August PineStraw 2016 by PineStraw Magazine

uail Haven Village Has It All: An Active Retirement Community, A Desirable Location and Excellent Continuing Care

vibrant continuing care retirement community (CCRC), Quail Haven Village provides excellence in senior living just five minutes from a town rated a “Top Retirement Destination” by Where To Retire magazine. Residents of Quail Haven enjoy enriching independent living, plus peace of mind that additional supports and services are available onsite, should they ever need them.

Perfectly Positioned in Pinehurst The Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina, is a small town with a big town feel. Known for its charm and Southern hospitality, the entire town was originally a resort that now has national landmark status. Called “The Home of American Golf,” Pinehurst is certainly a paradise for enthusiasts, but that’s by no means all there is to do there. The area is a treasure of natural beauty with the All-American Trail for hikers and cyclists, the Uwharrie National Forest, the famous Sandhills Horticultural Gardens and a stunning Nature Preserve. History is alive throughout the region, as well, from Revolutionary times through the Civil War and beyond. There are theaters, museums, the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, a zoo, vineyards and breweries, an equestrian park and a harness track. Just minutes from Quail Haven, you can find a wide choice of dining, entertainment and shopping options.

Designed For Your Comfort and Care When selecting a place to retire, it is important to choose a continuing care community with years of experience. It’s reassuring to know that Quail Haven Village has been helping seniors enjoy retirement for 28 years, and the Liberty Healthcare family has been in business for nearly 150 years.

Priceless Peace of Mind When planning retirement, it’s wise to look ahead by choosing a community with dependable, comprehensive continuous care. Quail Haven Village offers residents independent living, and as their needs change, the well-planned system accommodates the specific, evolving health requirements of each person. Onsite assisted care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation services are all part of the resident-centered approach at Quail Haven, either for a short time or on an on-going basis. There is no worry about leaving home and friends. For residents who do require ongoing assisted living, the support is available in the Cardinal and Rosemary Family Care cottages of Quail Haven Village, with all the necessary services included. Residents receive personalized support in a shared home setting, providing all the services necessary for health and comfort. Each cottage has six private suites, complete with shared spaces including a kitchen, activity area and living room. Each resident in the cottages enjoys privacy within their individual apartment, yet they live close to others for support and companionship. In the cottages, all residents receive caring support from certified staff, assistance with activities of daily living, medication administration, laundry services, housekeeping, three meals per day, and transportation services.

An Open Invitation and A Warm Welcome Quail Haven Village is the perfect choice for active retirees who appreciate planning ahead and knowing all their needs will be met throughout their senior years. The location is beautiful; the lifestyle is gracious and worry-free.

Come visit and see it for yourself. We will be delighted to welcome you and show you around.

Designed by expert planners, Quail Haven Village emphasizes independence and the freedom to enjoy a range of activities that boost residents’ spirits, keep their minds entertained, and their bodies energized. The staff handles all the housekeeping, maintenance and landscaping, so residents can pursue their hobbies and interests in their leisure time. Residents can stay flexible and centered through group exercise classes, take daytrips with neighbors to enjoy area attractions, and enrich their minds with life-long learning classes. Quail Haven clubhouse is a gathering place for a vigorous group of residents who appreciate an active lifestyle. There are always social gatherings to join and outings for lunch and dinner. Quail Haven is proud of the activities available at the First Health Fitness Center. Residents also enjoy use of the nearby Pinewild Country Club. Meals are pleasing to the eye and palate, prepared by the chef and served in the dining room. It’s a restaurant style setting where the wait staff knows every resident’s name, as well as their preferences.

Call 910.295.2294 or visit quailhavenvillage.com

Jamie McDevitt Broker/Owner

“I love playing golf...that’s why watching the Juniors play in the US Kids World Golf Championships is SO much fun!” “I also love the breathtaking views our fabulous courses have to offer. Let me introduce you to the beautiful homes that dot the golf courses in this wonderful place we call “Home”.

- Jamie

4 Ridgewood Place Offering scenic views of Pinehurst Country Club’s courses #3 and #5.

Watch YOUR kids play from your own backyard in this fabulous four bedroom golf front home! $449,900

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Knollwood Heights: “Homewood” is described as one of North

CCNC 5 ACRES ESTATE: This premier home, overlooking the 9th fairway of the Cardinal Course, exudes elegance. Spacious living, impeccable craftsmanship with formal and informal design. 4BD/4.5BA. $1,300,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Knollwood Heights: A true treasure! Built & designed by Donald Ross in the 1920’s. Sun filled rooms with charm in every detail. Carriage House has 2BRs/2BAs, & Kitchen. Brilliant remodel! 4BR/7.5BA. Broker/Owner. $1,295,000 Bill Smith 910.528.4090

Amazing Golf Frontage-CCNC: “Fair Hill”, designed by Camina, offers 4 bedrooms, 4 full and 2 half baths, open floor plan, and pool. Stone terrace overlooks Cardinal’s 10th fairway, tee box & green! $1,100,000 Carolyn Hallett 910.986.2319

CCNC Private 5 acre estate: Stunning architecture & fine details

can be found throughout this home overlooking the 10th fairway of the Cardinal Course. Flowing open spaces & numerous special features, 3BD/4BA/2HalfBA. $1,045,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Old Town: “Edgewood Cottage” a Dutch Colonial inspired home

National 9: Where golf front living is elevated to an art form.

Carolina’s finest residences. Extensive gardens designed by E.S. Draper. Magnificent architectural features inside and out! 7 Bedrooms, 6.5 Baths. $1,590,000 Bill Smith 910.528.4090

complete with in-ground pool & cabana housing a bath/dressing area & kitchenette. Warmth and elegance surround you at every turn! 4BR/4.5BA. $899,000 Emily Hewson 910.315.3324 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

Spectacular views of the golf course and water. Southern Living’s 1999 Idea House. Impeccably designed and finished home that is both luxurious and spacious. 4BR/4Full&2Half Baths. $895,000 Emily Hewson 910.315.3324

Pinehurst National 9: Great views of the golf course and Otter

Pond. Best view at National! Pinehurst Country Club membership transferrable. 3 Bedrooms, 4.5 Baths, 3-Car Garage. $825,000 Frank Sessoms 910.639.3099

French Country Home: Situated on over 1 acre in the heart of Historic Weymouth Heights. Generously proportioned rooms with hardwood flooring throughout. Wonderful upgrades have been made by the present owner. $765,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

CCNC Waterfront: Situated for great water views & beautiful

CCNC Golf Front Dream: Welcome home! Stylish 4BD/3.5BA

CCNC: Spectacular views of golf course & pond on Cardinal Course 4th green. Totally renovated in ‘07-’08 with a 12’ addition to the front right of home. Beautiful Kitchen with granite and high-end appliances. Hardwood in Living, Dining, Kitchen, & Family Rooms. 3BR/2.5BA. $545,000

sunsets, this home boasts 3BD/3.5BA with a great floor plan for main level living with two upstairs bedrooms ensuite for guests; private setting on 3 acres. $650,000

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contemporary with fantastic views of the green & water on the 4th hole of the Cardinal Course. Enjoy the Great Room with sunken wet bar & super spacious master. $545,000

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Gorgeous Golf Front Home: Stunning open floor w/4BR, 3.5BA, Office, Bonus Room. Spacious deck plus screened porch for unobstructed views. Chef’s kitchen with gas range. Great room w/fireplace. WOW! $439,000 Casey Barbera 910.639.4266

Pinewild CC: Golf front home with wonderful upgrades! Open floor plan designed to capture views of the 15th fairway of the Holly Course. Screen porch with EZ Breeze windows. One guest room with a sitting room. 3BR/3BA. $426,5000

Old Town: “Juniper Cottage” one of the early homes built in

Mini Horse Farm: Stunning home on 8+ fenced acres! 3-Stall Shed Row Barn, Guest Cottage & Pond. Main house completely remodeled & enlarged. 3 ensuite bedrooms, master suite features a gas fireplace. $399,000 Casey Barbera 910.639.4266

Pinewild CC: Unique home exudes livability! Open, light filled

Pinehurst Stunner: All the bells and whistles! 3,500 sq.ft with

Pinewild CC: Golf front with views of the 4th Fairway of the Magnolia Course. Immaculately cared for home! Wonderful character, great natural lighting and tons of storage. Open spaces contribute to the easy transition form one space into the next. 3BR/3BA. $355,000 Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

Kitchen has custom cabinetry, granite counters, center island w/Jenn-Air range, Sub-Zero refrigerator & bay window eating area. Carolina Room (11’X40’) and a Family Room. 3BR/3BA. $349,500 Eva Toney 910.638.0972

Brick Custom Home: Open, spacious floor plan with 11’ ceiling in Great Room, crown molding in main living areas, 3BR/2.5BA, Bonus Room, kitchen with granite counter tops, & an island. Large lot on cul-de-sac. PCC. $335,000

7 Lakes West: One-of-a-Kind Offering! One of the last water

7 Lakes South: Fabulous Cape Cod style home built to last the

Elegance Resounds in Foxfire: Custom designed Southern Plantation inspired residence. Endless tasteful details, each room is a feast for the senses. Salt water pool with outdoor shower & access to 1/2 bath. Screened Porch. 3BR/2.5BA. $489,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

the Village, circa 1896. Lots of potential! Wood floors under carpet, 3-Fireplaces, Den & Living Room both have a bay window. $399,900 Emily Hewson 910.315.3324

open living/entertaining space. 5BR/4BA (Master & 2BRs on main level). Lower level Rec Room, Bdrm, & 2nd Kitchen. PCC. $369,000 Donna Chapman 910.783.6061

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front lots on Lake Auman with 180 degree views for building your dream home. Bulk-head, 2-Docks with a boat lift and swim ladder already in place! $325,000 Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

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rooms are highlighted by large windows & tall ceilings. Custom cabinetry, hardwood flooring, natural light. Bonus Room with plumbing. Lovely, private flagstone patio. 3BR/2.5BA. $370,000 Kay Beran 910.315.3322

Hidden Gem in Southern Pines: Charming cottage! Fantastic

test of time. Amazing versatile space. Formal Dining & Living Rooms w/wood frplc, den and screened porch overlook lush private grounds that merge with the golf course. 3BR/2.5BA. $259,500 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

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101 Kincaid Place • Pinehurst This stunning residence fronting 15th Hole of South Course exudes charm with its white clapboard exterior, field stone detail and signature covered porches. Featuring large, welcoming rooms on main floor, flanked by French doors opening to a lovely porch, the house is warmed by Australian cypress floors, generous ceiling height, and wonderful gathering spaces. Highlights include an open kitchen/family room, delightful bar off the dining room, and music room off the living room. There is a second floor master with balcony and three guest bedrooms. Additional features include a wine cellar, ground floor game room with fireplace, fifth bedroom with bath downstairs and spacious guest garage apartment. Offered at $998,000.

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Historic Southern Pines 1920’s Colonial Revival on 1.91 The Red Brick Cottage is a lovely English Tudor on acres in Weymouth Heights. 6 BR, 5.5 BA, 5227 sq ft. 1 ½ lots. Built in 1920, 4 BR, 4.5 BA, 2 fireplaces, 2 Slate roof, 3 fireplaces. NEW LISTING $1,150,000 car garage. $1,298,000 NEW LISTING

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Wonderful lakeside Villa in CCNC with open Southern Pines. Private setting in Horse Golf front with water view in Mid South Club. 5 Mid South Club French Country 2006 with 3480 sq ft, 4 BR, 3.5 BA, 11 ft ceilings, 3 fireplac- floor plan and spectacular views. 3 BR, 3.5 BA, Country 6.2 acres, 4 BR, 2 BA, 3 fire- BR, 5 BA, 2 half BA, 3 car garage, pool, built ’05, 1984. Hayes & Howell design. Fireplace, study/ es, pool, study. MLS 174121 $698,000 places. Pool. $955,000 MLS 17088 1.15 acre lot, 6860 sq ft, elevator. $1,475,000. office, vaulted ceiling. NEW LISTING $445,000

Mid South Club golf front 15th Hole. SouthCCNC Cape Cod on 1.5 acres, 6th Hole Dogwood. Pinewild golf front on 3.24 acres. 4 BR, 3.5 White brick traditional in Old Town. 10’ ern Living home, 4 BR, 3.5 BA, brilliant de- ceilings, hardwoods, 2001, 5 BR, 3.5 BA, main 5 BR, 3.5 BA, ground floor master suite, open kitchBA, pool, 3 car garage, bocce ball court. sign. NEW PRICE $587,500 MLS 164156 floor master, guest apt. $798,000 MLS 171983 en, pool, 4423 sq ft. PRICE REDUCED $699,900 NEW PRICE. $850,000 MLS 165567

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“Talent, Technology & TEAMWORK” This gorgeous, all brick custom home built by Huckabee Home ConThis lovely home features 3 BR / 3 BA and has one of the best lots on Lake Auman and enjoys beautiful wide water views with a coveted southern struction is located in desirable Doral Woods on a cul-de- sac with 4 BR Moore County’s exposure. Most The Trusted home is absolutely immaculate and beautifully maintained. / 4.5 BA and has loads of privacy. Located on the 15th tee and the 14th Bright and open with lake views from almost every room, this home also offers green of Pinehurst course #1. Upgrades include 10’ &amp; 12’ ceilings on Real Estate Team a charming sunroom and lots of deck area to truly enjoy outdoor entertaining. the first floor, hardwood floors, double crown molding, lots of oversized windows and a gourmet kitchen featuring custom cabinets, granite countertops, pantry and center island with gas cooktop. 15 Montclair Lane

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There’s a large great room with a corner fireplace and the kitchen and informal eating area open to the sunroom. Great views everywhere! 105 Lawrence Overlook

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Stunning results with a complete renovation of this 3 BR / 2 BA plus 2 ½ BA home by Precision Custom Homes. This beautiful home has an open floorplan and is located on the 2nd Green of the Magnolia Course at Pinewild Country Club. Almost impossible to list all the upgrades, but the kitchen might head up the list with all wood cabinetry, side-by- side refrigerator and double oven. It also features two large pantries which provide great storage space. 59 Glasgow CC Drive $329,000 $890,000 Longleaf

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14 Killearn Court

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Luxu ry Homes 360 Lake Dornoch Drive

Country Club Of North Carolina, Pinehurst Located on the 12th hole of the Dogwood Golf Course! This all brick home offers a grand entrance and lovely living room with French doors to a private deck and screened in porch. 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, 5,000+ Sq.Ft.

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414 Meyer Farm Drive

Forest Creek, Pinehurst Open floor plan spans over 3 levels. A large screened in porch overlooks one of Tom Fazioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best designed courses, and features a guest suite over the garage. 9 Bedrooms, 9.5 Bathrooms, 6,500+ Sq.Ft.

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55 Bel Air Drive

Country Club Of North Carolina, Pinehurst Immaculate home on the 6th green of the famous Dogwood Course! Offers a large living room, Carolina room, master suite with Jacuzzi tub, 3 car garage, and much more! 4 Bedrooms, 4.5 Bathrooms, 4,500+ Sq.Ft.

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55 Page Road

Old Town, Pinehurst Terrific home located in the Historic District of the Village of Pinehurst, featuring a circular driveway, large outside patio, private backyard, and detached guest house. 4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Bathrooms, 4,500+ Sq.Ft.

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Forest Creek, Pinehurst Beautiful custom built home. Features an elegant covered porch, 2-story foyer, living room with picturesque views of the 13th fairway, gourmet kitchen, and screened in porch. 5 Bedrooms, 4 Full/2 Half Bathrooms, 5,500+ Sq.Ft.

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Pine Needles, Southern Pines This custom built home has it all, including a wrap around front porch, gourmet kitchen, and lovely master suite. Also features an office/study and large recreation room. 4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Bathrooms, 4,000+ Sq.Ft.

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simple life

Gone Fishin’

By Jim Dodson

As you read this, I’m sitting by a trout

stream in an undisclosed location somewhere deep in the North Carolina mountains. If I was wrapped in hickory smoked bacon, Lassie probably couldn’t find me.

But fear not, friends, I’ve left behind a few well-chosen words from my dear old friend Ogden Nash, who always has something timely to say.

To Donald on his way to Cleveland:

Love is a word that is constantly heard, Hate is a word that’s not. Love, I’m told, is more precious than gold, Love, I have read, is hot. But hate is the verb that to me is superb, And love is a drug on the mart. Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But hating, my boy, is an art.

The danger of a hole in the porch screen: God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

An ode to poison ivy:

One bliss for which there is no match, Is, when you itch, To up and scratch.

Song of the Interstate:

I think I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall I’ll never see a tree at all.

Wish you weren’t here:

Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon, Some hate having their picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?

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To the family at the start of the week: How pleasant to sit on the beach On the beach, on the sand, in the sun With ocean galore within reach, And nothing at all to be done! No letters to answer, No bills to be burned, No work to be shirked, No cash to be earned. It is pleasant to sit on the beach, With nothing at all to be done.

To the same family at the end of the week: One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one’s own kin and kith Were more fun to be with.

And finally, a few original Ogden-inspired lines jotted down by a pristine stream where the trout are laughing at my hand-made flies: A gal at the beach paints her toes, To catch the attention of beaus; But a guy at the beach will just scratch his feet, And wonder if anything good’s left to eat.

Gardener’s lament:

To a gardener in the heat of late summer, Oh, my, what a seasonal bummer, With hydrangeas so wilted, you feel almost jilted, It’s a wonder you bother to rose.

Politics as use-you-all:

I suppose I’m the Average American, Tho I can’t say just how the hellican, Vote for these two, either one of which who Make me wish I was just a mere skeleton.

A brief escape:

So here I sit by a stream, Dreaming the American dream, I might not come home, just pick up and roam, At least till I find some ice cream. PS

Contact editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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One for the Kids This month, as part of the popular Movies by the Lake series, The Aberdeen Parks and Recreation Departments and sponsors will show The Good Dinosaur, a Disney/ Pixar film that follows a young Apatosaurus named Arlo and his unlikely friend, a feral cave boy named Spot. On Friday, August 12, from 8:15–9:30 p.m., bring the whole family along to experience this Jurassic adventure on the big screen. Free admission; concessions available for purchase. Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275 or townofaberdeen.net.

General Admission

Join Retired Maj. Jason Hawk for In & Out at the Outpost on Thursday, August 25, at 7 p.m. This free lecture will focus on the life and legacy of Gen. George C. Marshall, the soldier and statesman whom Winston Churchill called “the last great American.” Marshall had a home on Linden Road from 1944 until his death in 1959. Learn more about Marshall’s life and connection to Pinehurst during this summer evening program. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-7002.

On Sunday, August 7, 3 p.m., Weymouth Woods Nature Study features Hummingbird Banding with Ornithologist Susan Cambpell. Witness the delicate process of handling these tiny birds, collecting data, and banding and releasing them — a rare and specialized activity that will render you absolutely spellbound. And if you get a chance to explore a longleaf trail, who knows what other wild things you’ll encounter? Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

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PinePitch

Band Together

Banjo-ification

On August 5, 5–8:30 p.m., First Friday presents Parsonsfield, a five-piece alt/folk band from Northampton, Massachusetts. Think: banjo in the park with a rowdy, rock ’n’ roll spirit that stomps out all the rules. Chris Freeman (vocals, banjo), Antonio Alcorn (mandolin), Max Shakun (vocals, pump organ, guitar), Harrison Goodale (bass), and Erik Hischmann (drums) recorded their debut album in 2013 under the moniker Poor Old Shine, but changed their name in July 2014 following their inspired experiences recording two albums in Parsonsfield, Maine, at producer Sam Kassirer’s farmhouse studio/retreat. Rain or shine, First Friday concerts are free and open to the public. Food and beverages available for purchase. Alexandra King opens. The Preservation Green (grassy lot) adjacent to the Sunrise Theater, 250 Northwest Broad Street, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or firstfridaysouthernpines.com.

Frank Admiration

On Thursday, August 18, beginning at 7:30 a.m., golf professional Scott Holmes will attempt to play one-hundred holes of golf in 12 hours as a tribute to his late uncle, Frank Smither. Frank lived with a developmental disability and was an active member of The Arc of Moore County and the community for many years. Pledges per hole and flat donations will benefit The Arc’s social and recreational programs, which Frank loved. “Fore For Frank” will take place on Course #4 at Pinehurst Resort. Friends of The Arc who sponsor or contribute $100 or more will be invited to an evening celebration and entered into a raffle to win two tickets to “An Evening With David Feherty,” a benefit for the Linden Lodge Foundation on Friday, August 19. For more information or to volunteer, please contact The Arc of Moore County at (910) 692-8272. Donate here: www.foreforfrank.com.

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Making Paper

On Tuesday, August 16, from 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., artist Kathy Leuck will lead “Playing with Paper”, a crafty workshop for students of all levels. Alter paper in ways you’ve never imagined. Use a sewing machine and Gelli printing plate, make your own rules, and create one-of-a-kind note cards and collages that will change the way you look at paper evermore. Cost: $50; $45 (associate members); $40 (members). Includes lunch. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange Street, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Pop Goes the Matrix

Carolina Chronicles

The Dancing Dream is a professional ABBA tribute band based in New York City and so close to the real deal that watching them will feel like experiencing a glitch in the matrix. And you’ll love it. On Sunday, August 28, at 3 p.m. Vision 4 Moore presents “A Tribute to ABBA”, a high-energy concert that benefits Meals on Wheels of the Sandhills and The Linden Lodge Foundation. In 2012, this sparkling tribute band appeared on The Colbert Report. Don’t miss the chance to see them play in the Pines. Tickets: $25 (general admission); $30 (day of show); $35 (center orchestra). Robert E. Lee Auditorium, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 365-9890 or www.vision4moore.com.

In Slave Escapes & the Underground Railroad in North Carolina, authors J. Timothy Allen and Steve M. Miller use harrowing first-hand accounts to investigate how African Americans escaped oppression in a dark chapter of Tarheel State history. Hear them discuss Quaker safe houses and freed slave communities on Saturday, August 27, 4 p.m., at this free Meet the Author event. The Country Bookshop, 140 Northwest Broad Street, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211 or www.thecountrybookshop.biz.

Planting Happiness

Bosom Buddies

Three words: Sugar Kane Kowalczyk. On Thursday, August 4, at 7:30 p.m., Sunrise Theater Summer Classic Series presents Some Like it Hot (1959), the Billy Wilder film starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. When two Chicago musicians witness the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Joe and Jerry flee town (in drag!) as Josephine and Daphne, the newest members of an all-female band fronted by a ukulele-playing blonde named Sugar Kane Kowalczyk (Monroe). Mayhem and hilarity ensue. Screening sponsored by Whit Lauter. Tickets: $6. Sunrise Theater, 250 Northwest Broad Street, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com.

Lunch and Learn in the Gardens with Master Gardener Bruce Fensley will ready you for Mama’s spicy collards. On Monday, August 22, learn when to plant which root and leaf crops and how to plan for fresh veggies all fall and winter. Free onehour workshop begins at noon. Bring your own lunch; drinks provided. Ball Visitors Center, Sandhills Horticultural Gardens, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Register by email: landscapegardening@ sandhills.edu. Info: (910) 695-3882 or sandhillshorticulturalgardens.com.

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Worthy of Note

Ruth Pauley Turns Thirty

he Ruth Pauley Lecture Series will celebrate thirty years of its remarkable existence this upcoming season. Having served on the board in various capacities for twenty-seven of its thirty years, I am proud to look back at its history and success. Although I did not personally know Ruth Pauley, I did know and serve on the board with some of her friends, Virginia Leiss, Eunice Minton, Mary Dezarn, Katharine McLeod, Annette Galbreith and Jane McPhaul. All of them were enlightened community leaders who cared deeply about important issues confronting our society. It was very fitting they would choose to start a lecture series named for their good friend, and that it would be free and open to the public. The sponsors are four local organizations: Sandhills Community College, American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters, and Moore County Schools. They are the glue that holds RPLS together. Each offers some financial support, but they contribute greatly by serving on the board and sponsoring the receptions after each lecture, where the audience gets to meet the speakers, converse with them and enjoy refreshments. There are also ten representatives from the community on the board. We are lucky to have access to so many persons with a wide range of expertise, experience and personal connections. The series is committed to presenting lectures by highly informed speakers in order to help deepen our understanding of important and relevant issues facing humanity. Some of my favorites have been Dr. John Hope Franklin, Susan Eisenhower, Jane Goodall, Arun Gandhi, Alan Simpson, Robert Edsel, Ernest Green and Morris Dees. For a list of all the speakers and topics, visit our website, www.ruthpauley.org, and click on the entire list of speakers. I think it is amazing. In the beginning we often did not have the speakers of the series decided very far in advance. I remember the year we had Maya Angelou. We had no pros-

pects until fall, when Jack McPhaul and Dr. G. McLeod Bryan invited me to lunch and inquired if I thought the board would like to have her speak. Wow! In this age of technology and instant information, I still love to be in the presence of a live speaker and converse personally with him or her. RPLS offers these opportunities to our community because it really is a “community” project. Thanks to our organizations, individuals and businesses for our success. As the African proverb says, “It takes a whole village to raise a child.” I think our lecture series has succeeded because of such support, and I hope it continues at least another thirty years. Please join us. The 2016-2017 season is our most ambitious yet, with six lectures scheduled in celebration of our thirtieth anniversary. All lectures will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Owens Auditorium at Sandhills Community College. PS — Peggy Olney September 27, 2016. Len Elmore, “Courtside View: Saving College Sports” October 11, 2016. Mark Shields, “The Challenge of Governing in a Polarized World” November 3, 2016. Grace-Marie Turner and Richard Kirsch, “Experts Debate: Obamacare and the Future of Our Health Care” February 9, 2017. Susan Southard, “Nagasaki and Beyond: The Ethics of Collateral Damage” March 9, 2017. Abdullah Antepli, “New Frontiers in Civil Rights: A Muslim View” April 20, 2017. Joe Romm, “Almost Everything You Know about Climate Change Is Outdated”

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Moore County and its beautiful bounty!

The Pinnock Real Estate Team members live, work and love the lifestyles of the Moore County communities! Our team enjoys the beautiful bounty of the peaches, produce and pottery grown and made locally. Featured here are Realtors@Jana Green, friend Marva Kirk of KirkTours and Transportation, Melinda Ringley, Donna Shannon, Lisa Whitescarver, (back row) Sandy Hubbard, Lucretia Pinnock, Ryan Derrick, and Kelly Peele as well as some examples of Ben Owen Pottery. Whether Buying or Selling a home, the Pinnock Team of real estate professionals are ready to serve you!

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A Senior Moment

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A Faith-Based Not For Profit Life Plan Community Continuing Care Retirement Community

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23 weLLinGton rd Forest Creek. “Lock-it and leave-it” second home or year round residence. Club Membership included with accepted offer. 4Bd, 31/2 BA. offered at $467,500

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“Know Lin” 910.528.6427 215 everette rd old town. walk to village. Charming cottage with updated bathrooms, plantation shutters, new roof, hvAC and more. 4Bd, 3 1/2BA. offered at $425,000.

190 wireGrAss rd Arboretum. Quality Custom home ideal for retired couple. 2 Master suites, sun porch, semi-finished bonus rm. Priced below cost. 3BD, 2 1/2 BA. Offered at $388,000.

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The Omnivorous Reader

Rediscovering a North Carolina Treasure The works of John Ehle

By Gwenyfar Rohler

“We’re bringing John

Ehle’s books back into print,” explained Kevin Morgan Watson, gesturing to Press 53’s display at the North Carolina Writer’s Conference. I nodded knowingly and inwardly hoped that my confusion didn’t show on my face. I was too embarrassed to admit that I wasn’t familiar with John Ehle or his work. To remedy my chagrin, I sought out Ehle’s The Land Breakers, and I was stunned that it had taken me until the age of 36 to discover his work.

The Land Breakers begins Ehle’s seven-book series exploring the settlement and development of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina. It opens in 1779 and primarily traces the journey of Mooney Wright, a Scots-Irish orphan who has recently completed his indentured servitude in the New World. Wright buys a piece of land, 640 acres of good, “bottom land.” When he and his young wife finally arrive after a perilous journey to this promised, much-dreamed-of prize, Ehle captures their rapturous disbelief and elation with honest realism. Reading it doesn’t so much remind one of being young, in love and filled with dreams and wonder, but actually takes one back to inhabiting that space in a way few writers can. Ehle’s family history on his mother’s side can be traced to one of the first three families to settle Appalachian North Carolina, the frontier that The Land Breakers and its six companion novels chronicle. Throughout his adult life, he continued to live in the western part of the state (when not in New York or

London for his wife, Rosemary Harris’, acting career), with homes near both Penland and Winston-Salem. From his author’s bio: “His interest in the folkways of the past . . . is an interest in the present, in where we are all going, what we are leaving, and what we will need to find replacements for.” Perhaps that is part of what makes The Land Breakers so compelling. On the surface, it appears to be a book about man versus nature and the insurmountable opportunities around him, but it is so much more. In The Land Breakers, as each new family moves into the valley Mooney Wright has settled, Ehle introduces their strengths and weaknesses and the impact they will each have on the collective survival of the settlement. None of the characters are merely two-dimensional parodies of an idea; rather, they are all flawed yet desirable human beings struggling with their own mortality against a wilderness far more powerful than they are. The journey the characters make toward understanding what is essential for their survival and success is so captivating I could not put the book down. Ehle explores both life’s beauty and horror. Spoiler alert! The scene involving the snake attacks at night might be the most frightening three pages I have read in years. Forget the bogeyman and the phantoms of Stephen King — these snakes left me white-knuckled and twitching. In 1967, John Ehle married Tony Award–winning English actress Rosemary Harris. With a film résumé that includes Beau Brummell, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, George Sand in Notorious Woman, Desdemona in Othello, Tom & Viv, and even Spider-Man, Harris has a career of legend built on a solid foundation of craft. Perhaps inspired partly by witnessing Harris’ film experiences, in 1974 Ehle released The Changing of the Guard, a book that chronicles the production of a big-budget biopic of Louis XVI. Were it not for the intensity of the writing and skillful use of metaphor that slowly overtakes the action of the book, it would be hard to believe the same man wrote both novels. The Changing of the Guard is a prismatic display of storytelling. On the

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surface it tells the story of an aging British actor who sees himself as a contemporary of Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier, making his last big picture: a beautiful, sweeping costume drama of the last days of Louis XVI during the French Revolution. His real-life wife is cast to play his mistress, and her best friend is to be Marie Antoinette. From the outset the power struggle appears to be between the actor and the brash young director that the studio insisted upon. But slowly, the book evolves into Ehle’s retelling of the private life of Louis during the revolution, serving as both a metaphor for the war waged on set and the changes in the actor’s private life. The line between art and reality is crossed so frequently and subtly — almost a form of magical realism — that, in the hands of a lesser writer, the story line and conceit would be hokey and hard to follow. But from Ehle’s pen, it is completely believable. The part that makes the book painful to stomach is the needless human cruelty we are capable of inflicting upon each other — which Ehle demonstrates in broad strokes through the French Revolution and very pointedly with exquisite, tearing saber thrusts in the personal interactions between the actors and director. Where The Land Breakers is about man versus nature and forces greater than man could comprehend, The Changing of the Guard takes on the inevitable autumn of life that comes to all of us and the painful battle with a world that no longer needs us. At their core both books explore the experience of giving yourself wholly to something bigger, greater than yourself. Be it art or the development of a farm, both are about legacies and leaving some sign that you passed through this world. Similarly, Kevin Morgan Watson has dedicated himself to the enterprise of publishing and creating an outlet for work he believes in (and I am forever grateful to him for bringing Ehle’s books back into print). Ehle manages to look at very specific stories: the settlement and growth of the Appalachians, the transition in the film world from beautiful, bright costume dramas with stylized performances to dark, realistic depictions of life before electricity, a world of people who talk to each other like real people instead of caricatures. Ehle finds the universal struggle that speaks to readers, even if you have never built a log cabin or operated a guillotine. Many people are preoccupied with their legacy; few people understand that legacy is something we begin creating every morning when we wake up, before we understand our own mortality. Perhaps Mooney Wright put it best: “A person becomes part of what he does . . . grows into what grows around him, and if he works the land, he comes to be the land, an owner of and slave to it.” PS

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Bookshelf

August Books By Kimberly Daniels Taws

The Perfect Horse:

The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Princess Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis, by Elizabeth Letts

The New York Times best-selling author of The Eighty-Dollar Champion returns with a brilliantly written story about Hitler’s effort to build an equine master race with the finest horses in Europe gathered in one place. As the end neared, these beautiful animals were within days of being slaughtered when a controversial covert mission was planned to rescue the horses and smuggle them to safety. The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran, by Andrew Scott Cooper This gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran’s Pahlavi dynasty was researched and written with full cooperation from Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and United States officials from the Carter administration. Starting with Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi’s childhood, his courtship and marriage to the powerful Farah Diba, the plan to launch Iran as one of the five great Western powers, to life in the embassy during the Iranian Revolution, this book details the final days of one of the world’s most legendary ruling families and sets the stage for the current state of the Middle East. How to Read Water: Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea, by Tristan Gooley From the author of The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs comes a guide to reading the hidden world of water — bodies both great and small — with skills, tips and useful observations.

War Porn, by Roy Scranton This masterpiece of a novel takes its title from the term used to describe the videos and images of graphic violence brought back from combat zones and viewed voyeuristically. Experiencing war through the lives of a woman in Utah, a man serving in occupied Baghdad and an Iraqi math professor, the novel merges home and hell, moving back and forth to reveal the humanity that connects us all. The Nix, A Novel, by Nathan Hill This family epic about a mother and son finding

their way back to each other in both desperate and comic ways reflects the cultural tensions of the past five decades. The Nix is a humorous and heartbreaking work with dead-on descriptions and craftsmanship that draws comparisons to early John Irving. A Great Reckoning, (A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel), by Louise Penny The intricate old map found stuffed into the walls of the bistro in Three Pines seems like a curiosity at first, but when the map is given to Inspector Armand Gamache, he shatters the secrets of an old friend and an even older adversary. Louise Penny can craft a riveting and fun detective story like no one else and will be in Pinehurst on September 5 to talk about the book. Tickets are available at The Country Bookshop. Cooking for Picasso: A Novel, by Camille Aubray This book is true candy, a sweet treat that includes modern family drama, love, cooking and Picasso in the south of France. A young girl and her aunt head to a cooking class in the south of France and solve the mystery of a grandmother who was there years before. To the Bright Edge of the World, by Eowyn Ivey The author of The Snow Child, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, returns with a transporting tale of adventure, love and survival in the winter of 1885. Colonel Forrester, a decorated war hero, leads a small group of men on an expedition to explore the untamed Alaska Territory, leaving his newly pregnant wife on her own at the Vancouver Barracks. Forrester’s terrifying encounters and the deep information about the natural world from the native tribes that blurs human and animal, living and dead, are all recorded in a journal for his wife, who battles a winter that batters her courage. The Book That Matters Most, by Ann Hood At the end of a twenty-five year marriage, Ava is desperate for companionship and joins a book group where each member presents the book that matters most to them. Ava rediscovers a mysterious book from her childhood that helped her through the trauma of the sudden death of her mother and sister. Ava’s story alternates with her adult daughter, Maggie, who lives in Paris and is falling into a destructive relationship with an older man. Ava’s quest to find the book’s author unravels her past and offers her and Maggie a chance to remake their lives.

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS By Angie Tally

Finding Wild, by Megan Wagner Lloyd. This charmingly illustrated book conveys a beautiful message about the many forms nature can take. Not only is it a great gift title, but Finding Wild can also serve as inspiration for home or classroom discussions: “Where do you find Wild?” Ages 3-6. The Girl Who Drank the Moon, by Kelly Barnhill. A misunderstood witch, a poetryspouting swamp monster, a tiny dragon with a simply enormous heart, a girl fed from moonlight, and a town filled with tragic sadness all come together in this brilliant new novel from the author of Witch’s Boy. Fans of Maile Meloy, Alice Hoffman and Shannon Hale will devour this sad, funny, charming, clever stand-alone fantasy adventure. Ages 10-14. What Elephants Know, by Eric Dinerstein. In the king’s elephant stable on the Nepalese borderlands, it is said elephants choose their people, and Devi Kali has chosen Nandu, a foundling and now adopted son of the head of the stables. But when the stables’ very existence is threatened, it seems Nandu must be willing to give up what he holds most dear to ensure its survival, the elephants’ well-being and the livelihood of his people. Brilliantly written and a literary masterpiece for young readers. Ages 9-12. PS

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6 1 1st Place – Diane McCall – Onto the Dunes 2 2nd Place – Jim Brown – The Arch 3 3rd Place – Marilyn Owen – Blue Ruffle 32

4 Honorable Mention – Tom Reedy – Eye Opener 5 Honorable Mention – Donna Ford – Nautilus 6 Honorable Mention – John German – Natural Curves

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1 1st Place – Jerry Kozel – Hand and Clay 2 2nd Place – Joe Owen – Fountain 3 3rd Place – Jennifer German – Fire Wave

4 Honorable Mention – Jo Ann Sluder – Maze of Beauty 5 Honorable Mention – Bonnie Fitzpatrick – Craftsmanship 6 Honorable Mention – Teresa Bruni – Spirals by Candlelight

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Friday, August 12 at 5PM “Like nothing else I’ve read this year, With Love from the Inside chronicles a mother awaiting her execution on death row for ostensibly killing her infant son. The writing in this novel is so strong and its message of forgiveness so powerful that it brought me to tears.” – Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Rumor

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Saturday, August 27 at 4PM Quaker safe houses and freed slave communities and sympathizers helped develop safe zones and houses on the Underground Railroad in the 1800s.

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Amy Krouse Rosental is a #1 NYT bestselling author of over 28 books including local favorites Little Hoot and Uni the Unicorn comes to Southern Pines to promote her whimsical adult book. The event will include refreshments and a great time with this bright, lively and talented author.

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New York Times bestselling author Louise Penny is coming to town. Tickets are available now and can be purchased at The Country Bookshop and online www.thecountrybookshop.biz.

Saturday, August 20 at 4PM “An absorbing human drama of marital discontent, violence and desperation. Over the Plain Houses had me enthralled from beginning to end.” – Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried

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WHERE’S WALDO? For more than 25 years, Seekers both young and old have scanned page after page for the elusive red and white striped bespectacled Waldo. And once again Waldo can be found hiding in shops and restaurants in Southern Pines. Stop by the Country Bookshop Friday August 11-Monday August 22 to pick up a passport and begin the “Where’s Waldo Local” scavenger hunt.

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Hometown

Beating the Heat The endless battle with the Dog Days

By Bill Fields

We had a long list of defenses

against the heat in the years before air conditioning — things to drink, eat or do — but moving into the last leg of an oppressive Sandhills summer they worked about as well as a fly swatter on a swarm of yellowjackets.

No matter how cold the Kool-Aid or TruAde, how juicy the watermelon or how still you could sit in the shade with a damp washcloth on the back of your neck, as the hot months continued there was a cumulative toll on the counter-measures. Statistically, July has always been hotter than August by a little bit in Southern Pines, although the highest recorded temperature in North Carolina is 110 degrees, in Fayetteville, on August 21, 1983. By then, of course, central air wasn’t as foreign as Central America. Growing up, given the swelter that usually had been endured since school let out, by the end of the Dog Days in early August it didn’t matter if the high was 88 instead of 91. It was still humid. Even the prettiest girls weren’t glowing, they were sweating. When he wasn’t working, Dad lived in his Bermuda shorts and white T-shirt, even if the latter didn’t have a pocket for his cigarettes. There were the lakes (Aberdeen, Badin, White), but those were for special occasions and there could be complications. A kind but directionally challenged neighbor once allowed me to slip into the back seat with his kids for a trip to White Lake, but after several hours and what turned out to be very wrong turns in his Delta 88, we were amid the bars and pawn shops of Spring Lake nowhere close to the clear waters we were shooting for. We eventually made it to White Lake that day for a brief swim, the whole adventure in sharp contrast to our usual water sport of running under a sprinkler in the yard, activity that was guaranteed to end with taking sand spurs out of your feet. Before my parents splurged and bought a small, aluminum-sided pool that looked like a large yellow can, my friends and I improvised. We dug a large pit and lined it with a spare plastic tarp, believing it would hold water and provide us with a private swimming hole. Fortunately, none of us later tried to become engineers.

I knew two window fans very well. One was old when I was young, its blades within a wooden housing with yardstick-like metal bars on the front, a few of which had gone missing in its lifetime. The other was more modern, a three-speeder whose high setting sounded like it could get a small plane aloft. Compared to the industrial-strength models you saw at the service station or feed store that were mounted on a tall stand and oscillated like the head of an attentive prison guard, ours were meager fans. But late at night, without a shirt or a top sheet, you’d talk yourself into believing they were doing some good. Being in an air-conditioned space felt like a holiday. The best part of a night in a motel room on a rare summer road trip wasn’t the color television, the sani-wrapped glasses or even an honest-to-goodness pool, but an air conditioner you could crank up as much as you wanted. The food at Hoskins, our favorite place to eat on vacations to Ocean Drive, was matched by the restaurant’s chilled air that took the edge off a sunburn and made you feel, for an hour or so, that you were living large. I remember when air conditioning came to our home in the form of a large window unit from Sears in the summer of 1974. Placed in a window on the east side of the house in the living room, it was powerful enough to cool the downstairs, although I was cautioned to keep it on low, lest the electric bill soar. On the evening of August 8, 1974, when Richard Nixon, under so much heat, said he was resigning the presidency the next day, we watched on TV in the newly purchased cool. Summer, like a lot of things, was different. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north thirty years ago but hasn’t lost his accent or his ability to stay cool.

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Vine Wisdom

Arneis the Alternative The “Little Rascal” of summer wines

By Robyn James

Whenever we

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enter the dog days of summer, the search is on for refreshing whites to quench your thirst and complement your summer menus of salads, cold plates and seafood. New Zealand sauvignon blanc, Oregon pinot gris and Portugal’s vinho verde are always favored go-to summer whites. But what’s the new secret for a sommelier’s alternate summer white? Try the Italian grape arneis. You can’t really call arneis a “new” grape, since there are references hinting back to the 1400s and definite vineyard references to the grape in the 1800s.

If there were ever a wine region known solely for its red wines, the Piedmont region of Italy would be it. This is nebbiolo land, home to the majestic red wines of Barolo and Barbaresco, some of the hardest, most tannic wines on earth. Decades ago, wine geeks joked that these winemakers made wines for their grandchildren to enjoy. Fans of these reds have usually assumed they were produced from 100 percent nebbiolo grapes and in most cases they were right. However, Italian law does allow winemakers to blend arneis into their Barolos and Barbarescos to soften the rock-hard tannins. Just as France permitted the Northern Rhone region to blend the white viognier grape into their tannic syrah as a miniscule softener, so goes Piedmont, Italy. Because of this potential blend, many locals refer to arneis as Barolo bianco or nebbiolo bianco even though there is no genetic thread to connect the grapes as relatives. Centuries ago, arneis

was planted among the more valuable nebbiolo grapes in a field blend with the hope that the birds would swoop in to eat the cheaper, fruitier arneis and spare the pricey nebbiolo. Roughly translated, arneis means “little rascal” or “difficult person.” It can be tricky to cultivate, prone to mildew if picked too late, and before the twentieth century winemakers had all but given up on it and extinction threatened. Modern winemakers plant it in chalky, sandy soil to develop a light-medium body dry wine with more crisp acidity and structure. Common flavors are almonds, apricots, peaches, pears and hops. Winemakers in the United States, always up for a challenge, are planting arneis in Sonoma, Mendocino, Russian River and Oregon with great success. Even Australia and New Zealand are experimenting with plantings. Two of my favorites come from the Damilano Winery of Barolo and the Cantine Tintero winery from the commune of Mango in Piedmont. Damilano is one of the oldest wineries in Barolo, passed down to family members for many generations. They pride themselves on their arneis which is dry, delicate, with impressive acidity and full fruit flavors. It has pear flavors, citrus zest and finishes long. It sells for about $18. Another family operated winery, Cantine Tintero produces Barbaresco, moscato, a rosato (rosé), a blended red, blended white and an arneis. Possibly the best value I have ever discovered, this delicious white, under $12, has alluring floral aromas and flavors with great acidity and a pleasant spiciness. Branch out, try an arneis and cool off with something different for the summer. 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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In The Spirit

Summer Well

Must reading for your craft cocktail enjoyment

By Tony Cross

The craft cocktail movement has been in

full effect for well over a decade now, yet a Moscow Mule is still foreign to a majority of locals in the Sandhills. I’ll admit that we’re slow to catch up on what’s happening in bigger cities; I had no clue about such cocktails until three years ago. When I started to delve into the world of balancing drinks, there was already so much information out there to give me a head start: I would watch videos on YouTube, check out menus from bars and restaurants across the globe, and, of course, study books from respected and famous bartenders. There are so many great reads, but I’ve picked three that have inspired me when I’ve prepared menus and drinks for events, and friends.

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Speakeasy, by Jason Kosmas and Dushan Zaric

Written by the guys that started up Employees Only, one of the first craft cocktail joints that started the movement at the beginning of the millennium, Speakeasy was the first book I read when I became serious about making drinks. I first discovered Employees Only in a small New York Times article about a bar that sold their homemade grenadine and other syrups to guests and surrounding bars. Needless to say, that article piqued my interest and got the ball rolling on my curiosity for cocktails and the fancy establishments that perfected them. Ice is discussed in one of the first chapters; this may seem pretentious at first, but ice is a crucial ingredient to any good cocktail. Classics are covered, as well as many signature drinks that found their way onto the EO menu over the years.

Billionaire Cocktail

2 oz Baker’s 7 Year Old Bourbon 1 oz lemon juice ½ 1/2 oz simple syrup

½ 1/2 oz grenadine ¼ 1/4 oz absinthe bitters (or substitute Pernod) 1 lemon wheel Combine bourbon, lemon juice, syrup, grenadine and bitters into a mixing glass. Add ice and shake like hell for 10 seconds. Double strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon wheel.

Bitterman’s Field Guide to Bitters and Amari, by Mark Bitterman

This one isn’t even a year old yet, but has been a staple at my home. Mark Bitterman has two shops (New York City, and Portland, Oregon) called The Meadow, which sells salts, chocolates and bitters. I was lucky enough to step into The Meadow a few years ago, and I was quickly overwhelmed by the large selection of tonics and bitters. Having this book on hand would’ve been a godsend. It’s only fitting that Bitterman’s passion is also part of his last name; his attention to detail goes above and beyond when describing amari and bitters. When breaking down the various brands of bitters, Bitterman uses a rating system from 1 (least) to 5 (most) on aromatics, bitterness and sweetness levels. There are also tasting notes to describe each product, along with the types of drinks that each one pairs with well. The same rating system and descriptions are used in his “Amari” section. In addition to describing practically every bitters on the planet, there are also recipes for making your own bitters (with a sitting time of less than a week!), cooking with bitters, and, of course, making cocktails with bitters. Bitterman gives plenty of examples of how switching up your bitters arsenal puts a great twist on the classics. This recipe comes from Kirk Estopinal, bartender at Cure in New Orleans, and his now nowhere to be found Rogue Cocktails book (I borrowed it from a friend last year). Bitterman published this in his Field Guide, and it’s absolutely delicious.

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3/4 oz lemon juice 1 egg white* 1 1/2 oz Angostura bitters 1 oz simple syrup (1:1) Dry-shake the lemon juice and the egg white. (Put both ingredients into a shaker, and shake without ice. We do this to break up the protein bonds in the egg white; the result is a frothy, velvety texture in your cocktail.) Add the bitters,

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Death & Co. Modern Classic Cocktails, by David Kaplan, Nick Fauchald, Alex Day The hype behind this book before it came out was all over the internet. I ordered it as soon as it became available, and was blown away on my first read. This is definitely, IMO, the best cocktail book out there. Death & Company opened in 2006 in New York City, making its mark in the craft cocktail movement. They’ve won awards at the annual Tales of the Cocktail convention in NOLA (Best Cocktail Menu, and Best American Bar), and with 500 cocktails to look over, it’s easy to see what a creative force this bar has been with bartenders from past and present. Death & Co. has a section on every spirit, including brand recommendations; sections on juicing, ice and tools; how to taste-evaluate cocktails, and even pages here and there devoted to their regulars telling fond stories about their first or favorite times at the bar with their favorite cocktail and its recipe on the side page. Too much to say about this work of art.

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“I love it when one of our regulars asks us to create a cocktail on the spot based on crazy criteria — and it’s even better when we can pull off a decent drink on the first try. One night Avery Glasser, the man behind Bittermens bitters (no relation to Mark Bitterman) and one of the bar’s original regulars, asked me to make him a drink that contained all of his favorite ingredients. The problem was that he likes a lot of weird shit. But, I gave it a shot, splitting both the base spirit and its modifiers, and it resulted in a surprisingly balanced drink.” — PW 1 oz El Tesoro Reposado Tequila 1½ /2 oz Los Amantes Mezcal Joven 3/4 oz Carpano Antica Formula Vermouth 1/2 oz Van Oosten Batavia Arrack 1/4 oz St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram 1/4 oz Benedictine 2 dashes Bittermens Xocolatl Mole Bitters Stir all ingredients over ice, then strain into a coupe. No garnish. PS

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Simply De-Vine

Watermelon makes cool, refreshing memories

By Jan Leitschuh

August boasts an abundance of produce, but it’s also a time of change. The blasting heat usually causes a decline in some produce while bringing others forward. Early August offers up outstanding freestone peaches, cantaloupe, sweet bell peppers, honeydew melons, heirloom tomatoes, the very last of summer’s blueberries, and watermelon in the markets and local gardens, before easing into okra, eggplant, cherry tomatoes, field peas, muscadines and more peaches late in the month.

This means it’s often your last chance to grab a really fine, peak-season summer watermelon. If you love watermelon but have been avoiding the hefty fruit because “it’s just too much,” and you lack refrigerator space, then this word salad is for you. The South is known for its really fine melons, and Sandhills melons are the apex. The light sandy soil lets vine-producing nitrogen slip on through, while retaining more of the minerals that encourage sweet fruits. The result, say some of our local farmers, is that produce buyers from other states seek them out. Watermelon is the most-consumed melon in the United States.

Memories have been made around the massive red fruits. Before air-conditioning — that culture-changing innovation that swept folks off their porches and into the interior of their houses — an iced melon was a genuine refreshment, and a worthy excuse for social lollygagging. Perhaps this is a practice worthy of reinvention? Watermelons are, in essence, a social fruit. They come in big, unwieldy packages and need refrigeration after cutting. To be fully eaten, they need to be shared. My husband, a Charlotte native, recalls his Uncle Sam bringing over a chilled watermelon on sunny summer Sundays. Chances were, he grew it in his own large truck garden. Three generations of Millers would gather in the backyard as Sam split the melon into juicy, seedy slices. A saltshaker appeared on the old yard table. The grownups would sit around under the shade tree, telling family stories, rocking on those old 1950s metal chairs with the tubular loops that glided back and forth. Grandma Miller would air herself with an old church bulletin, while the young’uns would run around spitting black seeds at each other. The occasional bee would buzz, sipping at the rinds the kids chucked into the neighboring field. Later, these same children would grow up and gather with their peers, injecting alcoholic adulterants like rum or vodka into their melons. In an era even earlier, say, Grandma Miller’s younger days, food was unpredictable enough that nothing was wasted. Even the watermelon rinds were preserved for future use, converted into food treats such as watermelon rind candy, pickled watermelon rind, watermelon rind chutney and more. My mom, a Wisconsin gal who loved the South, made them to be consumed

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with pork in the fall or put on a little crystal dish at Thanksgiving. I’ve only heard of one millennial who has ever tried this, and she learned from a grandmother of the South. Change is constant, and things are different. Today, the old recipes live on, but their electronic info is stashed on the internet rather than inside a granny-woman’s head. We live less gregarious lives, tucked in our air-conditioned houses on hot days. Farmers grow smaller “icebox” sized melons, easier to consume. Grocery stores offer servings, useful pre-wrapped watermelon slices, or even pre-chunked into handy plastic containers. Chefs do clever things with melon, carving them up, or making culinary creations that go well beyond simple slicing, salting and eating. A quick search of online recipes reveals, in the first score of offerings, instructions for making: watermelon ice pops (for the kids) and sorbets or

Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant, and it also gives watermelon its pinkred color. It’s a splendid source of vitamin C, which strengthens immunity, heals wounds, prevents cell damage and promotes healthy teeth and gums. sherbets (for all); watermelon gazpacho; watermelon cake; watermelon jellies; watermelon salsa; watermelon agua fresca; watermelon and strawberry lemonade; minted watermelon and cucumber salad — which seemed weird at first, but upon reflection actually makes sense, as the ingredients are juicy, cool and refreshing; and tomato, watermelon and feta skewers. Something sweet and light has to be a nutritional lightweight, right? I was surprised to learn that watermelon has more lycopene than tomatoes. Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant, and it also gives watermelon its pink-red color. It’s a splendid source of vitamin C, which strengthens immunity, heals wounds, prevents cell damage and promotes healthy teeth and gums. It also provides vitamin B6, which helps brain function and to convert protein to energy. Watermelons come in a wide array of sizes with flesh that can be red, pink, yellow or orange. The popular “seedless” varieties contain a few white seeds that are small, soft and edible. By

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weight, watermelons are 92 percent water — no wonder they’re so hydrating and refreshing! Tap a ripe melon and you’ll hear a hollow thump. The rind should be smooth, round and unblemished, with a yellow spot on one side where the melon sat on the ground, ripening in the sun. Once cut, store melons in the fridge. Cover slices with plastic, or deconstruct into chunks and cover. If you need to consume watermelon quickly to free up fridge space, consider using it as a base for healthy, hydrating smoothies, chilled fruit soups or summer drinks. You can freeze leftover drinks for a sort of sorbet treat, or a watermelon ice.

Icy Watermelon Cooler 8 cups (1/2-inch) watermelon cubes 1/3 cup water 1 (6-oz.) can frozen limeade concentrate (Adult option: rum or vodka) Preparation Place watermelon cubes in a single layer in an extra-large zip-top plastic freezer bag and freeze eight hours. Remove and let stand at room temperature fifteen minutes. Process half each of watermelon, water and limeade concentrate in a blender until smooth; pour mixture into a pitcher. Repeat procedure with remaining half of ingredients; stir into pitcher, and serve immediately.

Watermelon Rind Preserves 6 cups watermelon rind, diced 4 1/2 cups sugar 1 lemon, sliced thinly, then seeded 1 tsp. allspice (optional) Preparation Peel green skin off the watermelon, but leave a little of the red pulp on rind. Cut into one-inch slices, then slice into one-inch cubes. Place rind in a large pot and cover with the sugar until the fruit doesn’t show. Cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate overnight. Place pot on stove and add lemon slices and allspice, if desired. Boil whole mixture until rind is clear, about two hours. Pack into clean, hot jars. Wipe rims and screw on lids. Process ten minutes in boiling water deep enough to cover lids by at least one inch. Serve the preserves on buttered toast, if desired. NOTE: After cutting watermelon, save the rind in the refrigerator until you are ready to prepare the preserves. PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and co-founder of the Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative.

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Wherever I have lived, for more than fifty years, this has stood near the front door — a symbol, but of what? Geraniums in pots or window boxes remind me of photos and paintings of the French countryside I long to visit. The look is simple, elemental, classic, right. When giving directions, I’d say, “The house with the geranium on the stoop.” This worked since neighbors chose pre-planted urns or hanging baskets. My geranium owns a backstory. The first I positioned by the door of an ugly house on an even uglier street where for fifteen summers I kept my eyes on the pot when walking up the front steps, to soften the blow. Those geraniums were always red, never salmon. My mother preferred concrete urns overflowing with salmon-colored geraniums; my dislike for the color was complicated, mirroring our relationship. Several moves later found me in an adorable cottage, in a small but perfect Vermont city overlooking mountains and lake. The front stoop barely had room for the pot, but we managed. Geraniums are annuals; they don’t overwinter indoors. In September I would bid farewell to the bloomed-out plant, dump the soil, wash the pot and, come spring, start anew. I can’t remember why I brought this one inside, sometime in the early 1990s. My cottage was built against a hill, which allowed an above-ground basement. A previous owner had made the basement into a studio apartment with kitchen area and bathroom — convenient when the kids and their friends visited, otherwise unused. The apartment door opened onto a wooded backyard. Beside the door was a covered area where I kept lawn furniture and planters. Except something about this clay pot with its spent stem made me set it on a basement windowsill. I closed the café curtains — and forgot. Those years are still a blur. My daughter, Wendy, died in 1991, changing everything; sunlight looked different, food had no taste, I couldn’t bear music,

especially the folk songs she played on her guitar. I craved invisibility. Except I had an exhausting (and visible) job as features/food reporter at a good newspaper. Work must continue. Winters are long in Vermont — long, cold and dark. Snow covers the ground from Thanksgiving until late March. That first winter without her was especially cold and snowy, which reminded me how much Wendy loved fresh powder. An accomplished ski racer, at 14 she trained with the Canadian National Junior Ski Team at their summer camp, in Argentina. By April the sun was higher, stronger, illuminating winter dirt. I lugged the mop and vacuum to the basement, pulled aside the café curtains to open the window and let in fresh air. There, on the sill, shrouded with dust, stood the forgotten clay pot. Miracle of miracles, from the withered stem erupted a green shoot, with two tiny leaves. From bone-dry soil a germ of life, sensing spring, had burst forth. Neglected, against all odds . . . survival. “It happens, sometimes,” a gardener friend told me. My feelings were intense. I wanted to document the experience. The short column — barely 400 words — was the first in a weekly series on life’s vagaries that ran for more than a decade. I have endured other losses and moved three times since that spring. In the Sandhills, with sun, heat and rain aplenty, geraniums grow into bushes. This year, mine — purchased at the farmers’ market — is a stunning purplish-pink, quite an Impressionist image with Lucky, my velvet-black cat, lying beside it. This desire for a solo geranium in a basic clay pot remains strong. Was the tiny green shoot a sign that life survives circumstance? That a single flower can mitigate ugliness? I’m not a believer in mysteries or miracles. But I do know this: When I drive up and see that bloom, no matter locale or climate, house or apartment, I’m home. PS Deborah Salomon is a staff writer for PineStraw and The Pilot. She may be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com.

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sensing instruments. Smells, sounds and sights can be powerful triggers of memory and story. This has been especially true for me in experiences of summer. Long before there were Currituck sunsets or Oak Island strolls, there was the back seat of an old Buick on its annual trek from a Philadelphia suburb to the Jersey Shore. Stuffed in between bedding, a Samsonite suitcase and the dreaded summer reading books, I’d try to fall asleep.

What air conditioning? In the early ’50s, blasts of summer air through open windows and parents’ cigarette smoke made the trip a torture to be endured. Mercifully, a two-lane road called the Black Horse Pike signaled hope. The last turn, air changing, the night quieter and rest came. That is, until the fragrance of marsh and tidal mud flats began to stir my consciousness. Low tide brought high hopes of adventure; and something else I came to realize — a peace awakened, a settling of spirit I still treasure. Time turned into an overstuffed station wagon and a bright orange, slightly rusted VW “Thing” winding down the final stretch of a Maine coast road. Passing Harmon’s store and the sign for Prouts Neck, the energy of anticipation grew feverish. Songs learned the previous summer swelled, as the caravan crossed the finish line and acknowledged the welcome wave from Nick, the rotund summer cop. Down the lanes shouts of friends reunited mixed with the laughter of the children who simply had to have the bikes unloaded first. Off they went with shrieks of “come on” in the hope that pals not seen in a year would be back at the same old cottage. The coolers moved to the fridge but all else could wait.

Neighbors hugged and hollered “hey” across porches and driveways. Magic beckoned with sounds of stories from circles of beach chairs, cookouts on the rocks by the bay, evening sing-a-longs, and “hoots” from a sea glass cave at low tide — maybe a piece of blue this year. On the first new morning, birdsong joined the quiet harmonies of the sea, rendering a settling of the spirit once again. As years and family grew, a new oasis was discovered. Vistas framed by ancient live oaks draped in moss welcomed us for several summers to the wonder and mystery of the Lowcountry. Causeways connected islands, finally leading to the one most seaward. Fripp Island, named for a clever swashbuckler and steeped in lore of pirates and Gullah heritage, boasts wide beaches sloping gently to an ocean that can be both tranquil and treacherous. Early morning bike rides featured a tapestry of colors — great blue heron, snowy white egrets, slumbering gators the shade of mud and forest, brilliant oleander, and always the oaks. Presence mattered. Time did not. The island store had a special nook with shelves of Pat Conroy books. He lived on Fripp, and the proceeds from book sales helped support the island conservancy. I hoped I would run into Pat, be invited for supper and chat about how his stories always touched something in me. He once told an interviewer, “I write to try and explain my life to myself.” I savored everything he gave us. I missed seeing him then, and hear him now in the words he left behind. During one such island visit, a beachside afternoon of umbrellas, dolphins and parades of brown pelicans was jolted by a low-flying rescue chopper. The tranquil sandbar of yesterday had, without warning, turned into a treacherous riptide that would tragically claim a young life. I stood with the family at water’s edge. Presence mattered. Time did not. Even now the scene is vivid. The seemingly blissful world of live oaks and blue heron can also hold scars of sadness. At eventide that day, the pelicans returned gliding low along a now-deserted beach. It seems that life has times when spirits are shattered, but always, I believe, with the promise of place and memories that settle us once again. PS Sam Walker, a retired minister, maintains a curiosity about life and is an old friend of PineStraw.

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up, most of the men in my family — a dozen or so uncles and older cousins — didn’t talk much. A conversation on the porch on a Sunday afternoon among, say, a couple of older cousin men, my daddy, Big Clyde (my namesake uncle) and Uncle Clem would go something like this: “I’ll tell you one thing . . . that was a big tree they cut down over there.” Silence. Maybe four, five seconds. “Yeah . . . sure was.” More silence. A full minute. “Did Benny buy that sitting lawnmower?” “Don’t think so.” Three minutes of silence. A car comes by. Uncle Clyde sucks on one end of a toothpick while holding the other end, making a little noise between his teeth. Then he lowers the toothpick. “I don’t think I’d want one.” “One what — big tree?” “Sitting lawnmower.” Somebody yawns. “Me neither.” More silence. A car comes by. That’s pretty much it, folks. It was different with my mother and a couple of her sisters at the grocery store or during lunch at the Golden Corral. But here’s the deal: Not only did they talk to each other, it seemed like they talked to everybody else — mostly about family, people known in common, maybe what was on the news, but also about cooking, flowers, furniture refinishing, family history, family stories, gardening, misbehavior and more family stories. I think they automatically saw strangers as interesting. That talk from the women in my family gave me a grounding I didn’t recognize, a grounding I didn’t feel in full until adulthood. Recently, I have

realized that this talk was, in a sense, important and precious. With them, I’d walk up to a young man tending the vegetable section at the grocery store. “Oh, my goodness,” my mother or an aunt would say to the young man, “these tomatoes look almost good enough to buy. What’s your name?” “Robert.” “Robert what?” “Robert Wright.” “The Lowe’s Grove Wrights or the Oak Grove Wrights?” “Oak Grove.” “I’ll bet you know Harvey, Dudley’s son.” “Yes, ma’am. He’s my uncle.” “No! Really? I haven’t seen him in six or eight years. Did his eyes ever get OK?” “Oh, yes ma’am. They’re all healed up now.” “[To another aunt] Didn’t Mildred used to date him?” “No. She dated Simon. Robert, you have an Uncle Simon?” “Yes, ma’am. He was in here yesterday.” And so on. I’d be standing there. “Clyde,” my mother would say, “this nice man takes care of the vegetables.” I grew up believing that it was OK to approach people and ask them questions, to have faith that people would more likely answer than turn back to the tomatoes. I’m glad that as a child I spent a lot of time with these women in my family and that I wasn’t raised mainly by men who didn’t talk much. Because as in so many things, how you start out eventually comes back to either comfort or haunt you. And more and more I see the advantages of looking into another person’s face, say, sitting or standing across from me, and surfing the channels of info behind their eyes, info that’s likely to come to me in words. It’s great research for writing novels, for learning about how things work — whatever the topic might be. There is meaning in such talk. Meaning found beneath and beyond the words. Such talk is somehow connected to the way we ought to be — approaching each other, without fear, just to talk a little bit. PS Clyde Edgerton is the author of ten novels, a memoir and a new work, Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers. He is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNCW..

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found all across the Sandhills and throughout Piedmont North Carolina, but they are neither “common” nor are they “hawks.”

For one thing, nighthawks feed exclusively on insects, which they dine on mostly during the night. Nor do they grab their prey using their talons as true hawks do. Instead they use their oversized mouths to snap up beetles and other insects in mid-air. Nighthawks take to the skies mainly at dawn and dusk when insects are most active. Given their aerodynamic prowess, though, nighthawks are very successful predators at any hour. Due to their terrific night vision, they’re able to hunt quite effectively in total darkness. It is not, however, unusual to see them feeding during daylight hours, especially when they have young to feed. Look for them in early summer, when cicadas, grasshoppers, larger wasps and other bugs are especially abundant. Their characteristic low “peee-nt” call and erratic moth-like flight is unmistakable. Common nighthawks spend much of their day perched on pine branches. Invisibility is the goal, and it is easily attained with their mottled black, gray and white feathering. Their nests also are well camouflaged. On the forest floor, females simply scrape out a spot to lay their speckled egg, which blend in well with the mineral soil and miscellaneous debris typical of native arid terrain. Females perform a feeble “broken wing” display when

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By Tom Bryant

Over the years I believe I’ve accumulated enough knowledge to become something of an expert on country stores. One of my favorites is Slim’s Place, the one I frequent the most and perhaps have something of a bias toward, since my good friend and hunting buddy Bubba owns it.

Discovering country stores became a hobby for me on our many road trips across the country. When I venture north and west of the Mason-Dixon line, I have a tendency to equate my experiences to those in the sunny South, thinking they would automatically be different. However, I’ve discovered that often that premise is not true. For example, on a recent trip to the state of Washington, I checked out numerous backcountry small stores and, to my delight, found that most of them seemed to be familiar the minute I walked in. The reason for this, I believe, is the people who frequent these establishments. I noticed they aren’t different from their counterparts across the nation. They might talk a little differently, but hey, folks have said that I sound a little funny myself. What makes a country store a country store? To me it’s the merchandise stacked on shelves, sometimes haphazardly. Things you will not find in other mercantile locations. For example, pickled eggs and pickled sausage links, cast iron frying pans and Dutch ovens and galvanized buckets of all sizes. In some places, I’ve found coveralls big enough to fit three regular people, denim shirts that will wear forever and straw hats, the kind that have a plastic shaded green part in the front brim.

Most of the establishments have a central gathering area for the good old boys to kick back and wrangle the day’s news, for better or worse. In these places, one thing that you will not find is the lack of an opinion. At Slim’s country store, the focus of the patrons is the huge pot-bellied stove that’s centrally located. A mismatched collection of chairs, some slat-backed and some rockers, surround the old cast iron contraption. It’s a great place to hold forth. When the weather is warm, the boys will move to the wrap-around porch with its rockers, gliders and swings. Sometimes it seems as if being outdoors even improves the conversation, or makes it lighter anyway. You will notice that I keep referring to the patrons of these establishments as boys. Now ladies are allowed, of course, and sure enough they come to buy things, but they let their husbands, grandfathers and sons do most of the loitering. My grandfather had a country store on a busy corner of the farm in South Carolina. Many times, my grandmother would send me to the establishment to fetch him. She would direct me with, “Tell your granddaddy that supper’s ready and he needs to get home before it gets cold.” Granddad’s store was built for convenience more than profit. It was a place to pick up a loaf of bread or quart of milk. Grandmother even sold eggs from her free-range chickens. But folks really enjoyed the gathering and camaraderie of the neighborhood. It was a place to disseminate information, good and bad. With my grandfather, it was also a place where he could help neighbors down on their luck. Years after the old store closed and he had passed away, my uncle showed me a store ledger listing items charged and canceled because people couldn’t afford to pay. The business was literally a life-saver during the Depression. Country stores come in all sizes and locations. There’s one in a small town I visited not long ago that’s a hardware store. It was Friday, close to lunchtime, and I stopped to get directions to a restaurant. When I walked in, I noticed

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five or six gentlemen in a corner sitting around in a semicircle. Their conversation stopped when I entered the store and everyone checked out the newcomer. The place was huge with high ceilings and many intriguing goods that lined the numerous shelves. I made a mental note to come back when I had more time. To me, it was the best of all worlds, a country hardware store. The success of the small enterprises out in the country has spilled over to the big boys. Ace Hardware has just opened a new mega-store in Pinehurst. It resembles country hardware stores about as much as Wal-Mart does the A&P where I worked when I was in high school. Burney Hardware has evolved over the years to the amalgamated personality it is today. It was initially located in downtown Aberdeen in a big two-story building, and it had just about everything a small town would need in the way of hardware. The folks there even sold me shotgun shells for a nickel apiece. On weekends, after I finished my job washing cars at O’Neal’s Esso service station and I was fairly affluent with the day’s salary of $4, they would cut me a deal: five #8s, 12-gauge for twenty cents. Needless to say, my ratio of ammunition spent to game in the bag was a lot better in those days. Even in these so-called lucrative times, I still have a problem keeping myself from running through a whole box of shells at the skeet range. You can’t eat just one of those clay targets. Burney moved from its original location and is now situated on a busy highway right at the edge of town. It still has the ambience of the past, just much bigger, and you can find galvanized buckets in several sizes. The big boys in the hardware business are doing well. I love to browse through their acres of merchandise. I even bought my latest surf-fishing cart at the Ace Hardware when we were at Pawleys Island, South Carolina. I use it all the time at the beach. It’s great, of course, for fishing, but also for hauling chairs, coolers and beach umbrellas to the strand. There is a need for both the small traditional country stores — in many cases a living history of the neighborhoods they serve — and the new businesses that have expanded in size and merchandise. I will continue to enjoy both. But there is something about a cold winter afternoon at Slim’s Place after a morning in a duck blind, kicked back in front of the old pot-bellied stove that’s glowing red with a fresh load of coal, savoring a hot mug of coffee sweetened with a little of Ritter’s apple brandy. The big stores are gonna have to go a ways to compete with that. PS Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident, is a lifelong outdoorsman, PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist and a pot-bellied stove authority.

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youth league baseball teams in the mid-1990s when he noticed the quality and variety of baseball bats being manufactured to address the youth market. Versions in aluminum and carbon fiber polymers with narrow barrels, lighter weights and nuanced weight distribution helped kids take a healthy cut and develop their form without being burdened with weights their small limbs and core couldn’t handle.

It occurred to Van Horn, a lifelong golfer, former mini-tour player and a father with an interest in his children learning the game, that the golf industry did a poor job addressing adolescent golfers in a similar fashion. “You could find junior sets with a 3-wood, 5-, 7- and 9-irons that were essentially adult clubs, sawed off and a ‘junior’ label slapped on,” the Atlanta businessman says of his 1995 “ah-ha” moment. “The clubs were too heavy, the kids didn’t hit many good shots, and they didn’t have any fun. I sensed there was an opportunity there.” The first domino fell one year later when he incorporated U.S. Kids Golf with the idea of manufacturing “ultra-light” clubs for kids based on their body heights with shaft flexes and swing weights geared to each length. The next domino fell in 1997 when the first club rolled off the assembly line. “It was all about having fun,” Van Horn says. “If you play well, you’ll have fun. If you’re having fun, you might buy in for a lifetime.” The dominoes kept falling through the years — establishing competitions for

kids on local, regional, national and worldwide stages; setting junior-oriented tee markers so a 9-year-old could hit a driver and 6-iron on a par-4 like his dad does; coming to Pinehurst in 2006 for world championships that have become staples in the local golf scene; and creating coaching programs to help PGA of America members learn how to better teach and connect with kids and sell their memberships on the value of drawing children into golf. In 2015 one of the most interesting dominoes yet fell: the purchase of a struggling club in the Sandhills, and the establishment of a working “golf laboratory” with a mission of teaching and growing the game among juniors and families. U.S. Kids Golf Foundation, established in 2000 as a supplement to the U.S. Kids equipment business, bought Longleaf Golf & Country Club in April 2015 and renamed it Longleaf Golf & Family Club. “We’d been coming here for ten years and kept seeing Longleaf slide a little bit,” Van Horn says. “We wanted to have a presence in the community. We felt very welcome here, very supported by the community. The synergies around the Pinehurst/Southern Pines area as a golf capital, a golf mecca, have been important to us. It seemed like a great place to layer in more of the idea of kids golf, family golf.” Van Horn and his Atlanta-based company knew what it was like to be a vendor to the golf industry. They understood managing and running tournaments. But there was one key perspective they lacked in the daunting task of expanding a game that is difficult to learn, time-consuming to play, requires considerable financial investment and is fraught with timeless traditions and oftentime stodgy attitudes. “We wanted to experience the ‘other side of the track,’” Van Horn says. “We wanted to see the challenges in the golf shop on a real-time basis, understand the hindrances in running kids’ golf. We wanted a working laboratory where we could practice our vision of growing the game among kids and families while not disrupting traditional men’s play and club play.” Van Horn smiles and acknowledges there is a certain dog-catches-the-car-

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now-what element to the foundation’s fourteen months running Longleaf, a Dan Maples-designed course that opened in the late-1980s golf boom but has struggled amid the early 2000s recession and 2008 financial collapse. Eighty of the course’s sprinklers quit working last summer, and the new owners invested in a new computerized switching and monitoring system to better manage the flow of water around the course. But the sprinklers still didn’t work properly. “We eventually figured out the original lines ran under Midland Road, and over time the road sank and collapsed the pipes,” Van Horn says. “We wanted to learn the golf operations business. And we’re getting a full education.” The club facility at Longleaf is teeming this July morning with kids, parents, volunteers and U.S. Kids staff descending here and at Pinehurst Resort & Country Club three miles away for the Red White & Blue Invitational, one of a series of regional competitions leading to the U.S. Kids World Championships spread across ten Sandhills area clubs in early August. This year’s competition is expected to bring nearly 1,600 golfers from more than fifty nations. The Sandhills wasn’t quite sure what to expect in 2005 when the first U.S. Kids event was held and thousands of visitors from three dozen counties staged a parade through the middle of Pinehurst. All of a sudden, 8-year-olds were playing hide-and-seek in the halls of the venerable Carolina Hotel. Kids hit shots from sand traps by day, sneaked back in to build sand castles by twilight. Kitchen staffs learned to make pigs-in-a-blanket and were ready for French toast orders en masse in the breakfast buffet lines. The 2012 championship was the subject of a 100-minute documentary, The Short Game, that still runs on Netflix and profiles eight youngsters from around the world and their quest to win a world championship. “I have never seen anything like these kids,” says lifelong Pinehurst resident Marty McKenzie. “These are the highest quality youth on the planet participating in the greatest sport on the planet, and it all takes place in our beloved Pinehurst.” One initiative from Van Horn and his company that affects not only kids but women, seniors and men whose egos will allow them to stray from the traditional blue-white-red tee system is the implementation of a seven-tee configuration that puts golfers at the correct length of course based on their

average driving distance. The practice ground at Longleaf is arrayed with a series of brightly colored stakes numbered one through seven, the closest stake colored blue and located 100 yards away, the middle stake orange at 175 yards and the farthest colored red and set 250 yards off. A golfer’s average carry dictates which of the seven sets of tees he uses when he gets to the first tee of the course, with the tees at Longleaf ranging from 3,200 to 6,600 yards. The system is clearly explained in colorful signage on the practice tee and first tee. U.S. Kids is working with the American Golf Course Architects Society to educate the industry on setting up courses in this fashion, and the Longleaf staff has entertained emissaries from clubs such as Medinah in Chicago who are interested in making their clubs more welcoming to juniors and newcomers. “You hear jokes in the industry about three million golfers a year in, three million out,” Van Horn says. “No one has done anything to help people get over what it’s like to be a newcomer in golf. That’s what Longleaf is all about. “Now we have women playing a course 3,200 yards. It’s faster and more fun. They’re making pars and some birdies. Now they can actually reach a par-4 in regulation. Before they didn’t stand a chance.” When Pinehurst hosted the 2014 U.S. Open and Women’s Open, Van Horn and his staff counted 26 competitors in the two fields combined who were U.S. Kids alumni, among them Justin Thomas, Patrick Reed, Lexi Thompson, Beau Hossler, Smylie Kaufman and Maria Stackhouse. Van Horn is asked if he could ever have envisioned the empire he’s created over two decades when he wanted better junior clubs for his kids. “I have a lot of dreams, but I try to be faithful to the vision,” he says. “I take dreams one day at a time and try to be the best every day with it. You always can hope and have grandiose plans. I’m honestly frustrated that it’s not bigger than it is. I didn’t get into this for financial gain. I am doing it because I felt called spiritually and I feel like it’s my life’s mission. Maybe my entire life, I didn’t know what I was supposed to be doing. Now I do and here I am.” PS

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When Tim Sayer graduated from the College of Charleston with a theater degree, he did what all promising theater majors do — he waited tables. That was until he took a surfing trip to Costa Rica with some buddies and fell in love with photography. Self-taught, Sayer has had a studio in Southern Pines for twelve years. He captured performer Raquel Reed, kind of a Lady Gaga before Lady Gaga came along, in a New York City apartment.

You might as well say John Gessner got his start in photography on his paper route. Growing up in the Lake Region of upstate New York, one of his customers had been a still photographer during the silent movie era. Helen Hayes had a house down the street. As a boy Gessner met the famed portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh. He was hooked. He discovered a fortune-telling machine in one of the ancient arcades in Mrytle Beach.

Andrew Sherman is a freelance photographer specializing in architecture, food and lifestyle. A Maryland native and Wilmingtonian at heart, he moved away to get his MFA in photography at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) but returned after finishing because there’s no place like Wilmington. He believes in the power of collaboration and works closely with his clients to produce clean, graphic, upbeat imagery. Find him roaming the city he loves with camera or cocktail in hand.

The Tufts Archives in the Given Memorial Library is the custodian of the rich history of Pinehurst. In addition to original Donald Ross golf course plans and numerous Tufts family artifacts, the archives’ collection includes 80,000 photographic negatives by John G. Hemmer spanning over 40 years of Pinehurst history. Hemmer photographed celebrities, golfers and the unique — and sometimes fanciful — life of a thriving resort, including the occasional aquatic balancing act.

A Greensboro native, Lynn Donovan has been a swimmer, coach, actor, singer, dancer, pianist, accordion player, scuba diver and community volunteer. Starting out with a Brownie camera in the 1960s, she graduated to an SLR in the 1970s and continued shooting throughout her 30- year career with Greensboro Parks & Recreation’s City Arts/Community Services, as well as for pleasure. After retiring Donovan opened her own photography business.

Ned Leary retired from the corporate world in 2003, bought a camera at the local Best Buy and hasn’t looked back. Self-taught, he learned the basics via endless hours of internet tutorials and numerous landscape photography workshops in America’s national parks. His portfolio has evolved from fine art landscapes to include family portraits and most recently videography, where the balance of his time and pension are currently devoted.

Ginny Johnson has been photographing since college and remembers the good old days of developing her own film and printing images in a darkroom. She loves to shoot just about anything but has recently turned her camera lens to stormchasing. The image used in this feature is from a tour in 2015. A Colorado native, Johnson has lived in North Carolina since 1982 and currently resides in Greensboro with her dog, Blackie, and cat, Rascal, and two horses.

Mark Steelman is a full-time professional photographer and works hard to ensure anyone or anything looks its absolute best. Recalling a recent stop at the convention center, he says he took a photo of a group of women. One was particularly stressed about her photo and pleaded, “You be sure to Photoshop me.” He replied, “Ma’am, I don’t mess with perfection.” Her face beamed and she gave him a kiss right in the middle of the ballroom. What’s not to love?

Sam Froelich is a professional photographer and an award-winning independent film producer, whose films, such as Cabin Fever and George Washington, have been distributed worldwide. His best three productions all came in on time but way over budget — son Jake is currently senior at NC State, son Harrison a freshman at UNCC, and daughter Lucy a sophomore at Page High School. Froelich, born and raised in High Point, married a Greensboro girl, who made him move to the “big” city and for that he is eternally grateful.

Laura L. Gingerich is an award-winning freelance photographer. Her talent and gritty spirit have led her to the far corners of the world documenting relief and disaster assistance, and providing images that tell a story when words simply can’t. When she’s not on assignment, Gingerich’s popular photography workshops inspire beginners to advanced enthusiasts. You can contact her by sending an email to stoptime325@gmail.com.

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It’s been such a long, hot summer, we couldn’t resist the temptation to invite ten of our favorite contributing writers to uncage their overheated imaginations and tell us what’s really going on in the original photographs submitted by ten of our favorite photographers. The results, we think, are like fictional summer postcards from the edge . . .

Our Writers Virginia Holman writes both feature stories and her column “Excursions” for Salt. Her passions include kayaking, birding, teaching creative writing at UNCW and conjuring the siren songs from our salty marshlands. Her memoir of her mother’s untreated schizophrenia during the 1970s, Rescuing Patty Hearst, won a National Alliance on Mental Illness Outstanding Literature Award. She’s also been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, and a Carter Center Mental Health Journalism Fellowship.

Jim Moriarty is the new senior editor at PineStraw and an old golf writer. Author of two golf novels, he traveled the PGA Tour for thirtyfive years writing and taking photographs for Golf World and Golf Digest. His most recent book of essays, “Playing Through,” will be released in October. He can be found at his favorite public house, affectionately referred to by at least one patron as the Bitter and Twisted.

Maggie Dodson is the eldest and wisest child of James Dodson. She’s a reluctant New Yorker, avid biker, terrible photographer, stinky cheese lover, Stevie Nicks enthusiast, and aspiring film writer. Currently, she is copywriting her heart out for a large Manhattan-based PR firm, making short movies in her spare time, and tending to every need and want of her cinnamon-colored beagle, Billie Holiday.

Stephen E. Smith is a retired professor, a current poet and graceful voice from PineStraw’s earliest days to now. His poems, stories, columns and reviews have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies. He is the author of seven previous books of poetry and prose and is the recipient the Poetry Northwest Young Poet’s Prize, the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for poetry, and four North Carolina Press awards.

Billy Ingram is OG, Original Greensboro, but spent one of his lifetimes as a movie poster designer in Beverly Hills, California. A frequent contributor to O.Henry, Ingram has written about popular culture, art and Greensboro history. His latest book, Hamburger(squared), is a collection of short essays about the city he grew up in. The volume is available at the Greensboro Historical Museum, Amazon.com and your favorite bookstore.

Until this summer Serena Brown was living in Southern Pines, where she worked as senior editor of PineStraw magazine. Prior to that she was part of the award-winning team at the BBC’s prestigious arts documentary series Arena. A native Briton, Brown returned recently to the misty shores of her home country. She is now unpacking and trying very hard to remember which box contains an umbrella.

Ross Howell Jr. published the historical novel Forsaken with NewSouth Books of Montgomery, Alabama, in February 2016. The novel was selected as an “Okra Pick” by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA), was called “superior historical fiction detailing a cruel national past,” in Forward, and noted by Southern Living as “a solid entry into the Southern canon.” Howell is currently at work on a new novel and writes regularly for O.Henry.

Gwenyfar Rohler is a prolific writer, reader and archivist. Her writing can be found on the pages of Salt in her column“Stagelife / Screenlife” and “Omnivorous Reader.” As a founding member of Luddites United for Preservation, she spends her days managing her family’s bookshop on Wilmington’s Front Street and in her spare time, restoring two pre-computer-age cars. She wrote this bio by lantern and sent it by pigeon.

Maria Johnson is a contributing editor of O.Henry. Since the magazine’s founding five years ago, she has written humor columns and feature stories. A native of Kentucky, Johnson moved to North Carolina for a newspaper job in 1983. She has won several state and national awards for her journalism. She and her husband have called Greensboro home for more than 30 years.

Mark Holmberg is a writer who splits his time between Wilmington and Richmond, Virginia, where he writes for The Richmond Times-Dispatch and WVTR.com. He enjoys roaming with a camera in hand or surfing and fishing in coastal Carolina. He believes there’s some room for good ol’ printed words about believers and strays and adventurers who know anger and division make us weaker and easier to control, and that love is stronger than fear.

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Play Again Story by Jim Moriarty • Photograph by John Gessner

ickie Wilkes was a summer girl. The Smith brothers, Billy and Er-Er, knew when to expect her the way water knows when to boil. She was from Lake City, not Gypsy, where they lived. Just like a lot of people from across the water, she spent the hot months in a cottage on the shore, building fires on the beach and Saturday nights at the amusement park. Every summer Vickie Wilkes got a little taller, a little blonder and a little, well, bigger. This escaped the notice of exactly no one, in particular Billy and Er-Er, a set of twins so similar the only way to tell them apart was because one of them had trouble pulling the starting cord on his sentences and no one liked the name Um-Um. They watched each other eat cherry sno-cones, biting off the tips at the bottom of the paper holders to suck out the last drops. They rode three abreast on the old wooden roller coaster that moaned so badly it sounded like it was about to die of exhaustion. And they ran for the new attraction, the bumper cars with the tall poles that had floppy metal tongues on top that licked the ceiling and gave off sparks. Billy and Er-Er believed they’d scouted out which cars were the fastest ones and made straight for them the second the gate opened to make sure Vickie Wilkes got trapped in one of the slow jobs they could bang into over and over again. “Hey,” Billy said when the three of them came stumbling out of the cage of cars. “Look at that.” He pointed at Madam Magian, the fortune telling machine straight across the midway. Billy and Er-Er traded elbow jabs. They looked at Madam Magian. They looked at Vickie Wilkes. The Madam. The girl. They couldn’t believe they hadn’t seen it before.

“What?” Vickie asked. “Um, um, you’re just alike,” Er-Er said. Now, whether Vickie Wilkes had grown into it over the winter or Madam Magian had been refurbished in the off-season, there was no denying the blonde in the glass case looked as close to a dead ringer for the girl from Lake City as Billy looked like Er-Er. “Do not,” Vickie protested in defense of her humanity. “Do, too,” Billy said. “Why, why don’t we ask her?” Er-Er said. They ran to Madam Magian. Billy put a quarter in and cranked the handle, two turns, like a gumball machine. The crystal ball glowed from underneath. Gears meshed deep inside like a gastrointestinal disorder. The fortune-teller’s satin-covered arm hovered above the magic cards in front of her, moving back and forth until it clunked into place. The forefinger of fate with its red nail polish — for that was the color fate always came in — stabbed the Queen of Wands. A small card appeared in the slot below. Vickie used both hands to pinch the corners and pull it out. The crystal gazer sees a great deal of happiness in store for you. Twice as much to look at, twice as much to love. PLAY AGAIN! All summer. And maybe, um, um, forever. pS

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The Mother of Invention Story by Stephen E. Smith • photograph from the Tufts Archives

acey Pekerman, Reliable Used Autos’ Salesman of the Month for August 1933, was seeking inner peace. He’d just sold fourteen rusty rattletraps, surpassing his nearest competitor, salesman Inky Chavis, by five clunkers, and achieving an all-time monthly record for the dealership. A drink or two and he’d be free of the karmic guilt that accompanies the sale of a used car of questionable dependability to an unsuspecting rube. Or, in this instance, fourteen unsuspecting rubes. As soon as the whisky buzz hit his prefrontal cortex, he planned on kicking back and doing what he liked to do best — float in cool water and guzzle hooch nonstop. The Twenty-first Amendment would soon repeal Prohibition and Pekerman would no longer have to do his drinking alone on a scum-covered pond, but for now he was content to lull away the hours without the annoyance of unwanted company or a surprise visit from Eliot Ness and the Untouchables. To that end, his agile mind, always quick to grasp the possible, had conceived a means by which he could avoid leaving the water to refill his glass with moonshine or grab his favorite chaser, a lukewarm Coca-Cola. A man of greater ambition and lesser intelligence might have constructed a small raft from an inner tube and a few stray boards and placed his drinks and chaser on top. But that option would have required effort, a commodity which Pekerman never expended without discomfort. No, he’d come up with a better plan. If he did not have access to a bar he could belly up to, he would turn his belly into a bar. After all, a man of his bulk was as buoyant as a blimp and

could bob effortlessly in calm water for hours on end. Had Pekerman been familiar with the principles of Archimedes, he might have cried “Eureka!” as he slipped off his clothes, reclined in the cool water and began balancing the first two brimming tumblers on his knobby knees. From there the plan evolved of its own volition. He placed the cola bottle on his forehead, two more glasses balanced themselves nicely on his slightly distended belly, and the remaining tumblers he held in his open palms. Flexing his ample buttocks, he propelled himself gently into the center of the pond where he floated languidly, sunlight reflecting off the glistening glassware — and for a moment, one blessed moment, he achieved a state of Nirvana-like tranquility. Then he heard a car pull off the road and the driver and passenger scramble down the embankment to the edge of the pond. “Who’s there?” Pekerman asked. “It’s Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker,” a man’s voice answered. “What the hell are you doing? “I’m balancing glasses of whisky,” Pekerman yelled back. “Do what?” Bonnie asked. “Don’t you have a job?” “Yeah,” Pekerman answered, “I’m a crackerjack used car salesman.” “Well,” Clyde said, “this calls for a little target practice.” That’s when Lacey Pekerman recognized the unmistakable click-clack of a pump-action shotgun. pS

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Silence of the Frogs Story by Serena Brown • Photograph by Ned Leary

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ello?” “Oh, Shelby, hi, it’s Beth. Thank goodness you’re there. Will you do me a big favor?” “Of course. What do you need?” “Will you run out and look at the end of our drive? We left a load of stuff out there for the trash men, well, anyone really, to pick up. Can you see if we left a white, stuffed dog? If it’s still there?” “Yep. No problem. Let me just pick up a flashlight and I’ll walk down there now. You still on the road?” “No. We pulled off for the night about an hour ago. Yes, honey, I’m talking to her right now. Mommy will be off the phone in just a minute. No. No Dora now, it’s too late. OK, one episode. Just one. Excuse me, Shelby, yes, we’re in a motel. The Star Mountain one.” “Which now?” “Oh, no, sorry Shel, not us. I was talking to Jennifer. Star Mountain’s in her TV show. We’re somewhere in Georgia, I think. Maybe Tennessee. There was a state line we crossed round about dark. Then Jennifer started fussing. It wasn’t but ten minutes ago but it feels like ten hours. Oh, I can hear the frogs at your end. I miss them already.” “You don’t have frogs there?” “I don’t know. Not where we are right now anyway. All I can hear is Nickelodeon. Ow!” “Sorry love, I was whistling for Boyce. Damn dog’s made a break for the Stevens’ trash. Boyce!” “Did it stop raining?” “Yeah. Pretty soon after you left. BOYCE!”

“Shel?” Rustle shuffle rustle. “BOYCE!” Shuffle rustle rustle. “BOYCE! Get your ass back here!” “Shel. Are you there?” “Yeah. Hi. The Stevenses throw out a lot of food.” “Oh.” “What else do you need?” “When you get to our house, can you go round to the dog kennel?” “Did y’all forget the dog?” “I think we’ve got him. I don’t know anymore. I don’t know why we had a kennel, he never went in there. Anyway, on the tree behind it there’s a birdhouse. There’s a keepsake box inside it. Please, will you take it out and burn it?” “BOYCE!” “Shelby? There’s a box in the birdhouse. Please burn it.” “Surely.” “Thank you, Shel. Thank you. I’d better go. I need to work out where we’re heading tomorrow.” “Your stuffed animal’s here. Boyce has got it now. BOYCE! Drop it!” “It’s OK. He can keep it.” “Thanks. His tail’s wagging. Boyce, not the animal. But he looks pretty happy too.” “Good. Thanks, Shel.” “Anytime. I’ll say goodbye now, but I’m going to hang up back at the house so you can hear the frogs, OK?” “Yeah. Bye, Shel.” “Goodbye, Beth. Send a postcard. Here are the frogs.” pS

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Summer Postcards from The Edge

Brand New Me Story by Maggie Dodson • Photograph by Tim Sayer

ear Rob, I got your postcard from rehab. It looks like a very restorative location. I suppose it makes sense that sweeping views of the ocean and 24-hour hot yoga have incredible healing properties. I sure do wish you’d send some of those properties my way to repair the hole you punched in my wall. Gratefully no longer yours, Penny Dear Karen, Operation self-love is in full effect. Yesterday I burned all of Rob’s old shirts and ate not one — but four brownies. They were divine. On Mom’s advice I took up Web therapy and started chatting with a woman named Promise. She seems promising. And expensive. Later, on a drive through the south side of town, the sun was shining, Jimmy Buffett was on the radio, and I stopped by a garage sale and picked up a box of dumbbells. Maybe my dream of becoming a weightlifting, buff-goddess is in my future after all. Who knew? Give Jo-Jo a kiss for me. Xo Penny Dear Amazon Customer Service, I wanted to reach out and say “thank you” to Joyce, the woman who answered my phone call on Sunday evening and endured the gruesome details of how my relationship ended in what can only be described as a fiery ball of hell.

I didn’t mean to break down over my purchase of bedazzled magenta curtains, but Joyce met my sobs with patience, kindness and wisdom. She offered advice, noting that the healing process takes time, comes in many shapes and forms and that there’s always solace in a big piece of apple pie. Human kindness can be hard to come by these days, especially in the world of online shopping, but Joyce’s sweetness will stick with me. You’ve got a great woman on your customer-care team. Also, thank you for the full refund. On further thought, plain white curtains were better suited to my tastes and less glaring. A satisfied customer, Penny Dear Application Manager, I am writing in relation to the two cats up for adoption on the Furry Friends website, Betty Friedan and Judy Bloom. I’m in the midst a personal journey and though I’ve taken it in stride — new job, new hair color, new mindset — I find nights get lonely when adopting a new world philosophy. I feel two felines are the purrfect pair for my progressive lifestyle. As I mentioned, I’ve just begun a new job and I’m thriving. Outside of work, I bake, garden, get tattoos I don’t tell my mother about and recite poetry at a coffee shop downtown. I excel at feeding animals on time and letting go of things that aren’t good for me. Some say I’m a force to be reckoned with but my sister says I’ve got a good heart . . . I just need to find a person to nurture it. So while I’m searching for Mr. Right, Betty and Judy would bring me comfort and provide me with cuddles when I need them most. Eagerly awaiting your response, Penny pS

Summer Postcards from The Edge

Catamount

Story by Ross Howell Jr. • Photograph by Lynn Donovan

hit added honey to the chai, tapped the spoon on the sink and carried the mug to the glass doors overlooking the gorge. His wife sat on the deck in a chair by the railing. She was wearing his wool coat and cap with earflaps from his years at Bowdoin. Her pink bandanna peeked from under the cap. He cracked the door. “Robyn?” he said. “Won’t you come in? It’s cold as the bejesus.” Her face was pale. “No,” she said. “I like it.” The mug steamed the glass. He stepped outside and handed her the tea. “See if it’s all right,” he said. She took the mug and sipped, then smiled and nodded. “Perfect,” she said. She pointed to the sky. Her mitten looked like a big paw. “See the belt?” she asked. He saw three stars in a row. “Yes,” he said. “Orion, the hunter.” She sipped, cradling the mug with her mittens. “I heard it again,” she said. “Just now.” “Maybe it was the windmill,” he said. “Thing’s rusty as hell.” “No wind,” she said. “Still as the grave. I’m just telling you.” “Sweetie, there haven’t been panthers in these mountains for generations.” His ears stung. He rubbed his hands together. “I’m freezing,” he said. “Let’s go inside.” “In a little,” she said. She turned as he opened the door. Her eyes were bright. “Funny how it can come back,” she said. “You’re doing great,” he said. “All the doctors say so. Don’t freeze out here.”

She smiled. “All right,” she said. He went to the sink and rinsed the spoon. He put the chai and honey in the cabinet. He went to the fireplace, poked the embers, and added two split pieces of oak. Splinters crackled. Sparks glittered as they rose from the hearth. He looked out the glass doors. The mug was sitting on the rail. The chair was empty. “Jesus,” he said. He grabbed a wool cap and threw on his down vest. He flung open the door. “Robyn?” he called. “Robyn?” He trotted down the stairs of the deck, stumbled on a root at the base of the steps. He’d forgotten the damn flashlight. “Robyn?” Then he heard it. In the gorge, the mewling of a child. “Jesus,” he said. He started to run. Briars tore at his fingers and vest. Branches whipped his face. He burst through a thicket into a clearing. Robyn stood in the middle, her back to him. She clutched his cap and the bandanna in a mitten. Her bare pate undulated in the moonlight. Beyond her, he saw darkness crouched. The evanescence of breath. Pure white fangs. “Robyn!” he shouted. The big cat vanished. She turned to him, her face the one he’d fallen in love with when she was a girl. “Did you see, Whit?” she asked. “Yes,” he said. “I wasn’t afraid,” she said. “I wasn’t afraid at all.” pS

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Summer Postcards from The Edge

Black Limbertwig Story by Virginia Holman photograph by Andrew Sherman

ach Sunday, Great Grandmother Zelia, propped in her wingback chair, declared she wished to see one place before she died, her old farm. No one could bear to tell her it was gone, sold by her great nephew soon after she’d moved to assisted living. Her facility was good and the staff generous, but it took a lifetime’s assets and her monthly Social Security check to secure good care. Mother politely entertained the notion of a trip to the farm, so as not to crush Zelia’s spirit, but not for too long, because that would raise her hopes. Zelia was easily distracted, so in that way, the conversation was deferred. Two years before Zelia died, she offered me her sturdy 1971 Buick Estate station wagon as a sixteenth birthday present. For two decades she’d driven it to the holy trinity: Safeway, the post office, and the Caledonia Methodist Church. 23,000 miles. Mint, except for some rust, and free, or so I thought. Soon, I was called upon to run small errands. In time, my duties grew. One morning, I was summoned to take Zelia to her cardiology appointment. Patsy, her nurse at assisted living, wheeled her to the wagon, and tucked her into the passenger’s seat. “See you at supper, Mrs. Woods,” she said and patted her hand flat against the window to say good-bye. Patsy had sprayed Zelia’s hair a bit, which looked odd, like a fluff of cotton candy. Usually, Zelia wore it parted simply on the side with a tidy row of bangs. Teased up like this, her scalp shone through, pink and alive. “Thank you for taking me to the farm, dear,” Zelia said with a sigh. “The farm?” I said. Sly old Zelia. Her face was mapped with creases so deep you had to study her features to see what she used to look like. Her eyes were the color of new leaves. I tapped my fingers on the steering wheel. Zelia and I were now both too old for my mother’s scoldings. I’d languished that summer, bored to a stupor. I earned some money babysitting for women in Forest View who dressed in silk shantung to play bridge and drink with one another. Absurd. The world was absurd, my new favorite word, and I pronounced the s like a z, which I’d picked up from plump Mrs. Sterling, who’d once lived in Stockholm for an entire year, and seemed impossibly sophisticated. “All right, Zelia,” I said. What were forty miles and a missed appointment? As a child, the farm seemed remote, an interminable journey from rolling green field to rolling green field. Now it was traffic and stores and fumes. The farms were gone, subdivided and replaced with houses so close together you

could almost pass the sugar from one kitchen window to another. Along the way to her old farm, Zelia told me of her marriage to Henry Woods, and of their glorious month-long honeymoon across the Southeast. Henry had arranged to stop at successful farms along the way to learn from more experienced farmers. Some gave him seeds, which he labeled and placed in coffee cans. At the end of the final visit, an old farmer and his wife dug up a sapling from their orchard as a wedding gift, a Black Limbertwig apple tree. Henry, she said, tended that tree as if his success as a farmer depended upon it. He picked a spot somewhat sheltered from the wind, dug the hole, softened the soil, then gently flayed the roots with his thumbnail. Their soil wasn’t rich, so when the limbs seemed to droop as it grew Zelia was concerned, but not Henry. By the second winter, it had fruit buds. The third summer, it fruited. That fall he took a photo: his lovely Zelia with a perfect Black Limbertwig apple, the first ever in Caledonia. Eight months later their first girl, Rose, was born. I started to tremble as Zelia and I got closer to the old Woods’ farm, until I understood that my mother’s persistent refusals were generous. What good could come from replacing Zelia’s cherished memories with the terrible fact of its ruin? I pretended to be lost, killing time until I became so turned around I had to stop for directions at a small, two-pump general store on the outskirts of town. Beside the store was a field that needed bush-hogging. Orange daylilies ran wild in the ditches. There was a derelict barn, and beyond it, like a blessing, a small orchard, the trees gnarled and blighted, but still fruiting. “Look, Zelia,” I said. “Limbertwigs.” I couldn’t walk her to the trees, so she waited in the wagon as I trudged through the field, trespassing. I picked as many apples as I could carry in the front of my untucked shirt. Her old Estate smelled of cider the whole drive back. When I returned to assisted living with Zelia, my mother was waiting outside beside Patsy. She flew out to the parking lot in a purple-lipped fit, but when she saw Zelia dozing with the unripe apples in her lap, she quietly opened the back door and slid in behind me. We shared one of those tart, rough-skinned apples right there, while Zelia snored and the engine ticked in the heat. Tears poured down my mother’s face. I wasn’t quite sure what to make of them. I saved those seeds and used them over the years to start three separate orchards. Are they Henry’s Black Limbertwigs? Why, they must be, for when I gather those apples and close my eyes, there’s my mother and there’s Zelia — conjured clearer than any memory — almost close enough to touch. pS

Summer Postcards from The Edge

Come Saturday Morning Story by Billy Ingram • Photograph by Ginny Johnson

hey say before death, life passes before your eyes. So it was for William Binder Batson II as he dismissed well-meaning hospice workers in order to leave this world on his own terms. Breathing reduced to a death rattle, William reflected on what had been a hardscrabble existence from the very beginning. Orphaned as a toddler, he went to work while still in elementary school, hawking newspapers on one of Manhattan’s busiest intersections. Hardly his fault when the naive youngster was lured by a shadowy figure into a dark, deserted portion of the nearby subway station where he was met by six wise and powerful men who were well-meaning in their generosity but the out-of-body experience left him confounded and conflicted. The incident that followed left the boy with what might charitably be called the most severe case of split personality imaginable. He escaped into a world where jungle cats spoke to him in aristocratic English; a warped consciousness in which even a tiny earthworm was perceived as a dire threat with malevolent intent. It wasn’t until he turned 15 that William’s life took a turn for the better after he met a kindly older gentleman who offered the troubled teen his tutorage, teaching him how to trust again. They spent the better part of the 1970s traveling country backroads in a custom Winnebago; at each stop they found a way to enrich the lives of strangers. This impressed the young man who also appreciated that this unlikely patron called him by his boyhood nickname, “Billy.”

Anthropomorphic animals and insects no longer plagued his mind. The two eventually settled into a farmhouse outside a small town in Kansas, the older man tilling soil while William took a job at a family-owned hardware store. Townfolk admired the clean-cut lad who, they noticed, never cursed; closest he ever came was referring to “the ‘S’ word,” one that will never pass from his lips again. How respectful, everyone thought. Why, then, was it he never found the right girl or never managed to have any close relationships? Almost as if there was a secret held close, one so awesome he dare not share it with anyone other than the elderly man that took him in and accepted, without judgment, what he was capable of. It was barely six months ago that William (nobody had called him Billy since his mentor passed away) was given the terrible diagnosis: terminal cancer of the liver. With health rapidly deteriorating, he began to confront the reality of his tenuous mortality and consider what life after death might entail. So it came to be that, with no more than a few breaths remaining, William Batson spoke that word he had avoided since his teen years. In an instant, thunder rumbled the floorboards beneath his bed, a bolt of lightning sent down by the gods pierced the ceiling and the dying man vanished, in his place stood a virile collegiate athlete in a bright red bodysuit. Ironically, this revitalized individual can never speak “the ‘S’ word” William ended his life with. For if Captain Marvel ever utters the word “Shazam” he’ll revert back to Billy Batson and Billy Batson is dead. pS

August 2016P�� PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Summer Postcards from The Edge

Soup’s On Story by Maria Johnson Photograph by Sam Froelich

lear down to the river, Ashe could hear the public radio talk show wafting from the mountain cabin that his family rented every summer. A radio-show caller was talking about how she’d a picked a peck of peaches, which was more than she bargained for. She wanted the show’s host, a lady with a rich deep voice that reminded Ashe of his pillar-like Aunt Terry, to tell her what to do with the remainders. “Do you know what would be really good?” the Aunt Terry soundalike said. “What?” said the caller. “Peach soup,” said Aunt Terry. “Peach soup?” said the caller. “I’ve never heard of peach soup.” “THAT’S BECAUSE NO ONE EATS PEACH SOUP!” hollered Ashe’s mother, who was up in the cabin. The Aunt Terry impostor went on about the peach soup. “You don’t see it very much. But I once had it in Savannah, and it was out of this world,” she said. “So go to your refrigerator and get some coconut water and some fresh ginger, then take your food processor and . . .” “OH! OH! COCONUT WATER AND FRESH GINGER! WELL, JUST LET ME LOOK IN THE CRISPER! HONEST TO GOD. . .” hollered Ashe’s mother. Ashe knew that, as much as she protested, his mom would be asking if they had any coconut water and fresh ginger when she went down to the Food King this afternoon. He smiled to himself. His chin rested on his knees. His knees rested over his spongy green Crocs, which had taken on the funky metallic smell of the lake. He and his older brother Hoke had crewed their new rubber raft all along the shore until two days ago, when a neighbor’s Fourth of July bottle rocket had landed, still glowing, on the raft while it was dry-docked on a picnic table. The boys’ father was determined to mend the wound. He and Hoke had gone to the marina store in search of a patch kit. Ashe took the opportunity to go fishing by himself at the river that hooked around the cabin and emptied into the lake.

Folded up on a concrete finger that had braced a long-gone pier, Ashe cradled his grandfather’s old Zebco rod and reel in front of him. A ragged mound of mosquito bite itched the back of his left hand. He scratched it with his right hand and waved off a fly. Presently, his thoughts stilled, and particles of the present sifted down to the bedrock of memory. Cicadas thrummed the rhythm of summer. In the river’s still places, Jesus bugs walked on the water. A swarm of gnats hovered over ripples. Minnows huddled on the shady side of the concrete bar. A breeze slid through the leaves. Even the air had a distinct character. A voice popped the bubble. “Catch anything?” “No,” said Ashe. “Toldya,” said Hoke. “C’mon, we found a patch. You can blow up the raft.” Ashe stood to reel in his line. The wet cricket at the end had stopped kicking. Ashe gently removed it from the hook. The cricket would not die in vain, Ashe decided. It would find new life when Hoke unearthed it in a bowl of peach soup tonight. pS

Summer Postcards from The Edge

Spinnin’ Platters

“I

Story by Gwenyfar Rohler • photograph by Mark Steelman

’m worried about your father.” My mother didn’t even let me get inside the kitchen door before she rounded on me with a spatula in her hand. The unmistakable rhythm of the opening chords of “Peggy Sue” vibrated through the walls. Mom flipped a pancake in the cast iron skillet. It was breakfast-for-dinner-night — which meant she was really worried about Daddy. “He’s been playing those records all day.” Buddy Holly’s guitar was turned up at top volume, a shock in a house where one could pinpoint each family member by the sound of their footsteps. Her normally domineering voice was almost drowned out, and I wondered if part of her annoyance wasn’t just that for the first time in my memory she wasn’t the most powerful sound at home. She shook her head again, this time with a jerk of impatience. “This has something to do with his exgirlfriends.” She picked up a paring knife and began slicing peaches to go on top of the pancakes. “Haven’t you guys been married for like forty years?” I asked. “What do his ex-girlfriends have to do with this?” I snagged a piece of bacon from the plate on the center of the stove. “Are they even still alive?” “Go check on your father.” She swatted my hand away from the plate. “Go.” She gestured with the knife down the hallway. One does not argue with a well-armed matriarch. I went. In the living room my father was sprawled across his favorite upholstered chair with the carelessness of late adolescence: limbs floppy and akimbo, stillshod feet up on the coffee table. His eyes were closed singing along with the music, periodically directing part of the band with one hand in the air. Two speakers, like obese standard poodles, had been hauled down from the attic.

They were still covered in dust — except for his handprints — and connected by huge loops of new speaker cord to the record player and amplifier that had materialized from some place of hiding. “Hi Daddy . . .” I ventured. Somehow this didn’t look like something that I should interrupt. “Hi Kitty.” He hit a few drumbeats in the air. “Have you met Buddy? Buddy, this is my daughter, Kitty.” He opened his eyes and looked straight at me. “Do not ever get on a non-commercial flight in an ice storm.” He stared at me intensely and with deep meaning. “Do you hear me? Not ever.” He underscored this last point with a finger slash through the air. “OK . . . I promise.” “Good.” He closed his eyes again. I backed out of the room feeling that I was somehow intruding on a world that I could never understand. Back in the kitchen Mom asked me what I had learned. Were the ex-girlfriends, in fact, at the root of this? “Um, no, apparently this is about non-commercial aviation and ice storms,” I reflected. “So I think this is about Howard Hughes.” “Alan Fried, you mean. And no, don’t be fooled by that. This is about more than just an isolated incident.” She cocked her head to listen to the sudden silence. Daddy’s shaking hand scratched the record a bit when he tried to drop the needle on the next disc, then a groovy guitar pierced the air with a slight cymbal and the unmistakable wail of Janis Joplin. “Oh, no, he didn’t!” Mom looked toward the living room. You know you got it, oooh wooaaoh if it makes you feel . . . Janis crooned. Mom ran a hand through her hair, then turned back to me. “You should go spend the night at a friend’s house tonight.” pS

August 2016 P�� PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Summer Postcards from The Edge

Connected Story by Mark Holmberg photograph by L aura Gingerich

t was a short, hand-written letter that marched right into Margie’s soul with each neatly penned word. I was on Bus 28, it said. It was me who was with you that day, who left you the note with the ring at the hospital. I read of your husband’s death last year, and I hoped you might meet me so I can share something that has long been on my heart. The letter was signed Tony Pyanoe, and listed a date, time and, surprisingly, she and her late husband’s favorite Italian restaurant. Margie knew right where that old mysterious note was. She found her J.T. Hoggard class of ’71 yearbook filled with heartfelt and tearful messages written by virtually all of her classmates.The folded note slid easily out from under the cover. It had come to her hospital room forty-five years earlier in an anonymous envelope with a simple, wedding band-like ring. I have long admired you and am so glad you survived. We had nothing in common at school, but our blood mixed on the bus that day. I wish you a long life and I will always love you. She put down the strange note and thumbed to the Ps in her yearbook. Ahh, that Tony, she thought, looking at the stamp-sized photo. They had shared a few classes. He was a quiet, awkward boy, his hair already thinning. One of the nerds, she recalled. He was the son of Italian immigrants — working class. Far from rich, unlike her family, who owned big chunks of Wilmington real estate. And Margie had been as beautiful and popular as she had been rich. She had been the Homecoming Queen. Her boyfriend was the star of the lacrosse and football teams. Her boyfriend . . . He had been sitting next to her on Bus 28 during a senior field trip when the bus driver apparently suffered a heart attack and drove through the College Road intersection. They were T-boned by a tractor-trailer. Her boyfriend was killed instantly, along with three other students. It was the worst school bus crash in North Carolina history. She woke up in the hospital with no idea what had happened. Along with several broken bones she had suffered a deep laceration to her neck that left a long, high-ridged scar that she looked at every day. Her doctors had told her one of her fellow students apparently kept her from bleeding to death, but the rescue scene was so chaotic, no one really knew exactly what had happened. Margie went to her jewelry box and found the ring. She had worn it for years, imagining a hero student and remembering how lucky she was. When she got married, she took the ring off, but noticed it frequently while getting dressed. She slid it on her right ring finger and decided to go.

Tony had gone to Vietnam a year after the crash and had eventually become an engineer, he told Margie at the restaurant. He had married and raised a family. His wife had died of cancer two years earlier. He looked like a much-older version of the nondescript boy in the yearbook. But there was kindness and strength in his eyes. “I never forgot you,” he told her as they ate their entrees. Like many boys at Hoggard, he had idolized her, he said, not because she was beautiful, but because she was kind. “When the bus crashed, my first thought was of you,” he told her, his brown eyes gazing into hers. “Both my arms were broken,” he said. “I couldn’t feel my hands. But I crawled over to you and blood was pumping out of your beautiful neck.” Subconsciously, she lifted her hand and felt her scar — something she did a dozen times a day. “So I lay down beside you and kissed your neck. I used my lips to draw the wound together and put enough pressure to keep the blood from spurting until the medics came.” He reached out his hand and Margie took her hand from her neck and put it in his. “I know how crazy this sounds,” he continued, “but in the midst of that crazy disaster, all I could think about was how beautiful you smelled, how wonderful it was to be that close.” Margie could hardly believe what she was hearing. “Why didn’t you tell me this back then?” Margie asked. “Why the anonymous note?” “I knew you were destined for better things,” Tony said. “By the time I got my engineering degree and a decent job, you were already married.” She looked at the simple ring — it still fit nicely — as the waitress brought their dessert. Such an odd thing, the way this virtual stranger was making her feel. So comfortable, so protected, so cherished. And so not alone. And there was this powerful feeling of an old, nagging mystery being solved at last. “All these years I’ve dreamed of being this close to you again,” he said, leaning across the table. “I’ve seen your face, smelled your hair in a thousand dreams. For so long I desperately wanted to kiss you again, even if for just one moment.” Margie found herself leaning across her coffee. His fingers gently touched that scar on her neck, and then they were in her hair as he pulled her close for the kiss that would change the rest of their lives — forever. pS

Old Sol and Johnny Sunflower Seed One man’s love affair with summer’s essential flower By Ross Howell Jr.

ast summer a neighbor got me thinking about sunflowers, and I put in my first seeds ever. He was notorious for planting sunflowers near street signs, by sidewalks, or next to abandoned brick piles. He planted anywhere he discovered a patch of open ground, sometimes surreptitiously in the dead of night, earning the nickname the “Sunflower Bandit.” My neighbor prefers to think of himself as “Johnny Sunflower Seed,” playing on the name of our American hero of childhood lore. And I’d say he’s earned the right. Scion of an old North Carolina family whose ancestors include a legend in the hunt for Pancho Villa during the Mexican Revolution, a state senator, and a respected judge, he has served in the U.S. Navy, navigated a sailboat across the Gulf of Mexico, earned a commercial pilot’s license, and was once homeless, while struggling with addiction. Now, he tends brick-edged flower beds he’s fashioned with owners’ permission in front of businesses and apartments along a nearby street. He says his mother, a Louisiana girl, was the person who first got him interested in sunflowers. “There were beds along a stone walkway at our house,” he recalls. “And one spring, I think I was about 14, my mother brought me these seed packets. She said if I planted them along the walkway, they’d grow into enormous flowers.” His face brightens as he recounts the event. “Well, I planted those seeds, and I’ll bet I checked them every half hour to see if they’d sprouted. I watered and watered. And here grew these

giant plants, eight, nine feet tall, with big yellow flowers, and everybody commented on how beautiful they were.” He smiled. “When you’re a kid, things like that make an impression on you. Sunflowers are spiritual, you know?” he says. “They reach toward the sun, like they’re reaching to God, and they turn their faces, following the sun, like they’re following God.” I remembered, listening, that it was my mother who first got me interested in sunflowers, too. She favored the giant ones, saving their seeds for the winter feeder by her window — cardinals, chickadees, titmice and evening grosbeaks sampling the buffet as big snowflakes fell, dusting their feathers. Her sunflowers grew ten, even twelve feet tall, with seed heads so broad it seemed miraculous the plants could support them. “Add soil as they grow,” my neighbor suggests. “Say you add six inches of topsoil? That root is going to spread another ten inches.” He favors the tall, broad-shouldered yellow sunflowers. I go for the modest sizes myself, heights of five, six feet, because I like to cut flowers for my wife, Mary Leigh. This year I planted two varieties of yellow, and a red. The red sunflowers have faces of red, orange and ocher. They’re more finicky than the yellow, and want more care. The reds don’t stand the heat as well as the yellows, either, even if carefully watered. Still, I like working with them, and maybe I’ll get better at understanding their needs. But give the big yellow sunflowers a little water and plenty of soil, and they can take pretty much anything old Mr. Sol can beam down. And their stalks support burdens that sometimes seem impossible. In late summer they stand tall and regal, resilient and undaunted, among flowers frumpy and withered by circumstance. That’s what I like about them. I bet that’s what my neighbor likes, too. PS Ross Howell Jr. is catching up on his reading, starting a new novel, and anxious to hear from readers about favorite fall or winterplants, shrubs and trees.

August 2016 P�� PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

August 2016P�� PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

S to r y o f a H o u s e

Comfort Zone How a classic Pinehurst cottage brought a globe-trotting couple home at last

By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner

nyone who doubts a couple in midlife prime can radically change careers, continents, lifestyles and homes needs to look in on Kirk and Victoria Adkins at Red Gables, a 107-year-old, one-of-a-kind Pinehurst cottage that flouts the luxury revamps shared by contemporaries. No paneled Sub-Zero, spa bathroom or sound system. One TV, zero chandeliers. Master bedroom barely wide enough to accommodate a king-sized bed. A garden filled with homey zinnias. A far cry from the Adkins’ British country manse, their London muse (row house) with pink exterior, an iron-gated farmhouse in a Parisian suburb or the glass-walled Hong Kong condo fifty-two stories above the harbor. Not to say this restraint implemented by soothing hues and minimal furnishings isn’t gorgeous. Or that Kirk and Victoria miss the opulence. “It feels good to get back to ‘comfortable,’” Victoria says. “Possessions don’t make you who you are. I’m happier now working (in real estate) than I was going to museums and social events.” Kirk, glows with pride over how impossible engineering feats like air conditioning were engineered: “Every inch is usable — not a spare space, even behind walls, that we didn’t make into cupboards.” Besides, Victoria adds, “The village is a happy place.” Kirk finds its residents interesting and worldly, retired from careers in finance, medicine, law, management.

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irk belonged in the corporate column. After an MBA from Wake Forest University, the Indiana native was posted internationally for twenty years as an executive at the Sara Lee consumer goods division, then Hanes. He and Victoria, a special education teacher, dated in high school, reconnected at a friend’s wedding. As a “corporate wife” she became an expert at moving — nineteen times, covering four continents. To keep their two sons and adopted daughter from Siberia rooted in America, they rented a house on the Jersey Shore for summer vacations. When Hanes discontinued operations in Hong Kong, Kirk was still young enough to chase a dream: “I wanted to get into golf,” not as a pro, or an equipment retailer. “I wanted a degree in agronomy.” In other words, he wanted to arrive at the course before dawn, plan for and supervise crews who kept the terrain in optimum condition. Adieu Savile Row suits and leather briefcases and business class flights. Bring on the rain jackets, sunscreen and golf hats. Kirk applied to Purdue University and North Carolina State University, only to be advised that what he needed was the kind of hands-on program offered by Mike Ventola at Sandhills Community College. In 2012 Kirk and Victoria rented a house in Pinehurst while he attended SCC and interned at Forest Creek. “We didn’t plan to stay after that,” Kirk says. But, Victoria adds, “We met people and fell in love with the village.” Kirk currently serves as assistant superintendent of world-famous Pinehurst No. 2. Rank that alongside Kate Middleton’s aesthetician or Stephen Curry’s physical therapist. Obviously, Europe had refined their housing requirements: something with history, character and a unique feature. Something close to the action, like twenty-five yards from the Carolina Hotel driveway.

he Carolina Hotel, along with the village, was nouveau-chic when, in 1909, Bostonian Emma Jane Sinclair commissioned architect W.W. Dinsmore to design a winter home with satellite cottages for her married daughters. The Pinehurst Outlook of that year called it “A little gem, in mission style, with bright red rows of tile and stucco walls . . . which adds tremendously to the attractiveness of the outlook from the hotel.” In truth, the Southwestern exterior probably raised a few eyebrows among residents who chose the more familiar white clapboard/black shutter New England motif. In 1918, the property was sold to coal baron Henry B. Swoope of Pennsylvania — a descendant of one of George Washington’s Revolutionary War colleagues. Swoope’s letters to tradesmen on file at Tufts Archives show his displeasure at the milkman for running out of cream — also arrangements to have unloaded an entire railway car of “egg” (large lump) coal for his and other furnaces. Poor Mr. Swoope died in 1927, at 46, leaving a wife and nine children. The house later passed to L.L. Biddle II of the prominent Philadelphia family, later intermarried with the Dukes of Durham. When the Adkinses discovered Red Gables, barely used by Canadian owners, the property stood neglected and sad. “We asked people about it and they said, ‘Run, don’t walk away! You’d be crazy to buy that house!’” Victoria recalls.

But Victoria and Kirk saw only the unique features: a vaulted ceiling over the living room; beadboard walls and terra cotta tile floors; original threeover-three square windows with wavy glass; an attic that could be opened up as a master suite. They hired a contractor, a designer — and dug in. First, the AC. The stucco exterior and painted beadboard walls made conventional ductwork impossible. A space was created over the kitchen ceiling and behind the attic knee wall for the new system. Victoria moved the front entrance to an existing patio door and converted the vestibule to a pantry. The hopelessly dated kitchen was opened up with an island separating it from the dining area, which replaces a formal dining room and flows into the living room. The window removed to make room for a refrigerator was re-installed elsewhere. Light was a priority; the living-dining area has only one lamp, but Victoria increased recessed spotlights from 28 to 90. An entire wall of windows in addition to French doors further brightens the main floor. Although modest in size, the practical kitchen suits Victoria and Kirk, who both cook. A narrow hallway leads to two small bedrooms joined by a double bath, Kirk’s office and, at the end, a sun porch, now Victoria’s office with adjacent laundry room. Bathrooms were renovated but not enlarged. One clawfoot tub remains.

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The major new construction was the master suite overlooking the living room, accessed by a narrow staircase original to the house. “I like the way the boards creak,” Victoria says.

reating the loft sitting area, bedroom and, especially, the bathroom presented a second challenge. “They said we’d never fit a shower in there,” Kirk smiles, pointing to the large glass-enclosed installation. Fitting a mirror over the sink was another puzzle that failed several times before succeeding. Finally, the master bedroom, as planned, proved too narrow to accommodate a kingsized bed. Victoria wouldn’t budge. The dimensions were altered. Still, the sleeping space is smaller than dressing rooms in most luxury homes. Victoria and Kirk think differently. “What more do you need than a bed and nightstand?” she says. “Our first night was so much fun, like sleeping in a treehouse.” Above the bed buzzes a triple ceiling fan resembling airplane propellers encased in wire frames . . . just mesmerizing. The Adkinses’ frequent moves were not conducive to amassing furniture. Even so, to prevent any sense of clutter, Victoria refined her collection to one or two antiques per room. The palette of dusky turquoise, soft green, beige and vanilla unite and soothe, from area rugs to dog-friendly leather upholstery. A credenza from France fills an entire wall in Kirk’s office, while his desk is British. Kitchen shelves and counters display Victoria’s collection

of blue pottery jugs and canisters. Tiny lights illuminate glass-front cabinets. One tall, non-functioning radiator holds potted plants. Dark-stained beams in the vaulted ceiling, beadboard walls painted cream, pine flooring found in the attic satisfy Victoria and Kirk’s love for wood. Art reflects Kirk’s golf involvement. Just inside the front door hangs their signature piece. The nine-by-four-foot painting, done in photo realism, depicts Kirk and Victoria, their children and dogs, playing in Kensington Gardens adjoining the Albert Memorial in London. The artist tricks the eye by repeating the same family members in different sections of the park. The wall, prominent and perfectly sized for this treasure, helped convince Victoria to take on Red Gables, at 2,450 square feet by far the smallest of their homes. Converting the free-standing garage into guest quarters is always an option. The house stands on half an acre, about one-third of the original parcel. Much of it was overgrown with vines, home to snakes and varmints. A backhoe was brought in to clear the front yard. Victoria decided on simple groundcover and a clear view of the hotel beyond the lighting kiosks that flank the driveway entrance. The red tile roof had been replaced but otherwise, Red Gables exterior remains much as it was during Pinehurst’s Golden Age. “For us, (the house) is magical,” Victoria says. “We got rid of a lot of baggage, which has taken stress out of our lives,” Kirk continues. “We have what we need and need what we have.” Or, as Victoria sighs, “What a relief!” PS

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Starry Eyed

Welcoming the Harvest

By Ash Alder

August is a poem you can taste. Swollen fruit beckons us to the garden, the orchard, the roadside stand, and for some of us, the trailing vines that wind along the woodland path. The air intoxicates us with notes of wild honey and dandelion. Damselflies dance between milkweed and goldenrod, fiery sunsets fade into star-studded twilight, and come nightfall, the crickets and katydids gift us with song. Nothing gold can stay, they lament. And so we savor each delicious moment. The Wheel of the Year, an annual cycle of eight seasonal festivals (or sabbats) observed by modern pagans, includes a grain harvest celebration called Lammas (loaf mass) on August 1. Also called August Eve, the first harvest festival of the year includes a feast of thanksgiving, the first sheaf of wheat ritually baked into a sacred loaf said to embody the spirit of the grain. Regardless of which seasonal festivals you choose to observe, now’s as good a time as any to consider the abundance of the season, especially when you’re slicing that thick Cherokee Purple for the perfect ’mater sandwich. And as you sow your autumn garden — beets, carrots, peas and greens — try whispering a little song of thanks into the soil and see what follows: a new delicious season of magic, no doubt. Another harvest. But for now, listen to the katydids.

The gladiolus, or ‘sword lily,’ is the birth flower of August. Bright and showy, they symbolize a heart “pierced with love.” Astronomically speaking, there’s a lot to pierce the heart with love this month: the Perseid meteor shower, for instance, which happens August 11–13 and is visible worldwide. Predawn is the best time to see it, and since the quarter moon will have set by 1 a.m., the dark sky should be an ideal canvas for this (pardon) stellar show. Native Americans called the full moon of August the “Sturgeon” or “Green Corn” moon. On August 18, see what you’re inspired to call it. And if you’re prone to set intentions, the full moon is prime time. It’s also a good night for onion braiding, an ancient way to store bulbs pulled from the garden in late July. Some believe that onion braids offer protection, but they’re simply lovely. You need no reason more.

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Taste of Summer

National Peach Month is here. A fun fact: True wild peaches (small and sour) are only found in China, where the fruit is said to have mystical properties and grant longevity to those who eat them. Our peaches (plump and sugary) have magical qualities, too. Don’t believe it? Sink your teeth into a just-picked one and see if you don’t grin like a sweet-toothed squirrel. Also, August 3 marks National Watermelon Day. Slice one for a picnic in the backyard, where the kids can make a sport of seed spitting. Since watermelons are more than 90 percent water, they’re a tasty way to help stay hydrated on hot summer days. Slip them into salads and salsas, or treat yourself to something even sweeter, like a mint and watermelon soda float. The following recipe (and a delicious homegrown watermelon) came from a friend: Fresh Mint and Watermelon Float 2 1/2 cups fresh watermelon chunks 12–15 fresh mint leaves, coarsely chopped 12 oz club soda or carbonated water Vanilla ice cream In a blender, combine watermelon, mint and water. Blend and pulse quickly for 30–60 seconds (or until watermelon breaks down). The blending will “de-carbonate” the water, but it should still have some fizz. Pour mixture through a fine mesh strainer into a large bowl to remove seeds. Fill two glasses with vanilla ice cream and pour watermelon soda over top. Garnish with additional fresh mint. Serves two. 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, status and location before planning or attending an event. MASTER GARDENER HELPLINE. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., weekdays through October. If you have a question or need help with plant choices, call theMoore 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. It’s not too late to register for the Summer Reading Program! Get rewarded for reading, and help reach the community goal of 1,000 summer readers! Register at the library or online at www.sppl.net. The theme this summer is “On Your Mark, Get Set . . . READ!” and includes opportunities for participants of all ages to attend special events at the library. The program and related events are free and open to participants of all ages and reading abilities. Southern Pines Public Library 170 W. Connecticut Ave. Info: (910) 692-8235 or sppl.net.

Monday, August 1—23 ART EXHIBIT. Gallery hours. “Small Gems of Art,” a full members exhibit. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979.

Tuesday, August 2 SUMMER ARTS AT JOY OF ART STUDIO. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. August 2, Desert Animals Drawing and Painting, ages 7–9; August 3, Paint Your Pet for Art Cards, ages 10–12 (Bring a Photo of Your Pet); August 4, Selfies and the Camera (cameras not required), ages 10–12; August 5, Mixed Media Medley Create with Recyclables, ages 7–9; August 6, Choc Full of Creativity and Techniques, ages 7–9; August 8, American Girl Returning to School, ages 7–9; August 9, Fairies, Elves and Unicorns, ages 7–9; August 10, Creative Printing and Stamping, ages 12–14; August 11, Nature and Design the Microscope, ages 8–12; August 12, Fiber-art and Ring gold, ages 7–9; August 13, It is all about the Animals of the Plains

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(drawing), ages 7–9; August 15, Best Friends Journaling and Painting, ages 7–9; August 16, Face and Proportions, ages 10–12; August 17, Mixed Media Girly-Girl, ages 7–9; August 18, All About African Animals, ages 7–9; August 19, Harry Potter, ages 7–9; August 20, It is all about Snakes, Sharks and Squids, ages 7–9; August 27, Nature Design and Diatoms, ages 7–9. Cost: $25/class or $100/5 classes. ($20/day for a group together of 8 or more. Your child comes in free for that day.) Tailored classes also available. Joy of Art Studio, 139 East Pennsylvania Ave. B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or joyof_art@msn.com. NATURE TALES. 10 – 10:45 a.m. for ages 2 to 4, and 11 – 11:45 a.m. for ages 5 and 6. “See Ya Later, Alligator.” Preschool story and nature time. No cost for program, but please preregister 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) 4860221 or capefearbg.org. DECORATIVE CLAY WOODCHIME. 6 – 8 p.m. Learn basic techniques for working with clay to design and create a one-of-a-kind piece for your home! For adults and teens ages 13+. Cost: $10/CFBG member; $15/non-member. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (pre-registration required): (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org. ZUMBA IN THE GARDEN. 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. This class will capture the Latin-inspired dancing outdoors in our beautiful Garden. Bring water and comfortable shoes. Free to CFBG or YMCA of Sandhills members; $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required one day prior): (910) 486-0221, capefearbg.org, or at the garden.

Wednesday, August 3 DOWN TO THE RIVER HIKE. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. This hilly, woodland 1-mile hike includes discussions about plants and animals found along the banks of the Cape Fear River. Recommended for ages 8+, accompanied by an adult. Wear

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closed-toed shoes and bring a water bottle! Fee included with CFBG membership or admission, to be paid at the door. Pre-registration required. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 4860221 or capefearbg.org. ART CLASS. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. “Photographing Art Using Digital Camera,” taught by Betty Hendrix. Covers basics about photographing your artwork and the types of cameras required. Cost: $30. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979.

Thursday, August 4 ART CLASS. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. “Block Printing,” taught by Lynn Goldhammer. Using a soft cutting block, an assortment of cutting tools, and a water-based ink, students will learn the basics of reduction block printing. Cost: $60, supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979. OWL PELLET INVESTIGATION. 2 – 3 p.m. Discover the amazing adaptations that help owls hunt at night and dissect an owl pellet to determine what the owl had for dinner! For ages 8+. Parents are welcome to stay and help. Cost: $5/child (CFBG member); $8/child (non-member). Adult admission applies for adults walking the Garden. Pre-registration is required. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org. SUNRISE THEATER SUMMER CLASSIC SERIES. 7:30 p.m. Some Like It Hot (1969), sponsored by Whit Lauter. Cost: $6. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com.

Thursday, August 4—6 KIDS GOLF TOURNAMENT. The 2016 U.S. Kids Golf World Championship, played at Pinehurst Resort and several other area golf courses, is the largest and most prestigious event in the world for players 12 and under. Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (888) 387-5437 or uskidsgolf.com.

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ca l e n da r Friday, August 5 HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. (1 hour and 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. MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 12 – 3 p.m. Visit with artist Diane Kraudelt and learn about her techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 255-0665 or hollyhocksartgallerycom. FIRST FRIDAY. 5 – 8:30 p.m. A family-friendly event with live music by Parsonsfield, a five-piece alt/folk band from Northampton, Massachusetts, that infuses a rowdy, rock-’n’-roll spirit into its bluegrass and folk influences. Food, beverages, and entertainment. Free admission. No dogs, please! Sunrise Green Space, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or firstfridaysouthernpines.com. 36TH ANNUAL FINE ARTS FESTIVAL. 6 – 8 p.m. Opening reception and awards ceremony featuring artists from all over the U.S. Festival presented by the Arts Council of Moore County, reception hosted by ACMC Board of Trustees. Exhibition dates: Aug 5–26. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or mooreart.org. CAPE FEAR RIVER PRESENTATION AND BOAT TOUR. 6:30–9:30 p.m. After a presentation in the museum annex, participants travel to Campbellton Landing for a sunset river tour to the confluence of the river and Rockfish Creek. Cost: $25. Ages 10+ welcome. Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local History Museum, 325 Franklin St., Fayetteville. Info and registration: fcpr.us.

Saturday, August 6 NATURE TALES. 10 – 10:45 a.m. for ages 2 to 4, and 11 – 11:45 a.m. for ages 5 and 6. “See Ya Later, Alligator.” Preschool story and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register 2 business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 4860221 (ext. 20) or capefearbg.org. HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. (1 hour and 15 minutes each). Come 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) 2952257 or kirktours.com. MUSIC AT THE WINE CELLAR. 7 – 10 p.m. Jen Hillard performs at the Wine Cellar & Tasting Room, 241-A NE Broad St., Southern Pines. Free to the public. Info: (910) 692-3066.

Saturday, August 6 and 7 DRESSAGE SHOW. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Early Morning Blues Dressage Show. Harness Track, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-8467 or carolinadressage.com.

Sunday, August 7 WEYMOUTH WOODS NATURE STUDY. 3 p.m. Hummingbird banding at Weymouth Woods.Ornithologist

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day prior): (910) 486-0221 or at the garden. Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org.

EXPLORATIONS SERIES FOR ADULTS. 3 – 4 p.m. Learn the Zentangle Method, an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or sppl.net.

WEYMOUTH’S WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE READING SERIES. 5:30 p.m. Beth Staples, associate editor of Ecotone and Lookout Books, will read from her novel-in-progress and talk about the business of publishing. This event is free to the public and followed by a wine and cheese reception. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

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Wednesday, August 10 & 11

BOOK LOVERS UNITE. 7 p.m. This month’s topic for discussion is “Biographies.” Bring your favorites list and add to it as others describe their favorite biographies. Free and open to the public. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-7002.

ART CLASS (DRAWING). 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. “Draw It II,” taught by Sandra Kinnunen. Sandra reviews tips, tricks and techniques from Draw It I, with an emphasis on shading technique. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979.

SANDHILLS PHOTO CLUB MEETING. 7 – 9 p.m. Program: Member Competition. Theme: Insects. Guests welcome. Theater in the Hannah Center at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: sandhillsphotoclub.org.

Thursday, August 11

Monday, August 8—10 PINEWILD YOUTH GOLF CLINICS. 9 – 11 a.m. These three-day clinics for boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 16 focus on golf fundamentals, etiquette, rules of play and more. Appropriate golf attire and own clubs required. Register by August 4. Cost: $85. Golf Academy at Pinewild Country Club, 6 Glasgow Drive, N.C. 211 W., Pinehurst: Info: (910) 235-9191 or pinehurstrec.org.

Tuesday, August 9 CANVAS PAINTING FOR KIDS. 3 – 5 p.m. Canvas, paint, brushes, easel and instruction provided for children ages 7+. Cost per child: $20/member; $25 non-member. Adult admission fees applies for walking the garden. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required one day prior): (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org or at the Garden.

Wednesday, August 10 PRESCHOOL BIRDERS. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Learn about birds and how to identify them. Cost: Included with CFBG membership or to be paid at the door. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required): (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org. TAI CHI CLASS. 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays, through August 31. Tai Chi Master Lee Holbrook leads this peaceful workout for people of all levels. Cost: $21/residents; 42/nonresidents. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-2817 or pinehurstrec.org. HAND-BUILDING CLAY FOR KIDS. 2 – 4 p.m. Explore basic clay hand-building techniques. For ages 6+. Cost: $5/child (member); $10/child (non-member). Adult admission applies for walking the garden. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required one day prior): (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org or at the garden. YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6 – 7 p.m. A peaceful yoga session for all levels in the beautiful Orangery. Bring a yoga mat and water bottle. Cost: Free to CFBG and YMCA members; $5/ non-members per session. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required one

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GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 and 7 p.m. Robert Lloyd speaks on his experience working for Carsey-Werner Television (That 70’s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Roseanne, Cybill, and Different World) and the future of television. 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) 295-6022 or (910) 585-4820. WINE AND WHIMSY. 6 – 8 p.m. “Dragonfly.” Enjoy a glass of wine or beer while painting your masterpiece. Instruction, canvas, paint, brushes, palette and easel 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, August 12 HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. (1 hour and 15 minutes each). Come 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) 2952257 or kirktours.com. FAMILY GAME NIGHT. 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Traditional board games will be set up under the Timmel Pavilion and lawn games in the meadow, including giant checkers, limbo, tic-tac-toe, Twister and more. For all ages. Food and beverages available for purchase. The Village Arboretum, 375 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-2817 or vopnc.org. MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Angela Pinsel discusses her debut novel, Love from the Inside, about a woman who awaits execution on Death Row for killing her infant son, and her daughter, who must decide if her mother is a monster or loving mother. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. MOVIES BY THE LAKE. 8:15–9:30 p.m. The Aberdeen Parks and Rec Dept and sponsors present The Good Dinosaur, shown on the big screen. Admission is free, concessions available for purchase. Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275 or explorepinehurst.com.

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paper to make collages and design original note cards. Cost: $50. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979.

HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. (1 hour and 15 minutes each). Come 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) 2952257 or kirktours.com.

ZUMBA IN THE GARDEN. 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. This class will capture the Latin-inspired dancing outdoors in our beautiful garden. Bring water and comfortable shoes. Free to CFBG or YMCA of Sandhills members; $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required 1 day prior): (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org or at the garden.

MAKER SATURDAYS. 2 p.m. “Snap Circuits.” Maker Saturdays let students explore technology in a relaxed environment. A movie about a wannabe Notre Dame football player will be shown at 2 p.m. For grades 6 through 12. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or sppl.net.

Wednesday, August 17

DANCE SOCIAL. 6:30 p.m. Carolina Pines Chapter of USA Dance. Free lesson from 7 to 8 p.m., and social dancing from 8 to 10 p.m. Summer casual dress. Cost: $10 ($8 members). Southern Pines Elks Club, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Info: (919) 770-1975 or (910) 215-5791. MUSIC AT THE WINE CELLAR. 7 – 10 p.m. Caroline Parsons performs at the Wine Cellar & Tasting Room, 241-A NE Broad St., Southern Pines. Free and open to the public. Info: (910) 692-3066.

Sunday, August 14 MEET THE AUTHOR. 2 p.m. Amy Krouse Rosenthal will be signing her new book, Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal, a timeless collection of insights, memories and moments, organized into classic subjects such as social studies, music and language arts. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. SUMMER KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. This film is about an amazing dog that shoots some hoops. Snacks are provided by the Friends of the Library. Free and open to the public. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or sppl.net.

Monday, August 15 PRESCHOOL NATURE STROLL. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. A stroll through the garden to look for flowers, butterflies, and other plants and animals. Child must be accompanied by an adult. Fee included with CFBG membership or admission, to be paid at the door. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org. 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.

Monday, August 15—17 OUTER BANKS TOUR. Visit the Lost Colony, Kitty Hawk and Wright Brothers Memorial, NC Aquarium and Cape Hatteras Lighthouse. Cost: $526/per person based on double occupancy. Includes luxury transportation, beach accommodations, breakfasts, one dinner and admissions. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre. Info and reservations (deadline August 3): Kirk Tours, Pinehurst (910) 295-2257 or kirktours. com.

Monday, August 15—19 NATURE NUTS: FULL-DAY CAMP. 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. “Budding Biologists.” For ages 5 to 7 to learn about different animals. Cost: $150/CFBG member; $200/non-member. Snack and water bottle included. Register by Wednesday, August 10, online or at Garden Gift Shop. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org.

Tuesday, August 16 ART CLASS. 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. “Playing with Paper,” taught by Kathy Leuck. Learn how to create new and original

PRESCHOOL TEXTURE HUNT. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Use your senses to explore the garden and make a craft with natural objects.Fee included with CFBG membership or paid admission. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (pre-registration required): (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org or at the garden. ART CLASS (PAINT, ALL MEDIA). 1 – 4 p.m. Wednesdays through September 21 (six sessions). For all levels of experience, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory and composition. Cost: $47/resident; $94/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration (required by August 10): (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. BOZ SCAGGS IN CONCERT. 7:30–9:30 p.m. The musician invites fans to celebrate his new album and the songs of days gone by. Cost: $34.75 and up. Crown Theatre, 1960 Coliseum Drive, Fayetteville. Info: (910) 438-4100 or explorepinehurst. com.

Wednesday, August 17—19 ART WORKSHOP. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. “Painting from the Live Model,” led by Mark Stephenson. Participants explore painting the figure and capturing the overall gesture of the pose with only a few brush strokes. Cost: $300. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979.

Thursday, August 18 DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. Meeting held at the Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376 or (910) 692-8235. DINNER AND BROADWAY. Disney’s Newsies, at Durham Performing Arts Center. Cost: $136/person, includes orchestra seating and transportation. Departs at 3:30 p.m. from Pinehurst Historic Theatre at 90 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: Kirk Tours, Pinehurst. (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com. OUTPOST ARTISTRY SONG AND POETRY CIRCLE. 7 p.m. ALL singers, musicians, and poets are invited to share their music or poems in an intimate atmosphere and creative exchange. Bring your musical instrument, voice and words. Free and open to the public. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-7002. WIGGLE WORMS. 1 – 2 p.m. Learn where worms live in their natural environment and how we use them to “vermicompost” our food waste. For ages 5+ accompanied by an adult. Fee included with garden membership or paid admission. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required 1 day prior): (910) 486-0221.

Friday, August 19 HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. (1 hour and 15 minutes each). Come 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) 2952257 or kirktours.com. MAKING A CEMENT LEAF BIRD BATH. 1–3 p.m. Pat Banville, instructor. Cost: $25/Horticultural Society members; $30/non-members, materials supplied. Payment due at preregistration. Outside Steed Hall area of Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882 or (910) 692-6185 or explorepinehurst.com.

ART CLASS (OIL PAINTING). 1 – 4 p.m. Fridays through September 23 (six sessions). For all levels of experience, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory and composition. Cost: $47/resident; $94/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration (required by Aug 12): (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. MOONLIGHT HIKE AT WEYMOUTH WOODS. 8 – 9 p.m. Walk the trail by moonlight. Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. REGISTRATION DEADLINE. Last day to register for Kirk Tours’ Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown Tour, September 13–15. See Upcoming events (page 100) or call (910) 295-2257 for more information.

Friday, August 19—21 DRESSAGE SHOW. NCDCTA Labor of Love Dressage Show. 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Southern Youth Team Competition. Harness Track, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (352) 363-0085 or equestriansecretarialservices.com. JUNIOR INVITATION GOLF TOURNAMENT. The 33rd Annual Mid Pines Junior Invitational golf tournament is for golfers under the age of 18. Mid Pines Inn and Golf Club, 1010 Midland Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2114 or explorepinehurst.com.

Saturday, August 20 SATURDAY CRAFT DAY. All day. Get your creativity flowing making outdoor crafts. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. GALLOP ON THE STEEPLECHASE TRACK. 8 a.m. –12 p.m. This is an opportunity to learn how to accurately gauge speeds. Meter markers set in 50-meter increments up until 1,350 meters. Call for prices. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 POTTERY COUNTRY TOUR. All day. Join Kirk Tours and explore the Sandhills’ storied native industry, see amazing pottery pieces and unique artwork. Cost: $45/person. Departs 9 a.m. from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst, and returns approximately 4 p.m. Info and reservations: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com. KNIT IN THE GARDEN. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Knitters of all skill levels, ages 15+, are invited. Cost: Knit Kit (needles and yarn): $10/non-members and $6/members. Free if you bring your own knit kit. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required 1 day prior if you need instruction): (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org. MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 12 – 3 p.m. Visit with artist Charlie Roberts and learn about his techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 255-0665 or hollyhocksartgallerycom. MEET THE AUTHOR. 4 p.m. Julia Franks discusses her new novel, Over the Plain Houses, a spellbinding story of witchcraft and disobedience, set in Depression-era North Carolina. Free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. MUSIC AT THE WINE CELLAR. 7 – 10 p.m. Josh Haley performs at the Wine Cellar & Tasting Room, 241-A NE Broad St., Southern Pines. Free and open to the public. Info: (910) 692-3066.

Sunday, August 21 SUMMER FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This film is about the first women’s baseball team. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Monday, August 22 POND EXPLORATION. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Learn what types of critters might be found in the pond and how to use a dip net to catch them. Be prepared to get muddy! For ages 5+, accompanied by an adult. Fee included with CFBG membership or paid admission.Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and pre-registration (required): (910) 486-0221.

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Oil and Acrylic

Oil Painting with Courtney – Courtney Herndon – Tuesday/Wednesday, August 30/31, 9:00-3:30 $110 Composition – Bob Way – Wednesday/Thursday/Friday, September 7, 8, 9, 9:00 – 4:00 $195 Oil Painting with Harry – Harry Neely – Wednesday/Thursday, September 14, 15, 10:00-4:00 $100 Painting Lights and Darks in Oils and Acrylics – Diane Kraudelt – Monday, September 19, 9:00-4:00 $60

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Draw It II – Sandra Kinnunen – Wednesday/Thursday, August 10, 11, 9:00-12:00 $60 Figure Drawing with a Live Model – Linda Bruening – Monday, August 22, 9:30-12:30 $40 Figure Drawing with a Live Model – Linda Bruening – Tuesday, September 13, 9:30-12:30 $40

Colored Pencil and Pastel

Intro to Pastel – Betty Hendrix – Friday, September 23, 10:00-4:00 $55 Drawing With Line Only – Barbara Sickenberger – Wednesday/Thursday, September 20, 21, 1:30-4:30 $60

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Photographing Art Using Digital Camera - Betty Hendrix – Wednesday, August 3, 10:00-2:00 $30 Block Printing - Lynn Goldhammer – Thursday, August 4, 9:00-4:00 $60 – Supplies included Playing with Paper - Kathy Leuck – Tuesday, August 16, 9:30-3:30 $50 Beginning/Intermediate Scratchboard - Emma Wilson – Tuesday, August 23, 10:00-2:00 $50 – Supplies includedd

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Intermediate Watercolor - Four Week Course - Andrea Schmidt – Tuesdays, September 6, 13, 20, and October 4 (times vary) $120

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ca l e n da r ART CLASS (DRAWING). 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. “Figure Drawing with a Live Model,” taught by Linda Bruening. For beginners who want to learn how to draw figures and for more advanced students who want practice.Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979. LUNCH & LEARN IN THE GARDENS. 12 – 1 p.m. “Growing Fall & Winter Vegetables,” with Master Gardener Bruce Fensley. Bring your lunch. Drinks provided. Free and open to the public. Ball Visitors Center, Sandhills Horticultural Gardens., 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882 and register by email at landscapegardening@ sandhills.edu. SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. Terry Sharpe, former longtime biologist with the NC Wildlife Commission, will speak on bobwhite quail population and habitat studies in the Sandhills. Visitors welcome. Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.sandhillsnature.org.

YOGA CLASS (INTERMEDIATE). 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Tuesdays through September 27 (six sessions). Carol Wallace leads this co-ed course for individuals who have a basic understanding of yoga and wish to advance their skills. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Must pre-register. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS. 4 – 5 p.m. for ages 5 to 9 years; and 5 – 6 p.m. for ages 10 to 15 years. Tuesdays through September 13 (four sessions), taught by tennis professional Michael Bonnell. Cost: $5/resident; $10/non-resident. Register by Aug 19. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Tennis Court #1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. ADULT TENNIS LESSONS. 6 – 7 p.m. Tuesdays through September 13 (four sessions), taught by tennis professional Michael Bonnell. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Register by Aug 19. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Tennis Court #1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Must register by Aug 19. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

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PRESCHOOL CATERPILLAR HUNT. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Learn all about caterpillars and go on a caterpillar hunt with magnifying glasses to see them up close! Fee included with CFBG membership or paid admission. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required 1 day prior): (910) 486-0221, capefearbg.org, or at the garden.

BUTTERFLY HUNT. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Learn the difference between butterflies and moths, review their life cycles,and learn how to use a butterfly net. Fee included with CFBG membership or paid admission. Pre-registration required. Ages 5+ accompanied by an adult. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org.

ART CLASS (SCRATCHBOARD). 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. “Beginning/Intermediate Scratchboard,” taught by Emma Wilson. Learn how to scratch away paint on a black scratchboard to indicate lines, light and values using different common drawing techniques. No drawing skill required. Cost: $50, supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

ART CLASS (INK). 12:30 – 4 p.m. “Ink-Tastic-Intermediate Alcohol Ink,” taught by Pam Griner. Expand your knowledge and discover techniques to create a more advanced look. Pre-requisite: Basic Alcohol Ink. Cost: $55, supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6 – 7 p.m. A peaceful yoga ses-

sion for all levels in the beautiful Orangery. Bring a yoga mat (limited mats to borrow) and water bottle. Cost: Free to CFBG and YMCA members; $5/non-members per session. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required 1 day prior): (910) 486-0221 (ext. 36) or at the garden. Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org.

Thursday, August 25 SENIORS DAY OUT. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Explore the history of the American Civil Rights Movement with a guided tour of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro. Enjoy lunch (Dutch treat) at one of their local restaurants. A Pinehurst Parks and Rec program. Cost: $26/resident; $52/ non-resident. Meet at Assembly Hall, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. IN & OUT AT THE OUTPOST. 7 p.m. Join Major (Ret.) Jason Howk for a discussion about the life and legacy of General George C. Marshall, America’s finest soldier-statesman and a citizen of Pinehurst. Free and open to the public. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820. INTRODUCTION TO AROMATHERAPY. 2 – 3:30 p.m. Learn about the benefits of aromatherapy and explore the use of essential oils and scents. For adults and teens, ages 13+. Cost: $10/CFBG members; $15/for non-members. Pre-registration required. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org. YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS. 4 – 5 p.m. for ages 5 to 9; and 5 – 6 p.m. for ages 10 to 15. Thursdays through September 15 (four sessions), taught by tennis professional Michael Bonnell. Cost: $5/resident; $10/non-resident. Register by Aug 19. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Tennis Court #1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. ADULT TENNIS LESSONS. 6 – 7 p.m. Thursdays through September 15 (four sessions), taught by tennis professional Michael Bonnell. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident.

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ca l e n da r Register by Aug 19. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Tennis Court #1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. SOUNDS ON THE GROUNDS. 6:30 – 10:30 p.m. Johnny Folsom 4 (Johnny Cash) performs at this family-friendly concert on the lawn series. Bring chairs or blankets and enjoy! Food trucks and beverage kiosks on site. Cost: $5/members; $10/non-members (children under 12 free with adults). Tickets available at Weymouth Office, The Country Bookshop, and at the door. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

Friday, August 26 DAYTRIPPERS. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Greensboro Science Center (zoo, museum and aquarium). This Pinehurst Parks and Rec program is designed for teens and young adults to get out and explore various things that NC has to offer. Cost: $27/resident; $54/non-resident. Bring money for lunch. Group departs from and returns to Village Hall, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (919) 295-2817 or pinehurstrec.org BUTTERFLY HUNT. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Learn about butterflies and moths and how to use a butterfly net. Fee included with CFBG membership or paid admission. Pre-registration required. Ages 5+ accompanied by an adult. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org. HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. (1 hour and 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.

Friday, August 26—28

Tuesday, August 30

FLAVORS OF SPAIN — A FOOD & WINE WEEKEND. Discover the exciting world of Spanish wine and cuisine. Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (844) 289-3462 or explorepinehurst.com.

PRESCHOOL CATERPILLAR HUNT. 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Learn all about caterpillars and go on a caterpillar hunt with magnifying glasses to see them up close! Fee included with CFBG membership or paid admission. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required one day prior): (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org or at the Garden.

Saturday, August 27 MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 12 – 3 p.m. Visit with artist Louise Price and learn about her techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 255-0665 or hollyhocksartgallerycom. MAKER SATURDAYS. 2 p.m. “Black-Out Poetry.” Maker Saturdays let students explore technology in a relaxed environment. For grades 6 through 12. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or sppl.net. MEET THE AUTHORS. 4 p.m. Steve M. Miller and J. Timothy Allen discuss their book Slave Escapes & the Underground Railroad in North Carolina. Allen and Miller use harrowing firsthand accounts to investigate how AfricanAmericans escaped oppression in a dark chapter of Tarheel State history. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. MUSIC AT THE WINE CELLAR. 7 – 10 p.m. Bill West performs at the Wine Cellar & Tasting Room, 241-A NE Broad St., Southern Pines. Free to the public. Info: (910) 692-3066.

Sunday, August 28 A TRIBUTE TO ABBA. 3 – 5 p.m. Presented by Vision 4 Moore, The Dancing Dream is one of the best ABBA Tributes since ABBA itself. Cost: $35 reserved seating $30 day of admission, and $25 advanced general admission. Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6554; tickets: vision4moore. com or (910) 365-9890 for reserved seating; The Country Bookshop, Given Memorial Library for general admission.

ACOUSTIC MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 7 – 9 p.m. All welcome to play or listen. Bring your own instrument and beverage and enjoy the community of local artists. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261. ZUMBA IN THE GARDEN. 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. This class will capture the Latin-inspired dancing outdoors in our beautiful garden. Bring water and comfortable shoes. Free to CFBG or YMCA of Sandhills members; $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration (required 1 day prior): (910) 486-0221, capefearbg. org, or at the garden.

Tuesday, August 30 & 31 ART CLASS (OIL PAINTING). 9 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. “Oil Painting with Courtney.” Courtney Herndon provides demonstrations and instruction in painting landscapes and floral still life, in an impressionistic, loose construction style. Cost: $110. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

WEEKLY HAPPENINGS Mondays BRIDGE. 1 – 4 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.

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ca l e n da r MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 2 – 5:30 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods, and more. FirstHealth Fitness Center, 170 Memorial Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 947-3752 or moorecountync.gov or localharvest.org.

Tuesdays BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 – 11 a.m. (August 2, 9, and 16 only) This storytime, intended for babies from birth to 2 years, will engage parents and children in early literary practices. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or 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 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: Single class: $15/members; $17/non-members. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. TECHNOLOGY TUESDAYS. 3 p.m. This summer program for students age 8+ meets on three Tuesdays: August 2, 9, and 16 only. Topics will include the poor cartographer, keeping secrets, and computer conversations. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or sppl.net.

Wednesdays YOGA CLASS (INTRO). 9 – 10 a.m. (April 13 through May 18) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for individuals who are either new to the practice of yoga or wish to refresh their skills. Cost: $35/resident; $70 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

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SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 3 – 6 p.m. Fresh and locally grown fruit and vegetables. Village Green, 1 Village Green W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or moorefarmfresh.com.

to 3. Cost: $35/month; $10/drop-in, includes half-price admission. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc.com.

BATTLE OF THE BOOKS SUMMER BOOK CLUB. 10 a.m. for elementary grades, 11 a.m. for middle grades. Through August 11. A book club for students, focusing on the NC School Library Media Association Battle of the Books lists for the 2016-17 school year. Cost: $20 for the whole summer, includes a copy of the first book and storewide 15 percent discount all summer. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30 – 4 p.m. (August 3, 10, and 17 only) Stories, songs, fun, and activities to build skills necessary for kindergarten. For all children through age 5, and families are invited. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or sppl.net. JOY OF ART OASIS FOR WOMEN. 7 – 9 p.m. This is a group for women to explore their own spiritual and creative self through meditation, yoga, drawing, painting, collage, clay, journaling, creative visualization and mandala work. Cost: $10 donation. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave. B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or joyof-art.com. Wednesdays 7 – 9 p.m. once a week ongoing. Mini retreats once a month and in October two-day retreat.

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 moorecountync.gov or localharvest.org. JOY OF ART CREATIVE COFFEE. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. For all creatives who want to get together and talk about topics that pertain to the creative process and get reinforcement, support and encouragement for your own creativity. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave. B. Southern Pines. Info: (910) 5287283 or joyof-art.com/the-creative-process. PLAY ESCAPE. 10:30 a.m. Kindermusik Playtime. For ages 0

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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. FAMILY FUN NIGHT. 5:30 p.m. (August 4 and 11 only) Children in grades K to 5 and their parents are invited to join the summer fun. Themes: Olympics and Equestrian Sports. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. THURSDAYS AFTER HOURS. 5 – 8 p.m. Bring the family and enjoy music, games and activities for all, food trucks on-site and cash bar for beer and wine. Cost: Admission FREE for garden members. General admission applies for non-members (call for prices). Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. EasternBlvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 (ext. 20) or capefearbg.org. FAMILY FUN NIGHT. 5:30 p.m. Children in grades K to 5 and their parents are invited to join the summer fun. Themes: Golf with Jim Hardy from Kids Golf, Uber Goober Family

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ca l e n da r Fun with Good Food Sandhills, Library Bowling, and Kids Iditarod. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Clay White leads handson preparation of menu items (gnocci, Thai, ravioli, Moroccan, Lebanese, cannolis or pasta). Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices and specific menu. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or the flavorexchange.com.

Fridays 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.

SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Fresh and locally grown fruit and vegetables. Village Green, 1 Village Green W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or moorefarmfresh.com.

JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6 – 10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music, provided by Blackwater Rhythm and Blues, The Sand Band, Blackwater Rhythm and Blues, Cool Heat, and Midnight Allie. Cost: $10/person. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of 8 or more. Food vendor on site. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 3690411 or cypressbendvineyards.com.

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JAMESTOWN TOUR. Offered by Kirk Tours. Experience the daily struggles of wartime America, visit the James River Plantation, and other sites. Cost: $595 per person, double occupancy. Includes luxury transportation, accommodations, breakfasts and admissions. Reservations deadline is August 19. Info and reservations: (910) 295-2257.

p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. FirstHealth Fitness Center, 170 Memorial Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 947-3752 or moorecountync.gov or localharvest.org.

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I’ve always gotten a kick out of how August born Leos are creative types —extroverted and full of drama. But August born Virgos are analytical types,

who like working hard and being of service. This explains how come August is a lot of things to a lot of people: the month, for instance, we celebrate National Golf, Picnics, Peaches and, last but not least, Romance Awareness Month — with something for both sides of the spectrum to get a big old kick out of, Star Children. Ad astra — Astrid

Leo (July 23–August 22) Gluttony is still a character defect, last time I checked. And when someone brings you a birthday cake, that does not mean you can scrape all the icing off, eat it till your stomach hurts and leave the plain old bald cake sitting there for everybody else. You know what you like, and once you’ve gone after it, you don’t care one iota if that sticks in someone’s craw as you swallow the last bite. Celebrate yourself, Honey Child, but remember that might mean you leave at least half the icing on the cake for your friends. Virgo (August 23–September 22 There was a time when being retro wasn’t cool. You missed that memo. Now you’ve grown into yourself and the time is finally right. Just keep that chin up and let everybody think you were simply way too cool to ever give a fiddle-fart what everybody else thought. Then become that person, Sugar. Libra (September 23–October 22) Somebody ought to thank you, Captain Obvious. You have mastered the finer points of things that most people might think everyone sees. But they don’t, and you know it. So be true to yourself, Child, and let the jokes roll off your straight back. Busting out with a cuss word is not a good way to exercise your vocabulary. Scorpio (October 23–November 21) It has been an uphill climb for you, you’re hot and bothered, and your brain is as fried as a pork rind. Just when one weight rolls away another seems to find you. It’s easy to be you, because nobody else would take the job. But it sure is going to have its perks; be patient.

Aquarius (January 20–February 18) What’s keeping you from the greatness you are born to enjoy? One degree of separation, my sweet pea. Only one. If you still want it, go for it. Unseen hands are reaching to help, and even if they are calloused, take them and dance. Pisces (February 19–March 20) Your honor student and your dog may be smarter than everybody else. But, Child, does that mean you are — all the time? Don’t confuse pity with understanding. Also, don’t waste your last dime buying them lottery tickets, either. Aries (March 21-April 19) Are pork and beans your two major food groups? Is Pigeon Forge your idea of heaven? Don’t apologize. Are you sure you want to be someone other than who you really are? Bless your heart. You are just fine as you are, and pass me the Texas Pete. Taurus (April 20-May 20) Your reasoning lately makes no kind of sense. That’s like confusing collards with grits. When the whole mess in front of you is over and the collard stink clears from the room, the good news is your mind is going to clear, too. Blue skies are coming. Gemini (May 21–June 20) Does your heart go pitter-patter when you hear a Harley? Is there a part of you that won’t be tamed? You let loose with the national anthem like you wrote it and make everybody smile. These passions are what make others love you, Sugar. Live your life out loud.

Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Some think you are too big for your britches and have nowhere to hide. Maybe you are. But maybe you have the right to stand up for yourself and not be overlooked or miss being counted. Everything sure isn’t what it appears. Like my bumper sticker says, honk if you love a good argument.

Cancer (June 21–July 22) There’s a fine line between speaking your truth and using it like a blunt object. You scared your friends and neighbors, hollering as if that makes your argument one bit stronger. Sugar, it didn’t. Elvis died in August. The Mona Lisa was stolen in August more than a century ago — and it took two years to recover. It’s a tricky month ahead. But you don’t have to take that long to get a grip. PS

Capricorn (December 22–January 19) You are still standing back, still wondering if you have what it takes. Seriously? Does Dolly Parton let a bad hair day keep her off the stage? No, Honey. Your life didn’t start yesterday and leave you behind. It starts this very second so don’t miss it.

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I never heard the word “firefly” until

I was an overgrown adult. When I was living in the North, someone in the winter mentioned that he missed seeing fireflies.

I don’t understand why anyone would want to refer to a lightnin’ bug by any other name. The term “lightnin’ bug” is so descriptive (even if it is a beetle, not a bug — but certainly not a fly). It’s one of the few names that perfectly describes the creature. You can say “lightnin’ bug” only once to a 2-year-old, and she will immediately know what you’re talking about. “There it is,” my granddaughter said when I asked, “Where’s the lightnin’ bug?” without any explanation. It’s a familiar sight on summer evenings at dusk as small children marvel at the blinking lights that slowly fly above the ground to heights where they disappear from sight. In a less gentle world, children once even captured these critters to make a lantern. It would be the only light permitted in a dark room and provided the perfect setting for telling tall tales, particularly ghost stories. When I was growing up, catching lightnin’ bugs was the summer sport of my neighborhood. From older kids, I learned early that using a Mason jar was

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the perfect way to catch them. The glass jar showed the evening’s collection as it increased and also let the blinking lights harmonize in a silent rhythm. It’s hard to imagine that simply staring into a jar could be so entertaining. The lesson of catching lightnin’ bugs was not complete until we agreed to release them into the air before we went inside our houses at bedtime. It was the first way that generations of future anglers learned a “catch and release” policy before holding a rod and reel. Even though a lightnin’ bug has a life span of only two months, as kids we were convinced that it would live forever if we didn’t harm it. As parents, when you think your kids are ready for a “birds and bees” discussion, just remember the lightnin’ bugs. All that summer magic that they produce is simply flashy flirting — males flash their lights to attract the ladies, who reply with their own flashes. More than half of the people in North Carolina use “lightnin’ bug” exclusively as the name in contrast to about 6 percent who use only the term “firefly.” (The others use both names interchangeably.) In western parts of our country, firefly is exclusively used. Of course, they’re confused because fireflies, er, lightnin’ bugs, that live in California and places in the West don’t light up like the species in our area. If you want to catch a flashing bug, use a Mason jar, and be sure to call it a lightnin’ bug. Just don’t call it a firefly. PS Ray Linville writes about Southern food, history, culture and, sometimes, Mason jars.

August 2016i�� PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Illustration by Meridith Martens

By any descriptive name, they’re pure summer evening magic

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