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Including independent living and garden cottages situated on 18 acres and convenient to local golf courses, shops, & the Village of Pinehurst; Quail Haven Village is also located close to major medical facilities & unique arts and cultural centers. Residents have access to all levels of care offering security for the future and enabling residents to live independently longer.

ContInuIng Care retIrement CommunIty There may come a time when you require additional care or assistance. Here we strive to make this transition as east as possible through a number of services. HOME CARE Our Licensed Home Care services range from medication reminders to personal care assistance FAMILY CARE HOME Our cottages create a small residential home in an intimate environment. Our staff is on-hand 24 hours a day and is trained to provide Memory Care support as needed. SKILLED CARE The Inn at Quail Haven Village provides health and nursing care in addition to personal care and support. REHABILITATION Our dedicated, highly experience team works one-on-one with our patients to provide in- and out-patient physical, occupational and speech therapies.

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April 2017 Departments

61 Mom, Inc.

15 Simple Life

63 Sandhills Photography Club 67 The Pleasures of Life

By Jim Dodson

By Renee Phile

Features 81 A Natural Petition Poetry by Ruth Moose

82 Longleaf Majesty

By Bill Fields The roots of a massive ecosystem

22 PinePitch 25 Instagram Winners By Joyce Reehling 27 The Omnivorous Reader 69 Birdwatch

88 Golden Night

29 Bookshelf

71 Sporting Life

94 All Bottled Up

33 The Art in Us 39 Hometown

75 Golftown Journal

By D.G. Martin

By Romey petite and Angie Tally

By Bill Fields

41 Vine Wisdom

43 In the Spirit

By Robyn James

By Tony Cross

49 The Kitchen Garden

53 Garden 101

By Jan Leitschuh By Jan Wheaton

59 Out of the Blue

By Deborah Salomon

By Susan Campbell By Tom Bryant By Lee Pace

112 133 141

Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson

143 The Accidental Astrologer

By Casey Suglia A pop-up meal blossoms on a spring evening By Susan McCrimmon Poor manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stained glass comes of age

98 A Mystic Reincarnation By Deborah Salomon Letting a house speak for itself

111 Almanac

By Ash Alder An April love song, how to start an herb garden, and a must see moon.

By Astrid Stellanova

144 SouthWords By Jim Moriarty

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Cardinal Course. Incredible architecture and design, great flow, spacious and magnificent outdoor living spaces define this contemporary. $1,450,000. Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Horse Country: “Azalea Crossing Farm” with 17 acres is a true gem amidst the hoofbeat of Horse Country! Lush rolling pasture, trails to Weymouth & short hack to Walthour Moss Foundation. Abundant changes & additions have been made to this farm. Enchanting 3BR/3BA home. $1,250,000. Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

Old Town Pinehurst: “Edgewood Cottage” a Dutch Colonial inspired home complete with in-ground pool & cabana housing a bath/ dressing area & kitchenette. Master Suites w/firepalces on both levels. Versatile living spaces. Warm & Elegant! 4BR/4.5BA. $899,000. Emily Hewson 910.315.3324

CCNC: Golf Front: Great views from this 5 acre estate home; open floor plan with magnificent ceiling design, gourmet kitchen, master with his/her baths, library & 2 guest suites. See: www.810LakeDornochDrive.com $895,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Pinewild Country Club: Elegant home with many fine architectural

Claredon Gardens: Fabulous home that captures the essence of

details throughout. Soaring ceilings, custom columns and trim work. Spacious kitchen with butler’s pantry & island. Lower level with rec room, 2BRs/2BAs, Hobby Room, Storage & Wine Closet. $649,000 Pat Wright 910.691.3224

a Southern Mansion. 12’ Ceilings on main level, crown molding & wainscoting, 2 fireplaces, 4 en-suite bedrooms, screen porch, & large fenced back yard. Wonderful in-law/guest suite. $695,000 Arvilla Sheron 910.639.5133

CCNC Main Level Living: Well maintained ranch with views of Hole #3 on Dogwood Course. 10 foot ceilings, custom moldings, hardwood floors, 2-sided fireplace, wet-bar, library. Enjoy an open floor plan and large deck. $629,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Water Front:

Stunning water front cottage on the pond, next to Lake Pinehurst. Totally renovated to capture the water views with an open floor plan. 3,100 square feet of comfortable, elegant living space. 3BR/2.5BA. Stone patio for entertaining. Call for details.

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Pinewilld Country Club: Panoramic golf views of the 5th & 6th fairways & 6th green of Magnolia Course. Features include: 9-12 ft. ceilings, 4” pecan hardwoods in main rooms, 8” baseboards & crown moldings, Chef’s kitchen. Heated pool, screen porch & much more! $649,500 Bonnie Baker 910.690.4705

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Pinehurst: Prestigious neighborhood and over 3,700sf of comfortable

elegance. Handsome interior features, light and bright rooms bathed in natural light, fireplace with marble surround and propane logs, cathedral ceiling in living room with a bank of windows. Lovely! 3BR/3.5BA. $539,000 Kay Beran 910.315.3322

French Country Charm: Beautiful details abound in this stately 5BR/4BA, 3,400+sf home on almost an acre. Main level master suite for easy living, and a 20’x40’ salt water pool for summer fun in the backyard! $499,000 Casey Barbera 910.639.4266

Pinewild Country Club: Beautiful home with European influence. Architectural ceilings, rooms bathed in natural light, hardwood flooring, gourmet kitchen with granite counters. Sleek, clean lines throughout. Abutts the Holly Course. 3BR/3BA. $455,000

Pat Wright 910.691.3224

Pinewild Country Club: Single level living with an open floor plan in a prestigious gated golf community. Attention to detail is apparent from the tall portico entrance to the wonderfully landscaped gardens. 3 en-suite bedrooms. $399,500 Kay Beran 910.315.3322

Weymouth Heights: Curb appeal, great neighborhood, 3BR/2.5BA, 1.88-acre lot, large workshop (HVAC), over 3,000 square feet of living space. See: www.170HalcyonDrive.com $399,000 Frank Sessoms 910.639.3099

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Highland Trails: Charming home with pool and gorgeous park-like

Affordable Weymouth Woods: Enjoy open living & dining rooms, bamboo floors, fireplace & main floor master. Kitchen w/ upgraded appliances & granite counters. Fenced yard & double car garage! Steps to Weymouth Woods & Youngs Rd. $306,000 Mav Hankey 910.603.3589

Middleton Place: More than 2,200 square feet of living space

Knollwood Village: Beautifully remodeled unit with a garage, large outdoor space and garden area. New kitchen has stainless appliances, granite counters and lots of tile work. New carpet, new hardwood in kitchen, foyer & breakfast room. 2BR/2BA. $199,900 Bill Brock 910.639.1148

National Pinehurst #9: Great golf front building lot

Clarendon Gardens: Idyllic, private setting on 1.6 acres of privacy. Brick exterior, high ceilings throughout, transoms above the window wall/double sliding doors in living room that lead to the patio. Kitchen has ample working space. Lovely features! 3BR/2.5BA. $419,000 Bonnie Baker 910.690.4705

Cathedral ceiling, hardwoods, Kitchen w/granite counters opens to the gathering room w/breakfast nook. Luxurious master suite. Seasonal peek-a-boo view of Lake Pinehurst. 4BR/2.5BA. $385,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

fearuting 2 large bedrooms and 2 baths, spacious kitchen with eat-in area. Live free of yard work, outdoor cleaning & painting! $275,000

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setting, plus a playhouse for children. Huge deck for outdoor entertaining. Over 3,000 sq.ft. of living space with main level hardwood floors & master suite. Bonus Room, 2-car garage. Jennifer Nguyen 910.585.2099

on the 6th fairway of Course #9. Surrounded by beautiful homes. This is the only available lot on this street. Excellent for a walk-out lower level. $107,000 Emily Hewson 910.315.3324

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31 Abington Drive Gorgeous custom built 3 BR / 3 Full and 3 Half Bath Contemporary home on Lake Pinewild in Pinewild Country Club. Beautifully maintained with trey ceiling and gas log fireplace in living room, formal dining room and updated kitchen with built-in breakfast bar.

seven Lakes West • $480,000

520 LongLeaf Drive Enjoy life to the fullest in this gorgeous 3 BR / 3.5 BA award winning and impeccably maintained custom home with over 4,000 square feet. Beautiful and bright space with open floorplan and beautiful water views.

Pinehurst • $459,000

105 taLL timbers Drive This amazing 5 BR / 4.5 BA brick home is located in desirable Pine Grove Village and offers great living space for a large family. In addition to a large living room, dining room and spacious family room, the sellers have added a master suite and a master bath with an adjoining study.

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5 victoriA WAy This elegant 4 BR / 3.5 BA Cotswold townhome is the ultimate in carefree living! The home features hardwood floors, 10’ and 12’ ceilings, deep crown moldings and a brick patio area off the keeping room that offers a great deal of privacy.

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4 buCkingham PLaCe Gorgeous all brick 3 BR / 3 BA townhome in desirable Cotswold. With over 2,600 sq. ft. of living area, this floorplan is bright and open with a spacious living room with center fireplace surrounded by custom built-ins. The living area is open to the oversized rear patio and offers great privacy.

Pinehurst • $369,000

seven Lakes West • $349,900

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6 riviera Drive This gorgeous 5 BR / 3.5 BA home is located in the ever popular Pinehurst No. 6. The entry leads you to a vaulted living/ dining combo with a kitchen that features beautiful cabinetry with slow close door and drawers. A definite must see!

497 LongLeaf Drive Spacious 4 BR / 3.5 BA home in the amenity rich community of Seven Lakes West. This home features the best of interior comforts and exceptional outdoor living space. Don’t miss this unique home in this beautiful community.

106 bonnie brook Court This beautiful 4 BR / 3.5 BA Charleston Style home is located in the picturesque side-walk community of Bonnie Brook. This unique home has been meticulously maintained and complete with white picket fence accents and upgrades throughout.

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seven Lakes West • $329,000

140 beaCon riDge Drive This gorgeous custom built 4 BR / 2.5 BA home has beautiful curb appeal and great landscaping but the interior is really the star! Open and bright with long views of the golf course, hardwood floors throughout the lower level and loads of ceiling to floor windows.

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114 bonnie brook Court Beautiful 5 BR / 4 BA home in the lovely Bonnie Brook Community. This charming home sits on an oversized lot at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac and offers an absolutely beautiful full size saltwater pool with a wrought iron gazebo and fencing.

116 Dartmoor Lane Gorgeous 3 BR / 3 BA single level brick home on the 12th fairway of Seven Lakes Golf Course. This beautiful home offers a spacious kitchen with cabinets galore as well as an over-sized screened porch with stunning cypress flooring.

111 smathers Drive Beautiful Cape Cod style home with great curb appeal! Immaculately maintained, this 4 BR / 3.5 BA home offers an open floorplan, hardwood floors, and a very nice master suite with lots of closet space. There’s also a private upstairs with bedroom and bath for guests.

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215 inverrAry roAD This spectacular 5 BR / 6.5 BA home is located between the 13th tee box and the 14th fairway of the #7 course in Fairwoods on 7. Built by Breeden Construction, the interior is open and sun-filled with 9 and 11 foot ceilings and wonderful views from almost every room. This home has over 4 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds that gives wonderful privacy while still enjoying panoramic golf views.

Pinehurst • $999,000

southern Pines • $1,200,000

155 HigHlAnD roAD Harking back to the glorious era of the 1930’s, Broadhearth is a stately historic Southern Pines landmark with 9 BR / 8.5 BA and is located on 2.4 parklike acres on the highest point of Weymouth Heights.

Pinehurst • $995,000

80 braemar roaD Incredible golf front home in Fairwoods on 7. This beautiful 4 BR / 5.5 BA home features top of the line finishes, mouldings, marble, hard-wood slate flooring.

145 brookhaven roaD Stunning custom brick 5 BR / 5.5 BA home in Fairwoods on Seven is located on an oversized, private lot and overlooks the 15th fairway of the #7 course. This beautiful home offers lots of upscale features and is a must see!

Pinehurst • $1,100,000

966 LinDen roaD If you love golf and cars, this is the perfect place. This stunningly rustic 4 BR / 4 BA home sits on 3 private acres and features a saline swimming pool, oversized 7 person saline hot tub and a heated and cooled six car garage and list goes on and on. This is a car lovers dream!

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106 raCheLs Point Drop dead gorgeous Bob Timberlake design! This 4 BR / 3.5 BA home sits on 1.8 beautifully landscaped acres that slopes gently to the water and includes an outdoor kitchen on the patio, a private dock and beach with a fireplace.

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11 villAge lAne Gorgeous 4 BR / 3.5 BA Old Town Home complete with white picket fencing and fully fenced back yard. The interior is light and bright with an open living plan and an upstairs that flows beautifully. PCC membership option available for transfer.

Pinehurst • $649,000

19 mCmiChaeL Drive This gorgeous all brick 4 BR / 4.5 BA custom home enjoys lovely views of the scenic pond as well as the golf course. The gourmet kitchen has custom cabinets, granite countertops, tile backsplash, built-in desk area and a walk-in pantry. This is a wonderful home!

southern Pines • $599,000

245 kings riDge Court Dropdead gorgeous 4 BR / 4.5 BA golf front home located on the 15th Fairway of Mid South Golf Club. The floorplan is bright and open and offers many upscale features such as heavy crown molding and trim, wood flooring, window walls to maximize the views and gourmet kitchen.

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106 sunset Point Exquisite custom built 3 BR / 3.5 BA home on Lake Auman. With almost 4,500 sq. ft. of living area this home offers so much. The main level is bright and open with water views from almost every room. This spectacular home is truly one of a kind and is the best value on the water!

Pinehurst • $548,000

32 greyAbbey Drive Located in beautiful Pinewild, this gorgeous 3 BR / 3 Full BA & 2 half BA custom home is located on the first hole of the Magnolia Course and offers many special features. The elegant living room opens onto an oversize deck, the gourmet kitchen has a walk-in pantry and the spacious master suite features two walk-in closets. This is a must see!

Pinehurst • $515,000

145 QuaiL hoLLoW Drive Enchanting 3 BR / 2.5 BA sun-drenched home in prestigious CCNC, nestled in the back of 1.5 acres on the golf course. A large terrace encompasses the back of the house overlooking the pond and Holes 5 and 15, great for outdoor entertaining.

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M A G A Z I N E Volume 13, No. 4 Jim Dodson, Editor 910.693.2506 • jim@pinestrawmag.com Andie Stuart Rose, Creative Director 910.693.2467 • andie@pinestrawmag.com Jim Moriarty, Senior Editor 910.692.7915 • jjmpinestraw@gmail.com Lauren M. Coffey, Graphic Designer 910.693.2469 • lauren@pinestrawmag.com Alyssa Rocherolle, Graphic Designer 910.693.2508 • alyssa@pinestrawmag.com Contributing Editors Deborah Salomon, Staff Writer Mary Novitsky, Sara King, Proofreaders Contributing Photographers John Gessner, Laura Gingerich, Tim Sayer Contributors Tom Allen, Harry Blair, Tom Bryant, Susan Campbell, Bill Case, Tony Cross, Al Daniels, Annette Daniels, Mart Dickerson, Clyde Edgerton, Bill Fields, Robyn James, Jan Leitschuh, Meridith Martens, Diane McKay, Lee Pace, Renee Phile, Joyce Reehling, Stephen E. Smith, Astrid Stellanova, Kimberly Daniels Taws, Angie Tally, Ashley Wahl, Sam Walker, Janet Wheaton

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11 Kenwood Court • Pinehurst Everything you could want in a cottage, with an open dining, living and kitchen arrangement, main floor, lovely master bedroom suite, to light filled rooms with upscale detail. Perched on a nice elevation, the home offers a charming front porch, office with sliding French doors, living room fireplace, covered porch overlooking an enclosed courtyard off the master, large master closet and two guest bedrooms upstairs each with full bath. The kitchen with breakfast bar, and nook for a desk opens to the dining and living rooms. Kitchen features granite counter tops, 5 burner gas cook top and stainless appliances. Beautifully landscaped with specimen plantings, the back yard overlooks green space owned by Forest Creek. The residence is located on a quiet cul-de-sac shaded by long leaf pines. Offered at $625,000.

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Historic Southern Pines 1920’s Colonial Revival on 1.91 The Red Brick Cottage is a lovely English Tudor acres in Weymouth Heights. 6 BR, 5.5 BA, 5227 sq ft. on 1 ½ lots. Built in 1920, 4 BR, 4.5 BA, Slate roof, 3 fireplaces. PRICE REDUCED $990,000 2 fireplaces, 2 car garage. $1,198,000

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Forest Creek golf front, 1.1 acres, 5 BR, 4 BA, 2.5 BA, The 100 year old Rambler Cottage has a premier location Golf front CCNC with lake view. 4023 main 2 fireplaces, game room, kitchen/family room, garage in the Village with an enchanting garden. Exudes house, 763 guest house addition. One floor, guest apt. Great porch. Built in 2002. $898,000 signature Pinehurst charm . 4BR, 3.5BA. $895,000 3 BR, 3.5 BA main, 1 BR, 1 BA guest. $1,100,000

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CCNC traditional on 2.2 acres, 4476 sq ft, 4 BR, 4 Golf front with water view in Mid South Club. 5 BA. Main floor master suite, stunning foyer, study, BR, 5 BA, 2 half BA, 3 car garage, pool, built ’05, kitchen opens to family room, garage apt. $925,000 1.15 acre lot, 6860 sq ft, elevator. $1,500,000

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Stunning golf front residence in Pinehurst No. 9 CCNC golf front on Cardinal Course. One NEW LISTING. Mid South Club one floor Stunning historic 3-story Victorian at National with spacious living areas. 4 BR, farmhouse, 4 fireplaces. Breathtaking oor living, remarkable kitchen, paneled living plan with remarkable gourmet 4.5 BA, 3 car garage. Offered at $885,000 views over 4 acres. 5BR, 3BA. $690,000 study. 3BR, 3.5 BA, 3 car garage, $1,100,000 kitchen. 3BR, 3.5BA. $535,000.

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My Big Spring Makeover Confessions of a Second hand Joe

By Jim Dodson

On a fine spring afternoon recently,

Illustration by Romey Petite

I dropped by the office on the way home from a local garden center — part of a rare day off that I was spending at work in my garden.

The stylish Miz Bobbitt, chief social arbiter and majordomo of our crack magazine staff, took one look at me and smiled, making a wry comment on my “rustic” appearance. To briefly review: I was wearing my favorite clothes, including my oldest gardening pants and most comfortable canvas shoes, both soiled from years of loyal service in the dirt; also my favorite flannel shirt (the tattered one with all the useful flap pockets), and my beloved — if somewhat faded and grimy — Pennsylvania Horticultural Society ball cap that once accompanied me through the wilds of South Africa with a group of crazy plants nerds in search of exotic species. “This is how I dress when I work in the garden, my choice attire. I’m giving my garden a complete spring makeover,” I foolishly remarked. “Well,” Bobbitt came back with perfect timing, “Maybe it’s time for you to have a big spring makeover, too!” She wrinkled her cute button nose. “And what is that smell?” I pointed out that it was probably just the freshly composted horse manure I’d spent the morning hours working into my new perennial beds. Nothing like the smell of fresh, composted pony poop, I find, to get the blood moving and the spade digging! Bobbitt, alas, didn’t seem overly persuaded by my argument. “I know gardeners who at least look stylish when they work in their gardens,” she pointed out. “My garden doesn’t care how I look,” I felt compelled to note. “Frankly, I could garden buck nekkid and my Ficus carica wouldn’t care a fig leaf.” “Oh, please don’t,” came a second unseen female voice from deep in the office. A third voice politely spoke up as well, also female, also quite clever and naturally stylish, also suggesting that the editor’s garden attire might do with a “nice tweak if not a complete spring makeover.” A pattern seemed to be emerging. Was my late mom speaking to them from the grave? This was perhaps the only disadvantage of working in an office full of bright, savvy, stylish females.

“What sort of tweak?” I asked guardedly. “Hard to know where to start,” said Bobbitt with a sigh. “I’d start with the pants,” said coworker No. Two, shaking her head. “Those things look pretty frumpy.” “And I think the shoes really have to go,” said my third impromptu style advisor. “They look like you found them in someone’s recycling bin.” Actually, our man of the garden did find his favorite garden shoes in the recycling bin — or, more accurately, saved them from his own recycling bin, where his wife placed them without prior consent from their owner. “For your information, these garden shoes are incredibly comfortable,” I pointed out. “Comfort is key when one is hard at work in the garden.” “And what’s with the old flannel shirt?” posed yet another Voice of Spring Improvement. “It looks like it was made from one of my grandmother’s old flannel nighties. She died 20 years ago. That thing has more baggy pockets than an Elks Club billiards table.” The women of our office all enjoyed a good chuckle at this witty barb. But Mr. Frumpy Pants kept his cool, more or less, by reminding his bright and stylish colleagues that some famous philosopher once remarked that pockets are a sign of a noble mind and truly civilized man at work — or at least a dude who can’t remember where he left his favorite Phillips-head screwdriver. “Young men may prefer shirts with polo players stitched on them,” I spoke up in behalf of shabbily dressed male gardeners (who smell of manure) everywhere. “But people who toil in the earth prefer shirts with roomy pockets in which to put valuable stuff.” “What kind of stuff?” one of my newly appointed makeover consultants asked warily. “Lots of things — chewing gum, Gorilla Glue, tape measures, interesting stuff found in the dirt. ” “I’ll bet you also enjoy doing your own laundry,” put in one of his immaculate inquisitors. This brought another round of giddy laughs from my wise and well-dressed colleagues. At which point, I picked up my wounded gardener’s pride and fled for the safety of my composted manure pile. Truthfully, one glance in my direction (with or without a telltale whiff of horse) will tell you that I’m not much for new and stylish clothes — and certainly not a good candidate for a big spring makeover.

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Not to place too fine a point on the matter, I prefer old clothes and wellworn shoes that could soon be on their way out to the rubbish bin unless I keep an eagle eye out for my wife’s eternal discreet efforts to update my clothing tastes without my even noticing the change. She would firmly deny this characterization, of course. The love of my life rather artfully pretends that I’m actually a snappy dresser like my father before me. But every time she catches me painting in my only good pair of “church khakis” or digging up a shrub in the yard before an evening out at a formal event — as I did just weeks ago, in a (somewhat old but loyal) soup-and-fish — the impulse to makeover her somewhat 19th-century husband is simply too strong to remain politely disguised for long. Dad really was a snappy dresser, subscribing to the notion that a well-dressed fellow is a man in charge of his own sweet destiny. As a very successful man of the advertising trade, he believed in the power of a well-fitted suit and highly polished shoes. “Look right and feel right, ready to conquer the day’s challenges,” he liked to say with an infectious cheerfulness. His generation wasn’t called the “Greatest Generation” for no good reason — including the way they dressed. My older brother Richard clearly caught dad’s drift. He might have been the best-dressed dude who ever attended Grimsley High School in Greensboro. To this day, Good Old Dicky Boy looks like “a million bucks” even in his most casual of attire. He never needs a Big Spring Makeover. His life is a perpetual spring makeover. Not so, alas, his kid brother. My favorite sports coat is a classic herringbone Harris Tweed jacket I bought for three dollars at the Emanuel Episcopal Church Thrift Shop on Northeast Broad Street in Southern Pines seven years ago. It fits perfectly save for the genuine leather button that always falls off. I gained possession of this keepsake from some anonymous but pleasant fellow who is now only a

memory to his loved ones, yet held in highest esteem — and abiding gratitude — by the man who inherited his favorite sports coat. I have several other sports coats, mind you; many of them have been mended over the years and reflect my own personal “style” of dressing for personal comfort rather than cosmetic effect. Even when I play golf, which next to gardening is my idea of a true return of spring, I wear old, two-button polo shirts (white preferred) and my oldest and most comfortable khaki pants. Still, I’m not entirely close-minded on the subject of how I look. I suppose every man can do with a spring makeover of some kind, give or take a saucy colleague. To this end, the weekend after I caused a mild disturbance at the office owing to my rustic clothes and horsey smell, I picked up The New York Times’s popular “Men’s Fashions of The Times” just to see if anything caught my fancy — or, as it were, what I might have missed since my last spring makeover two or three decades ago. I saw lots of underfed young men wearing suits that appeared to be three sizes too small for them, dudes proffering moody frowns, vacant stares, saddle buckles, dog chains, violent stripes, zany plaids, jackets that look as if they’d been made from the drapes in a Mafia-owned motel, formal wear with sneakers, undershorts that cost $420, guys who looked like young girls with bad facial hair, and on and on. In a word, it was terrifying — but also kind of comforting. There was nothing for an old second-hand, tweed-loving fellow like me in the exciting world of men’s spring style for 2017, not one blessed thing even remotely suitable for spreading composted manure in one’s garden. Greatly relieved and no April Fool, I went to get an old-fashioned haircut, my idea of a big spring makeover. PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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Forest Creek, Pinehurst Custom built golf front home with open floor plan, featuring an expansive kitchen with large center island, screened in porch off the main living area overlooking the golf course, and guest suite over the garage. 9 Bedrooms, 9.5 Baths, 6,500+ Sq.Ft.

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PinePitch Earthly Delights

For your gardening pleasure, local plant sales are offering an abundance of horticultural treasures, rain or shine:

Saturday, April 8, from 9 a.m.–1 p.m. The Weymouth Center Spring Plant Sale offers perennials, shrubs, trees, groundcovers, vines and herbs, from the Weymouth Estate and members’ gardens. The Garden White Elephant Sale will feature containers, books, baskets, tools and treasures of all sorts. Proceeds go to the Weymouth Center Gardens, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. For information call (910) 692-6261 or visit weymouthcenter.org. Saturday, April 8, from 8 a.m.–12 p.m. The Sandhills Horticultural Society Plant Sale includes perennials, woody plants and bulbs and will take place at the Steed Hall (new horticultural building) area of Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For information or to pre-order call (910) 695-3882. Friday, April 21, 1–5 p.m. and Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m.–12 p.m. The Sandhills Community College Annual Bedding Plant Sale is selling annuals, herbs, tomatoes and pepper plants to benefit the student’s educational field trip. Order forms are available at the Ball Visitors Center or you can order by phone, (910) 695-3883/3882. Mail SCC-Landscape Gardening Dept., 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst, NC 28374. Email johnsond@sandhills.edu or fax (910) 6953894. Pre-order to get the best selection. The sale will take place at the Steed Hall (new horticultural building) area of Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Saturday, April 22, from 10 a.m.–3 p.m. The Pinehurst Garden Club Plant Sale features local favorites. Profits provide a scholarship for a Sandhills Community College horticulture student and contribute to area beautification projects. To place an order, please visit www.pinehurstgardenclub.com or contact Janis McCullough at (910) 420-2208. Pick up your plants or shop at the sale at Pinehurst Fire Dept. Station 91, 405 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 420-1777.

Marshmallow Madness

The ninth annual Peeps Diorama Contest is on, and the Southern Pines Public Library i nvites you to let your imagination and sweet tooth run wild in creating a diorama that stars the Peeps marshmallow chicks and rabbits in a scene from your favorite book. Or for the digitally inclined, create a “Peep Show” video. The contest, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is open to all ages, and prizes will be awarded by age group for best in show. Entries are limited to one per contestant for both the diorama and video contests and must be received by 5 p.m., Sunday, April 30. Find rules and entry forms online at www.sppl.net or at the library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines, open Monday — Thursday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 2 to 5 p.m. Call (910) 6928235 for more information or visit the website.

The Joy of Broadway

On Saturday, April 8, The Carolina Philharmonic presents a Broadway cabaret, in which Maestro David Michael Wolff will introduce you to two of Broadway’s exciting entertainers in an intimate musical event replete with all the character, color and drama of the legendary Great White Way. There will be an afternoon performance at 3 p.m. and an evening performance at 7:30. Both performances will be at Sandhills Community College’s Owens Auditorium, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Tickets range from $11 to $60 and are available at www.carolinaphil.org. For more information, call (910) 687-0287.

A Walk Through History

From the ancient cave paintings of Lascaux to the street murals of today, people around the world throughout time have used murals to express themselves. Denise Drum Baker, an artist and recently retired professor of visual arts at Sandhills Community College, will talk about murals as a means of freedom of expression, social activism and propaganda. Baker’s lecture, “If These Walls Could Talk,” is part of the Fine Arts Lecture Series presented by the Arts Council of Moore County and Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities. The lecture will take place on Thursday, April 6, at 5:30 p.m. A wine-and-cheese reception with Baker will follow. Both events are at 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Cost to members is $11, $16 to nonmembers. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

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Spring Scavenger Hunt

Meet the Beatles … Again

On Saturday, April 22, Vision 4 Moore presents the amazing Beatles tribute band “The Return,” performing songs that cover two eras of Beatles music. The first set will highlight the Ed Sullivan era, with “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” “A Hard Day’s Night,” and other early hits. For the second set, the band will dress in uniforms from the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album to perform songs like “Hello, Goodbye,” “Revolution,” and “Hey Jude.” Tickets are $15–$35, and profits from this event will benefit MIRA Foundation USA, Caring Hearts for Kids of Moore, and Meals on Wheels of the Sandhills. The performance starts at 7:30 p.m. at Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. For more information, call (910) 365-9890.

The Southern Pines Public Library and the Arts Council of Moore County invite children between the ages 3 and 12 to take part in a fitness-themed scavenger hunt on Monday, April 17, at the Campbell House playground. The scavenger hunt clues will lead the youngsters through some fun obstacles that will get participants of all ages up and moving as they hula-hoop, skip rope and crab walk to find eggs, prizes and fun. Top off the afternoon with a make-your-own-ice cream sundae. It all starts at 3 p.m., rain or shine, and is free and open to the public. The Campbell House is located at 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. For more information, call (910) 6922787 or (910) 910-692-2463.

Live after 5

On Friday, April 14, The Legacy Motown Revue will take you back to the days of The Drifters, The Coasters, The Jackson 5, Earth Wind & Fire, The Temptations, and many more legendary icons. The concert is free for the entire family, and you can bring your own picnic basket, but no outside alcoholic beverages are permitted. Food trucks will be on-site with sandwiches, pizzas and desserts. Wine, beer, water and soft drinks will be available for purchase with the proceeds supporting local nonprofits. Don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs, blankets and dancing shoes! The music starts at 5:30 p.m. at Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. For more information, call (910) 295-2817 or visit vopnc.org.

A Russian Virtuoso in Concert

Classical guitarist Irina Kulikova was born in Chelyabinsk, Russia, where under the guidance of her mother, cellist Vinera Kulikova, she started developing her musicianship at an early age. At the age of 12, Kulikova began performing throughout Russia and abroad and graduated with distinction from the Mozarteum University in Salzburg (Austria), the Gnessins Academy in Moscow and the Conservatoire of Maastricht (The Netherlands). Treat yourself to this free concert on Tuesday, April 11, at 7 p.m. at Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For more information, call Ryan Book at (910) 695-3828.

100 Years of Jugtown

For 100 years, the Owens family has owned and operated Jugtown Pottery, a working pottery and American craft shop. The story of its founding and evolution have been told by Stephen C. Compton in his new book, Jugtown Pottery: 1917 — 2017 A Century of Art and Craft in Clay, released by John F. Blair, publisher. On Saturday, April 22, the Owens family will host a day-long celebration of Jugtown’s history and the book that tells it. The shop opens at 8:30 a.m. with new pottery pieces from the wood and gas kilns, as well as fine crafts from many artisans. Activities are planned for the whole day and will include demonstrations, a book reading and signing, a Q & A session with author Stephen Compton and the Owens family, live music by local performer Momma Molasses, and food vendors. Buggytown Coffee will be on site with a wonderful variety of coffees, teas and goodies. Jugtown Pottery is located at 330 Jugtown Road, Seagrove. For more information, call (910) 464-3266 or visit jugtown@mindspring.com.

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Congratulations to our April Instagram winners!

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Childrens Events Stuart Gibbs: Panda-Monium

Monday, April 3 at 4PM • Ages 8-12

In this fourth fast paced endangered species mystery series set in, FunJungle, a, Mega enormous animal adventure park, panda fanatics are frenzied, awaiting the arrival of the park’s most thrilling animal yet, Li Ping, a rare and incredibly expensive giant panda. However, when the truck transporting Li Ping finally arrives, its precious cargo has vanished into thin air. The FBI steps in to investigate, and Teddy Fitzroy, FunJungle’s resident sleuth ( and the star of Poached, Big Game and Belly Up, the three previous books in the series) is happy to leave the job in their capable hands until someone threatens Teddy’s friend Summer, he is suddenly thrust into the middle of the investigation.

Andy Griffiths: 65 Story Treehouse

Paul Dunn:

Thursday, April 6 at 4PM • ages 8-12

“Great Donald Ross Golf Courses Everyone Can Play”

Andy and Terry live and write books in their 65-Story Treehouse that used to be 13, then 26, then 38 then 52 stories tall. With a petgrooming salon, a birthday room where it’s always your birthday, a room full of exploding eyeballs, a shark tank, a lollipop shop, a quicksand pit, an ant farm, and a time machine...which is going to be really, really useful now, since Terry goofed up and the treehouse just FAILED it’s safety inspection. Join Andy and Terry on a whirlwind trip through time as they try to stop the treehouse from being demolished!

Friday, April 7th at 5pm

Independent Bookstore Day Saturday, April 29 • All Day

Stop by the Country Bookshop on Independent Bookstore Day for a day of fun including a “make-your-own-Little Golden Book” station to celebrate 50 years of Little Golden Books.

Storytime

Robert Morgan:

Fridays & Saturdays at 10:30

“Chasing the North Star” Friday, April 14th at 5pm

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T h e O m n i voro u s R e ad e r

Life on the Edge of a Small Southern Town Crook’s Corner Bar & Café honors a terrific debut novel

By D.G. Martin

More than a thousand books

connected to North Carolina are published each year. There is no way to read them all or even find and give recognition to the best and most important of them.

But we can try. One of the best things we can do is to establish awards and prizes to give shout-outs to the best books in particular areas of fiction, poetry, history, biography and so on. One of the newest, and one of the best, of these recognition programs is the Crook’s Corner Book Prize. Each year it honors the best debut novel set in the American South. The prize, inspired by the prestigious book awards long given by certain cafés in Paris, is a collaboration between Chapel Hill’s iconic restaurant Crook’s Corner Bar & Café and a sponsoring foundation. Each year’s winner gets $5,000 from the foundation and a free glass of wine at Crook’s Corner every night for a year. This year’s winner, Matthew Griffin, grew up in Greensboro and graduated from Wake Forest. He teaches writing, most recently at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Griffin’s novel, Hide, is the story of two older men who have lived together for many years at the edge of a small North Carolina town. Frank is a World War II veteran, tough-talking and covered with tattoos. Wendell is a taxidermist who serves the hunting community. These two hardly fit the caricature images of being gay. But they are gay, and they have paid a heavy price for it. For years there was isolation from family, and unrelenting and constant fear that, somehow, someone would blow the whistle to law enforcement about their illegal relationship and activities. The greatest power of the novel is not, however, in any testimonial argument or inside look at the gay lifestyle. Quite the contrary, the story’s power comes from the tortured and tender way in which Wendell and Frank adapt to Frank’s rapidly deteriorating physical and mental condition. When Frank suffers a stroke while tending the tomato plants in his beloved garden, the ambulance rushes him to the hospital, and Wendell follows. But because only family members are allowed to accompany Frank, Wendell tells the attendant that he is Frank’s brother. When he is asked to show identification,

he fumbles and then tells the attendant he left his wallet at home. He is worried that if she saw his last name was different from Wendell’s, his lie about being a brother would cause more trouble. As Frank’s condition declines, there is a growing emptiness in the lives of both men. No children or nieces and nephews or other family members show up to care for them or to claim little items that the men have treasured. Frank’s loneliness is tempered by a little dog named Daisy that Wendell found at the pound and gave to Frank. Frank is shattered when the dog is torn to pieces in an accident in his garden. Wendell, crushed by Frank’s loss, begins a project to use his taxidermy skills to re-create Daisy from the parts remaining from the accident. One of the novel’s most poignant moments comes when Frank discovers the incomplete project and, though failing steadily, he falls in love again with the halfstuffed dog. As the novel closes, this reader was moved not so much by the problems Frank and Wendell had as gay people, but the challenge of finding meaning at the end of life. Wendell, who always fixed the meals, has trouble adjusting to cooking for just himself when the bedridden Frank eats only nutrient shakes. He has too much time to fill and finds “the biggest danger of all is an empty space in the day. It’s easy, then, for the whole thing to break through and rush in and join the emptiness inside.” “You just go on living,” Wendell says. “You don’t have to have a reason.” The novel’s poignant story should not lead readers to overlook Griffin’s lovely writing. His description of a Southern funeral gathering, the process of breaking down an animal’s body and rebuilding it as a trophy, the joy and disappointments of gardening, sex, love and much more turns Frank and Wendell’s lives into poetry. The major problem with Griffin’s first novel is that it will be difficult for him to write a better one. PS D.G. Martin’s UNC-TV North Carolina Bookwatch interview with Matthew Griffin will air Sunday at noon on April 30 and Thursday at 5 p.m. on May 4. Bookwatch also airs on the North Carolina channel Fridays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 10 a.m. Martin’s wife, Harriet Martin, serves on the board of the Crook’s Corner Book Prize Foundation.

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Royce Rolls, by Margaret Stohl The author of the best-selling Beautiful Creatures and Black Widow series turns her pen toward satire in this thinly veiled caricature of the Kardashian family. Bentley Royce, a girl of 16 years, is sick of playing second fiddle to her older sister Porsche (Kim), suffering at the schemes of her manipulative mother, Mercedes (Kris), and her brother, Maybach (Rob), who is of little help to her. Reality intercedes when both Bentley and T. Wilson White — her brother-in-law to be — careen off a cliff on Mulholland Drive. Peppered throughout with memo-like footnotes and press releases, Royce Rolls is a rollicking send-up of the culture of reality TV and our desire to live vicariously through the stars.

What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories, by Lesley Nneka Arimah In What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, Arimah uses speculative fiction to illustrate truths that are otherwise intangible. Each story is a skillfully concocted, strange, yet plausible, world that a novelist might have wasted an entire sea of words on. In one, a girl crafts a baby out of fallen hair she sweeps up at a salon, but her woven-child’s hunger proves far more ferocious than any child born of flesh and blood. In another, an equation is discovered with the potential to solve all the unhappiness in the world, but mathematicians repeatedly fail to fully integrate it into daily life. Fans of Karen Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves or Aimee Bender’s Willful Creatures will adore and admire the seamlessness with which Arimah takes only the time she needs to tell a story — before weaving another its equal in depth.

Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich, by Norman Ohler Five years of scintillating research went into Ohler’s Blitzed, an account of the rise of drug culture in Weimar Germany and the immediate fallout — the weaponized manufacture of opiates. It includes the dark history behind corporations such as Merck & Co, Bayer AG and Temmler, and how these companies became producers of narcotics on an unprecedented scale in NaziOccupied Germany. Unique to his book is the deconstruction of Adolf Hitler as the teetotaling, abstinent figure the Fuhrer purported himself to be. Blitzed spent five weeks on the best-seller list in Germany, where its publication received considerable acclaim regarding its findings. Its debut on this side of the pond is not to be missed.

The Boy in the Earth, by Fuminori Nakamura While being a meditative yet relatively slim weekend read, Nakamura’s The Boy in the Earth has the makings of psychological thriller, a nightmarish noir setting. Part Taxi Driver (1976), part Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground, for the author it is a personal voyage into the human soul. The narrator, an orphan and survivor of a traumatic, abusive childhood, finds himself co-habiting with a strange girl who has also fallen between the cracks in the world. Further disillusioned at discovering his father is still alive, he remains desperate for answers. Nakamura’s

first novel to be translated into English, The Thief, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He is also the winner of the Oe Prize, Japan’s highest literary award.

Foxlowe, by Eleanor Wasserberg Set against the backdrop of the East Anglian moorlands, the Foxlowe folk are an in-group holding fast to their strange maypole customs. Superstitious and reclusive, they live in fear of the Bad, cursing the memory of Leavers, and otherwise shun the Outside. In their society power comes from naming and marking boundaries. All new arrivals are rechristened. Green, being born in Foxlowe, has no past outside of their tiny world, but she isn’t the only one for long. A baby arrives and Green finds herself forever bound to this newcomer, having mistakenly named her Blue. While Wasserberg’s invented language in this foreboding coming-of-age novel might put one in mind of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange, her approach toward depicting this rural society has earned her comparisons with the haunted works of Shirley Jackson and reveals her to be a promising new talent — a voice in fiction to watch out for.

My Cat Yugoslavia, by Pajtim Statovci An arranged marriage becomes the impetus for Statovci’s first novel, a tale bridging two moments in time. In 1980, Emine — a Muslim girl from Kosovo — receives a marriage proposal from a man she’s had little chance to get to know. While the pairing is blessed by the girl’s father, it’s clear her own feelings regarding the match aren’t mutual. Shortly thereafter, war breaks out and the couple flees to Finland, where they try to raise a family despite their splintering union. It is their youngest son, Bekim, who features prominently in the adjacent narrative — intertwined with the first and taking place in the present day. He lives a libertine life of eccentricity, allowing his pet boa constrictor free rein of his apartment. His life takes a turn from the simply odd toward the fabulist when he meets an allegorical cat. It is the subsequent conversations with this outspoken anthropomorphic feline that lead Bekim to return to his mother’s homeland and retrace the steps of his family’s fragmented history.

The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple, by Jeff Guinn The New York Times best-selling author of Manson returns with a chilling new foray into the subject of mass-hysteria and cults of personality with his investigation into the mind behind the Jonestown massacre — Jim Jones. The Road to Jonestown delves deeply into the jungle settlement in Guyana and provides revelations into the bizarre figure of Jones himself, painting a portrait of the enigmatic figure of the Peoples Temple’s leader. Thoroughly researched and compiled from interviews with survivors of the congregation’s cyanide-induced mass suicide, Guinn’s book is a harrowing read into this quintessential, yet uniquely American, tragedy — one that must never be forgotten.

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65 Story Treehouse, by Andy Griffiths Andy and Terry live and write books in their 65-story treehouse that was once 13, then 26, then 38, then 52 stories tall. It has a pet-grooming salon, a birthday room where it’s always your birthday, a room full of exploding eyeballs, a shark tank, a lollipop shop, a quicksand pit, an ant farm and a time machine. Andy Griffiths, author of the wildly popular 13 Story Treehouse graphic novel series will bring his own version of wackiness to The Country Bookshop Thursday, April 6, at 4 p.m. This event is free and appropriate for children ages 6-12 and their families.

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In this fourth fast-paced endangered species mystery series set in FunJungle, panda fanatics are frenzied, awaiting the arrival of the park’s most thrilling animal yet, Li Ping, a rare and incredibly expensive giant panda. However, when the truck transporting Li Ping finally arrives, its precious cargo has vanished. Author Stuart Gibbs will visit The Country Bookshop Monday, April 3, at 4 p.m., to introduce Panda-monium as well as his New York Times bestselling Spy School and Space Case series. This event is free and appropriate for children ages 8-12 and their families.

Daughter of a Pirate King, by Tricia Levenseller Alosa is the daughter of the infamous Pirate King, the overlord of the seas. When he hears word of a map to an island filled with treasure, he sends the only person he has trained himself — his daughter. She expects her task to be easy but soon encounters a problem, the first mate, Riden. Alosa is just as determined to find the map for her father, but will Riden prove too much to resist? Ages 13 and up. PS

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Class Masters What is art? Pablo Picasso’s answer to the

question was, “Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.” As an adult, I understand the sentiment to mean that art is not the human condition, but merely a reflection of it. For the past 21 years, the students in the Arts Council of Moore County’s Young People’s Fine Arts Festival have joyfully produced their truth with complete honesty. The artwork in the March, 2017 show was no different. Please enjoy this sampling of the 277 works of art created by Moore County High School students. They reflect a bright future for us all. — Chris Dunn, Executive Director, Arts Council of Moore County

Luke Myrick, North Moore High School Twice a Year — Painting

Phi Nguyen, Pinecrest High School Worldly Treasures — Drawing

Justus Poole, Union Pines High School Untitled — Digital Art/Photography

Natalie Warner, Pinecrest High School, Writer’s Block — Drawing Madeleine Albright, Pinecrest High School Tea Time — Painting

Eric Li, O’Neal School See No Evil — Painting PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 2017

Emily Barnett, Pinecrest High School, Untitled — Drawing

Hailey Trudeau, Union Pines High School Oranges & Lemons — Painting

Sonona Cagle, North Moore High School, Untitled — Painting

Gerardo Hernandez, North Moore High School Untitled — Drawing Hanna Fitzgerald, O’Neal School Call Me On My Cell Phone — Drawing

Megan Green, Union Pines High School Color Wheel — Painting

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Summer Tracy, Union Pines High School The Rabbit Hole — Drawing

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Thank you to the Art Teachers: Dawn Priest, North Moore High School; Beth Garrison, O’Neal School; Wilbert Davis, Pinecrest High School; Christine Wilson, Pinecrest High School; Susan Baer, Sandhills Classical Christian; Michelle Parks Wittenrich, Union Pines High School.

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Hometown

Bottle Rocket Cousins Special days with the Purvis boys

By Bill Fields

A couple of times

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a year there would be a letter or a phone call, and the countdown would begin. When the arrival was imminent, antsy with anticipation, I would scout our street for a wellwaxed sedan turning into the driveway.

There were few things in childhood better than a visit from the Purvis boys. Sidney, Bob and Phil were my cousins from Martin County, the sons of Uncle Whit and Aunt Blyn. Sid was closer in age to my mother, his aunt, than to me. Bob and Phil were contemporaries of my two older sisters, who for their many redeeming qualities never pored over box scores, fantasized about driving Richard Petty’s Plymouth in the Southern 500 or saved up for a Zebco 33. My cousins, on the other hand, couldn’t get their fill of sports, cars and the outdoors. Plus, they liked to arm wrestle. I didn’t lack boys on the block to play with — between the Hursts and the McNeills there were plenty — but the Purvises were kin and I didn’t get to see them often. The latter reality made their visits special, and it didn’t hurt that they never tired of hitting their little cousin fungoes or playing endless games of “21” on our backyard hoop. For a kid whose pyrotechnics were limited to lighting a sparkler or two on July Fourth, it seemed beyond daring to see my cousins set off firecrackers in tin cans or fire a bottle rocket. Bob and Phil went to college in Tennessee, staying there to raise families and for long careers in state government. They would stop in the Sandhills on their long drive home to northeastern North Carolina, where they played ball against the Perry brothers, future major leaguers Jim and Gaylord. When UCLA and Houston played the basketball “Game of the Century” in the Astrodome in January 1968, the younger Purvises watched with Dad and me. Once, when Phil was in town he went squirrel hunting. He brought me two of the tails, which I attached to my bike handles with electrical tape. I then proudly rode around the neighborhood until some neighbor dogs caught the scent and chased me to the curb.

Sometimes they would lodge at the Charlton Motel. Bob was floating in the deep end of the pool one summer weekend and dared me to jump in. I couldn’t swim yet but figured he would catch me. He didn’t, but scooped me up before I became a story for the next edition of The Pilot, and we laughed about the moment for a long time. My cousins were push-up and sit-up strong. Phil, especially, was a heck of an athlete, becoming a martial arts black belt and playing on high-level softball teams for many years after he got out of college. We were visiting him outside Nashville and went out to eat at an Italian joint before one of his games. Most of the table enjoyed pizza. “I’m just going to get something light,” Phil said, ordering a sandwich. The grinder that arrived at the table remains the largest I’ve seen outside a sub catered for a Super Bowl party, and I can still hear the howls when the waitress came with Phil’s meal. All three of them had their culinary favorites when they came to visit, whether a meat-and-three lunch at Blake’s Restaurant in Candor, a Dairy Queen chocolate shake, fish supper at Russell’s or fresh peaches from the Auman orchard. Sid settled in eastern North Carolina, solving engineering problems for the telephone company. He had a passion for ham radio, and I remember being amazed at the amount of equipment that involved. He developed a love of aviation too, earning his pilot’s license. On a Sunday, Sid flew from New Bern to Southern Pines to go to church and have lunch with Mom. One of his prized cars was a yellow Corvette. In retirement, his wife gave him a present of a day at the Richard Petty Driving Experience at Charlotte Motor Speedway. To hear him describe those speedy spins on a high-banked track, it was as exciting as those long, ago visits by the Purvis boys to our home. Sid passed away in 2015 at age 77. His brothers survive, along with lots of good memories. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent.

Vine Wisdom

Cheers to 20 Years A little slice of wine, cheese and life

By Robyn James

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20 years ago, I was an on-premise sales rep for a large North Carolina wine distributor. I sold wine to wine and cheese shops and upscale restaurants in the Piedmont area. It was a great job. I trained at many popular wineries — Robert Mondavi, Sterling and Jordan. My company sent me on recruiting trips to California wine country as well as trips to France and Germany. If I wasn’t necessarily married to my job, I was married to my boss. When we decided to divorce I moved into my parents’ basement in Whispering Pines with my 10-year-old son in tow. I couldn’t find work, and it was becoming clear that my mother was descending into the early stages of Alzheimer’s. I got a referral to a new doctor in town to be treated for depression. I filled out my paperwork, and Dr. Bobby Maynor stepped into the room. He said, “I see you say your interest is in wine. Where do you go to take wine classes?” I said, “Oh, I don’t take wine classes. I give wine classes.” We had a long discussion about our shared passion for wine and speculated about creating a cool project in town. Three days later he phoned me and said, “If you want to do this, I am on board and I know someone else who may be interested.” Bobby introduced me to Dr. Charles Durell, a true wine aficionado and diehard Francophile, and the three of us opened a small retail wine shop on Pennsylvania Avenue in Southern Pines. In the early days we were just sliding by. I worked mostly by myself with Charles filling in as much as he could. I met Andie, a graphic designer with an office next door to our store. She told me she was looking for a smoke-free place to meet her friends for drinks one night a week and wondered if we would consider being a little wine bar on Wednesday nights. I thought, sure, why not?

We started opening one night a week, calling it Wine on Wednesday. The crowd started to grow, more people catching on to it, enjoying the varied selections of wines by the glass. We tried staying open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. It bombed. People came for Wine on Wednesday. That was it. We tried serving food and nobody bought it. We threw it all

away. Sometimes timing is everything. Our space was small, and I felt like we didn’t offer much in the way of ambience. Parking was a serious challenge for our customers. One day, my Dad called and said, “Guess what, the building you always wanted on Broad Street next to the ABC store is for rent.” I said, “Grab the number!” But we were struggling, and moving a business is a serious expense. That was when Bobby introduced me to his friends Neil and Sole Griffin. They became our third set of partners, and we moved across town knowing there is no better location for us than next to the ABC store. We had great landlords who were awesome supporters of our business and worked hard to convert it from a nasty, dive bar to a cool, shabby, chic wine bar. Today, we’re a 50/50 retail store, wine bar open seven nights a week, selling tons of food. We’ve added two additions to the inside space and extended the patio three times. We started offering a printed menu of the foods we offer and the wines by the glass and half glass, a balanced, eclectic selection that changes daily. In 2011 we purchased the first set of Napa Technology machines in Moore County so we could offer eight different very high-end wines by the taste, half glass and glass. Preserved by argon gas, they allow the customer to try wines they may never have had the opportunity to taste. Three years ago, Taylor Norbury joined us as manager of the store. She and her husband added an edgy craft beer selection, hunting down awesome draft equipment so we could offer an ever-changing selection of craft beers on tap. She streamlined the staff, recruiting personnel with sharp customer service skills. Two decades of life and work. And the doors are open. PS Robyn James is a certified sommelier and proprietor of The Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in Southern Pines. Contact her at robynajames@gmail.com.

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Under Pressure Carbonating a cocktail adds a bit of sizzle

By Tony Cross

Photograph by Tony Cross

We’re living in an amazing time, with

a plethora of questions, answers, ideas and collaborations at our fingertips. I’ve never been great at anything but, thanks to the internet, I’ve learned enough to know what I’m doing. Everything from raising the temperature on my hot water heater, to recipes — the internet, especially YouTube, has been a great friend indeed. I would, and still do, fall asleep every night to YouTube while watching tutorials, music reviews and workout tips on my iPhone. A few years ago, I came across a YouTube channel called Small Screen Network. This channel has a modest num-

ber of cocktail videos, and it introduced me to the likes of Jaime Boudreau, head barman and owner of Canon cocktail bar in Seattle.

Boudreau’s segment, “Raising the Bar”, helped me understand some bartending basics: types of ice for different cocktails, shaking, stirring, tasting each cocktail before sending it out to make sure I didn’t forget an ingredient, or mess up the balance. He also has other how-to videos that deal with smoking cocktails, barrel aging and carbonating. Carbonating a cocktail. Sounds cool, right? Well, it is. Having a delicious cocktail under carbon dioxide pressure brings hundreds of tiny bubbles cascading across your palate almost like Pop Rocks candy. Probably a poor analogy, but hopefully, the dots are starting to connect. The morning after watching the carbonating video, I went to Amazon right away. I ordered an iSi culinary whip creamer (you can get one for about $85), and grabbed some CO2 chargers to go with it. A pack of 40 single cartridges will run you around $30 on Amazon. When they came in the mail, man, I was so excited I told everyone at work about it. I explained the process; I boasted

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why it could transform certain mundane drinks; I broke down how it would boost sales — like I knew what I was talking about. I didn’t. I’m confident that I annoyed everyone in a 50-foot radius. So, what was the first drink I carbonated? Distilled water. I put that baby under pressure, and marveled at how cool the aftermath was. When I decided to mess around with cocktails, I wanted to start simple. So, a margarita it was. I added all of the ingredients into the iSi, sealed the top, and added a cartridge of CO2. I shook it up to ensure the gas was absorbed by the liquids, and then I poured it over ice. It was not good. What was wrong? I used the same recipe as always, so it took me a sec before my aha moment arrived — I forgot to compensate for the ice melting. You see, shaking and stirring a cocktail make these delicious drinks very cold, but the other, and most important, purpose ice serves is dilution. Realizing this, I remade the carbonated margarita but this time I threw in a half ounce of water with it. Just right. If you’ve got an iSi or you’re thinking about getting one, I’ll break down how to throw a quick

So, what was the first drink I carbonated? Distilled water. I put that baby under pressure, and marveled at how cool the aftermath was. carbonated cocktail together. Before adding your ingredients to the whipper, make sure that the vessel is very cold; ice cold is even better. The same goes for your ingredients if you have the time. The colder your mix, the quicker and better carbonated it will be. Pour your mix into the whipper. If you’re making a drink that doesn’t already call for water (e.g., Gin Rickey), then you need to add about half an ounce of water per cocktail. Screw the top of the iSi onto its base and then add a CO2 charger. You’ll hear the gas enter the chamber, and as soon as the charger is empty, shake the whipper vigorously for seconds. Slowly pulling the handle at the top will let the excess gas out. You want to do this because there was air trapped inside the container before you sealed it. Yes, you are letting out some carbon dioxide, but that’s OK because you now want to add one more charger. When the gas fills the chamber, you’ll shake for another 10 seconds. Let your whipper sit under pressure for at least one minute. Slowly release the excess gas again by pulling the handle. Once all the gas is out, you can unscrew the top of the whipper. Pour your carbonated beverage into your glass slowly, or you’ll have a mess on your hands.

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One of lesson I quickly learned when I put this into my bar program was that carbonating this way is not cost-efficient. If you haven’t already done the math, each soda charger costs around a dollar after shipping. Not only that, if you’re only making one drink at a time (you can do at least three per whipper) you’re wasting even more. Realizing this, I stopped carbonating cocktails at my bar, and pretty much only use it for carbonating my ginger beer (when the yeast didn’t do its job) and for cocktail foams. Yes, the whipper was originally intended for creams, foams and such. For these, you’ll need to order nitrogen chargers instead of CO2. I think the whipper is more suited for the home bartender. A pack of soda chargers will go a long way at your pad instead of using it at an establishment. One of the ideas I had when conceptualizing what I wanted Reverie Cocktails to be was the ablility to carbonate cocktails and deliver them. So that’s what I did. A year ago, I had to relearn how to batch and carbonate drinks on a larger scale. (That’s a totally different article.) A ton of trial and error took place, followed by more error. Do you know what pouring out a messed-up 5-gallon batch of cocktails does to a man? Once I got my specs right, however, I was very pleased. You can try one of my many carbonated cocktails (Moscow Mule, seasonal Gin and TONYC, strawberry margarita) on draught around town at locations like The Rooster’s Wife, O’Donnell’s Pub and Neville’s. You probably didn’t know, but for the past two seasons, the Chappy’s Chiller at Chapman’s is my recreation on bubbles. Boy, I love strawberries. I’ll leave you with a recipe I made when quickly carbonating at home (with my iSi) while getting ready for a wedding last summer. It contains mezcal and my TONYC syrup. Light, smoky and refreshing; this little gadget does wonders for waking up your taste buds.

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The Big Freeze

Waiting for the other shoe (and temperature) to drop — as April comes (way) early to the Sandhills

By Jan Leitschuh

Are you a bet-

ting man, or woman, as the case may be?

Though no psychic, I predict we’re in for a bruising from the weather. I’m not happy about those odds, and only hope it’s “not that bad.” My speculation is based on long observation of the land and the weather here. Along with the profound, gut-level understanding that Sandhills strawberries and peaches are unique things, veritable sweet ambassadors for this marvelous region. By now, you’ll know if I was right or wrong. Maybe. You’ll possibly have me at a disadvantage. Or not. As I write, it’s near the end of an unusually warm February. You’re reading this in April. By now, what’s happening will have happened. So. Here’s the thing. My peaches are in full bloom on Feb. 22. Not all varieties, but the majority of the peach trees here are blowsy with bees and stunningly gorgeous, sheathed as they are in salmon-pink loveliness. My springcraving soul rejoices in this gift, photographing the blossoms from all angles, in all light. But the gardener in me — as well as the produce coordinator in me (for Sandhills Farm to Table Co-op, a community-supported produce box distributing organization) — says, “Yikes!” “I love this warm weather,” a friend confided in me today, which topped out at 78 degrees. “But it’s so unsettling because it’s so unusual. It’s spooky. Plants can’t go inside and sit in the air conditioning.” A February headline in the Washington Post said, “Fast-Forward Spring; February’s Warmth is Extreme, And It’s Just Getting Started.” This month, the temperature has averaged at least five degrees above normal over the lower 48. It’s April-in-February. But it’s not April . . . The USA National Phenology Network tracks spring’s arrival by reporting on the timing of leaf-out, flowering and other phenomena. According to this group, plant spring came in February this year: “Spring has arrived three weeks early in Virginia and Kentucky . . . continuing a pattern we see across the Southeast.” Our average last frost date for the Sandhills is typically around April 9. It’s been earlier in recent years. But when have we ever had a last frost date in February? I’ll spare you the looking: Never.

That means those fragile pink blossoms, those happy pollinators, the potential young fruit are all vulnerable to a hard March freeze. No young fruit? No Sandhills peaches. Not a happy thought. As one of my peach-farming friends told me, “I’ve had peaches in full bloom once on Feb. 26 and still made a good crop. But only once. It’s not really looking good for the home team right now.” The good news is that peach trees, as a rule, are exuberant lovelies. They throw off far more blossoms, and set far more fruit, than is needed for a decent crop. I’ve heard peach farmers say that even with only 17-18 percent of a crop left undamaged in an orchard, a grower can still manage enough bank to keep the farm alive another year. Most years, they have to thin the fruit. How likely this year? Unknown territory. We’ll have a freeze. I’d bet those odds. But how bad? If the freeze is not too hard, say 27 degrees, or perhaps even down to 26, producers bring various helpful mechanisms to bear. You may remember old photos of smudge fires and tires being burned; those days are gone. Today farmers harness the wind, using machines that mix the ground’s rising warm air with the descending frost. It only changes the temperature at tree level by a few degrees, but often that’s all that’s needed to keep delicate cells from freezing and bursting. Others use clever site selection to overcome frost pockets, since the heavier cold air rolls downhill and pools at the base of slopes. One last bit of good news. Despite the warm winter, experts say there have been just about enough chill hours — that is, degree-hours below 45, basically — that the peach trees can make fruit, should the weather gods allow. The lowestchill-hour varieties are the earliest, at about 550-600 hours. The early clingstone Rich May is at 650 hours. The North Carolina varieties like Derby, and Windblo and Candor are in the 800 to 1,000-hour range. According to one of my peach growers, his site has accumulated 1,080 chill hours this year. The wildly popular freestone Contender, China Pearl and Carolina Gold all clock in at 1,100 chill hours. “We’ll see, but I think we’ll be OK there,” he says. “So, as far as chill accumulation, we’ve pretty much jumped through that hoop.” But not a hard freeze. Me, I watch the weather and get out my extra blankets in the late afternoon, before the heat is entirely gone, and swaddle my little babies. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But I don’t have to bet the farm on them. I mention peaches, but the same issues affect other fruit crops, such as strawberries, plums, blueberries, and later blackberries, figs and apples. Strawberries are big around here. Local families adore visiting pick-your-

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Back to the Beds

When the deep freeze finishes

By Jan Wheaton

I don’t love to garden. The same

way I don’t love to write. But my garden beckons to me the same way an empty, white page does: Put something here. I know it’s going to be painful, but oh, those rewards. In one way, gardening is a lot like writing — it’s mostly about putting the right things in the right place at the right time.

The right time for setting out annual bedding plants is April 15. If the weather has continued to be as warm as it was in February, some of you might not have waited. But do wait if you haven’t. There is not much to be gained from planting earlier because the plants won’t do much until the soil heats up some, and cold, damp soil can lead to rot. In the meantime, do your groundwork, literally, without which you will not achieve optimum results and reward for the money and effort you spend on your garden. When I stick my trowel into my Sandhills garden, I cannot help but remember somewhat longingly the soils of gardens past: the black, fine-grained and fertile alluvial soil in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada — soil that crumbled in your fingers like a chocolate brownie and grew just about anything you’d put in it, once it warmed up, which was not until well past their last freeze date in mid-May. We were often lulled into a false sense of security up there, too, when April brought waves of warm, dry weather across the plains. I remember the chastening experience of watching snow fall on my freshly planted petunias on Victoria Day, May 24. Also never to be forgotten are the deep, dark brown topsoils of Kansas, evolved over eons of prairie grasslands, soil that was pure joy to stick your hands into. But back to the soil at hand. “Amending your soil is the most important thing you can do,” according to Taylor Williams, Moore County Agricultural Extension agent. And that starts with a soil test. I box up my samples of gray loamy sand, about which the best thing that can be said is that it drains well, and send them off to N.C. State for analysis. And I feel as good about myself as if I’d just written the first paragraph of a story. While you’ve got your gardening pants on, do some spring cleaning in those

flowerbeds. Cut back and clean out any dead foliage from last year, and pull up those emerging weeds before they get too comfortable. To help with fertility and moisture retention, add a 2-inch top dressing of composted organic matter or well-seasoned manure. For new beds, especially perennial flowerbeds, add 6 inches. You may be tempted to mix that fine, fluffy stuff down into the sandy grit, but don’t. Williams warns tilling the soil, “leads to soil compaction and makes it lose air. Just put the compost on top and the bugs and organisms will do the work of moving it down into the soil.” To be sure you don’t put plants in the wrong places, take a sun survey of your garden and flowerbeds. “A plant in the ‘wrong place’ will be more susceptible to pests and disease,” cautions Richmond County horticultural agent Paige Burns. Using a copy of a recent property survey of your lot or an online, interactive garden layout plan, draw in or indicate where you have major shade creators (trees, fences, house, etc.). Walk around and note at each hour from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. where your sun and shade conditions correspond to requirements specified on plant labels: full sun, part sun, full shade and part shade. You can use these guidelines to help figure out exactly what these mean: Full sun means the plant should have at least six hours direct, unfiltered sun, daily. The hours do not necessarily need to be together, but three or four should be in the afternoon. Part sun means the plant needs at least three hours of direct, unfiltered sun, but it wants six, preferably in the middle of the day and late afternoon. Or it could have only dappled sun a large part of the day. Part shade means your plant typically needs three hours of direct sunlight per day, and it doesn’t really want, but might tolerate up to six if it’s in the morning or early afternoon. Full shade means the plant should not be in direct sunlight for more than three hours, and that should be morning sun only. Full-shade plants can thrive in dappled/filtered sun or light shade for several hours a day. But deep shade means no sun, direct or filtered. Indicate locations (with dimensions) where the sun is full, direct or filtered and whether it occurs in morning or afternoon — and keep in mind how these areas will shift as the sun gets higher in midsummer and that afternoon sun is more intense and creates more heat than morning sun. Direct sun means no blockage or filtering of sun whatsoever. Light shade is found in the shadow of a building or wall, where no direct sunlight strikes, but there is light all around.

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brittle, shrunken foliage and tight little blooms. Keep begonias in part shade or filtered light and you’ll see a much happier plant, with full foliage, and luminous flowers. Plant the semperflorens in beds, but also try some specimens, like the dragonwing, in pots. And bring them inside about the first of November. Begonias are actually perennials, but are too tender to survive outdoors in our winter. Put them in front of a south or west window, water as needed, cut back the foliage to keep it from getting leggy, and next April set them back outside. At the garden center, carefully inspect each plant before you put it in your cart. Peer under leaves and along stems for insects: look for aphids sucking nectar from a stem of a soon-to-be wilted leaf; and at the base of leaves, look for small, white cottony blobs, under which hundred of mealybugs are getting ready to hatch and wreak havoc on the plant. You do not want to take these guys home and introduce them to your other plants. Also check to see if the plant is root bound by turning the container over and looking for roots poking out the drainage holes. Gently squeeze the bottom of a plastic container and ease the plant out. Don’t buy if you see roots winding around in a solid wall or matted on the bottom, which will require surgical intervention before planting and long periods of intensive care. Yellowed or chewed leaves, spindly stems and wilt are signs of infestations, disease or other abuse, and they do not bode well for the future of the plant. If you haven’t yet got the results of your soil test, and you’re ready to plant, add two things in addition to the top dressing of organic matter: first, lime to combat our soils’ chronic acidity and second, a little high phosphate fertilizer (preferably organic) in the hole you dig for the plant. New plants need phosphorus for root production, and lime should always be added once a year. When you get your soil test results, follow the recommendations provided to be sure you are feeding your plants what they need and not giving them something they don’t need or shouldn’t have. And keep in mind that plants react to stress a lot like we do: lack of energy, susceptibility to virus and infections, and poor performance in general. So don’t plant in the heat of the day, don’t mess with their roots, give your plants some space and don’t under or over water them. (Their feet don’t like to be cold and wet any more than ours do.) Tuck those plants into their beds with a soft blanket of mulch, but don’t suffocate them Now get yourself the drink of your choice and settle into your rocker on the porch or hammock in the trees and admire your work. Maybe I do love to garden. PS For questions or help with plant choices, fertilizer applications, and other concerns, call the Help Line at the Moore County Cooperative Agricultural Extension Office between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., weekdays through October at (910) 947-3188. Walk-in consultations are available during the same hours at the Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. Free sample boxes, instructions and information sheets are available as well. Information on soil samples can be found at http://www.ncagr.gov/agronomi/uyrst.htm.

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Out of the Blue

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Basketball forms an unbreakable bond

framework of rules which students respected and obeyed. The specter of finding a job and paying down student loans did not cloud the experience. Business, chemistry, read this, The Big Dance should pre-med and education majors connected over basketball. be over and the Final Four whitWe cheered our teams and received our tled down to the NCAA Men’s diplomas at Cameron Indoor. Basketball champion — which But oh, how basketball has changed. Integration provided a new dimension. leaves a giant crater in my life, Improved training methods and machines not to be filled until November increased strength and endurance. Tall guys married tall women and produced 7-footers. when, once again, I hear the Recruiters scanned Europe, the Middle East pitter-patter of huge feet on poland Africa for raw talent. Games are broadcast in high definition, revealing each bead ished wood. of sweat, every mouthed expletive on enorDoubtful that Duke will cut down the mous court-shaped screens. What remains nets, but you never know. My Blue Devils constant is the loyalty to an institution, at a forever remain the Fab Five to acolytes who formative age, that a sport engenders. view basketball as performance art, a ballet So what if Duke loyalists are obnoxious. performed by glistening bodies wearing We earned it. Show me another school bright colors and fanciful hairstyles. They with equal decibels at every game, not just move like gazelles and, like gazelles, oftimes the biggies. fall to predators. And now, April, when the dance Basketball is Greek tragedy, music crescendos — then fades. For me the Shakespearean drama, Seinfeld humor, A page from the 1956 Duke Yearbook - The Chanticleer experience is bittersweet. Duke won its first whereas football is, blunt force trauma national championship on April 1, 1991. exerted beneath a pyramid of bodies. My daughter, Wendy, was ecstatic. She died 25 days later. I can no longer watch My passion reawakened upon returning to North Carolina in 2007. I heard The Big Dance without tears. people slander my alma mater, branding its students arrogant Yankees, spoiled Other hallmarks of the college experience have changed as well: laptops brainiacs, nasty losers and worse. for note-taking, dining halls morphed into an international food courts, rules Back through the time machine I spun, landing on East Campus, in 1956, relaxed or repealed, co-ed dorms. What happened to yearbooks, class blazers? already smitten. My high school team had won the N.C. State Championship Newer buildings, although architecturally magnificent, remind me of kudzu, in 1955, a heady experience. Duke, always a b-ball powerhouse, distributed obliterating the familiar. An addition to the Duke Gardens bears the name of books of free tickets to frosh and encouraged them to attend games. Dorm a shy boy who sat next to me in English class. On a recent visit I noticed how curfew was extended so we could cheer to the end. different Cameron looks. A new entry and lobby, enlarged offices and training Neither term paper nor exam kept me away. facilities, a courtyard designated Krzyzewskiville, where students camp out for Interest waned after graduation, as I raised a family in the Far North, altickets. I felt a bit overwhelmed, lost, until I saw the ladies’ room door. Inside, though The Big Dance remained a rite of spring. I followed more closely when pure 1956: a high gothic window, massive porcelain sinks and hardwood stalls my daughter matriculated (along with Coach K) in 1980, graduated in 1984 but with heavy metal latches that work on the guillotine principle. remained in Durham. She adored Duke basketball, too — even hitched a ride to Home, at last. I felt so much better until a glimpse in the mirror confirmed the 1989 Battle in Seattle. that what had changed the most wasn’t Duke . . . but me. Older, sadder, experiThe sights and sounds came rushing back as I was now forced to play deenced, resigned but after all these years, still feisty, still connected. PS fense: Under the face paint and wigs the Cameron Crazies aren’t really crazy. By Deborah Salomon

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Players are neither arrogant nor unsportsmanlike. Coach K doesn’t make rat faces. Academics mean as much as alley-oops. While speaking out, I discovered the root of my affinity. Basketball represented a happy interlude within a

Deborah Salomon is a staff writer for PineStraw and The Pilot. She may be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com.

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Mystery in Pieces Here’s a clue — Walmart is not guilty

By R enee Phile

A few weeks ago, my bestie from high

school, Caren, flew up from Orlando to spend the week with me. I have only seen her maybe four times since we graduated from high school nearly 16 years ago, so, as you can imagine, we wanted to fill our time with plenty of meaningful, friendship-building activities.

After she arrived at the airport, we grabbed a bite to eat and then headed to the store to pick up groceries for the week. We decided, as we were throwing salad, quinoa and other organic items (I mean ice cream and four types of cookies) into the cart, that we needed some type of bonding activity. A puzzle was just the answer. We spent around 45 minutes in the puzzle aisle examining every single one while the ice cream in our cart melted. Right before we walked out of the store puzzleless, because I didn’t want to tackle an under the sea scene and she didn’t care to work on a Star Wars one, the answer, once again, became very, very clear: a 750-piece with a pink and purple sky, with mountains, a river and trees in their autumn peak, all surrounding a white castle flashed right before our eyes. Our eyes met and we knew. This was the one. That night we started construction on the border. Our border. She took the sky, and I took the foreground, which were those blasted, confusing swirls of autumn trees. Caren’s job allows her to work from her computer, so she stayed home with our puzzle while I went to work the next day. Around 2 p.m., a nagging feeling appeared in my mind. I sent her a text: Me: 2:14 You better not be working on the puzzle Caren: 2:16 I’m not Me: 2:17 Yes you are Caren: 2:18 Only two pieces Me: 2:18 Stop! Caren: 2:19 OK, no more. I will wait for you An hour later. . . Me: 3:15 Stop working on the puzzle! Caren: 3:17 Only two more pieces Me: 3:20 Ugh! I’m leaving work. Be there soon. Leave the puzzle alone. We worked on our puzzle on and off through afternoons and evenings. Occasionally, my boys would help, but they typically lost interest within a few minutes. As the days crept by, we realized something was off. We had yet to connect the sides with the border, and we just kept thinking we had not found the right piece or there were missing pieces. The bottom border was almost a wavy line. I had put the bottom together and, while it was just a nagging feeling, I truly thought maybe Walmart had sold us a defective puzzle.

“I think this piece goes here, but I just need some scissors to trim the edge, and then it will fit,” I said, halfway kidding. Caren exploded with laughter, and we continued to work on our project. One night after a very exciting SCC basketball game, we plopped down at the kitchen table to work on our puzzle. Caren peered at the bottom border pieces and burst into hysterical laughter, like to the point where I thought something might be wrong with her. “Are you kidding me?” she said. “These don’t fit! This one doesn’t fit! This one doesn’t fit! Renee! You have been forcing pieces together that don’t fit!” I was a bit embarrassed, but mostly relieved, even if the problem was me. Laughing, she pulled apart the border. She connected some, reconnected others, the wavy border straightened, and the mystery was solved. Shew. No more blaming Walmart. Caren left for home before the puzzle was finished. A bunch of trees were left, and they literally looked as if autumn had thrown up. The oranges, reds and yellows all swirled together near the bottom of the puzzle. I didn’t go back to it right away. One Friday night, though, I decided I wanted to finish the puzzle, glue it together, and frame it. I spent an hour or so connecting piece by piece until it was finished. Every piece fit. I snapped a picture of the masterpiece and texted it to Caren. The next morning, I woke up, and with coffee in hand, I admired my work. Suddenly, I noticed something very peculiar. There was a piece missing from the sky. Just one. Gone. I figured one of my boys snagged it to be funny. I asked each of them, “Have you seen this piece?” “Nope.” David said, “Maybe you should ask Kevin.” “Kevin, have you seen this piece?” “No! I promise! David probably knows!” With each passing hour, my technique changed: “I really want to frame this picture and hang it up. Could you please give me back the missing piece?” “Look, I don’t care who took it or why. Just put it back. Have it back by the morning at 6 a.m. I don’t even need to know who stole it.” “No one is leaving the house until the piece is back.” “We aren’t eating again until the piece is back.” “Stealing puzzle pieces from your mom’s puzzle and lying are sins.” “GIVE IT BACK!” No admissions. None. I even questioned Bailey, my 2-year-old Rottweiler, and she claimed that she had no idea where the piece had gone. Days later, the piece is still gone. No one will admit to it, and if it doesn’t appear by Friday, I’m just going to glue the puzzle and frame it with a hole in the sky. I’m done questioning the suspects. I don’t know what else to do. I’m completely puzzled. PS Renee Phile teaches English composition at Sandhills Community College.

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Pieces that Speak There are real stories in stuff

By Joyce R eehling

I walk around our house and hear stories

quietly recounting themselves. Everything we own can tell a tale, and we should remember and share it around the dinner table. The real story.

Sometimes we dress up the story about how our “beloved” aunt left us this bowl when, in fact, she was a grouchy old thing that no one liked being around and the best part was the bowl. Tell that story. Or the rickety, reassembled chair that once collapsed into laughter and pieces under the weight of a friend nicknamed Porky. Tell that story. Or my little pine, drop leaf table. It sits in our den where it looks as if it doesn’t belong because it is so plain, casual and seldom used. It was the first piece of real furniture that I bought in New York for my very small apartment. I also bought two chairs which are long gone (not, however, casualties of Porky), but I can’t part with this table. I remember seeing it in a small shop on the Upper West Side one Saturday morning. I wasn’t in a show at the time so I had a Saturday to myself. I bought this table and managed to wrestle it home on my own once they had taped it up so it wouldn’t flop open every other step. Most of my life in New York I lived on the fourth floor of a walk-up but luckily, then, I Iived in an elevator building. Instant dining area! A real table and chairs. I imagined dinners with a friend or, perhaps, a man who would be madly in love with me eating my snappy dinners. But that almost never happened because I worked in the theater and no one else wants to eat at 4:30 in the afternoon to be settled by show time. But I love that table. I look at it and feel younger. I am still, under the drop leafs, that 20-something girl walking excitedly down the street building a real life with a table. I hang on with great joy to a funny little pitcher and sugar bowl that my maternal grandfather bought when he was quite young and forced to go to

work to support his mom and sisters after his father died. He bought this silver-plated set to give to his mother — a true young Southern gentleman living in Richmond, making a gesture meant to uplift a sad and grieving soul. Their de minimis value means nothing. It is the thought of this boy, my grandfather, doing without to give this gift. His love resides with me each and every day. When I polish these pieces my heart glows from his generosity. O’Henry could not have done better. We buy houses around a dining table. Ours is from Darling Husband’s side of the family. His maternal grandfather, Ferruccio Vitale, an Italian immigrant and a renowned landscape architect until the crash of ‘29, brought with him some amazing furniture. The table is the one D.H. ate family dinners around as a boy. And his mother sat at it when she was a child, too. It is almost one plank of wood, some trim and some inlay; the legs are two large pedestals with deep acanthus leaf carvings. It takes a basketball team to move it. We believe it to be Florentine, unquestionably unique. Its eight regal chairs match it the way the planets match the sun. Dinners, debates, tears and laughs have spilled over this wood. Great food, great wine and culinary failures have flowed across it. It tells all those stories. Ferruccio must know how we love it so. It defines our house. I have, among our many paintings, one by our friend Chipp Well, of the moon setting over a pond. It not only keeps Chipp alive in our hearts but on any day when the world is too hard to bear, the news too sad to take, that moon shining on the pond can bring my blood pressure right down. Even a melancholy moon promises another day. The cups from the Orient Express are crying out for some tea so that I might see the Alps and feel the crisp air. Ask and I will tell the story. PS Joyce Reehling is a frequent contributor and good friend of PineStraw.

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The green heron is probably one of

the coolest little birds around — but one that I’d bet most folks have never seen. They return from tropical wintering grounds to breed across the state in early spring, migrating under the cover of darkness back to where they first hatched, beginning the cycle anew. Right now flocks are moving northward in order to pair up for the breeding season. Although they are widely distributed, the green heron’s cryptic coloration and skulking behavior make them tricky to spot. Standing a mere 18 inches tall and only about the size of a crow, this species is by far the smallest of about a dozen types of waders found in North Carolina. As with all herons, these birds have relatively long legs and a skinny neck, as well as a long, dagger-like bill. Given that green herons typically stand with their necks tucked in, individually they may seem smaller than they are. Their backs are a velvety green (hence the name), their bodies a handsome chestnut and their legs a pale yellow. The feathers on the head, in addition to the wings, are dark gray and often stand erect, giving the appearance of a shaggy crest. As with other herons and egrets, males are identical to females. During the spring, males seek out thick shrubbery along the edge of a wet spot and begin building a platform of thin sticks as a nest. After attracting a mate, the male looses interest in nest-building, and it is the female that completes the shallow nest. Although the location may very well be along a creek

or pond, it may also be man-made, for instance around a smaller depression adjacent to a water hazard on a golf course. Probably more important is whether or not there’s sufficient access to food and woody vegetation to support three to five chicks. Although other wading bird species generally nest in colonies, green heron pairs usually keep to themselves. But they, especially the males, are fiercely territorial when it comes to defending their feeding area. They will vocalize loudly and chase any bird that is perceived as a threat. Green herons spend most of their time crouched completely still, alongside a wet spot, waiting for prey to appear. They will grab any moving creature that is small enough to swallow. Fish, frogs, crayfish, larger insects and even the odd hummingbird make up their diet. Occasionally, they may spear their food, but most often they grab what they catch with their powerful mandibles. And while green herons are very successful ambush-style predators, they sometimes show a cunning side, using objects such as sticks and insects very deliberately to lure fish to the surface. Surprisingly, they may also occasionally dive after prey. With partial webbing between their toes, they can swim short distances, if need be. A few green herons lurk in the very southeastern part of our state each winter but most head to Mexico or Central America where food is more plentiful during the colder months. Our birds pass through Florida and head for the Caribbean on their way to marshlands in Central America. There will be plenty of time in the coming months to spot one of these fascinating water birds. So the next time you’re passing a nearby farm pond or overgrown stream bank, carefully scan the banks and low branches — you may just catch sight of this neat little heron! PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos at susan@ncaves.com.

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Airstream Heritage Chasing fish — and a bit of warmth

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Snowbird (person) — Wikipedia

A snowbird is a person who moves from the higher latitudes and colder climates of the northern United States and Canada and migrates southward to warmer locales such as Florida, California, Arizona, Texas, or elsewhere along the Sun Belt of the southern United States.

I guess you could say my grandfather fit the Wikipedia definition long before Wikipedia existed or the term “snowbird” was coined anywhere in the vernacular. He really didn’t qualify for the definition in its truest sense though, in as much as he already lived in the Sun Belt, in sunny South Carolina. But Granddad was always cold-natured. When I was just a youngster, I can remember deer hunting with him and listening as he complained about the frosty weather. Many times he said, “Son, just as soon as the Christmas holidays are over, your grandma and I are heading south, down to Florida, where I plan to bask in the sun and catch as many fish as your grandma and I can eat, and you know she loves fresh fish.” Granddad wasn’t a true snowbird because he bought a place, 100 acres exactly, right on the St. Johns River at a little crossroads of a town by the name of Astor Park. After that he was no longer a transient. Later when I visited them at their Florida property, I asked him why he needed so much land. His answer was simple: “Son, I might need to expand.” He started with a little Airstream trailer, which he would tow from the homestead in South Carolina to the river property in Florida. Every winter when the wind would begin whistling out of the north and a heavy coat of frost would whiten the fields, my granddad would hitch up the little Airstream

and head to the St. Johns. Now both Granddad and Gangama, as we grandchildren called her, were pretty big people, and it didn’t take them long to decide that the trailer was OK but they needed more room. So they built a place with all the conveniences of home and parked the little trailer behind the new storage building. It didn’t stay there for long, though. In the early ’50s, winters seemed to be colder and summers hotter. This was way before the catchphrases “global warming” and “climate change” rolled around. Granddad always said that weather was cyclical; we could have several years of colder winters than usual, and then several years of warmer than usual weather. Everything seemed to even out in the course of things. But, when the cold migrated farther south and my granddad couldn’t fish in his shirtsleeves, he hooked up the little Airstream and headed to the warmer climes at Everglades City and Chokoloskee Bay. He bought a little place on Half-Way Creek just big enough for his boats and the trailer. Here he would retreat when old man winter got nasty up around Astor. It turns out that the acorn really doesn’t fall far from the tree. My dad built a river house on the St. Johns; and after he passed away, my mom started wintering in Florida. So what do I do in retirement? I buy a little Airstream trailer and my bride, Linda, and I make our own winter sojourn south. This will be the fifth year we’ve hooked up and hit the southern roads, and what an experience it has been. I was fortunate as a youngster to spend a lot of time with my granddad fishing in Florida, and I’ve lived long enough to see the major changes that have taken place in that state. It has been nothing short of amazing. The 100 acres that my granddad bought in the ’50s was nothing but scrub palmetto bushes, pine trees and sand. Today, his land is home to upscale restaurants, horse farms, and parts of cattle ranches. The little piece of property in Everglades City on Half-Way Creek is now part of a huge marina where fishermen from all over the country come to try their luck in the 10,000 Islands that border Chokoloskee Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

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Our winter spot down there is what Linda calls the fish camp. It’s located on Chokoloskee Island and is usually inhabited this time of year by true snowbirds. These folks come from frosty hinterlands such as Canada, New York, Connecticut, Minnesota and other frigid locales, many arriving in southern Florida around November. They will soak up the sun until the weather up north becomes more habitable, usually in April. Then they will line Interstate 95 almost bumper to bumper as they head home to do it all over again the following winter. It’s something to see, and we have become part of this exodus. When you read this, we’ll be on the way home after another month or so enjoying the warmth and some good fishing. Southwest Florida is beautiful in late winter. The sky is bluer and the air is moist and easy to breathe. Cumulous clouds hang low like puffs of cotton and look as if they can almost touch the coconut palms. Our little Airstream has opened the door to an entirely different lifestyle that grows every year, that of traveling Americans. Not the ones who hop on a plane in New York and scurry off to sunny California, but the folks who drive across the country, seeing it from the ground level. These are the ones closer to our forefathers who backed their horses into the traces, hooked up the Conestoga wagons and headed to parts unknown. I know that sounds a little dramatic. Where they had four horses, our FJ Cruiser has almost 300; and whereas their maps were hand-drawn and sometimes not accurate, our GPS keeps us on the right path wherever we go. But like those folks from long ago, we’re looking at the same country, however changed it might be. In the 10 years we’ve had the Airstream, we’ve traveled through almost every state, and I’ve confirmed an observation made many years ago by my granddad. Early one morning as we were fishing for sheepshead near Fiddler Key in the 10,000 Islands, I said, “There are a lot more folks down here this winter, Granddad. Seems as if most of them are Yankees who talk funny.” He laughed, “There is a bunch more this year.” He paused and added, “I bet we sound funny to them, too. But you know, son, one thing I’ve discovered in my many years and travels, people are mostly the same wherever you go. I bet you’ll find that to be true when you get a little older and see more of the country.” He was right. Just about everybody we’ve met from Alaska to Florida might speak with a different accent, but their hearts seem to be in the right place. PS Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident, is a lifelong outdoorsman and PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist.

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The Eagle Is Landing The PGA Tour goes to the beach By Lee Pace

It was a cold February day in 1997, give

or take a year as memories fade, and five men were sloshing through the woods and sandy waste of a parcel of land about 8 miles north of Wilmington. Four were men of considerable wealth and high golf IQs, the fifth considered golf’s top architect of the modern era. Together Billy Armfield, Bobby Long, John Ellison, John Mack and Tom Fazio were trying to determine if this tract just across the road from Porter’s Neck Country Club and across the Intracoastal Waterway from Figure Eight Island had potential for a new golf course.

Long smiles and shakes his head remembering the day. “I thought that Tom Fazio, if he did not have such a great reputation, needed some serious psychiatric care,” Long says. “Trees are down everywhere, it’s raining, it’s 45 degrees, it’s miserable, it is a mess. But Tom is pointing here and there and saying here’s where the first tee’s going to be, where the 18th green’s going to be, where the clubhouse will be. He’s saying, ‘Man, this is great.’ I’m thinking, ‘You’re certifiably nuts.’ Tom saw something none of us did.” Fazio merely shrugs. “It’s just what I do,” he says. “Bobby Long can look at a balance sheet and it makes sense, and it’s Greek to me. I look at a piece of land and it makes sense.” In time that vision would prove prophetic and crystal clear as the 230 acres became Eagle Point Golf Club, which has become one of North Carolina’s top golf environs and in May will be the site of the 2017 Wells

Fargo Championship on the PGA Tour. The Wells (originally the Wachovia Championship when conceived in 2003) has been held annually at Quail Hollow Golf Club in Charlotte, but Quail’s 2017 position as host of the PGA Championship necessitated a one-year transplant. Given that Quail Hollow President Johnny Harris is a member at Eagle Point and that Long, now the Eagle Point president, has been the guiding force in the resurrection of Greensboro’s spot on the PGA Tour the last decade in the form of the Wyndham Championship, there were plenty of synergies to do a one-off at Eagle Point. “We thought it was a good opportunity to showcase the golf course, and we want to be a good citizen with Wilmington,” says Ellison, one of the four founding members of the club. “We thought this was a way to be a good citizen and help the economy. We like being a great private golf club, but also like being a good citizen. The two don’t have to be exclusive. We like the idea the restaurants and hotels and Wilmington will be seen in a way they haven’t since the Azalea Open left all those years ago.” “Wilmington has some nice tradition with the Azalea at Cape Fear Country Club, and we thought it would be fun to kind of link back to that,” says club General Manager and Director of Golf Billy Anderson. “They looked at some other sites around the country for one year, but Johnny Harris and Bobby Long were afraid if it left the state, it would never come back.” The Azalea Open was held at Cape Fear from 1949-72 as part of the annual Azalea Festival, and now the Wells Fargo at Eagle Point will be one peg in a considerable schedule of big-time golf in North Carolina this year. In addition to the Wells Fargo in Wilmington May 4-7, the PGA in Charlotte August 10-13 and the Wyndham in Greensboro August 17-20, Pinehurst gets in on the action with the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball on the No. 2 course May 27-31. “Who would have thought a major would be coming to North Carolina and be somewhere other than Pinehurst?” Fazio muses, referencing the Quail Hollow layout on which he’s done considerable redesign work over two decades. “It’s more proof of the quality of golf in this state. You

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could take the 18 courses we’ve done in North Carolina, and that’s a pretty good career.” Fazio was approached in the mid-1900s by Armfield, a Greensboro businessman who owned a beach house on Figure Eight Island and thought the Wilmington area was ripe for a unique publicprivate golf facility — a private course here, a public layout next door, common maintenance staff, equipment and infrastructure, and perhaps homes mixed in as well. They looked at a variety of sites and never found anything that worked. Eventually Fazio told Armfield he knew of a site near Porter’s Neck, which he designed in the early 1990s, that might be for sale. But it was big enough for one golf course only — no real estate. “On that piece of property, you could only have golf,” Fazio says. “What they wanted was a purist golf environment, no compromises.”

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more money than sense. We did not have a clue what we were doing, and all of a sudden you’re into it pretty heavily and can’t let it fail.” Fazio built a half-dozen lakes and a couple of streams that run through the course, and the property is dotted with a few massive, draping oak trees so prevalent on the coast. He then planted hundreds of pine trees that started at 6 to 10 feet and are now 35 feet. Fazio and his team moved 2 million cubic yards of dirt, and the highest point in New Hanover County at 52 feet elevation is the 18th tee. “We took the highs and made them higher and the lows made them lower; that’s why it feels like it’s fairly rolling,” Fazio says. “Construction capabilities what they are today, you cannot tell where we moved earth and did not move it.” Like most Fazio courses, Eagle Point is gorgeous to the eye and not too difficult from the forward tees. The farther back you go, the more inaccessible pins become and the tougher the angles. The three par-4s in the finishing stretch measure at least 430 yards — and two play uphill into the greens — the par-3 15th is 222 yards, and the home hole is a par 5 at nearly 600 yards with a lake to the right. “The first three holes are a nice way to start a round of golf. Then as you get further into it, the volume keeps going up,” says John Townsend, who joined in 2000. “No. 4 is a difficult par-5, and six a difficult par-5, seven a gorgeous hole but a little bit of a breather. You step on the eighth tee, you’d better strap on your seat belt. If you don’t get it the first seven holes, it’s tough to shoot a good score. The closing stretch from 14 home is about the best five finishing holes in golf.” Adds Long, “Three times I’ve been 2-under going to 14 and not broken 80.” Long, Anderson and the Wells Fargo staff have worked with Marsh Benson, the recently retired senior director of golf course and grounds at Augusta National, on a number of aesthetic tweaks to the course over the last year. Benson made one key suggestion of moving the originally planned entrance to the tournament from the north side of the property to the eastern edge, where spectators will access the course through the par 3-course. “The sight views are stunning. Marsh is truly an artist,” Long says. “He’s enhanced what we had here. I think the golfers and the spectators who’ve heard of Eagle Point and never actually been will be glad they came.” And that is a vision that only Tom Fazio could see on a blustery winter day two decades ago. PS Chapel Hill-based golf writer Lee Pace, who appears monthly in PineStraw, wrote about the Azalea Open for Salt in the spring of 2014.

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Longleaf

Majesty The roots of a massive ecosystem

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or those who understand the longleaf pine, lose sleep over its well-being and know of its former ubiquity in the southeastern United States, there is a yearning to have witnessed the old landscape vastly different from today. “Guys fantasize about a lot of things,” says Jesse Wimberley, outreach coordinator for the nonprofit Sandhills Area Land Trust, “but you’re talking to a guy who literally fantasizes about wanting to have seen that forest. I think we missed out on one of the greatest things that this country ever had — that endless longleaf forest that went on for miles and miles and miles.” An Aberdeen native, 1976 Pinecrest High School graduate and fourth-generation longleaf farmer, Wimberley calls the 92 million acres of longleaf that once existed from Virginia south to Florida and west to Texas “the greatest ecosystem that ever existed in the United States.” It is hard to argue with him, especially in the Sandhills, where the species is the area’s long-needled fingerprint, the remnant that offers an inkling of what stood centuries earlier. “They talked about being able to ride for days and days and never getting out of the piney woods,” says Robert Abernathy, president of the Longleaf Alliance, an education and advocacy organization started in 1995. “You can get a taste of that in Weymouth Woods and on the Walthour-Moss property. You can get out in the middle of it, and if you don’t listen to the traffic, you can get an idea of what the forest looked like 200 years ago.” There are accounts of what that experience would have been like, from William Bartram’s writings near the end of the 18th century to Basil Hall’s book Travels in North America, in the Years 1827 and 28. “For five hundred miles, at the least, we travelled, in different parts of the South, over a country of this description, almost every where consisting of sand, feebly held together by a short wiry grass, shaded by

the endless forest,” Hall, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, wrote. “I don’t know exactly what was the cause, but it was a long time before I got quite tired of the scenery of these pine barrens. There was something, I thought, very graceful in the millions upon millions of tall and slender columns, growing up in solitude, not crowded upon one another, but gradually appearing to come closer and closer, till they formed a compact mass, beyond which nothing was to be seen.” Traveling out through longleaf from Raleigh in 1853, a correspondent for The New York Times described “a soft winter’s day, when the evergreens filled the air with a balsamic odor, and the green light came quivering through them, and the foot fell silently upon the elastic carpet that had spread, deluding one with all the feelings of Spring.” As John Patrick and James Walker Tufts arrived at the tail end of the 19th

century in what became Southern Pines and Pinehurst, amid the detritus of a landscape savaged for timber and turpentine, it was the lung-clearing, life-affirming air among the remaining longleaf that gave the founders a reason to settle. On the early laps of the 21st century, as hastening development intrudes even on second-growth Sandhills longleaf, claiming them for shopping centers and tract homes, their scent and sight become something to savor ever more. Even what you hear, standing among longleaf “through which the wind roves with a sound no poet can capture,” as Hamlet native Tom Wicker wrote in 1975. Given that only 4.7 million acres of longleaf pine forests stand today, 5 percent of its original geographic range — which was roughly the size of California — it would at first glance seem there isn’t much to cheer about. But things have gotten better since 1995 when a Journal of Forestry article titled “Requiem or Renaissance?” noted losses had reduced remaining longleaf forests to fewer than 3 million acres, a far more dramatic shrinkage than that suffered by the Amazon rainforest. “It is progress, especially since we stopped the decline of the system itself,” says Dan Ryan of The Nature Conservancy, a longleaf specialist based in North Carolina. “It was on a horrific trajectory for a couple of hundred years. The fact that it’s actually increasing is phenomenal. But the ability to increase acreage is extremely resource-intensive because essentially there has to be protection over the land, and the habitat of the land needs to be managed for the longleaf pine. A lot of money is involved in turning that number around.” When conservationists talk about restoring Pinus palustris, they are referring to much more than saving a small stand of the Sandhills’ signature tree, say, in the median of Midland Road — not that they wouldn’t want to do that, too. Naturalist John Muir wrote of his 1868 journey through the Southern piney woods that he “sauntered in delightful freedom.” Muir’s experience was possible because of the essential character of a longleaf ecosystem, in which mature trees 70 to 120 feet tall (height primarily depends on the quality of the soil) tend to be void of low-hanging branches. The open canopy allows sunlight to reach the sandy forest floor, which in its natural state, thanks to periodic fire, is alive with grasses, wildflowers and wildlife. “I like to tell people it’s the opposite of the rainforest,” says Nancy Williamson, park ranger at Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve. “In the rainforest, it’s so dark on the forest floor there isn’t a lot of diversity on the floor. It’s the different kinds of trees and the things that are going on in them. With longleaf, the diversity is in the open understory.” Abernathy adds, “If you have the right plants, you have the animals, a whole suite of species.” With the red-cockaded woodpecker — an endangered species that uses the trunk of a living longleaf for a nesting habitat — at home high above, the unique understory can be a haven for a host of other birds and mammals (approximately 30 species of each, including quail and fox squirrels) characteristic to a longleaf ecosystem. Beyond the birds and mammals is a diverse population, particularly in the Sandhills, of reptiles and amphibians. Abernathy cites as one of his favorites the legless glass lizard, which evades predators by dropping off part of its tail. “All these really cool animals most people don’t know about live in the longleaf ecosystem,” Abernathy says.

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he many plants include wire grass, morning glory, blackberry, pawpaw, low-bush blueberry, orange-fringed orchids, dwarf iris, golden aster and bird’s foot violet. Writing in 1791, Bartram described “a forest of the great long-leaved pine, the earth covered with grass, interspersed with an infinite variety of herbaceous plants . . . ” Generations of Americans grew up hearing from Smokey Bear about the dangers of forest fires. But well before the popular mascot was created in 1944, longleaf environments — and the living creatures and vegetation within that depend on fire to survive — were victims of this philosophy as surely as they were of the ax and the turpentine box. “A lot of the fear of burning came out of the Northeast, where there were primarily hardwoods, which have a thinner bark than pines do,” Abernathy says. “They came and saw Southerners burning their trees and said, ‘Are you crazy?’” As Helen G. Huttenhauer details in the history of her hometown, Young Southern Pines, James Boyd’s longleaf-rich property suffered a terrible fire after being misguided by federal forest officials to clear thin strips on his land for fire defense rather than regularly singeing the forest with prescribed burns that locals knew to be the correct approach. “Woods are going to burn,” Wimberley says. “Either we burn them or they are going to burn on their own.” In the spring of 1909 a spark from a passing locomotive started a small brush fire that moved up Vermont Avenue to Weymouth. “The wind rose and carried sparks and the sparks fell on wire grass and started new fires,” Huttenhauer writes. “The firefighters stood transfixed. Suddenly, a vast wave of flame surged high over the tree tops and, borne by the wind, in seconds outdistanced the ground fire . . . A goodly portion of Boyd timberland lay in smoking ruins.” Another scary fire started in Pinebluff in the spring of 1963, destroying homes and 3,000 acres as it moved toward Pinehurst, its flames traveling through the forest canopy and spreading 10 miles in less than four hours, according to an Associated Press report.

Longleaf withstands routine fires well, one of the reasons it came to dominate the Southeastern landscape, primarily because of its thick and tough bark described by author Bill Finch in Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See “as layered as a Greek pastry.” Lawrence S. Earley, whose 2004 book Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest provides a definitive look at the tree’s past and present, noted its formidable barrier. “As a fire licks the bark of a tree, the temperature on the surface can rise to 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit,” Earley writes. “At a temperature of 140 degrees Fahrenheit, the cambium of a tree is killed. Thus bark can be considered the Maginot Line of a tree’s fire defenses.” Combined with an unusually strong taproot, longleaf’s fire resistance contributes to its longevity. Although far from being the longest-living tree — a Great Basin bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California is 5,066 years old, and giant sequoia have been verified at a few thousand years old — a longleaf’s lifespan can exceed more than 500 years. That’s about twice as long, for example, as live oak, pecan or American elm. The oldest recorded living longleaf, situated off Den Road on the Boyd tract in Weymouth Woods, dates to 1548, its age determined a decade ago by a UNC Greensboro graduate student, Jason Ortegren, and his geography professor, Paul Knapp, who cored it for a historical climate study. That makes it 469 years old, having come to life 59 years before the founding of Jamestown, 228 years before the Declaration of Independence, 317 years before the end of the Civil War and 431 years before the state park acquired the 105-acre Boyd tract populated by oldgrowth longleaf James Boyd saved from the jaws of commerce when he bought his estate. The ancient pine is approximately 75 feet tall and 2 feet in diameter, its bark bulging in places like the arthritic knuckles of a senior citizen. “The Boyd tract was never timbered and is mostly old-growth,” Williamson says. “A lot of the trees there are probably 400 years old. There could be older trees — we definitely have ones that are larger than the one that was measured. It may be even be a little bit older than 469 because when

longleaf start out they’re in a grass stage for a couple of years. Whatever its exact age, every time we get a storm, we get nervous. Hurricane Matthew last fall made us hold our breath a little bit.” Most of the longleaf that emerged in the 16th century were harvested long ago. The species was used for naval stores, goods for building and maintaining ships, from wood to various products made from the sap. Turpentine distillation accelerated prior to 1840, and later in the 19th century the advent of railroad lines and steam-powered sawmills led to the decimation of much of the virgin longleaf forest over a 50-year period following the Civil War. By 1955 only about one-eighth of the original longleaf forest was left. With longleaf being abandoned for faster-growing loblolly pine by many logging concerns — loblolly yields saw timber in 40 to 50 years versus 50 to 70 for longleaf — the longleaf acreage had decreased to about 4 million in 1985. There was no secret why mature longleaf — dense, strong and pest-resistant because of its high resin content and slow growth — was so desirable. “It’s impervious to just about anything,” says Bennett Rose, a retired forester in Southern Pines. “A termite would break his beak trying to get through that stuff.” Before techniques were invented to propel the modern steel industry in the second half of the 19th century, longleaf was the most valuable construction material. “Everybody in the wood business says the longleaf pine was the best wood the Lord ever made,” antique pine dealer Pat Fontenot told The New York Times in 2015. “If it wouldn’t have been for the longleaf pine tree, we wouldn’t have been able to do the Industrial Revolution.” Much of the old-growth longleaf, centuries old, went north, for buildings and bridges (including underwater support for the base of the Brooklyn Bridge, built in 1883). Reclaimed longleaf has become a hot business in recent years as architects seek to use it for a vintage look. Bill Gingerich, owner of Timber Services, Inc., in Carthage, specializes in longleaf lumber and flooring. He buys old buildings and salvages the wood and also cuts down trees on private land that have to come out for construction. Not long ago Gingerich bought big longleaf timbers that came from a building in rural North Carolina and was amazed when he studied the wood, suspecting it could 600 years old. “The growth rings on some of the beams are like pieces of paper,” he says. “It’s crazy old.” But the longleaf that he cuts down doesn’t have to be quite that old. “We’ve learned that in order for longleaf to have good heart, which is what we make our flooring out of, it needs to be at least 80 years old,” Gingerich says. “We’re still finding those type trees and even older ones. We’ve seen some that were

150, 160 years old. Heart pine that old makes a beautiful floor. But an 80-yearold tree can be just as beautiful as an old-growth one.” Longleaf advocates, who have an ambitious goal of increasing the longleaf environment to 8 million acres by 2025, spend their time educating and armtwisting as they try to increase longleaf’s presence on private property. “We’ve done a good job restoring it on public lands,” Wimberley says. “Now the effort is on restoring it on private lands. Sixty percent of the potential longleaf restoration is on private land.” That potential could have economic as well as environmental effects. “Rural eastern North Carolina has been devastated by the loss of tobacco and manufacturing,” Wimberley says. “It’s heartbreaking to see how hollowed out some of these towns are. We believe longleaf could be a game-changer that helps a landowner retain his land and see a profit from growing longleaf.” It can be a tough sell, given the slower growth of longleaf compared to loblolly and the longer time frame before timber can be harvested. The distinctive, long needles and their landscaping popularity has turned pine straw into a financial winner, with property owners getting $100 to $200 an acre annually once trees start yielding straw at about a dozen years old. Yet that proposition is not without environmental trade-offs. “Straw can be a lucrative thing in a place like the Sandhills,” says Ryan Bollinger, who works in Southern Pines for the Longleaf Alliance. “But if you rake really hard, you’re essentially doing commercial timber with longleaf pines, you’re basically creating an ecological desert under your longleaf when there is no understory. When you rake too hard for a number of years, then there is no food for the critters, and the rare plants and things get pushed out.” Bollinger likes to preach “rake, rest, burn” to landowners, urging them not to rake every year. Or, if someone has a large property, a portion of it can be used for pine straw and the rest left undisturbed other than for prescribed burns. “Landowners who are growing longleaf aren’t trying to make the most money possible on their property,” Abernathy says. “They want an income. But they want to ride their horses through that property. They want to hunt quail and deer. They want the look.” They want a version of what a “magnificent grove of stately pines” brought to William Bartram more than two centuries ago, “a pleasing effect, rousing the faculties of the mind, awakening the imagination by its sublimity, and arresting every active inquisitive idea, by the variety of the scenery and the solemn symphony of the steady Western breezes, playing incessantly, rising and falling through the thick and wavy foliage.” PS

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Longleaf Pine Celebrations

he Party for the Pine, an annual celebration for the oldest longleaf pine, will take place on Earth Day, April 22, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Festivities begin in the meadow behind the Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Avenue, Southern Pines. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sponsored by Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, Sandhills Area Land Trust, the Arts Council of Moore County, the Sunrise Theater and is funded in part by the Renewable Resources Extension Act. Haw River-based singersongwriter and guitarist Bill West will kick off the music, followed by Cousin Amy Deluxe Old Time String Band taking the stage at 11 a.m. Band members Amy McDonald, David McDonald, Steven Hedgpeth, Rob Shanana and Allen Ashdown transport the audience back in time with their Appalachian fiddle dance music. Abigail Dowd will be joined by Michael Gaffney and Jason Duff at 1:30 p.m. Gaffney, who grew up in the Sandhills, was a fixture in the Asheville music scene for over 35 years. There will also be a guided hike to the oldest tree, a falconry presentation by Hawk Manor Falconry, a birthday celebration and a live prescribed burn. The movie Siren of the Round Timber Tract, by Brady Beck and Ray Owen, will debut at 5:30 p.m. at the Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad Street, Southern Pines. Admission is free and doors open at 5 p.m. The film is a dramatic work telling the story of the Round Timber tract, the most ancient part of Weymouth Woods Preserve. The saving of this section of forest effectively launched longleaf pine conservation throughout the Southeast. The film will be preceded by guest speaker Janisse Ray, writer, activist and naturalist who

has authored six books, including her memoir, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. She was a 2015 inductee into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame. A Star Party, the fifth annual event and part of the N.C. Science Festival, takes place the evening of April 22. Bring blankets and lawn chairs and meet at the parking lot of the Weymouth Center at 555 E. Connecticut Ave. Activities, prepared by the statewide organizer, typically include stargazing, locating common constellations, a small telescope for viewing planets or the moon and kid-friendly crafts. PS

Golden Night A pop-up meal blossoms on a spring evening

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By Casey Suglia • Photographs by John Gessner

An outdoor fireplace crackles as a dozen guests mingle at the home of Jeff Kelly and Scott Harris. Tony Cross, of Reverie Cocktails, mixes a drink specifically designed for the night, the “Ágætis byrjun” — Icelandic for a good beginning. It’s a combination of Grüner Veltliner, a dry white wine from Austria, and Conniption Gin, a North Carolina-made “Navy strength” gin far more potent than your average bottle. Cold-pressed organic pineapple juice made at Nature’s Own, and smoked rosemary simple syrup, handmade by Cross himself, combine for a savory and sweet cocktail. Cross smacks the rosemary garnish to release the herb’s essence. “The cocktail is local, as always,” he says. “It’s seasonal and springlike.” The outdoor kitchen and bar of the home, located just blocks away from Broad Street in Southern Pines, serves as the perfect place for entertaining. “We host small dinner parties out here all time,” Harris says. But tonight is different. A mixture of people — some strangers, others friends for years — gather for a seasonal pop-up dinner created by Southern Whey’s Angela Sanchez and Chris Abbey, and Jen Curtis of Chef Warren’s. “This was the brainchild of Jen and me,” Sanchez says. “It was a way for us to do something outside of the box and express our creativity away from our day jobs.”

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Sanchez sets out a tray of fresh, seasonal produce and cheese from Southern Whey — some local like Paradox Farm’s Cheese Louise spread. “The dinners all have different vibes or themes,” Sanchez says. “But our meals always have a local emphasis.” As the days lengthen and nights shorten, spring is the perfect time to match people and food. New blooms, new friendships, new beginnings.

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In the kitchen, Curtis plates the meal — a mix of local ingredients with fresh flavors hinting at the start of the season. The night’s menu is North Carolina pork belly served on a bed of locally grown grits from Anson Mills. A niçoise salad with North Carolina speckled trout, pickled okra and Amanda Curtis' locally grown Heirloom Eggs. “The meal is based on the coming of spring,” Curtis says. “There’s a Southern influence. We’re all transient here. Some of us have Northern roots, but we embrace the culture. Every tradition is identifiable, especially in food.” “The meals are made so they’re easy to pass and share,” Sanchez says. “Guests are encouraged to sit wherever they want and make new friends.” “People being together and sharing food always leads to something else,” Curtis adds.

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The guests gather around the table and talk about what’s new on Netflix, the wavering weather and the changing landscape of Southern Pines, as the sun sets behind them. “The great thing about this backyard is that it feels like an oasis, but it also feels like we’re in Southern Pines,” Harris says. “It’s our own secluded space. We created our own environment here.” Christin Daubert, a librarian, has attended all of Curtis’ and Sanchez’s pop-up meals, yet is constantly surprised by the place she and her husband, Justin, have called home for three years. “I love this tiny little town,” Daubert says. “Every day I meet new people.”

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Dusk settles in and the cake — made with applesauce, rye flower, and dates with a pecan glaze — is served. Kelly and Harris’ yellow Labs, Lil’ Bit and Izzy, join the party for dessert, sneaking a bite of cake from some new friends of their own.

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Menu For A Southern Spring Night Niçoise Salad with a Southern Twist Watercress, Belgian Endive, Confit New Potatoes, Spring Radish, Pickled Red Onion, Pickled Okra, Haricot Vert, Asparagus, Heirloom Eggs Soft Boiled Eggs and Smoked Speckled Trout Citrus and Whole Grain Mustard Vinaigrette

g NC Heritage Breed Ossabaw Pork Belly Star Anise, Juniper, Fenugreek and Kombu Braised Pork Belly with Anson Mills White Corn Grits, Pork Braising Jus & Napa Cabbage,

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The chill of the spring evening sets in the air, a reminder that the warm weather is still weeks away. The night feels young. The guests stand in front of the cracking outdoor fireplace, sip wine, and chat as if they’re new old friends. “Spring is about renewal, change. We shed the past, move forward, and do that tonight with wine, conversation, and good food,” Sanchez says. PS

Citrus and Mint Melee

g Applesauce Cake Applesauce, Carolina Ground Rye Flour, Medjool Dates, Pecans with Sorghum Caramel and Marscapone Cheese whipped with Local Honey

Poor man’s stained glass comes of age By Susan McCrimmon Photographs by L aura Gingerich

re they trash recycled as art? Does your heart soar when one is spotted tucked back into some shrubbery? Does your nose wrinkle with distaste at the gaudy display? Love ’em or hate ’em, glass containers emptied of their various and sundry contents — liquid medicines, soft drinks, vinegar, beer, syrups, hard liquor — all have been transformed into an art form, the Pietà of salvage, the bottle tree. A splash of color in the corner of the garden or a note of whimsy as the garden’s focal point, there is no denying a bottle tree’s impact. There are no formulas, no blueprints, no set rules governing construction or design. Bottle trees are limited only by one’s imagination, creativity or pocketbook. The “poor man’s stained glass” can be constructed from a variety of materials. The most current manifestation can be purchased and installed in short order. Metal “trees” made from rebar or similar material are placed in the desired location and the chosen bottles are inverted onto the tree “limbs” to complete the look. Easy peasy. The more traditional bottle trees take a little more effort. If one is lucky, a dead cedar tree or crape myrtle, in the right location, works great. Cedars and crape myrtles are traditionally associated with bottle trees, although anything with good limb structure will work. Just trim the limbs as needed and place saved bottles as your artistic muse dictates. Otherwise, a strategically positioned post or tree trunk may be your best option. Some people drill holes and pound wooden dowels at an angle into the post or tree trunk to support the bottles. I prefer to hammer in 20-penny nails. Relatively inexpensive, they can be easily moved for creative effect. To finish, simply add the collected bottles. They can be a wide variety of shapes and colors or just one specific type or one specific color. The possibilities are endless.

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ottle trees have spiritual, cultural and aesthetic significance in history and garden design. Glass was first discovered in northern Africa about 3500 B.C. Glass bottles appeared in Egypt and Mesopotamia around 1600 B.C. It’s possible that the Arabic folk tale of the genie in Aladdin’s lamp is the first instance of bottles being used to capture spirits, pre-dating the common conception of bottle trees originating in the Congo during the ninth century where empty glass bottles were placed around entryways in order to ensnare evil spirits which then would be destroyed by sunshine. Wind blowing across the bottles was the sound of spirits trapped inside moaning to be released. At the same time in the Congo, tree altars were erected to honor dead relatives. Plates attached to trees or sticks would be placed around the gravesite as a memorial. The plates were thought to resemble mushrooms. The Congolese word for mushroom was similar to their word for love. See a mushroom . . . think of love. Earth from the gravesite would be placed in bottles and they would be hung by the neck from low limbs of a tree. These bottles would emit a tinkling sound in a breeze, possibly the beginning of wind chimes. The two concepts began to merge into the bottle tree. The color of choice for bottle trees has predominantly been cobalt blue. Cobalt blue is universally accepted for relaxing and calming the spirit and has historically been associated with spirits, ghosts and haints. Blue bottles have been found on shipwrecks from the Minoans dating as far back as 2700 B.C. The most widespread means of adding blue color to glass was using the element cobalt, thus the name. The term cobalt is Greek in origin by way of medieval Germany. When smelting silver, the cobalt metal embedded in the silver ore could interfere with the process and cause respiratory issues. As early as 1335, “Kobald” referred to gnomes or spirits afflicting the silver miners. The association stuck. The word for troublesome spirits became associated with the main way of getting blue color into glass that was then used in bottle trees to capture evil spirits. Cobalt blue was the preferred color of Voodoo tradition. This color of the sky and water was a crossroads of heaven and Earth, the living and the dead, and creative and destructive spirits. The esteemed Southern writer Eudora Welty believed that place is what makes a story appear real, because with place come associations, customs and feelings. In the short story “Livvie” she writes: “Out front was a clean dirt yard with every vestige of grass patiently uprooted and the ground scarred in deep whorls from the strike of Livvie’s broom. Rose bushes with tiny bloodred roses blooming every month grew in threes on either side of the steps. On one side was a peach tree, on the other a pomegranate. “Then coming around up the path from the deep cut of the Natchez Trace below was a line of bare crape-myrtle trees with every branch of them ending in a colored bottle, green or blue. “There was no word that fell from Solomon’s lips to say what they were for, but Livvie knew that there could be a spell put in trees, and she was familiar from the time she was born with the way bottle trees kept evil spirits from coming into the house — by luring them inside the colored bottles, where they cannot get out again. “Solomon had made the bottle trees with his own hands over the nine years, in labor amounting to about a tree a year, and without a sign that he had any uneasiness in his heart, for he took as much pride in his precautions against spirits coming in the house as he took in the house, and sometimes in the sun the bottle trees looked prettier than the house did . . . ” My first two bottle trees came about due to my mother’s illness. She was a died-in-the-wool Southern iced tea drinker. Every day. If there wasn’t a pitcher of tea already in the fridge, it was being brewed on the stove. One of the manifestations of her illness was that it altered my mother’s drinking habits. She no longer wanted tea but began to drink Coke. Not any Coke, mind you, but it had to be the ones in the 6-ounce bottles. We bought them by the case. I began to store the small greenish bottles with the distinctive red labels. When I thought enough had been gathered, I dug a hole near a large camellia bush, beat in the nails, and erected this rather odd memorial to my mother. During the many months of her illness, almost every evening was passed with friends and family murmuring words of support while sitting on Mom’s screened-in porch. At times, alcohol was the crutch used to help numb the pain. My second bottle tree was born as a memorial to those evenings. The current count is six . . . and growing. Regardless of your color choice, be it blue, green, brown, clear, red or any array of color choices for your garden addition, remember its long tradition of keeping bad things away. No one can feel bad from something that brings one such joy. PS Susan McCrimmon is a noted science geek, Suduko and crossword addict and is rumored to be besotted by words...and bottle trees.

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f only the walls could talk. We can. We walls surround a house now surrounded by others that once stood alone in an infant village with muddy roads and big dreams — a village which, as founder James Tufts wrote, “would attract only a refined and intelligent class of people.” Our double-decker wraparound porches were meant for sitting and watching . . . very little, at the start. Today, the world strolls by. Music and aromas fill the air. Porch chairs are occupied by progeny hungry for history. We walls, some plaster, formerly white, now sport a rainbow of blues: blue and grey and grey-blue and teal and almost turquoise; some of us old walls remain covered in grasscloth, also painted blue. No amount of scraping, stain or polish disguises our heart pine floorboards — although carpets and rugs of all sizes, shapes, colors and provenance draw attention to their antiquity with this exception: Flooring in the back hallway comes from a longleaf pine felled recently by lightning on Pinehurst No. 2. Our exterior shingles, once white also, are a misty gray reminiscent of haze over the Mystic River, which flowed near the Tufts residence in Massachusetts. Nobody knows why the door blazes burnt orange.

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James Tufts built our Mystic in 1899 for his son Leonard who, after his father’s death in 1902, moved his growing family to Pinehurst and took over resort operations. What a mansion it was — 14 rooms, vaguely Queen Anne, designed by the same Boston architects as the Carolina Hotel. The Pinehurst Outlook described Mystic as “having steam heat, throughout with electric lights, a large steel range and cold storage for preservation of meats and vegetables.” The second floor bathroom was “fitted with the latest improvements such as sanitary plumbing, a porcelain bath tub and one set of bowls.” Also: Antique oak furniture and “rich Brussels carpets.” The Outlook further commented: “Nothing has been left to be desired. Mystic Cottage has a home-like appearance notably lacking in homes located in other winter resorts.” Palm Beach, perhaps? After Tufts moved across the street to Mistletoe Cottage in 1913, we were occupied by, among others, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hunter, of Berkeley, California. Mr. Hunter, described as a cranky socialist and writer, took issue with Tufts over heating bills. “You charge the extreme limit for every service you render to the people of Pinehurst. You have driven away a large number of people . . .” But not the lady ghost, rumored to be a lovelorn poet. Nevertheless, the resort continued to grow, to prosper, and we continued to adapt. Our walls were reconfigured into apartments, offices, a bank branch and finally, Brenda Lyne’s home décor business. Lyne installed an elevator which, though convenient, seems anachronistic to us. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 2017

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Then, in 2013, not without contention, Mystic was rezoned residential and sold to Richard Moore, CEO of First Bank, and his wife, Noel — definitely “intelligent and of refined tastes.” The walls fall silent as another voice emerges. “I fell in love the first time I went through (Mystic Cottage) when it was still a store,” Moore says. First Bank was moving headquarters from Troy to Southern Pines. He needed a place to stay during the week. He was also a Wake Forest history major, who had rebirthed Ashburn Hall, a 19th century meeting venue near Oxford.

ut, the ever-practical walls query, why live on a busy village corner instead of a quiet cul-de-sac? “I wouldn’t have picked downtown except for this house. I was happy to put money into a landmark that would be connected to First Bank,” Moore answers. Banker-turned-rehabilitator Moore accomplished the redesign sans architect, quite the feat considering the scope of his plans. “There’s practically nothing original on the inside — two fireplaces, one door,” also a darling wood-paneled dormered nest on the third floor, presumably the maid’s quarters. “I tried to be creative in where we put the bathrooms,” he adds, recalling the Tuftses and their three children had one and the Moores desired six. Or is it seven? No matter. Their vanities — repurposed antique bureaus — make the loos as elegant as the parlors.

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hat Moore accomplished was a maze of sitting areas (“so everyone could have their own space”), bedrooms (none vast), recreation (billiard room, TV nooks) and a kitchen, which, in an era of culinary ballrooms, illustrates restraint. “There was no kitchen; I just took a guess.” From the coffered ceiling — which Moore devised as a “strong statement” — to the painted cabinets and breakfast room with round table and pub chairs, Moore has created a contemporary kitchen shadowing the bygone. Just imagine, in a renovation costing many zeros, no Sub-Zero! “I went with Sears,” Moore says. The walls’ primary purpose, aside from loquaciousness and connecting miles of moldings, is backdropping an art collection that would wow even persnickety James Tufts. Furnishings, none heirlooms, blend in; upholstery has been kept neutral lest patterns detract from paintings. Art of multiple spectra is the Moores’ passion, if not trademark. Above the living room fireplace hangs, of all things, an original Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol. “When my wife walked through the house she said, ‘You need Marilyn there.’ So she bought one for me.” Even walls that stare at nothing else have trouble describing gilt-framed English landscapes by Duncan Cameron and American masterpieces by Impressionist/Expressionist Jane Peterson, also Dale Nichols, in the style of Grant Wood. Yes, that is pop artist Roy Lichtenstein, also, and a Toulouse-Lautrec print, but the enlarged photos were taken by the Moores’ son, William, when he worked for the United Nations. Times, they have a-changed. Our chatty walls must learn a new script. Or amend the old one. Because once again, Mystic Cottage hosts a family of substance and taste, who appreciate both history and now-time. Other cottages may crowd its perimeter, but the interior still boasts “the latest improvements,” more likely zoned AC and Wi-Fi than electric lights. Of an evening, Richard Moore watches the world James Tufts sought to attract go by from a porch where Leonard’s children played on rainy days. Whither the ghost? She hasn’t been seen for years. Just as well. Marilyn might scare her to death. PS

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Southern Pines Home & Garden Tour Mystic Cottage and five other premier area homes will be on display at the 69th annual Southern Pines Home & Garden Tour, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 8. For the first time, the tour will take place on Saturday. Also included, the public gardens at Weymouth, Campbell House and Sandhills Horticultural Gardens. An exhibit of original watercolor landscapes will be on display at Campbell House. Tickets are $20 until April 5 at Campbell House and The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, and The Womanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Exchange in Pinehurst, or at www. southernpinesgardenclub.com. Day of tour, tickets may be purchased for $25 at the houses. Profits from garden club events fund scholarships and beautification projects.

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Every spring is the only spring — a perpetual astonishment. —Ellis Peters By Ash Alder

April Love Song If ever there were a more delicious poem than April, perhaps only the bluebird would know it. Or the nectardrunk duskywing. Or the glossy black rat snake, so entranced by the color of the robin’s egg that he swallows the pastel vessel whole. April is here. Sow the beets and the broccoli. Plant the beans and the cukes. Harvest the tender green shoots of asparagus. Welcome the rain. Let it kiss you, mused Harlem jazz poet Langston Hughes. Listen to its “sleep-song” on your roof at night. Earth Day falls on Saturday, April 22. This month, gift the Earth a poem of love. Plant a tree in the garden. Buy local produce. Organize a community cleanup. And when the Earth sings, listen.

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk. The rain makes running pools in the gutter. The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night — And I love the rain. — Langston Hughes, “April Rain Song”

Must-See Moon According to National Geographic, one of the “Top 7 Must-See Sky Events for 2017” will occur on Monday, April 10. On this dreamy spring night, just moments after sunset, Jupiter and the near-full Pink Moon will rise together in the eastern sky like forbidden lovers. The Old Farmer’s Almanac speculates that a full moon in April brings frost. While it’s not actually pink, Algonquin tribes likely named this month’s full moon for the wild ground phlox that blooms with the arrival of spring. Also called the Sprouting Grass, Fish and Egg Moon, if the full Pink Moon rises pale on April 11, bet your folklore-loving bippy it will rain.

A Few Delicious Words Henry James once mused that “summer afternoon” were perhaps the “two most beautiful words in the English language.” “Easter brunch” make a lovely pair. Ditto “asparagus frittata.” So if you find yourself playing host on Sunday, April 16, and life gives you fresh asparagus spears, steam until tender then add them to your favorite egg dish.

The Medicine Chest Want to try your hand at an herb garden? Start now. Since most herbs thrive in full or filtered sun, carve out a cozy outdoor space with optimal light and drainage. Then, allow yourself to dream. Conjure up visions of lush beds with tidy labels, dark opal basil tangled with pineapple sage, aromatic bundles of herbs hanging upside down inside the coolest rooms of the house. Whether it’s medieval apothecary or fresh pesto that you’re craving, April is here to help make manifest your fantasy. Here’s what to plant this month. Cue “Scarborough Fair” for reference. Parsley – Rich in cancer-fighting compounds. Sage – Digestive aid. Rosemary – Improves memory. Thyme – Antiseptic and anti-fungal properties.

April Flowers Daisy and sweet pea are this month’s birth flowers. The first is a symbol of innocence and purity, while the latter represents blissful pleasure. If you wish to brighten someone’s day, a simple bouquet of fern and daisies will speak volumes. A gift of fragrant sweet pea, on the other hand, is best reserved for a sweet goodbye. PS

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Although conscientious effort is made to provide accurate and up to date information, all events are subject to change and errors can occur! Please call to verify times, costs, status and location before planning or attending an event. To add an event, email us at pinestraw. calendar@gmail.com MASTER GARDENER HELP LINE. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. weekdays, March 1 through Oct.31. If you have a question or need help with plant choices, call the Moore County Cooperative Extension Office. Walk-in consultations are available during the same hours at the Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. If possible, bring a sample or photos. Info: (910) 947-3188.

Continuing through May STANDARDBRED TRAINING SEASON. 7 a.m.–1 p.m. “The Winter Home of Champions” welcomes the standardbred horses back for another season of harness-race training on Pinehurst’s historic track. Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0816.

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NATURE TALES. 10–11 a.m. and 11 a.m.–12 p.m. “Spring Flowers.” Preschool storytime and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 (ext 20) or capefearbg.org to register online. WEST END FREE FEST. 12–5 p.m. Celebrate the arrival of spring with rockin’ folk and bluegrass bands Hardworker, Momma Molasses, and Hammer-N-Song. There will be food, games, face painting and activities for the little ones. Free to the public. On the grounds of West End United Methodist Church, 4015 NC Hwy 73, West End. Info: (910) 673-1371.

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HABITAT SPRING GALA 2017. 6 p.m. The main annual fundraising event of the Sandhills Habitat for Humanity affiliate. On average, more than 200 people attend and enjoy dinner, live and silent auctions, music and more. Tickets: $150. Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. (910) 295-1934.

TEMPLE THEATRE. 7 p.m. Thursdays, 2 & 8 p.m. Fridays, 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. The Andrews Brothers, a play about three earnest stagehands who fill in for the Andrews Sisters at a WW II USO performance, is filled to the brim with songs made famous by the Andrews Sisters, including “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Slow Boat to China,” “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” and “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive.” Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Info and tickets: www. templeshows.com (919) 774-4155.

NC SYMPHONY. 8 p.m. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. Hear the stormy and triumphant symphony that Tchaikovsky called “the best I have ever written.” The concert also features a return engagement with NC native, violinist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, as the Symphony plays two works prepared for the upcoming SHIFT Festival in Washington, D.C. Tickets: $18–49. Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (877) 627-6724

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NINTH ANNUAL PEEPS DIORAMA CONTEST. The contest, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, invites participants to submit a diorama depicting their favorite book with Peeps as the main characters. Digital videos are also accepted. Judging will be May 1. Information on entering the contest can be found at the Library’s website, www.sppl.net. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

ABILITIES TENNIS PROGRAM. 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Pinehurst Parks and Rec has partnered with the Abilities Tennis Association of North Carolina to provide free tennis clinics to athletes with intellectual disabilities. These clinics are for all levels of play, for those just learning the basics or seasoned athletes with Special Olympics. All participants must pre-register with the Pinehurst Parks and Rec. Parents/ Caregivers are asked to stay for participants under 18. This program will be offered again in May (May 6, 13 and 20).

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Sunday, April 2 MILL PRONG HOUSE ANNUAL MEETING AND OPEN HOUSE. 2–5 p.m. Dr. Douglas F. Kelly, renowned scholar, theologian, genealogist and author, will be the honored speaker for the Mill Prong Preservation, Inc., Annual Meeting and Open House. At 3 p.m., he will present a cultural and architectural review entitled “Homes and Churches of the 18th and 19th Century Carolina Scottish Settlers.” Refreshments and tours of the house available. Mill Prong House, 3062 Edinburg Road, Raeford, Info: Call (910) 315-5385 or (910) 466-9008. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Build a Beaver.” Join a ranger to learn about the special adaptations of North America’s largest rodent and resident of Weymouth Woods. A volunteer will be equipped with improvised adaptations to prepare them for life with the beavers. An optional 1.5-mile hike to local beaver habitat will follow the program. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. WEYMOUTH CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES. 3 p.m. Piedmont Opera Ensemble. Principal Conductor James Albritten, tenor, will host the afternoon of opera with other fine singers, and accompanied by Allison Gagnon, piano. Reception following. Cost: $10/ Weymouth Members; $20/Non-members. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. EXPLORATIONS SERIES FOR ADULTS. 3–4 p.m. “Protect Yourself from Identity Theft and Scams.” Caroline Farmer, deputy director of the Victims and Citizens Section of the NC Department of Justice will discuss tactics thieves use to steal money, online, at home, and by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Monday, April 3 HOMESCHOOL IN THE GARDEN. 2–3:30 p.m. “Reptiles

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BOOK LOVERS UNITE. 3:30 p.m. “North Carolina Authors.” Bring your list of favorites and add to it as others describe theirs. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or (910) 295-6022. MEET THE AUTHOR. 4 p.m. Stuart Gibbs, New York Times best-selling author of Spy School and Space Case will visit The Country Bookshop to introduce Panda-Monium, the newest book in his endangered species mystery series. For ages 8 to 12. This event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Monday, April 3 and 5 ART CLASS. 1–4 p.m. “Intro to Still Life,” with Yvonne Sovereign. Class will cover still life composition, drawing and transfer to canvas, procedure to complete a still life, and painting simple objects. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Tuesday, April 4 NATURE TALES. 10–11 a.m. and 11 a.m.–12 p.m. “Spring Flowers.” Preschool storytime and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 (ext 20) or capefearbg.org to register online. PLAY ESCAPE. 10 a.m. Character Storytime. For all ages. Free with admission. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc.com. ACTION AT THE OUTPOST. 6 p.m. “How to take great photos with your phone.” Expert photographer Chris Auman, from Beyond the Shutter gallery in Pinehurst, will teach you how to use your mobile device to create the best pictures possible. Cost: $15. All proceeds support Given Tufts programs. Seats are limited so please register at lisa@ giventufts.com. The Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-6022.

Tuesday, April 4 and 11 ART CLASS (PAINTING) 10 a.m.–3 p.m. “Painting Skies, Drybrush Method,” with Frank Pierce. Students will learn to paint on a toned ground using dry brush to achieve soft clouds and luminance. Cost: $90. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Thursday, April 6 SENIORS DAY OUT. 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Mayberry Tour. Travel to Andy Griffith’s hometown of Mt. Airy. Go back to a simpler time as you stroll the streets and visit sites of Mayberry like the court house replica, Foley’s Market, Floyd’s Barbershop,

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the Snappy Lunch and more. Cost: $25/residents; $50 nonresidents. Meet at Assembly Hall Lobby, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. MEET THE AUTHOR. 4 p.m. Andy Griffiths, New York Times best-selling author of the 13 Story Treehouse graphic novel series, will bring his own version of wackiness to The Country Bookshop when he presents his new book, 65 Story Treehouse. This event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St. Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. ART CLASS (DRAWING). 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. “Figure Drawing with a Live Model,” taught by Linda Bruening, will help students learn to recognize body proportions and the relationships between different body positions. For both beginners and more advanced students. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. MEN OF THE EXCHANGE. 5:30 p.m. “Women in Combat — Cultural Support Teams,” by Paul Lehto. Men volunteers will don aprons and do the serving of wine and cheese at this event. Tickets: $25. The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, The historical 1810 log cabin at 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info and ticket reservations: (910) 295-4677 or www.sandhillswe.org. FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES. 5:30–6:30 p.m. “If These Walls Could Talk.” Presented by Arts Council of Moore County and Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Denise Drum Baker, an artist and recently retired professor of visual arts at Sandhills Community College Mural Painting, will discuss murals, from the cave paintings of Lescaux to the street murals of today, and how they emancipate, show freedom of expression, social activism, and propaganda. Cost: $11/members; $16/nonmembers. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

Thursday, April 6 — 23 CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE. Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless classic comes to life like never before in this fast-paced comedy about everyone’s favorite detective solving his most notorious case. Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info and tickets: (910) 323-4233 or www.cfrt.org.

Friday, April 7 FIREFEST. 1–10 p.m. This two-day festival celebrates the role of fire in the creation of art. Visitors can enjoy workshops, glassblowing and pottery demonstrations, artist talks, live music, an iron pour, large sculpture firing, and more. STARworks Center for Creative Enterprise, 100 Russell Drive, Star. Info: (910) 428-9001. MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Paul Dunn will read from and discuss his new book, Great Donald Ross Golf Courses Everyone Can Play. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St. Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

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FSO SECOND ANNUAL JAZZ & WINE FEST. 6–10 p.m. Rain or Shine Event. The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra will be hosting Jazz bands and a cappella groups from UNC Greensboro, UNC-Chapel Hill, UNC Pembroke, Methodist University, and Fayetteville State University. General admission includes various beer and wine samples, as well as a souvenir glass. Food trucks will be on site. A VIP Package includes separate beer and wine service, and appetizers from local restaurant(s) in a reserved seating section of the park. Tickets: Call for prices. Location: Festival Park, 335 Ray Ave., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 433-4690 or www.fayettevillesymphony.org/events. FAIR BARN 100TH BIRTHDAY BASH. 6–11 p.m. Dinner, dancing, and birthday cake. The band is Spare Change and they cover everything from Darius Rucker to Black Eyed Peas. Tickets:$40 each or 2 for $70. Reserved Tables for 8 to 10 people are available. There will be a Cash Bar. Pinehurst Harness Track and Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road S, Pinehurst. Tickets and info: Purchase tickets at Village Hall (395 Magnolia Road) or through Danaka Bunch, Fair Barn coordinator, at (910) 295-0166 or visit www.thefairbarn.org. THE HEART OF CAROLINA JAZZ ORCHESTRA. 8 p.m. Ritmo Caliente, A Tribute to Latin Jazz Masters, featuring Chico O’Farrill’s Afro Cuban Jazz Suite, with guest artists Billy Marrero, Bonguero; Ramon Ortiz, Tamborilero; and Pako Santiago, Conguero. Tickets: $15. Lee County Community Arts Center, 507 N. Steele St., Sanford. Info: www.carolinajazz.com.

Friday, April 7 — 27 GALLERY EXHIBIT. “Places, People and Things.” Opening Reception, Friday, April 7, 5–7 p.m. Peggy Andersen Exhibit. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Saturday, April 8 WEYMOUTH DIRT GARDENERS PLANT SALE. 9 a.m. Perennials, shrubs, trees, groundcovers, flowers and herbs, many propagated at Weymouth Center, for sale. White elephant garden accessories as well. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. SANDHILLS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY PLANT SALE. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. The spring plant sale offers perennials, woody plants and bulbs Steed Hall (new horticultural building) area of Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For information or to pre-order call (910) 695-3882. SOUTHERN PINES GARDEN CLUB HOME & GARDEN TOUR. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. The 69th annual tour features elegant homes enhanced by creative flower arrangements in Southern Pines, Pinehurst and horse country for a true taste of the Sandhills. Tickets: $20. Tour begins at The Campbell House, 482 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 295-4617. SATURDAY KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. NC Science Festival. Explore science by visiting different stations set up in the Library — a Chaos Tower for explorative building, arts and crafts stations for creative designing, and other activities to bring science and STEM alive for visitors. Special emphasis will be on STEM books and what local resources are available in the community for learning more about science. Come join the

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ca l e n da r fun! Given Memorial Library. 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022 or www.giventufts.com. VILLAGE OF PINEHURST EASTER EGG HUNTS. Beginning 10 a.m. Children 9 and younger are invited to eggsplore Cannon Park in search of candy-filled eggs. Children must participate in their specific age group, so families should arrive at least 10 minutes before the child’s start time: 10:30 a.m. for ages 2 & under (Soccer Field); 10:45 a.m. for ages 3 to 4 (Field #1); 11:00 a.m. for ages 5 to 6 (Field #2); 11:15 a.m. for ages 7 to 9 (Walking Trail). At 11:30 a.m., visit with the Easter Bunny and enjoy food, and games. 90 Woods Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-2817 or vopnc.org. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 2p.m. “NC Parks Year of the Spider: Fun Facts!” Attend a short presentation to learn facts about spiders and why they are not necessarily as scary as they seem, followed by making a fun spider craft! Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. THE CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC. 3 and 7:30 p.m. “Broadway Cabaret, featuring two Broadway stars.” Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0287 or carolinaphil.org. RALEIGH RINGERS HANDBELL ENSEMBLE. 7 p.m. Internationally acclaimed, this is one of America’s premier handbell groups. Tickets: $18/adults; $10/children 12 and under. Group rates available. Available at the door. The Village Chapel, 10 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6003 or Stephen@tvcpinehurst.com. SINGER SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND. 7:30–9:30 p.m. In Nashville style, songwriters Becca Rae, Ethan Hanson, Autumn Nicholas and Jeremy Thorne will take turns playing a song, explaining the meaning behind the melodies and the emotions that were carefully crafted into passionate lyrics. Tickets: $14 General Admission, $18 VIP. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com.

Sunday, April 9 SPRING MATINEE RACES. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Gates open, 1 p.m. Opening ceremonies, 1:30 races begin. Annual harness races with trotters and pacers, now in their 68th year. Bleacher seating will be available for general admission, and food and beverages will be available for purchase. Admission is $5 per person (12 & under are free). Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. (910) 281-4608. BOLSHOI BALLET SERIES. 12:55 p.m. A Hero of Our Time, an innovative ballet drawn from Mikhail Lermontov’s novel about the adventures of a complex, Byronic antihero and military officer during his travels through the Caucasus in the 19th Century. From Moscow live via satellite. Cost: $25. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928501 or sunrisetheater.com. EGG HUNT. 2–3:30 p.m. Crafts, face painting, and more. The Easter Bunny will make an appearance and pose for pictures (bring your own camera). Children must be accompanied by an adult. For ages 10 and under. Campbell House Playground, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376 or mooreart.org. SUNDAY KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. Come to the Library for a free showing of a film about a teen girl and a demigod who embark on an adventure as they search for a legendary island. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE LECTURE. 3 p.m. “The Law of Harmony and Christian Science Healing.” Everyone is welcome to attend this lecture by Josh Niles, Christian Science practitioner and healer. Homewood Suites at Hilton, 250 Central Park Ave., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 568-9620. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Wildflower Walk.” Come see azaleas, irises and violets blooming out at Weymouth Woods on this 1.5-mile hike with a park ranger. Weymouth

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Sunday, April 9 — 15 NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK. Library hours. Stop in and tell the librarians why your library is important to you. Everyone who participates has the chance to win a $25 gift card to The Country Bookshop. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Monday, April 10 HOMESCHOOL IN THE GARDEN. 2–3:30 p.m. “Reptiles & Amphibians.” For First grade and older. Fee is included with garden membership or daily admission and applies to each child and adult visiting. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 or https://form.jotform.com/63465945071966. Pre-registration is required. SIP & PAINT WITH JANE. 5 – 7 p.m. Join resident artist Jane Casnellie for an evening of sipping and painting and take home your own masterpiece! No experience necessary. All materials provided, including a glass of wine. Cost: $35. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 255-0665. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children through 5th grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. SANDHILLS PHOTO CLUB MEETING. 7 p.m. Member Competition: Fill the Frame. Guests are always welcome. The Hannah Theater Center at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: sandhillsphotoclub.org.

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Wednesday, April 12 BASIC HATHA YOGA. 9–10 a.m. (Wednesdays through May 17) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for adults age 18 and older who may have had no previous experience with yoga. Cost: $35/resident; $70 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. TAI CHI. 10:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. (Wednesdays through May 17) This course is taught by Tai Chi Master Instructor Lee Holbrook for adults age 18+ and focuses on three styles of Tai Chi: Yang, Wu, and Beijing. Cost: $28/resident; $56 nonresident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

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REC-ING CREW SOCIAL CLUB. 4–5:30 p.m. “Easter Crafts.” This program gives young adults a chance to unwind and socialize with their friends. Must pay club dues in advance to participate — covers all six sessions. Cost: $15/resident; $30/ non-resident. Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE READING. 5:30 p.m. KAKALAK, a journal of poetry and art published annually, showcases work by poets and artists of North and South Carolina. Wine and cheese reception following Sponsored by St. Joseph of the Pines. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. BIRDING IN THE GARDEN. 2 p.m. Learn to identify and recognize local and migrating birds of North Carolina with Fayetteville-Cumberland Park Ranger Supervisor, Amber Williams. Bring a pair of binoculars — we have only a few extras to share. This program is geared for teens and adults. Program included with Garden Membership or paid admission. Pre-registration required. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221. Register online at capefearbg.org.

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Thursday, April 13 INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI. 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. (Thursdays through May 18) Instructor Lee Holbrook focuses on refining the Yang style for participants who already have a basic knowledge of Tai Chi. Cost: $28/resident; $56 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 and 7 p.m. “A Pressing Situation!” Nancy Heilman uses 40 years of experience of pressing flowers to bring the stories of each flower’s meaning to life. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, (3:30 p.m.), 150 Cherokee Road; and Given Outpost (7 p.m.) 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-6022. YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS (AGES 5–9). 4–5 p.m. Thursdays through May 4 (4 sessions). Youth tennis lessons will be held at Rassie Wicker Park. Pre-registration is required. Please bring your own tennis racket. If you do not have one, please contact the department to check one out. Register by April 6. Cost: $5/resident; $10/non-resident. Tennis Court #1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS (AGES 10–15). 5–6 p.m. Thursdays through May 4 (4 sessions). Youth tennis lessons will be held at Rassie Wicker Park. Pre-registration is required. Please bring your own tennis racket. If you do not have one, please contact the department to check one out. Register by April 6. Cost: $5/resident; $10/non-resident. Tennis Court #1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . April 2017

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ca l e n da r ADULT TENNIS LESSONS. 6–7 p.m. Thursdays through May 4 (4 sessions). Pre-registration is required. Please bring your own tennis racket. If you do not have one, please contact the department to check one out. Cost: $35/resident; $70/ non-resident. Tennis Court #1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Must register by April 6. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. WINE AND WHIMSEY ART CLASS. 6–8 p.m. “Sunflower and bee.” A perfect date night or girls’ night out. All supplies and instruction provided. Wine, beer and snacks available for purchase. Cost: $20/member; $25/non-member. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221. Register online at form.jotform. com/51666115773964.

Friday, April 14 OPEN STUDIO FOR THE FIGURE. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. There will be no instruction given and you must bring your own supplies and materials. Members are encouraged to work creatively in any media they choose whether it’s watercolor, acrylic, oil, pastels, colored pencils, charcoal etc. The poses will be long enough to encourage a finished piece. $15. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. LIVE AFTER 5. 5:30–9 p.m. “The Legacy Motown Revue” will take you back to the days of The Drifters, The Coasters, the Jackson 5, Earth Wind & Fire, The Temptations, and many more legendary icons. Food trucks will be on-site; and wine, water, and soft drinks will be available for purchase. Picnic baskets are allowed, but outside alcoholic beverages are not permitted. This event is free for the entire family. Don’t forget to bring your lawn chairs, blankets, and dancing shoes! Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road W, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-2817 or vopnc.org.

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SOUTHERN PINE CARRIAGE DRIVING EVENT. 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. American Driving Society sanctioned carriage driving show. Set amidst the soft needles of the long leaf pines and the warm white blossoms of the dogwoods, enjoy three days of top-notch competition. Bleacher seating will be set at every obstacle with food and drink also available near the action. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074.

Saturday, April 15 RUNNING START DERBY CROSS. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Part of the Running Start Derby Cross Series. Championship prizes will be awarded to the horse & rider with the highest score after all 7 competitions in the series, at each level, at the RSDX Championship Finals on October 28th. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET OPENING DAY. 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m. The market features many wonderful farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and egg providers, cheese makers and specialty food producers our area has to offer. 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www.moorefarmfresh.com. 12TH ANNUAL CLENNY CREEK DAY. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Friends of the Bryant House (ca. 1821) volunteers are offering events for kids and whole families to enjoy, including the customary raffle, live music, vendors, historical re-enactors, food, items for sale such as blueberry bushes, azaleas, vegetable bedding plants, and herbs. Free admission and parking off Richardson Road. Bryant House and McLendon Cabin at 3361 Mt. Carmel Road, Carthage. Info: (910) 692-2051 or moorehistory.com. BALLROOM DANCING. 7–10 p.m. Cape Fear Ballroom Dancers Monthly Dance. Dance lesson included. Cost: $10/ members; 15/guests. Coat & tie attire. Roland’s Dance Studio, 310 Hope Mills Road, Fayetteville. Info: (910) 987-4420 or www.capefearballroomdancers.org.

Sunday, April 16 100 MILE CHALLENGE. 3 p.m. Rack up some miles today by joining a park ranger for a 3.2-mile hike around Weymouth Woods, then track your progress on the website nc100miles. org. Be prepared with comfortable hiking shoes, weatherappropriate clothes, water and a desire to exercise. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Monday, April 17 WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30 a.m. Monthly meeting. Coffee and program with Ray Linville, Sandhills Community College. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. SPRING SCAVENGER HUNT. 3 p.m. For 3- to 12-year-olds. Follow the scavenger hunt clues to find eggs, prizes, and lots of fun. A fun fitness theme will get participants of all ages up and moving as they hoola hoop, skip rope, crab walk, and encounter more obstacles. Make-your-own-ice cream sundaes. Free and open to the public. Rain or shine. Campbell House Playground, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or mooreart.org.

Monday, April 17 — 21 KIDS’ SPRING BREAK COOKING CLASS. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. $50 per class or $200 for the week. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.TheFlavorExchange.com.

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ca l e n da r ocean water, and monochromatic landscapes. Cost: $80. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. HORTICULTURE WORKSHOP. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. “Flower Arranging.” Tim Ward and Leslie Habets will be giving a hands on workshop using early spring blooms and greenery. $45/Horticulture Society members, $55/non-members. Materials include vase, flowers and greenery. Bring your own cutting tool(s). You must pre-register with payment to secure your place in class. Limited to 30. Sandhills Horticulture Gardens, Ball Visitor Center. 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MOORE COUNTY. 11:30 a.m. Luncheon and meeting. Guest speaker is Allison Riggs, attorney, Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Everyone welcome. Cost: $13/person. Reservations required. Table on the Green, 2205 Midland Drive, Pinehurst (910) 944-9611 or owegeecoach@gmail.com. JAMES BOYD BOOK CLUB. 2 p.m. The Big Funeral, Sarah Shaber. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Wednesday April 19 — 21 PAINTING CLASS (LANDSCAPE OIL). 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Three-day workshop (acrylic painters welcome) for beginning and intermediate artists with instructor Charlie Roberts. Day 1: preliminary work and prepping; social media, iPhone and iPad apps. Day 2: mixing paints, drawing. Day 3: painting. Cost: $225 or $80 per day. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Rd. Pinehurst. Info and registration: (803) 238-7323 or charlie@ctroberts.com. Visit www.ctroberts.com for more details.

Wednesday, April 19—20 ART CLASS (OIL). 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m. “Impressionistic Oil

Painting with Laine Francis.” For intermediate and advanced students. This two-day workshop covers fundamentals, techniques, color, value, and paint manipulation. Intermediate/Advanced. Cost: $170. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Thursday, April 20 MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. Copies of the book to be discussed may be obtained at the SPPL or the Douglass Center. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

STAR PARTY IN THE GARDEN. 7:30–9:30 p.m. Come and gaze at the stars and enjoy activities to pique the interest of all levels of astronomers. Please bring a flashlight. General Admission taken at the door. Free for garden members. RSVP to beamick@capefearbg.org. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221

Friday, April 21 & 22

CFBG 3RD THURSDAY. 5–9 p.m. Beer, BBQ and Boots. Throw on your boots and buckles to dance the night away while enjoying BBQ and craft beer. Free with a membership or paid admission. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221.

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Friday, April 21 CHAIR YOGA. 9–10 a.m. Fridays through May 26. Taught by Darlind Davis, ideal for those with chronic conditions, balance issues, or lower body challenges that affect the ability to get up and down. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Info: Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

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ca l e n da r available at Ball Visitors Center or order by phone (910) 695-3883/3882. Mail SCC-Landscape Gardening Dept., 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst, NC 28374. Email johnsond@sandhills.edu or fax (910) 695-3894. Pre-orders are recommended to get the best selection. Steed Hall (new horticultural building) area of Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst.

PINEHURST GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Proceeds from this sale will provide a scholarship for a Sandills Community College horticulture student and will contribute to area beautification projects. To place an order please visit www.pinehurstgardenclub.com or contact Janis McCullough at 910 420-2208. Pinehurst Fired Dept 91, 405 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: 910-420-1777.

Saturday, April 22

PARTY FOR THE PINE. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Join us at the Weymouth Woods Boyd Tract for a festival to celebrate the oldest known living longleaf pine in the world. Food trucks on site. Enjoy music, activities, turpentine demonstrations, and watch if the weather cooperates, a live, prescribed burn demonstration. Meet and park at 555 E. Connecticut Ave in Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

FAMILY DAY AT THE LIBRARY. Craft tables will be out all day. The day will celebrate children and families learning financial management skills. A special “Make Your Own Piggy Bank” program will run from 11 a.m.–12 p.m., and families can play money smarts games and activities at 2 p.m. Teens can start a financial adventure at 3 p.m. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 .W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. JUGTOWN POTTERY CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AND BOOK RELEASE PARTY. 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Stephen C. Compton will be reading from and discussing his book, Jugtown Pottery: 1917 - 2017 A Century of Art and Craft in Clay. The day also includes demonstrations, a Q & A session with Steve Compton and the Owens family, live music by Momma Molasses, food vendors and Buggytown Coffee (with a wonderful variety of coffees, teas and goodies). The shop opens at 8:30 with new pieces from the wood and gas kilns. Jugtown Pottery, 330 Jugtown Road, Seagrove. Info: (910) 464-3266 or jugtown@mindspring.com. ART CLASS (SCRATCHBOARD). 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. For beginners, taught by Emma Wilson. Learn how to scratch away paint to indicate lines, light, and value using different common techniques such as hatching, cross-hatching, stippling, pointillism, contouring, and etching. $50, supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

BIRDS IN THE SANDHILLS. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Make your very own birdhouse before learning all about birds with a brief narrative and then enjoy hiking and bird watching. For the whole family and all ages (children must be accompanied by an adult — youth will need a helping hand from parents). This event is free, but bring your own portable, electric screwdriver and/or hammer. To ensure you have a birdhouse, call SP Rec at 692-2463 or email gillis@southernpines.net. Boyd Tract (meadow behind Weymouth Center), 555 E. Connecticut Ave in Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. SEVENTH ANNUAL CELEBRATION OF THE MILITARY CHILD. 12–3 p.m. Co-sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of the Sandhills, this fun-filled afternoon will include a free cookout and entertainment. There will be pony rides, a video game trailer, a bounce house, lawn games, and a strolling magician. This event is free and open to everyone.the The Village Arboretum.  (910) 295-2817 or vopnc.org. THE MET OPERA: LIVE IN HD. 12:55–3:50 p.m. Via satellite. Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin (English subtitles), the story of a selfish man who lives to regret his blasé rejection of

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a woman’s love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend. Cost: $27. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com. A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES. 7:30 p.m. VISION 4 MOORE presents amazing Beatles Tribute Band “The Return,” performing songs that cover two eras of the Beatles music, the Ed Sullivan Era, and the “Sgt. Pepper” Era. Tickets: $15–$35. Profits from this event benefit our non-profit partners: MIRA Foundation USA, Caring Hearts for Kids of Moore and Meals on Wheels of the Sandhills. Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 365-9890. STATEWIDE STAR PARTY. 7:30 p.m. This event is part of the North Carolina Science Festival and includes an evening of stargazing and fun activities focused on this year’s theme: Star Light, Star Bright. Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Meet at the parking lot of the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. All activities will take place in the meadow of Weymouth Woods’ Boyd Tract. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Saturday, April 22 & 23 LONGLEAF PINE HORSE TRIALS. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Trials are comprised of three phases in which the same horse and rider combination perform in the areas of dressage, cross country jumping and show jumping. Originating from the days of military on horseback, the purpose of this sport at its outset was to provide the ultimate test of the “war horse” and “warrior.” Part of the “Carolina Eventing Challenge.” Free for spectators. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. WOMEN’S MINI RETREAT. “Unfurl, Unfold and Blossom.” Retreat will be at the Thatcher Healing House, 325 N. Page St, Southern Pines. $150 for two days; $90 for one day. Joy of Art. Info: (910) 528-7283.

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ca l e n da r NINTH ANNUAL SEAGROVE CELEBRATION OF SPRING. 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. A self-guided tour of individual pottery shops and studios. Visit the Seagrove Potters for a behind the scenes experience of a 200-year old tradition and shop for pieces fresh from the kilns. Demonstrations, studio tours, door prizes and refreshments. Participating Seagrove Pottery Shops, NC Pottery Highway 705, Seagrove. Info: (336) 707-9124.

Sunday, April 23 SUNDAY FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This film is based on the book The Light Between the Oceans, by author M.L. Stedman. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Animal Signs.” This program incudes an off-trail search for the signs of animal life by the clues they leave behind. Long pants and bug spray are recommended. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Monday, April 24 EQUESTRIAN EVENT.10 a.m.–2 p.m. X Country Schooling Day. XC Schooling Days offer Cross Country schooling only. Call for prices. Spectators welcome. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. LUNCH & LEARN IN THE GARDENS. 12–1 p.m. JJ Faulk of JJ’s Place Greenhouse & Nursery in Sanford will talk about annuals and perennials in the landscape. Bring your lunch to this free session. The Garden will provide drinks. Sandhills Horticultural Gardens-Ball Visitors Center. Register by email: landscapegardening@sandhills.edu. Ball Visitor Center, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children through 5th grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that

incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. WEYMOUTH CONCERT. 7–9 p.m. Ensemble Vermillion Light and Shadow. Just as artists in the baroque era reveled in painting contrasts of light and shadow, so too did Baroque composers seek to express the emotions, from tragic to cheerful, through their compositions. Reception following. Cost: $10/Weymouth members; $20/Nonmembers. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

Tuesday, April 25 WEYMOUTH YOUNG AFFILIATES. 6 p.m. Join the younger crowd at Weymouth for an evening of networking, program planning and refreshments. All are welcome to attend. Weymouth Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 7 p.m. Bring your instrument and your beverage, or just come to enjoy! Free and open to the public. Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Wednesday, April 26 DIA DE LOS NINOS. 3:30 p.m. The Library will celebrate. This is a special bilingual storytime for preschoolers newborn to 5 and their caregivers. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. PINECREST SPEECH AND TEAM SHOWCASE. 6:30–8:30 p.m. Enjoy the talents of this nationally renowned high school team. Public invited to see the performances and

talents of these gifted high school students. 6:30 p.m. Followed by social to meet the students. Free. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. SANDHILLS CHILDREN’S CENTER SIP & SAMPLE. 6–9 p.m. Sandhills Childrens Center 18th Annual Food and Wine Benefit. Sip and sample a collection of wines from Mutual Distributing and appetizers by 10 of the Sandhills’ best chefs. Enjoy a selection of craft beers from Sly Fox Gastropub. This is a benefit for children who have special developmental needs. Early Bird Tickets: $45 before April 10. Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road. S, Pinehurst. Info and tickets: (910) 692-3323 www. SandhillsChildrensCenter.org.

Thursday, April 27 FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES. 5:30–6:30 p.m. “Monuments and Memory.” Presented by Arts Council of Moore County and Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, Historian Molly Gwinn will discuss how the experience of remembering has changed according to the language the artist uses and the public being addressed. Cost: $11/members; $16/nonmembers. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or weymouthcenter.org.

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Friday, April 28 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Nature in Your Backyard (For Wee Ones!).” From caterpillars to birds, and flowers to trees, find out what lives in your neighborhood as well as how to get more critters into your yard. Activities include reading, playing some games, and making a craft. All activities will be geared towards 3- to 5-year-olds and meant for parents to do with their children. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. FUN FRIDAYS. 3–5 p.m. This month, the group outing is a walking tour of Pinehurst, with a stop at the Roast Office. For ages 14+. Cost: $20/resident; $40 non-resident. Meet at Tufts Park, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. DANCE PARTY AT THE POPLAR KNIGHT SPOT. Doors open at 6, dinner served and bar pouring. Music begins at 6:46 p.m. The Well Respected Men, a Kinks tribute band, will perform. Dress like a Kink to win show tickets. Cost: $10 at the door, or theroosterswife.org in advance. 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or theroosterswife.org. OUTDOORS MOVIE IN THE PINES. 7:30 p.m. Finding Dory. Bring a blanket or chairs and join Southern Pines Recreation for this free movie in Downtown Park. Concessions are available for purchase.145 SE Broad St., Southern Pines (910) 692-7376.

Saturday, April 29 INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY. All day. Stop by The Country Bookshop for a day of fun including a “make-yourown-Little Golden Book” station to celebrate 50 years of Little Golden Books. This event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St. Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

TREASURES AND TRINKETS SALE. 7 a.m.–3 p.m. at Brownson Presbyterian Church. The money goes to the Educational Scholarship and every one is encouraged to come out to shop! Brownson Presbyterian Church, 330 South May St., Southern Pines. Info: WOMEN OF THE PINES ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Clothing and accessories, books, household items, curtains, linens, rugs, jewelry & collectibles, sports, exercise, luggage, small furniture items (indoor/outdoor), small appliances, toys and games. Donations accepted until 3 p.m., Thursday, April 27. Old West End Gymnasium, 134 Old West End School Lane, West End. Info: Lauri @ (972) 740-8635 or Deb @ (860) 833-7571. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 8 a.m. “Bird Walk.” Spring migration is well underway, so join this 2-mile hike to look and listen for the birds that have just arrived for the summer or those passing through to more northern breeding grounds. Bring binoculars and field guides if you have them. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. SOUTHERN PINES SPRINGFEST. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Arts, crafts, rides, food, entertainment, and more! Over 160 vendors from all around North Carolina and the country. Activities for kids, including the annual Youth Bike Races for children 10 and under. This event is co-sponsored by the Town of Southern Pines. Historic Downtown Southern Pines, along both sides of Broad Street, 132 SW Broad Street (910) 315-6508. FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. 6:30 p.m. “Finale.” Who will be the Fayetteville Symphony’s new conductor? Be there when the secret is revealed! By reservation only. Reply by April 20 to receive your password for entry. Admittance: $125 per person, or $1,500/table of 8. Studio 215, 215 Williams St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 433-4690 or www.fayettevillesymphony.org.

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Saturday, April 29 & 30 PRIME TIME DRESSAGE SHOW and PONY CLUB DRESSAGE RALLY. 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. See top riders from around the country competing in all levels of dressage. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. SPRINGFEST AT SHAW HOUSE. 11 a.m.–4 p.m. Early American coverlets will be on display, with docents present to explain the history of the house museums and answer questions about the homemade quilts. Demonstration by Linda Hardison, a teacher and craftswoman on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The activities are free, but Moore County Historical Association does accept donations for the preservation of the five 18th and 19th Century house museums. Memberships are also available. 110 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2051 or moorehistory.com.

Sunday, April 30 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Plants with a Palate.” Most plants make their own food, but some have figured out a way to eat their food. This short presentation on the carnivorous plants that grow in the Sandhills will be followed by a look outside to see some firsthand. Be sure to wear long pants and bring bug spray to go a little off-trail on this adventure. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

UPCOMING EVENTS May 2-4 ART CLASS (ANY MEDIUM). “Plein Air Concepts — Any Medium” with Chad Smith. The workshop will include studio time and painting en plein air, demonstrations, presentations, group critiques, and discussion. All levels and all mediums are invited. $430. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. HAROLD LOCKLEAR

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Saturday, May 6 ART CLASS (SCRATCHBOARD). 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Learn to add color to your scratchboard painting. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Friday, May 5 MAMA MIA! This smash-hit musical combines ABBA’s greatest hits, with an enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship. Performance is at Durham Performing Arts Center. Departs 4 p.m. from Belk, Southern Pines, and returns approx. 11:30 p.m. With Kirk Tours. Cost: $123 ($147 Gold Circle), includes your choice of seat type and luxury transportation. Dinner will be dutch-treat at the Streets of South Point shopping complex. If you already have your Season Passes with DPAC please call us directly for prices on Transportation only for you and your group.

Friday, May 12 CHICAGO. The No. 1 longest-running American Musical in Broadway history, performance at Durham Performing Arts Center. With Kirk Tours. Cost: $123 ($153 Gold Circle), includes your choice of seat type and luxury transportation. Dinner will be dutch-treat at the Streets of South Point shopping complex. If you already have your Season Passes with DPAC please call us directly for prices on Transportation only for you and your group.

June 12 — 16 FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUMMER MUSIC CAMP. Registration is now open for the FSO Summer Music Camp. For all rising 8th grade, high school, and college-level instrumental students (from any school) who have experience playing one of the following instruments: violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon,

trumpet, French horn, trombone or tuba. Tuition: $275 for the week, or $300 with a private lesson. The camp will be held at Fayetteville Academy, 3200 Cliffdale Road, Fayetteville. The deadline to register is June 1, 2017. Info and registration: Julie Atkins (910) 433-4690 or www.fayettevillesymphony.org/ summer-music-camp.

WEEKLY EVENTS Sundays — Tuesday PRIVATE COOKING CLASS AVAILABLE. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.TheFlavorExchange.com.

Mondays BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

Tuesdays — Saturdays SANDHILLS WOMAN’S EXCHANGE. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Lunch served 11 a.m.–2 p.m. The gift shop features over 60 NC and American hand-made artisan gifts. If interested in volunteering, call the Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst, at (910) 295-4677, www.sandhillswe.org or on our Facebook page.

Tuesdays BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions) This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 18 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy practices. Programs will be offered April 4, 11, 18 and 25. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

BROWN BAG LUNCH/GAME DAY. 11:30 a.m. Bring your lunch and enjoy fellowship and activities, including card games, board games and the Wii. The Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost for single class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. PLAY ESCAPE. 3:30 p.m. Arts & Crafts. For ages 2 yrs + Free for members. Cost for non-members: $2/child and $1/siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 2462342 or playescapenc.com. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 4–5:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: Easter Bunny Basket (April 11), Earth Day Tribute (April 18), and Abstract Fun (April 25). Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at The Ice Cream Parlor, 176 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 454-3641 or www.theartifactshack.com.

Wednesdays TAX HELP. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Through April 12, AARP trained volunteers are available at the library to assist with tax returns, free of charge. You must come in person — no appointments given by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6–7 p.m. Improve flexibility, build strength, ease tension, and relax through posture and breathing techniques for beginners and experts alike! Free for Cape Fear Botanical Garden and YMCA members. $5/ non-members. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 ex. 36 or at the Garden. (Must register 1 day prior). Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org.

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COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Hands-on preparation led by chef Maria DiGiovanni, Esther Gore or Tim Caldwell. Themed dishes include paella, gator sausage and risotto, sweet potato gnocci, pasta, ravioli, Thai coconut curry, polenta, Moroccan, tortellini, Mediterranean delights, sushi, and cannoli, Vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options. Reservations and pre-payment required. Prices vary per dish. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info and menus: (910) 725-1345 or www. TheFlavorExchange.com.

Thursdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.moorecountync.gov or www.localharvest.org. STORY TIME. 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 to 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 315-1471 or (910) 295-6022. HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. (1 hour & 15 minutes each). Also by request. Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com. MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1–3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

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CHESS. 1–3 p.m. Don Hammerman instructs all levels of players. You need a chess set to participate. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 3–4:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: Easter Bunny Basket (Apr 13), Earth Day Tribute (Apr 20), and Abstract Fun (Apr 27). Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at the Elks Club, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 454-3641 or www.theartifactshack.com. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 6–7:30 p.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost for

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Fridays PLAY ESCAPE. 10 a.m. Arts & Crafts. For ages 2 yr + Free for members. Cost for non-members: $2/child and $1/siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 2462342 or playescapenc.com. PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. Reading selections are taken from our current inventory of children’s literature, from the classics to modern day. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Saturdays SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m. As of April 15. The market features many wonderful farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and egg providers, cheese makers and specialty food producers our area has to offer. 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www.moorefarmfresh.com.

HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. (1 hour & 15 minutes each). Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com.

TAX HELP. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Through April 12, AARP trained volunteers are available at the library to assist with tax returns, free of charge. You must come in person — no appointments given by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music, provided by The Sand Band (Apr 7) and The Holiday Band (Apr 14), The Coastline Band (Apr 21), and Midnight Allie (Apr 28). Cost: $15/person. Ages 21 and older. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of 8 or more. Food vendor on site. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 369-0411 or www.cypressbendvineyards.com.

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A Comic Evening*

Featuring Ventrilquist Steve Brogan & Comedian Caleb Elliott Friday, May 12, 2017 • 7:30-9:30 pm Hannah Center Theater The O’Neal School Family Friendly Show

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Featuring “The 7 Bridges Band” Saturday, September 16, 2017 7:30-9:30 pm Robert E. Lee Auditorium

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T h e A c c i d e nta l A st r o l o g e r

Lunatics, Lovers and Poets There’s never a dull moment in Aries-land By Astrid Stellanova

Oh, the famously maddening, cuh-razy-

making Ram! Famous Arians include maniacs like Hitler (OK, OK, der Fürher was actually born on the cusp of Aries, with his sun in Taurus). But it also is the sign of beloved actors (Marlon Brando), singers (Lady Gaga) and rap stars (MC Hammer). Poets (Robert Frost, Maya Angelou) and artists (Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh), too, share the sign of the Ram. We may curse you, Aries Star Children, but we will also follow you, to cliff or cliff-hanger. Ad Astra — Astrid

Aries (March 21–April 19) Sugar, you have it all: impetuousness, impatience. Usually, you are found stirring the pot in a very hot kitchen. Making action is your M.O., which is why your sign is common among generals and CEOs. But you ain’t common. Driven, affectionate, passionately loyal — also easily ticked off. You push, you pull, you press, you tug; you don’t relent. You have the combustible energy of a turbo jet. But what you need most right now is a sugar-free cake and a long nap. Taurus (April 20–May 20) How’s the view from the edge? If you keep raising the hackles of a foe, you could wind up wearing your tonsils as jewelry. Honey, I hope you wake up to the fact that you cannot keep pushing the buttons of some of your most important allies without losing them for good. Gemini (May 21–June 20) I may not know karate but Astrid does know meltdowns. Juggling flaming batons has become your new normal. Sugar Pants, this is not a pace anybody could or should maintain. Even when you stop, you jog in place. Don’t just do something — sit there till those hot pants cool off. Cancer (June 21–July 22) Drunker than Cooter Brown. Dishier than Smoky Bacon. This is a time of extremes for you. You have played your magnetism to the hilt, going all Zelda at the drop of a bra or jock strap. Honey, are you sure this is the plan — or is the plan in control of you? Leo (July 23–August 22) It’s been a donkey’s age since you told the most important person in your life you loved them more than a pack of Nabs and a Coke. They need to hear it. Sugar, don’t play it cool. Let them know they are your MVP and cement the deal. Virgo (August 23–September 22) Something in the background of your life just ain’t reading quite right. And, I’d wager my bunions and white hairs that you have been kept out of a situation that deeply concerns you. It may be for your own protection, but I would prick up my ears and listen. If ole Astrid’s wrong, you can keep the bunions. Libra (September 23–October 22) Well, you can’t uncook a cooked goose, can you? And you can’t make amends if you

don’t even recognize you had a hand in turning the oven temp up waaaay too high. You didn’t intend to create the situation, but if you own up, you can set things sorta, kinda right again. It is never too late. Scorpio (October 23–November 21) Let’s say you have been obsessed with settling a score. Am I right? Bet you a doughnut for a dollar that you ain’t gotten over an old feud. It’s been simmering for some months now. Let’s say you might want to lie low, because this particular feud won’t be helped by throwing more fat on the fire. Sagittarius (November 22–December 21) The lump in your mattress is not from stashed cash. Let’s say you’ve been a little extravagant, and you really and truly need some shekels that are scarce as hen’s teeth. Baby, austerity is the word for the month. But when you emerge from this dry spell, an old debt will be repaid and in the nick of time. Capricorn (December 22–January 19) Don’t give a hoot and a holler for what some stranger thinks of your idea? It really deserves a better opinion and another look. You are on the right track — no matter what you’ve been told. Your inspiration isn’t just all sweat — it’s a little bit of genius, Honey. Aquarius (January 20–February 18) Laying it on with a trowel, were they? Turned your head, huh? Well, that’s what people do when they sense an easy opportunity and a body in desperate need of an attagirl or an attaboy. Here’s the thing: Your reputation is solid as a Cadillac. Keep your feet on the ground. You don’t need that noise. Pisces (February 19–March 20) Even if Sheriff Andy Griffith got pulled into your latest kerfuffle, he wouldn’t know what to do either. The situation you are in requires you to be your own good counsel. Go to the diner, get a good cup of coffee and a slice of pie, and think it through. You already know the truth, Sweet Thing. PS

For years, Astrid Stellanova owned and operated Curl Up and Dye Beauty Salon in the boondocks of North Carolina until arthritic fingers and her popular astrological readings provoked a new career path.

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Art of Association

By Jim Moriarty

It was tax time, moving day for mon-

ey, and the website requested the answer to one of my security questions:

What was the make of your first car? The answer is Volkswagen. It’s OK if you know because I took the precaution of layering in an extra level of cyber impregnability by misspelling the word, using an “o” where an “e” was required. I would like to say this was done as a diabolically clever defense against Russian hackers except that it was more a case of inadvertent stupidity. Or vertent stupidity. Whatever. My first car was, however, a white VW bug. I think it was a ’63 purchased after its atomic half-life had expired, if the porous condition of the front wheel wells was any indication. As with most first cars, I didn’t stray far from what I knew. Growing up, the family car had been a little black VW bug, and I meant to reprise those cuddly memories. The air-cooled engine was in the back. The trunk was in the front. The bumpers looked like the teeth of a Bond villain. There was a lever on the floor you could flip with the toes of your right foot to access the reserve gas tank, the very existence of which suggested the dashboard gauge was more of a guidepost than a hard and fast rule. The heat worked, but only in the summer, and the sunroof slid back and forth like Weird Al Yankovich’s accordion. Yet, we were fond of it. Near Christmas, after my mother got her bonus, the four of us — three boys and a little old lady — would drive to the tree lot by the highway, pick out something that still had a few needles on it, jam it down into the sunroof and drive home with the top third of our new spruce bending in the wind. We took Karwick Road home because of its legendary dip. Not to suggest that people who grow up in flat parts of the globe are easily amused, but this spot was known countywide and jumping it was pretty much what everyone did

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on Saturday nights if the movie was sold out. If you accelerated just right going into the Karwick Road jump, you could get all four wheels of a VW bug, with tree and four passengers, entirely off the ground. So, it was the recollection of a family hurtling through the air singing about Good King Wenceslas that I meant to recapture with my first automobile purchase. But, you can’t go home again — at least not in a ’63 bug. The first trip of any length I made in the white version of my black memory was my honeymoon. Our honeymoon. We went to French Lick. (Insert joke here.) While we were there, my bride, the War Department, got an abscessed tooth. We left for home, of course, though I was conflicted. Her jaw was swollen so badly I was afraid to take her home for fear her father would assume the worst and shoot me. On the trip back, it snowed. Heavy, cold snow. Since it was winter and not summer, the heater didn’t work. The air streaming into the car was so cold we took to stuffing dirty socks and underwear into the vents to try to preserve what little body heat we could. Because the remaining steel in the front wheel wells looked more like a lace doily than, say, sheet metal, slushy, salty water from the road sloshed about in the space at my new wife’s feet forcing her to ride with her face bandaged, medicated against the pain, wrapped in her winter coat with her boots propped against the windshield. We couldn’t find anyplace to stop and thaw out because it was January 1st and everything was closed. It was the year of the oil embargo so even the gas stations weren’t open. Finally, in the distance we saw a banner: New Year’s Day Mattress Sale Stumbling into the furniture store like witless survivors of the Donner Party, we threw ourselves on the nearest queen-sized bed and stayed there until we could feel our extremities again. And that’s how the IRS got paid. PS Jim Moriarty is senior editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com.

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