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Spring is here, and our team of writers and photographers had a big time this issue driving all over town to compile photos of people and their homes for “Beautiful Homes of Pinehurst”, which was perfectly aligned with the annual burst of azalea blossoms each April. We chose a variety of homes in the area, and each family seems to be still in love with their “perfect” house.

Money talk: We also check in with a few local people in different stages of their life, and how they measure success – financial, personal happiness or career growth – and ask them to share their advice based on personal experience. We talk with Moore Forward, an organization that promotes entrepreneurism and innovation in Moore Country and works with high school students on financial literary issues.

There is something special about horse people, and some of these local folks invest time, money and a part of their hearts rescuing equines whose humans have let them down. Read all about Hope and her rescuers, a story that went international online, but hasn’t gotten much attention locally until now.

Moore County continues to grow and we want to be a part of that growth, exploring the older nooks and crannies of our towns while also embracing the smart growth the community demands.

Look for what we think are the Hidden Gems of Southern Pines in this issue.

Binoculars: they are not just for horse events and concerts when the seats lousy. Bird-watching in Moore County is an underrated and fascinating pleasure that costs not much more than a pair of binoculars and a bird book (there’s an app for that!). Impress your friends by learning to spot a Great Crested Flycatcher and others while sitting on your porch or moseying around one of our area’s parks or nature trails.

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In This Issue

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departments Southern Chatter 10 Professional Spotlight 12 Tech Review 14 Ask the Pro 16 Wine Review 18 Book Review 20 Sunday Supper 40 Calendar of Events 42 Chef’s Corner 60 Shopping Local 64 Healthy Living

48 FEATURES 28 Hope the Wonder Horse

48 Beautiful Homes

The starving filly that wouldn’t give up.

A visual tour of gorgeous homes inside and out.

32 Planning for

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Pinehurst locals share their strategy: debt-free living, saving and budgeting.

38 Hidden Gems Explore some of Southern Pines’ secret spots.

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58 Migrating Birds Spring bird-watching for beginners.

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Southern Chatter professional spotlight

Girls Golf and The Silver Foils

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Playing It Forward

by Dolores Muller

Matching up members of one of the oldest women’s golf organizations, with young girls just getting into the game of golf results in the Just for Girls Golf program in Pinehurst.

The Silver Foils is one of the oldest women’s golf organizations in the country, created in 1909.

Organized golf began in Pinehurst in 1903 with the formation of Pinehurst Golf Club. It was the beginning of golf history in the United States and the owners of Pinehurst Resort wanted to attract people to vacation in the area by offering golf as a recreational activity. A men’s golf group, the Tin Whistles, was formed in 1904. The wives of these men also golfed and created their own organization, a counter or foil to the men, thus the name Silver Foils. Many of its members were accomplished golfers and winners of the North-South Women’s Amateur Championship tournament.

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playing golf once a week at Pinehurst Country Club (PCC). They are more than just a woman’s golf organization. Always supporting charitable causes, members began looking for a charitable activity they could sponsor on a regular basis.

From 2006 to 2012 the Silver Foils supported the LPGA-USGA Girls Golf program, which was held at various courses in the area. In 2012 the Silver Foils contacted Bill Baker, director of the First Tee of the Sandhills, about having a golf program for girls at Pinehurst Country Club. Jay Biggs, Vice President of PCC golf operations, enthusiastically supported the idea. That fall classes began, targeting girls age seven to 12, and focusing on First Tee principles: Take Aim, Anyone Can Play, Respect, Golf Is a Game, and Enjoy Yourself.

To implement this program, the Foils volunteers took the First Tee online assistant coaches training.

In 2013, the First Tee Just for Girls Golf

program went into full swing at Pinehurst Country Club; in 2014 the LPGA-USGA joined with the First Tee and PCC, working with the Silver Foils to run the “First Tee LPGA-USGA Girls Golf ” program. Foils member Karen Plankar has been the coordinator since 2006. Plankar said, “The girls feel relaxed because there are no boys for them to compete with, and it is wonderful to see the high school’s girls return to help after completing the program.”

Each session includes a review of one of the First Tee core values and how they apply to the girls’ everyday lives: honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, perseverance, responsibility, judgment and courtesy. Divided into small groups, with two Foils to guide them and pro golfer Charlaine Hirst supervising, they learn basic golf skills through demonstrations, exercises and practice.

Prior to starting the season, a training session is held for the Foils volunteers. Hirst provides information about the First Tee approach to teaching golf and life skills to children, how sessions will be run and the role of the coaches/mentors, along with tips on how to work with the girls.

The First Tee has reported that the Foils-run program is the most successful of their Girl’s Golf programs in the Sandhills. In 2014, participation included 32 girls ages seven to 11, along with 22 Silver Foils. The 2015 season began in March with orientation and training meetings for the Silver Foils mentors/coaches and the first of three eightweek sessions of the Girls Golf program, hosted

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Smart Bed. Smart Kids.

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Last year, Sleep Number debuted SleepIQ®, a technology that tracks and reports useful sleep information from their beds. Its sensors work with Sleep Number® DualAir™ technology inside their beds to collect data on breathing rate, heart rate, movement patterns and bed exits, which the owner can use to adjust their daytime routine and/or their Sleep Number in an effort to improve.

That technology made it possible for any Sleep Number bed owner to improve their sleep patterns. This year, the company is developing similar technology for kids’ beds – something that should improve sleep for the kids and their parents alike.

According to Sleep Number, one out of four parents of children under 10 are unsatisfied with the length of time it takes their children to fall asleep. SleepIQ Kids intends to improve that ratio by measuring and

reporting children’s sleep data. By using existing Sleep Number technology, the system has no need for wristbands or other, more cumbersome wearable monitors.

A convenient app tracks the data and creates custom reports on just about any device, allowing parents and older kids to observe trends, manage sleep schedules, and adjust Sleep Numbers. Other features include a nightlight that parents can turn off remotely, soft lighting that glows under the bed if the child gets up during the night (with an accompanying alert sent to the parents’ app to let them know Junior is on the move), an adjustable mattress angle in the event the child has a cold, and for younger kids, a star-awarding system to provide incentive for good nights, and a “monster detector” to assure them nothing evil is waiting under the bed.

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This issue’s installment of Pinehurst Magazine’s “Ask the Pro” highlights Old Sport & Gallery golf memorabilia owner Tom Stewart, who is credited with helping start golf in the former Soviet Union. In fact, the 68-year-old Stewart gave Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev his first and only golf lesson in 1987. There are thousands of items in Stewart’s collectable shop in the heart of the Village of Pinehurst, all for sale with the exception of two items – golf bags he had designed for Gorbachev and fellow Russian leader Boris Yeltsin. Stewart also met his wife Ilana during his Russian golf experience. Working for Pan American World Airways at the time, she was Stewart’s translator for the first group of Russian kids the golf pro brought to the United States.

Q: How did you get started with Russian golf?

A: I was the golf professional at a club in south Florida and we had a Swedish hockey player/golf professional/soccer player named Sven Tumba, who was a cult hero in Russia because we beat the Russians at their game of hockey. So, instead of hating him he became a hero to them. He came to me and said he had a chance – because golf was going to become a test sport in the Olympics in

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Atlanta – to build a golf course in Russia. I told him I would help him. I invited the first 10 Soviet kids to the U.S. in 1987, five boys and five girls, and we played all over Florida for a month with their coaches. And then I was invited to the Soviet Union to teach about 200 kids and their coaches for two straight summers, in 1988 and ’89.

Q: You helped open the first golf course in the Soviet Union, correct?

A: Yes, I did the federation papers and the bylaws for the Tumba Golf Club, which was a nine-hole course that is still there in downtown Moscow. There are several courses on the outskirts of Moscow now, and some in other parts of the country, but the Tumba Club was the first, built on a reclaimed dump. The local people helped sod it. I was last there about six years ago. It was pretty

rough when I was there because everything was sort of hand done, but it was a great layout. They even have an island green very much like TPC Sawgrass. The Moscow billionaires have come in and bought the club recently, and I gave them all the pictures I had. Helping get that club started was one of my great experiences in 46 years as a golf pro.

Q: How was Gorbachev as a golfer?

A: Awful, just awful. He never played a stick-andball game, or hockey, or anything...so not having any experience with golf was a real challenge. As a human being I should take credit for the tearing down of the Berlin Wall because I suggested it to him back then. Heck, I was in the Soviet Union way more than presidents Reagan or Bush were, so why not take more credit for it than they would. Gorbachev didn’t know how to hold a club, so the lesson was from scratch. If he did get a ball airborne it didn’t last much longer than the Wright Brothers’ first flight. Giving him a golf lesson was a thrill. He was an incredible guy. I gave a set of golf clubs to him and another set to Yeltsin. It was an interesting time in the Soviet Union because it was breaking up. It was pretty heady times being over there.

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Q: Any other interesting stories from Soviet Union golf?

A: I remember Nikita Khrushchev was going to have a détente with president Dwight Eisenhower and he knew Eisenhower played golf, so he was building a golf course in St. Petersburg just for Eisenhower to come and play and say ‘see, we want to be friends, there is even a place for you to come play golf.’ But there was a little something that popped up called a U-2 spy plane that crashed, so they shut that down. I actually went to the site where he built that golf course when I was there in St. Petersburg. I think it is a bean field now. I was single at the time and got to travel all over the Soviet Union, so I loved it.

And I would have been their golf coach had the sport come to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, but it never came about.

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Southern Chatter wine review © McKenzie Photography

Liquor Local

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by Adam sobsey

Chris Jude, the head distiller of Fair Game Beverage, just up from 15-501 from Pinehurst in Pittsboro, is sitting in the tasting room, thoughtfully trying to connect the many interests, skills and relationships that have led him to the current moment. He’s pouring tastes of Fair Game’s very first liquor releases, just out of the barrel and into bottles: a surprisingly summery apple brandy, made from North Carolina mountain apples; and “No’lasses,” a bright, herbaceous sorghum spirit that can’t legally be called rum – only sugarcane spirits qualify – but undeniably is.

Jude talks about studying renewable energy at Appalachian State University. He talks about working in that field in Seattle after he graduated, then returning to North Carolina as production

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manager for Piedmont Biofuels, which shares a charmingly funky sustainable-industry complex with Fair Game and others, in a repurposed factory that once made fighter jet parts (an ideally fortified site for producing liquor – booze is inflammable, after all). He talks about homebrewing beer, and about the concept of “valueadded” product. He even talks about finding inspiration in Hemingway’s writing about Cuban rum and daiquiris.

His wife, Lynette Driver Jude, eavesdropping nearby, helpfully gathers the strands of her husband’s thought into a single, decisive word: “Agriculture,” she says.

Chris takes her cue. He once harvested some Chatham County sorghum and made

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syrup out of it. The process, Lynette recalls, was as slow as, well, molasses, and there was nothing for it but to think in value-added terms: We’ve got to make something out of this. For Chris, this was a question of artisanship, not economics.

“I love creating things,” he says – preferably out of what’s growing near at hand. No’lasses wasn’t far behind.

Fair Game’s inaugural liquor release is small, just 60 cases each of Apple Brandy and No’lasses, so you’ll want to get to it quickly – if not at the ABC store, then try the restaurant 195 in Southern Pines, where you may find

bartender Tony Cross featuring Fair Game’s liquors in his cocktails. Though tasty to sip neat, these are liquors to get the mixologist’s mind moving – in value-added motion, of course: What can be made from this?

Fair Game also produces some unusual wines, available locally, including a cheeky off-dry wine made from Sandhills peaches. (Pro tip: it’s good with spicy Chinese food.) The back of the bottle recommends pouring the peach wine over ice with mint and soda, spritzer style. You might do the same with No’lasses, and drink that concoction on your porch all summer. Call it a mosquito mojito.

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Southern Chatter book review

Family Secrets Revealed

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Families form the basis of where we come from, who we are, and what we become. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad, family memories stay with us forever. Psychologists, politicians, anthropologists – people from all walks of life – weigh in on family, how important it is, and how it can give us the best of times and the worst of times. Anne Tyler adds her own very astute observations of the modern American family in her latest novel, A Spool of Blue Thread.

Tyler, who grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Duke University, is a writer of uncommon grace and insight. This is her 20th novel; her 11th novel, Breathing Lessons, won the Pulitzer Prize.

(Her 10th, The Accidental Tourist, was made into a movie.) She knows how to draw the reader into a story, and has a knack for showing how people feel and interact. Her ear for dialogue is pitchperfect; it’s like listening to two people having a realistic, candid conversation.

The novel is divided into four main parts.

Part One, “Can’t Leave Till the Dog Dies,” tells the story of Abby and Red Whitshank’s family in modern-day Baltimore. Part Two, “What

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a World, What a World,” is one chapter and goes back to 1959 when Abby and Red became a couple. Part Three, “A Bucket of Blue Paint,” covers the grandparents, Linnie Mae and “Junior” Whitshank, settling in Depression-era Baltimore in their special house. Part Four, “A Spool of Blue Thread,” contains the last chapter and returns to the present.

The Whitshanks are a family of interesting characters, and we get to spend time with them through Tyler’s simple yet elegant descriptions.

She doesn’t use a lot of words because she doesn’t need a lot of words. When it comes to describing the family’s history, she shows how much Junior identified with his house: “In this house, we insist on quality, he said. It was downright comical, the

number of his sentences that started off with ‘In this house.’ In this house they never went barefoot, in this house they wore their good clothes to ride the streetcar downtown… ‘this house’ really meant ‘this family,’ The two were one and the same.”

In the present Red and Abby are living “in this house”, in their 70s and slowing down a bit. Red is a carpenter and Abby a retired social worker. Each with quirks and strengths, they are devoted to each other. There are four grown children: Amanda, the oldest, is a lawyer. Jeannie is next, and she does carpentry work with Red. Third is Denny, always the “problem child.” He has caused most of the family drama, and he’s simply an unlikable human being; closemouthed and irritable. The youngest son, Stem, is a well-rounded and even-tempered person. He also works with Red, and unknowingly owns the family’s big secret.

An example of Tyler’s craft is how deftly she portrays the family’s reaction to the inevitable aging of Red and Abby. Red has a heart attack and Abby becomes more absent-minded. What about the future? They don’t want to move, there are too many memories here. Once her children needed her, but now she’s fading into the background because they have families of their own.

When Abby thinks about time she says: “Well, you know about time. How slow it is when you’re little and how it speeds up faster and faster once you’re grown. Well, now it’s just a blur. I can’t keep track of it anymore! But it’s like time is sort of…balanced. We’re young for such a small fraction of our lives, and yet our youth seems to stretch on forever. Then we’re old for years and years, but time flies by fastest then. So it all comes out equal in the end, don’t you see.”

Abby remembers telling Jeanne once, “The trouble with dying is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.”

The book abounds with keen observations. For instance, there is the saying Abby heard, “You’re only ever as happy as your least happy child.”

Tyler observes how sometimes our dreams, when

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realized, bring on an “is that all there is” feeling.

Junior was convinced that attaining his house would fulfill all his dreams. Not so – though the disappointment was something he would never admit. Tyler repeatedly captures the subtle frictions that families have to deal with while living in close quarters. And then the backstory of Junior and Linnie Mae in Part Two is almost a novel within the novel. Her portrayal of their resourcefulness, clash of wills, and passive aggressive tactics is extraordinary.

If you’re a fan of Anne Tyler, this is a book you don’t want to miss. She truly knows the complex interplay between family members. It’s not as joyous as some of her previous books. The unlikable Denny-downer casts a pall over the family. Through it all, Tyler’s quality writing is something to behold: in just a few sentences she can reveal someone’s character or get to the crux of a situation. Perceptive and insightful, she fully deserves her fine reputation.

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by ADAM SOBSEY

Jon Kowal has a resume that stretches from Florida to Alaska, and he’s been the Executive Chef of Southern Prime steakhouse, in the heart of Southern Pines, for barely half a year. But he has deep roots in the Sandhills and its kitchens. His father, Gary, was a longtime ClubCorp chef, stationed for years at the Pinehurst Resort. Although Gary advised his son to stay out of the restaurant business – a chef ’s life can be a hard one – Jon was cooking under his dad at Pinehurst when he was still in high school. You know how it is when you tell a teenager not do something: consider it done.

Later, Jon’s chef coat took him to esteemed resorts, including stints at The Cloister at Sea Island, Georgia and The Homestead in Virginia, among many others. Last year, he was cooking all the way out in Anchorage, Alaska. “It’s the most beautiful place on earth,” he says, but he couldn’t stay long. His father, fighting cancer, was worsening, and Jon decided to go home to care for him. He gave notice to his employers, packed up his car and drove all the way back to Pinehurst from Alaska in just five days – but Gary passed away before his son could get home.

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Jon inherited his father’s house and, in a sense, his local culinary legacy. He soon took over at Southern Prime. A few years earlier, owner Mike Smith had revived and raised Southern Prime to a new standard of fine dining, and he wanted to improve the food even further. In Jon, he found an uncompromising perfectionist who could do just that – and who brought home with him a little bit of Alaska: Southern Prime’s salmon is

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flown in from there, and he can tell you exactly which boat catches it.

He also brought back evidence of Alaska’s beauty. When Jon’s not making food, he’s often making photographs, and if you visit his website (www.bearassetsphotography.com), you’ll find images of Alaska and elsewhere that show the same attention to visual detail and quality of ingredients, so to speak, that you can find on Jon’s plates. He says he hopes Southern Prime patrons will find his food “almost too beautiful to eat.” Coming from him, that’s not a cliché or a vague aspiration. As the rare chef who pursues a second pastime devoted to beauty far from the kitchen, he knows what beauty is, and that it can be found anywhere - not just in Alaska. His

portfolio includes images of North Carolina, the moon and stars, the big cats at Carolina Tiger Rescue in Pittsboro – even pictures of familiar creatures like himself and his son, Jordan.

Jordan happens to be right around the same age Jon was when he started cooking under Gary at the Pinehurst Resort. When asked for a Sunday supper recipe, Jon took the opportunity to cook at home with Jordan as his sous chef, passing on some of his culinary technique while tinkering with a dish you might find on Southern Prime’s menu. Jordan wants to be a cook like his father - even though Jon, like his father, warned his son against it.

“Stubborn like his father,” Jon says, “I’ll just embrace it and start teaching him.”

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Southern Chatter sunday supper

Chef Jon Kowal’s

Rack of Lamb Provençal with Goat Cheese Whipped Yukon Potatoes, Sautéed Green Beans with Toasted Almonds and Grapes, Provençal Beurre Blanc Ingredients 1 ea 1½ Tbsp To taste

Rack of lamb, frenched Olive oil blend Kosher salt and black pepper

Method

1. Season lamb and sear on all sides in a hot sauté pan with the oil.

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Breading Ingredients 1½ cups ½ cup 3 ea 2 Tbsp 3 ea 1 ¼ cup

Panko ( Japanese bread crumbs) Parsley with stems Garlic cloves Extra virgin olive oil Sprigs of thyme, picked 4 inch sprig rosemary, picked Dijon mustard

Breading Method

1. In food processor, combine all ingredients except mustard and process until mixture starts to turn green.

2. Brush lamb with Dijon mustard and crust with breading. In 400° oven, roast lamb until just below desired temperature is reached.

3. Let lamb rest at room temperature for 10 minutes before carving.

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Green Beans Ingredients

6 oz ½ cup 2 Tbsp 2 Tbsp 1 tsp To taste

Green beans, blanched Seedless red grapes, cut in half Almond slivers Unsalted butter Chopped shallot Kosher salt and black pepper

Method

1. On medium heat, add butter and almonds; cook until almonds begin to turn slightly golden.

2. Add the rest of ingredients until hot.

Goat Cheese

Whipped Potatoes Ingredients 2½ lbs To Cover 1 Tbsp ¾ cup 4 Tbsp 4 oz To taste

Gold Yukon potatoes, peeled Water Kosher salt Heavy cream Unsalted butter Goat cheese Kosher salt and black pepper

Method

1. Boil potatoes until soft.

2. Melt butter with cream in a saucepan.

3. In mixer, whip potatoes with butter and cream mixture until smooth.

4. Add goat cheese and season to taste.

Sauce Sauce Ingredients

3 tsp ½ cup 1 cup 4 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 2 ea 10 ea To taste

Chopped shallot White wine Heavy cream Unsalted butter Chopped parsley Garlic cloves, chopped Grape tomato halves Kosher salt and black pepper

Sauce Method

1. In a saucepan on medium heat, reduce white wine and shallots by half.

2. Add cream and reduce by half.

3. Remove from heat; whisk in butter, add remaining ingredients and season.

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Hope!

A community is transformed after rallying around a dying horse

H

By Heather Mallory Photography by Allie Conrad Photography

Hope was a lost cause. On the day the two-year-old filly with the inapt name was transported to the Old Glory Legacy Foundation (OGLF) in Wagram, Veterinarian Lisa Kivett gave her a two percent chance of survival. “That was probably too optimistic,” said Kivett, “but I didn’t want to disappoint all the people who were working so hard for this horse.”

Katiebelle Schafer, who had rescued the starving and grievously neglected filly two weeks earlier, was one of those people. Rachel Medley, OGLF’s founder, who had recently joined the fight by offering her time and facilities to try to save Hope, was another. Dr. Kivett’s kind but tiny inflation of Hope’s chances was no doubt appreciated by Schafer and Medley that night, but they were nevertheless realistic about Hope’s grim and probable fate. “We expected her to die that night,” Schafer recalls.

“Rachel and I sat up with her all night to keep the coyotes from getting to her, so she could go in peace, so she wouldn’t die alone.”

Schafer and Medley’s vigilant care and refusal to give up on Hope stands in stark contrast to the neglectful conditions in which the filly was found.

Surrendered to Scotland County Animal Control with three other horses, Hope received a Henneke body condition score of 1, on a scale of 1 to 9, where 1 is as emaciated as a horse can be.

Once the horses were surrendered, Kivett only had about 24 hours to place them, but after posting a plea on Facebook, she says she was “inundated with responses from community members offering to open their homes and farms to these animals.”

Of the four horses, Hope needed the most care.

Schafer’s background as a veterinary tech and barn

manager made her Hope’s best chance.

At first, Schafer kept Hope at her farm, working with Kivett to reintroduce food very slowly back into Hope’s system. Despite their best efforts, Hope’s condition deteriorated and after about two weeks, the filly went down, unable to hoist herself back up. Ever a fighter, Hope kicked and flailed wildly, scattering all the loose sand and causing significant trauma as she crashed her body against the hard, packed sand beneath. Now in addition to her starvation, she had deep, open wounds on her hips, withers, face and legs. Infection quickly set in, but Schafer wouldn’t give up.

Katiebelle Schafer is the daughter of one military man and the wife of another. She has been accustomed to a transient life since childhood.

“We moved almost every year,” she says. But her nomadic past certainly did not translate into a tendency to leave responsibilities behind. In fact, animals – especially horses – have been one of the few constants in her life.

“I started riding at age seven,” says the 29-yearold mother of two. “We took all of our animals with us every time we moved. It was ingrained in me that animals are for life. Once you take on that responsibility, you stick with it.”

Schafer, who has two other horses – plus four dogs and five chickens – must have been drawing from that deep well of commitment when she and Medley sat up all night in subzero temperatures late last year. After Hope’s collapse, Schafer had moved her to OGLF, where she was the barn manager, so Medley and Schafer could be near Hope around the clock and because Hope needed the facilities available at Medley’s farm.

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Wound care and bandage change with (from left) Katiebelle Schafer, Lisa Kivett, and Rachel Medley

Lisa Kivett examines Hope

Though they waited for Hope to die, her DMSO-laced breaths, faint and unsteady, persisted through the night.

“We called Lisa [Kivett] and said, ‘This girl wants to live.’ So we promised Hope, as long as she was willing to fight and do her part of it, we would do whatever we had to do on our end to help her.

And she did not give up.”

Caring for Hope was all-encompassing, and Schafer repeatedly insists that she could never have saved Hope on her own. Schafer, Medley and others spent over 50 straight hours with her at one point, tending to her, adjusting her every four hours to prevent her lungs from collapsing, and slowly hand-feeding her hay. “Lisa and Rachel were the perfect rescue people,” Schafer says. She also credits Tori and Justin McLeod of the NC Specialized Mobile Animal Rescue Team, who helped transport Hope and provided enthusiastic support and expertise along the way.

Help came from unexpected quarters, too.

Feeling the need to connect with others while spending day and night caring for Hope, Medley and Schafer started a Facebook page, “Hope the Wonderhorse,” dedicated to their unlikely survivor.

“We didn’t expect anything,” Schafer explains.

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have to do with all the horses here on our farm, and at Old Glory. We had no sleep, we had no food, we were freezing. We wanted people to talk to.”

They got all of the above. Hope swiftly became an internet celebrity. “People sent us cookies, blankets, bandages, wraps,” says Schafer. “We’ve had stuff from Wales, from Italy. A school group drove up from South Carolina. They spent their

For more information, please visit the websites below.

Hope the Wonderhorse’s Facebook page: www.facebook.com/Hopethewonderhorse Old Glory Legacy Foundation: www.oglfoundation.org/ Sandhills Horse Rescue: www.sandhillshorserescue.org

Photo courtesy of Justin Schafer

Katiebelle Schafer at home with son Fox (4), daughter Lily-Katharine (6), and her two Arabian rescues JD (grey) and Will (bay).

week’s lesson learning about Hope.”

Volunteers came to help, too – Schafer estimates that 200 people have given their support in person and in donations. “At one point, we needed $1,800 for a custom sling for Hope,” Schafer says. “Within 24 hours, we raised $11,000.” There was even a contribution from Australia.

Inspired by Hope’s story, Schafer, Medley and Kivett recently established the Sandhills Horse Rescue. With the closure of the “rescue” facility where Hope and the other horses experienced such neglect, the three women realized that there was a real need for, as Kivett puts it, “ethical and responsible people to establish safe spaces for unwanted horses.” The Sandhills Horse Rescue is based at Medley’s Old Glory Legacy Foundation and has already received three equine surrenders.

Hope’s rescue and recovery has been so remarkable that her brush with death is barely visible as she gambols around her pen. The Facebook page has more than 7,000 likes, and visitors from around the globe check back often for news: “Sept jours sans nouvelles de notre belle jument... Comment va Hope?”

How is Hope, indeed? “She’s a normal horse right now,” Schafer says. “She’s bonded really closely with Maggie, a lesson horse in Rachel’s program.”

But that’s not her only bond.

Medley, an eight-year military veteran (her

deployments include more than a year in Iraq), has noticed a special bond Hope seems to inspire in the veterans who come to Old Glory: “They connect to her on a special level, more so than the other horses. They seem drawn to her, perhaps because she has been through a very traumatic event and is recovering.”

Medley confesses that Hope has had a healing effect on her, too. “I had a lot of harrowing experiences overseas during my deployment as a combat medic. Working with Hope helped me let go of a lot of that, because of her fight and will to survive, and her refusal to quit. I couldn’t help but go all in with her, because I found so much closure and comfort in her journey and recovery.”

It isn’t just that Hope has found a caring home.

She has also, in a sense, made one for her caregivers.

Like Medley, Schafer finds herself changed by Hope’s journey. After a lifetime of moving around, she suddenly finds herself wanting to stick around.

“I make friends very easily, but they’ve always been more like acquaintances,” Schafer says. “This whole experience with Hope has bonded Rachel, Lisa and me to the extent that we see each other every day, even if we don’t have to. They make me feel at home.”

Old Glory Legacy Foundation is a nonprofit that gives military families the chance to bond through spending time outdoors with horses.

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planning for

FINANCIAL

SUCCESS

By Corbie Hill

On May 20, Moore Forward’s Shark Tank comes back to Pinehurst. Local high school students submit competing pitches to five “sharks” – local entrepreneurs and executives with impressive careers – to win cash prizes. To make successful pitches, though, these students have to know something about business themselves – it’s all part of Moore Forward’s mission to give local youth the tools they need to thrive, either as entrepreneurs themselves or as adults who make wise financial decisions.

Marybeth Sandell is Moore Forward’s executive director and previously worked internationally as a financial news manager for Bloomberg. We caught up with Sandell and presented several of the general topics that came up in our financial planning conversations for her professional feedback.

Debt-free living: “When people look at, say, the cost of borrowing money, they tend to look at just the cost of paying back that money. They tend to forget to calculate if they could have saved the money and invested it in something else. To live in debt is more expensive than it appears.”

Finding a financial advisor: “In general, if you’re going to trust someone with your money, you need to know that they’re reliable.”

Charitable giving: “As a percentage of income, people in Moore County donate 5.8%, on average, to charity every year. It looks like Southern Pines is the most giving – they give 6.3% (source: Chronicle of Philanthropy). I’m a big believer in paying it forward. We all had beautiful schools and food on our table growing up, and I think it’s our job to make sure the next generation has that.

The return on your investment is your children and your grandchildren.”

Emergency fund: “Unless you can predict the future with 100% accuracy, you’d better have an emergency fund. It really is simple. “ Financial literacy: “If you can’t balance a budget or understand a credit card statement, or understand how your mortgage affects your life planning, you’re behind the eightball already.”

Moore Forward’s second annual Shark Tank takes place between 9:30 a.m.and 3 p.m. On May 20th at the Fair Barn in Pinehurst. Visit mooreforward.wix.com/mooresharktank2015 for event info, or visit mooreforward.org to learn more about the organization.

Marybeth Sandell

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Steve

Drinkwater Steve Drinkwater’s parents were children of the depression. Having seen banks fail, they didn’t trust them. They didn’t rely on credit – if they bought something, it was with money they had worked for and had in-hand. “When you wanted something, you saved up for it and you bought it,” he recalls. As a teen, he worked part-time as a bag boy in a local grocery store.

He picked up any hours he could – holidays, weekends, vacations, or whenever.

Drinkwater graduated from high school in 1972 and immediately got full-time work at the Lockheed aircraft plant in Burbank, California. He worked an early shift and took night classes. Next he worked at the Los Angeles County Fire Department, but he didn’t stop his schooling. As much as he loved fighting fires, he wanted to be an audio engineer – again, he worked his way through college, though at Hollywood’s University of Sound Arts this time.

Drinkwater understands that opportunities come in all forms, so when an opening presented itself at Compact Video, he took it – even though it meant leaving firefighting to work in the shipping and receiving department. He stayed with Compact Video for 25 years, working his way up to Director of Operations – and having a definitive hand in the genesis of ESPN along the way. Afterward, he worked in visual effects, both as Vice President of The Post Group and with Westwind Media.

He moved from Los Angeles suburb Glendale to Pinehurst in 2006. Two years later the stock market crashed and Drinkwater – like many folks – took a financial hit. Drinkwater, who is 60 today, says he was young enough to bounce back. “I got punched,” he says, “but I didn’t get knocked out.”

He was able to invest, recover, and stay diversified.

He’s also a huge proponent of letting financial

experts handle finances rather than trying to be a day trader and do it himself. He remembers a famous singer who tried her hand at day trading – and lost a substantial amount of money. As they say in the movies, don’t be a hero.

It’s also essential to have a financial advisor you know and trust. Drinkwater’s financial advisor is an old friend – someone with a personal stake in keeping his money safe. “I have known this guy since junior high,” Drinkwater says. Don’t go with someone who has a massive portfolio, he adds, but someone who can really focus on you. When the market changes, your financial advisor needs to act fast and move your assets creatively – the fewer clients they have, the harder it is for them to focus on individual accounts, and the more you stand to lose.

“You have to have someone who cares,” Drinkwater says.

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Steve & Jeanette

Moore Growing up, Steve Moore’s parents taught him it was important to live within his means. For his wife Jeanette, it was largely the same: she remembers a childhood with no credit cards. “If they couldn’t pay for it, with the exception of the car and the house, we didn’t get it,” she says of her parents – both educators. She and her two sisters were always taught to save, and all three of them were able to graduate college with no debt. She went on to be a teacher herself, and retired after 31 years.

As a teenager, Steve worked paycheck to paycheck – “just like anybody else,” he says. “At least anybody I knew.” He opened Moore Appliance Service in 1986, and has built a respectable customer base in his nearly 30 years of business. He and Jeanette also own seven rental properties which they have accumulated slowly, patiently and responsibly.

Yet the centerpiece of their financial plan is based on giving, not receiving. In the early 80s, when Steve was finally in a position to start saving, he made an important decision: he decided he would tithe and give charitably.

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“Any financial plan that doesn’t include giving 10% or more to charities is not a complete financial plan,” he says.

“I think that is why we have been successful – we give,” Jeanette says. And it’s not just money, but time that they give – they both volunteer. They’re people of faith, and it’s given them peace of mind. “It is our job to do the sowing, it is God’s job to do the growing.” Steve says.

Saving and careful planning are also essential to the Moores’ plan. Steve’s idea of a sensible emergency fund, for instance, covers a full year – after all, he says, the last thing he’d want to do in an emergency is live off borrowed money.

After reading Dave Ramsey’s book Total Money Makeover, Steve was taken by Ramsey’s idea of debt-free living – and they haven’t borrowed money since 2008. This way, they can simultaneously invest and pay down debt.

This mix of patience, charitable giving and debt avoidance has worked out well for the Moores. They didn’t fall for high-risk financing and were left unscathed by the 2008 and 2009 financial crisis – their business grew in that time, in fact. Today, and with Total Money Makeover in mind, the two have paid off several of their rentals – properties that will generate a nice retirement income one day, particularly if the two remain debt-free.

“Our philosophy is we save, we don’t spend extravagantly, and we give,” Jeanette says.

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GoodCredit Like Having a Key to the Kingdom

By Jenni Hart

Free and fee-based credit score companies may have some of the catchiest ads and jingles on TV, but you probably know that credit is serious business.

James Richardson is a private wealth advisor and certified financial planner who says bad credit can mean denial of credit or less favorable terms. “In the case of a credit card, that usually means a lower spending limit or higher than standard rates,” he says. “For an auto loan, bad credit means you may be required to have a co-signer.”

Credit history can also impact you in

unexpected ways. In addition to affecting your ability to purchase a home, Richardson says your credit history can even make renting more difficult, as most complexes now run a credit check. “Even insurance rates can be negatively impacted, and some employers routinely conduct credit checks as part of their hiring process,” he adds.

Steven Blair Wilson is a principal with Capital Advisers, Inc., and serves as general counsel with Capital Investment Companies. He offers sound advice to anyone wishing to establish good credit.

Get an Early Start It may surprise you to learn that some debt can be better than none when it comes to your credit score. “A modest and manageable amount of indebtedness looks better to lenders because they see you can be trusted to handle the responsibility of making timely payments and keeping the account in good standing,” says Wilson.

He offers this advice for establishing a good credit history: • Apply for a line of credit you know you can manage, such as a department store credit card. Make occasional purchases and pay at least the minimum amount due each month.

• Never skip a payment, even if you have to borrow from your parents to keep the account in good standing.

• Monitor your credit report regularly and address any discrepancies immediately. A credit report can reveal simple accounting mistakes, as well as identity theft.

Wilson recommends going to www.annualcreditreport.com, where you have guaranteed access by federal law to a free yearly credit report.

Look Beyond the Numbers Wilson cautions borrowers to pay attention not just to their overall indebtedness, but also to the mix of debt. You might have $15,000 in credit card debt and owe $15,000 on a car loan, but that appears more favorable to a lender than having $30,000 in credit card debt. “A lender understands you 36 Pinehurstmagazine.com

probably need a vehicle for transportation, so he or she will be anticipating a car purchase in your future,” Wilson says. “They also see the car loan as something that is reduced over time as you make payments, whereas credit card debt is just as likely to continue going up.”

Know the Score Richardson says FICO is considered the standard among credit scoring systems. Here he shares the FICO rating scales:

Excellent: 781-950 Good: 661-780 Fair: 601-660 Poor: 501-600 Bad: 500 and below If you check your score and don’t like what you see, keep in mind that lenders are in the business of lending and may be more willing to work with you than you realize. Wilson says even a bankruptcy, while not desirable, will appear as a known risk to lenders, and that can play in your favor. “A bankruptcy gives a full and complete picture to a lender – they know they can charge a higher rate, and because bankruptcies became relatively common in the financial downturn, they don’t necessarily carry the stigma they once did,” he says.

The mere passage of time can improve your credit standing, as adverse credit is eventually dropped from your record. But it’s better to be proactive in establishing good credit and working to protect and improve it over time. The best things in life may be free, but for everything else, it’s nice to know you can charge it.

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By Corbie Hill and Adam Sobsey | Photos by Don McKenzie Photography Whether it be a hotel dating to the turn of the 20th century or a distinctive bed and breakfast nestled in horse country, and whether it be a peaceful wooded tract containing the oldest known longleaf pine or a sprawling dog park featuring dozens of off-leash acres, some of Southern Pines’ finest features are hidden in plain view. Though not a definitive list by any stretch, we’ve selected a handful of these gems for your consideration.

The courtyard at the Jefferson Inn

By Adam Sobsey You can’t see it at first, but every spring and summer night from Wednesday through Saturday you can hear it calling you: live music piping out from the courtyard at the historic Jefferson Inn. Belly up to the newly restored bar, shiny with fresh varnish, and order drinks. Then find a seat at one of the tables or stools in the courtyard – your night has officially begun. If you’re with a group, make yourselves supremely 38 Pinehurstmagazine.com

comfortable on the huge, pillow-piled platform at the far end of the courtyard, strung with lights (if it’s occupied, make friends with people who are already on it). This might be the poshest seat in Southern Pines, fit for a king or queen; you’ll feel like the music is being played just for you. If it’s raining, don’t be deterred. The music and fun simply move inside to the Jefferson’s venerable dark-wood bar.

Tanglewood Farm Bed and Breakfast

By Corbie Hill Tanglewood offers a horse country take on the bed and breakfast. Its three open apartments are cozy and welcoming, and you can stay as long as you’d like – one “guest” has been here 17 years! They open to a shared patio overlooking paddock and pasture, with dressage and jump field beyond. And unlike most (okay, almost all) bed and breakfasts, you can bring your own horse.

This isn’t a doilies-and-antiques affair by any stretch.

It bears mentioning, though, that not everyone that stays here is a horse person – you don’t have to ride to appreciate rolling fields and farm life; appropriately, breakfasts feature eggs laid by Tanglewood’s own chickens. For nonhorse people, it’s a relaxing departure from the norm. For horse people, though, it’s an exciting immersion in their passion; the massive Walthour-Moss Foundation, with its 4,000 acres of horse trails, is just across the street, the area is rich with equine Olympic history, and Carolina Horse Park is about 15 minutes away.

Martin Park

By Corbie Hill On the surface, this could be any Moore County park, yet there are telltale signs that it’s not: everyone here has a dog or two, and if you just glance in the underbrush, you’ll see there are tennis balls everywhere. A happy young family comes down a wooded trail, their three huge dogs dripping with water and exhausted, but excited; just down the hill, there’s a sandy creek where a small group of people and their dogs relaxes in the sun.

The party just left, they say with a smile, indicating the direction the wet dogs went.

Where most cities’ dog parks are yard-sized fenced areas, Southern Pines’ Martin Park takes things to the next level. There are no fences, for one, and its trails wend through a walloping 50-plus wooded acres. You can take a quiet, peaceful walk – just you, your dog, and the pines – or you can seek out others for a canine playdate. And don’t worry if you forgot your tennis ball...

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The World’s Oldest and Largest Longleaf Pines, at Weymouth

By Adam Sobsey It’s easy to find the world’s second-largest known longleaf pine tree (the oldest, apparently, is in nearby Morrow Mountain State Park).

With a walking companion, start from the field behind the Weymouth Center’s gardens. Take the leftmost branch of the orange-dot trail, then hang your first right, and you’ll soon find yourself gaping at the pine whose trunk is so wide, when you and your companion wrap your two pairs of arms around it, you can’t touch fingertips.The gaze up to its crown is pleasantly dizzying.

You’re very near the world’s oldest confirmed pine tree, which was already an old salt when the Lost Colony arrived in North Carolina in the 16th

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century. Although this pine is more hallowed (and more homely) than the world’s second-largest, it’s harder to find. There are no markers on the trail or at its scaly, gashed base. Get directions from a park ranger or Weymouth’s obliging property manager, Alex Klalo. If he has time, Alex might zip you down there himself on his work cart, but even he might have a little trouble finding the historic tree. It’s a deliberately hidden gem: nothing lives 467 years and counting without protection. Yet there it is, a twisted marvel of sheer endurance. “All those other trees,” Alex muses, noting several dead ones nearby. “How did this one survive?”

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Calendar of Events may & june

Growing & Using Herbs May 6 | 10am-12pm Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882 sandhillshorticulturalgardens.com Moore County Farmers Market May 7 | 9am-1pm Armory Sports Complex 604 W. Morganton Road | Southern Pines www.moorecountync.gov Brett Harris May 7 | 8pm The Cameo Art House 225 Hay Street | Fayetteville Find Tickets at theroosterswife.org www.cameoarthouse.com Dressage in the Sandhills May 8 Pinehurst Harness Track 200 Beulah Hill Road South | Pinehurst carolinadressage.com Sandhills Farmers Market Wednesdays | 3pm-6pm Saturdays | 10am-1pm The Sandlot in the Village of Pinehurst www.moorefarmfresh.com

Mother’s Day Crafts for k-5 May 9 | 10am-5pm Southern Pines Public Library 170 W. Connecticut Avenue | Southern Pines 910.692.8235 | southernpines.net “Back Home Again” A Tribute to John Denver May 9 | 7-9pm Lee Auditorium at Pinecrest High School 250 Voit Gilmore Lane | Southern Pines 910.949.2470

MAn + Super Man by Bernard Shaw May 16 | 2pm Sunrise Theater 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com

Dennis Stroughmatt and Creole Stomp May 10 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen 910.944.7502 | theroosterswife.org

Spring Wine Walk May 16 | 4pm Check in at Olde Towne Realty 601 West Cherokee Road | Pinehurst www.insidepinehurst.com

Sandhills Photo Club May 11 | 7pm The O’Neal School 3300 Airport Road | Southern Pines sandhillsphotoclub.org

Carolina Philharmonic Pops Finale: An American in Paris May 16 Pinecrest High School 250 Voit Gilmore Lane | Southern Pines 910.687.2087 | www.carolinaphil.org

Tufts Archives Tour May 14 | 10-11am Tufts Archives 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst RSVP is required lsimmons@homeofgolf.com 910-692-3330 ext 242.

Moore county Senior Games May 14 The Fair Barn 200 Buelah Hill Road South | Pinehurst 910.295.0166 | www.thefairbarn.org Triangle Sandhills Spring Classic May 14-17 The Carolina Horse Park 2814 Montrose Road | Raeford 910.875.2074 | carolinahorsepark.com MAn and SuperMan by Bernard Shaw May 14 | 2pm Sunrise Theater 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com Cork and Canvas May 14 | 6-8pm Monarch Creative Arts and Community Center 1662 Richards Street | Southern Pines rahnelle.rosado@monarchnc.org

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Family Movie Night Under the Stars: Annie May 15 | Face Painting & Games at 7pm Movie Begins at 8pm Rassie Wicker Park | Free to attend 10 Rassie Wicker Park | Pinehurst

Antique Horse Carriage Parade May 17 | 10am Historic Village of Pinehurst www.insidepinehurst.com Ameranouche May 17 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen 910.944.7502 | theroosterswife.org Women of Weymouth Strawberry Festival May 18 | 10am Weymouth Center 555 E. Connecticut Avenue | Southern Pines 910.692.6261 | weymouthcenter.org

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Chef ’s Corner

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Chicken Parmesan Al Fresco With Basil Oil, Red Pepper Coulis and Breading

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Recipes Nathan Continenza Photography McKenzie Photography

Chicken Parmesan Al Fresco Ingredients

6 oz 3 oz 2 oz ¼ cup 2 oz 1.2 oz 1 oz 1 Tbsp

Chicken breast Ciliegine fresh mozzarella Cherry tomatoes Breading Roasted red pepper coulis Arugula (Good) Parmesan, for garnish Basil oil

Breading Ingredients

2 cups 2 cups 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 1 tsp 1 tsp

Bread crumbs Shredded Parmesan cheese Kosher salt Garlic powder Parsley flakes Oregano Black pepper

Method

1. Lightly pound the chicken breast. Using the standard breading procedure (flour, eggwash, breading); bread the chicken breast thoroughly and shake off excess.

2. In a non-stick skillet using whole butter, pan fry chicken breast until golden brown on each side and cooked through.

3. Remove from pan and place on paper towel to rest.

4. Slice roughly at a 45 degree angle into five equal slices and serve.

Red Pepper Coulis Ingredients

1 can 1 oz 1 oz 1 oz 1 oz 2 oz 1½ lb

2 oz 3 oz 1 tsp 1 tsp

Roasted red peppers Garlic, smashed Onion, diced Extra virgin olive oil Basil (weigh with stem, then pick) Green chilies Whole peeled tomatoes (scoop tomatoes with sauce) Roasted garlic puree Tomato paste Salt Fresh ground whole pepper

Basil Oil Ingredients ½ lb 4 cups

Basil (weigh with stem, then pick) Grapeseed oil

Method

1. Blanch basil in boiling water for 30 seconds.

2. Remove basil and shock in cold water for 3 minutes. Take out basil leaves and add to blender. Add oil and purée at high speed until smooth. Strain through chinois and then through cheesecloth.

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Coconut Rice Ingredients

1 can 2 oz 1 cup ½ cup

Coconut milk Butter Basmati rice Water

Method

1. Combine all ingredients; bring to a boil and then simmer until rice is tender, stirring occasionally.

Chimichurri Sauce Ingredients

1 bunch 1 bunch ½ cup 2 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 2 1 Tbsp

Italian parsley Cilantro (stems cut away) Olive oil Chopped garlic Cumin Large limes, juiced Crushed red pepper

Method

1. Blitz in blender.

Cuban Pork

With Black Beans, Chimichurri Sauce and Coconut Rice

Ingredients 8 oz

Pork tenderloin

Marinade Ingredients

¾ cup 1 bunch 1 Tbsp ¾ cup ½ cup

Blended olive oil Cilantro Orange zest Orange juice Mint leaves

¼ cup 1 Tbsp 2 tsp To taste

Garlic cloves Oregano Cumin Salt and pepper

Method

1. Marinate pork tenderloin for 24 hours.

2. Pan sear or grill pork straight from marinade to desired temperature (preferably medium rare).

3. Allow to rest 15 minutes; slice thin and fan over warmed black beans.

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Black Beans Ingredients

½ lb 3 cups ½ ½ cup 1 Tbsp 3 oz 3 oz To taste 2 oz 2 cups

1 Tbsp

Black beans Chicken stock Large onion Green chilies, canned Chopped garlic Tomato paste Roasted red peppers, diced Salt and pepper Honey Nueske’s or other high quality bacon, diced Fresh sage, minced

Method

1. Sauté bacon and vegetables; add stock.

2. Simmer for 1½ minutes until tender.

3. Adjust - add water if needed.

4. Purée half of beans with an immersion hand blender.

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The Pritchard House.

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The Pritchard House Photography by Patti McConville. Interior Design by Johnsye White.

Christine and Gil Pritchard

are showing me a picture of their house as it once was. The painting hangs behind an old, peeling window frame on the wall – an original window, from before they bought and remodeled the place eight years ago. In that time, they’ve added porches and a master suite, but the house retains its centenarian character. The original construction, after all, started in 1915.

“That’s actually the side porch,” Gil says, gesturing to the image. “You see there’s nothing there.” Today, the house mixes modern with historic: a fascinating limestone fireplace was built around the natural lines of the stones, while the close walls of a nearby hallway and staircase speak to early 20th-century construction; a guest room with repainted Murphy beds is not far from an airy, modern master suite and spacious kitchen.

Halfway House, as the Pritchards call it, represents Pinehurst today as well as yesterday.

Christine explains, “We totally redid the fireplace. It was a sloping fireplace and the brick was on the upside, so we added the limestone facing and the granite base. It’s from North Carolina.”

There is a bedroom downstairs, which they have

transformed into a guest room. Christine tells me, “There are two Murphy beds, and then we have the wall painted behind them.” Gil adds, “This is one of my favorite rooms in the house. It was actually where the nurse or the cook, I can’t remember which one, stayed.”

The couple made smart use of all of the extra closet space. “They have all kinds of utility closets in these older houses. We have transformed them into stereo closets, and Christine has sound throughout the house.”

As we walk through the Pritchard home, Christine shares details of the added master suite.“This was basically where the house ended,” she says, gesturing to the kitchen doorway behind her. “We added all this – we wanted a private living area.”

Out back is another building, The “Dry Dock” Cottage. “This is the old carriage house,” Gil says, walking through its sitting area to the bedrooms.

“It’s three years younger than the house, I think – 1920.” One “Dry Dock” bedroom has a distinctive Native American theme. “It’s actually quite a comfortable bed, too,” Gil says of the tastefully rustic furnishings. “Whoever comes in first when we have visitors always chooses this room. I like having a place to put some of my Chief Joseph stuff.”

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A Townhouse inCotswold Photography by McKenzie Photography

When Deborah Myatt moved

into her open plan house, she didn’t have a master plan – the rooms simply took shape over time.

What themes did emerge, though, are reflective both of her artistic eye and her dry wit: the roomspecific color schemes are subtle and calming, with pink common throughout, yet the house is populated with visual gags. On a painting just inside the powder room, an embarrassed rabbit turns its back and looks over its shoulder, and the kitchen drapes are crawling with bugs – jeweled insect brooches, that is.

The owner of La Feme Chateau also loves mirrors – not looking in them, but using them to make rooms bigger or even to peer around corners, as with her living room mirrors. “I love having them. Light opens up a room, and they reflect color,” she says.

Near the front door, she says, “If you stand here and you look as you walk in the house, the mirror reflects all the color on the other side of the room,” explaining the vantage point from the foyer where the mirror completes the view of her living room.

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“It’s a convex mirror,” she says from her kitchen (which sports all different knobs on cupboard doors) looking at the mirror above the living room fireplace. “If you stand here, you can see who’s sitting on the sofa in there and what they’re doing.

It’s like having your own Big Brother.”

“I love this room. It makes me happy between the color and the light – especially in the winter, with the fireplace on.”

Of her home office, she explains, “It’s peaceful, serene. I’m refinishing the desk and putting green knobs on it. Every room seems to have a color and a theme,” she says, standing in a green room populated by frogs.

The colors are distinct yet calming. “The pink flows – different shades of pink, but it’s throughout the house. Whether it’s mixed with green, it’s mixed with white, it’s mixed with yellow, it’s my common denominator.”

“I do like white walls. I think it’s a clean palette.

When you go to sell, it goes with anyone’s colors. When you have white, people think your house is clean.”

Mirrors in the “mistress” bedroom? “It’s very

difficult to do something above a king-size bed if you don’t have posters and you don’t have something big,” she says of the window-shaped mirrors lining the wall behind her headboard.

“So I thought this opened up the room.”

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TheCarolina Vista Cottage Photography by McKenzie Photography

In 2008, Julie and Robert

Neff were visiting Pinehurst to look at North Carolina colleges for their son, Will. When it came time to go home, though, a nor’easter grounded flights back to New Jersey. Those two additional days, though, were all it took for the Neffs to fall in love with – and make a successful offer on – Vista Cottage. It had a perfect basement for their son and was the ideal environment for the Neffs’ furniture collection – one spanning literal centuries.

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neighborhood, a delightful house, a delightful state,” Julie says, still in love with Vista Cottage after seven years. She credits previous owners Richard and Ramona Gergle with the house’s distinctive anachronisms, including antique light fixtures and a solid copper range hood, which originally was in the state penitentiary. “And they left the light switches, which I am so appreciative of,” Julie says, turning on a light with an antique pushbutton switch. It makes a satisfying clack, the light comes on, and she smiles.

The sign out front says Vista Cottage. “This is our centennial,” Julie says. Construction on Vista Cottage, once called Heart Pine Cottage, was started in 1915. “It really hasn’t changed that much, except for the paint job. The front porch is exactly the same, the windows are exactly the same.”

“I never had a house with a front porch, but I always thought to myself, wouldn’t it be great to have a front porch?” Julie says. “Front porches are fabulous.”

Robert looks at an old picture of the house, and he doesn’t see much different – here’s where

a chimney was, here’s where a dining room was added. Otherwise? Same house.

In their sitting room, which has a fireplace, Julie points out the tiles. “We’re told those are original tiles,” Julie says, gesturing to the putter boy tiles over the fireplace.

“We really are eclectic – these are pretty much pieces from our family,” Julie says. The furniture and artifacts in this room come from Julie and Robert’s respective ancestors, dating back generations.

The dining room has a vintage collection of plates hung on the walls. “My mother’s best friend collected plates, and that was her plate,” Julie says.

“Everybody goes to garage sales, and there’s always a beautiful plate. And I think they’re like pieces of art.”

“We’re running out of space,” Robert adds with a laugh. “You can see we’re now starting by the front door.”

A basement billiards table ensures a constant draw of young visitors. “Somebody said ‘all you have to do is stand at the head of the stairs and throw meat down,’” Julie says and laughs.

The basement, with its home theater and billiards room, was indeed a spring break destination for her son and his Elon University friends and fraternity brothers.

“That’s a 1898 Brunswick balkline,” Robert says, standing by the billiards table. “That’s been with us in a couple of different houses.” He doesn’t recommend moving it...

The cozy side porch offers views of the pool and side garden. “This is one of our favorite little porches to have coffee on in the morning,” Julie says. “The porches are definitely used.”

A Wee Vista Guest Cottage contains artifacts from an earlier time. “This is a great little guest house,” Julie says. Inside, it’s like a tiny time machine featuring fascinating oddball contraptions like an antique combination sink, range, and stove.

All floral arrangements in the Neff residence were designed by and courtesy of Southern Pines Garden Club.

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Weymouth

words A visit to the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.

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Of the many draws of the Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities’ writers-in-residence program, one of the biggest is something purposefully not available: wi-fi in the writers’ rooms. It’s just you and your writing. The only distractions are in your mind and, if you’re lucky, the occasional pileated woodpecker that will fly up from the gardens beyond and alight, startlingly big and bright, on one of the pines just outside your window.

When I first started going to Weymouth in 2006, the only internet source was via outmoded dial-up on a shared, wheezing house computer. It took less time to write a novel, it seemed, than to check your email – again, an attraction, not a deterrent: there are few remaining circumstances of modern life in which writing is a more efficient use of one’s time than anything else.

A year or two later, wi-fi was introduced, but thankfully the signal still doesn’t reach the writers’ rooms. The most comfortable place to get online is from a room on the non-residency end of Weymouth’s second floor, which I got into the habit of calling the lounge: comfy sofas, a couple of old desks, and dark woodtrimmed walls hung with old black-and-white photos. This was, and still is, a great place to recline and make the transition back from the word to the world (or the worldwide web, at any rate). But even before it had internet access, this room was restorative, as though it had some mysterious power to replenish a writer’s creative energy.

One evening I got curious enough to look up from my laptop at the photos on the walls in the lounge. There was a shot of the great novelist Thomas Wolfe with a woman I presumed was his mother, posed in front of The Old Kentucky Home, the boarding house Pinehurstmagazine.com 55

she ran in Asheville (Wolfe calls the home “Dixieland” in Look Homeward, Angel ).

Near the image of Wolfe was a photograph of Paul Green, the playwright and doyen of North Carolina theater, at work with novelist Richard Wright. Green helped Wright adapt his book Native Son for the stage in 1941.

Next to that was a photo of the great poet Randall Jarrell, who spent the last years of his life in Greensboro and Chapel Hill. In the photo, Jarrell, who had once been a celestial navigation tower operator in the Air Force during World War II, is standing under an enormous dome or rotunda, his eyes cast heavenward – the appropriate gaze not only for a celestial navigation tower operator, but for all writers, of course.

Detecting a decorative theme, I poked around the room some more and discovered that my “lounge” was actually the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame. There are photos of all 59 inductees, who range from George Moses Horton, the pioneering black poet born into slavery in the late 18th century, to the beloved late novelist Reynolds Price and living legends like Lee Smith and Shelby Stephenson. (The latter is North Carolina’s presiding Poet Laureate.) Each photo is accompanied by a biographical pamphlet, and the room is store with regional literary paraphernalia.

“This is a center of literature,” declares Abigail Dowd, Weymouth’s recently appointed Executive Director (the first it has ever had, in fact). She’s standing in the Literary Hall of Fame on a March afternoon. “North Carolina,” she points out, “was the first state to have a literary hall of fame.” Although Weymouth is better known to many as a destination 56 Pinehurstmagazine.com

for gardens, chamber music concerts and weddings, its history and soul are in books. Dowd is currently developing plans to broaden the Hall of Fame’s public profile, and to set up revolving showcases downstairs, on Weymouth’s more heavily visited first floor.

Although it’s administered by the North Carolina Writers’ Network, the Hall of Fame has personal rather than institutional origins.

Weymouth was originally established and owned by the Boyd family, and James, the grandson of the estate’s founder, was a novelist himself – the room that hosts the Hall of Fame was actually built as his writing studio (perhaps that partly explains its writerly energy). Over the years, Weymouth became an essential stopover on the itinerary of many great authors. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson and John Galsworthy are among those who visited.

In 1941, Boyd purchased The Pilot, Southern

Pines’ newspaper. After he died in 1944, his wife Katherine ran it until the late 1960s, when she passed the editorship on to the Boyds’ close friend, writer Sam Ragan. Ragan envisioned a shrine to literary North Carolina in the Boyds’ honor, and he spearheaded the effort to establish a Hall of Fame. The announcement in 1996 of its impending opening and inaugural 15-member class was one of Ragan’s last living accomplishments. He passed away not long before the Hall of Fame opened, and was inducted posthumously in 1997 – his bust sits regally in the Hall of Fame today.

Weymouth celebrates him with its annual Sam Ragan Poetry Day every March.

You hear the occasional rumor that Weymouth is haunted. Having spent many nights alone there, I can testify that the “ghost” is likely just wind whispering in the pines. But there is undeniably a presence in the old house, and it dwells in the Hall of Fame, where the collective spirit of dozens of literary greats watches over the living.

Writing is a conversation we inherit from our forbears and pass on to future generations.

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MIGRATING BIRDS

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As spring turns to summer, our trademark pines fill with the chatter of birds; some have been here all winter, shivering along with the rest of us, and are excitedly shaking off the chill to feast on the seeds or bugs of their choice. And some have traveled to get here. They come from the Carolina coast, from Florida and the Caribbean, even from south of the equator – and all to hop around your back yard, searching for beetles.

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Not all migratory birds are delicate little songsters – this one has claws (well, talons, to be precise). Like its larger cousins the hawk and eagle, the Mississippi kite is a raptor – a predatory bird with amazing eyesight and aerial skills to make stunt pilots jealous. It’s about the size of a falcon and it subsists mainly on large insects, though it’ll eat the occasional frog or rodent, too.

The Mississippi kite winters in southern South America, returning to the Southeast to breed – they typically stick around from late April until early October before the return migration. Look for these talented, graceful fliers in open woodlands, fields and clearings, and wooded neighborhoods.

They have narrow, pointed wings and are dark gray overall with a pearly gray head. Their call is a highpitched phee-phew that sounds uncannily like the squeak of a dog’s chew toy.

Indigo bunting Though small, the indigo bunting’s vivid color makes it easy to spot and hard to forget.

These songbirds get their name from the male’s brilliant blue plumage – iridescent because the birds lack blue pigment, instead refracting and reflecting blue light with their feathers. Females are tan to brown, with slightly darker wings and a pale throat.

The indigo bunting returns to the area from South America and southern Florida in mid-April and stays until the middle or end of October. Aside from its brilliant plumage, it’s also a remarkable bird for migrating by night, the stars its guide, and for singing all day – even in the heat of summer. The birds twitter in short, complex songs that vary by community, and can be found singing atop trees or poles or foraging in shrubs or overgrown fields.

Orchard oriole Unlike the indigo bunting – and unlike many songbird species – both sexes of the orchard oriole are strikingly colored. The male has a deep, rust-orange underbelly and black wings and head, while the female is almost exclusively yellow-green – like the tint a gold-colored shirt takes after a few years’ worth of washes. They’re slender songbirds with pointy beaks and a varied diet – they eat bugs, sure, but also drink nectar.

The orchard oriole arrives in mid-April, yet only sticks around until late August or early September (with some leaving in July). Look for them in open woods, in the tops of scattered trees, or alongside rivers. As for their song, it’s similar to a robin’s – a three-to four-second series of melodious, clear whistles. The primary difference, though, is that the orchard oriole’s song is interspersed with harsher churr and chatter sounds.

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The diminutive white-eyed vireo spends much of its time in fields and thickets – it stays near the ground, rarely going above 25 feet.

It’s worth saying, too, that this bird is a survivor: a 400,000-year-old fossilized wing bone from a white-eyed vireo was found in Florida, meaning they predate humans in North America by at least, oh, 370,000 years.

While not especially easy to spot, the whiteeyed vireo’s song stands out. It sings loud, short and fast, its harsh song punctuated at the start and finish by sharp chirp sounds. The bird itself is small, olive-green at the top, white-throated, and yellow on its sides and around its distinctive white eyes. It can be found between late March and early October, when it departs for Florida or the Carolina coast.

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This bird actually benefits from new development. The prairie warbler is attracted to places where trees have been cut down and are starting to grow back – seems like a conservationist’s Pyrrhic victory when a deforestation leads to new habitat, right? Irony aside, this bird is an attractive yellow warbler – the males a brighter yellow than the females – with olive-green along the back and top of the head and black streaks along the flanks of the male, lighter gray-brown streaks on the female. And if the yellow coloration doesn’t give it away, look for a wagging tail. What an odd bird...

The prairie warbler spends winters in the Caribbean, returning to the Piedmont from early April through mid-September. With this bird, there are two distinct songs to listen for. The mating song is faster and consists of ascending, buzzy zee-zee-zee notes, while the territorial song is lower in pitch and contains longer whistled notes with occasional buzzy ones.

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Communing and Connecting

WITH NATURE Thousands of bulbs planted by a team of volunteer gardeners turned into thousands of bright yellow daffodils – a spring welcome at the woodland garden area on the campus of FirstHealth Hospice & Palliative Care.

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By Tara Ledford for The Foundation of FirstHealth

If not for the generations

that separate them, Henry David Thoreau and Richard Louv might be brothers.

Or at the very least camping companions.

Like Thoreau before him, Louv believes that human beings require contact with nature to live a fulfilled life.

“We can’t minimize the past successes of the environmental movement, or the absolute necessity of preserving wilderness and nearby nature and creating sources of renewable energy,” he has said. “But that’s the foundation on which

to build a newer world, not the world itself.”

Two hundred years earlier, Thoreau shared a similar sentiment about his celebrated Walden retreat: “We need the tonic of wildness ... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

Thoreau believed in the restorative quality of the outdoors. Louv does, too, saying as much in his Pinehurstmagazine.com 65

About

Richard Louv Richard Louv is the co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Children & Natural Network, an organization helping to build an international movement to connect people and communities to the natural world. An author and journalist, he has written eight books and contributed articles to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, and other newspapers and magazines.

He appears frequently on national radio and television programs and often addresses national and international gatherings. In 2012, he was keynote speaker at the first White House Summit on Environmental Education.

In 2008, Louv joined President Jimmy Carter, the late Rachel Carson (of Silent Spring fame) and other environmentally conscious individuals as a recipient of the Audubon Medal. He also received the 2008 San Diego Zoological Society Conservation Medal, the 2008 George B. Rabb Conservation Medal from the Chicago Zoological Society and the 2009 International Making Cities Livable Jane Jacobs Award.

An energetic outdoors enthusiast, Louv says he would rather “hike than write.”

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2001 book The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age: “Time spent in the natural world can help build our physical, emotional and family fitness. The mind/body connection, of course, is a familiar concept, but research and common sense suggest a new container: the mind/ body/nature connection.”

A journalist and author, Louv will bring his message to the third program in the “Health, Healing and the Humanities” series hosted by The Foundation of FirstHealth Clara McLean House Advisory Committee. Created by Advisory Committee Chair Nancy Kaeser and noted Marc Chagall historian and lecturer Vivian Jacobson, the series was designed to promote the arts and humanities as “an avenue to healing.”

“The journey to health and healing can take many paths,” says Kaeser, “especially opportunities in the natural world at a time when we are all becoming immersed in high technology.”

The Louv program is scheduled for Wednesday, May 20th at 5 p.m. in the Ballroom of the Country Club of North Carolina. The two earlier programs featured floral designer Bella Meyer, Chagall’s granddaughter; and John Coffey, Deputy Director for Art and Curator of American & Modern Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art. In his best-selling book Last Child in the Woods, Louv sparked a national debate that spawned an international movement to reconnect children with nature. He coined the term “nature-deficit disorder,” influenced national policy and helped inspire campaigns in more than 80 cities, states and provinces throughout North America.

In The Nature Principle, Louv delivered another powerful call to action – this time for adults – for what he calls “a revived rural life.”

“The challenges of urban and suburban sprawl will always be thorny,” he said, “but the creation of re-natured cities and suburbs, the new agrarianism and restorative transportation offer antidotes to sprawl. So will a revived rural life, the resurgence of job-producing, life-enhancing rural regions and small towns. The division between urban and rural agriculture will continue to dissolve. Jobs, meaning and a new sense of identity will grow.”

On a local level, FirstHealth of the Carolinas applied Louv’s philosophy about nature’s

rejuvenating qualities to the Healing Garden at the Clara McLean House (a “hospitality house” on the Moore Regional Hospital campus) and to the woodland garden area on the FirstHealth Hospice & Palliative Care campus. Both spaces were created to be places of respite – one for out-oftowners needing a place to stay between medical treatments and their families; the other for the loved ones or caregivers of patients living out their last days in hospice care.

Director Rebecca Ainslie describes the Healing Garden at Clara’s House as a spot for celebration as well as a place for quiet reflection.

“The Healing Garden is a place of beauty and serenity that allows its visitors to reflect on the health concerns of a loved one after they spend a tiring day at the hospital,” she says. “It’s also a place where a family can celebrate a birth or a successful surgery.”

The Healing Garden story began in 2005 when Sandhills residents Lynda Acker, a biologist, master gardener and Foundation of FirstHealth member, and Cassie Willis, a lifelong gardener, local businesswoman and community volunteer, offered to design, install and maintain it. After meeting with Foundation personnel, they produced a design in keeping with the spirit and legacy of the late Clara McLean, a longtime Foundation donor and the primary supporter of the hospitality house that is now named for her.

Visitors to the Healing Garden experience a traditional garden garnished by touches of whimsy; wandering paths that lead to garden rooms with seating for contemplation, prayer or conversation; and perennial-lined walkways with rose hoops reminiscent of Monet’s Garden that direct them to a secluded water feature or a secret garden tucked behind a serpentine wall.

By design, the garden changes with the seasons.

Thousands of bulbs ensure dazzling spring blooms, a rose garden highlights the summer/fall growing season, and a cutting garden supplies fresh flowers and greenery for the Clara McLean’s House interior.

Acker assumed a similar role with the woodland garden on the Hospice campus. She and Sally DeWinkeleer, a landscape designer and Hospice supporter, collaborated on the design, developing a plan that could be done in phases while incorporating the natural water and

woodland features of the campus.

As with the Clara McLean’s House Healing Garden, bulbs ensure spring-growth – daffodils, muscari and crocus – on the site that is highlighted by a cherry tree-encircled labyrinth offering the opportunity for casual strolls or quiet contemplation.

“At its most basic level, the labyrinth is a metaphor for the journey to the center of one’s deepest self,” says Acker.

Thoreau would be pleased with both endeavors.

“Nature will bear the closest inspection,” he said. “She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.”

What: “Health, Healing and the Humanities” program – “Tapping into the Restorative Powers of Nature” – featuring author and conservationist Richard Louv and hosted

by The Foundation of FirstHealth Clara McLean House Advisory Committee

When: Wednesday, May 20th at 5pm

Where: Ballroom of the Country Club of North Carolina

Why: To promote the arts and humanities as an “avenue to healing” There is no charge to attend this program, but reservations are requested and can be made by calling 910.695.7510.

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Studies say women are more likely than men to look after their health by seeing a doctor regularly – and therefore they live longer. What else can men do to maintain healthy lifestyles to ensure they are living to the max in the present and the future, and how can they maintain their bodies when activities cause disruption in that plan?

Hidden Gems of Aberdeen

Aberdeen has a rich history steeped in its Scottish Highland roots and the post-civil war train tracks that were built there to haul away the county’s rich naval supplies.

Today, it has a quaint downtown anchored with the original train station. We’ll explore other gems that make Aberdeen worth a poke around, for a couple of hours or a whole day.

Antiquing 101 for fun and leisure

A fun examination of why people enjoy searching for antiques for themselves, whether it is for decoration, nostalgia, a collection or just the thrill of the bargain. We’ll give you a comprehensive list of where to go on an antique safari in these parts, and dos and don’ts for the novice.

Sandhills Sightings

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Call Dolores Muller 910.295.3465 or email sightings@pinehurstmagazine.com

HARNESS THE ROARING 20s PARTY The Pinehurst Harness Track’s 100 year anniversary was celebrated at the Fair Barn in Pinehurst on February 20th.

The party was raided by the Police Chief Earl Phipps and Steve Drinkwater.

Joyce & Larry Harter.

The event organizers.

President & Vice President of the Pinehurst Driving & Training Club Garth Henry and Douglas Ackerman. Angelika Ackerman and Paula Wellwood with mayor Nancy Fiorillo.

Elaine & Ronald Ciemmolonski, Julie & Rob Jones and Katie & David DeBlasio.

Director of Communications Kathy Taylor & husband Ricky.

The O’NEAL SCHOOL’S 44th annual AUCTION

James & Sandra Franklin with Andrea & Richard Catania.

Held on February 20th at the Pinehurst Country Club.

Dave & Nancy Williamson.

O’Neal’s Head of School John Elmore, Stuart Mills and Kirby Kilpatrick.

Christy Tall, Janine Kerr, Arghanan & Rob Almony, Cassie & Rich Stefanik, Francine Wild, Dean Unger and Christy Lineback.

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Sandhills Sightings

Scott & Sharon Fields with Walter King and Maurice Holland Jr.

HABITAT for humanity “on broadway” GALA Held at Pinehurst Country Club on April 11th. The event funded five new homes in the Broadway community in Aberdeen.

Marilyn Grube and Sarah Twilla.

Erin & Caroline Kirkland with Luke Black.

Zachary & Lorie Cox. Annie Osterman, Jamé Casey and Nicole Hawes.

Gail & Mike Cummins.

PENICK VILLAGE 9th annual ART SHOW AND SALE Held on February 27th, proceeds from the evening support the Penick Village Benevolent Assistance Fund.

Gala & art show coordinator Joan Williams with Sherrie Barrett.

Ed Soccorso with John & Elizabeth Cettinger.

Fritz Healy, Patti Hume and Penick Chief Executive officer Jeff Hutchins.

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Jammie Luzar and Judy Lewis.

PRANCING HORSE SPRING BARN DANCE fundraiser On March 26th, held at The Fair Barn in Pinehurst.

Event chairman Nancy Schoephoester with Glenn & Joann Hirata.

Gwen Detering, Sandra Phillips, Susan Holmes, Josephine Winters and Meredith Clifton.

Event Co-chairman Katie Daley and Leslie Habets with Junior League President Penelope Ham and incoming president Taylor Clement.

Mark Hunsicker and Jan Leitschuh of Farm to Table.

Doug & Twila Tuxbury with Barb & Ken Smetana.

Kate & Matt Williams, Sara & Steve Mannino and Hannah McRae.

JUNIOR LEAGUE CHARITY GALA Held on March 7th at the Pinehurst Member’s Club.

Shuyler Shulman, Danielle Mahoney and Brandi Bartels.

Dan & Wendy Briggs.

Cheryl Morgan and Jocelyn Lewis.

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Sandhills Sightings Kea McKibben, Michael Jones and Emma Short.

NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY DINNER AND CONCERT

NC Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn with President & CEO Sandi Macdonald.

On March 3rd, held at the Pinehurst Country Club with concert, Beethoven’s Eroica, at Lee Auditorium.

Ray Owen, Freida & David Bruton and Rob Maddrey.

Wanda & Ollie Sweeney with Dot Evans.

Marijanet Doonan, Joe & Jane Stevenson.

Steep Canyon Rangers.

Kersey, Courtenay & Marshall Smith with Dan Pete.

PALUSTRIS FESTIVAL: STEEP CANYON RANGERS On March 27th, held at Lee Auditorium.

Ted & Joan Meyer.

Kelsey & Brian Moss.

Carole Base and Pete Sturman.

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7th annual VILLAGE CHAPEL TEA

THE PINEHURST FORUM

On April 11th the Women’s Ministry held their fellowship event at the Village Chapel.

On March 19th, Mark O’Connor entertained at the last event in the Cardinal Ballroom of the Carolina Hotel.

Marilyn Kane, Eileen Dobrin, Christine Warren, Eleanora Voelkel and Dee Park.

Betty Hamblen, Sybil Del Bueno and Betsy Jacobs.

Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing ensemble.

Mary Pappas and Mira Reynolds.

Nancy Clay, Sharon Cash and Eleanora Voelkel.

Barbara Keating and Susan Zanetti.

Molly Rowell, Marian Caso and Helen Von Salzen.

John & Terry Lowry.

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ANNUAL GIVING KICK-OFF LUNCH On March 17th, held at the Country Club of North Carolina.

Rene White with Jerry & Yvonne Taylor.

Guest speaker Gilbert Baez of WRAL-TV and his wife Glinda.

Pinehurst Auto Mall event sponsors: John Beaver, Charlotte Hartson and Ashley & Casey Holderfield.

William Morrison, Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year Daniel Roberts and Arron Breasseale.

JoAnn & Randy Turner, Martha & Bill Timmons and Doris & Jake Jacobsen.

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Sandhills Sightings

Carolina international CIC

2015

Held at Carolina Horse Park March 19-22. Photos © Brant Gamma Photography.

Will Faudree

Dr. Tom Daniel, Will Faudree, Dr. Jim Hamilton

Michael Pollard Charles “Cap” Kane, Annie Eldridge, Lizzie Snow

Marilyn Little, Mike Plumb, Robert Costello Jimmy Wofford, Lefreda Williams, Mike Plumb, David O’Connor

Liz Aboody, Sarah Pyne, Andrew McConnon, Christina Curiale, Campbell Jourdian Michelle Palladino, Kristy Bonk

Lizzie Snow

Will Faudree, Lizzie Snow

Ariel Grald

Jane Murray, Audrey Wiggins, Dr. Tom Daniel, Holly Hudspeth, Vicki Reynolds, Ed Bauer

CORRECTION: In our March/April Hidden Gems of Pinehurst, we erroneously stated that MIRA’s guide dogs cost $7500 over the course of their working lives. This figure is actually the cost per year, and we apologize for the inaccuracy. MIRA would also like to point out that the initial idea to bring MIRA to the United States originated with Dr. Guy Bouvier, where our article stated it originated with Bob Baillie.

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