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

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

For more information contact Lynn Valliere

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

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Whether you prefer Steak Diane at the Carolina Dining Room, Chipotle Jumbo Shrimp and Grits at the 1895 Grille, Grilled Salmon Salad at The Tavern, Taterman Tots at The Deuce or the Carolina Burger at the Ryder Cup Lounge, you’ll find

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March 2017 Features 69 Hawk

Poetry by Steve Cushman

70 Gold Rush

By Bill Fields Deep in the Sandhills, a lingering legacy of dreams

76 Sandhills Photography Club 80 Man on the Move

By Jim Moriarty A brain tumor ended one career but gave birth to an even more extraordinary life of service

84 Horse Heaven

By Deborah Salomon Memorabilia décor recalls Sandhills’ equestrian heyday

97 What’s in a Name?

By Ross Howell Jr. That which we call a daffodil by any other name still ushers in spring

99 Almanac

By Ash Alder The cheerful robin’s song and trumpeting daffodils announces earlier mornings and the spring equinox

Departments 17 Simple Life By Jim Dodson

47 The Kitchen Garden By Jan Leitschuh

51 Papadaddy’s Mindfield 24 PinePitch By Clyde Edgerton 27 Instagram Winners 53 Out of the Blue 29 The Omnivorous Reader By Deborah Salomon By Stephen E. Smith

33 Bookshelf

By Romey petite and Angie Tally

37 Hometown By Bill Fields

39 The Pleasures of Life By Joyce Reehling

41 Vine Wisdom

43 In the Spirit

By Robyn James

By Tony Cross

55 Mom, Inc.

By Renee Phile

57 Birdwatch

By Susan Campbell

119 SandhillSeen 125 PineNeedler

By Mart Dickerson

59 Sporting Life

127 The Accidental Astrologer

63 Golftown Journal

128 SouthWords

By Tom Bryant By Lee Pace

100 Arts & Entertainment Calendar

By Astrid Stellanova

By Anna Kraus

Cover Illustration by Meridith Martens 6

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5-Acre Golf Front Estate: Overlooks 10th green of CCNC’s

17 Acre Horse Farm: 2-Stall Barn, completely private perched on a hilltop. Rolling landscape, 3500+sf home, stone fireplace, 3BR/3BA. Close to downtown So. Pines. $1,250,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

Golfer’s Delight on Cardinal: “Fair Hill” has an open plan,

Pinehurst National 9: Great views of the Golf Course and Otter Pond. 3BR, 4.5BA, 3-car garage. Pinehurst Country Club transferrable membership. Great home & best view at National! $825,000 Frank Sessoms 910.639.3099

New CCNC Contemporary: Custom built in 2016 by Huntley

CCNC Golf Front & Pool: 4,000 sq. ft, 3BR/3.5BA, with views

Fairwoods on 7: Comfortable elegance at its finest. Open design enhanced with a Great Room, Dining Rooom, Office, Kitchen and Patio. 3 Bedrooms, 3.5 Baths. PCC Membership abailable for 1-9. $695,000 Kay Beran 910.315.3322

Weymouth French Country Home: Step back in time with all of today’s conveniences! Gleaming hardwoods, gourmet ktchn w/Wolfe Gas Range. 2-Fireplaces, Main Level Master, & Basement. $673,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

Easy Stroll to the Village: Cleverly explanded and upgraded home offers fabulous comfort and beautifully landscaped grounds. Koi-filled pond & waterfall. PCC Membership available. $650,000 Kay Beran 910.315.3322

Cardinal Course. 4BR/4Full2HalfBA’s, gourmet kitchen, multiple living areas, formal dining, cherry hardwoods, geothermal heating, pool & more. $1,325,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Panoramic Golf Views: Spacious, elegant 4 BR, 3.5 BA

home built with craftsmanship using superlative materials with an eye to detail. Light-filled rooms with 9-12 ft. ceilings. $649,500

Bonnie Baker 910.690.4705

Design Build. Features: 3BR, 3.5BAs, open floor plan, geo-thermal heating, gourmet kitchen, wet bar, incredible master suite and covered porch with fireplace. $749,000 Scarlett Alison 910.603.0359

Old Town Pinehurst:

Beautifully redesigned! A true “Pinehurst Home” of nearly 3,200 sq.ft., featuring a Carolina Room, updated Kitchen, and cozy master with Jacuzzi. 3BR, 3BA. $530,000

Bill Brock 910.639.1148

4BR/4Full2HallBAs, formal rooms, porch, pool, terrace. Spectacular panoramic view of 10th fairway from almost every room. 5.98 Acres, 4,500+sq.ft. $980,000 Carolyn Hallett 910.986.2319

of the 6th hole on Dogwood Course. Updated kitchen, living room with fireplace, Carolina room and pool with spa. See: 75LinvilleDrive.com $715,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Golf Front & Water Views: Situated on the 4th green of CCNC’s Cardinal Course; 4,000+sq.ft., 4BR/3.5BA; great room w/cathedral ceiling, wet bar, 2-master suites with great views. Lots of space for the price! $520,000 Scarlett Allison 910.603.0359

Southern Pines: 910.692.2635 • 105 W. Illinois Avenue • Southern Pines, NC 28387 ©2015 BHH Affiliates, LLC. An independently operated subsidiary of HomeServices of American, Inc., a Berkshire Hathaway affiliate, and a franchisee of BHH Affiliates, LLC.

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Weymouth Heights: Curb appeal, great neighborhood, 3BR,

2.5BA, 1.88-acre lot, large workshop (HVAC), over 3,000 sq.ft. of living space. Peruse at your convenience by going to: www.170HalcyonDrive.com $399,000 Frank Sessoms 910.639.3099

Pinehurst No. 6: Beautiful Craftsman Style with Charming Front and Back Porches plus a Bonus Room. Pristine! Level Grass Back yard. PCC Membership Available. 4BR/3BA. $375,000 Jennifer Nguyen 910.585.2099

Completely Renovated: Charming 3BR/2.5BA waterfront cottage with water views from every room. Over 3,400sf of scenic living in this open floor plan gives buyer option for any room arrangment desired. Delightful gourmet kitchen. Lower level workshop. Live like you are on vacation year round! Fish from your own dock or canoe/kayak on the pond. Lush landscapping with an array of hydrangeas and camellias. Team Townley 910.690.7080

West End: Over 3,000sf home with all the modern conveniences of new constrction Situated on almost eight acres, and completely renovated! Natural light in every room. Many upgrades! 4BR/3BA. $369,000 Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

Pinehurst No. 6: Beautiful, Spacious and Upgraded! Rich hardwood flooring, 12/10 ft. ceilings, granite counter tops, maple cabinetry, and large bonus room. A wonderful, well-built home! 4BR, 3.5BA. $344,900 Pamela Jensen 910.528.1840

Weymouth Pines: Located in a premier neighborhood!

A real beauty with main level master suite and almost 2,800 sq.ft. of living space. Meticulously maintained and in move-in condition! 4 BR, 3.5 BA. $340,000 Bill Brock 910.639.1148

Pinehurst: The ultimate private setting! Spacious living

areas, Office/Den, bright Carolina Room w/built-ins & hardwood flooring, eat-in Kitchen with stone counter tops & lots of natural light. 3BR/2BA. $335,000 Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

Pinehurst: Beautiful New Construction. Gourmet Kitchen

Vass: Total Renovation - To the Bones! Family room adorned

Village Acres: 2 Years New! Open floor plan, 3BR, 2BA,

Pine Valley Condo: Golf Front! Renovated and lives like

with French doors leads to a beautiful screened porch & wood deck for entertaining. Workshop is income producing. 3BR, 2BA. $234,900

Pamela Jensen 910.528.1840

Dining room, eat-in Kitchen w/granite, stainless. Deck, fire pit, fenced back yard. Cul-de-sac location! Move-in Ready! Carolynn Hallett 910.986.2319

with Granite. Open Design, fireplace, Formal Dining, Bonus Room, Office with Custom Built-in Desk. PCC Mbrshp available. 4BR, 3.5BA. $284,900 Pamela Jensen 910.528.1840

a residential home: granite, new stainless appliances, wood cabinetry, beautiful furnishings, and more! PCC mbrshp available. 3BR, 2BA. $169,888 Pamela Jensen 910.528.1840

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M A G A Z I N E Volume 13, No. 3 Jim Dodson, Editor 910.693.2506 • jim@pinestrawmag.com Andie Stuart Rose, Creative Director 910.693.2467 • andie@pinestrawmag.com Jim Moriarty, Senior Editor 910.692.7915 • jjmpinestraw@gmail.com Lauren M. Coffey, Graphic Designer 910.693.2469 • lauren@pinestrawmag.com Alyssa Rocherolle, Graphic Designer 910.693.2508 • alyssa@pinestrawmag.com Contributing Editors Deborah Salomon, Staff Writer Mary Novitsky, Sara King, Proofreaders Contributing Photographers John Gessner, Laura Gingerich, Tim Sayer Contributors Tom Allen, Harry Blair, Tom Bryant, Susan Campbell, Bill Case, Tony Cross, Al Daniels, Annette Daniels, Mart Dickerson, Clyde Edgerton, Bill Fields, Robyn James, Jan Leitschuh, Meridith Martens, Diane McKay, Lee Pace, Renee Phile, Joyce Reehling, Stephen E. Smith, Astrid Stellanova, Kimberly Daniels Taws, Angie Tally, Ashley Wahl, Sam Walker, Janet Wheaton

David Woronoff, Publisher

190 Kings Ridge Court • Southern Pines Great location in Mid South Club with easy access to the back gate. One floor living plan with building quality in every detail from the 8 foot doors, 10 foot ceilings, hardwood floors and deep ceiling moldings to the concrete circular drive. Central living hub around the gourmet kitchen features a breakfast area, kitchen bar with stools, high end stainless appliances, five burner cooktop, ice maker, generous granite countertops, amazing walk-in pantry all overlooking the family room with a fireplace and flat screen TV. The generous master suite has a large bay window overlooking the back yard. The two main floor guest bedrooms share a bath. The laundry room has black custom cabinets, granite countertops and stainless sink, the adjacent room is ideal for an office or a storage room. Spacious upstairs bonus room has a full bath and could also be a bedroom, playroom or work out area. Offered at $535,000.

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90 Ritter Road East

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

235 Quail Hollow Drive

CCNC Pinehurst Exquisite total renovation of 4BR, 4.5 BA, Colonial on 2.5 ac golf front. $1,450,000.

101 Kincaid Place

12 Masters Ridge

940 E. Connecticut Avenue

85 Lake Dornoch Drive

Forest Creek golf front, 1.1 acres, 5 BR, 4 BA, 2.5 BA, Lovely Irish Georgian country house on 12.21 acres in Golf front CCNC with lake view. 4023 main 2 fireplaces, game room, kitchen/family room, garage Weymouth. Built 1998, 3 stories, 3 BR, 2.5 BA, house, 763 guest house addition. One floor, guest apt. Great porch. Built in 2002. $898,000 3 fireplaces, 4 car garage. PRICE REDUCED $998,000 3 BR, 3.5 BA main, 1 BR, 1 BA guest. $1,100,000

Fine Properties offered by BHHS Pinehurst Realty Group

270 Vass Carthage Road

55 Pine Valley Circle

CCNC traditional on 2.2 acres, 4476 sq ft, 4 BR, 4 Golf front with water view in Mid South Club. 5 BA. Main floor master suite, stunning foyer, study, BR, 5 BA, 2 half BA, 3 car garage, pool, built ’05, kitchen opens to family room, garage apt. $925,000 1.15 acre lot, 6860 sq ft, elevator. $1,500,000

129 National Drive

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840 Lake Dornoch Drive

177 Cross Country Lane

292 Old Dewberry

920 East Massachusetts Avenue

Stunning golf front residence in Pinehurst No. 9 CCNC golf front on Cardinal Course. One Private Horse Country estate on 10 acres includStunning historic 3-story Victorian at National with spacious living areas. 4 BR, farmhouse, 4 fireplaces. Breathtaking oor living, remarkable kitchen, paneled ing lovely lake. Faulk designed 4 BR, 4.5 BA, 4.5 BA, 3 car garage. Offered at $885,000 views over 4 acres. 5BR, 3BA. $690,000 study. 3BR, 3.5 BA, 3 car garage, $1,100,000 5640 sq ft home built in 1970. $1,200,000

8 North South Court

Mid South Club golf front 15th Hole. Southern Living home, 4 BR, 3.5 BA, brilliant design. $587,500

14 Appin Court

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

Gorgeous, renovated mid-century house with 1930’s Dutch Colonial, restored in ’06 adding two situated on 6.2 acres. Grandfathered horse farm wings. 4 BR, 3.5 BA, walled patio with courtyard, with total privacy on iconic sand road. $885,000 guest house, main floor master. $850,000

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

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

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

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

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114 bonnie brook court Beautiful 5 BR / 4 BA home in the lovely Bonnie Brook Community. This charming home sits on an oversized lot at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac and offers an absolutely beautiful full size saltwater pool with a wrought iron gazebo and fencing.

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

aberDeen • $348,000

seVen lakes south • $335,000

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

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

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

seVen lakes West • $339,000

seVen lakes West • $329,000

140 beacon riDGe DriVe This gorgeous custom built 4 BR / 2.5 BA home has beautiful curb appeal and great landscaping but the interior is really the star! Open and bright with long views of the golf course, hardwood floors throughout the lower level and loads of ceiling to floor windows.

Pinehurst • $415,000

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

111 sMathers DriVe Beautiful Cape Cod style home with great curb appeal! Immaculately maintained, this 4 BR / 3.5 BA home offers an open floorplan, hardwood floors, and a very nice master suite with lots of closet space. There’s also a private upstairs with bedroom and bath for guests.

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215 inVerrary roaD This unique 5 BR / 5.5 BA property is truly one of a kind! Located between the 13th tee box and the 14th fairway of the #7 course in Fairwoods on Seven, this home has over 4 acres of beautifully landscaped grounds that gives wonderful privacy while still enjoying panoramic golf views.

Pinehurst • $999,000

southern Pines • $1,200,000

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

Pinehurst • $995,000

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

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

Pinehurst • $1,100,000

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

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

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

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

245 kinGs riDGe court Dropdead gorgeous 4 BR / 4.5 BA golf front home located on the 15th Fairway of Mid South Golf Club. The floorplan is bright and open and offers many upscale features such as heavy crown molding and trim, wood flooring, window walls to maximize the views and gourmet kitchen.

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Pinehurst • $548,000

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106 sunset Point Gorgeous custom built 3 BR / 3.5 BA home on Lake Auman. With almost 4,500 sq. ft. of living area, this home offers so much. The main level is bright and open with water views from almost every room. This spectacular home is truly one of a kind and is the best value on the water!

32 Greyabbey DriVe Located in beautiful Pinewild, this gorgeous 3 BR / 3 Full BA & 2 half BA custom home is located on the first hole of the Magnolia Course and offers many special features. The elegant living room opens onto an oversize deck, the gourmet kitchen has a walk-in pantry and the spacious master suite features two walk-in closets. This is a must see!

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

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Sunday Man ’twixt Heaven and Earth

By Jim Dodson

It’s Sunday morning in the

Illustration by Romey Petite

kitchen, two hours before the sunrise.

A welcome silence fills the house, and at this hour I often hear a still, small voice that may indeed belong to God but is more often than not the mewing of young Boo Radley, eager to be let out in order to roam the neighboring yards. On the other side of the door sits old Rufus, balancing a universe, home from his nighttime prowlings, the crankiest cat of the known world, complaining to be let in and fed. The noisy one comes in, the quiet one slips out. I am a butler to cats. On the plus side, Sunday morning lies like a starry quilt over the neighborhood at this hour. A thin quarter moon hangs on the western horizon like a paper moon in a school play and Venus shines like a jewel in an Ethiop’s ear. Somewhere, miles away, a train rumbles by, a reminder of a world that is always going somewhere. But luckily I am here on Earth, a Sunday man beneath a hooked moon, for the moment going nowhere except the end of his driveway to fetch the Sunday paper for reading over the week. Back inside, I sit for spell with my first coffee, reading one of what I call my Sunday morning books that run the gamut from the sonnets of Shakespeare to the essays of Wendell Berry, from Barbara Brown Taylor to Pierre Teilhard De Chardin — with a dash of Billy Collins and Mary Oliver for proper spiritual seasoning. This particular Sunday is a gem long out of print, one man’s memoir of spiritual rejuvenation first published the year I was born, the story of a successful big-city writer who was forced by reasons of health and age to return

to the small Wisconsin town of his birth. There he built a big house on ancestral land but initially struggled to find his place on the ground. “A man, faced with the peculiar loneliness of where he doesn’t want to be,” writes Edward Harris Heth in My Life on Earth, “is apt to find himself driving along the narrow, twisting country roads, day or night, alone, brooding about the tricks life can play.” Life is lived by degrees. Little by little, the author’s lonely drives along country roads yield a remarkable transformation of the angry city man. Heth gets to know — and admire — the eccentric carpenter who builds his house. He drops by a church supper and meets his neighbors, including the quirky Litten sisters “who play a mean game of canasta,” know all the village pump gossip “and have an Old Testament talent for disaster.” The ancient Litten girls both feed and inspire him to broader exploration. His neighbor Bud Devere, a young and burly farmer who always shows up uninvited just to chat, insists that Heth see the Willow Road. “I did not want to see what Bud saw. But the reluctance began fading away in me, that first time we went down the Willow Road. It covers scarcely more than a mile, but in that mile you can cover a thousand miles.” Traveling along it, the author sees spring wildflowers, undisturbed forests, a charming farmhouse with narcissus and hyacinth in bloom. He feels his pulse slow, and something akin to simple pleasure takes root. “Bud kept silent. He wanted me to open my own eyes. . . . Since then, I’ve learned how many country people know and enjoy this art of the small scene and event, the birth of a calf, a remembered spot, the tumultuous labor and excitement of feeding the threshers, who come like locusts and swarm for a day over your farm and disappear again at night, the annual

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“What is divinity,” asked Wallace Stevens in his lovely poem Sunday Morning “if it can come Only in silent shadows and in dreams? Shall she not find in comforts of the sun, In pungent fruit and bright, green wings, or else In any balm or beauty of the earth, Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven? Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The bough of summer and the winter branch, These are the measures destined for her soul.” By the time we reach the park, Lady Summer Bough and Lord Winter Branch, the strengthening sun has melted away the year’s final frost. Across the way stands an ancient oak I peddled by a half a million times as a kid on his way to the ball field; it looks like a lighted candelabra, limned with golden morning sun. Funny how I only recently noticed this. It is middle Sunday morning at church, our usual pew back right. The young preacher is named Greg. Not long ago we attended his ordination as a priest. My cheeky wife thinks Greg is almost too good-looking to be a priest. Lots of women in the parish seem to share this view.

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The gist of his Sunday sermon is the need to look with fresh eyes upon Matthew’s Beatitudes. But the true strength of his Sunday morning message lies in the suggestion that we all should aspire to become our true selves and Christian mystics: “Don’t be scared by that word mystic. It simply means someone who has gone from an intellectual belief system to actual inner experience.” The journey from head to the heart, Greg says, means we are called to be mystics — to chuck rules-based, belief-system Christianity in favor of something far more intimate and organic as the Earth around us. To coax the point home, he mentions Franciscan friar Richard Rohr’s observation that religion is largely filled with people who are afraid of Hell, and spirituality is for people who have gone through hell. And with spring on the Sunday doorstep, Father Greg provides the perfect metaphor directly from renewing nature — the mystery of how a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, how becoming our true selves is not unlike the chrysalis that must crack open in order for the butterfly’s wings to gain strength and allow it to fly. “And as we struggle,” notes the bright new associate rector, “it breeds compassion within our hearts. Just as the butterfly pressed fluid into its wings, our struggle enables compassion to flow through our bodies, a compassion that allows us to empathize with the suffering of others.” I’ll admit I am a Sunday man who digs a good sermon. And this was a mighty thoughtful one. Young Greg is off to an excellent start, even if — like Junior — he is a tad too good-looking. Speaking of digging, after a Chicago-style hotdog, I’m home for full Sunday afternoon working in my new garden, digging in the soil and delving in the soul. Having pulled down an old pergola and cleaned out a handsome brick planter long overgrown with ivy, I lose complete track of time in the backyard planting Blue Angel hostas and a pair of broadleaf hydrangeas, repairing and raising a much-loved birdfeeder, hanging chimes high in a red oak and transplanting ostrich ferns. If one is closer to God’s heart in a garden, then perhaps I am a backyard mystic with dirty hands. By Sunday sundown, my knees are aching but the healing is real. Renewed for a week of cabbages and kings, we settle down with the Sunday paper and a bit of Netflix before bed, though I tend to doze off halfway through the program. Old Rufus goes out; Boo Radley comes in. The dogs follow us to bed. For some reason I seem to sleep so well on Sunday nights. PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com

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Saint Patrick’s Day Parade

On Saturday, March 18, The Village of Pinehurst will show off its Irish spirit during the 16th Annual Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. Colorful parade entries, great music, dancing and good Irish cheer are in store for all who attend. The parade begins at 11 a.m. sharp at Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road, West, Pinehurst. Following the parade, families can stick around for entertainment, children’s activities, and food and beverages. (Rain date: March 25.) Parade entries from non-profits, businesses, civic groups, churches and families are welcome, so don your Irish green and join us for the celebration. Here’s to the Emerald Isle. For more information, contact Dugan’s Pub at (910) 295-3400.

Meet the Author

On Thursday, March 9, at 5 p.m., Michael Knight will present his new work, Eveningland, a collection of interlinked stories and a novella that are set in or near Mobile, Alabama. These stories, which range in focus from the historical catastrophe of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the personal intricacies of a marriage, will take you through the whole gamut of human emotion. Knight, who is from Mobile, has received numerous awards, including the New Writing Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Hemingway Foundation/ PEN Award Special Citation. He is the director of the creative writing program of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This event will take place at The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

The Rooster’s Wife March lineup bursts into spring: Sunday, March 5: Kerrville Song Circle. Winners of the 2015 Kerrville New Folk songwriting competition, Wes Collins, Amy Kucharik, Tom Meny and Becky Warren tour together as a four-person in-the-round show. $15. Friday, March 10: Major and the Monbacks. This high energy, Virginia-based band is an ensemble of bass guitar, keyboard, organ, vocals, percussion and a couple of horns that blends ’60s and ’70s rock with psychedelic and a little soul. $15. Sunday, March 12: Al Strong Quartet. As a trumpeter, arranger and composer, Al Strong incorporates progressive jazz, soul, gospel and Afro-beat grooves. $20. Sunday, March 19: Lindsey Lou and the Flatbellys. Based in bluegrass, this stringband features mandolin, guitar, resonator guitar and sultry vocals. It’s Americana and beyond. $20. Sunday, March 26: The Kennedys, a folk/rock/pop duo, and Jack Broadbent, a modern bluesman on a slide guitar, share the stage. $20. Doors open at 6 p.m. and music begins at 6:46 at the Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Call (910) 944-7502 or visit www.theroosterswife.org for info and tickets.

Young People’s Fine Arts Festival

The Arts Council of Moore County presents the 21st Annual Young People’s Fine Arts Festival showcasing the artistic talents of students in grades K–12 from Moore County public, private, charter and home schools. You are invited to attend the Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony on Friday, March 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Campbell House Galleries, where all entries will be on display from March 3 to 31. The reception and exhibit, sponsored by George Little & Associates Inc., Whistle Stop Press Inc. and the Town of Southern Pines, are free and open to the public. The Gallery is located at 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Gallery hours are 9 a.m.–5 p.m. weekdays and 1–4 p.m. on Saturday, March 18. Call (910) 692-2787 or visit mooreart.org for more information.

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And Then There Were None

Beginning Thursday, March 23, and running through the 26th, The Judson Theatre Company (Moore County’s only professional theatre) presents Agatha Christie’s bestselling mystery of all time. Ten guilty strangers are trapped in a mansion on Soldier Island, stranded by a torrential storm and haunted by an ancient nursery rhyme. One by one, they begin to die. Alison Arngrim, who played Nellie Oleson on TV’s Little House on the Prairie, stars as the ruthless, remorseless Emily Brent. Tickets: $38. (Save $8 per ticket when you buy 10 or more.) The performance is at 7 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a matinee at 2 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, at Owens Auditorium at Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For more information, call (910) 585-6989 or visit www.judsontheatre.com.

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On Saturday, March 11, at 9:30 a.m., take a onemile hike through the Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve with wildlife and nature photographer Brady Beck. The towering long-leaf pines of Weymouth Woods provide a home for many rare and intriguing creatures, such as the red-cockaded woodpecker, pine barrens tree frog and fox squirrel, as well as a habitat for the highly photogenic wiregrass and wildflowers. While strolling one of the easy trails through the forest, Beck will share tips for capturing the natural beauty of the longleaf pine ecosystem. Brady Beck is a biologist studying the red-cockaded woodpecker in the Sandhills. His interests in photography include capturing natural history details, observing wildlife behaviors and creating wildlife portraits in both still and HD video formats. This program celebrates the conservation legacy of Ansel Adams and the exhibition of his photographs at the NC Museum of Art through May 7, 2017. Weymouth Woods is located at 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. (910) 692-2167.

On March 30, enjoy an evening of dinner, dancing and the music of DJ King Curtiss in celebration and support of horses and heroes at the Prancing Horse Annual Spring Barn Dance, from 6 to 10 p.m. Tickets for the dance are $50 per person and can be purchased at Cabin Branch Tack Shop, Southern Pines; A Bit Used, Vass; Sandhills Winery, West End; Lady Bedford’s Tea Parlour, Pinehurst; or online at www. prancing-horse.org. The $100 raffle tickets can be purchased at www.prancing-horse.org or at the event. The festivities take place at The Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Road S, Pinehurst. For more information, call (910) 281-3223.

Sandhills Farm to Table Now Open for 2017!

Become a member of the Farm to Table Co-op and get boxes of the freshest local fruits and vegetables delivered to your Gathering Site from mid-April to November. Being a member of the Co-op has many additional benefits — You will receive newsletters with recipes and tips and have access to the online artisanal market, which delivers grass-fed beef, local honey, homemade ice cream, goat cheese, salsas and jams, baked goods, sustainably-raised pork and poultry and more, fresh to the Gathering Site nearest you. You will be able to order extra and bulk seasonal produce each week, like peaches for canning or strawberries for jam. And members are eligible to take part in classes, demonstrations and community events such as You Pick Days! Sign up today and help create a healthier, resilient community that ensures a long-term, secure market for Sandhills farmers. Info and signup: www.sandhillsfarm2table.com or call (910) 722-1623.

Cliff Aikens Sings Our Songs

Gather at Given for an evening of “American History and Americana Told in Song,” as folk singer Cliff Aikens recalls the decades from 1920 to 1970 in dialogue and songs by Woody Guthrie; Bob Dylan; The Weavers; Peter, Paul and Mary; Pete Seeger; The Grand Ole Opry; Simon and Garfunkel; and the Kingston Trio. Come, listen, sing along, remember and reconnect to the special times in your own lives. Performances are free and open to the public on Tuesday, March 7, 3:30 p.m. at Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst; and on Wednesday, March 8, 7 p.m. at Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst.

Saturday in the Gardens

The 69th annual Southern Pines Garden Club Home and Garden Tour is being held on a Saturday for first time, April 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour features six elegant homes and gardens from horse country to historic Pinehurst and includes stops at Weymouth and Sandhills Gardens for springtime plant sales. Proceeds are used for community beautification and horticultural education projects that benefit all Moore County residents. Tickets ($20 in advance) are available at the Campbell House, the Women’s Exchange, the Country Bookshop, and online at www.southernpinesgardenclub.com.

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Storytime

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Trail of Tears

The sorrowful history of Western expansion

By Stephen E. Smith

During the early-to

mid-19th century, an unknown Native American warrior documented his life in pictographs on a buffalo hide. His early years were happy. He owned horses, took two wives, fathered children. Then white-faced figures appear pointing sticks that spit fire. Later, he painted his family dying of smallpox. His last pictograph illustrates the arrival of Jesuits in their black cassocks. There the narrative ends, suggesting, perhaps, that Jesuits are deadlier than smallpox.

Whatever the cause of the warrior’s demise, there’s no denying that the 19th-century collision between Native Americans and westward migrating peoples of European descent was one of the most shameful and tragic chapters in the history of the continent. Peter Cozzens’ meticulously written and thoroughly documented The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West is the latest offering in a spate of recent books that graphically detail how shameful and tragic the winning of the West truly was. (An American Genocide by Benjamin Madley and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, both published in the last year, are also well worth reading.) Most of these recent Indian histories owe their perspective, at least in part, to Dee Brown’s 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a best-seller that transformed the attitude with which Americans regard indigenous people. Published three years after the founding of the American Indian Movement, Brown portrays the government’s dealings with Native Americans as an ongoing effort to eradicate their culture and religion. Cozzens adopts a slightly

more balanced and analytical view of the Indian wars, taking into account the misjudgments and barbarism prevalent on both sides of the conflict. From the opening chapter, it’s obvious the story Cozzens has chosen to tell is ghastly beyond the power of words. Government policy dictated that indigenous people be concentrated on reservations of ever decreasing size until their will to fight was broken and their cultural cohesion destroyed. The wholesale slaughter of the buffalo was intended to deny food and livelihood to the tribes, and with the arrival of the railroads, the hunting grounds native people had occupied for millennia were opened to white settlement. What resulted was a fight to the death in which the tribes had no chance of prevailing. For white politicians, soldiers and settlers, the primary motivations were greed and racism. Native Americans stood in the way of wealth and progress, and they were perceived as a subhuman species to be dealt with as quickly and as expediently as possible. Even generally peaceable tribes such as the Modoc and Nez Perce were treated ruthlessly. “The whites were coming now, in numbers incomprehensible to Indians,” Cozzens writes. “They assaulted the Indian lands from every direction. Settlers rolled in from the east, while miners poked at the periphery of the Indian country from the west, north and south and simply overran it when new mineral strikes were made. In Westerners’ parlance, Indians who resisted the onslaught were to be ‘rounded up’ and rendered harmless on reservation land too miserable to interest the whites.” But Cozzens also notes that whites were not solely to blame for the dissolute loss of life and property. “. . . tribes had long battled one another over hunting grounds or horses. Indeed, fighting was a cultural imperative, and men owed their place in society to their prowess as warriors.” The subjugation of Western indigenous people took place during the 30 years from 1861 to 1891, as the U.S. Army, acting under orders from Eastern politicians, pursued the policy of “mollification and eradication.” Beginning with the Dakota uprising in Minnesota and ending with the tragedy at Wounded Knee and the 1891 surrender of the Oglala Lakotas at Pine Ridge

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Agency in South Dakota, the story is one of unremitting atrocity, suffering and death. Former Civil War generals found themselves incapable of adapting to erratic and uncoordinated tribal uprisings. No less a national figure than William Tecumseh Sherman was inept at managing Indian affairs, and Winfield Scott Hancock, the hero of Gettysburg, found himself unable to negotiate with the Cheyenne and burned their villages in central Kansas. Phil Sheridan, who had swept the Shenandoah Valley clear of Confederate troops, found himself incapable of placating the tribes and conducted the Red River War, the Ute War, and the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, which resulted in the death of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and a sizable portion of his command. (For all his faithful service during the Civil War, Sheridan is best remembered for having said: “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”) President Ulysses S. Grant, whom biographers portray as a friend to Indian people, convened a secret White House meeting to plan strategy for provoking a war with the Lakotas. In the late 19th century, the government, in an effort to eliminate further uprisings, outlawed Native American religious ceremonies, and altruistic white civilians established boarding schools where Indian children were required to speak English, study math and religion, and where they were punished for use of their native language and the • exercise of their tribal beliefs. Insofar as it’s possible to condense a 30-year period of national misadventure into 460 pages of carefully crafted text, Cozzens has produced an exemplary history that’s commendably objective, a reference book for the Indian wars. Beyond the intrinsic value of acquiring historical knowledge for its own sake, thoughtful readers may well gain a perspective on contemporary Native American issues — public health, education, gambling, discrimination and racism, the use of sports mascots, and the desecration of tribal lands. More than 100 years after the surrender of the last Indian tribe, suicide, alcoholism and crime remain serious problems on reservations. Positive edifications notwithstanding, The Land Is Weeping, for all its detachment, allows for only one conclusion: The 19th-century sweep of “civilization” across the territories west of the Mississippi created for the Native American tribes who inhabited the region the cultural wasteland we now call peace. PS Stephen E. Smith is a retired professor and the author of seven books of poetry and prose. He’s the recipient of the Poetry Northwest Young Poet’s Prize, the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for poetry and four North Carolina Press awards.

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March Books By Romey Petite

Eveningland: Stories, by Michael Knight An American treasure, Michael Knight’s Eveningland is not so much a compilation of short fiction as it is a multi-part portrait of Mobile Bay and the lives of its people. It chronicles the days, from mundane to mythic, leading up to the arrival of a hurricane — a storm that will tear their private worlds asunder. With place as the framing device, the Alabama Gulf Coast inlet hosts a total of seven interlocking stories (like the Vietnam War in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried). Throughout Knight’s prose one hears the voice of a raconteur’s playful spirit — alternatively honest and abashed. His characters are memorable, familiar and genuine. Still, in crafting their private fancies, Knight never fails to incorporate another essential element in Southern fiction — what Flannery O’Connor (to whom the author gives thanks in the acknowledgments) called the grotesque. While the individual stories certainly invite themselves to be anthologized and the format invites each delicacy to be digested a tale at a time, think of it as celebrated storyteller Daniel Wallace of Big Fish meets the format of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994). The author will be signing copies of his upcoming collection at The Country Bookshop on Thursday, March 9, at 5 p.m. — an event you’ll want to make sure to mark on your calendar

The One Eyed Man, by Ron Currie The author of Everything Matters! and Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles returns with this lampoon of literalism. K. is a widower who has awoken one day to find himself unable to accept metaphorical language — preferring only simple, blunt, even crude explanations. In seeking someone who will be honest with him, he finds a confidant in Claire, a grocery clerk (at a thinly veiled Whole Foods parody), when he argues with her over incorrect fruit labels. Slogan by slogan he rejects the comfortable padding of the world that surrounds him, even quibbling over the semantics of a bumper sticker. K. becomes an unlikely hero when he’s thrust into a delicate situation, choosing between being a bystander or foiling a robbery in progress, and is turned into the object of society’s fascination — the star of a reality show — and eventually a target of the brutality that asking the wrong questions may beget.

Spaceman of Bohemia, by Jaroslav Kalfar When a mysterious comet passes within the vicinity of Earth it turns the night sky strange swatches of purple. Jakub Prochazka, the orphaned son of a Communist Party informer, becomes the country’s first astronaut when he undertakes a dangerous mission offering a chance at both heroism and atonement. What he doesn’t anticipate is that while encased on the eight-month journey into deep space, he will long greatly for his wife, Lenka. There, pining for his beloved, and floating in the unknown, he encounters an eloquent spiderlike entity. Kalfar’s debut novel, evoking a Homeric epic, is an exceedingly pensive odyssey.

Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid Mohsin Hamid, international best-selling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist

and a PEN/Hemingway finalist for Moth Smoke, returns with a love story verging on magical realism. Against the backdrop of a fractious unnamed country on the fault line of an impending civil war, Exit West tells the tale of the romance between Saeed and Nadia. In a land of escalating violence, they hear rumors of doors that will allow them to escape, making a dangerous and costly journey into an uncertain future. They leave their old world behind and struggle to hold on to each other and their sense of who they are.

One of the Boys, by Daniel Magariel Though a short read, One of the Boys is no small feat, nor a novel for the faint of heart. A confessional, deep-cutting debut novel told from the perspective of the younger of two sons, it grapples with the grim subject of abuse. Two boys leave their mother behind, siding with their father, the parent they consider the lesser of two evils. The youngest boy even conspires to fabricate evidence against his mother to permanently ensure she will never receive custody. In being manipulated into crafting such a scheme, he finds himself culpable in his father’s crimes. As both boys begin to see a different side to their dad — his negligence, addictions and violent temper — they realize they are obeying him not only because they love him but fearing for their lives. Once you’ve glimpsed past the shuttered windows of this broken family, it will be impossible to look away.

Born Both, by Hida Viloria The upcoming Born Both is a memoir detailing Hida Viloria’s experience of gradually coming to the realization she is intersex — and subsequent endeavors to spread awareness of it as an individual identity. It’s also about trust, consent and what happens when it is betrayed. Growing up, Viloria struggled with a hyper-masculine father and this book is very much an exorcism of that toxic figure. Being an activist in LGBTQIA rights, Viloria has appeared and been interviewed on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Tyra Banks Show, ABC News, and has also penned articles for The New York Times, CNN.com and The American Journal of BioEthics. Her book’s publication is timely, considering that Hanne Gaby Odiele, a runway model, recently revealed that she was intersex in hopes of spreading awareness and doing away with taboos regarding non-binary bodies. Fans of Jeffrey Eugenides’s novel Middlesex may find that this intimate and jolting account speaks to them in ways fiction, perhaps, cannot.

Sonora, by Hannah Lillith Assadi Hannah Lillith Assadi’s coming-of-age story, Sonora, is a noteworthy, dreamlike debut. Ahlam, a late bloomer, is the daughter of one world in the Middle East, but two separate visions. Her parents come from both sides of a fault line — Ahlam’s mother is from Israel and her father is a refugee from Palestine. Raised on the barren outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona, Ahlam has known little of the conflict, save for the news her father blasts during dinnertime and the stories he tells to remind her of how lucky she is. Unpopular in school, Ahlam finds a friend and kindred spirit in Laura, a maverick whose mother is from a local

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Birds, by Kevin Henkes Just in time for spring comes this lovely new edition of Birds, called the “Perfect book for young readers” by the New York Times Book Review. A little girl watches birds from her window and observes their sizes, colors, shapes, and the way they appear and disappear. She wishes she could fly as they do, but celebrates the one big thing they have in common: singing. Ages 2-4.

This House, Once, by Deborah Freedman A picture book artist/author and one-time architect, Deborah Freedman presents this absolutely stunning portrait of a house from the ground up. A door that was once a tree; a foundation built of rocks once underground; windows once blowing sand — this a perfect coffee-table-type gift for families moving into a new home or budding architects everywhere. Ages 3-6.

Magic Tree House: World at War, by Mary Pope Osborne The Magic Tree House books, long staples on beginning readers’ shelves, have gotten a new look and are now presented in three divisions: Magic Tree House titles for beginning chapter book readers; Merlin Missions for more advanced readers; and Fact Trackers for nonfiction fans. Additionally, this newest title in the series World at War is the first Super Edition and is Jack and Annie’s most dangerous mission in the scariest time the world has ever known, World War II. No reader will want to miss this longer story with additional facts and photographs. Ages 7-10.

Grandpa’s Great Escape, by David Walliams and Tony Ross Grandpa is Jack’s favorite person in the world, but has become confused and believes he is back in World War II where he was an ace fighter pilot. Jack is the only one who understands him anymore, so when Grandpa is sent to an old folks home, it’s up to Jack to help Grandpa plot a daring escape. As their adventure spins out of control, they will need Grandpa’s fighter pilot know-how and Jack’s real world common sense to get home. Ages 8-12.

Genius, by Leopoldo Gout Three international teenage coding and hacking geniuses who have created an online presence called the “Lodge” find themselves involved in a high stakes competition arranged by a computer genius who may have more than a game in mind. With detailed illustrations and STEM connections, this book is unlike any other for science-minded fiction readers. Ages 12-16. PS

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World on a Shelf An encyclopedia of adventure

By Bill Fields

I pulled a volume

Photograph by Bill Fields

off a shelf in a spare room and placed it on a table in front of my mother. Red with blue, gold and gray accents and fraying corners, it is seven years older than I am.

The World Book Encyclopedia, 1952 edition. I didn’t go to kindergarten, but I had our World Books, 18 volumes of information and entertainment, early childhood education without realizing it. “They were a good investment,” said Mom, who couldn’t remember how much they cost on an installment plan those many years ago. Whatever my parents paid for them, it was a fair price, and I think my mother has long forgiven me for the stray crayon marks and torn pages in the “Farm” and “Fire” entries. For my older sisters and me, the World Books were a window to the world far beyond our neighborhood, our school, our community, our state — although once I could read and not just look at the pictures, I did get a charge out of the “North Carolina” entry and seeing Southern Pines, population 4,772, among the rundown of the Old North State’s cities and towns. But the real joy was in discovering things I didn’t know — that would have been almost everything in elementary school and earlier — and there was something on nearly every page. Thanks to the World Books, a housefly wasn’t just a pest to swat but a creature whose body parts were diagrammed. “Thorax” remains one of my favorite words. Before I saw a live tadpole, I’d seen “Life Story Of The Frog” in the encyclopedia. Much of the set was in black and white, which made the bright four-color maps of American states and foreign countries stand out and seem special. When I flew to Great Britain for the first time, in 1988, it was to a country I initially had seen in Volume 7 of our World Books, when the longest trip was in a car for a couple of hours to the beach. The encyclopedia’s maps triggered an early interest in geography. At filling stations in the days when they gave away highway maps, if one was on a shelf I could reach, I took it for my collection.

Some of the World Book maps look silly more than six decades later, freeze-dried coffee in a Keurig Cup era. There is no Soviet Union, and many countries in Africa have different names. To see the “French Indochina” entry that was published years before the Vietnam War is a jarring reminder of history. Being fascinated by balls and games from the time I was a toddler, I pored over the sporting entries. The football helmets shown were leather and without facemasks in 1952, which had drastically changed by the early 1960s when I first started poking through the World Books. A football field, however, was 100 yards long then and now. The same can’t be said for the “Golf” entry. The diagram showing “distances a very good player should get with various iron clubs” indicates a 5-iron going 150 yards, something that hasn’t been so for decades, thanks mostly to the construction of balls and clubs. That golf chart was only one example of how the World Books presented information. A country would be superimposed on a map of the United States to show its relative size. A pie chart displayed the food elements in a grape. The leading tobacco states were denoted by illustrated rankings, North Carolina at the top of the heap! There was a two-page spread highlighting “French Literature” from the 1400s to the 1900s, something I bet my sisters looked at more than I did. Along with school texts and library books, The Pilot and The Greensboro Daily News, the 1952 World Books were what I read until I was in the fourth grade and it was decided our encyclopedias needed to be updated. There was debate over whether we would stick with World Books or switch to Encyclopedia Britannica, sort of a Ford or Chevy thing. I remember a saleslady coming to the house one night extolling the virtues of the 1968 World Books, handsomely covered in white and green. She was a good closer, and before long the original set had been retired. But never forgotten. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved North in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent.

February 9 – April 8 (Clockwise from top) Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946): The Steerage, ©1907, photogravure, 13 1/8 x 10 1/2 in.; Edward J. Steichen (1879-1973), Calla Lily, ca. 1921, Platinum print, 9 1/2 x 7 3/4 in.; Karl Struss (1864-1946), New York Street Scene with Flatiron Building, ca. 1915, Gelatin silver print, 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. ©1983 Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Ft. Worth, TX, P1983.25.1217; Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934), Untitled (Billiard Game), circa 1909, Platinum print, 7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. Collection of Michael Mattis & Judith Hochberg. Courtesy of art2art Circulating Exhibition.

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The Santini Brothers Gene If you have to ask, you probably don’t have it

By Joyce R eehling

Most people will look at a space, say a liv-

ing room, and either like it or not. If they like it the way it is, it stays that way . . . forever or nearly forever. I, however, come from a line of women on both sides of my family who have what I call the Santini Brothers gene. When we were growing up there was a moving company called the Santini Brothers, so my dad used that name to refer to my mother’s never-ending desire to change things around in the house. One day the living room was arranged in one way, come home from school and it was another way altogether. The dining room became the den and then flipped back again. Don’t even get me started on curtains.

Science has not been able to isolate this gene but the anecdotal evidence supplied almost entirely by wives, mothers or female lab partners is overwhelming. Though not unheard of, men seldom have it unless they are very lucky and very arts minded. Those of us with the Santini Brothers gene walk through a space and just “feel” something is off, something is not right. Could it be the placement of the lamp? The chair? Maybe if I just switch those two paintings. Most men walk through a space and see the kitchen door. And then there is the advanced case of the gene when nothing will do but everything in the room must go. No, not out and buy more, but out of this space and into another. I recently switched my living room for the dinning room. No longer as young as I once was, I hired two wonderful guys to come

and help me — my Southern Santinis, gentlemen who have a keen eye for how to move things and how to place them correctly. These were no “wham-bamyou’re-moved-ma’am” laborers. Rugs were centered. A 200-year-old dining table from my husband’s grandfather — with six heavy chairs and a sideboard — all got shifted seamlessly and safely, proof that there is art in all trades. For the cost of a glass of wine, two pals came over that night and we re-hung all the art from the picture molding. We had to restring some of the paintings to adjust for different hanging heights but we accomplished in a little under two bottles what would normally take one person three days. The odd little tweak here and there can make your space seem new without all the bother of picking up and moving to a new house. Our eyes get so used to what we have that we stop seeing our own world. By switching a few things around we start to see all of it in a new light. Moving the paintings highlighted what I loved but no longer really saw. Some of them were not hung to their best advantage. Others just needed a little more space around them or to be paired with an aesthetic pal, something that highlighted both. The next part is where my husband comes home from a trip and sees the change. We had discussed the possibility of trying this but I know he needs to see the deed done before he can relax with it. My husband would hot glue the world in place if left unsupervised. He has no Santini Brothers gene at all. Many years ago, I devised a rule that saves our sanity in the face of change. It is called the Three Day Rule. Either of us can change anything we want and the other person has to live with it for three days before saying, “put it back.” It has saved us from icy glances, bitten tongues and ill humor and to tell you the truth the “put it back” option has yet to be exercised. The Santini Brothers gene can give everyone a new lease on life. Change. Try it. PS Joyce Reehling is a frequent contributor and good friend of PineStraw.

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The Rise of Roussillon Where red wine is roi

By Robyn James

Roussillon has

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been the redheaded stepchild of the French wine country for many years, a fact that is slowly changing due to the efforts of several ambitious and talented importers and winemakers.

This region connects Spain and France with the Mediterranean to the east and the Pyrenees Mountains to north, west and south. The most important red grape grown in this region is carignan, accompanied by grenache noir, cinsault, syrah, mourvedre and some obscure local grapes. Red wine is king here, although they do produce about 25 percent rosé wines but only 2 percent white wines. Grenache blanc, roussanne and marsanne are the most popular white grapes grown. The wines of Roussillon have been considered unremarkable for centuries, but 10 years ago, rock star importer Eric Solomon of European Cellars began to focus on the area. He previously imported wines mostly from Spain and other pricier areas of France such as the Loire Valley and the Rhône region. Ten years ago, Solomon met Jean-Marc and Eliane Lafage in Spain, where Jean-Marc consults with some Spanish wineries. Lafage suggested Solomon visit his vineyards in Roussillon, and a beautiful partnership was formed. The Lafage family owns almost 400 acres of vineyards in various sections of Roussillon benefiting from the diversity of soil compositions. The knowledge and dedication of Lafage combined with the incredible palate and direction of Solomon have created wines that, in my opinion, raised the bar on quality/price ratio. An added bonus is that everything is farmed organically. Robert Parker, famous critic and owner of The Wine Advocate, says of Solomon, “I first tasted with Eric in 1991 and I have watched him grow as an importer to the point where he may be the finest in the United States.” One of their projects in Roussillon is Saint Roch, a property in Agly Valley. The white they produce is Saint Roch Vieilles Vignes Blanc, a blend of grenache blanc and marsanne. It’s very rich and full-bodied with pronounced notes of tangerine and pineapple. As big as it is, it still pairs beautifully with food and usually sells for under $15. One of the reds from Saint Roch that I tasted is the 2014 Saint-Roch Chimères Côtes du Roussillon Villages. This wine is under $17 yet was awarded 92 points from Parker, who described it as mostly grenache, but including 30 percent syrah and 10 percent mourvedre. “Aged in a combina-

tion of concrete tank demi-muid (large oak barrels), it makes the most of this difficult vintage and has terrific purity in its raspberry, violet, licorice and olive-laced aromas and flavors. Ripe, nicely textured and with bright acidity,” wrote Parker. The Lafage estate produces a Miraflors Dry Rosé that is an organic blend of mourvedre and grenache gris. It is a must-have for summertime quaffing. It has gorgeous notes of strawberries, framboise and rose petals. At under $18 it rivals the great rosés of Bandol that sell for $40-$60. Two more reds they produce are the 2014 Tessellae Grenache-SyrahMourvedre Old Vines, under $15 and 2014 Domaine Lafage Bastide Miraflors, a blend of syrah and grenache that is under $17. These two wines are the same blends that you would find in Châteauneuf-du-Pape selling for three to five times the price. Parker gave Tessellae 90 points and described it as a remarkable bargain from Lafage. Aged in concrete, this blend of 50 percent grenache, 40 percent syrah and 10 percent mourvedre “. . . comes from 70-year-old vines planted in limestone and clay soils. A delicious, dense ruby wine with notes of red and black cherries, earth, spice, pepper and a touch of Provençal garrigue. Fresh vibrant acidity is also present, and the wine is uncomplicated, but rich, fleshy and very well balanced,” writes Parker. On Bastide Miraflors, Parker identifies the 2014 Bastide Miraflors, which is a Côtes du Roussillon that blends 70 percent syrah and 30 percent grenache — with the grenache aged in concrete tanks and the syrah in 500-liter demi-muids — as a particularly notable bargain. “Lafage makes more expensive wines than this, but certainly excels with his value lineup. He has really hit a home run with this 10,000-case cuvée,” writes Parker. “It is deep, ruby/plum/purple, with fresh notes of blackcurrants, plums, Provençal herbs as well as licorice. Deep, medium to full-bodied, with amazing fruit, the purity, authenticity and Mediterranean upbringing of this wine are obvious. Quite deep, round and succulent, this wine should drink well for another several years. This is one to buy by the case.” Clearly, there is a bromance going on among Lafage, Solomon and Parker, but the proof is in the bottles. They are amazing blends. PS Robyn James is a certified sommelier and proprietor of The Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in Southern Pines. Contact her at robynajames@gmail.com.

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Bar Wash

The art of infusing a cocktail lineup

By Tony Cross

Photograph by Tony Cross

Working in the restaurant business

can be brutal, demanding and taxing on the body. However, it’s also fun, crazy and rewarding. One aspect that I always embraced is when someone new joined the kitchen staff. It was interesting to learn new methods that he or she would bring to the table. Sharing was a big part of my job, and it never got old being on the receiving end of the exchange. Five years ago, I began a working relationship, which immediately turned into a friendship, with a new chef who had moved down from Chapel Hill named Randy. This is around the time that I started to get my hands dirty with bartending. One afternoon, Randy asked me if I heard about infusing bacon into bourbon. “Um, what?” I replied. I had no clue what he was talking about.

Randy quickly broke it down for me: Just take the fat from cooked bacon, add

it to a bottle of bourbon, seal up the container, and put it in the freezer. When the fat separates, strain the bourbon out, and voilà! He recommended me putting a spin on an old-fashioned cocktail with maple syrup. So, I did. I had the drink ready as a special by the weekend, and it was a hit. For my Bourbon Kush, I used Maker’s Mark bourbon, Grade B maple syrup for the sugar (that’s the first one I could get my hands on at Nature’s Own), Angostura Bitters, and an orange peel for the oils and garnish. It was delicious! What I didn’t realize until a few months later was that I had totally ripped off the bartender who created the “Benton’s Old-Fashioned,” Don Lee, from prized New York City bar PDT (Please Don’t Tell). Looking back, I think Randy had the drink at a local restaurant in Chapel Hill and thought it was something I could run with. Another thing I didn’t grasp was the science that goes behind what is now known as washing. It’s another way to infuse flavors into your booze. You can fat-wash (bacon fat, olive oil, sesame oil and butter), milk-wash and egg-wash, to name a few styles. I didn’t mess around with any kind of “washing” until a few years later when I received the book Liquid Intelligence from famed bartender/wizard extraordinaire Dave Arnold. In Intelligence (which reads like a science textbook, by the way) Arnold covers these different washing methods. The first style that caught my eye was milk-washing. Milk-washing is an ideal infusion when you’re trying to cut out the astringency from an infusion used in a shaken cocktail. For me, this chapter couldn’t have come at a better time — I was looking to combine an Earl Grey tea infusion with a homemade marmalade that I was working on. Arnold’s directions for milk-washing were simple enough. I took eight of the best organic Earl Grey teabags that I had

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available, steeping them into a bottle of vodka for an hour, letting the infusion get very dark. Next, I took 250 ml of whole milk and poured it into a large mixing container, then adding the infused vodka to the milk (very slowly) while stirring. It curdled right away, just like the directions stated. After letting the milk and tea-infused vodka sit for a couple of hours, I slowly stirred a half-ounce of fresh lemon juice into the mix. The acidity of the juice allowed the milk to break away from the vodka. The remaining steps told me to gently scoop out the large curds and let the vodka sit another few hours before fine-straining the cloudy infusion. Simple enough. The result was a silky and tasty infusion. The vodka had all the flavor of the tea, without the bitterness from the bergamot. The Jean Grey soon found its way to my spring cocktail lineup. An easier way to wash is with olive oil. I was recently invited to a pop-up dinner where the theme would be early 1900s France. I decided I wanted to do a spin on a martini, and since I’m not full-time behind a bar these days, I love trying out new things whenever I get a chance. I took a bottle of Plymouth gin and added that to a container with 4 ounces of organic, cold extracted olive oil. Just a quick, hard shake (10 seconds will do), leaving it to sit for a couple of hours. Place upside down in the freezer, allowing the oil to harden (it won’t completely freeze) before filtering out the infused gin. You want to place the container upside down, so the oil will be almost frozen on the bottom of the container when you strain the gin out. Doing this gave my gin an oily texture without the briny flavor that is associated with olive juice. It also added depth to my cocktail. Check out the recipe below. Though I am no pro when it comes to washing spirits, like most everything else involving bartending, use quality ingredients. Don’t wash your spirit with anything that you wouldn’t eat or cook with. If it doesn’t taste good to you, it probably won’t taste good in your final product.

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Can Biochar Boost the Sandhills? Secrets of pre-Columbian soils might hold a key to better harvests

By Jan Leitschuh

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mences. Some will work organic matter and cover crops into their soil; a few innovative others will also use powdered biochar, an intriguing “new” substance with history dating back thousands of years — and a whole lot of worldwide interest and research.

To some, that soulful, springtime urge to root about in rich dirt is an exquisite, primal thing. We in the Sandhills can do it too. Lucky us. In March, others with sticky, clay-based soils have to wait. Our native sandy soil has many blessings — easy to work, drains well with a structure that’s hard to destroy, and our dirt doesn’t stain everything orange like clay. But, and it’s a big but, our sandy soils have significant drawbacks. They don’t hang on to nutrients or water very well. They . . . drain. Fertilize your vegetable garden and — whoosh! — one of our typical growing-season deluges will rinse those expensive nutrients right out of the root zone and down into the water table. Farmers find they have to re-fertilize frequently, and irrigate often during dry spells, driving up costs. Our soils are also acidic, in part due to this “rinsing” action of frequent and hard rains. The Sandhills were among

the last areas of the state to be settled, due to poor soils. Organic matter will help all these issues. And so will biochar, say local growers Mark Epstein and Billy Bullen of Flow Farms of Aberdeen. They make their own biochar and amend their very sandy soils with this special charcoal-like substance. Extremely porous, biochar shares many beneficial properties with organic matter — and best of all, it’s very stable and lasts far longer than compost. In fact, thousands of years longer. Studies have reported positive effects from biochar on crop production in “degraded and nutrient-poor soils,” that is, sand. Could biochar become an essential tool in our Sandhills gardening — and even agricultural — tool kit? “It’s an exciting approach,” says Taylor Williams of Moore County Cooperative Extension. “There is some new research on it about to commence right here in Jackson Springs, at the Sandhills Research Station.” Mike Parker, a NCSU tree fruit specialist, was recently was awarded a $63,000 Specialty Crop grant to study the effect of soil biochar incorporation on peach production at the Sandhills Research Station. Take organic matter (OM) first. Work in some old compost, rotted manure or leaves, being exquisitely careful of the source. We don’t want any residual herbicides, heavy metals, weed seeds or pesticides. Voilà, you just increased your soil’s water — and nutrient — holding capacity. This is worth restating. In droughty, sandy soils, this ability to capture water and fertility is critical to making a crop. OM also feeds the soil life and microorganisms, which help

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make nutrients available to plants. Fabulous stuff all around, except for one sent. little problem. Assuming you can find a clean and affordable source, OM burns up fast during our hot, humid Southern summers, often before a crop is finished fruiting. This is where biochar seems to offer benefits. Biochar is not just charcoal like your BBQ grill briquettes. Biochar refers to a specific sub-type of charcoal made under particular temperature and low oxygen conditions, called pyrolysis. It becomes “thermally modified biomass.” Biochar is what is left after the volatile material in wood is cooked off without much oxygen. The end result is impervious to microbial breakdown, even as it provides soil microbes with open-armed living conditions, a kind of “Hotel California” for soil life. It is more effective than OM at improving soil fertility over the longterm. Some reports have biochar increasing crop yields by significant percentages, especially as a field mellows. Epstein and Bullen make their own biochar, torching waste from their woods in a specially built burner called an Adam retort. “Everything for us is so far experimental,” explains Epstein. “Last year, we did 15 to 20 burns. Every time we do it, we learn more.” Epstein is a veritable connoisseur of soil. As a longtime vegan, as well as a produce grower, he eats what he grows. That led him naturally to research the most nutritious soils to cultivate in the Sandhills. The biochar story is a marvelous one, stretching back thousands of years, deep into the South American Amazon rain forest. Early Spanish conquistadors exploring the Amazon reported large, shining cities, with vast and productive fields, El Dorado. But later explorers found only jungles and poor yellow soil, and only small villages with subsistence plots. Rain forests share some of our local issues — frequent hard rains wash nutrients from the soils, and create poor fertility and acidity. It didn’t look as if there was enough fertile soil to support a large “shining city,” much less a culture of them.

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We now know that wasn’t so. Archeologists discovered and mapped certain black, fertile patches of soil they labeled “terra preta,” a Portuguese term meaning black earth. These surprisingly fecund areas were created by the pre-Columbian Amazon Indian culture through certain slash-and-char, low-oxygen techniques — charring (as opposed to combusting), then mixing the black, pounded result with the poor local soils. This prehistoric, man-made soil was found to be higher in nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and calcium than adjacent soils. It held water and reduced leaching of nutrients. Scientists have referred to it a “microbial reef” that promotes mycorrhizae growth and other beneficial microbes. The Amazonian terra preta, all together about the size of Great Britain, could support large-scale agriculture. They had turned some of the world’s worst soils into some of the best. And, most intriguingly, it has retained its fertility for thousands of years. These terra preta soils are understandably popular with the local farmers producing cash crops such as papaya and mango, which are said to grow about three times as rapidly as on surrounding infertile soils. (For archeology buffs who wish to look deeper into this fascinating story, Google a program on YouTube called “The Secrets of El Dorado”). Modern writers have called it “the magic soil.” Could it help the Sandhills too? “I think it’s an important piece of the puzzle,” says Epstein. Scientists speculate that two of the greatest problems facing the world — climate change and the hunger crisis — might be alleviated, in part, by biochar. Biochar increases crop yield several ways. The production process leaves a stable product with a massive amount of micropores, like an organic sponge that won’t biodegrade. While not fertile in itself, biochar’s tiny openings help grab nutrients that might otherwise rinse away to downstream pollution, and bank them for future use, keeping the goodies in the root zone where plants

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can pull from them as needed. Biochar increases water-holding capacity, maintaining soil moisture over a wide variety of climate conditions, and doesn’t burn off like organic matter. Remember those fertile Amazonian patches, over 1,000 years old? The Pre-Columbian material is still there, acting as a water and nutrient bank, still fertile. Epstein agrees on both counts. “We’ve noticed our soil holds water better now,” he says. “We have ‘sugar sand’ here on our property, with very little natural organic matter. It’s classic Sandhills sand.” Since adding ground biochar to his soil, he’s noticed that, “we don't have to irrigate as much. Go into the middle of our fields — it’s very high in organic matter. We still use cover crops of legumes and grasses that are an important factor in tilth. Yet, at the end of the season, we still have good soil.” Biochar also adds carbon to the soil. Normally, cropping the same piece of ground year after year leads to a reduction in soil carbon. Carbon makes up about 50 percent of a plant’s material, so when a crop is harvested, the carbon leaves with it. This can be mitigated with “green manures” and cover crops that are tilled in spring, but again, OM burns off. Loss of soil carbon decreases productivity. Not the soil on Flow Farms. Anecdotally, crops are good. Scientifically, soil tests show increasing CEC, or cation exchange capacity — a measure of a soil's ability to grab nutrients. Soil tests also indicate ample fertility remaining in the soil. “With an immense surface area, biochar holds on to enormous amounts of ions,” says Epstein. “It’s a magnet to nutrients, grabs them up like a sponge. We’re not losing our soluble materials year after year.” Biochar as stable, fixed carbon can store large amounts of greenhouse gases in the ground for centuries, potentially reducing or stalling the growth in atmospheric greenhouse gas levels, say some scientists. From 2005 to 2012, there were 1,038 articles referencing the word “biochar” or “bio-char” in the topic indexed in the ISI Web of Science. Institutions as diverse as Cornell

University, the Agricultural Research Center of Israel and the University of Edinburgh have dedicated research units. Flow Farms has finally produced enough of its product for its own fields, and will offer biochar to the public for the first time this year, price still unknown. “We’re trying to make it affordable to people and still make an honest return,” says Epstein. Because of the soluble nutrient capture, “It’s an upfront cost that lessens over the years,” he says. The economics have yet to be determined. According to one source, application rates of one to eight tons per acre may be required for significant improvements in plant yields. Biochar costs in developed countries vary widely. With few producers, prices are often too high for the farmer/horticulturalist. An alternative is to use small amounts of biochar in lower cost biochar-fertilizer complexes. Biochar is not fertile in itself, but collects nutrients from its environment, leading some users to pre-soak their biochar in fertilizers or compost. Epstein prefers to mix his into the top few inches of soil, “and let it age in its natural environment.” As an organic, or as Epstein puts it, “veganic” grower, he also adds many beneficial natural elements, such as chopped leaves, gypsum, azomite, kelp meal, green sand, Tennessee Brown phosphate and lime. “We’ve done everything but come in and kiss the soil,” he jokes. But then, turning sand into black gold is his hobby and passion. In springtime, any gardener understands this at gut level. Stay tuned to biochar. The char of the past may become a tool of the future here. PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and cofounder of the Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative.

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I went to a new dentist last week.

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The old one recently retired. I sat in the waiting room reading a magazine until called into the room with the chair and drills. That room had new equipment and I noticed that the seat-chair-bed-thing that you sit on and that they lean you back in, felt very comfortable.

I needed a crown. The new dentist came in. The reason I was using a new dentist is that he took over the patients of my old one. Isn’t it funny what all we don’t check up on. You may be different but I ask friends about where to eat. I go online and check prices and comments about shoes I might buy. And in the store, I try on several pairs before buying. I go into Dick’s for a basketball and look at a whole rack with prices under each basketball and I pick up several and dribble them there in the store. Then I decide. But I go to somebody who is going to operate on my head, inside my mouth with drills and needles and cement, and I don’t do research. Maybe you do. But somehow I’ve never shopped for a dentist. My mama took me to the first one and then that dentist retired and turned over his office to a distant cousin of mine — and I went to him because he was kin — and then he turned his office over to another dentist. I continued going to that one for years . . . Then I moved to Wilmington and I have no idea how I ended up with my first Wilmington dentist (15 years ago), since I didn’t inherit him. (I had no complaints.) And now, when that one retired, the office people didn’t change and I kind of knew them, and all of the sudden I was in the long, reclining seat when the new guy came in. I had no idea of whether or not he could tell a bicuspid from a bicycle. He looked to be about 12, 13 years old. Things went fine. I liked him. He wore gloves with a grape smell. On purpose. Honest. Another thing I’ve noticed is that people in our culture tend to be silent about the price of a dentist’s or doctor’s bill — when you pay, that is. If it’s your car and your oil has been changed and you’ve gotten a new battery, you say to the cashier, “How much?” and the cashier tells you and you pay. If it’s a doctor, the cashier says, “That’s a $30 or $70, or (now) $90 co-pay, please.” And you pay it. The end. What I don’t say is, “How much was the total charge for today’s visit?” Maybe you do.

Actually, for a short while about three years ago, I did ask the receptionist/ cashier about total bill numbers, and something like the following is what usually happened: “That’s a $40 co-pay,” says the receptionist/cashier. I reach for my billfold and say, “Can you tell me how much the bill is?” “Forty dollars.” “No, I mean for the entire visit. You know — the whole bill. I’m just curious.” “For the entire visit?” she asks, looking up at me for the first time. She’s looking me in the eye. “Yes, Please. Thank you.” “Well, let’s see,” she says, and she looks down at the piece of white paper she’s about to file, having given me the yellow copy. I look at my copy. It has 200 tiny squares with something medical written in beside each, something like “Quadra florientine xerox procedure.” Or “Hymiscus of the vertebrae test.” Of the 200, nine are checked off. She goes to a closet and gets an adding machine, one like my father used to have in his grocery store in the ’50s. She brings it back out, places it on her desk, and puts the white piece of paper down beside it. “Hang on,” she says. “This might take a minute or two.” She turns to the computer while holding her finger on that first check in the top little block on the white piece of paper. With a mouse under the other hand, she finds what she’s looking for on the computer from a website and puts a number into the adding machine, and pulls the handle. She sound is sort of: Cha-chank. “OK,” she says. “Let me see here.” She places a finger on the second check, finds a different website, and finds what she’s looking for. She puts a number into the adding machine. Cha-chank. She makes a phone call and says, “Yes, I can wait.” In about two minutes she says, “Yes, can you give me the price of a crankshem rebotolin frisk? . . . . OK, thanks.” Cha-chank. She’s back on the computer. This goes on for a while. Shadows, from sunlight coming through windows, lengthen across the room. “Okey-doke,” she says. She tears off the strip of paper from the adding machine, pulls a curtain around her that hangs from a curved rod, looks over my shoulder, leans forward, looks left and right, circles the bottom number and places it up on the counter in front of me. $489.23. I say, “Thank you very much.” Now, I’m waiting for the day there is a co-pay on the co-pay. And that time is not far off, probably about the time my dentist turns 16 or 18. PS Clyde Edgerton is the author of 10 novels, a memoir and most recently, Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers. He is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNCW.

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Tools of the Trade Some gone but none forgotten

By Deborah Salomon

In my eight years at PineStraw

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I’ve observed how writers like to reminisce over objects representing a time or place. To be kinda corny, these are mileposts on life’s highway, more Route 66 than I-95. Most of mine belong in the kitchen — relics exhibiting a patina, a glow, when viewed beside microwaves, food processors, Keurigs, blenders and non-stick Bundt pans.

Some have gone to pots-and-pans heaven; others I cling to for dear life since they outperform successors. Let’s look beyond the here and now to way back when: The eldest is my Greensboro granny’s “stew pot,” a wobbly aluminum WearEver vessel with a clip-on lid and two small grab handles rather than one long. Nanny was born in 1875, married in 1899. In this pot, easily a centenarian with another 100 years possible, she boiled beef with a cut-up onion and a jar of home-canned tomatoes. This simmered on the back gas burner or the woodstove all afternoon until the chuck roast fell apart and the liquid almost evaporated. If I close my eyes and take a deep breath, I can smell it now. I also have her biscuit cutter and wood bread tray, its bottom worn to splinters, worth hundreds to Southern antique collectors. The jewels in a Jewish cook’s crown are matzo ball soup and chopped liver. My mother-in-law made divine chopped chicken liver (with hard-boiled eggs and caramelized onions) in a Hamilton Beach electric meat grinder that weighed a ton. It must have been 20 years old when she relinquished the chore to me in the 1960s. Chopped liver perfected, I discovered superb hamburgers made from home-ground meat. The upper part is made of a metal which, on assembly, sounds a strange clunk. When our basset hound heard this he came running, anticipating scraps. Presently, my countertop behemoth stands, statuesque, rather like a headstone, on a storeroom shelf. The only item from my mother’s kitchen is an odd-sized brownie pan made from dark embossed metal. She talked a good game, but made her “famous brownies” about once a year, for bridge club. My wedding gifts included an enamel-on-cast-iron oval Dutch oven from Royal Dru in, where else, Holland. Oh, the briskets this friend has simmered, the coq au vin. Its green exterior is chipped, the white interior stained. Yet 57 years later the stalwart outperforms any replacement.

You wouldn’t want to see my two warped aluminum cookie sheets. With blackened bottoms and curled edges, they are beyond disreputable. No matter; after more than 50,000 cookies, I cannot remember one burned batch. Humbug to the dark non-stick kind. I keep the top side bright with Brillo and will use them as long as I can find cookie lovers. Which is never a problem. Two percolators have followed me from apartment to duplex, four houses, a condo and back to an apartment. One is stovetop — a tall, stainless steel number memorable because my toddlers used to take it apart and put it together like a puzzle, causing a happy clatter. The other (both Farberware) is electric. Drip coffee cannot compare in flavor, aroma or temperature. I see that both are again available in retro catalogs. As for ordinary pots, I’ve always preferred copper-bottomed. They never wear out but do become aesthetically challenged. Time to replace. I bought just one, same brand, except it weighed so much less that I returned it. After all, only the contents matter. One cherished icon that got away was Nanny’s iron skillet with an iron lid that doubled as a shallow frying pan. She fried chicken (raised “free-range” in the yard, terminated and cleaned on the back porch, soaked in salt water overnight) and cooked it the pre-deep fryer way: dredged in seasoned flour, browned in Crisco, covered with the lid and into the oven for 45 minutes. When tender she removed the lid and crisped the skin over a burner. Other times, the lid-skillet turned out perfect free-range sunny-side ups. Another gone-but-not-forgotten relic: an aluminum cauldron with tall lid and basket for sterilizing baby bottles. I tried it on soup but the metal was too thin, resulting in burned split peas. No, I don’t have a kitchen clock with a cord; the electric skillet and wok (always red, never hot enough) have gone with the wind, as have the wood-handled knives with blades worn down by sharpening against a stone, something my father insisted on doing. What will become of this trove? My grandsons are more interested in eating than cooking. I have no granddaughter. Sounds rather maudlin, but not really. My kitchen tools were friends — dependable, capable and, unlike their newer counterparts, long-lasting. I salute them, with thanks. PS Deborah Salomon is a staff writer for PineStraw and The Pilot. She may be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com.

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Lately I have been trying to keep my

boys talking, you know, to keep the conversations going. With Kevin, who is 8, it’s absolutely no problem, but the older one, the 13-year-old, well, his word count has decreased in the past year. Sometimes he will excitedly chat about wrestling or football, or a teacher who he thinks is funny, but all too often his answers are just a few words. “My day was fine.”

“I learned about prepositions.” “Yes, I ate the lunch you sent. Yes, the carrots, too.” Fair enough, but sometimes I just really want a conversation, so I ask the question, “Do either of you have anything you want to talk about?” Most of the time a topic is not given, but comments are. “We need to get Chinese food.” “Can we get Little Caesars tonight?” “Did you get a video of me pinning that guy at my wrestling match?” Sometimes conversations begin about 5-7 minutes after the boys are supposed to be in bed for the night. Ironically, this is the time frame when suddenly more meaningful topics emerge. “Mom, do you know what I’ve been thinking about? God. Is He real or not?” “Mom, you know. I have been wondering. How did I get here? Like, really?” “Mom, there is a kid at school who is mean to me.”

Yes, of course there will also be the occasional urgent, “Mom, I forgot to tell you that you need to sign this permission slip before tomorrow. Yes, I know I have had it in my book bag for two weeks, but I just remembered. At least I remembered before tomorrow!” “Mom, I forgot to tell you about the solar system project due tomorrow. I have everything I need except I need help painting Neptune. We didn’t have the shade of green I need for the rings. Can we run to Walmart real quick? Sometime, though, mornings are when I like to talk. After all, we have a 15-minute drive to school and yesterday morning I asked a question, and here is what I got. “Does anyone want to talk about anything while we’re driving to school?” David: “NO.” Kevin: “Oh! I do!” David: “No, Kevin, I can’t handle it.” Kevin: “But I need to tell you something!” Me: “Go ahead, Kevin.” David: “UGH!” Kevin: “David, stop with your attitude!” David: “Be quiet.” Me: “What do you need to tell us, Kevin?” David: (makes disapproving grunts, sighs, and other 13-year-old noises.) Kevin: “I really want to talk about why quesadillas are better than tacos.” I mean, what else is there to say? Best topic ever. PS Renee Phile teaches English composition at Sandhills Community College.

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It won’t be much longer . . . the

wheezy calls from blue-gray gnatcatchers will soon be echoing from the treetops, signaling the beginning of spring migration here in central North Carolina. But these tiny grayand-white birds are not going to find you. You are going to have to find them. As they flit around searching for small insects, they tend not to stay in one spot long enough for a good look. But with patience and a sharp eye, a determined birder will spot the bird’s characteristic dainty bill, white eye ring and long black tail with white edges.

Some of these passing gnatcatchers will stay put and raise a family, or two, here in the coming months. The species is known to breed across most of the Eastern United States at lower elevations. Within the gnatcatcher family this is the only species that is truly migratory, although individuals that we encounter have not likely traveled northward very far. Wintering grounds may be as close as Florida though some gnatcatchers may wing their way back from as far away as Cuba or the Bahamas. Despite their name, gnats do not form a more significant part of the bird’s diet. Foraging for any invertebrates they can find, a gnatcatcher will sometime capture insects and spiders that are too large to swallow. But this ingenious bird divvies its prey into smaller portions by banging the insects on a branch to dispatch them and then pulling their appendages off until they are small enough to swallow. Its secret weapon to uncover insects? A long tail that it will flick from side to side to

disturb the vegetation and cause potential prey to fly into visual range. The species is sometimes referred to as “Little Mockingbirds,” not so much for their plumage but for their tendency to incorporate elements and snippets of other birds’ songs into their own. Short songs involve wheezy “spee” notes. But longer songs, meant to better advertise territory in the spring, involve a variety of sounds: chips, whistles and mewing notes that are typically very high-pitched. When they cannot get their point across, males will chase one another, sometime ranging abroad as far as 70 feet or more. If things get particularly fierce, the competitors may even rise up, chest to chest, high in the air, with snapping bills in what looks like an odd game of “chicken.” Here in the Piedmont and Sandhills, blue-gray gnatcatchers can be found in any forested area where there is a significant understory. This is a species that thrives on woody vegetation and an insect-rich environment. Nests tend to be high up in hardwoods and are constructed with fine grasses and a variety of soft materials. Furthermore, they always include an exterior layer of mosses or lichens that camouflage the small cup-like nests from predators. As with the only slightly smaller ruby-throated hummingbird, nests need to be almost invisible. Adult blue-gray gnatcatchers have no other effective means of defending the next generation than the ingenious use of camouflage. As it is, eggs and young are often located by small mammals, as well as climbing snakes and other birds. But the parents will readily build a new nest, even incorporating old nesting material to speed up the process, several times in a season, if need be. So if you keep an eye as well as an ear out towards the end of the month, you may spot one of these spirited and industrious little birds. Tiny blue-gray gnatcatchers are certainly one of the most overlooked members of our summer bird fauna. However, I guarantee they will be out and about if you take the time to notice in the weeks ahead. PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos at susan@ncaves.com.

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ing the bridge over the Pungo River, leaving Hyde County. I had spent the last four days at Lake Mattamuskeet in pursuit of waterfowl, and I could feel every one of my advanced years. As my good friend and hunting buddy John Vernon says, “Tom, how many more times do you think we’ll be able to do this?”

I saw that the caller was Rich Warters, another friend and outdoor enthusiast. “Tom, you ready to shoot some birds?” Rich trains bird dogs, and a time or two I’ve shot pen-raised quail over his trainees. “Rich, old buddy, that’s what I’ve been doing for the last week. I’m on the way home from Mattamuskeet.” “That’s right, I remember now. How was the hunt?” “We had a grand time. The ducks were kind of sporadic, but we did get enough for a meal or two. I’ll get you and Penny over for a duck dinner after a while.” “Great,” Rich said. “But right now, I need you to shoot some birds for me. Robert Ecker is here training dogs before a trial coming up in February and we need a shooter.” Ecker is a professional bird dog trainer and is well-known in the sport as one of the best. He has two of Rich’s pointers in his training regimen, and he and Rich work closely honing the dogs’ natural ability. Rich had asked me a few weeks before if I could help out, and I enthusiastically agreed. Hunting pen-raised quail is not like hunting wild birds; but with the serious shortage of the wild variety, bird hunters shoot on preserves where quail are raised for this purpose. It’s not the same, but it’s the next best thing. “Rich, I’d love to help you, but I injured a back muscle hunting this week, and I’m probably going to have to see the doc when I get home. This thing’s giving me a fit. I have to stop the vehicle every hour or so to stretch.” Many years ago, I had torn a muscle in my back while white-water canoeing. Every now and then, the injury will reappear just to let me know who’s boss. “OK, Tom. Drive safely and call me after you see the doctor. If nothing else, we want you out here just to see the dogs. Bo and Bud are here, and I want you

to watch ’em work.” Bo and Bud are Rich’s pointer bird dogs. I’d heard a lot about them but had not watched them in action. We rang off and I continued driving west toward Southern Pines. A few days after I got home from the Mattamuskeet hunt, my back was making a slow recovery. Rich called again. “Bryant, how’s the back?” “A little better, but I’m not going to be able to shoot for you. I don’t believe I’d be able to swing a shotgun.” “That’s all right. We’re just going to make some photos, and I’ll bring a 20- gauge Remington for you to just shoot one bird. That way we’ll be able to get some pictures. How about Friday around one o’clock out at the kennel?” The kennel is located in west central Moore County on about 800 acres. Mills Hodge, another bird dog aficionado, actually owns the kennel, and he and Rich work closely training the dogs. The big difference in the two is that Rich owns and works English pointers, and his good friend Mills owns and works English setters. There is a lot of friendly competition going on all the time. When I arrived that Friday, Rich and Robert were already there getting things ready for the afternoon training session. I hadn’t seen Robert since Rich and I ventured up to Michigan to hunt grouse. At that time, we again used Robert’s expertise and his dogs to locate wild birds. Robert hadn’t changed a bit. A young ball of fire, he still has the enthusiasm and skill required to turn young dogs into champions. There are 42 dogs in his training camp; but on this outing, he would only take four: Rich’s two pointers, an Irish setter, and an English setter. Robert is from Quakake, a small town in Pennsylvania where he has his kennel. He has been a professional bird dog trainer since 1994; and in that time, he has won about 80 field trials. When I expressed my amazement, he modestly replied, “Tom, those are in the past; it’s the trials and the dogs in the future that count.” When I drove up, Rich walked over to the car. I hadn’t seen him in a while, but Rich never changes. An amazing individual at 82, he seems half his age and can outdo many people much younger. Rich and his lovely bride, Penny, retired to Pinehurst in 1995 after he served as assistant school superintendent in Horseheads, New York. An avid golfer, Rich plays three or four times a week and is a member of the renowned Tin Whistles, founded in1904 and the oldest golfing fraternity in the country. He has won several tournaments with that esteemed organization. When he’s not playing golf, he’s out working his dogs. I met Rich shortly after he retired, and I consider myself a better man for it. “Bryant, limp on over here. In a minute we’re gonna put you in this fourwheeler and show you some pretty dog work.” Robert loaded the dogs in

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Then it happened, a bird the size of a chicken burst from the cover, cackling like a demented pterodactyl. hunting in front. All of a sudden, he locked up on point like a statue. If there is anything prettier than a bird dog on point, I don’t know what it is. We piled out of the vehicle and Rich said, “Tom, here’s your chance. Don’t miss.” Chuckling all the time. Robert eased up to me and quietly said, “I’ll jump the bird. Be ready.” I loaded the 20-gauge and watched as Robert slowly edged into the undergrowth. Then it happened; a bird the size of a chicken burst from the cover, cackling like a demented pterodactyl. It was a great big cock pheasant. I almost dropped the gun. I was expecting a little quail, and this monster flew out of the brush right over my head. I did have the wherewithal to swing the shotgun and get the bird as he was going away. Rich and Robert almost doubled over, they were laughing so hard. I was set up. Rich said, “Tom, I remembered that you had never shot a pheasant, and I had the good luck to acquire this one for you. He’s going to be great on the dinner table with your ducks.” The rest of the afternoon went by quickly, and I got to watch some superior dogs at work. On the drive home, I thought back to John’s question of how much longer we’d be able to do this. If Rich Warters is an example, it’s gonna be a long time. PS Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident, is a lifelong outdoorsman and PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist.

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Martins Redux Catching up with a brother act

Joshua (left) and Zachary Martin By Lee Pace

Photograph by Jeffrey Camarati / UNC

The sports world is chock-full of

successful sibling stories. From coaching you have Jim and John Harbaugh, and Rob and Rex Ryan. From quarterbacking, exhibit A is certainly Peyton and Eli Manning. The tennis world features sisters Venus and Serena Williams, and brothers Bob and Mike Bryan. The Busch boys (Kyle and Kurt) have won often on NASCAR tracks, and you cannot get close to center ice without stumbling on a Stahl (Eric, Marc, Jordan, Jared). Golf from way back had Lloyd and Ray Mangrum combining for 41 PGA Tour wins, from a generation ago Lanny and Bobby Wadkins emerging out of Richmond, and today Francesco and Edoardo Molinari are forces on the European Tour. So what to make of Zachary and Joshua Martin, the dynamic brotherly golf duo from Pinehurst now plying their trade at the University of North Carolina? “It’s an interesting sibling dynamic,” says Pinehurst teaching pro Kelly Mitchum, who gave both brothers lessons during their high school days. “They’ve competed against each other, but I’ve never sensed anything but them truly rooting for each other. They always wanted each other to do well.” “It’s like they’re each other’s biggest cheerleader,” adds UNC coach Andrew

Sapp, who brought Zach into the Tar Heel program in 2013 and Josh in 2015. “I really haven’t seen a sibling rivalry between the two. I was out of town with Josh once at a tournament and we heard that Zach had lit it up in a qualifying round back home. Josh was genuinely excited to hear his brother shot a good score.” The Martin brothers have acquired over their dozen years in Pinehurst quite the golfing pedigree. The family was profiled in the Wall Street Journal in 2008 for its adventuresome move from Wilson in Eastern North Carolina to Pinehurst so that the boys could have access to the village’s largesse — courses, instructors and a 24-7 golf ambience. Bowie and Julie Martin gave their boys opportunities in all manner of sports as youngsters, but in time they gravitated toward golf. Bowie’s job as owner and president of a family business involved in manufacturing and distributing premium table tennis equipment worldwide gave him the freedom to relocate. At the time, Zach was 10 and Josh 8. “I was too young to know how crazy it was with our parents having a business in Wilson,” Josh says. “But it worked out well for everyone.” “I can better appreciate the history of Pinehurst as I’ve gotten older,” Zach says. “When we first moved, all I saw was a bunch of golf courses. Then you understand more about the North and South Open, the PGA Championship back in the 1930s, you definitely get a better appreciation. I think being in Pinehurst has definitely helped both of us develop as golfers.” Zach first caught the attention of Sapp while shooting a 66 at Mid Pines in a junior tournament in 2012. “He made everything he looked at,” Sapp remembers. “He’d bang it, go find it and drain another birdie.” Zach’s birdie putt in a playoff on the 17th hole at Pinehurst No. 8 secured the state championship for Pinecrest High in 2013. Josh won a pair of Donald Ross Memorial titles and four U.S. Kids World

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Championships, held each August in the Sandhills, and in 2014 at the age of 17 became the youngest winner ever of the North Carolina Amateur Championship. And they evolved with a single-minded focus that’s an oddity today with so many social media and youth league sports distractions. “They never canceled a lesson, never were late for a lesson,” Mitchum remembers. “No matter the weather, they were on time and ready to work.” Josh’s ability in particular earned him somewhat legendary status around the resort and community — originally the family rented a house on Pinehurst No. 3 and several years later moved to Pinewild Country Club. Enter a Google search for Josh Martin and you’ll find one subjective yet interesting blog listing him among the top 10 child golf prodigies of all time (along with Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie), and included is one unsourced account of a golfer at Pinehurst allowing this 7-yearold kid with ketchup on his shirt to join him on No. 4 and Josh shooting a 78. The grown-up asked the kid for an autograph after the round was over. “We joined up with older people all the time,” Zach says. “At first, they were a little hesitant because we were so young. No one wants to be held up by little kids who are just learning. But once they saw we could play, they enjoyed it. We had a good time playing with other people and made some friends over the years.” Sapp says he often runs into golfers and families from around the country and as far removed as China who knew of Josh’s dominance in the U.S. Kids World Championship and Rich Wainwright, an executive at Pinehurst and assistant golf coach at Pinecrest High, whistles looking at Josh’s prep era that included him, Eric Bae (now on the golf team at Wake Forest), Doc Redman (Clemson) and Henry Shimp (Stanford) and says, “That’s U.S. Open material there.” Zach has caddied for Josh twice in the U.S. Amateur, and this spring both are competing for regular playing spots on a Tar Heel lineup that is likely the deepest and most experienced it’s been in many years. Zach is 22 and a senior, Josh 20 and a sophomore. Bowie Martin says one of the elements of golf that he and Julie as parents favored in their children’s evolution was the emotional control and manners one had to learn to succeed in the sport. More than a decade into it, that’s proven prophetic. “Etiquette, patience, self-policing are parts of golf,” Bowie says. “You don’t have officials on top of you. In golf, you monitor yourself. That’s the neat thing about it. If you hit a bad shot, you might have five minutes before you can get it back. Patience is huge, staying even-keeled over a longer period of time.” To put the Martins’ games in nutshells, Zach plays a power game, Josh a precision game. Zach hits

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the ball “forever,” as Sapp says, and can overpower a course. He shot the course record at UNC Finley, a 1999 Tom Fazio design that can stretch to 7,220 yards, with a 63 last fall, then broke it two weeks later with a 62. “Off the tee, he’s probably the longest guy on the team,” Josh says. “When he gets it going, he can go really low. He makes a bunch of birdies and can beat anybody.” Zach might bomb his drive over bunkers on a par-5, while Josh, by no means short, is playing a more tactical game with carefully aimed hybrids off certain tees. Josh has a legendary short game. “He knows how to get the ball in the hole,” Zach says, slowing down and enunciating in the hole with extra bite. “I can’t emphasize that enough. He knows damage control.” “Josh doesn’t miss fairways, doesn’t miss greens, and makes a few birdies along the way,” Sapp adds. “When both are on, they have tremendous potential in college golf.” I first met the Martins in the spring of 2009 when I wrote their story for the May 2009 PineStraw. Their swings were being videotaped by Eric Alpenfels, also a Pinehurst instructor and colleague of Mitchum’s, at the base of the Maniac Hill practice facility. The building blocks were apparent then — skill level, love of the game, focus, parental support. “The boys would like to play college golf,” their dad said at the time. “After that, who knows? Golf offers a lot of opportunities to play as part of your business. You can be a teaching pro. You can try the pro tour, but that’s a tough life. That’s not the goal. The goal is the challenge of trying to accomplish something, to master a skill and get better.” Nearly a decade later, so far, so good. Both are good students at Carolina, Zach studying economics and Josh sports administration, but both want to play pro golf. If that doesn’t work, something in the golf industry would be fine — teaching, perhaps. And the boys have grown as siblings and friends and with no apparent rivalry gumming up the works. The elder Zach even says his younger sibling’s glitzy record flips the traditional big brother/ little brother dynamic. “His accomplishments so far outweigh mine, so I look up to him and feel like he’s mentoring me every time I play with him,” Zach says. “We’re competitive, but at the end of the day, we put down the clubs and are great friends,” Josh says. Stay tuned for the spring of 2017 in Chapel Hill and then beyond for Zach and Josh Martin. There’s plenty of room in the winner’s circle that houses the Mannings and Mangrums — basically everybody and their brother. PS

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Gold Rush Deep in the Sandhills, a lingering legacy of dreams

By Bill Fields

n a January morning that would soon warm up so that a sweater was plenty for a hike in the woods, I was off to look for gold — or at least look for a place where men used to look for gold. My guide, Donnie Reeves, who has studied and explored Montgomery County’s gold heritage for more than three decades, led me in his pickup to a pull-in for the Uwharrie National Forest north of Troy. At the urging of his father he had wanted to seek his fortune in Alaska but never made the long trip. Instead, after becoming fascinated with the story of gold much closer to his native Alamance County, he made a much shorter journey. “I lived in an old school bus for two years — me, my wife and children,” Reeves says. “My mother and daddy bought themselves a school bus and they came right behind me. We lived in that bus for two years and prospected when we could. We loved the area and never left.” As I parked my rental car next to Reeves’ truck a few miles from his current home down the road from an old Methodist Church, I was not only excited about my forthcoming tour of the site of the former Russell Gold Mine, but also thinking about how my roots intersected with North Carolina’s 19th century gold rush, which predated California’s and was the exclusive supplier of domestic gold for the United States Mint from 1804 to 1828. Many people were drawn to the Carolina slate belt, a series of rocks 25 to 70 miles wide extending from the South Carolina to Virginia borders for the potential riches — or more realistically, a job — in the 1800s. Lockey Arnold Henderson, my great-grandfather, who was born in 1818, left Chatham County on horseback as a young farmer. He headed for the Montgomery County village of Eldorado, the Old North State’s twist on El Dorado, the mythical “Lost City of Gold” in South America. (Locals pronounce a “long a” in the one-word version.) In the Uwharries, great-grandpa found work in the gold mines, settled and had a large family, including my grandfather, B.L. Henderson, who was born March 28, 1861, less than a month before the Civil War began. “The first gold mining in North Carolina may have been by the Indians in Cherokee County before white settlers arrived,” P. Albert Carpenter III wrote in a 1993 North Carolina Geological Survey. Carpenter also notes reports that explorer Hernando de Soto attempted to mine gold in 1540 near Murphy, N.C. There were accounts of mines operating in Gaston and Mecklenburg counties before the Revolutionary War, and of the U.S. Mint receiving gold from North Carolina as early as 1793, according to Carpenter.

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The Salisbury Evening Post 1914

photo courtesy of DONNIE REEVES

Men working the Coggins Mine in Montgomery County, early 20th century

The frequently cited and “first authenticated discovery of gold” in North Carolina — and the U.S. — according to the state report, occurred in 1799 by a boy fishing in a Cabarrus County stream. But three years went by before the child’s father, John Reed, a German immigrant farmer, took the yellow, 17-pound nugget that had been used as a doorstop to a second jeweler for evaluation. Swindled by the jeweler, who paid him only $3.50, Reed eventually figured out the scam and reportedly received approximately $3,000 for Conrad Reed’s find. Reed’s Little Meadow Creek, where the first nugget came from, turned out to hold more gold and the rush had begun. Capitalizing on the proximity of the valuable mineral, the Charlotte mint opened in 1837, producing $1, $2.50 and $5 gold coins — issuing more than $5 million worth — until it closed at the outset of the Civil War. During the 19th century, gold was discovered in a third of North Carolina’s 100 counties, with 345 mines open at one point according to state records, although other sources place the number at more than 600 during the peak years when gold mining trailed only farming as North Carolina’s biggest industry. “Hundreds weren’t listed because they were really Mom and Pop operations,” says Reeves. “Farmers would operate them during the wintertime when they didn’t have crops to work.” Montgomery County and Moore County each had about 20 mines, the former more of a hotbed of activity. Most of the Moore County mines were located north of Highway 24/27 southwest of Robbins. A “Gold Region” post office existed in that area from 1844 to 1866, then was renamed “Carters Mills,” for one of the mines, and operated until 1932. A “Gold Region No. 2” was open from 1877 to 1879. A 1903 advertisement in the Pinehurst Outlook for “real estate and hunting grounds” offered by R.L. Burns of Carthage noted “fine farm, trucking peach, grape and berry lands . . . Also GOLD property.” Moore County’s gold caught the eye of inventor Thomas Edison when he visited North Carolina in 1890. “(He) is in Moore county on a prospecting tour,” The Evening Visitor of Raleigh reported on June 25. “He is said to have taken options on large bodies of lands, rich in gold. Mr. Edison will soon form a syndicate of English capitalists and commence work, and the purchaser contemplates turning the water through it for gold-washing purposes.” A “Gold Mine Pit” is even denoted 1 mile northeast of the Village Green on an 1897 map of Pinehurst and vicinity — likely a “prospect” where a tiny bit of gold was discovered. “They probably found a little bit of gold when they dug down but there wasn’t enough to keep digging,” Reeves says. “There are thousands of those places. More than likely, that’s what happened there.” There were no such false starts at the Russell Mine. By the middle of the 19th century it was the biggest gold mine in Montgomery County and the subject for a detailed 1853 report from the Perseverance Mining Company projecting millions in revenue over the course of a

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60-year lease on the 40 acres of mineral land. “More than likely your great-grandfather worked in this mine,” Reeves says as we walk into the national forest and see the first sign of the Russell operation, an old 100-foot shaft with bars installed at its entrance to keep out the curious. “There were homes and shacks where the workers lived. Hundreds of people lived here. There was a general store and a hotel across the street. Forty-some miners worked on a shift, and they’d run 24 hours.” Some gold extraction was done through placer mining, a process in which miners washed eroded ores of rocks containing gold with pans, rockers and sluices (a grated rectangular box). The other type of deposit was found underground and in open pits dug by the miners in the form of gold veins often embedded in quartz. The largest excavation on the Russell property was “The Big Cut,” a pit 300 feet long, 150 feet wide and 60 feet deep. The ore was crushed by 190-pound “stamps” that fell the height of a man or more, pounding the gold into a fine substance. The equipment allowed a mine to process 20 to 50 tons of material daily instead of just a few tons. “You could feel the ground shake a half mile from here because of the many stamp mills,” Reeves says, a jarring observation on such a peaceful winter day. “You could hear it miles away.” We walk farther into the forest and encounter “The Big Cut,” now cluttered with trees and other vegetation that make it seem smaller than its working dimensions. Miners would earn less than a dollar a day for their dirty, exhausting labor. Some miners went west when gold was found in California in 1849. Many of the mines closed as they became less profitable. Most closed down for the duration of the Civil War with the exception of the Silver Hill Mine in Davidson County, which produced ammunition for the Confederate Army. Some of the bullets were not only lead but included gold and silver because wartime wouldn’t allow for a costly and lengthy separation process.

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ot of the Yankees who came down here had gold pans strapped to their saddles. They thought they were going to come in here and get

rich,” Reeves says. Following the Civil War there was a revival in North Carolina gold mining that continued, with intermittent lulls, into the first quarter of the 20th century. “This portion of Montgomery County is a vast gold bed,” a correspondent for The Weekly Observer in Raleigh reported in 1878 while visiting the Swift Island mine. “Many pieces of gold weighing from one to two and three pounds have been found. We saw the hole in the ground from which two pieces were taken that weighed exactly a pound and a quarter each, each piece looking just like a frog.”

John Hemmer photos of a Moore County gold mine in 1939

preliminary map of primary gold deposits in North Carolina, circa 1896. Flake gold from a Montgomery County creek (below). Thirty years later, the Asheboro Courier noted: “Bud Morgan found a valuable nugget of gold weighing 20 ounces near Eldorado.” The Coggins Mine, a mile northeast of Eldorado on the road to New Hope, operated off and on from 1882 to 1934 as one of the busiest in the area. It was the scene of tragedy on Jan. 15, 1914 when three miners, eager to leave work on payday, hopped into the ore bucket for the 350-foot ride to the surface instead of climbing a ladder. “They wanted to beat everybody else out of the mine,” Reeves says. “When it got to the top, the bucket hung on a ledge and flipped over and they fell to their deaths.” Lizzie Sanders, wife of one of the three men, Walter Sanders, was in her home at the time. “The whistle at the mine started blowing,” Lizzie recalled decades later in an interview with the Montgomery County Historical Society. “Sometimes, they’d just give it a puff or two. But this time it just kept on and on.” Presently Lizzie found out how serious the accident was, fainting upon hearing the news. According to the N.C. Geological Survey, total gold production in the state is approximately 1.1 million ounces, worth an estimated $25 million at historical prices. At current prices of $1,230 an ounce, it would be worth $1.24 billion. “In the 1980s and ’90s I worked for a number of gold mining companies that came in here and investigated, trying to see if any of the old mines were worth mining,” Reeves says. “We did rock samples, but it would be too expensive to mine. We know there is over 20,000 ounces in the ground, but those companies were looking for a million-dollar deposit.” Scores of people come to Montgomery County annually to pan and sluice for gold. Reeves has spent a lot of his time educating the recreational panners how to do it. While we were talking in his kitchen, Reeves gave me a small water-filled vial containing about a dozen small flakes and a nugget the news of which wouldn’t make the newspaper. This gold came from a nearby creek. “When it gets to the size of the biggest one in there and you drop it in your gold pan and it you hear it go ‘clunk,’” he says, “it’s a nugget.” My gold is only worth a few dollars but he warns me not the shake the vial. “That gold is heavy enough to knock the bottom out,” he says, providing another example why so many went through so much for so long in pursuit of the element. After our trek to the former Russell property, I had one other request of Reeves. There was another mine site in the Eldorado area I wanted to see. We arrive at a 21st century general store and ask the owner if she can contact the owner of an adjacent parcel of land. A call is made and permission is granted. In a few minutes we’re maneuvering through trees and dead leaves about 100 yards east of Highway 109. “There it is,” Reeves says, when we come to a clearing and a water-filled hole of about 10-by10 feet. “That’s the Henderson Mine.” My middle name, possibly some of my relatives. Nearly a century ago, it had been a working shaft of 40 or 50 feet deep. Now, there was the reflection of the blue sky on the accumulated water. The way the light was hitting the old mine, there was a bit of a golden hue on the surface. I took a few photographs and began walking toward the car. “Just a hole now,” Reeves said. This mine was history, maybe even some of my own. PS

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Donnie Reeves at â&#x20AC;&#x153;the big cutâ&#x20AC;? on the Russell property. The old Henderson Mine (below).

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“Trees” Competition CLASS C WINNERS

Honorable Mention – Donna Ford Dragon Tree

1st Place – John German Survival 76

2nd Place – Neva Scheve Circle of Life

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3rd Place â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Teresa Bruni Deep Within the Magical Forest

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“Trees” Competition CLASS A WINNERS

1st Place – Pat Anderson Solitary Splendor 3rd Place – Dave Powers Inner Beauty

2nd Place – John German Lone Sentinel

Honorable Mention – Matt Smith Test Tube Baby

Honorable Mention – Diane McCall The Angel Oak 78

Honorable Mention – Matt Smith Island

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CLASS B WINNERS

1st Place – Jennifer German On The Edge

2nd Place – Jerry Kozel Aspen Grove

Honorable Mention – Judy Nappi The End

Honorable Mention – Joe Owen Eye of the Needle

3rd Place – Tom Scheve Bark Art

Honorable Mention – JoAnn Sluder Weathered Life Honorable Mention – Steve Hoadley Silhouette

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Man on the Move

A brain tumor ended one career but gave birth to an even more extraordinary life of service By Jim Moriarty • Photographs by John Gessner

ometimes great events are measured in centimeters. A couple of them turned up 13 years ago. Dr. Robin Cummings, who is now the chancellor at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, was on his rounds, looking in on patients at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital. It was an early winter evening, full darkness by 7 o’clock. He had performed two heart bypass surgeries that day. Walking alongside his colleague and friend Dr. Carl Berk, an ear-nose-and-throat surgeon, he mentioned he was having trouble hearing in one of his ears. Dr. Berk asked him a couple of questions. They diverted to radiology, where Cummings had an MRI. It revealed a two-centimeter acoustic neuroma located roughly where the brain stem meets the brain. “It was a benign tumor, which is good,” says Cummings. “Most brain tumors are not.” Surgery was performed successfully a few weeks later. His hearing was preserved to a large degree, though even that has waned in the intervening years. But the surgery also affected his fine motor skills. Cummings knew that would happen before the doctors in Raleigh made the first incision. “Where it was located, you could not have put it in a more key place in my body to affect my livelihood,” says Cummings. After the surgery he tried to hold an instrument and focus. “My hand would shake. So, I said, ‘I’m not going back.’ I quit. I retired early.” Sort of. It wasn’t just a livelihood Cummings lost that day. That’s the dispassionate, the clinical word for it. What he’d lost was a life. An all-consuming occupation, his mission, something he’d trained for from the moment he saw a beating heart in a chest, something he practiced with consummate skill. Something that defined who he was had been taken from him by the very capriciousness of life he dealt with every day he put on surgeon’s scrubs. “It was like going through a divorce, going through a death,” says Cummings. After he retired, he and his wife, Rebecca, would join friends for an evening and he discovered he had nothing to talk about. “I really couldn’t carry on a conversation,” says Cummings. “No exaggeration.” Normal things, the gritty stuff of day-to-day, had eluded him. Turned out, PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 2017

the skill set of the highly skilled was also highly limited. “It really was about six months of going through some depression,” he says. “I remember sitting in our kitchen one day and Rebecca wasn’t there and I was just, I was screaming and shaking my hands. I don’t understand this. Why can’t I operate? Why did this happen? God-why-did-you-do-this kind of thing.” His self-prescribed therapy was to move. Just move. Do something. And he hasn’t stopped since. It led him to the hospital’s board of trustees; to being the director of Community Care of the Sandhills; to manage North Carolina’s Office of Rural Health and Community Care; to oversee the state’s Medicaid program, delivering health care to 1.8 million people with a budget of $14 billion; and, ultimately, back home, back to Pembroke, back to Robeson County, back to the place where it all began. Dr. John Dempsey, the president of Sandhills Community College, is a longtime acquaintance of both the Cummings. “I wrote my master’s thesis on the subject of power in the works of Ernest Hemingway,” says Dempsey. “Most of Hemingway’s characters are people who have lost one power, had it replaced by another and were far the better for the experience. And, I think in truth, that’s Robin’s situation as well. As he lost one ability, he gained others.” Cummings grew up on a 25-acre farm in Robeson County’s Union Chapel Community, roughly three miles from the chancellor’s house on the campus of UNC Pembroke, where he now lives. His father, Simeon, was a Methodist minister. His mother, Maude, and the couple’s nine children — Robin is the second youngest — worked the farm to keep the electricity on. “Tobacco. Corn. Cotton. Soybeans. And cucumbers. Later on, we got into cucumbers,” says Cummings. “I’ve picked cucumbers, man, I’ll tell you. If you want to work hard, pick cucumbers.” Or tobacco. “Sunday Dad would preach — Sunday morning, Sunday night. Then Monday was our day to put in tobacco,” says Cummings. Snapping leaves off the stalks by hand, working from the sand lugs, the dirty, heavy bottom leaves, up on each successive Monday. Beginning as soon as it was light enough to see, getting wet from the feet up with the morning dew, then from the head down with the sweat of the afternoon sun. Their allotment was 1.5 acres. “Usually you had about six croppings,” he says. “We would get up at 4:30 on Monday morning, go to the barn, unload the barn — it’s been curing for the past week — put it in the pack house and then by 6:00, 6:30 we go to the field crop and do our acre and a half.” Cummings’ mother graded the tobacco in the pack house, A for the golden leaves, then B and C. “She would put those in different piles and we would wrap each pile in a big sheet,” says Cummings. “One of the worst whippings I ever got was when I was jumping on the Grade A tobacco.” When Cummings was in the 8th grade at Pembroke Middle School, he met a little 7th grader, Rebecca, who lived in the Harpers Ferry community. Both are members of the Lumbee Tribe. Rebecca’s mother worked in Converse’s Chuck Taylor plant; her father drove long haul trucks from one end of the country to the other. “She grabbed on and wouldn’t let go,” Cummings says, laughing. Now they have have four grown children of their own. Simeon Cummings, the minister at what would become the largest American Indian church east of the Mississippi, Prospect United Methodist, was also a member of the first four-year graduating class at Pembroke, getting

his degree after returning from World War II where he served — of all things — as a medic. Education was a family value. Robin Cummings went to UNC-Chapel Hill and graduated with a degree in zoology but knew he wanted to go to medical school. He took a year off when he and Rebecca were married. They also bought a car. He still has the bill of sale. “It was a Chrysler LeBaron,” Cummings says. “My dad gave me a Toyota Celica to get through school, which broke down all the time. I took that Toyota Celica, and went down to the Lumberton Chrysler place. I didn’t know what I was doing. The salesman played me like a yo-yo. He pointed out this brown LeBaron. ‘I bet you want that car right there. Here’s the sticker price, son. That’s what it costs.’ I remember laying in bed that night and Rebecca says, ‘What are you thinking about?’ I said, ‘I can’t believe we just borrowed $4,000.’ To me, that was the beginning of our life.” Cummings spent that year working in a dye factory, second shift, at something nudging minimum wage. “It was my first exposure to factory kind of work. What I saw that really upset me was the way the upper level people treated the folks down on the floor. I’m not talking about a racial thing. We’re up here, you’re down there. It really was caste kind of thinking. That second shift, it helped me fill out those applications and get into medical school, boy. Don’t waste time.” The Cummings farm, most of those 25 acres, is still in the family, but the only part Robin owns is a memory. Financing for medical school came from multiple sources — loans, scholarships, what have you — but one of the pieces came from his father, the minister with the four-year degree. In the original movie The Magnificent Seven, the Mexican villagers tell Yul Brynner they’ve collected everything of value in their town in order to hire him and he replies, “I’ve been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.” One weekend back from school, in the home place on Union Chapel Road, his father handed him a check, small in the grand scheme of things but everything in other ways. “My dad took my part (of the farm) that he was going to give me and sold it to one of my other brothers to give me money to go to medical school,” says Cummings. “He was so proud.”

rom Robeson County to Chapel Hill to Duke to operating rooms in Moore County to another one in Raleigh, where instead of giving the care he was receiving it, Cummings found himself back in Raleigh again, only this time finding a way to help 1.8 million people. “My two years in Raleigh prepared me so well for this job,” Cummings says of his position leading UNC Pembroke. “When I went into work as Medicaid director it wasn’t what fire do I need to take care of today, it was what fire is burning hottest that will burn me up if I don’t take care of it today. Anyway, it prepared me. I dealt with bureaucracy. I dealt with politicians. I dealt with a big organization. I tell people it was a Harvard grad school education for two years, hands-on, trial-by-fire kind of stuff.” Lacking a background as an academic administrator, Cummings was an unconventional pick to be Pembroke’s chancellor. Turns out convention isn’t as vital as leadership. It isn’t a matter of where UNC Pembroke was as much as where he wanted to take it.

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“UNC Pembroke was a teachers’ college when it started. We added a school of business. We have a fairly strong arts and sciences school now. Nursing has come on. How do we retool ourselves for the future? What are the degrees that UNC Pembroke should be focusing on? How does this university serve this region? Here’s this great, wonderful university, yet we’re located in the poorest county in the poorest part of the state and we’ve been here 129 years. That doesn’t make sense, folks. This is this region’s university. Look at Buies Creek. Take Campbell University out of there and what would it be? Imagine if we could put that kind of machine here in southeast North Carolina. We would change the dynamics of this region in an incredibly good way.” The university has developed a dual degree program with the North Carolina State University College of Engineering. The recently passed educational bond has earmarked $23 million for a state-of-the-art school of business. The building will actually cost $36 million, but Cummings views the fundraising challenge as another opportunity. They hope to break ground next year. They’ve created a program in collaboration with the NC State School of Veterinary Medicine, one of the hardest post-graduate programs to access in the nation.

“The honest truth is, of all the things we are for our institutions,” says Dempsey, “probably foremost among them is cheerleader. I think Robin is a great cheerleader for UNCP. He understands the political process because he worked in Raleigh. He does understand, I think, what it means to deal with very strong personalities. He is nominally in charge but just as the real work at the hospital is done by the doctors and nurses, the real work at the university is done by the professors and counselors. He is learning that you lead these institutions by cajoling rather than by declaring. Not ever to underestimate the importance of a cardiac surgeon, but the hearts and minds that Robin is touching now at UNC Pembroke are certainly equal to those that he touched in his career as a surgeon. I couldn’t be more impressed. He’s always upbeat. He’s always looking to the future.” And still on the move. PS Jim Moriarty is senior editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com.

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Sliding comfortably into its horse country surroundings an interior decor of memorabilia harkens to an equestrian heyday By Deborah Salomon â&#x20AC;˘ Photographs by John Gessner

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eirlooms often grace Southern homes: Grandpa’s desk, Auntie’s slipper chair. “We started from scratch. Our furniture’s from Pottery Barn,” says Chrissie Walsh Doubleday, granddaughter of legendary equine trainer Mickey Walsh, founder of Stoneybrook Steeplechase. “I put it together,” adds husband Peter Doubleday, internationally known horse show manager/announcer and, by the way, descendant of Abner Doubleday, the apocryphal inventor of baseball. Yet, beyond a standard sectional sofa and some-assembly-required tables and chairs, Doubleday House at Little Squire, the Doubleday’s Adirondak-style lodge, is a veritable bulletin board chronicling two fascinating lives: photos, posters, paintings, stuffed animals, ribbons, figurines, saddle pads, books, awards and, marching atop the kitchen cabinets, 100 beer bottles with interesting labels. Peter nods an affirmative: “I drank every one.” Fifty plants, bathed in light from oversized bare windows, provide a greenhouse effect. One precious photo shows Mickey Walsh riding pony Little Squire, sans saddle or bridle. Dominating another wall is a painting of Walsh (who died in 1993) by local artist Dani Devins; this was returned to the family after being auctioned off at hunt balls. What some brand as clutter, Chrissie calls history. Chrissie belongs to the land surrounding their home. She grew up in a log house within sight, later lived in a nearby cabin. Her father’s veterinary office was yards away. She, her four siblings and 29 cousins knew every rock, rail and puddle in the compound. Beyond the equestrian life, Chrissie taught chemistry and coached track and field for 28 years at Pinecrest High School. Peter, from snowy Syracuse, New York, lived down the road when he met Chrissie at a Christmas party. “I knew of the family, of course. They were famous . . .” he says. In

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2005, soon after they married, her parents sold them five of their 17 acres for a house. Subsequently, they purchased another five and added a small barn. Neither had any architectural experience, which didn’t stop Peter from scrawling a plan on a napkin at O’Donnell’s Pub. They liked the work of Southern Pines architectural/interior designer Denis McCullough who translated the napkin into a home unlike neighboring showplaces. Little Squire defies labels. Chrissie: “I wanted (the interior) to be a semi-circle and the outside to blend with the trees.” This meant angled interior walls which give the rooms irregular but interesting shapes. Peter: “I saw a picture of a house with cedar siding, hunter green and blood red trim, like houses in Lake Placid.” The clapboards and shingles also reminded him of “cottages” in the exclusive Hamptons, where he announces events. Multiple roof pitches and a cupola topped by the weathervane from Stoneybrook complete the rustic appearance. The Irish flag honors immigrants Mickey and Kitty Walsh who arrived in America in the 1920s — and in Southern Pines in 1939.

hrissie was adamant about layout. “I wanted everything in one room.” That living room-dining room-kitchen-bar with wood-burning fireplace stretches nearly 50 feet facing outward to the terrace, paddock and barn. A long refectory table fills up fast at Thanksgiving and Christmas, since Chrissie’s sister and niece also maintain houses on the property. From the open kitchen in a far corner, the cook stays part of the action. Black granite countertops are covered not with cooking paraphernalia but photos of “good people,” Chrissie says. “We wanted pictures and themes everywhere to reflect horses and racing.” Peter’s artifacts contribute the broadcasting dimension, which include the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. “Peter’s a collector. He just kept putting stuff up and I said . . . whatever.”

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guest suite with separate entrance at one end of this panoramic great room offers privacy. Adjacent to it, a combination “entertainment” room and office. Peter loves music; a wall of CDs covers every genre but classical. “Vinyl’s coming back,” he says, pointing to long-play albums. The opposite wall of shelves displays Chrissie’s books and in the middle, a throne-sized red leather chair and ottoman. On hot afternoons, after barn chores Chrissie retreats here to read. The master suite with small terrace and second wood-burning fireplace — Chrissie’s lifelong dream — occupies the opposite wing. Their outdoor environments include a small screened porch on the front and a larger one between the house and the patio which, by spring, is filled with flowers and often with guests. The Doubledays have no trouble fitting 100 friends and colleagues inside and out. “Our guests feel at home as soon as they open the door,” Peter says. They especially enjoy the DIY bar with tall vinyl-topped bar stools and well-stocked shelves. A small pool built long before the house cools hot and dusty riders. Nothing formal, everything practical and intensely personal. Floors throughout are low maintenance tile brightened with area rugs. Wide, handsomely framed doorways ease the flow from wing to wing. A coffered ceiling buffers noise. No palette unites the décor, although every hue found in nature appears here. Chrissie got her wish: from a distance, the house melts into the woods.

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piece of Chrissie’s heart beats faster in the small barn, shelter to Guac, a retired racer with a speckled coat called flea-bitten gray. Surprisingly, “I’ve ridden all my life but this is the first horse I’ve ever owned. He’s taught me a lot in the saddle and on the ground,” she says. “They test you. I’m supposed to be the boss but we’re still working on that.” Chrissie feeds, grooms, rides and cares for him — and Burrito, his adorable donkey companion — herself. She’s in the barn by 7 a.m., takes a break around noon, out again at 4 p.m. and to “check on things” before bed. These are happy hours. “I spent a lot of time with my parents before they died,” she recalls. “Afterwards, things sort of fell apart, family-wise. I needed something to fill the void.” The Doubledays’ luxury is not in antiques or professional-grade kitchen appliances but in living a continuity. “It’s just the two of us; we didn’t need a monster house,” says Peter, although as arranged, the 2700 square feet appear larger. Its location allows the couple to bike into downtown for First Fridays or a pub evening. But mostly they like to stay put. Peter, who travels many months a year, answers to homebody. “I need a crowbar to get Chrissie out,” he says. She responds: “I’m just very proud to still own this family property,” which honors her parents and grandparents. “They worked hard to create the farm, and Stoneybrook. It’s the only home either of us has ever built . . .” And, Peter concludes, “We plan to stay here forever.” PS

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What’s in a Name?

That which we call a daffodil by any other name still ushers in spring

By Ross Howell Jr.

espite the cold, when March came to the mountains the boy I once was felt there might again be spring. After a snowy season feeding cattle with their rumps — and mine — bowed against bitter winds, I walked along split-rail fences, melting drifts limning muddy pastures. The earth was warming with spring, and on sunny afternoons groundhogs nosed from their dens, groggy with winter sleep. I hunted them with my uncle’s pump-action .22. One afternoon I came upon a sight that filled me with wonder. A neat row of daffodils nodded in the sun at the edge of a wood. Their yellow blossoms were all that remained of what had once been a homestead. I watched them as they danced with the breeze. Their faces were hopeful. I imagined a mother planting them for her family, a thin border next to a log house, long since vanished. Back then, I didn’t call them “daffodils.” Among my kin, they were known as “jonquils.” In fact, I don’t remember hearing the word daffodil until my senior year of high school, in Mrs. Humphries’s English class, when we read the William Wordsworth poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” I raised my hand, wanting desperately to impress Mrs. Humphries. She was a recent Radford College graduate, and quite attractive. “Yes, Ross?” “Those flowers sound like jonquils to me,” I said. “In England, they’re more commonly referred to as daffodils. From the Latin asphodilus, The English ‘daffodil’ is probably adapted from the Dutch, ‘da asphodel,’” Mrs. Humphries said. I was crestfallen. “Why everybody knows that,” my nemesis, Verna Belcher, hissed from the desk behind me. A quick poll of my Greensboro neighbors — my “scientific” question was, “When you were growing up, what did you call the yellow flower that bloomed first in spring?”— yielded mostly “jonquil,” though “daffodil” was an occasional response, and even “buttercup.” It’s complicated. “In some parts of the country any yellow daffodil is called a jonquil, usually incorrectly,” writes the American

Daffodil Society, employing what I expect is their euphemism for the rural South. “As a rule, but not always, jonquil species and hybrids are characterized by several yellow flowers, a strong scent and rounded foliage.” Now that plant sounds like what I think of as narcissus. So when I say “jonquil,” I should be saying “narcissus”? It’s not that easy. “The term narcissus (Narcissus sp.) refers to a genus of bulbs that includes hundreds of species and literally tens of thousands of cultivars!” writes gardener Julie Day. “The Narcissus genus includes daffodils, jonquils and paperwhites, among many others, so when in doubt, this is the term to use.” Just to confuse me further, Day adds this statement: “However, when someone says ‘narcissus,’ they’re usually referring to the miniature white holiday blooms of Narcissus tazetta papyraceous, known as paperwhites.” Now I have paperwhites in my garden, too. But I call them “paperwhites.” So am I to understand that the flowers I called “jonquils” as a boy I should’ve called “daffodils,” and some of the bloomers I have in my garden now, the ones with the small trumpets, rounded leaves and scent, the ones I’d thought were narcissus, are in fact jonquils? Not necessarily. Julie Day goes on to say that “daffodil” is “the official common name” for any plant in the genus Narcissus. “So, if the plant is considered a Narcissus, it is also considered a daffodil,” Day writes. “However, most people use the term ‘daffodil’ when referring to the large, trumpet-shaped flowers of the Narcissus pseudonarcissus. These are those big, showy, familiar bulbs that bloom in spring that we all know and love.” Got that? But what about Mrs. Humphries? And the asphodels? Turns out they’re a different genus altogether. But some of their blossoms sure look a lot like jonquils. I mean, narcissus. Oh, you know what I mean. And what about buttercups? Things sure were simpler when I was a boy in the mountains hunting groundhogs. PS Ross Howell Jr. was rewarded for dividing and replanting bulbs this fall with a display of daffodils that brightened even the most confused and gloomy of March days.

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It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. –Charles Dickens, Great Expectations By Ash Alder

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March is here and the world begins to soften. Some six feet underground, the earthworms are thawing, and when their first castings reappear in the dormant garden, so, too, will the robin. You’ll hear his mirthful, rhythmic song on an otherwise ordinary morning, pastel light filtering through the kitchen window where the sleeping cat stretches out his toes and, slowly, unfurls. Cheerily, cheer-up, cheer-up, cheerily, cheer-up. In other words: Spring has arrived. All at once you notice flowering crocus, catkins dangling from delicate branches, colorful weeds dotting sepia toned landscapes. You watch the robin trot across the lawn, chest puffed like a popinjay as he pinballs from worm to fat, delicious worm. Soon he will gather twigs, feathers and grasses to build his nest. Cheerily, cheer-up, cheer-up, cheerily, cheer-up. As the kettle whistles from the stovetop, the aroma of freshly ground coffee warming the sunny room, a smile animates your face with soft lines. Spring has arrived, you think. And the world stirs back to life.

The Full Worm Moon and Daylight Saving Time both happen on Sunday, March 12. Because maple sap begins to flow in March, Native Americans deemed this month’s full moon the Sap Moon. You won’t want to miss it. And while you may miss that hour of sleep after turning the clocks forward, the longer days will make up for it in no time — especially when the field crickets start sweet-talking you into porch-sitting past supper. Although the lusty robin may have announced the arrival of spring weeks ago, Monday, March 20, officially marks the vernal equinox. Greek myth tells that Demeter, goddess of harvest and fertility, celebrates the six-month return of her beautiful daughter, Persephone (goddess of the Underworld), by making the earth lush and fruitful once again. International Day of Forests and World Poetry Day fall on Tuesday, March 21 — a day after the start of spring. Celebrate with a poem by your favorite naturalist, and if you’re feeling inspired, try reading a few lines to a favorite stand of oak, maple or pine. In the spirit of Saint Patrick’s Day (Friday, March 17), why not spread white or red clover seed across bare patches of the lawn? One benefit of this flowering, drought-resistant legume is that it attracts pollinators and other insects that prey on garden pests. Plus, if you find a four-leaf clover — supposedly there’s one for every 10 thousand with three leaves — it’s said to bring you good luck. Give the shamrock to a friend and your fortune will double. According to National Geographic, one of the “Top 7 Must-See Sky Events for 2017” will occur on March 29. On this Wednesday evening, Mercury, Mars, and a thin crescent moon will form a stunning celestial triangle in the western sky, with Mercury shining at its brightest to the right of the moon and Mars glowing above them.

Bald Facts about Daffodils Each leaf, each blade of grass vies for attention. Even weeds carry tiny blossoms to astonish us.

The daffodil — also known as jonquil, Narcissus and “Lent Lily” — is the birth flower of March. Synonymous with spring, this cheerful yellow flower is a symbol of rebirth and good fortune. And a little-known fact: Medieval Arabs used daffodil juice as a cure for baldness. PS

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Although conscientious effort is made to provide accurate and up to date information, all events are subject to change and errors can occur! Please call to verify times, costs, status and location before planning or attending an event. To add an event, email us at pinestraw.calendar@gmail.com Continuing through Saturday, March 5 TEMPLE THEATRE. 2 p.m. Thurs, 2 & 8 p.m. Fri, 8 p.m. Sat, and 2 p.m. Sun. The Savannah Sipping Society, a delightful, laugh-a-minute comedy starring Peggy Taphorn, Lynda Clark, Shirley Proctor and Greta Zandstra as four Southern, middle-aged women who together find the confidence to jumpstart their new lives. Tickets: $25/adult and $14/students. Group discounts are available. Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Info: (919) 774-4155. Wednesday, March 1 TEST KITCHEN NIGHT. 6:30 p.m. Here is your chance to be a food critic. Sample six small-plate versions of Elliotts’ new ideas for the Spring menu. Limited seating. $24/person. Elliotts on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775. Wednesday, March 1 — 3 ART CLASS (OIL). “Still Life Impressionist Painting,” taught by Harold Frontz, for painters of all levels. The course will focus on the use of light and color to create beautiful paintings using an economy of bold and confident brush strokes. Cost: $360. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. Wednesday, March 1 — 31 JOY OF ART. Classes for children and adults. March 3: Art Night Adults, 7–9 p.m. March 4, 11, 18, and 25: Art for the Day, ages 7–10, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. March 4, 11, 18, and 25: Journal for Teens 3–5 p.m. March 6: Drawing

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on the Right Side of the Brain for adults, 11 a.m.–1 p.m. March 6: Beginning Drawing for teens, 4–5:30 p.m. March 7: Awesome Animals for ages 3–4, 7–9 p.m. March 8: Painting Skills for ages 10–12, 4–5:30 p.m. March 9: Creative Coffee for adults, 10 a.m.–12 p.m. March 9: Paint with Joy for adults, 7–9 p.m. March 10: Journal Jam for adults, 7–9 p.m. March 12: Women Who Run with the Wolves book study for women 6–8 p.m. March 14:, Parent Child Create Together, 11 a.m.–12 p.m. March 26: Mixed Media Medley for adults, 1–5 p.m. March 3: Sign up for Summer Arts. April 1: Kickoff for the Spring Monet and Impressionism, 10 a.m.–2 p.m. and Anime for Teens, 3–5 p.m. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 text or www.joyof_art@msn.com. Thursday, March 2 READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY. The Library will celebrate with an all-day photo booth, interactive stations and more! Enjoy a Dr. Seuss-themed Storytime at 10:30 a.m. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motorskill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. ART CLASS (SCULPTING ENCESS). 1–4 p.m. Learn interesting facts about animals on the NC endangered species list and how to sculpt their likenesses in clay. This week: Seabeach amaranth plant. Ages 18+, no experience necessary. Cost: $35/resident; $70/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817.

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AN EVENING WITH ANN EHRINGHAUS. 5–7 p.m. Ehringhaus will read from and sign both of her books, Ten Thousand Breakfasts and Send Me The Wind; exhibit newly created artwork from her 2016 Artist Residency at Hot Springs National Park; and share a few stories. ReMe Retreats Studios, 127 Main St., Vass. Info: (910) 528-1109 or www.ReMeRetreats.com. More details about Ann Ehringhaus are available at www. AnnEhringhaus.com. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE AT THE CAMEO. 7:30 p.m., doors open at 7. Peter Holsapple performs. Cost: $15/advance. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-6633 or www.cameoarthouse.com. Thursday, March 2 — 5 GOLF TOURNAMENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. The 23rd Annual Pine Needles Men’s Invitational is played on two of the best golf courses in the Sandhills and attracts some of the best amateur players. Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club. 1005 Midland Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8611. Thursday, March 2 — 19 CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATER. 7:30 p.m. Wed– Sat and 2 p.m. Sun. Intimate Apparel. Race, religion and romance mix in this acclaimed American drama set in 1905 about an African-American seamstress supporting herself by making lingerie for her wealthy Manhattan clientele. Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 323-4233 or www.cfrt.org. Friday, March 3 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Scampering Squirrels (For Wee Ones!).” Learn more about these entertaining critters through reading a book, playing some games, and making a craft. All activities will be geared towards 3- to 5-year-olds and meant for parents

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ca l e n d a r to do with their children. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. YOUNG PEOPLE’S FINE ARTS FESTIVAL. 5–7 p.m. Opening Reception. Award Ceremony at 6 p.m. Exhibit dates March 3–31. You’re invited to view award-winning art by Moore County students in grades K–12. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or mooreart.org. Friday, March 3 — 31 YOUNG PEOPLE’S FINE ARTS FESTIVAL. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. weekdays, 1–4 p.m., Sat, March 18. Award-winning art by Moore County students in grades K–12. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or mooreart.org. Saturday, March 4 VOLUNTEER TRAIL WORK DAY. 9–11 a.m. Help Weymouth Woods staff re-route a short section of a hiking trail by removing vegetation with hand tools, raking a new path and covering up the old path. Meet at the Visitor Center and bring work gloves, loppers, or a rake if possible. Also, bring water and bug spray! Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info and sign-up requested: (910) 692-2167 or email nancy.williamson@ncparks.gov by Thursday, March 2. EQUESTRIAN EVENT.10 a.m.–2 p.m. Signup: 9:30 a.m. Winter Schooling Day. This event offers Dressage, Hunter Ring, and Jumper Ring schooling only. Call for prices. Spectators welcome. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. SATURDAY KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Dr. Seuss Day Children’s Program. Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday (March 2nd) with a cake and stories. Sign your child up for their first Library card. Library cards are free for everyone! Activities and fun for the whole family. Given Memorial Library. 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022 or www.giventufts.com. NATURE TALES. 10–10:45 a.m. and 11–11:45 a.m. “Forest Friends.” Preschool storytime and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 (ext 20) or capefearbg.org. GLASSFEST. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. A premier hand crafted glass sale that features STARworks’s 2017 line of functional, culinary and decorative glass. Meet the artists and enjoy demonstrations. STARworks, 100 Russell Drive, Star. Info: (910) 429-9001. Sunday, March 5 NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Paint Hill Hike.” This property has more elevation change than

much of the Sandhills, as well as a rare plant called Pyxiemoss that blooms in winter. Meet at the Visitor Center and caravan 1.5 miles to the Paint Hill Tract. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info and sign-up: (910) 692-2167. EXPLORATIONS SERIES FOR ADULTS. 3–4 p.m. Computer Health by Sandy Berger, a technology guru and author of eight books who specializes in helping those over 40 make the most of technology to enhance their lives. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Kerrville Song Circle performs. Cost: $15 in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9447502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Sunday, March 5 — 28 ART EXHIBIT AND OPENING RECEPTION. Opening Reception Sunday, March 5, 4–6 p.m. “March is for the Arts.” Full Members Exhibit. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. Monday, March 6 HANDS-ON KIDS’ COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Hands-on preparation led by Esther Gore. Cost: $50 ($5 off additional siblings). The Flavor Exchange, 115 E New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.TheFlavorExchange.com. BOOK LOVERS UNITE. 3:30 p.m. “History Books.” Bring your list of favorites and add to it as others describe theirs. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 5854820 or (910) 295-6022. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children through 5th grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. Tuesday, March 7 PLAY ESCAPE. 10 a.m. Character Storytime. For all ages. Free with admission. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc. com. NATURE TALES. 10–10:45 a.m. and 11–11:45 a.m. “Forest Friends.” Preschool storytime and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 (ext 20) or capefearbg.org. ART CLASS (DRAWING). 10 a.m.–3 p.m. “Can’t Draw a Straight Line,” taught by Laureen Kirk, is a beginning drawing class in which students will learn some tried VERDI’S LA TRAVIATA SATURDAY, MARCH 11 AT 1PM

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ca l e n d a r NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 9:30 a.m. “Photography Stroll.” Wildlife and nature photographer Brady Beck will share tips for capturing the natural beauty of the longleaf pine ecosystem on this 1-mile hike. This program celebrates the conservation legacy of Ansel Adams and the exhibition of his photographs at the NC Museum of Art in Raleigh through May 7, 2017. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info and sign-up: (910) 692-2167. THE MET OPERA: LIVE IN HD. 12:55–3:50 p.m. Live via satellite. Verdi’s La Traviata (English subtitles) Cost: $27. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 2 p.m. “TRACK Trail Guided Adventure.” Join a Park Ranger and complete some fun TRACKtivities on a 1-mile hike designed to get kids active and outside. As trails and activities are completed, prizes can be earned! For more information on TRACK Trails go to www.kidsinparks.com. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info and sign-up: (910) 692-2167. 82ND ANNUAL HIGHFALLS OLD-TIME FIDDLERS’ CONVENTION. 4:30–6:30 p.m., registration for musicians; 6 p.m., competition begins. Musicians from all over the state compete in band, fiddle, banjo, guitar, mandolin, dobro, singing and dancing competitions. Concession stand on site. Cost: $7 for spectators. North Moore high School Auditorium, 1504 North Moore Road, Robbins. Info: (910) 464-3600. TWEEN GAME NIGHT. 6–9 p.m. Attention 6th–8th graders! This is your night to kick it with your friends on a Saturday night at the Fair Barn for fun games, contests and music. Concessions available for purchase. Cost: $10 available at the door. The Fair Barn: 200 Beulah Road S, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-0166 or (910) 295-1900. JAMES GREGORY AT TEMPLE THEATRE. Doors open at 5:30 p.m., show at 6 p.m. This comedian delivers common-sense wisdom, old-fashioned values and politically incorrect humor. Tickets: $30 (reserved seating). Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Info and tickets: (919) 774-4155 or www.templeshows.com. BALLROOM DANCING. 6:30–10 p.m. Cape Fear Ballroom Dancers Formal Dinner-Dance. Pre-paid reservations only: $50/members; $60/guests. Tuxedo

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attire. Highland Country Club, 105 Fairway Drive, Fayetteville. Info: (910) 987-4420 or www.capefearballroomdancers.org. CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC. 7:30 p.m. “Opera Extravaganza.” Four operatic soloists from across the U.S. and internationally — tenor Chris Carr, baritone Sean Anderson, mezzo soprano Chrystal E. Williams and soprano Young Mee Jun — perform some of your favorite arias, duets, trios and quartets from the world of opera, lead by David Michael Wolff. Performances are at Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-6185. Saturday, March 11 & 12 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Southern Pines Horse Trials, part of the “Carolina Eventing Challenge.” Eventing is comprised of three phases: dressage, cross country jumping and show jumping. Free for spectators. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. Sunday, March 12 SUNDAY KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. Come to the Library for a free showing of a film about young Japanese boy named Kubo who embarks on a journey with kindhearted Monky and Clumsy Beetle. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Unwinding the Web.” A 1-mile hike with activities to help dispel myths and learn some cool facts about spiders, one of the most feared and misunderstood critters in the natural world. This program is suitable for all ages. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info and sign-up: (910) 692-2167. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Al Strong Quartet performs. Cost: $20 in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org. Monday, March 13 HOMESCHOOL IN THE GARDEN. 2–3:30 p.m. “Seeds & Flowers.” For kids 1st grade and older. Fee is included with Garden Membership or Daily Admission and applies to each child and adult visiting. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and

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registration: (910) 486-0221 or https://form.jotform. com/63465945071966. Pre-Registration is required. SANDHILLS PHOTO CLUB. 7–9 p.m. Monthly meeting with speaker Chris Adamczyk. Topic: Value of Project Photography. Theater in the Hannah Center at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: www.sandhillsphotoclub.org. CLASSICAL CONCERT SERIES. 8 p.m. The finale concert in the season features pianist Stanislav Ioudenitch, who has traveled the world performing in the most prestigious concert halls and is the Artistic Director and Associate Professor of music and piano at Park University near Kansas City. Tickets: $30 each (if available). Performance at Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or sunrisetheater.com. Monday, March 13 — 17 FIRST ANNUAL BOOK TASTING. 2–6 p.m. Stop by the Library each day to participate. Readers can sample different types of books from many genres. Librarians will be on hand to make recommendations based on reading interests by showing patrons how to use the Novelist Plus database. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. Tuesday, March 14 9TH ANNUAL LUNCH WITH LEGENDS. 11:30 a.m. In this year’s celebration of Women’s History Month, the League of Women Voters of Moore County will present live portrayals of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President, and her running mate Frederic Douglass, orator and social reformer. Tickets: $35, includes lunch and program. Cash bar available. Pinehurst Country Club, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst Info and reservations: Carol (910) 673-2330 or carollee@embarqmail by March 6th. Wednesday, March 15 MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. New York Times Bestselling novelist Charlie Lovett returns to Southern Pines with his new novel, The Lost Book of the Grail, in which a bibliophile in an English Cathedral library is on a quest to find an ancient manuscript with a secret to the cathedral’s past and falls in love along the way. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

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ca l e n d a r Wednesday, March 15 & 16 ART CLASS (OIL) 9 a.m.–3:30 p.m. “Oil Painting with Courtney.” Courtney Herndon. Students will be painting wet into wet, which leads to an impressionistic style of painting, focusing on composition, values and the use of color. For all levels. Cost: $110. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or artistleague.org. Thursday, March 16 MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motorskill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. Copies of the book to be discussed may be obtained at the SPPL or the Douglass Center. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. THE ART OF COOKING SERIES. 6:30 p.m. “Cheese.” Watch Chef Mark give a demo, ask questions, and then enjoy dinner from dishes within the demo. Make your reservation. Cost: $38/person. Elliotts on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775. WINE AND WHIMSEY ART CLASS. 6–8 p.m. “Owl.” A perfect date night or girls’ night out. All supplies and instruction provided. Wine, beer and snacks available for purchase. Cost: $20/member; $25/nonmember. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221. Register online at form.jotform.com/51666115773964. Friday, March 17 ST. PATRICK’S DAY POT O’ GOLD HUNT. 5–6:30 p.m. For ages 3–10, put on your Irish Swag and follow the clues to your very own Pot O’ Gold. Crafts, games and tons o’ fun! Children must be accompanied by an adult. Memorial Park Playground/Recreation Center, 160 Memorial Park Court, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463. ST. PATRICK’S DAY. All day. Join us for some traditional corned beef and cabbage. Guinness $4/pint all day. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 SW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1621.

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Friday, March 17 & 18 SANDHILLS BROADWAY SERIES. 7:30 p.m. Touching Humanity, Inc., presents “Broadway Songs We Love to Sing,” with Michael Pizzi and NYC singer/actress Jennie Berkson. Tickets: $20 in advance and can be purchased at The Given Library, The Country Bookshop or online at www.touchinghumanityinc.org (plus $2 service charge); $30 at the door. The Hannah Center Theater at the O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: Michael Pizzi at sandhillsbroadway@gmail. com or (347) 385-4207. Saturday, March 18 16TH ANNUAL SAINT PATRICK’S DAY PARADE. 11 a.m. Colorful parade entries, great music, dancing, and good Irish cheer are in store for all who attend. Following the parade, stay for entertainment, children’s activities, and food and beverages. Tufts Memorial Park,

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ca l e n d a r 1 Village Green Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-2817. (Rain date: March 25th) Saturday, March 18 & 25 ART CLASS (ACRYLIC OR OIL). 10 a.m.–3 p.m. “Step-by-Step Painting Landscape Scenes,” taught by Harry Neely for beginners. Students will learn how to select the best viewpoint from reference material and how to simplify and connect shapes in the landscape and select color schemes. Cost: $100. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or artistleague.org. Sunday, March 19 ENGLISH CARVERY. 11:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Carvery our traditional Sunday roast at The Sly Fox. Roast lamb, roasted potatoes mash potatoes, with roasted carrots and parsnips, fresh mint sauce and gravy. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 SW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1621.

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BOLSHOI BALLET SERIES. 12:55 p.m. A Contemporary Evening. From Moscow live via Satellite. Cost: $25. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com. THE MOORE COUNTY CONCERT BAND. 2 p.m. “The Magic of Spring Concert.” The band will perform in the Grand Ballroom of the Carolina Hotel. The program will feature solo trumpeter Chris Dunn, Executive Director of the Arts Council of Moore County. Free and open to the public. Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Dr., Village of Pinehurst. Info: (910) 235-5229.

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HISTORY LECTURE. 2 p.m. Dr. Matt Farina will present a program on Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, a Civil War era physician as well as feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, spy, and prisoner of war; and she was the only female to ever receive the Medal of Honor. The program is free and sponsored by the Moore County HIstorical Association. Southern Pines Civic Club, 105 S Ashe St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-0452.

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SUNDAY FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This film is based on the book The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Fire in the Toolbox.” Join a ranger to learn how land managers use fire as a tool to benefit plant and animal communities, and take a short walk to see a recently burned area. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Lindsey Lou and the Flatbellys perform. Cost: $20 in advance. The Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9447502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Monday, March 20 WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30 a.m. Coffee and program with Ray Linville Educator, Sandhills Community College. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. SHAW HOUSE LUNCHEON. 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Take a trip back in time and enjoy the second annual creamed chicken and waffles luncheon, served in the

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ca l e n d a r Shaw House Tea Room. Sponsored by the Moore County Historical Association. Cost: $18/person (prepaid by reservation only). Historic Shaw House, 110 Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info and reservations: (910) 281-5417. SIP & PAINT WITH JANE. 5–7 p.m. Join resident artist Jane Casnellie for an evening of sipping and painting, and take home your own masterpiece! No experience necessary. All materials provided, including a glass of wine. Cost: $35. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Jane Casnellie at (910) 639-4823. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children through 5th grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

TRIVIA NIGHT. 6:30 p.m. The Shawshank Redemption. Test your knowledge, work the brain, and have fun! The Sly Fox Pub, 795 SW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1621. Tuesday, March 21 & 22 ART CLASS (DRAWING). 1–4 p.m. “Introduction to Portrait Drawing,” taught by Barbara Sickenberger. Students will learn portrait-drawing methods; receive individual assistance; and see demos on drawing eyes, noses, mouths and ears and adding values. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Tuesday, March 21 JAMES BOYD BOOK CLUB. 2 p.m. The Last Days of Video, by Jeremy Hawkins. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Wednesday, March 22 NC GENERAL ASSEMBLY TOUR. All day. Tour the NC Legislative Building, have lunch with NC State House Representative James L. Boles, and attend a legislative session before heading across the street to have free time and visit your choice of either the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences or the North Carolina Museum of History. This Kirk Tours day trip includes a guided tour of the NC Legislative Building, luxury transportation, and lunch provided by Mr. Boles. Tour Departs from Belk at Pinecrest Plaza in Southern Pines, at 8:30 a.m. (910) 295-2257 Please Call For Reservations.

Citizens Academy. 6–8 p.m. This session presents a behind the scenes look at operations of the Library and Geographic Information Systems/Information Technology Department. No cost but please call the SPPL to sign up. SP Police Dept, Police Community Meeting Room, 450 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or sppl.net.

19TH ANNUAL SANDHILLS CHILDREN’S CENTER KELLY CUP GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. 1 p.m. Entry fee is $200 per player and includes cart, a hearty snack before play, beverages for the tournament, and dinner after. Hole sponsorships are available. The proceeds of this event benefit children who have special needs. Pinehurst No. 8. 100 Centennial Blvd, Pinehurst.

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For info and to register as an individual or a team, call Teresa or Robin at (910) 692-3323. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE READING. 5:30 p.m. Kelly Mustian will read from her novel in-progress set in 1920s Mississippi. Wine & cheese reception following. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. Wednesday, March 22 — 26 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Carolina International CIC and Horse Trials. International toplevel horses and riders compete in the triathlon of the horse world and will be tested on their precision in the dressage ring, speed and bravery out on cross country, and their accuracy over show jumps. Free admission and parking as well as a Kid’s Zone and great shopping in the Vendor Village. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 or www.carolinahorsepark.com. Thursday, March 23 MEN OF THE EXCHANGE. 5:30 p.m. “Learning and Tasting Olive Oils,” with speaker Tony Elms. Wine n’ cheese. Cost: $25/pp. The Woman’s Exchange, The historical 1810 log cabin at 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info ticket reservations: (910) 295-4677 or www. sandhillswe.org. DINING EVENT. “Around the World — Thailand.” A four-course dining experience of Thai cuisine. Cost: $30/ person. Seating limited. Elliotts on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775.

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ca l e n d a r Thursday, March 23 & 24 ART CLASS (ACRYLICS). 10 a.m.–12 p.m. “Follow the Leader,” taught by Pat McMahon, offers students instruction and step-by-step demonstrations to complete a finished canvas. Cost: $75, all supplies included. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. Thursday, March 23 — 26 LIVE THEATRE. 7 p.m. Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. Judson Theatre Company (Moore County’s only professional theatre) presents this bestselling mystery of all time, starring Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie). Tickets: $20–43. Owens Auditorium, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-6989 or www.judsontheatre.com. Thursday, March 23 — April 9 TEMPLE THEATRE. 7 p.m. Thursdays, 2 & 8 p.m. Fridays, 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. The Andrews Brothers, a play about three earnest stagehands who fill in for the Andrews Sisters at a WWII USO performance, is filled to the brim with songs made famous by the Andrews Sisters, including Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Slow Boat to China, Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree. Call for time and ticket prices. Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Info: (919) 774-4512. Friday, March 24 LADIES WINE OUT. 5:30–7:30 p.m. Enjoy an all-girl’s happy hour with wine, cheese, nibbles and fun. All welcome. $10/member; $20/non-member. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E

Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6926261 or weymouthcenter.org. Saturday, March 25 MASTER GARDENERS SPRING SYMPOSIUM. 8:30 a.m.–3 p.m. Four lectures by Mike McGrath, Bryce Lane, and Roger Mercer. Plus chance to get signed copy of Brie Arthur’s new book, The Foodscape Revolution. Fee, pre-register for speakers, catered lunch, snacks, and materials. Vendor offerings. Hosted by Master Gardener Volunteers NCSU Extension, 301 East Mountain Drive, Fayetteville. Info: http://cumberland.ces.ncsu.edu. DOG DAY IN THE GARDEN. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. An action-packed day of demonstrations and doggie fun. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, Free for CFBG members. Call for nonmember prices. 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville, Info: (910) 486-0221 ext. 30. THE MET OPERA: LIVE IN HD. 12:55–3:50 p.m. Live via satellite. Mozart’s Idomeneo (English subtitles) Cost: $27. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 2 p.m. “Trail Games.” Join Park Ranger Assistant, Kelsey Smith, for some fun and games on the trails of Weymouth Woods! Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. TOWN CREEK UNDER THE STARS. 7:30–10 p.m. Beneath one of the last great dark sky sites in the NC Piedmont, observe Mercury; Mars; the Orion Nebula; and constellations including Orion, Canis Major, and Taurus. Site telescopes available or bring your own.

Dress for the cold. Free to the public. Town Creek Indian Mound, 509 Town Creek Mound Road, Mount Gilead. Info and registration (required): (910) 439-6802 or towncreek@ncdcr.gov. FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. 7:30–9:30 p.m. “Heroes Among Us.” The FSO and Guest Conductor Dina Gilbert, Assistant Conductor of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, will perform a concert dedicated to all military and civil servants and featuring classical and popular works dedicated to heroism. A pre-concert talk with the FSO “Music Nerd” and Dina Gilbert will begin at 6:45 p.m. Call for ticket prices. Huff Concert Hall, Methodist University, 5400 Ramsey St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 630-7609 or 433-4690 or methodist.edu. Sunday, March 26 ALL AMERICAN MARATHON. 7 a.m.–12 p.m. Half and full marathon runners begin in downtown Fayetteville and finish in Fort Bragg. This run boasts a unique inside look at the largest U.S. military installation, ending with a finish festival celebration. Admission: $20– $90, Rowan Street and Ray Avenue, Fayetteville. Info: www.allamericanmarathon.com or (910) 907-3616. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “100 Mile Challenge Hike.” Rack up some miles today and join a park ranger for a 3.2-mile hike. Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. The Kennedys and Jack Broadbent perform. Cost: $20 in advance. The

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Monday, March 27 HOMESCHOOL IN THE GARDEN. 2–3:30 p.m. “Photosynthesis.” For kids 1st grade and older. Fee is included with Garden Membership or Daily Admission and applies to each child and adult visiting. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 or https://form.jotform. com/63465945071966. Pre-Registration is required.

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A NIGHT OUT ON THE TOWN WITH KIRK TOURS. Swan Lake, performed by The Russian National Ballet Theatre at Givens Performing Arts Center, UNC-Pembroke. Cost: $99, includes dinner, premier seating tickets and transportation. Departing at 5 p.m. from Belk @ Pinecrest Plaza in Southern Pines. Returning approximately 10:30 p.m. Info: www. kirktours.com.

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WEYMOUTH YOUNG AFFILIATES. 6 p.m. Join the younger crowd at Weymouth for an evening of networking, program planning and refreshments. All are welcome to attend. Weymouth Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

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MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 7 p.m. Bring your instrument and your beverage, or just come to enjoy! Free and open to the public. Library, Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. Tuesday, March 28 & 29 ART CLASS (WATERCOLOR). 1–4 p.m. “Paint Your Pet in Watercolor,” taught by Yvonne Sovereign, teaches fun and easy techniques to paint a realistic portrait of your pet in watercolor. She provides demonstrations and individual assistance geared towards beginners and intermediate artists. $60 Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org. Wednesday, March 29 DAY TRIP TO HISTORIC DURHAM. All day. Sponsored by Kirk Tours and the Moore County Historical Association, the trip includes a visit to a former slave plantation called Stagville; lunch at Bullock’s Bar-B-Cue; and a stop at Bennett Historic Site, where General Johnson surrendered the Southern armies to General Sherman in 1865. Departs at 8 a.m. from the Shaw House, 110 W Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Returns late afternoon. Cost: $55/MCHA members; $65/non-members. Payment due by March 8. Info and reservations: Marva Kirk at (910) 295-2257. GOLF TOURNAMENT. 9:30 a.m. The Carolina Philharmonic 2nd Annual Charity Golf Tournament. Entry fees: $100/person; $400/team. Includes breakfast, lunch, prizes, silent auction. Proceeds benefit the Encore! Kids & Link Up music education programs of The Carolina Philharmonic. Format: One Best all Net. The Pines Course, Country Club of Whispering Pines, 2 Club House Boulevard, Whispering Pines. Info: (910) 687-0287. BELGIAN BEER TASTING. 6:30 p.m. A wonderful three-course dinner paired with the perfect Belgian beer.

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ca l e n d a r Cost: $25/person. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 SW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1621. Thursday, March 30 GARDENING WORKSHOP. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Planting an Earth Box. Master Gardener Bruce Fensley demonstrates how to use an Earth Box for planting and growing veggies, herbs and even a few summer annuals in a limited space (and in your garden). Participants will take home a discount coupon that includes: an Earth Box, a bag of raised bed soil/growing medium, and selection of (5) plants. Cost: $10 Horticulture Society members; $15 non-members. Sandhills Horticultural Gardens-Ball Visitors Center. 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882. Call to register or send payment with name of class to: Sandhills Horticultural Society, 3395 Airport Rd., Pinehurst, NC 28374, Attn: Tricia Mabe. PRANCING HORSE ANNUAL SPRING BARN DANCE. 6–10 p.m. “Horses, Hearts and Heroes.” Dinner, dancing, a silent auction and a raffle for a 7-day Royal Caribbean Cruise for two. Tickets for the dance: $50/person and can be purchased at Cabin Branch Tack Shop, Southern Pines; A Bit Used, Vass; Sandhills Winery, West End; Lady Bedford’s Tea Parlour, Pinehurst; or online at www. prancing-horse.org. Raffle tickets: $100 and may be purchased in advance atwww. prancing-horse.org or at the event. Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Road S, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 281-3223. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 7 p.m. “Sunset Hike.” Take a two-mile leisurely walk through the park that will finish up as the sun is setting. What better way to cel-

ebrate National Take a Walk in the Park Day? Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. UPCOMING IN APRIL Saturday, April 1 HABITAT SPRING GALA 2017. 6 p.m. The main annual fundraising event of the Sandhills Habitat for Humanity affiliate. On average, more than 200 people attend and enjoy dinner, live and silent auctions, music and more. Tickets: $150. Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. (910) 295-1934. Friday, April 7 OUT ON THE TOWN WITH KIRK TOURS. A live performance of the musical Pippin at Givens Performing Arts Center at UNC-Pembroke. Tickets: $99, includes dinner, premier seating tickets, and transportation. 5 p.m. departure from Belk @ Pinecrest Plaza in Southern Pines. Return at approximately 10:30 p.m. Info: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com. See their website for other upcoming trips and outings. WEEKLY EVENTS Sundays — Tuesday PRIVATE COOKING CLASS AVAILABLE. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www. TheFlavorExchange.com.

Mondays BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in 2 partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. Tuesdays — Saturdays SANDHILLS WOMAN’S EXCHANGE. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Lunch served 11 a.m.–2 p.m. The gift shop features over 60 NC and American hand-made artisan gifts. If interested in volunteering, call the Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst, at (910) 295-4677, www.sandhillswe.org or on our Facebook page. Tuesdays BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions) This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 18 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy practices. Programs will be offered March 7, 14, 21, and 28. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928235 or www.sppl.net. BROWN BAG LUNCH/GAME DAY. 11:30 a.m. Bring your lunch and enjoy fellowship and activities, including card games, board games and the Wii. The Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost for single class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape

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ca l e n d a r Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. PLAY ESCAPE. 3:30 p.m. Arts & Crafts. For ages 2 yrs + Free for members. Cost for non-members: $2/child and $1/siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc.com. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 4–5:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: An Angel (March 7), A Leprechaun (March 14), Spring Flowers (March 21) and A Pirate Flag (March 28). Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at The Ice Cream Parlor, 176 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 454-3641 or www.theartifactshack.com. Wednesdays TAX HELP. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. AARP trained volunteers are available at the library all month to assist with tax returns, free of charge. You must come in person — no appointments given by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6–7 p.m. Improve flexibility, build strength, ease tension, and relax through posture and breathing techniques for beginners and experts alike! Free for CFBG and YMCA members. $5/ non-members. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 ex. 36 or at the Garden. (Must register one day prior). Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org. BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W

Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

Thursdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.moorecountync.gov or www.localharvest.org.

READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30–4 p.m. For children through age 5, this storytime focuses on stories, songs and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build skills for Kindergarten. Dates this month are March 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29. Stay for playtime. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

STORY TIME. 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 to 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 315-1471 or (910) 295-6022.

THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 4–5:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: Melting Olaf (March 1), An Angel (March 8), A Leprechaun (March 15), Spring Flowers (March 22), and A Pirate Flag (March 29). Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at The Ice Cream Parlor, 176 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 454-3641 or www.theartifactshack. com. Wednesdays — Saturday COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Hands-on preparation led by Chef Maria DiGiovanni or Esther Gore. Themed dishes include paella, gator sausage and risotto, sweet potato gnocci, pasta, ravioli, Thai coconut curry, polenta, Moroccan, tortellini, Mediterranean delights, sushi, and cannoli, Vegetarian, vegan, or gluten-free options. Reservations and pre-payment required. Prices vary per dish. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www. TheFlavorExchange.com.

HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. (1 hour and 15 minutes each). Also by request. Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com. MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1–3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CHESS. 1–3 p.m. Don Hammerman instructs all levels of players. You need a chess set to participate. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 3–4:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include: Melting Olaf (March 2), An Angel (March 9), A Leprechaun (March 16),

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Spring Flowers (March 23), and A Pirate Flag (March 30). Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at the Elks Club, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Info and advance registration (required): (540) 454-3641 or www.theartifactshack.com. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 6–7:30 p.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost for single class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. Fridays PLAY ESCAPE. 10 a.m. Arts & Crafts. For ages 2 yr + Free for members. Cost for nonmembers: $2/child and $1/siblings. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or playescapenc.com.

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PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. Reading selections are taken from our current inventory of children’s literature, from the classics to modern day. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

A Tribute to

The Beatles

HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. (1 hour and 15 minutes each). Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/ person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com. BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music, provided by The Holiday Band (March 3) and The Sand Band (March 10 and 24). Blackwater Rhythm & Blues (March 17), and the Carolina Breakers (March 31). Cost: $15/person. Ages 21 and older. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of 8 or more. Food vendor on site. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 369-0411 or www.cypressbendvineyards.com.

Featuring “The Return” Saturday, April 22, 2017 7:30-9:30 pm Robert E. Lee Auditorium

A Comic Evening*

Featuring Ventrilquist Steve Brogan & Comedian Caleb Elliott Friday, May 12, 2017 • 7:30-9:30 pm Hannah Center Theater The O’Neal School Family Friendly Show

Saturdays WALKING BOOK CLUB. 10 a.m. Meet at the Library for a brisk half-hour walk through beautiful downtown Southern Pines to discuss current reads, make book suggestions, and enjoy being active outside. Wear comfortable shoes and clothing. This month on Mar 4, 11, 18, and 25. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. TAX HELP. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. AARP trained volunteers are available at the library all month to assist with tax returns, free of charge. You must come in person — no appointments given by phone. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m., 2 and 4 p.m. (1 hour and 15 minutes each). Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/ person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com.

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Featuring “The Dancing Dream ABBA Tribute Band” Saturday, August 19, 2017 7:30-9:30 pm Robert E. Lee Auditorium

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Featuring “The 7 Bridges Band” Saturday, September 16, 2017 7:30-9:30 pm Robert E. Lee Auditorium

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For a LIMITED time, purchase a season pass to get a discount on ALL FOUR fantastic events! Get 4 general admission tickets for only $75 (a $95 value). Call 910-365-9890 to purchase your season pass today!

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