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

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

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

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

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

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

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July 2017

Departments 15 Simple Life By Jim Dodson

20 PinePitch 23 Good Natured By Karen Frye

25 Instagram Winners 27 The Omnivorous Reader By Stephen E. Smith

Features 69 The Old North State: A Toast

Poetry by Lenora Monteiro Martin

70 Party Like It’s 1548

Weymouth Woods is home to the oldest longleaf pine in America — heck, maybe the entire world. Oh, the history that big ol’ pine tree has witnessed.

76 First in Film

By Jim Moriarty The Founders highlights a new Sandhills festival

78 The Wizard of Pinehurst

By Bill Case Sandhills’ Renaissance man Rassie Wicker

31 Bookshelf

By Romey petite and Angie Tally

35 Hometown By Bill Fields

37 A Writer’s Life By Wiley Cash

40 Sandhills Photo Club 43 Vine Wisdom By Robyn James

45 In the Spirit

49 The Kitchen Garden

By Tony Cross

By Jan Leitschuh

53 Out of the Blue By Deborah Salomon

55 Papadaddy

By Clyde Edgerton

82 The Cake Lady’s Best

57 Mom, Inc.

84 Kings of the Castle

59 Birdwatch

By Jim Dodson

By Deborah Salomon An architect out to conquer the world blazes a trail through Vineland

91 Almanac

By Ash Alder Straw hat days and summer love

Cover Photograph by Tim Sayer Photograph this page by John Gessner

By Renee Phile

By Susan Campbell

61 Sporting Life By Tom Bryant

65 Golftown Journal By Lee Pace

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson

111 The Accidental Astrologer By Astrid Stellanova

112 SouthWords By Susan Kelly

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Fairwoods on 7: Gracious home & prime golf-front location

overlooking the 9th hole & pond! Quality built & beautifully appointed. Membership to Pinehurst CC 1-7 available. Superbly equipped Kitchen! All ensuite bedrooms. 3BR/3.5BA. $695,000. Kay Beran 910.315.3322

Southern Pines: Great water views of Rays Mill Pond. Wonderful home, won the MCHBA Home of The Year award! Vaulted ceilings, exposed wooden beams, stone fireplace, and wide-plank wood floors. 3BR/3BA. $649,000. Bill Brock 910.639.1148

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Pinewild Country Club: Lake front on 1.5 acre lot. More than 3,000 sq.ft. of comfortable elegance in this 4BR, 2.5BA home featuring a main floor master suite, study/den, kitchen open to the Carolina room. Great lake views! $525,000. Kay Beran 910.315.3322

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Pinehurst No. 6: Outstanding golf front views of the 16th hole

encompasses the entire par three & will not disappoint! Well maintained! Inviting Floor Plan! Many Upgrades! Granite, Hardwoods, & Carolina Room w/vaulted ceiling. 3BR/2BA. $324,000. Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

7 Lakes West: Expansive water views! Magnificent water front lot on Lake Auman! Complete with bulk-head, 2 boat docks, boat lift and swim ladder already in place. Cul-de-sac location. Build your dream home! $309,000. Linda Criswell 910.783.73734

7 Lakes South: Cape Cod style home on 2 golf front lots!

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Linville Garden: Wonderful golf front condo on Course #5. Totally Furnished. Great investment opportunity or weekend getaway! Scenic fairway views. 2BR/2BA. $110,000. Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

National Pinehurst #9: Golf front homesite on 6th fairway,

home with high ceilings, deep moldings, transom windows in dining room, kitchen with granite & island. Large 4thBR/Bonus Room accesses walk-in attic. 4BR/3.5BA. $349,000. Kay Beran 910.315.3322

900sf unfinished basement with HVAC. Formal Living & Dining Room w/frplc, Den, screened porch. Upper level could be 4th Bdrm. 3BR/2.5BA. $249,000. Debbie Darbyt 910.783.5193

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M A G A Z I N E Volume 13, No. 7 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, Wiley Cash, Tony Cross, Al Daniels, Annette Daniels, Mart Dickerson, Clyde Edgerton, Bill Fields, Robyn James, Jan Leitschuh, Meridith Martens, D.G. Martin, Diane McKay, Lee Pace, Romey Petite, Renee Phile, Joyce Reehling, Stephen E. Smith, Astrid Stellanova, Angie Tally, Ashley Wahl, Sam Walker, Janet Wheaton

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The Rambler Cottage at 25 Maple, Pinehurst The Rambler Cottage enjoys a premier location in the Village, snug near the heart of Old Town on a quiet street with minimal traffic. Tucked behind a white picket fence and facing a parkland, the cottage has enchanting grounds that include a secret garden, private, bricked terrace, lovely expanse of lawn and pathways through sculptured hedges. The over 100 year old cottage exudes signature Pinehurst charm on the interior as well with exceptional ceiling height in an open living/dining room with double fireplaces, a handsome den (or downstairs master) with fireplace and a delightful breakfast room. Upstairs, radiating from the landing are 3 bedrooms, 2 baths with intriguing nooks and crannies. Additional highlights include a paneled former sleeping porch and outside garden house with studio. Offered at $895,000.

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

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

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

45 magnolia avenue Stunning all brick 4 BR / 3 BA home located on 1.13 acres of well landscaped privacy in desirable Taylorhurst. The main level offers a large living room with a center fireplace, built-ins and French doors that open onto the spacious Carolina Room. The gourmet kitchen is every cook’s dream with updated appliances, granite countertops and tons of cabinets.

106 eDWarDs Court Lovely 5 BA / 3.5 BA stone and vinyl home at the end of a quiet, wooded cult-de-sac in popular Seven Lakes West. The floorplan features the great room that is open to the gourmet kitchen and informal dining area. The attractive screened porch opens from the kitchen – wonderful for outdoor dining!

Pinehurst • $419,000

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

14 sCioto lane Classic 3 BR / 2.5 BA brick home on the 18th fairway of Pinehurst #6 and while it enjoys great golf course views, it is also a very private location. The interior is bright and open with a large living room with an entrance to the covered patio area, a formal dining room, kitchen with lots of cabinet and counter space, and nice in ground pool!

5 viCtoria Way Elegant 4 BR / 3.5 BA Cotswold townhome offers the ultimate in carefree living! It features hardwood floors, 10’ and 12’ ceilings, deep crown moldings and a brick patio area off the keeping room that offers a great deal of privacy.

4 buCkingham PlaCe Gorgeous all brick 4 BR / 3 BA townhome in desirable Cotswold. With over 2,600 sq. ft. of living area, the floorplan is bright and open with an expansive living room with center fireplace surrounded by custom built-ins. The living area is open to the oversized rear patio and offers great privacy.

seven lakes West • $375,000

105 simPson Court Amazing 3 BR / 3 BA home--unique and special in so many ways! The house is located at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac on over 3.5 acres – almost the entire cul-de-sac – what a great setting and what great privacy! The interior is bright and open with a view of Lake Auman in the distance.

seven lakes West • $315,000

410 longleaF Drive Lovely and well-maintained 5 BR / 3.5 BA home conveniently located close to the back gate of Seven Lakes West. Walk to the water, play in the over-sized 1 acre lot or relax on the front porch. A truly beautiful home for a growing family.

101 Forest square lane Exquisite custom built 3 BR / 2.5 BA home located on the 17th green of Beacon Ridge Country Club. The layout is so inviting with a large living room, split bedroom plan and a sunny Carolina Room that opens onto a large deck – perfect for enjoying the beautiful views.

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157 longleaF Drive Charming 4 BR / 3 BA cottage style home with beautiful hardwoods, crown molding and an open floorplan. The expansive living room opens to a spacious screened porch and adjoining terrace. The kitchen has granite countertops and stainless steel appliances. This house also has a beautiful yard and displays great curb appeal.

aberDeen • $335,000

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

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215 inverrary roaD Spectacular 5 BR / 6.5 BA home located between the 13th tee box and 14th fairway of the #7 course in Fairwoods on 7. The interior is open and sun-filled with 9 ft. ceilings on the 2nd level and 11 ft. ceilings on the main level and wonderful views from almost every room. This home has over 4 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds that gives great privacy while enjoying panoramic golf views.

Pinehurst • $999,000

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

Pinehurst • $795,000

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

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!

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

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

19 mCmiChael Drive Gorgeous all brick 4 BR / 4.5 BA custom home with 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!

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

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

Pinehurst • $649,000

45 Ferguson roaD This gorgeous two story 4 BR / 4 BA brick home is a unique find in Old Town. Features include 10’ ceilings, lots of windows throughout, gourmet kitchen with cherry cabinets, solid surface countertops and a private breakfast area overlooking the back yard. Living room has a fireplace as well as separate family room off the kitchen along with covered patio and additional uncovered patio area that’s just perfect for entertaining!

seven lakes West • $689,000

123 vanore roaD Gorgeous 4 BR / 3.5 BA lakefront home on Lake Auman with wide lake views! This home has that “wow factor” when you walk in the door! The owners have beautifully renovated the home, including opening the kitchen to the spacious greatroom and screened porch. The kitchen has been redone with custom cherry cabinets, crown molding and hardwood floors. The living room features a stone fireplace and hardwood floors.

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Supper on the Porch

Old friends, a well-traveled table, a summer evening to remember By Jim Dodson

On a fine summer night not

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long ago, seven friends came to supper on the porch.

They arrived bearing good wine, eager to see what we’d done with the old house we purchased six months ago. Since five of the seven guests were also serious wine buffs, bottles were quickly opened and the party moved out to our huge screened porch where my wife had set our antique English wedding table for supper. The porch is a large screened affair that spans almost the entire back portion of the house. It features a floor and foundation made from antique brick and exposed beams with large old-style ceiling fans overhead. Quite honestly, when we first saw it, we weren’t sure what to do with such a large empty space. The screens were old and dusty and the floor was uneven in places. Moreover, off the west end of the porch was a terrace with brick planters overgrown with English ivy set beneath a large pergola that had clearly seen better days. Since I knew this house as a boy — it sits two doors from the house where I grew up and was my favorite house in the neighborhood as a kid — I remembered how the Corry family seemed to live on this porch way back when, in part because it sat beneath hundred-year-old white oaks and a lower canopy of dogwoods and silver bell trees, providing deep shade and a cool retreat on the hottest of summer days. I remembered Mama Merle loving her big sprawling porch. One early thought we had was to replace the screens with oversized weathertight windows and create a four-season family room that could function as a small ballroom in a pinch. We also contemplated halving the porch in size and adding an outdoor fireplace — or even removing the rambling old extension altogether to expand a yard that resembled an urban jungle. “Let’s live with it a while,” proposed my ever-practical bride. “The porch may grow on us — and tell us what we should do.” In the meantime, over the winter and early spring, I knocked apart the aging pergola and opened up the terrace, cleaning out the overgrown planter beds and filling them with young hosta plants. I also removed a dozen wicked Mahonia plants and a small acre of English ivy and runaway wisteria, and began creating a Japanese shade garden beneath the dogwoods and silver bells. By the time true spring arrived my back garden was looking rather promising, but the big old porch remained empty until my wife had an interesting idea. “Let’s move our wedding table out there and make this our three-season dining room,” she said, pointing out that the size of the porch made it essentially indifferent to weather. Our dining table is a beautiful old thing I spotted in a Portland, Maine,

English antique shop and purchased for my fiancée as a wedding present two decades ago. It’s an early 19th-century English farm table from Oxfordshire that came with its own documenting papers listing at least a dozen a family names that had allegedly owned it before us. Beyond its impressive strength and workmanship, the thing I most love about it are the nicks and dents and discolorations of time that mark the table’s long journey through this world. Our family has gathered around it for every holiday meal since the day it arrived in our household, and sometimes as I listen to the eddies of conversations that take place around it, I can’t help but think about the voices that table has heard over the past century and a half, the intimate stories, the debates and conversations, fiery oaths and whispers of love. Before moving it out to Miss Merle’s porch, however, my wife set about cleaning every surface of the porch including the elegant ceiling fans and screens while I got to work on the floor, leveling the bricks and using a distressing technique to paint the brick floor a faded woodland green. That’s when a kind of alchemy began to take place. The big room suddenly seemed to come alive with a human charm all its own. Soon we added plants and an antique sideboard that had never fit the in the main house even found a destined spot on the porch. I hung the custommade iron candelabra from our old house in Maine and my bride strung small clear white lights along the roofline as a finishing touch. We suddenly had the perfect place for a pair of fine old wicker chairs we’d kept in storage forever, and an antique iron table and reading lamp that had never quite found their place. A large sisal rug Wendy found online was the final piece of the puzzle. By the time our first supper on the porch was well underway, our guests were all commenting on the beauty of the room beneath the trees. “I don’t think I’ve seen a more beautiful porch,” said my childhood friend, Susan, who lived in Charleston, South Carolina for years and has a designer’s eye for everything. “It’s so rustic and simple.” “Don’t change a thing about this porch,” urged Joe, a buddy from high school who is an exceptional builder and expert on wood. He made some excellent small suggestions about replacing the vinyl soffits with wooden panels with inset lighting that would make the room even more dramatic. The lively dinner went on much longer than expected. The stories flew, the candles flickered, the wine flowed, and the earthy scent of my restored garden drifted through the screens. At their end of the table, the wine buffs had a fine time swapping tales of their intricate journeys toward grape enlightenment. Sipping my French sparkling water, it was enough for me to simply sit and listen to my friends go on about life and wine in ways I suspect that old wedding table had heard before over the years, taking its own pleasure in our screen porch fellowship. Don and Cindy talked about their extensive wine tours out West. Susan told a charming tale about being whisked away by a friend to

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Europe where she was put up and feted at a pair of the most elite vineyards in France and Italy. “It was like something from a fairy tale,” she admitted. Somewhere about the time the strawberry and whipped cream cake was being served, my closest table companion leaned over and mentioned to me that she was thinking of walking home. It wasn’t far, only a few blocks, and the night was gorgeously moonlit. “They won’t even notice I’m gone,” Terry said with a coy smile, finishing her own glass of white wine. Terry is my oldest friend Patrick’s wife. I’ve known her since we sat near each other in high school choir 45 years ago. A few years back Terry and Patrick sold their big house on the north side of town and moved back to the old neighborhood, a move that in part inspired my wife and me to do the same. We now lived just three long blocks apart. “Mulligan and I will walk with you,” I proposed, prompting my favorite dog to dutifully bolt for the kitchen door. So off we went beneath a nearly full moon that displayed one exceptionally bright planet just beneath its southern rim. Terry asked me if I knew the planet’s name but I couldn’t be sure — I guessed Mercury, incorrectly. Still, it was lovely strolling along our darkened street with its ancient trees making the darkness seem even deeper, the neighborhood even quieter. As it happened, Terry and I both had recently undergone similar kinds of surgeries. We made little jokes about that fact — at least I did — and Terry, who is one year older and many years wiser, admonished me that I would feel fatigued for many weeks yet to come, not to push myself back into my usual 15-hour work routine. “The world will still be there after you take time to rest and heal,” she pointed out. “Suppers like tonight may help,” I said. “That porch is wonderful,” she came back “I’m so glad you didn’t change it.” “I think it changed us,” I agreed, kissing her cheek goodnight. On the walk back to our house, I was thinking how all it took was a little time

and Wifely creativity, a well-traveled table and a circle of close friends breaking bread and drinking wine to transform a big empty space into something intimate and special. Objects, like people, respond to love, and since that first night of supper and fellowship, the big old porch has become my favorite spot where I do everything, from writing before dawn to reading at night. It is my sanctuary where I just sit and plot my garden or simply daydream and maybe even heal. Halfway home, something else wonderful happened. A large night bird swooped low over my head and rose to an arching limb 20 feet above Old Man Dodson and his dog. I shined my light upward and discovered, rather startlingly, a large snowy owl staring down at me with an imperturbable calmness. The only one I’d ever seen was back home in Maine. I knew that snowy owls nested in the Arctic tundra and wondered how far this old fellow had come — or had yet to go. Back in our driveway, the departing wine buffs were looking up at the moon with celestial-reading apps on their I-phones. What an age of wonders, I thought. An ancient owl and phones that could decipher the night sky — all within the same block. I told them about the snowy owl visiting just down the street. “There’s a sign of some kind,” said Susan with a husky laugh. Joe the naturalist pointed out that eagles and northern species of owls had been returning to the city’s northern lakes of late, adopting new habitats in an ever-changing world. He also pointed out that the bright planet was, in fact, Jupiter, and that at least three of Jupiter’s four moons were visible at that moment, a rare celestial event. “That makes two in one night,” I heard myself say, thinking how far we’ve all come, how far we’ve yet to go. PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com. Read more about Opti the Mystic and Mulligan in The Range Bucket List, Dodson’s new book, available everywhere.

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PinePitch Carolina Peach Festival

The 21st Annual N.C. Peach Festival begins Friday, July 14, in Candor at 6:30 p.m. with the Peachy Feet 5K. On Saturday, July 15, at 8:30 a.m. there’s a peach-cooking contest at Town Hall before lining up for the parade at 10 a.m. on Main Street. Then take a helicopter ride for an overview of beautiful Montgomery County. With your feet back on the ground, move to the music of Jim Quick & Coastline, the Sand Band, Rockin’ Acoustix, and Big Bang Boom. Take part in fun activities for all ages — everything from camel rides to karaoke, bungee trampoline, miniature train rides, petting zoo and more. And don’t miss meeting the 2017 Peach Queen. Admission is free. Fitzgerald Park, Candor. Info: (910) 974-4221 or ncpeachfestival.com.

Fireworks, Festivals, and Fun for All on the 4th of July

The Village of Pinehurst offers a daylong celebration, starting with its annual Independence Day Parade at 10 a.m., followed by the patriotic pet contest, an antique car display and Sandhills Farmers Market in the Pinehurst Village Center and Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road W. At 2 p.m., slip into the Grand Ballroom of the Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Dr., for the Moore County Concert Band’s rousing and entertaining performance of Sousa marches and patriotic favorites. And, at 6 p.m., the fun continues at the Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Hill Road S, with a free concert, children’s activities and fireworks celebration. The Town of Aberdeen is also offering an evening of live entertainment, food vendors, and activities including a rock climbing wall, an inflatable slide and bounce houses. Something for all ages, starting at 5 p.m. at Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing. Fort Bragg celebrates with musical acts, parachute free-fall demonstrations, a flag ceremony, fireworks, food and beverages from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Main Post Parade Field 11, 25 Capron St., on the base. For information on all of these events, visit www.explorepinehurst.com or consult your PineStraw Arts and Entertainment Calendar.

Something Moore

Interpreting the Qur’an

On Thursday, July 13, at 3:30 p.m., retired U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer Jason Criss Howk will be at The Given Memorial Library, at 150 Cherokee Road in Pinehurst to talk about Islam, Islamism and the contents of the holy book of Islam. Howk is the author of the recently released book, The Qur’an: A Chronological Modern English Interpretation. Much of Howk’s career focused on South Asia and the Middle East, and he teaches courses and leads discussions about Islam across the country. This presentation will be repeated at 7 p.m. at the Outpost/Given Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Both are free and open to the public. For more information, call Lisa at (910) 295-7002.

On Friday, July 14 and Saturday July 15, The Arts Council of Moore County will be holding its popular Arts Council Treasure Chest Sale and Fundraiser. Come and find a treasure among the antiques, art, jewelry, pottery, china, silver, furniture and other collectibles featured this year. When you purchase your special item, you’ll be supporting Arts Council’s programs throughout Moore County. You can donate items until July 13, so there’s still time to let one or more of your old treasures become someone else’s new treasure. The sale will be held 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday and 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday at the Campbell House Galleries, 482 E Connecticut Ave. in Southern Pines. For more information and pickups, call (910) 692-2787 or email katherine@mooreart.org.

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The Rooster’s Wife

Tea with Trigiani

On Monday, July 17, The Country Bookshop invites you to Thyme and Place Café for tea, tiramisu and to visit with New York Times best-selling author Adriana Trigiani, whose previous books include The Shoemaker’s Wife. She will be discussing her new book, Kiss Carlo, the epic story of an Italian-American family in 1949 in South Philadelphia, whose peace and prosperity is threatened by a decades-long feud. At the story’s center is young Nicky Castone and his struggle to fulfill his dreams while holding on to the family he cherishes. This ticketed event will be at the Thyme and Place Café, 155 Hall Ave., Southern Pines, from 3 to 4:15 p.m. The cost is $42, which includes an autographed copy of the book, tea, and treats. Tickets are available online and at The Country Bookshop. For more information, call (910) 692-3211.

Sunday, July 2: Shawn Camp, preeminent Americana and country songwriter and lead singer of the Earls of Leicester, is bringing his full band. $20. Sunday, July 9: The Sunday Exchange presents I Draw Slow, Ireland’s answer to Americana. This five-piece, Dublin roots string band finds new, folksy grooves in old-time Appalachian song. Admission is free to this event, next door to the Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., in Aberdeen. Sunday, July 16: The Sam Frazier Band performs stellar guitar licks and funky bluesy songs for listening and dancing. Poet, songwriter, and journalist Molly McGinn opens the show in a big way. $10. Sunday, July 23: The Brother Brothers and Che Apalache perform. The Brother Brothers really are brothers, and their familial connection comes through in the music. Rich harmonies and thoughtful songs accompanied by guitar, cello, violin and banjo. $15. Friday, July 28: The Louisiana Soul Revival delivers the soul, blues and funk music of Louisiana with a 6-piece band fronted by National Blues Hall of Fame and Louisiana Music Hall of Fame inductee, Doug Duffey. This is a Friday Night Dance Party. $20. Sunday, July 30: The Rooster’s Wife celebrates the end of the season with a special appearance in honor of a milestone. Patrick Fuller and his dad, Craig, of Pure Prairie League and Little Feat fame, open the show. They are followed by Wild Ponies, featuring the magnetic chemistry of husband-and-wife duo Doug and Telisha Williams. $20. Ticket prices listed above are in advance. All shows are at 6:46 p.m. and, except for the Sunday Exchange, take place at The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St. in Aberdeen. For more information call (910) 944-7502.

First Friday

You just might feel like you’re in New Orleans when you come downtown on Friday, July 7, as First Friday welcomes The New Breed Brass Band. This 9-man, New Orleans band blends funk, rock, jazz, and hip-hop with the second-line, brass band tradition, a style that has been called the quintessential New Orleans art form. Enjoy good food, beverages and entertainment at this family-friendly event, beginning at 5 p.m. It is free and open to the public, but please don’t bring your dogs. The First Bank Stage at the Sunrise is located at 250 NW Broad St. in Southern Pines. For more information call (919) 692-8501. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2017

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G o o d N at u r e d

Love Your Skin And be careful what you put on it

By K aren Frye

Nature’s Own recently enjoyed a milestone birthday. When our health food shop turned 30 this past April, nothing in the store was mainstream. Not even soy milk.

Over the past 10 years, information about eating healthy and reading labels has reached more and more people. Folks have discovered that the foods they eat affect how they feel and that many conditions may even disappear by a change in diet. Grocery stores have expanded their inventory to meet the growing demand for fresh and organic foods. But while we’re paying more attention to what we put in our bodies, not as much notice is given to what we put on our bodies. Our skin is our largest organ. Would you really consider slathering toxic lotion on your liver? The Enviromental Workers Group is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to educate consumers about the products we buy: if they’re safe; if they’re environmentally friendly; and more. Their website is a reliable source of research and information. When it comes to body care, EWG has rated many of the top brands for safety. The body care industry has few guidelines, and often there are inert ingredients in products not listed on the label. Some can be harmful, especially with long-term use. Parabens, phythalates, formaldehydes, triclosan and synthetic colors are prevalent in nearly all creams, lotion, lipstick, makeup, shampoo, nail polish, etc. They are typically filled with petroleum by-products as well. There is a cascade of symptoms that can stem from the toxins you use on your skin daily, including hormone imbalances and premature aging of the skin. Even sunscreen can be problematic. Most agree that sunscreen use is important to prevent sunburn and skin cancer. We think we are doing the right thing by daily applying sunscreen to protect ourselves from sun damage, and dutifully apply it to our children as well. But some chemicals pose risks of their own. Shop for a sunscreen that is made without oxybenzone and petroleum by-products. The supplement astaxanthin — the pigment responsible for the reddish color in salmon and trout — is particularly useful in skin and eye health due to its powerful ability to absorb ultraviolent rays, especially UVB rays. It acts like an internal sunscreen, reaching all the layers of the skin. It also slows down the aging of the skin, reducing wrinkles and fine lines. The antioxidant activity of astaxanthin is 6,000 times greater than vitamin C. Aloe is what we think of for sunburn relief, but my favorite remedy is calendula (a resin from calendula flowers). Bodyceuticals create an excellent calendula, aloe, coconut and kukui nut oil and spray for skin discomfort like sunburn and to relieve itching and redness, diaper rash and windburn. This nourishing oil will help to maintain your tan and minimize peeling. After your long summer days working or playing in the sun, be careful what you put on the beautiful skin you’re in. PS

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Karen Frye is the owner and founder of Nature’s Own and teaches yoga at the Bikram Yoga Studio. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2017

Featured Homes 1 Laurel Valley Court

55 Bel Air Drive

Mid South Club, Southern Pines Located on a private cul-de-sac, this gorgeous home features a stunning kitchen with granite counters and double ovens, gas fireplace in the living room, master suite with 2 walk-in closets, a rec room, fenced in backyard, and golf view. 5 Bedrooms, 3 Baths, 3,000+ Sq.Ft.

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

55 Page Road

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Old Town, Pinehurst Located in the Historic District of the Village of Pinehurst, this terrific house features many upgrades, private backyard, large patio, detached guest house, and more. 4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths, 4,500+ Sq.Ft.

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MLS# 178913 $990,000

Southern Pines Stately home on over 6 acres with double doors leading to a brick floored entry. Features 2 laundry rooms, brick patio, and separate guest cottage. Zoned and easily converted into a bed and breakfast! 5 Bedrooms, 6.5 Baths, 5,000+ Sq.Ft.

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210 Grove Road

Pine Needles, Southern Pines Beautiful home with a fenced in backyard, large deck, and wrap around front porch. Hardwoods throughout, gourmet kitchen with double ovens, fireplace in living room, formal dining, office/study, large rec area, and bonus room. 4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths, 4,000+ Sq.Ft.

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$539,000

58 Pinebrook Drive

Pinehurst No. 6, Pinehurst Spectacular view of the water and 2 golf holes from this lovely custom built home! Features a gourmet kitchen, family room with wet bar and fireplace, spa-like master suite with balcony. 4 Bedrooms, 4.5 Baths, 4,500+ Sq.Ft.

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The Omnivorous Reader

The Wickedest Town in the West An OK place to visit, but you wouldn’t want to live there

By Stephen E. Smith

In the mid-1980s, actor Robert Mit-

chum appeared on a late-night talk show to promote his latest film. The host asked if the movie was worth the price of admission and Mitchum replied: “If it’s a hot afternoon, the theater is air conditioned, and you’ve got nothing else to do, what the hell, buy a ticket.”

Readers should adopt a similar attitude toward Tom Clavin’s Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West. If you’re not doing anything on one of these hot summer afternoons, what the heck, give it a read. Dodge City is a 20-year history of the Kansas military post turned cow town that has come down in popular culture as the Sodom of the make-believe Wild West. No doubt Dodge had its share of infamous gunfighters, brothels and saloons, including the Long Branch Saloon of Gunsmoke fame, and there were myriad minor dustups, but nix the Hollywood hyperbole, and Dodge City’s official history is straightforward: Following the Civil War, the Great Western Cattle Trail branched off from the Chisholm Trail and ran smack into Dodge, creating a transitory economic boom. The town grew rapidly in 1883 and 1884 and was a convergence for buffalo hunters and cowboys, and a distribution center for buffalo hides and cattle. But the buffalo were soon gone, and Dodge City had a competitor in the cattle business, the border town of Caldwell. Later cattle drives converged on the railheads at Abilene and

Wichita, and by 1890, the cattle business had moved on, and Dodge City’s glory days were over. Clavin focuses on the city’s rough-and-tumble years from 1870 through the 1880s, explicating pivotal events through the lives and times of the usual suspects — Bat Masterson, the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday et al. He fleshes out his narrative by including notorious personages not directly linked to Dodge City — Billy the Kid, John Wesley Hardin, Wild Bill Hickok, “Big Nose” Kate, Buffalo Bill Cody, Sitting Bull, the Younger brothers, and a slew of lesser characters such as “Dirty Sock” Jack, “Cold Chuck” Johnny and “Dynamite” Sam, all of whom cross paths much in the manner characters interact in Doctorow’s Ragtime. Also included are abbreviated histories of Tombstone — will we ever lose our fascination with the 30-second shootout at the O.K. Corral? — and Deadwood. If all of this sounds annoyingly familiar, it is. There’s no telling how many Wild West biographies, histories, novels, feature films, TV series, documentaries, etc., have been cranked out in the last 140 years, transforming us all into cowboy junkies. Our brief Western epoch has so permeated world ethea that blue jean-clad dudes in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, might be heard to say, “I’m getting the hell out of Dodge,” in Uzbek, of course. Clavin offers what amounts to a caveat in his Author’s Note: “. . . Dodge City is an attempt to spin a yarn as entertaining as tales that have been told before but one that is based on the most reliable research. I attempted to follow the example of the Western Writers of America, whose members over the years have found the unique formula of combining strong scholarship with entertaining writing.” So what we have is a hybrid, a quasi-history not quite up to the standards of

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popular history, integrated into a series of underdeveloped episodic adventure tales that ultimately fail to entertain. If Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough are your historians of choice, you’ll find that Dodge City falls with a predictable thud. It’s simply more of the same Western hokum. The writing isn’t exceptional, the research is perfunctory, most of the pivotal events are common knowledge, and the characters are so familiar as to breed contempt. If you have a liking for yarns by writers such as Louis L’Amour, Luke Short and Larry McMurtry, Dodge City isn’t going to make your list of favorite Westerns. Without embellishment, the narrative loses its oomph, and the episodic structure diminishes any possibility of a thematic continuity, which is, of course, that the lawlessness that marked Dodge City’s formative years is a metaphor for the country as a whole, that violence and corruption are a fundamental component of American life. On a positive note, readers of every persuasion will likely find the book’s final chapter intriguing. Clavin follows his principal characters to the grave. Wyatt, the last surviving Earp brother, ended his days in Los Angeles at the age of 80. Doc Holliday died in Colorado of tuberculosis at 36, his boots off. “Big Nose” Kate, Doc’s paramour, lived until 1940 at the Arizona Pioneers’ Home, dying at the age of 89. Of particular interest is Bartholomew William Barclay “Bat” Masterson, Wyatt Earp’s dapper buddy in the “lawing” business. Whereas Earp’s claim to fame ended with his exploits as a Western peace officer and cow town ruffian, Masterson went on to a life of greater achievement. He became an authority on prizefighting and was in attendance at almost every important match fought during his later years. He was friends with John L. Sullivan, Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey. In 1902, he moved to New York City and worked as a columnist for the New York Morning Telegraph. His columns covered boxing and other sporting events, and he produced op-ed pieces on crime, war, politics, and often wrote of his personal life. He became a close friend of President Theodore Roosevelt and remained a celebrity until his death in 1921. It promises to be a long, hot, unsettling summer. If you’ve got nothing better to do, turn off cable news, slap down $29.99 and give Dodge City a read. It’s little enough to pay for a few hours of blessed escapism. 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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July Books Kick back reading

By Romey Petite

Fierce Kingdom, by Gin Phillips

While watching her 4-year-old son Lincoln play, Joan’s only care is making sure they both make it out of the zoo before closing time. When she hears a loud bang, Joan tries not to panic, but secretly fears the worst. By the time she and her son spot the bodies and the gunman, it is too late to make a break for the exit gate. Instead, they retreat deeper into the zoo among the animal habitats to stay one step ahead of the danger. Between Joan’s wry wit and love for her son, Phillips brings to life not only a powerful character, but a compelling one, too. Joan will do anything to protect both Lincoln and the fantasies he inhabits — worlds of myths and monsters — with a kind of self-sacrifice that may cost her life. Readers will find Phillips’ Fierce Kingdom nearly impossible to put down and a thrilling ride from beginning to end.

Caesar’s Last Breath, by Sam Kean

The best-selling author of The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons, The Disappearing Spoon and The Violinist’s Thumb returns with a breathtaking macro and micro look at the very air we breathe. Kean’s sense of wonderment is as infectious as an airborne contagion, taking readers on a delightful stroll down the periodic table, through the chaotic chemical interactions at work in our atmosphere, and delving into some of the strangest theories ever posited — cloud seeding, spontaneous combustion, and Soviet-era weather wars. Inviting us to be conscious of the ever-flowing currents traveling in and out of our bodies, Kean points out the ramifications of the laws of conservation implied in the title Caesar’s Last Breath, postulating that both the past and the future, the living and the dead, are all contained in the very molecules around us.

What We Lose, by Zinzi Clemmons

Thandi’s visit to her father to give him the news that she is pregnant and intends to marry her boyfriend, Peter, becomes the framing device for this debut novel. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Thandi can never know her ancestral home of Johannesburg — not as her late mother did. While her father’s family is from New York, Thandi’s mother’s mixed-race South African heritage remains both inaccessible to her and yet, ubiquitous. Her story is strung together from heartfelt anecdotes, vignettes, dreams and snapshots, creating a kind of map. Readers will appreciate the way Clemmons’ juxtaposition of prose and pictures has a kind of piercing immediacy that seizes readers and brings them along as she searches for closure and awaits her baby’s birth.

My Sister’s Bones, by Nuala Ellwood

A dedicated and decorated foreign correspondent, Kate Rafter has made it her mission to report on the stories of ordinary people who find themselves confronting the ongoing tragedy of war. After receiving news of her mother’s death, Kate is forced to leave the chaos in Syria and return to the ves-

tiges of a home she has avoided. Kate reconnects with her lingering alcoholic sister, Sally — her abusive father’s favorite daughter. She begins experiencing hallucinations, encountering a child in a neighbor’s garden who claims to have died in Aleppo. As Sally continues to contradict Kate’s memories of what did and didn’t happen during their childhood, Kate begins to doubt herself. Uncertain if these visions are related to PTSD from the horrors she’s seen in Syria or if she is actually in contact with a ghost, she begins to question her own objectivity. Readers will find Ellwood’s debut novel calling to them as they attempt to satisfy their craving for a psychological page-turner worthy of Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train.

All We Shall Know, by Donal Ryan

The author of The Spinning Heart, winner of the Guardian First Book Award and the EU Prize for Literature returns with a new novel about secrets in a small town. Melody Sheen, a 33-year-old tutor, is pregnant by one of her students, a 17-year-old “traveller” boy named Martin Toppy. Immediately abandoned by her equally unfaithful husband, Pat, Melody’s journey in the months leading up to the baby’s arrival involves dealing with unusual bouts of nausea as well as confronting feelings once-buried that begin to resurface — desolation, vindictiveness and remorse. Worst of all, Melody finds herself haunted not just by the fragments of her fraying marriage, but something far worse, her feelings of guilt over the death of her girlhood best friend, Breedie Flynn. Ryan has crafted All We Shall Know with a dark, dispassionate, premeditated cadence, wrenching readers through each revelation with a knifelike twist.

The Stars in Our Eyes: The Famous, the Infamous, and Why We Care Way Too Much About Them, by Julie Klam

Take a wistful foray into the nature of celebrity, how stars are born, and what our culture chooses to celebrate with the The New York Times best-selling author of You Had Me at Woof, Love at First Bark, Friendkeeping and Please Excuse My Daughter. Klam approaches the topic of celebrity with a restrained fanaticism, acknowledging the absurd way fame and the paparazzi pervert both public and private lives — spinning snapshots of stars into the fantasies of mere mortals. Klam doesn’t stop at the pantheon of old and new Hollywood. She approaches the topic of viral video stars, Vine and Instagram personalities. Self-aware and decidedly droll, The Stars in Our Eyes is filled with Cinderella stories, colorful quotes, hearsay tales, and the near-misses of brushes with fame from Quinn Cummings, Harry Shearer, Ringo Starr, Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Jennifer Aniston, Justin Bieber, Mick Jagger, P. Diddy, George Carlin, and Princess Diana, among others

The Almost Sisters, by Joshilyn Jackson

Leia Birch Briggs is a 38-year-old comic book writer and artist with a brand-new book deal and a baby on the way. Commissioned to write and draw an origin tale for one of her characters, she finds her life in synchronicity, embarking on her own coming home story. Leia has a go-with-the-flow attitude — she met her baby’s father at a comic book conven-

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tion and doesn’t remember much about him except that he was dressed as Batman. Now, Leia has to make the announcement to her traditional Southern family. Before she can break the news, she receives word of a complication, the dissolution of her stepsister Rachel’s seemingly happy marriage of 16 years. After they are reunited, the pair sets about cleaning the old Victorian house belonging to their Grandmother Birchie, who suffers from dementia. In the attic they find the relics of a ghastly murder — a secret dating back to the Civil War. Throughout The Almost Sisters, the best-selling author of Gods in Alabama displays the chemistry of her word choice, comedic timing and a discerning eavesdropper’s ear. Children’s Books By Angie Talley

Raymond, by Yann and Gwendal LeBec

Raymond the dog is just your regular family pet until, one day, he thinks, couldn’t he just … sit at the table, go to the movies, get a job, go out for a cappuccino? Soon Raymond begins to leave all his canine ways behind, and so do all the other dogs in town. But is Raymond’s new gig all work and no play? He doesn’t even have time for family dinner! Maybe, just maybe, Raymond misses the dog’s life. Comedic and genuine, this tale about appreciating the simpler things in life reminds us all that work can wait — after all, there are more important things (like getting your ears scratched in just the right place). Ages 3-6.

Summer of Lost and Found, by Rebecca Behrens

When city girl Nell is forced to spend her summer in North Carolina, she becomes involved with the centuries-old mystery of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Her “boring” vacation turns into an adventure she never could have imagined. Ages 10-12.

Refugee, by Alan Gratz

At first seeking to remain invisible to those in power but eventually determined to speak out — to do something — to stand up for human kind, Refugee tells the story of three children: Josef, fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939; Isabel, escaping Castro’s Cuba in 1994; and Mahmoud, seeking refuge from the horrors of Syria is 2015. Alan Gratz, the critically acclaimed author of the N.C. Middle School Battle of the Books title Prisoner B 3087, wildly popular with readers ages 12-16, will be at The Country Bookshop at 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 29. Refugee is available for pre-order and will be published on July 25. Ages 12 and up.

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Saturday with Daddy, by Dan Andreasen

For little elephant, Saturday with Daddy is the best day of the week. With a trip to the hardware store, a cookout in the backyard, Frisbee tossing and an end-ofday nap in the hammock, what could be a better way to spend a day? Ages 2-4. PS

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Hometown

Friendly Confines The local knowledge and pleasures of Knollwood

By Bill Fields

Driving past the sandy parking lot at

photograph COURTESY OF ROBERT H. BROYLES

Knollwood Fairways filled with SUVs and other 21st century models, I easily envision my father’s secondhand Thunderbird or Don Smitherman’s custodial service van from 45 years ago.

Don was one of the cadre of adults I regularly played with at Knollwood, one of my informal but important teachers of golf and life, and when he passed away in 2014 at 80, it tickled me to read up high in his obituary that “golf was a game he truly enjoyed.” He sure did, changing out of his brogans into his golf spikes in a flash, eager as the rest of us to get in a quick nine before dark. Don’s swing was taut and reliable, conjuring Doug Sanders, and he was a savvy golfer who rarely wasted a shot. I don’t think I ever rooted harder for a tour pro than the year Don caddied for Frank Beard at Pinehurst No. 2 in the 1974 World Open, when he lost in a four-man playoff. I’ve been to 48 states and 10 countries as a golf photographer and writer, but none of my travels might have occurred without my formative years around the game at Knollwood Fairways. It’s where I caught the bug, searched for the secret, built calluses and realized that carrying an extendable ball retriever with a rake-like tip was not a good look. The 140-yard first hole seemed like 1,400 yards when I first played it with my starter set of Johnny Palmer signature clubs from Sears, so ominous loomed the water hazard between tee and tiny green with a 3-iron in hand. Knollwood’s compact nine holes — a lighted, nine-hole par-3 also existed before it was eliminated for housing — and practice range was the scene for many of my golf revelations. It was where I made my first par; saw a club pro (Bob Round) hit a tight draw; gasped as a tour pro (Chuck Thorpe) launched one of the early graphiteshafted drivers; watched a boy (who shall remain nameless) mark his ball on

the green with a pine needle; and a man (also nameless) smear Vaseline on his clubface to try to thwart a slice. At Knollwood, I found out what it was like to play for money, marvel as a wedge shot backed up, break 40 for nine holes, hear an idiot in a passing car shout “Fore!” and get hit in the chin with an errant shot (by my father, as his Top-Flite ricocheted off a tree on the fifth hole, fortunately resulting in only a bruise). Thanks to the largesse of pro shop manager Jesse Nelson, who treated me like a son, I helped out in exchange for free range balls, saving myself $1.25 for every large bucket. One of my duties was serving Stewart Sandwiches in the snack bar, ham-and-cheeses, grilled cheeses, or, if someone was splurging, the salami-ham-cheese “Torpedo” hoagie — all infrared-heated in a small magic oven. My best recollection of Knollwood is secondhand. Bob, my brother-in-law, was playing with my father. My dad the high school graduate really enjoyed the company of his biochemist/molecular biologist son-in-law. They bonded at Knollwood trying to figure out the science of a difficult sport, convivial cold beers enjoyed when they were done regardless of score. Despite being a strong swimmer and graceful tennis player, Bob struggled at golf. He swung too fast, and he topped a lot of shots. The par-4 eighth hole, where a pond fronts the tee, was Bob’s nemesis for his semiannual rounds at Knollwood. I think it started psyching him out before he walked past the first of the kinks on the double-dogleg seventh. One afternoon in the early 1970s, before Bob attempted to hit his tee shot over the water on No. 8, Dad tossed him a ball to use. It was imprinted with the logo of Mayflower Movers, a tall ship. A jerky swing, thin shot and predictable result later, my father was on the ground he was laughing so hard. Dad told that story until he died, and Bob tells it still. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent..

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Revenge of the Lawn

Covet not thy neighbor’s grass. Just go hire the right organic lawn care specialist

By Wiley Cash

I’m standing on

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my lawn in Wilmington, North Carolina, recalling the time I heard a mindfulness teacher condense the many years of the Buddha’s teachings into one sentence: Cling to nothing as I, me, or mine. That’s good advice, life-making or life-changing advice depending on when you receive it, but it’s hard advice to follow in my neighborhood, especially as my gaze drifts from the weed-choked, shriveled brown grass at my feet to the lush, pampered golf course-green of my neighbors’ lawns. All around me are weeds I don’t understand, things I’ve never seen before, things I never could have imagined: monstrous tendrils that snake into the air in search of something to strangle; vines covered in thorns and bits of fluff that cling to the skin like the pink fiberglass insulation your dad always warned you not to touch in the attic; scrubby pines no taller than 6 inches with root systems as long as my legs and twice as strong. Roughly 250 miles west sits the city of Gastonia, where I was raised in a wooded suburb that always felt to me as if the houses in the neighborhood of my youth had been forged from the landscape. In my memory, dense forests loom in our backyard, the smell of wood smoke curls through the air, grass looks like grass: thick blades that grow up toward the sun instead of clumping and crawling like desperate snakes wriggling toward prey. Another 100 miles west, nestled in the cradle of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is the city of Asheville, where I grew into adulthood and made the decision to become a writer. This meant I worked odd jobs and lived in relative — if not romantic — poverty throughout my 20s. I inhabited a slew of rental houses with friends of similar ages and similar interests, each house having one thing in common: a wild expanse of unkempt lawn where nature grew in a heady, beautiful

containment — variegated hostas, blue and pink and purple hydrangeas, English lavender and flame azalea. We didn’t water anything or spread fertilizer. The only people who ever cut the grass were the landlords, and that was done sporadically with the weather and season. Yet, it seemed that we could have dug our heels into the black earth and something beautiful would have sprung forth. Down here on the coast my lawn is nothing but sand with a thin skin of sod draped over it. I live in a region where if you buy plants at the garden store, you’d better buy the soil to plant them in. Nothing but the most tenacious, native weeds can survive in this boggy, sandy soil. Some days I have doubts about my own survival. It too often feels like I don’t belong here, but then again, my lawn doesn’t belong here either. Just a few months before we moved in, this landscape was marked by piney swamps dotted with ferns, maples and the occasional live oak. Not long ago, bulldozers plowed through and pushed over all but a few of the pines. Then dump trucks flooded the wet spots with tons upon tons of fill dirt. The developer carved out streets, piled the dirt into 1/4 acre squares, and called them lots. The builder began constructing houses. Finally, landscapers rolled out strips of St. Augustine, punched holes in the ground and dropped cheap shrubs into the earth. My wife and I bought one of the first lots, and there were only a handful of houses in the development when we built ours. We moved in just in time to watch nature attempt to reclaim its domain. We’ve been here almost four years. Now, the streets bubble where swamp water pulses through cracks in the asphalt. The drainage ponds are full of alligators that behave more like residents than those of us who have built homes. At dusk, tiny bloodthirsty flies, what the locals call “no-see-ums,” dance in the night like specters, biting your ears, eyeballs and neck. And then there are the weeds. The canopy of trees is gone now, and the weeds have ample sunlight and plenty of room to spread. I lie in bed at night pondering the use of industrial-strength fertilizers and weed killers, and I weigh their environmental destruction and the health risks they pose my children with the possibility of having a lawn of which I can be proud. I begin to empathize with companies responsible for accidental coalash spills (Everyone wants electricity!) and incidental pesticide contamination (Everyone wants bananas in January!). Deciding to forgo potential carcinogens, at least for now, I appeal to someone who seems expert in all things related to lawns and manhood. Tim lives three houses down and has the most perfect yard in the neighborhood. He’s tan and tall and lean. He could be 40 or 65, the kind of guy who rides his road bike to the beach each day at dawn with his surfboard strapped to his back, the kind of guy

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who looks like Lance Armstrong or Laird Hamilton, depending on whether he’s wearing spandex or board shorts. I find Tim watering his lawn with a garden hose. The rest of us turn on our irrigation systems and hope for the best. Not Tim; he waters like a surgeon. He’s barefoot, and I wonder what it feels like to be able to walk shoeless in one’s yard without feeling the sharp crinkling of dead grass blades beneath your feet. I explain my lawn problems to him, at least insofar as I understand them. He listens with patience, perhaps even sympathy. “Fertilize,” he finally says. “Organic. Commercial. Whatever. It doesn’t matter. And then wait until it rains.” He turns off his garden hose and finds the one weed in his yard that’s apparent to the naked eye: a dandelion that looks more like a flower than any flowers I’ve planted in the past year. Tim reaches down and plucks the dandelion from the earth with the ease of lifting it from a vase. “They come up easier when the ground’s wet,” he said. “Roots and all.” So, early in the spring, I fertilize the yard with liquid corn gluten meal. The air smells like a combination of popcorn and barnyard, but it seems to have enough nitrogen in it to green up the grass. And, after the next rain, I pull weeds. For hours. It works. By early summer my lawn is green and nearly weed-free, but I never get too comfortable. I’m out of town one morning when I text my wife and ask for an update on our lawn. I receive a photo reply within a few minutes. I hesitate to open it the way young people hesitate to open report cards, the way old people hesitate to open medical tests: There’s nothing I can do about it now, I think. To my surprise the photo my wife sent shows a vibrant green lawn dappled with early morning dew. I can’t help but wonder if she’s walked up the street and snapped a picture of Tim’s grass. Regardless, I allow relief to wash over me: The C- I’d been expecting has become a B, the heart disease diagnosis I knew awaited me has ended up being indigestion. Life can go on as long as it rains — but not too much — and the sun keeps shining, but not on the west side of the lawn because there is no shade there, and if we don’t get enough rain the grass will crisp up pretty quick. Late in the summer the grass begins to turn brown in strange semicircles, and when I look closely I can see the individual blades stirring. I kneel down and spot a tiny worm at work. I look closer, spot hundreds, no, thousands more. Our neighborhood has been invaded by armyworms. Instead of spending my time on the novel that’s months overdue, I spend a small fortune coating the grass in organic neem oil. To make myself feel better about not writing I listen to podcasts about writing, but my attempt to stave off writer’s guilt is just as futile as my attempt to fight the armyworms. Our green grass is eaten away within a matter of days; my

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soul follows suit, and I can only hope both will re-emerge come spring. But that spring, something else happens instead. In May, my father is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and the lawn and its calendar of fertilizing and hydrating slips from my mind. He passes two short weeks later, and as I ease into grief the summer spins away from me, and I don’t even look around until August, when my yard comprises more weeds than grass. I’ve missed the opportunity to fertilize, and there’s no amount of safe weed killer that’s going to make a dent. I wait for it to rain. Then I fall to my knees, and I pick weeds. My 2-year-old daughter joins me. Sometimes she’ll yank up fistfuls of grass because it comes up easier than the weeds. I don’t have the heart to correct her, and I can’t help but wonder if she’s on to something. How long would it take us to tear out all this grass and start over? I look at my neighbors’ thriving lawns, and I assume that the pain of death or responsibilities for children or work-related obligations have not touched their lives in the ways they’ve touched mine. If only my life could be as clear and clean and healthy as their lawns appear to be. This year, I decide that I don’t have the patience, the faith, the head space, or the heart space to battle my lawn, and I call a local company that specializes in organic lawn care. I’m surveying the yard when the technician arrives. His name is Steve, and he’s actually the owner, which puts me at ease. He’s middle-aged, clean-shaven with glasses and silvery hair. He speaks quietly, confidently. I can’t help but think that he senses something about me. Perhaps he knows that I’m embarrassed to admit that I can’t do something as simple as grow grass, that I’ve put too much pressure on myself, that things have gone too far, that I’m clinging to something that does not deserve my clinging. In my recollection, he puts a hand on my shoulder. Maybe he even takes my hand. He leads me around the yard, whispering the names of the weeds he finds, the ways in which he can stop them. He tells me it’s not my fault. It’s hard to grow grass in this environment, especially in new neighborhoods like mine where the sod hasn’t had time to take root or an existing organic structure to give it life. And my ground is too hard, he says. It needs to be aerated. It needs to be softened. We agree on a treatment regimen. They’ll start next week, provided it doesn’t rain. “You’re going to have a beautiful lawn,” he says. “You’ll be happy.” “I appreciate that,” I say. “But it’s all yours now.”. PS

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CLASS C WINNERS

1st Place – Jim Brown Rusty Chain

Honorable Mention – Jim Brown Rusty Tears

1st Place – Dave powers Lovely Two Tone from the ’50s

Honorable Mention – Grace Hill Embedded Rake

2nd Place – Donna Ford padlocked

2nd Place – Dave powers Rust Bucket

3rd Place – Bill Bower planting Time 40

Honorable Mention – Steve Hoadley Rusty Screw

3rd Place – Grace Hill Rusty Bucket with Flowers

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“Rust” Competition CLASS B WINNERS

2nd Place – Joanne Sluder Manely perfect

3rd Place – Dale Jennings Spring Has Sprung

1st Place – Teresa Bruni Twisted

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chart in the summer what is the top adult refresher to reach for in the wine world? The Portuguese have a lock on it — Vinho Verde!

Vinho Verde, translating to “green wine” or “young wine,” is Portugal’s day drinking low alcohol quaffer. It can be red, white or rosé, but the majority of what’s sold is the white, and it definitely needs to be consumed in its youth. Vinho Verde is a grape growing region in Portugal with proximity to the Atlantic Ocean and the inland Mediterranean region giving the grapes a lipsmacking saline influence. Practically the entire population grows alvarinho grapes (same as Spanish Albariño) and they are a beautiful and unusual sight to see. The vines are trained to grow in trees or pergolas as a cover crop for vegetables on the ground underneath, protected by the grapes from the pounding sun. Pickers have to mount ladders when it’s time for harvest, and the grapes are usually rushed to a large community cooperative to go through fermentation and get a shot of CO2. There are no oak barrels, no secondary fermentations and no aging. It’s so cheap to grow and produce you will be hard pressed to find a bottle over $11. Generally, they are priced between $7 and $11. This is the wine industry’s gin and tonic for hot weather. With high acidity

the wines are fresh, crisp and fizzy, with great minerality. They are perfectly refreshing on their own, but also make a great food pairing with seafood, especially cold shrimp or seafood salads. Octave Vinho Verde is a new favorite on the market. At about $8, this wine is a tongue tickler with citrus and green apple notes. The bubbles give a great punch, and the color is practically crystal clear. With only 9 percent alcohol, you can treat yourself to a number of glasses. Arca Nova is a rare player in the Vinho Verde region. A family-owned winery, all the grapes are estate grown and picked. There’s a little more going on texturally here and the wine is crisp, fresh and effervescent, with notes of newly cut grass. It’s at the top of the line, selling for about $11, so indulge yourself. Vinhas Altas makes a delicious, pale rosé Vinho Verde from espadeiro grapes. Only 10.5 percent alcohol, this fizzy treat has light notes of strawberries and a pleasant floral quality. At about $8, this is a great match for Asian cuisine and summer salads. Casal Garcia does make a Vinho Verde that goes through a secondary natural fermentation to give it lots of bubbles. Casal Garcia Sparkling Meio Seco is produced from loureiro and avinto grapes. Super refreshing on its own, it’s also the perfect low-cost mixer for a mimosa, coming in at about $7. So, grab the picnic basket, head to the pool or the beach, but don’t forget the cooler of Vinho Verde — it’s a must have summer beverage. 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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degrees outside, we opt for either staying inside with the air-conditioning blasting, or taking a trip to the pool, lake or one of our state’s beautiful beaches. Whenever I have a chance to get away from work and head to the beach (think six years ago), I’ve always been with friends that have plenty of coolers packed with ice, beer and snacks. By snacks, I mean more beer. If liquor was ever involved, it was kept at the beach house. Since then, I’ve become the designated “you’ll make us something, right?” guy. Here are some ideas to get you a quick and easy sunny side cocktail without all the fuss. Caution: Still bring beer. You won’t want to pound these cocktails all day in the sun. Have a few, and then switch. We’re lucky to have a great brewery at Southern Pines Brewing Company, as well as the variety of tasty craft beers at Southern Pines Growler Company. So, grab something to go from them.

Reverie Cocktails Ginger Beer Ginger beer has been all the rage the past few years, and I’m proud that my recipe has found its place in many a bar, restaurant and household. A few months ago, we started offering my ginger beer in growlers at Nature’s Own, and the demand has been pretty amazing; we go through a keg every week. Not bad for a health food store. My ginger beer is non-alcoholic, so it’s perfect for anyone that doesn’t feel like, or can’t, participate in summer drinking festivities. Organic ginger, citrus and cane sugar make this carbonated soda the best tasting one I’ve tried. Grab a few growlers, and make your own Dark n’ Stormys or Jamo and Gingers. You can also stop by the ABC store, and grab a bottle of TOPO Vodka to make a great Moscow Mule. Just make sure you bring some limes.

Moscow Mule 1 1/2 ounces vodka (support local, and grab TOPO) 5 ounces ginger beer (see above) Squeeze of lime Combine all ingredients into a Solo cup packed with ice. They just taste better in plastic cups.

Pineapple-Infused Negroni Spritzers The Negroni is a spirit-forward cocktail. Definitely in my top five favorite drinks of all time, I love having one or two before dinner. With a little spin, you can turn this classic into more of an island-style spritzer. Negronis are typically made with equal parts gin, Campari and sweet

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Modelo Especial Cocktail If you’re like me, and lazy, this is for you. One of my last trips to Wrightsville Beach, my best friend and I came up with this simple beer cocktail. Open a Modelo Especial, take a swig, and then add 1/2 to 3/4 ounce blanco tequila. May I suggest El Jimador, Don Julio or Herradura. Squeeze a lime in it and you’re ready to roll. Two things though: Keep the beer Mexican, and the tequila 100 percent agave and blanco. That’s it. The lazy cocktail. Only have a few of these; they’ve got closing speed. Trust me. PS Tony Cross is a bartender who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern Pines.

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July Blueberries A feast of healthy fruit

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Hope you aren’t hungry. One of the most beloved local fruits is coming into its abundance season this month — rabbiteye blueberries. You should be able to find them in area markets and Community Supported Agriculture boxes, or search them out on a family outing at Sandhills pick-your-owns. This sweet, popular and versatile fruit is loaded with heart-healthy antioxidants, so scarf down a bowl and the health halo remains undiminished. If you’ve been watchful, you might have seen its earlier cousin, the Southern highbush blueberry, as early as June. The Southern highbush are not as common among home growers, being less carefree than the vigorous rabbiteye. Rabbiteye blueberries are one of the easiest fruits for backyard gardeners to grow organically. Best of all, they can blend seamlessly into existing landscapes with a little forethought. To your neighbors, it’s just a nice hedge; to you, it’s an attractive, three-season fruit basket that fills the freezer with highly nutritious and delicious berries. It could be a three-bush “island” in the yard, perhaps

near a sunny driveway or an accent fence. And from a landscaping point of view, what’s not to like? Tiny white pendant bells of flowers in the spring, lush hedging and blueberries in summer, and scarlet leaves in fall, with many remaining for winter. To start your blueberry patch all you need to know is how to prepare your site and which varieties work best around these sandy parts. The rabbiteye blueberry is hardier and tougher than the Southern highbush that our area blueberry farms grow. Rabbiteyes are adaptable and less finicky, so, if it’s your first time, purchase them for the best chance of Sandhills success, and plant from October through March. Though it’s too hot to plant now, preparing a suitable home right now is helpful. Site selection is the first step in growing your bushes. If you have full sun, that’s where they will be the happiest — and a happy blueberry bush is a productive blueberry bush. But if all you have is tall pines and dappled shade for part of the day, fear not. Rabbiteyes will produce a reasonable crop even when grown in part shade — as long as they receive at least four hours of full sunlight each day. Plan for space. Rabbiteye blueberries can sprout into substantial bushes, usually 6-to-8 feet tall and wide. Left unpruned, they might even stretch up to 12-15 feet tall. I usually prune ours shorter after the last berries have been picked each summer, and my 14-year-old bushes mostly remain at waist to chest height. Blueberries need acidic soil to grow well, preferring a soil pH of 4.0 to 5.5. This is lower than many plants will tolerate, even camellias and azaleas. Though our soil is already acidic, you may have to make it somewhat more so. To learn your soil’s pH, take a sample to our local cooperative extension office for free testing. They have kits there, and instructions on how to gather the sample. Samples are sent to the North Carolina Department of Agriculture’s soil testing lab in Raleigh. The results are posted online, usually within three to six weeks. If you need to lower you pH, your local Extension horticulture agent can advise you how to carefully apply sulphur to your soil. They can also help you get the important soil phosphate levels correct.Blueberries prefer a soil with a high organic matter content. Start now by mixing in organic materials such as old leaf compost, pine bark, aged pine sawdust, rotted wood chips or mushroom compost. Organic matter will promote better root growth and better plant survival.

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Buy at least two different named varieties, preferably three or four, for best crops. Rabbiteye blueberries need “friends” to pollinate — another variety must be growing close by to produce fruit. Plant two or more varieties within 100 feet of each other. Choose a wider variety to ensure a longer season. Reliable varieties for our area include “Climax” and “Premier,” two early bearers, ripening in mid-to-late June. “Columbus” and “Onslow” are mid-season bearers, and the lovely, dusty “Powderblue” ripens late in the season, usually from July through early August. Blueberry plants are very shallow rooted. Never plant them deeper than they were growing in the nursery or in the container. Mulch the plants after planting. This keeps soil moisture even, helping them grow and survive our hot summers. Use bark, aged wood chips and pine needles for attractive and helpful mulches. Your new plants are vulnerable, and for the first few seasons, water twice a week if the rains don’t come. Mature blueberry bushes are very productive, and can produce 18-25 pounds of fruit per bush. Six to 10 bushes will provide a family of four all the berries they can eat for fresh use, with a surplus for freezing, jelly or jam — though you may want to plant a couple of extra bushes for the birds. Speaking of birds, I don’t worry about them. We have plenty of bushes at our house, and always more berries than we can eat alone. The birdsong in the mornings as we pick, coffee cup in hand, balances the equation for us. But if your bushes are fewer, there are bird nets you can purchase and drape over the bushes. If you go this route, commit to checking your nets several times a day, as small birds can become entangled, overheat and die. When harvesting rabbiteye blueberries, be aware that the berries turn blue well before they fully ripen. For sweeter fruit, wait 7 to 10 days after berries turn blue to pick. This gives the sugars time to accumulate. From the state Extension website: “When setting out new plants it is recom-

mended that you remove all of the flower buds during the first growing season. In year two, remove weak shoots and attempt to keep four main upright canes. Some flower buds may be kept to produce fruit in year two if the bush put on vigorous growth the previous year. Bushes may be allowed to produce a full crop starting the third growing season.” But on to the good part — eating. Besides fresh eating, you can toss blueberries into many ordinary things: your pancakes, waffles, oatmeal and muffins, your lettuce salads, over cakes, custards, desserts and cheesecake. Extra berries freeze easily, in a single layer on a cookie sheet, then packed away in bags. Other than pie, probably the best known blueberry dessert is cobbler. So let the feasting begin:

Easy Blueberry Cobbler 1/2 cup butter 1 cup self-rising flour 1 cup sugar 1 cup milk 4 cups fresh blueberries Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place butter in an 8-inch square baking dish. Melt butter in the preheating oven, about 5 minutes. Remove from oven. Mix flour, sugar, and milk in a bowl until combined; pour batter over melted butter. Scatter blueberries over batter. Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and cofounder of the Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative.

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“I don’t have GPS.”

The young woman whom I asked for directions to her house sounded startled, even shocked. I could have announced “I don’t wear underwear,” with less reaction.

GPS is my line in the sand. I don’t have it because I don’t need it. I own a functioning brain — not that getting from point A to point B is rocket science. I have experience. Also what used to be called a “sense of direction,” meaning the most-times ability to point north or south, east or west, by looking up, by memory, or by instinct. I figure this might come in handy if the Russians or the Martians capture the satellite that tells folks to turn right at McDonald’s. “So, how do you find places?” she asked. “A map.” Not online maps. Paper maps that convey the bigger picture. A map lays out where you start, where you end, everything in between — especially useful when traveling long distances. A map allows selecting alternate routes, or scenic detours. A map doesn’t malfunction, leaving you lost and desperate, especially in an area lacking cell service. This, like everything else (according to Freud), started in childhood. New York City is laid out on a grid, with numbered streets. A subway map and a modest sense of direction suffice. When I was 10 we moved to Asheville and, for the first time, we had a car. Trips were few but before each my job was to pore over maps (free at gas stations, along with windshield washes) to plot the journey. Once underway, while my parents bickered over this and that, I navigated. What fun! I learned that a legend wasn’t necessarily a folk tale, that highways were represented in different colors according to number of lanes and access, and that one inch represented X number of miles so I could estimate distance with a ruler. How important I felt. At 16 I became both navigator and driver, often alone, on short trips and long. Before leaving I would plot my course and write the steps on white cardboard with black marker, to prop against the dashboard. I still do, whether the distance be 60 miles or 600. When MapQuest happened, I tried it. You wouldn’t believe how often it’s incomplete or just plain wrong, whereas the stars and planets, on a clear night, aren’t. I never got that far but gained new appreciation for explorers who sailed uncharted waters with planetary guidance. Yo, Columbus! Way to go, Marco Polo!

Magnetic compasses weren’t invented until two centuries B.C.; still, you don’t see ancient Egyptians or Greeks wandering around, lost. Getting back to GPS … seems like certain electronics rob us of actions that develop senses and sensibilities. Nowhere is this more evident than at an airport, where 99 percent of passengers are hooked up to one or more devices, thus missing the world’s greatest people-watching. Security personnel warn “See something, say something.” Fat chance. I’d wager Brangelina and their six kids — let alone a suspicious man wearing hoodie and dark glasses, carrying a rifle case — could waltz through LaGuardia unnoticed. Fitbit, the latest must-have, may create an obsession, like people who weigh themselves after every meal. Here, gimme your wrist. I’ll take your pulse, and you can too, with a watch that has a second hand and, after a little experience, not even that. Of course I can’t count your steps, order pizza, spit out text messages or baseball scores. GPS has also withered another skill: giving directions. Few folks estimate distance correctly. “Go about a mile down the road and turn left at the school bus crossing,” was actually less than half a mile with nothing indicating a school bus which, in that neck of the woods, stops at almost every house. Then, “go right at the church on the corner” in a rural area where every corner has one church, sometimes two. Traveling snowy, muddy Vermont backroads I was directed to “take the dirt road at the Y and we’re about five minutes from the burned-out barn.” Five minutes at what speed? I can’t count the times I’ve been directed to turn the wrong way onto a oneway street. Rotaries are impossible: “It’s the second exit not counting the one you’re at.” Compared to these, the classic “bridge too far” seems helpful. “Sense” of direction is different, mostly instinct. Animals travel miles to get home. I once captured a pesky raccoon and relocated him a few miles away, in a lovely wooded area. The next morning, he was, as usual, raiding the bird feeder. Can you retrace your steps, in reverse, in an unfamiliar city? Does your brain automatically absorb and store landmarks? A disturbing study just published indicates that the earliest sign of Alzheimer’s might be disorientation and inability to navigate familiar environs. We are told the importance of keeping the brain alert as we age. Maybe that means besides watching Jeopardy! we shouldn’t delegate common functions to electronic surrogates. Not that they’re all bad. Heaven knows, without the horn beeper on my car key I’d be walking home from the supermarket just about every day. But at least I’d know which way to walk. 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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What does that mean? It means that America got its freedom from England on July 4th, 1776 — and citizens have been celebrating ever since. Once a year. Gosh, that was a long time ago. You bet. Did anything change for dogs after 1776? Naw. Same old stuff. Good owners; bad owners; some in-between.

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What was wrong with England? They had a king — and since we were part of England, he was our king. What was wrong with that? Well, nothing as long as the king was a good king. If he was a bad one, like the 1776 one was — I think his name was Louis the 15th — then bad things happened to people and dogs because they didn’t have a chance to say what they wanted or needed. See, with a bad king, somebody could come into your owner’s house and shoot you and the king wouldn’t do anything about it. Really? That’s right, but then when America got free, Americans, under the Founding Fathers, made a lot of rules that were better than the rules in England. Like what? Well, if somebody goes into somebody’s house in America and shoots a dog then the police goes and gets the shooter, arrests him and then the justice system makes things right.

Really? Oh, yes. Who pays for that? Well, the dog owner pays for that, of course. The dog owner has to buy property insurance to protect against the unwarranted and surprising destruction of a citizen’s property — like if somebody breaks in a human being’s house or steals a car, all that. Really? Oh yes. It’s done with something called “insurance.” Since nobody makes humans buy property they have to pay the policeman — on each policeman visit — a “co-pay.” Somewhere between 15 and 90 dollars. Then insurance, bought by the citizen, pays the rest. Sometimes an employee might pay part of it somehow, something called Propertycaid. But the protection of a human’s property is a human’s responsibility in the end, so they pay for that protection out of their own pocket — it’s not a “right.” But wouldn’t everybody want to pitch in and help everybody else take care of their property? Like a big community where everybody looks out for everybody else. So that the police could be free? Maybe paid by taxes? Oh no. Protection of property is not a right, it’s privilege that people must pay for individually — or in groups. I don’t get it. What about when a germ invades a human’s body — why shouldn’t people have to buy their insurance for that? Something like health insurance. Humans can’t predict if a germ is going to ruin their health or if cancer will invade their body. They pay taxes to take care of that kind of stuff — we band together as a community to take care of that since health is more important than property. That’s why health care is free and police protection is not. Or is it the other way around? Hmmmm. Let me think. Surely property is not considered more protectable than health. Oh well, just be happy that since July 4th is over we don’t have to worry about all that human noise until next year. And we don’t have to worry about bad kings anymore either, thank goodness. PS Clyde Edgerton is the author of 10 novels, a memoir and most recently, Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers. He is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNCW.

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The Galloping Stroller What is it we will tell our toddlers? Don’t run!

By Renee Phile

One Saturday morning a few

Julys ago, Kevin, then around 3 years old, and I decided to walk to downtown Southern Pines. By “walk,” I mean I walked and pushed him in his stroller with one wobbly wheel, a stroller I am pretty sure he had outgrown anyway since his head hit the top and his feet scraped the pavement. Still, he insisted on “taking a wide.” We stopped at the farmers market for some cucumbers, green peppers and tomatoes, and then wobbled on over to our main destination, the park.

Kevin played in the sand, while I parked myself on a bench. An hour or so passed and my stomach started growling. Kevin continuously slid down the big metal slide that stung his legs, since it was so hot. Right after he landed with a thump in the sand, he brushed himself off, ran back up the ladder to the scorching hot slide and started again. After watching him go up and down around 37 times, I decided I was starving, but not enough to break out the cucumbers and green peppers I had in the stroller. I told him he had five minutes, which turned into 17 since he had this ritual of saying goodbye to each part of the park he had come in contact with. “Goodbye swing. Goodbye yellow slide. Goodbye ’nother swing. Goodbye little slide that goes reaw fast.” After every piece of playground equipment and the sand, yes, the sand, heard Kevin’s goodbyes, I loaded him in the stroller and we started back to our house. We lived probably a mile from the park, so it was a good 15-20 minute walk. Usually good. After about five minutes, my stomach reminded me that I didn’t have much more time before I turned into an evil, hungry human. I decided to jog and push Kevin’s stroller. After all, I had seen other people run while pushing a stroller. Now, I know his stroller had one wall-eyed wheel and was not an officially sanctioned “running/jogging stroller,” but I still decided to give it a shot.

I took off in a trot and he scraped his feet on the pavement — a definite drag on our progress. “Put your feet up, Kevin!” He did for a minute, and I ran, er, jogged the best I could. The stroller was hard to maneuver, but would work OK for a minute before a rock or dent in the road hampered our mission. “Go faster, Mommy!” the foot-dragger squealed. At this point, I was feeling pretty good. Confident. Upbeat. I thought I must look really cool to all the cars passing by. Surely they would think, “Wow, there’s a woman running with her son in the stroller . . . in this heat too . . . she must be dedicated . . . wait, why are his feet hanging out like that? Is that a child or a teenager in that stroller? Hmmm . . . awkward.” Then, I tripped over a rock or maybe a stripe painted on the road, or maybe my own feet. And fell. HARD. Face down. On the pavement. Kevin squealed. The car that just passed us squealed. “Are you OK?” an extremely handsome military-looking guy yelled out his window. “Yes, just fine, thank you,” I murmured, utterly embarrassed, avoiding eye contact, pebbles imprinted in my forehead. “Are you sure?” “Yes, thank you.” The car sped off and I stood up too quickly and blacked out for a few seconds and sat back down on the pavement again. “Mommy! What’s wrong?” Kevin cried. I couldn’t answer or get up for a minute or so. I felt like I was going to throw up, and the trees above me were spinning. I had the stroller whirlies. Finally, the haze diminished enough that Kevin and the stroller and I could wobble the last half mile back to the house. My ankle and face were killing me and sweet 3-year-old Kevin, clearly a bit traumatized, kept asking if I had died and come back to life — which I eventually did, as a cheese quesadilla. So, do not think you’re cool running in the summer heat, showing off mad skills you don’t possess with a shaky stroller filled with farmers market vegetables and an overgrown 3-year-old. The hot slide is the cooler option. PS Renee Phile loves being a mom, even if it doesn’t show at certain moments.

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It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane!

Nope, that reddish, winged creature in the garden is a hummingbird moth By Susan Campbell

I am waiting — just waiting for the first

call to come in from someone who has seen a “baby hummingbird.” Although this is the time when young ruby-throateds are appearing at feeders and flowers across the state, the first report of the year is usually from a very puzzled observer. Not only has he or she spotted a very small hummer, but it looks to be of another species: The color pattern is very different. So, what is it?

The answer is always the same: It is not a hummingbird at all, but a moth. Indeed, these insects hover to feed from brightly colored flowers and appear to have a long bill but they are insects. The obvious give-away is the long antennae. But on such a small, fast flier the antennae — and three pairs of legs — are easily overlooked. The odd behavior and body coloration are what grab one’s attention. The confusion is so common that many bird identification guides depict these moths on the same page alongside the details for ruby-throated hummingbirds. Here in the North Carolina Piedmont and Sandhills, we have at least three kinds of so-called hummingbird moths all of which are in the Sphingidae family. Two are “clearwing” moths: the hummingbird clearwing and the hummingbird hawk moth. We also have white-lined sphinx moths in late summer. They are all exclusively nectivorous feeding, and they like the very same blooms that hummingbirds frequent. With their long proboscises, they can reach down into the tubular flowers of impatiens, fuchsias, and assorted salvias, just to name a few.

The clearwings are named for the transparent midsection of their wings. The rest of the body is frequently reddish but may be a shade of blue. They are active during the day, flitting from plant to plant in search of a sweet meal. Typically clearwings are not intimidated by human activity; probably because four-legged mammals do not prey on moths in our area. That means one can usually approach these beautiful creatures very closely. If you have the patience as well as a fast shutter speed, you may be able to get some excellent shots of these photogenic insects. Sphinx moths are large, striking and interesting moths. And unlike the clearwings, they are creatures of the night. They can be abundant at the very same flowers hummingbirds use during the day. But most people are totally unaware of their existence given their nocturnal habits. It is the caterpillar of this group that is more familiar. Typically called a hornworm (given the yellowy head projections), they are voracious pests on a variety of plants such as tomatoes, peppers, eggplant and tobacco. However, not only are the adult sphinx moths eaten by bats and small owls but as caterpillars, hornworms are sought out by tiny Braconid wasps. The eggs of the wasp develop under the skin of the caterpillar. Once they pupate, they attach themselves externally and are mistakenly thought to be the eggs of yet more caterpillars. When gardeners find caterpillars in this state, they are no longer a threat to the plants, with very little time to live. So keep your eyes peeled around the yard this summer. You may be lucky enough to spot one of these “baby hummers” hovering among the blooms! PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos at susan@ncaves.com.

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A Reunion of Memories The beach brings them all back

By Tom Bryant

Over the last 10 years I’ve become

somewhat of a specialist in setting up our little Airstream in preparation to camp. I don’t care how many times I’ve done it, I still have to refer to my mental checklist or I could leave out something important, and invariably, it will come back to bite me. It’s fun, though, and sometimes I remind myself of the dad in the holiday classic A Christmas Story, when he was timing himself while changing a tire on the old family Dodge. My record, from start to finish, including connecting to electric and water and lowering the stabilization jacks, is 20 minutes. I’ve yet to break that record, but every new campground offers me a new challenge. On our last early summer trip to Huntington Beach State Park in South Carolina, I thought I’d broken the record, but Linda, my bride, reminded me that the awning wasn’t out, and in the summer, that’s part of the contest. So the 20-minute record still stands. We were camped on a site right across from a huge grassy field surrounded by live oaks. The sites along the edge of the field were filled to the brim with four large tow-behind campers surrounded by a bunch of kids who appeared to be from 6 to 12 years of age, all supervised by young parents. After I put the awning out, I grabbed a couple of folding chairs from the Cruiser and a cold drink from the fridge and kicked back to watch the doings right across the campground road. They were having fun. The kids were running from here to yonder, riding bikes, pulling wagons and, in general, having a great time. I called to Linda, who was still inside sorting stuff that we had let ride on the bed coming down

from Southern Pines. “Hey, Babe, come on out here and watch this. See what it reminds you of.” Linda made herself some lemonade and joined me under the awning. “Wow, look at all those kids,” she exclaimed. “I tried to count them, but the way they’re moving, it’s like trying to count new puppies in a box. What does it remind you of?” “When we were young and used to rendezvous at the beach with your family.” I agreed, and we watched for a while as the adults restored some order, and they all packed up and headed to the beach. They had a little convoy of youngsters and wagons packed with beach umbrellas, games, snacks and a couple of the youngest children. “There was a bunch of us, but I don’t believe we ever had as many as those folks across the road.” We talked and reminisced about the vacations when we would meet at the beach with my mother and dad, brother and sisters and all our children. We did that for years until the kids got married and started having their own children. Eventually, the numbers became unmanageable, even with two houses. Nowadays when we get together we do so in a more sedate fashion. “I miss our family beach trips,” Linda said. “I wish we could do it again, but I know it’s impossible. Everybody’s spread out all over the country.” “Yeah, I even miss the big family reunions we used to have on the farm. Do you remember the year we had the last one?” “No, it was so long ago. It’s getting late. I guess I’d better start supper. How about tuna salad?” “That’s good for me. Can I help?” Linda replied that she had it under control and went into the little Airstream. I sat and watched as sea gulls soared at treetop level out toward the ocean. I tried to remember the last big family get-together on the old plantation and couldn’t. When my grandparents were alive, we had them every five years. After our last reunion, I put together a few observations of the extended family gatherings, and Mom used them on the back of a brochure she had printed with the addresses of relatives. Those descriptions from long ago help me remember those wonderful times: — Cars with license plates from all over the country parked in the front yard.

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— Everyone greeting one another and trying to talk at once. — Older folks trying to figure out whose son or daughter you are. — Kids running through the big house, slamming the front screen door. — Brothers, sisters and cousins remembering past reunions when Uncle Jim and Uncle Fred played tricks on each other. — New babies showing up every year. Older faces missing. —The old house reverberating with laughter from family members who have been separated too long. — Kids swinging each other in the long rope swing that’s tied to the ancient pecan tree. — Different members of the family setting up lawn chairs under the huge oaks trying to catch the noon breeze, while a few diehards suffer the heat on the long rain porch. — Ladies in the kitchen preparing food for the buffet tables in the dining room, and people everywhere catching up on family news. — And at last, dinner, after a blessing thanking the Almighty for everything that’s good. — Relatives trying to eat a little of everything from Uncle Tom’s barbecue to Aunt Sylvia’s pound cake. Covered dishes everywhere with food galore. — Babies and old folks napping in the shade of the giant oak trees after a memorable old-fashioned dinner and more talking about family and friends and family history. — And as the day slowly wanes, family members gather children and belongings, and after hugging and kissing everybody, climb into their cars and head back home. — Finally, the house grows quiet again, and it seems as if the ghosts of reunions past walk the old halls smiling.

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A strong breeze came off the ocean and I could smell rain. Cumulus clouds inland began to grow darker, and faraway grumbles of thunder could be heard. I began to batten down chairs and tables in anticipation of a summer storm. Down the little camp road, I spotted the folks from across the way coming back from the beach. They were laughing and shouting to one another and as happy as only a young energetic bunch can be. It was catching. I smiled as I watched the adults herd the children to where they needed to go, then take a much needed breather in chairs pulled into a circle around a fire ring. It was a pleasure watching them have fun. Good folks, I thought. They’ve got a lot of living to do. I wish them well. PS Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident, is a lifelong outdoorsman and PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist.

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The Tale of Henri Picard

The classy star of the Great Depression who helped shape the modern game

By Lee Pace

Henry Picard

Photograph courtesy of the Tufts archives

was 25 years old and one year into his position as head golf professional at the Country Club of Charleston in 1931 when the Great Depression choked the club and forced it to tell Picard it could no longer afford his salary. Picard had five dollars cash in his pocket one day when he went to his 1934 North & South bank to make a withdrawal and found a sign on the door: “Closed Indefinitely.”

Picard, a Massachusetts native who learned golf as a caddie at Plymouth Country Club, was tall at 6-foot-3, impeccably dressed and well-mannered. He patterned his golf swing after Bobby Jones and was known as a particularly adept long-iron player. He and his wife, Annie, were expecting their first child in the fall of ’31, and some kindhearted benefactors at the club stepped up to say they’d pay him based on his golf scores — $5 for even-par, $10 for one-under and so on. So “Pic,” as he was known to the members and his fellow golf pros, at a young age learned the pressure of parlaying good golf scores into food for his family. He responded with aplomb and his game blossomed in 1932. He won the Charlotte Open at Charlotte Country Club in September and beat Walter Hagen by 10 shots in a playoff for the Carolinas Open in Greensboro in October. “Pic is the pick of the pack,” the always quotable Hagen said after getting whipped in Greensboro. He told Picard privately, “Nice work, kid. You can be one of the greatest golfers in the world if you work hard on your game.” Picard then tied Al Watrous and Al Houghton in the Mid-South Open,

played in mid-November at Pinehurst No. 2. It was a one-day, 36-hole affair, and Picard seemed well on his way to victory until he double-bogeyed the 11th and three-putted 17 in the afternoon round. He hung on for the first-place tie and made an impression on Donald Ross, the golf architect and manager of the Pinehurst golf operation. “He has everything,” Ross said, “the strength of youth, the temperament, a sound swing, and above all a beautiful putting stroke that is as good in practice as it is in theory.” Several days later, Picard returned home to Charleston for an exhibition with Hagen on his home course. He shot a 73 to beat the wily veteran by three strokes. “That boy is a beautiful golfer,” Hagen said. “He is going to go somewhere.” Indeed he did, and he did so in the most curious of times — during the Depression and into the early years of World War II. Picard essentially retired from regular travel on the pro tour in 1942 to spend time with his wife and four children and settle into club pro jobs, the most noteworthy of which were at Canterbury in Cleveland in the summer, and Seminole in Palm Beach in the winter. “Money and fame, they never meant a damn to me,” he said. To say Picard’s timing was off is to put it mildly. He won the fifth Masters in 1938 — but before they gave green jackets to the champions. He had 26 career wins on the PGA Tour — more than Johnny Miller, Gary Player, Raymond Floyd, Hale Irwin, Greg Norman and Ben Crenshaw. But few recognize the name, and one national wire service account of his win in Augusta in 1938 added a “k” to his last name, spelling it “Pickard.” “A lot of people told me, ‘He was the Tiger Woods of his day,’” son Larry Picard said in 2007. “I pooh-poohed that away. But he really was. He didn’t play full-time until ’35, and won that many tour events during that time. That’s a stretch like Woods had.” Picard won the North and South Open at Pinehurst in 1934 and ‘36 and during one sizzling stretch from 1934-35, broke or matched par in 51 of 54 tour-

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naments. He beat Bryon Nelson in the final of the 1939 PGA Championship, played then at match play, and qualified for four Ryder Cups and was the leading money winner in 1939. “At that time, he was probably the best of them all,” Sam Snead said. “Henry has the best swing in golf,” golf writer Herb Wind offered. Picard, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2006, had a major influence on three young golfers who would also go on to Hall of Fame careers. Sam Snead was his first mentoring project. Snead was in his early 20s when he asked Picard if he should give pro golf a try. Picard said that Snead was in fact good enough and arranged for Dunlop to sign Snead to its playing staff, giving him a set of clubs, a dozen balls a month and $500 a year. In early 1937, Snead was haunted by a whippy-shafted driver, and on the practice range at the Los Angeles Open, Picard gave him a stiffshafted Dunlop driver. “God, this thing is good,” Snead said. “Keep it, it’s yours,” Picard responded. One week later, Snead won his first tournament, the Oakland Open. He used the club for 20 years. “See, one trouble I was having was with my driving,” Snead told author Al Barkow in Getting to the Dance Floor. “I had a whippy-shafted driver I couldn’t control. The driver I got from Picard had a stiff shaft, and my driving improved 40 percent right there.” Another protégé was Ben Hogan — first with a financial endorsement and second with a grip change. Picard was traveling to the West Coast in early 1938 when he ran into Hogan and his wife, Valerie, having lunch in a Fort Worth hotel. The Hogans were lamenting their financial strife — this before Hogan’s powder keg of talent had exploded — and Hogan was not sure he was going to make the West Coast swing. Picard told Hogan he was good enough to win and that if he got stranded in California with no money, he’d help Hogan out. The Hogans made the trip and, buoyed by the safety net of Picard’s offer, Ben played well enough to collect good checks at Oakland and Sacramento and continued grinding his way from town to town. Two years later, Hogan approached Picard on the practice tee at the Miami-Biltmore and lamented the hook that appeared at the worst times. Picard said he could fix that “in five minutes” and adjusted Hogan’s grip to a slightly weaker position, helping take the left woods and water out of play. Later that spring, Hogan won his first pro tournament, the North and South at Pinehurst, then went to Greensboro and Asheville and won those two tournaments.

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He was off and running and, years later, dedicated his instruction book to Picard. “Henry is a very fine man, and I was fortunate to have enjoyed his company and friendship,” Hogan said. “That offer from Pic meant more to me than all the money in the world, because he told me I could play golf and win, and I needed encouragement at that point.” Picard retired from Canterbury in 1973 and returned to Charleston, where he played golf at the Country Club of Charleston and gave occasional lessons there and at a public facility nearby. One golfer of interest was a teenager named Beth Daniel, who had taken formal lessons from Charleston pros Al Esposito and then from Derek Hardy, whom Daniel credits for turning her swing from a flattish plane to a more upright move suitable for the 5-foot-11 inch frame she sprouted into early in high school. But when Picard arrived on the scene, Daniel was 17 years old and her mechanics were pretty well set. Picard helped her with the nuances. Once he surreptitiously replaced her rock-hard and long-running Top-Flite balls in her bag with softer Titleists and told her, “If you’re going to be a good player, you’ve got to play a good ball.” Picard might see Daniel one afternoon on the course and ask a question about shaping a shot or visualizing a greenside recovery, then ask for the answer 24 hours later. “If I was wrong, he’d give me the correct answer,” she says. “If I was right, he’d nod and say ‘Thank you’ and keep walking. I didn’t realize it at the time, but what he was doing was helping me become a shotmaker.” Daniel won two U.S. Women’s Amateurs, 33 LPGA Tour events and was inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame in 2000. Henry Picard was among those she acknowledged for a helping hand back in her formative days. “I don’t feel like he ever gets enough credit, but he was the kind of guy that didn’t promote himself,” she says. “He gave it up for his family. But I remember him well. He was quite the figure at the Country Club of Charleston, tall and handsome, always wearing his cotton dress shirt and tie, even in the 100-degree heat.” The PGA Championship returns to North Carolina this summer, Quail Hollow in Charlotte the venue. What a shame that most of the players competing for a first prize in the neighborhood of $2 million would look at Henry Picard in his white shirt and tie and say, “Waiter, bring me another drink.” PS Chapel Hill writer Lee Pace is working on a book about the Country Club of Charleston and its well-known progeny like Picard and Daniel. The book will be published in early 2019.

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North Carolina State Toast Here’s to the land of the long leaf pine, The summer land where the sun doth shine, Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow great, Here’s to “Down Home,” the Old North State! Here’s to the land of the cotton bloom white, Where the scuppernong perfumes the breeze at night, Where the soft southern moss and jessamine mate, ’Neath the murmuring pines of the Old North State! Here’s to the land where the galax grows, Where the rhododendron’s rosette glows, Where soars Mount Mitchell’s summit great, In the “Land of the Sky,” in the Old North State! Here’s to the land where maidens are fair, Where friends are true and cold hearts rare, The near land, the dear land, whatever fate, The blessed land, the best land, the Old North State! Photograph by Tim Sayer of the oldest longleaf pine tree

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Weymouth Woods is home to the oldest longleaf pine in America — heck, maybe the entire world. Oh, the history that big ol’ pine tree has witnessed. Photographs by Tim Sayer

o, what do you get someone who just turned 469? It’s not as simple as when Robert Wuhl walks to the mound in Bull Durham and advises his players that “well, uh . . . candlesticks always make a nice gift.” At 469 it’s probably time to downsize, not accumulate more stuff. Besides, when the oldest longleaf pine started growing in the back 40 of Weymouth Woods, baseball hadn’t even been invented. OK, it may not be the oldest longleaf pine anywhere but it’s the oldest one that’s been measured and it’s right here and, well, 469 is still 469 no, matter how you, excuse the expression, cut it. When this thing started growing Shakespeare wasn’t even a twinkle in Falstaff’s eye. It started sprouting 39 years before the Lost Colony got lost and has hung around long enough to have its own GPS coordinates. It was hail and hearty 170 years before Blackbeard got blown out of the water; 225 years before the ladies of Edenton threw their own revolutionary tea party; 317 years before Sherman marched through; 355 years before the Wright brothers got airborne on the Outer Banks; 366 years before Babe Ruth got his nickname in Fayetteville; and 447 years before the Carolina Panthers got beat in their very first game by the Atlanta Falcons, in overtime, of course. In lieu of gifts, we arranged a small, intimate gathering. These are just a few of the invited guests this ancient tree could have impacted over the centuries, if only it had the chance.

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Sir Isaac Newton Who says Newton was inspired by an apple falling in his mother’s garden in their home in Lincolnshire, England? The mathematical genius never wrote about it, though accounts of him mentioning apples and trees and whatnot to a friend do exist. As the cantankerous old boy aged, it seems the apple anecdote was polished just a bit more with each successive telling. We, however, think it’s just as likely one of the most famous eureka moments in science could have been inspired by a falling pine cone. Eddie Meacham, who has been dealing in the laws of man for 33 years rather than the laws of physics, took a lunch break from Van Camp, Meacham & Newman PLLC to get hit on the head.

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Legend has it the young, beautiful, widowed seamstress convinced General George Washington that the five-pointed star was easier to cut and stitch than the six-pointed one the powdered wig set had in mind. However, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing in the historical record to indicate that the pine cone had been definitively ruled out. Betsy was just one of several Philadelphia flag makers but, thanks to her grandson about 100 years after the Declaration of Independence, she grabbed all the old glory. Melissa Murphy, a local seamstress whose business, Banana Peels, makes hooded towels, burp rags, bibs, etc., provided a stitch in time for us. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll leave it to her grandson to embellish the tale in a century or so.

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Betsy Ross

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Glasses from Oscar Oglethorpe eyewear, Greensboro, NC

For those who haven’t had their fill of Russian fiddling just yet, Rimsky-Korsakov was a naval officer, a card-carrying member of The Mighty Handful (Russian composers known as The Five) and the creator of the “Flight of the Bumblebee,” which is the fastest minute in music on the 19th century side of Prince. Mac Wood, a Scotland County native who had a distinguished seven-and-a-half year military career of his own and is a massage therapist at Sandhills Therapeutic Effects, managed to keep his bow from setting his beard on fire when we slowed the pace just a little to the Flight of Pine Beetle. Or maybe it should be Pine Beatle.

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Painting by Meridith Martens

Vincent Van Gogh Oh, sure, he’s done wheat fields and crows and starry nights and sunflowers, but we’re pretty sure, hidden away in someone’s basement, are his masterful series of pine tree paintings, every bit as hauntingly aching and tortured as a bunch of irises. This bit of pulp fiction would be grist for the mill of the anguished artistic soul. Our photographer Tim Sayer has stepped into the role for us. We could tell you how he managed to both take the picture and be in the picture but, then, we’d have to cut your ear off. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2017

The Embers As a card-carrying senior member of a forest of longleaf pine that once covered 90 million acres from Sandhills to Coastal Plain, why wouldn’t there be a place for a little beach music and some shagging at a summer party? Michael Gibson, Adam Smith, Sam Schneiderman and Reed Taws stand in as The Embers to give us a controlled burn.

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Steve Jobs Because he was on an all-fruit diet? That’s why a company worth something in the neighborhood of $750 billion — started in a garage by three guys, one of whom was a notoriously difficult human being who wore black mock turtlenecks, Levi 501s and New Balance jogging shoes — is named for a fruit? Surely, Pine cone would have been an equally good option. Brady Beck, North Carolina’s Southern Piedmont management biologist and a nature photographer, shows why there is absolutely no reason we’re not all talking on our iCones today. PS

First in Film The Founders highlights a new Sandhills festival By Jim Moriarty

t may not be the seismic shift that occurred when talkies came to town in 1929, but when the curtain goes up on Tar Heel Shorties, a one-day film festival on July 8 at the Sunrise Theater, it will have the same kind of ground floor appeal. The festival is being curated by Dan Brawley, the director of the enormously successful Cucalorus Film Festival now in its 23rd year in Wilmington. Cucalorus already has one satellite festival, Surfalorus, in its sixth season in Dare County, and Brawley, also the president of the international organization Film Festival Alliance, hopes to find the same kind of traction in the Sandhills he found in the surf. “There are so many talented young filmmakers in North Carolina,” says Brawley. “If we develop this properly over the next several years, we could be drawing students from every university. The barriers to making really high quality films have all vanished. The history of Cucalorus is all about being deeply connected to local creators and then bringing people in from the outside and making connections. That’s what we’re really trying to do, cultivate creative talent, make connections with other creative talent and then, it’s sort of off to the races.” Tar Heel Shorties will begin at 5 p.m. with a “shorts block.” There will be a meet-and-greet party from 6 to 7:30 p.m. followed by a full-length feature, the recently released film about the 13 founding members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association, titled The Founders. The producer and director of The Founders, Charlene Fisk, will be one of the artists in attendance. Brawley’s selection of films, beginning with The Founders, is tailored to the community. He spun through 690 shorts in the Cucalorus database to winnow the selection down to between eight and 11. One of them will be What It Was, Was Football, by Duncan Brantley, a short from Cucalorus’ third season incorporating the famous Andy Griffith routine. “It’s funny, funny, funny stuff,” says Brawley. “An essential part of the film festival experience is going to see a shorts block. For one, you see the directors who will be famous in 10 years. You also see the art form developing and evolving in front of

your eyes. You’ll see something clever or innovative that’s really groundbreaking in a short film, then four years later it’s in a feature film. The short films this year are either by kids or about kids, a very familyoriented block.” Bringing the festival to the Sandhills is something of a homecoming for Brawley. He has an uncle in Southern Pines, but more than that, the ’96 Duke University graduate spent a couple of summers boarding at the Pine Crest Inn. Slight of build with flyaway red hair and a beard and mustache that could slip undetected into any artists’ co-op, he was the No. 2 player on the golf team behind longtime PGA Tour veteran Joe Ogilvie. “I’d wake up every morning and I’d walk over to the country club and practice with my golf coach, Eric Alpenfels,” says Brawley, of his pine Crest days. “I’d head back there at night. I’d have dinner in the dining room. I knew all the waitresses. I’d play solitaire in the corner of the lobby every night.” And, as a bonus, he made a small fortune hustling tourists chipping golf balls into the fireplace. Obviously, The Founders is a film with deep roots in the Sandhills. While the LPGA doesn’t officially acknowledge Peggy Kirk Bell as being among the original 13, the founders themselves all viewed her as No. 14. Mrs. Bell appears in a lot of the movie’s archival footage. “There were two or three things that we had to lose in the film that we labored over,” says Fisk. “No. 1 was Peggy Kirk Bell. The remaining founders all

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have that same respect for her and include her in that group. She’s so important. After Karrie Webb saw the film, the one thing she brought up was Peggy.” At the time of the film’s making there were four living founders and, naturally, the movie focuses on them, with Babe Zaharias and Patty Berg as stars in absentia. “The first person I called was Louise Suggs,” says Fisk of the project’s genesis. “She said, ‘Who are you and why are you making this film?’ She just read me the riot act, and when I got off the phone I kind of was in tears. I can’t do this. They obviously don’t want to do it. She was very protective of the story. I called Marilynn Smith next and she’s Miss Personality and she had the exact opposite reaction. ‘Oh, my gosh, honey, we’ve been wanting to tell the story. I can’t believe you want to talk about it.’ That was the beginning. Five years later, we’re releasing it.” While it s form is documentary, with all the reality that implies in the interviews, the movie captures the sheer determination of a group of young women and the drama of the all-too-human jealousies. The archival footage alone is a treasure for golf fans, but the storytelling lends the narrative its universal appeal. “To get all this archival content was the most impossible task,” says Fisk. There were five women putting the film together working out of Fisk’s Atlanta loft. They started with the USGA, went through the families of the founders, then on to the families of other players. “We were getting boxes of stuff people had never even looked at. Boxed up in garages and basements. We went and got old vintage projectors. It was like Christmas every time we’d get a box. That opening shot of that swinging golfer, that was a film reel that Betty Hicks’ family sent us. The footage of Babe sticking her face in the camera is from Bonnie Bell. It was kind of crazy that these 30-year-old women could be so elated by footage of these women from the ’50s.” Getting things off the ground, whether it be Tar Heel Shorties or The Founders, is never easy. “We would have no money,” Fisk recalls. “I would be super frustrated. We were just hitting wall after wall after wall. One day one of the writers, Dana Lee, said, ‘You know what, we’re just like the founders. Nobody helped them. They had to keep doing it and doing it and doing it. They did it because they believed in it. Don’t forget. That’s why you’re doing it.’” Now, it’s at a theater near you. PS Jim Moriarty is senior editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com.

Saturday, July 8

Tar Heel Shorties Film Festival

The Private Life of a Cat /Iris Monahan In 1947, Alexander Hammid (the 5 p.m. – Shorts Block: cinematographer husband of the famous experimental filmmaker Maya Deron) made a Swimlapse / Eddie Schmit silent documentary chronicling his cat having In the shadow of a chilling accident, a young kittens. Fifty years later, Iris Monahan and her lifeguard struggles to return to work while teach- dad Dave added cat voices, funky music, and a ing a reluctant girl to swim. few laughs. Sugar / Kristin Pearson An animated collage of the futility of a good night’s sleep. Courtesy Call / Jim Haverkamp A free agent for decency tries to reach out and touch someone – usually, someone who doesn’t like to be touched. Ignite / Christopher Zaluski Ron Killian has big art dreams. On the brink of age 50, he’s worried that time may be running out. As a way to reinvent himself, he has created a new art medium using fire. He now spends his days inside his Asheville, N.C., bungalow burning canvas, paper and paint, creating unique pieces that the world may never see. What it Was, Was Football / Duncan Brantley A naïve country preacher accidentally finds himself at a football game. He has no idea what he is seeing, but describes it as best he can. A visual recreation of Andy Griffith’s classic radio comedy routine. Bernerd / Marshall Johnson Bernerd, the controlled burn spokesman, is here to teach us about fire safety. Unfortunately he’s lost his way and now his method mostly involves a trail of lit cigarettes and smoldering ruins. Come with Bernerd as he teaches one family the importance of random fire.

Acito on the Mound / Shawn Lewallen The spirit of baseball lives on long after players leave the field. A visit to the pitching mound after saying goodbye to a friend brings back memories of a rough game. 6 p.m. – Meet & Greet with Attending Filmakers 7:30 P.M. – Feature Film The Founders They were not supposed to be athletes. They were not supposed to get paid to play. They were not supposed to call the shots. But in 1950, 13 amateur women golfers battled society, finances and sometimes even each other to create the Ladies Professional Golf Association.

The W izard of Pinehurst Sandhills’ Renaissance man Rassie Wicker

t was accepted as Gospel in Pinehurst that Rassie Wicker’s ability to perceive, study and comprehend the world around him bordered on the supernatural. Hardly any subject escaped his quest for knowledge. He seemed to understand everything and could fix anything. That was until July 22, 1944, when the War Department message dreaded by every serviceman’s family arrived. The telegram said that Lt. Jim Wicker, Rassie’s 23-year-old son, had been missing in action since July 7, barely a month after the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy. A veteran of 27 bombing missions over Germany, Jim had been lost over Holland when the B-17 Flying Fortress he co-piloted collided in mid-air with another B-17. Most of the 10-man crew had perished. Jim and two enlisted men were unaccounted for. Home on leave seven months earlier, Jim married Nancy Richardson, his high school sweetheart and the daughter of Pinehurst’s postmaster. It was the young bride who shared the news of the War Department’s wire with Rassie, his wife, Dolly, and Jim’s sister Eloise, casting the twin clouds of fear and uncertainty over the entire family. Rassie was no stranger to the horrors of war, having soldiered on the front lines in the Meuse Argonne Offensive, the largest and bloodiest operation of World War I that cost over 26,000 American lives. When Jim revealed his intention to sign up for cadet training as an Army Air Corps pilot in 1942 — unbeknownst to his family he had already taken flying lessons — Rassie cautioned him that wartime service was “ugly, spirit-breaking labor, done under strict orders and under the most heartbreaking conditions.” If he was determined to serve, Rassie urged him to seek placement in a photographic post. After all, Jim had already been trained as a civil cartographer. Rassie admonished his son, “I thought I made it plain enough that I was not agreeable to your going into the air force as a pilot, bombardier, or navigator of combat ships.” Rassie practically begged his son to reconsider. “The thought of your having to go through what I know would be ahead of you would be enough to unbalance what little reason of which I am possessed, and I don’t know what it would do for your mother,” he wrote. “The loss of you to us would mean the wreck of us both.” The son disregarded the father’s advice and reported to Nashville for officer’s flight training. Now, with Jim missing, Rassie faced the potential — even probable — loss of his son. What possible comfort could there be in having been prescient? If anything, it made his grief all the more palpable. Rassie had gained a reputation in Pinehurst as a man of exceptional capability who adroitly performed any task he set out to do, regardless of its complexity. While his primary occupation was that of a surveyor and civil engineer, the 52-year-old Wicker’s versatility was such that those who knew him, if asked to name the skill at which he most excelled, could easily have given any of a dozen responses. Instead, he sat helpless.

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Historic photographs from the Tufts archives and Photgraphs, Photographs far right by John Gessner

By Bill Case

orn in 1892 to James Wicker and Lucretia Mills, Rassie attended a one-room schoolhouse in his birthplace in nearby Cameron. It does not appear that he received any formal schooling in Pinehurst after James moved the family there in 1902. But, like Abraham Lincoln, Rassie read everything he could get his hands on, up to and including the Sears & Roebuck catalog. Rassie’s father found that his cabinetmaking skills were in high demand in the 7-year-old community. Setting up shop near where the Manor Inn is now located, James received the bulk of his woodworking projects from Leonard Tufts, who assumed control of the family’s privately owned resort and town in the wake of James Tufts’ death, also in 1902. The young Rassie found work in the company town, too, starting as a delivery boy in the pharmacy. An enterprising teenager who nonetheless had time for a bit of fun (lanky and raw-boned, he participated in a farcical local baseball game in a red and green suit), Rassie quickly came into contact with the print shop employees who worked in the same building as the pharmacy. Soon, he had two jobs. Given the daily menu alterations at the Carolina Hotel, there was an unending flow of printing work, and it was not long before he mastered that trade. The young man’s aptitude for catching on quickly wasn’t lost on Tufts, who used Rassie in a wide variety of roles. He assisted Pinehurst’s electrician, Owen Farrey, and lineman, Seward McCall, in cutting down the trolley line after Leonard decided to discontinue the service. When the installer of the first elevator in the Carolina Hotel walked off the job in a huff, leaving the elevator stranded at the top floor, it was Rassie who got the call. Despite knowing next to nothing about the equipment, he managed to bring the lift to the ground and, with typical dispatch, returned it to working order. Under the tutelage of civil engineer Francis Deaton, he helped survey the properties Leonard was buying, selling or developing. Rassie relished solving the kind of mathematical problems where there was only one right answer, and surveying required the same sort of exactitude. In an effort to enhance his knowledge, the largely self-educated Rassie passed the entrance exam into North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now North Carolina State University). After completing the 1911-12 academic year in Raleigh, he was back working in Pinehurst, spending an ever-increasing percentage of his time in surveying. Though he never completed his studies, Rassie was permitted to hang out a shingle as a registered civil engineer since his work in the field predated the state’s establishment of educational requirements. In 1912, someone convinced him to run for Moore County surveyor and he cruised to victory. There was only one problem: At the swearing in, Rassie learned he was one year shy of meeting the position’s minimum age requirement of 21. Accordingly, he stepped down. Rassie’s surveying work required him to spend considerable time out of doors in the forests and fields of Moore County, and he reveled in the observation of nature. With three friends, he organized a five-day paddle down the Little River from Vass to Fayetteville, constructing two homemade boats for the voyage. Upon arriving at the party’s destination, Rassie reported to the Pinehurst Outlook that “we tied up to wharves of that old town; changed our river clothes for railroad style, bode our (homemade) boats farewell, and bought tickets to Aberdeen.” By 1917, Rassie was already considered a person of prominence in Pinehurst. The Outlook listed him among those who “built the community.” He married his sweetheart, a 21-year-old Cameron native, Mary “Dolly” Loving and, like his son after him, left almost immediately for military service overseas. He survived the Western Front physically unscathed and returned to Pinehurst in 1919. Jim was born in 1920, and PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2017

Eloise came in 1922. In 1923, the burgeoning family moved into the house that Rassie built at 275 Dundee Road in Pinehurst. In addition to surveying, Wicker ran the movie projector at the new Carolina Theatre in Pinehurst. He supervised a five-man crew building houses for Leonard Tufts, an assignment he was unable to perform as expeditiously as Leonard would have liked. Despite Rassie’s crew completing construction of 10 homes inside of 11 months, Leonard expressed his dissatisfaction. “(Y)ou should have completed 47 houses,” complained the tough taskmaster. The beleaguered Rassie informed his boss he was incapable of meeting such an unrealistic target, and he voluntarily excused himself from further homebuilding. Leonard appears not to have taken the resignation personally, since he continued to inundate Wicker with other assignments. One task involved preparing a detailed map of the entire Sandhills area — a job Rassie, Francis Deaton and James Swett undertook in 1921. Much of the area was still unsettled dense pine forest. Land elevations and precise paths of Moore County’s watercourses were unknown. The laborious and meticulous work took nearly a decade to complete. One result of this effort was the decision to focus on development in the triangle between Pinehurst, Southern Pines and Knollwood. The Pilot reported in November 1931: “Rassie Wicker has been in the field on the proposed extension of Pennsylvania Avenue from the top of the hill in ‘Jimtown’ (Western Southern Pines) to the boundary of Pinehurst.” While mapping unidentified creeks, Wicker took it upon himself to name them. According to Tony McKenzie’s “Tribute to Rassie Wicker,” Rassie called one offshoot of a creek “Joe’s Fork” in honor of a Jamaican, Joe Melton, who “drove an oxcart from hotel to hotel collecting food scraps and taking them to the Pinehurst piggery.” Republican political operatives once again began floating Rassie’s name as a candidate for county surveyor. He wryly shot down that trial balloon with a Will Rogers’ style quip. The Pilot reported that Wicker “denies the allegation and spurns the allegator.” Rassie went on to say, “ I always was, is, and always will be a Democrat.” Rassie’s work in Pinehurst brought him into contact with the landscape architect Warren Manning, a protégé of the man who designed New York City’s Central Park, Fredrick Law Olmsted. As the Tufts’ architect-in-charge, Manning had the final say regarding nearly all plantings in the village. A sponge for absorbing the insights of experts, Rassie’s acquaintance with Manning enabled the younger man to learn how the interrelation of selected plantings could enhance a home or streetscape. Rassie opened his own business, Pinehurst Landscape Service, by the mid-1920s to capitalize on the numerous opportunities for a landscaping enterprise in a village less than 20 years old built on pine barrens. By the end of the Roaring 20s, Leonard Tufts’ son Richard began to supplant his oft-ailing father in running Pinehurst’s affairs. The father and son, however, shared their appreciation of Rassie Wicker. In a personal letter, Richard raved, “You are getting a reputation with us as an architect, landscape designer, and the sort of handyman to refer things to when we want something that looks extra nice.” Rassie was given the responsibility for locating and laying out new streets along with the water and sewer lines. According to Tony McKenzie, Wicker “took the liberty of giving all the newest streets names. He chose to use the last names of the people who provided manual labor to build Pinehurst.” They included Graham, Short and Caddell. He supervised construction of the Given Library and the hangar for the Moore County Airport. Leonard entrusted Rassie with the preparing and placing of historic markers identifying

the ancient Yadkin Trail, four of which still remain. Everything Rassie encountered seemed to pique his curiosity. Though often racked with migraine headaches, he invariably finished three books in a three-day period — the allowable bookmobile lending policy at the time — then scoured National Geographic and the Encyclopedia Britannica, front-to-back and A-to-Z. Surveying and mapmaking led him to an interest in the historic derivations of land titles in Moore County. His research dated back to the initial grants of the king of England. The completion of that project spun off into a deeper history of the county and ultimately the state. He became an organizing member of the North Carolina Society of Historians and a valued contributor to the Moore County Historical Association. He wrote numerous columns he titled “Historical Sketches” in The Pilot. One of his writings described his successful search for the North Carolina homes of Scottish heroine and Revolutionary War figure Flora MacDonald. His research culminated in the publication of a book that continues to be a leading reference for county historians, Miscellaneous Ancient Records of Moore County, compiling a massive amount of 18th century data. His landscaping work led to the study of the local flora and fauna. After locating a sweetgum tree in Pinehurst, he took the time to compare its characteristics with other known varieties of the species. It turned out there existed no other known sweetgum tree with similarly shaped lobes on its leaves. The uniqueness of the discovery was subsequently confirmed by a nationally known expert at Harvard University. As if those pursuits weren’t enough, he had hobbies, too, including playing the piano, making his own dulcimer, singing in a chorus, acting in the occasional theater production, beekeeping and orchid growing. Perhaps Rassie’s most unique interest was sparked after he found a nest of orphaned quail in his yard and adopted them as pets. His care and feeding of the birds ultimately led to their taming. He cultivated wild plants he thought might improve their diet. His domesticated “Peewee” even fluttered its way into feature stories in The Pilot and Pinehurst Outlook. His never-ending pursuit of learning took him beyond this world to a study of the heavens. He became an astronomer. Wanting a telescope to gaze more closely at the stars, Rassie fabricated one himself. In 1935, he contributed periodic columns to the paper with the purpose of educating its readers on locating the planets — “The Heavens in October,” etc. Wicker was an inveterate writer of letters to local newspapers. Rather than pontificate he would raise issues overlooked by everyone else. And, though usually soft-spoken, he could launch into vituperative commentary when cir-

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cumstances warranted. Concerned that a proposed constitutional amendment would transfer power from the “common people” to the state legislature, he colorfully opined that “(i)f it does, then it should be hung higher than Haman, drawn and quartered, boiled in oil, beheaded, disemboweled and buried in the deepest sea, and its tomb forgotten.” As part of the war effort, in 1944 Wicker was working as an engineer in Sanford for General Machinery and Foundry when he learned that his son, Jim, was missing in action.

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he Wicker family tried to stay strong, but that was next to impossible. Jim’s wife, Nancy, wrote daily letters to her husband, holding them in safekeeping that he might one day have an opportunity to read them. Earl Monroe, Rassie’s best friend, noted that the interminable waiting for news about Jim drove Rassie, “a little crazy.” Finally on September 23rd, a telegram arrived confirming that Jim, after safely parachuting to the ground, had been captured by the Germans and was being held as a prisoner of war. The Wicker family was overjoyed. The only other survivor of the midair collision from his B-17 was the waist gunner, Clyde Matlock. Jim was held in captivity at Stalag Luft I until May 1, 1945, when the camp’s guards fled as the Russian Army approached from the east. The Russians liberated the prisoners at 10 a.m. Two weeks later, Jim arrived at Camp Lucky Strike in France to await transport home. He soothed his anxious family, telling them, “All of you stop worrying now. I’m practically in the front yard.” And fittingly, it was Independence Day when he finally arrived home. Jim later received numerous commendations for his heroic service, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. Rassie returned to his usual activities in Pinehurst, but managed to spend increasing amounts of time with Earl Monroe, his son Bud, now 80, and Tony McKenzie at the blacksmith shop at the corner of Rattlesnake and McCaskill roads. Bud recalls that Rassie loved working there as well as in his small workshop at home. Rassie welded and woodworked, like his father had. He gave away everything he made to his friends and children, including intricately crafted grandfather and grandmother clocks. Bud Monroe proudly shows off several of Wicker’s handmade wooden pieces at his Murdocksville Road home. “How on earth are you going to go about describing what an incredible wizard Rassie Wicker was?” asks Monroe. Wicker kept surveying until very late in life. A familiar and welcoming site in Pinehurst was Rassie driving his old Chevy down Cherokee Road with his surveyor’s rod protruding out the back window. As he aged, the white-haired Rassie began “taking on something of the majesty of an Old Testament prophet.” His community sought ways to honor him. In December 1971, he was the recipient of the Sandhills Kiwanis club’s Builders Cup for “the year’s most out-

standing contribution to the county, made without thought of personal gain.” He passed away the following October at age 80. Dolly would die 16 years later. Recognition continued to come to Rassie posthumously. On Sept. 18, 1995 Pinehurst’s Village Council held a ceremony at the World Golf Hall of Fame to celebrate the naming of its newly acquired 100-acre recreational site, Rassie Wicker Park. Jim Wicker piloted airplanes in the military for 21 years, and continued in aeronautic related activities thereafter. He and Nancy had two children, Jim, Jr., and Jill Wicker Gooding, both of whom maintain homes in Pinehurst. Rassie and Dolly’s daughter, Eloise, emulated her father’s penchant for scientific inquiry. She graduated from the University of North Carolina with a degree in botany and became Chapel Hill’s curator for its herbarium, part of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. In a heartfelt message to Eloise who had just graduated from college, Rassie Wicker wrote, “I (and you too) know the pleasure — the deep and soul-satisfying pleasure — of having knowledge as one of your possessions. Not a knowledge confined to one subject, but a broad intellectualism which gives you a deep appreciation, not only of the distant and unapproachable things, but also of the little, homey, everyday creatures and incidents of which everyone’s life is made up … a bug or a worm or a plant each going about [its] appointed task, not haphazardly but in conformity with some great plan. These things come to me occasionally with overpowering force, but I have learned to keep them to myself except to a certain very few people who have seen this picture.” Rassie Wicker did his best to see the whole picture. His passion flowed from a strongly held belief that the more he studied the world, the more he would be able to discern recurring patterns, to see how everything in it — the beauties and the mysteries — fit together. PS Pinehurst resident Bill Case is PineStraw’s history man. He can be reached at Bill.Case@thompsonhine.com.

The Cake Lady’s Best

By Jim Dodson • Photograph by Mark Wagoner

efore our second official date two decades ago, my wife-to-be Wendy put me to work boxing up wedding cakes. Please note that I said “cakes.” For there were more than 100 of them — perfect little wedding cakes meant for two, gorgeously decorated confections created for a Bridezilla who believed all guests deserved their own personal wedding cake. “She saw it in a magazine and went to all the local bakeries but nobody wanted to take on the job,” Wendy explained with a laugh as we set about carefully boxing up the baby bridal cakes. Once they were packaged, they were ferried into the kitchen by various neighbors in her cul-du-sac in Syracuse, N.Y., who’d graciously offered their refrigerators for storing the miniature works of art. Following the delivery, she even rewarded me for my assistance with a cake that didn’t make the final cut. It was spectacularly good, some

kind of buttery white cake with a raspberry filling. The bride, for the record, was over the moon with the diminutive delicacies. Over dinner later that night, I asked Wendy how she had developed her cake-making chops. She explained that she’d always been the natural baker

in her family of three daughters, but really found her footing when Karen, her middle sister (Wendy is the eldest) needed a wedding cake. Wendy offered to make it, expertly copying an elaborate cake fromMartha Stewart’s 1995 bible on nuptials, Weddings. The cake apparently was a big hit and word

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quickly circulated. Within a relatively short time Wendy had developed a cottage industry she called The Cake Lady and saw a steady stream of folks wanting cakes for all occasions showing up on her suburban Syracuse doorstep. By then she had deepened her considerable knowledge of cakemaking by taking an advanced course in the craft and by devouring every classic and modern book she could find on the subject of making cakes. One afternoon not long after my serious courtship of her commenced, I breezed into her kitchen and saw a large wicker basket filled with freshpopped popcorn sitting on her kitchen counter. I blithely grabbed a handful of it, discovering, to my horror and embarrassment, that I was holding a gooey glob of icing. The cake was actually a groom’s cake, meant for a fellow whose favorite snack food was popcorn. I was caught literally licking my fingers — the icing was excellent — when my own unflappable girlfriend entered the kitchen, took one look at my boneheaded gaffe, laughed it off and got to work repairing the damage. Soon that basket of “popcorn” was as good as new — and I knew without question this gal was the one for me. Two years later, she made our own stunning wedding cake crowned by a bouquet of beautiful summer flowers for the rowdy lobster bake and reception we threw under a harvest moon on our forested hilltop in Maine. A crowd of 100 was expected. A crowd at least half again that size showed up. The cake was gone within minutes after we cut the first piece, which I never even got a taste of (only the remnant cake tops saved in the refrigerator), an indication not only of how beautiful Wendy’s cakes typically are but — far more important in her view — how delicious. Over the next decade, as the schoolteacher, wife and part-time baker made cakes for every sort of occasion for friends, co-workers and relatives — rarely charging anything save for major wedding cakes — I was often pressed into service as the cake delivery man and general factotum. There were some memorable near disasters — like the three-pedestal all-butter cream wedding cake some mad bride in love with the fountains of Versailles ordered for the hottest summer day in Maine. As it sat in an unair-conditioned alumni house on the Bowdoin College campus, there was an interminable delay during which the butter cream began to melt and the entire back of the cake ran downhill. I received a remarkably calm telephone call from Wendy asking me to bring several of our children’s wood alphabet blocks, a screwdriver and some shims to the alumni house. By the time I got there, she’d managed to somehow recreate the back of the cake and soon stabilized the pedestals with the aforementioned blocks. Talk about grace under fire — or heat wave, as it were. Then there was the wedding party where, moments after we delivered the cake, the groom’s auntie

slapped the bride’s mother and all hell broke loose — almost taking Wendy’s beautiful cake with it. After that, Wendy more or less hung up her wedding cake apron and concentrated simply on making outstanding cakes for friends and family. In our household, the joke is that mama’s cake tops — the portion sliced off the top of a baked cake to allow a flatter surface for decorating — are works of art in and of themselves and never fail to disappear to the last crumb. Requests for her cakes always seem to surge at the holidays and in summer, when friends are going away and need something special for family dinners. These two summer standouts are my favorites: a spectacular coconut cake and a strawberrywhipped cream cake that never fails to set picky brides aswoon. Like all gifted bakers, the former Cake Lady is happy to share her favorite recipes — especially since her husband no longer has to worry about delivering them.

Coconut Cake Icing:

6 cups confectioners’ sugar 6 sticks (1/2 cup each) of unsalted butter 1 tablespoon vanilla 1/4 cup coconut milk Combine all ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat on high for 10 minutes.

Cake:

2/3 cups of unsalted butter 2 1/2 cups of sifted cake flour 1 2/3 cups of sugar 1 teaspoon salt 3 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder 3/4 cups milk 1/2 cup coconut milk 3 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla One large bag of unsweetened, grated coconut Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter and flour the bottom and sides of two 9-inch cake pans (or use Baker’s Joy spray). In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Mix for 30 seconds. Add the remaining butter and 1/4 cup milk and coconut milk and start beating. While beating, add another 1/2 cup milk. Add eggs, the remaining 1/2 cup milk and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes longer. Pour equal amounts into each pan and bake 35 to 40 minutes. Let pans stand for 5 minutes and then remove cakes to cooling racks.

To Assemble:

cup of icing on the top of the first layer and generously sprinkle grated unsweetened coconut on top. Place second layer on top and ice the top and sides with the coconut icing. Sprinkle coconut on top and sides of cake, pressing coconut into sides as you go. Serve!

Whipped Cream Strawberry Cake Icing:

6 cups confectioners’ sugar 6 sticks (1/2 cup each) of unsalted butter 1 tablespoon vanilla 1/4 cup heavy cream Combine all ingredients in the bowl of an electric mixer and beat on high for 10 minutes. Remove 1 1/2 cups of icing and beat in 1/3 cup of strawberry purée (recipe below) Strawberry purée: 2 cups fresh or frozen strawberries (if using frozen store-bought strawberries, use unsweetened) 1 teaspoon sugar Combine and purée in the bowl of a food processor.

Cake:

2 cups sifted cake flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 3 teaspoons baking powder 3 egg whites 1 cup (1/2 pint) heavy cream 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/2 cup cold water 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly butter and flour the bottom and sides of two 8-inch cake pans (or use Baker’s Joy spray). Sift the flour, salt and baking powder together three times and set aside. Beat the egg whites until stiff but not dry. Whip cream until stiff and fold into eggs. Add sugar gradually and mix well, folding in with a rubber spatula. Add dry ingredients alternately with water in small amounts, beginning and ending with the flour mixture. Blend well. Pour equal amounts into the pans and bake until the center is set, about 30–40 minutes. Let cool in pans for 10 minutes and then remove to cooling racks.

To Assemble:

Spread the strawberry icing in the middle. Top with second layer and cover the entire cake with the vanilla frosting. Add decorative boarders on top and bottom. Fill in top with fresh strawberries. Serve with additional strawberry purée on side. PS

Set one layer on a cardboard round. Spread one

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Story of a House

Kings of the Castle An architect out to conquer the world blazes a trail through Vineland By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner

orth Page Street has a certain aura, a whiff of bygone times — a neighborhood apart from elegant Weymouth a few blocks east. The faded houses sit back aways, sheltered by towering magnolias. Even the ones in disrepair appear family-friendly, with wide porches where kids played on rainy days. Residents once strolled down these streets of an evening. Yards twinkled with fireflies, waiting to be caught in Mason jars. Children skipped up to Broad Street for ice cream. Back then, time was marked by passing trains. Now, the early summer haze is shattered by hammers and saws wielded by sweating hard-hatters working for Dean King: architect, developer, builder, entrepreneur, businessman, preservationist. A boyish 40, Dean exudes the enthusiasm of a teenager out to conquer the world. “I want to build for myself. I want to take risks, flip houses, make money,” he says. Not only does he walk the walk and talk the talk . . . he lives the life. Dean, his beautiful wife, Tori, and adorable children, Levi and Josie, occupy, for now at least, half of a rambling Southern Victorian guest house — Magnolia Lodge — which he bought, tore down to the studs and built back as a duplex, which he will eventually rent, as he does the other half, probably to military families. Annie Oakley slept here. So did Al Adams, whose mother operated the guest house with nine units beginning in 1936. “It was a wonderful house to grow up in,” says Al, who lived there from age 4 to 19. He recalls climbing the magnolia tree to eat scuppernong grapes from the arbor — and getting cornered by a wasp. At mealtime, he rang a bell calling boarders, mostly retired Northern ladies, to the table. After dinner, they would play croquet on a court where the garage now stands. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2017

uch as they love millennial transformation, the Kings will move when Dean finishes renovating the rambling classic a few hundred yards away. Tori’s on board; in 11 years they have moved nine times, saving thousands by taking advantage of the two-year tax deferment. How so, these urban nomads? Dean grew up in Rockingham. His talents surfaced early. “I was always artistic, liked to build stuff,” meaning a kids’ hideaway and a two-story tree house constructed with scrap lumber. He parlayed his skills into a degree in architecture, from UNC Charlotte, then lived high in North Carolina’s largest city. By day, he worked for a company that designed hotels. By night, “I enjoyed myself like a young man living downtown and making good money should.” Not good enough. “I didn’t want to sit in an office — and hotels didn’t excite me.” A friend who started Pinnacle Development Design Build in Southern Pines suggested he move. Dean knew the area, realized the potential. Tori, a high school teacher and photographer from Ohio, supported the idea. They relocated in 2005. With partners and associates, Dean designed several projects, including The Pinnacle Lofts on West Pennsylvania Avenue and Broad Street Lofts, both examples of the urban redevelopment trend

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which entices people to live downtown, or nearby, in new units or repurposed buildings, with services within walking (or biking) distance. The concept took hold in the ’90s as decaying factories in Manhattan’s Soho, Tribeca and Meat Packing District became fashionable condos. Abandoned tobacco warehouse and textile mill residential developments in Durham and elsewhere followed suit. Dean was convinced: “Urban density is the way to go.” A younger demographic was discovering downtown Southern Pines, one that could afford west of the tracks (formerly Vineland) but not the historic district, where “cottages” designed in the Roaring Twenties by Aymar Embury have been rebirthed as mini-mansions. Building Pinnacle Lofts was straightforward new construction, but buying an entire block of North Page Street (with a partner) in 2014 seemed risky, since 100-year-old structures like the Magnolia are usually money pits. “I was scared to death,” Dean admits. Removing asbestos alone cost $25,000. The house had stood vacant for half a dozen years. Dean describes the interior as “gross,” which actually proved inspiring. Since nothing but the bones and chimneys were salvageable, he could follow his imagination. Because “imaginative” best describes the interior.

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ut first, the porch — 48 feet long, with a slanted ceiling and original posts and floorboards that Dean labored to preserve. Before social media, people connected on porches. Here, Tori and Dean sit for hours on rockers and a church pew they salvaged from a fire pit. “I like to think how many people have sat on this front porch in the last 100 years,” Tori says. The porch is especially useful, since the house has no conventional living room. Instead, just beyond the front door, what Adams remembers as Magnolia Lodge’s lobby became the foyer and family dining area with a sloping ceiling, built-in shelves under the stairs and a bay of paned windows. Tori’s office with separate entrance, formerly Al’s bedroom, is off to the right. Front, center and open stands the kitchen — something that would have been hidden out back in the early 1900s when the house was new. A massive butcher block from White’s Grocery in Rockingham, a business run by Dean’s family, represents the past, along with simple cabinetry, exposed shelving, an oxen-yoke pot rack, ceramic tile backsplash, a bank of brightly painted school lockers, original doors and windows with wavy glass. Tori has brightened snow-white walls, moldings and columns with faux antique signs and vivid pottery. The original floorboards, some approaching 20 feet, must have been milled from tall local heart pine. Exposed brick chimneys, board-and-batten walls, panel doors and moldings provide texture. Off the kitchen is a narrow sitting room — more TV den than parlor — which suits the young family. Bath and powder rooms, none quite the spa

variety, were wedged into the tight layout. “Dean is good at maximizing space,” Tori says. Wall décor is limited to poster-sized art photos of the children. A narrow flight of stairs with original banister and newel posts leads to the bedrooms — adequate but not huge. “People don’t spend time in the master bedroom anymore,” Dean reasons. But he did provide a dressing room and closets, often tiny in even spacious Southern Victorians. At the top of the stairs a sunroom with original stained glass panels and a low table and chairs is where Levi and Josie draw and play games. “My mother used to grow flowers there,” Al says as he points to where the bedrooms had been, even remembering names of the boarders. The house has a third floor with more bedrooms, but given its condition, Dean “left it for the ghosts.” Except for a few old pieces, the furnishings throughout pit Ikea against Pottery Barn — sleek, tasteful, utilitarian, perfectly suited to a young family on the move. Tori boldly mixes formal upholstered dining room chairs with a rough picnic table and benches. An old railroad trolley serves as a coffee table in front of a modern sectional sofa with a side table painted pastel turquoise. Woven rugs in geometric patterns complete the casual look. An attached double garage is, Dean admits, a necessary anachronism. He will tuck one around back, out of sight, in their next address, just down the street. “But I’m not sure we’ll ever have a forever home,” Dean admits. Until then, “We’re living in a brand new 100-year old house . . . with good vibes.” PS

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. — Russell Baker

By Ash Alder

Time Traveling

July is here and you are fishing on the bank with Papa, readjusting his faded straw hat seconds before it slips down your brow again. You don’t notice. You are busy staring at the water’s surface, thinking about the dancing cricket at the end of the line. Summer sends us time traveling. Shucking sweet corn on the front porch with mama. Potato sack racing with your cousins. Sparklers on the lawn. Ripe blackberries straight from the bush, but nothing tastes sweeter than summer love. You relive that first kiss, stolen beneath the Southern magnolia, and daydream at the pool with flushed cheeks and pruned fingers. Papa reaches for the bagged lunch you packed together, unwraps a tomato sandwich, takes a pull of iced tea from the thermos. He is flashing back to his own childhood summers when you feel the tug on your line. You wrestle a tiny sunfish, straw hat now slipping down past your eyelids. The fish is too small to take home, but papa won’t let you know it. He puts down his sandwich to help you remove the hook. You slip your first-ever catch into papa’s bucket. He lifts the straw hat from your eyes, winks, and then kisses your brow.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. — John Lubbock

Full Buck Moon Magic

Sure as our summer garden delivers fresh cabbage (read sauerkraut), July inspires cucumber salad, pickled melon, cantaloupe gazpacho, blueberries and whipped cream. Fourth of July falls on a Tuesday this month. We prepare for backyard barbecues, look for cool and simple dishes to delight friends and family.

At market, baskets of golden peaches spell homemade ice cream. The kids will love it. Hosting or traveling, stock up on pickled okra, scuppernongs, and heirloom tomatoes. This is a season that knows how to throw a delicious party. We oblige. The Full Buck Moon falls on Sunday, July 9. If you’re gardening by the lunar cycle, pop flowering bulbs such as gladiolus and butterfly lily into the earth July 10–22 — day before the new moon. Not too late to plant squash, corn or snap beans, plus heat-loving herbs like basil, thyme and sage. Summer doesn’t last forever. We’ve lived long enough to know that. As the cicadas serenade you into dreamland, allow visions of your autumn garden to come into focus. A gardener must always plan ahead.

Larks and Nymphs

Seeing as the spur of this month’s birth flower resembles the hind toe of a crested songbird, it’s little wonder how delphinium consolida got its common name. Larkspur (or Lark’s heel as Shakespeare called it) belongs to the buttercup family and, like the orchid, is a showy and complex flower. It’s also highly poisonous if consumed — but perhaps that’s what makes this striking beauty all the more appealing. Color variations convey different meanings. Purple says first love. Water lilies aren’t just for frogs. Also a birth flower of July, genus Nymphaea takes its name from the Greek word meaning “water nymph” or “virgin.” A symbol of purity and majesty, the lotus flower is a spiritual icon in many cultures. Chinese Buddhists describe Heaven as a sacred lake of lotus flowers. Imagine.

Something Different Dept.

Among the obscure holidays celebrated this month — Sidewalk Egg Frying Day (July 4), National Nude Day (July 14), and Yellow Pig Day (July 17), to name just a few — Build A Scarecrow Day is celebrated on Sunday, July 2. Egyptian farmers swaddled wooden figures with nets to create the first “scarecrows” in recorded history. Only they weren’t scarecrows, per se. They were used to keep quails from the wheat fields along the Nile River. If you’ve a corn crop to protect, consider making an art of it. But just remember, crows are smart cookies — and perhaps better friends than foe. PS

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pinehurst’s FourthFest

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Although conscientious effort is made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, all events are subject to change and errors can occur! Please call to verify times, costs, status and location before planning or attending an event. To add an event, email us at pinestraw.calendar@gmail.com

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combinations (at appropriate levels), water complexes, banks, ditches and mounds. The highest cumulative score from all seven shows wins the Championship. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 or carolinahorsepark.com.

SUMMER READING PROGRAM. “Build a Better World” this summer during the Library’s annual Summer Reading Program. Registration is open for participants of all ages. Log your time spent reading and earn prizes, and come to Library programs during the summer to collect Book Bucks. Sign up at the library or online at www.sppl.net. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Saturday, July 1 — 2

MASTER GARDENER HELP LINE. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. weekdays, March 1 through Oct. 31. If you have a question or need help with plant choices, call the Moore County Cooperative Extension Office.Walk-in consultations are available during the same hours at the Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. If possible, bring a sample or photos. Info: (910) 947-3188.

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

RED – WHITE – BLUE INVITATIONAL. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. The 10th Regional Championship for U.S. Kids Golf will be a two-day junior competition played on three area courses. Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista Drive. Info: (888) 387-5437 or www.uskidsgolf.com.

Saturday, July 1 — 15

Sunday, July 2

SUMMER DAY CAMPS. Southern Pines Recreation & Parks Department is offering day and week-long camps for kids of all ages throughout the summer in arts and crafts, clay-working, games, swimming, science and cheerleading; and weekly trips, too. For more information, including dates, costs, locations and registration info, call (910) 692-1835 or visit www. southernpines.net/recreation.

A STAR-SPANGLED KIND OF DAY. 12–5 p.m. Celebrate Independence Day at the Garden. Jam out to Dark Horse Duo from 1–4 p.m. Enjoy food trucks and a cash bar, bounce houses, crafts and more. Admission free for active military, veterans and children under 6. $5/non-military adults and children over 6. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221 or capefearbg.org.

Saturday, July 1

NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Nature’s Fireworks.” Come learn about some of the living things — from fireflies to mushrooms — that can make their own light. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

TILLERY DAM RECREATIONAL WATER FLOW RELEASE. 6–10:30 a.m. Enjoy the scenic beauty and wildlife along the Pee Dee with excellent fishing, great paddling and wonderful floating opportunities for novice and intermediate paddlers. (Not whitewater rafting, just an enhanced flow.) Bring your equipment or rent from local outfitters. Releases will be from 6–10:30 a.m., making best floating times 8:30–10:30 a.m. Check the website for any updates beforehand. Admission: Free. N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission, 177 Tillery Dam Road, Mount Gilead. Info: explorepinehurst.com or montgomerycountync.com. CAROLINA HORSE PARK DERBY CROSS. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Part of the Running Start Derby Cross Series. The course is a mix of show jumps and cross-country fences, including

Louisiana Soul Revival

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Shawn Camp performs. Cost: $20 in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Monday, July 3 SASSY TAPPERS. 1:30–3:30 p.m. Mondays through Aug. 28. Tap dancing for all levels with instructor Angie VonCanon. The group practices weekly and also performs at various functions throughout the year. Cost: $10/resident; $20/nonresident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Program Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.com.

Monday, July 3 — 5

39TH JUNIOR NORTH & SOUTH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. Male and female golfers between the ages of 15 and 18 will compete on courses No. 5, No. 6, No. 8, and No. 2. All contestants must register in person on Sunday, July 2, from 9 a.m.–4 p.m. at the player’s respective golf course (No. 6 for Girls, No. 8 for Boys). The North & South Contestant Dinner is in the Donald Ross Grill at Pinehurst Country Club on Sunday, July 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (800) 795-4653, Opt 3.

Monday, July 3 — 7 YOUTH POTTERY CAMP. 1–3 p.m. daily. (No camp July 4.) For ages 5+. Create your own unique pottery pieces with white earthenware clay and paint under glazes, with instructor Karen Fellema. Cost: $75/resident; $150/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

Tuesday, July 4 VILLAGE OF PINEHURST FOURTHFEST. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. and 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a day of fun in the village celebrating Independence Day starting at 10 a.m. with the annual Independence Day Parade, followed at 11 a.m. by a patriotic pet contest, an antique cars display and the Sandhills Farmers Market. Village Center/Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. At 6 p.m., the fun continues with a free concert, children’s activities and fireworks celebration at the Pinehurst Harness Track. Food and beverages will be available for purchase, and picnic baskets are also allowed. The fireworks begin at 9:15 p.m. Pinehurst Harness Track and Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road S, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-2817 or 295-8656. MOORE COUNTY CONCERT BAND. 2 p.m. The Independence Day concert will feature Broadway show tunes, a salute to the circus, Sousa marches and patriotic favorites. Free and open to the public. Grand Ballroom of the Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 235-5229 or www.moorecountyband.org. ABERDEEN JULY 4TH CELEBRATION. 5–10 p.m. An evening of live entertainment, food vendors, and activities for all ages. Admission to the park is free; a $5 wristband required for kids activities (starting at 5 p.m.). Live entertainment starts at 6, and fireworks at approximately 9:15 p.m. No pets, alcoholic

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ca l e n d a r beverages, personal fireworks or coolers, please. Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275 or explorepinehurst.com. FORT BRAGG’S 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION. 3–10 p.m. Activities include some of today’s hottest musical acts, parachute free-fall demonstrations, a flag ceremony, fireworks, food and beverages. Free admission. Main Post Parade Field 11, 25 Capron St., Fort Bragg. Info: (910) 3969126 or explorepinehurst.com.

Thursday, July 6 MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. SUNRISE THEATER SUMMER CLASSIC SERIES. 7:30 p.m. The Great Escape, sponsored by Autowerks. Cost: $6. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com. CAMEO ARTHOUSE. 7:30 p.m. The Doug Largent Trio. Vintage soul, organ and jazz. Tickets: $12 ($15 day of). Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville, Info: (910) 4866633 or cameoarthouse.com.

p.m. Explore the garden at STARworks and surrounding area to learn about the native and non-native plants that grow well in N.C. gardens and can be used to dye fabric. Participants will harvest flowers and make at least two dye baths. Cost: $75. STARworks, 100 Russell Drive, Star, NC. Info: (910) 428-9001 or www.starworksnc.org. ART CLASS (PAINTING) 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Painting on Silk, taught by Kathy Leuck for beginners. Learn the basic techniques of silk painting using Dye-n-Flow permanent silk dyes, including the serti method of painting using permanent gutta. Students will leave with two finished pieces (a silk scarf and silk satin square). Cost: $78, supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. NATURE TALES. 10–11 a.m. and 11 a.m.–12 p.m. “Busy Bees.” Preschool storytime and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 (ext 20) or capefearbg.org. GIVEN KIDS. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Maker Saturday. Everyone can be a Maker. Can you make a craft? Can you sing a song? Want to learn more? Stop by and see what you can make. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022 or www.giventufts.com.

FIRST FRIDAY. 5:30 p.m. A family-friendly event with live music, food, beverages and entertainment by The New Breed Brass Band, a New Orleans group infusing funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop into a custom-made enhancement of second-line brass band tradition. Free admission. No dogs, please! First Bank Stage at the Sunrise (inside Sunrise Theater in case of rain), 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or firstfridaysouthernpines.com.

HISTORIC TOURS BY CARRIAGE. 1–5 p.m. The Downtown Alliance (DTA) and the Fayetteville Area Transportation and Local History Museum host guided tours by horse-and-carriage of historic sites from Fayetteville’s colorful 250-year history, including some from the Revolutionary War era. Tickets: $15–25/person may be purchased online, at the DTA office, or by phone. In the case of inclement weather, tours will be rescheduled for the following day (Sunday). Downtown Alliance, 222 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 2223382 or www.visitdowntownfayetteville.com.

ORGAN RECITAL. 7 p.m. Fridays on the Fisk Recital Series. Mr. Alden Wright, Rising Star Recitalist, Eastman School of Music, performs. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 350 E. Massachusetts Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3171 or www.emmanuel-parish.org.

DANCE SOCIAL. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., lesson at 7, social dancing from 8 to 9:30 p.m. Carolina Pines Chapter of USA Dance. Casual summer attire. Cost: $10 ($8 members). Southern Pines Elk’s Lodge, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 215-5791.

Friday, July 7 — 9

Sunday, July 9

PINEHURST RESORT CHEF & MAKER WEEKEND. Chef Ashley Christensen. Friday: 6:30–9 p.m. Poole’s Dinerinspired dinner, featuring reimagined Southern comfort food, beer and wine. This event is open to the public and presented in part by The Country Bookshop. Saturday: 10 a.m. Q & A and cookbook signing with Chef Ashley Christensen; 2 p.m glass-blowing demonstration and spirits tasting; 7:30 p.m. Chef’s Dinner with Ashley Christensen. Tickets: Call or visit website for prices of individual events or package. The Carolina Hotel, Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista Dr., Pinehurst. Info: (866) 348-0912 or (844) 804-3322, www.explorepinehurst.com or pinehurst.com.

EXPLORATIONS SERIES FOR ADULTS. 3–4 p.m. Kathy Byron, local beekeeper and executive director of Good Food Sandhills, will share her knowledge about raising honeybees, their declining populations and being bee-friendly. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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Saturday, July 8 FILM FEST. Tar Heel Shorties, a one-day film festival, begins at 5 p.m. at The Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines, Saturday, July 8, with a block of familyfriendly short films including What It Was, Was Football. There will be a meet-and-greet party from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. followed by the full-length feature The Founders, a just-released movie about the 13 women who launched the Ladies Professional Golf Association. HARVESTING COLOR FIBER WORKSHOP. 9 a.m.–12

NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “The Life of a Pine.” A presentation about the longleaf pine will be followed by a guided hike along Bower’s Bog Trail. Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. SUNDAY EXCHANGE. 6:46 p.m. I Draw Slow performs at this event brought to you by the Rooster’s Wife and the Town of Aberdeen for the exchange of ideas, art and entertainment. Free admission. Next door to the Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. (Rain site: The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen.) Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Monday, July 10 BOOK LOVERS UNITE. 3:30 p.m. Learn more about fabulous cookbooks and share your list of favorites with other lovers of cookbooks. Bring your list of favorites and add to it as others

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describe theirs. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or (910) 295-6022. SUMMER CONCERTS ON THE GREEN. 5 p.m. “Big Band Sound of the Sandhills.” The Sandhills Community College Jazz Band summer concerts are a Sandhills summer tradition. Food truck (Jordan’s Barbecue) service begins at 5, music at 6:30. Bring your lawn chair or blanket and enjoy an evening under the pines. On the lawn (or in Owens Auditorium in case of rain) at Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-6185. 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 or www.sppl.net. SANDHILLS PHOTO CLUB MEETING. 7–9 p.m. Theater in the Hannah Center at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: www.sandhillsphotoclub.org.

Monday, July 10 and 12 ART CLASS. 1–4 p.m. Introduction to Still Life, taught by Yvonne Sovereign for beginner and intermediate students. Yvonne will demonstrate how to arrange and light a simple still life and teach steps to painting a realistic still life. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Monday, July 10 — 13 YOUNG CHEFS IN THE SANDHILLS. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. daily. “An Asian Eating Adventure,” taught by professional chef Sueson Vess, for ages 9 to 14. Travel to Asia via your palate and learn to make traditional and modern twists on Asian foods from China, India, Thailand and Korea. Cost: $185/residents; $278/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Kitchen @ Community Presbyterian, 125 Everett Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

Monday, July 10 — 14 115TH WOMEN’S NORTH & SOUTH AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP. Watch the best women amateurs in the country compete on Pinehurst No. 2. Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, 1 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 235-8140, (800) 795-4653, opt 3, or tournamentregistration. pinehurst.com. JOY OF ART. Fairyland, Imagination and Fantasy. Art classes for kids ages 7 through 9. Joy of Art Studio, Info: (910) 5287283 text or www.joyof_art@msn.com.

Tuesday, July 11 NATURE TALES. 10–11 a.m. and 11 a.m.–12 p.m. “Busy Bees.” Preschool storytime and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd. Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 (ext 20) or capefearbg.org. TEEN SUMMER PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Zine/Bookmaking.” This summer program is designed just for teens, grades 6 through 12. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS. 4–5 p.m. for ages 5 to 9 years; and 5–6 p.m. for ages 10 to 15 years. Tuesdays through Aug. 1 (four sessions). Pre-registration is required. Bring your own tennis racket, or contact the department to check one out. Cost: $5/resident; $10/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec,

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KIDS SUMMER MOVIE. 10 a.m. Kung Fu Panda 1. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com.

ADULT TENNIS LESSONS. 6–7 p.m. Tuesdays through Aug. 1 (four sessions). For ages 16+. Pre-registration is required. Bring your own tennis racket, or contact the department to check one out. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, Tennis Court No. 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Must register by July 7. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS. 4–5 p.m. for ages 5 to 9 years; and 5–6 p.m. for ages 10 to 15 years. Tuesdays through Aug. 3 (four sessions). Pre-registration is required. Bring your own tennis racket, or contact the department to check one out. Cost: $5/resident; $10/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Tennis Court No. 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

Wednesday, July 12

ADULT TENNIS LESSONS. 6–7 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 3 (four sessions). For ages 16+. Pre-registration is required. Bring your own tennis racket, or contact the department to check one out. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, Tennis Court No. 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Must register by Jul 7. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

ART CLASS (ALL PAINTING MEDIA). 1–4 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 16 (six sessions). For all levels of experience, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory and composition. Cost: $52/resident; $104/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and preregistration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817.

Thursday, July 13 MEDITATIVE YOGA. 10:30–11:30 a.m. (Thursdays through Aug. 17). Instructor Carol Wallace leads this class for adults 18+, to help cultivate a relaxed state of mind and body, gently improve flexibility and relieve stress and tension. Cost: $40/resident; $80 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks & Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 and 7 p.m. Join author and retired U.S. Army Foreign Area Officer Jason Criss Howk for a discussion about Islam, Islamism and the contents of the holy book of Islam. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, (3:30 p.m.), 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst; and Given Outpost (7 p.m.) 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-6022.

SUNRISE THEATER SUMMER CLASSIC SERIES. 7:30 p.m. Jurassic Park, sponsored by C-Cup Bakery. Cost: $6. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com.

Thursday, July 13 — 15 PINEHURST JUNIOR TENNIS CLASSIC. 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Co-sponsored with Southern Pines Recreation & Parks Dept., Sandhills Tennis Association and Pinehurst Tennis Club. All players must have current USTA card. Pinehurst Tennis Center, 2 Carolina Vista, Pinehurst. For divisions of play, more information, and registration go to tennislink.usta.com/tournaments/TournamentHome/Tournament.aspx?T=179927.

Friday, July 14 OPEN STUDIO. 9:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Life Drawing. There will be no instruction given and you must bring your own supplies and materials. Any media. Cost: $15 (no discounts).

Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. ART CLASS (OIL PAINTING). 1–4 p.m. Fridays through Aug. 18 (six sessions). For all levels of experience, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory and composition. Cost: $52/resident; $104/nonresident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817.

Friday, July 14 & 15 SOMETHING MOORE. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. Friday, and 8 a.m.–4 p.m Saturday. This popular Arts Council treasure chest sale and fundraiser features antiques, art, jewelry, pottery, china, silver, furniture and other collectibles to support the Arts Council’s programs throughout Moore County. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or explorepinehurst.com. NORTH CAROLINA PEACH FESTIVAL. 6:30–9 p.m., Friday and 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday. The Peach Festival begins Friday night with the 7th annual Peachy Feet 5K. The Saturday Parade kicks off 21st annual festival, followed by activities and games, rides and activities for the kids, food galore and peaches. Live entertainment with Jim Quick & Coastline and Rockin’ Acoustix. See beautiful Montgomery County via helicopter tours. Admission is free. Fitzgerald Park, Candor. Info: (910) 974-4221 or ncpeachfestival.com.

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ca l e n d a r Commission, 177 Tillery Dam Road, Mount Gilead. Info: explorepinehurst.com or montgomerycountync.com. ECK MCCANLESS POTTERY 6TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 10 a.m.–5 p.m. See demonstrations of turning multiple colors of clay on the wheel to create Agateware, watch carving demonstrations and enjoy refreshments. Free. 6077 Old US Hwy 220, Seagrove. Info: (336) 873-7412 or explorepinehurst.com. SUMMER BUILD DAY EVENT. 11 a.m. Build a Better World! This event, sponsored by Lowe’s Hardware, gives kids in grades K through 5 the opportunity to build a wooden project —cars, boats or birdhouses. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. CHRISTMAS IN JULY ARTS & CRAFTS. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. More than 45 local craft artisans will be selling their work to benefit Family Promise of Moore County (a local nonprofit organization that helps in-need families with children. (Vendors accepted until full) Whispering Pines Country Club, 2 Club House Blvd., Whispering Pines. Info: www.christmasinjulync .com. HOUSE IN THE HORSESHOE. 12–2 p.m. Summer Picnic Workshops. Specialists will teach workshop attendees various topics ranging from spinning and weaving to Colonial gardening. Bring a picnic lunch. Free. 288 Alston House Road, Sanford. Info: (910) 947-2051 or www.nchistoricsites.org/ horsesho. BALLROOM DANCING. 7–10 p.m. Cape Fear Ballroom Dancers Monthly Dance and Potluck Dinner. Cost: $10/ members; $15/guests. Patriotic casual attire. Roland’s Dance Studio, 310 Hope Mills Road, Fayetteville. Info: (910) 987-4420 or www.capefearballroomdancers.org.

July 15 & 16 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Saturday: War Horse Event Series Schooling Day; and 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday: July War Horse Event Series Horse Trials, Combined Tests,

and Dressage. Call for prices. Spectators welcome and free. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074.

Sunday, July 16 SUNDAY KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. Come to the Library for a free showing of a film that brings the story of Batman to life through toy blocks. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. Basic Orienteering. Learn how to find your way with a compass and practice your new skill on a short orienteering course. Insect repellent and long pants recommended. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Sam Frazier Band performs, featuring Molly McGill. Cost: $10 in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9447502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Sunday, July 16 — 31 SUMMER TEEN PROGRAM. Library hours. Wall-Hanging Crafts. Teens looking for some low-key activities can drop in on their own schedule to make creative projects. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Monday, July 17 ART CLASS (OIL PASTEL) 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Still Life in Oil Pastel, taught by Linda Drott for all levels. Students will set up their own still life arrangement and do a value study, then a color rendition. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. MEET THE AUTHOR. 3–4:15 p.m. Tea with Trigiani. The County Bookshop welcomes New York Times best-selling author Adriana Trigiani to speak about her new book, Kiss

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Monday, July 17 — 19 PINEWILD YOUTH GOLF CLINICS. 9–11 a.m. These three-day clinics for boys and girls ages 8 to 16 will focus on golf fundamentals, etiquette, rules of play and more. Appropriate golf attire and own clubs required. Cost: $85. Assemble by the flagpole in front of the clubhouse, five minutes prior to start time. Register by July 10. Golf Academy at Pinewild Country Club, 6 Glasgow Drive, N.C. 211 W., Pinehurst: Info: (910) 523-1499 or pinehurstrec.org.

Monday, July 17 — 29 JOY OF ART. 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Classes for children in drawing, painting, colored pencils, pastels, alcohol markers and more. See website for ages and subjects. $25 per class, or pick five for $100. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E Pennsylvania Ave., B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 text or www.joyof_art@msn.com.

Wednesday, July 19 BASIC HATHA YOGA. 9–10 a.m. (Wednesdays through Aug. 23) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for adults 18+ who may have had no previous experience with yoga. Cost: $40/resident; $80 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. TAI CHI. 10:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. (Wednesdays through Aug. 23) This course is taught by Tai Chi Master Instructor Lee

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Wednesday, July 19 — 21 ART WORKSHOP. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. The Art of Seeing, taught by Bob Way. Students will learn various aids to enhance their skills of perception, allowing for skillful observation and recreating what they see on paper or canvas. Cost: $195. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Thursday, July 20 FINGER PAINTING FLOWERS. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Local artist Magda Sonderfan will demonstrate finger painting on a canvas. Participants will take home their own painting of blue hydrangeas. Price includes an 11 x 14 canvas and paints. Cost: $30/Horticultural Society Members; $40/nonmembers. Space is limited. Please register by July 14. Sandhills Horticultural Gardens-Ball Visitors Center, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882 or www.sandhillshorticulturalgardens.com/upcoming.htm.

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DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. Book lovers interested in joining a book club this summer are invited to meet with the Douglass Center Book Club. Sign-ups are available at the Douglass Community Center. Copies of the book to be discussed may be obtained at SPPL or Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI. 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. (Thursdays through Aug. 24) Instructor Lee Holbrook focuses on refining the Yang style for participants who already have a basic knowledge of Tai Chi. Cost: $33/resident; $66 nonresident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org. THIRD THURSDAY. 5–9 p.m. Enjoy folk music from the Parsons and meet Mark Weathington, author of Gardening in the South. Food trucks and beer and wine from our cash bar will keep you full and energized for dancing. Evenings are free with a membership or paid admission. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 4860221 or capefearbg.org. LIVE OUTDOOR CONCERT. 6–9 p.m. Filly & Colt’s will be hosting a live concert series every third Thursday through September. The Sandband is the featured artist in July. Filly & Colt’s, Little River Golf & Resort, 500 Little River Farm Blvd., Carthage. Info: (910) 692-4411. WINE AND WHIMSEY ART CLASS. 6–8 p.m. “Dragonflies.” A perfect date night or girls’ night out. All supplies and instruction provided. Wine, beer and snacks available for purchase. Cost: $20/member; $25/non-member. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221. Register online at form.jotform. com/51666115773964. SUNRISE THEATER SUMMER CLASSIC SERIES. 7:30 p.m. From Here to Eternity, sponsored by Knickers. Cost: $6. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com.

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NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. Fun with Fireflies (For wee ones!) Come learn about these amazing insects as we read a book, play some games, and make a craft. All activities will be geared toward 3- to 5-year-olds and meant for parents to do with their children. Bring a flashlight for one of our games. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

WWE LIVE. 7:30–9:30 p.m. See all of your favorite Raw superstars at the. Stars will include Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Bray Wyatt, Dean Ambrose, The Hardy Boyz, and more. Admission: $15 and up. Crown Coliseum, 1960 Coliseum Drive, Fayetteville. Info: (910) 438-4100. MOVIES BY THE LAKE. 8:30 p.m. The Aberdeen Parks and Rec Dept. and sponsors present The Jungle Book, shown on the big screen. Admission is free, concessions available for purchase. Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275 or explorepinehurst.com.

Saturday, July 22 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Hunters vs. Prey.” Join us and cool off from the heat with some water fun while learning about the relationship between predators and prey. Activities geared toward kids ages 8 to10. Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Sunday, July 23 SUNDAY FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This is the newest movie set in a galaxy far, far away. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. Mammals of the Sandhills. Join us to learn about a few of the mammals that call this area home. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. MOVIE NIGHT. 6–8 p.m. Film Noir. “How could I have known that murder could sometimes smell like honeysuckle?” What 1944 classic film noir movie used this phrase? Join us for the thrilling tale of a case of Indemnity Doubled. Popcorn and drinks available. Entry fee is a donation to Given Tufts. The Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-7002. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Brother, Brother and Che Apalache perform. Cost: $15 in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Monday, July 24 LUNCH & LEARN IN THE GARDEN. 12–1 p.m. Jon Davis, from Wild Birds Unlimited, will give you tips on attracting more birds to your backyard habitat. This event is free. Bring your lunch & the Garden will provide drinks. Register by email: landscapegardening@sandhills.edu. Sandhills Horticultural Gardens-Ball Visitors Center, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882. 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 or www.sppl.net. SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. Potluck. Bring a dish or snack to contribute while looking through a collection of nature photography taken by members. Visitors welcome. Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or visit online at www.sandhillsnature.org.

Monday, July 24 — 26 PINEWILD YOUTH GOLF CLINICS. 9–11 a.m. These three-day clinics for boys and girls ages 8 to 16 will focus on golf fundamentals, etiquette, rules of play and more. Appropriate golf attire and own clubs required. Cost: $85. Assemble by the flagpole in front of the clubhouse, five minutes prior to start time. Register by July 17. Golf Academy at Pinewild Country Club, 6 Glasgow Drive, N.C. 211 W, Pinehurst: Info: (910) 5231499 or pinehurstrec.org.

Monday, July 24 — 27 YOUNG CHEFS IN THE SANDHILLS. 9 a.m.–12 p.m. daily. “The New Healthy Latin Cuisine,” for ages 9 to 14. Learn to make chicken verde, fish tacos, local made chorizo and pork tomatillo stew, plus side dishes, desserts and beverages. Cost: $185/residents; $278/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Kitchen @ Community Presbyterian, 125 Everett Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

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TEEN SUMMER PROGRAM. “Adulting 101: Financial Know-How.” 3 p.m. This summer program is designed for teens, grades 6 through 12. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

CHAIR YOGA. 9–10 a.m. Fridays through Sep 1. 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: $40/resident; $80/non-resident. Info: Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

Tuesday, July 25 and 26 ART CLASS (WATERCOLOR) 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Beginning Watercolor, taught by Andrea Schmidt. Focus will be on wetinto-wet technique. Some wet-into-dry and other watercolor techniques may be included. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Wednesday, July 26 — 29 U.S. KIDS GOLF TEEN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP. All day. Each year, the Teen World Championship welcomes golfers ages 13 to 18 to six championship courses in the Pinehurst area. Pinehurst Resort & Country Club, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (888) 387-5437or uskidsgolf.com.

Thursday, July 27 FINE ARTS LECTURE SERIES. 11 a.m. “The Wyeth Family of Painters: From Illustrations to Poetry.” Lecturer: Dr. Molly Gwinn. Presented by The Arts Council of Moore County. Cost: $11/ACMC & Weymouth members; $16/ non-members. Space is limited—advanced registration is required at the Arts Council offices. Campbell House, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or www.MooreArt.org. KIDS SUMMER MOVIE. 10 a.m. Kung Fu Panda 2. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com. SUNRISE THEATER SUMMER CLASSIC SERIES. 7:30 p.m. Pretty in Pink. Cost: $6. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com.

ART EXHIBIT OPENING. 4–6 p.m. “Small Gems of Art.” This full members exhibit runs through August 29. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Louisiana Soul Revival performs, featuring Doug Duffey. Cost: $20 in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9447502 or www.theroosterswife.org. MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 7–9 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.

Saturday, July 29 SANTA’S SUMMER IN THE PINES. 4–8 p.m. Activities for kids, live broadcast, food vendors, pop-up shops, snow machines and more. This event, sponsored by Pinehurst Business Partners, will benefit Hearts 4 Heroes. Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road W, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 420-8656. TILLERY DAM RECREATIONAL WATER FLOW RELEASE. 6–10:30 a.m. Enjoy the scenic beauty and wildlife along the Pee Dee with excellent fishing, great paddling and wonderful floating opportunities for novice and intermediate paddlers. (Not whitewater rafting, just an enhanced flow.) Bring your equipment or rent from local outfitters. Best floating times are 8:30–10:30 a.m. Check the website for updates beforehand. Admission: Free N.C. Wildlife Resouces Commission, 177 Tillery Dam Road, Mount Gilead. Info: explorepinehurst.com or montgomerycountync.com.

ALL-DAY CRAFT DAY. Library hours. Craft tables will be out all day for families looking for a slower-paced event. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. MEET THE AUTHOR. 4 p.m. Critically acclaimed author Alan Gratz will talk about his new book, Refugee, in which he tells the intertwined stories of three refugees: Josef (fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939), Isabel (escaping Castro’s Cuba), and Mahmoud (seeking refuge from the horrors of Syria in 2015). This event is free and open to the public. If you stop by the shop and pre-order your copy of Refugee, your name will be entered into a drawing for a dinner with Alan Gratz. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. WINE TASTING. 6–9 p.m. Wonderful Wine and Words. Join us for our first wine tasting! Walk among words as you drink wine and eat great food. Tickets: $25/per person, on sale July 1. Seating is limited. Tickets available lisa@giventufts.com. The Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-6022. SUNRISE BLUEGRASS. 7:30 p.m. Jeff Little Trio. Sponsored by Burney Hardware Co. Tickets: $25 general admission, $30/ VIP. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com.

Sunday, July 30 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Looking for Lizards.” Join a park ranger to learn what kind of lizards you have at your home and what kind are crawling around Weymouth Woods. This program includes a short walk. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Fuller and Father, and Wild Ponies perform. Cost: $20 in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org.

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ca l e n d a r Monday, July 31 — August 4 YOUTH POTTERY CAMP. 1–3 p.m. daily. (No camp Aug. 3, kiln day). For ages 5+. Create your own unique pottery pieces with white earthenware clay and paint under glazes, with instructor Karen Fellema. Cost: $75/resident; $150/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Assembly Hall Lobby, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org.

WEEKLY EVENTS Mondays BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 2–5:30 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods, and more. FirstHealth Fitness Center, 170 Memorial Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 947-3752 or moorecountync.gov or localharvest.org.

Mondays — Fridays (through August 7) KIDS COOKING CAMPS. 8:30–11:30 a.m. Campers learn to work in a kitchen, learn safety tips, make two or three recipes and have plenty to eat! $50 per child ($5 off additional siblings) or $200 for the week (Monday–Friday). The Flavor Exchange, 115 E New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info and menus: (910) 725-1345 or www.TheFlavorExchange.com.

Mondays — Saturdays THE OFFICE PARTY. 5:30–8 p.m. Meet locals and the occasional visiting artist for discussion and learning. Free admission. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or theroosterswife.org.

Mondays — Sundays COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Hands-on instruction for

pasta, Moroccan, ravioli, sweet potato gnocchi, sushi, eggplant parmesan, pierogis and charcuterie and knife skills. Vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options. Reservations and pre-payment required. Prices: $45–$55 per person, includes meal, instruction and recipes. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info and menus: (910) 725-1345 or www. TheFlavorExchange.com.

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 July 11, 18 and 25. Limited to 20 babies per session. 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 p.m. Arts & Crafts. For ages 2 yrs + Free for members. Cost for non-members: $2/child and $1/siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 2462342 or playescapenc.com.

Wednesdays YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6–7 p.m. Improve flexibility, build strength, ease tension, and relax through posture and breathing techniques for beginners and experts alike! Free

for CFBG and YMCA members. $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 ex. 36 or capefearbg.org. (Must register 1 day prior). Email questions to mzimmerman@ capefearbg.org. BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 3–6 p.m. The market features many wonderful farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and egg providers, cheese makers and specialty food producers our area has to offer. 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www.moorefarmfresh.com. READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30–4 p.m. For children through age 5, this storytime focuses on stories, songs and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build skills for Kindergarten. Dates this month are July 12, 19 and 26. Stay for playtime. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Thursdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.moorecountync. gov or www.localharvest.org. GIVEN STORY TIME 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 to 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022. 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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CHESS. 1–3 p.m. Don Hammerman instructs all levels of players. You need a chess set to participate. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 6–7:30 p.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.

JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music, provided by The Coastline Band (July 7), The Carolina Breakers (July 14), The Sand Band (July 21), and The Holiday Band (July 28). Cost: $15/person. Ages 21 and older. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of 8 or more. Food vendor on site. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 369-0411 or www.cypressbendvineyards.com.

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

Fridays STEAM FRIDAYS. All day. These slower-paced events for families feature a Wind-Powered Lifesaver Car on July 7, Chicken Sounds from a Cup on July 14, Exploding Sticks on July 21, and Marshmallow Catapults on July 28. Included with the events are take-home summer learning ideas. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. PLAY ESCAPE. 10 a.m. Arts & Crafts. For ages 2 yr + Free for members. Cost for non-members: $2/child and $1/siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 2462342 or playescapenc.com. PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. Reading selections are taken from our current inventory of children’s literature, from the classics to modern day. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Saturdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 8 a.m.–12 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods, and more. FirstHealth Fitness Center, 170 Memorial Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 947-3752 or moorecountync.gov or localharvest.org. SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m. The market features many wonderful farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and egg providers, cheese makers and specialty food producers our area has to offer. 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www.moorefarmfresh.com. SATURDAYS IN SEAGROVE. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Stepping into the craft. Tour individual shops, observe demonstrations of wheel throwing, carving techniques, raku firing and more; and try making pottery yourself. Pottery Shops of Seagrove, NC Pottery Highway 705, Seagrove. Info: (336) 707-9124 or discoverseagrove.com. LIVE MUSIC. 7–10 p.m. Tim Stelmat (July 1), Laura Jane Vincent (July 8), Ryan Book (July 15, Josh Haley (July 22) perform at the Wine Cellar & Tasting Room, 241-A NE Broad St., Southern Pines. Free to the public. Info: (910) 692-3066.

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