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July �� DEPARTMENTS 27 Simple Life By Jim Dodson

32 PinePitch 35 Instagram Winners 37 Good Natured By Karen Frye

39 The Omnivorous Reader By Stephen E. Smith

FEATURES 81 Pulling Up the Wild Blackberry Bushes Poetry by Ashley Memory 82 Sweet Tea for the Soul By Gayvin Powers A sociable Southern greeting in a glass

86 Hog Heaven By Jane Lear

A pig picking — down-home and dramatic all at the same time. Invite the neighborhood and ice down plenty of beer.

90 When the West Was Really Wild By Michael Smith Annie Oakley’s path to Pinehurst

43 Bookshelf 47 Drinking with Writers

94 Starting Over By Deborah Salomon

51 Hometown

107 Almanac By Ash Alder

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53 In the Spirit By Tony Cross

57 The Kitchen Garden By Jan Leitschuh

61 Pleasures of Life Dept. By Katherine Smith

63 True South

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65 Out of the Blue

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66 Sandhill Photo Club 71 Birdwatch By Susan Campbell

73 Sporting Life By Tom Bryant

77 Golftown Journal By Lee Pace

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Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson

127 The Accidental Astrologer By Astrid Stellanova

128 SouthWords By David Bailey

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Chance of a lifetime to own special property. 16.74-acres with 4 houses only minutes to Pinehurst Village. Zoned R-210, allows for many uses from horse farm to golf course. 4 beds, 5 baths.

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40 Cypress Point Drive, Pinehurst

$995,000 MLS 192125 Melanie Norman 910 –992–1441

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Sunken wet bar, exotic hardwoods, and stunning views in this luxury brick, waterfront home with an expansive gorgeous kitchen. 4 bedroom, 4/2 bathrooms.

Beautiful CCNC, 5.58-acre, custom-built, golf front home on the 8 th fairway looking at the 8 th green of the Cardinal Course. Expansive views. Private with gorgeous pool. 6 Bedrooms, 5 bathrooms.

30 Laurel Road, Pinehurst $1,199,000 MLS 188244 Emily Hewson 910 –310 –3324 Pamela O’Hara 910 –315 –3093

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

28 Middlebury Road, Pinehurst $799,000 MLS 190504 Kay Beran 910 –315 –3322

A spectacular golf front home in Forest Creek GC, a masterplanned, golf community. A combination of a special home in a special place. Outstanding entertaining spaces inside and out.

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Stunning golf front cottage. Beautiful stone fireplace with custom built-ins. Open plan with tons of natural light. Main level master suite. 5 bedroom, 4/1 bathrooms.

Custom Pinehurst home. Close to the Village and Pinehurst CC. Single level living room, dining room, front room, and sunroom. PCC membership available. 3 bedrooms, 2/1 bathrooms.

For those who like serenity and low maintenance - inside and out. Enjoy the lake views and new refinished space with a kitchen, 4 beds, 3 baths, and double garage. PCC membership available.

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35 Whistling Straight, Pinehurst $334,999 MLS 186408 Jenni Hirtle 931 –561 – 8000

Located in the Villas at Forest Hills. All the upgrades in this open floor plan home make this home tough to pass up. 2 master suites, fireplace, 2-car garage, and lots of natural light. 4 beds, 3/1 baths.

40 Doral Drive, Pinehurst $315,000 MLS 194307 Jenni Hirtle 931 –561 – 8000

Single level, all-brick, home located in Doral Woods. Immaculately kept. Open floor plan with vaulted ceilings and custom fireplace. PCC Charter membership available. 3 bedroom, 2/1 bathrooms.

7 Ravenel Court, Southern Pines $310,000 MLS 193876 Bill Brock 910 – 639 –1148

Premier Middleton Place home, both with en-suite baths. Foyer with marble floors, powder room and built-ins. Fully equipped kitchen with custom cabinetry. 2 courtyards, 2 beds, 2/1 baths.

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140 North Valley • Southern Pines Loblolly, a Southern Pines historic treasure, located on a quiet, tree-lined street, is a lovely combination of unparalleled building elegance embraced by comfortable living features. 5BR, 5BA, 8,050 sf. Offered at $1,650,000

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Exquisite detail and finishes define character in this light-filled family home in popular Pine Grove Village. Downstairs master, 3BR, 3BA and playroom upstairs, open kitchen, 3 car garage, 3 living areas. Offered at $628,000

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8 Middlebury Road • Pinehurst This stunning golf retreat, overlooking the “unforgiving” par 4, 12th hole of the North Course in Forest Creek, captures the views at every opportunity. 3BR, 3.5BA 4,425 sf. Offered at $930,000

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

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100 Lake Dornoch • Pinehurst

Knollwood House, a Southern Pines landmark, is set on a knoll overlooking the Donald Ross designed Mid Pines Golf Course. 5BR, 5.5BA, 5,212 sf. Offered at $925,000

This stunning contemporary home, poised over the 17th hole of the Dogwood Course, is characterized by rooms with a view. 4BR, 5BA, 2HB, 4,750 sf. Offered at $885,000

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4 PEACHTREE LANE New construction with 3 BR / 2.5 BA on beautiful golf front lot and curb appeal that grabs your attention. The interior is light and bright w/great flow for everyday living.

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106 BONNIE BROOK COURT Charming 4 BR / 3.5 BA Charleston style home in beautiful side-walk community. This home is upscale and comfortable and has been meticulously maintained!

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34 STONEYKIRK DRIVE Lovely 3 BR / 2.5 BA single level home in beautiful Pinewild CC w/lots of privacy and seasonal views of the lake across the street.

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144 OVERLOOK DRIVE Adorable 4 BR / 2.5 BA waterfront style cottage on beautiful Lake Echo. Great floorplan w/spacious living area and lots of windows for those fabulous water views!

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55 GLASGOW DRIVE Exquisite 3 BR / 3.5 BA home w/beautiful views of the 3rd hole of the Challenge course and relaxing water feature in back

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7 DEACON PALMER DRIVE Delightful 5 BR / 4 BA home in popular Mid-South Club. Floorplan is spacious w/over 3600 sq ft of living space and private backyard overlooking the 12th tee.

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170 TUCKER ROAD Beautiful new construction underway! 4 BR / 3 BA home sits on one acre lot w/lots of privacy.

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506 DAYLILY COURT Appealing 4 BR / 3.5 BA two-story home in lovely location. The house was built in 2015 and is in excellent condition and move-in ready!

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

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

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

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

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111 VANORE ROAD Custom contemporary 3 BR / 2 Full BA 2 half BA home on Lake Auman! This home offers spacious living area and gourmet kitchen.

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

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

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

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29 NORTHAM COURT Stunning 4 BR / 3.5 BA secluded estate w/lovely views of the 16th green of the Holly course and beautiful golf views from almost every room in the house.

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The Road to Happiness

It’s an upward climb filled with twists and turns, but joy is in the journey

By Jim Dodson

A dear friend phoned the other day just

to say hello, a gifted young poet I hired many years ago as our organization’s first staff writer, who went on to become the senior editor of this magazine. I always knew the time would come when Ashley would fly away to new horizons, which she did after many years of our working together, moving to the mountains where she became a teacher, artist and musician. Lucky for us, her soulful perspective continues to grace the magazine’s pages.

As old friends do, we spent a full half hour catching up on each other’s lives. I was pleased to learn about her current boyfriend and their travels to art festivals across the Southeast, where they sell handmade crafts created from sea glass, answering the muse and enjoying life on the road. “You sound pretty happy,” I ventured at one point. “I am. Maybe never happier. How about you?” I replied that I was happy at that moment because I was talking to her while sitting in a well-worn Adirondack chair on the lawn where I begin and end most of my day in quiet reflection, watching the dawn arrive and the day depart, usually with Mulligan the dog and Boo the cat by my side. When she called, my companions and I happened to be watching the first fireflies of the season dance in the dusk. During our years working together, Ashley and I often fell into lengthy conversations about life, love, matters of faith and favorite poets. Among other things, we share an Aquarian sensibility about the future and how we must spiritually evolve in order to get there in one piece as a race of scattered and fractured human beings. I wasn’t surprised when she asked what things make me happy these days. I gave her my short and simple list: rainy Sundays, walks with my wife and our dogs, working in my garden, driving back roads, early church, books and movies that stir the heart, phone calls from my grown children and suppers on the porch with friends. “What about writing?” she asked. “Cheap therapy.” She laughed. “Maybe you should write a book about happiness.” This notion made me laugh. Somewhere I’d read that there are more than 500 books on the subject of happiness in print, proving happiness is purely in the eye — or soul — of the beholder. Besides, I confessed, my kind of happiness was increasingly fueled by things I’d given up or simply no longer needed for the journey, a list that included, but was not limited to, late-night fears of failure, desires for wealth or fame, judging other flawed human beings, even my once all-consuming love of sports was practically gone.

True to the spirit of our talks, I turned the question around on her. Ashley didn’t hesitate. “I think happiness comes when you are following your heart and doing good things for others.” Her prescription reminded me of something I’d just read in commentator David Brooks’ outstanding new book The Second Mountain — The Quest for a Moral Life. “Often,” Brooks writes, “we say a good life is a happy life. We live, as it says in our founding document, in pursuit of happiness. In all forms of happiness we feel good, elated, uplifted. But the word ‘happiness’ can mean a lot of different things.” Brooks makes an important distinction, for instance, between things that make us happy — a good marriage, a successful career, a sense of material achievement — and the rarer experience of joy. “Happiness involves a victory for the self, an expansion of self. Happiness comes when we move toward our goals, when things go our way. You get a big promotion. You graduate from college. Your team wins the Super Bowl. You have a delicious meal. Happiness often has to do with some success, some new ability, or some heightened sensual pleasure.” Joy, on the other hand, he posits, has to do with some transcendence of self, comes almost unbidden when “the skin barrier between you and some other person or entity fades away and you feel fused together. Joy is present when mother and baby are gazing adoringly into each other’s eyes, when a hiker is overwhelmed by the beauty in the woods and feels at one with nature, when a gaggle of friends are dancing deliriously in union. Joy often involves self-forgetting. ”We can help create happiness,” Brooks concludes, “but we are seized by joy. We are pleased by happiness, but we are transformed by joy.” The day after catching up with Ashley, I was on a winding road deep in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, chasing pieces of Wagon Road history and human stories for my next book — something that always makes me happy — unable to get our conversation about happiness out of my head. The art of happiness, if there is such a thing, my version of it anyway, seems to be about an inward journey cultivated by intentionally making room in life for small restorative acts and daily rituals that invite you to step out of your hectic, overscheduled life into what Irish mystics called a thin space, a place where duty and obligation are put on hold and deeper mindfulness is possible. Without my early morning communion with the stars and the grateful prayers I send up like sparks from a signal fire to the gods, my day is curiously never fully complete. For what it’s worth, I also agree with Ashley the poet and Brooks the wise counselor that service of the smallest order to others in a world where there is so much isolation, loneliness and suffering may be the truest pathway to a happier, more meaningful life, a true “Second Mountain” existence. Since most of my days are spent in quiet working isolation — Hemingway, not a happy camper, called writing the “loneliest art” — I find myself these days almost unconsciously seeking out opportunities to commit some kind of tiny random act of kindness to a fellow stranger in need. The other day, I chased down a harried mother’s runaway grocery cart in the parking lot of Harris-Teeter. She had an infant on her hip and was struggling to unlock her SUV. Her grateful smile

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and warm thanks were like a liberating breeze to a weary brain that had been arm-wrestling words and sentences onto the page most of that day. During our pre-dawn walks around the neighborhood each day, my wife began stopping by the house of an elderly shut-in lady to walk her newspaper from the curb to a chair by her front door. We’ve never seen our neighbor’s face. But the dogs insist on stopping to deliver her paper the final 50 feet. To paraphrase C.S. Lewis on prayer, this minuscule act of neighborliness may do nothing whatsoever for God, but it sure makes us all feel a tiny bit happier. The 17th-century Buddhist monk Gensei wrote, “With the happiness held in one inch-square heart, you can fill the whole space between heaven and Earth.” Sometimes, we need to be reminded of this fact. A friend who works with the homeless explained to me that perhaps the hardest things homeless people deal with on a daily basis is a feeling that they are not worthy of noticing or speaking to — are, in effect, invisible travelers in our midst. This prompted a change a shift in my awareness and behavior, from that of feeling uneasy and even slightly resentful whenever I reach into my pocket to offer whatever modest sum may be there, to making a point of looking in the eyes and sharing a few words of ordinary greeting or simple recognition, maybe even learning a name and sharing mine. We are, after all, all traveling the same road between Earth and heaven. It’s a lesson I seem destined to repeatedly learn. Watching Notre Dame cathedral in Paris burn live on CNN back in the spring, I was suddenly transported to a rainy July day 18 years ago when my son, Jack, then 10, and I were coming out of the famous cathedral in a thunderstorm. Surrounded by a swarm of tourist umbrellas dashing for cover, as we hurried past a lone ragged man with blind eyes standing in the downpour, simply holding out an upturned palm, a character straight from Victor Hugo, a dignified beggar for God. No one was stopping. But when I saw my son glance back, something stopped me. I gave my son 100 francs and asked him to go and give it to the man.

Without hesitation, he threaded back through the on-rushing umbrellas and placed the folded money into the man’s outstretched hand. What happened next still gives me goose bumps of unexpected joy — the kind of self-forgetting transcendence David Brooks speaks of. The blind man placed his free hand gently on Jack’s head, as if bestowing a blessing. Watching, my eyes filled with tears, or maybe simply rain. Or both. “What did he say to you?” I asked as we hurried off to find a dry lunch in a cozy Left Bank bistro. “I don’t know,” he said with a happy smile. “But it was in French and it sounded nice.” Last summer, at the end of a walking pilgrimage across Tuscany with my wife and 30 other pilgrims, I skipped the private tour of the Vatican’s famous Sistine Chapel in favor of climbing a leafy Roman hill to a small Greek Orthodox Church where I sat on a simple wooden pew for God knows how long listening to morning prayers being sung in Greek by three exquisite voices. Save for an elderly woman manning a small stand at the rear entrance of the church, I was the only worshipper in the building, sitting beneath the tiny dome of a stunning blue ceiling painted with stars, angels and saints. Time completely vanished, taking my weary feet with it. Unexpectedly, it was the happiest moment of my long journey that week. On the way out, the old woman smiled and waved me over to her stand, handing me a small gilt-framed portrait of an Eastern Saint. I’m still not sure which one. When I reached into my pocket to pay, she gave me a gentle smile and nod, waving me on with gentle words. I have no idea what she said to me. I believe it was in Greek and it sounded nice. PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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Fourth of July Take your pick of freedom festivities! Fourthfest on Wednesday, July 3, at the Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah HIll Road S., Pinehurst, begins at 6 p.m. with a free concert and fireworks. Gates open at 4 p.m. and fireworks begin at 9:15 p.m. For more information, call (910) 295-1900 or go to www.vopnc.org. If you’re closer to Aberdeen, check out the July 4th celebration at Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen, from 5 –10 p.m. Celebrate America with live entertainment, food and vendors. Entertainment begins at 6 p.m. and fireworks begin at 9:15 p.m. For more information, call (910) 944-7275 or go to www.townofaberdeen.net.

First Friday The July 5 edition of First Friday features The Travers Brothership on the First Bank Stage at the Sunrise, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Music begins at 5 p.m. with food trucks and alcohol for purchase. For more information, call (910) 692-8501 or go to www.sunrisetheater.com.

Abe and Mary: Courtship and Murder Mystery Join author and Lincoln scholar Jonathan F. Putnam at The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines, on July 17 at 5 p.m. to discuss the courtship of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, and the murder mystery at the heart of Putnam’s newest release, A House Divided. Delve into this historical mystery highlighting this famous but misunderstood romance. For more information, call (910) 692-3211 or go to www.thecountrybookshop.biz/event.

An Evening with General Cornwallis Step, into history on Thursday, July 25, at Pinehurst Country Club, 1 Carolina Vista Drive, for a dinner and lecture benefit to preserve the chimneys at the House in the Horseshoe, a Colonial-era North Carolina State Historical Site, to preserve the chimneys. Tickets are $100 at ticketmesandhills.com. For more information, call (910) 315-2152.

Where’s Waldo? Join the search for Waldo in downtown Southern Pines from July 12 – 22, by looking in participating downtown stores for a chance to win exclusive prizes. First, go to The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., to get your Waldo passport. For more information, go to www.thecountrybookshop.biz.

The Rooster’s Wife Wednesday, July 3: Michaela Anne. An introduction to Michael Daves changed this songwriter's path from jazz to the more traditional sounds of bluegrass and folk. Yep, rock artist Micheala Anne makes her Aberdeen debut celebrating Independence Day early. Cost: $15.

Sunday Exchange Concert: The Tams Come listen to The Tams on Sunday, July 14, in downtown Aberdeen at The Exchange Place Lawn, 129 Exchange St., as part of The Sunday Exchange Concert Series. The event is free and open to the public, with food trucks on-site and a BYOB option. Music begins at 6 p.m. For more information, call (910) 944-4506.

Sunday, July 7: Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley. This unique collaborative effort between two gifted musicians is bound to be a revelation to traditional music fans. Ickes is a longtime, well-established instrumental giant, and Hensley is newly arrived in Music City, bursting with talent both as a vocalist and guitarist. Cost: $20. Saturday, July 13: Amythyst Kiah. Blending masterful blues guitar skills with a deep knowledge and scholarship of African-American roots music, Kiah’s repertoire runs from old-time music through classic country to contemporary R&B. Cost: $15. Thursday, July 18: Open mic with the Parsons. Free to members. Sunday, July 21: The Shakedown. Nothing beats the thrill of live music. The Shakedown brings people together in the seats and on the dance floor. Join us for a fabulous party. Cost: $10.

Summer Classic Movie Experience a classic movie, Ghost, at a classic theater, the Sunrise, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines, on Wednesday, July 10, at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call (910) 692-3611 or go to www.sunrisetheater.com.

Christmas in July Visit Seagrove on Friday July 19, for a gallery crawl from 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., celebrating “Christmas in July.” Mr. and Mrs. Claus will be present at the shops on North Broad Street, Seagrove, all day. For more information call (336) 707-9124.

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ne of the hardest working organs in our body is the liver. It’s at the center of every metabolic process. Everything, from what you eat and drink, the medications and supplements you take, even the body care products you apply to your skin and hair, gets filtered by the liver. Consuming certain foods on a regular basis or adding effective supplements will help keep the liver working properly. Artichokes are one of the best liver-friendly foods to add to your diet. In fact, you will often find artichoke extract in many of the liver-detoxifying supplements. The artichoke is high in many antioxidants and a great source of silymarin (also abundant in milk thistle). Silymarin helps to protect and nourish your liver. Fresh artichokes may be a little intimidating to prepare, although once you get the hang of it they may be on your plate more often. Artichokes are relatively easy to prepare by trimming the base, and steaming them till tender. Dip the leaves in a bit of warm butter and lemon juice — it makes a nice appetizer to share, and you might find your new favorite food! Here is a simple recipe for summer meals that includes artichokes. The lentils are also good to eat on a regular basis. They are a high source of fiber, especially soluble fiber, which helps to control blood sugar. The microbiome (the microbes that live in our bodies) loves fiber, feeding on it and promoting a healthier gut. Tomatoes are an important ingredient in this recipe as well, as they are rich in lycopene — a potent antioxidant especially helpful for prostate health.

Easy Artichoke Lentils 2 teaspoons avocado or olive oil 2 large shallots, diced 1 large red bell pepper, diced 1 large zucchini, diced 2 teaspoons Italian spice blend (in the summer substitute fresh basil and parsley) 1 15-ounce can lentils, drained and rinsed 1 15-ounce can quartered artichoke hearts, drained 1 15-ounce can diced tomatoes, undrained 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste Heat oil in large saucepan over medium heat. Sauté shallots, pepper and zucchini until just tender. Stir in spice blend, lentils, artichoke hearts and tomatoes. Cook until hot. Stir in the vinegar, salt and pepper just before serving. You can serve this hot or chilled. Add a green salad with all the good things from your garden and you have a delicious healthy meal. P.S. Remember to drink your chilled hibiscus tea through these hot summer months. PS Karen Frye is the owner and founder of Nature’s Own and teaches yoga at the Bikram Yoga Studio.

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Here’s the theory: If a writer drags

his audience into unknown intellectual territory — even if the journey’s destination is an unpleasant one — he’s lifted his readers out of the familiar and allowed them to perceive the world from a new and revelatory perspective. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s A Coney Island of the Mind did that for a generation of poets, and the book remains one of the best-selling collections with over a million copies in print.

Ferlinghetti also achieved literary fame by publishing and defending in federal court Allen Ginsberg’s Howl. The lengthy First Amendment trial became a literary cause célèbre, and in the years since the Howl controversy, Ferlinghetti has continued to support leftist social and political causes while producing his own volumes of poetry and prose. His latest book, Little Boy, was published on the author’s 100th birthday and immediately climbed the best-sellers list. Billed by its publisher as “a novel” and “last will and testament,” the book isn’t a novel, not in the traditional sense, and it isn’t the last word on anything. Call it bait and switch or simple misrepresentation, but Little Boy is, for better or worse, an adventurous, effusive, stream-of-consciousness rant that begins promisingly as a memoir complete with punctuation, plot and character development, and lapses almost immediately into an unpunctuated acerbic toxic word dump that occasionally sweeps up the reader in its rebellious energy. If the designation “novel” is misleading, Ferlinghetti manages to hide a cursory explanation deep in his tangled text: “Ah yes indeed I must revert instead to the recounting and accounting of my own fantasies my ideas and agitations and dumb contemplations of the workings of the mind and heart

. . . And so do I return to the monologue of my life seen as an endless novel simply because I don’t know how to end any life.” The opening 15 pages of Little Boy recount how Ferlinghetti was separated from his mother shortly after birth, grew up in both privilege and poverty, and eventually graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, completing his doctoral study in comparative literature in France — all of which is conveyed in straightforward third-person prose. Then the structure of the narrative abruptly transforms, launching into a torrent of words sans grammatical niceties, e.g.: “ . . . the Greeks really all gone now down the drain And shall we tally it up now and see what’s left after capitalism hits the fan But in any case now it’s time it’s high tide time to try to make some sense or cents of our little life on earth and is it not all a dumb show of mummery a blindman’s bluff a buffoon’s antic asininities with clowns in masks jumping over the moon as in a Chagall painting or as if we each were dropped out of a womb into this earth so naked and alone we come to this world and blind in our courses, where do we wander and know not where we go nor what we do, with no assigned destinies . . . .” There’s nothing new about this narrative technique (Joyce gave us Molly Bloom’s monologue more than a century ago), and Ferlinghetti’s deluge of words wears thin with surprising alacrity. With the exception of an occasional brief interlude of traditional storytelling, he continues in this vein for the remainder of the novel. Since the monologue is essentially plotless, he rails again about global warming, capitalism, fascism, socialism, people with cellphones — “can you imagine millions of them a whole new generation on earth computing their lives in pixels” — and the world in general: “. . . it’s all like the old film The King of Hearts in which the inmates of an asylum consider themselves the only sane

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people in the world, while the people outside go forth every day to murder their dreams and ecstasies in the general conflagration of everyday life in the twenty-first century . . . .” Allusions abound, most of them employed as similes or used as foils or objects of derision as in “‘Tea Ass’ Elliot” or twisted into puns as in “Let’s not fall deep into romanticism again for the warming world is too much with us late and soon . . . .” And there are literary references galore, if you can identify them: “Let us go then you and me-me-me . . .” “Drive she said,” or “a tale of sound and furry animals.” And the name-dropping goes on ad nauseam: Thorstein Veblen, Nelson Algren, Louise Brooks, Mikhail Lermontov, J. M.W. Turner, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sri Aurobindo, Giacometti, Edward Bellcamp, etc., personages with whom most readers are probably unfamiliar. Unfortunately, Ferlinghetti makes no use of these allusions. He’s in a position to supply important scholarly insights into Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso, Beckett, Kerouac, Sartre, etc., but the mention of literary celebrities has all the intellectual import of the cover of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s or an academic adaptation of Where’s Waldo? Readers can research the luminaries Ferlinghetti mentions — how likely is that? — or they can let the allusions ride and go plunging through the text, which is, of course, the more likely scenario. Readers might presume, given Ferlinghetti’s appetite for social and political causes, that he’d have something to say about the political state of the country in which he’s lived for a century. It’s not unreasonable, after all, to expect a little wisdom from our elders, but Ferlinghetti disappoints on this count. Perhaps he’s correct when he writes: “. . . so I am just an onion peeling myself down to the core to find there is nothing there at all. . . .” The opening lines of his Coney Island poem “I Am Waiting”— “. . . and I am waiting/for the American Eagle/to really spread its wings/and straighten up and fly right . . .” — has more political oomph than all the words in Little Boy, and the sum of all the complaints and observations spewed forth in the novel tell us little more than we learned in A Coney Island of the Mind. Ferlinghetti’s longevity and literary reputation have earned him the right to offer a parting public thought. For better or worse, this might be it: “. . . so bye-bye civilization as we know it and should I just let everybody else die as long as I got my piece of prime cheese oh man it’s all beyond me-me-me . . . .” PS

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In a dazzling new novel about the 20-year friendship that will irrevocably change two women’s lives, the author of The Dollhouse and The Address, deftly pulls back the curtain on the desperate political pressures of McCarthyism and blacklisting in the entertainment industry. The bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of New York, the pressure building to name names and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in this wonderful novel.

Stay and Fight, by Madeline ffitch

Helen arrives in Appalachian, Ohio, full of love and her boyfriend’s ideas about living off the land. Too soon, with winter coming, he calls it quits. Helped by her boss and a neighbor couple, she makes it to spring. Those neighbors, Karen and Lily, are awaiting the arrival of their first child, a boy, which means their time at the Women’s Land Trust must end. Helen invites the new family to throw in with her. Their choices and lifestyle decisions face them down when the child, Perley, attends school for the first time and they must all confront societal norms. Chock-full of grit, quirky characters, questionable food sources, extreme living conditions and infestations, Stay and Fight is a ferocious read by a talented author.

Deep River, by Karl Marlantes

Rich in detail, Deep River is a family saga by the acclaimed author of Matterhorn about a Finnish woman and her brothers who immigrate to the Pacific Northwest in the early 1900s and struggle to make a life. Ultimately, it’s a book examining the tension between the collective needs and rights of American citizens as a group, and the dreams and rights of the individual and how both are necessary to realize the idea of America.

The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead

The author of The Underground Railroad returns with a new novel based on the real story of a Florida reform school. Elwood Curtis was kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother in Tallahassee and is about to enroll in the local black college. But one innocent mistake in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s is enough to send Elwood to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides “physical, intellectual and moral training” so the delinquent boys in its charge can become “honorable and honest men.” In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque

chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear “out back.” Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold onto Dr. Martin Luther King’s ringing assertion, “Throw us in jail and we will still love you.” This masterful novel follows Elwood and his friend, Turner, as they navigate this world.

The Golden Hour, by Beatriz Williams

Newly widowed Leonora “Lulu” Randolph arrives in Nassau on assignment for a New York society magazine. After all, American readers have an insatiable appetite for news of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, that glamorous couple whose love affair nearly brought the British monarchy to its knees. What more intriguing backdrop for their romance than a wartime Caribbean paradise, a colonial playground for kingpins of ill-gotten empires? Or so Lulu imagines. As she infiltrates the Duke and Duchess’ social circle, and the powerful cabal that controls the island’s political and financial affairs, she uncovers evidence that beneath the glitter lays an ugly reality. Nassau seethes with spies, financial swindlers and racial tension, and in the middle of it all stands Benedict Thorpe — a scientist of tremendous charm and murky national loyalties. Inevitably, the willful and wounded Lulu falls in love. When Nassau’s wealthiest man is murdered in one of the most notorious cases of the century, the resulting cover-up reeks of royal privilege. Thorpe disappears without a trace, and Lulu embarks on a journey to London and beyond to unravel Thorpe’s complicated family history — a fateful love affair, a wartime tragedy, and a mother from whom all joy is stolen.

The Lager Queen of Minnesota, by J. Ryan Stradal

A Midwestern family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, the younger of his two daughters, to start a brewery. She builds one of the most successful light breweries in the country, and makes their company motto ubiquitous: “Drink lots. It’s Blotz.” Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home, the elder daughter, Edith, struggles to make ends meet. Where Edith has a heart as big as all Minnesota, Helen’s is as rigid as a steel I-beam. One day, Helen finds she needs help herself and that her potential savior could be close to home . . . if it’s not too late. With a cast of lovable, funny, quintessentially American characters eager to make their mark in a world that’s often stacked against them, this is a family saga where resolution can take generations, but when it finally comes, we’re surprised, moved and delighted.

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Red Metal, by Mark Greaney and Lt. Col. H. Ripley Rawlings IV, USMC In this stunningly realistic view of modern warfare co-authored by a battlefield commander and the New York TimesÂ best-selling author of The Gray Man, the Kremlin takes advantage of a military crisis in Asia to simultaneously strike into Western Europe and invade east Africa in a bid to occupy three rare Earth mineral mines. Its tanks race across Poland crushing all opposition on a headlong dash for the heart of Germany. Satellite-killing missiles blind American forces while Spetsnaz teams destroy Allied communication relays. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all part of a master plan to confuse and defeat America and its allies. Deployed against the Russian attack are a Marine lieutenant colonel pulled out of a cushy job at the Pentagon and thrown into the fray; a French Special Forces captain and his intelligence operative father; a young Polish female partisan fighter; an A-10 Warthog pilot; and the captain of an American tank platoon who, along with a German sergeant, struggles to keep a small group of American and German tanks in the fight. NONFICTION Crescendo, by Allen Cheney and

Julie Cantrell A biography of Fred Allen, the musical prodigy born into a troubled and abusive family in rural Georgia during the Great Depression who overcame great obstacles to simultaneously attend The Juilliard School in New York City, the Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. In the 1960s Allen caught the attention of the music industry, earning numerous Grammy nominations. Just when his career was taking off, his wife, Winnie, announced she no longer wanted to raise their daughter in New York. Returning to the South, Allen took a job as a high school music teacher in his hometown of Thomasville, Georgia. Far from the glitz of Broadway, Allen never could have imagined that his new role would not only transform his life but change an entire community forever.

Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo

Over the past eight years, Taddeo embedded herself with three American women in different parts of the country to write a deeply immersive account of their sexual lives and longings. The women include a high school student in North Dakota who has a relationship with her

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married English teacher; a middle-class Catholic homemaker in the Midwest who is dissatisfied in her marriage and begins an affair that quickly becomes all-consuming; and a glamorous restaurateur in the Northeast whose husband likes to watch her have sex with other men and women. Taddeo’s Three Women does for contemporary readers what Gay Talese’s Thy Neighbor’s Wife did for a previous generation. CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Camp Tiger, by Susan Choi

In his last week before starting first grade, a boy and his family set out for a week-long camping trip. As they begin to unpack and set up camp, a tiger steps into the clearing. Thin but beautiful, the tiger asks the boy if there is a tent for him. Through the week, the boy and the tiger hike to new places, paddle the lake, fish, and watch the stars. They do things neither would risk on his own. And when the week is over, each must go his own way, both better for their time together. An absolutely stunning book. (Ages 4-6.)

Hum and Swish, by Matt Myers

On a beautiful day on a sunlit beach, Jamie begins to create. As artists must never be rushed or interrupted or questioned too much while their masterpieces are in development, Jamie replies, “I don’t know” to everyone who wants answers . . . until a fellow artist joins her and together they bring their special vein of art into the world. For artists and creators young and old, Hum and Swish is a celebration of beauty, wonder and warm days in the sun, to think and be. Matt Myers will be appearing at The Country Bookshop Friday, July 19, at 10:30 a.m. for story time. This event is free and open to the public. (Ages 3-6.)

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Moon! Earth’s Best Friend,

by Stacy McAnulty There are tons of books out this summer to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and this fun title from North Carolina’s own Stacy McAnulty is a fabulous introduction to lunar love for the youngest readers. With fun facts, awesome illustrations and even a quick quiz, readers will discover how the moon and the Earth cooperate to keep our world spinning like a top. (Ages 3-6.) PS Compiled by Kimberly Daniels Taws and Angie Tally

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A Born Storyteller Wills Maxwell makes comedy real

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Maxwell routinely opens his sets with a joke about what he claims is his desire to fit in. “I’m a conformist,” he says. “I’m such a conformist that the only reason I’m black is because everyone else in my family is.”

The son of an attorney and an insurance claims adjuster, and the brother of three sisters — all of whom have advanced degrees — the career path Wills has taken proves he is not one bit concerned with conformity. Even when he was a kid growing up in Raleigh, Wills knew he wanted to be a storyteller. “My ambition was to write comic books about superheroes,” he says. “I wanted to tell stories however I could, so I came to UNC Wilmington and studied filmmaking and screenwriting and learned how to tell stories that way.” The skill Wills developed behind the camera landed him a job directing the morning news at WWAY TV-3, the NBC/CBS/CW affiliate in Wilmington, but it was his talent in front of the camera that landed him a weekly segment he calls “What Did We Miss?” in which he “tells you the stories that WWAY did not.” The three-minute segments cover outlandish news, and they are marked by Wills’ hilarious one-liners and asides. In one episode he covers a crew of car burglars in Los Angeles who are using scooters to flee the scenes of their crimes. In another episode, he covers the story of a man in an Easter bunny suit who breaks up a street fight without removing his mask.

It is no surprise that Wills is able to turn inane news items into comic gold. He has been perfecting his comedic timing and writing for several years, first on stage at Dead Crow Comedy Club in Wilmington, and later on stages across the Southeast. His big break came last year in Charlotte when he made it to the finals round of StandUp NBC, a nationwide search for stand-up comedians from diverse backgrounds. That success got him an invite to return to this year’s Nashville competition and an automatic leapfrog to the second round, where he will have two minutes to earn another spot in the finals. For Wills, it all comes down to storytelling: “Comedy lets me tell stories in a way that puts people into my perspective, so maybe they can leave the show just a little more aware of how other people live.” Recently, Wills and I sat down for lunch at the Dixie Grill in downtown Wilmington, and as we ate — a club sandwich for me and a chicken finger basket for him — we discussed his desire for audiences to see things from his perspective. I ask him what that means to him. “In the summer of 2015, I went to Charleston, South Carolina, to work on an independent film,” he says. “I arrived in town a week after Walter Scott was shot in the back by a police officer while he was running from a traffic stop because he had a broken brake light. Filming wrapped and I left Charleston one week after Dylan Roof murdered nine people just because they were black.” He pauses and looks out the window at the tourists on the sidewalk, some of them heading north on Market Street toward the city’s Confederate monuments. “Those were dark bookends to my summer in Charleston,” he says. “Even before those tragedies I was on edge and paranoid, and I was thrown by Charleston’s adoration for the Confederacy. But I found some kind of relief in

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When I saw that a voicemail from one

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Our mother’s long, largely happy and healthy life had come to an end less than two months from her 96th birthday. The day we laid Juanita Henderson Fields to rest was sunny and warm, much different from our father’s burial on a chilly spring forenoon nearly 40 years ago, when it was hard to tell the tears from the rain. Different weather seemed appropriate, because a life that is over at 95 is not the same as a life cut short at 59. That gift of years also was our present. How lucky I was to be able to go home for so long — much longer than most folks can — to East New Jersey Avenue and those familiar rooms and all those memories, of cookouts and penny poker games, giddy Christmas mornings and sunny Easter afternoons, looking for dyed eggs in the yard, one inevitably hidden in a hydrangea. My sisters always called her “Mother,” and she was “Mom” to me. After becoming a grandmother, in the early 1970s, she also was “Mother Fields.” That sounded like a gospel singer on tour through the South, but it fit. By any name, she was a good wife, mother, daughter, sibling, aunt and friend. She was good, in the broadest definition of that short word. Someone who came by the funeral home called her classy. Mom was that too, along with being welldressed, sneaky-funny, generous and, especially in her last decade, stubborn as a tight jar lid. I’m convinced part of Mom’s stubbornness to leave her home, to stay a couple of innings too long there, was rooted in her desire for us to have that home to return to as long as possible because it was something she could do for us. Once we had finally gotten her into assisted living, we had to tackle cleaning

out the house. By the end of that week, our backs were sore but our souls were full, having gotten to explore Mom’s life as we dealt with the many possessions. We found out our mother really, really liked clothes. We discovered she was Most Improved in the Tar Heel Bowlerettes in the 1964-65 season, wearing the white and green shirt of Citizens Bank. We found autograph books and a West End High School diploma, in the days when she was a raven-haired beauty, and a steno pad of tender notes Dad wrote to her as he recovered from an operation that temporarily stilled his voice. She let us learn from our mistakes when we were kids, and she respected our decisions when we were adults — even those she didn’t agree with. The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve appreciated that aspect of her parenting because not all mothers are that way. Women had just gotten the right to vote a few years before Mom was born in Jackson Springs. She lived through the Great Depression, a world war, profound technological and societal change. About half of her life was lived in a segregated South. But in 2008, when she was recuperating from a back injury and was allowed to vote curbside from a car I was driving, I got to see her vote for our country’s first African-American president. Eight years later, she voted for a woman for the same office. I got Mom an iPad for Christmas when she was 90, and teaching her the basics wasn’t easy. Despite the steep learning curve, she got the hang of it well enough to check email and check The Pilot’s website, although she still bought a print edition downtown on Sundays as long as she was able. Smartphones amazed her the most, all the things those tiny devices can do. As private as she was, I think Mom might be happy I used mine to slyly record a voice memo of a conversation with her in December of 2016. According to the wizard inside the phone, it’s 10 minutes and 33 seconds long. One day, I’ll listen to it. 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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Keeping it simple keeps it delicious

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Last month I confessed to being behind on

a number of books that I had barely started or hadn’t opened at all. One of those books is Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential. Yes, that’s right. It’s blasphemous to say that I adore the man, yet have not read his epic first book. Embarrassing, I know. Anyway, the book is amazing. One of the chapters, “How to Cook Like the Pros,” has Bourdain giving tips to those at home who want to cook well enough to amaze their next dinner party guests. Good stuff. He starts with tools: chef’s knife, other knives, plastic squeeze bottles, pots and pans, etc. He then moves on to ingredients: butter, stock, shallots and more. So, in this episode, I’m going to blatantly rip off Anthony. It’s OK, we share the same first name.

When it comes to making drinks, people always ask me questions like: “What’s your favorite drink to make? Do you really like egg whites in cocktails? What’s a good recipe?” (I get that one a lot.) Or: “How do you make your oldfashioneds?” and “Do you really like mezcal?” I usually respond to the last one with “no” and a grin on my face. One time, a married woman (claiming to be newly separated) actually messaged me on social media late on a Saturday night to find out what my favorite rye is. It’s Rittenhouse, but that’s not all she asked. The point is, you only need a few tools, and a few ingredients to make a ton of delicious cocktails. And in no particular order, so let’s go.

Angostura Bitters There are a ton of bitters on the market. They’re everywhere. And by all means, experiment and check them out. We’ve got Crude in Raleigh that makes great bitters, and lots of other companies in the U.S. that do a great job. But I’ve never lost it in my kitchen when I’ve run out of cardamom bitters. It’ll never happen. Angostura is the essential bitters that should always be stocked in your place. Plain and simple. Plus, it’s available everywhere, and it cures hiccups (doused on a lemon wedge). Just saying. A Good Juicer A durable, inexpensive, hand-held juicer is all you need when making drinks at home. I’ve talked to people who just “squeeze a little lime juice” into their shaker (I hope) when creating their own gimlets. Amazon has the Chef’n FreshForce model that is only $20, and durable as hell. Even if you’re hosting a 12-person cocktail party, this hand-held juicer is really convenient. Once you get the hang of it, you can juice 10 ounces in no time. Oh, and measure the stuff while you’re at it. Jigger Use a jigger that has a few measurements on it. You know, 1/4 , 1/2, 3/4 of an ounce. I prefer the Japanese style, but whatever is easiest for you. Cocktail Kingdom has a lot of fancy plated ones; to each their own. I have the original stainless steel, and they’ve lasted me for years. If you’re not measuring, stop reading here. Sugar If you’ve always got a half to a full cup of simple syrup in your fridge that hasn’t gone bad, good for you. You’re an alcoholic. Kidding. The rest of us probably have that “Oh, hell” moment when realizing that we’ve got everything for the drink ready except for said syrup. No worries, it only takes a minute to make, and that’s if you feel like making it. But syrup or no

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Agave: If you are really just into margaritas, get a blanco; I particularly enjoy Herradura. If sipping is your thing, grab a nice anejo. A bottle of Del Maguey anything wouldn’t hurt either. Rum: One white rum and one funky. For me, it’s Cana Brava and Smith & Cross. Actually, I’m lying. I have more. But I’m a rum-whore. Can’t help it. But the former is a good start.

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Sandhills Berries, Part 3 It’s blueberry pickin’ time

By Jan Leitschuh

We are in it now, the thick of summer.

Our Sandhills area is so horticulturally blessed. We have been celebrating the stellar trio of local berries available in the Sandhills, and our last berry star is the rabbiteye blueberry so abundant this month of July. Go on, sprinkle blueberries over everything you eat. You know you want to. Your taste buds — and health — will thank you. True, local blueberries have peeped forth in June. Those were the Southern highbush (SHB) blueberry bushes. Now, I love those early berries, and seek them out at farmers markets. But as a kitchen gardener, I have never had terrific luck harvesting a large crop from my 15-year-old SHBs. Perhaps, since they bloom earlier, they’ve been nipped by our increasingly erratic spring temperature swings. I’ve heard SHBs need an even lower pH than the rabbiteye varieties and that I could add a little sulfur to the soil, though my leaves are nice and green (as opposed to yellowing), indicating happiness. I’ve heard the “Legacy” variety of SHB is more forgiving. However, since local blueberry professionals seem to do just fine, in the future, I’ll leave the SHBs to the pros and enjoy their precocious products at the you-picks and farmers markets. I sure do like nibbling those early highbush berries. But in my garden, I’ll focus on rabbiteye blueberries. Blueberry quality and flavor from the supermarket is unpredictable and often terrible. That’s why I prefer to grow my own — plus, I know they are organic because I grew them that way. I have long said that the rabbiteye blueberry is the ideal Sandhills edible landscaping shrub. I know some mighty fancy places in Pinehurst and Southern Pines that have rabbiteye blueberries gracing their property, quietly incorporated into their overall landscape plan. Unless one knew where and when to look, they might never be noticed. First of all, rabbiteyes are easy. They need little effort and maintenance to thrive well in a home garden or landscape. Rabbiteyes bloom later, so are less susceptible to damaging late frosts, and they tolerate higher pH and mediocre soil conditions. They tolerate a little shade. Native to our region, Vaccinium ashei loves our hot, humid Carolina summers and easy winters. It makes a nice, head-high shrub over time, although if pruned right after the berries have been picked, you can keep the bush height lower. Besides being a food source for man and bird, the rabbiteye blueberry shrub has four-season landscape interest. In spring, when rabbiteyes flower as the nights shift between frosty and mild, we enjoy seeing the delicate white blueberry flowers being worked by the harmless and workaholic solitary Southeastern blueberry bees, as well as honeybees, bumblebees, even carpenter bees. Come summer, rabbiteye bushes will produce buckets of sweet, crazy-healthy, edible berries for years to come — with little effort. Their bright cool green spring and summer foliage is an attractive

foil to darker plants. Come fall, the rabbiteye turns a beautiful reddish-burgundy color that persists somewhat into winter, where the shrub’s sculptural framework also adds textural interest. Rabbiteye blueberry is a plant which benefits from cross-pollination and will produce more berry crops when at least two varieties are planted near each other. Don’t be impatient to pick. They may look blue and ready, but sample a few first before picking your winter freezer supply. Rabbiteye blueberries need to ripen awhile on the bush. Wait until the berries are fully ripe before you pick them or the fruit will not be very sweet, even bitter. If you let the rabbiteyes hang on the bush long enough, they really do taste good. The problem is, they turn that beautiful blue color before they are really ripe. Then the birds come eat them. Some people use that nasty plastic netting, and we did too. But after tangling with the lawnmower blades and finding the occasional snared bird, we abandoned that. We have so many berries, we generally just share with the local songbirds that give us much pleasure (although I have swathed a particularly late bush in tulle fabric just before harvest to extend my season). If you choose to plant your own, stick with the rabbiteyes to start. Avoid completely the Northern highbush varieties grown in Maine and Vermont. Here in mid-North Carolina, they will be a disappointing and expensive waste of space, producing little. Rabbiteyes are embarrassingly productive, and after eating your fill and filling your freezer, you’ll have some leftover to take to friends. If you want to put some rabbiteye bushes in, consider selecting your site now and digging in some peat moss or decomposing pine bark. Chances are, you won’t add lime but gypsum can supply both calcium and sulfur, and not raise the pH like lime will. Blueberries need a pretty acid soil, a pH of 4.0 to 5.3, more so than even azaleas. Your soil may be fine, or you may need to add sulphur; testing is better than guessing for this long-lived and generous perennial shrub. Moore County Cooperative Extension can guide you in testing your soil and selecting proven varieties like Climax, TiffBlue, Premier, Onslow, Columbus and Powderblue. That makes a pretty happy base for a shallow-rooted blueberry. Then, come late fall or winter, you can plant a couple of varieties of dormant plants on a slight mound or hill — it’s counterintuitive, but those shallow roots like to be a little higher than the surrounding soil. Mulch well with shredded leaf mulch or aged pine bark (not fresh). I beg my landscaper husband to bring home bags of fallen crape myrtle and Japanese maple leaves, since these small leaves decompose into a terrific mulch, and eventually enrich the soil. I would use the tougher oak leaves if they were well shredded. That first summer, keep an eye on watering these new sets well, and you’ll be rewarded with future blueberry pies, cobblers and pancakes. We used to say that the rabbiteyes were basically pest-free, but in recent years there has been evidence of damage from an invasive little pest, the spotted wind drosophila.

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people when they ask how it was living in Alaska, and how it is to be back home. This time last year, and the previous year, and the one before that, I was living and working deep in the boreal woods of the Chugach, the second largest national forest in the country.

Each summer, our five-person trail crew lived in tents for eight consecutive days every two weeks as we built the forest’s newest trail in an area accessible once a day by train — that is, if the tracks weren’t flooded. The Chugach is where, during my first hitch, a bear clawed through my tent and stole my only clean clothes. It’s where I learned to fell big trees with a big chain saw and little ones with an ax; where I learned to shoot a rifle; and where I competed with the guys to carry the most tools, hiking miles with a sledgehammer on one shoulder and a steel rockbar on the other. It’s where I grappled with scoliosis, hypothermia and trench foot, and learned the hard way that my worth is not defined by what I can do. It’s where I learned that my four fellow trail workers eat even more than my four siblings, and became known as Mama Kate for Southern-size group dinners of jambalaya, biscuits and gravy, cornbread and collards. I’ve spent solid eight, 12-hour days inside long sleeves, high socks and a bug net as protection against every kind of winged, blood-sucking bug imaginable, and hitches inside fishing-grade rubber raingear and Xtra-Tuff rubber boots, falling asleep and waking each day to the sound of hammering, unending rain. My favorite hitches were the ones that should have been hardest, redeemed always by my jolly crew family. We’d belt out Irish drinking songs in hailstorms, make doughnuts from canned biscuit dough, carry 600-pound trees together for a primitive turnpike, laugh until we cried, and play games of bocce ball, cribbage and dice long into the night. July in the Chugach brought a cacophony of flowering salmonberry bushes, an Independence Day tradition of exploring Bartlett Glacier, and buying a second freezer for all the salmon we caught. July is sunlight by midnight, bears

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I don’t put much store by birthdays typically. As a child, a July birthday meant that my friends were away on family vacations, so no one was around for a party. A summer birthday meant no cupcakes in elementary school, or care packages from Hickory Farms — the standard-but-thrilling gift — at boarding school. As an adult, I seem often to be at the beach, where my mother annually suggests that we have a “nice piece of fish” to celebrate my birthday — a roll-eye refrain the entire family now uses whenever we’re referring to celebrations of any kind. My sister has a breakdown every time we leave the beach, crying and honking the car horn until she’s out of sight. She’s worried that by the next time we’re all together again, someone will have died, divorced or been irreparably altered in some way. Cheerful, no? I made her a Breakdown CD full of mournful songs from James Taylor, Pachelbel’s Canon, the themes from To Kill A Mockingbird and The Thorn Birds, so she’ll have background music to wail with during the four-hour drive home. The last time I had a breakdown birthday was 3 1/2 decades ago, when I turned 30. I was waiting at a stoplight and was suddenly just . . . overcome. I bowed my heard and laid my forehead against the hard, ridged, steering wheel and wept. I did not want to be 30 with children and a mortgage and a yard. I wanted to be a sorority girl wearing Topsiders and drinking beer at The Shack with my hair pulled back in a grosgrain ribbon on a Thursday afternoon. There was nothing for my despair but for my husband to take me to Chapel Hill for the weekend. But The Shack was a parking lot. Beers at the gleaming wood bar in Spanky’s didn’t cut it. The good part about A Big Birthday year means that my friends are turning 65 too. Bridge buddies, hiking homies, college pals, boarding school classmates — all of us. Meaning that every day brings a veritable blizzard of emails filled with dates, pleas, opinions, rebuttals, suggestions, complaints, reminders, asides, and the occasional joke, all in the service of organizing what I term Girl Gigs. Girl Gigs deserve a column of their own, but I’ll give you a teaser: One friend, for a Girl Gig in the mountains every January, flies in from Greenwich, Connecticut, and brings nothing but a mink coat and 3 pairs of pajamas. Stay tuned. I don’t care a whit about getting old, or dying (proved by my Funeral File, a

topic addressed earlier in these pages). I’ll admit to a fear of my house smelling like old people, and wondering whether it’s time to go ahead and lock into what one friend calls a “terminal hairdo,” the one you wear to the grave. And I drive a Mini Cooper, which seems to be the universally acknowledged car for females of a certain age. But otherwise, nope. No fear, no dread, no anxiety. I also have zero regrets about those things in the past that I’ve done or left undone, or shoulda, woulda, coulda. Furthering my career? More me time? Taken that trip, accepted that offer? No, no, and no. Do-overs don’t interest me. Wherefore the melancholy, then? Just this: 1,277 photographs — give or take a couple dozen travel pictures — on a digital frame. A New Year’s resolution labor of love with a scanner that rotates continuously all day, every day, showing me 1,277 times what I cannot have back. That summer twilight evening of my oldest in his tacky polyester pajamas blowing dime-store bubbles in the driveway before bedtime. That child wearing a mask while he watches television, oblivious that he’s even wearing a mask. That child blowing out candles on what is surely the most hideous homemade birthday cake ever, shaped and iced like a sharpened pencil. The grin the day the braces came off. A husband mowing the lawn with a toddler draped around his neck like a pashmina. What was I doing during these ordinary, everyday moments? What was I saying, thinking, hoping, cooking, even? I don’t want to time travel, to swallow a magic youth pill, to go back and re-live. What stops and saddens me is the simple yet incontrovertible fact that, no matter what, I cannot get that Tuesday morning in that picture, where the child with the trike, or the new backpack for the first day of school, or that Sunday afternoon when a young husband tosses free throws at the driveway basketball goal — long since vanished — back. Not a single, commonplace, inconsequential second of them. Nothing I can do will return them to me. No begging. No money. No who-you-know. No good deeds. No nothing. Thornton Wilder knew the kind of grief I’m talking about, and in his play, Our Town, has Emily Webb, who’s dead, ask the Stage Manager, “Does anyone ever realize life while they live it . . . every, every minute?” “No,” the Stage Manager replies. “Saints and poets maybe . . . they do some.” And I’m neither. So, this July, if you see someone pulled over with her head against the steering wheel, it’s just me, in my Mini, in the breakdown lane. PS Susan S. Kelly is a blithe spirit, author of several novels, and a proud grandmother.

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The other day I saw a Honda Civic so electric blue I got a shock, just looking. They could be exhibits in a modern art museum. And no wonder. Cars. Our alter egos — more so men than women. Our fashion accessories — more so women than men. Our socioeconomic barometers that provide a heads-up to strangers. I wonder if, in horse and buggy days, people created fetishes around either horse or buggy? Maybe. The Lone Ranger needed Silver. The surrey with the fringe on top was tricked out. The wheels are yeller, the upholstery’s brown The dashboard’s genuine leather With isinglass curtains you can roll right down In case there’s a change in the weather! So do our wheels provide bragging rights, or personality extensions? Technology rules performance but I’m baffled by the human input. Take model names. I picture marketing gurus sitting around a table in a situation room, probably in Tokyo, rearranging alphabet blocks. Escape, Outback, Pilot and Explorer make sense, but what is a Camry, anyway? A Yaris? A Corolla? A Touareg or Passat? What did the T in Model T stand for, anyway? Elantra sounds like a Shakespearean damsel. Is a Kia Soul a riff on the capital city? Why call a car Eon when it only lasts a few years? Cadillac, a French officer, founded Detroit; Seville is a city in Spain. Murano and Sorrento Italian destinations. California was good enough for Chevy’s Bel Air and Malibu. Did General Motors consider that Escalade is a military attack? Or Mazda bother to find out that its Laputa in Spanish means the whore? Trucks, with their macho monikers, are a last bastion of sexism; I can’t imagine a Bronco Man (if he

survived the Marlboros) hopping into a Honda Jazz. Then I get mixed up trying to differentiate a Highlander from an Outlander from an Outback. What . . . no Outlier or Outpatient? I assume high schoolers go for cutesy names like Trax, Juke, Cruz and Chex — no, that’s a cereal. Tell Nissan that calling a model Leaf is ridiculous. And I haven’t even touched on mysterious letter designations: LE, CR, SL, IOU. Design — the auto industry is not gaffe-proof. Remember the 1950s Studebaker and later the Ford Edsel, both with front ends raunchy comedians compared to female body parts? Now, the weird geometry fronting a late-model Lexus looks like Darth Vader’s helmet. Animal names have always connoted high-test testosterone. Jaguar, Mustang, Bronco, Impala, Ram, Viper, Thunderbird race a young man’s motor especially when they fly through the air, multiply digitally and move like synchronized swimmers followed by the warning “Do Not Attempt.” About spokesdrivers: I assume a deal was cut when Matthew McConaughey played The Lincoln Lawyer, a 2011 film about a lawyer who practiced out of his car. Now, he’s the silent type in TV ads. Matt plays pool, eyes the dames but never utters a word as he drives off in his Navigator SUV. Hey, you wild and crazy guy, that car isn’t you. Get a Porsche Boxster, my man. SUVs — sport utility vehicles — press the last button. Research took me to Fresh Market parking lot, where I counted 28 SUVs. I lingered until their owners returned. Not one resembled an off-roader or soccer goalie, snowboarder or surfer. No St. Bernards, Great Danes or eight children. The vehicles’ only “utility” was carrying a few bags of groceries home, easily done in a sedan. SUVs are hard to climb into and out of. Yet everybody’s got one. They are the “it” car, for which the economy is profoundly grateful. Out of a lifetime total of 13 cars (mostly station wagons and hatchbacks for three children and a 90-pound Airedale) I have owned only one “it” car: a mid1970s Olds Cutlass khaki convertible with white leather seats. How divine it was, to lower the top, load the kids and dog, turn up the disco music and head for Dairy Queen on a summer evening. Other than that, for me a car is a car is a car. Gray, practical, economical. Transportation. Although I do admit . . . eyelashes on a pink Beetle are just adorable. 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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Carolina wrens are year-round residents easily recognized by their handsome rufous coloring, prominent white eyebrows, cocked up tails and loud voices. The emphatic “chirpity, chirpity, chirp” calls are made primarily by males, although, from time to time, females may join the chorus. These inquisitive birds, foraging almost nonstop in all sorts of nooks and crannies looking for bugs, are known to find their way into garages and even homes if there is a crack large enough for them to squeeze through. In addition, they seek out protected places to nest, often using front door wreaths, mailboxes, hanging baskets and manmade objects of all kinds. House wrens, on the other hand, are a bit smaller and drabber in coloration. Both the male and female are gray-brown with faint streaking on wings and tail. These diminutive birds are just as feisty as their more familiar cousins. Their song, however, is a lovely mix of bubbling notes that carries quite a way. House wrens, too, are voracious insectivores, found in close association with people. Once upon a time, they were considered seasonal migratory visitors to both the Piedmont and Sandhills, skulking in thick vegetation during spring and fall migration. In 1922, house wrens were seen nesting in the Piedmont and are now found commonly around Raleigh, and from Greensboro to Charlotte. The first documented, known successful breeding attempt in Moore County was sighted in Pinehurst during the summer of 2007. Since then a few pairs have been reported from Whispering Pines, as well as pockets around the Village of Pinehurst. However, these birds are

easily overlooked by folks unfamiliar with the species. At this point, they are almost certainly breeding in more locations in at least the northern half of the Sandhills. House wrens have a breeding strategy that allows them to colonize new habitat quickly. Females typically produce two sets of four to seven young each summer. The males are frequently polygamous. Interestingly, a female may move to the territory of a different male for the second nesting. And female house wrens are known to raise broods in quick succession. The male may finish raising the first brood as the female begins nest-building for round two. Unlike Carolina wrens, house wrens are cavity nesters, so they will use bird boxes readily. Small holes are hard to come by on the human-altered landscape — but birdhouses are not. With increased urbanization and the widespread interest in providing for birds, more boxes are appearing on the landscape every spring. Although house wrens will use a box that is pole- mounted, they actually prefer hanging houses. It is possible that this is because dangling accommodations are less likely to be invaded by predators. The challenge that house wrens no doubt have been facing here in the Sandhills as they attempt to become established, is available “real estate.” When they return to nest in mid-April, the bluebirds, as well as our nonmigratory chickadees, nuthatches and titmice have not only claimed a large percentage of the available bird houses but are also well into incubation. House wrens then must search for an empty box. If you are interested in providing for these uncommon little birds, it is best to wait to hang a suitable box until about April 15. Also you might want to consider a box with a smaller (1-inch or 1 1/2-inch) entrance that will exclude larger cavity nesters. If you happen to attract house wrens, please let me know. We are still very interested in the progress of these birds as they continue their southward dispersal here in central North Carolina. OH Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos. She can be contacted by email at susan@ncaves.com.

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Keepin’ It Cool Fans, porches and a visit to the ice plant

By Tom Bryant

Good night nurse, it was hot! Fry-an-

egg-on-the-sidewalk kind of hot, and I was in the woods at a little farm pond trying to fish. The morning had started off pleasant enough. I was up and at ’em early, anticipating the scorcher promised by the Weather Channel, another of their disaster predictions, and I hoped to catch a mess of bream before the sun could cook my brain.

Fishing was slow, as I knew it would be, and I was going at it the lazy way. I cast a couple of lines baited with night crawlers, anchored the rods securely on the bank, and looked for some shade. The tree line was too far from the pond, so I pulled the old Bronco close to my set and kicked back on a camp chair in her shade. That made it right tolerable. Growing up when air-conditioning meant an opened window and, if we were lucky, a strong window fan, I think people knew how to handle the scorching summer heat. As kids, we would head to Pinebluff Lake. It was fed by springs and a little creek, and I can still remember swimming into a cool spot created by one of the natural springs. We spent hours in the little lake, devising all kinds of games to play in the naturally cool water. Probably one of the reasons I don’t like swimming pools today is that I feel like I’m cooped up in an oversized bathtub. I was also fortunate that my dad ran the massive ice plant located next to the

railroad tracks in Aberdeen, and if the summer temperatures got completely out of hand, I could always cool down in one of the storage rooms that were wall-to-wall with ice. Typically, I didn’t stay long. The average temperature in those rooms was about 28 degrees. It’s a pretty good shock to your system when it’s summer outside and, all of a sudden, you’re freezing. We kids had a routine: Pinebluff Lake in the morning, home for lunch and a nap, and back to the lake in the late afternoon. It was not just a normal nap. Dad had installed a window fan in my sisters’ bedroom, the kind of fan that had four speeds and was reversible, and I knew exactly how to make that thing work. My little brother and I had the bedroom right across the hall from our sisters. We were upstairs so I could close the door at the bottom of the stairs, open our bedroom doors, put the fan blowing out, switch it to “high,” and stand back. That fan would have the curtains in my bedroom standing straight out from the window, and the cool breeze was constant. The sound of the fan and the cool air wafting through the room were almost hypnotic, and in no time I was in the midst of a great nap. I think that’s the reason I nap today and have a sound machine nearby. I was jolted out of my reverie by the zinging of one of my rods as the line was being pulled in the lake. I raced to catch it and yanked to set the hook. Nothing. Whatever was on it was gone. I reeled in, rebaited the hook and went back to the Bronco. The sun had angled around the corner of the truck, so I rearranged the chair and kicked back again. The lake, naps and ice plant weren’t the only ways we had to cool down. Most of the Aberdeen downtown businesses were just beginning to install air-conditioning, and the movie theater was one of the first. The mothers in Pinebluff alternated carpooling us kids to the theater on Saturday afternoons. It was 15 cents to get in, 5 cents for a drink and 10 cents for popcorn; and we

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The Game of the People Build it and they will come

By Lee Pace

Hugh MacRae stood before the

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Wilmington City Council in the early 1920s with a bold proposal to build a municipal golf course on land his family owned several miles east of the city. MacRae was going to retain the services of Donald Ross, the noted golf architect from Pinehurst, to design the course, but the idea was falling on deaf ears with the city fathers, who would pay for the construction of the course.

“Mr. MacRae, you’re talking pipe dreams,” the mayor told him. “Golf will never be available to the average man. It’s a rich man’s sport.” MacRae, whose family traces its roots to the Isle of Skye in Scotland, was quick with a rebuttal. “No, Mr. Mayor, it’s not,” MacRae answered. “I’ve seen golf in Scotland. Almost every course there is a city-owned course. Everyone in the town of St. Andrews plays golf.” MacRae’s argument worked. The mayor and council conceded his point, approved the plan, and in 1926 Wilmington began construction on its new public layout. Some 80 years later, MacRae’s grandson smiled considering the story he heard often many years ago. “Today that golf course plays more than 70,000 rounds a year,” Hugh MacRae II said in 2007. “You can’t have a golf course with much more history than that — ties to St. Andrews and Donald Ross. My father and grandfather

were very familiar with golf in Scotland. They foresaw golf becoming very important to the average man, not just the wealthy man.” Ross’ early ties in American golf were with the affluent — his first job was in 1899 at Oakley Country Club in the Boston suburbs, and a year later he established a base at Pinehurst Country Club — but his Scottish roots allowed him to stay anchored in the idea that anyone could and should have access to quality golf. “There is no good reason why the label ‘rich man’s game’ should be hung on golf,” Ross wrote at some point before 1914 in a manuscript that was later published in the book Golf Has Never Failed Me. “The development of municipal golf courses is the outstanding feature of the game in America today. It is the greatest step ever taken to make it the game of the people, as it should be. The municipal courses are all moneymakers and big moneymakers. I am naturally conservative, yet I am certain that in a few years we will see golf played much more generally than is even played now.” Municipal and daily-fee golf courses are important cogs to the golf machinery in the Carolinas. According to the National Golf Foundation, the two Carolinas had 923 regulation courses at the end of 2018, and 659 of them were daily fee or municipal courses. That is just over 70 percent of courses being “public” versus those owned by a private club. One of the oldest public courses in the Carolinas is Aiken Golf Club, which opened in 1912. The Highland Park Hotel opened in Aiken in the late 1860s, and the golf course was in its amenity package. The course was sold to the town in 1939 when the hotel company encountered financial ruin, and today is run by Jim McNair Jr., son of the noted amateur player James McNair, the winner of the Carolinas Amateur in 1946 and ’48. The town of Southern Pines commissioned Ross to build a course on ground just south of Morganton Road and east of Broad Street that would be owned and operated by the town, and the original 18 opened in 1913,

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with nine more following a decade later. The town struggled to maintain the course during the Depression and World War II, and sold the course in the mid-1940s to a Connecticut businessman named Mike Sherman, who dispatched a young accountant and aspiring golfer named Julius Boros to town to keep the books and hone his golf game in his spare time. Sherman sold the course in 1951 to the Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, which remains the owner today. The greens were rebuilt by architect John LaFoy in 1998 to accommodate faster putting surfaces, and he added a tee on the 15th hole to lengthen it from a par-4 to a par-5. The course plays 6,354 yards to a par of 71. “What struck me most about Southern Pines was that you had a really fine layout,” LaFoy says. “It’s just a really, really good layout. It’s outstanding. That’s what Donald Ross did so well — his routings. He used the topography very well.” Charleston businessman Claudius Bissell Jenkins donated 112 acres to the city of Charleston in the late 1920s to be used for a public golf course. Jenkins and his sons were developing the Riverland Terrace suburb on James Island, just west of the Country Club of Charleston, and saw the civic and commercial appeal of having accessible golf nearby. The Charleston City Golf Course opened in 1929 and has been the site annually for the Charleston City Amateur. “Its rates are such that young people from families of modest resources, working folk and retirees have access to the game of golf,” Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said in 2004. “The city’s commitment is that it will always be an affordable and accessible golf course, and I think it’s a very valuable asset.” The course is set for a $3 million renovation that will begin in December 2019 and encompass fixing drainage problems, reshaping tees, fairways and greens, and removing some trees to promote healthy turf growth. The work will be done nine holes at a time, and the city will pay for it half with recreation bond funds and half with a private fundraising drive. Ross visited the mountains on the opposite side of the Carolinas to survey the site for a new municipal course east of Asheville in the mid-1920s, and The Asheville Citizen noted the occasion with a large headline: “Municipally Owned Golf Courses Needed Here Says Donald Ross On Arrival.” “It is the consensus of opinion of almost all that a municipal course will go a long way toward drawing winter and summer tourists,” the story said, then quoted Ross that a new course would “prove one of the chief assets in advertising for visitors.” Asheville Municipal Golf Course opened a year later and was dedicated on May 21, 1927, and an exhibition four-ball featured trick-shot artist Joe Kirkwood and head pro Ray Cole against the pros

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at the other two Asheville clubs — Frank Clark of the Country Club of Asheville and George Ayton of Biltmore Forest. It was the state’s first publicly owned golf course. “The course places Asheville in the ranks of other Southern cities which have provided a modern up-to-date course open to the general public,” The Citizen remarked. “The course is expected to add fully fifty percent to Asheville’s golf population, opening the game to hundreds who know of golf only through the newspaper accounts.” “It cost one dollar to play golf back then,” says Billy Gardenheight, a caddie at all of the Asheville private clubs in mid-century and an avid golfer himself at the muni. “Guys would come from all over and stay in rooming houses and play golf.” Today seniors with knee replacements and heart problems show up at 7:30 a.m., five days a week, and walk the front nine, routed in a valley with little topographic undulation. Others go a full 18 and venture onto the back nine, which winds its way up and back down the Beverly Hills subdivision. “A lot of people come by even though they don’t play golf,” says Cortez Baxter, who has been a starter at the course since 1967. “They play cards, watch TV, tell lies. It’s just a big family. Sometimes you get older and don’t have anywhere regular to go.” Meanwhile, back in Wilmington, golfers today are enjoying the results of a major renovation that is now five years old. Wilmington Municipal head pro and general manager David Donovan realized that Ross’ original greens had never actually been built, that to save money the town had merely built round circles of sand and clay that were eventually covered with Bermuda grass. He convinced the city to hire architect John Fought to build the green to Ross’ specifications, and that happened in 2014. The $1.4 million project includes new greens complexes, bunkers and putting surfaces on all 18 holes, 24 new/rebuilt tees, some tree removal to improve sunlight and air flow, and the removal/ repositioning of cart paths in some areas. Heralding the results of the project are new tee signs that read at the bottom: A Donald Ross Tradition. “Now, that fits,” Donovan says. “What we have now I think is true to what Donald Ross envisioned at the beginning. “I think this has put us on the map now. On Mondays, when the private clubs are closed, we’re getting players from Porter’s Neck, Landfall and Cape Fear. This meets their standards now. That’s a big deal.” PS Lee Pace has written about the Pinehurst area golf scene for more than 30 years. Write him at leepace7@gmail.com.

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n the South, summer heat takes on a personality of its own, inspiring thoughts like, “I’m walking through soup,” or “If it gets any hotter, I’ll have to take off stuff I really ought to keep on.” One of the only things to do on a day like this is to crank up the AC and have a cold glass of iced tea. Not the iced tea Northerners refer to, the kind that’s missing that one, all-important, ingredient. No, the sweet kind, the kind that Grandma made fresh when she welcomed you every time you knocked on her screen door. Grandmas know tradition, and the sweet tea tradition in the South goes way back to 1839 and a recipe for “Tea Punch” in The Kentucky Housewife cookbook. To understand the full story of how Southern sweet tea came to be, one needs to understand the building blocks of this cultural icon. It’s the coming together of a trifecta of luxuries in Colonial America: tea, ice, and sugar. The first is tea. Prior to the 1800s, tea was served hot. As a colony of Great Britain, Americans enjoyed their lavish green tea, drinking more of it than coffee. In 1773, when Britain put a 25 percent tax on tea imported to the American Colonies, the Colonists saw themselves being priced out of one of their favorite refreshing pastimes. And they rebelled. Of course, the Founding Fathers may have had a few other grievances in mind, but it was tea that went

into Boston Harbor. After the War of Independence the new nation’s clipper ships sailed directly to China, cutting out the British middlemen and providing the states with tea — and some of its first millionaires. The second ingredient originated from the wild concept of “ice harvesting.” In the early 1800s, ice became year-round thanks to Frederic Tudor, a Boston businessman who masterminded the trading of ice, garnering him the title “Ice King.” Tudor hired workers for the dangerous job of chipping away frozen ponds in the North. Once gathered, the ice was stored and shipped to hotter locations, like the Caribbean, Europe and India. On blistering summer days, cold treats like ice cream and sorbets became available to patrons who could pay the high prices for it. Sugar, the third luxury in sweet tea, was domesticated 10,000 years ago on the island of New Guinea, where it was used as ceremonial medicine. Erin Coyle, a North Carolina Humanities Council Road Scholar who specializes in tea, says, “Sugar was the oil of its day.” It was introduced to the New World by Christopher Columbus, who engaged in a month-long affair with the extraordinarily beautiful Beatriz de Bobadilla, governor of Gomera in the Canary Islands — the westernmost islands of what the Europeans considered the known world and a logical place to lay in supplies for an exploration into

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As a British Colony, Colonial America imports large quantities of tea from Britain. Leads to Tea Act of 1773 (25% tea tax to pay for British wars). Colonists claim, “No taxation without representation.”

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Originally, sugar was expensive. During the 1770s, the cost of sugar declines, making it affordable for the masses.

Edenton Tea Party on October 25, 1774. The first women’s demonstration in U.S. history. Unlike men at the Boston Tea Party, who disguised themselves as Indians, the women boldly signed their names banning tea and sent it to King George.

Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773. Patriots dump approx. $2 million of tea (today’s cost) in Boston Harbor. It equals approx. 18,523,000 cups of tea.

Andre Michaux, a French botanist, brought tea bushes (Camellia Sinensis) to Colonial America. All tea comes from this one plant and its thousands of varieties. Over the next 150 years, tea growers in South Carolina were unsuccessful at propogating tea for consumption. After War of Indpendence, U.S. imports tea from China using clipper ships.

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Frederic “The Ice King” Tudor starts shipping ice from Massachusettes to Martinique. The dangerous, expensive business of “ice harvesting” is born. At first, only the wealthy can afford such luxury.

The first sweet tea recipe in The Kentucky Housewife cookbook is published. Known as a “Tea Punch,” it used green tea—preferred until the 1940s.

The Royal Horticultural Society sent Robert Fortune, a Scottish botanist to break into a Chinese tea plantation and discover the 2,000-year-old secret of making tea. He dressed as a Chinese tea merchant, smuggled seeds to India and uncovered that small quanities of poison were used to color green teas “greenier.” Due to those findings, Britain moved forward with plans of tea production in India.

The “Southern Sweet Tea” known today hails from the Housekeeping in Old Virginia cookbook. Unlike its tea punch predecessor, this version is non-alcoholic and uses large amounts of sugar.

the unknown. With a reputation for extraordinary beauty, the “Lady of the Gallows,” as she was known, gave him cuttings of sugar cane that found their way to Hispaniola. “The cost of sugar dropped by the 1700s. Everyone was consuming it,” Coyle says. “In the 1700s, the average Englishman ate 4 pounds of sugar per year. In the 1800s, it increased to 18 pounds. I can only imagine the average amount of sugar a person consumes today.” One of Coyle’s favorite stories is about a popular establishment just to the southern side of the “tea line” dividing the North and the South — the unsweetened from the sweetened. A Northerner waited his turn behind an older Southern gentleman at the iced tea counter. When the Northerner filled up his cup, he took a deep swig, almost spit it out, and said, “I never tasted anything so terrible in my life.” The Southern gentleman patted him on the back and said, “You’ve got to work up to it, son.” Debates on how to make sweet tea are resolute and plentiful. Lipton or Luzianne? Crushed or cubed ice? Baking soda? Simple syrup, yes or no? And the amount of sugar in sweet tea is as complex as the DNA of its maker. The original iced teas, called “tea punches,” had various blends of sugar, juice, alcohol, lemon, water, tea, spices and cream. In the beginning, these punches had loyalist names such as “George IV,” then made way for more patriotic drinks, called “Charleston’s St. Cecilia Punch” and “Chatham Artillery Punch.” While these drinks may have had fancy names, none can take home the grand prize for being the original sweet tea. That honor stays with Mrs. Lettice Bryan, whose recipe for “Tea Punch” was published in The Kentucky Housewife cookbook in 1839, making it the first sweet iced tea. The “Southern Sweet Tea” common today has its roots in the Housekeeping

In Summerville, South Carolina, Dr. Charles Shepard founded the Pinehurst Tea Plantation, now the Charleston Tea Plantation and owned by Bigelow Tea Company. This was the first tea producing plantation in the U.S.

During the sweltering 1904 World’s Fair, Richard Blechynden, a tea plantation owner selling hot tea, adds ice out of desperation and popularizes iced tea.

During WWII, acquiring green tea was almost impossible. Black tea becomes new staple for making sweet tea.

in Old Virginia cookbook, written by Marion Cabell Tyree and published in 1878. Unlike its tea punch predecessor, this version is non-alcoholic and uses large amounts of sugar. Over time, the production of sugar, tea and ice cost less, and the once expensive refreshment reserved for tea parties and galas became commonplace. It wasn’t long before sweet tea took up residency in the South, where anyone from a neighbor to a mail carrier to one’s grandparents could be greeted with a glass of Southern hospitality. “Sweet tea isn’t a drink, really. It’s culture in a glass,” wrote Allison Glock in Garden & Gun. It’s steeped in culture, cooled with tradition and sweetened with kindness. In the South, people take their tea recipes seriously. “The important part about tea is that, no matter where one travels in the world, it’s known for welcoming guests,” says Coyle, who tells the story of one family reunion. “Every family brings their own iced tea, and they all pour it into one vessel. A communal pot, so to speak. Their uncle would doctor it. He usually used pineapple juice as one of the ingredients — that’s one of the popular juices from the original tea punches. That tea would be shared with the whole family. It’s very ritualistic.” When it came to making sweet tea, green tea was the Bible until the 1900s. During World War II, when it was virtually impossible to get one’s hands on green tea, the United States imported black tea from British-controlled India. In the South’s sticky summer weather, an icy batch of sweet tea hits you right as rain as you rock on the front porch, watching the fireflies come out. A glass of sweet tea can take you back to childhood — the humidity on your skin as the screen door swings open, the scent of gardenia on the breeze, Grandma smiling, handing you a cold glass and saying, “Come on in, darlin’.”

Tea Punch (The First Iced Tea)

The Kentucky Housewife cookbook, written by Mrs. Lettice Bryan, published in 1839 “Make a pint and a half of very strong tea in the usual manner; strain it, and pour it boiling (hot) on 1 pound and a quarter of loaf sugar. Add half a pint of rich sweet cream, and then stir in gradually a bottle of Claret or Champagne. You may heat it up to the boiling point and serve it so, or you may send it ‘round entirely cold in glass cups.”

Original Southern Sweet Tea

Housekeeping in Old Virginia cookbook, written by Marion Cabell Tyree, published in 1878 “Ice Tea – After scalding the teapot, put into it one quart of boiling water and two teaspoonfuls green tea. If wanted for supper, do this at breakfast. At dinner time, strain, without stirring, through a tea strainer into a pitcher. Let it stand till tea time and pour into decanters, leaving the sediment in the bottom of the pitcher. Fill the goblets with ice, put two teaspoonfuls granulated sugar in each, and pour the tea over the ice and sugar. A squeeze of lemon will make this delicious and healthful, as it will correct the astringent tendency.”

Arnold Palmer

Arnold Palmer left his mark on golf, the Sandhills and sweet tea. The winner of seven major championships who designed over 300 golf courses, including the Mid South Club, is described by Jim Dodson in A Golfer’s Life as “a king with a common touch.” The story behind the refreshing Arnold Palmer drink is a bit mythical. Tea punches with juices have been around for over a hundred years with everyone making their own variation, including Palmer in the mid-1950s. Since there wasn’t a name for his favorite drink, he spent years describing the mixture of iced tea and lemonade to wait staff. In the 1960s, Palmer ordered his lemonade-tea concoction after a hot day designing a golf course in Palm Springs, California. A woman overheard Palmer order his drink, and said, “I’ll have that Palmer drink.” During an interview with ESPN, Palmer said, “From that day on, it (the Arnold Palmer) spread like wildfire.”

The Original Arnold Palmer 3/4 parts tea 1/4 part lemonade (healthy splash) Serve in a glass full of ice.

The Modern Arnold Palmer 1/2 part tea 1/2 part lemonade Serve in a glass full of ice.

Southern Sweet Tea with a Twist

Since its inception, everyone has put his or her own spin on Southern sweet tea. Few have had the accolades for their iced tea mixology as Rachelle Jamerson-Holmes the founder of Rachelle’s Island Tea. In 2018, her famous tea won the People’s Choice Best Sweet Tea at the seventh annual Sweet Tea Festival in Summerville, South Carolina, and in May, 2019 the sweet tea was voted BEST Sweet Champion at the ninth annual Taste of Black Columbia, in South Carolina. Jamerson-Holmes owns and runs Thee Matriarch Bed & Breakfast with her husband, chef Fred Hudson. They know that sweet tea is a welcoming necessity when guests visit — which is why people can enjoy a glass on-site or buy it by the gallon (or commemorative bottle) every day at their bed and breakfast. “Sweet tea was and still is like water,” Jamerson-Holmes says, “always in the refrigerator waiting to quench someone’s thirst.” Jamerson-Holmes’ tea story has an authentic Southern beginning that starts with family. She remembers joining her great-grandmothers and grandmothers, often drinking sweet iced tea from a Mason jar “on the front porch or under a shaded pecan tree for summer comfort and conversation.” Currently, she is writing the Southern Sweet Tea Cocktails recipe book, and Thee Matriarch Spiked Island Tea is her signature drink. This recipe is a modern twist on the classic tea punch and Southern sweet tea. “I love fruity drinks,” Jamerson-Holmes says. “This drink is me.” Sweet, refreshing, and full of tradition.

Thee Matriarch Spiked Island Tea

By Rachelle Jamerson-Holmes of World Famous Rachelle’s Island Tea, “Southern Sweet Tea Signature Cocktails” 1 quart Rachelle’s Island Tea 1/3 cup peach rum 1/3 cup coconut rum 1/3 cup mango-pineapple vodka 2 cups crushed ice Pineapple spears to garnish 1. Mix tea, rums and vodka in a pitcher. 2. Add ice to glasses. 3. Pour cocktail in glasses. 4. Garnish with pineapple. PS Gayvin Powers is author of The Adventure of Iona Fay series and writing coach at Soul Sisters Write. She can be reached at hello@gayvinpowers.com.

Hog Heaven By Jane Lear

hen my editor asked me to write about a pig picking — that is, a roasted whole hog and one of the world’s epic, roll-up-your-sleeves culinary projects — I realized I would be inviting the sort of controversy that sparks thoughts of witness protection or, at the very least, a pseudonym. As John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed point out in Holy Smoke: The Big Book of North Carolina Barbecue, the problem is that, when it comes to cooking a whole pig, “there are reputable, sometimes renowned, pitmasters who would tell you something different at each and every step. Literally, each and every one.” They are not kidding.

The Backstory

“The first pig roasts were occasions for families and communities to get together, and you’ll find various renditions all over the world,” wrote Jim Auchmutey in the “Foodways” volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. The barbecue tradition of the American South has its roots in the

Caribbean, “where Spanish explorers of the early 1500s found islanders roasting fish and game on a framework of sticks they called (in translation) a barbacoa,” Auchmutey explained, adding that the first barbecuers were typically African slaves who combined their native methods of roasting meat with expertise picked up in the West Indies. There are numerous knowledgeable websites (including those of the Southern Foodways Alliance and the North Carolina Barbecue Society) devoted to barbecue, and it’s the subject of some great books. Among the favorites in my library are the aforementioned Holy Smoke as well as Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country, by Lolis Eric Elie, and Barbecue Crossroads: Notes and Recipes From a Southern Odyssey, by Robb Walsh. What I’m trying to say is that in the space provided here, all I can do is drive slow and point out a few landmarks.

The Meat

In most of the South, barbecue means pork, and particularly in eastern North Carolina, it means the whole hog. You can order a conventionally raised whole hog from a butcher, but if you prefer eating meat that is raised with the

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A pig picking — down-home and dramatic all at the same time. Invite the neighborhood and ice down plenty of beer.

welfare of the animals and the environment in mind (hog farming can be especially brutal to both), you may want to seek out a local sustainable farm, or order from one such as Cane Creek Farm, in Saxapahaw. It’s known far and wide as a producer of absolutely delicious pork from pastured heritage breeds: In other words, those pigs only have one bad day. Cane Creek sells whole hogs for pig pickings, and you’ll find all sorts of useful information on their website. “Whole hog,” by the way, doesn’t actually mean the entire hog, but one that’s been “dressed” — that is, had the feet, tail, and innards removed and the bristles scraped off. Many people prefer to have the head removed as well. Be sure to get the hog with the skin on, though, and ask for it butterflied so you can spread it open on the cooker. Because you may still need to crack the ribs to open the carcass all the way, you may even want to order the pig split down the backbone into halves, which will make it easier to flip. On a practical note, a whole hog is too big for the refrigerator and most coolers, so the most common place to stash it is in the bathtub with lots of ice. Just saying.

The Fuel

In a perfect world, you’d start with half a cord of well-seasoned hardwood logs and burn them down, but about 70 pounds of hardwood lump charcoal is a good compromise. You’ll also want lots of water-soaked hardwood chunks to add to the burning coals for smoke. Avoid mesquite; although it’s great for Texas-style beef brisket, it’s too strong for pork. Instead, choose hickory, oak, a fruitwood such as apple, or a mix.

The Method

The easiest option is to rent a charcoal (not propane) cooker, which you can tow behind a car, or plunk down a chunk of change for a Cuban-style caja china (Chinese box), available at Williams-Sonoma and other online sources. A caja

china is simple to use, but although it results in beautifully moist lechón pork, you won’t get much of a smoky whomp. A spit-roaster is yet another alternative, but again, you‘re not going to get the smokiness that aficionados crave. If, however, you’re the sort of person who can build a raised garden bed, you may not think twice about knocking together a temporary cinderblock pit. It helps to have a truck-owning friend who owes you one, and a place nearby where you can buy supplies such as a sheet of expanded metal. (Avoid galvanized metal, which can give off toxic fumes.) It’s also helpful to have a kettle grill or fire pit to get additional coals working; that way, you can add them to the pit as needed. “The coals go in a pit and the meat is put more or less directly above them, at some distance (to keep the cooking temperature low),” explain the Reeds. “The meat is kept moist by frequent mopping (basting), and most of the smoke comes from the meat drippings and basting sauce hitting the hot coals (coals produce very little smoke on their own). It’s hard to improve on this technique for cooking whole hogs.”

The Game Plan

Decide when you want to eat and work backward. Build the pit and lay in supplies a few days ahead. Think about delegating authority for the playlist, beer, snacks and the graveyard shift. As far as the cooking goes, give yourself plenty of leeway; depending on the size of the hog, the Reeds suggest at least 12 and up to 14 hours, start to finish.

The Equipment

One or two large chimney fire starters An oven thermometer (a remote-read type is nice but not necessary) A meat thermometer Heavy gloves (for you and a sidekick) A squirt bottle of water to control flare-ups An Eastern North Carolina style barbecue sauce (see below)

The Roast ing

There are numerous how-to’s online, so I’m not going to take up space here with the nitty-gritty. But here are some handy tips from the Reeds and various other backyard pitmasters. When shoveling hot coals into the pit, put more under where the thick, slowcooking hams (hind legs) and shoulders of the hog will be. Check the oven thermometer; the temperature at grill level should reach 225–250 degrees Fahrenheit. Put a half-dozen water-soaked wood chunks where they’ll smolder, but not directly under the pig. Then put the pig, skin side up, on the grate and cover. After a while, start another batch of charcoal. Every half hour, check the temperature of the pit. If it’s dropping off, put more hot coals under the shoulders and hams and a couple of hardwood chunks off to the side. Use a shovel to push the dying embers into the middle of the pit to cook the ribs and loin. After six or seven hours, the hams and shoulders should be looking nicely browned and wrinkled. Stick a meat thermometer in those thick parts — don’t touch the bone — and see if the temperature has reached 165 degrees. Keep cooking until it reaches that temperature, even if it takes much longer. When it reaches 165 degrees, you and a friend don those heavy gloves and gently turn the pig over. You may need a spatula or (clean) shovel to loosen it first. Don’t worry if the pig comes apart when you do this. Once the skin side is down, you’ll be looking at the ribs. Generously fill the cavity with sauce, and mop the shoulders and hams, too. Let the meat cook another couple of hours, adding coals and wood as needed, until your meat thermometer reads at least 180 degrees in every part of the animal. The rib and shoulder bones should pull away with no resistance.

The Sauce

This “Old-Time Eastern North Carolina Barbecue Sauce,” which appears in the Reeds’ Holy Smoke, is staggeringly simple. Just mix together 1 gallon cider vinegar, 1 1⁄3 cups crushed red pepper, 2 tablespoons black pepper, and 1⁄4 cup coarse salt and let stand for at least 4 hours.

The Payoff

You can serve the cooked pig as is, pig-picking style, so that guests can choose what they like — moist, tender, pale “inside meat” or the dark, smoky, bark-like “outside meat.” Don’t be surprised if folks don’t stray far from the pit, but simply stand around the carcass, picking the meat right off the bones. Or you can chop or pull the meat for a luscious mix of the two, dress it with some remaining sauce, and add in some crunchy cracklings for yet another texture. The traditional way to eat pulled pork is to sandwich it, along with a generous dollop of coleslaw, in a hamburger bun.

The Sides

Pork is the star of any self-respecting pig picking, but you (or the kind souls who volunteered) will feel obligated to round out the feast with side dishes. And although there is absolutely nothing wrong with baked beans out of a can or jumbo bags of barbecue potato chips, upping the drama quotient, so to speak, can be part of the fun. If you have a kettle grill going for those additional coals, for instance, it’s an easy matter to grill corn on the cob. Here’s how: Pull back the corn husks but leave them attached at the base of each ear. Remove the corn silk, then put the husks back around the ears. Grill over moderately hot heat, turning frequently, about 10 minutes. Let the corn cool a few minutes, then holding each ear with a kitchen towel, peel back the husk and discard. Serve with mayonnaise blended with a little of the Thai chile sauce called sriracha, the North African chile condiment called harissa, or minced canned chipotles in adobo (all available at supermarkets). When it comes to potato salad, if you are lucky enough to find honest-togoodness new (that is, freshly dug) small potatoes, with their thin, delicate skins, at the market or farm stand, there’s no reason to camouflage their earthy flavor with mayo and bits of hard-boiled egg. Simmer the spuds in well-salted water until tender, about 15 minutes or so, and cut into quarters when cool to the touch. Drizzle with extra-virgin olive oil and gently toss with finely chopped shallot, chopped fresh thyme leaves (include some thyme flowers if you’re harvesting out of the garden) and/or parsley. Add salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. One of the things I learned during my tenure at Gourmet magazine is the wonderful affinity watermelon and tomatoes have for one another, and I love the combination to this day. Stir together chunks of seedless watermelon and juicy sun-ripened tomatoes. Add some crumbled feta, chopped cilantro, extravirgin olive oil, white balsamic vinegar, and salt and pepper to taste. Serve on a bed of arugula or watercress or just as is. You were getting a little concerned that I was going to snub coleslaw, weren’t you? Not to worry. Coleslaw, with its coolness and snap, transcends the categories of salad, side, relish, and sandwich topping with confidence and ease. And as with other age-old dishes, variations abound. Craig Claiborne’s coleslaw (see box below) is an homage to the straightforward type you’ll find in Goldsboro, and it is hard to beat.

Reality Check

If roasting a whole hog sounds like more than you bargained for, take heart. Especially if you are new to outdoor cooking or can’t undertake the

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considerable investment of time and money, there’s no shame in starting with something smaller and more manageable, like a pork shoulder. Specifically, I’m talking about a Boston butt, the meaty upper part of the shoulder that’s also called pork butt or butt end of a pork shoulder roast. A bone-in Boston butt usually weighs a good 8 to 10 pounds, and it can be cooked on the grill. Any which way, the result is hog heaven.

Goldsboro Coleslaw

Adapted from Craig Claiborne’s Southern Cooking (Times Books, 1987) Serves about 6 The last two ingredients in this recipe — a tiny amount of sugar and cayenne or smoked paprika — are my usual embellishments, but I sometimes include grated carrot as well and/or a drizzle of rice vinegar. For a tangier coleslaw, replace some of the mayo with a dollop of sour cream. When tinkering, don’t forget to taste as you go. You can always add more mayo, salt, or cayenne, for instance, but you can’t remove them once they’ve joined the party.

1 small cabbage (about 1 1/2 pounds) 1 1/2 cups mayonnaise 1 cup finely chopped onion Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper A scant 1/2 teaspoon sugar (optional) A pinch of cayenne or Spanish smoked paprika 1. Remove the core of the cabbage and the tough or blemished outer leaves. Cut the head in half and shred fine. There should be about 6 cups. Coarsely chop the shreds and put them into a mixing bowl. 2. Add the mayonnaise, onion, salt, and pepper and toss to blend well. Let the slaw sit about 30 minutes so the cabbage wilts a bit and the flavors have a chance to mingle. PS Jane Lear, formerly of Gourmet magazine and Martha Stewart Living, is the editor of Feed Me, a quarterly magazine for Long Island food lovers.

When the West Was

Really Wild Annie Oakley’s path to Pinehurst By Michael Smith

illiam Frederick Cody, aka “Buffalo Bill” Cody, rode for the Pony Express when he was only 14. We have his word on that. And that’s the trouble — we only have his word. There is no independent verification. But then it was not unusual for Wild West show characters to embellish their persona to embellish their income. We are left with apocryphal accounts that weaved and embedded themselves as facts. Yet, Bill was pretty much a straight shooter. In a freelance gig following the Civil War, he shot 4,382 buffalo to feed cross-country railroad workers, thus the “Buffalo Bill” moniker. During the Civil War, Cody had served the Union Army routing out Confederate guerrillas. (Jesse James did the same thing for the Confederate Army, but there’s no record of Bill and Jesse ever bumping heads.) Cody earned the recognition and respect of his officers, and that would serve him well after the war. One of those officers was George Armstrong Custer, for whom Cody served for a brief period as a civilian scout. Another was General Phil Sheridan, under whom Cody served as chief scout and engaged in 16 battles against American Indians, distinguishing himself in such a manner that President Ulysses S. Grant awarded Cody the Medal of Honor. One year after Cody’s death, the Medal of Honor Review Board revised the guidelines for receiving the medal to require recipients to have been members of the military. So, among other recipients, Cody’s medal was rescinded, as he had been a civilian scout, working for the military. President Ronald Reagan rebalanced the scales when he restored Cody’s medal in 1989. And so, after all the treaties were broken, Buffalo Bill Cody did his bit to help confine the Indians that hadn’t died of gunshot, disease or broken heart

to “reservations.” Here is what Cody had to say: “Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.” After the West was no longer wild, Cody took what was the Wild West to the western world — virtually all of America and, on eight separate trips, all over Europe. He did that from 1883 until 1913 in a show he put together called, ta da, the Wild West Show. According to Legendsplay, the show’s cast and staff totaled 500-plus, and, of course, all manner of animals, including hundreds of horses and 30 buffalo. Along with people and animals went grandstand seating, with canvas covering for 20,000 spectators. The show generated its own electricity and had its own fire department. Cast, staff and animals had to be fed and provided places to sleep. Travel was by train, which in one year covered over 11,000 miles in 200 days, giving 341 performances in 132 cities (including Charlotte, North Carolina) across the United States. Daily expenses were about $4,000 ($91,000 and change in 2019 money). Cody insisted that all, including women and Indians, receive equal pay. The logistics of keeping things together, planning for the next location, paying, feeding, etc., were mind-boggling. And while Buffalo Bill Cody was an excellent showman with a reputation that attracted folks like Annie Oakley, Lillian Smith, Sitting Bull and Calamity Jane, Cody was a dud at logistics. For that, he took a silent partner, named Nate Salsbury. Salsbury was a recognized logistical genius at organizing large productions, and for as long as he lived, Cody prospered. But Salsbury’s death in 1902 marked the beginning of the road toward the show’s 1913 bankruptcy and Cody’s own death in 1917. Salsbury maintained manuscripts on his relationship with Cody. They

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provide interesting insight into Cody’s character, at least according to Salsbury. In manuscripts housed in Yale University’s library, Salsbury characterized Cody as “a dishonest drunkard whose only loyalty was to his incompetent cronies.” In Historynet.com we find Salsbury’s account of Cody’s conduct on a European trip where, returning from a visit to the home of a dignitary, Cody was so besotted, “he could hardly get into his carriage, with a lady who was manifestly not Mrs. Cody.” (After the Civil War Cody had married Louisa Frederici.) Yet crowds couldn’t get enough of Cody. According to one newspaper, he had pitch black eyes, flowing hair, and an impressive mustache: “Everybody is of the opinion that he is altogether the handsomest man they have ever seen.” There were few forms of entertainment in those days, and Cody’s Wild West Show strove to fill that gap. There were reenactments of historical events, e.g., Custer’s Last Stand, rodeos, shooting competitions, bronco busting, horse racing, buffalo hunts and the like. In a word — huge! The biggest crowd-pleaser (and money-maker), though, was diminutive Phoebe Ann Moses, aka Annie Oakley, who probably took her stage name from the town of Oakley in Ohio, her home state. Five-foor-tall Annie and show-shooter husband Frank Butler joined the show two years after it began. Annie was such an instant sensation that Frank stopped performing and began serving as Annie’s manager. Shooting matches and events in those days were enormously popular, and that’s precisely where Annie shone the brightest. But then Lillian Smith came on the scene. Lillian, a California shooting star, was as brassy and devoid of formality as you’d expect a Californian to be. And not given to understatement, upon first arriving at the show, Lillian told the press to forget about the competition: “Annie is done for.”

That sort of trash talk failed to play well with Annie, creating bad blood from the get-go. Lillian did, in fact, challenge Annie’s shooting prowess. Yet the persona contrast was the thing. Annie was conservative, formal and married. Lillian was flashy, flirty, used coarse language, and worst of all, she was younger than Annie. Aware that the press gave younger shooting contestants better press, Annie, born in 1860, somehow became Annie born in 1866, tightening the age gap with Lillian. One of the show’s European tours illustrates well the distinction between the two. When the show performed in England before Queen Victoria, Annie curtsied politely and addressed the queen properly. Lillian, on the other hand, made a half-curtsy and fell right in chatting with the queen as if they were old chums catching up on old times. Annie found Lillian a tart. Fact is, Lillian did leave a bit of a trail. First, she secretly married Jim “Kidd” Willoughby, which abruptly ended when her dalliance with half-Caucasian, half-Indian Bill Cook came to light. Then came a new marriage partner, saloon owner Theodore Powell. Next up, lawman Frank Hafley. Lillian then unmarried Hafley and married Wayne Beasley. And finally — well, finally, as far as we know — she got rid of Wayne and married German-born Emil Lenders, who additionally had a wife and child back in Philadelphia. On returning from the European tour where they met the queen, tension between Annie and Lillian had grown so that Annie and Frank quit the Wild West Show. Then, for whatever reason, Lillian quit, so Annie and Frank rejoined Cody. Lillian set about transforming herself into an American Indian princess. Princess Wenona darkened her skin, wore only Indian clothes, and joined Pawnee Bill’s Wild West Show. Some accounts indicate that she actually came to honestly believe she was a true Indian princess. While married to Emil Lenders, she moved to Bliss, Oklahoma. But Lenders soon left and moved to Ponca City, about 15 miles away. For Lillian, it marked the start of a downhill trip to oblivion. Historynet.com says “Lillian continued to care for her dogs and chickens and became a familiar sight in Marland and Ponca City, shuffling along on foot or riding in an old buggy with some of her faithful hounds trailing behind.” Princess Wenona died dead broke in 1930. She had requested to be buried in her Indian clothes. The good people of Ponca City complied. Shortly after a devastating head-on train wreck in October 1901 involving

Cody’s Wild West Show, Annie retired from the troupe. She spent the next few years giving solo exhibitions, including one in Pinehurst in 1908. The Butlers began wintering at the Carolina Hotel in 1915, quickly becoming the toast of the village. “In the gun room or on the sunny terrace they talked about guns, golf and game birds with John Philip Sousa, John Bassett Moore, Walter Hines Page, John D. Rockefeller,” wrote Oakley biographer Walter Havinghurst. In the autumn of 1922 the Butlers were involved in a car accident near Daytona, Florida. Annie’s hip was crushed, forcing her to wear a leg brace for the remainder of her life. She never returned to Pinehurst, moving instead to a niece’s farm in Greenville, Ohio. She passed away in 1926. Leonard Tufts saw her obituary and immediately wrote to Frank, “I have just learned from the morning paper of the death of Mrs. Butler in Greenville, Ohio, and I am sincerely sorry to learn of this sad event. Annie Oakley’s memory will always be a kindly one to us at Pinehurst, and we feel that we are better for having known her.” Frank died 17 days after Annie. They were buried side by side in Greenville. As for Cody’s Wild West Show, silent movies and then “talkies” were all the rage, and somehow Indians and cowboys seemed more real on the screen than up close. Bill tried to hang on by adding this and that — particularly different types of horsemen: South American gauchos, Arabs, Mongols and Turks, etc. But it was no good. The West had become yesterday’s news and Bill did, too, passing away at age 70 at his sister May’s home in Denver, Colorado. PS

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Michael Smith lives in Talamore, Southern Pines, with his wife, Judee. They moved here in 2017 and wish they had moved here years earlier.

Starting Over A new look for a couple . . . and a neighborhood By Deborah Salomon Photographs by Amy Freeman & John Koob Gessner

ld Town Pinehurst suggests cottages — likely sizable vacation homes — built in the early 1900s, first by James Tufts, then by wealthy Northeastern families eager to populate the newly chic golf resort. Those still standing have been restored and modernized to the nines. Most are furnished in antiques, Persian rugs, period pieces, family portraits, golf or equestrian art. Behind every armoire door and over every carved mantel hangs the latest in flat-screen technology. When the cottages ran out, people who desired strolling distance to the village began buying land and building. Some new construction followed classic styles. Other homes veered afar, like an asymmetrical front with interior half-story facilitating a balcony overlooking the family room; an intimate living room with four armchairs around a low table but not much else; and a breezeway into a mud wing with direct access to the rear deck and gardens so guests on their way to the (not yet built) pool or cookout would avoid traipsing through the house. New ideas, indeed, just what Elizabeth “Cissy” Beckert and her husband, Bruce, wanted. So new that when they found this house built in 2007 they decided to purge their furniture circa big-dogs-sleeping-on-the-couch and start fresh. “It’s something Cissy always wanted to do,” Bruce says. What fun for a couple who had worked in the High Point furniture industry. They hired designer/friend Leslie Moore, whose motto is “perfectly imperfect,” and, after Market closed, walked through the showrooms selecting pieces that fleshed out their ideas. Many came from Hickory Chair, a century-old North Carolina furniture manufacturer that still crafts 90 percent of its products in-state. The Beckerts’ purpose was born far, far away. “Six years ago we took the family to Puako, Hawaii, and stayed in a VRBO on the Maui Channel,” Cissy begins. “We loved how the house allowed the outside to come in — every window framed a view. We returned to Pinehurst wanting to find a home with the same feel except instead of the ocean, the views would be magnificent magnolias, gardenias, PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2019

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hydrangeas, daylilies and Carolina jasmine.” To illustrate, Cissy points to a tall, paned powder room window draped on the outside with jasmine vines resembling a drawn-back curtain. The house they found had been designed sans cookie cutter. It required no structural changes. High ceilings throughout are delineated by simple, elegant crown moldings. The unusual floorplan (four bedrooms, six bathrooms and an attached garage tucked around back, accessed by an alley) suited their purposes: children grown and gone who visit occasionally. Now Cissy could select rugs and furniture to fit room dimensions. Bruce reacted immediately. “As soon as I walked in the door I said, ‘I can live here.’” The foyer opens into a longitudinal layout featuring a spacious open core encompassing kitchen, vaulted family room with skylights, and a dinette devoid of table and chairs. “We eat at the bar or (for events like Thanksgiving) in the dining room,” maybe outside under a vine-covered pergola, Bruce says. He repurposed the dinette as a plant gallery — tall ones, in attractive ceramic pots, with matching rug. “We’re outdoors people,” Bruce continues. “I like plants — they scrub the air.” But wait: Outdoors, especially Hawaiian, means sun-splashed color. Yet beyond the handsome arched front door the walls and many furnishings hum Zen gray. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2019

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“I shy away from bright colors that assault the eye,” Cissy explains. “Gray is peaceful.” Then, thinking deeper, “I was the middle child. Gray is between black and white.” She tempers the gray with several shades of blue, mostly in fabrics: “A blue sky mesmerizes me, especially the turquoise from New Mexico.” About that tiny monochromatic living room: “We have our morning coffee there,” Cissy says. Or sit with a few friends, sipping wine by the fire. Contemporary architecture often shrinks this traditional gathering place, adding space elsewhere. The dining room is also smallish, intimate, and gray, which suits Cissy. “When we close the curtains we’re enveloped. I’m a high energy person. This calms me down.” However, tall ceilings suggest a spaciousness that allows large pieces, like the

massive bed of dark woods in the master bedroom — the only piece retained from their previous home. Here, minimalism rules. No clutter, just a few pieces with clean lines to foil the decorative bed frame. “Don’t be fooled; I like sturdy furniture,” Cissy says, pointing to a heavy rustic coffee table in the family living area. Don’t be fooled by all the grays and neutrals, either, not even one upstairs bedroom with a beach sand-colored coverlet where lies Ted, their matching sandy-hued rescue kitty with a lion’s face. Also upstairs, besides guest bedrooms and many bathrooms, a huge “bonus” room over the garage, with café au lait walls and marshmallow-soft cocoa carpeting, which they use for watching movies. For Cissy, this house became a place to express her newfound interest in art,

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particularly contemporary and abstract paintings done by Southern women. The gray walls come alive with Picasso-esque faces by Windy O’Connor of Charlotte; other artists represented live in Atlanta, Charleston and Athens. Trish Deerwester of Southern Pines created three abstracts in, no surprise, gray, blue and white, while Cissy commissioned Becky Clodfelter of Greensboro to create a large abstract for the foyer, which introduces the palette continued through the house. Over the clawfoot tub, a seated nude. Dominating the stairwell, a 10-foot geometric canvas found rolled up in the corner of a High Point showroom corner. Yet Cissy’s favorite is a portrait of a cow. “They’re gentle, they give milk.” Bruce leans another way. “I’m an Ansel Adams, Ben Ham (black and white photography) kind of guy,” as represented in the mix. Taken together, Cissy dubs the look she and Moore created “polished casual,” to which Bruce adds “comfortable, not too pretentious.” Landscaping is another story. “Some people have a boat. We have a garden,” Bruce says. From the looks of it, both boast green thumbs plus green fingers. A few magnolias and other trees came with the house. They have added a dense wall of greenery to screen the house from a moderately trafficked street. Cissy reels off the names with expert familiarity: tea olive bush, loropetalum, butterfly bush, viburnum, nandina, lavender, rosemary, aucuba and enormous blue hydrangeas framed by the windows. Starting over, as the Beckerts have done, seems unusual except after fire or flood. Bruce reasons differently: “People have too much stuff. I don’t want my stuff to dictate my life.” This should be easier with new stuff that lacks an emotional attachment to heirlooms. Cissy sums up their effort. “This house is who were are and what we love.” PS

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Snapshots from July are salt-laced and dreamy. Children skipping through sprinklers on the front lawn. Baskets of ripe peaches, still warm from the sun. Tree houses and tackle boxes. Tangles of wild blackberry. Brown paper bags filled with just-picked sweet corn. Last summer, gathered in celebration of July 4, we made a game of shucking sweet corn on my grandmother’s front porch. Two points for each clean ear, a bonus per earworm, yet as husks and corn silk began to carpet the ground beneath us, joy and laughter were all that counted. And now, memories. Like Papa’s pickles, made with the cukes from his own garden. Speaking of Papa . . . something tells me he would have loved watching us turn a chore into a simple pleasure, perhaps the secret of any seasoned gardener.

The Art of Shade-Dwelling

In the sticky July heat our state is known for, not just the flowers are wilting. Advice from a fern: seek shade and thrive. Yes, you. Bring a hammock, summer reading, refreshments, pen and journal. Daydream beneath the lush canopy. Bathe in the filtered light. Indulge in the summery soundscape. Cloud gaze. And if you’re looking for a spot by the water, follow the spiraling dragonfly. She will always lead you there.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me. — James Russell Lowell

Fresh from the Garden

Eggplant, snap beans, green beans, summer squash. Plump tomatoes are spilling from the vine, but there are two words on my mind: melon season. In one word: cantaloupe. And while it’s fresh and abundant, consider some new ways to enjoy it. Blend it with club soda and honey. Salt and spice it with crushed peppercorn and sumac. Toss it with arugula, fennel and oregano. Make cool melon soup, or sweet-and-salty jam. Nothing spells refreshing like chilled cubes of it after a hot day in the sun, but if you’re looking for savory, check out the below recipe from Epicurious.

Cantaloupe and Cucumber Salad (Makes 4 servings)

Ingredients 1/2 cup olive oil 1/4 cup Champagne vinegar or white wine vinegar 1 teaspoon ground coriander 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/8 teaspoon ground cardamom 1/2 large cantaloupe, rind and seeds removed, flesh cut into 1-inch pieces 1 large English hothouse cucumber, sliced on a diagonal -½ inch thick 2 Fresno chiles, thinly sliced 1/2 cup unsalted, roasted pumpkin seeds (pepitas) 1/4 cup chopped cilantro 1/4 cup chopped mint Sumac (for serving) Ingredient Info Sumac is a tart, citrusy spice generally sold in ground form. It can be found at Middle Eastern markets, specialty foods stores and online. Preparation Whisk oil, vinegar, coriander, salt, pepper and cardamom in a large bowl. Add cantaloupe, cucumber and chiles, and toss to coat in dressing. Let sit, uncovered, 15 minutes. To serve, add pumpkin seeds, cilantro and mint to salad and toss gently to combine. Top with sumac.

Lazy Days of Summer

The full buck moon rises on Tuesday, July 16, which, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, is a good day for pruning, mowing and weeding. But if R&R is more your speed, below are a few obscure holidays you might add to the calendar. July 10: Pick Blueberries Day July 17: Peach Ice Cream Day July 20: Ice Cream Soda Day July 22: Hammock Day Happy Independence Day, friends. Happy, happy hot July. PS

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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. BOOKWORMS BOOKCLUB. Are you in grade K–5 and want to join a book club? Find the Bookworms display in the library to take home the book of the month, pick up your discussion questions and grab some activities. When you have finished reading the book, fill out the book review to post on the library’s wall. This month’s book is Lowriders in Space. Can’t read yet? Read along with a grown-up. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. OUTPOST BOOK SALES. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday–Saturday. Monthly sale — cookbooks and classic books are buy one get one free; some exclusions apply. Given Outpost and Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-7002. JOY OF ART STUDIO. Joy of Art Studio Creative Arts. Art for all ages children and adults, lots of creative fun. Drawing, painting

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and mixed media. Joy also offers birthday parties, private lessons, home school curriculum and creative counseling. Unless otherwise stated, classes are held at Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or joyof_art@msn.com or Facebook link www.facebook.com/Joyscreativespace/ for a complete list of events this month. SUMMER READING PROGRAM. Experience “A Universe of Stories” this summer during the library’s annual Summer Reading Program that continues through Aug. 31. Earn prizes by tracking your time spent reading, using a paper log or mobile app. Sign up at the library or online and download the Beanstack Tracker App., Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. ORIGAMI DAYS. The exhibit “Origami in the Garden 2” will be going on from now until Sept. 8. Come unfold your imagination during cultural programs and classes happening twice a month. Visit the website or call for more details. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221 or www. capefearbg.org.

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Monday, July 1 FOOD TRUCK. 5 - 9 p.m. Rome N’ Round food truck. They will also be at Southern Pines Brewing Company on June 8, 11, 15, 22 and 29 from 5 - 9 p.m. and June 5, 12, 19 and 26 from 3:30 - 8:30 p.m. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. Tuesday, July 2 FOOD TRUCK. 4:30 - 8:30 p.m. Roasted & Toasted food truck. They will also be at Southern Pines Brewing Company on June 9, 16, 23 and 30 from 4:30 - 8:30 p.m. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. PINTS AND POSES. 6:30 -7:30 p.m. Enjoy a yoga class for all levels and a beer. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. FANTASTIC FIREFLIES. 8:30 p.m. Join us for a short presentation about these blinking beetles followed by a short stroll to see if we can find any lighting up the outside. Free. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov.

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Wednesday, July 3 FOOD TRUCK. 4:30 - 8:30 p.m. Meat & Greek food truck. They will also be at Southern Pines Brewing Company on June 17, 24 and 31 from 4:30 - 8:30 p.m. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www. southernpinesbrewing.com. FOURTHFEST. 6 p.m. Join us for a free concert and fireworks celebration. There will be children’s activities and a large selection of food and beverages for purchase. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Gates open at 4 p.m. for parking. Fireworks will begin at 9:15 p.m. Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 2951900 or www.vopnc.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Michaela Anne. Cost: $10/members; $15/non-members. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Thursday, July 4 CONCERT. 2 p.m. The Moore County Concert Band will present its annual concert titled “Made

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in America.” Free and open to the public. Grand Ballroom, Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-7012. FOOD TRUCK. 4 - 9 p.m. Pink Pig BBQ & Shrimp. They will also be at Southern Pines Brewing Company on June 18 and 25. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. JULY 4TH CELEBRATION. 5 - 10 p.m. Celebrate with an evening of live entertainment, food vendors and activities for all ages. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets. Admission is free. Live entertainment will begin at 6 p.m. and fireworks start at 9:15 p.m. Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275 or www. townofaberdeen.net.

Friday, July 5 POTLUCK LUNCHEON. 12 p.m. Seniors 55 and older can participate in a free potluck lunch. Bring a small dish and enjoy great food and fellowship. Ten games of bingo will follow the lunch with prizes for winners. Cost: $2 for Southern Pines residents; $4 non-residents. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info:

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(910) 692-7376 or www.southernpines.net/136/ Recreation-Parks. FIRST FRIDAY. 5 - 8 p.m. This First Friday will be featuring Travers Brothership. Admission is free. There will be food trucks and alcohol for sale. No outside alcohol. First Bank Stage at the Sunrise, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928501 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

Saturday, July 6 PANCAKE FUNDRAISER. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Celebrate the red, white and blue at the Farmers Market in Pinehurst. Join the Pinehurst Police Department for a Blueberry Pancake Breakfast Fundraiser for Special Olympics. Breakfast is $7 and includes juice, sausage and pancakes with blueberries from Eagles Nest Berry Farm. Tufts Park, Village Green Road, Pinehurst. KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Stop by and make crafts or sing a song. This program is about everyone being a maker. Bring a friend and sign up for a free library card. This event is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org.

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FOOD TRUCK. 12 - 8 p.m. California Taco food truck. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www. southernpinesbrewing.com.

Sunday, July 7 BLUEGRASS MUSIC. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Come watch Into the Fog, a string band out of Wilmington. Pinehurst Brewing Co., 300 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (919) 761-0548. JUNIOR RANGER. 3 p.m. Learn how to become a junior ranger with N.C. Parks. Complete some activities in the ranger workbook and learn about service projects. Best suited for 6- to 12-year-olds. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov.

to deconstruct primary cuts of beef into steaks. There will be a three-course dinner paired with a local craft brew after the demonstration. Reservations required. Cost: $35. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com.

Thursday, July 11 GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 p.m. Leslie Philip, owner and chef for Thyme & Place Café, will share some of her favorite recipes for summer while tasking and learning about summer appetizers. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org.

WRITING GROUP. 3 p.m. Interested in creating fiction, nonfiction, poetry or comics? Connect with other writers and artists, chat about your craft and get feedback on your work. All levels are welcome. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Tuesday, July 9 ART CLASS. 1 - 4 p.m. Join Ellen Burke for a four-day course about watercolor painting and techniques. This class is for basic and intermediate artists. Cost is $175 and includes materials. The class will meet July 9, 10, 16 and 17. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (603) 966-6567 or exploringartellen3@gmail.com. PINTS AND POSES. 6:30 -7:30 p.m. Enjoy a yoga class for all levels and a beer. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. BOOK EVENT. 7 p.m. Dan Schilling with Alone at Dawn, a true account of John Chapman and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz.

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Saturday, July 13 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. This WHES Schooling Day allows competitors to school any and all phases. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. WILDINGS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. Learn about some super slithery serpents since it is N.C. State Parks’ “Year of the Snake.” Geared toward 6- to 10-year-olds. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. HORSE TRIALS. WHES horse trials for Dressage for CTs and Training Level. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. STEAM. 11 a.m. Craft tables will be out all day. At 11 a.m. join the library staff for a special comets and asteroids event. This program is for children kindergarten through fifth grade. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley. Cost: $20/members; $25/non-members. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

Monday, July 8 EVENING STORYTIME. 5:30 p.m. Children ages 3 through third grade and their families will enjoy stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading plus tips for winding down and getting the week off on the right track. Capacity is limited to 25 children and their caregivers per session, and checkin with a valid SPPL card is required. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

win exclusive Waldo prizes. Stop by the bookshop first to get your Waldo passport. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz.

FOOD TRUCK. 2- 8 p.m. Chirba Chirba food truck. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www. southernpinesbrewing.com.

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BOOK EVENT. 5 p.m. Erica Witsell with Give. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. PIZZA ON THE PATIO. Come and enjoy a threecourse meal including a hand-made wood-fired pizza prepared by chef Mark Elliott. Cost: $38. Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Suite A, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775. VASS PLAY DAZE. 6 - 8 p.m. Join Given Tufts and other libraries to celebrate summer learning with fort building, water play, hula, storytelling and more. Free and open to the community. Sandy Ramey Keith Park, Vass. Info: www.giventufts.org. SUMMER CLASSIC MOVIE. 7:30 p.m. Ghost. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

Friday, July 12 - Monday, July 22 WHERE’S WALDO? Join the Where’s Waldo? search in downtown Southern Pines. Find Waldo in participating downtown stores for your chance to

JULY DANCE. 6:30 p.m. Join us for an evening of dancing at the Elks Lodge. Free dance lesson at 7 p.m. Dance until 9:30 p.m. Admission: $10. Call to reserve tickets. Carolina Pines Chapter of USA Dance. Southern Pines Elks Lodge, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 331-9965. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Amythyst Kiah. Cost: $15/members; $20/ non-members. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com. TRIBUTE CONCERT. 7 - 9 p.m. Come enjoy a tribute to Jimmy Buffett featuring The Landsharks. Bring chairs. There will be alcohol and food sales onsite. Cooper Ford, 5292 U.S. 15-501, Carthage. Info: (910) 365-9890 or www.vision4moore.com.

Sunday, July 14 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. WHES Horse Trials, CT and D. Horse Trials: Green as Grass, Maiden, Beginner Novice, Novice and Training. Combined Tests: Green as Grass, Maiden, Beginner Novice, Novice, Training, Modified through Advanced. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. ORCHESTRA. 2:30 p.m. Donny Most and the Mostly Swing Orchestra. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

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LIFE OF A PINE. 3 p.m. Learn about the natural history of our state tree, the longleaf pine, on a short hike to see its growth stages and the scars that remain from the turpentine industry. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. EXPLORATIONS FOR ADULTS. Join Michael Neece, from the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, as he talks about the history of space flight related to North Carolina. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928235 or www.sppl.net. CONCERT. 6 - 8 p.m. Come enjoy downtown Aberdeen’s Sunday Exchange Concert Series. Free and open to the public. Bring your own beer and snacks. There will also be food trucks on-site. The Tams will be performing. The Exchange Place Lawn, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-4506.

Monday, July 15 SIP AND PAINT WITH JANE. 5–7 p.m. Join local artist Jane Casnellie for a fun painting class suitable for all levels, including beginners. No experience necessary and all materials included, as well as your wine. Take home your own masterpiece. Cost: $35. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 639-4823 or www.janecasnellie.com.

Tuesday, July 16 LIT WITS. 5:30 p.m. Join the library’s teen book club for 11- to 15-year-olds. You can check out your copy of this month’s book, See You in the Cosmos, at the library from July 1 through July 15. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. RED, WHITE AND ROSÉ. 6 - 8 p.m. Celebrate summer with expertly selected wine. Join Gwen Simko, proprietor of the Village Wine Shop in downtown Pinehurst, for a wonderful night of wine tasting and sampling of small tasty bites. Chance to win great raffles. Tickets are $35 with limited seating. Given Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org.

mystery. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. BERRIES OF THE SUMMER. Celebrate the season’s bounty with a three-course dinner showcasing the freshest local ingredients, including raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. Cost: $36. Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Suite A, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775.

Thursday, July 18 BOOK CLUB MEETING. 10:30 a.m. The Douglass Center Book Club will meet for discussion. Books can be picked up at the library. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

PINTS AND POSES. 6:30 -7:30 p.m. Enjoy a yoga class for all levels and a beer. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com.

MUSIC & MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. This story time, especially for children ages 18 months to 3 years and their families, will incorporate stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games to foster language and motor skill development. Capacity is limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Check-in is required with a valid SPPL full or limited access card. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Wednesday, July 17 BOOK EVENT. 5 p.m. Jonathan Putnam with A House Divided, an Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Open mic with the Parsons. Free to members; $5/non-members.

TRIVIA NIGHT. 6:30 p.m. Test your knowledge of U.S. citizenship by answering questions from the citizenship test. Cost: $40. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www. theslyfoxpub.com.

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Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com. SUMMER CLASSIC MOVIE. 7:30 p.m. Live and Let Die. Sunrise Theater, 244 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www. sunrisetheater.com.

Friday, July 19 CHRISTMAS IN JULY. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Seagrove potters are presenting a weekend gallery crawl for “Christmas in July.” Santa and Mrs. Claus will visit shops all day. Downtown Seagrove, 106 N. Broad St., Seagrove. Info: (336) 707-9124. SLITHERING SNAKES. 10 a.m. Learn about snakes as we read a book, do activities (including meeting a live snake) and make a craft. Geared toward 3- to 5-year-olds to do with their parents. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. MOVIES BY THE LAKE. 8:30 - 10 p.m. Enjoy family movies on the big screen. This month’s movie is Mary Poppins Returns. Admission is free and concessions will be available for purchase. Aberdeen Lake Park Recreation Station, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275 or www.townofaberdeen.net.

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FOOD TRUCK. 12 - 6 p.m. Cousins Maine Lobster food truck. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www. southernpinesbrewing.com.

Sunday, July 21 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. Tall Boots July H/J Schooling Show. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. CARVERY. 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Enjoy a carvery of our traditional Sunday roast. Cost: $21.95. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com. KID’S MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. A free showing of the original movie that mashed up the Looney Tunes and basketball. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. BUTTERFLY HIKE. 3 p.m. Join a park ranger for a 1.5-mile hike to find and learn about the wide varieties of butterflies around the trails. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Shakedown.

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Monday, July 22 EXPLORING ART. 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Join Ellen Burke for a five-day painting course for those 9-to-17years-old. Cost is $165 and includes materials. The class will meet July 22 - 26 and end with a student art exhibit on July 27 at 10 a.m. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (603) 966-6567 or exploringartellen3@gmail.com. EVENING STORYTIME. 5:30 p.m. Children ages 3 through third grade and their families will enjoy stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading plus tips for winding down and getting the week off on the right track. Capacity is limited to 25 children and their caregivers per session, and checkin with a valid SPPL card is required. 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. Michael McCloy, Ph.D. student at Texas A&M University, will discuss monitoring of grassland birds across the Great Plains and his current research in coastal Texas. Visitors welcome. Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.sandhillsnature.org.

Tuesday, July 23 PINTS AND POSES. 6:30 -7:30 p.m. Enjoy a yoga class for all levels and a beer. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www.southernpinesbrewing.com. Tuesday, July 23 - Thursday, July 25 MEET THE ARTISTS. 12 -1 p.m. This class will introduce children ages 5 - 8 to the animal totem art of Native American cultures while they engage in art activities. Ellen Burke will be instructing. There will be a student exhibit July 27 from 10 - 11 a.m. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (603) 966-6567 or exploringartellen3@gmail.com. Wednesday, July 24 BURGERS AND BRATS. Enjoy a good beer and burger to beat the summer heat. Reservations required. Cost: $30. Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Suite A, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775. BEER AND WING NIGHT. 5 p.m. Join us for some great summer beer and all you can eat wing bar. Cost: $16.99. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com.

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Saturday, July 27 FOOD TRUCK. 12 - 8 p.m. One Nine Drive food truck. Southern Pines Brewing Company, 565 Air Tool Drive, Suite E, Southern Pines. Info: www. southernpinesbrewing.com. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Dawn Landes, Sinner Friends. Cost: $15/members; $20/non-members. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: ticketmesandhills.com.

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Sunday, July 28 LONGLEAF PINES AND FIRE. 3 p.m. Join the ranger for an indoor presentation about longleaf pines and fire and learn abut this rare ecosystem and its inhabitants. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6922167 or www.ncparks.gov. FAMILY FUN DAY. 4 p.m. Join Southern Pines Recreation & Parks for a fun family day at the Pool Park co-sponsored with the Southern Pines Public Library, Southern Pines Police Department and West Southern Pines Citizens for Change. Pool Park, 735 S. Stephens St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376 or www.southernpines.net/136/Recreation-Parks.

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WEEKLY EVENTS Mondays INDOOR WALKING. 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Improve balance, blood pressure and maintain healthy bones with one of the best methods of exercise. Classes are held at the same time Monday through Friday. Ages 55 and up. Cost for six months: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Southern Pines Recreation Center, 210 Memorial Park Ct., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. MASTER GARDENER TRAINING. 6 - 8 p.m. Receive a high level of training in all aspects of horticulture. Training fee is $85 for those accepted into the program. Moore County Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. Info: (910) 947-3188. MASTER GARDENER HELP LINE. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. If you have a garden problem, a garden pest, a question, or if you want help deciding on plant choices, call the Moore County Agriculture Cooperative Extension Office. Knowledgeable Master Gardener Volunteers will research the answers for you. The help line is available Monday through Friday and

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Tuesdays BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions). This story time, reserved for ages birth to 24 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy brain-building practices. Dates this month are July 9, 16, 23 and 30. Programs are limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in to story time sessions at the circulation desk up to an hour before the start time of each session with their valid SPPL full or limited access card. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost per class: $15/member; $17/nonmember. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. TABLE TENNIS. 7 - 9 p.m. Enjoy playing this exciting game every Tuesday. Cost for six months is $15 for residents of Southern Pines and $30 for non-residents. For adults 55 and older. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

Wednesdays TAP CLASS. 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. For adults 55 and older. All levels welcome. Cost per class: $15/ resident; $30/non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6–7 p.m. Improve flexibility, build strength, ease tension and relax through posture and breathing techniques for beginners and experts alike. Free for CFBG and YMCA members, $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221, ext. 36 or www.capefearbg. org. (Must register one day prior.) Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org. CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30 - 4 p.m. Especially for children ages 2–5, this story time focuses on stories, songs and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build language and socialization skills to prepare for kindergarten. Dates this month are July 10, 17, 24 and 31. Stay for playtime. This event is limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in to story time sessions at the circulation desk up to an hour before the start time of each session with their valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. FARM TO TABLE. Join Sandhills Farm to Table Co-op by ordering a subscription of local produce to support our local farmers. Info: (910) 722-1623 or www.sandhillsfarm2table.com.

Thursdays GIVEN 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. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

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WORDS WITHOUT RHYMES

Across

Words Without Rhymes 1. Caribbean, e.g.

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A whole lot of July Star Children are born with a funny streak, and live for shenanigans. One is that high-larious actor Ken Jeong, the doctor and comedian who just so happens to be a Page High School alum. Recently he revisited his local roots to deliver the commencement at UNCG — and delivered the grads from taking themselves too seriously. The fun and fabulous Sofia Vergara, Will Farrell and comic genius Robin Williams were born under the sign of Cancer. How ironic that the sign of the crab should produce so many big wits and comedians. Like the stars, they light the darkness.

Cancer (June 21–July 22) That double-dang double-crosser who broke your trust will get theirs, and you won’t have to lift a pinky. Not to worry one second. Let’s put it this way: If you were a comic book hero, you’d be known for your super power of . . . judgeyness. You have super powers you have never even explored. Like an incredible talent for sussing up a situation and knowing when to hightail it outta Dodge. Leo (July 23–August 22) While you were busy monkey-branching like you were Tarzan, you forgot to look down. If you had, you would have noticed some circling hyenas waiting for you to slip and fall. Those are some of the pack you used to run with, and now, Sugar, you need to outrun them. Put your past waay behind you. Virgo (August 23–September 22) This is classic you: not exactly inclined to give a rat’s you-know-what or a gnat’s little patootie for status or approval. And Honey, you get a lotta lovin’ for that! Next up: letting down the old guard and making yourself vulnerable. Trust ain’t just a banking term. Libra (September 23–October 22) You didn’t just lose touch with reality. Sugar, you broke the whole handle off things trying to get a grip. A new work opportunity is golden, but your domestic situation is suffering. Take care of those who tend to the hearth and home. Scorpio (October 23–November 21) The tee-nine-sy part of you that likes approval took over your whole world. If you want to win friends, Darling, let’s put your “I Know It All” merit badge away in a drawer. Sure you earned it. But it has not helped your sex life or friendships one bit. Sagittarius (November 22–December 21) The juice just ain’t worth the squeeze, Sugar. You have worked hard to make good on a promise to yourself and another. Now you have a significant situation that has escaped you and is calling your name. Time to squeeze and release.

Capricorn (December 22–January 19) By the time you can say tickety-boo you let the cat out of the bag. Not your fault; a trickster you know so well made you spill. No worries. There is time to clean up the mess on Aisle Five before anybody’s the wiser. Aquarius (January 20–February 18) Rinse and repeat. Words to live by. Works real good for stains and also works good for self-love and redemption. Forgive yourself, Darling, for letting a situation get a little gray and a whole lot dingy. It will all come out in the wash. Pisces (February 19–March 20) Fireworks don’t have a place in your life except for Independence Day. Dial back emotions, and just recognize somebody set a tripwire for you because they are more volatile than a pig in a hailstorm. They only wish they had your self-control. Aries (March 21–April 19) Looks like you stuck the baster in the wrong end of the chicken, Honey. You have been in such a dizzy place that you forgot your purpose and dang near lost your marbles. Recalibrate. Breathe. Meditate. Honey Bun, just do anything but knit your brows. Taurus (April 20–May 20) Pigs were flying when you (praise Jesus) decided to zip it and keep the peace just when your nemesis made a total jerk out of himself. Take a bow. You have just zoomed to the front of the astral line for having passed a major spiritual challenge. Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sometimes you open your mouth and your Mamma falls out. Life has been a little too boring for your tastes, so you decided to pull the plug on a very good idea and watch it all go right down the dang drain. It will not be boring to reconnoiter. PS For years, Astrid Stellanova owned and operated Curl Up and Dye Beauty Salon in the boondocks of North Carolina until arthritic fingers and her popular astrological readings provoked a new career path.

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SOUTHWORDS

Mama’s Cookin’

By David C. Bailey

I was 16 by the time I

appreciated what an incredible cook my mother was — thanks to the woman who would become my own personal chef.

“Duck sandwiches?” Anne responded incredulously when I told her what we were having for our picnic lunch, which also happened to be our first date. “Yeah, and deviled eggs with watermelon-rind pickles and Mom’s chocolate chess pie for dessert,” I went on. In truth, I worried the repast might be a bit scant. Mom often fried chicken for picnics and packed her signature country ham biscuits, plus, if you were really lucky, homemade pimiento cheese sandwiches. Not to worry. My mother’s sister, Rachel, had also packed a picnic for our double-date, my cousin Bill and his girlfriend, Mary. She’d rustled up some of her tangy sweet-and-sour German potato salad laced with smoked side meat. Like Mom, Rachel blended lessons learned from her Pennsylvania Dutch upbringing with what she knew we Southerners loved. Add some of her simple but simply delicious sugar cookies, and our picnic made a pretty decent feed. (And yet, I remember the sweetest treat of all was that kiss I stole underneath the cotton blanket we tented over our heads against the rain.) I now realize that my mother — and excuse me for expressing what may be a painful truth to you — was a way better cook than anyone else’s. Look back on your own youth. Did your mom ever cook you duck à l’orange or Indian curry served with homemade chutney? OK, so maybe she did, but was she also able to Southern-fry chicken so crisp that it was a shame to smother it in milk gravy? And did your mom also wrap quail in bacon and stuff them with chestnuts and mushrooms? Was every single meal she served accompanied by some form of hot bread, plus a homemade dessert? Did you — and do you still — regularly dream about your mom’s cooking? Other cooks may shine at the holidays — and Mother’s sweet potatoes with black walnuts, her shoo-fly pie and her whole baked country ham or goose were by no means shabby. But what my mother excelled at was cooking every dish day-after-day with the utmost creativity and care. Greek meatloaf she’d seen in a magazine. Deep-fat-fried zucchini or okra. Exotic specialties like borscht that she’d plucked from her beloved 12-volume Woman’s Day Encyclopedia (a set I still cherish and use frequently). As my wife once remarked with amazement after experiencing a typical fresh-from-the-garden summer lunch of freshly picked corn on the cob,

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green beans tangled with bacon, fresh sliced tomatoes, cracklin’ cornbread, plus some leftover pork chops, “Every meal at your house is an event.” My parents were foodies way before that word had any currency. My cousins would come and peer in wonder into our cupboard containing olives, pâté, anchovies, capers, four or five types of mustard, even caviar on occasion. Dad was a Belk store manager who traveled to New York City regularly and brought home shopping bags of pastrami, pickles and smoked fish, along with epic tales of lobster dinners and elaborate, multicourse Chinese feasts, which Mom would replicate, like his favorite, angels-on-horseback (oysters wrapped with bacon and broiled with onions and hoisin sauce). She fully embraced the ’50s hot trend of cooking what was then termed international or gourmet food, but she never abandoned the comfort food she — and Daddy — grew up eating on the farms they were raised on during the Depression — chicken-fried steak, sauerbraten, buckwheat cakes, chicken and dumplings, cider-braised rabbit and apples, all served with a heaping helping of their tradition, passed on from her mother and grandmother. But her real creativity came into play with leftovers. As she would be piling bowls from the fridge onto the counter, my sister would say, “Uh oh, time for must-go soup.” Quoting my grandmother, Mom would counter, “Better bad belly burst than good food waste.” Roast beef hash. Spicy gumbo from leftover okra and other vegetables. Stuffed baked potatoes or green peppers. And her pièce de résistance: schnitz un knepp from leftover ham paired with apples and dumplings. Mom was not a demonstrative person. She wasn’t huggy, and even her filial kisses might be termed polite and correct. She said, “I love you” to each of us regularly, but with just a tad of awkwardness. This despite the fact that she was a hopeless romantic who gobbled up Hemingway, Fitzgerald and massive Russian novels one after another. Dad would finish his favorite dessert, mopping up one of Mom’s fluffy biscuits in a slurry of molasses, give a satisfied groan, push his chair away from the table and say, “Aren’t we glad we married her,” maybe the most affectionate thing I ever heard him say to Mom. “Nothing says lovin’ like something from the oven,” the Pillsbury Doughboy used to say, and Mom’s cooking said it best. PS O.Henry’s Contributing Editor David Claude Bailey learned to cook late in life at Print Works Bistro after working his way up from dishwasher to backline chef.

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