do a $1.00-perwatt incentive and the entire Rock Hill School District managed to solarize because it was a basically a three-year return on investment and now they’re just making money.

We’re not there yet, but we’re moving toward it.

And it’s also about partnerships. It’s about looking locally at what we have. We have a tremendous pool of talent and innovation and tapping into that to both grow conservation and a better environment. And also really embrace the local living we can do here with food, entertainment, art, culture … that’s really the key. PL

Of Glory and Light

THE MOORE COUNTY CHORAL SOCIETY PRESENTS

Gloria Antonio Vivaldi

Lux Aeterna Morten Lauridsen

ANNE DORSEY, CONDUCTOR

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Sunday, April 29, 2018 at 4 p.m.

ROBERT LEE AUDITORIUM, PINECREST HIGH SCHOOL ADULTS: $20 STUDENTS: $10 Tickets available at The Country Bookshop, The Campbell House, Kirk Tours of Pinehurst, Sandhills Winery in Seven Lakes, or at the door.

For more information, call 910.920.4621 or visit us at

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This project received support from the Arts Council of Moore County with funds from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the department of cultural resources.

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The Art of

Water

By Billy Liggett Photography by Amanda Jakl & Don McKenzie

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Jane Ellen Tercheria and Jean Smyth

have never met. They aren’t even familiar with each other until informed they share a recently formed passion: Watercolor.

It’s an art form that dates back to Paleolithic Europe cave paintings, and an art form that really took off during the Renaissance Era 500-plus years ago. It’s still popular today, but because it’s so unforgiving (the water itself is unpredictable) and more time-consuming than oil-based paints, watercolor isn’t what you’d call “trendy.”

But that’s OK to Tercheria and Smyth. The former was a trained architectural artist who thrived on straight lines and perfect measurements before falling in love with the unpredictability and freedom that watercolor offered. The latter dabbled in art in college, but went the education route for her career. She only began to flourish as an artist after retirement, and she chose watercolor because it presented a new challenge in her life.

Their work is showing up around Pinehurst and Moore County, adding much appreciated gradient color—a welcome addition to the village’s growing arts community. Tercheria’s paintings of historic Pinehurst buildings have become popular for residents and tourists alike, and Smyth’s natural scenes and still-life paintings have appeared in recent shows and galleries.

“The art scene here … people here like local. They want local art,” explains Tercheria. “And it’s not exactly easy to break in to. So to have people interested in what I’m doing—interested in my work in Pinehurst—I’m thrilled.”

The Goal Setter

It’s a perfect early April day in the village—except it’s February.

Temperatures in the lower 60s, the sun providing enough warmth to shed a light jacket, and Tercheria is enjoying a coffee outside of the Roast Office, the former post office and one of the many nearby buildings that have provided her with inspiration of late.

It’s important to note that Tercheria is a goal setter. She begins talking about the 2017 goals list she made a year ago, which is now almost completely checked off—simple items like “be happy” (check) and “focus, get better” (check), then goes into her artistic goals like “better customer service,” “Christmas cards” and “wood frames” (check, check, check). This goals list is a yearly tradition for Tercheria, and it was her 2005 list that gently shoved her toward working with watercolors.

“I had this specific image in my head. A painting. Just blueberries and lemons, and for some reason, I was drawn to these colors” she says.

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Jane Ellen Tercheria

“I love the colors in watercolor art. It’s very loose and breezy and transparent—and it was something I’d never done before. I knew if I could figure out watercolor, that would make me a better artist. And so I did it.”

The more she worked with watercolor, the more she liked it. The size of the painting—smaller, about the size of a sheet of paper—suited her. She liked that it was difficult. She liked that it was different from what she’d done in the past.

“There are little challenges like not having white paint. If you want something to be white, you leave it blank,” she says.

“And you never know what the water will do. To go from such a technical background to this … this just flowed a lot more for me. It was a challenge, but it was fun.”

Tercheria, her husband and their two boys came to Pinehurst nearly five years ago via San Francisco then Colorado. The Rockies provided tons of inspiration for her early watercolor work—enough to make her want to take classes to hone her craft.

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But as beautiful as Colorado was, it was equally cold, and the frigid winters weren’t ideal for Tercheria and her family. With her sister already living in North Carolina, and her husband’s brother also making his home in the Tar Heel state, the family made their home in Moore County in 2013 (equal distance from the mountains to the west and the beaches to the east).

In Pinehurst, Tercheria, again, going back to her love for architecture, was immediately drawn to the buildings. Built in the late 1800s by the prominent landscape architect and design firm Frederic Law Olmsted, the village was designed in a New England style with twisting roads leading from center. Hotels, boarding houses and cottages were designed in the same style and mindset, and Pinehurst would soon become a resort destination.

“The architecture is just really cool,” Tercheria says, pointing toward the Village Chapel, a mere block away. “I love the way they’ve taken care of their buildings here. Like this coffee house,” she adds, pointing back to the Roast Office. “And they’re

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beautiful. That’s the interesting thing about art. It just comes to you. You’re drawn to your subjects. And if I paint something that people like, that’s great. But not everybody has to like it. Sometimes, their eye is just different from my eye.”

It’s February, which means Tercheria is already a month into fulfilling her 2018 goals list, which isn’t ready for public eyes. But she’s OK with sharing some of them now.

“I’d love to do a plein-air event with dozens of artists painting the same building in Pinehurst, and just see what happens,” she says with enthusiasm. “I’d like to develop more relationships locally. I’d love to paint more flowers … paint more of Whispering Pines … figure out more shapes.

Travel more. Teach other people ….” The more she thinks about it, the more her list grows.

Why Wait?

Jean Smyth says it numerous times in her home studio in the Pinehurst No. 6 neighborhood.

“Watercolor is hard.”

When asked why she chose to tackle something so challenging—and not just tackle it, but immerse herself in it—after a career in education when she should be relaxing and enjoying retirement instead, she smiles.

“I took art classes in college, and I loved them. I told my parents how much I loved them, and that I wanted to change my major to art, but they weren’t really happy about that. They didn’t think I could support myself,” she says.

“So, why wait any longer?”

A native of upstate New York, Smyth moved to Pinehurst to be close to her daughter and her family. She’d taken classes and painted off and on during her 25-year teaching career, but she never was able to fully commit to it until after retirement. Her favorite, and most challenging, medium over the years was watercolor.

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“I always liked the mystical quality. But it’s also unforgiving. There’s little room for error,” she says, pointing to her sketchbook, which has an oft-erased drawing of a porcelain bowl of fruit. “I do little sketches first to get my brain wrapped around what it’s going to be. This is where I can make my mistakes. So when you finally get to the paper and the water, you have your mindset. You sort of know what you’re going to do, even if you’re not always certain how it’s going to turn out.”

She points to her canvas, today featuring near-mirror paintings of a glass vase with pink roses. She dismisses one of them because it’s “too pink” and “thinks” she likes the other one a lot more. But there’s even uncertainty in that statement.

“I’ve had more than one instructor say, ‘Each painting is just practice for the next one,’” she says. The quote reminds her of a bookmark-sized strip of paper she has pinned to a nearby corkboard. She takes it off and reads the “Six Stages of Painting” aloud.

“First, you think, ‘This is going to be a really good painting.’ Second, it’s, ‘I think this is going to be OK.’ Then, ‘I think I can fix it.’ Then it’s, ‘I think I can save it.’

Then, ‘I can do it over again on the other side.’

“And finally, stage six. ‘This is going to be a really good painting.’”

In 2015, Smyth and local artist Louise Price were featured in the “Creative Journey” exhibit at the Exchange Street Gallery. Though they had met just prior to the exhibit, the two learned that they’d lived only 10 miles apart in New York for years. The experience of being shown with Price—whom Smyth admires greatly and calls a “true professional artist”—was a confidence booster.

Today, some of her work is featured at Lady Bedford’s Tea Parlour in Pinehurst.

And she’s up for the challenge to get better. That means more art classes, working in more workshops and being exposed to different teachers with different philosophies. It’s her ideal retirement. Who needs rest?

“I wish I could say watercolor calms me, but it doesn’t,” she says. “It’s humbling, and it’s a challenge. And I just love doing it.” PL

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Sunday Supper

Pine Scone Cafe Written by Meagan Burgad Photography by Pineland Photography Food styling by Grace Crawford

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n 2009, Rae Anne Kinney was making scones in her kitchen and driving door to door selling them to local businesses. Today she owns Pine Scone Cafe, a quaint shop down Linden Road in Pinehurst, nestled next to Elliott’s on Linden, where she sells coffee and more than 15 flavors of scones. The steady success of Pine Scone is a rarity in small business, but to anyone who knows Kinney, it’s not a surprise. She’s a perfectionist with delicious results.

Before Kinney even knew how to bake a scone, this selfprofessed entrepreneurial spirit was thinking of business plans. “I’ve always had this entrepreneurial drive. I was always brainstorming ideas and inventions for my own business.”

Rae Anne Kinney has been making scones since 2009. Pine Scone Cafe is her kitchen/cafe in Pinehurst, open since 2015.

Yet it wasn’t until she was driving to get her morning coffee that Kinney her had her “Aha” moment. “I realized no one was baking scones in the area. The local coffee shops weren’t carrying scones. Then the name Pine Scone popped into my head. And I thought, ‘Oh, that’s a perfect name for this area.’”

After doing some research, Kinney confirmed no one was baking fresh scones in the Sandhills. It was a niche market she knew she could fill. Kinney searched the internet looking through hundreds of scone recipes and testing them in her kitchen. Unhappy with the results, she began adjusting the recipes and experimenting with

different ingredients. She put her science background as an industrial engineer to work and started by weighing all the ingredients for accuracy. She then moved on to replacing elements that didn’t work—like using buttermilk instead of milk to make the scones moist. It was this attention to detail that helped Kinney create her first menu item—a Blueberry White Chocolate Scone—that continues to be a best seller today.

With the perfect scone in place, Kinney began developing a plan to market her business. She knew that if she could get her scones in front of local cafe owners they would be hooked. And she was right. Before she knew it,

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Sunday Supper Kinney was working 16-hour days to keep up with the demand from local coffee shops and area farmers markets.

It was a process that was fulfilling but exhausting. “We created a demand for a product that didn’t exist,” she says.

After three years of making scones in her kitchen, Kinney was looking to take Pine Scone to the next level when her husband, Don, received a job assignment in Africa. Undeterred, before leaving for Africa in 2012, Kinney found a partner who would handle the day-to-day

bake more than 15 varieties of scones, including the nine standard flavors made fresh daily for their own cafe (visit pinesconecafe.com for their complete menu).

Yet just because Kinney now works out of an industrial kitchen, making batches of up to 72 scones at a time, doesn’t mean she has changed her approach to baking.

She’s still the perfectionist who weighs every gram of flour, striving for consistency in her kitchen. Indeed, when she found electric mixers blended the dough unpredictably, Kinney switched back to mixing everything by hand. And when she found self-rising flour gave erratic Strawberry White results, she decided to make her Chocolate Pine Scones own. It’s this dedication to creating a consistent product that ensures Makes 8 Scones every Salty Caramel Chocolate Using a pastry cutter (or 2 knives) cut until & Toffee scone you taste will be butter is pea sized: just as delightful as the last. In 2 cups all-purpose flour fact, Kinney believes so strongly 6 tablespoons softened butter in creating a consistent product, 1 tablespoon baking powder she trains every member of her 1/2 teaspoon salt six-person team to ensure you get Add and mix gently: the same delicious tasting scone no 1/3 cup sugar matter who’s baking.

1/2 cup fresh strawberries (chopped) “We have a very specific 1/3 cup white chocolate (optional) method so that I know every time the scones come out they will be Fold in: 2 tablespoons buttermilk amazing. People tell us all the time 2 tablespoons heavy cream that they’re the best scones they’ve ever had.”

Add a splash more of each if necessary to On top of offering crowdbring dough together in a ball. The amount pleasers like the Cinnamon Chip of liquids necessary will depend on the juiciness of the strawberries! and Aloha (filled with pineapple, coconut, white chocolate, and Press dough into a 1-1/2-inch-thick circle. macadamia nuts—one of Kinney’s Cut like a pie into eight equal-sized scones. personal favorites), Pine Scone is continually creating new scones Bake in a preheated 400 F oven for 16 minutes or until lightly browned. you won’t find anywhere else. Like the Green Gobblelin—an original recipe scone with crème de menth and Andes Mints. A scone Kinney operations of her growing business. For three long years, proudly boasts as the only green scone she’s ever seen.

Kinney anxiously watched from across the globe as the While many small business owners would be business continued to grow. content with the success Pine Scone has found, Kinney’s “I had a wonderful partner who ran the business from entrepreneurial drive is already looking for other her home. But when I came back from West Africa, she opportunities to grow her company. The next step is to get was ready to turn it back over to me. She was exhausted her popular Dough Log—a frozen dough log that makes and burned out on baking, so I bought her out. I knew it twenty bite-sized scones—into specialty stores.

[Pine Scone] had gotten too big to work from home. That’s Kinney sells the Dough Log in Pine Scone Cafe for when we started making plans to open a cafe.” now, but it’s not hard to imagine a time when Pine Scone With careful planning and preparation, Kinney opened Dough Logs are in every supermarket. We wouldn’t expect Pine Scone Cafe in March of 2015. anything less from a businesswoman who decided to create Today, Pine Scone sells their products at their store, a successful scone business before she had ever baked a six coffee shops and numerous farmers markets. They single scone. PL

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March Madness ... of the wine variety

By Sassy Pellizzari

Once again, we find ourselves fully immersed in the March madness ... of gr apes. This is the period in March after the producers have picked and squashed and fermented and rested and tasted and retasted and retasted their liquid masterpiece. They are ready to wrap her up, give her a name and present her to the world. A new vintage is born and wine geeks, enthusiasts, aficionados— whatever you choose call them—are calling in favors to get invited to the official tasting ceremonies.

Rewind two months. It’s January, and editors in the wine world are “guestimating” what will be the next important wine trends for this year. Now, keep in mind that no one, not even an important editor, not even the producer himself, has tasted the final product. Therefore, they are not based on actual wines, so I don’t suggest that you reinvest your retirement savings based on these predictions.

They do, however, take into consideration current strong tendencies in the wine world and even in the real world. These trends are obviously not declared based on how the wines in each country and region have turned out. Rather, they are determined by many other factors relating to how wine consumers are living day to day.

Let’s have a look at some of the upcoming wine trends, as predicted by wine experts.

Go Big or Go Home Magnum bottles hold 1.5 liters (two wine bottles in one) and must be custom made by winemakers, so producers really only produce their best wines in magnum size.

We all know that too much oxygen is not good for wine, which is why we say it becomes “oxidized.” When a wine is bottled there is always air at the top, but since the ratio of air to actual wine is much smaller in a magnum than in a standard bottle, magnums oxidize their wine slower. This slower oxidation means that the wine will have a longer shelf life and increased freshness, and are the best size for longer aging.

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Cha-Ching: More Premium Wine Sales What makes a wine premium or more expensive? Many things: higher quality, small production, hand selection, organic or biodynamic, aging, the time and money that goes into a calculating, hands-on process with high-quality grapes. As consumers are choosing to spend more on healthier products for themselves, in food, cosmetic or cleaning products, the same is reflected in the wines they choose to drink. Consumers are looking to wines to reflect their overall social consciousnesses by drinking more natural, sustainable, organic and biodynamic wines from winemakers who embrace these philosophies.

It’s a good thing that people are getting used to spending more, since the majority of wines from popular regions will increase in price. This year, the euro is continuing to get stronger against the dollar, so you will see a rise in the European wine price points. And due to the California wildfires, there has been a decrease in production, which means that California wines should have an increase in price as well.

Stepping Out of the Box There’s nothing more impressive than knowledge. So, ordering or serving that wine from some interesting or unknown location is topping the charts in trends. New wines from old places, such as Turkey or Croatia or Hungary or Georgia, are peaking wine consumers interest. These are regions with a long history of winemaking, but lack the expertise of Western European wines and the budgets to invest in marketing. However, they do offer an intriguing conversation, pleasant taste and competitive price point.

Stepping Into the Box This may sound like a contradiction after experts predict higher premium wine sales, wines from exotic countries and higher wine prices overall. But they are also saying that new and unique wine packaging will continue being popular, such as wine cans, kegs and boxed wine.

People love technology and, despite its image problem, there is huge support behind these technology advances to increase freshness, while also having an ecofriendly wine experience. One advantage of the boxes and kegs is that, once opened, the wines are generally preserved for 4-6 weeks of drinking. It is also eco-friendly, as it produces less waste and has a lighter carbon footprint.

Personally, when it comes to wine, I am more of a traditionalist. I love to sit back and watch others jump in full force on trends. I respect and admire people who are constantly evolving, living life through the energy of new experiences, changes and striving to be tastemakers. I admire them as I sit back and sip my Old World, vintage, traditional style Barolo, who introduces himself with a pleasant pop of a cork, not the soft fizz of popping a tab.

Despite the surrounding trends encompassing the wine, the most important thing is the liquid that you are consuming. A great wine is a work of art from the producer.

But most importantly, do you enjoy it? Then that is what you should drink. PL

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April Fools’ Jokes Ever

By Haley Ledford

If you’ve ever fallen prey

to the classic salt-sugar switch on April 1 and wondered, “Why do we do this?,” you can blame poor math by the Romans and religious conviction by Pope Gregory XIII. Since Julius Caesar, Europe followed the days, weeks and months using the Julian calendar, and through the centuries different celebratory traditions sprung up, including marking the New Year on March 25 and celebrating the New Year on the first day of April because March 25 fell during Holy Week.

The Romans, however, miscalculated the length of the solar year by 11 minutes, meaning after more than a millennium, the Julian calendar was falling out of sync with the seasons. This particularly concerned Pope Gregory XIII because it meant that Easter, traditionally observed on March 21, fell further away from the spring equinox with every passing year. So in 1582, Europe made the switch, and the Gregorian calendar was born. Thus, April Fools’ began in the late 1500s, disparaging those who still celebrated the New Year on April 1 as “fools.”

How April 1 became synonymous with jokes and pranks, however, is a mystery. Historians have suggested the connection may be related to the beginning of spring, when nature “fools” us with the unpredictable weather. Others claim it’s connected to the Romans’ end-of-winter celebration, Hilaria, or the end of the Celtic new year festivities, where their celebrations were often squandered by poor weather. A popular English gardening book, published in 1990, describes a common myth that April Fools’ is about the “fruitless mission” of the rook, an Old-English word for crow, who was sent out in search of land from Noah’s ark during the flood and found nothing.

Regardless of the origins, countries all over the world now have their own name for an April Fools’ joke. It is called an April gowk in Scotland, which means “cuckoo,” a common symbol of simpletons or peasants. In France, poisson d’avril, which means “April fish,” is someone who has been the victim of a joke or, more colloquially, someone who is easily caught. And of course this prank culture has infiltrated America, with some particular noteworthy japes. Here are a few classic April Fools’ pranks from around the world that won’t be forgotten.

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Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

Photo: BBC

Mass media has been a method of choice for many pranksters on April Fools’, however, BBC news anchor Richard Dimbleby may have been the first. On April 1, 1957, Dimbleby presented a news report on the “spaghetti harvest” in Switzerland. Behind Dimbleby’s informative and authoritative voice, was a video of happy farming women “harvesting” spaghetti from trees. As the video played, Dimbleby reported on the production of “spaghetti trees” and their cultivation. The video also detailed how all the spaghetti came to be so perfectly uniform in length: years of study of the plants and dedicated harvesting. The report even mentioned a dangerous pathogen, the spaghetti weevil, that had threatened the spaghetti plants in the past year but had finally been taken care of.

Immediately after the story aired, the BBC received 250 calls from viewers—crashing their phone system—all wanting to know more about the elusive spaghetti trees. Where could they buy them? Could they be grown at home? To this, the show’s producer, Michael Peacock, suggested viewers plant a small tin of spaghetti in tomato sauce, as many British enthusiasts had favorable results with this growing method.

While it may seem incredible that hundreds of people genuinely believed the broadcast, it is important to note that in Britain in the 1950s, spaghetti was not a popular food, even considered an exotic delicacy by some.

In the days after the story, BBC received significant backlash because they had broken the unwritten rule of April Fools’ in Britain of not pulling any pranks after noon (the story was featured on the evening broadcast). To end the dispute, the Daily Telegraph published a story about the hoax to set the record straight, with the headline “BBC Fools About With Spaghetti.”

T he Left-Handed Whopper

Photo: USA Today

Lefties have long gotten the short end of the stick: Scissors, school desks, and spiral binders, just to name a few, have long thwarted lefthanders, but on a particular April Fools’ Day in the late ’90s, they finally got their due thanks to Burger King.

On April 1, 1998, Burger King published a full-page ad in USA Today detailing the release of the “Left-Handed Whopper,” specially crafted for the 32 million Americans who live life on the left side. The ad described how the new burger had all the iconic Whopper ingredients, but they would be rotated 180 degrees to redistribute the weight of the burger thus making it easier for lefties to hold.

Perhaps the best part of this clever prank was the quote from senior vice president for marketing at Burger King, Jim Watkins, who said the lefty burger was the “ultimate 'HAVE IT YOUR WAY' for our left-handed customers,” and mentioned that while they were currently only in the U.S., they might be rolled out in other countries with high populations of left-handers.

The following day, a follow-up ad was released announcing the hoax and noting that thousands of customers had asked for the dynamic new menu item, with some even asking for a “right-handed” version.

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Fastest Pitch in Baseball

In 1985, George Plimpton wrote a story in Sports Illustrated about a young pitching prospect for the New York Mets named Siddhartha “Sidd” Finch who could allegedly throw a pitch at 168 mph, far above the record at the time of 104 mph. This miraculous new record was bound to astound readers who did not catch the trap Plimpton had laid. First, he drew them in with details about Sidd in his sub-headline: “He's a pitcher, part yogi and part recluse. Impressively liberated from our opulent lifestyle, Sidd's deciding about yoga—and his future in baseball.” Some eagle-eyed readers, however, caught on that the first letters of each word spelled out: “Happy April Fools’ Day.” The article spun an impressive story of how the Mets had put batters to the test against this amazing new pitcher. The story even included pictures of players who had posed for photos pretending their hands hurt after taking a pitch from Sidd, with a radar gun present to catch the astonishing speed.

Perhaps the most captivating element of the story was the description of how Sidd was able to pitch with such great speed—he pitched with a heavy hiking boot on one foot and the other bare. He had no prior career in baseball, and had briefly attended Harvard although he dropped out midterm. He was an orphan who grew up in England before being adopted by a man who later died in a plane crash in the Himalayas. Plimpton wrote that Sidd later decided to spend time in the Himalayan mountains near the crash and that is where he began to study yoga and Sanskrit under “the great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa,” which became the source of his pitching abilities.

The story even included a false account of Sidd’s interesting disposition by a fake college roommate from Harvard and a member of the Mets management team. The management was quoted in Plimpton’s story on how they had brought in a professor to help them understand Sidd’s fascination with Buddhism and the expert on the subject, Burns, had decided that Sidd wanted to become a Buddhist Monk and not play baseball.

Plimpton crafted a storyline so complicated and increasingly outlandish for his imaginary pitcher, it was hard to believe how many people fell for it, but the story left baseball fans wondering how they could get a glimpse of this power pitcher, and left Mets fans over the moon.

The joke lived on in Sports Illustrated and in the hearts of baseball fans. It was recounted in April 2015 when ESPN released a documentary on the subject as a part of their 30 for 30 Shorts program and again in August of the same year with the Sidd Finch bobblehead giveaway by the Brooklyn Cyclones for the 30th anniversary of the story. At the game, Plimpton’s son threw the first pitch in honor of his dad. The story was eventually turned into a novel by Plimpton.

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The “Do-it-yourself ” craze may have hit its peak with the help of Pinterest and YouTube, but fixing things on your own was far more difficult before the technology of today. In 1962, Sveriges Television (SVT) was the only broadcasting channel in Sweden and it broadcast only in black and white.

On April 1, SVT offered a solution to those that wanted to watch in color. They introduced their technical expert, Kjell Stensson, to tell viewers how to add color to the black and white sets they already owned. On the broadcast, Stensson was sitting in front of a television set to show viewers how to do just that. Stensson described to viewers a scientific “phenomenon” using nylon stockings to alter the television. He then showed viewers how they could simply cut the stockings and tape them to their television screen. Nylon, Stensson described, was the ideal material for a screen because their transparency wouldn’t blur the image. Once the stockings were on the screen, Stensson advised that one might “move your head very carefully” back and forth to align the color spectrum properly.

Swedes now remember their parents, specifically their fathers, running around the house looking for nylon tights to try out this light spectrum wonder.

SVT eventually held their first color broadcast in 1966 and began regular color broadcasts, ironically, on April 1, 1970.

T he ' Taco' Liberty Bell

Photo: New York Times

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Another fast food prank involved one of America’s most beloved symbols, the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. On April Fools’ Day 1996, Taco Bell released an ad in The New York Times announcing that they had purchased the Liberty Bell and would be renaming it the “Taco Liberty Bell.” Naturally, people we outraged, but not to worry, Taco Bell assured that it would remain on display. The National Parks Service switchboard took the most heat on this one, answering calls from irate citizens. PL

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Have You Met My Son, Leather Tuscadero?

By Sundi McLaughlin

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pring is upon us, which means a big Mother’s Day celebration for many.

I have a beautiful mother who is generous, kind, loving, opinionated and oh so stubborn … I love her very much, which is good, since I am basically turning into her.

Of course, I will be thinking of her this Mother’s Day, but I think I want to take a moment to focus on the other women, the women who won’t be personally celebrating Mother’s Day—the women who don’t have children. Those women who have either bravely set a different course for their lives, or have suffered the heartache of being unable to have their own children. To those who are waiting to hear from the adoption agency, desperate for a little child to love as their own, or those who just don’t know what they are going to do quite yet.

To we ladies who are the childless, the social oddballs: Today I salute you!

Only you know what is like to go to a baby shower and be bombarded with, “You’re not getting any younger, you can always adopt ….” Or my favorite, “My friend thought she couldn’t have babies and adopted only to get pregnant a year later!” I get it. People love their children and can’t imagine their lives without them. They want everyone to feel that special connection.

Here is what I know of being a mid-40s, childless woman. Surprisingly, I am still a mother. A mother to my friends, my pets, my loved ones. I have compassion and love for those in need. I am the person who will be by your side in a flash when you call. I am the person who will do my best to fix what is broken and set you right again. My mom taught me that. At the end of the day, I am happy and fulfilled.

At my ripe old age, however, I have reached a point where I no longer wish to answer any more questions of when, if, or why I don’t have children. Without realizing it, when a person asks these questions and then tries to problem solve them for me, they are ever so subtly devaluing my life. I don’t think folks are purposely being mean-spirited, just a little bit thoughtless.

I’ve had people make fun of me for sending a “family” Christmas card of my husband, dog and I. “You are so funny,” they say, “I can’t believe you went to the trouble of getting a photo of just you and your husband for Christmas cards.” “That would be cuter if that was a baby instead of a dog.” “That is what people with children do.”

I even had a coworker (who was a big family man) correct me when I referred to my husband as my family. He laughed

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and explained that the word family is only applicable when you have kids. To my horror, he’s right. The definition of family in the dictionary is defined by three or more people living in a household … who knew? (Maybe we should get a roommate).

One day, while enduring a lengthy and awkward conversation with a tile installer about the age of my ovaries, I had an aha moment. I quite suddenly had the amazing idea to create fictional children with ludicrous names. I thought it would be a fun way to move the conversation along.

Let me set the set the scene using a sample from both scenarios.

Take 1—(No children): Stranger: “Hey Sundi, nice meeting you.

Do you have any children?”

Me: “Nope, You?” Stranger: “Oh yes! I have two. They are the love of my lives.”

Me: “That is awesome.”

Stranger: “Why don’t you have children?”

Me: “Oh, geez I don’t know …”

Stranger: “Well, you’re not getting younger” or “my friend can give you the name of a great adoption agency” or “What is the point of being married if you don’t have children?” or … you get the idea.

Take 2— (Fictional children): Stranger: Do you have kids?”

Me: “Yes! Two precocious twin girls, Pegasus and Pandora, currently in boarding school. Also, our little rascal, Leather Tuscadero … so precocious … and finally, the last piece of our puzzle of love, our baby Je t’aime but we all call her JJ (pronounced with a soft J). Can’t seem to get her out of a tu-tu ….”

Now, if the stranger has a good sense of humor, it gets a big laugh … while others just stare blankly and make a quick getaway. To be honest, it culls the field nicely. I have made great friends due to my fictional family.

The thing is, I have learned every person has their own cross to bear. My friends who have children will get bombarded with the question, “When are you having your next?” My friends who have more than three children are asked, “You know how those things are made right?” For my friends who aren’t married, the question they are haunted with is: “When are you getting married?”

My point is maybe we can all learn to be a little more sensitive.

None of us know all the stories of each other’s lives. Some things are still private, despite what social media would have us believe. So the next time you are out and about and we start chatting, let’s talk about something less volatile like politics or religion … or, of course, you can ask me about my kids: Pegasus, Pandora, Leather and sweet baby Je t’aime.

There are many traits that make up a person. Can one be wellrounded without another human being defining who we are, whether that be children or a spouse? Absolutely. You are a masterpiece who is constantly evolving and improving. (I think I read that on the back of a Snapple bottle cap once.) There are so many ways to live a great life, yes, even being maternal … right here under the pines. 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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“Initially, I signed on for three ads for the second half of 2015, unsure of where and how to advertise. Sometimes with print advertising it’s hard to ‘see’ it working, but not with Pinehurst Living Magazine!

“Here’s an example: It’s been months since it hit the stands, but there’s one image from the September/October Pick of the Pines section that still makes its way into my store. Countless customers have walked in and asked, ‘Do you still have this?’ The answer is always yes and it’s a guaranteed sale. What’s doubly satisfying is the soughtafter item is handmade right here in Moore County.

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Healthy Choices

Be Creative, It’s Good for You

by Robert Nason

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merican novelist Nancy Thayer once said, “It’s never too late—in fiction or in life—to revise.”

It’s never too late to do something you’ve always wanted to do, whether it’s sitting down to write that novel that’s been percolating in the back of your head since the ’90s or the strange desire to learn a Celtic language or finally experiencing that simple pleasure of painting a picture.

More and more studies are now finding that unleashing those creative urges within can actually benefit your health.

Indeed, a study from the American Public Health Association titled “The Connection Between Art, Healing, and Public Health: A Review of Current Literature” concluded that “there are clear indications that artistic engagment (expressive writing, music, visual arts and dance) has significant positive effects on health.”

Art, for instance, has been used for decades with patients who find it difficult to put their thoughts into words. Several studies with cancer patients noted that

those who use art to express their emotions have been more apt to focus on positive life experiences and have found relief from a preoccupation with their diagnosis.

The same for expressive writing. On a study of the healing power of writing poetry, the study’s author noted: “Our voices are saturated with who we are, embodied in the rhythms, tonal variations, associations, images and other somatosensory metaphors in addition to the content meaning of the words. Our voices are embodiments of ourselves, whether written or spoken. It is in times of extremity that we long to find words or hear another human voice letting us know we are not alone.”

But creativity also benefits those not suffering from a chronic illness. One study found that playing a musical instrument “engages areas of the brain which are involved with paying attention, making predictions and updating events in our memory.” And another study noted that adults who received musical instruction as children have more robust brainstem responses to sound, which can help in

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understanding words and languages.

Which all leads us back to Thayer’s sage advice. It doesn’t matter if you’re 15, 55 or 85. It doesn’t matter if you’re a prodigy or paint-by-numbers is your go-to outlet—creativity has no limitations, and the benefits are real.

If you started playing guitar, painting, taking salsa lessons or writing short stories today, these are the health benefits you’ll begin to experience:

• • • • • • • •

Improved cognitive task performance Better memory Improved time management skills Enhanced coordination Improved math skills Reduced stress, anxiety and depression Lower blood pressure A profound sense of accomplishment

It was another writer, Antoine de SaintExupéry, who said, “The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.”

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The Garden

Nature’s Signs and Weather Sayings

BY DOLORES MULLER

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In days gone by, farmers were in tune with nature and the weather to determine the optimum time to plant their crops. Long before meteorologists, the Weather Channel and sophisticated technology, people made forecasts based on their observations of the sky, animals and nature.

Watching for nature’s signs is called phenology, from the Greek word meaning “science of appearances.” Many of the traditional sayings you may have heard in your lifetime can predict the weather with remarkable accuracy, from the woolly bear caterpillars to thunder in the winter. Here are a few worth keeping in mind as you start to contemplate this spring’s garden.

Thunder in the winter means it will snow seven days later. Thunder in winter is an anomaly often caused by a big dip and rise in the jet stream. As cold air moves south, it replaces warm air, causing thunderstorms. The cold air behind the front settles in and approximately seven days later temperatures may still be cold enough to cause moisture to fall as snow.

Clear moon, frost soon. When the night sky is clear and there is no cloud cover to keep in the heat, the earth’s surface cools rapidly.

Ring around the moon, rain soon. A ring around the moon indicates an advancing warm front, bringing precipitation. Under those conditions, high, thin clouds get lower and thicker as they pass over the moon. Ice crystals are reflected by the moon’s light, causing a halo to appear.

When sheep gather in a huddle, tomorrow will have a puddle. The sheep know rainy weather is on its way.

Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in morning, sailors take warning. A red sky at night

usually indicates high pressure and stable air coming in from the west. A red sky in the morning can mean that high pressure or a good weather system has already passed and a low-pressure system or storm is moving east bringing rain.

Woolly Bear caterpillars predict the cold. This one has more of the folklore feel to it. The Woolly Bear caterpillar (in the South known as the woolly worm) is the larva form of the Isabella Tiger Moth. The caterpillar has 13 different colored sections of either rusty brown or black.

Legend has it, if the caterpillar has more black sections, winter will be more severe, whereas if the rusty brown sections are wider or the caterpillar has more brown sections, the winter will be mild.

Today, three scientific disciplines are used to make long-range weather predictions:

• Solar Science: the study of sunspots and other solar activity

• Climatology: the study of prevailing weather patterns

• Meteorology: the study of the atmosphere Weather trends and events are predicted by comparing solar patterns and historical weather conditions with current solar activity. Modern weather forecasts are based on 30-year statistical averages prepared by government meteorological agencies. Forecasters have not gained sufficient insight into the mysteries of the universe to predict the weather with total accuracy. While not foolproof, old-fashioned weather sayings still work today! PL

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A Look Back

John Philip Sousa And His Days in Pinehurst

by Jean Barron Walker Images Courtesy of Tufts Archives and The Library of Congress

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mong America’s greatest treasures is the legacy of John Philip Sousa, “The March King.”

The music of this bandleader and composer, whose music straddles both sides of the 20th century, continues to stir audiences with national pride and patriotism. Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” traditionally the closing encore of his program, is the National March of the United States as declared by Congress in 1987.

Sousa, who was born in Washington, D.C., in 1854, liked to say that he grew up under the shade of the capitol dome. His childhood days, spent with his father hunting along the Potomac, presaged his future time in Pinehurst at the gun club and hunting preserves. Sousa’s father was a trombonist in the U.S. Marine Band, and, at age 13, Sousa, who was already an accomplished violinist, enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps as an apprentice musician in their band. During the Civil War years, he saw and heard several military bands in Washington. In his autobiography, Marching Along, Sousa recounts, “There were bands galore; I loved them all.”

Sousa served seven years with the Marine Band and for several years afterward performed as a violinist and conductor in various theater orchestras in Washington and Philadelphia.

In 1879, Sousa met and married Jane van Middlesworth Bellis of Philadelphia, who was an understudy in a production Sousa was directing. A year later, Sousa, at age 25, became the first American-born

conductor of The Marine Band. He grew a beard in order to look older to musicians twice his age. Sousa developed the Marine Band into one of the finest military bands anywhere. The band, known as The President’s Own, served under Presidents Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, Arthur and Harrison.

In 1888, Sousa wrote “Semper Fidelis,” which he dedicated to “the officers and men of the Marine Corps.” The title, taken from their motto, “Always Faithful,” is traditionally played as the official march of the Marine Corps. Sousa wrote a total of 136 patriotic marches, publishing the last one in 1931. In 1892, after 12 years with the Marine Band, he left to form his own Sousa Band of world-class musicians.

Sousa, who was always meticulous in his dress, cut quite a figure. He pinned numerous medals on his military-style coat, he put lifts in his shoes to add height to his short frame, he placed pince-nez glasses on his nose and he wore a new pair of white kid gloves for every performance.

Sousa’s music spread around the world, as his concert band traveled more than a million miles. The band made four tours of Europe between 1900 and 1905, went around the world in 1910-1911, and made annual tours of the United States and Canada.

Small towns in America loved band music from 1890 to 1910. When the Sousa Band arrived by train, towns shut down to honor them. Businesses declared a holiday, schools were dismissed, flags were flown and citizens came from miles around to see the March

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King. And although his band is referred to as a marching band, it only marched seven times in its nearly four decades of existence.

After his exhausting tours, Sousa came to Pinehurst— the perfect place for him to rest and enjoy his favorite hobbies of trapshooting, hunting and riding. His first of many visits to the village was in December 1906, when the Pinehurst Outlook wrote, “John Philip Sousa and Mrs. Sousa are prominent guests at The Holly Inn. No American in professional life today is more widely known than the famous bandmaster; his compositions and band making his name a household word throughout the continent.”

The writer added: “Mr. Sousa appears, as all distinguished guests do, a man among men, and the village has entertained few men of his character who stand the test better—genial, courteous, a gentleman of culture and refinement, whom all enjoy meeting. A keen sense of humor, together with a natural gift of storytelling, makes him a brilliant conversationalist.”

While in Pinehurst, Sousa enjoyed telling the tale of an English minister who read that Sousa had shot a large number of “pigeons.” He thought Sousa had shot actual living birds, and he wrote to Sousa urging him to repent and withdraw from the murderous practice. In reply, Sousa

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sent the minister a box of broken clay targets and suggested that they be broiled before eating.

Sousa spent many days at the Pinehurst Gun Club, which had been established in 1904 by Leonard Tufts, owner of the village. The first gun club, a log cabin clubhouse, was in use by the fall of 1907. Sousa was a good trapshooter and was said to have shot 35,000 targets in his career.

Pinehurst began its annual Midwinter Trapshooting Tournament in 1908 with 38 entries, and, by 1920, the tournament had grown to attract 240 entries. Sousa placed high each year among the amateurs. He often said there were no sweeter sounds than when he called, “Pull,” the old gun barked, and the referee announced, “Dead.”

Trapshooting appealed to Sousa, because, as he said, it leveled all ranks by having a handicap system. He was elected president of the American Amateur Trapshooters Association in 1916. When he was 62, Sousa joined the Navy and was based near Chicago for a short while to train Navy musicians. At age 65, he became the top scorer for the Navy trapshooting team when it competed with the Army team in 1919 at the Pinehurst Gun Club.

By 1902, Leonard Tufts had leased 30,000 acres of cut-over timber land for the Pinehurst Game Preserves.

He fenced in 100 quarter-acre scattered enclosures,

Above: Sousa leading the Great Lakes Naval Band, circa 1917-1919

and grew cowpeas to attract wild game. Sousa hunted quail and wild turkey in the Preserves. Pinehurst had a large kennel of 30 trained setters and pointers, and the Pinehurst livery rented shooting wagons so sportsmen could enjoy hunting in the Preserves.

Sousa enjoyed riding, but, in 1921, was thrown from his favorite horse, Patrolman Charlie. He suffered a cracked vertebra, along with painful head and shoulder injuries, and was bedridden for eight weeks. He recovered but never regained full use of his left arm. The Hunter Arms Company of Fulton, New York, made Sousa a featherweight gun which he rested on his left arm for support. He used it the rest of his shooting days.

Jane Sousa was an avid tennis player and horseback rider. The Pinehurst Outlook, March 6, 1909, issue mentions a gymkhana—a day event of horse races—held on the Carolina Hotel grounds with Jane winning the women’s prize for most points in the afternoon events.

In 1889, The Washington Post newspaper asked Sousa to compose a piece to promote an essay contest they were sponsoring. In response to this request he wrote a march he called “The Washington Post.” The march caught the fancy of the public, not only in America but also in Europe, and it became a hit tune on both continents. It was a standard of the ballroom when the two-step replaced the waltz for dancing.

Entertaining guests for dinner at the Carolina Hotel was a social thing to do in the early days of Pinehurst. On March 20, 1909, Sousa hosted a dinner party and made it personal by inscribing place cards with each guest’s name and a few bars of one of his marches that he thought characterized that person. For instance, Mr. Herbert Jillson, publisher of a Maine newspaper, was given a place card with bars of “The Washington Post” march.

Sousa’s last visit to Pinehurst was in 1929. He died in 1932 at age 77 in Reading, Pennsylvania, after conducting a rehearsal there with the Ringgold Band, a local community band. The final selection was “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” his all-time favorite march.

Following Sousa’s death, one of his band members wrote the following tribute: “After John Philip Sousa, there is no other. Bandmaster pre-eminent, composer unequaled, sterling patriot, ardent sportsman, gentleman supreme, charming storyteller, he remained the simplest and most kindly of men.” 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

The First Major

By Robert Gable

J

ohn Feinstein is one of the busiest sportswriters around, providing commentary on college basketball and professional golf. He decided, back in 1993 while watching a Ryder Cup, that one day he would have to write a book about it. He says: “Some things in sports have to be felt.

Seeing and hearing aren’t enough. The Ryder Cup is one of those events.”

He considers it to be a major tournament, and the best major at that. The players get more keyed up about this than any other tournament. (It’s about the only one where their knees shake on the first tee.) The First Major is Feinstein’s inside account of the 2016 Ryder Cup at Hazeltine CC. Feinstein follows a formula he’s used in previous books.

He tells the story of a whole group of players, from all varying viewpoints. Then he weaves in their backstories as he talks about present events. In this case, you get some history of the previous Ryder Cups and how they had a bearing on this 2016 version.

Feinstein excels when he does some digging to get the inside scoop. Players are willing to talk to him. The U.S. team captain, Davis Love, was a major character in an earlier book, A Good Walk Spoiled. (This book put Feinstein on the literary scene as a golf reporter.) Love was willing to tell Feinstein everything. Team meetings, strategizing by the coaches and players, their hopes, gripes, triumphs and setbacks—Feinstein gives you a front row seat to it all. He has a ton of anecdotal references to serve up. His style is that of a storyteller at an after-dinner conversation; you sit in front of the fireplace, sip drinks and swap tales.

Feinstein does a good job of expressing the emotions behind the 2016 Ryder Cup and what was at stake for the snake-bitten Americans. He explains why it meant so much to take home the trophy. Coming in to the matches at Hazeltine, the American team had a string of three straight Ryder Cup losses and six losses out of the last seven, eight out of the last ten. The U.S. supposedly have the best players, yet somehow managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. After being labelled losers for the 2014 Ryder Cup loss, the Americans knew full well that, with the home field advantage and better players, they would be skewered if they didn’t win in 2016.

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players were set up for failure, then had to take the heat when the inevitable failure happened.

The book, however, is not just about the 2016 match (320 pages about a 3-day tournament would be a yawner). In the first nine chapters, he does a lot of panning back to past Ryder Cups, mostly to put the current moment in historical context. In fact, he takes until Chapter 20 before the actual playing of the 2016 matches start.

The wheels turning behind the scenes that make for a successful event—that is where Feinstein succeeds. There is the rivalry between the PGA Tour and the PGA of America.

The not-so-subtle digs the players give each other—some intentional, some inadvertent, but always a factor in the mental game of golf.

Feinstein tells you about the personalities of the players.

Matt Kuchar is the trickster/prankster beyond equal. He may have a smiling, choir boy countenance, but that just hides a rapier wit. Feinstein gives the backstories of captain Davis Love and European captain Darren Clarke, along with the story of Jordan Spieth, the latest superstar and heart of the U.S. team. And he does well to capture the camaraderie of the event, within each team and between the teams.

This is Feinstein’s 38th book, so he has it down to a science. If you like the inside tidbits and being behind the scenes, up close and personal, this is right up your alley. It will whet your appetite for the next Ryder Cup, which will be here soon—this September in Paris. 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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On the Buckle

Stuff and Nonsense

By Toby Raymond

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’ve been thinking about stuff lately, specifically horse stuff, and my long-held belief that I need so much of it. This certainty has never been as apparent as when I decided to get organized in order to make room for, you guessed it … more stuff. For instance, as I was rummaging through an old tack trunk I discovered three bits, all of which were ridiculously expensive and none of which are right for my horse. And saddle pads: I have more of them than there are days in the week because I only use one per ride before they are lovingly washed in baby-safe detergent. Never mind that my boy loves to roll in the muddiest part of a mud puddle.

Then there’s the stuff they wear, like blankets. I have a friend who only has horses that fit in a 78, which is a novel approach to horse selection, but it kind of made sense when I unearthed a variety of 75s and 80s, none of which work. I remember the massive number of turn-outs and under-layers I was certain were necessary when I lived in Vermont, and how I agonized about which was the right one or combination of right ones in a daily attempt to stay ahead

of the arctic temperatures. So, when I moved to “normally” temperate Southern Pines, I made an executive decision to keep things simple—aka, not drive myself crazy.

Since I’m not competing and am down to one off-track thoroughbred who happily doesn’t grow much of a coat and is not clipped, I’m sure I’ve got it covered with just a few choices.

Even so, each day I ask, “Do I put the sheet on alone, or combine it with a blanket, or use the other one altogether, or just not put on anything at all?” Hmmm ….

Anyway, as I continue in my quest to simplify, I’ve come upon bottles and jars from bute to icthammol, dozens of bandages and leg wraps, polos and even racing bandages, together with an assortment of bell boots and tendon boots in various sizes, none of which fit my horse, which is OK since he doesn’t need them anyway.

And what about the shampoos, conditioners, grooming products, brushes and accessories—it all begs the question: When did I even get all this? Admittedly, I do want to keep the first-aid things around because, as we certainly know, horses are full of

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tricks, but I already have a jam-packed medicine cabinet. How many more tubes of arnica, rolls of cotton gauze and boxes of baby diapers do I need?

Yet it seems as soon as I get rid of something I realize that I really, really need it. Although truth to tell, as I downsize my horse life I have amassed an arsenal of things that, nine times out of 10, no longer applies to my horse or has been replaced by a brighter and shinier version. No surprise that the equine industry is worth billions.

And I know I’m not alone, as Suzie Jacobson at Barn Door Consignments will attest. She was also steeped in too much of everything and running out of room, which sparked an idea.

While at Aberdeen Supply one day, she noticed the space next door was for rent. The perfect location, she decided to go for it, then and there. Eight years later she laughs as she says she’s still running out of room even after numerous expansions.

A Bit Used, on U.S. Route 1 in Vass, the retail arm of the nonprofit Prancing Horse Therapeutic Riding Center, is also thriving. They too are filled to the rafters thanks to the

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many generous donations from members of the community, which brings me to Sandhills Equestrians and Sandhills Area Equestrians, the go-to websites “For Sale” and “In Search Of.” Horses, farm equipment, real estate: you name it, it can be found there.

As it’s been said, “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.”

And so, it is with a light heart that I plan to do my part to get the next must-have into the hands of someone else. And as much as I don’t want to admit it, if the past is an indicator of the future, I’m sure I’ll be on the receiving end of the loop once again. At the end of the day, though, as I pack yet another box crammed full of stuff, I wonder how horses have managed to survive for more than four million years without any of it. PL

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It’s the Masters ...

by Helen Ross

The promotional spots began running on television well before the NFL season was over—and we’re talking the regular season, not February’s Super Bowl that featured the thrilling win by the underdog Philadelphia Eagles.

You know the ones. The panoramic scene was immediately identifiable. Abundant azaleas in bloom. A painstakingly manicured fairway bathed in what had to be warm sunlight, which made those of us enduring subfreezing temperatures and the occasional North Carolina snowstorm understand that the end was in sight.

And, of course, long for the April start of the Masters.

Golf’s annual visit to the Augusta National heralds the start of the major championship season. The Masters is the only one of golf’s four crown jewels that never moves to a different site. Its natural beauty and that familiarity, coupled with the world’s most talented players, annually draws in even the most casual of fans.

Not to mention, the Masters never lacks for drama. And that drama of late has centered around first-time major champions—a total of 10 breakthrough victories in the last 15 years.

Take Sergio Garcia last year.

We first met him, for all intents and purposes, at the 1999 PGA when he scissor-kicked his way down the fairway at Medinah in a thrilling duel with a Tiger Woods just hitting his prime. He was just 19 at the time and had turned pro earlier that year shortly after playing in the Masters, where he earned low amateur honors.

Garcia ended up finishing second at that PGA, one shot behind Woods. It was the first of 22 top-10 finishes—and the first of four runners-up—he’d posted in the 73 majors he’d played leading up to last year’s Masters. With the influx of eager young talent like Jason Day, Jordan Spieth, Rory McIlroy and Justin Thomas, you had to wonder how many more chances the 37-yearold Garcia would get.

Garcia, though, came to Augusta National last year a much more serene and settled man, happily engaged to Angela Akins, whom he would marry in three months’ time. His life and his

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psyche were in balance and the Spaniard could relax and go play, earning a share of the lead entering the final round.

In a battle of Ryder Cup teammates, Garcia and Justin Rose matched 69s on Sunday and headed for sudden death. With Rose two-putting for bogey after an errant drive on the first extra hole, Garcia put an exclamation point on the proceedings by draining a birdie putt for the win on what would have been his idol Seve Ballesteros’ 60th birthday.

“It’s been a long wait, but it’s that much sweeter because of that wait,” Garcia said at the time.

Phil Mickelson knows how Garcia felt.

The big lefthander didn’t have to wait quite as long as the Spaniard—Mickelson was “just” making his 47th major start—at Augusta National in 2004. But who can forget that flat-footed leap in celebration as he sealed the one-stroke win over Ernie Els with a birdie on the 72nd hole?

And what about Adam Scott, who carried the weight of Australia on his shoulders in 2013 after his countrymen’s many flirtations with the Green Jacket—most notably by Greg Norman?

That guttural yell when he bested Angel Cabrera on the second extra hole was in stark contrast to the soft-spoken Aussie’s normal demeanor. And the win exorcised any demons still lingering from his meltdown at Royal Lytham & St. Annes, where he took a onestroke lead into the final round but bogeyed his final four holes to fall one shot shy of Els. The majors overall reflect this trend of breakthrough champions. In fact, only one of the last nine winners—Jordan Spieth at the 2017 Open Championship—already had a major on his resume.

So, what will we be treated to this year at the Masters? Or at the U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, the Open Championship at Carnoustie and the PGA at Bellerive Country Club?

Young players like Jon Rahm, the 23-year-old Spaniard who has had a shot to overtake world No. 1 Dustin Johnson virtually every time he tees it up this year, will certainly be poised to make a mark.

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And Rory McIlroy, Spieth and Mickelson have career Grand Slams on their minds, only needing victories at the Masters, PGA and U.S. Open, respectively to complete the rare feat.

Oh, and lest we forget, the player who many believe is the greatest of all time is back, too.

Tiger Woods was already talking about the Masters, a tournament he has won four times, when he returned to the PGA TOUR at the Farmers Insurance Open in January. Playing four rounds for the first time since the 2015 Wyndham Championship, Woods tied for 23rd at Torrey Pines, but most importantly, his surgically repaired back appeared equal to the challenge.

Can Woods add to his tally of 14 major championships? Will we have another first-time winner? What about the rare Grand Slam?

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Helen Ross is a freelance golf writer, who spent 20 years working for the PGA Tour and 18 more at the Greensboro News & Record. A UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, she has won multiple awards from the Golf Writers Association of America.

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9th Hole

The New Course at Talamore

Par 4, 335 yards Designer: Rees Jones The 9th hole at The New Course at Talamore requires an accurate tee shot and an even more accurate second shot in order to avoid the two giant sod wall bunkers that guard the front of the green. And don’t forget to check out the famed llamas on the 14th hole!

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March/April 2018

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Dates and times subject to change. Check directly with event organizers before making plans.

March 3.1.2018 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.1.-4.2018 24th Annual Pine Needles Men’s Invitational Pine Needles Golf Club | 1005 Midland Road | So. Pines Cost: contact organization | 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.8611, pineneedles-midpines.com 3.2-4.2018 MCHBA Spring Home & Garden Expo The Fair Barn | 200 Beulah Hill Road S. | Pinehurst Cost: $7 | Fri. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Contact: 910-944-2992, mchba.com

Cost: Adults $7; Children 6-12 $2 | 6 p.m.

Contact: 910.428.9218 3.4.2018 Empty Bowls 2018 Country Club of Whispering Pines | 2 Clubhouse Blvd. | Whispering Pines Cost: $8 - $40 | 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Contact: 910.693.1600 | sandhillscoalition.org 3.4.2018 The Flames of Paris - Bolshoi Ballet Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $25/adult, $15/child | 1 - 3:15 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.8501, sunrisetheater.com 3.4.2018 Pyxie-Moss Hike Weymouth Woods | 1024 N Fort Bragg Road | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 3:00 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov

3.2.2018 The Kennedys at the Spot!

Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $15 | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife.org

3.4.2018 Merlefest on the Road Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $20 | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife.org

3.2.2018 Night Hike Weymouth Woods | 1024 N Fort Bragg Road | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 6:30 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov

3.8-25.2018 Story Walk - What is a Fish?

Weymouth Woods | 1024 N Fort Bragg Road | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 8 a.m. - 8 p.m. daily Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov

3.3.2018 NC Glassfest STARworks NC | 100 Russell Drive | Star Cost: FREE | 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Contact: 910.428.9001, starworksnc.org

3.8.2018 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org

3.3.2018 Saturday Kids Program - Dr. Seuss Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org

3.8.2018 Gathering at Given - Be a tourist in your own backyard Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 3:30 p.m. & 7 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org

3.3-4.2018 72nd Annual Fayetteville Camellia Show Ramada Plaza 1707-A Owen Drive | Fayetteville Cost: FREE | 1 - 4 p.m.

Contact: fayettevillecamelliaclub.org

3.9.2018 Swimming through a Story (for Wee Ones) Weymouth Woods | 1024 N Fort Bragg Road | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 10 a.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov

3.3.2018 91st Annual Star Fiddler’s Convention East Montgomery High School |157 Eagle Lane | Biscoe

3.10.2018 Rossini’s Semiramide - Met Opera Live Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines

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Cost: $27 | 1 - 5 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.8501, sunrisetheater.com 3.11.2018 Become a Junior Ranger Weymouth Woods | 1024 N Fort Bragg Road | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.11.2018 Hiroya Tsukamoto, Kyshona Armstrong Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $15 | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife.org 3.12.2018 2018 Kelly Cup Golf Tournament Pinehurst No. 8 | 100 Centennial Drive | Pinehurst Cost: $200 | 12 - 5 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.3323, sandhillschildrenscenter.org 3.12.2018 Sandhills Photography Club Meeting O’Neal School | 3300 Airport Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 7 p.m.

Contact: sandhillsphotoclub.org 3.15.2018 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.16.2018 Plants for Hummingbirds with Susan Campbell Horticultural Gardens | 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 1 - 2:30 p.m.

Contact: 910.695.3882, landscapegardening@sandhills.edu 3.16.2018 Ms. Adventure Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $15 | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife.org 3.17.2018 Pinehurst St. Patrick’s Day Parade Tufts Memorial Park | 1 Village Green Road W. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.2817, vopnc.org 3.17.2018 Follow the Rainbow Weymouth Woods | 1024 N Fort Bragg Road | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 10 a.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov

3.17.2018 A Walk on Broadway, featuring 2 Broadway stars Owens Auditorium, SCC | 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst Cost: $11 - $60 | 3 - 5 p.m, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Contact: 910.687.0287, carolinaphil.org 3.18.2018 Magic & Mayhem - Benefit for Shakespeare in the Park The Fair Barn | 200 Beulah Hill Road S. | Pinehurst Cost: $75+ | 6:30 p.m.

Contact: uprisingtheatrecompany.com 3.18.2018 Moore County Concert Band - Images of America Carolina Hotel | 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 2 p.m.

Contact: 910.235.5229, moorecountyband.org 3.18.2018 Marching through March Weymouth Woods | 1024 N Fort Bragg Road | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.18.2018 Jeff Scroggins and Colorado Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $20 | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife.org 3.21-25.2018 Carolina International CIC Carolina Horse Park | 2814 Montrose Road | Raeford Cost: TBD | Check website for times Contact: carolinainternationalcic 3.21.2018 Where is golf going? From Rio to Pinehurst Carolina Hotel | 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst Cost: $100 | 5:30 p.m./cocktails, 6:30 p.m./dinner Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.22.2018 Lunch Lecture with Jan Leitschuh Sandhills Woman’s Exchange | 15 Azalea Road | Pinehurst Cost: $25 | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.4677 3.22.2018 It’s Your Turn, Open Mic Event Trinity Community Outreach Center | 972 W. Pennsylvania Ave. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 6 - 8 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2787, MooreArt.org/ArtistsMeetup

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

3.22.2018 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.23.2018 Steel City Rovers Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $10/members, $5/membership fee | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife.org 3.25.2018 North American Wood Duck Weymouth Woods | 1024 N Fort Bragg Road | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.25.2018 Ameranouche Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $15 | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife.org 3.26.2018 Classical Concert Series - Jon Nakamatsu, piano Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $30/member, $35/nonmember | 8 - 10 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2787, mooreart.org 3.29.2018 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.31.2018 Mozart’s Così fan tutte - Met Opera Live Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $27 | 1 - 4:31 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.8501, sunrisetheater.com

April 4.6-7.2018 FireFest STARworks | 100 Russell Drive | Star Cost: $5 | TBA Contact: 910.428.9001, starworksnc.org

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4.8.2018 Spring Matinee Races Pinehurst Harness Track | 200 Beulah Hill Road S. | Pinehurst Cost: $5 | 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Contact: .910.414.0919, vopnc.org 4.8.2018 Giselle - Bolshoi Ballet Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: 25/adult, $15/child | 1 - 3:20 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.8501, sunrisetheater.com 4.9.2018 Sandhills Photography Club Meeting O’Neal School | 3300 Airport Road | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 7 p.m.

Contact: sandhillsphotoclub.org 4.13.2018 Live After Five at Tufts Memorial Park Tufts Memorial Park | 1 Village Green Road W. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 5:30 - 9 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.1900, vopnc.org 4.14.2018 Southern Pines Garden Club Home & Garden Tour Campbell House | 482 E. Connecticut Ave. | So. Pines Cost: $20 - $ 25 | 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.4617, southernpinesgardenclub.com 4.14.2018 Verdi’s Luisa Miller - Met Opera Live Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $27 | 12:30 - 4:08 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.8501, sunrisetheater.com 4.15.2018 The Miracle Worker Owens Auditorium, SCC | 3395 Airport Road | So. Pines Cost: $20 - $43 | 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.365.9890, vision4moore.com 4.19.2018 NC Symphony presents Mozart & Mendelssohn R.E. Lee Auditorium | 50 Voit Gilmore Lane | So. Pines Cost: $18 - $54 | 8 - 10 p.m.

Contact: 877.627.6724, ncsymphony.org 4.21.2018 Dog Fair 127 Exchange St. | Aberdeen Cost: TBD | 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.585.3703, aberdeendogfair@gmail.com

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March/april 2018

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

4.21.2018 Broadway Cabaret, featuring 2 Broadway stars Owens Auditorium, SCC | 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst Cost: $11 - $60 | 3 - 5 p.m, 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Contact: 910.687.0287, carolinaphil.org 4.22.2018 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - National Theatre Live Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: TBD | 1 - 5:05 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.8501, sunrisetheater.com 4.28.2018 Massenet’s Cendrillon - Met Opera Live Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $27 | 1 - 3:47 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.8501, sunrisetheater.com

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4.28.2018 Spring Fest Downtown Southern Pines | 132 SW Broad St. Cost: FREE | 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Contact: 910.315.6508, southernpines.biz

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Sandhills Sightings

MARCH APRIL 2018

with DOLORES MULLER

Carolina Philharmonic

Symphonic Masterworks: Beethoven’s Fifth and Shubert’s “Unfinished” Symphonies Pinehurst January 10

From top, clockwise: Conductor David Michael Wolff; Steve & Rae Lynn Ziegler; Bass players; Betsy Robinson, Laura Doughty and Anita Emery; and Tom & Barbara Kilcheski and Sandy & Sam Everhart.

The Forum Carolina Hotel Pinehurst January 11

From top, clockwise: Jake & Doris Jacobsen; Richard Ballard and Jo Prentiss; Rusty & Ilene Wells and Martha & Jon De Vault; Jim & Cathy Pierce; and Bob & Arlene Knapp, Judi & Jack Wood and Yvonne & Jerry Taylor.

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Sandhills Sightings Wedding Expo The Fair Barn Pinehurst January 28

From top right, clockwise: Taylor McLamb, Jennifer Wilkins and Patricia Flood; Will Adams and Harley Norris of Harley’s Tuxedo & Gifts; Leslie Habets of Jack Hadden Floral and Event Design with Allie Bancher and Susan Strong; Ginni Pimentel; and Tori King of 305 Trackside with Stasia Rogacki and Jessica Sepp.

Friend of Friend Luncheon

Benefiting domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking survivors Country Club of North Carolina Pinehurst January 30

From top right, clockwise: Friend to Friend Executive Director Anne Friesen, Anna Fakadej and guest speaker FBI Special Agent Karen Walsh; Kathy Powichko, Carol Butler and Valerie Cox; Amie Fraley and Joe Keen; Friend to Friend staff; and Will Britt, Board of Directors Chairman Jeff Morgan, Laura Morgan and Paul Murphy.

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Sandhills Sightings We Are ... Students of the Arts An exhibition showcasing the Artist League Education Program Artist League of the Sandhills Aberdeen February 2

From top right, clockwise: Janet Burdick; Janet Garber with Nancy & Dan Penfold; Judy Broom and Sarah Clatworthy; Ira & Amy Rozyski; and Jude Winkley.

Patterns and Proportions in the Garden Presented by the Greenway Wildlife Habitat Committee Village Hall Pinehurst February 3

From top right, clockwise: Event organizer JoAnne Ashton and Linda Querec; Susan Zanetti, Arlene Hantjis and Connie Loy; Jane & Brian Deaton and Ellen Stewart; Guest speaker, from Sarah Duke Gardens, Jan Little; and Nancy Mack, Wanda Brooks and Barbara Barrett.

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Sandhills Sightings Valentine’s Day Bow Tie Ball

Benefiting Sandhills Classical Christian School The Fair Barn Pinehurst February 9

From top right, clockwise: Interim Head of School Todd Zimmerman & wife Laura; Ted Thomas with Trudy & Dean Engebretson; Jim, Beverly & Cassie Miller with Kathie Parson; Event organizers Julianne Clodfelter and Lindsey Bufmeyer; and Matthew, Nikki, & Christina Powers with Colleen & Colonel Jay Baker.

Chocolate Festival Pinehurst United Methodist Church Pinehurst February 10

From top right, clockwise: Jane Beth Page, Vicki Hancock, Sandy Applequist, Deb Fitzgerald, Twila Tuxbury and Karen Syckes; Jennifer & Christopher Tracy; Kathy Bollenbacher and Carla Jones; Mike & Patti Grube with Dave Owens; and Brenda Goodwin, Jordan Swandell, Linda Upole and Courtney Boyer.

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Sandhills Sightings English Speaking Union Luncheon Safeguarding yourself from the dark side of the internet Pinehurst No. 9 Pinehurst February 11

From top right, clockwise: Fran & Carolyn Grandinette with guest speaker Dan Swartwood & wife, Linda; Amanda Carpenter, student of the month Sylvia Hipp and Joyce Rheeling; Dick & Marti Derleth; Ginsey Fallon and Cynthia McIver; and Julie & David Martin and Sally & Ed Frick.

Holly and Ivy Dinner Celebrating Mardi Gras

Benefiting the Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives Holly Inn Pinehurst February 13

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Sightings@ PinehurstLivingMagazine.com From top right, clockwise: Phil & Ginny Notetine, Given Library Executive Director Audrey Moriarty and Barbara & Kurt Keating; Anne Howell and Thea Pitassy; John & Bonnie Root; Anne Callison with George & Beverly French; and Elizabeth & Jim Fisher.

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Last Impression

Book Worms photograph and caption courtesy of The Moore County Historical Association

townspeople gather at the opening of the Webster Library in 1912 in Niagara.

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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

- James Russell Lowell

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