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

ContInuIng Care retIrement CommunIty There may come a time when you require additional care or assistance. Here we strive to make this transition as east as possible through a number of services. HOME CARE

Our Licensed Home Care services range from medication reminders to personal care assistance FAMILY CARE HOME

Our cottages create a small residential home in an intimate environment. Our staff is on- hand 24 hours a day and is trained to provide Assisted Living Care and support as needed SKILLED CARE

The Inn at Quail Haven Village provides health and nursing care in addition to personal care and support. REHABILITATION

Our dedicated, highly experience team works one-on-one with our patients to provide in- and out-patient physical, occupational and speech therapies.

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August 2017 Features 77 Wild Words

Departments

78 Mani/Pedi

22 PinePitch 25 Instagram Winners 27 Good Natured

Poetry by Lenora Laura Lomax By Lee Smith

81 Your Husband is Cheating on Us By Jill McCorkle

84 So Bad It’s Good

Famous banned book covers artfully re-imagined

90 Patron Saint of The Farm

By Jim Moriarty How an unheralded pioneer of women’s golf created a life of meaning and joy

94 World Class

By Deborah Salomon Generations of travel are reflected in a charming eclectic Pinehurst home

105 Almanac

By Ash Alder Meteors and wild berries

Cover Photograph by Tim Sayer

17 Simple Life By Jim Dodson

By Karen Frye

By Renee Phile

65 Out of the Blue

By Deborah Salomon

67 Notes from the Porch By Bill Thompson

29 The Omnivorous Reader

69 Sporting Life

33 Bookshelf

73 Golftown Journal

39 Hometown

106 117 125

By Stephen E. Smith

By Romey petite and Angie Tally By Bill Fields

41 A Writer’s Life By Wiley Cash

45 Vine Wisdom

47 In the Spirit

51 Pleasures of Life

55 The Kitchen Garden

By Robyn James

By Tony Cross

By Jim Wheaton

By Jan Leitschuh

On the cover: Damita Nocton takes a break among the books at The Country Bookshop

Photograph this page by John Gessner

58 Sandhills Photo Club 63 Mom, Inc.

By Tom Bryant By Lee Pace

Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson

127 The Accidental Astrologer By Astrid Stellanova

128 SouthWords By Susan Kelly

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7 Lakes West: Elaborate home for entertaining! Magnificent architectural features with attention to detail & quality craftsmanship. Water front home on Lake Auman with more than 8,400sf of luxurious living areas. 5BR/6.5BA. $1,475,000. Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

Horse Country: “Azalea Crossing Farm” a true gem amidst the hoofbeat of Horse Country. Private yet close to So. Pines. Trails to Weymouth & short hack to Walthour Moss Foundation. Beautiful home with lovely architectural features. 3BR/3BA. $1,250,000. Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

Old Town: “Edgewood Cottage” delightful Dutch Colonial home

What A View: 1400 feet of golf frontage . . . this home offers a view from almost every room! One level home, 4BR/4Full2HalfBA’s, terrace, pool, 2-car garage. Spectacular, so come see for yourself! $980,000. Carolyn Hallet 910.986.2319

complete with in-ground pool & Cabana housing a bath/dressing area & kitchenette. Short stroll to the Village! Beautiful grounds! Versatile living spaces, each with its own special features. $899,000. Emily Hewson 910.315.3324

Waterfront on Lake Dornoch: Over 4,000 sq.ft. in CCNC; 3BR/3.5BA’s. Kitchen/family room with fireplace, formal dining, spacious living room, lower family room - all with lake views; spacious decks and terraces. $895,000. Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Fairwoods on 7: Prime golf-front location overlooking the 9th hole & pond. Quality built and beautifully appointed. Open plan to the Great Room, Dining Room, Office, Kitchen and Patio. Generous sized rooms. Upscale Kitchen. 3BR/3.5BA. $695,000. Kay Beran 910.315.3322

CCNC Golf Front Transitional: 4,000 sq.ft. with 3BR/3. 5BA’s. Located on 6th hole of Dogwood Course. Updated kitchen, living room with fireplace, Carolina room, and pool with spa. View at: www.75LinvilleDrive.com $685,000. Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Pinehurst: Just a short stroll to the heart of the Village! This

lovely home has been cleverly expanded and upgraded with unique renovations to include fabulous comfort! Beautiful professionally landscaped lot and patio area. 4BR/4BA. $639,000. Kay Beran 910.315.3322

Pine Grove Village: Exceptional executive home on over 1 acre park-like setting with access to Reservoir Trails & Lake. State-of-the-art Kitchen w/gas Thermador range & Woodmode cabinetry. 2-Story Family room overlooks rear gardens & water feature. 4BR/3.5BA. $575,000. Kay Beran 910.315.3322

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Golf Front with Water View: Situated on 4th green of CCNC’s Cardinal Course; over 4,000 sq.ft. with 4BR/3.5BAs; great room with cathedral ceiling, wet bar, 2 master suites with great views. Great views from every room. $499,500. Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Pinewild CC: Ideal water front retreat on 1.5 acre site, with over 3,000 sq.ft. of comfortable, elegant living space. Designed to capture water views from Living Room, Kitchen, Carolina Room, Master, Deck/Patio & lower level. 3BR/2.5BA. $485,000. Kay Beran 910.315.3322

Downtown Southern Pines: 1920’s spacious downtown cottage, on desirable street. 4BR/3BA with separate living & dining rooms, eat-in kitchen, office & family room! Roomy basement & wired workshop. Beautiful gardens. $449,000. Mav Hankey 910.603.3589

7 Lakes West: Wonderful 2-story home offering space, tons

Weymouth Heights: Curb appeal! Great neighborhood!

Downtown Southern Pines: Spacious 2780 sq.ft. home with 4BR/3BA’s, eat-in kitchen, office & family room with walk-out to BBQ area! Located on a quiet street, just 3 blocks to Downtown & 2 miles to Ft. Bragg gates. $335,000. Mav Hankey 910.603.3589

Pinehurst No. 6: Outstanding golf front views of the 16th hole, encompasses the entire par 3 and will not disappoint! Many sought after upgrades! Formal/Informal areas, Carolina Room & split bedrooms. 3BR/2BA. $324,000. Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

Middlton Place: This home affords much privacy! Beautiful

garden patio with irrigation system. Spacious rooms & hardwood flooring makes this a premier unit. Updates include: paint, carpet, crown moudling. Broker/Owner $305,000. Bill Brock 910.639.1148

Whispering Pines: Charming and inviting cottage style home. 10’ Ceilings in the Living/Kitchen/Dining Rooms, gas fireplace, Carolina Room, 3Bdrms, 2.5Baths. Deck overlooks private wooded setting. Lovingly maintained. $232,000. Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

Lakeview Condos: Water front view from this Furnished, 2 bedroom, 2 bath, upstairs unit. Pinehurst Country Club membership is transferrable. $165,000. Frank Sessoms 910.639.3099

Lakeview Condos: Pristine Unit with Lake View! Used as a part-time residence. Updated Kitchen, appliances & flooring. Being sold Furnished! Pinehurst Country Club Membership available. 2BR/2BA. $119,000. Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

Situated on 1.88 acre lot, with a more than 3,000 sq.ft. home. Large workshop with HVAC. Check it out: www.170HalcyonDrive.com $389,000. Frank Sessoms 910.639.3099

Oakdale: A real doll house! Situated on a quiet private double lot in a park-like setting. Kitchen has a breakfast nook and French Doors opening to the patio for outdoor entertaining. Main level master suite. 3BR/3BA. $180,000. Bill Brock 910.639.1148

of storage and nice features throughout. Hardwood flooring, formal dining, arched entryways, crown/chair mouldings, vaulted ceiling, built-ins and lots of natural light! 4BR/3BA. $325,000. Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

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M A G A Z I N E Volume 13, No. 8 Jim Dodson, Editor

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285 N Bethesda Road Enchanting 1920’s country home in a garden setting on 4.09 acres. 4 BR, 4.5 BA with a guest cottage. Exquisite master wing, updated kitchen, 3 fireplaces. Price Reduced $1,075,000.

110 N Highland Road

Historic Southern Pines 1920’s Colonial Revival on 1.91 acresinWeymouthHeights. 6BR, 5.5BA, 5227sqft. Slateroof,3fireplaces. Price Reduced $898,000.

140 Pinegrove Road

Exceptional renovated cottage in premier location. Beautifully designed in character with original architecture. 4BR, 3.5BA. $845,000.

8 North South Court

Mid South Club golf front 15th hole. Southern Living home, 4BR, 2.5BA, brilliant design. $587,500.

25 Maple Road

235 Quail Hollow

The 100 year old Rambler Cottage has a premier location in the Village with an endearing garden. Exudes signature Pinehurst charm. 4BR, 3.5BA.

CCNC Pinehurst Exquisite total renovation of 4BR, 4.5 BA, Colonial on 2.5 acres, golf front. $1,450,000.

17 Birkdale Way

129 National Drive

Alan Walters quality built custom family home located near the Stunning golf from residence in Pinehurst No. 9 entrance at the private gated community of Forest Creek GC. at National with spacious living areas, Sandhills Farm Life school district. 5BR, 4.15BA. 6807sqft. $895,900. 4BR, 4.5BA, 3 car garage. Reduced $848,000.

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190 Kings Ridge Court

292 Old Dewberry

Gorgeous, renovated mid-century house with Mid South Club one floor living plan with remarkable gourmet kitchen. 3BR, situated on 6.2 acres. Grandfathered horse farm with total privacy on iconic sand road. $885,000. 3.5BA. $535,000.

14 Appin Court

Pinewild golf front on 3.24 acres. 4 BR, 3.5 BA, pool, 3 car garage, bocce ball court. $750,000.

177 Cross Country

Price Horse Country estate on 16.7 acres including lovely lake. Faulk designed 4BR, 4.5BA, 5640 sq ft home built in 1970. $1,425,000.

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920 E. Massachusetts

Open dining, living and kitchen arrangement, main 30’s Dutch Colonial, restored in ’06 adding two floor, lovely master bedroom suite, to light filled wings. 4 BR, 3.5 BA, walled patio with courtyard, guest house, main floor master. $790,000. rooms with upscale detail. 3BR, 3.5BA. $625,000.

840 Lake Dornoch

CCNC golf front on Cardinal Course. One floor living, remarkable kitchen, paneled study. 3BR, 3.5BA, 3 car garage, $965,000.

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Stunning end-unit with a golf-front view of Longleaf Golf Course. Panoramic views, maintenance free and move-in ready. 3BR, 3BA, PRICE REDUCED $249,000.

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

80 DalrymPle roaD Elegant and spacious 3 BR / 3 BA home w/wonderful flow. The living room features hardwood floors and crown molding. The kitchen has recessed lighting, skylights, Corian countertops, center island and pantry. Enjoy the private, fenced backyard from the brick patio and gracious living in this classic home!

4 buckingham Place Grand 4BR / 3BA townhome in desirable Cotswold! Bright and open floorplan features a nice kitchen w/custom cabinets, granite countertops and a large pantry. Upstairs there is a spacious guest suite and the living area is open to an oversized rear patio with great privacy. Pinehurst CC Membership available.

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

104 sunrise Point Gorgeous 4 BR / 3.5 BA home sits high on the hill w/breathtaking views of Lake Auman. Interior is bright and open w/views of the lake from almost every room. Family room features corner fireplace and extensive window walls and opens to the kitchen and informal breakfast area.

459 longleaf Drive Beautifully designed to capture all the wonderful water views, this custom built 3 BR / 2.5 BA waterfront home is bright and open! All rooms are spacious and well designed with the master suite on the main level and plenty of deck area for outdoor dining and entertaining.

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406 longleaf Drive Spectacular 4 BR / 3 BA home sits in a beautifully landscaped site with a circular gravel drive and additional cement drive and walk complete with a pool in the back. The inside is absolutely immaculate with a very open floorplan.

55 steePlechase Way Beautiful 3 BR / 2 BA home located on Longleaf Country Club golf course. Immaculately maintained with an open floor plan with lots of windows all along the back overlooking beautiful views of the golf course. There is also a great kitchen with lots of cabinets, pantry and counter space and a separate laundry room.

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14 scioto lane Classic 3 BR / 2.5 BA home on the 18th fairway of Pinehurst #6. While there are great golf views, it’s also a private location. Interior offers a large living room with an entrance to the covered patio area, a formal dining room, kitchen with lots of cabinet and counter space, and nice in ground pool!

seven lakes West • $389,000

30 Walnut creek roaD Lovely 4 BR / 3 BA brick and stucco home located on quiet, wooded street in Fairwoods on Seven. Open interior features large dining and living combination w/two sided fireplace. The kitchen opens to the family room as well as onto a private screened porch. A must see!

5 victoria Way Immaculate 4BR / 3.5BA Cotswold townhome w/hardwood floors, high ceilings, deep crown moldings and wonderful light throughout. The gourmet kitchen opens to a spacious keeping room with a cozy fireplace and outside there is a private brick patio perfect for relaxing.

10 Pomeroy Drive Beautiful 4BR / 3.5BA brick home on the 1st and 9th hole of the Holly Course of Pinewild CC. Interior offers a great kitchen and an oversized living /dining room with lots of windows that overlook a spacious screened porch. There’s a covered deck off the screened porch and an additional privately screened area w/hot tub. Pinewild CC membership available.

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

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80 braemar roaD Incredible golf front home in Fairwoods on 7. This beautiful 4 BR / 5.5 BA home features top of the line finishes, mouldings, marble and hard-wood slate flooring. Wow guests with the gourmet kitchen, luxurious bedroom suites, wine cellar or cascading terrace overlooking the 15th green.

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

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85 abbottsforD Drive Marvelous contemporary 4 BR / 2.5 BA home was honored as home of the year in 2006 in their price bracket. Located on the 13th green of the Holly Course, this is one of the most beautiful home sites in Pinewild, overlooking both golf and water with long views.

122 mccracken Drive Gorgeous 3 BR / 3.5 BA lakefront home on Lake Auman. The floorplan is very open with great views from almost every room. The kitchen features custom cabinets, granite countertops, walk in pantry and a butler prep area; a wonderful place to relax and enjoy lake views!

106 rachels Point Drop dead gorgeous 4 BR / 3.5 BA Bob Timberlake design located on 1.8 beautifully landscaped acres that slopes gently to the water and includes an outdoor kitchen on the patio, a private dock and beach with a fireplace. A must see in McLendon Hills!

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45 ferguson roaD Unique find in Old Town! This 4 BR / 4 BA two story home sits in a premier location. Architectural features include 10’ ceilings, lots of windows, gourmet kitchen with cherry cabinets, solid surface countertops and a private breakfast area that overlooks the back yard.

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

175 miDlanD roaD Private 4 BR / 3.5 BA cottage across the street from Pinehurst #2. This home has timeless beauty and is designed for casual yet elegant entertaining. The spacious living room opens to a sun-filled Carolina room overlooking the gorgeous in ground pool. A must see!

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745 s. DiamonDheaD Drive Beautiful 4 BR / 4 BA Lake Pinehurst waterfront home with ninety feet of waterfront and private dock on a quiet cove. Spectacular view of Lake from a grand foyer that opens into a spacious living room. Impeccably maintained landscaping with irrigation system from the lake.

637 mclenDon hills Drive Gorgeous lakefront 3 BR / 3.5 BA home at the end of a cul-de-sac in McLendon Hills. Custom built with an open floorplan. In the kitchen, there is a large island, custom cabinets and walk-in pantry. Two bedrooms and baths upstairs as well as large bonus room. Great house in gated community w/access to stables and riding trails!

215 inverrary roaD Spectacular 5 BR / 6.5 BA home located between the 13th tee box and the 14th fairway of the #7 course in Fairwoods on 7. Built by Breeden Construction, interior is open and sun-filled with 9 ft ceilings on 2nd level and 11 ft ceilings on main level w/wonderful views from almost every room. Over 4 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds offering privacy while enjoying panoramic golf views.

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Notes From a Firefly Summer

A message from tiny lights shining in the darkness

By Jim Dodson

Early one morning back in late June

Illustration By Romey Petite

— the eve of the summer solstice, as it happened — while I was making coffee in the kitchen before sunrise, I heard a small sound of an animal in distress. I stepped out to our carport and found a baby rabbit lying on his back, his feet lightly kicking, as he looked up at me.

I gently scooped up the little fella, wondering how he’d gotten into such a fix. But then it came to me. He’d been brought home by one Boo Radley, our young tiger cat who was at present missing his collar and bell. This explained everything. Wearing his bell, Boo Radley is a fairly harmless dude on the prowl. Without it, a feline serial killer and menace to small creatures everywhere. He’d been roaming free for a full week without his collar and bell, which also explained the dead yellow finch I’d found on the stone path beneath the feeder out back and buried in the primroses. Fortunately the tiny rabbit’s injuries appeared slight. As I carried him across the street to a wild area in my neighbor’s yard where lots of rabbits congregate in the evening, I thought about a couple of books about rabbits that helped to shape my view of life. The first was Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which I still own a copy of, given to me by my mother at a very early age, along with Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. These were the first two chapter books I’d read during the solitary summer days in the small Southern town where my father worked for the newspaper. Before I set him down in the tall grass, I gently massaged the baby rabbit between the ears and gave him the only line from Peter Rabbit that I could recall: “Maybe your mother will put you to bed with some chamomile tea.” Our neighborhood, which is old and heavily forested, teems with rabbits. We see them in groups on our early morning and evening walks with the dogs. I joke that we actually live in Bunnyland, a vast empire of tunnels and warrens where these small brown herbivores who are either considered a nuisance by gardeners or a sign of ecological harmony by tree huggers — and I am both things, by the way — reside in a world of their own, coming out at the corners of the day to munch on clover and grass and any fool’s unfenced veggie patch. Most are so tame you can walk within a few feet of them. I freely admit having a soft spot for rabbits, probably because of Peter Rabbit but also because the first living creature I intentionally killed was a

rabbit, which I shot one cold afternoon while hunting with my father on Henry Tucker’s farm in the hills west of town. I was 12 or 13. It was late on New Year’s Day. The rabbit stood up as we approached across the stubble of a harvested cornfield, erect as a Presbyterian elder. It was my first hunt. Several young rabbits scampered away in terror but the old rabbit stood his ground on his haunches watching us approach. I leveled my 20-gauge and pulled the trigger without a second thought. My dad made me take the rabbit home to skin and cook, pointing out his belief that it would be a crime not to honor the rabbit’s life by wasting his flesh. I ate as much of it as I could bear, thinking how, just hours before, this handsome elder of the rabbit race had been out for his last New Year’s walk. Off and on, I dreamed about that rabbit for years. And I never hunted again. But I soon learned much more about guns and the brevity of life. When I was 21, my girlfriend was murdered by a 15-year-old kid with a handgun during a botched robbery of a country club in the mountains. Within a few years I was a staffer for the biggest news magazine in the South, covering Atlanta’s record crime wave, interviewing grieving families and coaching a mixedrace baseball team in a city where someone was killing young black kids and tossing their bodies into the Chattahoochee River. The kids on my team and their parents were terrified that they might be next, which is why I drove them home to the federal housing project after practices and games. During this dark passage of life, I also covered victims of a shooting war on the Texas border with Mexico for a national church magazine, went undercover at a notorious Tennessee game preserve, interviewed convicted murderers, rode with homicide cops, traveled with armed Klansmen and watched a dozen autopsies. One hot August night while walking my dog down our leafy and quiet street in Midtown, I even saw my neighbor shot dead on his porch during a late-night robbery. He was an Emory med student whose promising life went out like a porch light. He died as his hysterical girlfriend and I waited

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for the emergency medical technicians to arrive. Somewhere about that time, I read Richard Adams’s leporine masterpiece Watership Down and decided I’d had enough killing. Days after I turned 30, I pulled up stakes and moved to the banks of a green river in southern Vermont where I rented a small cabin heated by firewood that I split by hand. There, I taught myself to fly fish, procured a pup from the local Humane Society, resumed playing golf and read every book I’d ever meant to read including Watership Down for a second — maybe even a third — time. It became my favorite book. On summer evenings in the wildflower meadow just outside my cabin door, I’d sit until well after dark watching fireflies dance and rabbits feed. Sometimes the rabbits came right up to my doorstep. Amos the dog was fascinated by them but trained not to give chase. Some grew so unafraid of us they hopped right up to him. I think they thought he might be one very big rabbit. Years later, when I kept a large flower garden on a hilltop in Maine, I made a silent deal with the rabbits and white-tailed deer that inhabited our forest keep. I planted them a summer garden near a vernal spring at the back of our property, where they fed contentedly through the summer and into the fall. In winter, I trudged out under an Arctic moon to dump 50-pound bags of sorghum on the summer feeding spot. I even made up a fanciful tale about a couple of bumbling black bears called Pete and Charlie who dined in our “Animal Garden,” a tale both my now-grown children vividly recall. Pete and Charlie were part of all our lives, and probably will be for a long time. Magically — or by random luck — the deer and rabbits never ate my Volkswagen-sized hostas or other tender bedding plants. Ours really was a Peaceable Kingdom. So what do you suppose is a firefly’s true purpose in this world? My grandmother, Beatrice Taylor, used to say “lightning bugs” were simply

God’s way of reminding us of how brief one’s light shines in this world. She refused to let my brother and me collect them in a jar, citing their fragile dance with mortality. My own belief is that fireflies are in this world simply to delight and make us pause in a darkening landscape, and remember what childhood felt like, inspiring a true sense of awe over a bug that serenely lights up as it goes its way through the uncertain night. What a living metaphor for how to live your own life. Whatever else can be said of this firefly summer, regardless of a world beyond the neighborhood and childhood imagination that forever appears to be in danger of coming apart at the seams, it’s been a bountiful season of bunnies and fireflies in our neck of the woods — and kids playing in the dark, too. The other evening we passed a group of a dozen youngsters of various sizes — toddlers to young teens — joyfully playing a game my wife and I both loved to play in the long summer dusks of our childhoods. My Southern neighborhood gang called it “Red light, Green Light,” my wife’s Yankee crowd, “Statue.” The name changes but not the basic idea. These kids called their updated version “Night at the Museum.” As a central figure shuts eyes and counts out loud, the players attempt to advance “home” without being seen moving when the count is up and the leader’s eyes suddenly open. Players must freeze like rabbits or statues on the lawn. As we watched, a tiny barefoot girl was the first to reach “home”, gleefully slapping hands with the older kids. Just then we heard a mother’s voice calling to her children, another welcome echo of American childhood. Somewhere in the darkness, young Boo Radley was on the prowl again, a world made safer by his new collar and bell. PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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Kung Fu Panda Returns

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The Sunrise Theater presents its final kids summer movie, Kung Fu Panda 3, on Thursday, Aug. 10. In the third installment of this computer-animated, comedy/drama martial arts series, Po (voiced by Jack Black) finds his long-lost father (voiced by Bryan Cranston) and travels to Panda Village, where he has to confront a villainous spirit warrior (J.K. Simmons) to save his new friends. Dustin Hoffman and Angelina Jolie are among the starring voices in this visually splendid film by DreamWorks Animation. Admission is $6. Doors open at 9:15 a.m., show starts at 10 a.m. No outside food, please. Sponsored by the Murphy Insurance Agency. The Sunrise Theater is located at 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com.

Fine Arts Festival

The Arts Council of Moore County and ACMC Board of Trustees will host the opening reception of the 37th Annual Fine Arts Festival on Friday, Aug. 4, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Campbell House Galleries. The FAF began in 1980 as a small, local venue to showcase area artists and is now a major event typically receiving over 250 submissions from all over the country. Raleigh artists Sharon and Joe DiGiulio will serve as judges and award prizes in painting, drawing or pastel, photography, print and mixed media, and 3-D (which includes pottery and sculpture). Come enjoy wine and light hors d’oeuvres while mingling with artists and friends and viewing the exhibit, which runs through Aug. 25. Find something special to add to your own collection — most works are for sale. Campbell House is located at 482 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. For more information, call (910) 692-2787.

Welcome Back, Annie Hallinan

Annie Hallinan, Scottish-American author of The Sweetest Christmas Eve, returns to The Country Bookshop on Saturday, Aug. 26, with her new picture book, Petrith Pin: The Wee Bear with the Big Difference. The story is beautifully illustrated by Amy Preveza and centers on the adventures of the title character at a school where stuffed animals learn to be toys. Petrith’s “big difference” presents an opportunity to explore compassion and tolerance. It’s perfect for ages 4 to 7, but the book is a pleasure for all. From 1 to 3 p.m., Annie will be in the store for a meet-and-greet book signing event. At 4:30, she will return for an adult-oriented book launch celebration, at which light refreshments will be served, and she’ll read and chat with attendees. The Country Bookshop is located at 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

An Evening on the Lawn

Bring your lawn chair or a blanket on Sunday, Aug. 6, and enjoy the Carolina Philharmonic Junior Orchestra, an afterschool string orchestra of students in grades three through 12. Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities is hosting these talented young musicians, who play violin, viola, cello and bass — you may have heard them at the Carolina Philharmonic’s Pops Season Finale in May. Tickets are $10 for Weymouth members and $20 for non-members and can be purchased with cash or check at the Weymouth Office, The Country Bookshop and at the door. (No charge for children 18 and under.) All proceeds will be divided between the Weymouth Center and the Junior Orchestra. The concert begins at 6:30 p.m. and refreshments will be available. The Weymouth Center is located at 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. For information, call (910) 692-6261.

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Summer Reading

How is yours coming along? Stop by The Country Bookshop on Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 5 p.m., and hear Emily Colin, author of The Memory Thief, talk about her new book, The Dream Keeper’s Daughter. It’s an intricate story about a single mother and archeologist, Isabel, on a dig in Barbados. She gets a cryptic phone call from a voice that sounds like her presumed-dead boyfriend, who disappeared eight years ago, just after Isabel learned she was pregnant. Interwoven into this story is another disappearance — that of Isabel’s mother when she was 16. With exotic settings, mysterious disappearances, intriguing characters, this book could enhance your late summer trip to the beach or a lazy afternoon on the porch. The Country Bookshop is located at 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Getting in the Swing

On Saturday, Aug. 19, Vision 4 Moore presents The Dancing Dream, an ABBA tribute band who will delight you with beautiful harmonies, dazzling costumes and stunning choreography as they perform the songs of one of the greatest pop super groups of all time. From the giddy heights of the “Dancing Queen” to the nostalgic and slightly melancholy “Slipping Through My Fingers,” the stories in these songs may resonate now even more than when you first heard them. The beat starts at 7:30 p.m. at Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Tickets are $15–$35 at the door and online. Profits support Caring Hearts for Kids of Moore, Meals on Wheels of the Sandhills and the MIRA Foundation. For tickets or more information, call or visit (910) 3659890 or www.vision4moore.com.

Movie by the Lake

The Trailer Park Philosopher

On Aug. 13, the final installment of Aberdeen’s Sunday Exchange is honored to be one of the few 2017 shows in which The Paul Thorn Band will perform, in its entirety, Hammer & Nail, their debut album from 1997. The oft-requested songs from this album include “800 Pound Jesus,” “Sure Sign” and “Resurrection Day.” This milestone event will also feature the “Paul Thorn Trailer Park Philosopher Experience,” a VIP package that includes a meetand-greet with Paul in his 20th Anniversary Airstream trailer. You can view artifacts of his career and get a personal photograph with Paul, a signed Trailer Park Philosopher print, a Mission Temple Fireworks Revival tambourine and other collectibles. The concert is free, but tickets for the TPP Experience are $100, available at www.paulthorn.com. Doors open at 6, show at 6:46 p.m. Bring your own cup and join the celebration at 129 Exchange Place, in Aberdeen. Call (910) 944-7502 for more information.

This month’s Movie by the Lake in Aberdeen is Sing, presented Friday, Aug. 18, by the Aberdeen Parks and Recreation Department and sponsors. This computer-animated comedy from Illumination Entertainment includes over 60 songs from famous artists. The story centers on the woes of an anthropomorphic koala bear and theater owner, Buster Moon, voiced by Matthew McConaughey, and an assortment of singing animals competing for prize money. Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson and John C. Reilly are among those supplying voices to the critters who all seem to overcome catastrophe, mayhem, personal angst and inhibition to finally sing. Admission to this warmhearted, family-friendly film is free, and concessions are available for purchase. Show time: 8:15 p.m. at Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275 or explorepinehurst.com.

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Quenching a Thirst Hibiscus tea’s multiple benefits blockade-runner.com By K aren Frye

n the midst of the summer heat we seek ways to cool off a bit. Often nothing hits the spot like a glass of iced tea. We have been consuming tea for centuries. Much to one’s surprise there exists a lovely tea made from flowers of the specific species of the hibiscus plant hibiscus sabdariffa. The plant originates in Africa. Hibiscus has a deep red color (reminds me of Kool-Aid) and the scent is berry-like. On the palate, tart cranberry dominates your taste buds. Hibiscus is caffeine-free and delicious on its own, hot or cold. It combines well with a little honey for sweetness, or add a splash of your favorite juice or sparkling water. The medicinal benefit of hibiscus tea is amazing. Some nutritionists believe drinking hibiscus tea on a regular basis may help reduce blood pressure. Participants in a 2008 study of 65 subjects presented to the American Medical Association averaged a reduction of 7 points in systolic pressure. Hibiscus also contains enzymes that can aid in the digestion of food. Drinking a cup of hibiscus tea before a meal may help reduce the absorption of carbs and sugars and assist in losing weight. In addition to blocking sugar absorption, the tea has cleansing and anti-bloating properties and is high in vitamin C. Hibiscus is enjoyed as a food around the world in various ways. Sometimes it’s candied and used in desserts. In Mexico, it is used in savory and sweet dishes, salsas, enchiladas, and quesadillas.

Basic Hibiscus Tea Add 1/4 cup of dried hibiscus flowers to 4 cups of pure water (cold or room temperature is fine) in a large jar. Cover and set in the refrigerator overnight. Strain and add honey to taste. Use mint leaves or a squeeze of lime for additional flavor.

Hibiscus Tea Blend 4 cups boiling water 4 teaspoons dried hibiscus flowers 1 teaspoon dried mint 1 vanilla bean 3 cloves 1 cinnamon stick Pour water over all the ingredients. Steep for 10 minutes, strain. Add local honey for sweetness.

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The Omnivorous Reader

Change of Place How the king of the legal thriller became an adopted son of Carolina

By D.G. Martin

When John Grisham’s latest

novel, Camino Island, hit bookstore shelves in June, it immediately rose to number one on The New York Times best-seller list and stayed there for weeks.

No surprise there. That is what John Grisham’s books do. But Camino Island is different from most of Grisham’s previous 30 novels. It is not his usual legal thriller in which crimes and mystery intersect with the lives of lawyers and judges. Lawyers make only cameo appearances in the new book. Instead, the action is set in the literary world — the world of writing, publishing and selling books. There is also a literary underworld of criminals who steal and sell valuable manuscripts. Grisham still gives us a crime story. But this time writers, readers and booksellers, as well as thieves, take center stage. One of the book’s central characters gives it a strong North Carolina connection. Mercer Mann, a writing instructor at UNC-Chapel Hill, is losing her job. She suffers writer’s block as she tries to complete her second novel to follow up her first mildly successful one. Carrying a burden of tens of thousands of dollars in student debt, she is at loose ends. Her desperate situation and some other personal connections make her a prime target to be recruited for an undercover assignment to help recover a stash of valuable stolen papers. Earlier, a group of clever thieves has broken into the Princeton University library and walked away with the original manuscripts of The Great Gatsby and four other novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The papers were insured for $25 million. The insurance company suspects that Bruce Cable, a rare book dealer and bookstore owner, has possession of the Fitzgerald papers. He is the center of a group of writers, fans and book collectors on Camino Island, a small resort community near Jacksonville, Florida. Somehow investigators for the insurance company learn that Mercer’s grandparents had lived on Camino Island, that their house is still in the family, and that Mercer has been a frequent visitor. The company sends the case’s lead investigator, Elaine Shelby, to Chapel Hill to recruit Mercer. She wants Mercer to go to Camino Island, where she can infiltrate Bruce’s group,

make friends with him, and try to learn whether he has the Fitzgerald papers. In Chapel Hill, Elaine wines and dines Mercer at Spanky’s and the Lantern restaurants, two of the town’s favorites, and, incidentally, not far from the house where Grisham and his wife, Renee, live when they visit their daughter and her family, who live in Raleigh. Mercer is a reluctant recruit, but Elaine is persistent and persuasive. Elaine’s promise to pay Mercer’s student debt is a clincher. She tells Elaine, “I have sixty-one thousand dollars in student debt that I can’t get rid of. It’s a burden that consumes every waking hour and it’s making me crazy.” Elaine promises, “We’ll take care of the student loans.” Plus, she offers another $100,000. Later, when Mercer has doubts, Elaine continues to persuade, “You’re a writer living at the beach for a few months in the family cottage. You’re hard at work on a novel. It’s the perfect story, Mercer, because it’s true. And you have the perfect personality because you’re genuine. If we needed a con artist we wouldn’t be talking right now.” Sure enough, Mercer becomes part of the group of writers who gather around Bruce and his bookstore. Some of them, Mercer discovers, “are seasoned raconteurs with an endless supply of stories and quips and one-liners. Others are reclusive and introverted souls who labor in their solitary worlds and struggle to mix and mingle.” As she mingles and mixes, she learns that the popular authors whose books have sold well “longed for critical acclaim, while the literary ones . . . longed for greater royalties.” Getting to know the writers leads to Mercer getting to know Bruce, the smart and charming owner of Bay Books. He owns a dozen seersucker suits and wears a different color each day. He has persuaded 100 customers to collect signed first editions and to put in a standing order to buy signed copies of the latest book by every visiting author. Bay Books makes big money on the sales, and those sales attract book tour visits by America’s most popular authors. Bruce does well as an independent bookseller. He does even better collecting and selling rare books and signed first editions. Is he also making even more money dealing in the dark world of stolen books and papers? Mercer’s assignment is to get to know Bruce well enough to learn whether

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CHEF'S FEAST

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he has possession of Princeton’s Fitzgerald papers. By courting and charming him, she ultimately finds the answer. Meanwhile, he is courting and charming her, too. While she is finding out about his dark world, he prepares defenses to turn the tables on her and the investigators’ plot to prove that Bruce has his hands on the Fitzgerald papers. So, as the story moves toward an expected ending, Grisham does his usual. He twists the expected into a set of cascading surprises that will fool, entertain and delight his readers, just as he does in his legal thrillers. Is there more than an entertaining story here? Does Grisham, for instance, want to highlight our country’s growing problem with the student debt that is affecting so many young Americans? He says not. The student debt burden on Mercer, he says, is just a small plot point in the Camino Island story. But, according to Grisham, his next legal thriller, coming out in October, will have overwhelming student debt as a central feature of the new novel’s plot. North Carolinians love their authors. They love for North Carolina authors to have the kind of success Grisham enjoys. Some North Carolina Grisham fans argue that his growing connections to our state give us grounds to say that he is one of us. Grisham himself says his farm near Charlottesville, Virginia, is his home and that he is very happy there. However, his North Carolina contacts are substantial. In addition to his house in Chapel Hill, his daughter’s family in Raleigh, and the Chapel Hill scenes in the latest book, he is a Carolina basketball fan. Grisham and popular television host Charlie Rose have an ongoing $100 bet on every Carolina-Duke basketball game. Rose supports his alma mater, Duke. Grisham bets on Carolina. On his recent book tour to promote Camino Island, he made only 11 stops. Four were in North Carolina, twice as many as in any other state. Along the way he invited other North Carolina literary giants — Randall Kenan, Jill McCorkle, John Hart, Ron Rash, Wiley Cash and Clyde Edgerton — to discuss their work. Even if Grisham and his wife are still proud Virginians, we can declare them honorary North Carolinians. Grisham dedicated Camino Island to Renee. He gives her credit for helping develop the new book’s plot as they were driving to Florida for vacation. They collect rare books and signed first editions. When they heard a radio report about a stolen rare book, they were off and running and had the outline of the book developed before they got out of the car. I bet they were driving through North Carolina when the idea hit.

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John Grisham’s Do’s and Don’ts for Writing Popular Fiction* 1. DO — WRITE A PAGE EVERY DAY

That’s about 200 words, or 1,000 words a week. Do that for two years and you’ll have a novel that’s long enough. Nothing will happen until you are producing at least one page per day. 2. DON’T — WRITE THE FIRST SCENE UNTIL YOU KNOW THE LAST

This necessitates the use of a dreaded device commonly called an outline. Virtually all writers hate that word. I have yet to meet one who admits to using an outline. Plotting takes careful planning. Writers waste years pursuing stories that eventually don’t work.

3. DO — WRITE YOUR ONE PAGE EACH DAY AT THE SAME PLACE AND TIME

Early morning, lunch break, on the train, late at night — it doesn’t matter. Find the extra hour, go to the same place, shut the door. No exceptions, no excuses. 4. DON’T — WRITE A PROLOGUE

Prologues are usually gimmicks to hook the reader. Avoid them. Plan your story (see No. 2) and start with Chapter 1.

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5. DO — USE QUOTATION MARKS WITH DIALOGUE

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6. DON’T — KEEP A THESAURUS WITHIN REACHING DISTANCE

I know, I know, there’s one at your fingertips. There are three types of words: (1) words we know; (2) words we should know; (3) words nobody knows. Forget those in the third category and use restraint with those in the second. A common mistake by fledgling authors is using jaw-breaking vocabulary. It’s frustrating and phony. 7. DO — READ EACH SENTENCE AT LEAST THREE TIMES IN SEARCH OF WORDS TO CUT

Most writers use too many words, and why not? We have unlimited space and few constraints.

8. DON’T — INTRODUCE 20 CHARACTERS IN THE FIRST CHAPTER

Another rookie mistake. Your readers are eager to get started. Don’t bombard them with a barrage of names from four generations of the same family. Five names are enough to get started. *Shared first in The New York Times, May 31, 2017. PS

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August Books Turning up the heat

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See What I Have Done, by Sarah Schmidt The Doll Funeral, by Kate Hamer

The author of The Girl in the Red Coat, an Amazon Best Book of the Year (2016), returns with a new novel continuing themes of mothers and daughters and missing children. On Ruby’s 13th birthday, her dream comes true — she discovers that the loathsome Mick and his placating wife, Barbara, are only her adoptive parents. Packing a suitcase, she sets out in search of her real mother and father, venturing into the Forest of Dean with her intangible friend, the Shadow boy. There, Ruby finds a new family among three siblings — Tom, Elizabeth and Crispin. Told through the perspectives of Ruby, her mother and the Shadow boy, Hamer’s languid, yet delicious prose will be a delight for any adult who grew up reading Roald Dahl’s Matilda or Neil Gaiman’s Coraline. Overall, The Doll Funeral is a triumph of the uncanny and a voyage back into the strange, shifting threshold between childhood and adolescence.

The Half-Drowned King, by Linnea Hartsuyker Young Ragnvald has come of age and looks forward to assuming his rightful role in Viking-era Norway after returning from Solvi’s raids in Ireland. He’ll reign as chieftain of his late father’s lands — and set about finding a good and kind husband for his beloved sister Svanhild. There is just one problem; the siblings’ stepfather, Olaf, has no intention of surrendering the property. Olaf arranges to have Ragnvald betrayed by his fellow raiders and is left to drown among sea goddesses and mermaids. Rescued by a fisherman, Ragnvald makes an alliance with Harald of Vestfold — a prophesized king. Meanwhile, Svanhild contemplates an expedient marriage to escape her stepfather’s selfish treachery. Blending elements of the plots of Homer’s Odyssey and Shakespeare’s Hamlet while being motivated by her own family’s rich history, debut novelist Linnea Hartsuyker has crafted a thrilling tale perfect for lovers of history, myth or George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones.

The Readymade Thief, by Augustus Rose

Lee Cuddy, an elfin girl of 17, is an expert shoplifter and member of a network of homeless kids inhabiting an abandoned structure in Philadelphia known as the Crystal Castle. Operating under the protection of an organization dubbed the Société Anonyme, Lee and Tomi, a boy with an encyclopedic knowledge of hacking and postmodern art, are prompted by the mysterious disappearance of kids from the collective to investigate their shadowy benefactors. Finding themselves on the run, The Readymade Thief is the opening of a doorway as Lee hurtles into a wonderland of ciphers, puzzles, alchemy, and the subtle genius of Marcel Duchamp. The Readymade Thief is screenwriter Augustus Rose’s first novel — bending genre by straddling the wide worlds between literary fiction and the pulse-pounding thriller. Fans of Marisha Pessl’s Night Film and Robin Sloan’s Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookshop will want to watch out for this one.

On Aug. 4 of 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts, the Bordens’ family home becomes the scene of the grisly massacre of the patriarch, Andrew, and his second wife, Abby. According to the old rhyme, “Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.” Through See What I Have Done, Sarah Schmidt focuses not on what seems rational but on each character’s rationale regarding the interlocking events leading up to the murders and their aftermath. Whatever really happened that day, it’s clear there is much more to the Borden family than the details the sensationalist press and police fixate on. Setting before the reader via four distinct points of view, those of the family maid (Bridget), Lizzie’s sister (Emma), the mysterious jack of trades (Benjamin), and Lizzie herself, Schmidt weaves together a chilling, transfixing tale from start to finish.

Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat, by Patricia William and Jeannine Amber

Born to a single mother on the west end of Atlanta, Patricia Williams, a comedian known by the stage name “Ms. Pat,” was 8 years old the first time she learned to steal, encouraged to pinch wallets from drunken houseguests in her granddaddy’s living room, a space that doubled as a bootleg house. Nicknamed “Rabbit” by her mother’s then-boyfriend, by 16 she was selling drugs to support two children of her own. Endowed with a comedian’s gift for creative hindsight, Patricia discovered her penchant for telling funny stories at an open mic night and would go on to make appearances on Nickelodeon’s Mom’s Night Out, the syndicated Bob & Tom radio show, and NBC’s Last Comic Standing. Co-written with Jeannine Amber, an award winning journalist and writer for Essence magazine, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat is a riveting escape story in which tragedy is transmuted to humor and harnessed as a tool for survival.

Yesterday, by Felicia Yap Claire and Mark Evans are an unlikely couple. Both have married outside of their class in a society divided not only by familiar hegemonies, but also by what they are able to remember. Mark, a Duo, can remember up to two days at a time, whereas Claire, a Mono, is only capable of recalling the previous 24 hours. For the rest, each has to navigate a crawlspace of memos by relying on careful notes made in their respective iDiaries. After observing Mark reacting strangely to a news report regarding a body found in the River Cam, and subsequently learning the woman was Mark’s mistress, Claire begins to suspect she is being manipulated and sets about attempting to retrieve what she may have conveniently forgotten. Told from the perspectives of Claire, Mark, Detective Hans

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Reincarnation Blues, by Michael Poore Milo has lived approximately 9,994 lives and, as such, fancies himself an easygoing, spiritual wiseguy. In his 9,995th incarnation he has reached 50 years of age and is content to have little more to his name than a dog named Burt and a fishing boat christened the Jenny Ann Loudermilk. While swimming in the moonlight along the Florida shore, a healthy dose of the absurd intervenes in Milo’s paradise as the guru is devoured by a shark, and he is immediately spirited once again into the Afterlife that lies between one existence and the next. It is there he is reunited with the acerbic Suzie, the anthropomorphic embodiment of Death and Milo’s one true love. Realizing that he only has four lives left — everyone gets 10,000 chances to achieve cosmic bliss — Milo becomes determined to use his remaining time to find the secret to immortal life so that he and Suzie can be together at last. Michael Poore’s first novel, Up Jumps the Devil, was praised by The New York Review of Books as “an elegiac masterpiece.” Reincarnation Blues is full of the profound, existential, and sublime worldweary wisdom, meandering in tone between Roger Zelazny’s Lord of Light and the darkly comic stories of Kurt Vonnegut. CHILDREN’S BOOKS By Angie Talley

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“There Was an Old Tire that Parked in a Shed,” “Bumpty Dumpty,” “Tow Tow Tow the Car.” Young readers are sure to delight in these and other classic fairy tales in Motor Goose, a delightful collection of nursery rhymes retold with cars, trucks and trains as the main characters. Pair with your favorite version of Mother Goose for a great afternoon of reading fun with a little one. Ages 3-6.

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When Ben and his mom go to the shelter to adopt a dog, they bring home a most unusual pet. Instead of saying “ruff,” Sadie says, “roar.” Instead of taking a bath in the tub, Sadie takes up the whole lake. And instead of being a dog . . . Sadie is a dinosaur! When she’s let loose in the town, she shows everyone just how helpful dinosaurs can be. Ages 3-6.

How to Get Your Teacher Ready, by Jean Reagan

In a world brimming with “the first day of school is scary” titles, How To Get You Teacher Ready is a welcome treat. New kindergartners will love seeing how the students welcome the teacher, making sure she knows where to put her things, how to get extra spaghetti in the cafeteria and especially where to find the bathroom. Finally, the perfect first-day-of-school book. Ages 4-7.

The List, by Patricia Forde

“Speak your mind.” Not words to be taken lightly nor taken for granted for the citizens of Ark. In an attempt to control actions, thought and communication through the regimenting of language, their leader, John Noa, has decreed language will be limited to 500 specific words. The List is a powerful, absorbing book reminiscent of The Giver and The Girl Who Drank the Moon. Ages 12-15. PS

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Hometown

Old Friends Shades of our youth

By Bill Fields

For decades, any time I came home, I went

out to the street on a scouting mission. At 10 o’clock opposite the end of our driveway, “RICKY 67” was written on the curb in white paint. That bit of Sherwin-Williams graffiti was a stubborn remnant of childhood, and when the sun and the rain eventually erased it like chalk off a blackboard, its absence saddened me.

The boy who scrawled his name 50 years ago was one of Chuck’s older brothers. To see his mark was to be reminded of Chuck, my first best friend, who from kindergarten — if we had gone to kindergarten in that less structured period — through middle school was a frequent companion and valued confidante. I don’t remember when Chuck and I met, only that he was always there, the boy my age in a family across the street whose ranch house had a basement and a gloriously large backyard where we played until we were tuckered out. Chuck’s mom, a kind person who never tired of my presence, fueled us with two food groups, Kool-Aid and grilled cheese sandwiches, the sugar in the pitcher and butter in the pan in amounts still probably best not to know. We would gulp and wolf down our sustenance so we could get back to whatever we were doing. When Chuck was called in to sit down for a proper supper, he returned with the speed of an Olympic sprinter, as eager as I was for more play. I hated sunset because that meant having to retreat to our respective homes for a night of sleep until we could reconvene. This was a year-round angst but particularly acute in summer, when the days were long and we spent so much time together it was as if I had a brother to go with my two older sisters. Chuck was taller and more athletic than me, although when I was late in learning to ride a bicycle, he patiently let me apprentice behind his house, where I could fail in private and fall on sand instead of the shin-scraping

asphalt of our avenue. He was tougher, too, owing in part to having three older brothers, and bounced back quickly from a baseball to the head after a little witch hazel. Chuck’s composure contrasted with my dramatics when his family’s dachshund bit me on the hand. Before sports filled our time together, we spent hours in Chuck’s backyard playing in the dirt with Tonka trucks and toy soldiers under the shade of a large sycamore tree — later from which a subsequent occupant of the house fell and broke a leg — and I don’t think coal miners were more ready for a bath than we were after an afternoon of scale-model construction and maneuvers. We shared Archie comics, Super Balls and an urge to swing an old Jimmie Fox signature bat — too heavy, but made you feel like a big-leaguer — among the sports gear stashed on Chuck’s back porch. As with any boys born in the 1950s, baseball occupied much of our time. We loved clipping out box scores (if pressed, I can probably still recite the Giants vs. Cardinals, circa 1968) and pitching a tennis ball at a garden cart propped up by the steps, the length and quality of the carom dictating hit or out. There was plenty of batting practice as well. Only because I faced him so often in the neighborhood and he had excellent control, Chuck was the only Little League pitcher I came close to figuring out. My command wasn’t as good, and during one Braves-Dodgers game in which I was hapless on the mound, I plunked him in the back. Chuck forgave me for that wild pitch, but before long my fast friend was my past friend — at least in terms of the tight relationship that proximity had helped nurture. Before we entered high school, circumstances caused Chuck’s family to move to another part of Moore County. We began to move in different circles and developed new buddies. I know little about Chuck’s life beyond the boyhood we shared so happily in my memory and I hope in his. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent.

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A Writer’s Life

Writing My Way Home Finding one’s place in a wide literary landscape

By Wiley Cash

It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me

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at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.

Langston Hughes wrote these lines and the poem “Theme for English B,” from which they’re taken, in 1951, when he was nearing 50 years old. I first read the poem as a 20-year-old college sophomore. I’ll turn 40 in a few months, and I can honestly say I’ve thought about this poem almost every day since I read it. In the poem, the speaker’s college composition teacher has asked the students to go home tonight and compose a page about themselves, and whatever results from this assignment will speak to something about who the students are, where they’re from, and what they’re made of. The idea is that what comes from you speaks to what there is of you. As I mentioned, I was a college sophomore when I encountered “Theme for English B.” I had enrolled at the University of North Carolina-Asheville because the English major featured a track in creative writing, and a writer was what I had decided to be. I was a little unclear as to how this would be accomplished, but I was there to learn, and learn I did. But looking back, the best thing I learned about writing was that I wasn’t the kind of writer I wanted to be, meaning I wasn’t someone who wrote like Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov or Toni Morrison, nor did I write about the things these authors wrote about. I had never visited Carver’s Great Northwest. I couldn’t imagine the lives of Chekhov’s peasants. I couldn’t speak to the AfricanAmerican experience in Morrison’s Ohio. These people lived interesting lives of conflict and history and culture, and they hailed from interesting places. I was from Gastonia, North Carolina, raised Southern Baptist, loved

basketball with all my heart, and spent my summers lifeguarding and my free time reading the masterworks of authors whose lives were more curious than mine, and whose literary voices were more distinct and powerful as a result. But I kept writing. In my little campus dorm room I locked my eyes on the monitor while my fingers pecked away at the keyboard of an enormous, ancient computer. Not once did I lift my gaze to look at the world around me, not once did I dare look back at the world from which I’d come. As a result, the stories that spun from my fingers were regionless, devoid of place, meaning they were almost wholly devoid of life. I refused to acknowledge that any place I was from could be interesting enough to warrant representation, and I also refused to acknowledge the fact that I couldn’t write well enough to make up for the “placelessness” of my fiction. In the fall of 2003, I left North Carolina at the age of 25 and lived outside the state for the first time in my life. I had enrolled in a Ph.D. program in English and creative writing at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, which is in the heart of Acadiana, more commonly known as Cajun country. Soon, I found that I missed fresh water. I missed the gentle swell of the Piedmont hills as they rose toward the Blue Ridge Mountains. I missed cold winters and mild summers. I missed the good, clean smell of mud that wafts up from a trickling stream as you draw closer to the water. I missed ferns. I missed the music, accents and cuisine I’d always known as comforts without ever realizing the emotional tether they had on my heart. In short, I missed home. I had chosen this particular graduate program in this particular state because a particular author served as the university’s writer-in-residence. Ernest J. Gaines had long been my literary hero, and I still believe he’s one of the finest writers our nation has ever produced. He’d grown up on a plantation just west of Baton Rouge, the same plantation on which his ancestors had been slaves and later sharecroppers, but he hadn’t begun to write about the place he knew until he joined his mother and stepfather in California when he was 15 years old. He wrote about southwest Louisiana because it was

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inside him largely because it was no longer outside him, and he longed for it. He began writing about Louisiana while he lived in California, and it led to some of the most important literature in American history: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, A Gathering of Old Men and A Lesson Before Dying. Ernest J. Gaines and Thomas Wolfe are perhaps the greatest influences on my writing life, and I took a page from each. From Gaines I learned to write about what I know and where I’ve been, and from Thomas Wolfe, especially Wolfe’s autobiographical hero Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel, I decided to turn my eyes “to the distant, soaring ranges.” My first novel is set in the mountains of western North Carolina, where I’d made the decision to become a writer. My second is set in my hometown of Gastonia, as is my third novel, The Last Ballad, which will be released this fall. A few months ago I returned to Louisiana to spend a few days with Gaines and his wife, Dianne, where they purchased land and built a home on part of the plantation where Gaines was born and raised. One evening around dusk, I was standing on the banks of the False River across the street from the Gaineses’ home when I recalled a line from Hughes’ poem: I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear. I could feel the old dock beneath my boots, every creak as the water lapped against it. I could see the sun fading in the trees across the river, could see the lights winking on at homes on the other side of the water. I could hear the trucks and cars pass on the road behind me, the occasional motor of a boat that passed along the darkening water, the flip of a fish as it broke the surface and then fell beneath it. At that moment, I had no doubt that what I was feeling and seeing and hearing had turned me toward the writer I’ve become, but the things that surrounded me at that moment were not the things that made me the writer I am. Those things rested farther north in the hills and mountains of the Old North State, hidden along creek beds and gurgling streams. Shaded beneath towering maples and sweet gums. Pressed into the rich earth beneath a blanket of ferns. I often wonder about the things that will make up my daughters’ lives, as they will not be the things that have made up my own. They were both born only a few miles from the ocean, and they will both be raised in a landscape that is flat and in air that is humid and tinged with salt. Will they know the magic of the place from which they’ve come? Or, like me, will they have to leave home to find it? PS Wiley Cash lives in Wilmington with his wife and their two daughters. His forthcoming novel The Last Ballad is available for pre-order wherever books are sold.

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Drink Naked The unoaked revolution

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making wine, their preferred vessels were clay pots. Breakage during shipping became a problem, and they experimented using big wooden barrels and vats. Not only was this a sturdier method, but they discovered that the porous wood imparted some favorable qualities to the wine, and it also allowed it to age gracefully.

It became particularly popular to use oak influence on the noble grape, chardonnay, and by the 1990s winemakers were making the heavy, oaky, butteredtoast, style that in many cases was used to mask inferior fruit. Some wineries, in an effort to save money, would just dump oak chips into cheap chardonnay, stir it up and soak it, then filter them out. Although it is the most widely planted white grape in the U.S., Europe, Australia and South America, consumers revolted and adopted the battle cry of ABC — “Anything But Chardonnay.” Winemakers listened and the movement began to improve the quality of chardonnay fruit and back off on the oak influence. The always-irreverent Australian winemakers coined the phrase “Drinking Naked” for chardonnay minus oak. This past decade efforts have been made to produce chardonnay that is balanced between fruit and acidity. Planting in cooler areas and giving the grapes less hang time produce crisper, more refreshing versions of this versatile grape. All wines go through a primary fermentation that converts the sugars into alcohol, but winemakers have the option of inducing or spontaneously allowing the wine to go through a secondary, malolactic fermentation. Tart tasting, green apple-like, malic acid is naturally present in wine, and this process turns it into lactic acid, the same acid in butter. Thus the wine takes on a richer,

creamy, buttery character. Kim Crawford Unoaked Chardonnay from New Zealand is a tasty example of this process. Their fruit comes from vineyards in Marlborough and Hawke’s Bay, where the canopies of the vines are managed to allow the fruit to ripen slowly. Completely devoid of oak, this chardonnay has gone through malolactic fermentation, and the winery describes their wine as “ripe tropical fruit — pineapple and ripe melon — with hints of butterscotch. Shows great length uncluttered by oak. Secondary malolactic fermentation gives nuttiness and generous mouthfeel.” You can usually find this gem in the market for around $16. Louis Jadot, one of Burgundy’s largest producers, makes a delicious chardonnay from the Maconnais region cleverly branded “Steel Chardonnay” that sells for about $17. Like Crawford’s chardonnay, this wine is completely unoaked, aged in steel vats. But, unlike Crawford’s, it does not go through any part of malolactic fermentation. Described by the winery as having “high toned aromas of citrus, mandarin orange, white flower, pear and apple, with flinty minerality. Retains a fresh, crisp character.” A perfect match for summertime fish and shellfish dishes. The Donati Estate, the only winery located in the Paicines wine-growing region of California, produces a tasty unoaked chardonnay for about $13. Branded “Sisters Forever” by winemaker Briana Heywood, this sustainably farmed wine is a tribute to women. Winery tasting notes claim that the wine has “tropical aromas of melon, pineapple, banana and apricot. Lush mouthfeel with crisp and marvelous acidity on the finish.” These wines are prefect warm weather selections, so go ahead — drink naked! 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

What Inspires You? Having a little summer cocktail fun

By Tony Cross

Every now

and then, I’m asked to create a drink for a special occasion, whether it be someone’s birthday, anniversary, or a corporate event/fundraiser that has a theme. The challenge of inventing something unique for someone, or a lot of people, has always been fun. One of the first drinks that I made for a large number of people was requested from this very magazine, back before I started this column. I was excited and very nervous and, though the drink came out great, I would definitely go back to the drawing board now to make the cocktail a bit simpler. Finding inspiration for a cocktail can come in many ways, e.g., a particular ingredient or spirit, the season, a color, or even a song or movie. This month I’ll discuss a few that I’ve done over the past year.

Photograph by Tony Cross

Half-Jack

For Fair Game Beverage Company in the Abundance.org Bereavement Ball So, if you didn’t know, I’ve got a huge crush on this distillery. I’ve done a few events with the folks from Fair Game, and I’ve always had a blast. This time, distiller Chris Jude hit me up to create a cocktail with one of his spirits for this “interesting little themed party.” He wasn’t kidding. On their Facebook page The Bereavement Ball (Dead Pets & Onions) is, “An Evening of Exquisite Misery. Under the full moon, we gather to wallow in collective melancholy, celebrate our impermanence and revel in life’s slow unraveling.” What? I dug further into the theme of the event and found that it’s based on a play, The Onion Cellar. The play debuted in 2006, and was written by Amanda Palmer. She “based the title of the production on a chapter from Gunter Grass’s The

Tin Drum. In the novel, The Onion Cellar is a bar in postwar Germany where people go to share painful memories and cry. While drinking and talking, the clients peel onions, both to make crying easier and to lessen the shame for those afraid to express their feelings openly.” Thank you, Wikipedia. OK, so maybe something with onions? Eh. I wasn’t really thrilled about that. Then, through more digging, I found out that Palmer is one half of the band The Dresden Dolls, and she used one of the band’s songs, “Half-Jack,” in the play. There we go. I decided to use Fair Game Apple Brandy. Apple brandy is sometimes referred to as “applejack.” Both are made with apples, but true applejack is blended with neutral grain spirit, and must be aged four years in used bourbon barrels. The cocktail I came up with has 2 1/2 ounces of liquid, half of it apple brandy.

Half-Jack 1 1/4 ounces Fair Game Beverage Company’s Apple Brandy 3/4 ounce Cynar 1/2 ounce Dolin Dry Vermouth 1 dash celery bitters Combine and build ingredients in a rocks glass with ice. Stir until desired dilution. Express the oils of a lemon peel over the cocktail before placing it in the glass.

Finders Keepers

For Patrica (located at 280 NW Broad St.) Trish Deerwester, owner of Patricia, has been a staunch supporter of Reverie Cocktails from the get-go. Trish’s business, as well as a few others (I’m looking at you, Louise and Betsy of Eloise), really helped get the word out about my new venture. I’ve been asked to do a couple of pop-ups at Patricia, and this drink is the first one that I did last spring. Talking with Trish, I discovered that in addition to our shared love for the classic Manhattan cocktail, she also is a big fan of tequila. We agreed that we wanted to keep the cocktail simple, but with a spin. A few weeks prior, I messed around with an apricot liqueur when making margaritas. I poured them over crushed ice, and they tasted amazing. Apricot it was, sans the apricot liqueur. Instead, I set out to make an apricot jam. I ordered apricots through Nature’s Own, and gave it

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In The Spirit

a whirl. I got lucky, and the jam came out great. Now, for the name: Patricia’s website is www.patriciafinds.com. I joked with Trish that this drink came out so well, that she wouldn’t want to share it with anyone else . . . and there it was, “Finders Keepers.” 1 1/2 ounces Don Julio Blanco Tequila Scant 1/2 ounce Del Maguey Vida Mezcal 3/4 ounce lime juice Heaping teaspoon apricot jam Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker and add ice. Shake vigorously for 10 seconds and pour everything into a rocks glass. No garnish.

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For Me, Myself, and I Sometimes what inspires can be found right under your nose. That says a lot for me, since I have a big schnoz. One night I came home tired and aggravated. I wanted some of my favorite spirits mixed together. I grabbed a few bottles, juxtaposing them on my counter. I wasn’t sure it would work but luck was on my side. It came out way better than I expected. I liked it enough to write down the specs in my little black book. 1 ounce Mezcal Alipús Santa Ana 1 ounce Flor de Caña Extra Dry 1/4 ounce Campari 1 ounce lime juice 1/2 ounce simple syrup (2:1) 2 dashes Angostura Orange Bitters Combine all ingredients in a shaker, add ice, and shake it like it owes you money. Double strain into a chilled coupe glass. Express the oils of an orange peel before placing it in the glass. Now chill out. PS Tony Cross is a bartender who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern Pines.

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T h e P l e as u r e s o f L i f e

An Honest Day’s Pay And a friendship for the ages

By Jan Wheaton

My first summer job was the brain-

storm of my best friend, Sheila. She came up with it as we were lying on the deck of her parents’ house, catching some rays before a trip to Ocean City with my mother, a friend of hers and her kids.

“We need to make some money,” Sheila said, drumming her fingers. “Money for what?” “For the beach — we might want to buy some stuff.” “OK. How?” We were too young to get real jobs and had long ago made a pact never to babysit. “We’ll wash cars,” she said and frowned back at my frown. I had met Sheila the previous September on the first day of our freshman year in high school. We were both new, military kids, and we knew how to pick and make friends fast. Sheila flounced into English class two minutes late, her yellow-blond hair flipped at her shoulders and her cat-green eyes lined like Brigitte Bardot’s. “Sorry,” she said in a low, breathy voice. “I couldn’t get the combination on my locker to work.” She ducked her chin over the pile of books she clutched to her chest, hiding her face behind her cascade of hair as she headed for the back of the room, the heels of her white boots clicking on the linoleum floor. As she slid into a seat next to mine she dropped her purse. Two pens and a package of peppermints skidded across the floor, a lipstick rolled under my desk. There was a titter of laughter and two boys jumped to the rescue. I picked up her lipstick and set it on her desk. Sheila shot me a sideways glance of gratitude that invited complicity. A few minutes later she passed a note to me that read, “You have the greenest eyes!” I wrote back to her: “Contacts.” After class I helped her with her locker, which turned out to be at the opposite end of the building. By the time we got there and opened it I had decided she was going to be my new best friend and invited her to come over to my house Saturday afternoon. We sat on the floor of my bedroom and exchanged critical teenage information. Favorite bands (hers was the

Doors, mine was the Monkees). Most revered top models (hers, Veruschka, mine, Jean Shrimpton). Historical trivia (she’d been a cheerleader at her last school; I’d been sergeant of the School Safety Patrol.) She taught me to apply eyeliner. I introduced her to the poetry of Dorothy Parker. We became inseparable at school, except for the rare class we didn’t share, and spent much of our weekend afternoons at shopping malls trying on cool clothes our mothers would never buy us, taking black and white pictures of ourselves in photo booths and shopping for albums at the record store, which we would later play in her basement rec room while we go-go danced on a piano bench. On days when we couldn’t get a ride somewhere, we took walks in the Virginia woods adjacent to our neighborhood and talked about all the really heavy stuff, like what a drag our parents were and what a downer the suburbs were. On Saturday nights, we often went to hear bands at the Legion hall — dropped off and picked up by a parent. Boys lined up to dance with Sheila, and while they waited, they danced with me. But many a Saturday night there was no dance, and not being allowed to date, we hung out in her parents’ rec room, creating fictitious boyfriends we gave code names like Babe Blue and Tall Slim, and spinning long, complicated stories full of intrigue and heartache. After being friends for almost a year, I knew if Sheila said something would be cool, it would be cool. So the following Saturday, wearing two-piece swimsuits under our shorts and T-shirts, we set off down the street, dragging a red wagon laden with soaps, glass cleaners, chrome polishers, upholstery cleaner, paper towels and rags, a cooler with snacks and drinks, and a transistor radio. The first two doors we knocked on were answered by housewives, who turned us down flat. The third woman assured us her husband washed the cars. When she closed the door, Sheila and I exchanged a nod and headed off down the sidewalk, looking for signs of a husband at home. “Bingo,” Sheila said as we approached a house with a dusty, white 1965 Ford Mustang in the driveway and a man in the open garage pouring gasoline into a lawnmower. He appeared to be about 40 and came out into the sunlight, wiping his hands on a rag, as we wheeled up our wagon. He had nice eyes, somewhat creased and shadowy, and his belted blue jeans hung just below a still definable waistline. He smiled as Sheila described our special deluxe treatment, and it occurred to me that he could have once been a Babe Blue.

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“Five bucks, huh? And I guess you girls are working for a good cause?” he asked. “Yes, sir. We’re going to the beach,” Sheila said, flashing her wide smile. He pushed out his lower lip, dimpling his chin. “I think I can support that.” Just sitting in the shade watching us wash his car could’ve alone been worth $5 to this guy, but Sheila and I took our jobs seriously. We pulled our hair back with rubber bands, turned on our radio and went to work. Sheila climbed in the front with Babe Blue’s vacuum cleaner and I took the back — emptying ashtrays, wiping down the red vinyl seats and cleaning the hand-crank windows. By the time we got the interior done, we were sweating pretty good in the early afternoon sun, so when we got out to do the exterior, we peeled down to our swimsuits and sudsed, sprayed and scrubbed every square inch of that little car. We sang “Summer in the City” with The Lovin’ Spoonful and belted out “It Ain’t Me, Babe” with The Turtles over the roof, trunk and hood as we wiped and buffed till our arms felt like they were going to fall off. We didn’t toss our rags in the wagon until every inch of that car was pristine. The paint glistened, the chrome sparkled, and the white walls would glow in the dark. Our client, who had continued to putter in his garage most of the time we worked, gave his white Mustang a close inspection and blew a satisfied whistle through his teeth. “Nice work,” he said and handed us a $10 bill. Word spread, and we had no trouble finding cars to wash for the next three days. On our first evening at the beach, Sheila and I ditched the adults and headed down to the water in front of our hotel. We kicked off our sandals and sat cross-legged in the sand. A trio of boys wandered down from the boardwalk and tried to join us, but we waved them off. Sheila was in one of her existential moods, talking about the ocean, its primordial energy, the eternal rhythm of the waves and inevitability of the tides. I pulled up my knees and locked my hands around them. Listening to the sound of those waves and her low, breathy voice, I felt a degree of contentedness I’ve found hard to replicate in life. I was 15, tanned and at the beach with the coolest best friend in the world. A new pair of silver earrings, purchased with car-wash money, dangled from my pierced ears. A fresh wave swirled up under us and left a pool of froth where we sat. I felt the sand slip away as the water retreated, and I dug my toes in, trying to hold back the grains. Sheila looked over her shoulder. “Those guys are coming back,” she said. PS Jan Wheaton is a Pinehurst resident, native North Carolinian, unpublished novelist, and the compiler of PineStraw’s calendar.

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The kitchen garden

The Landing

An innovative outdoor learning environment launches on a local farm

By Jan Leitschuh

A tiny girl in a charming red, white and blue

PhotographS by ASHTON ALBERT

dress toddles over to a raised vegetable bed, green bucket in hand. There, magically, a ripening tomato spills over the side, conveniently at “wee-one” hand-height. To us, it’s a green tomato with a slight blush.

To her, it’s a moment of wonder. Other children navigate the nearby obstacle course or balance beams, ask questions about cucumbers or basil, eat green beans off the bush. They shriek and run and play in the tepee village, cook wood-chip “cookies” in the outdoor kitchen, navigate the tires or construct towers in the “workshop,” plant seeds and smell marigolds planted to keep the deer away. Welcome to the opening of The Landing, a new outdoor learning environment for children at Eagles Nest Berry Farm in Jackson Springs. “We’re attempting to get more families out and away from electronics, and enjoying the outdoors, to see how food is grown,” said Elaina Williams, the driving force behind The Landing. “We have raised beds with vegetables. We have a tepee and a noise room. We have outdoor and active things for children to do and use their imagination.” Situated a dozen or so miles west of Pinehurst, lovely Eagles Nest Berry Farm is a family farm project that began with blueberry bushes. Owned by Williams, Karyn and Todd Ring, Chuck Richardson and Martha Richardson, that simple beginning was plotted by their father, carefully matched to the farm’s soils best suited to a delicious and fruitful blueberry crop. Though their father died before his thoughtful plan got planted, the children decided to enact his vision. Now, many years later, that legacy of four beautiful acres of pick-yourown blueberries, and an acre of blackberries draws fruit lovers, buckets and appetites in hand. The farm also grows some vegetable produce, such as basil, tons of tomatoes, potatoes, onions, cucumbers, okra, kale, Swiss chard and more, after sister Karyn got a grant to implement low tunnels to further lengthen the Sandhills’ long growing season. All that N.C. growing goodness draws families away from the air condition-

ing and into the outdoors. And with them come their children. “We have kids come out with their parents to pick, all the time,” says Williams. “They usually come back out of the field covered in blackberry and blueberry juice. It is cute.” But youthful attention spans often wander. Enter The Landing. “We wanted to get more families outside, and out here on the farm,” says Williams. “To do that, we needed an area for the children, something that would engage them. It’s kind of a no-brainer.” She had an ally in Brittany Martin Mays, a friend from Jackson Springs, who works at Partners for Children and Families. “She does this kind of thing, helps set up playgrounds at child-care centers, that sort of thing. She gave us lots of great ideas, really encouraged us because there isn’t a lot of that right around here.” Writing up her vision, Williams was awarded a Golden Leaf Tobacco Fund grant last fall, through the University of Mount Olive, to help farmers transition out of tobacco and into something else. Another friend, David Shannon, helped set up the master plan, constructing the play elements. “He’s been a big help on setting this up,” says Williams. “He’s going to stay on and help with the farm, especially since we discovered he has a green thumb.” First came the raised beds. Built from rough-cut, untreated 2x10s, the beds topped out at a low 20-inches tall. “We wanted to make sure the kids could see everything. We put sand in the bottom for drainage, then we mixed together good compost, garden soil and eggshell compost,” she says. The rich beds were planted with appealing produce, as well as a drift of marigolds to keep the deer away. “The kids especially like the purple bumble bee and chocolate cherry tomatoes. We have customers that eat them like candy,” says Williams. “We also had quite a few children interested in eating the green beans right off the bush. We planted larger tomatoes and cucumbers too, so one week kids could see the bloom, the next they could come and see the fruit. “They showed a lot of interest, asking questions. We hope that they keep coming out and checking things out. I think we might have encouraged the next generation of farmers, with the questions they were asking. They wanted to pick everything that was on there. If there was even a little bit of color on it, they wanted to pick it.”

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The kitchen garden

Besides the raised beds, a few pear trees, wild flowers and blueberry bushes were planted just for children. Next, Shannon built a little obstacle/balance beam course with logs, stumps, tires and sand-filled structures. Big tractor tires, donated by T.H. Blue, stick halfway in the ground for roughhousing and climbing. Carolina Car Care donated some other tires of the right size. “We stacked and filled them in with pure white sand, for climbing. The kids love it. We put mulch all around it for soft landings. My grandsons tried it out first,” giving it their seal of approval. A 10x10 hole was dug down a foot for a sandpit. Convenient log stumps surround the build for people to sit on and watch the action. Shade was another consideration. A neighbor with bamboo in his yard donated some long poles for a tepee. Brittany helped set up a village — three tepees with bamboo poles lashed together with wire. The crew put painters cloth around the poles and during the grand opening on June 20, children dipped their hands in washable paint and made prints on the cloth for decoration. “We will probably try some half-runners up the poles next year,” says Williams. Other outdoor play spots seeing big action were a play kitchen, an architectural center and a music room. Full of cookware, the play kitchen is a fenced 10x10 foot area with a tin roof. The floor is a soft wood chip mulch. “We made it kid-sized. David built a little kitchen counter, painted burners on it, put in a little sink and we stocked it with old pots and pans,” says Williams. “They like to cook with those. Wood chip cookies. They pretended really well. Even the boys were in there.” An additional kingdom for the imagination, the architectural center, forms another 10x10 foot area, this one with an orange builders fence around it called the TPT Construction Area, in honor of Ty Parker Tindell, a brother who passed away 10 years ago. “It’s stocked with blocks, 2x4 chunks, cylinders, pieces of wood, plywood, a few PVC pieces. They are going to have to use their imagination. And they did. Girls and boys. They built huge structures, towers,

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other items. No hammers. Just imagination,” says Williams. Finally, the music room. “We also call it the noise zone,” says Williams with a chuckle. “We made a xylophone out of bamboo. Then we made a wall and took old aluminum cake pans, pots and pans, and we hung wooden spoons so the kids can beat on them. The kids love that. We did hang them on the side of the wall away from the berry pickers. “Kids can bang away to their hearts’ content, working off their energy and disturbing no one on the spacious farm. Though only open four days during the harvest weeks, The Landing will offer engaging projects and events. “We have a cousin that’s a retired science teacher,” says Williams. “We have several activities she’s going to do, like building a worm farm and an ant farm. She has all kinds of snakeskins and bird nests that she’s going to tell us about. She’s going to do a weather day, and there’s a tornado thing she wants to do.” Future plans include a larger wildflower patch, more fruit trees and permanent deer fencing. An expanded garden is on the agenda. As a bonus, Mom and Dad get to pick their blueberries and blackberries in peace in the main field while the kids play with new friends nearby. “We’re trying to give back to the community,” says Williams. “We’ve had such great customers over the years. And we’re hoping to inspire some young farmers. And I think we inspired a few at our opening, especially the girls.” PS Want to visit? Call first to check, at (910) 639-3966. Normally open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., same hours as the adjacent Eagles Nest Berry Farm. Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and cofounder of the Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative.

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By Renee Phile

I remember watching my boys

swim at a local pool a few summers ago. David, then 10, is wearing his big honkin’ green goggles that cover his entire face, well, at least his eyes and his nose. His mouth is still exposed. He reminds me of a huge green bug. Kevin, then 5, still won’t put his face all the way under the water. “Blow bubbles!” I say. He won’t. He whimpers a bit, then shoots other people with his water gun. Kids squeal. Adults express mixed reactions. Some smile and splash back. Others look annoyed. Some glare. Kevin does not have his water gun etiquette down yet. I make a note to work on that with him.

The coconutty smell of sunscreen wafts through the humid North Carolina air. Heads bob up and down in the clear water. The sun scorches my shoulders. I mentally calculate the last time I sprayed my boys down with SPF 50. It is time again, probably. Sweat beads on my forehead and drops down on the pages of my David Baldacci novel. I think of how refreshing it will be to jump into the water. The lifeguards gaze lazily over their sunglasses, every now and then glancing down at the phones in their laps. Texting, playing Candy Crush (yes, I know Candy Crush is sooooo five years ago . . .) A dad with his two girls, probably ages 3 and 4, sit to my left underneath their own umbrella. He coerces them to eat strawberries, or how about a banana? “No, you can’t have a cookie until you eat your fruit. Don’t make me call your mom.”

He takes a swig of his beer, stands up, hands on his waist. “But daddy! Strawberries make me feew sick!” One wails. He takes another drink. Sighs. Stay consistent, I think. You can do it. I send him mental energy. Words are unnecessary. You are the adult. Don’t be manipulated by their adorableness. I smirk to myself as if I am always consistent with my own kids. As if I didn’t just give in earlier today when they begged me for leftover pizza and Sunkist for breakfast. Then doughnuts on the way to pool. As if I don’t say things like, “Fine! Eat the cookie! Eat all the cookies! Make yourself sick! I don’t care!” “Whatever, eat the cookies. Just don’t tell your mom you didn’t eat your fruit.” The dad sighs. The girls jump up and do some kind of happy sister cookie dance. Then the next thing I know their faces are smeared with chocolate. Dad tells them to go jump into the water to clean their faces, and he settles down in his pool chair with a magazine. At this point David is playing sharks and minnows in the deep end — basically a game of tag — and Kevin is still shooting people with his water gun, turning around quickly as if the victim will have absolutely no idea what happened. I stand up, stretch, and walk on the hot pavement to the deep end to watch the game. Two boys, probably around David’s age, are playing. They may have been brothers or friends, or neither, or both. The boys climb out of the water, dripping, panting, among a dozen other kids. Boy 1: “Oh man! We’re screwed!” Boy 2: “Dude, I think you can come up with a more appropriate description of our situation. How about, ‘We’re currently disadvantaged’?” My English teacher heart grins so big I quickly skip back to my pool bag. I pull out my little notebook and jot down the dialogue I just heard that simply locks this pool experience into the books. “Hey! No running ma’am!” the lifeguard shouts from across the pool, Candy Crush on pause. I give him the thumbs up sign. PS Renee Phile loves being a mom, even if it doesn’t show at certain moments.

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Our PineStraw banner reads “Art and Soul of the

Sandhills.” However, social media, SNL, magazine covers, cartoons and late-night comedians have made politics an art form demanding the same attention as a Broadway play, a concert or TV mini-series. Surely, it’s no coincidence that Veep and Madame Secretary take top honors, following the venerable West Wing and House of Cards. Here, art imitates life inside the Beltway, where satire practically writes itself. Politicians have become, if not rock stars, at least matinee idols. Most agree this obsession began with the Kennedys — Jackie’s style, John’s hair/smile/ philandering. Nobody gave a fig what Eleanor Roosevelt and Mamie Eisenhower wore or that their husbands had “close” female assistants. Americans over 70 remember Kennedy-impersonator Vaughn Meader, whose The First Family album sold faster than The Beatles — until it wasn’t funny anymore. The style part lived on in Nancy Reagan and Michelle Obama. Soirees featuring Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman have long graced the White House calendar, usually when foreign dignitaries visit. Otherwise the best of folk, bluegrass, even pop. Rumor is the only soloist during this administration will be Wynton Marsalis, the jazz, uh, Trumpeter. Let’s play around with other artsy connections. Whodunits: Jason Bourne, 007, Inspector Clouseau and those cute NCIS guys would understand secret documents delivered, after hours, to the White House. Amnesiac witnesses, clandestine tapings, secret back channels funneled through foreign embassies. Undisclosed meetings between trusted advisers and dubious operatives. Wouldn’t Shakespeare have a blast? The villains: A shifty-eyed former general who, for a fee, dined with (Ras) Putin. A presidential spokeswoman with straggly blonde locks, bony fingers and over-glossed lips mouthing “alternate facts” and “fake news.” Did we ever find out who leaked that Access Hollywood tape? The costumes: Look, I don’t mind if the First Lady owns a $50,000 Dolce & Gabbana jacket. But does she have to wear it at a photo-op seen by Americans who earn half that — in a year? Then, of course, the emperor’s new clothes consisting of many voluminous dark blue suits (Brioni, $10K), always-white shirts and b-o-o-ring ties. However, sartorial Oscars go to the supporting cast of senators for custom-tailored jackets, pressed trousers, well-fitting shirts, interest-

ing ties and good haircuts. Make-up/hair: Must be Creamsicle-hued Pan Stik topped by L’Oreal’s Buttercup Cotton Candy. Ombre hair shading suits Mrs. T Number Three. I can’t picture that on Pat Nixon. The music: True, many politicos appear to be living in la-la-land minus the film’s exquisite score. No. 45 won’t mess with Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture” accompanying Independence Day fireworks, although the composition celebrates a Russian military victory. Damn, that Russia thing again. Look for Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” campaign anthem to remain atop the presidential playlist. Otherwise, per the inaugural ball, expect “My Way” all the way. Script: Credit a gaggle of writers holding Ph.D.’s in teleprompter lit from a now-defunct eponymous online university. Set decoration: Each First Family receives 100,000 taxpayer dollars to redecorate the living quarters. Talk about chump change. That amount doesn’t go far toward solid gold faucets, silk sheets, alpaca blankets and carpets arriving via AladdinAir. On location: Our commander-in-chief’s favorite movie is Citizen Kane, where the unhinged zillionaire womanizer played by Orson Welles repairs to Xanadu, his Florida castle. Is Mar-a-Lago just a coincidence? Factor in a Fifth Avenue triplex, a vineyard estate in Virginia, a manse in Bedford, New York, digs on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, a golfing pied-à-terre in New Jersey and, of course, that rustic little cabin called Camp David. Heavens to Betsy! POTUS owns more bathrooms than Howard Johnson had ice cream flavors. Family ties: Children frequently follow their entertainment-industry parents: Kirk and Michael Douglas, Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher, Tom and Colin Hanks, Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli. No wonder DJ installed Ivanka just down the corridor. For the Paris Climate Accord he needs the expertise gained during Fashion Week in the French capital. Her forecast: rainy April. Bring umbrellas. Preferably Hermès. Last, but not least — Cast of characters: Jeff Sessions by Tennessee Williams. Mike Pence by Sinclair Lewis. Steve Bannon by Truman Capote. FLOTUS by Jacqueline Susann. James “Cat in the Hat” Comey by Dr. Seuss. Trumpty Dumpty by Lewis Carroll. Kellyanne Conway by Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King or whoever wrote Zombieland. I knew that English major would pay off, eventually. But, should this administration ever be made into a movie, who would play the president now that Philip Seymour Hoffman is gone? John Goodman, perhaps? I can see Cindy Crawford pulling off First Lady with Gwen Stefani vamping Ivanka. Jared eludes me, except perhaps a grown-up Haley Joel Osmet from, fittingly, Artificial Intelligence: A.I. or, at best, a Stepford husband. Finally, the art part: Gilbert Stuart did George Washington’s official portrait. John Singer Sargent painted Theodore Roosevelt. Who, then, will immortalize the current Oval Office occupant? Doesn’t really matter when the canvas is black velvet. 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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I tend to meander through the past

sometimes — more as I get older. Meandering is the perfect word for my thought process since it means there is no obvious direction involved, nothing of substance happening, and no specific goal in mind. Just about anything can set off my meandering. Just the other day, a log truck tried to turn the corner too short as it came out of the woods just down the road from my house. As a result, the trailer overturned and deposited about 20 pine logs on the road. Traffic was held up in both directions. As is the Southern custom, when traffic stops anywhere for more than five minutes, you get out of the car and walk to wherever the source of the holdup is. Part of that effort is to determine what caused the holdup, but the most important element is to tell whoever is in charge of clearing up the situation how to do it. It was the smell of the pine logs that set off my meandering that day. When I was growing up in the little hamlet of Hallsboro, the lumber industry and farming were the main sources of income for the inhabitants. Even if your primary occupation was farming, you had to cut some of the trees on the farm to either clear the land for planting or provide some cash to tide you over until the crops came in. Cutting timber assaulted and embraced the senses. Not all the woodland where I grew up was in the swamp, but it was usually wet nonetheless. So when folks went in to cut the trees, the traffic of tractors and trucks created a muck that not only made maneuvering difficult, but also generated a smell of mud and oil and rosin unique to that activity. Combine that with the smell of burning

debris created by trimming the trees and clearing the brush, and you have an aroma that lingers and resurfaces in the meandering mind of an old man long after the scene has disappeared from the landscape. The dormant odor of the woods at the site of the log truck accident stimulated not only my memory of the smells associated with a long-ago time and place, but also made me recall the sounds as well. There was the ringing thud of an ax; the regular, sharp, scrapping sound of the cross-cut saw as two men rhythmically cut through a towering tree; the shout of “Timber!” to warn of the impending crash of the falling arbor; and the powerful silence that followed: a quiet reverence. Settled in among those old sounds, like the notes of a music chord, is the laughter of the men. Sometimes that laughter was shaded by some rough language that just provided a background like timpani to the brass and strings of the conversation. There were young men learning from old men, learning how to accomplish a job none of them could do alone, a job replete with traditions that could only be passed from person to person, traditions as old as the need for men to provide shelter for their families. Neighbors “swapped work,” assisting each other when none of them could afford to hire help. They were glad for the help and loved the fellowship of labor. It was hard, dirty, back-breaking work, but it was honest work and generated a pride among the loggers, a pride that came from doing a job well. Out of my memory of those nascent sights and smells emerged a scene that refocused in my meandering mind. There were men in overalls and long denim jackets, wide felt hats, and brogan shoes. They toiled in the mud under tall pine trees. They pulled the newly fallen logs to the loading dock with an old tractor, loaded the logs on old trucks using giant cant hooks and chains to secure the load. They were black men and white men: dressed the same, did the same work, bought their clothes and food at the same store, shared life together. They worked side by side, not because they wanted to but because they had to. It’s amazing what a meandering mind can conjure. Sometimes it might be real and sometimes it might be imagination or dreams. And sometimes, as my Grandmother Council once told me, “Sometimes the mind wanders just for the sake of wanderin.’” I agree with that. PS Bill Thompson is a regular Salt contributor. His newest novel, Chasing Jubal, a coming of age story in the 1950s Blue Ridge, is available where books are sold.

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Camp Mackall, I could hear thunder boomers, or maybe troops practicing with their howitzers. Our weather had been unseasonably cool for a couple of days as a Canada cold front brought in lower humidity and temperatures. I was backed up in the pines bordering a milo field, kicked back on the tailgate of the Bronco at the little farm in the southern part of the county that I lease for bird hunting. It’s one of my favorite spots. Linda, my bride, calls it my escape place.

Thunder became more prevalent, and I watched as giant cumulus clouds rose skyward at a storm’s pace. They were outlined in white from the sun but were an ominous grey, almost a black color deep in the interior. This is going to be some gale, I thought as I watched the clouds become wider and more pronounced. Lightning was skittering across the top, adding a real threat to the storm. It was too late to head home, so I decided to ride it out away from the taller trees and moved the Bronco back in a stand of smaller pines. The whole southern sky was now a boiling grey mass of rolling clouds, moving north. I had just enough time to roll up the windows and close the back gate before big drops of rain splattered the little vehicle. I climbed in the passenger’s side and had just shut the door when a huge lightning strike illuminated the shadows of the pines like a flash bulb. It was almost simultaneously followed by thunder that seemed to rock the truck. That was too close,

I thought, and I watched as a dark grey sheet of rain headed my way, shutting down visibility. From then on, it was a thunder and lightning show. I’ve had some close calls with thunderstorms and have been extraordinarily lucky a couple of times, so no one respects the power of lightning more than me. As rain hammered the little Bronco, I thought back to a narrow escape I had several years ago. It was the early part of dove season, and I was hunting along a tobacco field where I noticed birds that were picking up sand grit for their craw. I parked the Bronco on a small hill overlooking the area and walked around the tree line to a wooded point anchored by a giant white oak. The spot was bordered on both sides by tobacco and gave me a great view of both fields. It was a little after 2 o’clock, and I had promised Linda that I’d be home in plenty of time to get ready for a dinner invitation that evening. Over the hills toward the north, I could hear the first ominous sounds of thunder, so I decided to skirt around the closest field to see if I could jump a few birds before calling it a day. A pond anchored the south side of the farm, and my plan was to make a circle around the field, starting at the pond, ultimately ending my walk back at the truck. A dirt road a little wider than a car bisected the two fields and I came out on the south end, about a mile from my vehicle. Black clouds outlined the northern tree line, and I could see flashes of lightning and hear thunder as the storm headed my way. I decided to cancel the hunt and picked up my pace as I walked toward the Bronco. A few drops of rain hurried me along. Suddenly, a dove jumped up in the field on my left and I dropped it in the tobacco. Paddle, my little yellow Lab and long-time hunting companion, had died the winter before at the age of 14. I missed her tremendously. She would have found the bird and had it back to me in no time, but now I had to be the retriever. I angled in the field to look up and down the rows of head-high tobacco. I spotted the dove and hurried to it so I could hopefully beat the storm to the truck. I had just picked up the bird when I had the weirdest sensation. Hair

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on my arms and the back of my neck seemed to stand up, and the sky became bright under the lowering clouds. Instinctively, I knelt and laid my shotgun down as if I knew what was coming. The gun and I had just hit the ground when a deafening crash of lightning and thunder shook the field. For a second, I was stunned, and then I grabbed the gun and the bird and hustled to the truck in a downpour that drenched me as if I had jumped in the pond. The next day I rode back out to the farm and found that the white oak tree on the point of land where I began the dove hunt was where the lightning hit. There was a strip down the tree about a foot wide where bark had been slashed in the lightning strike. The spot where I knelt down in the tobacco field was about 90 paces from the tree. Another run-in with lightning occurred when a good friend and I were paddling the Haw River right below the new dam that would eventually back up waters to form Jordan Lake. It was the beginning of an epic adventure; but as they say, that’s another story for another time. We had just portaged around the dam and were heading down river to where the Deep and the Haw rivers form the Cape Fear River. Right beyond the dam, the banks of the Haw were steep from lake construction, and we were in a hurry to get where we could exit the river because a storm was coming. We didn’t make it. We were on the river in a Grumman aluminum canoe when thunder and lightning began in earnest. It was raining so hard we had to bail water every now and then. Lightning was striking all around us and all we could do was hold on to the brush on the side of the bank and keep our fingers crossed. It worked. Mother Nature decided to let us make it through the storm and continue our trip. That was close call number two. I hope I don’t have a number three. In a bit, I drove out to one of the old barns on the farm to use the shed for a refuge. I got a drink from the cooler and a pack of nabs and my dove stool and found a dry corner. It was comfortable under the barn overhang, and I watched as the grey clouds seemed to be getting lighter. Thunder grumbled to the north of the little farm as the storm moved and a steamy haze rose off the fields, promising a return to summer heat. I decided to pack it in for the day. I put my stuff in the truck and fired her up. The U.S. has a yearly average of 47 fatalities of people struck by lightning. I’m lucky not to have added to that statistic, and I think about that every time I hear the distant rumble of thunder. PS

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A Major Match Remembering the historic PGA Championship of 1936 in Pinehurst

Denny Shute recovers from the woods on his way to defeating Jimmy Thomson in the 1936 PGA Championship By Lee Pace

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significant makeover of the renowned No. 2 golf course just prior to a major championship coming to Pinehurst. Technical infrastructure overhauled and updated to handle the massive demands for communicating the scores and developments in the competition. An undercurrent of excitement and energy crackling through the Village as the golf world turns its sights to the Sandhills.

Yes, indeed. It was the PGA Championship. And it was 1936, 81 years before the next PGA is held within the boundaries of North Carolina, at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte this very month. “The year-old grass greens, replacing the long-used sand putting surfaces, are small and fast,” an Associated Press dispatch said the week of the mid-November gathering of the top golf pros in the nation. “They’ll be still faster later in the week when they are due for a trimming.” (That’s quaint and a little hilarious when you think of today’s practice of double-cutting and sometimes rolling the greens twice a day the week of the U.S. Open.) And from another dispatch: “Eight thousand feet of telephone wire will be strung to keep tabs on the tournament, connecting with booths located at salient points around the course.” The championship magazine touted “sophisticated entertainment” at Club Chalfonte, one mile from Pinehurst on Aberdeen Road, and encour-

aged visitors to “Stay at the Manor, a livable hotel that reflects the atmosphere of a fine home.” Four miles away in Southern Pines, the Pine Needles Inn sought to lure guests with a special amenity: “Directly in front of, and adjoining the stately Tudor hotel, is probably the finest eighteen-hole grass putting course in the world, patterned after, but much superior to, the putting course at St. Andrews.” It was the first big-time, outside event to come to Pinehurst, this 19th playing of the PGA Championship. Of course, the top players and golf universe considered the annual playing of the North and South Amateur and Open Championships at Pinehurst the equal of any competition. The North and South Open, populated mostly by the touring pros, gave Pinehurst and its singular mix of golf-centricity and ambience (it had seven courses by the mid1930s) a distinct place in the minds of golfers everywhere. “I can’t help it, Pinehurst gets me,” Scotsman Tommy Armour said. “From morning firing practice on Maniac Hill, to vespers at the movies, Pinehurst is the way I’d have things if it were left to me to remold this sorry scheme of things entirely . . . It’s the last in the vanishing art of fine living.” The 1936 PGA was particularly significant to architect Donald Ross and his prized No. 2 course because it marked the unveiling of a course with Bermuda grass greens and two new holes — the current fourth and fifth. Since No. 2’s opening in 1907, golfers navigated square putting surfaces made of sand with a clay base. Pinehurst was thought to be too far north for Bermuda greens, but by 1934 Ross and greens superintendent Frank Maples had experimented and found a strain of Bermuda that could survive during the resort’s high season, which ran from October through the spring. Gone were the flat sand/clay surfaces that caddies had to sweep with a broom and in their place were expanses of the native sandy soil sculpted with furrows, bulges, rolls and hollows, structures similar in Ross’ mind to what he knew from his native Scotland. Now, if a golfer’s approach missed the green,

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he was faced with the variables of terrain, distance, angles and bounces — and thus was borne the chipping element that has made No. 2 a test for the ages. “No. 2 has always been a pet of mine,” Ross said. “In building these fine new greens, I have been able to carry out many of the changes which I have long visualized but only now have been able to put into practice.” “If you haven’t been to Pinehurst recently, you will get a shock next week when you go over to the PGA tournament,” one press dispatch read. “Those famous courses, there for decades, have undergone a miraculous transformation. The Sahara-like greens are no more on No. 2 and No. 3. The sand has been replaced by grass as green as the foliage in the background. As distinctive as those sand greens were, golf on sand is not so pleasant as golf on grass.” The resort in the mid-1930s had four 18-hole courses and a nine-hole course used by employees and caddies that ran over ground to the east of the No. 2 course and that now is home to the No. 7 course. Ross took the first and ninth holes on that course and made them the fourth and fifth holes on No. 2, and abandoned two holes that existed between the current 10th and 11th. “I don’t see how a course could be any harder, but at the same time this course is the most pleasant course to play that I’ve ever seen,” defending PGA championship Johnny Revolta said. “You have to play with your head as much as your hands.” The event marked the first time the PGA Championship had been held at a Southern resort. In its 20 years of competition, the PGA had been held mostly at Eastern clubs with an occasional trip to the Midwest or West Coast. Pinehurst management left no stone unturned in preparing for the event. Ross and Maples laid thousands of pounds of rye grass seed over the fairways of No. 2 to ensure a green and lush turf in the late autumn months, and they and Pinehurst President Richard Tufts agreed to delay the season opening to members and guests until after the tournament. The course opened for practice the week before the championship and was listed at 6,879 yards. A field of 121 players convened for two rounds of stroke-play qualifying beginning Nov. 16, followed by six rounds of match play for the low 63 qualifiers — plus Revolta, the defending champion who was exempt from qualifying. Joining Revolta as favorites were reigning U.S. Open champion Tony Manero, who had won that summer at Baltusrol, along with Armour, Gene Sarazen, Walter Hagen, Paul Runyan, Leo Diegel and Craig Wood. Hagen and Byron Nelson were casualties of the qualifying rounds. Falling aside in the first two rounds of match play were Revolta, Sarazen, Runyan and Armour. The three biggest names left in the quarterfinals were Manero, 1933 British Open champion Denny Shute and 1931 U.S.

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Open champion Billy Burke. Jimmy Thomson beat Wood 4 and 3 in the semifinals, and Shute beat Bill Mehlhorn 1 up. Shute, 32, was born in Ohio, raised in West Virginia, and at the time was the head professional at Brae Burn Country Club outside Boston. He weighed only 140 pounds and was described as “frail” in one news report. His strengths were an agile short game and deadeye putting stroke — witness his one-putting the first 10 greens in beating Al Zimmerman in the second round. And he was rarely in trouble. “He just kept nailing low, windboring irons and whistling woods straight down the middle,” an Associated Press account said of his efforts at Pinehurst. Shute held a 2-up lead over Thomson through 33 holes of their finals match, and with Thomson

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Wild Words I’ll not read poetry at bedtime anymore — those wild words gang up, go roaming in my head, jump synapses, gathering speed, picking up more of their kind, bringing little phrases to the threshold of my sleep like proud cats leaving mice on a doorstep. Some I shoo away, but others will not let me rest till they finally shake me awake, and with pen scratching sleepily on the back of a store receipt, I quickly let them out. — Laura Lomax

Mani /Pedi Fiction by Lee Smith

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come here to be touched. I want the lotion, the rubbing, the smoothing, the stroking, the pressing, the kneading fingers, the touch on my toes and feet and legs and hands and shoulders. Oh and I always get the neck massage, too, in addition to the deluxe manicure and the hot stone pedicure and the warm wax treatment on both feet and hands. I especially love the moment when each hand or foot slides into its own plastic bag filled with that melted wax, you think it’s too hot and you can’t stand it, but you can. And I especially love Kim, a round sweet Filipino woman, the salon owner’s wife, who is doing me today, both for her wonderful plump firm hands and also her strength as she goes deep, deep into the tight muscles of my calves and neck. If I can’t get Kim, I ask for Rosa, thin, tense, and angry, or Luis, a gentle, beautiful young man who seems wistful or sad to me though who knows if that is true or not. None of these people speak English beyond the most rudimentary and necessary terms such as “Mani-pedi too-too?” or “Hot-hot?” as I put my feet into the tub, or “You like?” as Kim asks now, massaging my calves, then “Feel so good!” with a nice big smile as she brings the hot towel to cover my knees and lower legs and feet. This is heaven. I smile, too. I love it that we can’t really communicate. I’m not here to talk, I’m here to be touched.

Since Charlie died, many people have actually come up to me and said, “Well, it’s a blessing, isn’t it, after all this time,” or “It’s so sad, but it must be a relief, too.” The fact is, it is not a blessing, and it is not a relief, either. So what if Charlie couldn’t speak to me for the last four years? He knew me, I’m sure of that. The body has its own way of knowing, bone to bone, skin to skin. I believe it comforted him when I touched him or turned him so that we lay curled together side to side like spoons in a drawer, flesh to flesh as in our long life together, two old high school teachers, married for 45 years. The body has a knowledge of its own, this is why I kept him at home and I don’t care what anybody thought of that, my son or his wife or the hospice people or anybody. So now? I don’t miss Charlie himself, he’d been gone for years. But I do miss his body, his flesh, the feel of him, the touching. So I come here. I come way too often, I know, especially considering that I don’t really have any nails to speak of, I never have. I come too often and I stay too long. But so does this other woman, also older, like myself, a blowsy, disheveled blonde who occupies the other pedicure chair in this secluded back alcove. I’ve seen her here several times. Today, she has already had her manicure; she waves her hands through the perfumed air, then holds them up to admire her perfect nails, tapered hot pink points, while her feet and ankles soak in the hot tub. This is a reversal of the standard routine. Usually the pedicure is first, then the manicure while the toenails are drying under the special light at one of the nail stations. I love that special light, so warm on my feet, I love the tiny fan on my fingernails. I tip extravagantly when I leave. “They already told me I can just soak as long as I want,” this woman suddenly leans forward to tell me, sounding defensive. What a surprise, a real jolt! I have never talked to any other customer here in The Purple Orchid in this rundown strip mall out on the highway north of

town, far from my own staid neighborhood and all my regular haunts. I can’t think what to say. “I’m having a real bad day,” she goes on, leaning forward, ”but I swear, it always calms me down to come in for a mani/pedi. Kim sweetie, could you come over here and jack up the heat for me, hon? Hot-hot please-please!” she calls, and Kim leaves my chair to go over to her. “Just a little bit more, yes-yes hot-hot, that’s good, that’s good hon, that’s perfect! Thank you, sweetie.” Kim comes back to me and the other woman settles back in her chair. She was beautiful once, I can see that, about 40 years and 40 pounds ago, in a beauty queen sort of way. In fact she was a beauty queen, I’m sure of it, Miss This or Miss That, back in the day, which was my day, too, of course. But I was not a beauty queen or a cheerleader or a majorette. No, I was in the Beta Club, and the French club, and the band. Flute. This woman’s hair is still fairly full and too long for her age, almost big hair. Hers is not the practiced smile of the professional beauty contestant, though, but an engaging, lopsided grin. “I tell you what,” she says, looking straight at me, “I really do need to calm down today. I need to focus. I’ve got to get myself together.” “Well, me too,” I hear myself saying. Maybe this is true. Kim takes off the hot towel now and massages my feet, rubbing lotion between each toe, buffing that recalcitrant callus with a pumice stone, then trimming my toenails, first one foot, then the other. “Yeah, I’ve seen you in here before,” the blonde says. “My name is Sandy Neighbors, honey, and my husband is Manly Neighbors, that’s the one that does everybody’s taxes in this whole town, you may have seen his billboards, he’s got them up everyplace, there’s one right near here where Church Street runs into Route 60. Manly Neighbors, he’s got a red tie and a great big old shit-eating grin.” I start laughing, I can’t help it, I have seen that guy on that billboard, and

she’s right. I haven’t laughed in so long it hurts. “Yeah, he’s real busy right now,” Sandy says. “It’s tax season, you know” — it’s April — “so Mr. Manly Neighbors, Mr. Important, Mr. Big, he just can’t do a goddamn thing with his wife, he’s so busy, he’s a workaholic anyhow, even at the best of times. I think that’s what happens when you grow up poor, you know, you just can’t ever make too much money, you can’t believe it’s real somehow. Him and his mom used to eat the old bread that the Mick or Mack grocery store was throwing out, that’s how poor they was, so I guess we just can’t imagine.” I really don’t know what to say to that, which doesn’t matter anyway as Sandy Neighbors just goes right on talking while Kim trims my nails and then expertly applies the polish on my toenails, Tijuana Holiday, something new for me, I picked it for the first time today, usually I choose something more subdued such as Dawn Blush which is almost mauve. But who cares? What does it matter? “Ooh, I just love that red,” Sandy Neighbors says. “And you’ve got the prettiest feet, too!” I have never been told this before. “You look real good, honey,” Sandy pronounces now, while leaning way over the side of her pedicure chair to haul up an enormous sequined tote bag which she begins rummaging around in, finally pulling out a bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade which I know to be the real stuff that they sell at the liquor store and at the convenience store up the highway where I go to buy my cigarettes, Salems, which I have started smoking again now after quitting for 30 years, nobody knows it though, I don’t do it in public ever, just mostly in the car out on the Interstate or out on the bedroom balcony late at night when I just can’t sleep. Now Sandy is all bent over feeling around in the tote bag again, emerging finally with a flushed face and one of those old churchkey openers that I haven’t seen in years. “Ta-da!” she pops off the top, throws her head back, and takes a big pull on the bottle then grins at me. “This here is my special lemonade,” she says. “It calms me down real good.” She takes another swig, looks all around as if for spies, then leans across to say to me confidentially, “Actually I’m just going to set over here a while and drink some of my lemonade and try to pass this, this kidney stone that’s just about to bother me to death.” I was nonplussed. “Can you just do that?” I ask. “Just like that? I mean, pass a kidney stone just because you want to?” “Well, I don’t know,” she says. “Stick around and we’ll see. But I read in a magazine that citrus is real helpful. And this lemonade is pretty damn good, too. You want to try some?” “Sure,” I say, and she pops the top of another one and leans way across the pink carpet so I can reach out and get it. I take a big swallow. This stuff is wonderful. “So what do you think?” she asks. “Pretty good, huh? I think it’s relaxing, too. In fact, I’m getting real relaxed already.” “I can see that,” I say, settling back, taking another long pull on this longneck bottle, which amuses me, the wordplay, I mean, “long pull” and

“longneck.” I used to be a poet in my youth. ”I’m getting pretty relaxed myself.” I take another drink. “So, what’s happening over there? Any progress with that kidney stone?“ I ask, while a part of me seems to have levitated to the ceiling where I hover over us both, me and Sandy Neighbors in our pretty pink alcove which looks like the inside of a seashell, I think suddenly, one of those big curly conch shells that you can blow into. “Well, I don’t know,” Sandy says, “I can’t tell yet. But I’d really like to go ahead and pass it so I can go on this Senior Water Aerobics Club trip tomorrow. I sure don’t want to pass it while we’re all on the bus. And I’ve already paid for the trip.” “But where are you going?” I ask, thinking of nearby bodies of water: Kerr Lake, Jordan Lake . . . “Oh honey, we’re not going swimming! Lord, it’s way too cold for that!” Sandy laughs at my stupidity. “No, honey, we’re going to Savannah on a big fancy bus, it’s a scenic tour kind of thing. Of course I’ve already been to Savannah one time with Manly” — she rolls her eyes — “we had a free trip we won at a Rotary Club raffle. But this trip will be completely different, a girl thing, so it’ll be lots more fun. They’ve got a bar about every 20 feet in Savannah, plus all this old architecture and culture and shit, and low country cooking, that’s what they call it down there, ‘the low country.’” “I’ve heard that,” I say. “Hey, you know what? You ought to come along with us!” Sandy cries. I drain my lemonade, trying to imagine this. Maybe I look doubtful, because she adds, “Without the husbands, you know, why we’ll just have the best time in the world. So you can leave yours at home too.” “I would,” I say, “but you know, this is kind of short notice.” She gets out two more longnecks, pops the tops, and hands one over. “Well, even if you can’t make this trip, you ought to join our water aerobics club anyhow, we have a lot of fun in there, splashing around and gossiping. Plus it’s real good for your arthritis and balance and everything.” This is exactly the kind of suggestion my daughter-in-law and my sister keep making all the time. “When do you meet?” I ask in spite of myself. “Ten o’clock Tuesday and Thursday mornings,” she says, “in the pool at the Orange County Recreation Center.” I shake my head. “I’m a poet,” I say. “That’s when I work.” “Work?” Sandy snorts. “I thought you said you was a poet.” “I mean, that’s when I write,” I say, firmly now, convinced of it. “Well, why don’t you write some other time, then?” Sandy asks with a big shit-eating grin. “You ought to come. You’d just love us!” “Maybe I will,” I say, just as Sandy grabs both arms of her pedi chair and starts yelling. “Oh oh! Oh my God! Watch out! It’s happening! It’s coming! It’s coming right now!” she shrieks, hanging on for dear life. PS Lee Smith, who resides in Hillsborough, is the award-winning author of 13 novels and four short story collections and a beautiful memoir of growing up in rural Virginia called Dimestore, published in March of 2016 by Algonquin Books. She is one of the brightest lights of American fiction, a true gift to the Old North State, and an old friend of this magazine.

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our husband is cheating on us. I’m assuming that he hasn’t told you yet. I’m the test wife and he tries everything out on me first, I mean everything. Remember when he got hooked on that massage oil that heats up with body temp? Now maybe you liked it, but I sure didn’t. I got a rash, but of course, I have extremely sensitive skin and always have. I mean, I am Clinique all the way. If you were writing up this triangle (fast becoming a rectangle), then you’d be the one with sensitive skin, the fair, hothouse flower, and I’d be the scrub grass by the side of the road. And look at you — some tan. I know that you go to Total Skin Care and get in the sunning beds. It’s odd how he tells me all about you. There have been many times when I’ve said, well, why don’t you just go on home then? And of course, that’s the ironic part, because he always does. But, girl, like are you thick? I would know if my man had been out messing around. Like I know your perfume — Chloé — and the fact that you have not picked up on my Shalimar is amazing. I wear the stuff the way it’s supposed to be worn — heavy; I’m one of those women people ask not to be seated next to on the airplane. At my last clerical job they ran a ban on perfume in the workplace after I’d been there a week, so I had to quit on principle. That’s me, a quitter; a principled quitter. When the going gets tough I get the hell out, always have. I’ve come here today with a proposition for you, but before I get into that, I thought you might like to hear a bit about me. I’d think you’d want to, given that I know everything there is to know about you. I know your mama died last January, and I have to tell you that I almost called you up to give my condolences. I mean, I’d been hearing about how awful her illness was and how you were traveling back and forth to tend to her. I heard you on the answering machine many times when I’d be over here cooking dinner. I’ve got to tell you that I just love your kitchen — that commercial-size stove and those marble countertops. Was he feeling guilty when you all remodeled, or what? You and I both have excellent and

very similar tastes. Don’t look at my hair. It’s not a good day. You should see me when it’s just cut and blown dry. Maybe I can show you some time. Anyway, one of those nights when I heard you on the machine, you were crying so hard that I almost picked up, so strong was my urge to want to comfort you. When Mr. Big got home, I told him there was a message I felt he had to listen to right that minute, and of course, he did, but then did he call you? No, ma’am. And did he call to check on your son, who he had dumped off at the Anderson house and them not even home from work yet? I told him that if I had a son I believe I’d be more responsible with him, and he just pawed the air like l might be dumb. He must do that to you a lot, too. I’m sure he must. I even suggested I excuse myself, go to the mall or something so he could have his privacy but he just waved again and shrugged, like, nayyhh. Well, that was the first time I stopped and asked myself just who in the hell was this man I was sharing my (or your) bed with? I looked at him in a completely different way after that. I mean, how could he hear you sobbing and carrying on like that and not rush to call you? I see your surprise and I’m sorry. We all grow up and find out that the truth hurts. But here’s some truth you might like. I did not sleep with him in your bed that night. I faked myself a migraine (complete with blinding aura) and made him drive me straight home. Do you think he ever looked all around to make sure your neighbors weren’t looking? Hell, no. Either too stupid or just didn’t give a damn, I can’t figure which. I moaned and groaned and talked of the bright lights I was seeing out of my right eye (I told him the left had already shut out in complete blindness), and honey, he drove faster than the speed limit. I have always noticed how men (at least the ones I’ve come into contact with) can’t stand to observe pain. It just sends them right up a tree. I have also faked menstrual cramps with Mr. Big on several occasions, and so I know in great detail (he talks a hell of a lot, doesn’t he?) that you have just terrible periods and always have. My bet is that you’ve faked your share, am I right? Well, either way, I know how you sometimes ask him to crush up some Valium into some juice

that you sip through a straw so you don’t have to sit up and straighten yourself out. Genius. Make that Mr. Big Ass work! But honey, I’m not so sure I’d trust him, you know? If I were you I might mix my own cocktails. But enough about that, I wanted to tell you about me. Get yourself a drink if you like, or a cigarette. I know you smoke. He knows you smoke, even though you think he doesn’t. I mean, the man is slow for sure, but he isn’t completely out of the loop. He has smelled it in your hair, even though he says you spray lots of hairspray and perfume (he doesn’t know you wear Chloé — I do). So come on out in the open and just smoke. I smoked for years and I absolutely loved it. But I quit years ago. I am actually one of those who quit because of Yul Brynner coming on television and saying that, when I saw him there doing that ad, then it meant he was dead. Lord. That was a moving experience. I was holding a cigarette in my hand and was seven months pregnant (yes I have had a life, too), and I felt like Yul was looking directly into my eyes. Talk about an aura. Yul had an aura, and don’t be like Mr. Big and make a joke about his baldness. I felt his soul reach out and grab me by the throat and say, Put out the butt. I went out on my back stoop, took one final drag (a long, delicious drag), and then I thumped that butt clean across the darkened backyard where it twinkled and glowed for just a brief second before dying. If I was somebody who could like have one cookie at a time or could eat the designated portion written at the top of the recipe or on the side of the box, then I’d ask you to give me a cigarette, but we know better. If I had one cigarette, I’d have a carton. I have always told people that if I was ever given the bad news that my number had been drawn in that great bingo game we call fate and I only had a little bit of time left, that I’d get me a cooler of beer and a carton of cigarettes and several bottles of Hawaiian Tropic (the oil with the red label for tropical-looking people), a tape deck with all my favorites from when I was teenager: Pet Clark and Chad and Jeremy, you know my time, I’m a few years older than you, I think. And I’d just stretch out and offer myself to the sun; a burnt offering. Burnt, greased, and buzzing like a bee. The baby? You’re asking about my baby? Well, let’s just say that if I had a baby then my last wish would be a very different one. But that’s not something I like to talk about. I’ll tell you what I did come to talk about. You see, I have been thinking that we should get rid of Mr. Big. That’s right, don’t look so shocked until you hear me out. It would be just like in that movie that came out a year or two ago, only I do not want to get into a lesbian entanglement with you. I mean, no offense or anything, it’s just not my cup of tea. Actually I would like some of whatever you’re drinking. Diet Coke is fine. Don’t slip me a Mickey, okay? A joke, honey. That’s a joke. I’m full of them. Probably every joke you’ve heard over the past eight years has been right from my mouth. Mr. Big has no sense of rhythm or timing — in anything, you know? Truth is you look a far sight better than how he painted you, and you look a damn lot better than that photo of you all in that church family book. I mean it made me sick to see Mr. Big Ass sitting there grinning like he was the best husband in the world when of course I knew the truth. Honey, there are facts and then there are facts, and the fact is that he is a loser with a capital L. Arsenic is big where I’m from. I guess anywhere you’ve got a lot of pests

there’s a need for poison, and then maybe your perception of what constitutes a pest grows and changes over the years. There was a woman from a couple of towns over who went on a tear and fed arsenic to practically everybody she knew. If she had had herself a religious mission like Bo and Peep or Do and Mi, whatever those fools were called who tried to hitch a ride on the comet by committing suicide in new Nikes, or like that Waco Freak, or, you know, that Jim guy with the Kool-Aid down in Guyana, she’d have gotten a lot of coverage – People magazine, Prime Time, you name it. When they finally wised up to her, she had enough ant killer stashed in her pantry to wipe out this whole county. It’s big in this state. Cyanide, too, might be good because you’ve got that whiff of almond you might could hide in some baked goods. But I don’t know how to get that. I know what you’re thinking, sister. I’ve been there. You see, your husband has been faithful to me for eight long years, and why he up and pulled this stunt I don’t know. Middle-age crazy, I suspect. Maybe he wanted somebody younger and shapelier. Maybe he wanted somebody a little more hot to trot like my oldest friend — practically a relative — who sleeps with anybody who can fog a mirror, and her own little lambs fast asleep in the very next room. If I had had my own little lamb, my life would have been very different. And I was going to tell you about the real me, so I’ll just begin before I go back to my plan. You keep thinking about it while I do my autobiography for you. You see, I think that my first knowledge that I would live the life I do is when I was in the eighth grade and my foot jumped right into a size nine shoe. Now I’m looking over and I see that you are about a seven and a half, which is a very safe place for a foot to be these days. That’s a safe size. But I hit nine so fast and all of the women in my family said, “Where did she get that foot?” My brother called me Big Foot. My great-aunt said, “Oh my God in heaven, what if she grows into those?” This from a woman who was so wide, her butt took up a whole shopping aisle at the CVS. I mean, it isn’t exactly like I came from aristocracy but they thought so, or at least they thought that a slim little petite foot meant that somebody way, way back stepped off the boat in some size fours. I maxed out at a size ten when I was a senior in high school. There they are, full-grown pups, and honey, there isn’t a single shoe on the market that I don’t order and wear. Sometimes I have to order a ten and a half (I firmly believe that this is the result of the Asian influence in this country). I finally got to an age where I could look out at the world and say, “Fine — I am of good solid peasant stock; I am earth woman, working the fields, turning the soil.” I can dig with my hands, and I can dig with my feet. My folks aren’t sitting out on the veranda as much as they’d like to be. They are picking cotton and tobacco leaves, and when they get their tired hot bodies back to the shanties at the edge of the field, then here comes The Mister from the Big House. I know that might sound stupid to you, but the size of my feet made me both tough and subservient. I thought long ago that it could all turn around with me meeting the right person at the right time, but that has yet to happen. You know when I first met Mr. Big, though, I thought it might be happening. Part of the reason I liked him so much that first time is because he talked a lot about you and your son, and he really did seem to care. I even asked him the first

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time we met in a more personal way, you know, didn’t it bother him that he was cheating on you. He said at the time that it was okay because you were cheating on him; I let it be an excuse because he did look pretty cute back then, but I think I knew that you weren’t really having an affair. I mean, you had a one-yearold. Now, I’ve never had a one-year-old but I sure do read enough, and know enough folks who do, that I know the odds of you having time to run around were out of the question. You were probably lucky to get a shower, am I right? He showed me a picture of your son the first night I ever met him — a cute little thing, plump and grinning — but after we started sleeping together he never showed me any more pictures of your boy. Or you for that matter, other than Mr. Big’s Holier Than Thou Church Photo. I should have known to leave him alone right then. I should have said Kiss Off and disappeared. And I’m still not entirely sure why I stayed, except that I was very lonely and I knew that he was safe. I’m still lonely. I know you might think I’m putting too much stock on the size of my feet, but in my mind it is a physical symbol of my difference in my family. They are all over there in the nice warm room lit by firelight, and I’m way off yonder by the barbed-wire fence with snow on my boots while I shiver and peep in. I’ve always felt that way, and therefore, I’m comfortable with it. I used to get hopeful every now and then, but I got over it. And this woman! She is much younger than you are, honey. And she has got boobs such that you could place a cafeteria tray there (man-made, I’m sure). Short skirts. Over the knee boots, I mean, really. Everybody says I have awful taste in clothes, and I do much better than she does. I mean to tell you Mr. Big has hit bottom. Here he had us, two perfectly good-hearted, good-looking women, and he falls for that? If I were you, I might even take precautions against disease. She might be packaged to look clean, but that is one sordid thing. Check her out some time. I have her working schedule at Blockbuster’s, and I know her address and phone number. As a matter of fact I’ve already started in harrassing her for you. Don’t thank me. I’m doing it for me, too. So, I say we bump him off. Real easy. Slip him the poison. Start in small doses and then up it and up it until he’s so sick with what seems to be the flu or some awful stomach problem and then we either choke or smother him, say he did it while trying to be a pig and eat while you weren’t around. If you carry it through, you know, fall completely apart — grieve, rage, mention that hussy whore girlfriend down at Blockbuster, don’t tamper with the will (a document that does not make a single mention of me!), then they’ll believe you, especially when you say that you feel you’ve got to get that man in the ground as quickly as possible. Done. Then you just go on about your business and I go on about mine and they might put Miss Blockbuster in the slammer. Truth is that I don’t have much business and never have. I almost had a baby one time. The daddy was nowhere to be found. Get up and shake the sheets, and he’d blown clean out the window and down the road, never to be heard from again. Well, here came a baby. Everybody kept telling me to get rid of it, but when have I ever done what anybody said to me? Never. So I plodded along, planning. I had lots and lots of plans. But it was a bad joke — a fake baby. No breath, no heartbeat. I looked at it and realized that

was my life. No breath, no heartbeat. No life for me. I’m a slave girl — a servant. I’m one rung lower than a dog. Mr. Big is too low to be called a dog; that would be an insult to canines everywhere. He didn’t call you back that time. He was never there for me, not that I ever expected it; but what if just once he had been? What if just once somebody had taken better care of me, taken me to a real doctor, gotten some help. And Mr. Big knows that you’ve been feeling down lately, but does Mr. Big care? No. I say we kill him. Oh, but I see doubt in your eyes. I see love, and for that I sure am sorry for you. You better lose that light, honey. Bring him down. Think of Delilah. Cut off his strength and watch him go blind and pull a building down on himself. Sap him while you can. Oh, my, stop crying. Lord. I didn’t come over here for this. You are not the woman I thought you were from that photo in the church book. You looked to me in that picture like a women who could enlist in a complicated plot, but you are a bundle of jumpy weepy nerves. I know that we’d no sooner put Mr. Big down under, but what you’d be confessing and giving out my name. You are a tattletale. You were probably one in school and you’re still one. I still call and hang up on the tattletale from my school, that’s how much I hate a tattletale. Oh, yeah, I can see it all, now. You’re sitting there thinking about how you could nail me. The wife would get it easy. A woman under stress conned by the mistress. You’re crazy if you think I’d fall for that one. I may not have any children to worry over, but I have pride. I have dignity. I have the child I almost had and lots of times that keeps me in line. I imagine where he’d be right now, twelve years old — my son waiting for me to get home so he can complain about what I don’t have in the refrigerator. I tell people, maybe men I might’ve just met, “Oh no, I don’t stay out late. My son will be waiting for me.” Don’ think I don’t know what it feels like. I was pregnant. I had mood swings. I studied all those wonderful little pictures of the fishy-looking baby growing legs like a tadpole — moving from water to land, just that easily. But you have everything for real. You have Mr. Big legally. You are hopeless woman. I’m the one that ought to be crying! Snap to. Listen to some good advice, because in a minute I’ll be out of here. You tell him that you know all about that little bitch he’s been seeing (she works at Blockbuster Video and wears way too much eye make-up). Tell him he better shape his butt up or you are out of here, sister. Make him sweat. I mean I don’t want a thing to do with him, you know? So use me. Call me by name. Tell him I’ll come to your divorce hearing and help you clean up. Get him back if you want him, and make him behave. But don’t let him off easy. Pitch a blue blazing fit. Scream, curse, throw things. Let him have it, honey. Your husband is cheating on us. Let him have it. And when all is said and done, please just forget that I was ever here; that I ever walked the earth. After all, I’m Big Foot. Who knows if I even exist. PS Jill McCorkle is a daughter of Lumberton (NC) and an award-winning author of ten novels and books of short stories. Five of her books have been named Notable Books by the New York Times and four of her short stores appeared in the Best American Short Stories series. Like Lee Smith, her fellow Good Ol’ Girl, Jill is a resident of Hillsborough and a North Carolina treasure.

So Bad It’s Good imag ined re ly ul tf ar rs ve co ok bo ed nn ba s Famou

Featuring Denise Baker, Romey Petite, John Gessner and Laurel Holden

he first summer I went away to Boy Scout camp at age 11, I took an internationally banned book along for casual reading. Of course, at the time, I didn’t know it was a famously banned book. It was simply a thick paperback volume from my dad’s overstuffed bookshelf that featured a classical drawing of a nude Aphrodite on its cover. The author had a cool handlebar mustache. I thought it might be about an Englishman’s adventures in the Near East and remember a blurb on the cover that said something to the effect: “The Book that Shocked an Entire Continent.” The title was My Life and Loves, by Frank Harris. In fact, the author was a controversial Irishman and author, newspaper editor, short story writer and social gadfly who railed against censorship and puritanism in all forms. His lurid and engaging 600-page memoir — which was banned in Britain and America for 40 years and first published privately in Paris — related colorful tales about his close friendships with leading politicians and celebrities of the Victorian Age. But it also brought down the ire of the U.S. Postal Service and British and American censors for its explicit depictions of the author’s sexual exploits with willing Victorian Age debutantes. The book, I learned many years later, tainted the otherwise estimable career of Harris, who authored well-respected biographies of Shakespeare, Goethe and his close friend Oscar Wilde, among others. He was also pals with the likes of George Bernard Shaw and Winston Churchill. Needless to say, My Life and Loves was potential dynamite in the hands of an 11-year-old Tenderfoot Scout and would surely have gotten me sent packing before the Friday Mile Swim had anyone known the revealing subject matter contained therein. I remember telling friends it was just a boring book about Greek and Roman mythology. Today My Life and Loves is considered a classic of eroticism and historical reporting. I still own a copy. In this spirit, just for fun — being August and our annual Reading Issue — we invited several talented artists and photographers from our three sister magazines to imagine updated covers for famous banned books of their choosing. As they lavishly prove, even if you can’t judge a book by its cover, you can sure have fun illustrating something that was once considered so bad for you — it’s good.

— Jim Dodson

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Ulysses

by James Joyce Serialized in the U.S. 1918-20. Published 1922. Banned in the United Kingdom until 1930s. Portion of serialized version found obscene in the U.S. in 1921, effectively banning the book. In 1933 United States v One Book Called Ulysses finds book not to be pornographic, therefor not obscene.

Carved wood block printing

Denise Drum Baker taught visual arts for 34 years before retiring from Sandhills Community College three years ago. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a printmaker, artist, teacher, mother of two grown and happy children, and an ambassador for Moore County Cultural Arts. She falls into fun orchestrating a sister cities relationship with Newry/Mourne, County Down, Northern Ireland. Carving woodblocks is her favorite form of printmaking because the process hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed much in over 400 years. She can be contacted at artsnob@live.com.

The Handmaid’s Tale

by Margraet Atwood

Published 1985. Recipient 1985 Governor General’s Award for English Language, fiction; 1986 nominated for Booker Prize and Nebula Award; 1987 recipient Arthur C. Clarke Award. Banned or challenged in some schools for profanity, lurid passages.

Brush/ink with digital colors

Romey Petite is a writer and illustrator hailing from New Orleans

and a contributor to PineStraw’s “Bookshelf” column. He is sometimes mistaken for an oddly dressed mannequin when sitting next to the picture window in his most frequently patronized coffee shop. His favorite thing to do is take a walk while listening to a good audiobook. He can be contacted at romeypetite@gmail.com.

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Animal Farm by George Orwell

Written in 1943-44. Published 1945. Banned in the Eastern Bloc until the end of the Communist Era in 1989. Won a Retrospective Hugo Award in 1996. Listed No. 31 on the Modern Library List of Best 20th Century Novels.

Watercolor/ink on paper with a digital background

Laurel Holden is a native of Southern Pines who

graduated from The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont, in 2013. She is a writer and illustrator who moonlights as a librarian at the Southern Pines Public Library. She lives in Southern Pines with partner and collaborator, Romey Petite, and their corgi, Felix. She can be contacted atÂ laurelmax.holden@gmail.com. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 2017

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Published 1953. Recipient 1954 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in literature. Book was completed in two nine-day sessions on a typewriter rented for 10 cents per half hour. Banned in some schools for vulgarity, obscenity and, in one instance, a description of the burning of The Bible.

Digital photography with mixed medium and fire

John Gessner contributes editorial images to nation-

al and international publications including The Wall Street Journal, Golf Magazine, Our State, PineStraw, O. Henry and Business North Carolina, among many others. He creates advertising images, photographic installations and works with writers on coffee table books and special projects. His hobby is music photography. Contact him at john@ johngessner.com.

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And from the fertile imaginations of our

clever book cover artists at sister publications

Salt & O.Henry . . .

Mark Weber

Margaret Baxter

Thomas Boatwright

Charlotte Oden

Harry Taylor

Debi Hammack

R ay Martin

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Greensboro, NC

Harry Blair Greensboro, NC

Greensboro, NC

Wilmington, NC

Greensboro, NC

Patron Saint of The Farm How an unheralded pioneer of women’s golf created a life of meaning and joy By Jim Moriarty

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harlie Griffin hadn’t given up golf, exactly; he’d just taken a 30-year sabbatical. Senior advisers at the World Bank — his last position was as the director for Human Development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia — don’t generally travel with yardage books in their back pockets. In an effort to reboot his game in retirement, Griffin booked a lesson with Joy Bonhurst at Clubgolf Performance in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. In their get-to-knowyou conversation, Bonhurst asked Griffin where he learned to play. Griffin explained that his aunt taught him the game when he was very young.

“Griffin,” thought Bonhurst. “Aunt” thought Bonhurst. “You must be Ellen Griffin’s nephew.” Guilty as charged. When Griffin stopped at the desk to pay for his lesson, Bonhurst spoke up. “Be respectful of this guy,” she said to the man at the cash register. “He’s from golf royalty.” Ellen Griffin passed away over three decades ago at the age of 67 following a years-long series of surgeries, 16 in all, the first few for cancer, the rest to treat chronic Crohn’s disease. She tossed in a pair of strokes along the way. After the first one she gave up smoking her Raleigh cigarettes. After the second one she taught herself Spanish. “I don’t believe I’m going to be blotted out when I die,” she once told author Liz Kahn. “But it’s a new experience, and no one knows about it, so why worry?” She died in October of 1986 with the Major League Baseball championship series on the TV in her room at Moses Cone Hospital. Blotted out? As John Wayne said in Big Jake, “Not hardly.” Blowing the dust off the accolades and achievements is a futile exercise in understatement, even if it was possible to touch all the bases. The Ladies Professional Golf Association’s annual teaching award is named the Ellen Griffin Rolex Award. The first-ever recipient in 1989 was another member of golf royalty, her close friend Peggy Kirk Bell. Together they brainstormed the Golfari name and concept that became a 60-year plus staple at Pine Needles Lodge and Country Club. Griffin created the National Golf Foundation’s Educational Services Program and was the LPGA’s Teacher of the Year, both in 1962. Ten years before that she and Betty Hicks, co-authored the Golf Manual for Teachers, an indispensible tool of its time for college golf instructors. And, in 1944, along with Hicks and Hope Seignious, Griffin was one of the founders of the Women’s Professional Golf Association, a precursor to the LPGA. The WPGA was launched using cotton money supplied by Seignious’ father, but its eyes were bigger than its stomach. It fostered a fledgling winter tour in Florida in ’45 and published a monthly magazine, The Woman Golfer, in ’46 and ’47 with a newsstand price of 25 cents — assuming you could find it on a newsstand — aided by Smith Barrier, a former sports editor at the Greensboro Daily News. And, though the WPGA surely wasn’t the sole motivating factor, the first U.S. Women’s Open was played in Spokane, Washington, in ’46. The time was ripe for something, just not the WPGA. It lacked three things: the über promoter Fred Corcoran; the über female athlete Babe Zaharias; and the not-so-über but nonetheless reliable money of Wilson Sporting Goods, which came hand-in-glove with Nos. 1 and 2. The 13 LPGA founders (14 if you add Peggy Kirk Bell, which the founders always did) coalesced in ’49. That the LPGA had picked up the baton as the WPGA’s well ran dry bothered Griffin not a whit. She’d never intended to be a nomadic playing professional. She was a teacher, pure and simple. And therein lies the magic.

Griffin studying at Women’s College

Ellen was the catcher, far right

Griffin is the archer third from the left

Her book Golf Manual for Teachers was the industry standard To say that Ellen Griffin was incorrigibly optimistic would be like saying a golf ball was determinedly round. It was simply one of her properties, like the sleight of hand tricks she pulled on kids of all ages. “She was one of those people that just affected your thinking and your feelings about yourself without directly talking about it,” says sports psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella, who met Griffin through another respected woman teaching professional, DeDe Owens. “We brought her to the University of Virginia a couple of times to do clinics and everyone just loved her. She not only loved teaching players, she loved teaching teachers of players. She just had an incredible ability to make the game really simple. She had that knack of making you feel good.” Her nephew, Charlie, lived with Griffin while he finished high school in Greensboro in the late ’60s, ultimately on the path to degrees at the University of Iowa, UNC-Chapel Hill, Duke and then the World Bank. “She was a freethinking, inventive, creative saint, and she showered all of that on me for three years,” he says. “It was just infectious. Her method was Socratic. She was always asking questions so she made a real pest of herself. Ellen was like the most annoying saintly person you’d ever want to be around. She never left you alone.” The oldest of three children, Ellen’s younger brother Charles became a physician in Dyersville, Iowa, and outlived her. A second brother, George, 10 years younger than Charles, was a Korean and Vietnam War veteran with 20 years in the Army and Air Force, combined. He died in 1977 at the age of 46. Her mother, Helen, was a niece of J. Edgar Hoover. Her father, Charles, was from Snow Camp, North Carolina, the seventh child in a family of 17. He retired with the rank of colonel after 39 years in the U.S. Army, was a veteran of both World Wars, suffered shrapnel wounds to his legs, was awarded a Purple Heart, survived a mustard gas attack, carried an embarrassing tattoo on his left arm — a basket of flowers with “Mother” written underneath — was the power-hitting catcher on the 29th Infantry baseball team at Fort Benning, Georgia, an expert

rifleman and one of the best golfers at any base where he happened to be assigned. He saw his 7-month-old daughter for the first time when he returned from France at the end of World War I. That daughter found him behind his trailer in Level Cross, North Carolina, where he suffered a heart attack while shooting mistletoe out of a tree and died at the age of 58. Between the World Wars, when the family was based in Georgia, Ellen’s father took her to a local golf professional, who gave her a cut down 2-iron with a hickory shaft, which she used to great effect on Fort Benning’s parade ground. “I was lucky my father was in the Army because we could open the golf course every Sunday at 6 a.m. He played 18 holes with me, then took me for a chocolate milk, after which I went to church, and Dad played golf with his men friends,” Griffin told Kahn in The LPGA: The Unauthorized Version. Her brother Charles, whom everyone called June, was pressed into service as a caddie. “My dad taught Ellen to play golf when she was 11. He taught me to caddie when I was 9. I was the original double-bagger on Sunday,” he said at Ellen’s 2002 induction into the LPGA’s Teaching and Club Professional Hall of Fame. Once Ellen entered Women’s College of the University of North Carolina, now UNCG, part of her never left it, though she ultimately did. She entered in 1936-37, graduated in 1940 and taught physical education at the university straight through to 1968, with the exception of her brief stint at the National Golf Foundation. One of her students was Annette Thompson, who grew up on a farm in Jackson Springs, was part of a graduating class of 26 at West End High School, and would receive the Ellen Griffin Rolex Award in 2002. “It’s hard to verbalize her influence because it was the person more than anything she said or did,” says Thompson. “She had that nebulous quality that makes somebody really special.” Griffin was the faculty adviser for LPGA Hall of Famer Carol Mann. “I took life lessons from her, not golf lessons,” says Mann. “Ellen Griffin was one of the most authentic people I ever met in my life.” In addition to Griffin’s notes on how to teach virtually any sport known to man or woman, the archive at UNCG’s Jackson Library has two of her scrapbooks, neither one completely full, compiled during her undergraduate years. The edges of the pages crumble and crack like an Indiana Jones map. Nearly everything, one assumes, was worth saving. Terse, businesslike single sentence notes to attend a meeting in a professor’s office. Telegrams from her mother saying she couldn’t be there on such and such a day. A ticket stub from a Nelson Eddy concert in 1937. A coaster advertising something called Trommer’s Malt Beer. A note informing her she was considered overweight — at 62.4 inches and 126 pounds — and a printed card with suggested remedies: 4. Take a cool or cold bath every day; avoid extremely hot baths, as they are weakening. A limerick. A golf essay. A newspaper clipping saying she’d been elected junior class president. Her first semester freshman grades. The starting lineup of the university’s softball team — she was a catcher like her father and batted cleanup. No one item appears any more important than any other. It’s a collage of someone spellbound by life. Beginning in ’66 and for the next three years, Ellen’s nephew, Charlie, the fourth of Charles’ 10 children from his first marriage, lived with her and her mother on Logandale Court, near old U.S. 421. Ellen drove him to school every day. They played golf every Sunday. “I would wear a suit with shorts underneath. She would drive me to the Catholic church on Market Street, drop me off and then pick me up and we’d go play at the UNCG golf course. That’s how she taught me how to play,” he says. There was a lot to learn besides golf. “She had to have the latest technology of everything. She had the first color TV. She had the first Amana Radarange,” says Charlie. “That was very important because it made her breakfast much more efficient. Her system of creativity started at 5 a.m. every day. She’d cook two slices of bacon in the Radarange. She made two poached eggs and coffee. She wasn’t sick then but she had a hospital bed she would raise and lower electrically. She had a tray that would roll across the bed like a desk, and she would eat her breakfast and for those two hours think and write and plan. It was a quiet time when nobody could bother her, and it happened every single day of her life that I knew her.” In 1968, Griffin walked away from her position as an associate professor at

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UNCG, eventually creating The Farm, her teaching facility in Randleman, on land owned by her brother, June, who relocated, however briefly, from Iowa to North Carolina. “It wasn’t just a business, it was an experience,” says Mann. Griffin kept her money in an old metal cash box. Written on top was, “The sole purpose of business is to make money but that’s not the soul purpose.” Off Route 62, the land where Richard Petty once took a golf lesson is now occupied by one of June’s stepdaughters and her husband. The driving range is still mowed. There are flags in faux greens for targets. Some persimmon and apple trees remain. The pine trees that Ellen planted along two sides of the range are large enough now to aspire to being described as towering. Queen Anne’s lace grows in great swaths on the edges. Gone are the peacock, Mann, and the peahen, Carol, that once perched on the railing of the outbuilding Ellen called the Tee House. Instead of being full of student desks occupied with golf pupils from ages 7 to 70, it’s a man cave. The guinea hens and the mockingbird have disappeared. The poodles no longer curl up in the sun. The property next door doesn’t have cows anymore. The cement duck pond is dry. There is no need for anyone to shoo a wandering animal out of the line of fire on the range as Griffin did with the 8-iron she constantly carried or the bucket hat she always wore — both of which went to the grave with her — or the pants with the baggy back pockets that seemed to swallow her balled-up fists as she watched a student and asked questions in that low, husky voice. The visitors now are woodchucks and deer. Dot Germain, Ellen’s protégé who played the LPGA Tour for 15 years and was the person who turned on the baseball games in Griffin’s final hospital room, owned a house through the woods on one end of the property. “She called herself the world’s greatest putter,” Germain recalls. “We’d have putting contests for millions of dollars.” A product of the imagination, of course, like everything else Griffin did. Debbie Massey, who played the LPGA Tour for 18 years, spent another five with Griffin and Germain in Randleman. “The Farm was really like being surrounded by Ellen’s life,” she says. “It was not just golf. It was science and nature and philosophy, psychology and mathematics that absolutely enveloped her life and golf was part of that.” Sometimes at the end of a long day, Griffin, Germain and Massey would sneak off to play the nearby nine-hole Green Acres Golf Course. “It was one of those courses that still had those three-wheel carts. You took your life in your hands every time you played there. She loved that little golf course,” says Massey. Ellen would get a package of cheese crackers and a chocolate milk, just like her Georgia days. “Sometimes she had me look at her swing,” says Germain. “I’d think, ‘Oh, yeah, she wants me to observe something. Make a suggestion. No, it was, ‘Look how good I am.’ Well, OK, Ellen.” Griffin knew who she was. A golf lesson with her didn’t start until she knew who you were. Massey had been a ski instructor. “She used my skiing to help teach me because the footwork is very similar. And she knew that I loved mathematics. For my alignment routine she used angles and lines that I could see in the ground. To this day, I see them,” she says. “She used those specific things, skiing and mathematics, to teach me. For someone else it would be something different.” In the evening at The Farm, after filling her favorite tall beer glass a time or two, Griffin might be seen dancing in the kitchen. A devotee of the New Orleans second line, Ellen loved the strut. “She was a performer, too. She’d get up and she’d get her hands up in the air and she’d start to strut around and she’d say, ‘This is how you do it,’” says Massey. “She’d have us all up banging with spoons, whatever we could find. And you could see her dancing in her golf swing. She had a beautiful swing, very athletic and a lot of footwork.” In 1971, when Ellen was transitioning from the university to The Farm, something her nephew identifies as a Griffin family trait (“a long, proud tradition of completely throwing your career out the window and going into the great void,” he says), she indulged her artsy side. One of the ways was publishing the sayings she jotted down in those early morning hours that became A Book of Yours. The dedication is to three people, mentioned only by their initials. No one knows who the initials represent. Ellen never told. Each first

Griffin went around with her protégé Dot Germain edition was numbered, the way an artist numbers prints. Germain’s copy is 204 of 240. No. 1 is unaccounted for. The book’s observations/poems are printed on rough-cut thick pages that surround pieces of exquisite, delicate Japanese rice paper. The last page reads: One leaf left — One last leaf Defying the winds — Tonight It has decided When the air is calm And The ripples are ironed on the lake It will float softly To the moss bank And Pray. Some artist’s medium is simply being alive. What a masterpiece it was. PS Jim Moriarty is PineStraw’s Senior Editor and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@ gmail.com

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World Class

Generations of travel are reflected in a charming eclectic Pinehurst home By Deborah Salomon Photographs by John Gessner

urely Marco Polo helped furnish Becky Smith’s intensely personal home at Country Club of North Carolina. Her rationale for the international potpourri: “Just because I like it.” What Smith likes are pieces from Thailand, Cambodia, China, Vietnam, Burma, England, Australia, the Caribbean, Africa, Switzerland. Her collection of glass canes hang in sunburst formation from the library ceiling. An orchid garden blooms in the breakfast room bay window. Walls of one bathroom crawl with friendly insects hand-painted to match a bug mirror, while a magic dragon mural livens a hallway. Appropriately, a sign in the driveway announces Uzbeckystan. The world tour commences at the door where massive stone Foo dogs — mythical animal statuary guarding Chinese palaces and imperial buildings — flank the entrance, while the knocker is a brass lion’s head, either Africa or Anne Klein. The Smiths, from points north, chose Pinehurst for early retirement during a tour through the South. They already owned a home in Kiawah, S.C., and thought they would end up in Chapel Hill, which had amenities and a cosmopolitan population. “We were driving from Charleston to Chapel Hill and stopped in Pinehurst to play golf with friends,” Smith recalls. Afterward, they wandered into the village and “fell in love.” Their first house was near the village. Then, in 1999, they drew on Steve Smith’s experience as president of a nationwide homebuilding business to plan, with Pinehurst residential designer Suzy Morgan, and build from the finest materials (evidenced by moldings, door frames, cherry floors), a 6,000-square-foot. neo-Georgian residence with public rooms capable of accommodating 100 guests. Their priorities: a main floor master suite and display space for art and furniture collected over several generations. “My parents and grandparents traveled by ship so you could bring things back,” Smith explains, although transportation rarely interfered with her own acquisitions.

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This residence is, more than most, a sum of its parts. Each piece owns a story, a link. Docent Smith shares them eagerly, beginning with those glass walking sticks: “I went into a country store and saw a glass cane with a hollow bulb and stem. It seems that at the end of the day, blowers would take leftover glass and make whatever they wanted. I found more in New Jersey. Wherever there’s sand, there’s glass.” She also learned that when a glass blower died, small canes were arranged around his grave. The canes reminded Smith of a wall-mounted starburst of muskets in Williamsburg; the canes were too long for the walls, so she had a special ceiling installed in the octagonal library and suspended them with fishing line. Smaller canes are wall-mounted throughout the house. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . August 2017

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This surfeit of eye candy begs a checklist: Writing on the walls: Not quite, but many are covered in wallpaper, no longer the vogue. Smith used grasscloth extensively, as well as Asian florals with retro matching fabric window treatments. Blue bows and bunnies cheer her grandchildren’s upstairs quarters; a pale apricot sponged-paint effect papers the master suite. Chinoiserie in the formal dining salon creates Asian serenity. Murals tell another tale. Smith hired North Carolina artist Chris Bernard to paint trees and plants on kitchen and breakfast room walls, along with that hallway dragon and bug bathroom. By arrangement: This floorplan lacks a contemporary family or great room. Instead, all paths branch off the living room, a salon with multiple seating areas delineated by Oriental carpets. Steve Smith’s onetime office, rich with leather chairs, one an heirloom, overlooks the garden and golf course. The windowless octagonal library, Smith’s idea, seems patterned on a men’s university club. Upstairs, an apartment for their daughter and nowgrown grandchildren still displays stuffed animals, a doll house and window seat straight from an English storybook. That formal dining room with Phantom chandelier and uncharacteristically post-modern table leads into a butler’s pantry and kitchen best described as vast, white and functional: two refrigerators and a full-size freezer, two dishwashers, three disposals, multiple ovens, tile floor, endless counter space designed for big parties during Steve’s tenure as Pinehurst mayor. “The caterers thought they died and went to heaven,” Smith says. Weather permitting, the parties spilled

out onto the huge terrace and pool deck. She recalls a Western-themed 60th birthday party for Steve, complete with a neighbor’s horse who wandered the property, nibbling greenery. “Steve’s favorite meal was breakfast, so we just served breakfast foods.” Magic carpets: Smith lifts colors from her Oriental rugs — dusty turquoise and terra cotta in the living room, where upholstery in soothing neutrals do not detract from the art, which includes portraits of the Smiths’ Cavalier King Charles spaniels. Not all rugs arrived via Aladdin. Brightly painted floorcloths — more New England than Southern, although these came from Chana Meeks in Siler City — cover breakfast room and nursery floors. Whimsy: To relieve the formality, Smith chose grasshoppers for the master suite bedspread, also a Thai puppet settled in a corner on a child’s chair and a mystical Irish doll in the entranceway. Paintings of beach bars (Captiva, Holden Beach, Cedar Key) frequented by the vacationing Smiths entertain the bathroom. Blown glass “witch balls” hang over windows. Keep looking: collections of Royal Doulton character mini-mugs; a dining room sideboard once the top third of an overmantel; stone heads representing the rivers of Ireland guard the garden; finally, a mangle (circa 1930s) for ironing fine cotton sheets dominates a laundry room otherwise equipped with futuristic front loaders. The Sound of Music: In a house rich in mementos and art objects, the most enchanting are Smith’s antique Swiss and Russian music boxes, some

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nearly 3 feet long, emitting Dolby-quality sound, which echoes down the long front hallway. One small box hides a mystery: “It worked fine but the case was a disaster,” Smith says. She brought the box to a craftsman for repair. He discovered a hole in the wood with a musket bullet lodged inside. They surmised the bullet hit a tree where it remained, perhaps for centuries, until cut down for lumber. Tables, tables, everywhere: Many, like the ones holding the music boxes, were made by Smith’s father, an engineer by trade, a fine cabinetmaker by avocation. Smith brands most coffee tables “boring.” Not the main event in her living room — black Chinese lacquer with a kaleidoscope of inlaid flowers. Nor in the library, where elephants tangle under glass on a Thai import. Some armoires and case pieces are custom-made reproduction from a Massachusetts woodworker. Books, books, everywhere else: Becky collects children’s books. Steve collected signed first-edition mysteries. Laid end to end, the floor-to-ceiling built-in bookcases throughout the house would almost fill a tennis court. Lady of the orchids: Common kitchen motifs lean more to zinnias, sunflowers and geraniums than orchids. But, in a house filled with exotic mementos, a potted orchid garden humidified by a calla lily fountain seems quite at home in a breakfast area adjoining the kitchen. Smith nurtures 40

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plants; as each finishes its blooming cycle she moves it to a screened, shaded, sprinklered orchid cage in the forest which she visits once a week. She became an enthusiast after seeing orchids grow wild in Bermuda, Jamaica, Ecuador, Thailand and Bermuda. “Steve and I owned condos on Captiva. I decided to give myself a present so I bought two orchids, then I studied the varieties and started collecting.” She has grown orchids in cold climates, in houses that provided the ideal northeastern light. Orchids, she discovered, are tough as nails. “But I’m quite brutal. If they start to look skuzzy, I throw them away.” Her best luck has been with the phaleanopsis variety. “I stick to what I’m good at.” She also discovered that plants respond to people. “I’m in my (outdoor) garden every day. Plants know when you’re happy working with them, whether you’re good at it and love it — or couldn’t care less.” Homeland: The Smith residence, approached by a circular drive, fronted by a goldfish pond, sits on 5 acres bordering CCNC’s Cardinal Course. Its terrace of Hollywood proportions surrounds a pool designed for swimming laps, or simply sitting on the steps. Smith’s potting room opens onto a garden that includes 500 azaleas, rhododendron, dogwood, magnolias and camellias, assuring blossoms year-round. Obviously, exquisitely, this house and its contents are the distillation of a life rich in travel, adventure, experience and appreciation. Welcome to Uzbeckystan. PS

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Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. — Francis Thompson, 1859–1907

By Ash Alder

Ethereal Wonders

Heat, ma’am! It was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. — Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir

Berry Good

If ever you’ve stumbled upon a tangle of wild blackberries, perhaps you have felt the sweet stings of freedom that poet Mary Oliver describes in her poem named for this sultry month. You have tasted the “black honey of summer” and have the scratches on your legs and arms to prove it. August conjures the soft thuds of the earliest apples; gifts us with eggplant and sweet corn and towering sunflowers; plucks the season’s first ripe figs or else leaves them for the birds. The air feels like a wet cloth over our mouths and skin. We move in slow motion. We move to the shade. We move indoors, where the fan dances in lazy circles. Heirloom tomatoes are peeled, seeded and chopped for gazpacho. Watermelon is sliced into tidy triangles. The ants that march along the juicy rinds remind us there is work to do: Can or freeze the excess harvest. Stake the vines and prune the shrubs. Prepare the soil for autumn plantings — beets, carrots, peas and greens. But don’t forget to play. When you stumble upon a patch of swollen berries “in the brambles nobody owns,” do as Oliver illustrates. Allow yourself to get lost in the delicious moment. Savor the sweetness of this harvest month.

The August sky reveals to us countless wonders. Following the full Green Corn Moon on Monday, Aug. 7, the annual Perseid meteor shower will peak on the night of Saturday, Aug. 12, until the wee hours of Sunday, Aug. 13. Although a waning gibbous moon may compromise the view, it’s possible to see 60 to 100 meteors per hour. Cozy up with the crickets and test your luck. Something you can’t blink and miss: A total eclipse of the sun occurs this year on Monday, Aug. 21. Visible for up to two minutes and 40 seconds along a narrow arc that starts in Oregon and slices across the states to South Carolina, the Great American Total Solar Eclipse will cause eerie bands of light to shimmer across the darkening sky as the sun slips behind the hungry moon. Do wear eye protection for this so-called celestial coincidence, and find maps of the path and more information at www.eclipse2017.org. Prepare to be truly dazzled. North America won’t see anything like it until April 8, 2024.

The Sacred Hazel

According to Celtic tree astrology, those born from Aug. 5 to Sept. 1 draw wisdom from the sacred hazel, a tree whose forked branches have long been used as divining rods, and whose medicinal leaves and bark create a potent astringent. If you’ve any doubt that this tree possesses magical properties, consider that it produces the star ingredient of Nutella (and that said ingredient, the hazelnut, is believed to invoke prophetic visions). But back to humans: Analytical and organized, hazel archetypes are often considered the “know-it-alls” of the zodiac. Although they tend to hum with nervous energy, they seem to get along swimmingly with rowans (Jan. 22 to Feb. 18) and hawthorns (May 13 to June 9). The gladiolus may be the bright and showy birth flower of August, but what says summer like the sunflower? As they follow the sun across the sky, these cheerful giants remind us that we become that which we give our focus. What will you attract this month?

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Although conscientious effort is made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, all events are subject to change and errors can occur! Please call to verify times, costs, status and location before planning or attending an event. To add an event, email us at pinestraw.calendar@gmail.com SUMMER READING PROGRAM. “Build a Better World” this summer during the Library’s annual Summer Reading Program. Registration is open for participants of all ages. Log your time spent reading and earn prizes, and come to Library programs during the summer to collect Book Bucks. Sign up at the library or online at www.sppl. net. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. MASTER GARDENER HELP LINE. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. weekdays, March 1 through Oct. 31. If you have a question or need help with plant choices, call the Moore County Cooperative Extension Office. Walk-in consultations are available during the same hours at the Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. If possible, bring a sample or photos. Info: (910) 947-3188. SUMMER DAY CAMPS. Southern Pines Recreation & Parks Department is offering day and week-long camps for kids of all ages throughout the summer in arts and crafts, clay-working, games, swimming, science and cheerleading; and weekly trips, too. For more information, including dates, costs, locations and registration info, call (910) 6921835 or visit www.southernpines.net/recreation. AUGUST BOOK SALES. Outpost hours. Each month there will be two sales at the Given Book Shop: the Bag Sale — for $5, fill a bag (unless specially marked) and Author Sale — buy one, get one free (August: Dick Francis and Ken Follett). Stop by and stock up for fall. Sales help provide community programs. Given Outpost/Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-6022.

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Tuesday, August 1 U.S. KIDS GOLF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PARADE OF NATIONS. 6 p.m. A parade to celebrate the most prestigious of all junior golf tournaments in the world will begin at the Pinehurst Resort Tennis Club and proceed to the Village Center. The public is invited. Enjoy food trucks and family games following the parade at Tufts Park. 80 Carolina Vista Road to 1 Village Green Road W, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or vopnc.org.

games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl. net. SUNRISE THEATER SUMMER CLASSIC SERIES. 7:30 p.m. Smokey and the Bandit, sponsored by the Murphy Agency. Cost: $6. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com.

Tuesday, August 1 — 3

Thursday, August 3 — 5

WRITE-ON CAMP. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. For students from grades 3 through 5. Professional writers and artists work on writing and illustration projects. $50/participant. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

US KIDS GOLF TOURNAMENT. The 2017 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.

Tuesday, August 1 — 15

62nd ANNUAL ROBBINS FARMERS DAY. 6:30–9 p.m. Thursday, 6–11:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.–11:30 p.m. Saturday. Arts and crafts and activities that include the Wagon Train Festival, a horse parade, entertainment, special demonstrations, music and square dancing in a carnival atmosphere. Downtown Robbins, 101 N. Middleton St., Robbins. Info: (910) 295-7808 or robbinsfarmersday. com.

TEEN SUMMER PROGRAM. Library hours. “Zentangling.” Teens looking for some low-key activities can drop in on their own schedule to make creative projects. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Wednesday, August 2 PLAY ESCAPE. 10 a.m. Character Story time with Usborne Books. Free with admission. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc.com.

Thursday, August 3 MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and

Friday, August 4 FIRST FRIDAY. 5–8:30 p.m. A family-friendly event with live music, food, beverages and entertainment by Ellis Dyson and The Shambles, whose influences include murder ballads of the Piedmont and old-time jazz. Expect lots of hootin’ and hollerin’. Free admission. No dogs, please! First Bank Stage at the Sunrise (inside in case of rain), 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or firstfridaysouthernpines.com.

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ca l e n da r 37TH 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. 4–25. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or www.mooreart.org.

Friday, August 4 — 6 ART WORKSHOP. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. “Abstraction Boot Camp — Acrylics, Mixed Media.” Join Joe DiGiulio in this informative, three-day painting workshop on use of color, line, texture and shapes in painting abstractly in acrylics, on both paper and canvas. Cost $340. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or artistleague.org.

Saturday, August 5 GIVEN KIDS. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Brain Games. Stop by the library for activities that will challenge and amaze you. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022 or www.giventufts.com. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Wildlings Program: Animal Tracks.” Join a park ranger for a craft and hike to learn some of the signs to look for when trying to figure out what animals have been around. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Saturday, August 5 & 6 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Early Morning Dressage Show. Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Hill Road S, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-5255 or 315-5959. 38TH ANNUAL BATTLE RE-ENACTMENT AT THE HOUSE IN THE HORSESHOE. 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, and 9:30 a.m.–3 p.m. Sunday. Relive the summer of 1781 by the Deep River with Revolutionary War activities, militia encampments, sutlers, a blacksmith shop, musket/artillery firings, and period toys and games. See a re-enactment of the fight between Patriot and Loyalist militias at 2 p.m. both days and watch demonstrations featuring Colonial brewing, gardening and spinning/weaving. Food trucks on site will include Curbside Cravin’s, Chewy’s Smokin’ BBQ, and Kona Ice. Free admission. Parking: $5. House in the Horseshoe, 288 Alston House Road, Sanford. Info: (910) 947-2051 or www.nchistoricsites.org/horsesho/

Sunday, August 6 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. Boyd Tract Hike. Join a Park Ranger for a 1-mile hike through the old-growth longleaf pines, hear about the history of the property and visit some of the restoration sites located in the forest. Meet at the Den Road trailhead. Boyd House (Weymouth Center), 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov for a map.

EXPLORATIONS SERIES FOR ADULTS. 3–4 p.m. The Sage Harvest Gourmet Jerky store was started as the dream of one military family who, after four adoptions of their own, wanted to support other adopted families. Find out how this family works to give back to others, and sample their gourmet jerky, courtesy of Friends of Southern Pines Public Library. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. WEYMOUTH CONCERT. 6:30 p.m. An Evening on the Lawn with the Carolina Philharmonic Junior Orchestra. $10/members, $20/non-members. 18 and under free. Refreshments will be available. 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.

Monday, August 7 BOOK LOVERS UNITE. 3:30 p.m. Genre spotlight: Biographies. Learn more about biographies, bring your list of favorites and add to it as others describe theirs. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or (910) 295-6022. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children through 5th grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928235 or www.sppl.net.

Tuesday, August 8 TEEN SUMMER PROGRAM. 3 p.m. Podcast Day. Teens (grades 6-12) are invited to participate in summer programs designed just for them. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS. 4–5 p.m. for ages 5 to 9; and 5–6 p.m. for ages 10 to 15. Tuesdays through Aug. 29 (4 sessions). Bring your own tennis racket, or contact the department to check one out. Cost: $5/resident; $10/ non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Tennis Court No. 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Must pre-register by Aug. 4. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. ADULT TENNIS LESSONS. 6–7 p.m. Tuesdays through Aug. 29 (4 sessions). For ages 16+. Bring your own tennis racket, or contact the department to check one out. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, Tennis Court No. 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Must pre-register by Aug. 4. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

Wednesday, August 9 REC-ING CREW SOCIAL CLUB. 4–5:30 p.m. “Painting.” This program gives young adults a chance to unwind and socialize with their friends. Must pay club dues

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in advance to participate — covers all six sessions. Cost: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

Thursday, August 10 KIDS SUMMER MOVIE AT THE SUNRISE. 10 a.m. Kung Fu Panda 3. $6. Doors open 9:15 a.m. No outside food, please! Sponsored by The Murphy Insurance Agency. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 and 7 p.m. Kathy Grant Westbrook is celebrating her 55th by visiting all 55 state and national parks in North Carolina. Join her as she presents stories and photos from her ongoing adventures. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, (3:30 p.m.), 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst; and Given Outpost (7 p.m.) 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-6022. YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS. 4–5 p.m. for ages 5 to 9; and 5–6 p.m. for ages 10 to 15. Thursdays through Aug. 31 (4 sessions). Bring your own tennis racket, or contact the department to check one out. Cost: $5/resident; $10/ non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Tennis Court No. 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Must pre-register by Aug. 4. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. ADULT TENNIS LESSONS. 6–7 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 31 (4 sessions). For ages 16+. Bring your own tennis racket, or contact the department to check one out. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, Tennis Court No. 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Must pre-register by Aug. 4. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. SUNRISE THEATER SUMMER CLASSIC SERIES. 7:30 p.m. Rear Window, sponsored by Swank Coffee Shoppe. Cost: $6. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com. OPEN STUDIO. 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Life Drawing. There will be no instruction given and you must bring your own supplies and materials. Any media. Cost: $15 (no discounts). Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Friday, August 11 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Underground Wonders (For Wee-Ones)” Find out what life is like below the surface as you read a book, play some games, and make a craft. All activities will be geared toward 3 to 5 year-olds and meant for parents to do with their children. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. RODS & ROCKABILLY. 5:30–9 p.m. Take a dash of country and a sprinkle of blues, crank up the energy, vol-

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Friday, August 11 — 13 THE WIZARD OF OZ. 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, The Temple Theatre Summer Conservatory presents the timeless classic story of Dorothy of Kansas, her little dog Toto and the ruby red slippers. Tickets: $14/adult; $8/child or student. Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Tickets and info: (919) 774-4155 or www.templeshows.com.

Friday, August 11 — 21 WHERE’S WALDO? He’s hiding in Southern Pines. The hunt begins Friday, Aug. 11, and ends Monday, Aug. 21, at 2 p.m. with a grand prize drawing for Waldo books and prizes. Come to The Country Bookshop for a Passport with the Waldo locations. 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Saturday, August 12 TILLERY DAM RECREATIONAL WATER FLOW RELEASE. 6–10:30 a.m. Enjoy the scenic beauty and wildlife along the Pee Dee with excellent fishing, great paddling and wonderful floating opportunities for novice and intermediate paddlers. (Not whitewater rafting, just an enhanced flow.) Bring your equipment or rent from local outfitters. Best floating times are 8:30–10:30 a.m. Check the website for updates beforehand. Admission: Free. NC

Wildlife Resources Commission, 177 Tillery Dam Road, Mount Gilead. Info: explorepinehurst.com or montgomerycountync.com. CAROLINA HORSE PARK DERBY CROSS. 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Part of the Running Start Derby Cross Series. The course is a mix of show jumps and cross-country fences, including combinations, water complexes, banks, ditches and mounds. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 or carolinahorsepark.com. HISTORIC TOURS BY CARRIAGE. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. The Downtown Alliance (DTA) and the Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local History Museum host guided tours by horse-and-carriage of sites from Fayetteville’s colorful 250-year history. Tickets: $15–25/person online, at the DTA office, or phone. Downtown Alliance, 222 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 222-3382 or www.visitdowntownfayetteville.com. SUMMER BUILD DAY. 11 a.m. “Animal Builds with Weymouth Woods.” Kids in grades K–5 can join a park ranger to learn about habitats and environments of animals in the Library’s outdoor story circle. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. DANCE SOCIAL. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., lesson at 7, social dancing from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Carolina Pines Chapter of USA Dance. Cost: $10 ($8 members). Southern Pines Elk’s Lodge, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 215-5791.

Sunday, August 13 SUNDAY KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. Come to the Library for a free showing of Storks about a stork and his human pal taming up to transport a baby girl to her expectant family. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. WEYMOUTH WOODS NATURE STUDY. 3 p.m. Hummingbird-banding exposition with Susan Campbell. Ornithologist Susan Campbell explains the banding and data collection process. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. SUNDAY EXCHANGE. 6:46–9 p.m. Paul Thorn and his full band celebrate 20 years touring. Food trucks will be on site. Free, fresh water provided. The Exchange Place Lawn, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen (Rain site: The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen.) Info: (910) 944-1115 or 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Monday, August 14 SUMMER CONCERT ON THE GREEN. 5 p.m. “Big Band Sound of the Sandhills.” Sandhills Community College Jazz Band summer concerts are a Sandhills tradition. Food truck (Jordan’s Barbecue) service begins at 5:30, music at 6:30. Bring your lawn chair or blanket and enjoy an evening under the pines. On the lawn (or in Owens Auditorium in case of rain) at Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-6185.

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ACTION AT THE OUTPOST. 6–8 p.m. Celebrate The Wizard of Oz’s birthday by making a tin man, tin dog or even a tin owl. Bring clean cans if you want to add to what will be on hand. Cost: $15 (includes all supplies). Refreshments available. Space is limited so reserve your seat now. All proceeds benefit Given Memorial Library. Given Outpost/Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: lisa@giventufts.com or (910) 5854820 or (910) 585-4820 or 295-6022.

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MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Emily Colin, author of The Memory Thief, will talk about her new book, The Dream Keeper’s Daughter, in which the heroine’s boyfriend disappears 200 years into the past. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE READING. 6:30 p.m. Tara Laskowski and Art Taylor read. Light reception following. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

Thursday, August 17 SENIORS DAY OUT. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Streets of Southpoint. It’s that time again: Join us as we travel to Durham for a fun-filled day of shopping and dining. Cost: $20/residents; $40 non-residents. Register by Aug. 14. Meet at Assembly Hall Lobby, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. Book lovers interested in joining a book club this summer are invited to meet with the Douglass Center Book Club. Sign-ups are available at the Douglass Community Center. Copies of the book to be discussed may be obtained at SPPL or Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

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BRAIN QUEST GAME FEST. 5 p.m. Join the staff of The Country Bookshop for an hour of games and family fun. For ages 4–10. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. THIRD THURSDAY. 5–9 p.m. Enjoy a Latin soiree with Anna Fiore. Food trucks and a cash bar will be available for beer, wine and food. Free with a membership or paid admission. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org.

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ca l e n da r WINE & WHIMSY. 6– 8 p.m. Dandelion. A perfect date night or girls’ night out. All supplies and instruction provided. Wine, beer and snacks available for purchase. Cost: $20/member; $25/non-member. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221. Register online at form.jotform. com/51666115773964. LIVE OUTDOOR CONCERT. 6–9 p.m. Filly & Colt’s will be hosting a live concert every third Thursday through September, featuring different bands each month. Filly & Colt’s, Little River Golf & Resort, 500 Little River Farm Blvd., Carthage. Info: (910) 692-4411.

Friday, August 18 JOY OF ART. 6–8 p.m. Decorative Flower Child Wall Hanger for Teens. $40. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E Pennsylvania Ave., B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 text or www.joyof_art@msn.com. MOVIES BY THE LAKE. 8:15 p.m. Aberdeen Parks and Rec and sponsors present Sing, 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.

Saturday, August 19 10th ANNUAL BACKYARD BOCCE BASH. Registration 8:45 a.m. Come join the big tailgate party and play a little bocce for the Sandhills Children’s Center. Teams of four start at $25 per player. All proceeds benefit children with special needs. Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Hill Road S, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 692-3323 or sandhillschildrenscenter.org. ALL-DAY CRAFT DAY. Library hours. Craft tables will be out all day for families looking for a slower-paced event. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. BALLROOM DANCING. 7–10 p.m. Cape Fear Ballroom Dancers Monthly Dance. Cost: $10/members; $15/guests. Casual attire. Roland’s Dance Studio, 310 Hope Mills Road, Fayetteville. Info: (910) 987-4420 or www.capefearballroomdancers.org. TRIBUTE TO ABBA. 7:30–9:30 p.m. Vision 4 Moore presents The Dancing Dream, ABBA tribute band, featuring elaborate costumes and exciting choreography. Tickets:

$15–$35. Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 365-9890 or www.vision4moore.com.

Sunday, August 20 SUMMER WRAP-UP PARTY. 3 p.m. Enjoy stories, prize drawings, music and cake. Certificates for everyone who logged minutes over the summer. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Naturally Wonderful.” Join us for a presentation on the solar eclipse, some other rare natural occurrences that you would like to witness and some natural wonders in our state park system. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Monday, August 21 ALL-AMERICAN ECLIPSE PARTY. 2 p.m. Receive free eclipse-viewing glasses, indulge in moon- and sun-themed treats, view live streaming of NASA coverage of the eclipse, do astronomy themed arts and crafts and more! Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. 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) 639-4823. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children through 5th grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928235 or www.sppl.net.

Friday, August 25 DAYTRIPPERS. 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Frankies Fun Park. This Pinehurst Parks and Rec program is designed for teens and young adults to get out and explore various things that N.C. has to offer. Cost: $31/resident; $62/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.

ART CLASS. 12:30–3:30 p.m. “Ink-Finity—Advanced Alcohol Ink.” Pam Griner will teach you some new techniques and methods. Cost: $45, supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. DRAFTS AND A LAUGH. 8:15 p.m. Watch Happy Gilmore on the big screen and enjoy some cold beer. Concessions will also be available. Sponsored by Railhouse Brewery. Rain date will be same time the following day. Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275 or explorepinehurst.com.

Saturday, August 26 MEET THE AUTHOR. 1–3 p.m. Annie Hallinan, author of The Sweetest Christmas Eve, will return to discuss and sign her new book, Petrith Pin, a read-along picture book for ages 4 to 7. A book launch celebration follows at 4:30 p.m. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Sunday, August 27 SUNDAY FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This film for adults brings extraordinary magic creatures to New York. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Turpentine Tools of the Trade.” Get a close-up look at the tools used in the turpentine industry and go for a short walk to see trees that still bear the marks of those tools from years ago. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Monday, August 28 WINE AND ART APPRECIATION. 5:30–7:30 p.m. “Exploring Art Through Observation and Conversation IV.” Join art educator and local artist Ellen Burke, whose topic will be “looking out, looking in; artists use windows as metaphor and inspiration.” Cost: $20, including wine. Proceeds to benefit The Healing Garden at the Clara McLean House. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Ellen (603) 966-6567 or Jane Casnellie (910) 639-4823. SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. Butterflies of North Carolina. Brian Bockhahn, district education specialist for N.C. State

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Tuesday, August 29 WEYMOUTH YOUNG AFFILIATES. 6 p.m. Join the younger crowd at Weymouth for an evening of networking, program planning and refreshments. Bring your own beverage. Coming together to plan Sounds on the Grounds! All are welcome to attend. Weymouth Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. MUSICIAN’S JAM SESSION. 7 p.m. Bring your instrument and your beverage, or just come to enjoy! Free and open to the public. Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Wednesday, August 30 ART CLASS (ALL PAINTING MEDIA). 1–4 p.m. Wednesdays through Oct. 4 (6 sessions). For all levels, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory and composition. Cost: $52/ resident; $104/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900.

Thursday, August 31 MEDITATIVE YOGA. 10:30–11:30 a.m. (Thursdays through Oct. 5) Carol Wallace leads this class for individuals who want to cultivate a relaxed state of mind and body, gently improve flexibility and relieve stress and tension. Cost: $40/resident; $80 non-resident. Register by Aug. 30. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Upcoming Events Friday, September 1 ART CLASS (OIL PAINTING). 1–4 p.m. Fridays through Oct. 6 (6 sessions). For all levels, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory and composition. Cost: $52/resident; $104/nonresident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817.

Saturday, September 9 FIRST ANNUAL CASINO ROYALE. 5:30–9:30 p.m. Casino-themed cocktail party to benefit the Carolina Horse Park Foundation. Cocktail attire. Get your Ticket today. Contact Christine at the Carolina Horse Park office at (910) 875-2074 or at christine@carolinahorsepark.com.

Saturday, September 16 THE CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC. 7:30 p.m. Symphonic Masterworks: Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto, featuring George Harliono, solo pianist. Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport

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Thursday, September 21 Dinner to celebrate the Life of General George C. Marshall. 6:30 p.m. With Rachel Yarnell Thompson and General Michael J. Meese (U.S. Army Ret.). Carolina Hotel, Pinehurst N.C. Info and tickets: (910) 295-6022. Tickets can be bought online or at the Given Memorial Library starting Aug. 7th, (150 Cherokee Road).

WEEKLY EVENTS Mondays BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. SASSY TAPPERS. 1:30–3:30 p.m. Mondays through Aug. 28. Tap dancing for all levels with instructor Angie VonCanon. The group practices weekly and also performs at various functions throughout the year. Cost: $10/resident; $20/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation. Class location: Program Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.com. 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.

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BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions) This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 18 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy practices. Programs will be offered Aug. 1, 8, 15 and 22. Limited to 20 babies per session. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

JOY OF ART. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Creative Arts for ages 7–12, (Aug. 7–11); Fashion Illustration and the 60s for ages 12–16, (Aug. 14–18); and Creative Arts Pre-Teens Green Bangles, Beads and Bling (Aug. 21–25,). $100/week or $30/day. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E Pennsylvania Ave., B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 text or www.joyof_art@msn.com. KIDS COOKING CAMPS. 8:30–11:30 a.m. Campers learn to work in a kitchen, learn safety tips, make two or three recipes and have plenty to eat! $50 per child ($5 off additional siblings) or $200 for the week (Monday–Friday). The Flavor Exchange, 115 E New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info and menus: (910) 725-1345 or www. TheFlavorExchange.com.

Mondays — Saturdays PRIVATE AND GROUP COOKING CLASSES. 6:30 p.m. (Private classes available Monday and Tuesday; Group classes Wednesdays through Saturdays.) Hands-on instruction for pasta, Moroccan, ravioli, sweet potato gnocchi, sushi, eggplant parmesan, pierogis and charcuterie and knife skills. Vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options. Reservations and pre-payment required. Prices: $45–$55 per person, includes meal, instruction and recipes. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info and menus: (910) 725-1345 or www.TheFlavorExchange.com.

BROWN BAG LUNCH/GAME DAY. 11:30 a.m. Bring your lunch and enjoy fellowship and activities, including card games, board games and the Wii. The Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost for single class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. PLAY ESCAPE. 3:30 p.m. Arts & Crafts. For ages 2 years + free for members. Cost for non-members: $2/child and $1/ siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc.com.

Wednesdays YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6–7 p.m. Improve flexibility, build strength, ease tension, and relax through posture and breathing techniques for beginners and experts alike. Free for CFBG and YMCA members. $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 ex. 36 or capefearbg.

org. (Must register 1 day prior). Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org. BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 3–6 p.m. The market features many wonderful farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and egg providers, cheese makers and specialty food producers our area has to offer. 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www.moorefarmfresh. com. READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30–4 p.m. For children through age 5, this storytime focuses on stories, songs and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build skills for kindergarten. Dates this month are Aug. 2, 9, 16 and 23. Stay for playtime. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Thursdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.moorecountync.gov or www.localharvest.org. STORY TIME! 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 to 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022.

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SATURDAYS IN SEAGROVE. 10a.m.–5 p.m. Stepping into the craft. Tour individual shops, observe demonstrations of wheel throwing, carving techniques, raku firing and more; try making pottery yourself. Pottery Shops of Seagrove, N.C. Pottery Hwy 705, Seagrove. Info: (336) 707-9124 or discoverseagrove.com. LIVE MUSIC. 7–10 p.m. Great acoustic local acts featured most Saturdays. This month, Jen Hillard (Aug. 5), Momma Molasses (Aug. 12) and Kathryn Palmer (Aug.19) perform. Free to the public. Wine Cellar & Tasting Room, 241-A NE Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3066.

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

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Fridays STEAM FRIDAYS. All day. These slower-paced events for families feature a Plastic Bag Jump Rope on Aug. 4, Parachutes on Aug. 11, Eclipse Viewing Boxes on Aug.18. Included with the events are take-home summer learning ideas. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. PLAY ESCAPE. 10 a.m. Arts & Crafts. For ages 2 yr + Free for members. Cost for non-members: $2/child and $1/siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc.com.

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Saturdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 8 a.m.–12 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. SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m. The market features many wonderful farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and egg providers, cheese makers and specialty food producers our area has to offer. 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www.moorefarmfresh.com.

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Sun-ruled lions enter a creative phase By Astrid Stellanova

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J.Lo and former President Barack Obama just go to prove that Leos have more than feline grace going for them. Whatever they choose to do, those born under Leo like to lead. Simple fact is, we would all like to be a Leo at least once — most especially now. As the summer heats up, chill out. August has nearly everybody fussing about either somebody who wronged them or somebody they’d like to hit with an anvil. Take a chill pill and stop hollering. — Ad Astra, Astrid Leo (July 23–August 22) No lie, Child, this is a mighty fine year for your birth sign. Among other things, times are especially fine for creative projects and any ideas you hatch, match or dispatch. Many of us have wondered about (and envied) your special brand of magic. Birthday Baby, if you finally decide to write that tell-all you have been pondering, this is the perfect time to park yourself at the computer and get going. It is time to take a leap of faith. Everybody who knows you wants your Leo happiness, which is something that you can take straight to the bank.

RC Cola. Then move on down the road and let them figure it all out. By the time you meet up again, you will both be in a better place, Sweet Thing.

Virgo (August 23–September 22) Check the engine light, Sugar. You got overheated and are about to bust a hose. This red light is a warning. It does not mean you open up the throttle, but just the opposite. Put it in idle or coast down the road. What happened may not have been fair, but you will have to muddle on and not go hunting justice if you want peace.

Aries (March 21–April 19) Shew we, Baby! Did you really mean to confess what you did? Nobody expects you to be tight-lipped, but I’m glad I ain’t your lawyer. If you really want to dazzle others, the best thing to do is to shut up. You have a lot of social power, and don’t dilute it by telling everything you know and everything you thought you knew. Take a time out before somebody puts Baby in the corner.

Libra (September 23–October 22) OK, you won. But just look in the mirror, Honey. It’s like you’ve been on a forced march, judging by your expression. Take some time to consider that you won the battle and don’t let one little peevish problem cause you so dang much frustration. It ain’t nothing but a little ole distraction. Scorpio (October 23–November 21) Was THAT your Kumbaya moment? Lord help us! Try again, Sugar, to reconnect with some people who are in a position to help. There is something you desperately want, and if you play nicely with others, it is in your reach. Meanwhile, it is possible you may need to reconsider the end goal. Sagittarius (November 22–December 21) It’s nobody’s beeswax what you’ve been up to, Sweetheart. Don’t tell. Actually, puhleese don’t tell. You have a very strong instinct about something and you’ve been listening to your inner voice. It won’t lead you wrong, but most people just cannot understand the nature of your private obsession. Not yet, anyhow. Capricorn (December 22–January 19) You nearly fell out over what ought to be a happy surprise. Only slowly did you figure it all out. Now that you have, bask in the sunshine. There is something in the road that ain’t nothing but a little old speed bump. If you slow down and remember this is what mud flaps are for, ain’t no way any mud will to stick to you. Aquarius (January 20–February 18) You ticked off somebody close to you and never even knew it. They’ve been chewing that bone over. And over. If you feel like hollering about how unjust it is, just drink an

Pisces (February 19–March 20) A mysterious stranger is returning to close a chapter in your life. It is only significant because they need the closure even more than you do. Sweetie Pie, sometimes we get a chance to do someone a big old kindness, and the only reward is good karma. This is the case for you; score some celestial points.

Taurus (April 20–May 20) Life ain’t a reality show. You’re fixin’ to gum up the works by climbing on the roof with a bullhorn to tell the whole world something that you got going on — or wish you did — or think you saw. Get at least one of those feet off the ladder and take a deep breath. What you are convinced happened may not have. At least wait for confirmation before you blow somebody’s cover, Rambo. Gemini (May 21–June 20) You got a parking ticket, but the way you’ve been carrying on has everyone thinking you’ve been thrown into the lion’s den, just like Daniel. Seriously? As you were wailing about that misfortune to one and all, you missed at least two opportunities. This month holds more good fortune than bad, and a very smart move, Honey Bun, is to recognize that you are the lucky one. Cancer (June 21–July 22) You were born naked, screaming and afraid, just like the rest of us, Honey. Just look at how far you have come, but still frustrated! A rock that moves does not get fuzzy stuff on it, right? Or is it that a rolling stone gathers no moss? You keep moving forward and you still find yourself in the exact right spot this month. Time out is what is needed, and time to detach. PS For years, Astrid Stellanova owned and operated Curl Up and Dye Beauty Salon in the boondocks of North Carolina until arthritic fingers and her popular astrological readings provoked a new career path.

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The Sombrero Syndrome

By Susan Kelly

’Tis the season for traveling, tour-

ing, visiting, and succumbing to the Sombrero Syndrome.

Definition: som·bre·ro (\s m-brer-( )) syn·drome (\sin- dr m): an affliction which compels one to buy an item endemic to a specific locale; a purchase that will eventually prove to be useless, such as a sombrero while in Mexico. I was first infected with Sombrero Syndrome on Nantucket, the college summer I worked in a cutesy “shoppe” schlepping scrimshaw and quahog jewelry. Never mind that I was too poor to eat anything but fluffernutter sandwiches and hitchhiked everywhere; I scrimped and saved until I could buy a $100 (including employee discount) piece of (probably fake) whale tooth etched with a sailing ship. You want it? It’s right here, along with several strings of worry beads I bought at a kiosk below the Parthenon. Somewhere in a kitchen drawer is the damask tablecloth I had to have while I was in Provence that looked so romantically al fresco enchanting . . . in Provence. It’s probably stuffed next to the scarf I bought from a Florentine street vendor, which matches nothing in my

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closet, but at least it was only $5. Should’ve bought gelato. The Syndrome virus lurks in every milieu. At Fearrington Village, all the plants look so perfect that I just had to bring home some shrub that was supposed to burst forth with red berries every December. I envisioned instant, perennial mantel decorations for Christmas. Either I got the girl plant or the boy plant or it’s asexual, but there’s never been a single berry. The Sombrero Syndrome is a different infection from buyer’s remorse. The latter concerns any old thing you buy at the mall which you then proceed to loathe. This includes the Punishment Dress, so named because you have to wear it to punish yourself for buying it. Sombrero Syndrome is the kilt I bought in Scotland (worn once, and then to a costume party) and the angora yarn I sold my soul for in Ireland when I was a knitter. Or flufferknitter. And while I’ve never been to Mexico, I bought the equivalent of a sombrero in some Napa Valley winery tasting room: a sun hat so widebrimmed that I had to hold it in my lap all the way across the country so it wouldn’t get smushed. Clearly, I should have opted for a case of rosé (see gelato, above). Forget Zika, Ebola and malaria. Beware the Sombrero instead. PS Susan Kelly is a blithe spirit, author of several novels, and proud new grandmother.

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