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$875,000

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4 bed • 3 bath Jennifer Nguyen (910) 585-2099 MLS 207999

415 Fairway Drive, Southern Pines

$2,750,000

4 bed • 7/1 bath

Pamela O’Hara (910) 315-3093 MLS 207450

Dunross Manor,built by Donald Ross in 1929 in Knollwood Heights on 2.3 acres. Beautiful chefs kitchen, 1900 sq ft workshop, carriage house, fabulous outdoor kitchen, breathtaking gardens.

340 Bracken Hill Road, Pinehurst

Beautiful home on 16.5 acres in equestrian community, The Fields. Gourmet kitchen, new appliances, open floor plan, screened porch, 3-car garage, and more. 4 bedrooms/3 bathrooms.

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CT A R T CON R E UND 310 Sheldon Road, Southern Pines

$669,000

4 bed • 3 bath

Debbie Darby (910) 783-5193 MLS 207540

Stunning all brick residence exudes casual elegance throughout. The warm tones, high ceilings and custom details with invite you to relax and stay awhile.

800 St Andrews Drive, 166, Pinehurst

16 Hobkirk Court, Pinehurst

$525,000

3 bed • 2 bath

Cathy Breeden (910) 639-0433

Custom built home located in Pinewild Country club with a studding view of #4 Fairway of the Holly Course including water views. 3 bedrooms 2 baths

1 Meadowlark Lane, Pinehurst

$309,900 Debbie Darby (910) 783-5193

MLS 207701

Lakewood Drive, Lot 56R, Pinehurst

$220,000

$99,000

Debbie Darby (910) 783-5193

MLS 207479

MLS 207705

Golf Front Lot on Course #5. 1/2 an Acre Wooded in the Coveted Desirable Location of Unit 1 off St. Andrews Drive. Stunning Views. Transferable Charter Membership Available to Pinehurst Country Club

This all brick single family residence is close to the Village with 3 bedrooms & 2 baths. Circlular Drive for easy in and out. One level licing, wood fireplace, high ceilings, and split floor plan. Approx 2225 sqft.

Lakewood Drive, Lot 54R, Pinehurst

$79,000 Debbie Darby (910) 783-5193 MLS 207706

Lot in Unit 1, Part Golf Front/ Golf View on .59 of an Acre. A Transferable/ Charter Membership can be made available prior to closing. Short Golf Cart Ride to the Club/Village of Pinehurst. Part of this lot contains wetlands.

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Simple Life By Jim Dodson PinePitch Good Natured By Karen Frye The Omnivorous Reader By Stephen E. Smith Bookshelf Hometown By Bill Fields The Creators of N.C. By Wiley Cash In the Spirit By Tony Cross The Kitchen Garden By Jan Leitschuh Mileposts By Julie Petrini

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Sandhills Photography Club Out of the Blue By Deborah Salomon Birdwatch By Susan Campbell Sporting Life By Tom Bryant Golftown Journal By Lee Pace Guide to Giving Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson Southwords By Nan Graham

FEATURES 75 Quarantine Haircut Poetry By Steve Cushman 76 The Freedom Writers By Bill Case James Boyd’s dream team of authors and actors

84 Food Nouveau By Jenna Biter New delights for Sandhills taste buds

96 Yes, Virginia, We're Live! By Jim Moriarty Judson Theatre Company returns to BPAC stage

98 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? By Denise Baker Sit down to a serving of great art as presented by six Sandhills artists

104 Cottage Colony Redux By Deborah Salomon Caribbean colors heat up village landmark

115 November Almanac By Ashley Wahl

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9 LAKE SIDE COURT Beautiful WATERFRONT lot on Lake Pinehurst. Gently sloping wooded lot that offers spectacular big water views facing south!

40 GARNER LANE Immaculate 4 BR / 3 BA home in beautiful Village Acres. Newly updated kitchen and large backyard.

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5 LAMPLIGHTER VILLAGE COURT Attractive well-appointed and spacious 4 BR / 4 BA townhome in popular #6 community. A must see!

10 LAKE HILLS ROAD Attractive white brick 3 BR / 2.5 BA home w/open and inviting floorplan all on one level.

200 RIDGEWOOD COURT Charming 3 BR / 2.5 BA wood exterior home along sixth fairway of #3 course.

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131 JAMES CREEK ROAD Charming 4 BR / 2 Full BA and 2 Half BA home on beautifully wooded lot in James Creek.

106 FIRETREE LANE Attractive 3 BR / 2.5 BA waterfront home on Longleaf lake w/lots of curb appeal.

111 W. CORNELIUS DRIVE Unique 4 BR / 3.5 BA 4-acre estate! Home has lots of space and an amazing pool house and indoor pool.

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1 CLIFF COURT EXT. Spectacular 4 BR / 3.5 BA home on 1.2 acres overlooking Powell’s pond in beautiful location.

37 STRATHAVEN DRIVE Elegant 3 BR / 3 Full BA and 2 Half BA French Country home overlooking 11th hole of the Holly course.

51 STONEYKIRK DRIVE Stunning custom 5 BR / 3.5 BA brick home in beautiful Pinewild CC. Home offers exquisite finishes and detail throughout.

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38 MCMICHAEL DRIVE Beautiful custom built 3 BR / 2.5 BA home located on the 2nd fairway of the Holly course in popular Pinewild.

25 FIRESTONE DRIVE Glorious, Mid-Century Modern 3 BR / 4.5 BA home on 2.5 acres of beautifully landscaped property on 11th hole of #7 course.

328 LONGLEAF DRIVE New construction underway! Amazing 5 BR / 5 BA home on 6.64 acres in popular gated community!

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5 RED FOX RUN Beautiful single-level 4 BR / 3 BA brick home in serene location w/spacious layout and tons of curb appeal!

423 MEYER FARM DRIVE Spectacular custom 4 BR / 4.5 BA home on 3rd hole of the north course in gated Forest Creek.

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East Lake Cottage at CCNC

10 Deepdale Lane, a Huntley Design & Build, was built in 2018 with 4 BR, 4 BA, 3623 sq ft. The home features many upgrades including a media room, wet bar, generator and 4th bedroom. NEW LISTING Offered at $925,000.

451 Old Mail Road • Southern Pines

The jewel of Moore County’s horse country, Fox Hollow Farm is secluded on 10.52 acreswith easy access to thousands of acres of equestrian land. 4BR, 4.5BA, 5,276 sq ft. Offered at $1,995,000.

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Classic Colonial Revival in Knollwood Heights, built in 1930 on 2 acres, 6700 sq ft with 5 BR, 5.5 BA and attached 2 car garage. Highlights include fireplaces in living, dining, master and Carolina room, original hardwoods, and large backyard pool. Offered at $750,000.

33 Elkton Drive • Forest Creek Golf Club

This golf front residence offers luxury and drama in a home balanced with inviting, livable spaces. The ground floor hosts a series of game rooms and a theater. Built in 2007 with a premier location on the 16th Hole, North Course, the property has 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, 3 garage bays. NEW PRICE $1,575,000.

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SIMPLE LIFE

Time and Rememberance As the honeybee takes its final drink, bittersweet memories arrive and depart

By Jim Dodson

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about time lately. How quickly it comes. How quickly it passes. Like this year, rapidly drawing to a close. November is a month of remembrance. We begin by celebrating Hallowmas, the Feast of All Saints known and unknown. In the middle of the month we’ll remember veterans for their sacrifice and wind up November by giving thanks for the abundance of the Earth and ties that bind. The good news this holiday season is that families may finally be able to gather in person to celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas, though collective reflection upon the millions worldwide who are no longer with us this year reminds us of life’s precious brevity. Speaking of such, the other afternoon, cheered by the sudden arrival of autumn light and a breath of welcome coolness, I noticed a small honeybee having a drink of water from an old bird bath I’ve kept filled on account of our lingering summer. Recently, I placed a circle of small stones at the water’s edge to prevent thirsty bees from falling in and drowning. Until my wife informed me that drowning is a genuine threat to the invaluable life of bees, I The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

never gave passing thought to how a simple drink of water could be so perilous. In ancient times, bees were considered symbols of order and immortality. The wax they produce found its way into candles used in religious ceremonies, their honey sweetened and preserved food. Coins from the fifth century featured images of bees, held to be among nature’s most magical creatures. Modern science, in fact, confirms what ancient observers believed about bees — that they have a mysterious yet highly refined way of communicating with each other that enables them to find the hidden nectar of flowers and construct honeycombs from thousands of symmetrically perfect hexagons, mathematical structures reminiscent of the six-pointed stars that form the Flower of Life. “Because bees feed on the nectar of flowers,” writes symbologist Adele Nozedar, “and fundamentally on sunlight, they are agents of transmutation, making something from nothing, mystical creatures that are able to foresee the future.” This belief, she adds, may explain why beekeepers since the late Middle Ages have followed the tradition of speaking to their honeybee hives, conveying news of the household, particularly of births and deaths, and the broader life of the community. Between us, I lost track of time watching this lone honeybee PineStraw

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pause to refresh. Either five minutes or the better part of an hour drifted by. The bee was in no hurry and neither was I, both taking our own sweet time as the clock of another year winds down, though his days are ten thousand times shorter than mine, a bittersweet reminder to get on with things that need to be done. As I watched him hop from stone to stone, I wondered where he might be headed and how much time he has left to fulfill his purpose. A male honeybee lives anywhere from one month to seven weeks, on average, and suddenly it was autumn. I felt a stab of sadness for my thirsty friend, but he rose into the air, hovered for a moment, then flew away. My impression was that he knew exactly where he was headed and why he is here. Isn’t that the greatest lesson of being alive? Remembrance often comes with bittersweet memory. Still sitting where the honeybee left me, I randomly opened an old leather journal — ironically embossed with the Celtic Flower of Life, purchased years ago in a Dublin book shop — where I keep a record of travels, eccentric thoughts, favorite quotes, overheard comments, mildly blue jokes and notes on my garden, only to be stopped by a line I wrote two days before Thanksgiving last year. For the first time ever, due to COVID distancing, none of our grown children could make it home for the holiday. That was disappointing enough — a moment we expected to eventually come in time as their busy lives expanded — but the unexpected loss of our

sweet and lovable golden retriever, Ajax, a gift to my wife for our 10th anniversary, was a devastating blow. Due to a swift malady that came out of nowhere overnight and left us no choice but to humanely put him down, a kind lady vet came to the house to administer relief as he lay calmly on his favorite couch, gazing out the window at the yard where he loved to romp with the kids. He was such a big kid himself, I called him “Junior.” After I carried Junior’s body out to the doctor’s car, I sat at the top of my office steps by the garage and watched the beautiful light of a perfect autumn afternoon leave the world as peacefully as my friend Ajax had just done. The mighty white oaks around us had shed most of their leaves by then, though a few last ones filtered to earth in the golden light. I heard children’s voices just yards away, playing tag, squeals of terrified delight. Junior would have loved that. I looked up and saw a red-tailed hawk cruising over the treetops, tilting to the west as if turning toward home. I wondered what he saw from 200 feet closer to heaven. Perhaps an old dude sitting at the top of his steps, grieving for his friend who brought such joy into the world. It’s probably about time I let my grief for Junior go. The light in the eye grown dim, wrote Walt Whitman, shall duly flame again. Though I doubt that will happen just yet. PS Jim Dodson can be reached at jwdauthor@gmail.com.

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Leaping Leotards Enjoy the Bolshoi Ballet’s performance of Spartacus at the Sunrise Theater on Sunday, Nov. 7, beginning at 12:55 p.m. Spartacus’ love of his wife, Phrygia, and his desire for freedom lead him to revolt against the Roman Empire. What could go wrong? For more information call (910) 692-3611 or go to www.sunrisetheater.com.

Authors Unite Kristy Woodson Harvey will return with her book Christmas in Peachtree Bluff at the Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines, on Thursday, Nov. 4, from 4 - 5 p.m. Cost is $20, and tickets are available at ticketmesandhills.com. On Sunday, Nov. 7, golf teaching professional Nicole Weller will be signing her new book, Big Thoughts from Little Golfers, from 3 - 5 p.m. at Bump and Baby, 3 Market Square, Pinehurst. Denise Kiernan, author of The Last Castle, will be speaking about her book and answering questions on Wednesday, Nov. 17, from 5 - 6 p.m. at The Pilot, 145 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Tickets are free and available at ticketmesandhills.com. And, on Nov. 18, Karen White will be at CCNC, 1600 Morganton Road, Pinehurst, to discuss her book The Attic on Queen Street from 4 -5 p.m. Tickets are $35 and available at ticketmestandhills.com.

Heartburn with a Sidehill Lie Join all the ghost pepper afficionados on a closed-off block of New Hampshire Avenue in Southern Pines at 12 p.m. on Nov. 7 for the chili cook-off benefiting Special Forces Association Chapter 62. The beans are free to anyone under 16. Adults are $10. Hot sauce is extra. Ground zero is O’Donnell’s Pub, 133 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines.

First Friday — And Then It’s Fall Check Your Head: A Beastie Boys Tribute will perform on the First Bank Stage on Sunrise Square, adjacent to the theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines, on Friday, Nov. 5, from 5 – 8:15 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Sunrise Theater. Food trucks, refreshments and beer from the Southern Pines Brewery will be available. As always, no walking, rolling or strolling coolers, and leave Cujo at home. For more information call (910) 692-3611 or go to www.sunrisetheater.com.

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Veterans Day Parade The annual Southern Pines Veterans Day Parade does the full 360-degree Broad Street loop on Saturday, Nov. 6, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Let all our veterans know how much we appreciate them. For more information call (910) 692-7376. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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Open Cabin The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst, will have a weeklong Christmas Open House beginning on Tuesday, Nov. 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be special door prizes and crafts for sale. For more information call (910) 2954677 or go to www.sandhillswe.org.

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How Did the Sleigh Fit Through the Door? Santa is coming to the Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst, on Saturday, Nov. 20, from 9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Visits include a picture with Santa, a holiday craft to take home and a goodie bag. There are two time slots, from 9:45 – 11 a.m. and 11 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.. Space is limited. Santa’s helpers are taking reservations beginning Nov. 1. For information and reservations call (910) 295-3642.

Don’t Forget Griswolds Day Pay the electric bill and ring in the holidays with the annual Christmas tree lighting in downtown Southern Pines on Saturday, Nov. 27, from 4:30 – 6 p.m. Or, honestly, when it’s dark enough. Keep an eye out for Santa, who promises he’ll pose for pictures, though he’s not into selfies. For additional information call (910) 692-7376.

Scorpio (October 23 – November 21)

Watch a garden spider mercilessly swaddle its prey in silk and see if you aren’t vaguely reminded of your favorite Scorpio. Dark and mysterious by nature, it’s little wonder that the presence of this powerful water sign tends to make people feel a bit uncomfortable. But those who know and love this brooding and morbidly sensitive being will tell you that their wrath is justifiable: Their every action is rooted in their fierce loyalty to truth and those dearest to them. This month, Scorpios will be asked to take stock of their emotional baggage. Heavy, isn’t it? The new moon is a good time to let go.

Tea leaf “fortunes” for the rest of you: Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21) Have you heard of therapeutic shaking? It might counteract all that fidgeting. Capricorn (December 22 – January 19) It won’t be a cakewalk, but there will be music. Aquarius (January 20 – February 18) You’re overthinking things again. Draw yourself a bath and relax. Pisces (February 19 – March 20) A seesaw only works if you’re willing to cooperate. Aries (March 21 – April 19) The prize is the box itself. Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Regression isn’t a good look for you. Dust yourself off and keep going. Gemini (May 21 – June 20) Temping, isn’t it? Do what you want. It’s really only karma. Cancer (June 21 – July 22) Wear the pink ones. Leo (July 23 – August 22) There’s no such thing as a free puppy. Read that again. Virgo (August 23 – September 22) Let’s put it this way: The bubble needed to be burst. Libra (September 23 – October 22) Neat and tidy isn’t always an option.

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9 Wicker Sham Court West · Pinehurst, NC 28374 · $1,200,000 Beautiful 5 bedroom Village home located on a quiet golf front cul-de-sac located on the 13th fairway of the Tom Fazio North Course. Charming, light filled home features 4 en suite bedrooms and a bonus/bedroom above the attached coach house. Primary bedroom on main floor. Open floor plan. Natural stack stone foundation and cedar shake roof. Interior main floor includes ambrosia maple. Mature landscaping, professional landscape lighting. Maintenance free decking and railings. Covered back deck with stack stone fireplace. Gated community. Club Membership available upon application approval. Membership not required.

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13 ELKTON DR, PINEHURST • $375,000 Coveted water & golf frontage located at the prestigious Forest Creek Golf Club.

3 KENWOOD CRT, PINEHURST • $130,000 Beautiful lot in prestigious gated community at Forest Creek Golf Club.

103 FOREST CREEK DR #I, PINEHURST • $419,000 Your very own pieta-terra in the cradle of America’s golf. Requires membership upon approval.

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Jewel of Fall The versatile and delicious sweet potato

By Karen Frye s the season moves from the heat of summer to the chill of fall, you will see more sweet potatoes at local markets and roadside stands. North Carolina is one of the country’s best producers, and Moore County, where some of the farms are second and third generation, is no exception. Defining our diet for the season is a step toward better health. The sweet potato is a warming food, making it especially good to eat in the winter months. Look for foods that are grown within a 50-mile radius and incorporate these fruits and vegetables into your diet as much as possible. The sweet potato is versatile. You can bake or steam it and serve with a little butter for a delicious side dish. Years ago, when the area was more agrarian and farmers spent much of their time outside in the fields, they would carry a baked sweet potato wrapped in a brown bag in a pocket for an energy-giving snack. I like to peel and cut a sweet potato into little cubes, roast them in the oven, toss the crispy cubes with some salt, and add them to my salad like sweet potato croutons. You can make sweet potato soup by boiling them in water, adding onions (or any favorite vegetable) and making a purée. My family thinks of the sweet potato as a holiday food. My grandmothers were both exceptional cooks and would put out beautiful spreads of food, much of it grown in their gardens. The candied sweet potatoes, with a lot of butter and a little brown sugar, was one of the yummiest foods on the table at Thanksgiving and Christmas and always the first to disappear. There are many health benefits to eating sweet potatoes. They’re rich in vitamin A, beta carotene and lycopene — all valuable antioxidants. They are one of the few vegetables that boost the body’s production of B12, a vitamin most commonly found in red meat, significant for a plant-based diet. They have lots of vitamin C, potassium, iron and fiber. They can help reduce inflammation in the intestinal tract. And they can increase the production of dopamine, serotonin and gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA), allowing for sounder sleep. Get your sweet potatoes locally, if possible, to support the farmers. Find some recipes and see how your health will improve this winter by eating one of the tastiest foods there is. PS Karen Frye is the owner and founder of Nature’s Own and teaches yoga at the Bikram Yoga Studio.

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Comrades in the Wilderness A solitary woman and a red fox

By Stephen E. Smith

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This much is certain: Whatever nook the book occupies, a careworn copy of Walden is already there. Like Thoreau, Catherine Raven wandered into the wilderness “to live deliberately, to confront the essential facts of life, and see if she could not learn what it had to teach.” At the age of 15, Raven escaped her abusive parents who, she claims, wanted her “to disappear.” She eventually landed a job as a ranger in the National Park system. She was homeless, living in her car on a piece of remote land in Montana while putting herself through college and graduate school, where, as she frequently reminds the reader, she earned a Ph.D. in biology. She built a house in Montana and taught the occasional college class, all the while avoiding her fellow human beings. Then she met the fox. Every day at 4:15 p.m. a red fox visits Raven’s property. His arrival quickly becomes the central focus of her otherwise uneventful life, and she begins to structure her activities around his visits. She reads to him from Dr. Seuss and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (a fox plays a central role in the story). She observes his every movement and speculates as to his motivations. She keeps track of his nutritional needs (he has an appetite for voles), his mating habits, the kits he helps raise, and his interaction with the surrounding fauna, especially two magpies who she names Tennis The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Ball and Round Belly, and bluebirds, deer, bats, eagles, elk, feral cats, etc. And she details the local flora — fescue, mustard, cheat, mullein, sunflower, Russian thistle, rabbitbrush, knapweed, sagebrush, wild rye, bluestem, wheatgrass, sow thistle — with equal purpose, producing a litany of zoological annotations liberally sprinkled with a biologist’s vocabulary. (Readers utilizing a Kindle will appreciate the handy “Dictionary” function.) The fox never exhibits what might be interpreted as affection and doesn’t approach within petting distance. But Raven’s isolation leads her to imagine a relationship has developed between her and the animal. Her friends, few though they may be, remind her that her academic training forbids anthropomorphizing the fox, but the regularity of his visits and his attention to her human affectations lead her to project a personality onto the fox. “I tried to imagine when Fox and I first became more than just two itinerant animals crossing each other’s paths. . . . Maybe the relationship had developed so smoothly that I never doubted that all was as it should be, or maybe it had developed rapidly enough to keep me perpetually confused. . . . I had barely enough social intelligence to understand that adults, least of all trained scientists, don’t go around treating wild foxes as if they had personalities.” Raven’s narrative doesn’t collapse into a mawkish “Lassie” story, but it approaches, especially in its conclusion, a sentimentality that is tempered only by her scientific training. Because she accepts that communicating with a wild animal is not the same as conversing with her friends and that her relationship with the fox is in no way tantamount to a human friendship, she remains uncertain as to why the attachment has developed or what lessons she might draw from her limited interaction with the fox. In fact, Fox and I might be read as a rationalization for Raven’s bond, real or imagined, with the fox. As beautifully written as her memoir is — and certainly Raven’s prose occasionally rises to the level of poetry — she never truly resolves the ambiguities that are central to her life with the fox. Predictably, the moment arrives when Raven senses that the fox’s PineStraw

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trust in her is almost complete. On a moonlit night, she is waiting outside for his arrival and notices the fox’s “wispy, translucent fur in the light” as he trots directly to her front steps. “I stepped away from the door, and four round and fluid kits rolled past me. Fox moved off to the side, leaving me surrounded by little leaping foxes. Close enough to touch, they were tumbling around me like acrobats while my hands sprung up in surprise. I focused on two tussling kits, and everything around them homogenized into a blur.” All such animal tales have an obvious and inevitable conclusion, and it’s not spoiling the ending to reveal the fox’s fate. Wildfire rips through Raven’s corner of Montana, and she flees for her life. She returns to find that her house has survived but that the fox and his kits are nowhere to be found, gone up, one would suppose, in smoke, possible victims of global warming. “Nature is cruel,” she writes, “that’s a trope masquerading as a paradigm, in the sense that a carpetbagger might masquerade as a charlatan.” Raven blames herself, enjoying the selfpity that accompanies the probable death of the fox, noting that he might have fled to safety with his vixen and the four kits, but that he waited for her to appear: “I imagined him upright on his hind legs and pressing his nose into my front window like he used to do. I could see him standing with his ears drawn back until his ankles shook and then skipping backward to regain his balance. His last memory of me was an empty house.” Although Fox and I is nonfiction, Raven uses fictional techniques to tell her story and includes chapters written from the fox’s point of view. Though occasionally afflicted with the dictionary disease, her style is fluid and lyrical and is a joy to read, propelling the reader through her intermittent pedantic ramblings. More to her credit, she doesn’t burden the reader with timely political insights or lessons learned. Readers are left to their own conclusions. She simply tells the story of a lonely woman’s encounter with a red fox in the wilds of Montana. 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. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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FICTION Dava Shastri’s Last Day, by Kirthana Ramisetti Dava Shastri, one of the world’s wealthiest women, has always lived with her sterling reputation in mind. A brain cancer diagnosis at the age of 70, however, changes everything, and Dava decides to take her death — like all matters of her life — into her own hands. Summoning her four adult children to her private island, she discloses shocking news: In addition to having a terminal illness, she has arranged for the news of her death to break early, so she can read her obituaries. As someone who dedicated her life to the arts and the empowerment of women, Dava expects to read articles lauding her philanthropic work. Instead, her “death” reveals two devastating secrets, truths she thought she had buried forever. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, by Diana Gabaldon Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746; now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. In this newest novel in the Outlander series, it is 1779, and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Yet, even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great, and Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep. Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the 20th century might catch up to them. Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity — and thus his own — and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet . . . on his son’s behalf, and his own. Wish You Were Here, by Jodi Picoult Diana O’Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by 30, have kids by 35, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galapagos — days before her 30th birthday. When a virus appears in the city and it’s all hands on deck at the hospital, Finn has to stay behind. Reluctantly, The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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months before my mother died, she had to be hospitalized because of an infection. At 95, with dementia, Mom was tiny. On the last day of my visit, she had rallied but still was very frail. I stood by her bed. Putting the large fingers of my right hand on her right palm, for reasons I don’t know, I said, “Squeeze.”

Her eyes took me in and she did, holding the grip for several seconds. I was stunned by its force. My fingers hurt. When she let go, I saw the hint of a smile on her face. I shook my head — and my hand — as I left the room. Driving my rental car to RDU, I thought about bowling. My mother wasn’t an athlete. She enjoyed watching college basketball and professional golf — Mom spent quite a few minutes with me on her land line lamenting what Phil Mickelson or Carolina had done — but that was about it. She would shoot a basket in the backyard if I made her and play miniature golf with the rest of the family at the beach. Once, when she was in her early 60s, Mom joined a Wiffle ball game with kids and grandkids at the home of her younger daughter. Twenty years or so after that, I coerced her into a few golf swings on the Knollwood range. By that point in life she was content to watch Phil on TV, and her assisted-living room was decorated with an autographed picture of Lefty. Once upon a time, though, Mom had a been a bowler. It was the winter of 1964-65. I was 5 years old and would have been in kindergarten, but East Southern Pines School started with first grade. I watched Captain Kangaroo, played in the dirt with toy soldiers or Tonka trucks, and pored over the World Books. Dad had taken a job at a tool-and-die plant in High Point, coming home on weekends. Mom worked as a teller at The Citizens Bank and Trust Company. The bank had a team in a women’s bowling league that

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competed in the bowling alley that stood on North West Broad just before the intersection with Morganton Road. That winter, on Tuesday nights after Mom made supper for the two of us, she put on her white team shirt with the bank’s name in green script on the back and drove downtown with her boy riding shotgun. I was given a dime to use in the candy machine and told to behave, which wasn’t a given for me at that age. The bowling center was an exotic place to a kid who hadn’t seen much beyond his block. Shiny wooden lanes brightly lit. Bowlers in their matching team shirts. The rumble of flying pins. More than once, another spectating child and I had to be shooed away from the air vent where bowlers dried their hands, so fascinating was that feature. The women who smoked put their lipstick-stained cigarettes in a big glass ashtray when it was their turn. I didn’t know what either body English or camaraderie meant at the time, but recognize now that both were present. There were winners and losers on those Tuesday evenings, results that would be reported in The Pilot, but I couldn’t tell you how the Citizens’ ladies fared against the competition or whether Mom ever rolled a strike. That bowling season came and went. Mom never bought her own ball, one of the colorful ones that looked like a giant marble. Her snazzy shirt became a painting smock when it was home improvement time. The bowling alley would burn down. She didn’t want to leave her home when it was time. It was her house and her things, lots of them after more than 60 years. My sisters and I toiled for a week to sort through it all. Mom’s bedroom closet was chock full of stuff. I hadn’t seen the bank bowling shirt in many years but hoped to find it. To my disappointment, the shirt wasn’t there. As I cleared things out, something shiny in the closet corner caught my eye. It was a trophy, chrome with a wooden base, about a foot tall with a woman on top. “TARHEEL BOWLERETTES. 64-65. Most Improved.” PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent. PineStraw

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Rising STARworks Art from the Ground Up

By Wiley Cash • Photographs by Mallory Cash

The town of Star is the artis-

tic center of North Carolina. I mean that — literally — in that Star is the geographic center of the state. And I also mean it figuratively, as the town is home to STARworks, where artists from around the world have been working in fire arts like glass blowing and ceramics since 2005. “We love to set stuff on fire around here,” says STARworks executive director Nancy Gottovi, who, in a single decade, led the transformation of an abandoned hosiery mill into a destination for artists from around the globe.

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In 1993, a nonprofit called Central Park NC formed when leaders from six Central Carolina rural counties came together with a common vision of creating a sustainable economy. The group formed an initiative to focus on art as a way to capitalize on the natural and cultural assets of the rural spaces located between the urban centers of Charlotte and the Research Triangle. That was when Nancy Gottovi began asking herself questions about what a working artist truly requires. “They need to have a really good space to work with good equipment,” Gottovi says. “They also need a community of other artists to feed off of. And they need a way to make a living.” In 2005, Gottovi and Central Park NC found a space — nearly 200,000 square feet of space, to be exact — when they accepted the donation of a former hosiery mill in Star that had been abandoned in 2001, leaving more than 1,000 local residents unemployed. Enter STARworks Center for Creative Enterprise. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

In the early days, the organization was grossly understaffed and overwhelmed by the nearly four acres of aging factory it had inherited, but Gottovi soon realized that in order for the fledgling organization to survive, the building itself had to start generating income. “Our biggest asset is this amazing space,” she says. “We needed to get the best artists we could find and then set them loose in the building.” The artists Gottovi invited set about creating glass pumpkins as one of the first ventures to raise capital to sustain the organization. Suffice it to say that it worked, and that Gottovi proudly witnessed the former factory evolve into an artistic and cultural center where artists gathered and forged both creations and community. Now, over a decade later, glassblowers at STARworks regularly create and sell as many as 3,000 glass pumpkins each fall. And each holiday season, they make and sell thousands of Christmas ornaments.

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The economic model at STARworks could be described as self-sustaining. The organization offers paid internships to glass artists, who earn hundreds of hours of experience in a field that is often cost-prohibitive to those just starting out and who might not be able to afford their own studios and equipment. In turn, the interns work to create the pumpkins and ornaments that are sold each year while also having the time, space and materials to pursue their own projects. The interns also gain valuable experience as mentees while working side-by-side with professional artists from around the world who come to STARworks as residency recipients and visiting artists. An onsite gallery provides space to showcase and sell individual artists’ work. While interns and established artists come from around the world, visitors are just as likely to discover a group of local students dabbling in glassblowing and ceramics. Some of the students who continually benefit from their experi-

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ences at STARworks are the young men from nearby Eckerd Connects, a juvenile justice program for youth ages 13–17. Gottovi continually finds the young men from Eckerd to be the most interesting and curious young people she has encountered in her years at STARworks. According to Gottovi, working with fire and glass is a little dangerous, but these young people are comfortable navigating a certain amount of pressure in their lives, and glassblowing in particular teaches them how to work in

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STARworks executive director Nancy Gottovi a team and rely on other people to create a piece of art. It is an affecting experience for many of the young men, born out by the fact that several returned to STARworks as formal apprentices. STARworks is not just creating space for artists. It is also sourcing the medium from which art is made. Recognizing the region’s long history of both brick-making in central North Carolina and pottery in nearby areas such as Sea Grove, Gottovi saw an opportunity to take advantage of the organic materials surrounding them. While spending time in Japan after graduate school, Gottovi met a Japanese potter who had a degree in ceramic material engineering, and years later she invited him to come to Star to start a clay business. He took her up on the inviThe Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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ed bartending, I was 21 years old, and hadn’t a clue what I was doing. There was a huge part of me that thought all there was to the job was being fast and making the drinks strong. I thought this for a couple of reasons: I was young and dumb; and the clientele of a majority of the bars where I worked appreciated their drinks being made fast and strong. Since then, the cocktail renaissance, if you will, has happened, and it seems everyone has cool-looking bar aprons, and lots of men have stolen their mustaches from Mario’s brother, Luigi.

In those early days, I had one regular who would approach the bar toward the end of the night (it was a restaurant, so we’re not talking 3 a.m. here) and order a cocktail I had to look up in the lone bar book we had on hand — I believe it was a Mr. Boston Bartender’s and Party Guide. The gentleman would order stingers, toasted almonds or grasshoppers. They were all three-ingredient drinks that had to have been vehicles to a destination because, to me, they tasted pretty awful. Well, it’s been many years since then, and drinks have evolved, including the grasshopper. Here are three ways to make the cocktail, from novice to master. And by master, I mean taking the time to buy quality ingredients and getting your hands a little dirty.

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Easiest and Almost Drinkable

It’s straight from Mr. Boston. Three ingredients: crème de menthe, crème de cacao and light cream. I used heavy cream (if memory serves); light cream is basically coffee cream or “table cream.” It’s just a little bit higher in fat than half-and-half. 3/4 ounce crème de menthe (we had the clear Arrowhead brand) 3/4 ounce crème de cacao (again with the Arrowhead) 3/4 ounce light cream

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This recipe comes from the Cocktail Codex, which came out a few years back. I love this quote: “This cocktail and many others of its ilk have been relegated to dive bars for decades, but as highquality liqueurs have come to the market — made with actual mint and cacao rather than artificial flavorings — we’ve revisited these classics and added them to our repertoire.” More than likely, you’ll have to get these liqueurs online, so please don’t hesitate. It makes all the difference. 1 ounce Tempus Fugit white crème de menthe 1 ounce Giffard white crème de cacao 1 ounce heavy cream 8 mint leaves Garnish: 1 mint leaf Shake all the ingredients with ice. Double strain into a chilled coupe. Garnish with the mint leaf, placing it on top of the drink. PineStraw

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Thanksgiving in a Bowl The everything-but-the-kitchen-sink soup By Jan Leitschuh

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I have a clever friend and avid kitchen gardener, Deb Tucker, who gathers the fall harvest from garden and market, and throws it together in marvelous combinations. She takes this abundance and turns it into a rich bowl of comfort food to ward off late fall’s chill. The goodies in her cook pot are different every time. The nice thing about this soup is that the ingredients are fluid, and you don’t have to be a gifted chef to make a hearty and delicious potful — just a cook who likes to eat. The markets reflect the abundance of fresh fall harvest available to us, from apples and squashes, to broccoli, to pecans, to sweet potatoes, to early collards, to fall green beans, to northern cranberries and more. And, of course, roasted turkey. And my creative friend grabs onto it with both hands, crafting her free-form soup magic. So, no precise recipes here. Soup is more of a narrative, anyway, a tale of your household’s leftover bits and bobs, with a tasty dash of this and that. To craft your Thanksgiving-in-a-bowl, follow the basic structure, unleash your inner Deb, and fashion a soup that fits your dietary needs and preferences. Deb described her latest as “cream and cheeses and sherry and cranberries and onions and pecans and nutmeg and coriander and broccoli and cayenne and leftover seasoned turkey tenderloins. Basically . . . comfort food.” Too rich for you? Back off the cream and cheeses. Avoiding alcohol? Eliminate the sherry. Vegetarian? Use vegetable stock and lose the turkey. Vegan? Vegetarian plus no dairy. See? This is easy. So, commence: 1. Begin at the bottom of your soup pot. Add a bit of oil and “start as we do with nearly everything, sautéing/caramelizing onion,” Deb said. You might want to add a handful of chopped celery, if available. Thanksgiving spices such as sage are also good additions — a bit of chopped, fried sage is the “pumpkin spice” of our favorite savory Thanksgiving dishes. 2. You’ll need the stock for the soup’s broth. Chicken broth is the standard; vegetable stock could also suffice. A carton of squash soup might be an intriguing side trip into fall flavors. Add liquid to the soup pot and heat. Once your stock is established, start tossing things in. 3. Depending on your diet, you may or may not want to skip the dairy — my friend cooks like a Frenchwoman. On this chilly fall The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

day, Deb’s tastes went right to rich by adding “a little heavy cream. You could also use both cream cheese and/or mascarpone,” she said, “though I wanted the tart bite of cream cheese.” Gilding the lily, as it were, Deb also used a second cheese, an extra-sharp shredded cheddar. “It was a cool, rainy day, and I just wanted some cheesiness,” she said. “I was out of any melty-type cheese, but that would be good, too.” Despite all the dairy, Deb used a light touch and called her concoction more of a “bisque, as it wasn’t as thick as a creamed soup, but not as broth-y as a clear soup.” 4. Add the protein. Deb tossed in leftover turkey, torn in pieces from a simple Butterball-type turkey tenderloin. (On another occasion, she sprinkled the tenderloins with chili powder and cumin, roasting them at 325 degrees for about 45 minutes. She also added mashed sweet potatoes.) Vegetarians could add chunks of grilled portobello mushrooms, or perhaps stir some nut butter into the veggie broth. 5. Season the Thanksgiving bowl with spices and flavors. Deb loves sherry in soups, “many good splashes.” She tried a spot of nutmeg (“just a little . . . freshly grated is best”) and coriander. For a little more heat, she dashed in a little cayenne along with salt and pepper. Though she loves garlic in so many things, Deb steered clear of it this time. “I didn’t think it fit with this milder concoction,” she explained. 6. Add more stuff. Deb kept tossing in seasonal ingredients. A handful of chopped pecans are a soup surprise but very effective, adding “a little bit of the crunch of pecans, which can also be mild and creamy.” Another surprise is a scattering of dried fruits. For this latest creation, she used low-sugar dried cranberries. She adores adding Montmorency sour cherries at other times. 7. After simmering a bit to blend flavors, Deb added frozen broccoli florets near the end. She wants them cooked but still firm and green, “not too soggy. Sometimes I’ll throw some frozen florets into a skillet and brown it quickly, so it resembles roasted.” The result is “easy and quick, if you already have the leftover turkey.” As a self-described experimental kitchen cook, I could see adding a few sautéed green beans, a cut potato or two, or perhaps some chunks of roasted sweet potato in some iteration. Your larder, tastebuds and imagination shape the outcome. The result was so good, “I wish I had made enough to have the next day,” Deb said. “Oh, wait, I think I do have one bowl left. Don’t tell my husband. It might disappear when I settle down to watch a movie tonight.” November leftovers don’t get much better than that. PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and coPineStraw

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I remember other landings. He sights the obstacle. His ears perk and we each await the cue from the other. Mostly, I trust him to find the way and we take off in brief yet timeless flight. Gracefully, he lands and we gallop to the next. Once, I take desperate charge and insist we fly too soon. All heart, he complies. Dense fence rails splinter as we crash and 1,500 pounds somersaults hard. I lay by his side and momentum hurtles toward me. Steel-rimmed hooves above my stillness. All will, he reverses gravity and gracefully he lands. A little girl’s dream. Maybe every little girl’s dream. Madison Square Garden. Jumps overpacked into a spotlighted arena, fans noisy in the folding seats. No little girl anymore, I ask for his indulgence. Around we canter, finding each jump in stride. Up and over. Gracefully he lands. We pass three decades together. A constant among the variables of marriage, children, career, life. He nickers at the crunch of my car wheels in the gravel of the stable yard. We wander rooty trails in the Massachusetts autumn, hoping for fallen trees across the path. I urge a trot and then we leap. And gracefully, always, he lands. An old horse’s dream. Sun-soaked fields, crayon-green grass, Carolina-blue skies. The devotion of a little girl, in worn and torn costume. For as long as you want, until you’re ready, I tell him. I’m ready, he says to me one day. And gracefully he lands. PS Julie O. Petrini is a lawyer, writer and avid arts consumer. She splits her time between Southern Pines, North Carolina, and Wellesley, Massachusetts. She can be reached at jpetrini@petrinilaw.com. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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T h r a o f n l k u s f g k ivin n a h g T The holiday with staying power By Deborah Salomon

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days Americans over-celebrate, Thanksgiving best retains its symbols and sanctities. Sure, the food magazines do turkey upside down and backward, including an abomination called turducken, a deboned chicken shoved inside a deboned duck shoved inside a deboned turkey costing an arm and a leg. Cranberry chutney may be all the rage, but the backbone of the celebration hasn’t changed much since the holiday, celebrated informally since the 1860s, was institutionalized in 1941.

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Other observations, beyond the stuffing: The vocabulary of a traditional Thanksgiving usually includes “Grandma” — a relic from when she lived over the river and through the woods, not in a Florida retirement village. Where’s Grandpa? Stretched out in his BarcaLounger, watching the game. But Grandma, the institution, is fast morphing into a format more Sharon Stone and Judge Judy than the sweet homemakers-choir singers-pie bakers-rose growers I find on the obit page. Let’s be thankful for those while they last because, like the woolly mammoth, when they’re gone, they’re gone. Back to food because, truth be told, without it Thanksgiving might wither on the vine. Try as they may, Martha Stewart, Ina Garten and Rachael Ray cannot budge green bean casserole, marshmallow-topped sweet potatoes, jellied cranberry sauce, spongy dinner rolls, pumpkin pie and a Butterball built like Dolly Parton — an image I’ve used for more than three decades. They are sacred. They are icons. I know, because I grew up deprived. I’m the only child of late-onset parents. My mother loved to eat, hated to cook. She never once stuck a turkey in the oven even when I came home from college, starved — a waste for three people, was her excuse. If we weren’t invited somewhere, we ate in a hotel dining room with a turkey dinner special. Forget seconds. No leftovers. Imagine her surprise seeing me roast several birds a year, just for sandwiches. Besides, nothing compares to warmedover cornbread stuffing for breakfast. After all, June, not November, is National Turkey Lovers’ Month. Another surprise: Israel, devoid of Thanksgiving, consumes the most turkey per capita. Last Thanksgiving, sales of small turkeys soared, attributed to fewer big gatherings. With the unexpected summer virus surge, no telling what will happen this month. But I have faith that even if the turkey and trimmings are pared down, Thanksgiving will survive intact. Because where there’s life, there’s hope. And hopeful people always find something to be thankful for. PS Deborah Salomon is a writer for PineStraw and The Pilot. She may be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com. PineStraw

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of open fields as well. Turkeys forage on a variety of food, including insects, small berries, seeds and buds. Interestingly, one of their favorite fall foods, acorns, are often abundant in our part of the state. Individuals are well known to associate in large flocks of 50 or more birds. In the early spring, older males will attract and attend to and defend a flock of several females. At this time, they can be heard gobbling and strutting in their characteristic puffed-up posture. Only during the early part of the breeding season, in April and May, are the birds solitary. Once the chicks hatch and reach about 4 weeks of age, hens will gather together with their young and form new aggregations. In the early 1970s, there weren’t many more than a million turkeys on the landscape. Persecution and habitat alteration had resulted in dramatic reduction in the population. Now, throughout not only the United States but parts of southern Canada and northern Mexico, there are seven times that many. Here in the Old North State, turkeys can be found in almost every county. In recent years, both the Triad and Triangle have experienced an influx from the Uwharrie Mountains in the west as well as from the inner Coastal Plain to the east. It is not surprising that these big birds show up to take advantage of seed around bird feeders and forage in grassy vegetation along our roadways, as well as looking for tender vegetation and insects in agricultural fields across the area. So, keep your eyes peeled — you, too, may spot one, or more, of these majestic birds here in central North Carolina. PS Susan Campbell would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos. She can be contacted at susan@ncaves.com. PineStraw

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training yellow Labs as gun dogs and retrievers. It’s often said in the vernacular of dog owners, especially hunting dog owners, “If you’re lucky in your lifetime and you’re persistent, you will have one good dog. And if the stars align just right, you might have a great dog.” The stars lined up just right for Edwin and me. His dog was a big, long-legged yellow Lab named Dick, and mine was a medium-sized yellow named Paddle. Edwin and I spent many happy hours afield training those wonderful animals. Edwin grew up on a farm relatively close to Siler City. He has two brothers: Al, who owns and manages Clapp Brothers Tractor; and Tim, who’s a retired N.C. State University professor. They are both equally proficient in the woods; but in my opinion, Edwin tops the bill. He went to Jordan-Matthews High School, where he starred in baseball, basketball and track. He received a full baseball scholarship to Louisburg College, where he was instrumental in helping his team go to the Junior College World Series, a first for the school. He was voted captain and the most valuable player. Edwin is a self-effacing kind of fellow, and it took me several years to land an interview with him. On this particular day, we were on his farm at his lake house, “Fair Weather,” where we had hunted doves several weeks earlier. It was raining, and we were kicked back under PineStraw

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the tin-roofed porch of his barn near the cabin. It was the perfect setting for reminiscing about old times. As we looked toward the tree line on the far side of the dove field, three wild turkeys crossed the expanse in front of us. “Tom, I was kinda tired of school after that first year, so a buddy and I decided we would go to Florida. We got jobs at Disney World, and I worked in the candy factory making lollipops.” It was incredible to me that a star baseball player would toss all that fame and fortune away, just like that. Edwin’s adventure leaving school hit close to home. I remembered that as a young guy looking for adventure, I joined the Marines after my first year of college. “So, what was next?” I asked. “I got tired of making candy and came back home, called my coach at Louisburg and he told me to come on back, the scholarship was still available.” Edwin returned to school and that year was offered a full baseball scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and also a full scholarship to East Carolina University. He chose ECU and was a star pitcher, their number one righthander. Again, fate stepped in and for whatever reason, Edwin left college and became a jack of all trades. There are people like that. I’ve met a few. Folks who can do anything, fix anything, and build anything. In Edwin’s case, he ended up starting his own company, C&B Small Engines, and later, after selling his business, he became the service manager at MacDonald's Building Supply. Rain was rattling the tin roof of the old barn in a restful way, and we watched as the turkeys continued to feed across the field. “You know, Tom, there was a time during my journeys that I took a six-month sabbatical, lived here at the cabin and hunted and fished every day. It was wonderful.” The land that Edwin hunts has been in his family for generations. It’s where he grew up, and he knows every nook and cranny like the back of his hand. Our conversation drifted here and yonder about all the places he had hunted and fished, which brought me to my next question. “Which do you like to do best, hunt or fish?” The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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“I believe I like to fish the best. One season I had the opportunity to be the mate on a 38-foot Bertram sport fisher boat for a gentleman who was fishing in a king mackerel tournament. It was loads of fun and I learned a lot about fishing tournaments. But don’t forget, hunting runs a close second. I love dove hunting.” I have hunted with Edwin many times, and I’ve never seen anyone better with a shotgun. Every dove season, he has an opening day hunt on his farm. It’s by invitation only. He barbecues chicken and Boston butts with all the fixin’s. Yet another talent. He’s a superb cook. The event is a day-long affair and is much looked forward to by everybody. The rain was slacking a little and Edwin stood and said, “Come on, I want to show you a part of the farm you’ve never seen.” We climbed in his truck, and he put it in 4-wheel drive. We drove down a narrow track, almost a path, with overhanging branches damp with rain. The path opened to a small field, maybe 5 or 6 acres, and just as we eased out of the tree line, a pair of whitetail deer bounded tight around the planted cornfield. We exclaimed and laughed about jumping the deer. Then, as we turned the corner, we saw a group of young turkeys, maybe this year’s crop, and they flew across the front of the truck into the trees. Edwin is the ultimate conservationist. He has a wildlife habitat on his farm that’s rarely seen anymore. We rode slowly back to his house, and as I prepared to load up and head home, he presented me with a big sack of freshly picked tomatoes and peppers from his garden. Did I mention that he’s also a champion gardener? Edwin and his lovely wife, Danette, live happily on their farm in Chatham County, and I agree with him wholeheartedly when he says that he has had plenty of fun. But without a doubt, his talent and hard work has made all those good times possible. PS

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ly smitten from that first visit.” He and wife Melissa stayed at the Carolina Hotel, and he played golf on Pinehurst Nos. 2, 6 and 7. He returned a decade later, this time bringing his son, Cam, and setting up a 14-round golf orgy over seven days that included a half-dozen courses at Pinehurst as well as Pine Needles, Mid Pines, and Forest Creek North and South. “My wife fell in love with everything about Pinehurst and the Sandhills,” Ohlendorf says. “She thought the climate was great. She’s a Wisconsin girl and likes a sweatshirt-and-blue jeans kind of day. We’d been to Florida enough times, and I was not impressed with the golf. The golf in Pinehurst was compelling.” Then, in 2014, the Ohlendorfs decided to plant a stake in the Sandhills, purchasing a townhouse at Longleaf and moving in the Thursday of the U.S. Open on Pinehurst No. 2. Today they spend from three to four months in the area to supplement their permanent home in Illinois. Ohlendorf uses his memberships at Pine PineStraw

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all about the greens. Pine Needles and Mid Pines have wonderful greens. Dornoch around the greens is wonderful.” The cover image of his book is a view of Royal Dornoch. “My favorite course in the world,” he says. It was 20 years ago that Ohlendorf first played the course on the northeast coast of Scotland that spawned a young Donald Ross as a greenkeeper and clubmaker. Melissa captured the cover shot from the vicinity of the fifth tee, with the middle part of the frame showing a cluster of the greens of the fifth, sixth and 11th holes. In the background, the hillside and narrow walking path leading to the seventh tee loom, while vivid yellow gorse bushes bloom in the foreground. “The way the course is routed, with each of the first half dozen holes going ‘out’ but at slightly different angles, made me realize that there was so much more to links golf and its associated wind,” he says. “The tight turf, the revetted bunkers, and the fantastic green sites just caught my imagination.” Ohlendorf embraces the ambience of Ross’ hometown and the friendliness of the proprietors of the shops, inns and restaurants almost as much as he does the golf experience. Visiting Americans are sure to book a table with expat Chris Surmonte, who runs Luigi, a popular café on Castle Street in the heart of town. “Dornoch is perfect for the cover for my book,” he says. “When Dornoch’s in full bloom with the gorse, it’s literally breathtaking. You come off the second green to the third tee and it’s spread out below you in full bloom, and you just don’t want to move. It’s the same with the town and the little shops. I’ve passed Chris on the golf course and he’ll yell to me confirming my dinner reservation. Where else can you find that? “Being a community banker, small towns and small businesses are my bread and butter,” he says. “It’s what I have done for a living. Pinehurst and Dornoch — these little places are meaningful to me.” PS Greg Ohlendorf’s book, Global Golf Travels, is available locally at Old Sport & Gallery in the village of Pinehurst or by clicking globalgolftravels.com.

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The Freedom Writers

James Boyd’s dream team of authors and actors

By Bill Case

seemed unfathomable, but it was an unavoidable truth: By September 1940, freedom, democracy and civil liberties had become nonexistent in much of Europe. Nearly all its countries were suffering under the yoke of tyranny. During the preceding year, Adolf Hitler’s military “blitzkrieg” had established Nazi hegemony over much of the continent. Other fascist strongmen controlled Italy and Spain, and Stalin ruled Communist Russia with an iron fist. While Great Britain remained free, it was fighting the Nazis alone. Many feared the British would not survive the onslaught of the German war machine, especially after the Luftwaffe began regularly bombing London on Sept. 7. Germany’s propaganda campaign of lies and misinformation directed by Joseph Goebbels justifying its repressive actions was having telling effects too, not only in Europe, but in some quarters of this country as well. These happenings were viewed with alarm in the United States, but not to the point where Americans were inclined to go to war. A hands-off policy toward the conflict had become the prevailing sentiment. Leaders of the “America First Committee,” like Charles Lindbergh, saw neither a strategic nor moral justification for America to rush to the aid of Great Britain, let alone the rest of Europe. Moreover, President Franklin Roosevelt, running for a third term, had pledged to keep America out of the war, though in retrospect that appears not to have been his ultimate intent. In contrast, two thoughtful men felt that many of their fellow The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Americans were taking their rights and liberties for granted and needed to be reawakened to their importance. Francis Biddle and James Boyd were gentlemen of the patrician class who had accomplished much in their chosen fields. A Pennsylvania native, the Harvardeducated Biddle was serving as the solicitor general of the United States in 1940. He would become U.S. attorney general in 1942. Coal-mining scion and Princeton grad James Boyd had burst on the national literary scene in 1925 with the publication of Drums, a work of historical fiction regarded by numerous critics as the finest novel written about the Revolutionary War. In the following 14 years, Boyd authored four more historical novels, crafting them at Weymouth, his Southern Pines country estate where he lived after moving from his home state, also Pennsylvania, in 1820. Biddle and Boyd had come to know each other years before through their shared passion for fox hunting. Boyd and his brother, Jackson, owned and managed the Moore County Hounds. While riding with the Boyds in the local hunt, Biddle crashed into a fence and broke his collarbone. Boyd and wife Katharine insisted that Biddle lodge with them at Weymouth until he healed. A close friendship resulted. The pair envisioned combating the insidious Nazi propaganda by creating, producing and broadcasting a series of radio plays designed to illustrate in dramatic fashion the liberties granted by the Bill of Rights. In Biddle’s autobiography, In Brief Authority, he claims the plays were Boyd’s idea. Boyd’s writings, on the other hand, assign credit to Biddle. What is known is that by September 1940, the two PineStraw

Hepburn, Melvyn Douglas and John Garfield. Boyd figured each weekly broadcast would run 30 minutes. He called the enterprise “The Free Company,” in recognition that all participants would be working without pay, and the authors would be entirely free to speak their respective minds. On Oct. 7, Biddle sent Boyd a handwritten letter indicating that the attorney general had approved development of the program, and that DOJ was “very glad that you have acceded to our request to come here and take charge of it for us.” Boyd would become a nominal governmental employee working for a dollar a year.

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friends had begun considering the necessary steps to bring their project to fruition. They hoped that if a department of the Roosevelt administration sponsored the productions, perhaps writers, actors and a radio broadcasting company would consent to work for free out of a sense of patriotic duty. Biddle thought his boss at the Department of Justice, Attorney General Robert Jackson, could be persuaded to have DOJ serve as that sponsoring agency. On Sept. 25, 1940, Boyd drafted a memorandum outlining the proposed project for Jackson. His memo pointed out that DOJ was the federal agency most concerned with protecting the rights of Americans, and that its sponsorship would help bring about “a renewed appreciation of their value.” But what if the listening public concluded that the plays were really Roosevelt administration propaganda? Boyd anticipated that concern and attempted to head it off. “The radio companies, the actors and the writers would be asked to contribute their services. This would counteract suspicion of paid propaganda,” he wrote. “The writers would be given complete freedom of expression. In a word, the Department would act only as a medium through which they would receive an opportunity to present in dramatic form and to the widest possible audience their faith in this country.” Boyd provided a tentative list of authors and actors, recruiting the greatest names in literature and stage. John Steinbeck, Eugene O’Neill, William Faulkner, Paul Green, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis, Orson Welles and Ernest Hemingway were among the writers Boyd would be soliciting to author plays. His wish list of potential actors included marquee names like Burgess Meredith, Charlie Chaplin, Helen Hayes, Paul Muni, Katharine

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the preceding 15 years, Boyd had lived the life of a successful novelist, accountable only to his publisher, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and that firm’s legendary editor Maxwell Perkins. Now he would be managing famous writers, some with towering egos, riding herd on them to produce finished plays gratis and on tight deadlines. The Columbia Broadcasting System, which agreed to broadcast the plays, planned to air the first on Sunday, Feb. 16, at 2 p.m. That was just four months away. As if that was not enough to occupy his time, Boyd was also engaged in exasperating negotiations to purchase The Pilot newspaper in Southern Pines, where assorted “Oh, by the ways” kept roadblocking the sale. Still, Boyd was confident he could meet the daunting CBS timeline, likely assuming he would have little difficulty coaxing scripts from writers, since many of them were friends. Paul Green and Sherwood Anderson had bunked in with the convivial Boyds at Weymouth, as had legendary authors Thomas Wolfe and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Wolfe, however, had passed away in 1938, and Fitzgerald’s own death was imminent. Though he was The Free Company’s national chairman, Boyd couldn’t manage its wide-ranging operations alone. Burgess Meredith (who in later years played the role of the Penguin in the Batman television series and the crusty trainer, Mick, in Rocky) agreed to serve as chair of the actors’ division. William B. Lewis, of CBS, became chair of the radio division, rounding up the network’s directors, composers and musicians to staff the productions. Robert Sherwood (Pulitzer Prize winner for his play Abe Lincoln in Illinois) was named writers’ division chair, but it would be Boyd who did the heavy lifting in recruiting and coordinating the authors. From October 1940 to January 1941, Boyd sent a torrent of letters to leading American writers urging them to join The Free Company’s ranks. He took pains to personalize each one. He stroked Ernest Hemingway’s ego this way: “Believing as I do in the plain people, the people to whom Lincoln talked, I think that if you have anything to say to these people, you — perhaps above anyone else in this country — ought to do what I am asking.” The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Few of Boyd’s targets rejected his entreaties outright, more often begging off for the time being. Eugene O’Neill was not in the best of health. Sinclair Lewis indicated he would like to contribute but could not because he was “absorbed night and day for a number of weeks.” Louis Bromfield expressed concern that he had no experience writing plays for radio and asked to be excused. But other writers agreed to produce plays for The Free Company. They included Robert Sherwood, Archibald MacLeish (winner of three Pulitzer Prizes and then the Librarian of Congress), Marc Connelly (Pulitzer Prize winner for The Green Pastures), Stephen Vincent Benet (Pulitzer Prize for poetry winner and author of The Devil and Daniel Webster), William Saroyan (winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for The Time of Your Life), Sherwood Anderson (author of Winesburg, Ohio), George M. Cohan (Yankee Doodle Dandy), Paul Green (Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Lost Colony), Maxwell Anderson (author of Anne of a Thousand Days and What Price Glory?), and Elmer Rice (Pulitzer Prize winner for The Street Scene). John Steinbeck expressed support and permitted his name to be listed on The Free Company’s letterhead, though nothing in Boyd’s papers indicates the Grapes of Wrath author made an express commitment to deliver a script. Boyd was undoubtedly elated when Max Perkins reported Hemingway would produce a piece, though, “not for three months because he cannot before he goes to the Orient.” Perkins noted, however, that Hemingway “always does what he says he will.” Boyd bagged another major trophy when 25-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles agreed to contribute a play addressing freedom of assembly. But before proceeding, Welles, then in the throes of putting the finishing touches on Citizen Kane, needed an answer to a fundamental question. In a telegram to Boyd dated Dec. 15, 1940, Welles wanted “facts from you regarding censorship of my material. Am I right in assuming there will be none?” Boyd gave his assurances. Saroyan, who declined his Pulitzer Prize out of a belief that commerce should not judge the arts, was also concerned about censorship and whether the prospect of government sponsorship could pose an issue. “Some writers may feel that this sort of work may hem them in — make propagandists out of them,” he pointed out to Boyd. “You may have a job in putting over that they are as free as they have always been.” These concerns ultimately led to a minimizing of DOJ’s anticipated role. The early Free Company broadcasts never mentioned DOJ’s involvement. However, Biddle and other DOJ higher-ups kept in touch with Boyd throughout the project, mostly offering marketing advice. Boyd thought that an endorsement by someThe Art & Soul of the Sandhills

one in the highest ranks of government might jumpstart promotion of the broadcasts, so he inquired of Biddle whether Charles Evans Hughes, chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, could be cajoled into making a statement during the first broadcast, stressing the importance of America’s civil liberties. He was rebuffed. Boyd then asked MacLeish to work his personal connection with Franklin Roosevelt in hopes of persuading the president to introduce the first broadcast. He tried, but reported to Boyd that “the answer, alas, is no.” Changing his pitch, Boyd sought a brief written testimonial from the president. That gambit failed as well. Running The Free Company, Boyd confessed, was causing him to develop, “the persistence of an Armenian rug vendor.” Boyd unabashedly lobbied the media. He begged for coverage from stalwarts like columnist Walter Lippmann, New York Times Washington bureau chief Arthur Krock, and New York Post columnist Franklin P. Adams. When Adams asked Boyd to be more specific, he responded, “Simply mention us, derisively, contumaciously, patronizingly, adoringly — any way you will. As one of us, surely you know that writers, like other children, would rather be cuffed than ignored. So say anything you like.” With his tongue placed solidly in his cheek, Boyd added, “If you print this letter, I am a lost man.” Krock applauded the notion of dramatic plays highlighting civil

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liberties, but expressed skepticism about the authors chosen to write them. “You have among your scenario writers about five whose views of the meaning of American freedom alarm me somewhat,” Krock wrote. “But maybe they won’t when I hear them on the air.” Krock was not alone in criticizing The Free Company’s lineup. Philadelphian Francis Henry crafted this sneering message to Boyd: “Your committee seems to be made up of parlor-pinkos and leftists . . . How did George M. Cohan get mixed up with this bunch?” It is probable that Boyd, a middle-of-the-road Democrat, gave little thought to the political affiliations of the writers. He simply wished to have the cream of America’s writers on board. It is true that MacLeish, Connelly, Hemingway and Welles had expressed sympathy with various liberal causes. As a result, some firebrands on the right labeled those writers “fellow travelers” of the Communist Party.

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spent much of the first quarter of 1941 in The Free Company’s small office in New York coordinating the writers’ activities and beseeching them to submit their scripts on time. There were pitfalls; MacLeish and Welles requested and received extensions because of their need to attend to paying work. Boyd also had to make sure the writers were not preparing scripts covering the same subject matter — free speech, for example. He could not afford to rely on a potluck dinner approach. By Jan. 25, 1941, he had arrived at a tentative timetable for 14 weekly productions, debuting, as CBS had

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requested, on Feb. 16. Boyd anticipated that the series would open with his own play. It was slated to end on a high note May 18, with a work from Hemingway — American literature’s reigning superstar. Matters seemed to be well in hand. Sherwood and Saroyan delivered their scripts, and Benet, Anderson and MacLeish were promising completion posthaste. Boyd expected to receive scripts for later in the series from Steinbeck, Hemingway and Elmer Rice. He also arranged for the printing of the texts of each individual play. The booklets could be purchased for 10 cents apiece, covering the cost of printing and mailing. Then things began unraveling on several fronts. Steinbeck was out. He wrote an apologetic letter requesting a rain check. Another project was distracting him. “When I’ve tried to do two things at once,” he explained, “neither of them were any good.” Rice did not deliver a play either. But the worst blow came when Perkins advised Boyd that Hemingway was out, too. The editor reported that the writer would not be returning to the states “until early June” and was “worn out from finishing ‘the Bell’ (For Whom the Bell Tolls).” Try to “get him early” for the next series, he counseled. Another devastating blow occurred with the sudden demise of Sherwood Anderson, who had sketched out a treatment of his play Above Suspicion (dealing with freedom from police persecution) prior to departing on an ocean voyage to Panama in early March. He became sick on board and his illness worsened once he arrived. He died there on March 8 of peritonitis, caused by a swallowed toothpick. George M. Cohan stepped up to finish Anderson’s script. The number of plays to be aired by The Free Company and CBS was down to just 10. Boyd partly backfilled the hole with Walter Van Tilburg’s existing play, The Ox-Bow Incident, in which a hanging by vigilantes denied the victim his right to trial by jury. To Boyd’s further alarm, CBS requested changes to several scripts, including Boyd’s own play, Jim Crow. His play took place in a small Southern town where a Black man, Jim Crow, shoots and kills a prominent white man in self-defense. A venomous mob appears at the jail bent on lynching Crow. The mob overwhelms the local sheriff, but a white citizen of the town, Thad, steps forward to confront the mob, demanding that Crow be afforded a trial. Unmoved, the vigilantes kill Thad. Horrified by having murdered one of their own, the mob’s members disperse, and Crow’s life is saved. CBS wanted to change the ending to have Crow die while attempting to save the The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

He eventually finds another job and becomes a union member. Observing that the local union’s president is corrupt, John makes accusations against the leader at a meeting and as a result is ostracized. The story has a happy ending when John’s fellow union members come to realize he was right and recruit him to run for the leadership of the organization. Meredith, an active leader of the Actors’ Equity Association, considered the play reactionary. In his view, Boyd had cast unions in an unfavorable light. Boyd explained that the plot was balanced by also showing unscrupulous conduct of management. Meredith seems to have been mollified as the two men enjoyed cordial relations for the remainder of the project. The debut of the first play produced by The Free Company was moved back a week, to Feb. 23. Rather than opening the series with his own work, Boyd decided to lead off with Saroyan’s, The People With Light Coming Out of Them. The play did not contain a civil liberties theme, per se, but it did set a positive tone for the more substantive broadcasts to follow with a message that good citizens emit a positive “light” that benefits the whole of society. Meredith, John Garfield, Tim Holt and Max Perkins’ message to James Boyd promising that Ernest Hemingway would write a Nancy Kelly starred. play for The Free Company Initial reviews of the new show were glowing. The New Republic noted that The Free Company has “roots in American history. Tom Paine, Horace Greeley, and Harriett Beecher sheriff, or alternatively, Thad. Boyd considered CBS’s proposed Stowe were factors in past crises — strong factors and always on the scenario preposterous and missing the point. Rather than acquiesce side of freedom.” Fifteen hundred letters praising Saroyan’s play arto such interference, an irritated Boyd withdrew the play and substirived at the network. A delighted Biddle expressed to Boyd his “great tuted another. satisfaction” with the creativity of the first production. The network also sought script alterations to maximize the speakThe second play, which aired March 2 and featured Melvyn ing lines of the plays’ more celebrated actors. Boyd drafted a letter to Douglas, Claire Trevor and Charles Bickford, was more controverCBS venting his displeasure. It is unclear whether he actually mailed sial. Marc Connelly’s The Mole on Lincoln’s Cheek involved a dispute it, but nonetheless, the surviving copy provides a window into his agibetween a school board and a teacher. Upset that a textbook used tated state of mind. “Such handling of the writers we want is bound by the instructor included unflattering, albeit accurate, information to alienate them,” Boyd wrote. “They are men who stand where they regarding figures in American history (John Hancock was a smugdo because they know what they want to say and how to say it. They gler; George Washington had false teeth; John Adams was a political will not accept peremptory suggestions to alter their scripts radically boss, etc.) the board members branded the book “un-American” for the worse.” and threatened disciplinary action against the teacher. Connelly’s Boyd warned that the writers would view CBS’s editing as play mirrored a contentious debate over school textbooks then takan attempt to create “just another sustaining program which ing place in the country. A series of books written by Harold Rugg Columbia is getting out of them for nothing under the guise of proved popular with progressive educators, but some school boards patriotism . . . I suggest you let me handle the writers.” In the end, sought to ban the texts, claiming that Rugg advocated socialism. CBS mostly backed off. An indignant letter writer, Helen Vance, complained that The Another brouhaha occurred after Boyd circulated the script of his Mole on Lincoln’s Cheek was “a very thin disguise for the destructive substituted play, One More Free Man. To Boyd’s surprise, Burgess and anti-capitalist propaganda as defended in the books of Prof. Meredith was upset with the play’s tone. In the plot, the protagonist, Harold Rugg . . . I am sure that CBS will wish to subject to closest John, speaks the truth whatever the consequences. While employed scrutiny any further scripts.” But any negative reviews of The Mole as a manager in a mining operation, he acknowledges to the workers were outweighed by favorable reaction to other early broadcasts in they have the right to unionize. John’s boss demands that John sign the series, including Sherwood’s An American Crusader on March a document indicating he said no such thing. John refuses and is 9 (the story of Elijah Lovejoy, a newspaper publisher martyred for fired. As he is unable to support his family, John’s wife leaves him. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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Orson Welles, circa 1941

Letter from James Boyd to Orson Welles

publishing unpopular anti-slavery views); Boyd’s aforementioned One More Free Man on March 16; Benet’s Freedom’s a Hard Thing on March 23 (a Southern slave catches the untreatable disease of “freedom”); and, Van Tilburg’s The Ox-Bow Incident on March 30. Walter Winchell gave two-thumbs up to the series, saying, “The Free Company, one of the delights of the networks, is easily one of the toppers of dramatic programs.” On Sunday, April 6, Boyd, himself, introduced the seventh play of the series, His Honor, the Mayor, by Orson Welles. The play featured several cast members from Citizen Kane, including Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins and Everett Sloane. The play, narrated by Welles, involved a scenario in which the mayor of a Southwestern border town faces intense pressure from local citizens demanding he stop a scheduled meeting of the “White Crusaders,” a group

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that is anti-Jewish, anti-Mexican, and anti-everything liberal. Though sensitive to public sentiment, the mayor is reluctant to act. He feels the group is entitled to meet because the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of assembly. In an early scene, a White Crusader partisan informs the mayor that the group’s primary goal is to eradicate “the Reds” in town. The perplexed mayor responds that there is only one Communist in town, and he’s 87 years old. “Besides,” says the mayor, “there is nothing illegal about being a Communist.” In a subsequent scene, the same lone, aged Communist citizen urges the mayor to follow the will of the people and break up the meeting. After all, he maintains, it was Lincoln who said that once the people grow weary of their existing government, “they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.” The mayor rejects that advice and successfully defuses the situation by holding a counter demonstration during the White Crusaders’ meeting. Welles’ play resulted in a firestorm, courtesy of media titan William Randolph Hearst and FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Believing that the lead character in Citizen Kane represented a thinly veiled and unflattering caricature of himself, Hearst unleashed his immense power in a no-holds-barred effort to suppress the movie and ruin Welles. Hearst-run newspapers across the country denounced Welles as a Communist and sought his blacklisting by the film industry. Taking their cue from the mogul, various leaders of the American Legion found evidence of Welles’ Communist sympathies in His Honor, the Mayor. The mayor’s statement that it is not illegal to be a Communist and the use of Lincoln’s quote regarding the peoples’ right to overthrow their government were cited as proof. The Free Company got caught up in the ensuing crossfire. The chair of the Legion’s National Americanism Commission claimed that the radio plays were “cleverly designed to poison the minds of young Americans.” Another Legion spokesman said, “The name itself, Free Company, sounds suspiciously Communistic.” The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

James Boyd, Marc Connelly and W.B. Lewis

Moreover, Hoover, presumably at Hearst’s behest, opened a file to investigate the allegedly subversive activities of Welles and other members of The Free Company. Boyd was mentioned in the investigation, though the FBI concluded that it was not “deemed advisable to pursue additional inquiries” concerning him, maybe because of his close relationship with Biddle. Other newspapers, not controlled by Hearst, saw things differently. The Chicago Sunday Times observed, “William Randolph Hearst is piqued with Orson Welles. The rest is camouflage.” But nevertheless, Hearst’s attacks succeeded in causing a nosedive for Welles. Film historians say his long career never got fully back on track. After the dust-up, Burgess Meredith rebutted the diatribes against the writers by mentioning for the first time on air that the attorney general and solicitor general endorsed the plays. He also dispelled whiffs of the writers’ supposed anti-Americanism by enumerating their impressive military service records. Among them was Boyd, who had honorably served in the U.S. Army Ambulance Service in Italy during World War I.

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final four plays of the series were Paul Green’s A Start in Life, concerning the travails of a Black family (April 13); Archibald MacLeish’s The States Talking (April 20), in which the states respond to the criticisms of America by the Axis powers; Maxwell Anderson’s Miracle on the Danube, focusing on religious liberty, starring Paul The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Muni and Meredith (April 27); and lastly, Sherwood Anderson’s Above Suspicion, with George M. Cohan and Paul Henreid in the lead roles (May 4). A hard-cover anthology of the plays hit the nation’s bookstores on May 5. To Boyd’s gratification, radio ratings increased following the Welles-Hearst debacle. On May 6, he reported to Biddle that a recent broadcast had attracted at least 5 million listeners, attributing the uptick to the “Hearst-American Legion attacks on the Free Company.” Boyd reported that CBS was interested in a second series, but he rejected the idea. He told Biddle that “aside from the question of my own time, it would be impossible to continue to get scripts of the same high caliber. There are not many other writers of the same standing available, and we could not ask the writers who had already contributed their work without compensation to do so again so soon.” After closing down The Free Company, Boyd seemed to harbor doubts whether its activities had achieved any measurable impact. In correspondence with Perkins, he noted his despair. “I feel sickened by this blank sickness of the world and just now see no light,” he wrote. “There is nothing to do but stand as firm as we can by the best we are able to believe in. I can only hope that there are enough of those who will do this to save some fragments from the cataclysm.” Thereafter, James Boyd turned to other affairs. He consummated the purchase of The Pilot in May, providing a new writing outlet that was entirely in his control. He turned from historical novels to poetry. His final book, Eighteen Poems, was published on Jan. 1, 1944, just a month before his untimely and sudden death at age 55 in Princeton, New Jersey, where he’d traveled for a speaking engagement at his alma mater. Seven months after The Free Company’s final broadcast, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the country plunged into World War II. Americans came together overnight, united in a struggle against tyranny and in defense of the freedoms written about by The Free Company. Boyd may not have envisioned that it would take a war to awaken Americans to the importance of their freedoms, but he and The Free Company had sounded the alarm bell. PS Pinehurst resident Bill Case is PineStraw’s history man. He can be reached at Bill.Case@thompsonhine.com. PineStraw

Food Nouveau New delights for Sandhills taste buds

By Jenna Biter • Photographs by John gessner

Agora Café 15 Chinquapin Road, Pinehurst

Agora Café is the new Pinehurst bakery and eatery where Southern hospitality meets French bistro — think biscuits topped with herb butter, fresh salads and craft lattes for sale at the counter. Chef Emmy Hirengen relocated to the Sandhills all the way from Oregon just to helm the new gathering place co-owned by Ginny and David Tran, Robert and April Bortins, and David and Bethany Morgan. The café is Ginny’s brainchild. She started making macarons while raising three, now four kids, as a stay-athome mom. “Baking was her outlet,” David says about his wife. In short order, Ginny’s macarons became popular, and she and a friend launched a baking business from their home kitchens in Raleigh. Then the Trans relocated to the Sandhills for David’s job. “We kind of took a leap of faith and said, ‘OK, let’s do this, let’s create a bakery,’” he says. The café officially opened in September. But Ginny didn’t want Agora to be just a bakery, she wanted it to be a gathering place, particularly for moms. In ancient Greek city-states, agora, which literally means gathering place or assembly, was the hub for conversation, debate and buying and selling wares. “She wants to build this community of stay-at-home bakers that we’ll buy from wholesale, or we’ll do whatever we can to promote them in the shop,” says David.

Robert and April Bortins and their children Lily, Trey, and Jonah and Ginny and David Tran and their children Banks, Lila, Colbie, and Lincoln)

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Turkey, ham and tomato chutney with melted muenster, gruyère, and Havarti cheeses on multigrain bread; fresh-made French croissants.

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The Block 290 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines

Husband-and-wife restaurateurs James and Keena Lam opened The Block in mid-August as a merger of their former Southern Pines’ eateries Bambu Boba Café on Broad Street and Steve’s TK Pizza & Subs on Morganton Road. “Even though both spots were within a minute or two of each other, the idea of them being here together, allowing us to focus on the quality of the food, that was the main thing for us,” James says. Agreeing on the merger wasn’t an easy decision. Steve’s had been a popular establishment on Morganton Road for six years, and uprooting the eatery worried the Lams. But the risk proved worthwhile. “It has been insane,” James says, commenting on business since The Block’s launch. “We’ve been selling out every other day. Even though we loaded up with food, it’s hard to keep up.” The Block caters to the whole family, from picky eaters to foodies, in a one-stop shop. “You’ve got Asian dishes, pizzas, subs, teriyaki, you name it,” he says, “burgers, fries, just a little bit of everything.” That includes Boba tea, the popular Asian drink that’s chock-full of chewy tapioca balls. The Lams’ authentic Vietnamese food is always droolworthy, but pizza is their up-and-comer. “Our pizza was good before, but with this pizza oven,” he says, motioning toward the kitchen, “it’s a couple of levels higher.”

Keena and James Lam

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Chicken curry ramen, Vietnamese beef pho noodle soup, woodfire house pizza, pulled pork banh mi tacos with house spicy chili sauce, fresh spring rolls.

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Jaya’s Indian Cuisine 169 N.E. Broad St., Southern Pines

Ekambaram “Maran” and Jayarani “Jaya” Elamaran started selling their Indian food while working at Nature’s Own Natural Foods Market in Southern Pines. Karen Frye, the owner of the market, gave the Elamarans the opportunity to start selling Jaya’s Indian food in a daily, prepared-foods case in her store about six years ago. “We would sell from the daily case five to 10 meals every day,” Maran says, describing how they dipped their toes into the food industry. Word started to spread about Jaya’s Indian cooking, so the Elamarans decided they wanted to purchase a food truck. Complications put that plan on hold, and they opened their former takeout location on May Street in 2018. About 200 people showed up to the opening. “We got nervous, me and my wife,” Maran says, thinking back to the long line of customers on that cold day. But too many customers is a good problem to have, and the food was worth the wait. About four months after their takeout location opened, they finally got their food truck and ran both operations in tandem. Then customers started asking about dining. “So, we thought, ‘OK, we need dining,’ because we know that people will come,” Maran says. After three years of takeout, the Elamarans moved out of their May Street location and opened their new dine-in restaurant on Broad Street in July, serving up much-loved favorites like chicken tikka masala and vegetable samosas.

Maran, Ria and Jaya Elamaran

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Chicken tikka masala thali comes with raita, garlic naan, chickpea masala, basmati rice and gulab jamun for dessert; vegetable samosas served with mint chutney and tamarin chutney.

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Neko Thai and Sushi Bar 70 Market Square, Pinehurst

“My girlfriend, she loves cats; Neko means cat in Japanese,” says Phon, owner of Neko Thai and Sushi Bar in downtown Pinehurst. The restaurant’s logo is the maneki-neko Japanese figurine, a “beckoning cat” intended to bring good luck to the business owner. Neko marks Phon’s debut as a restaurateur, but he has worked in the restaurant industry in a variety of positions ranging from server to manager to sushi chef for over 10 years. “I did so many things, it was time for me to open a restaurant myself,” he says. “It was a gamble, but everything worked out well.” Phon relocated from Florida to the Sandhills just to open his new Asian fusion restaurant after scouring Midwestern and Southern states for the ideal spot. “People that live in the village always come here two or three times per week, so I’m really happy,” he says. Neko opened in April, and Phon says business has been steady almost from the start. Phon is Thai, but he’s an experienced sushi chef, so Asian fusion made sense as his restaurant concept. It made even more sense because he saw so many Asian fusion restaurants succeed in Florida. “When you come here with your family, maybe your dad doesn’t like sushi, but he might like Thai food, so you’ve got something for everybody,” he says.

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Neko shrimp tempura roll topped with a spicy mayo crab-imitation mixture, Tom Yum soup with shrimp, garlic soft-shell crab over steamed mixed vegetables, Thai iced tea with whipped cream.

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The Workshop Tavern 106 W. Main St., Aberdeen

When Nathan Lonnen’s best friend from college nudged him to open a restaurant in downtown Aberdeen, he did, making the move from Charlotte to the Sandhills. He has worked in the restaurant industry since college and has helped several restaurants open, but The Workshop Tavern is the first he’s owned. “It was the perfect chance to blend my woodworking and creativity into what I want in a restaurant,” Nathan says. In five months, he built out the restaurant almost entirely by hand, from the wooden bar and tables to the accent wall in the back. He even painted the artwork that hangs on the tavern’s walls. Nathan wanted to create a downto-earth atmosphere that embodies the craftsman’s journey, whether it’s in woodworking or crafting a pulled pork sandwich and an old fashioned. “My roots are in upstate New York, and I just always remember big food with a lot of flavor,” he says, and that’s what he wants for The Workshop Tavern. “The community has embraced us a lot. It’s been great. It definitely makes the long hours worthwhile when people come in, and they’re happy to be here. “I just want to say thank you to everybody that’s supported us in this endeavor throughout the eight months that we’ve been open — it’s been a ride so far.”

Nathan Lonnen

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Street-style pork carnitas tacos with roasted tomatillo avocado salsa; six-cheese macaroni and cheese topped with slow-roasted spicy chicken, house-pickled jalapeños and secret hot sauce.

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YellowBird Southern Table and Bar 100 Pavilion Way, Suite B, Southern Pines

“The concept is Southern brunch — fried chicken and champagne,” says Orlando Jinzo, owner of YellowBird Southern Table and Bar with Sonja McCarrell. They’ll be serving up sweet and savory waffles, smoked brisket deviled eggs, fried green tomatoes, wagyu and bison meatloaf and, of course, chef-driven craft cocktails. But the Southern fare will be fresh and seasonal, so patrons don’t feel bogged down. “Believe it or not, I grew up in Arizona, but most of the food we ate was Southern because those were the cookbooks my mom had,” Orlando says. “So, I grew up eating fried chicken and biscuits and cornbread in the Southwest.” Sonja grew up on Southern food, too, but right here in North Carolina. Orlando and Sonja also own Leadmine Whiskey Bar and Kitchen in Southern Pines. After their plans for a second Leadmine in Raleigh serendipitously fell through, YellowBird was born. “Leadmine isn’t family-oriented,” Orlando says. “We play explicit rap music on the weekends. Here? It’s family-friendly. It’s literally opposite sides of the coin.” YellowBird will be serving up brunch all day after their soft opening on Tuesday, Nov. 2, and their grand opening on Sunday, Nov. 14. PS Jenna Biter is a writer, entrepreneur, and military wife in the Sandhills. She can be reached at jennabiter@protonmail.com.

Sonja McCarrell and Orlando Jinzo

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Malted waffle topped with Southern fried chicken; chocolate-hazelnut waffle with berries and cream; brown sugar brûlée bacon steaks; white cheddar macaroni and cheese.

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Virginia, We’re Live!

Judson Theatre Company returns to BPAC stage By Jim Moriarty

fter being driven into a virtual existence by the worldwide pandemic, the Judson Theatre Company returns to the stage with live performances in the regional theater premier of Yes, Virginia, a heartwarming, witty holiday play written and directed by Stan Zimmerman. There will be four performances, Nov. 18-21, in Owens Auditorium of the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center at Sandhills Community College. In 1985 Zimmerman, who co-wrote Yes, Virginia with Christian McLaughlin, was an acting major fresh out of NYU when he and longtime writing partner James Berg were hired for the first season of a new sitcom, The Golden Girls. Their work on the popular show launched a career that has, among other things, included writing for the Gilmore Girls and Roseanne. Zimmerman’s two-person play stars Mindy Sterling, a regular on The Goldbergs who Sandhills audiences will remember as Frau Farbissina summoning the fembots in the Austin Powers movies; and Arnetia Walker, who has starred as Nurse Annie Roland in the series Nurses, and in Dreamgirls and The Wiz on Broadway. Judson Theatre Company, along with Laguna Playhouse, Pop-Up Playhouse and Millbrook Playhouse, produced Yes, Virginia virtually last December. “We knew we had to do this play on stage in Pinehurst after the show’s opening night on Zoom,” says Judson’s executive producer and Moore County native Morgan Sills. “People were pouring their hearts out about it — how funny they found it to be; how true they thought the play was. We wanted Judson Theatre to come back to live performances, and a smaller show means a safer show. So, Yes, Virginia with its cast of two turns out to be the perfect choice.”

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The play takes place on New Year’s Eve in the home of Denise Miller (Mindy Sterling), who is taken by surprise when her former maid, Virginia Campbell (Arnetia Walker), shows up at her door even though she had been “let go” a few months before. “It’s New Year’s Eve and Denise is watching tennis, like my mother did, and talking to her son in California, like my mother did,” says Zimmerman, who draws on his life growing up in suburban Detroit as the basis for the characters. “He wants her to move out of the big, scary house with the big, scary stairs. And the door opens and it’s Virginia. She tells her son, ‘I let Virginia go months ago. What is she doing here?’ Virginia has a slight fall in the kitchen. She ends up on the couch. It’s a kind of role reversal where Denise is taking care of Virginia, the maid.” Both characters are dealing with the vagaries of aging. Denise is suffering from macular degeneration and Virginia is beginning to show signs of dementia, and the questions become: What are we going to do? Where are we going to live? “When my parents went through a messy divorce — which is part of the play — my mother would be in her bedroom with the shades shut and very depressed, and I would cheer her up and make her laugh,” says Zimmerman. He found a friend and confident in the woman who was his family’s housekeeper, whose real name was Virginia Campbell. “I just remember having these long talks with her on my shag carpet, looking up at her — I don’t know why I was lying down on the shag carpet — just talking to her about how I was feeling and what I was going through. She was so easy and fun to talk with. Years later, when my mom was living in Santa Barbara and she started having to deal with dementia, we just begged her to move and she didn’t want to. She The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

Arnetia Walker, Stan Zimmerman and Mindy Sterling

was a very proud woman. One day, she said, ‘Why doesn’t Virginia come live with me?’ I said, ‘Well, one problem. She’s dead.’ But, driving home, I thought, wait a minute, that’s a really good concept for a play. What if these two people ended up later in life together, helping each other out in kind of a role reversal? “So, that inspired this comedy/holiday concoction. I use pieces of my own life, but it’s artistic license. There’s a part where Mindy’s character talks about being in New York and going to Studio 54. That didn’t happen to my mother, but it did happen to me when I was at NYU. I did go to Studio 54 and Andy Warhol did take pictures of me and, like an idiot, I told him to stop. What was wrong with me?” Walker, whose first role on Broadway came when she was just 16 years old in Lorraine Hansberrry’s The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, has as visceral a connection to Virginia as Zimmerman. “She reminded me of my aunt who raised me,” says Walker. “My mom died when I was an infant. I lived with my aunt in Georgia — she had taken me and my brother. It was during the waning days of Jim Crow. My aunt was a domestic worker. She would often have to leave us to take care of somebody else’s children. She was very warm and loving and I immediately felt a connection to Yes, Virginia. I found it so odd, how could a white man understand and write a character so real as this Black woman who was really part of my life, part of my past?” Sterling and Zimmerman have worked together often after she appeared in his directorial debut, a 30th anniversary production of Gemini: A Play in Two Acts. “Ever since then she’s kind of been my muse,” he says. “We say that there’s a clause in every contract that I will be in all his plays,” says Sterling. “I love working with him. There’s The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

always a message and there’s always something heartfelt.” In 2017 Sterling received an Emmy nomination for a role in Zimmerman’s web series secs & EXECS. “That was very exciting,” he says, “not only having created the role with her in mind but having directed her in it. Mindy and Arnetia have the same birthday. How weird is that? They have this chemistry. It’s so fun to watch them together. They’re two comic geniuses. They get to be funny, but they also get to be real and poignant and tell touching stories about family and children and being a mother and getting older.” Tickets for Yes, Virginia can be purchased on the Judson Theatre Company website at https://judsontheatre.com. If you love The Golden Girls, join sitcom writer Stan Zimmerman on Sunday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. at Owens Auditorium in the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center for “An Evening on the Lanai,” hosted by Alex Rodriguez. Zimmerman’s show, which sold out in May and June in Palm Springs, California, revisits the year he and his writing partner, James Berg, were creating quips and delivering lines for Betty White, Bea Arthur, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty. “It’s just a really cute evening of games, quizzes and contests, and a lot of gossip of what went on that fateful first season as the show was taking off,” says Zimmerman. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. They can be purchased on the Judson Theatre Company website at https://judsontheatre. com. PS

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Sit down to a serving of great art as Sandhills artists Mary Davis, Laurie Deleot, Jill Hartsell, Aedan Peters, Kim Reidelbach and Ines Ritter discover their inner Georgia O’Keeffe, Alexander Calder, Claude Monet, Roy Lichtenstein, Alphonse Mucha and Banksy, respectively, in these playful place settings. This is truly a Thanksgiving with all the trimmings.

Produced by Denise Baker • Photographs by Tim Sayer

Claude Monet by Jill Hartsell

Jill Hartsell is passionate about teaching art to young children, spending the last 19 years of her two-decades-long career as an educator in the Moore County schools. She loves all forms of art whether it’s painting, quilting, redoing furniture, making clothes or fashioning jewelry. “Being creative brings me peace, joy and freedom,” she says. Playing on Monet’s famous water lilies, the deckle-edged china has small embossed flowers, and the clay drinking vessel is fashioned into a lily pad.

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Alphonse Mucha by Aedan Peters

Aedan Peters was born in 2001 in Rottenburg, Germany, while his parents were stationed overseas. He moved to Carthage in 2010 and has lived in the area off and on ever since. From a young age, his mother and father fostered a deep appreciation of art within him. This piece brings back memories of the times his parents would help him and his sister recreate famous pieces like Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Chagall’s The Blue Violinist. Peters chose Alphonse Mucha because of the way the artist’s work lends itself to the maximalist ornateness. He plans on moving to Asheville next fall to continue his art education.

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by Ines Ritter Ines Ritter is the owner of RUNT Graphic Design in Southern Pines. She creates digital designs ranging from logo art to package and trade fair displays, and has done book illustrations, sculpture, pastels and painting. Growing up near Frankfurt, Germany, she found graffiti and street art inspiring, especially the simple yet impactful style of Banksy, the anonymous graffiti artist. Banksy often paints on trash, hence the paper cup and plastic utensils. Notice how Ritter has poured her own cement block for a place mat, mimicking a wall.

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by Kim Reidelbach Kim Reidelbach is a freelance artist living in Whispering Pines and working at The O’Neal School. She is a mixed-media artist often combining photography, painting and sculpture, using humor to communicate personal reflection in response to current events. She has freelanced as a muralist, once worked in a foundry, and has collaborated with other artists for shows in Washington state, Haiti and Florida. She captures Roy Lichtenstein’s style by contrasting the black and white with the place mat’s shape and bright yellow color. The optical illusions create a Ben-Day dot effect.

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Georgia O’Keeffe by Mary Davis

Mary Davis is a North Carolina-based artist who began her professional journey in Florida in 2005 as an interior muralist. She draws inspiration from nature and life experiences and is inspired by artists like O’Keeffe, who push boundaries, demand a presence and continue a forward motion in life. She features O’Keeffe’s flower image as the center of the place setting and filled her glass cup with a hand-dyed napkin to mimic a rose. The skull represents one of the New Mexico desert objects O’Keeffe frequently painted.

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Alexander Calder by Laurie Deleot

Laurie Deleot is a multi-media artist who is focused on non-objective and abstract art. Her work is colorful, full of whimsy and joyful. She saw her first Calder piece in Chicago 53 years ago, which began her fascination with his work. Calder, who was the youngest living artist ever to have a retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, called his mobiles “drawing in space.” Deleot chose different metallic wires, working in the essence of his style, to sew her “mobile” place setting, even knitting the outside edges with wire.

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STORY OF A HOUSE

Cottage Colony Redux Caribbean colors heat up village landmark By Deborah Salomon

PHOTOGRAPH FROM THE TUFTS ARCHIVES

Photographs by John Gessner

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inehurst: Retirement nirvana for the fortunate few who have played the best courses, traveled the world, appreciated good food, good company and reasonable health. That would be Carnie and Sharon Lawson. Previous inhabitants — together or separately — of impressive Northeastern residences, the Lawsons found an original Tufts-built “cottage” already upgraded, remodeled and enlarged to the hilt with exquisite taste in the village center. While rocking on their front porch they can smell the spices wafting from Theo’s Taverna, watch guests arrive at the Magnolia Inn, and wave at friends strolling by on an autumn’s eve. Ah, the very, very good life. But wait: A surprise lurks inside The Oaks, as their home is named. Imagine hibiscus blossoms on a holly bush. Hot pink, acid green, lemon yellow, cerulean blue, aquamarine and coral splash across fabrics and walls in rooms furnished with carved mahogany, inlaid cherrywood, 19th century tables and chairs, bureaus and cabinets, desks and breakfronts — a titillating juxtaposition that works. One created by New Englanders (Connecticut and Massachusetts) who for years wintered sea and land in St. Lucia. Note the 4-foot model of Carnie’s boat, La Gitane — French for “gypsy girl” — that he hopped aboard after retiring from the financial world at 47. “My parents died young. I wanted to enjoy life,” says the man 37 years later. A closer inspection reveals a décor composed of more than souvenirs. Between them Sharon and Carnie have five daughters and nine grandchildren whose photos cover tabletops, shelves, walls. Their The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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original art reinforces the Cole Porter lyrics for Anything Goes. Over a luxurious down-filled sofa, upholstered in a Chinese print, hangs a nouveau folk art canvas of four derrières lined up at a bar. It was painted by Sharon’s daughter. Carnie smiles. “I call it beach buns.” Flanking the fireplace in a smaller gathering room is a year-round, table-top Christmas tree. The two rooms are ground zero when the Lawsons entertain. Elsewhere, a collection of tiny Limoges pillboxes covers a tabletop. A display of Chinese dragon roof ornaments is arranged on another. Big metal Tonka trucks fill a bookcase. Miniature clowns cavort in a shadowbox. Masks from carnivale in St. Lucia appear here and there. Even a ceiling fixture has a history, removed from the Île de France, the first ocean liner built after World War I, launched in 1926. Who needs to dream about a Tuscan villa when you’ve got 6,000 square feet (including five bathrooms, some with original claw-foot tubs) of prime Pinehurst real estate, all of it utilized when the children, their spouses and grandchildren gather for Thanksgiving, filling the house proper, the guest quarters and an apartment over the garage? Yet, what grabbed Sharon’s attention on first perusal was the wallThe Art & Soul of the Sandhills

paper, practically everywhere, with Asian/Indian/Indonesian motifs: lions and tigers and costumed natives; wild flora and fauna that riot across the walls, enlivening a small under-the-stairs powder room, a windowless kitchen, and a sunny master suite. “We’ll take it,” Sharon said in 2010.

ames Walker Tufts would not recognize the simple fourroom cottage first dubbed The Nest (no kitchen, no bathrooms, no electricity or central heat) he built in 1896, the same year as the Magnolia Inn, for approximately $1,600. The Nest was renamed The Crown when it doubled in size in 1901. That’s also when it was occupied by J. Ernest Judd, D.D.S., operating the Crown Dental Parlor, described as “a completely equipped establishment for up-to-date and sanitary dentistry which removes the terror of dental operations.” Among its modern features was a “fountain cuspidor.” Sir Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man would have been envious. Or not. The house was redubbed The Oaks by 1902. Among other early residents were Fredrick Bruce and his spinster PineStraw

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sister, Mary Bruce, a socially prominent duo from New York who purchased the home in 1907. A year later landscape architect Warren Manning created the much-admired garden behind the house. After the death of his sister, Fredrick continued living there until he passed away in 1928. Subsequently, the cottage was sold in 1931 to what seems to be a rather short-lived organization called The Oaks Club. Membership dues were $100 a year, $125 for non-residents. Coincidentally, perhaps, Prohibition ended on Dec. 5, 1933, and in 1934 the house was bought at auction by Franz Hugo Krebs, a Northeasterner who had been a frequent guest at the Holly Inn. Cathy and the late Bill Smith, of the Southern Pines Ford dealership, accomplished a further enlargement, remodeling and retooling of the home in 1996, its 100th anniversary, with wallpaper added by interior designer and resident Cassie McCord. The result: a modest frontage behind a picket fence that spreads backward into an outsized — by cottage standards — The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

house with a fenced garden, home to a fountain, a pineapple (symbol of hospitality), light stand and five birdhouses.

arnie knew Pinehurst from a family golf jaunt when he was 10. He and Sharon were dividing their time between homes in St. Lucia and Chappaqua (New York) when they decided to consolidate, settle down, and trade sailing for golfing. “Where would you like to live?” Sharon asked her husband. “How about Pinehurst?” he answered, recalling a resort community resembling a New England village but with a temperate climate. Sharon had grown up in a historic house. She appreciated that component but wasn’t ready to take on a renovation. Been there, done that. She wasn’t keen on a gated community either. Carnie didn’t want a swimming pool. Been there, done that, too. But they both appreciated a house with character and found one in PineStraw

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this extended cottage with its convention-defying layout. “I have no idea what this was supposed to be,” Carnie says of a room between kitchen and sunroom, itself an addition. Perhaps for dining? Happily, they owned a billiard table (constructed in 1896, same as the house) to fill the space while allocating formal dining to a smallish octagonal music room with built-in china cupboards and woodwork transplanted from a house in England. Remembering that Tufts’ “cottage colony” homes had no kitchens — guests ate at the Casino building, a communal dining hall — the one added to The Oaks falls outside contemporary glamour norms. Raised-panel cupboards are painted a pale yellow, more pineapple than lemon. A black ceramic tile backsplash adds an art deco touch. In the absence of windows, natural light is conveyed through skylights. A rack holds wide, brightly colored service plates from St. Lucia. The kitchen’s main attraction is an Aga range, the Rolls-Royce of appliances, crafted in the United Kingdom from a Swedish prototype, which cooks with radiant heat and is always “on.” Outside the kitchen, a dining deck with long table and retractable The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

awning suits a crowd. Up a narrow flight of stairs, the bedrooms, done in white and pastels, offer the freshness of a Nantucket Bed-and-Breakfast. Queen Victoria may have reigned when The Oaks was built, but her era doesn’t dominate its rooms, awakened instead with the vibrant island hues common to the queen’s contemporary, Paul Gauguin.

ot all retirees choose to live on a bustling lane within sight of shops and bistros. Some want a compact layout, on one floor. Sharon and Carnie Lawson still require space for possessions and memories. “I like to sit and look around; each piece reminds me of something that happened. I call this a big little house,” says Sharon. “I loved living in St. Lucia and New Hampshire,” adds Carnie. “The people have lived there for many generations. But here, everybody’s from someplace else . . . they are open to new friendships.” And the feeling is mutual. PS PineStraw

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A L M A N A C

November By Ashley Wahl

ovember is the rush of wind through leaves, the rush of leaves through wind, a cradle song before a long night’s sleep. In the garden, the unblinking statue has seen it all before, will see it all again: birds, here and gone; the explosion of color; the great release; the withering; the nothingness; the sweet and glorious rebirth. Today, light feels soft and precious. The air is cool. The garden statue, barnacled from yet another sleepless year on watch, holds a stone bird in cupped hands — the weight of the world; the burden and the gift of the silent witness. As tree limbs bend and sway on high, leaves and squirrels scatter across the earth in dramatic bursts. Soon, when the wood frogs sleep, the roving cat will make its way from the rose bed to the back porch, press its paw against the glass panel door, give up its wanderings for a place by the hearth. The crickets play their final tune as the snake enters brumation. In its quiet meditation, the statue sees and hears what most do not. It knows that summer’s light is still here, pulsing within all living things; that spring is autumn’s waking dream; that there is magic in the heart of winter’s stillness. A whirl of golden leaves descends. An aster blooms. And in the fading autumn light, a pregnant doe plucks freshly planted bulbs, nibbles dwindling grasses, steps boldly toward the night. The statue neither smiles nor frowns. It simply watches, listens as the world goes quiet.

Autumn’s color show does not stop at the swirling leaves. Inside, where golden milk simmers on the stovetop, the spectacle continues. Behold a rainbow spread of roasted beets and carrots. Collard greens flaked with red pepper. Cranberry-pear chutney garnished with orange peel. Come Thanksgiving, add warmth and color any way you can. We all know it: The mashed potatoes need the contrast. Despite how you serve them — smooth and creamy; handmashed and skin-on; loaded with garlic and butter — there’s no denying that mashed potatoes remain a holiday favorite. Unlike green bean casserole, which Campbell’s introduced in the 1950s through their Cream of Mushroom soup, mashed potatoes have been a Thanksgiving staple since the 1700s. Sure, add a dollop of sour cream and a little cheddar. Or fresh rosemary from the kitchen garden. Just don’t go messing up a good thing.

Hold the Dairy

How to make vegan mashed potatoes? Two words: vegan butter. And as for vegan gravy? Ditto. Sub pan drippings for nutritional yeast, soy sauce, Dijon mustard, onion powder and the like. There are dozens of recipes out there. No need for the vegan you love to go without.

I love to see the cottage smoke Curl upwards through the trees, The pigeons nestled round the cote On November days like these . . . — John Clare, “Autumn”

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GUIDE toGIVING PineStraw is helping you kick off the season of giving! We know the holiday season is hectic, but we hope that you can carve out some time to give back. Volunteer at a local food bank, buy gifts for a family in need or make a year-end donation to one of the dozens of local non-profits who could use your support. Guide to Giving is a compilation of charitable organizations in Moore County that rely on annual fundraising. With your help, be it monetary or hands-on, we can grow this local network of do-gooders.

We thank the local businesses that made our Guide to Giving possible through their sponsorship. To learn how your business can sponsor the 2022 edition, please call (910) 693-2481.

WORDS AND BOOKS ARE ESSENTIAL TO MOLDING STUDENTS’ MINDS Founded in 2015, Authors in Moore Schools (AIMS) is a North Carolinabased literary nonprofit. Over the past 6 years we have placed 14,879 books, from 82 bestselling authors, into the hands of students at 30 local schools. AIMS serves elementary and middle school students in Moore and surrounding counties AIMS works with local bookstores and national publishers to host national bestselling and award winning authors in local elementary schools at no charge to the schools. AIMS then works with local civic groups, businesses, individuals, and granting organizations to provide free copies of the author’s book to students following the school presentations

EVENTS: In 2021-22 school year, AIMS hosted events with : National Ambassador for Children’s Literature, Jason Reynolds Coretta Scott King Award Winner And NC Battle of the Books Author Varian Johnson NYT Bestselling Author Lauren Tarshis NYT Bestselling Author Dav Pilkey NAACP Image Award Winner Vashti Harrison Caldecott and Pura Belpre Award Winner Yuyi Morales Students attending these events received free copies of each author’s book

AIMS seeks to promote the love of reading by bringing students, parents, schools, communities, and authors together through great books. and the link to the auction can be found on the AIMS website www. authorsinmooreschools.org

FUNDRAISING: AIMS yearly budget is $22,000. Much of that comes from local businesses, individuals, and granting organizations AIMS has only one fundraiser each year: an online children’s book art auction during the first two weeks of February. The auction has a fundraising goal of $1,500

.MAKE A GIFT: Email Authorsinmooreschools@gmail. com for more information or mail a check to Angie Tally Authors in Moore Schools 55 Shadow Lane Whispering Pines NC. 28327

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PROMOTING SCHOOL SPIRIT BY ENCOURAGING EXCELLENCE, PRIDE, AND SPORTSMANSHIP The Pinecrest Athletic Club (PAC) is a non-profit organization comprised of dedicated parents, guardians, alumni, coaches, teachers, school administrators, and community members. The Athletic Club supports ALL teams and athletes at Pinecrest High School (PHS).

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: • The PAC is dedicated to promoting the interests of PHS through its athletic program.

EVENTS: Back the Pac has an annual auction in support of all student athletes at Pinecrest High School.

VOLUNTEER COMMITTEES:

• The membership of the PAC is concerned with developing the entire PHS athletic program as a whole, including the student body, school staff, parents, alumni, and community members. • The goal of the PAC is to supplement the funding of athletic activities to improve facilities and equipment without replacing funding from the school budget.

• The PAC is responsible for organizing fundraisers, projects, concessions, and other special events to promote and support PHS athletics.

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MAKE A GIFT: Pinecrest Athletic Club PO Box 2709 Southern Pines, NC 28388 www.ncmcs.org/Page/8631

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SUPPORTING CHILDREN FACING HUNGER OVER THE WEEKEND HOW IT WORKS: Backpack Pals bags are compiled at the Food Bank of Central & Eastern NC location on Sandy Avenue in Southern Pines. These packs provide healthy meals and snacks for children and their families to ensure children return to school on Mondays or after a long school break ready to learn. Volunteers receive the food from the Food Bank, load it into bags, and deliver it to the school or program for distribution each week. Common foods in a Backpack Pals bag include: proteins (tuna, beef stew, or peanut butter), fruits (canned or fresh), breakfast items (cereal or bars), snacks, and beverages (fruit juice and/or milk). The backpacks are assembled by volunteers and delivered to a school partner each week. Normally, the packs are distributed

on Thursday or Friday, with kids returning them on Wednesday of the following week. Since the program began in October 2005, teachers and schools have reported improvements in test scores, positive behavioral gains, decrease in number of unexcused absences, and an increased recognition of potential career paths.

HOW TO HELP: Donate Online Online donations are a fast and easy way to support the work of the Food Bank. Using a credit card or bank draft, make a one-time gift or continue your support as a monthly contributor. Honor or memorialize a friend or relative by making a tribute gift. Consider hosting a virtual food drive for friends and family to

The Backpack Pals’ program meets the nutritional needs of children at risk of hunger during weekends by providing discreet bags filled with weekend meals that fit inside of a child’s backpack. get involved. foodbankcenc.org Donate Food Food donations are essential in meeting the needs of those who suffer from hunger in our 34-county service territory. The Food Bank seeks donations from individuals holding food drives, farmers with excess produce and corporate bulk donations of food and non-food essential items. Other Monetary Support The Food Bank accepts many types of monetary support including stock donations, bequests by will or trust, company matching gifts, and corporate partnerships.

Donate Time Volunteers are the heart and soul of the Food Bank’s mission. Every day, Food Bank volunteers are making a tangible contribution to our communities. If you’d like to volunteer your time, please visit foodbankcenc.org/volunteer to view opportunities, learn more about current safety protocols, and self-schedule a shift!

MAKE A GIFT: Backpack Pals c/o Food Bank CENC 195 Sandy Avenue Southern Pines, NC 28387

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SAVING SHELTER DOGS AND GIVING THEM A LIFE FULL OF LOVE Caring Hearts for Canines strives to save as many shelter dogs as possible and to give them a life filled with the love and compassion they deserve. CHFC primarily serves the area of Moore County, founded in 2014 by Jennifer Chopping in an effort to save dogs from high kill shelters that would otherwise be euthanized. Additionally, Caring Hearts for Canines works to educate the public through community outreach about the issues of spaying and neutering, vaccinating, heartworm prevention and proper care and maintenance of their canine companions.

VOLUNTEER: • Kennel Care – feed, clean, and

walk dogs • Staffing Events – manning tables and dogs • Transporting Dogs – picking up shelter dogs and transporting them to out-ofstate partners • Running with Dogs: exercising high energy dogs a couple of times a week • Fostering For more information on fostering and volunteering, email caringheartscanine@gmail.com

HOW TO HELP: AmazonSmile: If you shop on Amazon, use AmazonSmile and designate Caring Hearts for Canines as a beneficiary of your eligible Amazon-Smile purchases.

The mission of Caring Hearts for Canines is to rescue and rehome dogs at risk of being euthanized in high kill shelters and to educate the public in order to decrease the proliferation of these unwanted dogs. Use your Birthday to have a Facebook birthday fundraiser to help the pups!

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Send a check! Caring Hearts for Canines PO Box 1219 Southern Pines, NC 2838

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PRESENTING EXCEPTIONAL CONCERTS THAT ENTERTAIN, EDUCATE AND INSPIRE AUDIENCES ABOUT THE CAROLINA PHILHARMONIC: Founded in 2009, The Carolina Philharmonic has quickly grown into one of the leading orchestras of North Carolina. What sets us apart onstage is our visceral joy in sharing the music and the stories behind the music with our audiences. Expect more of a concert experience.

MAKE A GIFT: The Carolina Philharmonic 5 Market Sq Pinehurst, NC 28374 (910) 687-0287

FUNDRAISING GOALS: Each year with no federal or state assistance we need to raise $200,000 to support our music education programs for the children of Moore County. We fundraise throughout the year for children’s music programs. This year between Encore! Kids (K – 3), Link Up (4th graders) and our Junior Orchestra we have about 3,500 total students in our programs. Let the music move you, transform you, transport you. Experience the Joy of Exceptional Music.

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LOGAN-BLAKE UNIT OPENING SOON! We are eager to showcase our Logan-Blake Unit, which has undergone extensive renovations over the last year. This new location, made possible through the generosity of this community, will double the Club’s capacity, and enable it to expand its service area into Pinehurst. “Finding a new site to replace our Aberdeen Unit seemed hopeless until we found the Logan-Blake Unit,” said Fallon Brewington, CEO at the Boys and Girls Club of the Sandhills. This space will allow us to serve more kids, more often, and with a greater impact.

games and athletics to drug prevention workshops. The Club locations are open each day after school – when research has shown children to be most vulnerable. In the summer, Clubs and special summer-only sites open their doors all day to young people with nowhere else to go. The Boys & Girls Club of the Sandhills is open 2:30 – 6:30 p.m., Monday through Friday during the school year and from 6:45 a.m. until 5:45 p.m. Monday through Friday in the summer.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES:

SERVICES: Boys & Girls Club of the Sandhills offers participating young people a range of fun and productive activities from

Virtual tutoring and mentoring Contact Matrice McLellan at 910-692-0777, ext. 2229 or mmclellan@sandhillsbgc.org

BUILDING GREAT FUTURES, ONE CHILD AT A TIME The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sandhills is to inspire, enable and educate young people from all backgrounds and circumstances to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. MAKE A GIFT IN SUPPORT OF BUILDING GREAT FUTURES, ONE CHILD AT A TIME: www.sandhillsbgc.org/donate

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WORKING TO ABOLISH HUMAN TRAFFICKING, AS WELL AS ITS EFFECTS ON SURVIVORS, FAMILIES, AND OUR COMMUNITIES. Changing Destinies Ministry serves those currently or previously working in the sex industry. We work to provide awareness, prevention, training, survivor testimony, outreach, and opening a shelter for human trafficking survivors.

SERVICES: Events we host for the greater community include awareness and networking at community vendor events, training and survivor testimony at churches, civic groups, and businesses upon request. We have a family festival event planned at the National Athletic Village on November 13, 2021, which will become an annual event. Get your tickets at https://

ticketmesandhills.com/events/ FREEDOM21. We are also planning January Human Trafficking Month event in 2022.

FUNDRAISING: Our general end-of-year fundraising goal is $10,000. We are also fundraising to purchase and renovate a property that will be used as a long-term residential shelter for adult female human trafficking survivors. Our goal is $250,000 for 2022.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Level 1 – Events, booths, raffles, galas, special projects. Level 2 – Professional advisors

Changing Destinies Ministry will serve as a beacon of hope for those seeking refuge from the trafficking industry by opening healing and restoration homes that offer holistic, faith-based residential recovery programs free-of-cost to survivors. and committees (legal, case management, therapy, construction, medical, etc.). Level 3 – Directors and members (fund raising, marketing, social media, networking, curriculum development, training, admin, shelter development, etc.). Level 4 – Board of Directors. Apply on our website

www.changingdestiniesministry.org (see volunteer link).

MAKE A GIFT: Click the donate button on our website or make check out to: Changing Destinies Ministry, P.O. Box 3662, Pinehurst, NC 28374.

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Companion Animal Clinic Foundation with the Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic

YOUR COMMUNITY SOLUTION TO ANIMAL OVERPOPULATION GOALS:

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Continuation and additional subsidy for low-cost spay/neuter.

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SNVC SERVICES: • Sandhills Spay Neuter Veterinary Clinic • Cryptorchid Neutering • Rabies Vaccines • Microchips • Umbilical Hernia Repair • Antibiotics

FUNDRAISING EVENTS: Galas, parties, trail rides, wine tastings, silent auctions, movies, coffee table book and more. Our coffee table book showcases animals that touch our lives and promotes the mission to end euthanasia through aggressive spay/neuter in addressing the animal overpopulation problem in our community.

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WORKING TO REDUCE THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN MOORE COUNTY SERVICES: Educational efforts through community presentations, resource guide, social media, and networking with Moore County Schools, FirstHealth of the Carolinas, treatment providers in Moore County and Moore County Detention Center. We also have the Peer Support Program. A Peer Support Specialist has at least two years of recovery and training in order to offer support to those in recovery. Moore ReCreations, the community recovery center, is located at 105 Barrett Street in Carthage. The recovery center is a place where those dealing with addiction can seek guidance

and resources on their road to recovery.

FUNDRAISING: The Run for Recovery is Drug Free Moore County’s annual 5K run/walk fundraiser held in the month of September. Participants will raise awareness about substance abuse, promote treatment, and celebrate those who are living in recovery. All proceeds will benefit Drug Free Moore County and go toward providing recovery resources to individuals and families through the further development of the Community Recovery Center.

A dropbox for old or unused medications is available 24/7 at the Moore County Sheriff’s Office at the Courthouse Square in Carthage.

The mission of Drug Free Moore County is to provide information on prevention, treatment, and recovery for addiction/substance use disorder to all citizens in Moore County. VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: • Event Staffing • Community Recovery Centers People who have been in recovery for at least a year may be trained as a peer counselor.

Email drugfreemc@gmail.com or call 910-947-1902 and leave a message to volunteer.

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HELPING SURVIVORS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SEXUAL ASSAULT, AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING REBUILD THEIR LIVES SERENITY HOUSE:

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A 34 bed, safe residence where our guests are given the opportunity and support to begin healing physically, emotionally, and mentally.

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BUTTERFLY COTTAGE: A 3 bedroom, 4-bed safe space that provides specialized victim-centered support, trauma-informed services, and emergency shelter for victims of human trafficking.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH: Provide information and education to the community about domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.

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Protective order assistance, court related questions, court accompaniment, and counseling services.

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OUR MISSION: Friends of Pinehurst Surgical Clinic is a local non-profit organization that proudly serves Moore County and other surrounding areas. Established by Pinehurst Surgical Clinic, it’s our mission to make lasting impacts on our community and that’s why we’re honored to give 100% of our proceeds to the charities that we support.

GATHERING FOR THE PINES: Our inaugural event raised over $130K and we have already scheduled our next Gathering event! Join us on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at the Fair Barn. We promise a day to remember and to be thankful to our military and responders for their everyday sacrifices. You can follow any updates at friendsofpsc.org.

SPREAD HOLIDAY CHEER WITH OUR SEASONAL MAILBOX SWAG: Get in the Christmas spirit with one of our newest initiatives, the Holiday Mailbox Swag. Each holiday season, we create festive, handmade mailbox displays for Moore County Communities to help raise money for local charities. In 2020, we decorated over 220 mailboxes and our 2021 Mailbox Swag goal is to decorate 400 mailboxes! Interested in being a part of this year’s event? Make a minimum donation of $75 by November 15th and we will deliver and adorn your mailbox with fresh holiday swag and a festive homemade bow by the first week of December. Be sure to place your order early to reserve your decor and help give back to a local charity. To learn more about

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TOGETHER WE CAN GET CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES MOVING! Our goal is to help children who have difficulties walking independently become mobile. We do so by providing financial assistance for families to purchase equipment that allows their children to become independent. Jillian’s Jitterbug will financially assist families in purchasing wheelchairs (power chairs and push chairs), ankle-foot orthotics (orthopedic leg braces), arm crutches, adopted bicycles, and walkers.

FUNDRAISING: We do not have a fundraising target amount, but any donation no matter the amount will make an impact. A motorized wheelchair can cost as much as a new car depending on how much your insurance company will cover. This fiscal year, we have been much more focused on finding families

and children in the area to help.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: We are always welcoming volunteers with open arms to help us with day-to-day logistics of planning team meetings, networking within the local community, and eventually plan fundraising events in the future. Contact President and Founder Kaelyn Edwards at Kedwards@jilliansjitterbug.org for more information.

OUR BOARD LEADERS: Kaelyn M. Edwards President Jillian R. Edwards Vice President: Kimberly A. Edwards Marketing Manager

We serve all children within the community that have mobility limitations. We rely on word of mouth and making connections with local daycare centers/school nurses in order to serve/reach our community. Daniel J. Edwards Financial Consultant/ Board Member David Bidwell Board Member Lee Leibowitz Board Member

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MAKE A GIFT: We accept online credit card donations, PayPal, Venmo, and checks made out to Jillian’s Jitterbug Inc. https://jilliansjitterbug.org/ 190 Kings Ridge Court Southern Pines, NC 28387

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OFFERING HOPE AND A FUTURE Life Care Pregnancy Center is a Christ-centered ministry that promotes the sanctity of human life by providing Christian direction, compassionate care, education, and practical assistance for individuals and families facing crucial decisions surrounding any pregnancy or pregnancy related crisis.

OUR FREE AND CONFIDENTIAL SERVICES INCLUDE: • Pregnancy testing with referrals for prenatal care • Limited ultrasounds • Factual education about: - Pregnancy and fetal development - Abortion procedures and associated risks - Adoption options • Parenting education • Care & Share Incentive Program

- Diapers, wipes, and baby supplies • Client advocacy for: - Examining all pregnancy options - Single parenting

HEALING & RESTORATION MINISTRY: • Bible study/advocacy on forgiveness and healing after abortion or pregnancy loss • Sharing the healing nature of grace through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ

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PROVIDING FOOD FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT ABLE TO PREPARE A MEAL FOR THEMSELVES Through volunteers, we deliver between 85-95 noontime meals every Monday through Friday including all weekday holidays to those in need regardless of their ability to pay our nominal fee of $4.00 per meal ($80 per month for 5 meals a week). We partner with United Way of Moore County to achieve these goals.

EVENTS: In the past, we have partnered with Vision4Moore on concerts as well as have a dinner in early December. We solicit table sponsors and then ask all attendees to make a monetary donation to our program to assist with the annual cost of the food. This may be a virtual event for 2021. In 2019, we paid Penick Village more than $70,000 for the food served. Our total annual

budget is more than $106,000.

FUNDRAISING GOALS: To secure more than $60,000 towards the cost of food to prepare meals and equipping a new kitchen.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Nine Volunteers are needed every Monday through Friday to deliver one of our nine different teams of Clients. We are very close to expanding our service area to the West End/ Seven Lakes area, which will be our 10th team and opening a new permanent kitchen location in Pinehurst January 2022. We will need Volunteers to cook and deliver meals (i.e., once a week, twice a month, etc.) as well as those that can be contacted at the last minute to substitute. Please

Our mission to is to provide a hot, nutritious, diet-specific midday meal, Monday through Friday (including all weekday holidays) to homebound individuals who are unable to prepare a meal, regardless of their age or ability to pay. email or text Executive Director for more information about becoming a volunteer. rklistrom@yahoo.com

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CHAMPIONING SUCCESSFUL LIVES FROM BIRTH TO ADULTHOOD BY MENTORING, ADULT LITERACY, AND OPPORTUNITIES DESIGNED FOR EMPOWERING OTHERS THROUGH EDUCATION AND ENRICHMENT. MENTORING PROGRAMS: Our Mentoring Programs offer a positive, caring adult who works one-on-one with a child at risk of failing or dropping out of school helping them develop critical life skills, set goals and do better in school.

STRUCTURED DAY PROGRAM: The Juvenile Crime Prevention Council & Moore County Schools refer children who are suspended or expelled, have a history of truancy, or are returning from a juvenile justice setting to our program.

CITIZENSHIP PROGRAM: We provide a curriculum that focuses on the civics and language

skills necessary for students to pass the United States Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS) Naturalization Test and Interview.

TUTORING FOR LOW LITERACY ADULTS: We improve the reading and writing skills of over 100 low literacy adults each year.

MOTHEREAD/FATHEREAD®: We teach parents to read to their young children early and often, so that every child will be ready for kindergarten.

Our Vision: A community in which adults and youth are thriving and have promising futures. willing to give their time, energy, and compassion to a Moore County youth or adult learner for at least one year.

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WITH COMPASSION AND RESPECT, MOORE FREE & CHARITABLE CLINIC PROVIDES HEALTH CARE TO THE LIMITED INCOME, UNINSURED OF MOORE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA Our organization’s goal is to provide access to compassionate, quality primary health care and other services to the nearly 14,000 uninsured adults in Moore County. By doing so, the overall health of our community will be improved at the population level. The burden on local hospital emergency departments is mitigated when uninsured residents have a better, more cost-effective alternative for routine care. Communities benefit socially and economically when medical insecurity is reduced. Moore Free & Charitable Clinic’s

strategic priorities are to: 1) Strengthen fundraising efforts to increase available resources to carry out its mission, 2) Expand the capacity to serve more patients by adding space and staff, and 3) Increase community outreach and education about the services offered by Moore Free & Charitable Clinic.

EVENTS: Each year, Moore Free & Charitable Clinic hosts a fundraiser called the Hearts and Hands Brunch that falls near Valentines Day. In the fall, the major fundraising event is Dining

Moore Free & Charitable Clinic’s mission is to provide a primary care medical home for low income uninsured residents of Moore County, North Carolina, giving access to consistent care and prescription medications for disabling chronic diseases.

in the Pines™, which features special dining experiences called Chef Tables, held at local fine dining restaurants.

VOLUNTEER: Moore Free & Charitable Clinic can always use clinical volunteers, including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, mental health professionals, dentists, registered nurses, pharmacists and pharmacy techs. Opportunities are also available for clerical positions, such as reception, enrollment and eligibility, filing and other office jobs.

Please contact Tony Price at 910-246-5333 Ext 207.

MAKE A GIFT: Donations by check may be made out to Moore Free & Charitable Clinic and mailed to: 211 Trimble Plant Road, Suite C, Southern Pines, NC 28387. Credit card donations made be made at www.MooreFreeCare.org. The Clinic also can accept gifts of securities; for more information call Tony Price at (910)246-5333 Ext. 207.

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EVENTS: Barn Dance fundraiser in the spring Prancing Horse Farm Tour in October. End of session Horse Shows

FUNDRAISING: Prancing Horse appreciates the continued support of the community to ensure our ability to continue therapeutic horsemanship classes for our clients.

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INCLUSIVE EARLY EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN The first 5 years of a child’s life are critically important to their future success in school. As specialists in early childhood education, Sandhills Children’s Center offers an inclusive child development program for children with and without special developmental needs that encourages learning, creativity, and physical/intellectual growth. The unique peer-to-peer learning in an inclusive setting is proven to be the most natural environment for preparing children for kindergarten.

EVENTS: 25TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF TREES November 17 – 21, 2021 The Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst

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VOLUNTEER: Sandhills Children’s Center is always looking for enthusiastic volunteers to assist with our special events. If you are interested in volunteering at an upcoming event, call (910) 692-3323. Due to ongoing

The mission of Sandhills Children’s Center is to constantly strive to be a recognized leader and pre-eminent provider of educational and therapeutic services to young children ages birth through 5 years through continuous organizational growth and collaboration with our community partners. Covid concerns, volunteers are not permitted inside the classrooms. We hope circumstances will change soon!

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PROVIDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE SANDHILLS A gift to the Sandhills Foundation involves a unique commitment made both by donors and students. The donor commits their financial support, and the student, in turn, commits to do the work required and take responsibility for their success. This social contract between donor and student has been played out countless times at Sandhills Community College— and tens of thousands of lives have been profoundly changed as a result.

THE GUARANTOR PROGRAM The SCC Guarantor Program ensures that no deserving student will be turned away because they cannot afford a college education. This program helps students who are faced with significant financial challenges to stay in school. It supports the traditional college student as well as the older student, many times a displaced worker, who is coming to Sandhills to learn a new skill and develop a new career.

Pictured: Jennifer Dail, Director of Development; Dr. John Dempsey, President of SCC; Germaine Elkins, Vice President of Institutional Advancement; Cassidy Benjamin, Associate Director of Foundation Outreach. Guarantor support provides money for expenses critical to the students’ capacity to stay in school and succeed. Without these Guarantors, many students would be unable to continue their studies at Sandhills. A gift of $1000 or more designates the donor as a Guarantor for the

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BRINGING WHOLENESS TO THE HOPELESS HOW IT WORKS: An ideal place for recovery, Sandhills Teen Challenge is located on 31 tranquil acres in the heart of Moore County, and is a 12-month residential program. Sandhills Teen Challenge provides food, clothing, a warm bed, academic materials, etc., which are necessary to ensure the student receives the spiritual, emotional, vocational, and academic training required to help him overcome the problems which led to his addiction.

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ANNUAL CHRISTMAS BANQUETS: Join us to celebrate our Annual Christmas Banquets on December 9th, 10th, and 11th, 2021 at 6:30pm at Sandhills Adult & Teen Challenge in Carthage. Call 910.947.2944 for more information.

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THE SUNRISE THEATER IS CELEBRATING 80 YEARS SINCE IT OPENED ITS DOORS TO THE COMMUNITY. SERVICE: The Sunrise offers a variety of entertaining, engaging, and educational programming in its historic community theater and welcoming outdoor venue.

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performances, Children’s Theater Camps, live community theater, documentaries, private rentals, & community events.

FUNDRAISING: Fundraising supports all of our programs, concerts, and shows and maintains our community’s charming historic theater.

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To entertain, educate, and engage the community though film and performing arts, while preserving an historic Southern Pines landmark. on community volunteers to serve in a variety of capacities and on multiple committees developing programming and assuring the best experience for our patrons. They serve as ushers, behind the concessions stand, in the box office, and on the board. Please call us about opportunities to

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A CORNERSTONE IN ADVANCING THE COMMON GOOD IN OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION, FINANCIAL STABILITY AND HEALTH PROGRAMS United Way of Moore County’s mission is to advance the common good by focusing on the education, financial stability, and health of those living in our community. Supporting 16 local nonprofit programs, these are the building blocks for a good life. United Way of Moore County also provides 2-1-1 Information & Referral service to the community connecting local people to local health & human service supports when they need help.

FUNDRAISING: The 2021 fundraising campaign brings an opportunity to purchase a limited number of raffle tickets for

a 3 Day/2Night Package for two at Pinehurst Resort. Only 100 raffle tickets for $100 each are available for a chance to win.. This 3 day/2 night stay includes: accommodations, breakfast and dinner daily and one round of golf per day including play on the famed Pinehurst No. 2 course!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: The United Way of Moore County is seeking volunteers to work on special projects assisting local nonprofit partner agencies. United Way also helps connect individuals to our nonprofit partners who are looking for volunteers.

United Way of Moore County partners with and funds 14 local charitable organizations and 16 programs:: American Red Cross • The Arc of Moore County • The Bethany House • Bethesda, Inc. Boys Scouts of America • Friend to Friend • Meals on Wheels of the Sandhills Moore Buddies Mentoring • Moore County 4-H • Moore County Literacy Council Northern Moore Family Resource Center • Partners for Children & Families Sandhills Moore Coalition for Human Care • Sandhills Student Assistance Program Anyone interested in volunteering may contact the United Way at (910) 692-2413 or visit the United Way website for information on volunteer opportunities at www.unitedwaymoore.com.

GIVE MOORE LOCAL: You can mail a contribution to the

United Way of Moore County at: PO Box 207, Southern Pines, NC 28388; Visit the office at 780 NW Broad Street, Suite 110 in Southern Pines;Text-to-Give at (910) 915-8275; or give online at www.unitedwaymoore.com. Give Moore local means your gift stays here!

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Memorial Day 2022 - Pinehurst Resort The Armed Forces Cup is a 2-day VGA team event where the top 2 VGA Tour Veteran point earners from each military branch per each region are invited to Pinehurst to square off.

COMPETITIVE GOLF LEAGUE FOR VETERANS & THEIR FAMILIES The VGA is working tirelessly to create golfing programs that will keep veterans, their family members and children active in the game of golf for many years to come. ELIGIBILTY Veterans, combat wounded veterans, retirees, active duty military, and family members of veterans. LOCAL TOURNAMENTS • Anderson Creek Golf Club • Forest Creek

• Legacy Golf Links • Mid Pines Golf Club • and many more HOW TO HELP The transition from military to civilian life can be challenging. For many, they face physical and emotional health issues, issolation, and loss of camaraderie. The VGA ensures veterans break out of isolation and find belonging with each other and engagement with the community through the great game of golf, and your donation can help keep this program going.

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MISSION: Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities (Weymouth Center) is a community gathering place for lovers of nature and the arts. In 2022, the Boyd House will celebrate its 100th year as a community icon. Weymouth Center offers programs for all ages and opens its 26 acres of gardens and grounds to the community. We are a program-driven nonprofit and give public presentations yearround in the arts and humanities.

PROGRAMS AND EVENTS: • Concerts for all tastes, including Classical Music Sundays, “Come Sunday” Jazz Brunch, and Sounds on the Grounds • Arts and Humanities Lecture Series • Writers-in-Residence Readings • Moore County Writers’ Competition • Young Musicians Festival • Write Stuff and Art Start camps

• “Miracles at Weymouth” Holiday Festival and Gala • Community celebrations supported by the Women of Weymouth, including Supper on the Grounds, and Strawberry Festival.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Whether you like to garden, write, explore equestrian projects, do historical research or preservation, fundraise, connect with the community, take on leadership roles or share other skills you may have, Weymouth Center needs you! To volunteer, sign up via our website weymouthcenter.org

IMPACT OF YOUR GIFT: Your gift will support bringing the arts and humanities to the Sandhills, provide scholarships for educational programs, allow children to attend events for free, and underwrite the cost of worldclass performing artists, writers,

The purpose of Friends of Weymouth, Inc. is to promote the legacy of James and Katharine Lamont Boyd by the preservation and conservation of their historic home and surrounding property in the North Carolina longleaf pine ecosystem for use as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit center for the arts and humanities. and speakers. Weymouth Center is a welcome place for all to enjoy the magnificent gardens and grounds, sustained by volunteers and contributions. A gift of $50 or more makes you an annual “Supporter,” which includes the benefits of reduced ticket prices for Weymouth events, discounts to partner businesses including The Country Bookshop and Southern Whey, and all gifts are fully tax deductible. Thank you for considering making a gift today!

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MAKE A GIFT: To support Weymouth Center with a check, gift of stock, or estate gift, please send by mail to: Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities PO Box 939, Southern Pines, NC 28388 To make your gift online go to weymouthcenter.org

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Monday, November 1 ART EXHIBIT. 7:45 a.m. - 6 p.m. View an exhibit by local artists Lisa Richman and Dean Segovis, exhibiting inventive installations and sculptures with recycled objects. Exhibit runs through Nov. 19. Hastings Gallery, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-6185. Tuesday, November 2 ADULT STORYTIME. 12 p.m. Take a break from your day and join Audrey Moriarty while she reads some of her favorites for the season. Masks required. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642. TRIVIA NIGHT. 6 p.m. Come to Trivia Night at the winery. Sandhills Winery, 1057 Seven Lakes Drive, West End. Info: sandhillswinery@gmail. com. FIRE ACADEMY. 6 - 9 p.m. Get a firsthand look at how the Pinehurst Fire Department trains and responds to emergency needs. Citizens will get a behind-the-scenes look at the fire station. Space is limited. Pinehurst Fire Department, 405 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.vopnc.org/ our-government/departments/fire. Wednesday, November 3 SENIOR TRIP. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to travel with Southern Pines Recreation and Parks to The RCR Museum. Your trip will include exploring a 47,000-square-foot shop that was home to Dale Earnhardt’s No. 3 team for many years, and see race cars and other artifacts that have contributed to some of the most iconic moments in NASCAR history.

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Lunch at Lexington BBQ to follow. Cost to participate is $27 for residents of Southern Pines and $54 for non-residents. Bus will depart from Campbell House Playground parking lot, 450 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. FOREST BATHING. 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Make time to relax on a guided sensory journey into nature. Walks are led by Lara Beth Jones, licensed occupational therapist and nature and forest therapy guide. Cost is $45 for Southern Pines residents and $90 for non-residents. Whitehall Tract, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463 or www.southernpines.net. WRITERS IN RESIDENCE. 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Weymouth’s Writers-in-Residence program is honored to welcome Writers-in-Residence Kimberly L. Becker and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, who will read from their poetry collections. Masks required. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6926261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. Thursday, November 4 BOOK EVENT. 4 - 5 p.m. Kristy Woodson Harvey is back with her book Christmas in Peachtree Bluff, speaking with Kimberly Daniels Taws of The Country Bookshop. Tickets are $20. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. Friday, November 5 OPENING RECEPTION. 5 - 7 p.m. Come to the 27th annual Fall Exhibit and Sale. Paintings will be for sale through Dec. 17. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

CA L E N DA R FIRST FRIDAY. 5 - 8:15 p.m. This free concert to support the Sunrise Theater features live music provided by Check Your Head: A Beastie Boys Tribute. Food trucks, sponsors, refreshments and beer from Southern Pines Brewery will be available. No outside alcohol, rolling coolers or dogs permitted. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. MEET AND GREET. 6:30 - 11 p.m. Enjoy a meet and greet with Greg Sister, star of the movie The Room and author of The Disaster Artist. Cameo Art House Theater, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. Saturday, November 6 DROP IN CRAFTS. All day. Children and teens can come by the library to work on crafts at their own pace. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928235 or www.sppl.net. CRUISE-IN. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Join the Sandhills Classic Street Rod Association for a ’70s-themed Cruise-In, where all makes and models are welcome. There will be music, food and prizes. Leith Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM, 11049 U.S. 15-501, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 585-0054 or www.sandhillsclassicstreetrods.com. VETERANS PARADE. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. The annual Southern Pines Veterans Day Parade is a great opportunity for the whole family to support our troops and veterans. If you are a local veteran, please let us honor you by being in the parade. Downtown Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. FAMILY GARDENING DAY. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Join Weymouth for a day of family gardening. Weymouth’s gardens are maintained entirely by volunteers, so come out and support a morning of fall maintenance and beautification. There will be activities for kids and adults. Light refreshments provided. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info and RSVP: katie@weymouthcenter.org. SATURDAY KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Join us as we make things for birds and make things with drawings of birds. Learn about local birds and animals. Masks required. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642. PURSE BINGO. 5 - 11 p.m. Purse Bingo is The Academy of Moore County PTO’s largest fundraiser. The theme will be “A Night at The Oscars.” There will be 20 rounds of bingo for high-end handbags filled with donations. There will also be food and drink available. Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road, Pinehurst. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.

CHORUS SHOW. 7 - 9 p.m. The Golf Capital Chorus presents its 40th anniversary show: Barbershop Goes Country. Proceeds benefit many local charities. Lee Auditorium, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. SHAG DANCE. 7 - 11 p.m. The Moore Area Shag Society holds its monthly dance. You must be 21 years old to attend. Down Memory Lane, 161 Dawkins St., Aberdeen. Info: www.mooreareashagsociety.com. Sunday, November 7 WRITING GROUP. 3 p.m. Interested in creating fiction, nonfiction, poetry or comics? Connect with other writers and artists, chat about your craft and get feedback on your work. All levels are welcome. The session will meet at the library. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: lholden@sppl.net. CHILI COOK-OFF. 12 p.m. Come enjoy a chili cook-off benefiting Special Forces Association Chapter 62. Free to those under 16. For all others the cost is $10. O’Donnell’s Pub, 133 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. BOLSHOI BALLET. 12:55 p.m. Experience Spartacus, a ballet tour de force. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. PET PHOTOS. 1 - 3 p.m. Hollyfield Design will host a photo day for your family and pets featuring Santa Max, straight from the pages of Victorian days. Digital photos provided with your donation of cat food for Animal Advocates of Moore County. Hollyfield Design, 130 E. Illinois Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7243. BOOK SIGNING. 3 - 5 p.m. LPGA and PGA teaching professional Nicole Weller signs copies of her new book, Big Thoughts from Little Golfers, at Bump and Baby, 3 Market Square, Pinehurst. Kids’ prizes and contests. Monday, November 8 LITWITS BOOK CLUB. 4 p.m. This club is perfect for 3 - 6 graders who enjoy talking about books and meeting new friends. Each month, multiple copies of the chosen book will be available for checkout at the library. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928235 or email: lholden@sppl.net. BOOK EVENT. 5 - 6 p.m. Author John Bare and musician Don Dixon speak. Event is free but registration is required. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and tickets: www. ticketmesandhills.com.

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celebrates the many ways to be creative, such as drawing, crafting, and writing. For grades K - 5. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www. sppl.net. OPEN HOUSE. 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange will have a Christmas Open House all week long through Nov. 20 with special door prizes each day. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-4677 or www.sandhillswe.org. BINGO. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to come play 10 games of bingo. Prizes given to the winners. Cost is $2 for Southern Pines residents and $4 for non-residents. Space is limited to 24 participants. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. Wednesday, November 17 WELLNESS SERIES. 5:30 p.m. Join Stacey Whitlow, SEL educator, published wordsmith and journaling enthusiast, for an evening exploring the power of journaling to create peaceful moments in our uncertain world. This workshop will explore a variety of journaling activities specifically focused on mindfulness and gratitude in a very relaxed and joyful way. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6928235 or www.sppl.net or email lholden@sppl.net. FESTIVAL OF TREES. 10 a.m. The 25th annual Sandhills Children’s Center Festival of Trees will

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CA L E N DA R GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 p.m. Rollie Sampson, military liaison for Moore County Schools, will talk about resources available for military families. Masks required. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642. BOOK EVENT. 4 - 5 p.m. Karen White will speak with Kimberly Daniels Taws of The Country Bookshop about her book The Attic on Queen Street. Tickets are $35 and include a copy of the book. Country Club of North Carolina, 1600 Morganton Road, Pinehurst. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE. 6:30 p.m. The speaker for this meeting will be author and historian Stephen M. Hood, with a presentation on “Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War.” Meeting starts at 7 p.m. Open to the public. Civic Club, corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Ashe Street, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-0452 or mafarina@aol.com. Friday, November 19 MOONLIGHT HIKE. 5:30 p.m. All ages welcome to discover nature by moonlight. Listen to the sounds of the night as you walk the trail. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Don’t forget to bring a flashlight. Weymouth Woods Center, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. Saturday, November 20 TURKEY TROT. 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Join the annual FirstHealth Turkey Trot, where you will have the chance to run through the streets in the Village.

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CA L E N DA R SPARK STORYTIME. 2:30 p.m. This story time at Fire Station 82 is for ages birth through 2 and kids will have a chance to see firetrucks. Fire Station 82, 500 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net TABLE TENNIS. 7 - 9 p.m. Enjoy playing this exciting game every Tuesday. Cost for six months is $15 for residents of Southern Pines and $30 for non-residents. For adults 55 and older. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. Wednesdays FARM TO TABLE. Join Sandhills Farm to Table Co-op by ordering a subscription of local produce to support our local farmers. Info: (910) 722-1623 or www.sandhillsfarm2table.com. TODDLER TUNES. 10:30 a.m. Does your toddler like to move and groove? Join us for Toddler Tunes to get those wiggles out. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. CHAIR VOLLEYBALL. 1 - 2 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Get fit while having fun. Free to participate. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. BRIDGE. 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Enjoy games of bridge with friends. Douglass

Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. Thursdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. The year-round market features “producer only” vendors within a 50-mile radius providing fresh, local and seasonal produce, fruits, pasture meats, eggs, potting plants, cut flowers and local honey. Crafts, baked goods, jams and jellies are also available. Market is located at the Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. GIVEN STORY TIME. 10 a.m. Wonderful volunteers share their love of reading. Social distancing for children and masks required for adults. Stop by and join the fun. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info and tickets: (910) 295-3642. CHESS AND MAHJONG. 1 p.m. For adults 55 and older. All levels welcome. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. CABIN TOURS. 1 - 4 p.m. Come tour the McLendon Cabin, a historical and culturally significant Moore County structure. Learn about the people who built the cabins, lived in them and now preserve them. The cabins will be open Thursdays and Fridays. McLendon Cabin, 3361 Mt. Carmel Road, Carthage. Info: (910) 692-2051 or www. moorehistory.com.

PRESCHOOL STORIES. 3:30 p.m. Ages 3-5 and their families can enjoy a session with literacy-building skills to help them prepare for kindergarten. This session is for your big kid who is ready to stretch, dance, listen and play. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net or email lib@sppl.net. Fridays TAP CLASS. 10 - 11:30 a.m. For adults 55 and older. All levels welcome. Cost per class: $15/resident; $30/ non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. BRIDGE. 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Enjoy games of bridge with friends. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. Sundays GENTLE STORYTIME. 3:30 p.m. This is a sensory story time for families with children on the autism spectrum or with multi-sensory needs. This program is for children ages 3-8 and will combine books, songs, movement, and integrative activities. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www. sppl.net PS

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Sunday, November 14 7:00 pm Special Event!

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ARTISTS LEAGUE OF THE SANDHILLS

ANNUAL FALL EXHIBIT AND SALE OPENING RECEPTION AND WEEKEND The public is cordially invited to the special opening reception for the Artists League’s 27th annual art exhibit and sale on Friday, November 5, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. This is our biggest event of the year! The opening weekend continues on Saturday, November 6, from 11:00 to 4:00 p.m. Meet the artists as they paint in their studios throughout the weekend. The exhibit and sale will remain open through Friday, December 17th with gallery hours from noon to 3:00 p.m., Monday through Saturday. This is an ideal opportunity to acquire the perfect piece of art for personal enjoyment or as a gift for the approaching holiday season. With approximately 150 new works of art in the exhibit and over 300 pieces in the artists’ studios, you may choose from oils, watercolors, acrylics, pastels, alcohol inks, colored pencils, and mixed media in a variety of sizes and prices.

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Original art, gift cards from local businesses, and other lovely gifts will be raffled during the opening weekend. Tickets are for sale from Artists League members or at the League. A book of six tickets is available for $5.00 or $1.00 per individual ticket. The raffle winner will be announced on Saturday, November 6, at 3:00 p.m. You need not be present to win.

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Associate Member - $50/year Full Member - $160/year • Members receive class and workshop discounts. Classes are offered in every medium. - Full Members - 20% discount - Associate Members - 10% discount • All members are eligible to display their work in specific annual League exhibits. • All members are invited to participate in free League activities, such as Plein Aire Painting, Art Critiques, Movie Days, and Still Life Group Painting • All members have access to an extensive lending library of art instruction books and videos. • Framing Facility - Full Members have access to a fully equipped framing shop and access to wholesale frame purchasing. • Studio Space - Full Members have the opportunity to rent studio space when available.

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SOUTHWORDS

Desperate Housewives of 1620

And you thought you had it rough By Nan Graham

Notice right off the bat

that the Pilgrim women had remarkably different names reflecting their Separatist religious background. You’ve got to love these Desperate Housewives called Fear, Constance, Remember, Chastity, Humility and (surprisingly) Desire, unique names for remarkable women.

According to the Mayflower Society, only 18 adult women arrived aboard the Mayflower on that November day in 1620. All were married. Many left their children in the Netherlands hoping to send for them later. Most never saw these children again. Three women had set sail at least six months pregnant . . . all three would have sons. One expectant mother gave birth to a son at sea, appropriately named Oceanus. Another woman delivered son Peregrine, born while moored in harbor. The third birth was a stillborn son. That last hapless mother died the following winter along with 12 other women. Before going ashore, the group drew up a document spelling out a plan for governing the new settlement, the first such document in the New World. Forty-one men signed the Mayflower Compact, as they called it; nine adult men on the ship did not. The nine absent signatures included the seamen. Not until the completed compact was signed did the landing party go ashore. No women signed the document. None expected to. The newcomers set foot on this New World with an idea . . . and a written plan. In those early days, the women stayed on the Mayflower and only left the ship a few times in January, February and March. Women died at three times the rate for men. By April, only four adult women remained. One mysterious loss was William Bradford’s wife, Elizabeth. Days after Bradford and the men left to investigate the land, leaving all women aboard, Elizabeth disappeared. It is unknown whether she fell overboard or committed suicide. She had left her 4-year-old son in Europe an ocean away, a drastic decision for any mother. The ship was safely anchored in a sheltered inlet . . . the weather was calm.

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Falling overboard seems unlikely. It seems reasonable to think she purposefully drowned herself. Aboard ship, the women were expected to make and mend clothes for everyone, including the “strangers,” as the deckhands were called, for the winter months ahead. After the men rowed to shore, the four women with the children remained on board to scrub the ship quarters, empty chamber pots, tend to the youngsters, prepare meals from provisions, do laundry and make the clothes for the entire group. The women lived aboard ship in the narrow, cramped area between the deck and the hold below — called the “tween” — for weeks, while the men checked out the new territory, built shelters and occasionally returned to the ship to bring aboard captured game. There was no return voyage home. Winter seas made the journey impossible. Besides, the captain and most of the crew were almost always ashore in those early weeks, busy exploring the New World. Although most of the women could read a bit, their names were not included in the signatures on the Mayflower Compact. Most of the women would have signed their names with an X, since they had not been taught to write. So, there are no diaries left behind (what Pilgrim woman had time to journal anyway?) to tell us what the women thought as they watched the second boatload of Pilgrims arrive in 1621 with 33 more men, to make the cooking, sewing and washing workload even more impossible. Only two women were on board this second boat. Six adult females shared the load of maintenance of the entire settlement when it was finally built. (And you thought you were put upon with your Thanksgiving arrivals!) Pilgrim women could not vote or speak in town gatherings or in church. A Plymouth woman was allowed to choose her husband; buy, own and sell her own property; and, got one-third of her husband’s estate at his death, no matter what his will said. Her attire: red, violet, blue and green clothing, not the black garb we usually see depicted. She kept her head covered in every public place, bad hair day or not. We don’t know what these courageous women dreamed of in this New World. It might have been simply for shelter, warmth, good food to eat . . . and a day off. But most of all to be with family and friends, thankful to live in safety and peace in this new place. This Thanksgiving, we join them in those thoughts. PS After 25 years of broadcasting commentaries for Wilmington’s PBS station, 40-plus years of teaching and authoring two books, storytelling is still a passion for Nan Graham. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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