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

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

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February 2017 Features 65 Grievance

Poetry by Sarah Edwards

66 Oscar Comes to Town

Why should we let Los Angeles have all the fun when there’s plenty of glitz and glamour to spread around in the Sandhills?

74 The Set-Up Man

By Bill Case Pinehurst’s Bob Harlow, golf’s promotional genius

78 Old House, New Look

By Deborah Salomon Metamorphosis of a village showplace

89 Almanac

By Ash Alder Love and fairy tales in the time of the Snow Moon

Departments 15 Simple Life By Jim Dodson

51 Mom, Inc.

By Renee Phile

53 Birdwatch 18 PinePitch By Susan Campbell 21 Instagram Winners 55 Sporting Life 23 The Omnivorous Reader By Tom Bryant By D.G. Martin

25 Bookshelf

By Romey petite and Angie Tally

29 Hometown By Bill Fields

31 True South By Susan Kelly

33 Sandhills Photography Club 37 Vine Wisdom By Robyn James

39 In the Spirit

43 The Kitchen Garden

By Tony Cross

59 Golftown Journal By Lee Pace

90 103 109

Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson

111 The Accidental Astrologer By Astrid Stellanova

112 SouthWords

By Joyce Reehling

By Jan Leitschuh

47 Out of the Blue

By Deborah Salomon

49 Proper English

By Serena Kenyon Brown

Cover Photograph and Photograph this page by Tim Sayer 6

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8 North South Court • Southern Pines Stunning Southern living designed home in Cape Cod style fronting the 15th hole of the Arnold Palmer designed course. Remarkable attention to detail in concept and finishes from the light filled open rooms to the stacked stone landscaping walls creates a unique residence. Ground floor master bedroom features an upscale bath with rain head shower and soaking tub. Kitchen opens to a wonderful family room full of windows with a panoramic view of the golf course. Downstairs the open space is repeated with a second family room, wet bar, and fireplace. The recreation area is large enough to accommodate a ping pong or pool table. Easy translation to a full living in-law suite with full bath and bedroom downstairs. The downstairs opens to the backyard across the back of the house. Offered at $587,500.

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The Path Home Finding roots among the brambles

By Jim Dodson

Not long after dawn

Illustration by Romey Petite

on New Year’s Day, my wife, Wendy, and I picked our way through a patch of misty briar-choked woods to the base of an Interstate bridge that spans the Haw River in Alamance County.

One hundred fifty years ago, my father’s great-grandfather operated a gristmill on the banks of the Haw, one of the state’s most important rivers. His name was George Washington Tate. As a kid, I’d seen the remains of the long-abandoned mill sitting at the river’s edge below the railings of the bridge, overgrown with weeds but clearly visible. Half a century later, I was curious to see if the ruins of the mill might still be there. George Washington Tate was something of gentrified Jack-of-all-trades — accomplished land surveyor, cabinetmaker, gristmill owner and prominent figure in the affairs of his church and economic development of neighboring Alamance and Orange counties. I grew up hearing that he was the man who officially established the legal boundaries of the state’s central counties following the Civil War. Greensboro’s Tate Street, which borders the campus of UNCG, is reportedly named for him. Bits of family lore hold that old GWT was a circuit-riding deacon or lay minister who helped establish several Methodist churches across the western Piedmont, another that he forged the original bell in the Hillsborough courthouse. The tale that has long fascinated me, however — first told to me by a pair of elderly spinster great-aunts named Josie and Ida, who lived into their 90s on Buckhorn Road east of Mebane — was that my father’s grandmother (Tate’s youngest daughter, Emma) was actually an orphaned Cherokee infant Tate “adopted” and brought home from a circuit ride out West, adding to a family that already included three sons and three daughters. My dad soon confirmed this. As a kid, he’d spent many of his happiest summers as a kid staying with Aunt Emma at her farm off Buckhorn Road near Dodson’s Corners, and often talked about his grandmother’s closeness to the land and keen knowledge of natural medicines made from native plants he had sometimes helped her gather. “To a lot of her friends and neighbors, Aunt Emma was the community’s healer,” he explained to my older brother

and me one Christmastime when we went to shoot mistletoe out of the huge red oaks that grew around her abandoned home place. “In those days the only doctor around was over in Hillsborough, 20 miles away.” He added, almost as a wistful afterthought: “She was happiest out in the woods and fields and knew the names of every plant. Local people loved and depended on her.” Aunt Emma died in 1928, when my father was just 13. Aunt Emma was 70. “She was an old lady,” he told me many years later, “but her death was shocking — the way she died. For years it was our family’s darkest secret, the thing nobody spoke about. No one saw it coming.” Aunt Emma reportedly hanged herself from a beam of the house she shared with her husband, Jimmy. Years later, my father’s take on this was that she was challenged living with a foot in two worlds. A grieving Uncle Jimmy soon gave up his farm and went to live with relatives in Greensboro, abandoning the family property. He lived another 14 years, passing away in 1942, the year my father enlisted in the Army Air Corps and trained to be a glider pilot for D-Day. Because I heard this part of the story late in life — during a final trip to Scotland with my dad in 1994, when he was dying of cancer — I became more or less obsessed with Aunt Emma’s mysterious death and the colorful stories I’d grown up hearing about her important papa, George Washington Tate. To some in our family — those who never heard this part of the story — my father’s grandmother is simply a tiny name on perhaps the largest family tree anyone has ever seen. I own a copy of this massive genealogical document, boasting a thousand or more family names branching off the taproot of one Thomas Squires and wife, Elizabeth, English settlers who arrived in the state in the late 1760s. Most likely, they were part of the massive migration of Europeans along the so-called Great Wagon Road that brought an estimated half a million Scots, Irish, English and German settlers from Pennsylvania to Virginia and the Carolinas about that time. The Great Wagon Road, which began in Philadelphia and roamed out toward Lancaster and Harrisburg before turning south through Maryland and the valley of Virginia, crossing the Carolinas before terminating at the Savannah River in Augusta, Georgia, at 800 miles, was the most heavily traveled road in Colonial America. Built over ancient Indian hunting routes, it’s the trading road that populated the South and served to open the Western frontier beyond the mountains. Thomas Jefferson’s daddy surveyed and named it. A young George

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Washington served as a scout along it, and no less than three wars were contested along it — including several key battles during the French and Indian, American Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Today, if you ever travel Interstate 81 north of Roanoke, you’re traveling the path of the Great Wagon Road. The original road veered southeast from there and crossed into the Yadkin Valley, bringing the Moravians to Old Salem and the Quakers to Guilford County, before moseying along rivers toward Salisbury and the city named in honor of Queen Charlotte. After that, it split into two routes as it crossed South Carolina until meeting again in Georgia. Last summer, my dad’s first cousin Roger Dodson, a retired missionary and wise family elder who grew up hearing many of the same stories I did about Aunt Emma, provided me with the only known photograph of the family mystery woman and shared his memories of having Uncle Jimmy live with his family for a time after Emma Dodson’s death. Roger also showed me a magnificent corner cabinet made by George Washington Tate, who operated a carpentry shop at his gristmill on the Haw. The cabinet is a one-piece work of art. George Washington Tate was laid to rest beside his wife, Rachel, in the cemetery behind the Lebanon United Methodist Church in the country above Mebane. Aunt Emma rests beside her husband, Jimmy, in the smaller burying ground at Chestnut Ridge Methodist Church, not far from Dodson’s Crossroads in Orange County. Which brings us back to the edge of the historic Haw River on a cold and misty New Year’s morning a month or so ago. Almost every American’s ancestors hailed from someplace else. But an old road, as the saying in the country goes, always brings someone home. At a time when polls show many Americans are thinking anxiously about what direction our frontier democracy may go, I’m planning to spend the next year traveling and researching a book on the Great Wagon Road — the road that

brought my people, and quite possibly yours, to this part of North Carolina. It’s a book I’ve been keen to research and write for over a decade and a quest to try to find old George Washington Tate’s lost gristmill seemed like the ideal way to begin such a journey. Unfortunately, time and progress stand still for no man. And part of me feared that the site where I first laid eyes on the foundation of my ancestor’s mill in the late 1960s — a popular river ford dating from the earliest days of the colony — had most likely been subsumed beneath an interstate highway that has doubled in size since I last visited. As we stood on the banks of the river, we saw old trees and a handful of boulders in the slowly swirling eddies but, alas, no trace of the mill’s foundation. I decided to take a couple of photos just the same, as my wife wandered over to a thick patch of brambles and pushed through to a small wooden maintenance bridge that crosses a gully to the base of the bridge. “Oh, my gosh,” she said moments later, quietly adding, “Come here and look.” Below the bridge was the old millrace, the sluice that once turned the wooden water wheel, half hidden beneath a curtain of old vines. The race was deep and still running with water, and we knew it belonged to the mill because foundation stones were also visible where time and water had exposed them. As an expert I’ve been talking to about America’s “lost” roads once said to me, our past lies right before our eyes if we only know what we’re looking at — and where. For this son of the ancient Haw, Aunt Emma and old George Washington Tate, this moment was like finding the start of a long path home. We took a picture and went to find a robust country breakfast to celebrate our discovery, the start of a promising new year. PS If your family came down the Great Wagon Road, Editor Jim Dodson would be pleased to hear about it. Contact him at jim@thepilot.com.

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PinePitch Lots of Laughs and Bluegrass

This month the Rooster’s Wife lineup shows its totally serious appreciation of humor as well as music. Friday, Feb. 3, Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, a high-energy five-piece bluegrass band, $20. Friday, Feb. 10, Urban Soil , Dance Party! $10. Sunday, Feb. 12, Rebecca & the Hi-Tones reunion! $15. Friday, Feb. 17, Time Sawyer, $15. Sunday, Feb. 19, Chris Jones and The Night Drivers, known for combining their distinctive music with a unique blend of dry wit and broad humor, $20. Friday, Feb. 24, The Johnny Mac Comedy Show, $15. Sunday, Feb. 26, Underhill Rose, a trio of female troubadours, accompanied by singer/song-writer Eric Taylor on his acoustic blues guitar, $20. Doors open at 6 p.m. and music begins at 6:46 at the Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Call (910) 944-7502 or visit www. theroosterswife.org for more information and tickets.

Dress up, Dine and Dance… and Bid

The Sandhills Classical Christian School is holding its 2nd annual Valentine’s Day Bowtie Ball on Feb. 10 at the Fair Barn. Elliott’s on Linden is catering the dinner and a string quartet will provide the music during cocktails. The evening also includes a silent and live auction managed by professional auctioneer Colonel Ben Farrell, special student performances, Champagne and sweets and, of course, dancing. A ticket of $125 per person includes a choice of entree, salad, dessert bar and beverage, as well as two drink tickets for cocktails. Beer, wine and Champagne are complimentary. A portion of the ticket is tax deductible. The festivities begin at 6 p.m. The Fair Barn is located at 200 Beulah Road S. Pinehurst. For more information or to see items up for bidding, call (910) 690-6176 or visit www.sandhillsccs.org. Tickets can be purchased at https://portal11.bidpal.net/Portal/bpe299703/tickets/preview.html.

A Poet’s Love

On Feb. 3, just in time for Valentine’s Day, tenor Timothy W. Sparks and pianist Deborah Lee Hollis evoke the highs and lows of romance from the perspective of a writer. This collection of songs covers a variety of musical styles from across Europe and explores every facet of a love affair, with selections from “To Julia” by Roger Quilter, “Poème d’un Jour” by Gabriel Fauré, “Petrarch” sonnets by Franz Liszt, and the complete “Dichterliebe” by Robert Schuman. The performance, which begins at 7 p.m., is sponsored by Ralph and Vivian Jacobson, who invite you to stay for a reception in the Great Room at Boyd House following the performance. Tickets are $10 for Weymouth Members and $20 for non-members. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. For more information call (910) 692-6261 or visit weymouthcenter.org.

From Broadway with Love

On Feb. 10 and 11, Touching Humanity presents New York singers Jason Gotay and Elysia Jordan at The Hannah Center Theater at The O’Neal School. Tickets are $28 in advance and can be purchased at The Given Memorial Library, The Country Bookshop or online at www. touchinghumanityinc.org (plus $2 service charge); or $35 at the door. A portion of the proceeds benefits Friend to Friend, a Moore County nonprofit organization that helps victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking rebuild their lives. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. The Theater is located at 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. For more information, contact Michael Pizzi at sandhillsbroadway@gmail.com or call (347) 385-4207.

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Penick Art Show and Auction

The 11th Annual Penick Art Show and Auction, held on Feb. 25 and 26 from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. at the Village House, features two local artists. Evelyn Dempsey has studied drawing and painting with Denise Baker at Sandhills Community College and Jeffrey Mims of Southern Pines. Her still lifes, landscapes and portraits reflect her early interest in South Carolina artist Elizabeth O’Neill Verner and Classical Realism. Potter Ben Owen III’s apprenticeship to his grandfather formed the basis of his work. With formal studies and international travel, Owen has developed a unique style inspired from culture and nature. A Ticketed Preview ($50) will be held Friday, Feb. 24, at 6:30 p.m. Proceeds are dedicated to the Penick Village Benevolent Assistance Fund. 500 E. Rhode Island Ave., Southern Pines. For information, contact Hunter Wortham at (910) 692-0492.

Under the Sea on Stage

In a magical kingdom beneath the sea, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel is fascinated by the world above. When a handsome human prince falls overboard, she returns him to land, and falls overboard in love with him. Now she wants to live in his world, much to the distress of her father, the King, who has problems of his own with an evil sister threatening his rule. Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic story and Disney’s animated film, The Little Mermaid is a legendary love story brought to life with delightful characters, stunning sets and irresistible songs such as “Under the Sea” and “Kiss the Girl.” Performances at 7:30 p.m. WednesdaySaturday, and 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday through Feb. 12 at Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville. For tickets, call (910) 323-4233 or visit www.cfrt.org.

A Rising Cellist Star

On Feb. 6, The Arts Council of Moore County present cellist Cicely Parnas in the third performance of the 2016–17 Classical Concert Series. Parnas, now in her early 20s, started playing the cello at the age of 4, made her concerto debut at 11, and in 2012 won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and with numerous orchestras. The performance begins at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30. Start your evening with a preconcert dinner at Wolcott’s for $37/ pp (tax and tip included). Reserve for dinner by Feb. 2 by calling The Arts Council (910) 692-2787. The performance will be at the Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. For more information, call (910) 692-8501 or visit sunrisetheater.com.

An Evening with Amadeus

On Feb. 1, just a few days and 251 years after the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the North Carolina Symphony will be in Southern Pines to present “All Mozart.” The program includes the overture to “The Abduction from the Seraglio,” Violin Concerto No. 4, “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” and Symphony No. 39. On the violin will be Jinjoo Cho, a young performer who has won numerous international awards for her technical skills and captivated audiences around the world with her vibrant musical personality. With the charismatic Grant Llewellyn conducting, this promises to be a memorable celebration of one of the most beloved composers of all time. The performance begins at 8 p.m., at Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Call for ticket prices and additional information: (910) 692-6554.

Raise the Roof

One of the Sunrise Theater’s most popular and enduring events, returns for its 16th edition on Saturday, February 18, at 7:30 PM at the storied venue. As always, it will spotlight an array of local talent with acts that will appeal to people of all ages and tastes. For more information, call (910) 692-8501 or visit sunrisetheater.com

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Shadow Market A fanciful dealer in dark wares

By D.G. Martin

When Fred Chappell writes,

multitudes of fans stop and read. Now retired, he was for more than 40 years a beloved teacher of writers at UNCG, where he helped establish its much-admired Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. He served as North Carolina poet laureate from 1997 until 2002. He is revered by many for his fiction, especially his early works based on his years growing up in the mountains. But his 30 some-odd books show his determination not to be limited to any genre, geography or time.

His latest book, A Shadow All of Light, demonstrates the wide scope of his imagination and talent. It is a magical, speculative story set in an Italianate country hundreds of years ago. Chappell asks his readers to believe that shadows are something more than the images people cast by interrupting a light source. These shadows are an important, integral part of a person’s being. They can be stolen or given up. When lost, the person is never the same. In Chappell’s tale, an ambitious young rural man, Falco, comes to a big port city (think Venice), where he attaches himself to a successful shadow merchant, Maestro Astolfo. Over time Falco learns the trade of acquiring and selling shadows detached from their original owners. The business is a “shady” one because the acquisition of human shadows often involves underhanded, even illegal methods, something like today’s markets in exotic animal parts or pilfered art. But Maestro Astolfo and Falco, notwithstanding public attitudes, strive to

conduct their business in a highly moral manner. Although losing one’s shadow could be devastating, the situation is mollified if a similar replacement can be secured from shadow dealers like Astolfo or Falco. Chappell, in the voice of Falco, explains, “No one likes to lose his shadow. It is not a mortal blow, but it is a wearying trouble. If it is stolen or damaged, a man will seek out a dealer in umbrae supply and the difficulty is got around in the hobbledehoy fashion. The fellow is the same as before, so he fancies, with a new shadow that so closely resembles his true one, no one would take note. “That is not the case. His new shadow never quite fits him so trimly, so comfortably, so sweetly as did his original. There is a certain discrepancy of contour, a minor raggedness not easy to mark but plainly evident to one versed in the materials. The wearer never completely grows to his new shadow and goes about with it rather as if wearing an older brother’s hand-me-down cloak. “Another change occurs also, not in the fitting or wearing, but in the character of the person. To lose a shadow is to lose something of oneself. The loss is slight and generally unnoticeable, yet an alert observer might see some diminishing in the confidence of bearing, in the certitude of handclasp, in the authority of tread upon a stone stairway.” After introducing his readers to the complexities of shadow theft, storage and trade, Chappell takes Falco, Astolfo and their colleague Mutano through a series of encounters with bandits, pirates and a host of other shady characters. Mutano loses his voice to a cat. Bandits challenge Falco’s efforts to collect rare plants that eat human shadows. Pirates led by a beautiful and evil woman battle the port city’s residents for control. Similar to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Chappell’s A Shadow All of Light is fast-paced, mythic, and unbelievably entertaining. PS D.G. Martin hosts North Carolina Bookwatch, which airs Sundays at noon and Thursdays at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV.

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February Books By Romey Petite

Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman

The Norse pantheon has never received equal love in America as say, Edith Hamilton’s compendium of the Greek myths or the fairy tales compiled long ago by the Brothers Grimm. How fortunate then that these Scandinavian epics have New York Times best-selling and treasured storyteller Neil Gaiman, who now tasks himself with retellings from the few myths that have survived the test of time. In doing so, Gaiman has created a singularly comprehensive volume for readers both young and old while recounting these obscure stories with an evident deep, formative love (he’s oft-referenced them both in his award-winning Sandman series and his Hugo and Nebula winning American Gods). In the hands of the author’s capable, beloved and familiar voice, curl up by the hearthfire with Norse Mythology and read of the war between the Aesir vs. the Vanir, the strange self-sacrifice of Odin, the misadventures of thundering Thor, wits of the wily Loki, and the battle at world’s end to come in Ragnarok.

The Lonely Hearts Hotel, by Heather O’Neill

The year is 1910, the setting: a Catholic orphanage in Montreal. This locus becomes the meet cute of two talented prodigies, Pierrot, a virtuoso vaudevillian with a Chaplinesque flair, and Rose, a talented terpsichorean known to break out into her own oddball improvised routines. As Anna Freud said, “Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” The Lonely Hearts Hotel is the tale of two such souls that manages to be, all at once, whimsical, tragic and ribald. Despite nearly succumbing to the fierce Canadian cold, regular thrashings and questionable punishments from the orphanage’s nuns, these two souls cannot be kept apart, nor will their spirits be broken. Fans of Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus and the works of Michael Chabon will instantly fall for O’Neill’s charm, flowery language, use of metaphor and vignette-like chapters.

A Separation, by Katie Kitamura

A young woman and her husband, the unfaithful Christopher, make the responsible decision to go separate ways after acknowledging their irreconcilable differences. Prior to the formal divorce and the signing of any legal documents, the couple take a sojourn from each other, if only to delay the inevitable. When the woman receives news that Christopher has gone missing sometime during his research trip in Greece, she finds herself impelled by the mystery of his disappearance. Leaving the comfort of her new lover’s arms, she travels abroad to the remote region of Peloponnese in an effort find her estranged husband. The voice Kitamura employs is detached, sparse, direct, divulging analytical details in an almost clinical way, but still subjective. Appropriately, A Separation is a novel of the nature of secrets, intimacy, and how an abundance of the former can affect relationships.

Shadowbahn, by Steve Erickson

Invoking the lucid dream style of the American road trip novel with a touch of the absurd, Shadowbahn tells of a near future in which icons thought forever lost will reappear, just as a memory can — without warning. In this case, the Twin Towers make an unannounced return in the middle of the South Dakota badlands. This cleverly dubbed “American Stonehenge” begins drawing scores and scores of people to marvel at the sight and pay vigil. Like any inexplicable phenomenon, there are those that come to revere this spontaneous apparition. Meanwhile, Elvis’ stillborn (and little known) brother awakes, possessing a fragmented mirror of his brother’s memories driving him half mad. In keeping with this theme of doubles, two siblings, Parker and Zema, travel together through this territory on their way to visit their mother in Michigan. Despite its experimental nature — Erickson’s prose is part poetry — it’s delightful to read and puts one in mind of Ron Currie Jr.’s Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles. Readers will slowly piece together this dreamlike dystopia a page at a time as though sampling snippets of micro-fiction.

The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Pulitzer-winning author of the recent New York Times best-seller The Sympathizer debuts a collection of short stories compiled over a span of 20 years. This long-awaited result is a series of unique purgative experiences of the consequences when long-suppressed memories resurface. In the eponymous tale, for example, a ghostwriter is visited by a ghost of her own — the incorporeal kind. Such spirits are mere shadows — never so malevolent as they are imagined to be. Under Nguyen’s scintillating eye and keen ear for chilling detail, readers experience exorcisms and learn lives left behind are never so far away — though they may take some time in the remembering.

The Book of American Martyrs, by Joyce Carol Oates

Tragedy strikes as a tiny town becomes host to an act of senseless, yet calculating, violence when aspiring martyr Luther Dunphy decides to shoot Augustus Voorhees, a doctor at an abortion clinic. The event becomes the catalyst throwing the respective families, the surrounding community and the nation as a whole into turmoil. Still, Oates paints thorough portrait-like narratives of these two men — managing to transmute them into far more than simple stock characters of murderer and victim. Like a body snatcher climbing behind the face and peering through the eyes of each of these men, the author displays her shocking versatility as she weaves from language of the fanatic to the analytical fishbowl lens of the doctor. Beginning in 1999, recent tragedies have only made this gripping story all the more relevant.

The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir, by Jennifer Ryan

Whisk yourself back to 1940 in Ryan’s debut historical novel. The Chilbury folk have just received the tragic news of their first local loss in the casualties to come — the only son of the Winthrop family. While it’s true he wasn’t exactly well-liked, it only adds insult to injury, as the war has taken another toll on the town: swept away the tenor, bass and baritone sections entirely from the local choir. The vicar doesn’t find the five remaining member’s half-hearted performance terribly promising. Things look grim until Miss Primrose “Prim” Trent, an eccentric music teacher, arrives, managing to reassemble them into the

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eponymous women’s choir. Inspired by her grandmother’s stories of growing up in a tiny village in Kent, Ryan’s novel is told through epistolary musings — the scathing wit of journal entries and letters written by of Edwina, Venetia, Mrs. Tillings, Silvie (a Jewish refugee from what was then Czechoslovakia) and other local characters that come to life under the author’s pen. Fans of Hannah Kristen’s The Nightingale will want to watch out for this one.

Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee

XO, Ox: A Love Story, by Adam Rex and Scott Campbell

Told in fluid prose, Pachinko charts a course from the 1930s onward. In Korea, as a young girl, Sunja, the only hope for a poor family, is abandoned by her lover, Hansu, when he receives word she is pregnant with his child. Fearing the disgrace of life as his mistress, Sunja takes refuge in an offer from a Presbyterian minister named Isak, whom she agrees to marry and accompany to Japan to begin life anew. Despite escaping shame in her local community, in following the pastor, Sunja enters into an entirely different kind of exile — that of being a stranger. Residing in Japan during a tumultuous period in history, she faces the incumbent cultural differences, nationalism and prejudice characteristic of the turbulent years to come, while both rearing a family and finding a true friend in her sister-in-law. CHILDREN’S BOOKS By Angie Tally

Tony, by Ed Galing

Caldecott-winning artist Erin Stead’s lovely soft illustrations bring to life this quiet, gentle poem about Tony, a beloved horse with wide, gentle eyes and a ton of love. Sure to be a treasured favorite of horse lovers young and old, Tony is a nostalgic look back at simpler days when animals and quiet hours were an integral part of everyday life. Ages 3-6.

Clumsy as, well, an ox, Ox finds himself absolutely silly in love with a graceful diva, Gazelle. In letter after letter, Ox declares his undying love for the uninterested Gazelle until . . . Cute and clever, XO, Ox is perfect for Valentine’s Day shelves and will bring a smile to lovelorn readers of all ages. Ages 3-6.

The Unwanteds Quests: Dragon Captives, by Lisa McMann

This is book No. 1 in the new middle-grade fantasy series sequel to the bestselling and award-winning The Unwanteds series, about kids whose creative abilities give them magical powers. Identical twins Fifer and Thisbe Stowe are naturally gifted magicians yet unable to control their amazing powers. When they enter Artime’s magical jungle, they accidentally cause chaos, leading to their possible expulsion from the realm. Called “Hunger Games meets Harry Potter,” it’s the perfect adventure series for book hounds. Ages 10-14. Lisa McMann will visit the Country Bookshop on Thursday, February 9 at 4 p.m. to read from and sign copies of her books.

Short, by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Julia is short. So short, in fact that when she is cast for a summer stock production of The Wizard of Oz, Julia is given the role of a munchkin. By the beloved author of Counting by 7s, this heartwarming and funny novel is a story of passion, kindness, self-discovery, and the importance of those special role models who change us forever. Ages 10-14. PS

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By Bill Fields

Let’s face it, the winters aren’t very wintry

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in the Sandhills. The place never would have taken off if they were. Golf, horseback riding and walking down lanes that smell better than any candle are, at their essentials, ways of thawing out.

That said, anyone who experienced the ice storms of the late-1960s — there were doozies in January of ’68 and February of ’69 — hasn’t forgotten them. For those of us not around in 1954, they were our Hurricane Hazel. Each winter storm affected a large swath of the state, with the Southern Pines-Pinehurst area practically ground zero for an inch or more of freezing rain followed by significant snowfall. It was a sadistic snow globe of precipitation, the weight turning pine trees into matchsticks and making power lines as weak as rotted twine. The weather turned nasty after sunset during both storms, as I recall, which meant that you heard the damage before seeing it. There were a dozen or so longleafs in our yard, along with sycamores, maples and cedars. The neighbors had plenty of trees, too, with undeveloped acres across the street, ensuring that the snap, crackle and pop went on for hours as trunks and branches were overmatched by the elements, a number of them sabotaging electric cables as they crashed down. My parents’ legitimate worries — and mine, as I struggled to go to sleep while Mother Nature wreaked havoc — about something big falling off and hitting the house were unrealized, but the morning light revealed a mess. Many trees that weren’t broken were bowed as if waiting for a giant archer, limbs and needles glistening in a gorgeous yet destructive coating of ice. After our street was scouted for downed wires, the icy-snowy surface made for great sledding. The conditions outside were not ideal for our gray tabby, Linus, but that didn’t stop him, the night after the ’68 winter storm, from climbing a pine tree in our next-door neighbor’s front yard and ending up on an icy branch unwilling or unable to get down.

Cats can make quite a sound if they’re in love or get their tail caught in a closing door, but trust me, the meow-howl-distress call of a domestic feline stranded 20 feet off the ground on a cold, frosty night is a singular noise. The following day, no number of familiar faces below him could coax Linus down from his perch. My father had to borrow from another neighbor an extension ladder, its rungs icy as well, to go up and rescue our cat. Linus warmed up, eventually. He lived out his days without repeating such drama but was never again enthusiastic about joining me at my summer hideaway on a lower branch of a dogwood on the east side of our yard. If you’re 8 or 9 years old, a week without electricity is an adventure. A motel was contemplated but my father — hoping it would be a shorter outage and mindful that $19.95-a-night would add up — decided to purchase a kerosene oil heater to keep us from freezing if we huddled in just a couple of rooms. Despite a pungent smell, it allowed us to warm up soup and wieners and make grits for breakfast, the limited menu broken up by a few restaurant visits. We went through a lot of D batteries in flashlights and radios. We read, played checkers and listened to basketball games. We paid particular attention to WEEB if there was an update about when the lights — and heat — might come back on. As the outage continued, I became as eager as Mom and Dad for the electricity to be restored. We weren’t a camping family — my father had far too much of the real thing during World War II — and it was starting to feel like camping out. Our neighborhood lines were some of the last in town to be repaired, causing us to stay on the lookout for a Carolina Power & Light crew like it was a Brinks delivery with our name on it. Seven days after the winter storm arrived, the tool-belted CP&L linemen showed up in their bucket truck. As we were returned to the 20th century, we were as grateful to them as Linus had been to Dad. It was a good long while before we had hot dogs for supper. 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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served straight from the squatty green Del Monte can alongside Chef Boyardee little pizzas warmed in the toaster oven. This was fast food because my mother was having a dinner party and she needed to feed us fast. I loved that combo of metallic sweet and salty acidic crunch. Today those flavors would have some fancy pants term like “sweet and savory.” My foodie sister-in-law in Raleigh would understand. I don’t even understand her tweets. Catawba rabbit w vibrant pureed cararots, bl trumpets with earthy cihianti….,,, Long Johnw blubry+ricotta fr@monutsDonuts is my style; NC sweet potato+horchata are destined for my boys’ bfast Jennifer, the sister-in-law, is one of those people who just know culinary minutiae: that adding crabmeat to an otherwise ordinary potato soup will be delicious, or that arugula marries well with watermelon. I have never been part of that cognoscenti. I can, however, use words like cognoscenti with confidence. I can also coin cooking words. Nart, for example. Nart is a verb that describes using a food processor, whose etymology stems from the proper noun Cuisinart. Correct usage looks like this: “I narted the rotten bananas for banana bread.” My family as a whole expends a lot of time and effort — and opinions — on food. When we’re all at the beach together, my sisters take pictures of their lunches. Truly. It’s a competition of plate tastes and appearance. Some threebean salad at 4 o’clock, crackers with pimento cheese at 5. A half chicken salad sammie, several bread and butter pickles, a wee dab of leftover tomato pie from the night before, ditto the cold shrimp with a light coating of cocktail sauce, some of those suspiciously slick pre-cut knuckle-sized carrots with hummus. “I am so bummed,” one sister will say, studying the other’s plate, because she forgot there was some roasted okra hidden in the far corner of the fridge. When I get home from the beach, the Fig Newtons in the cupboard have gone hard as bullets. I am so bummed. At 9, my youngest sister said, “When I grow up, I’m going to make enough money to buy nice things.” Like what? I asked, expecting cars, clothes, jewels. “Heinz ketchup instead of Hunt’s,” she said. Talk about your worthy aspirations! While other budding scientists were building weather stations, my nephew’s eighth-grade science project was titled “What Method Works Best?”

It featured various old chestnuts about how to chop onions without weeping: holding the onion under water while cutting (I ask you, who manages that feat?), and holding a wad of white bread in your mouth. The winner was simply to don swim goggles, always a fashionable kitchen look. My question is this: Why not just nart the dang onions? As an adviser for the roundly dreaded college application essay, I was finally rewarded with the perfect prompt one year: What is your favorite comfort food and why? At last, something my students and I could metaphorically sink our teeth into. Why labor over Uncle Jimmy as my Most Respected Person or an Eagle Scout project as my Proudest Achievement when you could write about all the varieties of comfort food? The road trip comfort food of Nabs and a Coke; the getting over the 24-hour throw-ups comfort food of scrambled eggs and grits; the tailgate comfort food of fried chicken; the Christmas morning comfort food of Moravian Sugar Cake; the late night comfort food of cold pizza; the — wait. My pupil has fled. Was it the mention of the throw-ups? Or maybe he divined that leadership qualities can’t really be addressed by writing about barbecue. Well, it’s been said before: College is wasted on the young. I suppose food can only be written about with authority by famous television cooks. Those celebrity chefs, however, are a fraud, and real cooks know it. Real cooks cuss when the gnocchi clots into one big soggy dumpling. Real cooks shuck, silk and shave a dozen ears of Silver Queen for stewed corn to take to a sick friend and cry when they realize the milk they added had gone bad, just as they realize that they accidentally used a candy thermometer instead of a meat thermometer and it melted inside the pork roast. Real cooks have kitchen shelves that look like mine, where the cookbooks are lined up like an exhibit on domestication, representatives of each era of my marriage and culinary efforts. Here are the homely (dowdy, matronly) spiral-bound paperback Junior League volumes, the recipes featuring cream of mushroom soup and Velveeta, and titled “Ladies Day Out Stew,” laughable and tender. Then comes the new wave, the Silver Palates, with charming pen-and-ink drawings, when arugula and aioli were a different language altogether. All those good intentions — Try this! I’ve innocently written in the margins — still captive, still somehow alive, in those cookbooks. But never mind the effort and fuss, here to save us is Martha Stewart’s Quick Cook, proving you can be gourmet and effortless too. Beside Martha are the cookbooks dedicated to a single topic: Pasta Perfect, Soups, Grilling, Desserts. Now, it seems, we’ve returned to the Junior League: fancier hardback versions with enticing, lush color photographs of Kentucky Derby Pickup Supper or Oscar Night Buffet. Still the party menus. Still the names of contributors. And still my hopeful handwritten intentions: Try this! PS In a former life, Susan Kelly published five novels, won some awards, did some teaching, and made a lot of speeches. These days, she’s freelancing and making up for all that time she spent indoors writing novels.

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month of Valentine’s our thoughts always turn to Champagne and other sparkling wines. Some choose white, some like pink, but how many take the road less traveled and sample a sparkling red?

My generation carries a heavy grudge toward sparkling reds because we remember the cheap, stomach-turning Cold Duck beverage and the fake bulk processed lambruscos like Cella and Riunite. However, there are some gorgeous, quality sparkling reds in the market and the visual of the red bubbling froth in a flute is impressive and romantic. Italy is definitely the mothership for sparkling reds. It’s a little ironic that one of the most famous sparklers comes from the Piedmont region of Italy, usually famous for the hard, tannic reds from Barolo and Barbaresco. Brachetto is a dark-skinned grape grown almost exclusively in the Piedmont region but planted primarily in the provinces of Asti and Alessandria. It is often considered to be the red counterpart to Moscato D’Asti, although the grapes are not related. Fizz 56 is one of my favorite brachettos and costs about $18. Although it is higher on the residual sugar scale, the acidity in the wine keeps it from tasting cloyingly sweet. This wine is truly a basket of berry flavors: strawberries, raspberries and touches of blackberries. There is even a nuance of candied rose petals, which is interesting because often Barolo can have a drier rose petal note. There is no wine that complements chocolate better than brachetto. Not many American consumers are familiar with quality lambrusco; however, you will find them on the wine lists of authentic Italian restaurants in New York City. Lambrusco is an Italian grape grown primarily in Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy. It is finished frizzante (sparkling in Italian). Mederfil Lambrusco

Reggiano is labeled rosso dolce, meaning “sweet red.” This wine is about $10 and also has bountiful berry and violet flavors. Strawberries, cherries and blackberries are deliciously wrapped with an herbal earthiness that almost gives an impression of fruit in balsamic. Although sweet, it has a nice beam of acidity that would pair well with pizza or pasta. There’s no way to talk about sparkling reds without a tip of the hat to Australia and its fabulous sparkling shiraz. When I visited Australia over 15 years ago, I was delighted to find that literally every winery I visited produced a sparkling shiraz. I predicted it would become all the rage in the U.S., and sadly I was mistaken. It’s still difficult to find sparkling shiraz in the U.S. when it is all over Australia. I guess importers lack faith in the marketability of the wine. One of my favorites that is available stateside is The Black Chook Sparkling Shiraz, about $21 a bottle. The winemaker explains that his shiraz follows the centuries-old tradition of northern Rhone French syrahs by adding a very small amount of viognier, a white grape that actually deepens the dark color of the wine. He spotted a black chook (chicken) in the vineyard and compared the small white egg it came from to their small white addition of viognier to the wine. Hence the name Black Chook. This is a serious sparkling red. Sourced from great vineyards in McLaren Vale, a premiere shiraz location, this wine is aged in small French oak barrels. The barrels contribute a smoky, slightly tannic edge to the black currant, blackberry and chocolatecherry flavors. Try it as a party aperitif wine or with duck, grilled tuna or any chargrilled meat. February is the month to branch out and experiment with a great sparkling red! 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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Vodka Rising

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By Tony Cross

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My earliest memories, or foggiest memories, of first drinking liquor trace back to vodka. Full disclosure: The very first time I drank spirits was Everclear with grape Kool-Aid — that’s all I’ll say about that. As I’ve ventured into the world of cocktailing, there have been so many new varieties of gin, tequila, rum and so forth that I’ve easily brushed vodka to the side without giving it proper attention. Vodka is number two in international sales (behind baijiu, a Chinese spirit made from fermented sorghum), so it’d be a little doltish of me to not pay respect to my first love. Vodka can be made from myriad ingredients: corn, grains, potatoes,

maple syrup, grapes, even soybeans. Instead of being distilled in a pot, like other types of spirits, vodka is distilled in large continuous column stills. The impurities are then filtered, usually by coal, though there are other methods. Vodka isn’t aged, so once it’s filtered, it’s ready to go. I’m too lazy to find out how flavored vodkas are produced, so if you happen to know, please tell me. The martini craze in the early 2000s spawned the flavored vodka movement, but the emphasis even on non-flavored was huge. Martini lists across the nation called anything with vodka and a syrupy concoction paired with it a (fill in the blank)-tini. No lie, one time I remember seeing a 10-drink “martini” list comprised of vodka and every kind of juice and sweetener they had behind the bar. But, hey, they sold. It also helped vodka sales when Sex and the City brought the cosmopolitan to the front of the list for every female’s first choice of a cocktail. There are a lot of bartenders that hate making that drink. Matter of fact, there are certain cocktail bars that will not make them — one of the house rules for Bourbon & Branch, a speakeasy in San Francisco. As for myself, I’ll quote Jeffrey Morgenthaler, who says that there are no bad drinks, just bad bartenders/ ingredients. It is a cocktail that should be spirit forward, with just a touch of cranberry juice. If you order a cosmo, and it looks like cranberry juice in a

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Anna Paige 1 3/4 oz TOPO vodka 1/4 ounce Campari 1/2 ounce vanilla-infused light agave* 1/2 ounce grapefruit juice 1/4 ounce lime juice Place all ingredients in your cocktail shaker. Add ice, and shake vigorously until your gut tells you to stop. If your gut is being coy, shake hard for another 10 seconds. Double-strain into a chilled coupe glass, and garnish with the oils of a grapefruit peel. * Take one vanilla bean, slice down the middle, scraping the pod clean on the inside. Add both pod and bean into a small bottle of light agave. I use the MadHava Light Agave (11.75 oz) from Nature’s Own. PS Tony Cross is a bartender who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern pines. He can also recommend a vitamin supplement for the morning after at Nature’s Own.

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The Quickening Time Scratching the winter gardening itch

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year, produce hunger often creeps in. After the heavy sugar, meat and cream-rich holiday indulgences, we often crave the clean, simple flavors. A squirt of fresh lemon juice. A crushed garlic clove. Fresh, tender young greens.

If salad is wanted, the usual option is to head to the grocery store. A few gardeners may be lucky enough to have a raggedy collard patch or a frost-pounded row of kale or chard nearby, but those are the more hearty greens; best for stewing and steaming, harder to incorporate mature leaves into a fresh salad. But for the Kitchen Gardener with itchy fingers, the first thought is . . . what can I grow? Well, even in February, there are ways. Winter gardening guru Elliot Coleman of Maine, famous for his northward winter market garden, calls these long night/cold times “the Persephone days.” One need not be a Greek mythologist to decipher the meaning: tough times for outdoor plants, even in the sunny South. Clearly, it’s cold enough to inhibit growth, but icy temps are not the only factor. Many growing things require 10 hours of sunlight to flourish. Active plant growth slows down dramatically during the low-light months, even sturdy, cold-hearty items with lesser light demands — greens such as fall-planted spinach or arugula. Luckily, we gain almost an hour of daylight in February. The Earth, though not fully throwing off slumber, will quicken throughout its second-month days. Eager gardeners may then plant February sugar snap peas mid-month — if brave and willing to replant. It’s normally an excellent late-winter strategy. Peas can come through some nasty hard freezes surprisingly well, especially in our welldrained soils that prevent rot. Some brave gardeners might even venture to sow some — not all their seeds, but some — Asian greens, fava beans, lettuce, turnip greens, mache, arugula, carrots, chard, green onions, beets or spinach at month’s end. That’s for the eager. The more cautious/time-pressed can wait until later in March.

One fine strategy takes forethought in September. Grow a sturdy fall greens crop to healthy adulthood, then simply protect it from frost with low tunnels of spun fabric, making a handy, backyard fresh market or “living refrigerator” you can dip into at will. Fresh spinach in January? It can happen, but not without care. But, we didn’t do that, did we? The 2016 barn door has already closed. And we’re hungry now. The solution is easy enough. Grow a bowl of greens now. Indoors. In a bowl, a small window box or pretty container. Use ordinary plastic flowerpots if you want, and tuck them in an old basket with a dish to catch drips. Greens require a bit less light than other veggies, are packed with vitamins K, A and C, have that sweet fresh crunch and offer a satisfying, off-season chlorophyll hit — besides scratching that kitchen gardening itch. Besides fresh greens, best thing about it? No deer ravages! Sorry, Bambi — go graze the neighbor’s pansies instead. Start by ensuring your container has a drainage hole and a dish to catch excess water. Folks have grown greens in fancy urns, tin cans, moss-lined mesh circles, old yogurt cups, black nursery pots and more. As long as it holds a small volume of soil — three or four inches, as lettuces are shallow rooted — and has a good drain hole, it will work. Fill with a simple potting soil, preferably one with a little fertilizer. If you are going to harvest right from the bowl, the plants will need nourishment over their two-month lifespan. Moisten the soil, let it expand and drink for a while. You can also use organic fertilizers, but this is trickier. You can plant a variety of greens — lettuce, arugula, mache, chard, kale — in your container, but they will have different germination rates. For the most gratification, try a lettuce mix first. Lots of color and variety and similar growth patterns, lettuce should satisfy that salad lust. Once soil is evenly moist, sprinkle your lettuce seed on the surface. Press the seed into the soil gently with a thumb. Seed-soil contact is critical. Then scatter the slightest dusting of soil atop. Too deep will smother the fine seeds, and too shallow will allow them to dry out. Like Goldilocks, you want it “just right.” Like sprinkling salt on popcorn, use about that much soil. You’ll need care when watering, or these tiny fine seeds will wash into a

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clump and compete for space. A daily gentle mist from a household sprayer should suffice. Keep damp but not soaking, and don’t let them dry out. Once plant growth takes off, check soil regularly, as the growing roots will be pulling moisture hard to make new leaves. A cool room in the house is perfect for germination. It doesn’t need a lot of light until the seeds sprout. Lettuces won’t germinate well above 80 degrees, so skip the water heater or heat pad where you start your tomato, eggplant and pepper seedlings. A sunny windowsill makes a perfect growing spot. The good news is you can be a slacker on many of these suggestions and still grow a crop. On pretty, sunny days, you can set your lettuce container outside and let it dress up your porch. On bitter, bone-cracking cold nights, you pull it inside. With the right container, it’s a visual asset as well as a culinary one. I’ve been to spring parties where, in a pretty container, a bowl of greens served as a terrific and heartening buffet or centerpiece. Baby leaves are the most tender. Thin out the leaves for salads as the container begins to fill out. Just snip a few leaves down low on the stem and add them to your existing salads while waiting. I admit, I often just graze my pots, eschewing bowls and salad dressing. Sweet young greens are delicious in their own right. Thin the heavy spots, to ensure continued production. When the weather warms, you have options. You can harvest right from the bowl, or break up the party and plant clumps in the garden in later March, when the weather softens. There, you’ve got a head start on spring! If you plant outdoors, you’ll need to “harden” the young plants off so that they may survive. If you’ve been putting the container outside in the sun on the nice days, you’re practically there anyway. Lettuces are even fairly freeze-hardy, if protected. Unlike tomatoes, squash, eggplant and other heat lovers that would live in a container during challenging and extended conditions, you won’t be keeping your plants indoors or confined long. Lettuce grows to baby-harvest size in as early as 30 days for some varieties, 45 days for others. Better to harvest early, rather than late, for sweetest taste. Remember, you can sow directly in the garden about six weeks before the last frost date, which is around mid-April here. In March one can attempt to begin sowing, or replanting, outside. Sow a little every two weeks, rather than all at once. Cold soil will cause slow germination and growth, so I propose that the avid gardeners, eager for spring, do both. Why choose? Doing both will get you maximum production. You can have your indoor garden and eat it too. PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and co-founder of the Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative.

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Costco, Mon Amour My romantic rendezvous with a retail giant

By Deborah Salomon

Costco has been in the news a lot this

year — mostly for successful retail strategy, not as a mindbody experience. And certainly not as an object described in French, the language of love.

But I love Costco, perhaps because it represents a prevailing spirit — which sounds more elegant as l’air du temps. Not that I’m showing off. After two years of high school and three semesters of college French, then living in a predominantly French-speaking city for a quarter century, a few phrases stuck, or else I would have gotten lost, or starved. I joined Costco in 1994; annual membership fee has risen only five dollars in 23 years. Back then, families made it a Saturday afternoon eating outing: an elongated premium beef hot dog and refillable drink cost just over a dollar (now $1.50) in the food court, always packed. Pizza slices . . . humongous. Raspberry frosties to die for on a hot day. But that wasn’t the main attraction. Costco had a happy ambience created, I’ll wager, by a corporate psychologist who trains employees to move quickly, talk loud, smile and exude good will. Sullen slowpokes need not apply. This results in a feeling of “relax, hon, all’s right with the world,” since within the walls of an edifice the size of an airplane hangar ordinary folks are able to fill huge carts with fabulous stuff in multi-packs. If they can afford it, so can you. I find myself looking for things to buy. Simply being there makes me want to run out and invite the neighborhood to dinner. I noticed something else: Men. Most fellas aren’t into shopping for groceries, clothing, hardcover books, paper products. Cherchez les femmes is the preferred marketing strategy. But guys, once yanked past the giant TVs and blast-furnace barbecues, seem content strutting around the store, eyeballing ribeyes, flexing

their muscles when a case of canned peaches or a 25-pound bag of flour needs hoisting. Another mind-bender: The meat, fish, deli and bakery items are truly magnifique in quality and presentation. “Buy me,” they shout. And so many frozen foods available nowhere else. And jumbo berries, basketball-sized melons, pies bigger than hubcaps. This suggests whatever shoppers take home will be in some way, exceptional. C’est vrai. More important, this makes me jubilant, ready to spend. Bonne chance checking out under $100. Alas, a dilemma. Not enough mouths to feed. I can no longer justify a side of salmon, a quart of lime-cilantro shrimp, two pounds of jumbo cashews, enough baby spinach to sink Popeye. I cannot even justify the $55 annual membership, since my forays happen half a dozen times a year when business takes me to Greensboro or Durham and I drive away with a six-month supply of vanilla, pecans, cat food, pot-stickers, clam chowder, mouthwash and toilet paper. Yet I just mailed the check — reasonable considering la vie en rose Costco delivers. Admitting an attachment to a building and its contents may seem odd or worse, an advertisement. Mais, non! Does the Louvre advertise Mona Lisa which, by the way, is disappointingly small? Over a lifetime, other buildings have imprinted my psyche. I’m partial to the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, Cameron Indoor Stadium at Duke and, especially, the engineering marvel that is the Doges Palace in Venice — but with a difference. They don’t give away samples of pumpkin ravioli. Vive la difference! 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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Walking with Dinosaurs A winter beach is just the thing for soothing the shock of the new

By Serena Kenyon Brown

Here we are in February. It has been one

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shipping container, seven months, 3,843 miles and 88,632 still-unpacked boxes since the Sandhills of North Carolina.

It is 2 o’clock in the afternoon. The dogs, who normally eat at about 4 o’clock, have climbed into my lap as I sit down to write in order to remind me of their dinner time every minute for the next two hours. They are not lapdog sized and they are inconvenient to work around. Please forgive any resulting errors. They’ve been somewhat unhinged, the dogs, since we left the pine-scented breezes of Moore County for the salty air of England’s south coast last summer. They’ve never much liked suitcases, and the rearrangement of our entire household on May Street into plastic boxes was a bridge too far. Or so they thought until they were driven to Atlanta, bundled into crates and wheeled onto an aeroplane bound for Heathrow. As we took our seats on the same plane we asked the air hostess if she would tell the captain that there were dogs on board, so that the hold could be kept at a reasonable temperature. “Yes,” replied the stewardess, with all the tact of one blissfully unaware of how it feels to have put a pet on a trans-Atlantic flight, “We know. We can hear them. One’s barking, the other’s howling.” Oh. It was rather a long journey. Have you ever had a dream where everything’s completely normal but for one thing that’s starkly out of place? That’s how it felt when the dogs joined us at our friends’ house in London. And there they were again, popping up unexpectedly at my parents’ house, in the back of our old car, which had been mothballed in a barn for nearly five years, as we set out for our new home. (Shortly before the car broke down and we had to be towed the remaining 140 miles. Not quite the first impression we had hoped to make as we rolled in at 10 o’clock at night on the back of a tow truck like the Beverly Hillbillies.) Our current residence, a red brick villa of elegant Georgian proportions, is resolutely bearing the indignity of having been reduced to a confluence.

Here it’s not just the spaniels’ presence that is jolting. It’s everything. Southern family life meets big city youth meets classical art school. Paintings are jostling for space with bicycles and laundry baskets, resting three deep against desks overflowing with anatomical studies and much-put-off paperwork. A grill that looks like Stephenson’s Rocket dominates the English garden. The red toddler car is cheek by jowl with a Victorian kitchen table piled high with wine bottles, silk peonies, board games, teapots and Ordnance Survey maps, all crowned by a set of red deer antlers and overseen by an effigy of Dewi Sri, the Balinese goddess of rice and home, who is looking very stern in the face of such domestic disharmony. We have learnt that we are in possession of a vast library of much splashed and scribbled-in cookery books and another of tomes on art history. The downstairs loo is stuffed to the gunwales with fishing tackle. There’s a 1950s Power Trac in what was once the dining room. A bat is hanging off the chandelier. But for clearing the mind, if not the sitting room, there’s nothing like a bracing winter march along a beach. Known as the Jurassic Coast, 185 million years of history lie in the black and golden cliffs that lour over the beaches here. Ammonite imprints stand out clearly in the rocks. Ten minutes of searching will yield a handful of fossils. We’ve found veins of wood and sea creatures galore, even a very happy clam. The dogs and I walked along the bay this morning. As often happens, the wind dropped once we reached the shelter of the cliffs. The waves tipped gently onto the shore and retreated with a gravelly ssshhhhhhh. The sun seared through the bitter cold and sent long shadows dancing behind us. Herring gulls soared and socialised. Or perhaps they were pterodactyls. Back in the States the spaniels would scent deer and flush wild turkeys. Now they’re startling seagulls and turning up Plesiosaurs. Quite an adjustment, and it feels like it’s taking a long time. But on a bright winter’s morning, when the stick the dogs are tussling over is 140 million years old, the turnover of a season or two fits perfectly into perspective. PS Serena Kenyon Brown is missing the PineStraw magazine deadline milkshakes. Even in the winter.

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Who Gives a Flip? Yours truly — until I tried it myself

By R enee Phile

“Flip that water bottle one more

time and see what happens!” I heard myself declare. On this particular day, I was so totally done with all the nonsense. I had let it go on for far too long. After all, objects flying across the room and through the halls are not uncommon occurrences in our house. On any given day, there may be Nerf gun bullets, footballs, socks, juggling balls, or even varieties of produce whizzing by. Whatevs. I’m to the point where I ignore a lot of it. Choose your battles, my mom says. Nerf gun wars and juggling oranges in the kitchen are not battles I want to tackle, unless of course, David bruises all my oranges, which he has done, and yes, then I will fight.

So when the boys continuously flipped the half-full bottles of water so they rotated in the air and then landed on the table and then rolled to the floor, I frowned. The sloshes and then the thuds messed with my sanity. Over the next few days though, they kept flipping, and not just half-full water bottles. They flipped bottles of Sunkist, and I even caught Kevin trying to flip a half-full milk jug! The lid was not on properly, and milk sloshed from the jug, all over the kitchen floor. “Enough with the flipping!” I demanded. “But Mom, it’s fun!” he said. “It’s stupid, and it makes no sense.” “Stupid isn’t a nice word to say, Mom.” I sighed. “Can’t you play with something else?” The next day in my own classroom, before class started, a student sat at his desk with a half-full water bottle in front of him. With no warning whatsoever,

he picked up the bottle and would you believe this, he flipped it. The bottle rotated once, tumbled to the side, and rolled to the edge of the desk. He grabbed the bottle before it fell to the ground and then started over. The girl next to him looked annoyed. Three minutes until class started. “Um, could you please stop?” I finally asked, after four flips. “Sorry,” he said as he steadied his water bottle on his desk. “Wait, why do you do that? First tell me why you do that, flip the water bottles, I mean.” His eyes brightened and he pulled his phone from his pocket and quickly looked up a video and handed me the device. The video showed him flipping a water bottle with one quick wrist flick. The bottle rotated once and then landed straight up on a table. “Oh, cool,” I muttered. And it was cool. Then he showed me another video of a kid from Charlotte who flipped a water bottle for a talent show and it landed upright. The crowd roared its approval. He explained to me that kids all over the world are now flipping water bottles, the goal to land them upright. It’s an art that takes so much practice, but sometimes, just sometimes, with the perfect amount of luck and skill, the bottle rotates once and lands upright. Later that day, both of my boys and their neighbor friend were all sitting around the kitchen table, taking turns flipping their bottles. I watched for a few minutes before I, too, emptied out some of the water from my water bottle and tried. (The water bottle should be 1/2 to 1/4 full, or so I’ve heard.) I tried several times, but no successful landing. I guess at this point, I have changed my attitude about the flipping subject. The noise is obnoxious, but my boys can entertain themselves for hours and they aren’t fighting with each other or zoned out watching TV or playing video games. Every now and then, I will discreetly practice my own flip (to this day, I have not succeeded in the perfect landing, but I am still working on it). Flip. Slosh. Thud. Roll. Repeat. PS Renee Phile teaches at Sandhills Community College and is happy to announce that, since writing this story, she has flipped a water bottle and it landed perfectly.

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B i r dwat c h

The Gull Next Door

Winter brings ring-billed gulls inland By Susan Campbell

Gulls? Here in the middle of the state? It may be

puzzling but, indeed, you may see a few soaring over the nearby mall or standing around on the local playing fields. Come late November — then through December and reaching their peak sometime in January — the most common species of inland gulls, ring-billed, predictably swells each winter. Highly adaptable, they happily hang out at landfills, parking lots and farm fields. Ring-billed gulls are medium-sized, easy to overlook — unless you are a birdwatcher. Flocks can easily number in the hundreds and, nowadays, are largely unaffected by human activity. Of course, it is the actions of people that have facilitated the species’ winter range expansion over the past century. Ring-billed gulls are characterized by a white head and chest, gray back and black vertical band around the bill. When perched, their black wingtips, with white spots, extend beyond the squared-off tail. The legs, like the bill, are a bright yellow. Wintering adults will exhibit gray-brown flecking on the head. Immature birds will have varying amounts of brownish streaking as well as pinkish legs and bill. It will take three full years for individuals to acquire adult plumage. Ring-billed gulls nest far to the north, on small islands across the northern tier of the United States and throughout much of Canada. They use sparsely vegetated habitat and are often found sharing islands with other species of gulls

and terns. Ring-billeds are known to return to their natal area to breed, often nesting mere feet from where they nested the year before. They are also likely to return to familiar wintering grounds as well. They have a highly tuned sense of direction, using a built-in compass as well as landmarks (such as rivers and mountain ranges) to successfully navigate in spring and fall. In the early 1900s, the millinery trade, egg collectors and human encroachment in habitats significantly affected the species’ population numbers. But with the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act in 1917, ring-billed gull numbers began to stabilize. No longer was it legal to shoot adults for their feathers or collect their eggs for food. Additionally, introduction of fishes such as the alewife and inundation of new habitat in the western Great Lakes increased breeding productivity in the decades that followed. Not only has the increase in garbage dumps and farmlands created more foraging habitat for these birds but also new reservoirs. Although ring-billeds prefer insects, worms, fish, small rodents, as well as grains and berries, they are not picky eaters — and therefore highly adaptable. Reproductive success, thanks to an abundance of food, has been even higher in the last thirty years — especially around the Great Lakes and the Eastern United States. As a result, this species has become a nuisance in some areas. Control measures (scarecrows, noisemakers, materials that move in the wind) have been employed but with very little success. Large flocks of ring-billed gulls are likely to get the attention of birdwatchers come late winter. It is then that other species may get mixed in. It is possible to tease out a herring gull or perhaps a great black-backed gull from the dozens sitting on the pavement or floating on a local lake, if one has good optical equipment — and a lot of patience. PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos. She can be contacted by email at susan@ncaves.com, or by calling (910) 949-3207.

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Whistling Wings Return of the Hyde County duck hunt

By Tom Bryant

I was up in the roost, a little apart-

ment above our garage where I go to write and hang out when I need to get out of the way of the vacuum cleaner and my bride, Linda. I was sorting through duck hunting gear from my last trip to Lake Mattamuskeet. Shotguns, waders, heavy waterproof hunting coats, shotgun shells, duck calls, hunting trousers — you name it and if it pertains to duck hunting, it was in a pile in the roost.

Duck season ushered in a new kind of hunting for me in 2016 and January of the new year. In the past, I was used to running my own show so to speak. A group of us, six to be exact, leased impoundments right on the Pamlico Sound. Also included in the lease was a small house that served as our lodge. For a few years, the arrangement worked OK; but then a series of bad weather events flooded the impoundments with salt water, making them useless for growing corn, and the ducks went elsewhere. At the same time, our little lodge was invaded with a legion of mice, making the place uninhabitable, so we gave up our efforts, and I didn’t duck hunt in that area for a while. I missed the wilds of Hyde County, though, so last summer, when my good friend Art called me after a visit to Engelhard, scouting for a new duck hunting venue, I was excited. “Hey, Tom, this is Art. How you doing, sport?” “Great, Art! Good to hear from you, old friend. What are you up to?” “Jack, John and I have been scouting around Hyde County, looking for a spot for us to hang our duck-hunting hats, and we think we’ve found it. You interested?” Needless to say I was, and they added me to the group. The hunt would be handled sort of the way I was introduced to the area. We would use a guide and

his impoundments located right on the northern end of the lake. The guide would take care of all the details, which I wasn’t used to; but hey, I thought, I’m not getting any younger, and maybe an easy hunt like this would be nice. The weeks rolled by and all of a sudden, it was time to round up all my duckhunting stuff, load up the Cruiser and head east. The ride to Hyde County from Southern Pines was a trip of extremes, up through Raleigh and all the breakneck traffic trying to get nowhere fast, and then with a sigh of relief, I eased across the Pungo River onto the “Road Less Traveled,” which is the motto of Hyde County. When I crossed the river, I pulled into a little gravel parking area right on the other side of the bridge and walked back to see if anything had changed since my last visit. An osprey was fishing, diving into the water with a splash, and with a fish in his claws, headed back across the tree line bordering the river to eat lunch. Then I heard them before I could see them. So high above were hundreds of snow geese, only little spots against the washed-out blue of the winter sky, their soft plaintive calls an indication of the altitude at which they were flying. Excited, I fired up the Cruiser and motored toward Engelhard and the pair of cabins that would serve as our headquarters for the next four days. Art, John, Jack and Art’s son, Michael, were an hour or more behind me, so I got to the cabins first, unloaded some gear and waited for their arrival and the beginning of good times. I had just sat down in a swing on the porch overlooking the Pamlico Sound when the troops pulled in the drive. In no time, all their gear was unloaded and John, the gourmet chef of the group, had staked out which cabin and kitchen he would use for his culinary efforts. I have been hunting with John for years and have been fortunate to experience many meals prepared by this excellent cook. We all looked forward to his expertise in the kitchen, always a high point of the hunt. After completing the details of unloading and who was to use which cabin, Art called the guide to get our marching orders for the next day and also see

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Sporting Life

if we could check out the evening flight into the impoundments. The guide said he would meet us at his barn and take us to the dike to watch, so we took care of some last minute details and everyone loaded into Michael’s big Suburban for the 15-minute ride to our morning rendezvous, hopefully, with ducks. The gray evening was heavily overcast with low clouds spitting rain, and although we couldn’t see the ducks, we sure could hear them. Our guide said, “If the weather holds, we should wear ’em out at sunrise.” We drove back to the cabins full of anticipation. Five a.m. came early after an evening of good fellowship and John’s great cooking, but it didn’t take long to trudge to the Suburban, heavily loaded with guns and gear. On the way to the impoundments, Michael was commiserating about his lack of experience duck hunting. This was his first time in a blind. Michael has a very responsible position with Wells Fargo Bank and spends a lot of time on the job. The rest of the guys told him that duck hunting was a snap and he should be really good at it. Jokingly they said, “Just watch Bryant and try to do the opposite.” We met the guide and trooped to the blind in good order. The weather was still blowing out of the northeast with a heavy mist. We hunkered down under cover and waited for legal shooting time. Whistling wings could be heard overhead as ducks started coming off the roost heading to the lake. You could almost taste the excitement. The guide whispered, “OK, it’s time, get ready.” A pair of widgeons swung by out front, and one fell to our guns. Another pair, wood ducks this time, came from the right and flew straight out. Michael’s gun roared and both ducks fell. Two ducks, one shot. Even the guide celebrated and gave Michael a high-five. “See,” I said and laughed. “This duck hunting isn’t that hard.” The morning went by in a blur as ducks came to the blind; but to me, the most incredible sight were the tundra swans coming off the lake, literally by the thousands. They were flying treetop high over the blind, and the sounds they made calling in those impossible numbers I’ll probably never hear again in my lifetime. It was one of nature’s most incredible sights, and I surely won’t forget it. I looked out the window of the roost and watched as a pair of cardinals flew to the bird feeder. Well, I thought, here it is February, and there’s duck hunting stuff everywhere. Time to put it all away until next season and see if I can put together some fishing gear. We’re leaving for Florida and Chokoloskee Island soon, and the folks down there say the fishing is great. PS Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident, is a lifelong outdoorsman and PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist.

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I have moved from one pretty thing to another. I check out the curves, the details, the accessories. I enjoy going into a busy place with a pretty one on my arm. I reflect on my exes and wince that I could have been so stupid to have been with that. If mine is hanging out with others, I’ll generally snicker at the ugliness of all that surrounds my jewel.

I admit it — I’m a bit of a tart for golf bags. Just in the last decade I have been with Titleist, Sun Mountain, MacKenzie, Stitch and Nike (for the blink of an eye). I have had bags with a stand and without, made with leather, canvas and waterproof synthetics, and even with velour linings. Various models have had compartments or attachments for umbrellas, water bottles, iPhones and range finders, though the latter is a moot point. I’m too cheap to buy a high-tech measuring device, and I’m not vain enough to think it matters a whit to know I’m 133 yards from the flag for certain versus the 130 I can estimate for myself. As I am ever the traditionalist who’d rather walk than ride, my bags have

tended to the lighter weights and fewer geegaws, though I’m constantly in a balancing act between simplicity and lusting for modern creature comforts. I was gifted one of the original MacKenzie Walkers in the early 1990s but didn’t have the good sense to appreciate the materials, workmanship and utter simplicity of the tan leather bag, benching it after a wet day when the leather seemed to hold the water like lead pellets. Over the years, moving it from assorted garages to attics, the bag developed a rash of mold and mildew, which the company tried gallantly six years ago to remove — with modest results. I carried an apple green, double-strapped bag for a while but got a sore left shoulder with the pretzel motion of putting my left arm through the second strap. Once in a captain’s choice tournament, I won a hideous Nike Performance bag that had 12 slots for clubs and was white and black with teal accents; I quickly sold it on Craigslist to some poor fool who likely plays golf in sandals and black socks. For several years I’ve carried a MacKenzie ballistic bag, a two-pocket, singlestrap bag made of navy fabric in the same design as the company’s more famous leather offering. The bag served me well and I appreciated its simplicity. But over time I grew to want at least a nudge toward convenience — a more accessible spot for my wallet and phone without them mixed in with balls and tees, for example, or a place for a water bottle or umbrella. I considered yielding to the appeal of a stand bag to ease the wear on my back, but the spindly metal legs add such an artificial element I’ve resisted the urge.

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I wrote in these pages in the spring of 2015 of an innovative company in Cary called Stitch Golf that makes stylish leather head covers and accessories under the “Dress Your Game” hashtag. Stitch flirted briefly in fabricating and peddling a utilitarian and soft-spoken carry bag in British khaki and green camouflage designs, but I found the five-slot opening a bit narrow and the clubs prone to getting stuck when you tried to pull one. In due time owner Charlie Burgwyn discovered a vintage golf bag company on the West Coast trying to reinvent itself and ditched his own model and began carrying the wares of the Jones Golf Bag Co. Anyone who played high school or college golf in the 1970s and ’80s likely remembers the Jones bag, which came in basic primary colors with a wide white strap and a plastic base that could stand up to countless whacks after a fat 6-iron shot. George Jones was a cab driver and golf enthusiast in Portland, Oregon, in the early 1970s who, in his spare time, cobbled together utilitarian golf bags and sold them from the trunk of his cab. The bags were popular enough that he founded the Jones Golf Bag Co., the enterprise finding a niche as a manufacturer of inexpensive carry bags that most schools could afford to buy in bulk and outfit their entire squad. Jones sold the company in 1990, and over two decades the line lost its appeal as golf exploded and consumer demand migrated to shinier bells and louder whistles. “After 20 years, there was nothing left but the name and a lot of memories,” says Matt Lemman, who grew up playing a Jones bag. “The bag was missed. There was nothing that substituted for it.” Lemman’s father bought what was left of Jones’ entrepreneurial efforts in 2011 and turned the operation over to sons Matt and Tim and a third partner, Chris Carnahan. They began manufacturing the original Jones bag with updated materials and since have added to the line with stand bags, cart bags, luggage and accessories. Lemman says the company broke even in 2015 and was comfortably in the black in 2016. “It’s been fun to bring the bag back to life,” says Matt, 30 years old. “It’s no picnic to start a business, but we’re lucky to have a brand that resonates with a lot of people.” “People like to be reminded of a time when life was simpler,” adds Tim, 28. Indeed, the Jones Original and Players Series models I carried in 2016 are the archetypes of minimalism and function. Over six months I tried both the Original model in kelly green and more recently a navy version in the Players Series. Both feature the ubiquitous Jones braided handle and plastic base and come in at around three pounds each. Both have three compartments — two long, narrow ones on the strap side of the bag, and a larger one on the opposite side. The bags are reasonably priced, with the Original model at $140

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and the Players at $160. I’ve settled on the Players Series for several reasons. The spine makes it easier to sling on a motor cart if I find myself in the position of having to ride. There’s a slot for a water bottle — essential for the hot Southern summers. And I thought the wide white strap on the Original model a bit unsightly to my eye; the strap on the Players is narrower, and the neat touch of having some tacky material on the underside helps keep the bag from slipping on my shoulder. And like all Jones bags, you can find the name only on the bottom and on an understated metal plate positioned on the spine; carrying a bag with the manufacturer’s name taking up 50 percent of the face just seems, well, crass.

And over time, I’ve gotten a better grasp on what I don’t need. “It’s everything you need, and nothing you don’t,” Lemman says. “There’s a niche for people who want a simpler way of doing things.” And over time, I’ve gotten a better grasp on what I don’t need. I’ve cut my set down to 12 clubs, taking a couple pounds off the carry weight. I’d rather master the 56-degree wedge than try to dial in several lofts, and if I’m playing a course under 6,400 yards as I should, my 18-degree fairway wood is all I need for second shots on par-5s and perhaps an approach on a long par-4. Anthony Cordes, the sharp young club-fitting expert at Pinehurst, suggested in fitting me for a new set of Titleist irons last spring that I create a hybrid set by using my preferred blades, the forged and more classic-looking AP2s, for my wedge through 6-iron and then go to the more forgiving AP1 for the 5and 4-iron. I’ve never hit so many good 4-irons as I have the last year. The bag, clubs, several extra balls and spray bottles of sunscreen and insect repellant measure 17 pounds — a comfortable weight to lug around the course, particularly by alternating shoulders. The set-up is functional and the bag, accented with one leather and one knit head cover from Stitch, distinguishes itself amid the rubble of the bag drop. The decade of the ’70s was not renowned for its design acumen — industrial, clothing or otherwise. Thankfully, though, there is the Jones Golf Bag to take a much-welcomed second lap. PS Chapel Hill-based writer Lee Pace promises to live by the Jones Golf mantra in 2017 — “Enjoy the walk.”

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Grievance The winter wind is searching for a love To love her like one loves the fall, spring, summer, seasons better thought of Than her silent biting chill, her pall. Forgotten, crystal blooms on bare-branched trees, Crisping air that skates on glassy lakes Wakes the spirit, opens sleepy lungs to breathe While snowflakes choose their own design to make. Now she hisses sleet through blizzard teeth, Love me for who I am and what I bring. There is no resurrection without death, Without a sleep, no dreams, no notes to sing. Hear my lonely recitative, Say you love me. Say it to me, please. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Sarah Edwards

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Why should we let Los Angeles have all the fun when there’s plenty of glitz and glamour to spread around in the Sandhills? Photographs by Tim Sayer and John Gessner

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Jennifer Hudson won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2007 in her acting debut in Dreamgirls, adapted from the 1981 Broadway musical of the same name. Her character, Effie White, is left behind when Curtis, the man she loves and the group’s manager, replaces her as the lead singer of The Dreams, the Motown group based on The Supremes, that rises to stardom without her. Barely getting by in inner city Detroit with her daughter, Magic, Effie revives her career when she reconciles with her brother, C.C., who writes and produces her comeback hit, “One Night Only.” Our Effie, Courtney Pearson, is an Appalachian State University alum in a graduate program in the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, who teaches sixth grade English at West Pine Middle School. And what better stage for Effie to belt out her comeback single than at Casino Guitars in Southern Pines, the place where musical dreams really can begin? Photograph by Tim Sayer Gown from Brides Etc. Makeup by Gabriela Villaseñor/Retro Salon

In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun, so it shouldn’t come as any surprise to see Mary Poppins seated at a window table in Lady Bedford’s Tea Parlour and Gift Shoppe in Pinehurst. After all, a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. With her portrayal of the title character in the 1964 Disney movie, Julie Andrews won an Academy Award for Best Actress in her feature film debut. Our Mary Poppins, Christy Tucker, didn’t float down from the sky with the use of her umbrella, nor does she carry an enchanted carpetbag. Christy does, however, have three children of her own to nanny, 4-year-old Wyatt and his 2-year-old twin brothers, Wesley and Whitt. As perfect a setting as Lady Bedford’s may be for a spot of tea, don’t expect any penguin waiters or a tea party on the ceiling with Uncle Albert because, well, that would just be supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Photograph by John Gessner Costuming by Marcie Haberstroh/Showboats Neverland Makeup by Megan Weitzel/Retro Salon Hair by Meredith Jacob/Retro Salon

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In 2010 the Oscar for Best Actress went to Sandra Bullock for her appearance in the film The Blind Side, playing the role of Leigh Anne Tuohy, who opens her home to a teenage football prodigy, Michael Oher. Running away from one foster home after another, Oher, who now plays left tackle â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the blind side â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for the Carolina Panthers, is left homeless by the death of his father and the drug addiction of his mother. Slowly but surely he becomes a member of the Tuohy family and is eventually adopted by them. Our Leigh Anne is Kelly Kilgore, the mother of two daughters, Ava and Audry, and the owner of RIOT (Run in Our Tribe), a running and specialty athletic store on Pennsylvania Avenue, who pulls off the performance with the help of the Pinecrest Patriots. Jehari Whitfield (78) turns in a solid portrayal of Oher, aided by his teammates Will Robson (76), Langdon McFay (44), J.D. Robinson (81) and Davis Byrd (80). Photograph by John Gessner Hair and makeup by Ariana Cooper/Beautopia

Brother Ray. The Genius. Jamie Foxx won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his gritty portrayal of Ray Charles in the 2004 movie Ray. Blind from the age of 7, raised on a sharecropping farm in Florida, Ray Charles passed away shortly before the film’s release. Charles learned to read music using Braille at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind, but it was his creative combination of blues, rhythm and blues and gospel that produced an entire new genre. His fame came at personal cost, including a struggle with drug addiction. Charles’ long list of hits included “I Got a Woman,” “What’d I Say” and “Georgia on my Mind.” Who better to sit in at the piano for Charles than Paul Murphy? The pastor of the Trinity AME Zion church in Southern Pines started playing at The Carolina Hotel, where this picture was taken, in the early 1980s. Photograph by John Gessner Costuming by Marcie Haberstroh/Showboats Neverland

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Giving neuroses a good name, comedian Alvy Singer, played by the movie’s writer/director Woody Allen, falls in love with Annie Hall, portrayed by Diane Keaton, who won the Oscar for Best Actress in the 1977 eponymous movie. Together they stand in line for the movie The Sorrow and the Pity, where Marshall McLuhan makes an imaginary appearance to explain to another theatergoer why he’s gotten it all wrong. Alvy and Annie fall in love over a meal of boiled lobster, but the relationship falls apart when they move in together. They reconcile, if only temporarily, when he rushes to Annie’s rescue after she calls him in a needy panic — though only to kill a spider. We found our Annie, Annie Arroyo, a graduate of James Madison University who works for First Flight Digital, the media arm of The Pilot, hanging out not in Manhattan but outside The Given Outpost in Pinehurst. Photograph by Tim Sayer Costuming by Marcie Haberstroh/ Showboats Neverland

When King Edward VIII abdicates his throne in order to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson, his brother, Albert, aka “Bertie”, succeeds him as King George VI. Colin Firth won the Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of the royal who conquered his awkward stammer in the 2010 film The King’s Speech. Cautioned by his father, George V, about the importance of communication in the age of radio, Albert seeks the aid of an Australian, Lionel Logue, whose sole training came from working with shell-shocked soldiers after World War I. With Logue’s help, Bertie takes the mic following Britain’s declaration of war with Nazi Germany and delivers his radio address almost flawlessly. While Logue points out some less-than-perfect w’s, Albert replies, “Well, I had to throw in a few so they’d know it was me.” Southern Pines Assistant Town Manager Chris Kennedy, a 10th generation North Carolinian, rises to the occasion as our king at the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. Photograph by Tim Sayer Costuming by Marcie Haberstroh/Showboats Neverland

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A crown princess sets off from the embassy of her undisclosed country to explore Rome da sola. She finds love, and Audrey Hepburn found an Oscar for Best Actress in the part of Ann in the classic 1953 romantic comedy. An expatriate American newspaper reporter, Joe, finds, but does not recognize, the princess (who calls herself Anya Smith) and invites her — in an abundance of caution — to spend the night in his apartment. Her regal comportment amuses Joe, played by Gregory Peck. In the morning, having slept through a scheduled interview with Princess Ann, Joe pretends to his editor that he was actually there until his boss tells him the interview was canceled. Joe sees her picture, realizes who is in his apartment and senses a scoop. Hijinks ensue. Our Ann is Ella Burkes, a stylist at Bamboo, a Boutique Salon in Southern Pines. She doesn’t have a crown but she does have a wiener dog, Norman. Photograph by Tim Sayer Hair and makeup by Ella Burkes/Bamboo Salon Costuming by Marcie Haberstroh/ Showboats Neverland

The Set-Up Man Pinehurst’s Bob Harlow, golf’s promotional genius By Bill Case Photographs from the Tufts Archives

hen Bob Harlow learned that golf great Walter Hagen was looking to hire a full-time manager in 1921, the 32-year-old newspaperman quit his job as sports editor of the Associated Press’s Radio Division, and leaped at the opportunity to represent “The Haig.” No other professional golfer had ever hired a personal agent, but then, no other professional golfer had ever been Walter Hagen. Not yet 30 himself, Hagen had already won the United States Open Championship twice, earning a mere $475 for his second national title. The real money, however, was in exhibitions, and Hagen was both fond of making real money and bad at keeping it once he got it. Enter Bob Harlow, glad-hander of warmth and unflinching good humor, a well-educated world-class multitasker who, for roughly a decade — and more, depending on your tolerance for conflicts of interest — would resolutely arrange and manage the myriad details of Hagen’s intense schedule, sometimes as many as five exhibitions a week spread across the map like paint splatters. It was a business relationship requiring nothing more formal than a Champagne toast, a money match made in heaven. Harlow would collect it and Hagen would spend it. If Hagen knew he needed organizational triage, Harlow seemed particularly well-suited to apply the tourniquet. Herbert Warren Wind, the venerable golf writer, described Harlow as “the only man who could undress, take a shower, dress, Bob Harlow call his wife, and write a postcard in something less than nine minutes.” A native of Massachusetts and the son of a Holmes deerstalker hat. Harlow was widely believed to have been the ghostCongregational Church minister, Harlow was a graduate of Phillips Exeter writer of some of The Haig’s best lines, burnishing the image — apocryphal Academy and the University of Pennsylvania. Having himself worked for in degrees — of Hagen the champion carouser, partying the night away before three different East Coast dailies, including the New York Tribune, he knew appearing for matches the following day in a chauffeured limousine still clothed how to schmooze the local sportswriters whose fawning coverage was in a rumpled tux when, in truth, he was more likely to have watered the potted required if Hagen’s exhibitions were to produce a handsome gate. plants with most of his drinks. Harlow’s theatrical flair matched Hagen’s own and helped him transform Hagen describes their touring retinue in The Walter Hagen Story. “We had a the star golfer into Sir Walter, a Roaring 20s commercial brand. In a 1928 exhiregular caravan — three or four Cadillacs or Lincolns, my chauffeur heading the bition match between Hagen and Archie Compston, Harlow hired a Scotland group in one, Harlow in the second, my caddie with my clothes and golf equipYard detective so massive he looked like the Matterhorn with a brush mustache ment in the third. I must have played, at one time or another, every golf course to stand as Hagen’s bodyguard. Furthermore, and much to the delight of the in this country. Guarantees didn’t mean much to me. I’d play for the gate and tabloid cartoonists, Harlow prevailed on the giant of a man to wear a Sherlock

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pray that I’d acquired the type of personality and game to draw the crowds. After the matches we’d stuff the money in a suitcase and gun the motors to the next date.” It was Harlow who was in charge of the cash, the crowd, the persona and the getaway. Adding even more showmanship — as if that commodity was ever lacking — to many of the exhibitions was the presence of Australia’s Joe Kirkwood, the first of the great trick shot artists, who met Hagen at the 1921 North and South Open in Pinehurst. A 13-time winner of professional events, Kirkwood typically paired with Hagen in four-ball games against local hotshots. Then Kirkwood would display his fabulous array of trick shots with Sir Walter providing humorous commentary. It was a great gig. They roamed the country picking up as much as $1,000 a match at blue blood country clubs but settling for far lesser sums at nine-hole dog-patch layouts and, in the process, inspiring a generation of players to take up the game. And it didn’t hurt the Hagen-Harlow fortunes that Hagen could pass for a movie star. Deeply tanned, not a single follicle of his immaculate black hair out of place, the always self-assured Hagen packed in the crowds. It was estimated he netted $45,000 annually from exhibitions. And he continued to play brilliantly in the big moments. During their association Hagen captured four Open Championships in Great Britain and five PGA Championships (four in a row from 1924 through 1927). The undisputed king of match play prevailed in 29 consecutive matches during that remarkable string. His unflappability coupled with recurring dramatic recoveries from seemingly impossible situations tended to dishearten opponents. The only challenger to Hagen’s standing as the world’s finest golfer was the nonpareil amateur Bobby Jones. Both players spent their winters in Florida playing a lot of golf and selling a little real estate at two Gulf Coast country club developments — Jones at Whitfield Estates Country Club (now Sara Bay CC), Hagen at Pasadena Golf Club (now Pasadena Yacht & CC). “Matches of the Century” were a dime a dozen in the era of exhibitions, but if anything deserved the moniker, it would be Hagen v. Jones. In 1925, Harlow brokered the deal right down to the coin flip — a 72 hole home-and-home match to settle bragging rights and promote their respective clubs. It quickly turned into a rout with Hagen handing Jones the most lopsided defeat of his career, 12 holes up with 11 to play. As if handling Hagen’s business wasn’t job enough, Harlow served as the guiding hand for the first National Golf Show held at New York City’s 71st Regiment Armory in May 1924. He arranged for promotional appearances by Hagen, Kirkwood, Gene Sarazen, Glenna Collett Vare and Alexa Stirling. Sixty-five exhibitors displayed equipment and clothing under one roof. A “Le Petit” (miniature golf) course was available for play, and the 8,000 patrons were wowed by a life-sized two-story clubhouse specially constructed for the exposition. Harlow also arranged for an exhibit of trophies from all of the major championships and, in a classic piece of Harlow marketing, emphasized their importance by posting an armed guard at the display. In all matters, Harlow was shamelessly quick to leverage his association with Hagen. In February 1926, he wrote to Pinehurst titan Leonard Tufts that he and Hagen would be visiting again since Hagen planned to enter the North and South Open. After dispensing that welcome news, Harlow immediately segued into his sales pitch, writing, “ I should like very much to devote my publicity affairs and promotion work to Pinehurst from that time until after the North and South (Amateur) Championship.” He pointed out that the women’s field the previous year “was not too strong” and that he knew all the top Florida female amateurs and was sure he could get them to attend the 1927 event. Tufts replied that he hadn’t been all that impressed with the number of people Harlow had been able to produce in the past, yet still he consented to house him at the Carolina for “ten days to two weeks and $100 for expenses.” Harlow and Tufts did the same tango the following February. With the 1927 Southern Open in Atlanta the week prior to the North and South Open, Harlow tried to sell the proposition that if Tufts retained him to represent the resort in Atlanta, “Pinehurst should obtain practically the entire Atlanta field . . . (as) it will be easy for me to persuade them to stop in Pinehurst on their way north.” Harlow naturally followed with his trump card. “I will have

Walter Hagen Walter Hagen in Pinehurst for the North and South Open as usual.” Donald Ross opined that, while he was not opposed to retaining Harlow, the pros playing in Atlanta would likely appear in Pinehurst regardless. Club management conjured up a more difficult task for the promoter. “Why not ask him why he cannot bring Bobby Jones here for the North and South?” Harlow agreed to make the ask, but cautioned Jones would likely decline because of law school commitments at Emory University while unabashedly noting that if Jones was ever going to appear for anyone, “he would for Walter Hagen and myself as our association with him has been very friendly.” Tufts provided Harlow the same lodging and expenses afforded him in 1926.

n 1930, the PGA of America hired Harlow as its first official tournament bureau manager. The post involved the day-to-day organization of tournaments and public relations. In the throes of the Great Depression, Harlow faced the tall order of simply keeping what passed for the “tour” alive. Country clubs were closing. Sponsors reduced purses. Other events simply vanished from the calendar. Moreover, the PGA never had been able to schedule a full year’s slate of tournaments. Players still needed club pro affiliations to make ends meet. Harlow’s goal was to build a tour that would alter that paradigm. “It is entirely possible,” he claimed, “that in the future there will be sufficient tournaments and prize money — and with a schedule so changed that it will keep the better players profitably engaged for practically 12 months a year.”

Handshake partners Hagen and Harlow There were plenty of blank spaces in the schedule and Harlow set about filling them. In 1931, the owner of the Miami Biltmore Hotel faced tax problems, and Harlow convinced him his predicament could be eased by holding a tournament on the hotel’s Donald Ross-designed course and donating the proceeds to charity. The Warm Springs Spa, where Franklin Roosevelt had undergone treatment for polio, would be the ideal beneficiary. The resulting Miami-Biltmore Open was a rousing triumph while also offering the tour’s richest purse, $10,000. The fundraising effort led to establishment of the March of Dimes. Harlow stepped up the fledgling tour’s promotional efforts. He authored the first Tournament Players Record Book, which provided local newspapermen “a ready source of material to promote a tournament and write preview stories.” He continued writing his golf column and began publishing his own periodical, Golf News. Harlow sought to make “permanent news about golf as prominent as major league baseball.” He cajoled Hagen into speaking at fundraising dinners and exhorted local media to go the extra mile to promote tournaments because, like actors in a theater, the pros would not perform their best “playing to empty fairways.” Prior to Harlow, players arranged their own starting times, teeing up when they wanted with whom they wanted. Hagen was a habitual offender, often appearing hours after he was expected. Harlow instituted mandatory tee times, prevailing on the local papers to publish them 24 hours in advance so fans would know when their favorites would be playing. Aware that there were players who failed to act with proper decorum, he issued a code of conduct, continually reminding pros that tournament golf was a form of show business, and they needed to act accordingly. Compensation for the head of the PGA’s tournament bureau didn’t look much like the million dollar contracts and private jets enjoyed by today’s PGA Tour pooh-bahs. Moonlighting was more necessity than option. Harlow remained cozy with Hagen and managed the affairs and schedules of other players like Horton Smith, Ed Dudley and Paul Runyan. In the spring of 1932, after convincing American Fork & Hoe Company to underwrite a tour stop in New Orleans, Harlow extended his stay an extra day or two. By the time he left the Big Easy, he’d been sacked as tour manager almost certainly because of perceived conflicts of interest representing star players. The players, led by Hagen, were outraged. They threatened to break away and form their own tour. In October of 1933, the PGA returned Harlow to his job, but by December of 1936 he was fired again. Despite his undeniable success keeping the tour alive in uncertain times, the higher-ups still seethed that he did not devote full time to the affairs of the tournament bureau.

A preternaturally optimistic person, Harlow, now 48, looked for an environment where he and wife, Lillian, a former New York opera singer, could flourish. Given his previous association with Leonard and Richard Tufts, Pinehurst seemed a logical choice. Maybe the Tuftses could be of assistance. They were. Harlow was hired as head of publicity for the resort in 1937 and held that position until World War II. Not long after settling in Pinehurst, Harlow purchased The Pinehurst Outlook, a newspaper hitherto published weekly during the resort’s high season. Begun in 1897, the Outlook had focused on the social comings and goings of guests and members of the town’s swish cottage colony. Its offices were located in The Harvard Building (now the Old Sport & Gallery). Harlow became editor and publisher, and Lillian served as business manager. In the November 12, 1939 edition of the Outlook, Harlow announced a new publishing schedule — every weekday during the season except Mondays, plus all Sundays. He intended to ramp up golf coverage. “The Editor . . . has long had a desire to assemble the . . . golf news of the world under one journalistic roof, and on this page, each Sunday, will endeavor to present at least a portion of the more interesting golf news which is not widely circulated by the daily press,” Harlow wrote. “It seems that a Pinehurst newspaper is a proper place for such material.” While some national news would be reported in the Outlook, its general policy would be to avoid the “terrific controversies of the day.” As Harlow put it, “Pinehurst is a resort where visitors wish to forget for a time the problems Harlow setting cold type for The Pinehurst Outlook of this disturbed world.” Still, as the winds of war blew in ’39, Harlow used golf to illustrate frightening changes taking hold in Germany. In one writing, he worriedly speculated what might be occurring at Berlin’s Wannsee Golf Club, ruefully noting that fully half the membership, including its president, Hans Zanuck, was Jewish. Harlow attracted remarkable talent to his hometown newspaper. Charles Price, a premier golf writer of his generation, cut his teeth covering local events for the Outlook. Nationally known golf writer Herb Graffis contributed a regular column. And Harlow, a gifted essayist himself, composed numerous noteworthy pieces. He was proudest of crafting a series of articles commemorating the Pinehurst resort’s 50th anniversary in 1945. Laboring until 3 a.m. for three successive nights and authoring 24 pages of copy four days in a row, his work still ranks as an indispensable account of Pinehurst’s first half-century.

elieving the scope of the paper’s golf coverage would befit a national publication, Harlow hatched a weekly magazine ambitiously titled Golf World on June 18, 1947. While other golf periodicals existed, Harlow’s new publication raised the bar for scholarly writing about the game. Working in tandem with associate editor Tom O’Neil and with Lillian in charge of circulation and advertising, the magazine garnered 5,000 subscribers the first year of operation. Harlow re-emerged as a player on the national golf stage. The offices of the Outlook and Golf World moved to the Pinehurst warehouse building, the white structure still located across the road from the 18th tee of PCC course No. 3. The burden of managing two publications proved too great,

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Golf World went to press (middle) in the warehouse building led by Harlow and his wife, Lillian even for the energetic Harlow. On August 3, 1950, he announced the sale of The Pinehurst Outlook to the Wilson family. (It would cease regular publication in 1961.) With the Harlows able to concentrate their efforts on Golf World, circulation continued to grow, rising to 9,000 in its first five years. The same year he sold the Outlook, Harlow hired 14-year-old Tony McKenzie to do odd jobs, eventually including lithography and typesetting. McKenzie remembers many of golf’s great names breezing in to pay their respects to the publisher in his second floor office. Harlow’s ready supply of Wild Turkey and Seagram’s Seven Crown provided refreshment for the likes of Jimmy Demaret, Lloyd Mangrum, and Hagen himself. Tony remembers Sam Snead coming by too, although the Slammer was known to be abstemious. On November 15, 1954, Harlow died suddenly at age 65, a victim of coronary thrombosis. By then his little magazine had subscribers in “every state of our country, every province in Canada and sixty foreign countries,” wrote Herb Wind. “Golf World was successful because it had the chatty, everybody-hereknows-everybody-else flavor of a home town newspaper. It had that flavor because Bob Harlow was a hopelessly friendly and companionable man.” The Outlook reported that his untimely death, “cast a pall of gloom over the entire village.” His friend and benefactor Richard Tufts remarked, “The world of golf has lost its best friend . . . I always came away from any contact with him stimulated mentally by his opinions and refreshed by the honesty of his purpose.” Harlow’s successor at the PGA Tournament Bureau, Fred Corcoran, wrote: “He opened the door to riches for American professional golfers. Yet he never forgot that golf is a game.” A mourning Lillian Harlow announced that Golf World would

continue and “. . . will be better than ever. It must be so as a monument to Bob.” And the magazine did continue under the editorship of Dick Taylor without missing a beat. Lillian moved the offices from the warehouse building to Southern Pines, and continued her ownership until 1972. After two interim owners, the New York Times Company bought Golf World in 1989 and relocated the magazine to Connecticut, joining another NYT property, Golf Digest. In 2001, it sold both magazines to Condé Nast. Golf World’s paper publication was terminated following the 2014 Open Championship. At the time, it was the game’s longest running publication. The title survives on Golf Digest’s website. The list of the magazine’s contributors is long and venerable. It served as a platform for the likes of Ben Wright, Bob Drum, Al Barkow, Lorne Rubenstein, Bob Verdi, Dave Anderson, John Feinstein, Curt Sampson, Geoff Shackelford, Steve Eubanks, Nick Seitz, Moore County resident Jaime Diaz and PineStraw’s Jim Moriarty and Bill Fields, to name just a few. In 1988, Harlow was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. The only others enshrined for writing about and/or publicizing the game are Corcoran, Wind, Graffis and, most recently, Dan Jenkins. He joined Donald Ross and Richard Tufts as the only Pinehurst residents in the Hall. Of the notable golf people who have called Pinehurst home, Bob Harlow’s name is rarely mentioned. Among visitors to the modern golf Hall of Fame near St. Augustine, he would rank right at the top of the “Who’s that?” list. But, a trailblazer’s footprints can have a light touch. PS Pinehurst resident Bill Case is PineStraw’s history man. He can be reached at Bill. Case@thompsonhine.com.

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Old House, New Look Metamorphosis of a village showplace

By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner

undred-year-old houses like Red Gables harbor mysteries, secrets. Who (or what) was Ailsa, the name on the gate shingle — a girl or the islet off Scotland? What is known about the people who autographed boards — one dated 1918 — uncovered during renovation, now framed in the kitchen? And why — in an age when Pinehurst homes had a crawl space, at best — does this house own a brick-walled basement sturdy enough to withstand a tornado? “I kept driving by . . . I always wanted to live in the house,” says Holly Davis. Now, she does. After 18 months of respectful renovation and new construction, the house within sight of the Carolina Hotel is once again a showplace, a comfortable family home and gallery for Southern folk art. By the early 20th century word had spread through the Northeast that

Pinehurst was a desirable winter destination for high society — and so much closer than Palm Beach. Some snow birds stayed at hotels or rented one of the founder’s, James Walker Tufts, cottages, while the deepest pockets built their own. In 1909 Mrs. Emma Sinclair of Boston commissioned architect W.W. Dinsmore, also of Boston, to build what the Kennedys might call a compound: two structures collectively named Red Gables after the clay-tiled roofs, so she could winter alongside her daughters. In 1918 the property was sold to Henry B. Swoope, a Pennsylvania coal baron. Red Gables, along with its sister cottage and log cabin, changed hands several times, endured multiple updates, but stood empty and sad when a friend told Holly that, finally, the property was for sale. “I was glad the house needed work,” Holly recalls. “That scared off people. I could see the potential.”

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olly grew up in Illinois, moved to Durham; her husband, Carty Davis, comes from New Orleans. They lived in Atlanta before deciding a smaller city would be better for the children. The area offered schools, culture, interesting people. In 2002 they built a residence in Forest Creek. Holly, who studied graphic design at N.C. State, enjoys building and renovating. “I can (visualize) the space when I see plans, which is helpful.” Eventually, like many transplants, they gravitated to the village. “I much prefer a historic house with so much more character,” Holly says. This she vowed to preserve by keeping the footprint virtually intact and cherishing details, such as crystal teardrop sconces and chandeliers, oversized windows, a glass-front built-in bookcase. Instead of a spa tub, she refinished a claw-foot, original to the house. Aesthetically reluctant to convert to gas, four fireplaces trimmed in exquisite moldings still burn wood. Vinyl trim was replaced and a fresh layer of stucco applied to exterior walls which, with the red tile roof, completed the Mission style that caused a ripple in the early 1900s. Alas, the tile roof is gone, but fat Tuscan columns — another uncommon architectural detail — remain on the porch. Some interior space was rearranged, but not the twin entrances placed on opposite sides of the living room with its coffered ceiling — once dark wood, now painted white. Holly deemed the dining room unnecessary. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 2017

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Instead, she used it for a family room-den and placed a small, elegant round dining table with curved upholstered chairs at one end of the living room. Most mealtimes the family gathers around an 8 1/2-foot kitchen table made to order using lumber salvaged from Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. warehouses. Main floor space was also adjusted for a master suite, leaving the three upstairs bedrooms for guests.

rs. Emma Sinclair, the Swoopes and their nine children would gasp at the kitchen, which had been redone,’70s fashion, when the Davises purchased the house. Holly wanted everything ripped out, including the ceiling and room above it, making way for a vaulted space clad in painted wideboards, with recessed lighting. This established a scale suiting tall cabinets, a marble island and countertops, and a range hood befitting a castle, all in soothing gray and white. No tabletop appliances or gadgets break the expanse. “I’m not a clutterer,” Holly says. But she is a collector. “I love Southern primitive folk art,” which she encountered near the Davises’ beach retreat on Fripp Island, South Carolina. “The raw materials, the emotions — they paint about life,” often life filled with poverty and pain in the post-Reconstruction South. Her favorites include Sam Doyle, a black artist from

St. Helena Island, South Carolina, who painted on scrap metal in the African-influenced Gullah tradition. Figures are flat, frontal; coloring is primary, bold. Also represented is Clementine Hunter from Louisiana’s Natchitoches Parish. Hunter, a domestic servant at Melrose Plantation who could neither read nor write, painted on any objects she could find, as well as canvas. She died in 1988, at 101, leaving a thousand visual memories of her gritty existence.

olly successfully juxtaposed a scene by Alabama farmhand Jimmy Lee Suddeth, who used a mud-based paint tinted with berries, against a marbletopped antique chest from Carty’s Louisiana homestead. Other pieces were brought back from a family trip to Africa. But, in truth, no period or style defines the result. Holly’s aversion to clutter extends throughout the house, which is furnished with a spare hand, allowing each piece an impact. She trolls junk stores for dressers, headboards and other pieces, paints and “distresses” them herself to resemble well-worn heirlooms. Neutrals prevail except for bursts of color — bright navy on a bedroom

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carpet and spread, an even brighter orange chair illuminating another bedroom, one small olive green wall in the monochromatic kitchen, sunflowers and orchids in the living room — pure panache. Across the stone terrace stands a massive new garage with an upstairs office-apartment and balcony, designed and stucco-clad to blend with the house. When landscaping the triple lot Holly was able to retain decades-old plantings, which shield them from traffic. “But we like hearing music (from events on the green) and the bagpiper,” who serenades the hotel every evening. When the Davis children are home they walk to the Roast Office for coffee; Carty Davis and yellow Lab Charlotte are regulars in the village. Houses, like crops, fashions and seasons, move in cycles — at least the lucky ones. Red Gables, aka Ailsa House, long a wallflower, blooms a debutante once again, this time with all-new systems and wine shelves in her cellar fortress. Credit Holly’s patience: “I just hope what we’ve done to this home will make it last another hundred years.” PS

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February, a form Pale-vestured, wildly fair,— By Ash Alder

The Snow Moon

One of the North Wind’s daughters, With icicles in her hair. – Edgar Fawcett, “The Masque of Months” (1878)

Perhaps no poem paints a more fitting portrait of this time of year than Thomas Hardy’s classic verse about a “blast-beruffled” bird whose joyful song pierces the silence of a dark and desolate eve like an arrow through autumn’s last apple. Read: February is here. Behold the first glorious explosion of golden daffodils. Although “Darkling Thrush” is set at the cusp of a new year (and century), its haunting image of “tangled bine-stems” slicing the sky “like strings of broken lyres” invokes, at least for this nature lover, the bleakest yet most beautiful days of winter. Since the heaviest snows tend to fall this month, the full moon on Friday, Feb. 10, has long been called the full snow moon. The Cherokee called it the bone moon because, well, food was so scarce that supper was often marrow soup.

Say it with Flowers

Violet and primrose are the birth flowers of February. The old folk poem calls the flower blue, but violets bloom mauve, yellow and white, too. Gift a lover a violet on Valentine’s Day and they’ll read: I’ll always be true. As for the primrose, a pale yellow perennial that thrives in cool woodland glades, the message crackles like an ardent fire: I can’t live without you.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind Speaking of soup, now’s time for root vegetable stews and chowders thick with heavy cream and gold potatoes. Make enough and you can eat from it all week — a quick and hearty fix after a cold evening spent pruning the rose bush and deadheading pansies. Through the kitchen window, a brown thrasher gently swings on the suet feeder before disappearing with twilight. It’s cold, but daylight is stretching out a little further every day. The soup simmers on the stovetop. Spring will be here soon.

And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath love’s mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste. And therefore is love said to be a child Because in choice he is so oft beguiled. – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Grimm Fellow

Wilhelm Grimm, younger of the Brothers Grimm, was born Feb. 24, 1786, in Hessen, Germany. Perhaps that’s why National Tell a Fairy Tale Day falls just two days later, on Sunday, Feb. 26. In addition to publishing a hefty collection of folk tales — “Hänsel and Gretel,” “Der Froschkönig” (“The Frog Prince”), “Dornröschen” (Sleeping Beauty), “Schneewittchen” (“Snow White”), and on and on — the brothers started writing a definitive German dictionary in 1838, but never did get around to finishing it. Add a little extra magic to this month of love by spinning a tale about fairies or mermaids, or, in the spirit of this bleak wintry season, perhaps something a bit darker. Like the one where the evil stepsisters cut off their toes to make the glass slipper fit.

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p.m. Feb. 11, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Valentine’s Cupcakes and Heart Art; Art Journaling for Teen Girls: Feb. 4, 11, 18 and 25, 4–5:30 p.m. Creative Coffee for Adults: Feb. 2, 9, 16 and 23, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Women Who Run with the Wolves for Women: Feb. 1 and 15, 7–9 p.m. Women of Wisdom Spiritual Support Group: Feb. 8 and 22, 7–9 p.m. Celebrate the Sketchbook: Feb. 6, 13, 20 and 27, 4–5:30 p.m. Art Skills the Pencil: Feb. 2, 4–5:30 p.m. Art Skills Colored Pencils: Feb. 9, 4–5:30 p.m. Art Skills Ink Pen: Feb. 16, 4–5:30 p.m. Art Skills Paint: Feb. 23, 4–5:30 p.m. Art Day for Adults: Feb. 3, 10, 17 and 24, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. First Friday Art Night: Feb. 3, 7–9 p.m. Mixed Media Medley for Women: Feb. 19, 1–5 p.m. Joy of Painting Girl’s Night Out: Feb. 13, 7–9 p.m. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 text or www.joyof_art@msn.com.

five-piece bluegrass band located in the western frontier state of Colorado, performs. Cost: $15/advance. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-6633 or www.cameoarthouse.com.

Continuing through February 5 CLASSIC NASHVILLE ROADSHOW. 2 and 7 p.m. Thursday, 2 and 8 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $25/adults and $14/students. Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Info and tickets: (919) 7744155 or templeshows.com.

Continuing through February 12 THE LITTLE MERMAID. 7:30 p.m. weekdays; 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 p.m. Sundays. Based on Disney’s popular movie. Call for prices. Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 323-4233 or www.cfrt.org.

Wednesday, February 1 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Running Start Derby Cross. Running Start and the Carolina Horse Park are teaming up to hold a Derby Cross Series in 2017. This seven-event series will allow competitors to tackle a course of both show jumps and cross-country obstacles at the Maiden through Preliminary level. Next event April 8. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074.

Thursday, February 2 SANDHILLS WOMAN’S EXCHANGE REOPENING. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Ground Hog Day. Come to the log cabin for lunch. 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-4677. ART CLASS (SCRATCHBOARD). 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. For beginners, taught by Emma Wilson. $45, supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

ART CLASS (COLORED PENCIL). 10 a.m.–4 p.m. “Dynamic Lights and Darks/Colored Pencil on Dark Paper or Mat Board,” taught by Betty Hendrix. Cost: $50. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

PAINTING CLASS (ALL MEDIA). 1–4 p.m. Wednesdays through March 8. For all levels of experience, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory and composition. Cost: $47/resident; $94/ non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817.

ART CLASS (SCULPTING ENCESS). 1–4 p.m. Learn interesting facts about animals on the NC endangered species list and how to sculpt their likenesses in clay. This week: the Carolina Northern flying squirrel. Ages 18+, no experience necessary. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817.

NC SYMPHONY PRESENTS ALL MOZART. 8–10 p.m. Grant Llewellyn conducts, Jinjoo Cho plays violin. Call for ticket prices. Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6554.

NATIONAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN READ-IN. 5:30– 6:30 p.m. Celebrate Black History Month by participating in the Read-in. Community members will read aloud from their favorite selections of African-American literature. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Wednesday, February 1 — 28 JOY OF ART. Classes for children and adults. Art for the Day, Science through Art: Feb. 4, 18 and 25, 10 a.m.–2

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE AT THE CAMEO. 7:30 p.m., doors open at 7. Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, a high-energy

Friday, February 3 YOUTH AND ADULT SCULPTING/PAINTING. 6–9 p.m. For ages 12 +. Paint your dog or horse. Email good head photo of your pet along with breed(s): Gaumedup@gmail.com three days prior to class. Templates already available for most popular breeds. Cost: $45/resident; $90/non-resident. Train House, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463 or www.southernpines.net. PAINTING CLASS (OIL). 1–4 p.m. Fridays through March 10. For all levels of experience, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory and composition. Cost: $47/resident; $94/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. ART EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION. 4–6 p.m. “We are… Students of the Arts.” An exhibition showcasing the Artists League education program. The gallery show in February 2017 will feature the artwork of individuals who have taken classes or workshops at the Artists League of the Sandhills during the past two years. The exhibit opens on Friday, Feb. 3, and the sale continues through Friday, Feb. 24.Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Jeff Scroggins and Colorado, a high-energy five-piece bluegrass band located in the western frontier state of Colorado, performs. Cost: $20 in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. WEYMOUTH CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES. 7 p.m. “A Poet’s Love.” Timothy W. Sparks (tenor) and Deborah Lee Hollis (piano) perform a collection of love songs covering a variety of musical styles from across Europe exploring every facet of a love affair. Reception following. Cost: $10/ Weymouth member; $20/non-member. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

Friday, February 3 & 4 CHILDREN’S THEATER: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS. 7 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday. The Arts Council of Moore County presents Gulliver’s Travels, directed by Missoula

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ca l e n d a r Children’s Theatre, as performed by children in grades K through 8. Tickets: $5/member; $10/non-member. Aberdeen Elementary School Auditorium, 503 N. Sandhills Blvd., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 692-2787.

Friday, February 3 — 24 ART EXHIBIT. Gallery hours. “Wrapped in Canvas and Silk,” featuring art by members of the Artists League of the Sandhills. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or mooreart.org.

Saturday, February 4 SATURDAY KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Bring your children to the library and feed their imaginations. Activities and fun for the whole family. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022 or www. giventufts.com.

February 4 — 11 CHILDREN’S ART COMPETITION AND EXHIBIT. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Saturdays, 1–4 p.m Sunday, and 1–5 p.m. weekdays. Sponsored by the Sandhills Horticultural Society, five area schools will compete and exhibit artwork that interprets nature. Artist Harry Neely judges the exhibit. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the winning school’s art department, and a “People’s Choice” award to an individual work of art. Awards presented Sunday, Feb. 5, at 2 p.m. Refreshments served from 1–4 p.m. Ball Visitors Center, Sandhills Horticultural Gardens, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882.

Sunday, February 5 BOLSHOI BALLET SERIES. 12:55 p.m. Swan Lake. From Moscow via satellite. Cost: $25. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Busy, Busy Beavers.” Join a park ranger to find out what North America’s largest rodents are up to at Weymouth Woods. This program includes a 1.5-mile hike to see the active beaver dam along Moccasin Crossing Trail. Wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather! Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. EXPLORATIONS SERIES FOR ADULTS. 3–4 p.m. Vegan chef and cookbook author Kathy Hester presents a cooking demonstration. Check out Hester’s new book, The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook for Your Instant Pot. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Monday, February 6 ART CLASS (DRAWING). 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Figure Drawing with a Live Model, taught by Linda Bruening. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. BOOK LOVERS UNITE. 3:30 p.m. “Nonfiction books.” 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 STORYTIME. 6 p.m. Children through fifth grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

CLASSICAL CONCERT SERIES. 8 p.m. Cellist Cicely Parnass, winner of the 2012 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, performs. Ticket: $30. Pre-concert dinner at Wolcott’s. $37/pp (tax and tip included). Reserve for dinner by Feb. 2 by calling Arts Council (910) 692-2787. Performance at Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com.

Tuesday, February 7 REVOLUTION. 5:30–6:30 p.m. Tuesdays, through March 14. Revolution is a 55-minute body sculpting class that blends Pilates and yoga into one powerful workout taught by Dana Taylor. Cost: $35/residents; $70/non-residents. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-2817 or pinehurstrec.org. ARTIFACT SHACK ADULT ART CLASS. 6–8 p.m. Paint a Heart for Your Sweetheart with artist Jordan Baker. Cost: $25, including supplies. Bring your own snacks, wine available for a donation. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (540) 454-3641 or www.theartifactshack.com.

Wednesday, February 8 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Winter Schooling Days offer dressage and jump schooling only. Call for rates. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074.

Wednesday, February 8 and 9 ART CLASS (WATERCOLOR). 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Watercolor on Rice Paper, taught by Pat McMahon. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Thursday, February 9 MEDITATIVE YOGA. 10:30–11:30 a.m. (Thursdays through March 16). Instructor Carol Wallace leads this class for adults 18+, to will help cultivate a relaxed state of mind and body, gently improve flexibility, and relieve stress and tension. Cost: $35/resident; $70 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www. pinehurstrec.org. ART CLASS (SCULPTING ENCESS). 1–4 p.m. Learn interesting facts about animals on the NC endangered species list and how to sculpt their likenesses in clay. This week: the American alligator. Ages 18+, no experience necessary. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 2951900 or 295-2817. SHAG DANCE LESSONS (BEGINNERS). 6–7 p.m. (Thursdays through March 9, except Feb. 23.) For ages 18+. Instructors Nanci Donald and Bud Hunter. No partner required. Please bring shoes with smooth soles. Cost: $30/resident; $60/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. SHAG DANCE LESSONS (ADV. BEGINNERS). 7–8 p.m. (Thursdays through March 9.) For ages 18+. Instructors Nanci Donald and Bud Hunter. No partner required. Please bring shoes with smooth soles. Cost: $30/resident; $60/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

Thursday, February 9 & 10 FONDUE DATE NIGHT CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free options. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New

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Friday, February 10 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Perfect Pairs” (For Wee Ones!) With Valentine’s Day just around the corner it’s a great time to talk about animals that just can’t live without each other! Activities include reading a book, playing some games, and making a craft — geared toward 3- to 5-year-olds with parental participation. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. VALENTINE’S DAY BOW TIE BALL. 6 p.m. Sandhills Classical Christian School fundraising event. This evening includes dinner catered by Elliott’s on Linden, a silent auction, music, dancing and more. Cost: $125/person. The Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 690-6176 or www. portal11.bidpal.net/Portal/bpe305476/main/home.html.

Friday, February 10 & 11 FROM BROADWAY WITH LOVE. 7:30 p.m. Touching Humanity presents this performance featuring New York singers Jason Gotay and Elysia Jordan. Tickets, $28 in advance and can be purchased at The Given Memorial Library, The Country Bookshop or online at www. touchinghumanityinc.org (plus $2 service charge); $35 at the door. A portion of the proceeds benefits Friend to Friend. The Hannah Center Theater at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: Michael Pizzi at sandhillsbroadway@gmail.com or call (347) 385-4207.

Friday, February 10 — 12 18th ANNUAL MID PINES MEN’S INVITATIONAL. This popular and prestigious team event, played on our Donald Ross-designed golf course, attracts a strong field of golfers annually and offers two divisions (Open and Senior). Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club, 1010 Midland Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8611 or www.pineneedles-midpines.com.

Saturday, February 11 FAMILY DAY AT THE LIBRARY. Craft tables will be out all day. The special event, “Pop-up Valentine Creations,” will run from 11 a.m.–12 p.m., and families can experiment with making robotic valentines using the Water ColorBot during a Maker session at 2 p.m. Teens are invited to create stop-motion movie valentines at 3 p.m. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. A WALK ON BROADWAY. 3 and 7:30 p.m. By popular demand, two convenient times to catch two of Broadway’s finest as they perform a dazzling repertoire. Call for details and ticket prices. Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-6185. HEART ’N SOUL OF JAZZ. 8–10 p.m. John Pizzarelli performs in this great jazz experience. Cost: $70, which includes a Meet-the-Artists Dessert Reception following the concert and a chance to win a door prize. Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-2787 or mooreart.org.

Sunday, February 12 SUNDAY KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. Come to the Library for a free showing of a film about what pets secretly do when their owners are away. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “‘Tis the Season for Salamanders.” Salamanders breed in late fall or early winter, which makes February a great time to find egg masses or hatch-

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Monday, February 13 SANDHILLS PHOTO CLUB MEETING. 7–9 p.m. Members Photo Competition. Hannah Center at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: www. sandhillsphotoclub.org.

Tuesday, February 14 & 15 FONDUE DATE NIGHT CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Vegetarian, vegan or gluten-free options. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

Wednesday, February 15 — 17 ART CLASS (OIL). 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Landscape oil painting (acrylic painters welcome). Charlie Roberts teaches this three-day workshop for beginning and intermediate artists. Instruction covers image selection, drawing composition, canvas preparation, brush selection, paint application and more. Cost: $250. (Limited to 10 participants.) Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (803) 2387323 or www.ctroberts.com.

Thursday, February 16 ART CLASS. 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Intermediate Scratchboard/ Color, taught by Emma Wilson. Cost: $40, supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. SENIORS’ DAY OUT. 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m. The Savannah Sipping Society, at The Temple Theatre in Sanford. This delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy is about four Southern women who need to escape the sameness of their day-to-day routines and jumpstart their new lives. Cost: $38/residents; $76/non-residents. Registration closes soon. Meet at Assembly

Hall, 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. DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. Copies of the book to be discussed may be obtained at the SPPL or the Douglass Center. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. ART CLASS (SCULPTING ENCESS). 1–4 p.m. Learn interesting facts about animals on the NC endangered species list and how to sculpt their likenesses in clay. This week: the red wolf. Ages 18+, no experience necessary. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 and 7 p.m. Jeff Marcus from The Nature Conservancy takes us on a journey using pictures and short videos. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library (3:30 p.m.), 150 Cherokee Road; and Given Outpost (7 p.m.), 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-6022. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE READING. 5:30 p.m. Major Jason Howk (retired) will highlight the differences between the religion of Islam, the ideology of Islamism and what motivates groups like ISIS. Major Howk is a Malone Fellow in Arab and Islamic Studies. Wine and cheese 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. WINE AND WHIMSEY ART CLASS. 6–8 p.m. Paint a vase of flowers while enjoying a date night or girl’s night out, and take home a masterpiece. Canvas, paint, brushes, pallet, easel

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Friday, February 17 GLOW BALL NIGHT GOLF. 5–10 p.m. The First Tee of the Sandhills hosts this event of friendly competition, which includes a four-hole glow golf putting course, a cosmic chipping challenge on Hole 16 green and a glow ball up-and-down contest by Hole 18 green. Open to all youth ages 5 to 18. Tickets: $10. Families must register in advance. Knollwood Hall at Pine Needles-Mid Pines, 140 Ridge Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 255-3035 or www.thefirstteesandhills.org/ events/glowball.

Saturday, February 18 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Pipe Opener II CT. Part of the Five Points Combined Test Series. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 9 a.m.– 12 p.m. Bird Banding. Do something birdy this weekend during the annual Great Backyard Bird Count! Join ornithologist Susan Campbell for an up-close, feathered-friend experience you don’t want to miss. Visitors’ Center, Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. 17th ANNUAL RAISE THE ROOF FUNDRAISER. 7:30 p.m. Becca Rae hosts an evening of all local talent featuring

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Saturday, February 18 & 19 YOUNG MUSICIAN’S FESTIVAL. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, and finalist performance 3 p.m. Sunday. Music students in grades 4 through 12 from Moore and neighboring counties perform before credentialed adjudicators from NC schools of music. Application fee: $20. Send application and check made payable to Friends of Weymouth, with YMF noted in the memo area, to: Weymouth Center, P.O. Box 939, Southern Pines, NC 28388. Deadline for submission of applications is Feb. 8. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Sunday, February 19 THE ULTIMATE BRIDAL SHOWCASE. 12–4 p.m. Brides, come and visit with professional photographers, decorators, florists, caterers and more. Gift bags offered while supplies last. Presented by Cape Fear Botanical Garden, Five Star Entertainment, and The Fayetteville Observer. Wyatt Visitors Pavilion Complex, Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Tickets and info: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org. SUNDAY FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This film is based on the book Indignation by Philip Roth. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “The Great Backyard Bird Count.” Join Weymouth Woods assistant Kelsey Smith to learn some beginning birding skills and how you can help with the Great Backyard Bird Count. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Chris Jones and The Night Drivers perform distinctively elegant yet driving music with a unique blend of dry wit, emotional authenticity and broad humor. Tickets: $20/advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or theroosterswife.org.

Monday, February 20 WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30 a.m. Coffee and program with author Charles Lovett speaking. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. SIP & PAINT WITH JANE. 5–7 p.m. Join resident artist Jane Casnellie for an evening of sipping and painting, and take home your own masterpiece! No experience necessary. All materials provided, including a glass of wine. Cost: $35. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Jane Casnellie, (910) 639-4823. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIME. 6 p.m. Children through 5th grade and their families are invited to enjoy stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Monday, February 20 & 21 ART CLASS. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Collaging Out of the Box, taught by Sandy Stratil. Cost: $105 Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 2017

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Tuesday, February 21 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MOORE COUNTY. 11:30 a.m. Luncheon and meeting. Guest speaker is Stephanie Schwackert, from the NC Conservation Network. Her topic will be “Environmental Issues from the Mountains to the Sea.” Everyone welcome. Cost: $13/person. Reservations required. Table on the Green, 2205 Midland Drive, Pinehurst (910) 944-9611 or owegeecoach@gmail.com.

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JAMES BOYD BOOK CLUB. 2 p.m. The Collected Stories, Reynolds Price. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Library, Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

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BASIC HATHA YOGA. 9–10 a.m. (Wednesdays through March 29) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for adults age 18 and older who may have had no previous experience with yoga. Cost: $35/resident; $70 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

Friday, Feb 17 : Time Sawyer $10 Sunday, Feb. 19: Chris Jones and the Knight Drivers, $20 Friday, Feb. 24: Johnny Mac Comedy Show $15 Sunday, Feb. 26: Underhill Rose, Eric Taylor $20

TAI CHI. 10:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. (Wednesdays through March 29) This course is taught by Tai Chi Master Instructor Lee Holbrook for adults age 18+ and focuses on three styles of Tai Chi: Yang, Wu, and Beijing. Cost: $28/resident; $56 nonresident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

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PILATES. 5:30–6:15 p.m. (Wednesdays through March 29) Power Pilates- and Yoga Alliance- certified instructor Dana Taylor focuses on basic anatomical principles for adults 18+ looking to establish a sense of stability and strength in the entire body. Cost: $35/residents; $70/non-residents. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-2817 or pinehurstrec.org.

Wednesday, February 22 & 23 ART CLASS (OIL). 1–4 p.m. Painting Draperies in Oil, taught by Yvonne Sovereign. Tuesday/Wednesday, Feb. 22, 23. $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Thursday, February 23 HORTICULTURE WORKSHOP. 10 a.m. A Special Talk and Tour with Matt Whittiker of Green Haven Plant Farm. Learn how hydroponic lettuce is grown and receive a head of hydroponic lettuce. $15/Horticultural Society members; $20/ non-members. Cost due at registration. Meet at Green Haven Farm, 255 Green Haven Lane, Carthage. Info and registration: (910) 695-3882. INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI. 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. (Thursdays through March 30) for participants who already have a basic knowledge of Tai Chi, Instructor Lee Holbrook focuses on Yang style Tai Chi and introduces a new Tai Chi form called the Beijing form, an Ancient Qi Gong form, and the Tiger Mountain Qi Gong form. Cost: $28/resident; $56 nonresident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

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ART CLASS (SCULPTING ENCESS). 1–4 p.m. Learn interesting facts about animals on the NC endangered species list and how to sculpt their likenesses in clay. This week: the shortnose sturgeon fish. Ages 18+, no experience necessary. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817.

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Friday, February 24 — 26 BRIGADOON. 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Presented by Sandhills Community College Musical Theatre. Tickets: $18, general seating. Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-6185 or www.sandhills.edu/ Brigadoon.

Saturday, February 25 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. Winter Schooling Day. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. THE MET OPERA: LIVE IN HD. 12:55–3:50 p.m. Via satellite. Dvorak’s Rusalka (English subtitles) Cost: $27. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928501 or sunrisetheater.com. ART CLASS. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Intermediate/Advanced Alcohol Ink, taught by Pam Griner. Cost: $60, paper included, but not inks. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. TOWN CREEK UNDER THE STARS. 6–9 p.m. Beneath one of the last great dark sky sites in the NC Piedmont, observe Venus, Mars, Uranus, and the Beehive Cluster; and constellations Orion, Cancer, and Taurus. Site telescopes available or bring your own. Dress for the cold. Free to the public. Town Creek Indian Mound, 509 Town Creek Mound Road, Mount Gilead. Info and registration (required): (910) 439-6802 or towncreek@ncdcr.gov. FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. 7:30–9:30

p.m. “The Wild, Wild West.” Giddy up — it’s cowboy time! Join FSO and Guest Conductor Joseph Young, assistant conductor of the Atlanta Symphony, for an evening filled with classical and popular works that depict the Wild West. A pre-concert talk with the FSO “Music Nerd” and Joseph Young will begin at 6:45 p.m. Call for ticket prices. Huff Concert Hall, Methodist Univ., 5400 Ramsey St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 433-4690 or www.fayettevillesymphony. org/2016-2017-concerts. SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION. 2 p.m. The EnglishSpeaking Union, Sandhills Branch, will sponsor their annual Shakespeare Competition at The Village Chapel. Students from area high schools will perform. Refreshments will be served following the announcement of the winners. The Village Chapel, 10 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: Allie Rennie, (910) 757-0277.

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Monday, February 27 WINE AND ART APPRECIATION. 5:30–7:30 p.m. “Exploring Art Through Observation and Conversation II.” Join art educator and local artist Ellen Burke, whose topic will be “Behind the Magic: How artists employ the elements and principles of design to create and communicate their vision.” Cost: $20, including wine. Proceeds to benefit the Arts Council of Moore Country. Info and registration: Ellen (603) 966-6567 or Jane Casnellie (910) 639-4823. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. “Snakes of North Carolina.” Grover Barfield, director of Carolina Reptile Rescue and Education Center, will describe how and where snakes live in this state. Visitors welcome. Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www. sandhillsnature.org.

STORY TELLING. 1–4 p.m. Second Annual Memorial Hunter Stovall Storytelling and Bonfire to benefit the Coalition for Human Care. Food trucks, beer/wine, coffee, hot cocoa and s’mores. Come tell your own story or listen to master storyteller Gran’daddy Junebug (Mitch Capel). Suggested donation of $5/person. Paradox Farm Creamery, 449 Hickory Creek Lane, West End. Info: (910) 723-0802.

Monday, February 27 and 28

NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Winter WONDERland.” Ever wonder how plants and animals survive the cold in winter? Come find out and enjoy some hot drinks while staying warm and cozy at this indoor presentation. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

WEYMOUTH YOUNG AFFILIATES. 6 p.m. Join the younger crowd at Weymouth for an evening of networking, program planning and refreshments. All are welcome to attend. Weymouth Library, Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Underhill Rose and singer/song-writer Eric Taylor perform. Underhill Rose, a trio of female troubadours, combines Americana, rhythm and blues, country and blue grass. Eric Taylor plays acoustic blues guitar. Tickets: $20/in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

ART CLASS (DRAWING) 9 a.m.–4 p.m. “Drawing with Graphite and Charcoal,” taught by Bob Way. Cost: $120. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

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ca l e n d a r 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 and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS March 15. The Bodyguard the Musical. DPAC, Broadway show and Dutch treat dinner, Durham. Cost: $150. Reserve by Feb 15. Kirk Tours. Info: (910) 295-2257, www.kirktours.com.

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

Mondays BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. PRIVATE COOKING CLASS AVAILABLE. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

Tuesdays BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions) This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 18 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy practices. Programs will be offered Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. BROWN BAG LUNCH/GAME DAY. 11:30 a.m. Bring your lunch and enjoy fellowship and activities, including card games, board games and the Wii. The Douglass Community

Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost for single class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. PLAY ESCAPE. 3:30 pm. Arts and Crafts. For ages 2 yrs + Free for members. Cost for non-members: $2/child and $1/ siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc.com. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 4–5:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: Love (Feb. 14), A Snowy Night (Feb. 21), and Melting Olaf (Feb. 28). Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at The Ice Cream Parlor, 176 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 454-3641 or www.theartifactshack.com. PRIVATE COOKING CLASS AVAILABLE. 6:30 p.m. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. (Not available Feb 14) Info: (910) 725-1345 or www. flavorexchange.com

Wednesdays TAX HELP. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. AARP-trained volunteers are available at the library all month to assist with tax returns, free of charge. You must come in person—no appointments given by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. 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. 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 Feb. 1, 8, 15 and 22. Stay for playtime. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 4–5:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: A Snowman (Feb. 1), Heart Art (Feb. 8), Love (Feb. 15), A Snowy Night (Feb. 22) , and Melting Olaf (March 1). Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at The Ice Cream Parlor, 176 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 454-3641 or www. theartifactshack.com. COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Esther Gore leads hands-on preparation of a themed dish: sweet potato gnocci (Feb. 1), Indian Samosas and Palak Paneer (Feb. 8), Fondue Date Night (Feb. 15) and Mediterranean delights (Feb. 22), Vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options. Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 7251345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

Thursdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.moorecountync.gov or www.localharvest.org. YOGA FOR ACTIVE ADULTS. 9–10 a.m. These yoga classes are specifically for older adults, experts or beginners. Cost: $45/resident; $90/non-resident per session. Session includes 6 classes. Next session starts Feb. 23. Register deadline, Feb 6. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. STORY TIME! 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 to 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 315-1471 or (910) 295-6022.

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MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1–3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CHESS. 1–3 p.m. Don Hammerman instructs all levels of players. You need a chess set to participate. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 3–4:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: A Snowman (Feb. 2), Heart Art (Feb. 9), Love (Feb. 16), A Snowy Night (Feb. 23), and Melting Olaf (March 2). Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at the Elks Club, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 4543641 or www.theartifactshack.com. COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Esther Gore leads hands-on preparation of a themed dish: Moroccan (Feb. 2), Fondue Date Night (Feb. 9) sweet potato (Feb. 16), and Sushi (Feb. 23). Vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options. Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

Fridays PLAY ESCAPE. 10 a.m. Arts and 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. PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. Reading selections are taken from our current inventory of children’s literature, from the classics to modern day. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. (1 hour, 15 minutes each). Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/person. Departs

COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Esther Gore leads hands-on preparation of a themed dish: Sushi (Feb 3), Fondue Date Night (Feb 9) ravioli (Feb 17), and sweet potato gnocchi (Feb 24). Vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options. Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com. JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music, provided by Midnight Allie (Feb 3 & 17) and The Sand Band (Feb 10 & 24). Cost: $15/person. Ages 21 and older. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of 8 or more. Food vendor on site. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 369-0411 or www. cypressbendvineyards.com.

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Saturdays WALKING BOOK CLUB. 10 a.m. Meet at the Library for a brisk half-hour walk through beautiful downtown Southern Pines to discuss current reads, make book suggestions, and enjoy being active outside. Wear comfortable shoes and clothing. This month on Feb. 4, 11, 18, and 25. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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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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HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. (1 hour, 15 minutes each). Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com. COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Esther Gore leads hands-on preparation of a themed dish: winter stew (Feb 4), Fondue Date Night (Feb 11) pasta and marinara (Feb 18), and Fondue Date Night (Feb 25). Vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options. Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

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Mule-headed Aquarians: about to bust with a new sense of direction By Astrid Stellanova

Aquarians are in fine fettle this year.

Everybody calls them visionary — which in my opinion means: They are stubborn as mules, but much better-looking. Aquarians are true to themselves, having mule wisdom that makes them unlike any other Star Child. The Aquarian nature is naturally smart and everybody knows it. They’re ready for the New Year and busting with a sense of direction. And they’re bent upon getting there first and plowing a new field — except when they positively cannot get out of their own way. Ad Astra — Astrid

Aquarius (January 20–February 18) Oh, there’s something you want so flipping much you can just taste it but you are holding back. But you would die if anybody knew, wouldn’t you? Birthday Child, you gotta risk it for the biscuit. When you see what you want, don’t hold back until the biscuit is cold and stale. Pick it up, and slather it with some butter. Pisces (February 19–March 20) It ain’t a story till you tell it. . . and you have got to tell it before you bust wide open, Honey. Who did what to who is the narrative that has kept you on edge for waaaay too long. You know who buried the body, dontcha? Aries (March 21–April 19) Jay-zus, take the wheel, because you do not have a clue where you are going. And, to the alarm of us all, you are going 100 miles per hour like you are Richard Petty at the Indy 500. For godsakes, let somebody else be the pace car. Taurus (April 20–May 20) Opportunity has knocked twice. If you ignore it again, you will have to wait until the next astral cycle for a big opportunity like this one, Baby. Your heart has been pounding like wet sneakers in the drier. Ignore your fears. Open. The. Door. Gemini (May 21–June 20) Smug, ain’t you? There are so many ignorant people, and, in your not-so-humble opinion, they seem to be procreating in record numbers. If you don’t learn anything else, you might just try a little checking that attitude and making your sense of humor your bigger goal. Cancer (June 21–July 22) To those closest to you, your life is about as bewildering as a dumpster fire. Sugar, when you threw your troubles out the window, you threw something valuable with it. Reassess what you deleted. There are some friendships that you can still restore, and still need, Sugar. Leo (July 23–August 22) Your best friend in life, your mirror self, only had two things when you met. Their past

and their future. Somehow, you overlooked just how much you two have in common. But if you surrender the past — both of you — there is so much waiting in the present. Virgo (August 23–September 22) If you hear yourself saying you are the voice of reason, then you know that everybody else is screwed. Baby, you have got to be kidding. Somebody cares about your future and you haven’t given them the time of day. Revisit, revise and renew yourself. Libra (September 23–October 22) Honey, when is “old enough to have learned something about life” going to kick in for you? You have allowed some issues to recycle themselves — old lessons still waiting. They ain’t going away. They are just going to hide in the closet until you invite them inside. Scorpio (October 23–November 21) You may not exactly hate your new situation, but let’s just say it feels like the Monday of your life is rolling 24/7. As a matter of fact, you did get a raw deal, Honey. But rolling in everybody’s sympathy ain’t going to help you. Put some steel in your backbone and Tuesday will come. Sagittarius (November 22–December 21) Now, I’m not saying you don’t have the big picture, but Child, if you were a bird you would know exactly who to dump this one on. Repeat after me: It ain’t your fault. And it ain’t yours to fix. The mess you have been cleaning up on Aisle 5 was never your fault. Capricorn (December 22–January 19) Somebody in your life tests your last nerve with their endless complaining. And then, to set you off, they do an eye roll. Which suggests they are gonna find a brain back there in that numb skull one day. Sugar, there is a reason this crazy maker is still in your life. They are not here to teach you eye calisthenics, either. 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 Time of Her Life

By Joyce R eehling

Time ticks away, and now my mom is

91 and living on her own for over 17 years, not far from my youngest sister in Pennsylvania. In the last several years she has taken to divesting herself of things now rather than waiting for the “Will” to do it for her. “Why should I miss the look on your face when I give it to you?” she rightly asks. Each of us “girls,” of which there are four, has received items from her ranging from very old cookie cutters to beloved jewelry.

And so it is that I was given two items, both of which held memories and surprises. Mom asked me to close my eyes and hold out my hand. I felt a small box. I opened my eyes and saw my Nana’s engagement ring. I burst into tears because I had not thought of the ring ever being mine. I was stunned to have it, a lovely old-cut diamond sitting in a setting that screams early 1900s. My Nana wore it all the time. She could sit for what seemed like hours and stroke my hair while we listened to radio soap operas and lulled me into a state of bliss. She had the most beautiful hands, which I can see to this day. And she was always wearing this ring. Mom wore it for many years until arthritis made it too difficult. Linked by this ring, I feel both women with me more keenly. I love it and it will go to one of my nieces in what I hope is about 30 years. Like Mom, I will do it in time to see the look on her face. I always try to get Mom to talk about old Baltimore, the life of the city, her family and her life before me. For some reason on my last visit she wanted to talk more about her youth. Then she went into her bedroom and emerged with

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a little bundle of tissue. Inside was a watch. Her parents had given this to her when she graduated high school. It was without a strap and no longer working. “Please have it. If you can get it to work, fine, but it is such a lovely old thing.” And so it is that it traveled home to Pinehurst. I took it to Cotes Watches in Southern Pines and presented it. The gentleman said, “Oh, an Eska, that is lovely. So, your mom was a nurse.” “No,” I said, “but during the war she worked for a photographer in Baltimore developing prints.” Another vocation that required seeing and timing in the dark. Well, he held it like a newborn babe and said it needed either new hands or, for a little more money, he could send it to a place that would restore the original glowing hands. “Let’s keep it as original as possible,” I said, and off the watch went to find its glow and be cleaned and ready to keep time for me. I just got it back and bought a bright red strap to match the sweeping second hand and now wear it daily. A war watch that timed chemicals as they revealed recon photos, photos of friends, photos of young men off to war, photos of life. My mom timed life with this watch, her life as a young girl during a war. The lives of others. One photo at a time. I asked her just yesterday to tell me more about that time, but her only ready memory was that sometimes going out to lunch or on her way to the streetcar to ride home, she would put one foot in the gutter and one on the sidewalk to bounce up and down like a kid as she walked. “I wasn’t always serious, ya know; it was just fun. I must have looked crazy, but no one said anything.” And who would? She was just 18 and it was a world at war. A good time for a good time. Now when I look at the watch I see a young girl, as yet unmarried, then comes a tall Marine for a husband, whom she would outlive, and the young girl has reached the age of 91. And she keeps on ticking. PS Joyce Reehling is a frequent contributor and good friend of PineStraw.

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