September PineStraw 2016 by PineStraw Magazine

uail Haven Village Has It All: An Active Retirement Community, A Desirable Location and Excellent Continuing Care

vibrant continuing care retirement community (CCRC), Quail Haven Village provides excellence in senior living just five minutes from a town rated a “Top Retirement Destination” by Where To Retire magazine. Residents of Quail Haven enjoy enriching independent living, plus peace of mind that additional supports and services are available onsite, should they ever need them.

Perfectly Positioned in Pinehurst The Village of Pinehurst, North Carolina, is a small town with a big town feel. Known for its charm and Southern hospitality, the entire town was originally a resort that now has national landmark status. Called “The Home of American Golf,” Pinehurst is certainly a paradise for enthusiasts, but that’s by no means all there is to do there. The area is a treasure of natural beauty with the All-American Trail for hikers and cyclists, the Uwharrie National Forest, the famous Sandhills Horticultural Gardens and a stunning Nature Preserve. History is alive throughout the region, as well, from Revolutionary times through the Civil War and beyond. There are theaters, museums, the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities, a zoo, vineyards and breweries, an equestrian park and a harness track. Just minutes from Quail Haven, you can find a wide choice of dining, entertainment and shopping options.

Designed For Your Comfort and Care When selecting a place to retire, it is important to choose a continuing care community with years of experience. It’s reassuring to know that Quail Haven Village has been helping seniors enjoy retirement for 28 years, and the Liberty Healthcare family has been in business for nearly 150 years.

Priceless Peace of Mind When planning retirement, it’s wise to look ahead by choosing a community with dependable, comprehensive continuous care. Quail Haven Village offers residents independent living, and as their needs change, the well-planned system accommodates the specific, evolving health requirements of each person. Onsite assisted care, skilled nursing and rehabilitation services are all part of the resident-centered approach at Quail Haven, either for a short time or on an on-going basis. There is no worry about leaving home and friends. For residents who do require ongoing assisted living, the support is available in the Cardinal and Rosemary Family Care cottages of Quail Haven Village, with all the necessary services included. Residents receive personalized support in a shared home setting, providing all the services necessary for health and comfort. Each cottage has six private suites, complete with shared spaces including a kitchen, activity area and living room. Each resident in the cottages enjoys privacy within their individual apartment, yet they live close to others for support and companionship. In the cottages, all residents receive caring support from certified staff, assistance with activities of daily living, medication administration, laundry services, housekeeping, three meals per day, and transportation services.

An Open Invitation and A Warm Welcome Quail Haven Village is the perfect choice for active retirees who appreciate planning ahead and knowing all their needs will be met throughout their senior years. The location is beautiful; the lifestyle is gracious and worry-free.

Come visit and see it for yourself. We will be delighted to welcome you and show you around.

Designed by expert planners, Quail Haven Village emphasizes independence and the freedom to enjoy a range of activities that boost residents’ spirits, keep their minds entertained, and their bodies energized. The staff handles all the housekeeping, maintenance and landscaping, so residents can pursue their hobbies and interests in their leisure time. Residents can stay flexible and centered through group exercise classes, take daytrips with neighbors to enjoy area attractions, and enrich their minds with life-long learning classes. Quail Haven clubhouse is a gathering place for a vigorous group of residents who appreciate an active lifestyle. There are always social gatherings to join and outings for lunch and dinner. Quail Haven is proud of the activities available at the First Health Fitness Center. Residents also enjoy use of the nearby Pinewild Country Club. Meals are pleasing to the eye and palate, prepared by the chef and served in the dining room. It’s a restaurant style setting where the wait staff knows every resident’s name, as well as their preferences.

Call 910.295.2294 or visit quailhavenvillage.com

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After two years of being sidelined from

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a severe injury, I recently underwent knee surgery and began walking to work in the mornings again and with our dogs in the evenings.

Frankly I’d forgotten how good it feels — how walking through a busy world at a neighborly pace provides useful time to think and helps one notice important small things right in front of your nose. “I tell people that I walk for sanity, not vanity,” says my friend Dennis Quaintance, the Greensboro hotelier who has been a dedicated daily walker in historic Green Hill Cemetery for years. “A walk helps me make sense of the world.” The health benefits of a daily walk are also amply documented, and I’ve even managed to drop a dozen pounds since I resumed my regular walks three or four weeks ago. Soon I hope to be up to walking a complete golf course again, just in time for my wife and me to slip away to Scotland later this month. In some ways my involuntary removal from golf prompted a true awakening. I probably took the ability to walk for granted and am both relieved and resolved to be back cruising the world on two feet. Ditto my new friend and fellow golfer Kevin Reinert. We met last Father’s Day at a family golf event I host annually for the Pinehurst Resort, a gathering of like-minded souls created around a surprise best-selling book of mine called Final Rounds, a story about taking my father back to England and Scotland, where he learned to play golf during the Second World War. On the first night of the event I typically welcome 125 or so folks from around the country and give a little talk aimed at setting a lighthearted tone for golf and fellowship. After this year’s opening dinner, a fit-looking fellow about my age came up to say hello with his wife, Jean. “This is my first year here,” explained Reinert, offering me his hand. “I just want to say thank you for saving my life.” I smiled, waiting for the punch line.

But there wasn’t one. “No, seriously,” he said, “your book on Ben Hogan inspired me to get up and teach myself to walk again.” And with that, he told me an absolutely extraordinary story of courage and one man’s resolve to put his shattered world — and legs — back together. It was a beautiful evening a year ago this October when Kevin Reinert put his golf bag on a trolley at Greensboro’s Starmount Forest Country Club, hoping to get in a quick 18 before meeting Jean at a special fundraiser at the club. “It had been raining for days,” he remembers, “but the weather had suddenly cleared. It was a beautiful evening.” Reinert, 62, is a retired Air Force colonel who spent almost 30 years working in recruiting and public affairs for the Air Force and Air Force Reserve. He was the administrator responsible for overseeing public affairs for 35 different Reserve units around the United States and the men who helped transform the Reserve’s recruiting profile. Eleven years ago, Kevin and Jean, who met and married while both were captains on active duty in 1985, relocated from Georgia to Greensboro, where Kevin went to work for The Brooks Group, a leading sales management consulting firm. Before being deployed to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Jean Reinert taught nursing at UNCG and returned from active duty to become nursing administrator for Cone Health. “Greensboro was a place we fell for in an instant,” Reinert explained. “It has everything, great restaurants, theaters, wonderful people and a location that was perfect for us — the mountains in one direction, the coast in another. Our kids were grown and doing their thing, and North Carolina really felt like home.” But all of that changed in an instant as Reinert pushed his golf trolley toward Starmount’s beautiful finishing tee. “There was a group ahead of me, just out in the fairway, when my phone went off alerting me to incoming messages. I looked down, thinking it might be Jean, as I walked toward the tee. That’s when I heard this ferocious sound. I looked up but I didn’t quite register what I was seeing.” What he saw was a Kia Rio with smashed side mirrors barreling directly toward him over the course’s cart path. “I had just enough time to try and jump out of its way. So I jumped, hoping

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— I don’t know — that maybe I’d land on the hood and roll over the top like you see guys do in the movies. I didn’t get high enough,” he notes with a laugh. The car struck him at the knees and knocked him over the hood and roof before barreling on. Reinert was tossed 30 feet from the site of impact, landing on the tee. The car was estimated to have been traveling anywhere from 35 to 45 mph, driven by a man who was on a violent robbery and mugging spree, trying to outrun the police. He managed to get one hole farther before the car went out of control and wound up in one of Starmount’s meandering creeks. The driver set off on foot, commandeered another car and was later apprehended. “My first thought, as I lay there, was a kind of stunned disbelief. I saw that one leg was lying at a 90 degree angle from my body, and when I tried to lift myself up, my arm wouldn’t function.” Workmen from a nearby residence hurried over, calling 911. The group ahead also rushed back. Reinert asked one of the golfers, a fellow member named Mike Corbett, to find his phone and call his wife. “Jean was over at UNCG and thought I said I’d been hit by a golf cart. She hurried over and actually got there before the ambulance did.” Owing to heavy rains, the EMS unit couldn’t reach the spot on the course where Reinert lay, but head professional Bill Hall hurried out with a flatbed cart just as a fire unit arrived with a rescue board. “They got me on the board and Bill drove me back to the parking lot, where the ambulance was waiting. It was a bumpy ride and he kept apologizing. I was probably close to being in shock but joked to him that he’d better not charge me for a cart because I’d walked the course. He thought that was funny. I also told him that if I’d parred the hole, I probably would have shot 87. He couldn’t believe I was conscious and making jokes. But I knew I was in pretty bad shape.” Both Reinert’s knees were crushed. He’d suffered a shattered femur, a broken tibia, a broken right ankle and a fractured right humerus bone, the upper bone of the arm. “There was a deep cut on my face but, amazingly, no head injuries,” he said. “I was conscious the whole way, already wondering if I would be able to walk again.” The next morning he underwent six hours of surgery. This was followed by four more surgeries over the ensuing weeks. “The doctors couldn’t give me a clear prognosis or even tell me if I would ever be able to walk or referee or even play golf again.” Besides golf, one of Kevin Reinert’s other pleasures was a budding avocation as a college-level lacrosse official. After 18 days in the hospital, he was sent home. He began therapy three days a week that continues to this day. “The hardest part was just not knowing what was ahead. I sat and tried to watch TV, but the news was so discouraging I decided to turn it off and read books instead.” An old pal from Long Island who taught him to play golf during their college years together at Adelphi University sent him a box of books, one of which was Ben Hogan: An American Life, my biography of professional golf’s most elusive superstar. At the height of his success, while returning home from a golf tournament in Arizona, Hogan and his wife, Valerie, were struck head-on by a Greyhound bus that shattered Hogan’s legs and nearly killed the star golfer. His obituary, in fact, went out over the Associated Press wires before it was learned that he was actually hanging on in a rural Texas hospital. Doctors advised Hogan he would likely never walk again, much less play championship golf. “Frankly I was really down before those books arrived, worried that I might not even be able to walk and play golf,” Reinert admits. “There were real similarities in our stories. I was so moved by his determination to somehow get back to the game — to simply walking — I vowed to myself that I would do the same.” In 1950, at Merion Golf Club outside Philadelphia, Ben Hogan did indeed come back, capturing the U.S Open on a pair of legs that had little

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“I was so moved by his determination to somehow get back to the game — to simply walking — I vowed to myself that I would do the same.” Son Phillip, an Air Force flight engineer working at the Boeing factory in Seattle, was also present to play that final hole with his father. He’d flown home the day after the accident on air miles donated by Mike Corbett. Reinert was wearing a cap given to him by a friend that cleverly read: I Was Run Over By A Car On The Golf Course. What’s Your Excuse? Another gifted cap read Starmount 18: The Toughest Hole in Golf. “It was very emotional for us all,” he says. “Made even more amazing by what happened before we teed off.” On the facing hill, a Scottish bagpiper strolled out in full ceremonial regalia and began playing “Amazing Grace.” Another new friend offered to be Reinert’s caddie. “Somehow I made bogey on the hole, which allowing for my handicap let me write a par on the card,” he explained to me as we played Pinehurst No. 4 on the first day of the Father’s Day golf fest. It was his first full round of golf since the accident and he did very well indeed, shooting in the low 90s with both legs wrapped in athletic supports, just like Hogan. The next day, he even walked mighty Pinehurst No. 2 with a caddie. “This was one of the greatest weekends of my life,” he told me later. “It feels good to be back.” PS Contact editor Jim Dodson at jim@thepilot.com.

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Hicks in Town

Robert Hicks, New York Times best—selling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country, will be at The Country Bookshop on Monday, September 26, at 5 p.m. Hicks’ new novel, The Orphan Mother, tells the story of midwife and former slave Mariah Reddick, who, in the wake of tragedy, embarks on an epic quest for justice. Free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

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On Saturday, Sept. 17, dozens of old cars will shine like new pennies on the campus of Sandhills Community College, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The car show, organized by the Sandhills Chapter of the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) and hosted by the SCC Automotive Technologies program, features live music by the Sandhills Community College Jazz Band, guided tours of the renowned Horticultural Gardens, on-site food, 50/50 and silent auctions, and awards presented by Miss Moore County. Car entry registration prior to Sept. 13 is $15 (includes food voucher and special door prizes). Registration on day of show is $20. Show is free and open to the public. Sirotek Hall, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: www.ncregionaaca.com/sandhills.

The United Way of Moore County will host a fashion extravaganza on Thursday, Oct. 6, at 6 p.m. Featured merchants include Apricot Lane, Cottage of Hope, Eloise & Co., Eve Avery, Morgan Miller, and Patricia. Eat, drink and be dazzled. Tickets: $40. Proceeds benefit United Way of Moore County partner agencies. Grand Hall at Penick Village, 500 E. Rhode Island Ave., Southern Pines Info: (910) 692-2413 or unitedwaymoore.com.

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You won’t want to miss Judson Theatre Company’s production of “Twelve Angry Men,” the electrifying Reginald Rose classic about a jury forced to decide one boy’s fate. Emmy-winning Broadway and TV star John Wesley Shipp (“The Flash,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “As the World Turns,” “Guiding Light”) headlines a cast from New York and North Carolina, which includes Broadway actor Mike Boland and local pros Rick McDermott, Chris Thomas (from Star 102.5), and Adam W. Faw. Show runs Thursday, Sept. 22, at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 23, at 8 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 24, at 2 and 8 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 25, at 3 p.m. Tickets: $38 (advance); $43 (day of show); $20 (students, military, SCC faculty and staff). Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College. Tickets/Info: (800) 514-3849 or judsontheatre.com.

The Hot Spot

Best thing about a Rooster’s Wife show at Poplar Knight Spot? There isn’t a bad seat in the house. You’ll just want to make sure you snag one. Here’s what’s hot at the Spot this month: Sept. 2 – Classical/nuevo flamenco guitarist Ed Stephenson. One word: virtuoso. Tickets: $15. Listen: edwardstephenson.com. Sept. 11 – Scythian, Celtic rock band with strains of Gypsy and klezmer. Sure to make the walls and floor shake. Tickets: $20 (advance); $25. Listen: www.scythianmusic.com Sept. 16 – Award-winning singer/songwriter Liz Longley breathes soul into country pop. Tickets: $15. Listen: www.lizlongley.com. Sept. 18 – Will Overman Band delivers Southern fried rock with Americana fixin’s. Locust Honey String Band opens. Tickets: $15 (advance); $20. Listen: willovermanband.com. Sept. 22 – Guy Davis Trio spells American Blues. Tickets: $20 (advance); $25. Listen: guydavis.com. Sept. 29 – Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen are a bluegrass festival attraction. Tickets: 20 (advance); $25. Listen: dirtykitchenband. com. Doors open at 6 p.m. All shows start at 6:46 p.m. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org.

Trikes Are for Kids

The Tour de Trike makes a kid out of everyone. On Thursday, Sept. 8, at 5:30 p.m., come watch your neighbors cruise down West New Hampshire Avenue in a tricycle race to benefit area nonprofits. Or, better yet, pedal alongside them. If you’re lucky, the giant pink gorilla will catch a ride on the back of somebody else’s bike. Entry: $100 donation. Costumes encouraged. Info: United Way of Moore County, (910) 692-2413.

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Serious collectors already know what’s happening in Cameron on Saturday, Oct.1. The Annual Fall Antiques Street Fair, of course. Rain or shine, 250 dealers will display their antiques and collectibles in the shops and streets along the Historic District on Carthage Street from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The old smells are free. Info: (910) 245-7001, (910) 245-3020, or www.antiquesofcameron.com.

Gone to Temple

Director/cGavan Pamer is traveling from Pittsburgh, to direct Temple Theatre’s production of “Anything Goes,” the classic Cole Porter musical about a st ble cast features Broadway veteran Peggy Taphorn, 2013 Miss North Carolina, Hailey Best, and regional stars Lynda Clark and Sean Powell. Pamer and Taphorn, now in her ninth season at the helm of the Temple, toured nationally with the show and are delighted to be reunited. Says Taphorn, “Our audiences have come to expect lavish musical extravaganzas. They won’t be disappointed.” Show times for are Thursdays at 2 p.m., Fridays at 2 and 8 p.m., Saturdays at 8 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets: $14–25. Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St., Sanford. Box office: (919) 774-4155. Info: templeshows.com.

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Begley quotes from a letter John Updike wrote to his mother while he was a student at Harvard: “We need a writer who desires both to be great and to be popular, an author who can see America as clearly as Sinclair Lewis, but, unlike Lewis, is willing to take it to his bosom.”

Updike was describing the writer he’d become. For more than 50 years his novels, essays, poems and short stories filled America’s bookshelves, and the upper middle class, the culturati from which he drew his characters and themes, received each new volume with enthusiasm. When Updike died of lung cancer in 2009 (addiction trumped intellect), we were left with 30 novels, 15 short story collections and umpteen books of poetry and assorted prose to appreciate anew. With the publication of Library of America’s quality two-volume edition (a boxed set) and Begley’s biography, Updike, readers have an opportunity to read or reread 186 stories (the Bech and Maples stories are published in separate volumes) arranged in order of publication. Astute readers can correlate the stories with Begley’s exposition of Updike’s richly complex life as an observer and participant in the subculture about which he wrote with extravagance and often shocking excess. Best remembered for his “Rabbit” novels, it’s Updike’s short stories, most of which were published in The New Yorker, that most closely parallel the life he lived. Begley is quick to point out that few American fiction writers were more autobiographical than Updike — so obsessively so as to raise questions about Updike’s capacity for rational detachment. Readers unfamiliar with his short fiction are forewarned that his dominant theme is betrayal and its resultant complexities. His characters are white, usually Protestant members of the American

upper middle class living in southeastern Pennsylvania or New England. His subject is adultery. The operative emotion is guilt, as explained in his 1977 story “Guilt-Gems”: “A guilt-gem is a piece of the world that has volunteered for compression. Those souls around us, living our lives with us, are gaseous clouds of being awaiting a condensation and preservation — faces, lights that glimmer out, somehow not seized, saved in the gesture and remorse.” Updike is the master of The New Yorker short story, carefully wrought prose narratives with lengthy passages of description and meticulously rendered characters who find themselves unhappy in a world of affluence that encourages the guilty pleasures of adultery. So pervasive is this mindset that in “The Women Who Got Away” the narrator is touched with exquisite regret for potential affairs he failed to consummate: “There were women you failed ever to sleep with; these, in retrospect, have a perverse vividness, perhaps because the contacts, in the slithering ball of snakes, were so few that they have stayed distinct.” For all of his literary sophistication, Updike is the most parochial of writers. With a few possible exceptions — most especially his story “Varieties of Religious Experience” (a real clunker) — he wisely sticks to what he knows. Southern readers won’t discover tobacco worms, hogs and banjo-picking rednecks in his fiction (although there’s an occasional working-class hero), and his characters are, after the similitude of their re-embodiment in story after story, possessed of a mildly annoying self-indulgence and an irritating dissatisfaction with bourgeois abundance. Moreover, the focus on the purely carnal is likely to wear thin when the stories are read without interruption. Even the most voyeuristic of readers are likely to experience a vague unease. Certainly sex has much to do with our lives, but at what point is the committed imagination overwhelmed by irrational obsession? Guilt experienced vicariously may have a temporary exhilarating effect on the reader, but it’s accompanied by a sense of sorrow at having benefited emotionally at the expense of others. This becomes especially apparent when Begley reveals Updike’s serial adultery, a philandering so obsessive that Updike was immensely proud of having made love to three women in

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This is an exceptional book, likely to be read over centuries, not just decades. The author of Rules of Civility returns with his sophomore novel about Count Alexander Rostov, sentenced in 1922 by a Bolshevik tribunal to spend the rest of his life in the posh Metropol Hotel, once a grand destination for dignitaries. While the circumstances of Russia change around the hotel, the count maintains his elegance through emotional trials, friendships and adventures that are a pure pleasure to read. Darktown, by Thomas Mullen. Follow two of Atlanta’s first black police officers as they investigate the death of a young black woman last seen in the company of a white man. Feel and experience the prejudice and hostility they face from their peers, and ride with the one officer who dared to reach across racial barriers for answers and justice. The Orphan Mother, by Robert Hicks. The New York Times best-selling author of The Widow of the South returns with another Southern epic story about Mariah Reddick, the former slave to Carrie McGavock who becomes a midwife in Franklin, Tennessee, following the Civil War. After her politically minded and ambitious grown son is murdered, Mariah seeks the truth and is forced to confront her own past. A House by the Sea, by Bunny Williams. Designer Bunny Williams provides a peek into her Caribbean retreat in this wonderful coffee table book. The stunning photographs are punctuated with thoughtful essays by friends on the art of entertaining, gardens and much more. Bacon, by Fred Thompson. The author of Fred Thompson’s Southern Sides joins the “Savor the South” cookbook series with a book on bacon that tracks the humble history and our region’s culinary history. The book includes 56 recipes and wonderful information about this popular treat. Best. State. Ever. A Florida Man Defends His Homeland, by Dave Barry. The talented Dave Berry applies his trademark humor to a celebration — and high-spirited defense — of the state he calls home, Florida. From Ponce de Leon to modern weirdness, Barry unmasks, as only he can, what makes Florida great. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, by Patrick Phillips. Bill Maher writes that Blood at the Root is able to avoid the self-flagellation usually found in similar accounts and, while ugly things in our past history are

certainly unpleasant to read about, stirring the dry bones reminds the living how far they have come and how far they have to go. Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics? by Mark Thompson. After serving as a CEO of a major TV corporation, director-general of the BBC and now CEO of The New York Times, Thompson continues his career in writing with a deeply thought out examination of the distortion of the public language and new trends in public engagement. In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox, by Carol Burnett. Learn about “The Carol Burnett Show” firsthand as Burnett reveals the show’s truths, from its inception to the many hilarious antics of her co-stars and guests, including Lucille Ball, Bing Crosby, Rita Hayworth and Steve Martin. A great read and a reminder that the great comedic talent still has her touch. Ingredient: Unveiling the Essential Elements of Food, by Ali Bouzari. This well-done book is full of pictures and graphs that impart cooking information not widely known. The core of the book is about food in its elemental form. Divided into sections like “Lipids,” “Water” and “Proteins,” this book uses graphs and pictures to explain a seemingly complicated subject in very digestible terms. Learn to Cook 25 Southern Classics 3 Ways: Traditional, Contemporary, International, by Jennifer Brule. Brule brings her well-honed recipe testing skills and open, friendly writing to a Southern cookbook that adds modern twists to traditional recipes. Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman: Conservation Heroes of the American Heartland, by Mariam Horn. This story looks at five very different professionals tied to the environmental movement. The stories from a Montana rancher, Kansas farmer, Mississippi riverman, Louisiana shrimper and Gulf fisherman all reveal the challenges and powerful myths about American environmental values. Ten Restaurants That Changed America, by Paul Freedman. Photographs, images and original menus are not the only parts of this book that bring 10 restaurants and three centuries in America together. The stories of these restaurants provide a social and cultural history revealing ethnicity, class, immigration and assimilation through the shared experiences of food and dining. The Tide: The Science and Stories Behind the Greatest Force on Earth, by Hugh Aldersey-Williams. Bringing together folklore, scientific thinking and literature, science writer Aldersey-Williams examines the tides and how we have sought to understand and manage them for centuries.

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS By Angie Tally Dory Fantasmagory: Dory Dory Black Sheep, by Abby Hanlon. With best buddies, imaginary friends, a loving mother, a pet sheep from outer space and an imaginary evil nemesis, Dory Dory Black Sheep, the third installment in the Dory Fantasmagory series, really has it all. This is my favorite new chapter book series to recommend to young readers and is perfect for kids who love hearing the Ramona Quimby stories and want something similar to read on their own. Author Abby Hanlon will be at The Country Bookshop at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept 21. Young readers are invited to bring their invisible friends or favorite stuffed farm animals for an afternoon of fun. (Ages 6-10) Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Whatever Cure, by Ann M. Martin and Annie Parnell. Missy PiggleWiggle arrived in Little Spring Valley on a warm spring morning, moved into the upside-down house owned by her great aunt Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, was greeted by Wag the dog, Lightfoot the cat, Penelope the talking parrot and Lester the pig, and quickly took up her family responsibility by helping the neighbors, the Free-for-alls, with their (sometimes) lovely children. Written by the delightful Ann M. Martin and Annie Parnell, the great-granddaughter of Betty MacDonald, the author of the original Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Books, Missy Piggle-Wiggle will delight a new generation of young readers. (Ages 8-12) Framed, by James Ponti. After most 12-year-olds finish their homework, they play Minecraft or go to soccer practice, but 12-yearold Florian Bates spends his time in a very unusual way: He goes to work for the FBI. Using TOAST, a system of his own devising that stands for Theory Of All Small Things, Florian and his neighbor Margaret help the FBI uncover a foreign government spy ring, assist in the recovery of millions of dollars of stolen paintings, and still makes it home in time for curfew. Readers who love Stuart Gibbs’ Belly Up, E.L. Konigsburg’s Mixed Up Files or Elise Broach’s Masterpiece will love this first in what promises to be a delightful fun mystery series. (Ages 9-12) PS

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Late in the afternoon on Saturday,

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Sept. 3, 1966, I had a small part in a wonderful event. A very small part.

I was, like the mums, gladioli and snapdragons in the sanctuary of the First Baptist Church, a decorative touch. When you’re getting married and have a 7-year-old brother — as was the case with my sister Dianne — you make him a junior usher, a role as vital as being a lifeguard in a parking lot. The groom, Bob, had a much younger sibling (named Bill, too), who also was enlisted for this non-essential duty. So the two of us, in dinner jackets like the rest of the males in the wedding party, gave no one a program and helped no one to his seat. It was the best standing-around I’ve ever done. The occasion had been a couple of years in the making, since Dianne and Bob met while students at Wake Forest College. She was a Spanish major, and he was studying biochemistry, which would underpin his esteemed career as a scientist-professor. They are both smart as a whip, with kind hearts, his patience balancing her energy. It is difficult for me to remember Dianne without Bob because I was so young when they began dating. During their courtship, when Bob came to visit in Southern Pines, I’m sure I occasionally was 4 feet and 60 pounds of pain-inthe-neck when I sneaked up with a water pistol or begged them to come outside and shoot baskets. Any ambivalence about Bob becoming part of the family ended when he gave me my first Matchbox car, a red Ferrari, that made the cheap, tiny metal cars I bought at Pope’s dime store look like true clunkers. The details from the Summer of the Wedding are hazy, but I remember lots of activity and conversation. The cake was made by Mrs. Bristow, whose house was out on the May Street extension north of town. I knew about “taffy” but wondered what was this “taffeta” that the dresses for the maid of

honor (my other sister, Sadie) and the bridesmaids were made of. They were basically Carolina Blue, so whatever the material, that made me happy. When the big weekend arrived, our house was full of cousins and anticipation. Months earlier the Fields clan had met the Broyles clan in WinstonSalem, a summit of familiarization and approval. The groom’s parents, who lived in West Virginia, put on the rehearsal dinner the eve of the wedding in a private room at Howard Johnson’s in Aberdeen, where the opportunity to have a hamburger and fries chased with an orange Fanta was about all for which a second-grader could hope. My sister has recalled a sweet moment when she and my father were about to walk down the aisle, toward the altar and a new chapter in her life, and given the flood of emotions wondered if they both could make it. Arm in arm, they did, of course. It was a beautiful ceremony in that small, simple structure on the corner of New York and Ashe that sadly was torn down years ago when the church moved into a larger facility. The vows were followed by cake and punch in the basement fellowship hall that was the junior ushers’ favorite part of the day, followed closely by the throwing of the rice. Dianne and Bob honeymooned at Fontana Village in western North Carolina. I have a remnant of their trip within arm’s reach on my desk as I type this — the painted stone head of a souvenir tomahawk they brought back for me. They also gifted me a Fontana Dam T-shirt with a cartoon of a bear on the front. I’m wearing it in one of our family’s favorite pictures, all of us posing on a couch suppressing a mighty group giggle. No marriage is all laughs, but Dianne and Bob have had lots of them in five decades together, a union that has produced two children and two grandchildren, a union that is an example of living well. It was an honor to be there at the starting line. PS Southern Pines native Bill Fields, who writes about golf and other things, moved north 30 years ago but hasn’t lost his accent.

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Holy Grail of wine grapes. It’s finicky, it’s elusive, and it may be the best wine you ever had, or the worst. As the primary red grape of Burgundy, France, be prepared to spend $50 for a low-level basic Burgundy and sell your car to try the best.

It’s a joke in the wine industry that there is no such thing as a “good value” pinot noir. It’s painstaking and expensive to grow this grape that needs vines with age and lower yields at harvest. Many love Oregon; California gets a lot of play, and New Zealand has made great strides with the grape. Ever considered pinot noir from Chile? Probably a resounding no. Fifteen years ago I sampled some Chilean pinot noirs and thought, hey folks, stick to chardonnay, cabernet and carménère. Pinot noir takes time for vines to age, and winemakers need to find very site-specific areas for the grapes that need a cooler climate, preferably with a maritime influence. Fast forward 15 years, and winemakers have zeroed in on the Casablanca, Maule and Aconcagua Valleys on the coast, brought pinot noir clones from Burgundy and hired Burgundian consultants. The vines are older now, and Chile is off and running with pinot noir. Although pinot noir is only 3 percent of Chile’s total plantings, it has increased 170 percent since 2006. Chilean winemakers have embraced the challenge. Eric Monnin, a French enologist with experience working in Champagne and Burgundy, splits his winemaking duties between Chile and France. He is the head winemaker for the Boutinot Company and supervises making the El Viejo del Valle pinot noir. He and his team discovered a very old block of pinot noir beneath a volcano in the Maule Valley and picked it to produce this little gem that sells for a ridiculous $9. The interesting label is a reproduction of Chilean street art, and if you look closely you can find the profile of the “Old Man of the Valley” hidden in the art. They describe their El Viejo pinot as “deliciously long, bright, textural pinot from cold, stony vineyards deep in the Maule Valley. Some oak barrel fermentation adds complexity, depth and warm vanilla notes to the finish.” Don Maximiano Errazuriz founded his winery in 1870 in the Aconcagua

Valley. His fifth generation descendants now run this natural quality winery and have named their reserve lines “Max” in his honor. Already located in a great pinot location, a visit to Chile should include Errazuriz. The estate is stunning, and their techniques are first class. This wine was aged in French oak barrels, 15 percent new, for 12 months before release. One of the first Chilean wineries to gain success with pinot noir, the current vintage scored a whopping 90 points from The Wine Spectator. They describe it as “a suave red, with a silky mouthfeel and mediumgrained tannins behind the flavors of cherry, plum and hazelnut. The spicy finish is long and rich, revealing accents of sandalwood.” That’s a description and score worthy of a $65 Oregon pinot noir. This winner from Chile is about $17. August Huneeus, born in Santiago, Chile, has one of the most impressive résumés in the wine industry. He became CEO for Concha Y Toro at a very young age, then came to the United States for a long, successful career. He owns several prestigious wineries in California such as Quintessa (where he resides), The Prisoner, Illumination and several others. In 1989 Huneeus and his wife, Valeria, decided to venture back into Chile and founded the Veramonte Winery in Casablanca Valley. Their Ritual pinot noir is hand-harvested from the coolest vineyards of their estate, put through a malolactic fermentation and aged in French oak barrels for 12 months. The Wine Advocate gave this $18 wine 89 points, and noted that, “This aims at showing what Casablanca can do as a valley in pinot noir. There are more fruit than herbal aromas here, and this shows nice ripeness, combining aromas of sour cherries with lactic hints and bare traces of spicy oak. The palate is medium bodied with fine tannins, good freshness and the final granite bite in the finish with the oak much better integrated.” Incidentally, Chile has the same ability as California to allow up to 25 percent of another grape into the wine without noting it on the label. However, all three of our pinots recommended are happily 100 percent pinot noir. “A” for effort, Chile! PS Robyn James is a certified sommelier and proprietor of The Wine Cellar and Tasting Room in Southern Pines. Contact her at robynajames@gmail.com.

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Subtle Notes

And the myriad of flavors from Winston-Salem’s Sutler’s Gin

By Tony Cross

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coming up to Winston-Salem? How does your schedule look for the next two weeks? Any chance you are coming to the Triad area? Either way I need to get Sutler’s Gin into your market very soon.” All are questions from Scot Sanborn, owner and distiller of Sutler’s Gin. Sanborn and I were introduced via email from a mutual friend back in March. We’d been playing tag up until July, when the two of us finally sat down at his distillery and had a chance to talk. When we went our separate ways, I left Sanborn a bottle of my Tonyc and took with me his sleek and sexy bottle of Sutler’s that I purchased. I definitely got the better deal in the exchange.

Although he was born in Boston, Sanborn considers himself a “Southern soul with Yankee blood.” As he relocated to the South as an infant, Charleston, South Carolina, served as his stomping ground as a youth. After graduating high school, Sanborn went on to attend The Citadel, where he received his undergraduate degree, and later, his MBA. When scanning over his unique bottle of gin, you can definitely see the patriotic influence. Twenty-some years of the commercial photography business followed, but it wasn’t until eight years ago, when Sanborn began experimenting with home distilling, that his passion developed. After making what he calls

“horrible tasting spirits,” Sanborn began taking distilling courses, traveling the country, and acting as an apprentice to deepen his knowledge and perfect his craft. Soon after, he left his domestic cocoon of garage distilling and took it to the next level. Gin is the spirit that has intrigued him the most over the years for a few different reasons. “It’s versatile and classy, and it doesn’t require aging, which means that I knew that I could get it on the market much quicker than other spirits starting out.” He’s also been perplexed as to why gin sales in the South aren’t much higher than they are: “I feel that gin is a spirit that people have forgotten about, but are slowly returning to.” And he’s right: Most folks that I’ve talked to that pass on gin do so because they’re used to London Dry gins, whose characteristics are juniper-forward, or “piney,” as most would put it (think Beefeater’s or Tanqueray). It wasn’t until Hendrick’s went global that people began to rethink their position on the ever-changing botanical spirit. Delving into a glass of Sutler’s, on the nose I immediately notice the presence of juniper. However, on the palate, the juniper is present, but nothing like a London Dry or as Sanborn calls it “a lack of a ‘punch in the mouth’ Christmas tree flavor.” In fact, I find that the juniper is balanced quite nicely with citrus, and coriander. On the finish, a trace of lavender and Earl Grey tea. I’ve never prided myself on having the best palate so I’m afraid that I’ve had to keep sipping just to make sure that I get this right. Actually, this is something that Sanborn and I have in common: good, but not great palates. To help him with distinguishing the subtler notes of his labors, Sanborn recruited distiller Tim Nolan. The two met in Winston-Salem a few years ago when Sanborn was building his distillery. Sanborn would cool off next door at a bar/brewery and would chat with Nolan, who managed and was behind the bar. Nolan’s background spans over 10 years in the food and beverage industry, which includes working in New York and studying abroad in Italy. They would always chat, and “during one of these conversations, I realized he was very knowledgeable about gin and I asked if he would like to help

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me.” After a short apprenticeship, Nolan became a “mad scientist, (and) after almost 11 months of hard work, and making all types of gin, Nolan and I were finally confidant that we had something that was special. I am very lucky to have found someone who is so passionate about gin and other unique spirits. Nolan is a great asset to Sutler’s Spirit Co.” Even though Sanborn and Nolan can drink the fruits of their labor, they still have other obstacles to overcome. One of them? Moore County. I guarantee that as I am writing this, 99 percent of locals have not purchased a bottle of Sutler’s Gin, and that’s because it hasn’t been available in our local ABC stores. “Moore County has been quite the conundrum,” Sanborn says. “I would have expected with the demographics of this area that gin would be consumed much more than it currently is. I would like to think that for some reason they have forgotten gin, but will soon remember it.” After a meeting with the local board in July, it will now. Even though they’re only selling in North Carolina at the moment, Sanborn stresses the importance of getting his gin in every ABC store. “If your local ABC board does not carry it, please request it, and most likely they will be happy to order it for you,” he says. It’s only a matter of time before Sutler’s Gin makes its way across the Southeast and other parts of our nation. The gin has plenty of depth, with unique packaging to boot. In time, Sanborn and Nolan plan to release a rum that they’ve had barrelaging for a few years. They’re hoping for a winter release, but nothing’s set in stone yet. In addition to the gin and rum, they’re experimenting with other spirits at the moment. Their gin is delicious, so I’m eagerly anticipating their rum, my favorite spirit. With the work ethic that these two employ, I’m sure it’s going to be nothing short of fantastic. PS Tony Cross is a bartender who runs cocktail catering company Reverie Cocktails in Southern pines. He can also recommend a vitamin supplement for the morning after at Nature’s Own.

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Don’t Get “Bored” What’s a squash lover to do?

By Jan Leitschuh

You know the old joke about zucchini in

small towns? How you dare not leave your car windows down on the street or some neighbor will kindly donate a bagful of the oversized green vegetables, thanks to their prolific abundance. Maybe that friendly donor was even you.

Well, that never happened here. Not after our first year of gardening. Sure, that initial garden season, we were flush. The bugs hardly knew we were here. If a person finally licks his or her deer problem (more on that in a later column), what’s left to decimate the summer squash? Vine-killing squash borers, in spades. Word of our organic venture zapped out swiftly on the bug internet. Now we have well-established borer populations that allow us one — count ’em, one — delicious early flush of zukes, and then they take out the vines at the base like commandos. Working organically, I had a little luck spraying a kaolin clay barrier product developed for orchards, called “Surround,” but I generally forget to apply it in

time. I also plant summer squash in flushes, trying to space out several plantings to have enough to freeze. But you have to remember to do this in a timely fashion. Squash vine borers (Melittia cucurbitae) are a major problem for organic gardeners. The adult squash vine borer is a colorful moth, 5/8 inch long with orange and black legs. The adult may be mistaken for a wasp in the garden. Young larvae hatch from dark reddish brown eggs and grow to about one inch with a whitish body and brown head. Borer larvae tunnel into the base of the plant and interrupt the flow of water and nutrients. The larvae feed on plant tissue, hollowing it out, so the plants begin to wither. The homeowner waters, thinking the plants are dry. But the vines don’t perk up, instead continuing to yellow and die. If you cut open the stem of a decimated plant, you may see several. I feed them to the chickens when I can. What’s a squash lover to do? Squash can help lower blood sugar, being a good complex carb. It’s known for its ability to boost the immune system, help prevent certain types of cancer, improve vision, protect the skin, strengthen the bones, reduce blood pressure, maintain fluid balance, regulate blood sugar and cholesterol, improve digestion, and maintain proper circulation. It’s good stuff, and it’s tasty too. Squash is the ultimate easy side dish, amenable to any number of spices and flavorings. This is the year I decided to learn about winter squashes. Yes, I could have gone with physical barriers like row covers or wrapping individual stems of my

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summer squash but, until retirement looms, those efforts will remain spotty. When I learned the best defense against borers is to plant squash varieties that are squash vine borer-resistant, I started researching. And first on the list was a favorite, a winter squash — butternut. Waltham Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata) is said to be reasonably tolerant of the vine borer, as are most other butternut types. Showing up as summer drifts into the cooler relief of fall, we love butternut squashes for their wonderful taste, and use them in soups, casseroles and baking. What is easier than halving a butternut, scooping out the little pocket of seeds at the ball end, dropping in some butter or olive oil and microwaving — or better, yet, roasting, to bring out the sweetness?

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The flesh of butternut squash is closegrained and sweet-nutty. The beauty of butternut, and its cousin acorn, is that it rises to nearly any flavor occasion. Want sweet? Sprinkle some cinnamon, brown sugar, rum-soaked raisins, maple syrup, pecans, apples, honey, walnuts, pear-fig sauce, orange zest, peach-habanero jam or any combo of the above that suits your taste buds, and roast for a healthy dessert. Any of these stand in for dessert, or go great with pork as a fall side dish. Want savory? Any number of spices can change the character of this versatile veggie nightly: curries, cayenne, sage, bouillon stock granules, garlic and olive oil, oregano and hot pepper flakes, thyme, simple salt and pepper. Bake fries from them, smother them in cheese, cram them into chicken stock to make soups. Baked, roasted, caramelized, mashed, cubed, casseroled, shredded and hashed, frittered and fried, there are myriad iterations. Since they will store for many months in a cool pantry, basement or under-cabinet, they’re fine for winter use. Butternuts are also easy to grow so they make good choices for novice, as well as experienced, gardeners. Next year, they will have a place in our garden. There are other choices beyond butternut. The University of Illinois Extension reports that Blue Hubbard (Cucurbita maxima “Blue Hubbard”) performs best against squash vine borers, followed PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2016

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by the slightly less resistant Cucurbita maxima “Boston Marrow” and Cucurbita maxima “Golden Delicious” varieties of hubbard squash. The extension also reports that two pumpkin varieties, Cucurbita pepo “Connecticut Field” and Cucurbita pepo “Small Sugar” — both heirloom varieties — also perform well. All of these are good keepers and cheerily decorative in autumn displays. Another Mediterranean heirloom called cucuzzi (Lagenaria siceraria), also known as either the snake gourd or Italian edible gourd — though technically not a squash — is said to be indistinguishable in taste from a sweet squash or pumpkin and is highly resistant to vine borers. The long slender fruit is pale green and twists and spirals like a snake, hence its most common name. Finally, the hefty, green-striped cushaw (Cucurbita mixta) is an old heirloom and one tough vegetable, grown by native Americans since prehistoric times. Drought tolerant and insect resistant — including the squash vine borer — it’s also reported to be an excellent keeper and greattasting variety for use in pies or for snacking on seeds. You get your money’s worth with a cushaw squash — they can grow to be massive, though homeowners may wish to pick them smaller. It’s the ultimate winter storage food, so if you get a big one be ready to prepare it all and freeze the rest or serve it up to a crowd. Here are two simple recipes to render your winter squash meals delicious, however you acquire them.

Winter Squash Caramel 2 medium butternut squash 6 tablespoons melted butter 1/4 cup light brown sugar, packed 1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Peel and cube squash, removing seeds. In a bowl, toss cubes with the remaining ingredients. Spread in a baking dish and roast for 45 minutes to an hour, turning occasionally, until glaze begins to caramelize. Remove when tender and serve hot.

Easy Spicy-Savory Squash Using the same prep as above, instead toss cubes with olive oil, thyme, black pepper, salt and a little cayenne pepper. Roast in a baking dish, single layer, covered, for 30-45 minutes, until soft, then stir in 1/4 cup grated Romano cheese. Sprinkle additional cheese on top and serve hot. PS Jan Leitschuh is a local gardener, avid eater of fresh produce and co-founder of the Sandhills Farm to Table Cooperative.

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By Deborah Salomon

I’m not one to skip down memory lane unless it leads somewhere — in September, obviously, to long hallways lined with classrooms and metal lockers.

Back to school: a marketing phrase that exposes layers of emotion. Amazing, at an age when many recollections have begun to blur, school retains IMAX clarity, a permanence drawn with a stick in wet concrete. Why? Young minds are eager, receptive, soaking up experiences like eggplant soaks up oil. I remember my fourth-grade teacher and classmates better than college professors and sorority sisters. Within these halls I also identify the roots of lifelong fears and pleasures. The elementary school I attended bore no resemblance to Norman Rockwell’s. We wore uniforms. Teachers didn’t accept apples, and nobody got detention. My mother, a high school math teacher, had high hopes for her only child. So she chose a private girls’ school deemed “progressive” by 1945 standards. I loved it. Classes were small, about 12; French conversation was taught in Grade 1 (great idea); and faculty moved students along as they saw fit. At the end of Grade 2, the headmistress — a formidable dowager with Edwardian bosom, lace collar and a gray nape bun — decided with some tutoring during summer vacation I could take on Grade 4. The tutoring, implemented by my mother, boiled down to multiplication tables. I resisted, resentful at having to memorize numbers while other kids played outside. She employed tactics I’d rather not mention. During that summer I envisioned, come fall, the entire fourth grade devoted to multiplication when all I wanted to do was read. To this day, flash cards give me hives. To this day, also, I’m wobbly on 12-times. Furthermore (a dark secret), I couldn’t tell time because my parents owned the world’s first digital clock, with wheel-mounted numbers that clicked into place every minute. I was terrified, absolutely terrified. Things worked out, I guess. I only remembered the clock incident when my grandson, spoiled by Velcro, had trouble tying his shoelaces. By junior high (now called middle school) I lived in a different city on a different planet. Nobody cared about multiplication. Everybody cared about whether you wore bobby sox rolled up or down. The arbiter was the girl with the most sweater sets and the coolest boyfriend. High school . . . much better. I was a cheerleader when our basketball team won the state championship. Latin made sense. Algebra proved way easier

than 12-times; plane geometry, a snap. My English teacher meted out inspiration but took no prisoners. I finally got the sox thing right and had a few cool boyfriends. Then, senior year, my friends’ older siblings, home for Thanksgiving, bombarded us with warnings about college: impossibly difficult, tons of work, heartless instructors, killer exams. “Just you wait,” was the message. Again, I was terrified not only by the academics, but because for the first time in my life I would have a roommate. With eight siblings, this was the first time in my roommate’s life that she had only one. She took advantage of the quiet by studying, writing letters and praying. I admired her dedication. We hardly spoke. Roomie and I split at end of semester. Let’s see . . . what was her name? The dire warnings about workload guaranteed panic. Worse, I got lost changing classroom buildings on Duke’s two campuses. I misplaced a textbook. Then, after midterms, it hit me: I can do this. Not easy, but possible. I’d come this far, right? I was an active participant during my children’s school years — mostly as provider of rides, lunches, pocket money, the right jeans. Kids hung around our house for the big, friendly dog and homemade cookies. Pushover mom could be persuaded to drop everything, pile a gang into the station wagon and head for the movies. September brought relief tempered by envy. Ah, the thrill of flipping through a new textbook, the woody smell of freshly sharpened pencils, the joy at finding the right cartoon-character backpack. But, unlike some old-timers, I don’t yearn to return. School has changed. Fonzie’s a senior citizen hawking reverse mortgages on TV. Police patrol the grounds. Cursive is hieroglyphics, soda fountains are extinct. Hoodies and “jeggings” replace sweater sets and bobby sox, and every phone multiplies by 12. This September, however, my interest is rekindled. Back-to-school means law school. After graduating with honors from an accelerated pre-law college program, my grandson will commence studying for his chosen career. The very idea terrifies me. Not him. He has times-12 down pat and reads an analog clock. He can tie his shoelaces, drive a car, keep a steady girlfriend and make a grilled cheese sandwich. Laptop loaded, apps in place, roommate selected, apartment rented — he’s good to go. Far, I hope. PS Deborah Salomon is a staff writer for PineStraw and The Pilot. She may be reached at debsalomon@nc.rr.com.

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I miss bacon grease.

My grandmother and my mother — and I, as well, for a while — had a round, silvery metal container on the top of the stove for bacon grease where everyone now has their sea and/or kosher salt bowl. The container held a clever fitted strainer neatly built in, where crispy bits of brown were trapped. These are the bits, my mother says, that make your eggs unlovely if you scramble them up in the same cast iron pan that you cook your bacon in. I have no use for these aesthetics, but it’s easier to answer, “Fine.” Even less appealing to the eye, beneath the sieve was stuff that resembled pus, but grainier. A semi-solid that wasn’t quite white, but wasn’t quite yellow. Nowadays, we don’t even cook bacon anymore, or rarely, the big-breakfast must-have that smells so good. We buy it already cooked at Costco and just nuke that baby for your BLT or spinach salad or squash casserole. But at one time bacon grease was king. It reigned over butter, margarine, Crisco, the works. Bacon grease went into cornbread and was an understood ingredient for the pot likker in crowder peas and butterbeans and green beans. You put a dollop in a pan and fried up a hot dog or slice of bologna. Or okra. Heck, you used a cup of the stuff in red beans. Bacon grease went into the dog food, too. Lab to dachshund, it made their coats shine, or so it was believed. With our dogs drooling over those

dry chunks coated with bacon grease, their supper looked so good I nearly wanted to eat it myself. Bacon grease was the olive oil of yesteryear, though it didn’t come in pretty containers, and you actually had to cook to get it. You couldn’t buy bacon grease at T.J. Maxx, or upscale foodie stores, or the everyday Teeter, for that matter. Still, like olive oil that comes from certain regions or specific orchards, bacon grease had a provenance too: your own kitchen. It wasn’t cold-pressed or extra virgin or truffle-flavored. It was, however, labeled, though not in a foreign language or with pretty, Italianate fonts. The container said GREASE right there in raised, silver, block, all cap letters. Even purists could throw a little sausage grease in there, too. Neese’s patties are preferred over links, though links are an admittedly more convenient vehicle to dredge, swipe and swish through the syrup left behind by the pancakes and waffles. To this day, I’m still unsure what made me feel more that I’d become a bona fide grownup in the kitchen of my first apartment: potholders, or that store-bought GREASE can. When it comes to stove-sitting-stuff, salt bowls may be trendier, even healthier, but nothing — including spoon rests and olive oil spritzers — has the personality and presence of a metal grease container. Empty frozen O.J. cans need not apply. PS In a former life, Susan Kelly published five novels, won some awards, did some teaching, and made a lot of speeches. These days, she’s freelancing and making up for all that time she spent indoors writing those five novels.

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Hillsborough a while back, my wife, Kristina, called me from our home in Wilmington and asked me to stop by her sister’s house in Pittsboro and pick up a rug cleaning machine. Kristina had moved our couch and rolled up our big rug that needed cleaning.

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I’d never seen a rug cleaning machine that I knew of. I thought things through for about a second and asked, “How much does it cost to just get a rug cleaned?” I was thinking to myself: I’ll have to drive to get the cleaning machine, take it home, figure out how to use it, maybe get one of the kids to help me, take that big rug out on the back deck, clean it, let it dry, put it back, take the cleaner back to Pittsboro. Kristina answered my question — told me how much it costs to get a rug cleaned. Holy Moley. I picked up the cleaning machine — it looks like a very large vacuum cleaner — and brought it home. A YouTube video would explain how to operate it. My job the next day was to write the first draft of a Salt magazine essay about the Frontier Cultures Museum in Staunton, Virginia. I was hoping to have a first draft done by noon but my new job — before starting the essay — was to clean two rugs (was one, now two) with the help of my 9-year-old daughter, Truma. Rug No. 1 — very large, maybe 8-by-12 — had been peed on several times by dog No. 1. Rug No. 2 — about 4-by-8 — had been thrown up on at least several times by dog No. 2. I picture this conversation happening very early on several mornings within the last month: Dog No. 1 says: “Are they up yet?” Dog No. 2 says: “Nope.” No. 1: “I have to pee.” No. 2: “Pee in the corner of the living room. In the corner by the table. It’ll be days before they figure it out.” No. 1: “OK. Would you throw up on that other rug in the play room — kind of keep them distracted?” No. 2: “Sure.” Truma and I find the YouTube video telling us how to use the machine. The video is 15 minutes long. The person giving instructions seems to be used to talking in a foreign language and I have problems understanding him, but we finally get through the explanation, including how to clean the machine after cleaning the rug. Some assembly and disassembly are involved. Truma takes notes.

Our first task is to go buy some liquid cleaner. About 6 ounces is to be combined with 2 gallons of warm water in a soft plastic container inside a hard plastic container that will keep dirty water separate from the cleaning solution. We go to Lowe’s and they don’t have our brand — I’d yet to learn that most any concentrated rug cleaner would work. Duh. Sitting in the parking lot, I call Home Depot. They don’t have our brand, either. I call a rug cleaning service. They are rude. I call another rug cleaning service, explain that I’m sitting in a hot parking lot in a bit of a jam and this person patiently tells me to go to Food Lion. At Food Lion, the manager walks with me to the rug cleaning stand and finds a substitute concentrate for me. Truma and I buy it and we start home. At home, we take the machine apart, load it with warm water and cleaner, then put the machine back together. We spread the smaller of the two rugs on our back deck and Truma starts cleaning. Generally speaking, you go over a portion of the rug while holding a trigger beneath the hand grip. The trigger sprays the rug with cleaning solution and then you go over the same portion of the rug and the machine sucks up dirty liquid. Truma gets tired. I take over and she goes inside, out of the sun. I finish the cleaning about time it stops being fun. I hang the rugs over the deck railings, disassemble the machine and, in the driveway beside my automobile, start spraying the plastic parts with water from a hose. The problem with cleaning the plastic parts is that there is a great amount of dog lint inside one of the see-through plastic parts and — though I don’t remember the video telling me to unscrew anything — I notice that if I unscrew four screws, I can pull that section apart. Seeing that lint is like feeling a little popcorn shell-like thing between your teeth when you can’t free it. I unscrew the screws and nothing happens — nothing comes apart. Oh. I see four more screws. I unscrew them and the thing falls apart, but the lint is still not exposed in any way. The screws are lined up on the hood of our car. I start putting the screws back in. A screw rolls off the hood of the car and I hear it plink dully onto the cement driveway. I look. It’s nowhere to be seen. I get down on my hands and knees. One of the dogs comes up and sniffs me. It’s dog No. 1. She will go back inside the house and say, “Clyde is out in the driveway. He thinks he’s a dog. It won’t be long before he’s peeing on the rug.” I didn’t get started on that essay and I cleaned two more rugs the morning after that. This could go on a long time. I now better understand the cost of cleaning a rug.” PS Clyde Edgerton is the author of ten novels, a memoir and a new work, Papadaddy’s Book for New Fathers. He is the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at UNCW.

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Killdeer By Susan Campbell

As the long days of summer wane

here in the Piedmont and Sandhills of North Carolina, we have scores of birds preparing for that long southbound journey we refer to as fall migration. Thousands of birds pass by, both day and night, headed for wintering grounds that are deep in the Southern Hemisphere. Some seem very unlikely candidates: medium-bodied shorebirds, dropping down in flocks to replenish their reserves. They may stay a few hours or a few days, depending on the weather and the abundance of food available to them. At first glance, you might think these long-legged birds are lost — far from the coast where sandpipers are commonplace. But once you take a good look, you will realize these are birds of grassland habitat, not sand flats.

Referred to broadly as “grasspipers” by birders, these species forage on a wide variety of invertebrates found in grassy expanses. They breed in open northern terrain, all the way up into the Arctic in some cases. And they are moving through in order to make their way to grassland habitat in southern South America. Although some may be seen along our coastline, they are more likely to be found in flocks or loose groups at airports, sod farms, athletic fields and perhaps even tilled croplands. Come late August and early September, armed with binoculars, and, better yet, a powerful spotting telescope, you can find these cryptically colored birds without having to travel too far from home. They are indeed easy to miss unless you know where to look at the right time. Flocks often include a mix of species, so be ready to scrutinize each and every bird, lest you overlook one

of the rarer individuals. When it comes to shorebirds as a group, many of the dozens of species are tricky to identify, so I suggest you arrange to join a more accomplished birder for starters. The most common and numerous species without a doubt is the killdeer, identified by dark upper parts contrasted with white underparts, but it’s the double neck ring that gives it away. A spunky bird whose name comes from its call, the killdeer nests (if you can call a rudimentary scrape in the gravel a nest) on disturbed ground such as unpaved roadways and parking lots throughout North Carolina. Flocks of hundreds are not uncommon. But frequently other species are mixed in as well. In the Sandhills, the sod farm in Candor hosts large numbers of killdeer around Labor Day. Check them all and you will likely be rewarded with something different mixed in! The plover family, to which the killdeer belongs, consists of squat, short-necked and billed birds of several species. The semipalmated plover is a close cousin. This slightly smaller species sports only a single neck ring and, curiously, individuals have slightly webbed (or palmate) feet. They can actually swim short distances when in wetter habitat and are thus more versatile foragers. However, the most curious are the obligate grassland shorebirds that include the well-camouflaged buff-breasted sandpiper and the upland sandpiper. Both nest in the drier prairies of Canada and spend the winter months mainly in the pampas of Argentina. “Buffies” are a buff-brown all over and have delicate-looking heads and short, thin bills and a distinctive ring around the eye. “Uppies” are brownish and have small heads as well, but they have both longer bills and longer legs, along with larger eyes. These two species are thought to be declining — most likely due to habitat loss on both continents. If you miss the chance to get out in search of inland shorebirds this fall, do not fret! They will move through again come spring, although in smaller numbers. Winter will take its toll but those who do make it back our way will be in vibrant plumage as they wing their way northward to create yet a new generation of grasspipers north of the border. PS Susan would love to receive your wildlife sightings and photos. She can be contacted by email at susan@ncaves.com or by phone at (910) 695-0651.

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The hardest work I’ve ever done.

That’s how I described “barning tobacco” to a young relative who knew little of the history behind harvesting North Carolina’s infamous bright leaf. The heat and humidity extracted plenty of sweat. Mingle that with dirt and tobacco gum, throw in a hoard of gnats and a day’s labor sounds miserable. It was. And I loved it.

Early 19th century innovation introduced a tobacco variety that thrived in the coastal plain’s sandy soil. When leaves turned a yellow-green, the sugar content had reached its peak. The flavor of this quick-cured leaf became popular with smokers; soon North Carolina led the nation in tobacco production. For decades, tobacco was picked by hand. Migrant workers harvested leaves for larger operations, but on small farms, for a boy willing to work, tobacco offered summer income and poignant memories. For me, growing up in rural Carolina during the 1970s, barning tobacco meant rising early, sticky leaves dripping with dew, and long days of humid heat. The farmer I worked for was kind and easygoing. “Mr. Gerald” would make the rounds in our community, picking up teenage boys eager to work. He knew us and we knew each other. We played together, attended school together, worshipped together. Harvesting tobacco, also known as priming, was an extension of community. Our dress code was far from summer casual. Clothes protected us from the blistering sun and sticky sap. Everything was old or worn — tennis shoes, faded jeans, dad’s long-sleeved shirt, a dirty ball cap. After the final harvest, we pitched the rags. Those first primings were the hardest. Harvesting sand lugs, bottom leaves that hugged the soil, nearly broke our backs. As summer burned into fall, we worked our way down the rows and up the stalks, snapping leaves with one hand, cradling them under the other arm. Each harvest brought less bending. As stalks became leafless, ventilation improved. In a tobacco field, you welcome any whiff of a breeze. Mr. Gerald, out of kindness, gave younger boys rows closest to the tractorpulled trailer. Kids hardly ever quit. A few steps and they could slap their harvest on the “drag,” a name recalling days when mules pulled harvesting sleds through the fields. Three rows harvested, then a break. Water-filled coolers were always on the drag. Mr. Gerald took us home for lunch and maybe a

quick rest before the afternoon stint. He provided twice-daily snacks, mostly Honey Buns, Twinkies and Lance cheese Nabs. We poured down Dixie cups filled with crushed ice and Pepsi. Breaks were also for laughing, horseplay, and listening to our boss expound on politics or religion. In the afternoon, with harvesting finished for the day, we stopped by the barn where women piled leaves on an electric contraption that strung primings onto wooden sticks. Mr. Gerald’s older sons hoisted those heavy sticks, straddled the barn’s tier poles and hung the leaves to cure. A rite of passage (and a real test of strength) came when an older boy was allowed to straddle the poles and “hang.” One day of straddling was enough for me. On Friday, Mr. Gerald came to my home and handed me a small manila envelope marked with my name and the amount — $66.37 or $72.81 or $52.95. I have no idea why he didn’t round those numbers. I never calculated or knew my hourly wage. What mattered was hard work, mixed with a little fun, paid off. North Carolina remains number one in tobacco production, although that production has declined substantially. The tobacco barns of my youth, if still standing at all, are dilapidated icons from another era. Automation and galvanized bulk barns replaced hand-harvesting and flue-curing. Tobacco warehouses have become condos and boutique malls; stained boards, reclaimed and refinished, are prized as flooring in pricey homes. The ethics of growing tobacco have changed. Tobacco has always been a strange bedfellow in the Bible Belt. While the bright leaf fueled the state’s economy for decades, providing income to small family farms and resources that built colleges, hospitals, even churches, pulpit-pounding preachers (many of them paid from the tithes of tobacco farmers) railed against the evils of cigarettes. The evidence that smoking was deadly continued to mount. Some farmers still wrestle with growing a crop that, when processed, lit and inhaled, can cause debilitation or death. Those tensions endure. Sometimes, on a humid late summer night, if the wind is blowing just right, I catch a whiff of curing leaves, from a farm near our house in Whispering Pines. Every day I drive past tobacco fields. Occasionally, I see workers snapping off flowering tips or mechanical harvesters stripping ripened leaves. Though I have no desire to experience the heat and gnats and gummy leaves, I’m grateful for the work ethic, the rhythm of labor and leisure, of rest and recreation, those fields instilled. And sometimes, when I see a field of ripened leaves, I want to stop, spread out under a shady oak tree, and wash down a pack of Nabs with Pepsi from a Dixie cup, all the while pondering how tobacco roads still lead me home. PS Tom Allen is minister of education at First Baptist Church, Southern Pines.

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Rodin, bronze. Hemingway relied on words while Dior draped taffeta. Mary Francis Tate expresses her art through trees, shrubs, flowers, stones, water and grass, since, she believes, no well-designed building, residential or commercial, looks complete without a setting.

Hardly a new idea. Peruse Versailles, Biltmore Estate and the Taj Mahal, whose gardens symbolize paradise. Fredrick Law Olmsted himself taught that landscape architecture/design “brings out the genius of a place.” Tate’s vocational roots spring from Clarendon Gardens, the Sandhills’ own Garden of Eden; in 1945 her father, successful paper manufacturer Francis Howe, moved the family from Buffalo, New York to 25 acres with a historic home in Pinehurst. “He had the bright idea to develop a private garden, which became a public garden,” Tate says. Howe collected plants from all over the world. “I was only a little girl but I followed him around — I loved the plants.” By the 1950s this plant paradise had become a tourist attraction second only to golf. Tate studied landscape design and horticulture at N.C. State and worked at Clarendon Gardens until it was purchased for residential development. The results made her “very sad.” Beginning in 1972 Mary Francis and her naval officer husband, Bob Tate, were stationed in Turkey, where she met the U.S. ambassador, William Macomber Jr.,

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and his wife, Phyllis, who hired her to redesign the embassy gardens. “Mrs. Macomber sent a handwritten note by chauffeur-driven limousine to our apartment and waited for my answer,” which impressed the neighbors. “This was a huge job, five acres, with 10 gardeners at my beck and call.” She was given carte blanche, allowing her to order seeds, bulbs and plants from Europe and elsewhere. Once back in the Sandhills Tate established her own design business — with many visual signatures, including symmetry: “I like curves and tumbled-brick privacy walls to block unsuitable views.” Her arrangements often contain benches, statuary and water environments. She enjoys making swimming pools look like rock-rimmed ponds and transforming culverts into babbling brooks. Soil enhancement, grading, terracing, walkways, tree placement and perennials complete the package. The Firestone and Reynolds families have been clients. “None of my jobs look the same,” Tate says, a result of investigating not only a client’s preferences and childhood recollections (“Do they remember climbing a maple tree?”) but the interior of the house. This means no red azaleas framing the window of a room decorated in pink. And no formal Japanese garden surrounding a Charleston plantation. No idea is too far-fetched, either. Her scrapbook contains “secret” walled gardens and examples of what the British call a “folly”; she constructed what appeared to be the broken-down corner of an old building, then smothered the ruin in vines. Another time she positioned a dead pine tree to look as though it had a fallen and weathered naturally. The list of unusual elements includes a “ha-ha” — a deep trench

dug between pasture and lawn to keep animals from crossing — instead of a fence to block the view. Tate is also known for strong (and sometimes salty) opinions, namely that landscape design, trees, shrubs and plants are as important as house and furnishings, therefore deserving of generous funding. “I want people to be so excited about creating that they don’t think about the cost. Because what’s more important than having a lovely property to show off a home?” Tate deplores contractors who think a flatbed of assorted plants from a convenient nursery constitutes landscaping. Shabby work like ignoring soil conditions or selecting plants that will outgrow their space provokes anger. “I’m heartbroken when (my projects) aren’t maintained.” Clients like Peggy Adair, who moved to CCNC in 1994, stay with Tate long term. “We worked together to give a brick ranch house more character,” Adair says. When the Adairs needed a fenced yard for their poodle, Tate softened it with boxwoods. “She moves plants around, is constantly doing something — the garden is still a work in progress.” Well into her 70s, Tate has no plans for retirement. “I can’t wait to get up in the morning and get to work.” She still reels off Latin botanical tonguetwisters like a spelling-bee champ. She mastered computer design programs, accepts out-of-town assignments, travels to garden shows and studies how trends in architecture influence landscape design. But this has not changed: her passion. “I love plants,” Tate exclaims, fervently. “How can you not love them? I treat them like children. They are my world.” ps

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By Joyce R eehling

The last time I pulled a weed in a vegetable patch was somewhere in the ’60s, and I don’t mean my age. Our family lived in a rural part of Maryland, and we always had a vegetable garden. We had tomatoes of several varieties, corn, lettuces and other things that came and went. Some vegetables got kicked off the list if we didn’t like them, or they didn’t grow and can well.

My mother was a city girl from Baltimore, and the idea that she ended up plunked down in a rural county and adapted so well to the life is nothing short of a miracle. She had my twin sister and me, which was enough to kill some women right there. She learned to can or, as a friend always said, “put up,” tomatoes — stewed and otherwise — green beans, corn and I don’t know what all. She did it to save money, which our little family needed. Our beloved neighbor, John Howard, came down our long gravel drive with his team of horses and a plow to churn up our back garden area. There was plenty of room for long rows of corn and tomatoes, beans and what you will. John loped down the lane and set to work while we twins badgered him with questions about the horses. Once done, we waited for Dad to return from some sales trip. Now, this was not your semi-glamorous business trip. Dad drove a 1953 Chevy, his car of choice until he threw her over for a Fiat and its scarce spare parts — another story and another reason my mother showed restraint. His territory meant days, and sometimes weeks, on the road. No fancy hotels for him, just clean, humble motels. It sounded like a great life to us as kids. Now, I know better. He took great joy in the garden planting. When he left on his next trip, it was Mom and her child laborers who watered, weeded and harvested. Mainly

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Sporting Life

Safe at Any Speed

A road trip in an old Bronco travels a well-worn path

By Tom Bryant

Summer had been as promised

— hot, hot and hotter. Now, September is here with shorter days and cooler nights, a blessing to those of us who think a half-day bottled up in the house to escape the blistering afternoon heat is some kind of imprisonment.

Linda, my bride, was off to the beach with some of her old college friends and I was hanging around the homestead, trying to put my hunting gear in some semblance of order. Dove season came in on Saturday, and as expected, it was hot and dry with just a few birds flying. Die-hard hunters sat in the middle of the field and sweated, hoping an unsuspecting wayward dove would come within range. A few of us old-timers knew better and found shade in the tree line. No self-respecting dove would be flying in this heat in the middle of the day. Late that afternoon, I was lucky, though, and able to get four big doves. When the hunt was over I went home, cleaned the birds and grilled them for supper. There was a quarter moon that evening and a fleeting breeze ruffled the dogwood leaves, giving a false sense of coolness. After supper, I kicked back on the porch, enjoyed a nightcap and listened to the evening sounds. Cicadas were calling in earnest, trying to make up for, in a few days, what they had missed by living underground for seven years. A hound dog bayed in the distance, complaining about being cooped up while coons and coyotes roamed about. I was hot and tired and needed a bath but decided to have another little libation before retiring for the evening. Sunday I planned to ride up to Slim’s Country Store, one of my very favorite places, and visit with my longtime friend and hunting buddy Bubba. For some reason, it was a restless night, so rather than tossing and turning anymore, I got up early, put on a pot of coffee and made a peanut butter sand-

wich for breakfast. I had loaded my ancient Bronco with some provisions the evening before: a cooler, my gunning bag, an old shotgun and a pistol just in case I ran into some hostiles on the way. The old truck is not air-conditioned, so I thought an early start would be advisable before the sun really went to work. There was a gray tint in the dawning sky as I pointed my trusty steed north, and we drove a quiet, lonesome road heading out of town. The Bronco and I go way back. If I could remember all the adventures I’ve had with her, I could write a book. She’s slow, geared for the backcountry, not the breakneck speed of major highways; consequently, I just drive her on country roads, top speed 55. She’s a meanderer, but off the road she can’t be beat. She has never stranded me in the backwoods. Very few people were up and about on this lazy Sunday morning, and we had a restful ride. Country farming in early fall is sort of halfway. Harvesting is just getting started, with acres of corn still to be combined, and I noticed that a lot of soybean fields were still green, just beginning to turn brown around the edges. Moving out of the longleaf pine belt into hardwoods of oak, maple and hickory is like visiting another country. Rolling hills with cut hayfields and pastures with Black Angus cattle resting nose-to-nose next to a shaded creek is something that most folks don’t see that often. My affinity for country air started when I was a youngster, and if I don’t get a whiff of it every now and then, I can become as surly as a saddle bronc that hasn’t been ridden in a while. I had all the windows down in the Bronco and the back gate fully up, so the ride north to Slim’s was pleasant and a little windy. The sun was steadily climbing and bearing down, promising another stifling day. The country store that was my destination was only about an hour away, and I looked forward to seeing all the good old boys and again listening to some tall tales that the old place seemed to generate. I hadn’t been in this part of the state in a while and was excited about prospects for the day. Bubba was supposed to meet me about 9, and we were going to ride out to check on one of our duck hunting spots from long ago. Bubba and I are longtime friends. I first met him when he was a fledging

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executive with his family’s textile manufacturing company. I was just out of the Marine Corps, newly married and just starting my newspaper career after finally finishing college. We were like most young adults that age, ready to make our mark on the world, with a couple of exceptions. I had been given a real dose of reality with the Marines, and Bubba also had to grow up fast. Textiles were just beginning to leave the country. Mexico and China were making inroads into what had once been the South’s major manufacturing asset. Bubba and his other executives had all they could do to keep the plant productive and profitable. The years plowed on, though, and we remained close friends, as they say, through thick and thin. Slim’s place, an old family country store, is a rarity in this age of big box giant retailing businesses, where big is supposedly automatically better. At Slim’s, a customer gets more than just goods. There is a camaraderie that you will not find at Wally World. Everybody knows everybody and is actually concerned with the well-being of neighbors. I’m afraid that when these old places are finally history, part of the backbone of country living will also be gone. Bubba was standing on the steps of the store when I pulled into the gravel parking lot. He hasn’t changed much over the years, a rangy white-headed fellow now with a mustache to match. He would have been comfortable riding with Stuart during the Big War, or pushing cattle across the Red River in Texas. He’s the kind of guy everybody wants in their foxhole. “Hey, Coot,” he exclaimed as I climbed out of the Bronco. “That old truck is still getting you around. Good to see you.” Bubba gave me the nickname Cooter years ago and refuses to let it drop. As far as he’s concerned, I’ll be Cooter as long as we’re on this Earth. Maybe even St. Peter knows me by that name now. “Yeah, Bubba, she’s like us, old and slow, but the motivation is still there.” I went up the steps and Bubba grabbed me around the shoulders. “Come on in, Coot. I just made a new pot of coffee and I got some of Ritter’s famous apple brandy sweetener just for you. We need to talk about the coming duck season. I have some good spots lined up.” We went on in through the double screen doors and I greeted some of the regulars. I got a mug from the coffee bar, poured it about half full and said, “All right, Bubba, where is that famous sweetener?” He grinned, reached in his ever-present gunning bag, and pulled out a flask. Yes, sir, it’s going to be a good day. PS Tom Bryant, a Southern Pines resident, is a lifelong outdoorsman and PineStraw’s Sporting Life columnist.

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The First Domino Big time tournaments return to pinehurst No. 2 Deane Beman and Craig Stadler

By Lee Pace

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in the office of Pinehurst Director of Golf Don Padgett Sr. one day in the summer of 1990. On the line was Deane Beman, the commissioner of the PGA Tour and a longtime brother with Padgett in the fraternity of golf administrative insiders.

“Padge, we’d like to bring our Tour Championship to Pinehurst next year,” Beman said of the season-ending “Super Bowl” of golf that in its first three years of existence had been played at Oak Hill, Pebble Beach and Harbour Town. “It will only cost you half a million dollars.” “Thanks,” Padgett said. “As much as we’d love to have you, we’re not in a position to spend that kind of money.” Padgett was three years into his tenure running the golf operations at Pinehurst, and owner Robert Dedman Sr. was six years into his initiative to rebuild what he called “a fallen angel,” a bastion of American golf history that had stumbled on hard times in the early 1980s and even been run by the bank for two years. Padgett’s charge from resort President and CEO Pat Corso was to “bring championship golf back to Pinehurst,” and the club in the previous three years had hosted a successful PGA Club Pro Championship and a U.S. Women’s Amateur. But a half-million dollars to get the PGA Tour to town? That was beyond the pale. A week later, Beman called back. “OK, we’ll forgo the fee,” Beman said. “But we want to come the first week in October.” Padgett and Corso conferred. Padgett told Corso he didn’t think the resort could afford to give up a prime fall weekend. Corso agreed, and Padgett told Beman he was sorry, but the dates were bad.

Beman called a third time. “OK, when the hell can we come?” Beman asked. “How about the last weekend in October?” Padgett answered. “Our peak season will be over, and the golf course and the greens will still be in good shape.” “Deal,” Beman said. And thus fell the first domino in what is now de rigueur around Pinehurst and the state of North Carolina — major championships on the No. 2 course. Since that Tour Championship (won by Craig Stadler on Nov. 3, 1991), Pinehurst No. 2 has been the venue for the U.S. Senior Open, three U.S. Opens, one U.S. Amateur and one U.S. Women’s Open. On the schedule are three more USGA events, including the 2024 Open. “We could hardly have written a better script,” Corso says. “The weather was great. The golfers loved No. 2. The crowds were huge. It was everything we could have hoped for.” “That Tour Championship was very important,” former USGA Executive Director David Fay says. “David Eger, as a former North & South Junior champion, and an unabashed fan of No. 2, did a masterful job in setting up the golf course. As it had been a few years since the ‘regular tour’ players had competed at No. 2, the Tour Championship confirmed — resoundingly — that No. 2 remained a great championship test.” And it’s been 25 years. “Wow — 25 years,” Corso muses today. “Where does the time go?” I remember a snippet from the twilight hour on Monday, three days before the tournament commenced. The shadows of the towering pine trees were creeping across the fairway and green of the eighth hole as reigning British Open champion Ian Baker-Finch made his way around the course with Corey Pavin. They putted out on the eighth green and walked to the ninth tee. Baker-Finch nodded toward a couple of acquaintances standing nearby. “This golf course is great,” he said. “I’m only halfway around and it’s one of the five best I’ve seen in this country. Maybe the world.” Baker-Finch played that evening until it was pitch dark. “I haven’t been this

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excited since the British Open,” he said. Stadler shot a 5-under-par score of 279, and only four players broke par for four rounds that week. Eger, a Charlotte native and former PGA Tour player then on the tour’s administrative staff, looked at the leader board on Sunday afternoon and noted that only Stadler and Russ Cochran were in red figures. “Two players under par,” Eger mused. “That looks like a U.S. Open.” “I admit I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect,” Padgett said years later. “I had some concern that modern equipment and length would render some of the shorter holes defenseless. My son, Don II, told me, ‘Dad, don’t worry. That golf course will hold up fine.’ Don had played several years on the tour in the early 1970s and kept his finger on the pulse of the tour. He also played here frequently on his visits with the family. So I trusted his view and, sure enough, he was right.” Everything worked well that week in late October and early November of 1991. The galleries were substantial. There was plenty of parking outside the village and a good shuttle system to get people to the golf course. The golf course stood up to the game’s top players, who relished the oldstyle challenge of Donald Ross’ design. That week led to Pinehurst getting the Tour Championship for the following year, won by Paul Azinger (only six players besting par for the championship). The USGA was watching closely as well, and since the week was an overwhelming success, it soon awarded Pinehurst the U.S. Senior Open for 1994. “I have talked to every player, and there is nobody disappointed in having Pinehurst No. 2 back in the world of golf in the way it has been through its history,” Beman said. “This is a very special place. It is not going to disappoint anyone. It is an absolute delight to be here.” The golf media waxed poetically on regional and national levels about the singular atmosphere of Pinehurst, the direction the club seemed to be headed under Dedman’s leadership, and the appeal of championship golf on a classic Rossdesigned course. Corso still gets chills 25 years later remembering Jack Whitaker waxing poetically on ABC-TV and saying the golf tour was richer for having been to Pinehurst. Ron Green Sr. in The Charlotte Observer hooked onto the Friday evening unveiling ceremony of a statue of Donald Ross as a watershed kernel. “For an old hanger-around who happens to think this village is a little patch of heaven, there was a sense that it was more than an unveiling of the great architect’s likeness, that it was also an unveiling of Pinehurst today,” Green wrote. Golf Digest’s Jaime Diaz, a New York Times correspondent then but a Moore County resident now, put Pinehurst in perspective in tying up a year in golf that saw the four majors contested on

Augusta National, Hazeltine, Royal Birkdale and Crooked Stick, and the Ryder Cup on the Ocean Course at Kiawah. “If the Tour Championship proved anything definitive, it is that Pinehurst No. 2 was the most evocative tournament arena of the year and should continue to have a major presence in American golf,” Diaz offered. Throughout the two weeks of the 1991 and ’92 Tour Championships, the themes of introduction and renewal emerged. Old fans of Pinehurst returned: “I don’t know how they played this course in the early 1900s with hickory shafts,” said Chip Beck, a Fayetteville native and winner of the Donald Ross Memorial as a teenager. “Donald Ross must have been the toughest, hard-nosed architect in the world, because this course has stood the test of time. “A course like this puts golf in perspective. It has maintained its history and tradition for so long. It’s like Fenway Park or Wrigley Field. It’s a standard to judge by.” And new fans were born: “This is the type golf course I could play every day of my life,” Greg Norman said. “There is so much emphasis today on hitting balls 250 yards over water,” Baker-Finch said. “But this was how golf was meant to be played, the old style.” “The whole experience is awesome — the village, the hotel, the golf course,” said Lee Janzen. “This is a golf town, all the way. It’s a great place to come, and I wish we’d play here every year.” One of the most attentive spectators in 1991 was the USGA’s Fay. In the two years since the USGA had brought its Women’s Amateur to Pinehurst, USGA and Pinehurst officials had begun serious conversations about Pinehurst hosting a U.S. Open at some point in the late 1990s. Pinehurst, in fact, would make an official presentation in June 1992 to the USGA’s Championship Committee. The group voted in that meeting at Pebble Beach that an Open would, in fact, be set for Pinehurst, provided the club would rebuild what were considered substandard greens for elite competition in the summer, and the 1999 Open was announced the following June. “I was very interested to see how the course would play for the Tour Championship,” Fay said. “I was interested to see if people would get romantic about a course. I was curious to see if time had passed it by. It hadn’t.” The dominoes have been falling for quarter of a century. PS Lee Pace’s first book on Pinehurst, Pinehurst Stories, was released just weeks before the 1991 Tour Championship.

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Hole In the Sky Nothing, or nearly so, These thin molecules of air, Water vapor collected So high it’s crystallized, The ice of a cirrus cloud Lit by reflected light And the slant of evening sun Rendering this whole blue nothing Something. Then the hand, old, instinctively wise, Darting across toned paper, The scratch, scratch of a pastel . . . There! Do you see it? A hole in the sky! Sometimes, If we push hard Against the skin of the world, It will give enough To allow us a moment, nearly nothing, Maybe, but something, Even if it’s just a hole in the sky That calls us to remember, Then shows us Why we do what we do. —Bob Wickless

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Miss Edie Womble By Jim Dodson Photographs by John Gessner

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’ve always loved this table,” says Miss Edie Chatham, smoothing her hand over the weathered surface of the large round table that dominates her expansive kitchen in Pinehurst. “It’s been in our family for a very long time. My daughter brought it all the way from Louisville when Dick and I built this house 30 years ago. She took it apart and drove all that way here, if you can believe it, attached to the roof of her car. Clever girl. The table was fine, a sign of how well it was made. It just gets better with time.” Now in her 90s — but don’t tell her we told you so — Miss Edie Chatham knows a thing or two about well-made objects and getting better with time. From the beginning, her remarkable life has been one of steady exploration and refinement, beginning with a fearless mother who wished her six children to experience a rapidly changing world to a beautiful house Miss Edie herself sketched out on paper, inspired by 19th century houses from the Carolina low country. The New PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2016

Jersey architect she and her husband, Dick Chatham, engaged in the early 1980s to draw up the plans for their retirement home, after relocating from Elkins to the Sandhills, had never seen anything quite like the simple twobedroom “country house” Edie Chatham had in mind. It was modest in scale, in tune with the pragmatism of an earlier age, featuring a simple porte cochère and copper roof that turned elegantly green with the passing seasons, wide and welcoming Dutch front doors equipped with sturdy wooden screens, 12-foot ceilings, and a dramatically wide central hallway running front to back of the house, designed to catch the gentlest breeze and provide a place for Edie’s grandchildren to learn to roller skate and ride bicycles. “He said it was such a waste of space, but I wanted a house that would stay cool on the hottest summer day,” she explains. “I’d lived in almost every kind of house you can imagine up till then, so I knew exactly what I wanted. We only needed a guest bedroom.” “Don’t try to talk her out of it,” Dick Chatham advised the architect. “When she gets her mind made up, she never changes it.” The architect obliged though later congratulated her on designing the “perfect dog house” because the windows were large enough for the smallest dog to look out. A local builder named Clealand Fowler did the work, handcrafting a house that feels as settled and welcoming as any low country home place passed down through generations. “Clealand was terrific,” she remembers. “He built the place a little bit by the seat of his pants, creating as we went along, a real craftsman, making the oversized windows and every door by hand. He did the floors, too. While he worked, I researched.” It was she who found, for instance, a man in Chapel Hill that had heart pine flooring from Richmond, Virginia’s original railway station when it was demolished to make way for a new station. “The boards were gray and weathered, but Clealand sanded them down and fitted them beautifully together, countersinking the nails and staining them with tung oil. They’ve aged so nicely, don’t you think?”

Everything about the house Miss Edie Chatham built seems to have aged nicely, as a matter of fact, from the bathrooms outfitted with old-fashioned fixtures she found at area thrift shops to a sunroom overlooking a backyard woodland where she keeps an eye out for local wildlife, a peaceful sitting room filled with the works of folk artists and American crafts. Befitting a family home place, mementos and heirlooms and personal treasures emblematic of the long and notable life Edie Chatham has lived grace every room — favorite books and paintings, family photographs, a refrigerator covered by cards and photographs of her large, loving, scattered clan that includes 11 grandchildren and 13 greats. In 2015, son Richard and his wife, Allison, threw a surprise birthday party for his mother that included a low country boil and four days of paying tribute to their extraordinary matriarch. “I would have been happy with just a lemon pie,” she allows with a laugh, settling down at the aforementioned pine table to chat — albeit a tad reluctantly — about a life rich in experience and surrounded by family and friends, as mentally vibrant as ever. As she sits, her miniature poodle Susie, 17, appears, curling up at her feet. “But it was so wonderful to have the entire family come from everywhere, some from other countries and very far away.” She pauses and smiles. “We do seem to be a family that likes to travel a great deal. My brothers and sisters and I all shared that trait — a gift given to us by our parents, who believed the more we saw of the world, the better we would understand others and ourselves.” She smiles, thinking of something. “I was just speaking to my older brother Bill last evening on the phone. Bill is 99. His mind’s still so sharp. We were sharing memories of those great summers we had growing up, our travels across America with the Georgia Caravans. Bill was a counselor for the boys on our first trip. That was a very different world back then. I don’t suppose children’s summers are anything like that today. Everyone goes their own way. But, oh, what a grand adventure that was!”

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The Womble children at Roaring Gap: (left to right) Bill, Olivia, Edith, Calder, and Lila

he was Edie Womble then, a precocious 13, the fourth oldest of six children of Bunyon Snipes Womble and his highly independent wife, Edith Willingham Womble, from Macon, Georgia. Bun Womble, as friends called her father, son of a Methodist minister, was one of Winston-Salem’s most successful lawyers. At age 37, he sat on the board of his alma mater, Duke University, and pushed to integrate the school. He later served in the state legislature and was one of the city’s famous 12 elders who gathered monthly at a private home dressed in formal attire to plan the future of Winston-Salem, planning for the growth of neighborhoods, city government, even the merger of the two neighboring towns. “It was Dad who suggested putting the hyphen between Winston and Salem,” says Miss Edie. Her mother was also a force to be reckoned with. “Thanks to our parents, we understood how fortunate we were when so many were suffering due to the Depression. We lived in the same neighborhood as the Hanes and Reynolds families but with six of us all under the age of 8, we all learned to be each other’s best friends very quickly. We made our own beds and straightened our rooms and our father always walked us to school. Our grandmother lived with us, too. It was bliss.” Edie’s mother had been around the world three times and held strong views about exposing her six children to the realities of life — even, and maybe especially, with the devastation of the Great Depression sweeping over America. When an enterprising fellow named Clarence Rose came through town promoting a summer-long caravan of buses designed to show children of the affluent South the key sights and landmarks of America, Edith Willingham Womble signed up four of her oldest children for the year 1933, the lowest point of the Depression — Lila, Bill, Olivia and Edie. “Dad took us to Atlanta on the train to meet the caravan. There were nine buses that had been customized to carry 16 or 17 children. They were called ‘Spirit of Progress’ buses. The boys and girls were segregated by sex and rode on separate buses based on their ages. Each bus had its own counselor, cook and a full kitchen. Tents and cots came out of the roof to camp, and each camper had his or her own canvas bag with clothing and toiletries and spending money. Dad gave us each spending money to last the entire summer, all the way to the West Coast and back,” Miss Edie remembers. Three fine automobiles — brand new Lincolns, she recalls — took off before the buses bearing the caravan’s campers. “Rose did things first-class, which is why when he ran short of funds we ate a lot of potato salad later,” Miss Edie explains with a prim smile. Traveling over rough highways and dirt roads, the caravan’s first major stop was PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2016

the Chicago World’s Fair of 1933. Celebrating the city’s centennial, the theme of the international exposition was America’s emerging technical innovation. Among the highlights, the German Graf Zeppelin landed and Sally Rand performed for one of the last times. Two other things deeply impressed young Edie Womble. “One was that I got to meet the real Aunt Jemima, the pancake lady. She was very nice to us. Clarence Rose allowed us to wander around the fair in groups of three. I was also struck by models of what highways of the future were going to look like. They looked exactly what interstates do today — four lanes, all paved, overpasses and everything.” The campers stayed on the grounds of a university in Evanston. If a college or university wasn’t available, the caravan buses camped at local fairgrounds, churches and state parks. “In some towns, people turned out to welcome us. The colleges were the best because most of the roads we were traveling were gravel or dirt roads and we could get showers or baths.” Onward west they pushed — to the Grand Canyon, Carlsbad Caverns, Yellowstone Park, Los Angeles and Santa Monica, where the children spent a full day riding a roller coaster that went out over the ocean and drank themselves silly on milkshakes. In Los Angeles Edie found a stray kitten she decided to bring home with her to North Carolina. During the return trip, at Yosemite National Park, she witnessed the park’s celebrated 300-foot “Firefall” and met the park’s famous Jaybird Man, who could summon at least 50 different kinds of birds with various whistles. She took photographs with her Brownie camera. She also wrote letters home to her grandmother and the family’s cook, whom she was worried about because her bank back in Winston had folded. “We honestly didn’t see too many signs of the Depression on the road,” she explains. “The crisis was all still unfolding and we kept moving. We knew it was a difficult time for people less fortunate than we were.” The cat made it home to Winston-Salem, newly named — what else — “L.A.,” and lived out a nice long life at 200 North Stratford. The second year she joined Clarence Rose’s caravan, Edie saw Glacier National Park, Banff, Lake Louise and the Calgary Stampede. She brought back a petrified rock from the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. “There was no air conditioning in the desert, so we wet towels and placed them on our heads. That was our air conditioning,” she remembers. By then, she notes, Clarence Rose was running out of money and magic. One night he awakened campers in the wee hours and hustled them to the buses in order to outrun local authorities that were demanding he buy special license plates for traveling through their states. A year or so after the Womble children made their final cross-country trip with Georgia Caravan, Rose’s buses were confiscated and sold at auction. The caravan riders had to find their own way home. “It was a sad end for Rose. We never learned what happened to him. But I think we learned a great deal about being self-sufficient, being unafraid of the world.” During the summer of 1939, as the shadow of Adolf

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Hitler crept over western Europe, Edith Womble sent her three middle children on a traditional continental tour of Europe’s cultural capitals. “She knew it might be the last chance to do that before everything dramatically changed — that life would never again be like she remembered it.” Brother Bill had done his European tour in 1935, and older sister Lila actually lived in France for a time. Edie, a junior at Duke, traveled with her older sister Olivia, a senior, and a group of girls from Duke chaperoned by a campus house mother named Mrs. Pemberton. They landed in Italy, toured ruins and museums before heading for Germany. During a stop in Prague they saw Nazi banners and flags flying everywhere. “And I remembered Bill telling me how when he was there he saw groups of young men in brown uniforms beating up people on the streets. We didn’t see anything like that, though the guide Mrs. Pemberton arranged to give us a tour took us to the Jewish quarter of the city, where we saw many abandoned apartments and empty streets. It was his way of trying to tell us what was really going on in Europe.” One evening in Munich, a trio of local German boys invited Edie and a couple of friends to a private home to dine. “Mrs, Pemberton let us go because they were very polite and knew English and seemed harmless. The place where they took us was very grand, probably confiscated from wealthy Jewish people we realized later, with a stone courtyard and gate. We had been warned not to ask any questions. After an elegant dinner upstairs, we went down to the basement to play ping-pong and something quite startling happened. Soldiers wearing black uniforms of the SS suddenly appeared, and we were whisked out and held at the front gatehouse while they tried to figure out what to do with us. It turned out that Adolf Hitler and his henchmen had arrived to dine in the club and nobody knew we were downstairs. The Fuhrer was just upstairs! Fortunately, after they debated what to do with us, they decided it was smarter to let us go — telling us to get out of there fast and not look back.” In Budapest, the servant of a polished young man appeared at their table and invited Edie to dance with his employer on the hotel’s revolving dance floor. He turned out to be the nephew of Hungary’s highest ranked government official, the country’s embattled regent. His name was Denes Marie Siegfried Joseph, Count of Wenckheim, aka. “Count Sigi.” He took her horseback riding in the royal forest and to see his family’s hunting lodge, where his staff fed them a lavish dinner. He also took Edie to see the airplanes of his country’s modest air force. “It was just a few planes but he was very proud of them. I was eager to see them because I’d taken flying lessons at Duke. “Sigi was charming. He sent me flowers and lovely notes. For several days before we headed for France, we went to dinner and danced. One night, to Mrs. Pemberton’s dismay, we stayed out till dawn. Sigi wanted to show me Budapest by moonlight. Given all that was happening around us, I suppose it was terribly romantic,” she allows. “But it wouldn’t last.” Over the next year, Sigi wrote Edie Womble several passionate letters and sent photographs until his country fell under Communist control. Eventually, he was captured and shot by a firing squad. In Paris, shortly before heading to England and on to Scotland for the boat home, Edie and Olivia went on a mission for their mother to track down a well-known seamstress their mother

From Miss Edie’s Brownie camera, 1933 first met in Vienna in 1900. The woman was famous for her needlepoint. “She was living in the Jewish section of Paris, and the taxi driver insisted on waiting for us. We knocked on her door, but there was no answer. Some might have given up, but we were taught by our parents never to give up. Eventually a slit in the door opened, and we told the woman who we were. She let us in and it was incredible, the most beautiful fabrics and needlepoint you can imagine. Her name was Mrs. Joli. She’d fled the Nazis from Vienna. The French foolishly thought the war was over. They were taking paintings and other artwork out of hiding. Olivia and I picked out some patterns for our mother’s two tall Italian chairs and paid Mrs. Joli, who promised to send along the coverings as soon as possible.” Britain declared war on Germany days later, as the Womble girls steamed for America. “Because of the outbreak of war, mother thought those coverings would never arrive. But amazingly they did — the very next April. Unfortunately, we never heard from Mrs. Joli again. After the war, I went back to Europe and looked for any trace of her, but she and her family were gone. You don’t have to guess what happened to them, poor things.” Miss Edie Chatham smoothes her hand over her beloved pine table, sighs and smiles. “Goodness me. Listen to me, how I’m going on.” She touches a small stack of Sigi’s well preserved letters, each baring a Nazi emblem. “Nothing of the kind,” assures her captivated her visitor. There is, after all, something deeply rewarding about sitting in such a peaceful house where the afternoon breeze comes through the open kitchen screen door and a woman of the world recalls the most remarkable summers of her life. Softened by her witness to time and surrounded by her sensible oldfashioned house and large loving family, Miss Edie Womble Chatham seems almost ageless. Some women at 70, observed George Bernard Shaw of Queen Cleopatra, seem younger than most women of 17. Miss Edie graciously offers her guest another glass of iced tea. Eager to sit and hear more, her visitor happily accepts. PS

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Rising from the Past The historic town of Badin resolves to survive and thrive again By Jim Moriarty Photographs by John Gessner

t the center of Badin village is a confounding five-pointed starfish intersection with a right of way that seems to be ruled by nothing more than neighborliness. Where the post office now sits there was once a grand opera house. Built in 1918, it was dropped to its knees by a wrecking ball 41 years later in the days before historic preservation allowed the soul of a town to outrun its bottom line. The theater was the prime stopping point between Richmond and Atlanta for gypsy vaudevillians whose Pullman cars parked on the railroad tracks by the depot that once stood across Route 740 from a convenience store where now even the baitfish seem to have gone belly up. It was a workingman’s town then, a one-trick aluminum pony that fused the men who spent their days in Alcoa’s hot, hazardous pot rooms with imported fun. Staying sometimes as long as a week, W.C. Fields and Mae West were among the entertainers who performed there. On the same stage chorus girls left little to the imagination and Tom Mix shot up silent movie saloons, fire and brimstone preachers lit up the 650 sinners in the main auditorium, another 150 in the balconies. Across the highway from the convenience store the hulking, desolate and empty factory buildings are covered with sorrowful rust stains as if their mascara was running. Just behind the store the little, historic village tries to climb back up the prosperity cliff it was thrown over when the company ups and leaves the company town. Badin may be more than a hundred years old, but it still has the will to live, and there is much to admire in the ambition. A long block but a short walk up Falls Road from the starfish crossroads, pushed away from the street into the shade, an imposing red brick church gives the architectural impression of Baptists swallowing up a wandering band of orthodox Greeks sometime in the 1920s. On one side of the church is the old cemetery. Close by on the other side is the Badin Treehouse Co. It may not have a monopoly on food in Badin but it has, at the very least, cornered what passes for the gourmet market. The menu is country eclectic and the décor something of a cross between Savannah art college kitsch and your dotty old aunt’s attic. There are furs, beads, animal heads, jukeboxes, musical instruments, wild turkey feathers, and Frank Sinatra and Etta James in surround sound. Jodi Wahab is the reluctant restaurateur, having run headlong into code issues in her original location. The plan was to have a coffee house/art gallery a few doors away in the century-old brick building with the RC Cola advertisement painted on its side where she lives with her husband, James, and her two Chihuahuas, Roxie and Allie. Or Ally. Or Alley. The actual spelling being a matter of casual indifference. Wahab got the building in an old-fashioned swap with the artist Roger Thomas, who lived in it for 13 years. “Everybody sees the potential Badin has, especially with the lake area right there,” says Thomas, who got his Route 740 farm in the deal. “I think Badin is a charming town. It’s a very neat historical town.” PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2016

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The floor inside the front door of Wahab’s Falls Road building is partially covered with a large mural made mostly out of pennies. Her copper art pieces hang on one wall. The other has an elk head and a leopard — as alive as the parrot in “Monty Python’s Flying Circus’” skit — in a cage. There’s an elegant, idle coffee bar anticipating the return of the espresso machine from down the street; an out of operation waterfall waiting for unfinished oil paintings to decorate either side; and a beach cottage room with a mural of Cape Lookout and a floor covered with river sand. “What I wanted was for you to have your cappuccino and to step into my art, just come and sit,” she says. “I’m fighting to get back here.” Wahab has the U.S. franchise for Massimo Zecchi’s art supplies from Florence, Italy, but selling out of a closed coffee shop in Badin has, well, challenges. “Right now there’s no industry, so the town is just having to survive with what we are,” she says. The town was the invention of a French company headed by Adrien Badin that came to the Yadkin River Basin early in the 20th century to make aluminum and electricity, not necessarily in that order. World War I brought the French invasion to an abrupt end and the project was taken over by the Aluminum Company of America — Alcoa — which finished construction of the Narrows Dam in 1917, helping to create the body of water that now comprises Badin Lake and Lake Tillery. Until the building of the Hoover Dam, the Narrows was the largest overflow dam in the world and it, along with the buildings of old Badin, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It also happens to be downriver from one of the most significant PaleoIndian archeological sites in the southeastern United States. Like the opera house, Badin’s dwellings were built for the aluminum workers, started by the French and finished by Alcoa. Some were small bungalows but mostly it was condostyle apartments in four conjoined units. These quadraplexes had indoor plumbing, three bedrooms upstairs and hot water that circulated through wood-burning stoves. Because people need roofs more than they need vaudeville, the lodging has outlived the tap dancers of the opera house and a handful of other buildings that became too forlorn to justify their existence to an accountant. “They tore down more buildings and destroyed more property that had historical value to it — it just makes you sick,” says Thomas. Artifacts from the Hardaway archeological site, a Badin timeline, a refurbished quadraplex apartment and even the 1937 Ford American LaFrance fire truck (aluminum colored, of course) are on display in the visitors center and a pair of nearby museums at the starfish intersection. They open twice a week, on Tuesdays and again on Sunday afternoons. Not that there isn’t a lot of foot traffic in Badin, but if Martha Garber sees a strange face walking by during operating hours, she’s as likely as not to snatch the person right off the sidewalk. Anne Harwood, who taught education at Pfeiffer University, is the mayor of a town with a zombie tax base. “We are a historic town with unique architecture,” says Harwood. “We’re working to keep Badin as preserved as we can.” When the moment of the great unwinding of the inevitable lawsuits arising from the end of business as usual finally arrives, Harwood sees better times. “Alcoa’s going to be generous — not just to us — they’re going to give some land to Morrow Mountain. We will get the property around the lake. That’s huge,” she says. “Then, we have to decide, with our budget, what we can do with it. Our biggest property tax group is no longer here.” The Badin Inn, built by the French in 1914 as dormitory-style

living for staff of the subsidiary of L’Aluminium Française, and its associated golf club are integral to Badin’s hand-over-hand climb back to, if not affluence, at least survivability. Stewardship of the historic structure has fallen into the hands of general manager Mark Eberle from St. Augustine, Florida. He’s partnered this museum piece, a place that’s a little tender loving care and a few investment dollars shy of being adorable, with a nonprofit organization that tries to help kids through golf. The nonprofit is called Music, Art, Literature and Thought and it’s the parent of the faith-based Growing Kids Through Golf. Back in the ’70s Eberle traveled the mini-tours, sleeping in the back of his Dodge utility van, trying to make enough money one week to play again the next. He’s chasing a different goal now. “I started that kids’ program in 1989,” says Eberle. “We’ve always targeted that group of kids that don’t naturally have an opportunity to play golf. Our purpose was never really about creating golfers of the future. We’re just trying to help kids. It was never to create the next Tiger Woods.” The Inn has some modern suites over the pro shop, but it’s the six rooms on the second floor of the old building with the ghostly footprints of visitors like Sam Snead that are its legacy. The hallway still has a sign that says, “Pull Switch For Air Raid Alarm.” (The aluminum factory would, after all, have been a high value target during WWII.) And, there’s an intercom in the lobby that looks like it could still dial up the ’50s. The third floor remains uninhabitable, almost a metaphor. “This is pretty much Badin,” says Eberle of the Inn and golf course. “It’s a fascinating property, it really is. This is a 100-year-old inn with classic rooms, hardwood floors, furniture to match. Same way with the golf. We spent nine months improving the course, investing in it strongly. The lake is two blocks away. The river is a quarter-mile. Morrow Mountain is right behind us. They didn’t know what they had. This isn’t a resort; it’s a small town, a homey, comfortable, relaxed atmosphere. If you’re looking for a championship golf course, you don’t want to come up here. But, if you want to play golf like it was played in 1924, you’re going to love this place.” The most famous person from Badin now is the TV personality Star Jones, but that distinction used to be held by Johnny Palmer, the Badin Blaster, who grew up caddying on the old course. A WWII veteran who flew 32 missions over Japan as the side gunner on a B-29, Palmer quit a job as a crane operator at Alcoa to join the tour and won seven times from 1946-54. Dark-haired and oliveskinned, Snead nicknamed him ‘Stone’ because his expression never changed on the golf course. In the finals of the 1949 PGA Championship at Hermitage CC in Richmond, Virginia, Snead took a 2-up lead over Palmer into the last nine holes, bounced his tee shot on the 10th off a transfer truck that kicked it back into play, made a birdie and went on to win, 3 and 2. After moving to Oklahoma, Palmer spent the last years of his life back in Badin, living in the family apartment in a quadraplex on Spruce Avenue. His son, Jock, lives there still and can be found most days after work at the golf course’s grill. With some prodding Jock recalls a conversation with Gene Littler and Don January on a ferry ride across the Savannah River at a senior tournament. “Your dad was one of the best chippers and putters,” Jock says they told him. “He missed the TV money. He missed the senior tour. They said, hey, never let anybody tell you your dad wasn’t great.” A lot like Badin. PS Jim Moriarty is a senior editor at PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinestraw@gmail.com

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Skyline View This old house returns to its roots

By Jim Moriarty

ometimes you buy more than a house, you buy a heritage. Early in July, Jennifer Armbrister, her husband, Nicholas Williams, and their 2-year-old son, Mason, moved into Skyline. Armbrister is from everywhere, a self-described Army brat who was in the service herself for nine years. Williams, a Californian, is still active duty, stationed at Fort Bragg, and experienced in places dusty, hot and dangerous. “We found this place online,” says Armbrister, standing in the kitchen with Mason, who points at a picture of a dinosaur and roars. “There was something about it that drew us to it, both my husband and me. We fell in love with it. There’s this sense of stability and home that I’ve never had before. There’s just something about it.” Skyline is a house built very near what is now Hyland Golf Club on a bit of landscape elevated enough and once desolate enough that legend has it you could see Carthage 13 miles away. The nearby highway was Route 50 then, U.S. 1 now. Designed and built by a civil engineer, James Swett, construction of the tapestry brick home began around 1917 and was completed in 1920 for $40,000. A large part of the surrounding 108 acres became a peach orchard, but the unhappy convergence of a peach borer infestation and the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the property into foreclosure.

By December 1930, Skyline was back on its feet, literally. Bearing in mind that Prohibition wasn’t lifted (wink, wink) for another three years, it was turned into a nightclub by John Bloxham and Frank Harrington. A hundred people showed up for the opening, entertained by a seven-piece “orchestra” from Pittsburgh that had been booked for the entire season. Graced by a marquee running the entire length of the roofline and blaring CLUB SKYLINE, by the late ’30s the party was over and Skyline swirled down the drain, back into bankruptcy. In stepped Arch (at the tender age of 61) and Annieclare Coleman with the financial backing of a cousin, Maj. Gen. Frederick W. Coleman Jr., who purchased the property in ’39 from Citizens Bank & Trust Co. The assessed value of the house, the tenant cottage and the 108 acres was $10,000, though the previous owner was on the hook for 35 large. The Colemans set about turning Skyline into Skyline Manor, one of the many boutique hotels and inns of Moore County. Once the postmaster of Minneapolis — and with a boost from a Minnesota congressman — Arch Coleman had been appointed to the position of assistant postmaster general of the U.S. in the Herbert Hoover administration. A member of Hoover’s Little Cabinet, Coleman is acknowledged in Hoover’s memoirs as a person possessing “future Cabinet

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World War II forerunner of the CIA — he was the second-ranking officer timber,” with the former president tossing in Douglas MacArthur and J. of the Istanbul station of the OSS and in direct communication with Edger Hoover as a couple of other promising up-and-comers. When FDR William “Wild Bill” Donovan, head of the OSS. Archie was a flamboyant beat Hoover in ’32, Coleman found himself out of work and in the depths Ian Fleming-style, larger-than-life figure who delighted the Dundas girls, of the Depression. His granddaughter, Deirdre Newton (a Southern Pines Deirdre and her older sister Rosie in particular, with his guitar playing resident), says her mother — Arch and Annieclare’s daughter Ruth — and singing. “He was a fabulous character,” says Deirdre. “We were in love described him as “the only politician who ever left Washington without a with Uncle Archie.” penny in his pocket.” Post-Hoover, he landed, first, with a brother-in-law Annieclare passed away in 1960. Skyline Manor quickly ceased to be a in Sanford and then at Skyline. business when the real and true manager was gone. By the mid-60s, Uncle Coleman was Mr. Outside; Annieclare Mrs. Inside. He cultivated Archie had moved to Virginia eggplant and was in charge of turnBeach and Arch Coleman stayed ing the ‘NO’ on or off in front of close to his children to the end of ‘VACANCY’ on the neon sign by his life. The property passed on, the highway. She did all the cooktoo, gradually falling into utter dising. The house was filled with phorepair when the next generation of tographs: Coleman with President owners discovered what Coleman Hoover; Coleman with the other had, that Skyline was too big for under secretaries; Coleman with one elderly man to manage. By the the congressman from Minnesota. ’80s, upstairs rooms were being The houseguests had names like rented to Sandhills Community Delano and Ives and Rathbun. College students, and a hairdress“Grandma was a big talker ing salon popped up like a mushand had a very ambitious nature. room in the basement. The house Grandpa always listened,” says had become more albatross than Deirdre Newton of the man heirloom. she remembers as tall, thin and “It had fallen into disrepair,” reserved. “Then, when he got says Frank Staples, who grew up bored with the whole thing, he’d next door. “You could stand in just stand up, go back into his the basement and look clean out bedroom, lie on his bed and read to the sky.” detective stories.” In 1990 it was purchased by Arch and Annieclare’s daughJane and Gary Thomas, who spent ter, Ruth, lived in England. Her the next 26 years bringing it back. husband, Jack Dundas, was an “When we bought it, it had been officer in the Royal Navy. He empty for a few years,” says Jane. helped with the evacuation of “We really didn’t know what we Dunkirk; captained the HMS were getting ourselves into, but Nigeria, escorting cargo ships from it is a special place.” If Jennifer America to Mirmansk; was the Armbrister and Nicholas Williams chief of staff to the commander share a military kinship with of the Mediterranean fleet when Skyline, their intention is to revisit Montgomery was fighting Rommel its business plan, too, eventually in North Africa and, by the end of transforming it into a home stay World War II, the assistant chief of guesthouse. Imagine something naval staff. The war, however, deDeirdre Dundas Newton spent two years at Skyline Manor with her a few biscuits shy of a proper bed stroyed his health. In 1946, bound and breakfast. for Skyline, Rear Admiral Dundas, grandparents, Arch and Annieclare Coleman Claudia Coleman, the intelliRuth and their five children came gence officer’s daughter, is a well-known local artist who lived in the stucco to America on the Queen Elizabeth in its first voyage after being refitted cottage. “It was a wonderful place to grow up,” she says of Skyline. from troop transport to luxury liner. It looks like Mason will get the chance to find out for himself. PS Also arriving after the war was Arch and Annieclare’s son, Archie. He built a stucco cottage located near the manor house for his wife, Madeline, Jim Moriarty is a senior editor at PineStraw and can be reached at jjmpinesand their daughter, Claudia, still a Southern Pines resident. Archie had a traw@gmail.com. less visible war record. A member of the Office of Strategic Services — the

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Close Quarters Grandparents are backyard buddies at the King-Mowery compound

By Deborah Salomon • Photographs by John Gessner

iving with or near the in-laws spawned “All in the Family” and “Everybody Loves Raymond,” award-winning sitcoms exploring the ups and downs, the inevitables and hystericals of family life. By these standards one extended family occupying a cluster of three homes built during the 1920s in the Southern Pines Historic District would flop in prime time. Because harmony, not discord, thrives here. Really, what’s the likelihood of the father of two toddlers inviting his wife’s parents, Renate and Jim Mowery, to move from Virginia to a classic Weymouth “cottage” renovated, by him, for them? Then, when it came on the market, he purchased and renovated the house next door as lodgings for visiting relatives. Who is this visionary? Steve King. Day job: Oncology radiologist. Eyebrows were raised, comments made. “This wouldn’t work for all families,” Steve concedes. “But we had a great relationship with my wife’s parents. We had traveled together.” He certainly did not underestimate the

advantage of having grandparents 50 yards away. Steve had lived in his house for many years. He knew the elderly couple beyond the back fence. After they died, he considered acquiring their house for a historic renovation which, he learned, entailed applications, documentation, building restrictions and copious paperwork. But the ambitious amateur already had a stable of subcontractors and experience gained remodeling his own home. And now, he had a reason. “You’re retired — come live here so you can be around the grandchildren,” Steve proposed. “I was thrilled,” says Roberta King, the Mowerys’ daughter. “Mom and I are extremely close. I could have my baby and my parents too; we helped each other.” “It was an interesting process, an outlet for me,” Steve says. “I don’t get to do much creative stuff.” The idea to invite Renate and Jim jelled when another of the four Mowery daughters was accepted at Duke University Medical School. The chemistry and geography were in place; Renate and Jim, youthful and active, accepted.

im, a former Army officer and Reynolds Aluminum executive, met Renate, a language teacher, while stationed in Germany. As a child she lived for 10 years in two rooms with no running water on a farm outside Munich. Jim grew up in a typical Southern post-war family house on a dirt road near Richmond, Virginia. The couple returned to Virginia to raise a family in an impressive Southern Colonial, which Renate had just spent six months refurbishing. Fortunately, yet another daughter was happy to take on that house, facilitating the Mowerys’ relocation. The best part, Renate beams, was, “Steve did everything.” “Everything” meant gutting the sunroom (dark walls, smelly indoor-outdoor carpet over concrete), refitting kitchen and bathrooms, building bookcases in almost every room (“I’m a reader,” Jim says), refinishing hardwood floors all without moving walls or altering the footprint, per historic property restrictions. An addition was, however, possible. In an obvious yet bold move, Steve converted the garage into a “fun” room with bar, entertainment equipment and posters. For a wall he used a massive pair of sliding wooden barn doors. The garage ceiling hid the original patterned tin, which, uncovered, adds texture and antiquity. Across from the garage (which could become a main-floor bedroom if needed) new construction allowed a laundry and bathroom.

As for the rest, “We just wanted something comfortable,” easy-to-please Renate says. Comfort, in these circumstances, meant restraint. “I had to find a balance between their comfort and budget restrictions,” Steve says. The new kitchen — moderately sized, as are all the rooms — contains no grand appliances or service island. Instead, a sturdy cupboard with drop-leaf table top provides storage, preparation surface and breakfast bar. The kitchen carpet is Renate’s prize: “We were on a Mediterranean cruise. In Istanbul we stopped at a rug place, where I saw this.” She fell in love with the pattern and superb quality. The size was perfect. But she hadn’t brought credit cards or cash ashore. No problem. The merchant followed them back to the ship, where the transaction was completed, and shipped the rug to the United States. Renate also loves white wicker, using it generously in the sunroom and bedrooms. “To me it’s light, not depressing,” she says. Other furnishings in dark, polished woods suggest European origin; the dining room credenza — weighty, with angular lines — comes from Germany. “Before I said, ‘I don’t want this old thing, it’s not modern,’” but she never regrets keeping it or other handsome heirlooms placed sparingly throughout the house. “I’m not a collector,” Renate adds, with the exception of Hummel figurines displayed in a curio cabinet made by Jim’s dad.

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From the coffered dining room ceiling hang four small chandeliers instead of one large. The living room, with fireplace set into a “floating” wall setting off what was once a Carolina room, continues the European aura with graceful velvet upholstered chairs, a Chinese screen, more bookcases, window seats and family portraits. Renate has chosen pastels throughout, except for deep gold walls in the dining room. The garden is Renate’s design and showplace, with grass so thick, so perfect it appears artificial, bordered by clumps of black-eyed Susans. Flowerfilled urns flank the front gate, increasing curb appeal. Renate relates a horticultural omen: “I transplanted a Japanese maple from Richmond. A seed fell into a planter in the front yard, where it grew 6 or 7 feet tall.” Even a weed vine that sprang up over the backyard fence resembles an illustration for “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Next door to the Mowerys’ white stucco cottage stands the pink stucco three-bedroom guesthouse where well-known Southern Pines residents Peg and Hollis Thompson raised five children. Steve knew the Thompsons; he arranged the purchase before they passed away on the same day in 2015. “I’ll hold onto it awhile as a guest house. I wanted to renovate it, to keep the neighborhood looking nice,” Steve says. And to keep the family together — a place where 11 cousins, now ages 9 to 22, can gather close to parents and grandparents, just not too close. A place

where nobody is crowded at Christmas. A place with a swimming pool, a trampoline, pet accommodations and a long dining table.

he Mowerys have lived in Southern Pines for 13 years now, watching their granddaughters grow from infants to teens. Boundaries have never been a problem, Roberta confirms. “If (my parents) know I’m by myself they might walk in, but if Steve’s home they are respectful.” The Kings’ children beat a path from their house to the gate opening into Jim and Renate’s yard. “My daughters are always running over to Oma’s house to show her something.” Looking to the future, Roberta also realizes that having her mother and father a minute away may have health care advantages, since Steve is a physician. Several of her friends report waiting too long to make a similar arrangement. A century ago, multi-generations still lived under one roof or close by. Grandparents were part of a child’s life. Aunts, uncles and cousins visited on weekends. Since then family structure has evolved — or devolved — with unsettling results. But the old ways work well at the Mowery-King compound except, Roberta notes, for this small glitch: “All my sisters are jealous.” PS

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“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year — the days when summer is changing into autumn — the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”  ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web Plant your garlic now until the first hard freeze — the earlier the better, as large root systems are key. Although it won’t be ready for harvest until next June, growing your own garlic means you’ll be well equipped for cold (and collard) season next fall. Aside from boosting your immune system and enhancing your sautéed greens, garlic, researchers believe, can reduce the risk of various cancers. Roast a head until tender and add it to your rosemary mashed potatoes and squash casseroles.

The full Harvest Moon — also called the Singing Moon — will rise at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Friday, September 16. Owing to its close proximity to the horizon, the moon will appear vast and orange-colored. Don’t be surprised if you get the sudden urge to dance beneath it. Also, because this month’s harvest includes the first plump grapes, the harvest moon is alternatively known as the Wine Moon. Red wine pairs well with Neil Young’s Harvest (1972) and Harvest Moon (1992). Should you feel inspired to drink from a sterling goblet while dancing on this brilliant night, consider offering a small libation to Dionysus, the Greek god of winemaking and ritual madness. Asters (also called Italian starwort or Michaelmas Daisy) are the birth flower of September, their daisy-like blooms a talisman of love and symbol of patience. The ancient Greeks burned aster leaves to ward off evil spirits, and the plant was sacred to both Roman and Greek deities. Those familiar with the hidden language of flowers will tell you that a gift of asters reads: Take care of yourself for me, Love.

This month, with the sun entering Libra (the Scales) on the autumnal equinox, we look to Nature and our gardens to remind us of our own need for balance and harmony. On Thursday, September 22, day and night will exist for approximately the same length of time. Mid-morning, when the astrological start of autumn occurs, take a quiet moment for introspection. In the fall, just as kaleidoscopes of monarchs descend for nectar before their mystical pilgrimage to Mexico, we must prepare to journey inward. Breathe in the beauty of this dreamy twilight — this sacred space between abundance and decay. The duality of darkness and light is essential to all of life. Tolkien fans have double the reason to celebrate the equinox. In 1978, the American Tolkien Society proclaimed the calendar week containing September 22 as Tolkien Week. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic fantasy novels, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins were both said to be born on September 22; Bilbo in the year of 2890, Frodo in 2968 (refer to the Shire calendar of Tolkien’s fictional Middle-earth). This year, since Hobbit Day officially falls on the first day of autumn, consider hosting a grand birthday feast — call it Second Breakfast if you’d like — with a menu showcasing the bounty of the season. Decorate with ornamental corn, squash and gourds. Since no hobbit meal is complete without ale, mead or wine, you’ll want to have plenty. Punctuate the evening with fresh-baked apple pie. Alternatively, you might celebrate Hobbit Day by walking barefoot on the earth, a simple meditation practice with remarkable health benefits. If you’ve never heard of barefoot healing, check out Clinton Ober’s Earthing (2010) or Warren Grossman’s To Be Healed by the Earth (1999). Think about it: If the average hobbit lives about 100 years, they must be doing something right. PS

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Although conscientious effort is made to provide accurate and up-to-date information, all events are subject to change and errors can occur! Please call to verify times, status and location before planning or attending an event. MASTER GARDENER HELP LINE. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., weekdays through Oct.. If you have a question or need help with plant choices, call the Moore County Cooperative Extension Office. Walk-in consultations are available during the same hours at the Agricultural Center, 707 Pinehurst Ave., Carthage. If possible, bring a sample or photos. Info: (910) 947-3188. MASTER GARDENER VOLUNTEER TRAINING. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Sept. 13 through Nov. 17 (40 hours of classes). The Moore County Center of the NC Cooperative Extension Service will hold Extension Master Gardener volunteer training at the Agricultural Center in Carthage. Cost: $150 for materials, and 40 hours volunteer time expected. Info and application: (910) 947-3188. LIBRARY CARD SIGN-UP MONTH. Start the month by signing up for or renewing your library card. Your card gives you access to a world of resources, both at the Library and from your home computer or mobile device. So, even when the Library is closed for holidays, you still have access to online services to search databases, renew materials, or place holds on items to check-out. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. SEPTEMBER kicks off a year-long theme of Health Matters @ Your Library. Programs and displays will focus on the importance of exercise and movement as the Library continues to Grow Great Readers in the

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community. Get up and get moving this month at the Library to celebrate! Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Thursday, Sept. 1 TURTLE, TURTLE. 9:15 – 10 a.m. and 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. A class for preschoolers to learn about turtles, meet a live turtle, and make a turtle craft. Child must be accompanied by an adult. Fee included with paid admission or CFBG membership. Pre-registration is required. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221. ART EXHIBIT. Gallery hours. “Small Gems of Art,” a full-members exhibit. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979. LIVE MUSIC AT THE CAMEO. 8 p.m. (doors open at 7:30). Ed Stephenson performs. Cost: $12 in advance; $15 at the door. Cameo Art House Theatre, 225 Hay St., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-6633 or cameoarthouse.com.

Thursday, Sept. 1—15 AUTUMN ARTS AT JOY OF ART STUDIO. Sept. 1, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Thirty Day Painting A Day; Sept. 3, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Art for the Day; Sept. 6, 3 – 5:30 p.m. Art Journal Club for Teen Girls; Sept. 5, Autumn Art Begins (ages 4 to 16); Sept. 13, 7 –9 p.m. Mixed Media Medley Adult Workshop; Sept. 14, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. Artist’s Way Group Begins; Sept. 14, 7 – 9 p.m. Oasis Art and Soul for Women; Sept. 15, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Creative Coffee. Call for prices. Joy of Art Studio 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave. B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 5287283 text or www.joyof_art@msn.com.

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Thursday, Sept. 1—27 ART EXHIBIT. Gallery hours. “Realism Portrayed in Oil.” Artist: Eileen Strickland. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or www.artistleague.org.

Friday, Sept. 2 FIRST FRIDAY. 5 – 8:30 p.m. A family-friendly event with live music by The Ballroom Thieves. The band offers a captivating mélange of acoustic styles, blending folk conventions with modern hymnals, and delta blues grit with rich harmonies. Food, beverages, and entertainment. Free admission. No dogs, please! Sunrise Green Space, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or www.firstfridaysouthernpines.com. OPENING RECEPTION: PHOTOGRAPHY— THE STATE OF THE ART. 6 – 8 p.m. Works by members of the Sandhills Photography Club are presented by The Arts Council of Moore County and Judson Theatre Company. Jane and Tom Fagan, and Gayle and Gary Magee host. Exhibition dates Sept. 2 through 30. Campbell House Galleries, 482 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6922787 or www.mooreart.org. THE ROOSTERS WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Ed Stephenson performs. Cost: $15. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Saturday, Sept. 3 MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Visit with artist Jane Casnellie and learn about her techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery,

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Saturday, Sept. 3 & 4 COOL DOWN DRESSAGE SHOW. 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Harness Track, 200 Beulah Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or (910) 215-0816.

Monday, Sept. 5 MEET THE AUTHOR (Ticketed event). 5 p.m. Louise Penny, the No. 1 New York Times and Globe and Mail best-selling author of 11 previous Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (five times) and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. Cost: $35 (includes one autographed copy of A Great Reckoning.) This is a Country Bookshop ticketed event held at Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 692-3211 or (910) 692-6185.

Tuesday, Sept. 6 WASHINGTON, D.C. TOUR DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION. The dates for this tour are Thursday, Sep 22 through Saturday, Sep 24. NATURE TALES. 10 – 10:45 a.m. for ages 2 to 4, and 11 – 11:45 a.m. for ages 5 and 6. “Birds of a Feather.” Preschool story and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 (ext. 20) or www.capefearbg.org. WRITER READ/LECTURE. 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Dana Sachs, author of The Secret of the Nightingale Palace, and other books, will discuss her recent trips to Greece to help Syrian refugees and read from her work in progress. Open and free to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts & Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter. org.

Tuesday, Sept. 6—20 ART CLASS (WATERCOLOR). 9:30 a.m – 12:30 p.m. “Beginning Watercolor: Step Two — Four-Week Course.” Taught by Andrea Schmidt, this class meets Tuesdays, Sept. 6 and 20; and Wednesdays, Oct. 5 and 12. Cost: $120. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Wednesday, Sept. 7 SANDHILLS WOMAN’S EXCHANGE REOPENING. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. The Sandhills Woman’s Exchange reopens for its 94th year as a lunch venue and NC artisan gift shop. The 1810 log cabin will

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Wednesday, Sept. 7—9 ART CLASS. 9 a.m – 4 p.m. Bob Way teaches this three-day class on composition. Cost: $195. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. ART WORKSHOP (OIL PAINTING). 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Charlie Roberts, longtime member of the Hollyhocks Art Gallery, will teach this three-day, landscape oil-painting workshop for beginners. Cost: $250. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (803) 238-7323 or email Charlie@ctroberts.com or (910) 255-0665.

Friday, Sept. 9—11 FIVE POINTS HORSE TRIALS. All day. Carolina Horse Park, 2814 Montrose Road, Raeford. Info: (910) 875-2074. LIVE AFTER 5. 5:30 – 9 p.m. “The Legacy Motown Review” will take you back to the days of The Drifters, The Coasters, The Jacksons, Earth Wind and Fire, The Temptations, and other legendary icons! Chris Hurst opens. Free for the entire family. Food trucks on-site. Beer, wine, water and sodas available for purchase. Picnic baskets allowed, but no outside alcoholic beverages permitted. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets! Tufts Memorial Park, 1 Village Green Road West, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or 295-2817.

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Saturday, Sept. 10 TEA WITH SEAGROVE POTTERS. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Seagrove potters are celebrating the Southern tradition of sweet tea with a variety of pitchers and tumblers available at Blue Hen Pottery, Dean and Martin Pottery, Eck McCanless Pottery, From the Ground Up Pottery, Pottery Road Studio and Thomas Pottery. Sweet teas are paired with tasty treats at each participating shop. Free to the public. 1295 South, N.C. 705, Seagrove. Info: (336) 879-4145 or www.teawithseagrovepotters. webstarts.com. 21st LIBRARY ANNIVERSARY DEDICATION DAY. Beginning at 11:30 a.m. Celebrate the day the Library officially moved into its current location with the dedication of the new StoryWalk, followed by light lunch refreshments, games, and crafts. The StoryWalk displays pages of a children’s picture book along a path around the Library, inspiring parents and kids to get outside to move and learn. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. NATURE TALES. 10 – 10:45 a.m. for ages 2 to 4, and 11 – 11:45 a.m. for ages 5 and 6. “Birds of a Feather.” Preschool story and nature time. No cost for program, but please pre-register two business days in advance. (Admission to garden not included in program.) Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221 (ext. 20) or www.capefearbg.org. MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Visit with artist Diane Kraudelt and learn about her techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 255-0665 or www.hollyhocksartgallerycom. SATURDAY KIDS PROGRAM. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. “Fall in Love with Fall.” Celebrate great fall things with crafts and books. Library cards are free for everyone! This event is free and open to the public (no residency requirement for a library card). The Given Memorial Library and Tufts Archive, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022. POURS IN THE PINES BEER FESTIVAL. 2 p.m. Sip and sample beers from all over North Carolina, in Weymouth’s rolling meadow. This event is hosted by the Southern Pines Rugby Club and includes food trucks and live music (featuring Dr. Bacon). Ticket prices vary and are purchased through www.eventbrite.com/e/pours-in-the-pines-tickets-25548052914. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. MUSIC AT THE WINE CELLAR. 7 – 10 p.m. Abigail Dowd performs at the Wine Cellar & Tasting Room, 241-A NE Broad St., Southern Pines. Free to the public. Info: (910) 692-3066. MEET THE AUTHOR. 4 – 5 p.m. Jennifer Brulé will discuss her book Learn To Cook 25 Southern Classics 3 Ways. Brulé is a nationally published food writer, recipe developer, and television chef. The event is free and

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Sunday, Sept. 11 THE WAYWARD GIRLS OF SAMARKAND LECTURE. 2 p.m. Anne Russell discusses her nonfiction book about the 1931 arson trial of several teenage girls who set fires at their reform school to protest their miserable living conditions. Russell is a former Writerin-Residence at Weymouth and college professor. Free and open to the public, this event is presented by The Moore County Historical Association at Southern Pines Civic Club, 105 S. Ashe St., corner of E. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: www.moorehistory.com. MEET THE AUTHOR. 2 p.m. NC author Ruth Moose will discuss her book Wedding Bell Blues: a Dixie Dew Mystery. A former faculty member of UNC Chapel Hill Creative Writing Department, Moose has written poems, short stories, book reviews and columns and recently completed her first novel. With an authentic Southern voice, her characters resonate the humor and tragedy of everyday lives. The event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. SUNDAY KIDS MOVIE. 2:30 – 4:30 p.m. Bring the whole family to the Library for this movie based on The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. Free refreshments will be served. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. THE ROOSTERS WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Scythian performs. Cost: $20 in advance, $25 at the door. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Monday, Sept. 12 BOOK LOVERS UNITE. 7 p.m. This month’s topic for discussion is “Books About Business.” Bring your favorites list and add to it as others describe their favorite business books. Free and open to the public. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-7002. SANDHILLS PHOTO CLUB MEETING. 7 – 9 p.m. Program: Speaker Mark Buckler. Topic: Coastal Wildlife Photography. Guests welcome. Theater in the Hannah Center at The O’Neal School, 3300 Airport Road, Southern Pines. Info: www.sandhillsphotoclub.org.

Tuesday, Sept. 13 ART CLASS (DRAWING). 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. “Figure Drawing with a Live Model,” taught by Linda Bruening. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Wednesday, Sept. 14 MEET THE ILLUSTRATOR. Call for time. Leah Tinari, a New York-based artist, uses rich bright color and dynamic composition to offer a glimpse of a life that is full of action and adventure along with moments of contemplation. The Magical Fantastical Fridge is Tinari’s first children’s book. The event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. KOKOMO WINE DINNER. 6:30 p.m. Four courses are paired with four Kokomo wines: grenache rose, chardonnay, cuvee red blend and Ruths Vineyard cabernet. Cost: $85/person, tips and gratuities not included.

Elliott’s on Linden, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0775. THE REC-ING CREW SOCIAL CLUB. 4 – 5:30 p.m. Pizza party and movie. This program gives young adults a chance to unwind and socialize with their friends. Light refreshments will be served. Call for cost and registration. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Recreation Room, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Wednesday, Sept. 14 & 15 ART CLASS (OIL). 10 a.m – 3 p.m. Harry Neely teaches this two-day class. Cost: $80. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Thursday, Sept. 15 SUPPER ON THE GROUNDS. 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. All are invited to a fun evening of barbeque (catered by Jordan’s BBQ), beer, wine and live music. Cost: $20/ member, $25/non-member. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info and reservations (required): (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. MEET THE ACTOR. 5 p.m. Meet and talk with John Wesley Shipp, who is starring in “12 Angry Men” at the Judson Theatre Company (Sept. 22 – 25). Shipp is a two-time Emmy winner currently playing Barry Allen’s father, Henry, in “The Flash” series on the CW. He is also known for playing Dawson’s father on “Dawson’s Creek,” Lucky Williams on “Sisters,” and numerous other roles on TV. This event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

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WINE AND WHIMSY. 6 – 8 p.m. “Sailboat.” Enjoy a glass of wine or beer while painting your masterpiece. Instruction, canvas, paint, brushes, palette and easel provided. Wine, beer, and snacks available for purchase. Cost: $20/CFBG member; $25/non-member. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 486-0221. Register online at www.jotform. com/51666115773964.

HOME, GARDEN AND LIFESTYLE EXPO. 12 – 5 p.m. on Friday and Sunday, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. on Saturday. Presented by the Knights of Columbus, this expo showcases products and services for remodeling, landscaping, decorating, and design. Cost: $5/daily. Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or 215-0816. Vendors: To reserve your space at the expo, please visit www.homegardenlifestyleexpo. com or contact Jack MacMillan at (910) 585-2059 or jackmac1946@gmail.com.

ARTISTRY SONG AND POETRY CIRCLE. 7 p.m. ALL singers, musicians, and poets are invited for an evening of creative exchange. Bring your musical instrument, voice and words. Free and open to the public. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-7002.

Friday, Sept. 16 THE ROOSTERS WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Liz Longley performs. Cost: $15. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org. MOVIES BY THE LAKE. 7:45 – 9 p.m. The Aberdeen Parks and Rec Dept and sponsors present “Zootopia,” on the big screen. Admission is free, concessions available for purchase. Aberdeen Lake Park, 301 Lake Park Crossing, Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7275 or www. explorepinehurst.com. A CAPITOL IDEA! 7 p.m. Oysters and The Embers . . . who could ask for a better time? Head down the road to Raleigh for “Shuckin’ and Shaggin,’” an oyster roast and fundraiser for the North Carolina State Capitol

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Saturday, Sept. 17 WALKING BOOK CLUB. 9 a.m. Meet at the Library for a brisk walk through beautiful downtown Southern Pines to discuss current reads, make book suggestions, and enjoy being active outside. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Visit with artist Charlie Roberts and learn about his techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 255-0665 or www.hollyhocksartgallerycom. BREAKFAST FOR LUNCH. 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Guest Chef Jason Howk will be cooking at the Sandhills Woman’s Exchange. Army Maj. (ret.) Howk worked in Afghanistan for over a decade, was awarded the Legion of Merit and two Bronze Star Medals, and has studied Muslim countries across the Middle East. The Log Cabin, 15 Azalea Road, The Village of Pinehurst. Info: (910) 2954677.

EATS, BEATS & BREWS. 12 – 6 p.m. Bring your appetite as the Arboretum hosts food trucks, craft beer vendors, games, and live entertainment! Village Arboretum, 375 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-2817. THE SLY FOX. 12 p.m. The Sly Fox and Duskin and Stephen’s Cornhole Tournament. $40/team entry fee. First place is $500; second place, a $250 Sly Fox gift card. Sign up online. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 SW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1621. ARBORETUM FEST. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. A celebration of the arts, including musicians, dancers, culinary artists, puppeteers, storytellers, potters, craftspeople, and hands-on activities for young and old. Food and beverages will be available to purchase. Village Arboretum, 395 Magnolia Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.explorepinehurst.com. FOURTH ANNUAL STEIN HOISTING CONTEST. Brats grilled on our patio. The winner will receive free beer for the first week of Oktoberfest. There will also be a prize for the ladies with the best dressed lederhosen. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 SW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1621. OKTOBERFEST. Celebrate Oktoberfest at the Sly Fox, with an all German tap line up and German menu. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 SW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1621. MUSIC AT THE WINE CELLAR. 7 – 10 p.m. Tim Wilson performs at the Wine Cellar and Tasting Room, 241-A NE Broad St., Southern Pines. Free to the public. Info: (910) 692-3066.

Saturday, Sept. 17 & 18 MOORE COUNTY KENNEL CLUB DOG SHOW. 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Annual all-breed dog show. Pinehurst

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Sunday, Sept. 18 13TH ANNUAL HERITAGE FESTIVAL. 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. Enjoy a fun-filled day of history in the Heritage Garden Complex, including a tour of the farm house, general store, tobacco barn and corn crib; and pony rides, pumpkin painting, and more for children. Refreshments available for purchase. Admission free for CFBG members. Regular admission applies for non-members. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info: (910) 4860221 or www.capefearbg.org. TRADITIONAL ENGLISH CARVERY. 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Roast lamb, roasted potatoes, mashed potatoes, with roasted carrots and parsnips, fresh mint sauce and gravy. $21.95/person. The Sly Fox Pub, 795 SW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1621. SUNDAY FILM SERIES FOR ADULTS. 2:30 p.m. This month’s movie is based on the best-selling book by Jojo Moyes, Me Before You. Snacks are provided by the Friends of the Library. Free to the public. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl.net. THE ROOSTERS WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Will Overman Band performs, Locust Honey opens. Cost: $15 advance, $20 at the door. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www. theroosterswife.org.

Monday, Sept. 19 ART CLASS (OILS AND ACRYLICS). 9 a.m – 4 p.m. “Painting Lights and Darks in Oils and Acrylics.” Diane Kraudelt teaches this one-day class. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

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THE TARHEEL TRAVELER. 9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. The Women of Weymouth host Scott Mason, noted for his “Stories from the Road.” This event is sponsored by the NC Humanities Road Scholar Series. Free and open to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org. SIP & PAINT WITH JANE. 5 – 7 p.m. Join resident artist Jane Casnellie for an evening of sipping and painting, and take home your own masterpiece! No experience necessary. All materials provided, including a glass of wine. Cost: $35. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: (910) 255-0665. CARING HEARTS FOR CANINES. 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. “An Evening at Ashten’s,” a fundraising event for local dog rescue. Cost: $40 (nonprofit 501c 3). Please come and enjoy appetizers, wine, and beer, while supporting this wonderful organization that has made an enormous positive impact in our community. NOTE: Deadline for ticket purchase is Sept. 14. Ashten’s, 140 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Event and raffle tickets: Lisa at (910) 315-9283 or www.caringheartsforcanines.com, info: Jenn at (516) 971-1873.

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Tuesday, Sept. 20 SANDHILLS WOMAN’S EXCHANGE FUNDRAISER. 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. “100 Years of Wedding Dresses” includes a fashion show, afternoon tea and refreshments, a 50/50 drawing, and silent auction. Cost: $40. Cardinal Ballroom, The Carolina Hotel, 80 Carolina Visa Drive, Pinehurst. Info: Judie Wiggins (910) 783-5169; reservations: Alice Robbins at (910) 949-3134.

MEET THE AUTHOR/DINNER (ticketed event— Call for price). 6 p.m. The Country Bookshop hosts Scott Ellsworth, author of Secret Game and Death in a Promised Land. Secret Game is the true story of the basketball game at Duke University that never should have happened, and of a nation on the brink of monumental change. Ellsworth is a former historian at the Smithsonian Institution and winner of the 2016 PEN/ ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing. Filly and Colt Restaurant, Longleaf Country Club, 10 Knoll Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. TRIVIA NIGHT. 6:30 p.m. The theme is TV show “Breaking Bad.” The Sly Fox Pub, 795 SW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1621. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MOORE COUNTY MEETING AND LUNCHEON. 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Dr. Robert Grimesey, Moore County Schools superintendent, will speak on “Our Schools Now, Our Schools for the Future and How Can The League Help.” The public is welcome, but reservations are required. Cost: $13, payable by check to LWVMC. Table on the Green Restaurant, 2205 Midland Drive, Pinehurst. Info and reservations: Charlotte at (910) 9449611 or owegeecoach@gmail.com.

Wednesday, Sept. 21 MEET THE AUTHOR. 4 p.m. Abby Hanlon will discuss her book, Dory and the Real True Friend, the sequel to Dory Fantasmagory (a series of chapter books for 5- to 8-year-olds). Dory and the Real True Friend was named Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Parents magazine. The event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE READING. 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Writer-in-Residence Lois Holt, one of the first Writers-in-Residence at Weymouth Center, will return to read her poetry and talk about the early days of the residency and her friendship with its founder, Sam Ragan. Open and free to the public. Weymouth Center for Arts and Humanities, 555 E. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6261 or www.weymouthcenter.org.

Wednesday, Sept. 21 & 22 ART CLASS (DRAWING) 1:30 – 4:30 p.m. “Drawing With Line Only,” taught by Barbara Sickenberger. Cost: $60. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org.

Thursday, Sept. 22 DOUGLASS CENTER BOOK CLUB. 10:30 a.m. Meeting held at the Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 6927376 or (910) 692-8235. THE ROOSTERS WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Guy Davis Trio performs. Cost: $20 advance, $25 at the door. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org.

Thursday, Sept. 22—24 WASHINGTON, D.C. TOUR. (Deadline for registration is Sept. 6). This exciting tour includes Arlington National Cemetery, historic Military and War Memorials, Smithsonian Museums, and more. We will tour the National Cathedral and have a private tour of the FBI building. Kirk Tours. Departs Thursday at 8 a.m. from Belk at Pinecrest Plaza in Southern Pines, returns Saturday at 7 p.m. $495/person, double occupancy; $595/person, single occupancy. Please call for reservations: (910) 295-2257 or (910) 215-6278.

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Thursday, Sept. 22—25 TWELVE ANGRY MEN. 7 – 8:45 p.m. Judson Theatre Company presents Reginald Rose’s electrifying classic, starring Emmy winning Broadway and TV star John Wesley Shipp (“The Flash,” “Dawson’s Creek”). Cost: $38 in advance; $43 day of show; $20 for military and students. Owens Auditorium, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (800) 5143849 or www.judsontheatre.com.

Friday, Sept. 23 ART CLASS (PASTEL). 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. “Portraiture — Human or Animal,” taught by Betty Hendrix. Cost: $40. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www.artistleague.org. LOCAL SINGER SONGWRITERS IN CONCERT. 7:30 p.m. This concert is presented in Nashville’s “in-the-round” style and highlights some of our area’s finest singer-songwriters. Becca Rae (mainstream country), Mitch Clark (pop veteran of “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent”), Momma Molasses (Americana-folk chanteuse), and Patrick Fuller (folk/ blues) will play songs and explain the meaning and emotions behind their melodies and lyrics. Becca Rae hosts. During intermissions, the audience can meet the artists, purchase signed CDs, and pose for selfies! Tickets: $14. Purchase online at www.sunrisetheater. com, by phone at (910) 692-3611, or in person at movie concessions or the theater office. Sunrise Theater, 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8501 or 692-3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com. MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Thomas Mullen will discuss his new novel, Darktown. Mullen is a widely published writer whose works have been named to many Year’s Best lists, including The Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and The San Diego Union Times. The event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Friday, Sept. 23 and 24 QUILTING IN THE PINES. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Friday, and 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday. Local and regional quilters present their work for competition. Event includes vendors, a boutique, demonstrations, antique quilts, and a silent auction. Presented by Sandhills Quilters Guild and co-sponsored by Village of Pinehurst Parks and & Recreation. Cost: $7 admission. The Fair Barn, 200 Beulah Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.explorepinehurst.com.

Saturday, Sept. 24 PLEIN AIR PAINTING IN THE GARDENS. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Enjoy a day in the gardens and watch local artists painting in this beautiful garden setting. Light refreshments will be served and additional paintings will be on display and for sale (cash or check ONLY). A portion of the proceeds goes to support the gardens. Admission is free. Horticultural Gardens and Ball Visitors Center, Sandhills Community College, 3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 695-3882. MEET THE ARTIST AT WORK. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Visit with artist Louise Price and learn about her techniques and background in art. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 255-0665 or www. hollyhocksartgallerycom. FAMILY DAY AT THE LIBRARY. This month’s theme will celebrate the launch of the StoryWalk and its first book, Tap the Magic Tree, by Christie Matheson. Craft tables celebrating the seasons will be out all day. From 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., participants can learn to draw forest PineStraw : The Art & Soul of the Sandhills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2016

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ca l e n d a r animals. At 2 p.m., families can learn how to create pathways for robots to follow during a Maker session. Teens are welcome all day to come and design their own buttons. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. MEET THE AUTHOR. 4 p.m. Fred Thompson, well known cookbook author and editor of Edible Piedmont magazine, will discuss his new book, Bacon: A Savor The South Cookbook. Thompson captures a humble ingredient’s regional culinary history and outsized contributions to the table. The event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Saturday, Sept. 24 & 25 CAROLINA POLOCROSSE. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Polocrosse is a sport that resembles the American Indian game of lacrosse and Persian sport of polo. It is played on horseback with a ball and racket. Pinehurst Harness Track, 200 Beulah Road S., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 215-0816 or (910) 949-3345.

Sunday, Sept. 25 MEET THE AUTHOR. 2 p.m. Bill Ferris will discuss his new book, The South in Color: A Visual Journal, a collection of color photographs taken in the ’60s and ’70s that take you on a tour of Southern homes, churches, blues clubs, and their handmade folk art. Ferris is an Eminent Professor of History at UNC Chapel Hill and a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Monday, Sept. 26 EXPLORING ART THROUGH OBSERVATION AND CONVERSATION. 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Join art educator and local artist Ellen Burke for an evening of wine and art appreciation through simple observational strategies and conversation. Cost: $15 fee (due upon registration) will be donated to the Carolina Philharmonic Encore Kids Program. Hollyhocks Art Gallery, 905 Linden Road, Pinehurst. Info and registration: Ellen at (603) 966-6567 or Jane Casnellie at (910) 295-2489. MEET THE AUTHOR. 5 p.m. Robert Hicks will discuss his new book, Orphan Mother, an unforgettable story of one woman’s heroic struggle in the face of overwhelming adversity and the undeniable strength of a mother’s love. Hicks is the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country. The event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211.

Monday, Sept. 26—28 ART WORKSHOP (WATERCOLOR). 9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. “Figures in Landscape Using Watercolor,” taught by award-winning artist and instructor artist Michael Holter. Michael works in both watercolor figurative and oil landscapes in the Impressionist style. Cost: $440. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-3979 or www. artistleague.org.

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Tuesday, Sept. 27—Oct. 18 YOUTH TENNIS LESSONS. 4 – 5 p.m. for ages 5 to 9; and 5 – 6 p.m. for ages 10 to 15. Tuesdays through Oct. 18 (four sessions), taught by tennis professional Michael Bonnell. Cost: $5/resident; $10/non-resident. Register by Sept. 22. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Tennis Court No. 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org. ADULT TENNIS LESSONS. 6 – 7 p.m. Tuesdays through Oct. 18 (four sessions), taught by tennis professional Michael Bonnell. Cost: $35/resident; $70/ non-resident. Register by Aug. 19. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, Tennis Court No. 1, Rassie Wicker Park, 10 Rassie Wicker Drive, Pinehurst. Must register by Sept. 22. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org.

Thursday, Sept. 29 THE ROOSTERS WIFE. 6:46 p.m. (doors open at 6). Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen perform, Locust Honey opens. Cost: $20 advance, $25 at the door. The Rooster’s Wife, 114 Knight St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 944-7502 or www.theroosterswife.org. IN AND OUT AT THE OUTPOST. 7 p.m. Join Board of Education member Helena Wallin-Miller and Parents for Moore administrator Karin Kent for a State of Our Schools report and update on Investing in the Future of Moore. Free and open to the public. Given Outpost, 95 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 585-4820.

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MEET THE AUTHOR. 4 p.m. Alan Gratz will discuss his new book, Monster War, Book 3 in The League of Seven series. Gratz is a former eigth and 10th grade English teacher who knows how to keep things relevant and entertaining. The event is free and open to the public. The Country Bookshop, 140 NW Broad St., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-3211. NC SYMPHONY. 8 p.m. The program includes Husa’s “Pastorale,” Dvorak’s “Serenade for Winds” and “Symphony No. 5.” Grant Llewellyn conducts. Call for prices. Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School, 250 Voit Gilmore Lane, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-6554 or (919) 733-2750 or www.ncsymphony.org. ART EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION. 5 – 7 p.m. “From the Desert to the Sea.” Artist: Hugh Harris. Exhibit runs through Oct. 21. Artists League of the Sandhills, 129 Exchange St., Aberdeen. Info: (910) 9443979 or www.artistleague.org.

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NATURE CONNECTS®: ART WITH LEGO® BRICKS EXHIBIT. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Larger than life Lego sculptures built by artist Sean Kenney will be displayed throughout the garden. Includes activities for all ages. Cost: Free for CFBG members. Non-members call for prices. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221.

UPCOMING EVENTS Saturday, Oct. 1 AUTUMNFEST 2016. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. The 38th annual Autumnfest features foot races (1mile / 5K), youth sprint races, and children’s activities. Enjoy live entertainment, food, art, and handcrafted items. Downtown Park, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-2463 or http://ncsouthernpines.civicplus.com/446/Autumnfest. CAMERON ANTIQUES FAIR. 9 a.m. – 5 p.m, rain or shine. 250 dealers display their antiques and collectibles in their shops and along streets in the Historic District of Cameron. 485 Carthage St., Cameron. Info: (910) 245-7001 or 245-3020 or www.antiquesofcameron.com.

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WEEKLY HAPPENINGS Mondays BRIDGE. 1 – 4 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 2 – 5:30 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants, baked goods, and more. FirstHealth Fitness Center,

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ca l e n d a r 170 Memorial Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.moorecountync.gov or localharvest.org. AFTER-DINNER STORYTIMES. 6 p.m. Children ages birth to fifth grade and their whole families are invited to enjoy stories and wind down after dinner and get the week off on the right track. Two After-Dinner Storytimes will be held this month, Sept. 12 and 26. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

Tuesdays BABY BUNNIES STORYTIME. 10:30 – 11 a.m. This storytime, reserved for ages birth to 18 months, will engage parents and children in early literacy practices. Programs will be offered Sept. 6, 13, 20, and 27. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235 or www.sppl. net. BROWN BAG LUNCH/GAME DAY. 11:30 a.m. Bring your lunch and enjoy fellowship and activities, including card games, board games, and Wii. The Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

this course for individuals who are either new to the practice of yoga or wish to refresh their skills. Cost: $35/resident; $70 non-resident. Pinehurst Parks and Rec, 300 Kelly Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-1900 or www.pinehurstrec.org. SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 3 – 6 p.m. Fresh and locally grown fruits and vegetables. Village Green, 1 Village Green W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 687-0377 or www.moorefarmfresh.com. BRIDGE. 1 – 4 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. READ TO YOUR BUNNY PRESCHOOL STORYTIME. 3:30 to 4 p.m. For all children through age 5, this storytime focuses on stories, songs, and fun, with a special emphasis on activities that build skills children need when they enter Kindergarten. Dates this month are Sept. 7, 14, 21, 28. Stay for playtime following. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235.

TAI CHI FOR HEALTH. 10 – 11:30 a.m. Practice this flowing Eastern exercise with instructor Rich Martin. Cost: Single class: $15/member; $17/non-member. Monthly rates available. No refunds or transfers. Cape Fear Botanical Garden, 536 N. Eastern Blvd., Fayetteville. Info and registration: (910) 486-0221.

JOY OF ART OASIS FOR WOMEN. 7 – 9 p.m. This is a group for women to explore their own spiritual and creative self through meditation, yoga, drawing, painting, collage, clay, journaling, creative visualization and mandala work. Cost: $10 donation. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave. B, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or www.joyof-art.com.

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YOGA CLASS (INTRO). 9 – 10 a.m. (April 13 through May 18) Instructor Darlind Davis teaches

MOORE COUNTY FARMERS MARKET. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. Fruits, vegetables, meats, crafts, flowers, plants,

baked goods, and more. Armory Sports Complex, 604 W. Morganton Road, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 9473752 or www.moorecountync.gov or www.localharvest.org. JOY OF ART CREATIVE COFFEE. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. For all creatives who want to get together and talk about topics that pertain to the creative process and get reinforcement, support, and encouragement for your own creativity. Joy of Art Studio, 139 E. Pennsylvania Ave. B. Southern Pines. Info: (910) 528-7283 or www.joyof-art. com/the-creative-process. MUSIC AND MOTION STORYTIME. 10:30 a.m. This exciting new event incorporates stories and songs, along with dancing, playing, and game. It will meet every other week, Thursdays, Sept. 8 and 22. Southern Pines Public Library, 170 W. Connecticut Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-8235. PLAY ESCAPE. 10:30 a.m. Kindermusik Playtime. For ages birth to 3. Cost: $35/month; $10/drop-in, includes half-price admission. Play Escape, 103 Perry Drive, Southern Pines. Info: (910) 246-2342 or www.playescapenc.com. STORY TIME! 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. For ages 3 to 5. Wonderful volunteers read to children, and everyone makes a craft. Free and open to the public. Given Memorial Library, 150 Cherokee Road, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 295-6022. MAHJONG (Chinese version). 1 – 3 p.m. A game played by four people involving skill, strategy and calculation. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376.

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ca l e n d a r CHESS. 1 – 3 p.m. Don Hammerman instructs all levels of players. You need a chess set to participate. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Clay White leads hands-on preparation of menu items (gnocci, Thai, ravioli, Moroccan, Lebanese, cannolis or pasta). Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices and specific menu. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com.

Sand Band, Blackwater Rhythm and Blues, The Sand Band, Cool Heat, and Midnight Allie. Cost: $10/person. Reservations and pre-payment recommended for parties of 8 or more. Food vendor on site. Cypress Bend Vineyards, 21904 Riverton Road, Wagram. Info: (910) 369-0411 or www.cypressbendvineyards.com.

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baked goods and more. FirstHealth Fitness Center, 170 Memorial Drive, Pinehurst. Info: (910) 947-3752 or www.moorecountync.gov or localharvest.org. SANDHILLS FARMERS MARKET. 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. Fresh and locally grown fruits and vegetables. Village Green, 1 Village Green W., Pinehurst. Info: (910) 6870377 or www.moorefarmfresh.com.

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BRIDGE. 1 – 4 p.m. A card game played by four people in two partnerships, in which “trump” is determined by bidding. Douglass Community Center, 1185 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 692-7376. COOKING CLASS. 6:30 p.m. Chef Clay White leads hands-on preparation of menu items (gnocci, Thai, ravioli, Moroccan, Lebanese, cannolis or pasta). Reservations and pre-payment required. Call for prices and specific menu. The Flavor Exchange, 115 E. New Hampshire Ave., Southern Pines. Info: (910) 725-1345 or www.flavorexchange.com. JAZZY FRIDAYS. 6 – 10 p.m. Enjoy a bottle of wine and dancing with friends under the tent with live jazz music, provided by Blackwater Rhythm and Blues, The

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In September, nothing succeeds like . . . moderation

By Astrid Stellanova

Summer’s end is here, Star Children.

Mercy be, Astrid is relieved, as so many star charts are running hot and boiling over, like my Cadillac’s overheated radiator. Cool off, cool down, top off your tank with some nice cool water, and find whatever tickles your pickle. — Ad Astra, Astrid

Virgo (August 23–September 22) When you celebrate the date of your birth, you don’t have to bake your own cake. You don’t have to apologize for wanting a party. You don’t even have to second-guess what is everybody else’s favorite cake. Sometimes you know what you want, but you find yourself worrying about what others want. Take yourself on a different kind of birthday trip this year, and I don’t mean you have to actually put on your shoes and go anywhere — just get outside of your comfort zone. Libra (September 23–October 22) Excess is not your friend this month. The definition of forklift isn’t about putting more on your fork than you can lift. Temperance and a little patience will help you overcome some of the challenges in your personal life and also make you find other outlets for all those frustrations taking residence in your psyche. Scorpio (October 23–November 21) Your silence is often mistaken for your possessing great depths. Dare I just flat-out say it, Sugar? It’s often you trying to be mysterious but even more, it is you refusing to commit what you truly think. There’s nothing much wrong in your life right now that a good flat-iron and a cocktail couldn’t fix right up. Sagittarius (November 22–December 21) Imagine you are Lank Lloyd Wright, younger brother of Frank. Or Willy the Kid, the distant cousin of Billy. You feel like you have grown up in the shade. Born into the unfortunate ranks of shadow siblings, not has-beens but never-weres, you don’t like that you never have gotten your due. Honey, all of those feelings are going to dissipate this very summer when fame comes knocking. Capricorn (December 22–January 19) You and a certain troubled someone go together like drunk and disorderly. They are the flip to your flop. They are also reliably a lot of fun and a lot of trouble. Their draw has been irresistible for so long you cannot imagine a month without their talking you into something you would never do without their goading. This would be a good month to try. Aquarius (January 20–February 18) Say what, Honey? Your belt won’t buckle but your knees do? This is a good time to hit the gym, hit the road, hit a ball . . . just don’t hit the pantry. You love to entertain and you know how to set up a moveable feast. But it is exactly the right time to hit the salad bar and the garden patch and say “no” to anything that doesn’t look like cream, butter or a heaping spoon of sugar, Sugar.

Pisces (February 19–March 20) Summer started off with you acting like some kind of genuine crazy person. Thelma and pleaaaaaaaaaaaase! Now that you’ve been there and done that, come on back to reality, Child. Take charge of your inner GPS and find a detour around Crazy Town, USA. Aries (March 21–April 19) It has been a redneck picnic this summer for you, and you enjoyed every last bite. Now on to your next phase. You are known for episodes of sanity, and one is coming up. Grown-up time for you, Sugar Pie. It may read as mind-numbing and boring to you, but just give it a test drive. Taurus (April 20–May 20) You have a will, and that will has been more or less focused upon figuring out how to get your way. Always. Hmmm, hit a roadblock recently, didn’t you? Now you have some explaining to do if you want your beloved to forgive and forget. That’s all I’m saying. Gemini (May 21–June 20) Contrary to what you believe, you have a tendency to show your emotions all over your face. And what you have been showing lately is the meanest-looking doll face since Chuckie’s. Tempers have been flaring, you got into the middle of a ruckus, but you can do better. Cancer (June 21–July 22) This month is going to be a breeze compared to the hot mess you endured last month. There is every indication you can borrow anything — a cuppa flour, a little time — but don’t borrow any more trouble. There are more important things to attend to right now. Leo (July 23–August 22) Go ahead, Leo, roar. You’ve got a splinter in your paw and it hurts like the dickens. Actually, it’s more like you have a splinter wedged in your heart. The wedgie from Hell. It is going to require some time to find the relief you are seeking. Meantime, do what you can to find an outlet — and I don’t mean Tanger’s. PS

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

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By Sara Phile

Dear Renee,

Here I am, and there you are. You have always had a problem with just being, and you still do. Could you just be for a minute, though? Try.

Your best friends at 33 are still your best friends at 93. What a gift. Cherish every talk, every coffee date, even every argument. They aren’t going anywhere. Your are lucky. You will never make much money, but you are OK with that. You are pretty smart with money, and will continue to be. In a few years he will want to go to Alaska. You will say no, that you can’t afford it, and while it may seem like you can’t, just go. Go. Speaking of him, he is one of the best friends I just mentioned. You and he will finally agree on that 10-year-long discussion that keeps coming back. It will be resolved. However, that other one? The one that you can’t even think about right now or you will go into a hysterical fit, it won’t be resolved, but you will learn to just let it go, and you will be OK. Your kids will be OK. Stop worrying about where they will end up, what they will do or not do. Let them be, please. Also, don’t be too quick to give your opinions on well . . . you’ll see. But for now, be stingy with your opinions. It’s hard for you, I know, but if you hold back, you will have more peace, and peace is always your goal. You think you love your boys, and you do. You truly love them the best you can. Just wait until you meet your grandkids, though . . . Right now, you think you have known grief and pain, and you have. You really have. Later, you will know it even deeper. You will have tools though,

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that you didn’t have at 33. You will be stronger. I know it’s cliché, and you aren’t big on clichés, but the things you worry about now — past failures, future potential failures, what others think or don’t think, simply aren’t worth your time and energy. I know it’s easier said than done (again, sorry about the cliché), but you need to let go. Your body will hurt like hell some days, especially your back. Keep practicing yoga and remember that you don’t have to run faster or lift more weight than the person next to you. Why must you always think that you are in a competition? You love the Shakespeare quote “To thine own self be true,” but at this point in your life, you haven’t fully grasped the meaning and application. You think you know yourself, but you still have some weeding out and ironing to do. You will know soon, though. As soon as you are able to realize and accept that your self-worth isn’t wrapped up in others’ acceptance or rejection of you, you will start to be at peace. And peace, my friend, is your goal. Once you find peace, you won’t want to let it go, and you will wish you had grasped onto it much sooner. Today, this very day, is a Saturday in August and you are living in humid North Carolina. Your boys are 12 and 7. They are still in bed right now, but go wake them up with a water gun. They hate it when you do this, but deep down they think it’s funny too. Ask them what they want to do today, and do it. Even if, especially if, it costs money. Don’t analyze. Just go with it. You won’t get these years back. Love and peace, Your 93-year-old self P.S. Extra pieces of red velvet cake aren’t going to kill you. Worrying about it just might. PS Sara Phile teaches English composition at Sandhills Community College.

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