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Life’s Hurdles

This year’s Carolina International CIC & Horse Trials has special meaning for Southern Pines native and rider Alex Martone.

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Home of the Year

Celebrating the Moore County Home Builders Association annual Homes of the Year.

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Planting the Seed

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’m reading The Book of Joy. It’s a story by Douglas Abrams that covers a weeklong meeting between the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

What was the purpose of this octogenarian tête-àtête between two of the world’s spiritual and moral leaders? It was to discuss lasting happiness in a changing world, and sharing their thoughts and ideas on how to be joyful in life.

What’s fascinating about the book is that regardless of their vastly different backgrounds, faiths, lives and struggles, their commonality is even more pronounced. And they both make this pronouncement clear from the start: With humility and compassion, they found joy by giving joy to everyone with whom they share this world.

In the book, the Dalai Lama shares many Tibetan sayings, and there was one that jumped out at me that seemed to have particular relevance for this issue.

“Wherever you have friends, that’s your country, and wherever you receive love, that’s your home.”

To put it into some context, the Dalai Lama was talking about his five-decade exile from Tibet and how he came to realize that when he found love, he found his home and it didn’t matter where he resided physically.

It struck me, as I read those lines, at the power of the word home—what it represents, how it makes us feel, the thoughts it invokes. Home.

I would think, though, that this same idea can extend to the physical. The Dalai Lama, I can only imagine, would be overjoyed at setting foot back in his native Tibet. He would be going home. And the same goes for all of us. After a long trip, haven’t we said, “Thank God we’re home.” When missing our loved ones, “Come home soon.” When greeting friends, “Welcome to my home.”

In this issue of Pinehurst Living, we highlight the annual Moore County Home Builders Association’s Home of the Year and Excellence in Remodeling awards.

As we went through the process with the MCHBA, joining the judges on judging day, talking with the builders and seeing the process unfold, we started to hear an underlining theme. These builders take their responsibility to heart. They recognize they are the first chapter in building memories that will last a lifetime for their clients. That the house their building will be called home.

“Where we love is home—home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts,” said Oliver Wendell Holmes. One can only hope all of us eventually find a home to rest our hearts.

MARCH/APRIL 2o17 PUBLISHER/EDITOR Greg Girard greg@pinehurstlivingmagazine.com PUBLISHER/CREATIVE DIRECTOR Amanda Jakl amanda@pinehurstlivingmagazine.com ADVERTISING SALES Vince Girard vince@pinehurstlivingmagazine.com GRAPHIC DESIGN Stacey Yongue COPY EDITOR Rachel Dorrell OUR GIRL FRIDAY Iris Voelker iris@pinehurstlivingmagazine.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Billy Liggett, Sundi McLaughlin, Dolores Muller, Catherine Murphy, Robert Nason, Sheila Pellizzari, Helen Ross, Jean Barron Walker PHOTOGRAPHY Allie Conrad Photography, Amanda Jakl, McKenzie Photography, Moore County Historical Association, Tufts Archives For advertising or subscription inquiries call 910.420.0185 © Copyright 2017. Pinehurst Living is published six times annually by Sand & Pine LLC. Any reproduction in part or in whole of any part of this publication is prohibited without the express written consent of the publisher.

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LIFE'S

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FOR ALEX MARTONE, COMPETING IN

AN INTERNATIONAL EVENT AGAINST THE WORLD’S BEST RIDERS IN HER OWN BACKYARD IS THRILLING ENOUGH. But next month’s Carolina

International CIC & Horse Trials, the flagship event of Raeford’s Carolina Horse Park, will hold special meaning for the Southern Pines native and O’Neal School graduate.

It will be the first chance for Martone to thank an entire community—and an entire local industry—for their support during the most difficult year of her life.

“Being at this event, I feel like it will signal that I’m officially back at it,” says the 26-year-old rider. “Back competing. Back to where I was before all of the surgeries.”

Born with a heart defect, pulmonary atresia, Martone survived three open heart surgeries to repair a valve as a child. She’d gone years before needing another surgery until October 2015, and an infection forced a fifth surgery in April of last year. Each surgery required the rebreaking of her sternum, and the rehabilitation has been a long and difficult process.

But it was those years between surgeries, from childhood to early adulthood, where Martone found her passion, her calling.

Her grandmother, her aunts and her cousins all owned, rode or trained horses. When she was 7, Martone attended her first eventing competition in Kentucky as a spectator.

“I was sold,” she recalls. “I had always been around horses, and I always loved the sport. But it was at that event in Kentucky where I first thought competing was a possibility for me.”

At 17, Martone made the team for the North American Junior and Young Riders’ Championship event held, fittingly, in Kentucky. She has since competed in more than 30 United States Eventing Association official competitions, with more than a dozen Top 5 finishes.

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She has seen and competed in elite events on some of the world’s most difficult courses, so it’s high praise that Martone considers the fourth annual Carolina International, set for March 22-26, among the elite. Last year, the event drew a record number of participants with more than 500 entries. Among them were several riders from the U.S. Olympic Equestrian team, including Phillip Dutton, who won the individual bronze medal in eventing at the Rio Games. Also in 2016, Carolina Horse Park became one of only four cross country courses in the nation to feature the work of renowned course designer Ian Stark, whose creations can also be found at Rebecca Farm in Montana, Richland Park in Michigan and Galway Downs in California.

For 16 years, Carolina Horse Park’s signature event was the Stoneybrook Steeplechase, which previously enjoyed a 49-year run at the Southern Pines farm of event founder Mickey Walsh before moving to Raeford in 2001. Last November, Carolina Horse Park announced it would no longer host the Steeplechase, citing “the changing landscape of the local equestrian community and the exponential growth of other events,” namely the Carolina International. According to event director Marc Donovan, many of the Steeplechase regulars were drawn to the Carolina International, a free five-day event that drew between 5,000 and 7,000 spectators in 2016, the heaviest crowd days on Saturday and Sunday.

“It’s a big deal,” adds Ariel Grald, a Carolina International competitor who has trained and worked in Southern Pines after moving to the area from Vermont in 2012. “It’s become a destination competition for all riders on the East Coast.”

Southern Pines and the surrounding Sandhills region have also become quite the winter training destination, Grald says, for riders like herself from the Northeast.

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“Florida has also become popular because of the weather, but I love Southern Pines,” she says. “The horse community here is very close and very supportive. We have great facilities and amenities, and it’s just a great place to train. There are several competitions in this area, but having the Carolina International is just huge. It’s a top-notch, top level show.”

Donovan said Carolina Horse Park has an estimated $6.5 million annual economic impact to the region, which includes Moore and Hoke counties.

“Southern Pines is unique in that it has so much preservation land, and it’s an ideal spot to build horse farms,” Donovan says. “And not enough can be said about the community. The people here really support this industry and want to see it succeed.”

SUPPORT SYSTEM

Alex Martone can talk forever about the support and love she’s experienced from the community during not one, but two very difficult times in her life.

When the heart surgeries sidelined her from riding and competing for much of last year, other riders and trainers offered their time and energy to ride Martone’s horses and keep them in shape.

She also saw the community come together in October 2013 when one of her best friends, fellow rider Zoe DiGiovanni, died after being thrown from her horse at a farm outside of Southern Pines. She was only 23. At her funeral, many attended on horseback, dressed in their finest riding attire. Today, Carolina Horse Park has a cross country complex built in DiGiovanni’s honor, and every year, an award is presented in her name.

“Losing Zoe was devastating, and it was hard for a lot people in the community,” says Martone. “That it happened in a riding accident made it even more difficult. It was very humbling for all of us, many of whom ride multiple horses a day and do this for a living. It definitely made me take a step back and evaluate what I was doing and the risks that were involved. It was something I had to work through.”

She’s also had to assess the risks of returning to the sport after two major heart surgeries. But Martone is quick—and happy—to tell you she’s been given full clearance by her cardiologist to return to competition. Her rehabilitation progressed from cardiac rehab to sports therapy, and heading into the Carolina International (and a few events in February and early March), she is in the best shape of her life.

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“Riding takes a more physical toll on you than you think,” she says. “There’s keeping your balance and your supporting weight to make your horse’s job easier. In the cross country or endurance phase, you’re in a gallop anywhere from five to 12 minutes, depending on your level. It requires a lot of leg strength. A lot of core strength. It’s taken a while to get back in riding shape, but I think I’m feeling better than I did before [the surgeries].”

It would take a lot more, she says, to keep her away from the sport.

“I love competing. I love the adrenaline rush. But what really draws me to this sport, this industry and this work is my relationship with the horses. I know it sounds silly, but it’s true. The horses become your teammates.

And there’s nothing like training a ‘green’ inexperienced horse and seeing it move up to higher levels.”

Asked her thoughts of the debate—does a horse know that it has won a race or an event?—Martone doesn’t hesitate.

“They know,” she says. “They definitely know when you’re proud of them. They try so incredibly hard to please us, and they don’t have to. It astounds me the things we’ve asked horses to do in this sport, whether it’s riding in a trailer and getting on a plane to go to an event. To me, they’re happy to do it. They try hard to please their riders.” PL

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Home Year of the

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Here come the judges Orders in hand, the meeting quickly disbands, with the groups scattering across the county to visit 27 entries from 12 local builders.

There’s no denying the obsession we've had with the

process of home building and remodeling in the past decade. Yes, HGTV has had an

enormous influence on a public craving for those before and after images. And whether it’s the old-school passion of shows like This Old House or the modern craze for Fixer Upper, we can’t seem to get enough.

So it should come as no surprise that we have a local version to satisfy our hunger for celebrating quality home craftsmanship. It’s with the Moore County Home Builders Association’s (MCHBA) annual Home of the Year and Excellence in Remodeling awards.

Standards of Excellence It’s judging day and the judges start arriving early on a crisp January morning. They come from outside the county— impartiality being the goal—and gather in the conference room at the MCHBA offices in Aberdeen for their marching orders. It’s going to be a full day of home visits for the three judging groups.

“OK, how many have watched HGTV? Forget everything you saw. It’s not realistic,” Jon Potter says, greeting the group with a smile. Potter is an MCHBA board member and owner of Masters Properties.

Instead, taking notes, being consistent, respecting the property and having fun are the themes emphasized. As is to only concentrate on the building and structural details. Décor and interior tastes of the owner are not to be considered.

“It's strictly a contest for the builders,” explains Jeramy Hooper, another MCHBA board of director and branch manager for Ferguson Enterprises. “It's also an opportunity to get exposure and for the builder to give a little reward to their homeowners. A 'Hey thank you, the house is beautiful, let me do this for them,' because not only are the builders proud of their work, the homeowners are also really proud.”

There are three judges in each group, and they consist of realtors and people working in the building industry to soccer moms and fans of the afore-mentioned HGTV. The idea is to get a broad perspective from the judging groups. And so marching orders in hand, the meeting quickly disbands, with the groups scattering across the county to visit 27 entries from 12 local builders.

Each judge is provided with a detailed checklist. For Home of the Year, they’re judging the exterior, interior, kitchen, master bath and overall impression with a scoring system from excellent to fair.

And these overarching categories include design balance, quality of materials, effective lighting and innovative ideas, to name a few.

Categories are based on the cost of the build and do not include lot or market value.

For the remodeling projects, the judges are critiquing design, functionality, quality of craftsmanship, as well as any solutions the builder may have come up with to overcome difficulties.

While décor and the owner’s personal tastes are not to be considered, it’s hard not to notice the different styles. There’s the home with the farmhouse kitchen, the home with the sleek, modern lines and the home with the expansive contemporary windows. The judges, though, seem to be nonplussed. “The checklist is very specific,” says Jill McLester, a judge for the second year in a row and a realtor from Richmond County. “So the lighting, the craftsmanship, that doesn’t really have anything to do with whether the house is modern, traditional or contemporary.”

Bonus Value It’s no secret that the builders enter a home in the competition because they’re proud of their work. But if you dig a bit deeper, you get to understand the time and effort they put in has more meaning.

“You know what I really like is the relationships,” says Alex Bowness of Bowness Custom Homes. “When you're building a home for somebody, they get to know you and you get to know

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Home Year of the

"I still drive by a house that I built 10 years ago, and I think back to my experiences with that owner and the whole process. It's a nice reflection. It's great to see what you've done. From time to time, I even drive by the very first house I built."

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Tips on choosing a builder Courtesy of MCHBA

Educate. Research the type and style of home you would want. Read articles, save and cut out images of the look you like and share them with your builder.

Make a list. Once you’ve decided on a style, make a list of potential builders. Ask friends and family if they know a builder. Check with your local builders association. Ask a realtor.

Drive by. Once you have a list of builders, drive by homes they’ve already built. This will give you a better feel of the builder’s standards and style.

Interview builders. Ask a lot of questions and take notes.

Some examples:

Will the builder give you references of recent buyers/occupants?

Does the builder have a financing plan established?

Are there options in the floor plan—can space be added?

How much "customizing" can be done versus standard features?

What are the upgrade options?

Are there any additional fees relating to the home or development?

Does the builder offer a warranty program?

Does the price include landscaping?

What if the plants die within a year?

Be confident in what you want. If a builder can’t fulfill your needs, you should look elsewhere.

Personality counts. A successful custom build is based on a partnership between the builder and the owner, so make sure you get along and the builder is clear about your expectations before the foundation is laid.

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them. I still drive by a house that I built 10 years ago, and I think back to my experiences with that owner and the whole process. It's a nice reflection. It's great to see what you've done. From time to time, I even drive by the very first house I built.”

Bowness has been building homes since 1978. As a twice former president of the MCHBA, he has seen the benefits for his business to participate in the Home of the Year.

“I've had great opportunities [to put homes up for HOY]. It's a great opportunity for my owners and designers and ourselves to have our work shown throughout the community. It’s also a good opportunity for us to see what our competitors are doing and keeping up with what's going on.”

The same sentiments are echoed by the younger generation of builders in the area, like Ryan Pascal of Pineland Homes.

Building homes since 2012, this is the first year Pascal submitted a home to the contest and the first year of building a custom home. As he expands his business to include more custom builds, he recognizes the challenges and opportunities.

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we're trying to expand the business a bit and maybe pick up a few customs each year in addition to what we do with spec houses, and so I thought it would be good to get our name out,” he says. “But throwing a human being element into the equation is different. When it's not just me and my wife making decisions, you've got to go to somebody else for their selection. It can take a lot longer, and I just have to remind myself that their opinion of the way it turns out is the only thing that's important.”

Established in 1976, the MCHBA is the local association of the state and nationwide builders associations. In addition to celebrating the work of its members through the Home of the Year program, the organization lobbies for the building industry, promotes quality building in the area and offers networking opportunities for its members. For more information on the association, visit mchba.com. PL

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Sunday Supper

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ucked away on a quaint street in historic downtown Aberdeen, there’s a bakery offering the finest in artisanal breads and pastries made in the old-world tradition of central Europe, alongside a café menu of contemporary Mediterranean fare.

The Bakehouse is an eclectic place for sure. After all, where else can one find bratwurst, gazpacho and a black forest cherry torte on the same menu? In what could be best described as “AustrianSpanish fusion,” its shared space and willful intersectional culinary approach makes a statement that this is not a run-of-the-mill bakery café, but rather, everything that happens is quite intentional.

At one time, fifth-generation baker, Austrian-born proprietor and executive pastry chef Martin Brunner and his now mother-inlaw, Dolores Zapater, a native of Spain, worked on opposite sides of the road on Highway 5. He ran a wholesale bake shop and she ran the now-dormant Café Meditteraneo. After Martin met and married Dolores’ daughter, Mireia, and started a family, they longed for a place where they could combine their culinary arts under one roof.

That, and the baker’s need for a new stone hearth oven, led the family to combine their talents into what is now The Bakehouse.

As Martin explains it, "To place both families under one roof, marry two great things and turn it into something awesome."

In 2008, the family launched its joint venture in its current location on North Poplar Street. Martin, who once aspired to be an architect, and his father, Kurt, renovated the 2,600-square-foot building into a bakery and café in the style one might envision in the Austrian Alps. Large-pane glass windows both outside and inside the cafe allow patrons to observe pastry chefs at work. Rich wood paneling, matching handmade tabletops throughout the café, and wrought-iron café sets located outside complete the picturesque setting.

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The front of the house features a glass case with tempting treats for special occasions, as well as the baked staples needed for everyday life. A typical day sees a steady stream of patrons arriving to pick up their custom-made cakes or weekend indulgences, or just grabbing an espresso and croissant to go. For those who dine in, the Barcelona Burger is a favorite for locals, golfers and tourists alike. Panini sandwiches made with rich prosciutto and cheeses, handmade quiches, and soups and salads with a Mediterranean flare are served on freshly baked baguettes, bread rolls and pastry. Nothing is frozen here. And Martin prides himself on the simplicity of ingredients used in all of his baked goods.

The back of the house features what would be any baker’s dream. Wide, open workspaces with an abundance of natural light.

Pastry and bakery chefs work on tabletops of hard maple that were either transported from the Brunner family’s original bakery in Austria, or made here in the U.S. by Martin and Kurt. An 8-footdeep, stone-lined Italian oven can bake up to 100 loaves of bread to perfection with just the right crispness to every crust or the perfect resilient spring to every cake layer.

Bakers arrive each morning at 2 a.m. to begin their work, and all of the 16 to 18 bakers and pastry chefs who work at The Bakehouse are either students or graduates from Sandhills Community College Culinary and Pastry Arts program, where Martin is an associate professor and program coordinator.

The Bakehouse is also a wholesale supplier to high-end specialty markets such as Dean & Deluca, and to local restaurants such as the Holly Inn, Midland Bistro and Pinehurst Pizza. As an independent bakery, Martin distinguishes himself by describing The Bakehouse as the “yes we can” bakery. “We’re a custom shop … we have to do custom things,” he explains.

And that commitment to quality is evident in The Bakehouse’s distinctive cakes, which create lifelong memories as well as delight the palate. Distinctive indeed, as of the nearly 4,500 wedding cakes Martin has created over the years, no two have been alike. Martin is a prolific sketcher and his freshly baked cake layers are his canvas for artistic expression. One can imagine the delight of a little girl’s fantasy come to life with a fairy tale unicorn complete with a flowing mane of bright, pastel-colored flowers, or a richly detailed Dia de Los Muertos themed sheet cake to celebrate the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead, when family and friends pray and celebrate loved ones who have passed on. It’s these special moments that The Bakehouse holds dear. “Food is not just nourishment,” say Martin.

Indeed, at The Bakehouse, food is an experience to savor, and one not to be missed.

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The Bakehouse is located at 120 North Poplar Street in Aberdeen and is open from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Sundays.

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Wine Review

IN VINO, VERITAS:

When the Moon

Hits Your Eye

By Sheila Pellizzari

The word CHIANTI is one of the most known Italian words around the world, almost as popular as CIAO. That does not suggest, however, that the meaning of Chianti is well-known.

For wine drinkers, I will put lire down that the first thing that comes to mind when I say the word Chianti is a fiasco.

No, I’m not referring to a complete, ludicrous failure. I mean the Italian fiasco, a straw-wrapped, round-bottom, basket bottle filled with mediocre table wine that may be more about drinking quantity than quality. Perhaps in your vision, the tablecloth it rests on is red and white checked, and a man playing the accordion in the background. You are not alone—this is what many people think of when they think of Chianti. And there’s nothing wrong with that! Some of my best meals and favorite evenings have been spent in a casual and delicious Italian trattoria, guzzling fiaschi of Chianti like water.

This is not the only type of Chianti that exists, however, and although they may share the sangiovese grape and the name, there is a huge difference between a Chianti and a Chianti Classico.

When you see these two wines on a shelf in the store, two very clear things will differentiate them: the price, with Chianti Classico being notably more expensive, and the black rooster, a symbol that verifies it is Chianti Classico, not just Chianti. Italian laws pertaining to wines and winemaking are very strict and heavily enforced, but there is good reason why Chianti Classico

is more expensive and is of higher quality than Chianti.

Chianti Classico is the oldest wine appellation in Italy, established over 300 years ago, on Sept. 24, 1716. The “oldest zone of origin” of Chianti is a small area between the cities of Florence and Siena.

This is the land of the gallo nero, or the black rooster.

Without getting too technical or wine geeky, let’s go through three basic differences between Chianti and Chianti Classico.

First, the terroir of the two wines is completely different. Chianti Classico is produced and bottled only in the Chianti Classico geographical area, the black rooster zone. This is a small terroir, approximately 17,000 acres in central Italy, with slightly alkaline soil (pH above 7), unfertile and rich in active carbonates.

Alternatively, Chianti wine is produced all over Tuscany, a large area extending to the coast, from Pisa all the way to Arezzo, covering approximately 40,000 acres.

This large area has many different terroirs compared to the Classico area, which are often acidic and fertile, and also has vines grown on various heights and exposures.

Second, to produce Chianti Classico, winemakers are limited to a yearly production of three pounds per plant. For Chianti, the yearly production is three times more, or nine pounds per plant.

Third, in the Chianti Classico blend, winemakers are obliged to put a minimum of 80 percent sangiovese and the remaining 20 percent must be made with only

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red grapes from an official list, such as canaiolo. In Chianti wine, the producers can put as little as 60 percent sangiovese and they can add to that even white grapes, such as malvasia and trebbiano, two vines bearing high quantity of grapes, but producing a wine that oxidizes very quickly.

Chianti wine is ready for the consumption only five months after the harvest, and it is a wine that does not age because approximately five years after the harvest, it oxidizes and becomes undrinkable. Chianti Classico however, ages well and can be consumed many years past this. So remember that if you are looking for a Chianti Classico, be sure it has the black rooster logo on it.

And how did this black cockerel become the official emblem of Chianti Classico wines? The tale stems back to the Middle Ages, to the long-lived rivalry between Siena and Florence. Florence and Siena were fighting over where the boundary line between the two regions laid. To bring an end to their ceaseless battles, the cities agreed to decide the location of the boundary by a competition between two knights. The knights were to set out on horseback at cockcrow from their respective hometowns in Florence and Siena, and the point at which they met would be the official boundary between the two regions.

The citizens of Siena raised a beautiful white rooster, which grew sleek and fat.

The Florentines, instead, chose a black rooster and starved him, so that on the

day of the race, the black rooster was so famished he started to crow even before sunrise.

Thus, the Florentine knight set out much earlier than the Sienese knight, whom he met merely 12 kilometers from Siena, hence almost all of the Chianti territory was united under the rule of the Florentine Republic. Since this day, the black rooster became the emblem of the historic Chianti.

SO WHICH WINES TO CHOOSE?

Chianti

Villa Chigi 2014 / $18.99 The wine matures in steel vats during the winter and is ready for bottling the following spring. It is bright ruby red with appealing purple hues. Soft and well-balanced on the palate with recurring fruity undertones. Geranium, pepper and cherry feature on the nose, with

Sheila Pellizzari lived in Italy for more than 13 years, where she developed a passion and knowledge of Italian wines. She and her husband, Paolo, are the owners of Bacco Selections, a Pinehurst-based company specializing in fine wine importing and distributing.

some slightly vinous notes. This wine is produced in the Chianti Classico area, but is not classified as Classico because it is released on the market earlier than the minimum required period of one year after harvest.

Chianti

Classico 2012 Poggio Bonelli / $25.99 This wine is considered a more modern Chianti Classico style, as it is aged 10 months in small second or third French oak barrels, followed by 3 months in the bottle. A genuine and characteristic expression of the sangiovese varietal, this Chianti Classico has a deep, dense, ruby red color. Wild berries, sour black cherry, thyme and leather are featured on the nose. Though bold and dry, the taste is softened by the delicate sweetness of the French oak.

Wine Spectator 91 points

Chianti Classico 2010

Fattoria La Ripa / $26.15 This is a certified organic wine. It is considered a traditional Chianti Classico style, aged first in oak casks (which are larger than barrels, therefore it has less oak flavor and more fruit), then aged in the bottle. Color is a deep ruby red, the bouquet is bursting with blackberry and cherry, violet, tobacco and earth aromas.

The flavor is intense, supple, persistent and has well-balanced fruit with lively acidity and firm tannins. It is elegant and wellstructured.

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Wiggins Front Door

When my husband and I lived in Little Rock, we wanted something special for our 10th wedding anniversary. Since I loved to go “junkin’,” I pulled him along to a wonderful little antique store in England, Arkansas, just east of Little Rock.

We loved this door with its leaded glass oval window and ol’ wooden kick plate and bought it for $100, which was a lot back then. It was painted purple with more layers of paint underneath. It was a 34-inch width door. We needed it to be 36, so I stripped all the paint off and took a construction class at the University of Arkansas to add an inch to either side. We celebrate 47 years this year and our door has gone with us to five houses as our family moved. The trick is to always hire a good finish carpenter to install the door!

- Judie Wiggins, PINEHURST

Head vases

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I purchased my fi rst head vase at a farm sale in Pennsylvania for 63 cents, more than 20 years ago. I found additional ones at yard, garage and estate sales, and the back rooms of floral shops. The original purpose of these was for floral arrangements. During WWII, the vases, along with an arrangement, were purchased by servicemen for their sweethearts. Since most of them were small, however, not many flowers could be put in them and so they were not very profitable. They became “dust catchers” in the back rooms of florist shops. Most were sold to florists through pottery importers (mainly from Japan).

Many have numbers, names and dates on the bottom.

- Mary Ann Young, SOUTHERN PINES

Coffee urn 

Th is very unusual coffee/tea dispenser came from my grandfather’s store in Maine. He owned a tea room and candy store in the 1920s and ’30s.

- Cynthia McIver, PINEHURST

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Planting the Seed

and Watching it Grow

BY DOLOR ES MULLER

T

he superintendent of gardens and grounds at the White House is one. So, too, the recently retired head gardener of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Virginia, and the director of Reynolds Gardens in Winston Salem. The owner of Gulley’s Garden Center in Southern Pines; the owner of Hoffman Nursery in Rougemont, which specializes in ornamental and native grasses; and the grounds superintendent at Pinehurst Resort are in the same group as well.

They are all graduates of the Landscape Gardening program at Sandhills Community College (SCC).

In 1965, Frank Howe, a resident and owner of Clarendon Gardens and Nursery in Pinehurst, formed a committee to explore the possibility of initiating a National Institute of Horticulture. Dr. Raymond Stone, the first president of the college, together with Fred Heutte and others, formed the National Institute of Horticulture, and they conceived the idea of a horticulture program to be conducted at SCC. They hired Fred Garrett to develop the curriculum and initiate the first class of Landscape Gardening students that September. Garrett is a graduate of the University of Florida, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University with a Master of Science degree. His first job was at the Norfolk Botanical Garden in Virginia.

Garrett’s involvement at SCC began, ironically enough, in an ice storm. It was January 1968 and he drove from Norfolk for a Saturday morning interview with Dr. Stone.

“The trees were popping and cracking when I arrived, and the campus was deserted,” Garrett recalls. “I knocked at the door of a home next to the college, to maybe get some information, and was astounded when Dr. Stone answered the door in his bathrobe! He didn’t expect me in the aftermath of such a storm.”

Garrett was, of course, offered the job and started planning the program the following month. “It was a huge challenge, and I was given a great deal of freedom to develop the program. I love challenges and that is most likely the reason I accepted,” he says.

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Garrett started by researching other horticultural programs and visited the School of Horticulture, sponsored by the Niagara Falls Parks Commission in Canada and the Royal Horticulture Society’s Garden Wisley program in England.

In doing so, Garrett developed a European-style curriculum in which students would have classroom work and hands-on experience.

As head of the new school of horticulture, he unexpectedly found his niche. “I never considered myself an educator. I never had a course in education and never contemplated teaching. But I found I enjoyed teaching others what I knew,” he says.

When the fledging program began, Weymouth estate in Southern Pines played an important role. For the first two years, the practical outdoor laboratories such as vegetable gardening, tree climbing, pruning, propagation, landscape maintenance and planting seasonal bedding plants were conducted there.

Estate barns were utilized for housing equipment. Classrooms were on the main campus of the college while the construction of the greenhouses and classroom facilities were completed in 1970. The instructional building was named Heutte Hall in honor of the man who was instrumental in raising the capital needed to finance the two-year program.

“It was not formal or fancy, just functional. I designed the building on a brown paper lunch bag,” says Garrett.

Formality aside, Garrett is quick to point out every step of the program’s development was a team effort. “I hope people will see me as the person employed to build a team to carry out an idea that rarely if ever had been tried in any U.S. college,” says Garrett.

But the truth is, he has forever changed Sandhills and the lives of hundreds of students. He taught for more than 33 years and was coordinator of the Landscape Gardening Program until he retired in 2001. In that time, he built a program that is respected throughout the country. “I never had children, so the students became my kids,” Garrett says. “I am so proud of all their accomplishments. Many still call or drop by the house.”

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“I never considered myself an educator. I never had a course in education and never contemplated teaching.

But I found I enjoyed teaching others what I knew.”

- Fred Garrett

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Indeed, students of Garrett offer high praise. “Fred’s unrelenting support and concern for his individual students, whether it was placing them in a good job or offering special instructional aid after hours, was a key factor in the success of the Landscape Gardening program at Sandhills,” says Peter Hatch, director emeritus of Gardens and Grounds at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. “Fred built a team, a community of gardeners, nurturing students, building their confidence, and finding a place for them in the next chapter of their lives.”

The current coordinator of the Landscape Gardening program, Dee Johnson echoes those sentiments. “I have a special relationship with Mr. Garrett. He not only taught me while I was a student at Sandhills, but he became my mentor when I took over his position as coordinator of the program. I am always amazed at his attention to detail, his ability to remember all his students and to bring out the positive traits in each one. He has always led by a strong professional example.” And Garrett continues supporting the program in his emeritus position.

GETTING YOUR HANDS DIRTY

Students of the program graduate with a two-year associate degree in applied science in landscape gardening. As Garrett explains: “In addition to rigorous classroom study of plant propagation/identification, turf management, irrigation, etc., hands-on experience in all phases of landscape gardening is the goal. They learn how to operate tractors, use soil mixers, work with turf, nursery culture, perennial beds and prune trees while hanging high above the ground on safety ropes.

“And unique to this program is a residency requirement. On a rotating basis, students live on the grounds and participate in operating and maintaining the 32 acres of gardens and greenhouses, thus learning management and supervisory skills.

Additionally, an internship is also required before completing the program. Most horticultural courses don’t include these elements.”

Garrett began in a classroom with a handful of students.

Two years later his department moved into Huette Hall, which included classrooms, offices, greenhouses, a library, and a small apartment for two students who supervise the greenhouses and other operations during off hours. Today, the new two-story Steed Hall houses the program under Johnson, who for the last 15 years has carried on the tradition of excellence.

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THE GARDENS

In 1977, students of the college’s Horticulture Club started a fundraising effort to establish the first garden of the Sandhills Horticultural Gardens, the Ebersole Holly Garden. It is the largest collection of hollies east of the Mississippi and one of 14 themed gardens on 32 acres maintained by students. The newest garden under development is the Hoad Children’s Garden.

The Circle of Peace sculpture in front of the Ball Visitors Center, the entrance to the gardens, is a collection of life-size bronze-cast statues of children holding hands. There is a space in the circle where people of all ages can join hands, completing the circle. The sculpture was a tribute to Garrett upon his retirement.

“It’s such an honor,” says Garrett. “But everything that was accomplished was the work of faculty, students, administrative staff, community supporters and generous donors.”

That same thought is echoed in the artwork “Oak Grove,” which hangs in the lobby of Steed Hall, the new building that houses the horticultural program. Garrett commissioned the artwork. He explains, “The four trees of ‘Oak Grove’ are in honor of students, alumni, faculty, and staff of the college’s landscape gardening program and also dedicated to the program’s future participants.” PL

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Life Under Pines

By Sundi McLaughlin

I

think we can all agree: No one wants to hear any complaints of exhaustion after someone returns to work from a vacation while you’ve been working hard in their absence. Those brazen few who lament over lunch about how tired they are from all the merry making. As I have found myself in this position before, I can tell you I handle it like a lady. I fight the urge to roll my eyes and sincerely try to imagine the logistics of travel and time changes and all the sunshine … then I imagine leaping over the table and strangling the ingrate. Fear not, though, I show immense self-control and do no more than give a sympathetic nod and smile and pretend to listen while distractedly worrying over my sandwich bite to french fry ratio.

That said, it is with a bone-deep shame I admit the following to you: I need a vacation from my vacation.

Wait! Before you storm off vowing never to read this dilettante author ever again, hear me out! I endured several days of awkward, tragic, unimaginable episodes during brief joyful encounters. Such is the horror of my “vacation” that some details can’t even be written, as it would be too much for your delicate eyes to see on typed page.

Let me start from the beginning … After a very long couple of months of holiday craziness at the shop I was in desperate need of a break. Every year we drive home after Christmas to good old Sarasota, Florida. We catch up with our family and friends, eat at our favorite restaurants, go to the beach,

and I attempt to reach my annual goal of swimming in the ocean every day.

DAY 1: So with the Gulf calling, we loaded up the truck with our loyal Dodge the dog riding shotgun and headed south. The trip started out fantastic. We quickly found ourselves stuck on the highway for hours in stopped traffic which my husband handled with ease … and by ease I mean he yelled at the cars in front of us until a little blood vessel burst in the corner of his eye. Super fun.

Nevertheless, the next morning I popped out of bed and headed to the beach for a quick swim and walk; and by walk I mean I took a nap in my beach chair until I awoke with a crick in my neck. A great start, but it gets better. By evening I was struck down with food poisoning, henceforth named “The Exorcism of Sundi McLaughlin.”

DAY 2: I hit snooze and prayed for death.

Meanwhile, in a hell of his own, Dodge the dog was battling a troupe of rogue cats that had taken over my parents’ back yard (think West Side Story). These cat ruffians were so irate over Dodge infiltrating their turf they began to harass and taunt him during his morning and evening constitutionals. By the end of the day he was so traumatized he would only go outside if I pulled guard duty.

DAY 4: Rallying as best I could from the exorcism, we went to my amazing friends Lisa and Orion’s Annual New Year’s Eve

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Spectacular! Their house is a little slice of heaven that sits right on a canal with a big backyard and a gorgeous outdoor lounge complete with pool and fire pit. The food is wonderful; the cocktails entertaining. I chat with friends I only get to see at this party and usually spend an enjoyable evening shooting the breeze.

This year, however, the children outnumbered the adults, resulting in absolute chaos. Two of the children ran head long into the glass doors while another two ran into the screened porch. Amazingly, no children were injured, and the glass and screen remained impervious. It was actually quite impressive, but not the relaxing environment envisioned.

Then, when we got home that night, my parents informed us that Dodge had been bullied by a skunk and advised not to let him out until daybreak.

DAY 6: A sweet glimmer of joy! The day was spent with my beautiful Grandma Gloria. We ate lunch at her favorite spot on the bay and then went back to her place so I could see her costumes from her days as a dancer. Toward the end of the visit she showed me her beautiful wedding dress from 1946. Then she gave it to me … I nearly wept. I will cherish it for the rest of my days.

DAY 7: I was back at the beach with mom in tow. It was a beautiful 80 degrees and the Gulf was calm. We swam and walked, solved world problems and reapplied suntan lotion on my pasty North Carolina skin.

That evening I took Dodge for a walk in the neighborhood, and as we were turning for home I smiled with the contented knowledge I still had sand between my toes … just before the sudden attack!

Out of nowhere we were tackled by a pit bull. The dog was lightning fast as he split his time between biting Dodge and then biting my hand as I fought him off. Every time I scrambled to get up I was knocked down again with poor Dodge whimpering by my side. While I was kicking and swearing like Lucifer himself, a man came out of nowhere and tackled the dog to get him off us. In a brief moment, we somehow were all able to race into the house where I nearly collapsed from adrenaline, fear and worry over my sweet boy.

I cleaned up my hand, rushed Dodge to the hospital where he was pronounced extremely lucky and given a heavy dose of pain killers and antibiotics. I was given a heaping injection of tetanus and a pat on the head.

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DAY 9: We left before anything else could happen. We loaded up the truck, a traumatized Dodge, a beautiful wedding dress and a little stowaway named Suzanne, aka Mom. After a smooth and uneventful drive home (thank the good Lord), we arrived safe and sound with a fervent vow never to leave our beautiful town again.

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Sundi McLaughlin is a proud military wife and small business owner. She happily divides her time between her shop, Mockingbird on Broad, and her volunteer work at Fort Bragg and the Sunrise Theater. She also can be seen walking her enormous black lab named Dodge.

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he Pinehurst Concours d’Elegance once again rolls into town on May 6, celebrating its fifth anniversary as one of the premier car show events in the country.

The Concours, which is hosted at the Pinehurst Resort, will feature the standard classics found at most car shows, as well as some newer classes, like the Japanese Classics and Modern Super Cars.

“Japanese Classics, without a doubt, are going to be the future of the collector car hobby,” says Pinehurst Concours chief judge Nigel Matthews.

“They are somewhat affordable and the hobby is driven by demographics. We’re noticing the baby boomers are aging out and some are selling off their collections. So, the new people in the hobby naturally gravitate to what they grew up with or what they came home in from the hospital.”

Matthews says the Japanese Classics collector hobby starts with cars from the mid-1960s such as the Honda S600 and includes the mid-1970s, with automobiles like the Mazda RX7 and Toyota Celica ST or GT. But the Japanese collector car hobby also features more modern automobiles such as the Toyota 2000 GT or Honda S2000.

“They only made 334 of the Toyota 2000 GT, and those hit the $1 million mark a couple of years ago,” he explains. “And there is quite a generational shift as we’re seeing a following for some of these domestic market only Japanese cars that are now finding their way into the U.S., like the Nissan Skyline GT-R.” The event, says Pinehurst Concours President Jay Howard, has grown every year since its inception and he attributes its growth to a simple

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2017 Class List American Classics Pre-War American Classics Post-War European Classics Pre-War European Classics Post-War European Sports Cars American Sports Muscle Cars Pre-1975 Race Cars Japanese Classics Modern Super Cars Porsche Carrera Pre-1975 Chevrolet Corvette 1953-1972 Unique & Limited Production

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formula. “We found a good venue. We surrounded ourselves with some great car people and we didn’t try to do too much too soon.”

Those “great car people” start with Matthews, who has put together a judging team of experts from across the globe. And, adds Howard, “The judges review [the cars] digitally in advance. Then when they’re judging they’re using an app on the tablet. No one else has done that before.”

As an added bonus to the community, the Pinehurst Concours is continuing its judging mentor program, taking students from the three local high schools to participate as trainee judges.

At the end of the event, three of the students then receive scholarships to Sandhills Community College.

“Our judges support it and love it because they know they are providing opportunities for the next generation of young people that will be engaged in the automotive industry,” says Howard.

And if the cars weren’t enough, Pinehurst Concours 2017 wraps up with country singer Sara Evans for an afternoon concert. For ticket information, visit pinehurstconcours.com. PL

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The Garden

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“Little Gem” Dwarf

Magnolia Southern

BY DOLORES MULLER

“I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree....”

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his poem by Joyce Kilmer and the celebration of Arbor Day on April 28 inspired me to feature a tree this issue, one with special ties to the Sandhills.

Magnolia grandiflora “Little Gem” (Dwarf Southern Magnolia) is a small tree with a more compact and upright form than the Southern Magnolia. This cultivar seedling was selected in 1952 by Warren Steed from seed collected at his nursery in Candor, North Carolina. He developed it and generously gave seedlings away rather than patent it and receive royalties. Little Gem is sold in most nurseries today. Steed’s generosity extended to donating money for the Landscape Gardening building at Sandhills Community College named Steed Hall in his honor.

Maturing in 20 years to 20 feet tall and 10 feet wide, the elliptic dark green leaves of Little Gem have a cinnamon-brown pubescence underside. The fragrant white flowers are smaller than those of a Southern Magnolia. They appear in summer followed by cone-like fruiting clusters holding red seeds. The tree likes full sun or light shade, deep infrequent watering and is hardy to well below 0 degrees Fahrenheit.

Its slow growth and smaller stature also makes it a good large container plant. Once established, it requires minimal care and is relatively insect- and disease-free.

Trees do more than provide a static value; they are important to our environment and to us. They take in carbon dioxide and give off oxygen. In landscapes around buildings, they reduce noise, can lower air-conditioning and heating costs, and increase the property value. In honor of Arbor Day, plant a tree and consider Little Gem Magnolia. PL

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A Look Back

The Boyd Family of Weymouth

By Jean Barron Walker / Photography courtesy of Moore County Historical Association & Tufts Archive

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hree generations of the Boyd Family have called Weymouth their home. The elder James Boyd amassed his fortune by supplying coal to the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 1904, while wintering with his family at the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst, Boyd took a carriage ride with his daughter, Helen Boyd Dull, and viewed an ancient stand of longleaf pines, some being bled of their resin for the turpentine industry. Dull encouraged her father to save the pines, so Boyd purchased 1,200 acres of virgin pines, part of the last remaining longleaf pine forest in the South.

The stand extended from Ridge Street east toward what would become part of Fort Bragg. Tennis courts, landscaped gardens, stables and a nine-hole golf course soon encircled his winter home in Southern Pines. Boyd, a generous man, welcomed the public to drive through his estate by horse or carriage on 20 miles of sand roads.

James Boyd used his wealth for community improvement. In 1907 he was a strong yet silent benefactor of the Sandhills area when he funded the completion of a sand and clay road between Pinehurst and Southern Pines. When the local Citizens Bank and Trust was near collapse following the Banker’s Panic of 1907, Boyd quietly supplied funds and advice, much like J.P Morgan and other financiers did to keep their New York banks solvent.

After the Piney Woods Inn burned down in 1910, Boyd provided eight acres of land and financing for a new hotel, the Highland Pines Inn, which served as the social center of Southern

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Pines for many years. Both James Boyd and his son John were avid golfers, and considered the recreation important to the growth of the town. They aided the development of the Southern Pines Country Club with its golf course planned by noted golfer and course designer Donald Ross.

In 1910, after the death of James Boyd, his daughter Helen and his son John Yeomans Boyd inherited James’ large estate. They chose their cousin Alfred Beaver Yeomans, a landscape designer, to plan the initial phase of Weymouth Heights, a development that would use a portion of the Boyd estate. Yeomans’ 1913 plot showed tree-lined, curved roads and generous-sized lots, a design that departed from the street grid plan of early Southern Pines.

Renowned New York architect Aymar Embury ll helped shape the town’s architectural heritage when he designed Loblolly, Helen Dull’s home, on North Valley Road. In building Loblolly, he used a variety of materials that were innovative at the time, including stucco and clay tiles that became in vogue on other homes built in Weymouth Heights during the 1920s.

In addition, Embury designed the Southern Pines Country Club, the Mid-Pines Inn on Midland Road, the Southern Pines Elementary School, the town post office and first library, and professional buildings on Broad Street. Between them, Embury and Yeomans designed more than 25 buildings and landscapes in town.

The Boyd family showed a strong sense of civic responsibility as well. In 1907, Helen Dull and her friend Anna Jenks invited town women to assemble and organize a group for the betterment of the town, and 46 women came to their first meeting. The women formed the Southern Pines Civic Club in order to improve the town’s cultural life, its health and safety, the education of its children, and its curb appeal for winter guests. The club was instrumental in the planting of hollies, pines and magnolias along the train tracks, providing the town with playground equipment, arranging for regular trash pickup and creating a town dump. The club continues to support the town from their Yeomans-designed building on Ashe Street, which was constructed in 1925.

John Boyd’s sons, James and Jackson, who had visited Weymouth since their youth, acquired the estate in 1914, after their father died. That same year, the brothers, who loved the hunt, founded the Moore County Hounds. They hunted with the pack until 1941, when military service caused them to relinquish the hounds to hunt participants William “Pappy” Moss and his wife, Ginny. The Mosses had purchased land a mile from Southern Pines where they had built Mile Away Farm, which continues to kennel the Moore County Hounds, a private pack that hunts three times a week from Thanksgiving to March. (The annual Thanksgiving morning hunt begins with hunters and hounds congregating for the blessing, a tradition that harks back to medieval times when hunters asked their patron, St. Hubert of Liege, to protect their hounds from disease and keep them safe during the hunt.)

In 1917, grandson James Boyd married Katherine Lamont.

The couple moved to Southern Pines shortly after Christmas 1919 and lived in the estate’s gatehouse on Ridge Street while their new residence was being built. James Boyd drew up sketches for Embury, who was the architect. The original house was transported by mules across the road to become Jackson Boyd’s home on Connecticut Avenue, which is now known as the Campbell House.

James and Katherine raised three children in their Georgian-style Weymouth home. The place was palatial, yet sparsely decorated, because Katharine loved gardening far more than decorating. The Boyds entertained extensively for their bevy of friends. They gave spirited costume parties, sang humorous parodies and played charades in the great room. Katharine Boyd’s friends looked forward to her annual Carol-Sings. She served mulled wine in paper cups and didn’t seem to notice that her guests used it to water the potted plants. The Carol-Sings are still celebrated each December in the great room.

James Boyd spent virtually all of his creative years at Weymouth, where he wrote short stories, poems and five novels. He declared that he would spend five years writing, and, if he didn’t succeed, would give up his writing career. In 1920 he sold his first short story to Scribner’s Magazine for $100. Boyd then began writing the historical novels that established his literary reputation. While living in the gatehouse, Boyd wrote and Katharine typed the manuscript for Drums, his first and most famous novel, which was published in 1925.

Book reviewers called the novel an accurate depiction of the Revolutionary War, and Artist N.C. Wyeth illustrated a 1928 special

Katharine Boyd, owner and editor of The Pilot 1944-1968

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Weymouth, home of James and Louisa Boyd, circa 1904 -1910

edition of the book which is on display in the Weymouth library.

Wyeth gave Boyd three originals of the Drums paintings, which hang in the Southern Pines Utilities Billing and Collection office on Broad Street. This building, constructed in the late 1930s, had been Southern Pines’ first library, and contains the pine-paneled Boyd Meeting Room, a gift of Katharine Boyd.

Of the five novels Boyd wrote, three were situated in North Carolina. Drums was set in Edenton during the American Revolution, Marching On (1927) was set in Wilmington during the Civil War, and Long Hunt (1930) had opening scenes in the western part of the state. Life Magazine included Drums in its list of 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944. Boyd’s last two novels were Roll River (1935), a partly autobiographical tale of a Pennsylvania industrial family at the turn of the 20th century, and Bitter Creek (1939), which was set in Wyoming cattle country in the 1890s.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the Boyds hosted an unofficial literary hall of fame of their own in their living room at Weymouth. Noted 20th-century authors were frequent guests there. They included Tom Wolfe, William Faulkner, Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Paul Green, author of the symphonic drama, The Lost Colony, which is still produced each summer on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Legend has it Tom Wolfe arrived on a late-night train, hiked up the hill from the Southern Pines depot to Weymouth, found a window unlocked, climbed in and fell asleep on a living room couch, where one of the Boyd children found him in the morning.

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Southern Pines Country Club, 1923

In 1941, James Boyd purchased the local weekly newspaper, The Pilot, and transformed it into an award-winning small-town newspaper. After Boyd died in 1944, Katharine became publisher of The Pilot and concentrated on running it for the next 24 years.

She was also a major philanthropist in Moore County. In 1963, she donated 403 acres of Weymouth land to establish the first natural area in the North Carolina park system, the Weymouth WoodsSandhills Nature Preserve. She also endowed a wing on the Moore County Hospital, and provided 13.5 acres for Penick Village, a retirement community that opened in 1964. Katharine sold The Pilot in 1968 to journalist Sam Ragan, who was later named poet laureate of North Carolina.

Prior to her death in 1974, Katharine Boyd had bequeathed Weymouth’s house and grounds to the new Sandhills Community College. However, since use by the college was not feasible, citizens formed Friends of Weymouth to purchase and preserve the historic home and grounds. Funds from the sale were used to build the Katharine L. Boyd Library at the community college.

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In 1977, the Boyd home was entered into the National Register of Historic Places, and in 1979, the Boyd estate became The Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities. The Boyds’ literary interest was carried forward in 1996, when Sam Ragan established The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame at Weymouth. In October 2016, novelist Clyde Edgerton, mystery writer Margaret Maron and poet Carl Sandburg were inducted. Sixty living and deceased state writers are now honored there.

The Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities is one of the treasures of Southern Pines. Its programs reflect the tradition of James and Katharine Boyd’s love of the gardens, writing and writers, musicals, and gala parties. Its Writers-in-Residence program, chamber music series, lecture and art presentations, Women of Weymouth, and Carol-Sing echo the Boyd family’s life in their community. PL .

Jean Barron Walker is a member of the Moore County Historical Association.

For more information on the association, visit moorehistory.com.

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Book Review

On Living

By Robert Gable

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eople everywhere want to hear a story. When we get together, when we’re reading a book, even when we’re sending a message, we’re sharing stories. Kerry Egan is a hospice chaplain in South Carolina who has listened to a lot of stories. When her patients wanted to talk, she made it a point to listen. Many of the stories they told are in this small but profound book, On Living.

Between the table of contents and the acknowledgments, Egan has 13 stories to share with us. The book rose out of a promise to her patient Gloria, who regretted that she never met a writer. She hoped that someone would write down her experiences. When she heard that Egan was a writer, she said, “Now you’ve just got to write them down.

Maybe they could help someone. Maybe someone else can get wise from them.”

Egan is interested in how we can go from gathering information, to gaining knowledge, to finding meaning in our stories and to finally attaining wisdom. She’s uniquely positioned to see how we all have something in common. She observes, “When you talk to hundreds of people who are dying and looking back over their lives, you come to realize something startling: Every single person out there has a crazy story. Every single person has some bizarre, life-shattering, pull-therug-out-from-under-you story in their past, or will experience one in their future.”

She finds many people don’t know what a hospice chaplain does, or if they do, it’s a skewed idea. To her, chaplains are sort of the opposite of storytellers—they’re story holders. She says, “We listen to the stories that people believe have shaped their lives. We listen to the stories people choose to tell, and the meaning they make of those stories.” But far from just doing nothing while sitting in front of a comatose patient and getting paid for it, there is value in being there.

She adds, “There is power in being present with people who are dying.

There’s power in the stories of their lives and the meanings they found in them. Not the power of life and death, but the power of healing and wholeness. That power isn’t just for those who are dying. It’s for anyone who wants to listen.”

Egan’s own life experience colors the way she deals with her patients. She bluntly states the facts of her past: During the difficult childbirth of her first child she was given the emergency anesthesia ketamine. She had a severe adverse reaction to it. The drug-induced psychotic disorder lasted seven months. She was deeply ashamed about her symptoms, and it took 18 months to recover. She has come to understand: “I thought I was broken and cracked and could not be put back together again, that I was destroyed at the very deepest part of me, and that this was something that could never be made better. When I started working in hospice, I didn’t yet understand that everyone—everyone—is broken and cracked.”

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On Living Kerry Egan 208 pages, Riverhead Books

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There’s something to be learned in each chapter. There are places throughout the book where each reader may find a passage that speaks directly to her. In “Dying is Just a Verb” she notes, “The dying are just people like you and me, who happen to be doing something we’ve never done. To die is a verb, like to jump, to eat, or to laugh.

It’s something people do, not who they are …. People don’t somehow transform drastically into something else when they’re dying. They’re just doing something you haven’t done yet.”

She meets a young man who is paralyzed from the neck down after being shot during a robbery for his sneakers, and the senselessness of it caused him unceasing anguish. Another of her clients shows her things are rarely open-and-shut, black-and-white.

She aptly observes, “Things are never only as they appear. My hospice patients have taught me that. There are always layers to people’s lives, unseen memories under every face, every decision, every movement or lack of movement. There is always gray between the black and white.”

There is pain and sadness, along with beauty. There is the patient who needs a lung transplant but will never get it. With him she learns more about hope, along with hope’s flip side, regret. And there is her patient who said: “If only I had known, I would have danced more.

Don’t hate your body. Only when you know you’re going to lose it do you realize how amazing it is.”

Egan is not long-winded or preachy. She’s not saying watch out or you’ll end up like this, though it could be easy to fall into doom-andgloom when talking about hospice. She’s forthrightly showing that, in many ways, we all have the same hopes and dreams. The people here exhibit a quiet courage. A common theme that recurs: “What you needed was compassion, but what you got was pity.”

Her book is a worthwhile exercise in compassion. To tie-up her stories, she signs off with some parting advice from one of her patients, and it serves as the last line of the book. Egan writes, “I’ll leave you with it, as she left it with me: ‘Promise yourself,’ she said that last time we met, ‘promise that you’ll have a great life, no matter what happens.’” PL Robert Gable worked in book publishing for 18 years before going into the golf industry. He lived and worked in Pinehurst for five years and still misses it. He currently lives in Queens and works as an assistant golf pro at Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, New York.

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by Sarah Shaber

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A Golf Pairing in Heaven

by Helen Ross

The similarities between the two are striking, right down to the overflow crowds at their memorial services, sadly held last fall less than two months apart.

More than 4,000 people gathered on the campus of St. Vincent’s College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, that October Monday to say goodbye to Arnold Palmer. Only a quarter of that number had invitations to sit in the basilica. The rest crowded in the school’s gym to watch what was being broadcast by the Golf Channel in thousands of homes.

There wasn’t room for everyone in the sanctuary at Bronson Memorial Presbyterian Church in Southern Pines when Peggy Kirk Bell was memorialized, either. Those of us who arrived late were shepherded into the Fellowship Hall where we watched the service, like Palmer’s, full of love and laughter, on a big-screen TV. But, life does go on. And the Arnold Palmer Invitational returns to Bay Hill Club & Lodge March 16-19. The first 2017 Ladies “Golfari,” Bell’s enduring gift to the game, was held in February at Pine Needles and five more will follow, along with separate golf safaris for adults and juniors.

There will be a big void at each, to be sure. But Palmer and Bell, two long-time friends, two larger-than-life characters who absolutely doted on this game, would be

happy to see the events they so carefully nurtured continue to thrive.

The influence of the man known simply as “The King” and the gregarious woman, Ma Bell to some, who was enshrined in so many Halls of Fame that she earned the nickname of the “Great One” from her family, stretches around the world.

Palmer brought fans to the game with an easy smile, his swashbuckling style of play and that trademark thumbs up to signal hello to what became known as Arnie’s Army.

Bell was an accomplished player as well, winning the Titleholders when it was a major championship, but she settled comfortably into life as an instructor, and the thousands she taught the game to are her legacy.

Years ago, shortly before Bell’s beloved Pine Needles hosted the second of three U.S. Women’s Opens, I was lucky to interview her at her home in Southern Pines. I was captivated by her stories about the early days of the LPGA and her good friend Babe Zaharias, whom she met over a gin rummy game in 1947.

Bell told me she ended up losing $12.30 to Zaharias, who offered to let her win it back but she didn’t bite. So, the Babe invited Bell to be her partner in the Hollywood International Four-Ball.

“I need a partner and you might as well win a golf tournament,” Bell remembered

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Zaharias saying. “She said not to worry, I can beat any two of them myself.”

And they won, of course. The two often traveled together, Bell flying her plane to tournaments just as Palmer did, until cancer brought a premature end to Zaharias’ life.

Bell also talked that day about the first lesson she ever taught. She kept the woman for two hours, and the session probably would have lasted longer had the student not pleaded, “Can we stop now?”

But Bell loved teaching, frequently stopping in the dining room at Pine Needles for an impromptu lesson, and the players she influenced numbered in the thousands.

Shortly before our 2001 visit, Golf Digest had named Bell one of the five most influential women in the game.

Her answer was typically self-deprecating.

“I could pick others just as deserving—I just must have been around the longest,” Bell said.

The afternoon was a veritable history lesson. As she talked, I could almost see Pine Needles, which she and her husband, Bullet, bought in 1953, evolve from sparse Quonset huts into the comfortable and welcoming resort it is today. Excited, I went back to Greensboro and wrote a 30-inch story that my editors cruelly chopped in half.

The first time I interviewed Palmer one-on-one was similarly memorable. I was

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covering the now-defunct PaineWebber World Seniors Invitational at Quail Hollow in Charlotte. We stood behind his car, the trunk filled with an assortment of putters, and as Palmer talked he toyed with them, wrapping his beefy hands around the grips.

On Tuesday or Wednesday before his tournament at Bay Hill, Palmer always made time to meet with the media. It was a must-not-miss event. In recent years, though, his memory wasn’t as sharp and last year the press conference was canceled and a simple text Q&A distributed. But he could still be seen sitting in his cart on the range, watching the Tour pros practice.

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Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club Par 4,421 yards // Designer: Donald Ross

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nce known as the resort’s “first hole,” back in 1928 when Donald Ross crafted its landscape, the finishing hole rewards a slight draw off the tee. Longer players will get a generous roll and face a downhill approach. But this is a green that is difficult to hold: Precision is called for if you want to finish your round like a champion.

Pine Needles is marked by history. It has hosted three U.S. Women’s Opens, in 1996, 2001 and 2007, seeing Annika Sorenstam, Karrie Webb and Cristie Kerr crowned as champions. It has also welcomed notable guests such as Bing Crosby, Jimmy Carter, Sandra Day O’Connor and the Rev. Billy Graham.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Dates and times subject to change. Check directly with event organizers before making plans.

March 3.2.2017 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.3.2017 Scampering Squirrels (For Wee Ones) Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 10 a.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.4.2017 Volunteer Trail Day Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 9 a.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, nancy.williamson@ncparks.gov, ncparks.gov 3.4.2017 Saturday Kids Program Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.5.2017 Paint Hill Hike Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.6.2017 Book Lovers Unite! - History Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 3:30 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.7.2017 Gathering at Given - Cliff Aikens: American History & Americana Told in Song Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 3:30 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org

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3.8.2017 Gathering at Given - Cliff Aikens: American History & Americana Told in Song Given Outpost | 495 Cherokee Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 7 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.9.2017 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.10.2017 Chamber Music Series - Douglas James and Pasquale Rucco, Classical Guitar Weymouth Center | 555 E. Connecticut Ave. | So. Pines Cost: $10/members, $20/ nonmembers | 7 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.6261, weymouthcenter.org 3.10.2017 Night Hike Weymouth Woods Visitor Center 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 6:30 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.11.2017 - 3.12.2017 Southern Pines Horse Trials Carolina Horse Park 2814 Montrose Rd. | Raeford Cost: FREE | 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Contact: 910.875.2074, carolinahorsepark.com 3.10.2017 Photography Stroll Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 9:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.11.2017 TRACK Trail Guided Adventure Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 2 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov

3.11.2017 “La Traviata” - Met Opera Live in HD Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $27 | 1 p.m. - 3:33 pm Contact: 910.692.2787, sunrisetheater.com

3.16.2017 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org

3.11.2017 82nd Annual Highfalls Old-Time Fiddlers’ Convention North Moore High School Auditorium | 1504 North Moore Rd. | Robbins Cost: $7 | 6 p.m. - 11:59 p.m Contact: 910.464.3600

3.18.2017 Pinehurst St. Patrick’s Day Parade Tufts Memorial Park | 1 Village Green Rd. W | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.3400, vopnc.org

3.11.2017 Carolina Philharmonic - Opera Extravaganza SCC Owens Auditorium | 3395 Airport Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: prices vary | 7:30 p.m.

910.687.0287, carolinaphil.org 3.12.2017 Unwinding the Web Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.12.2017 The Village Chapel Music Series - Bach Passacaglia in C Minor, Pergolesi Stabat Mater The Village Chapel | 10 Azalea Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 5 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.6003, tvcpinehurst.com 3.13.2017 Al Strong Quartet Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $20/presale | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife@yahoo.com, theroosterswife.org 3.13.2017 Chamber Music – Alexander Kobrin, Piano Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $30 | 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2787, mooreart.org 3.16.2017 Come to the Table 2017 Conference The Durham Convention Center | 301 W. Morgan St. | Durham Cost: $20 | 8:45 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Contact: 919.5421396 x 204, carson@rafiusa.org, rafiusa.org/cttt

3.19.2017 Fire in the Toolbox Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.19.2017 “A Contemporary Evening,” Bolshoi Ballet Live in HD Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $25/adult, $15/child | 1 p.m. - 3:45 pm Contact: 910.692.2787, sunrisetheater.com 3.19.2017 Lindsay Lou and the Flatbellys Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $20/presale | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife@yahoo.com, theroosterswife.org 3.22.2017 - 3.26.2017 The Cloud Eleven Gavilan North LLC Carolina International CIC and Horse Trials Carolina Horse Park | 2814 Montrose Rd. | Raeford Cost: FREE | 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Contact: 910.875.2074, carolinahorsepark.com 3.22.2017 19th Annual Sandhills Children’s Center Kelly Cup Golf Tournament Pinehurst No. 8 | 100 Centennial Blvd. | Pinehurst Cost: $200 | 1 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.3323, SandhillsChildrensCenter.org

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3.23.2017 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.23.2017 - 3.26.2017 Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None” SCC Owens Auditorium | 3395 Airport Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: prices vary | 23rd: 7 p.m., 24th: 8 p.m., 29th: 2 p.m.

Contact: 800.514.3849 3.25.2017 “Idomeneo” - Met Opera Live in HD Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $27 | 1 p.m. - 4:58 pm Contact: 910.692.2787, sunrisetheater.com 3.25.2017 Trail Games Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 2 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.26.2017 100 Mile Challenge Hike Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov 3.26.2017 Jack Broadbent Poplar Knight Spot | 114 Knight St. | Aberdeen Cost: $20/presale | 6:46 p.m.

Contact: 910.944.7502, theroosterswife@yahoo.com, theroosterswife.org 3.30.2017 Story Time Given Memorial Library | 150 Cherokee Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m.

Contact: 910.295.6022, giventufts.org 3.30.2017 Planting an Earth Box with Master Gardener Bruce Fensley SCC Horticultural Gardens - Ball Visitors Center | 3395 Airport Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: $10/members, $15/nonmembers | 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Contact: 910.695.3882, sandhillshorticulturalgardens.com

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3.30.2017 Prancing Horse Annual Spring Barn Dance Fair Barn | 200 Beulah Hill Rd. South | Pinehurst Cost: $50 | 6 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Contact: 910. 281.3223, prancing-horse. org 3.30.2017 Night Hike for National Take a Walk in the Park Day Weymouth Woods Visitor Center | 1024 Ft. Bragg Rd. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 7 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.2167, ncparks.gov

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4.1.2017 Habitat Spring Gala Pinehurst Resort | 80 Carolina Vista Dr. | Pinehurst Cost: Contact Habitat for price | 6 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.1943, sandhillshabitat.org 4.1.2017 NC Symphony presents Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School | 250 Voit Gilmore Lane | So. Pines Cost: prices vary | 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Contact: 877.627.6724, ncsymphony.org 4.2.2017 Chamber Music Series - Piedmont Opera Ensemble: James Allbritten, Director Weymouth Center | 555 E. Connecticut Ave. | So. Pines Cost: $10/members, $20/nonmembers | 3 p.m.

Contact: 910.692.6261, weymouthcenter.org 4.7.2017 Fair Barn 100th Birthday Bash Fair Barn | 200 Beulah Hill Rd. South | Pinehurst Cost: $40/single, $75/couple | 6 - 11 p.m.

Contact: 910. 295.0166, thefairbarn.org 4.8.2017 Sandhills Horticultural Society Plant Sale SCC Horticultural Gardens - Ball Visitors Center | 3395 Airport Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: Price varies | 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Contact: 910.695.3882, sandhillshorticulturalgardens.com

4.8.2017 Weymouth Plant Sale Weymouth Center 555 E. Connecticut Ave. | So. Pines Cost: Price varies | 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Contact: 910.986.3009, weymouthcenter.org

4.18.2017 Flower Arranging with Tim Ward SCC Horticultural Gardens - Ball Visitors Center | 3395 Airport Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: TBD | Time: TBD Contact: 910.695.3882, sandhillshorticulturalgardens.com

4.8.2017 Easter Egg Hunts Cannon Park | 90 Woods Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.3400, vopnc.org

4.21.2017 - 4.22.2017 Annual Bedding Plant Sale for the Benefit of Student’s Educational Field Trip SCC Horticultural Gardens - Steed Hall | 3395 Airport Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: price varies | 21st: 1 - 5 p.m., 22nd: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Contact: 910.695.3882, johnsond@sandhills.edu, sandhillshorticulturalgardens.com

4.8.2017 Southern Pines Garden Club Home and Garden Tour Campbell House | 482 E. Connecticut Ave. | So. Pines Cost: $20/presale, $25 at the door | 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Contact: 910.295.4617, southernpinesgardenclub.com 4.8.2017 Carolina Philharmonic - Broadway Cabaret SCC Owens Auditorium | 3395 Airport Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: prices vary | 3:00 pm., 7:30 p.m.

910.687.0287, carolinaphil.org

4.22.2017 - 4.23.2017 Longleaf Pine Horse Trials Carolina Horse Park | 2814 Montrose Rd. | Raeford Cost: FREE | 8 a.m - 5 p.m.

Contact: 910.875.2074, carolinahorsepark

4.9.2017 Spring Matinee Races Pinehurst Harness Track | 200 Beulah Hill Rd. S | Pinehurst Cost: $5, 12 & under FREE | 1 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.; 11 a.m. for parking Contact: 910.281.4608, vopnc.org 4.9.2017 “A Hero of Our Time,” Bolshoi Ballet Live in HD Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $25/adult, $15/child | 1 p.m. - 3:45 pm Contact: 910.692.2787, sunrisetheater.com

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Contact: 910.295.3400, vopnc.org

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4.22.2017 “Eugene Onegin” - Met Opera Live in HD Sunrise Theater | 250 NW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: $25/adult, $15/child | 1 p.m. - 3:45 pm Contact: 910.692.2787, sunrisetheater.com 4.22.2017 A Tribute to the Beatles - Featuring “The Return” Lee Auditorium, Pinecrest High School | 250 Voit Gilmore Lane | So. Pines Cost: $25/presale, $30/day off , $35/reserved seats, $15/17 and under | 8 - 10 p.m.

Contact: visionformoore.com

4.24.2017 Lunch & Learn in the Gardens - Annuals & Perennials in the Landscape SCC Horticultural Gardens - Ball Visitors Center | 3395 Airport Rd. | Pinehurst Cost: FREE | 12 p.m. - 1 p.m.

Contact: 910.695.3882, landscapegardening@sandhills.edu, sandhillshorticulturalgardens.com 4.29.2017 Women of the Pines 2017 Annual Rummage Sale Old West End Gymnasium | 134 Old West End School Ln. | West End Cost: Price varies | 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Contact: Lauri Michelich at 972.740.8635 or Deb Eddings at 860.

833.7571 4.29.2017 Southern Pines Springfest Downtown Southern Pines | 132 SW Broad St. | So. Pines Cost: FREE | 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

4.29.2017 Wine in the Pines Weymouth Center | 555 E. Connecticut Ave. | So. Pines Cost: Contact the Junior League | Starts at 4 p.m.

Contact: jlmcnc.org

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From top, clockwise: Elvis (Todd Allen Herendeen); Paul Jackson and Karina Cameron; Cindy Hughes; Charlene Sazama, Pam Partis and Tom Fioretti; Lisa Bridge, Susan Rogers and Barb Shepard.

THE FORUM Carolina Hotel Pinehurst January 11

From top, clockwise: Sharon Lawson, Anita Pawlack and Deborah Myatt; Mary & Bob Longo; Wanda & George Little; Judi Wood, Babette Glauner with Phil & Lin Hutaff; Judy Connelly, Kathy Fiske and Marianne Kernan.

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Sandhills Sightings LOVE SHAKESPEARE

Benefitting the 2017 Summer Shakespeare in Tufts Park The Fair Barn Pinehurst January 19

From top, clockwise: Mac McGill and Dorianna Curry; Cristin Bennett, Jayne Smith and Barby Muller; Gary & Caren Broadwell; John Strickland, Carolyn Taylor with John & Anna Hage; Mayor Nancy Fiorillo, Uprising Theatre Company founders and creative directors Jonathan Drahos and Carolanne Marano with Patty Nieman.

WEDDING EXPO The Fair Barn Pinehurst January 29

From top, clockwise: Harrington Roach, Leslie Bundon and Margaret Smith of Maggie’s Farm flowers; Danielle, Tiffany, Kenyetta & Charlotte Garth; Casey Edwards, John Dyer and Kimber Toczke; Audrey Moriarty, Marva Kirk and Danaka Bunch; Laura & Alex Powers with Tim Ward of Jack Hadden Floral design.

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Sandhills Sightings FRIEND TO FRIEND LUNCHEON Benefitting Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Survivors

Country Club of North Carolina Pinehurst January 31

From top, clockwise: Katie Maness, Nicole Bennett, Nikki Locklear and Laura May; Board members Dr. John Dempsey and Ted Natt with Executive Director Anne Friesen; Stefani Baca-Affas of Project No Rest, Anne Friesen, Assistant D.A. Tiffany Bartholomew and sheriff Neil Godfrey; Kathy Wright and board member Joe Keen; Gwendy Hutchinson and President Betty Sapp.

CORNERSTONE AWARDS The United Way of Moore County honors Alice and Wayne Robbins Pinehurst Country Club Pinehurst February 2

From top, clockwise: Honorees Alice & Wayne Robbins; Kelly McCrann, Peggy Sarvis, Alice Robbins, Nancy Howe and Marilyn Grube; Molly & Byrd Gwinn with Eve Avery; Kate, Wayne, Henry & Lindsay Robbins; Veronica Sanchez, Howard Gartman, Kim McIlwain and Mike Ianucilli.

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Sandhills Sightings SANDHILLS HORTICULTURE SOCIETY Children’s Art Competition and Exhibit Sandhills Horticulture Gardens Pinehurst February 5

Top row: New Century Middle school teacher Brandon Clothier, students and Show Judge Harry Neely. Second row: 3rd place winner - $100, Classical Christian School’s “Secret Garden”; People’s Choice award “Nature’s Nymph” by Darrah Harrison; Paper Flower-O’Neal School. Third row: 1st place winner $300 - O’Neal school. Teacher Judy Browne and students; Lilly, Marshall, Jeff & Leigh White. Fourth row: Bella Shield’s Accordion Book - STARS Charter school; Molly Kuzma’s art.

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Sandhills Sightings BOW TIE BALL

Benefitting Sandhills Classical Christian School The Fair Barn Pinehurst February 1o

From top, clockwise: Pastor Ty Van-Thomas and wife Kristin; Head of School Alan Marshall, wife Kendra and event chairwoman Mayor Nancy Fiorillo; JoAnn & Dale Erickson; Kristen & Ed Baker; Jed & Dacia Black; Mark & Kathie Parson and friends.

ARTS COUNCIL OF MOORE COUNTY / HEART ‘N SOUL OF JAZZ Featuring jazz guitarist and singer John Pizzarelli Carolina Hotel Pinehurst February 11

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Batter up! photograph and caption courtesy of The Moore County Historical Association

First Little League baseball team in Southern Pines (circa 1952/53). Pictured are: Top Row L/R: Joe Garzik, Ikey Woodell, John VanBenshoten, John Ormsby, Ted Ward, Bobby Watkins. Front Row L/R: Jimmy Caldwell, Charlies Weatherspoon, Hodgins (?), Roger Dutton, Topper Parks, Robert (Woody) Woodruff, and Johnny Suggs. Special thanks to Ted Ward for this terrific photo.

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