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From the Publisher September/October 2015 Sandhills Media Group, Inc. publisher/Editor Sioux Watson

Three gracious families invite us into their Southern Pines homes to reveal the colors and textures of the places they call home – our writers and photographers had a blast with this special assignment, we hope you are as inspired as we are!

If you have a “working kitchen” as I do, it is never as pretty as the ones featured in magazines such as ours. Still, you may want to get out your mixing bowls with one of the cookbooks local organizations have for sale, which are featured in our “Secret Recipes of the Sandhills”. We even give you three “free” recipes as a sneak preview.

Women face a slightly different set of health risks than men; we take a multifaceted look at four aspects of keeping a healthy mind and body as a woman in today’s world. Ready to add some flavor and excitement to your tepid gym workout? We’ve got some offbeat ideas for those willing to try something new. Additionally, check out interviews with three top female doctors in the specialty fields of cardiology, neurology and oncology; and be inspired by Karen Patch, who lives with a debilitating health issue yet joyously thrives and has a more than full lifestyle.

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does what it can to entice readers to get out of the house and play, and we have plenty of suggestions for destinations and activities. We take a closer look at three really unique events. Annie Oakley Days, which grows larger and better every year, celebrates the famous 1900s sharp-shooting legend Annie Oakley, who operated a gun club at the Pinehurst Resort in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The Prancing Horse Farm Tour falls in late October and is a fun way to spend a fall day outdoors and raise money for a good cause. Or for those who don’t mind a bit of a drive, Sycamore Lodge, a private RV campground resort a dozen miles west of Pinehurst in Jackson Springs, holds its annual Haunted Forest three Saturdays in October, is open to the public, with fees going to a charitable organization.

Once again we present hyperlocal stories featuring unique Sandhills people, places and events for you to read about and enjoy, whether you are a resident or visitor. If you know about someone who deserves to be covered in our pages, please give me a shout. I’m always available at sioux@ pinehurstmagazine.com.

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In This Issue

september/october 2015

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10 Professional Spotlight 12 Tech Radar 14 Ask the Pro 16 Wine Review 18 Book Review 20 Sunday Supper 24 Historical Treasures 26 Complete the Room 44 Calendar of Events 60 Shopping Local 63 Healthy Living 70 Sandhills Sightings

52 FEATURES 28 Women’s Health

52 Frights in the Pines

Workouts guaranteed to shake things up,

Are you brave enough to visit The

dos & don’ts and having a passion for life.

Haunted Forest at Sycamore Lodge?

37 Beautiful Homes

54 Horse Sense

A behind-the-scences look at the

Therapeutic riding at Prancing Horse

gorgeous homes of Southern Pines.

addresses special needs in rare ways.

48 Annie Oakley Days

56 Secret Recipes

An exciting sporting festival that takes you back in time.

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Three local cookbooks to help you celebrate this fall!

A special thanks to McKenzie Photography for our great cover.

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The New Pinehurst Village Manager

For 26 years the Village of Pinehurst has had only one village manager.

Beginning July 1st, retired Army Colonel Jeffrey Sanborn took over.

Sanborn has resided in the area for 17 years. The past three years he has been Garrison Commander of Fort Bragg. “In my duties as Garrison Commander I dealt with municipal services, community planning, code enforcement, fire, recreation and law enforcement. It was just like managing a community much like I will be doing for the Village of Pinehurst,” says Jeff.

Jeff graduated from the United States Military Academy and earned several advanced degrees including a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College, a Masters of Business Administration and a Masters of Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. He was a lieutenant in the 82nd Airborne Division, and a captain in Korea and Fort Drum, N.Y. He served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom and commanded the 2nd Battalion, 319 Airborne Field Artillery Regiment during Operation Unified Response in Haiti. Sanborn also served as Inspector General for the 82nd Airborne Division just prior to his

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job as Garrison Commander. His awards include the Bronze Star Medal and the Joint Meritorious Service Medal, among numerous others.

Jeff grew up on a farm in Freemont, Michigan and enlisted in the Army in 1984. “My first assignment was Italy, and it was there that my commander saw potential in me and recommended me for West Point. I met my wife Kimberly at the academy. She was a classmate of mine and served in the Army for eight years,” says Jeff. “We have always planned to go where the Army needed us, but no one stays in the Army forever, and about four years ago we started thinking about transitioning from the Army and what was next for our family.”

He and Kim have two children, Kate and Nathaniel, who will attend Pine Crest High School this fall.

When he learned the manager position would be available, he studied the Pinehurst community. “I talked with Kim and we thought this was it,” says Jeff. Jeff does not golf but loves running, shooting, hunting, fishing and sportsman-like activities. Jeff says, “It took me 20 years to realize I don’t golf.”

Jeff was selected from 84 applicants for the Village Manager position. He says, “My aspiration is to join the Pinehurst community and serve this community for the rest of my life.”

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Want to see your kids play with real toys instead of digital games for a change?

How about a system that combines both? Last year, Osmo released an ingenius game system for the iPad 2 or beyond (including iPad mini) that relies on real props in the physical space in front of the tablet, to interact with the games on the tablet.

Its tagline is “Play beyond the screen™” and so far, more than 2,000 schools and 100,000 parents have bought it in an effort to get their children to do just that.

The system comes with a stand, a reflector unit, and a set of real-world playing pieces. To use it, simply insert your tablet into the stand, place the reflector’s angled mirror over the tablet’s frontfacing camera, and launch one of (so far) four apps: Tangram, Newton, Words, or Masterpiece.

In Tangram, players arrange wooden puzzle pieces (provided) in front of the tablet to match the shapes on the display. Newton challenges players to

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draw lines on paper or manipulate real-world objects to guide onscreen falling balls toward their targets.

Words is a Hangman-style game where players compete with player-specific letter tiles (provided) to guess the words on the screen. And Masterpiece is a drawing app in which the user can choose an image to draw from the camera, a gallery or the web; Osmo transforms the image into easy-to-draw lines on the display, and the user draws in front of the tablet while observing their pen, pencil, etc. in motion on the display.

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Charlaine Coetzee Hirst, Country Club of Whispering Pines

A Female Voice Hirst Grows Teaching Portfolio in Sandhills

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Former LPGA golfer Charlaine Coetzee Hirst works at the Country Club of Whispering Pines as a Class A teaching professional with membership in the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Division, giving upwards of 600 lessons a year. The 42-year-old Hirst grew up in South Africa before coming to the United States to play college golf at Longwood University, where she became the most honored student-athlete in the history of the college.

She recently discussed the sport in the latest installment of Pinehurst Magazine’s “Ask the Pro.” Q: You grew up in Cape Town during Aparteid.

What was that experience like as an aspiring athlete?

A: Anyone who went overseas to play golf was blacklisted, so for me it was very different.

Growing up, Gary Player and Sally Little were my idols, and Sally was the first one who left and never came back. We were very isolated growing up. We only got TV in the late 1970s, and part of that was our government trying to make sure we didn’t know what was going on and what the word was about South Africa. Once things opened up, it was like this domino effect.

Q: What was it like working for legend Peggy Kirk Bell at Pine Needles?

A: It gave me a lot of good footing for what I do now in my own business. Mrs. Bell taught me that you can learn so much by just watching other people. Each person is an individual and each person comes to you with what they have, and

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then you need to work within that. You can’t go in with your mindset and your teaching method.

Maybe you are 70 years old and you don’t want a grip change. Teaching in her golf schools we had everyone and anyone, so you have to be able to get in there, diagnose and move on.

Q: You teach seven weeks of camps for kids at Whispering Pines in the summer. Why? A: I love it because it’s growing the game. I want them to know I don’t care if they turn pro. I just want them to come back to me 10 years from now and say, ‘Wow, I learned the basics and I have a good foundation and I can play golf for life.’ I keep fresh with these camps. It changes it up from the monotony of standing on a lesson tee 10 hours a day.

Q: What was it like playing in the 1998 U.S. Women’s Open?

A: The girl who won the Open the year before was Alison Nicholas, and we favor each other a little bit.

So, I had my courtesy car driving in and out with my husband, who caddied for me, and they thought it was her. I kept thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think it is who you think it is,’ but I soaked it up anyway.

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Can You Drink Wine With Anything? by adam sobsey

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For millions of Americans, Sundays in autumn mean two things: football, and what to drink with it. The classic pairing is cheap light beer, of course, but why not leave the punishment to the players on the field? And if even good beer isn’t your thing, can you drink wine while watching football without feeling weird, wimpy or downright un-American?

First things first: You can drink wine with anything! You just need to find the right wine.

What is the right wine for football, then? One of North Carolina’s most esteemed chefs once called the also esteemed Shafer’s “Relentless” Syrah blend “a football wine.” The pugnacious name and brawny character of Relentless do recommend it for pairing with pigskin, but a bottle of it will set you back at

least $80. That seems steep for something to knock back with a bowl of chips during a gridiron Sunday on the sofa.

But you do want a bold, muscular – yes, even pugnacious – wine. And given how American football is, an American wine is called for. So drink Zinfandel.

But first, let’s huddle. Zin has been long mistreated and misunderstood, not least by the ubiquitous “White Zinfandel,” a mass-produced, sugared “blush” wine that bears no resemblance whatsoever to its grape, which is actually red. And even as red wine, much Zinfandel is borderline undrinkable: indistinct, syrupy, alcoholic stuff that will have you conked out by midafternoon.

It’s a shame, because Zinfandel might be the quintessential American grape. Brought over in the early 19th century from Europe – perhaps Italy, possibly with Croatian genes – Zinfandel was widely planted in California. Over time, it achieved a unique identity in the U.S., and it’s grown nowhere else in

the world. (The Italian grape Primitivo is a DNA match, and some Puglian producers market the stuff as Zinfandel here, but don’t buy it.) Vigorous, robust and early-ripening, the best Zin boasts both strong running and passing games, so to speak: it’s broad-shouldered, ripe and spicy, and it should have something a little wild and mountain-brambly.

And it should drink perfectly with whatever you might throw on the grill at halftime and brush with barbecue sauce.

Zinfandel’s most recognizable producers include names like Martinelli, Ravenswood, Ridge and Turley, but this is a grape of mavericks and independents, so keep your eyes out for Dashe Cellars, Green & Red, Foxglove, and especially Hobo from the ingenious young winemaker Kenny Likitprakong: his wines are rich but restrained, full of frontline fruit but with a strong secondary, and lower in alcohol than most Zins – so they’re good from kickoff to the two-minute warning.

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Southern Chatter book review

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The invention of the printing press, gunpowder, penicillin, and splitting the atom – all these have radically altered the course of human events. The ability to fly through the air (and safely land) is another history-changing feat. Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio were the undaunted pioneers of flight, persisting through years of taunts and ridicule. The Wright Brothers is the story of their vision, perseverance, and ultimate success.

Author David McCullough is incapable of telling a boring story. He has the knack for making his subjects come alive. This is no exception. He’s won the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award twice. When he turns his attention to a topic, he leaves no stone unturned. McCullough tells their remarkable story over 11 chapters, along with three 16page black-and-white photo inserts, providing a glimpse into their home life and all the people connected to their dream of flying.

Simply put, Wilbur and Orville were inseparable. They worked together at their own bicycle shop, ate meals together, and lived in the same house. They were seized by the same vision: flying like a bird. Older brother Wilbur was the genius, self-taught and well-versed in all branches of knowledge. The younger Orville had such mechanical ingenuity he could build just about anything. As author McCullough says, “What the two had in common above all was unity of purpose and unyielding determination.”

The brothers settled upon Kitty Hawk, on the

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THE WRIGHT BROTHERS David McCullough 320 pages Simon & Schuster $30.00

Outer Banks of North Carolina, to conduct their flying trials. With sustained winds and soft sand to land on, Kill Devil Hills at Kitty Hawk proved ideal. The former postmaster there, William J. Tate, told them, “If you decide to try your machine here and come, I will take pleasure in doing all I can for your convenience and success and pleasure, and I assure you you will find a hospitable people when you come among us.”

Tate’s Southern hospitality ensured that aviation history would be made in North Carolina.

The epilogue sums up the brothers’ success.

Unfazed when people disapproved of them, once they succeeded, they were just as unfazed when people approved of their efforts. Wilbur died in 1912, but Orville lived until 1948, witnessing astounding advances to flight theory. They proved that with vision, commitment and persistence, the sky’s the limit. And it all came together on a 12second flight that covered 120 feet on December 17th, 1903 at Kitty Hawk.

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The ACWR currently serves approximately 18 different types of industries, moving plastics, grain, lumber, wood chips, aggregate, brick, butane, ethanol, propane and many other products. Our customers include Mountaire Farms, Perdue Farms, Jordan Lumber, Carolina Stalite and Shell.

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Fiona McKenzie: Teacher, baker, chef, mother Lifelong food lover finds balance in the Sandhills

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Fiona McKenzie can’t remember deciding to become a chef – even as a child, growing up in Queensland, Australia, it just felt like part of who she was. By the time she was 16, when she started her internship at a restaurant near her house, it was official.

At 26, she was traveling the world – kind of late for an Australian’s first trip overseas, she notes with a small laugh. She got a ticket to London with several side trips to the US, where she worked the ski resorts in Aspen, Colorado. Two weeks there, and she met her future husband – a native of a small town called Pinehurst somewhere to the east of the Rockies. She did a little more traveling, both in Europe and the US, before the couple settled down in Whispering Pines.

“This is where Matt’s from and I had no particular need to go back to where I was from,” McKenzie says. “It seemed like there were a lot more opportunities for us here.”

Indeed, McKenzie has found both her place and her calling here: as chair of Sandhills Community College’s Hospitality and Culinary Arts Department, she has discovered the joy of teaching.

It comes with a side of cooking, baking, and apron-making.

“I adore it. I love teaching,” McKenzie says.

“I think now all the cooking in restaurants and hotels around the world was just preparing me for teaching.” Previously, she’d been working in the kitchen of a local restaurant – a job she enjoyed,

sure, but becoming a parent made her think: did she really want to slog it out as a line cook on into her 50s? Teaching had always been in the back of her mind, so when daughter Molly was born, she made the switch. In early 2007 she started at Sandhills Community College as an adjunct; by fall 2008, she was full-time.

Soon, McKenzie was thinking of herself as a teacher first and foremost: she loves to see students gain confidence; she loves to see the proverbial light come on. “Community colleges, I think, change lives,” she says. “We hope we make a difference in our wonderful community here in the Sandhills – and beyond.”

Yet teaching isn’t all McKenzie does.

She describes herself as a busybody – where others might get home and watch TV, she instead starts sewing or making sugar flowers.

Accordingly, she has two side businesses: The McKenzie Apron and Sweet Fi’s Cakes. With the former, she makes functional aprons with plentiful pockets, and with the latter she lets brides have any kind of cake they want. “I didn’t want them to feel like they had to have their mother’s wedding cake,” she says – and she’s never done the same cake twice.

“Life is all about balance,” McKenzie says, and she feels she’s struck a good one. “Sure, I’m busy, but what I hope is that this sense of hard work and work ethic rubs off on our daughter. That’s the most important thing.”

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Southern Chatter sunday supper

Triple Citrus Glazed

Salmon and Shrimp on a roasted fennel, pistachio and mint salad Triple Citrus Glaze

Photo by McKenzie Photography

Ingredients: ¾ cup ¼ cup ¼ cup ¼ cup 1 clove 2 Tbsp 2 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 1 Tbsp To taste

Fresh orange juice Fresh lemon juice Fresh grapefruit juice Water Garlic, minced Orange marmalade Soy sauce Rice wine vinegar Light brown sugar Butter Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper

Glaze Method

1. Bring all of the ingredients to a boil in a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat, stirring to melt the preserves and to keep the mixture from burning.

2. Reduce the heat to a simmer and let the glaze reduce until syrupy, about 15 to 20 minutes, being very careful not to burn.

Adjust the seasonings with salt and freshly cracked pepper, to taste.

Grilled Salmon and Shrimp Ingredients: For Brushing 4 16-20

To taste

Extra-virgin olive oil Salmon fillets, (6 oz, 1” thick) Fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined (about 1 lb) Kosher salt and black pepper

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Salmon and Shrimp Method:

1. Heat a grill to medium-high heat.

2. Brush both sides of the fillets and shrimp with olive oil just before grilling, then season with salt and pepper, to taste.

3. Grill the salmon for about 4 minutes per side and the shrimp about 2 minutes per side or until done to your liking, brushing with the glaze during the final few minutes of cooking.

4. Transfer the salmon and shrimp to a platter and brush with the remaining glaze before serving.

Roasted Fennel and Orange Salad Ingredients: 1

2 Tbsp 1 Tbsp ¼ tsp To taste ½

2 2 cups ¼ head 1 Tbsp ¼ cup

Medium-sized fennel, white parts only, thinly sliced on a mandolin or with a very sharp knife Lemon juice Extra virgin olive oil Salt Freshly ground black pepper Red onion, sliced thinly on a mandolin or with a very sharp knife Oranges, segments only Your favorite salad greens, baby spinach, arugula, or a mixture of any leafy greens would work radicchio, thinly sliced fresh mint leaves, finely sliced roasted shelled pistachios, roughly chopped (optional, but delicious)

Salad Method:

1. Heat oven to 375ºF. 2. Toss fennel in oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper.

Roast on a lined sheet tray for 10–15 minutes, until tender.

3. Meanwhile, while fennel roasts, whisk together ingredients for the dressing and set aside.

4. Soak the red onion in iced water for 20–30 minutes. This will remove a lot of the sulphur and raw onion flavor. Drain and pat dry.

5. Combine roasted fennel, red onion, orange segments, salad greens, mint and pistachio.

Lightly dress and season to taste.

Dressing Ingredients: 2 Tbsp 1-2 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 1 tsp 1 pinch

Extra virgin olive oil Lemon juice, to taste Shallot, minced Dijon or stone ground mustard Salt

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Sandhills Silver Screen

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Pinehurst Theatre, As It Was...

by corbie hill

Today Pinehurst’s Theatre Building is a welcome center, a gateway of sorts in the center of town. It’s easy enough to treat it as a stopping off point on the way to the resort, the golf courses, the shops or the restaurants. That is the function of a welcome center after all, to point visitors in the right direction and send them forth, pamphlets and maps in hand, to see the town.

Yet 80 and 90 years ago, in its heyday, the Pinehurst Theatre was an advanced entertainment venue: a cinema that employed cutting-edge technology, a music hall that booked opera stars and other world-class performers, and a community center where celebrated explorers and aviators came to lecture on their exploits – and all under the direction of born entertainer Charles Picquet.

Though the Theatre opened in 1923, Picquet had already made his mark on Moore County by then: this “preacher’s son,” a 1921 Pilot story reads, “came down into this country from the hemlock woods of Pennsylvania and... learned enough about farming to be a good authority on the fair.” Indeed, he burned up a lot of 23-cent gas, the story says, traveling farm-to-farm as secretary and manager of

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the Sandhills Fair.

Yet much of Picquet’s time went toward bringing movies to Pinehurst: a 1915 Pinehurst Outlook ad promised “thrills, heart throbs, and smiles” at the original theater, where admission was 10 cents – 25 for deluxe reels. Among the films shown were documentary-like reels from World War I, showing battle scenes and ruined cities.

By the early 20s, Picquet had outgrown that theater. The new one cost $80,000 to build and was designed by accomplished architect Aymar Embury II: with its adapted Byzantine architecture and seating capacity of 700 – fully triple that of the old venue – the new Pinehurst Theatre was a worldclass theater in rural North Carolina.

“Mr. Embury tried as much as possible to avoid the popular appearance of theatres and his efforts have resulted in a perfect gem,” reads a 1922 Pinehurst Outlook article, written near the end of construction. “The new building resembling more than anything else an old township meeting house.”

At least two newspapers declared the building “absolutely fireproof.” Obviously, nobody had seen the movie Titanic yet, not in the ‘20s, but this still

seems like tempting fate.

February 26th, 1923 was the grand opening, an affair including a fashion parade, a performance

by New York contralto Helen Farnum, and a film screening. There was also a showcase of the Robert Morton pipe organ, which preceded the nearby Village Chapel’s pipe organ by two years.

“A big theater at Pinehurst, a forceful agent in a small community, has more power than a big theater in a big place,” Bion H. Butler wrote in Pinehurst Outlook a few weeks later, and he wasn’t alone in his effusive praise of Picquet or the theater. Picquet had a reputation, after all, for selecting and presenting excellent films. Butler admitted that many massaudience films, even in those early days of cinema, were abysmal. Such second-rate films didn’t pass Picquet’s high standards.

Many things didn’t, though. As early as 1918, he lashed out at the local press for what he felt was inept coverage of music, film, and the arts. In late 1923, when the Pinehurst Theatre hosted the Harvest Music Festival, Picquet hoped it would lead to a choral society, citing not existing talent, but instead lamenting a lack of musical training.

If he demanded world-class film, music and theater, he also worked hard to bring it to Moore County. A 1929 portrait in The Pilot presents him as a natural showman. “With two tallow candles, a mouth organ and a dinner horn, and three people, Charlie Picquet could hash up a show that would fill out a tobacco warehouse.” And he was not above flexing his influence if it meant keeping Pinehurst Theatre a world-class venue.

In 1929, the competing theater in Southern Pines got sound equipment before Pinehurst.

Picquet’s initial thought was that, at least for a season, the county could support one silent theater and one with talkies, but he was wrong: attendance at his theater suffered dramatically. “Times have changed in the movie game, and the old dog is dead,” read a November Pilot story.

Picquet hurriedly ordered sound equipment from DeForest Phonofilm – in-demand technology that was impossible to acquire in a hurry, at least for the average theater manager. Yet Picquet was president of the North Carolina Motion Picture Producers Association, the Pilot story said, and was able to make such an order and debut his new sound equipment at the Association’s convention, of all places, on December 9th of that year.

Lee de Forest himself, inventor of the technology, would be in attendance.

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WOMEN’S

HEALTH

A look at workouts, dos & don’ts and having A PASSION FOR LIFE

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Girls Just Want to Have Fun Three Workouts Guaranteed to Shake Things Up!

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by Heather Mallory

With so many offbeat fitness

trends popping up, finding a fun workout has never been easier. And according to psychologist Michelle Segar in her new book No Sweat, women are far more likely to stick with a fun workout than with one that feels like a chore. So if you want to get fit but running bores you to tears, check out the workouts below and find out how more women are using fun, fantasy and a sense of community to make their exercise goals a reality.

Fencing

Fencing is an aerobic and anaerobic sport with explosive starts and stops followed by recovery time in between, which keeps the heart and lungs working. Fencing engages the entire body, but is a particularly good workout for the legs, glutes and core. Physically, fencers develop flexibility, balance, agility, coordination, quickness and timing.

Mentally, fencers must learn to strategize, maintain focus, and rapidly analyze and react to a dynamic opponent. It has been called Physical Chess at the Speed of Light.

Women of all ages and fitness levels can take up fencing. In fact, fencing coach Jennifer Oldham says, “The best time to start fencing is now.”

One woman who took up fencing in her 40s is North Carolina-based romance novelist and history professor Katharine Ashe. She has only been fencing a few months but is completely hooked: “I love it. I just love it. It’s incredibly good exercise, and hard!” Ashe, who started fencing as research for one of her books, says “Most of the challenges I’ve given myself during the past 20 years or so have been intellectual and professional.

Taking up a new sport that requires the marriage

of the body and the intellect is a challenge, and it’s a really fun challenge.”

Pole Dancing

Pole dancing is both exactly and not at all what you think. Yes, pole dancing refers to the activity popularized by strippers and exotic dancers. No, pole dancing classes do not involve men, lap dances or tips.

Picture instead a girls’ night out that melts away the pounds and teaches impressive acrobatic skills.

Pole dancing, or pole fitness, as it is sometimes called, is a great way to get both isometric and cardiovascular exercise. It is truly a full-body workout, and its proponents list strength, flexibility, stamina, weight loss, decreased joint pain, lower levels of stress and increased confidence among its benefits. Classes are usually for women only, but some studios are now offering men’s classes or weekly coed classes.

Asked what type of woman does pole dancing, Dakota Fox, owner of one of the first pole dancing studios in North Carolina, says, “Honestly our typical student is everybody. We have college Pinehurstmagazine.com 29

Dakota Fox of Aradia Fitness

Kelly McAuflliffe performs one of her CrossFit workouts ©2015 Jeannie Blinson Photography

students to grandmothers in our classes; we have working moms and career women. The women in the class are the women you see in the grocery store.”

Kristen, a 30-something web designer who’s been pole dancing for about three years, explains, “It’s really all in good fun.

The nature of pole dancing is to be proud of your body no matter what your body shape. We all support each other and cheer each other on. It’s not competitive.”

Kristen, who confesses that she’s “never been a terribly athletic person,” lost about 20 pounds during her first year and has a newfound love for the muscles she’s developed, “I think strong is the new skinny.”

CrossFit

CrossFit defies easy description. According to its website, CrossFit is a both a workout that “optimizes fitness” and “the community that spontaneously arises when people do these workouts together.” With its emphasis on community and coaching as well as on diet and lifestyle changes, some say it’s more a way of life than a workout.

CrossFit builds strength and metabolic conditioning using high-intensity workouts that, according to CrossFit gym coowner and coach Jeannie Barrow, “span many different modalities ranging from running to weight lifting, throwing, jumping, body weight and movement.”

At the heart of CrossFit is the coaching relationship.

Coaches typically program your workout, select your weight, and oversee your technique, so it’s perfect for women who don’t really know what to do and feel like their workouts aren’t getting results. Similarly, it’s appropriate for women of all ages and fitness levels, because workouts are intended to be scalable, which means coaches can adjust the load and intensity of the workout for each individual.

Barrow says women stick with CrossFit because of the community and because they get results: they can run faster; they can lift more; their bodies are leaner. But most important, she says, “They’re better at life.”

Kelly McAuliffe is a girlie girl. Before CrossFit, she spent most of her life with perfect nails and never broke a sweat. The closest she came to weight lifting was blow-drying her hair. She was never overweight, but decided that she needed to exercise to stay healthy. “There’s this illusion that if you do CrossFit, you’re going to look like a man,” she says. “I weigh 107lbs, I’m smallboned, I wear a double-zero, and I’m 5’3”, but I can deadlift 175lbs.” Kelly says that since she started CrossFit, she really is better at life. “I used to want to be thin; now, I want to be fit.”

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Doctors Talk about Women’s Health Three women doctors get real about to-dos, to-don’ts, and things we should know but probably don’t!

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by Heather Mallory

September is healthy aging

month, so if you’ve indulged in a little too much summer fun, the fall is a great time to put health back at the top of your priority list. Women and men face different health challenges and often even experience different symptoms for similar conditions. Thankfully, there is more information than ever about health and wellness targeted specifically toward women. Three of the top health risks facing women are heart disease, stroke and cancer. Below, three women specialists – a cardiologist, a neurologist and an oncologist – weigh in on what women need to know and do to optimize their chances for healthy aging.

Dr. Rama G. Garimella, cardiologist Cary Cardiology According to the American Heart Association (AHA), heart disease

is the number one killer of women, causing one out of every three deaths.

“Women are more concerned about breast cancer than heart attacks,” says Dr. Rama Garimella, but heart disease, she points out, kills approximately seven times as many women as breast cancer.

Women are less likely to seek life-saving emergency treatment for a heart attack, and often don’t realize they are having a heart attack. Chest pain often does not occur, says Garimella. Symptoms might be: epigastric pain (upper abdominal pain), jaw or neck pain, or unexplained shortness of breath, sweating, fatigue, or dizziness. Garimella urges any woman with active symptoms to go directly to the hospital. Do not wait for an appointment.

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factors like family history, birth control use, or conditions like hypothyroidism and obesity will affect how your physician determines your target numbers and risk.

The good news is with heart disease there is a great deal women can do to prevent it.

Dr. Garimella’s Women’s Health Checklist:

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Stop smoking: it’s the most preventable cause of premature death in the US. Clean up your diet: Southern-style diet (fried or fatty foods, processed meats, sugary drinks) is associated with an increased risk of heart disease.

Exercise: choose activities that elevate your heart rate for 30 to 45 minutes every day.

Know your family history.

Screen for the four risk factors and get them under control.

Dr. Rhonda W. Gabr, neurologist Raleigh Neurology The National Stroke Association reports strokes kill twice as many women as breast cancer and more women die annually of strokes than men. However, women rarely focus on stroke as a primary health risk. “We tend to hear more about breast cancer than stroke,” says Dr. Rhonda Gabr. “People aren’t really aware that stroke carries a fairly high mortality rate.”

She adds there is a “lack of aggressiveness in managing stroke risk factors in women” among many primary care physicians. Though certain primary stroke risk factors are the same for both women and men – hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, smoking, and family history of stroke – a woman’s risk of stroke can be dramatically affected by risk factors that are unique to women: oral contraceptive use, history of classic migraines with aura, pregnancy, preeclampsia, hormone replacement therapy and atrial fibrillation, especially in women over 75.

“I’m something of a crusader against birth control pills,” says Gabr. “We have 18 neurologists in the practice, and we all see strokes in young women in the hospital on a regular basis.”

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Symptoms of stroke Call 911 fast for Sudden onset of:

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Blurriness or change in vision Numbness in face or body Weakness Inability to walk Difficulty or inability to speak or swallow Acute headache

Dr. Gabr’s Women’s Health Checklist

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Stop smoking!

Avoid oral contraception and hormone replacement therapy.

Monitor and reduce your stroke risks with a well-versed primary care physician.

Be familiar with your family history of stroke and discuss it with your physician.

Dr. Ellen Willard, oncologist Pinehurst Medical Clinic, FirstHealth Outpatient Cancer Center “Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in women,” says Dr. Ellen Willard, “yet not the most common cause of cancer death.” That distinction belongs to lung cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, the three most commonly diagnosed cancers in women are (1) breast, (2) lung, (3) colon; the cancers with the highest mortality rates in women are (1) lung, (2) breast, (3) colon.

Willard attributes breast cancer’s lower death rate to earlier diagnosis and availability of treatment options. Lung cancer is often diagnosed later, and treatment success is simply not as good. What’s more, many women incorrectly think if they’ve never smoked they don’t have to worry about lung cancer.

Identifying and interpreting the risk factors for cancer is complicated. The role of family history, for example, is often misunderstood. Willard hears patients say “I didn’t think anything about the thing in my breast, because nobody in my family had cancer.” Family history is important, she notes, but the vast majority of cancers are not inherited. She also stresses that cancer is not one disease. Each cancer will have its own presentation, diagnosis and treatment.

The upside is that improved cancer screening, like mammograms and colonoscopies, can lead to earlier diagnosis and better outcomes. And new screening guidelines for chest CTs may help with earlier detection of lung cancers. Genetic testing may also be advisable, but Willard says, “No genetic testing should be done without pretest counseling and assessment of family history.”

Dr. Willard’s Women’s Health Checklist

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Don’t smoke!

Limit sun exposure: wear sunscreen and avoid tanning beds.

Lose weight: obesity is a risk factor for certain cancers.

Talk to family members to get full details of medical history.

Stay up-to-date with screenings: Talk to your doctor about family history and other health conditions to determine which screenings you need and how often.

Don’t put off going to the doctor. Delays in treatment lead to greater costs – to your wallet and your health.

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© Jennifer Robertson Photography

Living Well

Lupus With

by Carol Wills

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Karen Patch’s eyes sparkle

when she talks. Her conversation is punctuated by smiles. She is one of the most positive people you could ever hope to meet. She has also been living with lupus ever since she was 14 years old.

Born in Salisbury, Karen spent most of her childhood in a home on Lake Norman. She was an outdoors sort of kid, sailing and water-skiing on the lake.

The diagnosis that put a stop to her sailing came just as she was entering high school, yet she learned to play the oboe and was chosen to play in the North Carolina Youth Symphony. She volunteered at the Nature Museum, played on her high school tennis team, and spent two and a half months in Germany as an exchange student.

“My mom said I was a very independent girl. I got my first real job at a gift shop when I was 16.

These days Karen works at SAS as a technical manager in the Education Practice. She lives with her husband, Jay Spain, who is a documentary filmmaker from Raleigh, her two daughters, Ariana and Lia, and a merry household of four adorable dogs. Karen says her greatest daily challenge is managing stress, which is particularly acute for lupus patients.

She says there are two kinds of stress:

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Karen’s dog, TJ, shares her zest for life.

manageable and unmanageable. There are the unmanageable stresses such as side effects from the eight medicines that she takes regularly, that she just finds a way to live with, and there are environmental factors such as the sun and cold.

And then there are the more manageable stresses of work and family life. She has found biofeedback, meditation, exercise, walking, going to the gym and finding quiet time somewhere during the day can help keep these stresses under control.

Managing stress can help lessen the incidence of flares, which for Karen are times when the blood vessels in her body get inflamed and press on nerves, causing either numbness or pain. When she’s experiencing symptoms of Raynaud’s Disease (which is when arteries in her fingers or toes go into vasospasm, narrowing her blood vessels and temporarily limiting her blood supply) she has found it helps to utilize biofeedback, which might be as simple as imagining herself sitting on the warm sand of a beach. For the lupus, she has also undergone chemotherapy over three different times for periods as long as six months.

For her, sometimes chemotherapy or high doses of prednisone are the medications that help her most.

Of course all medical treatment includes vulnerability to side effects. Prednisone can

Imagine what you could see with advanced cataract surgery. weaken bones, and she has had a few broken ones over the past few years. Throughout it all, Karen’s positive attitude has never wavered. She approaches life as an obstacle course, approaching each challenge not with fear, but asking herself, “How are we going to get around this or through this?”

Karen has a community of friends who are also living with lupus. Each year, she and her family and friends help raise money for the North Carolina chapter of the Lupus Foundation of America. She has participated in several support groups, trying to continually surround herself with people whose attitudes are as positive as hers. Not surprisingly, one of her staunchest supporters (besides her husband and children) is her dog TJ, a rescue animal who has become a beloved member of the household. Only three years old, he is one of the most empathetic animals Karen has ever had the pleasure of working with. She thinks he’d make a terrific therapy dog.

Recently, Karen’s 21-year-old daughter, Ariana, who is a senior at Appalachian State University, spent a summer session studying abroad in Italy. Ever since she was an exchange student, Karen has wanted to travel abroad with her children and she decided to fulfill that dream by touring Europe with Ariana. She came back with a suitcase containing French chocolates and gifts for family and friends. No one who knows Karen would expect any less. And she’s all ready to go back in a few years with her other daughter, Lia, only proving that living with lupus can also mean living well.

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The Inchalene Cottage Photo by McKinzie Photography

Beautiful Homes of southern pines

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The outdoors inside

By Emma Cross

Southern Pines has long

attracted people to the area thanks to its charming downtown, pine trees that were thought to help with respiratory issues in the early 20th century, golf aficionados who came for world-class courses and its equestrian scene. In the 1900s, many residents were seasonal, spending their winters and spring here while enjoying equine endeavors by day and

seemingly endless parties by night. The revelry was interrupted each May when the heat set in, causing an exodus out of town. Nowadays, Southern Pines has mostly year-round residents who still enjoy all the activities that drew the first visitors here.

The following are three gorgeous, Southern Pines homes situated with horse barns and roaming pastures that take advantage of the outdoor scenery.

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Cottage at the Edge of the Woods Photos by McKenzie Photography In 1924, James Boyd had Inchalene, an English Tudor, built for his widowed mother, Eleanor Gilmore Herr Boyd, next to his Weymouth home. Ten years ago, Robert Fessler, a historic renovator and builder, bought Inchalene (Gaelic for “cottage at the edge of the woods”). His Florida home is modern, but Inchalene has an elegant, intimate feel that harks back to another era that Fessler appreciated.

You are charmed immediately upon your entrance to the grounds, where a walk around Inchalene’s cobblestone courtyard and garden fountain leads visitors to the front door. Once inside, a wood beam ceiling and brick fireplace anchor the living room that is covered in soft palettes. Next door, a sunroom with windows on three sides is the most quaint room in the house, decorated with French details, flowers, a stone cherub and eclectic adornments, such as the silver roosters, a nod to Robert’s father Jerry and Jerry the Rooster, located in the estate’s hen house.

Upstairs, light plays across the master bedroom’s pale blues and greys as Bella, a Shih Tzu rescue dog, nuzzles up on the French bed. In the bedroom nook, light streams across a blue settee from three-sided 38 Pinehurstmagazine.com

windows. Nearby, a fireplace covered in handmade white and blue tiles could warm up the room on cold evenings.

Next to the bedroom is the master bathroom with character angles that make the room cozy, adding to the charm of the claw foot tub and a rain-head shower with marble tile.

Downstairs, the kitchen has a farm basin sink, ivory cabinets, an island and a chef ’s stove beneath a white and black-checkered marble backsplash. One could be lost in a daydream while washing dishes and looking out to the blossoming vineyard, training ring, barn and top-of-the-line chicken coop below.

The cottage is merely one element on the estate, Inchalene is designed to have each section of the estate interact with the other. They are all a part of the whole.

The house overlooks the horse barn below; the barn, which features dark wood stables, that is used for estate sales that raise money for The Haven, the local no-kill shelter where Bella was rescued. Next to the barn is the Rolls Royce of chicken coops with its slate roof, ocelot chickens and Jerry the Rooster. Opposite the barn is a vineyard filled with grapes awaiting harvest.

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Pretty Paddocks & Pastures Photography courtesy of Photos by Chelsey & Co.

This 40-acre property feautres a traditional home situated amid four intersecting pastures and paddocks. Owners Sharon and James Granito, both equestrian drivers, travel far and wide for their passion. In fact, James can often be seen driving his 1887 Brewster Park Drag carriage down Broad Street. James originally vacationed in Southern Pines 22 years ago at the recommendation of Bill Long, six-time national Four-in-Hand Champion.

When the Granitos decided to purchase property in 1997, they were residing in New York. They built their barn first, and spent two years living in it while they built their home overlooking the breathtaking fields.

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room, lined with tapestries and filled with plush couches, family photos, a fireplace and vases, three sets of arched French doors let in light and beckon guests to go out onto the back porch. Once on the back porch, visitors take in the two paddocks and two intersecting pastures where the Granitos’ 13 horses graze.

Inside the house, the French-inspired kitchen with vaulted ceilings, granite countertops, pale yellow walls and creamy cabinets becomes a welcoming backdrop to the views outside the windows. Sharon Granito describes this room as “my favorite. I bake and cook from this room and do it all in here.” Fifteen varieties of cookies numbering in the thousands are made each year when she does her annual Christmas baking.

Down the hall, the master bedroom is filled with dark wood and beautiful oil paintings that play second fiddle next to the windows with

pastoral views. Just beyond the bedroom is the master bathroom with a soaker tub, dual sinks and a cherry wood vanity topped with a silver hairbrush, mirror and accouterments that share the bedroom’s highlight.

Throughout the home, arches mirror those found at Weymouth’s Boyd House.

These arches give an elegant grace to the home. Historically significant to the area, 225 arches at Sandhills Community College also replicate those found at the Boyd House.

A barn and pond are both located near the Graitos’ home, but not directly connected to the house. The barn also shares the home’s good fortune of overlooking two of the paddocks. If the Granitos dogs, Valise, Lily and Emma, aren’t near the horses, they can be found cooling off in the pond.

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Arts & Crafts in the Pines Photos by McKenzie Photography

A visitor is instantly captivated when entering Kettledrum Farm; its gravel driveway is flanked by eight-foot tall vegetation on one side and green pastures on the other. After a rambling drive, the tree line opens up, revealing a spacious 24-acre horse farm.

This tranquil property, once owned by the Van Buren family, is now owned by Paige and Dave Logan and made up of what they call zones – the home, pond, pool, barn, paddocks and pastures, each providing solitude and tranquility.

How did this Chapel Hill couple that met 10 years ago, whom just finished building their dream home there, wind up relocating to Southern Pines?

“We had 70% of what we wanted in Chapel Hill.

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ago, the Logans stopped off in Southern Pines.

The quaint downtown, train station, equine community and scenery made Paige Logan, a Chapel Hill native, and Dave Logan, who grew up in Whispering Pines, alter their future plans.

Their “dream home” in the Triangle was missing something, and they found it in Southern Pines.

Living an equestrian lifestyle and having likeminded neighbors were two of the prerequisites for a new home. Denny Emerson, award-winning equine eventer, author and leader, and a farrier are just two of their beloved neighbors.

Built 20 years ago, the Logan’s house is an open-concept, single-level, traditional home with craftsman overtones, featuring vaulted ceilings and large windows that invite the outdoors inside.

Made for people to interact with each other, the great room encompasses the kitchen, living room,

brick fireplace and dining room, and it has floor-toceiling windows with show-stopping views of the pond that resides next to the Moss Foundation, a preserved woodland of 4,000 acres that equestrians and hikers enjoy.

The open kitchen, with a massive island that seats six, serves as mission control. From this vantage point, the adjoining great room offers stunning views of the pond and Moss Foundation.

Nearby, a screened-in porch with floor-toceiling windows also takes in the awe-inspiring view of the pond dotted with lily pads. The Logan children comment on the wildlife they’ve seen or heard – owls, hummingbirds, robins, cardinals, herons, cicada and frogs, an example of how this home allows the outdoors to interact indoors.

The vaulted ceiling master suite also overlooks the pond. Paige Logan calls the eclectic décor a

hodgepodge of California (they also lived in San Francisco for a while) and Chapel Hill.

Similar to the entry of the property, each zone is secluded by foliage, creating an intimate space – most noticeably the pool area, located just feet from the home. Beyond the driveway is the barn, which mirrors the look of the Logan home; this is where Paige Logan spends a great deal of her time.

“The barn is my favorite place. It sold me,” she says.

All of these Southern Pines estate homes uniquely highlight nature, finding ways to interact with it indoors and outdoors. The owners each found different reasons for falling in love with the area, but equally embrace the serenity that their properties brought to them. With a backdrop of a quaint town, welcoming community and beautiful landscape, it’s easy to see why they love where they live.

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Calendar of Events september & october

Moore County Kennel Club Benefit Golf Tournament September 14 Whispering Woods Golf Club 26 Sandpiper Drive | Whispering Pines billpace50@gmail.com

Taste of the New South: a food & wine weekend September 4-7 Pinehurst Resort 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst 910.295.6811 | pinehurst.com Aldena Frye: Fall Wreath Making Demo September 10 | 10-11:30am Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882 Sandhills Food Bank Annual Open house September 11 | 5-7pm September 12 | 10am-1pm Sandhills Food Bank 195 Sandy Avenue | Southern Pines 910.692.5959 11th Annual Fall Harvest Festival & Grape Stomp September 12 | 11am-6pm Cypress Bend Vineyards 21904 Riverton Road | Wagram cypressbendvineyards.com Moore County Kennel Club Dog Show September 12-13 | 8am-5pm Pinehurst Harness Track Polo Field, Highway 5 200 Beulah Hill Rd South | Pinehurst karolynnem@gmail.com Six String Drag September 13 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen theroosterswife.org

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Sandhills Photography Club Meeting September 14 | 7pm The O’Neal School Theater Center 3300 Airport Road | Southern Pines sandhillsphotoclub.org Spartan Sprint September 19 | 7:30am Holland Drop Zone | Fort Bragg carolinarunner.com Peter Lamb and the Wolves September 20 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen theroosterswife.org Growing & MakinG Herbal Tea September 23 | 10am-12pm Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882 Harvey Starring ELINOR DONAHUE September 24-27 Owens Auditorium Sandhills Community College 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst judsontheatre.com Third Pinehurst Promenade sponsored by Given Tufts September 26 | 6-8pm September 27 | 11:30am-5pm Given Outpost 95 Cherokee Road | Pinehurst 910.295.3642 | giventufts.org Sam Lewis, Nu-Blu September 27 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen theroosterswife.org

First Friday October 2 | 5-8:30pm Grassy knoll beside Sunrise Theater 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines firstfridaysouthernpines.com Autumnfest October 3 | 9am-4pm Downtown Park in Southern Pines Arts and crafts, live entertainment, great food, kids rides, a Fun Run/Walk, a 5K Road Race, and much more!

910.692.7376 Fall Plant Sale October 3 | 8am-12pm Steed Hall at Sandhills Community College 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.246.4959 11th Annual Salute to Freedom Gala October 3 | 6pm Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center 4700 Emperor Blvd | Durham 919.840.2945 Mr. Sun October 4 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen theroosterswife.org 23rd Annual Sardine Festival October 9 | 11am-2pm Aberdeen Lake Park 301 Lake Park Xing | Aberdeen 910.944.7275 Annie Oakley’S Boom Days October 10 Pinehurst Harness Track and Fair Barn 200 Beulah Hill Rd South | Pinehurst

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Bumper Jacksons October 11 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen theroosterswife.org Sandhills Photography Club Member Competition October 12 | 7pm The O’Neal School Theater Center 3300 Airport Road | Southern Pines sandhillsphotoclub.org Hamlet NATIONAL THEATER via satellite October 15 | 2pm Sunrise Theater | Tickets $25 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com Andrea Zonn October 16 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen theroosterswife.org Today’s Pleasures, Tomorrow’s Treasures Quilt Show October 16 | 10am-5pm October 17 | 10am-4pm Dennis A. Wicker Civic Center 1801 Nash Street | Sanford Admission $6, under 12 free www.heartsandhandsnc.org

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“DNA Testing for Genealogy” Luncheon Workshop October 17 Hosted by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Pinehurst Country Club 80 Carolina Vista Drive | Pinehurst Jill at 910.692.6914 | Pat at 910.255.6034 Sunrise Met Opera Event Verdi’s Otello, Live via satellite October 17 | 12:55pm Sunrise Theater | Tickets $27 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com The Haunted Forest October 17 | 7:30-11:30pm October 24 | 7:30-11:30pm October 31 | 7:30-11:30pm Sycamore Lodge 1059 Sycamore Lane | Jackson Springs Campnorthcarolina.com 888.455.9599 Holly Arts & Crafts Festival October 17 | 10am-4pm Downtown Pinehurst Randall Bramlett Band October 18 | 6:46pm The Rooster’s Wife 114 Knight Street | Aberdeen theroosterswife.org Star Gazing and Picnic in the Gardens October 17 | 6pm Sandhills Horticultural Gardens Ball Visitors Center 3395 Airport Road | Pinehurst 910.695.3882 Annual Horse Farm Tour October 18 | 11am-4pm Proceeds benefit Prancing Horse Center for Theraputic Horsemanship Tour starts at NCSU Equine Health Center 6045 US HWY 1, North | Southern Pines 910.246.3202 | prancing-horse.org

Fall Festival: Fundraiser for Pinehurst Elementary October 23 | 5:30-8:30pm Cannon Park 90 Woods Road | Pinehurst Sanford Brush & Palette Club 51st Annual Art Show October 24-31 Monday-Saturday | 10am-6pm Sunday | 1-6pm Hales Center 147 McIver Street | Sanford facebook.com/sanfordbrushpaletteclub Sunrise Met Opera, Wagner’s Tannhauser, Live via satellite October 31 | 12pm Sunrise Theater | Tickets $27 250 NW Broad Street | Southern Pines 910.692.8501 | sunrisetheater.com Halloween Celebration October 31 | 5pm Downtown Park in Southern Pines Ages 10 and under

Have an important event? We would love to hear about it. Please send the details of your calendar events to: michelle@pinehurstmagazine.com.

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Chef ’s Corner

Ironwood

Crispy Duck garnished with pea shoots & garden edible day lilies

Duck Ingredients 1 Long Island duck, whole (5-6lb) (also known as Pekin Duck) Boiling hot water 2 cups 1 Tbsp Kosher salt Black pepper 1 tsp

Duck Method 1. Put oven rack in middle position and preheat over to 425ºF. 2. If necessary, cut off wing tips with a sharp knife. Remove and discard excess fat from body cavity and neck, then rinse duck inside and out. Prick skin all over with a sharp fork.

Fold neck skin under body, then put duck, breast side up, on a rack in a 13x19 inch roasting pan. Pour boiling hot water over duck to tighten skin.

3. Cool duck, then pour out any water from cavity and pan. Pat duck dry inside and out, reserving water in pan, then rub duck inside and out with kosher salt and pepper.

4. Roast duck, breast side up, 45 minutes, then remove from oven. Turn duck over and roast 45 more minutes. Turn duck over again, breast side up, tilting duck to drain any liquid from cavity into pan. Continue to roast duck until skin is brown and crisp, about 45 minutes more. (Total roasting time about 2 ¼ hours.)

Tilt duck to drain again.

5. Transfer duck to a cutting board and let stand 15 minutes before carving. Discard liquid in roasting pan.

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Recipes Nathan Continenza

Chimichurri Sauce Ingredients 1 bunch 1 bunch ½ cup 2 Tbsp 1 Tbsp 2 1 Tbsp

Photography McKenzie Photography

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

Method

1. Blitz in blender.

Spiced Sweet Potato Ingredients

1 lb 1 lb 3 Tbsp 1 tsp ½ tsp 1 tsp ½ cup 1 tsp 2 oz

Sweet potatoes, peeled and diced Russet potatoes, peeled and diced Butter Cinnamon Cumin Coriander Brown sugar Salt Heavy cream

Method

1. Boil potato until tender, add butter, cream and seasonings.

2. Mash by hand or electric mixer.

Pomegranate/Chili Demi Glaze Ingredients

1.5 bottles 1 piece ½ cup ½ cup 4 oz ½ bottle 2 lb

Pom juice (36 oz) Medium fresh ginger, sliced thin Sweet chili Sam bal chili Veal demi paste or reduction Orange juice (16 oz) Mandarin oranges, drained

Method

1. Add all ingredients and bring to a boil. With immersion blender, blend until some what smooth.

2. Let cook another 10-15 minutes, then strain out solids through small-hole China cap.

3. Next, pass through a fine mesh chinois. If sauce isn’t thick enough, return strained sauce to pot and reduce until thick.

Visit us online at PinehurstMagazine.com for another delicious Ironwood recipe, Watermelon Salad with BBQ Shrimp and Maple Vinaigrette.

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Annie Oakley’s boom days

Pinehurst’s sporting festival celebrates its fifth year.

By Adam Sobsey Photography by Dolores Muller

Jenifer Jordan in action at the Annie Oakley Boom Days Event.

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that he would rather shoot in Pinehurst than play golf,” says Carla St. Germain. Along with her husband, Tim, she is the founder and director of Annie Oakley’s Boom Days (“... Where the Wild West Meets Southern Hospitality”), whose fifth annual festival takes place at Pinehurst’s Harness Track and Fair Barn this October 10th. The festival embraces the wide diversity of the Sandhills sporting life, including shooting demonstrations, a birds of prey display (including falconry), the Moore County Hounds (which recently celebrated its 100th birthday), and many other attractions and traditions: you’ll see dog training, Mexican horse dancing, carriage driving, polo cross, even cowboy dressage. Handicraft artists will be at work as well. And there will be a separate kids’ section, offering archery, pony rides and more.

Crosby may not have been entirely joking when he said he’d rather shoot than golf in Pinehurst. Recreational shooting has been entrenched here longer than golf has, St. Germain points out, and the sport is deeply linked in the Sandhills to one of the most famous residents of Pinehurst in the history of the village: Little Miss Sure Shot and her husband, Frank Butler, spent much of their later life here, where Oakley was an essential member of the Pinehurst Gun Club, giving exhibitions and lessons to thousands of people – sometimes thousands at once.

There is so much more to the Pinehurst sporting life than golf, St. Germain says, and nearly all of it is present at Annie Oakley’s Boom Days. This year marks a higher caliber for the festival – and on the 100th anniversary of the Harness Track, no less. It’s a celebration of the venue as well as what it will host.

How Annie Oakley’s Boom Days came to be is almost as unlikely as how Oakley came to be here. The latter story remains slightly mysterious, in fact; but it’s known that in 1901, as part of the Buffalo Bill Wild West

LLBar Shooters Scott McIntyre & Jenifer Jordan mounted on Petey & Widow Maker Stick horse races (Annie Oakley’s Boom Days 2013)

Cowgirl Horseback Sharpshooting Exhibition

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Black and white photos courtesy of Tufts Archives

Annie Oakley at The Wentworth Hotel in 1911

Frank Butler and Annie Oakley Butler

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show, Oakley and Butler were traveling by rail near Lexington, North Carolina. Another train, whose engineer was apparently unaware that Buffalo Bill Wild West comprised two separate caravans, plowed into the second section. It was probably one the worst railroad disasters in the history of the Tar Heel State. Dozens of animals were killed, the traveling show went temporarily out of business, and Oakley herself was badly injured. It appears that, during her convalescence, she and Butler visited Pinehurst, likely because of the notoriety of the Pinehurst Gun Club.

This visit may have inspired the couple to move here not long after. Oakley became a fixture at the Gun Club for many years.

More than a century after Oakley and Butler moved here, so did the St. Germains.

They were engaged in golf marketing work in the area, traveling back and forth from their home in Vail, Colorado. Pinehurst, with its outdoorsy atmosphere, its seasonal rhythms linked to its sports, and its interesting mix of people, “reminded us of Vail 25 or 30 years ago,” Carla says. One day, the St. Germains – “antique buffs,” as Carla describes the couple – were poking around at the Moore County Historical Association’s annual antique show in the Fair Barn.

“We found a beautiful hand-punched silver bowl,” she recalls. “It had a medallion on it that said ‘Pinehurst Gun Club.’ It had been sitting there the whole weekend. Apparently no one had shown much interest in it. My husband immediately took it over to the gal who was manning the table. Her name was Sue Pockmire, and it just happened that she was one of the last employees of the Pinehurst Gun Club before it closed. She is also a very decorated shooter herself, and was inducted into the North Carolina Skeet Shooting Association [in 2011]. She of course knew all the history of the club. It was a highly acclaimed club until it was closed in the early 1990s. It carried on a lot of competitions, and famous shooters would come from all over.”

Those famous shooters included Bing Crosby and Annie Oakley, among many others. Digging into the history contained in the silver bowl, the St. Germains discovered Oakley’s importance to Pinehurst’s history.

“She was instrumental in building the Fair Barn, too,” Carla says.

Just as Oakley and Butler made themselves at home in the Sandhills a century before, the St. Germains – “serial entrepreneurs,” in Carla’s words – permanently relocated to Pinehurst.

Tim is a longtime outdoorsman, so they were drawn by more than business. They soon hatched the idea for Annie Oakley’s Boom Days.

“We thought it would be fun to reprise those sporting activities that had gone by the wayside,” Carla says. “When you talk to someone who lives outside Pinehurst and they’re not a golfer, sometimes they don’t even recognize the area. And if they are a golfer, they don’t recognize it for anything but golf. But the history here is fabulous.”

The original festival was held right on the golf course, on a cold and blustery December weekend in 2011. It moved to the Arboretum the following year, but it was still awfully cold for an outdoor event. The St. Germains had always hoped to settle Annie Oakley’s Boom Days at the Harness Track and Fair Barn, and were finally able to do so a few years ago. The capaciousness of the venue, and the indoor space of the Fair Barn, allowed the festival to expand and to feature a full complement of exhibitors of the region’s rich sporting tradition, which is “really astounding for a community of our size,” Carla says.

This year, the festival features a Saturday night concert. No doubt the ghost of Bing Crosby will be crooning right along with them, antique rifle in hand.

For full schedule and event details for Annie Oakley Days, visit www.insidepinehurst.com.

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Frights in the

Pines Whether you want to scare or be scared, Sycamore Lodge horrifies at Halloween.

by Kurt Dusterberg Photos courtesy of Sycamore Lodge

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At Sycamore Lodge, the Saturdays in October are reserved for a special kind of excitement. The management at the RV resort, who work tirelessly in preparation for an evening of crazy fun amid the fall colors and fallen leaves, prepares a tasty barbecue dinner for the out-oftown visitors.

Then when night falls, they go out and scare the daylights out of the locals.

That’s pretty much how it works at the Haunted Forest at Sycamore Lodge in Jackson Springs.

Each year, more than 1,000 area residents navigate a frightening maze of hair-raising Halloween fun.

The private resort makes use of its members and staff to put on a spooky show. Many of the visitors make specific plans to camp at Sycamore Lodge each October, just to take part in the elaborate haunts that are already part of the natural setting.

“It really is a big pine forest,” says resort manager Petra Reynolds. “At night, even if you put nothing out there, it would be pretty scary.”

It takes nearly 50 volunteers to build the forest each year, beginning around Labor Day. The visiting members decorate six permanent houses in the woods and hang black plastic and panels to create a path through the woods. Once everything is suitably scary, it takes about 150 actors to provide the panic.

Sycamore Lodge provides makeup and costumes, assuring that the guides have that vampire vibe and the forest actors are beyond creepy.

“Last year, the first thing you went into was a butcher house, where someone started swinging

the butcher knife at you and throwing bloody guts,” Reynolds says, before allowing a devilish laugh. “A lot of people quit after that one!”

It’s no big deal if you have to bail. Staff members will escort the faint of heart out of the woods. You won’t be able to get a refund on your $10 ticket, but rest assured it will be in good hands.

All the proceeds from the Haunted Forest go to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Reynolds is happy to have so many visitors to the annual event, but she would welcome more community volunteers to be actors. The event runs on three consecutive Saturdays in October (17th, 24th and 31st), and all you need to bring is evil intentions.

“We would welcome more involvement,” Reynolds says. “The older teens love it. Most of what we do is with live actors. They come around 3pm on Saturday, and we cook dinner for every volunteer. It’s a great cause and it’s so much fun.”

If you just want to enjoy being spooked, plan to take an hour to complete the experience. The first groups enter the pines at 7:30pm, and the last tickets are sold at 11:30pm. In between, you’ll get your fill of demons and zombies.

“It’s a year-long thing putting together the Haunted Forest,” Reynolds says. “And when it’s over each night, we are actually quite happy because it’s a 14-hour day.”

For more information, visit The Haunted Forest at Sycamore Lodge on Facebook.

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HORSE SENSE Therapeutic riding at Prancing Horse addresses special needs in rare ways.

Photo by Dolores Muller

By Kurt Dusterberg | Photography by Suzanne Faker, courtesy of Prancing Horse

Judy Lewis

Judy Lewis remembers the day she stumbled into a happy mistake.

She was preparing to supervise a therapeutic horse ride, working with a young girl who had never spoken. As she helped her student onto the horse, Lewis accidentally broke the machine the girl used to communicate. So she told her student what she typically tells other riders: “To get your horse to go, say, ‘Walk on.’”

That’s when a small miracle happened.

“She looked right down at the horse and said, ‘Walk on,’” Lewis recalls. “So we walked on, and we all looked at each other and pretended like it wasn’t anything unusual. She did that several times during the lesson. She realized she had the power to do that. It was very exciting.”

Lewis is the executive director of the Prancing Horse Center for Therapeutic Horsemanship, operating from three farms in the Sandhills area.

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volunteers who work with children and adults with special needs.

Prancing Horse will celebrate its 31st year of service with an annual horse farm tour on October 18th. Guests can purchase tickets and take a selfguided tour of six farms in the Sandhills, learning about horses and the role they play in assisting those with special needs.

“We use it as a teaching tool, with demonstrations of different equine disciplines,” Lewis says. “There are people who think it’s just a pony ride. We just want them to understand the value of what goes on in our program.”

Lewis spent 10 years volunteering as a sidewalker at Prancing Horse, ensuring the safety of the riders. Back in 2008, the program was based at one farm, ready to go out of business when the farm owner retired. So Lewis re-structured the operation herself and now runs the program as a full-time volunteer. She enlisted several new

farms, leasing the time and horses a couple days each week.

Today, Prancing Horse serves more than 70 riders, who benefit from the special interaction with the animals. All of the horses are thoroughly screened by Lewis and her teachers to assure they have gentle dispositions and are physically sound at a walk and a trot. Many of the special needs riders develop physically, improving their core strength as they learn to work in tandem with the horses. But the benefits don’t stop there.

“A lot of these folks are challenged to do something they didn’t think they could do, and they’re successful,” Lewis says. “There’s a socialization. The communion with their horse and volunteers is a very positive experience for those folks.”

The organization serves five public schools with special needs programs in Moore County, as well as several military veterans through the Wounded Warrior Project. The funds raised by the farm tour will benefit the public school programs and scholarships for some of the individuals who cannot otherwise afford the program.

Lewis hopes the October fundraiser attracts 500 guests, a typical number for the annual event.

“A lot of our patrons are golfers, so this is a whole new world,” she says. “Driving down the dirt and sand roads in Southern Pines is a thrill for them. They enjoy the uniqueness.”

For more information, visit prancing-horse.org/events-fundraising.

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Three local cookbooks to help you celebrate fall!

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“From its beginning, Pinehurst’s culinary tradition has been based on local agriculture.” So begins the delightful Open Door, a slender volume of recipes compiled by the Garden Club of the Sandhills. Part cookbook, part fanciful tour of a bygone era, the well-named little book invites us in to some of Pinehurst’s oldest homes and traditions. From spring’s “Matinee Races at the Harness Track – A Tailgate Luncheon” (with a menu of White Gazpacho Shots, Pulled Pork Sliders with Slaw, and Coconut Chocolate Patties), to winter’s “Field Trials Dinner at the Annie Oakley House” (with Smothered Quail, Sadie’s Southern Collards, and Cayenne Cornbread Muffins), the seasonal menus, historic photographs and reminiscences will delight your imagination as well as your taste buds.

Another celebration of the region’s agricultural resources comes from the Master Gardeners of Moore County. Our Favorite Recipes delights with offerings like Pork Medallions with Blackberry Sauce and Spring Green Salad with Strawberry and Garden Mint, but it’s the “Helpful Hints,” “Quick

Fixes,” “Napkin Folding,” “Counting Calories,” and other useful sections that will have you dog-earing this book. Plus, in support of the Communities in Schools FirstSchool Garden Programs, there is a collection of recipes just for kids!

Moore County Horse Country Cooking assembles more than two hundred recipes from friends and supporters of the Walthour-Moss Foundation (alongside an impressive array of archival, black-and-white and contemporary color photography). This beautiful cookbook is sophisticated without being pretentious. Take the Spaghetti-less Spaghetti. The noodles are glutenfree, made with spaghetti squash instead of pasta, and the meat sauce uses lean ground chicken or turkey instead of beef, but it’s still just a classic dinner of spaghetti and meat sauce. Javanese Rice Taffle may remind us how far we travel these days, but Bubbe’s Favorite Brisket Recipe brings us right back home.

Enjoy this fall menu, with a recipe selected from each of the books, that showcases the rich, agricultural bounty available here in the Sandhills.

Edna Bassani’s

Brisket in Beer Ingredients: 4 lbs ½ tsp 1 cup ½ cup 3 Tbsp 2 cloves 12 oz 2 ½ Tbsp ½ cup

Beef brisket Pepper Sliced onions, medium thick Chili sauce Brown sugar Garlic, minced Beer + 6 ounces Flour Water

Directions: Trim fat from the brisket and

place in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Sprinkle with pepper and arrange the onion rings over the top. Combine chili sauce, brown sugar, garlic

Contributed by Bob LaCasse Our Favorite Recipes and beer and pour over the brisket. Cover and bake at 350° for 3 hours, then uncover and bake an additional 20-30 minutes more until tender. Place the meat on a platter or cutting board and cover. Add the extra 6 oz of beer to the pan liquid and bring to a boil. Whisk flour and water together and add to the liquid. Cook about 2 minutes or until gravy is thickened.

Note: I’ve found I always want more than 1 cup of onion! —Bob LaCasse

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Marinated Kale Salad with Gouda and Apples Ingredients: ¼ cup ¼ cup 2 tsp

¼ tsp

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2 2 bunches ¼ cup

Contributed by Robin Savoie Moore County Horse Country Cooking

Lemon juice Olive oil Honey Kosher salt Freshly ground pepper Pink Lady or Gala apples Kale, stemmed and chopped (8 oz) Aged gouda cheese, shaved

Directions: Whisk together lemon juice, olive oil, honey, salt and pepper.

Core apples, slice into rings, and cut into bite-sized pieces. Combine chopped kale and apples with dressing. Toss well.

Cover and chill 2 to 24 hours.

Add cheese and toss just before serving.

Persimmon Pudding Fall: “Hawthorn Cottage’s Donald Ross Signature Dinner” Open Door

Ingredients: 1 cup ¼ cup ½ tsp ½ tsp ½ tsp ¼ tsp ¼ tsp ¾ cup 2 1 cup 2 Tbsp

Flour Sugar Baking soda Salt Cinnamon

Nutmeg Ginger Milk Eggs Persimmon pulp from Fuyu persimmons or wild native persimmons (1 quart of fruit yields about 1 cup of pulp) Melted butter

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Directions: Preheat oven to 350°. Sift flour,

sugar, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger together and set aside. Mix milk, eggs and persimmon pulp together and pour into dry ingredients. Mix well.

Stir in melted butter. Pour into greased baking dish or individual ramekins. Place dish in another pan with ½-inch water in bottom. Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour until pudding leaves sides of the baking dish.

Top with whipped cream, plain or with a splash of brandy. Serves 6.

Mike Plumb

First Equestrian Olympic Hall of Famer

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By Dedi McHam | Photos courtesy of Lynn McGugan Photography

By the time J. Michael Plumb

appeared in the 1992 Summer Olympics he had earned eight medals and been inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame. He began to look for what he called “a soft spot to land” and found it in a farm in Southern Pines, where he rides and trains. He spends his days of “retirement” working with talented horses and young students seeking a high level of instruction.

Plumb was born into a world of horses in New York; his father was a steeplechase rider and huntsman for the Meadow Brook Hounds, and his mother was an equestrian and hound handler. His parents recognized his talent and encouraged him to ride, and he began to event at a young age. In his senior year of prep school, his parents took him out of school to compete in a three-day event in Colorado Springs, going against the wisdom of the day. Two years on he competed in another three-day event in Chicago in 1959, and his career was off and running.

“In the 1960s my parents got me to the right place for instruction and competition. I lived over the barn in Gladstone, N. J. where Olympic training takes place, and I was able to absorb an incredible amount of knowledge and instruction. For ten years I was exposed to trainers such as George Morris, Bill Steinkraus and Frank Capot. What a lucky person I was, and I didn’t even know it at the time.”

In 1964 Plumb married sweetheart Donnan Sharp, a dressage rider who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics. They continued to live in the area, where

they had three sons and Plumb finished college.

“Gladstone was the hub for horsemen, trainers and professionals in the 1960s. It was an invaluable experience I will never forget. I never dreamed of anything like this, it just happened. I was in the right place at the right time, I guess it was because of my enthusiasm and love for the sport, and I continue to love it.”

He continues speaking of the present day, “Now I don’t do anything on a grand scale, but it is the scale I choose. I am preparing riders for what I did. The kids that I teach are pretty good riders and I try to make horses available to them so they can do whatever they want, whether it be in show jumping, dressage or eventing.”

Plumb explains most of his current students are ages 11 to 16, and have very busy lives with activities and family involvement. He wistfully notes that when he was their age, his whole tunnel vision was horses.

“I wish I had done more and had more advantages.

The way I can catch up is by helping young people learn.” His passion these days is to help raise the level of riding in the area, by improving the students’ skills, thus allowing them to compete in other areas and earning deserved recognition and awards.

As for his own involvement with competition on the road these days, he says, “I got burned out. I’m not a social person, and that’s a big part of competing nowadays. You’ve got to make yourself available and be social. People want to see you, and I’m a bit of a hermit. I like my space and privacy.”

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By Jeffrey White, M.D., Ophthalmic Plastic Surgeon

What is Blepharoplasty?

A blepharoplasty, or eyelid lift, is surgery to remove excess skin and fat from the upper or lower eyelids.

This procedure rejuvenates the periocular region and improves peripheral vision.

What causes the upper eyelids to droop and lower eyelids to develop loose skin or “fat bags” under our eyes?

We all have fat around our eyes to protect the eyeball in case of trauma. This fat “cushions the blow” and is not something that can be lost with diet. The fat can protrude as we age as the tissues that hold it in place stretch out. The skin around the eyes, as with skin everywhere on the body, also stretches out and loses its elastic ability with age. These changes are mostly determined by genetics and age, but can be modified by smoking, diet and sun exposure.

What type of evaluation takes place before the procedure?

Prior to surgery each patient will have a consultation to discuss their goals and expectations from surgery.

They will have a thorough examination of the eyes as well as measurements of the periocular region, needed to develop their individual treatment plan.

Pre-operative photographs and visual field testing may also be performed to determine medical necessity for the procedure.

What should patients expect during the upper eyelid procedure?

Upper blepharoplasty is done under local anesthesia, so the patient may be mostly awake or may have IV sedation, but they will be able to cooperate with the

surgeon during the procedure. Typically the procedure takes 30 minutes.

What should patients expect during the lower eyelids procedure?

Lower lid blepharoplasty is similar to the upper lid procedure, but may take slightly longer to perform.

What should patients expect after the procedure?

Following the procedure, patients are able to go home with ice packs to use on to the eyelids for the first 48 hours. An antibiotic ointment is applied to the incisions three to four times a day until the sutures fall out, which is usually about 10 days. Most patients experience some swelling and bruising which typically worsens over the first 48 hours, and then improves day by day. Swelling should be almost completely resolved two weeks from surgery.

Patients may use their eyes normally in the postoperative period. Usually there is minor blurring of vision, usually from the ointment getting in the eyes. Most patients can resume to normal activities within a few days.

for more information Established in 1977, Carolina Eye Associates is one of the largest eye care facilities in the Southeast. The practice provides a full range of quality medical and surgical eye care services. For more information on blepharoplasty (eyelid lift) or other services offered by Carolina Eye Associates, call 910.295.2100 or visit www.carolinaeye.com.

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Healthy Living

FirstHealth Hospice Observes

35 years

of Caring for People

By Brenda Bouser for The FirstHealth of the Carolinas

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Dr. John Kerr is a hospitalist

physician with FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital and FirstHealth Hospice & Palliative Care. Also a pediatrician, he cares for children who need hospice services.

He has had only two pediatric patients in the past two years, and he especially recalls one of them – and working closely with the Hospice nurse and social worker to ensure the child and family members had the best care possible.

“Pediatric palliative and hospice care can be such a valuable and needed asset to a child’s wellbeing at a critical point in their life,” says Dr. Kerr.

“Whether helping with the complicated daily needs of the chronically ill child, who can require total care, or giving guidance to a child and family

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preparing for the passing of their loved one, hospice and palliative care can be a relief and a blessing.”

Even though pediatric hospice cases occur infrequently, FirstHealth Hospice & Palliative Care is prepared to offer the same level of care it provides to its adult patients.

“Hospice serves the same purpose,” Dr. Kerr says, “just with a different age group.”

The addition of a designated pediatrician for children needing hospice care is just one of many changes designed to improve patient care that have occurred during the 35-year history of FirstHealth Hospice & Palliative Care. From its modest beginnings as the essentially volunteer Sandhills Hospice serving communities in Moore County, the program has expanded to serve Montgomery County patients as well.

Since the opening of its 32-acre FirstHealth Hospice & Palliative Care campus north of Pinehurst in October 2011, FirstHealth Hospice has served 2,549 patients in homes or long-term care facilities and another 1,394 in the 11-bed FirstHealth Hospice House.

Despite the growth, changes and improvements, some things have never changed, especially the excellent care and the gratitude of the communities that are served.

“We have always been able to provide exceptional quality of care, thanks in part to the tremendous support we receive from the community,” says director Tina Gibbs.

In the beginning

Hospice was a little-known and mostly European concept in 1976 when Carlisle Franks, the chaplain for what was then Moore Memorial Hospital, approached staff oncologist David Allen, M.D., about establishing a local program.

Early organizational meetings were held around the dining room table in the home of Pinehurst residents Jim and Mary Tart.

Like many of the group’s early supporters, the Tarts had medical backgrounds – she was a registered nurse, and he was a cardiologist. Others

in their group included Drs. Donald Schulte, Alfred Siege and William Hollister and nurses Marylee Schulte, Irene Pace and Linda Moore.

“The real hallmark of the program was the swell of support that it received in the early days to get it started,” says Marylee Schulte. “It was a program like no other.”

Those invited to attend an early organizational meeting also included the directors of the regional heart, lung and cancer associations. Of the three, only Mary Jane Knight, of the South Central Region of the American Lung Association of North Carolina, was able to attend.

In her travels (about 1,500 miles a month) throughout a 10-county service region, Knight had observed and been impressed by the services of established hospice programs in Randolph and Alamance counties as well as in her home county of Guilford.

“I saw how hospice had benefitted patients and families,” she says. “That’s what enticed me to get involved, to see what hospice had to offer to the community in terms of home care.”

As interest in the new organization grew, donations started to trickle in, thanks in part to a two-level drive for memberships: $3 for individuals and $5 for families.

“When we reached $100, we thought we were on the way,” says Knight.

Marylee Schulte recalls a common purpose among members of that early group.

“Unlike today, when Medicare guidelines define what will be done and how, we had no guidelines, but were driven by doing what was done for patients and families with the support of Hospice of North Carolina and the success of other start-up hospices across the state,” she says.

“There was a goal, and everybody was working toward that goal. We did what we did, because it was the right thing to do.”

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Option: A Luxury Car or Cash The FirstHealth Hospice Foundation supports the work of the not-for-profit FirstHealth Hospice & Palliative Care with a current endowment of more than $13 million, ensuring that all patients get the care they need, whether they can pay for it or not.

A generous community has helped grow the funds by way of personal contributions and the support of various fundraising events – the most successful being the FirstHealth Pottery Auction.

With the celebration of 35 years of hospice care in the Sandhills, the fundraising focus has changed this year. Instead of a gala featuring the auction of Pottery Country pottery and other items, the 2015 fundraiser will center on the raffle of a 2015 C300W Mercedes-Benz sedan donated by Mercedes-Benz of Fayetteville and Pinehurst Auto Mall. (Those whose interests are more financial than automotive can opt for $25,000 in cash instead.)

Second prize is $1,000, and third prize is $500.

The winner of the Mercedes will be announced Thursday, September 24th, during an event at The Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst that will begin at 5:30pm with a reception featuring music, drinks, hors d’oeurves and a silent auction. Dinner and entertainment provided by emcee Jim Dodson and humorist Jeanne Robertson will follow at 7pm.

Event tickets are $125 each, and raffle tickets are $50 each. For more information or to purchase tickets, call 910.695.7500.

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housed in a social worker’s office in the hospital and accepted its first patient in August 1980. Only the nurse who served as patient care coordinator was paid; everyone else was a volunteer, including Dr. David Allen, the medical director.

He held the post for many years before being succeeded by Dr. Ellen Willard, the medical oncologist and hematologist who in 1998 would become the first North Carolina physician to be certified in Hospice & Palliative Care.

Anne Lewis Fox became the organization’s first full-time executive director, also in 1998, and the expanding operation soon needed more room. From the social worker’s office, it grew to two rooms and a storage closet in a former nurses’ residence and then to locations on May Street in Southern Pines and in the Pinehurst Executive Center off Highway 5.

A campaign to build a designated office building highlighted the late 1980s, and registered nurse Carole White assumed the role of executive director about the time of a historic milestone – formal Medicare certification.

Longtime supporter Joyce Franke led a fundraising effort that culminated in December 1990 with the opening of the organization’s first permanent home on Aviemore Drive in Pinehurst. Visitors there were welcomed by the words “Sandhills Hospice: A Special Kind of Caring” inscribed in the cement sidewalk out front.

With a home to call its own, Sandhills Hospice started new programs and expanded existing ones – holding its first “Light Up a Life”memorial ceremony in December 1992 and, in 1995, further developing bereavement services by adding a New Beginnings group led by Tina Gibbs (then the organization’s social worker) and Chaplain Pam Hudson.

The space also lent itself to a major fundraising effort, the Hospice Pottery Auction, which eventually became so successful that it had to be moved to larger space at the Country Club of North Carolina.

In 1996, Sandhills Hospice (and the associated Sandhills Hospice Foundation) took one of the most significant steps in its history

when it became a part of the new FirstHealth of the Carolinas health care system. In 2001, Charlotte Patterson, a registered nurse whose association with the local program had begun as a volunteer, moved from the role of patient care coordinator to director.

Patterson led the organization during a 12-year period highlighted by the construction and 2011 opening of the FirstHealth Hospice campus with a Hospice House, freestanding chapel and an Administrative Building that also houses the Grief Resource and Counseling Center.

She was succeeded in 2013

by Gibbs, who had been the associate director.

“Making life last the whole time”

Although many people equate hospice care with the end of life, many others – especially those involved with the not-for-profit FirstHealth Hospice – prefer to think of it in terms of “making life last the whole time.”

“Families appreciate the many different ways our Hospice supports them as they care for loved ones with life-limiting illness,” says Dr. Willard.

“Apart from the medical care, families express appreciation for the education and emotional and spiritual support. What they appreciate most can vary depending on their situation and the illnesses involved, but knowing they are not alone is very important.”

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Sandhills Sightings 4th OF JULY CELEBRATION

Miss Petite Moore County

Joe & Alyssa Furnari

Pinehurst Village

The Whithker & Thong families

Lucy Warren & Megan

Trey Nave, Holly Webb & Tootsie

Shelby

Coleen & Liam Brauch

Ed & Darlene Reiner

Water Slide Fun

live after five

Held on July 10th at the Pinehurst Country Cub’s new pool Audrey & Tyrone Hurdle, Mickie & Stoney Lindsey

Jessica Scheurer & Ashleigh Earhart

Richard & Andrea Catania, Frank & Vickie Grimm

Gaye Saunders, Sherri Dunlap, Andrew Lyons, Rebecca Chriscoe & Karen Davis

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Call Dolores Muller 910.295.3465 or email sightings@pinehurstmagazine.com

U.S. KIDS GOLF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Paula Miranda

Celebrating Its 10th Year in the Sandhills July 28th-August 2nd Maria Fedovowycz & dad Roman, Ukraine

Tommy Wheeler

Jayden Williams Megan Meng & Sarah Shao

Ecuador Keishlyan Vega & family, Puerto Rico

Victoria Veator, MA

William from Atlanta, GA

Ruby Kavanagh, Australia Taiwan

Dad Brady & Nicole Anderson, OK

Stephen Hernandez, TX

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Sandhills Sightings SOUNDS ON THE GROUND

John & Julie Tampa, Robyn James, Taylor Norbury & Lindsey Colvin

Held on June 25th at Weymouth Center

Travis Deutman, Kim Holder, Tony & Tina Jenkins & Kacey McLester

Elizabeth Garner and Tim Sayer David Price

Melissa Wriglesworth & Sara Newman

Hailey Price

Patricia Reil. Janet Kenworthy, Audrey Moriarty, Fran White & Andrew Lobue

Rise n’ shine dressage show

Azlyn Raja

July 18th-19th in Pinehurst Š Photos by Chelsey & Co.

Tina Cook

Janice Enneking-Welch and Michelle Palladino

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Lynn Doki Camina and Peggy Ferebee

MID SUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM GARDEN PARTY

Mary Schlaff

Jessica Kittrell, Victoria Temple, Patti Conner & Jenny Reed

Held on July 25th at the Country Club of North Carolina in Support of FirstHealth Dental Care

AJ & David Schlaff & Peter Ellman

Event sponsors: Carolyn & Bobby Maynor, John & Elizabeth Oettinger, Steven & Keri Van Scogoc, Kameron & Clem Monroe, Jennifer & David Furie, Lacey & Melanie Moore

Frankie & Melissa Page

Auxiliary Members: Lindley Fleury, Cathy Schlaff, Drs. Archana Antony & Sharon Harrell, Sarah Ellman, Nancy Pulliam, Dana Danielson, Maggie Barry and Kathy Desmond

BLUES CRAWL

Michelle & Tom Davis, Leigh Velevis and Stacy Thompson

Held on July 11th in Southern Pines

Robyn James, Taylor Norbury, Elizabeth Owens, Heather McKeithen, Amy MacDonald and Katrina Bullard

Juan & Serena Gonzalez

Hollie Hozek & Tanner Fleck

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113th WOMEN’S NORTH & SOUTH AMATEUR GOLF TOURNAMENT

Pinky Doyle, Best of Show winner Denise Rivers Ferrara and Chris Dunn

Held on Pinehurst No. 2, July 13th-17th Bailey Tardy winner

Rachel Dai

1st place painting: Katana Lemelin

Willie & Kim Sobat Cecily Overbey & caddy Thomas Schoenberger

Melinda & Kenly Cox

35th ANNUAL FINE ARTS FESTIVAL

Awards Ceremony, August 7th, at the Campbell House in Southern Pines Marth Leach Awards ceremony

Michael Miller, Jan Leitschuh, Elaine & Jerry Schwartz Hannah Wood and Joyce Johnson

Sean Duggan and Jillian Hollis

Marge Lavoie

CORRECTION: In the July/August 2015 issue Aberdeen Carolina & Western Railway was mislabeled throughout a feature article. We regret the error in name.

We would also like to credit Nick Breedlove who provided the intro photo for The Village Chapel article.

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