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FEATURES 77 Awoken

Poetry by Ry Southard

78 The Painted Herd

By Jenna Biter A new breed of pony in the Pines

88 The Last Amateur

By Bill Case The rise, fall and redemption of Harvie Ward

92 Women in Combat

By Jim Moriarty Members of elite unit gather to discuss Ashley’s War

94 Me, Jake and the Lake

By Deborah Salomon Building a dream in Whispering Pines

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Simple Life By Jim Dodson PinePitch Instagram Contest Good Natured By Karen Frye The Art Beat By Jim Moriarty The Omnivorous Reader By Stephen E. Smith Bookshelf Papadaddy’s Mindfield By Clyde Edgerton The Creators By Wiley Cash Hometown By Bill Fields In the Spirit By Tony Cross Wine Country By Angela Sanchez The Kitchen Garden By Jan Leitschuh True South By Susan S. Kelly Out of the Blue By Deborah Salomon Pleasures of Life Dept. By Tom Allen Crossroads By Jenna Biter Birdwatch By Susan Campbell Sporting Life By Tom Bryant Golftown Journal By Lee Pace Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson The Accidental Astrologer By Astrid Stellanova Southwords By Beth MacDonald

103 Almanac

By Ash Alder

Cover Photograph: Tim Sayer Artist on Cover: Jenay Jarvis This Page: John Koob Gessner

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SOUTHERN PINES • $399,900

7 DEACON PALMER DRIVE Delightful 5 BR / 4 BA home in popular Mid-South Club. Floorplan is spacious w/over 3,600 sq ft of living space and private backyard overlooking 12th tee.

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PINEHURST • $485,000

16 MONTROSE COURT Stunning 4 BR / 3.5 BA home offering open and airy floorplan w/beautiful hardwood flooring in main living areas and nice gourmet kitchen.

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SEVEN LAKES WEST • $319,000

121 SMATHERS DRIVE Newly constructed 3 BR / 2 BA home in beautiful community. Home is located in desirable location within walking distance to marina and offers lots of extras.

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440 N. MAY STREET Multi-family property within walking distance to downtown Southern Pines. Four one bedroom units and one large two bedroom unit. Property sits on double lot!

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MCLENDON HILLS • $398,000

141 GAILS ROAD Custom built 3 BR / 2.5 BA home in McLendon Hills. The home is situated on over an acre of land w/master suite on main level and a kitchen that is a cook’s dream!

PINEHURST • $433,000 26 GLASGOW DRIVE Well maintained 3 BR / 2.5 BA golf front home that enjoys wide views of the 10th hole of the Magnolia Course in Pinewild.

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625 ELK ROAD Wonderful 4 BR / 3 BA brick and hardi plank home just minutes from downtown Southern Pines. Home offers open layout and is on low maintenance lot.

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105 CHRISTINE COURT Attractive 3 BR / 2 BA home in quiet James Creek community. The home offers nice floorplan,hardwood flooring throughout and gorgeous updated kitchen.

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110 CLAY CIRCLE Unique 4 BR / 3.5 BA waterfront home on Lake Auman in gorgeous Seven Lakes West. Home offers a bright and spacious floorplan.

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20 POMEROY DRIVE Beautiful 3 BR / 2.5 BA custom home built by Bolton Builders. The home is situated in a nice location in Pinewild CC and offers great golf views!

PINEHURST • $377,500

5 VICTORIA WAY Elegant 3 BR / 3.5 BA Cotswold townhome. Townhome offers gourmet kitchen and spacious layout. It’s the ultimate in carefree living!

SEVEN LAKES WEST • $442,500

135 SMATHERS DRIVE Beautiful and well maintained 3 BR / 4 BA custom home in gated community. Home offers spacious layout w/beautiful hardwood flooring throughout main level.

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49 GREYABBEY DRIVE Contemporary 4 BR / 4.5 BA home on 7th hole of Pinewild CC’s Magnolia course. Interior is light and open w/beautiful gourmet kitchen.

SEVEN LAKES WEST • $735,000

122 ANCHOR POINT Gorgeous 4 BR / 3.5 BA waterfront home on Lake Auman. This custom brick home offers lovely floorplan and spectacular water views.

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106 SUNSET POINT Amazing 3 BR / 3.5 BA custom brick and stone stunner. Home offers beautiful layout and is move-in ready and is truly a rare find on Lake Auman.

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310 BROKEN RIDGE TRAIL Exquisite 4 BR / 3 full BA 3 half BA brick home located on over 3 acres w/spacious layout. Along with the home there is a barn and beautiful rolling pastures.

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

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1 AUGUSTA DRIVE Stunning 3 BR / 2.5 BA custom home in popular Mid South Club. Interior is open w/beautiful oak flooring and nice upgrades throughout.

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159 NATIONAL DRIVE Delightful 4 BR / 3 BA home in private gated community of Pinehurst #9. Home is spacious w/gorgeous kitchen, great 3 seasons room and beautiful landscaping.

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

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5 AUGUSTA WAY Attractive 4 BR / 3 BA brick custom home located in Pinehurst Donald Ross area. Home has a beautiful layout and is within walking distance to historic Village of Pinehurst.

PINEHURST • $619,000

37 STRATHAVEN DRIVE Alluring 3 BR / 3 Full BA 2 half BA French Country home overlooking the 11th hole of the Holly course. Truly one of the most beautiful homes in Pinewild!

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120 EAGLE POINT LANE Luxurious 3 BR / 3.5 BA French country style home in beautiful Mid South community. Floorplan is spacious w/gourmet kitchen and gorgeous views!

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PINEHURST • $718,000 91 ABBOTTSFORD DRIVE Magnificent 5 BR / 3 Full BA 2 half BA Tuscan Villa with THE best golf course and water views in Pinehurst.

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Fox Lake Farm • Southern Pines

Magnificent equestrian property on 48 acres encompassing a pristine lake. Renovated in 2006, the farm features 5782 sq ft hunt-box, 16 stall barn, indoor arena, 11 paddocks, & more. Offered at $3,750,000

140 North Valley Road • Southern Pines

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

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100 Lake Dornoch • Pinehurst

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

This stunning contemporary home, poised over the 17th hole of the Dogwood Course, is characterized by rooms with a view. 4BR, 5BA, 2HB, 4,750 sf. Offered at $845,000

949 Sheldon Road • Southern Pines

5 Merion Place • CCNC • Pinehurst

Occupying a premier 10.31-acres in Horse Country, this pristine hunt box borders a private and beautiful corner of the W.M. Foundation. 2BR, 2BA, 2,625 sq. ft. Offered at $895,000

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

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10 Village Green Road, Old Town $2,989,999 5 bed / 5 bath Emily Hewson 910-315-3093 Pamela O’Hara 910-315-3324

“Original Schoolhouse” built in 1898. Totally renovated with attention to quality detail. 1st fairway #2 golf course. Detached 1 bed / 1 bath garage apartment.

4 bed / 4 bath Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099

Peaceful horse farm and certified wildlife habitat. Custom home with wrap around porch, main floor master suite, and basement. 4 stall barn, riding area, and private trails.

MLS 196830

675 Lake Dornoch, Pinehurst $575,000 4 bed / 4 bath Kay Beran (910) 315-3322 Linda Criswell (910) 783-7374

$2,500,000 4 bed / 4 bath Pamela O’Hara 910-315-3093

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178 Lost Trail Drive, McLendon Hills $899,000

2310 Midland Road, Pinehurst

All about charm and details! Excellent living spaces for the formal and informal with a designer kitchen!

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This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own one of the largest pieces of property in Pinehurst. 16.74-acres within minutes of the Village.

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70 Laurel Road, Pinehurst $825,000 5 bed / 4/1 bath Emily Hewson 910-315-3093 Pamela O’Hara 910-315-3324

Own a special part of Pinehurst history: “Pine Villa.” Original Tufts Cottage built in 1896. One block from the heart of the Village of Pinehurst.

MLS 196039

85 Cherry Hill Drive, CCNC $525,000 3 bed / 3/1 bath Kay Beran (910) 315-3322 Bonnie Baker (910) 690-4705

Outdoor living at its best! This two-story home is the most flexible of plans with a large, open entry accessing a formal dining room, a den/study, kitchen and family room, master suite, living room and Carolina Room — all on the main floor. An absolutely stunning lot with over 5 acres of woodland beauty and a spectacular pool and patio.

150 Crest Road, Southern Pines $1,400,000 3 bed / 4/1 bath Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099 Karen Iampietro 910-690-7098

Chimbley House: c1922 has been completely renovated into an elegant updated home. Surrounded by a spectacular garden. Private but minutes from downtown.

MLS 193355

28 Middlebury Road, Forest Creek $799,000 4 bed / 4/1 bath Kay Beran (910) 315-3322 Linda Criswell (910) 783-7374

Forest Creek golf front home with impressive interiors and superb outdoor areas. Covered patios and decks overlooking the north course.

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71 Glasgow Drive, Pinewild CC $505,000 3 bed / 3/1 bath Cathy Breeden 910-639-0433

Stunning, custom build Pinewild. 3 master ensuites in pristine condition. Beautifully landscaped, two decks, with views of Magnolia Golf Course.

MLS 194418

MLS 197750

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7 Sedgefield Lane, Pinehurst $475,000 4 bed / 4 bath Chris Gavrelis 910-260-2259

Pinehurst #6 golf front. Enjoy the spectacular views of the 16th fairway and green. 4 bedrooms, each with their own bath. Main floor master. A must see!

370 Breezy Pines Lane, Carthage $455,000 4 bed / 4 bath Pamela Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara 910-315-3093

MLS 197026

185 Doral Drive, Doral Wood $349,000 3 bed / 2/1 bath Kay Beran (910) 315-3322 Linda Criswell (910) 783-7374

Classic Cape Cod home in Doral Woods. Large patio and very private yard. PCC property privilege membership available.

MLS 197961

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Old Carthage Fire Department. Great opportunity to own a commercial building and a piece of Carthage history in downtown Carthage!

MLS 193691

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MLS 196273

6 Morning Glory Lane, Whispering Pines $300,000 4 bed / 2 bath Karen Iampietro 910-690-7098

Four sides brick home with bonus room, screened porch, 2 living areas, and a fenced yard located in Whispering Pines. Meticulously maintained and updated. A must see home.

MLS 198183

104 South McNeil Street, Carthage $198,830

Gorgeous home in Breezy Pines Farm, an equestrian community with only 5 homesites, on 11.63-acres in Carthage. Privacy galore. Very spacious home.

129 W Chelsea Court, Southern Pines Spectacular golf view at this meticulously maintained canterbury unit. Hardwood floors, granite counters, & tile in the baths. 2019 new HVAC and new duct work. 2019 water heater.

MLS 197884

50 Lagorce Place, CCNC $249,000 2 bed / 2 bath Cathy Breeden 910-639-0433

The perfect retreat on approximately 1.1-acres. Great split floor plan with two ensuite bedrooms and walk-in closets. Ready to move in! Best value in the neighborhood.

MLS 196663

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800 Lake Dornoch Drive Five Acre Golf Front Transitional on the Country Club of N.C.’s Cardinal Course: This residence sits high on the property and is exquisitely landscaped with azaleas, rhododendrums and crepe myrtles. It has over 6,000 square feet with 4 bedrooms, 4 full baths, 2 half baths and exceptional golf views! The spacious floor plan includes a gourmet kitchen with breakfast room, formal dining room, well-lighted living room with fireplace, octagonal library, office with fireplace, master and guest suite on main level. There is a family room and two bedrooms and baths on the upper level. Other features include 4 bedrooms ensuite, geo-thermal heating and cooling, pool, two wells and lots of storage! Offered at: $1,000,000

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2707 Roseland Road A rare farmhouse oasis located just miles from the Village of Pinehurst built with passion and creativity. Preserving the integrity of the original home from 1950, this builder fully renovated & added a breezeway with a connected THREE car garage with generous bonus room. The property also includes a one bedroom guest cottage with an attached two car garage with its own mailing address perfect for an income producing opportunity. The main home showcases an open concept gourmet kitchen with quartz counters & stainless steel appliances including a gas range. Solid Oak hardwood flooring runs throughout the kitchen, living room, & hallways. Electric powered thermostats for heated bathroom flooring & a gas log fireplace with marble finishing are just two of the many features of this home. Offered at $529,000

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This beautiful Village home is poised on the 13th hole of The North Course in the gated Forest Creek Golf Club. Main level features include a spacious open floor plan, stunning hardwood floors, tons of natural light & a Carolina room that opens to a large deck overlooking the golf course. The cozy master bedroom suite includes a sitting area with a gas fire place, a spacious master en suite with a large walk-in closet. Other highlights include an attached separate living space over the garage, a main level office with french doors opening to the front porch, a wet bar & theater room in the basement along with two additional bedrooms with private bathrooms and a 2-car attached garage. Offered at $845,000

Beautiful new cottage construction in the Lake Home neighborhood in the Country Club of NC by Huntley Design Build, Inc. This home features an elegantly casual open plan desired by today’s discriminating buyer. Beautiful chef’s kitchen with large island, walk-in pantry. Spacious family room with cathedral ceiling adjacent to the kitchen for easy entertaining. Luxurious owner’s suite with oversized walk-in closet, dual vanities and private water closet. Covered back porch to enjoy the relaxed Pinehurst lifestyle. Mudroom and drop zone off garage entry. Nice laundry room with access to master closet. Beautifully landscaped grounds. Upstairs loft provides additional space for office, exercise or additional TV room. Offered at $625,000

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The Stuffed Potatoes Sustaining power of wise friends — and a good lunch

By Jim Dodson

Two or three times a month, we meet for lunch at a quiet bar of a local restaurant.

We catch up on news and work, talk about books we are reading and swap tales about the adventurous lives of our wives, grown children and grandbabies. Sometimes it’s history and politics that dominate the conversation. More often than not we share thoughts on life, love and matters philosophical. In a nutshell, we attempt to solve most of the world’s problems in the span of time it approximately takes to consume a couple of stuffed baked potatoes. That seems about right since the three of us always order the same items off the bar menu. Joe and I routinely order fully loaded stuffed baked potatoes while our worldly friend Pat — who prefers to be called Patrick — gets a fancy club sandwich. There’s always one in every crowd. Some time ago, I began calling our gathering The Stuffed Potatoes Lunch and Philosophy Club. Spud Buds for short. You see, we’ve known each other for more than half a century. Pat (as I call him) is my oldest pal; we grew up a block from each other and have spent years chasing golf balls and trout in each other’s company. Pat and Joe grew up attending the same Catholic church. But I got to know and like Joe in high school. To look at us, you might think we’re just three old geezers telling war stories in a booth. Technically speaking, I suppose we are “old” guys, though none of us thinks of ourselves that way in the slightest. We were born weeks apart in 1953 — Joe in January, me in February, Pat in March. What a banner year it was: Dwight Eisenhower became president and the Korean War ended. Hillary — the mountaineer — reached the summit of Everest. Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of England. Gas cost 20 cents per gallon. The first Corvette went on sale. Albert Schweitzer won the Nobel Prize. From Here to Eternity was the top Hollywood movie. Ian Fleming published his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Mickey Spillane was the king of crime fiction. Our mothers, bless their hearts — suburban housewives of the 1950s — knew what they were doing giving us simple 1950s names like Joe, Pat and Jimmy, names that fit us like a pair of Buster Brown shoes, names from a Mickey Spillane novel or a Burt Lancaster movie.

I’m guessing nobody these days names their kid Joe, Pat or Jimmy. Not when you’ve got so many exotic choices like Brendan, Rupert or Hamish floating around in the Millennial baby pool. Just to be sure what I’m talking about, I looked up the most popular male names for millennial babies in 2020. Michael, Christopher, Matthew and Joshua are actually the top Millennial male names for 2020. Daniel comes in fifth. That’s four Biblical names shy of a Christian baseball team. With a starting lineup like that, you could almost write your own New Testament — if Millennials bothered to go to church anymore. Joe’s the only one of us who has achieved exalted granddad stature. He and wife Liz have two, in fact. One’s in Durham, the other, Asheville. They go see them all the time and who can blame them for that? If I had grandbabies somewhere within shouting distance I’d burn up the highway just to make a proud and happy fool of myself every dang weekend. As of this month, we’ve all turned 67 years old. No applause necessary. Truthfully, it’s rather amazing how quickly this happened. Once upon a time, 67 sounded positively ancient to our youthful ears — one bus stop shy of the boneyard, as Mickey Spillane might say. The funny thing is, none of us feels at all ancient or even looks terribly old, according to our thoughtful wives and daughters. Then again, they might need new glasses. With age, however, comes a number of often unadvertised benefits. We’ve each buried family and friends, suffered setbacks and experienced comebacks, seen enough of life and sudden death — not to mention the drama of our own aging bodies — to know that bittersweet impermanence is what makes living fully so important and precious. To laugh is to gain a taste of immortality. Failed projects and busted business deals have taught us that there’s really no failure in this life — only reasons to get up, dust off our britches and try a different path. A new summit always awaits. Our faith has been tested and found to be alive and kicking, after all these years. We’ve learned that joy and optimism are spiritual rocket fuel, that divine mystery is real and the unseen world holds much more intriguing possibilities than anything we read about in the news, or watch on Netflix, Hulu or Amazon. Ditto the natural world of woods and fields and streams. It’s no coincidence that we share a profound love of nature, drawing comfort and wisdom from its many lessons. Joe, a forester by training, spends his days helping clients find and set aside

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wild lands for future generations to enjoy. He and Liz are dedicated wilderness hikers, walking encyclopedias of botany and flora, forever in search of new trails and unspoiled vistas when they’re not slipping off to see those beautiful grandbabies of theirs. Pat is a top businessman whose real love is the spiritual solitude of remote trout streams and the joy of chasing a golf ball around the highlands of Scotland with his oldest pal. He’s also a skilled bird-hunter but these days shoots only clays with Joe some Wednesday afternoons. Several years ago, Pat and Joe built a cabin on Pat’s land up in Meadows of Dan, Virginia. They set up cameras just to film any wildlife that happened by, cleared roads and got to know the locals. Since both are still working and have no plans to retire, that cabin became a way, as Joe puts it, “to reset our clocks — inside and out.” We take from nature, said Theodore Roethke, what we cannot see. As for me — a veteran journalist and writer who is busier than ever and shares their view of the dreaded R-word — I’m an “old” Eagle Scout, fly-fishing nut, bird-watcher and gardener who once spent six glorious weeks in the remote bush of South Africa with a trio of crazed plant hunters dodging black mambas and spitting cobras just to see the world’s smallest hyacinth and other exotic plants in the ancestral birthplace of the world’s flowers. The baboons, birds, springboks and elephants weren’t bad, either. I felt like a kid in a Rudyard Kipling tale. At that time, I also lived in a house I built with my own hands, on a forested hill near the coast of Maine. I also rebuilt the stone walls of a long abandoned 18th-century farmstead and created a vast English garden in the woods that nobody but family, friends, the FedEx guy and local wildlife ever saw. My late Scots mother-in-law, cheeky women, suggested I name my woodland retreat “Slightly Off in the Woods.” I called it my Holy Hill, my little piece of Heaven. My two children grew up there watching the seasons come and go, learning to look and listen to the quiet voices of nature. Today, one is a documentary

journalist living and working in the Middle East, the other a top copywriter and screenwriter in New York City. Both claim they carry the peace of that Holy Hill with them in their hearts, and I believe them. I do, too. Maybe that’s what I love most about lunches with the Stuffed Potatoes. At a time of life when a lot of men our age lose their curiosity and zest for living, spending their days grumbling about sports, politics or the weather, we take genuine pleasure in each other’s company, swapping tales of life’s natural ups and downs while sharing wisdom for the road ahead. Joe has stories galore and the most infectious laugh you’ve ever heard. He was the fifth of nine kids, has 53 cousins and an uncle who became the voice of the American environmental movement. He’s always coming out with pearls of wisdom that I promptly write down. We call them “Joeisms.” Everybody has to be somewhere, he once observed about an a certain disagreeable fellow. I just don’t have to be there with him. Patrick is gifted with what the Irish call the craic — an ancient Irish word that means he can talk to anyone and entertain them royally while he’s doing it. He’s a master at solving complex problems and has quietly done more things that help teenagers and homeless folks than anyone I know. He’s also the only guy I know who’s probably read more books than me, which is really saying something. At least he hasn’t started writing them — yet. So we are three for lunch — the forester, the fisherman and the gardener. A fictional Forrest Gump got famous for saying that his mother once said that life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you’ll get. I beg to disagree, believing a happy life is actually more like a gloriously stuffed baked potato because, the more you put in, the better it tastes. My Spud Buds, I suspect, would agree — even if one of them prefers the club sandwich. There’s always one in every crowd. PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith, editors of and contributors to the highly acclaimed anthology Mothers and Strangers, will appear at The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines, on Friday, March 6, at 2 p.m., to discuss the collection of essays by 18 different writers who challenge the stereotypes of Southern mothers. For information visit www. thecountry bookshop.biz.

Festival of Song Enjoy the N.C. Symphony’s performance of “A Rodgers & Hammerstein Celebration,” featuring the timeless song collaborations of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II from musicals like South Pacific, The Sound of Music, State Fair, The King and I, Carousel and Oklahoma! The concert, hosted by Oscar Andy Hammerstein III, the grandson of the lyricist/dramatist, is at 8 p.m. on Thursday, March, 5 at Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. For additional information call (877) 627-6724 or go to www.ncsymphony.org.

Concert pianist Nathan Lee will perform at the Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines, on Monday, March 9, at 9 p.m. At the age of 15 Lee won first prize in the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and debuted at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He has performed with the Cleveland Symphony, Buffalo Symphony, Seattle Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra. For additional information call (910) 692-2787 or visit www.mooreart.org.

Wizards Run Wild Celebrate the work of J.K. Rowling at “Wizards of Weymouth” on Saturday, March 28 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities at 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Enjoy the TriWizard Obstacle Course, Quidditch Toss, LEGO Wizards, Potion Crafting and Wand Wizardry. In addition, awards for the Moore County Writer's Competition will be presented. Tickets are $10 per child. Adults accompanied by a child are free. For more information call (910) 6926261 or visit www.weymouthcenter.org. Tickets available at ticketmesandhills.com.

Young at Art Bolshoi Ballet in Cinemas The tragic fate of a pair of young lovers inspired Sergei Prokofiev’s cinematic score of Romeo and Juliet. Bolshoi stars Ekaterina Krysanova and Vladislav Lantratov embody the star-crossed lovers. The showing is Sunday, March 29, at 1 p.m., at the Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Tickets are $25. For more information call (910) 692-3611 or visit www.sunrise theater.com.

Visit the Young People’s Fine Arts Festival, presented by the Arts Council of Moore County, at the Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines, beginning on Friday, March 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. The exhibition of art by Moore County students in grades K-8 will run through March 25. For more information call (910) 692-2787 or go to www. mooreart.org.

Spring Concert

The Rooster’s Wife

The Moore County Concert Band with guest soloist Dr. Tim Altman on trumpet will perform selections from a typical European “Grand Tour” in the Grand Ballroom of the Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst, on Sunday, March 15, at 2 p.m. For more information call (910) 6927012 or search www.moorecounty band.com.

Friday, March 6: Miss Tess and the Talkbacks. Tess has always been known for creating an eclectic array of vintage blues, country, and jazz sounds. However varied Tess’ music can be, her voice has been described as seductive and sexy, and a pure joy for listening. She’s celebrating her brand new record at the Spot. Cost: $20. Sunday, March 8: George Jackson Band, Treya Lam. At the heart of all traditional music lie two important coordinates, the time and place of origin. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, fiddler George Jackson spent the better part of his childhood living and touring in a house bus with his family band, eventually making his way to Nashville, Tennessee. His fiddle tunes reflect a deep understanding of American roots traditions while remaining entirely true to his own musical and personal identity. Cost: $20. Sunday, March 15: The Blue Eyed Bettys. Weaving spellbinding stories with their exuberant performances, they turn boisterous bars into attentive listening rooms and sleepy pubs into raucous parties. Cost: $20. Sunday, March 22: Steel City Rovers. This Celtic group from Ontario, Canada, performs dynamic and expressive music that is a unique composite of traditional Celtic music and North American styles including bluegrass, folk and roots. Performing on meticulously crafted replicas of historical instruments rarely seen on today’s musical landscape, they breathe life into newly discovered instrumental melodies from centuries ago. Cost: $20. Thursday, March 26: Hargreaves and deGroot; Furtado and Price. This special evening will feature two pairs of renowned string players. Tatiana Hargreaves and Allison deGroot immerse themselves in the depths of a centuries-old art form — the interlocking propulsion of Appalachian fiddle and banjo duets — and emerge with a contemporary aesthetic and vision. Tony Furtado is a wide-ranging songwriter adept on banjo, cello-banjo, slide guitar and baritone ukulele, and Luke Price is known for his great balance of taste, rhythm and technical ability. Cost: $20. Sunday, March 29: Eliza Neals. A Detroit blues-rock star on the rise, honors the gutwrenching, soul-splitting intent the American roots of contemporary blues represents with inspired songwriting, live performances, and magic not seen in years. Cost: $20. Unless otherwise noted, doors open at 6 p.m. and music begins at 6:46 at the Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Prices above are for members. Annual memberships are $5 and available online or at the door. For more information call (910) 944-7502 or visit www.theroosterswife.org or www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Wit & Whimsy The Uprising Theatre Company’s annual fundraiser to cover the costs of the “Shakespeare in the Pines” 2020 production of The Comedy of Errors will be Thursday, March 19, from 6:30 to 9 p.m., at the Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. For information go to www.uprisingtheatre.com. Tickets are available at www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Art in Bloom The Garden Club of the Sandhill's sweetly-scented showcase of local floral designers, “Blooming Art” begins on Saturday, March 28 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Campbell House Gallery, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. The exhibit is also open on March 29 from noon to 4 p.m. For more information call (843) 992-1891. The tickets are $10 and available at ticketmesandhills.com.

Wagner at The Met The Metropolitan Opera’s performance of Der Fliegende Hollander, an early masterwork by Richard Wagner, starring base-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel, will be shown at the Sunrise Theater 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines, at 1 p.m. on Saturday, March 14. For information call (910) 692-3611 or visit www.sunrisetheater.com.

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What’s Your pH? Finding balance in the body

By K aren Frye

There has been much study and information

published about the importance of balancing our body’s pH level. The term pH (potential of hydrogen) refers to the acidity or alkalinity of a substance. If you have a fish tank or a swimming pool, you understand that maintaining the proper pH balance is very important. The theory is relevant to the human body as a way to reduce the risk of many diseases. When the clear fluids like saliva remain in the healing pH range of 7.1 to 7.5, a slightly alkaline condition, the body is able to perform cellular repair and maintain good health.

Lack of pH balance can lead to poor health. A few of the conditions of an over-acidic body are arthritis, high blood pressure, diabetes, tooth decay, osteoporosis, asthma and fibromyalgia. Nearly all degenerative, chronic disease thrives in an over-acidic state of health. One way back to better health is finding that acid/alkaline balance your body works hard to maintain. Our body is designed to be self-healing. When there is a balance of alkaline and acid, the body can repair itself. The food we eat directly influences the state of our health. Changing your diet is one of the tools to balance pH and maintain the proper balance of the bodily fluids that impact every cell in the body. Sometimes the change can be a radical one, especially if you eat the standard American diet. A diet of highly processed and refined food, lacking enzymes and nutrients, can, over time, create major stress on the body because of over-acidity. An acidic condition wreaks havoc on the major organs, glands, bones and teeth. It is also important to know that you do not want to be too alkaline, as the vital organs and muscles need to remain in the slightly acidic pH range. The blood seeks to stay in the constant pH of 7.365 to 7.425 to maintain homeostasis. What should you eat, and what should you avoid? There are many books that contain vast amounts of information about the foods you need to include in your diet. Vegetables are at the top of the list; they contain the most alkalineforming nutrients. Red, yellow, purple, and especially the greens; almonds, Brazil nuts, raisins, dates, and fruits are the way to go (citrus fruits are thought of as being acid-forming, but actually have an alkalizing effect in the body). Another item you can add to the list is raw apple cider vinegar. The acidforming foods include all refined and processed foods, flour-based food and grains, dairy, most nuts and seeds, sugar and food with added sugar, along with most drugs including aspirin, coffee, tea, soft drinks and alcohol. You can find a complete list in books, and online. Checking your pH is easy. You can find the litmus paper at most natural foods stores (like Nature’s Own) or a pharmacy. You use the paper to test the saliva and urine. There is a color strip included to measure your readings. Usually once a week is enough. There are pH balancing drops available that you can add to your water daily to help you achieve your “perfect health” balance. The longterm results are worth all your efforts as you gradually see and feel your health conditions improve. PS Karen Frye is the owner and founder of Nature’s Own and teaches yoga at the Bikram Yoga Studio.

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Very Odd Indeed Judson Theatre produces Neil Simon classic

By Jim Moriarty

What happens when two divorced

women move in together? You could go to Netflix and watch Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau to get an inkling or, if you want to really know, you can go to the Judson Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s female version of The Odd Couple March 26-29 at the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center at Sandhills Community College.

Simon’s female version of his timeless comedy debuted on Broadway in 1985 with the lead characters transformed into Olive Madison and Florence Unger. When Florence is unceremoniously ditched by her husband, she shows up at Olive’s rather untidy apartment, where the girls are engaged in a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit. Concerned that Florence might be suicidal, Olive takes her in. But these are two women with very, very different personalities. The rest is classic Neil Simon, not recycled but reimagined. Olive is being played by Amanda Bearse, best known for her portrayal of Marcy D’Arcy in over 250 episodes of Married . . . with Children. Bearse was most recently the director of an off-Broadway play, Party Face, produced by Judson’s founder, Morgan Sills. “We had Hayley Mills dedicated to this final week when we lost not only our standby, which is the word for understudy now, but one of the actresses, too,” Bearse says. “Long story short, I ended up on stage. I hadn’t been on stage in decades. I quit acting after Married . . . with Children in order to be taken seriously in Hollywood as a director. I got this little opportunity with six or seven performances. I had a blast and was reminded how much fun it is. So, I kind of put the energy out there to Morgan. ‘When are you going to ask me to come down there?’ You have to be careful what you ask for. So, I guess I have to get new headshots. I’m an actor again.” Bearse, who is back in Southern California, had been teaching at the Seattle Film Institute. “The female version of Odd Couple is something that I came to just in the last few years. So, when Morgan brought it up, I said I’m

familiar with that play,” she says. “Florence is wound up pretty tight, a lot like the character I did on Married . . . with Children. That might be the most expected way to see me. I like to shake things up a little bit, and I said I would love to play Olive.” Teresa Ganzel, who has appeared with actors like Jackie Gleason, Richard Pryor, Lynn Redgrave, Carol Burnett, Jean Smart, Jim Carrey, Bob Newhart and on and on, performed previously in Pinehurst as Truvy in Judson Theatre’s production of Steel Magnolias. “I was doing Viagra Falls — yes, it’s a comedy — and Morgan told me he’d seen the show and that he was doing Steel Magnolias, and he thought I’d be great in the Dolly Parton part,” she says. “I said, ‘Are you kidding? I’d love to do that part.’ So, that’s how it happened. I loved Pinehurst, too, so that whole experience, I just really enjoyed it. Now, here it is, six years later and he asked if I’d like to do the female Odd Couple and I said, of course. The weird thing, too, is I’d never seen a production of the Odd Couple, male or female. I see a lot of theater and it’s such a classic play, you would have thought I would have. I’m loving the fact that it’s sort of new to me.” Sills, the executive producer, is joined once again by artistic director Daniel Haley. “We had done so well with Plaza Suite with Eve Plumb and Rex Smith, and with The Sunshine Boys with Robert Wuhl and Don Most, that we wanted to do another Neil Simon. Our audiences love it,” says Sills. “The female Odd Couple seemed to be the next logical progression because Love, Loss and What I Wore by Nora Ephron had done so well. “Also, we knew we could cast it really well. To have Teresa come back and have Amanda come down to North Carolina, they’re both friends. They’re wonderful on stage and off. I knew it would be an unbeatable combination, that they’ll be hysterically funny in this show. No laughs get by these two.” Performances at BPAC are Thursday, March 26, at 7 p.m.; Friday, March 27, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, March 28, at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and a final matinee on Sunday, March 29, at 3 p.m. Tickets are $38 in advance or $45 at the door ($25 for military or students) and are available online at Judsontheatre.com. All seating is general admission. PS Jim Moriarty is the senior editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com.

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Mystery of the Hunley What killed the Confederacy’s submariners?

By Stephen E. Smith

With an estimated 60,000 to

100,000 Civil War—related titles published in the last 155 years, you might wonder if there’s anything left to write about. But science and technology have offered new methods of verifying the previously unverifiable, no matter how esoteric or insignificant the subject might be.

An April entry into the Civil War marketplace is Rachel Lance’s In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine. This 315-page semi-technical analysis of a single black-powder detonation that changed naval warfare forever should be of interest to anyone living in the Carolinas, taking place, by and large, at Duke University, and concerning an artifact that has, in recent years, attracted thousands of tourists to the city of Charleston. Lance is a biomedical engineer and blast-injury researcher at Duke. She spent several years as an engineer developing specialized underwater equipment for the Navy and was working toward her Ph.D. when she took on, at the insistence of her dissertation advisor, the mysterious demise of the H.L. Hunley’s crew. Any Civil War enthusiast (let’s dispense with the pejorative term “buff”; many Civil War readers are serious historians) will be happy to tell you that the Hunley was an experimental submarine developed by the Confederacy in hopes that it would break the Union blockade, and that it might have succeeded except that it disappeared along with the USS Housatonic, the first

warship sunk by a submersible craft, and remained cloaked in mystery until 1995, when it was located 4 miles offshore in 30 feet of water. The sub was raised from the bottom in 2000 and has since become Charleston’s most popular attraction. For those unfamiliar with the details of the Hunley’s story, Lance supplies a history of early submersibles and details the little sub’s short life, including the circumstances surrounding the first two Hunley crews, who perished when mechanical problems arose during testing. Even H.L. Hunley, the sub’s inventor, died when he accidently depressed the bow planes when surfacing following a test dive. After each sinking, the sub was raised and put back into service, even when it required that the bloated bodies of the dead be dismembered to facilitate removal, a decidedly unpleasant task relegated to slave labor. For many years, it was assumed the Hunley had survived its attack on the Housatonic — it was reported that the crew signaled success by flashing a blue light — but there was no satisfactory explanation as to why the boat did not return to fight another day. Survivors of the Housatonic testified to seeing the Hunley shortly after the explosion, but no further evidence as to the fate of the sub and its crew was offered at the time. Lance’s study focuses on the crew’s cause of death. Archaeologists found all eight men slumped at their stations in the submarine. Seven men were seated at the propeller crank, and the remains of the boat’s captain, Lt. George Dixon, were discovered in the forward conning tower. None showed signs of skeletal trauma, and there was no indication that the crew had attempted to escape the sinking craft. A careful examination of the boat’s skin revealed that the explosion had not breached its hull. Since Lance is a blast-injury expert, readers might assume that she was seeking confirmation that the crew was killed by the shock wave from detonation of the Hunley’s torpedo, and not from suffocation or drowning. In fact,

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Southern newspapers speculated shortly after the sub’s disappearance that such a wave had sunk the little boat, and knowledgeable observers at the time of the sub’s testing warned that the Hunley would likely fall victim to its own torpedo, which was suspended on the end of a spar extending from the bow of the boat. Lance’s objective was to prove beyond all doubt that a blast wave killed the Hunley’s crew, and In the Waves is a narrative history of her quest to gather evidence to that effect and to procure, in the process, her Ph.D. To do this she constructed a miniature Hunley-like craft (the CSS Tiny), procured black powder of the sort available during the Civil War, constructed a miniature facsimile of the torpedo, and conducted extensive testing in an appropriate body of water. Instruments to measure the true force of the blast had to be obtained from the Navy and made to function correctly under circumstances that were anything but ideal. The development of testing criteria consumes most of Lance’s book, at times growing a trifle tedious and dauntingly technical. Failed test follows failed test, subjecting the reader to the same level of frustration suffered by Lance and her team of researchers. But she wisely couches much of the technical information in understandable terms and refers more punctilious readers to the openaccess journal PLOs One. “This is a descriptive version of the math and physics,” she writes in a footnote, “and was written to be understandable for the general reader. It does not, therefore, go into all the complex details necessary to justify and complete the scientific analysis.” While working to replicate the explosive force of the Hunley’s torpedo, Lance reveals the intriguing story of George Washington Rains. Born in Craven County, North Carolina, Rains almost singlehandedly supplied the Confederacy with black powder and torpedo technology. Southern soldiers may have run short of food and clothing, but they were never without powder and shot, a fact that no doubt prolonged the slaughter and destruction occasioned by the war. In the Waves’ entertainment value is mostly a matter of scientific revelation. As a narrative it is made less successful by the inclusion of unnecessary details regarding the author’s personal life, and the occasional irrelevant sidebar and annoying digression. Is it worth reading? Certainly. If you have an abiding interest in Civil War history, you’ll no doubt find a place for In the Waves in your already overburdened bookshelves. PS

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The Yellow Bird Sings, by Jennifer Rosner In Poland, as World War II rages, Róza and her daughter Shira are hiding from German soldiers in a barn loft. Having to be very quiet, Róza makes up a story about a yellow bird that is free to go out and sing and make noise while they must be quiet. Separated when they have to leave the barn, mother and daughter remain attached through their musical abilities and the story of the bird, but wonder if they will ever see each other again. A mesmerizing story. The Pride of Eden, by Taylor Brown Anse Caulfield is a life-toughened Vietnam veteran and former jockey who, for reasons of his own, uses an ill-gotten windfall to establish Little Eden, a wildlife sanctuary on the coast of Georgia. Here, a collection of unforgettable mavericks, living on the periphery of society, wage an unofficial war of their own to rescue exotic animals from the hands of greed and cruelty. Brown has the rare ability to place his readers into the minds of his characters, allowing them to inhabit their skin. We can tap into their senses, passions and motivations. Every page explodes, and every line is pure poetry. Pride of Eden is original, sensitive, and unsparing. The New Life of Hugo Gardner, by Louis Begley Hugo is in his 80s, his wife has just left him for a younger man, and he’s lonely. With a plan to end his life should it become necessary (he doesn’t want to be a burden), he tries to find a way to be happy. In the past this has always included sexual intimacy, so why should that change? Blackwood, by Michael Farris Smith The thing about the invasive kudzu vine is that it is unstoppable. Nearly impenetrable, it harbors and smothers its secrets. The countryside around the dead-end town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, is filled with the encroaching vine and the sad stories it keeps. That peace is shattered when a vagabond family lands in the town, along with an artist whose family met with tragedy there when he was a boy. A disturbing chain of events follows in this tense, breathtaking novel. The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel A Ponzi scheme collapses, obliterating lives and fortunes, and a woman mysteriously disappears from the deck of a container ship at sea. These seemingly disparate events converge in a glass-fronted hotel on Vancouver Island in this story of crisis and survival. An exquisite, character-driven novel that will haunt the reader for days after the last page. A Good Neighborhood, by Therese Anne Fowler It began with a tree, a wonderful, massive oak in a modest, diverse neighborhood, with small, modest homes, and close-knit neighbors. The tree is a treasured part of a property owned by a widowed black college professor and her talented teenage son. The tree is put in peril and the serenity of the neighborhood is disrupted when a gargantuan home is built on a razed lot next door by a wealthy businessman who does little to hide his contempt for his neighbors. This man has a beautiful young daughter, and as fate would have it, the two teens fall in love, setting the course

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As I should. So I decided to stop using plastic straws and plastic razors — those disposable ones, usually orange or blue — and buy an electric razor. My father, back in his day, used an implement that looked very much like a plastic razor, but his was metal, and when you twisted the handle about a quarter-turn, two little doors on the head of the razor opened toward the ceiling. He’d then drop in a thin, almost weightless Gillette razor blade. He’d twist the handle so that the little doors closed and the blade would be enclosed snugly, with its two sharp outside edges exposed. He’d drip some warm water from the spigot into a mug that had a bit of soap in the bottom, then work up some lather with a soft round brush. He’d brush the white lather onto his face, and then carefully shave. My grandfather did it the same way, except he used a straight razor, sharpened by sliding the blade along a leather strap, or “strop.” The strop looked like an extraordinarily wide leather belt. Anyway, I realized I’d have to shop for a new electric razor. For me, shopping often produces anxiety and indecision. I do it as rarely as possible. For example, I bought my newest sport coat before my very old cat was born. Cats don’t live that long. And I just found out that some blue jeans are black. First stop: Target. I find the electric razor section. It’s as long as a gymnasium wall. My heart rate ticks up. I look closely and read packaging information: dryfoil, proskin, lithium ion, microcomb, flexible foil cutters, pivot head. I grab one in the mid-priced range: $69 — the going price of a sink,

commode and bathtub when my father started shaving in about 1917. The brand is a Braun, and something extra is in the box. I’m not sure what, but I just want to get out of the store. I take my Braun home and try to open the box with several kitchen implements. I finally open it with my chain saw, avoiding injury, get the razor out, and unpack the rest of the box. I find a thick booklet of instructions in English and many other languages, as well as a fairly large “recharging stand.” And inside the recharging stand is a small, clear plastic container. And . . . stay with me . . . inside that container is a container of some special liquid that every night will clean the shaver while the razor is being recharged and . . . no joke . . . oil it. I read that every few months I’ll need to buy more of that special liquid. A reasonable person might wonder if this thing will shave me like those vacuum cleaners that vacuum the house while you watch TV. What happened next is I nervously decided to do a bit of research. What was I getting into? When I Googled “electric shavers” I got this many hits: 41,300,000. (Check it out.) And then because I Googled “electric shaver,” I now have a new electric shaver image pop-up on my speedometer screen when I start my car — the latest deal between Honda and Google. Next stop: Target. I returned the electric razor. I bought a bag of disposable razors, the blue ones, and a can of shaving foam. Soon, I’m going to visit my father’s grave as I sometimes do, and we will have a talk. I think I know what he’s going to suggest: mug, soap, soft round brush, and an old-timey metal razor. 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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How Raleigh’s bold investment in sculptor Jim Gallucci’s art led to a revitalization of the city’s urban center By Wiley Cash • Photographs by Mallory Cash

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cial ruin, Greensboro sculptor Jim Gallucci received the largest commission of his career. The city of Raleigh selected him to construct four light towers to sit on either corner of downtown’s City Plaza in an attempt to redefine the empty space in front of the old Civic Center.

“It started out as a $65,000 project,” Gallucci says. “We kept saying, ‘You know, guys, we can do more with this,’ and they said, ‘Really? You got any ideas?’ These towers were going to be 65 feet tall. The next thing you knew it turned into a $2.5 million project.” However, as the reality of the global financial crisis set in, Gallucci was certain the project would be pulled; but leaders in Raleigh decided to move ahead. In the fall of 2009, City Plaza, complete with Gallucci’s four 65-foot light towers bedecked in steel oak leaves, opened to the public. City officials hoped the plaza would serve as a “public living room” that would host concerts and events while attracting organizations from around the country that were searching for event and reception space. The plaza project was part of the now completely revitalized area of Raleigh’s Fayetteville Street, and towering above all the new businesses, concertgoers and tourists are Jim Gallucci’s glowing behemoths. Raleigh proved that an investment in the arts could lead an economic revitalization. Gallucci was not surprised that the city’s bet paid off. “The arts are always the catalyst,” he says. “We’re the stick in the stream. Next thing you know there’s a leaf that’s caught by the stick, and before long the stick has gathered an entire island around it.” Jim Gallucci’s enormous studio — which he admits to thinking of less as a studio and more as a tool that assists in his art — sits just south of downtown Greensboro. Going off Gallucci’s own metaphor, his studio could be described as an island that has gathered things over the years: sculptures of dizzying heights and varying colors; scraps of metal from local salvage yards; beams from the World Trade Center; and people from around the state interested in anything from sculpture to metalworking to glassblowing to having a cup of coffee and chatting. This is exactly what Gallucci hoped this space would become after opening the studio in 2006, not only for him but for the collective community of local and statewide artists of which he is part.

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Gallucci’s collective approach is quickly made apparent when you spend time discussing art with him; you will discover that he consistently speaks in the collective first person we. “We’d been in the old Civil War rifle factory on East Washington in downtown Greensboro for 21 years,” he says. “There were holes in the ceiling. The floors weren’t strong enough to hold the sculptures we were making.” He smiles, takes a sip of his coffee. “We knew we needed four things from a studio: We needed plenty of space. We needed heat. We needed an office. And we needed a bridge crane.” That checklist — especially plenty of space and the bridge crane — came in handy as the full lengths of the six-story Raleigh towers were being fabricated inside the studio. Gallucci had plenty of hands on deck as the towers were lifted by the bridge crane and prepared for transport. You would not know it now, but there were times when Jim Gallucci felt more like PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 2020

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that single stick in the stream than the island that would gather around it. As a working artist, he had spent years teaching at the college level, but that came to a halt in 1986, when the University of North Carolina Greensboro did not renew his teaching contract after nine years in the classroom. He had a decision to make: Should he and his family leave Greensboro in search of another teaching job, or should they stay in the community, where they had forged relationships for nearly a decade? He and his wife made the conscious decision to stay. “We’d made a lot of friends,” he says. “We had a community. We knew a lot of people in the fabrication business, and we’d trade sculptures for steel. You don’t buy those relationships; you assemble them during your life.” After leaving the classroom, Gallucci decided to put his faith in his local community, and he decided to keep his faith in his art. “I took unemployment for six months, and I called it my arts grant. I went in my studio every day like a worker at 8 a.m., and I’d work until 4 p.m. I worked every day in that studio, and we were able to trade for steel, and we made three good sculptures during that six months and tried to get into shows. “Those three pieces we made? All of them were sold, and two of them ended up in Brisbane, Australia. I suddenly went from an unemployed art teacher to an international sculptor.”

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Gallucci’s sculptures began to pop up around Greensboro, then around the state, then around the country. He is perhaps best known for his gates and arches, especially the Millennium Gate in Greensboro’s Government Plaza, a project that found 17 artisans creating 106 icons that represent major figures, moments and movements from American history. The icons are affixed to the enormous arch and comprise the gate at its center. Viewers are able to both witness history and pass through it, and that interaction is vital to Gallucci’s vision. “With gates, it’s easy to get into the art,” he says, “literally and figuratively. I try to get people to enter the work, to engage with it.” Gallucci also gives people the opportunity to engage with their own artwork

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“Creativity happens when you experience something you’ve never experienced before,” Gallucci says. “The elements: the sand, the dirt, the heat; it’s almost primordial. People may not become iron casters after this, but that’s not the point. It’s igniting other things, inviting other ways to look at the world. That’s what art inspires.”

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What does Jim Gallucci hope his art inspires? He thinks for a moment, the light from sparks and flames glinting in his safety glasses, which he wears casually, the way other people wear sunglasses or bifocals. “I hope I’m perpetuating ideas, goodwill, community, sense of purpose, reflection. If you’re doing that with a piece of art, you’re doing OK.” No man is an island, right? Well, perhaps Jim Gallucci is. PS several times a year when he opens his studio to host a public iron pour. Hundreds of people show up in the early afternoon, many of them with small sand casts on which they will use any number of tools to etch a symbol or a name or an image that will then be cast in iron later in the day. People come not only to pour iron, but to work with blacksmithing tools or to try their hand at glassblowing. Others come for the live music or the hot food that is served. The noise of the conversations and music and hammers rises into a pleasing din that fills the enormous studio space and pours outside, where men and women in masks and leather gloves and aprons are stoking the foundry and melting metal into what looks like bright orange lava. Jim Gallucci is there, talking to old friends, making new ones, offering words of encouragement to someone who is trying their hand at metal casting for the first time. As the sky tips toward dusk, the scene is otherworldly. Sparks fly. Flames reach into the air. Metal is turned into liquid. The vague notions of creativity that people arrived with are slowly hardening into shape.

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Billy By Bill Fields

In the early stages of my seventh

decade of being called something, I know I am not “will.i.am.” And the singer William James Adams Jr. need not fear that I will encroach on his lower-case and punctuated stage moniker.

Beyond that, though, all bets are off as I deal with an identity crisis. My name game was simple for a long time. As with many folks, there were family reasons my birth certificate says what it says. William was the first name of my father and of the man who, with his wife, adopted him. Henderson, my mother’s maiden name, was chosen for the middle of mine. Both sides had a stake in how I would turn out. From as early as I can remember, people called me Bill, never the twosyllable variant of the nickname. This was obviously a choice, for whatever reason, by my parents. As a child, I had no reason to argue with them. Neither Billy the Kid nor Billy Graham had something I needed. Once I started school, I began to see how the world’s male Williams — or at least those in my classroom — were divided into Bills and Billys. The Duncan boy was a Billy. The Perham boy, like me, was a Bill. Folks seemed as likely to switch up their nicknames as to mistake the Blue Knights for the Red Devils. I was Bill on my lesson papers and my report cards. I also was Bill on my Little League team, although if someone had labeled me Willie, same as one of my baseball heroes, Willie Mays, I would have taken it in a heartbeat. This “rule” followed me to the barbershop, where I never heard anyone voice the first name of my favorite haircutter, Billie Joyce Hill, with fewer than two syllables. The same was true for a longtime teacher in Southern Pines, Billie Bowen, although in the hallways she received an alliterative addition, “Bat Cave” Billie Bowen, because of her roots in that tiny western North Carolina community. I was a plain, boring Bill until encountering golf professionals at Mid Pines for whom I worked as a teen golf cart attendant. I was Billy to them

just as sure as there were longleaf pines along the fairways. As I got older, outside of passports, bank statements and driver licenses that utilized my legal name, I was Bill — to friends and family, in bylines and, most of the time, to co-workers. The difference between the nickname’s versions was as different as Billy Crystal and Bill Kristol. The last couple of years, one of my freelance assignments finds me on the road a dozen times a year working long days with a great bunch of people, some of whom like to call me Billy. Although I still don’t see myself as a Billy, I answer to it and have come to see it as the term of endearment that it is. I am the same person, after all, with or without a “y.” I wish a phone agent had been as understanding a year ago when I was attempting to close a cable television account for the service in my mother’s room in an assisted living facility. “This is William Fields,” I said, identifying the account and explaining why I had called.” The voice on the other end of the line was helpful at first, collecting salient information to allow him to retrieve the account from the virtual vault of cable TV land. Just when I thought we were close to finishing the conversation, a snag appeared. “What did you say your name was?” he asked. “William Fields,” I answered. “This account was opened by Bill Fields.” “Yeah, that’s me. Bill is short for William. It’s a nickname. It’s my name. That was me — it is me.” “But the account was opened with a different name. I can’t do this over the phone. You’re going to have to go to an office.” After a couple of more tries weren’t able to inject any common sense into the conversation, I gave up and hung up. As the steam dissipated, Bill v. Billy seemed way down the list of the world’s woes. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent. Bill can be reached at williamhfields@gmail.com.

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IN THE SPIRIT

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In past issues, I’ve mentioned how

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my first encounters with almost every spirit were terrible impressions: everything from Jose Cuervo to Aristocrat gin. Let me fill you in about my first dance with whiskey.

I was with a friend at the lake on a beautiful day in June. We were fishing and having a few beers while music was blasting from a little speaker. My friend brought some snacks with him that were in his book bag. One of those snacks was a bottle of Jack. He grabbed the bottle, unscrewed the top, and took a swig. My turn. Acting like I was a seasoned vet, I snapped my head back, raising the bottle vertically to the sun, and took a decent-sized “swaller.” I screwed the cap back on, sat the bottle on the grass, and grinned. I couldn’t breathe. As my buddy was rambling on about something, I just nodded my head, and stood there as that you’re-about-to-throw-up saliva secreted from the glands in my mouth. Thirty seconds later, I dizzily walked away from our poles toward the woods, fell to my knees, and yakked. Man, last summer was crazy. Joking.

But, I’m still not fond of Jack Daniels. What I am a fan of is other types of whiskey (I see you, rye). Canadian whiskey was my puppy love stage, and bourbon whiskey was my first full-fledged relationship. Even though that sentence makes me sound like a full-fledged alcoholic, I am not (I see you, Mom). My first days of bartending were during the bourbon boom, if you will. And even though we have strict ABC laws in North Carolina, we were able to get great bottles on a regular basis. These days that is certainly not the case. Most ABC hubs have to have an auction-style drawing to see which bar or restaurant gets that one (yes, one) bottle of higher-end whiskey. I wish I were joking. One of those bottles is Blanton’s bourbon. It’s a pity, too; Blanton’s is one of my favorite whiskies. Blanton’s was so popular last decade that their distillery, Buffalo Trace, put out a press release stating that demand was higher than their supply. Unfortunately, it still seems to be. Either that, or North Carolina is not allocated many bottles at all, compared to when I could order from my bar. I could wax poetic on how lovely Blanton’s is, and why I would marry her, but instead I’m going to share some facts about bourbon. However, if you ever see a bottle of Blanton’s anywhere, buy it. Even if you’re not a whiskey fan, I guarantee that you will have someone over one day, and when they find out you have a bottle, they just might faint. Before I drop knowledge, please note that some of my info comes from whiskey sommelier Heather Greene. I purchased her book years back, Whisk(e)y Distilled — A Populist Guide to the Water of Life. I highly recom-

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mend it. I know that there are hundreds of books on whiskey, but Heather’s is as easy to read as it is informative. • Bourbon is an American spirit. • Bourbon can be distilled anywhere in America. Contrary to belief, it does not have to be produced in Kentucky. • With that being said, Kentucky is the birthplace of bourbon. They craft 95 percent of the world’s bourbon.

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• “Kentucky is on pace for record growth (this year) — more than 24,000 people will owe their paychecks to the distilling industry for a total payroll of $1.2 billion annually and $10 billion in economic output.” (kybourbon.com) I enjoy my Blanton’s neat, sometimes with a flick of water. If you’re looking for a recipe, here you go: 2 ounces of your favorite bourbon in a rocks glass. Ice or water optional. Sláinte, ya'll. PS Tony Cross is a bartender (well, ex-bartender) who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern Pines.

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WINE COUNTRY

Neighbors to the North Virginia wines come into their own

By Angela Sanchez

When driving through

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the rolling hills outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, you see beautiful farmland with wineries, cider houses and breweries. Tucked away in Central Virginia, these places have breathtaking views and lovely, preserved agricultural spaces. It’s where Thomas Jefferson worked voraciously to grow French wine varietals in the fields of Monticello, his plantation home.

Full of American history and familyowned farms, minutes away from cities, colleges and culture, this area boasts a thriving wine industry. It’s only fitting that today Central Virginia is on the map for winemaking and viticulture. Once considered mediocre, at best, today the wines are worth a closer look. While Virginia is broken into numerous growing districts, Central Virginia is the most interesting. Encompassing Albemarle and Nelson counties — a short drive from Charlottesville, minutes from Wintergreen ski park in the Appalachian Mountains and an hour-and-a-half from Richmond — the area is beautiful, accessible, and capable of producing wines on par with those of America’s more heralded wine regions. The Central Virginia growing district encompasses the Monticello AVA (American Viticultural Area), named for Jefferson’s home. A well-know Francophile when it came to all things wine, Jefferson not only collected French wines but toiled over French varietals in his own vineyards, trying to find the right “fit” for the land. Today, the land has decided. Granite-based clay soil is very fertile, and provides the structure behind the beautiful wines produced there. Lesser-known French varietals have taken hold. Viognier, cabernet Franc and petit verdot have grown, adapted, and are thriving in the rich soil, continental climate and the extended growing season of over 200 days a year. As of late, better-known varietals like cabernet sauvignon and chardonnay are shining, too. At most of the wineries you will find Bordeaux-style blends leading the tastings as favorites, lending an “expression of place” that is uniquely Central Virginia. The wines are structured with a restrained power that allows the

balance and fruit character to shine. Some have great aging potential, though most producers are making wines that can, and should, be enjoyed young. Whites and rosés are aromatic and, at their best, show notes of minerality. The growers and vintners have developed wines of style based on their place, soil, climate — terroir, if you will — rather than emulating other growing areas. Working with what the land gives them has added greatly to the success of the region, what Virginiawine.org calls “pushing back against a tyranny of sameness.” The wineries of the Central Virginia growing district are beautiful, like the landscape they occupy. The fertile, green, rolling hills, undeveloped farmland and the backdrop of the Blue Ridge Mountains make for idyllic production. Some of the wineries are stately, some modern farmhouses, all offering their unique expression of place, and all accommodating. A few offer full menus while others just showcase their wines, allowing you to bring in food. Most are kid-friendly, and all are couple- and friendfriendly. A large majority are family-owned, and a few are owned by famous faces. Flying Fox Vineyard, a family-owned winery that not only makes amazing wines but has introduced a line of outstanding vermouths, is one of my favorites. Others include Pippin Vineyards, with a full restaurant and culinary gardens; Pollack Vineyards, with a beautiful tasting room and big lush wines; and Blenheim Vineyards (owned by rock star Dave Matthews), with gorgeous views, picnic areas and a glass floor in the tasting room that shows off the winery. All are easy to get to and open every day of the year except Christmas. The reds and whites produced by these wineries are balanced, generous and a great bang for the buck. I like to pair the wines with cheese produced in Virginia, too. Try one of the signature red Bordeaux-style blends of cabernet, merlot, petit verdot and syrah from Blenheim with cheese from Meadow Creek Dairy. Appalachian, a tomme-style cheese with a rich, yellow hue and deep nutty and grassy flavor from the grazing herds, pairs well with a crisp, fruit forward rosé from Pippin Vineyards. Beautiful farmland, wines distinct to place, and the roots of America’s history are a day trip away. PS Angela Sanchez owns Southern Whey, a cheese-centric specialty food store in Southern Pines, with her husband, Chris Abbey. She was in the wine industry for 20 years and lucky enough to travel the world drinking wine and eating cheese.

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Take the chill off the Ides of March By Jan Leitschuh

On the cusp of spring, when the

weather swings wildly between balmy hope and savage bluster, every kitchen gardener senses a good pot of soup is warranted.

A well-made soup is fine home medicine to chase off the crud. The ultimate comfort food, a big pot of soup can nourish an ailing body for days. It goes down easy. It’s a spring tonic and a spring cleanse all in one. “My European mother would make soups and it would fill us up,” says Goldie Toon, former chef and owner of Goldie’s Gourmet in West End. Among her loyal patrons, Toon was known as the Soup Queen for her popular, bubbling pots of specialty soups. “People would order quarts of it at a time,” she recalls. Soup is efficient. A well-balanced soup is a meal in itself; just add a crust of bread, a jug of wine and thou. Stuff veggies, protein, flavorful stock and spices — everything you need — in a pot and heat ’er up! Invite friends. Say you can’t cook? Au contraire. You can make soup. Everyone can make soup. And with a Crock-Pot, the soup hardly needs watching. “Last night’s leftovers make the next day’s soup,” says Toon. “In fact, that’s probably how soup got started.” Her cafe’s three most popular soups were a luxurious shrimp and crab bisque, a hearty beef barley, and a gingered curried carrot. After a couple of hours turning up the spring soil in anticipation of planting lettuces, radishes, spinach, beets, carrots, kale, arugula and other crops that germinate in cold soil, a body craves soup for lunch. A hearty cup will take the chill off those “in like a lion” March days. It’s a cozy accompaniment to seasonal seed catalog perusal. With the new planting season commencing, it’s time to clean out the freezer and canning jars of last year’s bounty anyway. Toss in those last two jars of canned green beans. Dump the frozen sweet corn into a bacony chowder or a Brunswick stew. You’ll need the room; by the end of the month, the fresh asparagus will be arriving. Crafting a batch couldn’t be easier. It can be a recipe-free, creative endeavor. Start with stock. It’s the “juice” in which you will simmer the remaining ingredients; it’s the element that ties it all together. All grandmas know chicken soup is good for the crud, as well as the soul. Purists will want to simmer chicken thighs until the meat is falling off the bone, then strain and pick the meat, returning it to the pot. Simmering the bones gets tissue-building collagen and minerals into your home medicine. Same with a meaty beef bone, turkey carcass or ham hock. Others may opt to simply open

a quart of chicken or beef broth. Bone broth is increasingly available in cartons these days, too. Vegans can opt for a rich vegetable stock. You can even use plain water, although the richness factor is harder to re-create. Now, chop up a batch of onions — the more the better. Is there any savory recipe that doesn’t begin with “sauté an onion?” It is our flavor bass note. Packed with nutrients, full of the kinds of elements our healthy gut biome loves, onions also have antibacterial properties. Sauté in butter or olive oil. A little browning increases the flavor profile of your upcoming soup. What next? Though you will add many of them a little later, consider: What do you enjoy most? Italian spices? Curry flavors? A spicy Mexican soup? An Asian twist? Simple meat-and-potatoes salt and pepper? Whatever you choose, think about adding multiple cloves of garlic. Used medicinally for 5,000 years, garlic has antibiotic, atherosclerotic and anti-cholesterol properties. It helps lower blood pressure. Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, prescribed garlic for respiratory problems, parasites, poor digestion, and fatigue. It tastes good. It runs off vampires. I rest my case. You might choose to add sinus openers such as cayenne pepper or fresh ginger. Cayenne warms things up and juices the winter-sluggish metabolism. Besides its wonderful bite and zing, ginger is anti-inflammatory and wards off nausea and muscle aches. Gingerol, the bioactive substance in fresh ginger, can help lower the risk of infections and inhibit the growth of many different types of bacteria. Ginger has been shown to speed up emptying of the stomach in people with indigestion. You might toss in a little turmeric, another potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant, especially with a chicken soup base. As for vegetables, it depends on what you have on hand or can pick up easily. Here is a free-form “recipe” we make several times each winter because it’s cheap, easy, tasty and a wholesome meal in itself — chicken garlic cabbage soup, with lots of garlic. In a big Crock-Pot, dump in sautéed onion, chicken and stock. Cabbage is inexpensive and nutritious, so it forms the bulk. I like to chop it fine, as if I was making spring rolls or coleslaw, but anyway you hack into a head is OK. Start tossing in what you have or what you like: sliced mushrooms, those baby carrots that are so convenient, lots of celery, that cauliflower “rice” you find in the stores these days, chopped asparagus, perhaps some broccoli florets, and, of course, more garlic. Season with salt and pepper, a teaspoon or more of curry

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powder, a pinch of cayenne, a little ginger. Heat until carrots are softened (microwaving them first is a trick that speeds up cooking time). Just before eating, we’ll add a little soy sauce and a dash of toasted sesame oil. It will make you sit up and bark for joy. Remember all those little tubs of kale you froze when it was in season? Use them up. If you didn’t, there is plenty of fresh kale in the market now. That leads us to another fine winter soup, a simple white bean, sausage and kale. This soup starts out much the same: Sauté some onions in olive oil or butter. Throw in lots of garlic. Chop up the kale and sauté briefly. How much kale? Dial your dose. Italian sausage is a good addition. Dump it in the Crock-Pot (or a soup pot, but beans love to burn in a soup pot, so watch closely). Add a quart or more of chicken stock, depending on how many you plan to feed. Dump in a can or two of white (cannellini) beans. A trick for a thick, chowdery bean soup is to hold back some beans and process them in a blender, adding the bean slurry back into the soup. Season with salt and pepper, perhaps some Italian spices. A good, all-American corn chowder could be your third free-form option. Chowder is a classic cold-weather soup. Sauté up some bacon, then remove from the pan and sauté some onions in the drippings. In the pot, throw in some small-diced potatoes, chopped celery, some chopped carrots for color, and several cups of sweet corn kernels. Add three or four cups of milk, though a vegan friend does hers with almond milk (she also skips the bacon, sautéing in olive oil). Take care not to boil the milk. Soup is ready when the potatoes soften. To give it a nice thickness, mash some of the potatoes. Add lots of salt and pepper. And, if you prefer a more formal recipe . . .

Goldie’s Curried Carrot Soup

1 tablespoon olive oil 3 pounds carrots, peeled and chopped 1 large onion, chopped 1 tablespoon shredded ginger 1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder 1 teaspoon salt 6 cups water 1/2 cup orange juice Juice of one lime Can of coconut milk In a large pot, sauté onion in olive oil until soft. Stir in carrots, ginger, curry powder, salt. Add water, bring to a boil, then reduce and simmer 20 more minutes until carrots are soft. Add in orange juice, lime and coconut milk. Purée, then return to pot. Check for seasoning. Serves 6-8. Can be served hot or cold. PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and cofounder of Sandhills Farm to Table.

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March of the Dog Days Because, well, outside dog

By Susan S. Kelly

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be a column on dogs. March may seem a strange choice, but when it comes to my dog — a black Lab named Babe — it’s appropriate. March may be unpredictable, freezing one day, frying the next, but there is one thing about Babe that is a constant — she’s always outside, no matter the weather. Listen, you strollers and walkers and joggers and drive-bys: She is an outside dog. My husband and I had a knockdown drag-out about this years ago, with a different Lab, named Sis; so much so that I called the vet to find out the facts. “A Lab is made for cold weather,” he said. “They can go down to 2 degrees.” We’ve tried, I promise. We’ve had the wooden doghouse, with the cedar shavings inside. We’ve bought the expensive plastic “Igloo” house, outfitted it with towels and more cedar shavings, pitched bones and peanut butter-coated chew toys inside. We’ve put a fluffy bed inside the tool shed, next to the water heater, and left the door open so she can come and go. We’ve tried dragging her indoors by her collar. But . . . no dice. Babe has extreme canine FOMO. Babe is like Ariel in The Little Mermaid: She wants to be where the people are. The mailman. The UPS guy. The garbage men. The yard armies. And especially the dog walkers. They know her by name. They bring treats. They let their dogs off leashes so they can rodeo around the front yard with Babe. One dog walker, whose name I’ve never known, moved from the neighborhood but still drives over weekly and brings her French bulldog specifically to hang out with Babe. Babe has more friends than I do. I have to give them Christmas presents. My husband’s daily walk with her around a six-block radius is so regular, making Babe so familiar, that when he’s out of town, and I’m left with the walking task, people stop and ask me if my husband is sick. Babe doesn’t want to go to the dog Hilton if we go out of town. Besides, a legion of neighborhood kids have depended on Babe’s needs for adolescent income. Of course, having an outside dog, especially if the dog is a will-eat-anything Lab, has its problems. Collateral damage, if you will. The French drains,

chewed to plastic bits, piled in the monkey grass? Dog. The screen door whose lower half is brown from fur dirt? Dog. The terrace furniture cushions, whose corners are raveled and spilling upholstery guts? Dog. The dirt clods scattered all over the driveway/front walk from a recent dig? Dog. The Pieris japonica shrub in death throes with a hollowed-out cavity at its root base? Dog, seeking shade from the summer sun. The multitude of slobber-encrusted, threaddangling knotted ropes and bristle-bones and otherwise unrecognizable pet toys in the natural area/driveway/patio? Dog. Never mind the ruined hoses, which look like 20 yards of bubblegum to an outside dog. Because you can have a decent yard, or you can have an outside dog, but not both. Same applies to packages. A neighbor called to report that the front yard was dotted with scraps of blue fabric and bubble wrap. That was my Rent-theRunway dress for a black tie party. (Despite a dangling cap sleeve, I wore it anyway.) The teeth marks all over the $2-per-card stationery. The borrowedand-returned books with no covers left on them — hardback and paperback. I need a delivery drone that aims for chimneys instead of doors. And if you are delivering, watch where you place your feet, because . . . dog. Go, Dog, Go. And they do. Anywhere. Everywhere. Through five decades of dogs, I’ve always wanted one that, like Lassie, would put its head on my lap and do that “I love you” whine. I’ve finally got one. Babe is such a people-person dog that I can no longer sit on the (raveled, ruined) terrace furniture with a (coverless, chewed) book because she’s got her head in my lap, doing the “I love you” whine and jiggling my arm, and therefore my glass, and I’ve got a half-dozen wine-stained shirts to prove it. It’s been said before in this column but bears repeating: Be careful what you wish for. Still, she’s perfectly happy to gobble down all my boiled peanut shells. She’s perfectly happy to gobble ice cubes, for that matter. And I have a yard full of birds who feel perfectly safe raising their young in my pyracantha and wisteria vines because Babe in the yard means no cats or snakes in their nests. You know those T-shirts that say my parents went to wherever and all I got was this lousy T-shirt? My Master of Fine Arts cost $20,000 and the only thing I really learned or remember is this advice from a Pulitzer Prize-winning professor: No one wants to read about dreams, dogs, or how you lost your virginity. Well. Two out of three’s not bad. By the way, did you accidentally drop your white, knitted toboggan in my yard? Here it is, resembling Swiss cheese. Because . . . (outside) dog. PS Susan S. Kelly is a blithe spirit, author of several novels, and a proud grandmother.

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The toaster received as a wedding gift used to last a lifetime. Read on . . . This downward slide started in August, when my mobile landline phone died. Probably the battery, but I wasn’t up for ordering a new one for this cheap model. I’m a recalcitrant landline-lubber who leaves cell in purse unless needed to call my landline to find the misplaced receiver. I bought a new phone, same model, for $14. Where electronics are concerned, familiarity breeds confidence. Besides, I can read the buttons on this one. Now I’m all set for about three years, the life of its predecessor. In September, my microwave went dark at the ripe old age of 10 which, since I’m alone, equals about four years of a typical lifespan. Speaking of useage, I’m still smarting from the washing machine that stalled after only eight years, three use-age. Fault the computer, the repairman said. Can’t be fixed. A previous sans-computer model from the same manufacturer was still agitating when I moved, after 15 years of cleaning up after four. Why, pray, does a washing machine need a computer? Maybe because the new ones look like Lexuses and belong in the living room. I considered not replacing the microwave, which I use to heat up, not cook. That would free up a hunk of counter space. Then I thought about the big dish of cornbread I “bake” for the birds, in six minutes. And the mug of tea that has gone tepid. Off to Walmart . . . On the other hand, I’m till using my original cheapest-model KitchenAid mixer. Humming along after 20 years, I’ve tacked on another 10 use-years in banana breads and chocolate chip cookies. Occasionally these devices give some warning. All of December, my heavy, powerful blender with glass carafe which I bought in 2008 began sounding like a helicopter in distress. I said a prayer to Saint Oster and kept going. It died just after all the Christmas specials had expired.

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coming. But before you pass the corned beef and cabbage, offer a blessing for the Emerald Isle’s favorite veggie — the holy spud. And while you’re at it, give thanks for those crispy, fried, paper-thin rounds, America’s favorite snack, the potato chip.

Potatoes have been fried up for centuries, a staple in European as well as South American cultures, but the earliest written recipe for “crisps,” the English version of our potato chip, dates back to 1817, to a cookbook written by a British doctor and part-time chef, William Kitchiner. Obviously not a cardiologist, Kitchiner suggested frying thin, round shavings in lard or fat drippings. You can thank George “Crum” Speck (or urban legend) for inventing the American version, originally referred to as “Saratoga chips.” Crum and his sister, “Aunt Kate,” worked as cooks for the Lake Moon House in Saratoga Springs, New York, until he opened his own restaurant, “Crum’s,” in nearby Malta. Whether truth or tale, the story goes that a diner (some say Cornelius Vanderbilt) who visited the lake house’s popular restaurant in 1853 complained about his order of fried spuds. The discriminating guest sent the side back several times. Necessity, as they say, is the mother of invention. Striving for quality service, or maybe just aggravated at a picky customer, George fried and salted a batch of thinly sliced potatoes that, evidently, pleased the chap. Crisps or chips. Call ’em what you will. William and Crum (in my opinion) were geniuses. When I was a boy, a bag of plain Lay’s always sat next to our breadbox. Barbeque flavor was a special treat, but Sour Cream and Onion made for stinky breath. We were never fans of Ruffles. Probably the ridges. Pringles debuted in the late ’60s but I’m guessing they were too newfangled for my traditionalist mom. Tom’s Chips, still available, were an OK substitute. Tom’s, plus a pack of Nabs, made for a perfect snack for a day of hunting or fishing. A childhood neighbor, who moved south from Michigan, had Charles Chips delivered to her home. She’d offer me a handful on a paper towel. Pretty good, tasted like Lay’s. And how cool to have chips delivered to your door, just

like the Pine State Dairy guy brought milk. The company, named for Charles Street in Baltimore, where Effie Musser started the business out of her kitchen, packaged their chips in gold and brown tins and advertised “free delivery.” Mom loved her neighbor but thought chips in a tin coupled with the convenience of delivery was “too much.” The company ended home delivery in the ’70s, but Charles Chips are still sold in those iconic tins. Potato chips are my go-to snack. Traditional with burgers and dogs but try them crumbled up in a peanut butter sandwich, on wheat bread, with a glass of milk. Heavenly. Adulthood brought testing the boundaries outside Lay’s yellow and white bag. A New Orleans friend introduced me to Zapp’s. Packaged in Gramercy, Louisiana, Zapp’s kettle-fried chips are cooked in peanut oil, thick and crispy. Kettle-cooked chips differ from regular in cooking method but in the end, a kettle chip, though darker and more irregular in shape, is still a potato chip. Zapp’s first brand? A spicy Cajun version. If you’re a Zapp’s fan, Wedgies, a sandwich shop off Morganton Road in Southern Pines, carries them. I didn’t give up Lay’s. Sour Cream and Onion or Barbeque rank as favorites, but Dill Pickle or Salt-N-Vinegar? Pass. And Lay’s, like other snack brands, ventured into boutique flavors like Kettle-Cooked Jalapeño and Simply Sea Salted. For the health-conscious, Lay’s offers Baked or Lightly Salted. Current favorite? Carolina Kettle — flavorful, crispy kettle chips produced by 1 in 6 Snacks, a company in Raleigh, created by 2017 N.C. State grad Josh Monahan. The company’s name is rooted in America’s food insecurity: the fact that 1 in 6 people aren’t sure where they’ll find their next meal. Motivated to produce a quality product and address hunger, Josh donates to local food banks — 5 cents for every 2-ounce bag and 10 cents for every 5-ounce bag sold. Flavors include Outer Banks Sea Salt, Down East Carolina BBQ, Bee Sting Honey Sriracha, and Sir Walter Cream Cheese and Chive. I’m still noshing on bags my kids gave me for Christmas. Great chips fund a good cause. Buy them locally at Southern Whey in downtown Southern Pines. So grab a bag of your chip of choice. Toast the day with a glass of milk or a bottle of Mountain Dew. St. Patrick’s Day always falls during Lent, a season when some of the faithful choose to give something up. I’ll pass on corned beef, Fridays or any day, but the good Lord knows, I do love my chips. PS Tom Allen is minister of education at First Baptist Church, Southern Pines.

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I haven’t studied Latin, so I

often have to consult the internet gods when it comes to etymology. When I thought about the word equinox and contemplated its roots, I looked to Google, and it told me that the word derives from the Latin for equal and night, which makes sense because the equinox occurs biannually when the sun crosses the celestial equator, and day and night are nearly equal in length. In the spring this happens around March 20 and, in the fall, Sept. 22.

This year the vernal equinox takes place on the eve of March 20 at 11:50 p.m. I did not know that off the top of my head; I only started researching the equinox when I couldn’t recall why it’s cold in the winter and hot in the summer. I looked that up, things spiraled and, four hours later, I’m onto the equinox, Lagrange points and protoplanetary disks. Most of what I learned I’ve now forgotten, but, forgive my tangential nature — it’s March, and the spring equinox is near. What a good reason to pause and look up. I’ve long been fascinated by the cosmos but, until recently, only in a passive way. (I’ve mistaken Orion’s lower half for the Little Dipper my entire life, so I couldn’t have been that interested.) Still, my husband, Drew, and I drove 56 miles through the towering cacti of Saguaro National Park and the open ranges of the Tohono O’odham Reservation up 6,880 feet to participate in the dark sky discovery program at Kitt Peak National Observatory last December. When we arrived at the peak, it was a little after 4 p.m. and only 30 degrees outside. We parked our Toyota rental and trotted toward the visitor’s center with beanies, neck warmers and an assortment of sweatshirts and coats piled high in our arms. After an hour of check-ins, tour guide introductions, an average turkey sandwich and a documentary I don’t quite remember, it was time to watch the sunset. Escorted by one of the guides — a shorter woman with dark hair and fuchsia ski pants, Tanya, I think her name was — we weaved through the observatories that dotted the mountain, including one flanked by a garden flamingo. The mascot was a nod to the subtropical universities from which its scientists hailed. Not that the astronomers were physically in the dome. Professional astronomers watch the skies from the comfort of heated offices far away . . . unlike us. A gap appeared between observatories, and we stopped. The sun, massive on the horizon, was about to dip out of sight and take with it the day. Meanwhile, Tanya explained the nature of light waves and why sunsets are mostly red. An audience member volunteered for a demonstration, and Tanya’s voice reached high

and then low as she over enthused about the topic. She was like a lone actress playing all of the characters in a children’s puppet show. The sun vanished, and we hurried down the hill toward a quieter guide, a middle-aged man of taller stature. He handed us and our six companions red flashlights to navigate the darkened slopes that led to our designated observatory. “No headlights, no phones, no white light of any kind,” he lectured. “It pollutes the viewing experience and scientific results.” (Of course, I was confused when he later shot a commercial grade laser pointer thousands of feet into the sky to circle constellations and planets. When asked about it, he said, “No one has complained.”) After a five-minute walk, we arrived at our two-story observatory. The top floor housed the telescope and sat directly under the metal dome with a section that rolled back to reveal the night sky; it was unheated. Like white light, heat waves interfere with viewing. The bottom floor was unimpressive (I can’t remember exactly how it looked), but it was lit with red café lights and had a space heater for those who needed to escape the chill of the upper level. Drew and I refused to seek reprieve downstairs — partly because we’re competitive and, in unspoken agreement, wanted to “beat” the other viewers by withstanding the cold but, mostly, because we were mesmerized. I stole Drew’s neck warmer, wrapped it around my right foot and shoved it back into my sneaker. I wouldn’t leave the view from the dome. Wide and untainted by manmade light, the weight of the heavens pressed down on us with all of its vastness. The stars were a net of twinkling lights cast into the black sea of deep space with the silvery mist of the Milky Way a swordfish tangled in its strands. I tilted my head back, and my lips parted in awe. The telescope purred on and located the first celestial object our guide wanted us to see, Venus. Then, it swung to Cygnus the Swan and binary stars that orbit one another and the Pleiades, an open cluster of stars that are gravitationally bound in Taurus the Bull. At times, I struggled with the eyepiece — it was more difficult to use than I thought it would be — but Drew had a knack for it, and he helped me reposition so I wouldn’t miss a single sight. We saw the Andromeda galaxy, the farthest celestial body that can be seen without a telescope, Cassiopeia and 10 or 15 other objects before our tour of the universe neared its end. With only time enough left for one more object, we studied Orion the Hunter. His right shoulder was flickering and warm, a dying star named Betelgeuse. It resembled a candle about to burn out, only it burns trillions of light years away. Finally, we shifted our eyes to Orion’s Nebula, a stellar nursery, in the middle of his sword. Stars being born into the universe with existences to unfold. I felt so small, so wonderfully small, staring up at the lives of titans. The birth and death of the cosmos, I thought, what a good reason to pause and look up. PS Jenna Biter is a fashion designer, entrepreneur and military wife in the Sandhills. She can be reached at jenna.l.knouse@gmail.com.

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It is that time of the year again: calls and emails asking what the nondescript little light-brown birds might be that are suddenly flocking to seed feeders. Believe it or not, they are actually our familiar American goldfinches.

Goldfinches are not migratory, but they do engage in a disappearing act of sorts. This species is one of scores that lose their breeding colors in late summer and take on a muted plumage for the colder months of the year. We think this is simply a matter of being camouflaged during months when life is more challenging and breeding finery is unnecessary. From October through April these birds have no need for bright colors. As we get Male Goldfinch in spring into February, you may begin to see some splotchy yellowish individuals as the increase in the length of daylight hours triggers the hormones responsible for feather molt. Bright yellow male goldfinches are easy to identify, sporting black wings and a black topknot. The females, however, are a muted yellow; no doubt a better camouflage while incubating in dense shrubby cover. The female goldfinches take care of early nesting duties but may abandon the young a week or so after hatching to the males’ care, especially if the eggs were laid early in the period. She will then search out a new mate and hurriedly begin a second brood before the shorter days of early fall arrive. It will not be until summer winds sweep down across the Piedmont and

Sandhills that the family life of this eye-catching species will finally hit high gear. Then it will be time for American goldfinches to begin raising a family. They breed much later than other songbirds, producing one and in some cases two sets of young from mid-August to late September. The delay in breeding is likely related to the fact that they feed exclusively on small seeds. It is then that grasses and other herbaceous vegetation are finally producing an abundance of seed. Food for a growing family has finally become plentiful. It is also not until late summer that the pods of native thistle have burst open and, in addition to the energy-rich seeds being exposed, the down is also available as nesting material. Males may have been singing their melodious song from the treetops since May. Any associating pairs have simply been loafing, waiting for the time to be right to get down to business. Goldfinches have a very large range nationwide and can actually be found across our state year round. They are highly nomadic during the cooler months and tend to flock together in search of food. In early February, they are very numerous at bird feeders. In some years, when the native seed sources are depleted or scarce, hundreds may be found taking advantage of sunflower hearts or nyger thistle seed. However, their winter plumage is once again very drab. Males and females alike are a dull brown and, as a result, often cause a good bit of confusion for backyard bird enthusiasts. If there is any doubt, their frequent “potato chip” call always gives them away. PS Susan would love to hear from you. Send wildlife sightings and photos to susan@ncaves.com.

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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.”

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marched to Thoreau’s drummer. My father for sure, my grandfather without a doubt, and there was a gentleman I had the opportunity to meet for only about an hour, but that fellow was a walking example of what Thoreau had in mind when he penciled his famous Walden.

I’ve talked about it some and have written about the unusual experience I had that hot August afternoon when I met “Hank,” as he said he liked his friends to call him. It was the week before dove season, and I was as busy as the proverbial onearmed paperhanger trying to get everything done on my newly leased little farm to be ready for opening day. I had invited several friends to help usher in the season, and was running back and forth from our home in Southern Pines to the field located close to Drowning Creek. It was just before lunch, and the sun was really bearing down when I noticed a hitchhiker right outside of Aberdeen on U.S. 1. He had a sign made from a piece of cardboard with the message: HEADING SOUTH . . . NO HURRY The little cardboard sign got my attention, because back in my early days, I used to move around the country hitchhiking, using the same method, a handlettered sign with my destination scribbled across the cardboard. It worked. Those were different days when I used my thumb to get back and forth to college. They were simpler, more peaceful times, and a lot of youngsters got about by hitching rides. But this guy had no destination listed, just south, and he said he was in no hurry. Unheard of, I thought, as I rode by the gentleman standing on the side of the road. Everybody is supposed to be in a hurry. On my second trip to the farm, the hitchhiker was still in about the same location, walking toward Pinebluff. What the heck, I thought. It’s too hot for the old

guy. I decided to pick him up and pulled over to the side. He hurried up to the Bronco, looked in and said, “Thanks for stopping, mister. It’s getting dang hot out here.” The gentleman looked to be anywhere between 60 and 70. He was dressed neatly in well worn but clean clothes. He had a small backpack, and I could tell he wasn’t your run-of-the-mill loafer. He climbed in the Bronco, and I drove on south. “Hot day to be out here, fellow,” I said. “Where you headed?” “You know, I haven’t made my mind up yet. I might visit my sister in Florida or travel to Texas. Texas is supposed to be pretty this time of year.” And so I met Hank. In our short conversation, I learned that, at one time, he had his own very successful business as a financial consultant and evidently had retired with a bucket full of money. Just when he and his wife were getting ready to enjoy the good life, she came down with a debilitating illness and passed away. “I started drinking too much,” he said. “Things were on the downhill slide. Nothing meant much to me anymore until one morning I looked out the kitchen window and saw the most beautiful sunrise, and my life turned around. I sold the house, gave everything to the kids, and decided to see the world from the ground up, as it were. I realized I’d never be able to spend all the money I had acquired, and it’s amazing how simply a person can live. “You know what I did this spring? Watched a pair of bluebirds build a nest and have babies. That’s all I did. I had a part-time job on a horse farm in Virginia, and when I wasn’t cleaning stables, I watched those two little birds. It was wonderful.” I dropped Hank off a short way from Rockingham, where he said he was going to spend a couple days in a motel, resting and escaping the current heat wave. I never saw this truly contented man again. My grandfather, a farmer, spent his life in and made his livelihood from his fields in the low country of South Carolina. He was dedicated to the outdoors, not just for the esoteric aspect but because that’s where he made his living and supported a family of eight children. I spent many days as a youngster following him through freshly planted fields and riding in his pickup as he checked on how his crops were growing. Those drives usually occurred on Sunday, when my grandmother would be at the little Baptist country church located close to the farm. She played the piano for the choir and was a huge supporter of the small house of worship. Me? I stuck close to Granddaddy’s side. One Sunday as we were checking crops down close to the creek, I asked him, “Granddad, you don’t go to church with Grandma. Why is that?” He pulled the pickup under a giant live oak and said, “Come on, son, I

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Discovering tempo at the end of a stick

By Lee Pace

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Jim Hackenburg punches a few keys

into his cellphone and waits for a video clip on YouTube to pop up. Seconds later, he’s showing John Candy in the movie The Blues Brothers sitting down in a bar with two prison guards and ordering drinks. He points at his two companions and asks: “Orange Whip? Orange Whip?” Then he looks at the waiter: “Three Orange Whips.” Hackenburg smiles. “That very instant, I knew I had the name,” he says. “Orange is a vibrant color. There was a whipping motion to the device. It was perfect.” That was in 2007, when Hackenberg, a former collegiate golfer, mini-tour player, PGA Tour caddie and at the time a club pro and swing coach, was trying to generate some momentum for a new golf training aid he was launching — a rubber ball on the end of a flexible shaft that was designed to help golfers feel the proper motion, sequence and tempo of the golf swing. Hackenberg looks around him at the massive PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando in late January 2020 and reflects back to the beginning. “My first show 12 years ago, it was just me in a 5- by 10-foot booth, 10 hours a day for three straight days,” he says. “It was tough.”

A dozen years later, the Easley, South Carolina-based company brought a dozen people to Orlando and rented six times the exhibit space over his initial foray into the trade show business. The Golf Channel dropped by and did a spot with anchor personality Kira Dixon demonstrating an Orange Whip device. And in addition to peddling and promoting the original Orange Whip trainer and knock-offs developed for putting and wedge play, Hackenberg has partnered with golf fitness specialist Brian Newman of Elk River Club in Banner Elk, North Carolina, on a new product line and streaming training service for golf fitness. There is a shorter, heavier version of the Orange Whip called the LightSpeed, designed for “speed training”; and a series of resistance bands and a concave hitting platform that addresses the basic swing skills of posture, rotation, weight shift and balance and swing plane. “The Orange Whip has always been about tempo and feel with a small physical component to it,” Hackenberg says. “But I never really had a fitness program. There are certain parts of the swing that can’t be taught unless you have flexibility, balance and mobility. Brian has brought those puzzle pieces to complete the Orange Whip.” Hackenberg grew up in North Dakota, played college golf at Arizona State and Oregon State, and by the 2003-05 era was spending his winters and springs caddying on the PGA Tour and his summers teaching at a club on Martha’s Vineyard. The contrasts struck him between the fluid, athletic swings of players like Geoff Ogilvy and Ernie Els, and the lunging and jabbing motions of many middle-aged club golfers. “I was attracted to the pros’ balance and rhythm,” says Hackenberg, a PGA

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Class A pro since 2003. “These guys made it look almost too easy, like they can do it in their sleep. Their motion was so effortless. It was like they’d been holding the club their whole life. “Then I’d be giving a lesson, and people were so tense and their only goal was to hit the ball, and when you try to hit at something it’s much different than swinging through it. I had a difficult time conveying that message. I couldn’t get them to feel the motion that came so naturally to the tour guys. I got tired of watching people chop at the ball.” It occurred to Hackenberg that the proper visual was to swing a ball on the end of a rope or a chain. Any motion at all herky-jerky was doomed to failure. “The concept that slowly evolved to me was that the golf club was no longer a golf club, but it was a ball on the end of a chain,” he says. “If you hold that chain and move the ball slowly back and forth on the end of the chain, your hands and arms and body would develop a more fluid motion, an athletic motion.” Hackenberg dusted off his club-making skills in 2006 and concocted a crude apparatus out of a fiberglass rod with a metal weight at the end. “There was a lot of trial-and-error and trips to Home Depot,” he says. He soon refined it with an orange rubber ball at one end and a golf club grip at the other. The key element is a patented steel weight at the grip end that “counterbalances” the device and works in tandem with the ball at the opposite end to promote good rhythm. Hackenberg took the device to the lesson tee on Martha’s Vineyard and demonstrated the motion to a golfer named Burke Ross, and then put the device in Ross’ hands. “Within five minutes, you could see the light bulb go off in his head,” Hackenberg says. “He wanted to buy my prototype. Sadly, it was the only one I had. He had to wait another month until I made another quality one. That was my ‘ah-ha’ moment that maybe I can start a business around this idea.” Hackenberg figured that since the device helped one golfer, maybe it would work magic for others. Within two years the idea had morphed from his garage on Martha’s Vineyard to a manufacturing facility near Greenville, South Carolina. Hackenberg’s brother lived in Greenville, so he hoped that cheap labor from nieces and nephews might come in handy, but more important was the location — within a half-day’s drive from Greenville you can find a lot of golfers. “I knew the job would involve going around in my Toyota 4Runner carrying Orange Whips as a traveling salesman,” he says. “Within a 300-mile radius of Greenville, there are a ton of golfers. I can get to the coast easily, up to Virginia, Georgia, north Florida, to Pinehurst. Greenville gave me good proximity to a lot of golfers.”

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The company sold 4,000 Orange Whips in 2008, quadrupled that to 16,000 in 2010, and had more than doubled that by 2014 with 36,000 devices sold. That growth continued with more than 60,000 units sold in 2019. Orange Whip has moved twice into bigger manufacturing and fulfillment facilities and now has 16 full-time employees. You can see the orange ball protruding from the bags of hundreds of touring pros if you count the PGA Tour, Champions Tour and LPGA Tour. Hackenberg remembers one early seminal moment when TV cameras showed Retief Goosen getting a ruling and multiple camera shots showing that orange orb protruding from his bag. Graeme McDowell is a big fan, and Greg Norman insisted on paying for his Orange Whip despite Hackenberg’s efforts to give him one, saying the Whip was the “best thing for timing and release” he’d ever seen. Hackenberg also touts the Whip’s value in improving flexibility and strength, and serving as an anchor for off-season practice. “I grew up in North Dakota and had to re-learn my golf swing every year,” he says. “If you swing this club regularly through the winter, this athletic motion will become second nature, and you’ll be in playing shape for spring.” By sheer coincidence, Hackenberg was paired with Newman in a Carolinas PGA competition at Hilton Head in 2018. Newman is director of golf and fitness at Elk River, and over the course of 18 holes the two men found common ground with Newman’s ability to teach golf fitness and Hackenberg’s manufacturing and technology expertise. Over the next 18 months, they developed an online workout/drill program, teaching pro certification and physical tools to help golfers develop their strength, flexibility, balance and swing skills. They were heartened at the PGA Show not only from the response from rank-and-file attendees, but by the fact some of the top instructors in golf sought them out to see what they were doing. “Golf fitness is now mainstream,” says Newman. “PGA Tour players look super-buffed. Guys today are pure athletes. They work really hard on their bodies, not only to hit the ball farther and swing harder, but for longevity and overall well-being.” “I think this is going to be a big hit,” Hackenberg says. “It’s the next step in the evolution of the Orange Whip. And to think, this all came about because I was tired of watching people chop at the ball and was desperate to find a way to help them.” PS PineStraw golf columnist Lee Pace acknowledged having to move up a set of tees in the October 2014 issue (“Travails of a Short-Knocker”) and welcomes any life preserver from The Orange Whip.

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T H E PA I N T ED H ER D A new breed of pony in the Pines By Jenna Biter

outhern Pines recently gained a handful of new temporary residents, 10 painted ponies courtesy of a fundraiser for the Carolina Horse Park, a charitable nonprofit corporation committed to the upkeep of grounds for equestrian and recreational use. Located in Hoke County, the 315-acre park is a nationally recognized equestrian competition site, and it’s a horse lover’s paradise. Now, the painted ponies of Southern Pines may not be living and breathing animals, but they’re the next best thing: life-size lookalikes painted by local artists and sponsored by local businesses. Together, each artist and sponsor(s) brainstormed and, ultimately, chose a theme for the artist to execute on the blank canvas of fiberglass horseflesh. And boy, did they execute. The themes run the gamut from a sporting art take on life in the Pines to an impressionistic rendering inspired by Van Gogh’s Starry Night. One pony even has a three-dimensional copper horn and wings, transforming it from equine into magical alicorn – but more on that later. At Big Sky Farm, on April 4, the painted ponies will be auctioned off to their permanent owners with all proceeds going to the Carolina Horse Park, so admire them downtown before March slips by. First, sneak a peek here.

Water for Horses

“I love nature and creativity and have a very real passion for impressionism, which has fueled my love of painting,” says Jenay Jarvis, who studied fine arts at the University of North Carolina Asheville. “I specifically used Starry Night to inspire this piece,” she adds, referencing her painted pony Water for Horses. Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night, possibly his most recognized work, in 1889 during his time at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole in France. Despite his tragically short life of only 37 years, van Gogh produced over 2,000 works — most of them in his last two years. Ever since, artists like Jarvis have looked to this master. “I like my work to appear like the images in my mind: dreamy and surreal with a focus on color and movement,” she explains. “My work is fluid and often associated with water.” Although Starry Night doesn’t feature water, the blue and swirling sky makes the leap easy. “Water itself could represent a number of things,” Jarvis continues. “It’s an open interpretation as with all art, and I’d like to leave that up to the viewer.” Regardless of how you interpret the work, from a distance, you can spot its famous inspiration, but take a closer look, and you’ll see Water for Horses come into its own.

PHOTOGRAPH BY TIM SAYER

Artist: Jenay Jarvis Sponsor: The Country Bookshop

Love Your Local

Artist: Ashley Van Camp Sponsor: Ashten’s Restaurant and Moore Equine Feed and Pet Supply

PHOTOGRAPH BY TIM SAYER

Ashley Van Camp, owner and chef of Ashten’s Restaurant, didn’t study visual arts in college, but she says, “I’ve spent a lot of time around food being a chef, so I think that’s helping me with our (artwork’s) theme, which is all about keeping it local.” Local food and local business. Appropriately, her painted pony’s name is Love Your Local... although, for those who know him well, he prefers to go by Lyle. Donning a Technicolor coat of produce, he pays homage to small businesses, specifically his sponsors Ashten’s Restaurant and Moore Equine Feed and Pet Supply. “The things that our businesses have in common are that they are locally owned, and we both provide sustenance — she to horses and me to people,” says Van Camp of Moore Equine and her own restaurant. Lyle is the hypothetical offspring of these livelihoods. He sports ripened watermelons, an assortment of shiny red and green tomatoes, leafy purple cabbage, dainty flowers climbing his forelegs, and a carrot for a marking on his forehead. He’s a well-bred stallion foaled by small town love and sired by local abundance, Van Camp explains, and his artwork reflects his parentage. While Ashten’s restaurant and Moore Equine Feed and Pet Supply nourish the stomachs of our Sandhills community, Lyle feeds our eyes with a visual feast. If he could see himself, he’d be drooling.

Artist: Beth E. Roy Sponsors: Hampton Inn & Suites, TownePlace Suites and Hilton Garden Inn

Lewis Carroll didn’t let reality stop him from transporting Alice down the rabbit hole, and J.K. Rowling didn’t let it stop her from inventing a boy wizard to defeat the also invented He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named (ButWe’ll-Name-Him-Anyway) Voldemort. Fantasy writers and children have that in common; they don’t let reality stop them from creating. Regular old adults shouldn’t either: Beth E. Roy definitely hasn’t. “My mother would not swear but used colorful words put together. When she expressed herself by saying, ‘Oh, horsefeathers,’ I had a vision of a horse covered in

beautiful feathers,” says Roy of a childhood memory. And that’s how we got her painted pony, the imagination of a child brought to life by an adult — a very skilled adult. Professionally trained at Austin Peay State University and Christopher Newport College, Roy painted as a watercolorist for 15 years before moving to Southern Pines and taking up oils in the early 2000s. She’s traveled to Italy and Mexico among other locales to participate in artist workshops, and she’s completed many commissioned works. Her art hangs in several galleries, and her painted pony Horsefeathers currently stands at Belvedere Courtyard in downtown Southern Pines. Its plumage of celadon, ivory, fiery orange and more lay against a black background that makes the colors buzz, causing us to wonder, is it about to take flight?

PHOTOGRAPH BY TIM SAYER

Horsefeathers

“Dream Big,” says the Alicorn Artist: Nikki Lienhard Sponsors: Better Homes and Gardens Lifestyle Property Partners, Opulence of Southern Pines and Patricia

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“I was struggling with a design concept,” says graphic designer Nikki Lienhard of her painted pony. Until one day her 9-year-old daughter, Jesse, suggested over dinner, “Why don’t you do an alicorn?” Reflexively, Lienhard and her husband replied, “What the heck is an alicorn?” “It’s a Pegasus with a horn,” Jesse informed them. And, although the term “alicorn” historically refers to the horn of a unicorn, Jesse is right. The kids’ TV show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and other media have culturally popularized the alicorn as a winged unicorn. Sometimes, pegacorn or unipeg are terms referring to this magical ungulate, while other times, it goes entirely unnamed. But regardless of the creature’s name or lack thereof, it’s the crossbreed of two storied legends: Pegasus and the unicorn. According to Greek mythology, Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Medusa, the mortal woman with snakes for hair and a face that turns men to stone, parent Pegasus. After the hero Perseus beheads Medusa, Pegasus and his brother Chryasor are born into the world from their mother’s severed head — what an entrance. On the other hand, the Greeks classified unicorns not as mythology but as natural history; they believed the animals lived in India. But back to Lienhard: “Before I knew it, I was creating this magical alicorn with copper wings and a horn, something right out of a fairytale.” Right out of a fairytale and into the Sandhills.

Royal Tashunka

Artist: Mary Ann Welsch Sponsor: WhitLauter by Leann Parker

Mary Ann Welsch and her painted pony’s sponsor are a match made in horsey heaven. “I found out that my sponsor was WhitLauter (Estate Jewelry), so I went down to introduce myself. I started looking at all the beautiful jewelry, and I thought, where does the concept of jewelry come from? How long has it been around?” says Welsch. Turns out, it’s been around for 135,000 years, provable by a necklace made of eagle talons. A little odd, no? But a different ancient necklace inspired Welsch: a 40,000-year-old Kenyan piece made of ostrich eggshells. “The women actually still do it. Like a little puka bead, they take that shell and then crush it up into small pieces and make jewelry out of it,” she explains, pointing at the eggshell beads painted on her pony’s back. Combine these beads with gems, succulents, horse tack and a little bit o’ the Southwest — all on the canvas of a tobiano pony — and, voila, it’s Royal Tashunka. Fun fact: Tashunka is the Siouan word for horse. Thanks to Welsch’s attention to detail in both research and artistic execution, her painted pony’s disparate components (see succulents and horse tack) meld into a cohesive whole that feels new. Corroborating this take, Welsch comments, “I like to make things that don’t exist.”

Living in the Pines

Artist: Gene Fletcher Sponsor: The Pilot

PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIM SAYER

British sporting art is exactly what it sounds like: artwork that depicts British sport. This eventually includes sports like cricket and boxing, but originally, it meant country pursuits like fishing, foxhunting and horse racing. Gene Fletcher is a fan of the originals. “I’ve always been really attracted to the British sporting artists. The 18th century, 19th century sporting artists — they’re the ones I really admire, so this was kind of natural,” says Fletcher, pointing to his painted pony, Living in the Pines. One flank shows two horses at pasture, while the other shows a mounted hunt complete with two hounds and a fox. Purple mountains and a blue sky provide the backdrop for both scenes. “Of course, the fox didn’t get captured,” Fletcher jests. “He’s looking (and) saying, ‘Ha-ha, you missed me, right?’” The victorious fox peers at huntsman & co. from behind a tree papered with a flier that reads, “The Pilot 100 years.” The detail is a nod to the artwork’s sponsor and its centennial anniversary. A flowering dogwood and cardinal grace the neck of the painted pony as homage to the North Carolina state flower and bird. Fletcher’s work, in a snapshot, shows the tradition of the Sandhills through a mostly equestrian lens. And it makes sense. Horses are significant to the area and, lucky for Fletcher, “In 30 seconds or less, I can draw a horse,” he quips.

Little Red Truck

Artist: Claire Connaghan Sponsor: McDevitt Town & Country Properties

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN KOOB GESSNER

Rising to prominence in the 1950s, pop art rejected fine art and embraced the commonplace: advertisements, comic strips, and objects like Campbell’s tomato soup cans and Brillo boxes. Critics tut-tutted the movement, but the general population adored its rebuff to the art world’s members-only vibe, catapulting artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein into the limelight. Claire Connaghan’s Little Red Truck is reminiscent of this 20th century movement. “I chose to keep a simple and colorful illustration style with a little country scene and a little red truck in

the middle,” says the 25-year-old graphic designer. Her edited design, flat application of color and black outlines combine for a cheery and approachable work. The upper half of the pony is an unshaded blue sky spattered with cartoonish white clouds, while the lower half is a solid grassy foreground. Smack dab in the middle of the left flank is a little red truck, the heart and soul of her sponsor, McDevitt Town & Country Properties. Jamie McDevitt, owner of her eponymous business, once had a red truck, and made it her logo. Then, the truck moved on, and her logo changed, but the vehicle is still at the core of her business. With that big, blue sky consuming half of her pony, Connaghan’s interpretation of the McDevitt icon is a breath of fresh air.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN KOOB GESSNER

Horses Connect Us All

Artist: Shelly Turner Sponsors: Pinnock Real Estate & Relocation Services, C.Cups Cupcakery and Longevity Massage & Bodywork Therapy Center

Although horses appeared in cave art 30,000 years ago, their domestication (the genetic reorganization that took them from wild animal to pet) didn’t come until later — and that date is hotly debated. Most researchers agree that equine domestication happened around 2,000 BC at the latest, but some claim it occurred over 1,000 years earlier. The exact date isn’t the point. It’s that the human-horse relationship is long, notable and indivisible from history. “From farming to military, pleasure to show, therapy work to pasture pet, horses have been and continue to be

such an important, integral element in the world,” says Shelly Turner, owner of and interior designer at Canter Lane Interiors. “Think of just about any topic and horses can be linked.” Even the Carolina Horse Park’s fundraiser proves Turner correct, validating her artwork’s title, Horses Connect Us All. “With his head to the ground, he seemingly breathes in the world around him,” she says of her painted pony. “I (expressed) this notion by painting the soil from his muzzle to cheeks and showing plant roots that bloom into a colorful palette of local elements.” These elements include agriculture, golf and the military painted in a style visually similar to that of a 19th century American quilt. Turner concludes, “I think that my upbringing and love for folk art, animation and tribal embellishment and design combined to inspire and create this eclectic piece.”

Between the Ears

Artist: Darlene Ivey Sponsor: English Riding Supply

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN KOOB GESSNER

“My mom is an artist; she taught me how to draw, and I’ve always been into horses, so that’s what I learned to draw,” says Darlene Ivey. Thankfully, she had plenty of support that helped to take her artwork far. When Ivey was in high school, her dad encouraged her to make and sell paintings. This eventually led to commissions. Roll all of that together, and that’s how Ivey ended up here: an equestrian apparel rep and the artist of Between the Ears. Her painted pony is the merger of the horses in her life; they’re joined into a sort of visual equestrian calen-

dar, consisting of four tableaus, one for each season. The winter scene shows a lakeside horse ride, while the spring is a glimpse into horse show season. Summer is a ride on the beach that ultimately ends up in the ocean waves and, on this, Ivey comments, “A lot of horse people don’t ride on vacation, but I always try to.” The fourth and final scene represents fall, and it depicts the treasured foxhunts of Moore County. All four tableaus come from photographs Ivey has taken, and they’re layered over a palomino background. Ivey elaborates on the horse at the center of it all, “My palomino Lacey was my childhood horse. My dad got her when she was 3, and she passed at 26. Most of my life she was with me.” Thanks to Between the Ears her spirit still is.

The Chief’s Pony

PHOTOGRAPHS BY JOHN KOOB GESSNER

Artist: Tiffany Teeter Sponsors: Cabin Branch Tack Shop and BB&T

“When I was a kid, you know, I was sure every Christmas I was going to get a pony, but my father said, ‘Listen, there’s six of you kids, if you want a horse you got to go buy it.’ I saved up my money, and I did: $85,” says Tiffany Teeter. That $85 led to foxhunting, a barnful of 65 horses at any given time (two of them Olympians), and a son who competed as a steeplechase jockey. It’s no surprise that now, with only one 23-year-old horse left, Teeter gets her equestrian fix elsewhere — painting a life-size doppelganger called The Chief’s Pony. He’s inspired by Native American warhorses.

“It’s what you call a medicine hat pony. You see the markings on his head?” asks Teeter, pointing to her pinto’s mostly white face. “Only the chiefs were allowed to ride that marking.” Only the chiefs and other powerful figures like medicine men and great warriors. Any pinto with an all-white head, except for its poll and ears, is a medicine hat pony, but the most beloved only had these markings. Add blue eyes, and it was even more revered. Because of their rarity, these ponies were thought to be good luck, able to prevent the deaths of their riders. Referring to primary-colored symbols on her artwork, Teeter continues, “All these markings mean something. That means danger, those are captured ponies and this means may hail fall on your enemy . . . I like that one.” PS

The Last Amateur The rise, fall and redemption of Harvie Ward

By Bill Case

hey were two good-looking guys peddling Lincolns for Van Etta Motors in San Francisco in the mid-1950s. But to label Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi car salesmen would be like saying Elvis Presley was a soldier. In 1956, Ward, age 30, and Venturi, 24, were better known as the two finest amateur golfers in America. Like many leading amateurs of the day, Ward and Venturi were disinclined to pursue the grueling life of a touring professional. The thought of driving bone-numbing distances to far-flung tournaments playing for paltry prize money offered little attraction. Far better to enter an occasional tournament while still earning $35,000 a year at the dealership, working mornings and playing afternoon matches at California Golf Club, Cypress Point or San Francisco Golf Club. According to Venturi, “If you weren’t going to buy a car from us by noon, you weren’t going to buy a car from us that day.” The convergence of these two stars at the dealership was no coincidence. It

was engineered by Van Etta Motors’ wealthy and flamboyant owner, Eddie Lowery, a noteworthy figure in golf for nearly half a century. It was pint-sized Eddie who, at age 10, caddied 20-year-old Francis Ouimet to a playoff victory over Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in the 1913 U.S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, kickstarting America’s love affair with golf. The diminutive Lowery became a fine player in his own right, capturing the 1927 Massachusetts Amateur. After moving from the right coast to the left, he partnered with Byron Nelson to win the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am in 1955. Capitalizing on his associations with Ouimet and others in the USGA hierarchy, he was appointed to various golf administrative posts, including the powerful USGA Executive Committee. Lowery was not merely a golf Brahmin, but a business mogul, too. He built Van Etta Motors into the largest Lincoln-Mercury dealership in the country. Lowery carried a soft spot for the Bay Area’s talented young players and, in

1952, he arranged for Venturi to play with Nelson, a five-time major champion. After Venturi graduated from college in 1953, Lowery hired him to join the dealership’s sales force. Months later, figuring the presence of two star golfers working the showroom would draw car-buying sports fans in droves, Lowery enticed Ward to quit his stockbroker position in Atlanta and come west with his wife, Suzanne. The easygoing Ward possessed salesmanship skills that would have brought success if he had never picked up a club. He seemed to like everybody, and everybody liked him — male and female. With his sweet Eastern Carolina drawl, the preternaturally relaxed Harvie was the smoothest of smooth talkers, melting buyer resistance with gentle humor. Lowery was justifiably proud of his two employees, and bragged they could beat any two players in the country — amateur or pro — in a four-ball match. His bet was called in February 1956 by oil and mining tycoon George Coleman at a Pebble Beach soiree prior to Bing Crosby’s annual “clambake.” Coleman and Lowery each ponied up $5,000. The slick oilman had persuaded a pair of Texans to oppose the two salesmen: Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson. Arrangements were hastily made for the match to be played the following morning at Cypress Point. Ward and Venturi, both bleary-eyed, barely made it to the first tee to face their idols. The game featured a blizzard of birdies by all participants. Hogan, who purportedly muttered on the final green that he was “not about to be tied by a couple of damn amateurs,” holed his birdie putt to win the match 1 up. The Hogan-Nelson team shot a collective 57, besting Ward-Venturi by one shot. It was the only time the car guys ever lost. Their great play in the historic encounter seemed to inspire both Ward and Venturi to greater heights in ’56. In August, Ward successfully defended the U.S. Amateur championship he had won in dominating fashion in ’55. His resume already included the NCAA individual title in ’49 when he was an undergrad at the University of North Carolina, the British Amateur in ’52, and the Canadian Amateur in ’54. Venturi, a Bay Area product who had twice won the prestigious California State Amateur, would finish runner-up in that April’s Masters and later beat Ward 5 and 4 in front of 10,000 spectators in the finals of the San Francisco City Championship. Ward was the defending champion, having assumed the title while Venturi (who previously had won the championship twice) was away fulfilling his military obligation. When they shook hands on the first tee Venturi said, “Harvie, I’ve come to take my City back.” Venturi’s heartbreaking final round of 80 in the ’56 Masters dashed his golden opportunity to capture the green jacket as an amateur. He abruptly turned pro and left the dealership at the end of the ’56 season and enjoyed immediate success on the PGA tour, winning twice in his rookie year and three more times in ’58. Adamant about retaining his own amateur status, Ward remained with Van Etta Motors and looked forward to the ’57 season, hoping to become the first player to win three consecutive U.S. Amateur championships. But first, Ward would make his April pilgrimage to Augusta to compete in the Masters. In his initial appearance in 1948, he had conspicuously pulled onto Magnolia Lane with a string of tin cans trailing his tan Ford convertible and a painted sign on its side reading “Masters or Bust.” Despite this prankish debut, the event would come to hold special significance for Ward. During his stockbrokering days in Atlanta, Ward forged a relationship with Augusta National’s chairman and founder Bobby Jones, whose law firm was located in the downtown building next door to the one where Ward read the stock ticker. Ward often stopped by to talk golf with the legendary Grand Slam champion and they became good friends. Having never turned professional during his own playing days, it was Jones’ fondest wish that an amateur might win the Masters. During the mid ’50s, among those who stood a chance were Ward (who finished eighth in 1955), Venturi, and Billy Joe Patton, another North Carolina product who narrowly missed winning in 1954. Ward later told a friend that Jones, whose debilitating spinal disease claimed his life in 1971, once intended to appoint the first of those three to win the Masters to be his successor as Augusta National club chairman. Ward had his best opportunity in the ’57 Masters. Through three rounds, he stood just one shot behind tournament leader Sam Snead, tied with Arnold

Palmer. On Sunday he was paired with short game wizard Doug Ford, who went on a sensational run, vaulting to the lead. Ward was still near the lead with four holes to play. On the 15th, Ford, the former pool hustler, went for the green with his 4-wood second. The shot smashed into the bank of the fronting pond and popped onto the putting surface. Ward’s attempt to reach the green found the water, drowning his hopes. His fourth place finish, behind Ford, Sam Snead and Jimmy Demaret, further cemented his standing as one of the game’s premier players. Ward anticipated more highlight reel achievements to come. He was frequently mentioned as one of the favorites in the upcoming U.S. Open at the Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. He stood a good chance of being named the U.S. Walker Cup captain for the ’57 matches — a rumor that USGA President (and Pinehurst friend) Richard Tufts did nothing to dispel. And he liked his chances for a three-peat in the U.S. Amateur in August at Lowery’s old stomping ground, The Country Club.

rriving in San Francisco after visiting Hogan’s Fort Worth, Texas, clubmaking facility, Ward found himself surrounded by a pack of frenzied reporters. Someone showed him a newspaper headline, “Harvie Ward’s Amateur Status Questioned.” Blindsided, Ward struggled to make sense of it. Was he in trouble? He was. And so was Lowery. The state of California had indicted Lowery for tax evasion, and it had been established in grand jury testimony that the auto dealer had claimed business deductions for reimbursing Ward’s expenses at tournaments like the Masters and Canadian Amateur. The USGA’s rules of amateurism prohibited a player from accepting help with tournament expenses from anyone outside his own family. It was further alleged Lowery had funded Ward’s overseas excursion to the 1952 British Amateur, well before the latter had moved to San Francisco. The rules did provide a potential safe harbor. If a player could demonstrate that his tournament play was coupled with a legitimate business trip, he could accept reimbursement of expenses provided those related to the golf part of the trip were borne personally. Many amateurs drove through this loophole as if it were the size of the Holland Tunnel. For years, Frank Stranahan, son of the owner of Champion Spark Plugs, received reimbursement by Champion while competing in farflung golf events by scheduling visits to local auto repair shops. Golfers holding licenses to sell insurance were particularly well positioned. A sales pitch or two to a fellow player or official could arguably merit reimbursement for a lengthy hotel stay and more than a few good meals. Since the rule had been honored more in its breach than in its observance, Ward assumed nothing too serious was going to happen at the USGA board hearing set for June 7 in Golf, Illinois. Furthermore, he had conducted business at tournaments. “Wherever I went I met with businesspeople and usually sold them a few cars,” he later said. “That was, after all, my job.” In addition, Lowery, a USGA board member, had regularly assured Ward the reimbursements were proper. Even if a technical violation had occurred, how could Ward be blamed for trusting his employer — a revered member of golf’s establishment? Ward’s friend and mentor Richard Tufts was rumored to be sympathetic and would preside at the hearing. When the proceedings got underway, Harvie sensed he was in for a rough ride when Tufts failed to look him in the eye. His premonition proved correct. The board categorically rejected Ward’s arguments and ruled that his receipt of Lowery’s payments violated the USGA rules governing amateur status. Ward later acknowledged he was “numb with disbelief” that Tufts had failed “to speak up on my behalf.” But in retrospect, it was probably naïve for him to assume that Tufts would be lenient. As author of The Creed of the Amateur, Tufts supported an idealistic (and perhaps unrealistic) vision of how amateur golfers should conduct themselves. Though undoubtedly saddened by the whole affair, Tufts never wavered from wholehearted endorsement of the board’s finding.

Ward was suspended from USGA amateur competitions for one year. His quest for a third consecutive U.S. Amateur victory had, by fiat, met a premature end. The board did not vacate Ward’s previous victories in the championship, reasoning that his reliance on Lowery’s advice, while misplaced, mitigated his offense. Still, Ward felt singled out for punishment. “If I wasn’t the amateur champion at the time, it would have gone right by the boards,” he later said. “Nobody would have cared.” Had he followed Venturi’s path and joined the play-for-pay ranks, Ward would likely have circumvented the entire debacle. Why didn’t he turn pro? “To come anywhere near what I was making,” he said, “I would have had to finish in the top five money winners.” Many observers thought the outcome unjust. Absent outside help, how could any top-ranked amateur — except the wealthiest — afford the travel and other costs attendant in playing prestigious events around the country? In an effort to douse the firestorm, USGA Executive Director Joe Dey authored an opinion piece in the USGA Journal that struck some as breathtakingly sanctimonious. “If a young man can’t afford to play tournament golf,” wrote Dey, “he is better off not living beyond his depth. Prominence in sports can be a false god.” Tufts’ effort to clean up the amateur game actually resulted in its diminishment. The best young players, golfers like Jack Nicklaus, began vacating the amateur ranks in droves immediately after college. Ward’s amateur status was reinstated in 1958, but he clearly was not the same player. Though he managed to present his usual blithe front, his zest for the game had waned. The stigma of the suspension had taken its toll. In ’58, Ward played poorly in the Masters and got knocked out of the U.S. Amateur in the third round. He fared little better in ’59 but did manage to squeeze onto the U.S. Walker Cup team, which included Nicklaus. Competing over The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers’ majestic Muirfield links, Ward prevailed in both of his matches against the home team. Those wins were the 33-year-old’s last hurrah on the big stage. After 1962, Ward drifted away from competition altogether. He declined to enter the U.S. Amateur and rejected several Masters invitations. “Basically, I said, ‘To hell with it,’” he told Golf World’s Dick Taylor. “I sort of said that I’d show those guys by not playing anymore. Kind of silly, I guess. I took up tennis, played some social golf, and went about making a living.” Following the suspension, Ward and Lowery (who was ultimately acquitted of the tax evasion charges) started an auto leasing company together. It lasted five years. “Lowery made me a partner, gave me shares in the company, did a lot of things to sort of make up for what happened,” recalled Ward. After Lowery and Ward’s partnership ended, Harvie formed another leasing company with Bob Varner, but that broke up as well. Ward’s golf decline and business misfortunes were accompanied with, and probably exacerbated by, heavy drinking and a roving eye. After he and Suzanne divorced, he

North and South champion Harvie (left) is congratulated by Henry Cotton. Runner-up Frank Stranahan (right) looks on 90

UNC students and Ward celebrate his victory in the ‘48 North and South blitzed through relationships, eventually marrying five times. In 1972, when Ward was 47, friends from San Francisco G.C. persuaded him to, at long last, turn professional and try his hand on the minor league mini-tour in Arizona. “I couldn’t beat those kids,” he said. “I made some money . . . but I wasn’t going to beat anybody.” In 1973, Ward entered the PGA Tour’s qualifying school, but it was too late for a comeback. He came nowhere close to getting his card. Later competitive efforts on the Champions Tour were similarly unsuccessful.

ard was reduced to working in a San Francisco shipyard and teaching in a downtown sporting goods store. Mired in increasingly dire circumstances, he reached out to old UNC buddy Harvey Oliver for help. Oliver put Ward in touch with entrepreneur Dan Thomasson, one of the developers of the Foxfire Golf and Country Club near Pinehurst, who offered a lifeline by hiring Ward as Foxfire’s director of golf. The West Coast transplant, son of a Tarboro, North Carolina, pharmacist, returned to his native state. The Pinehurst area held fond memories for Ward. He had played golf there frequently while a student at UNC and later, during his first post-graduation job selling insurance in Greensboro. Ward’s sensational performance in the 1948 North and South Amateur Championship, contested over Pinehurst No. 2, had brought the happy-go-lucky college senior his first dose of national attention. Entering the event on a whim, the unknown 22-year-old surprised himself by reaching the final, dispatching Wake Forest’s Arnold Palmer along the way. Ward faced an uphill battle against the “Toledo Strongman” Frank Stranahan, who’d been runner-up in both the Masters and the British Open in ‘47. His secret weapon was the Zeta Psi fraternity, whose members scattered throughout the campus the night before the 36-hole final, spreading news of the match, urging students to head to Pinehurst to root for their fellow Tar Heel. Hordes of them showed up. An exuberant crowd of 2,000 overwhelmingly supported Ward. “Every time Frank would miss a shot or miss a chip, they’d cheer,” remembered Ward. “Anytime I’d get the ball airborne, they’d go nuts. You’d thought they were in Kenan Stadium at a football game.” Ward’s stupefying avalanche of holed putts annoyed Stranahan more than the boisterous students. When he rammed home one final dagger on the 36th hole to close out his frustrated opponent, the elated Zetas celebrated by hoisting the winner to their shoulders and carrying him off the course. Now, approaching middle age, Ward arrived at Foxfire to labor as a club teaching pro, instructing duffer and scratch player alike. His gentle manner and uncomplicated instructional method worked wonders for his pupils. When he wasn’t on the lesson tee, Ward kept his game sharp in afternoon money games with the area’s better players. The action honed his game to a semblance of its old form. At age 51, he won the North Carolina Open.

Ward’s first instructor Palmer Maples (left) with Harvie In Jim Dodson’s book A Son of the Game, Ward said that Foxfire was “where I began to finally discover what I may have been put on Earth to do. I was here to have fun playing golf with my buddies and teach others how to play this crazy game. I was here to pass the game along.” Ward brought his charming rogue persona with him to Foxfire. Tony McKenzie, an occasional golf partner, recalls the time Ward — who was either between marriages or about to get out of one — showed up at McKenzie’s printing business asking that a batch of cards be made up reading something to the effect of, “Hello, I’m Harvie Ward. You look adorable. I’d like to get to know you better.” After 10 years at Foxfire, Ward was hired by Nicklaus to be the director of golf at Jack’s Grand Cypress Resort, where he became Payne Stewart’s instructor. A couple of years later, Ward moved across town to Interlachen Country Club. It was in Florida where he met the woman destined to become his fifth (and final) wife, Joanne Dillon. After the couple married, they contemplated relocating. “Harvie suggested we go to either the West Coast or North Carolina,” remembers Joanne. “I said no to the West Coast. We’ll go to North Carolina.” The couple moved to Pinehurst in 1989, settling in a spacious home on Blue Road in the village’s Old Town section. Peter Tufts (Richard’s son) constructed a par 3- hole on the property, where guests at Ward cocktail parties invariably gravitated with wedges in hand. Joanne bought her husband a 1967 Silver Shadow Rolls Royce, which he happily motored to his newest teaching gig at Pine Needles Lodge and Golf Club. He taught female attendees at Peggy Kirk Bell’s Golfaris and gave individual lessons, too. A young Webb Simpson was a pupil. Ward’s growing reputation as a teaching pro culminated in the PGA of America naming him “Teacher of the Year” in 1990. Ward explained that the combination of Joanne and Pinehurst finally brought him peace. “That turned out to be the smartest decision I ever made,” he confided to Dodson. “Without Joanne, see, none of this would have happened. I would have been dead years ago.” And Ward was having more fun playing golf than he had since his championship days, hooting and bantering with a disparate band of playing partners including local pros Andy Page, Bill Clement, Buck Adams and Waddy Stokes. Much of it was played at his new club, Forest Creek Golf Club. Usually, Ward took Page, the retired Southern Pines Country Club pro, as his partner. The duo would take on all comers provided that both men, sliding into their 70s, were allowed to play from the middle tees. With that advantage, they seemed as unbeatable as Hogan and Nelson. “We would make a birdie and were sure we had the hole won when either Harvie or Andy would chip in,” reflects Chris Israel, Forest Creek’s assistant pro at the time, shaking his head in disbelief. “They would drive to the next tee cackling and giggling with each other, and say loud enough for us to hear, ‘They really thought they had us. They should know better!’”

Notables from far and wide journeyed to Forest Creek to play golf with Ward. Dick LeBeau, one of pro football’s greatest defensive minds and a nearscratch player, was among them. The coach admired Ward’s ever-keen competitive nature. “He had that gleam in his eye. He knew he was going to beat you; you knew he was going to beat you; and it was fine because it was such a privilege to play with him,” reflects LeBeau. Watching ‘Ol’ Harv’ hit an iron shot was a mesmerizing experience. “It was the timing of his swing, and the sound,” marvels LeBeau. “So flush, and the ball never left the pin.” By 2003 Ward’s freewheeling younger days had taken their toll. Diagnosed with cancer, his prognosis was not good. When asked by a friend how he was doing, Ward replied, “I’m on the back nine and I can see the clubhouse.” Several of his concerned golfing friends arranged for him to make a few sentimental journeys to golf meccas like Pine Valley and Seminole. Jeff Dawson, a young Forest Creek member, escorted Ward to historic Merion Golf Club, where Ward’s friend Bob Jones had completed his Grand Slam. Ward was playing miserably and laboring in Philadelphia’s summer heat when the twosome reached Merion East’s 14th tee. A flock of members had come from the clubhouse to watch him play. Ward came alive, blasting a drive. That was followed by a laced 3-wood to the green and a holed birdie putt. “What came over you?” asked Dawson. The winking champion responded, “Those folks just wanted to see Harvie Ward.” With just a few months to live, Ward and three friends (including Dawson and Ward’s personal physician) flew to the West Coast for a last golf trip. Tee times were scheduled at two of his favorites, San Francisco Golf Club and Cypress Point, where he and Venturi had carved out a portion of golfing lore 47 years earlier. On the way back East, the men stopped in Palm Springs to visit his old partner and friend, Venturi, in his desert home. The 1964 U.S. Open champion’s den was loaded with trophies from his playing days. The one Venturi chose to place front and center was from the 1956 San Francisco City Championship, causing a flurry of good-natured teasing. Venturi took Dawson aside and said, “Do you know how good he was? I never saw him hit a 4-wood outside 10 feet!” When it was time to leave, neither of the old running mates displayed outof-the ordinary emotion as they hugged their goodbyes, but both realized they would not see one another again. Ward would pass away on Sept. 4, 2004. Furman Bisher, the dean of Atlanta sportswriters and a fellow UNC alumnus who covered the Masters 62 times, summed it up this way: “Harvie never lived an unpleasant day in his life or, if he did, he didn’t show it.” Not long after returning from his final California trip, Ward played the last nine holes of his life with Dawson at Forest Creek. He shot 34 and called it a day. “You can’t quit. You’re two under,” Dawson said. “Yeah,” replied the rueful champion, “but nobody cares.” His friends did. PS Pinehurst resident Bill Case is PineStraw’s history man. He can be reached at Bill.Case@thompsonhine.com.

Old partners Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi

Women in Combat Members of elite unit gather to discuss Ashley’s War By Jim Moriarty

Amy Sexauer

Shelane Etchison

shley White was a first lieutenant assigned to the 230th Brigade Support Battalion, 30th Heavy Brigade Combat Team attached to the Joint Special Operations Task Force when she was killed in action in 2011 in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. She was a member of a Cultural Support Team, a very special unit composed of very special women. The CSTs, as they are called, undertook night missions with elite Army Rangers. Their job was to interact with women and children in countries like Afghanistan where contact between women and men they’re not related to is socially unacceptable. When the Rangers entered a compound in search of insurgents, the CST officers would calm the women and children, search them for possible weapons or explosives (and to see if a man was hiding dressed as a woman) and, finally, obtain whatever intelligence they could. It was dangerous work in a dangerous part of the world. On Thursday, March 19, Amy Sexauer, Shelane Etchison and Caroline Cleveland, three women who trained and served with Ashley White, will lead a panel discussion of Ashley’s War, a New York Times best-seller by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. All three appeared in the book under aliases. The event — “Ashley’s War: Bonds of Women in Combat” — will be held at the Country Club of North Carolina. Doors and a cash bar open at 6:30 p.m., and the program begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 and available at ticketmesandhills. com. All proceeds benefit 2020 Women Build, a committee for Habitat for Humanity of the N.C. Sandhills. (Film rights for Ashley’s War were acquired by Fox 2000 and Reese Witherspoon, and the project is in development.) “Stepping back and looking at things from a larger picture, Ashley’s War and the story of CST is the story of a collective group of women rising to a challenge and finding deep friendships along the way,” says Etchison, who is out of the Army pursuing dual advanced degrees at Harvard University, one in business and the other at the Kennedy School of Government. “You hear about the brotherhood all the time. You never really hear about the sisterhood.” In 2013, 1st Lt. Jennifer Moreno became the second CST killed in combat. Trained originally as a nurse, Moreno was killed when she rushed to the aid of

Caroline Cleveland a fallen comrade. She was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star for bravery. “My first priority is to memorialize the legacy of Ashley White and Jenny Moreno, who are the first and hopefully only CSTs to be killed in action,” says Cleveland, who lives in Fayetteville and is a doctor of physical therapy at Cape Fear Hospital. “A lot of people have given their life in the military, and not everybody has a book written about them,” says Sexauer, who lives in Southern Pines, as have many of the CSTs. “It’s an honor to be able to carry on Ashley’s legacy. It’s not always easy, it’s not always comfortable, to talk about the past and about the things we did in the military, but it’s an honor to keep Ashley’s legacy alive.” The following is an excerpt from the preface of Ashley’s War, edited for space: Second Lieutenant White entered the “ready room” and began preparing for the night of battle. White felt the fear rising, but more seasoned soldiers had provided plenty of advice for the special brand of trepidation that accompanies a soldier on their first night mission. “It gets easier after the first time,” they assured the newbies during training. “Don’t indulge it, just pass through it.” Ready now, White stepped into the briefing room and took in the scene. Dozens of battle-hardened men from one of the Army’s fittest and finest teams, the elite special operations 75th Ranger Regiment, crowded in to watch a PowerPoint presentation in a large conference room. Many had Purple Hearts and deployments that reached into the double digits. Around them was the staff that supports soldiers in the field with intelligence, communications, and explosives disposal capabilities. Everyone was studying a diagram of the target compound as the commanders ticked through the mission plan in their own vernacular, a mix of Army shorthand and abbreviations that, to the uninitiated, sounded like a foreign language. White had the feeling of being in a Hollywood war movie. Standing nearby was a noncommissioned officer (NCO) and Iraq War veteran whom the second lieutenant had trained with. “Are we supposed to say something?” White asked.

Staff Sergeant Mason, also out for the first time, scooted closer and whispered back. Neither new arrival wanted to stand out any more than they already did. “No, I don’t think so, not tonight. The last group will speak for us.” That was a relief. White had no desire to draw attention in a room filled with soldiers who clearly felt at home in combat. Like a cast of actors who had performed the same play for a decade, they knew each other’s lines and moves, and offstage they knew each other’s backstories. It was an unexpected revelation for White, gleaned during a fifteen-minute mission review in a makeshift conference room in the middle of one of Afghanistan’s most dangerous provinces: this was a family unit. A brotherhood. The briefing ended, the commanding officer approached the front of the room and the soldiers suddenly shouted as one: “Rangers Lead the Way!” In one of the many Velcroed pockets of White’s uniform was information about the insurgent they were after and a list of crimes he was suspected of committing. In another pocket was a medal of St. Joseph and a prayer card. White stepped out of the barracks and worked to conceal any trace of the intense emotions this moment conjured up: pride in being part of a team hunting a terrorist who was killing American soldiers and his own countrymen; trepidation at the thought that after a short ride on the bird they would all end up in his living room. But it was exactly what White had wanted and trained for: to serve with fellow soldiers in this long war and do something that mattered. The fighters lined up by last name and marched into the yawning darkness of the Kandahar night. Unlike the American cities they came from, whose skies were often clouded by the pollution of industry, traffic, and the millions of lights that power a modern, twenty-four-hour-a-day society, Kandahar’s blackness stretched on forever with constellations you only read about at home. But then a powerful stench yanked the young officer back into the moment. As heavenly as the skies were, just so earthly was the smell of human excrement that hovered over and seemed to surround the Kandahar camp. In a city whose sewage system had been all but destroyed by war, the smell of feces attacked with ferocity anytime a soldier was downwind. But White was focused on something even more mundane: staying upright while marching along the unpaved, rock-strewn tarmac for the first time in total darkness. “Focus on the next step,” White silently commanded. “No mistakes. Do your job. Don’t mess up.” White and Mason fell in alongside their fellow special operations “enablers,” a group that included the explosive ordnance disposal guys who became famous in the Hollywood blockbuster The Hurt Locker. Close behind was their interpreter, an Afghan-American now entering year four in Afghanistan. Language expertise notwithstanding, the interpreter’s gear looked like it came from the Eisenhower era. They all guessed some soldier had worn that helmet back in Vietnam; it barely held the clips for night-vision goggles and was seriously dinged. Entering the cramped helicopter, White and Mason were determined not

to make a beginner mistake by taking the wrong seat, so they fell in behind a first sergeant, who had taken the new arrivals under his wing. After he sat, they followed his example, snapping a bungee cord that hung from a metal hook on their belt into hooks beneath a narrow metal bench. In theory, these cords would keep them from flying across — or out of — the helicopter while it was airborne. The soldiers took root, and with a sudden whirr the bird was off. Here we go, White thought. Outwardly the picture of calm, inside the young officer felt a rush of adrenaline and fear. Everything — the selection process, the training, the deployment — had happened so quickly. Now, suddenly, it was real. For the next nine months this is what every night would look like. Over the booming engine noise the first sergeant barked out the time stamp in hand signals. “Six minutes.” “Three minutes.” White turned to Mason and gave the thumbs-up with a smile that was full of unfelt confidence. “One minute.” Showtime. The bird landed and the door flew open, like the maw of some huge, wild reptile that had descended from the sky. White followed the others and ran a short distance before taking a knee, managing to avoid the worst of the brownout, that swirling mix of dust, stones, and God-onlyknows what else that flies upward in the wake of a departing helicopter. With barely a word exchanged, the Rangers fell in line and began marching toward the target compound. The ground crunched beneath their feet as they pressed forward through vineyards and wadis, southern Afghanistan’s ubiquitous ditches and dry riverbeds. They marched quickly, and even though the night goggles made depth perception a nearly impossible challenge, White managed not to trip over the many vines that snaked along and across the rutted landscape. No one made a sound. Even a muffled cough could ricochet across the silence and bring unwanted noise into the operation. Fifteen minutes on they reached their objective, though to White it felt like only a minute had passed. An interpreter’s voice could be heard addressing the men of the house in Pashto, urging them to come outside. A few minutes later the American and Afghan soldiers entered the compound to search for the insurgent and any explosives or weapons he might have hidden inside. And then Second Lieutenant Ashley White heard the summons that had led her from the warmth of her North Carolina home to one of the world’s most remote — and dangerous — pockets. “CST, get up here,” called a voice on the radio. The Rangers were ready for White and her team to get to work. The trio of female soldiers — White, Mason, and their civilian interpreter, Nadia — strode toward the compound that was bathed in the green haze of their goggles. It was dead in the middle of the night, but for White, the day was just beginning. Her war story had just begun. It was time for the women to go to work. PS

Me, Jake and the Lake Building a dream in Whispering Pines

By Deborah Salomon â&#x20AC;˘ Photographs by John Koob Gessner

ac Enfin. The sign over the door echoes Leigh Morgan’s sentiment about her new waterfront home: Finally, the lake What she might add is c’est moi — meaning inside and out, floorplan, colors and furnishings, this house is me: designed to be lived in by me and Jake, my dog. The 1,800-square foot cottage in modern farmhouse style, an architectural dernier cri, has only one bedroom, although the loft (now her office) soaring over the living area could be converted. For sure, with its stark white exterior, black accents and Juliet balcony, Morgan’s lake villa stands apart from its neighbors, built in Whispering Pines ranch-style, circa 1970s. People walk by, wave and shout, “Nice house!” Vive la difference. Now try this one, in English: A change is as good as a rest. For 30 years Morgan lived quite happily in a charming renovated cottage in the downtown Southern Pines historic district. Her décor: charming renovated cottage-style. Then one morning she woke up and said something like . . . I’m outta here. “I made an announcement to my family that I was going to sell my house.” Ah, but why . . . and where would she relocate, they wondered? “I love the water. I’ve always wanted to live on the water.” Morgan was familiar with lakeside properties in gated golf communities. No. She wasn’t familiar with Whispering Pines until a business errand took her there. Imagine . . . water, water everywhere. Not only water, but a perfect little building lot on Shadow Lake opposite protected wetlands, assuring forever greenery. She bought the lot a week later, in September 2018. Because a proper “me” house, like a good chocolate cake, must be scratch-made.

organ’s business is screen printing logos on T-shirts and promotional material, not drawing plans for a house. Luckily her stepfather, Larry Best, is a retired landscape architect with adjunct skills. “We had a hurricane that September.” So she, her family and their iPads holed up for two days and designed the shell. “I picked out everything myself,” Morgan says, beaming with pride. “I read a lot of magazines. So many choices.” Her criteria: “Something I won’t get tired of in five years.” Once a builder was found, the work went fast. They broke ground in January, moved in by July. “Everything went right. It was a great process,” she says. Even the stark white wide-board exterior doesn’t compete with surrounding nature. Of course Morgan drove out almost every day, with Jake, to monitor progress. “He got to know the place gradually,” so the move wasn’t upsetting. Now, Jake has commandeered the Juliet balcony as a snooze spot/lookout.

Inside the black front door, one word says it all. Magnifique! A 40-foot-long wall of soaring windows, which round the corners at each end, maximizes views of that coveted water. No blinds, no shades, no obstructions. Just a concrete terrace furnished for year-round outdoor cooking and living. Closer to the lake itself, another table for dining. But what’s that faint whooshing sound? Immediately inside the front door Morgan positioned an unusual wall-mounted fountain, with a sheet of water falling over a sheet of slate into a narrow trough, where it is sucked upward to fall again. To Morgan, the sound represents serenity. “When you walk past the fountain it takes negative energy away,” she says. “It’s the first thing I turn to in the morning.” Except for the bedroom, dressing room and bath, the entire main floor with its 30-foot ceilings is one space with white walls and dark-stained floors, divided only by furnishings. A contemporary sectional sofa the color of beach sand sprawls in front of the fireplace; a more formal settee with carved wood frame, also vanilla, faces the lake. The dining room table, vaguely Parsons, is darkly speckled metal — something she found abandoned in an office. Around it, black-lacquered Windsor chairs, others rawhide-covered; PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . March 2020

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along one side, a bench. Tall bird of paradise and fiddle leaf fig plants help delineate areas. Abstracts and animal art dominate the walls, splashes of color in this black-and-gray-and-white environment. Morgan is a lifelong horsewoman. Her parents have homes in Southern Pines Horse Country, also in Montana. Animal skin rugs and throws (a steely-eyed badger, perhaps?) come from a veterinarian-pathologist friend who practices taxidermy.

he kitchen borders the great room, suggesting the epithet: Know a woman by her kitchen. “I’m a minimalist,” Morgan states. Every utensil, every appliance has its place, mostly out of sight. A microwave is not among them. “No, never had one, never liked them,” she says. “I boil water in a kettle.” She chose cabinetry with care to match the living space it is part of: deep charcoal, matte finish instead of hard-edged glossy. Practical white ceramic tile forms the backsplash A sliding black barn door separates the only bedroom from the great room. On display here, her boldest acquisition: the headboard, a massive, mottled gray metallic panel mounted on a charcoal wall. She found it in a warehouse. “It’s from a tin ceiling,” Morgan explains, with glee. Yet she integrated this and a hulking 9-foot armoire, painted black, with several traditional chests from her grandmother’s house.

The en suite oversized bathroom is splashed with sun beaming through high windows. Half walls protect an integrated shower fitted out with a teak bench, for a Scandinavian effect. Instead of a multi-sink vanity, Morgan chose to place two free-standing ones at opposite sides of the room. The loft satisfies Whispering Pines’ minimum square footage requirement. Building up was cheaper than building out. Climbing the steep steps is a workout, but once up, the view through the window wall and across the lake is spectacular, even at night, with twinkling lights strung over the veranda. Another requirement, an attached garage, gave her the idea for connecting the two with a mud room. First-time homebuilders travel a rocky road even when assisted by architects and interior designers. Leigh Morgan, Jake trotting close behind, seems to have avoided the potholes. The only glitch, she laughs, was having the right refrigerator delivered: a stainless steel two-door model (one over one, not side by side) with no exterior ice maker or water dispenser. On the fourth attempt she got what she wanted. “The whole idea behind this house was to bring the outside in,” Morgan says. “I’m pretty content with life, but this was the icing on the cake, a healing place, calming and peaceful. “Sometimes I want to pinch myself.” Jake, an equally mellow fellow, concurs, as he begs a biscuit, then settles down into a faux fur dog blanket spread over the sectional and falls asleep. PS

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March

By Ash Alder

arch is the blushing maiden, bright-eyed and smiling, her wild locks softly brushing your skin as she frolics past. You knew she was coming. The birds have been singing her name for weeks. And yet her arrival has taken you by surprise. You, too, are blushing. March is the blossoming redbud, soft light, a tapestry of pine needles, bark and grasses. The nuthatch has crafted her nest, and like the pregnant doe, belly swollen with late winter pansies, a new energy is alive inside of you — a new innocence. Pale pink blossoms adorn the saucer magnolia, but a tiny yellow flower has caught your eye. Dandelion. Simple, immaculate, glorious dandelion. You see it as if through the eyes of a child, pluck it from the tender earth, tuck it snug behind your ear. The birds are singing louder now. Ballads of clover, crocus, daffodil. And in the garden, each tiny blossom smiles back. March has arrived and, with it, spring — as much in your heart as the outside world.

Destination Dandelion

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. — Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

Sometimes, especially on dreamy March mornings, the gentle pull of adventure arrives. On such mornings, you will wander for the sake of wandering, nectar-drunk as a hummingbird as the fragrance of spring blossoms swirls around you. You might follow the warmth of the sun, or a sweet aroma, or the distant rapping of a woodpecker, any of which will guide you someplace new. Then maybe, on some quiet woodland trail, you will discover a fluffy young dog. He won’t look hungry. Or lost. And from the way he is looking at you, he seems to be inviting you farther down the path. You’ll walk together, for a mile or so, before the path reveals a rolling field. This is when you’ll realize that, across the field, inside the cottage with the smoking chimney, someone might be wondering where their dog went. And so you’ll walk him home. Inside the cottage, which smells of rich and exotic spices, an elderly

woman is cooking dal on the stovetop. Her husband thanks you for returning Houdini (he slipped the gate again), and invites you to stay for lunch. “I’ve just gathered greens for the dandelion salad,” he tells you. You can’t say no to that.

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All you need: dandelion greens, wild and tender. Wash thoroughly, then toss with whatever you’d like. Lemon juice, fresh dill, olive oil and pepper.

Glory of Spring

Goddess of Fertility Day is observed on Wednesday, March 18 — the day before official spring. Among the goddesses celebrated on this day, Aphrodite is by far the most widely known. Born from the foam of the sea, it’s fitting that this goddess of love and blinding beauty be remembered at a time when tender green shoots and brilliant flowers seemingly appear out of nowhere. Historically, those seeking to conceive would make offerings to Aphrodite on this day — flowers, greenery, dessert wine, and triangle-shaped honey cakes. Or, grow a garden in her honor.

Dandelions don’t tell no lies. — Mick Jagger

Laugh in Flowers

The earth has softened. In the garden, sow seeds for spinach, radish, turnip and kale. Plant a Flower Day is celebrated on Thursday, March 12 — but why stop at just one? March is a good month for planting lilies, tulips and roses. And don’t forget landscaping beauties, like rock cress, sweet pea or — in celebration of Saint Patrick’s Day on March 17 — clover.

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Distinguished Chefs Edition Meet the culinary influencers who are bringing fresh local flavors to the table â&#x20AC;&#x201C; each with their unique flair.

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Mark Elliott Elliotts On Linden

For over 35 years, Chef Mark Elliott has proved that culinary excellence runs in his blood. Each of his dishes has a story — one that begins with farmer, artisan, and rancher, and ends with the personal Elliotts touch. Owner of Elliotts on Linden, The Sly Fox, The Roast Office, Elliotts Provisions, and Elliotts Catering Co, Mark's creativity and curiosity turns the freshest ingredients from the Sandhills region and beyond into extraordinary dishes that put a smile on patrons’ faces. Mark grew up in his family’s Bed & Breakfast in Torquay along the English Riviera, tending to home gardens when not in the kitchen. This indelible exposure fostered his appreciation for hospitality, food, and community. Mark’s commitment to operating a farm-to-table eatery is strong, upheld by the personal rapport developed with family farmers. Mark Elliott sets the bar high for himself, striving with each seasonal menu to improve on the previous. His kitchen is a work and play space, where he encourages his team to explore new techniques and international cuisines. Patrons are treated to Southern classics with global spices — like duck egg poutine with sweet potatoes and smoked tomato gravy — and new British twists such as rabbit terrine, with North Carolina rabbits and piccalilli. This commitment to community goes beyond the restaurant. Mark and his wife, Kelly, support local philanthropic organizations by donating food and services, and participating in fundraisers. Because when striving for excellence runs in your blood, you share that enthusiasm with those around you. Bon appétit.

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Thierry Debailleul Pinehurst Resort

Managing a handful of restaurants, each with its own style and signature dishes, seems like a daunting assignment even for the most talented culinary expert. Executive Chef Thierry Debailleul has risen to the challenge at the Pinehurst Resort, ensuring each property maintains the high standard that both the community and guests have come to expect. Known as Chef T, Debailleul’s love for cuisine began as a hobby in his hometown of Beauvais, south of Paris, France. His work has spanned the globe in several Michelin-ranked and Mobil-rated restaurants and hotels, including the Island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean, New Orleans, Hawaii and a 5-year stay in Phoenix, Arizona in the heart of the Southwest. “I loved the idea of working in a restaurant every night and having your product and your own thing, but I think what the resort and hotel life can give you is the diversity and the versatility to put your stamp on many different styles and dishes, which is fun.” At Pinehurst Resort, that’s just what Chef T has done. It’s all facilitated by a philosophy grounded in fresh, locally sourced ingredients, and the desire to always keep guests coming back for more. “You’ll find a barbecue restaurant at the brewery, traditional North Carolina cuisine at The Holly Inn, a steakhouse with flair in the Carolina Dining Room. It’s a diverse setting with many different options; hopefully, something for everyone for every day, and for whatever mood they are in at that moment.”

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Alex Turner & Decker Platt 195 American Fusion

The secret of 195 American Fusion’s eclectic cuisine is a balance of styles between chefs Alex Turner (right) and Decker Platt (left), childhood friends who work together to incorporate fresh and modern techniques to this family business. Alex began his career as a teenage dishwasher, before moving to Chicago to train under Michelin Chef Graham Elliot then to Charlotte to work under Scott Wallen at Upstream Seafood. Now back home in the Sandhills, Alex thrives on the creative process behind the menu and the adrenaline on busy nights. Decker has always been at home in the kitchen. Although he never received formal training, he’s earned the equivalent through hands-on experience. He began working at 195 in 2010. In 2019 he and his wife, Anna Pilson, inherited the business from her father and are passionate about maintaining its legacy forged over the past 25 years. Alex’s extensive culinary knowledge and creativity, plus his skills with seafood, combine perfectly with Decker’s smoked brisket, expertly seared burgers and filets, and masterful use of Indian cuisine. Together, they are ushering the restaurant into the future, from catering to hosting live music and community events on the patio.

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Warren Henry Lewis Chef Warren's

After years of working in fine dining restaurants and hotels up and down the East Coast, Chef Warren Lewis has found his home in downtown Southern Pines. His restaurant, Chef Warren's, playfully combines his passion for cuisine and community. Originally from Long Island, Chef Warren earned his degree at the Culinary Institute of America in New Hyde Park, New York. He met his wife, Marianne, while working together in NYC. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Australia and Southeast Asia soon followed and solidified the global influence that can be found in his menu today. Warren and Marianne opened their intimate bistro in 1998, quickly becoming known for serving up classic French-inspired cuisine along with show stoppers like prosciuttowrapped kangaroo. It all happens in an open kitchen that creates an intimate dining experience and sense of shared camaraderie. The restaurant has also become an incubator for chefs young in age or experience, and Warren watches proudly as they move up through the culinary world. Chef Warren's is now in its 22nd year of operation, serving dinner five nights a week.

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Matthew Hannon

Ashten's Restaurant Chef Matthew Hannon decided to become a chef because "all the cool kids were doing it." Matt’s path led him to a degree in Culinary Arts from Sandhills Community College, where he would realize that the best dishes started with fresh, high-quality ingredients, sourced locally. Soon, he developed a love for the farm-to-table movement, and a commitment to introducing customers to the bounty of possibilities offered by farmers across the Sandhills. This variety of fresh flavors and textures sets Ashten’s apart. Matt counts Paradox Farm goat cheese, stuffed squash blossoms, crispy duck with local vegetable fried rice and anything he creates with fresh NC seafood as among his favorite dishes. He has also implemented a vegan menu, which has become sought-after on a daily basis. If you ever doubt Matt’s commitment to sourcing local ingredients, consider that he and his three boys can often be found searching for wild edibles in woods near their home in Vass. To follow their food adventures, follow Matt on Instagram @ localchefmatt.

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Danny Hayes The House of Fish

A talented chef, entrepreneur, and social media personality, Danny Hayes brings a unique blend of talent and charm to his restaurant, The House of Fish. That blend has brought him almost as much business as the fish itself — as well as continued coverage from local and state-wide media outlets and hundreds of five-star reviews. Danny’s love for seafood began as a child, when he earned pocket money by peddling fish at a market in Hamlet. After experiencing life in New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to the Sandhills to care for his mother. When a local barbeque shack folded, Hayes saw an opportunity to bring his own brand of coastal cuisine to the Sandhills by opening The House of Fish. You’ll find The House of Fish, full of downhome hospitality and nautical decor, on the corner of N.C. 211 and Keyser Street where he moved in 2015; and you’ll find Danny on social media almost daily, where he streams live iPhone videos straight from his kitchen for his more than 6,000 followers. If we had to name a more accessible, down-to-Earth chef, we’d be floundering.

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Although conscientious effort is made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, all events are subject to change and errors can occur! Please call to verify times, costs, status and location before planning or attending an event. BOOKWORMS BOOKCLUB. Are you in grade K–5 and want to join a book club? Find the Bookworms display in the library to take home the book of the month, pick up your discussion questions and grab some activities. When you have finished reading the book, fill out the book review to post on the library’s wall. This month’s book is Bridge to Terabithia. Can’t read yet? Read along with a grownup. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. BOOK SALES. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday–Saturday. Monthly sale — mystery and novel paperbacks are $1 for March, some exclusions apply. Given Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-7002. JOY OF ART STUDIO. Drawing and painting, home school ancient history through art, studio day for teens, fiber arts and sewing, mixed media private teaching all ages, Anime illustration, and book group for women. Joy of Abstracting workshop and fashion illustration runs through March. Classes are held at Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or www.joyof-art.com or Facebook link www. facebook.com/Joyscreativespace/ for a complete list of events this month.

Sunday, March 1

EMPTY BOWLS. 12 - 2 p.m. Support the fundraising event to benefit the Sandhills Moore Coalition while enjoying a sampling of soups and desserts. Country Club of Whispering Pines, 2 Clubhouse Blvd., Whispering Pines. Info: (910) 693-1600 or www.sandhillscoalition.org. FILM. 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. In Search of Chopin. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. CLASSICAL MUSIC SUNDAYS. 2 - 4 p.m. Enjoy the sounds of The Symphony Winds in the Weymouth Chamber Music Series. Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. Tickets: www. ticketmesandhills.com. WRITING GROUP. 3 p.m. Interested in creating fiction, nonfiction, poetry or comics? Connect with other writers and artists, chat about your craft and get feedback on your work. All levels are welcome. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928235 or www.sppl.net. CREATE A KITE. 3 p.m. Join us in the meadow behind the Weymouth Center to build your own kite. Materials provided and there is plenty of room to fly your new creation. Free and open to the public. Boyd Tract, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov.

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VIDEO FEST. 4:30 - 6 p.m. Come to the Cat Video Fest, a compilation reel of the best cat videos. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Monday, March 2 READ ACROSS AMERICA. 4 p.m. Celebrate Read Across America Day and enjoy a special “Booktasting.” Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. PERFORMANCE. 4:45 p.m. Join Kirk Tours to go see The Color Purple. Cost: $130/person. Bus departs at 4:45 p.m. and the performance starts at 7:30 p.m. Cost includes premium seating, a three course dinner and transportation. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or www.kirktours.com. AUTHOR SERIES. 7 p.m. Listen to Moore County authors talk about their books. This event is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org.

Tuesday, March 3 ART CLASS. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Pat McMahon will be teaching watercolor on rice paper. The class runs through March 4. For all levels. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artisleague.org. CELEBRATE THE PIG. 6 p.m. There will be a butchery demonstration followed by a three-course dinner paired

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CA L E N DA R with local beers. Cost is $40. Limited seating. Reservations required. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com. FILM. 7 - 9 p.m. In Search of Chopin. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Wednesday, March 4 BOOK EVENT. 5 p.m. The Paris Photo, by Jane Gabin. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. GLOBAL TASTES. Follow the Eastern Spice Trail with four courses and a wine pairing. The courses will be tastes from India. Limited seating. Tickets required. Cost: $32. Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Suite A, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775 or www.elliottsonlinden.com.

Thursday, March 5 THEATER. 7:30 p.m. Cape Fear Regional Theatre will be presenting Murder for Two. Performances run through March 22, and times and tickets can be found on the website. Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: www.cfrt.org/project/murder-for-two/. CONCERT. 7:30 - 9:30 p.m. Miss Tess and the Talkbacks. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. SYMPHONY. 8 p.m. A Rodgers and Hammerstein Celebration brought to you by the N.C. Symphony Orchestra. Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (877) 627-6724 or www. ncsymphony.org.

Friday, March 6 POT LUCK LUNCHEON. 12 p.m. Seniors 55 and older can participate in a free potluck lunch. Bring a small dish and enjoy great food and fellowship. Ten games of bingo will follow the lunch with prizes for winners. Cost: $2 for Southern Pines residents; $4 non-residents. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376 or www.southernpines.net/136/ Recreation-Parks. BOOK EVENT. 2 p.m. Mothers and Strangers, by Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. ART RECEPTION. 4 - 6 p.m. Come to the opening reception for the gallery show featuring the artwork of full members. The exhibition and sale continue through March 26. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artisleague.org. FINE ARTS FESTIVAL. 5 - 7 p.m. Check out awardwinning art by Moore County students in grades K-8 at the Young People’s Fine Arts Festival presented by the Arts Council of Moore County. The exhibit will be on display through March 25. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or www.mooreart.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Miss Tess and the Talkbacks. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. FILM. Emma, a film based on Jane Austen’s novel. Tickets are $8. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

Saturday, March 7 WILDINGS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. Bring your kids ages 6 10 as we venture into the wild woods of Weymouth in search of treasure. Create a personal map of our adventure as forest dwellers help us find our way to the prize. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods Visitor Center, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www. ncparks.gov.

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BABY GOAT YOGA. 10 - 11:30 a.m. Enjoy yoga with baby goats, fresh air and a cheese spread. Paradox Farm Creamery, 449 Hickory Creek Lane, West End. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

book, The Rumi Prescription. Light reception to follow. Free. Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Celebrate Dr. Seuss Day with cake, crafts, activities and books. Bring a friend and sign up for a free library card. This event is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org.

Thursday, March 12

EQUESTRIAN EVENT. Southern Pines Horse Trials. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074.

Sunday, March 8 ADULT EXPLORATIONS. 3 p.m. The library will host Conversation Cafe with the topic of “Current Events Fatigue: Dealing with the 24/7 News Cycle.” Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. HIKE. 3 p.m. Join a ranger for a 2-mile hike to explore the Sandhills from top to bottom and find out what makes this ecosystem so diverse. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods Visitor Center, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. FILM. 4 p.m. Anne Frank: Parallel Stories. Tickets are $15. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. George Jackson Band, Treya Lam. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesand hills.com.

Monday, March 9 DAY CAMP. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Ages 6 - 12 can join us for a day of movement, art, music, theater and games. Registration is on a first come, first served basis and space is limited. Encore Center, 160 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-0603 or www.encorecenter.net. PHOTO CLUB MEETING. 7 p.m. The Sandhills Photography Club meeting features speaker Diane Wehr, who will present “The Art and Theory of Taking Pictures of People You Do Not Know.” The O’Neil School, Activity Center Theater, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: www.sandhillsphotoclub.org. CONCERT. 9 p.m. Nathan Lee on the piano. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or www.mooreart.org.

Tuesday, March 10 DINNER PARTY. 6:15 p.m. Three wines and three courses will be served during this Brown Bag Wine Dinner Party. Cost: $39. Limited seating. Tickets required. Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Suite A, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775 or www.elliottsonlinden.com. FILM. 7 - 9 p.m. Lucian Freud, A Self Portrait. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Wednesday, March 11 BABIES, SONGS AND READ ALONGS. 9:45 - 10:15 a.m. Join us for a library program for ages 0 - 3. We will combine simple stories, music and movement to engage and entertain the little bookworms. Limited seating. First come, first served. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org. ART CLASS. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Betty Hendrix will be teaching a class on portraiture. For intermediate and advanced artists. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artisleague.org. WRITER IN RESIDENCE. 5:30 p.m. Author Melody Moezzi will read from and discuss her latest

FILM. 10 a.m. Anne Frank: Parallel Stories. Tickets are $15. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 p.m. Audrey Moriarty will discuss the VOP Needs Assessment, survey results and ideas for the library’s future. This event is free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org. BOOK EVENT. 5 p.m. Blackwood, by Michael Farris Smith. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.thecountrybookshop.biz. READ BETWEEN THE PINES. 5:30 p.m. Join the library’s newest book club for adults to discuss amazing books. This month’s book is The Story of Arthur Truluv, by Elizabeth Berg. Southern Pines Fire Station No. 2, intersection of Waynor Road and N.C. 22, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Friday, March 13 TREES AND CRITTERS. 10 a.m. Trees provide homes for all kinds of critters. Come find out what parts of the tree are used by what animals as we read a book, take a short hike, and make a craft. Dress for the weather. Geared toward 3 - 5 year olds to do with their parents. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THEATER. 7 - 9 p.m. The Little Mermaid Jr., performed by the Imagine Youth Theater. Hannah Theater at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 4201025 or www.taylordance.org. MOONLIGHT HIKE. 7:30 p.m. Join Southern Pines Recreation and Parks to discover nature by moonlight as you walk along the trail for a 1-mile hike. Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov.

Saturday, March 14 PURE BARRE. 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Join Pure Barre for a workout to benefit the Wallace Beeson Foundation. Bring your own mat and water. Pinehurst Brewing Co., 300 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Tickets: www. ticketmesandhills.com. BABY GOAT YOGA. 10 a.m. Enjoy yoga with baby goats, fresh air and a cheese spread. Paradox Farm Creamery, 449 Hickory Creek Lane, West End. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. TEA WITH POTTERS. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Spend the day in Seagrove on a relaxing gallery crawl and sample teas from Carriage House Tea. Pottery Highway, NC Hwy 705, Seagrove. Info: (336) 879-4145. ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE. 11 a.m. Come enjoy the Irish spirit during the 18th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-2817 or www.vopnc.org. STEAM. 11 a.m. Craft tables will be out all day. At 11 a.m. join the library staff for “Bubble Mania.” This program is for children kindergarten through fifth grade. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. MUSICAL. 11 a.m. Pinkalicious! The Musical. There will be a second performance at 2 p.m. Tickets are $8 general admission and $20 VIP, including an after party with the cast. Encore Center, 160 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-0603 or www.encorecenter.net. CHILI COOK OFF. Enjoy a chili cook off and cross country

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Sunday, March 15 FILM. 1:30 - 3 p.m. Lucian Freud, A Self Portrait. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. SPRING CONCERT. 2 p.m. The Moore County Concert Band will perform a spring concert, “The Grand Tour.” Dr. Tim Altman, trumpet, will be the guest soloist. Director David Seiberling has chosen selections representing locations visited on a typical Grand Tour. Free and open to the public. Grand Ballroom of the Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-7012 or www.moorecountyband.com. SPRING HIKE. 3 p.m. New to hiking or parks? Join us for an easy 1.5-mile hike for a friendly introduction to hiking and exploring our North Carolina state parks. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods Visitor Center, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www. ncparks.gov. FAMILY TALES. 3 p.m. Children ages 3 through third grade and their families can enjoy stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading as well as social-emotional development. The theme is “Games, Games, Games!” Capacity is limited to 25 children and their caregivers per session. Check-in with a valid Southern Pines Public Library card is required. Southern Pines Fire Station #2, intersection of Waynor Road and N.C. 22, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

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IRISH DANCE. 4 p.m. Riverdance, performed and filmed on the Dublin stage. Tickets are $15. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

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THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. The Blue Eyed Bettys. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Monday, March 16 WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30 a.m. The monthly business meeting will begin at 10 a.m. followed by speaker Jacqueline Wade (International Safaris). Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261. Info: www.weymouthcenter.org. LUNCHEON. 11:30 a.m. The Moore County Historical Association is having its fifth annual Shaw House Tea Room Chicken and Waffles Luncheon. The historic menu is homemade creamed chicken on waffles with maple syrup and homemade prune cake for dessert. Cost is $20. Shaw House, corner of Morganton Road and Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 281-5417 or info@moorehistory.com. SIP & PAINT. 6 - 8 p.m. Join local artist Jane Casnellie for a fun evening painting at the Given Book Shop. No experience necessary and all materials provided as well as refreshments available. Cost is $35. Given Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-7002 or email lisa@giventufts.com.

Tuesday, March 17 ST. PATRICK’S DAY. All-day event. Enjoy a corned beef and cabbage special with fresh baked soda bread and Irish

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CA L E N DA R stew. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com. JAMES BOYD BOOK CLUB. 2 p.m. This month’s book is Louise’s War, by Sara Shaber. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. LIT WITS. 5:30 p.m. Join the library’s teen book club for 11- 15 year olds. You can check out your copy of this month’s book, Restart, at the library from March 1 through March 16. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. LECTURE SERIES. 5:30 p.m. The Arts Council of Moore County presents the Fine Arts Lecture Series with lecturer Amanda Maples, photographer, speaking on “Fashioning Senegalese Women.” Cost is $16; $5 for students. McPherson Theater, Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-2787 or www.mooreart.org. WHISKEY TASTING. 6 - 8 p.m. Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an Irish whiskey tasting. Sip three whiskeys paired with three bites. Tickets required. Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Suite A, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775 or www. elliottsonlinden.com.

Wednesday, March 18 FASHION SHOW. 11 a.m. The Women of the Pines will have a Spring Fashion Show with fashions by several local boutiques. There will be a champagne reception followed by a plated lunch. Cost is $40 per person. Pinehurst Country Club, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 5851999 or (919) 745-9660. GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP. 12 p.m. Men and women are invited to play in the 22nd annual Kelly Cup Golf Championship to benefit the Sandhills Children’s Center.

Entry fee covers cart and greens fees, snack before play, beverages, and dinner by White Rabbit Catering. Pinehurst No. 8, Centennial Blvd., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-3323 or www.SandhillsChildrensCenter.org. ART WORKSHOP. Connie Winters will be having a workshop on the basics of impressionistic painting. The class runs through March 20. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artisleague.org.

Thursday, March 19 EQUESTRIAN EVENT. Carolina International CCI and HT. The event continues through March 22. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 or www.carolinainternationalcci.com.

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Friday, March 20 SPRING FLING. 5:30 p.m. Ages 3-12 are invited to celebrate the arrival of spring. Participants will play games, win tickets, and pick out their prizes. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Free event. Southern Pines Recreation Center Gym, 160 Memorial Park Court, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. THEATER. 7:30 p.m. Jerry Herman on Broadway, presented by the Sandhills Repertory Theatre. There is also a performance on March 21 at 7:30 p.m. and March 22 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $38. Hannah Theater at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: www.sandhillsrep.org.

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

Saturday, March 21

CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE. 6:30 p.m. Speaker Ted R. Kunstling will have a presentation on “Raleigh Occupied! April 13, 1865.” Meeting starts at 7 p.m. Open to the public. Civic Club, corner of Pennsylvania and Ashe St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-0452 or mafarina@aol.com.

CHILDREN’S PROGRAM. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Join this month’s program where the theme is “Perfect Pets! Skins, Scales, Fur and Tails.” For children of all ages with a parent or guardian. Boyd Library, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. RSVP to: konoldm@sandhills.edu.

FUNDRAISER. 6:30 - 9 p.m. The Uprising Theatre Company/Shakespeare in the Pines is having the annual Wit & Whimsy fundraiser to cover the costs of the production of The Comedy of Errors. The Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. Info: www.uprisingtheatre.com. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. BOOK EVENT. 6:30 - 9 p.m. Come join a conversation around the book, Ashley’s War: Bonds of Women in Combat. Sponsored by The Country Bookshop. Country Club of North Carolina, 1600 Morganton Road,

BABY GOAT YOGA. 10 - 11:30 a.m. Enjoy yoga with baby goats, fresh air and a cheese spread. Paradox Farm Creamery, 449 Hickory Creek Lane, West End. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

CONCERT. 7 - 9 p.m. Come enjoy the music of Sidecar Social Club while kicking off the 2020 Cooper Ford Concert Series. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 365-9890 or www.vision4moore.com. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Sunday, March 22 LECTURE SERIES. 2 - 4 p.m. Speaker Kevin Duffus lectures about the history of Cape Fear.

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Friday, March 6: Miss Tess and the Talkbacks. Sunday, March 8: George Jackson Band, Treya Lam. Sunday, March 15: The Blue Eyed Bettys. Sunday, March 22: Steel City Rovers. Thursday, March 26: Hargreaves and deGroot; Furtado and Price. Sunday, March 29: Eliza Neals.

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CA L E N DA R This is the final presentation in the three-part series. Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261. Info: www.weymouthcenter. org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. BURNING TO CONSERVE. 3 p.m. It’s N.C. State Parks’ “Year of Fire.” Join guest speaker Jimmy Dodson, the ecological restoration specialist for N.C. State Parks, for a slide show and hike that will highlight the use of fire in ecosystem restoration efforts. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods Visitor Center, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Steel City Rovers. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Monday, March 23 ART CLASS. 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Beth Ybarra will be teaching intermediate acrylics. The class runs through March 24. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artisleague.org. SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. Eric Dousharm, Weymouth Woods State Park Ranger, will speak on beavers. Visitors welcome. Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.sandhillsnature.org.

Tuesday, March 24 TRIVIA TOURNAMENT. 6:30 p.m. This month’s theme is all things St. Patrick’s. Winner will receive a $50 gift card. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.theslyfoxpub.com.

Wednesday, March 25 BABIES, SONGS AND READ ALONGS. 9:45 - 10:15

a.m. Join us for a new library program for ages 0 - 3. We will combine simple stories, music and movement to engage and entertain the little bookworms. Limited seating. First come, first served. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.giventufts.org. ART CLASS. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Harry Neely will be teaching how to paint from photos. The class runs through March 26. For intermediate artists. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artisleague.org. GLOBAL TASTES. Follow the Eastern Spice Trail with four courses and a wine pairing. The courses will be tastes from Malaysia. Limited seating. Tickets required. Cost: $32. Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Suite A, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775 or www.elliottsonlinden.com.

Thursday, March 26 SENIORS TRIP. 11 a.m. Seniors 55 and older can join Southern Pines Recreation and Parks to travel to Sanford to see Steel Magnolias at the Temple Theatre. Cost: $26 for Southern Pines residents; $52 for non-residents. Bus will depart at 11 a.m. from the Campbell House Playground parking lot and return by 5 p.m. Campbell House Playground, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CLAYS FOR KIDS. 2:30 p.m. Join us in the inaugural “Clays for Kids Sporting Clay Shoot and Social” to benefit Sandhills Children’s Center and to support local children who have special developmental needs. Enjoy a 14-station shoot, BBQ dinner, goodie bag, ham shoot, flurries, silent auction, raffle, and more. DeWitt’s Outdoor Sports, 443 Jimmy Carriker Road, Ellerbe. Info: (910) 692-3323 or www. SandhillsChildrensCenter.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. Allison deGroot and Tatiana Hargreaves.

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Furtado and Price. Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

Friday, March 27 ART CLASS. 10 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. Laureen Kirk will be teaching simple perspective in drawing. For beginner and intermediate artists. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artisleague.org. HORTICULTURAL LECTURE. 1 p.m. Hilarie Blevins will present a talk on “Gardening in Containers.” Free event. Limited seating. Ball Visitor’s Center, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst.

Saturday, March 28 CRAFT DAY. Stop in the library anytime during the day for this self-led music-themed craft program. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. WIZARDS OF WEYMOUTH. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Enjoy a family event honoring the works of J.K. Rowling. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. BABY GOAT YOGA. 10 - 11:30 a.m. Practice yoga with baby goats, fresh air and a cheese spread. Paradox Farm Creamery, 449 Hickory Creek Lane, West End. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. LADIES DAY OUT. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. A day to celebrate women with shopping, activities, information and entertainment. Days Inn Conference Center, 805 Southwest Service Road, Southern Pines. Tickets: www. ticketmesandhills.com. ART EXHIBIT. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. Come see the Garden Club of the Sandhill’s Blooming Art Exhibit. Cost: $10. The exhibit will also be open on March

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An Evening with Tony Kornheiser from PTI “Pardon the Interruption” Cash Bar at 6:30 PM Dinner at 7:00 PM in the Cardinal Ballroom at the Carolina Hotel Early Bird special for tickets: March 2 - March 13 tickets are $85. On March 14 tickets are $100 Tickets available at the Tufts Archives Questions? Call 910.295.3642

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AWARDS CEREMONY. 2 p.m. Come to the Moore County Writing Competition Awards Ceremony. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

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FUNDRAISER. 6 p.m. The Sunrise Theater’s annual fundraiser, “Raise the Roof,” returns with a live concert with local talent. Tickets are $20 for VIP and $15 reserved seating. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. HABITAT GALA. 6 p.m. Building good homes, strong homeowners, and creating awareness in our community cannot be accomplished without many hands and minds. Come to the annual “Habitat Gala and Auction” where proceeds build an entire home. Tickets are $150. Pinehurst Members Club, 1 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 2951934 or www.sandhillshabitat.org.

Sunday, March 29 BOLSHOI BALLET. 1 p.m. Romeo and Juliet. Tickets are $25. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. HIKE. 3 p.m. Join us for a 1-mile hike through history as we learn what the longleaf forest has to tell us about the past. We’ll learn to read landmarks, tree scars, and features of the forest that tell the story of how the land has changed over the years. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Woods Visitor Center, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Doors open

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MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 6 - 9 p.m. Bring your instrument and your love of music. The jam session and song circle meets monthly. 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.

COLLEGE SEMINAR. 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. Learn how to navigate the college application and scholarship process at the “College Essentials Seminar” with speaker Elizabeth Hartley. Presented by First Flight Agency and The Pilot. Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Tickets: www.ticketmesand hills.com.

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Glassblowing demonstrations bring $1 to share ours. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania WRITER IN RESIDENCE. 5:30 p.m. Author Therese throughout the day Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. Fowler will read from and discuss her latest book. Free. Weymouth Center, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

INDOOR WALKING. 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Improve balance, blood pressure and maintain healthy bones with one of the best methods of exercise. Classes are held at the same time Monday through Friday. Ages 55 and up. Cost for six Sunday, April 5 months: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Southern Pines HISTORICAL PRESENTATION. 3 p.m. The Moore Recreation Center, 210 Memorial Park Ct., Southern Pines. County Historical Association and Southern 100 PinesRussell Civic Drive • Star, NC 27356 Info: (910) 692-7376. (910) 428-9001 club will have a presentation by local writer Ray Owen about• www.STARworksNC.org Helen Boyd Dull, the Civic Club founder. Southern Pines BABY RHYMES: READ TO YOUR BUNNY. 10:30 a.m. Civic Club, 105 S. Ashe St., Southern Pines. This story time, reserved for ages birth to 24 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy brain-building Saturday, April 18 practices. Dates this month are March 9, 16, 23 and 30. HOME AND GARDEN TOUR. Southern Pines Garden Programs are limited to 25 children and their accompanying Club’s 72nd annual Home and Garden Tour. Six homes adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in with across Southern Pines, Pinehurst and horse country will their valid Southern Pines Public Library full or limited be showcased, featuring lovely gardens and creative floral access cards. Southern Pines Fire Station No. 2, intersection arrangements. Ticket holders receive restaurant discounts of Waynor Road and N.C. 22, Southern Pines. Info: (910) for the tour day. Tickets $25 in advance, $30 the day of. Info: 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. www.southernpinesgardenclub.com or email southernpinesCONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played gardenclub@outlook.com. by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is de-

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CA L E N DA R termined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. MASTER GARDENER TRAINING. 6 - 8 p.m. Receive a high level of training in all aspects of horticulture. Training fee is $85 for those accepted into the program. Moore County Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. Info: (910) 947-3188. MASTER GARDENER HELP LINE. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. If you have a garden problem, a garden pest, a question, or if you want help deciding on plant choices, call the Moore County Agriculture Cooperative Extension Office. Knowledgeable Master Gardener Volunteers will research the answers for you. The help line is available Monday through Friday and goes through October 31. Walk-in consultations are available during the same hours at the Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. Info: (910) 947-3188. WORKOUTS. 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to get their workout on. Cost for six months: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. The gym is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376.

Tuesdays TRIVIA GAMES. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Adults 55 and older can compete with friends in trivia games to see who knows the most about everything. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. BABY RHYMES: READ TO YOUR BUNNY. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions). This story time, reserved for ages birth to 24 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy brain-building practices. Dates this month are March 2, 3, 19, 17, 24 and 31. Programs are limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in to story time sessions at the circulation desk up to an hour before the start time of each session with their valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost per class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. GAME DAY. 12 p.m. Enjoy Bid Whist and other cool games in the company of great friends. For adults 55 and older. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TABLE TENNIS. 7 - 9 p.m. Enjoy playing this exciting game every Tuesday. Cost for six months is $15 for residents of Southern Pines and $30 for non-residents. For adults 55 and older. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

Wednesdays COFFEE AND CONVERSATION. 9 - 10:30 a.m. Adults 55 and older can come out to watch their favorite morning shows or discuss different topics. Bring your own coffee or bring $1 to share ours. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. Especially for children ages 3–5, this story time focuses on stories, songs and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build language and socialization skills to prepare for kindergarten. Dates this month are March 4, 11, 18 and 25. Stay for playtime. This event is limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in to story time sessions at the circulation desk up to an hour before the start time of each session with their valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W.

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Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. TAP CLASS. 11:30 a.m - 1 p.m. For adults 55 and older. All levels welcome. Cost per class: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6–7 p.m. Improve flexibility, build strength, ease tension and relax through posture and breathing techniques for beginners and experts alike. Free for CFBG and YMCA members, $5/non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221, ext. 36 or www.capefearbg.org. (Must register one day prior). Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org. CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music. Cost: $15/person. Must be 21 years of age or older. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of eight or more. Soda, water and award-winning wines available for purchase. Food vendor on site. No outside beverages (alcoholic or non-alcoholic), coolers, picnic baskets or cooking devices permitted on premises. Birthday cakes, cheese trays and small items are acceptable. Anyone bringing in outside alcohol will be asked to leave with no refund. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 369-0411 or www.cypressbendvineyards.com.

FARM TO TABLE. Join Sandhills Farm to Table Co-op by ordering a subscription of local produce to support our local farmers. Info: (910) 722-1623 or www.sandhillsfarm2table.com.

Thursdays GIVEN STORY TIME. 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 - 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022. TODDLER TUNES. 10:30 a.m. Especially for children ages 18 - 36 months, this program will incorporate stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games to foster language and motor skill development. Dates this month are March 5, 12, 19 and 26. This event is limited to 25 children and their accompanying adult per session. Parents or caregivers must check in to story time sessions at the circulation desk up to an hour before the start time of each session with their valid SPPL full or limited access cards. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1–3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CHESS. 1–3 p.m. All levels of players welcome. You need a chess set to participate. Ages 55 and up. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. YOGA IN THE GARDEN. 6 - 7 p.m. Bring a yoga mat, water bottle and open mind to enjoy this all level class to improve flexibility, build strength and relax. Cost per class: Free/member; $10/non-member per session or $30 for four classes. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221.

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m. and 1 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 www.kirktours.com.

Fridays COFFEE AND CONVERSATION. 9 - 10:30 a.m. Adults 55 and older can come out to watch their favorite morning shows or discuss different topics. Bring your own coffee or $1 to share ours. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAP CLASS. 10 - 11:30 a.m. For adults 55 and older. All levels welcome. Cost per class: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376.

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