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February �� FEATURES 73 Why Poetry Poetry by Sarah Edwards 74 The Natural By Bill Case

Golfing, shooting or selling Sandhills real estate, Glenna Collett Vare was a star

80 The Heart of the Matter By Michael Smith Valentine’s Day didn’t begin with chocolate and roses

82 Cottage Industry By Deborah Salomon Mother-daughter business keeps them close to home

91 Almanac By Ash Alder

DEPARTMENTS 23 Simple Life

59 Out of the Blue

30 PinePitch 33 Instagram Winners 35 Good Natured

61 Birdwatch

By Jim Dodson

By Karen Frye

37 The Omnivorous Reader By D.G. Martin

41 Bookshelf 45 Hometown By Bill Fields

47 In the Spirit By Tony Cross

51 The Kitchen Garden

55 Wine Country

57 Mom Inc.

By Jan Leitschuh

By Angela Sanchez

By Deborah Salomon By Susan Campbell

63 Sporting Life By Tom Bryant

67 Golftown Journal By Lee Pace

92 105 109

Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson

111 The Accidental Astrologer By Astrid Stellanova

112 SouthWords

By Susan S. Kelly

By Renee Phile

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$1,199,000 MLS 188244 Pamela O’Hara 910-315-3093 Emily Hewson 910-315-3324

17-acre horse farm in the heart of horse country. Whole house generator, barn and rolling pasture, private with access to endless riding trails. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

Totally renovated Old Town cottage circa 1917. Panoramic views of #2 golf course. Heart pine floors and 2 fireplaces. Detached 1 Bed / 2 Bath garage apartment. 4 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

205 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst

335 Southwest Lake Forest Drive, Pinehurst $1,185,000 MLS 187655 Christine Barrett 773-456-2632

SOLD - Traditional elegance, exquisite finishes and modern conveniences. Breathtaking views from all of the living areas of this lakefront custom home. Double lot. 4 bed, 3/2 bath.

25 Brookhaven Road, Pinehurst

28 Middlebury Road, Pinehurst

Stunning and elegant custom-built all brick home. Incredible golf views, gourmet kitchen, and oversized master suite with generous closets. 4 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

Golf front on the north course built in the traditional Craftsman style. Stunning views and great entertaining space inside & out. 4 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

135 Saint Mellions Drive, Pinehurst

50 Hearthstone Road, Pinehurst

755 Horse Pen Lane, Vass

Golf front Pinehurst National # 9, transferable PCC charter membership. 4 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

Custom home on large private lot near the Village entrance. A true lifestyle home for entertaining. 4 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

6-acre retreat, private, and quiet. Main level living with fireplace, covered patio, and lower level with walkout. 3-stall barn and rolling pastures. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

111 Wertz Drive, West End

10 Village Green East, Pinehurst

8 Augusta Drive, Southern Pines

Long views of Lake Aumen from this well-appointed and upgraded waterfront home. 3 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

This historic Old Town villa-like home has a 2-story turret welcoming you to a time gone by. Featuring a library and workshop. 5 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

$985,000 MLS 190955 Pamela O’Hara 910-315-3093 Emily Hewson 910-315-3324

$875,000 MLS 188256 Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099

Old Town “Cottage Colony School House” circa 1917. Totally renovated with attention to detail and architectural integrity. 2 fireplaces, 6 bedrooms, and 5 bathrooms.

$749,000 MLS 190015 Frank Sessoms 910-639-3099

$735,000 MLS 187316 Kay Beran 910-315-3322

$665,000 MLS 191662 Kay Beran 910-315-3355 Amy McCune 910-725-9022

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$799,000 MLS 190504 Kay Beran 910-315-3322

$725,000 MLS 188783 Deb Darby 910-783-5193

$569,000 MLS 190737 Deb Darby 910-783-5193

Custom golf front home. Main level living with formal and informal living spaces. Screened porch off kitchen with deck. Lofty ceilings, fireplace, and hardwood floors. 6 bed, 4/1 bath.

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3 Pine Tree Terrace, Foxfire $449,900 MLS 189413 Deb Darby 910-783-5193

Plantation style home built in 2008. 10’ ceilings, custom moldings, fireplace, hardwood flooring & extra wide doorways. Perfectly sized in-ground pool off master. 3 bed, 2/1 bath.

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28 Peachtree Lane, Pinehurst $349,000 MLS 190563 Kay Beran 910-315-3322

Golf front ranch that is open and light, with high ceilings, architectural trim, and large windows. Don’t miss this one. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms.

42 Pinewild Drive, Pinehurst $309,000 MLS 190486 Kay Beran 910-315-3322

Brick home on the “Azalea Course” with open living spaces, generous kitchen, and split bedrooms. Back decks enjoy golf views and privacy. 3 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

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Duck Hook • 430 Lake Dornoch Drive • Pinehurst Duck Hook, a charming Cape Cod Cottage, nestled on the Southern shore of Lake Watson by the 12th Hole of the Dogwood Course offers a world of privacy in a serene natural setting. This iconic golf retreat built in 1974 was a charter member’s top pick in the club’s early days. Carefully renovated by the second owner, the home is a study in quality detail and perfect taste. The living / dining room is warmed by an over-sized fireplace and features twin floor- to-ceiling bay windows overlooking the lake, wide-plank hardwood floors and opens to a brick-floored covered porch enhancing enjoyment of the lake. Highlights include a boathouse, spacious family room with fireplace and wet bar, an updated kitchen, 5 bedrooms, a ground floor master and 4.5 baths. Offered at $1,200,000.

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100 Lake Dornoch• Pinehurst

12 Masters Ridge Drive • Southern Pines

This stunning contemporary home, poised over the 17th hole of the Dogwood Course, is

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451 Old Mail Road • Southern Pines

14 Cumberland Drive • Pinehurst

The jewel of Moore County’s horse country, Fox Hollow Farm is secluded on 10.52 acres with easy access to thousands of acres of equestrian land. 4BR, 4.5BA 5,276 sf. Offered at $2,200,000

Poised on 2.45 acres in the exclusive Forest Creek Golf Club, this elegant residence exhibits design perfection in the concept of one-floor-living. 3BR, 3/2BA. 4,787 sf. Offered at $1,550,000

949 Sheldon Road• Southern Pines

292 Old Dewberry • Horse Country

Occupying a premier 10.31-acres in Horse Country, this pristine hunt box borders a private and beautiful corner of the W.M. Foundation. 2BR, 2BA, 2,625 sf. Offered at $1,085,000

Peaceable Kingdom Farm situated on 6.2 acres just 2 miles from downtown. Grandfathered horse farm with total privacy on iconic sand road. 4BR, 2BA. Offered at $765.000.

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700 SHADY LANE ROAD Beautiful 4 BR / 4.5 BA farmhouse style home on private acreage including a pond at the front of the property. Floorplan is open and spacious!

PINEHURST • $319,900

280 KINGSWOOD CIRCLE Pristine 3 BR / 2 BA home in popular Pinehurst #6. The home features spacious upstairs bonus room that could be used for in-laws or teens.

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169 FIRETREE LANE Waterfront ranch style home on beautiful Lake Sequoia 3 BR / 2 BA. Spacious floorplan w/bright Carolina room and nice master suite w/walk-in closet

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PINEHURST • $377,000

PINEHURST • $390,000

109 FOREST SQUARE LANE Lovely 3 BR / 3.5 BA custom brick home on gorgeous lot overlooking Beacon Ridge CC. Home is spacious and offers great floorplan

16 DEVON DRIVE Located on the 7th hole of the Azalea Course in Pinewild CC, this beautiful 3 BR / 2 Full BA 2 half BA home is open and bright w/lovely views.

21 QUAIL HILL Single-level 3 BR / 3 BA golf front home w/views of the 17th green of Pinehurst Course #3. All bedrooms access full baths w/walk in closets. A must see….

FOXFIRE • $426,000

PINEHURST • $415,000

CAMERON • $365,000

178 GRANDE PINES COURT E. LIVE GRANDE in beautiful gated Equestrian community in Foxfire! Two-story 5 BR / 4.5 BA home on large 2.5 acre lot. Totally immaculate and a must see!

35 GLASGOW DRIVE All brick 3 BR / 2.5 BA home on large flat lot w/mature landscaping and gorgeous golf views of Pinewild’s practice course.

121 CARTHAGE STREET Gorgeous historic 4 BR / 2.5 BA home on over an acre. Tasteful and functional updates made throughout while maintaining historic details that make this home one-of-a-kind.

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3 BRUNSWICK LANE Charming, beautifully maintained 4 BR / 2.5 BA brick home located on quiet, wooded cul-de-sac in popular Pinehurst #6.

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120 SHADOW CREEK COURT Spacious 4 BR / 3.5 BA townhome is LIKE NEW and in great location w/two ‘’Master Suites’’ on main and upper level. This home is a true ‘’lock and leave’’.

PINEHURST • $430,000

21 THUNDERBIRD CIRCLE Live the Pinehurst lifestyle in this beautiful 3 BR / 2 Full BA 2 half BA brick home w/nice patio in back with charming stone water feature w/small pond and waterfall!

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SEVEN LAKES WEST • $993,000

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102 WAKEFIELD WAY Stunning 4 BR / 4.5 BA custom home in desirable Forest Creek. Open floorplan and oversize living area opening to nice converted porch

108 LOGAN COURT Amazing 4 BR / 4 full BA 2 half BA lakefront home on two premium wide water lots. Truly one of the most beautiful homes on Lake Auman.

91 ABBOTTSFORD DRIVE Magnificent 5 BR / 3 full BA 2 half BA Tuscan Villa with THE best golf course and water views in Pinehurst.

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SEVEN LAKES WEST • $675,000

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102 STRATHAVEN COURT Elegant 4 BR / 3 Full BA 2 half BA golf front home located on the signature hole of Pinehurst #9 course

114 BUTTERFLY COURT Exquisite custom 3 BR / 3.5 BA home on one of the most beautiful lots on the lake! Beautiful panoramic water views from almost every room

115 BLUE ROAD Gorgeous 4 BR / 4.5 BA home in the Village of Pinehurst – truly a special property. Beautiful home inside and out…. lots of living space and space for entertaining.

PINEHURST • $659,000

PINEHURST • $629,0000

SEVEN LAKES WEST • $574,000

37 STRATHAVEN DRIVE Elegant 3 BR / 3 Full BA 2 half BA French Country home overlooking the 11th hole of the Holly course.

80 FIELDS ROAD Quintessential 4 BR / 3.5 BA Old Town Cottage with all the charm and style expected in a vintage 1920’s property.

141 WERTZ DRIVE Alluring 3 BR / 2 full BA 2 half BA waterfront home on Lake Auman in the gated and amenity rich community of Seven Lakes West.

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58 GREYABBEY DRIVE Outstanding 3 BR / 3 BA custom home w/nice upscale features located on the 2nd hole of the Magnolia Course at Pinewild Country Club.

SEVEN LAKES WEST • $795,000

175 ROCK CREEK WAY Stunning 3 BR / 4 BA French Country home on 7.74 acres. The home offers spacious living area and full sized salt water heated pool w/nice pool house.

PINEHURST • $775,000

16 MULBREN COURT Gracious 4 BR / 4 full BA 2 half BA Southern style estate home on the 7th tee of the Holly Course at Pinewild Country Club.

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6850 SHAWCROSS LANE FAYETTEVILLE 3 bed • 2 bath • $87,000

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804 DOVER STREET SOUTHERN PINES 2 bed • 2 bath • $88,000

250 SUGAR GUM LANE #137 PINEHURST 2 bed • 2 bath • $128,000

39 SCIOTO LANE

PINEHURST 3 bed • 2 bath • $270,000

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50 VIXEN LANE

PINEHURST 3 bed • 2 bath • $175,000

165 E. NEW JERSEY AVENUE SOUTHERN PINES 3 bed • 3.5 bath • $390,000

610 W. MAINE AVENUE SOUTHERN PINES 4 bed • 3 bath • $350,000

175 E. NEW JERSEY AVENUE SOUTHERN PINES 3 bed • 3.5 bath • $415,000

230 SUGAR PINE DRIVE

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PINEHURST 4 bed • 3.5 bath • $360,000

675 FLINT HILL CHURCH ROAD ROBBINS 2 bed • 2 bath • $430,000

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660 E. MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE SOUTHERN PINES 3 bed • 3 bath • $625,000

155 N VALLEY ROAD SOUTHERN PINES 5 bed • 3.5 bath • $385,000

RAEFORD 4 bed • 2 bath • $215,000

35 CYPRESS CIRCLE SOUTHERN PINES 3 bed • 2 bath • $205,000

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WHISPERING PINES 4 bed • 2.5 bath • $338,000

105 ISLEWORTH PLACE ABERDEEN 4 bed • 3 bath • $249,000

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Letter From an Enchanted Hill And life-changing leaps of faith

By Jim Dodson

For Christmas, my clever wife gave me a

pair of expensive boxer shorts that claimed to be “nothing short of life-changing.”

The gift was the result of a running joke between us. During the consumer melee that is the holiday shopping season, you see, she was amused by my reaction to half a dozen TV spots and radio commercials that claimed their products were “life-changing.” My short list of disbelief included a magical face cream that can allegedly make you look 30 years younger in less than two minutes, an expensive brain supplement that can supposedly restore failing memory to youthful vigor, and a luxury mattress so “smart” it can cure snoring and calculate your annual earned income credit. Funny how times have changed. And here I thought it took things like falling in love, surviving a crisis, awakening to nature, taking the cure, making a friend, finding faith or discovering a mentor to change a life. Anytime I hear an ambulance or happy news of a baby being born, I think “someone’s life is changing.” Looking back, my life has been changed — I prefer to say shaped — by a host of people, events and moments both large and small. One example that stands out early was my old man’s passion for history and the lessons of nature, which probably explains why both my older brother and I became history nuts as well as Eagle scouts. History and nature, Dad believed, were life’s finest teachers, the reason he brought along a small satchel of classic books on our early camping and fishing trips in order to share bits of timeless wisdom from his favorite poets and philosophers by a blazing fire. This was his version of the Athens School, a campfire Chautauqua. It’s also why I took to calling him “Opti the Mystic.” “All history is personal,” Opti liked to say, “because someone’s life is being changed. We grow by learning to pay attention because everything in nature is connected — including people and events.” He illustrated both points powerfully on a cold February day in 1960 when Opti unexpectedly turned up at our new elementary school to spring my brother and me from class. We’d only been in town since the week before Christmas, barely enough time to acquire public library cards and reconnoiter the neighborhood on bikes. But we sensed that one of his entertaining field trips was in the offing, possibly a romp through the nearby battlefield where General Greene’s ragtag army gave Lord Cornwallis and his redcoat army all they could handle. Instead, a short time later, we wound up standing near the “colored” entrance of the Center Theatre across the street from the F.W. Woolworth building in downtown Greensboro, where four brave young men from A&T State University were attempting to peacefully integrate the all-white lunch counter, an event regarded today as a defining moment in the birth of the nonviolent American Civil Rights movement. “Boys,” he told us, “this is living history. This isn’t just going to change the South. It’s going to change America.” The date was February 2, my seventh birthday as it happens, and Opti

was right — though that change has yet to be fully realized more than half a century later. A few days before my birthday this month, my daughter Maggie turned 30. She’s a senior copywriter for a major Chicago advertising firm and a gem of a writer with a bright future, a chip off her granddaddy’s block. The summer after Mugs (as I call her) turned 7 in the aftermath of a divorce neither of us had seen coming, she and I and our elderly golden retriever took a two-month road trip around America, a fly-fishing and camping odyssey to the great trout rivers of the West. We rode horses, frightened a few stunning cutthroat trout, met a host of colorful oddballs and characters, lost the dog briefly in Yellowstone, blew up the truck in Oklahoma and generally had the time of our lives. I eventually put these adventures in a little book called Faithful Travelers that is still in print two decades later and closest of my books to my heart. One night, sitting by a campfire on a remote mesa near Chaco Canyon, in a state that calls itself the Land of Enchantment, my precocious companion wondered why her old man had never bothered to write her a letter offering thoughts and advice the way she knew Opti had done for me many times in life. Just days before, she’d written me a letter thanking me for taking her on the trip. When she and Amos the dog turned in, I tossed another log on our signal fire, sending up a spiral of embers to the gods of Enchantment, reached for a pen and paper bag and jotted the following letter from the heart to my wise and faithful fellow traveler. Every year around our shared birthdays, I take out that letter and read it just to remind myself how all history is personal and everything really is connected in nature. Dear Maggie, I’m sorry I’ve never written you a letter before. Guess I goofed, parents do that from time to time. I know you’re sad about the divorce. Your mom and I are sad too. But I have faith that with God’s help and a little patience and understanding on our parts, we’ll all come through this just fine. Being with you like this has helped me laugh again and figure out some important things. That’s what families do, you know — help each other laugh and figure out problems that sometimes seem to have no answer. Perhaps I should give you some free advice. That’s what fathers are supposed to do in letters to their children. Always remember that free advice is usually worth about as much as the paper it’s written on and this is written on a used paper bag. Even so, I thought I would tell you a few things I’ve learned since I was about your age. Some food for thought, as your grandfather would say. Anyway, Mugs, here goes: Always be kind to your brother and never hit. The good news is, he’ll always be younger and look up to you. The bad news is, he’ll probably be bigger. Travel a lot. Some wise person said travel broadens the mind. Someone wiser said TV broadens the butt. Listen to your head but follow your heart. Trust your own judgment. Vote early. Change your oil regularly. Always say thank you. Look both ways before crossing. When in doubt, wash your hands. Remember you are what you eat, say, think, do. Put good things in your mind and your stomach and you won’t have to worry about what comes out. Learn to love weeding, waiting in line, ignoring jerks like Randy Farmer. Always take the scenic route. You’Il get there soon enough. You’ll get old soon enough, too. Enjoy being a kid. Learn patience, which comes in handy when you’re weeding, wait-

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ing in line, or trying to ignore a jerk like Randy Farmer. Play hard but fair. When you fall, get up and brush yourself off. When you fail, and you will, don’t blame anyone else. When you succeed, and you will, don’t take all the credit. On both counts, you’ll be wiser. By the way, do other things that make you happy as well. Only you will know what they are. Take pleasure in small things. Keep writing letters — the world needs more letters. Smile a lot. Your smile makes angels dance. Memorize the lyrics to as many Beatles songs as possible in case life’s one big Beatle challenge. Be flexible. Your favorite Beatles song will probably always change. Never stop believing in Santa or the tooth fairy. They really do exist. God does too. A poet I like says God is always waiting for us in the darkness and you’ll find God when it’s time. Or God will find you. Pray. I can’t tell you why praying works any more than I can tell you why breathing works. Praying won’t make God feel any better, but you will. Trust me. Better yet, trust God. Breathe and pray. Always leave your campsite better than you found it. Measure twice, cut once. If all else fails, put Duct tape on it. Don’t lie. Your memory isn’t good enough. Don’t cheat. Because you’ll remember. Save the world if you want to. At least turn it upside down a bit if you can’t. While you’re at it, save the penny, too. When you get to college, call your mother every Sunday night. Realize it’s okay to cry but better to laugh. Especially at yourself. If and when you get married, realize it’s okay if I cry. Read everything you can get your hands on and listen to what people tell you. Count on having to figure it out for yourself, though. Never bungee-jump. If you do, don’t tell your father. Make a major fool of yourself at least once in life, preferably several times. Being a fool is good for what ails you. We live in a serious time. Don’t take yourself’ too seriously. Always wear your seat belt even if I don’t.

Remember that what you choose to forget may be at least as important as what you choose to remember. Someone very wise once said this to me — but I can’t remember who it was or exactly what it means. Admit your mistakes. Forgive everybody else’s. Notice the stars but don’t try to be one. Always paint the underside first. Be kind to old people and creatures great and small. Learn to fight but don’t fight unless the other guy throws the first punch. Don’t tell your mother about this last piece of advice. Learn when it’s time to open your mind and close your mouth. (I’m still working on this one.) Lose your heart. But keep your wits. Be at least as grateful for your life as I am. Despite what you hear, no mistake is permanent, and nothing goes unforgiven. God grades on a curve. One more thing: Take care of your teeth and don’t worry about how you look. You 1ook just fine. That’s two things, I guess. Finally, there’s a story I like about an Indian boy at his time of initiation. “As you climb to the mountaintop,” the old chief tells his son, “you’ll come to a great chasm — a deep split in the Earth. It will frighten you. Your heart will pause. “Jump,” says the chief. “It’s not as far as you think.” This is excellent advice for girls, too. Life is wonderful, but it will frighten you deeply at times. Jump, my love. You’ll make it. Love, Dad For the record, my fancy new boxers didn’t change my life. They are quite comfortable, in fact. PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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Come join the Pinehurst Police Department for the annual Polar Plunge to benefit the Special Olympics of North Carolina on Saturday, Feb. 23, at the Pinehurst Marina, 1 Denichilo Court in Pinehurst. The jump fee/donation is $50, and there will be a costume contest with prizes. For more information call (910) 417-7932 or visit www.vopnc.org.

Battle of Wills Watch the works of William Shakespeare performed by Moore County high school students competing for a trip to New York City, hoping to join students from 54 other branches of the English-Speaking Union in its 36th annual Shakespeare Competition. The students will perform on Saturday, Feb. 16, at The Village Chapel in Pinehurst, from 3-5 p.m. Admission is free to the public, and a reception will follow the event. Also performing a selection of scenes from a Shakespeare comedy will be Dr. Jonathan Drahos and Carolanne Marano of Pinehurst. For more information contact Bob Roman at (910) 725-0333.

Writer in Residence Georgann Eubanks will read from her book The Month of Their Ripening: North Carolina Heritage Foods through the Year at the Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines, at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 16. For more information call (910) 692-6261 or visit weymouthcneter.org.

The Bolshoi Live A Gypsy, a rose, a tavern, a mountain hideaway and a bullfight. What’s not to love? Enjoy the Metropolitan Opera’s HD Live Series showing of the Bolshoi Ballet’s performance of Carmen at 1 p.m. on Feb. 2 at the Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., in Southern Pines. For more information visit the Sunrise website at www.sunrisetheater.com.

Reflections of Africa The Arts Council of Moore County presents an exhibition exploring the unique diversity of African culture and wildlife showcasing works by South African artist Garth Swift, Pinehurst artist Jessie Mackay, and artist and Sandhills native Patricia Thomas at the Campbell House, 482 E. Connecticut Ave, Southern Pines. The exhibit is free and open to the public and runs from Feb. 1-22, 9 a.m.—5 p.m. The opening reception is Friday, Feb. 1 from 6-8 p.m. Weekend hours are Saturday, Feb. 16, 10 a.m.–4 pm. For more information call (910) 6922787 or go to www.MooreArt.org.

Meet the Authors Thursday, Feb. 7: Kimmery Martin: Queen of Hearts. 5 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13: Chanavia Haddock: Miracle. A children’s book geared to 3-8-year-olds. 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17: Sarah Edwards: What the Sun Sees. Poetry reading. 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21: Mesha Maren: Sugar Run. 5 p.m. All events are at The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. For more information go to www.thecountrybookshop.biz.

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Heart ‘n Soul of Jazz The Arts Council of Moore County presents vocalist and trombonist Aubrey Logan joining other world-class musicians in a celebration of three decades of great jazz at 8 p.m. on Feb. 16 in the Cardinal Ballroom of the Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista in Pinehurst. Tickets are $75 for VIP and $65 for preferred seating. For more information go to www.mooreart.org and purchase tickets at www. ticketmesandhills.com.

Friday, Feb. 1: Freddy and Francine. Fulltime pros, singing, writing and acting. Collaborators with Dead & Co. keyboardist Jeff Chimenti on the musical direction and casting for the 2017 off-Broadway musical Red Roses, Green Gold featuring the music of The Grateful Dead. Cost: $15.

Great Room Concert The Ciompi Quartet, comprised of Duke University professors Eric Pritchard, Hsiao-mei Ku, Jonathan Bagg and Caroline Stinson, will be joined by clarinetist Allan Ware for a performance on Sunday, Feb. 3, at 2 p.m. in the Great Room at the Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Tickets are $30 for non-members; $20 for members. For more information call (910) 692-6261.

Found It Learn how to use a compass and map to complete a scavenger hunt at the Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road in Southern Pines. Geared toward 6 to 10-yearolds, the Wildings program event begins at 10 a.m. on Feb. 23. For more information call (910) 6922167 or go to www.ncparks.gov.

Saddle Up The Carolina Philharmonic performs a selection of the film scores and classic pop songs that helped define the Wild West. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 16 at Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. For more information call (910) 687-0287 or go to www.carolinaphil.org.

Sunday, Feb. 10: The Contenders. Music and beautiful harmony infused with country and rock, folk and bluegrass. Cost: $20. Wednesday, Feb. 13: Open mic with The Parsons. Cost: $5. Thursday, Feb. 14: Seth Walker. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. Flowers, cocktails and music. Cost: $20. Sunday, Feb. 17: The Kennedys. At over a million miles of roadwork including two stints with Nanci Griffith’s Blue Moon Orchestra, Pete and Maura Kennedy show no signs of slowing down. Cost: $15. Thursday, Feb. 21: Asleep at the Wheel. A pair of fiddles, a bass, an acoustic guitar, songs and stories. Western swing isn’t dead, it’s Asleep at the Wheel. Cost: $69. Saturday, Feb. 23: John Cowan and Darin and Brook Aldridge. The voice of Newgrass joins two-time International Blues Music Association vocalist of the year and her crazy good husband. Cost: $30. Sunday, Feb. 24: Aaron Burdette. With lyrics that are witty and poetic all at once, his musical style is a seamless blend of Americana, country, blues, bluegrass and folkrock. Cost: $15. Thursday, Feb. 28: Jeanne Jolly. Artistry that encompasses the earthiness of American roots music, a hint of jazz and the emotionality of soul balladry. Cost: $20. Unless otherwise noted, doors open at 6 p.m. and music begins at 6:46 at the Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Prices above are for members. Annual memberships are $5 and available online or at the door. For more information call (910) 944-7502 or visit www. theroosterswife.org or ticketmesandhills.com.

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The raw cacao bean (the source of all chocolate) is abundant in minerals, trace minerals, vitamins A, C, B, calcium, magnesium, potassium, manganese, zinc, copper, omega 6, and loaded with antioxidants that protect your cells from premature aging, especially the skin. The polyphenols in the cacao help create good bacteria in the digestive tract, increasing circulation throughout the body and hydration for more youthful and radiant skin. If you crave chocolate when you are stressed out, there is science-based research that confirms the anandamide (bliss molecule) in cacao feeds the cannabinoid receptors from head to toe, making you feel better. Many studies on chocolate conclude the same thing: There is something in chocolate that is really good for us. The cacao bean has always been nature’s best weight-loss and high-energy food. Penylethylamine (PEA) is an organic compound found abundantly in cacao. The process of heating cacao will destroy the PEAs, so you must consume the raw cacao to get the benefit. The PEA molecules increase in our bodies when we fall in love — one reason why love and chocolate have such a timeless connection. The concentration of PEAs with the high content of magnesium in cacao is a natural appetite suppressant, making it a great weight-loss food. Contrary to popular belief, cacao contains low amounts of caffeine. It is one of the richest sources of an interesting substance called theobromine, a relative to caffeine, but not a stimulant. It’s an effective antibacterial substance that kills the organism that causes cavities. It’s also good for the cardiovascular system. You can add cacao to your diet in many ways — add the powder to smoothies, hot chocolate, baked goods, or even sprinkle on top of fruit. The cacao nibs (start with the sweet ones) are great for cookies, energy bars and nut mixes. Here are a couple of recipes using the raw cacao nibs, the healthiest of all chocolates. It is a different taste, but delicious in recipes. Look for a chocolate bar that’s organic and fair trade, with the high amounts of cacao, over 60 percent. Share the health benefits of chocolate this February with a delicious treat that will bring about a feeling of love and well-being.

Cacao Cookie Dough Balls 2/3 cup cashews (or other nuts) 1/3 cup oatmeal Pinch of salt 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 4 tablespoons honey or maple syrup 1/4 cup cacao sweet nibs Combine nuts, oats and salt in a food processor and grind until fine. Add vanilla and honey or maple syrup, and process to combine. Pulse in the cacao nibs. Roll into balls. Chill on parchment paper.

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A Hunger for Life, A Passion for Words Deep dives into the mythic life of Sir Walter Raleigh

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professor and distinguished public historian Larry Tise recently argued that Sir Walter Raleigh’s attempted settlement on the North Carolina coast was an “egregious error” that we have spun “into the romanticized saga of a ‘lost colony.’”

Tise is an expert about Sir Walter, but there is more to the story, as retold in two new books: The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, by Andrew Lawler, and Anna Beer’s Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Raleigh. Although Lawler acknowledges Raleigh’s errors and weaknesses as outlined by Tise, he sets out in great detail the magnitude of his efforts to establish an English colony on the North Carolina coast. “The Roanoke venture lasted for six years and involved two dozen vessels and well over a thousand people crossing the treacherous breadth of the Atlantic to establish England’s first beachhead in the New World. In size, scope, and cost, it far outstripped the later inaugural voyages to Jamestown and Plymouth. It was the Elizabethan equivalent of the Apollo program.” On March 16, 1584, Queen Elizabeth granted Raleigh the right to colonize the East Coast of North America south of Newfoundland. The next month Sir Walter had two ships on their way conducting an exploratory mission. The ships arrived on the North Carolina coast in July. After six weeks of scouting and making friends with the native population, the expedition had not found gold mines or a short cut to China. However, it came back with tales of the good life, samples of tobacco and pharmaceuticals, and two natives, Wanchese and Manteo. Raleigh then organized a much larger effort. On April 9, 1585, five vessels

carrying between 400 and 800 men left England. Manteo and Wanchese were on board. So were soldiers and scientists, including a brilliant scholar and linguist, Thomas Harriot; a metallurgist, Joachim Gans; and a draftsman and artist, John White. By June 26 the colonizers arrived and began the process of exploring the nearby sounds and adjoining lands. The results were mixed. While they gained good and valuable information, the expedition ran low on supplies and all but about 100 men returned to England in September. The remaining men suffered through the winter. Food was scarce, and the formerly friendly natives had become hostile enemies. When a fleet of English ships under the command of Sir Frances Drake appeared in early June 1586, the settlers abandoned the project and returned with Drake to England. The disappointing result did not deter Raleigh from organizing a third effort in 1587 — a group of men, women and families that became North Carolina’s legendary Lost Colony. In July 1587, the colonists arrived on Roanoke Island led by their governor, John White, whose granddaughter, Virginia Dare, was born on August 18. A few days later, White sailed to England for much-needed supplies. When he finally returned in August 1590, the colony had disappeared, leaving only a carving of “Croatoan” on a tree as a clue. The mystery of what happened to Virginia Dare, her family and their fellow colonists is the stuff of legend. One fable says Dare grew to be a lovely young woman and was transformed into a white doe, an animal that still haunts coastal North Carolina. A somewhat less fantastical theory maintains she and other colonists made their way to Robeson County, where locals will show you her purported burial site near Red Springs. Other authors suggest the colonists, including Dare, died from hunger, disease, or were killed by Native Americans. Or perhaps, in order to survive, they joined nearby Native Americans and were absorbed by them. In The Secret Token, Lawler gives a history of the developing interest in

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Virginia Dare and the Lost Colony. After her baptism certificate in 1587, there was no public mention of her until 1834. In that year, Harvard-trained historian George Bancroft published his influential A History of the United States. Lawler writes, “It is difficult to overstate his impact on the way we see Raleigh’s colony today.” For Bancroft, the colony was “the germinating seed” for our country and its institutions, “just as important as its revolutionary coming of age.” Lawler writes that in Bancroft’s view, “Roanoke was, in essence, the nation’s humble Bethlehem, and Dare was its infant savior destined for sacrifice.” Lawler chronicles efforts to learn where the colonists, if they survived, went. To Croatoan, now a part of Hatteras Island? To Site X, a place marked under a patch in a map drawn by John White, located where the Roanoke River flows into the Albemarle Sound? Or to the Chesapeake Bay, near where the Jamestown Colony settled, and where Powhatan, the local Indian king, massacred them? Maybe it was near Edenton, where in 1937, a California man said he found a large stone inscribed with a message from Dare’s mother, Eleanor, to her father, John White, reporting the death of her husband, her daughter Virginia, and other colonists. Lawler’s account of this likely scam is almost as interesting as the story of the colonists told by Harnett County native and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Green’s outdoor drama, The Lost Colony. In Patriot or Traitor Anna Beer devotes only a few pages to Raleigh’s colony on Roanoke Island, saving space for other and more significant parts of his life in chapters titled as follows: “Soldier” — In 1569, as a teenager, he fought with the Huguenot Protestants in France and later in Ireland. “Courtier” — By 1581, he had gained a position in the queen’s court. “Coloniser” — As a favorite of the queen, he was given authority to establish settlements on the North American coast. “Sailor” — No great sailor himself, he was nevertheless responsible for important naval actions and victories over Spanish naval forces. “Lover” — Beer writes, “Sir Walter and his Queen were lovers, but it is highly unlikely that their ‘love’ was ever physically expressed. It was an eroticized political relationship, not a political sexual relationship, and Elizabeth was on top.” “Explorer” — Although he never set foot on Roanoke Island, he personally led two ambitious, risky, and ultimately unsuccessful explorations to Guiana in today’s Venezuela in search of gold. “Writer” — Beer heaps praise on his prose, “His writing stands shoulderto-shoulder with that most remarkably rich and enduring of contemporary works, the 1611 King James Bible.” Beer begins Raleigh’s story, not with these looks into his extraordinary early life, but in 1603. In that first year of the reign of King James I, Sir Walter was found guilty of treason for allegedly plotting against the new king. His sentence, quoted on the first page of Beer’s book, is a horrifying reminder of the gruesome justice of those times: “You shall be drawn upon a hurdle through the open streets to the place of execution, there to be hanged and cut down alive, and your body shall be opened, your heart and bowels plucked out, and your privy members cut off, and thrown into the fire before your eyes . . . ” How Sir Walter was able to defer his execution for almost 15 years and use the time to continue active participation in public life is the material for Beer’s final chapters. In conclusion she writes that Raleigh “lived more lives than most people of his time, or of any time” and that he “had a hunger for life, a longing for death, a despair for truth and a passion for words.” PS D.G. Martin hosts North Carolina Bookwatch, airing on UNC-TV Sunday at 11 a.m. and Tuesday at 5 p.m. The program also appears on the North Carolina Channel, a digital channel carried by many cable systems.

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AUTHOR EVENTS New York Times best selling authors are coming to Southern Pines! Stop by The Country Bookshop to see and talk to them about their latest books.

February 7 at 5:00 pm

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TARA CONKLIN

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The Last Romantics

Zadie Anson and Emma Colley have been best friends since their early twenties, when they first began navigating serious romantic relationships amid the intensity of medical school. Now they’re happily married wives and mothers with successful careers– Zadie as a pediatric cardiologist and Emma as a trauma surgeon. Their lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, are chaotic but fulfilling, until the return of a former colleague unearths a secret one of them has been harboring for years.

A sweeping yet intimate epic about one American family, The Last Romantics is an unforgettable exploration of the ties that bind us together, the responsibilities we embrace and the duties we resent, and how we can lose– and sometimes rescue– the ones we love. A novel that pierces the heart and lingers in the mind, it is also a beautiful meditation on the power of stories-how they navigate us through difficult times, help us understand the past, and point the way toward our future.

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CHANAVIA HADDOCK

SARAH EDWARDS

Miracle

One simple question leads Piper Rose on an epic journey of discovery filled with adventure and playful curiosity as she learns that sometimes in our quest to find something spectacular we miss the many special things along the way. Chanavia Haddock is an author, artist, and lover of all things creative. As a child Chanavia was always drawn to the beauty of nature. As an adult that fascination has only intensified with her realization that nature explains everything. She resides in North Carolina close to her family and friends where she is constantly in awe of the natural beauty and creativity that surrounds her.

What the Sun Sees What if the sun were a spectator of life on Earth? What if the sun were a reporter, taking notes, making observations, recording stories? What if it had carte blanche to tell what it sees. No doubt it would recount an odd mixture of daily life, coupled with wisdom and surprises. This collection of diverse poems brings tears, laughter, and, on occasion, presses you to challenge the status quo. Some are meant simply to be enjoyed. “What the Sun Sees” has a poetic voice that speaks with love and fervor to broad human concerns, from care of the planet to personal reflections on family and human experience. The sun sees it all. In her poem, “corpus,” Sarah reminds us that the grave “esteems no one, but honors all.” So it is with the sun, as it continues to shine.

February 21 at 5:00 pm

MESHA MAREN Sugar Run

In 1989, Jodi McCarty is seventeen years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison. When she’s released eighteen years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of unexpected freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains, she heads south in search of someone she left behind, as a way of finally making amends. There, she meets and falls in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her children. Together they head toward what they hope will be a fresh start. But what do you do with your past--and with a town and a family that refuses to forget, or to change?

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February Books FICTION The Last Romantics, by Tara Conklin

In 2079, when the world is increasingly devastated by floods and other climate disasters, renowned 102-year-old poet Fiona Skinner meets a young woman whose parents named her Luna after a woman mentioned in Fiona’s world-famous work, The Love Poem, written 75 years earlier. To answer the young woman’s questions about the original Luna, Fiona tells the story of her childhood carrying the reader back to a small Connecticut town where Fiona and her siblings’ lives are forever altered by the sudden death of their father, the resulting financial ruin, their mother’s debilitating depression, and the behavioral shift of their golden boy brother. Conklin sweepingly navigates through time and place with masterfully crafted points of view in this character driven novel.

Sugar Run, by Mesha Maren

Jodi McCarty is 17 years old when she’s sentenced to life in prison in 1989. Released 18 years later, she finds herself at a Greyhound bus stop, reeling from the shock of freedom but determined to chart a better course for herself. Not yet able to return to her lost home in the Appalachian Mountains, she meets and falls in love with Miranda, a troubled young mother living in a motel room with her children. Together they seek a fresh start, but what do you do with a town and a family that refuse to forget or to change? Sugar Run is a searing and gritty debut novel about how, no matter the distance we think we’ve traveled from the mistakes we’ve made, too often we find ourselves standing in precisely the place we began. One of The Country Bookshop and Entertainment Weekly’s most anticipated books of 2019.

The Age of Light, by Whitney Scharer

A captivating debut novel by Whitney Scharer, The Age of Light tells the story of Vogue model turned renowned photographer Lee Miller, and her search to forge a new identity as an artist after a life spent as a muse. “I’d rather take a photograph than be one,” she declares after she arrives in Paris in 1929, where she soon catches the eye of the famous surrealist Man Ray. Lee convinces him to take her on as his assistant and teach her everything he knows. But Man Ray turns out to be an egotistical, charismatic force, and as they work together in the darkroom, their personal and professional lives become intimately entwined, changing the course of Lee’s life forever. Lee’s journey takes us from the cabarets of bohemian Paris to the battlefields of Europe during WWII, from discovering radical new photography techniques to documenting the liberation of the concentration camps. Through it all, Lee must grapple with the question of whether it’s possible to reconcile romantic desire with artistic ambition — and what she will have to sacrifice.

Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli

A family sets out on a road trip across the United States, the father chasing Geronimo’s ghost and the mother, a radio journalist, consumed by the news stories covering the thousands of children stranded at the border trying to reach America. The family doesn’t realize they are on the brink of their own crisis as a fissure grows between the parents the farther west they drive.

Told through the voices of the mother and her son, including a stunning tapestry of collected texts and images, Lost Children Archive blends the personal and the political with astonishing and deeply moving empathy.

When You Read This, by Mary Adkins

A debut comic novel about two people coming to terms with the death of a young woman they both loved — one her boss and the other her sister. Anything but a downer, When You Read This is a witty, clever, poignant charmer about love, mortality and living the life you are given to the fullest. The story is told in a series of emails, blog posts, online therapy submissions, text messages, cease-and-desist letters and other snippets of modern communication, which will of course bring to mind Where’d You Go, Bernadette.

The Girls at 17 Swann Street, Yara Zgheib

An insightful book inspired by the author's own experience and a must read for anyone curious about how our lives are intimately tied to eating. The novel is about Anna, a woman with anorexia admitted to an eating disorder treatment facility at 17 Swann Street in St. Louis, where she must battle her anxiety and guilt over food. She gains insight and strength from the other girls at the facility who ultimately show her how much she has to live for. The characters leap off the page, and the first thing you will want to do is pass it on and then re-examine all your thoughts about food.

Finding Dorothy, by Elizabeth Letts

Maud Gage Baum, widow of the author of the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, met Judy Garland, the young actress playing the role of Dorothy, on the set of The Wizard of Oz in 1939. At the time, Maud was 78 and Judy was 16 and, in spite of their age difference, Maud immediately connected with Judy. This wonderfully evocative story recreates Maud’s youth as the rebellious daughter of a leading suffragette, the prairie years of the couple’s early days that would inspire Frank’s masterpiece, and the high-pressure atmosphere on the The Wizard of Oz film set in 1939 where Judy is badgered by the director, producer and her ambitious stage mother to lose weight, bind her breasts, laugh, cry and act terrified on command. As Maud had promised to protect the original Dorothy, she takes on the job of protecting young Judy.

NONFICTION Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter, by Tom Clavin

In July 1865, “Wild Bill” Hickok won a quick-draw duel creating the reputation that made him a marked man to every gunslinger in the Wild West. James Butler Hickok was known across the frontier as a soldier, Union spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman and actor. He crossed paths with Gen. George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody, as well as Ben Thompson and other young toughs. The ladies’ man married his true love, Agnes Lake, the impresario of a traveling circus, although he was

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buried next to the fabled frontierswoman Calamity Jane. The legend of Wild Bill has only grown since his death in 1876. Clavin has sifted through years of Western lore to bring Hickok fully to life in this rip-roaring, spellbinding true story. CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Ten Rules of the Birthday Wish, by Beth Ferry

Birthdays? We all have them. Wishes? We all make them! But some birthday wishers are unaware of the rules for birthday wishes. Rules? Oh yes, rules! Ten very specific rules, actually. Just be sure to learn them all before blowing out that next set of candles. (Ages 4-7.)

You Make Me Happy, by Smriti

Prasadam-Halls Whether singing together, climbing trees or just spending time enjoying the world, those we want to be with the most are the ones that make us the happiest. This adorable little book is the perfect Valentine’s gift for that special someone who just makes the world a little bit brighter. (Ages 2-5.)

Dragon Ghosts, by Lisa McMann

The third book in the The Unwanteds Quests series, Dragon Ghosts is a stand-alone companion to the best-selling and award-winning series about kids whose creative abilities give them magical powers. Dragon Ghosts features identical twins Fifer and Thisbe Stowe, who are naturally gifted magicians. Circumstances have left them searching for each other while dealing with their own perils in this exciting story dubbed The Hunger Games meets Harry Potter. Author Lisa McMann will be at the Country Bookshop at 4 p.m. on Friday, February 8th. The event is free. (Ages 9-13.)

A Circle of Elephants, by Eric Dinerstein

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Nandu lives in the Royal Elephant Breeding Center, where elephants and rhinos are protected for the king, and where everyone struggles with rhino poaching, drought, earthquakes and wild herds of invading animals. Animal lovers will revel in Dinerstein’s poetic writing and enjoy this look into Nandu’s amazing world in this companion novel to his awardwinning What Elephants Know. (Ages 10-14.) PS Compiled by Kimberly Daniels Taws and Angie Tally

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Roses are Red, Violets are Blue Here’s a cheesy Valentine just for you

By Bill Fields

Best guess,

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they’re from third grade, half a century ago, when my loves were basketball, hamburgers and lightning bugs.

The envelope of Valentine’s cards wasn’t dated, but the greetings contain clues. Most telling is that a few of my classmates wrote their names or mine in cursive. It was a skill we were just learning. And you can sense the effort — intent look, pursed lips, tilted head at the kitchen table the night before — that went into every loop whether the writing was in pencil, pen or felt tip. In some cases the penmanship, however labored, was better than the spelling. “To Bill Fills,” wrote one friend. Because I was someone who for the longest time thought people were saying “up and atom” when it was really “up and at ’em,” I should cast no stones. (But we were still ducking and covering, and there was an ominous bomb shelter sign at the cafeteria entrance.) It was a very good time for puns, as indicated by my couple of dozen surviving cards, on which various creatures were utilized in the messaging. “Valentine, you’re a Honey. Please BEE Mine.” “I’d really Hoot and H’Owl if you’d be MY VALENTINE.” “Ostrich your heart — to Include Me!” “BeCows I Like You, Be Mine!” Even if animals weren’t part of a pun they often were part of a card. “You’re my Candidate for a perfect Valentine!” proclaimed a mouse. “Wanted: Your Heart!” shouted a skunk. “VALENTINE, I’m NUTS about you!” pledged a squirrel. A number of the cards weren’t signed but others were. I received greetings from Becky, Bess, Billy, Bobby, Christine, Don, Eddie, Jeff, Jo, Katy, Lynn, Mark, Pat and Randy. Some, I see on Facebook. Some, I know have passed away. Some, I have no idea.

Their names make me think of water fountains and blackboards, tetherball and teeter-totter, milk cartons and lunch boxes. I wonder if the unsigned cards were from other classmates or my leftovers. We were very young, 9 years old or soon to be, on Valentine’s Day 1968, doing our best to absorb the lessons from our teacher, Peggy Blue, in reading, arithmetic, spelling and social studies. For me, it’s possible it has been all downhill since the third grading period of third grade, when Miss Blue commented on my report card, “A fine student in all areas. Good thinker. Splendid manners.” Or, perhaps I merely threw no spitballs and banged the erasers against a pine tree at the end of the day when Miss Blue asked me. I will take credit for showing up regularly — only one day absent and no tardies. Back then, there weren’t many burdens on a third-grader. Whatever happened in the classroom, there was ball to play after school and television to watch after homework: Family Affair, Bewitched, Lost in Space and Batman. Not that Valentine’s Day wasn’t without pressure or consequences, because there were clearly choices to be made about the bag of cards each of us had bought at the dime store to distribute to our classmates. There simply was no way that a tiny cat-head card that said “You’re Nice!” ranked with a larger card of a scuba diver and two inscribed hearts, the top saying “Deep in My Heart I Want You,” the bottom reading “To Be My Valentine!” amid a backdrop of blue water and sea life — plus another tiny heart stuck by his air tank. Likewise, receiving a 6-inch-tall, violin-playing clown saying “You Play on the Strings of my heart Valentine! Be Mine” pretty much meant that kid liked you. And can there be any doubt about the affection expressed in this card: a skydiver floating to Earth on a heart-shaped parachute asking, “May I Land on Your Heart?” Jo won the day if not the boy. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent.

IN THE SPIRIT

Shaken or Stirred?

A brief primer on the fundamentals of icing the perfect cocktail

By Tony Cross

Having discussed

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the different shapes and sizes of ice, and how it’s used as an ingredient and tool when making a cocktail, it’s time to explain how to use the ice you’ve molded at home when you’re stirring or shaking a cocktail. Everyone knows how to shake it, right? Wrong. Once on a weekend vacation in the mountains, I ordered a drink and the bartender shook my Manhattan. I didn’t have the heart to say anything — I drank it and left. It pays to know the difference.

Let me preface this by saying that I do not consider myself a professional bartender. I used to run a restaurant and bar, but I have never been “shown the ropes” from men and women at craft cocktail establishments who have been doing this for years and years. I taught myself by watching and reading. I’ll share what works for me, but keep this in mind: Everyone has their own style; you need to find yours. Cocktails have been a passion, and I’m lucky enough to get paid for what I do, but a professional? No, no, no. Please go see Gary Crunkleton at his bar in Chapel Hill. You’re welcome. When stirring a cocktail, first you’ll need a mixing vessel. There are plenty of beautiful ones to choose from online, but if you don’t want to wait, and already have a barspoon, you can use a glass pint. You always want your vessel as cold as possible. If it’s at room temperature, your cocktail will be overdiluted when you finish stirring. The goal is to make sure your cocktail is very cold and properly diluted. Before you start stirring, you’ll need to understand

why and what kind of cocktails to stir. A good rule of thumb is to stir clear drinks. By “clear” I mean cocktails that call for spirits, vermouth and bitters. If your cocktail calls for juice, an egg white and/ or dairy, do not stir. You’ll want to shake those. As the bartender mentioned previously should have known, a Manhattan is stirred. You’ll take your ice-cold vessel, and add 2-3 dashes of aromatic bitters, 1 ounce of sweet vermouth and 2 ounces of rye whiskey (for example). Then add your ice. Use smaller cubes of ice (1 inch square) or cracked ice. If you use larger pieces, your drink will be harder to stir while getting the proper temperature and dilution. Take your barspoon (typically around 12 inches long, with a very thin neck) and place the bowl of the spoon (the outside) to the inside wall at the bottom of the vessel. I am right-handed, so I hold the neck of the spoon 3/4 of the way up in-between my ring and middle finger. The remaining neck of the spoon travels on the inside of my index finger and thumb. I stir clockwise, and make sure that the back of the spoon almost always touches the inside of the mixing vessel while I stir. To do this, you’ll need to let the neck of the spoon rotate clockwise in your hand while you’re stirring. If you’re just starting out, I recommend flipping the barspoon upside down. It makes it easier to focus on getting the hand-to-barspoon placement right without having to concentrate on the bowl of the spoon fighting with the ice cubes. Another trick is to slightly bend the bottom of the neck (next to the bowl); this will make it easier to control the ice cubes. For a quick visual, search for “Jamie Boudreau stirring” on YouTube. It’s a minute and a half tutorial, and it’s literally how I was taught. Stirring takes a little longer than shaking a cocktail because of the dilution factor. Practice makes perfect, and your stirring needs to be as smooth as possible. You shouldn’t really hear any noise while stirring. When shaking, however . . . Be noisy as hell! I’ve seen many bartenders shake different ways. As long as you’re not over-diluting your cocktail, you’re good to go. Yes, it has to be icecold too. There are a couple of ways to over-dilute while shaking — shake too

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long; use the wrong ice (wet); or breaking up the ice cubes into little shards that dilute your drink in addition to the time you spent shaking. When using standard mixing tins for shaking, you’ll have a large and small tin. Add ingredients and ice into the small shaker, and place the larger shaker on top, but not straight on top. You’ll want to give it a slight curve, kind of like a banana. Give the top of the vessel a firm hit from the palm of your hand to make sure it’s sealed. There will be a firm seal on about 1/8 of the tins but that’s OK. Next, flip the sealed vessel around so that the small vessel is at the top. You do this because if any liquid comes out, it will go toward you and not your guests. Because I’m right-handed, my left hand is firmly holding the large vessel (with bottom facing away from me) and my right hand is holding the small vessel, facing toward me. I shake my drinks over my right shoulder, in a back-and-forth/pushing-and-pulling fashion. I use either 4-5 small cubes or 1 large cube and 2 small cubes. You do not want your ice to bang back and forth from one vessel end to the next. Instead, try to make sure the ice is being pulled back toward you as soon as it is rocketing away from you. When you finish shaking (around 10 seconds), place the connected tins in your left hand. Remember the small seal connecting the tins right before you started shaking? Look for that. Right where the seal starts to separate is where you’ll take the heel of your right hand and hit it. Doing so correctly will break the seal, allowing you to strain your drink. Never bang the sealed tin against the bar or corner of a table. If you’re using a Boston shaker (large shaking tin and pint glass), the glass will break. As far as your shaking skills go, you’ll know when you’re getting it right after you strain your cocktail and see that the ice cubes look more spherical than before you used them. You’re only going to be able to achieve this while shaking fast. As the saying goes, wake the drink up, don’t put it to sleep. One last thing: Never shake a drink facing your friends or guests. If the tins slip out of your hands — which can always happen — you’ll knock them out. Turn to the side, away from them. When starting to stir or shake for the first time, dilution is what you’re trying to perfect. It’s easier (at least it was for me) to feel how cold your drink is than to know when to stop stirring and shaking. I recommend purchasing a small digital scale to measure the ingredients, minus ice, in ounces before and after straining it into the glass. You’re aiming for a 1/2-ounce increase after you’ve shaken or stirred. Now get to work. PS Tony Cross is a bartender who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern Pines.

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The Carolina Philharmonic presents

THE WILD WEST Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 7:30 PM Robert E. Lee Auditorium • Pinecrest High School 250 Voit Gilmore Ln. • Southern Pines, NC

Saddle up for some of the greatest western film scores of all time, as well as classic pops repertoire that has come to define the Wild West. Tickets starting at $30

with discounts for active military and students (910) 687.0287•www.carolinaphil.org The Carolina Philharmonic is a 501(c)3 non-profit

FOREST CREEK GOLF CLUB

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Play on the exclusive Tom Fazio designed North Course, considered one of the top 100 residential courses in the country. Each hole is a unique and invigorating experience.

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Monday, March 18, 2019

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GOLF TOURNAMENT Proceeds benefit the Music Education Programs of The Carolina Philharmonic serving 3,500 local children annually.

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Entry fee includes: Continental breakfast & Lunch Hole-in-One Golf prizes Start: 9:30 AM Shotgun Format: One Best Ball Net For additional information call The Carolina Philharmonic

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HERE WE GROW AGAIN!

We will soon be breaking ground on a new apartment building. The Wharton will have covered parking on the ground floor, and each apartment will have a large deck or patio. It is in a prime location right outside the Village House (our community center). Plans are well underway. In fact, 12 of the 20 apartments are already spoken for.

If you are interested in learning more about the project, please join us for one of two informational meetings. RSVP to jmedlin@penickvillage1964.org or (910)692-0449.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 TH at 10:00AM OR

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 TH at 10:00 AM A Faith-Based Not For Profit Life Plan & Continuing Care Retirement Community

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THE KITCHEN GARDEN

Lion’s Share A touch of fungus for the brain

By Jan Leitschuh

What if there was a mushroom that

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might repair our aging brains? What if this mushroom tasted a little like lobster, was quite hard to find in grocery stores yet crazy-easy to grow?

Lion’s mane mushroom, Hericium erinaceus, is a goofy, scruffy, spongy, snowball-shaped fungus one wouldn’t immediately identify as an edible mushroom. Lacking the typical stem and cap, the soft white spines emerge from a meaty white core like a lion’s mane. Funny-looking or not, it has been used for millennia in Asia, and is still deeply revered there as a medicinal food that brings vigor to the aging, aids cognition and fights cancer. It is rare to find fresh lion’s mane mushroom in grocery stores. Sometimes, Asian markets will offer them, or a large farmers market. One can buy powdered extracts online, but for fresh, your best bet is to grow your own. I got my kit locally, from Carolina Mushroom Growers (CMG) of Willow Springs. The former hog farm now markets fresh ’shrooms to area restaurants, and sells quarts of fresh mushrooms and pre-made kits every weekend at the North Carolina State Farmers Market in Raleigh. Lion’s mane mushroom “is what I like to call a ‘hairy mozzarella,’” says grower Shahane Taylor, 34, of CMG. Though odd in appearance, lion’s mane is both eminently edible and beneficial for our bodies. It’s one of the easiest mushrooms to raise from a kit, and homegrown mushrooms are especially helpful for engaging children, for kitchen gourmets or for those without much land for growing who still enjoy playing with edible Mother Nature. With the outdoor growing season at least a month or two off, a springhungry kitchen gardener might choose to order a kit and raise up a few pounds of these otherwise expensive fungi, also called hedgehog or pompom mushrooms. To avoid getting too deep into the weeds of growing edible mushrooms, beginners will probably have their best luck via a pasteurized and pre-colonized bag of hardwood chips and white, fungal mycelium. Your bag will have a slit or three. Many slits mean smaller ’shrooms, so stay under three. Good light is essential to a plentiful crop. The bags need brightness to fruit, so if not a sunny window, bright lights will do. Adequate humidity will also contribute to success. Simply follow the directions, wait a few weeks, and harvest large, fresh, white, brain-like softballs of gourmet mushrooms. Get out the butter and panfry. Then, do it again, getting a second “flush” from the same kit. You may have observed the characteristic lion’s mane, native to North America, tendrils or soft spines on a hike. Lion’s mane enjoys decaying hardwoods as a substrate. “This fungi is king of the forest,” says Taylor. “So when you encounter one just know you’re in the presence of royalty.” I have seen these funny fungi growing on hardwood logs in damp mountain areas in Western North Carolina and, intrigued, recently decided to try a growing kit myself (not trusting my wild-mushroom identification powers enough to wager my liver on it). The curious health benefit? Lion’s mane mushrooms contain bioactive

substances that have beneficial effects on the body, especially the brain, heart and gut. The mushroom is being studied in connection with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. “Did I mention it’s also a nootropic?” says Taylor. Nootropic: a substance said to increase cognitive abilities. Mmmm, let’s have us some of that. Typically, the brain’s ability to grow and form new connections declines with age. Yet studies have found that lion’s mane mushrooms, a traditional Chinese medicine stalwart, contain two special compounds that can stimulate the growth of brain cells: hericenones and erinacines, terms derived from the mushroom’s Latin name. Who couldn’t use a few more brain cells, especially after a misspent youth? Asking for a friend . . . A 2012 study in Malaysia suggested that consuming lion’s mane mushrooms could assist in the regeneration of nerve cells from peripheral nerve injury, and from some types of brain and spinal cord injuries, by stimulating the growth and repair of nerve cells. Lion’s mane extract may also help reduce the severity of brain damage after a stroke. In one study, high doses of lion’s mane mushroom extract given to rats immediately after a stroke helped decrease inflammation and reduce the size of stroke-related brain injury by 44 percent. Other animal studies found that lion’s mane improved the functioning of the hippocampus, a region of the brain responsible for processing memories and emotional responses. Researchers suspect that improved functioning of the hippocampus explained the interesting reductions in anxious and depressive behaviors in mice given these extracts. A study in older adults with mild cognitive impairment found that consuming three grams of powdered lion’s mane mushroom daily for four months significantly improved mental functioning, However, they say these benefits disappeared when supplementation stopped. Another study in Japan, using men aged 50-80 years old with mild cognitive impairment, also suggested that lion’s mane is effective at improving cognition. Subjects were split into two groups and half were given dry powdered lion’s mane three times a day and observed over 16 weeks. At weeks eight, 12 and 16, the group taking lion’s mane scored significantly better on a cognitive test than the half in the placebo group Additionally, animal studies have found that lion’s mane may help the

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brain protect itself against Alzheimer’s disease. Besides reducing symptoms of memory loss in mice, lion’s mane mushroom and its extracts have also been shown to prevent neuronal damage caused by amyloid-beta plaques, which accumulate in the brain during Alzheimer’s disease. This is your mouse’s brain on lion’s mane. Any questions? While it appears to boost mental function in humans too (judging by Amazon reviews for online powdered products), no human studies have yet examined the benefits in battling Alzheimer’s disease. But it’s a simple food, and according to a host of research, lion’s mane has been found to slow the progression, or even reverse the spread, of a variety of cancers, such as gastric, lung, leukemia, breast and colon cancers. And, as part of its powerful anti-inflammatory nature, lion’s mane may improve our heart health and digestive system, lowering triglycerides and shrinking gastric ulcers. These fluffy ’shrooms also boost the immune system, lower blood sugar, reduce anxiety and contain powerful free-radical-fighting antioxidants that help protect our liver and skin. And it tastes good too? Thanks to its solid consistency when sliced and subtle maritime flavor, lion’s mane can be used as a seafood substitute in recipes. Slice the fungal “brain” into rounds and pan-fry it in olive oil or butter, or try ripping it up and making “Lion’s Mane Cakes” by following your favorite crab cake recipe — using the lion’s mane as a substitute for the crabmeat. Your favorite vegan will thank you. Many say this mushroom pairs well with brown rice, lentils or quinoa, especially with a few flavorful veggies such as onions, garlic, ginger and fresh bell pepper — or any vegetable you think might pair well with shrimp or crab — for seasoning. The flavor is mild, and will pick up the flavors of its companions. To harvest, slice or twist a softball-sized “brain” off the grow bag. It will keep a day or two in a fridge crisper in a paper bag, but no longer. Best to cook and freeze, if you can’t eat your harvest all at once. Slice this monster mushroom into half-inch “steaks,” as the interior is solid and meaty. Excess water may ruin your intended dish, since this mushroom can be water-filled under some conditions. So, using a dry pan, cook the steaks for 3-5 minutes a side to drive out excess moisture. Add butter to the pan and finish cooking them until golden brown. For information on local lion’s mane (and other) mushroom-growing kits, contact Carolina Mushroom Farm at (919) 593-2164. PS

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WINE COUNTRY

What’s on the Plate? Soul mates for fine wines

By Angela Sanchez

Cheese and

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wine are natural partners, and wherever there’s good wine, good cheese is sure to follow. It’s a partnership of land, stewardship and artisan craft that’s been around for hundreds of years. If you walk into a small family-owned winery in Spain or Italy you are likely walking into their home. The winery is on the attached property and the vineyards are either there or nearby. No matter the time of day, you’ll be served cheese from their own making or from a nearby farm, simply cut and served with a locally made charcuterie, fruit or olives — perfectly paired and thoughtfully prepared.

We always have a cheese board for family and friends, either before dinner or as a simple meal, and wine is there to complement. For me, a cheese board starts as an idea. The parts and the presentation should be equally fabulous, making it as appealing to the eye as to the palate. Start simply and build from a good foundation. Just like choosing a great wine to enjoy and share, you need to know your company. Are they adventurous eaters and drinkers, or less so? Regardless of who you are entertaining, take a classic approach to building the tray — three cheeses: one hard, one soft and one blue. If you have guests who don’t care for blue cheese, try a classic Stilton from England or Maytag Blue from Wisconsin. One trick is to add a little local honey or jam to serve alongside. If you are having some great Italian wines like Prosecco and Sangiovese and or Nebbiolo, you can choose three Italian cheeses. My favorites are Pecorino Toscano (a six-month aged sheep’s milk cheese), Robiola (a soft, mixed milk cheese containing goat, sheep and cow’s milk), and Gorgonzola Dolce (a nice semi-soft blue cheese made of cow’s milk). To keep it simple add walnuts or marcona almonds from Spain, a few pieces of quality

dried fruit like Turkish apricots, and seasonal fruit like berries and figs in the summer or pears and apples in fall. I like to offer a mixed medium for cheese “carriers.” A cracker with a light addition of rosemary and olive oil and a baguette cut into pieces and served toasted or plain. Keep it simple, interesting and tasty. Open the wines 10-20 minutes in advance — except a sparkling —and bring the cheese up to room temperature 30-45 minutes before serving. If your company eats meat, add a little charcuterie. Charcuterie is the “art” of preparing meat in various forms by preserving it — prosciutto, salami, bacon, sausages and paté, to name a few. I like to use two meats: speck, smoked prosciutto from Alto Adige in Italy, and sopresatta or salami, like Milano, made with white wine and black pepper. The salty and herbal flavors of the meats can pair well with wines that have been oak-aged like a California chardonnay or Spanish Priorat made from grenache. Classic pairings of paté and Champagne are always a great addition. Try adding cornichons, tiny French pickles, and olives. For a larger party, offer an additional cheese or cheese spread. A fresh chevré from a local source is a good spreadable option, or perhaps a well-made pimento cheese spread, low on the mayo, can be a fun, regionally inspired complement to the mix. In addition to wine, offer a well-made craft beer to pair with the charcuterie and olives. Stout or a wheat beer, like hefeweizen, pairs nicely with cheese and salty meats. With a larger group always cut a few pieces of cheese in advance so your guests will know how to cut and eat it, otherwise you’ll be staring at a solid block of cheese all night. The thing I love about a cheese board is how easy it is to make it your own. Add fresh herbs from your garden in the summer or your mom’s homemade jam to pair with the cheeses. Whatever you like will be sure to delight. You can choose the wine around the cheese or the cheese around the wine. Make it an “All American” board with cheeses from the U.S. paired with wines from California and Washington, or go full French or Italian. Keep it simple or go all out. Snack or meal, you can’t go wrong. PS Angela Sanchez owns Southern Whey, a cheese-centric specialty food store in Southern Pines, with her husband, Chris Abbey. She was in the wine industry for 20 years and was lucky enough to travel the world drinking wine and eating cheese.

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A Running Dialogue Keeping a list, checking it twice

By R enee Phile

“I hurt my foot, and I don’t think I

can sit through church,” he said on a rainy Sunday morning about 10 a.m. We needed to leave at 10:15 to get there on time, which we almost never do.

“You’re fine. Get dressed. And don’t wear the same clothes you slept in,” I said, reinforcing the obvious just to be on the safe side. He groaned. “My foot hurts like really bad! I know you think I’m faking, but I’m not. Honest, I’m not. I can’t make it through church with this.” “Be ready in 15 minutes.” Yes, this took place. Yes, he went to church. Yes, his foot is fine. No, we didn’t make it on time. With two boys under my own feet, life is always in motion. Trips to school, to wrestling practice, to the grocery store, to youth group, to band practice, to galaxies far, far away. Sometimes as I’m dozing off at night and I think about what I did that day, all that comes to mind is a whirlwind. It goes by so fast that I decided to lasso the cyclone. In an effort to preserve the moments I have with these two, I write down the things they say. Here is a small sample from 10-year-old Kevin: “I am a wizard at Battleship, and you are . . . just a starter, Mommy. You need some major tips.” (He beat me 7-1.) “I have been waiting an hour and only have an inch of macaroni!” (Ruby Tuesdays. Sunday afternoon. The wait was short but the portion didn’t fulfill his macaroni dreams.) “I need to get my Halloween costume ready.” (It’s June.) “Can we eat macaroni every night?” (He asks this before I go to the

grocery store. Every week.) “I don’t get why my sweet potato counts as dessert! That’s not fair!” (Hey, I tried.) “If it was thundering while we were having Halloween, I would look even creepier.” (Again, it was June). “I’m kind of glad I didn’t wait until I was 12 to jump off the diving board.” (When he was 7, I told him we weren’t leaving the pool until he jumped off the diving board. Three years later I’m some kind of savant.) “I will take care of you when you get old. David probably won’t, so I will.” (Thank you, Kevin. By the way, can we put that in writing? Just sign here.) “Can I please go to Grandma Jean’s house? I know she misses me. Can we have a huge Nerf gun war?” (Undoubtedly, the part she misses the most.) And here are a few of my counteroffers: “Your foot’s fine. You don’t even limp unless you think someone is watching you.” (Sunday, theater of the absurd.) “Quit reading your Lego directions in church.” (Whose kid is this?) “Stop taking selfies in church.” (Oh yes, he did.) “No, you can’t use your fork after you dropped it on the floor.” (Temporarily thwarted in his attempt to devour an inch of macaroni.) “You don’t need to figure out your Halloween costume right this minute.” (Did I mention it was June?) “So, what do I do, Admiral?” (Let’s face it, I need Battleship help.) “No, you cannot wear that shirt and those pants today. You wore them the last two days.” (Some things cannot be stressed enough.) “Grandma Jean is a pacifist.” (Nerfwise.) So, there you go. I never know what will come out of his mouth, and to be honest, I usually never know what will come out of mine either. PS Renee Phile loves being a teacher, even if it doesn’t show at certain moments.

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OUT OF THE BLUE

Read Them and Weep Do catalogs describe the way we are? By Deborah Salomon

Once in a while I stumble upon a catalog

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Walkie-talkie, anyone? Vibrating back scratcher (batteries not included)? SkyMall crashed and burned along with other travel niceties like pleasant flight attendants and knee space. After that, I investigated a catalog from The Vermont Country Store, perhaps the last purveyor of woolies — those flesh-colored knee-length undies for cold grannies. Last year in this space, it was Harriet Carter’s Distinctive Gifts Since 1958, featuring basically the same gifts as ’58 at a higher price. Harriet’s pièce de résistance was the tushy-shaped Fanny Bank that awarded each deposit with flatulence. So, I figured, when Harriet goes low, I’ll go high, starting with Hammacher Schlemmer, a name long revered and mispronounced by aficionados of expensive gadgetry. Moving quickly past a cashmere sweatshirt and outdoor heated cat shelter (with gambrel roof and clear plastic door flaps) to the world’s smallest quadcopter — only 1.1-inch square, with piezoelectric gyros and accelerometers, for CFOs who graduated from paper airplanes but haven’t quite mastered H-S’s sidewinding circular skates that work on grass and dirt. Dog people appreciate silent dog toys with ultrasonic squeaks only your Lab and the political far right will hear. Of interest to local duffers, golf ball locating glasses with blue lenses that make white golf balls pop out of shady glades. Yeah, right. Ditto the six-person sandless beach mat that “sheds sand that comes in contact with it, using military technology that protects helicopters from dust.” How about quadcopters? I wonder which clinic approved the Clinically Proven Circulation Improving Throw that “converts released body heat into therapeutic infrared light that is reabsorbed back into the skin”? That’s after you rub on the snake oil. I did like H-S’s low-tech Desktop Bat Signal that projects Batman’s logo 26 feet into the night. But I cannot grasp the reasoning behind animated rocking horses for kids. I thought the purpose was making a pony rock. However, the underwater hand-grasp scooter sounds like fun if it didn’t cost $700. Moving on to rival Sharper Image which, sadly, paled beside H-S — an

Electronic Rock ‘N Roll Drum Mat is cheaper than a set of real drums, and makes sufficient noise. I could use that Lost Item Locator, which finds car keys and other stuff. Only problem — this gizmo requires downloading an app, which means finding my cellphone. The personalized bobblehead doll (send photo, choose body type) is positively creepy, at $189. I don’t need a travel mug that, when plugged into a car cigarette lighter, reveals beverage temperature, but I’m intrigued with the potted waterless Levitating Fern, which draws moisture from the air and — get this — floats over an electromagnetic base. Watching a fern float should entertain my cats for hours . . . unless they choose to remain cloistered in that non-fossil-fuel heated house. The less said about the Surround Sound Shower System, the better. I love Billy Joel, just not diluted by shampoo. When Femail Creations catalog arrived I thought good job, the Me-Tooers have gone retail. I opened it eagerly, expecting meaningful merchandise from women, for women. I soon realized the distaff creators might be channeling Harriet Carter, circa 1958. No techno-tronics. Instead, coffee mugs blaring “Nurses can’t fix stupid but we can sedate it” and hats embroidered “Garden Hair Don’t Care.” But wait. By page 38 Femails had sunk to a paperweight engraved “Sassy, Classy and a lil’ Bad Assy,” a Ruth Bader Ginsberg necklace and a soap dispenser displaying a familiar bearded face alongside the rhyme: “Wash Your Hands and Say Your Prayers Because Jesus & Germs are Everywhere.” I’ll spare you the bathroom spray. Really, girls. The only tempting item was a plain black cosmetic bag with timeless wisdom attributed to Coco Chanel: “Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.” Maybe I’m drawn to these catalogs because they illustrate the State of the Union as perceived by vendors: Despite a government in turmoil, hurricanes, floods, blizzards, salmonella, mass shootings, a volatile stock market, immigrants crowding our gates . . . if enough Americans are willing to lay out $99.99 for a rechargeable heated massaging stadium seat, maybe things aren’t so bad after all. Because the last thing a football fan who pays $500 for a bowl ticket wants is a cold, unmassaged tushy. 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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B I R D WA T C H

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By Susan Campbell

The evening grosbeak is one special bird:

one that old-timers in Piedmont North Carolina may remember from winters many years ago. Anyone newer to our fair state has likely not seen one here. Those who have been feeding winter songbirds for decades know this bird as the one that can show up in massive flocks and has the capacity to devour black oil sunflower seed in huge quantities in no time at all. It has never been a regular here even when sightings did reliably occur every few years. During winters when northern hardwoods — ash and conifers, such as pine and spruce — set little seed, grosbeaks must fly farther afield to find food. Across New England and the upper Midwest, flocks are forced to move southward in search of sources of nuts and seeds to nourish them during the cold weather. Farther and farther they fly until they find trees laden with fruits — and feeders well-stocked with black oil sunflower seed.

Although populations are quite healthy in the western United States and Canada, evening grosbeaks are not doing well at all here in the East. In the last 50 years a huge decline (as much as 95 percent) has been documented, likely as the result of habitat alteration, from large-scale aerial spraying of boreal forest to counter diseases such as salmonella and West Nile virus. So, it is no surprise that appearances of grosbeaks as a result of eruptions this far

Sightings of the evening grosbeak are fewer and far between

south are few and far apart these days. Evening grosbeaks are easy to recognize: They are a bit larger than cardinals and have varying degrees of yellow plumage. Adult males are mostly yellow with splashes of white. Females and young males only have limited amounts of yellow plumage on a pale background. But all have black wings and a black tail. The most prominent feature of these handsome, husky birds is, as their name implies, a huge white bill. During the warmer months, grosbeaks have quite a broad diet consisting of a variety of invertebrates, buds of trees and flowering plants along with tree sap as well as larger fruits and their seeds. The birds will forage from the ground to the very tops of trees, especially in the summer months when they have young mouths to feed. Not only will they clean up fallen fruits but they will also hunt aerial insects on the wing. There are several curious facts about these beautiful birds. One is that for a songbird, the males do not sing. Both sexes simply employ short calls to communicate, especially during the breeding season, but also during the rest of the year. Another interesting tidbit: There is no territorial defense around the nest site. The explanation for the evolution of both these strategies is that resources (especially food) are so abundant that there is no need to advertise or create a territory during a good portion of the year. At feeders, adult males may occasionally chase females and younger males, but generally they feed peacefully, shoulder-to-shoulder. I will be watching closely for evening grosbeaks in the Sandhills and Piedmont until spring. I have memorized their calls — and have vowed to keep my sunflower feeders full through the winter. However, if any of these large, colorful birds with well-endowed bills end up in our mist nets at the banding station at Weymouth Woods, I guarantee I will be pulling out the heavy gloves as well as a big dose of courage. PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos. She can be contacted by email at susan@ncaves.com.

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SPORTING LIFE

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I started fishing at a very young age. It

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was said that when I was born, my dad put a baseball and glove in my crib, and shortly afterward, my granddad hung a bait-casting rod and reel on the side. My destiny was preordained. When I wasn’t playing baseball, I was fishing.

Over the years, I’ve met quite a few fishermen and fisher ladies, if there is such a term. I’ve fished with some, caught fish with some, listened to many tall fish tales, some of them true, and told many tall fish tales, some of them also true. My granddaddy often said that you could tell a man’s true character by spending an hour or two with him fishing. And I’ve done that. Most recently was with one of the most colorful fishermen friends I’ve met in quite a while, Bennett Rose, a fisherman’s fisherman. A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to have lunch with him. Bennett could be a knock-off of Ernest Hemingway, or he could fit right in with Augustus McCrae and W.F. Call and their Hat Creek Cattle Company, as told in Larry McMurtry’s famous Western novel Lonesome Dove. Bennett is a medium-sized fellow with a shock of white hair and beard to match. He has the ease of movement of a natural athlete and walks like a cat. If the room were suddenly turned upside down, he’d land on his feet. When two fishermen get together, the conversation always starts with the weather, then automatically turns to fishing. When I asked him at what age he started fishing, he looked at me with a baffled look and replied, “I don’t know. I’ve always fished.” Then he added, “Maybe 6?” Bennett grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, with his two brothers,

Porter and Jack, and a sister, Patricia. Like most Southerners, his parents leaned hard toward outdoor sports. Bennett was also encouraged by his grandfather, who had a beach cottage at Pawleys Island in the low country of South Carolina, where he spent many happy days surf fishing. Bennett’s working life complemented his outdoor sporting life. I asked him how he got into the forestry service trade. “Most everybody living in Greenville worked in a textile mill. I sure didn’t want to do that. I wanted to be outside, so I was lucky enough to get started in a forest managing job; and eventually, I worked for Continental Can Company. I was with them for 13 years managing their forest investments that included over 70,000 acres. They wanted me to move to Raleigh to a desk job, though, and I didn’t want to do that, so I started my own company, Bennett Rose and Associates, Forestry Consultants. I did that for about 17 years.” Bennett’s son, Smedes, and grandchildren live in New York. When I questioned him about his son’s unusual name, he said, “Smedes was named after my great-grandfather Aldert Smedes. He was an Episcopal priest and actually started Saint Mary’s School in Raleigh.” The conversation turned back to the outdoors. “You not only fish, but I know you love to bird hunt.” “Yeah, Tom. You know the wild quail that we used to have around here are long gone, and shooting on preserves is just not for me. I was fortunate last year to go out to Texas with my brother Jack, and shoot quail just like it was in the old days. I bet we jumped 25 coveys the first day. What a great hunt. I want to do that again.” “What other sports do you enjoy?” “I love snow skiing. I try to go out West to Sun Valley every year for a week or so to see if I’m as good as I once was. And I used to skydive, or I did until it got so expensive.” That answer took me aback. I had no idea that Bennett had ever done that. “Good grief! How many jumps did you make?” He looked at me and grinned. “Five hundred thirty-two. It was loads of fun, but the cost finally cut me out of participating.” “You certainly have done a lot in the outdoor sports category,” I said, “but

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your reputation that I know about, and the photos on the wall of your porch, testify to salt water fishing, for big fish, red fish, that is.” Bennett’s porch with its stone fireplace looks like it could be right out of a Garden and Gun magazine feature, and the porch wall probably has 30 to 40 photos of friends and family he has guided on South Carolina fishing trips off the coast of Pawleys Island. In most of the photos, the lucky participant is holding a big red drum, and nearly all the fish are trophy size. “I’ve heard you named this the Wall of Fame.” “Wrong,” he replied, laughing. “It’s the wall of pain. Tom, we catch and release all of our fish. I use circle hooks so we don’t hurt the fish when we bring them in. I’m sure most of the fish we catch survive.” I haven’t had the opportunity to fish with Bennett lately; our schedules haven’t seemed to mesh. But there was one trip that Linda, my bride, and I made to Huntington Beach State Park, South Carolina, just a few miles north of Pawleys Island, when Bennett came over for the afternoon, and we did a little surf fishing. I say we, but Bennett did most of the work, bringing everything from his beach cart to the bait we used. The beach was beautiful as usual, only one other couple fishing, and we set up a little way down from them. Bennett cast out the bait, and I kicked back in a beach chair to watch. After a while, I walked back to the Airstream to get some refreshments, and when I got back to the beach, Bennett was helping the neighbor fisherman pull in a trophy red fish. I could tell that the fellow was a novice because Bennett was doing all the work. He even ran back to our set-up, grabbed his camera from his tackle box, and rushed back to the lucky fisherman to take a couple of snapshots. After he helped him release the fish into the surf, he walked back to our chairs. I couldn’t tell who was happier, the couple fishing or Bennett. We watched as the pair packed up and left, heading back to their campsite. “Bryant, do me a favor and find out that fellow’s address, and I’ll send him the prints of his big fish.” “I know where they’re camped. I’ve seen them down here several times, so I’ll do that tomorrow.” Bennett was grinning from ear to ear. “That made my day,” he said. You would have thought Bennett had just pulled in that big fish. Then I realized that what my grandfather said about character is true. My friend Bennett Rose would have made my grandfather proud. PS Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident, is a lifelong outdoorsman and PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist.

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Four on the Floor Major championships at home in the Carolinas

By Lee Pace

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The coming year is a big one in the

Carolinas for national golf competitions as four USGA national championships will be scattered across the region — two in the Sandhills, one along the coast, and one smack in the middle of an urban market measuring more than two million residents. There is no grand design for this concentration of “majors” along our pristine nook of the Atlantic Seaboard, just a random confluence of events that have landed the limelight on Pinehurst No. 2, Pine Needles, the Country Club of Charleston and Old Chatham in one calendar year.

“The schedule obviously highlights the fact we think we have a lot of great championship venues in the Carolinas,” says Reg Jones, the USGA’s senior director of U.S. Open Championships. “There’s a lot of great golf here, and the coming year will be a showcase for the Carolinas.” The festivities begin May 16-19 with the U.S. Women’s Senior Open coming to Pine Needles and being played for just the second time after launching in 2018 at Chicago Golf Club. The club has a rich history in the women’s game

via its ownership since the 1950s of the family of the late Peggy Kirk Bell; it has hosted three U.S. Women’s Opens and is set as the venue for a fourth in 2022. Two weeks later, the spotlight moves to Charleston for the 74th U.S. Women’s Open. The club is one of the oldest in the Carolinas, founded in 1900 on a site north of the city and moving in 1925 to its present location on John’s Island, just across the Ashley River southwest of downtown. The club and the USGA both enjoyed the 2013 Women’s Amateur won by Emma Talley and thought it worthy of a second take on a bigger stage. The 119th U.S. Amateur continues the vaunted heritage of Pinehurst No. 2 as a major championship setting and will be held Aug. 12-18, with the two qualifying rounds shared on the No. 4 course recently redesigned by Gil Hanse. This will be the third U.S. Amateur on the Donald Ross-designed course, following Labron Harris Jr.’s win in 1962 and Danny Lee’s triumph in 2008; it falls dead in between the course’s last U.S. Open in 2014 and the next one set for ’24. And then in the last week of August (24-29), the 65th U.S. Senior Amateur comes to Durham and Old Chatham Golf Club, a course designed by Rees Jones that opened in 2001 to serve the fast-growing market of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. Old Chatham hasn’t the historical pedigree of the others, but it was conceived during the heady days of the late 1990s golf boom as a throwback — golf only, no residential component, and tasteful but modest infrastructure. “Our concept was to create a golf club for the purist,” says Rex Teaney, one of Old Chatham’s founders. “We knew this would be the second or third club for most of our members, so we didn’t need a pool and tennis and fine dining.

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We studied the old-line clubs and tried to implement their structure. We’re all about golf, the amateur game, and trying where we can to give back to the game. That was the appeal of having a Senior Amateur and, I think, why the USGA was attracted to coming here.” The Carolinas’ roots with the USGA have run deep for more than half a century as two luminaries in USGA administrative annals, Richard Tufts and P.J. Boatwright, have deep ties to the Sandhills of North Carolina and the upstate of South Carolina. Tufts was the grandson of Pinehurst founder James W. Tufts and was born in 1896, one year after James Tufts built the Holly Inn, two years before the first nine-hole golf course was cobbled from the barren, sandy soil, and five years before the Carolina Hotel opened. After graduating from Harvard in 1918, Richard returned to Pinehurst to join the family business and eventually run the resort and club. Tufts became a prime mover and shaker in international golf administrative circles, particularly in the 1950s with his ascension to the presidency of the USGA (1956-58). There were few parts of the game that his expertise and good sense did not touch — from rules to agronomy to course setup to tournament administration. Tufts also ran the Carolinas Golf Association from Pinehurst from 1934-65 as its secretary-treasurer. “How he found time for the CGA and the USGA while still running Pinehurst always amazed me,” son Peter Tufts said. “Dad and Donald Ross both had the ability to juggle what seemed like a hundred balls at the same time. But they got things done and did them well.” In 1955, Tufts hired a crack young amateur golfer from Aiken, South Carolina, to move to Pinehurst and run the day-to-day operations of the CGA. P.J. Boatwright thrived at the job for four years and then Tufts told USGA Executive Director Joe Dey in 1959 that Boatwright was ready to move to the national stage. Boatwright moved to USGA headquarters in New York City (prior to the association’s 1972 move to New Jersey) to become assistant executive director with the USGA and a decade later succeeded Dey. He spent 31 years with the USGA, taking the title of executive director of rules and competitions in 1980 to reflect his specialization in the elements he enjoyed most. The affection and respect the world of golf had for Richard Tufts was one reason competitors like Billy Joe Patton organized and presented a petition to the USGA in 1960 that the U.S. Amateur should be held on No. 2, which it was two years later. And it was Boatwright’s fondness for No. 2 that kept the idea of No. 2 hosting a U.S. Open in the incubator of potential sites for several decades — provided the club could eventually solve the issue of having firm and fast putting surfaces in mid-

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A robin comes to my yard in spring, breast like sun, bead-black eyes, slate-blue wings. He cocks his head, this way and that, listens for breakfast, grubs and insects rustling in fresh soil. No promise in those eyes how long he’ll stay. He may follow other birds, songs from somewhere far away muffled in the gusting wind. He may leave when cold begins to mute the green, or morning frost spreads sparkling icing on the ground. Winter comes, steals my memory of spring. But I return to this poem’s page. The robin never flies away. Sarah Edwards

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Golfing, shooting or selling Sandhills real estate, Glenna Collett Vare was a star By Bill Case • Photographs from the Tufts Archives

rom her vantage point on the veranda, the lithe 14-year-old girl watched with interest as her father prepared to hit his drive from the first tee. In his younger days, George Collett won international bicycle racing championships but he could steer his way around a golf course, too. The memory of that shot in the summer of 1917, overlooking what Glenna Collett described as the “magic carpet” of the Metacomet Country Club in Providence, Rhode Island, became permanently imprinted in her mind. “I watched Dad send a long, raking tee shot through the air. It dropped far down the fairway, ” she recalled in Ladies in the Rough, a book she would author a mere 11 years later. The ball’s soaring flight so captivated the teenager that she rushed to her father’s side with the enthusiasm of a child half her age flying down the staircase on Christmas morning. Despite never having swung a club, she saw no reason why she couldn’t smash a golf ball just like her dad and begged him to let her try. Collett’s self-confidence was grounded in her own athletic prowess. An accomplished swimmer, diver and tennis player, she could hold her own playing baseball with the neighborhood boys, too. Dad agreed to let her give it a go. Brandishing her father’s hickory-shafted driver, Collett swung away. “With beginner’s luck my first shot off the tee went straight down the fairway,” she recalled. “The length and accuracy of my initial drive stirred the enthusiasm of my father and several spectators.” Elated and intrigued, George encouraged his daughter to play along. It became obvious that her first drive was no fluke. She struck one flush shot after another. It would be her golfing epiphany, writing later that her “head was bursting with the soaring dreams that only the very young and ambitious live and know. As I came off the course after the first game, my destiny was settled. I would become a golfer.” Collett quickly learned that the naturalness of her swing did not auto-

matically translate into stellar golf. On her next visit to the course, her shots boomeranged in all directions, and a floundering Glenna carded a horrifying and humbling 150. Though she drove it farther than other women at the club, Glenna’s subsequent rounds resulted in scores mostly north of 100. She confessed to being “terribly depressed at my slow progress.” To lift his daughter out of her funk, George Collett retained two-time United States Open champion Alex Smith, who tutored his daughter twice a week for three years. As proficient a teacher as he was a player, the Scottishborn Smith’s whimsical instruction galvanized the young girl’s game. “Alex gave me a happy philosophy as well as an improved way of handling the putter and mashie,” she wrote. “He strengthened my driving to such an extent that . . . standing five feet six inches and weighing hundred and twenty-eight pounds, I drove a ball off a tee a measured distance 307 yards . . . the longest drive ever made by a woman golfer.” By the age of 16 Collett acquitted herself with a measure of distinction (but no victories) in Eastern tournaments during the summer of 1919. Fearful that enduring the winter months in snowy Providence would stall her improvement, George and his wife, Adah, pulled their child out of school at Christmas break. While her father stayed behind to manage his insurance business, Glenna and her mother headed south to golf-mad Pinehurst, where they spent the first quarter of 1920 at the Carolina Hotel. While Glenna acknowledged that her chance of passing French back in Providence “went a glimmering,” playing in events like the North and South Amateur proved beneficial to her game. Extended annual visits to the Sandhills would become a happy staple of her life for the next 15 years. By the time Collett arrived in Pinehurst for the 1922 winter season, she was recognized as an emerging force in amateur golf, the highest level of the

women’s game at the time. In March, she captured her first major tournament on course No. 2 in the Women’s North and South, defeating an outgunned Edith Cummings in the final match 4 and 2. The Pinehurst Outlook observed that Miss Collett, as the players of the day were described, was “sure to win many important championships and to be one of the prominent figures in the game for years to come.” Later that season, she won the U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Greenbrier, consistently outdriving her opponents by 50 yards. The new champion revealed something of a superstitious streak. Having consumed lamb chops, stringed beans and cream potatoes the evening before a practice round in which she carded an excellent 75, Collett confessed to “eating the same thing every night as long as the tournament lasted.” She also “wore the same skirt, sweater, and hat.” Her victory at the Greenbrier was a breathtaking achievement. No other golfer, before or since, ever won a major championship within five years after taking up the game. Public interest in all things Glenna rose to a fever pitch. The fact that the 19-year-old had become a stylish and attractive woman accentuated that attention. Collett acknowledged in Ladies in the Rough that the demands of new-found celebrity presented a wearing Catch 22: “Sooner or later the champion begins to realize that she is supposed to do this and that, either from a desire to be agreeable or an honest wish to live up to the sweet things said about her in sports columns. Most difficult of all is trying to be a ‘good sport.’ As such you are compelled to do many things you don’t give two hoots about, to go to parties when you just long to be in bed, to be nice to people, who ask all sorts of favors . . . but the champion, unless she has the skill of a diplomat, has no way of expressing her gratitude and at the same time refusing.” Collett relinquished her U.S. Amateur crown in 1923 but successfully defended the North and South title. She also earned trophies at two Florida tournaments and the Canadian Women’s Amateur. Those successes would be dwarfed by Glenna’s monster 1924 campaign. Dubbed the “female Bobby Jones,” she won 11 of the 12 tournaments she entered (including her third straight North and South championship), prevailing in 59 of 60 matches. Her only defeat came at the hands of Mary K. Browne in the semifinal of the U.S. Amateur when, putting from 20-feet on the 19th hole, Browne unintentionally caromed her ball off Collett’s into the hole to close out the match. Regaining her U.S. Amateur title in 1925 at St. Louis Country Club, Collett capped the championship with a 9 and 8 blowout of the veteran Alexa Stirling. Having retaken America’s most important title, she sailed across the Atlantic in an attempt to win a historic double at the British Women’s Amateur. For once, she found herself overmatched, facing England’s Joyce Wethered in the third round at rugged Troon. When the match ended after 15 holes, the brilliant Wethered stood five under par, leaving her American opponent in the dust. It was the first of several near misses for Collett in that championship. “More than once I have visualized myself, gray-haired and stooped, wearily trudging over the windswept fairways of an English course seeking that elusive title,” she wrote. The disappointment did little to detract from Collett’s victory parade in America. With each triumph, her star glowed brighter. The legendary Donald Ross considered Glenna’s presence at the resort to be “good advertising,” and her amiability attracted a growing coterie of Pinehurst friends and admirers. Since the queen of American golf had chosen Pinehurst for winter lodgings, a glittering array of eager challengers followed suit. Virginia Van Wie, Helen Hicks and Maureen Orcutt, all championship-caliber players, visited frequently. Collett welcomed her fellow competitors, squaring off against them in tournaments, exhibitions and friendly one-on-one matches. The 1920s were a golden time in Pinehurst. In addition to the female stars, legends like Walter Hagen, Tommy Armour, Bobby Jones and Jock Hutchison habitually visited, displaying their expertise on the resort’s courses. Golf aficionados flocked to the area in droves, not just to play but also to mingle with their heroes — both male and female.

n 1920, Leonard Tufts sought to capitalize on the good times by launching a real estate venture on 5,000 acres adjacent to the pathway of the old Yadkin Trail (now Midland Road) between Southern Pines and Pinehurst, forming Knollwood, Inc., whose stockholders included himself, Ross, New York steamship lines magnate James Barber, H.A. Page, Pinehurst, Inc., and Waldorf-Astoria, Inc. The first phase of that development was completed in 1924 with the opening of the Mid Pines Country Club, and its 118 room hotel, imposingly situated just behind the 18th green of the Ross-designed course. In January 1927, Leonard and the other shareholders embarked on a more ambitious phase of the development involving the subdivision and selling of hundreds of residential lots, many adjacent to the new Ross-designed Pine Needles golf course. A key aspect of the plan was the erection of the Pine Needles Inn (now Pine Knoll at St. Joseph of the Pines), a towering Jacobean structure that wowed all who saw it. The normally conservative Tufts reckoned that the booming economy and the imminent widening of Midland Road would result in brisk sales of lots and concluded the risk of borrowing money to finance the project would be minimal. Leonard’s own company, Pinehurst, Inc., was among the entities loaning substantial sums to the venture. Construction of the golf course and inn proceeded apace. Casting about for a big name who would entice guests to the Pine Needles Inn after its scheduled opening of January 28, 1928, the Knollwood brass thought of Collett, adored by just about everyone. In The Story of American Golf, Herbert Warren Wind likened Collett to his favorite actress, Ingrid Bergman, since both women gave “majestic performance[s] when at work” but “generally scorned the queenly manner.” The admiring Wind praised Collett’s “fine sense of humor at her own expense; she added verve to a party with her high-spirited playfulness; and she was that very rare thing, a good winner.”

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In exchange for room, board, free golf and some unknown stipend for herself and her mother, Collett accepted Knollwood’s proposal that she assist in promoting Pine Needles. She and Adah would relocate from the Carolina Hotel to the Pine Needles Inn on its opening day. The Pilot’s Bion Butler heralded Glenna’s arrival in his December 9, 1927 editorial: “She will be a feature of Sandhills outdoor life and probably her admirers will see that she is a central figure in much social contact in the house [Pine Needles Inn].” Another marketing idea occurred to Leonard Tufts shortly after the New Year. Wouldn’t it be great for Pine Needles to host a women’s tournament coinciding with the opening of the hotel with Collett as the main attraction? Ross had doubts whether the event could be staged with only 30 days’ notice. “I don’t know how much Miss Collett’s say-so would help,” the famed course designer wrote Leonard, “but it might because of the fact she knows them personally.” But Collett’s say-so did have clout, and she successfully recruited a strong field of 54 players for the Mid-South Open, contested a few days after the inn opened for business. While promotion of Pine Needles and its facilities was important, the Knollwood investors were primarily concerned with generating cash flow from the sales of lots. The Pilot collaborated with Knollwood, running articles above the fold unabashedly highlighting each lot sale, and generally serving as the project’s enthusiastic booster. In one editorial, Butler opined that Knollwood’s success was of paramount importance to “the whole united interest of the whole Sandhills community, for we all advance or stand still or go back together.” To augment The Pilot’s unwavering support, Knollwood manager J. Talbot Johnson and real estate agent Samuel B. Richardson (both of whom were Knollwood shareholders) embarked on a hard-sell advertising campaign to market the lots. After Ross bought two lots, an ad informed potential buyers that, “Donald Ross is the best authority in this country on values of real estate in the golf belts . . . He puts his money on Knollwood Heights.” Another gambit stressed the fine neighbors one would have by purchasing in Knollwood — most of them wealthy. “Mr. Sylvester,” says one Richardson ad, “is one of the big men in American finance as NCB has resources of around a billion dollars and heads everything else in the continent.” Richardson also stressed that “lots were going quickly” in the “buying whirlwind” and hesitant buyers should pull the trigger while there was still time. “Look at the maps in Richardson’s office,” (located at the Arcade Building — currently Morgan Miller and Framers Cottage — in Southern Pines), “and see how these lots are melting away.” Well, lots were not “melting away” quite as fast as the Knollwood men intimated, but assistance in marketing them would come early in 1928 from an unexpected source — Glenna Collett. It’s not clear what led to her role in arrang-

ing and closing the sale of a lot to Wisconsin real estate operator Robert Whittaker in early February, 1928, but whatever it was, Sam Richardson began touting her as a saleswoman extraordinaire. Richardson’s ad in the February 12 Pilot suggested that potential buyers visit Miss Collett at Pine Needles and “get her to drift about Knollwood Heights with you and talk golf and home sites. She will be glad to as she is an enthusiast about Pine Needles and she says she will be glad to sell more Knollwood Heights lots.” The Pinehurst Outlook also talked up Collett’s sales acumen, saying she was “as hard boiled in procuring a down payment as she is driving off the tee.” For her part, Collett insisted to the Outlook’s columnist “there is no reason why a woman should not be as good a salesman as a man.” She added that participation in sports “especially golf, should be a great help to a woman in business.” Glenna was not the only great amateur golfer selling golf course real estate. The star with whom she was often compared, Bobby Jones, was similarly employed in Sarasota, Florida. The Whittaker deal jump-started an impressive sales streak by Collett that continued until her return North in April 1928. Richardson’s ads in The Pilot reported them all. The February 17 edition proclaimed “Glenna Collett in action again” after she engineered the sale of lot 456 to Connecticut state Senator Wallace Pierson. On March 9, The Pilot disclosed that Collett had sold three lots to Messrs. Sylvester and Brasleton. On April 13, her biggest real estate score yet made the headlines of the paper when she convinced Michael Meehan to purchase an entire block of seven lots, then talked him into buying five more for his daughter Betty Elizabeth. On a roll, she arranged George Van Kueren’s purchase of three more lots. Her sales pitch was low-key. Richardson advertised that “Miss Collett has none of the hurrah, boys, style, but she simply interests her friends in discovering what they are anxious to find — the best spot on earth for a winter vacation, and she is a big influence in gathering the golf army together in the Sandhills.” Collett won her third U.S. Amateur title at The Homestead in the summer of 1928, annihilating her friend Van Wie in the 36-hole final 13 and 12. Talbot Johnson recognized that her status as current national champion rendered her even more valuable to Knollwood. Notwithstanding Johnson’s concern that “selling lots is so secondary to [Collett’s] golf that even the best land prospect would have to wait,” he urged Richard Tufts (Leonard’s son) to arrange for her return for the 1928-29 winter season. “I imagine Glenna is going to be more popular than ever this year on account of having again won the championship,” Johnson wrote. “I am convinced that her name is quite an asset to both Pinehurst and Knollwood and she is a good drawing card for both.” According to Johnson, Collett’s mother was keenly aware of her daughter’s marketability. Skillfully playing the role of unofficial agent, Adah never passed up an opportunity to remind Talbot that she and Glenna were constantly receiving “propositions from hotels offering not only to give them free board, but to pay railroad transportation.”

ollett and her mother eventually came to terms with Knollwood for a second year. They would bivouac at the Carolina in December, and then stay at the Pine Needles Inn after that house opened mid-January. Both The Pilot and Knollwood stepped up the marketing campaign in anticipation of their arrival. “With Glenna Collett and Mrs. Collett advocating the delights of Knollwood Heights as a place for a home in the North Carolina golf and vacation belt,” trumpeted one editorial, “the additions to Knollwood’s group this winter will be large.” Glenna herself penned a lengthy article on February 29, 1929, extolling the virtues of the Pine Needles course and Knollwood’s atmosphere. “I have come to prefer the new Pine Needles course to any of the others in the Sandhills,” she enthused, “because of its beauty and the associations that make it seem like home to me.”

1948 American Curtis Cup Team — Front row: Louise Suggs, Glenna Collett Vare, Estelle Lawson Page. Back row: Dorothy Kielty, Dorothy Kirby, Polly Riley, Grace Lenzyck. Despite the hullabaloo, real estate sales activity slowed to a trickle that winter. Few were buying. Even Collett’s star power was insufficient to reverse the trend, and events in her life contributed to her sales slump. Still mourning her father’s untimely death in 1928, the presence of a handsome blueblood Philadelphian vacationing in Pinehurst provided a further distraction. The name of Edwin H. Vare, Jr. began popping up in The Pilot, linked with Glenna’s. The March 1st Pilot reported that Collett had fired a magnificent 73 at Pine Needles and Vare, her playing partner, carded 85. Vare attended a dinner dance in Glenna’s honor at Lovejoy’s log cabin restaurant in Southern Pines (once located near the present Methodist Church). A romance blossomed. Though not selling many lots, Collett kept busy promoting and playing in the second Mid-South Open at Pine Needles. It was the first tournament in women’s golf where amateurs competed against female professionals. The Chamber of Commerce raised a whopping $50 in prize money. By the start of the Sandhills’ 1929-30 winter golf season, the shock of the stock market collapse and the looming Great Depression brought prosperity to a screeching halt. Even the wealthy shied away from building “winter homes.” Knollwood could not afford to keep Collett on the payroll despite her repeat victory in the U.S. Amateur championship. However, that did not stop her from continuing her brilliant play while in the Sandhills. She won her record sixth North and South title in March, and participated in an exhibition at Southern Pines Country Club that drew 2,000 spectators. In the summer of 1930, Collett carried home her fifth U.S. Amateur trophy (and third in succession), defeating old rival Van Wie at Los Angeles Country Club. That year, she organized a team competition between the best amateur female players of America and Great Britain that presaged the first Curtis Cup played two years later. Her sole golf disappointment was another defeat by her old nemesis Wethered in the British Amateur final at St. Andrews. Despite the result, Collett viewed the nip-and-tuck match as the most exciting of her career. Vare and Collett married in June 1931, and she joined him in Philadelphia. The newlyweds would weather the Depression, but the fortunes of Knollwood and Pine Needles plummeted. The inn would shut its doors in 1931 and remain closed until new ownership reopened it in 1935. Creditors forced the liquidation of Knollwood’s assets. Fortunately, the Tufts’ lenders allowed the family members to retain their holdings in Pinehurst. Glenna Vare dropped out of competitive golf in 1933 after giving birth to son Ned, then daughter Glennie, but she would author a memorable comeback in the 1935 national amateur at Interlachen Country Club in Minneapolis. Smashing her drives far past her finals opponent, the 32-year-old sentimental

favorite bested 17-year-old Patty Berg 3 and 2 to record her never equaled sixth national amateur championship. ”I wanted to put ‘Vare’ on that trophy,” the always-competitive Glenna confided to a friend. After her resounding triumph, Vare gradually faded away from golf on the national stage, though she continued to play in area events on and near her home course, the Philadelphia Country Club. She discovered new areas of sport to her liking. She trained sporting dogs for field competitions and found her excellent hand-eye coordination translated nicely to rifle shooting. The Vares would visit Pinehurst intermittently over the succeeding years, but sometimes without touching a club. Recounting her achievements during a visit to the Sandhills in 1947, The Pilot marveled that “the versatile Mrs. Vare was the top hand among the women at the skeet range. She has won many titles in her Philadelphia district for her skeet shooting, and she fires from scratch against men and women. She is a crack shot in the field also, and trains her gun dogs for field trials. She rides, swims, dances, and plays bridge just a little better than most anybody else.” While vacationing in the Sandhills in 1956, Glenna pulled off an unusual triple, claiming the medal in a pairs golf tournament, shooting 49 out of 50 targets in skeet, and winning a field trial with her dogs. As the decades passed, accolades came Mrs. Vare’s way. She was inducted as a member of the inaugural class of the Women’s Golf Hall of Fame in 1950. Though never turning professional, the LPGA honored her by establishing the Vare Trophy, awarded annually since 1953 to the pro with the lowest scoring average. She received the United States Golf Association’s Bob Jones award for sportsmanship in 1965. She would be elected to Pinehurst’s World Golf Hall of Fame in 1975. As she aged, Glenna devoted much of her time to her family. She reveled in son Ned’s accomplishments on Yale’s golf team, and doted on her grandchildren. She enjoyed summers back in her native Rhode Island, golfing at Narragansett’s Point Judith Country Club with family and friends. According to golf writer Bill Fields, who devoted a chapter to her in his book, Arnie, Seve, and a Fleck of Golf History, she competed in the club’s Point Judith Invitational for more than 60 years, invariably hosting a lobster dinner for her visiting friends. In 1986 PineStraw editor and best-selling author Jim Dodson interviewed Vare in Narragansett for a story in Yankee Magazine. Then 83, widowed, and still proudly sporting a 15 handicap, Vare bossed him about, ordering Dodson to make himself useful chopping vegetables for soup. At first she stiff-armed any discussion of her golfing career, believing she’d been largely forgotten. Dodson’s Yankee story was subsequently republished in the USGA’s Golf Journal, helping to bring Vare’s exploits to the attention of a generation of golfers unaware of her accomplishments. She passed away three years later in Gulf Stream, Florida. Her daughter Glennie Kalen still lives in her mother’s old haunt of Narragansett and remembers her mom as “reserved, funny, and lucky.” The latter must have been transferable. While captaining the U.S. side in the Curtis Cup, Vare found a four-leaf clover that she immediately picked and handed to Peggy Kirk, who was struggling mightily in her singles match. The woman who would eventually own Pine Needles with her husband, Warren Bell, rallied to win. If luck be a lady Glenna Collett Vare was her name. PS Pinehurst resident Bill Case is PineStraw’s history man. He can be reached at Bill.Case@thompsonhine.com. World Golf Hall of Fame member JoAnne Carner, a five-time winner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association’s Vare Trophy, shot her age last year in the inaugural U.S. Women’s Senior Open Championship won by fellow Hall of Famer Laura Davies at the Chicago Golf Club. The 2nd U.S. Women’s Senior Open Championship will be conducted at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club May 16-19. Entries open Feb. 20. Championship tickets and packages can be purchased at USGA.org.

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The Heart of the Matter Valentine’s Day didn’t begin with chocolate and roses

By Michael Smith

’all remember this song about Valentine’s Day, don’t you?

My funny valentine Sweet comic valentine You make me smile with my heart Your looks are laughable Unphotographable Yet you’re my favorite work of art… But don’t change a hair for me Not if you care for me Stay little valentine, stay Each day is Valentine’s Day For sure you do. It’s none other than “Old Blue Eyes” Frank Sinatra, from his 1954 album Songs for Young Lovers. Actually, it was written by Mitzi Green in 1937 for Babes in Arms. It has been performed by over 600 artists. Interesting but who cares? Sinatra’s rendition is timeless, and “My Funny Valentine” can easily become your latest earworm. Stories are apocryphal and vary about the origin of the subject of “My Funny Valentine,” how Valentine’s Day began and why it’s celebrated in mid-February, and so on. Perhaps the most common reckoning involves this account of a Roman emperor and a priest of Rome: Claudius II, a/k/a Marcus Aurelius Claudius Gothicus, who served as Roman Emperor when Rome had a serious migrant problem. Goths and Vandals had been sneaking through Rome’s borders and wreaking havoc and Claudius won’t be having none of that. During his brief tenure (268-270), he vanquished the Goths and had just wheeled about to trounce the Vandals when he died of the plague. To get the job done, Claudius needed the best soldiers, and the best soldiers, in Claudius’ mind, were unmarried, unattached to a wife and family. So Claudius simply outlawed marriage, leaving the soldiering to the single dudes. Enter one Valentinus, priest of Rome and chief mischief-maker, who began secretly marrying young lovers who preferred making love to making war. For that bit of rebellion, the martyred Valentinus lost his head but was later “rewarded” with sainthood. He became St. Valentine.

It is he who is most commonly associated with Valentine’s Day. It may be that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in mid-February to commemorate the anniversary of St. Valentine’s death. However, another theory regards the mid-February Roman celebration of Lupercalia, a fertility festival where Rome’s bachelors were paired with unmarried females for one year. Though nothing required it, most such arrangements apparently did end in marriage. Nonetheless, the Catholic Church looked askance at that “pagan” business and sought to Christianize it by associating it with the mid-February, Saint Valentine’s feast day. At the end of the 5th century, the Pope declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day, which over time became associated with endearing exchanges between lovers and friends. A fellow known as Charles, Duke of Orléans, had much to do with that. Charles penned “Farewell to Love,” a poem, 604 years ago which is the oldest surviving valentine. Here it is: My very gentle Valentine, Since for me you were born too soon, And I for you was born too late. God forgives him who has estranged Me from you for the whole year. I am already sick of love, My very gentle Valentine. Well might I have suspected That such a destiny, Thus would have happened this day, How much that Love would have commanded. I am already sick of love, My very gentle Valentine. Maybe it sounded better in the original French. Charles wrote the poem in 1415 to his wife, Bonne. Bonne of Armagnac was 11 years old, Charles 16, when they entered into what was Charles’ second marriage (his first wife died in childbirth). Charles was next in line to the throne of France. But he suf-

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fered the misfortune of fighting on the wrong side in a battle during the Hundred Years War, was captured by the British, and was “entertained,” in various places under house arrest for the next 25 years. Charles was 46, and being “hosted” in the Tower of London when he penned “Farewell to Love” for his Bonne. Whichever account is accurate about February 14, it began taking root as a day for love and romance right about the time old Geoffrey Chaucer and his groupies were on the scene. It was sometime during the 14th century. Whenever, friends and lovers began slipping each other hand-drafted notes of affection on Valentine’s Day. Quickly thereafter things got rolling, chop-chop. Printing technology improved. Merchants, as always, began sniffing money afoot. Mass-produced printed Valentine Day cards were just slightly below the radar. America, mother of all things capitalistic, stepped in to lend a hand. In the 1840s America’s “Mother of the Valentine” Esther Howland, began selling, egad, what else but the first mass-produced printed Valentine Day cards. (You’re forgiven if you thought it was Hallmark.) In 1847, Esther, daughter of a wealthy Massachusetts printer and bookseller, became smitten with a lace valentine she had received from England. She mused about how nice it would be to print (and sell) similar cards — which she did, in spades. Esther designed her cards then set her brother out on a selling trip, samples in tow. Brother’s promotional jaunt paid dividends. In today’s pop-jargon, the thing went viral. He returned with orders amounting to $5,000 ($150K in today’s scratch). Esther was the quintessential capitalist. She and her friends promptly set up an assembly line operation in her home. Esther’s little biz speedily grossed an astounding $100 grand ($3 million today). In 1880 she sold her business to George Whitney Co. She lived, unmarried, by the way, till 1904. Ms. Esther Howland set in motion a fast-moving avalanche of Valentine’s Day commercialization just in time for Al Capone’s St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. But that’s another story. In 2018, Americans spent a whopping $19.6 billion on Valentine’s Day stuff. Expenditures for jewelry topped the list, then, in order, came an evening out, flowers, clothing, gift cards, Valentine’s Day cards (now the second biggest day for cards, following Christmas), and candy. Some may surmise that much of what is spent is spent from pressure. Personally, a handwritten note and a romantic evening at home would be my preference. Maybe crank up Songs for Young Lovers, listen to Old Blue Eyes’ “My Funny Valentine,” or something. Now, what will I wind up buying my lovely wife? No, not that, that will never do, I bought that last year. PS

Esther Howland Valentines

Michael Smith lives in Talamore, Southern Pines, with his wife, Judee. They moved here in 2017 and wished they had moved here years earlier. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 2019

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now a person by his or her house. In the case of Denise O’Reilly, horse art, dog art, windows overlooking a paddock, the color turquoise, magazine-perfect decor located a few yards from her daughter and grandchildren tell the story. Denise — equestrienne, interior designer, part-time May Street resident who summers in Florida — helps daughter Lindsay O’Reilly operate Tanglewood Farm Bed and Breakfast, where guests, riders or not, soak up the atmosphere provided by dogs, horses, chickens, rabbits and a big yellow barn cat. Here, political wrangling and faraway conflicts are drowned out by whinnies and clucks. Horse farms usually include hunt boxes, the English way of lodging weekend foxhunters and their mounts under the same roof, with stalls either beside or beneath an apartment. Some were rustic, others grand, still others, like Tanglewood, became freestanding cottages near the barn. Tanglewood deceives the eye. What appears to be an unremarkable cottage of modest size stretches back nearly 3,000 square feet with an interior marrying sophisticated to what Denise calls “comfy.” A lifelong horsewoman, Denise lived in frigid Wisconsin for 37 years, where she owned a training stable and built a dream house. Lindsay started lessons at 7 and competed in eventing, as had her mom. When Denise’s circumstances changed she moved to Florida but knew of the Southern Pines community — and eventually contacted a Realtor. Coincidentally (or not) Lindsay, a CPA, chafed to PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . February 2019

relocate from an urban high-rise lifestyle. “I wasn’t happy. I wanted my own business,” Lindsay explains. “I love to cook and entertain. We had talked about a B&B in Florida.” Of course, operating a B&B is more changing sheets and scrubbing tubs than pouring coffee and serving eggs Benedict. First, Lindsay’s husband, Randy Sharpe, a personal trainer, had to be convinced. Considering these circumstances, finding Tanglewood with its farmhouse and outbuildings was near miraculous, especially because the cottage demanded upgrading and Denise possessed the skills. “When I first walked through I could place every piece of my furniture,” says Denise. She purchased the property — which had seemed too big before Lindsay’s B&B proposal — in 2012.

anglewood’s history is scarce, except for the time a lady stopped by to tell Denise she had grown up there in the 1960s, also that the B&B cottages were her father’s workshop and all their horses were buried along the fence line. After that, Robert Costello, who competed in the 2000 Olympic Games, lived in the farmhouse for 20 years, beginning in the 1990s. “We bought it from the bank, for next to nothing, because of the barn and the manageable size (11 acres),” says Costello, who still lives nearby. “The Olympic team would come here for training sessions, stay for weeks. It was a great party house.” Such was the post-party state Denise faced: dark wood paneling,

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dated carpet and tile floors, “very masculine,” her take. But nothing could take away from looking out oversized windows at her grazing horses.

s with most farm-style houses, this one centers around the kitchen, the only room Denise gutted. She especially liked the raised brick fireplace with a slab mantel cut from a local tree and the vaulted wood-paneled ceiling, which she left intact. Other paneling is now painted shady white. Between the fireplace and the equally massive island with a top made from reclaimed wood joined by pegs is a small sitting area with two overstuffed chairs, upholstered in unlikely smoky-turquoise velvet reflecting the opposite kitchen wall of turquoise ceramic tiles. Red countertop appliances provide pop. Following the trendy farmhouse modern mode, Denise replaced some hanging cabinets with single shelves that hold a few artfully placed dishes. Over the sink, a picture window with sightline to the upper barn where she and Lindsay keep two horses. “The barn is my happy place,” Denise says. “I love taking care of the horses. (Lindsay and I) used to fight over who cleaned the stalls.” The long family dining table stands at the front window facing the pad-

dock. Its legs resemble a pencil, shaved to a point. Rather than family heirlooms, Denise’s furnishings, all chosen with a designer’s eye, arrived via High Point. They own no particular style but co-exist amicably with each other and ceramic dog-base lamps, paintings of her schnauzer Brody and other animals. Nowhere is Denise’s ability to juxtapose better displayed than the living room, also with a fireplace, where a vaulted pine ceiling (think ski or hunting lodge) synchronizes with a turquoise velvet sofa, leopard-print ottoman-tables, colonial corner cupboards, built-in bookshelves. Denise doesn’t miss a detail. The living room window looks out onto plants arranged on a window-height table on the wide front porch. This effect brings outside in, inside out. Extending back from the kitchen, a hall and huge porch have been joined, enclosed and repurposed as a dining room and, without any divider, an office. “I needed a dining room and I needed an office,” Denise explains, while admitting that the office end, with turquoise desk, is used primarily for paying bills. Two guest bedrooms line the hall, with her master suite at the end. Here, surprisingly, she has not painted the wood paneling. “It’s cozier this way.” Again, turquoise and complementary colors, just enough family photos and animal art. Rugs are Denise’s passion. “I don’t have enough floor space to put them all down. Some are rolled up under beds.” This addiction comes from studying

the art of rug-making, how design elements and colors mean different things. She also learned that exquisite hand-woven carpets don’t need to be babied, which is why so many live to be antiques. “They are indestructible.” They are also everywhere, providing a palette of colors played out in upholstery and drapery fabrics. The sticks and stones may be pretty but central to Tanglewood Farm is the mother-daughter relationship. Lindsay hasn’t lived at home since she was 17. After relocating to Southern Pines she first lived downtown, which meant lots of back and forth while managing the units. She and her husband recently built a home a few steps away from Denise’s renovated farmhouse. Boundaries aren’t a problem; they share some B&B duties (including both the dirty work and preparing unusual breakfasts), visit back and forth frequently, eat together occasionally. Lindsay’s 4-year-old son, Flynn, is a regular at Granny’s, but since he and a younger sister have a full-time nanny, babysitting

isn’t part of the equation. “At least if something happens there’s somebody to call,” says ever-practical Denise.

ince several of the B&B units border the owners’ patio and garden, guests intermingle, become friends and return. None of this was planned, by mother or daughter, yet Denise recalls thinking how nice it would be to have a family compound, where all three of her children could gather. And it happened. “I’m so lucky to have Lindsay here and to be able to watch my horses outside the window,” says Denise, wearing stylish high riding boots. “It worked out so well that sometimes I just have to pinch myself.” PS

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Spring violets follow snow; the daffodils push through it. Whoever grumbles curses at this cold month need only witness an explosion of February Gold, the early bloomer that utterly beams with exaltation. We thaw from the inside out. In the garden, wren and titmouse sing out from bare branches, and something within you stirs. You put on the kettle, light a candle, phone a friend you didn’t know could use the extra warmth. Come over, you say, reaching for an extra mug. Some days, just as the daffodils push through snow, your kindness is the February Gold that lights up the world.

Say It in Flowers (or Spoons)

This and every month, red roses say I love you. But if you’re looking to dazzle your sweetheart with something different this Valentine’s Day, here are a few customs from around the world: • Exchange pressed snowdrops (Denmark). • Pin the name of your one true love on your shirtsleeve (South Africa). • Offer carved melons and fruit (China). • Although the Welsh celebrate their patron saint of lovers on Jan. 25, this gift might take the cake: the love spoon. Carved with intricate patterns and symbols, these wooden spoons have been given as tokens of affection for centuries.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino

There is a privacy about winter which no other season gives you . . . Only in winter can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. — Ruth Stout, How to Have a Green Thumb without an Aching Back

This Little Piggy

Tuesday, Feb. 5, marks the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Cue the paper lanterns for the Year of the Pig, a year of wealth and good fortune. Also called the Spring Festival, this lunar New Year is considered a fine time to “sweep away” ill fortune and create space for your abundance to arrive. It’s also a fine time for dumplings. Because they resemble ancient gold ingots, Chinese dumplings are made by families on New Year’s Eve for the same reasons we slow-cook black-eyed-peas and collards. In honor of the Year of the Pig, consider trying your hand at homemade dumplings. Or, in case you missed out last month, here’s a Hoppin’ John recipe adapted from The Traveling Spoon Chef on Instagram: Ingredients: 1 pound dried black-eyed peas 10 cups water 1 medium onion, diced 1/4 cup butter 1 ham steak, diced 1 teaspoon liquid smoke 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1 bunch chopped kale (optional) 1-2 cups cooked rice (optional) Directions: Soak black-eyed peas overnight in 6 cups of salted water. Rinse and drain well. In a large pot, sauté onion in butter until tender. Next, add one diced ham steak (optional), 4 cups water, liquid smoke, salt and pepper. Add drained black-eyed peas to the pot, cover, and let simmer for 4 hours, stirring occasionally. If desired, stir in kale and rice just before serving. And a pinch of extra luck. “Save some leftovers for the following day,” says the chef, and call it “Skippin’ Jenny.”

The Garden To-Do

This month, plant your greens, Brussels, peas and beets. Turnips and radishes. Broccoli and carrots. Asparagus. And Irish potatoes, three inches deep.

Arts Entertainment C A L E N DA R

Snake Smarts

Although conscientious effort is made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, all events are subject to change and errors can occur! Please call to verify times, costs, status and location before planning or attending an event. BOOKWORMS BOOKCLUB. Are you in grades K–5 and want to join a book club? Find the Bookworms display in the library to take home the book of the month, pick up your discussion questions and grab some activities. When you have finished reading the book, fill out the book review to post on the library’s wall. February’s book is Little Robot. Can’t read yet? Read along with a grown-up. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. OUTPOST BOOK SALES. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday– Saturday. Snuggle up with a great DVD — buy one, get one free, some exclusions apply. Given Outpost and Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-7002. JOY OF ART STUDIO. Join Joy of Art Studio for lots of creativity in the theme of the heart for all ages. private lessons and creative workshops for women. Taught by Joy Hellman. Class times and prices vary. Unless otherwise stated, classes are held at Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or www.joyof-art.com or Facebook link www. facebook.com/Joyscreativespace/ for a complete list of events this month.

Friday, February 1 HIDING IN HIBERNATION. 10 a.m. Come learn about hibernation as we read a book, do activities and make a craft. Geared toward 3 - 5-year-olds to do with their parents. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills

Equestrian Event

Golf Invitational

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Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov.

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POTLUCK LUNCHEON. 12 p.m. Seniors 55 and older can participate in a free potluck lunch. Bring a small dish and enjoy great food and fellowship. Texas Roadhouse will be dropping off food as well. Ten games of bingo will follow the lunch with prizes for winners. Cost: $2 for Southern Pines Residents; $4 non-residents. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376 or www.southernpines.net/136/ Recreation-Parks.

DINNER AND ENTERTAINMENT. 5:30 p.m. Enjoy an exclusive dinner by five star executive chef, Charles, and entertainment by Paul Murphy and Anna Elizabeth. Tickets: $65 per person. There will be another dinner with live entertainment on February 2 at 5:30 p.m. Reflections Bar and Lounge, 805 S.W. Service Rd., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 585-6497.

FOOD TRUCK. 3:30 - 8:30 p.m. Rome N’ Round Food Truck at Southern Pines Brewing Company; also on Feb. 4, 11, 18 and 25 from 5 - 9 p.m. and Feb. 8, 15 and 22 from 3:30 - 8:30 p.m. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. GALLERY SHOW. 4 - 6 p.m. Join the Artists League of the Sandhills for the opening reception of the gallery show “Inspired by 25 Years of Classes.” The gallery will showcase artwork of individuals who have taken classes over the past two years. The exhibit will be open through Feb. 22. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: www.artistleague.org. ART EXHIBIT. 6 - 8 p.m. Come out to the opening reception for the exhibit “Reflections of Africa.” The exhibit will be on view through Feb. 22. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6922787 or www.mooreart.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Freddy and Francine. Cost: $15. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info:

Saturday, February 2 KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Take Your Child to the Library Day. Bring your child to the library and feed his/her imagination. Bring a friend and sign up for a free library card. This event is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library & Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org. BOLSHOI BALLET. 1 p.m. Carmen. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. FOOD TRUCK. 1 - 7 p.m. Roasted & Toasted Food Truck at Southern Pines Brewing Company; also on Feb. 23. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. FUNDRAISER. 3 - 5 p.m. Join in for a fundraiser and silent auction to help AIMS (Authors in Moore Schools) arrange school visits from best-selling authors and provide books to students. Cost: $15 per ticket. Tickets include one free drink, appetizers and five raffle tickets for the silent auction. Triangle Wine Company, 144 Brucewood Road, Southern Pines. Info and tickets: www. ticketmesandhills.com.

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Sunday, February 3 CLASSICALLY SUNDAYS. 2 - 4 p.m. The Ciompi Quartet with Allan Ware. Following the concert there will be a reception to meet the artists. Cost: $30/non-members; $20/Weymouth members. Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com. KIDS’ MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. A free showing of a film based on the children’s novel The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. SNAKE SMARTS. 3 p.m. Come test your snake smarts with a fun and interactive Jeopardy!-style game to see what you know about snakes in our state. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6922167 or www.ncparks.gov.

Monday, February 4 CHAMBER MUSIC. 8 - 9:30 p.m. Ensemble Melange. Tickets: $30 - $35. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www. sunrisetheater.com.

Monday, February 4 - Tuesday, February 5 ART CLASS 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. For oil and acrylic landscape painters but all painters will gain insight into color, composition and values. Learn from two contemporary landscape masters by studying their palettes and ways of working. Practice mixing colors that bring glowing light to your paintings and solving value patterns. Instructed by Harry Neely. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artisleague.org.

Tuesday, February 5 SPRING REOPENING. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange reopens for the spring season. Over 55 artisans are featured in the gift shop. Lunch is served from 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-4677 or www. sandhillswe.org. FOOD TRUCK. 4 - 8:30 p.m. Berribowlful Food Truck at Southern Pines Brewing Company; also on Feb. 12, 19 and 26. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com.

Wednesday, February 6 ART EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS. 9 - 11 a.m. Exploring Art; Drawing and the Art of M.C. Escher. This four-week course, taught by Ellen Burke and designed for the home-schooled student, includes eight hours of instruction in drawing, art appreciation, portfolio building and an opportunity for students to exhibit their artwork. Classes meet Feb. 6,13, 20 and 27. For ages 9-17. An afternoon class will meet from 1 - 3 p.m. Cost: $115, including materials, due at registration. Hollyhocks Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (603) 966-6567 or exploringartellen3@ gmail.com. EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 10 a.m - 2 p.m. Winter Schooling Day (SJ, H and D). Schooling days offer Dressage, Hunter Ring and Jumper Ring only. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. MEET THE ARTIST. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. This class will introduce children age 5-8 to the art of artists M.C. Escher and Paul Klee. Children will engage in age appropriate art activities. Meet the Artist meets Feb. 6, 13, 20 and 27. Taught by Ellen Burke. Tuition is $45 including materials. Hollyhocks Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (603) 966-6567 or exploringartellen3@gmail.com.

FOOD TRUCK. 4:30 - 8:30 p.m. Meat & Greek Food Truck at Southern Pines Brewing Company; also on Feb. 13, 20 and 27. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com.

Wednesday, February 6 - Thursday, February 7 ART CLASS. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Class will focus on the basics of watercolor including papers, brushes, pigments, techniques to control the water and create special effects. Perfect for anyone wanting to begin in watercolor and continue from earlier classes. Bring photos of flowers and a landscape. Day one we will paint flowers and day two landscapes. Instructed by Jean Smyth. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or www.artisleague.org.

Thursday, February 7 MUSIC & MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. This storytime, especially for children ages 2-5 and their families, will incorporate stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games to foster language and motor skill development. Capacity is limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Check-in is required with a valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 p.m. Audrey Moriarty, executive director of Given Tufts, will share plans for how the Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives will continue to support lifetime literacy, community programs and historic preservation. Bring a friend and sign up for a free library card. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library & Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Event will also be held at 7 p.m. at The Given Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org. FOOD TRUCK. 4 - 9 p.m. Pink Pig BBQ & Shrimp Food Truck at Southern Pines Brewing Company; also on Feb. 14, 21 and 28. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. READ-IN. 5 p.m. Participate in the National African American Read-In. Students from Southern Pines Primary and Elementary schools and community members will read aloud from their favorite selections of AfricanAmerican literature. Light refreshments will be served and the reading starts at 5:30 p.m. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. AUTHOR EVENT. 5 p.m. Kimmery Martin: Queen of Hearts. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. CAMEO ART HOUSE. Chatham Rabbits at the Cameo. Cost: $15. Cameo Art House, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Friday, February 8 VALENTINE’S GALA. 6 - 9 p.m. Join us for a night of dinner, drinks, dancing and a silent auction at the fourth annual Caring Hearts for Canines Furever Yours Valentine’s Day Gala. Cost: $50. Women wear red and men wear a red tie. Pinehurst No. 9, 1 Royal Toon Drive, Pinehurst. BOWTIE BALL. 6 p.m. A special night of dining, dancing, and fundraising in support Sandhills Classical Christian School. Cost: $125. The Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Rd. S., Pinehurst, Info: (910) 2950166. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Friday, February 8 – Sunday, February 10 GOLF INVITATIONAL. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Come out to

watch the annual Mid Pines Men’s Invitational, which attracts a strong field of golfers. Mid Pines Inn & Golf Club, 1010 Midland Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8611 or www.midpinesinn.com.

Saturday, February 9 STEAM. 11 a.m. Experiment and craft tables will be out all day. At 11 a.m. join the library staff for a special Five Senses event. This program is for children kindergarten through fifth grade. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. ART EXHIBIT. 1 - 5 p.m. “Joining Hands with Nature” is the theme for the Children’s Art Competition and Exhibit sponsored by the Sandhills Horticultural Society. Four middle schools will participate. The awards ceremony will be Feb. 10 at 2 p.m. The art will be displayed Feb. 9 - 14 from 1 - 5 p.m. and Feb. 15 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Ball Visitors Center, Sandhills Horticultural Gardens, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. WINE WALK. Wine and Chocolate Love Affair Wine Walk. Wine and chocolate pairings (both sweet and savory) throughout the village. Village of Pinehurst, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.vopnc.org. FEBRUARY DANCE. 6:30 p.m. Join us for an evening of dancing at the Elks Lodge. Free dance lesson at 7 p.m. Dance until 9:30 p.m. All levels of experience welcome. Admission: $10. Call to reserve tickets. Carolina Pines Chapter of USA Dance. Southern Pines Elks Lodge, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Info: (919) 770-1975. 6TH ANNUAL RONALD REAGAN DINNER. 7 p.m. The Moore County Republican Party celebrates the legacy of our nation’s 40th president. Our featured speaker is John Heubusch, executive director of the Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute, and author of two acclaimed fictional thrillers. Individual ticket: $100; Sponsor: $500 (for two); $1,000 (for four). Cash bar. VIP Sponsors’ Reception at 5:30. Doors open at 6. Pinehurst Country Club, Overlook Ballroom. To purchase tickets, contact Moore County GOP treasurer Carol Wheeldon (910) 295-6628. SILENT SPEAKEASY SOIREE. 7:30 p.m. Prohibition cocktails and costume contest at 6:30 p.m. A live pianist will play along to the film. Tickets: $25. Tickets include a Reverie cocktail or beverage of choice. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

Sunday, February 10 LECTURE. 2 p.m. The Great Dismal Swamp Part II: Arts & Humanities Lecture Series. Presented by Bland Simpson, author of The Great Dismal Swamp. Lecture will focus on manmade canals, drainage ditches, harvested timber and slave labor. Tickets: $10/member or $15/ non-member. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com. CONVERSATION CAFE. 3 p.m. This event will be an open, hosted dialogue and give people an opportunity to listen, reflect and share ideas. The topic will be “Death: Making the Most of our Finite Lives.” Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. Program to be determined. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Contenders. Cost: $20. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910)

CA L E N DA R 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Monday, February 11 TRAVEL PRESENTATION. 2 p.m. Join a special travel presentation for a 10-day guided tour of Portugal. The tour includes a round trip flight, hotels and 14 meals. Trip is presented by the Moore County Historical Association. Shaw House, 110 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. RSVP to Liz Whitmore required. Info: (910) 692-2051 or www. gateway.gocollette.com/link.872851. AUTHOR EVENT. 5 p.m. Tara Conklin: The Last Romantics. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. EVENING STORYTIME. 5:30 p.m. Children ages 3 through third grade and their families will enjoy stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Capacity is limited to 25 children and their caregivers per session. Check-in with a valid library card is required. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. AN EVENING WITH AUTHORS. 7 p.m. Moore County is rich with authors. Join us as we kick off a new series to highlight these writers. Local authors will speak about their books and answer questions about their work. This event is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library & Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org.

Tuesday, February 12 ART CLASS. 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Class will concentrate on design as well as explore different ways to make textures in abstract work. We will work with modeling paste, gelli

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plates, lutrador and embossing powders. Instructor will demonstrate pouring resin which students can try later. Taught by Kathy Leuck. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artisleague.org. N.C. SYMPHONY. 8 - 10 p.m. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40. Tickets are available at the door but may be purchased at the Campbell House in Southern Pines up to two weeks prior to the concert. Lee Auditorium at Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (877) 627-6724 or www.ncsymphony.org. OPEN HOUSE. 6:30 p.m. Hosted by the Friends of Weymouth Woods, Sandhills Nature Preserve and Park staff, admission is free. Please come see what's in store for the Park in 2019! Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov.

Wednesday, February 13 N.C. THEATRE. 4 p.m. Let Kirk Tours take you to see Mamma Mia! performed by the N.C. Theatre at Raleigh Memorial Auditorium. Transportation will leave Belk in Pinecrest Plaza. Cost: $145 per person which includes Dress Circle seating and transportation. Info: (910) 2952257 or reservations@kirktours.com. AUTHOR EVENT. 5 p.m. Chanavia Haddock: Miracle. This is a children’s book geared toward 3 - 8-year-olds. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Open mic with The Parsons. Cost: $5. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or

GALENTINE’S DAY TRIVIA. 6:30 - 9 p.m.Trivia Night at R.Rivetor. Tickets are $13 a person. Teams are limited to 6 players. Reverie Cocktails and light bites will be provided. R.Rivetor. 154 N.W. Broad St, Southern Pines. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Wednesday, February 13 - Thursday, February 14 ART CLASS. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Class on the basic concepts of drawing. Learn different drawing methods, including gesture and contour, as well as the importance of composition, proportion and observation. Practice drawing exercises and complete a still life drawing. Taught by Laureen Kirk. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artisleague.org.

Thursday, February 14 VALENTINE’S DANCE. 11 a.m. Seniors 55 and older can enjoy shag dancing, light refreshments and great tunes for free. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376 or www.southernpines.net/136/Recreation-Parks. THEATER SHOW. Boeing-Boeing. Serving non-stop laughs from Feb. 14 to March 3. Group rates available as low as $22. The Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Info: (919) 774-4155 or www.templeshows.com. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Seth Walker. Cost: $20. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

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CA L E N DA R CONCERT. 7 p.m. The Sandhills Community College Jazz Band will perform a Valentine’s Day concert. Free admission. Dempsey Student Center, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3828 or www.sandhills.edu.

Saturday, February 16 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m - 5 p.m. Pipe Opener II CT. Combined tests and Dressage test of choice. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. FOOD TRUCK. 12 - 6 p.m. Cousins Maine Lobster Food Truck. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. WRITER IN RESIDENCE READING. 3 p.m. Georgann Eubanks with The Month of Their Ripening: North Carolina Heritage Foods through the Year. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. SHAKESPEARE COMPETITION. 3 - 5 p.m. The Sandhills branch of the English-Speaking Union will be presenting a Moore County High School Shakespeare Competition. Free and open to the public with a reception to follow the event. See the works of William Shakespeare performed by local high school students. Also performing a selection of scenes from a Shakespeare comedy will be Dr. Jonathan Drahos and Carolanne Marano. The Village Chapel, 10 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 725-0333. CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC. 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Saddle up for some of the greatest Western film scores as well as classic pops that define the Wild West. Lee Auditorium at

Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 687-0287 or www.carolinaphil.org. HEART ’N SOUL OF JAZZ. 8 - 11:30 p.m. Celebrate three decades of great jazz at this concert featuring world-class musicians and vocalist and trombonist Aubrey Logan. Presented by The Arts Council of Moore County. Tickets: $75/VIP seats; $65/preferred seats. Cardinal Ballroom at Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista, Pinehurst. Info: www.mooreart.org. Purhcase tickets at www. ticketmesandhills.com.

Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. MOSAIC WORKSHOP. 1 - 3 p.m. Complete a mosaic glass mirror, taught by Diane Flanegan. Cost: $40. Cost includes all supplies, light snacks and beverages. Limited seating of 15 participants. A second class may be held from 3 - 5 p.m. if the first class is full. Payment and sign up must be completed by Feb. 11. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange Cabin, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 986-0288.

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Monday, February 18 - Tuesday, February 19

AUTHOR EVENT. 2 p.m. Sarah Edwards: What the Sun Sees. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz.

ART CLASS. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Jump start your creativity by painting with paper. Class will introduce students to collage using tissue paper, found objects/materials and photo transfers. Demonstrations and discussions of composing with texture and color, gluing methods, photo transfers and dyeing papers. Taught by Sandy Stratil. Class is open to new and repeat students. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or www.artisleague.org.

SUNDAY FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This series will show the film based on the novel A Simple Favor, by Darcey Bell. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. Program to be determined. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Kennedys. Cost: $15. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Monday, February 18 WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30 a.m. Coffee followed by a business meeting at 10 a.m. Guest speaker is Tea Ward, Ph.D., discussing “Brain Food and Overall Wellness.”

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Tuesday, February 19 JAMES BOYD BOOK CLUB. 2 p.m. Better Off Dead, by Kate Munger. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. LIT WITS. 5:30 p.m. Join the library’s teen book club for 11-15-year-olds. You can check out your copy of this month’s book, The Boy, the Boar and the Beast, at the library from Feb. 1 through Feb. 18. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

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CA L E N DA R TRAVEL SERIES. 6 p.m. Explore Your World: Africa. Pat Anderson has been to Africa four times, visiting eight countries. Join us as we kick off a new travel series. See photos and hear stories of Rwanda, Uganda and gorillas. This event is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library & Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org. SIP ‘N SEW. 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Make your own wine tote. Precut materials are included. Bring your own sewing machine, thread, bobbin, pins and beverage. Tickets: $35. M.K. Schwarz Sewing and Design, 280 Pinehurst Ave., Unit 1, Southern Pines.

Wednesday, February 20 ART CLASS. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Learn a method of getting shapes and values developed on the page using alcohol, which dries quickly so you can move right to the development and excitement of rich pastel color. A good method for designing your whole page then building detail once shapes are established. Good quality sanded paper is essential and will be provided to students. Taught by Betty Hendrix. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St. Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artisleague.org. CINDERELLA. 4:45 p.m. Let Kirk Tours take you to see Cinderella. Transportation will leave Belk in Pinecrest Plaza. Cost: $125 per person which includes premium seating, three course dinner in Chancellor’s Dining Room and transportation. Info: (910) 295-2257 or reservations@ kirktours.com.

Thursday, February 21 BOOK CLUB MEETING. 10:30 a.m. The Douglass Center Book Club will meet for discussion. Books can be

picked up at the library. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. MUSIC & MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. This story time, especially for children ages 2-5 and their families, will incorporate stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games to foster language and motor skill development. Capacity is limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Check-in is required with valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. SENIORS TRIP. 11 a.m. Seniors 55 and older can join Southern Pines Recreation & Parks to travel to Sanford for lunch at Cracker Barrel and then to the Temple Theatre for a showing of Boeing-Boeing. Cost: $26 for Southern Pines Residents; $52 non-residents. Bus will depart at 11 a.m. from the Campbell House Playground parking lot and return by 5 p.m. Campbell House Playground, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. ART CLASS. 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. This class takes the next step in encaustic wax painting. Create with various special tools and tips. Taught by Pam Griner. Cost: $45. Supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artisleague.org. AUTHOR EVENT. 5 p.m. Mesha Maren: Sugar Run. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE. 6:30 p.m. This is the annual members’ meeting where members of the Round Table will provide short presentations on various topics. Meeting starts at 7 p.m. Open to the public. Civic Club,

corner of Pennsylvania and Ashe St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-0452 or mafarina@aol.com. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Asleep at the Wheel String Band. Cost: $69/members; $74/new members or guests. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Friday, February 22 ART CLASS. 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. Explore the process of using alcohol ink and examine how the ink flows and how to manipulate it for the effect you desire. Taught by Pam Griner. For beginner artists. Cost: $40. Supplies included. Exchange Street Gallery, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: www.artistleague.org. ART SHOW. 6:30 p.m. Come out to the 13th annual Art Show and Sale Opening Reception. Cost: $65/individual; $120/two people. Tickets can be purchased at www.penickvillage.org/penick-willage-foundation. The Village House at Penick Village, 500 E. Rhode Island Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-0487 or foundation@penickvillage.org.

Saturday, February 23 POLAR PLUNGE. 10 - 11 a.m. Join the Pinehurst Police Department for the annual Polar Plunge to benefit the Special Olympics N.C. The jump fee is $50. There will also be a costume contest with prizes. Pinehurst Marina, Lake Pinehurst, 1 Denichilo Court, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 4177932 or www.vopnc.org. WILDINGS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Which way to Weymouth?” Geared towards 6 – 10-year-olds. Learn how to use a compass and map to complete a scavenger hunt

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CA L E N DA R around the park. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. John Cowan with Darin and Brooke Aldridge. Cost $30. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: tickemesandhills.com.

Sunday, February 24 PYXIE-MOSS HIKE. 3 p.m. Join us for a 1.5-mile hike on the Paint Hill Tract to find the rare Sandhills pyxie-moss and possibly get a preview of the wildflower season to come. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Aaron Burdett. Cost: $15. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Monday, February 25 EVENING STORYTIME. 5:30 p.m. Children ages 3 through third grade and their families will enjoy stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Capacity is limited to 25 children and their caregivers per session, and check-in with a valid library card is required. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. EXPLORING ART. 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Join art educator and local artist Ellen Burke for an evening of wine and art appreciation. The topic is: “The Artist and the Muse.” We will explore the creative and tumultuous relationship

between artists and their source of inspiration. Admission is $20, which includes wine. Proceeds to benefit Stroke of Patriotism North Carolina. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (603) 966-6567 or exploringartellen3@gmail.com. SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. Speaker to be announced. Visitors welcome. Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www. sandhillsnature.org.

Monday, February 25 - Tuesday, February 26 ART CLASS. 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Experiment with cold wax medium mixed with oil paints. This medium encourages loose, free flowing expression. Taught by Jude Winkley. Some experience with oil painting suggested. Cost: $107. Exchange Street Gallery, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: www.artistleague.org.

Tuesday, February 26 MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 6 - 9 p.m. Bring your instrument and beverage or just come and enjoy the music. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

Thursday, February 28 TRAVEL PRESENTATION. 2 p.m. Join in for a travel presentation “Tulip Time: Jewel of the Rhine” to learn about the upcoming trip to the Netherlands, Germany, France and Switzerland. This is an 11-day river cruise. Trip is presented by the Moore County Historical Association. Shaw House, 110 Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2051 or info@moorehistory.com.

ARTIST’S TALK. 3 - 5 p.m. Come to the opening reception and artist’s talk with Barbara Campbell Thomas, associate professor of painting, printmaking and drawing at UNCGreensboro. The exhibition will run through March 28. Hastings Gallery at Boyd Library, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 696-3879. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Jeanne Jolly. Cost: $20. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com. WINE GALA. 7-9 P.M. A benefit for the Moore County Choral Society. $30 per person limited seating. Wine tasting, hors d’oeuvre, Raffle. Triangle Wine Company, 144 Brucewood Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2100. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Thursday, February 28 – Sunday, March 3 GOLF INVITATIONAL. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Come out to watch the annual Pine Needles Men’s Invitational, which attracts a strong field of amateur golfers. Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club, 1005 Midland Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8611 or www.pineneedleslodge.com.

UPCOMING EVENTS CITIZENS ACADEMY. Applications are being accepted for the Town of Southern Pines Citizens Academy. Five sessions will be held February-May on Tuesdays from 6 -8 p.m., with a light dinner served starting at 5:30 p.m. The goal of the Citizens Academy is to demonstrate both the complexities and professionalism involved in providing town services and promote collaboration between residents and their government. Applications are available on the town website at www.southernpines.net.

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WEEKLY EVENTS Mondays TAI CHI FOR ADULTS. 9 - 10 a.m. For adults 55 and older. Improve your overall health, wellness and balance. Classes end on March 18. Cost per class: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. PILATES. 10:15 - 11:15 a.m. For adults 55 and older. Improve your flexibility, strength and endurance. Classes start on Feb. 4 and end on Feb. 27. Bring your own mat. Cost per class: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376.

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CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. MASTER GARDENER TRAINING. 6 - 8 p.m. Receive a high level of training in all aspects of horticulture. Training fee is $85 for those accepted into the program. Moore County Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. Info: (910) 947-3188.

Tuesdays BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions) This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 24 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy brain-building practices. Dates this month are Feb. 5, 12, 19 and 26. Programs are limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in to story time sessions at the circulation desk up to an hour before the start time of each session with their valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

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TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost per 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.

Wednesdays TAI CHI FOR ADULTS. 9 - 10 a.m. For adults 55 and older. Improve your overall health, wellness and balance. Classes end on March 18. Cost per class: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. TAX HELP. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Trained AARP volunteers will offer free tax help. This will run through April 13. Clients must register onsite and there are no prior appointments by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6–7 p.m. Improve flexibility, build strength, ease tension and relax through posture and breathing techniques for beginners and experts alike. Free for CFBG and YMCA members, $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221, ext. 36 or www.capefearbg.org. (Must register one day prior). Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org. CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

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CA L E N DA R READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30–4 p.m. Especially for children ages 2–5, this storytime focuses on stories, songs and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build language and socialization skills to prepare for kindergarten. Dates this month are February 6, 13, 20 and 27. Stay for playtime. This event is limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in to story time sessions at the circulation desk up to an hour before the start time of each session with their valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. FARM TO TABLE. Join Sandhills Farm to Table Co-op by ordering a subscription of local produce to support our local farmers. Info: (910) 722-1623 or www.sandhillsfarm2table.com.

Thursdays GIVEN STORYTIME. 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 - 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022. MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1–3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CHESS. 1–3 p.m. All levels of players welcome. You need a chess set to participate. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

FARM TO TABLE. Join Sandhills Farm to Table Co-op by ordering a subscription of local produce to support our local farmers. Info: (910) 722-1623 or www.sandhillsfarm2table.com.

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. (1 hour and 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 www.kirktours.com.

Fridays

CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music. Cost: $15/person. Must be 21 years of age or older. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of eight or more. Soda, water and award-winning wines available for purchase. Food vendor on site. No outside beverages (alcoholic or non-alcoholic), coolers, picnic baskets or cooking devices permitted on premises.

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Saturdays TAX HELP. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Trained AARP volunteers will offer free tax help. This will run through April 13. Clients must register onsite and there are no prior appointments by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. PS To add an event, email us at pinestraw.calendar@gmail.com

GAME FRIDAYS. Stop by the library for interactive games, new each week, providing challenges for kids, teens and adults to enjoy: Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Birthday cakes, cheese trays and small items are acceptable. Anyone bringing in outside alcohol will be asked to leave with no refund. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 369-0411 or www. cypressbendvineyards.com.

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Given Tufts presents:

Spring 2019 Colloquium

No Drums, No Bugles Dr. Carver McGriff

February EVENTS

- 75th Anniversary of D-day -

2/1 Freddy & Francine The The Rooster’s Rooster’s Wife Wife

2/2 AIMS Fundraiser & Silent Auction Triangle Triangle Wine Wine Company Company

2/3 The Ciompi Quartet with Allan Ware Weymouth Weymouth Center Center for for the the Arts Arts && Humanities Humanities

2/6 R.Riveter Industrial Sewing 101 R.Riveter R.Riveter Warehouse Warehouse

2/7 Chatham Rabbits Cameo Cameo Art Art House House Theatre Theatre

2/8 R.Riveter Industrial Sewing 101 R.Riveter R.Riveter Warehouse Warehouse

SCCS Valentine’s Day Bowtie Ball Fair Fair Barn Barn

2/10 Great Dismal Swamp Lecture Series - Part II Weymouth Weymouth Center Center for for the the Arts Arts && Humanities Humanities

The Contenders The The Rooster’s Rooster’s Wife Wife

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Thursday, March 14 Overlook Room at the Pinehurst Country Club

Tickets $100 Cash Bar 5:30pm & Dinner 6:30pm

2/13 Open Mic with The Parsons The The Rooster’s Rooster’s Wife Wife

Galentine’s Day Trivia at R. Riveter R. R. Riveter Riveter

2/14 Seth Walker The The Rooster’s Rooster’s Wife Wife

2/16 Heart ’n Soul of Jazz 2019 with Aubrey Logan Cardinal Cardinal Ballroom Ballroom at at Pinehurst Pinehurst Resort Resort

2/17 The Kennedys The The Rooster’s Rooster’s Wife Wife

2/21 Asleep at the Wheel String Band The The Rooster’s Rooster’s Wife Wife

2/23 John Cowan with Darin & Brooke Aldridge The The Rooster’s Rooster’s Wife Wife

2/24 Aaron Burdett The The Rooster’s Rooster’s Wife Wife

2/28 Jeanne Jolly The The Rooster’s Rooster’s Wife Wife

Wine Gala

Triangle Triangle Wine Wine Company Company

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We’re 25 years old! If you don’t know us yet, come and check us out. Take your very first step or continue your artistic journey. We offer classes for all levels they’re inspiring, instructive, friendly and fun. You’ll see.

WINTER 2019 CLASSES

OIL and ACRYLIC Color Mixing and Other Tips from Italy (Intermediate) Harry Neely - February 4-5 (M/Tu) 10:00-3:00

Cold Wax Medium with Oil (Intermediate/Advanced) Jude Winkley - February 25-26 (M/Tu) 9:30-3:00

Intermediate Oil Painting

Charlie Roberts - March 21-22 (Th/F) 10:00-3:00

Enhanced Acrylics (Beginner/Intermediate) Pat McMahon - March 26-27 (Tu/W) 10:00-12:00 WATERCOLOR Introduction to Watercolor (Beginner) Jean Smyth - February 6-7 (W/Th) 10:00-3:00

Watercolor on Rice Paper (Beginner/Intermediate) Pat McMahon - March 6-7 (W/Th) 10:00-12:00

COLORED PENCIL and PASTEL Quick-dry Underpainting in Soft Pastels (Intermediate/Advanced) Betty Hendrix - February 20 (W) 10:00-3:00

Colored Pencil on Mylar (Beginner/Intermediate) Betty Hendrix - March 20 (W) 10:00-3:00

DRAWING Drawing Basics (Beginner)

Laureen Kirk - February 13-14 (W/Th) 10:00-4:00

OTHER MEDIA Exploring Texture in Abstract Work - Mixed Medium (Beginner/Intermediate) Kathy Leuck - February 12 (Tu) 9:30-4:00

Collaging out of the Box (No experience needed) Sandy Stratil - February 18-19 (M/Tu) 10:00-4:00

Intermediate Encaustic Wax

Pam Griner - February 21 (Th) 12:30-3:30

Go with the Flow – Basic Alcohol Ink (Beginner) Pam Griner - February 22 (F) 12:30-3:30

See the PineStraw calendar section or visit www.artistleague.org for detailed class descriptions. CALL NOW TO REGISTER.

UPCOMING SHOWS PUBLIC INVITED!

“Sandhill Scenes with the Sandhills Photography Club”

“Inspired by 25 years of Classes” February 1 – 22, 2019 Opening Reception February 1, (F) 4:00-6:00

March 1-29, 2019 Opening Reception March 1, (F) 5:30-7:30

ARTISTS LEAGUE OF THE SANDHILLS/Exchange Street Gallery

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HEART ‘N SOUL OF JAZZ 2019

Starring Aubrey Logan (Singer, Trombonist, Songwriter, Entertainer) Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 8:00 pm Carolina Hotel at Pinehurst Resort

Upcoming Events FEB 1-22 “Reflections of Africa” featuring art by Garth Swift, ART Joseph Koyie, Jessie Mackay, Patricia Thomas

Campbell House Galleries

128 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Belvedere Plaza Southern Pines, NC 28374 (910) 725-0465

FEB 4 Ensemble Mélange - “You Choose, They Play” MUSIC 8 pm, Sunrise Theater

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MAR 1-28 Young People’s Fine Arts Festival 2019

ART Featuring student art from all over Moore County

Campbell House Galleries

MAR 4 Lucas Meachem, Grammy-winning baritone MUSIC 8 pm, Sunrise Theater

For those who appreciate fine art

MAR 8 Barnes-Travis Arts Scholarship deadline

SCHOLARSHIP 5p, Campbell House

Become an Arts Council member today. It’s a great way to help our community flourish. Join now at MooreArt.org or call us at 910.692.ARTS (2787)

February’s Spotlight on KATHY LEUCK, Silk Scarf Artist

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Arts & Culture

NC GLASSFEST A premier sale of handcrafted glass

Curtiss Brock

We’re everywhere So you don’t have to be.

March 2, 2019 9am - 5pm

Glassblowing demonstrations throughout the day

Brianna Gluszak

100 Russell Drive • Star, NC 27356 (910) 428-9001 • www.STARworksNC.org

Joe Hobbs

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Fanciful February This month’s star children are intelligent, intense, creative and sensitive

By Astrid Stellanova

Some of my best friends are February-born, and they bring a lot to the

table. They are intense. Intelligent. Sometimes standoffish. But best known as creative and sensitive. They do something with that intellect, too. Did you know if you’re February born, you are very likely to become famous? At least three presidents (Washington, Lincoln, and Reagan) were born in February Liz Taylor, Steve Jobs, and Michael Jordan are all February babies, too. Fancy that, Star Children. Aquarius (January 20–February 18) Friends say you’ve been acting more stuck up than a light pole, Sugar. And the reason is why, exactly? You got to this place in life by paying attention. If you can do that, there is an excellent reason for you to stick your nose upward when you win the big prize you seek. You are a gifted and talented star child. It shows. Pisces (February 19–March 20) You are a tad bit tetchy these days. After fending off more trouble than a one-eyed horse running at Churchill Downs, you did your best, and Sugar, you came oh-soclose to a photo finish. But, you got shoved to the inside, and second place didn’t feel good. The thing you Pisces children have going for you is more determination than Seabiscuit. Aries (March 21–April 19) You’re off like a dirty shirt the first time someone ticks you off. When was the last time you took a day off just for quiet time and dialed things back several degrees? It’s time to let more roll off your back and forget all the slights. Taurus (April 20–May 20) Lord, Honey, let’s get past the cooling of the Earth and try and live in the present without all this scorekeeping. Yes indeedy, you were right about a point you made. And you drew a line. But the price was wa-a-ay too high. Maybe slide that line over? Gemini (May 21–June 20) You had a handle on things but it broke off, right? You knew before you were stretched thin, and then life showed you just how thin it really was. Now is a time for the easy option. Get centered, Sweet Thing. Cancer (June 21–July 22) What happened was about as funny as a three-legged dog race — not a bit funny. Now, don’t waste your time expecting a real apology. But as the person who insulted you sobers/grows/wises up, he will wish he had been kinder.

Leo (July 23–August 22) If somebody gave you two nickels for a dime, you’d act like you were rich. Is that optimism? Or is it just a little bit nutty? You must pay attention to where the money flows this year and not play Diamond Jim. Nickels matter. Virgo (August 23–September 22) Your allies would support you no matter what. But when you saw a snake and called it a lizard, you overplayed your hand. Give them every reason to stay in your corner. They will tip things in your favor. But don’t underestimate your allies. Libra (September 23–October 22) Feeling lonely as a loblolly pine tree in a parking lot, are you, Sweet Thing? Well, it is a cold winter, and you struggle till the sun shines, and life feels good. It will feel good again, but you are coming through the most difficult passage and know it. Scorpio (October 23–November 21) They peed down your back and said it was raining. That ripped your shirt, alright. But you are not stupid. You still see them as an asset. Good enough, Honey. But keep both eyes open in this pending venture. Sagittarius (November 22—December 21) That dog just won’t hunt and you know it straight down to your tippy toes. Even so, Sugar, it’s a real sweet dog and you want to keep it. Not all causes are lost — just one that you have been so committed to for about a year too long. Deep breaths, Sugar. Capricorn (December 22–January 19) The problem with somebody you look to for advice is this: If they’re moving their lips, they’re lying. But what wildly entertaining tales they can tell! You feel protective and that is another reason you are so committed to them, mother figure. PS

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SOUTHWORDS

Be My Valentine ‒ for Life By Susan S. Kelly

I don’t know how you’re

spending Valentine’s Day, but if you’re feeling blue, hie yourself to the Harris Teeter around 5 p.m. and hang out around the flower counter. Just watching the clerks pumping out last-minute arrangements for all those lost men scrambling to purchase posies is bound to make you laugh. If that fails, call a single friend to regale you with fun facts about dating after 40. A favorite is my pal who has a “guillotine realization” for blind dates. As in, “He was wearing a necklace.” Chop. Another has a Jesus clause in her marriage: If he ever gets religion, she’s excused. And for those of you eyeing that 10-years-younger mate, remember this: You’ll have to take on all their 10-years-younger enthusiasms too, for organic food and exhaustively researching kindergartens. Ugh. Makes reaching the point in a marriage where you get up every morning, ask each other how you slept, and actually answer each other seem far preferable. Valentine’s is an industry now, but then so are weddings, and if you don’t believe me, ask my friend who went around at his daughter’s reception offering $20 bills to people if they’d just go home. Now, even “the ask” is elaborately planned for some mountain top or sunset beach scenario. As opposed to, say, the way my husband asked me to marry him, in the parking lot of the SAE house, where we’d gone with the rest of a frat friend’s reception carousers because we’d broken every glass at Hope Valley Country Club in Durham. It just doesn’t get any more romantic than that, unless you count my son’s friend who let everyone know he’d gotten engaged by sending a mass email with “Man Overboard” in the subject line. My husband and I — well, OK, my mother — set my wedding date depending not on weather or venue availability, but by asking the folks at Tiffany’s how long it would take to get the invitations printed and counting backward from there. My sister was so jealous of my getting married. She said, “Just think. Now you can do anything to your hair and he still has to love you.” And then, happily ever after. Or as my other sister put it, “I’ve loved

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him ever since he had that awful The Price Is Right furniture.” Forty years on, I’m still wondering if I get marital points for putting on mascara for my husband just for dinner. But I gave up on wishing for a What Now? day many anniversaries ago. A What Now? day is a Saturday when your husband just follows you around all day and says, “What needs doing now?” Although I once read the lips of a new bride dancing that first dance with her new husband. “Turn me now,” she instructed him. Wonder how that’s going. Ah, the nuptial valleys and peaks. Not the toothpaste caps, or shirts put inside out in the laundry basket, rather, the day my father came home for lunch, as he did every day, and it wasn’t ready. “What have you been doing all morning?” he asked my mother. For the first and last time, I bet. Or my sister, who once proclaimed, “All we talk about are calendars.” Yes, at one stage, marital conversation gets pared down to timetables. And while toothpaste tops may be a cliché, the bathroom does seem to be the locale for many a Grrr moment. Take this direct quote from an email: “This amazes me. We’ve had the rug on our bathroom floor for 10 years. D (name withheld to protect the guilty) steps on it when he gets out of the shower, stands on it while brushing his teeth, ponders on it while on the commode. Today when I asked him to bring the rug up from the dryer, he asked what bathroom it belonged in.” Still, the bathroom moment I recall most fondly took place not in a bathroom, but in an aisle at Lowe’s. It’s a weeknight in a nearly vacant, fluorescently lit, concrete-floored, utterly charmless big box store. My husband and I are debating a new shower door for a bathroom renovation. Most decisions are easy: a towel bar on the outside, a grab bar on the inside. Small house and aging issues we’re used to, and don’t even blink. We look at those doors a long time, slide them back and forth, compare, dither. I’m leaning toward the clear, see-through panel — contemporary, clean, trendy — and a significant departure from our old frosted one. My husband nods, thinks, and finally says, “You know, I just don’t think I can go there.” I laugh. “Who do you think is going to be looking at us besides each other?” He laughs too, then, admitting to an idiotic objection, after 28 years. Never mind that both of us had nine years of two to four roommates before we got married, and have experienced countless shared-bathrooms oops moments on family vacations. But then, I lift my shoulders and say, “You know, I can’t go there, either.” And there, in the middle of Lowe’s, on a weekday evening, under fluorescent lights, the pair of us double over, giggling at our ridiculous, bogus-modest, long-married selves. If that ain’t the essence of romance, I don’t know what is. And they’ve lived happily ever after. With the clear shower door. PS Susan Kelly is a blithe spirit, author of several novels, and proud grandmother.

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