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95 Quail Hollow Drive, Pinehurst

134 Lawrence Overlook, West End

Beautifully crafted with unmatched style and elegance. Exceptional indoor and outdoor living with both golf and water views; many special features. 4 bedrooms, 4/3 bathrooms.

The Crown Jewel. Splendid Lake Auman waterfront estate with 2-acres, gym, workshop, and guest house. Three full kitchens. 5 bedrooms, 6/1 bathrooms.

85 Cypress Point Drive, Pinehurst

800 Lake Dornoch Drive, Pinehurst

220 Merry Way, Southern Pines

Views of the 11th hole of the Cardinal Course combined with incredible architecture and design, spaciousness, and magnificent outdoor living spaces. 3 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

5-acre golf front estate on the Cardinal Course. Gourmet kitchen, dining room, 2 fireplaces, master and guest suite, geothermal heating, pool, and more. 4 bedrooms, 4/2 bathrooms.

Elevated private equine retreat on over 17-acres in horse country. Rolling pastures, over 3,500sf home plus barn. Outdoor firepit for stargazing. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

35 Southern Hills Place, Pinehurst

50 Hearthstone Road, Pinehurst

13 Granger Drive, Pinehurst

Over 4,000sf in CCNC. Kitchen/family room with fireplace, formal dining , spacious living room, lower family room, all with lake views, decks, and terraces. 3 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

Custom home on large, private lot near the Village of Pinehurst entrance. A true lifestyle home for entertaining. 4 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

Golf and pond views from this custom ranch overlooking #9 on #7; office patio, and 3-car garage. Beautifully landscaped with water feature. 3 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

10 Gray Fox Run, Pinehurst

102 Douglas Drive, West End

23 Whithorn Court, Pinehurst

Traditional Cape Cod in Clarendon Gardens. Wrap around front porch, chef’s kitchen, stacked stone fireplace, sparkling pool, 2 bonus rooms, full basement. 5 bedrooms, 5/2 bathrooms.

All brick, waterfront home with over 3,700sf plus 1,300sf unfinished. Well-maintained, large bedrooms, large closets, outdoor fireplace, and seating area. 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

Spectacular house with stunning golf views. Open floor plan, generous room sizes, and sparkling pool. 4 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

$2,949,000 MLS 186168 Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099

$2,700,000 MLS 183960 Scarlett Allison 910-603-0359

“Thistle Dhu” historic flagship Pinehurst home. Completely renovated and restored. First miniature golf course in USA. 6 bedrooms, 7/3 bathrooms.

$1,350,000 MLS 186021 Scarlett Allison 910-603-0359

$1,325,000 MLS 186019 Scarlett Allison 910-603-0359

$895,000 MLS 177388 Scarlett Allison 910-603-0359

$1,250,000 MLS 184086 Deb Darby 910-783-5193

$810,000 MLS 187316 Kay Beran 910-315-3322

$684,900 MLS 185994 Bonnie Baker 910-690-4705

Pinehurst Office

$1,490,000 MLS 182888 Linda Criswell 910-783-7374

$695,000 MLS 178679 Kay Beran 910-315-3322

$649,900 MLS 186100 Linda Criswell 910-783-7374

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105 Gordon Point, Seven Lakes West

240 Frye Road, Pinehurst

11 Edinburgh Lane, Pinehurst

Unique lakefront home designed to captivate the lake views. Spacious living, 2 fireplaces, metal roof, maintenance-free exterior. 3 bedrooms, 4/1 bathrooms.

Steps away from the Village of Pinehurst. Cleverly upgraded home on a quiet, lovely cul-de-sac. Pinehurst Country Club membership is available. 4 bedroom, 4/1 bathroom.

Renovated home on Magnolia’s 15th hole. New kitchen with stainless appliances, 3 updated bathrooms, hardwoods, large deck, stone fireplace in Pinewild. 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms.

114 Timber Ridge Court, West End

20 Linville Drive, Pinehurst

4 Royal Dornoch Lane, Pinehurst

Vacation at home. Gorgeous custom home with pool, hot tub, and walk to marina. Main level master suite on first floor. 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms.

Brick home with large family room, white kitchen, hardwoods, pool, and patio. 3 bedrooms, 2/1 bathrooms.

Overlooking 11th green of Dogwood on a double lot; granite, stainless steel, 2 fireplaces, generator, covered slate porch. Perfect year round living or golf getaway home. 2 bed, 3 bath.

35 Whistling Straight, Pinehurst

1200 Burning Tree Road, Pinehurst

103 Lewis Point, West End

Location, location. Turnkey living with custom upgrades throughout. 4 bedrooms, 3/1 bathrooms.

This home features soaring ceilings, gas fireplace, granite kitchen, stainless appliances, and fully fenced backyard. Pinehurst CC membership is available to transfer. 4 bed, 3 bath.

Waterfront lot on Lake Auman in gated community complete with bulk head, 2-boat docks, boat lift, and swim ladder already in place. Ideal spot to build your dream home.

30 Whistling Straight, Pinehurst

188 North Erfie Drive, Pinebluff $275,000 MLS 184224 Deb Darby 910-783-5193

111 Hillard, Pinehurst

$218,500 MLS 187153 Deb Darby 910-783-5193

Single level living with lock & leave lifestyle. Close to all amenities. Granite counters, stainless appliances, gas fireplace, hardwood floors, large unfinished storage room. 3 bed, 2/1 bath.

Immaculate single level with large below grade. Patio with firepit, hardwood flooring. Rear deck off living, dining and master. 3,200sf workshop and new roof. 3 bed, 2/1 bath.

Charming home with a cottage feel sits on 2 lots for a total of 1.27-acres. New roof, septic, solar panels and HVAC. Hardwood flooring throughout and updated kitchen. 3 bed, 2 bath.

$629,000 MLS 185313 Linda Criswell 910-783-7374

$515,000 MLS 186427 Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099

$369,000 MLS 186408 Jennifer Hirtle 931-561-8000

$309,000 MLS 187516 Jennifer Nguyen 910-585-2099

Southern Pines Office

$595,000 MLS 178697 Kay Beran 910-315-3322

$550,000 MLS 183835 Marie O’Brien 910-528-5669

$485,000 MLS 185126 Carolyn Hallett 910-986-2319

$375,000 MLS 183367 Carolyn Hallett 910-986-2319

$325,000 MLS 187406 Deb Darby 910-783-5193

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459 LongLeaF drive Beautifully designed custom built 3 BR / 2.5 BA waterfront home is bright and open! All rooms are spacious and well designed with the master suite on the main level and plenty of deck area for outdoor dining and entertaining.

PinehurSt • $469,500

4 BiLtMore PLace Elegant 4 BR / 3.5 BA two story golf front home located on Pinehurst #3 course. Offering over 3,600 square feet of living area, this all brick home is light and open w/spacious living area opening to the formal dining area, kitchen and informal breakfast area as well as the covered patio. Also upstairs there is a sitting alcove and a separate office.

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1060 Burning tree road Lovely 5 BR / 3.5 BA waterfront home w/incredible panoramic views of Lake Pinehurst. Main level includes spacious living room, cathedral ceiling and brick fireplace, while the lower level features family room w/fireplace and double doors that open to a fabulous screen porch and lower level deck.

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1010 Morganton road Fine 3 BR / 3.5 BA home on 14th green of Pinehurst course #1. The home features two first floor master suites w/golf course views, screened in porch w/ ceiling fans, large eat-in kitchen and spacious BONUS SUITE w/expansive golf front view. Also has a huge finished garage w/bay for included golf cart.

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915 raYS Bridge road Beautifully renovated 3 BR / 2.5 BA lakefront home featuring oversized living room w/fireplace and French doors to the spacious deck as well as gourmet kitchen w/marble countertops and stainless steel appliances. Charming gazebo and private lake…a must see!

14 Scioto Lane Classic 3 BR / 2.5 BA home on the 18th fairway of Pinehurst #6. Interior has spacious living room w/entrance to the covered patio area, formal dining room and nice in ground pool! Enjoy great golf course views in this private location.

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104 BrendeLL court Gorgeous all brick 4 BR / 3.5 BA home located on a quiet, wooded cul-de-sac with great privacy! The interior of the home is bright and open w/hardwood and tile flooring, lots of windows and double sided fireplace between the great room and the Carolina room.

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31 deerwood Lane Immaculate 5 BR / 3 BA home in Pinehurst #6 w/great upscale features and lots of storage! Bright and open, it offers high ceilings, hardwood floors, and lots of windows. Kitchen features custom cherry cabinets and granite countertops.

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138 BanBridge drive Attractive 3 BR / 3 BA home on the 12th green of Beacon Ridge Golf Course w/expansive views of the course. With over 3,000 square feet, this one has a lot to offer! Main level is spacious with gourmet kitchen and downstairs has a large family room with access to the covered patio.

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120 tucker road Two-story 3 BR / 2.5 BA home currently under construction on about an acre of land. Hardy-plank exterior, covered front porch, spacious master suite and two additional bedrooms on the second floor as well as a very large bonus room.

Southern PineS • $325,000

105 Merced court Inviting 3 BR / 3 BA home tucked away in private cul-de-sac. Floorplan features an open living room, spacious master suite and kitchen w/adjoining breakfast area. Upstairs there is another bedroom/ bonus room w/built-in cabinets, full bath and a large walk-in closet.

PinehurSt • $329,500

313 JuniPer creek BLvd Elegant 3 BR / 3.5 BA two-story home in Pinehurst #6 offering an open floor plan, beautiful hardwood and tile floors and spacious master suite w/ lovely walk-in closet. The kitchen is a chef’s dream! Custom cabinets and gorgeous granite counters.The home was built in 2015 and is immaculate!

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

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106 cook Point Gorgeous 3 BR / 3.5 BA waterfront home on Lake Auman, located on a point lot at the end of a private cul-de-sac. Beautiful panoramic views on three sides of the property and great orientation to the sun insures optimum enjoyment of morning sunrises and evening sunsets!

Seven LakeS weSt • $1,100,000

108 Logan court Amazing 4 BR / 4 full BA 2 half BA lakefront home located on two premium wide water lots. Over 6,000 sq ft of luxurious living area with open floorplan and water views from almost every room. Truly one of the most beautiful homes on Lake Auman.

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

PinehurSt • $649,000

537 FoxFire road Stunning 3 BR / 4 Full BA 2 half BA country home on 3.64 acres just minutes from the Village of Pinehurst. The expansive floorplan is light and open and features a custom designed fireplace and lots of windows overlooking the rear of the property.

PinehurSt • $695,000

25 MaPLe road Charming 4 BR / 3.5 BA cottage in the Village of Pinehurst w/beautifully landscaped yard, outdoor seating areas under flowering trees and an artist studio tucked away in the garden. The interior of the home is inviting w/elegant living and dining area and cozy kitchen and breakfast room. A must see!

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91 aBBottSFord drive Magnificent 5 BR / 3 full BA 2 half BA Tuscan Villa with THE best golf course and water views in Pinehurst. Thoughtfully styled to reflect the grace of European life; this home offers incredible high end finishes and large spaces for luxurious living.

PinehurSt • $578,000

80 PinewiLd drive Stunning 3 BR / 3.5 BA home in Pinewild CC, located on the 10th tee of the Magnolia Course. The home offers an open floorplan w/many special features and upgrades as well as superior curb appeal.

PinehurSt • $639,000

80 FieLdS road Quintessential 4 BR / 3.5 BA Old Town Cottage with all the charm and style expected in a vintage 1920’s property. Only owned by two families, this beautifully renovated cottage features original fixtures, hardwood floors throughout and in-ground chlorine pool.

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11 Lakewood court Beautiful and spacious 4 BR / 5.5 BA family home perfectly designed for a large family w/separate kitchens in each living area. Property is almost 3 acres of incredibly low maintenance landscaping and is near great schools, easy commute to Ft. Bragg and a short walk to Country Club and Pool!

PinehurSt • $825,000

24 Loch LoMond court Stunning 3 BR / 5 BA custom home named Home of the Year in 2003. Home offers two 18 hole championship golf courses, a 9 hole par 3 course, a newly renovated salt water swimming pool, tennis courts and club house. Nestled on a quiet cul-de-sac on Lake Pinewild it’s within walking distance of downtown Pinehurst. A must see!

PinehurSt • $530,000

560 Se Lake ForeSt drive Custom 4 BR / 3.5 BA home on Lake Pinehurst offers a bright and open floorplan with water views from almost every room! The interior is lovely and spacious w/open living, dining and kitchen areas while outside there is a full sized in ground swimming pool surrounded by patio and fenced back yard.

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80 Shooting Star

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86 The Bard Is Back

By Jim Moriarty Soliloquies in the park

88 A Highland Fling By Haley Ray The rich legacy of the Scots

92 East Meets West Down South

By Deborah Salomon The house of a thousand stories chronicles a career abroad

103 Almanac

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59 In the Spirit

25 Simple Life

63 Mom, Inc.

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28 PinePitch 33 Instagram Winners 35 Good Natured

65 Out of the Blue

37 The Omnivorous Reader

69 Sporting Life

41 Bookshelf 45 Hometown

73 Golftown Journal

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67 Birdwatch

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47 Papadaddy

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53 Food for Thought

127 The Accidental Astrologer

57 Wine Country

128 SouthWords

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Contributors Tom Allen, Harry Blair, Tom Bryant, Susan Campbell, Bill Case, Wiley Cash, Tony Cross, Al Daniels, Annette Daniels, Mart Dickerson, Clyde Edgerton, Bill Fields, Nan Graham, Laurel Holden, Jane Lear, Jan Leitschuh, Meridith Martens, D.G. Martin, Lee Pace, Jeanne Paine, Romey Petite, Renee Phile, Joyce Reehling, Stephen E. Smith, Astrid Stellanova, Angie Tally, Kimberly Taws, Ashley Wahl, Janet Wheaton

451 Old Mail Road • Southern Pines The jewel of Moore County’s horse country, Fox Hollow Farm is secluded on 10.52 acres with easy access to thousands of acres of equestrian land. The property features landscaped grounds, a picturesque pond, a terraced pool and waterfall. The unique, historic residence was transformed from an 1800’s grist mill that served as a hunting lodge in the 1930’s. Beautifully preserving its original heart-pine floors, paneled walls and beamed ceilings this exceptional residence contains 5,276 sq ft with 4 bedrooms and 4.5 baths. Warmed by a fireplace the living room opens to a pond-side screened porch, terrace and outdoor fireplace. The family room with fireplace adjoins a study. Master bedroom has dramatic lake view, luxury bath and sitting room. Acreage accommodates addition of a barn and paddocks.The music room and dining room with vaulted, beamed ceilings are connected to the kitchen by a paneled, shelf lined butler’s pantry with wet bar. A paneled wine bar is off the family room. The brick-floored foyer features hand-painted paneling, a spacious hunt closet and concealed powder room. Outside, the garage building includes a two bay carport, exercise room, storage loft, kennel and equipment shed. The exterior features stone siding and original millstones in the landscaping. Offered at $2,200,000.

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285 N Bethesda Road

14 Appin Court

Enchanting 1920’s country home in a garden setting on 4.09 acres. 4 BR, 4.5 BA with a guest cottage. Exquisite master wing, updated kitchen, 3 fireplaces. $998,000.

Pinewild golf front on 3.24 acres. 4BR, 3.5BA, pool, 3 car garage, bocce ball court. $698,000.

101 Kirkhill Court

85 Lake Dornoch

70 Cypress Point Drive

55 Shaw Road

5 acres overlooking the 9th Fairway of the Cardinal Centerwood, the log cabin in the Village. An enchanting Course in CCNC, a testament to fine taste in a property built at the turn of the century, this 5BR, 5.5BA cottage Southern setting. 5BR, 5 full BA, 3 half BA. $2,775,000. represents a genuine piece of Pinehurst’s history. $1,650,000.

120 N Highland

The best of everything in Pinehurst #9, National. Golf front CCNC with lake view. 4023 main Delightful Colonial Revival was designed by Aymar Embury Spacious light-filled rooms, antique heart pine floors house, 763 guest house addition. One floor, II for the Boyd family in the 1920’s. Slate roof, 5 fireplaces, on three levels, 6BR, 6BA, 2 half BA. $785,000. 3 BR, 3.5 BA main, 1 BR, 1 BA guest. $995,000. hardwood floors, charming guest house. $889,000.

1680 Midland Road

Stone Oaks Farm, a 1929 remodeled cottage on 6 private acres with 5BR, 4.5BA, gourmet kitchen, 5 fireplaces, 3900sqft. $1,600,000.

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110 Golf Terrace

Historic Southern Pines 1920’s Colonial Revival Gorgeous renovated mid-century house situated on 1.91 acres in Weymouth Heights. 6BR, 5.5BA, on 6.2 acres. Grandfathered horse farm with total privacy on iconic sand road. $789.000. 5227sqft. Slate roof, 3 fireplaces. $898,000.

Alan Walters custom home located near the entrance at Exceptional ground level corner unit on Pinehurst No. 3. Beautifully renovated in 2014, sold fully the private gated community of Forest Creek GC. Sandhills furnished. 2BR, 2BA, 1090 sq ft. $198,000. Farm Life School district. 5BR, 4.15BA, 6807sqft. $875,995.

840 Lake Dornoch Drive

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124 W Chelsea Court

CCNC golf front on Cardinal Course. One 30’s Dutch Colonial, restored in ’06 adding two floor living, remarkable kitchen, paneled wings. 4 BR, 3.5 BA, walled patio with courtyard, guest house, main floor master. $790,000. study. 3BR, 3.5BA, 3 car garage. $965,000.

A bit of golf heaven offering exceptional Living made simple in a beautifully designed villa in Mid one-floor living on a premier golf front South Club. Two spacious light-filled bedrooms each have location. 3BR, 3BA. $595,000. generous bathrooms with double sinks. 2BR, 2BA. $278,000.

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AUTHOR EVENTS New York Times best selling authors are coming to Southern Pines! Stop by the Country Bookshop to see and talk to them about their latest books. These events are free and open to the public.

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ELAINE NEIL ORR Swimming Between Worlds

MARGARET BRADHAM THORNTON A Theory of Love

From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement.

A follow-up to her successful debut Charleston and set in the world’s most glamorous landscapes, this moving new love story from Margaret Bradham Thornton draws on a metaphor of entanglement theory to ask: when two people collide, are they forever attached no matter where they are?

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645 S diamOndhead dR • laKe PinehuRST WATERFRONT. Premier lakefront location. Walls removed for expansive water views. Total updates. 4BD, 3 ½ BA. Offered at $898,000.

85 COmmuniTy Rd • Old TOwn PinehuRST Historic Merrimac Cottage. Rebuilt from studs. Charming! CHARACTER! 2BD, 2BA. Offered at $499,000.

23 wellingTOn dR • fOReST CReeK TURN KEY. Perfect lock-it and leave-it cottage. Carriage house. 4BD, 3 ½ BA. Offered at $399,000.

9 Pin CheRRy ln • PinehuRST Craftsman style. Beautiful kitchen. End of cul-de-sec. Cozy porch. 4BD, 3 ½ BA. Offered at $350,000.

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The Dash of Life

Savoring time between the beginning and the inevitable

By Jim Dodson

At the beginning of Episode Two of

my favorite British TV program of the moment, a charming series called Delicious, the central character, a roguish head chef, speaking from his grave in a Cornwall churchyard, recalls a famous poet’s observation about the symbolism of markings in stone.

“On a gravestone you see two dates — a beginning and an end, with a tiny dash in between. That dash represents everything you’ve ever done. Everywhere you’ve ever been. Every breath kiss or meal. It all boils down to just one little dash. . .” As a chronic wanderer of old burying grounds and admirer of witty epitaphs, I learned years ago that burying stones “speak,” telling tales and offering nuggets of wisdom to those willing to listen. Most of us, however, are living in a time when daily life seems like a frantic dash from one place to the next. With work ruled by the tyranny of deadlines and calendar books, and private time invaded by social media and the clamors of an info-addicted world, it is often not until one reaches a certain age or experiences some kind of unexpected drama that the need to pause and reflect upon one’s own mortality — the meaning of the dash — becomes clear. One year ago this month, I had my dodgy gall bladder removed. Frankly, I wasn’t sorry to see it go. The blessed little thing had been bugging me for years. At the same time, I owe that mysterious little organ a genuine debt of gratitude because in the course of a common preparatory scan, a small growth near my lower intestines was detected. It was nipped out by artful surgical procedure, revealing itself upon analysis to be a slow-growing tumor. Fortunately, the prognosis is excellent. There is only a four-percent probability of recurrence, which means no follow-up therapy is required for the time being. Life is full of verdicts, large and small. Needless to say, I was relieved by this one and, to be blunt, awakened by it. But for a chance discovery, things could easily have gone a very different direction, as I’d enjoyed the kind of good health one might easily take for granted. In short, I was lucky to have had that aching gall bladder. But mortality is full of wake-up calls and epiphanies. Wise souls take notice of the changing landscape around them, and sometimes within. On one hand, I was powerfully reminded of the brevity of my time on this Earth, and on the other, comforted by the fact that I had excellent role models for aging smartly and — begging to differ with poet Dylan Thomas — going

gently into that good night. Both my parents had their own run-ins with the dreaded C-word at about my age but never complained and went on to live astonishingly full and happy lives for the next two decades. Their dashes, in other words, were both robust and well-lived till the end, full of gardens and grandkids, travel and exploration, making new memories and doing good work, making friends and keeping faith in the sustaining power of human and divine love. My old man worked until he was 80 and moderated the men’s Sunday School class at our church for almost a quarter of a century. My Southern mama cooked every week for the church feeding program and worked with homeless families. During the last two decades of their lives, they went to movies and took walks like old lovers, and snuck off to the hills for private weekends away. I took to kidding them that they were behaving like irresponsible teenagers. More important, when their “Time” finally arrived, their “dash” expired its length — I was fortunate to sit with both at their bedsides as they slipped the bonds of this Earth. Nothing was left unspoken, and they displayed no fear whatsoever about the end of their days or the adventure that lay ahead. Sages of every faith tradition hold that human beings tend to pass away as they have lived their lives. My father’s final words on a sleety March evening were, “Don’t worry. It will be fine in the morning. Go kiss your babies.” Sure enough, the sun came out at dawn, birthing a beautiful spring day. And I did as instructed. On a summer afternoon four years later, while sharing a glass of wine on the terrace of her favorite seaside restaurant in Maine, I remarked to my mom that she must really miss my father. She simply smiled. “Of course I do, Honey. But don’t worry. I’ll see him very soon.” A week or so later, she suffered a stroke and was talking about her grandchildren as her nurse in the ICU changed her sheets moments after I left her. “Your mom’s heart monitor suddenly went flat and I looked over at her,” she told me later. “Her eyes were closed and she was smiling. I’ve never seen a more peaceful passing.” Every now and then I stop by the simply dated gravestones of my folks in a beautiful cemetery not far from our house, just to say hello — and thanks for the guidance. That said, a surprising number of friends my age — I recently turned 65, though I don’t feel anywhere close to that — confess amazement over how rapidly their lives are passing, how quickly their days seem to have vanished down the rabbit hole of time. Perhaps they hear the clock of the world in their inner ear. “Is it already Monday again?” quips our dear old pal Susan with a husky laugh. She walks with my wife and me every morning at five, as nature and the neighborhood are both just stirring.

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Susan’s question is more of an amused observation about the speed of life than a complaint about its brevity. She teaches special-needs minority kids in one of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods of the city. And though she herself cracked 65 a few month ahead of me, her bounteous enthusiasm, creativity and passion for doing good work and making a difference in a small person’s life are flat-out palpable. She radiates joy and an infectious curiosity about what lies ahead — proof of Poor Richard’s admonition that a long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough. As for my part, the older I get, the slower I plan to walk. Part of the reason is creaky knees. As the tortoise proved, slow and steady wins the race — if this life is a race at all. The other reason for slowing down my dashing life is to see more of the passing landscape. Not long ago, my wife and I began “training” for a walk across Italy from Lucca to Rome this coming September with 50 or so other pilgrims from our church. During the weekly “practice” hikes around the city at dusk, which are really just a lovely excuse to socialize and drink good wine afterwards, I am invariably somewhere at the rear of the pack, ambling along at my own pace, the aforementioned knees gently complaining with every step, but happy to follow where the others lead. This is a trick I learned early in life, for I’ve long been something of a solitary traveler, taking my own sweet time to get wherever I’m going. As the second son of an itinerate newspaperman who hauled his family all over the deep South during some of the region’s most turbulent years, I experienced a decidedly solitary boyhood, exploring the woods and fields largely on my own or reading books on a rainy porch. Occasionally I’d check out historic graveyards, battlegrounds and Indian burial mounds with my older brother and father. Dick and I both became Eagle Scouts but were never too keen on the group dynamic. We preferred going our own ways at

our own rhythm. As we passed through one of the city’s older neighborhoods on our practice hike the other evening, my bride — chatting pleasantly with other pilgrims as she motored by her slow-footed husband — glanced around and remarked, “You know, I’ve never seen the city from this angle before. It’s quite beautiful, isn’t it?” Indeed it was, and is. As the sun set, her comment made me think about how slowly I plan to walk across Tuscany this summer, taking in all I can before my “dash” runs out. Emily Webb Gibb’s ’s haunting farewell speech from Thornton Wilder’s poignant play Our Town was also suddenly in my head. Gibbs is the young heroine who passes away in childbirth and looks tearfully back on a wonderful life and family she fears she may have taken for granted, as the stage manager leads her to join the other spirits in the village cemetery. “. . . They’re so young and beautiful. Why did they ever have to get old? . . . I love you all, everything. I can’t look at everything hard enough. It goes so fast. . . . We don’t have time to look at one another. I didn’t realize. All that was going on in life and we never noticed. Take me back — up the hill — to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-bye, Good-bye, world. . . Good-bye, Mama and Papa. Good-bye to clocks ticking and Mama’s sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths and sleeping and waking up. Oh, Earth, you’re too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?” May is a lovely time to wander a churchyard, I find. The Earth is in bloom and old stones speak of the need not to dash too quickly through the journey. PS Contact Editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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Free Plant Clinic The Moore County Master Volunteer Association is hosting a free plant clinic at the Walmart Supercenter on Saturday, May 19, from 10 a.m. to noon. The master gardener volunteers have many hours of training and experience dealing with plants that thrive (or at least survive) in the Sandhills and the issues confronting local gardeners like sandy soil, a wide variety of diseases and insect pests, and hot summers. So if you’re having problems with a plant, bring a sample or photo for diagnosis to the Plant Clinic, just outside Walmart’s Patio and Garden Center. Or, if you’d like advice about what to plant where and how to care for your plants, stop by and get some advice. Walmart is located at 250 Turner St., Aberdeen. For more information, call (910) 947-3188.

Live After 5 Nothin’ says summer in the Carolinas like beach music, and on Friday, May 11, Live After 5 is ushering in the summer with The Catalinas, “America’s Premier Beach Band.” Since 1957, The Catalinas have been entertaining audiences with their top-quality sound and onstage energy. This free event begins at 5:30 p.m. and the fun continues until 9 p.m., providing not only music for your dancing and listening pleasure, but also activities for the kids. Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and picnic baskets — but please, no outside alcoholic beverages. Beer, wine and nonalcoholic beverages will be available for purchase, in addition to great local food trucks. Live After 5 will be held at Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road W., in the village of Pinehurst. For more information, call (910) 2958656 or www.vopnc.org.

Shakespeare in the Pines On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 1—3 and 8—10, the Uprising Theatre Company is bringing Shakespeare back to Tufts Memorial Park. The Company will present his most popular comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which intertwines the stories of six hilariously farcical actors, four love-struck teenagers, one royal wedding, and the infinite magic and mayhem of some woodland fairies as they navigate the enchanted forest. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. and general admission is free. A VIP table for six can be purchased for $450 and includes a bottle of Champagne, an assortment of gourmet appetizers and a bottle of red wine. These tables are close to the stage and offer maximum viewing. Tufts Park is located at 1 Village Green Road in the village of Pinehurst. For more information, call (541) 631-8241 or visit www.uprisingtheatrecompany.com.

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Vincent The Sunrise Theatre will present the film Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing, part of the Exhibition on Screen series, on Thursday, May 17. This award-winning documentary showcases Van Gogh’s iconic works and delves into the life of an artist as troubled as he was brilliant and prolific.

The Rooster’s Wife Sunday, May 6: Richie and Rosie. Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton are steadfastly old-time and thoroughly modern, performing songs with universal and timeless messages. Cost: $15. Sunday, May 13: No Fuss and Feathers. Catherine Miles and Jay Mafale, Karyn Oliver and Carolann Solebello serve up a dynamic, cohesive cocktail of delicious harmonies, infectious rhythm and spontaneous hilarity. Cost: $15. Thursday, May 17: Open Mic night. Free to members. Annual memberships are $5 and are available online or at the door. Friday, May 18: Edgar Loudermilk Band, featuring Jeff Autrey. Traditional bluegrass led by a unique voice, accompanied by stellar players. Cost: $10. Sunday, May 20: Robby Hecht and Caroline Spence. Robby Hecht is a modern folk musician-of-all-trades, joined tonight with Caroline Spence, a young troubadour from Charlottesville, Virginia. Cost: $15. Sunday, May 27: Hank, Pattie & The Current. Two of North Carolina’s veteran bluegrass musicians join forces with some of the Triangle area’s most versatile musicians to create modern, American, acoustic music. Cost: $15. Doors open at 6 p.m. and music begins at 6:46 at the Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Prices stated above are member prices. Annual memberships are $5 and are available online or at the door. For more information, call (910) 944-7502 or visit www.theroosterswife.org for tickets.

Denise Baker, artist and retired professor of art at Sandhills Community College, will introduce the film with commentary on Van Gogh’s work and influence on the world of art. The presentation begins at 10 a.m. Tickets are $10, or $15 for both this film and Loving Vincent, which will be shown at the Sunrise on May 24. The Sunrise Theater is located at 250 N.W. Broad St. in Southern Pines. For more information, call (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or visit sunrisetheater.com.

The Carolina Philharmonic Internationally renowned violinist Natasha Korsakova returns to the Carolina Philharmonic for its Season Finale Symphonic Salute on Saturday, May 19. Known for her perfect technique, bold style and charisma, Korsakova will capture your hearts in a virtuoso performance that includes selections from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Camille Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso. The program also includes such Americana favorites as Gershwin’s An American in Paris and Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. Maestro David Wolff will lead the orchestra in this rousing conclusion to a season that has brought Broadway stars, international opera singers and a piano prodigy to the Sandhills. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. at Owens Auditorium at Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road in Pinehurst. Tickets range from $30 to $60, with discounts for military ($25) and students ($11). For information, call (910) 687-0287 or visit www.carolinaphil.org.

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Decades ago a prominent British physician, Dr. Edward Bach, believed disease was the manifestation of negative states of mind, a disharmony between a person’s physical and mental states. He observed that worry, anxiety, impatience and unforgiveness depleted a patient’s vitality so much that the body lost its resistance and became more vulnerable to disease. Dr. Bach closed his practice, left his home in London and spent the rest of his life traveling throughout England in a search for curative plants. He discovered 38 remedies, one from water, the others from flowering plants and trees. Today, more than ever, the connection of the mind and the body are well recognized and the research continues to grow. Flower remedies are made simply by transferring the essence of the flower into liquid — usually water — by steeping the petals or leaves. Each flower or plant has a specific healing effect. The essences are subtle but, taken regularly, can have a positive impact on our consciousness. The effect of the remedies is not to suppress negative attitudes but to transform them into positive ones, stimulating the potential for self-healing. There are remedies to help release guilt and shame, increase self-esteem, stimulate creativity, become more balanced and grounded. The purpose of the essences is to support the immune system by relieving depression, anxiety and other trauma that weakens the body. It is important to note that they are not a replacement for traditional medical treatment, but work in conjunction with modern medicine. They are gentle and safe and have no side effects. All ages can use them. In addition to the 38 individual essences, 39th, is Rescue Remedy, is a combination of five flower essences: impatiens, star-of-Bethlehem, cherry plum, rockrose and clematis. This is the first-aid remedy for sudden shock, an accident, a family upset, a stressful event like an exam or an interview, going on stage or giving a speech. One of the single flower remedies, sweet chestnut, is for agonizing mental anguish, total exhaustion, feeling the future is hopeless. Another flower, honeysuckle, helps the bereaved. The work of Dr. Bach, who died in his sleep in September 1936 shortly after his 50th birthday, lives on with the help of his friends and family. People all over the world use Bach Flower Remedies. His purpose in life was to find what he knew nature had to offer us. There are now hundreds of remedies identified and studied to assist in just about any mental or emotional condition that hinders health. Healthy mind, healthy body. PS

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Endless Love

When all the time in the world isn’t enough

By Stephen E. Smith

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Matt Haig’s How to Stop Time fell open to an insert from Variety magazine announcing that the “story selection and rights have been acquired by SunnyMarch and Studiocanal” and that the film adaptation of the novel will star Benedict Cumberbatch.

Review copies always arrive with baggage — blurbs, author interviews, questionable testimonials, all of which I ignore. But it’s difficult to overlook a printed warning, tucked between the title page and cover, stating that the novel is soon to be a major motion picture. Before I’ve read the first word, I assume I’m being pitched a puffed-up film treatment, or worse yet, a story intended as fodder for the movie industry. A novel worth reading stands on its own. Haig is a British author with an impressive track record. He’s written umpteen novels for adults and children, and his memoir Reasons to Stay Alive was on the best-sellers list for 46 weeks. So his latest offering certainly deserves a critical read, Cumberbatch notwithstanding. But like a film treatment that leaves the heart and soul of the story to be fleshed out by the filmmaker, this yarn about a 400-year-old man who could live to be 1,000 never quite comes together as a rewarding work of fiction. Tom Hazard, the narrator/protagonist, is living the uneventful life of a history teacher in present-day London, but his attitude toward humankind

has been shaded by the trauma of witnessing his mother, a peasant woman accused of being a witch for raising a child (Tom) who hasn’t aged appropriately, executed by drowning in the 1600s. Tom is one of a small group of secretive humans who age at such a leisurely pace that they appear immortal to ordinary beings. They’re called Albatrosses, Albas for short, because the bird of that name is rumored to live a long life. Regular folks, those of us who usually expire before the age of 100, are called Mayflies. So what we have is a protagonist granted a long, disease-free life and a chance to observe the world with all its faults and favors who instead spends his time ruminating on the disadvantages of an existence that offers almost endless opportunity for pleasure. Which is the novel’s primary conceptual fault. Sure, Tom’s mother suffered an unfortunate end, and there’s the certainty of losing friends and loved ones who aren’t blessed with Tom’s affliction, and it’s likely Albas would be of interest to scientists studying longevity, but the blessings of a long and healthy life far outweigh these impediments. If fate offered us the chance to be an Alba, we’d probably rejoice. Despite this obvious incongruity, the novel’s concept should allow the author to present the reader with complex and unfamiliar perspectives, and Tom’s longevity should have blessed him with insights into the mysteries of life that he can share with the reader. But none of this happens, although there is the occasional hackneyed rambling about the past and its relationship to the present: “There are things I have experienced that I will never again be able to experience for the first time: love, a kiss, Tchaikovsky, a Tahitian sunset,

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May Books FICTION Overkill, by Ted Bell In Bell’s newest Alex Hawke thriller, while on a ski vacation in the Swiss Alps, Hawke’s son, Alexei, is kidnapped in the confusion following the crash of a burning tram. To save his son Hawke enlists the aid of his trusted colleagues. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin has narrowly escaped a coup and fled to Falcon’s Lair, a former Alpine complex built by the Nazis, where he can plan his path back to power. Hawke must find out who took his son and why and, in the process, defeat Putin’s scheme for a triumphant return.

Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain History tells us that Martha Gellhorn was more than a typical woman of her time and more than Ernest Hemingway’s third wife. Filled with a sense of adventure and wanderlust, she was a daring war correspondent and a gifted author in her own right. McClain captures the turbulent mood as the seeds of war are being sown in this absorbing novel written by the acclaimed author of The Paris Wife. NONFICTION

Southernmost, by Silas House When a flood washes away much of a small community along the Cumberland River in Tennessee, Asher Sharp, an evangelical preacher there, starts to see his life anew. Unable to embrace his estranged brother’s coming out, Sharp tries to offer shelter to two gay men in the aftermath of the flood. He’s met with resistance by his wife and his church. He loses his job, his wife, and custody of his son, Justin, whom he decides to kidnap and take to Key West, where he suspects that his brother is now living. The emotions are heartfelt and the love is fierce in this thought-provoking novel.

The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels, by Jon Meacham The Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times best-selling author of American Lion, Franklin and Winston and Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power helps us to understand the present moment in American politics by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. Tom Brokaw calls it “a historically rich and gracefully written account of America’s long struggle with division in our immigrant nation and the heroic efforts to heal the wounds.”

Tin Man, by Sarah Winman In a spectacularly gorgeous novel, a copy of a Van Gogh sunflower painting won in a raffle impacts the trajectory of the lives it touches, infusing hope, possibility, and color. Told in two parts, this insightful story explores the solace, friendship and deep love that follow two boys as they grow to men in Oxford, England. The beauty, tenderness and rich, warm prose in Winman’s latest work will not leave you untouched.

Margaritaville: The Cookbook: Relaxed Recipes for a Taste of Paradise, by Carlo Sernaglia, Julia Turshen and Jimmy Buffett Chef Carlo Sernaglia, Margaritaville’s concept chef, combines his worldly work in the kitchen with the James Beard award-winning cookbook writer, Julia Turshen, co-author of Gwyneth Paltrow’s game-changing recipe book It’s All Good. Buffett writes the forward and, no doubt, these recipes will be a bit of paradise.

Our Kind of Cruelty, by Araminta Hall In a twisted psychological thriller that will have you cringing, laughing, and gasping in horror, Mike is building the perfect life for Verity and himself. He would do anything to make her happy. The only hitch is that Verity is marrying someone else. But that doesn’t stop Mike — surely she’s just trying to teach him a lesson, trying to get him to make a grand gesture and bring her back to him. Spending 300 pages inside the mind of Mike Hayes is an adventure you won’t soon forget.

Robin, by Dave Itzkoff Everyone is raving about this biography of the late comedian and actor Robin Williams. Interviews with friends and family combined with Itzkoff’s insightful analysis create a full portrait of Williams, the man and the myths surrounding him. Meticulously researched, this page-turning read comes from the culture reporter for The New York Times, whose work also appears in Vanity Fair, Maxim, Details, GQ, Wired and Spin.

My Ex-Life, by Stephen McCauley When his young lover leaves him for an older and more successful man, and his ex-wife’s daughter contacts him for help with a sticky situation, David Fiske finds himself leaving his (soon to be sold) San Francisco apartment, temporarily moving in with his ex-wife, Julie, and unwittingly becoming the No. 1 light bulb changer in Julie’s Airbnb. The perfect book for the beach or the book club, My Ex-Life will make you laugh while you’re shaking your head. Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje When their parents go to Asia after World War II, Michael and his sister, both teenagers, are left in the care of a stranger, The Moth. Or so they thought. It will be years before they discover what their mother really intended. In the meantime, they are going to school by day and mingling with The Moth and his unusual friends by night. A great coming of age story.

Calypso, by David Sedaris A true joy to read, Sedaris’ thoughts leap off the page. His essays reflect on family, marriage, sisters, his aging father and his deceased sister and mother. Most of the remembrances take place at the newly purchased family beach house on the North Carolina coast. Funny and truthful, Sedaris delivers a wonderful collection. CHILDREN’S BOOKS A Truck Full of Ducks, by Ross Burach When you call for a truck full of ducks, fun and frivolity are delivered ASAP. This hilarious book is perfect for story time or any time a little one needs a big laugh. (Ages 2-5.)

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Alma and How She Got Her Name, by Juana Martinez-Neal Alma Sophia Esperanza José Pura Candela is a little girl with a big name and an even bigger story to tell. This super cute read-aloud is a great introduction to family history or just a lovely way to dive into the deep stories behind everyday things — like a child’s name! (Ages 3-6.) Ten Horse Farm, by Robert Sabuda The pop-up book master’s newest creation is sure to delight horse lovers of all ages. Pop-up spreads of horses grazing, prancing, pulling and galloping leap off the page, stunning scene after stunning scene, in this creation inspired by historic horse activities and the author’s own horse farm turned artist’s studio in upstate New York. (Ages 8-adult.) The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl, by Stacy McAnulty Being a genius is hard, hard, hard. Lucy Callahan doesn’t even remember the bolt of lightning that made her a math prodigy, but she does remember that on her first day of school (seventh grade, even though she already has her GED!) Lucy’s grandma made her promise to make one friend, join one activity and read one book that is not a math book. What Lucy expects to find is a school full of inferiors. What she actually discovers is a great friend, a talented boy with a camera, and a dog that desperately needs the help of all of them. Sweet enough to be a summer read and powerful enough to be a strong Newbery contender, The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl is an absolute must read for anyone heading into middle school . . . even if they are a genius. (Ages 10-14.)

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Landmarks of Life The joys of the familiar

By Bill Fields

If I’m going to have a hot dog not terribly far from

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where I live, I’ll go to Walter’s in Mamaroneck, N.Y. There is a reason Walter’s has been serving its excellent hot dogs since 1919 and the stand where I go a couple of times a year has been there since 1928. The franks — once rated by Gourmet magazine as best in America — of a beef, pork and veal blend are made in-house and delicious. A little mustard, also Walter’s own, is the only condiment that should be added to $2.65 worth of flavor.

I don’t believe the hot dogs sold at The Ice Cream Parlor in downtown Southern Pines have received national acclaim, but one “all the way” makes me almost as happy. For North Carolina natives, there is something about a dog with chili, slaw and onions that sparks memories of the pit stops on childhood trips. Our road food — and that meant a hot dog loaded with Carolina-style toppings — on drives from the Sandhills to the Triad came from a place in Seagrove. The highway is quicker and the car seat safer from spills now, but the trip not nearly as anticipated. Much of the comfort from a hot dog at the corner of New Hampshire and Broad these days is simply because The Ice Cream Parlor has been around for a while — not as long as Walter’s but for decades. Given how much change has taken place in Southern Pines, Pinehurst and the surrounding communities — how much is different from when I was growing up or even just 20 or 30 years ago — I consider constancy an increasingly treasured thing when I can find it. I feel similarly about a pint from O’Donnell’s, a bucket of range balls at

Knollwood or a walk on Ridge Street and back retracing the steps to and from school in days that simultaneously seem both distant and near. If memories are, as someone said, the cushions of life, to be able to experience now what was experienced then is a sturdy foundation that grounds, informs and enriches. I haven’t flown a kite in an empty field just north of Southern Pines in a long time, but I could. I hit tennis balls on the downtown courts as I did. The courts are smoother and the nets don’t sag, but for night play I miss putting in a quarter and hearing the lights whine before kicking on. The Country Bookshop and the Southern Pines Public Library are in different locations than when I first discovered the joy of reading so long ago, but they’ve been in their present spots many years and it is a pleasure to spend time in either. My friends aren’t playing guitar at The Jefferson Inn for the fun of it and a few Budweisers on the house as they did in the late 1970s, but I can still go there for a drink as folks have since the formative days of Southern Pines. The Lob Steer Inn — I loved that name and its salad bar — is no more, but Beefeaters remains. John’s Barbecue on Highway 15-501 is long gone, but Pik N Pig has been a Carthage staple for great barbecue for many years. They’re still playing ball at Memorial Field and across the street from the National Guard Armory like they have for decades. Likewise at the town basketball courts, except the rims and nets are in better shape than when I played there if someone was desperate to fill out a pickup game with a good-shooting, slow-footed kid whose vertical leap could be measured with a ruler. I sure can’t jump any higher now, but my spirit soars about what endures on my old turf, especially since so much doesn’t. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent.

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Mole Talk Small ears that hear everything

By Clyde Edgerton

Moby and Medley are moles, sitting at a

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table in the Sandbucks Coffee Shop, where they meet once a week to talk about life underneath and around the Yardley home. They hear a lot of what goes on up above among the humans and human media. They don’t see, of course, and their lives are relatively dull, same-o same-o. Dirt, roots, dampness, clay, dryness and darkness.

MOBY: What’s the latest? MEDLEY: I’m writing an important report on Republicans and Democrats. MOBY: How do you know about all that? MEDLEY: I can hear. You know, don’t you, that Mr. and Ms. Yardley, up above, are split? MOBY: They’re getting a divorce? MEDLY: No, no. I mean one’s a Democrat and one’s a Republican. MOBY: Seems I remember something about that. MEDLEY: My report is getting reviewed in The New York Times and at Fox News. MOBY: Those organizations don’t like each other, right? MEDLEY: Right. They see news differently. MOBY: But isn’t all news the same? MEDLEY: Oh, goodness gracious, no. There’s red news and there’s blue news. MOBY: I thought there was only true news. MEDLEY: Not anymore. Everything is either-or. Left or right. Up or down. Black or white. MOBY: I’m just glad I can’t see. What color are we? MEDLEY: I’ve heard that we are some shade of gray more or less. And did you know, the blues think all the reds are idiots. MOBY: Really? What do the reds think of the blues? MEDLEY: That they are all idiots. MOBY: It’s a shame, isn’t it? Do they ever talk to each other? MEDLEY: Not much. They holler. And they acted that way right before the Civil War, too. MOBY: Oh, mercy. Do you think there will be another Civil War up there? MEDLEY: No way.

MOBY: I wonder how the Yardleys live together — you know, one red and one blue. MEDLEY: I think they talk only about sports, music, the weather and Naked and Afraid. They avoid politics. MOBY: What’s politics? MEDLEY: “Naked and afraid.” MOBY: Oh. What about that Second Amendment thing? MEDLEY: Have you read it? MOBY: I just keep hearing about it. MEDLEY: If you live in one of the 50 states it keeps you safe. MOBY: Really? That’s what it says. MEDLEY: That’s right. It says, “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” MOBY: That’s all it says? MEDLEY: That’s the whole amendment, every word. MOBY: That’s a load off my mind. Who could be against that? MEDLEY: Nobody, of course. It’s common sense. The blue and reds agree on that one. Without that amendment we just couldn’t feel secure. MOBY: Is there an amendment that lets us buy cars? MEDLEY: Oh, yes. That’s the Third Amendment. And the Fourth Amendment lets us buy refrigerators. You can’t own something unless there is an amendment for it. MOBY: How did you learn all that? MEDLEY: Google. You can hear Google now, so people don’t have to read. MOBY: So, what’s the title of your report? MEDLEY: It’s called “Equality, Fair Play, Guns, Cars, and Refrigerators: Security in America.” I also wrote some stuff about globalization. See, the more guns that get into the little states around the world, the more secure they will be — just like in the U.S. MOBY: That’s a load off my mind. MEDLEY: Mine too. How about another cup of coffee? MOBY: You bet. That’s good coffee. MEDLEY: Seventh Amendment: “Good coffee is necessary to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” PS Clyde Edgerton is the author of 10 novels, a memoir and most recently, Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers. He is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNCW.

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The Edible Schoolyard More than just a cute idea

By Jan Leitschuh The Power of the Garden — it can teach food literacy, bring people together, and teach respect for food as well as the challenges of growing it. In the garden, placebased learning makes it real, relevant and oh-so-remarkable. — from “Musings from a Garden Educator: Sowing the Seeds of Wonder!” by Kathy Byron

April showers might bring May flowers,

but local veggie gardens thrive, too. From parsley to asparagus to sugar snap peas, Swiss chard to radishes, strawberries to baby salad greens and green onions, a veritable cornucopia of nutritious produce is coming to fruition.

In schoolyards scattered across Moore County, a different sort of kitchen garden is prospering right now. Picture a successful produce gardener — does the image of a child come to mind? Yet the gardeners are children. Come spring — and, a bit later, autumn — one of the most productive crops might actually be the cultivation of young minds. “The kids are the ones who plant the gardens,” says Kathy Byron, a former pediatric nurse, longtime Moore County Master Gardener Volunteer and director of the innovative Good Food Sandhills program, an entity of Sandhills Community College (and formerly, the FirstSchool Garden Program). “We use those things they grow for food activities and nutrition education, inside the classroom and out, in school and after school. And then we operate in the community.” Over more than a decade, deploying the principles of The Edible Schoolyard model, “we outfitted over 61 percent of Moore County schools with school gardens, so over 4,000 kids have access to a school garden,” says Byron. “Currently, we have intensified these efforts in two of our schools that have the highest percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch programs. We have honed our current efforts down to the most high-need youth. “ School gardens tap an innovative principle. “An environment-based education movement — at all levels of education — will help students realize that school isn’t supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world,” writes Richard Louv, author of the best-selling book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Byron would add “and wiser nutritional choices” to the wider world idea. Louv, Byron and others are at the forefront of an awareness that children need a connection to nature. This awareness has historical echoes. “Man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; [the Lakota] knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too,” said the Oglala chief and Native American author Luther Standing Bear, who lived from 1868 to 1939. Leaving the confines of a school classroom and the climate-controlled halls, elementary students file out into the garden feeling the sunshine on their face and

the breeze in their hair. The smell of sweet lavender fills the air, with the ever-constant din of traffic on 15/501 as the background noise for this outdoor classroom. Students’ happy banter, combined with a skip in their step, just confirms their excitement to be in this living laboratory! — “Musings from a Garden Educator” These gardens generally take the shape of a raised bed or three. Filled with nutrient-rich soil and compost, they can be planted with seasonal vegetables. Planting “season” can happen all year, with collards, kale, spinach (under covers) and parsley in the winter. Cool season veggies such as radish, green onions, peas and salad greens can be added at the appropriate time, followed by a special warm-season planting. That produce is harvested for food-insecure families. In the fall, the cycle begins again, with cool-season veggies. “Often, we plant butternut squash in summer to harvest in the fall and use through the winter. We use a lot of butternut squash,” says Byron with a laugh. Fig trees, blueberries and muscadine grapes are also planted in the surrounding garden area. Besides seasonal vegetables and perennial fruits, every garden is planted with perennial herbs and a pollinator garden. Pollinators and other beneficial insects become our friends and collaborators in making the garden healthy, full of life and amazement. Respecting spiders, ladybugs and assassin bugs as warriors in this ecosystem are some of their first lessons about respect of living things in the garden. Starting from the ground up — soil becomes the medium for planting seeds and seedlings, searching for microbes and inspecting under the microscope to see the world beyond the naked eye. Adding soil amendments such as blood meal and bone meal expands their understanding of nutrients plants provide us through the food we eat. — “Musings from a Garden Educator” Math and science lessons have been held in the school gardens on nice days. Science and language activities hold interest while practical lessons slide in on the breezes of enthusiasm. “When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning,” writes Louv. They dig deeper into science and math through hands-on learning activities that allow them to use garden trowels, stinky fish fertilizer, Chromebooks for research. They cuddle chickens and extract DNA from a strawberry. Fractions are fascinating when making garden recipes like veggie tortillas, kale pesto or solar cooked pizza. We congregate around the picnic table to discuss the day’s activities, break into small groups and gather tools for our STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Lessons. They fan out throughout the garden with a purpose to complete tasks that enrich their learning in real time. The garden is the premier STEM tool — as old and diverse as humankind and Mother Earth. — “Musings from a Garden Educator” Movement is an essential component of learning, argue many experts. “A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces,” writes Louv. “Jane Clark, a University of Maryland professor of kinesiology . . . calls them ‘containerized kids’ — they spend more and more time in car seats, highchairs, and even baby seats for watching TV. When

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Spring is the most ephemeral time of the year, so it pays to cook completely in the moment

By Jane Lear

Asparagus season is in full swing, and

a good thing, too, for the vegetable is one of the home cook’s greatest allies. It can be steamed, boiled, sautéed, stir-fried, roasted or grilled. It comes elegantly thin or fat and juicy. It’s impressive drizzled with vinaigrette, and served as a first course; as a side to chicken, fish, ham, pork, or beef; or worked into pasta primavera, risotto, or an omelet or frittata. It is delicious hot, chilled or room temperature. It swings from simple, even austere, presentations (salt, pepper, olive oil, lemon zest) to more complex ones (in a stir-fry with other spring vegetables, for instance, or tucked into a creamy lasagne) without losing its presence.

And even though it is now found in the supermarket produce aisle pretty much year-round, most of us greet our local crop as something special, eating it with joyous, unabashed greed for the four to six weeks it is available. That is why it’s a good idea to buy plenty; I usually allot at least a half pound or more per person. On the off chance there are any leftovers, they’re delicious the next morning, warmed through and dipped into a runny soft-boiled egg. Some people prefer pencil-thin spears, and others like them thick. The

difference in circumference is due not to the relative maturity of the spears, but a combination of factors, including the age of the plants from which they were harvested (the thinner the spear, the younger the plant), cultivar and sex. Female plants produce fewer, larger spears; males give a much higher yield of thin to medium spears. I tend to seek out asparagus that’s on the plump side because of its succulent, almost meaty, texture. I also find it easier to deal with. Skinny asparagus may look sophisticated on the plate, but during cooking, it can turn from tender to mushy in about a millisecond, and attention must be paid. All that aside, go for whatever asparagus, whether thick or thin, is the freshest, because it doesn’t keep well. Look for firm, tightly closed tips with a beguiling lavender blush, scales (or leaves, botanically speaking) that lie flat against glossy stalks, and woody ends that are freshly cut and moist. The asparagus in our markets is typically green, but purple cultivars are becoming increasingly available; those are especially nice raw in salads, because when cooked they lose their color, which can range from pale mauve to deep purple. The white asparagus that is more common in Europe is simply prevented from turning green: The growing spears are continually banked with soil to keep them in the dark; that way, they don’t produce chlorophyll. Cooking asparagus is staggeringly simple, and my basic method is as follows. First, rinse the asparagus well to remove any sand or grit (trust me, it’s there) and pat dry. Snap off the tough ends (or cut them if the spears are very thick), and peel the stalks if the skin is fibrous. In a large skillet, lay the asparagus lengthwise, tips facing in the same direction, in an inch or so of salted water. Bring the water to a gentle boil and cook the asparagus until it is barely tender; the tip of a knife inserted in a spear should meet a very slight resistance, and if you pick it up in the middle with tongs, it should bend slightly. Thin spears take just a few minutes and more

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A Homey Asparagus Supper for Two I cobbled together this dish one rainy spring evening a few years ago, and was really proud of myself — until I realized the revered English food writer Nigel Slater had beat me to the punch. “A rubble of cooked, chopped pancetta, and especially its melted fat, makes a gorgeous seasoning for a fat bunch of spears,” he wrote in Tender: A cook and his vegetable patch. And how. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Using the basic method outlined above, cook a bundle of medium to large asparagus until just barely tender. Meanwhile, melt a generous tablespoon of unsalted butter in an ovenproof skillet or sauté pan over moderately high heat. Add an enjoyable amount of chopped pancetta or bacon and cook until golden. Remove from the heat. Scrape the pancetta and the fat in the pan to one side and add the asparagus. Spoon the pancetta and fat over the asparagus, then sprinkle with freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano. Put the pan in the oven and bake until the cheese is melted, 5 minutes or so. Asparagus Mimosa for Four This recipe, which can easily be doubled, is a wonderful way to kick-start a dinner party. The asparagus is delicious warm or at room temperature, and the sieved hard-boiled egg is more than a pretty topping: As it absorbs the vinaigrette, it fluffs up like the yellow mimosa blossoms that punctuate winter in Provence. The richness of the egg yolk also gentles the vinaigrette and gives it body. Cook about 1 1/2 pounds asparagus as above. Cut 2 hard-boiled eggs in half, then press them through a sieve into a small bowl. Whisk together about 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon minced shallot, and a dab of smooth Dijon mustard. (A little minced fresh tarragon would be nice, too.) Add coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste. Whisk in 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil (use a mild oil, not a peppery Tuscan one). Toss the asparagus in a small amount of the vinaigrette, and reserve the rest. Parcel out the asparagus among four plates, spoon the rest of the vinaigrette over it, and sprinkle with the sieved egg. Et voilà! Asparagus on the Grill By the time May rolls around, we all want to spend as much time as possible outdoors, not standing over a stove. Luckily for us, the technique of grilling really concentrates the singular sweetness of asparagus and overlays its vegetal purity with a little smokiness. Grilled asparagus is delicious as is or with a garlicky mayonnaise. “When you put just-picked asparagus on a hot grill, they are so juicy they actually jump as they start to cook,” Andrea Reusing once told me. The acclaimed chef-owner of Lantern, in Chapel Hill, and the restaurant at The Durham hotel, in downtown Durham, is extremely deft with seasonal ingredients, and the below recipe is from her book, Cooking in the Moment. Andrea Reusing’s Charcoal-Grilled Asparagus Prepare a hot fire in a charcoal grill. Count on 8 to 10 asparagus per person as a side dish or as the focal point of a salad. Keeping all the tips pointing the same direction, toss the asparagus with olive oil, a generous amount of salt, and some freshly ground black pepper. When the flame has died down, the coals are completely covered with ash, and the grill is very hot, grill the asparagus (in batches if necessary). Cook 2 to 3 minutes per side until fragrant, lightly marked, and vibrant green on the outside, and juicy and tender on the inside. PS Jane Lear was the senior articles editor at Gourmet and features director at Martha Stewart Living.

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that produces grapes with racy acidity and lime character — you would get a nice painting. If you use a blend of similar colors that all possess something that makes them distinctive — a coastal vineyard offering peach and bell peppers and a vineyard from a high elevation that offers gooseberry — you get a painting that has depth and contrast. Travel to South Africa and you will find one of my favorite sauvignon blanc characteristics, capsicum, the green bite in jalapeños. Wine maker Neil Ellis says it is a result of the minerals and compounds in the soil that was once an ocean bed, coupled with the cool days and high elevations of the vineyards. Lemongrass and basil are common characteristics, too, making these wines great with the Cape Malay style of cuisine — a blend of Indonesian, Malaysian and East African cooking. Think super aromatic curries from spice and herb blends. So, what pairs with this crazy chameleon of a wine? Believe it or not, asparagus. Good thing it’s fresh out of our Sandhills farms this time of year. Grilled chicken and pan-roasted halibut with herb sauce made with dill and basil are great pairings. Zucchini, spring onion and dishes with a little spice are perfect. As for my favorite, cheese, try an aged English cheddar. A more classic pairing is goat cheese made with an eatable bloomy rind tasting of earthiness and grass with a tangy bite. A little age gives this style of cheese a softer, creamier, spreadable texture. North Carolina-made examples are Paradox Farm Hickory Creek and Goat Lady Dairy Sandy Creek. The former is a beautiful labor of love resulting in a creamy camembert style; the other bears a distinctive vein of blue vegetable ash under the rind and down the middle. The first Friday of May is International Sauvignon Blanc Day. Grab some friends and a few bottles of sauvignon blanc from around the world, pair it with delicious goat cheese from right here in North Carolina and enjoy. 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 was lucky enough to travel the world drinking wine and eating cheese.

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In Bloom

Pollinate your taste buds with elderflower syrup

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The first time I sipped from a cocktail

with elderflower liqueur in it, I think I said something to the tune of, “What the hell is that?” It was every bit as delicious as it was foreign to my taste buds. I was dining at a fantastic restaurant in Chapel Hill (it closed soon after, sadly) about a year before I got behind the bar, where I was bitten by the cocktail bug. That liqueur, St. Germaine, was all the rage at the time. Until recently, I haven’t come across anything comparable that’s available here. That changed when I received an email from a buddy of mine who reps for a wine company in Raleigh.

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The Mysterious Vanishing of Holunderblüten 2 ounces Plymouth Gin 3/4 ounce lemon juice Scant 1/2 ounce Nikolaihof Holunderblüten syrup 1/4 ounce rosemary-infused simple syrup* Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice, and shake until tin is ice cold. Doublestrain into a chilled cocktail coupe. Garnish with a lemon wheel. *Rosemary-infused simple syrup: Add 1/2 cup sugar to 1/2 cup water in a pot and stir over medium heat. Once sugar has dissolved, add three 4-inch stalks of rosemary. Once cooled, transfer to a container. Seal, and refrigerate overnight. Remove rosemary the next day. PS Tony Cross is a bartender who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern Pines.

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“Shouldn’t we make reservations?” I asked. “Nah, we should be good,” he said. The drive was uneventful until we pulled into the parking lot of the Crabtree Valley Mall. The cars maneuvered like ants marching to a fallen morsel of chocolate chip cookie. After 20 minutes we found a spot deep in the parking garage’s Siberia section — nestled between a blue SUV and a white Ford Ranger. Taste buds at attention, we hiked to the mall and upstairs to The Cheesecake Factory. Men, women and children littered the hallways, many sitting on the floor. The noise overwhelmed my brain. “They must be waiting for takeout . . . or something,” I mumbled. “Probably,” he said. We filed in, took spots at the end of the line and inched up slowly. My stomach growled. “What was that?” he asked with a laugh. “What was what?” I said. Pictures of luscious cheesecake covered the walls. Strawberry, chocolate, salted caramel. My mouth watered. Minutes ticked by. We inched deeper into the chaos. Finally, we arrived. “How many?” the hostess asked. “Two,” he said. “OK.” She tapped something on the screen of her computer and handed us a blinky piece of plastic. “How long will that be?” he asked. “Oh, about an hour and 45 minutes.” He looked at me. I looked back and shook my head. No way. My stomach screamed. “We’re good,” he said and handed her back the blinky thing. We walked out, picking our way through the standing, sitting and leaning bodies, past the pictures of cheesecake — salted caramel, chocolate, strawberry. “Where do you want to eat?” he asked. “Somewhere without an hour and 45 minute wait.” He took out his phone and began to search. I willed him to hurry. My stomach rumbled like the mating call of a moose. “What the heck was that?” he asked, trying not to laugh. I didn’t answer. He tapped a number into his phone. “Hi. Uh, how long is the wait for a table for two?” he asked.

“Two hours.” I heard a voice say. I gasped. “Thanks,” he mumbled and clicked off. “Let’s just go to McDonalds,” I suggested. “No McDonalds. What are you craving?” “Cheesecake.” “What about seafood?” “That too.” He tapped his phone and began searching. “Red Lobster is 3 miles from here,” he said. “Good.” After 20 more minutes freeing ourselves from the parking garage, we were on the road to our third choice. We parked, shuffled out of the car and walked up to the hostess stand.

“How many?” she asked. “Two, but how long is the wait?” “Forty-five minutes,” she said. I groaned, but at least there wasn’t an hour before the 45. We were handed another blinky piece of plastic, and the minutes ticked by as we sat by the lobster tank. After the full three-quarters of an hour mostly spent staring at crustaceans with bad intent, we were seated in a distant a corner. An angel appeared, eyes bright and smile wide, movements fluid and secure. “Welcome to Red Lobster! My name is Penny. What can I get you to drink? Oh wait, I always start with the lady first.” She turned and grinned at me. She filled my soul with warmth . . . and cheesy biscuits, creamy seafood dip and chips, boiled shrimp covered in butter, sweet coconut shrimp, and garlic lemon tilapia. “This,” I said in between bites of pretty much everything, “was worth the wait.” He nodded. She kept appearing to fill our drinks and bring us more cheesy biscuits. He asked her if she was in school. “No, I’m a mommy and I work here on nights and weekends.” “Boy or girl? How old?” he asked. “A little boy. He’s 6.” She pulled her phone out of her pocket to show us a gorgeous kid with her eyes and smile. He held a soccer ball and grinned back at us. He tipped her way more than 20 percent that night, and when she realized it, she bounced back to our table. “Thank you so much! No, really, thank you!” she exclaimed. Then it was his eyes, that wonderful blend of blue and green, that sparkled. PS Renee Phile loves being a mom, even if it doesn’t show at certain moments.

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Downton Abbey. Please don’t brand it a posh soap opera. These days nothing plays more soap operatic than cable news, where madmen run around threatening to blow the world to smithereens; where porn stars tell all; where espionage happens right under our noses — as reported by babes in low-cut dresses and guys with four-day beards.

The Abbey had a presence, a sense of place, since the main floor and outdoor scenes were filmed at Highclere Castle; not sure about the bedrooms, but they seemed real enough. The paintings were real, the books and duvets were real. The endless teacups appeared to be fine bone china. But I wondered about wearing sleeveless frocks in vast chambers heated only by fires laid by a scullery maid. You could lose yourself in the plots, which often culminated in shock and were never interrupted by commercials. That’s what I want from a drama . . . escape. The era should allow fabulous costumes but confront universal situations: single motherhood, rape, infidelity, anti-Semitism, premarital sex, breast cancer, homosexuality, politics, racial tension, women’s rights. Of course back then women couldn’t vote, but at least the guys stood up when one entered the room. As for war, I read that the World War I bunker scenes were the most authentic ever filmed. DA offers plenty of sex but no nudity. Six seasons and only one bloody episode, when Robert’s ulcer bursts, during dinner. The plot had enough scope to allow characters to develop, grow. Mr. Barrow will always be an opportunistic villain, but toward the end we understand, even sympathize. Chauffeur Branson sheds his socialism to become the voice of reason. Butler Carson turns Lothario. Footman Molesley, a lifelong loser, finds his mojo in teaching school. Kitchen maid Daisy finds her voice. Isabel Crawley never lost hers. Dowager Countess Violet — the ultimate snob — softens into a wise and kindly aristocrat. Who thought she would be left standing after the writers killed off Mr. Pamook, Lavinia, Sybil, William, Matthew, Isis (the yellow Lab), Michael Gregson, numerous pheasants and grouse? Mrs. Patmore, the cook borrowed from Shakespeare, ties everything to-

gether with one-line zingers. Over the six seasons the Crawleys almost became my family. Trouble is, characters are so engraved on the actors that I cannot watch m’lord Hugh Bonneville play anything else. Heartthrob Dan Stevens (Matthew Crowley) in a flashy action flick, or as Beauty’s Beast, à la Disney? Please. Part of the mystique falls to British entertainment in general, which owns a certain dry, witty refinement poorly imitated by Madam Secretary and The Good Wife. By contrast, watching the half-dead stagger toward Armageddon is neither escape nor entertainment. So of course I bought the complete Downton Abbey on DVD because my TV has a built-in player. Now, when the world closes in, I pick an episode and escape to Yorkshire. Which fields another annoyance. My TV isn’t smart enough for streaming. I wouldn’t know Hulu from a Zulu. Purchased in 2008, it is sized perfectly for the room, has an excellent quality picture and good sound. Why should I replace it? I subscribe to premium cable and Netflix DVD. But, unless I purchase and attach another gizmo (not guaranteed to work) I won’t see The Crown until released on disc. But even with the smartest TV I wouldn’t give up cable because the song-and-dance coming out of Washington mustn’t be missed. Television illustrates the American dilemma: too many choices. Quantity over quality. Twenty Oreo flavors, a dozen Coke varieties, 15 shampoos under the same brand, 3,000 apps and countless short-lived sitcoms that have not progressed beyond canned laughter. Then, repeat the nonsense On Demand. That’s why British drama on PBS is so precious, including my other addiction, Call the Midwife, with an unlikely plot peopled by Anglican nuns, pretty young nurses and the wretched poor of London’s East End — yet mesmerizing in its seventh season. Still, nothing compares to the Abbey, which closed its massive doors in 2015. An interactive set re-creation drew crowds last winter in New York. The merchandise continues to sell: Christmas tree ornaments, tea, cookbooks, T-shirts and “companion” DVDs chocked with backstage tidbits . . . all except one, which will forever remain a mystery: Who really killed Vera and Mr. Green? PS Deborah Salomon is a staff writer for PineStraw and The Pilot. She may be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com.

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Nuisance birds? Is there truly such a

thing?? Yes. In fact, there are a number of them: pigeons (or more correctly rock pigeons), Canada geese and house sparrows are just a few of the species that can damage property all across the United States and every day. But there are also birds that may pose a health risk. Vultures, as it turns out, are one such group.

Often referred to generically as “buzzards,” vultures are part of a family of birds found worldwide with dozens of species including South American condors. Here in North Carolina, we have both turkey and black vultures year round. Individuals from farther north significantly boost flock numbers in the cooler months. These large, black scavengers lack feathers on their heads: likely an adaptation to feeding almost exclusively on carcasses. Turkey vultures are the more common species from the mountains to the coast. Soaring in a dihedral (v-shaped profile) on long wings with silver linings, they have extended tails for steering and distinctive red heads. Black vultures, however, have gray heads and white patches on the underwing as well as somewhat shorter wings and tails. As a result they soar with a flatter profile and fly with snappier wing beats. This species has really expanded across the Piedmont in recent years perhaps due to development, along with increased road building and the inevitable roadkill that results. However, as often as one might see a vulture or two overhead, neither species is a common breeder in our part of the state. Some places, like the town of Robbins, here in Moore County, have had an overabundance of vultures now for over a decade. During a recent conversation with David Lambert, the town manager, it became clear that this small town in the western part of the county indeed has a serious issue. The vulture problem only just made it into the news recently. I was alarmed to learn that hundreds

of birds roost around the center of town most of the year. The peak density of 600–800 birds occurs in midwinter. However, even in summer there are at least a few dozen loafing in the area. Deterrents such as noisemakers have been to no avail. An official from U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services even paid a visit a couple of years ago and used selective lethal measures (i.e. shooting a few birds). This actually worked — for a little while. Vultures can definitely pose a health hazard. In the late afternoon, they will pour into a spot featuring large trees or where there is a tower of some kind and they will perch close together for the night. You can imagine how smelly and nasty their droppings can be under such structures in a short period of time! It is particularly an issue on water towers, which seem to attract both black and turkey vultures. Guano has made its way into drinking water here in the Sandhills (in Vass) and certainly cannot be tolerated. Vultures can also be very destructive if they are bored. This is especially true of juvenile birds in late summer. Some of them have been known to tear into fabric, rip into rubber and plastic, and even break through doors and windows that are not firmly secured. No one really knows why the congregation exists in the Robbins area. Some speculate it may have to do with proximity to the Deep River or perhaps it is the abundance of chicken farms in close proximity — or it could be something else entirely. What’s clear, though, is that this is one of the largest congregations of vultures in the state. The U.S.D.A. is likely to pay this town another visit in the near future to shoot more birds. This time, they’ll probably hang a few (yes, this works) at the largest sites to dissuade roosting flocks from congregating there. But since many of the vultures will have dispersed for the breeding season, things should have improved (one way or another). As far as how many return again next fall, only time will tell. PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos at susan@ncaves.com.

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Kettle Time Deer Stew Night before, soak dried beans. Day of, cut deer meat into chunks, add beans and boil till tender. Add any vegetables you got. Simmer slowly, nearly all afternoon. Try this with squirrel or rabbit. — From the Touchstone Plantation, late 1800s

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zona for several days, and as always when we have out-oftown guests, we planned to find something unusual and interesting to do. High on our list after the usual fare of historical golf courses, shopping and restaurants is a little museum in downtown Ellerbe, North Carolina, about a 30-minute ride from Southern Pines.

This was our third or fourth visit to the Rankin Museum, and I still saw interesting things I hadn’t noticed before. The museum was created from the lifetime collection of Dr. Pressley R. Rankin Jr. of Ellerbe and is named in his honor. It has always amazed me that this gentleman was able to collect so many artifacts. The accumulation fills a museum that would make a much larger city proud. Little Ellerbe is off the beaten path, but the Rankin Museum draws people from all over the country. If you haven’t had the opportunity to visit the area, I highly recommend it. On this trip I noticed, in a far corner, a recipe for deer stew from the Touchstone Plantation. I’m a hunter and fisherman, and although I do not hunt deer, I’m not opposed to the folks who do. With all my interests in the

outdoors, I really don’t have time to add another sport like deer hunting. I am fortunate, though, because I have good friends who keep me stocked with fresh venison, and I’m always looking for new and different recipes. After the War Between the States, the South was a destroyed, defeated country that had to exist on whatever resources the land could provide. Game from the forest and fish from lakes and rivers did a lot to keep Southerners from starving. That subsistence necessity in those terrible times hung on over the years; and many folks, not only from the South, but now from all over the country, enjoy food derived from the sports of hunting and fishing. I’m mostly a bird hunter, specifically ducks, geese and doves. I also hunt quail when I’m lucky enough to find them, and I have several ways to prepare all kinds of nutritious and delicious game. I collected the plantation recipe at the Rankin Museum from a historical perspective, rather than an epicurean one. It looked interesting but was probably created to fill hungry bellies rather than satisfy taste buds. After our houseguests departed, Linda, my bride, and I prepared for a camping trip in our little Airstream trailer to Huntington Beach, South Carolina. We made plans for the trip back in the winter and really had not done a lot of planning for the adventure. The deer stew recipe got me in the mood to cook some game, so I decided to take along a few doves, ducks and a venison roast to prepare while we were there, to sort of live off the land, as it were. A cousin from Charleston gave me a call right before we were to leave and wanted to stop by Huntington Park on her way back from a business trip to Wilmington. She was interested in camping at the park and had a friend with her, and I invited them to have lunch with us, then check out the place. Many years ago, I found the out-of-print L.L. Bean Game and Fish Cookbook, and it has been the anchor in my wild game cooking. Over the years, I’ve also added to my repertoire recipes from good hunting and fishing buddies. There’s a duck marinating concoction that I’m reluctant to pass along because it’s an old family recipe of Bennett Rose’s, and I don’t think he would wish to spread it around that much. I realize Bennett is a good shot, and with me, discretion is the better part of valor. Anyhow, it’s the best marinade I’ve ever tried and is also good on any dark red game meat. I did dress the mix up a little by adding a touch of good red wine, though. Red wine makes anything

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Pinehurst in the 1970s was

the repository of the United States’ most impressive golf museum. The $2.5 million structure christened in 1974 as the World Golf Hall of Fame loomed behind the fourth green of Pinehurst No. 2 and featured bronze busts of its honorees, a replica Scottish clubmaker’s shop and all manner of memorabilia. Alas, the building cost too much to operate and visitors to Pinehurst would rather play golf than study its history, so the museum was bought by the PGA of America, closed in the early 1990s, moved to St. Augustine and reopened there in 1998. The building was eventually razed, and that parcel today is owned by Pinehurst Resort and sits vacant, awaiting possible development.

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history that has been building here since Dr. Leroy Culver staked out the first nine holes in 1898, drawing on his visions and notes from a recent visit to St. Andrews, Scotland. The Tufts Archives, an adjunct of the Given Memorial Library, chronicles the development of the village and resort with maps, photos, postcards, letters, and assorted documents and displays. Less than half a mile away, Heritage Hall runs from the front door of the clubhouse back to the golf shop and salutes Pinehurst’s rich competitive history — particularly through the boards listing winners of its prestigious North and South Amateur and long-defunct North and South Open. The Sandhills’ newest development in the museum arena is the Xan Law Jr. Hall of History that opened in February in the Carolinas Golf Association’s headquarters in Southern Pines. The CGA, which celebrated its centennial in 2009, opened Carolinas Golf House in 2014 across Ridge Road from Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club and set aside 1,500 square feet for an eventual museum. CGA Executive Director Jack Nance and the association’s Executive Committee then set about raising approximately $1 million for the museum and decided to name it in honor of the Charlotte businessman and avid golfer who died in 2016 shortly after a watershed fundraising dinner that gave the museum an important underwriting base. “Golf, like life, is a puzzle to be worked on but never solved,” Law said that evening. The CGA retained the services of Andy Mutch, a former USGA mu-

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seum director who, for the last 17 years, has operated Golf Curator Inc. in assisting clubs and associations organize, document, preserve and display their heritage. “I was struck by how tight the golf network is in the Carolinas,” Mutch says. “Jack made calls to people who knew people who donated artifacts. We were able to acquire a museum full of authentic original artifacts — not loans or purchases, but donations — which was amazing. Even the folks at the USGA were incredulous that the only real loans we had for the entire Hall of History were from them. We were able to build a pretty serious museum of North and South Carolina golf history through this close network of committed CGA golfers. I think this authenticity comes through when you see the displays.” A visit to the Hall of History can take from 30 to 60 minutes or longer, depending on how closely you delve into the photos and descriptive text at each of the displays. Here is the story behind the story of five of the artifacts on display: • The 1910 Carolinas Amateur contestants photo. The CGA was founded in October 1909 in Charleston and scheduled its inaugural Carolinas Amateur for the following June at Sans Souci Country Club in Greenville, South Carolina. One of the first images you’ll see in the Hall of History is a massive blown-up group shot of 23 of the contestants on the front steps of the clubhouse, the gang accented with bow ties, a cigarette or cigar in many hands and mouths, and bowler or straw boat hats on many heads. There are enough grins and bad posture to indicate the golfers have flubbed a few shots of golf and slaked a few shots of adult beverages. “On the final night, two hardy contestants commenced their next day’s contest in the bar room and left there for the first tee in the morning. One is reported to have broken five clubs in the first nine holes,” reported the local newspaper. • Peggy Kirk Bell’s Titleholders Blazer. The jacket is made of green velvet and was young Peggy Kirk’s prize for winning the 1949 Titleholders — a tournament on the fledgling women’s professional tour held at Augusta Country Club and modeled in the fashion of the Masters at nearby Augusta National. It was Peggy’s only professional win, and in time she would focus on the resort and golf teaching business with husband Warren “Bullet” Bell at Pine Needles, which they began running in 1953 and later purchased outright. In recognition of that Titleholders win, the Bells acquired the rights to the tournament in 1972 and moved it for one year to Pine Needles, with Sandra Palmer winning. Today a 40-inch bronze statue in the shape of the Titleholders crown logo still hangs in front of the Pine Needles entrance.

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• Paul Simson’s Ping Zing Putter. The Raleigh insurance executive arrived at Yeamans Hall outside Charleston in the fall of 1990 for the Carolinas Mid-Am and discovered he’d left his Ping Zing putter at home. Fellow competitor Vic Long said he just happened to have that very model in the trunk of his car that Simson could use. Simson liked the feel and function of the putter and won by five shots, breaking through after years of second-place finishes. “That opened the floodgates,” Simson says. “If a putter feels good and you win with it, how am I going to change?” Long gave Simson the putter in return for two dozen golf balls, and Simson used the club for many of his 33 CGA victories — giving it up finally in 2012 for a more modern version of the same putter. • Lionel Callaway display case. Donald Ross as an architect, Richard Tufts as an administrator — those leaders in early 1900s American golf are well known. Not as visible was Lionel Callaway, who was the teaching pro at Pinehurst for some 40 years in the mid-1900s. Today the Callaway Handicap System exists as a method for scoring golfers without established handicaps in competition. Callaway is also credited with developing putting cups with collapsible sides, grip molds to encourage proper hand placement on the club, practice nets and the standard of selling golf balls in packages of three. A variety of artifacts including photos, a scrapbook, his PGA of America membership cards and a handicapping gauge are collected under glass in the Hall of History.

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• Ben Hogan at Biltmore Forest photo. One of the best pictures on display is a gem from a gray day in the 1940s when Hogan is captured teeing off in front of a well-dressed and attentive gallery in the Land of the Sky Open, held in Asheville from 193351. North Carolina was a key juncture in the evolution of Hogan’s career. He was winless through eight years of pro golf when he came to Pinehurst in March 1940 for the North and South Open. He finally won, then went to Greensboro and on to Asheville for three consecutive victories. In three tournaments, Hogan played 216 holes 34-under-par, breaking par 11 of 12 rounds. “I won just in time,” Hogan later reflected on his remarkable trilogy. “I had finished second and third so many times I was beginning to think I was an also-ran. I know it’s what finally got me in the groove to win.” PS

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P I N E H U R S T

Pinehurst’s popular Chef & Maker series returns with three inspiring weekends of tantalizing menus and tasteful creations. Each weekend, one of North Carolina’s award-winning chefs will showcase his unique talents alongside a variety of artisans. Enjoy interactive culinary demonstrations, cookbook autograph sessions, informative workshops and chef dinners. It’s the perfect pairing of creative cuisine and Southern craftsmanship.

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May �� The Arborist The arborist: “This tree is nearly eighty years old, and bound to fail. Put in when folks developed Rosemont Street — all up and down the yards the same — the maples, oaks, and firs. No wonder she lost this limb.” I almost said I’m seventy-one myself, with lanky limbs that take me loping ’round the block three times A week. I hoped he’d say, “Pas possible!” (His name’s duBois!); instead he said, “See? You know exactly what I mean.” Mark laughed. “So what’s the fastest growing tree?” he asked duBois. “The sycamore. It grows six feet a year, and when it’s done, it’s sixty feet, providing shade like this poor maple.” Poor maple. Such girth I wouldn’t call it poor, but Mark had feared the insides rotted out; duBois concurred. We paid him then to take old maple down and plant the slender sycamore. We’ll have to move the chairs elsewhere in the yard, and get a large umbrella for our shade. Or else we’ll sit all summer under the porch roof, coaxing the tree to grow. And I’ll be eighty-one when sycamore is done, or else bequeath it to new owners, just as when I think of our beloved Hannah — who’s twelve and growing, too — bequeathed by us to other tenders of emerging things, those who never knew us — we, the arborists, who sit where someone sat in nineteen thirty-eight and watched a little maple grow. — Paul Lamar

Shooting

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Whether capturing images of golf or war, no one did it better than Pinehurst photographer John Hemmer By Bill Case

he grammar school dropout was forever on the move. There were times he bolted into the darkroom of his employer’s photographic studio to hide from an approaching truant officer. More often, the errand boy ran pell-mell to the offices of New York City newspapers and magazines, lugging a pouch stuffed with the newsy photographs of the day snapped by the studio’s owner, Edwin Levick, and his seven assistant photographers. The success of Levick’s photographic services business depended on speed. The first good images of a newsworthy event to reach the syndicated media were the ones most likely to be published, and pay off. So, Brooklyn-reared John Hemmer — the dropout, the errand boy — learned long before he clicked his first shutter that, in the photography trade, there was no substitute for being in the right place at the right time. In 1910, when Hemmer was just 18, one of Levick’s assistant photographers incorrectly loaded the powder in the flash lamp of one of the cameras. The magnesium powder could be nasty stuff. Careless photographers were known to set rooms, or even themselves, on fire. The resulting explosion singed the face of a supervisor, who fired the assistant on the spot. Hemmer was standing nearby. The agitated boss thrust the camera at the teenager and commanded, “Get some pictures, Hemmer!” He didn’t stop for 60 years. With a working knowledge of photography gained from Levick, a transplanted Englishman, and his agency’s other cameramen, Hemmer raced around New York again, but this time with cameras and equipment in tow instead of a satchel. Like Mozart to music, he took to the work immediately. The cutthroat world of syndicated photography wasn’t for the timid. Veteran competitors told him to “get lost,” but the feisty Hemmer couldn’t be bullied. “If I didn’t fight back, or think up new tricks, I went back without any pictures, and that was a sure way to get fired,” he said later. His determination was fueled by an innate self-confidence. Hemmer told

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The Pilot’s Mary Evelyn de Nissoff that, during his New York days, when he arose each morning, he “felt like shouting from the housetop, ‘I’m John Hemmer!’” The sharp-elbowed photographers were forever conjuring up new methods to scoop one another. Hemmer recalled the novel way his well-heeled competitors from Hearst Publications covered the arrival of major ships. “The Hearst boys started using carrier pigeons to relay their film from the press boat back to the city, and their pictures were usually in print by the time the rest of us got back to the dock,” Hemmer said. The system, however, had its flaws. There were times, Hemmer chuckled, when the pigeons “circled the ship and lit on the mast.” As the agency’s junior photographer, Hemmer was often sent to what Levick, a premier maritime photographer, considered secondary assignments. One was golf — a sport barely out of its infancy in America. Hemmer’s first tournament was the 1911 U.S. Amateur, held at the Apawamis Club in Rye, New York. His golf photos were barely noticed until the 1913 U. S. Open at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. The routine assignment became a godsend when a 20-year-old amateur and former caddie at the host club, Francis Ouimet, emerged the winner. Ouimet’s unlikely playoff upset over the British duo of Ted Ray and the incomparable Harry Vardon, written about some 90 years later in the book The Greatest Game Ever Played, jump-started more than just golf in America — it jump-started John Hemmer, too. His photographs of Ouimet’s victory at Brookline were in high demand. Suddenly, Hemmer found himself catapulted into the upper ranks of the game’s photographers. When an important golf tournament popped up on the schedule, Levick would turn to Hemmer. In the early days, Hemmer and his fellow shutterbugs seldom strayed from the clubhouse until the players finished their rounds. The winners lined up for pictures. “No one had ever thought of going out on the course until one day I got interested in seeing what I could photograph out there,” Hemmer recalled. He began lugging his bulky gear, 60 pounds or more, onto the course to capture images of key shots, revolutionizing tournament photography. Respected by his colleagues, Hemmer became the first president of the New York Press Photographers Association. Though the German-Irish kid from Flatbush had an expertise in sports photography, he swore off baseball after an unnerving experience at the Polo Grounds. Hemmer was in the process of shooting the Giants’ star pitcher (and future Hall of Famer), Rube Marquard, warming up on the sidelines. Suddenly Marquard fired a fastball that whizzed close by the photographer’s head. “Don’t you ever take my picture again!” warned the irate southpaw, who harbored a superstition, shared by many of the era’s ballplayers, that photography constituted a sort of black art that could bring ill to those who consented to have their picture taken. Hemmer married Anna Flynn in 1918, just prior to serving in World War I as a Signal Corps cameraman attached to the American Expeditionary Force Siberia. This forgotten theater of “The Great War” involved the efforts of 7,950 Army officers and enlisted men to protect the equipment and supplies the United States had sent to the Tsarist regime from being seized by the Bolsheviks. The Expedition also assisted the Czechoslovak Legion in its evacuation from Russia. By all accounts, Siberia’s bleak tundra made for a miserable posting as the freezing soldiers continually faced shortages

of food and supplies. Hemmer experienced a harrowing encounter crossing Siberia by railroad: “The train broke down. It was 60 below outside,” he recalled. “I tried to go out and make pictures of the train in the snow, but I couldn’t. The wolves wouldn’t let me off the train.” Hemmer managed to emerge from his war service unscathed, and in 1919, returned to his New York job with Levick. In 1923, John and Anna celebrated the birth of their son, John L. Hemmer. In July, 1924, following the death of Pinehurst photographer Edmund Merrow, Richard Tufts approached Levick in search of a photographer for the resort’s Mid-South golf tournament, to be held in late October. Tufts also needed a man for a number of Pinehurst events scheduled for March. Levick agreed to provide a cameraman for both, then failed to produce one in October. A disappointed Tufts wrote that the no-show for the Mid-South breached “very definite arrangements.” Levick cavalierly dismissed the blown assignment as being not worth the trouble. “It would have to be more tangible than just a single tournament to justify even an assistant at Pinehurst,” he responded. While Tufts may have seethed at the offhand treatment, Levick nonetheless possessed working relationships with all of the Eastern newspapers. Tufts decided to let the agency cover Pinehurst’s March 1925 events as planned. On March 23rd, Levick advised the resort owner that his selected assistant was on route to Pinehurst, assuring him, “My assistant, John Hemmer, who will cover the assignment, knows golf thoroughly and has been with us now some sixteen or seventeen years.” Four days after Hemmer’s arrival, Tufts wrote Levick. “We are very favorably impressed by him [Hemmer] and are looking forward to good results from his work here.” Though Hemmer’s first stint in Pinehurst was brief, it was long enough for the buttoned-up Tufts to conclude that he wanted the New Yorker back. Always on time, nattily attired in dark suit, white shirt, vest and tie, and attentive to Tufts’ desire that photos be promptly forwarded to resort guests’ hometown newspapers, Hemmer quickly ingratiated himself

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with the boss. The guests liked him, too. Easygoing behind the camera, Hemmer’s mugging and quips never failed to bring a smile to those he was photographing. And Levick promised Tufts that his assistant’s Pinehurst pictures would be displayed in even more newspapers the following season. By July 1925, Tufts was inclined to cut out the middleman. He suggested to Hemmer, “if you feel you are in position yourself to give us good publicity we might be interested in making arrangements with you rather than Mr. Levick on somewhat the same basis.” He also suggested that Hemmer consider spending the entire winter season (October to May) in Pinehurst, promising that he and connected persons in the community could funnel plenty of business his way. Enchanted by Pinehurst, Hemmer leaped at the offer. He advised Tufts that he was making arrangements with a firm to place Pinehurst photos “not only in the metropolitan papers, but all through the east, west, north, and south.” Soon, John, Anna and John Jr. were snugly housed in Pinehurst’s Laurel Cottage, where the Given Outpost is now — the cottage was razed in 1934 to make way for Pinehurst’s post office. He opened “Hemmer’s Photo Shop,” initially in the Harvard Building, thereafter at the Carolina Hotel. The diversity of Pinehurst, Inc.’s activities afforded Hemmer a wide variety of subjects for his lens. Photographing sporting activities like golf (particularly the North and South tournaments), shooting at the gun club, tennis, gymkhanas and horse racing constituted the bulk of his work. Hemmer took a raft of publicity pictures at the Tufts’ brand new golf course at Pine

Needles, including several of Donald Ross hitting shots. The many celebrities that found their way to Pinehurst couldn’t leave town without posing for Hemmer. Images of the Tufts’ agricultural operations, like the piggery and the farm’s cattle, were snapped by Hemmer’s all-seeing camera. Leonard Tufts (Richard’s father), proud of his renowned Ayrshire cattle breeding operation, even suggested to the photographer that if famous people like Will Rogers or Gloria Swanson were in residence, “you should get a picture of them milking the old cow” — Leonard’s prized Ayrshire he lovingly named Tootsy Mitchell. Hemmer also created a remarkable series of photographs featuring Pinehurst’s African-American caddies. Colorful loopers with sobriquets like “Dr. Buzzard,” “Hog Eye,” “Calvin Coolidge” and “Dr. Hawk” captured by his weather-beaten camera make up a collection of images that ranks among the Tufts Archives’ most cherished. Hemmer’s horseracing photos drew particular admiration given his uncanny ability to snap galloping steeds with all four hooves airborne. Hemmer also arranged for his Pinehurst photographs to be transformed into postcards. The dissemination of the hand-colored cards, designed to portray Pinehurst’s peaceful and idyllic atmosphere, provided an invaluable boon to the resort’s promotional efforts. A February 1926 article in The Pilot gushed, “Mr. Hemmer . . . has beaten all previous records for the number of Pinehurst pictures published during a season. Every real newsstand in America puts out some paper every day exhibiting specimens of Mr. Hemmer’s art and genius. He is giving this section the highest type of publicity it has ever enjoyed.” During summers, Hemmer would return to New York, where he continued the hunt for newsworthy subjects. He found a good one on a cloudy morning in May, 1927 at New York’s Roosevelt Field, where a sandy-haired Midwestern pilot named Charles Lindbergh was preparing to take off in his daunting attempt to make the first aerial crossing of the Atlantic. Learning

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that Lindbergh had completely exhausted his funds in preparing for the epic flight, a sympathetic Hemmer passed the hat among the assembled media types in order to scrape together sufficient cash to buy sandwiches and a thermos of coffee for the young flyer’s journey. Much like Forrest Gump, Hemmer seemed to always be on hand, playing a contributing role at historically important events. His timing was once again impeccable at the 1930 U.S. Amateur at Merion Golf Club where Bobby Jones’ 8 and 7 victory over Eugene Homans provided the last of his four major championship victories that year. Later Hemmer would say that photographing Jones’ Grand Slam was his greatest thrill. In Pinehurst, Hemmer immersed himself in civic activities. He became commander of the local American Legion post and a director of the Chamber of Commerce. Though never a golfer himself, Hemmer did gain a reputation as a crack gin rummy player and inveterate hunter of arrowheads. After Laurel Cottage was razed, Hemmer moved his family across the street to Cherokee Cottage (behind the Theatre Building and now the site of the Maples Building). Hemmer’s reputation continued to grow. Bob Harlow, American golf’s greatest promoter, and the founder and publisher of Golf World magazine, would write in 1938, “John Hemmer is the best newspaper photographer in America, and has been for a number of years. He has the rare combination of being a great artist with the camera, a fine judge of news values in what the editors of the tabloids call the ‘pix,’ and he can write captions with any headline scribe and hold his own.” Why Hemmer decided to curtail his work in Pinehurst and join the New York Daily News prior to World War II is something of a mystery. Hemmer adored Pinehurst and had become a fixture in the community. With the Great Depression not yet in America’s rear view mirror, a slowdown in business at

the resort may have been a factor. Maybe he missed the bustle of the big city, or perhaps the Daily News offered financial terms Hemmer couldn’t refuse. In any event, he kept a foothold in Pinehurst, visiting often and taking an occasional assignment. He also retained ownership of the Hemmer Photo Shop, placing talented 34-year-old Emerson Humphrey in charge of operations. Whatever his reasons, Hemmer’s return to New York made for the most exciting period of his career. Once World War II began in earnest, he was frequently aloft, miles out over the Atlantic, in the Daily News’ single-engine airplane, snapping photographs of ships burning, listing or sinking from the deadly effects of U-boat torpedoes. The newspaper, Hemmer mused, “never sent us out unless the weather was terrible.” In his efforts to obtain front page-worthy photos, Hemmer sometimes went too far. He often encouraged the pilot of the Daily News’ craft to repeatedly circle a wrecked ship for “just one more shot.” Invariably running low on fuel, on one occasion the pilot was forced to ditch the plane in the ocean. Photographer and pilot were safely rescued, and Hemmer somehow managed to keep his speed-graphic camera and plates dry. Pushing the envelope brought Hemmer and the Daily News trouble when the paper published a 1941 aerial photograph of a war-damaged British battleship limping into New York’s harbor, raising the ire of an incensed secretary of the Navy, who felt wartime censorship regulations had been violated. Sometimes his risk-taking resulted in memorable images of the war. His aerial shot of the British vessel King George V’s, arrival (with British ambassador to the United States Lord Halifax aboard) in the Chesapeake Bay

won Hemmer the “Best Photographic Award” of 1941. Wendell Willkie, the recently defeated Republican candidate for president, presented the award. Missing “sand in his shoes,” Hemmer returned to the tranquility of Pinehurst in 1944, residing full-time at Cherokee Cottage. Emerson Humphrey moved on, opening a photo shop in Southern Pines, and Hemmer relocated his studio to an outbuilding adjacent to his cottage. Dividing his time between performing his usual photography work in Pinehurst and new employment with North Carolina’s State Conservation and Development organization in Raleigh, Hemmer became the official photographer for the state. For half of the year, he would blitz North Carolina, “from Manteo to Murphy,” as he put it, taking promotional photos. “We

made some enemies along the way,” he would later admit, “because if the weather happened to be bad so that we couldn’t take color pictures in a certain place, we had to move along to the next place anyway.” His award-winning work continued to bring Hemmer into contact with notable personalities. Covering the theatrical production of The Lost Colony on the Outer Banks, Hemmer snapped several photos of the tall, amiable young man playing the role of Sir Walter Raleigh — a little-known actor named Andy Griffith. His promotional pictures of North Carolina appeared in newspapers and magazines throughout America. Son John Jr., who followed in his father’s footsteps by becoming the photo editor of the Tucson Citizen newspaper, said his father effectively became the state’s ambassador, and that he “lived and breathed North Carolina.” But golf photography remained the go-to staple of Hemmer’s work. Raleigh News & Observer reporter Joe Holloway said, “The eyes belonging to Johnny Hemmer have focused cameras on more golfers than any eyes in the world.” Golf World’s Harlow turned the camera around on Hemmer, making him the cover boy of a 1951 edition of the magazine. Throughout the ’50s and ’60s, Hemmer was every bit as much a fixture in Pinehurst as the Putter Boy statue. He made friends with another generation of Pinehurst residents, including Gen. George C. Marshall. Lifetime Pinehurst resident Nancy Smith participated in equestrian events in her youth and was a target of the veteran cameraman’s lens, especially at the Sunday gymkhana events held adjacent to the Carolina Hotel. “I think of him with a smile on his face,” recollects Smith. His outward affability masked pain, both physical and psychic. Wife Anna died in 1960, and Hemmer remained a widower the rest of his life. While in

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New Jersey, photographing the 1961 transfer of the U.S. Battleship North Carolina from the United States to the state of North Carolina, Hemmer fell off of a raised platform and was laid up for weeks after severely damaging his side, and breaking several bones. In another mishap, he was kicked in the leg and face by a thundering thoroughbred in an effort to rescue a fellow photographer who had meandered onto the track in the midst of a steeplechase race. The accident accentuated the deterioration of Hemmer’s vision, a problem that gradually increased in severity as the ’60s unfolded. Though slowing in his 70s, Hemmer remained the resort’s go-to photographer. Requiring assistance in his photo shop, he hired a 14-year-old Pinehurst High School schoolboy, Don McKenzie, in 1966 to help out after school. Laboring in Hemmer’s darkroom, pasting captions onto photos, escorting his mentor to the Southern Pines’ railroad station to arrange for shipment of photos to Northern newspapers, and toting battered equipment to assignments, McKenzie absorbed much about the photography business. And though young McKenzie had yet to take a picture, he learned about photographic composition by observing his boss taking golf course photos at the Pinehurst resort. “Mr. Hemmer was the only one allowed to drive his car on the courses, and I would go with him to help set up,” McKenzie remembers. “When he took golf course pictures, he usually had something in the foreground, like a tree limb, then a middle ground — usually the subject of the picture — then something that caught your eye in the background, maybe the clubhouse.” McKenzie also marveled at the veteran cameraman’s ability to take great pictures with out-of-date equipment. One ancient camera had reached a stage where it was letting unwanted light into the picture frame. Rather than purchase a replacement, McKenzie says, “Mr. Hemmer simply taped over the opening where the light was coming in and the camera worked just fine.” McKenzie’s experience with Hemmer helped inspire him to embark on his own lifelong photographic career in Southern Pines. Despite the loss of acuity in his sight, Hemmer kept taking pictures throughout the ’60s. But it became a losing battle. Blindness was rapidly approaching. Around the time that the Tufts family sold the resort to the Diamondhead Corporation (1970), Hemmer snapped his final picture, ending a 45-year association with Richard Tufts and Pinehurst, Inc. For a while, Hemmer was able to remain in his Cherokee Lodge home. Longtime Pinehurst resident Bonnie Mosbrook recalls him in dark glasses waving his white cane high over his head to alert approaching motorists that he was intending to walk across a village intersection. Failing health forced Hemmer into the Sandhills Nursing Center in December 1973. His son arranged for the sale of Cherokee Lodge in March

of 1974. Less than two months later, the home was destroyed by fire. His former photography studio was salvaged, though it, too, was eventually razed. Though no longer part of the action in Pinehurst, he was far from forgotten and a stream of tributes flowed his way. When the World Golf Hall of Fame was established in Pinehurst, its photo room was named the “John Hemmer Gallery.” A Hemmer trophy for the year’s best golf picture by a news photographer was also instituted. On his 85th birthday in 1977, the Given Memorial Library’s Tufts Archives arranged a “Hemmer Exhibit” of his photos. After five years in the nursing home, Hemmer’s funds were exhausted. Friend and legendary fellow North Carolina photographer, Hugh Morton. rushed to his rescue, organizing a fund so that Hemmer could meet his expenses. Among those chipping in were Gov. Terry Sanford, Andy Griffith, and the White House News Photographers. John Hemmer passed away on October 6, 1981, at age 89 but, housed in the Tufts Archives, 85,000 of his photographs can still see the light of day. PS Pinehurst resident Bill Case is PineStraw’s history man. He can be reached at Bill.Case@thompsonhine.com.

The Bard Is Back Soliloquies in the park

By Jim Moriarty • Photograph by Tim Sayer

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idsummer will come early to Pinehurst’s Village Green when William Shakespeare gets a curtain call in Tufts Park. After last summer’s three-night run of Much Ado About Nothing, Jonathan Drahos, Carolanne Marano and the Uprising Theatre Company return on back-to-back weekends with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The 7:30 p.m. shows will be June 1-3 and 8-10. Instead of groundlings paying a penny to stand in the yard of the Globe Theatre, all you’ll need is a blanket or a lawn chair. “Our big thing is to keep it free,” says Marano. “One of the reasons we decided to do two weekends this year is we want to grow,” says Drahos, an associate professor and the director of the theater at the University of North Carolina-Pembroke. “We want to get the community used to this ongoing thing, that it’s not a one-off. But, also, if it rains one weekend, it’s not a total bust.” Last year after two flawless nights, bad weather arrived on Sunday. “It started raining in the morning and we thought, ‘OK, we’re going to have to cancel the show,’” says Marano, who teaches choreography and stage dance at UNCP. “We went out there and people had camped out. So we had everybody move closer to the stage and we didn’t use any mics. We didn’t have any electrical and, at one point, two cars pulled up and showed their lights so we could still act. When it got a little unsafe we called it. We went as far as we could. If the audience is willing to weather the storm, then so are we. It was actually a lot of fun.” The park is the perfect place to stage A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s best-known comedy. You’ve got Athenians, fairies, weddings and craftsmen. Add a little love potion and what could possibly go wrong? “Lord what fools these mortals be!” says Puck, who will be played by Carolanne. “It’s Shakespeare’s only truly original play,” says Drahos. Though threads trace back to Chaucer, Ovid and even some medieval romances, “there isn’t a lot of source material he drew from like he does from other plays. Although elements of it are derived from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and certainly the Pyramus and Thisbe play-within-the-play is sort of lifted from Ovid but the cosmic scope of the play is original. That’s what makes it, to me, special.” Midsummer begins with the Duke of Athens, Theseus, set to marry the Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta. A group of craftsmen has gone into the woods to practice their bumbling, crude and comic version of a play — Pyramus and Thisbe — to perform at the wedding. Determined to defy an arranged marriage, Hermia and Lysander also flee into the woods. As luck would have it, the forest is filled with fairies. The couple is pursued by Demetrius, the prospective husband so designated by Hermia’s father, and Helena, who loves Demetrius and seeks to win his favor. Oberon, the king of the fairies, has his own problems. He sends his hobgoblin, Puck, in search of a flower that contains a juice that, when dropped on the eyelids of any sleeper, will make that person fall in love with whomever they see on first awakening. Hijinks ensue. “If you look at the grand scope of Shakespeare’s works, all of the language is miraculous,” says Drahos. But, on occasion, it can be a bit daunting. “There’s a way that Jon’s training will get the actor to say it so the audience doesn’t feel like it’s a foreign language,” says Marano. “So much of the language that Shakespeare used, we still use today, 95 percent of it basically. It’s the way Shakespeare put it together that is rhetorically complex, and that’s what makes it eloquent and beautiful and poetic,” says Drahos. “What we end up doing is a collaboration with the audience, saying, ‘We understand that you’re not going to get 100 percent of what we’re doing. We’re going to make 75 percent understandable, and if you meet us halfway with the other 25 percent, you’re going to forgive the rhetorical complexity of the language.’ This is the problem I think a lot of companies have with Shakespeare — they’re sort of elitist. They want the audience to come to them where we are trying to come to the audience. Meet them halfway.” Drahos and Marano, both 51, met as undergraduate students at Cal State Long Beach when they were performing in David Mamet’s Edmond. Carolanne

is originally from Philadelphia, by way of Wichita, Kansas, where her father was an executive for Pizza Hut. She trained in classic ballet at Pennsylvania Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West until an injury propelled her career in a slightly different direction. Jonathan grew up in the San Fernando Valley but spent most of his early years in Huntington Beach, California. After graduating from Long Beach they moved to Kansas City where Jonathan got his Master of Fine Arts degree in acting and directing from the University of Missouri-KC. “I was looking for a program that focused on Shakespeare and that was steeped in the classics because that was my lifelong passion,” says Drahos. From there it was off to New York City. Marano wrote a comedy, At the Threshold, which they produced off-Broadway at the Judith Anderson Theatre on 42nd Street, essentially launching the Uprising Theatre Company. Seven years later, they switched coasts, moving to Los Angeles. During their 10 years in L.A., they produced Carolanne’s play at the Fremont Centre Theatre under the title How Our In-Laws Ruined Our Wedding. Then, while Jonathan was doing a Shakespeare festival in Santa Barbara, a temporary teaching position opened at Cal State Northridge. He fell nearly as much in love with teaching as he was with Shakespeare, and soon they were off to England for Drahos to acquire a Ph.D. from the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham. From there he was hired by Southern Oregon University, which is where UNCP found and recruited him in 2014. All in all, it’s no less complicated a trail to Shakespeare in the park than Lysandra and Hermia take into the woods. A Midsummer Night’s Dream has a substantial cast. The tall, lean Drahos will be playing Oberon, while the slight ballerina, Marano, is Puck. “We’ve been working on the physicality of the Puck/Oberon relationship. She’s going to be climbing on me a lot, sort of almost attached spiritually,” he says. For other roles, they’ll rely on theater students from UNCP, in addition to outside actors, some local. “Also, we look in New York and L.A. because we do like to bring in professionals so that the students can learn from them,” says Marano. The theater company fundraises to pay for the production and any outside talent. That fundraising effort includes the sale of a limited number of tables — with cheese and wine — for the Friday and Saturday night performances. “Actors like to work,” says Drahos. “With Shakespeare, it’s not about the money necessarily. But if you can get paid to do Shakespeare, it doesn’t get any better for a real actor than to have that scenario. Especially in such a beautiful setting in Pinehurst, during the summer, outdoors.” PS Jim Moriarty is senior editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@ gmail.com.

A Highland Fling The rich legacy of the Scots By Haley R ay

ven with directions, it’s easy to miss the graveyard deep down a small, unmarked Carthage dirt road. The worn stones are quiet. The only sounds are the earth beneath your feet and the air in the pines above. The Old Scotch Graveyard is worth the trip. It’s a glimpse into Moore County’s past; a snippet of the people that lived here hundreds of years ago and the world they helped shape.

Here lies Alexander McCaskill Born on Isle of Skye Scotland Village of Dunvegan 1760 Brother of Angus Died March 18, 1840, Richmond County

The grave of Alexander’s brother, Angus, lies right next to his own. Not all the stones are readable; some are crumbling, others have fallen over, some plots are unmarked. The gravestones that are discernable usually provide the Scottish village of the man or woman’s origin. Bill Caudill, director of the Scottish Heritage Center at St. Andrews University, says it was a cultural custom commonly practiced by the early migrant Scots in America. “This identity is very strong here,” says Caudill. “How many ethnic groups

do you know that place on their tombstone where they came from and when they came from there? That’s telling you that these people had a sense of belonging. They were here, and they made a new livelihood for themselves, but they always belonged somewhere else. That’s the sense these people had of who they were, and that they still belonged in Scotland.” Moore County had a large number of those early Scottish immigrants, most hailing from the Highlands of northern Scotland, and dubbed Highlanders (as opposed to the Lowland Scots of southern cities like Edinburgh). Drive through the village of Pinehurst and plenty of Scottish surnames adorn street signs: McKenzie, McDonald, McCaskill, Blue, Shaw, Ferguson, Caddell. While heavily concentrated in the small boundaries of Pinehurst proper, similar road names are scattered across the Sandhills as a tribute to the old, powerful families. “There’s a lot of subliminal things, a huge amount of subliminal things that nobody would know if it wasn’t really pointed out for you,” says Caudill. “When I say that, I’m talking about historic sites, old family cemeteries, street names.” The Scots presence extends deeper than Scottish flags on front porches, a Lion Rampant on a license plate or a few family names on street signs. The depth of the influence is framed by the fact that the North Carolina Scottish settlement was the largest Highland settlement in North America until the latter quarter of the 19th century. The popular, more romanticized version of this great migration tells of

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shiploads of rebel-hearted Scots washing up on the shores of Wilmington in the 1740s and spreading throughout North Carolina, opting to settle in the American colonies rather than face persecution by the English after the failed Jacobite rebellion in their homeland. Having defied their king, Highlanders had no option but to flee — North Carolina or bust. The shiploads of Scottish immigrants who flooded into the Wilmington port followed the Cape Fear River deeper into the state, and into the Sandhills. The motivations behind the large-scale emigration are often misrepresented or misunderstood. The dramatic version of events is referred to in history books as the “Theory of Exile.” Scholars mused that the Brits had a master scheme to exile unworthy residents to the colonies after Prince Charles Stewart failed to reclaim the English throne with Scottish — mostly Highland — support. But, their great escape from the glens and moors of the Highlands had less to do with vengeful persecution than economic changes and a growing population. Although the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden — the deciding clash between the English and the Jacobites that ended the Scottish rebellion in 1746 — did contribute to the exodus, it doesn’t tell the whole story. Caudill says the exile theory can be credited to the writings of one man, William Henry Foote, a minister who wrote about the history of North Carolina from a Presbyterian perspective. Researchers and historians who dug deeper into the records found that the story of the British transporting large numbers of people to work in the colonies was largely inaccurate. “It didn’t happen. Simply did not happen,” says Caudill. “First off, the people that were transported were taken to prison after Culloden by the government forces. Most of them, that were not paroled, were taken to places like the West Indies and Barbados. Colonies like that. Because of our trade routes, some of those people perhaps may have ended up here. But most of them, no.” The dismantling of the exile theory begs the question of why, then, did so many Scots leave their beloved country? Moore County native Douglas Kelly also tackles the question of the Theory of Exile in his book Carolina Scots: An Historical and Genealogical Study of Over 100 Years of Emigration. Both sides of Kelly’s family descended from the Highlander immigrants in North Carolina, and he took an interest in his family history at a young age. He explains that

before the Battle of Culloden, the clan system was the operating hierarchy in the Highlands of Scotland. Lowland culture more closely resembled that of Britain, although it retained distinctly Scottish characteristics. The Scottish defeat at Culloden Moor helped dismantle the traditional clan system, but social and economic changes drove the breakdown, and thus migration out of Scotland. Before the Jacobite Rebellion, clan chiefs were the supreme commanders and owners of the land. Below them were the tacksmen, who were leased “tacks” of land from the chief to sublet to farmers on a year-to-year basis. Kelly says the tacksmen were the wealthy middle class, often relatives of the chief. Peasants and poor farmers, also called crofters, made up the lowest level. Tacksmen were paid a fee from the chiefs for managing the land and to ensure the farmers had the tools they needed to tend it. “Well before Culloden, as early as the 1740s, there was coming pressure on the upper middle class, on the tacksmen,” he says. “Some of the chiefs and lords were getting advice that they were costing too much. It wasn’t religious persecution.” Shutting out the tacksmen to save money was discussed in the 1730s, but never actually happened, Kelly says. Still, they knew their position was in jeopardy. Following the Scottish defeat at Culloden, the English enforced the 1746 Act of Proscription, which disarmed the Highlanders and instituted punishment for the wearing of traditional Highland dress, including kilts. There is no doubt the oppression contributed to the pressure and panic clans felt, but it is far from the sole reason for the migration. The Theory of Exile fails to include the rising rents, famine years, and increasing population that had citizens, especially tacksmen, scrambling to charter a ship to the Americas. “The handwriting was on the wall,” says Kelly. “The tacksmen knew their position was threatened in Scotland economically. They decided to emigrate. North Carolina had a Scottish governor, Gabriel Johnston, at that time. He wanted to get Scottish Protestants to settle his colony because North Carolina was far behind South Carolina and Virginia (in population). They were richer. We were considerably underpopulated, so he wanted to get Scots. He contacted some wealthy tacksmen in Argyll, the McNeals and the Clarks, and told them if they would set up a party of emigrants, a colony, he would give them free land in what is now Fayetteville and Moore County.” So, Scots boarded ships and crossed the sea. The first colony arrived in 1739, seven years before the battle heavily credited for the relocation. Although there are records of Scots arriving before 1739, this colony marked the start of the governor’s Old World recruiting. In addition to free land, Johnston exempted the incoming settlers from taxation for 10 years and allowed them to serve as magistrates and judges. It was a braw deal. Some of Kelly’s family arrived in this settlement, which docked in Wilmington or Brunswick and took smaller boats up the Cape Fear River into Fayetteville. The Fayetteville colony was a large one, but eventually the settlers were pushed out to make room for Fort Bragg. There are numerous historic sites on the Fort Bragg base that are no longer easily accessible to the curious visitor. You need to make an appointment with Dr. Linda Carnes-McNaughton, archaeologist and curator of the Fort Bragg Cultural Resources Program. Some sites will always remain off-limits for civilians. Carnes-McNaughton estimates that 80 percent of the Fayetteville colony was Scottish, and the historic sites reflect their presence. “It was predominatly white European settlers moving into the area,” she says. “So when the Scots came, the first things they built were churches. They built schools because they wanted to continue to educate the next generation. That’s why some of the churches are so old, like Barbecue and Longstreet. Building a church and a school went hand-in-hand.” The Blue family, of the historic Blue Plantation in Aberdeen, also had large

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tracts of land in Fayetteville before relocating. Carnes-McNaughton says only the Presbyterian churches still stand, some dating back to 1757. She takes many descendants of settler families on tours, and provides access to old documents, as they piece together their family history. That Scottish sense of self was strong enough to shape the culture and attitudes of the Sandhills in a way that lingers today. Southern Pines resident Jane McPhaul is a proud descendant of those settlers, and heavily involved with preserving the culture and history of her ancestors. She says that placing a large importance on family, church and education is one legacy they left behind. Kelly, Caudill and McPhaul all believe that the area’s famous Southern hospitality, and a close-knit community, may to some degree be credited to the early Scots. “You might more broadly say that this is throughout the South, but there’s a sense of kinship here that is much more akin to what you would find in Scotland of old, as opposed to what you would find in other places,” says Caudill. “Here in Laurinburg, everybody knows who everybody’s family is and how they were related. So there was an extended sense of kinship that sort of likened itself to the clans.” Kelly, who still has family in the Highlands and has lived in Scotland, grew up in a Presbyterian household, hearing Gaelic, learning to work the fields at the Blue Plantation, and listening to family gossip as a popular form of entertainment — a true Scot tradition. Some of his family from the Isle of Skye came to visit Moore County years ago, which he says really brought the similarities to light. Highlanders broadly define themselves as hospitable to strangers, hardworking and unpretentious — North Carolina traits. “When they were here, they said the spirit is so much like the Highlands of Scotland. The humor, even the way people walk was similar, so they were amazed,” he says. “This sounds selfserving, but in general there’s a courtesy and kindness. It was always generally non-pretentious.” Along with the importance of church, family and education, many rituals survive. The Highland Games, in both Laurinburg and Grandfather Mountain, is one popular tradition, attended by Scots and non-Scots alike. Bagpipers play at community events. The Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan, an annual ceremony held in a church to bless the clan tartans, is another. Today, the kirkin’ is continued for descendants to celebrate and honor their national and religious heritage, and it’s a ritual McPhaul habitually takes part in. “We do the Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan at Brownson Church. We’ve done it at The Village Chapel many times, and many of the churches around here do this,” she says. “We have banners. So you’ll take your tartan banner, and generally the men will walk it down the aisle during the kirkin’. It’s something that’s cherished.” Many of the original Scottish families remain in the area. One reason may be the family land the settlers likely received from Gov. Johnston. Kelly says that the eldest sons inherited the land and had a strong incentive to remain, keeping the family name in the Sandhills.

Jesse Wimberly, a Highlander descendant and outreach coordinator for the nonprofit Sandhills Area Land Trust, says the unique ecosystem is another reason they remained. Many Scottish immigrants, including Wimberly’s family, made their money by extracting pine, turpentine and tar from the native longleafs for the shipbuilding industry. He says that the flora of the pines wasn’t disturbed by the turpentiners. The diverse environment of the Sandhills also made for good hunting, another tradition they continued from their homeland. Although the breadth of information available on the original Scottish settlements is seemingly endless, data is still missing. Caudill says there is no exact number on how many Scots arrived on the coast of North Carolina, because ship records are available for just part of two years. Historians can only guess at the number of arrivals, which they place somewhere between 15,000 and 30,000 before the Revolutionary War. “There’s academics in Scotland who know more about our settlement and community than most history professors at UNC,” says Caudill. For newcomers to the Sandhills the Scottish influence likely begins and ends with golf, and beloved golf course designer Donald Ross. Less well known is that the Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald resided in Richmond County in the 1770s with her tacksman husband, Allan. Still revered in song and folktales, MacDonald earned her celebrity by assisting Prince Charles Stewart in escape from the English after the rebellion failed. Davidson College was founded as a Scottish college in 1837 and two Scots from Fayetteville were the first heads of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Behind the Chick-fil-A on U.S. 15-501 is the grave of Kenneth Black, hanged for housing Flora MacDonald after revolutionaries burned her house to the ground. The MacDonalds, who eventually returned to the Highlands, were loyalists to the crown during the American Revolution, as were many of the Scottish in America. John MacRae, a Scottish oral poet largely unknown outside of academic circles, resided in Carthage after leaving Scotland in 1774. Caudill has a book of his poetry sitting in his office. “John MacRae is the only voice of these people in their own language. He wrote poems and songs that were transmitted in the oral tradition that have been collected by folklorists all over the world, wherever there are Gaelic settlements. And they were written in Moore County. And nobody knows about them, except for the scholars,” Caudill says. McPhaul works to preserve the historic Mill Prong House in Red Springs, and continues the annual family reunion they call the gathering of the clans. She can trace the route her ancestors took up the Cape Fear River. “We honor ancestry, we don’t just know about it,” says McPhaul. “It is a heritage that means a great deal.” Generations removed, the ties still bind. PS Haley Ray is a Pinehurst native and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill graduate, who recently returned from the deserts of Southern California

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East Meets West Down South The house of a thousand stories chronicles a career abroad By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner

hey met in a used furniture store in Columbia, South Carolina. Catherine was looking for a dresser. John was seeking distraction. He was from splashy Miami, “When it was young and empty.” She was from Albemarle — a doctor’s beautiful daughter raised in a gracious Southern home with wraparound porch, shaded by magnolias. Their life, a magic carpet ride through far-away kingdoms, plays out in a brick house on Massachusetts Avenue, attributed to society architect Aymar Embury II and Louis Lachine, an engineer associated with the Highland Pines Inn who, in the 1920s, built 10 spec houses near the resort hotel. Now, this one runneth over not with Southern heirlooms but Asiana, Africana and a Marco Polo-worthy trove. John and Catherine Earp display more than a painting here and a table there. As a Ford Motor Company executive in the 1990s John was posted worldwide, primarily in Asia. “What we have collected is more about memories than things,” he says. Still, shipping their massive collection from posting to posting and finally to retirement in Southern Pines boggles the mind. But with Ford footing the bill, why not? John was in the Army when he met Catherine. After discharge, he started with Ford in Cincinnati, Ohio, then Kansas City, Missouri, soon moving into the glamorous motor sports division. After two years, company hierarchy tapped him to open a new market, as director for Ford Motor Company in Korea. “Is there a cookbook for that?” John asked. No, but you’ll figure it out, the suits replied. Catherine’s reaction: “Korea . . . where’s that? But I was excited, not apprehensive at all.” Neither had a passport. Off they went, first to a fabulous hotel for two months, then to an equally fabulous house overlooking a river, where they lived for two years. The house needed furniture. Ford provided a $15,000 allowance. Catherine and John were already auction hounds. Oreos were an underground prize but in Korea they found “markets” similar to famous Les Puces (Fleas) in Paris. “The Koreans wanted everything new and modern; they weren’t interested in their grandmothers’ stuff,” Catherine discovered. This younger generation unloaded gems of the simple, practical Korean style — notably a stunning highrise armoire in the living room, heavy chests meant for blankets and sleeping mats elsewhere. Some pieces, like the living room sofa with a teak frame, were made-to-order with distinctively Korean lines. Then came Japan and Thailand, more markets, more décor finds. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 2018

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estern eyes blur Asian styles. The black lacquer cabinet in the dining room is actually a Chinese wedding chest, functioning like an American hope chest where brides stored linen gifts. Catherine points out her many elephant motifs emblematic of Thailand, beginning with 10 carved specimens parading across the living room mantel. Fronting a stretch of small-paned windows, vaguely British along with the coffered ceilings, stands a row of alabaster Buddhas from a Burmese monastery. Exporting them required untangling red tape with government ministries. “It’s a sign of respect to Buddha,” John says. “Having them here is a rare thing.” But because they lived in several Buddhist countries, “We also have a reverence for him,” Catherine adds. Bells, bells everywhere — from cow bells to temple bells to elephant bells — some massive, made from iron, stand in the foyer, while others, more delicate, are displayed in a glass-fronted curio case. Catherine has positioned her collection of Japanese dolls throughout the house. These armless, legless painted wooden kokeshi (some with bobble heads) look like precious bowling pins, too tall and heavy for cuddling. But the most fanciful objet d’art is a miniature “spirit house” resting on a fern stand in the dining room. Like birdhouses, these carved structures with spirals and wings erupting from walls and roof are placed outside the home, to welcome beneficial spirits. “Our real house in Thailand looked just like that,” Catherine says. PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 2018

heir real house in Southern Pines has a circular floorplan; a tour begun in the large foyer tracks through the living room, dining room, kitchen, two dens/offices and back to the foyer without retracing a step. The original room designation remains a mystery. Catherine believes the two offices off the foyer might have been bedrooms with a bathroom, perhaps used as overflow accommodations by the Highland Inn. Outside, a terraced garden, fountain, pond and trellis covered with Confederate jasmine speak more North Carolina than South Korea. The second floor, with lower ceilings and fewer moldings, suggests the house was planned for entertaining, with architectural details concentrated downstairs. Here, Catherine appreciates having enough wall space to display

their art collection, including several waterscapes, some painted on lacquer, from Korea, where commercial fishing flourishes. The kitchen had been enlarged and renovated by a previous owner who added a vaulted ceiling paneled in pickled wood — more Western than Eastern. However, musky olive green walls, a black enamel farm sink and sculpturesque gas cooktop mounted on the island impart an Asian flavor — except for statuettes of saints, brought from Central America, looking down from atop a cabinet. Beyond the kitchen is a practical feature rarely seen in either classic or contemporary residences. A door opens into a hallway to the laundry, garage and stairs to the former maid’s quarters, now a private guest suite with heart pine floors, dormers, built-in drawers and claw-foot bathtub, all accessible without entering the house itself.

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f Catherine loved Asia, South Africa left her positively ecstatic, perhaps because they lived on a predator-free game preserve where gentle kudus ate out of her hand, over a backyard fence. “The animals! You see these wonderful animals everywhere!” she says. Art and artifacts throughout the house, including zebra wallpaper in an upstairs bathroom, memorialize this experience. “Africa changes you,” imprinting not just your house, but your soul, John says. Catherine felt closer to the earth from having lived there. “It’s just magical — both the animals and the people.” John and Catherine enjoyed a lifestyle reminiscent of British colonials learning folkways from servants and drivers — not all positive. “Africa made me look at poverty differently,” Catherine says. “Our housekeeper taught us never to waste food, not a scrap.” “Yet the people fought through poverty. They didn’t act poor. They were industrious,” John observes. In 2013 the Earps (yes, he’s related to Wyatt, distantly) chose Southern Pines — and this house — for their retirement because Catherine’s sister lives down the street. Reason enough, without the existential link. For a decade or more the sturdy brick Weymouth residence was known as the H.H. Pethick house. Henry Pethick served as U.S. vice-consul in Saigon, in 1919. He then became a Standard Oil executive in China, returning only when Japan began bombing Canton, according to a Sept. 1937 edition of The Pilot. Mrs. Pethick had come back a year earlier, undoubtedly with household souvenirs. When the Pethicks sold the house in May 1945, a front page story described it as “one of the most attractive and elaborate residences in Southern Pines.” No mention, however, of serene ghosts floating about in fine silk garments, waiting patiently for their ship, piloted by the Earps, to sail home. PS PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 2018

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The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. — Edwin Way Teale

By Ash Alder

May and the heart sings of somersaults, cartwheels across the lawn, dandelions tucked behind the ears of children. May is a month of sweetness. The pick-your-ownstrawberries, soft-spring-rain, butterflies-in-the-garden kind of sweetness. And magnolia-blossoms-for-Mama. In the garden: snow peas, fennel, broccoli, kale. In the kitchen: bearded iris in a pail. May is a month for sweethearts — and dancing. Dancing round maypoles, dancing round in circles, dancing round the Beltane fire. The first maypoles were made of hawthorn, a mystical tree which the ancient Celts believed could heal a broken heart. Breathe in spring and feel your heart somersault, hopscotch, send a flurry of dandelion seeds whirling as it cartwheels through a field of sweetness.

Gifts for Mama

Mother’s Day falls on Sunday, May 13. I think of the hundred-year-old ferns in my grandmother’s sunroom, the ones that belonged to her florist mother, and how love, when nurtured, grows and grows. A few seeds of inspiration for the beloved matriarch in your life: Sprig of dogwood. Pickled magnolia petals. Lemon basil. Bulbs for the garden: dahlias, wild ginger, climbing lily. Stepping stones. Wildflower crown. Peach, pear or nectarine tree. Basketful of dandelion (for wine). Eternal love.

The Full Flower Moon rises on Tuesday, May 29. Also called Mother’s Moon, Milk Moon and Corn Planting Moon, this month’s moon illuminates the whitetail fawns, wide-eyed owlets, wildflowers everywhere. According to The Old Farmer’s Almanac, the best days for planting aboveground crops this month are May 18, 19, and 26–28. Plant below-ground crops May 9 or 10. Plan now for July sweet corn on the grill.

Pickled Magnolia Flowers Try this to add a side of whimsy to your spring salad. Ingredients One pound fresh young magnolia flowers 1 1/2 cups rice vinegar One cup of sugar One teaspoon of salt

Directions Wash and dry petals, then put them in a sterilized jar with salt. Mix rice vinegar and sugar in pan, then bring to boil. Pour hot vinegar and sugar mixture over flowers. Allow to cool, then cap the jar.

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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. OUTPOST BOOK SALES. 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Monday– Saturday. The May monthly sale at the Given Book Shop is novels (buy one, get one free). The author sale features J.A. Jance and Patricia Cornwall (buy one, get one). Some exclusions apply. Given Outpost and Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820 or 295-7002. MASTER GARDENER HELPLINE. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. weekdays, through October 31. If you have a question or need help with plant choices, call the Moore County Cooperative Extension Office. Walk-in consultations are available during the same hours at the Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. If possible, bring a plant sample or photos. Info: (910) 947-3188.

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CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday– Saturday and 12–4 p.m. Sunday. The Country Bookshop will be offering mystery discounts when you purchase a children’s book. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

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CHILDREN’S BOOK WEEK. 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Stop by all week and participate in a Children’s Room scavenger hunt, make bookmarks and enjoy more activities. Given Memorial Library/Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022.

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TEMPLE THEATRE. 7:30 and 2 p.m. Carolina’s Center for the Performing Arts presents live the classic story of Beauty and the Beast. 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Info and tickets: (919) 774-4155 or www.templeshows.com.

Tuesday, May 1 and 2

ART CLASS. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. “Follow the Leader,” taught by Pat McMahon. Cost: $55. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. ART CLASS. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. “Watercolor (or acrylic) on Rice Paper,” taught by Pat McMahon. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Tuesday, May 1 and 8

ART CLASS. 1–4 p.m. “Let’s Get Positive about Negative Painting,” taught by Sandy Scott. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Tuesday, May 1—30

JOY OF ART STUDIO. Joy Hellman offers classes and workshops for all ages in journaling, painting, drawing, fiber and multimedia. She also holds retreats and other events for women to support, nourish and encourage creativity and personal development. Class times and prices vary. Unless otherwise stated, classes are held at Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or Facebook link https://www.facebook.com/ Joyscreativespace/ for a complete list of events this month.

Wednesday, May 2

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Thursday, May 3

MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children, especially ages 2 through 5, and their families. This event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. MEET THE AUTHOR. 4 p.m. Audrey Penn, author of The Kissing Hand, will be at the bookshop for a reading with Chester Raccoon, a beloved character from her books. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. LADIES WINE OUT. 5:30–7:30 p.m. Spend an early evening on the beautiful Weymouth grounds visiting with friends over wine, cheese and nibbles. All are welcome. Tickets: $10/members; $20/non-members. Proceeds go to support the new terrace all-weather surround. Tickets available at the door or in advance. Weymouth Center for the Arts

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& Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info and tickets: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. CAMEO ART HOUSE THEATRE. 7:30 p.m. The Andrew Collins Trio is live in concert, performing first class, no prisoners stringband music. Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 day of, available at the box office or www.theroosterswife.org. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-6633.

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ART EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS. 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. “Meet the Artist!” Ellen Burke teaches this three-week course, designed for home-schooled students ages 6 through 8. Each class introduces students to the work of a famous artist and includes an art activity. Cost: $45, including materials, due at registration. Hollyhocks Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Ellen Burke (603) 966-6567 or exploringartellen3@gmail.com.

Thursday, May 3—June 14

ART EXHIBIT. Library hours. Annual Student Juried Exhibition, Hastings Gallery, Boyd Library, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3817.

Friday, May 4

MEDITATIVE YOGA. 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 18+. (Six sessions through June 8) This class, taught by Carol Wallace, will help cultivate a relaxed state of mind and body, improve flexibility and relieve tension. Cost $40/residents; $80/non-residents. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Program Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurst.rec.com. MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Rebecca Carr Schrodt will read from her new book, The Chocolate Gossip Party, a novel for middle grades. This is the first book in a series about three 11-year-old girls who experience fun and unusual adventures in strange and sometimes scary places. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. ACMC ART EXHIBIT OPENING. 6–8 p.m. “Southern Gothic.” The Arts Council of Moore County is showcasing paintings by Craig Crawford through May 25. The opening reception is sponsored by Susan Gaines and Paula Weiss. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or kate@mooreart.org.

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EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Pony Club Dressage Rally. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. EQUESTRIAN EVENT. USEF Developing Athlete Program for Combined Driving Training Session. The purpose of this program is to provide guidance and resources to cultivate selected athlete-horse combinations that display the potential to contribute to a medal winning team score at Driving World Championships in the current and next quadrennial. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. CHEF AND MAKER WEEKEND AT PINEHURST. 11 a.m.–11:59 p.m. daily. This popular event includes delectable meals, interactive demonstrations, informative workshops, chef dinners and more. Chef Paul Verica and Maker Nancy Bruns headline this month. Cost of package: $399/person, includes resort accommodations for two nights, breakfast buffet, Friday night culinary event, Saturday evening chef’s dinner and special maker event. Pinehurst Resort, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (855) 235-8507.

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EVENING STORYTIMES. 5:30 p.m. Children age 3 through third grade and their whole families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading, with tips for winding down after dinner and getting the week off on the right track. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

SATURDAY KIDS' PROGRAM. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. May the FORCE be with you. Celebrate Star Wars Day (May 4) at the library. Dress up as your favorite characters and use the FORCE to discover the wonders of the library with books, activities and crafts. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archives, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022.

SIP AND PAINT WITH JANE. 6 p.m. Just in time for Mother’s Day, join Jane Casnellie for a one-time class to paint a picture for a nursery or child’s room. This class is held at Bump & Baby in the Village of Pinehurst. No experience necessary and all materials included as well as your wine. Cost: $35. Bump & Baby, 3 Market Square, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 420-8655 or info@thebumpandbaby.com.

CAMERON ANTIQUES STREET FAIR. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Rain or shine. More than 300 dealers display their antiques and collectibles in village shops and along the streets in the Historic District of Cameron, 485 Carthage St. (NC 24/NC 27). Info: (910) 245-1231, 245-7001 or antiquesofcameron. com.

ART EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION AND AWARDS. 3–5 p.m. Annual Student Juried Exhibition. Exhibit runs from May 3 to June 14. Hastings Gallery, Boyd Library, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3817.

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MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Elaine Neil Orr will read from her new book, Swimming Between Worlds, in which three Americans find themselves at the center of the 1960s civil rights struggle as they grapple with their own pasts. The presentation will be followed by a Q and A and book signing. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. VISION 4 MOORE. 5:30–9:30 p.m. “A Tribute to Jimmy Buffett,” featuring the Landsharks Band, who have opened for and played with Buffett. Proceeds will be shared with Meals on Wheels of the Sandhills. Cost: $25/in advance; $40/at the door. Children under 12 free; discounts for military and students. Cooper Ford, 5292 US 15-501, Carthage. Info: (910) 365-9890.

Sunday, May 6

SIP & SEE. 12–5 p.m. “Music in the Garden.” Meet princesses in the Garden from Celestial Princess Parties (the Frog Princess, Mermaid Princess and Enchanted Princess) while you enjoy the sweet songs of Bella Venti. This month’s program is provided by McNaughton-McKay Electric Company, in memory of Jerry Leggett. Cost: Included in Garden membership or regular daily admission. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221.

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SUNDAY FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This award-winning film for adults is based on the Battle of Dunkirk during World War II. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Fire in the Toolbox.” Join a ranger to learn how land managers use fire to benefit plant and animal communities. The program will conclude with a short walk to see the effects of a recent fire. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (Doors open at 6). Richie and Rosie. Steadfastly old time and thoroughly modern. Richie Stearns and Rosie Newton. Cost: $15/members ($5 annual membership available online or at the door). Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

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Wednesday, May 9

REC-ING CREW SOCIAL CLUB. 4–5:30 p.m. May Activity: Cooking Class. This is an inclusive program to give young adults (age 18+) a chance to unwind and socialize with their friends. The group will meet each month, except July, for a different group activity. Light refreshments will be served. Club dues: $20/residents; $40/non-residents. Dues must be paid in advance to participate. Dues payment covers all five sessions. Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Wednesday, May 9 and 10

ART CLASS. 9:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m. “Abstract Painting with Watercolor,” taught by K.C. Sorvari. Cost: $100. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Thursday, May 10

SANDHILLS WOMAN’S EXCHANGE ANNUAL MEETING. 10 a.m. registration; meeting at 10:30 a.m., lunch at 11:30 a.m. Current members and the public are invited to attend. Jan Wutkowski, a Kentucky Derby hat designer featured in Our State magazine, will talk about her creations. Wear a hat in honor of her appearance. Cost: $25, includes a raffle ticket to win a hat. Pine Crest Inn, 50 Dogwood Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 2954677 or www.sandhillswe.org or on our Facebook page. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 p.m. Americana in Song. Folk Singer Cliff Aikens will provide a history of the county from 1920 to 1970 in song. This program is only in the afternoon. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022.

Friday, May 11

ART CLASS. 9:30 a.m.–4 p.m. “Fractured Planes — Abstract,” taught by Kathy Leuck. Cost: $72. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 10 a.m. “Crazy for Camouflage. (For Wee Ones)” Discover how animals use camouflage to hide from their predators or their prey. This program is designed for 3- to 5-year-olds, and meant for parents to do with their children. Activities include reading a book, playing games and making a craft. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. LIVE AFTER 5 CONCERT SERIES. 5:30–9 p.m. This free event for the entire family includes live music by the Catalinas, activities for the kids, food trucks, beverages. Picnic baskets allowed, but no outside alcoholic beverages. Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road W., Downtown Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-8656 or www.vopnc.org. MUSIC IN THE PARK. 7–8 p.m. Music by 82nd Airborne Slip Away Jazz Combo. Bring the whole family and a blanket or chairs and enjoy this free concert in the park followed by

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ca l e n d a r the outdoor movie, Coco. Downtown Park, 145 S.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463. MOVIE IN THE PINES. 8–10 p.m. Bring the whole family and a blanket or chairs and enjoy this free outdoor movie, Coco. Concessions available for purchase. Downtown Park, 145 S.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463.

Saturday, May 12

EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 9 a.m.–3 p.m. WHES Schooling Day (D, XC and SJ). Open to everyone, Schooling Days allow competitors to school any or all phases before the May War Horse Event Series Competition. Registration closes at 2 p.m. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. STEAM SATURDAY. All day. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math). This program is for children grades K–5. Experiment and craft tables will be out all day. From 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., join the library staff for a special “Wind Science” event. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. CARTHAGE BUGGY FESTIVAL. 9 a.m.–4 p.m. This annual event celebrates the rich history of Carthage and its buggy factory. Courthouse Square, 4396 US 15-501, Carthage. Info: (910) 947-2331. ELLERBE STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL. 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Celebrate spring and strawberries while enjoying live music, food, arts and crafts, kids’ events and family fun. This event is free. Downtown, 2537 US 220 N, Ellerbe. Info: (910) 997-8255.

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PINE NEEDLE BASKET WORKSHOP. 10 a.m. “A Stitch in Pine.” In this introductory workshop, participants will learn the basics of working with pine needles and how to make a coaster or small mat that may be used as a basket base. Ages 13+. Cost: $20, includes supplies. Register by May 10 at the “Online Access” link or via https://goo.gl/xFwwUE. Town Creek Indian Mound, 509 Town Creek Mound Road, Mount Gilead. Info: (910) 439-6802 or towncreek@ncdcr.gov. SECOND SATURDAY IN THE PINES. 11 a.m.–3 p.m. “The Art of Whiskey” Spend an afternoon tasting delicious chocolates and fantastic spirits while observing local artists in action. One Nine Drive food truck and My Sweet handcrafted chocolates will be on-site. The Heritage Flag Company, 230 S. Bennett St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1540 or Facebook @Second Saturday in The Pines.

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SANFORD ARTS & VINE FESTIVAL. 1 p.m. Music, artists booths, wine, craft brews and food. Music by legendary beach music headliners The Embers, The Original Tams, and The Chairmen of the Board. Tickets: $20 in advance, $25 day of, $35 VIP. Mann Center of NC, 507 N. Steele St., Sanford. Info and tickets: (919) 888-1158 or info@sanfordartsandvine. com. BALLROOM DANCING. 6:30 p.m. Have a free lesson at 7 and dance until 9:30. Admission: $10. Carolina Pines Chapter of USA Dance. Southern Pines Elks Lodge, 280 Country Club Circle, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 331-9965.

Sunday, May 13

EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. WHES May Horse Trials, CT and D. Horse Trials: Green as Grass, Maiden, Beginner Novice, Novice and Training. Combined Tests: Green as Grass, Maiden, Beginner Novice, Novice, Training through Advanced. Dressage: Test of Choice. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Trail Sisters Hike for Mother’s Day.” Be a part of the 10K Women Trail Project and celebrate the women in your life while enjoying the fresh air on

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Monday, May 14

SIP AND PAINT WITH JANE. 5–7 p.m. Join local artist Jane Casnellie for a painting class suitable for all levels, including beginners. No experience necessary and all materials included as well as your wine. Take home your own masterpiece. Cost: $35. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 639-4823 or www.janecasnellie.com. SANDHILLS PHOTO CLUB MEETING. 7 p.m. With guest speaker. Guests are always welcome. Theater in the Hannah Center at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.sandhillsphotoclub.org.

Tuesday, May 15

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MOORE COUNTY. 11:30 a.m. Luncheon and meeting. Topic: Health Care Today. Everyone welcome. Cost: $13.

Reservations required. Little River Resort, 500 Little River Farm Blvd., Carthage. Info: (910) 944-9611 or owegeecoach@gmail.com. JAMES BOYD BOOK CLUB. 2 p.m. Marching On, by James Boyd. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. LIT WITS. 5:30 p.m. Join the Library’s newest book club for 11- to 15-year-olds. You can check out your copy of this month’s book, Absolutely Almost, by Lisa Graff, at the library from May 1 through 14. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. ACTION AT THE OUTPOST. 6–8 p.m. “Instagram Workshop.” Space is limited so call Given Memorial Library or stop by to reserve your spot. Cost: $20 (proceeds benefit Given Memorial Library.) The Given Outpost and Bookshop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 295-6022.

Wednesday, May 16

NATIONAL BIKE TO SCHOOL DAY. 7 a.m. Southern Pines Elementary students can join Southern Pines Recreation and Parks in the Southern Pines Public Library parking lot. The Library will have some fun games and crafts to get the day started. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: Recreation Department at (910) 692-2463. ART CLASS. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. “Simple Contour Drawing and Ink & Wash” (ink and/or pencil), taught by Betty Hendrix. Cost: $45. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artistleague.org.

ART CLASS (ALL MEDIA PAINTING). 1–4 p.m. Wednesdays through June 20 (6 sessions). For all levels of experience, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory and composition. Cost: $52/resident; $104/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. WINE AND WHIMSEY ART CLASS. 6–8 p.m. “Sunflowers.” A perfect date night or girls’ night out. All supplies and instruction provided. Wine, beer and snacks available for purchase. Ages 16+. Cost: $20/member; $25/ non-member. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221. Register online at form.jotform.com/51666115773964.

Thursday, May 17

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN (SUNRISE THEATER). 10 a.m. Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing. Tickets: $10, or $15 for both films (see May 24). Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com. DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. This month’s book can be picked up at the Southern Pines Public Library or at the Center. Meetings are held at the Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376 or (910) 692-8235. ART CLASS. 1–3 p.m. “Beginning Encaustic Wax,” taught by Pam Griner. Cost: $40 (no discounts). Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or www.artistleague.org. ART CLASS (OIL). 1–4 p.m. Thursdays through June 21 (6 sessions). For all levels of experience, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color

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ca l e n d a r theory and composition. Cost: $52/resident; $104/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817. MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children, especially ages 2 through 5, and their families. This event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. RUFUS BARRINGER CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE. 6 p.m. Refreshments and social activities; 7 p.m. meeting. Special guest will be Jim Morgan, historian and author, whose topic will be “The Battle of Ball’s Bluff.” Open to the public. The purpose of the organization is to promote, educate and stimulate interest in the Civil War period. S.P. Civic Club, 105 S. Ashe St., Southern Pines. Info: Matt Farina at (910) 246-0452 or mafarina@aol.com. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (Doors open at 6). Open Mic. Free to Members ($5 annual membership available online or at the door). Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife. org.

May 17—20

EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 7 a.m.–7 p.m. Triangle Sandhills Spring Classic. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 or www.trianglefarms.com.

May 17—June 3

CAPE FEAR REGIONAL THEATRE. 7:30 p.m., generally; 2 p.m., some weekend matinees. (Check website

for variations.) Crowns. In this inspiring gospel musical, Grandma Shaw introduces young Yolanda to her circle of “Hat Queens,” and Yolanda learns that she’s not alone. Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 323-4233 or www.cfrt.org.

Friday, May 18

WALKING TOURS. 10:30 a.m. Join Given Tufts Executive Director Audrey Moriarty on walking tours of the village of Pinehurst. Space is limited so call to reserve. Tours begin at the Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 295-3642. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (Doors open at 6). Edgar Loudermilk Band, playing traditional Bluegrass and featuring Jeff Autrey. Cost: $10/members ($5 annual membership available online or at the door). Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org. WEYMOUTH CENTER CONCERT. 7 p.m. Mallarme Chamber Players. A light reception to meet the artists follows the performance. Tickets: $10/members; $20/non-members and by subscription. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Saturday, May 19

PLANT CLINIC. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. The Moore County Master Volunteer Association is hosting a free plant clinic at the Walmart Supercenter, outside the Patio and Garden Center. 250 Turner St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 947-3188. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM (WILDLINGS). 10 a.m. “Life is Everywhere!” (The Wildlings program series is geared for 6- to 10-year-olds). See nature in action and observe the

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many different forms of life right at your feet. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. MEET THE AUTHOR. 2 p.m. Margaret Bradham Thornton, author of Charleston, will read from her new book, A Theory of Love. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. TRAIL. 3 p.m. Teens Reading and Investigating Life: “Selfie Help.” All students in grades 5 through 10 are invited to join. Learn how to take a better selfie with homemade filters, lighting and props. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC FINALE. 7:30–9:30 p.m. Americana delights and internationally renowned violinist Natasha Korsakova. Tickets: $30–$60 ($25/military, $11/ student). Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0287 or www.carolinaphil.org.

Sunday, May 20

SUNDAY KIDS' MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. Enjoy a free showing of the movie based on The Story of Ferdinand, a book by Munro Leaf. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Red-cockaded Woodpeckers.” Learn about the unique nature of these endangered birds and check out their cavity trees. Bring binoculars if you have them. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. POOL PARK BASH. 4–5:30 p.m. “Happy Dan’s Magic

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ca l e n d a r Show” Bring a blanket or chairs and enjoy this free show. Pool Park, 730 S. Henley St. and 735 S. Stephens St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (Doors open at 6). Robbie Hecht, modern folk musician-of-all-trades; and Caroline Spence, a young songwriter from Charlottesville, Virginia. Cost: $15/members ($5 annual membership available online or at the door). Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Monday, May 21

WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH ANNUAL STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL. 10:30 a.m. Program by Philharmonic Junior Strings Orchestra and open-air luncheon featuring homemade strawberry shortcake for dessert. Hats always welcome Cost: $10/members; $20/non-members. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. WINE AND ART APPRECIATION. 5:30–7:30 p.m. Exploring Art Through Observation and Conversation. Join art educator and local artist Ellen Burke, whose topic will be “The Power of Place: the Artist’s Home as Sanctuary and Inspiration.” Cost: $20, including wine. Proceeds to benefit Habitat for Humanity of the Sandhills (Women Build Project). Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Ellen (603) 966-6567 or Jane Casnellie (910) 639-4823. EVENING STORYTIMES. 5:30 p.m. Children age 3 through third grade and their whole families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading, with tips for winding down after dinner and getting the week off on the right track. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern

Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Tuesday, May 22

PINECREST SPEECH AND DEBATE TEAM SHOWCASE. 6:30–8:30 p.m. Enjoy the talents of this nationally renowned team of talented students. Free to the public. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Tuesday, May 22 and 27

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN (CAMEO ART HOUSE) 7 p.m. (Tues.) and 1:30 p.m. (Sun.) Vincent Van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing. Tickets: $12/members; $14/non-members; $10/students and teachers. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville, Info: (910) 486-6633.

Wednesday, May 23

Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. ARTISTS MEETUP. 6–8 p.m. “Artists in the Park.” All artists are welcome to bring a chair or blanket, play music and enjoy the outdoors. Light beverages and snacks provided. This free ACMC event is hosted by the Town of Aberdeen. Meet at the Gazebo, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 692-2787 or MooreArt.org/ArtistsMeetup.

Thursday, May 24

ART FILM. 10 a.m. Loving Vincent. This Oscar-winning, oilpainted, animated film tells the story of Vincent Van Gogh’s last days. Tickets: $10, or $15 for both films (see May 17). Denise Baker will give an introduction. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com.

BASIC HATHA YOGA. 9–10 a.m. (Wednesdays through July 11) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for adults 18 and older who may have had no previous experience with yoga. Cost: $40/resident; $80/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI. 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. (Thursdays through July 5) Instructor Lee Holbrook focuses on refining the Yang style for participants who already have a basic knowledge of Tai Chi. Cost: $33/resident; $66/nonresident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

TAI CHI. 10:30 a.m.–11:30 p.m. (Wednesdays through July 11) This course is taught by Tai Chi Master Instructor Lee Holbrook for adults 18 and older and focuses on three styles of Tai Chi: Yang, Wu, and Beijing. Cost: $33/resident; $66/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www. pinehurstrec.org.

MOVIE IN THE PINES. 8–10 p.m. Bring the whole family and a blanket or chairs and enjoy this free outdoor movie, Ferdinand. Concessions available for purchase. Downtown Park, 145 S.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463.

WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE SERIES. 5:30 p.m. John Kessel will read from Pride and Prometheus (a Mary Shelley/Jane Austin-themed work). A reception to meet the author is sponsored by St. Joseph of the Pines. Weymouth Center for

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Saturday, May 26

EQUESTRIAN EVENT. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. Final event in the Five Points Combined Test Series. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074 or www.trianglefarms.com.

Sunday, May 27

NATURE STUDY PROGRAM. 3 p.m. “Gear up for Fishing.” This is N.C. State Parks’ Year of the Fish, so join a ranger and learn how to tie knots and cast a reel in a game of Back Yard Bass. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Hank, Pattie and the Current. Traditional instrumentation, non-traditional music. Cost: $15/members ($5 annual membership available online or at the door). Poplar Knight Spot, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Monday, May 28

MOORE COUNTY CONCERT BAND. 2 p.m. “War and Peace.” The concert will feature patriotic pieces to honor those who gave their lives in defense of our country and freedom. The performance will include the marching songs popular with soldiers during World War I and the lighthearted dance tunes Americans were enjoying at home. Free to the public. Carolina Hotel Grand Ballroom, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Village of Pinehurst. Info: (910) 235-5229 or www.moorecountyband.org.

Tuesday, May 29

BASIC HATHA EVENING YOGA. 5:30–6:30 p.m. (Tuesdays through July 10) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for adults age 18 and older who may have had no previous experience with yoga. Cost: $40/resident; $80/nonresident. Pinehurst Parks and Recreation, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www. pinehurstrec.org. MUSICIANS JAM SESSION/SONG CIRCLE. 7–9 p.m. Bring your instrument and your beverage, or just come to enjoy. Free and open to the public. Library, Weymouth

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ca l e n d a r Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. AN EVENING WITH OL' BLUE EYES. 7:30 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30.) Bill Stonehouse sings the Frank Sinatra classics. Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Info and tickets: (919) 774-4155 or www.templeshows.com/ showsandevents/specialevents.php. N.C. SYMPHONY. 8–10 p.m. “A Night at the Oscars.” Wesley Schulz conducts hits from Oscar-winning films. Preconcert talk in the Band Room at 7 p.m. Tickets: $18–$49, or part of series package. Tickets available through the Symphony Box Office or at The Country Bookshop, the Campbell House, or at the door. Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (877) 627-6724 or www.ncsymphony.org.

Wednesday, May 30

DAY TRIPPERS. 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Durham Bulls Game. This program is for teens and young adults (ages 14+) to get out and explore various things that N.C. has to offer. Cost: $28/resident; $56/non-resident (includes admission and transportation). Participants should bring money for lunch at concessions. The group will depart from and return to Village Hall, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

UPCOMING EVENTS Friday, June 1—3 and June 8—10

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PINES. 7:30 p.m.–9:30 p.m. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, presented by the Uprising Theatre Company. General admission is free. VIP table for six available for $450. Tuft Park, 1 Village Green Road. Info: (541) 631-8241 or www.uprisingtheatrecompany.com.

MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 2–5:30 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods, and more. FirstHealth Fitness Center, 170 Memorial Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 947-3752 or localharvest.org.

SUMMER MUSIC CAMPS. The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra will host two summer music camps in June. The first, an Elementary String Camp for students ages 5–11 who play violin, viola, cello, or bass, runs from June 18–22, 8:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. daily. Tuition for the week is $180. To register, visit www.fayettevillesymphony.org/stringcamp by Friday, June 1.

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The second camp is an Advanced Summer Music Camp for advanced woodwind, brass, and string students, ages 13–21, and runs from June 25–29, 9 a.m.–2 p.m. daily. Tuition for the week is $275. Limited financial aid is available upon request. To register, visit www.fayettevillesymphony.org/ summer-music-camp by Friday, June 8. Info: Julia Atkins, Director of Artistic Operations and Marketing, Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, (910) 4334690 or jatkins@fayettevillesymphony.org

Friday, June 1—30

BROWN BAG LUNCH/GAME DAY. 11:30 a.m. Bring your lunch and enjoy fellowship and activities, including card games, board games and the Wii. The Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost 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.

3RD ANNUAL LAZY MAN IRON MAN. This monthlong fund-raising event is sponsored by Prancing Horse and First Health. Qualifying activities include swimming (or water exercise class) biking, running or walking. Entrance fee: $50/individual; $120/team of 3. All profits benefit Prancing Horse’s mission to enhance the lives of children and adults with special needs by providing a safe environment for therapeutic horsemanship. Info: prancinghorseinfo@yahoo. com or (910) 281-3223 or www.prancing-horse.org.

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BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 and 11 a.m. (two sessions) This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 18 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy brain-building practices. Programs will be offered May 1, 8, 15 and 22 (no session May 29). Limited to 20 babies per session. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

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SANDHILLS WOMAN’S EXCHANGE. 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Lunch served 11 a.m.–2 p.m. (Closes May 19 for the summer.) The gift shop features over 60 N.C. and American hand-made artisan gifts. If interested in volunteering, call the Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst, at (910) 295-4677, www.sandhillswe.org.

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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 capefearbg. org. (Must register one day prior). Email questions to mzimmerman@capefearbg.org.

JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6–10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music, provided by The Sand Band (May 4), TBA (May 11), The Sand Band (May 18) and The Holiday Band (May 25). Cost: $15/person. Ages 21 and older. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of eight or more. Food vendor on site. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 369-0411 or www. cypressbendvineyards.com.

CONTRACT BRIDGE. 1–4:30 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30–4 p.m. Especially for children ages 2–5, this story time focuses on stories, songs and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build language and socialization skills to prepare for kindergarten. Dates this month are May 2, 9, 16 and 23 (no session May 30). Stay for playtime. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. The Sandhills Exclusive Source for

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MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.localharvest.org. GIVEN STORY TIME. 10:30–11:30 a.m. For ages 3 to 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022. MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1–3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CHESS. 1–3 p.m. Don Hammerman instructs all levels of players. You need a chess set to participate. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. ZOOPENDOUS SHOW CHORUS. 7 p.m. Are you a woman who likes to sing? Zoopendous Show Chorus is a 501(c)3 non-profit women’s chorus singing acapella barbershop harmony. It’s not your grandpa’s barbershop. Come check us out at a rehearsal in the Dudley Center directly behind West End Presbyterian Church, 275 Knox Lane, West End. Info: (910) 725-9376 or Zoopendous Show Chorus on Facebook.

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays

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

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

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LIVE MUSIC AT THE WINE CELLAR. 7–10 p.m. Chris Munsom performs on May 4, Simple Things on May 11, James Villone on May 18, and Scott Grote and Johnathon Robinson on May 25. Free to the public. The Wine Cellar, 241-A N.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3066.

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fancy herself a cook. Cooks were known for their, well, cooking. When I grew up, cooks were women. I don’t recall hearing a man referred to as “a good cook” even though some were good at cooking — fried fish or barbecued chicken. I guess Hubert Byrd was a cook, probably a good cook. He owned Sleepy’s Grill, in our community, and Lord, he could cook — hamburgers and hot dogs and the best chili.

In the rural culture of my childhood, cooks were women you paid to bake a 12-layer chocolate cake at Christmas or fix a pot of chicken pastry (pastry, not dumplin’s) because pastry was hard to make. There was always something on a cook’s stove — cold biscuits, fried applejacks, crispy fatback. Mom never paid anyone to cook anything. If she couldn’t cook it, we didn’t eat it. Some cooks worked outside the home — schoolteachers, nurses, mill hands. Regardless of employment, for some, cooking was a side hustle, a second or, perhaps, only stream of income. Most cooks, like good beauticians, were extroverts, people-persons, so that chocolate cake or pot of pastry came with 30 minutes of conversation, the catching-up kind of conversation, not gossip. Cooks don’t gossip. Might lose a customer. Cooks liked to cook. Mom cooked, not for enjoyment or for money, but out of necessity. We had to eat. Nevertheless, Mom was a good cook, or maybe I should say, she cooked good, at least I thought she did. Mom baked, which comes under the umbrella of “cooking,” but only two things — coconut chess pie and peach cobbler. That pie was her go-to, year-round dessert. If someone had a baby, a hysterectomy, divorced or died, Mom delivered a coconut pie. Peach cobbler, made with canned peaches (the slippery, cling kind), was a summer dish, although canned peaches are on the shelves year-round. Two

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years ago, when she died, I included a copy of her handwritten cobbler recipe in the service bulletin. Folks smiled as they shared stories of pies and cobblers that accompanied her support and sympathy. But my favorite meal Mom cooked was a Southern staple, as indigenous as “Dixie” or a “Bless your heart.” I didn’t miss the combo until I left home for college. Absence, I learned, affects the stomach as much as the heart. Her collards and cornbread filled the void; that combo was my only request when I came home, regardless of the season, since Mom cooked and froze the greens for future consumption. Collards, those dark green, loose-leaf cultivars, are a fall crop, made sweeter by nip of a first frost. My dad sowed seed in late summer, then thinned and nurtured each plant. By November, he harvested the massive leaves for Mom to cook down in a pot of water, seasoned with fatback or bacon grease. No onion, garlic or red pepper flakes. Perhaps a sprinkle of sugar. Mom’s collards, unlike others I’ve eaten, were chopped fine, to the point you could eat them with a spoon. Collards were a traditional side at Thanksgiving and Christmas, but were just as good thawed and reheated during spring break or with corn and butterbeans from Dad’s July garden. Collards cooking have an unforgettable smell — pungent, foul. A saucer of cider vinegar or a scented candle toned down but never dispelled the aroma. But that smell was a small price to pay for a plate of pure goodness. Cornbread was the essential accompaniment. Mom fried her simple version in lard, later canola oil. The batter — Old Mill of Guilford cornmeal, scant water, pinch of sugar, pinch of salt — was dropped by spoonfuls into an iron skillet, where it cooked up, thin and crispy. “Lacy cornbread” she called it. Leftover pones sat on the stove, a paper towel underneath to soak up any grease. Sweet tea completed the meal. Hard to come by in Kentucky, where I attended seminary. Two years ago, we ate the last package of Mom’s frozen collards. Mother’s Day without her still falls bittersweet. What I wouldn’t give for a plate of collards, lacy cornbread, and her strong, brewed tea, yet I will forever cherish memories of a bitter green made savory and sweet by one who cooked but most of all, was simply . . . good. PS Tom Allen is minister of education at First Baptist Church, Southern Pines.

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