November PineStraw 2016 by PineStraw Magazine

How does living at Quail Haven simplify retirement?

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Well, the day’s toughest chore might be choosing red or white.

What’s it like to live at Quail Haven? Join us for a Q & A, including financial info. You’ll see the community and meet new friends over lunch. Our treat.

Continuing Care Retirement Community from the Liberty Senior Living family.

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Pinehurst, NC

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Jamie McDevitt Broker/Owner

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40 Long Cove Drive This amazing lake front craftsman cottage at The Country Club of North Carolina is the perfect place for any holiday!

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Fairwoods on 7: Designed to caputre the natural beauty of this unique location. Exquisite property features golf course and panoramic views in every direction. Graceful, sweeping southern architectural design in this stunning, 5 bedroom, 6.5 bath home. $1,995,000 Kay Beran 910.315.3322

Pinewild: Spectacular 4BR/5.5BA French Country style home designed for this homesite. Magnificent water feature & golf views. Lower level Family Room/Kitchenette, 2BRs/2BAs, and home theater. $1,559,000 Eva Toney 910.638.0972

Colonial complete with in-ground pool & Cabana housing a bath/ dressing area & kitchenette. Beautiful landscaped grounds. Versatile living spaces each with it’s own special features. 4BR/4.5BA. $899,000 Emily Hewson 910.315.3324

Southern Pines: Home Of The Year award by the MCHBA. Warm stone & shake exterior and a wide front porch say, “Welcome Home!” Living room with vaulted ceiling, stone fireplace, wide plank flooring and exposed wooden beams. 3BR/3BA. $650,000 Bill Brock 910.639.1148

rolling pastures, 2-stall barn & abundant riding trail. Warm & inviting décor. Fabulous outdoor spaces, hot tub & fire pit. Stone fireplace in Living Rm. Carolina Rm, Study. 3BR/2BA. Kohler Generaor. $1,250,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

CCNC Private Golf Front Estate: Spectacular views of the Cardinal

CCNC: Amazing Golf front home, “Fair Hill”, offers 4Bdrms, 4Full&2Half Baths, open plan, spacious master suite, office/bar, pool. Porch & Terrace overlook Cardinal’s 10th faithway, tee box and green! $1,100,000 Carolyn Hallett 910.986.2319

Old Town Pinehurst: “Edgewood Cottage” circa 1928 is a Dutch

17 Acre Horse Farm in Southern Pines: Tranquil & Private with

course from this 5 are estate home; open floor plan with magnificent ceiling design, gourmet kitchen, master with his/her baths, library and two guest suites. $1,045,000 Scarlett Alison 910.603.0359

Whether you are a golf or horse enthusiast, this property has it all! Combined turn-of-the-century elegance with modern conveniences of today gives this one-of-a-kind property its unique and very special features. A circa 1896 Farmhouse with wide planked antique heartpine flooring, beamed ceilings and fireplaces in every room. Lovingly restored and expanded in 2000. Barn can be leased if not utilized by owner. Five bedroom, five and a half baths. $1,699,900 Jerry & Judy Townley & Debbie Darby 910.690.7080 910.783.5193

CCNC Amazing Golf & Water Views:

Main-level living with views of Hole #3 on the Dogwood Course; 10’ ceilings, custom mouldings, hardwoods, two-sided fireplace, wet bar, library and more. 3BR/3BA/2 Half BA’s. $629,000

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French Country Home: Situated on over 1 acre in the heart of Historic Weymouth Heights. Generously proportioned rooms with hardwood flooring throughout. Wonderful upgrades have been made by the present owner. $673,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

CCNC: Spectacular golf course views and of pond from this home on the 4th green on the Cardinal course. Totally renovated in 2007-2008. Beautifully redone kitchen with high-end appliances, granite countertops & butcher block counters around gas cooktop. 3BR/2.5BA. $545,000 Emily Hewson 910.315.3324

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Deercroft Country Club: Spacious water front home with an abundance of living space. Gorgeous cherry floors on main level, superb kitchen sure to please the culinary enthusiast. Formal dining room, study & huge living room. Sandy beach area and large boat dock. 4BR/4.5BA. $499,000 Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

Foxfire: Stunning custom residence featuring 10 ft. ceilings, in-ground pool, gourmet kitchen, wide doorways, and hardwood flooring. Endless tasteful details. 3BR/2.5BA. $489,000 Debbie Darby 910.783.5193

Old Town Pinehurst: Gracious front porch and beautiful gardens

Southern Pines: Renovated Vintage home, circa 1910, located down-

overlooking the pool with a waterfall. This 1920 circa Cottage has been beautifully maintained and updated! 3-Fireplaces. PCC membership to convey - Buyer to pay transfer fee. 3BR/3BA. $449,000 Emily Hewson 910.315.3324

town. Highlighted with an Office, Morning Room, 3 Bedrooms and 2.5 Baths. Serene and Private Setting. Close to the Campbell House, Weymouth Center and 2 Blocks to Broad Street. $425,000 Mav Hankey 910.603.3589

CCNC New Price on Renovated Ranch: Convient to all club

amenities. Features include: new flooring, new lighting, new septic, updated baths, sunken living room with fireplace, Carolina Room and much more. 3BR/3.5BA’s. $474,500

Scarlett Alison 910.603.0359

Clarendon Gardens: So much more than what meets the eye! Quality built and engineered, all brick home. Idyllic, private setting on 1.6 acres. A wall of windows draws your eye to the serene backyard. Nine & Ten foot smooth ceilings throughout. 3BR/2.5BA. $419,000 Bonnie Baker 910.690.4705

Weymouth Heights: Curb appeal in a great neighborhood. Situated

Old Town Pinehurst: “Juniper Cottage” circa 1896 is one of the early homes built in the Village. Charming cottage with much potential. Wood floors under carpet. 3-Fireplaces. Master bath has a claw-foot tub & separate shower. Lots of history! 2BR/2.5BA. $399,900 Emily Hewson 910.315.3324

West End: Looking for privacy, acreage and a 3,000+sq.ft. home with

Pinewild CC: Unique home exudes livability! Open, light filled rooms are highlighted by large windows & tall ceilings. Custom cabinetry, hardwood flooring, natural light. Bonus Room with plumbing. Lovely, private flagstone patio. 3BR/2.5BA. $370,000

Pinehurst: Move-in Ready! More than 2,500 sq.ft., custom brick home with bonus room. Lovely views of the 12th hole on Course No. 3. Great room has 11’ ceilings, main living areas have crown molding. Kitchen has granite & tons of cabinets. 3BR/2.5BA. $324,900 Donna Chapman 910.783.6061

Pinehurst No. 6 Golf Front: Split Bedroom Plan with 3BR/2.5BA, on 9th Fairway. Large Back Porch, Great Room with Fireplace, Formal Dining, Kitchen with Breakfast Room, Convenient Master. Updates and Membership Available. $322,000 Scarlett Alison 910.603.0359

on a 1.88acre lot, large workshop with HVAC, over-sized garage. 3 Bedrooms and 2.5 Baths. Visit: www.170HalcyonDrive.com for more. $415,000 Frank Sessoms 910.639.3099

Kay Beran 910.315.3322

all the modern conveniences of new constrction, look no further! Situated on almost eight acres, this home has been completely renovated! Natural light in every room and many upgrades! 4BR/3BA. $389,000 Linda Criswell 910.783.7374

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55 Pine Valley Circle • Pinehurst Sitting pretty on 2.2 acres landscaped to perfection, this traditional white brick home has a breath taking entry. Ceiling height, gleaming hardwoods, spaces that flow and rooms with a view create a stunning interior. Built in 1995 with 4476 square feet, the residence has a main floor master bedroom with fireplace and screened porch, a downstairs guest bedroom, two bedrooms with two full baths upstairs and a study with fireplace off the living room. The kitchen with lovely breakfast room, opens to a cozy family room with fireplace and outside to a slate patio ideal for entertaining. The separate two car garage has a guest apartment. Offered at $925,000

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Historic Southern Pines 1920’s Colonial Revival on 1.91 The Red Brick Cottage is a lovely English acres in Weymouth Heights. 6 BR, 5.5 BA, 5227 sq ft. Tudor on 1 ½ lots. Built in 1920, 4 BR, 4.5 Slate roof, 3 fireplaces. NEW LISTING $1,150,000 BA, 2 fireplaces, 2 car garage. $1,298,000

235 Quail Hollow Drive

101 Kincaid Place

840 Lake Dornoch Drive

20 SW Shaw Road

CCNC golf front on Cardinal Course. One floor living, remarkable kitchen, paneled study. 3BR, 3.5 BA, 3 car garage, NEW PRICE $1,100,000.

Historic Hill Crest Cottage in Old Town exudes “Old Pinehurst charm” in every detail. 1917, 4BR, 3.5 BA, 2 acres. Offering includes front lot. NEW LISTING $795,000

14 Appin Court

85 Lake Dornoch Drive

Forest Creek golf front, 1.1 acres, 5 BR, 4 BA, 2.5 BA, Pinewild golf front on 3.24 acres. 4 BR, 3.5 Golf front CCNC with lake view. 4023 main house, CCNC Pinehurst Exquisite total renovation of 4BR, 4.5 BA, Colonial on 2.5 2 fireplaces, game room, kitchen/family room, garage BA, pool, 3 car garage, bocce ball court. 763 guest house addition. One floor, 3 BR, 3.5 BA guest apt. Great porch. Built in 2002. $998,000 NEW PRICE. $750,000 MLS 165567 ac golf front. $1,450,000. main, 1 BR, 1 BA guest. $1,100,000 MLS 173907

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215 Frye Road

15 Bel Air Drive

Mid South Club French Country Home of the Year. Wonderful lakeside Villa in CCNC with 3480 sq ft, 4 BR, 3.5 BA, 11 ft ceilings, 3 fireplaces, open floor plan and spectacular views. 3 BR, 3.5 BA, 1984. Hayes & Howell design. Firepool, study. MLS 174121 NEW PRICE $599,000 place, study/office, vaulted ceiling. $445,000

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177 Cross Country Lane

1930’s Dutch Colonial, restored in ’06 adding two Private Horse Country estate on 10 acres including wings. 4 BR, 3.5 BA, walled patio with courtyard, lovely lake. Faulk designed 4 BR, 4.5 BA, 5640 sq guest house, main floor master. $872,000. ft home built in 1970. $1,200,000 MLS 174326

Mid South Club golf front 15th Hole. South- White brick traditional in Old Town. 10’ ceilings, CCNC Cape Cod on 1.5 acres, 6th Hole Dogwood. ern Living home, 4 BR, 3.5 BA, brilliant de- hardwoods, 2001, 5 BR, 3.5 BA, main floor master, 5 BR, 3.5 BA, ground floor master suite, open kitchsign. NEW PRICE $587,500 MLS 164156 guest apt. NEW PRICE $699,000. MLS 171983 en, pool, 4423 sq ft. PRICE REDUCED $699,900

700 East Indiana Avenue

Southern Pines, 1.46 acres. 1950’s modernist home, 3606 sq ft, one level, 5 BR, 4 BA, pool. PRICE REDUCED $438,900. MLS 166364

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

175 Linden road At 3.36 acres this beautiful historic 9 BR / 9.5 BA Pinehurst home is located on the largest Estate in Old Town. This two story colonial home needs significant updating but is well worth the effort and investment to have such a unique showplace.

14 KiLLearn court This lovely, southern style 4 BR / 3.5 BA home offers great curb appeal with a deep front porch with columns and is in a great location at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in Pinewild Country Club.

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59 GLasGoW driVe Precision Custom Homes presents this beautifully renovated 3 BR / 2 BA plus 2 ½ BA home is located on the 2nd Green of the Magnolia Course at Pinewild Country Club.

80 daLrymPLe road Pinehurst Classic! This elegant, spacious one story 3 BR / 3 BA brick home has a wonderful flow for family and guests. Hardwood floors, crown molding and Corian countertops are just a few features this lovely home has to offer.

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

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67 GLasGoW driVe Charming 3 BR / 2 BA home located in the lovely Pinewild community. Newly renovated, the home features hardwood flooring, custom cabinetry and white marble countertops in the kitchen as well as new carpet and custom cut glass shower door in the master. This home is a must see!

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

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

174 James driVe This lovely and unique 4 BR / 3 BA home is located on 3 lots – almost 1 ½ acres – and offers over 3,500 square feet of living area in the gated community of Seven Lakes West.

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

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

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

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

3 WoodWord PLace Charming craftsman style cottage new construction home features 4 BR / 4.5 BA in desirable Forest Creek! Interior lot offers over 3900 sq. feet with an open and spacious floor plan.

141 harreLL road This lovely 3 BR / 3 BA home enjoys beautiful wide water views with an open floorplan. This home is absolutely immaculate and beautifully maintained. To truly enjoy outdoor entertaining there is a charming Carolina Room that allows such an experience.

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31 abinGton driVe Gorgeous custom built 3 BR / 3 Full 3 Half Bath Contemporary home on Lake Pinewild in Pinewild Country Club. Beautifully maintained with trey ceiling and gas log fireplace in living room, formal dining room and updated kitchen with built-in breakfast bar.

42 oxton circLe Located on the 11th hole of the Holly Course at Pinewild Country Club, this lovely 3 BR / 2.5 BA custom home offers beautiful views and appealing outdoor surroundings.

105 LaWrence oVerLooK This lovely 3 BR / 3 BA home has one of the best lots on Lake Auman and enjoys beautiful wide water views with a coveted southern exposure. The home is absolutely immaculate and beautifully maintaine

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18 dunGarVan Lane This custom built 3 BR / 3 BA golf front home offers an open, sun-filled floorplan with floor to ceiling window walls, crown moldings and high ceilings. It’s located on the 8th Fairway at Pinehurst #9 with expansive golf views.

520 LonGLeaf driVe Enjoy life to the fullest in this gorgeous 3 BR / 3.5 BA award winning and impeccably maintained custom home with over 4,000 square feet.

105 taLL timbers driVe This stunning brick home in desirable Pine Grove Village offers 5 BR / 4.5 BA – it’s a great living space for a large family. In addition to spacious rooms the sellers have added a master suite and a master bath with an adjoining den/study/office.

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Featured Homes 360 Lake Dornoch Drive

Country Club Of North Carolina, Pinehurst Located on the 12th hole of the Dogwood Golf Course! This all brick home offers a grand entrance and lovely living room with French doors to a private deck and screened in porch. 3 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms, 5,000+ Sq.Ft.

MLS# 175849 $730,000

210 Grove Road

Pine Needles, Southern Pines This custom built home has it all, including a wrap around front porch, gourmet kitchen, and lovely master suite. Also features an office/study, large rec room with wet bar, and a bonus room. Large deck and fenced in backyard. 4 Bedrooms, 3.5 Bathrooms, 4,000+ Sq.Ft.

MLS# 177288 $545,000

55 Bel Air Drive

650 S Fort Bragg Road

Country Club Of North Carolina, Pinehurst Immaculate home on the 6th green of the famous Dogwood Course! Offers a large living room, Carolina room, master suite with Jacuzzi tub, 3 car garage, and much more! 4 Bedrooms, 4.5 Bathrooms, 4,500+ Sq.Ft.

Southern Pines Stately home on over 6 acres with double doors leading to brick floored entry. Features 2 laundry rooms, brick patio, and separate guest cottage. Zoned for and easily transferred into a bed and breakfast! 5 Bedrooms, 6.5 Bathrooms, 5,000+ Sq.Ft.

221 National Drive

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The King of Everyman By Jim Dodson

November’s arrival never

fails to put me in a grateful mood, even before the far-flung clan assembles around a Thanksgiving table worthy of a king.

Speaking of kings, in the spirit of giving thanks for the people who have touched our lives, past and present, here’s a grateful little ditty I wrote in the hours after my boyhood sports hero — and quite possibly yours, given his strong connections to this state — passed away. Around five o’clock on a Sunday afternoon, Sept. 25, my wife, Wendy, and I were watching a late afternoon football game when I suddenly felt overcome by a chill and went upstairs to lie down for an hour before friends arrived for supper. I’m rarely sick and assumed this peculiar spell was simply brought on by fatigue from working since four in the morning on a golf book I’ve been writing for almost two years, a personal tale called the Range Bucket List. The first chapter and the last are about my friend, collaborator and boyhood hero Arnold Palmer. The prologue explains that he was the first name on what I called my Things to Do in Golf List around 1966 after falling hard for my father’s game and reading somewhere that Arnold Palmer started out in golf by keeping a similar list of things he intended to do. Many decades later, while interviewing him early one morning in his workshop in Latrobe, I confirmed this fact with the King of Golf. The final chapter details an emotional visit I made to see Arnold at home in Latrobe in late summer, about a month before his 87th birthday. I knew he wasn’t doing particularly well. When I walked into his pretty, rustic house sitting on quiet Legends Drive in the unincorporated Village of Youngstown on the outskirts of Latrobe, I found the King of Golf watching an episode of “Gunsmoke,” the No. 1 American TV show about the time Arnold Palmer ruled the world of golf. He greeted me warmly without getting up. A walker was standing nearby. His wife Kit brought me a cold drink. He turned down the sound and we had a nice time catching up, almost but not quite like many we’ve enjoyed over the past two decades. Arnold’s once seemingly invincible blacksmith body had finally given out, yet his mind and spirit were strong. He insisted on joining Doc Giffin, his longtime assistant, Kit and me for an early supper that evening across the vale at Latrobe Country Club. The trip was like a homecoming for me — and something I feared would be a farewell. For two full years, from early 1997 to late 1999, I had the privilege of serving

as Arnold Palmer’s collaborator on his autobiography, A Golfer’s Life. I was deeply honored to have been chosen by Arnold and wife Winnie for the project, and touched that he insisted that my name share the cover and title page of the work. I always called the book his book. He always called the book our book. Not long after we began working on it — both being unusually early risers who often chatted in his home workshop before official business hours — Winnie was diagnosed with a form of ovarian cancer. Arnie, which is what he insisted I call him though I never could quite make myself do so, withdrew from his busy public life so we could get the book completed and published before time took its toll, narrowing the horizon of what was supposed to be a three year project to just under two. We brought the book out in time to celebrate Arnold’s 70th birthday in September 1999 and the opening of a beautiful, restored red barn that Winnie had always loved just off the 14th fairway at the same club where Arnold grew up under the firm watch of his demanding papa, Deacon Palmer, whom Arnold simply called “Pap.” Rather than a conventional autobiography of facts and figures and tournament highlights, my objective with Arnold’s book was to create an unusually warm and intimate reminiscence or memoir that read as if Arnold and his fans were simply sharing a drink after a day of golf, and he was quietly relating the 15 or so key moments of his life, revealing how these moments shaped the most influential golfer in history and arguably America’s greatest sportsman. Both Winnie’s barn and Arnold’s book were a hit. The book was on the bestseller list for almost half a year. The handsome red barn stands in quiet tribute to them both. Winnie passed away less than two months after that special evening Arnold turned 70. After lying down and lightly dozing for an hour, I heard our guests arriving and got up to go downstairs. The cold and queasiness had passed and I felt much better — only to find my wife waiting at the bottom of the steps holding out my mobile phone with a very sad look on her face. A nice person named Molly from NBC News in New York was on the other end, wanting to know if I could confirm a report that Arnold Palmer had passed away. We spoke for an hour as my incoming call alert continued to light up from news organizations around the world. By midnight I’d spoken with reporters from all the major networks, several cable news organizations, CNN International, a pair of wire services, the Canadian Broadcasting System and Australia’s leading sports call-in show — all of it testament to the drawing power of Arnold Daniel Palmer. The conversations about his incomparable life and times and seismic

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impact on popular culture and the world of sports went well into the early morning hours. Was the chill and queasiness a coincidence, or something more sympathetic in nature? That’s impossible to say. This much is certainly true: As Winnie commented early in our collaboration, Arnold and I enjoyed unusually strong chemistry and an uncommon connection that is instinctively felt and shared by his millions of adoring fans — and was still apparent in late summer when I visited with him at home. The morning after our dinner at the club, I also visited with Doc Giffin and Arnold’s amazing staff at Arnold Palmer Enterprises and even saw his younger brother Jerry when he popped in to say hello. Finally the boss showed up for work around 10 o’clock, trailed by a couple of cheerful young therapists from the local hospital who were planning to do a stretching and exercise session at the Palmers’ home gym aimed at restoring Arnold’s ability to swing a golf club again. As he signed books and the usual stack of photos and personal artifacts from fans that are always waiting for his immaculate signature every morning of his life, we chatted about various family matters and other things large and small. With Doc and his therapists we even watched a recently colorized CD release of the historic 1960 Masters, where Arnold closed from two shots back to claim his second green jacket, setting off a national frenzy in the process. At one point as we watched him teeing off on the 72nd hole of the tournament, needing a clutch birdie to secure the win, Arnold declared excitedly — “There, girls! There’s my golf swing!” The therapy girls were standing directly behind the King of Golf. They were beaming, part of a new generation that never had the pleasure of experiencing the game’s most compelling star in his prime. Arnold’s eyes were alive with pure joy. There were tears pooling in them. And even bigger tears pooling in mine. Doc Giffin, a legend in his own right, just smiled from a few feet away. A little while later, I did something I’d meant to do for many years. I handed him my first hardbound copy of A Golfer’s Life and asked him to autograph it. He accepted the book but gave me what I fondly call The Look — a cross between the scowl of a disapproving schoolmaster and a slightly constipated eagle, one way he loves to needle his friends. I watched as he took his own sweet time writing something on the title page. He handed me back the book and said, “Don’t open this until you’re safely home.” Facing a 9-hour drive home to North Carolina, I somehow managed to wait until I reached my driveway just as the summer day was expiring, at which point I opened the book. He could have written it to 100 million people around the world, all of whom share the same kind of connection with the King of Everyman. “Dear Jim,” he simply wrote. “Thanks for all your wonderful works. You are the greatest friend I could have — Arnold” That’s when my waterworks really let loose. Over the days and week to come, we’ll all be reminded of Arnold Palmer’s extraordinary impact on golf and American life in general, and the mammothhearted legacy he leaves behind, especially here in Pinehurst, where his father brought him as a teen to experience the “higher game,” Wilmington, where he won his seventh PGA Tournament, and Greensboro, where he had so many friends but always came up just short of winning the Greater Greensboro Open. Still, Arnold’s 62 PGA Tour wins, 90 tournament victories worldwide and seven major championships only partially defined the life of a man from the rural heartland of western Pennsylvania who almost single-handedly pioneered the concept of modern sports marketing, created a business model that turned into an empire stretching from golf tees to sweet tea, and grew to be golf’s most

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visible and charismatic force, its greatest philanthropist and most beloved ambassador. During his half-century reign, and largely because of him, in my view and that of many fellow historians, golf enjoyed the largest and longest sustained period of growth in history, a remarkable period that included the formal creation of no less than six professional tours, witnessed television’s incomparable impact, saw the rebirth of the Ryder Cup and revival of European golf, the rise of international stars, and nothing less than a scientific revolution in the realms of instruction, equipment technology and golf course design — all of which Arnold played some kind of role. How much of this cultural Renaissance was due to this kind, genuine, fun-loving and passionately competitive family man who grew up showing off for the ladies of Latrobe Country Club and earning nickels from them by knocking their tee shots safely over a creek on his papa’s golf course? Impossible to fully quantify, I suppose. Though I would be inclined to say just about everything. Golf is the most personal game of all, a solitary walk through the beautiful vagaries of nature. And Arnold Palmer was the most personal superstar in the history of any sport, a true blue son of small town America, the kid next door who grew up to become a living legend, a homegrown monarch for the Everyman in each of us, a King with a common touch. His charm and hearty laugh and extraordinary undying love of the ancient game he was meant by Providence to elevate like nobody before him will surely live on as long as people young and old tee up the ball and give chase to the game. His beautiful memorial service at Saint Vincent’s Basilica in Latrobe on Oct. 2 brought out the golf world in force along with hundreds of ordinary folks — the foot soldiers of Arnie’s fabled Army — who in some cases drove all night just to stand and pay homage to their hero on a gorgeous Indian summer afternoon, holding signs that read “Long Live the King of Golf” and “Thank You, Arnie!” Outside, immediately following the service, as a Scottish bagpiper played “Amazing Grace,” Arnold’s longtime co-pilot Pete Luster made a pair of low passes over the spires of the Basilica in Arnold’s beloved Citation 10 with its signature N1AP registration number, turning sharply toward heaven and flying almost straight up until the airplane was a mere glint in the blue autumn sky. The woman standing beside me in the silent crowd actually took my arm to steady herself and burst out crying. I hugged her and she kissed me on the cheek like we were old friends saying goodbye. I’d never seen her in my life but we were friends, as everyone is in Arnie’s Army. PS Contact editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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New work by collage and assemblage artist Louis St. Lewis will be on display at Broadhurst Gallery on Sunday, Nov. 6, at 5 p.m. Hailed as a “cunning pirate of art history,” St. Lewis is a bold and witty artist and designer whose brilliant manipulations of appropriated art grace the collections of French fashion designer Christian LaCroix, former Vogue editor André Leon Talley, The Prince of Kuwait, and Oprah Winfrey. Born in nearby Albemarle, he now divides his time between Raleigh, Paris and New Orleans. Don’t miss his “Collecting Art” talk, during which he just might explain what he means when he says artists are “social court jesters.” Broadhurst Gallery, 2212 Midland Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-4817 or www.broadhurstgallery.com.

Destination: Music

Best thing about a Rooster’s Wife show at Poplar Knight Spot? There isn’t a bad seat in the house. You’ll just want to make sure you snag one. Here’s what’s hot at the Spot this month: Nov. 4 – Martin Grosswendt and Susanne Salem-Schatz deliver country blues with bottleneck and finger-busting guitar, powerful vocals, soul and wry humor. Tickets: $10. You can also catch them on Thursday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m., at the Cameo Arthouse Theater, 225 Hay Street, Fayetteville. Tickets: $12. Nov. 6 – Southern Pines native Sam Lewis comes home from Nashville with a full band and a new record to share his folksy roots and soulful persona with friends new and old. Tickets: $15. Nov. 11 – Cicada Rhythm. Chilling harmonies and unbridled enthusiasm redefine so-called folk music. Tickets: $10. Nov. 13 – Joe Walsh delivers his newest project, “Borderland,” for this CD release celebration. The Matt Flinner Trio splits the show. Talk about modern mandolin mayhem — and all things stringed. Tickets: $15. Nov. 20 – Jordan Tice is a singular voice on the American roots music scene. Stray Local opens. Tickets: $15. Doors open at 6 p.m. All shows start at 6:46 p.m. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Fare-Thee-Well

On Thanksgiving Day, 1976, CanadianAmerican rock group The Band performed a farewell concert that featured more than a dozen special guests, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ringo Starr, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond and Eric Clapton. The performance, which was filmed by Martin Scorsese for a documentary called The Last Waltz, will show for free at the Sunrise Theater this Thanksgiving night (Thursday, Nov. 24), at 7:30 p.m. Rolling Stone magazine called it the “Greatest Concert Movie of All Time.” Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com.

If These Trees Could Talk

On Saturday, Nov. 5, learn about our region’s first and biggest industry — naval stores — during this fascinating excursion back in time. “Tar, Pitch and Turpentine” will be presented hourly from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. by filmmaker, historian and writer Bryan Avery. Watch Avery extract resin from a tree, light fires to distill turpentine from gum, and more. Bring a blanket or chair for the outdoor demos, and since they’re open, don’t miss the chance to tour the property’s two house-museums. Free admission. Bryant House and McLendon Cabin, 3361 Mount Carmel Road, Carthage. Info: (910) 692-2051 or explorepinehurst.com.

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Boot Stomping Music

The Hackensaw Boys inject traditional Appalachian and Delta music with a heavy dose of contemporary, good-times-roll kind of spit and vinegar. If the sound of that makes you feel like putting on your dancing boots, mark your calendar for Friday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m. Known for their spirited and rowdy live shows, the Hackensaw Boys will perform old favorites and tunes from their latest album at the Sunrise Theater. Produced by Larry Campbell — the multi-instrumentalist wizard who has lent his talents to the likes of Bob Dylan and Levon Helm — “Charismo” has a casual, porch-front aesthetic that’s sharpened around the edges, focusing on the simple beauty of Hackensaw’s melodies and the earnestness in their delivery. Tickets: $20 (general admission); $30 (VIP). Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or sunrisetheater.com.

Enchanted Forest

The 20th annual Sandhills Children’s Center Festival of Trees will take place from Wednesday, Nov. 16, through Sunday, Nov. 20, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Over 200 decorated trees, wreaths, gift baskets and gingerbread houses will be featured in a winter wonderland complete with live entertainment, silent auction and a Festival Marketplace. Three words: lights, children, magic. Admission by any monetary donation at the door. Proceeds benefit Sandhills Children’s Center. Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-3323 or sandhillschildrenscenter.org/trees.

Conductors of Magic

The Sandhills Central Model Railroad club presents its annual Train Show on Saturday, Nov. 19, from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Founded in 1979, the Club is located in the Aberdeen Train Depot, where an HO model railroad features a beautifully constructed re-creation of the town of Aberdeen and surrounding areas. The layout depicts portions of Main, South, and Poplar Streets, U.S. 1 and Hwy. 5, and billboards modeled in detail. Admission: $5; free for children. The Historic Aberdeen Train Depot and Museum, 100 E. Main St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-1115 or explorepinehurst.com.

Made With Love

The Annual Seagrove Pottery Festival, to be held Saturday, Nov. 19, and Sunday, Nov. 20, from 9 a.m.–5 p.m., celebrates the craft heritage of Seagrove, the Randolph County gem that is home to the largest concentration of working potters in the United States. In addition to pottery — both functional and sculptural— the festival features food vendors and live music, educational activities for children and adults, and demos by blacksmiths, basket makers, woodcarvers, weavers, and potters. Admission: $5. Seagrove Elementary School, 528 Old Plank Road, Seagrove. Info: (336) 873-7887 or discoverseagrove.com.

Walk in the Woods

You’ve heard of Eat, Pray, Love? Why not Hike, Pray, Eat? On Thanksgiving Day, meet at the Weymouth Woods Visitor Center for a 10 a.m. discovery hike sure to help you work up an appetite for the afternoon feast. Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve is an enchanted window to the longleaf pine forests that once covered millions of acres in the southeastern U.S. The lanky pines – some of them hundreds of years old – tower over expanses of wiregrass and rare and intriguing species, including the red-cockaded woodpecker, pine barrens tree frog, bog spicebush, and fox squirrel. Who knows what else you’ll discover? Wear comfortable shoes and bring bottled water for this ranger-led two-mile hike. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.ncparks.gov/ weymouth-woods-sandhills-nature-preserve.

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Not long after summer slipped into autumn, we at PineStraw were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of dear friend Cos Barnes, a gifted writer and beloved godmother of this magazine and the Sandhills at large. Cos graced our pages with wit and maternal wisdom for more than a decade and will be greatly missed by us all. In tribute, we present one of our favorite Cos Barnes columns. — The Staff

Scrapbooks By Cos Barnes

In preparation for the first move in 30

years, I find it traumatic to destroy the scrapbooks and photo albums that depicted my children’s activities during their growing-up years. Even more traumatic is remembering the people who taught me to be a Tar Heel and love the dear town of Southern Pines. I look at snapshots of us when we were younger, slimmer and cuter, and breathe a prayer for those who helped me along the way.

When I moved here, only a limping civic music association graced our community, and its days were done. We started a new arts council with offices in Storey’s Department Store in the Town and Country Shopping Center. Possibly only Edna Earle Cole remembers Storey’s. Peter McBeth taught me the importance of organized arts activities. You all helped, too. I remember my good friend Bill Samuels, who died recently. He not only lent his financial wisdom to our decisions in the Community Foundation, but he was always there to address invitations. Lynn Thompson showed me the intricacies of the library’s influence, but also taught me the scope of its programs. She always willingly lent me a quiet room to conduct interviews. When I joined the Arc’s board at the urging of a friend, I did not speak for the first year. They talked in initials which I knew not. However, in no time, I was president. I learned the language quickly from Wendy Russell. Following my husband’s death, I was asked to fill out his term as a trustee at my church. I would not take anything for the business tactics I learned from those men. When I substituted at Pinecrest High, my most difficult task was Bachelor’s Home Economics. Although we did not make a gathered skirt, we learned to work together, and I learned to appreciate my students and their backgrounds. I spent many years as a board member of Weymouth with my assignment working with the writers in residence. I took them everywhere to explain and entertain — retirement homes, the college, high schools and elementary schools. That fiery head of the backpack program, that volunteer of all volunteers, Linda Hubbard, made me know I had to pick up and deliver backpacks. And one of the most pleasurable tasks I have had is taking up tickets at the Sunrise. I have seen Jesse, the manager, take the popcorn and drinks to an older couple who required assistance, and serve them at their seats. And as I roamed through files in my filing cabinet, I came across a reminder from Charlotte Gantz informing me of plant sources in our area. It was dated Fall, 1996. Keepsakes, no matter how small, all have a story. A polished rock given to me by Betsy Hyde at my first book signing has been on my desk since 1995. My one big question now is what do I do with the framed graduation certificates which have never been hung. I even have my mother’s from National Business College in Roanoke, Va., in 1925. It measures 18 x 21. What do I do with it? And how do I reward all my colleagues for their kindness? I hope a simple thank you will do. PS

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Hillbilly Blues Poor, white and not quite forgotten

By Stephen E. Smith

The presidential election is

either over or is about to be, and, barring an unforeseen catastrophe, we ought to be breathing a collective sigh of relief. But in our hearts we know the truth: It ain’t over yet. The media, including the publishing industry, aren’t about to let us rest. We’ll no doubt be obliged to examine in excruciating detail the cause-and-effect relationships that inflicted this grievous wound on our national psyche.

Publishers, of course, get us coming and going. White Trash; The Making of Donald Trump; Hillary’s America; The Year of Voting Dangerously, etc. — Amazon lists at least 17 books that address the pre-election mêlée, enough reading to keep us bleary-eyed and brain-bruised until the next election cycle, and well beyond. Of these many offerings, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, by J. D. Vance, has been the chief beneficiary of our need to grasp the incomprehensible. Published in late June, this Horatio Alger memoir shot to the top of The New York Times and Amazon. com best-sellers lists and stayed there. This was due in large part to promotion by the author and Amazon that fostered the belief that Hillbilly Elegy offers a profound insight into the rise of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate. A quick read of Amazon’s “Editorial Reviews” is explanation enough: “What explains the appeal of Donald Trump? . . . J.D. Vance nails it” (Globe and Mail); “You cannot understand what’s happening now without first reading J.D. Vance . . . .” (The American Conservative), and so forth. Only The New York Times acknowledged a mild albeit flawed apprehension of fact: “Mr. Vance has inadvertently provided a civilized reference guide for an uncivilized election . . . ,” “inadvertently” being the operative word. In February, Vance wrote an op-ed for USA Today headlined: “Trump Speaks for Those Bush Betrayed”: “. . . .what unites Trump’s voters,”

Vance wrote, “is a sense of alienation from America’s wealthy and powerful.” In a print interview with Rod Dreher, senior editor at The American Conservative, Vance stated, “The simple answer is that these people — my people — are really struggling, and there hasn’t been a single political candidate who speaks to those struggles in a long time. Donald Trump at least tries.” Vance’s appearances on ABC, CNN and NPR only reinforced this perception, and by the time he arrived on the set of “Morning Joe,” Vance’s criticism was even more focused, asserting that Donald Trump is “just another opioid” to many Americans struggling with loss of jobs, broken families and drug addiction. All of which begs the question: Does Hillbilly Elegy explain the rise of Donald Trump? It doesn’t. No amount of tortured exegesis can conclude with a calculated degree of certainty that the anecdotal examples offered in Hillbilly Elegy lead to a statistical generalization regarding the wide-ranging support garnered by the Trump candidacy. Despite the claims of critics and the author, the book does not present, directly or indirectly, a viable explanation for the recent national unpleasantness — and the hype surrounding the publication of Hillbilly Elegy amounts to little more than a subtle form of literary bait and switch. Misrepresentations aside, it’s safe to say that Vance has written an insightful and readable memoir that details the estrangement of a segment of America’s displaced white underclass. His personal story, which

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comprises most of the text, is straightforward: Poor boy from a broken, drug-befuddled family wants to make good and does. The sociological narrative is also immediately explicable: As “hillbillies” migrated from Kentucky and other Southern mountain states, they clustered in desultory communities around the factories that offered them work. But this relocation came at a price. The traditional culture that once rendered support and stability from birth to death was sacrificed to economic prosperity. When the high-paying jobs disappeared, neighborhoods of poor people were left behind, lacking the social networks that sustained them in their mountain communities. To his credit, Vance’s message is one of personal responsibility. He has no patience with convenient excuses or the tendency to shift blame to the media, politicians, or the middle and upper classes. Succinctly stated, his advice is to pull up your pants, turn your hat around and make something of your life. Hillbilly Elegy possesses the same appeal that propelled Rick Bragg’s 1999 All Over but the Shoutin’ onto the best-sellers list — it’s thoughtful, compelling in its grim detail, and ultimately faith-affirming. No red-blooded American can abandon the belief that any lucky, talented, hardworking schmo can become a success, but the wise reader will understand that Vance’s story is not an allegory for life; it’s merely the recounting of a series of random events arranged in such a way as to suggest meaning. Readers should also bear in mind that better sociological studies have come and gone without notice. One is reminded of Linda Flowers’ 1990 Throwed Away, which detailed the economic exploitation of eastern North Carolina sharecroppers and tenant farmers. As for articulating the emotional toll taken on those Kentucky mountain people who migrated north, poet Jim Wayne Miller summed up their sense of loss in five lines from his 1980 collection The Mountains Have Come Closer. The final stanza of the poem “Abandoned” reads: Or else his life became the house seen once in a coalcamp in Tennessee: the second story blown off in a storm so stairs led up into the air and stopped. PS Stephen E. Smith is a retired professor and the author of seven books of poetry and prose. He’s the recipient of the Poetry Northwest Young Poet’s Prize, the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Prize for poetry, and four North Carolina Press awards.

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By Brian L ampkin and Shannon Jones

We can tell that the food truck phenomenon

has reached its zenith, because now you can buy prepackaged, microwave-ready “food truck” food — sometimes in boxes shaped like food trucks! Still, we love the very idea of food trucks, and Vivian Howard, the owner of the acclaimed Chef & Farmer restaurant in Kinston, North Carolina, has us thinking about food. And trucks. Is there a literary intersection? Can we find it? Without GPS?

Deep Run Roots: Stories and Recipes from My Corner of the South, by Vivian Howard. Howard has embarked on a grand tour with her food truck, serving meals along with the wisdom (and more than 200 recipes from eastern North Carolina) she’s gained from her years in the restaurant business. “Part story, part history, part recipes, I’d like to think Deep Run Roots is much more than a cookbook,” Howard says. Food Trucks!: A Lift-the-Flap Meal on Wheels!, by Jeffrey Burton. For a kid, there is nothing cooler than hitting a food truck with Mom and Dad, then plopping down right there on the curb to devour an overstuffed taco. Now foodies can go behind the scenes of their favorite food trucks with a fun board book: Lift the flaps to see what makes the food in different trucks so yummy, from fryers to griddles, from snow cone dispensers to ice cream freezers. Like its counterparts in real life, this book is a crowd-pleaser. The World’s Best Street Food, by Lonely Planet, Mark Bittman, James Oseland

and Austin Bush. Perfect for a small kitchen shelf, these recipes from street carts the world over are well-organized and easy to follow, authentic but with substitutions given for harder-to-find ingredients so that you can get started exploring the world’s best street food right in your own kitchen. This is a great gift for adventurers who delight in trying new world cuisines. Duel: Terror Stories, by Richard Matheson. What is the most frightening 18-wheeler in literary history? Undoubtedly, the truck in Matheson’s short story “Duel.” This collection includes several stories adapted into great “Twilight Zone” episodes. Truck: A Love Story, by Michael Perry. The New York Times calls it “a funny and touching account” of a love life ruined by Neil Diamond. And the Chicago Tribune, in an over-the-top food metaphor, says, “Perry takes each moment, peeling it, seasoning it with rich language, and then serving it to us piping hot and fresh.” And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer: A Novella, by Fredrik Backman. The author of A Man Called Ove offers an exquisitely moving portrait of an elderly man’s struggle to hold on to his most precious memories. J. D. Salinger: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations, edited and introduction by David Streitfeld. Melville House Publishing does a great service with their Last Interview series, and a famous recluse like Salinger is particularly interesting. Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film, by Alexandra Zapruder. The moving, untold family story behind Abraham Zapruder’s film footage of the Kennedy assassination and its lasting impact on our world. I’ll Take You There, by Wally Lamb. Lamb’s new novel is a radiant homage to the resiliency, strength and the power of women. Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis: The Vampire Chronicles (Vampire Chronicles #12), by Anne Rice. Is it possible? Another? Yep. PS

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baseball practice. My youngest son, 11, has just started playing — this is his second practice ever — and so far, he likes it. After the first practice, we shopped for equipment, and I hear some of you already thinking: Why does Papadaddy always gripe about high prices?

The answer is this: I didn’t buy anything between 1994 and 2012, until I finally started shopping for my children’s sporting equipment. But on the softer side — the nostalgic side — this baseball business is taking me back, in good ways, to over 60 years ago. “Yep,” I say to my son, “I started playing baseball when I was 9 years old.” “What?” he says, “They had baseball back then?” When I was 10 or 12, our coach worked at a local funeral home and drove a hearse to practice. I can see the hearse as it pulled onto the field near first base — long, shiny, and black. This is all true. My friends and I would open the swinging rear door and pull out a canvas bag of bats, a handbag of baseballs, and a large duffle bag with the catcher’s equipment and bases and the little plastic things held together with stretch bands that we fitted over our ears when batting. These flimsy head protectors became the norm in the late ’50s, as I recall. (Protective head gear was a consequence of midcentury political correctness.) While we were shopping a few weeks ago, my son and I inspected batting helmets, baseball gloves — for fielding and batting — bats, baseballs and a protective cup. The protective cup comes with a pair of fancy black underwear to hold the cup in place. The reason my son is expected to buy his own equipment these days is because if, say, a funeral home bought a bag of, say, 20 baseball bats, then the funeral home could be out four grand. Easily. Check it out at your local sporting goods store.

In addition: My son’s bat: metal. Ours: wooden. My son’s headgear: a hard plastic helmet. Ours: (early on) a cloth cap. My son’s cleats: plastic or rubber. Ours: steel. My son’s batting gloves: two. Ours: none. My son’s “protection”: a plastic cup. Ours: underwear (most of us, I guess). My son’s fielder’s glove: synthetic, stiff, and complicated. Ours: leather, limber, and plain. My son’s infield surface: mostly grass. Ours: mostly dirt. My son’s outfield surface: grass. Ours: mostly dirt. My son’s pitching mound: raised. Ours: flat. My son’s dugout: concrete behind a fence. Ours: a wooden bench, in the open — with splinters. My son’s coach: loves the game. Ours: loved the game. I’m so glad the game is the same. Three strikes, four balls, three outs. Secret signals and hidden ball tricks, balks, walks and home runs. Timing, speed and precision. It’s still best to step on the base with your inside foot, watch the third base coach as you approach second base, start with your glove on the ground to catch a grounder. And the playing field itself — it expands outward from home plate. Unlike football, basketball and other sports, boundaries exist on only two sides of a baseball field, not all four sides. Hit a home run and the ball could travel all the way around the Earth and roll up behind home plate and still be in fair territory. After the second practice, we’re gathering up equipment to head home. My son says, “Dad, they make a backpack for gloves, helmet and all that. It has two sleeves for two bats. We could get one at Dick’s along with another bat.” “If we get another bat, we’ll have to sell your bicycle, the trampoline and your bunk bed.” “You mean . . . like a yard sale?” “Sure. Good idea.” PS Clyde Edgerton is the author of 10 novels, a memoir and a new work, Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers. He is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNCW.

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Landslide

Memories of a campaign that fired up a budding journalist

By Bill Fields

The 1972 election is remembered

mostly as a snoozefest because of the landslide victory by incumbent President Richard Nixon over George McGovern, but it woke up an eighth-grader to politics.

I had paid only sporadic attention earlier. I remember the sadness when my mother told me at the breakfast table that Robert F. Kennedy had died after being shot during the 1968 campaign, when we later had a mock election in fourth grade. I recall having a Bob Scott For Governor button and seeing a rare Eugene McCarthy bumper sticker on a car in Southern Pines, where my parents voted at the firehouse precinct on East New Hampshire. That same year, of course, with the Vietnam War and civil rights on the front burner, Jesse Helms was in peak form delivering his conservative editorials at the conclusion of the WRAL Channel 5 television news broadcast, spewed nightly since the year after my birth. Four years later, as my interests broadened from the sports section to include the real world, I devoured what political news I could get. That meant the Greensboro Daily News that arrived in our yard each morning and forays to the town library to look at The New York Times. One of the Times’ political columnists, Tom Wicker, I would learn later, was born and raised in Hamlet and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. Some Sundays, I settled down in front of Lawrence Spivak on “Meet the Press” and more closely watched the “CBS Evening News” with Walter Cronkite. Scanning the AM dial on winter evenings looking for basketball games from faraway cities, I paused for reports from primaries in New Hampshire or Iowa. What really fired up my political passion was the presence downtown of the local Democratic and Republican party offices, each of which rented space on or near Broad Street. Although my views had already begun to lean far away from Helms — if he was Manteo, I was Murphy — I was an equal opportunity collector, taking any button or bumper sticker the volunteers for either side would let me have.

Making return visits, I rounded up what I could until realizing that the people manning the offices weren’t too keen on someone who wouldn’t be old enough to vote for a couple of elections hoarding their stuff. The folks were generous enough, though, that I created my own campaign corner in my bedroom, the buttons with their sharp pins and stickers with their pungent smell taking over my bulletin board, new teams to follow in a larger league. Election Day, Nov. 7, 1972, was quite a day for the GOP. Nixon routed McGovern, winning everywhere except Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. Helms, parlaying the recognition and support from his decade-plus on TV, defeated Democrat Nick Galifianakis for a United States Senate seat in North Carolina. With Scott unable to run because of term limits, Republican James Holshouser beat Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles for N.C. governor. My immediate impressions of Nixon’s lopsided victory came from the Greensboro paper and the network news shows. “Nixon Wins Re-Election In Landslide,” the large, eight-column headline on the front page blared on Nov. 8. Wicker, acknowledging the rout and trying to look on the bright side, wrote in his Times “In the Nation” column on Nov. 9: “Those of us who have most seriously questioned Mr. Nixon in his first term and in his re-election campaign are all but compelled by the size of his victory to assume the best from him now.” Like lots of aspiring journalists, before too long I would immerse myself in two books about the campaign: The Boys on the Bus, by Timothy Crouse, and Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ’72, by Hunter S. Thompson. Although Crouse’s book in particular skewered the rise of pack journalism, those were glory days for print journalism, and newspaper ink was an intoxicating thing. During college at Carolina, several of us in an advanced reporting class got to huddle with Wicker over a few Heinekens at Harrison’s bar on a Friday afternoon. It was a fascinating couple of hours with a legend generous with his time and his stories, an opportunity that a boy far from a press bus couldn’t have imagined. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north 30 years ago but hasn’t lost his accent.

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T r u e S o u th

The Brief Unwritten Social Rules of the Southern Womanhood (Revealed at last)

By Susan Kelly

Opening caveat: No judgment here, as the millennials say. Simple reportage.

As brides-to-be, both my daughter and my daughter-in-law looked blankly at me when I mentioned a trousseau present. They had no clue as to what — much less how to spell — a trousseau is, er, was. OK, fine. One less gift to buy. (This, from the bride-to-be whose mother went with her to buy a honeymoon nightgown. For my trousseau. Later, I chopped off my mother’s peignoir to wear as a dressy top to cocktail parties. Draw your own Jungian, Freudian or rebellion conclusions.) Like the era when mixing metals was simply not done, the time of wedding trousseaus, in which your mother’s friends brought gifts for your lingerie or linen or stationery drawer, has gone the way of children being seen and not heard. More’s the pity. But never fear, plenty of Unwrittens — obscure social mores you’re meant to follow that aren’t recorded anywhere and, often, have no basis in existing — are still out there, and I’m making a few publicly available. Ready? Blacken the wicks of all candles even if they’re so fancy and curved and hand-dipped or whatever that you never plan to burn them. The brief sulphur aroma may cause your children or husband to sniff and say, “Have you been smoking?” to which you can point to the candles. Then they’ll say, “Why did you do that?” Good luck. Answer all formal invitations in black ink only. Honeydew should always be served with a slice of lime.

No front yard flowers. Exceptions: naturalizing bulbs (not tulips or hyacinths; crocus debatable) and these should only be growing in ground covers. No botanical prints or skirted tables downstairs. (These last two from a Charleston friend’s mother. You should hear her on non-Christmas front door wreaths.) Nice people have blanket covers. No bare shoulders at a funeral. (This dictate from a friend whose baby nurse actually told her this as my friend was trying to get her post-natal body to a funeral.) Beginning Labor Day, wear transitional dark cottons. This was an actual phrase at my house, and translated, for me, as cotton Black Watch plaid smocked dresses to school. (The brand new book satchel provided some offsetting comfort.) Do not say purse. Say pocketbook. (Although my sister’s high-fashion boss at Belk told her that if she said pocketbook instead of bag one more time, she would fire her.) Do not say hose. Say stockings. Exceptions can be made for pantyhose. (Though personally, as an Anglophile, I think we should switch to tights and be done with it.) Do not say panties. Say underwear or underpants or, in a pinch, borrow u-trou from the boys. If you say panties, we can’t be friends. End of story. Literally. PS In a former life, Susan Kelly published five novels, won some awards, did some teaching, and made a lot of speeches. These days, she’s freelancing and making up for all that time she spent indoors writing those five novels.

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When Whiskey Woos Wine Wine aged in bourbon barrels may be a passing fancy — or a taste here to stay

By Robyn James

My mother was a

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bourbon drinker, and to my surprise, my father and I were able to convert her to a wine drinker. At least I think we did: Knowing my mom, she may have faked it to make us happy. I say to my surprise, because she never could have swayed me in her direction. I would smell her bourbon drink, turn up my nose and refuse to even taste it. I couldn’t imagine two more polar opposite drinks.

The wine industry, unlike so many industries such as fashion or food, really doesn’t have any “trends.” We are steeped in tradition, the old ways are the best ways, and “fads” are frowned upon. Recently, it has become impossible to ignore that we have, dare I say, a “fad” to contend with. Maybe it will stay, maybe it will go, but suddenly wine aged in whiskey barrels has become all the rage in my industry. Weird because the opposite is usually true. Winemakers generally use new French or American oak barrels to age wine, a very expensive investment. Once they have gotten their one to three years’ use out of the barrels they usually sell them to whiskey distilleries to attempt to recoup some of the high investment. American distilleries are very patriotic, using only American oak. They appreciate the open grain of American oak that helps to soften the harshness of the whiskey. Winemakers lean toward the tighter French oak that imparts subtle vanilla flavors. Winemakers buying used barrels from distilleries seems totally backward. What is the difference between a whiskey barrel and a wine barrel? Apparently a lot. When using a barrel for whiskey, the barrel is actually charred inside so the interior of the barrel acts like a carbon filter, softening and calming down the contents. The whiskey may stay in that barrel for 15 or more years. That never happens with wine. A wine barrel is never “charred,” it is “toasted” to different degrees. The toasting of a French wine barrel doesn’t filter or remove any flavors. It is destined to add flavors of vanilla and light tannins to the wine, enhancing it.

Because of the “aggressiveness” of the old whiskey barrels, the standard routine is to leave the wine in these barrels for only about three months to attempt to add a super subtle nuance of the bourbon. The idea for this new “fad” came from Dan Phillips, an importer of French and Spanish wines and his good friend Julian Van Winkle, the owner of the cult crazy Pappy Van Winkle Distillery. Pappy Van Winkle whiskey is so sought after and has such small production that most liquor stores hold a lottery to sell the one bottle a year they may be allocated. And, that bottle may sell for anywhere from $750 to $2,000. They launched the Southern Belle Spanish red wine, a blend of 50 percent syrah and 50 percent monastrell from Spain that is an absolute fruit bomb and delicious. I really didn’t get a big taste of bourbon influence here. It was extremely subtle, but I can see that winemakers are pushing up the alcohol content of the wine to compete with the whiskey flavors, so we have big, bold, fruity reds that knock your socks off. Southern Belle, made by Chris Ringland, one of the best winemakers in the world, is about $20 and worth every penny. It’s produced at Bodegas Juan Gil, one of the best vintners of monastrell in the world. Mendocino’s 1,000 Stories zinfandel is aged in wine barrels prior to the old bourbon barrels from Heaven Hill and Four Roses that are as much as 13 years old. This wine, again, tops out the alcohol at 15.2 percent. It’s very ripe, with big raspberry and black pepper spice flavors, and sells for about $15. This wine has small amounts of syrah and petite sirah that add to the delicious complexity of the wine. Cooper & Thief Cellarmaster’s Red Blend has become a big favorite of mine for the bourbon-aged blends. A kitchen sink California wine that is a blend of 38 percent merlot, 37 percent syrah, 11 percent zinfandel, 7 percent petite sirah and 4 percent cabernet sauvignon, it’s aged in bourbon barrels for three months. Almost port-like in style, it’s 17 percent alcohol, a little higher in price at about $23 and has velvety tannins and a long, velvety finish. What the heck, give them a try, see what Kentucky brings to California. PS Robyn James is a certified sommelier and proprietor of The Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in Southern Pines. Contact her at robynajames@gmail.com.

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In The Spirit

Old Fashioned Nights And the perfect rye whiskey to take off the winter chill

By Tony Cross

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Whenever Mother

Nature makes up her mind, and decides that she’s going to throw colder weather our way, I always seem to forget how much I love pairing a good whiskey with the chill. There’s something about the burn going down my chest after escaping a cold and rainy night. I’m not reminiscing about the hellfire from a sour mash that I would shoot when I was barely old enough to partake. That had its time and place years ago. Nowadays, especially in good company, I opt for a good rye. One of my favorites over the past few years has been from Utah’s High West Distillery.

Jack Daniel’s was the first whiskey I ever tasted. I hated it. I’m still not fond of the spirit, and I’ll probably get a lot of flak for being honest, but I’d be fine with never ordering it again. On the other hand, I probably wouldn’t turn down a Jack & Coke if one was sent my way. It wasn’t until bourbon began making its presence on the market felt that I began experimenting, and understanding our native hooch. And then I tried rye, and it was all over. The element of spice in a rye whiskey had my taste buds intrigued from day one. Not only that, but I began to notice that rye added much more depth in the whiskey cocktails that I was playing around with.

Any chance I got to purchase a new rye (as in new to our local ABC store), I would scoop it up immediately. High West was recommended to me by a patron one night. He had just returned from a work conference in Park City, Utah, where he encountered the world’s only ski-in gastrodistillery and couldn’t contain his excitement when explaining the myriad food and drink choices on the menu. In addition to serving cocktails with their signature whiskies, High West has an extensive spirits list with everything from Green Chartreuse to, well, Jack Daniel’s. The way he explained the different nuances with High West’s whiskies sounded like an adolescent with every sense aroused. All I knew was that I sure as hell had to get my hands on some. From my first bottle of their Double Rye! (a blend of two-year and 16-year rye whiskies) to one of their limited releases, Yippee Ki-Yay, a blend of two ryes that are aged in Vya sweet vermouth and Qupé Syrah oak barrels (I yelled it out like Bruce Willis after my first sip. Yeah, that good), proprietor and distiller, David Perkins has yet to disappoint. The mainstay on my shelf is the Rendezvous Rye, a complex rye blend that marries a spicy 6-year-old rye with a more mature 16-year rye that adds a touch of vanilla and caramel. It’s the whiskey you pour with those who will appreciate it. Perfect with a cube of ice, but fantastic in an old-fashioned (recipe below). In the past few years that I’ve gotten acclimated with rye, more and more distilleries are becoming readily available throughout our state. The increase in sales of whiskey has gone through the roof over the past decade. Just last year alone, whiskey sales grew 7.8 percent. Americans aren’t the only ones with a thirst for our national spirit: Export sales have grown from $743 million in 2005 to $1.56 billion last year. That’s crazy. Even crazier, according to Fortune magazine, with all of the growth of beer distilleries in the U.S.,

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1 cube demerara sugar Pinch of brown sugar 3 dashes Angostura bitters 2 dashes orange bitters 2 ounces High West Rendezvous Rye Lemon and/or orange peel This cocktail can be built in the glass you (or your guest) will be drinking from, or you can mix it in a cocktail shaker, and strain it into the glass. Either way, make sure the glass is a thick-bottomed 8-10 ounce old-fashioned glass. Also, spend a few extra bucks, and buy small and large ice cube molds. Last time I checked, Southern Whey on Broadstreet had those available. There’s no point in making a cocktail with a $60 whiskey, if it’s going to get watered down immediately with your crappy ice. Place both sugars at the bottom of your mixing vessel. Dash both bitters over the sugar, and muddle it into a paste. Add the whiskey, stir with a mixing spoon for a few seconds, and then add four small ice cubes, and stir for 50 revolutions. If you’re building this cocktail in your glass, carefully add the larger cube, and stir. If you’re using the smaller cubes, strain over the large cube in the rocks glass. I love using a lemon and orange peel for this classic. Express the oils of both peels over the drink before adding them in. Santé! PS Tony Cross is a bartender who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern pines. He can also recommend a vitamin supplement for the morning after at Nature’s Own.

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A Southern Commandment There will be cornbread!

By Jan Leitschuh

Even in these low-carb times, there is cornbread.

It’s not going anywhere. Moist, lightly golden, aromatic, steam-emitting and firm-yet-crumbly, iconic Southern cornbread is simply a tradition not to be trifled with. This is November, the season of the harvest and Thanksgiving. And there will be cornbread, Paleo diet be damned. Cornbread has been called the “cornerstone” of Southern cuisine. While we associate cornbread with the tables of the South, the story goes deeper than that. Corn, or maize, is a New World grain, evolved from centuries of careful selection and breeding by indigenous populations of this weedy grass. Though now it is grown across the world, and bred in laboratories, corn was unknown to Europeans before Columbus. Early settlers naturally tried to grow their familiar wheat in the steamy South. They wanted bread. But wheat bread did not do as well in Southern fields, while corn did, growing all the way down into Mexico and beyond, where it was domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Several small cobs of several inches developed from a grass that originally produced only one tiny cob an inch long. Now it grows long and prolific, and is the most widely grown grain in the Americas and the most widely grown grain in the world by weight. Over 85 percent of U.S. corn is now genetically modified, under patent, including sweet corn. Early settlers in the Southeast imitated their native neighbors, learning to process and cook maize from the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw and Choctaw. They ground the corn to make a meal, sometimes treating it with alkaline substances to increase nutrition and digestibility. Before long, settlers were adapting recipes to the prolific crop to make the breads and bakery. High in energy, corn became a meal staple. From Colonial days until the present, cornbread has been eaten on Southern tables. Cornbread rose in popularity during the Civil War. Baking soda became available and was used for leavening. Cornbread was cheap, and it was filling. Meal could be shaped into loaves to bake and rise, or simply fried in some bacon drippings in a cast iron skillet. This latter technique was easy enough for anyone to cook up a mess of fritters, johnnycakes, corn pone and hoecakes that stuck to the ribs and let a body do a hard day’s work. In fact, with a little water, salt and fat, you could cook a small dense cake right in the field, on a garden hoe blade held over a small fire. As families grew wealthier, the basic recipes expanded to include eggs, buttermilk, flour, yeast and sugar.

Cornbread is considered a quickbread, that is, a bakery leavened with baking powder rather than yeast. Corn lacks the tough gluten proteins that trap gases given off by yeast. Instead, Southern cornbread relies on the protein from eggs to give it structure. If you grew up in the North, or Midwest as I did, cornbread meant something a little different. Sugar was used, along with a portion of wheat flour, to produce a lighter, more cakey type cornbread. We buttered it lavishly, and drizzled it with honey. In the South, less sugar is used, and little to no wheat flour. Southern cornbread today can be as simple as corn flour, a little salt, baking powder, milk or buttermilk (clabber) and eggs. Molasses is the traditional drizzle. Leftover cornbread will not go to waste either, sometimes crumbled and served with milk like cold cereal. The cornbread-like hush puppy is another prized Southern treat, the buttermilk batter being deep-fried, often with the addition of onion powder and seasonings. Served with fish or seafood, you’ll find it on menus up and down the mid-Atlantic coast. It’s a versatile grain, corn. With different treatments, it’s the basis for cornmeal pudding, masa harina (cornmeal treated with an alkaline lime water) for tamales and tortillas, polenta, posole, hominy, grits, corn muffins, even popcorn, corn flakes and corn dogs. Corn oil and cornstarch, corn syrup and grain alcohol (think moonshine and bourbon whiskey) are further iterations that might show up in our kitchen cabinets. So now that you’re drooling — you know you are — and have determined to revisit this Southern favorite this November, let us combine the best of the old and the new, the North, the South and the West. With luck, you are an industrious locavore, and last June and July you bought scads of local, non-GMO sweet corn fresh picked from area markets. You ate sweet corn on the cob, roasted, boiled or steamed, till it came out of your ears, and then sliced the milky, yellow kernels from the remaining cobs and froze batches for chillier times such as these. That means, clever you, that there is home-frozen sweet corn at your disposal. And if you are going to expend the calories on this starchy, cool weather treat, it’s going to have to be good. That means you are going to add some thawed and drained sweet corn to your cornbread, to help give it tooth and natural sweetness. If you were unfortunate enough to miss the summer sweet corn train, you could use canned, I guess. Add a small can of drained sweet corn kernels to the mix and fantasize. There are many variations in cornbread recipes, including those which add

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cheese, or jalapeños, or pork rinds, onions, even bacon. Native Americans added seeds, or nuts and berries. You do just as your little taste buds dictate.

“The North thinks it knows how to make cornbread, but this is gross superstition.” — Mark Twain Mark Twain may be right. This scion of the Midwest may not know how to make a proper Southern cornbread, though we sure do grow a whole heap of corn out there. It’s possible we picked up a tip or two. The recipe below is a winner, though, and can even be made gluten-free for those holiday visitors who may be avoiding wheat. It has a mild, natural sweetness. If you enjoy an even sweeter cornbread, increase sugar by 1/4 cup. Stick to the Paleo diet if you must; starchy corn is high in calories. But consider a wee hiatus to whip up a batch of golden-crusted cornbread to have with a winter’s chili, then go for a run. Or permit the odd indulgence at Thanksgiving to celebrate, with gratitude, the season of harvest and abundance.

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Ingredients 1/2 cup melted butter 2 eggs 1 cup finely milled yellow cornmeal 1 cup flour (or all-purpose gluten-free baking mix with xanthan gum) 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup buttermilk Kernels from one or two cobs sweet corn, thawed drained. Instructions Preheat oven to 375F. Whisk together melted butter and eggs. Add remaining ingredients except fresh corn. Whisk until just combined and few lumps remain (do not over-mix). Stir in fresh corn kernels. Pour into a greased 8-inch baking dish. Bake for about 30 minutes, until lightly browned on top and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. PS

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They Dined on Mince

One cook’s recreation of mincemeat pie — without a runcible spoon

By Diane Compton

It wasn’t long

after I married that my mother joyously gave up her job as executive producer of Thanksgiving. My husband promptly dismissed the old standbys: green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, Jell-O salad, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce “fresh” from the can. Having more faith in my culinary skills than actual evidence, he tagged and circled all sorts of derivative recipes from popular cooking magazines and I, eager to please, attempted them all. The family endured many years of this with great kindness and “compliments” such as, ”I’ve never tasted anything like this before!” But a generous pour of good wine and lively conversation overcame any mistakes and thus the day was declared a success.

The arrival of children and the gift of my grandmother’s cookbook, Pure Cook Book, published by the Women’s Progressive Farm Association of Missouri, heralded a return to the classics of the holiday. A virtual time machine, this worn, torn and faded tome took me into her Depression-era farm kitchen. Page stains and handwritten notes marked favorite recipes, among them mince pie. Why not start a new tradition connecting the generations and add this to the holiday table? My suggestion elicited all kinds of family reactions. From the daughters: “Ewww! Sounds gross!” From the husband: “Hmmmm, I ate it, once.” From my parents: “What’s wrong with pecan pie?” Convinced that anything made from scratch would be far, far superior to packaged stuff, I began a search for the perfect mincemeat recipe. The family promised to try it with all the enthusiasm usually reserved for boiled cabbage. Pies are the dessert of choice for the creative cook. Imagine, between two layers of pastry an infinite universe of fillings with few rules and, given

enough sugar and butter, almost always delicious. Grandmother’s cookbook featured eleven recipes for mincemeat. Where to start? Traditional mincemeat really does contain meat. The first recorded recipes go back to the eleventh century where meat and dried fruits were combined with newly available spices — cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon — then soused with lots of brandy. Over the years mincemeat became sweeter as fruit became the predominate ingredient. All the recipes in grandmother’s cookbook still included meat but not a drop of brandy. Oh, yeah, 1930, the Prohibition era. Today, commercially available mincemeat is heavy on fruit, sugar and spice with nary a whisper of meat or brandy. No wonder this wimpy stuff has been relegated to the bottom shelf of the baking aisle. My challenge: to make authentic mincemeat appealing to modern tastes. This recipe restores both brandy and meat; specifically beef suet to the ingredient list. Suet is a specialty fat found near the kidneys. With a higher melting point than butter, suet adds deeper and more nuanced flavor to mincemeat, maintaining the connection to its carnivorous history. Another reason to try mincemeat pie? The filling can be made in advance and so can the crust. If you make your own pastry, line the pie dish with rolled dough, wrap and freeze the dish, and it’s ready to go at a moment’s notice. Mincemeat pie needs a top crust. Roll the dough into a circle on plastic wrap, cover with another layer of plastic and roll the circle into a tube before freezing. Making the mincemeat filling is a great family activity, with lots of chopping and kid-friendly ingredients. Also, unlike the sugar bomb known as pecan pie, mincemeat is not cloyingly sweet. Start with a 4- or 5-quart heavy saucepan or Dutch oven on the stove and add the following: 3 pounds of apples, peeled, cored and diced. Use a variety of Golden Delicious, Granny Smith, Jonagold or McIntosh. 2 1/2 cups of dried fruit. Try a combination of raisins, golden raisins, currants and maybe some diced dried cherries for fun. 1/4 cup of chopped candied peel (orange or citron) 2 tablespoons minced crystallized ginger (optional, but lovely) 1/4 pound minced suet. Can’t find suet? Beefaphobic? Substitute butter

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2 cups apple cider And now, the spices. Mincemeat uses a small amount of several expensive spices, many that you bought before your first iPhone. Don’t do it! Just 2 to 3 teaspoons of fresh pumpkin pie spice is an economical alternative to separate jars of cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, mace and cloves. Remember we’re making pies here so don’t get too caught up in the exact ingredients, add more or less of things as you like. Grandmother used what was available. Got a bit of ground venison in the freezer? Be truly authentic and add some to the pot! Don’t tell the kids. Bring everything to a boil, reduce heat and simmer on low for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. When the mixture begins to thicken, stir more frequently. Add 1/4 cup of brandy and stir often for 15 minutes until thick and jammy. Cool and refrigerate. Filling can be prepared a week in advance. On pie day, add the filling to your prepared pie dish. Unroll the top crust and place over the filling. Decoratively flute the edges and don’t forget to cut a few vent holes in the top. For a glossy golden crust, brush the dough with a little beaten egg and sprinkle some coarse sugar on top. Bake in a preheated 400°oven for 20 minutes then reduce oven temperature to 325° for another 30 to 40 minutes. Cool completely. Can be made a day ahead. Mincemeat filling also makes a great cookie that can be baked ahead of the holiday and frozen till needed. Spread a little caramel frosting on top and make it special. That first year I took great pains to make the pie’s edges and top beautifully decorative because its true, we “eat with the eye” first. Everyone bravely tried a slice because after all, it was pie! My daughter confirmed, “This is lovely, it just needs a better name.” Forget it, Darling. This traditional holiday pie is a living link to generations of family celebrations. I treasure my Grandmother’s cookbook and touch the handwritten notes, imagining her as a new bride learning to cook and care for her own family. It was both cookbook and household guide, full of practical medical advice and handy hints, some guaranteed to horrify (remedies made of kerosene, turpentine and gasoline figure prominently). Unfortunately the back cover along with the last chapter “How to Cook Husbands” is missing. I wonder: Did my grandfather have a hand in that? PS

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Confessions of a Nostalgic Nose You can talk to the hand. However, the nose remembers all

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Remember Al Pacino as a blind veteran dancing the tango in Scent of a Woman, rated among the best all-time film sequences? Unable to witness her beauty, he inhaled. This opinion results from losing olfactory competence 20 years ago, after a bad cold. It happens, my otorhinolaryngologist said. Don’t argue with a 21-letter specialty. I can’t smell a pot burning on the stove. A bit gets through if I put an orange right under my nose. Fresh paint doesn’t bother me, nor would sitting behind a high school boys’ basketball bench. But I do miss meat loaf, split pea soup and . . . let’s see what else my nose recalls. Cider mills: Apples permeate October in New England. Nowhere is the aroma stronger than at a cider mill, where whole apples are crushed into a spicy-sweet nectar. You (and the yellow jackets) can smell it half a mile away. A maple sugarhouse: Early spring nights in Vermont mean boiling freshly collected sap until the water evaporates, leaving pure maple syrup. Forty gallons of sap boil down to a gallon of syrup. Farmers boil all night in sugarhouses — rough cabins that glow against the receding snow. The maple smell is so strong, so delicious you can practically pour it on pancakes. Lily of the valley: When I was a child, Coty’s Muguet de Bois was a popular fragrance. My mother had a cardboard cylinder of body powder; I would put it near my nose and feel soothed, happy. The powder is still available online, as a vintage product, like Tangee lipstick. Wouldn’t do me any good now. What happened to new-car smell? I see sprays that provide what new cars have lacked for decades. My last fragrant auto was a spiffy ’72 Olds Cutlass convertible with white leather upholstery. Subsequent Subarus and Toyotas arrived fragrance-free. Garlic: Here’s the story. My mother-in-law despised garlic. The very word made her shudder. She was an excellent cook without it. Then I took over the big family meals, aware of but not bound by her prohibitions. I remember a holiday back in the day when a standing rib roast didn’t cost more than a root

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He does it around 25 percent of the time. He strolls outside, armed with his book bag in one hand and his trumpet case in the other and hikes the .8 miles down the gravel road to the bus stop. Or, if he’s done fixing his hair by 6:55, his dad drives him the .8 miles to the bus stop. I’m typically taking a shower at this point, maybe working on my own hair when he calls. It’s usually five minutes after he leaves, sometimes 10. “Mom, I forgot my lunch. Will you bring it to me?” Only twice have I not taken it to him. Cruel, maybe, but I wanted him to learn the natural consequences of forgetting his lunch. He is, after all, one day shy of 13. It’s his job to remember. The first time I said, “No, I can’t take you your lunch. I don’t have time.” He said OK and hung up, and all day I felt stings of guilt. I tried to will them away, but thought of him hungry, shriveling in a corner of the classroom, so hungry he couldn’t pay attention to fractions, integers, or even more dramatic, adverbs and prepositional phrases. (Gasp!) When I picked him up from school, he bebopped out to the car, looking his high-energy self. I was a little taken back. “How was your day? I bet you’re hungry.” “Oh, fine. I just ate lunch at school.” “Oh, really.” (I had not put any money on his account in a while and was pretty sure he had a zero or negative balance.) “With what money?” “I just charged it. No big deal. Every one charges lunch, Mom. Everyone.” “Don’t charge your lunch again.” The next time he called, while I was straight-ironing my hair and still had several sections to do, he said, “Mom, I left my lunch on the counter. Can you drive it to me?” “Sorry, I don’t have time this morning. You are going to have to be more responsible. Do not charge your lunch.” Again, all day I felt guilt. I told him not to charge his lunch, but what

was he supposed to do? I willed away these guilt feelings when children who really are hungry came to mind. Neither of my boys has ever really missed a meal, not really. He would be fine, and he would learn. When I picked him up, he was still alive. Very much alive, talking in the way he talks, that if it were written out, there would be no commas or periods. Just run-on sentence after run-on sentence punctuated with exclamation points, lots of them. “How did you do?” “Oh, fine. I just ate Ethan’s lunch.” “Wait, what? David!” “He shared, and then basically let me eat it all. Mom, it’s OK. He shares his lunch with me a lot.” Great. Now I have to reimburse lunches to Ethan’s mom. “Quit stealing other kids’ lunches!” He continues to forget his lunch, maybe once every two weeks. Back to yesterday. He spent 17 minutes on his hair, and his lunch was simply an afterthought. He called around 12 minutes after he left the house. I grumbled that he was going to make me late for work. That this was the last time ever in the history of moms I was going to interrupt my getting-ready-for-work routine and drive down the hill just to take him his lunch. I stopped at the bottom of the hill and there he was, book bag and trumpet case on the grass and phone in hand, thumbs flying over the keys. He didn’t even look up. I rolled down the window and the thought to throw his lunch out and drive off passed through my mind. He looked up and a smile passed over his lips, the one that shifted to his eyes. “Thanks, Mom. I love you.” I obviously don’t know the solution; I’m not asking for advice here. All I know is, those words, coming from him, melted all my madness away. Just like that. It didn’t matter if he meant them or if he was just trying to soften the mood. I drove back up the hill thinking that taking him his lunch may not be so bad and maybe I should just start planning for it. Until the next time . . . PS Sara Phile teaches English composition at Sandhills Community College.

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TV Dinner Turkey vultures are the ultimate scavengers

By Susan Campbell

There! By the edge of the road: It’s a big, dark bird.

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It looks sort of like it a wild turkey. But is it? Its head and face are red. It has a pale, hooked bill and a feathery neck. But the tail is the tip-off — it’s short. Definitely not the right look for a turkey — but perfect for a turkey vulture! (Feel free to call it a buzzard — or a “TV” by those in the know.)

The confusion is understandable since wild turkeys have made quite a comeback in Piedmont North Carolina. In fact, turkey vultures and turkeys can occasionally be seen sitting near one another in farm fields where they both can find food or just take advantage of the warmth of the dark ground on cool mornings. However, turkey vultures are far more likely to be seen soaring overhead or perhaps perched high in a dead tree or cell tower. These birds have an unmistakable appearance in the air, forming a deep V-shape as they soar through the air, sometimes for literally hours on end. They’re easy to spot with their very large wingspans. At the very end of their wings look for their distinctive fingerlike primary feathers. The tail serves as a rudder, allowing the bird to navigate effortlessly as it is lifted and transported by thermals and other currents high above the ground. It is from this lofty vantage that turkey vultures travel in search of their next meal. Although their vision is poor, their sense of smell is keen. They can detect the aroma of a dead animal a mile or more away. They soar in circles, moving across the landscape with wings outstretched, sniffing all the while until a familiar odor catches their attention. Turkey vultures are most likely to feed on dead mammals but they will

not hesitate to eat the remains of a variety of foods including other birds, reptiles and even fish. They prefer freshly dead foods but may have to wait to get through the thick hide of larger animals if there is no wound or soft tissue allowing access. Toothed scavengers such as coyotes may literally need to provide that opportunity. Once vultures can get to flesh, they are quick to devour their food. Without plumage on their heads, there are no feathers to become soiled as they reach into larger carcasses for the morsels deep inside. Our summering turkey vultures perform elaborate courtship flights in early spring. One will lead the other through a series of twists, turns and flaps as they pair up. As unattractive as vultures seem to us, they are good parents. Nests are well-hidden in hollow stumps or piles of debris, in old hawk or heron nests or even abandoned buildings. They seek out cooler spots that are well away from human activity in order to protect their blind, naked and defenseless young. Vulture populations are increasing across North Carolina — probably due to human activity. Roadways create feeding opportunities year-round. Landfills also present easy feeding opportunities as well, believe it or not. During the winter months turkey vultures from the north migrate south, often concentrating in one area. Their large roosts can be problematic. A hundred or more large birds pouring into a stand of mature pines or loitering on a water tower does not go unnoticed. But most people take turkey vultures for granted or don’t even notice them. In reality, they are unparalleled scavengers — especially given the increase in roadways and the inevitable roadkill that has resulted. PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photographs at susan@ncaves.com.

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A Better Idea

Coffee on the porch turns into long gowns and tuxedos

By Tom Bryant

“Bryant?”

“Yeah?” “I’ve got a great idea.” “Coleman, every time you get a great idea, I either get in a lot o’ trouble or it costs me a lot o’ money.”

We were kicked back on the porch at the Wildlife Club after a great morning jump-shooting ducks on the Haw River. It was a classic kind of hunt. Everything came together at just the right time. The water on the river was at a good level, with the current flowing fast enough to keep us on our toes but still a leisurely speed enabling us to enjoy our surroundings. And what surroundings they were. Hickory trees were decked out in all their yellow glory backed up by golden-leafed oaks. Bright green-colored cedars added a perfect backdrop, providing a classic early morning fall picture, something that you only see if you’re lucky, or sometimes in sporting magazines. It’s a classic way to duck hunt, jump-shooting from a canoe. We put the boat in at the mill dam in Saxapahaw, and using an electric kicker, motored upstream to the confluence of the river and a little creek at Swepsonville. We then floated slowly downstream, hunting as we drifted along. Wood ducks like to swim close to the shore dabbling for fallen acorns or berries that grow near the bank. They silently float under overhanging alders and when disturbed will burst from their feeding space like a covey of quail. The sport, in hunting out of a tipsy canoe, is not to flip over when the duck zips out from under the alders. It’s almost like shooting from a skateboard. One wrong turn and a hunter can hit the drink. Poor form, especially when the temperature is hovering around 40 degrees and the truck is a couple of miles away. Usually when I’m jump-shooting, I’m all by my lonesome. I’ll only get in a canoe with another hunter if his experience in paddling a boat and his

competence with a shotgun is as good or better than mine. You don’t get second chances with a shotgun or a fast flowing river. With Dick Coleman, I had the best of both worlds, a superb canoer and a magnificent gun handler. I’ve marveled more than once at some impossible shots he made in the field. I definitely wouldn’t tell him that, though. We’ve been friendly competitors since our early days, when we became close friends. With two hunters jump-shooting from a canoe, there are a couple of very important rules — number one, and the most critical, only one shooter at a time. Number two, silence is more than golden, it can be the difference in a successful duck hunt or just a float down the river. On this trip, Coleman was to be the first shooter. We cut a few branches from a cedar tree and rigged them to overhang the bow of the boat. My canoe was camouflaged anyway, but the cedar would provide a little more cover. We wanted to look like a tree floating downstream. On the first flush, Dick got his limit of two wood ducks, a hen and a drake. He made a great double, getting both ducks as they were crossing left to right. They actually jumped from the left bank and crossed right in front of the canoe. That’s the fun in jump-shooting; a gunner never knows where they’ll come from. We rapidly picked up the floating ducks and made it to the bank to change over, Dick now in the stern and me in the bow. I got my limit with a couple of singles, two wood duck drakes, the last one right at the take-out where we had left the Bronco. It was too early in the season to try again for mallards; and since we had our limit of wood ducks, we picked up and decided to head to the Wildlife Club and a pot of good coffee. Dick Coleman, gone too soon, was an amazing individual. I met him early in my settled-down life. I was just out of the service, back in college and married to a beautiful, smart young brunette. I had a part-time job at the local newspaper, and Coleman was busy managing one of his family’s men’s specialty stores. We were friends right off the bat, especially when we found out about our service in the Marines. Dick was at Parris Island about three months after I left the basic training camp, and he coincidently was in the

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First Battalion and had the same drill instructors. We could really commiserate with one another, and we became fast friends. Dick got up from his chair to get another cup of coffee. “You want to hear my great idea or what?” “I hope it’s not like the last great idea that almost got us killed on the same river we got those ducks this morning.” “Nope, this one’s more sedate, and that river trip last spring was as much your doing as mine.” The trip he was talking about was one we made after careful planning: float the Haw to the Cape Fear River, then to Wilmington and the Atlantic Ocean. A great plan, but with one problem: When we put the canoes in at Saxapahaw the Haw River was at flood stage, and quickly chewed us up and spit us out. On that adventure we learned a valuable lesson about white-water paddling and surviving an angry river. “Christmas is just a few weeks away. What if we get Vernon and Lasly and the girls, and have a fantastic Christmas game dinner. We’ve got plenty of game. I know you’ve got lots of doves and ducks in your freezer; so have I. Vernon’s got a few pheasants. I think Lasly has some venison somebody gave him, and we could get together the fixin’s with no problem. It would be simple.” “And where do you plan on having this little cookout? That close to Christmas, I know the ladies would pitch a fit if we suggested having it at one of our houses.” “No, man. Right here. We’ll have the feast right here at the Wildlife Club.” “Dick, this place is just a little better than a warehouse. I mean, look at it. It’s all right for a bunch of guys, but to bring Lida and Linda and Vicky and Libby? Man, they would have us scrubbing this place before they’d set foot in it.” “You’re the writer. Where’s your imagination? We’ll make it a black-tie affair. You know, not a whole lot o’ light, we’ll use candles, white tablecloths, a blazing fire in the fireplace. We’ll decorate, we’ll have a Christmas tree, we can cut one of those cedars up by the skeet range, and holly, there’s plenty of that next to the pond, full of berries. We’ll send fancy invitations to the girls and make it a real dress-up shindig.” Believe it or not, it all came together the Saturday before Christmas. The ladies came dressed to the nines in long gowns that would be more suitable at the country club than out in the woods at a sportsmen’s simple clubhouse, and the guys cleaned up a lot, sporting tuxedos. It was quite an affair, and turned into the first annual game dinner that I would continue for the next 35 years. It was one of Coleman’s better ideas. PS Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident,p is a lifelong outdoorsman and PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist.

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Money Well Spence A new day for CCNC’s Dogwood Course

By Lee Pace

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Robert “Ziggy” Zalzneck was a young accounting intern in Raleigh a long way from his Pennsylvania home during the holidays and was given access to the Country Club of North Carolina’s golf course on Christmas Day 1967. He had the place to himself. “I played 36 holes and it was 70 degrees,” Zalzneck says. “It was the prettiest place I’d ever been my whole life. I’ve loved the place ever since.”

Kris Spence was a young green superintendent at Greensboro Country Club in the mid-1980s when club staff and officers held a planning retreat at CCNC, the private, gated community nestled in the center of a triangle formed by Pinehurst, Southern Pines and Aberdeen. “I’ll never forget coming onto the property the first time,” Spence remembers. “It was so impressive and set a standard you noticed quickly. It was a standard above even the best private clubs in the state.” And Alex Bowness, a young homebuilder in Southern Pines, was invited to play the Ellis Maples-designed course in 1977 and knew immediately that he wanted to become a member. “I’ll never forget playing the 15th hole the first time,” he says of the par-4 that kisses against the shore of Watson’s Lake — one of seven holes on the back nine accented by water. “It was April, the dogwoods were in bloom, and some dog ran

across the fairway. It was a spellbinding vision. It took my breath away. I can see it today as if it were yesterday.” Thirty-nine years later, Bowness is sitting in an Adirondack chair nestled in the pine forest between the fourth hole of the Dogwood golf course and his Williamsburg-style home. His cavalier king spaniel, O. Max, cavorts through the pine straw. It’s been home for Bowness and wife Susan since 2000. “When we drive through the gate, our shoulders fall down,” he says. “It’s very relaxing. We live 2.4 miles from the gate, and it’s a nice, soft ride. From here we see golfers go by, we see little boats go by with fishermen. There’s even a bald eagle who lives near here; sometimes late in the day you’ll see him swoop through the trees. It’s almost like coming into a park.” This “park” is now 53 years old, but it has a fresh coat of paint (and grass and sand and tree-scape) following a nine-month shutdown for Spence, now a golf course architect, to make significant changes to the course on agronomic, strategic and maintenance fronts. In nearly two decades of golf design, Spence has specialized in restoring and remodeling vintage courses by Golden Age architects like Donald Ross and then, from the next generation, Ellis Maples, the son of Ross’ green superintendent and construction foreman at Pinehurst, Frank Maples. “Anyone who comes here has an expectation,” says Spence, who supervised the remodeling of the Dogwood course from November 2015 through Labor Day weekend of 2016. “It’s a lofty one. We can’t hit a triple here, we have to hit a grand slam. The expectation level is very high. The expectation was of excellence. When I came here to walk the course before the interview, it was anything but that. Time had just taken a toll on this golf course.” While the Sandhills golf community had been built since the turn of the 20th century on resort golf and semi-private courses, a group of North Carolina busi-

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nessmen believed in the early 1960s the state needed a private club centrally located that could draw members from Raleigh to Charlotte and beyond. Raleigh accountant Dick Urquhart, Greensboro investment banker Hargrove “Skipper” Bowles, Greensboro developer and builder Griswold Smith, and Raleigh attorney James Poyner were the four founding members and soon enticed three dozen “charter members” to join the club. They represented a Who’s Who of North Carolina business and philanthropy, among them C.C. Cameron of Raleigh, George Watts Carr of Durham, Frank Kenan of Durham, James Harris of Charlotte ,and Karl Hudson of Raleigh. “What could be better than a good club centrally located for nearly all of us, ideally suited for golf, horses, hunting or just plain socializing?” Urquhart asked in a 1962 letter to charter members. Willard Byrd studied landscape architecture at N.C. State in the late 1940s with an emphasis on land planning and had opened a shop in the landplanning business in Atlanta in 1956. He was hired to draw the master plan for CCNC, which would include approximately 300 residential lots averaging two acres apiece. The golf course was routed at the outset, with the lots to be arranged around the best land for golf. Much discussion ensued at the beginning over the issue of wrapping nine holes of golf around Watson’s Lake, thus eliminating some premier lakefront building lots. At the time, Byrd was not officially a golf architect, so Maples was retained to collaborate on the creation of the golf course, to be named after the preponderance of dogwood trees on the property. The original plans have both the names of Byrd and Maples on the blueprint for each hole. Byrd created the routing and Maples designed the features — the green shapes and undulations, bunkers and placement of hazards. “The course should be second to none from the very start,” said Urquhart, whose views that the golf course should get the premier lakefront exposure won out in that discussion. The course opened in 1963 and was one of the original members of Golf Digest’s 100 Greatest Golf Courses and was site of the 1971 and 1972 Liggett & Myers Match Play Championship on the PGA Tour (won by Dewitt Weaver and Jack Nicklaus) and the 1980 U.S. Amateur (won by Hal Sutton). It has hosted six Southern Amateurs (with Ben Crenshaw and Webb Simpson among the winners), and the 110-year-old championship will return in 2017. It has been the venue for the 2010 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship as well as multiple Carolinas Golf Association championships, including three Carolinas Amateurs and seven North Carolina Amateurs. The course remained in Digest’s rankings until 1999, when it was muscled out by the many outstanding new courses from the 1990s golf boom. The original course was so popular the club built a second one and named it the Cardinal in keeping

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BIRD FEEDER I never said we weren’t sunk in glittering nature, until we are able to become something else. — Mary Oliver Perches pique a matter of strategic challenges, this chess game of poached positions and rotating flurries of chromatic energy, as if the flash and dash of feathers in flight was more about the dance and not the flush of necessity’s plight . . . as if we ourselves were not also in restless rush, breathing out the flux and plottings of our small and uncertain profundities. — Connie Ralston

Sam’s Club

At the height of the Jim Crow era, little Jackson Hamlet’s Ambassadors Club hosted R&B and rock ’n roll’s greatest stars By Bill Case

aybe there had been some trouble with the law back in Georgia. Maybe there’d been a fight and someone died. Could be that’s why he hightailed it out of the state and made his way to the Sandhills in the 1920s. And maybe that explains why the strapping 6-foot-5, 250-pound John Nelson began using another name — Sam Arnette. One thing was certain: If he was a fugitive, Moore County was the ideal place to live on the lam, since law enforcement was only a sometime thing. Whatever the murky circumstances of Arnette’s past, he made his presence felt in the African-American enclave of Jackson Hamlet, sandwiched between Aberdeen and Pinehurst. When Sam arrived on the scene, the community’s several hundred residents provided a significant portion of the workforce serving Pinehurst’s renowned resort. Maids, caddies, cooks, gardeners and waiters all called Jackson Hamlet home. The paychecks may not have

stretched very far, but they were going to be spent somewhere. If a person of brown or black skin color fancied a bite to eat in a restaurant, however, that was a problem. In North Carolina’s mid-20th century segregated society, blacks were not welcome in any bar, restaurant, or other public accommodation where whites were present. Black businessmen filled the void. Tiny pocket stores providing groceries and other necessities popped up in Jackson Hamlet. In the late 1930s, Sam Arnette embarked on his own entrepreneurial voyage, opening a combination filling station and restaurant on the Aberdeen-Pinehurst Road, now N.C. 5. Sam’s Cafe became a favorite meeting spot for folks swapping gossip and family news while dining on fried chicken and pork sandwiches cooked by Myrtle Houston, who would become Arnette’s second wife. On Sept. 25, 1944 an earth-shattering explosion rocked Arnette’s business, breaking store windows and the glass in the gas pumps. Remnants of military blasting materials were found in the debris, and

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Sam suspected white officers from nearby Camp Mackall who had been refused service at Sam’s Cafe were responsible. Given what the higher-ups deemed to be inconclusive circumstantial evidence, the officers were never prosecuted. After the war, Arnette’s cafe faced a different danger — competition. Just yards away, the House of Blue Lights opened, sporting a jukebox. For a nickel, recordings from a new wave of swinging black musicians like Billie Holliday, Louis Jordan and Joe Turner spun on the turntable. Couples strutted their stuff on the joint’s compact dance floor. Deep in the piney woods, accessed by a rutted sand path barely wide enough for one car to pass, James “Babe” Gaines operated yet another sweet juke joint he called Cabin in the Pines, and Jake Lawhorn’s Paradise Grill opened too. Recognizing that the war’s end would cause business to boom at the resort, Arnette made a savvy investment that set him apart from his business competitors in the community. He reasoned new service jobs would mean new workers who would require new housing. When the opportunity arose to purchase a 25-acre grape vineyard across the Norfolk and Southern Railroad tracks on the eastern side of the highway from Sam’s Sam Arnette Cafe, Arnette jumped on it. For an investment of $74 an acre, he became the land baron of Jackson Hamlet. New homes sprouted up where, even today, Arnette Street crosses the tracks into the “Arnette Subdivision.” Carolina Hotel by becoming its first African-American chambermaid in the Sam kept two acres adjacent to the Norfolk and Southern tracks for mid-1940s, but her moonlight job was as Sam’s ticket seller at the Ambassadors something else he had in mind. Noting the popularity of the juke joints, he Club. She remembers collecting $2 a head, though the amount varied dependreckoned live music would have surefire appeal. Top black musicians were ing on the reputation of the performer. As many as 250 patrons would pay already performing in a network of bars, clubs and restaurants throughout the their way inside, a fire code being a quaint concept. Admission was good for a South, collectively known as the “Chitlin’Circuit.” Sam figured his land would night of entertainment and dancing along with sandwiches prepared by Myrtle be an ideal location to build a nightclub that could become a regular stop on Houston in the club’s modest kitchen. Beer and wine could be purchased at the circuit. There were several African-American neighborhoods in the county the bar, tended by Mae’s husband, Brice. Long-time civic activist Carol Henry to draw from, and if the area’s young ladies came, then the black soldiers from remembers that when a big show was held at the Ambassadors Club, “you nearby Camp Mackall would likely break down the doors to join them. couldn’t get in.” Cars filled the parking lot and spilled up one end of the road Arnette’s dream nightclub, the Ambassadors Club, caught the eye of all who and down the other. Though the raised stage was large enough to accommodate happened by. The building’s very design announced that this was a place where the big bands of the ’40s, after the war, the combos tended to have three to five music was played and heard. Viewed from the road, the structure’s peculiar members, a trend that would have been welcomed by Sam Arnette and other curvature at its south end gave the impression of a gigantic alabaster double club operators on the Chitlin’ Circuit. As Billboard Magazine reported, “the nut bass lying strings-up on the ground. (i.e., guarantee) for a small unit is much lower than for a 20 piece band.” Precise details of the club’s history are scarce. In the 1940s and ’50s the loAccording to Murchison, the dance floor was where the action was. There cal white-run newspapers tended to ignore the goings on in areas where blacks weren’t many wallflowers at the Ambassadors Club. Dressed to the nines — lived, be it Jackson Hamlet, Taylortown or West Southern Pines. Fortunately, men in coats and ties, women dolled up in their best dresses — couples reveled there are still some folks around old enough to remember Sam Arnette and in the acrobatic maneuvers characteristic of the popular swing dances. The his club. better men dancers would lay down spectacular tap routines. A fringe benefit Ida Mae Murchison, a 96-year-old resident of the Pine Lake facility in of Mae’s job was that Sam permitted her to dance the night away gratis once Carthage, is beset with the typical infirmities expected for a nonagenarian. she’d collected the evening’s take. And make no mistake; Mae considered this But Mae’s mind remains sharp and when she talks about Sam Arnette and the a major perk. Husband Brice, was stuck behind the bar, so she danced with club, her face lights up like a schoolgirl’s. Murchison broke the color line at the PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 2016

Courtesy of Mae and Butch Murchison

Left-right: Sara Margaret McRae, Chris Floyd, Euley Floyd, Brice Murchison, Audrey Leak, Sam Leak, Mae Murchison, John McLean, Velma Shipman, Fred Shipman, Anne McLean. Photographed by Artemus McRae circa 1955.

friends. She chuckled recalling her prolonged and energetic night of dancing with a local doctor who was so exhausted at the end of the evening he was forced to postpone a scheduled tonsillectomy the following day. Asked whether stronger alcoholic spirits than beer and wine were illegally sold at the club, even at 96 Mae could not quite bring herself to confirm any bootleg activity went on. “I heard tell something about that,” she said demurely. Her 72-year-old son, Butch Murchison, was too young during the club’s heyday to be an eyewitness, but he doubts Sam or his father made liquor available on the premises, although he said both knew where it could be had on short notice. Virtually every restaurant and hotel selling beer or wine in Moore County had a way to find the hard stuff for thirsty customers. “Nobody felt there was anything wrong with selling liquor,” Butch recalls of the prevailing sentiment. On the rare occasion when a raid was planned by the authorities, it was not unheard of for some friendly public employee to provide advance notice of the impending bust. Anytime young men (particularly soldiers on leave) are mixed together with women and alcohol, there is some risk of a disturbance, but the Ambassadors Club had surprisingly few. If an incident did occur, Sam was armed with a pistol. Though he never actually fired it, if the circumstances demanded he was known to occasionally employ it as a blunt instrument. Myrtle Houston packed heat too. According to another long-time Jackson Hamlet resident, Lillian M. Barner, who remembers Sam’s wife well, “You didn’t mess with Myrtle.” Advertising acts for the Ambassadors Club was a two-man job. Arnette had taken a liking to Butch, not even a teenager yet, and the pair would drive Sam’s shiny ’53 Buick to African-American neighborhoods to tack up posters heralding the coming attractions. The tight-knit communities took it from there, spreading the news by word of mouth. Arnette made a lasting impression on his young sidekick. “Sam was totally no nonsense when it came to his business. No fooling around. When the radio was on, he always turned it to the news. He wanted to know what was going on in the world. Later, when I became involved with my own businesses, I was influenced by his example,” said Butch.

Securing the services of out-of-town African-American performers involved more than simply paying their performance fees. None of the hotels allowed blacks, so local Jackson Hamlet residents often housed the artists during their gigs. Sam’s house, across the road from the Ambassadors Club, provided extra beds for band members to crash. The Murchisons were among the families that guested musicians, and wide-eyed young Butch relished listening to tales of their adventures on the road. Before the Chitlin’ Circuit came along, it was difficult for black artists and bands to find places to perform, particularly in the South. Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Cab Calloway were exceptions whose music found favor with white audiences in the 1930s and ’40s. But performers of “race music” (mainly blues and R&B) were mostly shut out from touring until black promoters and club owners in the South created enough of a network that artists could hop from town to town playing in a series of grueling one-night stands. The business model followed by the artists comprising the mid-century Chitlin’ Circuit matches the one still motivating the music industry today. Live shows were designed to increase the demand for the performer’s recordings; the hoped-for jump in record sales would presumably cause a corresponding boost in attendance at future shows. If fortunate, a black singer might sell enough records to land a spot on Billboard Magazine’s R&B chart. But since black artists of the late ’40s and early ’50s couldn’t expect to attract large numbers of whites to their music, their prospects for major commercial success were limited. Young talents like Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino and James Brown barnstormed the South, playing black nightclubs and roadhouses, hoping to net a couple of hundred dollars from each gig, or at least enough to move on to the next town on the circuit. All of them performed in Jackson Hamlet at the Ambassadors Club, and all are enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The vivacious Ruth Brown became a mainstay on the circuit. When Atlantic Records released her song “Teardrops from My Eyes” in 1950, it quickly ascended to No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B chart. It was not long before “Miss Rhythm” was the acknowledged queen of R&B. Music critics said that in the South, Ruth Brown was “better known than Coca-Cola.” When she recorded

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James Brown

While the gigs of these greats at the Ambassadors Club were memorable, it was the electrifying performance of young James Brown and his Famous Flames that most vividly sticks in Mae Murchison’s mind. A chill went up her spine when she saw “The Hardest Working Man in Show Business” on his knees shaking off his cape and pleading for the love and attention of all the young women in the house as he belted out “Please, Please, Please” to thunderous applause. Though performers often venture into the crowd to sing, the irrepressible Brown took things one step further, leading the Flames outside the club to the railroad tracks, the audience in tow, to listen in rapture as Brown’s high-powered voice echoed through the pines of Jackson Hamlet. Given that three other joints were located just a stone’s throw away from the club, the band’s foray onto the tracks gave a number of folks the unexpected privilege of watching the unbridled James Brown in action. Talk about advertising! Just at the time many of the club’s performers were breaking through to a wider audience, Sam Arnette died, on Nov. 28, 1954, at the age of 59. It was not long before it closed down for good. Its demise didn’t mark the end of great music in the building, however. After the club property was sold to the Jones Temple Church of God in 1962, the church conducted rousing revivals featuring performances of gospel stars like the Dixie Hummingbirds and Shirley Caesar. After several decades, the church abandoned the property and the building was razed. A passerby today won’t find any vestige of the old club or any remembrances of the many greats who preformed there: Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino or James Brown. Most of the buildings that housed the other joints are long gone, too. The lone exception is Sam’s gas station and cafe on Rt. 5 at the west end of Jackson Hamlet — the one that nearly blew up in 1944. A curtain store occupies the space. Butch Murchison believes that the heyday of Sam Arnette’s Ambassadors Club was, “the happiest time for people who weren’t happy otherwise.” All that remains is the sound of a voice high up in the pines. PS

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Pinehurst resident Bill Case is PineStraw’s history man. He can be reached at Bill.Case@thompsonhine.com. Bobby Darin’s composition “This Little Girl’s Gone Rockin’” in 1958, the song crossed over and climbed high on the pop charts. Florida native Ray Charles hit the circuit in the early ’50s. His piano and vocal style blended gospel, jump blues, jazz, country and boogie-woogie in a new, irresistible sound. His 1954 R&B hit for the Atlantic label, “I Got a Woman,” brought Charles to the pinnacle of that genre. “What’d I Say,” released in 1959, established the man known as “The Genius” as a pop sensation as well. Charles is well-remembered for a stand he took in the battle for civil rights. In March 1961, he balked at playing a date in Augusta, Georgia, when he learned that blacks and whites were going to be separately seated. Mae Murchison’s most vivid recollection of Charles’ appearance at the Ambassadors Club occurred in the parking lot when she witnessed an angry Ray cussing a blue streak after running his hand over a fresh dent in his sedan. Born and raised in New Orleans, piano man Antoine “Fats” Domino first came into the public eye in 1949 with his R&B record “The Fat Man.” Later efforts like “Ain’t That a Shame” (1955) and “Blueberry Hill” (1956) became massive cross-over pop hits after more mainstream artists’ (Elvis Presley and Pat Boone) renditions of R&B music paved the way for white acceptance of Fats, Ray, Little Richard and other stalwarts of the Chitlin’Circuit. Suddenly they were being hailed as pioneers of a new form of music — rock ’n’ roll. Fats later remarked, “Everybody started calling my music rock ’n’ roll. But it wasn’t anything but the same rhythm and blues I’d been playing down in New Orleans.”

Sam’s gas station and cafe, the one that nearly blew up in 1944, as it is today.

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Secrets of the Deep

A pair of colorful and passionate marine archaeologists bring the Civil War to the surface By Jim Moriarty

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magine Indiana Jones in a wetsuit and a mask instead of a leather jacket and a fedora. Forgo the melting faces of Nazis and the Thugee priest with that whole snatch-your-heart-out-of-your chest thing. Make it something more along the lines of a couple of guys with ribcages expanded from a lifetime of breathing underwater, advanced degrees on the walls and cabinet drawers stuffed full of charts and maps — guys who live and breathe a passion for finding and preserving the bits and pieces of our collective barnacle-covered heritage, even if they do get their air out of a tank. The deputy state archaeologist-underwater, John W. “Billy Ray” Morris III, and his archaeological dive supervisor, Greg Stratton, spend most of their workday researching databases at computers in a World War II-era cinderblock building tucked so far back in the live oaks near the entrance to Fort Fisher there’s a sign on the door that says:

Head of North Carolina’s division of marine archaeology, John W. “Bill Ray” Morris, left, and Archaeological Dive Supervisor, Greg Stratton

Keep this Door Closed! Snakes and other critters are Coming into the Building So, at least they’ve got the reptiles covered, Indiana Jones-wise. Morris is North Carolina’s fourth head of underwater archaeology. He met the first one, Gordon Watts, when he was 15 years old. “I was putting my wetsuit on to go surfing right behind that window right there,” says Morris, pointing out the back window of his office. “Gordon came wandering out and said, ‘What are you doin’?’ and I said, ‘I’m going surfin’ dude. What are you doing?’ and he said he was the underwater archaeologist for the state of North Carolina. I said nobody’s got that job.” Now, Morris does and it’s as good a fit as a dive skin. You might as well say he began prepping for it before he was in grade school. His uncle David Midgely was an underwater demolition team diver in the Navy who took his young nephew under his wing, holding him below the surface with one arm and sharing his breathing regulator with him with the other from the time Morris was 5 years old. After getting a degree at UNCW and a master’s in marine archaeology from East Carolina University, Morris

Sunk off Kure Beach, the Stormy Petrel is one of the Confederate blockade runners in the Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District

built a globetrotting career out of combing through other people’s wreckage. Bermuda. France. Jamaica. Trinidad. Tobago. Ecuador. El Salvador. California. Canada. Labrador. Mexico. Nevis. St. Eustatius. The Bahamas. Spain. And, most especially, Florida, where he created the Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program. “If I’ve missed any, they’ll come back to me,” he says. “I spent 15 years every summer working for the Naval History and Heritage Command on the CSS Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg in France,” says Morris. “Then I spent five years hanging out in Bermuda working on a Spanish messenger vessel called a patache. We recovered that entire vessel, which is kind of a rarity.” Fresh from graduate school, Morris worked on one of Lord Cornwallis’ scuttled ships in Yorktown. “We did a bunch of crap with BBC and National Geographic for that one,” he says. “But, the project that will always stick with me is the Alabama. To get to dive on that wreck was really special, plus we got to live in France three months out of the year. I had absolutely no complaints about hanging out on the French coast every summer.” The Alabama, commanded by the legendary commercial raider Raphael Semmes, was sunk by the USS Kearsarge in a celebrated naval battle in 1864. Éduard Manet recreated the engagement in a painting that hangs in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “It was 220 feet deep,” says Morris of the Alabama wreck. “We did the work with the French Navy because it’s inside a French exclusion zone for a nuclear submarine base. Gordon Watts was the project director. Because of the depth we had to wear two tanks on our backs, two tanks under our arms and another one on our stomachs. You only had an hour and 15 minutes that you could work on the site before the current got so bad it would blow you to England.” Just a routine day at the office, except maybe for that time Morris’ regulator blew at 200 feet. He and Watts buddy-breathed their way to safety. “I don’t think Gordon’s heartbeat even went up,” says Morris. “When we got back to the boat I suggested it was time for a few adult beverages.” It was, after all, France. “We would stagger three dive teams five minutes apart. First group would start something, second group would do most of the work, third group would clean up. We managed to intersperse it with cheese and red wine. I was not one of the divers that drank a glass of red wine and

then dive, but the French Navy guys, they’d polish off a couple of glasses while they were suiting up. I’m like, how can you do that? They’d say, we’ve done it from birth. Those guys were really, really good.” The wreck in Bermuda was a small messenger vessel that went down in 1582. “I made a series of research models that are on exhibit in the National Museum of Bermuda,” says Morris. “When conservation is completed we’ll put the ship back together as a focal point for the museum’s display. They took one of the site drawings I made and used it for the back of the $50 bill in Bermuda, which was really cool. I called my parents and told them. When it came out they gave me bill 00001 and I insured it and mailed it to my mom. She gets it and she’s like, ‘Your picture’s not on it, Bill.’ ‘That’s the Queen,’ I said, ‘I drew the picture on the back, Mom. They like me there but not that much.’”

f Morris is built like a linebacker, the position he played at Wilmington’s John T. Hoggard High School, Stratton looks like he could play tight end for his beloved University of Texas Longhorns. Born and raised in Beaumont, Stratton was living in Austin before moving to North Carolina. “I came to this later in life,” he says of his archaeological career. “I was a home builder and I was in the military for eight years before that. I waited until both my children graduated high school. I decided to go back to school for what Dad wanted to do. Loved history. Loved archaeology. Started looking around for a degree that has it and I ended up at East Carolina.” And, ultimately, in an office that’s hardly more than a few football fields away from the largest collection of Civil War shipwrecks in the United States. The Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck Discontiguous District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wilmington’s two channel passages (there’s only one now) at the mouth of the Cape Fear River, separated by the navigational obstacle of Frying Pan Shoals, was the lone holdout in the South’s desperate attempt to thwart the Union’s naval blockade. The wrecks of the ships designed specifically to slip through the blockade, along with a few unlucky Union blockaders, remain in the shallow waters so near to shore it seems as though you could wade out and touch them. Blockade running was a dangerous, and lucrative, business. “Fifty percent of

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Billy Ray Morris with artifacts from the blockade runner Modern Greece brought up decades ago by Navy divers

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allowed Morris and Stratton to focus their attention on the blockade runners, a blockade runner’s cargo had to be military in nature. That was Confederate including the goal of creating a kind of Civil War dive park, or at least the law,” says Morris. “It took the boat owners and the captains about 30 seconds beginnings of one, on the blockade runner Condor. “I’m a real big believer to realize this was the most lucrative trade on the face of the planet. You can in creating a sense of stewardship through education,” says Morris. “Those look in the records of the Wilmington Journal or Charleston or Mobile. If you wrecks don’t belong to me. They belong to every single person that lives in wanted the latest Paris fashion or good Scotch whisky, they brought that in and North Carolina. It’s our shared heritage. I want to encourage you to go out and that was personal profit. There were captains that made so many successful dive on it. I want you to be as moved and as impressed as I am. I want people to runs they were wealthy men the rest of their lives. So, you got the best engigo look at these, but I want them to do it responsibly.” neers, the best captains, the best sailors on those boats.” Condor is a more desirable choice than, say, the Agnes Frye for several The blockade runners were unarmed, fast and camouflaged. “These were reasons. “The wrecks north and east of the river mouth, I’ve seen 15-16 feet the cigarette boats of their day, 221 feet long, super advanced,” says Morris. of visibility,” says Morris, far better than the murkiness of the water where They had iron hulls, coal-fired steam engines and state-of-the-art paddlewheels. Frye ran aground. Condor, which went down on its maiden voyage, is also in Nothing the Union had could catch them. “They went out to island entrepôts better shape. “The engines are still in place. The paddlewheels. The rudder in Bermuda or Nassau or Havana, loaded up and sprinted in. They were paintis still hung. Condor is not only well-preserved, but she’s got this staggeringly ed a really, really pale gray. The masts and the funnels would either fold down cool story,” says Morris. The ship was carrying more than just war materiel. or telescope down. The upper decks would be painted white. There are records Its human cargo was the spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow, the Black Rose of the of some of them being painted a dark red with gray camouflage patterns. I was Confederacy. After passing military secrets that aided the South in the first sitting in a bar down on the waterfront in Colombia and I saw a cigarette boat Battle of Bull Run, Greenhow was kept under house arrest in Washington, that was painted red with dark gray stripes on it and I thought about the blockD.C., then released and ultimately dispatched to Europe by Jefferson Davis on ade runners because I didn’t think that cigarette boat was painted that way for a diplomatic and fundraising misshow. I didn’t have the audacity sion. Returning on the Condor, to walk up and ask them if I Greenhow knew if she was could take a picture.” captured, she’d be executed and, So thoroughly researched when the ship ran aground, she are the Civil War wrecks that tried to escape in a rowboat. It capof the 27 blockade runners and sized and she drowned, weighed seven Union blockaders from down by the gold sovereigns sewn Lockwood’s Folly to Bogue into her petticoats. Inlet, there are only seven “I’m really looking forward to Morris figures he couldn’t go out doing this,” says Morris of the dive to in their 23-foot Parker with park. “The wreck is, I think, one the 250 horse four-stroke engine of the coolest out there. It will hapand lay his hands on — and that pen. I’ve just got to go through the doesn’t include a pair of ironhoops of getting the Coast Guard’s clads and a couple of post-war permission and getting the money vessels. The laying on of hands to buy the buoys. I’m hoping to is pretty much how Stratton have the whole thing done by next came upon their last discovery, summer. I’m figuring with the dive or more properly rediscovery, slates and everything, it’s going the Agnes E. Frye, a blockade to cost $10,000 or less.” Funding runner built in Scotland and gratefully accepted. named after the wife of its comIn the meantime, Morris and mander, Naval Lt. Joseph Frye. Greg Stratton making a site map of Stormy Petral Stratton are hooking up with Since the wrecks can be either their counterparts from NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric buried under the sand or resurrected by any passing tropical storm, relocatAdministration, to do the site map on another blockade runner, Virginius, ing the Frye was an archaeologist’s treasure trove. So poor was the visibility, also captained by Joseph Frye but not, technically speaking, a Civil War wreck. Stratton found the Frye, whose holds may yet contain undisturbed cargo from Built in the same Scottish shipyard and roughly at the same time as the Anges the ship’s fourth attempt at evading Union pursuit in 1864, by “starfishing” on E. Frye, Virginius never made it into the American Civil War. “She was actuthe bottom. “We found her with a side scan sonar,” he says. “I was the first one ally running guns for another war down in Cuba eight years later,” says Morris. to drop in. The first thing I found was a piece of the hull. It took all the skin off “Virginius gets captured off Jamaica by a Spanish gunboat and they take her my knuckles.” back to Cuba. They execute Frye and most of his crew.” The British then While the current cause célèbre of North Carolina shipwrecks is intervene and eventually a U.S. vessel goes to Cuba and brings Virginius back Blackbeard’s Queen Anne’s Revenge, site work there has slowed while preserunder tow. They sail into bad weather and Virginius goes down eight miles vation catches up. “For every dollar you spend in the field,” says Morris, “the from the Agnes E. Frye. “I don’t know what the odds are to have two blockade rule of thumb is that you’ll spend 40 in the lab. Half of the Queen Anne’s runners both built on the Clyde River, both commanded by the same guy, Revenge is up, the other half is still down there. It’s going to be decades before sink within eight miles of each other after running blockades in two separate all that stuff is conserved. The lab is really focusing on catching up on a lot conflicts,” says Morris. of the material because that’s an extremely significant wreck.” In addition to Virginius is 10 miles out in 40 feet of water. Another dive park? “That Morris and Stratton, the Fort Fisher office has two other archaeologists, Chris wouldn’t be my call,” says Morris. “It’s outside of state waters.” Southerly and Nathan Henry, who work on conservation and environmental But he can dream. PS review projects. The hiatus from the leftovers of North Carolina’s most famous pirate has PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . November 2016

Sonny and Gabe

How Wilmington’s legendary coach, Leon Brogden made superstars of a couple hometown heroes By Bill Fields

Sonn y Jurgensen, 1953

Roman Gabriel, 1958

t’s been 63 years since Sonny Jurgensen graduated from New Hanover High School, a very long time by any measure, but the Pro Football Hall of Famer hasn’t forgotten the mood of his happy days. “They were fun times, they really were,” Jurgensen says, his accent still as soft as taffy on a beach blanket. “Lively crowds at home. A bus on the back roads to the away games. Raleigh, Durham — you did a lot of traveling. And Coach Brogden really was a special guy.” They are in their late 70s or early 80s now, and for other men from other places, such a distant chapter might be a cloudy memory. For the boys who suited up in orange and black, who were Wildcats under legendary Leon Brogden in the 1950s, when prep athletics were king in Wilmington and fans packed the bleachers for home games in basketball and football, the recollections tend to come easily. “We didn’t have television in Wilmington until 1954,” says Ron Phelps, 84, a member of the Wildcats’ 1951 state champion basketball team. “If you wanted to enjoy sports, you went to Legion Stadium on football Friday nights or to the gym in the winter. When we came out in our basketball uniforms, the crowd got rowdy. They’d stomp their feet in the balcony and scream and yell.” Jurgensen, 82, was in New Hanover’s Class of 1953, a three-sport athlete who left the Port City to attend Duke and was a star quarterback in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles (1957-1963) and Washington Redskins (1964-1974). Regarded by many as the best pure passer in NFL history, Jurgensen — full name Christian Adolph III — threw for 32,224 yards and 255 touchdowns in his career. “Every pass that man threw fit the situation,” one of Jurgensen’s receivers for the Redskins, Jerry Smith, said upon his NFL retirement. “Fast, slow, curve, knuckleball, 70 yards, 2 inches — they were always accurate. If it wasn’t completed, it wasn’t No. 9’s fault.” Not only did Jurgensen emerge from Wilmington in the post-World War II period and go on to achieve NFL success, so did Roman Gabriel, 76, who graduated from New Hanover High School in 1958. Starring in football, basketball and baseball for the Wildcats as Jurgensen had, Gabriel was quarterback at N.C. State and then enjoyed a lengthy, successful NFL career for the Los Angeles Rams and Philadelphia Eagles, earning NFL Most Valuable Player honors in 1969. Jurgensen and Gabriel might not have achieved what they did without the influence of Brogden, an NHHS institution from 1945 through 1976 and the first high school coach to be inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1970. Proper and placid, Brogden, who died at age 90 in 2000, did not have to shout to be heard. Brogden dressed up when he coached — always coat and tie (and hat on the gridiron) unless he was on the baseball diamond — but didn’t dress down his charges. “If we ever lost a game, he took the blame, and if we won he gave us the credit,” says Jimmy Helms, a 1958 NHHS graduate. “He was really more of a father image. He was a legendary coach but an even better man. You just wanted to please him so much. If you messed up and he was looking down at the floor because he didn’t want to see what he just saw, that was worse than being slapped.” In an era during which teenagers tended to mind their elders, Brogden made a lasting impression on the students he was around. “To me he was just like magic,” says Jackie Bullard, another member of the Class of ’58. “He was probably the calmest, most respected person I’ve ever been around. It’s hard to explain how much that man meant to me. He coached hard without raising his voice. When he spoke, everything was quiet.” Bill Brogden, the middle of Leon and Sarah Brogden’s three sons, who recently retired after

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Marvin Watson, Arthur Jordan, Sonny Jurgensen and Coach Brogden

a long career as a college golf coach, also played on two (1960, ’61) of his dad’s eight state championship basketball teams. “You wanted to play for him, and you didn’t want to disappoint him,” Bill says. “He had your respect, and when he asked you to do something, you didn’t ask why, you just did it.” Although he did plenty of it, winning wasn’t everything to Brogden. “You hear today you’ve got to win or you’re a nobody,” says Gabriel. “With Coach Brogden, it was not about winning or losing, it was how much you enjoy preparing to do the best you can. And that carries over to your schoolwork, your whole life. If you enjoy it, you’re a winner.” Brogden won quickly after arriving in Wilmington following a nine-year stint at Charles L. Coon High School in Wilson, winning the state basketball championship in 1947, the Wildcats’ first North Carolina title in 18 years. The city’s population grew to 45,000 by 1950, a 35 percent increase over a decade in part because of the shipbuilding during the war. That meant a lot of ball-playing kids would eventually play for Brogden and his assistant, Jasper “Jap” Davis, a star fullback at Duke whom Brogden coached in Wilson. “You had so many kids,” Jurgensen says. “We all played. There were guys everywhere.” Jurgensen, whose family operated Jurgensen Motor Transport, a trucking company that carried freight for A&P, grew up on South 18th Street about a mile from New Hanover High School. “Our neighborhood had about 30 boys within a four-block area, and we always had enough kids to make up any kind of game we could think of,” Thurston Watkins Jr. wrote in a 2004 Star-News article. “One day a red-headed kid with a big smile asked to play ball with some of us out in front of his house on a big empty corner lot. Sonny was the name of that red-headed kid.” When boys graduated from pick-up games to organized leagues, Brogden wasted no time having an impact on them. “He would recognize guys in junior high who looked like they were going to be good athletes or good people and take them under his wing,” says Bill Brogden. “He had the junior high school coaches run his system so when kids got to high school everybody would know what was going on.” Jurgensen noticed the continuity when he got to New Hanover. “We practiced all the fundamentals, starting when I played freshman ball,” Jurgensen says. “When you made varsity, it was the same system, which was good. But coach would adjust the offense according to what kind of players we had. We ran the Split-T and a Spread at times.”

ew details escaped Brogden when it came to preparing his players. Jurgensen developed the snap in his throwing arm — and Gabriel also developed a powerful motion — through drills in which the quarterbacks would pass kneeling and sitting. “He’d have you sit on your fanny because it forced you to turn your waist and strengthened your arm,” Gabriel says. In Jurgensen’s junior season (1951), he was a valuable running back and linebacker for the Wildcats, while Burt Grant — who would go on to play at Georgia Tech — quarterbacked the team. During a 34-0 win over Wilson, Jurgensen scored two rushing touchdowns and recovered a fumble, made an interception and blocked a punt. Jurgensen always had a knack for the big play. “One of the first times I saw Sonny,” says Bullard, “we were watching New Hanover play Raleigh one Friday night. I must have been in the sixth or seventh grade. We kicked off to Raleigh and they ran it back 90 yards for a touchdown. When Raleigh then kicked off to us, Sonny returned it a long way for a touchdown. It was 7-7 and I bet only 30 seconds had gone off the clock.” With 10,000 spectators watching at Legion Stadium, New Hanover beat Fayetteville 13-12 in a battle of undefeated teams in 1951 to win its first Eastern Conference title since 1928. The following week the Wildcats beat High Point 14-13 to win their first football state title in 23 years. The Wildcats couldn’t repeat as state champs in 1952, but Jurgensen starred at quarterback and earned All-State honors. That school year, the “Most Athletic” senior averaged 12 points a game for the basketball team and played third base and pitched for the baseball Wildcats, batting .339. “Sonny had that big flashy smile. People idolized him,” Helms says. “He was so natural about anything he did, and he was a great basketball player. Coach would tell about when Sonny made nine shots in a row and never saw a one of them go in the basket. He knew it was going in when he shot it, so he turned and went back down the court.” When Jurgensen was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1983, Brogden told the Star-News: “I will always remember Sonny for his competitive spirit and unusual good sense of humor. He had the ability with his personality and skills to raise the level of play in his teammates and also to stimulate his coaches. Associating with Sonny was not quite like traveling with a big brass band, but you did realize you were with someone special.” While Jurgensen went to Duke — where he played quarterback on a team that passed infrequently and was in the defensive secondary — Gabriel was getting noticed back home for his multi-sport talents. Not as outgoing as Jurgensen, Gabriel had a personality a lot like their coach. “Roman was very serious, very humble,” says Helms. “He was the most unselfish fellow you’ve ever seen and a terrifically hard worker.” Says Bullard, a co-captain with Gabriel in football and basketball and a close friend: “He had a lot of Coach Brogden in him. He wasn’t ‘Rah-rah, look at me, I’m Roman Gabriel.’ He was just a leader who brought everything to the table, and he expected everybody else to bring it to the table too.”

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Gabriel inherited his ethic from his father, Roman Sr., a native of the Philippines. “He went straight to Alaska to can salmon to make a living,” Gabriel says of his father’s early days in the United States, “then he got into Chicago, where he became part of the railroad.” Roman Sr. was a cook and waiter for the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad after moving to Wilmington where he, his wife, Edna (an Irish-American from West Virginia), and Roman Jr. lived in the working-class Dry Pond section of the city in an apartment complex that had been built for shipbuilders. “My father and three other Filipinos who worked with him were probably the only Filipinos in North Carolina at that time,” Gabriel says. “He had a saying, ‘Never let an excuse crawl under your skin.’ That meant that because of who you are, you might have to work a little bit harder. And if you’re not willing to work hard, you don’t deserve to be good. He wasn’t an athlete, but he was probably the best cook and waiter the Atlantic Coast Line had outside of the other three Filipinos.” Because his dad loved baseball, Roman Jr. did too, getting tips as a young boy from a former major leaguer who lived nearby, George Bostic “Possum” Whitted. Brogden noticed Gabriel when he was a 10-year-old Little Leaguer, and the boy developed into a high school first baseman who could hit for power, slugging a 500-foot home run in a game at Fayetteville that old-timers still talk about. By the time he got to high school, basketball had become his top passion.

ith Gabriel a key factor, the Wildcats won the state hoops championship in 1956, ’57 and ’58 and captured the state AAA baseball crown in ’56 and ’57. Twice they were N.C. runner-ups in football. Jurgensen came back to visit his former team. “When I was in high school, Sonny would come out to practice and help Coach Brogden and Coach Davis a little bit,” Gabriel remembers. “I’ve never seen anybody who could throw it like Sonny, a tight spiral every pass.” Gabriel and his teammates in the different sports logged a lot of miles riding in the school’s well-used athletic bus. “We thought we were going to have a wreck because Coach Jap would drive and Coach Brogden would sit behind him and have a conversation,” Gabriel says. “He would be driving the bus with his head turned talking to Coach Brogden.” “We took turns sitting in the back,” says Bullard, “because you always got a little nauseated from the fumes.” Bothered by asthma as a child, Gabriel grew into a 6-foot-3, 200-pound force on the field and court after a growth spurt and summer of working with weights going into his senior year at New Hanover. “Roman got to be a big guy for high school as a senior,” says Bill Brogden. “He was hard to handle inside on the basketball court.” Gabriel proudly points out that he out-jumped a 6-9 Durham center on an opening tip-off, and his athleticism was enhanced by the coaching acumen of Brogden. “He did a lot of studying, and he tried to figure out how to win,” Bill Brogden says. “He was always drawing some kind of play on a napkin. He was so into his job, it was like he was way before his time.” The Wildcats’ three straight basketball championships during Gabriel’s NHHS years were helped by the team’s use of Brogden’s innovative spread offense, which North Carolina coach Dean Smith credited as an inspiration for the famed Four Corners that he began using successfully in the early 1960s. Brogden tweaked his tactic a bit, depending on the makeup of his team. A formidable rebounder, Gabriel was also a good lob passer to Bullard. “It was pretty much the Four Corners, and we won the state championship playing it,” says Bill Brogden. “If you had a good ball handler and were a good free-throw shooting team, nobody could beat you. They couldn’t catch up.” Before Army football flanker Bill Carpenter became well-known as the “Lonesome End” during the 1958 and ’59 seasons, Wilmington utilized a similar ploy. “Howard Knox, our No. 1 receiver, lined up way out near the sideline,” Gabriel says. “He and I had hand signals. He didn’t come back to the huddle on certain plays.” Ten years after Gabriel’s final fall wowing the faithful at Legion Stadium, on Oct. 22, 1967, he squared off against Jurgensen in a Rams-Redskins contest at the Los Angeles Coliseum — the first time the two faced off in the NFL. Brogden flew out to watch, dining with Gabriel the night before and having breakfast with Jurgensen on game day. As if ordained by the man each admired so much, who watched a half from each side of the stadium, the game ended in a 28-28 tie. It is one of Gabriel’s favorite memories of Brogden, but here’s another. Gabriel had read that Boston Celtics star Bob Cousy smoked a cigar to relax before a big game. On the morning of the 1958 N.C. state championship, Gabriel bought five cigars for the Wildcat starters gathered in his hotel room. A knock on the door, and it wasn’t room service. “What are you doing smoking cigars?” Brogden asked. “Ask Gabe,” Bullard said. “Coach,” said Gabriel, “I saw in a sports magazine where Bob Cousy smokes a cigar to relax before a big game, and you know how successful the Celtics are.” “If it’s good enough for Bob Cousy, it’s good enough for my boys,” Brogden said. “But don’t get sick.” PS

Story of a House

The Now House

What’s old is new for a first time homeowning couple in Southern Pines

By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner

avvy millennials Ashley and Casey Holderfield built a house to fit, exactly, their lifestyle and demographics. They wanted . . . A cottage like those built in the mid-1900s near downtown Southern Pines. A pocket neighborhood popular with other young couples who grew up here, left, and are returning to raise families. Space skewed per their needs: a huge front porch furnished for entertaining; open interior with large kitchen but small living room and dining nook because “we eat and hang out” at the bar-island, Ashley says. A shotgun layout with bedrooms off a long unobstructed hall, perfect for 10-month-old Evie’s crawling expeditions. Two smaller porches, one for grilling, the other a balcony off

the master bedroom. A vaulted beadboard ceiling with skylights and many windows to stream natural light. A detached garage, primarily for storage. Wall space for Ashley’s nascent art collection (including a contemporary splatter painting by the two), furniture in dark woods reminiscent of the Craftsman era interspersed with family heirlooms, like a grandmother’s dining room table, and repurposed finds. Yes, that bar cart displaying Casey’s bourbon trove was a baby’s changing table, now with tile shelves and brushed metal towel racks. Ashley confidently placed a giant upholstered chair across a tiny corner. Built-in bookshelves keep small objects out of Evie’s reach. “We use every inch,” Casey says.

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Beadboard-paneled doors echo the informality. Yet despite a modest 1,600 square feet, the living space and porches have accommodated 30 guests who flow from area to area. This arrangement bespeaks a professional touch. Ashley studied interior design and architectural planning at Appalachian State University. This is the first home they have owned, therefore her first opportunity to make a statement implemented by a builder-friend who, Casey says, held their hands through the process.

asey and Ashley have been together since high school, he at Union Pines, she at Pinecrest. They lived in a similar pocket neighborhood in the Myers Park district of Charlotte before deciding in 2010 to repatriate. “My dad grew up in Raleigh so I was familiar with the older bungalow style,” Casey says. Ashley agreed on the motif, which includes tapered porch columns set on brick bases popular in pre-World War II Southern architecture. Given their definite ideas, new construction seemed more practical than search-and-remodel. But finding an oversized lot choked in bamboo was beyond luck. The couple had made an offer on another

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piece when Casey’s father discovered this one — and snapped it up. Ashley and Casey moved in with the senior Holderfields during the six months construction. “We oversaw every little detail — I was familiar with suppliers,” Ashley says. From the street, a deep setback, mature bamboo and wax myrtles give the house a settled appearance. Pale green siding blends into the foliage. Instead of a walkway, stepping stones through the grass lead to the wide porch, where bold black and white striped fabrics keep the wicker contemporary. Ashley is big on holidays. Fall is their favorite season. Ceramic pumpkins decorate the porch and interior before Halloween, remain in place through Thanksgiving, then lights and multiple trees announce Christmas.

he cottage theme may channel 1930s exteriors, but homes of that era hid cramped kitchens out back. The Holderfields sited their food preparation space a few feet from a front door surrounded by dark-wood panels and moldings. Again, the glass-paned white cabinets suggest informality. The sink, part of the granite island/breakfast bar, faces the living room and mantelpiece-mounted TV. “I like to participate in what’s going on,” Ashley says. However, Casey is the primary cook, while Ashley does the holiday baking. “Sometimes we open a bottle of wine and cook together,” Casey says. Thanksgiving means a vegetarian brunch followed, later, by roast Tofurkey.

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In the master bedroom with a tray ceiling and corner windows (wooden blinds another retro touch), Ashley has, once again, fitted a massive upholstered bed frame into an average-sized room. The guest bedroom has an unusual iron bed, also a family piece. Ashley’s palette throughout derives from nature — deep brown, soft green and, in the master bathroom, oceanic turquoise. “We love the outdoors,” she says, proven by taking a six-month furlough from their jobs to hike the Appalachian Trail in a time frame encompassing the 2014 U.S. Open Championship. Rent from the house supported their adventure. That was before Evie, the princess-resident of the third bedroom. Casey objected to pink, purple, frou-frous, but Ashley found white, sand and teal rather boyish. So, she added a shaggy fur rug and, of all things, a metallic gold fabric ottoman which has become the baby’s favorite, along with a sound machine that lulls her to sleep with a whooshing mimicking the womb environment. Jungle animal prints and a near life-sized baby giraffe complete the assortment.

his nouveau cottage representing trendy urban redevelopment lives well, Casey affirms. Before Evie, they walked downtown to restaurants, bars and First Friday. Now, they and other young parents push strollers to parks, play dates and the farmers market. Later on, the kids will attend public rather than private school, Casey hopes. “We did a pretty good job for the first time,” he concludes. But, Ashley concedes, now is fast turning into tomorrow. “It’s almost too small already.” PS

The 2016

Holly and Ivy Dinner A Night of Parlor entertainers and Re-creation of a 1915 Dinner

at The holly Inn

Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016 Cocktails at 6:30pm • Dinner at 7:30pm $125 Per Person A Special Benefit for the Given Memorial Library & Tufts Archives

1915 attire is encouraged, but optional

Make your reservations at www.giventufts.org For more information call 910-295-6022

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It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow By Ash Alder

Sprout Clout

November is crisp air and burn piles, corn crows and starlings, stone soup and Aunt Viola’s pumpkin bars. Many consider this eleventh month to be an auspicious time for manifestation. But first we must clear out the old. As we rake the fallen leaves that blanket the lawn, something deep within us stirs, and an ordinary chore becomes a sacred ritual. This is no longer about yard work. We look up from tidy leaf piles to naked branches, a gentle reminder that we, too, must let go. And so we stand in reverent silence, eyes closed as autumn sunlight paints us golden. In this moment, even if we feel sadness or grief, we give thanks for nature’s wisdom and the promise of spring. Wind chimes sing out from a neighbor’s porch, and we exhale a silent prayer. This month in the garden, plant cool-weather annuals such as petunias and snapdragons, and color your Thanksgiving feast delicious with cold-weather crops such as beets, carrots and Brussels sprouts. Arguably the country’s most hated vegetable (if overcooked, these edible buds turn pungent), one cup of Brussels sprouts is said to contain four times more vitamin C than an orange. Our friends across the pond sure go bonkers over them. In 2008, Linus Urbanec of Sweden wolfed down a whopping thirty-one in one minute, a Guinness World Record. Not to be outdone, in 2014, 49-year-old Stuart Kettell pushed a Brussels sprout to the top of Mount Snowdon — the highest summit in Wales — using only his nose. Although this peculiar mission was designed to raise funds for Macmillan Cancer Support, it also raises a valid question: What else might this cruciferous veggie inspire? Perhaps a nice cherry or Dijon glaze? Better yet, bust out the panko and try your hand at Buffalo Brussels. Thanksgiving football will never be the same.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace   As I have seen in one autumnal face. —John Donne

To Your Health

Chrysanthemums are the birth flower of November. Sometimes called mums or chrysanths, this perennial grows best in full sunshine and fertile, sandy soil. Because the earliest mums all had golden petals, many view this fall bloomer as a symbol of joy and optimism. First cultivated in China, these daisylike flowers so entranced the Japanese that they adopted one as the crest and seal of the Emperor. In fact, Japan continues to honor the flower each year with the Festival of Happiness. Legend has it that placing a chrysanthemum petal at the bottom of a wine glass promises a long, healthy life.

Arboreal Wisdom

The ancient Celts looked to the trees for knowledge and wisdom. According to Celtic tree astrology, those born from October 28 – November 24 associate with the reed, a sweet-smelling, canelike grass the ancients used to thatch roofs, press into floors, and craft into arrows, whistles and flutes. Think Pan’s pipe. Reed people are the secret keepers of the zodiac. They can see beyond illusion and have a strong sense of truth and honor. But anyone can look to this sacred and useful plant for its virtuous qualities. When the wind blows through a field of them, it is said you can hear their otherworldly song. But you must be willing to receive their message. Reed people are most compatible with other reed, ash (February 19–March 17) or oak (June 10– July 7) signs. In the Ogham, a sacred Druidic alphabet, the symbol of the reed spells upset or surprise. PS

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MASTER GARDENER HELP LINE. 10 a.m.–12 p.m., weekdays through October. 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 sample or photos. Info: (910) 947-3188.

Tuesday, November 1 WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE READING. 5:30 p.m. Claire Beams, latest debut writer from Lookout Books on their South Arts funded book tour. Wine and cheese reception following. Presented in conjunction with The Country Bookshop and sponsored by St. Joseph of the Pines. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6926261 or weymouthcenter.org. GROWING AND USING GINGER. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Learn how to grow and store culinary ginger. Class includes demonstration, preparation and tasting. Tickets: $30/members; $35/non-members. Ball Visitors Center, Sandhills Horticultural Gardens. Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882 or http://sandhillshorticulturalgardens.com. NATURE TALES. 10–11 a.m. and 11 a.m.–12 p.m.

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“Down on the Farm.” Preschool story and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N.s Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 ext 20 or www.capefearbg.org.

Tuesday, November 1 — 30 JOY OF ART STUDIO. Call for times. Nov. 1, Science through Art, Emerging Artist; Nov. 2, Women of Wisdom; Nov. 3, Creative Coffee (adults), Mixed Media Medley; Nov. 4, Kinderart History, Art Skills, First Friday Art Night (adults); Nov. 5, Draw and Paint a Turkey, Beginning Sewing; Nov. 6, Mandala and Self Discovery (women); Nov. 8, Painting with Joy (adults); Nov. 10, Creative Coffee; Nov. 12, Choc Full of Creativity; Nov. 13, Vision Board: Nov. 15, Creative Crafts Make Holiday Art Cards (adults); Nov. 16, Women of Wisdom; Nov. 17, Creative Coffee; Nov. 19, Blessing Box and Journaling (Teen Girls); Nov. 20, Gratitude Journal (women); Nov. 30, Women of Wisdom. Call for prices. Joy of Art Studio 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave. B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 text or www.joyof_art@msn.com.

Tuesday, November 1 — January 8 NATURE CONNECTS: ART WITH LEGO® BRICKS EXHIBIT. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Larger than life Lego sculptures built by artist Sean Kenney are displayed throughout the garden, with activities for all ages. Cost: Free for CFBG members. Non-members call for prices. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info

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Wednesday, November 2

BASIC HATHA YOGA. 9–10 a.m. (six sessions, Wednesdays through Dec. 14) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches this course for individuals who may have had no previous experience with yoga. Cost: $35/ resident; $70 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. TAI CHI CLASS. 10:30–11:30 a.m. Wednesdays, through Dec. 14. Tai chi master Lee Holbrook leads this peaceful workout for people of all levels. Cost: $28/residents; $56/non-residents. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-2817 or pinehurstrec.org. PILATES. 5:30–6:15 p.m. Wednesdays, through Dec. 14. Power Pilates and Yoga Alliance certified instructor Dana Taylor focuses on basic anatomical principles. This class is for anyone looking to establish a sense of stability and strength in the entire body. Cost: $35/ residents; $70/non-residents.

Thursday, November 3 MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5. Every other week, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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INTERMEDIATE TAI CHI. 11:45 a.m.–12:45 p.m. (Thursdays through Dec. 15) This class focuses on refining the Yang style and is for participants who already have a basic knowledge of tai chi. Cost: $28/ resident; $56 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org. HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. (75 minutes each). Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Kirk Tours, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com. ART PREVIEW RECEPTION. 6–8 p.m. “Collectors Choice.” This event is by invitation only to those patrons pledging to make an art purchase or donation of $100 (per couple). Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. For info and to request your invitation: (910) 944-3979 (office) or Courtney Herndon at (910) 215-5987. CAMEO ART HOUSE THEATER. 7:30 p.m., doors open. Martin Grosswendt and Susanne SalemSchatz. Cost: $12/advance; $15/day of. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville, Info: (910) 486-6633.

Thursday, November 3—6 and 11—13 HENRY V. 7:30 p.m. Nov. 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 and 12. Matinee at 2 p.m. Nov. 6, 12, and 13. Shakespeare’s powerful history and legendary coming-of-age story about a charismatic young monarch confronted by the ferocity of war who proves his worth as a man and king. Call for ticket prices. Cape Fear Regional Theatre, 1209 Hay St., Fayetteville. Tickets and info: (910) 323-4233 or www.cfrt.org.

Friday, November 4 CHAIR YOGA. 9–10 a.m. Fridays through Dec. 30. Taught by Darlind Davis, ideal for those with chronic conditions, balance issues, or lower body challenges that affect the ability to get up and down. Cost: $35/ resident; $70/non-resident. Info: Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or pinehurstrec.org. HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. (75 minutes each). Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours and learn about Mr. Tufts and some of Pinehurst’s celebrity patrons. Cost: $20/person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Kirk Tours, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com.

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ART EXHIBIT OPENING. 6–8 p.m. “Paper, Canvas, Cloth,” presented by the Arts Council of Moore County and Jeanne and Bob Zimmerman. Featuring works by Sharon Ferguson, Marilyn Vendemia and Nanette Zeller. Reception hosted by Stuart Fulghum, Jeannette and Jeff King, Ray Owen, Sue and Jo Sikes, and Marie Travisano. Exhibition runs through Dec. 17. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2787 or mooreart.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. Martin Grosswendt and Susanne Salem-Schatz. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or theroosterswife.org.

Friday, November 4 — 6 13th ANNUAL MID PINES HICKORY OPEN. 8 a.m.–5 p.m. daily. For golfers who are dedicated to the tradition of golf. Players compete on Mid Pines with hickory-shafted clubs and dress in period clothing. 1010 Midland Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6929362 or http://www.pineneedles-midpines.com. EDERVILLE TRAIN AND TRACTOR SHOW. 8 a.m.–8 p.m. “100+ Years of Progress.” Walk down memory lane and see tractors of all kinds, wander through the old village, and visit the steam-powered sawmill. Craft demonstrations, music and vendors. Cost: $10/day; $15/2 days; $25/3-day pass. 644 Niagara-Carthage Road, Carthage. Info: (919) 7088665 or explorepinehurst.com.

Friday, November 4 & 5 WHITE ELEPHANT SALE AND RAFFLE. Pre-sale Friday, 2 –4 p.m., sale and raffle Saturday, 8 a.m.–1 p.m. Gently used furniture, art, household items, home baked goods and more. Over 50 raffle prizes. Raffle ticket purchase needed for admission to pre-sale. Proceeds benefit Moore County charitable organizations. Founders Hall, next to Sacred Heart Church, N.C. 211 and Dundee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-0704 or gerwig@embarqmail.com.

Friday, November 4 — 6 22ND ANNUAL ART EXHIBIT AND SALE. Opening weekend: Friday 5–7 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.–4 p.m.; and Sunday 12–3 p.m. Exhibit runs through Dec. 15, gallery hours. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or artistleague.org.

Saturday, November 5 AUTUMN STUDIO OPEN HOUSE AT CADY CLAYWORKS. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. See John Mellage and Beth Gore’s new creations, each one uniquely decorated by the firing process with random wood ash deposits and flashing from their large wood-burning kiln. Refreshments, kiln and studio tours will be available.

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Admission: Free. Cady Clayworks, 3883 Busbee Road, Seagrove. Info: (910) 464-5661 or explorepinehurst.com. SATURDAY KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Birds and animals can stay warm in the winter, but need help finding food and shelter. Learn about different ways to help these critters with activities, crafts and books. Library cards are free for everyone. Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archive, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022 or www.giventufts.com. MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Visit with artist Jane Casnellie and learn about her techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 2550665 or hollyhocksartgallerycom. TAR, PITCH AND TURPENTINE. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Learn about the Sandhills’ first and biggest industry, producing naval stores to be used for wooden ships all over the world. Filmmaker, historian and writer Bryan Avery presents this program and demonstration hourly. Bryant House in Carthage. Bring your own outdoor seating. House-museums open for tours. No admission charge. Bryant House and McLendon Cabin, 3361 Mount Carmel Road, Carthage. Info: (910) 692-2051 or explorepinehurst.com. NATURE TALES. 10–11 a.m. and 11–12 p.m. “Down on the Farm.” Preschool story and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 ext 20 or www.capefearbg.org. HISTORY OF PINEHURST TOUR. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. (75 minutes each). Experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour with Kirk Tours . Cost: $20/person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Kirk Tours, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com.

Sunday, November 6 BOLSHOI BALLET LIVE IN HD. 1 p.m. “The Bright Stream.” Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovitch’s score, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece. Ticket: $25. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or sunrisetheater.com. EXPLORATIONS SERIES FOR ADULTS. 3–4 p.m. “Beginner Chair Yoga.” Gentle chair yoga reduces strain on limbs and joints and is perfect for those who think they can’t do yoga! This free class will be open to the first 20 library cardholders who register by phone or at the Library. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Sam Lewis performs. Cost: $15 in advance, $20 at the door. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org.

Monday, November 7 AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children ages birth to fifth grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. BOOK LOVERS UNITE. 7 p.m. This month’s topic for discussion is “Classic Books.” Bring your favorites list and add to it as others describe theirs. Free and open to the public. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-7002. AMERICAN CHAMBER PLAYERS. 8 p.m. “Neglected Gems.” One of today’s most exciting and innovative chamber music ensembles present an evening of selections not usually performed on today’s programs. Concert tickets: $30. Combine with dinner at Wolcott’s, $37/person. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 6923611 or sunrisetheater.com. For dinner reservations, call (910) 692-2787.

Wednesday, November 9 THE REC-ING CREW SOCIAL CLUB. 4–5:30 p.m. Cooking Class. This program gives young adults a chance to unwind and socialize with their friends.

Light refreshments will be served. Call for cost and registration. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Thursday, November 10 SANDHILLS WOMAN’S EXCHANGE LUNCHEON. 10:30 a.m. Joe Grant from Star Works Glass will be the speaker. The program will feature his hand-blown glass works, a discussion and lunch. Cost: $25/person. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 295-4677. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 and 7 p.m. Dr. Michael Pizzi, professor of occupational therapy, founder of Touching Humanity, Inc., and wellness lifestyle coach will speak on healthy and successful aging. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library (3:30 p.m.), 150 Cherokee Road; and Given Outpost (7 p.m.), 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022 or (910) 585-4820.

Friday, November 11 WEYMOUTH WOODS VETERANS DAY HIKE. 8 a.m. Join area veterans for a walk to commemorate their service and honor their sacrifices. Those with mobility issues are encouraged to come and socialize with participating veterans at the Visitor Center. Refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by Team Red, White, and Blue. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

WAR HORSE EVENT SERIES. 10 a.m.–5 p.m. WHES Schooling Days are open to everyone! Schooling days have been added to the schedule before each WHES competition. Competitors can school in any or all phases. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Cicada Rhythm performs. Cost: $10. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Saturday, November 12 VETERANS DAY PARADE. 10–11 a.m. Celebrate and honor our country’s veterans and active duty military personnel and congressionally recognized Veteran Service Organizations and their auxiliaries. Downtown, 235 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463. MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Visit with artist Diane Kraudelt and learn about her techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 2550665 or www.hollyhocksartgallerycom. WILD GAME DINNER. 6:30 p.m. This final wild game dinner of the season features Louisiana and other Southern states. $55/person; $70/person with wine pairings. Pinehurst Resort. 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (855) 235-8507 or explorepinehurst.com. NC SYMPHONY. 8–10 p.m. Selections from Handel, Bach, Vivaldi and Mozart. Jeannette Sorrell, conduc-

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Saturday, November 12 — 13 WAR HORSE EVENT SERIES. 8 a.m.–3 p.m. Championships and November Horse Trials and CT. Call for schedule. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074.

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SUNDAY KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 p.m. A film about Alice returning to Wonderland after finding success in the real world as a ship’s captain, only to discover that the Mad Hatter is suffering from severe depression. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. WEYMOUTH CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES. 3–4:30 p.m. Andrew Willis performs works by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven on the fortepiano. All concerts are held in the Great Room, followed by a reception to meet the artist. Cost: $10/member; $20/non-member. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org. THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Joe Walsh and Matt Flinner perform. Cost: $15 in advance, $20 at the door. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org.

Monday, November 14 CHILDREN’S PROGRAM — KINDERMUSIK. 10:30 a.m. Laura Johnson leads this class, designed for 1- and 2-year-olds. Space is limited. Given Memorial Library. 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and sign up: Ellen Graham at (910) 315-0990. WEYMOUTH WOODS NIGHT HIKE. 5:30 p.m. Join a park ranger for a moonlit hike through the trails at Weymouth Woods. Children MUST be accompanied by an adult. Meet at the Visitor Center, Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

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Tuesday, November 15 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MOORE COUNTY. 11:30 a.m. Luncheon and meeting, $13/ person. Guest speaker, Walter Salinger, member of the board of directors of the League of Women Voters North Carolina, will be talking about our state’s redistricting. Everyone welcome. Reservations required. Table on the Green, 2205 Midland Drive, Pinehurst (910) 944-9611 or owegeecoach@gmail.com. JAMES BOYD BOOK CLUB. 2 p.m. Reading North Carolina: UnCommon Clay, by Margaret Maron. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

Wednesday, November 16 DELIGHTFUL DESSERTS. 10–11:30 a.m. Gluten and Dairy free. Sueson Vess instructor. Sueson will present ideas for eating nutritious and delicious desserts, a food preparation demonstration and tasting. Cost: $30/Horticulture Society member; $35/non-member. Payment due at registration. Ball Visitors Center, Sandhills Horticultural Gardens, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882 or explorepinehurst.com. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE READING. 5:30 p.m. Elizabeth Heaney, reading from The Honor Was Mine. Stories carried deep in the hearts of combat veterans, the courage it takes to share them, and the grace of having someone truly listen. Wine and cheese reception following. Presented in conjunction with The Country

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Wednesday, November 16 — 20 20TH ANNUAL SANDHILLS CHILDREN’S CENTER FESTIVAL OF THE TREES. 10 a.m.–8 p.m. Over 200 decorated trees, wreaths and gift baskets await your bids at our online auction. Admission by any monetary donation at the door. Proceeds benefit Sandhills Children’s Center. Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-3323 or explorepinehurst.com.

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, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Kirk Tours, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com.

Thursday, November 17

ANNIE. 5–10:30 p.m. The world’s best-loved musical is performed at Givens Performing Arts Center at UNC Pembroke in time-honored form. Cost: $99, includes dinner, premier seating ticket, and transportation. Kirk Tours. Departs from Belk, Pinecrest Plaza, Southern Pines, at 5 p.m., returns approx. 10:30 p.m. Info on this tour and upcoming tours and reservations: (910) 295-2257 or kirktours.com.

MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. For all children through age 5, this event incorporates stories and songs along with dancing, playing and games all designed to foster language and motor-skill development. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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Friday — Sunday, November 18 — 20 CELEBRATION OF SEAGROVE POTTERS. Saturday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Exhibition and sale of Seagrove pottery and clay works by over 80 Seagrove artists. Friday gala offers early sales, food, and beverages, entertainment and special auction. Saturday and Sunday activities include educational and historical talks, demonstrations, food, and beverages. Admission: $5. Luck’s Cannery, 798 NC Pottery Highway 705, Seagrove. Info: (336) 517-7272 or explorepinehurst.com.

Saturday, November 19 PINEHURST TURKEY TROT. 8 a.m. Runners get the chance to trek through the streets and residential neighborhoods of the village of Pinehurst at the Turkey Trot half marathon, 10K, 5K and one-mile race. Registration pricing varies. Course begins and ends at Cannon Park, 90 Woods Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: www.setupevents.com. WALKING BOOK CLUB. 10 a.m. Meet at the library for a brisk walk through beautiful downtown Southern Pines to discuss current reads, make book suggestions and enjoy being active outside. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. FAMILY DAY AT THE LIBRARY. Explore mindfulness for kids. Craft tables set out all day, the special event “Kids Yoga” starts at 11 a.m. Families can make meditation jars during a Maker session at 2 p.m. Teens are invited to learn about Zentangling at 3 p.m. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. MODEL TRAIN SHOW. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. The Sandhills Central Model Railroad Club presents its 34th annual Train Show. The club’s HO model railroad features a beautifully constructed re-creation of the town of Aberdeen and surrounding areas. Cost: $5/adult; children free. The Historic Aberdeen Train Depot and Museum, 100 East Main St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-1115 or explorepinehurst.com. MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Visit with artist Charlie Roberts and learn about his techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 2550665 or hollyhocksartgallerycom. BALLROOM DANCING. 7–10 p.m. Cape Fear Ballroom Dancers monthly dance. Dance lesson included. Cost: $10/members; 15/guests. Roland’s Dance Studio, 310 Hope Mills Road, Fayetteville. Info: (910) 987-4420 or www.capefearballroomdancers.org. FAYETTEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. 7:30–9:30 p.m. “Czech It Out!” With guest conductor Stefan Sanders, the FSO will perform Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8. Tickets: $27/adult; $24/ sr and mil; $11/student and child over 5. Seabrook Auditorium, Fayetteville State University, 1200 Murchison Road, Fayetteville. Info: (910) 433-4690 or explorepinehurst.com.

Saturday, November 19 & 20 35TH ANNUAL SEAGROVE POTTERY FESTIVAL. 9 a.m.–5 p.m. This festival focuses on the pottery and craft heritage of this region and features basket makers, woodcarvers, weavers, and potters.

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Food vendors and live music. Admission: $5. Seagrove Elementary School, 528 Old Plank Road, Seagrove. Info: (336) 873-7887 or explorepinehurst.com. CELEBRATION OF SEAGROVE POTTERS. Departs 9 a.m., returns 4 p.m. Cost: $40/person, includes admission. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre, 90 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 295-2257 or reservations@kirktours. com, www.kirktours.com.

Sunday, November 20 FESTIVAL MARKETPLACE. 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Joyous holiday shopping from over 65 vendors. Admission is free! North and South Rooms, and Cardinal Ballroom, The Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Vista Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6811. SUNDAY FILM SERIES. 2:30 p.m. This movie is based on the novel A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Presidents.” Coffee and program. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

shuttles between Pinehurst, Southern Pines and Aberdeen to make all your holiday shopping much easier. Info and reservation: (910) 295-2257 or www. reservations@kirktours.com.

AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children ages birth to fifth grade and their families are invited to enjoy a session that incorporates stories and activities that foster a love of books and reading. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

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Wednesday, November 23 DONALD ROSS BIRTHDAY HISTORY TOUR. 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. (75 minutes each). Learn all about this storied Pinehurst resident and experience the Home of American Golf on a guided windshield tour. $20/person. Departs from Pinehurst Historic Theatre at 90 Cherokee Road. Pinehurst. Info and reservations: (910) 295-2257 or reservations@kirktours.com, www.kirktours.com.

Thursday, November 24

THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Jordan Tice performs, Stray Local opens. Cost: $15 in advance, $20 at the door. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org.

WEYMOUTH WOODS THANKSGIVING DAY HIKE. 10 a.m. Meet at the Weymouth Woods Visitor Center for this ever popular Discovery Hike. Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167.

Monday, November 21

Friday, November 25 and 26

WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30 a.m. Speaker, Karl Ecker, “Phrases Coined by American

BLACK FRIDAY LOCAL SHOPPING SHUTTLES. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Kirk Tours offers

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MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 10 a.m.–1 p.m. Visit with artist Louise Price and learn about her techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 255-0665 or www.hollyhocksartgallerycom.

Sunday, November 27 THE ROOSTER’S WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Caleb Hawley performs. Cost: $12 in advance, $15 at the door. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Monday, November 28 SANDHILLS NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY MEETING. 7 p.m. Kacy Cook, land conservation biologist at Wildlife Resources Commission, will speak on the Uwharrie Partnership, a conservation effort to preserve open space in the Uwharries. Visitors welcome! Weymouth Woods Auditorium, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2167 or www.sandhillsnature.org.

Tuesday, November 29 GENTLE FLOW YOGA. 10:30–11:30 a.m. (Tuesdays through Jan. 10). Instructor Carol Wallace leads this

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class for individuals who have some familiarity with basic yoga poses. Cost: $35/resident; $70 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org. MUSICIANS JAM SESSION. 7 p.m. Musicians and public welcome to join in or simply enjoy. Bring your own beverage. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or weymouthcenter.org.

Wednesday, November 30 ART CLASS (PAINT, ALL MEDIA). 1–4 p.m. Wednesdays through Jan. 18 (6 sessions). For all levels of experience, artist Eileen Strickland covers basic information on materials, techniques, color theory, and composition. Cost: $47/resident; $94/non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info and pre-registration: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817.

WEEKLY EVENTS Mondays BRIDGE. 1–4 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.

Tuesdays BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30–11 a.m. and 11:15 a.m.–12 p.m. This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 18 months. Programs will be offered

Sunshine Antique & Mercantile Company Buy, Sell or Trade Specializing in Primitive & Country Furnishings Thursday- Saturday 10 to 5 Monday-Wednesday by appointment or chance 115 N. Sycamore St., Aberdeen, NC (910) 691-3100 shop • (919) 673-9388 or (919) 673-9387 cells

Nov. 1, 8, 15 & 29. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. BROWN BAG LUNCH/GAME DAY. 11:30 a.m. Bring your lunch and enjoy fellowship and activities, including card games, board games and the Wii. The Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10–11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost for single class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 4–5:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include a scarecrow, a patriotic flag, a turkey and holiday ornaments. No class Nov. 22 and 23. Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at The Ice Cream Parlor, 176 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (540) 454-3641 or http:// www.theartifactshack.com.

Wednesdays BRIDGE. 1–4 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. For children through age 5, this storytime focuses on stories, songs and fun,

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with a special emphasis on activities that build skills for Kindergarten. Dates this month are Nov.. 2, 9, 16 and 30. Stay for playtime following. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. THE ARTIFACT SHACK. 4–5:30 p.m. Painting Classes for Kids. Subjects include a scarecrow, a patriotic flag, and a turkey. No class Nov. 22 and 23. Cost: $18, all supplies included. Classes held at The Ice Cream Parlor, 176 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (540) 454-3641 or http://www.theartifactshack.com.

Thursdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.moorecountync.gov or www.localharvest.org. 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 4 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

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COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Clay White leads hands-on preparation of menu items. Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices and specific menu. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

Fridays PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. Reading selections are taken from our current inventory of children’s literature, from the classics to modern day. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. BRIDGE. 1–4 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.

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Holiday

EARLY BIRD SPECIALS 7am - 9am Monday-Friday $4.99 - $6.99 Omelettes, Benedicts, and Gluten Free Products

DAILY LUNCH SPECIALS Including 1/2 Sandwich & Salad or Soup $8.99

Sandwiches, Wraps, Soups, & Salads

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MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET in 2016 Winter Season

November thru mid-April Thursdays: 604 W. Morganton Road- Armory 9:00 am - 1:00 pm “Open on Wednesday Thanksgiving Week” Greenhouse and in-season produce will be available plus meats, goat cheese, baked goods, and crafts FirstHealth & Downtown Southern Pines closed for the Season at the end of October and will re-open the middle of April 2017 Facilities Courtesy of FirstHealth & Town of Southern Pines

Call 947-3752 or 690-9520 for more info.

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Artists League of the Sandhills

22nd Annual Art Exhibit and Sale Friday, November 4 – Thursday, December 15, 2016 Opening Weekend Receptions: Friday, November 4, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Saturday, November 5, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Sunday, November 6, Noon – 3:00 pm

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Parade of Trees

December 3- December 31

Decorated Christmas trees light up downtown Broad Street for a festive ambience for the holiday season.

Christmas Parade

December 3, 11:00am

Downtown Southern Pines Marching bands, loads of floats, Santa, street musicians & more!

Downtown Open House Sunday, December 4, 12:00 - 4:00pm

Enjoy holiday shopping and treats at the downtown retailers.

First Eve

December 31, 6:00 - 8:00pm

Downtown Broad Street Family-friendly festival with the dropping of the Pine Cone at 8 p.m.

Contact the League for details and to register!

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The mission of the Southern Pines Business Association is to encourage and enhance thecommercial well-being of Southern Pines and improve the quality of its common life.

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Arts & Culture

Moore County Choral Society

HOLIDAY CONCERT

with Moore Brass - Anne Dorsey, Conductor December 11, 2016, at 7:00 pm Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College Adults $15 - Students $8 Tickets available at The Country Bookshop, The Campbell House, Kirk Tours of Pinehurst, Sandhills Winery in Seven Lakes, or at the door. For more information, call 910-281-2029, or visit us at: moorecountychoralsociety.org

November 16 - 20 The Carolina Hotel Pinehurst, NC

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CICELY PARNAS | Cello February 6, 2017

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TICKETS: $30 each Or 3 concerts for $83 ($75 ACMC member) LOCATION: Sunrise Theater

TICKETS: 910.692.2787

Start the season with a festive showcase and silent auction of holiday trees, wreaths, décor & more to help special needs children. Admission by any monetary donation at the door.

Shop in Candy Cane Lane for holiday gifts and stocking stuffers. More shopping on Sunday, November 20 at the Festival Marketplace with over 65 vendors.

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Francesca Cameron, Fergie, Denver

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Jackie Vauchan, Cortes

Annual All-Breed Dog Show Moore County Kennel Club of NC Saturday, September 17, 2016 Photographs by Jeanne Paine

Erin Kerfoot, Burke

Ann Folger, Azzu

Cassie Miller, Triton

Debbie Kooms, Abe

Bob Lowery, Splash

Whitney Meeks, Ben

Kelsey Jesseph, Bean Janet Rahn, Maya

Grant Thompson, Ursula Walsh

Makayla & Alisha Wilson

Dan Butler, Tucker

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Neil Schwartzberg, Dennis Paules, Jim Granito, Stephen Later

David Mannheim, Cameron Sadler, Meredith Mannheim

Tim & Marj Dwyer

Germaine, Ginnie & Phill Elkins

Cathy & David Carter, Isabella & Brook Marion

Joli & Annika Wallner, Bonnie & Bob Caire Ben Stennett, Elizabeth Hart, Paul Striberry

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Joanie Bowden, Lee Sedwick

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Dr. Henry has practiced orthodontics in Moore County for over 14 years, and provides care for both adults and children. He makes it a goal to operate with technical excellence, working closely with his patients and their dentists to provide optimal and highly customized treatment plans. He offers the latest in orthodontic treatments, including Invisalign®. Dr. Henry is passionate about his community, and has served on many boards and educational and charitable initiatives throughout the county. He was a co-founder of the live music series First Friday Southern Pines, and still oversees the event every summer. Having grown up in a military family, Dr. Henry has great respect for families who serve, and caters to their special needs. For this very reason, his practice participates in the military insurance network. Henry Orthodontics is currently accepting new patients at both the Pinehurst and Laurinburg locations and happily offers free consultations. Dr. Henry lives in Southern Pines with his wife, Deborah, and children Ellie (16), Sam (14), and Anna (11).

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For Scorpios, it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that sting By Astrid Stellanova

Scorpios are famously passionate, ambitious, intense and jealous. They

will ask but they sure won’t tell. What they should know is that their best day is Tuesday, and to mirror their passion, they should don their best color — red. What you should know is this: They don’t always lay their cards flat out on the table, but they really don’t like it when the tables are turned. Cross a Scorpio and you will unleash the scorpion’s sting. And this: A Scorpio will never forget and may never forgive either. Scorpios like to use their looks as a means of self-expression and will almost always make a big impression wherever they go and whatever they choose to do. They are as colorful as they are unique, too. Prince Charles is a Scorpio. So is Whoopi Goldberg. Ponder that, Star Children. Ad Astra — Astrid

Scorpio (October 23–November 21) Friends are tempted to give you novelties on your birthday — things like pillows embroidered with “Drama Queen” or “If You Can’t Say Anything Good about Others, Sit by Me.” Much like the Dowager at Downton Abbey you can dish it out. You have a secret love of bling. Sugar, you also don’t like to admit your tastes are much more Vegas Strip than Park Avenue. This birthday, let go of any desire to be something or someone else and love your own fine self. You are an original, enigmatic and audacious in your ways — traits your friends rely on, Honey. When you blow out the candles on your cake — and there will be a blowout with cake — make a big wish. This just might be your year to win the whole dang shebang! Sagittarius (November 22–December 21) The fact is, Honey, you have become the Ernest T. Bass of relationships. You get mad at your beloved and your idea of resolution is to throw rocks at the window and howl like a hound dog during a King Moon. Time to start being the grown-up when it comes to love matters, my wild little Love Muffin. There is nothing or no one you cannot have once you stop trying to muscle your way to a solution. Capricorn (December 22–January 19) When everyone else was sitting down, you were just outstanding. Take a star turn and then take a seat. Sweet Thing, a strange turn of coincidence is about to make you glad you had such a fine sense of timing. It is more than going to compensate for a rough patch you have just undergone. It’s (nearly) all over but the shouting, as Rick Bragg likes to say. Aquarius (January 20–February 18) Does Fifty Shades of Purple sound like the title of your memoir? Well, you got all shook up over a loved one, and it sent your blood pressure through the roof. Lordamercy, nobody’s worth all that purple passion you’ve been spending. Spend some time in a meditation class instead, and promise yourself you are going to let that crazy-maker go. Then get a hobby for goodness sake — just not in surveillance or private-eye work. Pisces (February 19–March 20) A life-changing experience has caused you to do some recent soul-searching. Now you are looking deep, trying to find a bigger purpose. You have extra special energy this month, Sugar Pie, and it is going to make you a magnet for special and inspiring experiences. If you have a metal detector, haul it out of the closet, as you are about to find something you believed lost for good. Aries (March 21–April 19) You spent your fall second-guessing everything you did and everything your closest friends did. Now, Honey, is a time to downshift and just bury some nuts for the winter ahead. Look on down the road and stop majoring in the minor stuff when you need

to look at the major stuff. When you take stock, you have to admit you have been busy overdoing everything you ever thought worth doing at all — except for the nut thing. Taurus (April 20–May 20) Learn something new. Take a friend for coffee. Befriend a stranger. But don’t drink and dial this month, because you are prone to talk too much and listen too little and then pray for rain when all your friendships dry up. The fine print bears reading, Sugar, before you sign that contract, too. Meantime, kiss a baby and indulge your love of sweet tea and a side of lemon pie. But don’t text or dial. Gemini (May 21–June 20) As much as you want to step into a situation and take control, try and hold your impulsive self back just a teensy bit. There has been mounting evidence that your involvement is not helpful. Meantime, you have got a big old mess to clean up on Aisle Nine. The mess is one you made; so don’t blame the first one you find to hang it on, Sweet Thing. Cancer (June 21–July 22) You are the Richard Petty of speedy karma, repeating a cycle over and over and over again on the roadway of life. Put a cop on anyone’s tail for 500 miles and they’ll get a ticket, too. Want to retire that title? This month gives you a long overdue chance to reevaluate things, Honey, and you are going to find the support you crave to break out. Leo (July 23–August 22) When you step back and look in the mirror, as you secretly like to do, what do you see? Is it the same person everyone around you sees? Your secretive life is at the root of some pain you hold onto and carry around like a precious bag of gold. Trust someone and unburden yourself, Sugar. Self-truth won’t hurt one bit. Virgo (August 23–September 22) There’s a new sheriff in town you ain’t so sure you like. Get deputized, Sweet Pants, because you are going to have to deal with them no matter what. Meantime, you calculate your losses and pocket your winnings. You still are going to come out ahead, Darling. But pay attention to a lonely neighbor whose luck ain’t so great right now. Libra (September 23–October 22) There’s too many hands around the pottery wheel and it has you all befuddled. In a nice way, tell them to mind their own business, and don’t apologize. Meanwhile, you are the UP in somebody’s 7UP and don’t even know it. Sugar, you have more sex appeal than ought to be allowed throughout this whole dang star cycle. PS

For years, Astrid Stellanova owned and operated Curl Up and Dye Beauty Salon in the boondocks of North Carolina until arthritic fingers and her popular astrological readings provoked a new career path.

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Happy Thanksgiving, Pilgrim

By Tom Allen

For Americans, Norman Rockwell’s

depiction of a family Thanksgiving is as familiar as Grant Wood’s “American Gothic” or James McNeill Whistler’s portrait of his mother.

But if art imitates life, growing up, I was brushed out of Rockwell’s painting more often than not. I vaguely recall a few traditional Thanksgivings with family, albeit half the size of Rockwell’s troupe. Our table featured a roasted Butterball, Granny’s dressing, and jellied Ocean Spray. Sweet tea, laced with ReaLemon Juice, washed down bowls of collards and turnips, taters and snap beans. My Methodist granny occasionally popped the cork on a bottle of “French wine.” Pecan pie (I didn’t have pumpkin until my 30s) completed the feast. Football and a carb-induced nap rounded out the afternoon. Hugs were plentiful but conversation, scant. The celebration ended by 3 p.m. As grandkids grew and elders’ health declined, meals became more eclectic, less Rockwellian. One Thanksgiving during college, after Santa concluded the Macy’s parade, baked spaghetti greeted Dad and me. Grateful, I bowed my head, smiled at Mom’s aberration, then dug in. Who needs a broad-breasted bird when baked pasta is just as good? My last year in seminary, a cute brunette I met during study abroad invited me to share Thanksgiving on her family’s Kentucky horse farm. I invested in a haircut and a blue oxford cloth button-down. Alas, my dorm became my Old Kentucky Home for the holiday. At 6 a.m. Thanksgiving morning, Ann called to say her mother came down with strep throat. Maybe next year. Providence intervened. A motley crew of would-be ministers concocted a Thanksgiving feast. Scott, dumped just days before by a reluctant fiancée, stirred up a bowl of instant mashed potatoes. Dave warmed canned green beans in his microwave. I snagged a Mrs. Smith’s Pecan Pie, reduced for quick

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sale, at Kroger. Luis, whose family fled Cuba with nothing but the clothes on their backs, roasted the turkey. The dorm smelled of cumin for days. Vernon, deaf and mute from birth, signed grace. We all said, “Amen.” Years later, our family would include two teenage daughters. We made the every-other-year trek to north Georgia for Thanksgiving with my wife’s folks. Work schedules disrupted Thanksgiving Day, so we dined on Friday. We left Whispering Pines Thanksgiving morning, only to return an hour later for a forgotten suitcase. By afternoon, our nerves were frazzled by traffic and our stomachs groaned from hunger. Restaurants off the interstate were closed. With gas running low, we pulled into a Shell station. Empty booths inside the convenience store provided a place to spread what we’d packed for the road — chicken salad, saltines, grapes and Nabs. We bowed our heads, gave thanks, then washed down our moveable feast with Dr. Pepper, Cheerwine and Diet Coke. We shook our heads, smiled about the day’s happenings, and made a memory we talk about, every year, on the fourth Thursday of November. Norman Rockwell’s painting depicts three generations gathered around a dining room table. Grandma, aproned and coiffed for the holiday meal, delivers the turkey on, no doubt, her mother’s china platter. Grandpa, in suit and tie, grinning and famished, stands behind her, waiting to pray, carve and eat. The painting was one of four, illustrating a 1943 series of Saturday Evening Post essays. Based on Franklin Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms, outlined in his 1941 State of the Union address, Rockwell appropriately named his Thanksgiving portrait “Freedom from Want.” Seventy years later American families look different. Yet, Roosevelt’s words and the Rockwell portrayal remain timeless. Thanksgiving is still about gratitude. So, yes, give thanks for all you have while remembering to make room at the table for others, so they, too, experience gratitude. Then, no matter what your menu or who you consider family, everyone will have a special meal, a reason to smile, and hopefully, because of your kindness, a memory to cherish forever. PS Tom Allen is minister of education at First Baptist Church in Southern Pines.

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