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

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

For more information contact Lynn Valliere.

155 Blake Boulevard, Pinehurst, NC 28374 910.295.2294 | www.qhvillage.com

Jamie McDevitt ... ALWAYS working for YOUR lifestyle. Heather and Don Mehal moved here from Ohio searching for a horse farm where they could run their business and enjoy the much warmer weather of North Carolina. Jamie found them the perfect place in the Meadows in the Sandhills. A Grand Prix dressage rider, Heather loves to compete in the areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many local shows with her horse, Shall We Dance and Don is always there to cheer them on. The Mehalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also enjoy holding clinics in their newly built covered riding arena to benefit the local equestrian community at their farm, Big Dog Stables. Heather and Don are living their dream!

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Pinewild: Spectacular 4BR/5.5BA French Country style home designed for this homesite. Magnificent water feature & golf views. Lower level Family Room/Kitchenette, 2BRs/2BAs, and home theater. $1,559,000 Eva Toney 910.638.0972

17.76 Horse Country Acres: Private & Tranquil with rolling pastures, 2-stall barn & riding trails galore. Warm & inviting décor. Stone fireplace in Living Room. Master Suites on each level. Many unique touches throughout. Deck, Fire pit, Hot Tub & patio. $1,250,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

CCNC: 5-Acre Golf Front Home: New Price! Custom built home on the 9th hole of the Cardinal Course. This 7,000 sq.ft. residence offers 4 Bedroom, 4 Baths, with both formal and informal living spaces. View at: www.125BrooklineDrive.com $1,100,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Old Town Pinehurst: “Plymouth Cottage”, one of the Tufts original cottages built in 1895. Located in the very heart of the Village. Convenient to the Village Shops, Carolina Hotel, and the Pinehurst Country Club Clubhouse. Updated inside & out! Beautiful landscape. 4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths. $975,000 Frank Sessoms 910.639.3099

CCNC: Golf Front Priced to Sell: Great views from this 5-acre

estate home; open floor plan with magnificent ceiling design, gourmet kitchen, master with his/her baths, library and two guest suites. www.810LakeDornochDrive.com $895,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Weymouth French Country Home: Step back in time with all the conveniences of today! Gleaming hardwoods, gourmet ktchn w/Wolfe Gas Range. 2-Fireplaces, Master on main level. Basement for storage. Beautifully maintained - Just looking for someone to make it their new home. $673,000

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Pinehurst: Award winning, elegant home! Exquisite architectural details throughout. Soaring ceiling, and custom columns & trim work. Spacious gourmet kitchen with antiqued cabinetry and wood toned center island. 3 Bedrooms, 3 Full & 2 Half Baths. 3-Garages plus Golf Cart storage. $649,000 Pat Wright 910.691.3224

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Cotswold in Pinehurst: Stylish & Spacious Townhome! Customized and expanded to include a sunny Carolina Room. This home is enhanced with a custom fireplace hearth & built-in cabinets, custom kitchen cabinetry & more. Luxurious Master Suite. 4 Bedrooms, 3 Baths. www.8StantonCircle.com $466,900 Pat Wright 910.691.3224

CCNC: The Perfect Personal Retreat! Lovely residence on over 5-acres. Open and comfortable plan with living/dining room combo, large windows & high ceilings. Generous kitchen opens to the vaulted family room with stone fireplace. Screened Porch and Slate Patio. 3 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths. $465,000 Kay Beran 910.315.3322

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Pinewild Country Club: Custom built transitional home with open design - generous sized rooms - all on one level. Attention to detail. 3 Spacious bedrooms, each with private baths. Library, Office, Family Room, Sun Room off Kitchen, golf cart storage. Gourmet Kitchen. 3 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths. $415,000 Kay Beran 910.315.3322

Downtown Southern Pines: Room & 2-car garage! Bonus upper unfinished space could be more bedrooms or suite! Located two blocks from Broad Street and just steps to Campbell House & Weymouth Center. 3 Bedrooms, 2 Baths. $405,000 Mav Hankey 910.603.3589

Weymouth Heights: Curb appeal, great neighborhood, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 1.88-acre lot, large workshop with HVAC, residence boasts over 3,000 sq.ft. of living space. Check it out: www.170HalcyonDrive.com $399,000 Frank Sessoms 910.639.3099

Peek-A-Boo Lake View: Stunning & Gracious impresses as you enter the front door. Cathedral ceiling, hardwoods, and tasteful hues throughout. Kitchen with granite counter tops is open and inviting surrounded by breakfast nook & cozy family room. Fenced yard, Deck with Gazebo. $385,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

West End: Like New! Looking for privacy, acreage and a 3,000+sq.ft. home with all the modern conveniences of new constrction, look no further! Situated on almost eight acres, this home has been completely renovated! Natural light in every room and many upgrades! 4BR/3BA. $369,000 Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

Donald Ross Drive Area: Stunning all brick home with wonderful curb appeal.

Water Front on Lake Auman: Location! Truly a one-of-akind offering! 180 degree views for building your dream home. Bulk-head, 2-Docks with a boat lift & swim ladder in place. Spectacular water views! $325,000 Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

Middleton Place: Charming home with new soft-tile floors in the kitchen & new hardwood floors in the foyer, living, dining & family rooms. Large Sunny breakfast room. Built-ins, cozy fireplace & bookcases. 2 Bedrooms, 2.5 Baths. $315,000 Bill Brock 910.639.1148

Pinewild Country Club: Stunning golf front home with a European influence.

Barrel ceiling design in Foyer, Living Room with soaring ceiling & custom mouldings. Banquet sized formal dining room. Handsome study with built-ins. Gourmet kitchen boasts granite counters & opens to a family room with fireplace. Hobby Room, too! 3 Bedrooms, 3 Baths. $499,950

Pat Wright 910.691.3224

lots of light and views of 8th fairway; great spaces for indoor & outdoor entertaining. Low maintenance; energy efficient with many extras. 3 Bedroom, 2 Full & 2 Half Baths. $449,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Close to the Village & half a block to Rassie Wicker Park. Renovated Master Bath with all the bells & whistles! Brick floored Carolina Room. New Roof in ‘13; New Heat Pump ‘10 & Irrigation Well. Backyard Shed could be studio/garden room. 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath. $339,000

Jerry & Judy Townley 910.690.7080

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January 2017 Features 61 Wintry Mix

72 A Good Fit for the Goodmans

Poetry by Sam Barbee

By Deborah Salomon A Pinehurst family grows into well-planned home

62 Magna Carta Man

By Jim Moriarty “Little old bookbinder” Don Etherington held — and preserved — history with his hands

79 Almanac

68 The Curious Case of Granville Deitz

By Ash Alder Time for rebirth and a gingery cure for that New Year’s hangover

By Bill Case The twists and turns in the life of the man who gunned down the chief of police

Departments 13 Simple Life

37 In the Spirit

18 PinePitch 21 Instagram Winners 23 The Omnivorous Reader

41 The Kitchen Garden

By Jim Dodson

By Stephen E. Smith

27 Bookshelf

By Romey petite and Angie Tally

31 Papadaddy’s Mindfield By Clyde Edgerton

33 Hometown By Bill Fields

35 Vine Wisdom By Robyn James

By Tony Cross

By Jan Leitschuh

45 Out of the Blue

By Deborah Salomon

47 Birdwatch

By Susan Campbell

49 Sporting Life By Tom Bryant

80 Arts & Entertainment Calendar 87 SandhillSeen 93 The Accidental Astrologer By Astrid Stellanova

95 PineNeedler

By Mart Dickerson

96 SouthWords By Jim Moriarty

53 In Memoriam By Bill Fields

57 Golftown Journal By Lee Pace

Cover Photograph at Southern Pines Police Department, Copy by John Gessner

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M A G A Z I N E Volume 13, No. 1 Jim Dodson, Editor 910.693.2506 • jim@pinestrawmag.com Andie Stuart Rose, Creative Director 910.693.2467 • andie@pinestrawmag.com Jim Moriarty, Senior Editor 910.692.7915 • jjmpinestraw@gmail.com Lauren M. Coffey, Graphic Designer 910.693.2469 • lauren@pinestrawmag.com Alyssa Rocherolle, Graphic Designer 910.693.2508 • alyssa@pinestrawmag.com Contributing Editors Deborah Salomon, Staff Writer Mary Novitsky, Sara King, Proofreaders Contributing Photographers John Gessner, Laura Gingerich, Tim Sayer Contributors Tom Allen, Harry Blair, Tom Bryant, Susan Campbell, Bill Case, Tony Cross, Al Daniels, Annette Daniels, Mart Dickerson, Clyde Edgerton, Bill Fields, Robyn James, Susan Kelly, Jan Leitschuh, Meridith Martens, Diane McKay, Lee Pace, Sara Phile, Joyce Reehling, Stephen E. Smith, Astrid Stellanova, Kimberly Daniels Taws, Angie Tally, Ashley Wahl, Sam Walker, Janet Wheaton

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129 National Drive • Pinehurst Stunning golf front residence with design quality and elegance in every detail. Living areas are spacious, open and connected for light and flow. The core living rooms are wrapped by a hallway that gives privacy to the perimeter rooms. French doors open to a deep back porch off living, master and family rooms overlooking the golf course and lake. Wonderfully equipped kitchen with breakfast bar is open to a family room with fireplace, bookcases and sweep of windows. Luxurious master suite has walk-in shower. Crawl space is conditioned. Upstairs features large office or playroom space, 4th bedroom with full bath and sitting room. Very spacious walkin attic storage on the second floor, casement windows throughout. Arched detail in hallway doors. Built-in workshop in the three car garage. Offered at $885,000.

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Historic Southern Pines 1920’s Colonial Revival on 1.91 The Red Brick Cottage is a lovely English Tudor acres in Weymouth Heights. 6 BR, 5.5 BA, 5227 sq ft. on 1 ½ lots. Built in 1920, 4 BR, 4.5 BA, 2 fireplaces, Slate roof, 3 fireplaces. $1,150,000 2 car garage. PRICE REDUCED $1,198,000

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CCNC traditional on 2.2 acres, 4476 sq ft, 4 BR, 4 BA. Main floor master suite, stunning foyer, study, kitchen opens to family room, garage apt. $925,000

Historic Hill Crest Cottage in Old Town exudes “Old Pinehurst charm” in every detail. 1917, 4BR, 3.5 BA, 2 acres. Offering includes front lot. $795,000

940 E. Connecticut Avenue

85 Lake Dornoch Drive

Forest Creek golf front, 1.1 acres, 5 BR, 4 BA, 2.5 BA, 2 Lovely Irish Georgian country house on 12.21 CCNC Pinehurst Exquisite total Golf front CCNC with lake view. 4023 main renovation of 4BR, 4.5 BA, Colonial on 2.5 fireplaces, game room, kitchen/family room, garage guest apt. acres in Weymouth. Built 1998, 3 stories, 3 BR, house, 763 guest house addition. One floor, Great porch. Built in 2002. PRICED REDUCED $898,000 2.5 BA, 3 fireplaces, 4 car garage. $1,150,000 3 BR, 3.5 BA main, 1 BR, 1 BA guest. $1,100,000 ac golf front. $1,450,000.

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Stunning historic 3-story Victorian CCNC golf front on Cardinal Course. One Golf front with water view in Mid South Club. Private Horse Country estate on 10 acres includfarmhouse, 4 fireplaces. Breathtaking floor living, remarkable kitchen, paneled 5 BR, 5 BA, 2 half BA, 3 car garage, pool, built ing lovely lake. Faulk designed 4 BR, 4.5 BA, views over 4 acres. 5BR, 3BA. $690,000 study. 3BR, 3.5 BA, 3 car garage, $1,100,000. ’05, 1.15 acre lot, 6860 sq ft, elevator. $1,500,000. 5640 sq ft home built in 1970. $1,200,000

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

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59 GlasGoW DriVe Precision Custom Homes presents this beautifully renovated 3 BR / 2 BA plus 2 ½ BA home is located on the 2nd Green of the Magnolia Course at Pinewild Country Club.

52 McMichael DriVe This custom all brick 3 BR / 4.5 BA home is located on the 2nd green of the Holly Course at Pinewild CC --- oversized lot is .8 of an acre. Recently renovated, this gorgeous home features hardwood floors, an expanded living area and spacious 3 car garage.

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174 JaMes DriVe This lovely and unique 4 BR / 3 BA home is located on 3 lots – almost 1 ½ acres – and offers over 3,500 square feet of living area in the gated community of Seven Lakes West.

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121 JaMes creeK This beautifully updated 4 BR / 3.5 BA home is nestled back from the road in the highly desirable neighborhood of James Creek. The home offers lots of space that includes a home office, playroom, gym and formal and informal living space.

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

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

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150 Morris DriVe Enjoy water views from the front porch of this beautiful 4 BR / 3.5 BA two story home! The foyer and living room both feature two-story ceiling height and hardwood floors. The kitchen offers custom wood cabinets, granite countertops, walk-in pantry, breakfast bar and nook. This home is immaculate and shows beautifully!

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

140 beacon riDGe DriVe This gorgeous custom built 3 BR / 2.5 BA home has beautiful curb appeal and great landscaping but the interior is really the star! Open and bright with long views of the golf course, hardwood floors throughout the lower level and loads of ceiling to floor windows.

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

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

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

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3 WooDWorD Place Charming craftsman style cottage new construction home features 4 BR / 4.5 BA in desirable Forest Creek! Interior lot offers over 3900 sq. feet with an open and spacious floor plan.

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

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

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42 oxton circle Located on the 11th hole of the Holly Course at Pinewild Country Club, this lovely 3 BR / 2.5 BA custom home offers beautiful views and appealing outdoor surroundings.

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18 DunGarVan lane This custom built 3 BR / 3 BA golf front home offers an open, sun-filled floorplan with floor to ceiling window walls, crown moldings, high ceilings and expansive golf views. This gorgeous home is located on the 8th Fairway at Pinehurst #9!

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145 Quail holloW DriVe Enchanting 3 BR / 2 BA sun-drenched home in prestigious CCNC, nestled in the back of 1.5 acres on the golf course. A large terrace encompasses the back of the house overlooking the pond and Holes 5 and 15, great for outdoor entertaining.

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

520 lonGleaf DriVe Enjoy life to the fullest in this gorgeous 3 BR / 3.5 BA award winning and impeccably maintained custom home with over 4,000 square feet.

106 rachels Point Drop dead gorgeous Bob Timberlake design! This 4 BR / 2.5 BA home sits on 1.8 beautifully landscaped acres that slopes gently to the water and includes an outdoor kitchen on the patio, a private dock and beach with a fireplace.

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Saving George

An anchor of enchantment in the front yard

By Jim Dodson

His name is George. That’s

Illustration by Romey Petite

what we’ve taken to calling him, at any rate. George is old and bent, weathered by age. We think he might be pushing 100 years old.

I’ve known George most of my life. Grew up just two doors from down from where he lived but I never paid him much notice until recently. That’s because George is an old tree, Crataegus phaenopyrum, we think, based purely by his leaf pattern and bark. His common name is a Washington hawthorn — hence the nickname we’ve bestowed on him. But here’s where the sweet mystery deepens. According to my tree identification book, Washington hawthorns are relatively small flowering trees — in some cases, shrubs — that produce early and abundant white flowers in the spring and vivid red berries that last into winter, a bounty for winter birds, especially cedar waxwings. They’re also reportedly poisonous to dogs, which could be a problem, since Ajax, our shameless golden retriever, will eat anything put before him. On the other hand, he’s one lazy brute, unlike his Greek namesake, and not much for climbing trees. So Ajax is probably safe. We moved into the neighborhood just before Thanksgiving. On our first day in the Corry house, I stopped to admire George. He was magnificently arrayed with gold and crimson leaves, like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The neighborhood is famous for its old graceful hardwoods, many of them well over a century old. George is clearly one of the neighborhood patriarchs. That’s why I paused to admire him the afternoon we moved in, suddenly remembering him from my childhood, making a mental note to free him from the tangle of English ivy vines that had grown around him like something from a fairy tale. In a year of small wonders, it seemed wonderfully providential that we were moving into the Corry house, 100 feet from where I grew up. The Corry boys were my pals growing up. Their parents, Al and Mama Merle, were my parents’ good friends. Big Al was one of Greensboro’s leading builders, and the house he built for his wife and four kids — a gorgeous wooden bungalow with flowing rooms, parquet floors and host of innovative design touches — was one of the first houses built in Starmount Forest after the war.

For more than a year, my wife, Wendy, and I had quietly scouted houses throughout Greensboro. Then one Sunday after I heard the Corry house was for sale, we went for a look. I didn’t let on that the Corry house was always my favorite in the neighborhood. But after she walked through it, on the drive home to the Sandhills, Wendy quietly announced, “I think that’s the house. It just feels like us.” The Corry kids, all four of them, were thrilled to hear their homeplace was being purchased by a Dodson. Each quickly got in touch to offer their enthusiastic congratulations. The Corrys were the most self-sufficient clan I ever knew, natural builders and people full of life. Chris, the oldest boy, actually lived in a tepee with his bride as they built their own dream home west of Greensboro. The Corry boys hunted, fished and could build anything with their hands. They were also crazily musical, playing stringed instruments of every sort. In 1969, son Craig and I made the Greensboro Teenage Talent Show playing guitars and singing Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice.” We called ourselves Alfred and James. Big Al informed us that Alfred and James needed something “extra” to win. “You boys need a shtick to impress the judges,” he said. I asked him why we needed a stick on stage. Big Al laughed. He hailed from Buffalo, New York. “That’s a Yiddish word,” he explained. “It means a comic gimmick, something to make people laugh. First rule of vaudeville — always leave ’em laughing.” He suggested that we add kazoos to the act. We thought that was the silliest thing we’d ever heard, but Mama Merle bought us a couple anyway. The director of the show asked us to play a second song while the judges made up their minds. So we did an encore — with guitars and kazoos. The audience gave us a standing ovation. We wound up in third place. I still have the program. TV host Lee Kinard invited Alfred and James to come on his Good Morning Show at Christmas. We worked up a couple of Christmas carols and did the second one with kazoos. The shtick worked wonders. Craig grew up to marry Marcy Madden, his first girlfriend from just down the block. He became a veterinarian. Britt, his little brother, was a musical prodigy who became a music teacher and recently signed on to direct the music for Horn in the West. Ginger, the oldest and only girl, became a lawyer. Like his papa, Chris was a jack-of-all-trades, a born builder of almost anything. He now sports a full-grown gray beard and knows his late mama’s house better than anyone alive because he built much of it with his father and took care of the place until Merle passed away a year or so ago. His wife, Fenna,

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told me in an email that Mama Merle and Big Al would both be so happy that a Dodson kid had come home again to purchase their house. From faraway California, Ginger wrote that she hoped we would have many happy years living there. Which brings me back to George. A week after we got settled, we took ladders, handsaws and a hatchet and liberated George from those wretched English ivy vines. The job took two afternoons, but George looked considerably more at ease, maybe even grateful. My nephew came and helped me clean out the area around his base, where I’ll soon plant Spanish bluebells and English daffodils for the spring. I also planted six young trees, three Japanese maples I’d raised from sprouts and a trio of river birches like the three I planted once in Maine. They stood in front of the post and beam house I built on a forested hilltop surrounded by birch and hemlock. The beams were rough-sawn Northern fir, with pegged heartwood pine flooring salvaged from a 200-year-old New Hampshire barn. On cold but sunny winter days, whenever the sun streamlining through that house’s large south-facing windows warmed the beams, you could hear gentle sighs and faint cracking sounds as the wood relaxed, expanded, exhaled. That peaceful sound told me something I guess I’ve always known. That wood — trees — are something more than just fellow living and breathing organisms. They are enchanted. Maybe this explains why one of my first memories of life is of sitting on a low limb in a sprawling live oak next to our house by Greenfield Lake, in Wilmington, waiting for my father to come home from the newspaper where he worked. I was forever climbing trees, much to my mother’s chagrin, and sometimes falling out of them. My dad liked to call me Mowgli, the orphaned boy from Kipling’s Jungle Book, one of the first books I ever read on my own.

Come to think of it, the books I loved early on all seemed to have extraordinary trees in them — Greek and Roman mythology, the Tarzan books, almost every fairy tale I ever read contained forests that were either forbidden or simply enchanted, home to magic creatures, wizards, evil queens and noble woodsmen. And why not? Plato and the ancient Greeks believed souls resided in sacred groves of trees, and the Buddha found enlightenment sitting beneath a fig. The Egyptian Book of the Dead mentions groves of sycamores where the departed find eternal bliss, and the Bible speaks of a Tree of Knowledge that altered paradise. The Irish word “druid” derives simply from a Celtic word for oak, while in India to this day people seeking miracles hang family rags on trees to make shrines to the gods. My Baptist grandmother always insisted that the dogwood tree with its perfect white petals and crimson heart was a symbol for Christ’s resurrection, and showed me the old Appalachian story to prove it. The Glastonbury thorn, holds English lore, is a hawthorn tree that is said to have sprouted miraculously from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea when he traveled to Britain after Jesus’ crucifixion. The hawthorn blooms at Christmas, and the queen is traditionally brought one of its blooms with her tea on Christmas morning. In broader English lore, wherever hawthorns and oaks reside together, kindly fairies supposedly live as well. I do hope that much holds true even if, come springtime, the old tree I liberated turns out to be something quite different. There’s an old saying that an optimist is someone who plants a tree he may never live long enough to sit under. That’s probably true for the six young trees I planted around George. But come spring, home at last, I plan to sit under George when those bluebells and daffodils bloom. PS Contact editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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PinePitch An Evening Of Baroque

On Sunday, January 8, the Weymouth Chamber Music Series presents “Light and Shadow,” a performance by Ensemble Vermillion, whose unique interpretation of 17th and 18th century chamber music will delight you. Musicians Frances Blaker (recorder virtuoso), David Wilson (baroque violinist), Barbara Blaker Krumdeick (baroque cellist), Barbara Weiss (harpsichordist) and Billy Sims (theorbo and baroque guitarist) are joined by soprano Molly Quinn and her silken voice in a program that features the music of Baroque masters Dietrich Buxtehude and JM Bach. Enjoy the music at 3 p.m. and stay for the reception to meet the artists in The Great Room at the Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, at 555 E. Connecticut Ave. in Southern Pines. Tickets, available at the Weymouth Center, are $10 for members and $20 for non-members. Call (910) 692-6261 or visit www.weymouthcenter.org for more information.

Hot Off The Algonquin Press

Susan Rivers will be at The Country Bookshop on Friday, January 13, at 5 p.m. to discuss her debut novel, The Second Mrs. Hockaday, published this month by Algonquin Books. The story, set in South Carolina at the end of the Civil War, is about Placidia, a young bride left alone to raise her husband’s baby, run his farm, and survive. Her husband returns from the war two years later and discovers Placidia accused of bearing a child and murdering it. The truth is revealed over the course of three decades through letters, court documents and a diary in this suspenseful narrative. Rivers has an MFA in fiction writing from Queens University of Charlotte and currently teaches in upstate South Carolina. The Country Bookshop is located at 140 NW Broad St. in Southern Pines. Call (910) 692-3211 for more information.

Get To Know Your Town

The Citizen’s Academy invites residents of Southern Pines to get to know the inner workings of their community and meet some of its elected officials. Monthly sessions from January through May highlight town programs, services, policies, and procedures. Staff from various departments conduct tours, provide overviews of departmental functions, and answer questions — enabling participants to create an invaluable guide to the town and its services. The program is free, but limited to 20, and application is required. Sessions will be held on Tuesday evenings, beginning January 10. In order to graduate (and receive a certificate!), participants must attend all five sessions. (One make-up allowed.) High school students are welcome to apply. Application forms are available online at www. southernpines.net/DocumentCenter/View/3841. For availability of individual sessions, call the library, (910) 692-8235.

Campbell House Galleries

This month’s art exhibit, Color in Nature, features paintings by Glenda Parker Jones, Meridith Martens and Miriam Sagasti. The exhibit is presented by The Arts Council of Moore County and sponsored by Shirley and Bill Frei. Hosts Bonnie and Buzz Parker, Howard Schubert, Jean Webster, and Mickey and George Wirtz invite you to the opening reception on Friday, January 6, from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit will run through January 27. The Campbell House Galleries are open weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Saturday, January 21, 2–4 p.m., and are located at 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Admission is free. For more information, call (910) 692-2787 or visit mooreart.org.

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For The Love Of Coffee And Tea

Live At The Met

On Saturday, January 21, The Sunrise Theater will present Gounod’s opera Roméo et Juliette in HD via satellite from New York. The opera (in French with English subtitles) is based on William Shakespeare’s passionate play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, which tells the story of two teenage lovers whose marriage is forbidden by their feuding families, the Capulets and Montagues. The production features several memorable duets between the characters. The show begins at 12:55 p.m. Tickets are $27. The Sunrise Theater is located at 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Call (910) 6928501 or visit www.sunrisetheater.com for more information.

On Sunday, January 29, enjoy an afternoon at Pinehurst’s historic Fair Barn exploring the many varieties of coffee and tea and browsing the art on display and for sale. Coffee and tea samples and products will be available for purchase, and you can design your own coffee mug at the DIY coffee mug station. It will be a latte fun! The event is from 1 to 4 p.m. Tickets are $15 and available at Pinehurst Village Hall. The Fair Barn is located at the Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Road South. For more information, call (910) 295-1900 or contact Danaka Bunch at dbunch@vopnc.org.

Celebrating January Authors’ Birthdays

On Saturday, January 7, between 10 a.m. and noon, bring the kids to Given Memorial Library to celebrate the birthdays of J.R.R. Tolkien and A.A. Milne. Special stations will be set up with creative and interactive projects and activities inspired by characters and settings from The Hobbit series and Winnie the Pooh. Alone or with a parent, kids can create characters, draw maps, and explore Chaos Tower. At the Photo Booth Station, they can get their pictures taken with a Hobbit or Pooh creature of their own making. A special map of the Kids Room will help them find books to check out and take home to read. Library cards are free, and kids of all ages are invited! The library is located at 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Call (910) 295-6022 or visit www.giventufts.com for more information.

Weymouth Writer-InResidence Reading

On Thursday, January 12, Sheryl Monks will be reading from her collection of stories, Monsters in Appalachia, set mostly in the story-rich mountains of West Virginia and rural North Carolina. Monks brings to life factory and mine workers, mothers and daughters, outlaws, abused wives, schoolchildren, and monsters in tales that have been described as both gothic and grim, realistic and surrealistic, haunting and humorous. Monks grew up in West Virginia and western North Carolina, holds an MFA in creative writing, and is a past winner of the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award. Her reading at 5:30 p.m. and the wine and cheese reception following will be held at the Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Sponsored by St. Joseph of the Pines, this event is free and open to the public. For more information call (910) 692-6261 or visit www.weymouthcenter.org or Facebook.

The Rooster’s Wife

Aberdeen’s casual venue “with a totally serious appreciation for the best music found anywhere” presents the following this month: Jan. 6, Missy Raines, 7-time IBMA Bass Player of the Year fronts her jazzy string band, the New Hip. Jan. 13, House of Dues. Dance Party. Jan. 15, Moors and McCumber, multi-instrumentalists, splendid songwriters ranging from Celtic through Americana Jan. 19, Mitch Capel presents a Night of Love and Laughter. Jan. 22, Louis Romano Quartet interweaves Latin, Middle, and Far Eastern influences within an American jazz framework. Jan. 29, the Martha Bassett Trio returns with no genre left unexplored. Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto will open the show. For all of the above, doors open at 6 p.m. and music begins at 6:46 at the Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Call (910) 9447502 or visit www.theroosterswife.org for more information. And on January 5, at 7:30 p.m., you can catch Miss Raines and the New Hip at the Roosters Wife at the Cameo Art House Theater. 225 Hay St, Fayetteville. (910) 486-6633.

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T h e O m n i v oro u s R e a d e r

American Ulysses Finding the uncommon in a common man

By Stephen E. Smith

We’ve grown infamous for what we should

know but don’t. What’s more distressing is our proclivity for spouting “factoids,” assumptions that are repeated so often they become accepted as truth. Ask a reasonably welleducated person what he or she knows about Ulysses S. Grant and you’ll probably hear that Grant was a drunken Civil War general and a president whose administration was tainted by scandal. Beyond that, you’re not likely to get much in the way of revelatory information.

Certainly we’re suffering no dearth of sources. Curious readers have access to Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant — one of the finest memoirs written by an American — and recent biographies include Jean Edward Smith’s 2002 Grant and H.W. Brands’ 2013 The Man Who Saved the Union, lesser volumes which have done little to compensate for the general lack of knowledge regarding a man who rose in seven years from a clerk in a leather goods store to commander of all Union forces in the Civil War to a two-term president of the United States. As president, Grant may not be as obscure and maligned as James Buchanan or Andrew Johnson, but he has nonetheless slipped from memory, and most of what remains in our collective awareness are vague misconceptions and flawed characterizations. With American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, Ronald C. White offers new insights into the life of the 18th president of the United States. Whereas Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer William McFeely stated emphatically in his 2002 biography of Grant: “I am convinced that Ulysses Grant had no organic, artistic, or intellectual specialness,” White finds much to admire, basing his observation on Grant’s interior life, his intense love for his wife and children, his fondness for the theater and novels, and his loyalty to his friends, not a few of whom led him into the ill-conceived schemes that tarnished his second term as president. “I discovered that Grant’s life story has so many surprising twists and turns, highs and lows, as to read like a suspense novel,” White writes. “His nineteenth-century contemporaries knew his story well. They offered him not simply admiration but affection. In their eyes he stood with Washington and Lincoln.” Indeed, Grant was held in high regard by his countrymen — and by ordinary people around the world. But McFeely’s critical judgment of Grant as an unexceptional man isn’t without justification. White’s account of Grant’s early life reveals no hint of exceptionalism, and his years as a young Army officer and his subsequent sojourn as a hardscrabble farmer offered no indication that he’d rise to general of the Army of the United States, the first non-brevet officer to hold the rank since Washington. Moreover, his terms as president were marked by the best of intentions regarding Reconstruction, civil rights and Native American assimilation. By contemporary standards, dismal though they may

be, Grant’s presidential years were only vaguely tarnished by the misconduct of trusted associates. Readers who believe themselves schooled in the facts of Grant’s life will encounter the occasional surprise. Grant, the general who would destroy the Southern economy and social construct, was, for a brief period, a slave owner. White points out the general’s views on “the peculiar institution” were pragmatic and demonstrate evolution of thought. In a letter to his abolitionist father, Grant wrote: “My inclination is to whip the rebellion into submission, preserving all constitutional rights. If it cannot be whipped in any other way than through a war against slavery, let it come to that legitimately.” A year later he would write to Elihu Washburne, a Republican congressman from Illinois and Lincoln supporter: “I was never an Abolitionist, not even what could be called anti-slavery, but I try to judge fairly & honestly and it became patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North & South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without slavery.” Other miscalculations would prove to be more damaging to Grant’s wartime reputation, such as his General Order No. 11: “The Jews, as a class, violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department . . . are hereby expelled . . . ” Although he claimed that a member of his staff had written the order, Grant was, according to White, solely responsible for an order that threatened to alienate the 7,000 Jews who served in the Union Army. The most oft-repeated factoid regards Grant’s alcohol consumption. (There’s no hard evidence that Lincoln ever said that if he knew Grant’s favorite brand of whiskey he’d send barrels of it to his other commanders.) White attributes rumors of Grant’s intemperance to jealous fellow officers. “Few had ever met Grant — but no matter. Once the label ‘drunkard’ became affixed to a man in the army, it could seldom be completely erased.” He also rejects the notion that Julia Grant was the “balm” for her husband’s drinking, citing evidence to support the claim that Grant rarely over-imbibed. Grant’s Civil War successes, from Fort Donelson to Appomattox, are adequately reprised in White’s narrative, and for hard-core Civil War enthusiasts

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there’s a plethora of histories that cover Grant’s military career in more exhaustive detail. Where White’s biography shines is in evaluating Grant’s post-war conduct, falling decidedly on the side of Grant’s defenders. As president, Grant worked tirelessly for Native American assimilation and black civil rights. And he was temporarily successful in crushing the Ku Klux Klan, but was, in the long run, unsuccessful in changing attitudes that ruled the hearts and minds of Americans, especially Southerners. White also focuses on the Gold standard, the Annexation of Santo Domingo, the Virginius Affair, and the scandal surrounding the Gold Ring. Grant’s second term was dominated by economic upheaval, and White’s analysis of the Panic of 1873, precipitated by the failure of the brokerage house of Jay Cooke & Company to sell bonds issued by the Northern Pacific Railway, is thoroughly researched and placed in perspective. Unfortunately, Grant’s grasp of economics, on a personal level and as head of the federal government, was a weakness that plagued him into his old age when he was bankrupted by a smooth-talking swindler. But Grant always rallied when he found himself in difficult circumstances, and his finest achievement occurred when, suffering from incurable throat cancer, he transformed himself into a man of letters and wrote his two-volume personal memoir, restoring his family’s fortune. After Grant’s death, Julia received royalties amounting to $450,000 ($12 million in today’s dollars). The overriding value of White’s biography is in deepening our knowledge of a controversial American leader and the machinations that shaped his presidency. Forget about the notion that history repeats itself. It doesn’t. But an accurate understanding of the past is necessary to place the present in context. We have an obligation to possess more than a muddled, haphazard knowledge of the events that have shaped the moment. Given the tenor of the times, White probably won’t succeed in bringing “the enigmatic, inspiring, and complex story of American Ulysses . . . to the wider audience he deserves,” but if McFeely’s 2002 psychological appraisal of Grant leaves us with a decidedly negative impression — “. . . he (Grant) had forced himself out of the world of ordinary people by the most murderous acts of will and had doomed himself to spend the rest of his life looking for approval for having done so” — White instills in the reader a sense of pride in the political system that nurtured a leader possessed of uncommon tenacity and persistent moral courage. PS Stephen E. Smith is a retired professor and the author of seven books of poetry and prose. He’s the recipient of the Poetry Northwest Young Poet’s Prize, the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for poetry, and four North Carolina Press awards.

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January Books

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark

Twain, and the Birth of American Empire, by Stephen Kinzer

The best-selling author of The Brothers and Overthrow examines the key figures who shaped American foreign policy during the Progressive Era, a turning point in U.S. history when opinions over the nation’s involvements abroad were sharply divided. Kinzer’s book delves into the Panama Canal, the SpanishAmerican War, and the subsequent annexation of the Philippines and the men (Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge and William Randolph Hearst) who were convinced these efforts were necessary, as well as those who protested this period of expansionism (Mark Twain, Booker T. Washington and Andrew Carnegie). A former foreign correspondent for The New York Times and The Boston Globe, Kinzer has a unique perspective on this relevant, fraught and complex debate. The 5 Love Languages: Singles Edition and The 5 Love Languages: Military Edition, by Dr. Gary Chapman. While the initial title in The 5 Love Languages series was written for married couples, in Singles Edition Chapman seeks to show readers how they can better communicate in daily life and express themselves to the people that matter most, be it friends or family (or perhaps seeking closure in understanding a relationship that didn’t work out). In The 5 Love Languages: Military Edition, Chapman works with Jocelyn Green, writer of both historical and spiritual nonfiction, to provide advice for the struggles involved in a long-distance relationship, separating the jargon of fieldwork from home life, and strengthening relationships post-deployment. The Sleepwalker, by Chris Bohjalian New York Times best-selling author of The Guest Room has delivered a new foray into the realm of psychological mystery. Annalee Ahlberg, a habitual sleepwalker suffering from parasomnia, vanishes from her home one night. As her husband and children search desperately for some trace of her or what they fear most, a body, her eldest daughter, Lianna, slowly finds herself hypnotically drawn to the detective investigating the case. It’s a story certain to keep readers up at all hours, spellbinding until its close. The Girl Before, by J.P. Delaney The movie rights to this title were picked up before it even saw print, but don’t write it off as just the latest addition to Delaney’s ongoing suspense thriller obsession. The Girl Before is a gripping read of two girls told from both non-linear and multiple perspectives. The reader flips back and forth while flipping each page: going from one, Emma, to the other, Jane. Both, at one point, find themselves occupants of an apartment at One Folgate Street. In it, each finds the perfect location to suit their respective needs, provided for by the landlord, an eccentric architect. Unbeknown to Emma and Jane, the enigmatic location hosts a trap that the girl before — and the girl after — cannot help but fall into. Fever Dream, by Samanta Schweblin In this mesmeric first novel, Amanda lies in the hospital of an agrarian community struggling against the poisonous toxins in her body. A strange boy,

David, sits next to her asking questions she replies to reluctantly, half-knowing where those answers will lead. While she struggles for her life, and to remember something the boy insists she must, together the voices weave an arresting narrative of horses, horrors and estranging rituals. The Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine Arden Vasilisa Vladimirovich lives on the edge of a dense Russian wood, a land where the frigid weather rarely relents. The girl is happy there enjoying the folk stories told by her nursemaid. Her life changes when her mother dies and, just as in fairy tales, her father takes a new wife. Now, Vasilisa’s coldheartedly devout stepmother forbids the girl to honor the spirits from local lore — including the appeasement of the icy demon Morozko. Determined to protect her family from the ravages to their crops and the fierce forest beasts, Vasilisa begins a quest that reveals curious gifts she’s long held back. Wise readers will draw comparisons to the fairy tale retellings of Angela Carter; others will simply enjoy this rare confection — a perfect winter tale. Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney Rooney draws inspiration from the true life of poet and advertising writer Margaret Fishback, famous for her work for R.H. Macy’s. Dorothy Parker-esque drop-of-the-hat witticisms are all part of the job when you were once the most highly paid American woman in advertising. Rooney chooses an all-in-a-day format for her novel, selecting December 31 of 1984. A snappy, sensible octogenarian making observations with the brevity and lasting impression of a bee sting, Lillian finds herself dodging self-righteous vigilantes, phone calls from men she’s either mothered or been a mother to, and confrontations with shifty characters on New York’s streets. The format will doubtless put readers in mind of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway or the more recent Saturday by Ian McEwan. Rooney breathes life into what could have been a tired trope. Whisk yourself back to another turbulent year in history and ring in the New Year with Ms. Boxfish, the kind of witty woman you could only wish to be. Lincoln in a Bardo, by George Saunders A groundbreaking work of historical fiction, Lincoln in a Bardo is the story of Abraham Lincoln, his family, and his third son, Willie, who died when he was very young. What makes the tale truly remarkable is the way the categories of fiction and nonfiction are blurred. Told entirely through anecdotes, both true and fabricated, it is certain to generate controversy and furor from purists. Saunders is already an innovator in the short story form and a significant presence in the world of the short essay (he recently wrote an enormously entertaining piece after attending a Trump rally). His work manages to serve up portion after portion of humble pie with oscillations between both humility and humiliation. You may be scratching your head after hearing this is only his first stab at the novel. Lincoln in a Bardo doesn’t disappoint for a debut or for such a familiar and distinctive voice as Saunders’. It’s a peerless work of the genre achieving a new kind of authenticity.

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Beginning a new year is a classic

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But where did the custom of clinking glasses come from? There are many theories of the origination of the toast, but the most common is attributed to the Greeks in sixth century B.C. when deliberately poisoning people was a frighteningly common practice. Sick of your spouse, neighbor or politician? Just a pinch of hemlock and be done with it. So, in order to convince people that you didn’t intend to off them, the Greeks would pour the wine from a common jug, then clink glasses together. By clinking, the wine would slosh back and forth between glasses, demonstrating that the host was willing to drink what everyone else was drinking and the wine was untainted. The Greeks made a practice of offering libations to the gods and toasting to each other’s health. The Romans took it a step further by actually passing a law that everyone must drink to Emperor Augustus at every meal. Apparently, the wine was of such poor quality that the Romans discovered if they placed a piece of stale bread in the jug it would not only absorb some of the acidity, making the wine more palatable, but the bread would become edible again. Hence the name “toast.” In the 1800s, the Toastmasters Clubs were founded to practice the art. Supposedly they became the referees of toasting, making sure participants kept it simple and civil. It was common then to toast beautiful women, which coined the expression “toast of the town.” One famous toastmaster compared a good toast to a short skirt: “It should be short enough to be interesting and long enough to cover the essentials.” Here’s mud in your eye? Why would you wish that on anybody? OK, two theories exist on the origin of this common British toast. The first is a refer-

ence to horse racing, since this was a popular toast in fox hunting circles. The winning horse in a race is kicking mud into the eyes of the spectators, so it was a desirable thing. The second, and probably more common, theory is a biblical one where Jesus spat on the ground and rubbed the mud into a blind man’s eyes, restoring his sight. “Cheers” is a term associated with toasting, and is believed to have originated from the French word “chiere,” meaning “face.” By the 14th century it was interpreted as a mood on the face, and by the 18th century it became the term it is today, a show of support and encouragement. Here are some of the more popular and clever toasts of our times: Here’s to Champagne, the drink divine, That makes us forget our troubles; It’s made of five dollars’ worth of wine And twenty dollars’ worth of bubbles. *** Here’s to the nights we’ll never remember with the friends we’ll never forget. *** May the friends of our youth be the companions of our old age. *** May we live as long as we want, and never want as long as we live. *** May misfortune follow you the rest of your life but never catch up. *** Here’s to mine and here’s to thine! Now’s the time to clink it! Here’s a flagon of old wine, And here we are to drink it. PS Robyn James is a certified sommelier and proprietor of The Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in Southern Pines. Contact her at robynajames@gmail.com.

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holidays are over, it’s time to regroup and get it together. For most of us that means back to the gym, reintroducing new, or old, diets, New Year’s resolutions — you still do those? — and moderation. There’s nothing wrong with most of these; I usually take a cleanse of some sort to detox the ridiculous amounts of excess that I happily ate, drank and whatevered to my body. Most articles from various publications preach about what you should or shouldn’t do at the beginning of each year. So, in the tradition of cliché January columns on the subject, I bring you: how to drink better this year. I’ve mentioned in previous columns how it’s good to have a handful (maybe I used the word “arsenal”) of drinks in your mental reservoir whenever you’re at a bar or restaurant. This piece of advice still stands. Cocktail historian David Wondrich once wrote that if you’re a vodka soda drinker, you should probably just continue to drink vodka sodas. Clever, and more than likely true. Most vodka soda fans aren’t drinking for flavor, but if you are, keep on reading. One of my favorite tricks to play on guests is giving them gin instead of vodka. Whenever a patron asked me to come up with something inventive on the fly that used vodka as the main spirit, I would more than likely use Uncle Val’s Botanical Gin. Distilled in Sonoma, California, it tastes nothing

like any gin you’re used to. This gin is a huge lemon and citrus bomb. I’ve converted plenty of gin haters with this beauty. Head over to 195 Restaurant or The Bell Tree and ask for one with soda. 195 likes to add a splash of organic grapefruit juice, resulting in your new allegiance to gin. Hangovers are the worst. The only real cure for them is time, but the best way to make crippling pain hurry up and go away is, you guessed it, a drink. Everyone does the mimosa or bloody Mary, and using fresh ingredients with both will get you a better tasting drink. There are a few ways you can switch up these weekend morning staples. First, replace your bloody Mary vodka with a London Dry Gin. A good two ounces of Beefeater’s turns your bloody Mary into a treat. Why would you do that? Why wouldn’t you? You can’t taste the vodka in a bloody Mary unless you put an insane amount in, and with the gin, the myriad of botanicals blend with all the flavors from the bloody Mary mix. Ironwood and The Sly Fox have great bloodys, and I always order them with gin. That’s a great way to switch it up at brunch. Have you had a Corpse Reviver No.2? This is a classic cocktail dating from the pre-Prohibition era. Don’t get this confused with the first type of Reviver (made with brandy, sweet vermouth and applejack); the Corpse Reviver No.2 is made with gin, Cointreau, Lillet Blanc, and fresh lemon juice (served up in an absinthe rinsed coupe glass). It’s perfect in the mornings, but if you’re having one of those days where it’s taking your funk a little longer to wear off, get to Chef Warren’s, where they make the best in town. This is an equal parts recipe, minus the absinthe. Don’t be afraid, the absinthe is primarily for the olfactory senses.

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Take a half bar spoon of absinthe (or Pernod) and swirl (rinse) it in a chilled cocktail coupe, making sure the absinthe completely coats the inside. Discard any remaining absinthe and put the glass back in the fridge/freezer while making the cocktail. Place remaining ingredients into your cocktail shaker. Add ice, shake very well, until the drink is ice cold, and strain it into your coupe glass. Take a swath of orange peel, expressing the oils over the drink. Thank me later when you’re feeling better. OK, Jamo and ginger guy/gal, you’re next. Probably more popular this generation than a Jack and Coke is the infamous Jameson Irish Whiskey with ginger ale. Popular at restaurants and your local pub — just ask the crew at O’Donnell’s how many bottles of Jameson they go through in a week. More than likely, any establishment with a liquor license that you frequent will be able to mix this up for you, and that’s great, but this is about loading up the arsenal, remember? Decker Platt over at 195 Restaurant carries Monkey Shoulder Blended Malt Whisky. Before you judge, know that Monkey Shoulder blends three Scotch single malts from Speyside, and it sits in used bourbon barrels for three to six months, giving it more of a mellow characteristic. One of the cocktails that Decker can make for you is called a Penicillin. Monkey Shoulder mixed with organic ginger, a local honey syrup, lemon juice and a splash of peaty Scotch whisky makes this a perfect wintertime concoction. Bringing this cocktail up to your nose, you’re tricked into thinking that the drink will taste smokier than it actually is.

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Saved by the Dark Side A family farm goes fungi

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Mushrooms add a depth of flavor to

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any number of dishes, meaty, with a hearty umami taste. Growing in dark, damp woodland places, who expected them to save the family farm?

Anyone with eyes has witnessed the shifts in rural agriculture, as the young folk and their young energies leave the farm for opportunities elsewhere, markets wither and long-stewarded properties sell out to housing developers. But some are bucking that trend. Welcome to one 21st century family farm in central North Carolina that has grabbed onto innovation as a way to survive. Walk into one of the several “barns” on the pretty, rolling acreage here at Carolina Mushroom Farm in Willow Springs. No pink snouts or leathery golden leaves here anymore; hogs and tobacco have given way to at least three types of edible fungi. Oyster mushrooms, pale and broad, aren’t hard to grow, says Shahane Taylor, 32, one of the four partners in the farm’s mushroom project. He walks to the sterile “prep” building, where special bags of straw are inoculated. Lined up like soldiers in a special 78-degree room are the bags of damp sterilized straw on which the inoculent thrives. Oyster mushrooms double in size every 24 hours. They have broad, flat, upward-facing layers, and there is indeed a slight oyster-like appearance, unlike the more familiar button mushroom. You can grow oysters yourself, easily, in your kitchen. Besides the actual mushrooms, Carolina Mushroom Farm sells the grow bags too; if you don’t want to do your own research, gather materials, do the sterile prep and inoculation. The taste of oyster mushrooms? Delicate and sweet. “Like chicken,” Taylor jokes, then adds, seriously, “like a chicken-seafood-y cross.” He likes a vegetable soup with oyster mushrooms. Valuable shiitake mushrooms are a little trickier and slower to raise. Here, we move to another building where a sterilizing footbath awaits outside the door. Inside, there is another footbath, as well as a hand wash and special ventilation systems with HEPA filters to keep out molds and other contaminants, like foreign spores.

Step into yet another humid, warm room, and metal racks stacked with special blocks of compressed sawdust grow the umbrella-shaped brown caps of the delicate shiitake mushroom, famed for its savory taste and medicinal properties. Shiitakes have a steak-like flavor that is prized in Asian cuisine, notably miso soup. Very umami, shiitakes are used to top meat dishes, added to stir-fries and used in soups. Shiitake pizza is Taylor’s favorite. Shiitakes are one of the more popular forms of protein in China, and have a long tradition of medicinal use as well. Apparently, shiitakes have a strong antiviral effect due to natural interferons that inhibit viral replication. It has also been reported that the consumption of shiitake mushrooms lowers blood cholesterol levels. In Asia, shiitakes are used to support cancer treatments. “Japan has developed an extract from shiitakes known as lentinan. The extract is used with patients undergoing traditional cancer therapy. In fact, in Japan mushroom extracts have become the leading prescription treatment for cancer. Lentinan may also prevent chromosomal damage induced by anti-cancer drugs. There are no known serious side effects,” reports the Mississippi Natural Products Association, a rural farmers’ cooperative. But trickiest of all to grow are the baby portabella mushrooms. Here at CMF they are reared on heavy trays of pasteurized compost, alive with beneficial microbes. “They are the most labor-intensive mushroom we grow,” says Taylor. “Baby bellas are especially sensitive in the early stages.” But portabellas are very popular, so grow them they do. The smaller form, called cremini, is brown and a bit larger than a white button mushroom. They are mild, and can easily sub for the smaller white button ’shrooms in a recipe. In their most mature form, the creminis grow out to the hefty, popular brown caps we know as portabellas. The large, beefy caps are terrific to grill, fabulous stuffed, and often substituted for meat among vegans. Among the three varieties, Carolina Mushroom Farm currently produces 500 pounds of edible fungi a week. They are scaling up quickly to 1,000 to 1,500 pounds in the near future. The quality of the product is excellent, and packaged professionally. Yet, this ambitious venture only came into being in late 2015. How did this happen to a small family farm in mid-North Carolina? You could start this tale with the farm itself, or begin it in the Marines. In the Marines, Dion Heckman, 28 and the second of four partners, was a

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buildings they grow mushrooms in look just like what we have,” Carroll said. “We had looked into strawberries,” says Taylor, “but there are a lot of strawberry growers and we wanted something unique. We looked up the top 10 most profitable greenhouse enterprises, and mushrooms were in the No. 2 spot.” What was No. 1? “Marijuana,” he laughs. “Wouldn’t work here.” Taylor started on a steep course of research, pulling his buddy Heckman along with him. “To do the scale we wanted to do, we knew we’d need a good team. We’d been best friends, Heckman knew the farm, so it seemed like a natural fit.” So in an era when the average age of the farmer in North Carolina is around 60 years, these two young Marine buddies joined their energies with brothers Jerry and Steve to form a partnership. Taylor and Heckman began their research at the end of 2015. “When I say we immersed ourselves in it, I mean, we immersed ourselves in it,” Taylor laughs. “It was like going back to school. We’d all been in ag or hort backgrounds, but none of us had grown a mushroom.” Turns out, the buildings were a perfect fit. Production began in 2016, and by autumn their product was not only showing up in restaurants but in the produce boxes of the local community cooperative, Sandhills Farm to Table, to great acclaim. On the very day of their first SF2T delivery, Sabrina also gave birth to their son, Addelynn. The family farm, at least on this patch of ground, is not dying out. There is new life on these 85 acres, as the next generation reverses the trend and puts its energy into the age-old business of growing a crop for market.

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Lucky Me A felinista’s annual ode

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January is reserved for the kitties.

I am an animal person, daughter of non-animal-loving parents. Dogs and cats? Out of the question. My first pet was a good-sized turtle named Dinky, for whom I created an amphibious habitat of Mar-a-Lago proportions. Dinky dined on raw hamburger. He lived nearly 10 years. Since then, I have rescued and/or companioned dogs, cats, birds, a stray horse and a pair of Pekin ducks. My living room became a hospice for a daughter’s terminally ill greyhound. All my kitties just showed up, usually in bad shape. After a lifetime of effort, I decided, enough. I’m retiring. Then, in 2011, a gorgeous all-black cat with thick, glossy fur and expressive eyes . . . just showed up. Later I learned he had been abandoned when his family moved. I made a shelter and fed him outside for six months. When I finally opened the door, he headed for the kitchen and sat down where a kitty bowl should go. He was neutered, declawed (horrible!), healthy. He is intelligent, contemplative, a pacifist. In ancient Egypt, where cats were sacred, he would be a sphinx. Here and now, he is my solace. In temperament, he reminds me of the Dalai Lama, but I called him Lucky for obvious reasons. A year later, a lumpy, grey-and-white neighborhood kitty (clipped ear, to signify a spayed feral) fed by many, including me, showed up with a bloody paw. Naturally, I took her in, intending to fix the paw and send her on her way. This wattling, cross-eyed girl hissed, growled and swatted me and Lucky, who hung his head in acceptance. I should have named her Dingbat. Instead, Hissy, which I softened to Missy when fear-based venom turned to honey — and she became a purring lap anchor. This gal wasn’t going anywhere. Watching the kitties’ relationship develop and grow — fascinating. Now, they are like the Odd Couple, affectionate even while sparring, respectful of territory, manipulative and oh-so-clever. Whoever said you can’t teach cats was right. They learn on their own. For instance — Circadian clock: Good thing I’m an early riser because at exactly 4 a.m. Lucky paws my face — gently, politely. If I don’t respond, he licks my ear, which tickles. I keep kibble in the nightstand; a few will distract him, but not for long. Hissy, meanwhile, waits at the foot of the bed, rarely crossing the invisible line into Lucky’s territory. I get up, feed and let them out. Making inside cats out of strays is almost impossible. At exactly 4 p.m. he begins lobbying for supper. Gender politics: I can’t figure out why Lucky allows Hissy to push him off his bowl. Got so bad that I feed him on the window sill, which won’t accommodate her girth. Now, when I put her bowl down, he runs for the sill.

Follow-up: Hissy follows Lucky around like a fussy mother or pesky younger sibling. If he wants to lie under the bushes or in a sunny spot, so does she. If he drinks out of the birdbath she wants some, too. At least once a day she washes his face and ears with her raspy tongue. He sits quietly, and smiles. Communication: Look, I told Hissy, I’ll feed, shelter and love you, provide health care (urinary tract infection, $324), even cede the wicker rocking chair for clawing if you leave the upholstery alone. It worked. When Lucky wants something he finds me, utters a plaintive meow and leads me to it — usually the back door, but often just a rubdown. Poor fella limps, probably from an old hip injury. He can jump up but getting down must be painful, so he raises his paw and I lift him off. Then we sit and discuss our arthritis for hours. Memory chip: Lucky and Hissy-Missy know their names, come when called. A few winters ago, Lucky learned the warmest spot was the cable box. I bolstered it with a folded towel to accommodate the overhang. Now, the first chilly day he hops up for naps. Lucky also remembers that the suitcase means Mama’s going away. Maybe she won’t if I crawl inside it, shed on her clothes and protest removal, he figures. Body language: Hissy lumbers or scurries, never walks. She is constantly underfoot. If I wore shoes in the kitchen she’d have no paws left. Their reaction to wildlife varies. He sits, immobile, and watches the birds and squirrels — even the black garden snake. She crouches, wiggles and chatters but never pounces. Why bother when Mama’s got a stash of Sheba, Meow Mix and super-green organic kibble? But let another cat approach her purview and Hissy turns hellcat-on-wheels. Lucky, the pacifist, assumes the sphinx pose and stares down the intruder through half-closed eyes. Affection: Cats — aloof? The minute I sit down Hissy Velcros herself to me. Her naps are my only relief. Lucky has a chair beside my computer desk. Otherwise, he’d be tip-toeing typos. Bon appetit: CNN-watchers know that Anthony Bourdain of Parts Unknown will eat anything, anywhere. My kitties are equally (epi)curious — and very bold. Mind you, I only offer a speck. Lucky prefers specks of grilled cheese, buttered toast, pasta marinara, scrambled eggs and Greek vanilla yogurt. He goes bonkers over one cottage cheese curd. Hissy laps up homemade chicken soup like it’s Dom Perignon. The sight of Lucky licking the salt off a saltine (shaking his head after every lick) is YouTube-worthy. Nobel laureate Anatole France said that until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. Philosophers, including Mahatma Gandhi, suggest how a person treats animals offers an indication of character. My two foundling kitties, of unknown provenance and age but definite personalities, reward me with companionship, entertainment, adoration and intel on a supra-human level. They are, indeed, fortunate to have found me. But, in the end, I got the better deal. 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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By Susan Campbell

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in the Sandhills means that our local ponds and lakes will become the winter home to more than two dozen different species of ducks, geese and swans. Over the years, as development has added water features both large and small to the landscape, the diversity of our aquatic visitors has increased significantly. Although we are all familiar with our local mallards and Canada geese, nowadays from November through March, observant bird watchers can expect to see ring-necked duck, buffleheads, loons, cormorants, pied-billed grebes and American coots, to name a handful. Certainly, the most abundant and widespread species is the ring-necked duck, flocks of which can be seen diving in shallow ponds and coves for aquatic invertebrate prey, dining on everything from leeches to dragonflies, midges to mosquitoes, water bugs to beetles. They obviously get their name from the indistinct rusty ring at the base of their necks. Also look for iridescent blue heads, black sides and gray backs on males. The females, as with all of the true duck species, are nondescript: light brown all over but, like the males, have a distinctive grayish blue bill with a white band around it. Perhaps the most noticeable of our wintering waterfowl would be the buffleheads. They form small groups that dive in deeper water, feeding on vegetation and invertebrates. The males have a bright white hood and body with iridescent dark green back, face and neck. They also sport bright orange legs and feet that they will flash during confrontations. The females of this species are characteristically drab, mainly brown with the only contrast being a small white cheek patch. Interestingly, the bufflehead is the one species of migratory duck that actually mates for life. This is generally a trait found only in the largest of waterfowl: swans and geese.

There are several types of aquatic birds, similar to ducks, that can be identified if you’re lucky enough to spot them; you’ll likely need a pair of binoculars. Common loons can occasionally be seen diving for fish on larger lakes in winter, and even more so during spring and fall migration. Their size and shape are distinctive (as is their yodeling song; unfortunately, they tend not to sing while they are here). It is important to be aware that we have another visitor that can be confused with loons: the double-crested cormorant, which is actually not a duck at all. This glossy dark swimmer, along with its cousin the anhinga, is more closely related to seabirds (e.g., boobies and gannets), and is a very proficient diver with a sharply serrated bill adapted for catching fish. It is not uncommon to see cormorants in their “drying” pose, when their wings are almost fully extended. (It’s the slight droop that makes them look sort of comical.) Since their feathers are not as waterproof as those of diving ducks, they only enter water to feed and bathe. Most of their time is spent sitting on a dock or some sort of perch trying to dry off. Two other species of waterbirds can be found regularly at this time of year: pied-billed grebes and American coots. Pied-billed grebes are the smallest of the swimmers we see in winter, with light brown plumage, short thick bills and bright white bottoms. Surprisingly, they are very active swimmers. They can chase down small fish in just about any depth of water. American coots — black, stocky birds with white bills — are scavengers, feeding mainly in aquatic vegetation. They can make short dives but are too buoyant to remain submerged for more than a few seconds. Given their long legs and well-developed toes, they are also adept at foraging on foot. You might see them feeding on grasses along the edge of larger bodies of water or even on the edge of golf course water hazards. In the coming weeks, if you find yourself in Lakeview, near the dam at Thagard Lake in Whispering Pines, or at a good vantage point along Lake Pinehurst, scan the surface for rafts of floating waterbirds. Of course, you will most likely need your binoculars in order to better make out the shapes and color patterns. But if you can get a good look, take the time to enjoy some of these wonderful, web-footed winter visitors from the far North. PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photographs at susan@ncaves.com.

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“January,” Bubba said, “was

named after the god Janus by the Romans for their ancient calendar. He was supposedly the god of beginnings or transitions. I’m probably telling you something you already know, though. Right, Coot?”

It was early January of a brand new year, and we were kicked back in a pair of rocking chairs in a sunny spot on the wraparound porch of Slim’s country store enjoying the warmth of the mid-afternoon sun. Bubba had his legs stretched out and a steaming, freshly poured mug of hot coffee resting on the arm of his rocker. We had been in the woods early that morning squirrel hunting, a sport Bubba swears was regulated to the back corner by a bunch of yuppies who only enjoy the great outdoors so they can buy more spiffy clothes. I was halfway dozing and really didn’t pay a lot of attention to what Bubba was saying. He was often coming up with some kind of off-the-wall information. He had bestowed the nickname Cooter on me years ago and it stuck. “Seems like I remember some of that stuff, Bubba. Maybe that’s why a lot of folks make New Year’s resolutions. That’s one type of new beginning, don’t you think?” “You’re right,” he replied. “But I think you and I fall into the category of transitions. We’re too old for beginnings.” “Nope, speak for yourself. I don’t consider myself old, maybe slowing down a little, but I can still do about as much as I could a few years back.” “You don’t get it, Coot. I don’t mean that we can’t start a new beginning;

but hey, I’m still working on some I started years ago. I just try to transition them every now and then. That way they feel like a new beginning.” “So you’re saying some of the New Year’s resolutions you made long ago have just transitioned into things you are doing today? I’m gonna think about that for a minute while I freshen up my coffee. You want some?” “No thanks, but you can bring me one of those ham biscuits that Leroy made this morning.” Leroy is Slim’s cousin and worked for him part time. He now manages the ancient store after Bubba bought the place when Slim died. The old store didn’t make too much money, but Bubba said it was a deal at any price. He needed a place to get away from too much civilization. It worked out well for both of them. Bubba had his place to go, and Leroy had a job he was familiar with. I went into the store and said hey to a couple of the regulars who had just arrived. H.B. Johnson was dragging a slat-back chair from the corner to a spot in front of the woodstove. “You and Bubba outside? I saw him when I drove up. He looked like a sleepy old hound dog resting in the sun.” “You’re not far wrong, H.B. He sort of favors a few hound dogs that I’m familiar with.” The guys laughed, and I poured more coffee before going back outside. “Take Falls Lake,” Bubba said as I closed the side door and moved to my rocker. We hunted there last week and it’s nothing like what it was on our first visit, remember?” Bubba was on a roll. When he gets on a topic, he chews it front ways, sideways, upside down and backward, like a bulldog with a new ham bone. “What’s that got to do with resolutions?” I responded. “Well, the first time we hunted there they had just finished the dam, and we were some of the first to try the spot for ducking. It turned out to be one of the best in the area, and then here came the troops, more duck hunters

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than you could shake a stick at. Then the dam was closed and the lake filled and pleasure boaters came out all over the place, and duck hunting went south. Now that there aren’t so many hunters, ducks have rediscovered the lake and hunting is getting better. You might say the place has transitioned and we have along with it, thus proving that old Janus wasn’t far wrong.” “As old as we are, we could probably use that analogy in many of our hunting spots,” I replied. “Take the Sartin farm, for example. Four hundred acres of some of the finest wild habitat in the whole county. Everything from ducks to turkeys and doves, deer and otter and beaver, even good fishing on the creek. All that is gone now, transitioned to 10-acre mini-farms owned by city folk who like to pretend they’re farmers. No new beginnings there. In that case, our good place to hunt and enjoy nature was transitioned slam out o’ business.” I could see Bubba literally chewing that over as he took a bite of his ham biscuit. “You’ve got a point there, Coot. I guess that situation goes with the territory of living a long time and watching the dubious benefits of progress. Sometimes I think maybe we were born a little too late. Another good example of how progress has done us in would be duck hunting at Currituck. Remember when we would go every winter to hunt with the Whitsons? I think that old crowd there has died off, and the hunting is now so bad that hardly anyone hunts there anymore. Another sign of growth and the ‘benefits’ of development.” Our conversation continued for a while until we decided to head home in time for our naps. I had a way to drive, so I bade the boys inside goodbye and told Bubba that I’d give him a call later in the week so we could plan our hunt to Mattamuskeet. On the way home, I mused over our talks about resolutions and New Year’s in general. Bubba and I have seen a bunch of Januarys roll around, and for better or worse, we’ve made the best of whatever came. We’ve still got our health, and in the woods, we’re able to do about anything we want. As Bubba says, we’ve learned to walk around it rather than climb over. A certain amount of wisdom does come with age. I often wonder, though, what will the next generation experience? Will they be able to see tundra swans rafted up by the thousands on Lake Mattamuskeet, or even a wild squirrel scurrying around a giant oak as Bubba and I did that morning? Time changes a bunch of stuff; and as the ancient Roman god Janus probably knew, not every new beginning is a good thing. PS

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Ma Bell

The grace of a smooth takeaway

By Bill Fields

Peggy Kirk Bell

Photograph by Tim Sayer

loved to go fast whether piloting a plane, driving a car or riding a motorcycle, and to be sure there weren’t many females negotiating Midland Road on a Yamaha 100 in the early 1970s. She had plenty of pop on her golf shots as well, for many years teeing off from the tips on her beloved Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club and holding her own with the men in her group, whether it was her husband, Warren “Bullet” Bell, or, later on, her sons-in-law Pat McGowan, a PGA Tour member, and Kelly Miller, a scratch amateur.

Because she was a skilled golfer, the clubhead speed came at the right time, of course, her movements as coordinated as holiday decorations at the White House. Bell’s smooth swing — in addition to her textbook grip and setup and full turn — fit the classic ideal: Without good timing, power isn’t worth a flip. “I found it more of a challenge than any sport I’d tried,” Bell wrote of taking up the game at 17 in a 2001 memoir, The Gift of Golf: My Life With a Wonderful Game, with PineStraw contributor Lee Pace. “You simply couldn’t haul off and slam the ball like you would a softball.” When no less than Tommy Armour stresses the importance of a good waggle, and teaches it to you, as he did for Bell, that has a way of helping your rhythm. Forty years ago, the Bells allowed our Pinecrest High School golf team to hit balls, yellow ones, with a “PROPERTY OF WARREN BELL” stamp, after school on the far end of the practice range — as many as we wanted, until we got tired or it got dark. Mrs. Bell usually was busy teaching a paying student, but occasionally this major championship-winning amateur, LPGA charter member and renowned instructor would check out the actions of me and my fellow Patriots, who possessed more enthusiasm than talent.

“Slow it down a little,” Bell might say, the accent of her native Ohio softened by decades of life in North Carolina, the cadence of her words echoing a nice takeaway. She was big on the basics — making sure the handle of the club rested in the fingers, not the palm, of the top hand; that your posture was good; that your feet aligned parallel to the ball like the railroad tracks that went through town. She was a firm believer that a building can’t be very tall without a strong foundation, and after one of those gratis drop-bys from Mrs. Bell, you inevitably played a bit better. When Peggy Kirk Bell died at age 95 on Nov. 23, the day before Thanksgiving, many people could reach deep into a well of memories of this champion player who evolved into a wonderful teacher of the game. Both a local institution around the Sandhills — you knew her as the nice lady in the Lincoln convertible even if you knew nothing about golf — and a national treasure, for Bell the game wasn’t just a living but a passion. She shared that deep affection each time she gave a lesson or told a story about someone she had known in her full life, which included most of the finest players over several eras, celebrities and ordinary folks who savored a shot hit far and sure no matter if such an occasion were the rule or a happy exception. “She had great patience, a lot of stamina, and she understood that the spirit of the game is a social experience,” Michael Hebron, a PGA Master Professional who taught with Bell at Pine Needles’ innovative “Golfaris,” told Golf World upon her passing. “People were comfortable coming back because they knew they were going to have fun.” The best teachers are generous souls as Bell was, the largesse contrasting with her love of a bargain, which made her a favorite of the Taco Bell drive-thru. That the U.S. Women’s Open was contested three times (1996, 2001, 2007) at Pine Needles was a fitting tribute to how the Bell family had nurtured the Donald Ross gem through good times and bad. Less remembered is how Peggy and Bullet, at a financial loss, staged the 1972 Titleholders Championship, the women’s major she had won as an amateur in 1949 and that had not been played since 1966. Sandra Palmer won the event’s first and only final playing at Pine Needles, by a whopping 10 strokes over Judy Rankin and Mickey Wright.

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Bell was active in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes — she is pictured at a meeting of the Pinecrest chapter in one of my yearbooks — and her family gave area clergy playing privileges. The same courtesy was extended to Golf World editors when the magazine was based in Southern Pines, even if their life’s work wasn’t quite so serious. Local law enforcement officers got the wave, too, if the tee sheet wasn’t filled up. My dad, a policeman and deputy in Moore County, had a Pine Needles courtesy card in his wallet when he passed away in 1980. In addition to winning the Titleholders at Augusta (Ga.) Country Club, which was more or less the Masters for women, Bell won the North and South Women’s Amateur and Ohio Women’s Amateur as well in 1949, the third straight year she had won her state title. By then she had played on the golf team at Rollins College, where she graduated with an education degree in 1943, and won the International Four-Ball in 1947 with the legendary Babe Didrikson Zaharias, a close friend and frequent golf partner. Zaharias was godmother to the Bells’ first child, Bonnie, born in 1954. The last round of golf Zaharias played in 1956 before dying of cancer at 45 was with Bell. Turning pro after playing on the United States Curtis Cup team in 1950, the year that the LPGA was founded, Bell, then Peggy Kirk, got her LPGA charter member card on April 15, 1951, signed by Zaharias, the fledgling circuit’s president. Bell played full-time for a couple of years, augmenting meager prize money with plenty of exhibitions, flying herself to tournaments in a Cessna purchased for $8,000. She split her time between competing and instructing — it was definitely trial by error in her initial lesson tee efforts — after marrying Bullet, and they began operating Pine Needles in 1953. With the addition of two more children, Peggy Ann in 1958, and Kirk in 1962, she traveled less and developed into one of the game’s finest teachers. Bell’s specialty was her unique week long golf schools for women at Pine Needles called the Golfaris, group lessons that combined first-rate instruction in a homey atmosphere but were foremost a testament to her energy and expertise. Bell got many plaudits for her enduring contributions, from being inducted in seven halls of fame to receiving some of golf’s top distinctions. None was greater than the 1990 Bob Jones Award, the USGA’s top honor, for distinguished sportsmanship in golf. Near the end of Bell’s life, there had been lobbying in some quarters for her induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Whether that happens or not, Bell’s legacy includes too many smiles to count, brighter than any trophy, from golfers for whom she made a difficult game just a little easier. No small feat, that, by a good sport and so much more. PS

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By Lee Pace

Another year dawns and the lar-

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gesse of the Sandhills golf community continues to evoke awe and grace. Forty golf courses in a 15-mile radius, one USGA event coming in 2017, another on tap for 2019, an interesting and ambitious project to redesign Pinehurst No. 4 and create a new short course at Pinehurst set to commence this year. The populace revels in a golf-centric environment where at any point you’re liable to see a license plate like 4RT or WHIFF or GOLF’N or a pedestrian walking down a sidewalk, pronating his left wrist as if to make a solid move through the ball.

It has always fascinated and amused me to ponder the series of dominoes that fell over five years from 1895 to 1900 that allowed this “Accidental Resort” to sprout into reality. There was no big city next door to give birth to Pinehurst. There was no ocean or mountain range to make it an aesthetic or seasonable destination, no river to provide convenient access. No, we have this “St. Andrews of American Golf” thanks to at least five unrelated but important dollops of happenstance. — A chance encounter on a train in 1895. James Tufts made his fortune in patenting, manufacturing and sales of apparatuses and syrups found in apothecary shops across the land and, as he neared the age of 60, turned his business operations over to subordinates. He was active in philanthropic work and sought on behalf of the Invalid Aid Society of Boston to locate a wintertime health resort for those suffering from consumption. Col. Walker Taylor was a sharp businessman himself and had opened an insurance agency in Wilmington in 1866 following the Civil War. He traveled extensively throughout the Eastern Seaboard, and having a gregarious personal-

ity, was wont to introduce himself to perfect strangers. One day in 1895, pure happenstance landed Taylor and Tufts on the same train. They struck up a conversation, and Tufts explained his vision to Taylor. Taylor, family legend has it, suggested that the train station in Southern Pines might be a good starting point for Tufts’ search for a site for his new resort. It was right on two of the nation’s major north-south transportation arteries — the railroad and U.S. Hwy. 1. There was cheap land available, and it was halfway between Boston and Florida. And thus Tufts did in fact search for land — and found 6,000 acres about five miles to the west of the train station in Southern Pines. — An astute decision by Tufts to eschew the advice of a trusted aide that “golf is just a fad.” At first golf was not part of the Pinehurst dossier, and visitors enjoyed activities such as horseback riding, dancing, recitals, carriage rides, cards and a croquet-like game called roque. But in the fall of 1897, Tufts learned that guests were hitting small rubber balls with wooden sticks around the dairy fields and, in the process, aggravating the cows. So he built a nine-hole golf course as a lark in 1898, enlisting the help of Dr. D. LeRoy Culver, a Southern Pines physician who was an avid golfer, had played in England and Scotland, and understood the gist of what a course should look like. But Tufts wasn’t sold on the game’s prospects and inquired of the manager of the Holly Inn, Allen Treadway, if he thought nine more holes would be a good idea. “Save your money,” answered Treadway, who later would be elected as a Massachusetts congressional representative. “Golf is a fad and will never last.” Tufts’ instincts and better advice from others in his circle convinced him otherwise, and soon he embarked on the expansion of the golf course to a full 18 holes. — A fateful coin flip in the village of Dornoch, Scotland, in 1899. Donald Ross was a 27-year-old employee at Royal Dornoch Golf Club and was in charge of maintaining the golf course, managing the caddies, organizing competitions, and building and repairing clubs. His boss was John Sutherland, the club “secretary,” i.e., general manager. One day a golfer visiting from Boston suggested to Ross that America was ripe for growing the sport of golf, and an ambitious expert in the game might do well to immigrate and carve his niche in

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the game’s expansion. Ross and Sutherland both took a fancy to the idea and decided to flip a coin — one goes to America, the other stays at home and runs the club at Dornoch. Ross won the flip. And so he set off to America. “My mother and Mr. Sutherland’s daughter were great pals,” says Donald Grant, a lifelong Dornoch resident and club member. “They lived side-by-side growing up. I heard the story often. I have no reason to doubt its truth.” — That it was Boston, not New York or Philadelphia or a dozen other cities, where Ross arrived in 1899. Ross’ contact in America was Robert Willson, an astronomy professor at Harvard and a member at Oakley Country Club in the Boston suburb of Watertown. Upon arrival in Boston, Ross phoned Willson, visited his home, and soon Willson helped Ross find work at Oakley Country Club, which was located eight miles from Tufts’ home in Medford. Now that Tufts had a full 18-hole course at Pinehurst and a vision for building more golf, he needed a golf professional to work during the October to spring season. He learned that Oakley had in its employ a sharp young Scotsman whose responsibilities were geared around the summer golf season — an ideal fit to go South in the winter. They met at Tufts’ home in Medford. Tufts hired Ross on the spot and Ross began his new assignment at Pinehurst in December 1900. He was busy at first making clubs, managing the caddies, giving lessons and organizing competitions. He also tried his hand at designing and building new golf holes. — And that this ground in Moore County should be predominantly sand, prompting a serendipitous connection for Ross between Scotland and his new wintertime home situated 120 miles inland from the coast. Millions of years ago, the Atlantic Ocean covered what is now dry land along the East Coast. During the Miocene Epoch (circa 20 million years ago), the ocean receded and left a strip of what is now ancient coastline and beach deposits. The Sandhills are part of that band some 30 miles across and 80 miles long. Tufts liked the land as he first found it because its sandy composition drained quickly and was thought to have health-giving benefits. Pinehurst was perhaps not oceanside itself. But its location was a kissing cousin to the seashore. The word “links” can be traced to the Old English word for lean, hlinc, meaning “lean terrain formed by receding seas.” The ground was perfect for golf and Ross’s tastes. It provided, in essence, an “inland links” terrain; the earth was gently rolling and sandy. Rainwater flowed through the sandy soil at Dornoch; it did so as well in Pinehurst, allowing for a golf designer’s dream environment. “He was particularly attracted to the soil conditions here, as they reminded him of the old links land at home,” Richard Tufts, James’ grandson, said years later. “Even our native wire grass seemed to remind him of the whins he knew in Scotland.” What if Tufts had gotten off the train in Raleigh and chosen the heavy clay environment there? It might have had no attraction had Ross landed just an hour north. And so the dominoes fell — Tufts debarks in Southern Pines, tweaks his vision to include golf, Ross and not Sutherland comes to Boston, and Ross turns Pinehurst’s sandy ground into an American golf nirvana that draws visitors from the population centers of the East, Midwest and Deep South. By 1919, Pinehurst had 72 holes of golf and was by far the nation’s foremost golf destination. It all makes perfect sense and hearkens the immortal words of former baseball great Yogi Berra, himself a frequent visitor to Pinehurst from his home in New Jersey: “That’s too coincidental to be a coincidence.” PS Lee Pace has authored five books on the evolution of golf in the Sandhills, most recently The Golden Age of Pinehurst—The Story of the Rebirth of No. 2.

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urrounded by thickheaded hammers, scalpels that look like they’ve escaped from an operating theater and a cast iron vice, Don Etherington sits on a stool in his bookbinding workshop and talks about the heart attack that led to his quadruple bypass surgery as if it was a trip to the Circle K. It was a delightful, warm November day a little over a year ago. He had turned 80 a few months before. He felt a sharp pain in his chest, took a nitroglycerin pill, waited five minutes and took another. The pain didn’t go away so he called 911. His house is four from the corner. By the time the paramedics got him to the end of the road, he was gone. From the other side of the studio, his wife, Monique Lallier, a designer of artistic book covers as highly prized as Etherington’s own, picks up the narrative. “He said, ‘You know this nurse in the ambulance, she was sooo nice,’” she says, her French-Canadian accent making the encounter in the rear of a rescue vehicle sound just slightly naughty. “I said, ‘Of course she was nice, she was happy to see that you came back.’” Etherington laughs. “So,” he says, “this is my second time around, actually.” The first one wasn’t half bad. “I’m just a little old bookbinder,” Etherington says. Indeed, he is. One who has laid his hands on the 1297 Magna Carta and the Declaration of Independence, to name just two. And it all started with a pair of dancing shoes. Born in 1935, living in a Lewis Trust building — flats for the poor — in central London, Etherington was a child of the Blitz. His mother, Lillian, cleaned houses. His father, George, was a painter by trade who’d been a prisoner of war for four years during the War to End All Wars and came home a changed man. “He was a hard guy,” Etherington says. With the exception of roughly half a year when Etherington was evacuated to a house in

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Leeds that lacked indoor plumbing, buzz bombs and shelters were what passed for a routine childhood. “I used to roam the streets with a bunch of guys,” he says. “I’d go around at night — I can’t believe this myself — with a shopping bag and pick up all the pieces of German shrapnel. I’m, what, 5? It’s beyond imagination. The Blitz, the only time it really affected me, was when the flats got bombed. That night 73 of my school chums got killed in that one air raid. I think it was a doodlebug (a V-1 bomb). It hit the corner of our apartment block, skidded into the shelters, where a lot of people got killed, and it bounced off there into the school. “It was like part of life. You’d hear the drone coming over and then all of a sudden, it would stop. We could tell where it was going to hit. We’d say, ‘Oh, that’s going to hit Hammersmith or that’s going to hit Kensington.’ We didn’t have that feeling that it was awful and depressing. It was our life. When you go through that, certain things don’t affect you as much. Basically, what I’m trying to say is that we were very resilient and resourceful.” After the war, barely into his teens, Etherington did two things that would change the trajectory of his life, and he doesn’t know why he did either one. First, at 13, given a list of potential fields of study at the Central School, he ticked off bookbinding, jewelry making and engraving. He was chosen for bookbinding and off he went, still in short trousers. “I came away that first day knowing I loved it,” he says. “From that day on, nearly 70 years, I’ve been happy doing what I’ve been doing, which is very special.” The second was those shoes. “I took myself off the streets,” he says. At 14, he bought a pair of dancing shoes, marched into a studio in what was, to him, the fancy Knightsbridge section of London, and took up ballroom dancing. Medals and jobs came his way. He met his first wife, Daisy, when he helped open a dance studio in Wimbledon. “To this day, I don’t know how I went from strolling the streets, getting into all sorts of stuff, from that to doing dancing. The only thing I could say is when I went to Saturday cinema, I loved watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I got enamored and thought, boy, I’d love to go to America.” Etherington danced his way into his 80s, including at Green’s Supper Club in Greensboro.

After a seven-year apprenticeship in binding at Harrison and Sons in London, followed by a brief stint restoring musical scores at the BBC, Etherington took a position as an assistant to Roger Powell, the man who bound the illuminated manuscript The Book of Kells into four volumes in 1953. “I went to Roger. He said, ‘What do you know about bookbinding?’ And I said, ‘Absolutely everything.’ For the next few years he showed I didn’t know a damn thing,” says Etherington. His work with Powell and his partner, Peter Waters, was followed by a position at Southampton College of Art, where Etherington developed a bookbinding and design program in addition to producing his own designs, the artistic covers he’s created throughout his life. In the first week of November 1966, after a period of prolonged rain and threat of the collapse of several dams on the Arno River, a release of floodwater hit Florence, Italy, traveling nearly 40 miles an hour. The Biblioteca Nazional Centrale, virtually under water, was cut off from the rest of the city. The damage was incalculable. Powell and Wright asked Etherington to join the British team being dispatched to Italy to help. “They had 300,000 books floating in the water. Before we got there these student volunteers got them out of the water, out of the mud, out of the oil and put them on a truck to be dried in tobacco kilns up in the mountains. Not to blame them because nobody knew, but it was the wrong technique. Here you’ve got covers floating all around and you’ve got books floating all around. In those days, they weren’t titled. All these scholars were having to try to match up that cover with that book with no indication other than size.” Out of this disaster, the field of book conservation was born. “We

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Etherington’s artistic book covers, clockwise, from top left: 1st Prelude (private collection); a photo album of students’ work (Etherington’s first art cover at Central School of the Arts, London); 12 Centuries of Bookbinding, 400-1600 (at Jackson Library UNCG); Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (University of California Press); Both Sides of the Road (in collection of the British Library).

started to talk to German, Danish, Dutch bookbinders and restorers for the first time. We started talking about different techniques. Never would anybody share secrets — including England. All of a sudden, we’re talking together around coffee or whatever. It was just a whole different mindset,” says Etherington. For two years, he spent between six and eight weeks in Florence teaching conservation techniques to the Italians. His first trip to Italy, at the age of 31, was the first time he’d ever been on an airplane. Etherington stayed in a pensione on the Arno River whose owner looked like Peter Sellers, and his fellow lodgers included two bankers from Milan, a prostitute who didn’t talk much, and a countess who had been married to a high ranking German general in the Weimar Republic who delighted in regaling her dinner companions with personal recollections of the Aga Khan. Etherington would, himself, hit on a previously untried technique, using dyed Japanese rice paper in mending leather bookbinding to add strength unachievable with the leather alone, an approach that’s still used. “People give him a lot of respect for being one of the early conservators,” says Linda Parsons, who joined Etherington at the founding of what would become known as the Etherington Conservation Center (now the HF Group) in Browns Summit.

Four years after the Florence flood, Etherington was asked by Wright to join him at the U.S. Library of Congress as a training officer. He spent a decade in D.C. in various capacities. Among the projects he consulted on were teaching FBI agents about printing techniques, typefaces and paper characteristics to help them reassemble shredded documents found behind the Democratic party offices at the Watergate Hotel — some of which related to the scandal itself — and preparing Lincoln’s manuscript of the Gettysburg Address for display at the Gettysburg National Military Park. As if he had nothing else to do, Etherington penned a full-blown dictionary, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books, listing every tool, material and technique related to the field he’d help create. From the Library of Congress, Etherington was hired to launch a conservation program at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas in Austin. There he was asked by Ross Perot to supervise the care and transportation of the 1297 version of the Magna Carta. “There’s about 17 versions in existence. The 1297 one was the version the Founding Fathers used to write the Constitution of the United States. Ross is a big collector of Americana. He bought it for $1.5 million, which was pretty cheap at the time. It was found in the archives of a family in England. I was very surprised that England allowed it out. When I saw it, it was in really, really good shape. The ink was very black. There was question whether it was legitimate. Many scholars looked at it and authenticated it but, boy, it was questionable at the time. “When you have an early document, you have a seal — I think it’s Edward I — and a silk strap. Because of maybe packing it or making sure it didn’t hang loose, someone turned the tie and put it on the back and stuck Scotch tape on it. I know it sounds stupid but it was that way. At some point, it went up for sale. This guy bought it for $22 million so Ross didn’t do too bad.” By 1987, Etherington had fallen in love with Monique on a trip to Finland. His sons, Gary

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and Mark, were grown, and he decided to rearrange his life and leave Austin. He and Monique moved to Greensboro to begin a for-profit conservation company in association with Information Conservation, Inc. It would morph into the Etherington Conservation Center. The company performed the conservation and display preparation for the Constitution of Puerto Rico. They prepared and conserved the Virginia Bill of Rights. And Etherington was asked to work on the Charters of Freedom exhibit — the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights — for the National Archives as the parchment consultant on the Declaration of Independence, helping to design how the badly faded document was to be displayed. Like a sure-handed heart surgeon, one concentrates on the process, not the patient. “A lot of people who are not in this business, they think it’s a little bit scary,” he says. “I try not to think too much about the importance of it to history or to our country or whatever, because once you start doing that, instead of treating it with surety, you’re treating it with tentative hands, and that’s the worst thing that could ever happen to you.”

Etherington’s archive resides at the Walter Clinton Jackson Library at UNCG. “He’s internationally known,” says Jennifer Motszko, the library’s manuscript archivist. “He basically was there at the founding of his field where they started to come up with systemizing ways to preserve and conserve materials. But then he’s become a well-known entity in fine arts binding. You mention him in that circle, he and Monique define that area.” In celebration of artists and their craft, the UNC Wilmington Museum of World Cultures has designated Etherington and Lallier North Carolina Living Treasures. Etherington has worked on everything from family Bibles to a 14th century Haggadah, from first century Chinese papyrus rolls to a rare copy of James Joyce’s Ulysses, from personal treasures to national ones. Still, every day at 5 p.m., studio work ceases. It’s time for the Etherington Cocktail. One part gin. Two jiggers of sweet Vermouth and a splash of tonic water. “I’ve been very lucky doing things,” says Etherington. Now he gets to toast a second go-round. PS

Positive Outlook Preston McNeil met Don Etherington when the family’s Chi-Poo, Mali, a Chihuahua/ poodle mix, gnawed the edges of the study Bible belonging to his wife, Brenda. McNeil, who moved to North Carolina from New Jersey in 1988, has owned businesses ranging from carpet cleaning to cookie stores, and dabbled in jewelry design. He decided he could add bookbinder to the list by taking the chomped-on Bible apart and putting it back together again. “So, I did,” he says. “It was a book that worked.” All the new binding lacked was lettering. McNeil found a place where he could have it imprinted. When the man behind the counter made out the invoice he noticed McNeil’s address. It was the same street Etherington lived on. “He said, ‘Take this book and show Don what you’ve done,’” says McNeil. “So, I took it to Don and he goes, ‘Uh, I see some mistakes but you did pretty good.’ He invited me in. And I’ve been going to him from that point on.” After a couple of years studying with Etherington, McNeil felt confident enough to redo a friend’s Bible. “Then I began to buy my own equipment. Now, I have a full studio downstairs,” he says. And another business, Gate City Binding. “I wish I had learned to do this when I was 36,” says McNeil, who’s actually three decades older than that. “I love it so much.” His seven-year apprenticeship with Etherington and his new skill set led to a delicate and difficult commission, rebinding the volumes of the Pinehurst Outlook, the newspaper that published continuously from 1897 to 1961, that reside in the Tufts Archives at the Given Memorial Library. The project is being paid for entirely with donations designated for that purpose. “The majority of the Outlooks I’ve worked with are fully separating from the original binding,” he says. “The spine is deteriorating. Everything is dry-rotting on the interior. The books are all newspapers. If they need to be restitched, they’ll be restitched. If they need to be reglued, I reglue them. Then rebuild the whole spine. It goes from individual papers to a book again. It’s building a book from scratch, essentially.” Just like his new career is built from scratch. “I take from his mind, put it into my mind,” says McNeil of his mentor, Etherington. “I take from his hands, and I hope it’s coming out of my hands.”

The Curious Case of

Granville Deitz

The twists and turns in the life of the man who gunned down the chief of police By Bill Case

outhern Pines Police Chief Joseph Kelly made a point of stationing himself at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and May Street as grade school let out on Wednesday, March 20, 1929. His presence was little more than a casual reminder about the new stop signs installed for the cross traffic going up and down Massachusetts’ steep slope. The first day of spring was tomorrow, but Kelly would barely live to see it. Parking his cruiser near the school wasn’t exactly high-intensity police work, though May Street had seen some notable exceptions. It doubled as part of what later became State Highway 1, and movers of bootleg liquor would inevitably pass through town. On one occasion a speeding motorist failed to heed the chief’s command to stop. Kelly leaped on the sedan’s running board as the driver swung a hammer at him. Eventually subdued, a search of the stranger’s automobile revealed a cache of contraband hooch. It was reason enough to carefully eye the traffic moving through the intersection on a crisp, sunny afternoon. It’s unknown why 27-year-old Granville Deitz, a native of mountainous Greenbrier County, West Virginia, happened to be in Southern Pines, driving east on Massachusetts. He later said he was on his way home from Florida. Already wanted on the charge of burglarizing a U.S. post office and for holdups of several small town stores and gas stations, he was a man with something to hide. Deitz blew through the recently installed stop sign, and Kelly motioned for him to pull over. He complied, parking on Massachusetts just west of the intersection. As Kelly approached the Chevy, something must have aroused his suspicion. Whether it was the car’s South Carolina license plate, the young man’s demeanor or the suspicious tools in the back seat, the chief guessed the slim, dark youth was bootlegging whiskey. At Kelly’s command, Deitz stepped out

of the car. The chief bent over to commence his search. According to Deitz, he became angry when Kelly began reading loose mail left in the car. Blows were exchanged and Kelly reached for his gun. Claiming “it was either me or him,” Deitz fired four shots from his own revolver at a distance of three or four feet before Kelly could draw his weapon. A witness, local contractor E.V. Perkinson, gave a far more damning version of events. He testified that as soon as Kelly turned his back and leaned over, Deitz whipped out his gun and fired away. Kelly was in a bad way, but somehow managed to stagger to his patrol car and drive one block to the residence of Dr. William C. Mudgett, where he collapsed to the ground. Dr. Mudgett made Kelly as comfortable as possible and summoned an ambulance to transport the gravely wounded chief to Highsmith Hospital in Fayetteville, an agonizingly long ride. The Sandhills did not yet have a hospital, though the cornerstone for the new Moore County Hospital had been laid the day before Deitz riddled Kelly’s body with bullets. The 51-year-old police chief died at 2 a.m. the following morning. He was survived by his wife and one child. Meanwhile, Granville Deitz was in full flight. Abandoning his car, he sprinted south down May to Indiana Avenue, where he jumped into an unattended auto and tried to start it. The car’s owner, Homer Eckert, ran from his house to confront Deitz, who quickly concocted a story, explaining that “a man had been shot” and he urgently needed to rush to the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst to summon a physician who was staying there. Deceived by Deitz, Eckert offered to drive the killer to the hotel. When they arrived at the Carolina, Deitz asked Eckert to wait for him while he located the phantom doc. The gunman slipped out the hotel’s back door and hijacked Mrs. L.L. Leonard’s cream-colored Buick from the nearby Pinehurst Garage (now Clark Chevrolet Cadillac). Soon he was steaming west on dusty Route 211 toward Candor.

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Not knowing where the unidentified suspect was headed, Moore County Sheriff C.J. McDonald, Kelly’s Deputy Chief Ben Beasley and Southern Pines Mayor Paul Barnum quickly organized a posse. Fort Bragg dispatched airplanes to search the back roads for the stolen Buick. Meanwhile Deitz continued west through Candor. Fifteen miles beyond Monroe, he jettisoned Mrs. Leonard’s Buick, fled into the woods, and as The Pilot later phrased it, “vanished into thin air.” Not only had the police chief been murdered in broad daylight, the killer had made his escape from Southern Pines with relative ease. It seemed Granville Deitz was gone for good. Beasley, who took over as chief in the aftermath of Kelly’s death, expressed confidence that the killer would be rapidly brought to justice, but the evidence he obtained searching Deitz’s Chevy wasn’t much to go on. Several different license plates and hotel keys were found along with some newspaper clippings recounting his own criminal exploits. It was as if Granville Deitz was the spiritual offspring of Bonnie and Clyde reading his own press notices. The most helpful clue came from the letter Kelly may have been reading just prior to the gunfire. It was from Mrs. E.W. Boso of Summersville, West Virginia (near where Deitz resided), addressed to J.L. Boso in Winston-Salem, and signed, “Mother.” The new chief called the police in Summersville and learned that Boso had been recently apprehended for committing crimes while working in tandem with Deitz, whereabouts unknown. Perhaps it was Kelly’s discovery of the letter that had been the motive for Deitz’s violent actions. By April 18, The Pilot announced Deitz as the prime suspect in the Kelly killing. The fugitive’s high school picture accompanied the article. Beasley’s investigation took him to West Virginia, where he learned Deitz had a steady girlfriend in Greenbrier County — Miss Maysel Gibson. While

the details are a bit murky, it appears the young lady agreed to cooperate with the police rather than run the risk of aiding and abetting her boyfriend. When it turned out Deitz had fled north to Maine, the authorities asked Gibson to wire him money. A sting was set up in Millinocket, Maine, where two police officers waited for Deitz at the local telegraph office and seized him. He resisted, but to no avail. Beasley’s detective work had resulted in Deitz’s capture nearly seven weeks after the shooting. It was with grim satisfaction that on May 8, Beasley wired the new Southern Pines Mayor A.G. Stutz announcing that he had “Arrived Bangor, Me., 11:30 AM. Stop. Left 1 PM with Granville A. Deitz. Stop. Identification certain. Stop.” Extradited to North Carolina, Deitz was charged with first degree murder. The death penalty loomed. The Pilot’s editor, Nelson Hyde, rejoiced. “The man who in brutal cold blood shoots down an officer or citizen is not allowed to go away without the hail of vengeance trailing closely behind him,” he wrote. District Judge Thomas J. Shaw set the trial date in Carthage for May 24, 1929 — a mere 20 days after Deitz’s capture. Deitz had precious little time to find counsel, let alone locate witnesses and prepare for a jury trial in which his life was at stake. His mother, Betty Nutter Deitz, rushed in and took charge. She assisted in retaining a defense team, including Fayetteville’s celebrated criminal lawyer Col. C.W. Ostenton. The dusty long-forgotten case docket in the bowels of the Moore County Courthouse show that the defense argued Kelly had no right to arrest Deitz for a stop sign violation, and that there was no evidence of any violation of any ordinance that would have allowed Kelly to detain Deitz. The defense also argued that Granville Deitz “had a right to resist and use all the force which in the judgment of the jury was necessary to free himself.” His argument was akin to a “stand your ground” defense. The best thing going for the defense, however, was the steadfast support

Police Chief Joseph Kelly exhibited by Deitz’s family and friends. His mother was said to have “excited much sympathy for her son.” Several locals actually showered Deitz with gifts of books and flowers during his stint in the county jail. The eldest of nine children, Deitz had been the product of a good family. His father, Watson, kept food on the table by teaching, farming, surveying and running the local post office. Deitz’s mother taught school and managed the farm. Dennis Deitz, who idolized his older brother, noted that Granville, though small in stature, reveled in competition in anything, from football to formal debate. “His rebuttals were unmatched,” Dennis Deitz later wrote. “When an opponent made a point and gave his sources and authorities, he would reply by quoting an article from a noted expert, written three years before in maybe the Saturday Evening Post. The judges would be amazed. This unbelievable recall came from Granville’s imagination. The judges or opponents never suspected the truth.” Deitz’s talent with a gun was equally legendary. According to his brother, Deitz could shoot “flying hickory nuts with his pistol from 30 feet away,” and could fire and reload with blinding speed. It proved a lethal skill set. The lawyers’ technical arguments and family aid weren’t enough for Deitz to overcome the evidence against him, however. The clincher for the prosecution occurred when J.L. Boso’s confession implicating Deitz in their series of gas station holdups was read to the jury. When the Saturday night verdict of guilty to the reduced charge of second-degree murder was read before a packed courtroom, Granville Deitz displayed no visible emotion. He kissed his mother goodbye after being sentenced by Judge Shaw to 25 to 30 years at hard labor in the state penitentiary. Quite pleased to appear with their somber-looking trophy, the dignitaries who attended the trial posed in a photograph with the uncuffed Deitz. In a public statement after his adverse verdict, Deitz expressed his gratitude for the gifts of well-wishers and appreciation for the manner in which he and his family had been treated. A scathing editorial in the Sanford Herald wondered,

“if these same people sent flowers and books to the wife who was made a widow and the children (sic) who lost a father while doing his duty as a sworn officer of the law, at the hands of this bloodthirsty criminal who it is believed took (Kelly’s) life to conceal crimes he had already committed.” In fact, the Southern Pines community had taken up a collection for the benefit of Kelly’s wife and child in addition to raising $2,500 in reward money, $250 of which went to Chief Beasley. The town collectively breathed a sigh of relief that Kelly’s killer had been brought to justice and would be languishing in state prison for what could be the rest of his life. But Deitz’s escapades were far from over. On Dec. 12, less than seven months after his conviction, Deitz escaped the prison farm by automobile. According to The Pilot, two young women in a car with West Virginia plates had been seen in the area of the prison prior to the escape. Author James Boyd was moved to sarcastic whimsy in his column “Gallberries” carried in The Pilot: —§— Granville Deitz by leaving no address has put some of our people at a loss. —§— They don’t know where to send him flowers now. —§— It was pretty tough to put him on that farm. —§— He ought to have been sentenced to a greenhouse. —§— Just because a man is a murderer is no sign that he likes life on a farm. Deitz made his way back home and promptly married Maysel Gibson. Later he remarked, “We knew when we were married that the possibility of eventual capture faced us. But we felt that life without each other would be an empty affair.” Realizing that Greenbrier County would be the first place the North Carolina authorities would look for him, Deitz and his new bride hightailed it north across the Ohio River to Gallia County, Ohio, where he assumed a new name — William Nutter. Meanwhile, law enforcement and the press in Southern Pines obsessed over Deitz’s whereabouts. Labeled as something of a master criminal, he was the prime suspect in every unsolved crime. Every longleaf pine seemed to have a Granville Deitz lurking behind it. A lone gunman who engaged in a shootout in Heywood County was rumored to be the escaped fugitive. The holdup of a gas station in Vass was thought to be Granville’s work until the suspect was caught in Cheraw, South Carolina, and it was not Deitz after all. In the July 4, 1930 “Grains of Sand” feature in The Pilot, the question was asked, “Wonder where Granville Deitz is spending the summer vacation?” Actually, Deitz, aka William Nutter, was faring quite well. After having worked in farming and carpentry in Gallia County, he moved 30 miles farther north to Jackson, Ohio, where he caught on with the local Pure Oil distributor making deliveries and collecting bills. Instead of robbing service stations, Deitz was receiving voluntary payments from them. Then, when his boss became ill, “Nutter” was entrusted with running the entire business. He applied himself to the task and kept the operation humming. Maysel taught school and gave birth to Elizabeth in 1931. The William Nutter family had achieved a high degree of respect in Jackson. Life was as good as it could be for a couple hiding from the law.

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But, public fascination with crime and criminals led to exposure. In 1935, a popular detective magazine mentioned Granville Deitz in its “most wanted” section and included his photo. When someone in Jackson saw the picture of the man known as William Nutter, the jig was up. Surely, a shiver ran up Deitz’s spine when police came to arrest him. Taken to the county jail, he awaited extradition to North Carolina once again. But local citizens didn’t turn away from the man they knew as William Nutter. Their outpouring of support led to a petition with 1,000 signatures beseeching Ohio’s governor not to allow his extradition. Deitz later said that the back door to the jail was intentionally left unlocked, but he was done running. Declining his chance to escape, Deitz waived extradition. “Don’t get me wrong,” Deitz explained. “I didn’t want to come back and serve the long term I’ve got left because it was taking me away from my wife and baby and away from the life in which I was making good . . . There’ll probably be nights when I’ll just lie down and curse myself for not going out that back door in Ohio. But I’ll stop at cursing. I won’t go out any more back doors.” Chief Beasley never witnessed the return of the fugitive he had labored to apprehend. Like his predecessor, he died in the line of duty, in October 1931, gunned down by a prisoner he was escorting to headquarters. Though reconciled to returning to prison, Deitz wanted out as soon as possible. The family retained Sanford’s J.C. Pittman in 1937. Sheriff McDonald declined to sign a parole petition prepared by Pittman. “Even if Deitz is a ‘changed man,’ I fear it would set a bad precedent for the other prisoners to extend clemency so soon to one who had been an escapee,” said McDonald. With Deitz stuck for the time being, his wife spent her summers in Raleigh taking teaching classes at North Carolina State and visiting her husband.

Lauded as a “model prisoner,” and with the acquiescence of his trial jury and Kelly’s family, Deitz was paroled in October 1940 after only five years of incarceration on the condition that he stay out of North Carolina. “I’m going to West Virginia as fast as I can get there to see my wife and child,” he said. Deitz planned to go back to his old job, which was waiting for him back in Jackson. “I want to go back to being a good citizen.” We don’t know why, but Deitz decided not to return to Jackson, going instead to his home state of West Virginia, where evidence suggests he became an insurance agent for Mutual of Omaha. A natural salesman, Deitz made a success of his new career and rose to district manager. His entertaining storytelling led to speaking gigs at company sales conventions and local civic clubs, where Deitz would regale the crowd with mountain tales, some true, some folklore. He took the time to write his stories down. Granville Deitz died in 1966 at age 64 while still on the job with Mutual of Omaha. In 1981, Deitz’s family arranged for the publication of his tales of the hills in a book titled Mountain Memories. A rousing success, it was reprinted three times. Brother Dennis Deitz subsequently published his own popular writings of Mountain Memories one of which discussed the exploits of his revered older brother. Absent in both publications was any mention of an encounter with the law in Southern Pines. The crime and the killer may forever go unforgiven. Or, perhaps, a life can be redeemed, in part. Either way, Granville Deitz, the omnipresent menace, was a menace no more. PS Pinehurst resident Bill Case is PineStraw’s history man. He can be reached at Bill.Case@thompsonhine.com.

S to r y of a H o u s e

A Good Fit

for the Goodmans A Pinehurst family grows into well-planned home By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner

n the border dividing Generation Xers from millennials sits a beautiful house occupied by a matching family: young(ish), sociable, fit, bright, busy. The house is stylish yet comfy, practical and pretty — an heirloom-free zone in Pinehurst, better known for senior(ish) CEOs, globetrotters and generals, now attracting this new demographic that enjoys walking or jogging to the village after shooting hoops in the driveway. Meet the Goodmans: Laura, from New England-prim Wellesley, Massachusetts; Kenny, whose roots extend deep into Tar Heel textile and furniture industries; Cate, 15, an avid participant in Odyssey of the Mind; and

sports enthusiast Matthew, 12. Golden retriever Ruby, and Ollie, a sweet Corgi-blend rescue, complete the portrait. Kenny (N.C. State) and Laura (Vanderbilt) met in Raleigh. They decided on Pinehurst when Kenny returned to the family business, located in Ellerbe. Laura found the public schools fine and the village friendly: “Here, you walk into a store and everybody says hello, knows your name. That wouldn’t happen in Wellesley.” They built an 1,800-square-foot house with white vinyl siding, green shutters and a front porch overlooking Pinehurst No. 6, where they were bombarded with stray golf balls. This didn’t work with a new baby. Time to build a

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forever house, designed to their specifications by Pinehurst architects Stagaard & Chao, known for parabolas and arches, niches, vaulted ceilings and the Fair Barn renovation. But, Laura maintains, with off-white shingles, and paneled front door flanked by benches, the look combines New England with Old Town cottages commissioned by the Bostonian Tufts family. Yet those very cottages, many enlarged and restored beyond their original glory, were oblong or square. The Goodmans chose an L-wing, which creates a front courtyard, giving the house on a corner lot facing a well-traveled street more of a manor appearance. Multiple high roof pitches impart the illusion of a second story when there is none, except for an attic playroom. ****** Whatever generational banner they hoist, the Goodmans were forwardthinkers when laying this footprint during the great Great Room Era. “I wanted three separate living spaces,” Laura says, “so when the kids want to watch TV we can close the door.” True prescience, considering the house was built in 2002, when Cate was a toddler and Matthew not yet born. Ditto placing the children’s quarters in the L-wing (with its own entrance), the master suite at the opposite end. The smiling Goodmans welcome friends through a wide front door, into a wider foyer, then straight into the living room overlooking terrace and garden, where father and son throw a baseball. Even the living room is divided by furniture placement into two conversation areas. Architectural niches show off a pair of small antique chests, while the peaked ceiling is softly illuminated by rope lighting tucked into a cornice molding. Opposite the living room, sunlight streams through bare windows in the dining area, where a wall indentation frames a tall red-lacquered Chinese armoire topped with oversized black ginger jars. Unobstructed access between PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 2017

the two rooms allows setting up long tables for holiday gatherings Many furnishings came from a family-owned business that closed, other pieces from Pinehurst village boutiques. A velvet slipper chair in the master bedroom originated with Laura’s grandparents. Laura cannot find a word that encompasses their decor style, from a massive drum coffee table to Asian bamboo, sleigh beds and carved French provincial settees, only that the pieces relate beautifully. “We like clean lines, no clutter,” Kenny adds. ****** A guest bedroom in the master suite wing — now Kenny’s home office — highlights a recent palette reversal. Its unusual teal walls set off the white sleep sofa (just in case), a set of Chinese prints illustrating silk-making, bamboo blinds, a retro leather club chair, and a framed newspaper story about his

grandfather, who served as Richmond County sheriff for 44 years. “We never used this room; now we use it every day,” Kenny says. In a daring move, they painted the wall of wood cabinetry in the master bathroom, also the dark kitchen cabinets, an unusual and soothing dove gray, adding a granite countertop pattern that swirls rather than spatters. Kitchen layout and size is a paradigm of restraint. The island expands counter space, nothing else. “I’m an electric girl,” Laura says, explaining her choice of a smooth cooktop and built-in ovens instead of an industrial gas range. She has a coffee nook and wine rack but no pastry area, refrigerated drawers or wine cellar. The chrome yellow Dualit toaster — a British award-winner used by fine restaurants — stands, statuesque, against the white ceramic tile backsplash. On one side of the kitchen is a “sitting room” similar to one Laura remembers from an aunt’s house. Upholstery fabric there and elsewhere comes from Goodman textile manufacturing. On the other side of the kitchen, a charming

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corner breakfast nook with upholstered banquettes and beyond that, the TV room. With door. Family dinner is obligatory, with no electronic distractions. Off to one side, a screened gazebo awaits fine-weather dining. Whimsy trumps classic in the guest powder room, wallpapered in ragged blue spots on white, straight off a Dalmatian. In the teens’ wing, a long wall of built-in bookshelves serves Cate’s passion for reading. Matthew likes his room, “because I have a basketball hoop on the wall.” Cate selected colors for her sitting-bedroom, a bright turquoise that compliments her long red hair. By sizing rooms moderately, the 4,000-square-foot total does not overwhelm, as it might if allocated to a cavernous great room or huge master suite. “I just like how inviting and warm and light and well-laid-out my house is,” says Cate. Indeed, gleaming hardwood floors, Persian runners and area rugs, interesting architectural details, fresh colors, a convenient location with other millennials nearby, backdrops the lifestyle and leisure of a new Pinehurst demographic exemplified by the Goodmans, for whom life certainly seems good. PS

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What a severe yet master artist old Winter is . . . No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel. — John Burroughs, “The Snow-Walkers” By Ash Alder

Begin Again

In many cultures, the first day of the year is considered to be a sacred time of spiritual rebirth and good fortune — a time to cleanse the soul and reopen one’s mind to the notion that anything is possible. Draw yourself a lavender salt bath. Light a beeswax candle. Indulge your senses with woodsy and earthy aromas such as cedarwood and sage, noticing how they recharge, calm and nurture you. Be gentle with yourself on this first day of January. Celebrate exactly where you are — in this moment — and allow yourself to imagine the New Year unfolding perfectly. Look out the window, where the piebald gypsy cat drinks slowly from the pedestal birdbath. Notice the bare lawn, the naked branches stark against the bright, clear sky. Experience the beauty of this barren season, of being open and willing to receive infinite blessings. There’s nothing to do but breathe and trust life. Breathe and trust life . . .

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The Quadrantids meteor shower will peak on the night of Wednesday, January 4, until the wee morning hours of Thursday, Jan. 5. Named for Quadrans Muralis, a defunct constellation once found between the constellations of Boötes and Draco, near the tail of Ursa Major, the Quadrantids is one of the strongest meteor showers of the year. Thankfully, a first quarter moon will make for good viewing conditions.

Speaking of Twelfth Night (January 5), the eve of Epiphany marks the end of the Christmas season and commemorates the arrival of the Magi, who honored the Infant Jesus with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Indeed it is a night of merrymaking and reverie. That said, if you’re seeking a hangover cure come Epiphany (January 6), ginger tea is an excellent and delicious home remedy.

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And here’s what you’ll need to do: Boil ginger in water for no less than 10 minutes. You really can’t over do it, so load up on ginger and simmer to your heart’s content. Remove from heat; add lime juice and honey or nectar. Sip slowly and allow your world to recalibrate. Mercury shifts from retrograde to direct on Sunday, January 8. It’s time to take action. Plant the tree. Tackle your garden to-do list. And since Saturday, January 28, marks the celebration of the Chinese New Year of the Fire Rooster, a little advice from the bird: Be bold; live loud; don’t hold back. PS

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individuals who may have had no previous experience with yoga. Cost: $35/resident; $70 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

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TAI CHI CLASS. 10:30–11:30 a.m. Wednesdays, through Feb. 8. Tai Chi Master Lee Holbrook leads this peaceful workout for people of all levels. Cost: $28/residents; $56/non-residents. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-2817 or pinehurstrec.org.

SKATING UNDER THE PINES. Weekdays: 4–8 p.m.; weekend: 1–8 p.m. Fifty-minute sessions start at the top of the hour on a 2,100 sq.ft. skating rink complete with music, lights, winter treats and drinks and a full bar. Tickets: $15/person rink side. The Carolina Hotel’s West Lawn. 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Village of Pinehurst. Info: (910) 235-8783. For group skating, private party inquiries and special requests, call Josh Leap at (910) 235-8783 or josh.leap@pinehurst.com.

Through Tuesday, January 24 ART EXHIBIT. The Hastings Gallery at Sandhills Community College is exhibiting student work in a salonstyle event through Jan.24, 2017. Works include design, printmaking, drawing, painting, photography, digital art and ceramics. Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-6185.

Sunday, January 1

Year, the New Hip. Cost: $15/advance. Cameo Arthouse Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-6633 or www.cameoarthouse.com. SHAG DANCE LESSONS—BEGINNERS. 6–7 p.m. (Jan.5, 19, 26; and Feb. 2.) For ages 18+. Instructors Nanci Donald and Bud Hunter. No partner required. Please bring shoes with smooth soles. Cost: $30/resident; $60/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. SHAG DANCE LESSONS—ADV BEGINNERS. 7–8 p.m. (Jan.5, 19, 26; and Feb. 2.) For ages 18+. Instructors Nanci Donald and Bud Hunter. No partner required. Please bring shoes with smooth soles. Cost: $30/resident; $60/nonresident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

Thursday, January 5

ART OF THE BLOOM. The Cameron Art Museum and New Hanover Garden Club present, and the Blockade Runner Beach Resort hosts, this first annual exhibition and competition. Local designers will create floral arrangements inspired by 30 works of art brought from CAM’s permanent collection, and visitors can vote for their favorite. The event, which welcomes artists, decorators, garden clubs and educators from around the region, includes a ticketed preview party (Thursday evening); exhibition; noted speakers; culinary treats; and hands-on demonstrations in floral design, the arts and party planning. Call for ticket prices. Tickets for all events will be available at the Cameron Art Museum, www.cameronartmuseum.org, and the Blockade Runner Beach Resort, 275 Waynick Blvd., Wrightsville Beach. Both oceanfront and harbor-front guestrooms are available at special rates for anyone wishing to attend. Info: (910) 256-2251.

MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI. 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. (Thursdays through Feb. 9) Instructor Lee Holbrook focuses on refining the Yang style for participants who already have a basic knowledge of Tai Chi. Cost: $28/resident; $56 nonresident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Wednesday, January 4

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE AT THE CAMEO. 7:30 p.m., doors open at 7. Missy Raines and her jazzy string band, New Hip, fronted by 7-time IBMA Bass Player of the

PILATES. 5:30–6:15 p.m. Wednesdays, through Feb. 8. Power Pilates- and Yoga Alliance- certified instructor Dana Taylor focuses on basic anatomical principles. This class is for anyone looking to establish a sense of stability and strength in the entire body. Cost: $35/residents; $70/non-residents. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-2817 or pinehurstrec.org.

FIRST DAY HIKES. Start the year off right by getting outside for one or all three First Day Hikes. At 9 a.m., check out Weymouth Woods’ Paint Hill tract on this 2-mile hike. This property has more elevation change than much of the Sandhills, as well as a rare plant called Pyxie-moss that blooms in winter. Meet at the Visitor Center, Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. At 1 p.m., take the 1-mile Boyd Tract hike through an old-growth, longleaf pine forest. You’ll meet the oldest known living longleaf pine in the world, as well as the second largest longleaf in North Carolina! Meet at the Weymouth Center at 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: Info: (910) 692-2167 At 3 p.m., enjoy a 2-mile hike with a ranger to see the different habitats within the longleaf pine forest. Bring bottled water and wear comfortable shoes. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. BASIC HATHA YOGA. 9–10 a.m. (Wednesdays through Feb. 8) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for

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ART CLASS (SCULPTING ENCESS). 1–4 p.m. Learn interesting facts about animals on the NC endangered species list and how to sculpt their likenesses in clay. This week: the Loggerhead turtle. Ages 18+, no experience necessary. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and preregistration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Ray Whitaker, Acknowledgement: Poems From The Nam. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

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Friday, January 6 ART EXHIBIT AND OPENING RECEPTION. 6–8 p.m. “Color in Nature,” paintings by Glenda Parker Jones, Meridith Martens and Miriam Sagasti, presented by The Arts Council of Moore County and sponsored by Shirley & Bill Frei. Exhibition runs through Jan.27, weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Saturday, January 21, 2–4 p.m. Arts Council of Moore County, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or mooreart.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Missy Raines and the New Hip perform. Cost: $20 in advance. The Rooster’s Wife,

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Saturday, January 7 SATURDAY KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m.–noon. “January Author Birthdays.” Come celebrate J.R.R. Tolkien (Hobbit series) and A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh) birthdays with great activities. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022 or www.giventufts.com. THE MET OPERA: LIVE IN HD. 12:55–3:50 p.m. Verdi’s Nabucco (English subtitles) Cost: $27. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com.

Sunday, January 8 ARTISTS’ DEMONSTRATIONS. 2–5 p.m. “Instructor’s Demonstration Day.” In this special January event, instructors of the Artists League of the Sandhills demonstrate their techniques. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Backpacking Essentials.” Join park attendant Kelsey Smith to learn about the 10 essentials backpackers need to have in their backpacks, followed with a 1-mile hike. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. WEYMOUTH CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES. 3 p.m. Ensemble Vermillian, “Light and Shadow.” This concert combines the lyrical vocal writing of Buxtehude and the musical exuberance of Bach, and features period instruments and Molly Quinn’s silken voice. Reception following. Cost: $10/ Weymouth member; $20/nonmember. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. EXPLORATIONS SERIES FOR ADULTS. 3–4 p.m. “Healthy Living for Your Brain and Body.” The Alzheimer’s Association will share tips from the latest research in the areas of diet and nutrition, exercise, cognitive activity and social engagement to help you keep your brain and body healthy as you age. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Sunday, January 8 — 26 ART EXHIBITION. “Instructors’ Exhibit.” Exchange Street Gallery, Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Monday, January 9 BOOK LOVERS UNITE. 3:30 p.m. “Historical Mystery Fiction.” Bring your list of favorites and add to it as others describe theirs. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or (910) 295-6022. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children through fifth grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. SANDHILLS PHOTO CLUB MEETING. 7–9 p.m. Hannah Center at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: www.sandhillsphotoclub.org.

Monday, January 9 — 29 JOY OF ART. Jan.9, 4–5:30 p.m., Winter Arts with Joy begins ; Jan. 10, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., Drawing 101; Jan. 10, 7–9 p.m., Painting with Joy for Adults; Jan. 11, 7–9 p.m., WOW and Women who Run with the Wolves, Book Study; Jan. 12, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., Creative Coffee; Jan. 13, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., Art Day for Adults; Jan. 13, 4–5:30 p.m., Drawing and Painting begins; Jan. 14, 10 a.m.–2 p.m., Celebrate Your Creative Self, a Women’s Self-Discovery Workshop; Jan. 21, 10 a.m.–2 p.m., Art for the Day begins for ages 6–12; Jan. 29, 1–4 p.m., Joy of Art and Soul for Women. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 text or www.joyof_art@msn.com.

Tuesday, January 10 SOUTHERN PINES CITIZENS ACADEMY. 6–7 p.m. Manager and Council Introductory Session. The Citizens Academy will cover town programs, services, policies, procedures and a behind-the-scenes look at how the government operates. No cost, but registration is required. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Info and registration: (910) 692-8235 or www.southernpines.net/431/ Citizens-Academy. ART CLASS (WATERCOLOR). 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Step Three, with instructor Andrea Schmidt. Meets every Tuesday through Feb. 14. Cost: $180. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Thursday, January 12 ART CLASS (SCULPTING ENCESS). 1–4 p.m. Learn interesting facts about animals on the NC endangered species list and how to sculpt their likenesses in clay. This week: the Red-cockaded woodpecker on tree. Ages 18+, no experience necessary. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and preregistration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 and 7 p.m. “The Exciting Future of Given Tufts.” Executive Director Audrey Moriarty will discuss plans for how Given Tufts will continue to support lifetime literacy and historic preservation. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library (3:30 p.m.), 150 Cherokee Road; and Given Outpost (7 p.m.), 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or (910) 295-6022. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE READING. 5:30 p.m. Sheryl Monks will read from Monsters in Appalachia, stories from West Virginia and the foothills of western North Carolina. Wine & cheese reception follows. Free and open to the public. Sponsored by St. Joseph of the Pines. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. 7:30–9:30 p.m. “A Little Night Music.” The string musicians will perform a night of music that includes Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,” one of the most well-known pieces of music ever composed. Call for prices. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 302 Green St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 433-4690 or www. fayettevillesymphony.org. CLASSICAL GUITAR CONCERT. 7 p.m. Mark Edwards, classical guitarist, will perform. Admission is free and open to the public. Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-6185.

Friday, January 13 ART CLASS (PAINTING ON SILK). 9 a.m.–3 p.m.

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Instructor, Kathy Leuck. Cost: $75. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. CHAIR YOGA. 9–10 a.m. Fridays through Feb. 17. Taught by Darlind Davis, ideal for those with chronic conditions, balance issues, or lower body challenges that affect the ability to get up and down. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Info: Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Susan Rivers, The Second Mrs. Hockaday. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. FUN FRIDAYS. 5–7 p.m. Dinner and Games at Pinehurst Pizza. $15/resident; $30/non-resident. For ages 14 +. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. “House of Dues, Dance Party at the Spot.” Tickets: $10/advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or theroosterswife.org.

Saturday, January 14 FAMILY DAY AT THE LIBRARY. Craft tables will be out all day. The special event, “Creative Cardboard Play,” will run from 11 a.m.–12 p.m., and families can compete in the Lego Building Challenge during a Maker session at 2 p.m. Teens can participate in a Round Robin Chess Competition at 3 p.m. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. HORSE EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Pipe Opener. Divisions: CT: Green as Grass–Advanced. Dressage Test of Choice: Any. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074.

Sunday, January 15 MEET THE AUTHOR. 2 p.m. Ingrid Thoft, Duplicity. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. SUNDAY KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. Come to the Library for a free showing of a film based on the book The BFG, by Roald Dahl. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Moores and McCumber, multi-instrumentalists, splendid songwriters ranging from Celtic through Americana, perform. Tickets: $20/advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or theroosterswife.org. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM.3 p.m. “How Much Can You Hike?” NC State Parks challenges you to complete 100 miles of physical activity through running, walking, biking, paddling, riding, swimming or rolling. Start today by joining a park ranger for a 3.2-mile hike around Weymouth Woods, then track your progress at www.nc100miles.org. Bring comfortable hiking shoes, appropriate clothes, water, and a desire to exercise! Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Monday, January 16 WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30 a.m. Coffee and program with Dr. John Dempsey, president of Sandhills Community College. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

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ART CLASS (SCULPTING ENCESS). 1–4 p.m. Learn interesting facts about animals on the NC endangered species list and how to sculpt their likenesses in clay. This week: the Venus flytrap. Ages 18+, no experience necessary. Cost: $35/ resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. WEYMOUTH VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION RECEPTION. 5–7 p.m. Join in thanking the multitude of volunteers who make Weymouth such a special place in the Sandhills. Reception and program. All involved in Weymouth welcome! Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Mitch Capel presents “A Night of Love and Laughter.” Tickets: $20/advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or theroosterswife.org.

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ART CLASS (BLOCK PRINTING). 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Instructor, Lynn Goldhammer. Cost: $85, supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

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ca l e n d a r THE MET OPERA: LIVE IN HD. 12:55–3:50 p.m. Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette (English subtitles) Cost: $27. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com. BALLROOM DANCING. 7–10 p.m. Cape Fear Ballroom Dancers monthly dance. Dance lesson included. Cost: $10/ members; 15/guests. Coat & Tie. Roland’s Dance Studio, 310 Hope Mills Road, Fayetteville. Info: (910) 987-4420 or www.capefearballroomdancers.org.

Sunday, January 22 BOLSHOI BALLET SERIES. 12:55 p.m. The Sleeping Beauty. From Moscow via Satellite. Cost: $25. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928501 or sunrisetheater.com. SUNDAY FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This film is about an heiress who longs to become an opera star in the 1940s, despite her horrible singing voice. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. Seasonal program, to be determined. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

SIP & PAINT WITH JANE. 5–7 p.m. Join resident artist Jane Casnellie for an evening of sipping and painting, and take home your own masterpiece! No experience necessary. All materials provided, including a glass of wine. Cost: $35. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 639-4823. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children ages birth to fifth grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. Dr. Sam Pearsall, former director of science for the NC Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and Southeast Regional Manager for Land, Water and Wildlife for the Environmental Defense Fund, will speak on climate change and its effects on ecological systems. Visitors welcome. Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.sandhillsnature.org.

Tuesday, January 24

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Louis Romano Quartet interweaves Latin, Middle, and Far Eastern influences within an American jazz framework. Tickets: $20/advance. 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or theroosterswife.org.

GENTLE FLOW YOGA. 10:30–11:30 a.m. (Tuesdays through Feb. 28). Instructor Carol Wallace leads this class for individuals who have some familiarity with basic yoga poses. She teaches slow flow movements and focuses on alignment, balance, posture and body awareness. Cost: $35/resident; $70 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

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CHILDREN’S PROGRAM — KINDERMUSIK. 10:30–11 a.m. Laura Johnson leads this class, designed for 1- and 2-yearolds. Space is limited. Given Memorial Library. 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and sign up: (720) 273-4292 or (910) 295-6022.

ART CLASS (COLORED PENCIL AND PASTEL). 10 a.m.–3 p.m. “Exploring Textures and Surface Representation in Still Life/Oil Pastel.” Instructor, Linda Drott. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

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Thursday, January 26 ART CLASS (SCULPTING ENCESS). 1–4 p.m. Learn interesting facts about animals on the NC endangered species list and how to sculpt their likenesses in clay. This week: the St Francis’ Satyr butterfly. Ages 18+, no experience necessary. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. PREVIEW OF CANADIAN COASTAL TOUR. 3 p.m. This presentation includes details and a slideshow for an upcoming tour (departing Sep. 11, 2017). Presentation is free. Cost of tour is $3,649/person (book by April, 2017 and save $50), including meals. The Moore County Historical Association is sponsoring the trip through the Collette Tours. The Shaw House, 110 Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: liz.whitmore@sanford, nc.net or (910) 718-4657 (ext 5393). MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Nancy Peacock, The Life and Times of Persimmon Wilson. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. 42ND STREET. Based on a novel by Bradford Ropes and Busby Berkeley’s 1933 movie, this musical comedy performed at the Givens Performing Arts Center at UNC Pembroke tells the story of a starry-eyed young dancer who leaves her Allentown home to audition for a new Broadway musical. Cost: $99/person, includes dinner, theater ticket and transportation. Departs at 5 p.m. from Belk at Pinecrest Plaza in Southern Pines and returns by 10:30 p.m. Kirk Tours. Info: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com. FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. 7:30–9:30 p.m. Musicians of the Fayetteville Symphony will perform Handel’s ever popular “Water Music,” composed in 1717. Call for prices. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 302 Green St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 433-4690 or www. fayettevillesymphony.org.

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ca l e n d a r Thursday, January 26 and 27 ART CLASS (OIL PAINTING). 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Oil Painting with Courtney. Courtney Herndon, instructor. Cost: $110. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Friday, January 27 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “There’s No Place Like Home… In a Tree” (For wee ones!) Trees provide homes for all kinds of critters. Come find out what parts of the tree are used by what animals as you read a book, do some fun activities, and make a craft. Please dress for the weathersome activities outdoors! All activities geared toward 3- to 5-year-olds with parental participation. Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Saturday, January 28 HORSE EVENT. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Winter Schooling Day (Dressage and Show Jumping Only) Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. PRUNING WORKSHOP. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Learn pruning basics with Moore County Extension Agent Taylor Williams, who will then provide an outside demonstration. Free to the public, but reservations required. Sandhills Horticultural Gardens-Ball Visitors Center. 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882.

Sunday, January 29 FOR THE LOVE OF COFFEE AND TEA. 1–4 p.m. Explore the variety of coffees and tea. Event includes art on display and for sale, coffee and tea samples and products available for purchase, and a DIY coffee mug design station. Cost: $15 and available at Pinehurst Village Hall. The Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Road South, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or contact Danaka Bunch at dbunch@vopnc.org.

NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. Join Park Ranger Assistant Kelsey Smith for some fun and games on the trails of Weymouth Woods! Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. The Martha Bassett Trio returns with no genre left unexplored. Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto will open the show. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or theroosterswife.org.

Tuesday, January 31 WEYMOUTH YOUNG AFFILIATES. 6 p.m. Join the younger crowd at Weymouth for an evening of networking, program planning and refreshments. All are welcome to attend. Weymouth Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. MUSICIAN’S JAM SESSION. 7 p.m. Bring your instrument and your beverage, or just come to enjoy! Free and open to the public. Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS: Feb. 16, Saturday Night Fever. Raleigh Memorial Theater, Dutch-treat dinner. Cost: $125. Reserve by Feb. 3. Kirk Tours. Info: (910) 295-2257, www.kirktours.com. March 15. The Bodyguard the Musical. DPAC, Broadway Show and Dutch treat Dinner, Durham. Cost: $150. Reserve by Jan. 13. Kirk Tours. Info: (910) 295-2257, www.kirktours.com.

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Mondays BRIDGE. 1–4 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. DETOX MONDAY. 6 p.m. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

Tuesdays BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions) This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 18 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy practices. Programs will be offered Jan. 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. BROWN BAG LUNCH/GAME DAY. 11:30 a.m. Bring your lunch and enjoy fellowship and activities, including card games, board games and the Wii. The Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost for single class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. PLAY ESCAPE. 3:30 pm. Arts & Crafts. For ages 2 and up. Cost: $2/child and $1/siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc.com. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 4–5:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: “A Cottage in the Snow,” “A Snowy

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ca l e n d a r Cardinal,” “A Penguin on Skates,” “Chinese New Year — Year of the Rooster,” and “A Snowman.” Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at The Ice Cream Parlor, 176 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 454-3641 or www.theartifactshack.com. LITE BITES. 6 p.m. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com PRIVATE COOKING CLASS AVAILABLE. 6:30 p.m. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com

Wednesdays BRIDGE. 1–4 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30–4 p.m. For children through age 5, this storytime focuses on stories, songs and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build skills for kindergarten. Dates this month are Jan. 4, 11, 18 and 25. Stay for playtime. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 4–5:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: “A Cottage in the Snow,” “A Snowy Cardinal,” “A Penguin on Skates,” “Chinese New Year — Year of the Rooster,” and “A Snowman.” Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at The Ice Cream Parlor, 176 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 454-3641 or www.theartifactshack.com. COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Maria Di Giovanni (back from the frozen North!) leads hands-on preparation of sweet potato gnocci (Jan. 4 & 18), sushi (Jan. 11), and Paleo gnocchi (Jan. 25). Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

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Saturdays WALKING BOOK CLUB. 10 a.m. Meet at the library for a brisk half-hour walk through beautiful downtown Southern Pines to discuss current reads, make book suggestions, and enjoy being active outside. Wear comfortable shoes and clothing. This month on Jan. 7, 14, 21, and 28. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Maria Di Giovanni (back from the frozen North!) leads hands-on preparation of fresh pasta and marinara (Jan. 7), ravioli (Jan. 14), pasta (Jan. 21), and paella (Jan. 28). Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

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MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.moorecountync.gov or www.localharvest.org. STORY TIME! 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 to 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 315-1471 or (910) 295-6022. MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1–3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

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Sweet Joy Ride

Champange wishes, cavier dreams and the chicken dance By Astrid Stellanova

Oh, what a good time to be a Capricorn! Money! Fun! Champagne on a beer budget!

You bask in the sunshine of a benevolent Universe. And . . . If you don’t go broke trolling the racks at Victoria’s Secret, you will have one fine time with all things sensual and pleasurable and dee-lightful. Actually, with the Sun in your money house, this is when you bank a lot of cash and good times keep rolling. For the rest of the sun signs, we just hope we are in the back seat for this oh-so-sweet joy ride. Ad Astra — Astrid

Capricorn (December 22–January 19) Now, Astrid is not always right about everything, but I’m going to mix my metaphors because I feel oh-so-very right on this star call: If you don’t make the best of this astrological joy ride then you sure have missed the bus. Given all the good fortune you enjoy in January, take some time for an attitude of gratitude and pay some of that forward, Birthday Child. Aquarius (January 20–February 18) Since the year’s end, you’ve been locked in a dilemma. And Honey, one is right and the other one is you. It won’t take you more than a hot minute to figure out for yourself exactly what ole Astrid means. The jury is still out on whether you will get away with something you know was dicey. Not too late to renege, sweet thing, and set it right. Pisces (February 19–March 20) When things get rough, some of us run and hide. Some, like you, know how to let loose and be hopeful even when they feel the bus tires are bearing down and about to roll over them. They don’t feel sorry for themselves — no, baby, they feel a chicken dance coming on. This is the beauty of your true self. Dance that chicken dance, Child. Aries (March 21–April 19) If you struck gold, why would you look for brass? Somebody you admire has put that question to you about a choice you made. That choice is going to be one of the most important ones you will make. If you feel you cannot choose, then don’t. Sit on your hands. Wait. If your first choice won’t fit, don’t force it. Taurus (April 20–May 20) You have the constitution of an ox, and when you get sick, you get mad. Consider your choices. Consider you haven’t necessarily done a healthy thing in too long to remember. And the health nuts don’t mean an apple a day will keep the doc away — but only if you aim it right. Gemini (May 21–June 20) Sugar, you’ve been through a lot of challenge. How much of that was your durn fault? Did you show your appreciation when somebody gave you a helping hand? Did you repay the favor? Try remembering to dance with the one who brought you to the dance and get back out there.

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Leo (July 23–August 22) Recent events have left you upside down and bassackwards. You don’t know whether to scratch your watch or wind your backside. Will it help you if I tell you this is good training for you? Despite always giving the appearance you are the One in Charge, you have bluffed and someone called it. Fix it. Virgo (August 23–September 22) Ever notice that the people who ought to be running things are either driving for Uber or giving manicures? Wisdom is going to find you in the most unlikely places. If you are wiser, you are going to keep an ear cocked for insights from people you might oughta listen to before you make that big decision. Libra (September 23–October 22) Well, hello, Sassy Pants! You put some steel in your backbone and stood up to somebody who needed it. Pushing back may just become one of your favorite activities this year, after a long standoff. You are going to find it easier to be true to your own ideas, and don’t worry if it alienates your Mama. Scorpio (October 23–November 21) Big ole changes are in the chart for you, and despite all the secret nail biting you have done, it is going to be just fine, Sugar Pie. If you only knew how many helping hands are making good things possible, you would sleep better at night. You would also sleep better if you stopped sleeping with your cell phone. Sagittarius (November 22–December 21) The rumor is, you have finally broken off with the lunatic fringe and found yourself. Or was it that you found religion? Whatever you found, don’t forget where you put it. You have an easy transition into the New Year, and an easy opportunity to renew some old acquaintances. They didn’t forget you. PS

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

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January/February PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson

ACROSS 1 Latin dance 6 Opposite of subtract 9 Jewish holy man 14 MMMM GOOD! 15 Oolong, for one 16 Perfect, fitting 17 Rectified 19 To no ____, of little use 20 NC Senator Hagan and others 21 50 Cent music genre 22 Cigarette lighter parts 23 Candy box contents, for short

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Frozen in Place

By Jim Moriarty

I’m not handy.

Not to make excuses, but I come by this naturally. As my mother, who suffered from dementia at the end of her days, once explained to me in a depressingly lucid moment, “Your father couldn’t put up a stepladder.”

So, the prospects for the successful completion of virtually any gender-stereotypical task around my house were dismally low. Yet, hope sprung eternal in my wife, the War Department. This was an expectation I viewed with roughly the same enthusiasm the nail has for the hammer. Which brings me to the case of the frozen pipes. The kitchen in our previous home was added on to the original building. Beneath this one-room expansion was a crawl space. Well, not exactly a crawl space, more like a duck-walking stoop space. And, underneath the floor of this one-room expansion were water pipes, water being a desirable element in almost any kitchen. Though winters here tend to be blessedly mild, there was a certain inevitability that at some point we would endure a brief snap of weather bitter enough to cause the exposed pipes under this one-room expansion to freeze as solid as the Athabasca Glacier. It was equally predictable that I would be dispatched by the War Department to this version of the Russian front. A friend of mine, who truly ought to be in witness protection, built the house he lives in near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan with his own two hands. Where he got the knowledge to do all this wiring and plumbing and hammering was as confounding to me as molecular biology. His father couldn’t put up a stepladder either. Anyway, this person — a card-carrying member of the cult of the handy who was held up to me at every turn as the quintessential model of the serviceable American spouse — instructed me on the ins and outs of fixing frozen pipes. How could you go wrong with advice from someone who lives where winter is so snappy you can get Manolo Blahnik snowshoes? He told me about the butane torch. The flux. The sandpaper. The solder. All of it. He assured me the flux would suck the solder into the newly fashioned pipe joint like smoke out of a hookah in a Paris opium den. Then, in a hushed tone as if the phone line was tapped by Local 421 of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union,

he revealed the secret of a successful watertight seal. Bread. “Bread?” I asked. I could hear him nod. So, off I went. Equipped with a pipe cutter, my flux, my fire, my sandpaper, my solder and two slices of Bunny Bread, I duckwalked into the Valley of Death. I confess, the actual order in which events transpired over the next several hours remains muddled. I do recall it beginning with the removal of the diseased and fractured section of copper tubing which, if I do say so myself, was accomplished with the skill and precision of a vascular surgeon. Thereafter, things went downhill. The bread, it had been explained to me, would sop up any excess moisture. I had been properly cautioned that moisture was the Achilles heel of a tight seal. I stuffed the bread into the pipe with my finger like I was packing a charge of black powder into a Civil War howitzer. The pipes were appropriately sanded and fluxed. At the moment of truth, however, when I fired up the torch and applied the solder, the pipe spit at me like an enraged camel. So, I started over. Same. I started over again. Same. I got more bread. Same. And again. More bread to the front, dammit! And again. And again. Did I already say that the crawl space under the kitchen was at something of an awkward height? It was too high to kneel and reach the pipes but too low to stand. In short, I was frozen, as it were, in what could only be described as a diabolical stress position. Had the War Department piped in Bee Gees music at sufficient decibels I would have confessed to the Ripper murders. Of course, with every aborted attempt and subsequent pipe trimming, the copper tubes got just a wee bit shorter. This resulted in my yanking on the pipes, first to my left, then to my right, in a kind of tug of war to make the ends meet. Still no luck. So often did I stretch the pipes, bread them, sand them, flux them and fire them that I used all the white bread in the house and resorted to wheat. That was when the War Department called our plumber. Did I mention we had a plumber? When Jim showed up — the irony that his name was the same as mine didn’t escape me — he looked through the tiny door into my kitchen crawl space where I was crouched, hunks of white and brown bread scattered about my feet, bolts of pain shooting through my lower back and hamstrings, and said, “You havin’ a picnic in there?” No. PS Jim Moriarty is senior editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com.

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