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June �� FEATURES 73 Map Fragment, on Clay Poetry By Millard Dunn

74 Stick Wizard

By Jim Moriarty Patrick Dougherty returns to the Sandhills

84 The Death of a Gambler

By Charles Price A son’s moving remembrance of his struggle to win the love of a father whose emotions were as strange as the life he led

88 It Was the Week that Was

By Jim Moriarty Erik Compton makes his mark at Pinehurst

92 Sandhill Photo Club Spontaneous public scenes

96 The Upscale Downsize By Deborah Salomon Relocation at its best

105 June Almanac

DEPARTMENTS

23 28 35 37

Simple Life By Jim Dodson PinePitch Good Natured By Karen Frye The Omnivorous Reader

By D.G. Martin

41 45 46 51 55 59 61 63 69 112 116 119 120

Bookshelf Hometown By Bill Fields The Creators of N.C. By Wiley Cash In the Spirit By Tony Cross The Kitchen Garden By Jan Leitschuh Out of the Blue By Deborah Salomon Birdwatch By Susan Campbell The Naturalist By Todd Pusser Golftown Journal By Lee Pace Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson Southwords By Tom Allen

By Ashley Wahl

Cover photograph by Greg Campbell

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Jim Dodson, Editor Emeritus Deborah Salomon, Staff Writer

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John Gessner, Laura Gingerich, Tim Sayer

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. The property features landscaped grounds, a picturesque pond, a terraced pool and waterfall. The unique, historic residence was transformed from an 1800’s grist mill that served as a hunting lodge in the 1930’s. Beautifully preserving its original heart-pine floors, paneled walls and beamed ceilings this exceptional residence contains 5,276 sq ft with 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths. Warmed by a fireplace the living room opens to a pond-side screened porch, terrace and outdoor fireplace. The family room with fireplace adjoins a study. Master bedroom has dramatic lake view, luxury bath and sitting room. Acreage accommodates addition of a barn and paddocks.The music room and dining room with vaulted, beamed ceilings are connected to the kitchen by a paneled, shelf lined butler’s pantry with wet bar. A paneled wine bar is off the family room. The brick-floored foyer features hand-painted paneling, a spacious hunt closet and concealed powder room. Outside, the garage building includes a two bay carport, exercise room, storage loft, kennel and equipment shed. The exterior features stone siding and original millstones in the landscaping. New Price $1,950,000

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33 Elkton Drive • Forest Creek Golf Club • Pinehurst This golf front residence offers luxury and drama in a home balanced with inviting, livable spaces. Soaring ceiling heights and double height windows offer dramatic lake and golf views. The ground floor hosts a series of game rooms and a theater. Built in 2007 with a premier location on the 16th Hole, North Course, the property has 5 bedrooms , 4.5 baths, 3 garage bays. Offered at $1,945,000.

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205 Crest Road • Southern Pines

2776 Niagara Carthage Road • Carthage

Classic Colonial Revival in Knollwood Heights, built in 1930 on 2 acres, 6700 sq ft with 5 BR, 5.5 BA and attached 2 car garage. Highlights include fireplaces in living, dining, master and Carolina room, original hardwoods, and large backyard pool. Offered at $850,000.

This idyllic farm, nestled on a hillside above Thaggard’s Lake, has it all. The log home, centered on the property is surrounded by lush pastures, a back yard fenced for dogs, a 4-stall center isle barn, storage shed and generous carport. A deck across the back with a covered center portion supporting a balcony offers a beautiful woodland view. Four Bedroom, 3 baths, 3 bay carport, 11.3 acres. Offered at $975,000.

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123 Pinefield Court • Southern Pines

5 Merion Place • CCNC • Pinehurst

Built in 2006, this 6580 sq ft residence on 8 acres includes 5 BR, 6.5 BA, theater room, billiard room, open living plan, wine cellar, 3 car garage and outdoor kitchen. Gated privacy. Offered at $1,900,000

Rambling, fun-filled home on 5 acres, has it all for family living: 2 family rooms with fireplaces, 4 BR, 4.2 BA, guest apartment, main floor master, 5500 sq ft., 3 car garage. $899,000

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375 OAKMONT CIRCLE Impeccably maintained 3 BR / 2 Full BA 2 Half BA single level home in prime location less than a mile from historic Village

70 SHADOW CREEK COURT Beautiful 4 BR / 3.5 BA two-story townhome in Forest Hills community w/gorgeous layout and tons of appeal.

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46 ROYAL COUNTY DOWN Immaculate 4 BR / 4 BA home in National Golf Club situated on 11th fairway of #9 course. A must see home!

60 BEL AIR DRIVE Beautiful 3 BR / 2.5 BA brick home on corner lot in CCNC. Bright, open floorplan w/fine detail throughout.

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24 POMEROY DRIVE Delightful 3 BR / 3.5 BA custom home situated off the first tee of the ever popular Holly course.

56 DEVON DRIVE Magnificent custom-built 4 BR / 4 BA home w/open layout and beautiful hardwood flooring…a must see!

29 GREYABBEY DRIVE Elegant all brick 4 BR / 3.5 BA home situated on 8th fairway of the Magnolia course in Pinewild.

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113 JOSEPHS POINT Beautiful LAKEFRONT point property w/water on three sides. Truly one of the most amazing lots on Lake Auman.

915 ST. ANDREWS DRIVE Picturesque 3 BR / 3.5 BA two-story home on 15th hole of Pinehurst #5 overlooking water and course.

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As a know-it-all teenager, alternately amused and mortified by his endlessly upbeat personality, I gave him the nickname “Opti the Mystic.” It took me growing up to finally realize what an extraordinary gift he was to me and anyone lucky enough to know him. When I was still pretty small, he hung two framed items on my bedroom wall. One was the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling, maybe the best life and career advice a father ever gave his son or daughter on how to walk with kings but keep the common touch. The other was a quote by the ancient Chinese philosopher Mencius, a student of Confucius: “The great man is he who does not lose his child’s heart,” which confused me until my dad explained: “Philosophy is designed to make you think. Some might think it simply means you should guard your child’s heart from growing cynical about life. I think it means that it’s wise to keep your own child-like sense of wonder — whatever age you are.” My parents also gave me a set of the How and Why Wonder Books, a popular illustrated series designed to teach history and science to young people in the 1960s. The volumes made me take the idea of wonder quite seriously.

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My mother said she always “wondered” what I was going to ask her next. In truth, I was something of a wondrous pest. I wondered typical kid things, like why the sky was so blue and why I had to wear shoes to church in summer — why I even had to go to church in summer when the outdoor world was so green and inviting. Naturally, I wondered about what made the seasons change and the stars move and where hurricanes come from. When a mountainous press foreman at my dad’s newspaper informed me that we lived smack in the middle of something called “Hurricane Alley” in Mississippi, I ordered a hurricane emergency kit from National Geographic in case one struck our coast. To my regret — though probably good fortune — no hurricane came. Thanks to the How and Why Wonder books, I became an avid reader at age 5. But I often wondered about things the wonder books couldn’t explain. Like why Mr. Sullivan, who lived alone two houses down, was suddenly building a bomb shelter in his backyard — and why he believed “Russian spies were everywhere.” Or what the vacation Bible school teacher was talking about when she said, “Jesus sees everything you do and writes it down for later.” It made Jesus sound like a Russian spy, not a prince of peace. When I asked her what “for later” meant, she explained that the list Jesus keeps would determine who would — or wouldn’t — be “saved from eternal hellfire.” I wondered why Jesus would keep such an awful list. About that same time, during the presidential election of 1960, I wondered why my mother voted for Senator Kennedy and my father for Mr. Nixon. “Someone had to cancel out your father, honey,” my PineStraw

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mom explained with a laugh. “Every now and then, even he makes silly decisions.” On a beautiful Friday afternoon three years later, Mrs. Brown, my favorite teacher, suddenly left the room and returned with red and swollen eyes, dismissing us an hour early. Someone had shot and killed the President. I spent the next week glued to the TV set, wondering. Looking back, I sometimes wonder if that’s the moment modern America began to lose her innocence, as some historians like to say, and if that’s when I decided I would become a journalist like my old man — if only to find out how and why. No wonder I spent the first decade of my career writing about the terrible things human beings do to each other, reporting on everything from unrepentant Klansmen to corrupt politicians, Atlanta’s status as America’s murder capital to the South’s growing racial tensions. As I approached 30, I feared I might be prematurely burning out — i.e. losing my sense of wonder. But something saved me in the nick of time. One spring afternoon I went out to write a simple story about an inner-city baseball league and got recruited to coach a team called the Orioles for the next two seasons. More than half the kids on my team were African-American and came from one of the city’s bleakest housing projects. I made a deal with their parents and grandparents to drive them home after every practice and game. I also bribed them with milkshakes from a local joint called Woody’s CheeseSteaks if they learned to behave like gentlemen on and off the field. They did just that. I bought a lot of milkshakes over those two

years. We never lost a game. Those kids — the “Mob that Became a Team,” as Reader’s Digest would call them — restored my lost sense of wonder. After that second season, I turned down a dream job in Washington for a much simpler life on the bank of a winding green river in Vermont, where I got a pup, taught myself to flyfish, read every book of philosophy and poetry I could lay my hands on and lived in a small cottage heated by a woodstove for a year. It was my private Walden Pond. My heartbeat slowed. I fell in love with the winter stars again. And that next spring, I recovered my passion for golf by playing the same course Rudyard Kipling played when he lived in the town, not long after he wrote “If.” I realized that life truly is a wondrously circular affair — that everything you’ve loved is always with you, waiting to be born again, and that nobody — not even Jesus — is keeping a list like a Russian spy. Here’s proof of the universe’s wondrous circularity. Not long ago, one of the players from the team that saved me, called out of the blue. “I’ve been trying to find you for years,” Pete said. “I finally found you and your books on the Internet.” Pete and his teammates are in their early 50s now, grown men with their own careers and families. We’re planning a reunion. A few weeks ago, Pete sent me a photograph of himself standing in front of Woody’s CheeseSteaks. His hair is gray but he looks the same. I may look a little older, I told him, but I’m still a kid of wonder, too. PS Jim Dodson can be reached at jim@thepilot.com.

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Open for Art The exhibit “Cloth and Clay” at the Campbell House Galleries, featuring the work of Anne Crabbe, Sarah Entsminger, Jenny Williams and Nanette Zeller, opens on Friday, June 4, at the Campbell House, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. The exhibit runs through June 25. For more info go to www.mooreart.org or call (910) 692-2787. Then, on Sunday, June 6, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., there will be an opening reception for a juried exhibition at the Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. For additional information call (910) 944-3979.

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The Stickman Cometh World-renowned sculptor Patrick Dougherty, who grew up in Southern Pines, will sign copies of his book, Stickwork, featuring over 200 pages of photos, anecdotes and insights at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines, on Wednesday, June 9, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. The Country Bookshop will be on-site selling the limited edition monograph. Space is limited and registration is required. For information call (910) 692-6261 or go to www.ticketmesandhills.com.

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Mildred Barya, a Ugandan poet and fiction writer, and winner of the North Carolina Humanities Council’s 2019 Linda Flowers Award, will read from her workin-progress at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, June 7, at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Light refreshments will be served. For additional information call (910) 6926261 or visit weymouthcenter.org.

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Broadway Is Back, Baby The Sandhills Repertory Theatre will present Bringing Back Broadway — Finally! on Saturday, June 19, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at the Owens Auditorium, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. The show is free. There will be a matinee performance on Sunday, June 20, at 2 p.m. For additional information go to www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Be a Citizen Explorer Bring a smartphone, tablet or camera, a water bottle, dress for a short walk, and join a representative from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to learn about ecoExplore! at the Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., on Saturday, June 26, from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. The program encourages kids in grades K-8 to participate in citizen science. You can create an account beforehand at www.ecoexplore. net. For more information call (910) 692-3611 or go to www.sppl.net.

Popcorn on the Grass The Sunrise Theater will be showing National Lampoon’s Vacation, starring Chevy Chase, on the grass at the Sunrise Square, beginning at 8:30 p.m. on Friday, June 18. In the event of inclement weather, the movie will move inside the adjacent Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Tickets are $10 per person. For more information call (910) 692-3611 or visit www. sunrisetheater.com.

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Bigger Than a Saltbox How a second story walk-up became an institution

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Ricky Moore’s Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook is full of good directions and advice about how to select, prepare and serve seasonal seafood from the North Carolina coast. It is also, and primarily, a memoir that explains the raging success of a seafood joint located in a shack in downtown Durham.

It was the delicious food at the Saltbox Seafood Joint that led the University of North Carolina Press to encourage Moore to write a book about the tricky business of getting the best tasting seafood to the table. North Carolina’s cultural icon, David Cecelski, author of A Historian’s Coast: Adventures into the Tidewater Past, praises the new book as highly as he does the restaurant: “I think he’s written the finest seafood cookbook you’ve ever seen.” Moore shares 60 favorite recipes and his techniques for selecting, preparing, cooking and serving North Carolina seafood. But the heart of this book is the story of how Moore rose from a hardworking family in coastal North Carolina and used the experiences of his youth, his military service, an education at the country’s leading college for chefs, and work in the kitchens of some of the best restaurants in the world to make a tiny seafood restaurant into one of the country’s most admired eateries. The story begins near New Bern, where the families of Moore’s mother and father lived. “I grew up along the Neuse and Trent rivers and spent plenty of my childhood fishing those waters, but I don’t want this to sound as though we were eating fish all the time. We ate it whenever we could get it, whenever it was available, or whenever somebody went out fishing,” Moore writes. Moore was a self-described “Army brat.” He spent time in Germany and remembered his German babysitter feeding him local raspberries picked that day and freshly baked bread slathered with butter. “There I was, a little kid with an Afro and an orange Fat Albert shirt, soaking up all the German food culture,” he says. After high school he considered studying art at East Carolina, but The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

he craved the kind of experiences he’d found in Germany. When he turned 18 in 1987, he enlisted. After basic training and jump school, it was time for advanced training. “I picked the first option that would get me out of New Bern: military cook school in Fort Jackson, South Carolina!” He learned that meals “had to sustain, had to be wholesome, and had to feed a lot of people.” There were regulations and recipes for everything, “even for Kool-Aid.” He learned “how to scale a recipe for a crowd, how to measure, and how to cook in huge vessels and vats.” As he transferred from one post to the next — from Fort Polk, Louisiana, to Schofield Barracks in Hawaii — he learned new styles of food peculiar to that region. In Hawaii, he met his future wife, Norma. Just before leaving the Army, an officer told Moore about the Culinary Institute of America, known in the cooking world as the Harvard University of culinary education. In 1993, he enrolled in a two-year program at the Institute and quickly found that, while there was much to learn, his background helped tie the pieces together. “My basic training as a soldier wasn’t so different from learning kitchen fundamentals, but in culinary school you get the bonus of learning about wine pairings and the practical economics of running a restaurant kitchen,” he says. He interned at the finest nearby restaurants such as Daniel in Manhattan and the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. “I went where I needed to in order to learn as much as I could. My goal was to be a great chef, period.” After the Culinary Institute, he “hopped from one exciting kitchen to another, working with all kinds of cuisines.” He worked for free in the best restaurants in France. “Through this work abroad, I found a shared sense of tradition, culture, behavior, and, most important, discipline when it came to food and dining. I was the only person of color in these European kitchens, which made me even more intense about learning as much as possible. Being Black automatically pigeonholed you.” He writes that “the rustic roots of these culinary mainstays PineStraw

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weren’t that different from the food of my childhood. I began to see that Southern food is not a lesser cuisine, and I shed many of the insecurities I had held about my own food culture. It was time to head back to the States.” After returning to the U.S. and working in executive chef positions in Chicago and Washington, he and Norma moved back to North Carolina and settled in Chapel Hill. One day Norma asked him where she could get a fish sandwich. But not just any fish sandwich. A real fish sandwich. A sandwich, Moore writes, “with local fish, lightly breaded and seasoned, fried in fresh oil until golden brown and delicious, then served on fresh slices of yeasty sweet bread and garnished with traditional cooked green pepper and spicy onion relish plus tartar sauce chock full of capers, cornichons, eggs, and herbs.” Moore knew he could make it — if he could find a good place to work. He began to look for the right location in Durham. “I wanted a little shop, to do one thing really well, and to control every aspect of it. This was ultimately the base of my business model.” He wanted Saltbox to be something like the old Rathskeller had been in Chapel Hill, a place folks would consider part of their hometown, a piece woven into the fabric of the community — a place that would make folks say, “You ain’t been to Durham if you haven’t been to Saltbox.” He found that place on North Mangum Street in the middle of downtown Durham. It was “a little walk-up with the right bones.” By October 2012 he had it ready to open, “just in time for the first fish running of the fall.” Today, that little walk-up is firmly established as a must-visit. Recently, Moore found a larger place on Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, which has turned into a seamless second version of Saltbox, giving folks visiting Durham — and readers of his book — another option to join David Cecelski in swooning about Ricky Moore’s seafood. PS D.G. Martin hosts North Carolina Bookwatch Sunday at 3:30 p.m. and Tuesday at 5 p.m. on UNC-TV.

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THE RISE OF A NEW DAY

AT THE COUNTRY CLUB OF WHISPERING PINES Eleven months ago, golf pro JP Longueil and turfgrass expert Jimmie Murphy joined forces at Brown Golf, with the long-term goal of bringing the Country Club of Whispering Pines up to par with the best golf courses Moore County has to offer. As part of these upgrades, the duo is changing the greens on the River to Champions Bermuda so that both the Pines and the River will have the same top-quality greens. The course will be closed from June 1 to August 31 for these renovations. Come play the Pines now which is back the highest quality and check out the brand new greens on the River at the end of the summer!

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June Books FICTION The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, by Marianne Cronin Lenni, 17, meets Margot, 83, while they are both in a hospital in Glasgow. They develop a friendship in an art class, where they decide to paint 100 pictures between them, one for each year of their lives, in this beautiful story of friendship at any age and how it changes us.

Morningside Heights, by Joshua Henkin An Ohio woman attends Yale, falls in love with her professor, and marries him. As she struggles to face her aging, a chance at new romance arrives. Morningside Heights is a compassionate novel about surviving a marriage wrecked with hardship, the love between men and women, parents and children, and living a life different from what we expected.

The Nature of Witches, by Rachel Griffin For centuries, witches have maintained the climate, their power peaking in the season of their birth. But now their control is faltering as the atmosphere becomes more erratic. All hope lies with Clara, an Everwitch, whose rare magic is tied to every season. The Nature of Witches is a fierce, romantic YA story about a world on the brink of destruction, the one witch who holds the power to save it, and the choice that could cost her everything she loves.

The Personal Librarian, by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray Belle da Costa Greene was born a light-skinned Black woman whose family moved to New York to live as white. She is hired by J.P. Morgan to be his personal librarian, changing not only her world, but her family’s, too. Belle was an exceptional woman with a love for rare books that matched Morgan’s. Authors Benedict and Murray, one white and one Black, have written a fabulous book that puts you in Belle’s shoes as you feel her daily fear of exposure.

Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid It’s the day of Nina Riva’s end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together the siblings — the offspring of the legendary singer Mick Riva — are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark is lit, the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come rising to the surface.

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Double Blind, by Edward St. Aubyn Moving from London to Provence to California and back to a beautiful woodland entirely off the grid, Double Blind is a breathtaking, kaleidoscopic novel exploring friendship, love, consciousness and the natural world. Timely and expansive ecological concerns animate the novel as it follows three friends and their circle through a year of transformation, moving between London, Oxford, Cap d’Antibes, Sussex and Big Sur. It’s about the headlong pursuit of knowledge and the consequences of fleeing what we already know about others and ourselves. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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ing the items from a box and making a cursory inspection, one thing was as clear as my vision after cataract surgery: Moths have better taste than I did.

This particular sweater and sport jacket are nearly 50 years old but, notwithstanding a few small stains, they have survived the decades intact, their synthetic fibers not even on the menu for a couple of generations of nocturnal insects. These are not just any clothes. They were two of my go-to garments during high school, possessions I wore with pride despite their effect on my social life. I loved them. The canary cardigan and tan, blue, red and white plaid coat weren’t exceptions but the rule for my 1970s dress code. Multiple photographs in my high school yearbooks are proof of these fashion crimes. Among plenty of denim and flannel there I am, over and over, ready for a tee time. I blame golf for leading me down the polyester path, although I take full responsibility for my rust-colored corduroy suit (with vest). If what I wore led to where I was on Friday and Saturday nights — upstairs in my room, alone, reading and listening to the radio — I was OK with it, such was my obsession with the game. Part of playing golf was dressing the part, and I did my best. I was aided and abetted in this pursuit. In ninth grade, by which time I had abandoned other sports to concentrate on making the tour, my social studies teacher was Mrs. Troop, a kind, young woman whose husband, Lee, was an assistant pro at the Country Club of North Carolina. Told of my golf habit, he gave me a trio of lightly used, 100 percent orlon, men’s size large Izod sweaters

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in blue, red and yellow. They were Crayon-bright colors with a green crocodile on the left breast, what cool golfers (as opposed to cool teenagers) were wearing in 1974. I donned those sweaters regularly, in class and on the course, over the next several years. They were in my regular cool-weather rotation along with a zip-up crafted from velour, the poor man’s cashmere. Regardless of the season, chances are I had on a pair of polyester slacks, some of them in plaid or check patterns purchased with my employee discount in the pro shop at Mid Pines Golf Club, where I worked part time as a golf cart attendant. And I might have been wearing my casual deerskin shoes popular with the septuagenarian crowd. The synthetic-fibered sport jacket (Andhurst by Belk) had padded shoulders and was of a sturdy hand. It was plain ugly, yet I often wore it senior year while delivering the sports on Pinecrest’s student-produced daily closed-circuit television show over a golf shirt with a wide, hard collar. The garish jacket is in the annual, too. I am telling the score of some Patriots’ game while sitting next to the weather girl, who that day was wearing a shirt with “Foxy Lady” inscribed on the front. At least I wasn’t the only one committing a fashion faux pas. Besides playing much better than we did, I’m sure the golf-mad teenagers at Pinecrest these days dress better as well. Golf clothing still has its quirks — quarter-zip anyone? — but the game’s fashion doesn’t, for the most part, scream like it did during the Synthetic Seventies. That said, there probably are a few Rickie Fowler wannabes who will feel about their head-to-toe Creamsicle-colored outfits the way I recall the days I looked like a goldfinch. At least my yearbooks were printed in black and white. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent. PineStraw

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with compelling and talented duos — think Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, June Carter and Johnny Cash — but few have been as charmed or charming as Austin and Sarah McCombie of the North Carolina band Chatham Rabbits. The two first met in 2014 at a concert they attended separately, and within a few years they were rattling around the country together in a 1986 Winnebago, headlining concerts of their own. It’s an old story based on an even older dream: start a band with your 46

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best friend, sell everything you own, make a living with your music. But for Chatham Rabbits, that dream came true, and the most genuine thing about that dream is the music itself.

In marriage and in music, Austin and Sarah blend their individual histories into a shared musical experience. Years ago, Sarah first took the stage as a member of the South Carolina Broadcasters, a musical trio that harkened back to the bygone days of the Grand Ole Opry and AM radio country classics. Meanwhile, Austin played keyboards and guitar for an electro-pop band called DASH. Given their backgrounds, how would Chatham Rabbits describe their musical marriage? “We’re not purists,” Austin says. “And we’re certainly not the hippest,” Sarah adds. “But we’ve been able to belong nowhere and everywhere at the same time,” which is to say that Chatham Rabbits have always been able to create a musical home, both for themselves and for their fans. The duo’s first album, All I Want From You (2018), was written in The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Bynum, where Austin and Sarah could sit on the porch of their old mill house and survey the entire village of tightly packed homes, a vantage point that revealed their own ties to the close-knit community. The music — with Sarah on banjo, Austin on guitar, and the two splitting lead vocals and sharing harmonies — reaches out to the listener while reaching back in time in search of stories. Their latest album, last year’s The Yoke is Easy, the Burden is Full, is carried by the same gorgeous melodies, harmonies and delicate instrumentation, but it possesses a more introspective quality, which makes sense considering that the album was written when the couple moved to their 11-acre farm in Siler City. In these songs, the Rabbits use contemplation as incantation, inviting the listener to sit quietly with Austin and Sarah as they reflect on their shared life and their families’ histories. If their debut album was a means of reaching out to connect with a larger community, then their more recent album is a guided, dreamy meditation on turning inward. Whether they’re reaching out or looking in, Chatham The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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Rabbits have always invited listeners to join them. They’ve recently invited listeners to join them on their farm, too, where a new barn has been repurposed to host outdoor concerts that allow for the requisite 6 feet of social distance between pods of attendees. On a Saturday in early May, Austin and Sarah are both smiling behind masks as they move through the preconcert crowd, catching up with old friends and meeting new fans for the first time. The two are refreshingly approachable, remembering people’s names and asking after their children and families. He’s wearing a navy-blue button down and khaki pants; she’s in a navy-blue dress that once belonged to her great aunt. Although there are speakers hanging from the rafters and a lighting system illuminates the instruments and microphone on stage, there are plenty of reminders that this is still a working farm. Saddles and bridles hang on the wall. Chickens meander through the crowd. In the nearby pasture, a black cow named Petunia rubs her back against an old tree. “The barn was halfway built when the pandemic hit and all of

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our shows were being cancelled,” Austin says. “At the time, the barn floors were going to be dirt, and the builders were about to enclose the walls. We asked about pouring a concrete floor, and we learned that it would cost the same amount to pour the floor as it did to put up the walls. We chose the floor.” That kind of quick decision making has served the band well during the pandemic, which has rocked the music industry, but Chatham Rabbits have found ways to adapt. “When the pandemic hit, we were about to release a new album, and we spent a week worrying about the world and feeling sorry for ourselves,” Sarah says. “Then we got busy figuring out how to make it work.” The two used funds from their Patreon crowdfunding platform to buy a Sprinter van and a flatbed trailer. Off they went, playing outdoor shows in neighborhoods across the state and into Virginia and South Carolina in support of the new album that was supposed to have been celebrated in concert halls across the country. “We’ve The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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probably played one hundred shows from the back of that trailer,” Sarah says. Once the barn was finished and the state’s health restrictions allowed it, they decided to test the waters by holding six live concerts

throughout the summer in the space they’ve named The Burrow. The tickets sold out in less than three days. As the state’s coronavirus numbers improved, Chatham Rabbits released more tickets, which sold out in mere minutes. The resilience and flexibility required by the past year has influenced the song writing for their new album, to be released in coming months. “Many of the songs are reflections of us being at home together for an entire year,” she says. “It’s about our life on the farm, shifting friendships, and the way we had to come to terms with our foundations being rocked.” As Austin and Sarah take the stage, the air is charged with energy and a giddy sense that something is returning to the world, whether it be live music or summertime or the feel of a cold beverage in your hand and the weight of a sleepy child on your lap. After welcoming the crowd to the inaugural show at The Burrow, Austin and Sarah open with a song from their first album titled “Come Home.” Attendees take off their masks, settle into their beach chairs, and — for the rest of the evening — do just that. PS Wiley Cash is the writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. His new novel, When Ghosts Come Home, will be released this year.

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is upon us: unbearable heat and ridiculous amounts of humidity. It’s summertime, by God, and it’s drip-sweat hot. There are tons of different cocktails to help cool you off, but I’m going to focus on gin.

It’s funny how some people make a squirming face at the very mention of gin. If you’re one of those, stick with me — one of these drinks might make you a convert. Often the ghost of gin past, or whatever you call your previous bad experience, usually came from drinking juniper-forward, cheap gin. There are different styles of gin out there, and I’ll pick three of them, one for each cocktail. You can always swap out whatever gin you want for the drinks below. But watch out, you might find that you kind of like it after all.

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The spiciness from the arugula pairs well with the soft, earthy flavor of Plymouth gin. Plymouth is my go-to gin for martinis, as well. 2 ounces Plymouth gin 1 ounce lime juice 1/2 ounce light agave syrup Healthy pinch of arugula Place arugula and agave syrup in a cocktail shaker. Muddle. Add gin, lime juice and ice. Shake hard for 15 seconds and double strain into a rocks glass over ice. Add a piece of fresh arugula for garnish.

Gin and Tonic On a hot, summer day, there’s nothing quite like a good gin and tonic. When I was a teenager working as a dishwasher at a country club, one of the servers would slide me G&T’s through the window on busy weekend nights. The gin was cheap, and so was the tonic. It didn’t matter — what did I know? These days, we have lots of different choices of gin, so many it can seem a little overwhelming. I recommend a London Dry Gin, which is juniper-forward, but if that’s not your style, you can substitute a softer, drier gin like Plymouth. When it comes to tonic water, you can never go wrong with Fever Tree, but for this recipe, we’ll be using Reverie’s tonic syrup, TONYC. Instead of adding a lime wedge to the drink, we think PineStraw

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the oil from an orange peel brings out the best in our syrup. 2 ounces Beefeater’s gin 3/4 ounce TONYC syrup 4 ounces sparkling water 1 orange peel Pour gin and syrup into a rocks glass. Give it a quick stir with your barspoon. Add ice and top with sparkling water. Again, give it a quick stir. Express the oils from an orange peel over the cocktail and drop into drink. If you’re using tonic water, pour gin into glass, add ice, sparkling water, and stir. Use a lime wedge if using tonic water.

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farm stand or market, will have ripe, field-grown tomatoes by the end of this month. Even nonkitchen gardeners have been known to plant a tomato or two. It’s the juicy lure of summer meals with that fabulous homegrown tomato taste. With that in mind, here are a few random, but useful, tricks and tips: — Stake or cage. If you haven’t already, do it now. By the end of the month, your vines will be so heavy with ripening fruits that the plant will sprawl along the ground, tomatoes will rot, and the plant will be exposed to pests and diseases. At this point, tall stakes may be your best bet. If you cage, get one tall enough that the vines don’t spill over the top, then snap under the growing weight of your hardwon harvest. Set cages or stakes deep in the ground so they don’t blow over, and tie vines loosely with soft cloth or twine, supporting the fruiting arms. The thin wire cones sold at supermarkets and some garden stores are really too short for tomatoes and are better suited to peppers and eggplant.

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on the undersides of your branches. Remove and squish (or feed to your neighbor’s chickens). Just a few hornworms can decimate a plant. Luckily, you’ll probably have just a few. Hornworms are tricky because of their exceptional green camouflage. They can hide in plain sight, but once you’ve spotted them, you can’t unsee them. Daily checks for a few weeks — with your cheaters on — will end this problem. — Improve taste via soil. Generally, the better the soil, the better the flavor. Compost and a mineral-balanced tomato fertilizer are your friends. Unfortunately, by June, isn’t this like shutting the barn door after the mule has fled? Au contraire! It’s not too late to put in another round of tomato plants for late summer and fall harvests. In the early stages of growth, tomato plants need plenty of nitrogen to grow strong stems and plenty of leaves. Once the plant has matured, the major minerals of phosphorus and potassium are needed in greater amounts to allow the plant to switch to successful fruit production. Trace minerals are important as well. Potassium levels in the soil have a significant impact on the taste of the fruits, as do sulfur, boron, sodium and chlorine. Next year, ensure your soil contains the right balance of these nutrients, and you’ll be flooded with flavorful tomatoes come harvest time. I like a mineral product called SulPoMag that’s well-suited for our Sandhills soils. — Improve taste via variety. Tomato taste is complex, and your original variety choice is important. With thousands of tomato varieties to choose from, each with its own unique flavor profile, the tender heirlooms often top the flavor tests. Store-bought tomatoes are bred with shipping and shelf life, not flavor, in mind. Heirlooms, however, do not have the disease resistance of some of the decent, more modern tomatoes like the popular Better Boy. So, plant some of both. PineStraw

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— Add Epsom salts. Here is a post-planting tweak you can do right now. The timing is “ripe.” Do your tomatoes lack that delicious homegrown taste? Are your plants slow to fruit or ripen, leaves curling or turning yellow between the leaf’s green veining? It may be a magnesium deficiency. This region of the country tends to have low magnesium in the soil. Epsom salts, or hydrated magnesium sulfate, can help boost your tomato yield and keep plants bushy and healthy. The fruits will grow larger and taste better, and the plants will better resist disease and bear longer. Use it as a soil drench or foliar spray. Epsom salts are highly soluble and provide two essential micronutrients: magnesium and sulfur. Once a month, dissolve two tablespoons Epsom salts in a gallon of water and “drench” the soil around your plant. Thereafter, use plain water regularly until the following month, then repeat the Epsom drench every 30 days. This same mixture — two tablespoons in a gallon of water — can also be sprayed on the leaves as a foliar spray and the magnesium (and sulphur) will be taken up by the plant quickly. Be sparing, again on a monthly schedule. — Don’t forget pruning. In May, did you prune your tomatoes? Yes, prune. Removing the lower leaves up from the first fruit, or flower cluster, helps fight off common foliar diseases that result from splashing dirt. If you didn’t do it then, do it now. Did you also manage to pinch off the suckers, those feral shoots that arise from the V between the main stem and tomato branches? Cut them off as soon as you see them forming. Pruning them does cut down on the amount of fruit you’ll get, but it also improves the health of the plant, and in the long run, leads to stronger plants that will produce through the whole season. If these suckers are allowed to grow, they will set fruit, but also crowd out the other branches in search of sunlight. That can lead to poor air circulation and fungal diseases. It can also cause fruit to ripen slowly, or not at all. If you don’t prune your plants, you’ll have a smaller and less tasty yield because the extra energy that goes to growing foliage won’t make its way into the fruit. Also, remove any dead or dying leaves to allow the plant to put its energy into fruit production. Wash hands between plants to avoid spreading disease inadvertently. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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— Water properly. Keep water off leaves. Tomato leaves are born trying to grab onto a foliar disease, it seems. Proper watering — and mulch — helps prevent splashing dirt onto the leaves. Slight water stress at the time of picking improves flavor, too, since it avoids dilution. Perhaps water in the morning and pick in the afternoon — for that delicious suppertime BLT or Caprese salad. There’s no need to guess when to water your tomato plants. Simply stick your index finger into the soil; if it feels dry, it’s time to water. If it’s moist, you’re good to go. If plants are drooping or wilting, water them deeply immediately and add mulch to protect roots and conserve soil moisture. — Use the right pots fo container plantings. “Water and feed” is your mantra. Your potted tomato, a heavy feeder, is completely dependent on you. Use determinate (shorter and bushier varieties) or special “bush” tomatoes. Most determinate tomatoes (those that grow to a designated height then stop) are perfect for large, 5-10-gallon pots. Also, roots tend to migrate to the outside of their container. On a blazing day, this can lead to root burn on the sunny side. I’ll set a cheap, large nursery pot within my nicer pot to avoid this, with a little air gap of mulch or sand on the sides. At least use a light colored, reflective pot for your tomatoes if not using the pot-in-a-pot method. — Companions are helpful. Basil. You’ll pair it with ‘maters in the cook pot, so why not in the garden? Besides culinary considerations, some say basil plants help deter certain pests like whiteflies or thrips. I know for a fact a crushed basil leaf, rubbed on the arms, deters evening mosquitoes. Others swear that tomatoes are tastier with basil planted nearby — you can be the judge of that. Garlic is also said to help repel

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pests, and that may include deer. Marigolds, cheerful little things, discourage root-knot nematodes. Some gardeners believe marigolds deter tomato hornworms and thrips too. — Beware non-companions. Avoid planting sworn enemies nearby, such as cabbage or corn. These are such heavy feeders, they will pull nutrients from your tomatoes. Plus, corn earworm, Heliothus zea, known by another name, tomato fruitworm, will attack your tomatoes. Fennel is another unpleasant companion, exuding an unpleasant substance that discourages its neighbors. Also avoid planting other members of the tomato family — eggplant, Irish potatoes and bell peppers. They share diseases. — Treat black spots. Tomatoes on the vine sometimes get black spots on the bottom, called blossom end rot. This is usually caused by a calcium deficiency. Lime or a good tomato fertilizer will help the issue, or next year you can put crushed egg shells in the soil around the plant. Commercial growers will use a calcium spray at the first sign of it. — Plan for sbundance. Because it’s almost here. Start Googling recipes, and ways to put up and use your harvest. From canning to salsa to freezing to sun-dried tomatoes, from pizza sauce to tomato chutney to ratatouille, get your tomato game on. By July, you’ll be swimming in delicious, homegrown fruits. Lucky you! Don’t forget to share with friends. PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and co-founder of Sandhills Farm to Table.

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OUT OF THE BLUE

From Cover to Cover When time was marked by magazines

By Deborah Salomon

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ing highway begs mile markers. On mine, look for magazines.

Because you are what you read, from childhood on. I remember more about Mary Poppins than Earnest Hemingway. But those are books, to curl up with on a rainy Saturday, or dissect in a college lit class. Magazines, in contrast, provide quick reads: facts, opinions, critiques, humor, all au courant. I grew up in a magazine-rich household. Highlight of the week was arrival of Life. What or who would rate a cover story? Eisenhower? Marilyn? Castro? Ali? My mother rated Look a notch below Life, therefore unworthy of a subscription. Thank goodness she approved of Reader’s Digest. I beelined to the “Laughter, the Best Medicine” feature. This affection began with Jack and Jill, first published the year before I was born. I aced the page where animals or objects were “hidden” in an illustration. Soon, much to the chagrin of parents, pre-teen girls developed “crushes” on movie stars. We passed around Photoplay and Modern Screen until pages, stained from Coke, went raggedy. A year or so later, we moved on to racy, fabricated confessions in True Story, purchased by older sisters and sequestered under the mattress. Pure trash . . . but a deliciously grown-up transition. I was interested in food even then, probably because my mother wasn’t. I recall begging her to subscribe to Ladies’ Home Journal and Good Housekeeping in the early ’50s, when anything cooked in cream of mushroom soup rated “gourmet.” Meatloaf was a hot topic. Garlic, not. Cakes had three layers; salads were “tossed” and fresh herbs, absent. Never caught the Seventeen bug. Just too 17-ish. As a Manhattan kid transplanted kicking and screaming to Asheville, I craved the edgy. With babysitting money, I subscribed to The New Yorker in high school, mostly for the cartoons and covers which, unlike now, were timely but gentle. From these pages printed in a recognizable font I learned about profiling, which helped later on when, coming full circle, I profiled my favorite New Yorker cartoonist, Ed Koren, for a news syndicate. I continued that subscription for more than 50 years until the articles became too long and the covers, too mean-spirited. I tried skimming my husband’s Sports Illustrated after hearing that the writing was top drawer. Maybe, once you plowed through the jargon. Then, the Newsweek mandate. My mother was a high school math teacher and politics maven. She The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

had strong opinions better expressed in Newsweek than Time. I had disappointed her once, by an indifference to math and disinterest in the teaching profession. She certainly wasn’t going to cede her only child to even a smidgen of pop journalism. So, after I married and moved far away, she gifted me with a perpetual Newsweek subscription. Our phone calls usually included a “Did you read about . . . ” Still checking up. The subscription ran out after she died. Magazines in their original form also declined, victims to the internet, podcasts and 24-hour cable news. TV Guide, where my father checked off the week’s best ball games, became superfluous and The Saturday Evening Post a collector’s item. Playboy endured, as if anybody really looks like that naked. This highway has a happy ending. When my older grandson was about 9, he displayed a keen interest in history, geography, outer space and other exotic destinations. So, for his birthday, I subscribed to National Geographic but had the copies sent to my address. That way I could skim the stories and discuss them with him. He already knew most of the stuff, but loved to argue facts and opinions, whether tribal cultures or marine life in the South China Sea. What a joy, to be outlitigated by a fourth-grader. I subscribed until he was 15. “Nanny, you should see the pile of National Geographics I have stacked up,” he said, when moving into his first apartment. By then, he had traveled and/or studied in two dozen countries including China, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Central America. He speaks three languages, graduated from law school and passed the bar, all by 23. I take no credit, except for sharing something beyond comic books and chocolate chip cookies. I can’t remember a time when a few magazines weren’t stacked on my coffee table — always PineStraw, occasionally something else. Occasionally, I read The New Yorker online. My dentist gets an impressive array, including Our State and Southern Living. I arrive early, on purpose, to copy recipes that I never make. At the supermarket checkout I notice that magazines have become terribly specialized, more like grown-up picture books. And horribly expensive. I don’t subscribe to anything anymore. The house where I wallpapered a bathroom with New Yorker covers is long sold. I haven’t the heart to ask my grandson if he discarded the National Geographics. But the thrill endures because look where I ended up: writing about magazines for a magazine. PS Deborah Salomon is a writer for PineStraw and The Pilot. She may be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com. PineStraw

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Hidden in Plain Sight The secretive and elusive Eastern meadowlark

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and Western meadowlarks are almost indistinguishable where they overlap in the Midwest and southern Plains. Their voice is really the only clue. Westerns are far more musical, having a song that is a rich warble. Not surprisingly, in the western part of the range, Easterns do sometimes learn the wrong song or even hybridize with their Western cousins. Here you can find meadowlarks anywhere from larger hay fields to horse farms or airports. Males will be singing from elevated perches, such as fence posts, from dawn until sunset. They typically throw their heads back and emit a series of loud, clear whistles. In winter, you will more commonly hear their rattling call as a dozen or more individuals make their way through plowed fields in search of leftover corn, soybeans or slow-moving insects. Unfortunately, because they require very large openings, they are reluctant to come to bird feeders even in the coldest weather. Females build a cup-shaped nest in a thick clump of grass in order to hide and protect their young from both aerial and ground predators. And, in our area, the season is long enough for two broods to be produced. However, the fact that they typically use large hay fields makes them very vulnerable to losing eggs and nestlings to mowing. The increase in ground predators such as raccoons, foxes and stray cats also has caused significant population declines here in the eastern United States. There are other grassland species that have been affected as well. Grasshopper sparrows, horned larks and bobolinks have become even more scarce — but their stories will have to wait. PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos. She can be contacted at susan@ncaves.com. PineStraw

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Like Son, Like Father A manatee, a rattlesnake, and a change of perspective

By Todd Pusser

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ordeal, especially if you have never done it before. The process of pulling a thick piece of neoprene up over your legs and torso is exhausting. So it was as I strained with all my might, trying in vain to pull the crushed rubber material up over the last few inches of my father’s shoulders.

Finally, with a few extra twists and turns, I was able get to Dad fully suited up. Pulling the zipper up his back, I turned him around to inspect how well the rented contraption fit him. Standing there on the bow of our aluminum jon boat, Dad looked like an aging superhero with his white hair, all aglow under a bright January sun, contrasting sharply with his skintight black wetsuit. I handed him a mask and snorkel and he promptly belly flopped over the side of the boat. Dad had never snorkeled before, not even in our backyard swimming pool. I figured this was as safe a place as any for his first try. Our boat was anchored near a large, freshwater spring, many miles away from the ocean, and the calm water was only 8 feet deep. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

I had asked Dad to join me for a trip to Crystal River, Florida, to dive with mermaids, something he agreed to without hesitation. Errr . . . I meant manatees. I wasn’t trying to mislead my father — after all, lovesick, old-timey sailors frequently mistook the sea cows for voluptuous sirens. No, I had asked Dad to come along with hopes that he could gain a better understanding of the career path I had chosen for myself. I have always had a strong love for nature, especially creatures of the ocean. Despite growing up in landlocked Eagle Springs, over a hundred miles from the nearest beach, my passion for the sea was innate, though a chunk of it was certainly inspired by Sunday afternoon viewings of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau at Granny’s house. Dad never fully understood my obsession with nature, but he tolerated it. More importantly, he and Mom always encouraged and supported me, especially when they asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. The answer was always the same — a marine biologist. As soon as Dad hit the water, a manatee appeared from out of nowhere. Dad gave an audible “grunt” in his snorkel, obviously surprised by the sofa-sized mammal that had snuggled up next to him. Despite their size, manatees can be quite curious, even playful, and this particular one nuzzled its head up under Dad’s hand, wanting a scratch like some overgrown puppy. (Disclaimer: This interaction took place over decade ago. Touching manatees is no longer permitted.) PineStraw

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“It was eerie,” Chriscoe reflects a year later. “We were riding bikes down that long hallway. The lights were turned off, the phones were re-routed. We had no idea how long it was going to last.” When Pinehurst officials made the decision on March 22 to shut down the operation of its three hotel facilities — the Carolina, the Holly and the Manor — they realized the front doors under the porte-cochère of the Carolina had no locking mechanism. The hotel had never been closed. “We literally used chain link and a padlock,” says Tom Pashley, president of Pinehurst Resort. “That was the only way we could secure the doors.” Pashley shakes his head thinking back one year to the trauma of the spring of 2020. He’s sitting on the veranda on the south side of the original Pinehurst golf clubhouse, looking over The Cradle short The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

course. On this morning in late April 2021, the club and resort have come full circle, from the hotel operation shutting down to 12 months later being a beehive of activity. Tee sheets are full. The Maniac Hill practice range is lined with golfers. Parking spaces are at a premium. Within Pashley’s field of vision are two construction projects — a bulldozer at the far end of the short-game practice area is shaping a foundation for a new permanent beverage facility to service golfers on The Cradle, and construction workers are hammering and nailing on a golf shop expansion. “We’re building a new home for the Pine Cone,” Pashley says of the vintage beverage cart located behind the third green of The Cradle. “It’s served us well, but we need a permanent beverage facility, there’s so much traffic out here. And we need more space in the golf shop. We’ll start selling 2024 U.S. Open merchandise before long.” The resort booked a record amount of business in 2019 and was primed to eclipse that in 2020 before COVID-19 ground business and travel to a halt. The hotels and the resort’s 10 restaurants were closed for two months, then began welcoming guests again on May 22 when North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper allowed restaurants to reopen under certain procedural guidelines. “There was still activity here on the golf side,” Pashley says. “But at the hotel it was sad. When restaurants had to close, we made the decision to close our lodging. We had to feed people and couldn’t do that. I remember the weather was perfect, it was a great spring. I was thinking, what a shame that guests can’t be here. The members were here, but no guests. “Pinehurst was in the golf business, but not the hospitality business.” The resort had to lay off more than 1,000 employees during the thick of the pandemic. Pashley nods to the front entrance of the clubhouse, where Larry Goins and Frolin Hatcher have a century of combined experience welcoming golfers to the clubhouse, unloading their PineStraw

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golf bags from the hotel shuttle and getting them acclimated to the hubbub of the resort. “We had to say goodbye to guys like Frolin and Larry,” Pashley says. “All of a sudden, it became personal.” Pashley remembers fighting off the “woe-isme” syndrome at the outset and brainstorming ideas to help employees during his regular 8-mile morning walks. “My brain was churning,” he says. “I thought, ‘We have all these amazing experiences we can auction off and raise money.’” In quick order the resort raised more than $300,000 for an employee relief fund — much of it earmarked to continue health benefits through June — by selling a low-ticket item like a golf ball for $25 to a high-dollar offering of a three-day golf experience with lodging in the Dornoch Cottage for $25,000. The fund got one contribution from a former executive retired in Florida for $1,895 — hearkening to the year of the resort’s founding. “It was heartwarming seeing people overpay for things just knowing the money was going to a good cause,” Pashley says. Now in the summer of 2021, those employees have returned — and so have the travelers. Pinehurst is back in the hospitality business. You see it in the caddie area in the basement of the clubhouse. “I’ve got 150 caddies, and I need 20 or 30 more,” says Jimmy Smith, the caddiemaster. “It’s insane. We just hired caddies from places like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. They know we have work for them. My biggest problem is, ‘Where do they park?’” You see it a half mile away in the village, where shop owners like Tom Stewart at Old Sport & Gallery have transitioned from running online auctions of his paintings, books and collectibles during the thick of the pandemic to welcoming a brisk flow of foot traffic a year later. “It blows my mind,” says Stewart. “Real estate is unbelievable here. My business, knock on wood, has been better this spring than in 10 years. People who have bought these houses come in and say, ‘I need something, I need artwork and books.’ I’ve sold a couple of big-ticket paintings, and that hasn’t happened in a while.” Pashley and his staff are faced with the unprecedented challenge of having so much interest from leisure travelers — that group of The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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eight guys coming down from Cleveland — that there isn’t enough golf inventory in the near term for a business group that wants to come for meetings in the morning and golf in the afternoon. Certainly, that will change when golfers are more comfortable traveling to Scotland and Ireland and take some of the demand off domestic travel that ratcheted up during the pandemic, and business travel will return more to its pre-pandemic level. And, of course, the 2024 U.S. Open on Pinehurst No. 2 is on the horizon, not to mention the new USGA facility to be built next door, and the approval and permitting process for a potential new hotel facility next door to the Pinehurst clubhouse. It goes to show that what goes around, comes around at Pinehurst. One century before, the founding Tufts family had the happy problem of what to do with all the golfers visiting its four golf courses. “It has been necessary to turn away from Pinehurst some 15,000 people who wanted to come in February and March,” noted a 1923 publication. The Tuftses were getting more business at their resort than they could handle during the winter “high season” — more than 100,000 rounds a year were being played in the mid-1920s — which led to new ventures to the east in Southern Pines with what would become the Mid Pines and Pine Needles clubs. Which leads Pashley to nod again toward the south, toward Aberdeen, where the resort owns hundreds of acres it bought nearly a decade ago. The architects Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw routed a course on land once occupied by The Pit Golf Links, and Pinehurst Resort owner Bob Dedman gave serious thought in 2011 to green-lighting the project. He decided against it, but now, amid a healthy golf economy at Pinehurst, that idea is back on the table. “Down the road, we’ll have to have a more serious conversation,” Pashley says. “It’s nice to not have to go out and buy land. We’re sitting on 900-plus acres and can dream about what’s next.” At Pinehurst, what’s next has always been part of the equation. PS Lee Pace’s first book about Pinehurst and its history, Pinehurst Stories — A Celebration of Great Golf and Good Times, was published 30 years ago. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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June �� Map Fragment, on Clay Who first thought of scratching here and there on soft clay, instead of only giving directions, must have wanted to keep close the shape of all that lay between himself and someone whose absence turned regular days and nights into a vast terra incognita, a blank that his mind filled with terrifying beasts, winged serpents, who sang of other courses, other islands, other ways. If he drew the place he knew, and those distant places he thought he knew, he could touch the map where she was and say to himself, without leaving home, if she is not here, she is there.

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Fancy’s Bower, 2017. Montreal Botanical Garden, Canada. Photograph by Pierre Charbonneau

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Stick Wizard Patrick Dougherty returns to the Sandhills By Jim Moriarty

othing lasts forever, which is kind of the point. When Patrick Dougherty fashions one of his monumental structures, weaving sticks together as if he were knitting a medieval battlement from scratch, his internationally renowned art manages to make a permanent impact with a temporary footprint. It never strays very far from the notion that one day the wind will blow and this will all be gone — but not before we get a chance to revel in it. Dougherty, who spent a large part of his youth in Southern Pines, will travel down from his handcrafted Chapel Hill home for the first three weeks of June when he, his son, Sam, and a cadre of volunteers erect what will surely be one of the final sculptures of his career in a space near the Ball Visitors Center at Sandhills Community College. Dougherty is 75 now, and all the lifting, toting, gathering and climbing integral to creating these magnificent, magical piles of sticks is young man’s work.

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“One thing you find, it’s kind of like a sport,” says Dougherty. “You’re going to have injuries throughout your career.” In Dougherty’s case, that career has spanned more than 35 years, leaving a trail of well over 300 sculptures behind him, indoors and out, from Mexico City to Copenhagen, Ireland to Italy, L.A. to NYC, Sheboygan to Savannah. He averages 10 installations a year, and he’s booked through ’22. After that, he’ll likely be trading his work gloves for fireproof mittens. “Sam is a potter,” says Dougherty. “My retirement is going to be helping him. I’m going to work the kiln.” While artists generally avoid labels the way Roadrunner avoids Acme explosives, art historians would describe Dougherty as a card-carrying member of the Land Art Movement, a group that includes luminaries like Robert Smithson, who constructed sculptures from scattered materials, and Christo, best known for wrapping landmarks in fabric. One of Dougherty’s stick sculptures was on view at Brookgreen Gardens at Murrells Inlet in South Carolina until Hurricane Isaias delivered the coup de grâce in 2020. “We had one of the larger installations,” says Robin Salmon, Brookgreen’s vice president of Art and Historical Collections and Curator of Sculpture. “It was like a house with rooms and windows intended to invoke Atalaya, the Huntington winter home that was built on the property. It’s interesting how carefully planned his designs are. They have to be or they wouldn’t stand for as long as they do. Ours was on view for almost four years. In Patrick’s words, they are designed to last as long as they will.” Dougherty was born in Oklahoma, the grandson of farming families on both sides. His father, a physician, moved to Southern Pines into a house on Grove Road when Patrick was in second grade. He graduated from the old Southern Pines High School on May Street in 1963, then majored in English at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. “My dad was a doctor and I thought, well, I’ve got to be a doctor. I went through all my pre-med courses, but when I came up to the moment I was like, ‘I can’t do it,’” he says. Instead, he got a degree in hospital and health administration from the University of Iowa in ’69, entered the Air Force and shipped off to Germany. “When I was in the service, I was able to use their craft shop,” he says. A woman named Audrey Tuverson encouraged Dougherty’s natural inquisitiveness. “She had a graduate degree from Cranbook and knew how to do everything. Have you made a ring? Have you made a photograph? Have you repaired a piece of furniture? Have you made a clay sculpture? I got a real introduction to tools and to process.” In the Mix, 2018. Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, SC. Photograph by Anne Malarich

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Once he was out of the military, it didn’t take long for Dougherty to realize hospital administration was no more for him than practicing medicine was. “Administration is kind of a dreary place if you want to be outside. I wanted to be outside and loved making things, so I decided I would go back to UNC,” he says. There he met one of the school’s sculpture professors, Mike Cindric. “You know, you just need somebody to give you permission. Particularly as an older person, if you go back to school — I was in my early 30s — you need somebody to say, ‘It’s all right. Go do what you want to do.’” So he did. “It’s funny because if you’re a banker and you get out of school the bankers come and welcome you and say, ‘You’re a banker,’ and you know what you are. If you’re a sculptor you’re thrown out into the street and you don’t

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know what you are. But somewhere along the line you think, ‘I must be the real thing.’ It’s a bit more self-appointed awareness. Whether it’s popular or not depends on a whole lot of accidental things. My work turned out to be more relevant than some other work. The context changed from just being a found object to being connected to environmental issues.” Like fashioning art from saplings gathered in woods, rain forests and swamps, nothing has gone to waste in Dougherty’s professional life. “All of your experiences are relevant to what you do. I started believing my sculpture life would be a lot better if I partnered with organizations. If you have kind of an administrative background, I wasn’t afraid to talk to the CEO. I also think having a degree in English literature turned out to be a stroke of luck. When you’re The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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Patrick Dougherty kicks back in the house he built in Chapel Hill

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thinking about a novel, you love the way it is but the background noise is, how did they organize their words to produce an illusion that was compelling, that made you want to read it? For a sculptor, it’s great to look at people’s work, but what you really do is go further and say, ‘How does this work work?’ How does it become conscripted so you feel compelled about it?” The ideas can come from anywhere. “We were in Montreal at the botanic garden. I got this idea that I would take a doodle and I would make it into a big sculpture,” he says. “I found a doodle on the internet I really liked. Lots of looping. We laid that footprint on the ground and then we thought, ‘What would it be?’ So, it had, like, 16 rooms, a million doors and windows, and this top that kind of worked itself around. Then that led to thinking about tattoos. A lot of them are unity symbols from ancient ruins so you kind of trace the ideas back to ancient community symbols and you find out what those are like. What if I laid something out that looked kind of like that?” In Dougherty’s monograph Stickwork it’s clear that every sculpture has been its own adventure. “We see snakes all the time,” he says of the stick-gathering forays. “We’ve had snakes, alligators, bees. In Japan, I was working with a person who was kind of sponsoring me, Ueno Masao. Families celebrate their ancestors in these Shinto shrines and he said, ‘I’m allowed to work in this temple and you can live there and work. The family won’t mind.’ “So, we go to this temple up on this mountain. There’s a tin roof on top of this rice straw. The first thing we see is a giant snake on the porch. I say, ‘Mr. Ueno, we have that snake in North Carolina. That’s a copperhead.’ He said, ‘Well, that’s not the most poisonous one but you can’t kill them. They belong to the temple. If one bites you, call my wife and she’ll take you to the doctor.’ I said, ‘Mr. Ueno, does your wife speak English?’ He said, ‘No, she doesn’t.’ The moral of this story is you can only stay awake for three days, then you say, ‘Go ahead and bite me.’ You can’t take it any longer.” Because Dougherty enlists the help of volunteers in the harvesting of saplings and the construction of the installation itself — he generally relies on four volunteers in the morning and four in the afternoon throughout the three-week process — there is a decided community-building, almost a performance art, aspect to his work. “They’re the folks that call the newspaper or bring their friends or bring their grandchildren to look at it,” he says. “And it’s more advertising than you could ever hope for. If you’re working in a park in Savannah, the people who are calling the police the first

Thrown for a Loop, 2017. Montreal Botanical Garden, Canada. Photograph by Pierre Chabonneau

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Close Ties (2006), Scottish Basketmakers Circle, Dingwall, Scotland, Photograph by Fin Macrae

Uff-Da Palace at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Photograph by Todd Mulvihill

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Out of the Box (2009), North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, Photograph courtesey of the North Carolina Museum of Art

day about the saplings getting dumped out are inviting you to dinner the last day. There’s a transition as people move from thinking you’re a nut to thinking it’s beautiful and glad that it’s in their neighborhood.” Though the temporal nature of the work is part of its DNA, Dougherty has a photographic record of all his sculptures which, in a way, makes his pieces no more transitory than an Ansel Adams print. “The concept of impermanence has become more acceptable than it used to be,” he says. “Your phone goes out, you get another one. I think a sculpture wears its site out. You can move it and it becomes relevant again, but in terms of just the placement and the excitement that goes around it, over a period of time, it just winnows the relevance out. “I think objects are imbued with ideas that go with them, that are relevant to the site and to that moment, to the students or people on the street or whoever is seeing it. Once they have accommodated themselves to the idea, it just becomes less and less. Art history has to take care of itself. My problem is to make things that are provocative and relevant The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

and informative and make people want to look at them.” That’s the path that has brought Dougherty back home and close to the end. “Who knows what’s good in the future?” he says “A lot of things are remembered. My career has been great and it’s almost finished and I’ve done the best I can.” The evidence will be on display in the town of his boyhood, to last as long as it will. PS Dougherty will be holding a book signing in conjunction with The Country Bookshop at Weymouth 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 9. You may support the Patrick Dougherty sculpture installation by sending contributions to: The SCC Foundation/ Dougherty Project, attn. Germaine Elkins, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst, NC 28374. Jim Moriarty is the Editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com. PineStraw

Charles Price was one of the greatest golf writers of the 20th century. I don’t know if he was at the very top of the mountain, but I do know he always worked above the tree line. When he was in his late 20s, Charley spent a year driving Walter Hagen around Michigan’s back roads trying, unsuccessfully, to get a book out of him. Years later he became Bobby Jones’ legs during the Masters tournament, tracking down people who Jones, by then an invalid and confined to his Augusta National apartment behind drawn drapes, wanted to chat with. Price got his start at Golf World when Bob Harlow, The Haig’s onetime agent, was still alive and Harlow’s fledgling magazine was located in the old warehouse building near the railway trestle in Pinehurst. He came back to the village to spend his last days, passing away in 1994. Charley was a heavyweight writer but a bantamweight guy, thin as a hickory shaft and standing eyeball-to-eyeball with wee giants like Gary Player. My lasting image of him is striding up the neon green hill at the back of the Augusta National clubhouse as if the ghost of Jones had just summoned him, leaning into the climb, wearing soft shoes and a double-breasted blue blazer. Price tried to play the professional tour as an amateur, in the days when such a thing was posNorth Carolina drawl, “Charley, have you noticed anything about the boys out here? Most of them are built like truck drivers with the touch of a hairdresser. You, on the other hand, are built like a hairdresser with the touch of a truck driver.” Charley enjoyed telling that story, not so much because it was about him but because, I think, he admired the way Heafner put it together. He was kind to young writers, this young writer anyway, but didn’t suffer fools gladly. In that respect, he was very much like the man he writes about in this story, his father, published in the April 1959 edition of Coronet.

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sible. One day on the putting green, Clayton Heafner — a very large man — said to him in his cozy

The Death of a Gambler A son’s moving remembrance of his struggle to win the love of a father whose emotions were as strange as the life he led

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y father was a gambler — a professional gambler. Among the people who came to his funeral were an ex-prizefighter, a strip-tease dancer, a millionaire, a cab driver, a farmer, a police captain, a nightclub comedian, our maid, a Sicilian with tattooed hands, and a bookmaker who couldn’t stop crying. There was also a man my father had once punched in the jaw. I was surprised not at all that this man came to pay last respects to my father. I suspect he sincerely liked my father despite the fact he

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had once been humiliated by him. It was one of the oddities of my father’s life that everyone was always slightly terrified and mystified by him — even those he loved. I know I was. He was as inscrutable as the king of spades. I never really knew him until he was dead. On the desk in front of me as I write is a photographic portrait of my father. I haven’t the remotest idea what he might have been smiling about. I was never very sure of anything about my father. We spent the better part of our lives together playing poker for our emotions, neither of us daring to tip his hand. PineStraw

During the 1920s, when I was born, my father had operated backroom casinos in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Before that, he had been a bookmaker. (When my mother first got to know him, she had been under the impression that he was in the publishing business.) And before that, a croupier, a bartender, and a number of other things he refused to discuss about his younger years in downtown Philadelphia. During the last 15 of his 63 years, he had been majordomo of a gambling house in Maryland, only a few feet outside the District of Columbia. It was the largest, most colorful casino between Saratoga and Havana. Of course, it was also against the law, a discrepancy to which, however, few persons paid any attention. The integrity of my father’s casino was so beyond question, even congressmen patronized it. Many professional gamblers have declared that my father was the best card player they have ever known. He also knew everything there is to know about craps, roulette, bird cage and other games that are outside the law of most states. He was also acquainted with every notorious hood, cheat and racketeer on the East Coast, and he was afraid of none of them. He was accustomed to being entrusted with large amounts of other people’s money. He always kept his mouth shut about other people’s affairs. And he was scrupulously honest. These were the qualities that set him apart from ordinary gamblers, and that enabled him to walk the underworld, if need be, with no more armor than his pinstriped suit and the incongruously flamboyant neckties he always wore. From the time I was a little boy I was aware that my father was a man apart, not only because he was my father but because he was a creature of peculiar habits. No other father in our neighborhood, for example, arrived home from work at dawn. Sometimes, if he were particularly tired, I would be awakened by his heavy footsteps as he climbed his way to the third-floor attic, which had been converted into a sumptuous bedroom for his strange hours of sleep. To protect him from the daylight, the room had been decorated with thick drapes and blackish wallpaper. There my father slept until noon, filling the house with his resonant snoring, which I could hear even when playing in the cellar. My father always came downstairs to breakfast dressed in his pajamas and a splendid silk bathrobe, his eyes still half-filled

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with sleep and his thin hair spectacularly awry on his head, like a Hottentot’s. He never said good morning to anybody, not even to my mother. Indeed, he would not speak a word until he had been fed. His breakfast was always the same — a pint of orange juice, black coffee and a thick slice of chocolate layer cake. As a small boy, I would sometimes sit quietly across the breakfast table from my father and stare at him, fascinated by his magnificence. When he caught me looking at him, he would stop eating and lay down his morning newspaper. Peering over his reading glasses at me, he would say, not unkindly, “Is there something you want?” I would shake my head and then scamper off, embarrassed. My father would shrug his shoulders and then go back to his breakfast. When my father went to work, he would put on his overcoat and a large fedora, whose brim he kept rolled upward, like a Homburg. Then he would light a cigar, puffing vigorously to get it burning. Just before he reached for the door, he would blow out a cloud of smoke so thick that it would hang in the air long after he had left. As he grabbed the doorknob, he would turn to my mother and me. “Well … ” he would say, and mumble something, which we had to assume was a goodbye. Then he would close the door behind him without another word, climb into his black car and roar off to work, not to be seen again until the following noon. My father’s favorite form of recreation was the legitimate theater. A well-performed tragedy could leave him transfixed. At a performance of Death of a Salesman, my mother once told me, my father actually burst into tears. I was astonished to learn of this, because I felt sure at the time that in real life my father would have considered Willy Loman a fool. After an accident I had when I was 13, my father failed to visit me in the hospital. Despite the many logical excuses my mother made for him, I was bewildered and hurt. Today I know that he didn’t come because he couldn’t bring himself to see me hurt. My father never wrote a letter to me in his life. If he had, it would today be framed and sitting on my shelf. Correspondence between us was handled by my mother, who wrote at length to explain the many fond thoughts my father had of me when we were separated, thoughts he somehow couldn’t bring himself to express when we were together. My father lavished gifts on me, but to my knowledge he never

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personally bought me any of them. He considered the giving of presents unmanly. But he could periodically give $10 tips to a blind news dealer. (I doubt that he could have given them to a man who could see him do it.) He could send $100 — anonymously — to a lifeguard who had rescued somebody. And he could send a girl, who had been disfigured for life in an automobile accident, through college without ever letting her know he had paid the bills. To this day I meet strangers who, on learning whose son I am, tell me stories of my father’s extraordinary generosity. It will always be a mystery to me, however, how a man could be seemingly so generous yet be so niggardly when his emotions were involved. While during all my father’s life he remained to me — and still remains to me — as heroic as a father should be, we were in truth as uncommunicative as a father and son could be. When I was 12, for example, my father sent me to a golf professional at a nearby country club. “Teach him everything there is to know about the game,” he said. His instructions to me were just as simple: “Call all the members ‘mister.’” When I was 13, I played in my first tournament. I won it, but my father did not congratulate me. He bought me a new set of clubs, instead. I have since played in more than 100 tournaments, but my father watched me play in only one that I can recall. I saw him standing behind a tree overlooking the fourth fairway. Because the match was a final, it had attracted a small gallery. While it is not uncommon for spectators to stand within a few feet of a contestant, my father wouldn’t come within 100 yards of me. At the end of nine holes, I was two-down. My father got into his black car and drove away. I don’t know whether he felt his presence was making me self-conscious or that he couldn’t bear to see me lose. When I arrived home, I found him pacing back and forth on the driveway. “Well?” he said. “I won,” I answered. At that, my father reached into his pocket, pulled out a roll of bills, and then peeled off a $50 note. “Here,” he said. He handed the $50 to me and then he turned his back, so I wouldn’t see the pride on his face. He wanted dreadfully to congratulate me, but he just didn’t know how. While his manner may have seemed heartless, it wasn’t. My father was willing to be a father, but he refused to act like one. When I was graduated from high school I was given a watch

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which I purchased myself with money my father gave me. Childishly perhaps, I was disappointed that he had not purchased the watch for me himself. After high school, I attended two different colleges. My father visited neither one, not even on the day I was graduated. Since nothing had been said about his attending the exercises, I didn’t bother going myself. My diploma was mailed to me. When it arrived, I showed it to my father. He glanced at it, and then he told me to go downtown and buy a car for myself. For a moment, I thought I hadn’t heard him correctly. The tone of his voice was so matter-of-fact. You might have thought he was asking me to go down and buy him a cigar. I am certain that my father was proud of me. I am positive he loved me. But it was our misfortune that we could not bring ourselves to exchange this information. When my father was drawing close to death, we arranged a bed for him in a second-floor living room. One evening when I was alone with him, he sat up and said, bluntly, “I’m dying,” and he looked straight into my eyes. I couldn’t answer. My father swore softly under his breath, then lay back in bed. All that night, I held my father’s hand. A croupier from my father’s casino gave him his medicine and wiped his brow. Near dawn, I climbed to my father’s attic and threw myself exhausted on his bed. While lying there, I knew for the first time just why I loved this man to whom even the ordinary signs of love had always been embarrassing. I understood then how unselfish he had been in never trying to mold me in his own image, unlike so many fathers who act the paternal role to its fullest. I saw, too, that despite the fact his life had been carried on outside the pale of ordinary society, he had always conducted himself with personal dignity. I decided that when I awoke I would somehow force myself to tell my father how much I loved him. Our lives together had been largely spent trying to divine each other’s feelings, and I had grown weary of the game. I had been asleep about two hours when the croupier aroused me. “Wake up!” he said, shaking me. I sat up in bed and rubbed my eyes. “You’d better come downstairs,” he said quietly. “Your father’s dead.” PS

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It Was the Week that Was Erik Compton makes his mark at Pinehurst By Jim Moriarty • Photographs by Joann Dost

e are captivated by winning. Utterly enthralled. Driven to distraction, or maybe delusion. To Vince Lombardi, winning wasn’t everything, it was the only thing. Twenty-five years ago, a boyish Tiger Woods offered the wisdom of youth: “Second sucks, and third is even worse.” But things are not always what they seem. Sometimes second can be mistaken for heartbreak when, in fact, it’s heartwarming, even life-affirming. That’s the way

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it was seven years ago, here, on Father’s Day, the last day of a most uncommon U.S. Open. To some, the whole thing may have seemed a little boring. Softspoken Martin Kaymer shot 65-65 the first two days, the loudest whisper (and still the lowest 36-hole score) in the 120-year history of the championship. Taking a six-shot lead into the weekend, he played three-dimensional chess against Donald Ross across the great architect’s finest creation, Pinehurst No. 2, making whatever moves The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

seemed prudent to keep disaster at arm’s length. Sudden catastrophe seemed the only thing that could prevent the then 29-year-old German from adding another major title to the PGA Championship he’d won in 2010. He put a sleeper hold on the field and won by eight, a performance as different from the magical drama of Payne Stewart’s knockout punch delivered in Pinehurst’s first U.S. Open in 1999 as a Buick commercial is from King Lear. When the dust from the course’s newly restored natural areas had settled, the two players who were closest in Kaymer’s rearview mirror were Rickie Fowler, the then 25-year-old hotshot dressed in the bedazzling orange of his alma mater, Oklahoma State; and Erik Compton, the 187th ranked player in the world. Both Fowler and Compton knew that, barring a cataclysmic failure by the leader, they would spend Sunday playing for second, which is where they wound up, tied at one under par, joining Kaymer as the only players in red figures for the week. Fowler had finished in the top five in the Masters in April. He’d been on a big stage before. Compton not so much. He’d been a seriously accomplished amateur. A Walker Cupper. An All American at the University of Georgia, where his roommate was an odd duck named Bubba Watson. Just about the biggest thing he’d ever won as a professional was the 2011 Mexico Open on what is now the Korn Ferry Tour. Compton wasn’t supposed to be up there, sitting next to Kaymer at the prize-giving. Everyone who knew the story of his two heart transplants knew that. And yet, there he was, having earned his spot competing on one of the sport’s grandest stages, across one of its most demanding tests, with a pure silver medal as tangible proof to those he loved and those who loved him — and to himself — that, for a time, he belonged among the best. That the gift of life, bestowed twice, had been honored. That his third heart, beating with the thump of an athlete, had achieved a personal best. That he had climbed higher than anyone would have ever imagined possible. It was a most uncommon week indeed. If getting there is supposed to be half the fun, Compton used up his full quotient finding his way to Pinehurst. After missing the cut in The Memorial and depressed about the state of his game, Compton sat down at a table in the Muirfield Village clubhouse with the host, Jack Nicklaus. “Jack said, ‘If you get into the Open at Pinehurst, you’re going to have a great tournament there.’ He said that to me,” Compton recalls. “It was weird.” What was weirder was how he did it. One of the toughest U.S. Open sectional qualifiers is played the Monday after The Memorial, that year won by a young Hideki Matsuyama, this past April’s Masters champion. The qualifier is traditionally loaded with tour players. In 2014 there were 120 players for six spots over 36 holes at Scioto Country Club and Brookside Golf and Country Club. Compton got the last spot in a five-way playoff for three slots. “We had a rules official come up to us with five holes to go and ask if we wanted to know where we stood,” says Victor Billskoog, Compton’s caddie. “We were two out of getting in. We get to 17 and we’re still two out. He hit a 4-iron 218 into the wind and it comes up an easy 60 feet short and I’m going, ‘Oh, boy.’ He drains it. Now, we figure we’re one down. Then he holed a bunker shot on 18. That was how we got into the playoff.” Afterward, they celebrated in the parking lot. “It was dark,” The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Compton says. “It was the longest day I’ve ever played of golf.” Billskoog, who now sells Miami real estate, had a simpler view. “It was a helluva ride to get in,” he says. Almost from the moment Compton, Billskoog and Erik’s teacher, Charlie DeLuca, saw No. 2’s barren, natural areas and brown fairways, they had a collective, comforting sense of dejà vu. DeLuca is the director of golf at Melreese Country Club, a public course near Miami International Airport. “We had sprayed Melreese dead because they were getting ready to redo the greens and fairways,” he says. “So, for two weeks before the Open we were playing on burnt fairways and burnt greens, which very nicely resembled the extremely fast fairways and extremely fast greens at the U.S. Open. Everything was so glass fast at Melreese that when we got there it wasn’t so bad.” Neither was Compton’s golf swing. In one of his nine-hole practice rounds Compton wound up in a money game with the South Africans, Ernie Els, Charl Schwartzel and Louis Oosthuizen, major champions all. “I told them I was the Mexican Open champion,” says Compton with a grin. At the end of the nine, it was the South Africans, including his friend Els, going to their wallets. “I remember them pulling out the 50s and 100s,” says Compton. Monday through Wednesday, Compton and DeLuca lasered their way around No. 2, plotting the landing areas that presented the least risk. “We really did a whole lot of game planning how we were going to go through this golf course,” says DeLuca. “Whether we were 10 under or 10 over we were going to stay in that game plan.” Central to the plan was hunkering down off the course. “We were going to stay in our group of the caddie, myself and Erik. We weren’t going to let anybody from the outside in our group. We were going to stay very quiet and try hard not to get distracted. His parents were there and we made a deal with them where they weren’t going to see him except while we were playing.” Rest is a big part of Compton’s equation. It has to be. “We’ll do things like go practice real early, go home at the middle of the day and take a nap, go back at the end of the day and play nine holes. That’s what we did at the Open,” says DeLuca. “You go on a two-week trip with Erik, you can guarantee he’s sick three days. He just is, between the medication, the stress. The slightest little thing can send his body into a loop. And it can go either way. His heart can race up to 160 beats a minute for no reason and then it can flat out crash and burn for no reason. Physically, his body really isn’t supposed to be going through this adrenaline, up-and-down lifestyle he lives. He wasn’t even supposed to play golf after his second heart attack. The day he got out of the hospital he showed up on the driving range at our place and said, ‘I need to get playing again.’” The entire Compton contingent, parents, caddie, teacher, were staying at the Springhill Suites on U.S. 15-501. DeLuca drove the courtesy car to the course every day. And every day he played the same song, volume up, on his cellphone. It was Aloe Blacc’s “The Man.”

Well, you can tell everybody Yeah, you can tell everybody Go ahead and tell everybody I’m the man, I’m the man, I’m the man

“He’d blast it. It was like brainwashing,” says Compton. “We played the damn song every single day,” says Billskoog. “It was like the gasoline to the boat that week.” PineStraw

While Kaymer was hydroplaning across Pinehurst No. 2, Compton was puttering along. Two over the first round, two under the second. Even par is never bad in a U.S. Open, unless the leader is setting scoring records. “With the pressure situation, playing in the U.S. Open and the weather is hot, I’m just glad to be done right now,” Compton said on Friday night after comfortably making the cut. So deeply was Compton into his cocoon, he couldn’t even recall who he played with on Saturday (Francesco Molinari), when he and Fowler posted the low rounds of the day, a pair of 67s. After playing his middle two rounds 5 under par, Compton was still five shots behind Kaymer but in control of his game. “He was striking his irons as pure as it gets. His distance control was just on fire,” says DeLuca. His caddie saw something more. “He just had something I hadn’t seen before,” says Billskoog. “They have Martin Kaymer, Erik Compton and Rickie Fowler something special when it’s a week like that. He had a confidence that I’d never seen. I felt like he walked a little bit different, like he spoke to pissed about his own game but at the same time, he was rooting for me just a little bit different. He was on and he had it every single day.” me,” says Compton. “I’ve found that twice in my career with different Compton was to be in the next to last pair on Sunday, playing guys. I know he wanted to beat me and he wanted to win the tournawith Henrik Stenson. “I was a huge fan of his,” says Compton. ment but he wasn’t going to win — no one was going to beat Kaymer.” “We’re good friends now but he probably doesn’t know that. I was Birdies on the eighth and 10th holes had the gallery chanting like, ‘Wow, this guy’s a monster.’” “USA! USA!” At one point Stenson looked at Compton and said, “I In an effort to kill time Saturday night, DeLuca and Billskoog can see they’re not here to watch me today.” talked Compton into hanging out at the hotel pool. “We had a late Compton bogeyed three of his last eight holes. “The pressure tee time and we purposely didn’t let him go to bed at 9 o’clock like he coming down the back nine on Sunday, it was immense. I made would like to do,” says DeLuca. “We spent a good hour, hour and a some bogeys, but everybody was making bogeys,” he says. At the half down at the pool laughing and giggling like 12-year-old kids. It 18th, however, he made memories instead, the kind that, for him, was just an incredible experience. It really was.” are every bit as magical as the ones Payne Stewart left behind on the On Sunday morning, one reporter was allowed inside the bubble. very same spot. “I got a little upset with a bunch of the press because all they would Compton missed the 18th fairway to the right. “The ball was ever ask him about was his second heart attack,” says DeLuca. “That’s sitting in a depression so he couldn’t get any contact with the club on his story. I know it’s very important, but I don’t need Erik reliving his the back of the ball,” says Billskoog. “We said we were going to hood second heart attack 10 times before we tee off on Sunday.” an 8-iron and basically try to top it, try to get in the front bunker on Compton was readier than DeLuca realized. “Erik’s warm-up an uphill lie, which is exactly what he did.” routine is about 48 minutes long. We got to the range and he hit From there Compton had a long bunker shot. If he goes over the about six shots with irons, didn’t even hit a driver or a wood, and he green, he’s looking at double bogey, maybe worse. He asked his caddie turned around and looked at me and said, ‘You know, I’m hitting for a 9-iron. “I didn’t say anything,” says Billskoog. “I had sunglasses it great, let’s go putt.’ My jaw about hit the ground. We just kind of on and I closed my eyes for a good five seconds. Sure enough, he filhung out on the putting green and talked for about 30 minutes while leted that thing.” he putted. It was the most nervous I could have been for him and he The low, spinning shot Compton played confused the crowd. At seemed to be ungodly calm.” first they gasped, then as the ball checked inside 10 feet, they cheered. Kaymer played the first nine holes in 1 under par, effectively When he made the putt, they roared. slamming the door on any chasers. Compton was keeping pace but All week, the player and caddie were doing a ballet on the greens, No. 2 was never going to give up the kind of low round it would take reading putts separately from in back of the ball, then behind the cup, to catch the German. For his part, Stenson was struggling. “He was then trading places. As they were walking past each other on the 18th

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Erik and his wife, Yessenia

green, Compton looked at Billskoog and said, “Hey, Vic, I got this one. Don’t worry.” Compton told him to look around, soak in the moment. “This is something you’ll remember for the rest of your life,” he said, and holed the putt. When he came off the course, second place secure, Michelle Wie — who would win the Women’s U.S. Open the next week — was among the people congratulating Compton because he’d just gotten into the Masters, a perk and a salve for a runner-up. Off to the side, some spectators with a sense of Southern hospitality had helped Peter Compton, Erik’s dad, push forward so he could watch his son finish. “He was in front of the crowd, the crowd went crazy. It was like a movie,” Peter says. When Peter Compton couldn’t negotiate the zealous security surrounding the presentation ceremony, he wandered down to the player and family hospitality tent. “I walked in and I said, ‘You know, I need a beer.’” The staff was breaking down but they found one for him. There was one other person in the tent with the same idea. “I said to him, ‘I’m so happy, my son just came in second.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, my son came in fourth.’” It was Brooks Koepka’s father, Bob. His son would win two U.S. Opens and two PGA Championships in the next five years. “I never thought I was going to win the Open,” Erik says. “I was just trying to play as good as I could on every hole. Obviously, it was a great week for me. It means a lot to me. It’s the biggest thing I’ve done in my golf career. It was just such a winning experience for me, my family, I think the transplant world.” A world of people made whole through the grace of others, a world helped by his eponymous foundation, his time visiting hospital wards, his example. In moments of reflection, Compton honestly doesn’t know if he The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

overachieved or underachieved as a player. He knows there’s world class ability in a body that’s been through world class trauma. Only Compton knows what it has taken to do what he’s done. There’s no template, no suitable comparison. “I’ve had a decent, small career in golf,” he says. “It’s hard to know if I outdid myself with everything I’ve been through or if I could have done more. I’m one of the more recognizable golfers in the world with the least amount of achievement.” He ponders the unknowable in a life that revolves around it. Compton is currently the 971st ranked player in the world. He’s got full status on the Korn Ferry Tour and would like to make one last run at the big tour, but he’s 41 now and has no delusions that competitive golf gets easier with age. He’s been divorced and recently remarried. He spends his days giving golf lessons at Melreese and shuttling his 12-year-old daughter, Petra, to school and to all those other things that 12-year-old daughters do, and wishing he had more time to hook redfish in the Everglades. The Open will be back in Pinehurst in three years. Compton would like to be there but doesn’t know whether his game or his body will allow it. “Do I think the chances of my getting back there are stacked against me? Absolutely,” he says. “I’ll know more in a year and a half where I stand with my game. I’m prepared to play as long as I can.” But the golf is only part of the equation. He had his first heart transplant when he was 12. That heart began to fail 15 years later. The attack came while he was fishing. He drove himself to Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital. Ran a toll booth on the way. Called his parents to say goodbye. The doctors managed his condition until he received his second transplant in 2008, when he was 28. There is a shelf life for a transplanted heart, but the timetable is unknowable. One transplant recipient lived 33 years with a donated heart. The average is more modest. “That’s always in the back of my mind, yeah, what’s next?” he says. “What can you do? You’ve just got to make the best of it. Nobody has a crystal ball. If we all knew what our departure date is we’d all live a different life, wouldn’t we?” Or would we? On Father’s Day 2014, after all the prize-giving and interviewing was over, the Compton party partied on. Every day that week, Peter and Erik’s mother, Eli, had eaten at Fratello’s (now Napoli), just down the highway from their hotel. The owner then, and now, is Salvatore Doria. Sal’s a real Brooklyn paisan who moved from Raleigh to Pinehurst in 1979. He saved seats at the bar for Peter and Eli every night and, though he was supposed to be closed that Sunday night, he threw his arms and his restaurant open for their celebration. A painting of Frank Sinatra hangs on the wall like a monochromatic Mona Lisa. Peter Compton is a retired Royal Caribbean executive. He’s the guy who took the Ice Capades and Broadway shows to sea. He began his career as a cruise ship crooner. That night he and Sal belted out Sinatra tunes together.

That’s life That’s what all the people say You’re riding high in April, shot down in May But I know I’m gonna change that tune When I’m back on top, back on top in June. PS

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STORY OF A HOUSE

The Upscale Downsize Relocation at its best

By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner

ccording to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Old age hath yet his honor and his toil . . . ” Maybe, but the inevitable task of dividing up possessions and moving from a beloved family home is usually more toil than honor. This process, now called downsizing, may cause trauma for elders and squabbles among children. Not for Jane and Dan Clark. Heavens, no. “I took all my pretty things,” Jane says, upbeat and with a touch of defiance. This defiance created in a 1,500-square-foot Penick Village cot-

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tage a microcosm of the Clark’s 5,000-plus-square-foot manse on Massachusetts Avenue and, more recently, an Aberdeen home of equal size set on 12 wooded acres, suitable for the lifestyles of Dr. Dan Clark, a radiologist, and Jane, Southern Pines mayor in the 1980s. In addition, the Clarks retain a charming historic coastal home in Southport, which Jane calls her “happy place.” Jane and Dan played marbles in kindergarten. Their friendship continued through school in the farming community of Everetts, current population 179. They married, were deployed by the Army to Texas and Japan, settled in Southern Pines in 1970. Dan established The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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Pinehurst Radiology, and Jane took up politics. By the late 1980s she became Southern Pines’ Madame Mayor. This power couple needed space to raise four daughters and entertain. Jane filled it with lovely things found in the shops of Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans and elsewhere. No auctions. “I might go over budget.” Her method: “I see it; I like it; I buy it.” Decades of forays resulted in sizable collections of “pretty things” like blue and white china; lamps to canisters; plates to pillboxes; brass candlesticks from mini to massive; copper pots; kettles; jugs; and heavy silver serving pieces. But, like with many couples reaching their mid-80s, spatial requirements had changed. Their daughters were long grown and gone with homes of their own and little need to raid the family nest. “We needed to downsize for me,” Jane says. “I had to do everything.” They looked at apartments, which Jane dismissed as “like a hotel.” Instead, they chose an attached two-bedroom brick-and-shingles unit in a quiet Penick corner backing on Weymouth, where they watch equestrians through a fence or from a deck that Jane had extended 3 feet and painted mossy green. Their private garden is even sweeter since maintenance is provided. The Clarks moved in on March 1, accompanied by most of Jane’s “pretty things.” The trauma was lessened by friends and professionals who packed and unpacked more than 100 boxes, arranged furniture and hung paintings, sometimes with Jane’s input, sometimes on trust. “I’m not bossy. I just have better ideas,” Jane says. At first glance it appears that Jane must have brought everything. However, this panoply of beautiful objects is arranged so as not to overwhelm, aided by a soaring

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cathedral ceiling with skylight that bounces sunbeams off the gleaming silver serving pieces. Interspersed are family photos, each telling a story, including one of Jane and President Joe Biden. The spacious unit with an efficient little gem of a kitchen redone in white and stainless steel is a retirees’ dream, though Jane rarely cooks anymore. But she longed to leave her mark: Narrow-strip wood flooring was replaced with wider boards, stained dark, like the home she left. Ceiling moldings were added. A wall dividing living room from sunroom was opened up and shelved for books. Throughout, corners were filled with adorable small tables and cabinets. Jane was adamant about bringing three large chest/buffet/sideboard pieces, one found in Cherokee, which she stripped and refinished. When she deemed their dining room table seating 10 too large, she replaced it with an elongated sofa table with drop-leaf panels. Sentimental value supercedes price: She could not leave behind a table spotted long ago in Rhinebeck, N.Y., while on a bus trip. “That

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was when you could fold things up and put them under the bus.” Paintings lean toward dark classical land and seascapes except for a large unframed still life of pears, hanging beneath the skylight. For pure charm, however, nothing comes close to the breakfast nook with a small round French wine-tasting table, also a sunroom overlooking the garden, furnished in matching armchairs upholstered blue and white, a primitive pine TV table, footstools and a crate with a blue and white pad for Martin, their Yorkie. This sunroom also displays Jane’s prized and well-worn 17th century pottery olive jug from France. Dr. Dan’s collection of antique ship’s clocks is secured in the second bedroom. “I’m a blue person,” Jane says, describing her go-to color, not her personality, which remains as vivacious as in the good old days. Set off by the dark floors, Oriental and other rugs combine The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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Prussian blue with an intense red, picked up by high-back chairs found secondhand for $25 apiece, and reupholstered. The same colors continue into the master bedroom, with Chinese motifs outlined in blue on bed pillows, and lamps made from blue-patterned vases or ginger jars. A window with wide, wood slat blinds runs the length of the room, framing the garden, alive with birds, rabbits and squirrels. “It’s so wonderful to wake up to that view,” Jane says. Another view, for her eyes only. In the master bathroom, one wall is covered in photos of the Clarks’ grandchildren. “I spend a lot of time in there, so I like to look at them,” Jane says, smiling wickedly. This has to be relocation at its best. Who knows better than AARP? “Downsizing tends to be more successful when the downsizers are making a conscious decision about how to live their lives,” an AARP publication states. “Considering it an adventure and being part of the process is key to a good outcome. When completed, the sensation of freedom can be quite powerful.” Jane Clark, dressed in blue and white, flits from room to room pointing out details, recalling the provenance of each precious “thing” without bemoaning the few that were left behind. Long famous for one-liners, she sums up what could have been an angst-filled upheaval in two words, “I’m happy!” PS

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Tastes Like Summer Strawberry rhubarb pie. Poetry, isn’t it? Imagine the baker who churned out the first one. Why? No need to ask questions. Just . . . thank them. Reportedly, rhubarb was introduced to the gardens and pies of our continent in the 1700s, after a Maine gardener procured the seed from Europe. Although its leaves are toxic to humans, its celery-like stalks (petioles) are packed with health benefits and take on the flavor of whatever they’re cooked with. Strawberries, in this case. So, is it a fruit or is it a veggie? Botanists call it the latter. And since its early years in the States, the rhubarb has been dubbed the “pie plant.” June 9 is National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day. Yes, a whole day devoted to this seasonal knockout. If you’re making one from scratch, consider adding orange zest. But don’t stress over the lattice crust. Minor details.

une is a waking dream, a dreamy wakefulness — a dream within a dream. Beneath the ancient magnolia, where the earth is cool as a stream and filtered light flickers across your skin like stardust, the crickets have lulled you to sleep. The summer air is a fragrant amalgam of magnolia, bee balm, rose and gardenia, and as you breathe, your dreamscape becomes a fertile garden, lush and vibrant, fueled by the essence of this sensuous season. Chorus frogs and cicadas join the mélange. Butterflies arrive — a heavenly surge of them — followed by a procession of bees, a metallic troupe of beetles, a shimmer of ruby-throated hummingbirds. Each breath is the thread of a gorgeous tapestry — an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of movement, color, sound and light. Each breath pollinates the garden. You open your eyes. Were you sleeping, or is this all a dream? A dragonfly hovers above your head before lighting on your finger like some kind of pet bird. In its stillness, you study those iridescent wings, that thin missile of a body, those monstrous, all-seeing eyes. Again, you wonder: A dream? As it stares back, eyes like glittering mirrors, you think it could have dreamed you, too.

Golden Days Summer is here, and with it, honeysuckle and roses. Iced tea and pesto. Cucumbers and snap beans straight from the vine. Father’s Day lands on Summer Solstice — Sunday, June 20 — the longest day of the year. Soak up the daylight with pops. If he’s earthside, make memories. Go fish. Build a trellis. Fire up the grill. Alive in spirit? Plant a tree in his honor. Feel the warmth of the sun, the coolness of the soil, and remember him. On Thursday, June 24, the Full Strawberry Moon rises in the afternoon. This month’s showstopper will be the last of three supermoons of 2021. Closer to the Earth, it may appear larger and brighter than usual. But such is the magic of Midsummer.

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“We have utilized Sandy now for five real estate transactions over the 17 years we have lived in Moore County. To us she is not a realtor, she is our realtor. She works tirelessly for the benefit of her clients and has always provided solid real estate guidance. Even after the sale is completed she has been there to provide additional assistance when we have called upon her concerning real estate. IF WE EVER HAVE FUTURE REAL ESTATE NEEDS SANDY WON’T BE OUR FIRST CALL, SHE’LL BE OUR ONLY CALL.”

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Library has new reading packets available, which include craft supplies and activity sheets. Pickup for packets can be done Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022 or info@giventufts.com.

titled “The Lure of Southern Pines, as Seen in Early Postcards.” This exhibit highlights people, places and businesses of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Southern Pines Planning, Finance and Billing Office, 180 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2051.

JOY OF ART STUDIO. Summer Celebrate Your Creativity. For all ages. Painting, drawing and mixed media. Offering both private and small groups with safe distance. Classes are held at Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or www.joyof-art.com or www.facebook.com/ Joyscreativespace/. GIVEN BOOK SHOP. The Given Book Shop will be open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Those who wish to enter must abide by CDC guidelines. For those not wishing to enter the bookshop, a “to-go” request form can be found at www.giventufts. org/book-request-form/. Please check www.giventufts. org for up-to-date information on the status of open days, hours of operation and book donations. The Given Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820. GIVEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY. Given Memorial Library will be open Monday through Friday from 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Those who wish to enter must abide by CDC guidelines. Please check www.giventufts. org for up-to-date information on the status of open days and hours of operation. For those not wishing to enter the library, “to-go” orders can be placed by phone or email. Go to the online catalog. Check for availability, then call (910) 295-6022 or email info@ giventufts.com. Staff will fill request and contact with instructions on pickup. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. LIBRARY READING PACKETS. Given Memorial

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DATE NIGHT AT THE SUNRISE. 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Rent the Sunrise Theater for your private event. Email MaryBeth@sunrisetheater.com to help you plan your special night out at the Sunrise. SUMMER CAMP REGISTRATION. Registration is open for the Sunrise Theater’s Tweet! The Musical camp for rising second- through fourth-graders. Camps are 9 a.m. - 12 p.m., from June 21 - July 15, with performances Friday afternoon and Saturday morning on the Sunrise stages. Camp includes singing, acting and movement lessons under the guidance of an experienced theater director, music director and a staff of talented student volunteers. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunriserheater.com. SCAVENGER HUNT. Pick up scavenger hunts at the Given Book Shop, Given Memorial Library or online at www.giventufts.org/program-and-events. The scavenger hunt will take you through the Village of Pinehurst, and there will be multiple themes such as science, shapes, historic buildings and more. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. SPPL OPEN. The Southern Pines Public Library is open for browsing. Hours have been extended to 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. on Saturdays, and 2 - 5 p.m. on Sundays. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. HISTORICAL EXHIBIT. The Moore County Historical Association has put together an exhibit

TAKE AND MAKE BAGS. Take and Make Bags will be available on the second and last Wednesday of the month on a first come, first served basis. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or email lib@sppl.net. Tuesday, June 1 BOOK LAUNCH. 2 - 3 p.m. Elizabeth Letts discusses The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America in a free virtual event. Registration is required to receive the link and passcode. The link and passcode will be sent the day of the event to the email used at registration. Copies of The Ride of Her Life can be prepurchased on www.thecountrybookshop.biz. Tickets and info: www.ticketmesandhills.com. READING PROGRAM. All ages are invited to participate in the 2021 Summer Reading Program. Start tracking the minutes that you read on the Beanstack website or app. Every child is encouraged to read 15 minutes a day. Adults can help by modeling good reading habits for children in the community. Get a swag bag for signing up and enter to win a prize at the end of the summer. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net Friday, June 4 PET PROGRAM. 3 - 4 p.m. Did your family adopt a pet during the pandemic? Are you interested in becoming The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

CA L E N DA R a pet owner? Please join us in partnership with the Moore County Pet Responsibility Committee to learn about responsible pet ownership and meet Beanie the therapy dog. This program will be held outdoors in the story circle. Masks are required. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net ART EXHIBIT OPENING. View the exhibit “Cloth and Clay” featuring art by Anne Crabbe, Sarah Entsminger, Jenny Williams and Nanette Zeller. The exhibit will remain on display through June 25. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or www.mooreart.org. Saturday, June 5 BOOK WORKSHOP. 9 a.m. Dan Schilling, author of The Power of Awareness, will host a one hour, in-person workshop outlining six tenets you can apply anywhere to improve your personal safety. Tickets are $28 and include an autographed copy of the book. Tickets and info: www.ticketmesandhills.com. PET PORTRAITS. 10 - 11 a.m. Kids K - 5 are invited to turn pictures of their pets into portraits. No pet? No problem. Bring in a photo of your favorite cute animal or choose from pictures the library supplies. Art supplies will be provided. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net SATURDAY KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Stations will be set up outside with arts, crafts and activities for the whole family. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: 910-295-3642. ART CLASS. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Introduction to life figure drawing for children ages 7 - 11. Instructed by Ellen Burke and Adele Buytenhuys. Tuition cost is $15 and includes all materials. Serendipity-Art Studios and Gallery, 110 N. Poplar St., Aberdeen. Info: (951) 2496866 or www.serendipity-art.com. Sunday, June 6 OPENING RECEPTION. 5 - 7 p.m. This exhibit includes the works of all members of the Artists League of the Sandhills and is the only exhibit at the League that is judged by a professional art authority. Winners for best in each category, as well as best overall, will be selected and ribbons hung by each selected painting. Guests will be asked to participate by voting for their favorite painting for the People’s Choice Award. The show will hang through Thursday, July 1. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979. Monday, June 7 FOREST BATHING. 9 - 11:30 a.m. Forest bathing is a way to resource our health and wellness by gently connecting our senses to the richness of the natural world. Join us for Forest Bathing for Wellness with licensed occupational therapist Lara Beth Jones. Participants should wear whatever will be comfortable for a few hours outdoors, which may include a hat, sunscreen, sunglasses or an umbrella. These sessions will be held on June 7, 14, 21 and 28. Each session is limited to 20 people. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net or www.larabethjones.com. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

WRITER IN RESIDENCE READING. 5:30 p.m. Mildred Barya, North Carolina Humanities Council’s 2019 Linda Flowers Award winner, will read from her work in progress. Masks required. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

SUMMER READING STATIONS. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Growing Moore Readers will host summer reading stations where children can pick up free books. Visit Given Memorial Library and other pop-up locations across Moore County for this great program. The stations will be set up through June 17. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.facebook.com/ mooreliteracy.

Wednesday, June 9 BOOK SIGNING. 5 - 6 p.m. Patrick Dougherty will be signing copies of his book, Stickwork, featuring over 200 pages of photos, anecdotes, and insights into his methods and his art. The Country Bookshop will be on-site selling the limited-edition monograph. CDC guidelines will be followed. Space is limited, and registration is required. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Tuesday, June 15 ART CLASS. 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Acrylic painting for children ages 7 - 11. Instructed by Adele Buytenhuys. Tuition cost is $15 and includes all materials. Serendipity-Art Studios and Gallery, 110 N. Poplar Street, Aberdeen. Info: (951) 249-6866 www. serendipity-art.com.

Thursday, June 10 ART CLASS. 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Linoleum block printmaking for children ages 9 - 16. Instructed by Ellen Burke and Adele Buytenhuys. Tuition cost is $15 and includes all materials. Serendipity-Art Studios and Gallery, 110 N. Poplar Street, Aberdeen. Info: (951) 2496866 www.serendipity-art.com. Saturday, June 12 PET PORTRAITS. 10 - 11 a.m. Teens 12 and older are invited to turn pictures of their pets into portraits. No pet? No problem. Bring in a photo of your favorite cute animal or choose from pictures the library supplies. Art supplies will be provided. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. ART CLASS. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Introduction to life figure drawing for children ages 12 - 17. Instructed by Ellen Burke and Adele Buytenhuys. Tuition cost is $15 and includes all materials. Serendipity-Art Studios and Gallery, 110 N. Poplar Street, Aberdeen. Info: (951) 2496866 www.serendipity-art.com. MARKETPLACE ON THE SUNRISE SQUARE. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. An outdoor market providing shoppers access to numerous artisans, small businesses and organizations in a safe, fresh-air environment. Pop-up shops are scattered around the Sunrise Square park. Dogs are not permitted. Sunrise Square, 260 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www. sunrisetheater.com. Sunday, June 13 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. The session will meet via Zoom. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. To join email: lholden@sppl.net. Monday, June 14 ART CLASS. 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Linoleum block printmaking for adults. Instructed by Ellen Burke. Tuition cost is $40 and includes all materials. Serendipity-Art Studios and Gallery, 110 N. Poplar Street, Aberdeen. Info: (951) 249-6866 www.serendipity-art.com.

Thursday, June 17 BRUNCH. 10 a.m. The N.C. Sandhills Christian Women’s Connection will meet for a brunch. There will be an inspirational speaker from Stonecroft Ministries, an amateur art show and brunch. All women are welcome. Cost is $20. Wear your favorite hat. Country Club of North Carolina, 1600 Morganton Road, Pinehurst. Info: (423) 987-9888 or sbrown1850@ att.net. CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE. 6:30 p.m. The speaker will be historian Chris Hartley with a presentation on “Cavalry Fight on Willis Church Road.” Meeting starts at 7 p.m. This is the first open meeting with no attendance limitations. Civic Club, corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Ashe Street, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-0452 or mafarina@aol.com. Friday, June 18 CREATIVITY CLUB. 3 - 4 p.m. Are you interested in drawing, painting or just learning to be more creative? During this program, kids in grades K-5 can reimagine and illustrate classic fairy tales with a twist! There will be another session on June 25. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www. sppl.net MUSICAL PERFORMANCE. 5:30 p.m. Twenty talented campers perform Arf! The Musical before a live audience. Tickets are $5 for adults and children under 18 are admitted free. Box office opens 15 minutes before showtime. There will be a second performance on June 19 at 11 a.m. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www. sunrisetheater.com. OUTDOOR MOVIE. 8:30 p.m. National Lampoon’s Vacation. The movie will play outside the Sunrise Theater. The screening will be moved indoors in case of inclement weather. There will be a second showing on June 19 at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www. sunrisetheater.com. Saturday, June 19 TODDLER TIME. 11 a.m. Does your toddler like to move and groove? Join us for pop-up Toddler Time to get those wiggles out. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net or email lib@sppl.net. PineStraw

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time. Come to the library with a charged smartphone/ tablet or a camera, water bottle, and dressed for a short walk around the story circle. Make an account beforehand at www.ecoexplore.net. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Tuesday, June 22 ART CLASS. Introduction to drawing for children ages 10 - 14. Instructed by Ellen Burke and Adele Buytenhuys. Tuition cost is $15 and includes all materials. Serendipity-Art Studios and Gallery, 110 N. Poplar Street, Aberdeen. Info: (951) 249-6866 www. serendipity-art.com.

SINGER-SONGWRITERS. 7 p.m. “SingerSongwriters in the Round” returns with Annelle Staal hosting fellow North Carolina artists. The artists share the stage and perform one song at a time while offering personal stories behind each song’s inspiration. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

Thursday, June 24 ART CLASS. Acrylic pour for children ages 10 - 16. Instructed by Adele Buytenhuys. Children will create paintings using acrylic pouring techniques. Tuition cost is $30 and includes all materials. Serendipity-Art Studios and Gallery, 110 N. Poplar Street, Aberdeen. Info: (951) 249-6866 www.serendipity-art.com.

Tuesday, June 29 PAGE TURNERS. 10:30 a.m. Southern Pines Public Library’s book club will meet via Zoom. The book is In Five Years, by Rebecca Serle. Info: (910) 692-8235 or email lib@sppl.net.

Friday, June 25 MUSICAL PERFORMANCE. 5:30 p.m. Talented campers perform Tweet! The Musical before a live audience. Tickets are $5 for adults and children under 18 are admitted free. Box office opens 15 minutes before showtime. There will be a second performance on June 26 at

MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 6 - 9 p.m. Bring your instrument and beverage or just come and enjoy the music. All attendees are required to have had the COVID-19 vaccination to attend. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. UPCOMING EVENTS Tuesday, July 6 AUTHOR EVENT. 2 - 3 p.m. Join a virtual author event with Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. They will be discussing the book The Personal Librarian. The event is free but registration is required. Info: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

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WEEKLY EVENTS Mondays WORKOUTS. 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to get their workout on. Open Monday through Friday. Cost for six months: $15/resident; $30/ non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376.

11 a.m. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

INDOOR WALKING. 10 a.m. - 12 p.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.

MUSICAL. 6:30 p.m. Matilda the Musical. There will be additional shows on June 26 at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. and June 27 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $15 for VIP and $8 for general admission. Encore Center, 160 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info and tickets: www.tix.com/ticket-sales/encorecenter/6154. Saturday, June 26 ECOEXPLORE. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Learn more about ecoEXPLORE! Presented by a representative from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, this program encourages kids grades K-8 to participate in citizen science. Using smartphones or tablets, kids can make observations that scientists can use in their own research and also earn points and prizes at the same

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TAP CLASS. 1:30 - 3 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. Tuesdays OUTDOOR STORY TIME. 10 a.m. Story times will take place in the newly-expanded outdoor story circle. Babies birth to 2 years old and their families are invited for a 20–30-minute story session. Each of these sessions is first come, first served with a capacity of 10 families. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl. net or email lib@sppl.net.

BABY RYHMES. 10:30 a.m. Baby Rhymes is specially designed for the youngest learners (birth-2) and their caregivers. Repetition and comforting movements make this story time perfect for early development and brain growth. There will be duplicate sessions at 11 a.m. on June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928235 or www.sppl.net 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 ART CLASS. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. The art of cooking and nutrition for children ages 3-18 instructed by Natasja Essed. The workshop combines food knowledge, nutrition and food preparation skills and is packed with food fun. Children learn what’s in food; what the effect of food is on the body; what you can prepare with a food; how to make it taste delicious; and that cooking together is a lot of fun. Tuition cost is $60 for all three classes. Classes meet on June 9, 16 and 23. Serendipity-Art Studios and Gallery, 110 N. Poplar Street, Aberdeen. Info: (951) 249-6866 www. serendipity-art.com. 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. SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET IN PINEHURST. 3 - 6 p.m. The market will feature local farmers, bakers, crafters and a N.C. fishmonger so locals can purchase fresh fish that is 24-48 hours from wave to plate. Fishmonger only comes on Wednesday. Regularly featuring 20 or more farms plus entertainment and opportunities for kids. Tufts Park, Pinehurst. Thursdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. The year-round market features “producer only” vendors within a 50-mile radius providing fresh, local, seasonal produce, fruits, pasture meats, eggs, potting plants, cut flowers and local honey. Crafts, baked goods, jams, and jellies are also available. Market is located at the Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. GIVEN STORY TIME. 10 a.m. Wonderful volunteers share their love of reading. Those who wish to enter must abide by CDC guidelines. Stop by and join the fun. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and tickets: (910) 295-3642. PRESCHOOL STORIES. 3:30 p.m. Story times will take place in the newly expanded outdoor story circle this spring. Ages 3-5 and their families can enjoy a session with literacy-building skills to help them prepare for kindergarten. This session is for your big kid who is ready to stretch, dance, listen and play. Dates will be June 3, 10, 17 and 24. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net or email lib@sppl.net. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

CA L E N DA R Fridays TAP CLASS. 10 - 11:30 a.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. ART CLASS. 1 - 4 p.m. Watercolor class for adults. Instructed by Ellen Burke. These classes introduce basic and intermediate watercolor techniques. No prior experience is necessary to enjoy the pleasure of working

with watercolor. Tuition cost is $150 for all three classes and includes all materials. Classes meet on June 4, 11 and 18. Serendipity-Art Studios and Gallery, 110 N. Poplar Street, Aberdeen. Info: (951) 249-6866 www. serendipity-art.com.

and jellies are also available, accompanied by live music. Market is located in downtown Southern Pines at S.E. Broad Street and New York Ave. and runs weekly (with the exception of Autumnfest on October 2) until the end of October.

Saturdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 8 a.m. – 12 p.m. The market features “producer only” vendors within a 50-mile radius providing fresh, local, seasonal produce, fruits, pasture meats, eggs, potting plants, cut flowers and local honey. Crafts, baked goods, jams,

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A Day at the Open

Memories of a father’s gift By Tom Allen

My father, decades ago, played one For Dad — a fisherman and dove hunter — golf was too tedious. He was, however, captivated by televised tournaments, especially the Masters and the U.S. Open. He was an armchair quarterback for college football and a recliner referee for ACC hoops, and a wannabe umpire for Braves baseball. He followed celebrity golfers from his generation — Trevino, Palmer, Nicklaus — and watched enough golf to know the names Mickelson and Els. And Tiger, like Michael Jordan, was a household name. In 2005, I snagged two tickets for Friday’s U.S. Open Championship on Pinehurst No. 2. I asked Dad if he wanted to go, a Father’s Day gift from a son who broke a hundred once. He smiled at the chance. I smiled too. The day might be a bust — a 46-year-old and an 83-year-old, whose conversations over our adult years covered reminders from Dad to change the oil in my car every 3,000 miles to his chiding me for setting my tomato plants before the soil warmed while I, in turn, reminded him to keep his cellphone turned on and to get a flu shot. These conversations inevitably ended with my changing the oil every 5,000 miles and planting my tomatoes in cool, sometimes frosty, late March. He, likewise, continued to keep his phone off and never rolled up his sleeve. We met that Friday morning at my home in Whispering Pines. I drove us to Pinehurst, remarkably without any comments from Dad about my tendency to drive faster and brake later than he did. We parked and took a shuttle to the main entrance, arriving as the gates were opening. I suggested a walk through the merchandise tent, not for want of anything but just to see Dad’s reaction to the prices. A finance major in college, Dad was drafted in 1942, one of two in his graduating class at Oak Ridge Military Academy who wasn’t assigned to a combat unit. Dad ended up in the 109th Finance Disbursing Section, stationed for a few years in England. He received a Certificate of Merit from his commanding officer. The U.S. Army had no idea what a good decision they made by placing an adding machine in his hands instead of a rifle. At 83, Dad was robust and thriving, but I knew he’d tire trying to trail certain players, so we positioned ourselves in a shady

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section of a grandstand, an ideal spot to watch approach shots and putts and to see Tiger birdie and tip his cap. Dad loved every minute though, like father, like son, he had to be shushed a few times by a grandstand marshal when players were putting out. Thankfully, she was a member of the church I serve and tempered her shushing with a smile. By noon he was done. Walking out, we got a glimpse of a Mickelson fairway shot, long and straight. Dad showed no interest in paying U.S. Open food prices. Bojangles was the choice for lunch, his treat. At home, his garden needed tending and his bird dog feeding. It was a short but good day. Actually, one of the best. Ten years later, at 93, weakened by an illness that caused a rapid decline, Dad and I watched the U.S. Open from his hospice room. A few weeks later, father and son were alone. I whispered I loved him, thanked him for being the best dad ever, told him Mom would be cared for, and gave him my blessing to go home. A few seconds later, as gently as he had lived his life, he left. In April, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, reflecting on Prince Philip’s final moments said, “It was so gentle. It was like somebody took him by the hand and off he went. Very, very peaceful . . . ” Her words resonated. Not a U.S. Open passes that I don’t think of that day in ’05 — sunny, warm, just enough breeze. At 63, I’ve moderated my speed and widened my brake time. Dad would be pleased. He would probably shake his head at automotive technology that allows for twice the mileage before an oil change. I imagine he would stick with 3,000. This year, unlike others, I waited to plant my tomatoes until the soil warmed and any chance of frost had passed. Those tomatoes, like Dad on that warm June day, have thrived. In the end, I guess Father really does know best. PS Tom Allen is minister of education at First Baptist Church, Southern Pines. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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