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Crossroads By Steve Woodward Out of the Blue By Deborah Salomon Birdwatch By Susan Campbell Naturalist By Todd Pusser Golftown Journal By Lee Pace Arts & Entertainment Calendar SandhillSeen Pine Needler By Mart Dickerson Southwords By Jim Moriarty
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76 Rising from the Crypt By Jason Harpster Triumph of the Dracula orchid
78 A Community Bright Spot By Jim Moriarty The Boys & Girls Club turns 25
80 The Champion Next Door By Bill Case Barbara McIntire reached the pinnacle of amateur golf
84 Over Yonder in the Down Under By Jenna Biter The story of a modern country house
93 October Almanac By Ashley Walshe
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17 FOXFIRE BOULEVARD, UNIT 321 Nicely updated 1 BR / 2 BA loft condo in Foxfire overlooking the Foxfire CC driving range. Unit is in great condition and is convenient to the clubhouse and pool!
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Indigenous People’s Day Celebrations with Kaya Littleturtle of the Lumbee Tribe
October 8 • 2 pm
Presentation, land acknowledgment and history, smudging ceremony, prayer, song, and traditional dances
October 9 • 10 am
A Legendary Evening October 14 • 5:30 - 10:30 pm
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Outdoor Children’s Event, traditional dance showcase, friendship dances, corn husk doll making, storytelling and songs
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Live from the Great Room October 22 • 7 pm Enjoy Cocktails and Entertainment in a Vintage Setting, as we welcome Eric Vloeimans, Trumpet, and Will Holshouser, Accordion, bringing together jazz, classical and folk music. Doors open at 6 pm.
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Farewell to Golf But With Apologies to Sam Snead, Not Just Yet
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It began with a
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few simple questions on a beautiful October evening last year as my best friend — and oldest golf rival — and I were walking up the ninth fairway of the club where we grew up playing and still belong. As usual of late, Patrick Robert McDaid and I were all square in our friendly nine-hole match. As we approached our tee shots in the fairway, he suddenly said: “Can you believe we both turn 70 next year?” I laughed. “If I forget, my aching left knee reminds me every morning.” Pat also laughed. “Isn’t that the truth.” I could tell, however, that something else was on his mind, the benefit of more than 58 years of close friendship. We began playing golf with — and against — each other the year we turned 12. “Do you think we’ll take one of those trips again?” he asked. We both knew what he meant. Over the 40 years I worked as a columnist and contributing editor for several major golf publications, my oldest pal and I had roamed the Holy Land of Golf, as we call it — Scotland, England and Ireland — more than half-a-dozen times in each other’s company, often on the spur of the moment with few, if any, arrangements made in advance, armed only with our golf clubs and hall passes from our wives. Before I could reply, he chuckled and added, “Remember that time in Scotland when you locked the keys in our rental car and we had to stay another night at that guest house near Southerness?” “How could I forget it? You’ve never let me live it down.” “The owners invited their crazy neighbors over just to hear The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
your golf stories.” “Actually, it was your crazy fly-fishing stories they wanted to hear. You were more fun than a drunken bagpiper.” “Good whisky helped.” We hit our approach shots onto the green. I lagged my 20-footer to the edge of the cup and tapped in. As he stood over his 10-footer for birdie, he reflected, “I loved those trips. All those great old courses and golf on the fly.” As I watched, he rolled his birdie putt dead into the cup, sealing my fate with a 1-up victory. It was an annoying trend of late. His short game had gotten markedly better from years of regular practice, while mine had declined from benign neglect. I sometimes joked that moving to Pinehurst — the Home of American Golf, as it’s rightly known — was the worst thing I could have done to an aging golf game because I had no regular buddies to play with. I arrived there in 2005 a 2.5 index player and left a decade later a limping 10.5. All work and little play had left Jimmy one step closer to dufferdom. “I’m thinking we should do it one last time before the boneyard summons,” Pat declared. “You’re probably saying it because, for the first time in half-acentury, you’re regularly beating me.” “That’s true,” he admitted as we walked off for me to buy the beer. “But it would be even sweeter to finally beat you in some of the classic courses you love best.” Pat is a persuasive fellow, probably the reason he’s such a successful industrial go-to guy for one of the nation’s leading home improvement chains. To begin with, he’s blessed to the marrow with “the craic,” a delightful Irish slang word derived from Old English that denotes a natural ability to charm and engage almost anyone in friendly conversation. I’d witnessed my old friend work his Celtic magic too many times to deny its validity. Some years PineStraw 15
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back while chasing the ball around Ireland, a mutual friend with a wicked sense of humor bestowed Pat the perfect nickname of “The Irish Antichrist,” owing to his supernatural ability to disarm and coerce a smile from almost everyone we met. More than once, I must concede, we drank for free for the evening. Over his latest victory beer, I told Pat something Sam Snead said to me almost 30 years ago as we were playing the Greenbrier’s famous Old White course on a similar autumn afternoon. I was there to write about him for my “Departures” golf column. Sam liked me, in part because I was good friends with his best friend, Bill Campbell, the legendary amateur. Snead was almost an honorary son of Greensboro where he won the Greater Greensboro Open a record eight times, including six times at Starmount Forest, where Pat and I were soon sitting at the bar with our beers. “How old are you now, son?” Slammin’ Sam asked me that faraway afternoon. “Just turned 40, Mr. Snead.” “What a great age. That’s the prime of life — makin’ good money, got a wife and kids, probably playin’ your best golf ever. I wrote a book about that called Golf Begins at Forty. You should read it.” I promised to lay hands on a copy — when I got old. “But here’s the thing,” he went ahead. “Someday you’ll blink your eyes and be 70 or 80 years old. It’ll happen that fast, you’ll hardly believe it. You’ll suddenly be saying farewell to golf. That’s when you better grab hold of as many golf memories as you pos-
sibly can. That’s the beauty of golf. If you keep after it, you can play till your last breath. No other game on Earth let’s a fella do that.” I watched him tee up his ball. “Just so you know,” he added over his shoulder, “I got plans to play at least to 100.” And with that, 81-year-old Samuel Jackson Snead striped a splendid drive to the heart of the 17th fairway. “So, who won the match?” demanded the Irish Antichrist. “That’s not the point,” I said as we sat at the bar. “Sam was just sharing a little golf wisdom about enjoying the game as one ages.” “Good for him. I guess this means we’re off to the Holy Land next year. By the way, I get at least four strokes a side.” “No way. Three for 18,” I said firmly, pointing out the three-stroke difference in our official handicap indexes. This was nothing new. Over five plus decades, we’d argued about everything from the prettiest Bond girl to the absurdity of orange golf balls. A good friend, it’s said, knows all your best stories, but a best friend has lived them with you. Over 10 days near summer’s end, in the 58th year of our friendship, we played eight classic British golf courses during the heaviest rains in England’s recorded history. It was a slog, almost impossible at times as gale force winds blew our handicaps to pieces. Between us, we easily lost a dozen golf balls. But we had the time of our lives. Somehow, unforgettably, we ended up in a tie. PS Jim Dodson can be reached at jwdauthor@gmail.com.
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PinePitch Philharmonic Fun The Carolina Philharmonic hosts its annual gala fundraiser on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 6:30 p.m., at the Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. Chef Mark Elliott will orchestrate the meal, and Maestro David Michael Wolff and the junior orchestra will perform. Proceeds from the dinner and charity auction support music education programs. Cost is $150 per person. For more information call (910) 603-0444 or go to www.carolinaphil.org.
AutumnFest We’re talking running, magic, dancing, arts, crafts, food and way, way more. Hey, the Arts Council of Moore County and Southern Pines Parks and Rec have been doing this since 1978. Activities begin at 9 a.m. and last until 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 7 at the Downtown Park in Southern Pines, 145 S.E. Broad St. For additional information call (910) 692-7376 or, better yet, just show up. In the next-to-last First Friday of the 2023 season, enjoy the blues sound of Eddie 9V on Oct. 6 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the stage at Sunrise Square next to the theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. The usual rules apply. No Cujos allowed. There will be food trucks, and Southern Pines Brewing Company will be on-site to administer hops and barley on demand. For additional info call (910) 420-2540 or go to www.sunrisetheater.com.
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The Corner of Ghosts and Goblins Trick-or-treat the downtown businesses of Southern Pines in Boofest 2023 beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 20. After your candy buckets are full, gather at the Downtown Park, 145 S.E. Broad St., beginning at 5:30 p.m. for Halloween games, crafts and the best dog costume raffle. If you need more information call (910) 692-7376.
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Classical Gas Enjoy the classical guitar virtuosity of Meng Su in the McPherson Theater of the Bradshaw Performing Arts Center at Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, on Thursday, Oct. 5, from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. She has performed in over 30 countries around the world in halls such as the Concertgebouw, Palau de Musica, Tchaikovsky Hall and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. Cost is $30. For more information go to www.ticketmesandhills.com.
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It’s Not Easy Having a Good Time Watch The Rocky Horror Picture Show outdoors on the Sunrise Square next to the theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines, on Friday, Oct. 27 at 6:30 p.m. There will be another showing on Oct. 28. Same Bat time, same Bat channel. If you need costume advice call (910) 420-2549 or go to www.sunrisetheater.com.
The celebration begins on Sunday, Oct. 8, at 2 p.m. at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. There will be a presentation, land acknowledgment and history, smudging ceremony, prayer song and traditional dances with Kaya Littleturtle of the Lumbee Tribe. Admission is free but registration required. The celebration continues on Monday, Oct. 9, with an outdoor children’s event, traditional dance showcase, friendship dances, corn husk doll-making, storytelling and songs. For more information go to www.weymouthcenter.org.
Feelin’ Fearless? Ride a hay-covered wagon down the winding path and into the haunted woods on October’s spookiest Friday the 13th from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Campbell House Grounds, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. You’re fair game for every haunted creature of the night. Be prepared for light, sound, smell, maybe even liquid substances. For daredevils of all ages. Cost is $5 per victim. Campbell House Grounds, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
Monte Carlo in Moore Celebrate Carolina Horse Park’s 25th anniversary from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at Village Pine Venue, 1628 McCaskill Road, Carthage, on lucky Friday the 13th with roulette, craps, blackjack and poker, plus raffles to invest your winnings. There will be a silent auction, hors d’oeuvres, and an open bar. Wear your best James Bond cocktail attire. Tickets are $85 for one and $150 for two. Info: www.carolinahorsepark.com. PineStraw 21
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Librarians are good at deciphering mys-
teries. Just ask any card-carrying library fan. They can be sherpas, of a sort, guiding readers from behind the confines of their reference desks to a world of information often only a bookshelf or computer click away.
Some are good at creating them, too, as Victoria Gilbert, a former librarian-turned-mystery writer, shows in A Cryptic Clue, the first book in her new Hunter and Clewe cozy mystery series. Raised in the “shadows of the Blue Ridge mountains,” Gilbert has been a reference librarian, a research librarian and a library director so, in the vein of “write what you know,” it’s easy to see why the protagonist in her new series is Jane Hunter, a 60-yearold university librarian forced into early retirement and a new chapter in life. Gilbert’s Jane has tinges of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple in her, although she is a divorcee, not a spinster, who still wants to work for a living to pad her paltry pension. That desire to find a new vocation leads Gilbert’s chief sleuth to her new boss, Cameron Clewe — Cam, to those who know the 33-year-old unconventional multi-millionaire well — who was looking for an archivist and hired Jane sight unseen. Cam not only inherited tremendous wealth at a young age, but also an estate so large that it houses a private library, guest quarters and grand rooms where the well-to-do and those aspiring to affluence gather for glamorous galas, glitzy fundraisers and seasonal soirees. Although Jane describes her new boss as “leading man material,” he’s a nervous type whose lack of a filter makes him a blunt, often humorless, speaker. “I didn’t realize you were so old,” Cam says upon meeting Jane in his library. “And rather heavier than I expected, given that photo on the university website.” Jane, on the other hand, is a woman used to working with college students and the mother of a grown daughter, an actress with a middle name that might as well be “drama.” She checks herself instead of blurting out the first thing that pops into her mind. “That photo is a bit dated,” Jane responds, keeping her eyes on
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the prize she did not want to lose. Her Social Security payments wouldn’t kick in for at least two more years. She needs the work. Furthermore, she’s interested in sifting through and cataloging “the books and papers connected to classic mystery and detective authors” that have been amassed in Aircroft, Cam’s mansion. “As for my current appearance — years working in academia has taken its toll, it seems. But I am certain you hired me for my expertise, not my looks.” Such is the beginning of the relationship that brings two Sherlocks from very different circumstances together to solve a mystery that holds a reader’s interest through the very last page. The whodunit kicks off on a Monday at Aircroft after a charity fete over the weekend. Jane walks into the library on her first day of work, travel mug filled with coffee in hand, to find the body of Ashley Allen crumpled on the floor, “unquestionably, irrevocably dead.” After “fighting the urge to retch” and scanning the crime scene with a surprisingly calm detachment, Jane staggers into the hallway, slumps against the wall and slides to the floor. “There’s a dead body in the library,” Jane thought. “That room meant to be my workplace is now a murder scene.” It’s not just any body, either. Ashley was Cam’s ex-girlfriend, someone Jane had seen her new boss arguing with days earlier while touring the garden grounds. More than 100 people had been at Aircroft for the party the night before. Ashley had been there too, and was still clad in her silver sequined dress. “You do realize who will be their number one suspect, of course,” Cam says after seeing the crime scene. Quickly Cam decides to be proactive and use his resources to investigate Ashley’s death on his own. He turns to Jane for help. “I PineStraw 27
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refuse to lounge around while the authorities build a case against me,” Cam declares. But, as his assistant Lauren points out, Cam is agoraphobic, rarely venturing out past the gates surrounding his home. That’s where Jane comes in. “I’ll need help collecting information from the wider community. Which is what I’d like you two to do,” Cam tells Jane and Lauren. “Bring me back any clues you uncover, and I can piece it together, and perhaps solve this case before the authorities start casting about for a scapegoat. Namely me.” The hunt for clues is added to Jane’s assigned duties. As Cam sets out to collect information from the kitchen staff and guests who had been staying in his house, Jane pursues the story outside Aircroft, casting about town for hints why the beautiful and wealthy Ashley has been killed, presumably by a fatal head wound delivered with a blunt object. There is no shortage of suspects, either. Ashley left a trail of aggrieved casualties from former romances, business ventures and injurious family dynamics. As Jane and Cam glean the many storylines from Gilbert’s cast of characters, suspects are added to and subtracted from the list. Jane’s landlord, Vince, a retired reporter from the local newspaper, and his girlfriend, Donna, a former secretary at the local high school, provide background depth to clues that Jane turns up from her sleuthing. In addition to the love interests and resentful entrepreneurs
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October Books FICTION The Glutton, by A.K. Blakemore 1798, France. Nuns move along the dark corridors of a Versailles hospital where the young Sister Perpetué has been tasked with sitting by the patient who must always be watched. The man, gaunt, with his sallow skin and distended belly, is dying — they say he ate a golden fork, and that it’s killing him from the inside. But that’s not all. He is rumored to have done monstrous things in his attempts to sate an insatiable appetite . . . an appetite they say tortures him still. Born in an impoverished village to a widowed young mother, Tarare was once overflowing with quiet affection: for his mother, for the plants and little creatures in the woods and fields around their house. But soon life as he knew it is violently upended. Tarare is pitched down a chaotic path through revolutionary France, left to the mercy of strangers, and increasingly, bottomlessly, ravenous. This exhilarating, disquieting novel paints a richly imagined life for The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon in 18th-century France: a world of desire, hunger, poverty, chaos and survival. Julia, by Sandra Newman Julia Worthing is a mechanic, working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. It’s 1984, and Britain (now called Airstrip One) has long been absorbed into the larger transatlantic nation of Oceania. Ruled by an ultra-totalitarian party whose leader is a quasi-mythical figure called Big Brother, Oceania has been at war for as long as anyone can remember. In short, everything about this world is as it is in George Orwell’s 1984. All her life, Julia has known only Oceania and, until she meets Winston Smith, she has never imagined anything else. She is an ideal citizen: cheerfully cynical, always ready with a bribe, piously repeating every political slogan while believing in nothing. She routinely breaks the rules, but also collaborates with the regime when necessary. Then one day she finds herself walking toward Winston Smith in a corridor and impulsively slips him a note, setting in motion the journey through Orwell’s now-iconic dystopia, with twists that reveal unexpected sides not only to Julia, but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
The Hive and The Honey, by Paul Yoon A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. The Hive and the Honey is a bold and indelible collection that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters. How does a North Korean defector connect with the child she once left behind? What are the traumas that haunt a Korean settlement in Far East Russia? Yoon’s stunning stories are laced with beauty and cruelty, the work of an author writing at the very height of his powers. NONFICTION Hitchcock’s Blondes: The Unforgettable Women Behind the Legendary Director’s Dark Obsession, by Laurence Leamer Alfred Hitchcock was fixated not just on the dark, twisty stories that became his hallmark, but also on the blonde actresses who starred in many of his iconic movies. The director of North by Northwest, Rear Window and other classic films didn’t much care if they wore wigs, got their hair coloring out of a bottle or were the rarest human specimen — a natural blonde — as long as they shone with a golden veneer on camera. In Hitchcock’s Blondes, Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped chart the course of the troubled, talented director’s career, from his early days in the British film industry, to his triumphant American debut, to his Hollywood heyday and beyond. Through the stories of June Howard-Tripp, Madeleine Carroll, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, Janet Leigh, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint and Tippi Hedren — who together starred in 14 of Hitchcock’s most notable films and who bore the brunt of his fondness and fixation — we start to see the enigmatic man himself. After all, “his blondes” (as he thought of them) knew the truths of his art, his obsessions and desires, as well as anyone. PineStraw 31
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Picture This A wallet-sized memory
By Bill Fields
A fall ritual, as certain as
football and Halloween, was the school picture.
It seems to be the thing now for parents to pose their kids with a sign as they depart for the first day of classes, a label of grade and year reminding everyone in the family and on social media of the historic moment, often occurring now in the ungodly heat of summer. In the dark ages of my youth, I’m sure a minority of families documented the coming of another academic year with Polaroids or Kodak snapshots in a primitive version of the current practice. But most of us relied on the visit of the nomadic professional photographer, who would show up around the same time the bags of bite-sized candy were being stocked at the A&P. We would be alerted by our teacher in advance of the taking of the school pictures, so haircuts and clothing could be considered. Going to public school and not wearing uniforms, the latter factor was a biggie — for our parents if not ourselves. Over the years, I wore T-shirts, short-sleeved seersucker, mock turtlenecks and wide-collared golf shirts. Senior year of high school, for reasons unknown, the boys were decked out in light blue tuxedo jackets. (I must have liked the look, owing to my allegiance to the Tar Heels or that I was able to rent that color on the cheap at Storey’s in the Town and Country Shopping Center. I wore one to the prom the forthcoming spring. Paired with black pants, it made me resemble a giant indigo bunting who had spent too much time at the feeder.) Regardless of grade or costume, we would make our way to the photographer’s makeshift studio on the appointed day. The flash attachment for Dad’s Brownie camera or flashcubes for my Instamatic were no match for the pro’s equipment: Strobes bounced into white umbrellas, evenly illuminating subject and background. Take a seat on a stool, smile (or not), click. It was over quick. I couldn’t tell you the identity of anybody who was behind the camera in those years but was fascinated to hear, The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
years later, from a friend who grew up in New Castle, Pennsylvania, outside Pittsburgh, that the major leaguer Chuck Tanner had an off-season gig as school photographer in his hometown. That was a long time ago. When the photo proofs were made available weeks later, especially as we moved into junior high and beyond, it was obvious that a comb or Clearasil would have been a good idea on picture day. Until about eighth grade, I sported a crew cut. The year I began to go to the barber shop less frequently, my school picture documents why some classmates called me “Wolf Head” for a while. Fortunately, the transitioning hair and the nickname were short-lived. I don’t recall us ever not ordering a set of prints, regardless of how I looked. A popular “package” comprised an 8x10, two 5x7s and a sheet of wallet-sized images. Using scissors to separate the small ones was a challenge, but most of them ended up in a drawer, never having to worry about being faded by sunlight. For a long time, a nearly complete collection of my school pictures, along with those of my sisters, was stored in my childhood home, a file of growing up and growing older. Recently I came upon a strip of wallet-sized images in a box of my stuff. In them I don’t look like a carnivorous wild animal, so I’m guessing ninth or 10th grade. I used to tease my father about an unfortunate brown leisure suit of his, but this school picture proves I once wore brown, too. Years after Dad was gone, I finally looked through his last wallet. There was the usual stuff: driver’s license, credit card, doctors’ appointment reminders, golf handicap card, receipts for gasoline, a few dollars in folding money. And in one of the plastic slots behind the snap enclosure there was 17-year-old me, imagining the skies ahead, skies the color of my coat. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north in 1986 but hasn’t lost his accent. PineStraw 35
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Waves, 2021, acrylic and collage (incl. paper, cheesecloth, nori) on linen, 60 x 80 in
Careful Chaos Chieko Murasugi’s art subverts order and changes perspectives By Liza Roberts
Abstract painter Chieko
Murasugi has navigated conflicting perspectives all her life. She holds a Ph.D. in visual science and works as an artist; she is the Tokyo-born daughter of Japanese immigrants who was raised in Toronto and lives in America; she is a former impressionist painter who has turned to visual illusion to anchor her geometric art. “I want to make the elusive, disparate, confusing, multifaceted nature of the world absolutely clear,” says Murasugi. “I want to be
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clear in my view that the world is unclear.” Illusions underpin this message; her interest in them is one of the few things that has remained constant in her life. As a scientist, Murasugi studied visual perception because she was fascinated by mysteries like 3D illustrations that seem to flip upside down or right-side up depending on the angle of the viewer, or the ghosts of afterimages, or the way the interpretation of a color changes depending on the colors that sit beside it. Now, as an artist, she uses phenomena like these to tweak a viewer’s perception, to make a picture plane shift before their eyes, to turn it from one thing into another. She populates these paintings with crisp, unambiguous, flat-colored shapes. “I have clarity and I have ambiguity at the same time,” she says. “And that’s really at the crux of my art. It’s The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
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Which Way Home, 2023, flashe vinyl paint on canvas, 36 x 48 in the ambiguity, the clarity, the dichotomy.” Her art creates it, and she’s long lived it. Murasugi grew up in a “very white” Canadian suburb, “very clearly a minority.” As a child, her father, a descendant of 1600s-era samurai, showed her maps of Japan’s former reach across Asia, and told her “Americans took it away.” He told her about how American forces firebombed downtown Tokyo, and how he and her mother barely escaped with their lives. But these were not facts she’d been taught in school, or heard anywhere else. “I had taken world history, and I had not heard anything about the firebombings of Japan,” she says. “And so everywhere I went, I was presented with diverging, often conflicting, but very disparate narratives. Who am I supposed to believe?” When she was studying for her doctorate at York University in Canada, she recalls, her professors proudly touted the department’s significance in the field. Then she went to Stanford to do postdoctoral work in neurobiology and nobody had heard of her colleagues at York University. “Again, I had to shift my perspective,” she says. Fueling those shifts was an overwhelming curiosity, she says, “always wanting to know why. Why, why, why. Curiosity has been the driving force of my life.” Years later, when Murasugi left her accomplished academic career and the world of science for art, her viewpoint shifted again. In a deeply rooted way, she was coming home; she had always drawn and painted, and she studied art in college as well as science. Even at the height of her successful scientific career as a professor and research scientist, Murasugi believed that she didn’t truly belong. She thought she wasn’t quantitative, logical or analytical enough, that “there was something that was missing in the way that I was thinking,” she says. With art, the opposite was the case: “I knew I could do it.” After she moved to North Carolina with her husband several years ago, this innate conviction took her back to school, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for an MFA. There she met fellow artists she respected and joined with to co-found and co-curate an artist-run Chapel Hill exhibit space called Basement, which has earned a reputation as an incubator for emerging artists and which regularly exhibits their work to the public. Over the last 18 months, Murasugi has found fresh directions, resulting in a The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
In Loving Memory: Worlds Left Behind, 2023, acrylic on linen, 60 x 40 in
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new body of work, called Chance, that explores randomization, color theory, chance and chaos. “My mother was basically dying when I began this series,” she says. “Her impending death, having to process her death, is what inspired it. And I continued it for about a year, because I was just bereft.” Murasugi’s mother survived World War II “by chance” and always thought of her life as defined by that good fortune; this fueled Murasugi’s experimentation with art made, in part, “by chance.” Using an algorithm available on the website random.org to arrange her own colors, shapes and patterns into random arrangements and compositions, Murasugi created a series of colorful, geometric works. In late summer 2022, she posted these works on the Instagram feed of Asheville’s Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, part of her digital residency with the museum. She also exhibited them at Craven Allen, her Durham gallery. More recently, Murasugi has returned to the illusion-anchored canvases she began a few years ago — what she now refers to as her “old way of painting.” It has been “a huge struggle,” she says, because “the end point is unknown.” Unlike the work made with the guidance of the randomizing program, “the trajectory is not straightforward” with these newer, intuitive paintings. “It’s forward and backwards, left and right. I’ve always worked this way, before I went to the Chance series, and I’d almost forgotten how difficult painting is. Both fun, and excruciatingly difficult.” Some of the pieces currently underway will find their way to CAM Raleigh for a show called NeoPsychedelia that opens Nov. 10. She will also have a piece featured and sold at ArtSpace’s ArtBash, a fundraising gala, on Nov. 18, also in Raleigh. Murasugi’s work has also been exhibited in museums in San Francisco, New York and across the South, and is in the collections of the City of Raleigh and Duke University. Its abstraction welcomes any interpretation at all; its subtle illusory elements gently subvert them. “People have said to me over the years: Your work is so beautiful. And I think, well, I hope it doesn’t stop there,” she says. “As long as they see that there were two ways of looking at it.” PS This is an excerpt from Art of the State: Celebrating the Art of North Carolina, published by UNC Press. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
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Which Sweet Vermouth? Finding the best cocktail companion
By Tony Cross
One of my best friends is an avid beer drinker. He gets off on all of the subtle complexities that make beer and all of the varietals unique. He sent me a message last week asking, for probably the third time, “What’s the name of that damn vermouth again?”
My friend and his wife were at a cocktail lounge in Canada where they enjoyed a few classic drinks. The negroni was one of them. For someone who never drinks cocktails, he was amazed at the possibilities when combining spirit, sweet and bitter. Now, if he could only remember which vermouth they used, he could recreate the drink at home. Because we live to serve, here are a few sweet vermouths and how to pair them with some of the classics — including his. Now he’ll have a paper trail.
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Manhattan The first time I made a proper drink, it was a Manhattan. I had special-ordered a case of rye whiskey from our ABC and taken a trip to a wine shop in Southern Pines to purchase a bottle of vermouth. Rittenhouse was the rye and Carpano Antica was the vermouth. The drink forever changed the way I viewed cocktails. I’ve always been adamant about making Manhattans with Carpano, but I do change the specs from time to time. Lately, I’ve been using Mancino vermouth. It was birthed in Asti, Piedmont, in 2011, when owner Giancarlo Mancino wanted to create the world’s finest vermouths with hand-picked botanicals and spices. The Mancino vermouth is a little more full-bodied than the Carpano, with notes of baking spices and juniper. Trying this on its own, with or without ice, is a great way to The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
understand your vermouth’s flavor profile before adding it to your cocktail. It’s also great as an aperitif. 2 ounces rye whiskey 1 ounce Mancino vermouth 2 dashes Angostura bitters Put whiskey, vermouth, and bitters into a cold mixing vessel, add ice, and stir until cocktail is properly chilled and diluted. Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. Garnish with Luxardo or brandied cherry.
Red Hook In the 2000s, there were a number of bartenders who created cocktails that were spins on the classic Brooklyn cocktail, which consisted of rye whiskey, dry vermouth, maraschino liqueur and Amer Picon, a hard to find French apéritif. One of these variations, the Red Hook, caught my eye when I was behind the bar. I had seen a video where bartender Jamie Boudreau showed how to barrel-age this stirred cocktail. I was “hooked.” (Apologies to all.) Even though Boudreau might have been the first to barrel-age the Red Hook, it was originally created in 2003 by bartender, Vincenzo Errico at the Milk & Honey bar in New York City. The cocktail still uses rye whiskey and maraschino liqueur but incorporates the sweet vermouth Punt e Mes. This Italian vermouth translates to “point and a half” — one part sweet, one-half part bitter. That little bit of bitterness from the vermouth is exactly why using Punt e Mes is the perfect fit. 2 ounces rye whiskey 1/2 ounce maraschino liqueur 1/2 ounce Punt e Mes Combine whiskey, maraschino liqueur and vermouth in a chilled mixing vessel. Add ice and stir until drink is chilled and diluted. Strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. Garnish with maraschino cherry. PineStraw 41
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Negroni Last but not least, we have the beloved negroni. This cocktail can be considered a cocktail and an apéritif. It’s lovely to enjoy right before dinner because it really does awaken your taste buds. At the same time, it’s perfectly fine to enjoy a negroni any time you feel like having a drink. The drink is easy to create — the first time I learned, it was 3/4 ounce (each) of gin, Campari and sweet vermouth. Later I upped the amount of each ingredient to an ounce, and then began adding a bit more gin than the other two ingredients. I also rearranged the types of gin. For example, a London Dry like Beefeater’s is a great go-to because of the juniper and orange notes, but a Plymouth gin will make the cocktail more earthy and soft. Campari was always a staple but I could swap out several vermouths. One of my favorite vermouths to use is Carpano Antica — the vermouth my friend keeps forgetting. With its notes of orange and vanilla, it creates the perfect bridge between the higher proof gin and bitter Campari. If you’ve never tried a negroni, I implore you to. 1 1/4 ounces gin 3/4 ounce Campari 3/4 ounce Carpano Antica You can create this cocktail three ways. The first is to build it in the glass you’ll be drinking from. To do this, simply combine all ingredients in a rocks glass, add ice, stir, and garnish with an orange slice. The second, is to put all the ingredients in a chilled mixing vessel, add ice, and then strain into a rocks glass over ice. Lastly, and this is done to completely control the dilution, repeat the second method but strain into a chilled cocktail coupe. If straining over ice in a rocks glass, garnish with an orange slice; if straining into a coupe, garnish with orange peel, expressing the oils over the cocktail before adding to the glass. PS Tony Cross owns and operates Reverie Cocktails, a cocktail delivery service that delivers kegged cocktails for businesses to pour on tap — but once a bartender, always a bartender. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
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Roll, Roll, Roll Your Oats The renaissance of porridge Story and Photograph by Rose Shewey
Many moons ago, around the time when candy
cigarettes and slap-on bracelets were the cat’s pajamas, a serving of oatmeal seemed more like a punishment to me than a meal worth savoring. My mom cooking oats for us usually meant one of two things: The 7-year-old me had not eaten “right” for a while and needed proper sustenance; or we had simply run out of other breakfast foods (namely bread) before grocery day. While my brother and I despised cooked oats and feigned tummy aches at the sight of it, we were completely sold on an oatmeal rendition we had been introduced to in our neighbor’s kitchen: raw oats soaked in cold milk for just a minute or two, served with a dash of cacao and a sprinkling of brown sugar. Love, instantly. To us, it was the perfect composition of a refreshing, lightly sweetened, satisfying oat snack, minus the mush. While cooked oats weren’t our jam, this chilled adaptation became a staple in our meal rotation through much of my childhood. My brother, now in his 40s, still eats his oats chilled. Meanwhile, I have made room in my life for traditionally cooked, warm and comforting, creamy oatmeal. Though porridge, which can be made from any whole grain, is making a comeback as a whole, oatmeal in particular seems to take center stage. Denmark has an established chain of restaurants that serves nothing but porridge for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Savory oatmeal has gone viral on social media this year with masala oats, a traditional Indian breakfast dish, on the rise. Many speculate that the gluten-free craze has contributed to the revival of oatmeal; some believe that studies showing oatmeal aids weight loss are to be credited for it — which is a bit of mystery to me, seeing that the vast majority of people jazz up their oats with fat and sugar. I, however, have a different take on the renaissance of oatmeal. While oatmeal hardly falls in the category of “acquired taste,” I have numerous friends who, much like myself, went from total rejection to complete adoration of this humble dish. Aside from the fact that I actually enjoy the taste and texture of oatmeal nowadays, I’m drawn to it for another, fairly significant reason. Oatmeal has a unique way of grounding me. However complicated life gets, a bowl of oatmeal is the epitome of simplicity and instantly connects me with the quiet, unrushed aspects of my life. It’s like a warm hug on a chilly day — oatmeal nourishes body and soul. I believe that this sentiment is quietly shared among many of us who embrace this scrumptious, gratifying dish, and may be much more relevant in explaining the recent popularity of oatmeal. But if I happen to lose a few pounds down the road, eating buttery, sugar-sprinkled oatmeal, I’ll happily stand corrected.
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Creamy Pumpkin Oatmeal (Makes 2 Servings) Ingredients 1 1/2 cups water Pinch of salt 1 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup pumpkin puree 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1-2 tablespoons sweetener, to taste (honey, maple syrup or granulated sugar) 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin spice, optional (see note) Directions Bring water and salt to a boil, then add oats. Stir to combine, then add remaining ingredients. Simmer for 5-10 minutes until you reach your desired consistency; remove from heat and allow to rest for 1-2 minutes before serving. Top with seasonal fruit, such as figs, grapes or pears; add pumpkin seeds, cacao nibs, sliced almonds or other chopped nuts, to taste. Note: Add pumpkin spice for more flavor. To make your own pumpkin spice, combine 1 heaping teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger and 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves. PS German native Rose Shewey is a food stylist and food photographer. To see more of her work visit her website, suessholz.com.
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W. Morganton Road and pull into the parking lot at Memorial Park, around, say, 8 o’clock in the morning. Directly through the windshield, you’ll see a pair of empty tennis courts, nets sagging low. They seem to let out a prolonged sigh as the color slowly drains from their hard, green faces as if they’re the sad relics of a popular pastime from a past time.
To their left, a constant thwack, thwack, thwacking drowns out the imagined groans of the aging courts next door. “Hi, Sam or Chuck or Michelle,” somebody inevitably sings as they push through a chain-link gate into a space bubbling with laughter and the sound of endless thwacking spilling out of the half-dozen slick new pickleball courts. The public facility replaced a different set of sorry tennis courts at the turn of the summer. Since then, the leftover hardcourt has looked on glumly, little more than spectators watching the new kids on the block. Originally championed by the silver-haired demographic
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because its play area takes up one third of the real estate of a tennis court, pickleball’s popularity is winning over younger generations, too. More than just the latest excuse to pull a hamstring, it’s the fastest-growing sport in the United States and has been for three years. With all the hype, from televised matches to pickleball style guides, you’d think the darling of court sports was imagined yesterday by a brilliant Ivy League dropout. Errrrr, wrong. The first pickleball match was played well before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, in a lazy summer slump of 1965. Determined to entertain their bored children, a gaggle of desperate dads — one of them, Joel Pritchard, a Washington state congressman — slapdashedly devised the sport out of a badminton court, ping-pong paddles and a wiffleball. Pickleball is the improv sketch of the sports world. Even its name sounds like the butt of a quirky dad joke. So the legend goes, the Pritchard family dog, a cockapoo named Pickles, zig-zagged across the backyard court sniping the game ball, giving the sport its name. In defiance of this urban legend, the Pritchards themselves maintain the pooch ‘n fetch came later. In fact, the paddle sport’s name derived from the term “pickle boat,” rowing slang for a scull full of misfits. Because the sport was thrown together piecemeal, Joel’s wife, Joan, dubbed it pickleball. After nearly six decades of play, the sport — if it can be elevated to that status, pickleball — has spread from that backyard in Washington, through perhaps a jillion senior centers and YMCAs, to thwack its way into mainstream recreation areas from Seattle to Sarasota, Burbank to Boston. Its simplicity is a big reason the sport has been so readily adopted. Usually played in doubles, only the serving team can score. The serve must be hit underhand, diagonally to the opposing pair. Faults include: a shot hit out of bounds, a shot that doesn’t clear the net, or when something happens in a no-volley
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zone called the “kitchen.” Play to 11 and win by two. There are more rules, but that’s enough to get on the court. The skills of Novak Djokovic are not required. I was no pickleball pro when I arrived at Memorial Park on a golden Friday morning. With a borrowed paddle and my laces cinched down tight, I was as ready as I needed to be to join a warm-up doubles match. “It’s just about getting your paddle on the ball,” one player said, coaxing me onto the court. That first solid thwack snuffed out any pregame jitters. The blunt feedback of a middle-of-the-paddle hit was more satisfying than I could have imagined, although finesse rather than strength is king on the court. “The challenging part, coming from a tennis background, is you’re used to hitting the ball hard,” says Anne Merkel, a five-tosix day a week pickler. “And that’s not it. The goal is to try to get up close and just dink it. It’s very strategic. Some compare it to playing chess — it’s all about angles.” I took the advice, finessing the ball left and right, trying to place it out of the opponents’ reach. Sometimes it worked, though not often enough. We lost the truncated scrimmage in a dismal showing, 5–0. Regrettably, I had to go. Revenge would have to wait. Walking to the car, I phoned my husband, “We need pickleball paddles,” I said. Beginner or advanced, with or without a partner, from sunrise till quits, people tumble into Memorial Park and, smooth like butter, they seamlessly rotate into matches. This is how the courts have been since they opened in June. “I love it because it’s fun, the camaraderie, but there’s that little bit of competitiveness,” Merkel says. “Pickleball is for everybody.” PS Jenna Biter is a writer and military wife in the Sandhills. She can be reached at jennabiter@protonmail.com.
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A Mission that Rings True The Village Chapel turns 125
“The Village Chapel has stood here through all these years, with its slender spire, its beautiful proportions, its chaste simplicity, its friendly and devout spirit, to bless and inspire those who come under its influence. Some have been gracious enough to say that the Chapel is the heart of Pinehurst.” — Dr. Thaddeus A. Cheatham, Pastor, The Village Chapel (1908-1950) By Steve Woodward
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penned the above sentiment upon his retirement after guiding Pinehurst’s first church, The Village Chapel, during a remarkable span of 42 years. His words resonate today, on the eve of the Chapel’s commemoration of its 125th anniversary, which will be formally celebrated on Oct. 29.
Little is known about Cheatham before the Episcopalian priest arrived in Moore County in 1908 but he was the right man at the right time. The Chapel as it stands today was built in 1924 and held its first service on March 1, 1925. Its roots, however, trace to the establishment of a religious society envisioned by Pinehurst’s founder, James Walker Tufts, and formally organized in 1898 by his close friend Dr. Edward E. Hale, a Unitarian pastor. The Village Chapel became the heart of Pinehurst long before a “slender spire” towered overhead. Tufts believed that the destination he created to attract refugees from Northern winters would not succeed unless it was held together by something more than a moderate climate. He called it Christian unity and, in pursuing that objective, Tufts and Hale formed one of the first interdenominational churches in the United States. With the evolution of the Pinehurst Religious Association around 1897, seasonal visiting worshippers began gathering in Pinehurst’s first lodging, The Holly Inn, for Sunday services. In ensuing years, they assembled in the Casino Building, which in that era meant “community center.” Ultimately, a village hall was erected and Sunday worship relocated there — as long as someThe Art & Soul of the Sandhills
one could round up a visiting pastor. A Catholic congregation eventually began meeting for Mass under the same roof, reenforcing the spirit of unity Tufts sought. As observed by The Pinehurst Outlook, interdenominational worship achieved an “ideal sought by many.” Cheatham’s arrival stabilized the Sunday schedule and, by 1923, his leadership was inspiring Chapel members to dream of erecting an elegant new building on the Village Green. Unfettered generosity made possible the chapel that would soon be constructed. A frequent visitor, Mary Bruce, initiated the building fund by presenting Cheatham a check for $5,000 ($89,000 in 2023 dollars) from her death bed in New York when he visited after Easter 1923. According to Chapel archives, news of the donation spurred pledges exceeding $40,000 within 20 minutes after Cheatham formed a building committee. Among the donors was Pinehurst No. 2 course architect Donald Ross, already well on his way to fame as one of golf’s premier designers. When Leonard Tufts, James’ son, was advised that cash was flowing in, he donated prime Village Green land. No hearings. No bonds. When The Village Chapel opened its doors, Pastor Cheatham could not have known that 25 more years of stewardship lay before him. From the second half of the 20th century through the present, the roster of senior pastors has multiplied to 11. Rev. Dr. Ashley Smith became senior pastor upon the retirement after a decade of service of Rev. Dr. John Jacobs in 2022. Smith arrived at the Chapel to serve as associate pastor in 2011. The Chapel has long been known for its music. In 1988 music director John Shannon oversaw installation of the Chapel’s second carillon. It was equipped with speakers housed in the Chapel’s steeple. This carillon soon became a mainstay in the village. Westminster chimes play each hour. Hymns emanate every three hours. Payne Stewart famously remarked following his U.S. Open victory in 1999 that hearing the bells gently piercing the silence relaxed him as he was teeing off on the 18th hole in the decisive final round. Robust community support for Village Chapel expansion would repeat across the decades. In 1961, an administrative wing
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Fall Faves The crown of the calendar
By Deborah Salomon
The primordial con-
nection between humans and the seasons has survived for millennia. Spring invigorates. Winter draws us to the fireside. Autumn, ah autumn, is a mixed blessing: relief from summer’s searing heat, harbinger of winter’s cruel chill. These days, climate change is messing with both extremes, confusing plants and wildlife. I’m an autumn gal, not a fan of summer vacations. My favorite autumn sub-season is called Back to School. Its talismans (talismen? taliswomen?) still evoke a pang rooted in a variety of experiences, good and not-so, beginning with . . . Plaid cotton dresses: Through fifth grade I attended a progressive all-girls private school that required uniforms — navy jumpers, white blouses, knee socks and lace-up shoes. Then we moved to a different planet where I was plunged into public school, where girls wore plaid cotton dresses. My mother didn’t approve. Sensible skirts and blouses for me. Penny loafers? Not a chance. The resulting quest for autumn plaid survives in long-sleeved shirts that look old-fashioned but complement jeans weathered by wearing, not a chemical bath. Absolutely necessary for b-to-s: ring binders covered in a medium-blue fabric, with metal rings that snapped hard, sometimes on fingers. The fabric surfaces welcomed ball-point graffiti, including names of boyfriends, or school teams, cartoons or pop singers. Designs were psychedelic before psychedelia had been invented. My binder suffered from lack of artistry. Then, as autumn progressed, brown and navy corduroy replaced those lightweight plaids. Whatever happened to real corduroy, just cozy enough for late October? All I could find was a jacket at Walmart, with the texture of mashed potatoes. Long before the overuse of “pumpkin spice” in every conceivable food, the first fall McIntosh apples released their cider — with its incredible aroma — at New England cider mills, also
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the source for cider doughnuts, which added a new dimension to coffee breaks. Starbucks and Dunkin’ . . . don’t bother trying. Even three dollars and a fancy name can’t buy that smell. As the leaves fell and days shortened generations “laid in” for winter, a necessary evil, beginning with gray, damp November — on nobody’s Best Month list. February turns the corner, with spring only a whiff away, signaled by early March fiddleheads, the tightly coiled fern leaves growing by streams and rivers, exquisite sautéed in garlic butter. Forage them quickly, before they unfurl to a bitter leaf. During times of shock and uncertainty, with hurricanes flooding the West Coast and pandemics decimating populations, mortgage rates escalating and wildfires destroying forests, affirming our connections to weather, crops, seasons offers some comfort. Bears still hibernate, birds fly south and return to nest in the same tree. Thanksgiving happens no matter how expensive the turkey. Snowmen justify the blizzard. Spring flowers predict hay fever until the cows come home to be relieved of milk that reappears as lick-quick July ice cream cones. But as long as leaves flame red and orange, October crowns the calendar. Breathe it in, before November shows up in a wooly turtleneck. PS Deborah Salomon is a contributing writer for PineStraw and The Pilot. She can be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com. PineStraw 55
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Enticing the Baltimore Oriole Red carpet treatment for an occasional guest Female Baltimore oriole By Susan Campbell
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locate to central North Carolina often ask me about birds familiar to them that seem absent here in our fair state. One that is close to the top of the list is the Baltimore oriole. Its striking plumage and affinity for sweet feeder offerings make it a real favorite among backyard bird lovers. Male Baltimore orioles are unmistakable with bright orange under parts, a black back and head, as well as two bold white wing bars. Females and immature birds are yellow to light orange with the same white wing bars. They have relatively large, yet pointed, bills, which are very versatile while foraging. Males sing a very melodic song made up of several clear, whistled notes. As it turns out, Baltimore orioles actually do nest in North Carolina — if you venture far enough west. In our mountains they can be found weaving their elaborate nests that dangle from high branches, often over water. Following two weeks of incubation, the young will spend another two weeks before they fledge. By mid-summer the adults spend their days in the treetops, looking for caterpillars and small insects to feed their growing families. However, since these birds winter throughout Florida and all the way down into Central America, you might spot a few as they pass through in spring or fall. There is also a chance one or two might spend the winter in your neighborhood if you have the kind of habitat they seek out in the cooler months. Should your yard be to their liking, they may return year after year, bringing others (presumably family members) with them. I know winter oriole hosts in the eastern half of the state who count a dozen or more birds frequenting their feeders October through March every year. Baltimore orioles will seek out areas with lots of mature evergreen trees and shrubs of which a significant portion bear some sort of fruit. These birds are relatively large and colorful so require
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thick cover for protection from predators — especially fast-flying bird hawks such as Cooper’s and sharpshinneds. Without this, it has been my experience that they will not linger long even if food is plentiful. Should they feel safe, the odds are they will settle in and become a regular backyard fixture. Baltimore orioles will continue to consume any insects they happen upon but will Male Baltimore oriole switch to a diet of berries and whatever fruit or sweet treats they find at bird feeders. They are known to enjoy not only suet mixes with peanut butter but also orange halves, grape jelly and even marshmallows. They also will avail themselves of sugar water from hummingbird feeders they find still hanging. There are special, large sugar water feeders made for orioles that usually contain partitions for placing other solid treats as well. Baltimore orioles definitely enjoy mealworms, too, should your budget allow. A few very lucky people have been treated to the out-of-place Scott’s oriole, as well as Bullock’s oriole, here in North Carolina. Interestingly, these mega-rarities have turned up at sites without any other orioles present. Keep in mind that we sometimes find western tanagers at feeders in winter. The females and immature birds of this species look very similar to female or immature Baltimore orioles, differing only in the shape of their bills and the color of their wing bars. Personally, I have had Baltimore orioles show up for a week or so but then move on. In spite of setting out the red carpet (including suet, jelly, oranges, mealworms and sugar water), they have not been enticed to stay long. Maybe this fall will be a different story . . . PS Susan Campbell would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photographs at susan@ncaves.com. PineStraw 57
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The Fly in Wasp’s Clothing The best costumes are made by Mother Nature Long-horned yellowjacket fly
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Staring through a macro lens at the
critter resting in the center of my photo tent, I have to constantly remind myself that I am not going to get stung. With large eyes and striking black and yellow markings, it looks for all the world like a wasp — a yellowjacket, to be more precise. Only when it rubs its forelimbs over its eyes does it begin to reveal its true identity. It is a rarely observed type of hover fly and a perfect doppelganger for the venomous wasp.
The day before, Floyd Williams, a retired ranger from Merchants Millpond State Park with a keen naturalist’s eye, captured the fly in his yard in Gates County. Well aware of my interest in unusual animals, he phoned to inform me of his prize, the Sphecomyia vittata. Not being well-versed in the scientific names of flies, a quick Google search revealed a much more manageable common name, the long-horned yellowjacket fly. Like most people, I have never given flies much thought, other than when I am trying to shoo one out the car window or when I slap a deer fly taking a nibble from the back of my neck. Aside from politicians, and perhaps the Duke men’s basketball team, flies are among the most detested of all living things. Yet for all the public apathy, flies are vital components of a healthy ecosystem. Need something to break down that pile of dog poop in the backyard? There’s a fly for that. Need something
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to pollinate those bright flowers in the garden? There’s a fly for that. How about ridding insect pests that raid those same gardens? You guessed it. There’s a fly for that. Sporting an infinite array of shapes and sizes, flies provide a wealth of underappreciated environmental services. As I fiddle with my exposure, the hover fly begins to slowly walk across the floor of the photo tent. Reaching inside, I gently prod the fly with a toothpick, in an effort to move it to the center of the tent, back into camera range. Upon feeling the nudge to its abdomen, the fly suddenly lets out a sharp and unexpected buzz. I marvel. Not only does this fly look like a yellowjacket, it sounds like one too! The buzz only adds to the illusion. As far as mimics go, this one takes the top prize. Flies of every kind are eaten by a plethora of animals. Spiders, birds, lizards, small mammals, even wasps relish a juicy fly. If one is going to fly about out in the open, during daylight hours, as hover flies (aka flower flies) do, it pays to look like something unappetizing, or better yet, dangerous. Defenseless organisms that masquerade as dangerous ones employ an evolutionary survival strategy that biologists refer to as Batesian mimicry. Named for the Victorian naturalist Henry Walter Bates, who spent years trouncing around the forests of the Amazon and first discovered the natural phenomenon, this form of mimicry is surprisingly common. Most of the 6,300 or so species of hover flies found around the world bear a striking resemblance to wasps and bees. Finishing up my session, I take the photo tent outside and open the side panel. With the toothpick, I gently nudge the wings of the PineStraw 59
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hover fly, coaxing it to take off. In a flash, the fly zips out of the photo tent and lands a few yards away on the purple flowers of a backyard butterfly bush, perhaps needing a refreshing sip of nectar after its glamour shots. A five-lined skink, lounging on the railing of our deck, next to the flowers, pays it no mind. Nor does a cardinal singing nearby. Later, scrolling through the photos on my computer screen, I find myself full of childlike wonder, once again marveling at the extraordinary resemblance of the hover fly to a yellowjacket. Even zooming in on the details of the legs, antennae and body, I find it difficult to establish that it is indeed a fly. The optical illusion serves to drive home an important lesson: One need not travel to some distant or remote tropical jungle to discover remarkable wonders in nature. The wild right outside the front door is just as full of extraordinary creatures, if one only stops and takes the time to look. PS Naturalist and photographer Todd Pusser grew up in Eagle Springs. He works to document the extraordinary diversity of life both near and far. His images can be found at www.ToddPusser.com.
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Their Cup Runneth Over But it wasn’t always that way
By Lee Pace
It was 40 years ago when
the Ryder Cup pivoted from a sleepy, ceremonial tea party to one of the world’s most anticipated and watched sporting events. On Oct. 16, 1983, Lanny Wadkins nailed a wedge shot to a foot on the final hole at PGA National Golf Club for a birdie and the clinching point for the American team, nipping the Europeans 14 1/2 to 13 1/2.
Jack Nicklaus, the non-playing captain, went down on his knees to kiss Wadkins’ divot. He drank champagne from the Ryder Cup itself during a victory celebration that Wadkins recently said, “To this day, that was probably the best party I’ve ever seen.” Meanwhile, European captain Tony Jacklin seethed. “We just missed this time,” he said. “But I promise you, when the Americans come to England in two years, it’ll be a different story.” You think? Though it took four years for the effects to truly manifest themselves in the drama at Palm Beach Gardens, the decision in 1979 to expand the Great Britain and Ireland team to include all of continental Europe was the change that created the spectacle of the modern matches. This year, in a Ryder Cup contested in the countryside outside of Rome on a Marco Simone Golf Club course in the shadows of a castle built 1,200 years ago, Jon Rahm of Spain, Viktor Hovland of Norway and Northern Ireland’s Rory McIlroy highlight a European team with an English captain and five co-captains that included a Dane, two Italians, one Spaniard and a Belgian. Before the GB&I team composition changed, the Americans held an 18-3-1 record in the biennial competition. The tie feaThe Art & Soul of the Sandhills
tured the famous Nicklaus/Jacklin match in 1969 with the U.S. retaining the cup. America’s dominance through those years included a 9 1/2 to 2 1/2 lambasting of the team from Great Britain — as it was called then — at Pinehurst in 1951. Beginning with the matches in ’79 when the U.S. opponent was all of Europe, the record heading into the 2023 matches in Italy was Europe 11 wins, America nine wins, and one tie — a result that allowed Europe to retain the cup in 1989. Two men with connections to the Sandhills and North Carolina were on the front lines in the 1970s when the PGA of America and the British PGA made the decision that changed golf history. Henry Poe, a native of Durham and a Duke University graduate, was president of the PGA of America in 1975-76. Don Padgett Sr. was a longtime club professional in Indiana and the PGA vice president and then president during that era. Padgett would later serve as Pinehurst’s director of golf from 19872002 and was instrumental in Pinehurst’s quest to land major championship golf that today includes U.S. Open number four coming next June and four more on the calendar through 2047. “To show you just how far off the radar screen the Ryder Cup was at that time, the 1975 competition almost didn’t get on television,” Padgett said in 2002. “George Love, the kingpin at Laurel Valley and the local chairman of the event, had to guarantee the commercial time to get ABC to agree to show the competition. Can you imagine that today? It’s gone from the club having to beg for TV coverage to today where NBC pays millions of dollars to televise the Ryder Cup.” The 1975 rosters underlined the competitive imbalance in the two squads. The Americans had nine players who would win Grand Slam events — Billy Casper, Ray Floyd, Lou Graham, Hale Irwin, Gene Littler, Johnny Miller, Lee Trevino, Tom PineStraw 63
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Weiskopf and Nicklaus. By contrast, the GB&I team had only British Open champion Jacklin among major-championship winners on its roster. The score that year? The U.S. won, 21-11. The 1977 Ryder Cup Matches were held at Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club in England. Poe, the pro at Redding Country Club in Pennsylvania, was chairman of the matches, and Padgett was president of the PGA. They were riding around the course in a golf cart, and Poe said, “Don, I’m really getting concerned about the Ryder Cup. Several of our players have said they don’t care if they ever play again. There’s just no competition.” It was clear that some change was going to have to be made to strengthen the GB&I team in order to keep the players’ interest. Nicklaus said in a letter to Lord Derby, captain of the British PGA, that the Ryder Cup had become a social affair for the Americans — and little else. “It is vital to widen the selection procedures if the Ryder Cup is to continue to enjoy its past prestige,” Nicklaus told Lord Derby, who was also president of Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club. Poe suggested that afternoon that he and Padgett try to get Lord Derby to sit down and discuss the issue. It was incumbent on the British to expand the boundaries of the GB&I team. They had breakfast with him the next morning, and Lord Derby seemed receptive to the idea. “Henry was close friends with Lord Derby,” Padgett remembered. “That relationship helped him get Lord Derby to consider the proposition. By then the British PGA was conducting a true European tour, and we believed the team fielded by the British PGA should reflect that. I think Lord Derby and the GB&I team were tired of losing.” When the 1979 Ryder Cup came to the Greenbrier in West Virginia, the American opponent was now a true European team, one not limited to the British Isles — and there were a couple of young Spaniards on the squad named Seve Ballesteros and Anthony Garrido. “Seve was young and good-looking and had a slashing, charging game,”
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Padgett said. “He was like a young Arnold Palmer. And he had a wonderful short game. You could see things might be different down the road.” The United States still dominated at the Greenbrier, 17 to 11, and won handily two years later at Walton Heath, 18 1/2 to 9 1/2. But new faces on the European team were spicing things up. Bernhard Langer from Germany and Jose Maria Canizares of Spain joined the squad in 1981. The British PGA now had a much broader pool of talent from which to draw, and the European players brought a more durable quality to their team. They played weekto-week on courses offering more variety and difficult playing conditions than the American tour. Travel was more challenging and amenities less in abundance. “It all goes back to relationships, which are so important in all of business but particularly in golf, which is a fairly small world,” Padgett said. “Henry’s relationship with Lord Derby got the ball rolling. I’m sure things would have changed eventually had Henry not made that appeal to Lord Derby back in 1977. But I don’t think they would have changed as soon.” Since then we’ve been treated to the “War by the Shore” at Kiawah in 1991 (Langer still wondering if that damn putt will fall), Justin Leonard’s 45-foot bomb at The Country Club in 1999, Darren Clarke harnessing the grief over his wife’s recent passing to go 3-0-0 at the K Club in Ireland in 2006, Ian Poulter’s birdie binge to fuel the “Miracle at Medinah” in 2012, and the steely Patrick Reed edging Rory McIlroy 1-up at Hazeltine in 2016. “The European and the American teams are more patriotic now than ever,” Nicklaus says. “I think that’s great. It is the one week where one of the world’s best golfers is not playing just for himself. He’s also playing for 11 others, for his country and for an enormous amount of pride.” PS Lee Pace has written about the Pinehurst experience for more than three decades from his home in Chapel Hill. Write him at leepace7@gmail.com and follow him @LeePaceTweet.
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on Halloween You can have all the Freddy Kruegars you want, we prefer to trick or treat tongue in cheek Produced by Brady Gallagher Photographs by John Gessner
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Keith Moneymaker, CEO of Sweet Dreams Mattresses & More and founder of Dreams 4 All Foundation, poses with our local Chick-fil-A mascot.
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Mary and her son trick-or-treat as a team. Mary is the owner of Willabee Market in Vass, a hive-focused, sustainable market offering humanfriendly essentials. They even carry fresh baked pastries.
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Megan and Molly, owners of Retro in downtown Southern Pines, specializing in hair, makeup and Champagne. Cheers!
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Triumph of the Dracula orchid Story and Photographs by Jason Harpster
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f you think getting there is half the fun, then I submit you’ve never tried transporting a Dracula orchid across state lines. It’s not for the faint of heart. In September of last year, I attempted just that, driving to the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in Belmont, South Carolina, in an SUV tricked out as a traveling hothouse. The idea was to show my Dracula woolwardiae ‘Southern Pines Stalwart’ at the monthly Carolinas gathering of the American Orchid Society judges. The reality proved to be an emotional roller-coaster. Because the Dracula orchid hangs in a basket and the flower comes out from underneath, cramming it into a box was a nonstarter. Instead, I strung a clothes bar — the kind you hang suit jackets on — across the back of the SUV and suspended the basket from it. Using the cigarette adapter on the car, I hooked up an AC inverter that allowed me to run a humidifier I had pirated from our living room. I even had a gallon jug of water in reserve in case the humidifier ran dry. The setup worked so well it created a cloud in the rear of the SUV that rolled toward the front like coastal fog every time I turned a corner. I felt certain I was going to be pulled over by a state trooper convinced he was busting Cheech and Chong. While the plant was in pristine condition when I left Southern Pines at 8 a.m., by the time I arrived roughly three hours later, my Draculas looked like balloons with half the air let out of them. They had become limp and lifeless. What had begun as a good idea had morphed into a learning experience. Or so I thought. Dracula woolwardiae is an Ecuadorian species found on the western slopes of the Andes in dense cloud forests between 4,000 and 6,000 feet above sea level. It was first described by Friedrich Carl Lehmann in 1899 during the golden (and rather cutthroat) days of orchid exploration when rich European families backed expeditions to the jungles of Central and South America looking for new species to hang their names on. Lehmann named it woolwardiae in honor of Florence Helen Woolward, an English botanical illustrator and au-
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the American Orchid Society judges included a guest speaker (a past president) and a PowerPoint presentation on the finer points of judging Vandas. Normally, if an orchid flower is damaged, it’s done. It’s never going to come back. Dracula flowers, however, are different. I moved the humidifier inside, plugged it into the wall and hung the plant over it. An hour later, when the PowerPoint was over and the lights came back on, the Dracula had come back to life. The flowers literally reinflated, fully open and beautifully displayed, and were perfect by the time the judging started. My Dracula woolwardiae ‘Southern Pines Stalwart’ was given an award of merit. The flowers scored 83 points, which made ‘Southern Pines Stalwart’ the highest scored and, arguably, the finest example of the species on record in the world. It’s comforting to know that, in Southern Pines, even our vampires are beautiful. PS Jason Harpster is an accredited American Orchid Society judge and works at his family’s business, Central Security Systems. He hopes to share his collection of 2,000-plus orchids by starting a botanical garden in Southern Pines.
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A Community
Bright Spot The Boys & Girls Club turns 25
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By Jim Moriarty
t was a perfect storm, for good. Twenty-five years ago the stars aligned — money, advocates and a societal need — and the Boys & Girls Club of the Sandhills was born. That quarter-century will be celebrated at a gala event sponsored by Lin Hutaff’s Pinehurst Realty Group on Thursday, Oct. 19, at the Carolina Hotel’s Grand Ballroom. Among those being honored that evening for their many contributions, then and now, will be Robert (Bob) Dedman Jr., Tom Fazio and Walker Morris. The club officially opened its doors at the Southern Pines Public Housing Community Center on Feb. 1, 1999. Today the Boys & Girls Club of the Sandhills has grown to include four facilities — the Baxter Teen unit at 160 Memorial Park Court in Southern Pines, the Logan-Blake unit at 15 Dawn Road in Pinehurst, the Trinity unit at 255 S. May Street in Southern Pines, and the newest facility in Kennedy Hall on the campus of Sandhills Community College — and has served over 6,000 children and teens during its 25 years of existence. The confluence of people of good will, coupled with the financial boon of the first U.S. Open Championship on Pinehurst’s No. 2 course, literally opened the new club’s doors. It was the policy of the USGA in 1999 to allow the host club to manage the championship’s logistics, essentially dealing
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with everything outside the ropes. “We did it all,” says Pat Corso, who was, at the time, the president of Pinehurst Resort and Country Club. “The USGA said, ‘Good luck, God bless. We’re not going to take the risk. You take the risk.’” The resort created its own tournament division to sell tickets, corporate hospitality, everything. What could have been a financial black hole turned out to be anything but. “We had the ’91 and ’92 Tour Championships, the ’94 U.S. Senior Open Championship, and we always left money in the community,” says Corso. “The expectation was that we would do something in ’99.” But what? The world is never shy of worthy places to put charity dollars, and donating to existing causes would have been an easy choice. There were people who had other ideas. Among the first was retired Brig. Gen. Francis J. Roberts, a close friend of Corso’s who at the time lived in a house on Carolina Vista a couple of well-struck 7-irons from Corso’s desk. Roberts was a West Point graduate who served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, where he was awarded the Silver Star. “He was quite a guy,” Corso says, “and he was persuasive, as you can imagine.” As a boy in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Roberts had been a member of a Boys & Girls Club, and he advocated for creating one in Moore County. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
Pat Corso, Tom Fazio and the USGA's Jim Hyler
“The next thing I know, I get hit up by Tom Fazio,” says Corso. Fazio had designed Pinehurst’s No. 8 course, opening in 1995 to celebrate the resort’s centennial, and in advance of the ’99 Open, he was a frequent visitor to Pinehurst as he reworked the No. 4 course. He and his wife, Sue, founded a Boys & Girls Club in their home of Hendersonville, North Carolina, in the ’80s. “I kind of twisted Pat’s arm a little bit,” Fazio says. “You guys are looking for a charity. It’s a good thing,” he told Corso. “They do good things for kids. It’s a great opportunity to help.” Corso took the idea to Walker Morris, the president of Muirfield Broadcasting Inc., who picked up the phone and called Frank Quis, at the time the mayor of Southern Pines. The project was beginning to pick up speed. “We were planning to move the fire station and expand it, which we did,” recalls Quis. “We knew we’d have a building available. The timing was good for everybody.” A committee was formed to visit Hendersonville, using that club as a template for Southern Pines. Eventually, they would even hire Hendersonville’s executive director, Hoyt Bynum, to take the same job in Southern Pines. There was still the not incidental matter of seed money and, beginning from scratch, they were going to require a lot of it. “It became obvious we were starting to get into the weeds on it so I had to go to Robert Dedman,” Corso says of Bob Dedman’s father, whose company, ClubCorp, purchased the Pinehurst Resort in 1984. “I said ‘Robert, if we can do it, we should probably peg it at, like, a half-million dollars to really make this work. The town is going to throw in, basically, a free lease on the old fire station in Southern Pines. We’d have to do the rehab of the building to convert it to a club. I think that’s the magic number.’ And he said OK,” Corso says. “Locally, we had the inspiration through Fran and Tom and then worked hard together with Walker and Frank and the board we put together but, really, at the end of the day, it was Robert who said ‘yes.’ I think one of the interesting things is the Dedman family has stayed involved in it over the years.
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Boys & Girls Clubs became a key effort on behalf of the family, both here and in Dallas.” John Earp, the Boys & Girls Club’s director of development, estimates that, over the years, the Dedman family has contributed over a million dollars to the Sandhills club. While former Sandhills Community College President John Dempsey wasn’t involved in the creation of the club in ’99, he became a Boys & Girls Club board member and was twice its chairman. “Next to Sandhills, it’s been the joy of my life to be involved with the Boys & Girls Club,” says Dempsey. “It’s one of the bright spots of our community. I can’t imagine this town without it. Honestly, it’s difficult to quantify why that is so, other than to say Boys & Girls Club kids, in addition to having a safe place to go — and we all understand the dynamics of quasi-urban living and having too much time on your hands — there is a confidence about these kids, a willingness to engage with adults. “It’s just a fresher, more zestful approach to life. To see that in an organization that you’re involved in is just mind-blowingly satisfying. You can’t help but love the place. My parents gave me the greatest of all gifts, love and self-confidence and relative security in my own persona. And I never said ‘thank you’ to them enough when they were here. Anything I can do for the Boys & Girls Club is just one more way I can thank my mom and dad.” Of course, finding the funding to support the clubs is a never-ending project, taking all forms from golf outings to person-to-person outreach by the club members themselves. The black tie gala on Oct. 19 is another opportunity to help. Tickets are $175 per person or $2,500 for a table of 10 and can be purchased on the Boys & Girls Club of the Sandhills website. For more information on the 25th Anniversary Celebration call Larry Smith at 910-692-0777, ext. 2231 or John Earp at ext. 2221. The link to the event with more details is: https://one. bidpal.net/25thcelebration/welcome. It's one more way to say thank you. PS Jim Moriarty is the Editor of PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com.
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The Champion Next Door Barbara McIntire reached the pinnacle of amateur golf
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er golf resume is phenomenal: winner of two U.S. Amateur championships; a British Amateur; six North & South titles; two Western Amateurs. At 21, she electrified the golf world by finishing second in the 1956 U.S. Women’s Open, nearly becoming the first amateur to win that title. Labeled the “Girl Golf Star,” Sports Illustrated put the smiling 25-year-old on its cover in 1960. After competing for the American side in six Curtis Cups, she twice captained U.S. teams to victory. Among her many accolades is the United States Golf Association’s Bob Jones Award, its highest honor, which she received in 2000. But only the most knowledgeable golf aficionados are familiar with Barbara McIntire and are aware she is in our midst. Long out of the limelight, this great champion resides in Southern Pines, approximately the distance of a long par-5 from the Pine Needles golf course. Barbara, together with standout amateur golfers Phyllis “Tish” Preuss and Judy Bell, acquired their singlelevel cottage in 2001. Initially, the three longtime friends used the property for a vacation retreat from their home and mutual business interests in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Several years ago, McIntire and Preuss decided to make the cottage their permanent home. Bell still spends the bulk of her time out West. McIntire, now 88, has been unable to play golf for seven years and tends to stay close to home, enduring the typical ailments of her age group. “My friends are what keep me going,” she says. “Some I’ve known most of my life.” One of those friends is local resident Pat Tiernan Johnstone. An excellent player herself, Johnstone came to know McIntire in the ’60s while competing in amateur tournaments. “Barbara has always been the type of person who is there for you, come what may,” says Johnstone. “And despite her achievements, she’s always been modest; never puts on airs.” McIntire’s dearest friends are Preuss and the remarkable Judy Bell, whom she grew to know in the early 1950s playing junior golf. Not merely a standout amateur player, Bell rose through the administrative ranks of the United States Golf Association to become its first female president in 1996. Five years later she was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Her opinion of her friend’s career is unwavering: “Without doubt, one of the best amateurs ever.” McIntire and Bell were also business partners. Beginning in 1962 — a time when two women in business for themselves was something of a rarity — they owned and managed a number of retail stores associated with The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs.
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The not-insignificant income they generated enabled the two trailblazers to afford playing big tournaments all over the country, indeed the world. McIntire’s father, Bob — a successful businessman — and mother, Marie, introduced their daughter to golf after joining Heather Downs Country Club in Toledo, Ohio, in 1944. At age 9 McIntire tagged along with her parents during their weekend rounds. “I caddied for them, pulling their carts,” she says. “I got $2 a round.” Initially, she did not play, other than stroking occasional putts with an old wooden-shafted blade, but when her father furnished her with a set of cut-down clubs, the future was now. Under the expert tutelage of Heather Downs’ professional, Harry Moffitt, McIntire won the women’s club championship when she was 13 and competed in both the Western Golf Association and United States Golf Association junior girls’ tournaments. In 1948, Moffitt and his wife invited Marie McIntire and Barbara to join them for a month of winter golf in Florida. Moffitt figured his 13-year-old protégé’s game would benefit from playing against more seasoned competitors on the so-called Grapefruit Circuit — a series of tournaments for top female amateurs. McIntire’s first Florida event, the Doherty Challenge Cup in Miami, ranks among her most vivid memories. Intimidated by the players warming up on the range, there was one in particular who stood out: a 27-year-old Findlay, Ohio, native named Peggy Kirk (later Bell), the reigning queen of female golfers in Barbara’s home state. Kirk had won the last two Ohio Amateurs and would achieve a “three-peat” in 1949. “Peggy was my idol,” says McIntire. In succeeding years, the two would play numerous rounds together and, despite their age difference, became close friends. “In one of my early rounds with Peggy, I actually whiffed a routine shot,” recalls McIntire. The faux pas caused Kirk to double over in paroxysms of laughter. “She never let me forget it,” McIntire says with a chuckle. The youngster got over being starstruck and qualified for match play at the Doherty and a succeeding tournament in Palm Beach. “I was hooked,” she says. During the next four years, McIntire became a presence at regional and national junior events even entering the 1950 U.S. Women’s Amateur at East Lake in Atlanta. For her first round match play opponent, the 15-year-old drew the legendary Glenna Collett Vare, then 47 and winner of six U.S. Amateur championships, arguably America’s greatest female golfer during the first half of the 20th century. Given the 32-year age difference between
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the competitors, it was definitely a match “of the ages,” if not for them. Initially McIntire was intimidated by Vare. “She gave me the impression of a strict schoolteacher. I was scared I would do something Glenna would consider an etiquette breach,” says McIntire. After trailing early, her jitteriness in the presence of the great champion dissipated as she rallied to win the match. “Glenna got tired,” she says. “I think she wore out.” It was as far as McIntire would advance but, playing the great Vare, it was far enough. McIntire compiled an impressive record in junior tournaments, winning the Western Junior Championship and finishing runner-up in the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championships in both 1951 and ’52. In the latter event, she lost in the finals to Mickey Wright, perhaps the best woman player of the second half of the 20th century, whom she came to know well. “I worked hard on my game,” McIntire says, “but Mickey worked harder.” Venturing outside the junior ranks, McIntire lost in the finals of the 1951 Toledo District championship to Peggy Kirk, but the next year, the 17-year-old captured the district title. McIntire followed Kirk’s footsteps in another way by enrolling at Florida’s Rollins College. Her idol was the school’s first great female golfer, and McIntire starred on the 1954 squad. At 21 she entered the 1956 United States Women’s Open at Northland Country Club in Duluth, Minnesota. Her 36-hole score of 154 easily made the cut at the halfway point on the very difficult, heavily wooded course. She carded a 77 in the third round, which left her eight shots behind leader Kathy Cornelius. Though seemingly too far back to contend for the championship, she was well-positioned to finish low amateur. When McIntire arrived at Northland’s 16th tee in the final round she was playing well — even par for the day — and had actually trimmed her eight-stroke deficit to Cornelius down to six. But no one, most of all McIntire, thought she could catch the leader. McIntire birdied 16, parred 17 and reached the green of the par-5 18th in two. Then, to the astonishment of the crowd, she drained her 30-foot putt for an eagle and a final round of 71, three shots under Northland’s par of 74. The low amateur medal was assured, but there seemed no likelihood McIntire’s torrid finish would overtake Cornelius, who was still two shots clear when she came to the 18th. Feeling the pressure of the moment, Cornelius double-bogeyed the home hole. Stunningly, they were tied at 302. The two women would face off in an 18-hole playoff the next day. “I was as amazed as anybody when I was told I was in the playoff,” McIntire says. “I went upstairs and practically hid in
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my locker. It was kind of like going to college before you had finished high school.” In her autobiography, Breaking the Mold, Judy Bell wrote that the following morning, “Barbara was pretty keyed up so we hung around with her, trying to keep her relaxed just by being there. It was even more important to stay close to her because her parents weren’t there.” A significant number of LPGA players stayed to root for Cornelius. It wouldn’t do to have an upstart amateur defeat a touring pro in the most important tournament in women’s golf. The pros’ wild cheering for Cornelius’ good shots stood in marked contrast to their stony silence for McIntire. This rudeness disturbed Bell, who wrote that the pros “came very close to cheering when (Barbara) hit a bad shot. Perhaps because of the way the pros reacted, we amateurs became more determined to make a point of applauding Kathy’s good shots as well as Barbara’s.” The LPGA players’ behavior did not go unnoticed by McIntire. Her bid to become the first female amateur to win the U.S. Open was foiled. Cornelius won by seven. Despite her defeat, McIntire had become a prominent figure in women’s golf. Overtures came her way to turn professional, but she steadfastly resisted them. Eking out a living on the LPGA Tour was no sure thing. Cornelius received just $1,600 for winning the Open. The conduct of the LPGA players during the playoff also factored in. Moreover, close friends like Bell, Preuss, Anne Quast and Polly Riley had all retained their amateur status. McIntire left Rollins College before completing her degree in business administration, intent on playing golf, just not tour golf. Her father, on the other hand, was not inclined to subsidize that pursuit. McIntire would have to get a job. She contacted Peggy Kirk Bell, who with husband Warren “Bullet” Bell had recently acquired the Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club. Peggy had no openings and advised McIntire to contact Frank and Masie Cosgrove, proprietors of the resort across Midland Road, Mid-Pines Inn and Golf Club. It happened the Cosgroves were looking for a receptionist, and they hired McIntire for the 1956-57 winter season. Her time at Mid-Pines coincided with Julius Boros’ tenure as the resort’s head pro. Then in the midst of his career, Boros was on-site only sporadically. But when McIntire did encounter the syrupy swinging Hall of Famer, she got off on the wrong foot. “I was a smoker and left a butt on the floor,” she recalls. “Julius happened to step on it and was not happy.” McIntire enjoyed a more amiable connection with Julius’ younger brother, Ernie Boros, an assistant pro at Mid-Pines. “Yes, we did have something,” says McIntire. “But things did not work out.” PineStraw 81
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St. David’s Golf Club in Wales. Ancient and foreboding Harlech Castle overlooked the fast-running links below. Three of the four semifinalists were American Curtis Cuppers: McIntire, Quas, and Gunderson. The fourth was Irish champion Philomena Garvey. In the semis, Barbara dispatched Quast 4 and 3, while Garvey upset the powerful Gunderson 3 and 2. According to Golf Illustrated, the 36-hole final between McIntire and Garvey “was disappointingly dreary for L-R: Fletcher Gaines, Judy Bell, 27 holes,” as McIntire raced Barbara McIntire, Jerry Boggan out to an 8-up lead. But then Philomena caught fire, unleashing a barrage of birdies. Garvey would eventually cut McIntire’s lead to three up with three holes to play. McIntire wondered whether any golfer in history with such an insurmountable lead had ever lost. To the American’s relief, Philomena’s improbable comeback ended after a 16th-hole bogey. McIntire had won her second national title, becoming only the eighth player to hold the women’s American and British Amateur crowns simultaneously. McIntire’s place in golf’s pecking order skyrocketed as a result of her nine months of great play. No longer just a promising contender, she stood atop women’s amateur golf. “I guess I just figured it out,” she says with a Mona Lisa smile. Media attention had already come McIntire’s way. Shortly before leaving for the Curtis Cup, ABC requested she compete as a contestant on the popular television show To Tell the Truth. Her appearance resulted in a minor dust-up. In answering a question posed by actress Polly Bergen, McIntire replied that she had never heard of a 7 1/2 iron. All the celebrity questioners chose an imposter as the “real Barbara McIntire.” A miffed Bergen, presumably led astray by the fact that some wood clubs (but not irons) had fractional numberings, protested to the network that McIntire had failed to “tell the truth.” But it was Bergen, not McIntire, who was mistaken. More notoriety came when Sports Illustrated put the 25-year-old McIntire on the cover of its August 22, 1960, issue with the tag “Girl Golf Star.” The accompanying eight-page article by Alfred Wright, an example of writing that does not stand the test of time, paid particular attention to McIntire’s looks. Wright noted she seemed taller than her 5-foot, 6-inch height “because of her long, graceful legs” and that her “dark brown hair, precisely coiffured in what is known as a wind-blown bob, looks as brushed and combed on the golf course as it does at a dance.” Wright even mentioned his subject’s “long nails . . . lacquered in a pale red shade.” Wright was far from being the only writer of the time to fixate on McIntire’s appearance. “I paid no attention to that at all, one
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However, her golf experience in the Sandhills did. In addition to regular rounds at Mid-Pines and Pine Needles, she often played Pinehurst’s No. 2 course. Her familiarity with the storied Donald Ross layout paid dividends in April 1957, when she won the North & South Women’s Amateur Championship, beating Ann Casey Johnstone 3 and 2 in the final match. The victory marked McIntire’s first important title in a non-junior event and proved a harbinger of success to come. It was also the year that Bob McIntire sold his business in Toledo, moved to Florida, and teamed up with his father to develop Ocean View Ridge. According to one publication, the housing project was located “about a 3-iron shot from Seminole Golf Club.” Barbara came south with her parents, obtained a real estate license and dutifully showed homes to prospective buyers when not on the course. Her primary focus, however, was making America’s 1958 Curtis Cup team. A victory at the Women’s Western Amateur cemented her selection. She would acquit herself well in Cup matches at Massachusetts’ Brae Burn Country Club, winning in foursomes and halving her singles match. The upward arc of McIntire’s golf reached its apex at the 1959 Women’s U.S. Amateur, contested in the August heat at Congressional Country Club near Washington, D.C. She won her first three matches with ease but struggled mightily in the quarterfinals. Trailing 3 down to defending champion Anne Quast, McIntire cut into the lead but remained 1 down as the two women arrived at the final hole of their 36-hole match. Quast misplayed her tee shot, opening the door for McIntire to square the match and escape with a victory two extra holes later. McIntire survived another close call in the semis to reach the championship final against Joanne Goodwin. There, her clutch putting provided the impetus for a dominating 4 and 3 victory. Barbara McIntire was the national amateur champion. When the 1960 U.S. Curtis Cup team ventured across the pond to Yorkshire, England, for the semi-annual matches against the Great Britain and Ireland side, the easygoing camaraderie exhibited by the seven women on the U.S. team (as well as their Bermuda shorts and knee socks) raised some British eyebrows. The players called themselves the Seven Dwarfs. McIntire was Grumpy; Quast was Bashful; Joanne Gunderson (later Carner) was Sleepy; and Bell was Dopey. Gunderson felt Bell’s nickname a misnomer because “Dopey never talked and Judy never stopped.” The close-knit U.S. team won easily. The American players stayed over in order to play in the British Women’s Amateur Championship, that year held at Royal
way or the other,” she says. “My focus was on my game.” That focus was especially sharp at Pinehurst’s North & South championship — an event McIntire would win six times (1957, ’60, ’61, ’65, ’69, ’71). She attributes significant credit for her eye-popping record on No. 2 to Jerry Boggan, who served as her caddie during her last five victories. Boggan, a member of the Pinehurst Caddie Hall of Fame, “dressed like a peacock,” with ensembles that included “a green suede sweater, green alligator shoes, yellow pants, and a yellow and green plaid cap,” according to golf writer Lee Pace. Boggan also toted for Billy Joe Patton in his three North and South wins. In McIntire’s third North & South victory in 1961, her opponent in the final match was none other than Bell, whom she defeated 3 and 1. By then, the two confidants had already started a small business selling Bermuda shorts out of the trunk of a car. “A lot of women we met while we played in tournaments liked the shorts we wore,” wrote Bell. “We decided to call Gutsteintuck, better known as G.T. Inc. . . . and asked if we could sell G.T. shorts and slacks to various shops while traveling around the country.” G.T. did not want the women marketing its sporty attire at wholesale but OKed peddling it at retail. Given the go-ahead by the USGA’s executive director Joe Dey that the enterprise would not jeopardize their amateur status, the two pals were off and running. The trunk sales proved successful and, in 1959, Bell and McIntire formed a mail-order operation, selling merchandise kept in a spare bedroom at Bell’s parents’ home in Wichita, Kansas. Then in 1962, Bell suggested to McIntire they expand their business activities by leasing a 500-square-foot store at The Broadmoor. Operating the store necessitated being on-site, so they both pulled up stakes and relocated to Colorado Springs. They named their new store A Short Story. Outfitting the space’s two display windows for Short Story’s first Christmas turned into an outlet for their naturally competitive natures. In one window, Bell installed a fireplace with “burning” gas logs. McIntire countered with a winter wonderland window of snow, front door, and decorated lamppost. As other commercial spaces at The Broadmoor became available, the women snapped them up and opened new stores, often hiring good female amateurs, like Preuss and Cindy Hill, to staff the operations. They took over the resort’s tennis shop and enlarged it; opened a men’s shop and then a Papagallo store that offered high-end shoes, designer clothes and jewelry. In 1978, an enormous space of 5,500 square feet came open at the Broadmoor after Abercrombie and Fitch vacated the premises. The ever-confident Bell was determined to lease and renovate the space. The more conservative McIntire balked, concerned about the financial exposure attending such a commitment. But resolute Bell was all-in. “I’m going to do it,” she told her friend. “I don’t want to do it alone.” McIntire ultimately went along, and the two moved forward with the lease and placed in the space an additional clothing store, The Second Story, and a restaurant, The Little Kitchen. Both establishments were hits. A second restaurant, Bell’s Deli, was subsequently opened several blocks away. By then the two entrepreneurs employed as many as 70 workers. They would own
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stores at the resort for 35 years, a run that ended after a new owner determined The Broadmoor would henceforward control the resort’s commercial spaces. Though these various enterprises required McIntire’s daily attention, she did not neglect her golf. After all, Broadmoor’s championship courses were right at her doorstep. But work responsibilities inevitably left less time to tend to her game. Still, she managed to win the 1963 Women’s Western Amateur, held at The Broadmoor. But by 1964, Joanne Gunderson had supplanted McIntire as the country’s top female amateur. “The Great Gundy” had already won three national amateur championships, and her 275yard blasts off the tee intimidated most fellow competitors. When Gunderson smashed her way to the championship match of the ’64 U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas, many regarded her as a lock to win her fourth title. She would face McIntire, who had surprised herself by making her own run to the 36-hole final. Typically outdriven by 40 yards, McIntire fell three holes behind Gunderson in the morning segment of the match. She did not panic. “I always tried to ignore what my opponent was doing,” she says. “I concentrated on my own game and being consistent.” She began chipping away at Gundy’s lead in the afternoon. On the 26th hole, Gunderson hit the wrong ball, losing the hole and catapulting McIntire into the lead for the first time. She never relinquished it and closed out the match on the 34th hole to win her second U.S. Amateur. McIntire continued to play at a high level throughout the 1960s, but her dominance waned as a new generation of talented amateurs, including Laura Baugh, Carol Semple Thompson and Hollis Stacy, rose up. But in 1971, McIntire still had enough game to defeat Stacy (later winner of three U.S. Women’s Opens) for her sixth and final North & South victory. Later that season, 36-year-old McIntire lost 1 up to the 16-year-old Baugh in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur. The exciting match provided an appropriate bookend for McIntire’s appearances in the national championship. It had been the youngster McIntire who bested Hall of Famer Vare in 1950. Now she was the legend defeated by a promising teenager. Baugh would proceed to win the title. Over time, McIntire’s role in women’s golf segued into that of a senior stateswoman. She captained the 1976 Curtis Cup team to victory at Royal Lytham & St. Anne’s in England. She was a member of the USGA’s Women’s Committee from 1985 to 1996, serving as chair the final two years. At age 63, McIntire captained the 1998 Curtis Cup team to victory, a second appointment at the helm which was unexpected and gratifying. “It was a thrill to be asked,” she says. McIntire and Bell kept their hand in business by operating the merchandise tents at the 2001 and 2007 U.S Women’s Opens at Pine Needles, requiring extended visits to the Sandhills and enabling McIntire, Bell and Preuss to enjoy frequent lunches with Peggy Kirk Bell. A magnificent foursome indeed. PS Pinehurst resident Bill Case is PineStraw’s history man. He can be reached at Bill.Case@thompsonhine.com.
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By Jenna Biter • Photographs from Fiona & M att McKenzie
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ay stumbles ashore on the eastern coast of Australia in anything but a hurry. The sun’s groggy rays yawn over a country house perched up, up, all the way up on a ridge in the Blackall Range before sliding down into valley towns and still sleeping beaches. Perched between cow pastures on a generational family farm, this is no ordinary country house. There are no hand-hewn logs for walls or rustic stone chimneys puffing away on the roof. No, Matt and Fiona McKenzie politely eschewed the trappings of a traditional country house for a modern one-floor home that invites the outside world in. Similar to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, the McKenzies’ house isn’t modern for modernity’s sake. With a 75-foot-long veranda and floor-to-ceiling windows gaping over the sun-soaked valley, the minimalist design seems to say: Don’t look at me, look at that view. Matt and Fiona even vaulted their rancher on stilts to maximize their line of sight to the Pacific Ocean, a 30-minute drive away.
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Despite its dark, dark charcoal hue, the metal house almost disappears into the surrounding cow paddocks. The corrugated steel’s ribs continue the lines of the pasture’s lithe grasses and sinewy limbs of the gum trees just down the hill. Describing the house’s building materials, Fiona quips, “We joke that we live in a shed.” Dissimilar to Fallingwater, the McKenzies’ 3-bedroom, 2-bath was built from a kit. Matt and Fiona selected elements from three or four blueprints — a laundry room here, a porch alcove there, pocket doors everywhere — then combined them into a 4,000-square-foot dream house. That meant a walk-in pantry for Fiona, a professionally trained chef, and an open floor plan easing guests between the kitchen and veranda, the two hearts of the home. To flow between the twin centers, guests might start in the kitchen, where Fiona works diligently over the open flame of her beloved Falcon stove. Beside her, the McKenzies’ teenage daughter, Molly, sits on a countertop handcrafted out of old barn wood salvaged from Fiona’s dad’s best mate’s grandfather’s cow shed. PineStraw 87
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Across from Molly, and under the speckled light cast by a trio of egg-shaped mosaic pendants bought by a friend in India, a burled island anchors all kitchen conversation. Rivers of gray resin run through the camphor laurel panels, over the cabinet sides, and all the way down to the honey-colored hardwood floors. “I wanted a space where people could hang out on the stools on the other side of the island while I’m cooking,” Fiona says. “That’s such a beautiful community thing.” Inevitably, when it comes time for dinner, guests pulse out of the kitchen under a shelf of cheery, color-coded cookbooks, past hallways adorned with framed family photos and artwork, some by North Carolina author and illustrator Glen Rounds, some others by local artists, like Kay Breeden-Williams. All are backdropped by “agreeable gray” walls. Under a few more mosaic pendant lights, through six floor-toceiling, all-glass panel doors, the house opens up to a Fiona-made
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Holly dining table standing on the veranda. “Our houses have always been kind of eclectic because I love pieces with a story,” Fiona says. Contrasted with the thoughtful curation of decor, the clean lines of the minimalist structure strike a visually pleasing balance. All the trusses, walls, windows and doors were precisely machined to size before delivery to McKenzies’ 30-acre lot in Hunchy, a friendly, rural area on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. The McKenzies erected their home by hand with the community’s help, like an Amish barn raising. Help started with Fiona’s parents, Dennis and Dawn Creasey. Every day, Dennis made his way up the ridge past his cattle grazing in the fields, the same fields that sometimes grew papayas, bananas and beans while Fiona was growing up. They’re also some of the same plots that Fiona’s grandfather worked as a 19-year-old sharecropper from England. The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
As the matriarch of the build and “the best baker in the world,” Dawn made daily deliveries of tea and fresh “whatevershe’d-made-that-morning” goodies. In a family compound worth the label, Fiona’s sister, Julie, lives a knoll over and helped with the build when she could. The daily tea and biscuits fed many more than just family. “The running joke here is Dad’s got a mate,” Fiona says, laughing at the communal teamwork. In a year-and-a-half, a consistent crew of four — Matt, Dennis, Glen the certified builder, and Julian from around the bend — completed the house, rounding off a journey that moved the family from North Carolina, across the ocean to where there’s a good chance it’s already tomorrow. For nearly two decades, the McKenzies raised Molly in Moore County, where Matt grew up and his parents, Don and Debbie, still live. For three of those years, Fiona worked at Elliott’s on The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
Linden, and for another 14, she ran the culinary program at Sandhills Community College. The McKenzies didn’t plan to move to Australia, at least not until retirement. Then came 2019. On a trip to Hunchy for Dawn’s 70th birthday, Dennis built a bonfire so big it could be seen from space. The fire was lit in the early evening; the family ate, drank, and told stories till the embers burnt low. Something felt right there in Hunchy, laid out on a blanket under the bright ribbon of the Milky Way. It was time for their next county in another country. Matt turned to his wife. “What are we doing? Why don’t we live here?” Jenna Biter is a writer and military wife in the Sandhills. She can be reached at jennabiter@protonmail.com. PS PineStraw 91
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ctober dares you not to look away. These early days of autumn, deciduous trees edging toward full glory, you wouldn’t dream of it. Brisk mornings enliven your senses. You can nearly taste the crispness through your skin. As golden light alchemizes a brightly colored skyline, yellow becomes more than yellow; red, sharper and truer; orange, otherworldly so. The merging of light and leaves mesmerizes you. There is nothing soft about this symphony of color. Nothing subtle. The dance is as stunning as molten gold. Trees become torches. Foliage laps against cerulean skies like ravenous flames licking silent blue heavens. This amalgam of color transforms your very being. You feel both awestruck and emboldened. Ancient and brand new. Suddenly, a gust of wind sends a wave of leaves swirling earthward. Another gust follows, releasing howling, coppery flurries. The wind goes rogue. Wave after furious wave, the leaves descend with reckless abandon. As starling murmurations flash across a brilliant sky, the fleeting beauty makes you ache. The paradox is arresting: The season has reached its full potential, and there’s nothing to do but watch it make a raging, riotous exit. Do not look away, you tell yourself. A shock of crimson shakes from open branches. Do not miss one glorious moment. October commands your faithful presence. As the trees free themselves of all adornment, you soften to their naked truth. This, too, shall pass. Hold tenderly this precious knowing — this visceral aliveness — and, in the next breath, let it go.
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Yellow-bellied sapsuckers arrive; ruby-throated hummingbirds depart for warmer climes. Birds come and birds go. This month, as nature dazzles us with her warm and glorious hues, keep watch for white-throated sparrows, pine siskins and yellow-rumped warblers — winter residents whose songs are as distinctive as their field marks. Oh, Sweet Canada, Canada, sparrows whistle. Warblers perform their soft, slow trills. Pine siskins stun us with their harsh and wheezy zreeeeeeet. Winter is nigh, the birds seem to say. In other words: Enjoy the show.
There is a far sweet song in autumn That catches at my throat, I hear it in each falling leaf And in each wild bird’s note . . . — George Elliston, “Mine Own” (1927)
Flower of the Dead Nothing says autumn like a field of fiery marigolds. Or a tidy garland of them. Although October’s vibrant birth flower has long been associated with grief and loss, its uses have been — and continue to be — vast. Because their sunny orange and yellow hues are believed to dispel negativity — and to help guide wandering spirits to altars for the dead — marigold garlands are commonly used in religious ceremonies in Asia, Latin America and Mexico. They’re also a choice natural dye, companion plant and, depending on the variety, edible flower. Bust out a batch of marigold-and-saffron shortbread this season and see if you ever crave pumpkin spice again. PS PineStraw 93
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.
Italian Elegance Redefined At Villaggio Ristorante & Bar, traditional Italian dishes and regional specialties are freshly created for your enjoyment. Born amid the storied walls of the historic Magnolia Inn, Villaggio promises an exquisite fine dining experience second to none. House-made pastas and breads are made daily, and the freshest fish, chicken, veal,
steak and chops are perfectly prepared. After dinner, enjoy a special house-made dessert with a specialty coffee, a dessert wine, or an after dinner liqueur. Or treat yourself to the perfect Fall evening on the expanded La Terrazza, masterfully blending the Villaggio experience with the timeless charm of the Village of Pinehurst.
IT IS OUR HONOR TO SERVE YOU! MAKE A RESERVATION TODAY: WWW.VILLAGGIORISTORANTE.NET 65 MAGNOLIA ROAD, VILLAGE OF PINEHURST, NC | 910.420.2485
Sweet Food, Happy Mood “Eat dessert first - as in the first meal of the day! With Mason’s brunch offerings like made-fromscratch hotcakes, waffles, croissant beignet donuts - chocolate spread included, brioche French toast,
biscuits and delectable cinnamon rolls, you’ll be happy to dive right into the sweet lane, as we roll into sweater weather. So go ahead and indulge - there’s no judgement here, we’ll join you!”
111 N. SYCAMORE ST., ABERDEEN, NC | 910.757.0155 | WWW.EATATMASONS.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 Most Authentic Pub in the Best of the Pines contest for four years running 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
Rooted in Family, Authentic Food & Community Since opening Lisi Italian in 2019, Jim and Mickey Reale have stayed busy filling their dining rooms and expanding with Lisi Market. Their newest venture, also located in the old Pinehurst Theatre Building, is Augie’s Room - a bar with speakeasy vibes named for Jim’s dad. Augie’s
Room boasts a large selection of spirits, a cocktail list and small bites like charcuterie or lobster deviled eggs. Whether you’re looking for convenient grab and go options, a delicious sit-down dinner or top shelf drinks in a warm, artful atmosphere, the Lisi trio has what you want.
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The New Mobile Thru Lane is Coming… Follow These Easy Steps to Skip the Line Have you ever wanted to skip the line at the Chick-fil-A drive thru? Well now you can! Chick-fil-A of Southern Pines is excited to announce the “Mobile Thru Lane” is coming soon for guests who order ahead on the Chick-fil-A ONE App and just have to pick up their favorite food. To help things go smoothly, when the time comes, attendants (and maybe a Cow) will hand out flyers and help direct traffic in their popular drive thru. (#COWALERT) Only mobile order guests
will be allowed to pick up in the Mobile Thru Lane, so beware, if you enter the wrong lane, you will be asked to please try again by circling the building. MOOOOVING forward, the left lane will be the traditional drive thru service lane where you can look at a menu and order with a friendly attendant. So, if you are looking for the fastest way to get in and out of the drive thru and enjoy the Chick-fil-A you crave, download the Chick-fil-A ONE App and skip the line! You’ll be glad you did!
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Download the Chick-fil-A ONE App on your smartphone and create or sign in to your account.
your mobile order and select “Mobile Thru” 2 Start as your pick-up destination, then select your favorite menu items and complete your order. the restaurant, hop in the new Mobile Thru Lane, 3 At scan the code in the dedicated lane and then pull around to receive your order from a friendly restaurant Team Member.
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
Delicious Authentic Indian Dishes Husband and wife Jayarani and Ekambaram Elamaran opened Jaya’s with their daughter, Ria, in 2015 and have lived in Moore County for over 30 years. Having grown up up in Chennai, Tamil Nadu and Delhi, Jayarani and Elamaran felt it was important to follow Southern Indian traditions and stay true to their culture with their delicious, homestyle Indian dishes. The family business has won Best Indian Restaurant in Best of the Pines for the last four years.
Their most popular dishes are Butter Chicken and Chicken Tikka Masala, but Maran’s favorite dish is their Chicken 65 appetizer. With vegan, vegetarian and glutenfree options, Jaya’s provides delicious food for all dietary needs. You can often find their food truck at various events in Moore County, such First Friday, and they offer catering as well. You can always find something uniquely delicious at Jaya’s.
169 NORTHEAST BROAD ST | SOUTHERN PINES, NC 28387 | 910.725.0875 | JAYASINCUISINE.COM
Enjoy Cuban Roots with a Twist of American Culture This family-owned, Cuban American fusion restaurant has been Aberdeen’s hidden gem since 2018. Using only the freshest and finest quality ingredients, Chef Lynette has created a place where all ages can enjoy authentic Cuban sandwiches and unique Cuban American dishes that melt in your mouth. Lynette’s is especially known for their Cuban flan, made fresh daily in their bakery,
so thick and creamy it’s like cutting into butter. Bring your family & friends, to dine al fresco or inside the bakery where things are newly renovated. A new menu highlighting the elegance, flair and artistry of Cuban gastronomy will be showcased when Lynette’s begins dinner service soon! Lynettes also offers special Cuban food catering services.
LYNETTE’S CUBAN BAKERY & CAFE OPEN TUES- SATURDAY 7:30AM- 3PM | 3060 NC 5 ABERDEEN 28315 910-420-8226
Every Healthy Choice Counts Healthy + Convenience = Happiness! Located at 1930 N. Poplar St., Clean Eatz in Southern Pines is a healthy food restaurant that offers a variety of delicious and affordable options for our customers. Our dine-in cafe menu includes burgers, wraps, flatbreads, meltz, build your own bowls, smoothies and more. We also provide a weekly meal plan service, with a new menu going live on the website every Tuesday. You simply place your online order, pick up your meals at Clean Eatz in Southern Pines, take
them home, and then just heat and eat. Most meals are under 500 calories and cost as low as $6.52 per meal. In addition to our café menu and meal plans, healthy food options at Clean Eatz in Southern Pines include Grab ‘N’ Go meals, protein smoothies, healthy snacks, and catering for all occasions. By providing healthy food options in Southern Pines, as well as offering education and support, we hope to change livez in our community.
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arts & entertainment 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 any events. TECH HELP SESSIONS. SPPL offers one-on-one Technology Help Sessions. A library staff member will sit with you to assist with accessing eBooks, learning how to use a new device, navigating a computer, and to answer any other basic technology questions. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. To make an appointment come into the library or visit www.sppl.net. PHOTO HISTORY. 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m. The historical association will host an exhibit, “Southern Pines Then and Now,” featuring photographs taken 100 years ago and what the same area looks like today. Free admission. Water Department, 180 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines.
OCTOBER EVENTS Sunday, October 1 BOOK EVENT. 2 - 3 p.m. The Country Bookshop welcomes Diane Flynt to talk about her book Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived; The Surprising Story of Apples in the South. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com. WRITING GROUP. 3 p.m. Are you interested in creating fiction, nonfiction, poetry or comics? Come to the Sunday Afternoon Writing Group. Connect with other writers and artists, chat about your craft, and get feedback about your work. All levels welcome. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: lholden@sppl.net. ART EXHIBIT. The Artists League of the Sandhills presents a five-artist show, “Total Abstraction,” featuring large abstract paintings that have been created in a variety of mediums. The exhibit runs through Oct. 21. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: www.artistleague.org.
Tuesday, October 3 BRAIN FITNESS. 10 - 11 a.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to a Brain Fitness class. Eve Gaskell will be the instructor. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TEEN CRAFTS. 4 p.m. Teens and tweens, join us to make a fun Halloween craft. Supplies are limited. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.sppl.net or
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Dundee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-0704. FIRST FRIDAY. 5 - 8 p.m. Come enjoy the blues sound of Eddie 9V. Free admission. There will be food trucks and Southern Pines Brewing Company beer on tap. No pets allowed. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 420-2549 or www.sunrisetheater.com.
Saturday, October 7
10.15 Farm Tour kbroughey@sppl.net. GALA. 6:30 p.m. The Carolina Philharmonic hosts its annual gala. Chef Elliott will orchestrate a culinary experience. There will be a performance by Maestro David Michael Wolff and the junior orchestra and an auction with proceeds supporting music education programs. Cost is $150 per person. Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Hill Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 603-0444 or www.carolinaphil.org.
Thursday, October 5 SOUL FLOW. 6:30 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Join a gentle flow guaranteed to soothe the mind, body and soul. A mixture of yin and restorative yoga. Great for all levels. Cost is $12 for residents and $17 for non-residents. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CLASSICAL GUITAR. 7 - 8:30 p.m. Enjoy the classical guitar virtuosity and refined artistry of Meng Su. Bradshaw Performing Arts Center, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.ticketmesandhills.com.
CRAFT DAYS. Children and their families can come by the library for Drop-in Craft Days and work on crafts at their own pace or take it home. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. GUEST SPEAKER. 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Katherine Caldwell, a well-known Bible teacher and author, will have a presentation on “Lives Touched by Jesus.” The Village Chapel, 10 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.ticketmesandhills.com. AUTUMNFEST. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Enjoy food, live music and entertainment. Downtown Southern Pines, 145 S.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. KID’S SATURDAY. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Families are invited to a monthly themed craft event to socialize and get creative. Geared toward ages 3 - 10. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642 or www.vopnc.org. SOCIAL. 7 - 10 p.m. The monthly social for Moore Area Shag Society will have DJ Chigger Woods spinning great tunes. There is a cash bar, and you may bring snacks for your table. A 50/50 drawing will be held. Admission is $10 for ages 21 and over. Down Memory Lane, 161 Dawkins St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 215-4054.
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LUNCH BUNCH. 11:30 a.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to dine on varied cuisines each month as you visit different restaurants. Carpool with friends or meet at the restaurant. Dining locations will be chosen the week before. Info: (910) 692-7376.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY CELEBRATION. 2 p.m. There will be a presentation, land acknowledgment and history, smudging ceremony, prayer song and traditional dances with Kaya Littleturtle of the Lumbee Tribe. Free admission, registration required. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.weymouthcenter.org.
SALE AND RAFFLE. 2 p.m. Come shop the annual White Elephant Sale and Raffle for gently used furniture, art, household items, toys, baked goods and more. The sneak peek sale is Oct. 6 from 2 - 6 p.m., the sale is Oct. 7 from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Oct. 8 from 8 a.m. - 11 a.m. No entry fee for Oct. 7 and 8. Proceeds benefit Sacred Heart Church Ministries and Moore County charitable organizations. Founders Hall, intersection of N.C. 211 and
STEAM. 2:30 p.m. Elementary-aged children and their caregivers are invited to learn about topics in science, technology, engineering, art and math and to participate in STEAM projects and activities. This month NASA Solar System Ambassador Jon Caruthers will talk about space. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or kbroughey@sppl.net.
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CA L E N DA R OPERA FAVORITES. 4 - 5:30 p.m. Join us for an afternoon of opera favorites. Community Congregational Church, 140 N. Bennett St., Southern Pines. Info: www.ticketmesandhills.com.
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sound, smell, dense atmosphere and air pressure, and may come in contact with liquid substances. For all ages. Cost is $5 per person. Campbell House Grounds, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY CELEBRATION. 10 a.m. There will be an outdoor children’s event, traditional dance showcase, friendship dances, corn husk doll-making, storytelling and songs. Free admission, registration required. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.weymouthcenter. org.
Saturday, October 14
PHOTO CLUB. 7 p.m. Sandhills Photography Club monthly meeting will be a competition. This challenge involves water — bodies of water found in nature or a photograph of any use of water in daily life. Judging will be done by Kim Critchfield, master photographer from Idaho’s Magic Valley region. Guests are welcome. Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Visitors Center, 3245 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: www.sandhillsphotoclub.org.
HERITAGE FAIR AND SALE. 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. The Heritage Fair offers unique vendors, food, live music, demonstrations of old-time crafts, treasure sales and farm animals for petting. Held in conjunction with the Heritage Fair is the Moore Treasures Sale, where there will be collectibles, pottery, jewelry, art, antiques, vintage books, toys, glassware and more. Free admission. The Shaw House, 110 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines.
Tuesday, October 10
SUSTAINABLE FASHION. 2 p.m. Join the Moore County Climate Crisis Education group to learn about sustainable fashion. Find out what sustainable fashion is, why it is important, and how we can avoid the negative impact on our environment from fast fashion. Gather tips on ways to improve our green wardrobe, using global and local resources, and learn some at-home ways to up-cycle your old garments. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.sppl.net.
AARP TALK. 12 - 12:30 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to join AARP for a fraud talk. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TEEN WRITING CLUB. 4 p.m. Are you interested in creative writing and storytelling, connecting with other writers and getting feedback on your work? Join us for the Teen Creative Writing Club. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.sppl.net or kbroughey@sppl.net.
Thursday, October 12 THEATER SHOW. 7:30 p.m. Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard. The show runs Thursdays through Saturdays until Oct. 29. Burning Coal Theatre Company, 224 Polk St., Raleigh.
Friday, October 13 CASINO ROYALE. 6 - 10 p.m. Celebrate Carolina Horse Park’s 25th anniversary with casino games like roulette, craps, blackjack and poker, plus raffles to spend your winnings. Enjoy an extensive silent auction, hors d’oeuvres and open bar. Put on your best cocktail attire for a fun night out with friends. Tickets are $85 for one and $150 for two. Village Pine Venue, 1628 McCaskill Road, Carthage. Info: www.carolinahorsepark.com. LIVE THEATER. 7 p.m. Blithe Spirit. There will be more performances on Oct. 14, 15, 20, 22, 27 and 28. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 420-2549 or www.sunrisetheater.com. HAUNTED TRAIL. 7 - 10 p.m. As you enter our attraction on a hay-covered wagon, you will immediately be struck with darkness, but down the winding path and into the haunted woods you will go. From the moment you arrive on our property, you are fair game to every haunted creature residing here. You will encounter special effects of light,
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COMMUNITY YARD SALE. 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. Enjoy shopping 20 - 40 individual outdoor booths offering everything from handmade crafts, modern tools and electronics, vintage and antique collectibles and even an assortment of everyday household items or clothes. A food truck will be on site. The Bee’s Knees, 125 N.C. 73, West End. Info: (910) 420-8970.
FUNDRAISER. 5:30 - 10 p.m. Join us for our annual fundraiser featuring legends and lore and a whole lot more. Enjoy storytelling by Kaya and Kat Littleturtle from the Lumbee and Tuscarora people. The evening includes cocktails, dinner by Elliott’s on Linden, silent and live auctions, and dancing to live music. Tickets are $175 per person. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.weymouthcenter.org.
Sunday, October 15 FARM TOUR. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Join Prancing Horse for a self-guided tour of five of the area’s most prestigious equestrian facilities. Prancing Horse Tent, 6045 U.S. 1, Vass. Info: www.ticketmesandhills.com.
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Tuesday, October 17 SENIOR TRIP. 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to go on a trip to Raleigh for a day at the North Carolina State Fair. Cost is $10 for residents and $14 for non-residents. Info: (910) 692-7376. BRAIN FITNESS. 10 - 11 a.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to a Brain Fitness class. Eve Gaskell will be the instructor. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. BINGO. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to play 10 games of bingo. Cost is $4 for residents and $6 for non-residents. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. BOOK CLUB. 2 p.m. The James Boyd Book Club meets for this month’s book, Indigo Field, by Marjorie Hudson, who will be attending the discussion. Free admission, registration required. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.weymouthcenter.org.
Wednesday, October 18 WHITEHALL BOOK CLUB. 2 p.m. Southern Pines Public Library’s book club for adults meets to discuss this month’s book. The book club is open to the public. Whitehall Property, 490 Pee Dee Road, Southern Pines. Info: mmiller@sppl.net. LIBRARY PROGRAM. 3:30 p.m. At The Library After School (ATLAS) is an after-school program for kindergartners through second-graders who enjoy activities, crafts, stories and learning. This special session is on spooky storytelling. Wear your Halloween costume and hear spooky stories. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.
Thursday, October 19 CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE. 6:30 p.m. The guest speaker will be historian and author Jim Morgan. 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.
MAHJONG. 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Learn to play mahjong with Leigh and Ashley. Identify the tiles, understand the Charleston ritual and more. There is a second lesson on Oct. 16 from 1 - 3 p.m. Eloise Trading Company, 111 W. Main St., Aberdeen. Info: www.eloisetradingco.com.
Monday, October 16 WOMEN OF WEYMOUTH. 9:30 a.m. The Women of Weymouth meeting will feature speaker Janeen Driscoll, director of Brand Communications for the United States Golf Association. Free admission, registration required. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave.,
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CA L E N DA R with Eric Vloeimans (trumpet) and Will Holshouser (accordion) bringing together jazz, classical and folk music. Tickets start at $30. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.weymouthcenter.org.
work on crafts at their own pace or take them home. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.
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Lunch ‛Nʼ Learn Friday, October 20 BOOFEST. 5 - 9 p.m. Trick-or-treat at the local downtown businesses in Southern Pines at 5 p.m., then join us at the Downtown Park at 5:30 p.m. for Halloween theme games, crafts, activities and best dog costume raffle. Downtown Southern Pines, 145 S.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. OUTDOOR MOVIE. 6:45 p.m. Bring your family to watch Hotel Transylvania: Transformania. Concessions will be available for purchase. Bring a blanket or chair. Downtown Park, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
FUNDRAISER. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. The Women of the Pines fundraiser “Bake and Bling” will have a new and exciting boutique area selling new and gently used jewelry, purses, scarves, pottery and small art pieces. Don’t miss out on amazing raffle boxes. Raffle tickets are $25 per ticket. All proceeds benefit Moore County charities. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange, 15 Azalea Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.womenofthepines.org.
Monday, October 23 BOOK EVENT. 4 - 5 p.m. The Country Bookshop welcomes James Spoonhour to talk about his book Incentive for Death. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.
Tuesday, October 24
DANCING. 6 p.m. Carolina Pines Dance Club invites you for a fun evening of swing, shag, ballroom, Latin and line dancing. Doors open at 6 p.m. Dance lessons from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Dancing until 9:30 p.m. Beginners and experienced dancers, couples and singles all welcome. Cost is $15 per person, cash at the door. Tyson Sinclair Ballroom (second floor), 105 McReynolds St., Carthage. Info: (910) 331-9965.
TEEN WRITING CLUB. 4 p.m. Are you interested in creative writing and storytelling, connecting with other writers and getting feedback on your work? Join us for the Teen Creative Writing Club. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.sppl.net or kbroughey@sppl.net.
Sunday, October 22
LUNCH ’N’ LEARN. 10 a.m. Sandhills Woman’s Exchange invites guests to a spooky Lunch ’n’ Learn, “Ghosts of Campbell House.” The program will be presented by Ray Owen of the Arts Council of Moore County. Attendance is limited for the $30 per person ticket, which includes a Chef Katrina lunch and dessert. Info: (910) 295-4677 or www.sandhillswe.org.
Saturday, October 21
BOOK EVENT. 2 - 5 p.m. The Country Bookshop welcomes Denise Kiernan to do a special presentation on the book We Gather Together: Stories of Thanksgiving from Then to Now. The Country Bookshop, 140 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info and tickets: www.ticketmesandhills.com.
CRAFT DAYS. Children and their families can come by the library for Drop-in Craft Days and
LIVE FROM THE GREAT ROOM. 7 p.m. Enjoy cocktails and entertainment in a vintage setting,
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CA L E N DA R WRITERS-IN-RESIDENCE. This month’s reading features poet Gibbons Ruark. Free admission, registration required. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.weymouthcenter.org.
Thursday, October 26 DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. Multiple copies of the selected book are available for checkout at the library. The Douglass Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: mmiller@sppl.net. MEDICAL MINUTES. 1 - 2 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to learn about different topics beneficial to the senior community. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
10.31 Musiciansʼ Jam Session LIBRARY PROGRAM. 3:30 p.m. At The Library After School (ATLAS) is an after-school program for kindergartners through second graders who enjoy activities, crafts, stories and
learning. This special session will be all about spiders and other creepy crawlies. Whitehall House, 490 Pee Dee Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.
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BOOK CHAT. 5:30 p.m. Do you love a good scare? Books that make your skin crawl? If so, join us for “Under the Covers: A Chilling Book Chat.” We will discuss The Only Good Indians, by Stephen Graham Jones. This event is free, but space is limited. The Wine Cellar, 241 N.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.sppl.net or mhoward@sppl.net. SOUL FLOW. 6:30 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Join a gentle flow guaranteed to soothe the mind, body and soul. A mixture of yin and restorative yoga. Great for all levels. Cost is $12 for residents and $17 for non-residents. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
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CA L E N DA R Friday, October 27 TRAIN RIDE. 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Take a 25-minute train ride around the site once home to Southern Railway’s largest steam locomotive repair facility in the Southeast. The massive Back Shop, where steam locomotives were once completely overhauled, now houses rail cars of the past, antique automobiles, firetrucks and the restoration of the Piedmont Airlines “Potomac Pacemaker” DC-3. Afterward enjoy lunch at O’Charley’s. Cost is $31 for residents and $43 for non-residents. Info: (910) 692-7376. ZOMBIE WALK. 6 - 10 p.m. The undead of Fayetteville are returning to celebrate the Zombie Walk. This is a free undead family-friendly event. Come in all your best zombie costumes. Downtown Fayetteville. Info: www.facebook.com/events/1343220856454980.
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OUTDOOR MOVIE. 6:30 p.m. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. There will be another showing on Oct. 28. Sunrise Theater, 250 N.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 420-2549 or www.sunrisetheater.com.
Saturday, October 28 LIBRARY PROGRAM. 2 p.m. Did you know you can get free eBooks and audiobooks using the Libby app and your library card? Come to our “Introduction to Libby” program to learn all about using Libby. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: msilva@sppl.net.
Sunday, October 29 JAZZ ON THE LAWN. 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Join us outdoors on Weymouth Center’s beautiful grounds for live jazz featuring Lucy Yeghiazaryan, an American-Armenian vocalist. Bring your own blanket, chairs and a picnic, and enjoy our cash bar with mimosas, beer, wine and non-alcoholic beverages available. Tickets start at $27.50, and children 12 and under are free. Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.weymouthcenter.org.
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GOLF CAPITAL CHORUS. 7 - 9 p.m. The Golf Capital Chorus presents its 42nd anniversary show filled with love songs from the 1950s to the present day. Lee Auditorium, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: www.ticketmesandhills.com. SOCIAL. 7 - 10 p.m. The monthly social for Moore Area Shag Society will host Gary Lowder and Smokin’ Hot. Down Memory Lane, 161 Dawkins St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 215-4054 or www.masseventtickets.com.
Sunday, November 5 FAMILY FUN SERIES. 3 - 4 p.m. Enjoy a performance of The Velveteen Rabbit. Recommended for K - 5. Owens Auditorium, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.ticketmesandhills.com.
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CA L E N DA R meeting room by reservation only. Info: www.giventuftsfoundation.com. WORKOUTS. 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to get their workout on. Open Monday through Friday. Cost for six months: $15/ resident; $30/non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CHAIR YOGA. 9 - 10 a.m. For adults 55 and older. Help offset body aches encountered with desk work. This is an accessible yoga class for bodies not able to easily get up from and down to the floor. Do standing or sitting in a chair. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. STRENGTH AND BALANCE WORKOUT. 11 - 11:45 a.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to enjoy a brisk workout that focuses on balance and strength. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. RESTORATIVE YOGA. 12 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Practice gentle movements to improve well-being. Practice movements that may help alleviate pain and improve circulation. Bring your own mat. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
GAME ON. 1 p.m. For adults 55 and older. You and your friends are invited to come out and play various games such as corn hole, badminton, table tennis, shuffleboard, trivia games, and more. Each week enjoy a different activity to keep you moving and thinking. Compete with friends and make new ones all for free. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAI CHI. 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Improve your balance both mentally and physically, which can significantly reduce the rate of falls in older adults, while improving relaxation, vitality, posture and immunity. Classes continue each week through Oct. 18. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
muscle tone while learning the basic principles of yoga. You may gain strength, improve circulation and reduce chronic pain as we practice gentle yoga postures and mindfulness. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. BABY RHYMES. 10:15 a.m. Baby Rhymes is specially designed for the youngest learners (birth- 2) and their caregivers. Repetition and comforting movements make this story time perfect for early development and brain growth. There will be a duplicate session at 10:45 a.m. An active library card is required. Dates this month are Oct. 3, 10, 17, 24 and 31. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net.
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HEALING YOGA. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Adults 55 and older can try an entry-level class, for a mind and body workout that fuses dance moves with gentle aerobics, tai chi, and yoga. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
PLAYFUL LEARNING. 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Come for a drop-in, open playtime for ages 0 - 3 years to interact with other children and have educational playtime. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642.
GAME DAY. 12 p.m. Enjoy bid whist and other cool games all in the company of great friends. For adults 55 and older. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
HATHA YOGA. 10 - 11 a.m. For adults 55 and older. Increase your flexibility, balance, stability, and
TEEN TUESDAYS. 4 - 5 p.m. Teens in middle and high school can join every week to connect with
BRIDGE. 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Enjoy games of bridge with friends. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
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CA L E N DA R other teens in a fun and safe space. Each week is a different topic or activity. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.sppl.net.
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CONVERSATION SERIES. 6:30 p.m. The West Southern Pines Civic Club and the Bold Initiative Team of Brownson Memorial Presbyterian Church sponsor this 10-week Zoom series on “Communities United Against Racism.” In a respectful multicultural atmosphere, explore differences and similarities with your Sandhills neighbors. Everyone can share their personal life experiences promoting honest dialogue and non-judgmental listening. The series goes from September 12 through November 14. Register at https://tinyurl.com/SFFEC2023.
Wednesdays CHAIR YOGA. 10 - 11 a.m. For adults 55 and older. Help offset body aches encountered with desk work. This is an accessible yoga class for bodies not able to easily get up from and down to the floor. Do standing or sitting in a chair. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. LEARN AND PLAY. 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Come in for an open play date with your toddler or preschooler where there will be developmental toys and puzzles as well as early literacy tips on display for parents and caregivers to incorporate in their daily activities. Dates this month are Oct. 4, 11, 18 and 25. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. LINE DANCING. 12 - 1 p.m. Looking for new ways to get your daily exercise in and care for yourself? Try line dancing. For adults 55 and older. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. SLOW AND STRETCHY. 12 - 1 p.m. Adults 55 and older can flow through yoga poses slowly and intentionally, stretching everything from your head
to your toes. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CHAIR VOLLEYBALL. 1 - 2 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Get fit while having fun. Free to participate. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. BRIDGE. 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Enjoy games of bridge with friends. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. DANCE. 2 - 2:30 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Instructor Maria Amaya will introduce you to dance fitness in this class designed for anyone who wants to gently and gradually increase their cardio function, mobility and balance and have fun at the same time. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. LINE DANCING. 2 p.m. The town of Vass will host line dancing for seniors every other Wednesday. Cost is $5 per session. Vass Town Hall, 140 S. Alma St., Vass. Info: www.townofvassnc.gov. LIBRARY PROGRAM. 3:30 p.m. At The Library After School (ATLAS) is an after-school program for kindergartners through second graders who enjoy activities, crafts, stories and learning. Dates this month are Oct. 4, 11, 18 and 25. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. POWER VINYASA FLOW. 4 - 5 p.m. For adults 18 and older. Explore the mind/body connection, using your breath to guide you through powerful flowing movements in a non-judgemental space. Created for all experience levels. Cost is $6 for residents and $9 for non-residents. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
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Moore County Farmers Market TAI CHI. 6:30 p.m. Come learn tai chi. There is no age limit, and the classes are open to the public. Cost is $10 per class. Seven Lakes West Community Center, 556 Longleaf Drive, Seven Lakes. Info: (910) 400-5646. YOGA. 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Grab your yoga mat and head to Hatchet for a yoga session with Brady. Session cost is $10. Hatchet Brewing Company, 490 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.hatchetbrewing.com.
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Thursdays WORKSPACES. 7 a.m. - 3p.m. The Given Tufts Bookshop has a new pop-in co-workspace open on Mondays and Thursdays in the upstairs conference room. Bookshop floor and private meeting room by reservation only. Info: www.giventuftsfoundation.com. MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. The year-round market features “producer only” vendors within a 50-mile radius providing fresh, local and seasonal produce, fruits, pasture meats, eggs, potting plants, cut flowers and local honey. Crafts, baked goods, jams and jellies are also available. Market is located at the Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. GIVEN STORY TIME. 10 a.m. Bring your preschooler to enjoy stories, songs and activities. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-3642. BALANCE AND FLEXIBILITY. 10 - 11 a.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to enjoy a class that will help reduce the risk of taking a tumble while increasing your ability to recover. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CROCHET CLUB. 11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to come with friends to create fun designs and memories. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. MUSIC AND MOTION. 10:15 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Does your toddler like to move and groove? Join us for outdoor Music and Motion to get those wiggles
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CA L E N DA R out and work on gross and fine motor skills. For 2- to 5-year-olds. An active library card is required. There is a duplicate session at 10:45 a.m. Dates this month are Oct. 5, 12 and 26. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. ADAPTIVE YOGA. 12 - 1 p.m. Adults 55 and older can enjoy yoga that meets you where you are. Create a sense of balance and ease by slowly increasing your range of motion and mobility while maintaining your natural abilities. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CHESS AND MAHJONG. 1 p.m. For adults 55 and older. All levels welcome. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. MEDITATION. 1 - 2 p.m. Adults 55 and older are invited to connect with nature and with yourself in this 30-minute meditation. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. CABIN TOURS. 1 - 4 p.m. The Moore County Historical Association’s Shaw House grounds, cabins and gift shop are open for tours and visits. The restored tobacco barn features the history of children’s roles in the industry. Docents are ready to host you and the cabins are open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Shaw House, 110 W.
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Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2051 or www.moorehistory.com. ORCHESTRA REHEARSALS. 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. The Moore Philharmonic Orchestra has weekly rehearsals. Membership is open to youth and adult community members and there is no fee to join. Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: www.mporchestra.com or email moorephilharmonicorchestra@gmail.com. TRIVIA NIGHT. 7 - 9 p.m. Come enjoy a beer and some trivia. Hatchet Brewing Company, 490 S.W. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.hatchetbrewing.com.
Fridays AEROBIC DANCE. 9 - 10 a.m. For adults 55 and older. Enjoy this low-to-moderate impact class with energizing music for an overall cardio and strength workout. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. TAP CLASS. 10 - 11:30 a.m. For adults 55 and older. All levels welcome. Cost per class: $15/resident; $30/non-resident. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. QIGONG. 1 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Classes will consist of chair and standing movements that can help soothe achy feet, tight hips, lower back
pain and ease restriction in mobility. Free of charge. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. BRIDGE. 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. For adults 55 and older. Enjoy games of bridge with friends. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. LINE DANCING. 3 - 4 p.m. For adults 55 and older. If you’re interested in learning dance moves and building confidence on the dance floor, this class is for you. Leave your inhibitions at the door and join in. Cost is: $36 for residents and $52 for non-residents per month. Cost is for a monthly membership. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.
Saturdays MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. (Excluding AutumnFest. Oct. 7) The market features “producer only” vendors within a 50-mile radius providing fresh, local and seasonal produce, fruits, pasture meats, eggs, potting plants, cut flowers and local honey. Crafts, baked goods, jams and jellies are also available. Downtown Southern Pines, 156 S.E. Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: www.moorecountyfarmersmarket.com. PS
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The Artists League of the Sandhills presents a fiveartist show – Total Abstraction - featuring large abstract paintings which have been created in a variety of mediums. The exhibit opened on Friday, September 29, and runs through Saturday, October 21. The Google definition of abstract art is “art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colors, forms, and gestural marks to achieve its effect.” Please join us to view the amazing work of Liz Apodaca, Linda Bruening, Kathy Leuck, KC Sorvari, and Jude Winkley. Several “meet the artists” sessions will be featured during gallery hours, MondaySaturday, noon to 3 p.m.
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Our annual Collectors Choice Night is by invitation only and is our most spectacular event of the year. This is a lovely reception held prior to the public opening of the exhibit. Exquisite food and a special cocktail based on our theme are served to our guests. Admission is $125 per couple and $100 may be applied to the price of any painting (or can be counted as a donation if you don’t make a purchase). Please plan to join us that evening and have first choice to purchase a truly unique piece of art and help support the Artists League. Call 910-944-3979 or email artistleague@ windstream.net for a special invitation.
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The Ancient Ways By Jim Moriarty
There are things in the modern world into which far too much thought has been invested. One is pumpkin carving. Search the web long enough and you can find out how to etch T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” into your front doorstep decoration, backlit with electric lights and read by Jeremy Irons.
The array of hand tools necessary for modern pumpkin carving is slightly less complicated than a tray full of surgical instruments used in a heart transplant. Keyhole saw. Fleshing tool. Awl. Drill and interchangeable bits. Melon baller. Petroleum jelly — and I’m not at all sure I even want to know what that’s for. Apparently in the 21st century, it’s not uncommon to make the initial incision from the back of the pumpkin, or the side, or however you want to describe the part of the pumpkin that is neither top nor bottom. Once you’ve cracked its chest and the outer pumpkin seal has been broken, the modern gourd is subjected to a form of liposuction. After all the icky stuff is removed with scooping devices — melon ballers, it seems, can be obtained in a great variety of sizes and grip options — the inner wall is then thinned to a thickness of no less than 1/2 inch but no greater than 3/4 inch by scraping away the orange flesh with some sort of diabolical loop instrument that looks as though it would have been used in medieval times to remove the tongue of the village heretic. After you’ve hollowed out and squeegeed the interior to a lustrous sheen, you then apply the stencil to the outer surface using either industrial grade duct tape or T-pins borrowed from your child’s voodoo doll. This is where all right-thinking persons should draw the line. Did Picasso use a template to paint Guernica? Did Michelangelo stencil Adam onto the Sistine Chapel ceiling? Yet, they press on. Once the stencil is in place, using some kind of needle, puncture the outer skin every 1/8 to 1/4 inch along the outline
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of the design. Remove stencil, plug in and engage the three-speed electric drill or, if you’re etching, scrape the skin away with linoleum cutters. Work outside to in. This, as it turns out, is where the petroleum jelly comes to the rescue, applied to the bare flesh (the pumpkin’s, that is) the way you apply a poultice to a boil. Soon you’ll have a design more magnificent than, and equally as complex as, the four laws of thermodynamics. There is, however, another way. You can go old school. First, get you a pumpkin. Next, get you a knife. I’m not talking just any knife. Go to the kitchen drawer and pull out the biggest, most dangerous carving knife you can find. Full-on Chucky. Using a blue Bic, draw two equilateral triangles for the eyes — point up, naturally — and a mouth with two upper teeth and one lower. Then, insert your carving knife into the top of the pumpkin at a slight angle to the perpendicular, cutting all the way around the peduncle. (The stem, I’m told.) Lift the lid, trim the bottom. Using your bare hands, scrape out the innards until your fingernails turn orange. Go in right up to your elbow if you must, scooping out handfuls of slimy, fibrous pumpkin entrails. Young children pressed into service may get the dry heaves. Pay them no mind. Put the slop into a big pile and begin separating the seeds from the goop. Place the seeds on a greased cookie sheet, sprinkling garlic salt liberally on top. Place the tray in the oven on broil. Cook until they’re turned to ash. As the odor of burning garlic wafts through the kitchen, plunge the knife into the pumpkin, more or less following the Bic drawing for the eyes and mouth. Freelancing is allowed though not encouraged. When finished, use the butt end of your carving knife — being careful not to put your eye out — and tap the cutouts until they fall into the hollow pumpkin. Remove. Once empty, use the sharp point of the knife, employing the twisting motion of an assassin, to dig a spot in the bottom of the pumpkin’s interior. Take a candle from the dining room table, light it and drip the wax into the wound you’ve carved in the base. Place the bottom of the candle in the pumpkin before the wax hardens. The candle won’t stay upright long but, if you’re lucky, it’ll get you through one night. After that you’re just eating leftover candy anyway. PS The Art & Soul of the Sandhills
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The primitive art of pumpkin carving
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