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From the Publisher JULY/AUGUST 2015 Sandhills Media Group, Inc. publisher/Editor Sioux Watson

Science is fun! Later this month, on July 31st we’ll be having a rare “Blue Moon”, when a second full moon falls in one month. It happens only every two to three years, and the last time we had a Blue Moon was August 31st, 2012.

I hope you are reading our magazine every issue, and not just once in a Blue Moon. Pick up a free copy – they are on stands throughout town and it is the only magazine available in all Pinehurst Resort rooms. Did you know you could also have Pinehurst Magazine mailed to directly to your home for only $20 a year? Go to our website to order, or give us a call. Since Pinehurst is a hub for visitors, golfers, shoppers, corporate bigwigs, politicians, real estate developers, services seekers, and diners from all over the state and country, these folks often pick up Pinehurst Magazine, and we want to make sure everyone that lives and works in the Pinehurst/Southern Pines area also never misses an issue!

Raise your hand if you love going to the doctor for your annual physical!

Men are especially guilty of putting those annual health checks on the back burner; we’ll explain why that is not a good idea. Additionally, we give busy guys creative ways to sneak in workouts.

With a name like Aberdeen, most folks know the town has Scottish roots; we explore it further to reveal the original importance of trains and tracks to the economy as far back as its post civil war days, when Aberdeen was a bustling center of commerce.

David Droschak takes a peek at some hidden places you’ll want to discover for yourself.

Beyond the golf courses and equestrian event spaces, world-class antique shops and architectural salvage venues await the adventurous shopper.

Jenni Hart takes us on a tour of top spots not to be missed, and throws in some history lessons at the same time.

I hope you enjoy some of our newest features; Sunday Supper visits Southern Pines restaurateur Scott Wolcott of Wolcott’s, and Professional Spotlight presents R.Riveter, a business owned by two military wives that manufactures purses and bags from recycled military goods. The best part?

They employ and empower other military wives to work in the workshop and storefront with them.

Love your town? We do too; send us ideas of stories worth covering.

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Aberdeen’s live music, railroad museum,

A wood sculpter from Southern Pines

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Southern Chatter professional spotlight

R. Riveter Empowering the Lives of Military Wives

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I n g en u i t y, c re at i v i t y a n d entrepreneurship are alive and well in Southern Pines at the business of R. Riveter. The company produces handmade canvas and leather handbags from durable recycled military materials. The uniqueness of this company is compounded by the fact that it empowers the lives of military spouses.

R. Riveter is the brainchild of two military wives, Cameron Cruse and Lisa Bradley, who met while their husbands were stationed in Dohlonega, Georgia in 2011. “As a military spouse it is difficult to find permanent employment,” says Cameron. “Military families are relocated every two to three years, and this continual relocation makes finding permanent work difficult.” Both Cruse and Bradley have master’s degrees. Bradley in business administration and Cruse in architecture – and these degrees have served them well in their business venture. “I looked for an architectural

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R. Riveter Co-owner Cameron Cruse

job within a 45-mile radius of the small town of Dohlonega, Georgia. Any available positions required at least two years experience. I was overeducated and under-experienced,” Cruse explained.

“Many people decide to go back to school when they cannot find a job but that was not something I wanted to do, and I told my husband I wanted to start a small business. At first he was leery, but he has always been supportive.” Cruse was creative and loved sewing, so she and Bradley thought about what they could manufacture. Making clothes would be too complicated, so they decided on handbags.

“What lady doesn’t like a nice, quality handbag?,” Cruse said. “We made the first two bags by hand but soon realized that was not going to work.”

They purchased a 45-year-old heavy duty industrial sewing machine, and so began the business. Their objective was to employ military spouses, and as they were relocated they could take their job with them.

“We have 18 independent contractors/‘riveters’ and four permanent employees working in six states.

Each makes a specific part of the handbag,” Cameron says. “For example, one person makes the leather straps, another the lining. We ship the materials to the ‘riveters’ and they ship the finished product back. Our dream is to expand and have shops in major military hubs.” They have an online business, and the retail shop is in Southern Pines, relocated to in 2014 when Cruse’s husband was assigned to Fort Bragg. Bradley is now in Tennessee following her husband who retired from the military, and she continues to handle the finances and business end.

Cruse explained, “The name R. Riveter gives homage to Rosie the Riveter, the iconic figure that represented women taking on the factory jobs of the men as they went to fight in WWII.” Each bag bears the names of the makers, and each is named for a military spouse or service member. For example, one is the Mrs. Omar Bradley bag and another is named after the oldest, still working, original WWII riveter, Eleanor Otto.

That same ‘can do’ spirit of the Rosie the Riveters of WWII can be seen at R. Riveter – and what better way to support our troops, their wives and families than to purchase a bag from R. Riveter? They are located at 177 Pennsylvania Avenue in Southern Pines.

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Southern Chatter tech radar

No Man’s Sky

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by Dan BAIN

I’ve intentionally stayed away from video games in this column, instead focusing on gadgetry and, when necessary, its related software.

But sometimes something so big comes along, it breaks rules and smashes preconceived notions.

Such is the case with No Man’s Sky, the brainchild of Sean Murray, cofounder of Hello Games.

A space exploration game, No Man’s Sky is too far-reaching to be described as merely “a space exploration game.” Players will explore a fictitious universe so large, no one can possibly visit every planet available. As they do so, they collect resources, upgrade ships and weaponry, and encounter infinite alien life forms – for commerce, diplomacy, or war.

One wouldn’t expect infinite possibilities to spring from only 1400 lines of code, but this game is procedurally generated – the environment is created by computer equations, from random numbers.

Not to worry, though, because the randomized environments are still rendered in stunning visuals, and the game will proceed realistically.

No Man’s Sky was originally built from a

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32-bit number processor, but Murray wanted to increase that to 64 bits. The result is a universe filled with planets numbered at two to the 64th power, or more than 18 quintillion unique planets.

In other words, a player will start at the edge of a galaxy with 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets to visit. If you spent only one second on each of them, it would still take you 5.8 billion years to see them all – longer than the life expectancy of the sun. That’s right – if it were even possible to play this game to its fullest extent, it would last longer than our own solar system. That’s as close to infinite as any game comes.

The game is playable offline, but will have online features allowing players to share details of their own experiences, and a galactic map will be available once a player has upgraded their ship with hyperdrive. Murray hopes to release it for PlayStation 4 and PC before the end of this year.

Price information and a specific release date were not available at printing, but watch for updates at no-mans-sky.com as you anticipate the adventure of a lifetime – that will last a lifetime.

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Southern Chatter ask the pro

Standing Tall Tobacco Road’s Chris Brown offers much more than an impressive size.

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At 6-foot-7, 260 pounds and sporting a size 16 golf shoe, Chris Brown is quite an imposing figure when he steps on the first tee, looking more like an NFL tight end than a golfer. But there is more substance to the new director of golf at award-winning Tobacco Road than his physical stature. One of the tallest professionals in the Carolinas PGA Section and one of just a handful of African Americans in the sport, the 46-year-old Brown took over his new post in June after holding the club’s head professional title since 2000. Brown believes his extensive background in golf has prepared him to run one of North Carolina’s most popular and talked about golf courses. He recently discussed the sport in the latest installment of Pinehurst Magazine’s “Ask the Pro.”

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Q: Have you always been tall, and did your height ever get in the way of playing golf?

A: I graduated high school at 6-foot-2, but grew 5 inches during my freshman year of college at Saint Augustine’s in Raleigh. When I was in college, club fitting wasn’t really on the front page and I made do. As I grew, so did the length of my shafts, but everything was done on the fly.

My height never really got in the way of my golf game, but has always been a conversation topic.

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Q: What do you enjoy about the golf industry?

A: The people. The game has afforded me the chance to meet people from all over the country and world, and from all walks of life. Because I come from such a diverse background, I think I see the world of golf a bit differently, so I can adapt to the needs of players much easier. Call it seeing most situations from a 360-degree point of view.

Q: What is unique about Tobacco Road?

A: There are so many ways I could answer this question, but I will go this route. The course evokes a passionate response from everyone who plays it. Whether you love it, hate it or simply don’t understand it, you will get a passionate response when you mention the name. Most courses can’t say that. It’s a joy to work a facility which evokes that much passion. The uniqueness is its strength.

Q: What is your dream foursome and why?

A: Playing one more round with my mother and father … or one more round with people who helped me get to where I am today. I won’t mention names because I’m sure I would forget someone. I’m definitely not going to list a bunch of famous people. That’s not me at all.

Give me three people who I care about and it doesn’t matter the venue. That’s what a dream group would be for me.

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Southern Chatter wine review

Rosé Exposé The best wine to drink in the heat of summer is rosé, and the best rosé comes from Bandol. These are just facts of life.

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A quick refresher on this most refreshing of wines: rosé is not sweet! Although it can be made that way, it’s usually dry, and better that way. Typically, rosés, which can be made from any red wine grapes, are light, insubstantial wines. Nothing against these fruity little pinkies – there’s definitely a time and place for them, like on your patio in late July – but the best producers in Bandol, a tiny appellation in Provence, right on the Mediterranean coast, are famed for making rosé that is, as our hostess at Bandol’s renowned Chateau Pradeaux put it, “un vin de gastronomie.”

Bandol’s vineyards are unpretentiously tucked in between houses in the little villages of the area, accessed by roads so narrow that two

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cars have to fold in their side mirrors to share them. Fields of coquelicots (Provence’s ubiquitous and enchanting bright red poppies, made famous

by Monet) and dandelions the size of softballs share the soil with gnarled old grapevines. Mostly these are Mourvédre, a red grape that thrives in hot climates and makes rich, tannic wines, often earthy and sauvage, as the French say.

When vinified as rosé rather than red, usually blended with other regional grapes, Mourvédre gives the wine surprising complexity, weight, depth and structure. Yet it’s also a pure and delicious pleasure to drink, especially at the dinner table – think bouillabaisse, that Provençal specialty, or any of the region’s flavors. In May, when I visited the south of France, young garlic

and onions were in season along with asparagus, artichokes and haricots verts. Tomatoes and olives were coming up fast – at the noble Chateau Vannières, the vines were surrounded by olive trees – and seafood was everywhere, as always from the nearby Mediterranean. That’s Bandol rosé’s gastronomie.

Bandol makes some of the world’s most expensive rosés, but these wines are cheap compared to many they outclass; and they’re a reminder that there’s a best of everything – even the simple and playful. And when cooler weather comes, you’ll want to get acquainted with Bandol’s reds, on which the appellation’s stature actually rests. These wines, also based on Mourvèdre, were once as esteemed as the reds of Bordeaux, and can require similar aging.

When Bandol red wine matures, though, it really matures. I recently poured my septuagenarian friend Jim a glass of 1999 Chateau Pradeaux rouge. It was his first taste of Bandol. He smiled and said, “Now that’s grown-up wine.”

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Southern Chatter book review

Like a Stone Wall by robert gable

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Some historical figures linger on in the popular imagination of America.

Something the person accomplished, or something they stood for, keeps their memory alive. The Civil War has given us a host of popular heroes, even though it officially ended 150 years ago in April. One of those heroes, whose legend continues to grow, is Stonewall Jackson.

REBEL YELL is S. C. Gwynne’s complete and thorough examination of why Jackson is still such a compelling figure in American history.

William Faulkner said the past isn’t gone; it isn’t even past. The Civil War is one of those events that isn’t even past. It’s 150 years later and Americans are still dealing with the effects of that terrible conflict. Whether you say it was about slavery or about states’ rights, a rational

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discussion about the cause of the war is a difficult task. Thomas J. Jackson saw it as a case of the Northern states invading Virginia. His task was to repel the invaders – attack and drive them back. For a little over two years, in inspiring fashion, he did just that.

Author Gwynne tells the story of Stonewall Jackson over the course of 46 chapters, followed by the acknowledgments, appendix, notes, bibliography, photograph credits, and an index.

He divides the chapters into five main parts. Parts 1 and 2 cover Jackson’s background, and the early parts of the war. Part 3, Valley of the Shadow of Death, details his style of command, and how he grew as a commander. Part 4, Stirrings of a Legend, shows how his men came to believe he could do no wrong. Part 5, All That Is Ever Given to a Man,

covers his death and the kind of immortality he has assumed. Maps placed throughout the text detail how the battles happened. The 16-page black-and-white photo insert includes photos of Jackson at various stages in his life, along with photos of people involved in his campaigns.

Jackson was a complex man. He was difficult to deal with, fanatical in his devotion to duty, and ingenious in his tactics. Often outnumbered, with less artillery, he somehow managed to seize the advantage time and again. Early in the war he once held a “war council” to discuss battle strategy with his junior officer. Unsatisfied with the result, he decided to never again broker a discussion on tactics. That backfired at times – his junior officers had no idea of why they were carrying out a certain maneuver. When snags inevitably popped up, they had to improvise “in the dark.”

More evidence that he was a jumble of contradictions can be seen in how ruthless and unyielding he could be to junior officers – yet he could be friendly, lighthearted and caring with his wife, child, and close friends. At times he was compassionate and kind with a fellow soldier. At other times he had a dispassionate, businesslike approach to personnel problems, which “made him even more formidable as a disciplinarian.”

Duty was duty. A devout Christian, he was known to pray while on his horse in the middle of a battle. But if he had to shoot unsatisfied men that threatened to mutiny, so be it. The rules were the rules.

This is a thorough book. Even though Gwynne notes that this is may not be as thorough as other Jackson studies, he packs a depth of knowledge in here. The author studied his subject, and knows his material. Aimed at the general reader interested in Civil War history, this is a scholarly treatment, and a popular treatment, at the same time. This is not a thrill-a-minute, nailbiting detective story. It is best read and digested a chapter at a time to get the full scope of this tenacious, multi-faceted man.

Jackson, like Sherman on the Northern side, fully understood that war is hell. He was able to keep his head in the middle of smoke and mass confusion. He wanted to end the war as quickly as possible. Anyone who didn’t agree with his

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tactics was not under his command for long. But he certainly knew how to motivate his troops, and they rallied at the very sight of him during a battle. Author Gwynne shows how Jackson earned the name Stonewall at the Battle of First Manassas. Even now, 150 years later, Jackson’s effect on the war is still the subject of intense debate. It’s one of history’s great unanswered questions: what would have happened to the outcome of the Civil War if he hadn’t died at the peak of his military career?

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Southern Chatter sunday supper

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Growing up in Maine, Scott Wolcott knew his lobster. Today, at his namesake restaurant in Southern Pines, the crustacean most closely associated with his native state is a star on the menu.

“We’re probably best known for lobster and seafood,” Wolcott says. “Lobster roll, lobster burger, lobster tail.”

But those who prefer the products of farm and forest will find much to suit them on the Wolcott’s menu, which is small but carefully curated: Appetizers such as blackened beef carpaccio and entrées such as fried chicken stuffed with Spanish pork sausage and Yukon Gold potatoes complement such offerings as lobster bisque and king crab Wellington.

Wolcott is a seasoned chef who, despite having just reached his 50s, has 35 years of experience beginning with his first job washing dishes as a 15-yearold in Gray, Maine.

Over the three decades that followed that first job, long before he came to open his own eatery, Wolcott worked on all sides of the cooking

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business. “I’ve done dishes, prep, bartending,” he says. “I’ve done it all.” He graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 1989 and went to work at Stouffer’s in Massachusetts. He then headed west to the remote Adirondacks of upstate New York, where he worked at the prestigious Mirror Lake Inn in Lake Placid.

Next he moved eastward to New Hampshire to help start a banquet business, an experience that gave him a taste of starting a business. But once the banquet operation was humming along, he found that he wasn’t so interested in the mass production of “chicken and prime rib for 5,000 people. It wasn’t what I wanted to do.”

Wolcott returned to Lake Placid for a Labor Day job interview, and the job that would put him on the road to North Carolina. A family was looking for a private chef, and after he auditioned for them he was hired. He was initially ambivalent about the job, because such a position can take an ambitious commercial chef off the grid. But such concerns proved to be unfounded.

“It was a great opportunity for me. It

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afforded me the opportunity to do things you can’t do in restaurants,” Wolcott says. “I had carte blanche to try new things and make whatever I wanted. I could experiment, serve it to them, and learn.” Such experimentation is difficult to do in restaurants, he says. “You can’t just buy foie gras and truffles and play around with it.”

Wolcott worked as the family’s private chef for 10 years. Over time, the family’s business interests in Raleigh drew him to the state, as well.

When he finally parted ways with his employer, he and his wife were familiar with the Sandhills region and began looking to open a restaurant.

After scouring the area, they settled on the space they now occupy on West Pennsylvania Avenue.

The space is intimate, with a total area of

900 square feet, including the kitchen, and room for 40 seats indoors. The recently added covered patio dining area doubles the square footage and will, come fall, add 30 seats to the restaurant.

The key to achieving success, he says, it to have high quality ingredients. He does a lot of shopping himself at the grocery store and the farmers market, knowing that there’s no substitute for his own trained eye.

“I learned it as a private chef,” he says. “Being able to identify quality product, get good stuff and not mess it up.”

Wolcott’s diverse cooking background has given him a practical cooking philosophy. “Just do what I do best: It doesn’t matter if it’s only a burger – the whole point is to do it right.”

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Southern Chatter sunday supper

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Chef Scott Wolcott’s

Baked Oysters with Leek and Parsnip Cream

Ingredients 20 Oysters in shell 3 Leeks (enough for 4 cups white part, chopped) 6 oz Bacon, chopped 2 Tbsp Butter Parsnips, peeled and 2 coarsely chopped Flour 2 Tbsp 2 Tbsp Vermouth ¼ cup Chicken stock Heavy cream ¾ cup To taste Salt and pepper

Toppings Ingredients 1½ to 2 cups Leeks (green part) 2 Tbsp Butter Rock salt To steady oysters

Breading Method 1. Chop the whites of leeks and the bacon, on medium heat; sweat in butter, no caramelization, around 20 minutes.

2. Add peeled and rough-cut parsnips to pan; stir to coat with butter.

3. Add the flour to make a roux with butter and bacon fat; continue to cook on low for a few minutes, again no color. Splash in vermouth and chicken stock.

4. Stir until thickening and smooth, add in heavy cream, more if needed to the desired consistency. The sauce should thicken as it comes to a simmer; adjust as necessary.

5. Turn off burner, and while still hot, process in a food processor or blender until smooth.

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6. Season with salt and white pepper.

7. Bias-cut the light green parts of the leek and simmer in butter a few minutes to bright green and pretty much cooked.

8. Shuck the oysters, being careful to keep the liquor in the shell with the meats; loosen the meats from the shell. Place the shuckers on some rock salt on sided baking pan to steady for baking.

9. Add 1 tsp of melted butter to each shell and bake for just a couple of minutes at high heat – 500 degrees, being careful not to overcook.

10. Top each shell with a tablespoon or so of seasoned cream and simmered leeks; serve immediately as an appetizer.

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Southern Chatter historical treasures

OUT OF MANY, ONE: A history of unity at

The Village Chapel by corbie hill photos couresty of the village chapel

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Photo courtesy of CardCow.com.

It only took Pinehurst founder James Walker Tufts seven odd months to turn a field of stumps to a village; Local laborers had worked sunup to sundown – white workers making a dollar a day, African Americans half that – so that what in June 1895 had been deforested North Carolina wilderness was recognizably a town, albeit the skeleton of one, by January 1896.

In the early days it was half resort, half wild.

One early visitor recalls Pinehurst surrounded by a fence designed to keep razorback hogs at bay. During her stay, too, the nascent village was threatened by a massive forest fire. The town survived, though many shacks in the surrounding woods were not so lucky.

Even in these early days Tufts knew Pinehurst needed a place of worship. It didn’t take him long to decide that it would be interdenominational – distinct from nondenominational in that no worshiper is expected to shed their denomination at the door.

“It was Tufts who said, ‘no, let’s do something different,’” says Rev. Dr. John Jacobs, The Village Chapel’s senior pastor. “Let’s have a church for everybody.” Close to 120 years have passed – 90 of them in the current building – and this inclusivity remains one of The Village Chapel’s defining qualities. Today it has three distinct types of services, often with different music, sermons, everything. Jacobs even has wardrobe changes, he says, and his parishioners include Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Baptists – members of any denomination, really.

Tufts was an enlightened Bostonian, as Jacobs puts it, and a close friend of Edward Everett Hale, author of the short story “The Man Without a Country” and a prominent 19th century orator. Having built Pinehurst as a winter

Photo courtesy of Tufts Archives.

retreat, Tufts knew it would draw people of all faiths. He wanted to unite them under a single roof rather than see them worship separately. So when Village Hall opened in 1897, it became the first home of The Village Chapel and Hale, a Unitarian, was pastor. All were welcome.

Village Hall was a shared space from 1897 to 1908, at which point it became a permanent place of worship. Pastor Thaddeus Cheatham arrived February 1st of that year, accompanied by his wife and infant daughter. He would preside over The Village Chapel for 42 years – a period spanning two locations and two World Wars.

Upon his 1908 arrival the new pastor began overseeing renovations of Village Hall. It got a spire and a stained glass window. For several months there was a simple altar and parishioners sat in folding chairs, though a permanent altar and pews eventually arrived.

“It was as natural for [Pinehurst residents] to go to the Chapel on Sunday as it was to go to the Country Club on Monday,” Cheatham later wrote. “This was the spirit of the young Pinehurst Pinehurstmagazine.com 27

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Garden view at The Village Chapel

and it was the spirit that created the atmosphere in which The Village Chapel took form.”

In the spirit of inclusion, the new space housed both Protestants and a smaller Catholic congregation, which worshiped on what had only years before been a performance stage.

Interestingly, and continuing the theme of unity, Cheatham and the Catholic priest kept their Model T Fords in a garage built by a local carpenter who happened to be a Baptist minister.

They called it “Trinity Garage.”

“The cordial sentiment that permitted the two associations to function for 15 years under the one roof will always be one of the romantic memories of the Pinehurst spirit of Christian fraternity,” reads a May 3rd, 1925 Pinehurst Outlook story. However, many felt the need for a new space, Cheatham wrote.

This was the genesis of the Chapel as it stands today. The Tufts family gave some of the finest land in Pinehurst – indeed, the heart of the village – as its location, and architect Hobart Upjohn was internationally recognized for its design. The cornerstone was laid April 13th, 1924, and period photos show a pleased Cheatham presiding over the ceremony. Inside 28 Pinehurstmagazine.com

the cornerstone went then-current newspapers, a Bible and prayer book, maps of Pinehurst’s golf courses, and a certified copy of Cheatham’s best score. March 1st, 1925 saw the first service.

That was 90 years ago this spring. The world has changed, Pinehurst has grown, and interdenominational churches are no longer as rare as they were in 1897. Yet the brainchild of James Walker Tufts and Edward Everett Hale remains.

“The Village Chapel has stood here through all these years, with its slender spire, its beautiful proportions, its chaste simplicity, its friendly and devout spirit, to bless and inspire those who come under its influence,” Cheatham wrote.

“Some have been gracious enough to say that the Chapel is the heart of Pinehurst.”

Pinehurst Magazine would like to thank Shirley Nelson, George A. Trail III, senior pastor Rev. Dr. John Jacobs, and music director Stephen Gourley of The Village Chapel for all of their help in this story.

Much of the historical detail, including quotes from Thaddeus Cheatham, came from Pinehurst and The Village Chapel, a 1957 history based heavily on Cheatham’s writings and published by the Pinehurst Religious Association.

The Music of

TheVillage Chapel Even as a child, Stephen Gourley loved music so much so that his parents could use it as an incentive: “You can play the organ after you finish your homework,” they would say. Today, his passion is his profession.

The Goldsboro native has been The Village Chapel’s music director since February 2014, and he seems right at home.

“There was a feature done by one of NBC’s affiliates when the US Open was here this past year, and folks that I spoke to who watched the tournament on TV, they said that they could hear the carillon,” Gourley recalls, “I said, ‘well, that’s my church!’” The carillon – that is, the church bells -– strike regularly, and can be heard throughout Pinehurst. In the 1999 US Open, it was the carillon playing Amazing Grace that put late champion Payne Stewart at ease. If the carillon doesn’t chime on time, Gourley notes with a smile, “we get calls.”

The Chapel organ is about the age of the building itself – it dates to 1926. In 1970, some additional stops were added, though it wasn’t until 2001 that

Village Chapel Music Director Stephen Gourley.

Gourley’s predecessor, John W. Shannon, gave it a complete overhaul. The organ got a fourth keyboard, a larger console, and a new set of digital stops. Some of these are 32-foot stops, giving the rich sound of pipes that could not physically fit in the Chapel. The tallest actual pipe, Gourley says, is 16 feet tall; the smallest measures a mere foot.

“It is the largest in the county,” Gourley says as he pulls various stops, displaying different voices and features of the organ. “It sits at 80 ranks of both actual speaking pipes and digital stops.”

Yet with the flip of two switches The Village Chapel’s two instruments become one. Though the carillon is in the tower and the organ is in the sanctuary, Gourley can control the former with the latter. He looks at his watch – nearly 11:00 a.m. – and he pulls a certain stop and flips a certain switch. Then he plays several bars of Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee with his right hand. The carillon sounds the melody from high above the ceiling.

It resonates down through the rafters and into the sanctuary, but also outward and throughout Pinehurst itself. When the sound fades, the air feels empty.

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Village of Pinehurst 4th of July Parade July 4 | 10am Downtown Pinehurst Followed by entertainment and activities at Tufts Memorial Park 910.295.8656 | ahunt@vopnc.org

Oil Painting Class With Eileen Strickland July 8 | 2-5pm Village Hall, Assembly Hall 425 Magnolia Road | Pinehurst Cost: $35/resident, $70/nonresident 910.295.2817 | pinehurstrec.org Wine Tasting July 9 | 6-8pm Rhett’s Restaurant 132 W Pennsylvania Avenue | Southern Pines 910.695.3663 | rhettsinc.com

Village of Pinehurst 4th of July Fireworks Celebration July 4 | 6pm Pinehurst Harness Track Featuring live music, pony rides, face painting, games and concessions 910.295.8656 | ahunt@vopnc.org Aberdeen July 4th Celebration July 4 | 5:30pm Aberdeen Lake Park 301 Lake Park Xing | Aberdeen 37th Junior North & South Amateur Championship July 5 | 8am 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst Jack Grace July 5 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen 910.944.7502 | theroosterswife.org ‘Fillies’ Golf and Social July 7 | 5:30pm Longleaf Country Club 10 Knoll Road | Southern Pines 910.692.4411

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Mary Poppins July 9 | 7:30-10pm Sunrise Theater 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com Live Music: Dirt Road Senate July 11 | 8-11pm Neville’s 130 W New Hampshire Avenue Southern Pines | 910.692.1939 15th Annual Sunrise Blues Crawl July 11 | 7pm Sunrise Theater 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com 113th Women’s North & South Amateur Championship July 12 | 8am Pinehurst No. 2 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst Hummingbirds with Susan Campbell July 12 | 3-4:30pm Weymouth Woods Visitor Center 1024 Fort Bragg Road | Southern Pines 910.692.2167 Nicki Perrott July 12 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen 910.944.7502 | theroosterswife.org

Cooking with Curt July 13 | 10-11:30am Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882 Sandhills Photo Club Meeting July 13 | 7pm The O’Neal School 3300 Airport Road | Southern Pines sandhillsphotoclub.org Outdoor Jazz Concert July 13 | 6:30pm On The Lawn Sandhills Community College 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.692.6185 | sandhills.edu Sleepless in Seattle July 16 | 7:30pm Sunrise Theater 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com Moore County Farmers MArket July 18 | 8am-12pm Every Saturday Downtown Southern Pines 910.947.3752 Old Glory Legacy Foundation Open House Family Day July 18 | 8am-2pm Old Glory Legacy Foundation 27323 Harold Morris Road | Wagram 210.253.0730 | oglfoundation.org Get Right Band Mary Johnson Rockers July 19 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen 910.944.7502 | theroosterswife.org

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Choro Das 3 July 26 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen 910.944.7502 | theroosterswife.org

Kids Pottery Camp August 17, 18, 19 & 21 | 1-3pm The Fair Barn 200 Beulah Hill Road South | Pinehurst $70 resident, $140 nonresidents 910.295.3808 | pinehurstrec.org

Lunch & Learn in the Gardens: What’s New in the Plant World July 27 | 12-1pm Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882 Kids Pottery Camp July 27, 28, 29 & 31 | 1-3pm The Fair Barn 200 Beulah Hill Road South | Pinehurst $70 resident, $140 nonresident 910.295.3808 | pinehurstrec.org Live Music at the Jefferson Inn July 31 | 8-11pm 150 West New Hampshire Avenue Southern Pines | 910.692.9911 jeffersoninnsouthernpines.com 2015 U.S. Kids Golf World Championship July 30-August 1 | 7am Pinehurst Resort 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst 50 & Over Walking Group August 1 | 9-10am Every Wednesday and Saturday at Reservoir Park at the base of the stairs in the parking lot | Southern Pines 910.295.4271 Bridal Consignment Expo August 1 | 11am-4pm Holiday Inn Boardeaux 1707 Owen Drive | Fayetteville islandgirlcraftandvendorevent.com

Children’s Treasure Trail Adventure August 22 | 9am-12pm Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882

35th Annual Fine Arts Festival August 7 | 9am Campbell House Galleries E Connecticut Avenue | Southern Pines 910.692.2787 First Friday in Southern Pines August 7 | 5pm Sunrise Green Space 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines firstfridaysouthernpines.com Summer Concerts on the Green August 8 | 6:30-8pm Sandhills Community College 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.692.6185 | sandhills.edu Sandhills Photo Club Meeting Member Competition: Close Up August 10 | 7pm The O’Neal School 3300 Airport Road | Southern Pines sandhillsphotoclub.org Ladies Night Out August 14 | 5:30-9pm The Fair Barn 200 Beulah Hill Road South | Pinehurst $10 in advance, $15 at the door thefairbarn.org

1 in 8k Rally for the Cure 8k and 1k Fun Run August 29 | 8am-12pm Village of Pinehurst 150 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst 1in8k.org Moore County Community Flea Market August 29 | 8am-2pm The Fair Barn 200 Beulah Hill Road South | Pinehurst 910.295.0166 Lunch & Learn in the Gardens: Turf Grass MAnagement for the Home Lawn August 31 | 12-1pm Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882

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MEN’S Doctor appointments, exercise routines and signing up for that fun run 34 Pinehurstmagazine.com

DOCTORS

WARN:

Procrastinating can lead to health problems for males.

by David Droschak Men can view themselves as

indestructible, logging 70-hour work weeks, skipping the gym, eating chips, burgers and fries late at night, drinking or smoking – or worse – both.

And unfortunately, males often ignore the warnings signs unhealthy living can produce or skip their regular physicals, prostate exams or a colonoscopy. Most, if not all of these procedures, are painless and can save your life, with early detection being the key.

Doctors Allen Mask and Jack Hughes, veterans of Triangle-area medicine for decades and leaders in their fields, help us understand the top five areas of concern for males. Mask is the founder and medical director of Raleigh Urgent Care Center. He has also served as the medical reporter for WRAL-TV’s health team since 1993. Meanwhile, Hughes is now 95 years old and was a practicing urologist in the Triangle until the age of 69. He remained in the medical field for 11 more years until retiring at age 80.

“To me, it has been moderation,” Hughes said. “Moderation in everything, but I don’t think you can work too hard, provided what you’re doing doesn’t put you under stress you can’t handle.”

Weight The term “beer belly” in males encompasses more than a few brews. Doctors say males tend to put on weight in their midsections with a fatty diet and unhealthy lifestyle, or a combination of lack of sleep and eating late at night. And men hate to hear their doctors proclaim: “You’ve got to lose 10 pounds.” Seems easy, correct? Sometimes all it takes is as much of a lifestyle change as a change in dietary choices. In particular, Mask says black males across the Southeast have a higher death rate associated with stroke, which leads back to diet choices. “We love our pork, we love our red meat, and we also tend to exercise less in this region. Seventy-two percent of Americans are either overweight or obese, and obesity is a major risk factor for everything,” Mask said. A simple treadmill test on a regular basis, even for younger males, is a good idea, the doctors said.

Prostate Exams Males need to begin these procedures once a year at the age of 40, most of the time in conjunction with a physical. “This is the one procedure that jumps out for me at this age,” Mask said. A large cross section of males don’t get an annual physical, which is puzzling to doctors since most if not all insurance companies cover this procedure. Mask recommends having the rectal exam and blood work. “And you can’t skip one,” Mask said. “The idea is you have to have the two done at the same time.” Mask says males often balk at the rectal exam. “Once they have it done, it takes less than 10 seconds. It is really not that invasive. You just have to man up. By the time you walk out of the office, you feel perfectly fine.

It makes no sense to balk at this.” And of note, more African Americans die of prostate cancer in North Carolina than any other state. “If I am going to take my car in once or twice a year to the auto dealer for a checkup, I’m certainly going to do it for my own body,” Mask said.

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A must at age 50, but yet again another exam males tend to shy away from. “A lot of people just don’t think about their own mortality; you’re busy making a living and looking after your family,” Hughes said. “And having an education is important; knowing about the benefits of good, clean living and paying attention to symptoms.”

Colon cancer is the most preventable form of cancer in males, but can lead to serious problems if gone undetected. If the exam is normal, the recommendation is to have another one at age 60.

“Males need to put a big red flag by this exam,” Mask said. “It all starts off as a polyp, maybe the size of a BB or maybe two or three BBs strung together, and the doctors notice those and shave it off, much like shaving a piece of your beard, and then it’s gone. It’s not a cancer where all of a sudden a mass is there the size of a lemon, so it’s very preventable.” Sedation methods now make the procedure very tolerable.

Exercise

Males more than females suffer from the “I’ll do it tomorrow” syndrome, and it’s most prevalent when it comes to regular exercise, which can greatly reduce many health issues. A lack of time because of work is the number one excuse here, but as Hughes says, that’s what it is – an excuse.

“A yearly physical can pick up things such as diabetes or high blood pressure,” Hughes said.

“The problem is, people will start on an exercise program in January and it might last until March.

That doesn’t do much good.” For 25 years, Hughes would wake up at 5:40am and jog two and a half miles per day. “Those who don’t exercise just aren’t motivated,” Hughes said. “I grew up in the Depression and had to work hard. I guess I was just one of those males who was motivated. Most people agree you should do it, but only a small percentage will do it regularly.” At 95, Hughes still goes to the gym three times a week for 30 minutes. “And then some guys just walk around with their potbellies hanging over their belts.”

Stress Males are still viewed as the primary breadwinner in most families, and if the wife also works then chores, such as watching the kids or grocery shopping, have to be shared responsibilities at home, adding more stress to an already stressful lifestyle. “Being able to handle stress is probably one of the greatest gifts a person can have – not getting overly excited in stressful situations, being able to remain relatively calm so you can think things through,” Hughes said. “That doesn’t come easy, and some people can never handle stress.” Mask notes that the leading deaths in males center on cardiovascular disease. Meaning blood pressure checks on a regular basis can alert doctors to early symptoms.

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MUD &

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Obstacle races are demanding and messy - but they’re the latest craze in making fitness fun.

by Kurt Dusterberg

Photo courtesy of Big Muddy Challenge

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W h en F red Au g u s t i n e

showed up for his first obstacle race, he had no idea what he was getting into. His wife had signed him up for something new, and he looked forward to breaking out of his routine at the gym.

“It was a 13-mile event. When I got to eight miles, I just wanted to quit,” Augustine remembers, before breaking into a laugh. “I swear I thought she just wanted the life insurance policy.”

Augustine finished the course, with a little help from his wife, who hopped a guard rail and helped him cover the last 10 yards.

“I thought, ‘I did this for a t-shirt and a medal?’” he says.

Augustine is not alone. Obstacle runs (and similar events called mud runs or adventure runs) are attracting a growing number of people who are looking to break away from traditional fitness routines. As the name suggests, obstacle runs add a variety of challenges to a traditional running race. For starters, all of them are off-road events.

Participants scale walls, climb nets and wade through bodies of water.

“It’s experiential entertainment,” says Rob Dickens, who operates the Rugged Maniac obstacle race series. “People are no longer satisfied to sit on their couch and have entertainment delivered to them via a television. They want to get out there and be a part of the action. They want to go out and have fun, and get exercise at the same time.”

Rockingham Motor Speedway hosted a Rugged Maniac event in May, drawing 8,000 participants. Dickens, a Wilmington native, would like to bring an event to the Triangle area if he can find a suitable location.

“We try to find a location with interesting terrain, whether it’s a stream or hills or a pond,” Dickens says. “But we also need a venue that’s big enough to hold our event.”

And building a course is no small task.

After getting hooked on running obstacle races, Augustine got the bug to build a course. He quit his job and ventured out on a large property owned by a race buddy.

“I went out into the woods one day with a spray paint can and hedge cutters. I cut my way through and made a trail,” he said.

Photo courtesy of Rugged Mania NC

After Tropical Storm Sandy wiped out his first course in 2012, he rebuilt it and launched Legend Race, held annually in September in Oxford, N.C. To keep expenses low, Augustine prepares the entire course himself.

“I hang ropes, hang cargo nets in trees, build obstacles,” he says. “There are inverted staircases, teetertotters to run up and down. You swing from a rope [to a net] in mid-flight.”

Today, Legend Race has close to 500 participants.

Like most obstacle races, it attracts many young adults who aren’t content to settle for jogging on a trail or a treadmill. The obstacles add a level of excitement as well as a sense of camaraderie. If you’ve never felt the rush of successfully climbing a wall, your fellow racers usually lend a hand. That’s the spirit of the event.

There’s a cool factor, too. The Rugged Maniac website promotes “epic” obstacles and “plenty of beer” at the finish line. Turning a workout into a party makes these events attractive to groups. Many obstacle racers train together and travel several hours to a race site. With a little planning, you can make a weekend of it.

“A lot of people are competitive, but a lot of them are encouraging people and want to see them do something they never thought they could do before,” Augustine says. “It’s a great team-building atmosphere.”

You don’t have to channel your inner warrior to take part in an obstacle run. While some events are meant to test endurance and fitness, others cover just a couple of miles. Some people might aim for first place, but most set more personal goals.

“I like to compete against myself,” says Augustine, who has taken part in more than 25 events. “I go back to the same races to see if I can do better. For me, physical fitness is more about functional fitness than it is just to look good.”

Not all the races are geared toward the adventurous 20-something set. Mud runs attract families with children, capitalizing on the idea that getting a little gooey goes a long way with kids.

Adam Spisak imagined the day when he would want to run a race with his young daughter, so he developed the Big Muddy Challenge, which holds events in North Carolina and Virginia. The seasonopener in Raleigh attracted about 2,000 people.

At the Big Muddy Challenge, the obstacles are a little toned down, and the use of mud, soap suds and inflatables appeals to a wide age range. At a Charlotte event, one family competed with four generations, from age six to 82.

“The majority of our folks go at their own pace – run, walk, crawl. That’s all encouraged,” Spisak says.

“We’ve tapped a very unique niche in the market that is under-served.”

Whether you’re looking to push the adrenaline or just get your family off the couch for the weekend, there’s an obstacle run that will challenge your fitness routine. The terrain will change, you’ll wind up covered in gunk, and you might discover some physical attributes you didn’t know you possessed.

“We get people who are all shapes and sizes,” Dickens says. “There are people who want to be competitive and get that medal. But for most people who come to our events, they just want to get outside and have fun, doing something active.”

For more information on North Carolina obstacle runs and mud runs, go to www.mudrunguide.com/ directory/usa/north-carolina-nc.

Photo courtesy of Rugged Mania NC

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It’s time to start

Erik Broo racing.

MAKING

TIME

by Corbie Hill

Erik Broo doesn’t want to

wake up at 5:30. He doesn’t want to groggily force himself out of bed while his wife and young son still sleep. He’s not sure how his body will react to leaving his North Raleigh home on his road bike, cycling dozens of miles even before the sun is up and returning home as others are only getting out of bed. He doesn’t want to do it, he says, but he’s going for it anyway. Otherwise, there’s really not time.

“I have to try,” he says.

Broo, like many who balance career and family with inconsequential things like sleep, is a busy guy. The 31-yearold is a quality manager with Advance Auto Parts and has a one-and-ahalf-year-old son. Still, he cares about his health, so he sticks to a vegan diet. And he makes the time to exercise.

“I started taking cycling seriously at 25,” he says. He has competed in races like the Tour de Gila in New Mexico and the Air Force Association Cycling Classic in Arlington, Virginia, and his training regimen for those races involved hundredplus mile rides. As a dad, however, he can no longer simply hop on his bike and be gone for hours on an open-ended ride. Today his Saturday outings, accordingly, are in the 55-60 mile range.

“Now everything has to fit around nap schedules and lunch times – it’s much more regimented,” he says. “I suppose I could get out the door early enough and still get in a 100-mile ride if I wanted, but I’d have to be going to bed quite early.”

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counterintuitive, but when he’s at his job at Life Time Fitness he’s not working out, per se, but training clients. Besides, Matroni, 22, is also an NC State student: between full-time work and school, there’s not a lot of time.

“You take opportunities when you have them,” he says. His attitude is more go-until-you-drop than Broo’s, though the two have in common that they make time to exercise when none seems to exist. “If you have a free hour, don’t just sit there and relax,” Matroni says over the phone, audibly switching into trainer mode. “Go get your workout.”

Without these workouts, Matroni wouldn’t be in shape for the 70-mile triathlons he prefers. Broo has felt his racing performance suffer when life gets in the way of his workouts – he recently changed jobs and moved, for example, and hasn’t gotten back in a good workout rhythm. Still, he’s confident he’ll find a new routine and be back out there, making the time to ride the distances he used to. And exercisefriendly central North Carolina will still be there.

“We have trails everywhere, so if you want to run you can always run in a different spot,” Matroni says.

“Whenever you’re driving, you always see someone running, or you see packs and packs of cyclists. We definitely do more than enough, I believe, to provide adequate infrastructure. People know it, too.”

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by Corbie Hill When Jennifer Williams opened Wood Element Chinese Medical Practice in Southern Pines this past April, it was the culmination of a lifetime fascination and identification with Eastern culture and philosophy. Even as a young child in West Virginia, she was drawn to it. “I was attracted to the art, philosophies, and the concept of inner strength,” she recalls. By the age of eight, she had decided to follow a healthier path than her tobaccosmoking adoptive family – and to eventually help people like them live healthier lives.

Today, Williams holds a Master’s degree from the Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences in Oakland, California, and she applies this knowledge – as well as hands-on experience in a hospital in China’s Hunan Province – to her Southern Pines practice.

“I practice medicine using acupuncture and herbs. I practice joy of life through sharing tea,” Williams says, listing Wood Element’s three focuses. “For some, acupuncture and herbs can be

a barrier, but tea helps transcend those barriers.”

She reports that one older veteran and farmer she works with has been able to go off pain medication completely after she treated him with acupuncture; another, who had been suffering from a painful rash, was successfully treated using herbs, she says.

Williams is more practical than metaphysical about her field. In the Hunan Province hospital where she interned, she saw traditional Chinese medicine prescribed alongside radiology or more familiar pharmaceuticals. She identifies with this integrated, scientific approach.

“I do not favor the esoteric aspects used as medical explanations,” she says. Some practitioners who think this way also try to bring patients in at least ten times, she says – often without significant results. Like the doctors Williams worked with in China, she takes a more pragmatic, realistic tack.

“I do not make promises or guarantees, but it is my mission to resolve issues or improve conditions in as few visits as possible,” she says.

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By David Droschak | Photos by McKenzie Photography

Aberdeen’s National Register historic district is located in the shadows of the area’s worldrenowned golf, and features a strong railroad presence, antiques, unique gift shops and cafes.

Pinehurst Magazine’s ongoing series of Hidden Gems features some unique Aberdeen history, a place for the kids and a quaint concert venue worth checking out.

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MALCOLM BLUE FARM Visitors to the Malcolm Blue Farm wilL get a first-hand feel of life in the 1800s by touring the farmstead and its 7.5 acres, which also consist of a windmill, gristmill and several barns.

The Malcolm Blue Historical Society was established in 1973 to manage the farm, but the organization was disbanded.

Last year, the farm was turned over to the town of Aberdeen, which will stage a Farm Skills Festival in the fall and plans several Bluegrass festivals on the site in 2016.

“Simply put, it’s cultural history,” said Bob Martin, a former president of the Malcolm Blue Historical Society. “Malcolm was the original settler in Aberdeen. He owned some 88,000 acres at one point, all the way from Raeford to Carthage.”

Blue produced naval stores throughout the 1800s, and when that business dried up he went into logging.

“He cut down all the trees,” Martin said. “At one point about 1900, there were no pine trees left around here.”

The Malcolm Blue Farm houses a two-story museum, and is furnished to roughly Civil War period.

“All donated by local people,” said Martin, who still organizes tours of the farmstead. “And it is absolutely gorgeous.”

BETHESDA CHURCH AND CEMETERY As you approach Bethesda Church and cemetery from either direction steel arches spanning the road signify something unique, something of extreme significance.

A bright white wooden church contrasts gray fading tombstones of area Scottish settlers.

The church dates to 1788, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and features an Old Slave Gallery and bullet holes from a Civil War battle.

A walk through the cemetery alone is interesting in itself, seeing some of the inscriptions that were popular in the early 1800s, such as “A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.”

Twenty-four picnic benches form a large semicircle under a series of large oak trees adjacent to the church where the faithful gather the last Sunday in September for what is described as

Homecoming Worship Services.

“This church is simply the history of his area,” said 65-year-old Al McDonald, the church’s groundskeeper. “The lumber that was milled to build this church was done by my ancestors, so I’ve got a connection that goes way back. If you are from Moore County, you can trace your family tree back to this cemetery.”

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Janet Kenworthy with promotional poster.

the rooster’s wife Janet Kenworthy has GROWN The Rooster’s Wife from its humble inception eight years ago, when the first concert was held at her house, the furniture pushed out to the porch, musicians performing in front of her fireplace and patrons sitting in folding chairs.

Kenworthy’s non-profit association, organized to celebrate the performing arts, still remains true to its humble beginnings at a venue called the Popular Knight Spot. There is no air conditioning (just two huge custom fans and large sliding doors that open in the back) at the Knight Street location in downtown Aberdeen, and a hodgepodge seating arrangement of chairs and couches.

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But it all seems to work just fine for those seeking some top-notch music acts.

“The access to top quality live music is just wonderful, and you are so close to the musicians,” Kenworthy said. “It is just very invigorating to be a part of live music.”

The Rooster’s Wife stages 40-45 national touring acts with pretty much a year-round operation with the help of Kenworthy’s 85-year-old mother, Priscilla Johnson. The venue drew upwards of 140 people over the Memorial Day holiday.

Concerts are staged on Sundays at 6:46p.m.

And why do shows begin at such an odd time?

“People don’t ask twice, do they?” Kenworthy says with a chuckle.

UNION STATION

RAILROAD MUSEUM

Kids are fascinated by trains.

A trip to the Union Station Railroad Museum in downtown Aberdeen will bring a big smile and dozens of questions from the little ones.

“It’s an old passenger station, and when those freight trains come through it looks like they’re about to drive right through the museum.

The kids absolutely love that,” said Bob Martin, the museum’s co-curator. “They just go crazy, especially if they are there around lunchtime when the Aberdeen Carolina and Western runs a 100-car freight train by the post office.”

Aberdeen stood depressed through the end of the Civil War before three railroad lines opened up the area for the shipment of tobacco, logs and naval supply products. Later, railroads were used for the mass transportation of tourists who flocked to the Sandhills to vacation and play golf.

“The museum is a neat little place with some really unique displays, like a complete Penn Central conductor’s uniform,” Martin said. “How we ended up with that uniform down here, I have no idea.”

Built in 1900, Union Station features Victorian architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum features railroad exhibits and artifacts from the Aberdeen & Rockfish Railroad and one of only two inspection cars left in the United States.

A renovated caboose also sits on tracks nearby at the location of Main Street and Sycamore Street.

“It’s a no-charge museum,” Martin said. “Just call me (910.215.0012) and I’ll come down and open the doors up for you.”

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In addition to world-class golf and renowned equestrian events, the Sandhills region is known for great antiques and architectural salvage. In an easy day of driving, a focused shopper can visit more than a half dozen interesting antique shops. Many have specific items their owners are especially fond of collecting and selling, so grab a map, take notes, and get to know the folks behind the counter. If there is a particular antique you’re searching for, you will find Southern hospitality in spades when you’re face-to-face with local dealers. They know the area, they’re steeped in the history of its economy and architecture, and they have a passion for vintage and antique items matched only by their penchant for friendly storytelling.

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Railside Architectural & Antiques 123 Exchange Street | Aberdeen Our first stop was Railside Architectural & Antiques in Aberdeen. Owner Richard Gergle is well into his second 10-year lease of the building, which dates to the late 1890s. The charming, rustic exterior of the building hints at the treasures inside, which include furniture, lamps, antique quilts, tools and farm implements, and an extensive collection of reclaimed doors, windows and moldings ideal for a remodeling or interior decorating project. During a visit in early June, we found a flax wheel from the late 1800s, several antique trunks, a ship’s wheel wall mount barometer from the 1940s, and a handsome ball finial from Charleston, S.C. that dates to the early 1900s.

Railside specializes in European and American antiques and garden statuary and furniture.

Town & Country Antique Mall 206 N. Sandhills Boulevard | Aberdeen Just around the corner from Railside, you’ll find Town & Country Antique Mall. If you’re a collector of military memorabilia, you will be impressed by the extensive offerings of antique weaponry, medals, clothing, photographs, maps and other documents at Town & Country Antique Mall. You can also take a trip back in time in the section devoted to advertising tins from the last century. Coffee, lard, dusting powder, fruitcake, and every imaginable cure for physical ailments came packaged in charming tins that are well preserved many decades later. A carousel pony, an original Hitchcock chair dating to the early 1800s, and monogrammed soup tureens once belonging to James Walker Tufts, the founder of Pinehurst, round out some of the more notable of the thousands of unique items found here.

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down memory lane antiques 161 Dawkins Street | Aberdeen Down Memory Lane Antiques is owned by Charles Ross, a certified personal property appraiser who has been in the antiques and collectibles business for 30 years. Here you’ll find furniture, paintings, musical instruments, jewelry and accessories.

We also found a hulking Weber piano from the 1870s, a 1920s Victrola, Heywood-Wakefield furniture, and a cobbler’s workbench, complete with original tools, including awls and lasts (the molds that resemble feet, for measuring and fastening the shoe components together). In addition to the items for sale, Ross also displays a fascinating collection of African American memorabilia, including items featuring some of the country’s most accomplished black athletes.

Theatre Antiques 143 NE Broad Street | Southern Pines Theatre Antiques in Southern Pines is housed in an 1893 building whose original tenant hosted vaudeville acts. When talkies were later introduced, a screen was added and it became a movie theatre. Following other incarnations, including one as a nightclub with black and purple décor, it eventually eschewed its rollicking patrons for a more subdued clientele: those searching for antique furniture and collectibles. The owner of Theatre Antiques is proud to carry only solid wood pieces, including some new items in addition to antiques. We found a stunning, solid walnut, three-drawer bureau from the 1890s; a Kentuckymade, Empire style, mahogany and poplar secretary bookcase from the 1840s; and a striking five-piece Art Nouveau pewter serving set from the 1930s. A stroll along Broad Street isn’t complete without a visit to Theatre Antiques. The history oozes from the walls of this historic destination. Be sure to look up, as the original ceiling tiles are intact, having somehow survived the black and purple era unscathed.

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check it out!

Page Furniture 130 E Illinois Avenue Southern Pines

Page Furniture carries new, brand name furniture, as well as consigned antiques and collectibles.

Gypsy’s Charm Antiques 125 E Illinois Avenue Southern Pines

Gypsy’s is a cute, charming little spot offering functional, eyecatching pieces, good prices, and custom painting.

Karen’s Attic 5689 U.S. Hwy. 1 Southern Pines

Karen’s Attic offers collectibles that are fun, funky and shabby chic. You may not find a lot of priceless antiques, but you’re guaranteed a great time and a heavy dose of creative inspiration.

Pastimes

5336 N.C. 211 | West End Head just northwest of Pinehurst on 211 and visit Pastimes Antiques and Consignment, where you’ll find multiple vendors under one roof, and a smattering of antique items in addition to consigned furniture, artwork and more.

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Be sure to check out these additional spots:

cameron If you are serious about collecting, or interested in the history of the Sandhills, you will want to make the drive to visit the dozen or so antique shops of Cameron, voted by patrons and several national publications as among the top spots in the Southeast to find valuable antiques. Several shops occupy historic houses that once belonged to prominent merchants, railroad men and political figures.

Cameron was founded in the late 1800s and grew from the terminus of the Raleigh and Augusta Railroad. The town has maintained its historic appeal and offers visitors a welcoming stay with several casual dining options and seasonal attractions. Mark your calendar for July 18th, Cameron’s annual “Summer Sizzler Sale,” and take advantage of the annual street fairs each spring and fall. Plan to get the most out of your visit by going to www.antiquesofcameron.com.

sanford The Sanford Antique Mall, at 118 S. Moore Street, is a one-stop shopping destination offering 18,000 square feet of inventory from as many as 75 dealers. Here you will find a generous selection of antique wood furniture, estate and costume jewelry, cameos, watches, clothing, lamps, home goods, farm implements, paintings, musical instruments and more. Several dealers feature architectural demo items including fireplace mantels, doorknobs and stained glass windows. Ever popular among collectors, Fiesta Ware, Flow Blue ceramics, and apothecary bottles are sprinkled among various vendors’ collections as well. Plan your visit by going to www.sanfordantiquemall.com.

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Tree Houses A conversation with accomplished wood sculptor Patrick Dougherty

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There are no straight lines in nature, or so they say. This is just fine by Patrick Dougherty – in fact, the Chapel Hill artist celebrates curvy, sinuous, and even wonky lines in his sculptures. His medium is saplings and sticks, and he uses them to build improbable sculptures that are equal parts bird’s nest and fantasy castle.

And wherever he is in the country – or in the world – he uses the wood that’s already there.

“Out in Seattle I might be using vine maple, alder, or willow, which they have a lot of. If it’s in the Midwest it might be elm and a kind of dogwood they have – a rough leaf dogwood, not like our North Carolina flowering dogwoods, but a

different variety,” he says. “In North Carolina and up and down the East Coast I use a lot of maples.”

Appropriately, the sculpture Dougherty spent much of June building in Fayetteville’s Cape Fear Botanical Garden is made of the sticks and saplings that were already there or nearby. And though he’s an adult with grown children of his own, when he is working he relies on instincts he developed growing up in Southern Pines in the ‘50s. He fondly remembers playing in the woods with his four siblings and, to some degree, he’s that child again when he works.

Pinehurst Magazine caught up with Dougherty to talk about his fascinating work.

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Q: How did you pick the Cape Fear Botanical Garden?

I’m a sculptor for hire, so I work with anybody and everybody that’s willing to have me. I thought the garden itself was beautiful. A lot of the military folks have their weddings there, which seemed like a really nice touch, and they have a ballroom there.

It’s quite a facility. I thought it would be great to work for them.

Q: The sculpture of yours I’m most familiar with is the one at the play area of the North Carolina Zoo. Can you tell me how you worked with that space?

They had the idea that it would be the front piece for the new children’s area and we only had a short distance to walk through, so we tried to make the experience as long as possible so a child would have to go in and go in and go in further in order to get into the garden itself. It’s right on the main path, too, so that’s part of the work, to try and entice people to come over and take a look. Both at the Botanical Garden and the zoo, people are there at a vacation or meandering mode. They’re not on their way to work.

Q: I’ve definitely seen children take their time going through it or even double back and go through it again.

Children know a lot about sticks and I think that we have preprogramming to build a nest – just like birds, even though you think their heads are too small to contain such information. We bring with us, as humans, some kind of knowledge of building a simple shelter, and kids really play that out.

Kids pick up a stick and it’s an imaginative object instantly – that implies to me that there’s a lot of hidden knowledge about the material world. Adults have that too – they’ve all played, as children, with sticks, but they all return to moments in childhood that were significant through this object, through seeing a stick or seeing a group of sticks made into a fantasy place or illusionary thing. Children have a primary response to it, a visceral response. It catches in the imagination easily.

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Patrick Dougherty, work in progress, at the Cape Fear Botanical Garden, June 2015. Photos by McKenzie Photography.

Q: Can you tell me about growing up in Southern Pines?

I grew up on Midland Road near what used to be St. Joseph’s Hospital. I enjoy the area and know a lot about Southern Pines. We had a little glen with a lot of dogwood trees and we had five kids in our family – my dad was a doctor – so we spent a lot of time playing in the woods in and around Pine Needles Golf Course and in the woods nearby.

That probably set a tone for my work – I probably exported some of the feelings of Southern Pines and Pinehurst throughout the rest of the world.

Q: Speaking of working all over the world, do different saplings in different parts of the world behave differently?

One of the tenets of my work is to try and gather the materials somewhere nearby, and that trails

back to a childhood place, too, because children don’t have all that much ability to get materials from far away – you just go and get it out of the ditch, or wherever it is. So I just continued that thing of trying to find materials close to the site where I’m building and then try to make the best of them.

What I generally look at is something that’s flexible – something that’s beautiful, if I can find it – and [then] working out the image I’m about to make and trying to accommodate the sticks that I have. If you have only short sticks, you’re going to make one kind of thing. If you have only long sticks, you’re going to make another. A good mix of sizes make up the direction.

For me, it’s a bit like drawing. You’re using these sticks for their line quality. You’re going to need lots of colors and sizes to make surfaces that look good. The art part of it is in the way that you build surfaces that look exciting.

Q: Are there any parts of the world you’d like to go and work with their flora?

I’ve worked in Korea, Japan and Australia. Of course, the rest of the world is out there too.

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Aberdeen Carolina &Western Railway’s

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Train Cars Restoring and renovating rail equipment from the 1910s and ‘20s.

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Leave Pinehurst headed west on rural Highway 211 and you’ll see the Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway to your left. Sometimes the tracks parallel the road, sometimes they cut off into the woods, but they’re always there.

Just before I-74, in the small town of Candor, part of the track – the locomotive servicing area lead, in railroad parlance – cuts across the highway and leads to the ACWR’s headquarters and workshop. Inside is a treasure trove of old cars – centenarians mostly that have been saved from rust or the scrapyard by this small railroad.

“At some point I said, I see a lot of these cars are going away and if someone doesn’t take the time to try and save them, there will be none

left,” says ACWR president and owner Robert Menzies. “These are unique in that they’re what we call the old heavyweights from the 1910s and ‘20s.” Many people who restore cars, Menzies notes, work on cars built later – in the ‘50s, say.

Then again, ACWR has been restoring or renovating rail equipment of that era in one way or another since its 1987 founding. When Menzies started his company, the track he inherited had been built in 1912. Yet modern cars weigh about six times what their early 20th century counterparts did – 143 tons, versus 24.

So he went about slowly replacing the track so it would hold modern freight cars. The ACWR, after all, is not a tourist railroad – and the trains had to run.

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“It’s grown beyond my wildest dreams,” Menzies says. “When I started out, we had one locomotive and now we have more than 20.” The ACWR runs about 150 miles of track, and is one of maybe 500 small railroads in America today.

This tight focus is an advantage, as Menzies puts it: where large corporations can lose track of smaller customers, he says, the ACWR doesn’t.

It also has local history on its side – it’s no coincidence, after all, that the ACWR tracks parallel 211 between Pinehurst and Candor.

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Pinehurst founder James Walker Tufts. “It was a lumber railroad, and they timbered that area around Pinehurst,” Menzies says. “There’s a real connection between Pinehurst and the railroad.”

That considered, it’s almost natural that Menzies’ company eventually moved into restoring old cars, which they use for special events, such as the 2014 US Open, or economic development. A businessperson looking at prospective plant sites, for example, is going to have a much more memorable trip if he or she travels by hundred-year-old restored luxury car.

“They end up having so much fun they don’t want to go see the sites,” he says with a laugh.

The Pinehurst

The Pinehurst, a 1912 Pullman car, was the first piece of antique rolling stock ACWR restored. They networked throughout the industry, but also learned the hard way – a few mistakes were made early on, and some of the original mahogany was damaged. Yet Menzies and his team learned on their feet, and it was this remarkable car that taught them.

While most Pullman cars were sleeping cars, The Pinehurst was built as a first-class day car. “It had ten power seats, which is more like a lounge seat instead of a coach seat, and then it had a lounge area, a dining area and a full kitchen,” Menzies says. It spent its operational life in the Northeast, operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad. When ACWR got it, it still had all the original fixtures and furniture – it just needed restoring.

The Roamer One of the challenges of using restored antique cars for economic development is, honestly, keeping them comfortable. The Roamer, for instance, was not built with air conditioning. “You just can’t use a car in the South without air conditioning,” Menzies says.

Beyond concerns of comfort, though, early 20th century cars need to be climate controlled to keep mold at bay or to keep the wood from drying out, shrinking, and swelling with the changing seasons – again, these are the challenges of operating antique rolling stock in the humid South. So with the help of a Davidson County company, ACWR went about concealing air conditioning vents behind couches and under beds. The woodwork was too pristine, for one, and it would ruin the era-accurate aesthetics of the car to have visible vents.

“We had to go to Europe, because the old buildings in Europe have some air conditioning that almost looks like heat strips,” Menzies says. “We had to be very, very creative with that to do it without destroying the historic nature of the car.”

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By Anna Fakadej, MD, Cataract Specialist

What is a cataract?

A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens inside your eye. This lens, located behind the iris, works just like the lens of a camera: focusing light images on the retina, which sends images to the brain. The human lens can become so clouded that it keeps light and images from reaching the retina. Cataracts are the leading cause of visual loss in adults age 55 and older.

What are the symptoms and signs of cataracts?

A cataract can cause images to become blurred and bright colors to become dull. It can also make seeing at night more difficult. Vision with cataracts is often described as seeing through an old, cloudy film. Is your vision blurry or foggy? Do colors appear dull or muted? Are your glasses no longer working? Does sunlight or other light seem overly bright or glaring?

Do you have decreased night vision or see halos around lights? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may have cataracts.

When is the best time to treat cataracts?

Many people believe cataracts have to be “ripe” before they can be removed. This is no longer true.

Today, cataract surgery can be performed as soon as your vision interferes with the quality of your life.

What does cataract surgery entail?

Cataract surgery is generally an outpatient procedure with little discomfort. First, you will be given an anesthetic to numb the nerves in and/or around the eye. The procedure involves making a tiny incision in the eye. The surgeon then inserts a small instrument into the eye to break up the cloudy lens with ultrasound technology and remove it from the eye.

Once the cataract is removed, a new, artificial lens is inserted through the same incision.

Do you prefer to wear glasses after cataract surgery?

Did you know that most people wear glasses after cataract surgery, but we can now reduce the need for glasses? The cost of glasses can add up over time.

There are many options for cataract surgery if you want to decrease dependence.

What is an IOL? An IOL is what is referred to as an Intraocular Lens. This is the new, artificial lens that replaces the cloudy lens. As an alternative to receiving a standard IOL, today many patients have the option to elect Advanced Technology Lenses to fit their individual lifestyle. for more information Carolina Eye Associates is one of the largest eye care facilities in the Southeast. Our practice provides a full range of high quality medical and surgical eye care services. If you would like more information on cataracts call 910.255.2095 or visit www.carolinaeye.com.

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Dental Care Hospital Auxiliary provides “life blood” for FirstHealth Dental Care.

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By Brenda Bouser for The FirstHealth of the Carolinas

Close to twenty years ago,

the staff of FirstHealth Community Health Services had a “most rare vision” of its own: comprehensive dental care for children whose families couldn’t afford to pay for it. The idea was inspired by school health nurses who had identified dental care as the number one unmet need of children in area schools after observing case after case of “rampant decay” in young mouths.

FirstHealth Dental Care and director Sharon Nicholson Harrell, DDS, MPH, FAGD, have quietly chipped away at the problem – with numbers even now estimated at around 26,000 – since 1998. But diminishing private and

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governmental funding sources, recession-driven job loss and a growing need have made the effort stubbornly challenging.

“With the recession and job market, the number of kids on Medicaid continues to increase,” Dr. Harrell says.

Enter the FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital Auxiliary, an energetic group with another vision: an endowment that would support the operating costs of FirstHealth Dental Care in perpetuity.

According to Auxiliary Chair Sarah Ellman, an endowment would change a lot about the way FirstHealth Dental Care operates – especially for Dr. Harrell, the dual-degreed professional (in

dentistry and public health) who has devoted herself to the dental care of children in the FirstHealth service area. “An endowment would change the way Dr. Harrell spends her time,” Ellman says. “She’s up late at night writing grants and researching funding sources. She needs to be focused on her work, which is the gift she gives.”

The Auxiliary’s work toward establishing a Dental Care endowment started several years ago with proceeds from an Auxiliary-sponsored Hospital Ball. When the Ball was discontinued, the group organized a “non-event” fundraiser that did not raise enough money for a viable endowment. Now a new event, scheduled for this summer, will raise money while also raising

awareness about the good works of FirstHealth Dental Care.

“We want people to know we are here,” Dr. Harrell says. The upcoming fundraiser will combine a variety of elements – a midsummer evening, a garden setting, good music and good food – designed to entice event-goers to open their hearts – and their wallets – to the FirstHealth Dental Care cause. Called “A Midsummer Night’s Dream Garden Party,” it will be held Saturday, July 25th, at the Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst. Tickets are $100 each.

Ellman promises attendees a very different event from the longtime Auxiliary Ball tradition of black tie and formal dress. The recently

Generous shoppers donated almost $7,500 worth of dental supplies to FirstHealth Dental Care during the May 2015 “Help Captain Fluoride Save a Smile” event sponsored by the FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital Auxiliary at the Aberdeen Walmart. Shown by a table covered with toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, mouthwash and other items are members of the FirstHealth Dental Care staff; including (at second from left) the program’s director, Dr. Sharon Nicholson Harrell.

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you’re invited! a midsummer night’s dream garden party hosted by: The Moore Regional Hospital Auxiliary

Where: Country Club of North Carolina, Pinehurst

Why: To support the work of FirstHealth Dental Care. To reserve tickets at $100 each, call 910.695.7504 or email ptighe@firsthealth.org

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redesigned CCNC garden will offer an attractive but informal setting, with plenty of opportunity for learning about FirstHealth Dental Care and having a very good time.

According to Ellman, the current Auxiliary has always had an interest in issues involving women and children. The group decided to focus on dental care after getting to know Dr. Harrell and learning about the critical dental health needs of so many children.

“We have been inspired by Dr. Harrell as a woman who focuses on children day in and day out,” Ellman says. “We have kind of grown with her in the last few years and have been incredibly honored to support her work and the work of her staff.”

Previous Auxiliary assistance allowed FirstHealth Dental Care to acquire a digital X-ray that, according to Dr. Harrell, put the program “on the cutting edge.” Aside from its continuing use in Dental Care clinics in Southern Pines, Raeford and Troy, the portable system has also been transported to Moore Regional Hospital to aid with complex procedures requiring general anesthesia.

Community support is key to the “Help Captain Fluoride Save a Smile” events of the past three years. Auxiliary members, volunteers from the Dental Care staff and others station themselves outside high-volume shopping areas of Walmart, Lowe’s Foods and Harris Teeter to collect donations of toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, mouthwash and other items.

This year’s “Captain Fluoride” collected almost $7,500 worth of items to be distributed to clinic patients for their personal use.

This help and annual grant disbursements of varying amounts have contributed to Dr. Harrell’s characterization of Auxiliary assistance as “our life blood.”

“They’ve always been so supportive of what we’re doing and what we ask,” she says.

“They’re always on board with what we do for the kids.”

Getting to know FirstHealth Dental Care It is no accident that the FirstHealth Dental Care clinics are located in Southern Pines, Troy and Raeford. At the time the program was getting started, other communities in the FirstHealth service area had dental services offered through their county health department.

Not these three, however.

“We went where the need was,” says Sharon Nicholson Harrell, DDS, MPH, FAGD, director of FirstHealth Dental Care.

In combination, the three clinics accommodate in excess of 1,000 patient visits per month, or about 13,000 visits per year. Their patients are children and young people age birth to 21 years who are covered by Medicaid or Health Choice, or who are uninsured and qualify by income.

Clinics have expanded hours

Opening in October 1998, the clinic in Southern Pines is not only the oldest but also the largest and the busiest, serving patients from throughout Moore County during appointments scheduled Monday through Friday and two Saturdays a month. About two years ago, the staff also started offering early morning hours, opening at 7a.m. Monday through Thursday and on Fridays as needed to accommodate working parents and school schedules.

The Troy clinic opened in January 1999 to serve Montgomery County children as well as many from the Robbins area of Moore County who find the closer commute more convenient. It operates two days a week – Monday and Friday – and one Saturday a month.

Opening in October 1999, the Raeford clinic also operates two days a week, but on Wednesdays and Thursdays, as well as one Saturday a month.

Each clinic provides comprehensive dental care that includes exams, cleanings, fluoride application, fillings, extractions (except wisdom teeth), preventive sealants, spacers, and child root canals and crowns. More complex cases are referred to any one of several pediatric specialists in the area with whom the program has a working relationship.

Education is also an important role of the clinics, where patients – and sometimes parents – get instruction on brushing, flossing and other basics of dental care. Because all three clinics have patients for whom English is a second language, each has at least one Spanish-speaking staff member.

Dr. Harrell reports to Dan Barnes, D.O., president of the FirstHealth Physician Group, who says that the services of FirstHealth Dental Care address problems that can affect the lifelong health and wellness of children.

Keeps Kids in School and Healthy

“Children who cannot eat or are in pain don’t learn well,” he says. “Keeping children in school by improving their oral health helps improve education outcomes while also improving overall community health. There is also more and more evidence that, as these children grow up and grow older, their poor oral health will become a risk factor for heart health and cardiovascular disease. Through our dental care centers, we’re getting our region’s children off on the right foot for health.”

Dr. Sharon Nicholson Harrell (at left) works with a young patient at the FirstHealth Dental Care clinic in Southern Pines, the largest and busiest of the three Dental Care clinics.

The other clinics are located in Raeford and Troy.

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16th ANNUAL RUN FOR THE ROSES Held on April 29th at the Fair Barn with proceeds benefiting the Sandhills Children’s Center

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