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FEATURES 75 Advice on Nightime Caregiving Poetry By Benjamin Cutler 76 Pop Culture Doppelgängers By Brady Gallagher 82 Sunrise By Bland Simpson Raising the roof and bringing down the house

84 Fairy Lands of North Carolina By John Hood Those with "the Sight" claim there are wee folk amongst us. Do you beleive?

88 Lunch with Winston By Tony Rothwell My father’s “brush” with history

92 Eternally Fall By Charles Marshall A football odyssey for a father and his sons

98 A Perfect Unmatch By Deborah Salomon Historic cottage exudes comfort, harmony

111 September Almanac By Ashley Wahl

DEPARTMENTS 21 28 35 39 43 44 49 53 57 63 65 67 71 128 136 143 144

Simple Life By Jim Dodson PinePitch The Omnivorous Reader By Anne Blythe 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 Sandhills Photography Club Out of the Blue By Deborah Salomon Batwatch By Susan Campbell The Naturalist By Todd Pusser Golftown Journal By Lee Pace Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen PineNeedler By Mart Dickerson Southwords By Jim Moriarty

Cover photograph by William McDermott Photograph this page by Mary New 6

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9 W Wicker Sham Court, Pinehurst Beautiful Village home located on a quiet golf front cul-de-sac located on the 13th fairway of the Tom Fazio North Course. This charming, light filled home features four en suite bedrooms and a bonus/bedroom above the coach house.

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406 Meyer Farm Dr, Pinehurst

$1,100,000 5 bed • 6 bath

Kathy Peele (312) 623-7523 MLS 206037

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.

Welcome to the beautiful and coveted enclave of Forest Creek. This home is located on the Tom Fazio designed North Course. Large windows facing the golf course and water from all levels. Spacious open floor plan and optional 1st floor master suite.

117 Brookfield Drive, Pinehurst

$849,000

3 bed • 3/1 bath Jim Hurt (540) 798-1792

Beautiful all-brick, split floor plan custom home on the 12th hole of Forest Creek South Course. Large golf front lot with wide views of the course.

MLS 207389

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G N I D N E P 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.

103 Forest Creek Drive I, Pinehurst

$419,000

1 bed • 1 bath

Kathy Peele (312) 623-7523 MLS 204121

Your very own pied-a-terre in the cradle of America’s golf! Suite I has great views of the water on 9 South. Tom Fazio designed courses. This suite is perfect for a getaway. An approved Forest Creek membership is a requirement of owning a clubhouse suite.

13 Elkton Drive, Pinehurst

$375,000 Kathy Peele (312) 623-7523

Water and golf front on approximately .76 acre overlooking water and the 17th fairway on North at Forest Creek Golf Club

MLS 204170

D L O S 33 Chestertown Drive, Pinehurst

$175,000 Kathy Peele (312) 623-7523 MLS 204208

Remarkable golf front lot overlooking the 3rd and 4th fairways of South course at Forest Creek Golf Club. Approximately 1.70 acres.

Lakewood Drive, Lot 56R, Pinehurst

$99,000 Debbie Darby (910) 783-5193 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

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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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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205 Crest Road • Southern Pines

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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3 DEERWOOD LANE Lovely 3 BR / 2 BA brick home situated on nice double lot in beautiful Pinehurst #6.

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

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230 WESTCHESTER CIRCLE Inviting brick home w/spacious interior and updated kitchen w/new appliances. 3 BR / 2.5 BA

45 SHADOW CREEK COURT Beautiful two-story 3 BR / 2.5 BA townhome in Forest Hills w/elegant features throughout.

414 PALMER DRIVE, UNIT 14 Luxurious golf front 2 BR / 2.5 BA condo w/fine detail throughout on Arnold Palmer signature course.

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6 CARTER LANE Charming 4 BR / 2.5 BA home in beautiful location w/inviting layout and lots of natural light.

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105 COOK POINT Gorgeous WATERFRONT lot on Lake Auman w/two new docks, boat lift and electric already run!

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.

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

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

132 SWARINGEN DRIVE Stunning 3 BR / 4 BA WATERFRONT home on Lake Auman w/amazing outdoor living space!

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The Last Ride A legendary car, two old dogs and the end of the road in sight By Jim Dodson

PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNN DONOVAN

I knew this day would eventually come.

In recent years, I’ve pushed the thought to the back of my mind that it might be time to say goodbye and hand her off to someone who can restore her to her glory. But every time I take her for a spin, by Jove, The Pearl works her automotive magic on me, riding like a dream, cruising the world on eight cylinders and a Corvette engine. With her roomy leather seats and patented “Dynaride” suspension system, she’s still like driving in your living room. We’ve been together a dozen years, almost half The Pearl’s life and almost one-sixth of mine. We survived the Great Recession, the end of cassette players and four teenagers. My dog Mulligan has spent most of her long life riding shotgun in The Pearl. Oh, the places we’ve been together up and down the highway! The Pearl is a 1996 Buick Roadmaster estate station wagon, reportedly the last true production wagon that General Motors made before switching to prissy little SUVs. The mighty Roadmaster is an American automotive icon, introduced in 1936 as the nation began to crawl out from under the Great Depression. Its creators had this nutty idea that Americans getting back on their feet might want to take the family on a road trip to see the land of the free and the home of the brave. With its oversized windows, sleek lines, wide chassis, faux wooden siding, “vista roof” and proverbial third seat facing backwards, the versatile Roadmaster wagon was just the ticket for seeing America from ground level. The end of the Roadmaster line came in 1996 when 22,989 models rolled off the assembly line for the last time. Mine entered the life of a nice gentleman from New Jersey who loved the car so much he kept the dashboard covered with protective felt and put only 60,000 miles on its odometer over 12 years.

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Fate and quiet desperation brought us together when my children began stealing the Volvos and Subarus to go off to college. I wrote a newspaper column joking that I was shopping for a car like the one my old man drove when I was a kid — a gas-guzzling monster of the American highway that no enlightened, environmentally-minded Millennial would be caught dead riding in around town. It turns out, that car was a Buick Roadmaster wagon. Not two days after the column appeared, a woman phoned to say, “Mr. Dodson, I am here to make you a happy man.” Her father and mother were residents of a local senior living community. They owned a 1996 Buick Roadmaster station wagon that the daughter had fooled her father into giving up, lest he injure himself or someone else due to his declining driving habits. “My father bought the car new and absolutely adores it,” she explained. “We all loved it. It took me off to college and helped me move several times. She has a few dings but still runs like a dream. But it has to go.” She explained that a vintage car buff out West was interested in buying it — Roadmasters were apparently big with car collectors — but if I wanted to check it out at a local garage, she would consider selling it to me. “If you don’t buy this car,” said the mechanic, handing me the keys for a test drive, “I probably will. They don’t make cars like this anymore.” I purchased it an hour later. My wife laughed when she saw it pull into the driveway. “Oh my,” she said. “That really is your father’s Buick.” No. 1 son — the Subaru thief — asked if he could take the car off to college. Not a chance, I told him. No. 2 son pointed out that my Roadmaster model was ranked No. 7 on the “official list of Best Cars to Own in the Event of a Zombie Apocalypse.” He wondered if he could take it for a spin. PineStraw

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“Maybe after the zombie apocalypse,” I said. I had, after all, my own big plans for this oversized jewel of the 20th Century American highway. For many years — decades, actually — I’d dreamed of finding and traveling the Great Wagon Road of Colonial America, the famous backcountry highway that brought thousands of Scots-Irish, German and other European immigrants to the American South during the 18th century, including my own English and Scottish forebears. Historians and old road experts had recently determined the Great Road’s original path from Philadelphia to Augusta, Georgia — an 850-mile land route that passed through some of the most historic battlefields, towns and sacred landscapes of early America. Dan’l Boone and his family traveled it from Pennsylvania to the banks of the Yadkin River. The most pivotal battles of the Revolutionary War were fought along the highway, including engagements at Cowpens, Kings Mountain and Guilford Courthouse, leading to the British surrender at Yorktown. America’s first immigrant highway also bisected the killing fields of the American Civil War at Antietam and Gettysburg, where Abraham Lincoln — whose grandfather lived on the Great Road in Virginia — gave the Gettysburg Address on a hill just above the highway. By my count, in fact, no less than seven U.S. presidents were either born directly on or traveled the Great Wagon Road most of their lives. The Scots-Irish brought their balladry, fiddle music and God-given talent for fighting (and making corn whiskey) down the road, giving birth to Bluegrass in the hollers of Appalachia. Four summers ago, after years of research and planning, my dog

Mulligan and I set off along the road in our own Great Wagon, which a colleague at work nicknamed The Pearl, hoping to travel the entire route in two or three weeks. Silly me. It took a month just to get out of Pennsylvania. The abundance of great stories and memorable people we met along the road turned an 800-mile road trip into a three-year, 3,000-mile odyssey of discovery that recently drew to a close, including a year of travel lost due to COVID. Though she is showing her age and is more dinged up than ever, The Pearl managed to make the entire journey and then some. She brought us home with an engine that still runs like a dream. Along the way, she provided absolute strangers with fond memories of their own childhood. “My father had a car just like that,” they would say with a note of pure wonder. “It was my favorite family car.” A man in the parking lot at Gettysburg actually offered to buy The Pearl. “How much do you want for her?” he asked. “Nothing,” I replied. “But I might someday give her to the right person.” He handed me a card, which I promptly lost. Since finishing the road last autumn, The Pearl has mostly been my gardening car, hauling shrubs and mulch, though Miss Mulligan and I go out for a spin every now and then. Mully is now 16, The Pearl is pushing 25. The last ride can’t be far away. But what a time we’ve had, what a sweet journey it’s been. PS Jim Dodson can be reached at jwdauthor@gmail.com.

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Schedule a tour today. Call to learn more. Residents of Quail Haven Village love the living choices, abundant resort-like amenities and nearly endless social engagements available to them. Here, residents and their families will love the emphasis on nutritious dining options, whole-person wellness and the peace of mind that comes from having continuing care in place should they need it. Call 910.295.2294 to schedule a private tour and don’t just live here...LOVE IT HERE. 155 Blake Blvd., Pinehurst, NC 28374 A Life Plan Community offered by Liberty Senior Living.

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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PinePitch Satire on Parade The Country Bookshop is hosting an event at the Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines, on Oct. 13, where Pinehurst author Tony Rothwell will discuss his new book, Love, Intrigue and Chicanery, and share a selection of the prints by the English satirist James Gillray that inspired it. You can pre-register at www.ticketmesandhills.com.

On Sunrise Square October’s First Friday, which for the impatient among us happens to be Oct. 1, features the Sam Fribush Organ Trio with Charlie Hunter. All the usual accoutrements apply: food trucks, sponsors, stuff to eat and drink, and beer from the Southern Pines Brewery. No rolling, strolling, jogging or jumping coolers allowed. And please leave Cujo at home. The square is adjacent to the Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. For information call (910) 6923611 or go to www.sunrisetheater.com.

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Everything That’s Old Is New Again The 2021 Fall Street Fair in Cameron, featuring the town’s rich antique marketplace, begins at 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 1, and ends on Saturday, Oct. 2. There will be food, fun, and lots and lots of old stuff for sale. Wander the streets of downtown Cameron, N.C. 24-27. For information visit www. townofcameron.com.

The Carolina Philharmonic will open its 13th season on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 7:30 p.m. at BPAC’s Owens Auditorium, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. For its return to live performances Maestro David Michael Wolff has planned a high-energy celebration featuring Broadway’s Catherine Brunell and James Moye. Then, on Friday, Oct. 29, at 6:30 p.m., the Philharmonic will hold its annual gala fundraiser at the Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst, in support of its music education programs. Hors d’oeuvres and wine pairings will be accompanied by the delightful jazz songstress Hilary Gardner. For additional info call (910) 687-0287 or visit www.carolinaphil.org.

Live After Five Get your shag on with beach music by The Sand Band from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 8, at Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road, Pinehurst. Eryn Fuson is the opening act for this family-friendly evening of music, dancing, food and beverages — adult and otherwise. No outside alcohol allowed, but bring your lawn chairs and your dancing shoes. For more information go to www.pinehurstrec.org.

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Heritage Fair and Fundraiser The 13th Annual Shaw House Heritage Fair and Moore Treasures Sale takes place Saturday, Oct. 9, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Shaw House, 110 Morganton Road, Southern Pines. The all-day event benefits the nonprofit Moore County Historical Association and offers baked goods, live music, and demonstrations of old-time crafts. There are farm animals for petting and American Revolution War re-enactors for learning. For more information call (910) 692-2051 or visit www.moorehistory.com.

The Festival D’Avion, a celebration of freedom and flight, returns for 2021 on Friday, Oct. 29, at 5 p.m. at the Moore County Airport, 7425 Aviation Blvd., Carthage. The band On the Border — The Ultimate Eagles Tribute will perform. The festival continues Oct. 30 at 10 a.m. with the aircraft flyout from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. For information and tickets go to www. ticketmesandhills.com.

Boo Ya’ll! Children 12 and under can trickor-treat at the downtown businesses in Southern Pines, then gather for Halloween-themed games, crafts, activities and a best-dressed dog costume raffle at the Downtown Park, 145 S.E. Broad St., Southern Pines, on Friday, Oct. 22. Don’t forget to bring a carved pumpkin to enter in the pumpkin carving contest. Stay for SCOOB! starting at 7 p.m. For information call (910) 692-7376.

Jazz on the Grass Enjoy live jazz with Al Strong and the “99” Brass Band and a boxed brunch by Baton Rouge Cuisine for a Mardi Grasinspired Halloween celebration at the Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. For information and tickets go to either www.weymouthcenter.org or wwwtickemesandhills.com.

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Tickling the Ivories Renowned concert pianist Solomon Eichner, who made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 2016, will be performing selections of romantic music and jazz-influenced compositions in the Great Room of the Boyd House at the Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines, on Sunday, Oct. 24. Tickets are $25 for members and $35 for non-members. For information and tickets go to www. weymouthcenter.org or www.ticketmesandhills.com.

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Boiled Over Enjoy a low country boil catered by Giff Fisher’s White Rabbit Catering from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27, with the proceeds benefiting the Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. For more information call (910) 2953642 or visit www.giventufts.org.

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October 6: Sharon Granito talks about her new children’s book, The True Story of Elmo, at The Pilot, 145 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. October 7: Louise Marburg, author of No Diving Allowed, has a conversation with Katrina Denza at The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. October 12: Lee Pace discusses his new book, Good Walks: Rediscovering the Soul of Golf at Eighteen of the Carolinas’ Best Courses, with Jim Moriarty at The Country Bookshop. October 13: Pinehurst author Tony Rothwell appears at the Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., to talk about his new book, Love, Intrigue and Chicanery, inspired by the work of English satirist James Gillray. October 20: Walter Bennett discusses his new book, The Last First Kiss, at The Country Bookshop. October 24: Elizabeth Emerson talks about her new historical biography, Letters from Red Farm: The Untold Story of the Friendship between Helen Keller and Journalist Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, at The Country Bookshop.

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Barney, Floyd, Otis, et al. Few things have the ability to tug at North Carolina heartstrings like The Andy Griffith Show, an imaginary land where everything, it seems, is a morality play. Independent filmmaker Chris Hudson, born in Moore County and raised in Charlotte, recently released a 90-minute documentary, The Mayberry Effect, a project five years in the making that sees the fictional Mayberry through the eyes of those who never left it — the re-enactors who inhabit the characters, quote their lines and stroll down to the ol’ fishing hole in the land of nostalgia. The film is distributed digitally in the U.S. and Canada by Gravitas Ventures. The link on iTunes is https://itunes.apple.com/ us/movie/the-mayberry-effect/id1584316675. You can learn more by visiting Hudson’s website, www.TheMayberryEffect.com. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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Tea leaf “fortunes” for the rest of you: Scorpio (October 23 – November 21) Remember the children’s game, Telephone? How “Go fly a kite” could become “Let’s leave tonight” in an instant? Don’t let this happen in real life. Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21) You’re feeling red hot this month. In other words: It’s time to ditch the sweatpants. Capricorn (December 22 – January 19) Someone wants to be your friend. Try letting your guard down. Aquarius (January 20 – February 18) What does a flower need to grow? I bet you know. Now, pretend you’re the flower. Pisces (February 19 – March 20) Before you dip your toes into the tempting waters of someone else’s drama, ask yourself if it’s worth swimming upstream. Aries (March 21 – April 19) Your sensitive side is showing. See what happens when you don’t cover it up. Taurus (April 20 – May 20) Expanding your horizons doesn’t always mean leaving the couch. But it’s probably a good idea. Gemini (May 21 – June 20) There are two sides to every story. But for you, it’s more like a prism. Cancer (June 21 – July 22) In a world of this-isms and that-isms, choose peace. Leo (July 23 – August 22) Three words: pancakes for breakfast. You know what I’m talking about. Virgo (August 23 – September 22) Let’s just say Venus is on your side this month. PS

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more than the soy ink they were made of.” Doty transports readers through the Times offices to the desk of the wedding section editor, who quickly opens her eyes even wider to a world of haves and have-nots, and an exclusive club of brides and grooms who can be demanding, difficult, defiant and on occasion downright devoid of decency. The New York Social Register played a part in which of the 200, or more, wedding announcements submitted each week would land in the 40 to 45 available slots that readers of the Times print pages lingered over on Sundays. Lineage back to the Mayflower mattered, as did social and financial connections to Newport, Palm Beach, the Hamptons and the Upper East Side. There’s a revealing story about one senator, “a craven, attention-hungry man,” who slammed down the phone on Doty in outrage as she asked him the same kind of fact-checking questions put to all who expect their nuptial announcements to appear in the Times. Doty, who’s now 42, started writing for the wedding desk in 2004 and did so off and on for six years. The first three seasons she chronicles in her memoir are so descriptive that you can almost hear the phone messages blaring on Monday mornings after an aggrieved newlywed calls to complain about something put in — or left out of — their special announcement. Following the counsel of her legal team, Doty changed the names of editors, colleagues, brides and grooms she worked with and reported on in her book. One name was unchanged, however, that of her husband, Michael. He worked at the Times, too, starting there as a news clerk and ending on the politics desk in 2016 after the primaries and general election. They both took buyouts that year when facing new demands of parenthood and changes at the newspaper. In Doty’s memoir, readers see the confusion she wrestles with after Michael, her friend and lunch partner, invites her to a play in which he’s a character running wild in the bayou on a New York stage, completely naked and covered with mud. “The lighting was artfully done so that you couldn’t see everything, but I saw nearly everything,” Doty wrote. “My face burned The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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like lava. It trickled down my neck and my body, and I thought, Well then.” She delivered her blunt critique of the play at lunch, blurting out a question they still playfully debate today, just as they do in the pages of the book. “‘You didn’t tell me you were going to be completely naked,’ I said over my turkey cheeseburger at the Westway. He looked startled, and then angry. ‘Yes, I did,’ he said prickly. ‘I wouldn’t have not told you that.’” They eventually had their first kiss on the steps of the New York Public Library between Patience and Fortitude, the marble lions that flank them. Though it’s a city they’ve left behind for their home in Raleigh where they’re raising their first-grader and their dog, New York still occupies a huge space in their hearts. “We were learning how to be ourselves,” Michael says about the book and the city he describes as a prominent character in it. “We were learning how to be together. We were learning how to live in the city. We were learning how to navigate a career path at the Times together.” They were both Southerners in their City of Dreams, he the child of divorce with a nomadic sense of place, and she from a line of North Carolina women who, among other things, insisted that you don’t put family silver in the dishwasher for fear of damaging the patina. They challenged each other on their traditions and roots. North Carolinians may recognize a bit of themselves in the family and characters that come alive through Doty’s funny, warm and introspective words. They might question why a woman seemingly so critical of wedding announcements and the carefully crafted displays of stations in life that go along with them ends up writing a book about her own wedding story. “I’m not above the fray,” Doty added. “But I also think it’s important, as someone who comes from this background, to talk about it. To poke holes in it.” PS Anne Blythe has been a reporter in North Carolina for more than three decades. She has covered city halls, higher education, the courts, crime, hurricanes, ice storms, droughts, floods, college sports, health care and the wonderful characters who make this state such an interesting place. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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I beg to differ. A long time before Pinehurst No. 2 held its first U.S. Open and subsequently became part of the rota for the national championship, the ’81 PGA Tour event there made its own mark. Forty years later, I’m proud to have been part of it. Morris Hatalsky I was 22, fresh out of a summer school session at North Carolina, my diploma in the mail. I needed a job. My friend Michael Dann, executive director of the World Golf Hall of Fame and the Hall of Fame Tournament, needed a public relations director who would work cheap. The ’81 tour stop in the Sandhills was the tournament that wouldn’t die. As Chip Alexander wrote in The News & Observer that summer, not long after I was hired, “The pulse was weak, the last rites all but read. As recently as two weeks ago, the Hall of Fame Tournament seemed to be breathing its last, ready for the slab.” The tournament had rallied spectacularly. In March, it only had $30,000 in the bank. Even during an era when purses were around $250,000, that wasn’t much. PGA Tour commissioner Deane Beman extended the deadline for posting the prize money multiple times. Tour pros who had a soft spot for Pinehurst, notably Ben Crenshaw and George Burns, took up the cause. Jack Nicklaus, who won the 1975 World Open but hadn’t competed in a handful of years, committed to play. Lee Trevino, who would be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame during tournament week with fellow honoree Ralph Guldahl, also agreed to play. Gov. Jim Hunt did what he could to round up sponsorship. Once the tournament was green-lighted, we set out to promote it. I ordered bumper stickers and buttons. We hired a film crew to gather sound bites from tour pros to distribute to television sports stations across the state. Michael and I went to the PGA Championship in Atlanta. Raymond Floyd was not happy when

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I interrupted him on a practice day at the PGA Championship, but his bark was worse than his bite. We made a commercial on a lean budget. To get a tight clubhead-striking-ball image for the ad, I hit my MacGregor Tourney driver on the fifth hole of No. 2, a short walk from our offices at the WGHOF building. My last, lazy days of college had given way to long hours doing what I could to help. I went on television shows with Lee Kinard in Greensboro and Jim Burns in Wilmington. I tracked down Guldahl for a story in the tournament program, which was printed on the Golf World press in Southern Pines. Before the event I helped lay down temporary carpet on the wooden floors in the press room — the converted Donald Ross Grill. Once the tournament started, I put on my best radio voice, offering updates to any station in the region that was interested. Everyone on our small staff felt like we were on an important mission to pull off what had seemed so unlikely. The surprise winner turned out to be Morris Hatalsky, an unheralded and unassuming 29-year-old from San Diego. Ron Green Sr. of The Charlotte News wrote that Hatalsky “looks like a singing waiter.” He sure hit all the right notes over 72 holes, one-putting 11 times in a first-round 65 and going on for a 2-stroke victory over Jerry Pate and D.A. Weibring at 9-under 275. Hatalsky won $45,000 for the first of four career PGA Tour victories. The weather was glorious, which helped draw sizable galleries of 12,000 to 15,000 people on the weekend. My foray into golf administration was brief. I applied for a job in the communications department at the USGA later that fall but didn’t get it. By the following spring, I was sending out resumes to a couple hundred newspapers across the country in search of a sportswriter position. I accepted an offer from the afternoon paper in Athens, Georgia. The World Golf Hall of Fame building was razed years ago, but I can’t drive past the woods where it used to stand and not think of those days, that tournament and the fun we had making it happen. 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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south of Wilmington, Dr. Maurice Martinez, New Orleans’ first beat poet, is sitting in a favorite chair in his sunlight-flooded living room. At his feet are several crates of black-and-white photographs, carefully encased in plastic sleeves. He bends down to pick up an image, staring at it for a moment before gesturing toward the subject — a Black man in a suit playing a soprano saxophone. The man’s eyes are closed in concentration.

“John Coltrane was the most serious musician I’ve ever met,” says Martinez. He looks back down at the photograph with such intensity it’s as if he’s traveling back in time, peeling back the years and the stories that led him from a childhood in New Orleans to the halls of American academia by way of a barnstorming concert tour across Brazil. Photograph in hand, Martinez’s mind and memory are focused on the string of shows Coltrane played when he came to New Orleans in 1963. Martinez and his camera were there to capture it. He presented a composite of several of the photos he took to the jazz musician. “When he saw it, he got warm and opened up,” Martinez says. “He could see that I was serious about music, too.” Maurice Martinez has been serious about many things over the course of his life — music, education, social justice, documentary filmmaking, plus Creole heritage and history — but jazz and photography have been lifelong staples. His two passions have recently come together in A Time Capsule in Jazz, an exhibit on display at the Genesis Block Gallery in downtown Wilmington until October 20. Martinez was a college student at Xavier University in Louisiana when he first began to take photography seriously. His early steps were tentative, but experimental. “It was a little black box, and it only had one speed on the shutter,” he says. “But it also had a way that you could do a time exposure by disengaging the automatic shutter.” And so he did just that, then put the camera on the desk. “It came out like a Rembrandt.” He soon moved on to Instamatics and 35mm cameras, experiment-

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ing with various lenses before graduating to better and more advanced equipment. After starting a wedding photography business with a buddy, he soon learned that the best photographs came at what he calls “the peak moment of joy,” such as when the newlyweds are seated in the limousine and the wedding and all its fuss is behind them. Only then do you see the couple relax, he says. Martinez saw that those moments of joy were also evident in the jazz musicians who brought their soulful music to New Orleans in the 1960s. Music had always been a passion for Martinez, and his parents recognized his talent when he was young. A local university offered a junior school of music, so Martinez began piano classes there when he was 9 years old with his buddy Ellis Marsalis. Martinez would eventually step away from the piano and pick up the bass, purchasing what was reportedly the first electric bass played in New Orleans. Along with his photography business, he founded a jazz quartet that played gigs for fraternities at Tulane. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

When he finished college at Xavier, one of his professors encouraged him to apply to graduate school at the University of Michigan. While segregation ensured that state universities in Louisiana were closed to people of color, $750 grants were available to Black students who sought degrees outside the state. But by the time Martinez had been granted admission to Michigan, the December deadline to apply for the Louisiana grant had passed. His father, who had made a career as a master bricklayer and stonemason, reached out to one of his wealthy patrons, and the $750 needed to enroll at Michigan was secured. Martinez packed up his camera and headed north, bringing his love for jazz with him. At Michigan, he found himself as the music curator for a creative arts festival, and while many of the students wanted to invite The Who and other rock’n’roll bands, Martinez invited Miles Davis. After finishing his M.A. in education at Michigan, Martinez returned to New Orleans and followed in the footsteps of his mother PineStraw

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by teaching math in the local public schools for six years. His mother taught in the local schools before opening a private school that first catered to Creole children and educated some of the city’s most exceptional Black citizens, including Wynton Marsalis, a former mayor and a former chief of police. But Martinez felt himself floundering after returning home. People encouraged him to leave the city and make a name for himself, so he returned to the University of Michigan for a doctorate in education. It was there, while studying Portuguese, that he discovered a Ford Foundation grant that was sending students on internships in Latin America. After landing a grant, he lived in Brazil for two years, studying the ways in which tradition and modernity affect life in urban and rural cities. He was also taking photographs and playing jazz. Along with another American and three Brazilians, he formed a quintet called Grupo Calmalma de Jazz Livre, and they went on to play a 14-city tour sponsored by the U.S. Embassy. It was after returning to Michigan to complete his Ph.D. that Martinez met Marjorie, the woman who would become his wife of 48 years. After graduating, the couple moved to New York City, where Martinez spent 24 years teaching in the education department at Hunter College, taking students and professors into some of the city’s most challenging schools in order to gain a clear perspective on the profession that he was preparing students to pursue. The experience was fraught with issues of race, class and caste, but coming-of-age in New Orleans assured that he was familiar navigating that terrain.

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By the early ’90s, Martinez had grown weary of life in New York, and when he was invited to join the faculty in the UNCWilmington’s Watson College of Education as a visiting professor, he jumped at the chance. He joined the full-time faculty the following year, spending 20 years as a professor in the Department of Instructional Technology, Foundations and Secondary Education. But no matter where he has lived, New Orleans has always been alive in his heart. After all, he is known as Marty Most, Jazz Poet and credited as the first person to put the words “The Big Easy” in print: Have you ever been to an old time jazz man’s funeral in my hometown? Put on your imagination, baby, and come on down To an old time jazz man’s funeral in my hometown. It’s called the Big Easy, way, way down. What’s the biggest difference he sees between Wilmington and the Big Easy? “Wilmington was settled by the British,” he says. “So we have the Azalea Festival. But things would be different if it had been settled by the French.” He leans forward, a smile playing across his face, a light twinkling in his eye. “Because then we’d have Mardi Gras.” PS Wiley Cash is the Alumni Author-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. His new novel, When Ghosts Come Home, was released last month. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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Apples to Autumn Leaf-fallin’ brandy cocktails

Applejack: Though traditionally produced by freezing distillation (a process known as jacking), modern applejack is typically a combination of apple brandy and a neutral grain spirit (30 and 70 percent, respectively).

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mer, I read about a 50/50 cocktail that intrigued me. The drink is simply an “equal parts” cocktail, and this one had applejack in it. Admittedly, it has been at least a full minute since I’ve had anything with applejack or Calvados in it, so I thought it was the perfect time to dust that bottle off and give it a go. The drink was so good, I ordered more of the brandy online.

Brandy is Dutch for “burned wine.” It’s a spirit distilled from wine or fermented juice from apples, pears, plums and so on. In the case of apple brandy, cider apples usually supply the juice. Jim Meehan’s Bartender Manual says: “Today, brandy is produced all over the world, but the world’s most prized bottlings — barrel-aged Cognacs and Armagnacs from wine, Calvados from cider, and clear eau de vie and schnapps from ripe berries and tree fruit — are all produced in the European Union.” Before we get into the cocktails, let’s do a quick breakdown of the categories of apple brandy. My trusty Death & Co. cocktail book has this to say: Calvados: This French apple brandy, produced in the Calvados region, is defined by production and aging regulations similar to those for Cognac and Armagnac. It tends to have crisp apple flavor with loads of barnyard funk. Straight apple brandy: This term refers to American apple brandy. Laird’s bonded apple brandy adheres to the same set of standards required for bonded whiskey, yielding a rich, deeply aged, spicy spirit. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

With Calvados, you have categories defined by minimum years in oak casks: • Fine, Trois Etoiles (three stars), VS: 2 years • Reserve/Vieux: 3 years • Vieille Reserve, VO, VOSP: 4 years • XO, Tres Vieux, Extra, Hors d’Age: 6 years The first time I had apple brandy was from Laird’s, which uses pressed Golden Delicious and Red, Fuji, Gala, Jonathan, Stayman and Winesap apples. I’ve only eaten (to my knowledge) four of those seven varieties. What I love about their bottled-in-bond straight apple brandy is the higher proof. It gives cocktails a little more oomph from the spiciness courtesy of the ABV. The classic Jack Rose cocktail was my first love affair with apple brandy, and it goes a little something like this:

Jack Rose 2 ounces Laird’s Bottled-in-Bond Straight Apple Brandy 3/4 ounce lemon juice 3/4 ounce grenadine Shake all ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. No garnish. (Grenadine: Combine equal parts raw or demerara sugar with POM Wonderful pomegranate juice. Stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved. You may add a touch of pomegranate molasses for depth.) The following drink is courtesy of Meehan, who added it to his menu when Brooklyn cocktails (rye whiskey, dry vermouth, Luxardo and Amer Picon — a bitter orange liqueur from France) PineStraw

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were all the rage. “We looked across the river for inspiration, and came up with this New Jersey apple brandy-based twist, which substituted Fernet-Branca for Amer Picon. Boozy and bitter, it was, we felt, worthy enough to be Newark’s namesake.”

Newark 2 ounces Laird’s apple brandy 1 ounce Vya sweet vermouth (or Cocchi Vermouth di Torino) 1/4 ounce Fernet-Branca 1/4 ounce Luxardo maraschino liqueur Stir all ingredients with ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. No garnish. Coming full circle, let’s talk about that 50/50 cocktail I embraced over the summer. I read about it in Punch magazine. While Seattle bar consultant Lindsay Matteson says the 50/50, “should always be a shot, room temperature and two ounces,” I pour mine over a rock at the casa. The CIA (Cynar in applejack) is a delicious pairing. A dash of Angostura bitters brings the drink all together for this simple sipper. It’s the creation of New York City bar owner Sother Teague, who keeps a batched bottle (at room temperature) on hand, making it simpler yet. Cynar is a low ABV, artichoke-based Italian liqueur; slightly sweet, slightly bitter. Every now and then I’ll add a quarter- to a half-ounce of rye whiskey to give this a little more fuel. Keep in mind, with any of these cocktails you can swap out Laird’s for Calvados to give your cocktail a slightly different profile. We all want it. And when it comes to your ﬁnancial well-being, rest assured Tharrington Smith is here to deliver. Our attorneys handle a full range of divorce issues, including child custody, alimony, and equitable distribution, as well as domestic violence and appeals in family law matters.

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Bowled Over Goodies in a gourd

By Jan Leitschuh

And so the seasons change.

The morning freshness in the air and the autumnal shifts in foliage color reinvigorate our heat-saturated souls. Naturally, we yield to the urge to celebrate the transition to coolness, happily sampling the seasonal pumpkin spice lattes and apple hand pies, and the return to outdoor enjoyment. So, too, we decorate our homes with pumpkins, gourds, squashes — colorful symbols of the harvest abundance of summer, stored for winter feasting. Around Thanksgiving, the fall cucurbit show can be turned into nutritious meals and side dishes. Eating a squash isn’t the only possibility for festive fall culinary adventures. Get your gourd on. Creativity increases festivity. C’mon, unleash your inner Martha Stewart, in service to the season. No doubt, squashes and pumpkins are good eating. They are nutrient dense, with lots of vitamins, minerals, and gut-soothing fiber but relatively few calories. But we are talking fun here. To add a bit of thoughtful eye candy to the dinner table, we can skip the ceramic soup tureens, and the cute serving dishes shaped like autumn produce, and go directly to the real deal. Use your fall pumpkins, green and tan squashes and Jack-B-Little minis as the serving container. Long ago, I tumbled to this at a fall potluck. I made a pile of buttery sweet potatoes mashed with a little orange juice, maple syrup and bourbon. The concoction was delicious, but in a bowl the brown-

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orange blob was visually uninspiring. I had a mid-sized pumpkin on hand, and it looked to be perfect for my presentation upgrade. After cutting off the pumpkin top and scooping out the seeds, I put the hollowed globe in a baking pan and roasted at 350 degrees for 20-30 minutes. I wanted my “bowl” hot enough to keep my mashed sweet potatoes warm, but not so roasted that its walls collapsed and its pretty orange color changed. After I spooned the mash inside, I topped it with pecans and brown sugar, and stuck the top back on partway, serving spoon sticking out. My bourbon mash stayed hot, and the serving vessel brightened the autumn potluck table. A large pumpkin, hollowed out and lightly seasoned and baked, could also hold soup. The seasonal “tureen” is a conversationworthy centerpiece in itself. Tuck a few ears of colorful Indian corn at the base, if desired. A meaty tan or green heirloom pumpkin would be extra special. Now, wouldn’t a ginger-peanut-butternut soup taste extra good in it? Children love the smaller pumpkins as serving vessels. Pie pumpkins are a good size for soup and, who knows, could a serving of vegetables in one of the “Littles” encourage consumption? Kids aside, small pie pumpkins could dish up pretty individual servings of, say, a coconut-pumpkin curry. The orange and white mini-pumpkins, so cute and readily available in supermarkets this time of year, could even dress up small quantities of something wildly spicy, say a Thai sauce, hot pepper jelly or Mexican salsa. Squashes can get in on the action too. A halved acorn, delicata PineStraw

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or butternut squash, seeds removed, can be brushed with oil and seasoned before baking. The heat caramelizes the sugars in the squash for a richer flavor. Use your squash as a side dish, as is. A fancier method is to cool the baked squash, scoop out the roasted flesh, combine with some onions, rice, seasonings and ground beef, and return the mix to the shell. Top with a little shredded cheese for a quick broil. Dinner on the half shell. Or, combine roasted squash mash with chopped fall apples and a little cinnamon, raisins and brown sugar for a nutritious dessert. The colorful striped “carnival” acorn squash would be spectacular here. Now that you are planning to put that extra Halloween pumpkin to work doing double duty, you’ll want something warm to put inside it. Why not try this autumnal recipe, packed with cool-weather veggies, from BrokeAss Gourmet:

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At last . . . October!

The word, hardly mellifluous. The image, glorious, when oaks and maples flame yellow, orange and red before browning and blowing away. The chill of an October morning washes away the humid, fetid air of summer like a wave upon the Maine seacoast. I fell in love with October at age 5, maybe 6, when my parents took the train from Manhattan, where we lived, to a dude farm in southern Vermont. Here, post-harvest, the Jones family rented out one-room log cabins to city folk hungry to pet a pig, pick a pumpkin, milk a cow, feed a chicken, skip a stone across the pond and eat at a long communal table in the farmhouse. Heaven, especially breakfast, served farmer-early: pancakes drenched in local maple syrup, maybe fried apples from trees bordering the meadow. My parents weren’t big on vacations. This is the only one I remember, ever. The cabins had neither electricity nor running water. Every morning a metal bucket appeared on the tiny front porch, with a skim of ice around the edges. Good thing we brought flannel pajamas. How humans are wired into cycles of the sun and the seasons never fails to amaze. All I know is the images and flavors of this weekend left an imprint, which may explain why, for a lifetime, I have risen before dawn and gloried in October. For me, the rapture of April and May signal only hay fever . . . and dreaded summer. September . . . unpredictable.

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This summer wasn’t too bad, weather-wise, until August’s last gasp of 90-plus degree days. But it was a disturbing summer, almost too disturbing for October to erase. The COVID’s welcome slide became a surge, especially among children. Images of families — hot, hungry, unwashed, desperate — waiting for evacuation from Afghanistan led every newscast. I can’t erase from my memory the infirm grandma being pushed down a dusty road in a wheelbarrow. Leaders proved that common sense is not necessarily taught at Harvard and Yale. Katrina’s cousin Ida struck New Orleans with a vengeance. Providing near-comic relief, the royal family bickered and whined while Ben Affleck, to the paparazzi’s delight, rediscovered J-Lo. Is that Shakespeare rewriting himself, “This was the summer of our discontent . . . ” from his grave? Octobers of yore meant watching my son score touchdowns, a pot of homemade veggie-beef soup in the fridge, McIntosh apples and corduroy. As a child I wore corduroy overalls, jackets and hats, as did my children. Their navy blue became faded and soft from many washings. Whatever happened to corduroy? Any day now the air will feel scrubbed clean in the low afternoon sun. Temps and humidity down, bugs (except yellow jackets) almost gone. AC off, windows open. True, fall foliage is not a Sandhills’ forte. For that, plan a brewery-crawl in Asheville. But October still imparts not only beauty but relief . . . summer is over, winters here are nothing to dread. October is the dividing line. I’m oh-so-ready to hop across. Welcome, October. And thanks. 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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Going Batty Flying friends of the night

By Susan Campbell

Fall is not only migration time for

a large percentage of the bird species found across our state, it’s also when another group of fancy fliers are winging their way southward: bats!

Although we are rarely aware of it, each evening individuals or small groups of these little creatures leave their daytime roosts and, after a short period foraging, move out, headed to warmer — and hence buggier — surroundings for the cooler months. For individuals of certain hardier species, such as red, big brown, hoary and evening bats, central North Carolina may be their winter home. Bats represent one-quarter of all mammal species worldwide. Like us, they give birth to live young. Bats are relatively long-lived mammals and can survive 20 to 30 years in the wild. Of the 17 bat species that occur in North Carolina, three are listed as federally endangered, and one is listed as federally threatened. Bats are primarily nocturnal, though they also forage in the early evening and early morning hours. Although most bats have relatively good eyesight, they primarily use echolocation to navigate and locate prey. Their maneuverability is phenomenal — bats can avoid objects as small as a string in total darkness. Bats mate in the spring or fall and usually produce one pup per year. Many species form maternity colonies in the summer to raise their young, while others are solitary roosters. Some bat species migrate south for the winter, and others find local hibernation areas, called hibernacula. Bats prefer caves or mines for hibernacula, though they have also been known to use buildings and bridges, and they usually return to the same site every year. By educating the public, monitoring populations and protecting bat habitat, the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) is working to sustain bat populations in our state. Bats are integral to ecosystems worldwide. Tropical bats disperse large amounts of seed and pollen, enabling plant reproduction and forest regrowth, and are especially important in the pollination of

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cocoa, mango and the agave plant, which is used to produce tequila. North American bats have a major impact on controlling insect populations that are considered agricultural pests. They save the corn industry over $1 billion annually in pest control. A nursing female bat may consume almost her entire body weight in insects in one night. Recently a protein found in vampire bat saliva has been used to develop clot-busting medication to aid stroke victims. Many bat populations in the United States have declined in recent years. Pesticides, persecution, and human disturbance of hibernacula and maternity colonies may have contributed to this decline. Furthermore, an emergent fungal disease called white-nose syndrome (WNS) has killed more than 5.7 million bats since its discovery in New York in 2006. This disease spread to North Carolina in 2011 and continues to spread to new states each winter. It is now found in 30 states. To determine bat distribution and hibernation sites in North Carolina, track the spread of WNS and estimate population trends for certain species, our state biologists conduct intensive monitoring across the state. Through a variety of methods (including mist netting, trapping, banding, acoustic recording, roost monitoring and radio telemetry), NCWRC biologists, in cooperation with several partners, have surveyed and banded thousands of bats in North Carolina. All of this work helps to inform management and, in turn, conservation priorities. There are several things you can do for bats on your property. An ever more popular endeavor is installing a bat box or two. Also plant native plants that attract insects that bats (as well as the birds) eat. It is very important to limit the use of insecticides and herbicides whenever possible. Also avoid disturbing bat hibernation areas and maternity colonies. And you might want to consider joining a conservation organization to remain updated on bat conservation efforts such as Bat Conservation International (www.batcon.org). Last, but not least, educate others regarding the importance of bats and why they are so beneficial. PS Susan Campbell would love to hear from you. Feel free to send questions or wildlife observations to susan@ncaves.com. PineStraw

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and take it south, out of town. Cross over the floodplain of Drowning Creek at the Richmond County line and continue through the small hamlet of Hoffman, past the majestic stands of longleaf pine and wire grass of the Sandhills Game Land, and the old NASCAR motor speedway. Approaching the city limit signs of Rockingham, take a right turn into any of the suburban neighborhoods bordering the road and keep your eyes peeled. Among the patchwork of ranch-styled houses, manicured lawns and forest edges, you might just see a ghost. It was my late uncle, Lamar, who first told me about them. The

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ghosts in question are part of a unique population of the grey squirrels that call this Sandhills town home. The squirrels here are not your average run-of-the-mill bushy-tailed rodents that are the bane to backyard gardeners and bird feeders everywhere. Many, instead, sport unusual, brilliant, snowy white fur coats and feature dark blue eyes. I first set out to see the white squirrels of Rockingham one cold December day over 12 years ago. About a mile off U.S. 1, along a small section of road bordered by large oak trees and old homes, I counted a dozen white squirrels scattered here and there among the grassy yards. One yard in particular, with a large birdfeeder mounted atop a wooden pole next to a window of a single-story brick home, held four individual white squirrels. After I stopped and rang the doorbell of the house, a kind, soft-spoken elderly man met me at the door. When I requested permission to photograph the white squirrels in his yard, his eyes lit up. He remarked that the white squirrels held a special place in his heart, reminding him of his late wife, who had filled the birdfeeder next to their living room window with sunflower seeds every day just so she could watch their antics. It was a tradition he had continued long after her passing, and it thrilled him that someone else had taken an interest in “her” squirrels. “You go ahead and photograph the squirrels to your heart’s content,” he said. PineStraw

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With that, I lugged my camera gear out of the car, sat down quietly at the edge of the yard, and waited. Cardinals and chickadees, typical yard birds for the area, flew back and forth from the birdfeeder to a hedgerow, their incessant calls breaking the silence of an otherwise quiet winter’s day. Before long, a luminescent white squirrel emerged from a hollow cavity 20 feet off the ground in a robust oak tree along the edge of the driveway in the front yard. Walking out onto a long vertical limb, it made a flying leap onto a nearby powerline that stretched across the width of the front yard. Like a miniature tightrope walker, the squirrel nimbly ran the length of the powerline and jumped off onto a pine tree. Scampering down the trunk, it hopped to the ground and raced over to the birdfeeder next to the window. Watching it reminded me of another, more celebrated North Carolina population of white squirrels. Each spring, Brevard, a quaint town nestled within the mountains of Transylvania County, holds a weekend-long “White Squirrel Festival,” attracting thousands of tourists from across the state. The town is so enamored with their white squirrels that it created a sanctuary for the pale mammals, making it illegal for anyone to hunt, trap or kill one within city limits. Stark white animals have captured the imagination of mankind for millennia, and figure prominently in myth and legend. Many Native cultures across the globe view albino animals as deities or omens of good luck. Albino animals feature prominently in popular

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No. 6 Forest Creek South Course

A Loop of My Own When lightning strikes twice

By Lee Pace

I’ve hit many thousands of golf

shots over more than four decades, and through early July 2021 two of my favorites had come at Forest Creek Golf Club, the 36-hole facility just northeast of the Village of Pinehurst.

One was a hole-in-one in July 1996. I made an annual trip to Pinehurst in the 1990s with three buddies from Chapel Hill, and we were able to arrange a game at Forest Creek during its first summer of operation. I hit a sweet 6-iron on the sixth hole, and the ball hit the green, bounced and rolled into the cup. Then, in May 2014, I was invited by Ed Kinney, a longtime friend through our shared affiliations with the University of North Carolina football and basketball programs, to play in the club member-guest. What a memorable weekend — five nine-hole matches on the club’s North and South Courses, a bed in Ed and wife Betty’s comfortable home on Granville Drive, succulent meals, and a lavish gift package (I still have my Scotty Cameron Newport 2 putter). Ed and I played well together that weekend, and we needed to win our match on Saturday afternoon to collect first place in our

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called Bent Creek. It turns out that “Bent Creek” as well as “The Farm” were two early names the developers wanted to use for their new golf venture, but because other clubs in Texas and Georgia, respectively, already had those names, they decided to go with Forest Creek. I’ve been fortunate to have a front-row seat to the evolution of the Sandhills area since the late 1980s: from the restoration of Pinehurst No. 2 as a venue for major championships to the emergence of Pine Needles as a regular venue for the U.S. Women’s Open; from the explosion of golf courses in the 1990s to the retrenchment in various corners during economic downturns. Forest Creek has been a major cog in that story. That it is still standing and standing strong is a testament to the original vision, the resolve of the members and the passion and resources that the Colony 9 partnership provides. A highlight of my two-plus years working on the book to be introduced in late October at a gala 25-year-anniverary celebration has been the occasional late-afternoon walking round with course superintendent David Lee, who I’ve known dating to his previous job at Hope Valley Country Club in Durham. I know David as “Bushwood” and he knows me as “Shooter,” the nicknames bestowed upon us when we joined the early morning men’s workout group known as F3 in the Durham/Chapel Hill area around 2013. That both of our monikers came from the golf movie realm (his from Caddyshack and mine from Happy Gilmore) are testaments to the place golf holds in our lives. I sought David out for a twilight nine on July 15, 2021, just as the finishing pieces were coming together to form the book. I wanted to enjoy the nirvana of late afternoon golf, bags slung over our shoulders, no hurry in the world, before finishing this essay. I had reflected earlier in the week on my history at Forest Creek and even plowed through some memorabilia to see if I might have saved that scorecard from 1996, but to no avail. A fierce thunderstorm to the east threatened our outing at 4 p.m., but David checked the radar and thought the weather was moving away from us. So off we set, the The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

only two golfers, it seemed, on the premises. We embraced the experience — catching up on work, family, our respective workout regimens, the upcoming football season, plugging various leaks in our respective golf games, the stuff guys talk about when they’re going for a walk in a nice park — with a few golf shots thrown in. We climbed the steep hill leading to the sixth tee. I tried to catch my breath while measuring the distance with my GPS. I pulled my 5-iron for the 168-yard shot. I put a good move on the ball, and it tracked toward the hole. I knew it would be close but couldn’t see just how close, my aging eyes able to see the landing and bounce of a ball but not always the final resting spot. “Nice shot,” David said, then, looking closer, added, “I think that’s in the hole.” “Seriously?” I responded. “That or it’s right behind the stick.” “Maybe it rolled off the back,” I said. “No, it definitely did not do that.” I quickened and lengthened my strides toward the green. No sign of the ball. I got to the hole, leaned over, and sure enough, there it was. Twenty-five years later — same hole, same month of the year, same one. I phoned one of my playing companions from a quarter-century ago and marveled over the odds. “Water has a better chance of freezing at 43 degrees than what you just did,” Mick Mixon said. “That is just eerie.” David phoned one of his assistants as we were playing the seventh hole and asked him to grab the flag from the sixth hole. “If you make a hole-in-one here, you get to keep the pin flag,” he said. The flag was delivered as we hit our tee shots on eight. It will look splendid with Tom Fazio’s autograph and a nice frame. All I wanted from that twilight nine was to close the loop on my 25 years at Forest Creek. Consider that box properly checked. PS Lee Pace has written club histories in the Sandhills area for Pinehurst Resort and Country Club, Pine Needles, Mid Pines and now Forest Creek Golf Club. Contact him at leepace7@ gmail.com and follow him on Twitter at @ LeePaceTweet. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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“Sunrise”

Raising the roof and bringing down the house By Bland Simpson • Photograph by Tim Sayer

tephen Smith — teacher, journalist, poet, and the witty and imaginative inventor of the Bushnell Hamp tales — has over many years graciously kept me involved with Moore County, and for that I owe him quite a lot. Though the doors of the old Pine Crest Inn at Pinehurst or those of the Sunrise Theater across from the vintage Seaboard Coast Line Railroad depot in Southern Pines are each only an hour and fifteen minutes’ drive from our Clover Garden home, what a world of difference that short drive always made, as we drifted from the mixed Piedmont oak and loblolly pine and hickory woods to the rolling sandhills and longleaf pine, turkey oak, and blackjack. An invitation came to me from Stephen and Audrey Moriarty, the fine, elegant Pinehurst archivist and author, to join in and do a short set for a “Raise the Roof” fundraiser at the movie house, the Sunrise, which the community was all about repairing and returning to its status as a small legitimate theatre and concert venue. The multifaceted evening, a musical revue, also included the first-tier Moore County musicians Craig Fuller (songwriter and lead singer of Pure Prairie League’s lovely ballad “Amie,” which he sang this night backed by Fayetteville’s Bill Joyner and Danny Young) and Jimmy Jones (coauthor of “Handyman” and lead singer of “Good Timin’”) — the place was packed, and Jimmy sat on a high stool downstage to lay out extended versions of his two major hits, introducing “Handyman” with a tale. Seems Jimmy had once hit a rough patch in his career and, against his common sense and better judgment, he called upon a New York City loan shark he knew, and he was about to take out an extortionary loan that he knew would be bound to hurt him. But just before he signed in blood and took the cash, Jimmy got an urgent call from a close friend saying, “Jimmy, don’t do it — James Taylor is just about to release his version of ‘Handyman’! You won’t need that loan anymore!” The crowd, knowing both versions of the song, roared with laughter, and Jimmy then said, “I stood up, said ‘Thank you so very much,’ and backed out of that loan shark’s office just as fast as I could!” And there and then in the Sunrise, Jimmy Jones, still laughing at his own tale, lit into “Handyman” with an unmitigated joy, while a racially integrated cadre of senior women in green and red sateen hot pants, a dancing group from a nearby Moore County fitness parlor, poured forth from the wings and, surrounding the R&B hero, kicked, shuffled, and ball-changed for him from start to finish, as we all sang with him: “I fix broken hearts — I’m your handyman!” If joy could be bottled, jugged, or jarred, the contents would sound and feel and even taste something very like what all was present in this little old Southern Pines theatre that moment, that night. Like one of Faulkner’s characters, I felt both humble and proud to be a part of it, or even just to see and hear it, too. PS

From North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky by Bland Simpson, photography by Ann Cary Simpson, Scott Taylor, and Tom Earnhardt. Copyright 2021 by Bland Simpson. Used by permission of the publisher, www. uncpress.org.

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hat rock in the river was a big one. Big enough to sit on. That’s what the woman did, in fact, while her husband spent the afternoon fishing upstream. She waded out to the rock, found a comfortable seat, and took out a book to read. What happened next was like something out of a book — but not the one she was reading. Hearing footsteps and voices, the woman glanced up and saw two boys cavorting along a trail, their distracted father trudging along behind. As the boys approached the water’s edge, something else entered her field of vision. “It started coming up the river,” she later recalled. What was “it”? A “pale-skinned, water-logged-looking” creature, she said, “with black hair and sharp, serrated teeth showing in a smile.” Paying no attention to the woman perched on the rock, it “focused on the boys” and moved rapidly through the water toward them. She wasn’t the only one who saw it. The boys did, too. They picked up sticks and pointed them at the mysterious swimmer. The woman never found out if their makeshift weapons would have done any good. Although apparently unable to see the creature that was now just a few feet away from his boys, the father nevertheless decided they were playing too close to the water and ushered them back to the trail. That the boys were briefly in peril, though, the woman never doubted. “It watched them move up the trail away with a creepy look on its face,” she said, “and then moved on upriver out of sight.” Maybe you think you know what was really in that river. A bullfrog. A bottom-feeder. A bumpy log converted into something sinister by an overactive imagination. But the woman in question is convinced she saw a fairy. Just a few years ago. Right here in North Carolina.

It’s not our state’s first fairy sighting. It won’t be the last. Oh, it’s easy to scoff at those who claim to see wee folk wading in rivers or slinking through forests or dancing on hilltops. How childish. How backward. How unscientific. Well, sure. But I bet you know someone who still carries a lucky charm or wears a lucky sweatshirt whenever the Wolfpack play the Tar Heels. I bet you know someone who watches Ancient Aliens or Ghost Hunters, hits up psychics for advice or thinks Bigfoot just might really be out there somewhere, camera-shy but furtively flattered. By the way, what’s your sign? Generations ago, all the smart people thought universal schooling would disabuse the masses of such fanciful superstitions. They thought the relentless march of science would muscle old faiths and folk traditions aside — confining them, converting them into historical curiosities. “Rationalization and intellectualization,” the sociologist Max Weber famously predicted a century ago, would bring “the disenchantment of the world.” Then a great many of these same smart people went out and got their palms read. Or sat in seances. Just for the experience, you know. The magical, the paranormal, the supernatural are not so easily banished. According to a recent Harris Poll, 42 percent of us believe in ghosts, 36 percent in UFOs, 29 percent in astrology and 26 percent in witches. Fairies — by which I mean the broad swath of legendary little people, not just tiny Tinker Bells with translucent wings — rarely get included in American polls. But surveys in other countries find significant minorities still believe in fairies. In some places, such as Iceland, believers form a majority.

Among the believers is the woman I mentioned earlier. I wish I could tell you more about her and the fairy encounter she claimed to witness from that big rock. Unfortunately, I can’t

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even tell you her name. Anonymity was the promise made by folklorist Simon Young in 2014 when he began soliciting first-person accounts of fairy sightings. Published four years later as The Fairy Census, Young’s research spans hundreds of stories from around the world — including several from our state. I can tell you the woman says it wasn’t her first sighting. “I have seen them since childhood, different ones,” she told Young. “My granny from Ireland says I have ‘the Sight’ like her.” The woman describes fairies as “beings from another world” that can have good or bad intentions. “I was always taught to never talk to them or let them know I see them.” I can also say that, if you believe her story and hope to see your own fairy one day, there are plenty of places in our state worth exploring. While researching my new historical-fantasy novel Mountain Folk, largely set in North Carolina during the American Revolution, I learned a great deal about the fairy lore of our ancestors. Some of it developed locally, tied to specific Carolina landmarks. Other beliefs were brought here from afar — from the British Isles, from Northern Europe and the Mediterranean world, from West Africa. It turns out that almost all cultures have stories of wee folk. Accounts vary, of course, but a surprising number of them converge in key details: creatures two to three feet tall, invisible to most if they wish to be, infused with magic, attuned with nature, prone to pranks but also willing to trade favors for something they covet. Based on the woman’s description, for example, you might find her rocky seat in some Piedmont river or mountain stream. The original inhabitants of those parts of North Carolina often told tales of such creatures. Among the Cherokee, for example, they were called the yunwi amayine hi, or “water dwellers,” and had the power to boost fish catches and promote healing. In one story, a water dweller disguises herself as human to attend a dance. Smitten by her charms, a Cherokee man follows her to a riverbank and professes his love. He must be persuasive, for she agrees to become his wife. Eyes sparkling, she dives in the river and beckons him to follow. “It is really only a road,” she says. He takes a deep breath and leaps. Finding a wondrous world hidden beneath the river, he lives there happily as her husband. Later, when he leaves to visit his parents, they turn out to be long since dead. Generations of Cherokee live and die during the few years he lives among the water-dwellers. Alternatively, maybe what our eyewitness saw was not a diminutive humanoid from native folklore but something scalier. The place where the Haw and Deep rivers converge in Chatham County to form the Cape Fear is nicknamed Mermaid Point. Just before the Revolutionary War, a man named Ambrose Ramsey ran a tavern nearby. When the locals left Ramsey’s tavern late at night to stumble home, they’d pass a sandbar. On numerous occasions, they spotted small figures luxuriating there in the moonlight. Figures with the heads, arms and torsos of beautiful women and the lateral lines and shiny tails of a fish. If the patrons were quiet and kept to the shadows, they could watch the mermaids laugh, play, sing and comb their long hair. But if the men tried to speak to them, the fairies would disappear into the water. Rivers are hardly North Carolina’s only sites for fairy lore. Another The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

folk from Cherokee legend, the Nunnehi, are associated with such locations as Pilot Mountain (both the famous monadnock in Surry County and a lesser-known peak near Hendersonville) and the modern town of Franklin, where the Nunnehi were said to have helped defeat a Creek invasion and, much later, a raid by Union soldiers. On the other side of the state, in and around the Great Dismal Swamp, the mythology of Iroquois and Algonquin speakers mingled with European and African-American legends to produce a rich folklore of eerie lights, dark shapes and magical creatures. Moreover, as the Fairy Census reminds us, our sightings aren’t limited to old tales preserved in old books. They still happen. A 30-something woman reported “staring at the foot of the bed at the light coming in through a large window when I saw a fairy suddenly appear on one side of the room and fly across the bed toward the window.” She described the creature as brown-haired and gaunt, about three-feet tall with sharp features “not very pleasant to look at.” The woman wasn’t alone. But her husband, lying next to her, never saw the fairy. “I think it is strange that I had this experience in my house in suburban North Carolina, of all places,” she said. Another North Carolinian described an encounter she had in her youth with a fairy “about two to three feet tall, dressed entirely in red, with a solid red face, tiny white horns on the top of his head, and with a red, pointed tail.” He was standing next to the stump of a tree that had been his home until it was felled during the construction of the girl’s house. She ran to get her parents. But they couldn’t see it. The more you study both folklore and modern-day sightings, the more you come to appreciate the commonalities. I decided to include several in Mountain Folk, such as the extreme time difference between fairy realms and the human world, the link between fairies and nature and the idea that only those rare humans possessing “the Sight” can pierce fairy disguises. Do such commonalities suggest fairy traditions aren’t pristine, that they develop over time through cross-cultural exchange? Or that people claiming to see fairies are just mashing up distant memories of bedtime stories with drowsy daydreams and optical illusions? Could be. There are many explanations for fairy belief. For some, it’s reassuring to believe that good and bad events aren’t just random. That powerful forces are at work, magical forces to be tapped or propitiated. For others, fairy belief is about rediscovering a sense of wonder — about reenchanting the world, as Weber might say, instead of settling for a cold, clockwork version. That’s how some of your fellow North Carolinians feel, anyway. Whether out exploring their state’s natural beauty or just puttering around the neighborhood, they keep their minds open along with their eyes. They suspend their disbelief. They dare to hope that something utterly fantastic will happen. That something utterly fantastic can happen. After all, it’s happened before. Or so they’ve heard. PS John Hood is a Raleigh-based writer and the author of the historicalfantasy novel Mountain Folk (Defiance Press, 2021). PineStraw

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Lunch wit h W inston My father’s “brush” with history By Tony Rothwell “I’ve often noticed that when coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. I dare say it’s some natural law that we haven’t found out.” — Dame Agatha Christie

y mother, Myra Hardman, grew up in Manchester, England, in a house called “Como.” In 1937, she married my father, Bill Rothwell, a hotelier. At the outbreak of war in 1939, Dad enlisted in the Lancashire Fusiliers. In 1943, by then commanding a squadron of Churchill Mk.IV tanks, Capt. Rothwell took part in the Salerno landings in Italy, part of a massive plan to drive the Germans out of the country. He remained in Italy until the end of the war in Europe, May of 1945. Like everyone else, Dad couldn’t wait to come home, but the Army had different plans. They needed a place for managing moppingup operations and commandeered the Hotel Regina Olga on Lake Como. It was in good condition because the Germans had been using it as a hospital, but who was to run it? Looking through the lists of Army officers with hotel management experience and already in Italy, they found Dad. “Sorry, old boy, you’re not going home just yet,” they told him. “You’re running a hotel for us on Lake Como.” That my mother had grown up in a house by the same name as the majestic lake where my father concluded his military service seems the merest of coincidences. But they don’t end there. Back in Britain, Churchill’s Conservative Party was shockingly voted out of power in the July general election, and the Labor Party took over. The working class, the private soldiers on the front line, and the women left behind who had made so many sacrifices, were having their say. The man who had rallied Britain when it stood alone with his bulldog courage and commanding oratory was out. So, what was Churchill to do? He was certainly not going to stay around for everyone to feel sorry for him. He decided he would go somewhere and paint, an interest he’d long neglected during the war The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

years, and accepted an invitation to spend a month on Italy’s Lake Como. The Army, he was told, had a hotel there. And so off he went with his oils, his physician Lord Moran and his personal secretary. And so, suddenly, out of the blue, the unimaginable. My father found himself looking after one of the most famous people on Earth. In a fascinating book written by Lord Moran, a compilation of his diaries for the years spent with Churchill from 1940 to 1965, the entry for their first day in Italy, Sept. 3, 1945, reads: We had planned to set out about ten o’clock to reconnoître the surrounding country for a scene which Winston could paint: However, it was noon before we set off. As we drove round the lake Winston kept his eyes open for running water, or a building with shadows on it, but we stopped for a picnic lunch before he found what he wanted. The “picnic” arrived in a shooting break with his chair and a small table. A score of Italian peasants gathered in a circle and watched us eat. He was in fine spirits. When he was satisfied that he had found something he could put on canvas, he sat solidly for 5 hours, brush in hand, only pausing from time to time to lift his sombrero and mop his brow. After dinner Winston was ready to talk of anything: he only men-

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tioned the election once. Eventually he gave a great yawn; when we thought he was about to go to bed he broke into a hymn and sang three verses of “Art Thou Weary.” Over the next few weeks Dad sent sandwiches and drinks down to the lakeshore many times but on one occasion he joined Churchill for lunch and years later related part of their conversation to my brother and me. “Do you have children, Rothwell?” Churchill asked. “I have two boys, sir,” he replied. “In fact, I just received a letter from home with a photograph.” “Let me have a look,” Churchill said. After studying the photo for a few seconds, he said, “They say all babies look like me.” At the end of lunch Churchill got out his cigars and offered one to Dad, who had just lit a cigarette. Because he was smoking already, Dad felt it would be bad form to accept the offer and became, perhaps, the only man ever to refuse a cigar from Churchill. All was not lost. After Churchill’s return to England, he sent Dad a signed photograph, a prized family possession. The great man died in 1965 on Jan. 24, aged 90. After he had lain in state for three days, the funeral took place in St. Paul’s Cathedral in front of one of the largest gatherings of world dignitaries ever assembled. Following the service, the coffin was taken by launch down the Thames, past the House of Commons, and then by train to Bladon in Oxfordshire for burial in the family site at St. Martin’s Church. This is close to Blenheim Castle, the seat of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, Winston’s ancestor and a national hero, following his great victory at the Battle of Blenheim in 1704. Then 22, I commemorated the day of the funeral with a drawing. In yet another coincidence, my father’s last hotel before retirement was The Marlborough Head Hotel in Dedham, Essex, named for John Churchill.

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Later, when I lived in London in the early 1980s, I worked for a financial investment company that had a hotel portfolio for which I was responsible. The owner of the company happened to live next door to Churchill’s house, “Chartwell,” south of London in Kent. My wife, Camilla, and I were among the guests invited there one weekend. After dinner that Saturday, our host asked us all to follow him through a door and down some stairs and along a narrow corridor. He opened a door and put on the lights. We were in a small, whitewashed room off which were a bedroom, a kitchen and a bathroom. He pointed to a sealed door and informed us that behind it was a tunnel that led to Churchill’s house, and that we were standing where Churchill worked when he came down to Chartwell during the war. It was presumed that spies watched Churchill’s every move, and by working under the house next door he stood a better chance of surviving if attackers somehow managed to blow up his house. In 2015, Camilla and I visited London and made a point of going to the war rooms near 10 Downing Street to see where Churchill spent his days and nights during those dreadful years. Adjoining them is a small Churchill Museum. Of all the many exhibits we saw there, two items stood out: his school reports, which basically said he would never amount to anything, and — the last coincidence — out of the hundreds of paintings he did in his lifetime, there was just one on display. It was of Lake Como. PS Tony Rothwell, a Brit, moved to Pinehurst in 2017, exchanging the mindnumbing traffic of Washington, D.C., for less traffic, better weather and the vagaries of golf. He spent 50 years in the hotel business but in retirement writes short stories, collects caricatures, sings in the Moore County Choral Society, and with his wife, Camilla, enjoys the many friends they have made in the Sandhills. Email ajrothwell@gmail.com The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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A football odyssey for a father and his sons By Charles Marshall • Photographs by Joshua Stedman

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up in North Carolina, my life unfolded along a well-worn path of I-85 between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. In the sporting world, this is ACC territory, with the possible exception of exit 106, the gateway to Athens. For the most part, the college towns of the SEC and the Big 10 remained remote outposts in lands beyond the exits I knew so well. Some had strange sounding names like Tuscaloosa, or stadiums menacingly referred to as The Swamp. One Saturday in November 2009, the sights and sounds of Georgia battling Auburn on TV were juxtaposed with my elementary school-age kids — Foster was 7 and Drake was 5 — slamming doors, tearing apart train tracks and bouncing balls. I thought about the decade I had before the oldest would leave for college, and I began recalling the allure of the old-school car trips of my youth. AM radio, hotel pools, breakfast buffets, souvenir T-shirts to show off back at school, and the long unbroken spells of time where, if you’re lucky, kids begin to talk to you about things that really mattered. Once I began mapping routes to the meccas of SEC and Big 10 football, I realized most were less than a full day’s drive away. If I could grab an unsweetened tea by 6 a.m., my boys and I could transport ourselves into the scenes I’d spent years watching from my den. So, we would go. Ten years, 10 stadiums, 10 games. The only rule was that we had to drive.

Year One: Alabama 23, Ole Miss 10

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Birmingham, Alabama, and I was from Charlotte, North Carolina. We kept in touch over the years. We were even in each other’s weddings. He went to college at the University of Alabama. I went to UNC-Chapel Hill. Britton was the obvious person to jump-start our tour. His parents decked out my boys in ’Bama gear, and we rode to Tuscaloosa together for the 9 p.m. kickoff. After a buffet meal at a fraternity that had the feel of being at someone else’s family reunion, we strolled through the campus and its manicured quads on a clear, cool October evening before settling into our seats in Bryant-Denny Stadium. Myself, Foster, Drake and 100,000 other people. Only two of our seats were together, so the three of us crammed into them. After the national anthem, during the fevered anticipation of kickoff, I knelt in front of my boys and shouted to them over the crowd that we were going to do this every year for the next 10 years. They stared at me and nodded. Alabama’s Greg McElroy threw two touchdown passes. The games were on.

Year Two: Florida 33, Tennessee 23

Foster loved Tim Tebow, so Florida was an easy next choice. Without a host family like we had at Alabama, we would be making it up as we went along. Because the night before a game, hotels in college towns cost more than a hip replacement, we stayed in Jacksonville and drove into Gainesville in the morning — without GPS or a clue. We paid $30 to park in the front yard of an older woman’s single-story white house. She took our money seated in a The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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lawn chair and, in an act of kindness, let us use the bathroom inside her home. We went off hunting and pecking our way through Florida’s sprawling campus, embarking on what would become a long-suffering tradition of watching Drake agonize over what fan gear he would purchase. After sorting through racks and racks of gear at several stores, an orange T-shirt from a stadium vendor that simply said “Gators” made his day. It was mid-September, hot and muggy for the late afternoon, nationally televised game. We watched the sun go down in the fourth quarter over the corner of the orange-colored stadium that said “WELCOME TO THE SWAMP,” and suddenly being there in person seemed surreal.

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Year Three: Georgia 48, Vanderbilt 3

On a spin through Atlanta the night before the game, we stopped at The Varsity, a legendary hot dog joint, and the World of Coke, the museum of the global cola icon, and went to the Midtown Music Festival, where we saw the Avett Brothers and Foo Fighters with 50,000 other people. Our seats for the September evening game “between the hedges” in Sanford Stadium in Athens were behind a colorful array of fraternity kids with an equally colorful vocabulary. A bigger impression was the cheering for Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall, two North Carolina high school standouts who played running back for Georgia. Foster wondered aloud why UNC didn’t land them but the reality began to sink in — in 2012, this was a bigger stage. Vanderbilt was supposed to make the game competitive, but they failed miserably. We left at halftime only to find the car’s battery dead — the biggest disaster of our vagabond decade. It took a good two hours to solve the issue as my boys watched me alternate between problem-solving, frustration and fury. Once we were on the road we drove as far as Commerce, Georgia, where we rented a hotel room and watched the end of the Florida State-Clemson game on television while an oversized roach crawled across the ceiling.

Year Four: Ohio State 31, Wisconsin 24

On the way into Columbus we listened to a local sports talk radio station deconstructing in mouth-watering detail how to eat a particular corned beef and pastrami sandwich from a particular downtown deli. Sadly, it was closed by the time we rolled into town, and we had to settle for chicken wings and cornhole in a brewpub across the street from our hotel. In the SEC, tailgaters often bring elaborate spreads of pre-cooked food and avoid firing up charcoal on 100-degree days in a crowded asphalt parking lot — a rookie move that once betrayed my ACC roots. The Big Ten, on the other hand, is where meat goes to get burned. As we walked through the Ohio State campus on a glorious Saturday

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morning, the tailgaters were already busy. One was serving ribs and brats hot off the grill by 9 a.m. The heavenly odor was everywhere, in parking lots, in grass lots, and floating in the spaces in between. The tailgating particularly piqued the interest of my son, Foster, leading to our own charcoal-cooking experiments at home testing an array of homemade sauces and rubs on friends and neighbors. Urban Meyer was in his second season coaching Ohio State and had yet to lose a game. Among the 105,000 or so fans in “the Horseshoe” for the 8 p.m. kickoff was a guy seated right behind us who went on and on about how Meyer couldn’t hold a candle to Jim Tressell as a coach because Meyer “hadn’t scheduled anybody any good.” It was a reminder of the impossibility of coaching college football. You’re undefeated and you’re still a bum.

Year Five: Oklahoma 45, West Virginia 33

“But have you seen a game in Morgantown?” I’d heard about the beer, the moonshine and the burning couches. So why not take your kids to see what the fuss is all about? If Morgantown seemed deserted before the 7:30 p.m. game, it was only because everyone was in the parking lot of Mountaineer Stadium. We found a tailgate of a friend of a friend of a friend — who wasn’t even there — and I was immediately offered beer and moonshine out of a Mason jar. We were surrounded by friendly strangers sipping from similar jars and spewing profanities about Pitt. “Dad,” one of my sons said to me quietly, “they aren’t even playing Pitt today.” The game was as boisterous and fun as I’d imagined. Our seats were on the end of an aisle across from the Oklahoma band. The band would play Boomer Sooner right up to the snap of the ball, but the West Virginia fans angrily accused the band director of playing past the snap. There was a fight brewing and the police were summoned but, overall, the atmosphere was exhilarating — and the fans were warm and hospitable toward my boys throughout the game. Oklahoma was ranked second in the country, and the expectations for an upset were off the rails. On the way into town, the local The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

sports radio station was inviting callers to predict the outcome of the game by imagining what the headline in the newspaper would be the next day. The forecasts were creative, funny, irreverent, and wrong. West Virginia put up tons of points, but Oklahoma put up more. On the way out of town, my boys announced that since we had made it through a West Virginia game “we could probably handle LSU.”

Year Six: Arkansas 24, Tennessee 20

My sons and I thought we were geniuses for picking this game. Both teams had new coaches and were supposedly “on the rise,” and this was to be the year for each. Their favorable schedules made it seem possible both could come into this early October game unbeaten, making an ESPN Game Day visit to Knoxville feasible. But here was Tennessee at 2-2 and Arkansas at 1-3. It rained and rained and rained but we marched ahead — to Calhoun’s On the River for amazing ribs, chicken, potatoes and dessert; past the Vol Navy; through campus and “accidentally” through the off-limits practice facilities. (They thought we were boosters on an exclusive tour.) We even stood outside to watch the Vol Walk in a downpour. So, it became an important game anyway. The rain let up for the 7 p.m. kickoff and the teams fought until the last set of downs. The visitor wins.

a temperature-controlled hotel room in Altoona watching Penn State pull off the upset of the year. As the fans stormed the field, my son — the same one who had blazed our trail out — was in full denial, blaming the rest of us for leaving and promising he would have stormed the field, too.

Year Eight: Michigan State 14, Michigan 10

It’s a long way to Ann Arbor, but during the last hour of our drive we learned the Pistons were playing a preseason game against Atlanta in Detroit. While my boys bought tickets online, I navigated the downtown parking. Within minutes we were inside the arena enjoying footlong hot dogs, nachos and some impromptu NBA basketball. On campus the next day, we stumbled onto a midday fraternity party in full swing. Boozy undergrads were taking a sledgehammer to an old car that was painted in Spartan colors and logos. When a drunken Michigan State fan tried to intervene and stop the destruction, a fight broke out and spilled into the street. In the midst of this

Year Seven: Penn State 24, Ohio State 21

We invited my father as well as my brother and his two boys to join us. We toured the hallowed grounds of Gettysburg National Military Park the day before the game. Three generations of our family learned about the heroism of the 20th Maine on Little Round Top, walked in the footsteps of Pickett’s Charge, and solemnly listened as the tour guide detailed the mind-blowing carnage on both sides. The drive from Gettysburg to State College is a seat-burner. After the farms come long stretches of forest, mountains and hairpin turns. Beaver Stadium is a mammoth structure even when judged against the other massive stadiums we had already visited. It reminds you of a giant erector set. We got swept up in the pre-game “whiteout” hysteria where the entire stadium dresses in white. We purchased some last-minute gear and thought it smart to settle into our seats an hour early for the late October game. Wrong. It was in the low 40s with 20-mile-per-hour winds and rain destined to turn to sleet. We were frigid. The game, though, was electric. It proved to be a breakout for both quarterback Trace McSorely and running back Saquon Barkley. By halftime we had been in our seats almost three hours, the sleet was coming down hard, and the hot chocolate had run out. When I suggested we consider watching the second half from the hotel, my dad was willing to brave the elements but my son, Drake, dressed only in a sweatshirt, eagerly led the way out. Ninety minutes later we were in

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early afternoon chaos and tomfoolery, Drake observed, “I thought it was hard to get into Michigan.” I couldn’t think of an answer that would have made any sense in that moment. The Big House was everything that has been said about it. That evening 100,000 fans sat in a single bowl with the intimate feel of a giant high school football game. The game quickly retreated into a defensive struggle that ended in an unseasonably warm October downpour during the fourth quarter. The drive home to Raleigh was long and somewhere in PineStraw

escorted out by friends. A few minutes after that LSU escorted Auburn out with a walk-off field goal to win. As night began to fall, we passed a woman packing her family’s tailgating gear into an SUV by herself. Her crew had undoubtedly spent all week planning the food, the drinks and the decorations, cooked all day and night on Friday and got up early to pack the car, only to spend the entire day setting up, hosting, cleaning, breaking down, and now loading up for the drive home. Maybe those companies aren’t so bad after all.

Year Ten: LSU 58, Ole Miss 37

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southwest Virginia, we stopped at a Shoney’s breakfast bar. The waitress brought me a note from an anonymous customer — who had already left — thanking me for spending time with my boys and paying for our breakfasts. My boys were awed by the charity, humility and anonymity of the act. It spoke more to them than a thousand words from me.

Year Nine: LSU 22, Auburn 21

This was our penultimate year and Foster was a junior in high school, so we were touring colleges. My wife, Fraley, and our daughter, Sadler, wanted to come along for this one. We fled Hurricane Florence in North Carolina and arrived in Auburn for what my wife still refers to as the hottest day she’s ever endured. September. Alabama. 93 degrees. A 3:30 p.m. kickoff. By this point, my sons were tailgate aficionados. Unimpressed by the companies that do everything for you, they gave high marks to the families slogging their own gear and setting up their own space. This was a game played before Joe Burrow was Joe Burrow, but I vividly remember him throwing the ball downfield several times on LSU’s first possession. My sons had fantastic lower bowl seats while my wife and daughter and I were five rows from the top of the second level. The young alumnus next to my wife celebrated each successful play with a swallow of bourbon and repeatedly offered her a swig — which she declined. Eventually he had to be

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Foster is a high school senior now, so this was his year to pick the game. He chose Oxford, Mississippi, and we invited two of his closest friends plus their dads and younger brothers. We had Friday lunch on the Square, caught a basketball game on campus Friday night, and walked through The Grove — the tailgate area in the center of campus — where SEC Game Day was setting up shop. The next morning the dads fixed breakfast and sent the boys on foot to see Game Day live while we watched it on television. By lunch The Grove was wall-to-wall tents decked out with rugs, televisions, and button-down shirts with blazers. We knew some North Carolina friends hosting a large tailgate with their Memphis relatives and used that as a sort of headquarters. Around 4 p.m., I made up an excuse to march my boys to the stadium three hours early. When we got there, we were greeted with pre-game access lanyards and made our way down to the field as guests. We walked around both sidelines taking in the sights and sounds of warm-ups as the atmosphere began to build. Recruits were ushered onto the field, and then the players began coming out in full game gear. As the sun began to set, I tried not to ruin the moment with a mistimed life lesson. When the game started, we were back up in our seats. At one point Drake went to the restroom, still wearing his field pass. A fan mistook him for a recruit, and he couldn’t have been happier to tell the rest of us. When I suggested that it would be hard to mistake an undersized high-school sophomore soccer player for an SEC football recruit, he clarified that the fan “thought I was a kicker.” This was a game when Joe Burrow had become Joe Burrow, and it was like watching an NFL team. The next day we began a 13-hour drive with the best doughnuts I’ve ever eaten on one of the best mornings I’ve ever had.

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we left home for that final game, I asked my boys if they remembered my commitment to them in Bryant-Denny Stadium that we would go to a different game every year for 10 straight years. They both remembered thinking that I was serious but that I was unlikely to make good on my plan. It was a fair point — I have always been stronger on the idea side and weaker on the execution. That winter, my wife and I returned to Tuscaloosa with Foster The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

for a final college visit. It was sunny, in the mid-60s, and we saw Alabama’s basketball team beat a ranked LSU-team in the final minutes. After a lively dinner at Taco Mama’s and another evening stroll through the campus, Alabama was his final answer. I wondered whether these annual adventures shaped his college search more than I imagined or intended. Did they make big schools seem less intimidating? Was there something about the first trip to Alabama that held a special foothold in his memory? My son confesses that he doesn’t really know, and in the end, it The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

doesn’t really matter. What matters are the memories that we made together — late nights in the tiny hotel pools, the glories of a breakfast bar, listening to a high school football game on the radio, and the long, unbroken stretches of time where, when I was lucky, my boys began to talk about things that really mattered. PS Charles Marshall is a lawyer who lived in Southern Pines with his family during the pandemic so that his son and daughter could attend The O’Neal School. He still has the sand in his shoes. PineStraw

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A Perfect Unmatch

Historic cottage exudes comfort, harmony By Deborah Salomon

Photographs by John Gessner

ust because “big” and “beautiful” start with the same letter doesn’t signify a relationship. What could be prettier than a modest house filled — not crowded — with carefully chosen objects, where nothing matches but everything fits? Should the house and contents also reflect its occupant, bravo. Virginia Gallagher teaches yoga. She lives yoga. Her artifacts and décor reflect its tenets and practices. Crystals cover many surfaces. She speaks of chakras, the body’s seven energy centers. Even the uninitiateds absorb the calm. That calm begins on the front walkway, composed of stepping stones, rimmed with perennials, then weed-free grass, where a small

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sign announces the Enchanted Castle. The clapboards are painted a green south of avocado. Celery, maybe? The front porch ceiling is sky blue, considered a good omen. Hanging from it, a white woven rope hammock from Mexico, where Virginia led an instructors’ retreat. “I love the Mayan culture, the spirituality,” she says. The foliage attracts birds, which Virginia identifies with a guide kept nearby. Ancient trees and vines shelter the meditation garden from summer’s heat. Gingerbread rims the roof lines of a dwelling built in 1924, according to a brick set into the vestibule floor . . . but by whom? Mother Goose? Lewis Carroll? J.R.R. Tolkien? Virginia — an adult aficionado of Alice’s wonderland — doesn’t know. Most likely a shopkeeper who appreciated walking to Broad Street as much as Gallagher likes walking to Hot Asana, her teaching studio. However, beware of bricks bearing dates; documents provided by the Moore County Historical Association move construction back to 1895, commissioned by C.T. Patch of Peacham, Vermont, a partner at downtown business Patch & Robinson. Another 20 years would pass before snowbirds and townies of substance hired architects to design fancier cottages uphill from the train tracks. Then, as now, people kept time by the trains, which bother Virginia not at all. “The sound is comforting,” she says.

allagher’s décor, too, answers to “comfortable.” A pair of upholstered chairs fill her sitting room, with bay window. Everything is child-friendly. Virginia has six. Kevin, a son killed in a tragic accident, is memorialized throughout the house. The others know her door is open — and often take advantage of a “boys’ suite” in the converted attic with slanted ceilings: two bedrooms, a bathroom, a sitting room with TV. Simple. Practical. Comfortable.

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his cottage represents Gallagher’s second lifestyle — the first being traditional wife and mother — living in a house fronted by tall pillars in a fashionable neighborhood. Once single, she discovered yoga through a friend: “I was overweight and unhealthy. I went to yoga to get skinny and flexible. After the first class I thought ‘weird,’ and that I’d never do it again.” That was 2007. Weight loss attributed to the lifestyle captured her mind and body. By 2009 she had become an instructor. In 2010 Virginia opened Hot Asana adjacent to the Sunrise Theater, a short walk away from home. It’s only natural that her house includes a small yoga room where she Zoomed classes during the virus shutdown. A Southern Pines native and enthusiastic downtowner, Gallagher rented the Enchanted Castle for two years before deciding to buy in 2012. Other possibilities didn’t come with “a story.” Neither did this one so, relying on the presence of previous residents, she made one up. “I get energy from them,” she says. Equally gratifying: “This is the first house I ever purchased by myself, with money earned by my own hands and skills.” Ownership allowed adaptations, not always in the expected places. “I love a big bathtub,” which wasn’t possible given the long, narrow bathroom that had been added onto her front-facing bedroom. Instead, she installed a hot tub in the fenced backyard. Next, multi-levThe Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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el decks with a trellis-covered dining table, sectional sofas, a swinging bed, gardens with a bubbling fountain shaded by an ancient pin oak, and statue of Kwan Yin, Buddhist goddess of peace and harmony. “It’s just heaven out here,” Virginia says of her al fresco year-round living space.

o single word, not even eclectic, describes the interior, with a floorplan that appears to have been rearranged and enlarged, helter-skelter, by previous owners. Opposite the small sitting room is a master bedroom, filled almost entirely by a king-sized bed with elaborate headboard, that looks out onto the front porch. “So I could see how late the kids came home,” Gallagher says. A crystal mini-chandelier hangs over the bed. Her dresser is painted metallic silver, the walls yet another shade of green. Floors are original pine, stained dark, partially covered by colorful crewel rugs. Throughout, Virginia strives for a feminine presence, something missing in her previous homes. Beyond the sitting room, walls appear to have been rearranged to create a dining room, large for a cottage of its era. The table, made of distressed wood slats, is surrounded by a variety of seating: bench, upholstered and other chairs. Over it hangs a light fixture built from the top third of an enormous glass water jug hanging by cords emerging from the narrow neck. A contemporary glass china cupboard displays pottery in Virginia’s favorite turquoise. What’s the good of having pretty things if you can’t see them, she explains. An elongated kitchen attached by a previous owner appears to stretch into tree branches visible through windows on three sides. Even kitchen colors — brown and an earthy green — suggest bark, moss and leaves, rather than white-and-granite glamour. Instead of an island, a long worktable down the center holds glass jars filled with beans and grains and seasonings common to a healthy lifestyle cuisine.

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rt is what you make of it. Or what it makes of you. For Virginia, this means framed quotations from favorite books. An enlarged photograph taken in Alaska of horses frolicking through the snow, printed on canvas to resemble a painting, is vaguely mystical — a gift from a friend. A barn quilt pattern hangs outside, in Kevin’s memory. Family members have tattoos in the same design. Completing the scene are a friendly Toto-dog named Baxter and Luna, a mostly blind marmalade cat. The template for this serene environment is not completely rooted in yoga. Gallagher grew up in her grandparents’ house in Hamlet, where her grandfather owned the local Coca-Cola plant. “I identify with my grandmother, and their home,” she says. “It had lots of nooks and crannies. I was allowed to touch things. The way it felt was magical. “I was loved in that home.” These experiences, past and present, influence her attitudes as well as her living space. “What I learned about yoga is that it helps you feel more comfortable in your body. And home — more comfortable than refined — is a practice of yoga.” PS

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October By Ashley Wahl

ctober is the language of crows: playful, dark and mysterious. On a crisp, gray morning, swirls of golden leaves dance round like Sufi mystics and a plump squirrel quietly munches seeds beneath the swinging feeder. The air feels charged — electric — and from the silver abyss, a crow caws five times, the staccato rhythm stabbing the ether like a haunting, dissonant chord. Caw. Caw. Caw. Caw. Caw. In the crooked branches of a distant tree, a council of crows rattles back and forth as if casting their clicks and grumbles into an invisible cauldron. Their crude chatter grows louder and increasingly harsh, escalating until it reaches a roiling cackle. The coven has spoken. One by one, the black birds take wing, flashing across the sky in glorious and raucous splendor. Below, asters spell out messages on the leaf-littered lawn. Only the crows can read them. And when they chant the words aloud — their many raspy voices one — you are equal parts delighted and disturbed. Ca-caw! Ca-caw! A single crow descends upon the wrought iron fence, pivots round in three slow circles, then cocks its head in silence. The squirrel has scurried off. A flurry of leaves jumps as if spooked by wind. The crow tilts back its head and lets out three chilling squawks. Trick-or-treat?

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Let’s Grow Together

Everyone who’s tried to grow them knows: Tulips are deer candy. But if you haven’t tried planting them alongside grape hyacinths (Muscari armeniacum) — deer and rabbits don’t like them — there is hope for your spring garden yet. The ideal companion for tulips (and daffodils, which said critters also avoid), grape hyacinths protect and complement this bright and showy bloomer. Think about it: waves of vibrant purple flush against rows of red, orange and yellow blossoms. The treasure is the rainbow itself. Come spring, the deer can admire it from afar. And you, the deer. But it’s time to plant the bulbs now.

Autumnal Brew

The full Hunter’s Moon rises on Wednesday, October 20. Autumn has settled in. As you begin to do the same, here’s an herbal tea redolent with spices that could rid you forevermore of your pumpkin-spiced neurosis.

Star Anise Tea Ingredients: 1 cup water 1 bag green or black tea 2 pods star anise 1 stick cinnamon Honey or agave to sweeten (optional) To brew a cup, bring water to a boil. In a favorite mug, pour hot water over tea bag, star anise and cinnamon stick. Let steep for five minutes. Add sweetener or not. Enjoy the glory of autumn sip by sip. PS

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Restaurant Guide Whether you’re looking for an intimate date night or a place to feed the whole family, take a peek at some of the best dishes and ambience that our neighborhood has to offer. Special Advertising Section

A Family Tradition The first authentic Thai restaurant in Moore County, Thai Orchid was established in 1993 and has been thriving ever since. Three sisters decided to put down roots in Aberdeen, North Carolina and make food and good memories with people through their cooking. Today, the restaurant has passed on to their younger generations who still continue

their family tradition to connect with the community. Try their popular dishes that have been served since the start of it all, Bangkok Chicken, Bangkok Duck, and Orchid Duck. All of the sauces are homemade with the family recipe. A proud food-oriented family, they hope to continue serving delicious meals to the community for years to come.

1404 N. SANDHILLS BLVD. | ABERDEEN NC 28315 | 910-944-9299 | 910-691-2999 | WWW.THAIORCHIDUS1.COM

The Best Steak in the Pines For generations, locally owned and family-operated Beefeaters has been a favorite dining destination in the Sandhills. As one of the best steakhouse restaurants in the area, they continuously have been voted “Best Steak” in Moore County for over 20 years. But Beefeaters offers a

variety of dishes to meet the desires of all diners with their surf and turf style menu, featuring succulent seafood, juicy chicken and much more. With a large banquet room, candlelit dining room, and a relaxed lounge, Beefeaters is ready to host your night out and satisfy every craving.

672 SW BROAD ST., SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28387 | 910.692.5550 | BEEFEATERSOFSOUTHERNPINES.COM

The stylish, old-school watering hole perfect for any night out. Over the years, The Bell Tree Tavern has reinvented itself from a whiskey bar to a neighborhood tavern, and now even offers a marketplace with local meats, cheeses, and produce. Delight in a variety of Southern fare for lunch and dinner - fresh salads, fried okra,

shrimp and grits, burgers and sandwiches - or stop in to enjoy the game with your favorite appetizers and libations. From meals and cocktails to trivia, karaoke, theme parties, live music and more, The Bell Tree Tavern is the place to go for a good time in Southern Pines.

155 NE BROAD ST., SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28387 | 910.692.4766 | THEBELLTREETAVERN.COM

Voted “Best Authentic Pub” with Above Par Outdoor Dining Hidden among the tall pines of Pinehurst is a storied authentic American tavern, Drum & Quill. Voted the Best Authentic Pub in the 2020 Best of the Pines contest and built on the old Irish tradition of a Public House, a place to gather or a cozy place to eat, drink and make new friends, Drum & Quill offers a covered patio to gather outdoors rain or

shine. Enjoy a view of downtown Pinehurst while sampling their famous pimento cheeseburger, Korean beef tacos or fried green tomato caprese and sipping on a cocktail made from the historic bar stocked with nearly 200 spirits. Moore County’s most liked tavern is the is perfect spot to enjoy a fall day on our patios!

40 CHINQUAPIN RD. PINEHURST, NC 28374 | 910.295.3193 | DRUMANDQUILL.COM

Nourish Your Soul and the Community Family owned, Elliotts on Linden, showcases expertly crafted dishes made with regional and seasonal ingredients. Being ingrained in the community and utilizing our North Carolina produce is what makes Elliotts - Elliotts! With a seasonal menu and a variety of meat, fish, and vegetarian options you’ll always

have a reason to dine. Enjoy a craft cocktail from our bar or pair a bottle of hand selected wine with your meal. Elliotts on Linden is the dining experience for all occasions, anniversary, birthday, celebration, or - just because! A great meal with great friends nourishes the soul and community.

905 LINDEN ROAD | PINEHURST, NC | 910.215.0775 | ELLIOTTSONLINDEN.COM

Comfort Food Like You’ve Never Had Before At Chapman’s Food and Spirits, you’ll find delicious chef-driven, American fare in a comfortable, casual atmosphere. Enjoy unique spins on fresh, homemade comfort food while sipping

on cocktails out on the patios in downtown Southern Pines. The kitchen produces a variety of specials along with their popular classics, such as the Ultimate Burger or their wicked good Crawfish Fries.

157 EAST NEW HAMPSHIRE AVE. SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28387 | 910.246.0497 | CHAPMANSFOODANDSPIRITS.COM

A Triumphant Return This fall, Curt’s Cucina returns to its former glory but the grinders will continue with The Gravy Train food truck. When Red’s Corner opens, The Gravy Train will be stationed there to get your fill off house-made veal, pork and beef meatballs,

hand-breaded parmesan, house-made mozzarella, and tomato gravy. Meanwhile, your favorite Italian dishes will be available at the reopened Curt’s Cucina, where Chef Curtis Shelvey is excited to get creative in the kitchen again.

515 SE BROAD ST. SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28387 | (910) 725-1868 | GRINDERSANDGRAVY.COM

One Bite and you will be Hooked!! At the House of Fish be prepared to enjoy the freshest seafood in town cooked to order. Chef Danny Hayes opened his restaurant in 2014 after having a successful seafood restaurant in Hamlet, NC. He wanted to bring the same great seafood and service to Moore County. His menu features everything seafood lovers crave: fresh fish, shrimp, oysters, scallops, and lobster served with his delicious hush puppies and cole

slaw. He even offers his Danny’s Special Lobster Roll, Shrimp & Grits, & Seafood Tacos. Even though House of Fish has only been in Moore County a few years they have been voted by their many loyal customers as the “Best Seafood Restaurant” in 2021 & 2020 Best of the Pines. So take a short drive to Aberdeen and find out what makes The House of Fish one of the best!

36471 US HWY 1 | ABERDEEN, NC | 910.757.0357 | THEHOUSEOFFISH.COM

Brunch Isn’t Just for the Weekends In love with food and each other, Mason’s Restaurant & Grocery began over Alison and Brian’s Hainley’s first brunch date as they brainstormed the concept of a “local brunch hang” with delicious, seasonal fare. Nearly 8 years later, Mason’s was founded and

opened its doors in January 2020. The contemporary restaurant in Downtown Aberdeen offers scratch-made biscuits and craft cocktails among their brunch options, and features a market with local and regional specialty products.

111 N. SYCAMORE ST., | ABERDEEN, NC | 910.757.0155 | WWW.EATATMASONS.COM

Rooted in Family, Authentic Food & Community At Lisi Italian, enjoy simple authentic Italian food rooted in family. Whether you’re taking out, dining inside or al fresco, Lisi is here to meet your needs. Located in the Theatre Building. Lisi is a very special place to enjoy

community, fine food and wine, while in the Village of Pinehurst. Don’t forget to stop by Lisi Market, a grab and go Italian imports store located directly across the hall from Lisi Italian.

THEATRE BUILDING | VILLAGE OF PINEHURST | 90 CHEROKEE RD., SUITE 1C | 910-420-1136 | LISIITALIAN.COM

You don’t need a tee time to enjoy this club Enjoy views of the newly restored golf course from the airy dining room over a casual breakfast or lunch, or stop by for a cold beer on the outdoor patio. Start your day with a

healthy egg bowl or indulge in fluffy waffles and made to order breakfast sandwiches, or end your round of golf with a variety of sandwiches, wraps and salads at this local Southern Pines gem.

290 COUNTRY CLUB CIR. | SOUTHERN PINES, NC | 910.692.6551 | SOUTHERNPINESGOLFCLUB.COM

Locally Sourced Gourmet Bliss We are the Sandhills’ premier farm to table restaurant with most ingredients supplied by North Carolina farmers. Experience creative, unique gourmet sandwiches, soups and salads from our scratch kitchen - from our roasted meats all the way to our fermented siracha. Pair any dish with a glass of NC beer from the largest selection in

Moore County. The hops garden, perfect for enjoying the beautiful fall weather, includes a covering of string lights over the patio to light your evening dining. You can find us near the the Moore County Airport traffic circle, in front of the Southern Pines Ace Hardware. We look forward to seeing you and continuing to support North Carolina farms.

NEXT TO ACE HARDWARE ON CAPITAL DR., SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28327 | 910.725.7026 | ROASTNC.COM

Delicious Authentic Indian Dishes Jaya’s began in 2015 with Jayarani Elamaran and her husband Ekambaram selling daily to-go boxes at Nature’s Own Market. This venture quickly turned into a larger operation in 2018 when the couple opened their May St. location and food truck. This summer, Jaya’s Indian Cuisine moved to a larger space in downtown Southern Pines where they can now offer sit-down

meals for lunch and dinner. With vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free options, Jaya’s provides delicious food for all dietary needs. Their food truck also appears at various events, catering to hungry Moore County residents. With a menu that changes each day, highlighting lunch and dinner specials, you can always find something uniquely delicious at Jaya’s.

169 NORTHEAST BROAD ST | SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28387 | 910.725.0875 | JAYASINCUISINE.COM

How do you choose where to go to lunch? Do you choose “the same ol’, same ol’,” something you’ve seen in national ads, or just by wandering aimlessly… and hungry? We may not be the biggest, the most advertised, or the fanciest. Yes, we are attached to a gas station. But we have the best sandwiches, the best customer service, and we have been a local lunch spot since 1998! We’re WEDGIES! And this year, our customers have

voted us “Best of the Pines!” There’s no “same ol’, same ol’” here. Delicious, madeto-order sandwiches on pizza crust, hot from the oven, cut into a Wedge, and dressed perfectly. Meats, cheeses, freshly sliced produce, and homemade sides… and don’t forget the homemade warm chocolate chip cookies! Still hungry? Stop wandering… It’s lunchtime at Wedgies!

1216 W MORGANTON RD, SOUTHERN PINES, NC | 910.693.2909 | WWW.EATWEDGIES.COM

Enjoy Cuban Roots with a Twist of American Culture A fusion of typical Latin and American dishes with Lynette’s family authentic Cuban recipes makes up the unique menu of Lynette’s Bakery and Cafe. We are dedicated to kickstarting your day with warm Cuban pastelitos and empanadas, cupcakes, made-to-order breakfast or lunch sandwiches, and a cup of hot coffee or Cuban espresso. Our custom bakeshop also offers catering treats for any special occasion, from weddings to office parties. We work with local suppliers to source the freshest and most authentic Cuban ingredients

and use old-fashioned techniques to ensure the highest quality. Great Cuban food starts with capturing the amazing family recipes that have been passed down through generations and preparing them with the freshest ingredients. Our goal is always to create a friendly, casual atmosphere where our customers can enjoy an amazing Fusion of authentic Cuban and American foods. Come visit us and let us treat you to the Amor (Love) of our Cuban culture through our coffee and food.

3060 NORTH CAROLINA HIGHWAY 5 | ABERDEEN, NC 28315 | 910-420-8226 | WWW.LYNETTESBAKERYCAFE.COM

Baked & Brewed with Love Pine Scone Cafe has become a morning ritual in Moore County. There is nothing quite like a nice cup of coffee and a freshly made scone. Rae Anne Kinney, owner of Pine Scone Cafe has enjoyed treating the Sandhills to her award-winning scones since 2009. After years of having a home-based business, Rae Anne opened her first location in Pinehurst in 2016, which quickly became

a local favorite. To keep up with the demand of her addictive scones and hand-crafted beverages, in 2019 she expanded by opening a second location in Southern Pines. Both offer a unique atmosphere, with Southern Pines adding “Sconewiches” to the menu and Pinehurst as a hub for their gluten and dairy-free (vegan) scones. Come “Get Sconed in the Pines!”

905 LINDEN RD | 910.992.4783 | 116 BRUCEWOOD RD | 910.684.8849 | PINESCONECAFE.COM

Quality Food Meets Warm Hospitality If you’re looking for warm hospitality in a quaint, local atmosphere, look no further than Midland Bistro. Exceptional customer service is a key component to building their reputation as a local favorite for breakfast and lunch,

along with quality food. At Midland, there is also a strong emphasis on supporting local, as they love to utilize local produce as much as possible. Even their fresh bread and aromatic coffee come from nearby Aberdeen.

2160 MIDLAND RD. SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28387 | 910.420.1030 | MIDLANDBISTRO.COM

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Although conscientious effort is made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, all events are subject to change and errors can occur! Please call to verify times, costs, status and location before planning or attending an event. JOY OF ART STUDIO. Painting, drawing and mixed media. Offering both private and small groups with safe distance. Classes are held at Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Suite B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or www.joyof-art.com or www.facebook.com/ Joyscreativespace/. RENT THE SUNRISE. 10 a.m. - 9 p.m. Rent the Sunrise Theater for your private event. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Email MaryBeth@sunrisetheater.com to help you plan your special night out. SCAVENGER HUNT. Pick up scavenger hunts at the Given Book Shop, Given Memorial Library or online at www.giventufts.org/program-and-events. The scavenger hunt will take you through the village of Pinehurst and there will be multiple themes such as science, shapes, historic buildings and more. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst.

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TINY ART SHOW. Pick up a mini art kit and create your masterpiece. When you’re done, return it to the library to be displayed during the last week of October. Submissions are due no later than Oct. 25. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.sppl.net. ART EXHIBITION. Come see the Recycled Renaissance Exhibition. Lisa Richman and Dean Segovis are artists that take old, unwanted items and recycle them into art. Hastings Gallery, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. FIRST FRIDAY. 5 - 8:15 p.m. This free concert to support the Sunrise Theater features live music provided by Sam Fribush Organ Trio with Charlie Hunter. 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.

BOOK SALE. This month’s sale is buy one, get one free on mystery books. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642.

Saturday, October 2 DROP IN CRAFTS. All day. Children and teens can come by the library to work on crafts at their own pace. Dates will be Oct. 2, 16 and 30. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Friday, October 1 CAMERON ANTIQUE FAIR. 9 a.m. Come out for a family-friendly event on the historic streets of downtown Cameron. There will be food, fun and bargains! Downtown Cameron, N.C. 24-27, Cameron. Info: www.townofcameron.com.

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books. Masks required. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642. CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT. 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. Come out for an afternoon of fun and cornhole by the lake. There will be food vendors and adult beverages from Railhouse Brewery on-site. Pre-registration is preferred; walk-up registrations on the day of the event need to be in by 11 a.m. Aberdeen Parks and Recreation Department, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: www.townofaberdeen.net. MUSIC SERIES. 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Enjoy BPAC’s Troubadour Series and this month’s band, The Contenders, with opening act, Aaron Burdett. Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, Owens Auditorium, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. Sunday, October 3 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. LECTURE SERIES. 3 p.m. Kevin Duffus will present the third part of his series, “The Colorful Characters of Cape Fear from the First Owner to Today.” Cost is $15 for members and $20 for non-members. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info and tickets: www.weymouthcenter.org or www.ticketmesandhills.com. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

CA L E N DA R Monday, October 4 LITWITS BOOK CLUB. 4 p.m. This club is perfect for third- through sixth-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: kstockdale@sppl.net. TRAVEL PROGRAM. 6 p.m. “Explore Your World: Local Places” with wildlife and landscape photographer, Neva Scheve. Masks recommended. Given Book Shop, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642. SILENT MOVIE. 6:30 p.m. In celebration of its 100th year at the Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, watch a 100-year-old movie, The Three Musketeers, with Douglas Fairbanks. There will be a live piano accompaniment by Nathan Shirley and three costumed musketeers to welcome guests. Cost is $20. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 295-4677 or www.sandhillswe.org. Tuesday, October 5 CREATIVITY CLUB. 11 a.m. Creativity Club celebrates the many ways to be creative, such as drawing, crafting, and writing. This month, participants will work on an outdoor tie-dye activity. For grades kindergarten through fifth. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. ADULT STORYTIME. 12 p.m. Take a break from your day and join Audrey Moriarty while she reads “spooky” short stories. Masks required. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642. FRIEND TO FRIEND EVENT. 7 p.m. Friend to Friend is hosting their annual Take Back the Night Candlelight Vigil to bring awareness to domestic violence and honor those who have lost their lives to violence. There will be guest speakers, music, and refreshments. Downtown Park, 145 S.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 947-1703. Wednesday, October 6 BOOK EVENT. 4 - 5 p.m. Sharon Granito, Southern Pines local author, will talk about her new children’s book, The True Story of Elmo. At The Pilot, 145 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info and registration: www.ticketmesandhills.com. Thursday, October 7 SALE AND RAFFLE. 2 - 6 p.m. Come shop the annual White Elephant Sale and Raffle for gently used

furniture, art, jewelry, baked goods and more. The sale will continue on Oct. 8 from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Oct. 9 from 8 - 11 a.m. Proceeds benefit Moore County organizations. Sponsored by Women of Sacred Heart and the Knights of Columbus. Founders Hall, next to Sacred Heart Church, N.C. 211 and Dundee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-0704. BOOK EVENT. 6 - 7 p.m. Louise Marburg, author of No Diving Allowed, has a conversation with Katrina Denza. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and registration: www. ticketmesandhills.com. PHILHARMONIC. 6:30 p.m. This will be the season opener for The Carolina Philharmonic with Broadway guest artists Catherine Brunell and James Moye. Owens Auditorium, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: www. carolinaphil.org. Friday, October 8 SARDINE FESTIVAL. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Come out and enjoy sardines, music, laughs and fellowship. Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. LIVE AFTER FIVE. 5 - 9 p.m. Enjoy beach music with The Sand Band. Eryn Fuson will be opening the evening. This is a family friendly event with live music, dancing, and kids’ activities. Beer, wine and additional beverages will be available for purchase. Picnic baskets are allowed, outside alcoholic beverages are not permitted. Bring your lawn chairs, blankets and dancing shoes. Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.pinehurstrec.org. Saturday, October 9 FAIR. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Come to the 13th Annual Shaw House Heritage Fair and Moore Treasures Sale. This free all-day event is a fundraiser for the nonprofit Moore County Historical Association. The Heritage Fair offers unique vendors, baked goods, live music and demonstrations of old-time crafts, treasure sales and farm animals for petting. There will be reenactors from the American Revolution for interaction and learning. The Shaw House museum will be open Thursdays and Fridays after Oct. 9 for the remainder of the month. Shaw House, 110 Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2051 or www.moorehistory.com. GARDEN PARTY. 4 - 6 p.m. The League of Women Voters of Moore County will host a Weymouth Center Garden Party. This will be a 1920s theme party celebrating the voting rights of women. Enjoy live music and great food. Info and tickets: (910) 692-8839 or email: moorecelebrate100@gmail.com.

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Sunday, October 10 POP UP IN THE PINES. The Mini Market Series, organized by Marie & Marcele. Hatchet Brewing Co., 490 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: mariemarcele@gmail.com. Monday, October 11 ECOEXPLORE. 4 p.m. Join us for the intro to ecoEXPLORE! Learn more about ecoEXPLORE, a program that encourages citizen science, and go on an exploration hike guided by an education specialist from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Participants should wear whatever feels comfortable for a short hike and bring water. Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve, 1024 Fort Bragg Road, Southern Pines. Advanced registration is encouraged at www.sppl.net. Tuesday, October 12 BOOK EVENT. 6 - 7 p.m. Lee Pace, author of Good Walks: Rediscovering the Soul of Golf at Eighteen of the Carolinas’ Best Courses, has a conversation with Jim Moriarty. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and registration: www.ticketmesandhills.com. Thursday, October 14 COOKING SHOW. Susan Vess will demonstrate “Nutritious, Delicious and Allergy-free Cooking with Herbs.” Cost is $25 per person. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 2954677 or www.sandhillswe.org. SENIOR TRIP. 10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to travel with Southern Pines Recreation and Parks to the Gillis Hill Farm in Fayetteville for pumpkins and fresh produce. Lunch at Fuller’s BBQ to follow. Cost to participate is $3 for residents of Southern Pines and $6 for non-residents. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. GATHERING AT GIVEN. 3:30 p.m. Jennifer Tyner, lead care manager of AOS Care Management, provides tips for older adults to promote successful aging. Masks required. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 95-3642. WELLNESS SERIES. 5:30 p.m. Learn more about how an artistic practice can benefit your mental health at the Creativity for Wellness series this fall. Join Jean Skipper, artist and owner of ARTworks Vass, as she discusses the critical role that art and creativity play in her life. Guests will have the opportunity to participate in a few creative activities during this interactive presentation. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net or email lholden@sppl.net.

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CA L E N DA R Friday, October 15 DOGWOOD FESTIVAL. 11 a.m. Join in the fun with music, food, beer, activities and vendors. There will be hayrides and hauntings on Oct. 15, a fall festival and piano show on Oct. 16 and a car and motorcycle show on Oct. 17. Downtown Fayetteville. Info: www.thedogwoodfestival.com. Saturday, October 16 BAKE SALE. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Women of the Pines kicks off this year’s fundraising effort with the Annual Bake Sale. There will be baked goods, homemade breads and pies and small, themed Christmas items. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-4677. BREWERY PARTY. 12 - 10 p.m. Southern Pines Brewing Company is holding its seventh anniversary party. There will be bounce houses, food trucks, live music and beer. Ticketed event. Info and tickets: www. southernpinesbrewing.com. SOCIAL DANCE. 6 p.m. Carolina Pines Dance Club invites you for an evening of fun, music and dancing. Dance lessons begin at 6:30 p.m. Dancing until 9:30 p.m. Swing, shag, ballroom, Latin, and line dancing. Beginning and experienced dancers, couples and singles all welcome. Cost is $15 cash at door. National Athletic Village, 201 Air Tool Dr., Southern Pines. Info: (724) 816-1170. MUSIC SERIES. 6:30 - 9:30 p.m. Join BPAC’s Troubadour Series with this month’s musical duo, Darin and Brooke Aldridge. Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, Owens Auditorium, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. Sunday, October 17 FARM TOUR. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Do a self-guided tour of six horse farms during the Prancing Horse Farm Tour. Proceeds benefit the Prancing Horse Center for Therapeutic Horsemanship. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 day of tour. Prancing Horse Farms, 6100 Hoffman Road, Hoffman. Info and tickets: www. prancing-horse.org. LEARNING PROGRAM. 2 - 3 p.m. Creativity Club celebrates the many ways to be creative, such as drawing, crafting and writing. This month, participants will work on an outdoor tie-dye activity. For grades kindergarten through fifth. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.

Monday, October 18 WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30 a.m. The Women of Weymouth committee will meet and have a guest speaker. Free admission. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.weymouthcenter.org. Tuesday, October 19 SENIOR TRIP. 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to travel with Southern Pines Recreation and Parks to Raleigh for the North Carolina State Fair. Cost to participate is $8 for residents of Southern Pines and $16 for non-residents. Bus will depart from Campbell House Playground Parking Lot, 450 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines, at 7:30 a.m. Info and registration: (910) 692-7376. CREATIVITY CLUB. 4 p.m. Stop by the library for “Internet: How Does It Work?” This program is intended for new computer users who would like to learn how to use the internet. The course will cover how to open a web browser, navigate to different sites, and search the web. Bring your questions and get answers in a welcoming environment. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. Wednesday, October 20 BOOK EVENT. 5 - 6 p.m. Walter Bennett discusses his new book, The Last First Kiss. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and registration: www.ticketmesandhills.com. Thursday, October 21 BLOCK PARTY FUNDRAISER. 4 - 9 p.m. Dreams 4 All and Sweet Dreams will host their biggest fundraiser. There will be a silent auction, kids’ activities, live music, food, drinks and more. Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. READ BETWEEN THE PINES. 5:30 p.m. SPPL’s book club for adults meets to discuss this month’s book. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. To join email: mhoward@sppl.net. CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE. 6:30 p.m. The speaker will be Charlie Knight, talking about his new book, From Arlington to Appomattox: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War, Day by Day. 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.

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Wednesday, October 27 th 5:30 - 6:30 PM Meal to be picked up on the library’s front lawn

Menu: Shrimp, Andouille Sausage, Smoked Sausage, Corn on the Cob, Potatoes & Onions

Tickets are $25.00 per meal Sales begin on October 12 Meals must be pre-purchased Call or e-mail to pre-purchase your meal(s) at the Tufts Archives 910.295.3642 or giventufts@gmail.com by October 22

Save the Date! Santa is coming to Given Memorial Library!

Saturday, November 20th 9:45 am to 12:30 pm

Call to reserve your spot beginning: November 1st *Space is Limited*

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SandhillSeen Shakespeare in the Pines Festival Tufts Park, Pinehurst Friday, August 27, 2021

Photographs by Diane McKay

Paula & Jim Smith

The Seller Family

Kendall & Jeff Wills

James Bullard, Janet Warren

Carina Rodrigues, Maria Fernanda

Margarieta & Brian Gellman, Richard & Lisa Mudd

Redemer PCA group Charlotte & Valerie Cox

The Uprising Theatre Company

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Roy Neal, Pat Hruska, Gertie

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October 2 Aaron Burdett Trio opening Owens Auditorium

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Sharon Granito “The True Story of

October 6 Elmo” Author Event The Pilot Newspaper

October 7 James Bond “No Time To Die”

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Cameo Art House Theatre

Louise Marburg “No Diving

October 7 Allowed” Author Event The Country Bookshop October 9 & 10 October 13

IYT presents: “Jekyll & Hyde The Musical Owens Auditorium

Tony Rothwell on James Gillray Weymouth Center for the Arts

October 16 Darin and Brook Aldridge Owens Auditorium

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October 21 4th Annual Block Party Fair Barn

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Owens Auditorium

October 29 2021 Festival D’Avion Moore County Airport

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Big Shot

October 30 Drive-Thru Tour New Century Middle School NC License #277PW

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I’m Glad There is You: The Musical Romance of Peggy Lee & Frank Sinatra

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Dianne Odom

Frank Camperlengo, Tawnya Louder

“Come Sunday” Jazz Brunch

Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities Sunday, August 29, 2021 Photographs by Diane McKay

Al & Donna Carter

Janet Faulk, Tammy Joyce, Sonya Sandell

Maureen Sherbondy, Barry Petters

Margie Sheroff, Bill Mamel, Marilyn & David Lamon, Rosemary Weber

Mary Phillips

Marilyn Barrett, Carolanne Marano

Pamela Partis, Tom Fioretti, Sue Huston Kelly McAndrew, Nicola Squires

Kelly & Mark Elliott

Shawn, Alba & Adalet Polonkey

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COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES

UPCOMING CLASSES

Opening Reception Friday, October 1 • 5:00-7:00pm

The Artist League of the Sandhills will feature the works of Linda Drott and Lynn Goldhammer beginning October 1st and continuing through October 27. Please join us for an exhibit of fun and colorful art! This exhibit will feature work that explores a playfulness of coloring in and outside the lines.

OIL & ACRYLIC: Landscape Painting - Harry Neely Mondays, October 4, 11, 18, and 25, 9:30-12:00 Oil Painting with CourtneyTuesday, and Wednesday, October 5, 6, 10:00-3:30 New Date: Enhanced Acrylics - Pat McMahonThursday and Friday, October 21 and 22, 10:00-12:00 COLORED PENCIL: Foundations of Colored Pencil – Laureen Kirk Tuesday and Wednesday, October 26, 27, 10:00-3:00 DRAWING: Calligraphy – Cathy Brown Tuesday and Wednesday, October 12 and 13 OTHER MEDIUMS: Citra Solv Collage (with a Resin Demonstration) – Carol Gradwohl Thursday and Friday, October 7, 8, 10:30-3:00 InkFinity/Advanced Alcohol Ink - Pam Griner Thursday, October 14, 11:30-2:30

COLLECTORS CHOICE PREVIEW NIGHT Thursday, November 4, 2021 – 5:30-8:00

Starry, Starry Night Themed Cocktails, Wine, and Heavy Hors d’oeuvres

By invitation only this special opportunity offers you first choice of paintings in advance of our opening to the public. $100 admits two and is applied toward the purchase of a painting. Please call 910-944-3979 or email artistleague@windstream.net for your special invitation. Select from the largest assortment of original art in the Sandhills. Featuring over 150 new works of art in the gallery exhibit and over 300 paintings in the 34 artists’ studios.

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OPEN FOR OUR 37TH FESTIVAL October 9, 2021 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Tons of Fun for the Entire Family!

• Craft Vendors • Antique Tractors and Engines • Turn of the Century Mule-Powered Cotton Gin • Antique Car Displays • Old Timey Fair • Live Music on Stage • A.D. Gibson Country Store • Clogging • Dance Groups • Exhibits and Demonstrations • Kids’ Old Timey Games • Wagon Rides • Log Tobacco Curing Barn • Face Painting • ”The Bubble Man” • Food Vendors and Food Trucks

The Rural Heritage Center

(formerly the historic John Blue House and Grounds)

13040 X-Way Road Laurinburg, NC 28352 Festival Admission: $5.00

The John Blue Cotton Festival follows Federal, State and Local Protocols for Facemasks/ Covid-19 requirements. Some advertised events may not be available due to Covid-19 restrictions on festival day.

ENTERTAINMENT Jim Quick and Coastline Band 3:00-5:00

Service Animals Only No Pets Allowed

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Bringing the stars to the Sandhills since 2012 Professional Theatre Company in Residence at BPAC

Daniel Haley, Artistic Director • Morgan Sills, Executive Producer

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Dave & Cheryl Powers

A Moment in Time

Arts Council of Moore County Friday, September 3, 2021 Photographs by Diane McKay

Joseph Hill

Jill, glass artist Wayne, Jameson & Sawyer Manning

Julie, David, Isabelle & Kelsey Catron

Janet Lehman, Cecilia TenBraak

Marian Morrison, Connie Waller, Ann Craigmile, Judy Allen

Gina Bianchi, Jon Richards

Aldena Frye, Betsy Mofield, Martha Wicks, Leslie Champion

Tom Deet, Bill & Kathy Cambreleng, DeeAnn Deet Yvonne Daniels, Bob Taylor, Franceska Aaron

Susan Bailey, Dana Danielson

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Shari Dutton, Neva Scheve

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CARY! October PineNeedler SScary! By Mart Dickerson

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By Jim Moriarty

When the occasion warrants,

I’ve been known to dress in women’s clothes. I’m not going to blame genetics entirely for this but it’s an established fact that my eldest brother — the one with the Ivy League law degree who clerked on the United States Supreme Court — once performed a musical number in drag at a 137-year-old Boston club that, on a separate occasion, had entertained Winston Churchill at dinner. My brother did allow as how the entire affair was a bit embarrassing, though given his singing voice, I’m not sure which part would have been the most mortifying.

While my local club, the Bitter and Twisted, never, to the best of my knowledge, hosted a British prime minister, I have appeared behind the bar there in female costume. It may have happened more than once. One particular evening it was for a holiday fundraiser. My wife, the War Department, and I joined Doris and Neville

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Beamer to pour beer and mix drinks dressed as The Mamas and the Papas. I was Mama Cass. Costuming wasn’t a significant issue. As luck would have it, Mary McKeithen at Showboat has all my measurements — though for this episode I confess broad admiration at her ability to conjure up a pair of size 10 1/2 white go-go boots, a feat she accomplished with the apparent ease of ordering a pepperoni pizza. The evening coincided with a visit from our nephew. At the time he was a C-130 pilot on active duty in the California Air Force Reserve, and he and his crew had put in at Pope Air Force Base on their way to who knows where. We invited them to join the festivities, which they did. When our two-hour cruise behind the bar had ended, we collectively decided to retire to Neville’s basement emporium to unwind from the demands of performance art. Unaccustomed as I was to the rigors of wearing white go-go boots, I couldn’t tolerate the pain any longer and had to make a stop at home to de-Cass before joining the rest of our jolly band. I showed up at Neville’s in my usual costume — jeans, tennis shoes, a golf shirt and a jacket. As time went by and the feeling returned to my feet, my wife was approached by one of our nephew’s crewmen. “So, what happened to Uncle Jim?” he inquired, clearly crestfallen at the mysterious absence of Mama Cass. She nonchalantly pointed at me several barstools away. “He’s right there,” she said. And had been for the better part of an hour. The appearance, or disappearance, of Mama Cass wasn’t my last brush with blush. That occurred some years later when I was on tap to reprise our bartending masquerade, this time dressed as a traditional geisha. The War Department had volunteered to apply my makeup for me. After painting my face with the appropriate white greasepaint, she began drawing on the bright red lipstick with the care and concentration of a high school biology student slicing open a frog. When she finished she stood back to admire her handiwork. “Oh, my God,” she said, her eyes widening with fright. “What?” I asked. What had she done? Was I fixed up to look like the Joker? “You look exactly like your mother.” That was enough to make me hang up my muumuus for good. PS Jim Moriarty is the Editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills

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Articles inside

The Omnivorous R eader By A nne Bly the

Bat watch By Susan Campbell

The Naturalist By Todd Pusser

Out of t he Blue By Debora h Sa lomon

Simple L ife By Jim Dodson

PineNeed ler By Mar t Dickerson

4 Sout hwords By Jim Mor iar t y